July 11, 2002: Weather Photography, Storm Chaser - Warren Faidley | Psychic Visitations - Stephanie

Art Bell speaks with Stephanie about psychic visitations and a lifetime of paranormal encounters, then later hosts storm chasing photojournalist Warren Faidley on weather photography, tornadoes, microbursts, and severe-weather chasing. Stephanie, a mother from Staten Island, New York, describes experiences beginning at age fifteen when she used a Ouija board. She recounts the name "Anna Brigham" appearing in ash on her hand and transferring to her mother's wall, a statue with glowing eyes, and her seven-year-old daughter recently witnessing three small green creatures flying around her bedroom while the family cat attacked one of them.

Storm chasing photojournalist Warren Faidley then joins from Tucson, Arizona, to discuss his nearly two decades of pursuing extreme weather. He describes his custom chase truck equipped with computers, a defibrillator, and a NASCAR-style roll cage. Faidley explains the physics of tornadoes, microbursts, and gustnadoes, and reveals that tornado activity in 2002 is far below average, with the longest period in U.S. history without a tornado fatality.

Art and Warren discuss shifting weather patterns across the Southwest, the rare high-risk severe weather outlook issued for the upper Mississippi Valley, and Faidley's first storm chase at age twelve that ended with a near-death experience in a flash flood. The episode also touches on a mysterious bottomless hole discovered under a street in Washington state.