The First Call

Description

Three calls were recorded from a general office line that had been disconnected for seven years. The caller spoke with the calm of someone who expected the call to be answered in advance.

Recovered material

Audio log / call trace / incident summary

Narrative

we listened to the tape in the same room, all seven of us standing nine feet apart. the phone rang once. no handset was connected. the voice said: are you in the room yet? then the line went dead without a dial tone.