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A Cultural History of Art Bell

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November 21, 2004: A Dire Forecast - Dr. Evelyn Paglini

Nov 21, 2004
2h 54m
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Art Bell reports on snow closing the highway between Pahrump and Las Vegas, NASA's discovery of cracks in Earth's magnetosphere allowing solar wind to penetrate, Arctic tundra now releasing rather than absorbing carbon dioxide, and mysterious gamma ray bursts occurring daily across the cosmos.

Parapsychologist and occult practitioner Dr. Evelyn Paglini delivers unprecedented warnings drawn from months of psychic readings with clients worldwide. She forecasts record snowfalls, blizzards, massive power outages, and flooding across America during the coming winter. Her economic predictions include rising interest rates, soaring inflation, corporate layoffs, a stock market decline, a housing market collapse, and record bankruptcies. She also foresees oil supply disruptions from terrorist attacks and a military escalation requiring a draft.

The conversation turns to the mechanics of curses and magic. Paglini explains how practitioners use imitative and sympathetic magic to target individuals, accelerating physical weaknesses to cause harm. She connects the breaking of the Curse of the Bambino to a blood sacrifice when a foul ball struck a fan living in Babe Ruth's former home. Art and Evelyn discuss the moon's measurable influence on human behavior, noting that law enforcement, hospitals, and insurance companies all document increased incidents during full moons.

Key Moments

  1. Warning One: A Brutal Winter of Blizzards and Outages: Paglini opens with her first dire warning - this winter will bring record snowfalls, blizzard whiteouts, hundreds of thousands without power, closed airports and major Midwest and East Coast highways.

  2. Heating Fuel Shortages and a Hand of Cold: Paglini sees huge heating fuel shortages and warns clients to check heating systems and not improvise heat - she predicts deaths and fires, and describes a vision of a hand reaching out of the sky to grip the upper U.S. in a brutal cold snap.

  3. Warning Two: Recession, Layoffs, Stock Market Crash: Her second warning: rising interest rates and inflation will push the economy into deep recession by spring, with thousands of layoffs and the Dow flirting with 7,500-8,000 again - another wipeout for investors.

  4. Major Military Buildup Will Require a Draft: Paglini predicts the U.S. will need a major military buildup that will require reinstating the draft, and that something will precipitate this necessity - she sees clients' sons and daughters being sent into war.

  5. The Prayer Box: Paglini shares her grandfather's old-world remedy for the dread her warnings induce: build a prayer box, write your worries on paper, place them inside, give them to God and never look again - because looking back signals lack of faith.