Pennsylvania - When a Ghost Calls. “50 States of Freaky!” Vol. 38

Pennsylvania - When a Ghost Calls. “50 States of Freaky!” Vol. 38

Be sure you’re all caught up with this series! “50 Sates of Freaky”

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Time to head to our next stop in our tour of the fifty states, and that is Pennsylvania! The freakiest thing to happen in Pennsylvania happened in Danville in April 2008. A man (I think his name may be Dan Bechtel), who works for the Central Pennsylvania Paranormal Research Associations, received a phone call at night from a man named George who wanted him and his crew to come to his house and do an investigation. Dan let the call go to voicemail and George left a number for him to call back. Dan found this call odd since their website hadn’t been updated in a long time and had old cell-phone numbers, and yet George somehow knew his new number. Regardless, Dan called back the next day and a woman answered the phone. he asked for George and she said that George couldn’t come to the phone because he’d been dead for ten years due to smoke inhalation from a house fire. George had been her husband and she held her ground that he was dead. The phone call ended and later on, Dan called the number from the caller ID of the original call he’d let go to voicemail back. All he got was static and a few seconds later the call was terminated. He called again and the same thing happened. So he called the woman back and told her the number that’s left him the voicemail. She hesitated for a moment, and then she said that that’s been George’s old number before he died. Even though they were both shocked by all this, neither of them wanted to pursue an investigation, and Dan says he really isn’t sure why. There’s one problem I have with this story. If you go to the CPPRA’s website, there’s no team member with the name “Dan Bechtel”. I don’t know if it’s because they’re now a former member or if this person even exists. So whoever told this story is either using an alias, is pretending to be a member of this group (and doing a bad job at it) or it’s just someone who wanted to make a creepy ghost story set in Pennsylvania and decided to use this paranormal group’s name in the story to make it sound more ‘authentic’. Whatever the case is, I’m not sure I believe this story to be true. It kind of sounds like that episode of the “Twilight Zone” where the woman’s dead fiance is calling her from the grave. And that episode was apparently based off an urban legend, which leads me to believe that this is just another creepy pasta. What do you think though? Could this have really happened or is this just some made up story?
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