I've used this list of 'dead end phone numbers' before as fodder for some public jokes, and was perturbed to find the original link turn into a 404 error. Always willing to roll out some free web space, this is a Wayback Machine copy reposted for posterity. I've updated the HTML to link every phone number properly, so you mobile browsers are one long-touch away for hearing it for yourselves. Credit to the O.P. for making and transcribing a handful of phone calls: Bill Wear (stormrider) which used to be at this private hosted URL: https://stormrider.io/odd-numbers.html
Here are a some interesting numbers you can still call to be suitably entertained:
- (202) 762-1401 : USNO master clock!
- (202) 965-9970 : you have just deactivated this feature.
- (206) 343-0011 : this call requires a coin deposit. no, really.
- (213) 621-0001 : the good, old-fashioned, "We're sorry..." recording (not Jane Barbe, sadly)
- (213) 621-0002 : 1000Hz @ 0dB (this only makes sense if you're a phone person)
- (270) 301-5797 : a maze of twisty little touch tones, all different.
- (313) 849-9906 : calling is too heavy to answer this number.
- (505) 503-4455 : Better Call Saul
- (570) 387-0000 : "due to an emergency condition...."
- (573) 996-0002 : they still have party lines?
- (618) 625-8313 : Stranger Things
- (719) 266-2837 : hall and oates emergency song line
- (800) 444-4444 : automated number announcement circuit
- (845) 354-9912 : callcannotbecompletedasdialed....."
- (858) 651-5050 : the pronunciation line
- (877) 763-2435 : odd squad HQ
- (888) 447-5594 : congratulations, you found your way here
- (914) 232-9901 : pleasant hills DMS 100
- (914) 737-9938 : somebody said put an outgoing message here
- (916) 440-0017 : your service has been interrupted.
- (916) 440-0031 : "due to facility trouble...."