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Episode 1258 · Oct 31, 2006 · 2h 39m

October 31, 2006: Ghost to Ghost 2006

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    Ouija board calls 'Jack' the night his father diedAt a Halloween frat party, a stranger upstairs is told the Ouija board insists on speaking to Jack; the next morning he learns his father died around the time of the session.

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    Ghost in the attic and a 20-year-old murderDebbie hears nightly cries in her ceiling, sets up a video camera, finds roof rats, then exterminators discover the bones of a woman murdered by her husband 20 years earlier.

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    Glowing skeleton and the stepfather's transformationAn 11-year-old in Navy housing sees a luminescent green hunting-clothed skeleton in his bed; afterward his happy-go-lucky stepfather becomes a violent stranger and the marriage collapses.

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    Wife's promise keptlights, bluebird, bedside visitation: Bruce's wife Tina, killed in a 2003 motorcycle crash, fulfills their pact through three escalating signs: three light bulbs flashing out together, an electric-blue bird at her grave, and finally a closet apparition saying 'There is an afterlife. I'm okay.'

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    Ghost made a phone call and ate a bananaIn Reno, Beatrice watches the previous tenant enter her locked apartment, phone a partner about a 50-50 deal, pack a bag from her bedroom, and eat a banana - then sees he has no hands or feet.

Art Bell hosts the annual Ghost to Ghost program, opening the lines to listeners for Halloween. Broadcasting from Manila, he reads emailed accounts before the calls begin, including a woman who saw the ghost of a wreck victim walking up a highway off-ramp and a man who encountered a legless apparition floating across a road near an old church graveyard.

Callers deliver firsthand encounters throughout the night. A man in Miami describes being summoned by a Ouija board at a party, only to learn his father died at that exact hour. A woman in Reno recounts watching a solid male ghost enter her apartment, use the phone, and eat a banana before discovering he had no hands or feet. A paramedic from Cincinnati tells of responding to a suicide in 1981, then meeting the new homeowner twenty years later who says the dead man's ghost insists he was murdered.

Other stories feature shadow entities in a former hospital room, a basement where every circuit breaker was flipped off by unseen hands, and a man trapped inside a standing cell at Auschwitz whose wooden door latched shut with nobody present. Art reflects on what these accounts suggest about existence after death.

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