December 7, 2001: Open Lines - 'Entity Attack'
A woman recounts being thrown through windows repeatedly as a child, leading her parents to board up her bedroom. A man in Redding, California, shares years of escalating torment by shadow entities that culminated in attempts to crush his larynx and chest, ending only after a two-week fast spent in prayer. A caller from Memphis admits that he and friends attempted to sell their souls for money and power, after which dark entities began dragging him from his bed in spirit form.
Art reflects on the previous night's profound interview with Pam Reynolds, whose death experience during brain surgery he considers the strongest evidence for an afterlife ever presented on the program. Between entity calls, listeners discuss the breaking news of the submerged city off Cuba, melting Martian ice caps and their implications for Earth, and the 60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
Key Moments
Setting the rules of the entity attack line: Art opens by reserving one phone line for callers physically attacked by an entity, deliberately leaving the term vague to cover shadow people, demons, or anything else, but insisting the contact must be physical.
Pulled across the room at age 11: A Portland, Maine caller says a solid-black entity that had silently watched him from a chair grabbed his ankles after he thought it's not real, hurled him over the footboard and across the room into a wall.
Three syringe marks and ruined photographs: A caller describes waking to a piercing sensation, finding three swollen needle marks on his arm with small amounts of blood, photographing them, and getting back a roll where only the four arm shots came back unrecognizable.
Inky black creatures crushing his larynx: A caller describes shadow people he calls inky, infinite black creatures escalating their torment to the point of trying to crush his larynx and chest in daylight, eventually leaving him with heart and blood-pressure problems.
Thrown into the wall after praying for Jesus: A caller recalls that at age seven, after asking Jesus to keep her safe at night, the entities turned violent: throwing her into a wall hard enough to put a hole in it and rupture her eardrum, and ripping her bedroom door off its hinges.