August 3, 2015: Open Lines - Shadow People Stories
Callers flood in. A woman describes years of being followed by a shadow she connects to hexes placed by her father, whose disapproval preceded her husband's death on a motorcycle her father sold him. An Australian woke to find a cloaked figure reaching her ceiling that spoke "everything will be all right" before she fell instantly asleep. A caller who faced his shadow without fear watched it become an eight-foot praying mantis. A high school marcher encountered his doppelganger on the band field, then heard his own voice deliver announcements two years later while sitting in class. A deceased father visited his daughter's dream to expose her boyfriend, telling her to check Facebook where his wife's account had been created one hour earlier.
A night where Art Bell's personal experience unlocks an extraordinary wave of listener testimony about shadow people, doppelgangers, and visitations from the dead.
Key Moments
Art Bell sees a shadow person in his ham shack: Sitting at his computer in the ham shack, Art saw movement to his right; turned and saw a near-human shadowy figure that vanished, reappeared behind him, then to his left. He grabbed a firearm and searched the house with a high-power flashlight.
Caller Steve: shadow person paralyzed him for five minutes: A 50-year-old caller from Lockport, NY, says a shadow being with orange eyes locked up his body for five minutes at 5:30 AM in 2011 and that throughout life it gave him precognitive abilities he initially feared but came to see as positive.
Caller Debbie: the Dick Tracy shadow at the foot of the bed: A caller in the 1980s describes a shadow figure shaped like the cartoon Dick Tracy that stood at the foot of her bed every night her husband stayed up watching TV, waking her from dead sleep.
Caller Curtis meets his own double on the marching band field: A high-school sophomore on the marching band field watched a spitting-image of himself walk out, speak with the band director, then leave; his cousin Diana confirmed seeing it. Years later he heard his own voice doing morning announcements while sitting in geometry class.
Salvia divinorum as a time-travel substance: A caller insists he traveled back to the 1915 Indianapolis 500 by smoking Salvia divinorum, claims the future is unreachable because it has not happened, and cites Terence McKenna's view that time travel will turn out to be chemical rather than mechanical.