Disturbing calls for 10 years. Individual or service? Has anyone else experienced this?
I (25F) have been getting disturbing phone calls for almost 10 years. I've never changed my number. Sometimes they disappear for 8 months, sometimes they're every few days.
They always come from private or scrambled numbers. I usually don't answer, but sometimes I'm expecting a call. If I don't answer, they'll sometimes leave voicemails but not always.
Usually a man, but they sound like different people. Most sound live and respond to me, sometimes they're recordings or an automated voice.
Sometimes it's a guy with a pleasant voice asking me to confirm some random appointment. I say wrong number, and he starts screaming, blasting porn or gore audio, calling me a dumb bitch and saying all women exist to be raped. Think john waters serial mom phone scene.
Sometimes it's wet noises or what sounds like little kids begging. Sometimes it's men using my full name while describing how they're going to climb through my window and rape or kill me. Sometimes it's blackmail threats saying they have videos of me. Sometimes it's generic horror stuff with raspy voices claiming they're back from the dead or demons/ghosts etc.
Last night I accidentally answered because I was half asleep and thought it was my alarm. A man in a scary deep voice said, "Hello (my full name), I..." and I hung up. Thirty minutes later another private number left a voicemail. It was an automated woman's voice saying, "Hi (full name), I had a strange dream about you last night. The lost puppy went up and gently bit your hand. Not to hurt you, but like, for another reason I guess." Then it ended.
Awhile ago I hung up on a live guy doing a fake comission request that slowly became a harassment call. After i hung up he immediately started calling back over and over for about half an hour. It was so fast I couldnt block the number before it rang again and just turned the phone off.
They come around the same time every night, usually around 1 AMish but sometimes its the middle of the day.
I assumed most women got calls like this, but no one else seems to know what im talking about lol
Maybe I pissed someone off when I was 15 and they put my number on some harassment list with my name attached? I know a few unwell people but no one jumps out specifically.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Does this sound like a stalker, multiple stalkers, some kind of prank service, or is there some incel harassment community that does this? Is there anything i can do? I can't block private numbers right now as i often have to call the police for work and it blocks the callback.