Hey, listen to this story - it'll give you goosebumps... This happened to my friend, and it's completely true.
In the summer of 2023, they moved into a studio apartment in a Seoul alley... Something felt off from the first day. There was a landline phone in the apartment. Who uses landlines these days? When I asked the landlord, they said "It came with the internet installation" and told me to just leave it.
But a week later... that's when the truly terrifying things started happening.
Saturday, 3 AM. I was sound asleep when suddenly 'ring ring ring~' - the phone rang. You know that old-fashioned phone ring sound? I woke up startled. "Who could be calling at this hour?" I picked up the phone...
Silence. Complete silence. I said "Hello?" but no response, and after a few seconds, it hung up.
But that wasn't the end. The next day, and the day after that, the phone rang at exactly 3 AM. I mean exactly - the moment the minute hand pointed to 12, the bell would ring. When I answered, same thing - silence, then hang up...
After about a week, I was really annoyed. "What kind of prank is this?"
But on the tenth day... man, I still get chills thinking about it.
As usual, the phone rang at 3 AM. I picked it up, but this time the other person spoke first.
"Hello?"
But... that voice was MY voice. Exactly the same. The tone, pronunciation, even the tremor at the end - completely identical. I was too shocked to speak, then the other person spoke again.
"Is... is anyone there?"
Again, my voice. It felt like talking to a mirror. My palms got sweaty. Then the other person said their final words...
"Excuse me... do you happen to live in room 401?"
401 was exactly my room number. I was living in 401, calling 401, asking myself if I lived in 401. Does that make any sense?
I was so creeped out that I hung up immediately.
From then on, I decided not to answer the phone. But every night at 3 AM, it would ring without fail. Sometimes for 30 minutes, sometimes for an hour. I couldn't sleep.
I called the building management to ask... and this made it even stranger. They said there was no landline registered to my unit. But clearly there was a phone and it was ringing every day, right? When they checked the call records, there were records of calls coming in at 3 AM from "Caller ID Blocked."
I decided to move out a month later. On the last night, with all my stuff packed, the phone rang again at 3 AM. "It's the last time, let me answer it," I thought.
The moment I picked up... I heard my voice.
"You've been through a lot. I think it's okay for you to leave now."
Then it hung up.
After I moved, nothing like that happened again. But sometimes I wonder - who was calling me back then? And does the person living in room 401 now... also get calls at 3 AM in their own voice?