Strange Phone Call
By Jo Ann
@akalinus (40714)
United States
May 5, 2021 2:43pm CST
My best friend and I talk on the phone almost every night. We live in different states but have known each other since our kids were little.
She called the other night. It did not sound like her talking. I thought she was playing a joke and had someone pretend to be her.
She told me that I was someone else and to put me on the phone.
To make things stranger, she said she called me on the landline but it was really my cell phone.
None of this made any sense. We hung up and tried again and everything was normal again.
Has anything confusing or strange ever happened to you on the phone? What do you think was responsible for this really weird call?
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7 responses
@Prabhatsingh (3537)
• India
5 May 21
Might be a cross-connection.
yeah, we have that a lot here.
The networks get mixed up in the same signal and this happens sometimes. 
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@akalinus (40714)
• United States
5 May 21
that sometimes happens. I can hear other conversations of people I don't know but it has not happened in a long time. Once, I was talking to a friend and a man's voice said, "this conversation has been terminated." I don't understand stuff like that, why it happens.
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@Prabhatsingh (3537)
• India
5 May 21
@akalinus
In that scenario, it has been some network issue.
When you suddenly lose service on your phone the call gets terminated.
But what you experienced with your friend was totally a case of cross connection.
@akalinus (40714)
• United States
7 May 21
@Prabhatsingh Something happened, just not sure what. My son used to get a radio station on his phone.
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@Belexhanns (3431)
• Kampala, Uganda
5 May 21
Yeah my ex mistook me for another guy on a call
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@Belexhanns (3431)
• Kampala, Uganda
8 May 21
@akalinus its too long but we left each other
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@kaylachan (58546)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
5 May 21
If you're calling a cell phone, the connection may be bad. Given how it resolved itself the second time you tried to call, it could've been that easily.
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@Chellezhere (5363)
• United States
5 May 21
Do you remember the early days of the cordless phone when one person's cordless phone would interfere with the signal for a neighbor's? People were billed for calls they neither made nor received.
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