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Bananaquit
Since: Jan, 2001
5th Dec, 2017 05:12:25 PM
That sounds like the "Long Distance Call" episode of The Twilight Zone. Billy Mumy talks with the ghost of his dead grandmother. That was in black and white and I'm trying to see if it was ever re-made, but I'm coming up blank.
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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
I remember seeing a live action movie probably from the 80s or 90s where someone communicated with ghosts using a children's toy phone. Probably something family friendly and not r rated because I saw it with my parents, but we had the exact toy phone in the movie and it creeped me out for awhile. The phone was one of those Fisher Price rotary ones like this:
http://www.swiss-miss.com/2007/12/fisher-price-cl.html