Ghost story update idea

[dvandom]

One of the "modern" ghost stories I heard in my youth involved a stormy night and someone getting phone calls from a dead person, only to find the next morning that the storm knocked down the phone lines over the person's grave. Given how many people have cellphones these days (especially kids, the usual target for this sort of "oooooh, spooky!" tale), it struck me that this particular story was on its way to obsolescence. How to update it for the cell phone age?

The easiest way, of course, is to find that the person was accidentally or intentionally buried with a phone (edit: with lots of "roll over (in the grave) minutes"?), but that's not exactly a creepy revelation.

Another possibility was that there's a series of calls from the person, who has been missing for years and presumed dead, and who claims to BE dead, eventually leading to the discovery that they were murdered and their body dumped in the concrete foundation of a cellphone tower that was being built at the time. :) Variations on that theme include a cell tower unwittingly built over an unmarked old graveyard, or next to a marked graveyard, etc.

Comments

[jameel.livejournal.com]

Due to the circumstances of his death, I spent months waiting for an e-mail from my father from "beyond the grave".

[grant-p.livejournal.com]

My father got called for Jury Duty two weeks after passing, but I think that was a case of the Bureaucracy being a zombie.

They gave him a medical deferral after I complained. I'm not joking.

I think that would be a GOOD story. Now I wonder how it would work as an intermezzo (no, I'm not stealing it to try it).

[wtimmins.livejournal.com]

I've seen this story as an episode of the (original) Twilight Zone.

[kiteflier98.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see how it works out... as well as stories from the other comments.