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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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March 7, 2002: NDEs and Indigenous Healing Wisdom - Dr. Joyce Hawkes | Animal Mutliations - Colm Kelleher

Mar 7, 2002
2h 45m
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Art Bell welcomes Colm Kelleher, deputy administrator of the National Institute for Discovery Science, to present disturbing new evidence in the ongoing mystery of animal mutilations. Kelleher details a 1997 Utah case where a newborn calf was found completely eviscerated just 45 minutes after being tagged by ranchers only 300 yards away. No blood, no tracks, and the ranchers' dog fled in terror and was never seen again. Sharp instruments were confirmed by forensic pathology, yet a professional tracker found zero footprints within a mile radius.

Kelleher also reveals two recent Northern California cases from late 2001, including one where a calf's eye was carefully removed and placed on the ground looking back at the carcass. He discusses the dramatic increase in mutilation reports since June 2001 and the simultaneous rise in UFO sightings across North America.

In the second half, Art speaks with Dr. Joyce Hawkes, a biophysicist who earned her doctorate from Penn State and led groundbreaking laser research. After a near-death experience changed her life, she left her scientific career to study indigenous healing traditions across the Philippines, Bali, and India, developing abilities she now uses to help patients at the cellular level.

Key Moments

  1. Calf Mutilated In 45 Minutes, 300 Yards Away: Kelleher details a March 1997 NIDS case in Utah where two ranchers tagged an 87-pound calf, walked 300 yards, and returned 45 minutes later to find it spread-eagled with 60% of its body weight gone, no blood, no entrails, and their treasured blue heeler vanished forever.

  2. Forensics: Two Sharp Instruments Used: A veterinary pathology lab and a top human forensic pathologist confirm two separate sharp instruments were used on the calf, including a heavy machete-type blade and a finer scissors-like tool, definitively ruling out predation.

  3. California Calf With Eye Placed To Watch The Body: In November 2001, a Northern California Black Angus calf is found with body cavity removed, snout cored out, and the left eye removed intact and placed two to three feet away on the grass, oriented to look back at the carcass.

  4. Dr. Hawkes' NDE: Leaded Glass Window Strikes Her Head: Biophysicist Joyce Hawkes describes the moment a heavy leaded-glass window inexplicably vaulted off her mantle and struck her head while she was cleaning house, propelling her down a classic dark tunnel toward light where her dead mother and grandmother greeted her.

  5. Inside The Light: Self-Generating Landscape And A Being Of Light: Hawkes describes the world beyond the tunnel as a place where grass, hills, and sky generate their own light from within rather than reflecting it, followed by an encounter with a featureless being of light delivering profound peace, joy, and the knowing that there are no secrets and no judgment.