Short Horror Stories

Don't Pick Up

This is an actual news story that happened. 

It started with 16-year-old Courtney Kuykendall's phone that she didn't write. Then she and her mother and father, Heather and Tim Kuykendall, began receiving disturbing phone calls at all hours from a raspy voice that threatened to slit their throats and kill their pets. This quickly turned even more terrifying when they discovered that the caller seemed to know when they were and weren't home, who was in the house, what they were doing, and even what they were wearing.

The family began receiving voice mails that consisted of nothing but their own conversations being played back to them. After a talk with a police officer about the harassment, the caller sent the family a recording of the conversation. When the family installed a new security system, the caller was able to tell them the code.

Even odder, the majority of the calls appeared to come from Courtney Kuykendall's phone, even when it was turned off. Not that the phone being off stopped the caller anyway, as he was apparently capable of turning the phone on and off at will.

The caller also targeted two other families; the family of Darci Price (Heather Kuykendall's sister) and the McKays (the Kuykendall's neighbors). Andrea McKay claimed that the caller warned her of a shooting at her daughter's school and even called and told her "I prefer lemons" while she was cutting limes one day.