About two years ago, I was sitting at my computer writing an email to my friend when my cell phone rang. Ignoring it as I usually do (when its an unfamiliar number, which this was), I let the voicemail take it. When I was finished, I checked the voicemail of one new message. It was from a man named George, who told me he had known I was involved with paranormal research, and after some research came across my contact information. Right off the bat, I found this odd because i dont have any contoact info up only a few people know that i do this expressed interest in having mecome to investigate his home. The message he left also had a different callback number than the number he called from. So the next morning, I figured I'd call the number he left because that was the most logical starting point. Figuring I was up for a typical investigator / client interview, I prepared the typical questions to ask. At around 10:30 (it was a Saturday) I called and a woman answered. I explained who I was and asked to speak to George. After a long pause, she told me that he had been dead for nearly ten years. I said that was impossible because I just received a phone call from him yesterday and he gave me this number to call back. But she held her ground -- George was her husband and had been dead almost ten years. I apologized, sympathized and we parted our ways, little to no small talk involved.Feeling a bit creeped out and thinking it may have been a hoax, I called back the number from the caller ID where the original call from. It did not ring, but instead fed me static for a couple seconds, then the call was terminated. Always the doubter, I called again with the same happening. So I called this woman back, freaking myself out at this point and I explained to her the whole situation and asked her if the number this "George" had called from was familiar. She hesitated, but told me that had been their old phone number before their house burned down and that George had died in that fire, a result of smoke inhalation. Although we were both very much in shock about what had happened, neither one of us wanted to pursue an investigation... and to this day I'm not even sure why
