Introduced as usual by Flurnston Boils
Good evening, chill-seekers. With the Halloween season fast upon us, it’s time once again to descend into the dusty vault of tail-tingling tales for one I call… Mystery on Line Two!
It was an ordinary October day in Hawaii, and Dr. Claire Simeone of The Marine Mammal Center was away from her office getting lunch as usual when her phone rang. “I thought maybe someone had a seal-related question,” she wrote on Twitter, so she answered, and heard… silence. Again and again the phone rang, but the mysterious caller never spoke.
Was there an emergency? Had a seal come unsealed? “I start to panic a bit, and drive back to the hospital,” she wrote, but when she arrived, all was calm. Nobody there had called her. And then her phone rang again. The calls were coming from inside the building!
And she wasn’t the only one hearing them. Several other people called the center to ask about mysterious calls they had received. Desperately, Dr. Simeone searched room by room, but the phantom phone phreak was nowhere to be found.
Then she approached the final room: the laboratory. Was this the lair of the devious demonic dialer? She opened the door and saw, to her astonished eyes…
Found on Live Science by N. Fritz. Flurnston photo: Marcello il mostro, by akk_rus, licensed under CC BY 2.0
Geico is getting aggressive with the marketing calls…
The scroll down! Tears are streaming down my face! Epic, NTMTOM, epic!
I gotta agree! Your wit has transcended itself.
The phrase “his tiny gecko feet” made me guffaw.
How fabulous – both the story and the retelling. My especial favorite was “had a seal come unsealed?”
Classic Mike, classic! And the comments are almost as funny.
When I read the headline I was expecting a squirrel. That gecko was priceless. ?
Geico oughta buy the rights and use this in a commercial.
I really want to hear their conversation with the phone company.
I always love hearing from Flurnston Boils.