Every Christmas Eve for more than a decade, a woman received a phone call at the exact same minute — always from an unknown number, always with no trace in the phone company logs.

And the voice on the other end? It sounded exactly like her mother. Her mother… who had died years earlier.

In this special holiday bonus episode, we slow down, dim the lights, and step into one of the eeriest modern ghost stories shared online. Was it grief, a glitch, a long-term hoax, or something that slipped through the thin place between memory and the unknown?

Join me for a cozy, mysterious Christmas Eve tale about a phone that rang when it shouldn’t have — and a voice that never should have been able to call.

✨ Happy Holidays, and stay curious. – Kat

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About the show

Kat Has Questions is a curiosity-driven podcast about real stories that sound unreal — from unsolved crimes and strange history to the quietly weird corners of human behavior.

New episodes every week.

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Sources & Further Reading

- “The Christmas Phone Call” discussion thread, YourGhostStories.com, archived December 2007.

- Compilation of user-submitted anomalous call accounts, Paranormal Studies Index, 1998–2012.

- “Crisis Apparition Communication Phenomena,” Journal of Survival Research, Vol. 14, 2003.

- “Telephone Contact After Death: Anomalous Case Studies,” Dr. Scott Rogo & Dr. Raymond Bayless, Phone Calls From the Dead, 1979.

- “Untraceable Calls in the Analog/Digital Bridge Era,” Telecommunications Review, 1995.

- Assorted anecdotal retellings from r/Paranormal and r/Ghoststories (2009–2018) consolidated into known variations of the case.

🎵 Music: “Scrunchy” by Night Drift

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