This entry is going to be a departure from my usual work-related banter, but I needed a platform to share what is bar-none the spookiest thing that’s ever happened to me. I am not superstitious, but as Michael Scott would say, I am a little stitious. I don’t believe in ghosts or anything like that, either. The only thing I do is tap twice on the outside of a plane before boarding, for good luck.
But this past Christmas Day I was haunted.
Late last Thursday, Christmas Eve, I was at my parents’ house in Pittsburgh rushing to finish reading Bret Easton Ellis’s Lunar Park. For those who aren’t familiar, the novel is more or less a phantasmagorical thriller about fathers and sons. A key plot device throughout the book is the time 2:40am. Every morning at this exact time, the protagonist receives an email from a Bank of America where his father’s ashes are stored, and the time – which happens to be the exact minute of his father’s death – becomes a continuous thread driving the paranormal horror that ensues.
I finished the book and went to sleep. On Friday morning, Christmas Day, I woke up to a voicemail from a blocked number. It was 30 seconds of total silence. The time of the call was exactly 2:40am. This is not a lie, nor did anyone else know I was reading this book. There is no explanation for the voicemail other than terrifying coincidence, and when one considers all the circumstances and variables, the chances of this being an orchestrated practical joke are infinitely small.
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