April 19, 2002: Open Lines

Art Bell opens the Friday night phone lines to explore three unusual topics: spontaneous human invisibility, mysterious mirror experiences, and underground encounters. He reads from researcher Donna Good Higbee's investigation into people who report becoming spontaneously invisible in public spaces, unable to be seen or heard by those around them. Callers confirm these experiences with striking personal accounts.

The mirror discussion produces equally strange testimony. A caller in Chicago describes catching his reflection frozen in a pose he had already moved from, while a 16-year-old girl recounts seeing a past life image of a man appear during a scrying session before a mysterious voice warned her away. A caller describes using a video camera pointed at a television to create an infinity loop, claiming the captured still frames reveal faces and entities.

A man from Missouri claims he experiences time stopping involuntarily, during which he admits to shoplifting from stores undetected. A woman from Tennessee says she learned as a child to will herself invisible, a skill she still uses to avoid traffic stops. Art connects these accounts to Higbee's research on an electron cloud that absorbs light, rendering a person unseen.