There was a new payphone in town.

At least if you believe what some anonymous conspiracy theories it posted on the internet,

someone on the local paranormal forum had posted a photo of a payphone, which, to be fair, was in fairly decent condition,

and they had insisted that it had been installed recently. More likely than

not, it had been there for a few decades, and neither the poster nor anyone else had noticed

it until recently. I'm pretty sure the only people who pay those things any mind anymore

are kids who genuinely just don't know what they are or what they're for. But the poster

remained quite adamant

this particular payphone

was a new addition.

It's only evidence being some low-resolution

screenshots from Google Street View

from the approximate location where he was talking about,

none of which showed the phone.

Even granting that the phone was new,

that still didn't make it paranormal. The guy wasn't

really making a very coherent argument about it, or why it was. He just kept rambling on and on

about how the phone would only work if you put in a shiny FDR dime minted prior 1965,

when they were still made from 90% silver.

He said, give it silver and you'll see.

When he refused to elaborate on exactly how he figured out the phone only work with old

American coins, everyone pretty much just assumed that he was full of it.

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