- Nine one one calls are made every single day
to authorities for all kinds of situations.
Perhaps someone needs medical assistance,
or something worse may have occurred.
But while most calls result in a closed case for authorities
who are able to gather what they need, the chilling truth
behind some calls to this day remains unsolved.
(phone rings)
Here are 10 mysterious nine one one calls.
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Number 10 is Sherri Papini.
On November 2nd, 2016, Sherri Papini was jogging
near her home in Redding, California.
Her husband, Keith, was working at the time,
and when he came home, he was surprised to find
that Sherri hadn't returned.
Going out looking for her, he found Sherri's phone
at a mile from their home on the ground.
Panicked, Keith called nine one one, and while on the phone,
described his fear that his wife may have been abducted.
But the most harrowing detail was that strands of her hair
had been pulled out of her head as her headphones had been
yanked off of her.
Sherri disappeared for three weeks.
However, one day she was suddenly discovered on a street,
her hair cut off, and her hands in restraints.
She weighed just 87 pounds at that time.
So far, to this day, no one is certain about
what happened to her, and despite the nine one one call,
and all of the information gathered,
even she doesn't remember exactly what happened.
(phone rings)
Number nine is Jamie Santos.
Many mysterious nine one one calls end in a story
that's less than happy.
This was the case with the murder of 27-year-old,
Jamie Santos, on October 28th, 1991.
After Illinois police received a nine one one call
from a payphone, they arrived at Jamie's apartment
to find her in her bed dead.
And her head neatly propped up on a pillow after having
been smothered by it.
The nine one one call which reported her death
has left many questions.
Was the called the killer, or the witness to the murder?
Investigators believe that if the caller had been the killer
then they may have been more remorseful
about killing Jamie than originally thought.
The only other evidence is that it's likely that Jamie
knew her killer, and there was no forced entry,
and no sign of assault.
The man who made the nine one one call has never
been identified, having hung up as soon as the operator
asked him when he'd been to Jamie's apartment.
(phone rings)
Number eight is the Bigfoot caller.
Bigfoot is often dismissed by skeptics because no specimen
has ever been found.
However, two nine one one calls from 1996
provide a compelling argument that something is wandering
around in the American wilderness,
something that we can't possibly understand.
Both nine one one calls were made by a male resident
of Kitsap County in Washington state.
His property looked out onto the countryside,
and while his dog was playing near some trees,
it was suddenly thrown through the air
by something or someone.
The man found the dog dead and called nine one one.
However, not long after this, he made another call.
This time he came face to face with
an almost seven foot tall creature.
During the call, he couldn't be sure whether it was a man
or a beast, but the call itself does make you wonder
just what he encountered out there.
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Number seven is Anthonette Cayedito.
The disappearance of nine-year-old Anthonette Cayedito
involved the puzzling nine one one call,
which will chill you to the bone.
On April 6th, 1986, around 3:00 am, a man arrived
at the Cayedito residence in New Mexico.
Anthonette's mother was asleep, but her sister heard
a man persuading Anthonette that he was her uncle.
When Anthonette opened the door, the man abducted her.
One year later, a nine one one operator received a call
from a young girl claiming to be Anthonette.
She told the operator that she was Albuquerque, New Mexico,
and that's when a man appeared on the line, shouting at her
for using the phone.
The girl screamed and the phone call ended.
Four years later, a teenage girl wrote on a napkin
in a restaurant, pleading for help
before leaving with a couple.
Some believe that she was Anthonette, and to this day,
no one knows exactly what happened to her.
(phone rings)
Number six is Jonbenet Ramsey.
Jonbenet Ramsey was a six-year-old girl who died
under mysterious circumstances.
As it turns out, a nine one one recording has only
added to that mystery.
Jonbenet's parents received a ransom note at their house
in Boulder, Colorado, on December 26th, 1996.
The note claimed that Jonbenet had been kidnapped,
and Jonbenet's mother, Patty,
then called nine one one panicking.
Just eight hours later, Jonbenet's body was found
in the basement of the Ramsey's home.
This tragic case has been picked apart from all angles,
even having several documentaries made about it.
The nine one one call is of particular interest,
with some speculating that a young girl's voice can be heard
in the background.
However, the Boulder DA has cleared the family
of any involvement.
The case is a mystery to this day,
as is the nine one one recording.
(phone rings)
Number five is Ruth.
One of the most mysterious and most disturbing
nine one one calls ever recorded is known only as Ruth.
No one is exactly sure the details
surrounding the recording,
which is one of the reasons it's so puzzling.
The caller is identified only as Ruth.
She lived alone, was elderly, and was reporting a prowler
on her property.
While on the call, the prowler breaks in and attacks her.
Ruth is tragically killed, and the prowler is never caught.
Some nine one one operators have identified the call
as a legitimate nine one one recording,
which was often used to train nine one one operators.
This is because the operator who took Ruth's call
did not follow procedure, including not getting her address
immediately for the police to use.
Though its origins are surrounded in mystery,
the recording itself is harrowing and terrifying,
and stays with all of those who listen to it.
(phone rings)
Number four is the Lane Bryant shooting.
On February 2nd, 2008, a man walked into the Lane Bryant
store in Harlem and attempted to rob the business.
Thinking that the man was only interested in money,
the store manager, another employee of the store,
and four customers who were present, did as the robber asked
and went to the back of the store.
There, the robber's true intentions were revealed.
He killed five of them,
with one of the victims surviving her wounds.
One of the victims called nine one one before the shooting,
and the call was recorded and captured the killer's voice.
Enhanced audio has been released of the call,
along with a new sketch of what the killer
might look like now.
The audio was still garbled, but it's hoped that someone
may recognize the voice so that those who died that day
did not have to do so in vain.
As of the time of this video,
the killer's identity sadly remains a mystery.
(phone rings)
Number three is the Russian military officer.
It sounds like something out of a spy novel,
but a mysterious nine one one call in 2014
had federal agents and the military combing the Detroit area
for a Russian military officer.
A man claiming to be that officer had called nine one one
and said that he'd been abducted,
stabbed, and left for dead.
He wasn't able to give his exact whereabouts as he bled,
but he did describe it as an abandoned factory
with machinery lying around.
Knowing that this could be a potential
international incident, with foreign personnel
being killed on US soil,
federal agents took over the investigation.
Despite this, the man was never found,
but numerous theories exist from it being a hoax
to a Russian diversion or even a legitimate killing.
The only thing that researchers did discover was that
the call was made from a Russian cell phone,
calling from the Detroit area.
(phone rings)
Number two is Alex Crain.
The recording of Alexander Crain's nine one one call
makes for chilling listening.
Not just because it's the story of a child
murdering his parents, but that the killer himself seems
to have no understanding or memory of why he did it.
Alexander Crain killed his parents in December of 2010,
near Lake Okeechobee.
He then made a mysterious call to emergency services.
The recording of that call suggests that Alexander
was potentially a victim too.
He tells the operator that he was sleeping,
and the next thing that he knew, he had a gun in his hand,
and that he had shot both of his parents.
Debate continues over whether Alexander was indeed
a victim of murdering while sleep walking.
Or whether he was more manipulative.
Either way, Alexander Thomas Craine is currently
serving time in a juvenile prison.
The truth behind his actions remain a mystery to this day.
(phone rings)
And number one is Brandon Lawson.
26-year-old Texan, Brandon Lawson, was the terrified caller
involved in one of the most mysterious nine one one calls
of all time.
On August 8th, 2013, Brandon's truck ran out of gas
in a remote part of San Angelo.
His first response was to call his brother
and let him know that he needed being picked up.
But his second call was the real cause of the mystery.
Brandon called nine one one and spoke with an operator.
He relayed a strange hurried message
that he was being chased through the woods
by somebody he didn't know,
and that another person had been shot.
After several gun shots are heard on the call,
it sounds as though Brandon runs into his pursuer,
and the call goes dead.
Brandon Lawson was never seen or heard from again.
Theories abound as to what or who he ran into that night,
but no one so far has uncovered the truth.
10 mysterious nine one one calls that to this day
have not been solved.
However, if anyone out there has information,
please contact your local authorities,
as the families of these victims need to know what happened.