October 31, 2007: Ghost to Ghost 2007
Callers deliver a wide range of supernatural encounters, from a woman whose possessed doll terrorized her family with objects moving on their own and plants shaking without explanation, to a man who witnessed a ghostly figure beneath a table in a Bishop, California kitchen. Other stories include encounters with shadow figures, spirits in old houses, and unexplained phenomena in cemeteries. Several callers describe experiences that left lasting psychological impacts, reinforcing Art's firm belief that consciousness survives physical death.
Art treats the subject with genuine seriousness, noting that life after death and ghostly phenomena rank among the most important topics he covers. Between the chilling accounts, he shares a family Halloween photo with wife Airyn and daughter Asia, reminding listeners that this once-a-year tradition of open-line ghost stories remains one of the most anticipated broadcasts of the season.
Key Moments
Grandfather, transparent, in a pinstripe suit: Art reads Kathy from Springfield's letter: three weeks after her grandfather died of a heart attack, she saw him come out of the bedroom wall, transparent, dripping with Spanish moss - a substance impossible in Illinois - wearing the pinstripe suit he was buried in. Twenty years later her son described the identical apparition.
The ghost of Missile Silo Kilo-11: A retired security policeman from F.E. Warren AFB tells Art the famous on-base story: a maintenance worker was crushed nearly in half by a clamping arm inside a Minuteman silo, asked to call his wife to say goodbye, then died as soon as the clamps were released. Afterward, the alarms inside the buttoned-up silo went off almost every night.
The dead robber's arm raised toward the ceiling: A retired police officer recounts a 1990 fatal shootout: at the hospital, as he leaned over the dead suspect to bag the man's hand for gunshot residue, the corpse's arm lifted in a perfect 90-degree angle, hand pointing at the ceiling. He and the attendant gasped and stared at each other.
Civil War apparition - bayonet and the woman in the gown: A caller describes watching, fully awake at 2 a.m. in his aunt's basement built on a Civil War battlefield, a woman in a beautiful gown embracing a Union soldier in blue when a Confederate in tattered gray rushed up and bayoneted the Union man repeatedly - intestines hanging off the bayonet - before all three vanished.
The Penfield Place - 'Am I dead?': Art reads Bill from Rockford's haunted-house letter: a kitchen fire that killed two children and a servant; an undertaker's wife who broke her neck on the staircase; the undertaker's later suicide; and a bride dismembered and buried beneath the maple. Tenants reported a faceless shape crawling across the landing and a whispered question - 'Am I dead? Am I dead?'