Top 10 Scary Phone Glitch Stories - Summary

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**Title:** Top 10 Scary Phone Glitch Stories

**Summary:**

Host Danny Burke shares 10 unsettling stories of bizarre phone glitches, including:

1. **Dead Man Image**: A new phone displays a mysterious image of a dead man.
2. **Grandma's Text**: A woman receives texts from her already-deceased grandmother's buried phone.
3. **Bowling Lane Photo**: A user's posted photo changes to show themselves in it, even though the phone was in their pocket.
4. **FaceTime Glitch**: Users see random, unexplained pictures of themselves during FaceTime calls.
5. **Obama Prize**: Certain phrases in iMessages would delete, leaving only spaces.
6. **1970 iPhone Glitch**: Setting an iPhone to Jan 1, 1970, would cause it to break.
7. **Texts from the Past**: Users received blank texts from the year 2003.
8. **Ringtones**: A user's phone played eerie organ music despite being turned off.
9. **The Daughter**: A man receives a call from a girl claiming he's her daddy, years before his own daughter is born.
10. **The Dead Map**: A new phone's camera app shows a mysterious, previous image of a dead man.

**Common Thread:** Many of these glitches remain unexplained, sparking theories and eerie speculation.

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**1.** A "Dead Map" glitch occurred in 2016, showing an image of a dead man on a brand new phone's camera app.

**2.** The phone's user reported the issue, and after a factory reset, the image still appeared.

**3.** A Reddit user ("Bill burr Papa") received a call in the past where a girl claimed he was her "daddy" before his daughter was born.

**4.** Years later, the same user's daughter reported talking to him on the phone while he was in the same room, without him receiving the call.

**5.** In 2017, people reported receiving "texts from the past" with blank messages, often dated June 23rd, 2003.

**6.** A glitch in 2016 caused iPhones to break if the time was set to January 1st, 1970, at midnight.

**7.** A user ("winter moon 5-5-5") experienced a flip phone playing creepy organ music in a hotel room, despite being turned off.

**8.** Removing the battery and SIM card stopped the music, but the phone returned to normal the next day without explanation.

**9.** A Reddit user ("ad Elliott") found a photo of a fountain on their phone, taken at a time when the phone was left behind to charge.

**10.** In 2011, FaceTime users reported seeing random pictures of themselves appear on screen, which they had not taken.

**11.** Between 2011-2012, some iPhone users experienced a glitch where their phone would take pictures of them without their knowledge.

**12.** In April 2013, Apple iMessage users reported a glitch where certain phrases (e.g., "I could be the next Obama") would have their last word deleted.

**13.** In October 2014, a user (Sherry Emerson) received texts from her grandmother's phone number, despite the grandmother being deceased.

**14.** The phone company attributed the texts to a system glitch, despite claiming to have removed the number from their system.

**15.** A Reddit user reported posting a picture to Instagram, which briefly changed to show themselves in the photo, despite the phone being in their pocket.