What Is the Most Strange "Wrong Number" Call You've Ever Received?

[@someonesomewhere9115]

When the girl realized she'd called the wrong number she got nervous and said she was a penguin.

[@MLG_Kitten]

What the fuck. I did that when I was 13. I used the house phone.

[@Alvagame]

Oh, oh my...

[@mr.infinity1887]

'Redditors of Reddit" Hmm the Floor here Is made of Floor

[@Ludicrousism]

Yes, and it seems this wall is made of wall.

[@boredallthetime215]

@@Ludicrousism Hmm the chair seems to be made out of Chair

[@Ludicrousism]

@@boredallthetime215 It seems like this water is made out of water...

[@help_me_get_a_play_button]

It seems like this comment thread is made of words

[@thebe_stone]

@@help_me_get_a_play_button It seems like this comment thread is made of comments

[@zombiegirlfanter5569]

My mom used to get a call from a guy who would just breathe on the phone.(creepy)but stopped when my brother answered and exact words (this is officer james,your being recorded and we are tracing your call).immediate hang up .never called back.Lmao

[@christianjimenez4406]

So fun fact about this! It's not technically illegal to do so, but, it is illegal for those callers to call police or ANY business, so you can do all kinds of fun stuff.

[@justinmudford4629]

@@christianjimenez4406 you are giving false information , it is illegal to impersonate an officer

[@artemtsarevskiy2785]

@@justinmudford4629 **Johnny Sins coughs loudly**

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

Try to sound very official, and rattle off something about "Station" or "Outpost" or something similar as an "office greeting"... like : "Good afternoon, Sir/Ma'am, this is Station 1832, you have reached an unsecured line. Please state your business..." This is (more or less) the official format for military stations around the world, so if you can manage an almost mechanically regimental voice like you've got no sense of humor, it's usually a panic-inducing answer nobody expects. They'll hang up before they even think about it... Like "Station what for who?" With "Caller I.D." I enjoy the antics I can ensue... from "City Morgue, you plug 'em, we plant 'em... What can I do ya' for???" To singing stupid jingles for even stupider places of business and dumb-ass pop-culture references... "You can have anything you want... at Alice's Re-estaurant!" (Who the f*** is Alice?! shouted in the background is a plus)... Sometimes I just pick up the phone and sit in silence... When asked for someone, unless I know who is wanted for a fact, they're always busy with my d*** in their mouth... OR I find something else they can be doing to break up the monotony... Sometimes it's just quiet a short time and then hangs up... Wrong numbers and potential scammers are hilarious... I don't know how many times I've dared the IRS to come down and get me... or invited the poor idiot to squeeze blood out of turnips (because he'll get it faster than money out of me)... Even told a "Publisher's Clearing House Representative" to look out of his window... did he see the white van down the street... That was a police sting operation working on the line and video taping him and everything he was doing... (cue complete psychotic meltdown)... ;o)

[@kaitlyn1689]

Ugh, breathers. Very gross, Im glad of seems to have died out. My mothers technique was usually to blow on a whistle real loud. That seemed to get rid of them.

[@cq-crew9504]

I got invited to some random person’s wedding

[@SasukeUchiha-tc9xx]

Dude you should go, free food

[@kimsmith1746]

The weird call I mentioned in my post here, with the 10 min voicemail was about a wedding as well. The neice was mad that she couldn't bring her wheelchair bound boyfriend to her cousin's wedding (apparently no plus one). The cousin's grandmother was trying to smooth things over, inviting them both for Thanksgiving.

[@cq-crew9504]

Erin Bliss No I didn’t attend. I sent a formal text like a normal boring person.

[@cq-crew9504]

SasukeUchiha 2002 this was a few years back and I missed out

[@cq-crew9504]

I should also mention that I couldn’t attend because I was not old enough to drive and my mother wouldn’t have approved of me going to some strangers wedding.

[@TheOaf2782]

I got added to a wedding planning group chat for some reason. When they discussed dress code I insisted I was coming in my thong and crop top, I'm a large man. When I was told maybe I shouldn't come I threatened that half of the family wouldn't come since you can't uninvite me now. After a few hours I apologized and told the crying bride I was a wrong number, I was sorry, and wished them all the best and a wonderful day. The chat cracked the hell up.... the bride did not lol.

[@TheBenBen253]

So, one time I got a call, it was a girl, and they asked for someone sharing my name, and though I didn't remember her she said I had given her my number at a party that I had actually been at,. So I did the whole " oh yeah! Hey how are you!?" Thing thinking I had just been drunk and forgot, we started flirting and asked if I wanted to hang out, so of course I said yes. Well she gets to my house and knocks on my door, I open and she asks if "my name" is home, I say "I'm (my name)". She gets red in the face and says " oh, ummm... Your not the same (my name) that I met....", I apologized, told her that I thought I had just forgot meeting her when drunk and played along, Then we talk about the party we both went to, and figure out that it's all a coincidence, that somehow she just got the number wrong when writing it down and that happened to be my number. Luckily when I said " well you are already here, would you like some coffee?" She said "might as well" We ended up clicking and I asked if mabey she'd like to get dinner some time, then had a few months of a FWB relationship. It was great! She never ended up finding that dude, but we had fun and I ended up dating a friend of hers after we stopped seeing each other ( she totally set me up with a friend of hers I had met that had a crush on me, her friend and I dated for about a year) It was pretty great. Never have I been that lucky since.

[@artemtsarevskiy2785]

GigaChad Lite has been sighted

[@illegalcqt3856]

Epic

[@sunniesclementine9789]

That's nice! I wish that would happen to me, because I would love to get two boyfriends.

[@TheBenBen253]

@@sunniesclementine9789 yeah, she was a really sweet person, and the friend she set me up with was as well.

[@TheBenBen253]

@@artemtsarevskiy2785 lols, I'm totally not a Chad, I'm like, as far from a Chad as you can get.

[@Phantom8_]

Redditors of reddit, nah mate im a redditor from yahoo

[@beepboop9712]

I'm a redditor from msnbc.

[@Jpeg.g]

Redditor of google here

[@jrjr648]

Redditor of KZbin here

[@BlackWolfGuardian]

@8:00 Had something like this happen to me. My distant cousin, Jennifer called me out of the blue. She asked to speak to Ashley(me, we hadn't spoken for years) I said that was me. We chatted for a few minutes, then she asked about my mom. (Cringe) my mom had been dead for a year or two at this point. I broke the news to her & she freaked a bit. I went on to explain that her health had gotten worse & it was a year or two ago & she says, "Wait, what?! Is this Ashley **?" I said, "No, I'm Ashley *****." Turns out it was a wrong number. She was calling her niece(not cousin) to see how her mom was doing...the mom was in the hospital...& I just told this lady she was dead... Also, once got cussed out for stealing someone's man. (Never have, never would)

[@Alrighttheniguess]

Someone called me to tell me that “Lawrence” was in jail. 🤷‍♀️ it was awkward

[@Jpeg.g]

“?”

[@Lefthooklarry420]

😳

[@Alrighttheniguess]

Lawrence Evans 👀😅

[@Lefthooklarry420]

Alyssa weirdest part is u have the same name as my sister

[@Alrighttheniguess]

Lawrence Evans well damn

[@thesilverprincess]

My mom takes calls for work sometimes. Once she got a voicemail from some old lady who seemed to have butt dialed my moms work phone. This lady was screaming at someone in the room saying that she had killed her cat, should have told her he wasn’t eating, etc. my mom played it for us, and we all died laughing lol

[@puppetseducer]

I kept getting calls from a doctor's office for a Hispanic patient (I don't remember her name), confirming her appointments. I called them back and told them to please stop calling me, they still kept calling me. So I blocked the number. Then they started texting me the appointment times and I sent a text each time back saying "STOP" as per the instructions in the text, and the last one I sent was a long winded rant about leaving me the f*** alone with "STOP" peppered through out. Haven't heard anything back since. 🤣

[@AshesAshes44]

I made a strange wrong number. Ages ago I had trouble dialing out from my hotel room in so cal. Somehow, I'd reached a nice guy in Scotland and he wanted to hear my accent. Since I loved *his* accent, I was happy to oblige. We discussed how the day had gone in our respective countries, wished each other the best, and went on with our evening. Never did figure out the phone.

[@krisleigh7243]

This is so wholesome!

[@coconutcore]

Some random lady once called me in french. I’m not fluent in french and could just about understand that she was telling me she was coming over, calling me some female french name. I’m not a woman btw. I said (in french) that she was calling the wrong number. I slowly and awkwardly told her this in bad, broken french in a man’s voice. Her response: “...*pause*...Yeah, so I’m coming over and...” followed by an even longer story that I couldn’t understand. I tried to tell her again, but my french was so bad and so slow that she just listened for a second or two to - again - some random dude talking bad french, and then started talking over me again as if nothing happened. In the end I decided to let the woman she though she was calling repeat to her she had the wrong number and she’d been calling some dude that had no idea what she was saying. Fun fact: Years later now I have a girlfriend most of whose extended family exclusively speaks french. Still can’t follow what they’re saying beyond their first sentence. Who knows, it might have been one of them calling me.

[@assassintwinat8]

for a while i was getting texts from this senior ladies' golf ring, i had to explain like 3 times that i'm a 25-yr-old boy with no interest in golf and not in fact the Cheryl they were looking for

[@davidl570]

But....................were you interested in senior ladies??

[@samanthagreen576]

This happened recently. My parents still live in the dark ages and have a landline and one evening we're all sitting around when it rings. My mom picks up and this guy says something along the lines of "Random First/Last name, you're a lifesaver" and my mom assumes it's my weird uncle who calls sometimes when he's driving home from work and never introduces himself properly on the phone and that he's just messing with us so she tells my dad its his brother and my dad goes to pick up the private line in his office cuz this will probably be a long call. Then my mom turns back to the phone and the guy asks "Who's this?" and my mom decides to have a little fun of her own and puts on an accent and tells him she's the maid. The guy goes, "He has a maid?!?!" and my dad picks up the other line then so she hangs up giggling to herself and explains what the heck that was all about to us. Then my dad reemerges and we're all "woah that was fast" and my dad tells us that it was a wrong number and we all go "oh no." My dad has not been informed of the maid thing yet and is missing why we're all so horrified as he proceeds to tell us that it was actually some guy looking for someone to inform them of a death in the family. The whole exchange was like some sort of miscommunication trainwreck getting worse every time someone opens their mouth like something out of a sitcom. At least the guy got a bit of a chuckle out of it when my dad explained he had the wrong number but yikes, so awkward!

[@thesimpkiller716]

I was called on my older cousin phone and i heard where the hell are you bring the "Good Stuff" i have been waiting for 10 minutes here My cousin ended up getting arrested for selling weed

[@Jpeg.g]

🤭

[@pixelcollector1836]

Can you hook me up? /s

[@justinmudford4629]

America still puts people in jail for weed ? Wtf what a broken backwards country

[@lucyicanel]

7th grade Hebrew School. The teacher got a call from an unknown number in the middle of class. He told us that on the count of 3 we were all to go "BULULULYLULULULULULULULULULULU" and so he counts to 3 and answers the call and we all go "BULULULYLULULULULULULULULULULU" for like 30 seconds and then he hangs up. The caller must have been very confused. That teacher was great.

[@melissatesoro7531]

One of my teachers said that she would do random stuff to scammers and stuff like that

[@ejscion576]

There was this one time that some random number called me that he's my son, he even gives detail information about his random aunt and he's in the hospital and in dire need of money. I told him... *"son... I am 23 year old virgin."* he hung up

[@jadianradiator2761]

3:19 Being able to call it from the outside doesn't surprise me. Having the number for it _does_ .

[@valleyrangergaming]

I got called from a pentagon line I proceeded to troll them with a thick Russian accent saying "Ivan did you get all the info"

[@GarrettFruge]

I remember my Mom once got a phone call from someone that read "Chu Yuseff" on the caller ID. She didn't answer it. We never learned if that was his real name or just a play on "Chew Yourself" for a goof, but either way, that's one of my weird/funny childhood memories.

[@Forflipsake]

The inmate one is quite wholesome. Not all criminals are bad people qoute comes to mind.

[@Jake-rc4ws]

My family’s home phone got a voicemail on it one day. The caller had a very scruffy voice and sounded like an old smoker. He says: “Hey Bill, numbnuts here. I was seeing if you wanted to go to the bar and get some beers. Anyways, call me back.” So a few days later my 9 year old self called back and left a message saying in my 9 year old voice: “Hey numbnuts, bill here. Maybe we can go to the chuck E Cheese to get some beers. Call me back.” Never got a call back. My name is not bill, it’s jake.

[@melissatesoro7531]

"Go to the Chuck E. Cheese to get some beers." Amazing, pure hilariousness

[@cchastant8251]

I used to get calls from collection agencies for a woman I'd never heard of, and certainly didn't know. It was... weird. "You really need to tell Ms. Scammer to call me back about her late payments." "...that will be difficult, as I don't know anyone by that name..."

[@ImJustLethargic]

I got invited to a random group chat and they sent a motiviational picture in a frame and all of the people in the gc where saying they loved it then the gc died probably because the person they intended to invite wasnt there… i just lurked there for a while then i left after a month

[@_NoodlesMedia_]

Not a wrong number, but wrong address. Maybe last summer, me and my brother were just hanging out at home. Around 8:30 or 9 p.m. we get a guy knocking on our door and hear him saying a name we couldn't quite catch. I know it's not the smartest thing but he wouldn't go away and we were afraid he'd try to break in. So I open the door and this middle aged dude is all demanding like, "Where's Harry!?" I'm just like, "I think you got the wrong house man." He apologized and just walked away. He came back about a half an hour or so later and was calling his name again. So I opened up and he said this was in fact the correct address and that he just needed to talk to Harry and if he was home. I told him our family had been in this house for about 15 years now and he just goes, "oh" and leaves again.

[@tot4lrand0mness59]

Plot twist: you've got a drug dealer named "harry" living in your basement. You may say "well, our house doesn't have a basement" *The plot thickens*

[@_NoodlesMedia_]

@@tot4lrand0mness59 😮😮

[@loxybliss5747]

Every holiday I send out a text to everyone in my contacts wishing them a happy whatever holiday is appropriate. One year, I got an interesting reply back from my friend’s old number that I then realized I forgot to delete. The person thanked me and wished me a happy holiday as well. We started talking because they mentioned that I was the only one that did that year. It was an 18 year old kid from foster care who was then in the army. We’ve been Facebook friends ever since and for every holiday I get a 5 am text from him because he starts working so early. I so look forward to those. He’s like the son I never had ❤️(I have two daughters 😊)

[@raphaeldagamer]

I got a call from some guy looking for an Anthony. I only consciously know three people named Anthony. Another time, and this was the first call I got from an unknown number, I got a call with an automated message about the purchase/rental/lease of a wheelchair. Idk it was over a year ago. Nobody I know needed a wheelchair around that time.

[@rustyshackleford9381]

I got a random text from an unknown number one time and, after my crazy ass ex swore up and down that is was from a girl and I was cheating on her, had to convince this guy to call me to "prove to my girl you're not some chick". Dude was actually a pretty good sport about it. He actually ended up texting me a few more times in the following weeks by mistake, to the point that I saved his number in my phone as "wrong text dude". Same ex also got frequent early morning phone calls from an elderly lady trying to reach her son for a solid 5 or 6 months. It was really sad!

[@christianjimenez4406]

I had one of these while I was still in the Navy that I had a lot of fun with. Life is the best inspiration. I "explained" that they had called a "secure government location" and that they had violated some fake law by doing so, and would promptly be arrested or deported if they ever called again. I miss that phone number, I never got spam calls after that.

[@aliciab6193]

Mine was this 12 yr old boy who thought I was also a 12 yr old boy on his soccer team and he was mad because I skipped soccer practice. He was like dude you better get here. I was like dude you have the wrong number. He didn't believe me, said oh don't even try that stupid crap! I'm gonna beat you up! I was like plz don't beat up your friend and check the number, I'm a grown ass woman. Then he apologized lol.

[@dustinpetersen7730]

It wasn't necessarily a wrong number, but it was completely random and a bit creepy. I was spending the night at a friend's house when I was maybe 11 years old. We were making prank calls in the middle of the night. In between calls, his phone rang. When he answered, the caller said a string of six numbers that later turned out to be the last six digits of my social security number. (I would not even receive my social security card until sometime after I turned 12.)

[@kalonin5451]

I've had a few of these, but three stick out. When I was in high school, I received a text and then a pic. The text read, "Do you want a little SEAL in you?" and the pic was of a well muscled man standing shirtless and posing before a mirror. I told him the truth, that I did not particularly want 'a little SEAL' because I was a 15 year old boy. He promptly apologized and that was the end of it. The second was a guy asking for a 'Rick,' and could he cover his shift at the store. I politely told him he had the wrong number, and that I was not Rick. He got upset, was quite adamant that I was, in fact, Rick, and to stop playing around and help him out. I told him again that he had the wrong number, that I was not Rick, and hung up. He called a few more times after that and left increasingly rude messages for Rick. The third was this old woman asking for her granddaughter Emily to call her. I answered the first three of her calls. The first time she was apologetic and polite. The second she was a little annoyed, but she still apologized for bothering me. The third time she said she knew that I was Emily's 'asshole boyfriend' (her words) and that I needed to put Emily on right now or she'd call my parents on me. I was 22, did not know anyone named Emily, and told her as much. She insisted, and I just hung up. After that, I saved her number as Crazy Old Lady and, a couple of times a week, she'd leave longwinded voicemails talking about her day and asking about Emily's. This went on for about six or so months. About a week after the last call (it was about an outing the woman had gone on with some tourist group), I get a call from a number that was one digit off of mine. Turns out, Emily's grandmother had punched a wrong digit into her contact details and hadn't realized it.

[@HappyGrims]

One time, when I was about 13 or so, a police officer called my house to try to get me to sign up for some program or donate to something I can’t remember, thinking I was the homeowner. After a while of him speaking, I politely said, “I’m sorry I’m not the homeowner, I’m only 13” and he said “oh no worries, have a good day, young man” and he hung up. I’m a girl. I was mortified

[@nogo7277]

In russian with a thick russian accent c:

[@jrjr648]

This worries me

[@DarethLover67]

(:

[@itachiuchiha3618]

This seems like he was some secret agent

[@BlindStarLily]

Finally, I can share something. So, back at my middle school, there was an elevator and you needed a pass to ride it. I’m blind, so I got a pass. On two separate occasions, someone called the elevator while I was riding it. The first time, it was a telemarketer. Second time, it was fucking 911. Both times, I got really bad anxiety and just didn’t say anything.

[@jrjr648]

Drug dealer cold calls: experiment _failed_

[@positivityonly3654]

Had a call telling me if I didn't come to work I'd be fired. I was like I'm not the person you're looking for. They didn't believe me and called back three times that day. Had to block their number

[@harryboyes2812]

Got left a message years ago that said the midwife I'd requested would be around at a certain time. I'm an unattached bachelor. Then another time I get a call from a kid who didn't seem to understand the concept of wrong number. I took it easy with him until he finally gave up and gave the phone to a man, whereupon I explained wrong number. I even got some messages that began "Hey pretty girl," until I started replying with "I'm a guy." (That shut them up after a while)

[@theresaasian300]

I had a Google phone number and the texts were from guys looking for Talia who is a transvestite call "girl". One of the guys was kind enough to inform me how he had gotten the number after I asked since he was the tenth or so person trying to get a hold of this Talia. I did have fun with it. One guy texted "Are you still around to have fun? I responded, "Sorry, no I died.". He replied, "Well, that's too bad."

[@snowwhitehair485]

The ex-directory alarm standby line phone rang in the secure building where I once worked, right as a visiting alarm engineer just happened to be standing next to it. It was a random cold call from a company called Liberty Finance. The alarm engineer retorted, "This is an ex-directory number Liberty Finance. Don't take liberties with us!". - Genius.

[@sekar_exe]

I once got a call from my mom when I was in a restaurant but after a few seconds it changed to a man's voice. An older man in the table behind me was also on the phone even before I got a call, he kept saying "Who is this? Hello?" I hung up the call and I overheard the old man behind me said "I called [a man's name] but a woman answered." I don't know if it's possible but it seemed like our phone calls switched.

[@malphasblackwing420]

This is for the Meatcanyon fans I ALWAYS pick up the phone for all numbers just in case it’s a telemarketer just so I can say “25¢...to see God” they almost always hang up immediately after

[@informationyes]

This is First contact will happen "Hello oh sorry wrong planet"

[@roseyfirequeen314]

I hate scammers

[@Kayenne54]

I had a scammer who truly hated me. He called me a racist name when I wouldn't give him the info he was fishing for, and hung up on ME before I could hang up on him. After that, I kept getting prank calls from what sounded like teenage girls. One of the girls actually called me again, using a different mobile number (I'd blocked all the other ones) and apologized, and told me where they'd got my number. Scrawled on playground equipment in a park two states away. Mr Scammer played dirty lol. (He called me the "N" word, which was ironic, considering he sounded more brown than I am (he sounded Pakistani?). Probably laughing at his jibe didn't help my cause)

[@juliaanimates9765]

i saw a scammer/bot in this comment section with a link to some porn scam site thing

[@ricochet0928]

One time I tried to send my friend that video of the pufferfish eating a carrot but accidentally sent it to her old number (which I thought I deleted) so now some random person has a story of the time they got sent a weird video from a number they didn't know :)

[@XIX_Koda]

I've gotten a string of over 30 calls and voicemails from a lady trying to sell condoms from the adam eve company. She then goes on to call me "Dan," talking about my hair, and talking about her "secret relationship". She then goes to hide it from her boss, and begs me to call her back, etc etc. She says quite a few cheesy and nsfw things. I'm not even 21.

[@UndeadEyes]

I would get calls from detectives looking for some guy who missed his appointment... Finally had to actually answer and be like "Uh, he doesn't have this phone and blah blah." They stopped calling.

[@stephenkehl7158]

I was a long haul trucker, home on a weekend when a blizzard hit. The phone rings. It’s a dispatcher, calling for “Steve Kell”. A lot of people mispronounce my last name, it’s more like Kale. “Hate to bother you on a crappy weekend, but you have that 4WD Jeep Wrangler, right? And you live east of town? We have a driver that took his cab home, and he’s stuck in his own driveway. I’d send someone from the shop, but with the storm we’re short-staffed. Here’s the address- could you do me a big favor and see if you can help drag him out?” I say sure and head for his address. The driver worked for a different company! They had a driver named Steve Kell who had a Jeep Wrangler, lived east of town, was home that weekend, and whose phone number was one digit different than mine. I helped a brother trucker out and was on my way.

[@JunaidWolf3]

Some lady just started text me and asked me if I remember her I said no then she was like "its me your niece" so I jokingly said "oh I didn't know I have a niece" straight after saying that she started sending me pictures of herself so after that I was finally like "wrong number" and she got so embarrassed and started apologizing I felt bad but couldn't stop laughing

[@kimsmith1746]

OMG! Where do I start? Had some old woman leave a 10 minute voicemail for her neice about some family drama. I called her back to let her know. BTW, my first name is on the outgoing message...not the same as her niece. While in my hotel room in NOLA, my cellphone ran. There was alot of static, and I couldn't hear what the person was saying. I told them that I was hanging up and would call back. The number listed as the number it came from was, in fact, my cellphone number. My name is clearly common. At one place of work, IT decided it would be funny to give a newcomer with the same name the extension 3610, when mine was 1036. During college, I had a number that was one digit off the number for the local veteran's hospital. Old ladies can be really rude, when you tell them they have the wrong number. We would try to give them the correct number, they would call us liars. I had one leave a message on my answering machine (yeah, this was almost 30 years ago), don't know why she thought our stupid outgoing message was a hospital. She asked to have her husband dressed and ready by 1pm, as she would be there to pick him up. I just called the veteran's hospital and relayed the message.

[@Kayenne54]

New cell phone, got this strange call (it was still in my handbag at the time) picked it up, answered......could hear people talking, but no one would answer...One of my kids gave a funny laugh (in the same room as me) and then we realized somehow, my cell phone was "live" and I'd ...answered my own phone? Which had rung itself? Also, back in late March this year (2020) got some weird text messages from two of my kids. Slightly panicked, because...one of them was obviously upset. Phoned first one kid, then the other, and we figured out that these text messages were from back in 2011 or so. One of my kids could recall sending me text messages at that time, and me saying I didn't receive any such messages...well, they got here. Just a little late. And I got an email message from someone, who said "I just got your email message, but realized you sent this in 2010. But I only just got it, so here is my reply, but the forum was closed back in 2013." Out there, in the ether...are all our messages, just circling around waiting to land...

[@kimsmith1746]

@@Kayenne54 The text messages and emails make sense. The weird thing with my phone was that there was no reason for me to hear a garbled voice coming through. The timing wasn't delayed, and the statements weren't the same length as what I was saying. It was literally as if someone were talking, but I couldn't understand what was being said, due to the static. It wasn't the only weird thing to happen in the hotel room. As it happened in NOLA, I am certain it was another attempt of the spirit in my room to get attention.

[@builtontherockhomestead9390]

Back in the early 90's my landline number was very close to a 5 star hotel's number. I received wrong numbers almost daily, wanting room service, etc. One day I came home and someone left a message on my answering machine wanting me call him back so he could make a reservation. Since when does a 5 star hotel have an answering machine? He left an out of state number. I never called him back. Moved after living there for 2 years and demanded a new number.

[@crossaholicluv8171]

I hate these comments.… But… “Redditors of Reddit”

[@nocount7517]

Every time I receive a call from a number I don't recognize, I let it go to voicemail, figuring that if it's important, they'll leave a message.

[@Hillybilly-Gal]

This happened almost 20 years ago. One day, the phone rang, and I said hello and that was the last word I got out. Said man was cussing and saying that "Doug, you really f***ed up this time, you SOB and I am going to make sure you are f***ing fired.:" And this went on for almost 5 minutes, with this man cursing "Doug" every other sentence. When said man, finally ran out of air, I said this ins't "Doug", and that no such person lived here and that this was the "Howards" residence, and I could hear a intake of breath, and the man said, "Is this Heileg Meyers?" No, you have the "Howards' residence. Turns out, this was one of the 'bigwigs' from HM. He apologized and asked for my address. Several days later, I got a $500 GC to HM! Now for the fun part, the number this man called was exactly one number off from my home phone! Yes, "Doug' got fired. LOL

[@colintosh5417]

Nuisance calls can be annoying, they certainly put your bills up

[@Maladjester]

Said hello and this panicked man screamed *_"I LOVE YOU PLEASE COME BACK"_*

[@brucea9871]

I remember in particular three wrong number calls I got years ago. I wasn't home for the first one but they left a rambling message on my answering machine about how well their kids did in school etc. That was definitely a wrong number; I have no idea who the caller or the kids she mentioned were. A second call was from a hospital. I told them the person they were calling for didn't live here and they must have the wrong number. They asked what my number was but I don't give out my number to strangers so I asked what number she dialed. It was indeed my number but their records clearly had the wrong number for the person they were calling. Another time I answered and a woman started rambling on about how they could see her if we paid the amount we owed (or something similar) and I said "See who? What the hell are you talking about?" She gave some girl's name and I told her nobody by that name lived here. She said "Oh I must have the wrong number" and I replied "Yes I think you do!" Incidentally that last incident brings up an unrelated matter. During a conversation if you refer to another person and it isn't clear who you are referring to don't simply refer to the person as him or her. So many times when people are talking to me they refer to "him" or "her" without making it clear who they are talking about, forcing me to ask. Don't assume the person you are talking to knows who you are referring to unless it is clear from context. They can't read your mind.

[@wolfskinchanger]

Back before cell phones had replaced pay phones, I happened to be leaving the Fred Meyer near where I lived at the time when one of the pay phones in the entryway rang. I, having a higher opinion of my sense of humor than it probably deserved, picked up the phone and said "Hello, this is Grand Central Station; how may I help you?" Whoever it was hung up immediately and didn't call back; I can only assume they figured out their mistake on their own when they heard that response from a middle-school student.

[@TimeLady8]

I was living at my parent's house after they went into a nursing home. My father passed on a Sunday. That Tuesday at 7:30am I'm awoken by a call from a woman screaming at me that my father was supposed to be representing her son who had been sitting in jail for a week. She wanted to know when my father would show up. I verified she was looking for

[@topbreak38]

Got a call from a debt collector for a man named "redacted." I told them I was not him and they had the wrong number. The collector proceeded to spell "redacted"'s name in hopes that I would suddenly become him. I just hung up.

[@topbreak38]

Got a call for "redacted." "Redacted" was the name of my sister. Asked to speak with her. I asked who I should say is calling. She said, "just tell her the phone is for her, asshole." I told her she would not be speaking to my sister with that attitude. She repeated for me to tell her the phone was for her and she wanted to know if she was bringing the alcohol and, again, called me an asshole. I hung up. She called back but I hung up again. Pretty sure the name was a coincidence but it was pretty funny.

[@billclaraweaver2132]

I'm loving the title and thumbnail it fits so well

[@Objective-Observer]

In the days of Land Lines Only- we had just moved into a new house in a new city for us. An elderly called one morning, asking for her friend [don't remember the name.] I explained that this is not her friend's number any more, and it was just assigned to us. We talked for twenty minutes or so. Through the months she would call our number and I would tell her: Mrs. XYZ, this is not your friend's number any more. However, she started sounding really out of it, either her health or her mind were not good, so I would just tell her 'wrong number.' Several years later, we are in another new home, in another new city, and we kept getting calls for a Mental Health Clinic's Accounting department. The skeevy thing was, that clinic was in trouble for some scams and under investigation. I found the clinic and noticed the number was off by one from our phone number. When folks called me, I'd give them the other number. A few month later, I get a very strange call: "Are you the individual that keeps getting calls for the Mental Health Clinic.' Yes, that's me. Uhoh. What did I do? You gave them another wrong number that is a super secret no one knows and no one but specific individuals is supposed to call it. I think the number you want is..... We both laughed at the situation.

[@burntpieceoftoast4148]

Last week, while I was at work, my husband received a call from a long and unrecognized number. He picks up, it's a woman he says sounds exactly like me, sobbing hysterically, screaming something he can't quite understand. He panics and starts asking what's wrong, but is hung up on. He immediately calls me and is asking wtf is going on, explains the weird number. I'm confused but tell him to call this person back, make sure she's okay and see if there's any way he can help or just listen to this stranger. He tries, but the number pops up as being in Russia and the call won't go through. Freaked him tf out. Hope that lady was okay or just a prank call...or something.

[@Elijahbanta]

i once got a call from a girl and she said something like "please take me back i miss you" and i left a message back saying "i'm not your ex stop calling me" she texts me saying basically frick you you suck you mother fricker i hate you i know you lying" i said back "beach i'm 14 and she stopped texting and calling lol. TLDR: crazy lady calls claiming to be my ex when i was 14

[@MBear3]

In my tiny town the only difference was the last 3 numbers. So wrong numbers were common. The closest numbers were our neighbour and a friend from school.

[@NatGeoGacha]

Not a call, but this one guy texted me with a picture of an ice cream container and asked if it looked good. I responded that he had a wrong number, and that I don’t even like ice cream. Then he flipped out and started spamming me. After a little while I finally got him to leave me alone.

[@venessalizabeth]

Some dude named “Donald” apparently had my cell number before I got it, and Jesus Christ this guy must’ve been in ALL kinds of trouble. Before I realized the threatening voicemails and messages weren’t meant for me, I was super freaked out. He also has an account at PetSmart. I always have to tell the cashier, “I’m Venessa, not Donald” when I check out, cause his name pops up before mine when I give them my number for points.

[@senbassador]

When I was at work several jobs back, a random teacher left a voicemail letting me know that my kid forgot to bring his ruler (+other school supplies) to school. Apparently, some random kid forgot his ruler so the teacher was to call his parents, so he gave her some random number so he wouldn't get in trouble.

[@eatamyassa4305]

When I first got a smart phone about 7 years ago I kept getting calls for a woman named Jackie or something similar . I told them I didnt know her . I kept getting them and the pre recorded calls stating I had an appointment with a Gynecologist . I am a male so I called the number back several times to let them know they had the wrong number . They told me then to just ignore the calls . I said "Are you F'n nuts ! You stop calling me ! " After repeated calls I finally had to use a few more choice words to finally stop it .

[@revmichaelm]

Years ago, before the 911 emergency number, my family got a phone call to report a fire, at 3:00 in the morning, mom answered, the person said that she wanted to report a fire, mom being half asleep, said "A what" the other person said a fire, F-i-r-e, sorry wrong number. Turns out that our number was just one number off from the local fire department.

[@staceynainlab888]

today, some strangers barged into my apartment with a mattress and demanded I come out and help them find the apartment they were looking for.

[@Kayenne54]

Scarily funny.

[@felicitybywater8012]

Beware of strangers bearing mattresses!

[@ladonamariposavigilis6447]

I once got a number that belonged to a girl with my same first name and the first 5 letters of my last name. I got confusing calls from her ex's, her grandmother, her doctor. It was always such a mind fuck.

[@AurorasAura4417]

After I got my new phone I kept getting texts for a Monica, and she's a nurse because all the texts were like "look at these nursing opportunities, Monica!!"

[@tamaratorres3720]

I got a girl calling for her boyfriend 😂. As soon as I answered she started yelling at me for sleeping with him. So I played along. Poor Randy probably got all his stuff destroyed. Didn’t hear back from either of them. I always poke fun at those fake IRS calls and post the number on Facebook.

[@MuffinHunterX]

I once got a text that read: "Pretend my pants are France and invade them." I remember thinking with a line that lame this person didn't deserve to get laid.

[@builtontherockhomestead9390]

When I first got this number I got lots of calls for Albert. He clearly was in debt. After an attorney called Albert and I was able to tell him Albert no longer had this number, I stopped getting calls from debt collectors. Anyway, several YEARS pass and i receive a text wishing Albert a happy birthday from his Uncle. I texted back and let him know Albert didn't have this number.

[@bo-knights_7541]

i was home alone after school one time and i got a call from a number that looked like my mom's number. i picked up the phone and it was an old lady asking for "janet". i decided to go along with it and said that i was janet. she obviously knew i wasnt janet but she asked me to come to the library. i said i was on my way and hung up. 30 minutes later my dad got home and the lady called again. i could hear her screaming "janet why arent you at the library yet!"

[@jellohouse1288]

My dad is a foreman at a rock quarry and he called me from work one time and I said hey what's up. He starts spewing a bunch of work terms along the line did you get this up and running also Jerry is down in the pit blah blah. I was like Dad you called your son and he's like oh hi lol. He's gotten way better with tech over the years but still gets twisted up on his Iphone sometimes lol.

[@Kyy-Sokia]

This is the reason my phone number’s area code isn’t the place I live, but is actually the area code for an entirely different state (and a very rural part of that state aswel.)

[@NexeL_NKC]

'Redditors of Reddit' Titan from MegaMind: There is no North Dakota, there's no queen of england, and there's no redditors on reddit.

[@bloonh8tr619]

God I love that thumbnail

[@elijahjarman2837]

WHAZZZUUUUUUUUUP!?!?

[@bloonh8tr619]

@@elijahjarman2837 WAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZZUUUUUUUUUUP!

[@Karthos1000]

I got a call on our house phone around the time Lost came out, and it was just a series of numbers. Not the "Lost" numbers, different ones. I didn't buy a lottery ticket using the numbers, and I don't remember what they were any longer (I mean, this was a while ago) but I remember looking up and reading about "number channels" on CB Radios, and I wonder. I wish I'd star 69ed the number to find out who exactly called me or from where. I also remember that my University had one of the last payphones in existence, and one day I was walking past it when it was ringing. So I answered it. There was a woman on the other end who was calling to receive the second half of payment on some pottery she had sold to a guy who had given her the number to call. She wondered if she had misdialed, so she hung up and I waited, and the phone booth rang again, so I told her it was bad luck. A newspaper ad listed my roommate's number (printed the wrong number in the paper) on an ad for free Golden Retriever puppies, and for more than a week he kept getting calls about them, including some seriously strange ones in the middle of the night.

[@silent_midnights6285]

I get phone calls, voice mails, and texts ALL the time for David. They want to buy his house. I am not David. I give my number for rewards at places like JC Penny. They ask “David?” I say no. I’ve had this number for 7 years.

[@beepboop9712]

I occasionally get calls for Texas Digestive Diagnostic. Thing is, our numbers differ only by the order of just two digits.

[@davidl570]

Say that six times fast............................

[@beepboop9712]

@@davidl570 That six times fast. The calls have stopped since i got a new phone with a different phone number.

[@davidl570]

@@beepboop9712 LOL! Good one! Anyway, glad to hear the TDD doesn't call you anymore!

[@stephaniemay792]

Mum got a call intended for the local convent. "Oh Sister Vera, about the altar cloth......" our number was similar to the convent's and the Mother Superior had dreadful handwriting

[@gratefuldead4605]

I got a call from a guy looking for a woman named Dawn on my old phone number 20 years ago and i don't know any Dawn but he begged me to let him "just talk" to Dawn. I couldn't help him but I felt really bad for him as he sounded so desperate.

[@jhm3346]

A little girl called my phone, her mom noticed I guess and accused me of calling them. I told her to check wether the call was incoming or outgoing, she checks and apologizes to me. I hope the mom started to keep a better eye on her kid.

[@muffinman_4]

my mom called my sister's chool and said OH SH*T! and hung up.

[@ricochet0928]

"Redditors of reddit"

[@pear_in_a_tree9030]

Bro I ALWAYS get the IRS custody voicemail and it started when I was 11 and I walked out of my room and looked at my mom and said; "you've raised a felon." and then just went back to my room and deleted the voicemail....wtf is wrong with me

[@lifestories1947]

I received a text message from a group of guys(who thought I was their friend). I asked who they were, when I replied that I did not know them, they kept texting me saying to stop being stupid. So I wrote: I love you. That must have scared them, because they tried to call me. I also got a text message from some females saying to meet them at the beach.

[@caffeinatedkatie4696]

I got soooo many calls for a P.H. Ramaglia. And some guy named Matt who was having his Honda Accord(or something) moved upstate. It took forever to get that sorted out

[@katalystproductions6442]

I got a wrong number call for a week because of a fete ticket location. I sold 100 tickets got the peoples name and everything, i was gonna be a dick but, just because I can't go fete didnt mean these people needed to suffer. So I fb messaged the store with tye list of people and how many tockets for each This was realy the greatest selfless act I've ever did.

[@Kartoffelkamm]

I once found out that my phone at home has almost the same number as an escort service. 7 y/o had an interesting conversation with some guy, learned a few new words, and quickly developed a general disliking of verbal telecommunications.

[@keithupton86ku]

I used to get collections agencies or random numbers that would call asking for my ex gf. It got really annoying when they said she gave them my contact information. So I started responding that she had just passed away a day or two prior. Pretty much stopped right away.

[@anastasiacline6159]

Every once in a while someone uses my email to sign up for something, TickTock and Khan Academy are the two most recent ones, I never clicked on verify email address and yet the account is linked automatically and without my permission. I've also been signed up for Minnesota employment notifications that was super annoying, like 20+ emails a day. I do account recovery to get into the account, change the password and wreck as much havoc as I can on the account I didn't ask for, didn't agree to, and didn't set up. I delete everything I can and put "fuck off" anywhere I can find to write in. There's now someone in a Minnesota employment database 1st name: Fuck, 2nd name Off. I never agreed to terms of service so good luck to them holding me to it. IDGAF. I do this with wrong calls and spam calls too if they call more than once, first time is a misunderstanding and I'm polite, 2nd time IDGAF and start messing with them and act rude as hell to get my point across. Doesn't happen as much with calls since I can block numbers, therefore I can prevent the majority of my frustrations easily. However, there was a theatre in Toronto that thought I was a contractor and kept calling me from many different numbers which was the only major one. When they would call (repeatedly) I would start quoting Monty Python and calling them idiots who need to go back to elementary school to learn their numbers because they have the wrong one. Sometimes it's fun just to be a complete ass to people you'll never meet.

[@julianstudebaker1006]

Guy that had my number before me was quite the player. Calls at all hours looking for Darian.

[@davidl570]

I found the second story (the one about the prisoner) really moving.

[@melissasmith1301]

Going on for over 4 years now.. some people from a company called pioneer credit asking me for a monique... no idea who the heck this person is.. :/ they ring and leave phone messages.

[@keithupton86ku]

Tell them that Monique died.

[@melissasmith1301]

@@keithupton86ku lol believe me, I've tried that one plus the whole "are you a medium, cause the only way you'll be able to talk to her is if you can talk to the dead!" (They get confused easily but still call back!)

[@keithupton86ku]

@@melissasmith1301 You could try answering, then immediately start screaming into the phone.

[@melissasmith1301]

@@keithupton86ku I'll try that xD

[@keithupton86ku]

@@melissasmith1301 A really morbid idea is to try and convince the person to kill themself.