Old Telephone ring heard, but no one there.

Something straight out of The Matrix, I kid you not-!

telephone ringing

I heard this very sound at rest stop in the mens bathroom, my first thought was that someone had the old telephone ringtone and it rang like 10 times then quite. And did it again.

Curious being that I am, I thought that there might have been someone in the other handicapped bathroom separate from the one I was in; so I go out of mine, and step over to the
Handicapped one, open the door, and ask if anyone was in there...nada.

Not sure what to think about this, anyone else have this happen?

a reply to: Komodo

I've had audio hallucinations, but not ten rings. I'm guessing you're spot on about the ring tone- someone's cell was lost in that room somewhere.

Sounds like someone's cell phone had that ring tone on it, they lost their phone and were calling it to find it .....or.....there's an intercom system in the rest stop bathroom ( or that building ) and it rings when someon calls the main phone alerting them to the land line .

a reply to: Komodo

Did you check the commodes or down in the tank if it is that type?

Is there a payphone on the outside of the building in that area where the ring was heard. Those phones would easily be heard inside of the restroom, there may even be an exhaust vent in that room that exits right over the phone outside. I still see a few payphones around in some roadside parks, but it is getting rare. There is one around here out on the highway about thirty miles from here, there is no signal for cell phones in that area either, maybe that is why the phone is still there.

a reply to: Komodo

You're supposed to ask if anyone is in there before opening the door.

He opened the door, and there she was: gone!

originally posted by: lordcomac
a reply to: Komodo

I've had audio hallucinations, but not ten rings. I'm guessing you're spot on about the ring tone- someone's cell was lost in that room somewhere.

Ho ho ho ho, I hate to think where.......lol

If visual representations of people, and smells can manifest as a 'residual' haunting, why not sounds too?

originally posted by: Aliensun
a reply to: Komodo

Did you check the commodes or down in the tank if it is that type?

Yeah, no one was in there

at all..

originally posted by: rickymouse
Is there a payphone on the outside of the building in that area where the ring was heard. Those phones would easily be heard inside of the restroom, there may even be an exhaust vent in that room that exits right over the phone outside. I still see a few payphones around in some roadside parks, but it is getting rare. There is one around here out on the highway about thirty miles from here, there is no signal for cell phones in that area either, maybe that is why the phone is still there.

No, the.payphones is out side..

This was in the next bathroom....