Trace the Call

One night a babysitter was looking after a child in a nice neighbor hood in the suburbs. The boy was asleep upstairs and she was watching some TV when the phone rang. The girl answered it, but she only heard breathing on the other end of the line so she hung. The stranger called again and again without saying anything, just breathing into the phone. The babysitter began to get frightened.

She called the police and told them what was going on and the police said, "Hang up the phone and the next time we will trace the call."

She hung up and the heavy breather called again. She slammed the phone down and almost immediately it rang again. This time it was the police – they informed her that the call was originating from the same house.

She ran upstairs to check on the boy and found a man holding him with a knife under his chin. The police arrived in time and quickly arrested him.

Submitted by
Marcel Fontaine from Norwalk CT