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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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August 19, 2006: Non-Human Apparitions - Joshua P. Warren

Aug 19, 2006
2h 41m
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Art Bell welcomes paranormal researcher Joshua P. Warren to discuss non-human apparitions and the science behind ghostly phenomena. Warren describes his extensive fieldwork using electrostatic and electromagnetic detection equipment, explaining how fluorescent bulbs, compasses, and AM radios can serve as basic ghost-hunting tools. He shares findings from a Discovery Channel project at Roswell, where high-definition cameras captured a massive snake-like apparition during a seance in Hangar 84, footage the network has mysteriously refused to air.

The conversation turns personal when Art recounts experiencing bone-chilling cold in the days following his late wife Ramona's passing, despite his house reaching 80 degrees. Warren explains this as a classic sign of intense electrostatic activity, suggesting Ramona may have been attempting to manifest. Warren also discusses his new book Pet Ghosts, which examines animal apparitions and the question of whether non-human creatures possess souls capable of returning from the other side.

Warren proposes that creatures like Bigfoot and Mothman may exist at frequencies just outside normal human perception, briefly becoming physical during shifts in Earth's energy environment. He and Art explore whether manipulating electromagnetic frequencies could eventually allow controlled communication between dimensions, though both acknowledge the risks of opening such a door.

Key Moments

  1. Electrostatic signatures of hauntings: Warren defines a ghost as a paranormal aspect of physical form or mental presence, and explains that electrostatic and electromagnetic signatures are the most reliable measurable correlates at haunted sites.

  2. Art's freezing-cold vigil after Ramona's death: Art recounts that in the days after his wife Ramona passed in January 2006, he was overcome by inexplicable bone-deep cold even with the house at 80 degrees, only relieved by a long hot shower. Warren says it sounds like an attempted manifestation via electrostatic ion wind.

  3. Roswell Hangar 84 seance footage Discovery shelved: Warren describes filming an X-OPS pilot for Discovery Channel in Roswell where seven or eight high-definition cameras captured a huge snake-like apparition slithering across Hangar 84 during a seance. Discovery refused to air it.

  4. Mothman, Silver Bridge, and frequency convergence: Warren proposes that creatures like Bigfoot and Mothman exist at frequencies just outside ours and become physical only briefly when Earth's energy environment shifts before major events, citing the Silver Bridge collapse and a recent North Carolina earthquake.

  5. Mentor at NASA, Apollo 8 'tower' footage, and the moon: Warren reveals that his late mentor Charles Yost, a NASA Hall of Fame inventor, gave him Apollo-era footage showing what looks like a tower on the lunar surface ejecting a puff of smoke, posted at lemurteam.com - and says government agents began visiting only after he probed the moon.