Art Bell’s Midnight in the Desert open lines feature a Washington caller claiming Bigfoot communicates in Native-Asian languages, while Unknown 1774 (Anonymous) reveals its decentralized structure and past hacks on surveillance firms. Leo Ashcraft highlights Planetary Resources’ asteroid-mining CubeSat and a $149 life-saving car seat, alongside eerie Darknet incidents like a hacked baby monitor. Caller John from 2085 warns of a UN-led "fascist" global crisis after a 3% population vanish, while Paul (Wise Frog) describes time travel via Civil War-era moonshine. Skepticism clashes with fringe claims—quantum entanglement time machines, DNA-tampered plants, and "black-eyed children"—as Bell balances humor with unsettling theories, leaving listeners questioning reality’s boundaries. [Automatically generated summary]
And tonight, you better pay particular attention here at the beginning of the program because I'm going to tell you how to call the show and sound good.
There's lots of ways you can sound bad.
You can be on a telephone and definitely.
You really sound bad.
Actually, you won't sound anything wrong.
Well, maybe they do have some you would serve us there.
I'm not really sure.
At any rate, you get the idea.
Lots of ways to sound bad, and a few really good ways to sound good.
One is to use a connected, real telephone.
The second is to use, well, you can use a cell phone.
Now, if you've got five bars, you know, or you've got lots and lots of bars, well, a cell phone probably is going to be okay.
But there is a better way.
It's to use Skype.
If you've got an Apple product, you know, an iPhone, or you've got an Android lesser phone.
Trying to start a fight here, folks.
You can add Skype, put Skype on your phone, and then I get that there are two ways to call me.
One, you can try to make me a contact, and then that'll put it on your list, and all you've got to do is click on it to call me.
And I'm about to tell you how to do that.
And number two, you can actually just go to the dialing place and put in MITD51 or MITD55 and call me.
So either way, put Skype on your phone, for goodness sakes.
Then if you're in North America, U.S., Canada, whatever, call me at MITD51.
That's midnight in the desert, right?
M-I-T-D 51.
Or if you're anywhere outside of North America, call me at MITD55.
Midnight in the desert, 55.
One more time, M-I-T-D 55.
Very easy way to call.
And when you do call that way, boy, you really sound good.
We have got the best in digital.
And a lot of people to thank for that.
I keep getting emails from people saying, Art, the audio is so clear.
Well, thank you, Telos.
They provided a very great deal of the really, you know, clear equipment, my friend Joe Talbot here in town.
I want to thank Keith Rowland, my webmaster.
I do this all up front.
You see Dr. J, my producer, all of you, of course.
The Belgab website.
You might want to check them out.
They're rough but vaguely lovable.
I've said that before.
StreamGuys and LV.net.
They provide the internet that gets us from here to there.
All right.
Tonight is open lines, and that means anything goes.
Anything you want to talk about is fair game.
Anything at all?
Now, I don't care if you're a vampire, talk to us.
In fact, if you're a vampire, definitely talk to us.
But what I'm going to really open is a time traveler line tonight.
Now, I don't mean members of our time traveler group that get to download the shows.
I mean real time travelers.
Those of you who are able to travel in time either to the future or the past.
Now, I am going to give you all a special line.
Nobody's ever heard of this line before because I've been saving it.
This line, if you call it, by the way, you will note you're coming through Roswell, New Mexico to call me.
You dial 1-575.
This is only, now listen to me, only time travelers, only those who have actually traveled in time, not members of the group.
1-575-208-7787.
That's area code 575-208-7787.
Only if you're a time traveler.
Otherwise, the public lines are fine.
You're welcome to use those.
That would be area code 952-225-5278.
That's the public line.
952-225-5278.
And again, Roswell, only for time travelers, real-time travelers.
And I'm not easily fooled.
I mean, I'll listen, but, you know, if I catch something really askew, I'm going to say something.
I see it's already ringing.
Interesting.
Okay, so a couple of items.
I want to run by you.
We'll do a break and then come back and open the lines.
And God save us all.
All right.
I've been talking to you about the digital revolution, right?
Today the news came out that AT ⁇ T is now the owner of Direct TV.
Holy moly.
Direct TV has purchased or AT ⁇ T has purchased Direct TV.
Now, close your eyes, use your imagination, and think, you know, what could AT ⁇ T do with DirecTV?
Direct TV is a really big company to get swallowed.
The world is changing so fast, and we just barely got on this break and wave, baby.
Conditions on Pluto.
Somewhat hazy.
With flowing ice.
Sounds like a weather forecast.
Incredibly hazy.
With flowing ice.
Pluto is hazier than scientists expected and now appears to be covered with flowing ice.
Oh, man, that's incredible.
And then this from theanomalist.com.
I want to talk to this guy.
It is reported that a Washington state officer, a trooper, says he leaves gifts of food for Bigfoot in a location up in the North Cascade Mountains.
He's gotten, he says, within 20 feet of them, heard them speak to each other in what sounds like a mix of Native American and Asian language.
The state trooper says he has no intention of obtaining evidence or revealing their location, so it's unclear what his motives are in coming forth with this story.
But, Mr. Trooper, I want to talk to you, and I'm sure everybody would like to hear a little bit about that.
So, yeah.
Please call me, Mr. Trooper, if you're out there.
If you're really seeing, you know, this is pretty impressive.
A state trooper, right?
With Bigfoot.
And there's more, but we're going to go to open lines.
That's what tonight is nothing but open lines.
Now, there is the possibility that the gentleman that I judge to be very literate and probably, although I never asked a member of Anonymous, may call in.
I gave him the appropriate information to do so, but if he does, you know, he may check it out too.
I don't know.
We'll see.
What I really wanted to ask was about the philosophy of Anonymous.
It's perhaps better this way that your voice is not quite as clear as it might otherwise.
All right, look, when you wrote me that, we had a communication, and during that communication, I did not ask you if you were part of Anonymous, and I don't think I'm going to ask you that now unless you want to just cop to it.
unidentified
The thing about Anonymous is that those who openly profess to be members of Anonymous usually aren't.
Anonymous is the best way I can describe it is anonymous is a shared pseudonym of a subset of people whose citizenship is the internet.
Anybody who has been infected with the anonymous meme is anonymous.
The only differentiation between an active member of Anonymous and somebody on the net is whether or not they take up the guy Fox mask, say they're anonymous, and then do something with it.
I want to understand a little bit about Anonymous.
For example, targets.
When Anonymous decides to hit a target, generally, would you say that these are people who most of the population would view as not necessarily villainous, but perhaps having done something wrong, having harmed or hurt somebody?
Is that the kind of target that you go after?
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In the past five years, that has largely been the case.
Early in the history of the Anonymous meme, that was not the case.
Is that fair to say it's all part of what Anonymous is?
unidentified
It is accurate to say that those are the considered opinions of some Anans who have made it their mission to speak out and occasionally to undertake direct action about those things.
There are other Anons who, quite frankly, couldn't care less.
And that is entirely their decision for good, for ill, or for indifferent.
This is in part due to the fact that cadres of anonymous occasionally hold recruiting drives, or at least I think of them as recruiting drives, where they seek out new members.
They hold what amount to boot camps for operational security, privacy, encryption, how to access any of the anonymous communications networks, how to essentially compartmentalize your life as an anon from your work life, your home life, your school life, things like that.
Wow.
And also, by utilizing the media as a communications medium and a weapon, the meme is propagated to people who would otherwise probably never have encountered Anonymous before.
And some number of people who have learned about Anonymous by watching and learning about ops on the news or reading in the paper may have joined.
By and large, you just have to have a pretty thick skin.
If you don't, give as well as you get and generally try to treat other Anons the way you'd want to be treated.
Of course, there were some Anons who couldn't care less about that, but by and large, Anons in the Anonymous Hive Mind tend to sink or swim based upon what they accomplish and how many people that they can convince to help them do something.
In fact, so deep and dark that most friends I have, even the pretty literate computer users, say, for God's sakes, don't go there.
I don't know, what do you call it?
The Undernet, the Darknet, the Devil's Nest, what?
unidentified
It really depends on which of these networks you mean.
The Torah network is often called the Darknet, but there are other websites that are on the public net, which would most certainly fit the description.
The only difference between a hidden computer network and an overt but extremely over-the-top and frightening website is whether or not you go to it.
And there are other sorts of computer networks which could also be said to fit that general description.
Even if somebody knew how to go to some of the places you described, would it be fair to describe these places for the average computer user as more than a little dangerous?
So I think I should take those in descending order of complexity.
Sure.
For some of the hidden chat servers and websites on the Tor Darknet.
Yes.
I have yet to encounter any sites which are specifically booby-trapped to try to compromise the browser's computer.
It doesn't mean they're not out there.
It doesn't mean that no one will try it in the future.
It means that in the time I've spent exploring them and actually looking for them, I haven't found any.
It is more likely that your average casual user would be hit by a compromised website on what we would consider the civilian or the public net or would be hit by a spear phishing attack, which would redirect them to a compromised site for that specific purpose.
There's plenty of stuff like that on the regular net, but I would imagine once you get down there, I'm sure somebody like yourself knows how to navigate your way through that.
Or do you even fear entering that area?
unidentified
There is always fear.
The thing about fear is fear reminds you to be cautious.
It reminds you not to take things at face value.
And it reminds you to trust your intuition.
And if your intuition is screaming at you saying, for God's sake, don't go here.
There's something wrong, you should probably listen to it.
In recent years, some of the major data breaches at government agencies, very large corporations, or let's say companies that certainly do not have the best interests of people in general or citizens of the internet in particular at heart, their employees would most certainly be valid targets.
One of the things that come to mind are some of the surveillance software companies that were compromised by Anonymous in the past couple of years, where employee records were dumped on the net as a way of shaming the employees or working for companies that sell surveillance hardware and software to whoever can buy it.
What would you want if you were to describe Anonymous to the general public in at least a fair way, how would you describe it?
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I would describe Anonymous as a hive mind, and possibly I would describe it as an emergent phenomenon of the first generation of people who were, for all intents and purposes, born and raised on the internet.
The thing about the media is, if you want to get your message out, you have to at least let the media get close enough to you to take notes and come up with a story of some kind.
The age of astromining took a step closer to reality last week, but don't get too excited just yet.
There's still a long, long way to go before it could be successful.
On July 16th, Hopeful Asteroid Prospectors Planetary Resources, based in Redmond, Washington, released their ARCID-3 Red Flight A3R spacecraft from the International Space Station.
This tiny vehicle, a CubeSat, has very limited goals and abilities.
In its 90 days of operation in low orbit, it will test electronic systems and software that will eventually be used on fully-fledged asteroid mining spacecraft.
The ultimate goal of the company is to send a spacecraft to an asteroid near Earth and scour it for useful minerals.
Asteroids are rich in water and precious metals such as platinum, and a later fleet of rovers would be sweeping the surface for these resources.
This hull could be launched back to Earth or used in space.
Prospecting water for use in space could be very useful.
Water is, of course, essential to astronauts, and it could also be split into hydrogen and oxygen, the constituents of rocket fuel.
Using asteroids to get water rather than carrying it from Earth could drastically reduce the cost of space travel.
The world's largest retailer announced this week it has signed an exclusive one-year deal with EvenFlow to sell a $149 car seat that sounds an alarm when a car ignition is turned off while a baby is strapped in.
The seat aims to keep parents from leaving little ones behind by using a wireless receiver that plugs into a car's onboard diagnostic port and syncs with the chest clip that goes around the baby.
If the car is turned off and the chest clip is still buckled, a series of tones will play to alert the driver.
Nearly 40 children annually die as a result of being left behind in hot cars.
You are listening to Dark Matter News on Midnight in the Desert.
A southwestern Ontario family had a creepy encounter with a camera monitoring their young child when it suddenly began playing music and a voice said they were being watched.
Ontario Provincial Police Constable Liz Melvin said that earlier this month the parent reported the occurrence and they heard the voice and noticed the camera moving while they were rocking their child to sleep in their nursery.
Melvin says the camera played eerie music and a voice could be heard indicating the parent and child were being watched.
The internet provider confirmed the home's router had been hacked.
In response to the incident, the Ontario Provincial Police are warning people with cameras that are connected to the internet that the devices can be hacked.
They say security cameras and monitoring systems may be susceptible to hackers because many have an option to be used remotely, enabled by default.
There are places in this world that seem unworldly in their ability to draw you in with the mystique and beauty that they conjure.
One such particular place is called Suicide Forest.
It is the second most popular in the world to take one's life.
It happens to reside at the base of Mount Fuji, where the vastness of the dense forest can draw in people whose corpses are found in hundreds by volunteers who will annually search areas of the woods.
Around 10 to 30 bodies will be found every month.
In certain areas, ropes had been found hanging cut where the noose had been.
Shoes of every color and style are set out from an array of travelers that either left the forest deciding that life is worth living and they go on, and the ones that decide to stay only add to the paranormal feel of entities calling in the lost that are weak and wander.
The seclusion of the forest makes it the perfect place to commit suicide.
People come to either simply enjoy the majestic views of Mount Fuji or those interested in tales of the macabre.
Only when you see this forest firsthand do you understand just how apt the moniker suicide forest really is.
Some visitors to the famed Suicide Forest are just curious, but others enter without any plan to ever leave the dark, creepy forest that looms in the shadows of Mount Fuji.
I'm Leo Ashcraft for Dark Matter News.
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I can see her lying back in her satin dress.
In a room where you do what you don't confess.
Someday you better take care.
If I find you've been creeping down my backstay.
Someday you better take care.
If I find you've been creeping down my backstay.
Want to take a ride?
From the high desert and the high desert.
the great American Southwest?
This is Midnight in the Desert, exclusively on the Dark Matter Digital Networks.
I feel like I just had a visit with a Godfather, actually.
All right, so open lines.
Anything you want to talk about?
Again, if you are a time traveler, that means if you actually traveled in time to the past and or the future, especially if you did so mechanically, I'm giving you our special Roswell line for time travelers only.
Area code 575-208-772787.
Got to get that right.
575-208-7787.
Of course, you have to put one in front of that, right?
Well, I have lived in third world countries, and there are days when you wake up and find out that tanks are in the street and there's a military coup underway.
So I've been there and done that.
unidentified
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
But here the thing is it's very stable.
It's more stable than other countries of South America.
And again, let me give out the time traveler line.
Come on.
Come on, time travelers.
I know you're out there.
Area code 575-208-7787.
And if we can't find time travelers, it's quite all right.
We'll settle for people who think they're the Antichrist, perhaps those who have seen an entity, an alien line, men in black, abduction line, immortals.
You know, I mean, we're open to, as you can see, virtually anything.
Apparently, some of you have been going over to the others'website and writing things and getting banned.
Don't do that.
It's not necessary.
I thank you for the feelings that, you know, I began to see on my Facebook today that people were saying they were getting banned from that other place.
Now, this, everybody, you should know who you're listening to.
This is Jazz Munda.
He is the guy who produced most of, and that's a fair comment, most of the incredible trailers that, I don't know, it's like, I guess it's like somebody who, I looked at him and I said, this has got to be a guy from, you know, a movie company.
I mean, you do work in the industry, right?
unidentified
No, not at all.
I'm just a very big fan of yours, Art, and it was just a thank you to you and for the 20 years of entertainment you have given us.
You answer like the guy from maybe Unanimous, Anonymous, excuse me.
So, really, how do you do it?
I mean, there must be...
i look at those things i think no this is it looks like something i i just saw for a recent movie promotion so there's got to be a secret to it what software do you use i was just using iMac iMovie on my Mac.
unidentified
I listened to a lot of classic shows of yours.
I found the appropriate images to go along with it, and I just put it together.
A few weeks ago, my daughter came running into my bedroom in the middle of the night, and she was screaming that there was a monster in her room.
So, you know, I bolt upright in the bed, and I try to calm her down, and I try to usher her back to her room.
And when we're on the way down the hall, she sort of says to me, the monster had red eyes.
And I stopped dead in my tracks because I graduated from the Art Bell School of the Paranormal.
So I know that red eyes are bad news.
And I didn't want to shatter any illusions that my daughter might have that I'm some indestructible superhero.
So I bravely soldier on and continue on to her bedroom.
So I open the door, I enter the pitch dark room, and as I gaze towards the closets, I think I actually let out an audible yelp, and my heart just absolutely sank because staring across at the other end of the room were two little red eyes.
Well, Art, if I wasn't frozen in place with fear, I would have turned tail and bolted and left my daughter for dead to defend for herself.
But then I realized that we didn't have an encounter with a red-eyed Monster and fortunately for my daughter and I, the red-eyes belonged to the little oil heater that we had bought for her the week before.
So, look, I might not have actually had the experience of having a red-eyed monster, but I certainly got the fright and the fear that would come along with an encounter such as that.
If you follow Doctor Who at all, there is a quote from Doctor Who that I actually think applies incredibly well to stuff when you're dealing with time, and that is, and I'm probably going to butcher it horribly, so my apologies to any Whovians that are listening.
Time may appear to be a linear progression of cause and effect, but when viewed from a non-linear perspective, it's really just a big ball of wibbly, wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.
I'm going to try to keep this as brief as I can, and I'm apologizing if I'm not able to.
I have, since about, I don't know, a certain number of years ago, because I don't really want to give my age out or anything.
That's fine.
I have had instances where I will go to sleep, I'll wake up, and then I'll drift off to sleep, and I'll kind of, I'll hit a certain state somehow that it's like I'm half asleep, I'm half awake or something.
I don't really know how to explain this.
But in that state, I've been able to catch glimpses of future events.
Like, for example, a good example of this is actually like, for example, if I have a vision, let's say, of somebody saying something about their father was being, you know, a not-so-good person that day or something.
And I think, oh, well, I'm going to have that happen at my school.
And in reality, I was reading something online and the thing happened at home.
so it's sort of like I tried to think of, like, oh, when is this going to happen?
Well, that's, you know, that's listen, thank you for the call.
That's really just precognition.
And it's real.
I've had this, I had a precognition experience, and I've got to tell you, there was no question about it.
I mean, it wasn't, you know, maybe this happened or anything like that.
This was like a brick hitting your head.
Now, see, I've got to tell her.
I'll tell it very quickly.
I was living at the time in Santa Barbara.
I'm sure many of you have heard this, so I'm sorry.
Sitting, I came home from work, working, of course, at a radio station in Santa Barbara.
I had a little garden apartment with a sliding door, you know, that looked outside.
And I parked my car outside the apartment on the street.
And I sat down to watch the evening news.
I've always been and still am a news junkie.
The news came on, and suddenly, and by the way, the curtains were closed, the door was closed, suddenly an overwhelming thing hit me like a wave breaking over me.
Your car's going to get hit.
Your car is in trouble.
Your car's going to get hit.
So I said a bad word, and I got up, and let me answer this one and keep you on hold there.
If you hear audio, that means you're going to be getting on the air.
So hang in there.
I went over to the window, opened the curtain, looked out, saw my car.
It was fine.
I said another bad word, closed the curtain, went back, sat down, watched the news.
Well, here comes a wave again.
You're going to get hit.
Your car's going to get hit.
Your car's going to get hit.
Said another bad word.
I do say them, by the way.
Got back up, went over, opened the curtains.
This time, opened the door and stood there and watched my car, which, by the way, I cared a lot about.
As I watched my car, a guy came down, went down the sidewalk from our building toward my car, didn't get in my car, got in his car, which was in front of it, backed up and hit my car while I watched.
Let me tell you, it freaked me out so badly, I fell to my knees, actually fell to my knees, but had enough, got myself going quick enough to get up and say, hey, I saw that.
He said, I'm stopping, I'm stopping.
But I mean, this was not a maybe, it was a warning.
This was ignore it and you die kind of warning.
So these precognitive things are indeed possible.
All right, let's go back to the lines.
On my time traveler line through Roswell, New Mexico, you are on midnight.
As I've stated before on different radio shows, all you need to do is just make a doorway using whatever your ASMA or whatever projective device that you can use.
You step into the moment, and then you step out wherever it is that you want to go.
And the first is, if you're really able to do this, is there any danger in it?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
For example, if I'm on my motorcycle and I need to know the terrain back or in the future or in the present or in the past, I need to know the terrain because, like, for example, in Tulio, Ohio, we've got the Erie Canal.
And if I'm on, what is it, Erie Street, the Anthony Wayne Trail, if I'm going down the Anthony Wayne Trail and I go 150 years in the past, well, the Anthony Wayne Trail was the Erie Canal.
Well, I'm telling you, there is a guy who claims he's a time traveler, and he claims he's actually got a picture of himself in the Civil War.
Of course, you know, at that time he's a kid.
unidentified
Yeah, and I think, well, one of the things when you go back to the Civil War is that if you don't understand how people are talking back then, then they're sure not going to understand you because you need to speak the same way.
And for a little kid to suddenly get thrown into something like the Civil War, he's not going to understand anything that's going on.
People are going to think he's crazy, that they're disrespectful.
And they're just going to shoot the boy on his way.
Well, a car is a little bit safer, but I mean, even then, somebody could have dug a giant hole and we could just be walking on your bike down the street.
Okay, so yeah, I'll try to make it quick and simple.
It's not quick and simple at all.
But basically, uh when I went there, they said, Well we have international coverage and uh of course they they don't really uh if you have a credit card and a US address, you can probably get in from some other country, otherwise no.
So that that wasn't so.
And then they what really did it was they had trouble with their streaming.
And so many of my people were coming from the broadcast world that they subscribed to the streaming service.
And the streaming service was, even they acknowledged, having some difficulty and people were getting cut off and all kinds of stuff was going on.
And so I said, this isn't working for me because my people are coming from broadcast and they went to the streaming.
It's not working.
Or it's not working well.
So it came down to an ultimatum.
That's when I said, I'm all in.
And I said, look, allow us to stream for free only until you fix it.
When you fix it, then we're right back where we started from, as Miss Nightingale would say.
But they said no.
They said no.
And that's how we broke up.
So I hope that fills it in for some of you out there.
We're very short on time, but in Phoenix, Arizona, you're on midnight.
A breakthrough in space warp-based propulsion appears to have been made by a physicist in Omaha using a do-it-yourself-made apparatus built in his garage.
University of Nebraska at Omaha professor David Perez has built and apparently demonstrated a device that appears to compress the very fabric of space-time, of which is considered the holy grail of sci-fi, faster-than-light propulsion methods, such as Star Trek's warp drive.
Using observations made by pilot Bruce Gernan's encounter with an unexplained meteorological phenomenon in the Bermuda Triangle in 1970, Pears set out to replicate the conditions of the odd storm, including an apparent propulsive effect on the aircraft, albeit a smaller scale that could be replicated in a laboratory.
While the effects of the device are subtle, PERES has demonstrated that it is causing compression effects on a laser beam that was affected by the device's electric field, such as a red shift in the beam's wavelength.
The device has been able to generate movement in a 3.5-pound weight and can apparently cause movement in other non-magnetic objects.
Despite his apparent success with the device, PERES isn't optimistic about the scientific community taking notice of his work.
He said if NASA did what we did and had the measurements we have today, they'd be parading them around and getting the Nobel Prize in Physics.
A cataract is the clouding of the eye's lens and accounts for over half of all cases of blindness worldwide.
Though cataracts can be effectively treated with surgery, it's costly and requires trained surgeons.
This is a problem for developing countries with poor health systems.
Drug treatments have the potential to be a game changer in providing cheap and accessible treatment.
But there are many hurdles.
A new study that used eye drops to shrink cataracts in dogs may have made an important step in overcoming them.
They've developed eye drops that contain lanostrol as a drug treatment for cataracts.
To test whether the eye drops could reduce cataracts, researchers isolated lenses from rabbits that had cataracts and placed them in a lanostrol solution for six days.
They found that this reduced the cataract severity and increased lens clarity.
But the solution only lasted a few months, so the cataracts are likely to have reoccurred after the drops stopped.
Eye drops will likely become a key in treating cataracts as surgery will not be able to cope with the growing needs of the world's aging population.
This is Dark Matter News.
Crews have put out a fire that burned underground in southern New Jersey for a month, melting the ground around it and reaching 1,000 degrees.
It began when a power line snapped following a storm, sending electricity into the ground and igniting a mixture of coal and cinder used as the foundation for train tracks in a wooded area.
The mayor says neighbors called authorities when they saw smoke coming from the ground.
Firefighters went to the scene seven times over a month before the county and state officials finally were able to put it out.
There have been numerous reports around the country of creepy clowns running around cemeteries and city streets scaring people.
A recent incident occurred in Chicago with one of these nocturnal clowns earlier this month.
She caught it on cell phone video.
The video shows a person dressed in a clown suit trespassing in historic Rose Hill Cemetery in the dead of night.
The victim says she was freaked out at the figure as it ran towards the main gate.
She and her husband were driving by at 10 p.m.
The first picture her husband snapped was the clown scaling the seven-foot-tall gate at the Ravenswood Avenue entrance.
The feat is no easy task, especially for someone wearing a clown suit.
Officials don't know what to Make of this because other than the trespass, there are no complaints of vandalism.
It got weirder.
When the victim and her husband hung around to get a better look, the clown was not deterred or afraid.
He waved slowly at the couple.
Incidents like this aren't isolated.
A video of creepy clowns surprising people in the streets of California went viral last year.
In New York, a clown was seen making a daytime excursion last year while holding some balloons.
Chicago police say there have been no other bizarre clown sightings.
I'm Leo Ashcraft for Dark Matter News.
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We don't need no education.
We don't need no thoughts control.
No dogs dog and classroom is alone.
Yeah Hey, ginger, leave me alone This is midnight in the desert.
And there was a ghost story about some woman had drowned in the lake, and if you pulled your car too close to the lake, she would come up and scratch on the back of your car.
Okay, I got out of the Marines in 1971 and went back to the University of New Mexico and worked on a couple of archaeological field schools as a photographer and had been a geology major and decided to switch to Anthropo and was taking archaeology classes.
And one of my professors said, hey, if you would like to take a couple semesters off, I've got a job for you with the Museum of New Mexico doing survey work.
So I dropped out of school, went up to Santa Fe, and ended up on a survey of a coal mining lease up near Farmington.
It was the San Juan power plant eventually.
It's right across the river from the Four Corners power plant.
But the lease was about two miles wide, about eight miles long.
And it took us, two guys, several weeks to survey the whole thing.
Okay, we don't have a lot of time here, so we've got to kind of get to the center of the story.
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The guy I was working with was kind of a loose cannon, and I decided to just camp out on the least rather than go into town with him at night.
It was getting pretty dangerous.
So one night I was sleeping in my tent, and there was a full moon, and I heard all of this singing, drumbeats, and off about maybe a quarter mile or less, I could see a big campfire.
And it was up against a cliff face, and I could see shadows of people dancing, and I could even see people up on the top of the ridge in the moonlight.
This went on for two, three hours.
And at that time of year, the Navajo people have a nighttime ceremony.
It's called a squaw dance, and it's sort of Sadie Hawkins.
The girls ask the boys to dance, and you're in trouble if you say no.
Anyway, I guess 2 or 3 in the morning, maybe, things quieted down.
Well, the next morning, my partner hadn't shown up yet.
he was frequently late and so I decided to hike over and take a look at uh what what was going on uh the night before.
Anything you want to talk about is absolutely fair game.
We do have a line open for time travelers.
And that number goes, or is routed, I guess, through Roswell, New Mexico.
It's area code 575-208-7787.
And I must say we have done very well in the time traveler category.
Now, there's no way to know if, you know, if we're really talking to a time traveler or not.
But in all seriousness, I do think that time travel either is happening now.
People can actually travel in time or will be able to travel in time.
And when you talk to people like this and you question them about, you know, when they are and what's going on then, whenever then is, you get some interesting answers.
And of course, you can sort of write it down.
And if you're still alive when that year comes, I'm still bothered by this cell phone skip thicker thing.
That just can't be.
I would go with the fellow who said implants, right?
Because of, well, the delay between here and you, it amounts to about 30 seconds.
So if you leave your device, whatever your device is, on in the background, you are going to sound so confused, you're never going to be able to tell a story.
You're never going to be able to sound like you know what you're talking about because you can't help yourself.
I'm no different.
Trust me.
If I began to hear myself 30 seconds ago, I would probably come to a dead stop.
I couldn't handle it.
So when you actually get on the air, you've got to turn that off immediately.
You've got to be prepared to turn it off immediately.
Well, I'm a time traveler, and I must say, I've been listening for a while, and a lot of these guys, when you ask them about the science, it's kind of interesting because none of them can really answer the science behind it.
If they were to actually give away the kind of science that they would have to give away to satisfy me, they might cause some sort of terrible ripple effect in time because we could suddenly make a machine.
But nevertheless, if you are going to give us the science, then go ahead.
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Well, here's the deal.
Here's how this works.
Okay.
Are you familiar with the spooky extra net of distance?
Yes.
Okay.
Now.
Quantum entanglement.
Yes, yes, yes.
Now, back in the year, well, several years from now, and I'm Michael Spire, the young scientist that comes up with this.
We launch a probe to the sun and we throw some particles up at the sun, and those particles instantaneously charge our batteries or what you could call like a battery.
It's an infinite battery source.
Now, here's the biggest problem is you've got to phase gravity.
And that's the biggest thing with time travelers, phasing gravity.
And see, anybody who says there's a time traveler out there that doesn't understand the science, they're crazy because, you know, we come back, we get seeds all the time because there's a lot of things that don't grow right since all the DNA crap that they did to the plants.
So, you know, people are getting allergic to all this stuff.
Even starting now, you're starting to see some of that.
I mean, we come, we're a group of people that collect seeds, and just by me collecting those seeds throws me into a different quantum, what you could say, a different timeline.
At least that's the way we, the easiest way you could describe it.
You know, back to the future is funny.
You know, we play clips of that, but, you know, it's not.
But it couldn't be.
I mean, you've got to remember, I mean, you're changing your work and you're phasing space and time around you.
And you've got to have an endless amount of power.
And the only place you can do that is through the sun.
And the interesting part in this, I'll leave you with this.
Are you telling me that you're here to get seeds or to carry seeds?
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Yeah, we do it all the time.
We burn entire crops that get contaminated still.
Right.
So, I mean, you look at, and we don't want to mess with the bees anymore because if you mess with the bees and the bees will carry that pollen, so you can't kill the bees.
So you've got to kill crops.
And that's the only way you can keep containment.
I mean, that's the sad part.
And majority of what you have in the future because of the food crisis is nothing but farmers.
We more or less are concerned with current day survival of our families.
I mean, if you've got kids and you've got families, you understand immediately you're interested in that.
There's some people that have that to do a future event versus a past event is much harder because, you know, wherever you're going to materialize, as they call it, you've got to remember, if you don't know where you're going, you could wind up in the middle of something.
That'd be like in the middle of that ship.
What was the name of that ship that was out there?
That was that, not in Manhattan, but it was some ship that they were playing with gravity and they got it all monkey up and men were in their mind.
You're out there, you know, after a little altercation, so to speak, and you're chasing somebody, and you, of course, don't catch them, but you get a really good look and you realize you're looking at yourself.
I can't even remember what they look like, Mr. Bell, because when I close my eyes, all I see is these children staring at me soullessly, forcing me to do their bidding, Mr. Bell.
Well, no, there was no light aircraft that I'm aware of.
Not that I'm aware of, sir.
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Okay, and then there was a second one I thought was from the Phoenix Lights story of somebody at an Air Force base that said they removed the gun camera footage from an Air Force plane that went after that craft at Phoenix that night.
Authorities say a cyclist started a 73-acre wildfire in southwest Idaho by lighting his toilet paper on fire after taking a comfort break.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials say the cyclist stopped to do his business in a ravine in the Boise Foothills on Wednesday afternoon.
The man then lit the toilet paper on fire but lost control of the embers in the dry grass while trying to extinguish the waste.
Firefighters contained the flame several hours later.
Investigators say the man contacted them Thursday morning and his story matched the evidence found at the scene.
Officials say he will not be fined for causing the fire.
A Tennessee witness at Cedar Grove reported multiple low-flying triangle-shaped UFOs moving overhead and a black ape-like creature on the ground, according to testimony in a case from the Mutual UFO Network.
The reporting witness stepped outside after a recent snowfall in January when triangle-shaped objects were first seen in the sky overhead.
The witness describes them as having red lights on the back corners, one white light in the front corner.
The witness then seemed to think that they were spotted on the ground by the objects.
The objects were about 500 feet in the air when they were noticed and then came down to 60 feet above them.
The witness said his dog lowered his head as though something was bothering him.
He said the objects made no sound at all.
They stayed about 50 yards away and circled them.
He said then a second orb-like object appeared.
He says that after his brother got freaked out and went inside the house, that's when he saw a black ape-like creature looking at him.
He said he yelled at the creature and that's when it took off into the front yard and disappeared into the darkness.
Back in the house, the reporting witness was watching Mufon's Hangar 1, the UFO files on the History Channel, which triggered him to report the sighting to MUFON.
The witness reported the incident in June.
Tennessee MUFON is investigating.
This is Dark Matter News.
Mayflies have taken over an eastern Iowa bridge.
It took snowplows in July to clear away a massive swarm of bugs blocking a bridge in eastern Iowa.
And meanwhile, in Texas, there was a bug swarm so big it was picked up on radar.
Thousands of insects flying over Knox County, Texas, according to the National Weather Service of Norman, Oklahoma.
Rangers at Copper Breaks State Park in Kwanaugh, Texas confirmed that the radar was picking up a large swarm of both grasshoppers and beetles.
A new report says CT scans expose patients to at least 150 times the amount of radiation from a single chest x-ray.
CT scans, also known as CAT scans, are cross-sectional x-rays commonly used to diagnose symptoms ranging from chest pains to digestive problems to bone issues.
CT scans are useful because they allow doctors to get more detailed images of the body.
But new research published in the Journal of American College of Cardiology has discovered a potentially scary side effect of CT scans, DNA damage.
For their study, scientists at Stanford examined the cells of 67 patients who underwent a wide range of CT or computerized tomography scans.
Researchers detected cellular damage from the scan in patients who received all but the lowest dose of radiation.
But even at that lowest level of radiation you are exposed to during one heart CT scan is the equivalent of 50 chest x-rays.
But for those who experienced higher dosage, such as the radiation levels by full body and full chest scans, there was noticeable cell damage.
Full body and chest CT scans expose patients to at least 150 times the amount of radiation from a single chest x-ray.
While this study in particular didn't look at what side effects of that cellular damage might be, the link between CT scans and cancer, which can be caused by cell damage, is nothing new.
The researchers say they hope the findings will help doctors better understand the importance of using as low a radiation dose as possible when ordering a scan.
I'm Leo Ashcraft for Dark Matter News.
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Riding from a mountain top.
Burning like a silver flame.
A storm in a beauty in love.
A Venus like her name.
She's got it.
Yeah baby, she's got it.
I'm your Venus.
I'm your fire.
You're the fire.
Midnight matters are best handled by those that understand how to move in the darkness like Art Bell.
So while it was being resized, she wore a ring that was owned by her grandmother, her mother's mother, and it had little stones representing her mother's siblings.
And I was telling her about some classes I took with a psychic where you hold an object and go with whatever impressions you get.
And she said, can you do that?
I said, sure.
She said, we'll do It with this.
I went on to describe events, places, people, none of which I'd ever heard of or places I'd ever been to regarding buildings and a piano that was turned backwards.
These are people and events and places that I'd never been to or had never heard of ever.
And as it turned out, in other words, I visualized one thing was an old building upon stones.
And it turned out to be a little country store in southwest Missouri that my wife and her siblings went to when they visited their grandmother as children.
I had another impression of a piano, an upright piano with sadness attached to it, also a little bucket with a brick on it and a chain.
That turned out to be her mother's, one of her young siblings as a child, was a natural talent at playing the piano.
He got into a bucket in which they kept rat poison, ate it, got sick, and died.
My former mother-in-law's mother was so distraught at the death of her child who played the piano that she ordered the piano be put on the back porch facing so that no one could get access to the keyboard because it would only remind her of her dead child.
Now, my wife and I, there were several other things.
I just want to welcome you back to the air and let you know that you were actually my influence when I was younger to get into radio, and I wanted to thank you for that.
These people who call up like you and say, you know, I've known you since, well, since I was three, I was listening on the radio with my mom, and now I'm 50.
There was one time that I was driving home from a friend's place taking the same route, and it's usually a five-minute drive, and then I lost, and I went back to my house, and it was three hours later, and I still, to this day, don't know what happened.