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Barbara McBeath

Barbara McBeath

EVPGhostsParanormal Research

Barbara McBeath is a paranormal investigator and co-founder of the Ghost Investigators Society, specializing in the research and documentation of Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP). Alongside her research partner Brendan Cook, she has become a familiar voice on late-night radio, presenting compelling EVP recordings and advancing the field of instrumental transcommunication.

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Episode thumbnail for August 6, 2001: GIS - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

August 6, 2001: GIS - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Aug 6, 2001
2h 37m
Art Bell provides updates on the Michigan Bigfoot story, human cloning plans by Italian embryologist Severino Antonori, and a mysterious shower of corn husks falling from clear skies over Wichita, Kansas. A caller from Montana reports fresh cattle mutilations with surgical precision, including extracted eyes, remove...
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Episode thumbnail for December 18, 2001: EVPs - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

December 18, 2001: EVPs - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Dec 18, 2001
2h 43m
Art Bell hosts Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society for a presentation of never-before-heard electronic voice phenomena recordings. The session follows Art's recent interview with Pam Reynolds, a woman who described detailed observations during clinical death with zero brain activity,...
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Episode thumbnail for April 3, 2002: Ghost Investigators Society: Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

April 3, 2002: Ghost Investigators Society: Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Apr 3, 2002
2h 53m
Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society to present electronic voice phenomena recordings captured during cemetery and private residence investigations. The nonprofit organization follows strict protocols, using only brand new, unopened microcassette tapes and external mi...
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Episode thumbnail for July 3, 2002: Recorded Voices of Ghosts - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

July 3, 2002: Recorded Voices of Ghosts - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Jul 3, 2002
2h 9m
Art Bell hosts Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society for an evening of electronic voice phenomena recordings captured at cemeteries, a haunted house, and the Laramie Territorial Prison in Wyoming. The five-member nonprofit group uses brand-new, never-recorded-on cassette tapes and five...
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Episode thumbnail for September 20, 2002: EVP - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

September 20, 2002: EVP - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Sep 20, 2002
2h 45m
Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society (GIS) to share their latest electronic voice phenomena recordings. The non-profit team reveals a breakthrough: they have begun capturing EVPs on a digital hard drive recorder, producing results far clearer than traditional magnetic...
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Episode thumbnail for October 18, 2003: Sounds of Ghosts - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

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

Oct 18, 2003
2h 50m
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...
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Episode thumbnail for February 7, 2004: EVPs - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

February 7, 2004: EVPs - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Feb 7, 2004
2h 50m
Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society join Art Bell to present electronic voice phenomena recordings said to capture voices from the grave after a first-hour South African UFO account. Art opens with a surprise guest he kept secret from the network: a man identified only as Chris, claim...
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Episode thumbnail for June 19, 2004: EVPs - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

June 19, 2004: EVPs - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Jun 19, 2004
2h 51m
Art Bell welcomes back Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath from the Ghost Investigators Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to capturing Electronic Voice Phenomena. Art considers their work among the most compelling evidence for life after death he has encountered in all his years of broadcasting. The two inve...
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Episode thumbnail for October 30, 2004: The Dead Speak - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

October 30, 2004: The Dead Speak - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Oct 30, 2004
2h 51m
Art Bell is joined by Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society to present new electronic voice phenomena recordings captured at the Gold Hill Hotel in Virginia City, Nevada, and the Deer Lodge Prison in Montana. The EVP samples include a woman asking "are you alone?" during elevated electr...
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Episode thumbnail for April 2, 2005: Voices of the Dead - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

April 2, 2005: Voices of the Dead - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Apr 2, 2005
2h 55m
Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society join Art Bell to present voices-of-the-dead electronic voice phenomena recordings after Art's opening reflections on Pope John Paul II, rising oil prices, and Yucca Mountain nuclear waste data. He notes Goldman Sachs predictions that oil could reach...
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Episode thumbnail for September 18, 2005: EVP in the House - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

September 18, 2005: EVP in the House - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Sep 18, 2005
2h 30m
Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society to present electronic voice phenomena recordings captured inside a home occupied by two women who practice Wiccan traditions. The residents reported being physically scratched, finding their altar scattered throughout the house, an...
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Episode thumbnail for October 28, 2006: Voices from the Other Side - Barbara McBeath

October 28, 2006: Voices from the Other Side - Barbara McBeath

Oct 28, 2006
2h 34m
Art Bell welcomes Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society for an evening dedicated to electronic voice phenomena. Broadcasting from Manila as Super Typhoon Cimarron bears down on Luzon, Art opens with storm updates before turning to the night's unsettling recordings. Barbara, appearing solo while partner...
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Episode thumbnail for December 18, 2009: EVP with GIS - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

December 18, 2009: EVP with GIS - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Dec 18, 2009
2h 36m
Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to researching electronic voice phenomena. The GIS uses cameras, tape recorders, sound meters, motion detectors, and infrared equipment to investigate haunted locations, deliberately avoiding psy...
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Episode thumbnail for October 29, 2010: EVP Research - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

October 29, 2010: EVP Research - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Oct 29, 2010
2h 37m
Art Bell welcomes back EVP researchers Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society for an evening exploring electronic voice phenomena just days before Halloween. The husband-and-wife team shares recordings captured at reportedly haunted locations, presenting voices that appear to respond dir...
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Episode thumbnail for August 20, 2015: EVPs - Barbara McBeath & Brendan Cook

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

Aug 20, 2015
2h 13m
Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeth 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 ca...