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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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November 13, 1998: Remote Viewing - Ed Dames | Pegasi Hoax - Richard C. Hoagland

Nov 13, 1998
2h 36m
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Art Bell opens by recounting his receipt of the CSICOP Snuffed Candle Award, presented on Friday the 13th for what skeptics called paranormal mystery mongering. Reporter Ed Bannon, who attended the Los Angeles press conference, describes challenging the presenters with Scientific American's own 1905 dismissal of heavier-than-air flight. Richard C. Hoagland then updates the EQ Pegasi investigation, revealing that the real Paul Doerr has been caught altering email headers on the same sites used by the original imposter, and that a new candidate for the hoaxer has been identified.

Hoagland raises alarm about a reported Y2K test scheduled for Galaxy 5 during the Leonid meteor storm, warning that the satellite carrying Art's broadcast and 30 percent of U.S. telephone service could go dark. He also reveals that NASA plans to keep Hubble's aperture open during the storm to photograph a distant quasar, despite the risk of plasma damage from vaporized meteors, and notes leaked news reports announcing a two-year Hubble shutdown before any failure has occurred.

Ed Dames presents results from two months of technical remote viewing sessions applied to passages from Revelation. He identifies what he calls the mark of the beast as a mandated but defective AIDS vaccine arriving within three years, and places his long-predicted solar kill shot event within the seventh seal timeline around 2001. He also reveals that remote viewing the abomination of desolation produced descriptions of church-sanctioned same-sex marriages.

Key Moments

  1. Hoagland: Hubble going dark right when something arrives: Hoagland reports a NASA press release saying the Hubble Space Telescope will stay open and pointed at a 10-billion-light-year quasar through the peak of the Leonid meteor storm - a position that almost guarantees damage from a high-velocity grain - and ties that to a Discover Channel preview already announcing Hubble will be down for two years, suggesting the storm is being used as cover to repurpose Hubble toward something incoming from the direction of EQ Pegasi.

  2. Outsiders looking in on a high-level conversation: Hoagland reframes the entire EQ Pegasi affair as a high-stakes intelligence game with rules outsiders aren't meant to know: some players want the public included, so they leak the truth wrapped in obvious 'hoaxes' that break apart easily, letting people walk through the door and start figuring out the clues.

  3. Dames: the Mark of the Beast is a defective AIDS vaccine: Ed Dames reports that two months of remote-viewing sessions targeting the Book of Revelation show the 'mark of the beast' will be a mandated AIDS vaccine, first administered to schoolchildren in about three and a half years, then to newborns and even in utero - but the vaccine itself will be defective and will cause the 'noisome and grievous sore' the text describes.

  4. Dames dates the kill shot to 2001: Asked when his long-running 'kill shot' - a massive solar event severe enough to disable Earth's magnetosphere, ignite global volcanism and kill roughly a third of the planet's population under the seventh seal - actually arrives, Dames for the first time gives a date he is comfortable with: 2001, the same window in which the AIDS vaccine he calls the mark of the beast will be on the streets.

  5. Dames on Maddie Clifton: 80% accurate, water bed not water: Dames uses the Maddie Ray Clifton case in Jacksonville, Florida to ground his accuracy claim - his two sessions said the body was submerged beneath a metal grate or wire grid, when in fact she was found beneath a water-filled water bed inside a house, the kind of 20% lexicon error he says four more sessions would have caught - and Bell admits that police-dispatch work nearly broke him for the same reason it eventually breaks remote viewers.