Found this one at random. Haven't finished it but it's very MiB and freaky.
What makes it different is these are actual recordings of the events. These sound genuine and weird. Welcome to that 'Long Island' accent I have referred to - I guarantee the Tedesco brothers sound exactly like this.
This was 1993. Throughout the 80s and 90s I worked on large commercial telephone systems. I worked for what was called an 'interconnect' and the 'telephone company' at that time in that area was an RBOC, a Baby Bell after divestiture, NYNEX formerly known as New York Telephone. Actually, in one of the many company evolutions I wore a NYNEX shirt and drove a NYNEX truck but I had absolutely nothing to to with residential anything. New York New England
and Beyond.... (cue Buzz Lightyear). Some ad agency got a million bucks for thinking that up.
I know exactly how that sausage is made.
There are always Call Detail Records generated for all calls, even inbound ones. There is a trail you can follow. Problem is it takes the FBI to access them, they are not something the phone company is just going to look up for you if you ask real nice. IIRC there was something they could do for you if you were being harassed but that had to be set up well in advance, it didn't happen on the fly.
You used to see call detail on the monthly bill. Remember long distance ? Billing, they have to track calls. I haven't finished the show yet an wonder if they looked at their bill.
I would
love to have been the one tasked to trace these. I've done it many times and really wonder what would be revealed. By the late 90s I could originate a phone call from about anywhere with any Caller ID I wanted displayed - but there would have been a trail of crumbs to follow for someone who knows how.
You can still trace calls like this today but the format is totally different and there are now two networks. Complicated.
So have a listen. Weird. The Dad thinks he's talking to ET, maybe he is. General Zork must've got a hell of a long distance bill that next month on Zeta Reticuli, or in this case Orion.
View: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-disturbing-mystery-of-the-sudbrink-phone-calls/id1634948563?i=1000675255547