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There's nothing more unnerving than receiving a unknown phone call in the middle of the night. Except, of course, receiving a phone call that consists of silence for a moment before you start to detect sounds of heavy breathing or fiendish laughter on the other end before the caller hangs up; the caller may even be an obsessive stalker that will keep calling you, even after you tell them to stop it. Sometimes there may just be a phone ringing and no one answers on the other line or someone just called and hung up without even talking.
Sometimes the voice initially sounds so charming and trustworthy that you can't help but strike up a conversation with the person. When this happens, the caller then switches their kind tone for a more menacing tone and you suddenly find yourself wishing that you had not answered the phone at all. Particularly when you find out that The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House.
Related to Evil Phone, when the case is more supernatural. Preferred tactic of the Evil Debt Collector, and it used to be common among marketers/salespeople, before they found spam. Prank Calls can easily become this, especially if the person on the receiving end gets multiple prank calls.
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In Act of Vengeance, Gloria contacts the Rape Squad after she receives a series of obscene phone calls from a man called Bernie (a.k.a. 'Foul Mouth'). The Squad track him down and put the fear of God into him.
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The opening to at least one episode of American Country Countdown during the Don Bowman-era has the host blowing a raspberry. This was likely an episode from 1975, when several episodes had Couch Gag-style openings.
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The Far Side had a comic where a duck hunter is in a phone booth and playing a duck call into the phone. On the other end of the phone line is a duck in his house with a shocked expression on his face. The caption says "Obscene duck call."
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The Silence of Murder: While Hope investigates Coach Johnson's murder, she keeps getting mysterious phone calls with heavy breathing and sometimes threats. Turns out they're from Sheriff Wells, trying to scare her off the case.
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Nancy tries to call Glen in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) to warn him not to go to sleep. Then the phone rings. She picks it up. It's the sound of Fred's claws being sharpened. She (understandably) freaks out, tears the phone out of the plug, and throws it across the room. Then, despite being unplugged, it starts ringing again. This time, it's Freddy again, telling her that "I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy", and then his tongue sticks out the phone.
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The "333" arc on season 4 of CSI: NY had Mac getting these for quite a while. They always came at 3:33 am or pm and usually had only silence. The guy behind it escalated things to cryptic jigsaw puzzles and was eventually found to be the brother of a boy Mac knew as a teen, who was set on avenging his brother's death. They had all tagged along with one of the boys on a delivery job and got attacked. Mac grabbed a gun but he was just a scared kid and couldn't pull the trigger, resulting in the attacker's brother dying. It ended with a hostage plot, but with the team's help Mac escaped and got the guy.
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Decoy: Betty Hodges from "The Phoner" keeps getting obscene phone calls from a man who calls himself Carl. Casey moves in with her and pretends to be her sister while she investigates.
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On It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Dennis explains to the rest of The Gang his system for manipulating and tormenting women. One example is to nurture dependence on you, which he achieves by disguising his voice and making threatening phone calls to her, then "taking care of" the guy harassing her. A later step in the plan has him completely severe all contact with her and not explaining why, during which time he starts making those calls again.
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Natsuhi receives several in Episode 5 of Umineko: When They Cry from a man who pretends to be her adopted son from 19 years ago. He gives her strange orders, and at the end we realize that he wanted to frame her for the murders occurring, leading Erika to designate her as the culprit. And that's only the beginning of her troubles.
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One Halloween Special episode of The Simpsons hilariously subverted this trope when the family accidental ran over and killed Ned Flanders. Homer later receives a creepy stalkerish phone call from a raspy-voiced psycho, but when he replies to the caller it turns out that the caller is his friend Moe the bartender, who accidentally dialled a wrong number while trying to stalk Ned's wife Maude.
In another episode, Rabbi Krustovski keeps getting silent phone calls, occasionally punctuated by heavy breathing. It's actually his estranged son Krusty the Clown, trying to work up the courage to speak to his father and sighing in frustration before hanging up.
Lest we forget all the times Bart prank-called Moe, requesting somebody with a Punny Name that Moe always managed to phrase in the most hilarity-inducing way - "Bea O'Problem? Do I have a Bea O'Problem?"; "Mya Buttreeks? Does anyone know Mya Buttreeks?".
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Gotham: Barbara gives one to both Jim and Leslie. To Jim she tries to accuse Leslie of having attacked her and being insane when its the other way around and to Leslie she calls her a bitch and says she hopes she dies screaming because she's jealous of her for having Jim's affection.
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Port Charles's Courtney repeatedly calls Karen, the woman dating her ex-boyfriend Joe, and hangs up whenever Karen answers, wanting Karen to think that Joe's cheating on her.
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In New Dynamic English, Max received a phone call from someone who claimed to be his "brother", making him and his wife upset. It turns out to be Max's childhood friend from when he's under 5 years old.
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City of Angels has an obscene phone call as Narrative Filigree in a part of Stine's screenplay which he reads:
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In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Susan Way gets a number of phone calls with nothing but the sound of faint wind whistling. She's more perplexed and annoyed than frightened, describing it as a minimalist heavy breather. It's actually the ghost of her recently-deceased brother Gordon, trying to complete the phone call he was making when he died.
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One episode of Paranoia Agent has a woman with multiple personalities get numerous harassing phone messages... left by her other personality.
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In Eyes of a Stranger, the villain likes to make obscene phone calls (which include heavy breathing, promises of intercourse and music box tunes) to his would-be victims before going after them.
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Played for comedy in Serial Mom. "Pussy Willows!".
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The SCP Foundation has SCP-145, a phone which, if answered, connects to an unknown woman who pleads for help and describes torture being inflicted on various individuals (who can be heard screaming in the background). Using the phone without someone else watches causes the listener to vanish and join the other victims.
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Supernatural: Gordon and Dean's relationship starts as Ho Yay in "Bloodlust" when they bond and find they're very much alike, with Gordon acting like a sort of mentor for Dean following the Winchesters' dad dying. Then Dean finds out Gordo's a whack-job and leaves him tied-up in his own mess for three days. When Gordon comes back, he tries to pit Dean against Dean's Not-Love Interest Sam and holds him hostage to lure Sam in, all the while trying hard to convince Dean that he's right, because A.) he still respects Dean as a fellow hunter, and B.) he feels a kinship with Dean as Gordon killed his own vamped sister and now must kill Dean's brother, who might join Hell. When he's turned into a vampire, his first action is to go to where Dean and Sam were, get Dean's scent and track him, leading to a very unpleasant phone conversation in which he tells Dean that no matter where he goes or what he does, he'll find him.
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Memento. The protagonist gets several of these, despite one of his rules being 'don't answer the phone', as due to his lack of long-term memory he'll forget who he's talking to. When he does remember to ask, the caller hangs up.
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On Oruchuban Ebichu Ebichu gets a perverted phone call while her owner is out. Being a naive little hamster, Ebichu innocently answers all of his questions ("What are you wearing?" "Just an apron!"). He finally asks her to say "pussy", and when she does it almost seems to cause him to lose his mind.
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A strip of Garfield has a woman answering a phone only to hear heavy breathing on the other end. She yells at the caller for being a pervert before hanging up. The last panel shows that it was just Odie, who was panting into the receiver.
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Sesame Street:
The song "Telephone Rock" by Little Jerry and the Monotones, an all-Muppet (of course) band. The song is about a teenager (Jerry) who intends to spread the good times and great sounds of old-time rock and roll music over the telephone, but he and his buddies wind up harassing a telephone operator (an old spinster woman) in the process. After several warnings to cease and desist, she makes good on a threat to call the police ... and it isn't long before an officer shows up to lock them in the telephone booth and carry them away, presumably to jail. The segment first aired in the winter of 1975, with later airings continuing through the early 1990s, and even got some minor airplay on Dr. Demento's radio programs, but surprisingly the song — unlike others from Sesame Street, either by their original Muppet performances or covers by other artists — was never released as a single. note Incidentally, a follow-up (of sorts) was produced for a new Children's Television Workshop home video, "Rock & Roll!" (a compilation of classic shorts featuring musical performances from Street), where the prank call from "Telephone Rock" framed the major backstory. A giddy teen-aged girl (Allison O'Reilly, best known as Gina) kept calling in requesting the song but the host (Jackman Wolf, a parody of legendary radio personality Wolfman Jack) was unable to connect her with her favorite band. Eventually, the police officer(from the original segment) physically carries the phone booth, with Jerry and his bandmates locked inside, into the radio station to corroborate their claim that they were intended as guests of his program. When Jackman indeed backs up Jerry's claims and lets them perform, the phone operator disgustedly gasps in disbelief while the police officer has no choice but to drop the charges.
First aired around the same time as "Telephone Rock" in 1975 was a "Sesame Street News Flash" segment with Kermit the Frog (in his news reporter role) getting a phone call from an unnamed source claiming someone has been standing outside in a blizzard for a long time. Kermit, determined to get a juicy news story, asks passersby if they were the person the caller was referring to; all of them deny the claim, saying they've been outside just a short time. Eventually, Kermit has been outside so long he is almost (literally) buried in snow, when notorious prankster Harvey Kneeslapper admits he made the prank call and duped Kermit into making a fool of himself. Harvey walks off laughing (and fortunate he avoided arrest on, at the very least, harassment charges) while Kermit is too frozen to care.
In 1993, Gina, while working the afternoon shift at Hooper's Store, gets a harassing phone call; viewers hear only Gina's side of the conversation, but from the context, the call apparently was from someone who objected to a white girl (Gina) dating an African-American (Savion)note ; indeed, there is evidence their movie date and foreplay prior to said scene went more than what viewers were shown. Telly Monster is also at the store, has overheard the call and Gina becoming upset at what the caller told her, and immediately starts to get upset, wondering why some people hate others just because of their race, religion, etc. — especially since the Street is racially mixed but everyone is friends. Gina and Savion explain and help Telly understand that there are "just some really stupid people in the world, who can't stand to see it when people of different races are friends." note (They also explain a way to deal with hate calls in the future, which most people would not recommend ... Blowing a Raspberry; the recommended way is to simply hang up and if the calls persist call the police.)
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "Four O'Clock", Oliver Crangle tells FBI Agent Hall that he calls the supposedly evil people in the middle of the night to accuse them of various crimes.
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One of the more disturbing scenes in Higurashi: When They Cry involves Keiichi taking a phone call from a distressed Shion, who supposedly went missing a number of days previously. He has only recently found this out, and pleads with her to tell him that he's wrong. All she can do is sob. He then begins to poke holes in her confession that she spoke to another person who went missing around the same time; if she's telling the truth, the only way she could have spoken to them is to have done so after they went missing. There's a moment of silence after he points this out to her, and then she begins to laugh hysterically. Without another word, she hangs up.
The PS 2 version of the scene is much creepier. The scene plays out the same right up until the moment of silence. Then Shion starts laughing in a more psychotic style than the anime, then out of nowhere, the volume suddenly become ten times louder as the screen goes, black, is then filled up with text that is Shion's laughter, and then we get a shot of Shion in a completely dark room where all that can be seen is her face, which can be only describe as a clown-esque deranged smile, all while the laughter goes on.
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Referenced in the Temps story "Sortilege And Serendipity" by Brian Stableford, where one of the Talented kids has the superpower to pick up a telephone and tell you where everyone who used it in the last day is now. He's nicknamed "the Phone Freak Kid", because tracing these people is the only use anyone can see for his powers.
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Spider-Man: Peter is worried about Mary-Jane and calls her home to make sure she's okay but instead of Mary-Jane he gets the Green Goblin on the other line who giggles and says in a creepy sing-song voice, "Can Spider-Man come out to play?"
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MAD: Parodied when some police officers catch an obscene caller in the act and arrest him. When he's given his One Phone Call, he uses it to pick up where he left off.
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American Dad!:
In "Frannie 911", Francine tries to prove to Roger that Stan cares about him by using a voice modulator and pretending to hold Roger for ransom. When she returns home, Stan is nonchalant and gives surprisingly elaborate explanations for Roger's absence. Ultimately he tells Francine that Roger's people came back for him, and if they stood on the roof waving kitchen utensils they'd receive a special telepathic message. While they're waiting, Stan points out that he knew it was Francine all along because they have caller I.D. and she was calling from her own cell phone.
In "Shark?!", Klaus wants to ask out Hayley's friend Danuta. He calls her, but gets nervous and unintentionally creeps her out.
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In Silent Hill 3, Heather gets a number of harassing phone calls dropping unsubtle hints about her true nature.
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The killer in Killer Frequency eventually calls in to the protagonist's radio show, and his first few seconds are spent breathing into the phone before he tells the protagonist to stop helping his victims and that he's coming for him.
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Silent Hill: Promise: Vanessa is continually harassed by a "Weird phone lady" (later revealed to be named Marissa) who wants her to leave town. Turns out Marissa is Maria, who is also Alessa Guilespie and the Order's God, who wanted to get rid of Vanessa so she could "play" with James for all eternity.
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Batman: Arkham City: Joker starts leaving Batman voice mails like he's a clingy girlfriend. The Joker straight up mentions their Foe Romance Subtext in one of his voice mails, commenting on Batman's "repressed sexual tension".
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The Mitchell and Webb Situation had a set of sketches about harassing phone calls, including calling the wrong person, going to an answering machine ("I'll try your mobile"), calling someone who is completely unphased to hear that the caller can see what she is wearing seeing as she is on live television and finally calling another harasser and hitting it off.
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Are You Afraid of the Dark?: In the episode "The Tale of Laughing in the Dark" the character Josh is talking to his friend on the phone when the Monster Clown Big Bad of the episode suddenly speaks up on the other line "If you don't give it back, I'll come up and get it!"
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Seinfeld contains romantic and non romantic ones:
Russell repeatedly called Elaine after he fell madly in love with her.
Crazy Joe Davola left a harassing message on Jerry's phone due to his particular hatred for him.
A coworker Elaine pissed off left a message on her phone threatening her: "Elaine, I'm going to find you! If not in the kitchen then (she goes on to list various rooms in their workplace leading Elaine to comment she must have a blue print of the building)
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In Bloom County, Opus gets an obscene phone call and has Milo listen to a bit of it:
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Lost Highway: At Andy's party Fred meets a strange looking Mystery Man in Black who tells Fred that he is at his house right now and is the one who sent the videotapes to him. He then tells Fred to phone his house, Fred does so, and the voice of the Mystery Man answers at the house while he's standing right in front of Fred.
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Love & Pies: An anonymous caller who claims to be Amelia's frenemy occasionally calls her to try stopping her investigations, threatening that she'll be in more trouble if she continues it.
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Death Note: Near keeps calling and harassing Light at odd hours of the day and night and hanging up.
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Lolita (1962). While sick of a fever in a hotel room, Professor Humbert gets a phone call in the middle of the night from Claire Quilty posing as an "investigator" asking questions about Humbert's relationship with his step-daughter. It's clear Quilty is doing this just to Mind Screw Humbert, as he's already made off with Lolita.
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Madness's "Close Escape" from Absolutely is a black comedy number from the PoV of an obscene phone caller.
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The Sketch Show: In one sketch, a harassing caller tries to do this to a woman by claiming to know where she lives and that he is calling from upstairs. He's saying this to someone who's standing in a phone box.
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In Prom Night (1980), the killer makes a harassing phone call to each of his intended victims. Most assume it is some kind of joke and hang up. Jude mistakes hers for an obscene phone call, and then complains to her mother that it wasn't even particularly obscene.
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This is Ghostface's modus operandi in the Scream series. Despite there being multiple people donning the identity, all of them love psychologically torturing their victims first before killing them.
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This is parodied, of course, in the Scary Movie movies. For instance, Ghostface calls one of his victims (played by Carmen Electra) while reading a porn mag where she's the centerfold. When he says he wants to know what her insides look like, she tells him to turn the page.
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One particularly memorable scene from Malcolm in the Middle has Lois receiving a phone call from a guy breathing heavily. She chews him out note  Listen pervert this is the third time you've called here now I've had just about enough of and the caller is revealed to her and the viewer to be the asthmatic Stevie.
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In The Crush Darian does this to Nick.
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Ramsley calls Jim in The Haunted Mansion (2003) before hanging up without answering.
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In Naked Came the Stranger, Gillian tries to flirt with an obscene caller. To her amusement, he accuses her of attempting a Phone-Trace Race and hangs up.
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The Annoying Orange: In a parody of "The Ring" a guy gets a call from Orange after watching a cursed video tape who laughs repeatedly and warns him that in seven days he and his friends will become onion rings.
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In the novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, the main character, a married man, keeps getting calls from some random woman trying to initiate phone sex. It's his wife. Maybe?
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In the Invader Zim episode "Bestest Friends" Zim gets a "best friend" named Keef in order to be seen as more 'normal' by the other students. However, when he tries to get rid of him Keef becomes something of a Stalker with a Crush towards Zim. One scene features Keef calling Zim right after Zim tells him to go away and Zim reacts by pulling the phone cable out of the wall.
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Aquarius: Charlie Manson does this often to his victims.
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A Freaky Stories story involves a babysitter constantly being called and asked "Have you checked the children?". She loses it when she finds out the calls are coming from a second line in the house, but it's strongly implied that it was the children making the calls.
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The Peacemaker. George Clooney's character knows that the Renegade Russian he's after is in a truck stuck in a traffic jam near a war zone; he can see them via satellite but can't tell which truck it is. So he call his old enemy's mobile and makes him think a cruise missile is coming down on his head. The Russian naturally loses his cool and pulls the truck out of the traffic, giving away his position.
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In American Psycho, one of the many sick pleasures of Villain Protagonist Patrick Bateman is to call random women and threaten them while making grunting and sucking noises. He enjoys this immensely, but mentions his enthusiasm for it coming to an abrupt halt when one of the women he calls calmly asks, "Dad, is that you?"
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In Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Achilles begins the dialogue "Air on G's String" by telling the Tortoise about an obscene phone call he received in which the caller merely shouted twice before hanging up, "Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation!" When the Tortoise teaches him about quines, he realizes that the caller was stating a logical paradox, which he considers truly obscene.
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Alex calls Dan repeatedly in Fatal Attraction, but when he keeps ignoring her, she gets more and more unhinged.
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In Perfect Blue after Mima quits her job as a pop idol to begin a career as an actress she starts receiving threatening messages and phone calls from her stalker, Me-mania.
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In the Shoestring episode "Mocking Bird," a mugger calls Radio West after each attack to taunt Eddie about his inability to catch him.
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Tencc's album How Dare You! has a title track about this. The sleeve design even shows a woman on the receiving end of a dirty phone call.
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Ryan's obsession with Dr. Nathan in Oz led him to write letters and call her non-stop. It unnerves her to the point where she eventually tells him to cut it out. Unfortunately, this makes his obsessive behavior even more extreme.
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Beverly Hills, 90210: Brandon's ex-girlfriend Emily makes multiple ones of these to the Walsh home after Brandon breaks up with her, either repeatedly calling and hanging up whenever anyone answers or leaving dozens of messages.
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Black Christmas (the original) featured disturbing phone calls throughout, as did the 2006 remake (though far fewer, and considerably less disturbing).
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In Koharu no Hibi Koharu, Akira's stalker and Yandere, quite frequently calls and texts him.
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In Welcome to the Game, the Breather is a local Serial Killer who taunts the player via phone call some time after they begin browsing The Deep Web, before attempting to break into their house.
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Hey Arnold!: One of the ways Helga keeps reminding Arnold he has "24 Hours To Live" is by repeatedly calling him.
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Family Guy: Peter gets these from his boss, Angela, in the episode "Peter-assment". Also, while the Griffins were out on vacation Herbert kept calling the house and leaving creepy messages for Chris.
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Frasier features an episode in the third season during which one of Frasier's call-ins rings up to complain about this happening to her and becoming traumatized by it. The call is fielded by Roz as Frasier is running late. He then runs into the studio in an exhausted state and picks up the phone while trying to regain his breath. Suffice to say, the woman at the other end completely misinterprets what she hears.
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In episode 11 of the anime Ghost Stories Satsuki keeps getting these from a Creepy Doll named Mary.
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Economy Watch: The Cold Open to Episode 30 is the Stock Stabber harassing David on the phone.
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Spongebob Squarepants:
In "Jellyfish Hunter", SpongeBob gets a phone call late at night after spending the day hunting jellyfish for Mr. Krabs. The call consists of menacing heavy breathing on the other line, and the camera cuts to reveal that the caller in question is No Name, the mysterious blue jellyfish that SpongeBob has been trying to catch since the start of the episode and who was just shown stalking him on his way home. No Name soon hangs up, leaving SpongeBob highly unnerved.
Spoofed in "Enemy-In-Law". when Plankton falls for Mr. Krabs' mother, he calls her up to ask her out. After stepping on the phone buttons to dial the number, he's left gasping heavily as Mrs. Krabs answers. Upon hearing it, she nearly hangs up but Plankton manages to catch his breath and speak clearly in time.
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In Peter Moore's "Caught In The Act" Ethan receives frightening ones from Lydia.
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 A Cry in the Night / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 American Psycho / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Cerberus High / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mysteries / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Lord Edgware Dies / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Missing Since Monday / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Rebuild World / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 The Boxcar Children / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 HarassingPhonecall
sameAs
Harassing Phone Call
 Death Note (Manga) / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Finder Series (Manga) / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 365 Days to the Wedding (Manga) / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Absolutely (Music)
seeAlso
Harassing Phone Call
 The No Sleep Podcast (Podcast) / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Hannibal / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Recht Op Recht / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 The Sketch Show / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 The Wrong Mans / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Unsolved Mysteries / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 W817 / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 How the Other Half Loves (Theatre) / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Calm Down Stalin (Video Game) / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Conspiracy Clicker (Video Game) / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Disco Elysium (Video Game) / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Fears to Fathom (Video Game) / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Killer Frequency (Video Game) / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Love & Pies (Video Game) / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Mario's Mystery Meat (Video Game) / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Welcome to the Game (Video Game) / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv) (Web Video) / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Economy Watch (Web Video) / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Joueur du Grenier (Web Video) / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Marble Hornets (Web Video) / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Silent Hill: Promise (Webcomic) / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call
 Freaky Stories / int_ce389717
type
Harassing Phone Call