will stop the nagging of a wife. And who buries people with their phones anyway? What would they possibly do? Ring ahead of time to book a good place in the beyond? or make prank calls to people to mess them up?

I can't get a bloody signal at my desk, never mind from 6 feet under!

They can see which number she is texting him from?

And how does she pay her phone bill from the other side?

'Then one night I was lying in bed and a mist came across the room. I wanted to shout out at it, but I couldn't get my words out. My face seemed to be paralysed. It all got too much for me when that happened.'

I've suffered from this experience on and off for years in many different houses... it's called Hypnogogic Sleep Paralysis, and is apparently quite common. It's the opposite of sleep walking in that your brain wakes up but your body doesnt, where as sleep walking is where your body wakes up but your brain is still dreaming, so you act out your dream (night terrors are also like this). HSP is probably one of the main causes for Alien abduction experiences... it's been around for centuries, people of yore used to talk about succubus and being hag-ridden.

Move along now, nothing to see here...

Have the phone companies looked into this? Can we see an example message? Surely some engineer could run a diagnostic on the phone - messages can't just spontaneously appear. I'd like to actually see some PROOF for one of these stories.

Why do these people keep getting press attention?

The local rag published this on April 2nd - they couldn't even get that bit right...

Actually, checking the phone won't help. If a SMS message has being retrieved without source phone number, it won't help.

The real check should be done in the Carrier's SMS servers as they have the original phone number who sent the SMS.

Bets on it being something easily hacked? Say with code which makes it appear to receive texts?

[applause applause]

i'd hate to see the phone charges on those things.....

Nice little roaming contract methinks :P

Paris because she would probably take her phone to the grave too.

What's wrong with being buried with your mobile phone? People have been buried with their prized posessions for thousands of years. It's an act of respect by the living to the dead to put in the grave that which they feel represents the deceased.

I for one would like to be buried with my 10th century reenactment gear, just to confuse future archaeologists.

Shame this isn't U.S based, they could use Sprit as their service providor

>> ... both my grandparents ...

You must have a close family.

Spook Messaging Service. You get 200 free a month on that tariff.....

The white sheet with the eyeholes thanks.

If it would have been a 3G video call..

Paris as you can bet she has sent some "intresting" texts in her day

Jones says his family has since received strange SMS messages which they believe to be from Sadie. He concluded: "She always had a mobile with her. We buried her with her phone

What did the messages say? "LET ME OUT, I CAN'T BREATHE IN HERE!!!"

Mine's the one with the holy water, crucifx and copy of the the Exorcist in the pockets...

"The Thing had "pulled at their bed covers while they were asleep" and that they "sensed a vile smell and felt something breathing in their ears""

Last Friday, I think it was.

10th century re-enactment gear and your mobile phone? that would really mess things up!

=> The Thing had "pulled at their bed covers while they were asleep"

=> and that they "sensed a vile smell and felt something breathing in

=> their ears".......there was a lot of banging and an earthy smell in

=> the house.

Had they not lived with a pet cat before?

Mine's the one with the muddy paw prints and the dead mouse tucked up the sleeve.....

You've clearly got bored with daytime TV. Haven't you got a job to go to?

Reminds me of this David Letterman:

Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today?

1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.

2) Advising the President.

3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin.

On a side note, SMS messages transmitted by a gateway don't always supply a number of origin.

Impressive battery (after)life...

With that battery life it must be a Nokia 6310

A shame nobody could get MMS to work in 2002

Nothing wrong with being buried with your phone, but please remember to remove the battery before a cremation.

A heart cos everyone loved the 6310

I thought she was on o2ooooooooooooo (said in a ghostly manner)

Many haunted houses have been cured by simply draining the air bubbles out of the (inevitable) hot water heating system.

Houses with electric heat are never haunted.

Must be one of those new gas-powered fuel cell thingies... plus, she's effectively sequestering underground the excess methane.

Spooky, tech-savvy, and eco-friendly!

Taking the covers, a vile smell and someone breathing in your ear?

I see the media have been interviewing my girlfriend again.

Show me evidence of ghosts and I'll concede that there are ghosts.

But

No evidence == no ghosts as far as I'm concerned.

It's pretty straightforward really - no 'belief' either way necessary.

Laugh at that logic :-P

"Am I wildly speculating when I suppose that no-one who has responded has any experience with being dead?"

i was dead once but i got better.

boo !

Well-played, madam. Well-played.