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
My daughters husband was tragically killed (hit and run)and we both rec’d phone calls from 000-000-0000…..white static….also, the smoke alarms went of at the exact time 24 hours after his passing. There are so many other things that happened…….his dog got extremely ill and had to be put to sleep within 24 hours…thenext day another dog shows up at the house and we could not find the owners, after searching for a month (of course, he is part of our family now!) ….his daughter (4) has talked to Daddy (mom asked who she was talking to) and she told Mommy, Daddy is OK, he is our special angel and is watching out for us, don’t worry Mommy, daddy is OK and he loves us, he told me! …..I have been a believer since I was 13 and saw a full apperition whom had just knocked on the back windowed door. (a white cloud like figure, holding the screen door open.NO I DID NOT INVITE HIM/HER IN!! I have also witnessed bureaus moving/jumping at an old captains house in Marthas Vineyard. My hub also witnessed this. I am a believer. There is much we don’t know.
Last year in May my grandmother passed away from a doctors mistake. She had always believed in ghosts and other psychic abilities, she had always claimed that she had dreams that she wouldn’t remember until the exact moment they happened, which some people call deja vu. Anyways my grandmother was on life support for awhile because the doctors at a different hospital were trying to see if her body would heal enough for her to live on her own. One night as we were all there my granmothers sister brought in a shaman to give a ritual blessing and my grandmother had been unresponsive all that day and even when the shaman came in the room she still wasn’t responsive, but when he started the ceremony and called out to her she opened her eyes wide and just stared at him until the ceremony was over and she went back to being unresponsive. She passed away a few days later and ever since I have been having her deja vu dreams every single night. My mother, sister, grandfather and I all have tattoos in rememberance of her, and my mother one night “felt” someone there in the room with her so she looked around and no one was there, but then she felt someone or something rubbing her back where the tattoo is and thought she heard some whispering and assumed it was my grandmother. My sister at the time was staying with my grandpa and was laying down on the couch at around the same time my mother claimed to be feeling the rubbing or tingling on her back and my sister called me crying saying that she had just seen my grandmother in my grandfathers living room and that she was there in her hospital gown just looking at my sister and then just vanished. The last incident that happened also involved my sister..
One night my mother, me, and my sister were all together at my moms house in her garage and just talking about the past and my sister went to go get a picture of my grandmother and my grandfather from her room, as she reached the top stair she froze and saw my grandmother at the end of the hall at the top of her doorway to her room but my grandmother wasn’t looking at her instead her face was of fear and was staring at my doorway to my room, so my sister looked over and said that there was a man there staring at her in a menacing glare and as my sister went to turn her head to look for my grandmother again they had vanished and she was left full of fear. As she ran back down the stairs she was coming to tell my mother and I what had happened and she stopped in the kitchen, which my room is directly above, and had heard little girls laughter and movement. She was so frightened of everything she had an asthma attack. Now I know people will claim that there are lots of reasons that she could have heard these noises but explain to me how a few nights later I was in my room alone and one of the chairs i had in my room was spinning around by itself and all of a sudden the closet door flung open. My closet doesn’t have an attic access and my window was not open, nor was my bedroom door. I wanted to share this story because I truly believe that there are other forms of life that surround us each and everyday whether you believe or not.
A couple of weeks after we buried my Aunt, who died in a terrible car accident, on the 17 of Jan, I noticed her phone was blinking saying there was a message. I walked by this phone ½ a dozen times a day so would have noticed it blinking way before this. When I listen to the massage there was a lot of static/white noise but way in the background it sound like a few people on a speaker phone saying “Merry Christmas!” We were in Feb! Then a few days later my phone rings (same house, different phone lines) and again there was a lot of white noise but nothing else. A couple days later my phone rings again and way in the background of the white noise I could hear a man saying something. A whole sentence but I couldn’t make it out. A couple of days later it happened again, just white noise. That was the last time that happened.
A couple of months later my sister asked me if I wanted to go into town to go shopping. I agreed but was very nervous because we would have to drive past where the accident happened. What was VERY strange was when we got to about 300 feet from the accident big billow of smoke started pouring out of her hood. We had to pull over and where we stopped was exactly where the accident happened. We got out of the car and check it out but couldn’t see anything wrong with it. We decided to let it cool off just in case and started walking on the side of the road and found pieces of the cars that were in the accident. 15 mins later the car started with no problems. Her car never billowed out smoke before, or even after this happened. This was the only time her car ever did this. I think it was my Aunt who caused this to happen to help me to get over the accident and not to be nervous to pass this place.
Javier,
Could it be that people make these associations based on the event and don’t notice the other more normal times when something like that happens?
So many things can happen, especially with a cell phone. Why just having ATT is an adventure in itself and that’s not meant as a joke. I think these “ghost calls” are just standard cell phone anomalies given more attention than they normally would. Tell me, if your cell phone rang and you answered to hear white noise on the other end would you even think anything of it? Rather than a crossed signal, etc..that is? Many times I’ve heard faint voices while on the phone and of course I attribute it to signal crossing. These things can also be caused by weak signals, electrical impulses, interaction with other electronics and plain bumping buttons with your hip to name a few. It happens less on land lines but still it does happen there as well. How many times have we picked up a phone to call someone and they are calling us at that exact moment? We don’t even have a chance to dial or even hear one ring, right? Hello? Aunt Sadie? jbondo! I was just calling you! I was just calling you too! Even when that happens which is on a par with hitting the lottery, we don’t give it much thought after about 10 minutes.
When you’re upset and in mourning these anomalies take on meaning and we suddenly hear faint voices of loved ones on our phones or a call takes on a strange feel or strange noises.
I certainly feel for all those here that have had a loved one pass and would like to say that I am in no way trying to minimize their loss.
Second-hand story, but one that I would be more inclined to believe since I know the people who told it.
My friend’s aunt owns a general store and a motel in Montana, both of which are said to be haunted by the great-grandfather who built both those establishments. It’s a friendly haunting. I think this happened more than once that they’ll get phone calls from the general store in the middle of the night. When they investigate, no one inside had made the call, but someone is usually trying to break in or there’s some other emergency.
theres no mention if the mobile phone was found with his body.
could be it was stolen, if if was recovered from the site a button was continously pressed for a redial in the wreckage.
Im sure it was quite disturbing for the family though.
Regarding telephone calls from people whom have passed over.
About six months after the death of my wife my daughter rang me and informed me that she had received a message on her phone from her mum, i went over to her house and listened to the messages on her phone which were all recent from the last couple of days. The first two were from her friends and as usual before the message you get the “click” just before the caller leaves the message, however the third message came all of a sudden with no “click”…In her sweet soft voice my wife said, ” Hello Darlin, how are you”, the message ended.
I listened to it several times as did my daughter and it was positively my wife speaking.
On another note, soon after my wife died all sorts of things occured in my house. Pictures were moved, clocks stopped and started, cook books were pulled out from the bookcase, hot bath taps ran in the middle of the night, i could smell ciggy smoke in the bathroom (she used to read a book and smoke whilst taking a bath)…this also occured at my daughters house. Also i could smell her perfume on the stairs especially lots of times.
I did consult someone who was a medium about this and she told me she was just letting me know she was about. The same lady knew my wifes name and told me lots of things about her and what she was telling her, this lady whom i consulted was a complete stranger to me as she lived 15 miles away and i had never met her before.
has anyone else come across this sort of thing?.
jovialgeoff,
That was a wonderful story, and it seems it´s not that uncommon for deceased dear ones to leave messages in various ways.
But how a person that maybe is totally ignorant and know nothing of technical things in life can, as dead, masterfully manipulate phones and CD-players and more, is another mystery…
A couple of years ago, I was on the phone with my mother, on her birtday. I hadn´t come so far into the conversation that I had said anything about her birtday, or congratulate her, when a female voice said “Congratulations!” with a happy voice.
My mother said:
-Did you hear that?
-Yes, who´s there?
-No one´s here!
And nothing more was heard on the line from the voice…
We concluded that it must have been my grandmother, her mother, that had passed a year or two earlier, the voice sounded very much like her.
Nothing like your experience, but a little spooky event.
/JP