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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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March 16, 1999: Richard C. Hoagland Heart Attack Interview

Mar 16, 1999
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Art Bell reconnects with Richard C. Hoagland, former advisor to Walter Cronkite and NASA consultant, just hours after his release from the hospital following emergency open-heart bypass surgery. Hoagland recounts waking in his Miami hotel room with crushing chest pain radiating down both arms, managing to call for paramedics just before collapsing. He describes the nitroglycerin temporarily relieving his pain before the full cardiac event struck in the ambulance.

Hoagland reveals that doctors found a single, precisely located arterial blockage while all surrounding blood vessels showed remarkable health and elasticity. Medical staff repeatedly expressed surprise at the vitality of his cardiovascular system, a finding he considers deeply anomalous. He had been in Miami investigating NEXRAD radar anomalies and the Miami Circle archaeological site when the attack occurred, days after a scientist friend warned him his research could prove fatal.

Both Art and Hoagland credit the seventh mass consciousness experiment with aiding his rapid recovery, noting that Hoagland could physically feel the energy shift when listeners focused healing intentions toward him. Hoagland declares he will not back down from his investigations, interpreting the event as a deliberate attack using advanced scalar technology.

Key Moments

  1. Hoagland survives the heart attack: Richard Hoagland returns to the air just hours after being released from a Miami hospital and recounts waking from a precognitive dream about fear into the classic elephant-on-the-chest coronary, dragging himself across the bed to reach the phone.

  2. Bell's seventh hyperdimensional experiment is working: Hoagland tells Bell he could physically feel the audience's collective focus working on him in the hospital, and feel it ebb when attention moved elsewhere - calling it palpable proof of the hyperdimensional consciousness physics they've been exploring.

  3. Young arteries with one anomalous crimp: Hoagland describes the catheterization findings: every other artery in his body looks young, supple, and elastic - except for one specific point that appeared, in his words, as if someone had taken wire cutters and crimped a single artery a millimeter from the junction that would have killed him.

  4. It takes an expert to cause a natural death: Bell relays Dr. Lorraine Day's remark that anyone can cause a murder but it takes a real expert to cause a natural death - and Hoagland agrees, saying he believes he was hit by a sophisticated scalar weapon because he was getting too close in too many areas.