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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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October 26, 2007: Ghost Voice Recordings - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath | California Wildfires - Dr. Evelyn Paglini

Oct 26, 2007
2h 36m
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Art Bell presents a split program featuring EVP researchers Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society alongside psychic Evelyn Paglini with urgent warnings. Cook and McBeath share their most compelling electronic voice phenomena recordings collected over a decade of cemetery and haunted location investigations. Using digital recording equipment, the pair captures ghostly voices that respond to questions in real time, including eerie children's voices that Art finds particularly haunting.

The EVP segment explores fundamental questions about consciousness after death, with Cook and McBeath explaining that many spirits may not realize they have died. Their recordings from Virginia City's Brewery Lodge and various mausoleums demonstrate voices expressing sadness, confusion, and sometimes direct communication with the living. Art emphasizes that these non-profit researchers have no financial motive, lending credibility to their work.

Dr. Evelyn Paglini joins to discuss the devastating California wildfires, confirming that arson played a significant role in the blazes. She issues warnings about a planned virus being tested on the population, predicts a major stock market correction, and sees a limited nuclear exchange occurring within the next year. She also warns of future fires targeting the Hollywood Hills and an escalation involving Iran before spring.

Key Moments

  1. Paglini's California wildfire prediction - months before: Art replays a tape from months earlier in which Dr. Evelyn Paglini explicitly predicted devastating fires in California of tens of thousands of acres, with thousands of homes lost, plus arson by 'three or four men' working a planned operation. Then he marvels that she 'did it again.'

  2. Paglini predicts another major Northern California fire: Live in the new interview, Paglini warns that the drought will continue and that there is going to be a very major fire late this year or late next year in northern California, urging the state to be ready for another very dangerous fire.

  3. Child EVP: 'I can't see' - and the 'Go' warning: Cook plays two of the EVPs that disturb Art most: a child's voice that appears to say 'I can't see,' and a man's voice in a mausoleum basement saying 'Go,' which Cook says he and the team take seriously enough to actually retreat when they hear it.

  4. Answer before the question - 'Help, I'm in here': Cook plays a prison EVP in which a voice clearly says 'Help, I'm in here' - and crucially, the voice arrives on tape BEFORE the investigator audibly asks 'Anybody in here?' Cook acknowledges this answer-before-question pattern has happened multiple times.

  5. The Wyoming prison scream EVP: At Rawlins frontier prison in Wyoming, Cook plays a recording of the warden discussing a former dungeon - and underneath her voice is a sustained, blood-curdling male scream that none of the people physically present heard at the time.