Area Code 09

In 2007, disturbing records of mobile phone users receiving calls from a random number that began with the unusual area code “09” began peppering true crime message boards across the internet. Most people who answered the calls reported benign content, such as automated voices reading strings of unconnected numbers and words, or quiet whispers in unintelligible languages. However, in the summer of 2008, discussions of the 09 calls took a dark turn when posters began reporting the calls consisting of a low rumbling sound, followed by an otherworldly and ear-piercingly loud tone. 
Those unfortunate enough to receive these calls reported immediate and severe tympanitis, migraines, brain fog, and nose-bleeds in the days following. All of this snowballed until November 9, 2008, when an unsuspecting Kelly Meyers of Lancaster, Pennsylvania went to work with a migraine after answering a call from the 09 number. Kelly collapsed at her desk and began bleeding profusely from her eyes, ears, nostrils, and mouth, and she was pronounced dead on the scene by first responders. Dr. Deepak Krishnamurthy of Lancaster General went on record saying that Kelly had suffered “the most catastrophic cerebral aneurysm [he’d] ever seen.”
Despite authorities efforts to trace the calls in the weeks following Kelly’s death, no point of origin was ever established, and the case remained cold. That was until the spring of 2009, when one anonymous poster on a now defunct paranormal message board was able to trace the origins of one of the calls back to a rotary phone in an east wing basement of the Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia, a permanently closed facility most notoriously known for it’s involvement in unethical human experimentation in the 1990’s.
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