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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

Best Art Bell Episodes About EVP and Spirit Communication

EVP episodes made the afterlife feel technical: tape recorders, radio static, voices, samples, and investigators asking whether the dead could leave a signal. These broadcasts focus on electronic voice phenomena and spirit communication, with enough topical overlap to guide listeners toward Ghost-to-Ghost, near-death, shadow people, occult, and consciousness material inside the wider paranormal archive.

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Episode thumbnail for October 30, 2004: The Dead Speak - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath
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October 30, 2004: The Dead Speak - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Oct 30, 2004
2h 51m
Art Bell is joined by Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society to present new electronic voice phenomena recordings captured at the Gold Hill Hotel in Virginia City, Nevada, and the Deer Lodge Prison in Montana. The EVP samples include a woman asking "are you alone?" during elevated electr...
Episode thumbnail for April 2, 2005: Voices of the Dead - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath
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April 2, 2005: Voices of the Dead - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Apr 2, 2005
2h 55m
Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society join Art Bell to present voices-of-the-dead electronic voice phenomena recordings after Art's opening reflections on Pope John Paul II, rising oil prices, and Yucca Mountain nuclear waste data. He notes Goldman Sachs predictions that oil could reach...
Episode thumbnail for October 18, 2003: Sounds of Ghosts - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath
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October 18, 2003: Sounds of Ghosts - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Oct 18, 2003
2h 50m
Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society to present a collection of electronic voice phenomena recordings captured at two locations: a funeral director's home and the historic Rawlins prison in Wyoming. The investigators use both analog tape recorders and digital devices...
Episode thumbnail for February 7, 2004: EVPs - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath
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February 7, 2004: EVPs - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Feb 7, 2004
2h 50m
Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society join Art Bell to present electronic voice phenomena recordings said to capture voices from the grave after a first-hour South African UFO account. Art opens with a surprise guest he kept secret from the network: a man identified only as Chris, claim...
Episode thumbnail for October 28, 2006: Voices from the Other Side - Barbara McBeath
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October 28, 2006: Voices from the Other Side - Barbara McBeath

Oct 28, 2006
2h 34m
Art Bell welcomes Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society for an evening dedicated to electronic voice phenomena. Broadcasting from Manila as Super Typhoon Cimarron bears down on Luzon, Art opens with storm updates before turning to the night's unsettling recordings. Barbara, appearing solo while partner...