Phone calls from a dead Metrolink train crash victim?
This month’s horrible Metrolink train crash brought upon a dark mood to Angelinos. From the country’s economic uncertainties, to the dim light of hope with the elections coming up, us Angelinos felt as if things could not get any worse.
The Daily Breeze has this interesting story on one of the Metrolink’s victim. Chuck Peck was among the 25 dead in the Los Angeles Metrolink crash on the 12th of September 2008. His family, knowing that Chuck was on the train that faithful evening, kept getting calls from his cell phone. No voice was on the other side of the line, no audible voices. All they could hear was static on the other side of the line.
Throughout the night, Chuck’s sons, brother, stepmother, sister and fiancee all got the phone calls after the crash had been reported. Chuck’s son believed his dad was alive and trying to contact them. Chuck’s son CJ kept yelling into the phone: “We love you, Hang in there. They are coming to get you.“‘
It was not until 3:28 a.m that the phone calls stopped. None of the family members got any more phone calls. One hour later, Los Angeles firefighters recovered the remains of Chuck Peck. Coroner’s officials told Peck’s family members that he was killed instantly. His body showed no sign that he lived even for a short time after the crash.
Chuck Peck
Could this have been a phone call from the other side? or is it just technology gone haywire? For years, the “phone calls from the dead” phenomenon has been a thing of urban legends. Paranormal cases that involve ghostly phone calls are just reports, never official recordings or actual proof that they were indeed made from the departed. One thing is for certain, the calls were made to loved ones and the calls were made all night up until the discovery of the body. To all those on board that doomed train, rest in peace.
Full source from The Daily Breeze
Written by Javier Ortega - javier@ghosttheory.com
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such a tragic event.
I hope this brings comfort to the victim’s loved one. Rest In Peace indeed….
How creepy.
May his family find peace in the fact that it might have been him saying goodbye.
REST IN PEACE commuters
I live only a few miles away from the crash site. I was not home when it happened but could smell the wreckage. Poor souls lost.
Good article
R.I.P
I too received phones calls in a similar manner after my mother passed away. Also, there was an eerie sound on the calls that I received at my home, yet no one was there. I was so terrified that I refused to answer the phone after 10:00 at night. The final straw came when the elevator phone rang in my mom’s condo building. Once again, the line was open but no one was there. I ride in elevators at least 8 times a day since I’m on the fourth floor of a large building. Yet, NEVER has a phone rung in any of the thousands of times I had to ride in elevators. It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who got a few calls from a loved one. My heart goes out to the families and loved ones who lost someone in this tragic crash.
Thanks for sharing Brigitte.
When I was a kid, in Mexico, I remember hearing for the first time of this phenomenon. I remember being intrigued and scared. Fearing that someday I would be on the receiving end of the call. As I got older, I realized that it could be more of a comforting experience. If this is in fact what is going on, then you should take it as a good sign.
There was a plane crash in Indianapolis,Indiana a few years ago.A crippled Air Force jet was trying to land at the airport and crashed in to the hotel near it.Many people inside the hotel died.One of them was the front desk clerk.He was killed instantly.
When his mother returned home from shopping there were police officers waiting at her house to tell her the sad news of her son’s death.
Later,she was checking her answering machine and there was a message on there from her son.”Mom,I just called to tell you I love you”,was what he said.The time of the message on the machine was the exact time of the plane crash.
Great story Timincal.
The story sounds familiar. I think I read about it somewhere. Don’t remember where.
Thanks for sharing.
Interesting,truly unexplainable, however i do have to say Bridgette’s story is exactly like this horror movie that came out about 5 yrs ago…its just so similar to the storyline.
azockie:
It is unexplainable. Ever since posting this story, I’ve gotten several anonymous emails from people too afraid to talk about their personal experiences from “disconnected phone calls”. Most of them involve a dead relative’s phone number that shows up in their caller-id, when they answer, there is no sound. just white noise.
I never knew this phenomenon happened that often.
I believe it…it’s these type of experiences that make it hard for those who don’t believe to explain.
This reminds me of the Alaska Airlines flight that went down just off the coast of Pt. Mugu in Ventura County, California, in February of 2001. I don’t recall the flight number (for some reason I’ve got the number 229 in my head, but don’t hold me to that) I was married to a 1st Class Petty Officer in the Navy at the time and we lived in Oxnard, about 10-12 miles from where the plane crashed into the ocean, killing everyone on board. All evening, and well into the night, all of the major networks were focused on the tragedy and seeing all of those bodies being pulled from the water broke my heart.
(I didn’t know anyone on that flight, but my heart was sad for the families of those who perished … perhaps I’m too sensitive and/or emotional)
This storey reminds me of the air crash because of something that was recovered from the water when crews were out searching for bodies and collecting pieces from the wreckage that hadn’t sunk. There was a man
on one of the boats who was using a large fish net to collect small bits of debris in one big swoop. At one point he emptied the net’s contents onto the deck and turned back to the water and that’s when he saw something that should have sunk, but which was floating freely in the water: a man’s gold class ring with a gemstone. He later told news reporters that it was not attached to anything, that it was floating in the water as though it weighed nothing. He scooped it up and turned it in to officials on the dock who managed to locate the family of the man to whom it had belonged. In an interview with a reporter not long after the crash, the man’s daughter told of how she and her father had shared a very close bond and that they had promised each other that when one died, the other would find a way to send a message to the survivor to let them know that they were okay. The daughter could not explain how or why her father’s ring, a ring that should have sunk, managed to stay afloat but she summed it up by saying that it was a miracle and that it had to be her father’s way of letting her know he had safely reached the other side and that he was okay.
~ MM
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Misunderstood_Misfit,
Thanks for the story. I’m sure there are cases were people try to contact their loved ones through some form of message using personal artifacts. ‘Phone calls from the dead’ and the ‘class ring message’ are those kind of stories that make you wonder…
Thanks for the comment
IM SO SORRY THAT HAPPPEN TO ALL THE FAMILYS,BUT JN THIS CASE IM SURE HE DIDNT DIE ON IMPACT….JUST WHEN THEY GOT TO HIM HE HAD DIED ALREADY…AND THE REASON THEY COULDNT HEAR ANYTHING BECAUSE OF ALL THE METAL SURROUNDING HIM,THATS WHAT INTERFEARED WITH THE SIGNAL
Johnie,
Yea, I thought of that as well. Except for the metal surrounding the victim part. It’s an interesting point.
However, the coroner said that the way the person die, the impact or wound was powerful enough to have caused instant death upon contact.
Such a tragic story.
Thanks for the comment.
About 2 years after my mums mother died she received a very strange phone call one evening…at that time she had been feeling a little jealous of my dad calling his mother every night because she couldn’t do that. Anyway the phone call was very staticy and unclear but she kept hearing this very high pitched voice keep repeating “mum” over and over again….my mum thought that it was a little kid until she suddenly decided to say ” is that you mum?” and then the voice started saying ” yes! mum!” it kept on saying that until my mum just hung up.
My mum is sure that it was her mother and that the reason for the high pitched voice may of been because she had died from throat cancer and that was how her voice was sounding towards the end.
mardi,
Very interesting story.
I can’t help but be amazed at the number of emails and comments we have received from people who’ve experienced similar events.
Thanks for the comment!
I just red about this story on snopes so went to find out more information. During my search I found out about Dean Lafoy Brower who also was on that train. I guess when the crash happened, it was immediately brodcast because there was a helicopter in the area for something else. So Dean’s wife was watching the news, knew he was on the train and then seen him kneeling on a tarp. Now knowing that he survived the crash, she began to relax a little. Then she saw him again a little while later and was still positive it was him.
The next day she was told he did not survive the crash. She still insists she saw him but believes it to his spirit.
Had a friend who was singing in the shower and recording it on her mobile, she brought the phone downstairs and was in floods of tears. We were supposed to be going out for her birthday party but she was too upset, after a while we got the phone out of her hand and listened to the recording.
It was also a wierd static sound, for about 3 minutes. The recording went on for 23 seconds on the phone’s timer, but kept playing the static as it was stuck on 23 instead of resetting. After 3 minutes we could hear a really raspy voice loudly whisper her name and then stop. On another recording she had made in the shower the same thing happened but it wasnt as loud.
I popped the sound file into protools and it came up as being 2hours long…it only had voices 3 minutes into it, I made them a bit clearer but it was still full of noise.
I couldn’t hear any singing or the sound of a shower or even her scream, just noise and the voice.
As it turned out she was a twin, her younger brother was born in an awkward position and had struggled for around 2 hours to stay alive but unfortunately didnt make it. I didn’t pursue the matter further or ask anymore questions, some things you just have to bow your head to, admit they are bigger than you and pass on all respect.
A very similar thing happened to me three years ago. The night after my grandmother passed away, I was laying in bed trying to fall asleep. The house was dark & still and I was just beginning to doze off. I was thinking about my grandmother and about how she was now hopefully in a better place. I nearly jumped out of my skin when my cellphone vibrated on the dresser that a call was coming in. The vibration was jarringly loud as I was almost asleep, and it startled me. I jumped out of bed to grab to the phone and make the vibrating stop. The display read . I picked it up and answered. There was no one there — just dead silence. I knew immediately it was my grandmother and a complete calm fell over me. I knew it was her way of letting me know that she was indeed in a better place and that I need not worry any longer. It kinda freaked me out but at the same time, it soothed my mind more than anything.
I’ve heard that, for whatever reason, spirits/energy from the other side can manipulate electro-magnetic devices more easily than other signs of manifestation. It seems that making a phone ring is fairly manageable and makes most since as they are absolutely devices for communication… whether on this plane or another.
Josh,
Thank you for sharing your story with us.
It is strange that we hear about these “ghost calls” happening right after someone passes. I don’t know what to make of them, nor have I heard and possible explanations.
-Javier