A cell phone call was registered as coming from my cell phone on
Saturday, 4/22 at 2:37 PM.  My phone was locked and in my possession
the entire time.  I was at a friend's house which is a dead zone.  One
has to get out of the house to receive a signal.  And I left the house
at approximately 2:37.  I never made this call.  When I called
Cingular they said the call was made from this cell phone and they
were able to trace it to a trunk in Redding, CT (I was in Wilton, CT).
 They said the hold button was used while the call was made.  The
person the call was made to is in my directory on my phone.  I called
this person and asked him if I made a call to him.  He said I had not.
 So my question is, how is this possible?  How can a call be made from
a cell phone, register on the cell phone, yet not have been made by
the owner of the cell phone since the phone was on my person the
entire time?  By the way, the cell phone is a Nokia 3595.

Do I understand that you can see the call in the recent call list,
physically on your 'phone ?

If so, the 'phone might not have been locked.

Yes.  I can see the call on the recent call list.  And I swear the phone was locked!

Curious, it sounds as if your 'phone is the originator of the call
- don't think that Cingular could have 'put' the record on your mobile

Have you checked whether removing and replacing the battery does anything ?

I assume you are sure that the 'phone was locked, because you always
lock it under certain circumstances.

Maybe it reacted to some form of electrical interference.

What was the duration of the call ?

The duration of the call was 2 minutes.  When I spoke to Cingular they
said that the call was made, then put on hold, and the disconnected.

Does your friend have an answerphone ?

At first I thought maybe someone had cloned your SIM, but now I'm
veering towards the idea that some electrical induction kicked the
'phone into life.

Not sure what you mean by "answerphone"?  My friend has an answering machine. 

But how can an "electrical induction" potential kick my phone into
life? And even if that is the case, how can a call be made, be put on
hold and then disconnected?  I spoke with the party to whom the call
was made to and he said he never received the call.

By the way - thanks for your input and feedback.  It helps my reality
check on this end!

Answerphone is British for answering machine.

Assuming your mobile was kicked into activity and dialed your friend's
number, then the call could have been picked up by the answering
machine.

After a certain period of time, the answering machine would have
dropped the line. Two minutes seems quite a long time, but it depends
on the model.

You could experiment doing the same again, to see what turns up on
your friend's machine - also, not speaking and covering the voice
pickup (a sophisticated answering machine will probably ignore silent
periods over a few seconds to coserve memory).

Mobiles are just electrical circuits, or little computers, it is quite
easy to induce electrical currents either from a strong magnetic
field, or from another electrical current.
A bit like an electric motor creating interference with a radio
- but that is a bad example.

I've run into situations where just pressing the top of a cumputer
case would make it misbehave.

I'm not sure that this is what happened, but when one has eliminated
the impossible ...

I've had a few interesting 'phone calls from people whose mobile was
accidentally activated - but in your case the mobile was locked.

Another possibility is faulty software at Cingular but I think it less likely.
Rather interesting.