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* In episode 11 of the anime ''[[Ghost Stories]]'' Satsuki keeps getting these from a [[Creepy Doll]] named Mary.
* One episode of ''[[Paranoia Agent]]'' has a woman with multiple personalities get numerous harassing phone messages... left by her other personality.
* ''[[Death Note]]'': Near keeps calling and harassing Light at odd hours of the day and night and hanging up.
* In ''[[Koharu no Hibi]]'' Koharu, Akira's stalker and [[Yandere]], quite frequently calls and texts him.
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* Alex calls Dan repeatedly in ''[[Fatal Attraction (film)|Fatal Attraction]]'', but when he keeps ignoring her, she gets more and more [[Yandere|unhinged]].
* ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider Man]]'': Peter is worried about Mary-Jane and calls her home to make sure she's okay but instead of Mary-Jane he gets the Green Goblin on the other line who giggles and says in a creepy sing-song voice, ''"Can Spiderman come out to play?"''
* ''[[Lost Highway]]'': At Andy's party Fred meets a [[Uncanny Valley|strange]] [[Uncanny Valley Makeup|looking]] Mystery Man in Black who tells Fred that he is at his house right now and is the one who sent the videotapes to him. He then tells Fred to phone his house, Fred does so, and the voice of the Mystery Man answers at the house while he's standing right in front of Fred.
* ''[[The Ring]]'': Whenever someone watches the cursed video tape they receive a phone call with a child's voice on the other line warning, "Seven Days."
* ''[[Black Christmas]]'' featured disturbing phone calls throughout, as did the 2006 remake (though far fewer, and considerably less disturbing).
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Silent Hill: Promise]]'': Vanessa is continually harassed by a "Weird phone lady" (later revealed to be named Marissa) who wants her to leave town. Admittedly, given [[Survival Horror|the]] [[Psychological Horror|very]] [[Genius Loci|nature]] [[Everything Trying to Kill You|of]] [[Town with a Dark Secret|Silent Hill]], Marissa ''could'' be trying to save Vanessa's life, depending on how the story unfolds.
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* Less [[Truth in Television]] than it used to be, thanks to telemarketers. More people use answering machines and caller ID to filter phone calls, rather than picking up every call. It used to be that any incoming phone call was viewed as important; now they're viewed with suspicion.
* Let's not forget obscene phone calls, where the caller gets off on delivering sexual or foul language to an unknown called party, and which to the person receiving them is a form of stalking and sexual harassment. Making such calls in many cases is a class 1 misdemeanor. Even without Caller ID, the phone company logs such calls, so the perpetrator's phone number can be discovered, but most people who regularly engage in this nowadays use prepaid cellphones or payphones, which requires a more extensive investigation.
* ''Senior Power'', an old movie meant to teach old people to defend themselves from crime ([http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/senior-power/ and mockingly reviewed here]), includes the "obscene phone call" scene. Apparently, when someone harasses you over the phone, the right thing to do is to... whistle really loud into the phone. So that the harassing caller will freak out and fall over.
** It works. Thing is, you don't just put your lips together and blow, you use a pea whistle such as sports coaches use, and you can seriously inconvenience (if not deafen temporarily) the harasser. I've tried it, (although I am not elderly) and the ex-boyfriend I suspected was suspiciously hard-of-hearing at work the next day! Or so I heard...)
*** When the sports whistle failed to deter the little freaks calling my teenage cousin, my uncle went to the next level; a handheld air-horn. He used it once—and they never got another call after. (Nowadays, he'd probably get sued, but this was in the early eighties, and he never heard a word about it.)
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