The Phone Call: A Nine Little Hauntings Exclusive
✨ Nine Little Hauntings ✨
A series from The Hollow—brief encounters with the uncanny, where the ordinary twists and the quiet lingers a little too long.
“The dead are patient. They only need a line to reach you.”
Her phone rang in the middle of the night. No caller ID. When she answered, there was just static. Before she disconnected, she heard her husband’s voice in the receiver whisper through the static, “I’m still here.”
His burial had been that morning.
The next night, it rang again. And again. Every night the same whisper, always repeating the same phrase.
One night before bed she had had enough and turned her phone off, burying it deep within her chest of drawers across the room.
Yet still it rang. The sound echoing through her bedroom.
Lines are never truly dead. Mirrors, though—they reflect more than calls can carry.
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