August 3, 1998: Lost Nigerian Tribe - Efiong Sam

Art Bell speaks with Efiong Sam, a Nigerian man who claims to be from a lost tribe of Israel located near the coast of Calabar in eastern Nigeria. Sam tells Art that God is alive on Earth, born in 1918 among his people, and that the time for divine judgment has arrived. He says this figure, known as Olumba Olumba Obu, has performed miracles including healing the blind and raising the dead.

Sam explains that his tribe traces its ancestry back through Egypt to the original Israelites and that a delegation from the nation of Israel visited Calabar in November 1997. He says he traveled to the United States to deliver this message and to develop a screenplay about the end times for Hollywood. Art presses repeatedly for evidence and Sam points to biblical prophecy, the figure wearing a red garment, and eyewitness accounts of miraculous events.

Richard C. Hoagland joins unexpectedly, revealing that Sam had contacted him the same day and that he had independently been planning a research trip to Africa. Hoagland notes the remarkable synchronicity and confirms that anthropological research by Robert Temple supports the historical migration of these tribes from Egypt through West Africa to Nigeria.