December 31, 2004: Predictions for 2005 - Part 2
New predictions pour in for 2005. A caller in Oregon foresees a major earthquake off Japan sending a tsunami into Seattle that topples the Space Needle. A professional psychic from Hawaii predicts Mount Hood will erupt between March and June. Others forecast a virus attack on New York City, a U.S. aircraft carrier sunk in the Persian Gulf, and the Ark of the Covenant being discovered. Art continues filtering out political wish-fulfillment from genuine psychic impressions.
The show takes a philosophical turn as Art questions why predictions are overwhelmingly negative. He asks listeners to email their theories on this phenomenon. A caller from Canada reports her husband dreamed of three sequential tsunamis months before the disaster struck, with the second and third waves yet to come.
Key Moments
Tsunami of biblical proportions: Opening the show days after the Indian Ocean tsunami, Art reflects that the world is still struggling to grasp the biblical scope of the disaster, with whole towns and villages 'vaporized' and the death toll over 121,000.
Animals knew, and one listener wrote 'tsunami': Art notes that not a single dead animal has been found in the tsunami zone - they sensed it coming - and reveals that prediction No. 93 from a year earlier had simply been the word 'tsunami' written in capital letters.
U.S. aircraft carrier sunk in the Persian Gulf: A caller predicts an American nuclear-powered carrier will be destroyed in the Persian Gulf in early 2005, citing visions, his foreknowledge of 9/11, and active U.S. overflights of Iran.
Playback of the 2003 tsunami caller: Art holds his microphone up to a computer speaker to replay the actual 2003 call - a remote viewer trained by Ed Dames who said his source asked him not to reveal the prediction, and substituted 'tsunami' instead.
New Madrid fault triggered by tsunami quake: A Missouri caller predicts the New Madrid fault will let loose in 2005, and Art speculates that an earthquake of the tsunami's magnitude - large enough to alter Earth's rotation - could plausibly destabilize other major fault lines.