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The telephone is a strange and wondrous matter, when you actually terminate to think about it. By pushing a few buttons and belongings a small-scale device to your caput, yous can speak to anyone, anywhere in the world. Only not all phone numbers are benign; in fact, some phone numbers seem haunted, creepy, scary, cursed, or downright frightening.

And if you lot really call these creepy, scary phone numbers that really work? Well, some believe that, subsequently listening to whatever strange and disturbing messages that expect for yous on the other finish of the line, you may end up haunted, cursed… or worse.

I published TGIMM's original list of scary telephone numbers yous tin really retrieve in 2018 equally part of the site'south Halloween coverage that twelvemonth. The idea was to offering an unusual idea for something you could practice to gloat the flavor if you're more than of a spooky homebody than a spooky going-out-and-partying kind of person — only apparently, I underestimated how useful many readers would observe the list. In the years since, information technology's become TGIMM's virtually popular post past far, fifty-fifty going so far as to dethrone our previous virtually popular mail service, the Nearly Dangerous Games entry on the Lift Game.

So, knowing all of this — and knowing that we've pretty much all become spooky homebodies over the past year — information technology seemed like a good fourth dimension to revisit the original list of creepy phone numbers, update it, and add some new creepy phone numbers to information technology, if possible. We'll start with the new creepy telephone numbers; then we'll move onto the former ones, with updated descriptions and information where applicable. (Tip: If you remember the Wrinkles the Clown number, you'll want to give that ane another look. In that location take been some… interesting developments since 2018.)

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How daring do you feel today?

Information technology'due south worth because — especially if you're thinking about trying whatever of these phone numbers out.

1-877-77-CREEP

1-877-77-CREEP — or, i-877-772-7337, for easy dialing — is perhaps the least mysterious of this crop of creepy phone numbers, more often than not because we know exactly who created it and why: Information technology belongs to horror-themed apparel and merch company Creepy Co., and they made it just for fun. It apes the format of the many, many horror hotlines that proliferated in the 1980s — the kind where you could punch a i-900 number and listen to, say, Freddy Krueger read you a bedtime story.

Unlike the 1-900 numbers of yore, though, Creepy Co.'s hotline is 100 percent gratis to call; what's more than, it gives you a few options to explore one yous do dial in. If y'all're the mood to hear a good, old-fashioned urban legend, 1-877-77-Pitter-patter tin can help yous out with that. Same goes if you desire to hear some chilling music. And if yous're looking for some groan-worthy dad jokes? Let's just say you lot've come to the right place.

The recording I've made here goes every bit far every bit the bill of fare options you reach right at the beginning of your telephone call to this creepy phone number. From there? Well, you'll have to notice out what each selection reveals for yourself.

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646-868-1844

[Note: As of April 2022, this number is no longer in service. Notwithstanding, you can however hear what used to play when yous called it by clicking the link below.]

The area code for the number 646-868-1844 is based in White Plains, New York — but that doesn't really mean much, because information technology'due south a VOIP (pregnant its owner could be based anywhere). And while it's true that the initial message you'll hear upon dialing is weird — it starts with odd, bell-like tones, leads into garbled, unintelligible words, then ends with an answerphone tone — the actually weird affair about this i doesn't happen during the call itself. It happens subsequently you hang upwardly: Within seconds, you'll receive a text message containing a jumbled mix of words.

They're arranged to look like sentences, but they aren't sentences — they're just nonsense. They read things like, "Surprise steepest recurred landlord Mr. wandered amounted of. Continuing Devonshire just considered its. Rose past oh shew roof is song not bad," and "Chapter too parties its letter no. Cheerful but whatever ladyship disposed yet judgement. Lasted respond oppose to ye months no esteem."

Here's what I can tell you well-nigh the texts: They were likely generated using Markov chains or other, similar processes; furthermore, a quick Google search for each chunk of text reveals them both to function more or less like like lorem ipsum texts — that is, they're placeholder texts used to test out and demonstrate the visual appearance of a document or typeface in a draft or trial run earlier the design is finalized. Furthermore, the text you'll receive might not ever be the same from call to phone call: I first dialed the number in March of 2019 and received the "Surprise steepest recurred" message; but when I chosen it several more times in January of 2021 while working on this slice, I received the "Affiliate too parties" 1.

Simply I haven't been able to figure out much beyond that. This creepy phone number remains a mystery — for now, at least.

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618-625-8313

If you're a Stranger Things fan, you probably recognize the number 618-625-8313: Information technology'due south Murray Bauman's telephone number — that is, information technology belongs to the Netflix series' resident conspiracy theorist, played by Brett Gelman. Calling it presents you lot with Bauman's answerphone recording, which seems to offer a few hints most what might be in store for us whenever Season Four finally drops. It isn't super creepy in and of itself; however, it'southward a fun Easter egg for fans — and, equally I noted in an in-depth exploration of the number in 2019, I think it also functioned as a trailhead for the larger ARG that emerged from Stranger Things' third season. (At that place's a transcript of the actual voicemail message yous hear when you dial the number within the TGIMM piece on the number itself, so head on over at that place to cheque it out.)

 What's notable about the Bauman number, I think, is that it's still operational at present, despite having been put into service in this chapters several years ago. That'due south unusual for horror pop civilization necktie-in numbers: Carrie White's telephone number, prepare in 2012 for the Carrie remake starring Chloe Grace Moretz, hasn't worked for years — and fifty-fifty the phone number set upwardly for Mike Flanagan'southward 2020 follow-up to The Haunting of Colina Business firm, The Haunting of Bly Estate, was simply operational for a brief while. (I desperately wanted to include information technology in this updated list — I did call it when information technology was functional and found it delightfully spooky — but alas, I discovered when I was starting to do the early on background for this piece at the stop of 2020 that information technology was no longer in service in its promotional chapters.)

At that place'south no guarantee that the Stranger Things squad will go along it upwards in perpetuity, but at least nosotros tin enjoy it for the time existence. And hey, ii-ish years isn't a bad run, all things considered.

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508-690-6143

Like another longtime favorite chilling phone number, this one has a special place in my heart because of its surface area code: 508 numbers are based in Massachusetts, where I grew upwards. (True, I haven't lived there in, uh, close to two decades at present, but still. Old habits dice hard and all that.) And, like the other Massachusetts-based number, it isn't at all clear what'due south going on when you telephone call 508-690-6143.

Initially, in that location'south a loud, repetitive honking racket some have likened to a car horn and others a buzzing sound before a minute or two of clanging takes the stage — like someone is repeatedly bully a hard, solid object against a tabletop or something. An ear-splitting burst of static eventually breaks in; and then, lastly, a "Nosotros're sorry, but the number you have dialed is no longer in service" bulletin plays, only not cleanly or easily — it's interspersed with more static and interference. It finishes off with a classic answerphone beep earlier falling silent.

Only I have no idea what whatever of it means. I don't know if it'south connected to something bigger — an ARG, an abandoned fine art projection or marketing push button, a podcast, or something of the similar — or if it's just a spooky, standalone slice of weirdness. It sure is unsettling, though.

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909-390-0003

Legends surrounding so-called "doppelganger numbers" — telephone numbers which, when dialed, allow you to converse with your own doppelganger — are popular in Japan; there, it's said that calling one, such as 073-499-9999 or 090- 2048-1972, might result in anything from an unsettling experience to a potential death expletive. Merely although these kinds of numbers are well-known in Japan, they're not limited to Nippon: You see, 909-390-0003 is a doppelganger number yous can call within the U.s..

None of these numbers are actually cursed, of grade; they're just test lines — phone numbers which allow you lot to test the audio quality of your phone through something chosen an echo test. As I noted in my deep dive into doppelganger number legends in 2020, in that location are two master kinds of echo tests: I of them lets you record a message, then plays information technology dorsum to yous — not unlike how, say, test calls work on Skype — while the other echoes your voice back to y'all, live and in existent fourth dimension as y'all speak. The 909 number listed hither performs the 2nd kind of echo examination — that is, if you lot phone call it, you aren't speaking with your doppelganger; you're simply hearing your own voice all over once more.

…Or are you?

951-572-2602

You might know this particular creepy telephone number every bit "the SCP number": When yous dial it, you hear a voicemail recording informing you that you've reached the Southern California, Division xix branch of the SCP Foundation and instructing you to go out the engagement, time, location, and description of whatsoever "incidents" y'all may have witnessed which you believe require the organization'south intervention. Essentially, information technology sounds like a tip line of sorts.

The SCP Foundation is, of form, the (made-up) system at the center of the long-standing collaborative fiction project of the same proper noun. The projection saw its beginnings on 4chan fashion back in 2007, when the infamous entry at present known as SCP-173 was posted to /x/ paranormal board. The start incarnation of the project in the wiki format went live on EditThis in January of 2008; and then, in July of that aforementioned year, it moved over to Wikidot, where it still lives today. And in the years since, it has grown exponentially, with users all over the world contributing artifacts, reports, and other stories to the mix, edifice out an enormously entertaining universe that'south part X-Files, office Warehouse xiii, and all fun.

The number, which is a VOIP number based in Banning, California in Riverside County, just due south of the San Bernardino National Woods, has existed at least since 2015. SCP Foundation user genesplicer has claimed to be its creator several times in the wiki's forums; according to one mail service from this user dated 2017, information technology'south a repurposed Google vocalization number.

Some folks who have actually left messages in the number'due south voicemail box over the years have said that there's a chance y'all might receive a telephone call or a text back; I've never done this, and then I can't verify it independently (and as well, the number has existed for so long that it's a distinct possibility its creator doesn't monitor it all that closely anymore) — but if you're feeling daring, you tin always give it a shot.

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512-937-2346

This ane is really a second SCP number, although information technology serves quite a departure purpose than the previous ane: It's the hotline number for Foundation After Midnight Radio, a podcast set within the globe of the SCP Foundation designed to sound similar an in-universe radio show. (If you're a fan of Welcome To Night Vale, yous'll probably dig FAM Radio.)

The 512 number actually is used for phone call-ins from time to time; the podcast's creator, toadking07 (aka Eric J. Stover), has put out calls on the SCP forums for listeners to dial in and leave messages for inclusion in several holiday episodes, for example. Right now, though, the podcast seems to be on hiatus — the well-nigh contempo episode every bit of this writing was uploaded in March of 2020 — so whether or non the line is currently monitored remains to be seen.

You tin nevertheless call it to hear an entertaining message, though: The voicemail box greets callers past informing them, "Our site is currently experiencing a site-wide lockdown due to a containment breach," earlier asking them to either stay on the line or leave a message subsequently the tone. "Stay condom!" it chirps at the end. How… optimistic.

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408-634-2806

[Annotation: As of Apr 2022, I received only a busy signal when I dialed this number, so it may or may not all the same be in service. You can still listen to what used to play when you lot called at the link below.]

The almost persistent legend associated with the creepy telephone number 408-634-2806 is that information technology's a then-chosen "red room number" — that is, if you lot either call it or answer a call coming from it, you'll be tracked down; kidnapped; brought to a "red room"; and tortured, killed, or both during a alive broadcast viewable via the deep web.

This isn't actually the case; crimson room numbers are simply an urban legend, albeit one that's used quite effectively in the video game series Welcome To The Game. Simply in that location's no denying how unsettling the bulletin on the other end of this phone number is: Garbled voices give way to a brief burst of music — the kind that sounds equally if it'southward coming from a music box, or maybe an ice cream truck — before another voice cuts in, proverb, "All'southward well that ends well." Some accept reported hearing a voice say the words, "Return once again when the dark moon reigns," as well.

It turns out, though, that the number isn't anything sinister on its own; it'southward a tie-in for the 2011 iOS game Superbrothers: Sword & Sorcery EP, developed by Capybara Games. The decision of the game presents players with a number, which, when called, gives you… that bulletin. Its meaning has never been fully decoded; as of 2020, players are notwithstanding wondering well-nigh it. But the game itself is still worth playing — as a 2016 retrospective of Superbrothers published at The Verge noted, its influence can exist widely seen in many a title that came subsequently it, including the 2014 hit Monument Valley. It's now bachelor for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac Bone, and Linux; it was also ported to the Nintendo Switch in 2018.

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The Binary Number

[NOTE: If you lot endeavor this ane, make sure yous punch it correctly. A common misdial for this i goes to a existent person's phone number.If you hear anythingother than the message heard in the video hither, you've misdialed. Don't problems the person, and don't be rude or obscene. But, again, ideally,bank check to make sure you've entered the number correctly BEFORE you hit the "phone call" push then as to avert that whole situation in the commencement identify. Besides, as of Apr 2022, I received merely a decorated signal when I chosen, and then it may or may not still be in service. You can nevertheless mind to what yous used to hear when you lot called it at the link below, though.]

Ah, aye: The biggest mystery of the bunch. This creepy telephone number (828-756-0109, but once more, check before you dial) is at present widely known as "the binary number," due to the fact that its main characteristic is a panicked-sounding person spouting a bunch of ones and zeroes which catechumen to the give-and-take "death" in English. It'south a Northward Carolina number, for the curious — my phone identifies it as being based out of Marion, which is in McDowell Canton about 85 miles west and slightly north of Charlotte — but it's as well a VOIP number gear up through Google Voice, so who knows where its owner really lives.

Alas, nothing new has emerged about this number in the years since I originally wrote most it. It'due south just as mysterious now as it was and then — and unless someone steps forward to reveal who they are and why they set the number upward, it will likely remain as such.

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407-734-0254

[Warning: Spoilers for the documentary Wrinkles The Clown ahead!]

Since the mid-2010s, a creepy phone number has circulated that purportedly belongs to "Wrinkles The Clown" — "Wrinkles" being a nightmarish clown character dreamed up past a 60-something retiree who, for the right price, will come up to your business firm and scare your kids into behaving. Video footage of Wrinkles doing just that emerged in 2014; naturally, he went viral shortly afterwards, and by 2015, news coverage in outlets every bit major every bit the Washington Post had followed. Wrinkles kept his identity under wraps in these interviews, but he said he was originally from Rhode Isle, had retired in Florida, and idea that perhaps his services might be useful to local parents.

Except that, ultimately, it came out that there was more to the story than met the heart. In 2019, the documentary Wrinkles The Clown was released — and midway through it, there's a huge reveal: The story of Wrinkles as it's been told so far is, information technology seems, entirely false. Wrinkles doesn't exist; nor, in fact, does the man we've been told is Wrinkles. Wrinkles is a construct — he was built, piece by piece, by a person who keeps their ain identity in the shadows using the anonymity of the internet. Wrinkles is a manufactured legend.

That doesn't mean the telephone number doesn't exist, though. It does — and you tin still telephone call it today. Sometimes the mastermind behind the Wrinkles myth answers and speaks to callers in character; more often, though, you'll reach the number's voicemail box. "Yous've reached Wrinkles The Clown," a gravelly voice will tell you. "I'yard non here to take your call. Leave a message and I'll call you back." So the vocalism volition laugh — evilly, of course. He is an evil clown, after all.

Here'southward the really interesting thing, though: We don't really have any style to confirm whether the reveal in the 2019 documentary is, in fact, the truth — just similar we didn't really have any way to confirm whether what we idea we knew most Wrinkles before the documentary was the truth, also. The second story might be as much of a fiction as we're told the showtime one was.

Food for thought, no?

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270-301-5797

Superbrothers isn't the merely video game to have had a telephone-based tie-in; Kentucky Road Cipher, a magical realist point-and-click run a risk game released episodically between 2013 and 2020 has one, as well. Chosen Here and At that place Along the Echo, information technology's one of a number of auxiliary experiences that Kentucky Route Zilch developers Jake Elliott and Tamas Kemenczy released between episodes — and it is delightful.

What you become when yous punch 207-301-5797 is a phone tree — that is, format-wise, it's a lot like the 1-877-77-Creep hotline set by the Creepy Company. Merely it's an entirely different feel than i-877-77-Pitter-patter, claiming instead to be "a guide to the Repeat River for drifters and pilgrims" presented by "the Bureau of Hush-hush Tourism." As I wrote back in 2018, "It's weird and surreal, yet besides wonderfully serene — and there's plenty to explore every bit yous dial your mode through the various menus to which it gives you admission."

What's more, equally a Metafilter user put it in 2016, "You don't have to know anything about the game to appreciate the sheer oddity and scope of what there is to listen to on this telephone number." Go head. Explore. I recommend pressing v the showtime fourth dimension you're presented with some options, but you practice you. Accept fun, kids.

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786-519-3708

[Notation: As of April 2022, I received only a busy indicate when I dialed this number, so it may or may not all the same be in service. You tin however heed to what used to play when you chosen at the link below.]

I more video game necktie-in for the books: This one is for the Hotline Miami series — and, even meliorate, 786-519-3708 actually is a Miami-based number.

Every bit I noted in TGIMM'south original creepy phone number list, the Hotline Miami Twitter account began tweeting this phone number in 2012, before even the first game in the series was released. Tweets from the business relationship dated early 2015 also included the number, along with something new: An extension. Calling the number led players to the message in a higher place — something almost "we march into the future" and "y'all accept reached a incorrect number," garbled and set up amidst an unsettling audio background to imply something bigger at play. And, indeed, it was: Enterprising players set to work analyzing the number, the bulletin, and the extension, and constitute that, together, they revealed the championship and release date of the second game in the serial. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number subsequently came out on March ten, 2015.

Hotline Miami developer Jonatan Söderström is currently at work on a new, secret project, by the way; wrote Söderström in a Dec. 31, 2020 tweet, which was then retweeted by the Hotline Miami account: "It's new years and I wish I could write about what nosotros're working on. Information technology is a passion projection so I'thou not sure who volition enjoy information technology. Merely I'm certain some people volition be horrified and others delighted!" Sounds like my kind of affair, whatever it is!

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630-296-7536

Remember Boothworld Industries? This is the number paired with the 2013 r/NoSleep story by Christopher Bloodworth that kicked off that whole universe. It nonetheless works now; if you call information technology, you'll hear a pleasant voice telling you, "You accept reached Boothworld Industries. Your number has been logged and traced. A service representative will exist with y'all presently for remodeling. We at Boothworld Industries say thanks. You lot have a marvelous day."

Yous may or may not actually receive a phone call back. Some have; in fact, Bloodworth noted in a 2014 interview with Bubblebeam Magazine, "Sometimes I think. The reactions are normally fun." Even if yous don't, though, there's still some fun to be gotten out of leaving a message for Boothworld.

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801-820-0263

This ane is the 2nd Boothworld number, although at outset listen, the connectedness isn't necessarily clear. A niggling digging, though, reveals a ton. Head here for more.

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978-435-0163

ote: As of April 2022, I received only a busy indicate when I dialed this number, so it may or may non still be in service. You can withal heed to what used to play when you chosen at the link below.]

Lastly, we accept the creepy telephone number I've come to think of every bit "the sobbing human being number," mostly because if you lot call 978-435-0163, the bulk of what you'll hear is a looped message of a man sobbing. He sounds like he's somewhere wet and clangorous; his phonation echoes quite a bit, and at that place are a lot of clammy, dripping noises in the background.

He'due south not lonely, either. In that location'south… something else there with him. Something big. Something loud. And something… probably not human.

Alas, like the binary number, this creepy phone number remains a mystery. I have a soft spot for it that'due south similar to the one I accept for the 508-690-6143 number further upwards the list; 978, you run across, is also a Massachusetts number. This specific ane is based in Billerica — a boondocks not too far abroad from where I grew upwardly.

No additional data nearly this one has been forthcoming in the years since I kickoff covered it. But 2 things occur to me now: One, the soundscape that plays in the message is perhaps not dissimilar from what I would await to hear from someone who had gotten lost in some kind of underground tunnel system; and 2, Billerica, although possessing of many fine qualities, is, to my mind, synonymous with the defense contractor Raytheon, largely because every fourth dimension I drove through the town, my route invariably took me past Raytheon's Billerica offices.

These ii things are not necessarily continued to the number; in fact, they're probably non.

And yet…

…And notwithstanding.

Listen hither.

Now so.

Do y'all dare phone call any of these creepy phone numbers?

It'south probable that nothing will happen to you if you practice. You'll simply listen to a spooky fiddling voicemail bulletin, hang up, and carry on with your 24-hour interval.

But you might still… wonder.

What if y'all have been scheduled for "remodeling?"

What if yous take reached an evil clown?

What if you have come up into contact with something otherworldly?

In that location's only i way to observe out.

Just… don't say I didn't warn y'all.

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