Why are people calling saying I called them?

Over the last few months I've been periodically getting people calling me from numbers I don't recognize. I don't answer (I prefer to call unfamiliar numbers back after they leave a voicemail unless I'm actually waiting for a call) and when I check the voicemail, it's someone saying that I spam-called them and asking me to either call them back to get things sorted out or to "take [them] off [my] automatic call list." I've gotten multiple calls of each type over the last few months, with about 6 of the calls in total.
Has this been happening to anyone else? And is this a new form of spam, where people call me expecting me to call back so they can try to sell me something (seems doubtful)? Or could someone have really hijacked my phone number somehow and been calling these people behind my number as a mask of some sort (more likely, but how can someone actually do this?)? If the second option, I fear that it may have happened to many others who didn't bother to call me back and my number may end up listed somewhere on a spam block list or something.
Do you think if I went into a local Verizon store they'd be able to help me with this?

I think its just another telemarketing tactic. I've gotten calls like that.  Last night I got one and after I told them I didn't call them, they tried to sell me a burial plot.

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