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...series of incidents, it appears that the "serial caller" who plagued Hollis residents last year is at it again. But this time around, he's calling all over campus and has been dubbed the “phone whisperer...
...Some guy whispered 'Hello? Are you awake?' to me, and I was half-asleep and got kind of freaked out so I hung up on him," she said. "He called again, and—in my half-asleep state—I couldn't get the phone to stop ringing, so I ended up unplugging the phone...
...campus with his eerie calls. According to the same article linked above, Harvard University Police Department identified a man in south Florida as the original “serial whisperer” in 2001. Similar calls were reported in 2003. But police could not take action because making phone calls was not illegal...
Instead, I raced to hand over my cell phone and cash while my roommate stood five feet away, doing nothing. It must’ve been the easiest 20,000 pesos that man had ever made. I’m not really sure how long this whole transaction took, but it was somewhere in the range of 60 seconds, and then it was done. I was mugged. I was stranded a hundred blocks from my apartment in a foreign city with nary a centavo. Would I have to become a drug mule and smuggle ten pounds of cocaine...
...researching her book, Brides of Allah, in the regional capital of Dagestan. "Around those forests you can hear the blasts from up in the mountains. But it sounds like it might pass tomorrow. Or maybe it will continue through the next day, too," she told TIME by phone. (Read "Russia's 'Black Widows': Terrorism or Revenge...