Here's what was going through this guys head

"Gee, my web pages have been loading awfully slow for the past week or so... what time is it? 12:30 in the morning? I think I'llc all Comcast and bitch at them about it! I'm sure that 12:30 in the morning is the best time to get this issue resolved!"

Later, after our conversation...

"Man, that guy was total BULLSH*T! He didn't know what he's talking about! And I KNOW that just because I'm running Limewire and Bear Share at the same time, that should have NO EFFECT on why my web pages are loading so slow!"

White Noise

I just had the most intensely WEIRD thing happen to me... I'm still shaking as I type this.

Ever heard of EVP? Electronic Voice Phenomena?

They made a movie a few years back about it, starring Michael Keaton. In a nutshell, EVP is all about people who hear voices in the random static of electrical recording devices and sound conveyance.

You know the background "hiss" on a tape, or the little crackling and popping in the background while you're ont he phone? "White Noise"? That's what we're talking about. People have recorded nothing but blank sound and heard voices in the void. The creepiest one I've ever heard was a recording from a graveyard. No one there except for the crew recording sounds, but when they played it back you could hear a little boy whispering "Am... am I *dead*?" No little boy was actually there, but for some reason the playback has a little boy whispering in the silence.

Better information about it and examples can be found by clicking here

Anywho, I tell you THAT so I can tell you THIS; I just experienced a VERY STRONG EVP right here in the Comcast Call Center!

And even though I joke alot in this Journal with stuff that should be taken more seriously, please beleive me when I tell you that I am 100% SERIOUS about this.

The customer thought he had hung up, but I was still on speaker phone. I took advantage of this and was going to "Ride" the call out waiting for the customer to relize I was still there and hang up, a sort of way to cheat the phone system in to letting you take a little break.

In the background I could hear the guy's TV set crystal-clear; he was watching "Groundhog Day". But then I thought I heard something weird.

As I listened closer, I recognized it as three or four different voices whispering in unison. It had an other-worldly feel to it and it made me feel very cold. As soon as I could composer myself and verified that it WAS actual voices and not just my immagination or someone else in the room talking, I started taking notes. Here's word for word what I heard:

"Help me out here..."
"Don't send the... call... phone..."
"Call at last..."
"Don't hang up..."
"Please..."

It repeated a few of these more than once and in different orders, and with different voices of the group being the "main" voice talking while the others were just there for support. And with each line of dialogue I got further and further freaked out. I finally had to hang up.