It's 1:30pm on a Tuesday in June. You're a Minneapolis resident, minding your own business. Maybe you're at home, maybe you're at work, maybe you're in your car. Either way, when that phone rings, there's nothing on the other end but nonsensical paranoid ramblings from a stranger:

"Stop and listen. Your life's at stake. There are bad people in this world, and somehow you've gotten their attention. You have to leave, TONIGHT, it doesn't matter where, just not a place you've ever been before. They smell blood and they are coming fast...if I were you, I'd run."

Or IS it nonsense?

Could someone be coming for you? You haven't done anything wrong...have you? How would you have gotten the attention of anyone out for blood?

The caller ID is unhelpful and anonymous. You call the number back but it doesn't work. The stranger must have used some internet p2p service to make the call.

You wait a few minutes. The stranger said They'd be coming soon. Time passes without incident. You feel relieved; after all, nothing has happened.

Or maybe she meant "soon" as in a few hours? Or days? Maybe They'll be pounding down your door any minute, dragging you off for the crimes that you most likely have committed somewhere down the line.

Is it time to pay the piper? Or is Minneapolis filled with the kind of lunatics who would make threatening-ish phone calls to random people? Only time will tell.


Will you stay put tonight in the face of this urgent warning and tempt Fate? Or will you merely sit around your home, nervously watching the door, jumping at the phone's ring? Or maybe you aren't bothered by this at all, finding it a mere anecdote to tell at parties. Either way, the call is now a part of your life history...no one can deny that this did in fact happen to you.

Pray They don't happen to you, too.