April 12, 2001: Shadow People - Thunder Strikes | Monuments of Mars - Richard C. Hoagland

Art Bell opens with Richard C. Hoagland, who reveals photographs of the D&M pyramid region on Mars that appear to show Arabic script on the surface. Hoagland had held these images for three years at the request of a colleague. He presents two possibilities: either the lettering is genuinely on Mars, which would be an extraordinary discovery, or someone inserted it into the digital images during a suspicious 36-hour gap in the chain of custody at JPL. Hoagland also shares a new email from Sir Arthur C. Clarke expressing his conviction that vegetation exists on Mars.

In the second segment, Art welcomes Thunder Strikes, a twisted-hairs elder of Cherokee and Irish descent, to address the shadow people phenomenon after receiving over 4,500 listener emails. Thunder Strikes describes these entities as inorganic beings from parallel dimensions that feed on negative human emotions in a vampiric manner. He explains that ancient records first documented them in 1153 B.C. and connects their increasing visibility to a prophesied period called the quickening, which began in 2001.

Thunder Strikes notes that animals, particularly cats, have always been able to perceive these beings. He relates their growing presence to the acceleration of human metabolism and consciousness as described in the Rainbow Bridge Prophecies, which point toward a transformative period culminating in 2012.