In a small town in Maine called London Flats an old lady named Elva Keene lives.\u00a0 She is wheelchair bound and has an attendant named Margaret who does her chores and makes her meals during the day then goes home for the night.<\/p>\n
One night during a thunder storm, Elva is awakened at two a.m. by the phone ringing.\u00a0 But when she answers it all she can hear is static.\u00a0 After she hangs up the same thing happens again.<\/p>\n
The next morning Elva calls up the telephone Operator and reports the odd calls.\u00a0 The Operator informs her that the thunder storm knocked out a number of phone lines and that repairs were ongoing.\u00a0 When Elva insists that something should be done about the calls the Operator tells her to call back if it happens again and the phone company would trace back the problem.<\/p>\n
Several more times during the day and the following night strange calls occur.\u00a0 But the calls become more disturbing.\u00a0 First, she starts hearing a man moaning into the line.\u00a0 Then this man starts repeating the word \u201chello\u201d over and over.\u00a0 Finally, the man started saying he wanted to talk to her and wanted to know where she was.\u00a0 At this last call Elva told him to leave her alone and stop calling her.<\/p>\n
The next day the Operator calls Elva back and tells her that the problem has been traced to a downed line.\u00a0 But when Elva asked how the downed line was calling her the operator informed her that the line was inside the cemetery.<\/p>\n
Elva has Margaret drive her to the cemetery and she confirms what she suspected.\u00a0 The downed line is on top of the grave of her departed fianc\u00e9, Brian.\u00a0 Elva tells Margaret that when she was engaged to Brian her personality so dominated him that he did whatever she wanted.\u00a0 One day while insisting on driving somewhere she crashed the car causing Brian\u2019s death and her permanent paralysis.<\/p>\n
But being as lonely as she is somehow Elva is encouraged by the contact from beyond the grave.\u00a0 When she gets home and after Margaret leaves for the day, Elva picks up the phone and calls to Brian.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t answer so she calls again and again.\u00a0 He finally answers her and tells her that he always listens to her and since she told him to leave her alone that is exactly what he will now do.<\/p>\n
This is a good old creepy ghost story.\u00a0 The ending is a little off but the whole idea of the phone call from beyond the grave is excellent.\u00a0 I read that originally the ending was supposed to be that after finding out where the calls were coming from, she gets one last call where Brian tells her he\u2019s on his way over to see her.\u00a0 Now with her alone in a wheel chair and, let\u2019s say, the phones out of service, that would be one scary ending.<\/p>\n
Regardless, this is a solid B+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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