Art Bell introduces Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society, who explore EVPs—like a child’s voice saying "I’m three" before being prompted, or spirits at Rollins Prison (Wyoming) whispering "yeah, baby, it was me" and "Porter lose again"—possibly tied to emotional trauma or lingering consciousness. Their recordings suggest spirits may retain pre-death traits, like curiosity or humor, while NASA satellite data reveals Patagonia’s glaciers melted twice as fast (1995–2000), raising sea levels slightly but signaling rapid climate shifts. Bell also flags suspicious deaths among researchers, including LSU professor Michael Parrish, drowned in a flipped truck, and North Korea’s nuclear threats, while CERN’s 20,000x-faster data transfer hints at AI’s future—raising questions about consciousness, both human and machine. [Automatically generated summary]
I bid you all good evening, good morning, good afternoon, wherever you may be in the known time zones around the globe.
I'm our bell weekend, just not that far.
This is post-to-coast AM weekend version of your It has been an interesting week for me, not necessarily a great week, but an interesting week.
I had a little bit of back trouble this week, not due to the show, not due to being on the air, mind you, but due to my own foolishness.
I had an electronic project I was working on, and that necessitated me kneeling down and soldering.
And when one kneels down and solders for hours on, you know, end at a time, one's back says hello to one very shortly thereafter.
So, the next day, couldn't walk straight.
That's been kind of my week this week.
Been a rough one.
But we've got a lot.
Boy, do we have a lot to do tonight?
Listen, I want to send you immediately up to the website, and I want you first to take a look at my webcam.
Now, on my webcam is a picture sent to me from somebody in Seattle, Washington, and who I'm sure does not wish to be identified, or at any rate didn't suggest that I should identify them.
However, it is purported to be and appears to be a clear photograph of a shadow person.
You all know what a shadow person is, right?
If you don't, a shadow person is that creature or whatever that you see from the corner of your eye occasionally moving in the corner of your eye.
But rarely can you distinctly make it out.
Although there have been reports recently of people beginning to see the shadow whatever they are in plain sight.
Now, I've never experienced that, but I have experienced that wispy movement of something in the corner of my eye.
And here is somebody who purports to have captured its vision in photography.
And it's obviously a living room.
And it's obviously a creature of some kind.
That's on my webcam, on the website, CoastCozam.com.
So you definitely want to take, I'd like you anyway to take a look at that and you tell me what it is.
We are in October, aren't we?
Next hour, Brendan Cook and Barbara Macbeth will be here with something that I want to talk more about, EVPs.
And we'll talk a lot more about that.
But in the meantime, I want to take you through a few things here.
So take a look at that.
My webcam photo.
It's in the upper left-hand corner when you get on the website, way up there, Cesar's webcam.
Take a look at that.
A shadow person caught in action.
And then in a few moments, there is a ghost photograph we're going to talk about.
It's been around for a while, but it reminds me of the movie Contact.
It will take you from thousands of light years away from the Earth in progressive changes.
Hopefully whatever kind of browser you're using will handle this.
But it will show you in progressive stages coming right down to the Earth, eventually getting to the Earth from hundreds of millions of light years out, and then focusing in on an area near Florida, and then finally down to something the size of a leaf coming in by satellite down to the size of a leaf, and then inside the leaf until you get down to the atom of the leaf.
So you're going from a distance beyond which anybody could ever hope to find us.
In fact, when you watch this, as you watch it coming in on Earth, eventually Earth, or even our system, you will understand how incredibly difficult it would be for anybody to find us, anybody ever to locate us.
It's an incredible experience.
It's called Times 10.
You've got to click on it.
It's there on the front of the website and take the tour.
And just sort of let your mind go with the tour.
And if you don't come away from that with a sort of a, I don't know, an experience of how insignificant we really are, then you weren't watching.
So you're going to want to have that experience.
Indeed, how will they ever find us?
And then a ghost photograph, a really good ghost photograph sent to me yesterday, and I called the gentleman in question.
He'll explain to us what we're looking at.
This ghost photograph is, it's called the Backyard Ghost.
And it was sent to us, let me see, from the Alabama Foundation for Paranormal Research.
And I've got the gentleman who sent it, Blake Wiley, on the phone, and we'll get to him in a few moments.
Just one more light little item, and that is, as you know, WABC, that wonderful radio station in New York City, added the program last week.
And when they did, it was my understanding, though I didn't find out about it, to the very last moment that it had occurred, and that Curtis Sleewa, my old nemesis at WABC, was rather upset about the prospect of my return.
In fact, that week, WABC had been running, and you've asked me to play it, and I got it from the board op at WABC, thank you very much, asked me to play what WABC had been playing all week long, and here it is.
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I thought I had gotten rid of that Looney Kazuni from Parks Unknown, but my personal nightmarish back in So Maniacs, Art Bell returns tonight at 1 o'clock on WABC.
Say it ain't so, Promise Keeper Program Director Phil Bush.
I'm not sure if that was my laugh or if that was a program director, Promise Keeper himself type program director Phil.
Anyway, that must have killed him all week long.
All right, let's look briefly at the world.
It's rarely worth doing, but we should.
Oh, by the way, Yankees lost, but you know that, right?
In Morelands 1, 3-2, I heard.
In a new audio tape aired Saturday, a voice purported to be Osama bin Laden vowed suicide attacks inside and outside the United States and threatened nations that are helping the American occupation of Iraq.
The speaker in the tape broadcast throughout the Arab world by good old Al Jazeera television also warned Iraqis against cooperating with U.S. forces and urged youth in neighboring nations to join a jihad or holy war against the Americans.
And from Bangkok in a tense visit, President Bush sped through Manila's streets crowded with flag-waving supporters and angry protesters on Saturday and pledged to help the beleaguered Philippines battle rising terrorism there.
He then brought the promise of closer military ties to Thailand.
He said, quote, we will not be intimidated by the terrorists.
And that brings up a subject that's probably going to get me in trouble.
But by the time you get to be my age and at this stage in my career, you tend to say the hell with it, and let's rock and roll anyway.
This is an example of one of hundreds of emails that I've received and something you probably are not aware of.
Hello.
My husband and I have been avid listeners to your show since it first came on in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada a few years ago.
The CFRA 580 AM link is still on your affiliates list.
The show has been on a while, and we were informed today on the CFRA website by program director Dave Mitchell that it is gone forever because of some statements that were of concern to Canada broadcast standards.
I guess somebody didn't like the fact that the Muslims or other identifiable groups, that's in quotes, were mentioned on various shows.
What babies?
Try being Celtic and blonde.
This is outrageous.
Our freedoms in Canada are slowly being taken from us and we, the public, can do nothing about it.
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If people don't like the program, they can turn it off.
We are extremely disappointed with the whole situation.
We've always been very entertained and informed by the show.
Thanks to you both, meaning I guess myself and George, for all the wonderful shows over the years.
All the best.
Lynn and Dave Thompson, Ottawa, Canada.
Sure enough, we've been removed in Ottawa, Canada.
Why?
Well, on 9-11, thousands of Americans died.
You remember that, right?
When terrorists plowed airplanes into the World Trade Center buildings in New York City, into the Pentagon, almost damn near into the White House.
Thousands of Americans died when they did that.
So yes, we did shows on the subject, and no doubt will again, too.
Yes, we discussed Muslims, to be sure.
It was the subject.
But we were very careful, very, very careful to delineate between the fanatic terrorists that killed thousands of Americans and the religion itself.
Very careful.
I don't know how many times during that program I said, now look, I want to be sure that everybody understands that we're not talking about all Muslims.
Obviously, we're talking about those that blew up these buildings.
What kind of insane, upside-down world are we living in anyway?
CFRA in Ottawa is a talk station, right?
I wonder what they talk about.
If coast to coast, this program is too controversial for CFRA, then what the hell do they talk about?
I'm serious, what do they talk about?
Of any substance?
Is it just problem or do they really take on issues?
You know, I mean, what would they have us do?
Never mention the subject so as never to upset some unidentifiable or even some identifiable group.
Read the explanation.
You can go to their website, go to Google and put in CFRA.
And they've got an explanation there to coast listeners why it's not on the air anymore.
You read it for yourself.
Some identifiable group.
We talked about some identifiable group.
Perhaps CFRA would have us give terrorists equal time.
I just, I can't figure this out.
Now, I rarely ask my audience to do anything, but in this particular case, I am going to ask you all of you to contact CFRA.
I told you, you can go to Google and just put in CFRA and you'll get there.
And let them know how you feel.
Not that I think, even if every one of you complain and bitch, that they'll put Coast Coast back on the air, because I doubt that.
I don't expect that at all.
But instead, because this kind of insanity has got to end, you know, we'll continue.
We have over 500 affiliates.
Hell, we've, you know, one affiliate here or there.
We'll survive, believe me.
But, you know, this kind of thing has got to end.
This insanity has got to end, or the free world isn't going to be so free for us or our children.
Right now, we're fighting.
Agree or disagree about it.
Baby, we're fighting.
Our men, our women are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, and they're dying all over the world.
But what good does it do if we lose what we're trying to protect?
Our freedoms here at home.
Specifically, the freedom of speech, not by chance, the first inscribed amendment to our Constitution here in America, and I'm very sure highly cherished in Canada as well.
So we lost a station, but the real loss looms straight ahead of all of us.
As you gaze into the abyss, it gazes back at you.
Believe me, something much more important lost than any radio station anywhere.
That's what we're looking at.
When you cannot discuss something in general and a situation that killed thousands of your countrymen without somebody somewhere having some kind of objection that gets you taken off the air.
It's the damnedest world we live in, isn't it?
So as I said, you can go to Google if you feel as I do about it.
You know, I wasn't even going to...
Then number two, I put it at the end of the pile.
You know, like, well, if I get to it, I get to.
And then the more I thought about it, the more angry I got about the whole thing.
And then it finally made it up to the front of the pile.
So there you have it.
You can find, what is it, CFRA?
Am I right about that?
Yeah, CFRA listed in Google.
And, you know, let them have a hunk of your mind.
I just, I, you know, take us off if we do something wrong.
They went through, looked at everything that could even cause a reflection of anything in the window, and found nothing.
From the angle that the actual apparition is, it would have to be something hanging from the ceiling, possibly, to actually show up in the picture like that.
And again, they went over the house and found nothing.
Blake is affiliated with the Alabama Foundation for Paranormal Research, and this really is a good photograph, right up there in the top 10 of any ghost photograph I've ever received.
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First time callers may reach Art at 1-7 Once again, keep in mind, please, a picture taken that we're discussing on the website was taken by an elderly lady in Mount Julia, Tennessee.
She had always told her relatives there were ghosts in her backyard, they simply come out of the woods, walk around, and eventually disappear.
Seeing that no one really believed her, she decided to take photographs the next time they came around.
This 80-year-old lady, right?
80-year-old lady.
This picture, I understand, was scanned in from a physical picture, not a digital.
There have been no attempts to change or enhance the image other than the close-up of the actual apparition.
Yes, you can click on and get a close-up, and it'll just knock you right in the eye.
So is there anything else, Blake, that we should know about this photograph?
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It's kind of interesting that this picture was actually taken in the evening.
It's still daylight outside, as you can tell.
She doesn't see them at night.
She only sees them during the day, usually, which I just personally, I kind of found that interesting in itself.
Ah, well, in that case, Blake, after you do so, I hope you will immediately contact me and I will put you on the air, assuming I'm still on the air, and I will allow you to tell us what happened.
I want to talk for a second again about the Power of Ten.
You know, there are a few things in this life that just lay you back and you go, huh, like that.
The Power of Ten is one of those.
And to be specific this time, the link when you open it, it's on the website, The Power of Ten, opens with a picture of Earth from 10 million light years away.
Now, of course, at 10 million light years, you can't even begin to see our sun, much less the Earth.
But it nevertheless begins there.
And like the movie Contact, this time zooms in toward the Earth until it finally gets there, and then zooms in by a factor of 10 each time, coming through the satellite photographs and all the rest of it, until you get down to the quark in an atom.
I said an atom earlier, actually, into the theoretical.
I don't think we've actually photographed a quark yet.
But the mental trip that you'll go through with this power of 10 is just incredible.
So it's something you're going to want to do if you've never, even if you have done it before, go do it again and Just sort of let your mind grasp the implications of what you're seeing.
Keeping in mind that a light year, a single light year, is the time it would take to travel at the speed of light in one year.
Speed of light in one year.
So we begin 10 million light years from Earth.
This is very interesting.
Michael Perritch, that's P-E-R-I-C-H, an LSU professor who helped fight the spread of West Nile virus, died Saturday morning in a one-vehicle car accident.
He was 46 years of age.
Walker Police Chief Elton Burns said Sunday that Perritch of, and it gives his address here in Baton Rouge.
I'm not going to give the address, crashed his Ford pickup truck at 4.30 a.m.
Saturday while heading west on Interstate 12 in Livingston Parish down there in Louisiana.
His truck veered right off the highway about three miles east of Walker, flipped, and landed in rainwater.
Barrich, who was wearing his seatbelt, drowned cause of the crash under investigation.
Parrish, who worked for the U.S. Army for more than 15 years, joined the LSU faculty in August of 2001 as an assistant professor of medical entomology.
In addition to West Nile, Barich also studied malaria and several other diseases.
According to the head of LSU's department, he was one of our stars.
He was well known.
While I was here, I certainly got to know the depth and breadth of his character and talent.
In other words, he was a real star in those types of studies.
And I'm not saying that his death is anything but what it appears to be an accident.
However, anybody out there counting, how many researchers into the biological field does this make who have met with untimely deaths?
Individually, none of them, none of these apparent terrible tragedies and accidents appear to be suspicious.
But, you know, collectively, it's beginning to get to be very suspicious, in my opinion.
Oh, here's one you're going to like.
North Korea to display nuclear force.
Seoul, North Korea said on Thursday of this last week, it would physically display its nuclear deterrent force.
This is a report from South Korea's Yonhop News Agency.
The remarks by unnamed spokesperson of the North Korea Foreign Ministry could be an indication that the communist regime intends to test a nuclear bomb.
Oh, wonderful.
Maybe Ed Dames was right.
When the time comes, the DPRK will take steps to physically display its nuclear deterrent force.
DPRK stands for North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
For weeks, North Korea said that it was building up its nuclear deterrent force.
Nuclear deterrent force in quotes.
A term that the North uses to refer to its nuclear weapons program.
U.S. intelligence officials believe that North Korea already has one or two nuclear bombs and may be building more right now.
On Thursday, KCNA quoted the North Korean spokesperson as saying his country has no other option but to continue to take steps to keep and increase its nuclear deterrent force as a self-defense measure because of what it calls U.S. plans to invade.
The nuclear dispute flared last October when U.S. officials said North Korea admitted running a secret nuclear weapons program in violation of international agreements.
So, you know, this adds up to, if you believe it, and the North Koreans talk a lot of trash, to be sure, but they're also working on nuclear bombs, to be sure.
So they may be about, you know, to test one and maybe in our atmosphere.
From unknowncountry.com, a man exploring a crop circle in Iowa discovered that a dog refused to go inside it.
Unusual levels of electrical activity have often been reported inside crop circles, and dogs may be more sensitive to it than humans.
It's recently been discovered dogs are sensitive to impending earthquakes, for example.
Twelve years ago, Jim Hodges received a strange phone call.
He says, it was a sheriff calling me to tell me there'd been a report of a crop circle near bluegrass.
I drove out there, went up to the silo with the farmer, and boy there it was, a beautiful circle in a mature cornfield.
A woman driving home from a nearby tavern reported seeing red lights coming from the cornfield.
I'd sure like to know how many think that lady may have had a few, he says.
From the beginning I thought it was strange that the dog from that farm wouldn't go anywhere near the crop circle with me, wouldn't go near it.
I looked on my hands and knees for any sign of humans, found none.
To this day, he says, I cannot tell you what created that crop circle.
I was the first person to my knowledge to be in that thing.
I spent the day photographing every inch of it.
He flew over it in a helicopter, took pictures, got back several hours later, found a group of people waiting for him on the edge of the field.
I don't know how they heard about it, he said, but they waved a wand over me and asked if I felt any odd electricity.
He says, I didn't, but apparently the dog did.
Barbike writes that for Hodges, the most puzzling thing about the crop circle was that it was somehow created in a mature cornfield.
He can't imagine who or what could do such thing.
From mature corn stalks.
He said, you've got to understand about corn stalks.
You can't break those down by swinging a brick, he said.
You can pull yourself off the ground by one of those corn stalks.
People naturally claimed it was fake, but I sure never could figure out how.
Nobody could.
Nobody ever has.
Nobody's ever been caught making a crop circle.
It remains one of the most elusive, strange, inexplicable things that happens on our Earth.
Melting ice glaciers, here we go again in the Patagonian ice fields of southern Argentina and Chile has doubled in recent years caused by higher temperatures, lower snowfall, and more breaking up of icebergs.
Using satellites from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Defense Department, researchers measured the loss from two ice fields on the southern tip of South America found that the rate of melting doubled, doubled from 1995 to the year 2000.
That's five years, folks, when compared with any earlier measurements.
This whole thing was reported in the journal Science on Friday yesterday.
The two ice fields cover a total of 6,600 square miles, contain 63 glaciers.
Some dump their water into the ocean.
Others flow into high lakes.
Researchers estimated that the glaciers are losing the equivalent of 10 cubic miles of ice every year now.
This is enough to annually raise the world sea level by all of four one-thousandths of an inch.
Doesn't seem like much, does it?
But it means that the mountain glaciers in Patagonia are contributing an unusually large amount of water to the sea when compared, for example, with much larger ice fields.
Alaska, for example, has five times more ice in Patagonia.
Yet the melt off from Patagonia is about a third as much as the melt off from Alaska's mountain glaciers, and they are going very, very quickly.
My wife and I were in Alaska, and believe me, these things are retreating at an alarming rate, absolutely an alarming rate.
The world's weather, beyond any question, any doubt in my mind, is changing.
And I wish that people would stop arguing about whether it's a hand of man or whether it's some great cyclical change that's occurring.
It doesn't matter.
It just doesn't matter.
The fact of the matter is, it is changing.
And places where we grow things that are very productive now are going to change.
They're not necessarily going to go away, but they're going to change.
They're going to move north or perhaps under some other condition to the south, but they are going to change.
This much change in our weather is going to produce a change in the yield of our crops.
And we're going to have to wake up to that before it is too late.
This from the Los Angeles Times When the volcano blew here, referring now to Yellowstone National Park, it obliterated a mountain range, felled herds of prehistoric camels hundreds of miles away, and left a smoking hole in the ground the size of the Los Angeles basin.
Modern Yellowstone doesn't dwell on its cataclysmic past or its potential for another monster eruption.
Rangers tell people to keep their distance from bison and streaming geysers, but there are no signs, aside from nature's own bubbling mud pots and geysers, that visitors are wandering through the caldera of one of the world's largest volcanoes period.
One of the world's largest volcanoes.
You're walking on it, baby.
This is a geologic park, and not many people know it, said Robert Smith, a geophysicist at the University of Utah, who spent his entire career piecing together the story of the Yellowstone Volcano.
It's not a bison park, not an elk park, it's a geologic park, he says.
New sensors have allowed researchers to confirm a suspicion that Smith has had for a long time now, that the ancient volcano scientists dub the beast, that's in quotes, the beast, is a living force.
The instruments record a continuing pattern of heaving and bulging and act as an early warning system.
Installed without any fanfare and hidden from view, the sensitive devices are an acknowledgement that the past could be prologued, that this seemingly serene plateau could blow so hard that it would make the 1980 Mount St. Helens explosion look like a sneeze.
That's from the Los Angeles Times.
For you geeks out there, my wife handed me this.
She knows I'm in love with this kind of story.
Forget Wi-Fi from Geneva, Switzerland.
Researchers have more than doubled the world's speed record for internet data transfer.
Now, check this out.
Scientists at the CERN Particle Physics Laboratory in Switzerland sent the equivalent of a full-length DVD movie in about how long do you think?
A full DVD movie in seven seconds.
Colleagues at the California Institute of Technology received the data.
The land record was set October 1st by transferring 1.1 terabytes of data over a 7,000 kilometer link in less than 30 minutes, the team said.
The average transfer rate was 5.44 gigabytes per second, which broke the previous record of 2.38 gigabytes, more than 20 times faster, 20,000 times faster, excuse me, than a typical home broadband connection.
So 20,000 times faster than the typical home broadband connection.
Could that be what lies ahead For all of us, well, maybe not that, but some even fairly healthy portion of that.
Can you imagine that?
How is that going to change our world?
The ability to move data at that speed.
Perhaps download a movie.
They did it, what, in seven seconds or something.
But if we even had a portion of that and it took, say, one minute to download an entire feature film, this will change the world.
It'll change everything about the world.
Data speeds, even a fraction of what they've just done here, will totally change the world we live in.
Every aspect of it just about.
The entertainment business, the broadcast industry, just so many things in our world.
Our ability to speak with each other, to see each other, to interact with each other eventually in a three-dimensional way.
That's right.
In a real-time, three-dimensional way.
These are the miracles that lie ahead of us with faster and faster data transfer, faster processor speeds, more computer storage.
It's headed eventually, of course, not to the clunky mechanical device we have today known as a hard drive, but it's headed to a very much more incredible kind of storage.
Who knows what?
Maybe some kind of bubble memory or something that virtually produces instant access.
Processor speeds are going so quickly now.
And, you know, storage speed-wise is going to catch up to it.
You just have to wonder how long it's going to be before, I don't know, before we have a machine that thinks, a machine that identifies itself, a machine that knows that it's alive.
Yeah, that's right.
Virtually a living thing.
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This is Coast to Coast AM with I Bell from the Kingdom of Nye.
If you'll just keep your hat parked comfortably for a moment, we're going to talk about ghosts tonight in one of the strangest, scariest, most bizarre ways you can.
We are, no matter how old or young you are, you are but a tiny slice of the overall plan in the cosmos, right?
You're here for a very, very short time.
We all are.
And the big question, of course, is what happens after we end this physical life, or it is ended, however it happens.
That's a big question.
And October, of course, is a great time to explore that question because one of the main things you look for is any evidence of life beyond the physical.
The main area you look into for that would be, you know, the area that Brendan Cook and Barbara Macbeth look into.
Brendan Cook and Barbara Macbeth are both members of the Ghost Investigator Society, GIS.
The Ghost Investigator Society, and this is important, is a non-profit organization.
That's right, they don't make money dedicated to the investigation of ghosts.
Not only do they conduct investigations, but they also instruct, assist, and educate anyone who believes that they may be experiencing ghostly phenomena or those who are just simply curious.
In an effort to educate the public about ghosts, the GIS hopes that the EVPs or electronic voice phenomena that you're about to hear will help demonstrate that the consciousness, our consciousness, does survive after the body dies.
And that these voices may help to give a different perspective about life, death, and ghosts.
First of all, welcome back to the program, you two.
They did do earlier in the week, I think George did a program with, believe it or not, another couple.
Y'all that do EVP must come in couples or something.
Anyway, it does not matter.
I think this subject is so important and so worthy of our attention or the attention of those who are trying to figure out what the real truth is that it's worth doing even more frequently than that.
That's how I feel about it.
I don't know about you.
What launched you guys into this anyway?
For me, it's what the heck happens to us after we die.
Well, it's a subject that I've been interested in all my life, but we have gotten so many responses from people that have just gone out and tried this on their own.
And I must tell you, I've had thousands of emails on this topic because we have suggested, of course, in previous programs, that people do exactly that, that they go out and try it for themselves.
And I really am all for that because if you can demonstrate it to yourself, then you've got to sit down and scratch your head and say, hey, maybe that's really not a bunch of circus bull.
Maybe there is really something to it.
And if there is, what does it mean?
Well, hey, if it's real, then it means we do survive death.
Well, I remember back when we were urging you to try digital, you seemed to have the feeling that it would not manifest as easily on digital for some reason as tape, something about the magnetic heads or whatever.
But that turned out, would you still say not to be true or what?
I mean, I would say that the majority of times when something is picked up, it's picked up by the recorders that are close at hand because we have, well, like Jenny, one of our other members, she'll carry around the digital and also a regular mini cassette recorder.
My recorder probably has about a million miles on it now, and it's starting to not be reliable, so I'm gonna have to try to find me another one, and it's getting hard to find the That's correct.
Any place that's reported having activity taking place.
Well, here's where I want to ask you about something, and it is: you once told me that while there are hot spots, it's not any necessarily more likely that, I mean, you'd get them anywhere, and yet you all still gravitate toward these graveyards and things, right?
I mean, right away that indicates to me if you died, for example, of a broken neck or a back that went totally haywire or whatever, that this injury will then manifest itself on the other side as well.
Yeah, well, we asked him if after Brendan told us what he had witnessed there, we asked the funeral director if he had recently had a young boy for burial there at his work that might have followed him home that had been killed from a broken neck.
And he said no.
He said they had had a lot of children that year, but none that he could recall having a broken neck.
Do you think that these entities that you're encountering and that are actually speaking to you, my God, it's eerie to listen to, but are actually speaking to you, do you think that these are people who have reached their final destination?
Do you have any clue of all the things you've listened to?
How many clues do you have about the nature of the other side?
Are they just trapped on earth?
Are they spending a little short vacation here before going on?
Brendan Cook and Barbara Macbeth are here this morning along with recordings that they've taken by, well, all sorts of methods.
Standard tape recorders with brand new cassette tapes and digital recorders as well.
These have been taken in funeral homes, graveyards, prisons, places like that.
And I don't know.
As you listen, if you don't get a little chill down your spine, then in my opinion, you're not listening.
The End Kevin fast blasts me from Ohio saying, at the beginning of your show tonight, you mentioned a possible photograph of a shadow creature.
Oh, yes, I did.
It's on my webcam right now.
If you go to the website in the upper left-hand corner, you just click on webcam.
Indeed, it was sent to me by an unidentified, a person who does not want to be identified in Seattle, Washington.
It is clearly a shadow person in the middle of the room.
Kevin says, in a recent lecture given by Stephen Hawking, entitled Brain New World, I assume he means say that brain as in our brain, Brain New World, he mentions the possibilities of shadow worlds And people.
There was one night that we arrived, and they had walked out of the house because there was like the smell of boiled eggs or sulfur smelling, and it was still in the house when we walked in, but it immediately couldn't smell it after about like two minutes after being in the house.
On this one, me and Brendan were down in the basement of the house, and we're in the dark, and Brendan doesn't have an infrared camera, so he's walking through this room.
You're going to hear Brendan say, what's in front of me, Barb?
And I respond, and I say, I don't think anything, Brendan.
And then he interrupts and he says, you don't think anything?
And then I say, our left of you, to the left of you.
And there's a voice that comes in and says, leave us out there.
And I say, take a picture of that towards the mirror, but also at that.
And I'm kind of pointing towards the fireplace.
And then you're going to hear, and Roger and I were alone at this time, you're going to hear a younger woman say, it's okay, come on, it's a camera hunt.
And the very first part of this where she says, it's okay, come on, is very, it's almost fast, like she's trying to hurry something up.
As you see, I'm always trying to draw, and perhaps more times than not, I'm sure incorrectly, some sort of inference about the other side or about the condition these spirits are in from what they say.
And that would imply, I don't know, Han, that implies some sort of loving relationship taking place on the other side, right?
Otherwise, we haven't really transferred our consciousness to the other side because our consciousness, at least part of it, is made up of all the emotions that we feel and experience, right?
Correct.
So if it really does continue, it would have to continue with those emotions somewhat intact.
I can just about picture somebody in an 18-wheeler hanging about 75 miles an hour down one of the freeways here in the West listening to this and totally creeping out in the middle of the night.
You know, not alive.
That seemed to be an answer.
We were talking about that a minute ago.
He seemed to be responding directly to you, didn't he?
You know, by the way, I know y'all are brave and all that stuff, but I wouldn't go into a mortician's house where strange things have been flying around and lights are scooting around and voices are going on and you're in his basement in the dark, good Lord.
A lot of people who die as older people die as grouchy old, you know, and then if a child were to die, a child would, you know, if you retain all your faculties and emotions and everything that is consciousness, a child would still be curious about everything in the world and be like a child is in death even, right?
Gee, with the powers to create yellow sparks and little blobs that flit across the living room and chains rattling in the attic to be able to do all that after you're gone.
Well, the Rollins Prison, I don't know if you remember this or not, but two years ago, actually, we did an investigation there, and we pretty much devoted an entire show with you on this prison.
Well, this one, what you're going to hear is, and this was recorded in the death house of the prison, and you're going to hear the prison director start talking about, and she says, and he and I were over there and we were complaining it was cold.
And then she says something that you can't really make out, and then she finishes it off with, we got warm.
And then here's the real interesting thing.
You're going to hear a kid say he was in the death house of this prison.
Originally, when the prison first opened, they did it by hanging.
And then in, I believe it was the 1950s, they installed a gas chamber, and they would execute them by hydrocyanic gas.
And that kind of leads me into this next thing, is the only thing we can rationalize on why we would hear a kid in this death house is the last inmate to be killed there was a man by the name of Andrew Pixley.
And he committed the worst crime in Wyoming history.
All right, now, once again, what you are supposedly hearing here, and it's a little indistinct, is the prison director, and he and I were over there, and we were complaining it was cold, then something you can't make out, and then supposedly we got warm, and he was.
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And me and I over there were complaining that it was cold and we went to Instagram about one of them.
Anybody want to explain to me what that well, I know they did have a young prisoner there that was probably about 14 or 15 at one time in the frontier days, but this voice sounds younger than that.
Well, I've interviewed people like Father Malachi Martin, and they will tell you without exception, without question, that people are inhabited by evil spirits, by Lucifer.
It really does happen.
And what if it happened to that man?
what if he doesn't remember it it's so evil with nobody If I really did do this, well, then I deserve to die.
This one, we were in different parts of the prison.
We kind of scattered out.
And we used walkie-talkies to keep in contact with one another.
And Brendan had radioed to me.
I was in a different part of the prison than he was.
And you're going to hear me respond back to him and say, Brendan, and then there's a woman's voice that says his name, repeats his name, but in a very different way than I called to him.
I mean, especially the people that go to prison and for some of the crimes that they've committed, like that Andrew Pixley, it's best not to even think about it.
And yet there are priests who will go to that prison at the end, the very last moments of the prisoner's life, and tell him that if he, I don't know, converts or takes God on or Jesus at the very last minute, he will nevertheless be forgiven.
In this clip, Barbara and Jenny were off by themselves, and you'll hear Barbara talking to Jenny, and she's saying, you see it, and she could see her reflection in the marble of one of the corridors in the prison.
And then she says, oh, now it changes.
And then she says, see it again.
And then after that, you'll hear, it sounds like a really young woman saying, it's all right.
All right, now what I want everybody to pay attention to in this, it's my own little thing, but do you hear the acoustics when whatever it is says it's alright?
The acoustics would appear to match the acoustics that you're hearing with the more human voices.
However, maybe on the other side, the acoustics are the same because it virtually is the same on the other side, but just sort of on a different frequency or in a different dimension, is what I was going to say.
Something, but the acoustics sound the same, don't they?
There was an area of this prison when they would bring the prisoners into the prison where there was a whipping post, and they would tie the prisoners to this whipping post and whip them.
And that's how you have to hang when you're listening to this kind of a program.
Tough.
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Well, this clip, and this is pretty interesting, just the way this clip comes out and the context and then the voice and all of it just kind of works together.
In this clip, you're going to hear Barry, I, and the prison director, we were outside and she was taking us over to an area of the courtyard in the prison, and she was explaining that there used to be dungeons here.
And you're going to hear her say, we know that there is a dungeon.
Have you guys ever read the diary set, we sell sweet smell of sagebrush?
And then I respond, no.
And then she continues saying, well, the sweet smell of sagebrus, excuse me, brush is Stanley Hudson.
He was here for, and then you're going to hear the beginning of this EVP, and you're going to hear it twice in the actual sentence that she's finishing.
I'm actually, on this one, I'm not going to tell you because you'll be able to hear it As soon as it comes in.
But she finishes saying different times, and he talks about the dungeon, so we know there was a dungeon, and then I finish saying, and he was an inmate, and then she finishes, yeah.
Well, I would like to believe residual, because that means that it's not eternal torture, but the fact that you get so many that are responsive to things you say and in the current moment that you can't really believe that.
And so maybe then maybe the best we can hope for is that it's both, that there is some residual memory left that you're picking up, because that's all we can hope, because on the other hand, we do get these directly responsive things to you, so it would have to be both if it's going to be residual.
Are you two now positive that what you're receiving on these tape recorders, on these digital recorders, what you're receiving is not some weird, I don't know, a million things are suggested.
It's a radio station, and you're catching some little bit of a broadcast somewhere.
Or, well, since you use new tapes, it really couldn't be even more.
As a matter of fact, I've, you know, listening to all this, I guarantee you, I would have chimed up and I'd have said, hey, that's some part of a broadcast or something.
I guess what I'm trying to do is cause my audience to ask themselves, what the hell else could this be?
I mean, you listen to these, if it's not a broadcast and it's not some other weird phenomena that I, and I'm pretty far into electronics, I don't have a clue.
I don't have a clue what could be putting these voices on there.
Not a clue.
And so you're led to the inevitable conclusion that somehow spirits are able to communicate over our modern electronic devices or the devices hear them.
Do you believe these are projected voices that it's hard for these entities to make themselves heard?
You have to wonder if the world of the dead, such as it is, looks at the world of the living without difficulty or with some difficulty or I don't know.
Well, this clip, I recorded this, and This was also on the digital.
I was walking down a corridor that led into the shower area of the prison, which was actually the most murders in the prison happened in this area, where the showers were.
You will hear the prison director asking me, Well, what did you do with it?
And she's referring to a CD that I had made for her with all these voices on it.
And apparently, she never got it.
And you hear me say, I've still got it.
I keep backups of all of them.
And then this man comes in and says, I have to go now.
I always try to draw something from each of these, but I hate to blow up an earlier argument, but he is obviously aware he's dead, and he's still in this sort of like secondary place.
He hadn't gone to heaven yet, or hell yet, or wherever it is that he's ultimately headed, but he darn well knows he's dead, and he knows he's there.
You two, hold on.
Coming toward the top of the hour, in the next hour, we'll be taking calls for these two, and I imagine you would have questions about all of this.
Because consider the implications if it's real.
If it is, these are the dead we're hearing.
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realize just what I have found From the high desert and
the great American Southwest I bid you all good evening, good morning, good afternoon Wherever you may be in the known time zones around the globe I'm Art Bell, leeching just about that far This is Coast to Coast AM Weekend Version How y'all doing?
It has been an interesting week for me Not necessarily a great week, but an interesting week I had a little bit of back trouble this week Not due to the show, not due to being on the air, mind you But due to my own foolishness I had an electronic project I was working on, and that precipitated me kneeling down and stopping and then one kneels down and stutters on, you know, and at a time.
One's back and says hello to one very shortly thereafter.
So, the next day, couldn't walk straight.
That's been kind of my week this week, been a rough one.
But we've got a lot.
Boy, do we have a lot to do tonight?
Listen, I want to send you immediately up to the website, and I want you first to take a look at my webcam.
Now, on my webcam is a picture sent to me from somebody in Seattle, Washington, and who I'm sure does not wish to be identified, or at any rate didn't suggest that I should identify them.
However, it is purported to be and appears to be a clear photograph of a shadow person.
You all know what a shadow person is, right?
If you don't, a shadow person is that creature or whatever that you see from the corner of your eye occasionally moving in the corner of your eye.
But rarely can you distinctly make it out.
Although there have been reports recently of people beginning to see the shadow whatever they are in plain sight.
Now, I've never experienced that, but I have experienced that wispy movement of something in the corner of my eye.
And here is somebody who purports to have captured its vision in photography.
And it's obviously a living room.
And it's obviously a creature of some kind.
That's on my webcam, on the website, CoastCoastAM.com.
So you definitely want to take, I'd like you anyway to take a look at that, and you tell me what it is.
We are in October, aren't we?
Next hour, Brendan Cook and Barbara Macbeth will be here with something that I want to talk more about, EVPs.
And we'll talk a lot more about that.
But in the meantime, I want to get you through a few things here.
So take a look at that, my webcam photo.
It's in the upper left-hand corner when you get on the website, way up there, Cesar's webcam.
Take a look at that.
A shadow person caught in action.
And then in a few moments, there's a ghost photograph We're going to talk about.
It's been around for a while, but it reminds me of the movie Contact.
It will take you from thousands of light years away from the Earth in progressive changes.
Hopefully whatever kind of browser you're using will handle this, but it will show you in progressive stages coming right down to the Earth, eventually getting to the Earth from hundreds of millions of light years out, and then focusing in on an area near Florida,
and then finally down to something the size of a leaf coming in by satellite, down to the size of a leaf, and then inside the leaf until you get down to the atom of the leaf.
So you're going from a distance beyond which anybody could ever hope to find us.
In fact, when you watch this, as you watch it coming in on Earth, eventually Earth, or even our system, you will understand how incredibly difficult it would be for anybody to find us, anybody ever to locate us.
It's an incredible experience.
It's called Times 10.
You've got to click on it.
It's there on the front of the website and take the tour.
And just sort of let your mind go with the tour.
And if you don't come away from that with a sort of a, I don't know, an experience of how insignificant we really are, then you weren't watching.
So you're going to want to have that experience.
Indeed, how will they ever find us?
And then a ghost photograph, a really good ghost photograph, sent to me yesterday, and I called the gentleman in question.
He'll explain to us what we're looking at.
This ghost photograph is, it's called the Backyard Ghost.
And it was sent to us, let me see, from the Alabama Foundation for Paranormal Research.
And I've got the gentleman who sent it, Blake Wiley, on the phone, and we'll get to him in a few moments.
Just one more light little item, and that is, as you know, WABC, that wonderful radio station in New York City, added the program last week.
And when they did, it was my understanding, though I didn't find out about it, to the very last moment, that it had occurred, and that Curtis Sleewa, my old nemesis at WABC, was rather upset about the prospect of my return.
In fact, that week, WABC had been running, and you've asked me to play it, and I got it from the board op at WABC, thank you very much, asked me to play what WABC had been playing all week long, and here it is.
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This is Curtis Lee.
I thought I had gotten rid of that Looney Kazoonie from Parts Unknown, but my personal nightmarage back in So Maniacs, Art Bell, returns tonight at 1 o'clock on WABC.
Say it ain't so, Promise Keeper Program Director Phil Bush.
Oh, by the way, Yankees lost, but you know that, all right?
In Morelands 1, 3-2, I heard.
In a new audio tape aired Saturday, a voice purported to be Osama bin Laden vowed suicide attacks inside and outside the United States and threatened nations that are helping the American occupation of Iraq.
The speaker in the tape broadcast throughout the Arab world by good old Al Jazeera television also warned Iraqis against cooperating with U.S. forces and urged youth in neighboring nations to join a jihad or holy war against the Americans.
And from Bangkok, in a tense visit, President Bush sped through Manila's streets, crowded with flag-waving supporters and angry protesters on Saturday, and pledged to help the beleaguered Philippines battle rising terrorism there.
He then brought the promise of closer military ties to Thailand.
He said, quote, we will not be intimidated by the terrorists.
And that brings up a subject that's probably going to get me in trouble.
But by the time you get to be my age and at this stage in my career, you tend to say, the hell with it, and let's rock and roll anyway.
This is an example of one of hundreds of emails that I've received and something you probably are not aware of.
Hello.
My husband and I have been avid listeners to your show since it first came on in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada a few years ago.
The CFRA 580 AM link is still on your affiliates list.
The show has been on a while, and we were informed today on the CFRA website by program director Dave Mitchell that it is gone forever because of some statements that were of concern to Canada broadcast standards.
I guess somebody didn't like the fact that the Muslims or other identifiable groups, that's in quotes, were mentioned on various shows.
What babies?
Try being Celtic and blonde.
This is outrageous.
Our freedoms in Canada are slowly being taken from us and we, the public, can do nothing about it.
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If people don't like the program, they can turn it off.
We are extremely disappointed with the whole situation.
We've always been very entertained and informed by the show.
Thanks to you both, meaning I guess myself and George, for all the wonderful shows over the years.
All the best.
Lynn and Dave Thompson, Ottawa, Canada.
Sure enough, we've been removed in Ottawa, Canada.
Why?
Well, on 9-11, thousands of Americans died.
You remember that, right?
When terrorists plowed airplanes into the World Trade Center buildings in New York City, into the Pentagon, almost damn near into the White House.
Thousands of Americans died when they did that.
So yes, we did shows on the subject, and no doubt will again, too.
Yes, we discussed Muslims, to be sure.
It was the subject.
But we were very careful, very, very careful to delineate between the fanatic terrorists that killed thousands of Americans and the religion itself.
Very careful.
I don't know how many times during that program I said, now look, I want to be sure that everybody understands that we're not talking about all Muslims.
Obviously, we're talking about those that blew up these buildings.
Right?
Well, obviously it was not enough for CFRA in Ottawa, who apparently received some complaints from, we really don't know who, some group.
What kind of insane, upside-down world are we living in anyway?
CFRA in Ottawa is a talk station, right?
I wonder what they talk about.
If coast to coast, this program is too controversial for CFRA, then what the hell do they talk about?
I'm serious.
What do they talk about?
Of any substance?
Is it just problem or do they really take on issues?
You know, I mean, what would they have us do?
Never mention the subject so as never to upset some unidentifiable or even some identifiable group.
Read the explanation.
You can go to their website, go to Google and put in CFRA.
And they've got an explanation there to coast listeners why it's not on the air anymore.
You read it for yourself.
Some identifiable group.
We talked about some identifiable group.
Perhaps CFRA would have us give terrorists equal time.
I just, I can't figure this out.
Now, I rarely ask my audience to do anything.
But in this particular case, I am going to ask you all of you to contact CFRA.
I told you, you can go to Google and just put in CFRA and you'll get there.
And let them know how you feel.
Not that I think, even if every one of you complain and bitch, that they'll put Coast Coast back on there, because I doubt that.
I don't expect that at all.
But instead, because this kind of insanity has got to end, you know, we'll continue.
We have over 500 affiliates.
Hell, one affiliate here or there.
We'll survive, believe me.
But, you know, this kind of thing has got to end.
This insanity has got to end.
Or the free world isn't going to be so free for us or our children.
Right now, we're fighting.
Agree or disagree about it.
Baby, we're fighting.
Our men, our women are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, and they're dying all over the world.
But what good does it do if we lose what we're trying to protect?
Our freedoms here at home.
Specifically, the freedom of speech, not by chance, the first inscribed amendment to our Constitution here in America, and I'm very sure highly cherished in Canada as well.
So we lost a station, but the real loss looms straight ahead of all of us.
As you gaze into the abyss, it gazes back at you.
Believe me, something much more important lost than any radio station anywhere.
That's what we're looking at.
When you cannot discuss something in general and a situation that killed thousands of your countrymen without somebody somewhere having some kind of objection that gets you taken off the air.
It's the damnedest world we live in, isn't it?
So as I said, you can go to Google if you feel as I do about it.
You know, I wasn't even going to...
Then number two, I put it at the end of the pile.
You know, like, well, if I get to it, I get to.
And then the more I thought about it, the more angry I got about the whole thing.
And then they finally made it up to the front of the pile.
So there you have it.
You can find, what is it, CFRA?
Am I right about that?
Yeah, CFRA listed in Google.
And, you know, let them have a hunk of your mind.
I just, I, you know, take us off if we do something wrong.
They went through, looked at everything that could even cause a reflection of anything in the window, and found nothing.
From the angle that the actual apparition is, it would have to be something hanging from the ceiling, possibly, to actually show up in the picture like that.
And again, they went over the house and found nothing.
Blake is affiliated with the Alabama Foundation for Paranormal Research, and this really is a good photograph, right up there in the top 10 of any ghost photograph I've ever received.
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He did write about that, but actually it was rich in Chicopee, Massachusetts.
Hey, Art, I think you killed the CFRA website.
Well, I hope not.
I think.
But listen, keep trying over the weekend, and then barring that, you might want to give them a ring on Monday.
I know it's a long way to call out, but you nevertheless might want to give them a ring on Monday and have a chat with them.
We'll get back to Blake, who's affiliated with the Alabama Foundation for Paranormal Research and a little more discussion about this photograph that's well worth seeing on the website right now.
Coast to Ghost AM.
It's a ghost photograph that'll hit you right now.
Ah, well, in that case, Blake, after you do so, I hope you will immediately contact me and I will put you on the air, assuming I'm still on the air, and I will allow you to tell us what happened.
I want to talk for a second again about the Power of Ten.
You know, there are a few things in this life that just lay you back and you go, huh, like that.
The Power of Ten is one of those.
And to be specific this time, the link when you open it, it's on the website, Power of Ten, opens with a picture of Earth from 10 million light years away.
Now, of course, 10 million light years, you can't even begin to see our sun, much less the Earth.
But it nevertheless begins there, and like the movie Contact, this time zooms in toward the Earth until it finally gets there, and then zooms in by a factor of 10 each time, coming through the satellite photographs and all the rest of it, until you get down to the quark in an atom.
I said an atom earlier, actually, into the theoretical.
I don't think we've actually photographed a quark yet.
But the mental trip that you'll go through with this power of 10 is just incredible.
So it's something you're going to want to do.
Even if you have done it before, go do it again and just sort of let your mind grasp the implications of what you're seeing.
Keeping in mind that a light year, a single light year, is the time it would take to travel at the speed of light in one year.
Speed of light in one year.
So we begin 10 million light years from Earth.
This is very interesting.
Michael Perrich, that's P-E-R-I-C-H, an LSU professor who helped fight the spread of West Nile virus, died Saturday morning in a one-vehicle car accident.
He was 46 years of age.
Walker Police Chief Elton Burns said Sunday that Perrich of, and it gives his address here in Baton Rouge.
I'm not going to give the address, crashed his Ford pickup truck at 4.30 a.m.
Saturday while heading west on Interstate 12 in Livingston Parish down there in Louisiana.
His truck veered right off the highway about three miles east of Walker, flipped and landed in rainwater.
Barrich, who was wearing his seatbelt, drowned cause of the crash under investigation.
Parrich, who worked for the U.S. Army for more than 15 years, joined the LSU faculty in August of 2001 as an assistant professor of medical entomology.
In addition to West Nile, Barich also studied malaria and several other diseases.
According to the head of LSU's department, he was one of our stars.
He was well known while I was here.
I certainly got to know the depth and breadth of his character and talent.
In other words, he was a real star in those types of studies.
And I'm not saying that his death is anything but what it appears to be an accident.
However, anybody out there counting, how many researchers into the biological field does this make who have met with untimely deaths?
Individually, none Of them, none of these apparent terrible tragedies and accidents appear to be suspicious.
But, you know, collectively, it's beginning to get to be very suspicious, in my opinion.
Oh, here's one you're going to like.
North Korea to display nuclear force.
Seoul, North Korea said on Thursday of this last week, it would physically display its nuclear deterrent force.
This is a report from South Korea's Yon-Hap news agency.
The remarks by unnamed spokesperson of the North Korea Foreign Ministry could be an indication that the Communist regime intends to test a nuclear bomb.
Oh, wonderful.
Maybe Ed Dames was right.
When the time comes, the DPRK will take steps to physically display its nuclear deterrent force.
That's a North Korean spokesperson.
Now, what do you suppose they mean by that?
DPRK stands for North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
For weeks, North Korea said that it was building up its nuclear deterrent force.
Nuclear deterrent force in quotes.
A term that the North uses to refer to its nuclear weapons program.
U.S. intelligence officials believe that North Korea already has one or two nuclear bombs and may be building more right now.
On Thursday, KCNA quoted the North Korean spokesperson as saying his country has no other option but to continue to take steps to keep and increase its nuclear deterrent force as a self-defense measure because of what it calls U.S. plans to invade.
The nuclear dispute flared last October when U.S. officials said North Korea admitted running a secret nuclear weapons program in violation of international agreements.
So, you know, this adds up to, if you believe it, and the North Koreans talk a lot of trash, to be sure, but they're also working on nuclear bombs, to be sure.
So they may be about, you know, to test one and maybe in our atmosphere.
From unknowncountry.com, a man exploring a crop circle in Iowa discovered that a dog refused to go inside it.
Unusual levels of electrical activity have often been reported inside crop circles, and dogs may be more sensitive to it than humans.
It's recently been discovered dogs are sensitive to impending earthquakes, for example.
Twelve years ago, Jim Hodges received a strange phone call, he says, it was a sheriff calling me to tell me there'd been a report of a crop circle near Bluegrass.
I drove out there, went up to the silo with the farmer, and boy there it was, a beautiful circle in a mature cornfield.
A woman driving home from a nearby tavern reported seeing red lights coming from the cornfield.
I'd sure like to know how many think that lady may have had a few, he says.
From the beginning I thought it was strange that the dog from that farm wouldn't go anywhere near the crop circle with me, wouldn't go near it.
I looked on my hands and knees for any sign of humans, found none.
To this day, he says, I cannot tell you what created that crop circle.
I was the first person to my knowledge to be in that thing.
I spent the day photographing every inch of it.
He flew over it in a helicopter, took pictures, got back several hours later, found a group of people waiting for him on the edge of the field.
I don't know how they heard about it, he said, but they waved a wand over me and asked if I felt any odd electricity.
He says, I didn't, but apparently the dog did.
Barbike writes that for Hodges, the most puzzling thing about Crop Circle was that it was somehow created in a mature cornfield.
He can't imagine who or what could do such thing.
From mature corn stalks, he said, you've got to understand about corn stalks.
You can't break those down by swinging a brick, he said.
You can pull yourself off the ground by one of those corn stalks.
People naturally claimed it was fake, but I sure never could figure out how.
Nobody could.
Nobody ever has.
Nobody's ever been caught making a crop circle.
It remains one of the most elusive, strange, inexplicable things that happens on our Earth.
Melting ice glaciers, here we go again in the Patagonian ice fields of southern Argentina and Chile has doubled in recent years caused by higher temperatures, lower snowfall, and more breaking up of icebergs.
Using satellites from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Defense Department, researchers measured the loss from two ice fields on the southern tip of South America found that the rate of melting doubled, doubled from 1995 to the year 2000.
That's five years, folks, when compared with any earlier measurements.
This whole thing was reported in the journal Science on Friday yesterday.
The two ice fields cover a total of 6,600 square miles, contain 63 glaciers.
Some dump their water into the ocean.
Others flow into high lakes.
Researchers estimated that the glaciers are losing the equivalent of 10 cubic miles of ice every year now.
This is enough to annually raise the world sea level by all of four one-thousandths of an inch.
Doesn't seem like much, does it?
But it means that the mountain glaciers in Patagonia are contributing an unusually large amount of water to the sea when compared, for example, with much larger ice fields.
Alaska, for example, has five times more ice in Patagonia.
yet the melt off from Patagonia is about a third as much as the melt off from Alaska's mountain glaciers, and they are going very, very quickly.
My wife and I were in Alaska, and believe me, these things are retreating at an alarming rate, absolutely an alarming rate.
The world's weather, beyond any question, any doubt in my mind, is changing.
And I wish that people would stop arguing about whether it's a hand of man or whether it's some great cyclical change that's occurring.
It doesn't matter.
It just doesn't matter.
Fact of the matter is, it is changing.
And places where we grow things that are very productive now are going to change.
They're not necessarily going to go away, but they're going to change.
They're going to move north or perhaps under some other condition to the south, but they are going to change.
This much change in our weather is going to produce a change in the yield of our crops.
And we're going to have to wake up to that before it is too late.
This from the Los Angeles Times.
When the volcano blew here, referring now to Yellowstone National Park, it obliterated a mountain range, felled herds of prehistoric camels hundreds of miles away, and left a smoking hole in the ground the size of the Los Angeles basin.
Modern Yellowstone doesn't dwell on its cataclysmic past or its potential for another monster eruption.
Rangers tell people to keep their distance from bison and streaming geysers, but there are no signs, aside from nature's own bubbling mud pots and geysers, that visitors are wandering through the caldera of one of the world's largest volcanoes.
Period.
One of the world's largest volcanoes.
You're walking on it, baby.
This is a geologic park, and not many people know it, said Robert Smith, a geophysicist at the University of Utah, who spent his entire career piecing together the story of the Yellowstone Volcano.
It's not a bison park, not an elk park, it's a geologic park, he says.
New sensors have allowed researchers to confirm a suspicion that Smith has had for a long time now, that the ancient volcano scientists dub the beast, that's in quotes, the beast, is a living force.
The instruments record a continuing pattern of heaving and bulging and act as an early warning system.
Installed without any fanfare and hidden from view, the sensitive devices are an acknowledgement that the past could be prologued, that this seemingly serene plateau could blow so hard that it would make the 1980 Mount St. Helens explosion look like a sneeze.
That's from the Los Angeles Times.
For you geeks out there, my wife handed me this.
She knows I'm in love with this kind of story.
Forget Wi-Fi from Geneva, Switzerland.
Researchers have more than doubled the world's speed record for internet data transfer.
Now, check this out.
Scientists at the CERN Particle Physics Laboratory in Switzerland sent the equivalent of a full-length DVD movie in about, how long do you think?
A full DVD movie in seven seconds.
Colleagues at the California Institute of Technology received the data.
The land record was set October 1st by transferring 1.1 terabytes of data over a 7,000 kilometer link in less than 30 minutes, the team said.
The average transfer rate was 5.44 gigabytes per second, which broke the previous record of 2.38 gigabytes, more than 20 times faster, 20,000 times faster, excuse me, than a typical home broadband connection.
So 20,000 times faster than the typical home broadband connection.
Could that be what lies ahead for all of us?
Well, maybe not that, but some even fairly healthy portion of that.
Can you imagine that?
How is that going to change our world?
The ability to move data at that speed?
Perhaps download a movie.
They did it, what, in seven seconds or something.
But if we even had a portion of that in, it took, say, one minute to download an entire feature film, this will change the world.
It'll change everything about the world.
Data speeds, even a fraction of what they've just done here, will totally change the world we live in.
Every aspect of it just about.
The entertainment business, the broadcast industry, just so many things in our world, our ability to speak with each other, to see each other, to interact with each other eventually in a three-dimensional way.
That's right.
In a real-time, three-dimensional way.
These are the miracles that lie ahead of us with faster and faster data transfer, faster processor speeds, more computer storage.
It's headed eventually, of course, not to the clunky mechanical device we have today known as a hard drive, but it's headed to a very much more incredible kind of storage.
Who knows what?
Maybe some kind of bubble memory or something that virtually produces instant access.
Processor speeds are going so quickly now.
And, you know, storage speed-wise is going to catch up to it.
You just have to wonder how long it's going to be before I don't know, before we have a machine that thinks, a machine that identifies itself, a machine that knows that it's alive.
Yeah, that's right.
Virtually a living thing.
From the high desert, this is Coast.
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