seeker
2009-11-11 15:30:44 UTC
Here is the situation... a friend was a survivor of the cancer
epidemic in Woburn,Mass in the 1960s of which a book and movie were
made about. The friend was an abandoned child and had no known family
history, as if it was known, it was withheld from them. After the book
came out and the movie was in the planning stage, they began having
phone problems. The friend had no criminal background whatsoever. Here
is what they noted:
1) anonymous calls coming in which appeared on the caller id as a
constant stream of changing numbers of which standard user call
tracing features had no effect
2) Friend had a Lucent digital answering machine. One day, it was
powered OFF and the phone rang. They let it ring and ring then the
call dropped. Immediately after, the phone rang again and after
several rings, the answering machine powered ON,as if some back-end
circuitry could power the unit up with a voltage spike sent across the
line.The machine had a built in intercom feature and this was
activated and they could hear low office sounds
3) Every day, the friend got calls from the same phone number. They
tried calling back the number all days and hours for several months
and it either rang and rang or was busy. There was never a live answer
or message of any kind. One day they tried the number from their work
phone and it rang and picked up! On the other end they could hear
sounds coming from the building they were in. No one spoke and when
they went dashing out to the area to investigate they found a phone
off the hook which apparently was being stored in a desk. They
reported it to management and the calls stopped. The caller had been
calling always at times when that person was at work and calling their
home, as if someone was entering their apartment while they were at
work and the lookout at work was communicating back to them.
4) Other friends reporting that calls were being answered by
mysterious individuals when the person lived alone. Or that bogus
messages indicating the phone was not in service when they called.
Prior to this, a man with Tennessee license plates who carried a gun
always moved into the apartment next door. He told everyone he worked
"in construction". Every time my friend came home, within 15 minutes
the man appeared and did not leavee until they left,except when
exiting out a side entrance and getting into a separate car(man drove
an old pickup).One day the friend came home and as they pulled into
the driveway, a Verizon phone company truck was leaving. They looked
in and saw the "construction worker", with totally shocked
face,driving the phone company truck!! Within 2 weeks that man had
moved out. It has been speculated a calling circle or similar had been
set up or that a third party was intercepting phone calls to the
person and perhaps destroying their chances to find employment and to
sever friendship ties.
epidemic in Woburn,Mass in the 1960s of which a book and movie were
made about. The friend was an abandoned child and had no known family
history, as if it was known, it was withheld from them. After the book
came out and the movie was in the planning stage, they began having
phone problems. The friend had no criminal background whatsoever. Here
is what they noted:
1) anonymous calls coming in which appeared on the caller id as a
constant stream of changing numbers of which standard user call
tracing features had no effect
2) Friend had a Lucent digital answering machine. One day, it was
powered OFF and the phone rang. They let it ring and ring then the
call dropped. Immediately after, the phone rang again and after
several rings, the answering machine powered ON,as if some back-end
circuitry could power the unit up with a voltage spike sent across the
line.The machine had a built in intercom feature and this was
activated and they could hear low office sounds
3) Every day, the friend got calls from the same phone number. They
tried calling back the number all days and hours for several months
and it either rang and rang or was busy. There was never a live answer
or message of any kind. One day they tried the number from their work
phone and it rang and picked up! On the other end they could hear
sounds coming from the building they were in. No one spoke and when
they went dashing out to the area to investigate they found a phone
off the hook which apparently was being stored in a desk. They
reported it to management and the calls stopped. The caller had been
calling always at times when that person was at work and calling their
home, as if someone was entering their apartment while they were at
work and the lookout at work was communicating back to them.
4) Other friends reporting that calls were being answered by
mysterious individuals when the person lived alone. Or that bogus
messages indicating the phone was not in service when they called.
Prior to this, a man with Tennessee license plates who carried a gun
always moved into the apartment next door. He told everyone he worked
"in construction". Every time my friend came home, within 15 minutes
the man appeared and did not leavee until they left,except when
exiting out a side entrance and getting into a separate car(man drove
an old pickup).One day the friend came home and as they pulled into
the driveway, a Verizon phone company truck was leaving. They looked
in and saw the "construction worker", with totally shocked
face,driving the phone company truck!! Within 2 weeks that man had
moved out. It has been speculated a calling circle or similar had been
set up or that a third party was intercepting phone calls to the
person and perhaps destroying their chances to find employment and to
sever friendship ties.