Steiger recounts investigating a house where multiple generations of murders had occurred, where he and several two-hundred-pound men were physically lifted into the air by an unseen force after he challenged the entity. He also describes witnessing a ghost materialize as a sparkling, holographic figure and placing his hand inside it, feeling a cold, tingling sensation. Steiger categorizes hauntings into residual energy imprints and intelligent presences, noting most dramatic cases involve violent death.
Art Bell and Steiger discuss Bigfoot evidence, including hair samples a forensic scientist initially identified as human, and the Philadelphia Experiment connection through Steiger's work with Al Bielek. Steiger advocates approaching the paranormal with prayer, discipline, and respect rather than casual experimentation.
Key Moments
Confirmed by another witness in the next Iowa town: Steiger says he had a close encounter with what we'd now call an alien being just before he turned five - and that decades later he met a California woman who grew up in the next Iowa town over and had an experience with what they realized was the same being at the same time, and who had commissioned an artist to paint it.
Big head and reptilian eyes at the kitchen window: Steiger describes the encounter at age five: sitting on the edge of his bed on an October night, hearing the family washtub being dragged under the kitchen window, then seeing a smallish figure with what at first looked like a large helmet but was its head. When he stared at the back of the head, the being turned and Steiger saw, in the kitchen-window light, big snake-like reptilian eyes.
Eyes growing until that's all there was: Steiger says the being's eyes appeared, to a young child, to keep getting bigger and bigger until those giant eyes were the only thing left in his perception, and the next thing he knew he was waking up the next morning - the only dream he remembers from his entire childhood, with crystal clarity at almost 60.
Age 11 farm-machinery NDE: out of body, geometric designs: Steiger describes the near-death experience that came at age eleven: a severe farm-machinery accident that scalped him and crushed his skull, his father and uncle racing him toward Des Moines to try to find someone who could patch him together, and Steiger out of body, free of time and space - briefly beside his mother, then his friends - and shown a series of geometric designs that conveyed a meaning to life he still cannot put into words.