August 21, 2015: Open Lines - Pact with the Devil
Aug 21, 2015
2h 17m
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Art Bell declares a special phone line after the Vatican's International Association of Exorcists announces demonic possession at "emergency levels." The question: have you made a deal with the devil? Such a pact need not involve a contract but can be sealed in one's own mind, and Art Bell warns repeatedly that the deal is irrevocable. The line never stops ringing.
A caller describes exchanging blood with a self-described vampire at a Hollywood Gothic club at 21, trading his soul for unlimited women. Now 38, he estimates over a hundred partners with only "a quick bout of chlamydia" as downside. A woman recounts offering her soul during catastrophic childbirth, crying out to "anyone" for her daughter's survival. The heartbeat picked up moments later. Most unsettling, a caller confesses praying as a teenager for the devil to take his stepmother's life. Months later she died in a car accident. He was nearly catatonic, knowing the source. Art Bell plays the infamous recording purportedly captured by Russian scientists who lowered a microphone into the deepest borehole drilled in Siberia: agonized screaming. "Sounds crowded," he observes.
A night where the devil line never stopped ringing, not once, across the entire broadcast.
A caller describes exchanging blood with a self-described vampire at a Hollywood Gothic club at 21, trading his soul for unlimited women. Now 38, he estimates over a hundred partners with only "a quick bout of chlamydia" as downside. A woman recounts offering her soul during catastrophic childbirth, crying out to "anyone" for her daughter's survival. The heartbeat picked up moments later. Most unsettling, a caller confesses praying as a teenager for the devil to take his stepmother's life. Months later she died in a car accident. He was nearly catatonic, knowing the source. Art Bell plays the infamous recording purportedly captured by Russian scientists who lowered a microphone into the deepest borehole drilled in Siberia: agonized screaming. "Sounds crowded," he observes.
A night where the devil line never stopped ringing, not once, across the entire broadcast.
Key Moments
Blood pact at the Gothic club: A caller says a woman claiming to be a vampire invited him into a blood exchange after they met at a Hollywood Gothic club.
Childbirth plea to anyone: During catastrophic childbirth, a caller says she offered her soul to anyone if her baby survived; the heartbeat immediately began improving.
Praying to the devil against stepmother: A caller admits he specifically prayed to the devil to take his stepmother's life, and she died in a car accident within months.
Sounds crowded in Siberia: Art plays a clip from the famous Siberian borehole 'sounds from hell' recording and dryly comments that it sounds crowded.