January 13, 1997: Time Machine Inventor - Steven Gibbs

Steven Gibbs, a self-taught inventor from rural Nebraska, joins Art Bell to describe his Hyper Dimensional Resonator, a device he claims enables physical time travel. Gibbs explains that the machine works by capturing the soul's energy at 7.8 hertz, stepping it through a diode circuit and zero vector field, then transmitting it via an electromagnet placed over the stomach. He says the device must be activated over an Earth grid point during a full moon to achieve results.

Gibbs reveals he has sold over 100 machines since 1985, and estimates that 36 or more buyers have simply vanished, presumably traveling to other time periods. He recounts stories of customers journeying to the 1500s, the 1960s, and even the future. He describes his own trip to September 1997, where he claims to have witnessed aerial warfare and an intercontinental ballistic missile launch. He also discusses a mysterious barrier at the year 2012 that time travelers and remote viewers alike cannot penetrate.

Art presses Gibbs on the practical dangers and paradoxes of time travel, from encountering your past self to arriving in an era without electrical outlets. Gibbs addresses each with surprising specificity, describing time laws that prevent disruption of the space-time continuum and a built-in return mechanism that brings travelers back within six to nine hours.