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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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Efiong Sam

Efiong Sam

Paranormal

Efiong Sam is a Nigerian spiritual figure and representative of a community near Calabar in eastern Nigeria that claims descent from a lost tribe of Israel. As a guest on late-night radio, he described the teachings of Olumba Olumba Obu, a figure within his community said to have been born in 1918 and attributed with miraculous abilities including healing and raising the dead.

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August 3, 1998: Lost Nigerian Tribe - Efiong Sam

Aug 3, 1998
2h 55m
Art Bell speaks with Efiong Sam, a Nigerian man who claims to be from a lost tribe of Israel located near the coast of Calabar in eastern Nigeria. Sam tells Art that God is alive on Earth, born in 1918 among his people, and that the time for divine judgment has arrived. He says this figure, known as Olumba Olumba Ob...