Cell Phone Calls After Death

On September 12, 2008, a San Fernando Valley commuter train collided with a freight train. 135 people were injured and 25 people died. This incident, referred to as the Chatsworth crash, was a horrible tragedy. One of the riders on the commuter train was a 49-year-old man named Charles E. Peck. His family reported receiving 35 calls from Peck's cell phone within an 11 hour window after the accident occurred. When they answered, all they heard was static. Of course they tried to call him back, but their calls were sent directly to voicemail.

These calls gave his family hope that he was still alive and trapped in the wreckage. Search crews traced the location of where the phone calls originated from (the wreckage of the first train car) in order to find Charles Peck. Unfortunately, they found Peck's body 12 hours after the initial crash; one hour after the phone calls to his family members had stopped. It was reported that Charles Peck died on impact, and that the investigators of the crash never found his cell phone.

What do you think happened here? Was Peck's phone damaged or destroyed in the crash, somehow causing it to malfunction and call his loved ones 35 separate times? Or was Peck trying to reach out to his beloved family from beyond the grave and possibly assist them in finding his remains? Let me know what you think.