Legend Creepypasta: The Last Call

I wasn't going to post this but it's 2am and I can't stop thinking about it so here we go.

There's a small village on the outskirts of Cheongsong, North Gyeongsang Province. Like, deep in the mountains, maybe a handful of houses total. And this place has a rule that's been passed down for generations.

There's an old payphone booth at the village entrance. And the rule is simple.

"Never answer it when it rings at 11:13pm."

Most people don't even remember where that warning came from anymore. If you're an outsider coming from the city it just sounds like some local folklore. Whatever.

**1. Jiyeon's First Year**

Jiyeon was an elementary school teacher in Seoul. Burned out, done, finished. So she volunteered for a rural branch school in the countryside.

Fewer people, more nature, and most importantly, quiet. That's all she wanted.

The only weird thing was that the whole village just... went silent after dark. Like the air itself held its breath. Past 9pm nobody walked the streets. Her neighbors turned their phones OFF before bed. Not silent. Off.

She figured they were just early sleepers. Whatever.

Then one night she's outside the community center talking to a friend on her phone and the signal just cuts. Dead. No data either.

And then.

From down the street, under the streetlamp.

The payphone starts ringing.

Trrrrring—

She looked. Nobody in the booth. Just one light flickering.

She hesitated. Then she picked up the receiver.

"...Hello?"

"...Take me with you."

Goosebumps. Immediate. Full body.

A woman's voice. Wet somehow, like the sound itself was waterlogged. The pitch was wrong in a way she couldn't explain.

Jiyeon panicked and went "who is this" and hung up.

But after that night. Every single night. 11:13pm exactly. The phone rang.

**2. Who's in the Booth**

A few days later she looked out her window and saw something.

A faint shape standing inside the booth. Long hair. White clothes. Head hanging down.

Every time the streetlight flickered, it looked slightly different.

Next morning she asked one of the village elders about the payphone.

"Does anyone still use that thing?"

The elder's face went completely still. She set down her spoon. Slowly.

"You already answered it, didn't you... girl, it's too late now."

Jiyeon pushed for an explanation. The elder got up and came back with what looked like an ancient village record book.

**3. The Missing Schoolgirl, Eunbi**

15 years ago a 17-year-old girl disappeared from this village. Kim Eunbi.

She was walking home from school. Last known location: that payphone booth.

When police arrived the floor of the booth was completely soaked with water. And the receiver had dozens of tiny handprints on it.

Case went cold. Never solved.

After that the villagers started noticing the phone ringing every night at 11:13. And then one day someone answered it, left the village shortly after, and was never seen again.

After that everyone just. Stopped talking about it.

**4. Not a Call. A Voice.**

Jiyeon had a nightmare a few nights later.

A high school girl inside the payphone booth. Holding the receiver. Crying.

The girl looked at her and said:

"Teacher... you don't remember me? I'm Kim Eunbi... I was the only one who got forgotten..."

And then Jiyeon remembered.

A few weeks before. A transfer student who kept showing up to her classroom. No registration, no paperwork. A girl named Eunbi who came in a few times and then just... stopped. Jiyeon had assumed the admin side would sort it out.

But when she checked, there was no student by that name anywhere in the system. Never had been.

She made a decision. She was going to find out the truth.

**5. The Last Call**

That night she walked to the booth.

Opened the door. The floor was soaked.

She picked up the receiver.

"Hello..."

"...Teacher..."

The voice came through. Breathing. Crying. Memories somehow carried in the sound. All of it belonging to that girl.

"It's time... to switch... someone has to be here in my place..."

And then Jiyeon felt it.

A cold hand around her ankle. From below the floor.

"Stay with me..."

The lights went out.

Everything got pulled into the dark.

**6. The Village Goes Quiet Again**

After that night the payphone never rang again. The booth looked emptied out, like the phone itself had been removed.

Jiyeon was gone. The village went back to its silence.

But a month later, in an apartment complex somewhere in Seoul, a strange note appeared on the community bulletin board.

*"The city is now connected. Do not answer calls at 11:13pm."

*

And in the corner of a parking garage basement.

A payphone.

Trrrrrring—