Her Brother Died Suddenly — Then His Parrot Started Repeating Five Chilling Words (2 of 4)

At first, Carol Templeton thought she was imagining it. She was grieving, after all. Her brother, Mark, had passed suddenly just three weeks earlier — an apparent heart attack, the coroner had said. Carol had come to pack up his things and care for Rocky, whom Mark had rescued nearly a decade ago after the bird was abandoned outside a gas station.

But the longer she stayed in that house, the more she felt like something was… off.

“I know it sounds ridiculous,” she said, “but there was a weight in the air. Rocky would just sit there, eyes pinned, staring into the hallway like he was watching someone.”

She tried to brush it off. A parrot repeating strange phrases wasn’t exactly new — any bird owner can tell you they mimic what they hear. But it wasn’t just what Rocky said. It was when.

Every evening at 9:13 p.m. — the exact time Mark had died — Rocky would begin his strange monologue.

“I saw him. He screamed. No — no, don’t!”

Then a pause. Then:

“It wasn’t an accident.”

Carol thought it might be her grief playing tricks. Until she found the voicemail.

Buried in Mark’s saved messages was one from a neighbor, timestamped just 12 minutes before his death. The voice was hushed, panicked.

“Hey man, I saw someone behind your house. Tall guy, hoodie, just standing there. You okay? Call me back.”