Last night I heard voices while I was sleeping.
Or, rather, a tiny voice.
I woke up.
Turned to my nightstand and the voice was coming from my phone, which was on, but turned upside down as it always is/as I left it 3 hours earlier.
I reached for the phone, and grabbed it. The voice wasn't loud, but loud enough, and I saw that the phone was showing a telephone number.
I immediately thought, how did I screw up and answer the phone? Who was on the other end? Was it a wrong number? An emergency?
The number was not one I recognized. It wasn't even our area code. Not one of the four Alabama area codes. Not Mississippi, where my son goes to school or Ohio where my daughter lives, or Georgia where my youngest daughter goes to school, or Louisiana, where my in-laws, and numerous relatives live.
It was California.
I'm thinking it must be a drunk student of mine. They have my cell number, and I tell them I turn off the ringer when I go to bed.
All of this in like a second goes through my mind.
I then determine that the voice is actually a voice mail, as I am rushing to hang up the phone.
Voice mail?
I hang up, and look at my call history. Shows a 22 second phone call to this California phone number at 2:45 a.m. Exactly at 2:45 a.m.
That I made.
It was an outgoing call.
My phone, which was laying face down on top of a gun safe on top of my night stand for three hours, and not at all close to me, made a call to California and reached someone's voice mail.
I did not make the call.
I sat there, looking at the phone, befuddled, as I noticed something else in the call history.
My phone didn't make one random telephone call at 2:45 a.m.
It made three.
That was the 3rd call, all registering at exactly 2:45 a.m.
The other two calls were to the same number in Massachusetts. One showed unconnected, the other outgoing for 33 seconds.
Those two calls were placed at 2:45 a.m., then a 3rd call made to a different number, also at 2:45 a.m.
Weird as crap, and a little unsettling.
So I rebooted my phone. Logically, something was getting its wires crossed to cause that, and since I rarely turn my phone off it was time for a reboot anyway.
Later that morning after I woke up, I did some research.
I have every phone number I have ever dialed on this phone.
The California number has never, ever been called, nor has it ever called me. I did not quickly locate the identity of the owner of that number, although I will try again.
The Massachusetts number was easy to explain, though. It called me earlier in the day (Staples Advantage).
But absolutely no explanation for how, or why, it dialed three numbers by itself, sitting on my nightstand. Or why it chose those two different numbers to call.
Kinda freaky.
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