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Barbara McBeath

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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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February 20, 2001: Electronic Voice Phenomena - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Feb 20, 2001

2h 6m

Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society to explore electronic voice phenomena, or EVP. The team uses brand-new microcassette tapes and external microphones to record anomalous voices at cemeteries, abandoned hospitals, historic hotels, and other locations with reported p...

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...

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,...

February 8, 2002: Electronic Voice Phenomena - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Feb 8, 2002

2h 50m

Art Bell hosts Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society for a chilling evening of electronic voice phenomena recordings captured at cemeteries, mausoleums, hotels, and private residences. The nonprofit group uses brand-new tapes in micro cassette recorders with external microphones, visiti...

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...

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...

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...

October 30, 2002: Electronic Voice Phenomena - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Oct 30, 2002

47m

Art Bell fills in for George Noory and opens the Halloween Zone with plans to feature the Ghost Investigators Society and their most compelling EVP recordings from haunted locations including the Wyoming Frontier Prison. He reads from a Denver Post article documenting how GIS members Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath...

November 8, 2002: Electronic Voice Phenomena - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Nov 8, 2002

2h 47m

Art Bell presents a Friday night program featuring Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society, who share their most unsettling electronic voice phenomena recordings collected over years of fieldwork. The session opens with Art discussing a caller's wife who believes listening to voices of th...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

April 15, 2006: Recorded Spirit Communications - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Apr 15, 2006

2h 27m

Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society join Art Bell to present recorded spirit communications and electronic voice phenomena from recent investigations. Art opens with a stunning personal announcement: he has married a young Filipino woman named Airyn and plans to relocate to the Philip...

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...

October 26, 2007: Ghost Voice Recordings - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath | California Wildfires - Dr. Evelyn Paglini

Oct 26, 2007

2h 36m

Art Bell presents a split program featuring EVP researchers Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society alongside psychic Evelyn Paglini with urgent warnings. Cook and McBeath share their most compelling electronic voice phenomena recordings collected over a decade of cemetery and haunted loc...

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...

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...

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...