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2003 Episodes

Direct links to every Art Bell Archive episode from 2003, inside the Post-Millennium Coast (2000-2009) stretch of the archive.

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April 18, 2003: Programmable Matter - Wil McCarthy

Apr 182h 51mWil McCarthy

Best-selling novelist and Wired contributing editor Wil McCarthy joins Art Bell to discuss Hacking Matter, quantum dots, artificial atoms, and programmable matter after a detailed report from Linda Moulton Howe on the emerging SARS crisis. Scientists have confirmed a new coronavirus is responsible, and Russian experts publicly speculate the virus could be man-made. Linda interviews doctors from Toronto to Rotterdam who describe the disease spreading through close contact, respiratory droplets, and now potentially through urine and feces. A North Carolina woman nearly dies from SARS despite never traveling to Asia, and her hospital allegedly conceals the diagnosis to avoid publicity.McCarthy explains how quantum dots can trap electrons to create artificial atoms, effectively producing programmable matter that could change its color, conductivity, and thermal properties with the flip of a switch. He describes programmable houses with walls that become windows, ceilings that simulate sunlight, and solar cells reaching 50 percent efficiency.Art presses McCarthy on the dangers of such technology, drawing parallels to computer viruses and hacking. McCarthy acknowledges that malicious actors could theoretically reprogram materials in buildings or embed hidden sensors, but argues the technology carries less catastrophic risk than self-replicating nanotechnology.

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May 29, 2003: Cosmology & Consciousness - Adair Butchins

May 292h 46mAdair Butchins

Art Bell opens with personal updates on his recovery from back problems and his massive dual-loop ham radio antenna project in Pahrump, Nevada. The antenna produces an unexplained 400 volts of mixed AC and DC current and delivers signal gains of 20 to 25 decibels that defy conventional physics. Art also discusses the acceleration of what he calls "the quickening," pointing to record tornado activity, unusual solar flares during Cycle 23, and the ongoing SARS outbreak as evidence of intensifying global change.Oxford astrophysicist Adair Butchins joins from London to discuss his book "The Numinous Legacy," which examines how modern cosmology challenges the three great monotheistic religions. Butchins outlines the Copernican principle of mediocrity, arguing that an infinite universe with countless opportunities for life undermines the idea of humanity as uniquely chosen. He presents both the design argument for God and the many-worlds counter-argument, comparing the fine-tuned universe to a gambler hitting the jackpot among infinite possibilities.Art pushes Butchins to reveal his personal beliefs. Butchins ultimately suggests that if a God exists, it is likely transcendent and indifferent to the universe, more aligned with Aristotle's conception than the interventionist deity of organized religion. He argues that consciousness may arise from a parallel universe that intersects the physical world, carrying with it universal values of ethics and mathematics.

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May 30, 2003: Time Traveler Line - Open Lines

May 302h 48m

Art Bell hosts a Friday night open lines show and dedicates one phone line exclusively to callers who claim to have traveled in time. He opens with sharp commentary on the Iraq war, noting that a top Marine general has publicly declared U.S. intelligence was "simply wrong" about chemical weapons, and that no weapons of mass destruction have been found. Art also updates listeners on his anomalous antenna project and the intense solar activity bombarding Earth during Cycle 23.Callers range from a self-described time traveler named Steve who claims an entity guided him through the stars nightly for 52 years, allowing him to profit 121 percent in the stock market, to a woman named Nunchie who describes a near-death experience where she met lines of every person who ever lived. A caller named Cross reports being taken to the year 2045 by an individual named Malachi, describing a world without technology where humans communicate telepathically after contact with a higher being.Other callers discuss shadow people visible to horses, the Vatican Observatory's true purpose, an old eight-millimeter film that triggered a time-displacement experience, and the mysterious DC voltage on Art's giant antenna. A retired electrical engineer explains that similar voltage phenomena were observed at military low-frequency transmitter sites during World War II, pointing toward atmospheric energy collection on a grand scale.

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June 26, 2003: Remote Viewing - Ed Dames

Jun 262h 51mEd Dames

Major Ed Dames, a retired military officer and former U.S. Armed Services remote viewing instructor, joins Art Bell to discuss remote viewing assessments after a false online report of Art's death. Art also provides updates on his dual-loop antenna project, now featuring a buried ground mesh, and notes the Supreme Court striking down laws against private sexual conduct and the death of Senator Strom Thurmond at 100.Stan Dayo joins first to recount a chance encounter at a Colorado bookstore with a retired Army Intelligence analyst. The man claimed the military ran war-game scenarios on American soil involving tsunamis, coastal subsidence, and catastrophic weather, predicting casualty figures ranging from 100,000 to 75 percent of the West Coast population. He told Stan that FEMA's recommendation of two to three days of supplies was inadequate and that six months would be the minimum. The man also referenced ancient alien stargates, satellite imagery of structures beneath Antarctic ice, and rising sea levels of 20 to 200 feet.Dames follows with remote viewing assessments. He stands by his prediction that North Korea will be the first nation to use a nuclear weapon in anger, now reporting two warheads mounted on missiles. He predicts avian-borne diseases will cause catastrophic economic damage beginning that summer, and warns that prion diseases will eventually make cattle milk unsafe. Art presses Dames on timeline methodology, and Dames describes a new protocol using significant preceding events as markers.

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June 27, 2003: The Hutchison Effect - John Hutchison

Jun 272h 51mJohn Hutchison

John Hutchison, a Canadian scientist, joins Art Bell to discuss the Hutchison Effect, zero-point energy, levitation, and jellification of metals after Linda Moulton Howe's crop-circle report. Linda details an extraordinary photograph from Montenegro, Italy, showing a sphere of light sending a beam into a field, captured by a teenager's cell phone camera. Witnesses in Belgium and Germany also report strange humming sounds and lights associated with new formations.Hutchison describes the Hutchison Effect as a phenomenon involving the levitation of heavy objects, the jellification of metals, and apparent matter transmutation. He explains how his experiments with Tesla coils, RF generators, and electrostatic fields accidentally produced these effects, including floating cannonballs, metal bars twisting into knots, and objects embedding within solid materials. His lab was seized by the Canadian government after he declined a military contract.Hutchison also discusses his zero-point energy power cells, small devices that produce a steady voltage indefinitely using ground-up metals and minerals charged with direct current. He connects his work to the Philadelphia Experiment, noting similarities in the electromagnetic equipment used, and shares his belief that forgotten technologies from the early days of radio hold keys to understanding free energy.

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September 4, 2003: Roots of Terror - Craig Winn

Sep 42h 49mCraig Winn

Art Bell returns as guest host and opens with reflections on extreme weather sweeping the globe, from record floods in Las Vegas to unprecedented heat deaths in Europe. He reviews reports from the World Meteorological Organization warning that worldwide weather has gone haywire, and shares news about Atlantic Ocean temperatures dropping suddenly along the U.S. East Coast during summer months.Author Craig Winn joins to recount his journey into Palestinian-controlled territory, where he met face to face with members of Al-Qaeda, Hamas, and the Aqsa Martyrs Brigade at gunpoint. After crossing no man's land with only a pen and paper, Winn spent six hours interviewing terrorists who quoted directly from Islamic scripture to justify their violence. He argues that their citations were accurate and in context, contradicting the mainstream narrative that terrorism represents a perversion of Islam.Winn contends that the vast majority of Muslims worldwide do not know their own scriptures, and that proper exposure to those texts would cause most to leave the faith rather than radicalize. He proposes that cutting off oil revenue to kingdoms that fund extremist mosques and schools would be more effective than military occupation, and criticizes the decision to invade Iraq as fundamentally misguided.

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September 5, 2003: Contact Night - Open Lines

Sep 52h 48m

Art Bell guest hosts and opens with Marshall Masters, a former CNN producer who discusses a 1995 crop circle formation that he believes encodes a prediction for September 6th. Masters presents a chronological analysis linking recurring crop circle glyphs to a communication protocol, suggesting the formations contain headers and messages from an extraterrestrial source. He alleges that the 2003 crop circle season in England was deliberately shut down to prevent a significant message from being delivered.Masters points to a photograph from the SOHO satellite showing an unidentified winged object near Venus, claiming the next day's imagery was edited to remove it. He connects this to the Tichborn formation's apparent mapping of inner solar system positions and speculates that government forces used military helicopters to suppress crop circle researchers and prevent further contact events in British fields.The second half features open lines on a contact theme, with callers sharing UFO sightings and alleged encounters from Sacramento to San Francisco. One caller describes signaling craft on a beach and receiving telepathic communication, while others report unusual lights and objects across the United States. Art reads listener jokes, discusses Mel's Hole, and fields questions on topics ranging from Tesla's wireless energy theories to the expanding universe.

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September 20, 2003: Extreme Weather - James McCanney

Sep 202h 50mJames McCanney

Art Bell returns to weekend broadcasting and explains how a call from KFI's Robin Bertolucci led to his comeback on the full network. He shares news about a magnetar burst from 45,000 light years away that overwhelmed solar X-ray levels, a star caught swallowing three planets, and a genetics professor at Oxford warning that the human Y chromosome is deteriorating toward eventual extinction in roughly 125,000 years.Physicist James McCanney joins to present his theory that Earth's weather is primarily driven by electrical currents from the ionosphere rather than solar light heating the surface. He argues that jet streams are bands of ions and electrons powered by the outer magnetic field, and that hurricanes draw their enormous energy from vertical electrical batteries formed by solar wind interactions. McCanney contends that traditional meteorology cannot account for the energy contained in major storms through conventional thermodynamic calculations alone.McCanney makes a striking claim that the 2003 Northeast blackout was caused by a Tesla coil experiment at an underground base near Kanata, Canada, which accidentally tunneled through the atmosphere to the ionosphere and dumped roughly 1,000 megawatts of uncontrolled power into the grid. He proposes that hurricanes could be weakened by deploying grounded tethered balloons or laser beams to drain their electrical energy before landfall.

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September 21, 2003: Using the Occult - Dr. Evelyn Paglini

Sep 212h 50mDr. Evelyn Paglini

Art Bell opens with Whitley Strieber for a discussion on the surge in UFO activity coinciding with Mars at its closest approach to Earth in recorded history. Strieber describes a detailed abduction case from British Columbia involving two women who encountered five sets of glowing green eyes belonging to gray beings on a roadside, followed by 35 minutes of missing time and physical injuries including a radiation-like burn. He notes that multiple independent witnesses reported UFOs in the same region that night.In the second half, Art welcomes Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a self-described Tuscany witch from a centuries-old lineage of occult practitioners. She explains that magic is a natural science rooted in the manipulation of energy and vibration, and that both protective and offensive applications are real and effective regardless of whether the target believes in them. Paglini describes using imitative magic with effigy candles and essential oils to reverse a con artist's actions, resulting in his arrest months later.Paglini walks listeners through a love attraction ritual involving consecrated image candles, essential oils, and focused visualization, while warning that forcing someone against their will carries serious karmic consequences. She reveals that magic is actively used in Hollywood and corporate boardrooms, and claims that powerful curses have been placed on certain celebrities, affecting their relationships and personal lives.

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September 27, 2003: UFOs and Alien Abductions - David Jacobs

Sep 272h 50mDr. David Jacobs

Art Bell opens the program with Jose Escamilla to examine new photographic evidence challenging the existence of rods, the mysterious elongated objects Jose has filmed for years. A website called UFO Theater presents compelling images suggesting rods may be insects captured at low shutter speeds, and Jose concedes the evidence is "pretty damning" while defending his high-shutter-speed protocol results.In the second half, Art welcomes abduction researchers Bud Hopkins and Dr. David Jacobs for a wide-ranging discussion on alien-human hybridization. Hopkins introduces his new book Sight Unseen, detailing cases of transgenic beings who appear fully human yet possess telepathic abilities and serve as intermediaries in the abduction process. Jacobs describes a systematic reproductive program involving sperm and egg harvesting, forced breastfeeding of hybrid infants, and staged emotional tests conducted on abductees.The researchers discuss late-stage hybrids who may already be living among humans, holding jobs and forming relationships while remaining conflicted about their loyalties. Jacobs warns that the evidence points toward an integration program whose ultimate purpose remains unclear, and that conscious memories of abductions are almost always distorted without careful hypnotic investigation.

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September 28, 2003: Nanotechnology - Douglas Mulhall

Sep 282h 50mDouglas Mulhall

Art Bell reports on breaking news including Italy's nationwide blackout blamed on a single fallen tree, the fracturing of the Arctic's Ward Hunt ice shelf, and a remarkable quote from Defense Secretary William Cohen about electromagnetic weapons capable of altering climate and triggering earthquakes remotely. Australia's worsening drought linked to ozone depletion and a shrinking polar vortex also draws attention.Author Douglas Mulhall joins from the Bahamas to explain how nanotechnology is already transforming everyday life through stain-resistant fabrics, longer-lasting tennis balls, and invisible zinc oxide sunscreens. He describes how carbon nanotubes, with 30 times the tensile strength of steel, have made a space elevator feasible at a fraction of current launch costs. Mulhall reveals that manufactured diamonds indistinguishable from mined stones are now being produced cheaply, promising computing speeds 100 times faster than silicon processors.The conversation turns to nanomedicine, where gold nanotubes coated with antibodies already perform rapid blood diagnostics. Mulhall discusses the discovery of nanobacteria, a mysterious pathogen smaller than any known bacterium that forms calcium shells and may trigger heart disease, and explains how existing drugs like tetracycline can destroy it.

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October 4, 2003: Anti-Aging Medicine - Dr. Ronald Klatz

Oct 42h 52mDr. Ronald Klatz

Art Bell covers a string of current events including a deadly bombing in Israel, the California recall election, Roy Horn's tiger attack in Las Vegas, and Rush Limbaugh's public admission of prescription painkiller addiction. Art shares his own experience with severe back pain and defends Limbaugh against what he sees as a media feeding frenzy, drawing from his personal understanding of how intractable pain leads to dependency.Dr. Ronald Klatz, founder and president of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, joins to discuss why humans age and what can be done about it. He explains how DNA deterioration, telomere shortening, and free radical damage drive the aging process, and describes current therapies including hormone replacement, nutritional supplementation, and emerging drugs like an ACE inhibitor being tested as a potential anti-death compound. Klatz reports that 50 percent of baby boomers alive today may reach their 100th birthday.The discussion ventures into speculative territory as Klatz describes head transplant technology tested in monkeys, the possibility of growing headless clone bodies for organ harvesting, and spinal cord repair research that could help Christopher Reeve walk again. He estimates that within 30 years, science may halt aging at around age 55, making practical immortality a theoretical possibility.

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October 5, 2003: Alien Implants & Extraterrestrials - Dr. Roger Leir, Mike Heiser, & Richard C. Hoagland

Oct 52h 51mDr. Roger Leir, Mike Heiser, Richard C. Hoagland

Dr. Roger Leir recounts the years-long investigation of a mysterious claw found embedded in a towel placed to capture alien footprints. Initial DNA analysis returned non-terrestrial results, but further RNA testing ultimately identified it as a slug from New Zealand. Leir uses the story to illustrate proper scientific methodology in phenomenological research and discusses his surgical removal of suspected alien implants that emit electromagnetic fields and contain anomalous metallic compositions.Richard C. Hoagland presents a new pre-dawn infrared image of the Face on Mars taken by the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. He argues the eastern side of the Face shows over 99 percent reflectivity, behaving like a specular mirror rather than natural rock, while surrounding terrain reflects only 7 to 15 percent of light. Hoagland contends this supports his long-held theory that the structure contains manufactured materials and that the eastern side was protected from erosion.Mike Heiser rounds out the program previewing the upcoming God, Man, and ET conference at the University of Wisconsin. He and Hoagland debate whether mainstream theology could accommodate a genuine extraterrestrial reality, with Heiser arguing that medieval theologians already entertained the possibility of other inhabited worlds while acknowledging the explosive implications of discovering human origins tied to Mars.

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October 11, 2003: Safespace - Robert Miles

Oct 112h 50mRobert Miles

Art Bell celebrates his return to WABC in New York City and shares news items ranging from a well-preserved furry limb found in Siberian permafrost that may belong to a Yeti, to mysterious gelatin-like material appearing in an Oregon family's yard, to scientists determining the universe is finite and shaped like a soccer ball. He also offers personal reflections on Rush Limbaugh's painkiller addiction and the reality of chronic back pain.Television producer and adventurer Robert Miles describes an extraordinary experience that began one morning aboard his boat in Honolulu. A woman materialized in his stateroom surrounded by dazzling colors and vibrating energy, instructing him to imagine himself at LaGuardia Airport. He found himself instantly transported there, boarded a circular craft, and took a brief flight during which he watched Earth shrink to the size of a dime through a porthole window.At a briefing conducted by Federation commanders named Regent Vars and Exeus, Miles learned that Earth serves as a prison planet where deposed leaders from across the galaxy have been banished. He was shown images of ancient civilizations including Atlantis and Lemuria and told that wars on Earth target populations rather than leaders, perpetuating cycles of control. Miles says the experience permanently altered his worldview and inspired his book Safe Space.

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October 12, 2003: Remote Viewing Update - Ed Dames & Harry Helms

Oct 122h 51mEd Dames, Harry Helms

Art Bell welcomes author and ham radio operator Harry Helms to discuss the shadow government and the world of clandestine radio. Helms reveals the frequencies used by FEMA's Mount Weather emergency facility, explains how CIA number stations transmit coded messages worldwide using one-time pad encryption, and describes the mysterious signal traced to the Nevada Test Site that vanished moments before stations coordinated to locate it.Major Ed Dames then joins to present his latest remote viewing projects. He claims an extraterrestrial agency has been collecting petroleum products from Earth for thousands of years and outlines a plan to locate and interdict their primary collection point in North America in hopes of inducing contact. Dames also describes China's most secret weapons program, which he says reveals the extent of their ambitions to become the dominant world power.Art presses Dames on the reliability of remote viewing predictions and the nature of the extraterrestrial presence. Dames shares details of scientific fieldwork conducted in New Mexico using specialized instruments and discusses his belief that sentient machines operating from an underground base on Mars are responsible for many reported UFO encounters on Earth.

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October 18, 2003: Sounds of Ghosts - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Oct 182h 50mBrendan Cook, Barbara McBeath

Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society to present a collection of electronic voice phenomena recordings captured at two locations: a funeral director's home and the historic Rawlins prison in Wyoming. The investigators use both analog tape recorders and digital devices with external microphones to document voices they believe belong to the dead.Among the most striking recordings is a woman's voice saying "come enjoy the light," a child responding "I'm three" before being asked his age, and a male voice declaring "not alive" in response to the question "is anyone in here?" At the Rawlins prison, a young woman's voice repeats Brendan's name in an intimate tone, and another voice identifies prisoners as the ones subjected to whipping at the old frontier facility. The investigators also discuss the disturbing history of inmate Andrew Pixley, whose execution cell reportedly produced children's voices.Art examines what these recordings suggest about consciousness after death, including whether spirits retain personality, humor, and emotional bonds. The investigators share their theory that many ghosts have not yet reached a final destination and may not fully realize they have died.

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October 19, 2003: Theoretical Physics - Dr. Michio Kaku

Oct 192h 51mDr. Michio Kaku

Art Bell opens with psychic Sean David Morton, who shares predictions about Osama bin Laden's alleged death, potential threats to the president, a biological attack on U.S. soil, the eruption of Mount Rainier by 2005, and economic forecasts drawn from both his intuitive work and Bible Code research. Morton also discusses the Harmonic Concordance planetary alignment and its potential spiritual significance.Theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku then joins to discuss breakthroughs from the WMAP satellite, which has established the age of the universe at 13.7 billion years with remarkable precision. He explains that only 4% of the universe consists of visible atoms, while 23% is dark matter and 73% is dark energy, the mysterious antigravity force accelerating cosmic expansion. Kaku describes how the universe faces an eventual Big Freeze as stars exhaust their fuel and galaxies drift apart beyond detection.The conversation turns to hypernovas, the most powerful explosions in the universe, and their potential to obliterate life across entire galactic sectors. Kaku discusses Einstein's unfinished quest for a unified theory, the promise of string theory operating in 10 or 11 dimensions, and the possibility that parallel universes may one day offer an escape route for intelligent life facing cosmic extinction.

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October 25, 2003: Skycars & Vampires - Paul Moller

Oct 253h 34mPaul Moller

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Paul Moller, inventor of the M400 Skycar, a vertical takeoff and landing vehicle designed to combine the capabilities of helicopters and airplanes at automobile-level costs. Moller describes a four-passenger craft that fits in a single-car garage, flies at 325 miles per hour, reaches altitudes of 25,000 feet, and achieves a range of 750 miles on alcohol fuel. The vehicle relies on 25 onboard microprocessors running 30,000 lines of redundant code to maintain stability and enable fully automated flight.Moller explains that upcoming test flights over a purpose-built lake will demonstrate untethered vertical takeoff with a pilot aboard. He envisions a future where virtual highways in the sky, supported by GPS and satellite augmentation systems, allow ordinary people to travel point-to-point without pilot training. The Skycar uses Wankel rotary engines chosen for their power density and low cost, and Moller notes that engine orders alone total nearly a billion dollars in letters of intent.Art also addresses the catastrophic Southern California wildfires burning across multiple counties, with callers from Fontana, Vista, San Diego, and Claremont describing evacuations, closed airports, and walls of flame stretching to the horizon. Several callers and a police commissioner speculate that many of the fires may have been deliberately set near major freeway access points.

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October 26, 2003: Induced After-Death Communication - Dr. Allan Botkin

Oct 262h 50mDr. Allan Botkin

Art Bell interviews Dr. Allan Botkin, a clinical psychologist who discovered that a modified form of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing can reliably induce after-death communication experiences in grieving patients. Botkin explains that by targeting the core sadness underlying grief rather than surface emotions like anger or guilt, and then applying rhythmic eye movement, he achieves a 98% success rate in producing ADC experiences across thousands of patients.Botkin recounts his first case, a Vietnam veteran haunted by the death of an orphaned Vietnamese girl killed by sniper fire. During treatment, the patient reported seeing the girl as a grown woman surrounded by white light, expressing gratitude and love. The experience resolved decades of grief and guilt, and follow-up years later confirmed lasting healing. A former patient named Jimmy calls in to describe his own session, where he communicated with four Marines killed by mines and received information about a hidden tunnel entrance he had never known existed.Botkin addresses skepticism by noting that an intern who simultaneously performed the eye movement technique during a session independently experienced the same ADC as the patient, suggesting an objective phenomenon rather than hallucination. He observes that even deceased individuals described as abusive in life consistently appear apologetic, as though transformed by a life review process.

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October 31, 2003: Ghost to Ghost 2003

Oct 313h 33m

Art Bell hosts the 2003 edition of Ghost to Ghost on Halloween night, opening the phones for listeners to share their most frightening supernatural encounters. The program is entirely caller-driven, with no guest, as Art fields stories submitted by email and live calls from across the country.Callers recount chilling firsthand experiences including a mother who discovered a drowned man on a Galveston beach and later communicated with his spirit, an out-of-body experience that revealed a ghostly dog tied to a tragic murder-suicide, and a nursing home where Alzheimer's patients repeatedly reported seeing the ghost of a young boy. A former Marine stationed in Hawaii describes hearing voices near a guard post where a fellow MP had taken his own life, while a woman in Houston recalls violent pounding from the spirits of a couple who died in her friend's brand-new home.A striking pattern emerges throughout the broadcast as an unusual number of stories involve suicides, leading Art to observe that those who take their own lives appear condemned to remain at the site of their death, possibly repeating their final moments. Other callers share messages received from deceased loved ones, from a watchmaker who stopped a new watch to a father who sent signs through Oscar Mayer memorabilia.

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November 1, 2003: The Visitor Experience - Whitley Strieber

Nov 12h 51mWhitley Strieber

Art Bell welcomes Whitley Strieber for a wide-ranging Saturday night broadcast that begins with an extensive news segment covering the unprecedented solar flare activity, California wildfires, Antarctic ice shelf collapse, and the HAARP facility's planned expansion to 3.6 megawatts. Art draws connections between these simultaneous global changes, warning that humanity may be fiddling while Rome burns.Whitley joins to discuss a remarkable UFO close encounter case from British Columbia in which two women experienced missing time, green fluorescent eyes in the brush, and a radiation burn that would not heal. He then reveals a deeply personal breakthrough regarding his own 1985 abduction, explaining that a rediscovered hypnosis tape describes a process identical to electro-ejaculation, a medical procedure he had no knowledge of at the time. This leads him to conclude definitively that his experience was a real, physical event involving genetic harvesting by non-human beings.The conversation turns philosophical as Whitley recounts hearing three hauntingly beautiful cries from beings in the woods near his home, followed by a flashback to his own infancy and the moment of his birth. Art and Whitley explore whether the abduction phenomenon connects to something far larger involving human souls, reproduction, and a consciousness that operates intimately within human experience.

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November 2, 2003: Aerial Revelations - John Lear

Nov 22h 50mJohn Lear

Art Bell interviews legendary pilot John Lear, son of Learjet inventor Bill Lear, who breaks a decade of silence to discuss UFOs, government cover-ups, and the nature of reality. Art reads Lear's extraordinary biography detailing over 19,000 flight hours, CIA missions, and his friendship with Bob Lazar, who claimed to have worked on extraterrestrial craft at Area S4 near Area 51.Lear recounts witnessing a glowing disc rise from behind the mountains near Groom Lake at precisely the time Lazar predicted, and describes the night their group was caught by security forces. He shares his controversial analysis of the September 11th attacks, arguing from his professional aviation experience that the pilots required hundreds of hours of Boeing 757 simulator training to hit their targets at 600 miles per hour. Lear also discusses NASA airbrushing structures from lunar photographs and close-up images of pyramids on Mars that Lazar reportedly viewed at the test site.In the most provocative segment, Lear delivers a mock government briefing to Art, outlining alleged recoveries of crashed craft, 18 alien species monitoring Earth, a secret arrangement allowing abductions in exchange for technology, and the claim that humans are referred to as containers. Art ultimately agrees that if such information were true, the public could not handle its release.

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November 8, 2003: Parallel Universes - M.R. Franks

Nov 82h 51mM.R. Franks

Art Bell opens with remote viewer Major Ed Dames, who declares that the recent extreme solar activity represents the long-predicted shot across the bow, a precursor to escalating solar events he calls kill shots. Dames describes an 11,500-year solar cycle and warns of progressive coronal mass ejections that will destroy satellites and disrupt power grids in coming weeks. Art then transitions to Professor Ramon Lopez, a solar physicist, who confirms the unprecedented nature of the current activity and notes that solar magnetic output has doubled over the past century.The main guest, Professor M.R. Franks, a law professor and lifelong cosmologist, presents his theory that the universe consists of an infinite number of static, frozen parallel universes through which consciousness moves at tremendous speed. He argues that prayer, voodoo, remote viewing, and mass consciousness all work by shifting awareness into alternate realities where desired outcomes already exist. Each universe differs from its neighbor by only one quantum transition, and consciousness selects the path through this lattice.Franks contends that the strong anthropic principle ensures that each observer is effectively immortal in their own frame of reference, since there always exists a version of reality in which they survive. Art challenges him on the implications for tragedies like September 11th, and Franks maintains that the victims' consciousness continues in universes where the attacks never occurred.

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November 9, 2003: Explaining Crop Circles - Dr. Simeon Hein | Solar Flare Cycles - Ramon Lopez

Nov 92h 51mDr. Simeon Hein, Dr. Ramon Lopez

Art Bell begins with the 40-meter ham band mystery noise, a 100-kilohertz-wide signal of unknown origin appearing daily across the western United States. He then welcomes back Professor Ramon Lopez to discuss the historic solar flare activity, including the record X-28 flare that saturated scientific instruments for eleven minutes. Lopez explains that solar magnetic activity has been intensifying for a century and warns that when the massive sunspot region rotates back to face Earth, more severe storms may follow.The main interview features Dr. Simeon Hein, director of the Institute for Resonance in Boulder, Colorado, who studies subtle energy sciences including crop circles and remote viewing. He describes witnessing genuine psychokinesis in Japan, where a man bent spoons by looking at them and made watch hands spin without touching them. The local magicians union forced the practitioner to label his demonstrations as magic to avoid what they called unfair competition.Dr. Hein presents his most controversial finding: man-made crop circles produce the same anomalous electrostatic effects as those of unknown origin, with voltage changes up to 2,000 volts measured inside formations only twelve feet across. He argues that the geometric shape pressed into living plant material generates subtle energy fields regardless of who created the circle, suggesting that all crop circles, whether made by human artists or unknown forces, function as resonant structures that produce measurable electromagnetic phenomena.

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November 15, 2003: UFO Reports - Peter Davenport | Nanotechnology & Fuzzy Logic - Bart Kosko

Nov 152h 51mPeter Davenport, Dr. Bart Kosko

Art Bell opens with Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, who presents a major sighting case from the November 8th lunar eclipse. Witnesses from Boston and New York City describe clusters of lights moving in formation across the eastern seaboard, with Jeff in Manhattan reporting V-shaped formations splitting and reconnecting over the city from an 11th-story rooftop. Davenport compares the event to the 1997 Phoenix Lights and laments the total silence from major newspapers despite objects passing directly over Boston and New York.Art then administers the John Lear test to both guests, playing the infamous briefing scenario and asking whether they would disclose the information to the American public. Davenport argues firmly for full transparency, citing the First Amendment and his confidence in the resilience of the American people. Bart Kosko, professor of electrical engineering at USC, agrees and adds that collective intelligence through open information would yield better solutions than secrecy.Kosko then shifts the conversation to the frontiers of nanotechnology, discussing carbon nanotubes, their potential for computing and materials science, and his provocative book Heaven in a Chip. He proposes that consciousness could eventually be transferred from biological brains to silicon, offering a form of technological immortality as processing power surpasses neural capacity within 10 to 15 years.

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November 16, 2003: Electronic Violations - Roger Tolces

Nov 162h 51mRoger Tolces

Art Bell begins with open lines covering the Iraq war, solar eruptions of unprecedented magnitude, and rapid climate change evidence from Peru where a flash-frozen plant reveals catastrophic environmental shifts from 5,000 years ago. He shares his own story of building a directional antenna to intercept a neighbor's cordless phone conversations as revenge, setting up the theme of electronic surveillance and privacy invasion.Roger Tolces, a Los Angeles private investigator specializing in electronic countermeasures, joins to discuss the evolving landscape of surveillance technology. He describes cell phone bugs that transmit conversations globally through the cellular network, the CALEA law that pre-wired all American phones for government wiretapping, and the disturbing revelation that cell phones track geographic movements even when not in active calls. At a PI convention, a forensic specialist recovered over 800,000 supposedly deleted files from a used laptop, demonstrating that digital deletion is an illusion.The conversation turns to weaponized microwave technology, including a modified microwave oven used to irradiate apartment neighbors and a 50,000-watt microwave rifle kit available through plans online. Tolces connects these threats to the symptoms reported by hundreds of people who contact him claiming electronic harassment, many of whom he believes are genuine victims of covert experimentation under Title 50 provisions.

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November 23, 2003: The God Part of the Brain - Matthew Alper

Nov 232h 50mMatthew Alper

Art Bell recounts broadcast equipment failures caused by a rogue satellite signal jamming his frequency, then takes open lines covering Iraq violence, climate change, and the upcoming film The Day After Tomorrow based on the book he co-authored. Callers weigh in on military strategy, rapid weather shifts, and a listener from Dallas who corroborates a previous caller's claim of finding a shell casing near the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza.Matthew Alper, author of The God Part of the Brain, presents his theory that human spirituality is a genetically hardwired cognitive function rooted in evolutionary adaptation. He argues that every isolated culture developing spiritual beliefs, burial rituals, and worship points to an inherited neurological trait rather than evidence of an actual spiritual reality. Supporting this are identical twin studies showing 50 percent higher correlation in religious conviction among twins sharing the same genes, and brain imaging research revealing specific neurological changes during prayer and meditation.Alper contends that self-conscious awareness, humanity's greatest evolutionary advantage, also created an unbearable awareness of mortality. The god part of the brain evolved as a coping mechanism, generating belief in souls, afterlives, and deities to counteract the paralyzing fear of death. Art challenges him on whether a creator might have designed this very neural architecture, and whether prayer studies showing measurable health benefits undermine the purely mechanistic interpretation.

#0953

December 6, 2003: UFOs and Alternative Energy - Bob Lazar

Dec 62h 51mBob Lazar

Bob Lazar, president of United Nuclear and a controversial figure in ufology, returns to Art Bell to discuss UFOs, Area S4, gravity propulsion, and alternative energy after a first-hour interview with gambler Amarillo Slim Preston. Slim shares stories from his memoir, including making a cat pick up a Coke bottle by wetting sugar on its cap, using identical twins to win a quail-eating bet, and predicting which sugar cube a fly would land on by moistening it. Slim discusses the psychology of poker, why women have not won the World Series, and his belief that gambling will eventually overwhelm the global economy.Lazar returns to discuss his experiences at S4 near Area 51, where he observed nine extraterrestrial craft and worked directly with one described as the sport model. He details the gravity propulsion system that operates by distorting space in front of the craft, creating a condition where it perpetually falls toward a self-generated gravitational point. Lazar explains two flight modes, omicron for local atmospheric travel and delta for interstellar transit, where the craft tilts belly-forward and all three gravity amplifiers focus on a single distant point.Art presses Lazar on disclosure, weapons applications of gravity manipulation technology, and the government's ability to maintain secrecy. Lazar reveals he and partner John Farad own a decommissioned nuclear missile silo near Roswell for undisclosed projects, and that local police once investigated claims he was holding alien hostages underground. He discusses his move to New Mexico to re-enter serious scientific work near Los Alamos and Sandia National Labs.

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December 7, 2003: The Disclosure Project - Dr. Steven M. Greer | Alien Craft - Bill McDonald

Dec 72h 52mDr. Steven M. Greer, Bill McDonald

Art Bell administers the John Lear test to Dr. Steven M. Greer, founder of the Disclosure Project, who surprises listeners by saying he would not release the briefing as presented. Greer estimates roughly 75 percent of the Lear scenario is inaccurate, calling much of it deliberately crafted disinformation designed to provoke fear. He argues that effective disclosure must focus on the positive implications of suppressed energy and propulsion technologies rather than horror scenarios about hostile aliens and government murders.Greer reports on his two-year worldwide search for zero-point energy devices, categorizing most claims as fraudulent or delusional but confirming one offshore inventor demonstrated a device producing usable electromagnetic energy from the quantum vacuum. A corporate lawyer blocked delivery of the device just as a private jet was ready for pickup. He announces plans for a second major disclosure event at the National Press Club focused specifically on suppressed energy technologies and calls for credentialed witnesses to come forward.Bill McDonald, forensic illustrator and investigator, then describes his composite analysis of extraterrestrial biology drawn from interviews with over 400 witnesses. He identifies 11 confirmed species of non-terrestrial organisms, details the internal anatomy of Roswell aliens with artificial mesh skin requiring sterile fluid environments, and argues that most alien factions treat humanity as livestock harvesting genetic material and stem cells. McDonald contends that many abductees develop a Stockholm syndrome response, reframing traumatic experiences as spiritual encounters to preserve psychological stability.

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December 13, 2003: HAARP Update - Dr. Nick Begich

Dec 132h 51mDr. Nick Begich

Dr. Nick Begich joins Art Bell to provide a HAARP update on Alaska facility expansion, ionospheric heating, ELF effects, communications disruption, and weather-pattern concerns after a first-hour UFO abduction segment with Whitley Strieber. Strieber discusses recent UFO abduction cases and their increasingly ominous tone, including a detailed account from British Columbia where two women encountered glowing eyes and a triangular craft. Strieber shares his own unsettling experiences and reflects on the shifting nature of close encounters from curious to threatening.Begich explains how the HAARP antenna array is being expanded from 48 to 180 elements with the goal of reaching one billion watts of effective radiated power. He explains how the system can heat the ionosphere, potentially disrupting communications, penetrating underground structures, and influencing human brain chemistry through ELF frequencies. Begich details how the European Parliament passed a resolution opposing such manipulation technologies.Art and Begich also examine the potential for HAARP to alter weather patterns by shifting jet stream flow, and they discuss broadband over power lines, a proposed technology that would have devastated the radio spectrum. The conversation touches on Tesla's early experiments and the military applications of directed energy weapons.

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December 14, 2003: Shadow Government - Harry Helms

Dec 142h 51mHarry Helms

Author Harry Helms joins Art Bell to discuss shadow government emergency powers, pirate radio, Cuban numbers stations, and broadband over power lines after open lines on Saddam Hussein's capture. Callers debate whether the deposed dictator should face trial in Iraq, before an international tribunal, or in the United States. The overwhelming consensus from callers favors letting the Iraqi people try him for his crimes against their own citizens.Helms shares specific frequencies where listeners can hear the Cuban transmissions and advocates for low-power broadcasting access for ordinary citizens, comparing the restrictions on airwave use to freedoms enjoyed in print and online publishing.The conversation shifts to the shadow government, the subject of Helms' latest book. He outlines how presidential executive orders allow sweeping emergency powers, including indefinite detention of citizens, seizure of private property, and control of all broadcast media. Helms traces these authorities from the Japanese American internment camps through the Nixon and Clinton administrations, and proposes a constitutional amendment to establish transparent procedures for handling national emergencies.

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December 15, 2003: Nuclear Scenarios - Dr. Michio Kaku

Dec 152h 49mDr. Michio Kaku

Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku for a wide-ranging discussion that begins with the feasibility of antimatter weapons and quickly moves into a hidden history of nuclear accidents in the United States. Kaku reveals the stories of seven Americans killed in supercriticality incidents, including Harry Daglian and Louis Slotin, who were fatally irradiated by plutonium hemispheres at Los Alamos in 1945 and 1946.Kaku details the 1961 SL-1 reactor explosion in Idaho Falls, where a worker removed a control rod too far and was impaled on the ceiling by the blast. He recounts the near-catastrophe at the Fermi 1 breeder reactor outside Detroit in the 1960s, America's first commercial reactor meltdown, which was kept from the public even as evacuation plans were drawn up. The discussion extends to the ongoing instability at Chernobyl, where radiation levels still rise with every rainfall.Art and Kaku examine the Windscale fire in England, a massive Soviet plutonium dump explosion in the Ural Mountains, and the dangerous state of commercial breeder reactors in France and Japan. Kaku reflects on Edward Teller's belief that nuclear plants belong underground and shares how his own family's internment during World War II shaped his critical perspective on nuclear technology.

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December 15, 2003: Communicating with Spirits - James Van Praagh

Dec 152h 51mJames Van Praagh

Art Bell welcomes world-renowned medium James Van Praagh for a conversation about communication with the dead. Van Praagh describes how spirits transmit thoughts telepathically, carrying with them personality traits, dialects, and the physical sensations of their final moments. He shares specific examples of verifiable details received during readings, including a deceased son reporting his wife's chipped tooth and an upcoming dental appointment.The discussion turns to the nature of the afterlife. Van Praagh explains that upon death, each soul undergoes a life review where every thought, word, and interaction is re-experienced with amplified emotional intensity. He emphasizes that individuals serve as their own judge and jury, and that even small acts of kindness or cruelty carry tremendous weight. He also describes communicating with animals, noting their messages arrive with a distinctive purity of unconditional love.Art presses Van Praagh on the biblical objections to mediumship and the prevalence of fraud in the psychic field. Van Praagh advocates for personal discernment, acknowledges that not all practitioners operate with integrity, and shares his belief in reincarnation as an ongoing process of spiritual evolution across multiple lifetimes and even multiple worlds.

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December 21, 2003: Robotic Technology - Ron "Mad Max" Fink

Dec 212h 50mRon "Mad Max" Fink

Robotics designer Ron "Mad Max" Fink joins Art Bell to discuss autonomous robotic vehicles, DARPA research, and the International Robot Racing Federation after Art examines a listener's Sedona saucer photograph. The image, allegedly taken by a Grand Canyon tour pilot, shows a saucer with an apparent open door, possible heat tiles, and tire tracks leading to the site. Listeners call in with theories ranging from cattle feed storage containers to genuine extraterrestrial hardware.Fink explains his work building fully autonomous vehicles for the DARPA Grand Challenge. He explains how massively parallel computer systems with ultra-dense vision arrays can map terrain in real time, detect obstacles by type, and anticipate the behavior of humans, animals, and other objects. Fink describes building ethical decision-making into the lowest software layers so a vehicle could override an impaired driver or minimize accident damage.Though his team was cut from the DARPA competition despite praise for their software architecture, Fink announces the formation of the International Robot Racing Federation. He outlines plans for a September race in Nevada that would be open to international teams and serve as a proving ground for autonomous vehicle technology that could eventually reduce highway fatalities by two-thirds.

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December 26, 2003: The Importance of Mars - Richard C. Hoagland

Dec 262h 51mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland to discuss the so-called Mars curse, examining why more than two-thirds of all spacecraft sent to Mars have failed. Hoagland presents his theory that a small, determined group may be sabotaging missions to prevent public discovery of what he believes are buried Martian cities, citing incidents of deliberate contamination during the Mars Observer launch and the mysterious removal of ground-penetrating radar from a U.S. mission after a high-level diplomatic meeting between George Schultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze.The conversation turns to the European Space Agency's Mars Express, now safely orbiting the Red Planet with a radar instrument capable of probing three miles beneath the surface. Hoagland shares a memo from a senior JPL engineer on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter project urging close attention to the European radar data, suggesting it could reveal subsurface features as dramatic as the ancient Roman roads discovered beneath the Sahara by shuttle radar.Art and Richard debate why these potential discoveries matter to everyday people, exploring how confirmed Martian ruins could reshape humanity's understanding of its own origins. They discuss the theological and spiritual implications, referencing the Brookings Report and a conference at the University of Wisconsin where religious scholars confronted the possibility that humanity itself may have roots on Mars.

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December 27, 2003: Space Programs - James McCanney

Dec 272h 52mJames McCanney

Art Bell welcomes Professor James McCanney to discuss private space ventures, Tesla technology, and the future of space exploration. McCanney reveals that Russia's Cosmos program conducted some 1,600 missions between 1962 and 1977, dwarfing the United States' roughly 300 astronauts sent to space. He argues that private entrepreneurs like Burt Rutan and Paul Allen will prove far more efficient than government agencies burdened by overhead costs.The discussion shifts to Nikola Tesla's tower, with McCanney explaining how the device drilled an electrical hole through the atmosphere to tap the ionosphere's virtually limitless energy. He describes the process of flipping atmospheric molecules in unison until a self-sustaining current path forms from the ionosphere to the ground. McCanney contends this technology remains suppressed because free energy would upend the global oil-based economy.McCanney also presents his controversial argument that the Apollo missions never reached the moon, citing the Van Allen radiation belts as an impassable barrier. He claims Russian scientists have privately confirmed their own cosmonauts were harmed attempting to cross the belts, and that NASA's radiation badges measured only alpha and beta particles, not the X-rays generated when a metal spacecraft discharges the local capacitor in those intense magnetic fields.

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December 28, 2003: Annual Predictions Show - Open Lines

Dec 282h 52m

Art Bell opens the annual predictions show by reviewing the previous year's results from the Bell Family Vault and urging listeners to quiet their minds before calling. He instructs callers to let predictions come naturally rather than pulling them from the top of their heads, emphasizing that only predictions made live on the air will be officially numbered and recorded for review the following year.Callers deliver a wide range of forecasts for 2004, including the detonation of a North Korean nuclear weapon, the Pope's passing during Lent, first contact with alien life, the capture of Osama bin Laden, and the discovery of a pre-Egyptian civilization. One caller predicts a dual currency system in the United States following the dollar's steep decline against the euro. Another foresees a massive explosion of nuclear proportion at a location called Wolf's Head near the Bering Strait, claiming the information came from an entity he has communicated with for a decade.Art notes that the overwhelming majority of predictions skew negative, reflecting what he describes as a dire national mood heading into the new year. He pauses to share a deeply moving Associated Press account from the Iranian earthquake in Bam, where a young girl kissed her father four times before bed, telling him she might not see him again, suggesting a chilling premonition of the disaster that killed her hours later.

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December 31, 2003: Annual Predictions Show - Open Lines

Dec 312h 42m

Art Bell hosts the second night of the annual prediction show as the new year sweeps across the country, recording each forecast with an assigned number for the Bell Family Vault. He watches CNN coverage of celebrations city by city before mistaking footage of the shock and awe attack on Baghdad for New Year's fireworks, a moment that underscores the strange overlap between festivity and conflict heading into 2004.Callers offer predictions ranging from Dick Cheney stepping down for health reasons and being replaced by Condoleezza Rice, to a massive hurricane destroying New Orleans, to an al-Qaeda-sponsored coup overthrowing Pakistan's Musharraf government. One caller from Hawaii provides a chillingly specific forecast of twelve simultaneous dirty bomb detonations across major American cities, naming each target from Seattle to Miami. Another predicts a major bank losing three billion dollars through a covert bookkeeping scheme, with two additional banks suffering similar losses.Art reviews the remaining 2003 predictions, noting hits on increased terrorism and the revelation that the U.S. supplied Iraq with weapons materials. He observes that the 2004 crop of predictions runs overwhelmingly dark, with very few positive forecasts among the dozens recorded. One notable exception comes from a caller who insists there will be no major terrorist attack on U.S. soil, arguing that the psychological impact of September 11th has already served its purpose.

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