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Episode 1400 · Jul 31, 2015 · 2h 36m

July 31, 2015: Open Lines - Paranormal Stories

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    Pine Gap anti-gravity rumorAn Australian caller says a Pine Gap worker told him the base was experimenting with anti-gravity eight levels below ground.

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    Barefoot woman in the snowA caller recalls seeing a woman in a thin nightgown or robe, barefoot in winter, beginning a recurring apparition story.

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    No footprints in the headlightsThe same apparition story sharpens when the caller's passenger points out that no footprints are visible in the snow.

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    Silent scream in the roadThe apparition returns standing in the road, clutching her nightgown and screaming silently with a stain across the front.

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    Green light rises from Monterey BayA caller describes a huge green-yellow light emerging from Monterey Bay with kelp dripping off its sides.

Art Bell dedicates a full Midnight in the Desert broadcast to paranormal open lines, drawing callers with firsthand accounts of ghosts, UFO encounters, and unexplained phenomena. An Australian recounts a 1967 breakdown near Pine Gap, the secretive American installation, where a worker described anti-gravity experiments from a UFO crash between Russia and China and beings with thin vertebrae suggesting a low-gravity origin.

An Iowa City caller tells an escalating story of a woman in a nightgown appearing barefoot in the snow, leaving no footprints, then reappearing over months before standing in the highway screaming silently with a dark stain across her gown. A former military policeman on Okinawa describes a legless apparition inside a building once used to store corpses. An Oklahoma caller recounts a gray alien in his headlights for 45 seconds before it cleared a thirty-foot fence at extraordinary speed. A California witness watched a massive light rise from Monterey Bay trailing kelp before hovering near a power plant. A Hawaii teenager memorized a phone number during a lucid dream by watching someone dial it, confirming the number was correct the next morning.

A night Art Bell calls one he will remember forever, powered entirely by the audience.