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" 'What kind of car do you drive?' " the man's voice blurted, according to the New Providence woman.
Then came a comment about marriage being only for a "husband and a wife" and a racial slur directed at President Barack Obama.
" 'They're coming to kill us,' " the caller said, according to the New Providence resident. "I think he was talking about the Russians attacking us as a country or something, not about him coming to get my husband and I."
The couple weren't the only ones getting strange phone calls earlier this week. Three others reported getting similar harassing calls, state police said Thursday.
Caller ID suggested the calls originated at Quarryville Library.
An investigation, however, revealed they didn't come from there, police said.
"Nobody is actually calling from the library," library director Frances Vita said Thursday. "Someone hacked into our phone line. Apparently it's called 'spoofing,' and you can do it online."
Vita said she contacted the library's phone company, which said the calls could have originated from just about anywhere.
"We've checked video cameras," she said. "Nobody was in the library" at the time of the calls.
So far, seven people have called the library at 357 Buck Road to say they received harassing phone calls from the library, Vita said. All were placed Tuesday night, after the library closed at 8 p.m., or early Wednesday.
Some victims got more than one harassing call, she said.
Vita said the victims received similar — but not identical — calls from either a man or a recording of a man's voice.
One victim told her she was asked if she regretted having a child, Vita said.
"There were racial slurs, a lot of foul language and very personal things said," Vita said.
She doesn't know the towns where the victims live, and she said most were not library patrons.
The New Providence woman, who asked to not be identified for this story for security reasons, said she and her husband were called a few minutes before midnight Tuesday.
Fearing at that late hour that something bad had happened, they both grabbed receivers to listen.
"It was all random things said — nothing really personal," she said. "I wondered why someone would target us. I don't think we have any enemies."
She thinks their number was picked at random, but the whole episode is unsettling, she said.
She said she encountered a burglar in her home about 10 years ago, and the phone call has reinstilled in her some of the fear she felt back then.
"It is kind of scary," she said. "I couldn't go back to sleep that night. I keep wondering if someone is out there, ready to come get (me)."
