'My phone is haunted - I'm getting same spooky message thousands of times a day'

29 August 2023 , 21:53

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Diane Key is being tormented by her 'haunted' phone (Image: Denise Bradley / EDP / SWNS)

A pensioner believes her phone is "haunted" as it torments her with strange alerts and malfunctions.

Diane Key was delighted when she received her new Motorola G13 phone from Tesco in Sprowston, Norfolk. But shortly after she got it home odd things began to happen The 80-year-old says she's been constantly awoken by a bright light emerging from the phone at the same time every night and has received thousands of texts each day from an unknown number.

The same texts repeat themselves on the hour, every hour, for 24 hours a day. Diane, from Norwich, Norfolk said: "I'm using my old one now, I can't be doing with it, it's ridiculous! It all started when I couldn't transfer my 300-odd contacts automatically and had to do them manually, I knew it would be trouble.

Diane has received thousands of texts each day from an unknown number (Denise Bradley / EDP / SWNS)

"Then all the texts started coming through every blooming minute, they go right the way through the ones I've received then they all start coming again. The whole thing is really spooky, especially when the torch keeps coming on. It's like it's haunted, things like that scare you at my age."

Diane has switched the phone off and put it in her bedside drawer, which has done the trick for now. As she is out of her 14 days for a refund, Ms Key is not asking for compensation but wants Tesco to take the ghoulish phone back and free her from her contract.

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While Diane has not been able to get to the bottom of what is causing the issues, it is more likely to be a technical glitch than an apparition according to Norwich medium Tita Martell. Tita said: "I haven't come across a haunted phone before, so I'd say this is very rare.

"It's quite possible though, because it is all about the energy which has attached itself to it and what is connected to it. Anything can become haunted in theory." The Mirror has contacted Tesco for comment.

Harrison Moore