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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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July 23, 1995: Bigfoot Scream | Max The Crystal Skull - JoAnn Parks & Star Johnson

Jul 23, 1995
2h 50m
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JoAnn Parks, owner of the ancient crystal skull known as Max, and spiritual healer Star Johnson join Art Bell on Dreamland to explore one of archaeology's most enduring mysteries.

The program opens with Linda Moulton Howe presenting a new Bigfoot report from central Utah, where a woman heard screams identical to a recording previously aired on Dreamland. Howe recounts a family's face-to-face encounter with an eight-foot creature during a deer hunt and draws connections between Bigfoot sightings, animal mutilations, and UFO phenomena, including a Montana case where a rancher shot at a creature that vanished in a flash of light. The iconic Bigfoot scream recording plays one final time. Parks then describes Max, an 18-pound anatomically correct quartz crystal skull with 28 carved teeth, studied by forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow. She explains how visitors report heat emanating from the skull, spontaneous healings, and vivid visions. Johnson shares channeled messages she received through Max about spiritual ascension and humanity's path toward higher consciousness.

A fascinating collision of cryptozoology, ancient artifacts, and metaphysical exploration on a single Dreamland broadcast.

Key Moments

  1. Mrs. Smith hears matching Bigfoot scream in central Utah: Linda Howe plays a recorded interview with an anonymous central-Utah listener who recognized the same scream Howe had aired the previous week. The witness says the creature 'squealed all night long' near her property and links it to a 1992 face-to-face Bigfoot encounter by a local deer-hunting family.

  2. Cascade County, Montana: Bigfoot disappears in flash of light: Howe walks through a 1976 Cascade County, Montana sheriff's file: a rancher shot at an eight-foot-tall Bigfoot with red glowing eyes using a .30-06; the creature disappeared in a flash of light, an account she says was officially logged. Same period, same office had a flood of cattle mutilation and disc-light reports.

  3. Max scientific findings: 18 lbs, anatomically correct, against the grain: JoAnn Parks lists the forensic anthropologists (Clyde Snow, Betty Pat Gatner) who studied Max and recites the specifics: 18 pounds 2 ounces, 28 teeth including wisdom teeth, intact medulla-oblongata indention, major inclusions a modern crystal carver would refuse, and cut against the natural axis of the quartz.