Imagine getting calls from your sister's phone, which is switched off. Then imagine that that call involves a guttural rasp telling you that you and your family are going to die. Now imagine stuff like that happening for weeks and weeks and weeks. Bowell-wrenchingly frightening, huh? Indeed, for a family living in Washington, it's like being stranded in a really nasty Wes Craven movie for real...

For four months, three families in a local town claim they've been plagued by mysterious mobile phone stalkers who've been tracking their every move, threatening them, allegedly cracking into their phone networks, and even waking them in the night with screaming and loud banging on walls.

A malicious prank or something more sinister?