The inside story
Mar 20, 2022
2 minutes
JONATHAN KRONSTADT
‘The calls are coming from inside the house.” This pre-cellphone urban legend and horror-movie trope used to haunt my head and oscillate my guts when I babysat as a teen. In case it’s not familiar, the story goes like this: phone rings, babysitter answers, creepiest voice ever says, “Check the kids.” Calls keep coming, so freaked-out babysitter calls the police, who trace the call and
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