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Journey into the unknown

Episode 1114 · Aug 22, 2004 · 2h 52m

August 22, 2004: Open Lines | Time Travel

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Why Art always leaves a line open for time travelersArt explains his standing invitation to time travelers and his rationale: if humanity does not destroy itself, time travel is almost an inevitability, so the travelers should already be among us.
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Mandela memory and Kaku's bubble theory of time disruptionArt uses a caller's lost-time experience to riff on collective false memories of Nelson Mandela's death and on Michio Kaku's idea that a time disruption splits us into a new bubble while leaving traces of the old timeline in memory.
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Roswell-area kids detained inside an underground complexA caller from Roswell, New Mexico says her friend's children crawled past a stopped ventilation fan into a missile-silo corridor near Laluz Canyon and were returned hours later by men in black who threatened indefinite detention.
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Caller claims he tinkered his way from the mid-1970sOn the time-traveler-only line, a caller says he came from the mid-1970s by manipulating electromagnetic fields and radio frequencies, was found by an organization that controls time travel, and was given strict ground rules.
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He bet the sports page and got groundedThe traveler says he jumped to 1993, briefly went to the future and saw a sports section, but his handlers blocked him from going back to bet, kept him out of Vegas, and harnessed him with a job. He'd still like to jump past 2025.

Art Bell opens the lines for an anything-goes night, dedicating the first-time caller line to anyone claiming to have traveled through time. He begins with a vivid account of a terrifying electrical storm in Pahrump, Nevada, where lightning bombarded the area around his antenna towers for nearly five hours while the towers themselves were never hit, proving a theory about grounded steel structures creating protective discharge zones.

Callers deliver extraordinary stories throughout the night. A woman in West Palm Beach reports communicating with UFOs using a flashlight, claiming the objects move up and down for yes and side to side for no. A trucker recounts hauling a mysterious drum from the Navy Research Lab to Miami, told only it contained diesel fuel. A father in Alabama describes stumbling onto an underground government facility when his children crawled through a deactivated missile silo ventilation fan.

Art reads a report about a Russian scientist claiming to have found debris from an extraterrestrial vehicle at the Tunguska blast site, including two stone cubes of non-natural origin. He highlights a warning about La Palma in the Canary Islands, where a volcanic flank collapse could send 300-foot mega-tsunami waves into the U.S. East Coast.

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