There's a couple of explanations here. I offer them as a former telephone tech.
1: It's bullshit. Most likely explanation.
2: There was a local PBX and it's failing because a building fell on it. (Old Bell System equipment was terribly robust.) It's making calls to stored numbers as it goes insane.
3: The line to that phone is compromised and the switch or SLC or whatever they're using sees it as a call, and is using the last called number as the dialing pattern.
There's a couple of explanations here. I offer them as a former telephone tech.
1: It's bullshit. Most likely explanation.
2: There was a local PBX and it's failing because a building fell on it. (Old Bell System equipment was terribly robust.) It's making calls to stored numbers as it goes insane.
3: The line to that phone is compromised and the switch or SLC or whatever they're using sees it as a call, and is using the last called number as the dialing pattern.
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