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July 20, 2015: Quest for the Lost Civilization - Graham Hancock

Jul 202h 37mGraham Hancock

Graham Hancock joins Art Bell for the premiere of Midnight in the Desert, marking Bell's return to live broadcasting after a two-year hiatus. Hancock previews his sequel to "Fingerprints of the Gods," titled "Magicians of the Gods," presenting evidence from roughly 30 university scientists who have identified impact proxies confirming a giant comet struck Earth approximately 12,800 years ago during the Younger Dryas period, triggering a cataclysm that he argues wiped out an advanced predecessor civilization.The conversation spans decades of fieldwork, from five climbs of the Great Pyramid to diving expeditions at Japan's submerged Yonaguni monument. Hancock describes the Ark of the Covenant as possible lost technology, citing Ethiopian guardian monks who reportedly develop cataracts and die within two years of their appointment, suggesting radiation exposure. He discusses ayahuasca's role in consciousness research, recounting how the brew ended his 24-year daily marijuana habit, and names Carl Sagan, Francis Crick, and Steve Jobs as innovators whose breakthroughs were informed by altered states of consciousness.A landmark episode pairing Bell's long-awaited return with one of his most prolific guests and a bold new body of scientific evidence challenging mainstream archaeology.

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July 21, 2015: Biological Warfare - Charles Faddis

Jul 212h 38mCharles Faddis

Charles Faddis, a 20-year CIA clandestine service veteran and former head of the agency's WMD terrorism unit, joins Art Bell for an unflinching tour of global security threats. Faddis, who led the first CIA team into Iraq in 2002, argues that ISIS grew from fundamental fissures in an artificial nation cobbled together by the British after World War I, with formerly secular Ba'athist officers now allied with radical Islamists against Baghdad's Shia-dominated government. He calls the current air-only strategy a slow-motion failure risking a permanent terrorist state in the heart of the Middle East.Faddis dismantles the Iran nuclear deal point by point, noting that military sites are exempt from inspections, enriched uranium transfers depend on Vladimir Putin's good faith, and Iran's ballistic missile program was excluded entirely. He warns that Saudi Arabia could purchase a turnkey nuclear arsenal from Pakistan in response. The conversation covers EMP vulnerability, with Faddis confirming that critical grid transformers are no longer manufactured domestically, before touching on Edward Snowden, suitcase nukes, and his own congressional campaign.A rare episode featuring a career intelligence operator willing to speak with operational specificity about threats most officials discuss only in generalities.

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July 22, 2015: Linda Moulton Howe

Jul 222h 36mLinda Moulton Howe

Linda Moulton Howe, Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and veteran researcher of animal mutilations and UFO phenomena, joins Art Bell for a sweeping Midnight in the Desert broadcast connecting solar system discoveries, mysterious worldwide booms, and Earth's overdue magnetic pole reversal. Howe details NASA's New Horizons findings at Pluto, where 11,000-foot ice mountains and zero impact craters suggest active resurfacing on a world 3.6 billion miles from the Sun, and reports on Saturn's moon Enceladus, where a confirmed 30-mile-deep ocean with 194-degree seafloor temperatures mirrors Earth's life-sustaining hydrothermal vents.The episode's most striking thread involves unexplained booms shaking homes worldwide since 2011. Howe reveals that a Department of Defense geophysicist warned her that "something is going on in the inner core of the Earth," and details a July 2015 Rhode Island beach incident where a woman was catapulted ten feet from her chair, cracking two ribs, while a buried electric cable of unknown origin was found beneath the sand. She ties the phenomena to the most rapid magnetic field decline ever recorded by European Space Agency satellites, a pattern preceding pole reversals in computer models.A masterclass in connecting planetary science, geophysical anomalies, and unexplained phenomena into a coherent, unsettling picture.

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July 23, 2015: Nassim Haramein

Jul 232h 31mNassim Haramein

Nassim Haramein, a self-taught physicist who has spent 30 years researching physics, geometry, and consciousness, joins Art Bell to present his unified field theory and its startling implications. Haramein explains how his peer-reviewed paper predicted the proton's mass and radius more accurately than existing theories, a prediction confirmed two months later by an independent Swiss accelerator measurement that matched his model while contradicting the standard model of physics.The conversation builds toward gravity modulation as civilization's next technological frontier. Haramein connects NASA's EM drive results, which attribute thrust to pushing against quantum vacuum fluctuations, to research involving spinning superconducting disks that reportedly produced a gravitational beam propagating at 64 times the speed of light. He argues that spinning electromagnetic fields at high velocity can warp space-time with far less energy than assumed, enabling craft that pull themselves through gravitational depressions, the same principle Bob Lazar described regarding craft at S4. The discussion extends to CERN's potential influence on Earth's magnetic field, rapid pole shift timelines, consciousness research, and time travel as a consequence of gravity modulation.An episode Art Bell calls "radio platinum," pairing accessible explanations of frontier physics with dramatic real-world implications.

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July 24, 2015: Open Lines

Jul 242h 38m

Art Bell launches a dedicated time traveler phone line routed through Roswell, New Mexico on the fifth night of Midnight in the Desert, producing one of the most memorable open lines broadcasts of his career. Before the calls begin, an Anonymous contact describes the collective as "an emergent phenomenon of the first generation born and raised on the internet," detailing its hive-mind structure and encryption training.The time traveler line delivers callers ranging from entertaining to chilling. A man born in 2078 describes being moved backward through time in five-year increments by a mysterious agency. A caller from 2085 reports three percent of humanity has vanished and a fascist global state requires citizens to be physically tagged. A motorcyclist claims he rides through a projected doorway into the past, losing his bike to Confederate soldiers who melted it for gun metal. Most unsettling, a man says the black-eyed children have enslaved him, each forced trip erasing more of his identity. Between calls, a New Mexico listener recounts witnessing a full Native American ceremony on an Anasazi ruin that left no trace by morning.A night that captures exactly why Art Bell's open lines format remains unlike anything else in broadcasting.

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July 27, 2015: Grant Cameron

Jul 272h 35mGrant Cameron

Grant Cameron, award-winning Canadian UFO researcher, joins Art Bell to argue that consciousness, not propulsion technology, is the most classified element of the UFO phenomenon. Cameron traces his thesis to a 1950 top-secret Canadian document in which American officials told a military liaison that "mental phenomena" might be associated with flying saucers, leading him to conclude that the U.S. encountered telepathic communication during the 1947 Roswell recovery. A civilization capable of projecting thoughts into human minds, he argues, could make any world leader believe they are hearing the voice of God.The conversation challenges conventional abduction narratives. Drawing on 2,000 hypnotic regressions, Cameron contends experiencers consistently report volunteering for contact before birth. He cites a poll of 1,200 experiencers in which only 9 percent would undo their encounter, 43 percent report receiving scientific downloads, and 11 percent claim to have piloted craft. Cameron recounts confronting Vice President Dick Cheney on live radio about UFO briefings, drawing the reply that such information would "probably be classified." The episode opens with abductee Adam Ambrose describing a schoolyard craft landing witnessed by dozens of paralyzed children.A provocative reframing of the UFO question around consciousness, telepathy, and the political reasons disclosure remains suppressed.

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July 28, 2015: Richard Dolan

Jul 282h 37mRichard Dolan

Richard Dolan, UFO historian and author of UFOs for the 21st Century Mind, joins Art Bell for their first-ever conversation, bringing two decades of research grounded in declassified government documents. Dolan describes how FOIA releases hooked him on the subject, citing the 1947 Twining Memo in which a three-star general described flying discs as real and not American, and a 1952 CIA memo acknowledging technology beyond anything known.The discussion maps the political architecture of UFO secrecy. Dolan argues that seventy years of concealment have produced what he calls "a corpse of a republic," with black budgets officially at fifty billion dollars but sustained partly through intelligence involvement in narcotics trafficking. He shares a CIA source's claim that President Carter was found sobbing at his desk after a 1977 UFO briefing, and recounts a dying Army operative who said Eisenhower sent him to Area 51, where he encountered a being that communicated telepathically. Both Dolan and Art Bell express belief in Bob Lazar's core account of craft at S4, while speculating that technical details Lazar received may have been deliberate disinformation.A first meeting between two researchers that traces the institutional machinery behind the longest-running secrecy program in American history.

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July 29, 2015: UFOs & the Paranormal - Preston Dennett

Jul 292h 29mPreston Dennett

Preston Dennett, MUFON field investigator and author of 17 books on UFOs and the paranormal, joins Art Bell for a detailed exploration of out-of-body experiences drawn from thousands of his own conscious astral travels. Dennett describes passing through solid objects with startling specificity: brick feels grainy across the entire body, wood offers moderate resistance, and glass yields like pushing through a bubble. He admits to early failures including bouncing off walls and sinking knee-deep into a staircase.The conversation moves through astral dimensions where colors intensify and thought has immediate creative power, before turning to darker encounters. Dennett recounts finding a deceased friend trapped in a lower realm repeating "I'm not ready," and describes guiding a murdered child's spirit toward the light. He shares a verifiable case of seeing his father's friend in the heavenly realms, then learning the man had suffered a stroke and fallen into a coma. Art Bell shares his own OBE during a trip to Paris, describing overwhelming joy that defied language. Callers include a Marine with lifelong sleep paralysis and a listener who stood on the moon picking up lunar soil.A rare interview where firsthand detail elevates a familiar subject into something genuinely new.

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July 30, 2015: Life Beyond Earth - John Dvorak

Jul 302h 38mJohn Dvorak

Dr. John Dvorak, a Caltech-trained planetary geophysicist who operates one of the largest telescopes on Mauna Kea, joins Art Bell with frontline experience from earthquakes and volcanoes worldwide. Dvorak introduces the concept of earthquake storms, decades-long clusters of major quakes, drawing a direct parallel between California's San Andreas Fault and Turkey's North Anatolian Fault, which produced 13 major earthquakes between 1939 and 1999. He warns that California has been in a seismic lull since 1906 and that a major Bay Area quake would eliminate water, power, and communications for weeks.The conversation spans volcanic hazards, with Dvorak identifying Mount Rainier's ice cap as capable of sending mudflows into Seattle's suburbs, and recounting standing inside Indonesia's Galunggung crater hours before it exploded in 1982. On NASA's New Horizons findings, he confesses expecting a cratered billiard ball at Pluto and was stunned by active geology driven by an unknown heat source, suggesting a possible internal ocean. Dvorak calls the multiverse potentially the century's biggest discovery, noting that quantum computers could only be explained by parallel universes and that gravity waves might cross between dimensions.A scientist equally at home inside volcanic craters and behind telescope eyepieces, delivering hard data with infectious wonder.

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July 31, 2015: Open Lines - Paranormal Stories

Jul 312h 36m

Art Bell dedicates a full Midnight in the Desert broadcast to paranormal open lines, drawing callers with firsthand accounts of ghosts, UFO encounters, and unexplained phenomena. An Australian recounts a 1967 breakdown near Pine Gap, the secretive American installation, where a worker described anti-gravity experiments from a UFO crash between Russia and China and beings with thin vertebrae suggesting a low-gravity origin.An Iowa City caller tells an escalating story of a woman in a nightgown appearing barefoot in the snow, leaving no footprints, then reappearing over months before standing in the highway screaming silently with a dark stain across her gown. A former military policeman on Okinawa describes a legless apparition inside a building once used to store corpses. An Oklahoma caller recounts a gray alien in his headlights for 45 seconds before it cleared a thirty-foot fence at extraordinary speed. A California witness watched a massive light rise from Monterey Bay trailing kelp before hovering near a power plant. A Hawaii teenager memorized a phone number during a lucid dream by watching someone dial it, confirming the number was correct the next morning.A night Art Bell calls one he will remember forever, powered entirely by the audience.

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August 1, 2015: Church of Satan - Blanche Barton

Aug 12h 14mBlanche Barton

Blanche Barton, former High Priestess of the Church of Satan and companion to founder Anton LaVey, joins Art Bell for a frank exploration of a philosophy widely misunderstood. Barton establishes that the Church does not worship a literal devil. Satan serves as metaphor, she explains, and the name functions as a litmus test forcing people to confront what they have been conditioned to fear without examination.Art Bell presses Barton on what he sees as a contradiction: if magic is real, how can she deny a creator? Barton holds firm, describing ritual work as a laboratory where practitioners build focused emotional energy and release it, citing emerging consciousness research as a potential scientific framework. She offers a vivid portrait of LaVey as carnival musician, hypnotist, and police photographer who distilled human hypocrisy into a coherent philosophy, and flatly denies the circulated claim of a deathbed conversion, stating she was present in his final moments. The 1980s Satanic Panic receives extensive treatment, with Barton noting the FBI found no evidence of an international conspiracy despite two legislatures attempting to ban Satanism as a religion.Long-form talk radio doing what Art Bell argues it exists to do: examining what others will not.

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August 3, 2015: Open Lines - Shadow People Stories

Aug 32h 39m

Art Bell shares his own shadow person encounter before opening the phones for one of Midnight in the Desert's most compelling nights. Sitting in his ham shack, Art Bell saw a partially transparent being appear to his right, vanish, reappear behind him, then shift left. He fled and grabbed a gun but found nothing.Callers flood in. A woman describes years of being followed by a shadow she connects to hexes placed by her father, whose disapproval preceded her husband's death on a motorcycle her father sold him. An Australian woke to find a cloaked figure reaching her ceiling that spoke "everything will be all right" before she fell instantly asleep. A caller who faced his shadow without fear watched it become an eight-foot praying mantis. A high school marcher encountered his doppelganger on the band field, then heard his own voice deliver announcements two years later while sitting in class. A deceased father visited his daughter's dream to expose her boyfriend, telling her to check Facebook where his wife's account had been created one hour earlier.A night where Art Bell's personal experience unlocks an extraordinary wave of listener testimony about shadow people, doppelgangers, and visitations from the dead.

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August 4, 2015: Jay Weidner & Stanton Friedman

Aug 42h 37mJay Weidner, Stanton Friedman

Stanton Friedman, nuclear physicist and original civilian Roswell investigator, and Jay Weidner, filmmaker and hermetic traditions scholar, join Art Bell for an Apollo moon landing debate that takes an unexpected turn. Weidner argues that while astronauts may have reached the moon using classified propulsion, every photograph and video shown to the public was fabricated using front-screen projection perfected by Stanley Kubrick during 2001: A Space Odyssey. He cites a 1965 U.S. Information Agency document evaluating top filmmakers including Kubrick, production values improving suspiciously from mission to mission, and NASA's destruction of the original moon landing videotapes.Friedman pushes back but concedes more than expected, acknowledging a NASA source confirmed most photography resulted from post-processing enhancement. Both guests express disbelief the original tapes were erased. Weidner claims Buzz Aldrin became physically ill when asked about his lunar experience, and that Edgar Mitchell sought hypnotherapy because he could not remember his time on the moon, a detail Art Bell confirms from his own Mitchell interview. Friedman places much of the evidence in what he calls his large gray basket of unresolved questions.An evening Art Bell ends genuinely rattled, not because his guests agreed, but because of what their convergence implies.

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August 5, 2015: Flat Earth Debate - Jon "the Morgile" & Josh Grindlay

Aug 52h 37mJon "the Morgile", Josh Grindlay

Art Bell stages a 90-minute flat earth debate between Jon "the Morgile", an anonymous skeptic known on YouTube, and Dr. Josh Grindlay, an astrophysicist with over 500 papers and Guggenheim and American Physical Society fellowships. Art Bell blows through a break to keep the exchange uninterrupted.John presents an alternative model: an infinite plane with the North Pole at its center, the sun circling 3,000 miles overhead, and Antarctica forming the outer rim. He argues buildings visible from fifty miles should be below the horizon on a curved surface, that flight times should differ on a spinning globe, and that gravity is a theoretical fantasy. Dr. Grindlay counters with inertial frames, atmospheric optics, and centuries of physics, while John dismisses Apollo footage, Hubble imagery, and NASA's Pluto flyby as fabrications. Dr. Grindlay exits graciously, telling John the beauty of science is at his fingertips and returning to a primitive cosmology is a shame. Callers include an Australian flat earth convert and an Israeli who suggests crowdfunding a conference aboard a 747 that flies until it lands where it started.A debate Art Bell calls "Radio Gold," staged not to settle the question but to let every argument be heard.

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August 6, 2015: Bigfoot Discovery Museum - Michael Rugg

Aug 62h 37mMichael Rugg

Michael Rugg, curator of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in California's Santa Cruz Mountains, joins Art Bell with a childhood encounter that launched a lifetime of research. Around 1950, Rugg wandered from his parents' campsite on Northern California's Eel River and found a towering figure covered in reddish-brown hair on an open sandbar, a memory suppressed for decades until a book passage triggered a flashback his mother corroborated.Rugg presents a possible Bigfoot tooth found near his museum that seven dentists identified as resembling a human molar but far too large. He details Bill Munns' frame-by-frame Patterson-Gimlin film analysis, in which the Hollywood makeup artist with 30 years of costume experience proved the figure is not wearing a suit. Rugg describes his fieldwork approach: sitting quietly in documented sighting areas projecting kind thoughts rather than carrying weapons, based on his belief that Sasquatch retain sensory powers humans lost. He explains Melba Ketchum's DNA study, where genome sequencing showed human X chromosomes paired with Y chromosomes matching nothing in known databases, suggesting a hybrid cross roughly 60,000 years old.A researcher whose childhood encounter and decades of fieldwork converge into one of the most grounded Bigfoot investigations on record.

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August 7, 2015: Alien Abductions - Travis Walton

Aug 72h 38mTravis Walton

Travis Walton, the Arizona logger whose 1975 alien abduction remains one of ufology's most documented cases, joins Art Bell from Snowflake, Arizona to revisit the night that defined his life. Walton retraces the events: his crew encountering a metallic disc in the Apache National Forest, the energy blast that threw his body 10 to 20 feet, and the crew's terrified flight. He describes waking aboard the craft surrounded by small, grayish-white beings with large eyes, lashing out in panic before a human-looking figure led him into a hangar containing multiple craft.All seven crew members passed polygraph examinations, with the American Polygraph Association stating the odds of collective error exceeded a million to one. An EEG at the Barrow Neurological Institute under a false name revealed brainwave patterns consistent with neurological injury. New research by former FBI agent Ben Hansen found trees nearest the site show accelerated growth on the side facing where the craft hovered, mirroring radiation patterns near Chernobyl. Walton now believes the blast was a propulsion side effect and his abduction was essentially an emergency medical response rather than a planned capture.Forty years later, a case whose physical evidence, witness corroboration, and medical documentation remain unmatched.

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August 10, 2015: Remote Viewing - Joe McMoneagle

Aug 102h 16mJoe McMoneagle

Joe McMoneagle, Remote Viewer 001 and 20-year participant in Project Stargate, joins Art Bell with a resume spanning the CIA, NSA, DIA, FBI, and most major Defense Department commands. McMoneagle describes how the Army recruited him not by asking for psychics but by identifying soldiers inexplicably exceptional at their jobs. His first Stanford Research Institute test produced a p-value of .003 across six trials, and the program went operational within three months when the Iran hostage crisis required identifying embassy staff from 500 photographs.McMoneagle recounts his 1970 near-death experience, arriving at an Austrian hospital without a heartbeat for 8 to 15 minutes, passing through a tunnel into white light he now believes represents the "totality of identity" across lifetimes rather than God, because he noticed it had edges. On remote viewing's reach, he cites experiments targeting outer-rim planets before Explorer satellites and his 1983 viewing of the Great Pyramid's construction, describing features confirmed by archaeology 13 years later. He predicts sea-level rise will inundate coastal nuclear plants and says Florida is already in trouble.An interview Art Bell says he could have continued for hours, with the most credentialed remote viewer to have served American intelligence.

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August 11, 2015: SETI - Seth Shostak

Aug 112h 13mSeth Shostak

Dr. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer and director of SETI Research, joins Art Bell for a conversation that turns into a direct confrontation with claims made by Stephen Greer on a previous broadcast. Shostak describes the Allen Telescope Array scanning 30 million channels simultaneously and credits Moore's Law for doubling search capability every few years.Art Bell plays audio of Greer claiming SETI founder Frank Drake told him the institute received and suppressed interplanetary signals. Shostak responds that he personally asked all four scientists connected to the project, including Drake, and none had heard of Greer. He notes Greer places the Wow signal at Harvard when it was detected at Ohio State, and asks why a privately funded organization would suppress the discovery that would secure its future. Shostak confirms he chaired the committee that wrote international detection protocols, which contain no secrecy provisions. On the Wow signal itself, decades of follow-up with more sensitive equipment have never reproduced it, and modern real-time analysis has eliminated the ambiguous detections that plagued earlier methods. After decades of searching, no confirmed extraterrestrial signal has been received.A sharp, good-humored exchange between a veteran broadcaster and a scientist willing to answer every challenge directly.

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August 12, 2015: Open Lines - September Doom

Aug 122h 17m

Art Bell opens the phones after a guest cancellation and discovers a defining theme: widespread dread about September 2015. Americans are stocking up on emergency supplies anticipating economic collapse, natural disaster, or judgment. Art Bell frames it through a metaphor he returns to all night: humans as animals sensing a predator on soft paws, aware something is closing in even if they cannot name it. He cites a Lloyd's of London report projecting potential global collapse from food and water shortages within 30 years.Callers from Michigan, Belgium, the Philippines, and London echo the same unease. A London caller offers the most grounded prediction: a stock market correction from hot money leaving China after the yuan devaluation, and describes a migrant crisis overwhelming Europe largely invisible to American audiences. Three time travelers call, including an Australian "fixer" who corrects timeline disruptions for a shadowy agency with only 17 hours of advance knowledge. Perhaps most affecting is a Spokane woman who has never planned for a long-term future because she has always sensed she would not need one, filling her life with serendipitous adventures instead.A night capturing something difficult to name: the collective intuition of an audience sensing change.

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August 14, 2015: Time Travel & Teleportation - Andrew Basiago

Aug 142h 14mAndrew Basiago

Andrew Basiago, a Washington State lawyer with six academic degrees, joins Art Bell claiming participation in two classified defense projects involving time travel and teleportation. Basiago describes DARPA's Project Pegasus achieving eight modalities of time travel by 1970, from remote viewing to physical teleportation via Tesla-derived technology. He recounts teleporting at age six from New Jersey to Santa Fe and being sent to Gettysburg on November 19, 1863, where he claims a photograph of Lincoln's address contains his dematerializing image.The episode's climactic revelation comes when Basiago describes a 1971 visit to ITT Defense Communications in Nutley, New Jersey, where a young technician working on a chronovisor identified himself as "Arthur William Bell III." Art Bell, audibly stunned, confirms he worked for ITT in Nutley on a classified project during that exact period, information he has rarely discussed publicly. Basiago frames this as evidence of adjacent timelines where Art Bell worked on chronovision rather than waveguide propagation at the same facility.An episode that delivers a revelation tailor-made for its host and an audience primed to hear it.

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August 17, 2015: ET Contact - Joe Rogan & David Sereda

Aug 172h 19mJoe Rogan, David Sereda

Joe Rogan, comedian, UFC commentator, and podcast host, joins Art Bell in the first half for a conversation anchored by his DMT experiences. Rogan describes DMT as a neurotransmitter present in the human brain, lungs, and liver as well as thousands of plant species, producing encounters with entities that communicate through telepathic language and geometric patterns. He connects the telepathic contact users report to classic abduction narratives and speculates that endogenous DMT released during REM sleep may explain many such experiences. Rogan discusses sensory deprivation tanks, inviting Art Bell to try his Float Lab, and credits Terence McKenna's appearances on Art Bell with shaping his psychedelic interests.The second half features David Sereda, who presents a framework for faster-than-light communication by calculating the resonant frequencies of distant stars using their circumference and the speed of light. Sereda claims that by inducting Pleiadian star frequencies into his nervous system through copper coils, he achieved contact with beings and remote-viewed Pluto's atmosphere days before New Horizons confirmed it. Art Bell plays calculated tones of five Pleiadian suns alongside NASA's recording of our own.A night moving from DMT entities and deprivation tanks to quantum physics and Pleiadian frequencies without losing a step.

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August 18, 2015: Exorcism - Father Jack Ashcraft

Aug 182h 16mFather Jack Ashcraft

Father Jack Ashcraft, a traditional Byzantine Catholic priest called the Malachi Martin of the 21st century, joins Art Bell for a conversation on exorcism, Vatican corruption, and the paranormal's intersection with Christian theology. Ashcraft reveals that Martin himself worked for Cardinal Bea in the 1960s, participating in subversive forces at Vatican II before switching allegiances, and suggests Martin's fatal fall was suspicious given he had been preparing to expose a bishop.The broadcast centers on demonic possession. Ashcraft distinguishes levels from temptation through oppression to "perfect possession," where the host has voluntarily surrendered control for money, fame, or power. He describes his most frightening case: a Kentucky woman whose home featured levitating objects and words appearing on walls, witnessed by a psychiatrist and by Ashcraft himself. Art Bell connects the discussion to his recent Blanche Barton interview, noting it seemed pleasant until he re-listened and recognized what Ashcraft confirms: Satan comes as an angel of light. Ashcraft breaks down LaVeyan Satanism as self-worship dressed in ritual psychodrama versus practitioners who recognize a literal entity, calling them flip sides of the same coin.A priest willing to address the subjects that made Malachi Martin both celebrated and feared.

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August 19, 2015: TWA Flight 800 - Jim Sanders & Bill Birnes

Aug 192h 19mJim Sanders, Bill Birnes

Bill Birnes, bestselling author, and Jim Sanders, retired police investigator turned journalist, join Art Bell to present evidence that TWA Flight 800 was accidentally shot down by the U.S. Navy during a 1996 exercise. Sanders argues the automated Cooperative Engagement Capability system locked onto the delayed 747 in restricted airspace and fired without human intervention. He presents video obtained through 19 years of FOIA requests showing what he describes as a missile contrail rising before an explosion, footage seized from a cameraman and classified until 2015.Sanders details witness testimony including a woman who saw a missile strike where the wing meets the fuselage, and National Guard pilots who saw missiles converge on the aircraft. He recounts obtaining seat fabric with a red residue a missile scientist identified as consistent with a thermite warhead, for which the government indicted him on felony conspiracy. Sanders refused to reveal his source despite prosecutors threatening his wife, a TWA flight attendant. Birnes reveals that Pierre Salinger held Mossad satellite imagery concluding the Navy shot down the plane, a detail Sanders could not share while Salinger lived.Art Bell signs off: "I guess they don't always tell us the truth, do they?"

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August 20, 2015: EVPs - Barbara McBeath & Brendan Cook

Aug 202h 13mBarbara McBeath, Brendan Cook

Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society return after years away for a marathon playback of EVP recordings from nearly two decades of fieldwork. The five original GIS members have been together since 1998, and the material they bring ranges from whispered phrases on analog tape to voices captured in abandoned asylums.The most harrowing recording comes from an empty room in a mental asylum in Ogden, Utah, where a microphone left running captured a child saying "help me" and "can't breathe," accompanied by water sounds and a heavy thud. Brendan waited two days before telling anyone. Both investigators hope the recording is a residual loop rather than an intelligent spirit reliving the experience. Other clips include a voice responding "talk to the dead" at a funeral home, a child crying "I can't see" near entombed infants, and a spirit asking "you guys dead?" at a cemetery, implying the dead may not know whether they address the living. Brendan surprises everyone by recommending cell phones in airplane mode as effective EVP recorders, a revelation Art Bell calls stunning.The night ends with a promise: the GIS will return for a Halloween special with their most powerful recordings.

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August 21, 2015: Open Lines - Pact with the Devil

Aug 212h 17m

Art Bell declares a special phone line after the Vatican's International Association of Exorcists announces demonic possession at "emergency levels." The question: have you made a deal with the devil? Such a pact need not involve a contract but can be sealed in one's own mind, and Art Bell warns repeatedly that the deal is irrevocable. The line never stops ringing.A caller describes exchanging blood with a self-described vampire at a Hollywood Gothic club at 21, trading his soul for unlimited women. Now 38, he estimates over a hundred partners with only "a quick bout of chlamydia" as downside. A woman recounts offering her soul during catastrophic childbirth, crying out to "anyone" for her daughter's survival. The heartbeat picked up moments later. Most unsettling, a caller confesses praying as a teenager for the devil to take his stepmother's life. Months later she died in a car accident. He was nearly catatonic, knowing the source. Art Bell plays the infamous recording purportedly captured by Russian scientists who lowered a microphone into the deepest borehole drilled in Siberia: agonized screaming. "Sounds crowded," he observes.A night where the devil line never stopped ringing, not once, across the entire broadcast.

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August 24, 2015: Global Consciousness - Dean Radin

Aug 242h 15mDean Radin

Dr. Dean Radin, chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, joins Art Bell to discuss scientific evidence for psychic phenomena and the yogic abilities known as siddhis. Radin reveals the Global Consciousness Project has accumulated results at three-trillion-to-one odds against chance using a worldwide network of random number generators that detect moments of coherent global attention. He describes deploying quantum noise generators at Burning Man, where 60,000 attendees provide natural conditions for measuring coherence during collective events.Drawing from his book Supernormal, Radin frames telepathy, precognition, and psychokinesis as inherent human capacities. Laboratory research consistently shows weak but significant effects, while the strongest practitioners have powerful incentives to stay hidden. He describes experiments where remote influencers measurably affect concentration, and tests where skin conductance changes depending on whether someone watches via closed-circuit video. A caller recounts premonitory visions for two months before September 11, waking that morning beside Building 7. Radin notes the Project detected a trend three hours before the attacks, and reveals his team conducts genome analyses comparing psychic families to controls, searching for gene networks that could be targeted pharmacologically.Art Bell signs off calling Radin "years ahead of the scientific community with regard to consciousness."

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August 25, 2015: Global Market Turmoil - Gerald Celente | Rendlesham Forest - Peter Robbins

Aug 252h 14mGerald Celente, Peter Robbins

Gerald Celente, founder of the Trends Research Institute, joins the first hour to dissect the global market turmoil. Celente argues China is "the canary in the global equity mine," pointing to the Bloomberg Commodity Index at sixteen-year lows, Brazil's real down thirty-six percent, and Canada in recession. He traces the crisis to post-2008 bailouts he calls fascism, noting six banks were convicted for rigging rates yet no one went to prison. Celente forecasts gold past $2,000 and predicts Trump would win if the election were held that day, comparing him to Berlusconi.The second half features Peter Robbins on the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident: three consecutive nights of events over RAF Bentwaters in December 1980, including Sergeant Penniston's encounter with a triangular craft and Colonel Halt's famous audio recording of an object overhead, aired by CNN in 1985. Robbins unveils a photograph with a previously unnoticed object matching witness Larry Warren's drawings of the craft encountered on the ground. The interview turns contentious when Robbins airs grievances against Halt and Nick Pope. Art Bell pushes back, and callers agree the infighting undermines the case.A split-format night pairing economic forecast with one of the most important UFO cases in history.

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August 26, 2015: Artificial Intelligence - Marcus Hutter

Aug 262h 18mMarcus Hutter

Professor Marcus Hutter, researcher at Australian National University and author of "Universal Artificial Intelligence," joins Art Bell for a three-hour conversation on machine intelligence. Hutter developed the first mathematically complete theory of AI, and his first PhD student co-founded DeepMind before Google acquired it for half a billion dollars. He rates current capabilities: chess at a perfect ten, speech recognition around seven, autonomous driving at three, cooking robots at one.The conversation moves from narrow capabilities to existential questions. Hutter estimates self-aware AI roughly 30 years away and lays out paths: machines viewing humans as threats, cyborgification where brains atrophy as function transfers to implants, or consciousness uploaded into simulation. He argues consciousness emerges from information processing, using the neuron replacement thought experiment: swap neurons one by one for artificial equivalents and consciousness never disappears. Art Bell asks whether a digitized brain would need sleep. Hutter says yes, since the brain performs essential processing during rest a simulation would replicate. He suggests lawyers may be among the next professionals displaced, since legal work relies on knowledge bases and rules computers handle naturally.An episode where the math behind artificial intelligence meets the question of what it means to be conscious.

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August 27, 2015: Anti-Aging - Dr. Ronald Klatz

Aug 272h 21mDr. Ronald Klatz

Dr. Ronald Klatz, the physician who coined "anti-aging medicine" and founded the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine overseeing 100,000 practitioners across 105 countries, joins Art Bell spanning stem cells, cannabis therapeutics, and broken American healthcare. Klatz points to Harvard data showing a nearly 25-year life expectancy gap between college-educated women in Bergen County, New Jersey at 91.5 years and American Indian women receiving government healthcare in South Dakota at 68, calling the difference the "anti-aging dividend" of preventive medicine.Klatz details stem cell therapy now working for arthritic joints and torn ligaments using adult and amniotic cells, with the long-term promise of repairing every organ. On cannabis, he describes over 104 cannabinoids in the plant with separate effects, noting the psychoactive THC can be removed while leaving compounds that stimulate immunity, reduce inflammation, and improve sleep. He tells the charming story of Lex, his aging Airedale who regained black fur, lost visible cataracts, and lived to nearly 17 after hormone replacement therapy. Klatz estimates 90 percent of an anti-aging program costs under $4,000 annually, with 60 percent achievable without a doctor simply by following reputable literature.A physician making the case that aging itself is the disease worth treating.

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August 28, 2015: Open Lines - Truth or Trash

Aug 282h 18m

Art Bell unveils Truth or Trash, a game show format where callers tell stories, true or fabricated, and a jury of fellow listeners renders a verdict. A caller describes accidentally crossing the Area 51 perimeter and being fined $650 by armed interceptors. The jury splits evenly. Every word was invented, and Art Bell admits he was completely sold by the details.A San Francisco woman tells of willing herself to meet David Bowie during his 1990 tour using Wiccan focusing techniques from Salem. She raced across Quebec City as elevator doors opened to reveal Bowie and his bodyguards. She curtsied. Unanimously voted truth, confirmed true. A caller claims a twin absorbed in utero discovered during a football physical until a sharp juror presses on medical terminology the caller cannot produce, unraveling the lie. A trucker describes his friend dangling 500 feet below a helicopter after a finger got wedged in a bucket release. The jury splits. Entirely true. A man dreamed his cat dead on the porch, woke, and found it lying in exactly that position.The fabricators succeed with mundane, specific details that make true stories believable, while genuine accounts sometimes sound too strange for the jury to accept.

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August 31, 2015: Asteroids & the Cosmos - Dr. David Darling

Aug 312h 16mDr. David Darling

Dr. David Darling, British astronomer and science writer, returns to Art Bell after eleven years for a conversation spanning asteroid defense, extraterrestrial life, and consciousness. Art Bell poses a vivid scenario: a six-mile asteroid with five years' warning. Darling's answer is sobering. Nuclear weapons might produce a shotgun blast of fragments still on course, and deflection requires decades of lead time. Even confirming the object would strike Earth could take a year of orbital calculations.Darling predicts definitive evidence of extraterrestrial life within 10 to 15 years through spectroscopic analysis of exoplanet atmospheres, where oxygen or methane combinations would constitute near-proof of biology. He suggests advanced civilizations may have merged with their machines, becoming synthetic intelligences communicating by means humans cannot comprehend. The interview's most striking turn comes when Darling reveals views he calls unconventional for a scientist: consciousness is more fundamental than the brain, persists after death, and the brain acts as receiver rather than generator. He frames reincarnation as continuation of awareness, drawing on his books "Soul Search" and "Zen Physics: The Science of Death and the Logic of Reincarnation."A scientist who follows evidence from asteroid trajectories to what survives when the body is gone.

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September 1, 2015: EVPs - Patrick Burns

Sep 12h 16mPatrick Burns

Patrick Burns, paranormal investigator and star of TruTV's Haunting Evidence, joins Art Bell from Savannah, Georgia, where he leads ghost tours through a city "built on its dead." Burns traces his career to his brother Billy's 1985 death, a loss that ignited a search for afterlife evidence. Savannah's reputation stems from an estimated 1,000 to 6,000 slave graves beneath Calhoun Square alone, never disturbed because Southern foundations rarely dig deep.Burns plays EVP recordings captured on an obsolete BlackBerry with its radio disabled. At Arthur Smith Antiques, a voice responds "hey, you, come inside." A recording on the shop owner's death anniversary captures "I'm with God." Outside 432 Abercorn, cackling laughter comes through before the Skype connection fails. At an Atlanta plantation house, an unearthly screech follows a voice saying "go." Burns's own name is called in clipped fashion at Calhoun Square, something he says happens so regularly he has lost count. At the Mercer Williams house from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, a voice says "fall" when Burns addresses Tommy Downs, an 11-year-old who fell from the roof in the 1960s.A night of recordings from a city whose dead have no intention of staying quiet.

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September 2, 2015: Open Lines - Married to an Alien Line

Sep 22h 23m

Art Bell opens a special phone line out of Roswell for anyone who believes they are married to an alien. The lines fill immediately and stay jammed all night, Skype crashing under the volume.A Midwest caller describes his wife of fifteen years as devoid of emotion, functioning perfectly but disconnected from feeling. From New Orleans, a man claims his wife bleeds "Gerber green," the color of baby food. Most dramatically, a caller who witnessed his wife shape-shifting in sleep, skin turning grayish and reptilian, loses the connection when she apparently overhears. Beyond the alien line, an Apple Valley caller describes a time-slip where his bedroom reverted to childhood and he regressed to age nine. A first-time caller shares an abduction memory from age four where everyone went catatonic and floated toward a spacecraft while a helmeted being lifted her. An Australian named Peter was woken by a whispered voice and found his stepdaughter suffocating between bed and wall. Art Bell reaffirms belief in Colonel Corso's Roswell testimony, calls Bob Lazar a friend whose story never changed, and clarifies he never spoke with John Titor.Art Bell drops "America" from his sign-off, acknowledging the worldwide audience with a simple "Goodnight."

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September 2, 2015: UFO Center - Peter Davenport

Sep 22h 19mPeter Davenport

Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center since 1994, joins Art Bell for what both call the most profound of their many programs together. His center hosts 102,000 sighting reports, with monthly volume doubling over the past decade.Davenport details his passive radar proposal: antennas listening for reflections of FM and television signals off airborne objects, covering North America with six to eight stations under $750,000. He reveals in 2004, a CIA officer delivering the daily presidential briefing called to say building the system would answer whether UFOs are real. The broadcast turns when Davenport ventures into what he calls ufology's darkest territory: the possibility a landing has already occurred and alien species may be manipulating events. He emphasizes he has no proof, basing this on instinct from decades of immersion. He revisits the Phoenix Lights, describing the chevron as 7.4 miles tip to tip, and recounts its instantaneous jump from Camelback Mountain to Sky Harbor faster than a witness could track. He connects the timing to President Clinton's knee injury and a reported jump from DEFCON 5 to DEFCON 3.Art Bell closes noting this marks the most profound statements Davenport has ever made on the air.

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September 3, 2015: Weird Creatures - Linda S. Godfrey

Sep 32h 16mLinda S. Godfrey

Linda S. Godfrey, Fortean investigator and author of 16 books on strange creatures, joins Art Bell with 23 years of eyewitness accounts describing large, upright, wolf-like beings typically seven feet tall with yellow-green eye shine. Godfrey traces her career to 1991 Wisconsin, when a county animal control officer opened an official folder labeled "werewolf" containing reports from witnesses who did not know each other. One woman described a creature squatting by the roadside holding roadkill in upturned palms.Godfrey distinguishes the dogman from Bigfoot by its canine muzzle, fangs, and backward-bending hock, and from skinwalker entities whose red glowing eyes suggest something more sinister. Trail cameras consistently malfunction when bait is taken by something leaving large canine prints. Multiple witnesses report emptying weapons into these creatures with no effect. A Ho-Chunk elder with a doctorate in anthropology told Godfrey these beings existed longer than humans and move between worlds. She documents footprints beginning in snow-covered fields with no approach tracks and discusses the connection between winged creature sightings and tragedy, from Mothman and the Silver Bridge to bat-winged humanoids appearing before an unexplained drowning in La Crosse, Wisconsin.Twenty-three years of investigation from the journalist who opened the file.

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September 4, 2015: Time Traveler - Michael "Mad Man" Marcum

Sep 42h 16mMike "Mad Man" Marcum

Mike "Mad Man" Marcum resurfaces after nearly two decades of silence. Art Bell first interviewed the young Missouri experimenter around 1995, dubbing him "Mad Man" out of fear he would cook himself. Marcum then vanished completely. Tonight he explains why.Marcum describes building a teleportation apparatus in an Overland Park warehouse: concentric cylinders surrounded by electromagnets producing three million volts across 24 phases, standing 17 feet wide and elevated 35 feet to prevent arcing. After over 200 tests displacing objects and animals up to 150 yards along an east-west axis attributed to Earth's magnetic field, Marcum rode a cherry picker to the top and jumped. He woke in a field near Fairfield, Ohio, 800 miles east, with total amnesia. At a Cincinnati homeless shelter, a newspaper revealed he had skipped two years. His fingernails were unchanged, with no facial hair growth or burns. When he returned to the warehouse, a new tenant occupied the space. The machine, footage, and journal were gone. A caller who heard the original broadcasts confirms the story has remained consistent across 20 years.Art Bell urges Marcum not to fry himself but not to give up, because the world needs people willing to push boundaries.

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September 7, 2015: Missing 411 - David Paulides

Sep 72h 15mDavid Paulides

David Paulides, former law enforcement officer with twenty years in street crimes and SWAT, joins Art Bell to discuss Missing 411: 1,600 documented disappearances across national parks. The investigation began when a ranger described a pattern others quietly discussed. The Park Service quoted $1.4 million to compile missing persons records and told a congressman asking about a vanished girl: "Don't touch it."The profile is unsettling. Victims vanish with no suspects or evidence. Search dogs cannot find scent or refuse to engage. Victims appear miles away over impossible terrain, often missing clothing, near water, with fevers and no memory. Two intellectual extremes are overrepresented: physicists and physicians on one end, individuals with cognitive impairment on the other. Paulides details six-year-old Dennis Martin's disappearance during hide-and-seek in Great Smoky Mountains, where Green Berets arrived by helicopter with independent communications, the Park Service concealed witness information from the family, and the monitoring FBI agent later committed suicide. Art Bell presses for a theory all night. Paulides declines, explaining that offering one would destroy his credibility with law enforcement and victim families who trust him.He has never found a case where someone vanished while carrying both a firearm and a personal transponder.

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September 8, 2015: Witchcraft - Debbie Anderson

Sep 82h 18mDebbie Anderson

Debbie Anderson, criminal defense attorney in Washington, D.C. and third-degree witch in the Blue Star tradition, joins Art Bell bridging courtroom law and magical practice. She confirms witchcraft can kill but such power takes decades to develop, and anyone skilled enough is wise enough to rarely use it, framing lethal force through common law self-defense.Anderson describes lighting a "smart candle" before trials and reports winning every one of roughly two dozen gun cases following the Heller decision. She wears her pentacle openly in court alongside Masonic pins from Le Droit Humain, a co-Masonic lodge admitting men and women equally. On ethics, she refuses love spells that override free will, citing the threefold return and "harm none, do as ye will." Her reincarnation view differs from Buddhism: witches enjoy being on Earth and view each life as opportunity rather than a cycle to escape, suggesting souls may incarnate on other inhabited worlds between lifetimes. A caller announces he has been praying against Anderson, claiming credit for the night's persistent Skype failures. She responds that Satanism requires belief in Satan, which requires Christianity, and she follows none of those faiths.Art Bell names Anderson the show's resident witch by night's end.

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September 9, 2015: Bigfoot in the Back Yard - Elaine

Sep 92h 16mElaine

Art Bell welcomes Elaine, a first-time radio guest from rural East Texas, who shares her extraordinary nine-year experience living alongside a Bigfoot and its offspring on her isolated property. After relocating from Hawaii in late 2006, Elaine noticed rabbits being freed from cages, rocks hitting the house, and a persistent feeling of being watched before a face-to-face encounter with a massive, light-colored creature standing over eight feet tall.Elaine describes the creature as intelligent and aware, capable of unplugging surveillance cameras, avoiding detection, and distinguishing between familiar and unfamiliar vehicles. Her son Sierra corroborates the sightings, recalling glowing yellow eyes behind a hay bale illuminated by a million-candle-power flashlight. The family has collected audio recordings of screams and vocalizations but has been unable to photograph the elusive being.Callers share their own Bigfoot encounters from across the country, while Elaine reveals unsettling details including a possible assault by a creature years earlier and her decision to leave food offerings as a gesture of coexistence. She expresses a protective instinct toward the creature despite the constant unease it brings to her daily life.

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September 10, 2015: Space Warp Technology - David Pares

Sep 102h 16mDavid Pares

Art Bell interviews Professor David Pares, president of Space Warp Dynamics and adjunct professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, who describes his decades-long quest to build a functional space warp motor. Pares traces his inspiration to a 1969 UFO sighting of a silver disc that banked without losing altitude and accelerated instantly out of sight, an event that redirected his entire career toward the sciences.Pares explains how pilots caught in thunderstorms have experienced unexplained linear displacements of 100 to 300 miles, most notably Bruce Gernon in 1970, whose Beechcraft Bonanza traversed from Bimini to Miami Beach in roughly one second. Drawing on Miguel Alcubierre's 1994 theoretical framework and the discovery of antimatter generation within thunderstorms, Pares details how his team replicated cross-field conditions in the laboratory using custom-built fractal antenna arrays.His experiments at less than 100 watts have produced measurable laser compression, redshift, and movement of both ferrous and non-ferrous materials toward the motor. Now building Model 14 with plans to scale up to 4,000 watts, Pares projects that the exponential relationship between power input and spatial compression could eventually allow his quarter-scale Bluebird 2 craft to lift off the ground by year's end.

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September 11, 2015: Open Lines - Atheist Debate & Planet X

Sep 112h 17m

Art Bell opens the lines on a wide-ranging Friday night that centers on two volatile topics: the impending September 23rd doomsday predictions and a spirited atheism debate. Art expresses frustration that the Planet X believers who flood his inbox with urgent warnings refuse to call in and defend their claims on the air.Ronald from North Hollywood obliges, announcing that he and his wife are packing up and heading to Mount Shasta to ride out an asteroid impact he believes will strike Puerto Rico on September 23rd. His evidence draws from YouTube documentaries, hidden references in Hollywood films, and the Pope's upcoming U.N. visit. Michelle, calling from Japan, and other callers challenge Ronald's reasoning, pointing out the impossibility of pinpointing an asteroid's landing zone and the lack of any scientific confirmation. A caller named Cody insists Planet X is real and shares his plan to survive underground in mountain storm drains.In the second half, Art sets up a debate between Matt, a self-described atheist from Denver, and a caller from Manila who identifies himself as "His Holy Eminence Junior." The exchange quickly turns personal before touching on the nature of belief, consciousness, and whether morality requires a divine source.

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September 14, 2015: Crop Circles - Charles Maxwell

Sep 142h 16mCharles Maxwell

Art Bell speaks with filmmaker Charles Maxwell about the hidden science of crop circles and his attempt to build a propulsion drive from their decoded geometry. Maxwell recounts investigating formations across Wiltshire, England, where he estimates 95 percent are hoaxes but a small number display blown apical nodes and microwave or plasma signatures that defy conventional explanation.Working with electrical engineer Nicola Romanski, Maxwell articulated three verified crop circles into 3D wireframe models using Autodesk software. The blueprints revealed boundary conditions for an electromagnetic field, a klystron-like microwave array, and a rotating disc structure resembling a flying saucer. Maxwell invested 150,000 dollars to build a prototype called Sweet Potato using neodymium magnets and a plasma ignition system, but hit insurmountable engineering obstacles with disc rotation and mounting.He then consulted physicist Nassim Haramein, who confirmed the team was correct about rotation and plasma manipulation but advised that spinning the electromagnetic field rather than physical metal was the key breakthrough needed. Maxwell also discusses the fertility science connection to ancient sites built over electromagnetic anomalies and researcher W.C. Levengood's findings that crops growing in genuine circle formations show 20 to 30 percent greater protein yield.

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September 15, 2015: Loyd Auerbach

Sep 152h 20mLoyd Auerbach

Art Bell welcomes parapsychologist Loyd Auerbach, director of the Office of Paranormal Investigations and co-author of ESP Wars, for a conversation covering psychokinesis, ghosts, near-death experiences, and Cold War psychic espionage programs. The episode opens with Art debunking a viral hoax claiming Pope Francis warned of hellfire from above, a fabricated story that had fueled September doomsday panic across the internet.Auerbach distinguishes between conscious apparitions and residual hauntings, explaining that most ghost experiences involve loved ones appearing at the moment of death to say goodbye. He describes witnessing psychokinetic events firsthand, including a glass ashtray launching into the air at the haunted Banta Inn and objects moving inside sealed rooms during experiments with the late author Martin Caidin, creator of The Six Million Dollar Man. Auerbach reveals that the key to psychokinesis is not forceful concentration but a calm, visualization-based altered state similar to an athlete being in the zone.The discussion turns to Soviet research on psychic Nina Kulagina, whose apparent telekinesis was traced to histamine-laden sweat generating electrostatic fields strong enough to move objects. Auerbach also addresses poltergeist phenomena, attributing them not to spirits but to unconscious psychokinetic outbursts from living people under stress.

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September 16, 2015: Shadow People - David Weatherly

Sep 162h 15mDavid Weatherly

Art Bell welcomes paranormal investigator David Weatherly to discuss the deeply unsettling phenomenon of shadow people. Art opens the show by sharing his own terrifying encounter with a shadow being in his ham radio room, describing a semi-transparent human-shaped figure that appeared on his right, then behind him, then to his left before vanishing with a faint visual effect resembling a portal.Weatherly draws on over 35 years of research to explain that shadow people reports span centuries, from medieval accounts of phantom monks to modern encounters worldwide. He discusses the spectrum of experiences, from silent observers to rare physical attacks, including a harrowing account of a man dragged by a shadow being with glowing red eyes. The conversation explores theories linking these entities to other dimensions, the stone tape theory, and how emotional turmoil or altered consciousness may create conditions for encounters.The discussion expands to include black-eyed children, mysterious figures who appear at doorsteps demanding to be invited inside, and the grinning man phenomenon. Callers share their own shadow people experiences from around the world, while Weatherly offers practical advice including playing classical music as a potential deterrent against these disturbing visitors.

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September 17, 2015: Rendlesham Forest UFO - John Burroughs

Sep 172h 18mJohn Burroughs

Art Bell speaks with John Burroughs, the only military witness present on all three nights of the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident near RAF Woodbridge in England. Burroughs recounts how he and his supervisor first spotted strange lights in the forest during a routine patrol on December 26, 1980, and how radar confirmation of an unknown object led to an authorized off-base investigation.Burroughs describes approaching a glowing red oval object surrounded by white light, feeling intense static electricity, and losing all memory of what followed. Under hypnosis, he recalled entering the object and receiving telepathic communication. Sergeant Penniston reported touching a triangular craft with glyphs that triggered a binary code download, later corroborated by a 1986 CIA remote viewing session conducted before any details were public.The conversation takes a dramatic turn as Burroughs reveals the U.S. government altered his military records to deny he served during the incident and classified his medical files. A CIA doctor ultimately helped save his life after exposure to terahertz radiation shredded his heart valve. Senators Kyle and McCain intervened to restore his records and secure disability benefits for injuries officially recognized as sustained in the line of duty at Rendlesham Forest.

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September 21, 2015: NDEs - Dr. Jeffrey Long

Sep 212h 16mDr. Jeffrey Long

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Jeffrey Long, a radiation oncologist and founder of the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation, who has studied over 4,000 NDEs in the largest scientific investigation of the phenomenon ever conducted. Dr. Long explains that between 9 and 18 percent of people who come close to death report lucid, organized experiences when their brains should be incapable of conscious awareness.The discussion covers consistent elements found across NDEs regardless of culture, religion, or geography: out-of-body experiences with verified observations of resuscitation efforts, passage through a tunnel toward an unearthly light, encounters with deceased loved ones, life reviews, and a boundary between life and death. Dr. Long presents evidence including blind-from-birth individuals who report detailed visual NDEs, experiences under general anesthesia unaffected by powerful medications, and people declared dead in morgues who later revive with vivid accounts.Callers share remarkable stories, including a man from Toronto who nearly materialized in his aunt's living room in Hawaii while gravely ill, confirmed by his aunt witnessing twinkling lights on her floor. Dr. Long addresses skeptical arguments about brain chemistry and electrical stimulation, finding none adequate, and shares data suggesting 27 percent of NDErs encountered evidence of prior existence.

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September 22, 2015: Climate Change - Dr. Kevin Trenberth

Sep 222h 15mDr. Kevin Trenberth

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Kevin Trenberth, a distinguished senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, to discuss climate change as Pope Francis arrives in the United States with the issue high on his agenda. Dr. Trenberth presents evidence for a warming planet, citing rising global temperatures, a 40 percent decrease in Arctic sea ice since the 1970s, accelerating sea level rise, and a 40 percent increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide since pre-industrial times.The conversation covers mechanisms connecting fossil fuel consumption to observable changes, including the ice albedo feedback loop where melting ice exposes darker surfaces that absorb more heat, ocean acidification, and the relationship between warmer oceans and more intense storms. Dr. Trenberth explains how a strong El Nino in the Pacific will likely bring heavy rains to drought-stricken California, potentially causing flooding after years of devastating wildfires.Art presses Dr. Trenberth on solutions, and the scientist advocates putting a price on carbon to incentivize renewable energy innovation. Callers challenge the economic implications, while Dr. Trenberth notes that climate disasters already cost tens of billions annually and that sea level projections of two to three feet by 2100 could devastate coastal cities worldwide.

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September 24, 2015: UFOs & Alien Abductions - David Jacobs

Sep 242h 21mDavid Jacobs

Art Bell welcomes retired Temple University history professor Dr. David Jacobs, who has investigated over 1,150 abduction cases during his decades of research. Dr. Jacobs presents his controversial conclusion that the alien abduction phenomenon is not benevolent but represents a systematic program of hybridization, with beings he calls "hubrids" now being integrated into human society.Dr. Jacobs explains that abductions begin in infancy and continue throughout a person's lifetime, often numbering in the hundreds, with a consistent focus on reproductive procedures including extraction of sperm and eggs. He describes a hierarchy of hybrid types, from those who appear half-alien to human-looking "hubrids" specifically bred to blend into society. According to his research subjects, these hubrids possess the ability to neurologically control human thoughts and actions, making them undetectable and essentially unchallenged.The professor details how abductees report being compelled to teach hubrids everyday skills like shopping, driving, and furnishing apartments, all while forgetting these interactions immediately afterward. He characterizes what he calls a global acquisition program orchestrated by insectoid beings, noting that no religious invocation or act of resistance has proven effective against their neurological control. Art and callers grapple with the staggering implications of these claims.

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September 25, 2015: Open Lines - Anything Goes & I'm Losing My Mind Line

Sep 252h 21m

Art Bell opens the phone lines for an anything-goes Friday night, introducing a special segment he calls the "I'm Losing My Mind" line for listeners who feel pushed to the edge by modern life. Callers share their frustrations with society, from anxiety attacks to political absurdity, while others recount deeply personal paranormal encounters.A geologist in his fifties describes a chilling meeting with a stranger at a Starbucks who knew details about his life, warned him not to travel to Alaska in October, and whispered "Love you, Grandpa" before vanishing without a trace. Multiple callers report shadow people encounters, including one man who physically wrestled a dark figure in his basement bedroom and another who watched a seven-foot shadow entity standing over his dog in the kitchen. A woman from Australia admits she can read minds after a lifetime of abduction experiences.Art reads a published account of shadow people attacks and takes calls ranging from a self-proclaimed vampire struggling with a sudden thirst for blood to a man in Saskatchewan who believes he saw his parents before he was born. The night becomes a vivid cross-section of human strangeness, fear, and wonder.

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September 28, 2015: Unsolved Mysteries - Nick Redfern

Sep 282h 23mNick Redfern

Art Bell welcomes British-born author and journalist Nick Redfern to discuss the real Men in Black, a phenomenon far stranger than its Hollywood portrayal. Redfern traces the mystery back to Albert Bender, a 1950s UFO researcher in Connecticut whose International Flying Saucer Bureau was thriving until three pale, short, fedora-wearing entities materialized in his home, communicated telepathically, and warned him to abandon the subject. Bender complied, shutting everything down and never returning.Redfern describes receiving 40 to 50 new MIB reports per year, with witnesses consistently depicting entities around five feet tall, unnaturally pale, emotionless, and unable to perform basic human tasks like eating with utensils. He draws striking parallels to Dr. David Jacobs' research on alien-human hybrids, noting that both MIB and hybrids camouflage themselves with hats and sunglasses while struggling to mimic human behavior. The discussion extends to black-eyed children, the hat man, and shadow people as potentially related phenomena.Art and Nick explore how these entities appear to employ mind control, compelling witnesses to open their doors despite obvious danger, yet retreat quickly when someone breaks free of their influence. Callers from Thailand, Romania, and Australia weigh in with their own theories.

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September 29, 2015: Nuclear War - Steven Starr

Sep 292h 23mSteven Starr

Art Bell speaks with Steven Starr, director of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the University of Missouri and associate member of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, about the catastrophic consequences of nuclear war. Starr explains that a single 800-kiloton warhead can ignite 150 square miles simultaneously, and a full U.S.-Russia exchange would produce up to 180 million tons of smoke, blocking 70 percent of sunlight and plunging Earth into temperatures colder than the last ice age for years.Even a limited exchange between India and Pakistan involving just 100 atomic bombs would generate enough stratospheric smoke to reduce global crop production for a decade and potentially starve two billion people. Starr notes that the U.S. and Russia maintain roughly 2,000 launch-ready weapons each, capable of firing in under 15 minutes, and that a single high-altitude detonation over the East Coast could knock out 60 nuclear power plants through electromagnetic pulse.Art shares his own experience answering the DEF CON phone at Amarillo Air Force Base during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Starr laments that no leader of a nuclear weapons state has publicly acknowledged peer-reviewed science showing nuclear war represents a self-destruct mechanism for the human species.

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September 30, 2015: OBEs - Dr. Albert Taylor

Sep 302h 23mDr. Albert Taylor

Art Bell reunites with Dr. Albert Taylor, a former aeronautical engineer who worked on the International Space Station, the F-117A stealth fighter, and the Strategic Defense Initiative, to discuss out-of-body experiences. Taylor recounts how spontaneous OBEs began disrupting his life so frequently that he sought psychiatric evaluation, only to receive a clean bill of health. Left without a medical explanation, he turned his scientific training toward documenting the phenomenon.Taylor shares his step-by-step technique for inducing OBEs, which he calls the interrupted sleep method. He advises setting an alarm for two in the morning, staying awake for about an hour, then lying perfectly still until the body drops off while consciousness remains alert. He describes the telltale signs of separation: loud buzzing, rushing wind, paralysis, and sometimes hearing your own body snoring. Fear, he emphasizes, is the primary barrier.The discussion takes a profound turn when Taylor reveals that during OBEs he has encountered deceased relatives and communicated through shared emotion rather than spoken words. He describes these meetings as confirmation that consciousness survives physical death. Callers share their own experiences, including one man whose cat appeared to separate from its body alongside him during an OBE.

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October 1, 2015: Father Michael Maginot

Oct 12h 30mFather Michael Maginot

Art Bell speaks with Father Michael Maginot, a Catholic priest from the Diocese of Gary, Indiana, who performed an exorcism on the Ammons family in a case that received worldwide attention. Father Maginot explains the theological framework of possession, tracing evil to Lucifer's rebellion, and details how curses and occult practices open doors to demonic influence.The case began when a mother and three children moved into a Gary house and experienced escalating phenomena: swarms of horse flies, muddy footprints from the basement, pounding on locked doors, and children waking with unexplained blood. At a hospital, multiple professionals witnessed a nine-year-old boy walk backwards up a wall and flip over his grandmother. A seven-year-old was thrown against walls and spoke in a growling voice about death. Father Maginot's investigation pointed to the mother's ex-boyfriend as the source of a curse.During his visit to the home, Father Maginot witnessed lights that responded to conversation, Venetian blind rods swaying in coordination, wet footprints materializing around the mother, and convulsions triggered by placing a crucifix on her forehead. He performed multiple exorcisms, finding the old Latin rite most effective in clearing the demonic presence from the mother and, through her, the children.

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October 2, 2015: Open Lines - I Married an Alien

Oct 22h 15m

Art Bell opens the show addressing behind-the-scenes crew drama, then launches into a freewheeling open lines night with a special twist: the "I Married an Alien" line. Inspired by recent discussions with Dr. David Jacobs about alien-human hybrids living among us, Art invites listeners who suspect their spouse may not be entirely human to call in.The calls range from deeply personal to wildly entertaining. One man describes his wife as emotionless and cold from the moment they married, while another from New Orleans claims his wife bleeds green and has alien relatives from a distant star system. A third caller recounts being taken to an alien home planet with his then-wife for a reproductive study, delivering his account with deadpan humor. Between the alien spouse calls, listeners share ghost encounters, abduction memories from childhood, and a moving story from a nurse who watched her deceased sister appear to speak after flatlining.Art weaves the evening together with his trademark curiosity, balancing humor with genuine interest in each caller. He also fields questions about Mel's Hole, John Titor, Bob Lazar, and Colonel Philip Corso, making for one of the most varied open lines episodes of the series.

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October 5, 2015: Gravity - Dr. Tess Gerritsen

Oct 52h 22mDr. Tess Gerritsen

Art Bell welcomes bestselling author and physician Tess Gerritsen to discuss her novel Gravity, a thriller set aboard the International Space Station that Art considers one of the finest books he has ever read. Tess describes her two years of research at NASA's Johnson and Kennedy Space Centers, immersing herself so deeply in astronaut culture that she dreamed of weightlessness each night.The conversation takes a sharp turn when Tess reveals that the blockbuster film Gravity bears striking similarities to her book and an alternate third act she wrote in which satellite debris destroys the station and leaves the heroine drifting untethered. A confidential source informed her that director Alfonso Cuaron had once been attached to direct the adaptation of her novel. Her lawsuit against Warner Brothers was dismissed, and Tess shares the troubling statistic that no writer has won an intellectual property case against a Hollywood studio in the Ninth Circuit in two decades.The discussion shifts into the nature of evil, touching on sociopathy, the biblical Nephilim, and strange correspondence Tess received from self-identified non-human entities after publishing The Mephisto Club. Multiple industry insiders warned her that major studios employ occult protections known as egregory in legal matters.

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October 6, 2015: Time Travel - Ronald Mallett

Oct 62h 22mRonald Mallett

Art Bell sits down with Professor Ronald Mallett, a research professor of physics at the University of Connecticut, to explore the science behind time travel. Professor Mallett shares the deeply personal origin of his lifelong obsession: the death of his father from a heart attack at age 33, when Ronald was just ten. Reading H.G. Wells' The Time Machine at eleven sparked a determination that shaped his entire career.The professor explains how Einstein's theories of relativity provide the foundation for manipulating time. He details his breakthrough discovery that circulating beams of light in a ring laser can twist space and potentially bend time into a loop, allowing information to travel into the past. Art and Professor Mallett discuss the differences between sending information versus people through time, the grandfather paradox, parallel universe theory as proposed by Hugh Everett III, and the costs of experimental verification.The conversation also covers quantum entanglement, the safety of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, and whether advanced extraterrestrial civilizations may have already achieved time travel. Art raises the question of whether we should be watching for messages from the future, and Professor Mallett explains why such signals would require a specialized receiver to detect.

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October 7, 2015: Sounds of Sasquatch - Ron Morehead & Scott Nelson

Oct 72h 27mRon Morehead, Scott Nelson

Art Bell presents some of the clearest Bigfoot audio recordings ever captured, joined by researcher Ron Morehead and retired Navy crypto-linguist Scott Nelson. Ron recounts how he first encountered Sasquatch vocalizations at a remote Sierra Nevada camp in 1971, where creatures approached the shelter nightly and interacted with his group over several years. The recordings, known as the Sierra Sounds, were authenticated by Professor Kirlin at the University of Wyoming.Scott Nelson, who spent 35 years analyzing foreign language communications for the U.S. Navy, explains why the recordings contain unmistakable markers of genuine language. He identifies conversational turns between two creatures, repeating morphemes, inquiry and response inflections, and a full spectrum of emotions from aggression to humor. Art plays multiple recordings, including a striking exchange between what sounds like a male and female in heated discussion, rhythmic body slapping, rock cracking between two creatures, and whooping calls.Ron describes seeing a creature moving between trees with impossible speed and finding 25-inch tracks with a 13-foot stride. Both guests discuss the possibility that Bigfoot possesses intelligence far beyond what most researchers assume, with Ron suggesting a paranormal dimension based on unexplained lights and anomalous sounds observed at camp over the years.

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October 8, 2015: Hacking - Kevin Mitnick

Oct 82h 22mKevin Mitnick

Art Bell welcomes Kevin Mitnick, once the FBI's most wanted hacker, for a conversation about computer security, social engineering, and his extraordinary life as a fugitive. Kevin traces his path from childhood magic enthusiast to phone phreak to federal prisoner, explaining how his fascination with understanding systems led him to compromise 40 major corporations and spend years evading federal authorities.Kevin shares gripping stories from his fugitive years, including setting up an early warning system that monitored FBI agents' cell phones, leaving a box labeled "FBI Donuts" in his refrigerator the night before a raid, and hacking the prison phone system while in solitary confinement. He describes spending a year in solitary after a prosecutor convinced a judge he could launch nuclear missiles by whistling into a pay phone, and later serving five years in custody after being tracked down in North Carolina.Now a trusted security consultant, Kevin discusses modern threats including ransomware, tech support scams from overseas call centers, the Sony Pictures hack, and the massive Office of Personnel Management data breach. He explains why he remains skeptical that North Korea was behind the Sony attack and demonstrates how even major companies remain vulnerable to simple social engineering.

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October 9, 2015: Open Lines - Scott Free Line

Oct 92h 23m

Art Bell opens the phone lines for a freewheeling Friday night, featuring a special "Scott Free Line" where callers confess things they got away with. He begins with a provocative story about George H.W. Bush allegedly telling a crowd that Americans "can't handle the truth" about UFOs, and asks callers throughout the night whether the former president and CIA director really said it.The Scott Free confessions range from a man who smuggled marijuana through Mississippi and narrowly avoided a police search, to a caller who sold LSD on communion wafers in high school, to a former contractor who did illegal intelligence work in Indonesia only to get fined for cigarettes in Singapore. Between confessions, callers share UFO sightings, a chilling Ouija board experience that led to the dark web, and a firsthand account of feeling a dying neighbor's spirit pass through a doorway.The night takes a memorable turn when JC Webster calls to announce he has "arisen" from his wilderness exile, claims a divine revelation under the blood moon, and proposes marriage to Kim Davis live on the air. Art fields it all with sharp humor and a two-drink maximum rule for callers.

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October 10, 2015: Bigfoot Sounds - Ron Morehead & Scott Nelson

Oct 102h 38mRon Morehead, Scott Nelson

Art Bell welcomes Bigfoot researcher Ron Morehead and retired Navy crypto linguist Scott Nelson to examine the famous Sierra Sounds, audio recordings captured over several years at a remote wilderness camp in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The recordings, made beginning in 1971, feature striking vocalizations that Nelson identifies as containing virtually every characteristic of human language, including conversational turns between a male and female creature.Morehead recounts how hunters first encountered the creatures and began recording their vocalizations using portable cassette recorders. He describes brief sightings of large, incredibly fast beings moving between trees, 25-inch footprints with 13-foot stride lengths, and strange paranormal occurrences including unexplained lights and sounds with no visible source. Nelson explains that his decades of military experience transcribing foreign voice communications allowed him to immediately recognize articulated language in the recordings.The episode features seven distinct audio samples played on air, ranging from aggressive vocal exchanges and eerie whistling interactions to rhythmic rock clacking and what Morehead calls "the question," a vocalization seemingly directed at the researchers. Both guests agree the creatures possess intelligence far beyond what most people assume, and Nelson notes he produced 75 pages of transcription from roughly 90 minutes of tape.

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