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unidentified
The high desert and the great American outwest.
art bell
I bid you all good evening, good morning, good afternoon, whatever the case may be, wherever you are in the world, all of which is covered by this program, Midnight in the Desert.
My name is Art Bell, and we're going to have an interesting evening, I can tell already.
unidentified
Let me enumerate the rules.
art bell
That takes about five minutes.
New, takes about one second.
No bad language, and only one call per show.
No bad language, one call per show.
That was more seconds than that.
Didn't need that many, did I?
All right.
I want to thank the usual people at the outset of the show.
Telos for the great sound, Joe Talbot, and it is great sound.
And I want to say this again.
If you have not yet fitted some earbuds into whatever it is you use, oh man, you've got to get to it.
You really have got to get to it because we are in stereo and it sounds really good.
All thanks to Telos.
Heath Rowland, my webmaster, the producer position, a new person in the seat, Heather Wade.
Welcome to Midnight in the Desert.
Dr. J had a lot on his plate.
However, he remains associate producer.
And so he is still with us and assisting Heather, who I think is going to be dynamite in the job.
The Belgab website, if you dare.
People who love Art Bell, got to change that name.
I just can't say it.
Midnight in Desert, that's another chat site.
So people are asking you, no, where can I go to chat about the show?
You can go to Belgab, if you dare, or you can go to Midnight in Desert, and all will be well.
unidentified
Belgab is a little rough.
art bell
Vaguely lovable, as always, but rough.
And the stream guys who get us out there to you, LV.net gets it from here to there.
And sales, of course, Peter Eberhardt.
He is our sales guy up in Alaska, way up north.
Okay.
A little announcement.
Many are asking for Brendan and Barbara.
You know the GIS.
Ghost Investigators Society.
20th.
Actually, we were going to have them on this week, but it now looks like it will be the 20th, but they are scheduled for them, so yay.
All right, a couple of things.
We are actively now, listen very carefully.
If you're a computer person, if you're an app developer, attention!
If you're knowledgeable in creating both iOS and Android apps, that's a lot of knowledge, that can access our subscriber database, that's what we're doing.
We need a new app.
So if you can design something that would access our subscriber database of logins to securely download and play the podcast on mobile devices, then we need you.
Or if you have expertise in adapting, these are not my words, or interfacing with existing membership software to publish a secure password protected RSS feed to current podcast players, that might work also.
Greek to me.
If you're interested, send your proposals to webmaster at artbell.com.
That's webmaster at artbell.com.
unidentified
Okay?
art bell
I hope somebody out there, and I'm certain there is somebody out there that can do it.
And by the way, we have announced on Facebook, I don't know if you received the announcement, that the price of the show is going to $7.99 beginning August 20th.
Now, not for those of you who have already subscribed as time travelers.
You, as long as you maintain your membership month to month, are locked in forevermore at $5.
In fact, don't panic.
You can still join and become a time traveler for $5, and that locks you in as long as you remain current.
Why are we going to $7.99?
Well, because we're miserable SOB money-grubbing, you know, whatever.
No, not really.
Because this is a U-supported radio program.
Meaning, you know, if we don't have advertisements, for example, I mean, we do have them right now.
We have minuscule six minutes an hour.
But even if they were to go away, this was designed to be a listener-supported program.
And the whole concept was to have this live program, the one we're doing right now, right?
Live, live and free.
That's good.
And it is free.
And the reason it's free is because of members like you.
So there you have it.
A couple of items in the news.
Obama's power plant climate plan shifts to the courts, of course.
He wants to clamp down on power plants, you know, emissions, a new federal plan that, if successful, would attempt to slow down global warming by dramatically shifting the way Americans get And use electricity.
Touting the plan at a White House ceremony, he described his unprecedented carbon dioxide limits as the biggest step ever taken on U.S. climate.
On that point, at least his opponents agreed.
They denounced it, of course, as an egregious federal overreach that would spend all kinds of money on things that we shouldn't spend it on and send power prices surging.
And, you know, if you look at Obamacare and what that did, you've got to listen to this, I guess.
Former President Jimmy Carter is okay, but he has undergone a liver operation to remove a little something in his liver that shouldn't be there.
They're saying he'll be fine.
It really was an elective kind of thing, but, you know, when a president has something like this, it's certainly worth noting.
This is from The Anomalous.
And a chupacabra, apparently, has hit a Russian village.
Now, this is interesting.
Dozens of chickens were slaughtered.
The carcasses and feathers strewn about after what definitely looks like a violent encounter.
And no blood.
This would be a Linda item.
No blood.
These attacks were fast and accurate, leaving behind only one live chicken who can tell no stories, unfortunately.
But they're thinking this looks very much like a chupacabra type of attack.
All right.
There is a prominent scientist now who I'm going to look for.
Dr. Lanza is his name.
And he thinks that consciousness, and I so agree to this, he thinks that consciousness may be the answer to everything.
Everything.
Wouldn't that be something?
So we will seek him out, get him on the air, and ask all about it.
All right, we're going to take a very quick break, I think.
And when we get back, we're going to attempt to get to Stephen Bassett.
Now, I'm not sure we're going to make it.
For some reason, he hadn't been there.
unidentified
But Stephen, if this music doesn't wake you up, nothing will, buddy.
art bell
Stephen Bassett, we're looking for you, and we'll be right back.
This is midnight in the desert.
unidentified
I see you, what you wanna do, let's break the rules, social reality.
You wanna go down, drive off to my town, make that sound up.
Social reality.
Now don't be sad, you know what I'm like.
Thank you.
On the wild side of midnight, from the Kingdom of Nine.
This is Midnight in the Desert with ourselves.
Please call the show at 1-952-225-5278.
That's 1-952-Call Fights.
art bell
Well, Larry, we were to have Stephen Bassett and a congressman on tonight, but they're not here.
Open lines.
unidentified
Let's do...
art bell
Actually, a couple.
unidentified
This blows my mind, actually.
You all know, I think, Stephen Greer, right?
art bell
Stephen Greer, CE SETI, Stephen Greer.
I understand he's made a lot of changes, by the way, in what he says now and believes.
But that issue aside, I interviewed Stephen Greer over many, many years.
And it was one time that Stephen told me that SETI, not C. SETI, but SETI, got a real hit that the public was not told about.
Now, I had Seth Chostak on to talk a little bit about this.
And Seth did sort of put it off to, well, maybe it was a minor functionary or something like that that gave the information out.
However, somebody sent me something today that came from.
Well, actually, it's Stephen Greer's voice.
But it came from a YouTube presentation, and it just knocked me for a loop.
And I want you to listen, and listen very carefully to what Stephen Greer...
dr steven greer
A few years ago, there was a show called Coast to Coast with Art Bell.
And it was on the cover of Time magazine, and I was one of his favorite guests.
And when I'd be on that show, it really lit things up at certain agencies.
And one time I was on his show a few years back, towards the end of his career there, And this issue came up, and I said, Well, you know, I have a source high up in SETI that confirms to me that they, in fact, have received interplanetary signals, but in a kind of phased, not normal array, it was kind of a pulsed array, and that it was kept secret and covered up.
And the SETI people were furious.
Subsequently, Seth Shostak got on the show and just said, well, Dr. Ver knows what he's talking about.
He probably talked to some volunteer computer operator because we have all this network of volunteers.
What Hart Bell didn't know and what Seth Shostak didn't know, which I'm going to say now because it's enough water gone under the bridge, is that the guy who told me that was the founder of the SETI project and the Drake equation, Dr. Drake.
He told me that, that they had had that contact.
Moreover, a man who had been one of Carl Sagan's best friends, best men at his wedding, confirmed it.
And he had been present when the wow signal came in at Harvard.
art bell
You can imagine how that blew me away.
And you can imagine, by the way, Seth's show stack is scheduled for the show.
So, oh my goodness, I about flipped when I heard that.
I mean, I really flipped.
So, okay, we're going to do open lines.
That's what we're going to do.
And anything you want to talk about is fair game.
And by the way, I'm looking for a witch.
I want to say this again and be very, very clear.
I am looking for a real witch.
Now, I'm looking for a witch who believes in real magic, casting spells, cauldron stirring, broom riding, all the things you associate with a witch.
The shoe sticking out from the house would not be pink.
Let's put it that way.
Probably be a black shoe.
So I'm looking for that kind of a witch.
If you are one of them or if you know one of them, please email me.
I am ArtBell at artbell.com.
Pretty easy, right?
Artbell at artbell.com.
unidentified
That said, what do you want to talk about?
art bell
Anything is fair game.
unidentified
You know, all right.
Let me let me go ahead and do this.
art bell
You remember the other night we were talking about experiences that we've had that we haven't talked about?
All right, it was about three, maybe four weeks ago now.
And I thought that this subject had been talked to death.
And frankly, I think it has.
Except I just had the experience.
And I'm talking about what I can only call a shadow person.
So let me tell you what happened to me, okay?
And then we'll get to the phones.
I was sitting in my ham shack.
That's the place I've got all my ham radio gear and computers and stuff in the house.
Now separate from my studio where I am now.
And I had been working at the computer.
You know, we talk show hosts do a lot of working at computers because we get a lot of email and guests and producers and everything.
And so I'd been staring at the screen for a while, and I mentioned that because I think it might have something to do with what happened.
I suddenly saw movement to my right.
And I just looked over to the right, and there was a figure there.
And I don't mean just, I don't know, a figure.
It was the shadow of a being.
unidentified
It was the shadow of something.
art bell
And it just scared the, you know what out of me.
And I looked again, it wasn't there.
And I looked behind, I started looking around the room.
I looked behind me, and there it was.
Boom, there it was.
And boom, it was gone.
And I was sitting there in shock, and it appeared to the left of me.
And I completely lost it, folks.
I, you know, everybody was asleep in the house.
So I'll tell you the truth.
I went into where we store firearms and got one.
And I went through the whole house.
I went through the garage.
I went through the yard.
I got out my big five gazillion candlepower light, started poking around with that.
It just scared me to death.
So I guess I've seen what I don't know.
What else do you call it?
Shadow person?
I guess.
First time in my life, I've had this experience.
And here is what I think.
And I only just think this.
When you spend a long time staring at a computer screen, it begins to change your eyes, if not your brain.
Haven't you ever noticed that?
That when you spend hours in front of a computer screen, something begins to change in you.
It's perhaps subtle.
It's tiring.
But I think there's a change behind just subtle and tiring.
I don't know what it is.
It may be a different, you know, the refresh rate of the computer screen, or it may have nothing to do with computers at all.
It just may be that these things are here.
But what the hell Are they?
I mean, you start thinking about it.
What are they?
unidentified
Are these entities of some kind?
art bell
Are they ghosts?
I mean, another person could have seen this and have said, I saw a ghost.
Right?
I could have as easily come on tonight and said, I saw a ghost.
But, you know, through the years, having talked about shadow people, that's what it looked like.
Now, this being had human form, or something close to human form.
If there were arms, they were down by the side.
They weren't out.
unidentified
But there were legs.
art bell
It just enough to scare the, you know what, right out of you.
And it did that.
So first to the right of me, then behind me, which was really freaky, and then to the left of me.
And then I was so far out of there so fast.
Whatever it's worth.
I don't know what these things are, and I doubt anybody actually can document what they are.
But now I know they are.
I did Shadow People many, many years ago.
What was it back in the late 80s, 90s?
So I remember the reports.
I remember the drawings.
I remember the descriptions.
But I sure as heck never expected to see something like that.
It was a, you know, I almost don't want to say human form, but it was close to a human form.
That's the only way I can describe it.
It was not solid.
You could still see something through it.
Maybe that added to the terror of it all.
I don't know.
But it utterly drove me nutty.
All right.
Let me give you the numbers.
With that, we can talk about anything you want.
Public number for all of you is Area Code 952-225-5278.
That's Area Code 952-225-5278.
Now, beyond that public number, yes, you can get in on Skype, whether you're in America and Canada or in the world.
Please take my advice.
I will not give this lecture many more times, but I want to do it because it benefits all of you to hear clear audio.
So if you've got, you know, a smartphone, it's so simple.
Put Skype on your smartphone.
Just put Skype on.
And then once you've done that, if you're in North America or Canada, set it up to call MITD 55.
I'm sorry, MITD 51.
Don't let me get that wrong.
M-I-T-D 51.
And then you can go to your phone and you can do it right now.
Go to your contacts, and you'll see MITD 51 in there.
You can hit it and call us free.
If you're outside North America, Canada, and the U.S., it's M-I-T-D55.
M-I-T-D55.
Let us begin and say hello, Trey.
You are on the air on Skype.
Hey, Art.
unidentified
It's interesting that you brought up the shadow people.
art bell
Yeah.
unidentified
About two or three months ago, I was sitting outside smoking on my porch, typing on Bellgab, as usual.
And I looked across myself, across the parking lot, and saw what looked like maybe a seven or eight-foot-tall shadow of a person just sort of like mailed into the ground.
The lower half of the body was not there.
And it looked like it dug down almost as if it had recognized me seeing it and was trying to hide.
And at first, in my mind, immediately I thought we had a bunch of break-ins and it's just somebody creeping around the parking lot.
art bell
At least I had a whole body.
I don't want half a body of anything.
unidentified
No, it's no good.
art bell
I'm telling you, though, this scared me so badly.
unidentified
I was completely terrified.
I froze for a moment.
I didn't know what to do.
And I just sort of casually backed up, like, you know, like, hopefully he doesn't notice what I'm doing.
art bell
Okay, question.
Question.
What do you think these things are?
unidentified
I don't know.
Maybe this has something to do with time travel, too, possibly.
Maybe we're seeing echoes of other things that were and maybe.
art bell
You know, things that were, that's a pretty good guess, actually.
Things that were.
I wonder if there's sort of a lingering echo of things that were.
unidentified
It's very possible.
art bell
Maybe it was even me at some earlier time.
unidentified
Don't do that to me.
Now I'm not going to be able to go to sleep tonight.
art bell
Well, it could be.
It could be me or anybody else, but whatever it was, you know, when these things happen to you, you're not the same after it.
unidentified
Absolutely not.
It's bizarre, and I don't really believe in this sort of thing, and it's just so odd to have that happen.
art bell
Well, you know, there's nothing like having it happen to you to make you a believer.
unidentified
Exactly.
Hey, Art, can I give you a movie recommendation?
art bell
You may.
unidentified
Have you seen the movie Pontypool?
art bell
What is it again?
unidentified
It's called Pontypool, and actually the author wouldn't make a good guess.
art bell
I haven't seen it.
Why?
unidentified
It's about a radio DJ and the power of words.
I don't know.
It's maybe sort of zombie-ish.
I don't know.
It's a pretty neat picture, and it has a lot to say, and the book's pretty good, too.
art bell
Most of the movies they've made about talk hosts are...
unidentified
When I think of talk hosts, I see you smoking and wearing black at your computer.
That's the romanticized idea.
art bell
All right.
Well, here, I'll give you the truth.
The truth is, I've got these electronic cigarettes now.
Anybody who has been a smoker all their life will learn very quickly that they either give it up, the tobacco version, or else.
And when I say or else, I guess you know what I mean, right?
It's going to get you.
Let's go to, I think, Lockport, New York.
You have achieved eredom on midnight in the desert.
Extinguish your device and proceed.
Turn that off, please.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
All the way off.
Very good.
All right, good.
Welcome to the program.
unidentified
Yes, how are you?
Art, how are you?
art bell
I'm very well.
Thank you.
unidentified
My name is Steve Legais, calling you from Lockport, New York.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
I heard you talking about the shadow people.
Well, I'm 50 years old, and I seen one the first time when I was three years old, and again for the last time on a Tuesday morning, August 16th, 2011, in my room.
The thing had orange eyes.
It locked up my body.
It was 5.30 in the morning.
It locked up my body for five minutes.
Now, throughout my whole life, this thing gave me some kind of like special where I could see the future and see things.
And I'd been able to tell people something was going to happen.
art bell
I didn't think it always happened.
That's cool.
I didn't get any of that.
I got scared out of my wits, is what I got.
unidentified
I hear you.
You know what?
And at first, it scared me too.
And then I realized three days ago and up until today that it was a positive experience for me.
And I kicked myself in the ass.
I didn't know it could read my mind when I was sitting there looking at it for the five minutes.
art bell
Well, at least I can report I didn't shoot a shadow person.
unidentified
You don't want to shoot it?
No.
art bell
No, it doesn't hurt us.
Yeah, I hear you.
unidentified
When it's all right and it's coming up, we've got to get right back to where we started from.
Love is good, love can be strong, we've got to get right back to where we started from.
You remember that day, the sunny day.
When you first came my way, I said no one could take your place.
leo ashcraft
For Dark Matter News, I'm Leo Ashcraft.
Nearly 50,000 customers were without power across southern Ontario after an intense storm battered the province on Sunday, bringing heavy winds, rain, hail, and possible funnel clouds.
The outages were spread over an area from Lake Huron to Toronto.
The utility company Toronto Hydro is reporting multiple outages across the city, including one at Yorkdale Shopping Center.
Elsewhere, the wild weather blew down trees, canceled a music festival, and according to the Ontario Provincial Police, sent six people to the hospital when a tent collapsed near Proton Station, a community about 50 kilometers southeast of Owen Sound.
There were also reports of funnel clouds near Orangeville, north of Toronto, earlier in the day.
The Ontario Provincial Police said it has received many reports of downed trees and power lines, but no reports of serious damage.
Due to safety concerns, the Veld Music Festival that was being held at Downsview Park in Toronto was called off.
If you think this was a normal storm, take a look at the photos snapped over Toronto at darkmatternews.com.
The plane crash, which killed three members of Osama bin Laden's family in Hampshire in the United Kingdom, is said to have taken place in near-perfect conditions, raising suspicions about the incident.
Three members of the bin Laden family, as well as the pilot, died when their private jet crashed near the end of the runway.
But The Guardian has raised questions over the crash as the plane was equipped with high-tech gear to guide it in safely.
And Blackbush Airport has precision approach pathway indicators, adding that it's not the first time there has been a bin Laden family plane crash.
They say it is, in fact, the third time members of the bin Laden family have been killed in a plane crash.
Osama's father was killed when his Beechcraft 18 crashed in Saudi Arabia in 1967 while on his way home to marry his 23rd wife.
Salem bin Laden, the half-brother of Osama, died in 1988 when his aircraft drifted into high-voltage power lines in San Antonio, Texas.
A hitchhiking robot that captured the hearts and fans of worldwide meant its demise in the United States.
The Canadian researchers who created Hitchbot as a social experiment said that someone in Philadelphia damaged the robot beyond repair early Saturday, ending its first American tour after about two weeks.
The kid-sized robot set out to travel cross-country after successfully hitchhiking across Canada in 26 days last year in parts of Europe.
It's immobile on its own, relying on the kindness of strangers.
unidentified
Please pick me up and put me in your vehicle.
I am Hitchbot, a hitchhiking robot.
Oh, we talked to Jet Dubby.
leo ashcraft
Those who picked it up often passed it to other travelers or left it where others might notice it.
It started in Marblehead, Massachusetts on July 17th, with its thumb raised skyward, a grin on its digital face and taped wrapped around its cylindrical head that read San Francisco or Bust.
unidentified
Maybe I can make a cameo appearance in a film when we get to California.
I will make my big Hollywood debut.
I can see it now.
Hitchbot, the first robot TV star.
leo ashcraft
The robot bounced around the Boston area and was briefly taken to sea.
One day, it took in a Red Sox game, checking off one of the items on the bucket list created for it.
But Hitchbot never made it off the East Coast.
The creators were sent an image of the vandalized robot Saturday, but couldn't track its location because the battery was dead.
They said they don't know who destroyed it or why.
The robot was designed to be a talking travel companion and could toss out factoids and carry limited conversation.
A GPS in the robot tracked its location and a camera randomly snapped photos about every 20 minutes to document its travels.
During past travels, the robot attended a comic convention and a wedding and it had its portrait painted in the Netherlands.
It once spent a week with a heavy metal band.
With the robot destroyed, Zeller said she was concerned about children who loved Hitchbot and followed it on social media.
Her team doesn't plan to release the last photo of it to protect young fans who might be distraught.
I'm Leo Ashcraft for Dark Matter News.
unidentified
Dark Matter News Feel free to sniff our packets.
Then, with a smile on your face, please call the show at 1-952-225-5278.
That's 1-952-CALLART.
art bell
This all goes out to the Donalds.
They had the, you know, the first debate with how many was it?
15?
18?
You know, a whole bunch of potential candidates, right?
unidentified
Not one of them even mentioned the name Trump.
Not one.
art bell
So, Donald, this one's for you.
unidentified
Far, we've been traveling far Without a
home, not without a star Free, oh, he won't be free Get hard and close, hang on to a dream On the boats and on the planes Come to America
art bell
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
We're in open lines.
My guest tonight was a no-show or late.
At any rate, not there.
So sad, but I think we'll make it with open lines.
You and I will make it just fine.
I'm going to bring on for a second my new producer for a very good reason.
Hey, new producer.
New producer, are you?
unidentified
Good evening, Art.
What are you up to this evening?
art bell
Well, number one, I wanted to introduce this pleasant voice to everybody as my new producer.
That's one thing.
And your name is Heather Wade, right?
unidentified
Yes, it is.
art bell
It is, yes.
And the reason that I brought you on is because you're about the only person in the world that I have told.
And how long ago was it, Heather, I told you about this encounter I had with this damn shadow thing?
unidentified
Oh, I think about two weeks ago.
art bell
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
I told you about two weeks ago.
That was actually before we even got on the air, right?
unidentified
Yes, it was.
It was a few days before you got back on the air before the 20th, and you were terrified.
art bell
Yeah, that's right.
And it was a few days prior to that that it had happened.
So I just sort of wanted to bring you on for two reasons.
One, to say, listen to the voice of my new producer, because if you're a guest, you'll probably be hearing it.
And number two, I told her my story.
I wasn't going to say it.
I wasn't going to do it on the air, but I finally thought, eh, what the heck?
And I just thought I would verify that I did, in fact, tell you then.
unidentified
Yes, you did.
And what was my suggestion?
I think the audience needs to hear this.
art bell
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I know you've said that.
I'm always really hesitant because I do a show on this kind of thing.
When finally something does happen to me, I don't know.
I feel hesitant to talk about it because it sounds like it's cooked or something, but it's not.
It really happened.
Heather, your sweetheart.
Thank you for coming on the air, verifying my story and all that stuff.
unidentified
Anytime.
art bell
All right.
Take care.
That's Heather Wade, my new producer.
So there you have it.
It really did.
It scared me as much as anything has scared me in my whole life.
I guess, to be fair, I was in shock after the UFO incident, actually a couple of them.
Shock, but not as scared as I was.
That night I was scared.
I did.
I grabbed a gun.
Not ashamed to say that.
Because I had no idea.
You know, no idea what I was dealing with.
I still don't.
No clue.
It's completely and utterly unsettling.
And here is, I believe, Debbie.
Hello, Debbie.
unidentified
Hey, Art.
How are you?
art bell
Well, I guess you can hear how I am.
unidentified
Well, I'm really enjoying the show, and it's really great to have you back.
Thank you.
Anyways, I've got two stories.
I guess I'll let you pick.
One is a shadow person thing that happened to me back in the 80s.
Really?
Yep.
And the other one was an out-of-body experience that I had back on May 20th.
No, it equally is amazing.
art bell
Yeah, but right now, let's go with the shadow person, if you don't mind.
unidentified
No, not at all.
art bell
Can you describe to me what your shadow person or what it looked like?
unidentified
You know what?
I know it's going to sound corny, but it looked like Dick Tracy.
Do you remember the Dick Tracy cartoons from the 60s when they were in the funny papers?
art bell
Sure.
unidentified
Yeah.
It looked like Dick Tracy, only in the shadows.
And this being would stand at the end of my bed any night that my husband didn't come to bed with me.
Oh, good lord.
Yeah, he would stay up and watch television sometimes.
art bell
Well, it must have been the point.
The first couple of times, you must have been dragging your husband into the bedroom.
unidentified
I was so, I can't tell you how terrifying it actually was.
And I had three small children at the time.
So I was exhausted by 8 o'clock, and I would go in, and sometimes I would just fall asleep.
And this presence was, you know, you could tell that someone was there.
It would wake you up.
It would wake me up out of a dead sleep.
And I would see him standing at the end of the bed.
art bell
That's even more horrifying because at that point, you're between sleep and being very awake.
And, boy, if that doesn't give you a heart attack, I don't know what will.
unidentified
Well, it was really, really frightening.
And, you know, and this went on for, I don't know, I'd say years.
art bell
Okay, did your Dick Tracy years...
Did he have arms, legs, discernible, everything?
unidentified
Only thing I could tell was, you know, this person was in the shadows and just, you know, like I could see a hat and a face and kind of like just shoulders, square shoulders long and black.
I couldn't discern any arms or legs.
But what I later determined and what I later found out, which is the really interesting part of the story, is that someone very close to me had put a hex on me.
And I wasn't a big believer in hexes, but I got it on pretty good word that this thing that followed me for so many years was a familiar.
And this was a male that had put this hex on me.
Was his familiar.
art bell
Was this some male that you had felt you had treated him incorrectly or something?
unidentified
I had not.
The male figure was actually my father.
art bell
Oh, your father?
unidentified
My father.
art bell
Why would your father put a hoax on you?
unidentified
A hex.
art bell
Or a hex.
Sorry.
unidentified
Well, I married someone that he didn't like.
And that person was killed in a motorcycle accident, and he sold him the motorcycle.
art bell
Now, dads don't generally put hexes on daughters.
I mean, it just is not one of those things that a dad would do.
Your dad must have been the right word.
unidentified
Well, it was hateful.
Spiteful.
art bell
Definitely hateful.
You'd think he would put the hex on the husband.
unidentified
He did.
And he was killed.
art bell
Okay, so it was the both of you, really.
unidentified
It was.
And there's many other things that go with that, and I'm not going to go into all of those because they'd take an awfully long time.
But anyways, the Dick Tracy shadow figure stayed with me for many years.
And you know, I tried to call in when you had Evelyn Paglini on several times, you know, way back when.
art bell
Right.
God bless her.
I hope she is well.
We are now looking for another Evelyn.
unidentified
Well, I hope you find her.
She really was a spiritual warrior, and I really admired her a lot.
And I wanted to tell her my story so bad because she was so knowledgeable on these different groups and all of that.
art bell
This is why I want a real witch.
They know about spiritual warfare, and a lot of people call themselves witches.
You know, they're not spiritual warriors.
And that's what I want, because, frankly, a lot of the serious things are battles.
unidentified
Oh, absolutely.
art bell
All right.
Thank you so very much.
I appreciate your call.
Good talking to you.
And again, anything you want to talk about is fair game tonight.
That was a good one.
That was definitely a good one.
Can you imagine that?
A hex on the both of them.
What daddy would do that to his daughter?
I could understand a hex on the guy.
But his own daughter.
unidentified
Wow.
art bell
Let's go.
Oh, I don't know where I'm going.
It doesn't really matter.
It says anonymous.
Welcome to the program.
unidentified
Hi, Art.
It's funny you're doing this topic.
I was going to call you on Friday.
A few years ago, I had a serious problem with the shadow nonsense.
art bell
What is this?
It's so common.
unidentified
I know what it is, and I can tell you how to see it for yourself, and then I can tell you how to get rid of it.
art bell
Getting rid of it part of it, I want to hear right away.
unidentified
Okay.
Well, it's kind of like getting out of sleep paralysis.
You know, the harder you fight it, the worse it gets.
You have to relax and let go of the fear.
And it's kind of the same thing with these things.
art bell
So how do you do that?
How do you get rid of fear?
I mean, when you see something that is pretty much not of this world, I mean, you can see through it and you can see other parts of the room, right?
It's just a figure.
I don't know how you conquer that fear because it's just abnormal.
unidentified
What I did was the first time I saw a thing, it scared me to death.
I mean, and I'm a fairly rational person, and I looked at this thing.
I didn't blink.
I didn't look away because I assume it was one of those things where my mind was mistaking shadows and making a shape that wasn't really there, like a coat rack looks like a guy standing there.
Anyway, it wasn't that.
And I never looked away from it.
And the thing was standing in a stairwell, and it just kind of tipped back.
And, you know, I got up.
I turned all the lights.
I got a gun.
I freaked out.
Next day I was telling somebody at work about it.
And I never heard hell of a shadow person in my entire life.
And I was describing it to him.
And he said, you know, that's a real thing.
You've got to look it up on the internet.
People have seen these things.
So I went home and looked it up.
I thought, well, this is horrible.
So the more research I did, I never found anybody that got hurt by one.
It was never, you know, nobody was sent to a hospital by a shadow person.
So I was resolved that the next time I saw one, I was going to do the same thing I did with sleep paralysis.
It didn't hurt me the first time I saw it.
I'm just going to assume it's not going to hurt me the second time I see it.
I'm going to relax.
art bell
And so you did?
unidentified
I did.
And you can do this too if you get rid of the fear.
And the trick is to not look away.
art bell
Okay, okay, okay.
What happened?
You relaxed, and then what?
unidentified
I relaxed.
The second time I saw it, it was a praying mantis.
art bell
Oh, wonderful.
That'd just cheer me right up.
unidentified
Well, it sounds ridiculous.
And what's weird is same height, same place, same kind of like standing in the shadows, but this time it was, you know, praying mantis legs on the wall.
art bell
Okay, so small, like you would have on the wall, or big?
unidentified
No, it was like eight feet tall.
I mean, it was terrible.
art bell
Sure, I'd just relax away with that.
unidentified
Well, I looked that one up, too.
And apparently, in the area in which I was living at the time, that was something that people saw commonly.
But anyway, I guess it has something more to do with the Extraterrestrial experience.
art bell
But all of that aside, listen, I'm sorry, I've got to interrupt you.
I'm 70.
If what I saw had turned into a praying mantis, I'd be dead now.
So I don't know.
You're talking this relaxation stuff.
You're going to have to do better than that.
I don't, you know, once it turns into, I relax with the shadow, and it turns into a praying mantis, and you're telling me that was a good finish.
unidentified
Well, yes and no.
Now that I knew what I was dealing with, I'm going to do a little more research.
And I could, well, the internet's your friend.
But I went and did a little more research and found out this was another common experience that many people had had.
And again, nobody had been hurt by one of these things.
art bell
Sometimes the internet's your friend.
I remember back when I started this whole damn topic in the first place, long ago, I went and looked it up on the internet, and all it had was terrifying pictures of these shadow people.
I didn't even think it was real when somebody first brought it up.
I'd said shadow person.
unidentified
Yeah, no, I'm not sure.
art bell
All over the internet.
unidentified
But anyway, the way to get rid of it is positivity, and that sounds kind of cliched.
The way I got rid of it was with Howard Jones music in 80s comedies.
But it kind of feeds on, it seemed to get worse the more afraid I was.
But the less consumed with, because at the time when I was seeing these things, I was, you know, I was miserable.
My life sucked.
And I was upset about a few things.
And it seemed to kind of show up more often the angrier I was.
So I consumed myself with, you know, I made sure I wasn't watching anything dark on television.
I surrounded myself with, you know, upbeat music.
And anyway, it just kind of went away after that.
Like, I still see one occasionally, but I'm not afraid of it.
It doesn't bother me.
It's an ominous.
But it seems to be, you need to relax, give the fear.
art bell
I would like to say that you have calmed me right down, but you have not.
Nevertheless, I appreciate your attempt.
Thank you very much.
unidentified
Good luck.
Good luck.
art bell
Yeah, take care.
No, that didn't do it.
I mean, the shadow person is terrifying enough, and then see it move or have it move on you and then be first to your right, then behind you, and then to your left.
I just fled.
Once I saw it to the left, and it disappeared, and it did, I fled.
And well, I've already told you.
Got a gun, went all around, was prepared to try a shot if I saw it, and I didn't.
You know, that's probably how you end up shooting the wrong person or something.
I thought it was terrifying.
And if I had managed to somehow suddenly relax, do you honestly think this thing, had it turned into a gigantic eight-foot praying mantis, would have relaxed me?
No.
Not even close.
It would have finished me off for sure.
Once again, if you're outside North America, that means America wants Canada.
Anywhere in the rest of the world, it's really easy to get through.
Just call us on Skype at MITD55.
M-I-T-D55 outside the U.S. Love to hear from you.
A stacked full of calls here in the U.S. And speaking of calls, in Ottawa something or another, you're on air.
unidentified
Oh, hi, Hart.
It's Rob from Ottawa.
Hey, Roswell's to you.
Thank you.
I'm, I guess, one of your Casey Canadian time travelers.
art bell
Welcome.
unidentified
Welcome.
Thank you.
The first call you got after you made your mission.
Yeah, you made your mission public.
Yeah, I don't know if it's you.
I don't know.
I'll tell you what happened to me quickly.
Like, I've seen the corner of your eye thing.
Yes.
You see something there.
We've all done seeing that.
What made mine different, this thing went across the room.
It went from left to right, like it didn't want to be seen.
art bell
Yeah, there you have it.
I want to add something just real quickly.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
This was not a corner of your eye thing.
I mean, when I first saw, noted that something was there present, yeah, it was a corner of my eye.
But then I turned toward it and I saw the damn thing.
Then I saw it behind me.
It had form.
It was real.
It disappeared.
It was then to the left of me and then gone.
unidentified
No, mine was just like the other collar.
It had no legs, no head.
It was about waist high.
It was a dark object.
We had gone to Vancouver.
We were staying in an older hotel.
Nice hotel, 1912.
And we were on the fifth floor.
I say that because there's no headlights at that floor.
The drapes are very, very heavy, so I'm not getting any light.
And I just happened to get up two in the morning, went to the bathroom, went into the small little kitchenette, grabbed some orange juice.
Now, the reason I wasn't afraid probably because I was half asleep.
I took my slug of orange juice, and I was peering in from the kitchenette back in the living room.
This thing just like right across the room.
And I went, oh, okay, that's kind of interesting.
And I wasn't afraid probably because I was like half asleep.
So I lied down.
My wife's there.
She's like not moving at all.
And it's a king bed.
She's like, she's not moving at all.
So I lie down, okay, and I'm just thinking about this thing.
And then at the end of the bed, I feel some pressure.
Not a lot of pressure, but a little bit of pressure.
Now, you know, I'm thinking, well, I'm not going to look back.
You know, like, I'm thinking now, there's no way I'm going to look back.
And I figured, okay, if this thing doesn't touch me, I'm not going to look back, and I'll just let it go.
And I fell asleep, you know, but there was definitely pressure at the end of my bed as well.
art bell
Now I have a reservation.
Yeah, wait, how did you fall asleep?
That'd be the last thing in the world I could do after that.
unidentified
Well, again, I was tired.
It was 2.30 in the morning.
I felt a little pressure.
I mean, I didn't want to look back.
I just was afraid to see what I would find.
art bell
I'm going to guess you're on a Bluetooth, right?
unidentified
I'm on a Bluetooth.
No, I'm on a cell phone, yeah.
art bell
Cell phone, okay.
unidentified
Yeah.
So, like, I figured as long as the pressure doesn't become any more so, or this thing doesn't grab me, I'm not going to look back, you know?
art bell
So you fell asleep.
And when you woke up, everything was all right?
unidentified
Everything was fine.
And I told my wife about it.
I thought, and then I started trying to put pieces together.
Okay, well, the curtains are heavy, there's no light.
We're up on the fifth floor.
Like, I figured this, whatever this thing was, didn't want to be seen.
I figured that it probably light, like it was a beautiful suite, and it was a good location.
And I'm thinking maybe the fifth T liked that.
art bell
We've got a break.
I've got to go.
Thanks for the story, though.
Okay, I appreciate it.
unidentified
Take care.
art bell
Well, whatever it was, it was real.
That's the one thing I know.
It was real.
This is Midnight in the Desert.
unidentified
The Shows of Truth, what you do, let me say, let me say, let me say, let me rush, let me show, let me read, and show me the witch, how the only other thing.
The Shows of Truth
I'm riding in your car.
You turn on the radio.
You're pulling me close.
I just said no.
I say I don't like it.
But you know I'm a liar.
Cause when we kiss who fire late at night, you're taking me home.
You say you wanna stay.
I say I wanna be alone.
Midnight in the desert is a wild trip across the day's divisor.
Get your ticket to ride by calling 1-952.
Call ART.
That's 1-952-225-5278.
art bell
Skype in America and Canada is M-I-T-D 51.
M-I-T-D 51.
Outside the U.S., yes, sir.
It's a free call on Skype.
M-I-T-D 55.
M-I-T-D-55.
That'll ring us up.
Let me qualify something.
When I said real, maybe I shouldn't have said real, because whatever it was, you know, I couldn't run over and grab it, nor would have I done that.
But I don't know about real.
It was something.
It was of some substance.
It was.
You know, I want to say not of this earth, but I don't know that.
It could have been a ghost.
Could have been a spirit.
Could have been a hex.
I don't know.
Well, let's see where to go.
Let's try Stephen on Skype.
Stephen, hello.
unidentified
Hi.
Hi, Art.
Hi.
Hi.
art bell
Good to have you.
unidentified
Really surprised I got on.
I just wanted to ask, you were talking about Dr. Greer before, and I actually wanted to ask you a question.
art bell
Did you hear what he said?
unidentified
Yes, I did.
The reason I listened to your show is actually because I'm actually a big fan of Dr. Greer.
art bell
Yes, sir.
unidentified
Yeah, he's really what got me into ETs in general.
Right.
I actually just wanted to know your opinion on what the new things that you're saying, that he's saying.
art bell
Well, first of all, for goodness sakes, that is what he said.
I played it.
It came from YouTube.
He absolutely said it.
unidentified
His message has changed more recently?
art bell
Yes, and I have to have him on and hear it.
But what he did say shocked the hell out of me.
I mean, come on.
unidentified
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
art bell
And he is, in essence, telling us: look, SETI got a real signal.
unidentified
They kept it secret.
art bell
That's no minor matter.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
So, have we heard already from them?
Is the question.
unidentified
That's very true.
Very true.
I guess you'd have to wonder where he did receive, like they said, like a different type of signal.
art bell
How would you summarize what Dr. Greer is saying now versus what he said all those years ago?
unidentified
I think his understanding of the subject has evolved just like everyone else's.
art bell
I think he believes they are, A, already here.
unidentified
Absolutely.
art bell
And B, he's much more interested in having communication with them than he is in doing the things he did years ago.
unidentified
Absolutely.
What I've gleaned from what he said is that he's more interested in less interest in disclosure because he doesn't think that's really a viable possibility.
Or not so much that, but so much as he thinks that's.
art bell
You know, that's what we were going to do tonight.
We were going to have Stephen Bassett on, right?
He's been working on this disclosure project for years and years and years.
And frankly, I was going to ask him at the beginning of the interview: Stephen, while I applaud your efforts, I don't think we're ever going to know.
It's never going to be disclosed unless I don't know, unless some president comes forward, maybe Trump.
Somebody who is just immune to the talk.
And maybe Trump would be immune to the talk that all presidents are apparently given.
unidentified
I mean, maybe.
Maybe.
I don't really think Donald Trump won't be elected, despite the fact that I think he's probably the best U.B. candidate that's there.
art bell
It's all fun watching anyway.
I just can't wait to wait.
I can't wait for the debate.
unidentified
Election season.
That was great.
art bell
All right, brother.
Thank you very much for the call and take care.
It's going to be, I just can't wait for the debate.
Unfortunately, you know, it's going to be one with rules.
You know it is, right?
Debate's going to have rules.
You can speak for one minute, Mr. Candidate, or three minutes, and then so-and-so over there will have one minute to rebut what you said.
And then if necessary, we'll give you 30 seconds to rebut what he said.
Bummer debate.
I want a real debate.
And oh, by the way, while we're on the subject of debates, I'm supposed to have one coming.
Now, this may sound laughable to some of you, but I'm telling you, it's no laughing matter.
There are people out there who believe with religious fervor that our earth is flat, that the scientists are all wet.
They bring with them evidence.
They think the earth is flat, and they say they can prove it.
And so I thought, okay, fine, great.
Bring on one of these devotees.
Let's get a scientist.
Let's have a real debate.
That'd be a real debate.
I'd love to see one on TV, too, wouldn't you?
With only two or three candidates when it's finally narrowed down to that?
God, I'd like to see the real thing.
All right, let's go to the phones and somebody calling themselves Dimensional.
unidentified
Hi, this is actually Nathan from Austin.
art bell
Hey, Nathan.
unidentified
Hi.
I actually had a story.
I grew up in Michigan, and I was about in middle school, I think.
And me and my friend were staying up late.
And I was looking out the window, and I saw this.
He lived on a Christmas tree farm, you know, pine trees.
art bell
Right.
unidentified
And I looked out the window, and I saw this black figure jump from one pine tree to another.
It kind of looks like a person.
art bell
Right.
unidentified
And I told my friend, you know, hey, look, I just saw this thing.
You know, do you know anything about it?
And he said, no.
So I thought it was crazy.
So I kept watching it and I saw it again.
So I was like, you know, what's going on here?
So I told my friend again.
And we started watching for like maybe an hour or so.
art bell
Right.
unidentified
And then we saw another one.
So I was like, hey, you know, go wake up your dad because I was kind of afraid.
And his dad was kind of like, he was a farmer.
So, you know, he would have been mad we were up late and he probably would have made the situation worse because he had a bit of a temper.
So we kept looking and, you know, we saw it again.
It's like, all right, so we eventually woke up his dad.
And he went out on the porch and looked around with the flashlight and everything, and he didn't see anything.
So the next night we go out there, and there's a bunch of football.
art bell
Oh, I'm sorry.
Let's see if we can get him back.
You still there?
We lost him somehow.
I'm so sorry.
That happens.
You just suddenly get cut off.
Sorry about that.
Let's try Cameron.
Hello, Cameron.
unidentified
Good evening, Art.
How am I coming in?
art bell
You're coming in.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
And that last caller is welcome to call back.
And, you know, the rule is suspended for him.
I'm sorry about that.
Anyway, go ahead, Cameron.
unidentified
Yeah.
Just sitting here having a beer, thinking about the shadow people thing that you're talking about.
And it's kind of funny.
I've seen things before, too.
But everything runs on frequencies.
You know, if you have the right adjustment of electromagnetic energy, you can see the aurora.
Infrasound, that could have an effect on what you saw because some people, with the right lighting, if they have a certain type of infrasound, like the sound that you hear in a lion's roar, it's also the same sound made by a tornado.
art bell
Okay, here is my theory.
And you're welcome to either reject it or explore it.
It is that once you've stared at a computer screen long enough with that refresh frequency.
unidentified
Well, that's what I was getting to.
It might not be that.
It could be something electromagnetic with the screen or the lighting.
But like, what was it, Van Gogh or somebody who painted all those pictures with the eerie blue hue to it?
art bell
Right.
unidentified
Or no, Claude Benet, that's what it was.
I haven't pulled up here.
Yeah, they had this really eerie blue hue.
And if you mess with the human eye just enough, for instance, with severe cataracts, you can see ultraviolet light.
So it could be that it does mess with people's eyes.
art bell
It could be that these, whatever they are, appear in ultraviolet and are not seen by the same.
unidentified
Well, maybe not ultraviolet, but what I'm saying is everything runs on frequencies, and it could be that it adjusts your eyesight and your perception.
Just like people who take the DMT stuff, they can see these machine-held entities that hop in and out of them and mess with their heads.
art bell
Well, that adjusts everything.
You know, really adjusts you.
unidentified
Everything runs on frequencies.
So one frequency, something should transfer from energy to matter, for instance.
art bell
Well, I don't want it to do that.
It was all enough matter for me.
I could see through it, so it wasn't matter-matter.
And frankly, if it had turned into matter, I'd have been going for the gun right away.
Oh, God, it scared me.
unidentified
Another quick thing before you hang up.
You know that Horace Bird, he was an inventor that invented the iron lung that saved all those polio kids.
He died just the other day.
art bell
Wow, I'm sorry to hear that.
Yeah.
unidentified
Take the time to look into them when you're not busy.
art bell
Thank you very, very much for the call.
When I'm not busy.
Goodness, when is that?
When you do a radio program, you're pretty busy a lot of the time.
Going outside the country, I think, to Ireland.
Hello there.
unidentified
My name's Liam.
I'm calling from Cork, Ireland, correct?
art bell
Cork, Ireland.
And you're bored.
It says bored.
unidentified
Yeah, I said that a long time ago.
I was bored that day, as you can imagine.
art bell
So you were having a bad day, and so you put your emotion up there.
Yep.
All right.
Right, thank you.
So you've been listening.
You know what we're talking about.
Do you see this sort of thing there?
unidentified
Next, my computer, I have a picture, and you can kind of see in the background through my window, my backyard.
And one or two times, I think I might have seen something black out there, but when I look, it's gone.
Could have been high thing.
Anyway, I was wondering about Ghost Matter because nothing said in the film.
What do you think about Midnight in the Cemetery or something like that?
art bell
Oh, you mean for the ghost show?
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
Midnight in the Cemetery is pretty good.
unidentified
I've been thinking about it for a while.
art bell
But, you know, the traditional name has been Ghost to Ghost, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
Well, it's a good point.
Midnight in the graveyard.
I will take that under advisement.
And maybe I'll change it.
Of course, we're not technically in a graveyard, and given the opportunity to do a remote from a graveyard, I don't think I would.
unidentified
I wouldn't be able to public out the Halloween night.
art bell
One question.
Yes, is Ireland a ghost-like place?
unidentified
No, I'm recording people, but I don't say it's not haunted countries.
art bell
Yeah, that's exactly what I've heard.
All right, you're listening.
unidentified
I haven't seen much of it.
art bell
Count your lucky Irish stars.
That's what I would say.
All right, thank you very much.
You know one of the cool things about being on the program is that there is about a 30-second time differential between when we actually talk to you live and then when you finish your call, if you turn your radio on or your stream or whatever, you will hear your call.
You'll hear the last at least 30 seconds of your call.
So once again, that gentleman from Ireland, if you're outside the country, we'd love to have you.
You're probably, if it's in Europe, having a cup of coffee right now or tea.
And you're welcome to call us at MITD55 on Skype, M-I-T-D55.
Let us go to, well, no, we better not.
I guess I'd better get it out of the way.
We've got a break coming up, so let me do that.
We're in open lines, and we're talking about anything you want.
Now, I did bring up the subject of shadow people because I just couldn't keep it inside any longer.
I'm Mark Bell.
This is Midnight in the Desert.
unidentified
The End
The End If you could read my mind, love what a tale my thoughts could tell.
Just like an old-time movie, how to ghost from a wishing well in a castle dark or a fortress strong.
With pain upon my feet, you know that ghost is me.
And I will never be set free as long as I'm a ghost you can't see.
In that darkest time, between dusk and dawn, from the high desert, it's Art Bell's Midnight in the Desert.
Now, here's Art.
art bell
Here I am.
We're talking about anything you want to.
It's open lines.
I guess I launched us into a bit of a discussion about shadow people because it just scared the char out of me.
I mean, that's the only way to put it.
So it goes in now to the bin of experiences that I've had in my life that count as, I guess, paranormal.
And outside the country, somewhere, you are on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Hello.
Can you hear me?
art bell
I hear you.
I'll tell you what.
Get good and close to, like, the microphone part of your computer, if you would.
unidentified
Okay, my name is Michelle.
art bell
Hi, Michelle.
unidentified
I'm coming from Sydney, Australia.
art bell
Sydney, Australia.
Excellent.
Welcome to the program.
unidentified
I'm going to make this real quick because I do childcare and I just had to give you a call.
I had an incident back in 2006 where I woke up in the middle of the night, I think it was around 2 a.m., and there was a very tall, dark creature standing between myself and the television.
I was in bed.
art bell
I was in the middle of the TV.
Did it have form or what kind of form did you see?
unidentified
Yes, it had form.
It had a long cloak on and it had a hood.
It nearly reached the ceiling of my bedroom and it said, everything will be alright.
Go back to sleep.
And with that, I went back to sleep.
Really?
And when I woke in the morning, I could not understand why I went to sleep as I was terrified.
art bell
I'm with you.
Obviously, it put you to sleep.
unidentified
Yes, it did.
Most definitely.
art bell
Probably the kindest thing it could have done for you.
Yes.
unidentified
I think so.
art bell
It sounds like your charges are climbing the wall, actually.
unidentified
Yes, they are.
Sorry.
Since you want to make a call, they want to come inside.
But I've had many other experiences, unnatural experiences, or natural, I'm not sure.
But that one was very concerning to me.
art bell
I bet it was.
unidentified
If you had to guess about what was that?
art bell
An entity, a ghost, a shadow person?
unidentified
It had solid form.
It was there.
I don't think it was a ghost.
Somehow, I don't think it was a shadow person.
To this day, I don't know what it was.
And I'll tell you another experience is when I was in my early 20s.
I was living in the city in Sydney with my boyfriend.
And I woke up one morning, went and had a shower, and I found a whole lot of squiggles, like somebody had been drawing with red texture or red pen on my stomach.
Now, I'm a black girl, but it was very, very bright.
art bell
Wow.
unidentified
And I thought it was my boyfriend.
So I got out of the shower, went and said, woke him up, and I said, what were you doing in the middle of the night drawing on my stomach?
I was very angry.
And he said, don't be ridiculous.
I did nothing of the kind.
But what was most peculiar was that all my life I had an outy belly button, very predominantly out.
And from that moment on, he said, what happened to your belly button?
It was gone.
art bell
Wow.
A positive experience.
I know.
unidentified
I was happy with my outs.
Thank you very much.
art bell
I love it.
All right.
Thank you so much for the call.
unidentified
Oh, I'm very surprised that I got through.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Right.
art bell
You call again.
Thank you.
Pretty easy to get through if you're outside the U.S. and Canada because, you know, there's just not as many people.
If you think about it, in Europe, for example, it's very early morning right now.
It's easier for the Aussies, the Japanese, maybe people in Hong Kong to get through, maybe Thailand.
We're at a better time of day there.
Who wants to call a talk show when they're just, you know, sitting at the kitchen table with their first cup of tea or something like that?
So, all right, so where to go?
Let's go to, I think, Buffalo, New York.
You are on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Hi, Art.
Like everyone, you know, so happy that you're back.
art bell
Oh, I'm so happy to be back.
You just don't know.
unidentified
Yeah, well, we've missed you.
Two things.
The other day you were talking about the car.
Out of your window, it was going to be hit.
Yes.
And I tried calling in how you had that strong, strong feeling.
art bell
Sure.
unidentified
And I wanted to mention the fact that I had that one time about 30 years ago where I was keeping score at the bowling alleys and the little voice said, buy a ticket, buy a ticket for the 50-50 split.
And I never spent money on it.
And I bought two tickets and everybody was like, well, who's the winner?
Who's the winner?
And I go, I am.
And they were like, well, how do you know?
And I go, well, the ticket's in my pocket.
I just know.
And I did win.
So that confirms your story with the car.
But as far as the ghost thing, there's a place in south of Buffalo, it's Jamestown, and it's called Lilydale.
I've gone there for seminars.
And when you're dealing with spiritualism and mediumship, they have prayers that you can open the door to communication, and they train you to become intuitive.
I mean, we all are.
But there's a prayer, and I don't know if you want me to give you the prayer over the air?
art bell
I'll tell you what.
Email it to me.
I don't have control.
unidentified
You know what?
It's a real simple one.
You surround yourself with God's white light.
I always say a prayer when I'm driving.
Almighty God, surround me with the white light of your protection three times for body, soul, and mind.
How about trying to keep those idiots away from me?
Well, you know, and the thing is, when I have dreams.
art bell
That's my problem.
I always reach out with the negative, you know.
unidentified
You reach out and you send them back.
If they don't come with the highest good and your best interests and intention, you can empower yourself and send them back.
If they don't come with the highest good for your interests.
art bell
Well, let's put it this way.
When you're doing 65 miles an hour, let's say, on the highway, somebody passes you doing about 80, and then they slow down in front of you to about 50.
I want to send them somewhere, but nowhere good.
unidentified
Well, you know what?
That's where it's kind of crazy.
You can call me nuts, but when I surround myself with the white lights, I'm on the throughway, and I go 60.
Speed limit's 55.
I'm not going crazy, but they're all passing me anyway, even if I am going five over.
But when I'm driving, it's uncanny how I'll look in the rear view, I'll look in the front, and I probably have about a four-car space in front and behind me.
That's good.
I don't know what it is, but it's crazy how they, I have a circle around me.
They're driving, there's 20 in front, there's 20 behind, but I've got a circle of freedom around me.
art bell
Okay, so you think that a circle of protection keeps trouble away?
unidentified
Absolutely.
art bell
Okay, well, it's either that.
Thank you very, very much for the call.
It's either that or, I don't know, like a machine gun mounted in the right place, which everybody who drives a lot wants.
unidentified
Well, you know, you...
art bell
I'm sorry, that's just me.
I'm really not.
I'm being serious.
I don't have a positive attitude about it.
If someone does that to me, it's like I could strangle them.
I could, with my bare hands, watch the breath go out of their bodies.
unidentified
Yeah, that's not good, though.
art bell
I know.
unidentified
Not good, but, you know, but you can practice it.
You can surround yourself with white light.
You can, any negative coming your way, return to sender.
art bell
Yeah, I mean, the only white light I want to see is the tail end of a Stinger missile headed toward them.
I appreciate your efforts anyway.
I'll give it a try.
And listen, if white light works, if good, wonderful vibrations actually do the trick, I'd like to Give it a try.
Thank you very much for the call.
I think we're going to Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
unidentified
Hello, Ark.
art bell
Hello.
unidentified
How are you this evening?
art bell
Fine.
Perplexed, but fine.
unidentified
Glad to hear that.
Well, my name is Matt, and I am calling from Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
And I just want to start by saying that it is an extreme honor to be able to speak with you.
So thank you very much for taking my call.
art bell
It's an honor to be here to take it.
Believe me, I am so glad to be here.
unidentified
Well, everyone is so glad that you're back.
So thank you for that as well.
art bell
All right.
unidentified
But I wanted to briefly discuss with you about a possible guest that I would love to have you speak with.
art bell
Absolutely.
unidentified
I'm not sure you might have heard of her name as Dr. Judy Wood.
And she is a PhD, and she's a brilliant woman.
She has a I don't think theory is quite the right word.
She's come to believe through her own examination, through her own expertise, that the World Trade Center was destroyed by a high energy weapon, a free energy weapon.
The World Trade Center, really.
art bell
But we have all these high-resolution photographs of the airplanes crashing into them.
unidentified
Well, she doesn't really speak so much about the airplanes.
I know with 9-11, there's a lot of theories.
There's a lot of information out there, a lot of differing opinions.
art bell
Oh, you're right about that.
And there are, but we do have incontrovertible video proof of what hit them.
unidentified
Right.
Well, be that as it may.
She discusses more about the collapse and what happens.
I'm sure you're familiar with the Hutchinson effect.
Did you ever speak with John Hutchinson?
art bell
Oh, yes.
unidentified
Okay, right.
She references the Hutchinson effect.
And believe me, her research and her looking into this is so extensive.
I wouldn't be able to do it justice here with this few short minutes that I have with you.
But she's a fascinating guest.
She's also caught the eye of many people, including Richard C. Hoagland, who's looked into this.
And I don't know if you can say that he is a convert to her line of thinking, but I mean, it definitely caught his attention.
art bell
Well, are you aware of the fact that he's got a show that follows mine?
unidentified
Absolutely.
You know, Art, I used to fall asleep listening to you.
Now I force myself to stay awake till 3 a.m. and I fall asleep to Richard.
So he's got the pleasure now of being the one to lullaby me to sleep, so to speak.
art bell
I'm not sure if I should be honored or I think I am.
In other words, you now stay awake for me and fall asleep with Richard.
unidentified
I do.
I do.
Nothing against Richard.
It's just, you know, the human body can only stay awake for so long.
And, you know, your program can't miss in my book.
art bell
Okay.
All right.
Well, bless your heart.
Thank you very, very much.
I appreciate your call.
And listen to Richard.
He'll be here when I'm all done.
All right?
unidentified
Very good.
I just want to say real quickly, I think it's important to say that Dr. Wood doesn't go into so much the who or the why.
She just goes into the what.
art bell
Gotcha.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
I've got to go on that.
We'll be right back.
This is Midnight in the Desert.
leo ashcraft
For Dark Matter News, I'm Leo Ashcraft.
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Scientists have made the world's first white laser light.
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But for this entire period, there was one thing in particular that lasers simply could not do, produce white light.
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I'm Leo Ashcraft for Dark Matter News.
unidentified
Dark Matter News
Step in the Dark.
Stays in the Dark.
Call Midnight in the Desert at 1-952.
Call Art.
That's 1-952-225-5278.
art bell
It will soon be your tomorrow's how right that is.
Hi, everybody.
I've always loved that.
Just the way that message is delivered.
This is Midnight in the Desert.
On the Dark Matter Digital Network, I'm Mark Bell.
Public number 952-225-5278.
unidentified
Skype is easy peasy.
art bell
You just get Skype, put it on your phone.
That's free, right?
Then you put, if you're in North America or Canada, M-I-T-D-51 in.
That's M-I-T-D51.
Call us.
And then if you're overseas, somewhere out of the country, this one I really want to emphasize, anywhere in the world, the rest of the world, pretty easy to get through because, well, it's a big world and a bad time elsewhere.
So Skype is a piece of cake.
It's MITD55.
If you're outside the U.S. and Canada, M-I-T-D-5-5.
Now, we're discussing all kinds of things tonight.
It's open lines.
Don't feel bound to discuss shadow people.
But if you do, I really would like the description of what you saw.
I'm wondering if there's any commonality here.
What I saw really is haunting me.
And I guess haunting is the right word.
That doesn't mean it was a ghost.
It means it's haunting me.
Hello there, Brian.
unidentified
Hi, Art Brian from Montreal.
art bell
From where?
unidentified
From Montreal.
Okay.
art bell
You're on.
unidentified
So first things first, I like to do the art color trite.
art bell
What would that be?
unidentified
One, is this art?
Two, am I the air?
And three, can you hear me?
art bell
Um, yes, yes, and mostly.
unidentified
Perfect.
So I like to quickly suggest open lines in the future.
I sent this to you on Friday, and I just thought it'd be a good idea.
A children of time traveler line, perhaps, that you can open up, you know, one night and you're doing open lines because I think it'd be interesting.
art bell
I tried, but getting good time travelers is not an easy job.
unidentified
That's fair.
I totally understand that.
But I'm just figuring, you know, with who knows how John Teacher actually spent his time here if he was supposedly here, right?
Yeah, yeah.
art bell
You've got a good point.
You don't have very good internet, but you've got a good point.
unidentified
I'm sorry about that.
art bell
That's all right.
No problem.
Let me give out.
Let me do it.
I don't care.
We can do anything you want.
Let me open a time traveler line right now, just in case.
Ready to copy time travelers?
If there really is a time traveler out there, call me at my Roswell number.
That's right.
It's routed through Roswell for a good reason.
And the number is Area Code 575-208-7787.
Any time, travelers, the Rio McCoy now.
Area code 77.
unidentified
Pardon me.
art bell
Area code 575-208-7787.
That's by request, I guess.
All right, let's go to somebody in, I think, Nashville, Tennessee.
unidentified
Hi.
Oh, hello, Art.
How are you?
art bell
Very well, thank you.
unidentified
I don't know what the subject is because I've had my radio turned down.
Oh, okay.
What's the subject?
art bell
Well, the subject is whatever you want it to be.
Now, we were talking about shadow people or whatever in the hell they are.
But we can talk about anything you want.
unidentified
Okay, well, first, can I give a plug for our new Art Bell Time Travelers Facebook page?
art bell
You may.
unidentified
Okay, we have this brand new Art Bell Time Travelers Facebook page, and it's only been up like two or three days, and we've already got some really great people that have joined, and everybody loves you, and we're so glad you're back.
art bell
Okay, what is the actual, what is the actual, if you don't mind my asking, name of the Facebook page so people can, is it called Art Bell's Time Traveler or what?
unidentified
It's Art Bell Time Travelers.
They can put up there in the search in the Facebook, they can just put Time Travelers or Art Bell Time Travelers, and it'll go right to it.
art bell
Okay.
Well, I'm sure that will attract some to you.
unidentified
I hope so.
And we're having fun, and we're enjoying you.
And we missed you so much.
You just don't realize how much we have missed you being on the air.
Thank you so much.
And we're hearing you on Shortwave here, too.
Ted Randall's got it playing, you know, on 5085.
And it comes in very well.
art bell
I love the way a southern person says that 5.
5085.
unidentified
I know.
I know.
I know what you think about us.
Not at all.
art bell
No, I actually love the accent.
unidentified
I love it.
Well, thank you.
But, you know, there's not much I can do about it.
art bell
Actually, you know what?
A lot of singers, whether they're from the South or not, when they sing, pronounce things as though they're from the South.
unidentified
I. Really?
Yeah, I becomes I. Are you talking about country music singers?
art bell
Not just country music singers, but any singers.
unidentified
I never noticed that before.
art bell
Truth.
Anyway.
Anyway, so I like your accent.
Thank you very, very much for the call.
And let me add, in addition to an apparent time traveler page, I'm learning through, you know, I get all these messages that come through the wormhole.
Stryker says TuneIn has its own chat room for any channel.
So there are plenty of us chatting about the show in there.
I had no idea.
These chat sites and different things pop up all over the place.
All right, on what I called my time traveler line, I'll give it a try.
You're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Hello, Art Bill.
art bell
Are you really a time traveler?
unidentified
No, actually, I was availing myself of the...
art bell
Oh, yeah, you sure did.
Sorry.
That was for time travelers, and so I had to...
Try it again.
Time traveler line, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hello.
Hi.
Does it count if it's a time traveler story about a child seeing a time traveler?
All right, I've been wanting to tell you this story for years.
When I was a little girl, nine years old, I believe I saw a time traveler.
art bell
Well, wait a minute.
Let me qualify you first.
Now, this is a time traveler's line.
Are you a time traveler?
unidentified
No, but I saw one when I was a child.
art bell
Okay, well, how do you know you saw one?
I might go for this.
unidentified
Well, I believe I did.
All right.
I was in my backyard, and I was about nine years old, and it was after dinner.
I was pulling up my bike out of our cellar, out of the cellar stairs, and I turned back, and I looked behind me, and there was a man standing in my backyard about 30 feet.
There was no way he could have gotten in there.
And he looked kind of shocked or kind of confused.
art bell
Yeah, but what makes him a time traveler?
unidentified
He was out of time.
His clothing was out of time.
Oh.
His clothes were like in the 50s, and this was like 1977, 1978.
And he had like haircut that you would have in the 50s and a type of shirt and khaki pants.
And then as I was pulling the bike out, I looked back.
I saw him, look forward again, and then I realized, wait a minute, this is something wrong.
I turned back around and he was gone.
And there was no way he could have left my yard.
There was no way.
He was too far from the gate.
art bell
Okay, well, thank you.
I'm going to let you slip through barely on that.
I really want.
Now, I'm going to be strict about this.
That line that I gave out is for time travelers only.
All right?
Let me give you the number again so you don't make a mistake.
You better be a time traveler if you call this line.
It is.
Area code 575-208-7787.
Non-time travelers, well, I've got a little button here and I can send 130,000 volts right through this phone line.
So the potential danger for you extends beyond being hung up on.
Time travelers only.
Kurt, hello on Skype.
You're on air.
Hello, Kurt.
No.
unidentified
Hello, I'm here.
I'm here.
art bell
Oh, you are.
unidentified
I've got my mute button on.
art bell
Oh, that'll do it.
unidentified
Let me turn my radio off.
Dog on it.
I'm sorry.
I came up fast.
art bell
Oh, well, how are you doing?
Doing well.
unidentified
Thank you.
I wanted to tell you about...
Well, I want to tell you about a little time travel story that happened to me.
I was in.
Oh, I'm getting nervous.
Okay.
Big, deep breath.
Okay.
I was in high school in the marching band.
Hour one, we would march out on the field and practice.
You know, in halftime, you do all the designs on the field.
And so that first hour, I think it was a sophomore at that time.
And there I am and have my saxophone and in line.
And Diana, one of my, happened to be My cousin, too, by marriage, but she played saxophone with me, too, and we're sitting there.
And all of a sudden, somebody comes walking out on that field.
Look, just spitting image of me.
It was me walking out on that field.
art bell
Oh, my.
unidentified
Looked at me, looked at me.
Diana said, Curtis, looking at him, said, Laugh, Curtis, there you are.
And he looked at me, or I looked at me, and he went up and talked to Mr. Yeager, our band director there in front, and went up there.
And whatever he said, I have no idea.
And he walked away and looked back at me and walked away, and I never saw him again.
art bell
And you're sure that was you?
unidentified
It was me.
It was a spitting image of me.
But I didn't know.
art bell
I didn't know.
unidentified
Okay, a younger you, an older you, or it was the same age as I was, and it was a top four, but it was a spitting image.
Even Diana said, Curtis, there you are, laughing, and people looking around laughing.
And I said, what was I to think?
But then the next year, no, two years later, when I was a senior, I had to do the announcements and say the pledge being president.
I had made president, and so that was my duty.
Second hour, I'd go in there and do the announcements.
I forgot to go in and do the announcements on this one Tuesday or Wednesday, and there I'm sitting in geometry class, and my voice comes up on the air to do the pledge and do the announcements, and there I'm sitting and listening to myself on the announcements.
art bell
I believe you.
Thank you very much.
No need to swear.
I believe you.
Met yourself twice.
Outside the country we go.
Hello, Raymond.
unidentified
How are we doing?
art bell
It's going well.
Where are you, my friend?
unidentified
I'm in Edinburgh, my friend.
art bell
Where?
unidentified
It's good to hear you.
I'm in Edinburgh.
art bell
Edinburgh.
Wow.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
Okay.
unidentified
It's good to hear you back on the radio, Mark.
art bell
It's good to be back.
unidentified
It was well, mate.
I always just want to talk about, when I You what?
And I stayed in the flats and I walked in flat.
And I was sitting seeing my windy getting a big ball.
art bell
Okay, you're cutting out a little on me.
But besides that, you have an accent that I could cut with a knife, but I'm trying.
So you were in a flat in Milwaukee, was that right?
unidentified
No, I was in a flat.
art bell
Oh, I'm sorry.
You cut off.
How did I manage to get a flat in Milwaukee out of that?
I don't know.
Kind of sounded like it.
Going to a cell phone in Virginia.
Hello.
unidentified
Hey, this is Plasma Mplair.
I'm in Virginia listening on 5085 kilohertz shortwave WTWW.
We transmit worldwide, a great station.
And if you've got a shortwave radio that picks up 60 meters, you can listen to it for free.
Yes, sir.
art bell
That's right.
unidentified
Now, I am also a little bit familiar with this phenomenon you were talking about before with the computer screens.
In fact, years ago, I developed a thing called Pattern Light, which is very similar to what they're now using for the backlighting, where they move the lighting around to follow the video.
art bell
Really?
unidentified
And I think that may be what's going on.
I was able to make a machine using patterned light that allowed large groups of people to dream together and have the same dream light awake.
art bell
Really?
What started you doing that?
unidentified
I was working on an exhibit for the Science Museum of Virginia, and I was working late at night one night, and I was standing across the room looking at this display.
It was basically a simple LED large-sized display for a rocket countdown.
And I noticed all these speckles in the light.
I said, well, wait a minute, I'm getting coherence like from a laser out of this.
There's no coherence in that plate.
I started investigating and finally discovered the coherence was inside my own neural network inside my skull.
art bell
Wow.
unidentified
And I was able to refine that to the point where I had six styles that I could tune, and everybody see the same thing the same way because their neural networks are similarly working.
art bell
How did you get from experimenting on yourself to others?
unidentified
I made a device to experiment on myself, and then when I realized that it worked on others, I filled in several more headsets to wear.
And I plugged them all into the same thing.
And we had parties where we'd tune around and dial up what was in our neural networks.
And people would gasp and be awed at the same thing at the same time when we asked them what they just saw.
art bell
So what have you done with this?
unidentified
You could even dial up, Art.
You could even dial up an extra visual field on top of your other one so you could see right through things.
So what you're saying about seeing through things makes a lot of sense to me.
art bell
Well, I definitely saw through this thing.
I would say, you know, the room was fairly dark, but it obscured only about half, I would say half, of what was behind it, what I could see behind it, to give you an idea.
That's why I want people to describe these things to me, because I know exactly, no, I don't know what I saw, but I can describe what I saw.
unidentified
All right, it's so good to have you back.
I'm a long-time listener, and I've got one comment I'd like to make about how you're pioneering a new way of delivery.
I mean, I know a lot of people have done online streaming, but the way you're doing it, I think, is kind of pioneering.
And the one drawback that I see in this plan is that people got to pay a lot for bandwidth.
And that's not your fault.
That's the way bandwidth costs in the United States, and it shouldn't.
art bell
Yeah, but you know what?
You know what?
There's a patch around this.
Well, there is.
For one thing, at this time of night, my friend, the majority of people are at home.
And so if they're using the Wi-Fi on their phone or their tablet, it's not costing them or their computer.
It's not costing them anything.
unidentified
Yeah, it depends on what kind of package they got for Internet service.
That may well be true.
But there's people on the road and truckers and the like that really can't partake.
There's a lot of rural people who simply do not have rural internet.
True.
There's a thing called White Spaces Radio Networks, which was approved in 2010 by the FCC and went operational in 2012.
And it's just sitting there follow, unused.
And if the listeners would Support this and band together and form co-ops with this new white spaces internet service, they could become their own service providers.
And they could do it for both the uplink and the downlink.
art bell
How do you get to it?
unidentified
Well, first of all, what's happening now is it's about to be destroyed by a move in Congress, started by a bill introduced by Senator Mark Warner in Virginia, unfortunately, that wants to take the UHS TV spectrum, which is the largest spectrum grant ever given to the American public in 1952, and repackage it and remove all the white spaces so we can't have it.
And I would like your listeners to think seriously about how nice it would be to have about 15 or 16 TV channels worth of spectrum in your portable device.
art bell
Okay, well, you are aware that, I mean, most of the companies providing Internet now, along with phone service, are increasing drastically the amount of data that you can get.
And I'll tell you a little secret.
If you call them up and say, listen, you know, I'm kind of fed up.
I'm thinking of canceling.
They will send you over to a retention person who probably will increase by a gigabit or more how much they give you just to save you.
unidentified
I agree with all that, but if you're a road trucker, you may not be able to get a plan because there's no connectivity out in some of the rural areas along the roads.
And there's a lot of areas in the southwest that are just dead for except for satellites.
art bell
I know.
unidentified
Now, if you can have a satellite downlink with these little spot beams coming from the F-C satellite and then have that be propagated out to the surrounding by a mesh network, then local communities could set up their own down lake and internet service provider amongst themselves, like a rural electrical co-op.
And then you could have a KU band down link that could feed your shows, but you don't have to have huge bandwidth that you're in.
art bell
All right, buddy, I've got to go.
I'm at break.
Thank you very, very much.
Take care.
He's right, and I'm right too.
We'll talk about bandwidth.
It's not really so bad for this show.
unidentified
Yeah, I know it rings like a bell to the night.
And when she's left and left, I'll face you to the sky like a bird was riding.
Who will be the lover?
Well, you're alive, you've never seen a woman.
Thank you.
Ooh, you can dance, you can dance, heaven and shine on your eyes.
Ooh, see that girl, watch that sea, dig in the best of me.
Friday night and the lights are low, looking out for a place to go.
Where they play the white music, getting in the spring, you come to love the pain.
Anybody could see that guy, night is young and the music's high.
This is Midnight in the Desert.
To call the show.
If you're East of Midnight, call 1-952.
Call Art.
If you're West of Midnight, call 1-952-225-5278.
art bell
You've got to love that.
Hi, everybody.
I'm Art Bell, and this is Midnight in the Desert.
Rocking and just blazing through the night.
Our guest didn't show up, and tastes a raw.
You know, that doesn't stop the show.
unidentified
In fact, it goes on with zest.
art bell
Hi there.
On my time traveler line, are you a time traveler?
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
art bell
Oh, yeah.
Just like that, huh?
unidentified
Yeah.
Okay.
art bell
You're definitely a time traveler?
unidentified
Without a doubt, Art, I am a time traveler.
art bell
All right.
unidentified
Fluent year do you originate?
Well, I'll tell you how I did it, Art.
I went backwards in time from the year 2010.
I went back to 1915.
This is just one time.
art bell
That was 1915.
19 what?
unidentified
50?
No, 1915, 1915.
art bell
1915.
All right.
unidentified
No, no, no, exactly.
I went to the Indianapolis 500 on Salvia Divinorum, and I stuck my head in through the bleachers, and I was there.
art bell
Really?
unidentified
The last lap, the checkered flag.
This is coming down.
People are going crazy in the stands, waving their flags.
And turn to the left, and I can see these old cars coming.
I'm like, wow, man, this is too much.
I'm not even really a race fan.
I'm thinking, this is fantastic.
And I wanted to tap somebody on the shoulder and say, here's my phone number.
Call me in 10 minutes.
I'll be back.
I've also gone back to the 1950s on Salvia Divinorum.
And it's pretty common.
art bell
Sorry.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
I want to ask you a couple of questions, please.
One is, by what method, if you can tell us, do you travel in time?
unidentified
By smoking Salvia Divinorum.
art bell
What the heck is that?
unidentified
Salvia is a hallucinogenic herb from Oaxaca, Mexico.
It's safe and it's legal, and it's 10 times stronger than LSD.
art bell
All right, so how do you know?
How do you know you're actually traveling in time versus so high you can't even move?
unidentified
I think the reality factor and the fact it only blasts for five minutes and you're back and able to recall it completely.
art bell
Yeah, there is that.
unidentified
There is that.
Let's see.
art bell
Have you ever gone into the future?
unidentified
No, because the future hasn't happened yet.
I don't believe people can travel into the future.
Some claim they can.
My experience has always been backwards.
art bell
Fascinating.
unidentified
And I just believe that the key to time travel is going to be drugs, and it's not a machine.
It's going to be a substance.
Terrence McKenna said that, and I agree with him.
And he says self-evidentorm is the key.
All right.
I appreciate it.
Yep.
art bell
Yep.
I very much appreciate your call.
Thank you.
And Terrence very well may have said that.
And, you know, I'm not ruling it out.
I'm really not ruling it out.
I'm not a proponent of drugs at all, but you can't rule it out.
It may well be that time travel could turn out ultimately to be a function of the brain.
A lot of movies are based on that.
One of my favorite movies of all time, Somewhere in Time, was actually based on that.
If you've never seen that movie, make it a point to do it somewhere in time.
Okay, where to go?
Let's go to Michael on Skype.
Michael, hello.
unidentified
Yeah, good morning, Art.
How are you doing?
art bell
I'm doing well.
Where are you?
unidentified
I am in Virginia.
art bell
Virginia.
Beautiful, beautiful part of the country.
unidentified
It is.
It really is, yeah.
So I have a couple plus one questions for you.
art bell
Okay.
unidentified
That's all right.
Sure.
So I called into Richard Hoagland's program, Other Side of Midnight, last week.
Yes.
And I asked him if he had considered doing a three-hour show instead of the two-hours.
art bell
Actually, he has.
unidentified
Yeah, that's what he said.
He said he was interested, but he wasn't sure if the network would go along with that.
So my question to you is, have you given any consideration to Richard's show going three hours?
art bell
I have.
He said to me, Art, you know, I don't know if two hours is enough, you know, to get deeply into the subject he wants to get into.
And I said, look, Richard, why don't you do this?
Why don't you try to for a while and see how you do?
And if you want to go to three, probably the space can be made.
unidentified
Ah, okay.
So there is an option for that also?
art bell
Yeah, sure, there is.
unidentified
I've really been enjoying that show.
It's got kind of an audio verite flavor to it.
art bell
It does.
It does.
It's like, what's coming next?
unidentified
You never know.
art bell
That's right.
unidentified
Okay, so my second question is, I know that you haven't been actively pursuing it, but are you aware of any other terrestrial radio stations across the country that have expressed interest in picking up your show as an affiliate?
art bell
Yes, yes, yes.
We have.
Well, you know what?
We're not, you're absolutely right.
We're not aggressively pursuing it.
We haven't called any of these stations that have joined us.
They all came to us, and I'm still not sure.
I mean, I guess it's cool, but, you know, this is such an experiment we're doing that I don't know what direction we're going to go.
Ultimately, maybe we'll, you know, the commercials will go and we'll be listener supported.
I don't know.
You know, everything's open.
unidentified
I think that having terrestrial stations gives you a larger audience, certainly, right?
art bell
You know what?
That's changing.
And certainly now that is true, yes.
And I'm not going to, you know, as I said, I'm not going to turn them down.
I can't think of any reason to turn them down.
unidentified
Why would you, right?
Yeah.
art bell
And we'll give them the ratings, guaranteed.
Let me go on.
There's this interesting experiment going on up in Portland.
We're on a big one there, KXL.
Big, big, big, right?
And when the ratings come out, there's going to be a shock that goes across the American radio community.
And I'll leave it at that.
unidentified
Oh, exciting.
I certainly hope that you're getting good ratings up there.
Anyway, my final question is one that sort of just came up in the past hour.
Sure.
Apparently, the host of the other Unlistenable show has promoted this evening how their streaming service hasn't had a price increase and whatnot.
This coming from the guy who claims to never play Dirty Pool, right?
You know, the guy just always above board, right, Eric?
art bell
He just can't help reacting, can he?
unidentified
No, he can't.
He's scared.
And why wouldn't he be?
You're RPL, and he's not, right?
art bell
Yeah, well, I hear that he's crowdfunded his way to the star system to Merrick, where he'll probably attempt a landing on the planet at 11-11, I'm sure.
Regui.
unidentified
Anyway, you wouldn't suspect that tonight's scheduled guest was, I don't know, advised by the other show to abandon his appearance.
art bell
Oh, would you?
Who knows?
Who knows?
I doubt that.
unidentified
Oh, I don't.
art bell
Anyway, it doesn't matter to me.
I'm cool.
I'm cool.
I'd rather do open lines anyway.
unidentified
Fair enough, Art.
We're very, very happy to have you back, and I hope you have a good day.
Roswell's too.
art bell
Take care, bud.
Yeah, I'm easy.
I really am easy.
I mean, I can go any way at all.
If I have a guest that doesn't show up, well, you know, that's life.
Life goes on and all that stuff.
So we'll just do whatever is fun.
That's the cool thing about, I suppose, two things.
One being my age, and two, doing something you love.
It's not like all stops, you know, when somebody doesn't show up.
unidentified
I just, it's.
Okay.
What's next?
art bell
Julie, hello, Julie, from somewhere.
unidentified
Hey, you are.
Thanks for taking my call.
We're so glad you're back on the air.
art bell
Thank you for making it.
Where are you, Julie?
unidentified
I'm in Fircrest, Washington.
Okay.
So my husband listens a little bit more religiously than I do.
he mentioned that you were looking for the Washington State Patrol trooper that feeds Bigfoot.
art bell
That's right.
unidentified
So I don't know that guy, but I did go to my trooper friend's house last night, and we mentioned the story to him.
And he had a kind of funny story to tell us that there was a candidate to be a trooper, and they have to take a polygraph examination before they can become troopers.
And they asked him, they said, you know, they ask a series of questions that they've already asked him.
And he answered in the affirmative when they said, have you ever been the subject of a police investigation?
And he was kind of sheepish and looked down a little bit.
And he said, yeah.
And they said, well, you haven't disclosed this before.
So what's the deal?
And he said, well, I used to dress up in Bigfoot costume and cross the highway.
And the police ended up investigating it.
He never got caught.
And he's a trooper to this day.
I don't know his name.
My friend didn't disclose that, but it was pretty funny at that point.
All right.
art bell
Well, the story about the trooper in Washington seeing Bigfoot is real.
So if you can get me a name, I'm ArtBell at artbell.com.
unidentified
Well, I'll try, but I don't know that anyone's going to disclose that.
art bell
Well, he can talk to me anonymously, really.
I'll figure out a way.
We'll change his voice.
I don't care.
I just want to interview the guy.
He's 20 feet from Bigfoot.
He feeds Bigfoot.
I want to talk to him.
unidentified
All right.
Well, I'll let him know and see if they want to talk to you.
art bell
Please.
Thank you.
Tell them, email me, and I will, you know, I'll figure out a way.
I guarantee I'll figure out a way.
Okay, here we go.
Time Traveler Line.
unidentified
You are on the air.
Good evening, Mr. Bell.
art bell
Good evening.
Are you really a time traveler?
unidentified
I have traveled one time to visit my son.
art bell
One time to traveling to visit your son.
unidentified
Well, my son arranged the transportation.
art bell
I see.
Okay.
And your son was when?
unidentified
2060.
art bell
2060.
Okay.
I guess your son could be that age, and you actually...
That's the first question.
unidentified
Well, as I say, he arranged it.
And the reason that I'm calling before I answer your question is because he's very interested in revealing some facts about the future that might cause a spin-off in the space-time continuum and provide other possibilities for alternative futures.
art bell
Okay.
Having said that, how did you travel?
Was it a machine?
Is it something you did with drugs like our caller a little while ago?
unidentified
What?
Well, without being too specific, I was told to go to a specific location.
I met some people there, very polite and friendly, and they placed me in this device, kind of a bell-shaped unit.
And to look at it, it looked really ancient.
I mean, it didn't look like something that was from the future.
And within moments, I was with my son where he lives on Mars, actually.
art bell
Your son lives on Mars.
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
Okay, see, that's harder to believe than traveling in time.
I mean, by then, have we established a colony?
unidentified
Well, he lives in a colony of 200,000.
art bell
So we have a big colony.
And all this by the year 2060?
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
Man, we can't even get the spaceship up.
I'm not buying that.
And the reason is that, you know, we can't even get up to the International Space Station anymore.
So a colony of hundreds of thousands on Mars by 2060?
unidentified
I don't see it.
art bell
I just don't see it.
But then again, you know, technology's pretty wild.
No question about that.
All right, let's go to somebody whose name.
No, we'll hold that.
We'll go to the phone.
We should be going back to the phone.
Laguna Beach, I think you're on the air.
unidentified
Hi, I can't believe it.
Oh, my gosh.
Hello, all.
art bell
Hello.
unidentified
Oh, my God.
This is Sylvia from Maguina Beach.
Roswell's to you.
art bell
Thank you.
unidentified
I'm so happy you're back.
art bell
Well, I'm so happy.
You're so happy at this time of night.
unidentified
Okay, I have so many stories I want to tell you.
I don't know which one to tell.
art bell
Take the most shocking, interesting one and tell me that one.
unidentified
Okay, then.
I will tell you about my father's visitation to me two months after he died.
This is what happened.
This little bit of backstory, I'll be as quickly as possible so I can get to the point.
I was dating a man for a couple of years, and he was an American citizen.
He was from Asia.
And he had decided to go back to his country to visit his mother.
And I said, that's fine, no problem.
Go see her.
She misses you.
So he leaves and never comes back.
And I'm thinking, okay, that's weird.
What's going on?
A year later, I find him on Facebook.
And it turns out that he was already a married man with kids, and that everything about him was a lie.
And I felt so deceived by this, and not only was I felt deceived for what he did to me, but I thought about my parents and how he just had deceived them as well.
And I wanted to tell my parents at the time, but unfortunately, my father was dying from brain cancer, and I figured he can't be burdened by this.
So I never said a word.
Two months later, I mean, excuse me, on November, my father had passed away.
And two months later, he came to me in a dream.
And in the dream, he was normal, cancer-free, very young, I would say in his 30s.
And he was furious.
He was so furious.
And he's gripping my boyfriend by the shoulder.
And he's looking him hard, like, you're not going anywhere.
And he's looking straight, my father's looking straight at me in the eye.
And he says to me, you have to tell her.
And I'm thinking, who?
What are you talking about, Daddy?
And then he shouts, he goes, Mija.
And that means my daughter in Spanish.
He goes, Mija.
I know everything.
art bell
See, now we're talking about a real dad here.
Did you hear the poor lady you called about the hex earlier?
unidentified
I did.
Oh, my God.
That gave me kills.
I can't believe that.
Oh, my God.
Anyway, my father says to me, you know, you have to tell his wife what happened.
And then I say to my dad, Daddy, I can't.
There's no way that I can contact him.
And then he says to me, go on Facebook.
He just joined.
And I wake up.
It's 3 o'clock in the morning.
I'm having a heart attack.
It's such a vivid dream.
And I'm thinking, that was a freak.
This can't be real.
But of course, curiosity got to me.
And I decided to go on Facebook.
So I go on Facebook.
I find my boyfriend's Facebook account.
And there's an update.
It's linked with his wife's Facebook account.
And so I click on her name, and I see her Facebook page, and it says at the very bottom, just joined one hour ago.
Wow.
Wow.
art bell
All right, Liz and I got to go, but what a story.
Thank you.
You know, even law enforcement uses Facebook to find people now.
So I'm not surprised, but what a story.
This is Midnight in the Desert.
I'm Art Bell.
unidentified
Stay right there.
Midnight in the Desert, exclusively on the Dark Matter Digital Network with Art Bell.
Invite you to call now, 1-952.
Call Art.
That's 1-952-225-5278.
art bell
You know, besides, over there, if they're charging, you know, for value of content, they ought to be lowering the price anyway, wouldn't you think?
Let's go to Cam.
Hi, Cam.
How are you?
unidentified
Good.
I like that last comment there.
Well, hey, what a great show.
Who needs a guest when you've got all these callers?
art bell
Well, there is that.
unidentified
I just put Skype on my phone tonight, and this is the first time I'm trying it.
You'll see how well it works.
art bell
Really?
unidentified
Let's see.
Let me turn down the volume.
art bell
Actually, you sound cool to me.
Okay.
What are you on, actually?
A computer or a phone?
unidentified
iPhone 6 Plus.
art bell
Oh, a plus, huh?
You know, I always wondered about those.
It's like holding a, I don't know, big thing to your ear.
unidentified
Yeah, but I kind of liked it for the bigger screen, and then later I got glasses, so maybe I didn't need that.
art bell
Well, let me tell you, your audio here is like you're sitting next to me.
That's how good it is.
unidentified
Oh, well, great.
Thanks.
art bell
You're very welcome.
unidentified
When I hear you over my mixer, I just turned it down.
You sound like you're sitting in my room with me, too.
There you have it.
Hey, I wanted to share a shadow cat story.
But first, I wanted to express my concern over anybody that dresses up as Bigfoot and walks across the highway at night.
art bell
Boy, no joke.
unidentified
You know, there's been talk about the first person that can shoot one and capture it should be not illegal or something.
So it's really dangerous to dress up as Bigfoot in the Northwest and walk across the highway.
art bell
It sure is.
And I wonder how it would resolve if you shot what appeared to be a Bigfoot and it turned out to be some idiot in a costume.
I wonder legally how that would come down.
I guess the guy could say, look, this monster was coming at me and I was scared for my life, right?
unidentified
Yeah, I mean, I think technically shooting the first Bigfoot may not be illegal, but so.
art bell
Well, if it's a real Bigfoot, yes.
unidentified
Yeah.
Sure.
But I mean, if he's tall and you really thought he was Bigfoot, you know, I don't know.
art bell
Yeah, it's a good point, and I really appreciate it.
Anything else?
unidentified
Well, my shadow cat story.
I bought my house some years ago, and it's an older house, And I had my friend with me, and we were taking out a temporary wall, and we pulled back the ugly paneling.
And we both saw this, what we thought was a cat, jump out from behind the paneling and the wall and run out the front.
But when we both acknowledged it to each other, we realized, first of all, it had no solid form.
It was black, it was kind of fuzzy, and it dissipated once it got out of the room.
art bell
Oh, that's weird.
unidentified
Turned into nothing.
But we both saw it at the same time.
art bell
Well, see, there you are.
You both saw it.
Now we've got a signing by two people.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
Yeah, very impressive.
Thank you very much.
And I submit to you that that really counts.
When two people see it, my word for it, you don't have to take my word for it, even though I guarantee you what I told you was the absolute truth.
But if two people see it or more, that has some pretty serious meaning in my mind.
Kimberly, with a bunch of zeros, I can't read the number, but Kimberly, you're on the air.
unidentified
Hi.
art bell
Hello, Kimberly.
Aw, I guess she bailed.
She was probably somewhere outside the country.
No idea where.
But Kimberly, you would have been on the air.
All right.
Not a lot of time, so let's go to Larry.
You are on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Me?
You!
Holy crow!
art bell
Extinguish your device.
unidentified
There we go.
art bell
There you go.
unidentified
Hey, I talked to you.
My God, it had to be, I don't know, way back when you first started.
And I wanted to talk to you, and you put me on, I'm getting nervous.
art bell
Probably back when you were young, huh?
unidentified
Well, yeah, we were both long younger.
art bell
All right.
unidentified
But I got put on hold, and then we lost contact.
I never got a chance to get back to you.
I'm so glad you're back on the air.
art bell
Well, here you are.
unidentified
Anyway, I was always wondering if you and I had met in nominally boat docks way back when, because I was on that, you know.
art bell
He's talking about Okinawa.
unidentified
I'm sorry.
art bell
I said, you're talking about Okinawa.
A lot of people don't know that.
unidentified
Yeah.
Where the, you know, the GIs weren't allowed to go there, but I did.
We did.
Me and my buddies.
art bell
Well, it was pretty cool.
I was at first military there, of course, but I turned around and went back to Okinawa as a civilian.
And I lived in Naha, so I was all over the place there.
You can bet on it.
unidentified
Right.
I was stationed at Naha.
art bell
Well, there you are.
unidentified
And this would have been like 1967.
art bell
Sounds about right.
unidentified
Oh, my God.
We got to talking about tasers and lasers and all this stuff.
And that was way back when, and I always wondered if it was you that, you know, years later, I hear you on the air.
And, geez, I wonder if that was that fellow.
art bell
Yeah, sounds like me.
All right.
unidentified
Oh, my.
art bell
All right, my friend.
Listen, I'm short on time.
I've got to go.
I've got to look for somebody overseas very quickly.
unidentified
Hello?
Hello?
art bell
Ito, hi.
unidentified
Hello?
Hello?
Oh, it's me.
It's you.
art bell
Ito, where are you?
Yes, where are you calling from?
unidentified
Ireland.
art bell
Ireland?
unidentified
Excellent.
Is that Artel?
art bell
Yes, this is Artel.
unidentified
Artel, I'm delighted to speak to you.
I'm honored.
Hello.
art bell
I'm honored to speak with you.
However, listen to me.
We're coming up on a break, and I have to take these breaks.
I have absolutely no choice.
unidentified
So can you hold on through the break?
I think so.
Yeah, yeah, it'll be fine.
art bell
All right, it's free.
So hang loose.
We'll get back to you in Ireland.
Worldwide, on the Internet, this is Midnight in the Desert.
I'm Art Bell.
unidentified
I hear the drums echo in tonight.
Cheers only whispers of some quiet on the stage.
Coming in from body fight.
Mooned wings with black stars that guide the dark soul page.
leo ashcraft
For Dark Matter News, I'm Leo Ashcraft.
Flying Snakes.
While that may sound strange, flying snakes actually exist.
The mystery of how flying snakes stay aloft may have been solved by scientists, though.
These unusual reptiles, which are found in rainforests in Southeast Asia, are able to fling themselves from trees and elegantly glide through the air.
Scientists say that the serpents radically alter their body shape to generate the aerodynamic forces needed to perform this feat.
Professor Jake Sosha from Virginia Tech, who carried out the study, said the snake is definitely not an intuitive glider.
When you look at it, you'd say that thing should not be able to glide.
And in its normal body configuration, that's probably true.
But when it enters the air, when it takes off and jumps and leaps from a branch, it massively transforms its body.
As it jumps, it flattens out from just behind the head to where the tail starts.
What it is doing is taking its ribs and rotating them forwards towards the head and upwards towards the spine.
The snake's body changes from having a very round cross-section to one that is more squashed and concave at the bottom.
He said the snake was producing an aerodynamic force that was comparable to that created by a scaled-down plane wing.
As it's doing this, it's moving its head from side to side.
It is passing waves down the body, and it looks like the animal is swimming in the air.
The team says the snake could help to inspire robotic development, potentially leading to machines that can crawl, climb, and glide.
This is Dark Matter News.
A new jaw-dropping up close video displays the eruption of the Piton de la Fournesse volcano, located on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar.
New footage of the eruption, which prompted evacuation on Friday, shows the fiery rivers of lava running down the slopes.
The eruption lasted for three days before ending on Sunday, shortly after 11 a.m. local time, this is a World Heritage Site and is one of the most active volcanoes in the world.
The volcanic activity hampered the work of Malaysian investigators examining suspected debris of the MH370 flight found by beachcomers on Reunion Island on Wednesday.
Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 went missing on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board shortly after taking off from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing.
Its disappearance prompted a massive international search lasting more than a year in the South Indian Ocean, the China Sea, and the Gulf of Thailand.
CNN has reported that worms can invade your brain if you eat this common food.
Once you consume them, they can move throughout your body, your eyes, your tissues, and most commonly, your brain.
They leave doctors puzzled in their wake as they migrate and settle to feed on the body they're invading.
A classic parasite, but this one can get into your head.
A British man was found to have a tapeworm moving inside his brain in 2013.
This form of tapeworm had never been seen before in the United Kingdom.
The patient had recently visited China, which along with South Korea, Japan, and Thailand has more regular occurrences of the parasite known as fibrometra.
Four years earlier, the man had first experienced symptoms such as headaches, which the team of doctors had treated as tubular callosis, but then it returned.
This time he had new symptoms.
The worm was now pushing on a new part of his brain, causing seizures and weakness in his legs.
The condition associated with this infection was, in fact, spargonosis.
There is no known drug to effectively treat the infection, meaning that upon diagnosis, doctors had to be quick to remove the worm surgically.
The adult form of the spirometra tapeworm only occurs in the intestines of cats and dogs, but as these animals shed the worm's eggs in their feces, the eggs can enter and contaminate water.
The resulting juvenile form of tapeworm, known as larvae, can then stay in water within certain small crustaceans or end up in frogs and snakes.
As larvae, they can invade humans through ingestion or direct contact with infected animals.
I'm Leo Ashcraft for Dark Matter News.
unidentified
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Into this world with Dog While Midnight Sweeps Across America, you've found an oasis for the mind.
To call Midnight in the Desert, please dial 1-952-Call Arts.
That's 1-952-225-5278.
art bell
Some of you feel I gave the guy with the Sun on Mars short shrift.
Maybe.
He can call back.
unidentified
How about that?
art bell
We'll bend the rule for that.
Maybe I should have listened a little more.
It just, I don't know.
It caught me as unlikely, but one never knows.
This is midnight in the desert, and one with this really never knows.
Back now to, is it, help me pronounce your name.
Is it Ido or Ido?
leo ashcraft
Hello?
unidentified
Hello?
art bell
Yes, hi.
unidentified
I'm here.
My name is Carlin.
I'm from Ireland.
art bell
Oh, Carlin, your Skype says I-D-O.
unidentified
I do not know, yes.
That's a silly name.
I do not know because it doesn't really say that, though.
art bell
It says IDO space N-O-T-K-N-O-W.
I get it now.
I do know.
unidentified
You get it, yeah.
art bell
Yeah, yeah.
unidentified
I do not know, basically.
How are you, man?
Great show.
art bell
Thank you.
unidentified
I missed most of it today, but usually I get your show from somewhere on TuneIn, you know?
art bell
Well, now we have these archives.
We have archives, and you can go back and listen to old shows.
Pretty cool.
unidentified
I'd love to hear this again because I really didn't think I'd get through.
art bell
Okay, if you go to artbell.com, that's my name, A-R-T-B-E-L-L.com, you can sign up there.
And right now it's five bucks, and then you get grandfathered in at five bucks.
It's really cool.
unidentified
Cool.
No, that sounds good to me because I want to support your show.
It's awesome that you're back.
art bell
Thank you.
unidentified
Thank you.
Am I on airlike right now?
art bell
Oh, like right now, yes.
unidentified
Oh, I nearly cursed, actually.
Sorry.
You probably don't have much time with me.
No, just thank you very much for taking my call.
It's awesome.
I'm glad to get through.
I'd like to suggest a few things if that's cool, no?
Go ahead.
Have you ever heard of this mythical island off the coast of Ireland that was on maps up until 1872?
art bell
What's the name of it?
unidentified
High Brazil, it's called.
art bell
High Brazil, no.
unidentified
Wait a minute.
Maybe I'll find an expert on that, you know?
art bell
what's the deal?
unidentified
Basically, it was a tiny little Sure.
And it vanished in the fog, you know, that sort of thing.
It was only seen once every year or so.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
And I just thought it was a pretty cool subject.
You might be able to get somebody on it.
art bell
I'd love to.
You're in a better place to, you know, get that person for me than I am.
unidentified
It sounds cool.
I can't really get much information on it, but I'll send you links if I find something, you know.
art bell
Would you please?
unidentified
Yeah, of course, of course.
And we have on Dover Cool as well as a lake creature as well I'm interested in.
I'd like to hear somebody who knows stuff about that for a link.
art bell
Oh, we've heard about your creatures.
unidentified
So I would love to hear more about that.
art bell
All right, buddy.
Thank you very much for the call, all the way from Ireland.
unidentified
Thank you for taking my call.
art bell
You're very welcome.
Let me very quickly go to my time traveler line.
unidentified
Hello.
art bell
Hello.
You're the guy, aren't you?
unidentified
I'm the guy.
art bell
With the sun on Mars.
Yeah, I did.
I cut you off too soon.
What else can you tell us?
I mean, 200,000 people, that's a lot.
unidentified
I can tell you that, you know, I live in the present.
I mean, I was born in 1956, so I am from now.
But the drive that enabled or will enable them to colonize really the whole solar system has already been developed.
art bell
You know what?
After you called and I got those messages, I thought about that and I thought, oh my God, what if we develop a drive that will move mass people?
Some sort of gravity drive, I would imagine, or what?
unidentified
No, no, it's electromagnetic drive.
It's a sealed engine that NASA has already approved, has already tested and verified.
art bell
Really?
unidentified
And that's in a hard vacuum.
And, you know, they're getting minimal thrust, but once they start to use a superconducting reaction chamber, which by the way is sealed, there's no exhaust tube, they'll be able to increase the cue up into the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands and be able to get a million pounds of thrust out of using electricity to power it.
And that's in five years.
art bell
All right, let me ask this.
What is it that motivated that many people to go to Mars?
unidentified
Well, what always motivates them is gold.
Gold?
That's one of the primary gold mining colonies on Mars.
And, you know, plus there are quite a few of them on asteroids.
And there's extensive things going on on the moon.
art bell
Well, that certainly, through the ages, has motivated many people to go on many gold rushes.
So I get that.
unidentified
The reason that I called you is because my son wants to arrange a live communication from 2060 to you from Mars.
art bell
Oh, good Lord, yes.
Good Lord, yes.
And here's what I would suggest.
unidentified
But there is a very good reason that he feels very strongly that this needs to occur.
art bell
I'm with him.
unidentified
Potentially he could get into some trouble.
In fact, you know.
art bell
Well, I don't want that.
unidentified
But it's for the good.
art bell
All right.
Let's do this.
Let us set up something by email.
I'm artbell at artbell.com, and we can set up whatever you want.
unidentified
Okay.
I will talk to the people that will actually do the technological part, and then I will get back to you.
I don't know how I will verify that I am who I am, but you can refer to me as Frank.
I don't know if that'll help.
art bell
Done deal, Frank.
This has been a good call.
So get in touch with me.
We'll arrange exactly what you just said.
unidentified
Okay.
Thank you very much.
art bell
Thank you, Frank, and take care.
See, this is why you do open lines.
This is exactly why you do open lines.
You never, ever know what you're going to run into.
You just don't know.
If it New York, hello.
unidentified
Hello, Art.
How are you doing?
art bell
Very well, thank you.
unidentified
I am very grateful to you, not only for all the time you've been on the air, but some special peak moments of it.
And one of those is when you talked about crop formation that has come down now to be known as the Arecibo Reply.
art bell
Oh, I remember the Arecibo reply well.
unidentified
Yes, well, I was so inspired by that to do a science project.
And I actually had called Lisa at the time because I wanted to be on coach, not about that, but about some research I'd done with genetics about the genetics of altruism.
Yes.
But I told her that I could have a field day analyzing those agroglyphs in the computer.
art bell
How do you analyze them?
I mean, what kind of what do you put them through to analyze them?
I'm curious.
unidentified
Well, okay, if you have two rectangles on the ground on very flat land, if you remember the alien face and the Arecibo reply were rectangles, but they were not parallel to each other.
No side of one rectangle was parallel to any side of the other.
And when you have that, there's enough information in a perspective picture of the scene to reconstruct a perfect map of the scene as it would look looking straight down on it.
And if the pictures were a hoax, that map would reveal the radar dish as an oval instead of a circle, and the parking lot, a third non-parallel rectangle in the scene.
art bell
You know, that actually makes sense.
In other words, we rarely, almost never, see a directly looking down photograph, do we?
unidentified
Yes, but if you...
If it were a hoax, the radar dish would come out oval on the map would come out not as a rectangle.
Now, I told Nancy Talbot, a crop circle expert, about this research project I did, and she got very angry.
She said, my great friends in England were there.
They walked around in it.
How could you dare to do research to demonstrate that it might not have really existed and might have just been a fancy drawing?
And I said, but science doesn't work that way.
And the thing She didn't give me time to say was that there are certain autistic savants who, when they look at such a photograph, can generate the map in their head and just draw it.
art bell
Totally go.
unidentified
So all I really did was write a computer program to emulate an autistic savant and create the map from the photograph.
art bell
Listen, I would love to see, I would love to see the results of some of what you've done.
Could you get them to me?
unidentified
Well, I sent you an email at artbell at artbell.com with the four versions of the manuscript I wrote for After Dark.
Unfortunately, Lisa lost interest in it.
First, she said, I won't have you on about it.
No, no, no, no, no.
art bell
What I'm asking for is actual renderings of what you came up with if viewed.
unidentified
There are schematic drawings.
I'm blind and I can't do much good artwork, but I have what's a computer-generated pictures of the maps.
And what's interesting is at first the maps came out as if it had been hoaxes.
But I found out what happened is that the photos weren't hoaxes at all.
The scene was very real.
What happened was people had doctored some of the pictures to make the details in the formation show up in perspective.
And they took the pictures off of the picture, as it were, turned them into rectangles, put in the details, and then tried to put them back in perspective again.
And they didn't put them back exactly where they had taken them from.
And that ruined those pictures.
One picture where they didn't do any doctoring at all, the radar.
art bell
Can you get me one example even?
unidentified
Well, it's in the email I sent you.
If you can give me a subject header you want me to use so you can find it, I'll send it again.
art bell
Crop formation phone call.
unidentified
Okay.
I would love to be on Midnight in the Desert to be interviewed about this project because I put a lot of time and energy into it.
art bell
I can understand, and that might happen.
Thank you very, very much for the call.
And what he is saying makes so much sense.
It's almost like contact.
You remember contact when they were trying to figure out how it all fit together?
And it turned out to be a three-dimensional thing, and you had to put it together.
And until you put it together, it made no sense at all.
Make sense?
Okay, so many things ringing here.
Let's try for Dale on Skype.
unidentified
Hello.
art bell
Dale?
How are you there?
unidentified
Hey.
art bell
Hey, Dale.
unidentified
How are you doing, Art?
art bell
Very well.
unidentified
Wow, this is awesome.
The first time I remember talking to you, I would have listening to you for a couple of years, and it was in 1994, and the story of the Trumbull UFO, Trumbull Ohio UFO came on.
And that captivated me.
It was like two or three hours of this amazing story.
But I wanted to talk about you.
You were talking about shadow creatures earlier, and it got me to thinking.
I'm an electrical engineer.
And I'm wondering what substance they're made out of, or do they only manifest as something in the electromagnetic spectrum?
And then I'm wondering, how could we interact with them?
art bell
I want all the same answers, buddy.
I want all the same answers.
I can tell you that I could see about halfway through it.
In other words, stuff in the background behind it was about half as visible as it should have been with the amount of light in the room.
Follow me?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, like a 50% gray filter.
art bell
Right.
That's right.
Thank you.
unidentified
Yeah, so I wonder, you know, like people who see these, maybe they might want to keep a flash unit with them and see if you could get their attention, light them up with a flash unit, see what kind of reaction they get.
I'm wondering about microwave soundbursts, laser, or a taser.
I mean, if we want to be unfriendly, we have a lot of options we could explore.
art bell
I don't really want to be unfriendly, but I also don't want to be a victim.
unidentified
Right, exactly.
If they're pests, you know, this seems like we have a better mousetrap we could try.
But if we want to be friendly with them, what kind of things might they want?
Music?
Pretty pictures?
art bell
Whatever it is, I'd be glad to hand it over.
unidentified
That was my thought.
art bell
Thank you very much.
As I said, whatever it is, I'd be more than happy to hand it over to not have to see them again.
Thank you.
Let's see.
Kirkfield, Ontario, is that correct?
unidentified
That's correct, Arch.
Hey.
Terry, I'm listening on CFRB 1010.
Yes, sir.
Or I don't actually need it, but they also do short waves, CFRX 6.070 megahertz.
art bell
I was hearing that.
People have been telling me that, that they actually have their own short wave station and we're carried on that.
unidentified
I haven't had a need to seek it out.
My understanding is that it would be a simulcast.
art bell
Wow.
That's pretty exciting.
We're all over short wave.
It's so appropriate.
I love radio.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah, it's wonderful.
And amateur radio is a great hobby, too.
I wish I could afford it.
Doug, I wanted to ask a question.
art bell
You can afford ham radio.
Find somebody with a second-hand rig for sale.
There's tons of them out there.
You'll find something.
Get on the air.
Do it.
Get your license.
unidentified
It'd be great.
art bell
Anyway, go ahead.
unidentified
Okay.
I'm hearing very familiar theme music.
I'm hearing a very familiar voiceover guy.
And down the street, they're carrying on best of art bell show on Saturday nights.
I'm really very confused about who's on speaking terms with whom.
art bell
Yeah, I'm confused too.
So join the club.
unidentified
Okay.
I didn't read.
Okay, so it's pretty complicated, in other words.
art bell
Complicated beyond Even my understanding.
unidentified
Yes.
Okay.
That's really all I wanted to ask.
art bell
Well, I wish I had an answer for you, my friend.
I really wish I had an answer.
Thank you very much for the call, and take care.
You know, if they want to continue to play those and, in effect, advertise the fact that Arbella is still here, all you gotta do is, well, twist the dial, fire up the phone, fire up the iPad, fire up the computer.
We're everywhere.
Oh, my.
Let's try.
I think we've got somebody on Skype.
unidentified
Hello?
art bell
No, I think that was a hanger on.
Let's try here.
Skype.
Ken?
Hello, Ken.
unidentified
Hi.
art bell
Hi, Ken.
Turn your device down, please.
unidentified
Okay, I'm getting to it.
art bell
Okay.
We're waiting.
Down.
Volume 7.
unidentified
Yeah, I'm there now.
art bell
Okay, good.
You're on the air.
unidentified
Oh, great.
It's so good to talk to you, Art.
It's been quite a while since I talked to you, but how would you like to take a ride about 55 years back?
art bell
I would love that.
unidentified
I was 10 years old, and of course, as any little kid at night, I always stared at the closet door.
art bell
Right.
unidentified
And it looked something like this picture.
It's in the center of the ASTEC calendar with big ears.
And it freaked me out.
So I hid under the covers.
And that was the last time I saw it.
But ever since then, about a year after that, I experienced nightdream flights.
art bell
Oh, that's awful.
I'm so sorry.
I've got to go.
Listen, everybody, thank you.
This show flew by.
I can't believe it's over.
Richard C. Hoagland's coming up on the Dark Matter Digital Network from the high desert.
Good night, world.
unidentified
Good night, world.
Good night, world.
The night in the desert, and there's wisdom in the air.
I've been looking for the answers.
All my life I found you there as the world we live in.
Are we heating up the sun?
Have we lost our intuition?
Are we running out of time?
The night in the desert.
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