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Aug. 28, 2015 - Art Bell

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Art Bell MITD - Open Lines Truth Or Trash

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art bell ▲ ● ▼		From the high desert and the great American Southwest.
unidentified		I bid you all good evening.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Good morning, good afternoon, whatever the case may be, wherever you are in the world time zone, sports and order.
		I'm Judge Bell.
		I'm actually welcome to Midnight in the Desert, Truth or Trash version.
		We're going to try it anyway, see how it works out.
		I have an idea, and we'll see how it works out.
		I think well.
		I think it will work out well.
		Everybody is behaved.
		We have two rules for the show.
		No bad language.
		No bad language, and only one call per show.
		That's it.
		Those are the only rules.
		Except tonight.
		There's going to be other rules.
		And I want you to listen to me.
		It's very important that you listen very carefully.
		The first thing we're going to do is jury.
		Verdir.
		That's it.
		Voidir.
		And what I'm going to do is I am going to collect four jurors from my Skype setup, M-I-T-D51.
		So I'm going to collect four jurors.
		I'm going to do a little Verdeer on them, you know, ask them a couple of questions, make sure they're good jurors.
		And to be a good juror, you have to, number one, have a headset mic with your Skype or be using an iPhone or whatever.
		Good audio, right?
		That's qualification number one.
		Number two, you can have had no more than two drinks.
		Ah, what jury is allowed to do that?
		But no more than two.
		Small ones.
		And let's see.
		Number three, you've got to be of good character, upstanding moral citizen, and all that.
		And what I'm going to do is I'm going to impanel four jurors on Skype.
		I can do that.
		In fact, I'll show you how I can begin to do that.
		Let's see if we can find one right away.
		Michael, are you there?
unidentified		Yes, I'm here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You are.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, Michael, turn off all devices.
unidentified		All righty.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Because you'll be hearing on the air.
		Now, to be a juror, you have to be willing to spend an hour with us.
		Can you do that?
unidentified		Yes, sir.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Are you of good character, Michael?
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm hearing something in the background.
		That's not good.
		That's distracting.
unidentified		I'm not going to turn the TV.
		I will turn it off.
		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That will distract other jurors.
		All right.
		You can spend an hour with us?
unidentified		I can.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Guess what, then?
		You are juror number one.
unidentified		Awesome.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Juror number one.
		Stand by, please.
		Now, let's continue, Voardier.
		Let's make it.
		Oh, you know what?
		I just screwed up.
unidentified		See?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I am so sorry.
		Michael, you need to call back, please.
		That was my fault.
		Totally my fault.
		Dino is here, though.
		Dino?
unidentified		Yes, I am here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Dino, you sound too loud.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You need to back away from whatever it is you're too close to.
unidentified		My phone must be too good.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, that's good.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Now you're good.
unidentified		I think that's good.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Are you qualified to be a juror, Dino?
unidentified		I certainly think I should be.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Because you're upstanding?
unidentified		I certainly am.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No more than two drinks?
unidentified		Yes, sir.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, Dino, you're number two.
		If Michael calls back, he's going to be a juror number one.
		Now watch how I do this.
		I think.
		Let's see.
		Michael, are you there?
unidentified		Come on, now add.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		This won't work if I can't add.
		I'm trying.
		Add to contact.
unidentified		Add to call.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I tried, but it doesn't.
		Oh, if this doesn't work, that's going to mess up my whole scheme.
		It should be adding.
		I should be able to add, and I'm not able to add.
		Let me try again.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		John, are you there?
		No.
		And if I answer it like that, it knocks off Dino.
		This is just not good.
		Now Jack is there, right, Jack?
		Yes, sir.
		Okay, one more time.
		I'm going to try this add-to-group call stuff.
		For some reason, it doesn't seem to be doing it.
		Let's try it.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Now we've got a caller, but we've also got one who got slammed onto hold because it didn't add properly.
		So I'm still having to try this.
		I'm sorry, folks.
		I figured this would just work.
		It does on my other setup.
		Who have I got here still?
unidentified		You still got Mike?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Michael.
unidentified		Michael.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Michael, okay.
		I'm really trying to figure out how to do this.
		Let's see.
		Knock you right off again.
		Hello there.
		Michael, are you there?
		No?
		Must be Jack.
		Yes, sir.
		Yeah, I should be able to add to group call.
		This is really annoying.
		And heaven knows, I'm trying to do it.
		I'm patient, sir.
		Oh, I'm well aware you are.
		There should be someone named Joe in there, but I guess not, huh?
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		This is not working well.
		All right.
		Reorientation here.
		All right, everybody, hold tight.
		We're going to change up.
		I think I can do it on my other Skype.
		I don't know why I can't do it on this Skype.
		It doesn't make any sense at all.
		So let me decline these.
		Let's put together our jury on the international line, MITD55.
		Everybody call to be on the jury, MITD55.
unidentified		Yes, sir.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I can't take your call on this line.
		I'm pretty sure I can do it over on this line.
		Now, let me try it.
		It's MITD55 if you want to be on the jury.
		So who have I got?
		Kale?
		Is that right?
		Kale?
		Hello, Kale.
unidentified		Yes, it's me.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, oh, yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You're international somewhere, right?
unidentified		Yes, I am from South Africa.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		South Africa?
unidentified		Wow.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		I am your second caller from South Africa.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You are indeed.
		As a matter of fact, what are you doing in South Africa?
		Well, you're living there.
		You know, I mean, what do you do there?
unidentified		I'm a programmer.
unidentified		I program from home.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Excellent career.
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I am so annoyed at my Skype.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Kyle, you're not a Skype expert, are you?
unidentified		You see, it's about the upload speed.
unidentified		You have to get proper upload speed if you have.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I've got it.
		Okay, well, I've got plenty of upload speed.
		I really do.
		Can you afford to stay on here for an hour?
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And be a juror?
unidentified		Yes.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Let me see if I can add now to this.
		Okay.
		And here we go.
		Now, we should have somebody else on here.
		Kyle and I think it's...
unidentified		Hello?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, hello?
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Is it Matthew?
unidentified		Yes, it is Matthew.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, where are you?
unidentified		I'm calling from New York City.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		New York City.
		Can you be a juror?
		I can.
		All right.
		Two drinks or less, right?
unidentified		Have not.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Have not imbied.
unidentified		Have not imbied it.
		No.
		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Let's see.
		Let's add yet another one.
		I think this would be Jason.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi, Jason.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where are you?
unidentified		I am in North Carolina, Greensboro.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Two drinks or less, right?
		Jason, turn off your device.
		You've had two drinks or less, right, Jason?
		Jason!
		Jason, I'm going to have to dump you off if you don't speak.
		Hello, Jason.
		Okay, well, unfortunately, we're going to have to knock him off.
unidentified		End the call.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, there we go.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Jason should be gone.
unidentified		And he should be gone.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, there he goes.
		Let's continue on.
		Lewis, we have two jurors so far.
		We need Ford.
		Lewis?
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Are you a good upstanding citizen, Lewis?
unidentified		I am a great upstanding citizen.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Can you stay on for an hour, at least?
unidentified		I can stay on for an hour.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Excellent.
		All jurors have to be quiet, by the way.
		We have Carl, Matthew.
		We had to eject Jason.
		And we have Lewis, so we need one more.
		Let's make it Brian.
		Maybe.
		Hello, Brian.
unidentified		No?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I guess not.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Let me keep trying here.
unidentified		Let's see.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		We've got an Adam.
		Hello, Adam.
		Are you there?
		No, I haven't done it yet.
		Come on, Skype.
		Do your thing.
		I'm trying to add a group call here.
		And it's not letting me.
		So I've only got three jurors.
		That's really strange.
		Now this Skype is going nuts on me.
unidentified		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's too bad because this was.
		Okay, now I'm...
		You know what?
		Hello?
		We've got three jurors.
		We've got Kyle, I believe, Kurt, and Matthew.
		Is that right here?
unidentified		Yes, I'm here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, you're all there.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm trying really hard to add one more.
unidentified		I need one more.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's not letting me do it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well.
unidentified		What are we going to be the juror of?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, you're going to judge the stories, and it's not going to work.
		All right, jurors, I thank you.
		So I'll just say thank you all for trying, and we'll do this a different way.
		Looks like I cannot impanel jurors on Skype, because Skype won't let me add that many people.
		So I tried.
		All right, so here's what we're going to do.
		I'll allow my Skype people tonight only to call MITD 51 or MITD55.
		We have to adjust as we go here.
		And here's what we're going to do.
		We're going to take stories from callers on the phone.
		Now, there are some rules.
		The rules are as follows.
		They must be, or they should be, real-life stories, if possible.
		No UFO sightings, because a jury can't possibly decide on UFO sightings.
		And no ghost sightings because, again, a jury can't really decide on those.
		Now, if you were physically abducted, okay, I'll go along with that.
		So I'm going to be the judge.
		If the story is really terrible, then I'm not even going to turn it over to a jury.
		If the story is interesting, compelling, fascinating, scary, whatever, I will turn it over to a jury that I will simply pick and will ask truth or trash.
		We're going to let the people...
		What am I going to do?
		I guess I should pick my stories from Skype.
		You think?
		See, I'm all messed up now.
		I really had a plan tonight, and that was to put my jury together by Skype.
		But apparently, when this many people call Skype at one time, it loses its brain.
		And I don't know what it does.
		Anyway, so I want stories.
		I want good stories.
		And then I'm going to allow people to judge.
		All right?
		And so I'm going to, I guess I'll take some stories.
		I know that people are listening On the phone.
		I'm going to now take stories.
		So forget the jury idea.
		If you have a story, a compelling, interesting story, then I want to hear about it.
		Now, here's my everybody can groan.
		My big speech about Skype.
		I shouldn't even be using it, seeing what it did to me tonight.
		You should actually be able to, you know, I add an endless number of people.
		So here is my Skype deal anyway.
		Tonight only, everybody can call either one of the Skypes.
		I don't care.
		MITD51 or MITD55, if you have a story you want to submit to the jury.
		And I have a jury sitting here on the phone.
		All the phone lines are full.
		So I've got what can be a jury.
		Maybe I should do a little voardeer there very quickly.
		We'll have to do this somewhat backwards.
		Hello, in Allentown.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hi, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Can I trust you to be a juror and stay on the line?
unidentified		You can either trust me to be a juror or tell a story, either one.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, you're a juror.
		All right.
		Okay.
		What is your name again?
		First name.
unidentified		Johnny.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Johnny.
		Okay, Johnny.
		You are now juror number one, okay?
unidentified		Sure.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hold tight.
		All right.
		I'm going to this call and say hello there.
		What is your first name?
unidentified		Hey, this is Tom from Florida.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Tom?
unidentified		Yeah, from Florida.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Florida.
		Okay, Tom.
		Can you be a juror?
unidentified		Absolutely.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You've not had more than two drinks?
unidentified		Oh, no, no, I'm not a drinker.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Upstanding dude?
unidentified		Oh, yeah.
unidentified		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You are now officially a juror.
		Juror number two.
		Juror number three is right here, possibly.
		Hello.
unidentified		Yes, this is Big Howard from Cassado, Winsietta.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Did you say Big Howard?
unidentified		Yes, sir.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Can we just call you Howard?
unidentified		Yes, sir.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That'd be fine.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, no more than two drinks, right, Howard?
unidentified		Right on the margin, too.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, all right, right on the margin.
		That's fair.
		All right, you're on.
		And let's go to New Jersey for juror number four, maybe.
		Hello.
		Hello in New Jersey.
		Going once.
		Yes, hello.
		Okay.
		The judge, unfortunately, has got to reject juror number four because you don't have enough of a telephone line.
		Aha, the nation's capital.
		Look at this.
		Washington, D.C., would you like to be a juror?
unidentified		Sure.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, what's your first name?
		Patrick.
		I'm sorry?
unidentified		Patrick.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Patrick.
		Okay, Patrick.
		Okay, you are going to get to listen to stories from people on Skype along with the rest of the jury.
		I'm putting you on hold right now.
		None of the jurors should hang up.
		That would be some kind of terrible disqualification or something.
		I don't know.
		Again, these stories should come from real life if possible.
		They should be compelling.
		You can make them up.
		You can lie your butt off if you want to.
		I don't care.
		Just do it well.
		Make them believe.
		The jury is waiting for you at Skype.
		M-I-T-D 5-1 or M-I-T-D55.
		That was hard.
		Thank you, Skype.
		Thanks for all that.
		I appreciate it.
unidentified		I thought I could put a whole bunch of people on hold, but apparently not.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm no judge Ito.
unidentified		I'm tough, so you've got a story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		We're here.
unidentified		It's gonna take a lot of love to change the way things are.
		It's gonna take a lot of love.
		We want to take a lot of love.
		It ain't for what they're doing too well.
		Gotta get a messy, get it all through.
		Oh, now mama's gone too after wild.
		Take a walk on the wild side of midnight from the Kingdom of Night.
		This is Midnight in the Desert with Art Bell.
		Please call the show at 1-952-225-5278.
		That's 1-952.
		Call Art Bell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, we're going to go to Skype, MIPP 51 or 55, to collect stories.
		Now, again, these should probably be real-life stories, and they have to be good stories.
		And if you're going to lie, lie like a pro.
		So they believe you.
		The whole point is to get the jury, made up of Johnny, Tom, Howard, and Patrick, somewhat skewed on the male side, it would seem, to believe you.
		And they're probably a pretty tough jury, I would imagine.
		Let me give out one more number that you can use if you have a superior story you want to tell.
		That would be Area Code 5752087727.
		That way we can at least get one by phone.
		Area code 575-208-7787.
		We'll take stories there.
		In the meantime, here we go.
		I believe we've got James on the line.
		Hello, James.
		Hello, James.
		Hello?
unidentified		Yes.
		Hey, all right.
		How are you doing?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm doing well.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Do you have a story?
unidentified		I do.
unidentified		I wasn't exactly sure what genre of story you're going for tonight.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, look, we can't judge somebody seeing a ghost.
		We can't judge somebody seeing a UFO.
		That's not judgeable.
		So probably real life, something horrible, something good, something weird.
unidentified		Well, I was thinking more of a ghost experience I had.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, see, that's not going to work.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		How can a jury judge that?
unidentified		Yeah, no, I agree.
		I agree.
		So I can bow out.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Thank you very much.
		I appreciate your candor.
		I wish I had a gavel.
		I've got my nicotine lozenges, but they don't carry very much authority.
		Okay, let's go to Wayne.
		Let's see if Wayne has a story.
		Wayne?
		Hello, Wayne.
		Going once.
		Wayne, you have no audio.
		Hello, Wayne.
		Too bad.
		Let's go to Shane.
		Perhaps Shane, unlike Wayne, has audio.
		Hello, Shane.
unidentified		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi there.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Do you have a story?
unidentified		I do have a story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Finally, yes, good.
unidentified		What happened to me was I was able to get a little bit past the line at Area 51.
		It was an accident.
		Oh.
		Yeah, I went out there.
		I was solely going to just go to the mailbox and eat a sandwich and look around and go back.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's what you should have done.
unidentified		That's what I wanted to do.
		And you're right, I should have, because here's what happened.
		I go out there.
		I rented a car in Las Vegas, took the car out there, talked to people in Rachel, Nevada to get the coordinates to know how to go out there.
		So I go out there.
		And about 30 miles before you get to the actual place, you start seeing signs of stuff coming up.
		And I'm getting excited.
		Well, I get to the mailbox.
		Well, there's other people there, and they start waving at me.
		And I, honest to God, was not paying attention.
		And I hear this screaming.
		Well, they're screaming because I suddenly crossed the line.
		Well, at this point, I'm like, I don't know what to do.
		I can't turn around.
		I didn't want to draw more attention to myself.
		So I keep going.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Now, wait a minute.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You're in a vehicle?
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, you're in a vehicle.
unidentified		Yeah, I'm in a vehicle.
		And so I crossed the line, and the people back there at the mailbox were screaming.
		And so I'm getting nervous.
		And probably less than one minute from the time that I crossed the line, a white truck comes up.
		So now I'm like, oh, man, I can't outrun it because they're going to shoot the tires out.
		You know that as well as I do, probably.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It may be worse.
unidentified		Yeah.
		So what I did was I got out of the car and I put my hands up to let them know that I didn't have any weapons.
		I didn't take a phone with me.
		All I had was an ID because I figured, because I'd heard stories of people who would maybe try to take pictures, even at that mailbox, they would sometimes get harassed if they see people doing that.
		So I was like, I'm not going to do that.
		And so they questioned me.
		There's two guys.
		They get out of the car.
		They both had sidearms.
		They're dressed in full military gear.
		And I told them that I accidentally crossed the line back there when I was talking to other people and wasn't fully paying attention.
		I met no ill.
		They searched me.
		They also had a wand, kind of looked similar to what you see at airports.
		They patted me down and everything.
		They called Lincoln County Police because I guess they'll help handle any trespassing that goes out there.
		So they come and they talk to me.
		And after about 30 minutes of discussion, they determined that I didn't mean any harm.
		I had to pay a $650 fine.
		Plus, I had to sign a contract which clearly states that I cannot get within 30 miles of that site.
		Oh, my God.
		Well, how do you even go well?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, how do you drive on the highway?
unidentified		Well, what do you mean?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, how far, well, let me ask you this.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		How far in were you when they got you?
unidentified		I think it was a time.
		I don't know how far I was in.
		I think it was, but I know it was about two minutes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Two minutes of driving.
unidentified		Two minutes from the time that I passed that to where I saw that truck.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I got it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So you had to pay a $600 fine and sign a contract and sign a contract.
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Let's see what the jury thinks.
		Let's go first to Johnny.
		Hello, Johnny.
		Truth or trash?
		Gee, that's a tough one.
		If you have any questions, by the way, as a juror, if you have any questions, you can ask.
unidentified		Okay, so when the guys pulled you over, were they MPs?
		They were dressed in military gear.
		Nothing MP on the arm?
		Not that I can see, but I was just scared out of my mind at this point.
		I wasn't scoping them out.
		I just saw them.
		They were in camo.
		It looked like regular military gear, and they had sidearms.
		I definitely saw those guns.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Hold on.
		We're going to see what I can do now.
		I can put all my jurors on at once.
		All right, good.
		All of the jurors are on.
		Now, you asked your question, Johnny.
		Tom, Howard, and Patrick, do you have any questions for this story?
unidentified		Yeah.
		Yeah, I wanted to ask him, well, he made it sound like that he did realize that he was doing something wrong because of everybody screaming and telling him to stop.
		And he said he didn't.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And he kept going?
unidentified		Yeah, and he didn't turn around.
unidentified		Why wouldn't he just turn around?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
unidentified		Well, at that point, I'm committed, so it's like, well, I know I was wrong, but he might as well keep going because you know how it is.
		You got this thing that, well, we're already committed now, so you keep going.
		And so I decided to just keep going.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, then, here we go.
		I'm going to pull.
		Now, hold on.
		I'm going to pull the jurors.
		Johnny, truth or trash?
unidentified		I'm going to have to say trash on this one.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Really?
unidentified		Yeah.
		I mean, I served in the military.
		I was in the United States Air Force.
		Two minutes in.
		I'm surprised.
		I knew guys who worked on flight crews.
		If you put your bag over a line, they would jack you up.
		He didn't sound like he got very jacked up.
		I mean, a $6.50 fine is a lot, but...
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Well, he was really in.
		All right, Johnny.
		Hold it there.
		So trash.
unidentified		Tom?
		I'm going to say trash, too, because, you know, he was just going to eat a sandwich and to look around.
		And once he was doing something wrong, he wanted to continue to say that.
		You got it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Howard?
unidentified		I'm going to go truth.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Truth.
		Because I didn't hear anything in his voice.
		Anything in the way he said.
unidentified		Or this is the truth.
unidentified		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		We're short on time here.
unidentified		Patrick?
		Truth.
		Truth.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, my goodness.
		Two truths and two trashes.
		Caller, is it a true story or is that trash?
		Caller?
		Caller.
		Shane's not going to tell us either.
unidentified		I'm here.
unidentified		I didn't know you were talking to me.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, is it truth or trash?
unidentified		It's trash.
		The jury got taken for a lie.
		So it was tied, yeah.
		That's right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Well, good job.
		Thank you very much, Shane.
		This is Midnight in the Justice History.
unidentified		The Midnight in the Justice
		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.
unidentified		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		The Pointers Sisters are wasting the court's time.
		So let's get right back to this.
		And we've got a story coming up.
		Our esteemed jury is Johnny, Tom, Howard, and Patrick.
		And they are patiently waiting for the next story, which is coming up right now, perhaps from Pete.
		Hello, Pete.
unidentified		Hello, Art.
		I'm Roswell's.
		And if I could holler at my friends at the Into Infinity Board, I'd like to do that.
		I believe you're a cat lover, so this is kind of a different story.
		All right.
		So back about, probably about 12, 13 years ago, my girlfriend and I, we got a cat.
		And she knew I didn't like cats.
		She snuck in a little cat, not a kitten.
		And the kitten would bark like a dog.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What?
unidentified		And yeah, when it was a kitten, it would bark like a dog.
		So we kind of jokingly named the kitten the name retard.
		And I hope I don't offend anybody by this, but I'm already a little offended, but go ahead.
		Anyway, so about two years later, the cat got out of the house.
		It was an indoor cat.
		It actually ended up having some indigestion problems.
		But it got out of the house and got stuck in a tree.
		And you always hear the story of cats getting stuck in trees.
		This cat was stuck up in a tree about 60 feet in the air.
		I did not know what to do.
		I called the vet.
		The vet actually told me to call the fire department.
		I called the fire department.
		The fire department told me to call, you know, the animal people, control people.
		The animal control people told me there's really not a lot you can do.
		Try to just wait for it to come down.
		Okay.
		So, and they said, well, it would help if it would rain.
		This cat was stuck up in the tree for three days.
		It was summer.
		Oh, good.
		And I'm sitting out there for three days calling with a bowl of food, shaking it.
		This cat yelling his name, obviously.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		We've got to get to the end of the story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Call him retard, yes.
unidentified		That's it.
		Well, that's pretty much it.
		Three days, I'm up looking up at the tree, yelling retard.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I understand.
unidentified		Unfortunately.
		But the cat actually finally did come down, and it was odd.
		It was one o'clock in the morning.
		I was waiting up all night long, and it started raining.
		It started storming.
		The lights went out.
		And I swear to you, the lights went out, and there was a flash of lightning.
		And I'm out there with a laundry basket with a towel in it.
		And as soon as the lightning flashed, I saw him.
		He was hanging.
		Yes, retard, hanging from the limb.
		And then lightning flashed, and he, boom, gone.
		And then he fell into the basket.
		The basket fell out of my hand.
		And then the funny part of the story is that I heard later that the neighbors were saying, hey, look, the neighbor boy's drunk again.
		He's out there yelling up the tree, retard.
		So that's the story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And you swear that this lightning went and the cat came flying down, landed in what you had there waiting for it?
unidentified		Yes, in a laundry basket with a towel in it, knocked it out of my hand, and got to the ground.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, all right.
		Interesting story.
		Johnny, juror one, truth or trash?
unidentified		You know, I think for certain he was out there yelling at that tree.
		So I'm going to go with truth.
		Truth.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Juror two, Tom.
unidentified		I'm going to go with truth.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You also go with truth.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Juror three, Howard.
unidentified		I go with trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And juror four, Patrick.
unidentified		Truth.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Truth.
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so we've got two trashes.
		No, one trash and three truths.
		It looks like they believed you.
		So now the big question is, is it truth or in fact trash?
unidentified		It is actually truth.
unidentified		The only thing that is trash is the punchline who I've told people the story is, yeah, the neighbor saying, the neighbor boy's out there drunk again, yelling up the tree.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, you sound a little on your way tonight, too.
		Thank you very much for the call.
		And there you go.
		They believed you.
		You know, it's funny.
		I believed the first guy.
		I thought the first guy's story was right on the money.
		That's like the fine you get.
		That's what they do.
		He really had it down.
		He had sold me.
		I was sure it was true.
		All right.
		Let's see.
		We got a lot of people is what we got.
		Let's go with Jareen.
		Is that correct?
		Jareen?
unidentified		Correct.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Welcome to the show.
		Do you have the story?
unidentified		Yes, I do.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
unidentified		The jury listens.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Proceed.
unidentified		I'm in an apartment with my roommate.
		I'm in my room.
		I smoke a pipe.
		And when you smoke a pipe, you have a tool called a tamp.
		And this particular tamp was a GBD tamp.
		It's got a little, it looks kind of like a pipe.
		It's silver.
		It's got a little pointy thing on it that you can dig around inside.
		And then the other end is flat so you can push the tobacco down with the fire and get it all good for smoking.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		So I get ready to smoke my pipe.
		I keep all my pipe stuff in a little box.
		I open the box.
		My tamp isn't in there.
		So I start looking around.
		And I'm the kind of guy when I lose something, I just go bananas.
		I got to find it.
		So I'm looking around in my immediate area.
		Like, hey, it could have fell on the floor.
		It may be on the desk.
		So I look around, I don't see it.
		I get frustrated.
		I'm like, okay, well, wait a minute, it's got to be here someplace.
		So I move the chair away.
		I get up.
		I start looking around.
		I don't see it any place.
		I go and I ask my roommate.
		He's in the other room.
		I say, hey, have you seen my tent?
		Did I leave it out here?
		No, man, I haven't seen it.
		Great.
		I go back in there.
		Long story short, I took everything out of the room, item by item, systematically, one at a time.
		I get freaky when I lose stuff.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, I know.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I've done it myself.
unidentified		I take everything out of the room.
		There's literally furniture, there are lamps, everything.
		There's nothing in the room.
		Now I'm standing in the other room.
		My roommate never got out of his chair.
		He was watching a ball game in the room.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They thought you lost your mind.
unidentified		Exactly.
		And I'm saying, man, it's got to be here.
		It's got to be here.
		What's the deal?
		He's like, oh, you left it someplace.
		You know, you took it somewhere or whatever.
		I walk back in the room, and there's my tamp in the middle of the floor.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And you think that it was placed there by...
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You had eyes on your roommate the whole time?
unidentified		He never got out of the chair.
		He was watching the ballgame.
		There's only two people in the apartment.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So in other words, some kind of entity.
		All right, fine.
		I'll put that to the jury.
		Juror number one, Johnny.
		Truth or trash?
unidentified		I'll buy that.
unidentified		Could have been on the corporate carpet and fallen off when he took it out or something.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Truth, yeah.
		Okay.
		Tom?
unidentified		Truth.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Truth, really, okay.
		Howard?
		I smoke a pipe by going to truth.
		Truth again.
		Patrick?
unidentified		It's unanimous.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Truth.
		Okay, so they bought it hooked, line, and sinker collar.
		So what say you, truth or trash?
unidentified		They bought it like they should.
		It was truth.
		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Here I am telling people, thank you very much for the story that they can lie.
		And look what I'm getting.
		I'm getting all of these apparently true stories.
		And now comes Sandra with a story.
		Hello.
unidentified		Hello?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, hello.
unidentified		Did you say Sandra?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I did.
unidentified		Hi.
		All right.
		I just want to say hi to the Belgab listeners.
		I spoke with you back when John Dvorak was on I'm in San Francisco.
		And recently you just had an earthquake, I just want to say.
		So my story, it involves a bit of rock and roll, the first time I ever got on a jet plane, and how I believe I willed something to happen.
		I believe that I willed the ability for me to meet David Bowie.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Really?
unidentified		Yes.
unidentified		So you have to imagine that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, no, wait a minute.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You're on an airplane, right?
unidentified		Well, it didn't happen on the airplane, but it was my first jet plane.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		But when you were...
art bell ▲ ● ▼		On the airplane, you concentrated on meeting David Bowie.
unidentified		Yes.
		And even beyond when we landed, I was living in Massachusetts and I was invited to go on this trip.
		So the whole trip was just going to be a weekend to see the very first show on his Sound and Vision tour in 1990 in Quebec City.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so what happened?
unidentified		So it was also when I was living in Salem, Mass, and I had just started to understand what Wiccan religion was about.
		Okay.
		So I really was into the whole idea about focusing, meditating, and I used.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Order in the courtroom.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		We need to get to the end of the story here.
unidentified		Sure.
		So I had to imagine when he was going to come out of the hotel.
		We were in the same hotel as him.
		Yes.
		For sound check.
		And I imagined that I was going to be either in the elevator when he got in or when he got out.
		And I basically had to cross through almost half of Quebec City to get back in time.
		I got to the elevator.
		I pushed the button.
		And there he was.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And there was David Bowie.
unidentified		With his bodyguards.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		With his bodyguard.
		And you did want.
		You said, oh, my God, David.
unidentified		I actually sort of nodded and curtsied.
		It was a really bizarre experience.
		It was the most amazing thing I have ever experienced.
		And I have a photographic memory with things like this, so I can picture it right now.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, well, I can too.
		All right, hold on.
		Jury's coming up.
		Juror number one, Johnny.
unidentified		I had one important question.
		Okay.
		Did you remind him of the bait?
		Did I remind him of the beat?
		The bait.
		BID?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What is it?
unidentified		It's a line from one of his performances.
		Do you remind me of the babe, the babe with the power?
		What power?
		Power of voodoo?
		No, no.
		Truth or truth?
		You believe it, so I'm going to say it's truth to you.
		Truth, okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Tom?
unidentified		Yeah, she had too many details.
		She really sounds like she believes it had it happened.
		So I'll say truth.
		Okay, all right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Howard?
unidentified		Truth.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Truth.
		Wow.
		And Patrick.
unidentified		I'll say truth because of the curtsy detail.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that was kind of a cute little detail.
		All right.
		All right.
		So, Sandra, now you've got to own up.
		Is that story true or trash?
		Truth or trash?
unidentified		Sandra?
unidentified		There's nothing I could make up about it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So it's absolutely true.
unidentified		Absolutely true, yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Well, thank you very much.
		I must say, I'm impressed by this jury.
		I want to thank you guys.
		We're not done with you yet, so stay there.
		I'm very impressed with the jury's ability to ferret out the apparent truth thus far.
		Let us go to James.
		Hello, James.
		Are you there?
		Okay, we've got a little audio trouble.
		Get good and Close to whatever you're talking into.
unidentified		Is that better?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It is, yes, actually.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You have a story.
unidentified		All right.
		My story is about five years ago, I had a real bad insomnia problem, and I was laying on my bed trying to go to sleep.
		It was about 2:30 in the morning.
		And all of a sudden, I felt like this presence in the room.
		I felt like someone was watching me.
		And then the next thing I know, at the end of my bed, right next to my feet, I looked down, right at us, I felt pressure at the end of the bed.
		And the bed actually had an invention in it where it looked like someone was sitting on the bed.
		But there was, I couldn't see anybody at all.
		It freaked me out.
		I mean, I was, believe me, I didn't go to sleep for the rest of the night.
		I got up.
		I looked around all the house.
		There was nobody there.
		Where to God?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Is that it or is there more?
unidentified		That's it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, no, I can't turn that one over to the jury.
		I said, you know, no ghost stories.
		We need things that can sort of be judged.
		And, you know, I'm not going to ask the jury to judge a little indentation in your bed.
		I'm sorry.
		Brock, let's see if you've got a story.
unidentified		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello, Brock.
unidentified		Hey.
		Yeah, let me extinguish my device real quick.
		Thank you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Even knows the lingo.
		That's good.
		Anyway, Brock, are you ready?
unidentified		Yeah.
		I was diagnosed early on as having a conjoined twin.
		Wow.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, turn your device all the way off, please.
unidentified		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You had a conjoined twin, really?
unidentified		Yeah.
		And it was something they discovered when I was very young.
		And when I was in the fourth grade, I was interested in getting into football because we had pee-wee football at that time.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Maybe you should give us more of an idea of who joined you were.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, joined at the hip?
unidentified		Well, see, that's it.
unidentified		At first, we really didn't even know that there was a twin because I kind of absorbed it in the womb, apparently.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, I've heard of that.
unidentified		And so I went in for physical to get cleared for football, and the doctor saw some things on the because I had a problem, I guess, with he noticed that there's problems with breathing, and so he ordered an x-ray, and that's when they found some things.
unidentified		Initially, they thought it may have been cancer, but then they realized that there's some teeth in there and some other tissues.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Those are your body parts of your twin.
		That's incredible.
		Okay, Brock.
unidentified		So it's still in there because they didn't really see any point in removing it.
unidentified		I think just one of those things.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Do you get any feedback from your co-joined twin?
unidentified		Oh, no, it's dead.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's dead.
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So you have like a twin living inside of, well, not living inside of you, but the vestiges of your twin are in there?
unidentified		Yeah, that's what the doctors determined.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, that's a hell of a story.
		Let's see what our jury thinks about it.
		Johnny?
unidentified		I'm not buying that one.
unidentified		No, it sounds too much like a movie.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Tom?
unidentified		Oh, I'm 50-50 on it.
unidentified		I guess I'll say truth.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Truth.
		Okay.
		Howard?
unidentified		I'm the forever optimist.
		It's scientifically possible.
		Okay, truth.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Patrick?
unidentified		Well, I have a quick question, if that's all right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, sure.
unidentified		Ask.
		When the physicians found the twin or the remnants of the twin, did they tell you what the term was for this?
		The medical term?
		Sure, the medical term or even the common term that's used in scientific reporting and things like that?
		It's been so long ago, I don't remember.
		Conjoin, twin, kind of what came.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's all he knows.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Truth or trash?
unidentified		Because he doesn't know the terms, vanishing twin or fetal reabsorption, I doubt the story, but this is a it's a real medical thing that happened.
		So it could be very well could be true.
		Sorry.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So you would say true?
unidentified		The story is entirely plausible.
unidentified		I just don't know if this particular story is true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, if you want to try to talk your other jurors out of their vote, you can do that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Or into it.
unidentified		No, I'm no troublemaker.
unidentified		Sorry.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, so let's find out the truth.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Brock, do you really have this thing in you?
unidentified		No.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You got him.
		You got him good.
		Thank you very much.
unidentified		All right.
		My pleasure.
		Roswell's in Bulgads too.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You bet.
		Thank you.
		It sounded like it could be true until that one juror, I think it was Patrick, asked Pim for a medical term.
		And that sort of did it.
		We've got somebody named Ron.
		Hello, Ron.
		Do you have a story for us?
unidentified		Yeah, I was in my 20s, early 20s.
unidentified		I was driving in upstate New York.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		And very late at night, early in the morning, 3 a.m. or so.
		And I'm driving, and all of a sudden, the sky lights up for like three seconds, and then it stops.
		And I'm like, okay, whatever.
		And I'm saying, like, you know, you've seen like lightning storms.
		I mean, have you seen it when it lights the entire sky?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I have.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I have, yes.
unidentified		Okay, so it was like that, and I'm driving, and as I'm driving, this keeps on occurring at random, seems like random times.
		And then all of a sudden, well, before I get to it, I'm looking and I see all the houses' lights as I'm driving through this little farm area.
		They all like turned off every time the light shone in the sky.
		And so then I just kept driving.
		I looked over to my left, and I saw this farmer's field, and there was this massive dome of light.
		It was like half of a sphere right in the farmland.
		And I looked over there, and I was like, what the heck is that?
		And I kind of like forgot about it for a while, or I just talked myself out of it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Remember now, we're not doing UFO sightings.
unidentified		It...
		Oh, that wasn't...
		It could have been like Transformer or something in the middle of the story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		See, but there's no way a jury can judge that story.
		Not really.
		That's why I said no UFO sightings, no ghost sightings, because how is a jury going to know?
		Now, if you were abducted, taken by a spacecraft, we'll take that kind of story.
		Otherwise, real-life stories.
		This is Midnight in the Desert.
unidentified		It's not radio, but it is what's next, exclusively on the Dark Matter Digital Network, Midnight in the Desert, with Art Bells.
unidentified		Now, here's Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Here I am.
		All right.
		Here's what we're going to do.
		We're going to very quickly, I think, thank our jurors.
		They have been wonderful.
		And we're going to impanel another jury.
unidentified		So let me do this, this, this, this.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And I want to say thank you, jurors.
		You have been all wonderful.
		And I appreciate your having, well, sat in judgment.
unidentified		Thanks, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It was awesome.
unidentified		Right.
		Thank you all.
		Right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Take care.
		All right.
		There we go.
		So now I'm going to unpanel another jury.
		This will just take but a moment, and then we'll get the break out of the way.
		Let's start with you, whoever you are.
		Brandon?
unidentified		Is this me?
		It is you.
		Well, hi, my name is Sharon.
		I'm calling from Winnipeg, Canada.
		And Arbel, is this the night where people can just call in and talk about anything?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, no, it isn't, hon. We're looking for jurors.
unidentified		You're looking for jurors.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		For judge people's stories.
unidentified		Oh, well, what I'll do is, because I have two ears and one mouth, maybe I'll listen.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so you want to be a juror?
unidentified		Sure.
		Okay.
		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You are now juror number one.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So you have to sort of be silent and listen to the stories, okay?
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'll christen you juror number one.
		In Kansas City, do we have a juror here?
		Hello?
unidentified		Oh, is that me?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's you, yes.
unidentified		Oh, I was calling for the story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, well, now this is for jurors.
unidentified		I'll be a juror.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You will, huh?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, what is your first name?
unidentified		Steve Chaga.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, no.
unidentified		Steve.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Steve.
		All right.
		You're going to be a good juror, Steve.
		You haven't had too much to drink?
unidentified		You know it.
unidentified		I've got my detector on.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I don't know it, but I'll take your word for it for the moment.
		All right.
		So, Wells Fargo or something like that?
unidentified		Oh, hey.
		Hi.
		Mrs. Lewis.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Lewis?
unidentified		Hey, yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You're going to be a juror, Lewis?
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Are you a fair person?
unidentified		I am a fair person.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		That's enough.
		See how easy it is?
		One more.
		I need one more.
		Hello there.
		Hello?
unidentified		Hello?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What is your first name, please?
unidentified		Ed.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Ed?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Can you be a good juror, Ed?
unidentified		Yes, I can.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You can afford to hang on through the hour and judge people.
unidentified		I sure can.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		We now have our four jurors.
		Sharon, Steve.
		I'm glad we finally got a female.
		Lewis and Ed.
		So the stories will be coming up in a moment.
		Right now, we're going to take the break so we get it out of the way from the high desert in the great American Southwest.
		This is justice.
unidentified		Sort of.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		If you're coming in on Skype, you better have a good story.
unidentified		I want your love.
		From the Kingdom of Nye in the high desert, this is Midnight in the Desert with Art Bell.
		Please ring Arts Bell at 1-952-225-5278.
		That's 1-952-CALLARTS.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, we're doing truth or trash.
		You can make up a story.
		You can lie your butt off if you want to.
		Or you can tell an absolutely true story.
		But it should be wild, no matter what it is.
		I'm still thinking of the cat falling out of the tree into the anyway.
		All right, we've got our jury.
		Sharon, Steve, Lewis, and Ed.
		And now come the storytellers.
		Let's go to Jim.
		Hello, Jim.
unidentified		Hello, can you hear me okay?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I can hear you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		If you're at a computer, just get good and close to the microphone, please.
unidentified		How's this?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Good.
unidentified		Very good.
unidentified		Good evening, everybody.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Evening.
unidentified		Here's my story.
		This happened.
		It's been quite a few years now since this happened, but it was quite a remarkable evening.
		I was living with a gal at the time, and it was just a normal summer evening.
		I was lying on the bed, and she was going back and forth between the bathroom and the entrance to the room, and we were having a conversation.
		And so she was leaning against the door, and we were talking about nothing in particular.
		And all of a sudden, out of this corner of my eye, I see this ball of light.
		It was about the size of a, between the size of a marble and a golf ball.
		It was brilliant, and it looked like a miniature sun.
		It came streaming in through the window.
		It slammed into the wand of the mini blind, which was the mini blind on the window, and sent it flying up.
		And then it ricocheted a couple of times.
		It disappeared into the floor.
		Meanwhile, the mini blind was just left swinging back and forth.
		So there was a literal physical effect from this ball of light.
		Mind you, there was no...
		It was a clear night.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, did your girlfriend see all this?
unidentified		He saw it, too.
unidentified		We both saw it, and we were both left with our mouths agape at what we had just witnessed.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And there is your story, right?
unidentified		That's my story to this day.
unidentified		I don't know what caused it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Sharon, do you think that's truth or trash?
		Sharon?
		Where is Sharon?
		Guess we lost Sharon.
unidentified		I'm here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, you are there.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You've got to be there, Sharon, when we call you.
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Truth or trash, Sharon?
unidentified		I would say it's trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, trash, really?
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Steve?
unidentified		Where is your story?
		Let's talk it over with the tune-in chat room.
		They say trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Lewis?
unidentified		I say trash.
unidentified		I mean, it sounds like he believes it, but I mean, yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, okay.
unidentified		Ed?
unidentified		Trash as well.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Trash, okay.
		Well, I'm afraid they don't quite believe you, Jim.
		So what is the truth?
		Is it truth or trash?
unidentified		It's 100% true.
		Witnessed by two people.
		Yeah.
		Absolutely and completely true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You got them.
		All right.
		Congratulations.
		That's amazing.
		Okay.
		Well, maybe this jury is just not made up of what the other jury was.
		Let me bring the jury back.
		Somebody's got an awful lot of noise in the background.
		Who's that?
unidentified		That must be me, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Oh, really?
		I hate to illuminate the only female on the jury.
		I really do, but there's so much noise coming from you.
unidentified		Oh, okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's better now.
unidentified		Oh.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so, all right, we're going to let you stay on the jury for now, Sharon, all right?
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, stay right there.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, let's go into our next storyteller, who would be Richard.
unidentified		Hey, heart.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, my God.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Now you've got a lot of noise.
unidentified		Yeah, I'm driving a truck in Montana.
unidentified		If it's not good, I'll let you go.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, how good is your story, Richard?
unidentified		Well, it's pretty good.
		I'll make it really quick.
		Okay, good.
		Me and a friend were working for a place putting in cell phone towers.
		We're pouring a concrete base.
		Yes.
		And we couldn't get the concrete trucks up there, so we were flying it up with helicopters.
		And so about halfway through the day, my friend's pulling the handle on the bucket to release it.
		And his finger gets wedged in there, and he grabs on with the other hand, and the helicopter goes up, and so he just grabs on, and then the handle releases about 10 feet in the air.
		But he just kept hanging on, and he got up about 500 foot in the air before we could let the helicopter know he was on there.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, my God.
		Wait a minute.
		He's hanging from his finger?
unidentified		Well, not from his finger.
unidentified		He grabbed on with both hands.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Both hands.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		He's hanging onto the helicopter 500 feet in the air.
unidentified		Right.
		And we let the kid know that had a radio to talk to him that there was somebody on there.
		And so he just kind of stopped and let him down.
		And my friend got down to the ground, jumped off, and ran back up the hill.
		And we just kept working the rest of the day.
		But I wish I had a video of it.
		It was crazy.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Well told.
		Jury, Sharon, truth or trash?
unidentified		Well, I'm going to say truth because he's being specific.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Very specific.
unidentified		Steve?
		It's a very interesting story, but I think he's pulling my finger.
		I would say trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Trash.
		Okay.
		Lewis?
unidentified		I'm going to say trash as well.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, and Ed?
unidentified		I'm going to say truth.
		It was very specific.
		Split jury.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, well, there you have it.
		All right.
		Thank you, Jury.
		It's a split decision, my friend.
		To say truth, to say trash.
		What impact is the truth?
unidentified		It's absolutely true, and my bosses were scared the BIM guy was going to find out and run us off.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Man, what a story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, Richard, you're really in a truck?
unidentified		I'm really in a truck, here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Unbelievable.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hey, listen, get on the CB and let them know we're back.
unidentified		I don't have enough CBs.
unidentified		They got cell phones now.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What kind of truck doesn't have a CB?
		Okay, all right.
		Thank you, Richard.
unidentified		See you later.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's amazing that we get people like that on a truck.
		That is really cool.
		All right, let's try Tyler, I think.
		Hello, Tyler.
unidentified		Hello, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Speak up a little bit.
unidentified		Sorry, I was turning my radio off.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's good.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You're good now.
unidentified		Okay, quick story.
		Starts back when I was 14.
		Me and my buddy would go camping at his dad's kind of boathouse on a lake.
		Pretty short distance from our city.
		Right.
		Anyway, the way it started was, you know, adolescent boys would like to stay up at night and just kind of walk the camp trails.
		We thought we were tough, you know, without flashlights or lanterns, anything like that.
		Sorry, still just thinking about it kind of gets me going again.
		That's right.
		But we're walking.
		It's, you know, moonlit night, and we're just kind of, you know, BSing why we're doing it.
		From all of a sudden, we see in between the trees and the path, we see a large figure jump from tree to tree.
		From tree to kind of like when you see one of those monkeys in National Geographic just launching back and forth.
		Right.
		We basically just get startled because we don't know what it is.
		Then all of a sudden we just see two, I mean, I'm not kidding you, Art, two red eyes staring at us from the top of the tree.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You know I hate red eyes.
unidentified		Yeah, I tell you, I'm there with you, buddy.
		And it just started emitting some kind of mix between a howl and hiss.
		And it just basically at that point, we just hightailed it, stumbling through the dark, barely making it back to the campsite, and just, you know, commenced to try and get a shred of sleep for the rest of the night.
		But just still, I laid it in my sleeping bag, pretty much what you would do when you just zip it over your face and pretend like it's not there.
		And the next morning, the park ranger came around, you know, checking on the sites and everything and said that there had been a lot of commotion last night.
		And sorry, it's just kind of hard to put it.
		Basically, there were some animal remains that had kind of looked like a predator had attacked it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm glad that they weren't remains of your buddies.
unidentified		Yeah, myself included as well.
		But that's my story.
		I mean, I've been out in the wilderness before.
		I know what a cougar sounds like because we have a lot of them in our area.
		And I could tell you for sure, Art, that was not a cougar at all.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		No, it's a good story, actually.
		All right, Jury.
		Sharon, what did you think of that?
		Truth or trash?
unidentified		Well, a darn good story, but something's telling me, oh, I want to say it's true, but I'm going to say false.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Steve?
unidentified		Trash.
		I'm leaning towards true.
		I think you saw a big musky ape out there.
		I think he's saying true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		True, okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Lewis?
unidentified		I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and say that it's true just because I've seen some weird stuff while I'm out camping.
unidentified		So I feel you, man.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Whatever it was, it was big, that's for sure.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, Ed?
unidentified		I'm going to go with trash.
		There was a lot of hesitation in his voice as he was telling the story.
		So either he was making it up as he was going or it was nervousness.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So we have a split jury.
		I guess under normal circumstances, you have to let people like that go.
		However, let's bring him back and find out, is it truth or is it trash?
unidentified		That was completely trash, Hart.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You got him.
		You got them good, too.
		At least two of them.
unidentified		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you very, very much for the story.
unidentified		Thanks, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And take care.
unidentified		Well told.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You see, it can be an absolute lie.
		You don't have to tell the truth here.
		If you've got something good enough, well, yeah, sure, let it fly.
		But if you want to make something up, this is the time for lying.
		I believe it's Tom.
		Hello, Tom.
		T-H-O-M?
unidentified		Tom?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, too bad.
		Let's see.
		Manila Thriller.
		Hello?
unidentified		Hello?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, turn off your device, please.
unidentified		I will.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you very much for the support.
unidentified		I'm here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, good.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where are you calling from?
unidentified		I am calling from Burbank, California.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Burbank.
unidentified		Okay.
unidentified		Yes, sir.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Excellent.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You have the story?
unidentified		I sure do.
		All right.
		Letter rip.
		It's a true story.
		It's a true story.
		You guys are going to hear the truth tonight.
		All right.
		Well, I'll relate to this, and I'll keep it PG.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		I was 17.
		We were cruising through the Sunset Strip looking for some action at 17, me and my cousins and some friends.
		And we saw these two beautiful girls walking down the street that were over six foot tall with their heels on.
		And they were done up.
		So, you know, we circled around a couple times and we started chatting up to them.
		So they took us back to a hotel.
		And there was four of us.
		We're all 17, 18, 19 like that.
		I was 17.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		There were four of you?
unidentified		There were four of us.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Two of them.
unidentified		Two women.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And they took either.
unidentified		They weren't threatened.
		We weren't threatened by them.
		So, you know, we're just looking to have a good time.
		It's a long time ago.
		And so, you know, they were actually business people, you know, business ladies.
		So I got my choice.
		So I picked Portia.
		And Portia took me over to her part of the room, and we did our thing.
		And, you know, I felt really good about myself.
		I was like, you know, I was like, wow, this is, you know, I mean, she was gorgeous, like being with a Playboy bunny.
		And I was like, dang, I felt good.
		So then, you know, I went and waited in the living room.
		And, you know, a few hours went by.
		We're drinking with these girls and stuff.
		And all of a sudden, the other girl started going, oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh, I can't believe it.
		I can't believe it.
		And I was like, got kind of concerned.
		I'm like, what?
		What?
		She's like, I can't believe it.
		I can't believe it.
		I've known her forever.
		I said, what?
		She goes, I can't tell you.
		I can't tell you.
		And I'm like, what is it?
		She goes, it's a man.
		And I'm like, oh, my gosh.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
unidentified		It's a man.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So who's the man?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Portia?
unidentified		Porsche, the one I chose of the 50-50, and I picked the man.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		All right.
		And that's your story.
unidentified		That's my tranny tale.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Hold on.
		Oh, my lord.
		I know.
		I agree with you, Jury.
unidentified		Sharon, truth or trash?
unidentified		Well, it's a bit too much information for me, but I'm going to talk.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Trash.
		Story that good and you trash it.
		All right, Steve?
unidentified		Well, it's hard for me to say he's been hitting the chaga.
unidentified		I think it's true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You think it's true?
unidentified		I think he got buffaloed, yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Brother Lewis.
unidentified		I'm going to say it's true just because I know what happens on the Sunset Strip.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that's true.
		That's true.
		Ed?
unidentified		I'm going to say trash, and I hope it is for his sake, because why would you ever admit that anything like that?
unidentified		I'd say nothing from crazy.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I don't know.
		I don't know.
		We're going to find out, though.
		So let's see.
		We've got trash, true, true, trash.
		Again, we're split.
		This jury splits a lot.
		All right.
		They're absolutely split, buddy, over your story.
		So I guess we have to ask you, what...
unidentified		Trendy talk.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Is it the truth or is it absolute trash?
unidentified		Okay, Art.
		Just let me preface.
		Okay.
		Fast forward 25 years.
		I'm in France, going to the Moulin Rouge.
		Same thing happens.
		Two gorgeous.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, no, no, no, no.
		No, no, no, no, no.
		You can't tell two stories.
		No.
unidentified		Uh-uh.
		Is it?
		So it's true, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's true?
unidentified		It is a true story.
unidentified		And my nickname was Sunset for many years after that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, well, Jury, do you feel sorry for him?
unidentified		No, I don't.
		No.
		It's a 21st-century art.
		Anything goes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, apparently so.
unidentified		That's a good thing.
unidentified		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You know, I don't know what to do with that.
unidentified		Ha, ha, ha.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, God, let's go on to the next storyteller.
		This would be, well, it looks like a ham radio call letters or something.
		Hello?
		Are you there?
		Hello?
		Well, whatever you are, you have no audio, so I can't talk to you.
		Let's go to Ralph and say, hello, Ralph.
		Hello, Ralph, turn your device off.
unidentified		Turn it off.
		Okay.
		Okay, I got it off.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Excellent.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, do you have a screen?
unidentified		I sure do.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm working on that last one.
		Okay, so proceed.
		Jury listened.
unidentified		Probably Ralph, let's see, this happened about 20 years ago.
		I picked up a car for my daughter.
		She was going to school in Alabama.
		I lived in Georgia.
		There's a manual car driving the car from Alabama to Georgia.
		It was a four-lane highway.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		And it was a manual shift car.
		And on the way there, it started to have problems.
		The clutch was giving me problems.
		So I pulled off the side of the road.
		And I just passed a town about, well, maybe a mile or so back.
		So I got out of the car and figured, well, I'll walk back towards that town because I knew something was behind me.
		So anyways, all of a sudden, for some reason, I turned around and here's the car rolling down towards me.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, my God.
unidentified		And all of a sudden, if the wheels turn on the car for some reason, go across the two-lane highway.
		It was actually a four-lane highway.
		Go across the two lanes and ended up in the middle.
		So I don't know what made me turn around, but something made me turn around.
		So that's my story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So your car, it was on a hill, right?
unidentified		Well, it was sort of on a hill, not a very big hill.
		It's pretty flat, but it was on the hill.
		But, you know, I know the clutch went out, and I thought I put it in gear when I pulled on the side of the road, but obviously I didn't, or it came out of gear, and it started rolling back towards me.
		And then I turned around and seen it coming.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You saw your own car coming at you.
unidentified		Right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It did a left or a right turn, went across two lanes, and stopped.
unidentified		It did a left turn.
unidentified		And stopped in the middle, and like the ditch in the middle in between the divided highway.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's pretty weird.
		All right.
		Jury, what do you think?
		Sharon?
unidentified		Well, I'm glad you turned around.
unidentified		I'm going to say this is a true story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Steve?
unidentified		Yep, I've done that same thing.
		After working all night, I was exhausted, and I didn't yell, didn't set the brake good or something.
		The car was rolling.
		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Lewis?
unidentified		I'm going to say true as well.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, and Ed.
unidentified		I'll say true as well, Par, I forgot to put the brake on.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, that is a four jurors saying absolute truth.
		So what is it, caller?
		The truth or trash?
		Well?
unidentified		Glad you took my call.
		Good talk to you.
		I'm a fellow Prump.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Wait a minute.
		Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
		Is it true?
		The story, is it truth or trash?
unidentified		It's true.
unidentified		It's true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, all right.
		Thank you very much for the call, and take care.
		Okay, well, the jury nailed that one.
		I think it was the way he told it.
		It was just sort of so matter-of-fact that I bought it.
		All right, let's go to John.
		Hello, John.
unidentified		Hey, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Extinguish Your Device.
unidentified		Oh, I have.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Somebody wrote a poem up on the website called Extinguish Your Device, I think.
unidentified		Anyway, do you have been sitting here for about 15 minutes, just sitting here listening along and waiting to extinguish my device?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Well, you have done so, and you have a story.
		Proceed.
unidentified		Yes, I had to do.
		So about two years ago, I moved in to an apartment with my girlfriend, now my fiancé.
		But at the time, it was my girlfriend.
		And she had told me for months previous that she, at nighttime, she would see things randomly through the night.
		She would wake up and see things standing in the corner.
		And at one time, she saw a man standing in the corner with a scarf on.
		And I never thought of anything of it until it was probably about a month or two after we moved into an apartment together.
		I woke up one night and I felt something playing with my feet.
		And so I freak out, right?
		And I jump up and I start swatting at something playing with my feet.
		And it felt like probably like I would guess a golf ball-sized mouse running over one foot under the other and going back over that foot under the other.
		And so, of course, she thought I was just dreaming about it that night.
		And so as I'm swatting at my feet, she's telling me to calm down, calm down.
		And all I could think about was her telling me about how she saw things staring at her at nighttime.
		And I calmed down eventually.
		But right before I was about to go to sleep, I feel these things playing with my feet again.
		So I jump up and I start swatting at my feet again and freaking her out, freaking the dog out who sleeps between us.
		And I mean, and since then, I've woke up once again, experiencing sleep paralysis and seeing this tall, dark being staring at me during sleep paralysis.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, well, now how can a jury judge this?
unidentified		I mean, they really can.
		I mean, it's really me telling the story and them saying whether or not I'm full of it or not.
		But all I know for sure is I felt something playing with my feet all night.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Rats on the feet, right?
unidentified		Right, right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, so rats on the feet.
		Jury, very quickly, Sharon, you're laughing.
		Truth or trash.
unidentified		I'm sorry.
		Well, John, I'm going to say it's trash.
		Okay, Steve.
		It sounds really silly.
		It sounds like Elton John or something is playing with his feet.
		I'm going to say trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Lewis?
unidentified		Sounds like he has cockroach problems.
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Ann-Ed?
unidentified		I want to say truth because I believe he believes that happened.
unidentified		And there is a version of sleep paralysis where that can occur.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		There is.
unidentified		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So is it truth or trash, caller?
unidentified		Well, all I know is you're playing.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Truth or trash?
unidentified		Philadelphia freedom.
		It's truth.
		This John is being truthful with you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you very much.
unidentified		We'll be right back.
		Time to change and now we'll get back.
		But the fever's gonna catch you when we're missing a slap.
		All right.
		We'll be right back.
		No way, no way No way You're Raging into the Night with Midnight in the Desert.
		To be part of the show, please call 1952.
		Call Art.
		That's 1-952-225-5278.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, all right.
		Welcome back, everybody.
		This is hard.
		It's really hard.
		I had in mind to do it a whole different way.
		But in fact, we're going to do it.
		Don't worry.
		Let me be sure of my jury.
		I know, Sharon, you're there, right?
unidentified		Yes, sir.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And I think, Lewis, you're there?
unidentified		Yeah, I'm here.
unidentified		Hey, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		We've got a new member, I think, Diane.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Is that correct?
unidentified		Yes, and I am from the Talking Art Bell Midnight in the Desert Facebook group.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Way to give a plug.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I know what they are.
unidentified		Yes, and Dino is still waiting to get through.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, and who's our other juror?
unidentified		Ed.
		I'm still here.
		Ed?
		Yes, sir.
		I'm still here.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, Ed.
		All right.
		That is our jury.
		Sharon, Lewis, Diane, and Ed.
		And here is our next story.
		It's going to come from Chris.
		Hello, Chris.
unidentified		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi.
unidentified		Wow.
unidentified		It's amazing to be on air with you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, that's what you should expect when you call.
unidentified		Here's my story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, okay, you've got to get good and close to your microphone, Chris, and look for it on the computer.
		It'll be a little round hole there.
		You need to get right up to it.
unidentified		I'm not using the computer.
unidentified		I'm using my Android.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, in that case, you need to not be on the speakerphone.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, switch to being on the phone itself.
		That's very important, folks.
		You don't want to be on the speakerphone.
		You want to be on the phone phone.
		Well, looks like Chris dumped us by mistake, so sorry about that, Chris.
		Let's try Andy.
		Hello, Andy.
		You also are almost impossible to hear.
		No, you're mostly not there, Andy, but thanks for trying.
		See, that's why I try to get people set up.
unidentified		Let's try Peter.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello, Peter.
unidentified		Can I pick up?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Peter, yes?
unidentified		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
unidentified		Oh, yeah, we got you.
		We got you.
		Okay, okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, okay.
unidentified		Beautiful.
unidentified		Fantastic.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Peter, talk directly into your device and turn off.
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You've got me on speakerphone, don't you?
unidentified		No, I got you on Skype right now.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Right, but it's on speakerphone, though.
		Yes.
		Turn it off and just talk into the phone.
		Okay, talk on the phone.
		Yes, the phone.
		Don't put us on speakerphone.
unidentified		I'm going to have to show on the phone running, then I don't...
		I don't know how to do this.
		Shoot.
		Shoot.
		I talk now.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All I can say is you're going to have to get...
		This doesn't work.
		Okay, sorry.
		Can't do that.
		See, that's a lesson, everybody.
		Do not put it on speakerphone.
		Talk directly into your phone.
		Hello, Mike.
		Crying for Mike.
unidentified		Can you hear me or?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I hear you just fine, Mike.
unidentified		Hi.
		How you doing?
		Good.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Do you have a story?
unidentified		Yeah.
		Yeah, my story is about my cat.
		It was many, many years ago, and I woke up crying.
		And my wife asked me, what's wrong?
		And I said, my cat, kicker, kicker, as in punch and kick, my cat, kicker, is dead.
		And I had just had a dream.
		And in my dream, I woke up crying.
		My wife asking me, What's wrong?
		I said, My cat is dead.
		I run through the kitchen, the living room, put my knees on the couch, look out the front porch window.
		And in my dream, he's laying there dead.
		I wake up, picking up where I left off.
		She says that.
		I run through the kitchen, living room.
		I put my knees on the couch.
		I look out the window.
		And he's laying there exactly the way I saw him in the dream, and he's dead.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, my God.
		That really is something.
		Okay, I'll let the jury go at that.
		Sharon, sad story.
		What do you think, True?
unidentified		Well, as a jurist, can I ask a question?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, absolutely, sure.
unidentified		Okay, I want to ask him, how old was Kicker?
		If I remember right, he was middle aged, probably about seven, six.
		And when you saw him lying there dead, where was he exactly when you saw him as you were looking out the window?
		Oh, right below the window.
		Right below the window on the front porch of the house.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Just like in the dream.
unidentified		Just like in the dream.
		Okay, I will give you a true story there, Mike.
		Okay.
		Lewis?
		I'm going to say that it's true just because it's a sad kitty story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Boy, it is.
		It really is.
		Diane?
unidentified		I would have to say it's true, too.
unidentified		Oh.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They're buying it.
unidentified		Ed?
unidentified		I'll make it unanimous, true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It is unanimous.
		All right.
		Now the absolute truth.
		Or is it trash?
unidentified		Okay.
		Unfortunately, Art, it is true.
		This actually happened.
		It was very sad for me.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, that is sad and amazing also.
unidentified		Actually, so the most amazing things that ever happened to me.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, amazingly sad.
		But thank you very much for the attempt.
		That's really pretty amazing and pretty awful.
		Pretty awful, I would say.
		Okay, let's go to Cal, K-A-A-L.
		Is that right?
unidentified		Yes, that's right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi, where are you, Cal?
unidentified		South Africa.
unidentified		I'm the second class.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, that's right.
unidentified		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, go ahead if you have the story.
unidentified		All right.
unidentified		This is the history of the moon as I research the history of the moon.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I don't get it.
unidentified		Okay, it starts 500,000 years ago.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, we can't take the history of the moon, Cal.
		Not here.
		You have to have a story.
unidentified		Yeah, that's why I asked.
		I knew you were not going to take it.
		Okay, then can I go to my second story then?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		If you have an actual story, Cal.
unidentified		Yes, this is an actual one from me.
		Okay.
		All right.
		Happened about 15, 20 years ago.
		I was staying with a friend in another town here.
		Stayed there for a year.
		It was nice with me.
		I managed to get some money.
		And then eventually I got my money and I said, all right, now I'm going to go to the bar.
		I'm going to buy a beer.
		And so I went.
		I walked because I didn't have a car then.
		I walked about 15 minutes to get there just before the bar closed.
		I went in, I asked him for a beer.
		I was ready to buy.
		And then the manager turned around to me and said, sorry, we are closed.
		We just closed.
		And then I got so angry and I turned around to everyone.
		I said, come on, how can it be?
		I walked 30 minutes to get here.
		I've got the box.
		Please give me a beer.
		And again, the guy turned around to me and he smiled a little matte smile at me and he said, sorry, we are closed.
		And then I got angry.
		Then I got out.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I walked out.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		We're short on time now, so we've got to get to the end of this.
unidentified		I walked outside of the bar.
		I walked to the corner of the streets.
		I turned around at the bar and I screamed at the top of my lungs.
		And then straight after that, two blocks of lights either way from me blinked out and the whole place was dark.
		The whole street lights blanked out for two blocks from there.
		That's my story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So you shouted the lights out?
unidentified		It was the emotional anger inside me.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That blew out the lights.
		Okay, all right, all right.
		What do you guys think?
		Truth are trash.
unidentified		Oh, I just, I don't like it.
unidentified		I think it's trash, trash, trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, that's Sharon?
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, Lewis?
unidentified		I think he lived in a sketchy neighborhood and the bombs probably took out his life.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Diane.
unidentified		Well, I would say that he was desperately needing a drink if that really happened.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Sounded like it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Trash, okay.
unidentified		Ed?
		I'm going to say trash.
		There's been specials on TV in the past about people that have the ability to do that on.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I saw it on TV.
		All right.
		Sorry, buddy.
		They think that's absolute trash, all four of them.
unidentified		Are you going to tell me it's true?
		I'm going to tell you that this is definitely true.
		There was a Powerbox niche.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, that's all I need.
		Thank you.
		It's definitely true, huh?
		So the jury got it all wrong.
		You know what, though?
		I'm with the jury.
		This is somebody named N.B., I believe.
		Hello.
		Is N.B. correct?
unidentified		Maybe not.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Wait a minute.
		Somebody's on hold here.
		This Skype is messing with me.
		N.B., hello.
		Going once.
unidentified		Going twice.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Go on.
		Let's start fresh and try with my goodness.
		A-N-K-H, is that right?
unidentified		Yeah, that's good enough, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		How do I pronounce that?
unidentified		Let's go with Ankh.
		I've got a story I've been trying To tell you for about two or three weeks since you started asking about September.
		Okay.
		So, first in ALMAO to some of my friends out there, and about March of this year, I was walking outside of where I work, and I just look up in the sky, and it's kind of dark over in the distance.
		And, you know, I'm out there for a bit waiting for my bus, so I make a couple calls, and I turn back around, and there's this huge beam of light just coming down over this building in the distance.
		So, you know, it's weird, but I don't think anything of it because, you know, weather's weird.
		Stuff happens like that.
		But about every two weeks since then, I've been having these visions at night.
		And it's nothing big and fantastic.
		It's just like I'm sitting in my room in the vision watching the TV.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Sir, how can a jury judge this?
unidentified		Well, about as well as they can judge a cat falling from a tree, I guess.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, I don't know.
unidentified		Maybe.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I mean, this is like a UFO sighting, kind of, right?
unidentified		Well, no, because the beam of light wasn't coming down.
unidentified		It was coming up from this building.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		So it's something, you know, originating on the planet.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		Like a signal beam.
unidentified		So then in these visions since then, I've been seeing things, and two weeks later, they've been on the TV.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I see.
unidentified		So I am predicting the future through my visions of television broadcasts.
unidentified		And they have cut out exactly coinciding with the start of September.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Well, I'm rolling that one unjudgeable.
		I mean, you just.
		See, folks, you can't judge that kind of thing.
		I appreciate the effort, but there's no way to judge it.
		Hello, Barbara.
unidentified		Yes.
unidentified		Hi.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi, do you have a good story for us?
unidentified		Yes, I do.
unidentified		Way back when, I used to go to Farmingdale College on Long Island.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		And they had a concert for the college, and me and my friend decided to go to it.
unidentified		It was the Kinks.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, yes, I remember them.
unidentified		Yeah.
		And, of course, you know, we decided to sneak in.
		So it was like four in the afternoon, three or four in the afternoon when we decided to do this.
		The concert was held in a gymnasium.
		So we go in there, and the bleachers are pulled down on one side of the room.
		And there's these guys sitting on the bleachers.
		They kind of look like English guys, you know?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		They had long hair.
		They were playing cards.
		So they asked me and my friend if we'd like to play cards with them.
		We were kind of shy, and we said no.
		And they said they were playing whisk.
		And we kind of thanked them.
		And we went and we sat down in one of the chairs.
		And we were embarrassed because we were sneaking into this concert.
		So we were in there like two or three hours waiting for the concert.
		Finally, it's time.
		People start coming in.
		We're sitting in the front row.
		The guys come out, the kinks.
		It's the roadies.
		They gave us this kind of, the lead singer kind of leaned forward, gave us a wink and a smile.
		And we were pretty humiliated because we didn't pay for the concert.
		That's my story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's it.
		So you snuck into a concert.
		Yes.
		Again, I don't, I'm not sure how they would judge that.
		Well, I guess we can try.
unidentified		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Sharon?
unidentified		Well, thanks for your confession, Barbara.
unidentified		And I think it's a true story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		True.
unidentified		Okay.
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Lewis?
unidentified		I think it's a true story.
unidentified		She sounds like a groupie.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's a cruel jury.
unidentified		Diane?
unidentified		I think it's a true story, and I hope you let us tell a story at the end as well.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		Ed?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'll say it's true.
unidentified		True.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Four say it's true.
		Is it true?
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Well, thank you.
		Thank you for the one the jury got absolutely right.
		Let's try Peter.
		Hello, Peter.
unidentified		Yeah, us, us.
		My wife is here.
		She has a story for you, Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Your wife?
unidentified		Yeah, Sherry.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Sherry.
unidentified		Hi, yes.
		We're using his computer.
		Okay.
		Okay.
		So a number of years ago when I was at work, I had a lady come in off the street, and I don't know if you've ever experienced that, or those that have worked in an office, and somebody comes in and tries to sell you things off the street.
		So I ended up buying this cute little farm duck, and it was a stuffed animal.
		And when you tapped it on its head, it would quack out three different songs right in a row.
		Like, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, like those things called...
		Anyway, so the whole idea was this stuffed animal would only quack out like three songs without separate notes.
		So I took this thing home for my children.
		I raised two boys, and they were teenage boys.
		And one day I had this thing in my son's room, my younger son's room, and I was vacuuming while the kids were at school, and this thing started quacking at me separate notes while I was about 10 feet away.
		So that kind of freaked me out.
		I shut the vacuum cleaner off, ran downstairs, and the boys came home.
		And I was still shaking, and I said, this is what happened.
		We all went upstairs, and they were, of course, laughing and quite cynical about it.
		And we started asking questions.
		And I said, okay, if this is for real, one quack for yes, two quacks for no.
		And the boys, of course, were laughing hysterically.
		And sure enough, within about 10 seconds of me asking the first question, are you related to one of our family members that has passed?
		And about 10 seconds later, through their hysteria and laughing, it quacked once for yes.
		Wow.
		Yeah, so it was pretty freaky.
		And this carried on a few more questions.
		And at the end of the third or fourth question, that was enough for my boys.
		My younger son literally went over to the little stuffed animal, picked it up, and wrenched it across to the other side of the room.
		And it shattered in a few little fats came out.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Very smart child.
unidentified		Yeah, so ended up with a possessed stuffed animal in my home.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		that's a good story.
		Hold on.
		All right, jury, you can ask questions or render a verdict.
		Sharon?
unidentified		Well, Sherry, I think you're telling a true story, and I'd really like to hear you crack out that song again.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Lewis?
unidentified		The Ouija duck?
unidentified		I say, yes, true story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		True story.
		Pretty scary.
		All right, Diane.
unidentified		I have to agree with everyone else.
		I think it's a true story.
		True story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You guys really buy into this stuff.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, Ed?
unidentified		I'm going to say it's a true story, but most likely a defective item.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, all right.
		Well, all right.
		So is it truth or trash?
		Call it.
unidentified		That's an absolutely true story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		A true story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Can you quack it out once more for us?
unidentified		You want all three songs?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, not all three.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, I do.
unidentified		Whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, quack, whack, whack, quack, whack, quack.
unidentified		That'll do.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you very much.
		All right.
		That was in the spirit of exactly what I want.
		Let's go to Frank.
		Wherever Frank is, it's your turn.
unidentified		Yes, hello, Art Bell.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi.
unidentified		I'm Colin from Denver.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Excellent.
unidentified		Any more room for jury members tonight?
unidentified		A little bit late for that?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		No, I could form another jury, but I mean, I kind of like this jury.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They have a sense of humor.
unidentified		Well, hey, I tell you, I would contribute.
unidentified		I'm pretty fair, and I've heard normal stories.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You don't have to sell yourself as a juror.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Do you have a story, though?
unidentified		Yes, I actually do.
		So when I was about 18, I went to Deadwood out in South Dakota family trip.
		And when I was out there, my parents decided to stay in this old casino type of hotel.
		And it was a very old place.
		And I grew up watching horror films and whatnot.
		So naturally, I was a bit nervous as I am right now.
		Once again, I'm a huge fan.
		I've been listening since I've been six years old.
		Wow.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You're watching.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You're 90 now?
unidentified		So I'm there at the hotel, and I'm underage, so my parents go gambling, and they're like, well, you can go on up to the hotel and wait for us up there.
		So give me the key.
		I go up to the hotel, and our room's at the very end of this long hallway.
		And I'm walking down the hallway, have the key in my hand, and find the door.
		The key number matches the door.
		So I start to put the key into the door, turn it.
		it won't go in.
		And at the very same time...
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I've got a break, which I have to do.
unidentified		Midnight in the Desert doesn't scream calls.
		We trust you.
		But remember, the NSA...
		To call the show, please dial 1-952-225-5278.
		That's 1-952-CALLART.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, there you have it.
		All right.
		Let us bring back our caller.
		Hi there.
		You had a key in your hand, I believe, and we're headed for the door.
unidentified		Yes, Art Bell, really quick in case anyone's just now tuning in.
		Very short recap.
		I was out in Deadwood.
		Stayed in an old hotel.
		I'm on a family vacation with my parents.
		So, yes, I'm in an old casino hotel.
		You know, my parents are gambling.
		They give me the key and they say, hey, go on up to the room.
		You know, we'll be up there later.
		So I find the room number.
		It's at the very end of a very long hallway.
		And, you know, I have the key in my hand.
		It matches the room number.
		So I'm there with the key and I insert it into the door.
		It's not going in.
		And at the same time, I'm struggling trying to get it in.
		It's not going in.
		At the very end of the hallway, I look to my right at the very end of the hallway and I see a bluish orb floating mid in the air, just kind of floating there, kind of moving almost like in a circular, but kind of like in a random type of way.
		I'm feeling extremely fearful.
		I start nervously shaking, sweating.
		Million thoughts are shooting through my head.
		And then in an instant, it just goes away.
		The second that it goes away, the key goes right into the door, and I get into the room.
		And once I got into the room, I was so freaked out, I ran back downstairs and waited for my parents, and then I slept in the car that night.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Pretty interesting, but it's very hard for a jury to judge something like that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		A blue orb.
unidentified		Sure, yeah.
unidentified		You know, maybe one of the jury members had a similar experience or, you know, something like that.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I think that's the only thing that's going to help you.
		All right, let me find out.
		Let's see who we've got here.
		We've got most of our jury left.
		I think we've got a new jury member from Kirkfield, Ontario.
unidentified		Is that correct?
unidentified		That's Kirk Darkfield.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		All right, so let's do it one at a time.
		Sharon, Blue Orb story.
unidentified		What do you think?
		Frank, is it?
		Well, you're well spoken, well told.
		I'm going to say it's true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Lewis.
unidentified		I'm going to say he's telling the truth.
unidentified		It sounds like something that could happen at some weird remote time.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I think we lost Diane, and so our new juror is Terry.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Terry?
unidentified		And what do you think, Terry?
		I like the way he delivered the story.
		It sounded very matter-of-factly, and he presented it very well.
		I bought it.
		I say it's true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		True, true, true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And who's left?
unidentified		Ed?
		Yes, sir.
		I'm going to say trash.
		The part about him sleeping in the car is what broke it for me.
		Gotcha.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, so now the truth, Please.
unidentified		Yes, absolutely true, 100%.
unidentified		As I said, I was about, let's see, 16, 17 when that happened.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, good enough.
		I appreciate the answer.
		Thank you.
		And let's see.
		Let's see if I can straighten everything out here.
		This has been tough tonight because I expected to do it sort of an opposite way from this.
		Nevertheless, let us proceed with Marvin.
		Hello, Marvin.
unidentified		Hello, Ark.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Marvin, you sound very far away from your computer, and it's hard to hear you.
unidentified		I'm using a headset.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Pardon me?
unidentified		I'm using a headset.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Now you sound good, Marvin.
unidentified		Okay.
		Well, I've got a story.
		Okay.
		Now, this happened about 13 years ago, and I had gotten sick with, you know, my doctor diagnosed me as having some kind of pneumonia.
		And after I had been home for about, oh, I guess, two weeks or so, I went to bed.
		And then I guess I had a kind of a dream or kind of a vision.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, again, this is going to be very hard for people to judge.
unidentified		But there is a real living element to it.
		And what happened was I saw strange robed figures, very tall, but they didn't really seem human.
		And they were playing some kind of game using stones with symbols carved on them.
		And there was a giant octagonal kind of, I guess, board on the floor wherever they were at.
		And they were playing this game, and I was watching them do it.
		And they were moving these stones.
		But gradually, the symbols on them turned to characters I could recognize, just plain English text.
		And it said, you shall not die here.
		And I woke up from that dream, and I wasn't really sure what it was about.
		But the next day, my illness got worse.
		And my parents actually drove me to the hospital.
		And it was at Beaumont Hospital.
		And the lobby in that hospital, when I looked up at the ceiling from the wheelchair they had me in, that ceiling, and I'd never been there before, but that ceiling was, the room was roughly octagonally shaped.
		It had black and white tiles.
		And looking up at that, I felt a lot better.
		I felt like I was in the right place.
		And I was in that hospital for actually a whole month and actually underwent lung surgery there, which still frightened me nonetheless.
		But I felt that I had something going for me.
		And I actually pulled through.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What was wrong with you?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Why did you need lung surgery?
unidentified		I had too much fluid in my lungs.
unidentified		I actually put a chest tube in.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And so your dream was you'd be okay?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And the answer was you were okay.
unidentified		Yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		After a month and a half.
unidentified		I connected what I saw in that dream with what I saw in that lobby on the ceiling.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		All right.
		Jury, any questions?
unidentified		Well, it's me, Sharon.
		I'm getting a little bit of static art, but I was going to say I've had pneumonia myself, but I haven't had that.
		I'm glad that you're with us still.
		I don't know what to say.
		I'll just say I'm sure it's true.
		Okay.
		Luce?
		Sounds like the good stuff kicked in, so I'm going to say it's true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Terry?
unidentified		I have concerns about his oxygen level to his brain at the time.
unidentified		I'm going to call trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Trash.
unidentified		Okay.
		Ed?
		I'll say it's true, but I'm sure it's a hallucination.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
unidentified		So what say you, caller?
		From my perspective, at least, it did happen.
		And I've yes.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		All right.
		Thank you very much for the call, and take care.
		From your perspective, it happened.
		Interesting.
		Hello, Scott.
unidentified		Hey, Art.
unidentified		How's it going?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's going well.
unidentified		Do you have a story?
		Hello, Jury.
		I've got a new story for you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, go ahead.
unidentified		All right.
		1973, I got my first job in radio.
		I was at it for several months and was driving in to do the morning shift, 5 a.m. to 9 a.m.
		And about 10 minutes before I got to the station, the radio went dead.
		And I checked the radio and all the other stations were coming in okay.
		So I switched back to our station.
		Still nothing.
		So, like I say, I'm 10 minutes out from the station.
		I pull into the little parking lot, go into the building, and there, lying in the hallway is the overnight guy dead.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, my God.
unidentified		Still, self-inflicted gunshot wound.
		And I walk into the studio to pick up the phone and call the cops, and I look down on the desk at the program log, and the final entry, which coincided with the time the radio went dead, was suicide.
		Whew.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
		What a story.
		Holy mackerel, Scott.
		All right.
		Hold on.
		Don't go anywhere, Scott.
		My goodness, what a story.
		Dead DJ, big time.
		Sharon?
unidentified		Well, I can't empathize, I can't relate like you can, Art, but I'll say that's a true one.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		True one.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
unidentified		Lewis?
		I'll say it's a true story just because crazy things have been happening with personalities and stuff like that.
		So, yes, true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		They have, and very recently, too.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Terry?
unidentified		Yep.
unidentified		I'd like to ask Scott a question.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, go ahead.
unidentified		Scott, what is an Arbitron?
unidentified		Arbitron is a company in, I think, Hyattsville or Beltsville, Maryland, That does the ratings for radio stations.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Good one.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, Terry?
unidentified		Okay, I'll say true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And finally, Ed.
unidentified		I'm going to say trash because I would find it hard to believe there's no other people in the building at the time.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, no, wait a minute.
		It was the overnight guy.
		All right.
		Well, anyway, trash it is.
		All right, Scott, time for the truth.
unidentified		Well, Art and three-quarters of the panel, I am happy to say I got you guys, but not the last guy.
		Strangely enough, actually, the station was about 40 miles outside of D.C. in the burbs back in 73.
		So there wouldn't have been anybody overnights.
		But that story actually did happen at another place.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, that's all right.
		You know, you're allowed to lie.
		That's the whole point of this thing.
unidentified		I thought I'd spring it on you guys when I was three-quarters of the way successful.
unidentified		You were.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you very much.
		We're going to break here, and then we'll come back to our jury and our stories.
		You know, I actually bought that one.
		I could kind of see that happen.
unidentified		Anyway, this is Midnight in the Desert.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Stay rising here.
unidentified		I'm high on the leaving.
		That's your end up with me.
		We have candy.
		The clock strikes 12, and Midnight in the Desert is pounding packets your way on the Dark Matter Digital Network.
		To call the show, please direct your finger digits to dial 1-952-225-5278.
		That's 1-952-CALLART.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		By the way, I'm sorry, we lost one of our jury members earlier.
		She wanted to tell a story, so she probably split.
		I think it was Diane, to try and tell a story instead.
		So if I see Diane, I'll try and get her as quickly as I can.
		In the meantime, let's give a shot.
		Let's try Jim.
		Hello, Jim.
unidentified		Hey, Art.
unidentified		I'm calling from Washington, D.C. I've got a story for you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Absolutely.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Go ahead.
unidentified		My first wife and I, we lived in a house on top of the hill next to Arlington Cemetery here.
		And there were some nights when she seemed to be harassed by these unseen energies.
		She would sit up in bed and swat at them and yell at them.
		And it was a fairly common occurrence.
		And one night, just after I'd gone to bed, she was already asleep.
		She sat up, started yelling at them, swatting at them like that.
		And she was completely unresponsive to me.
		I couldn't get her to stop or acknowledge me or anything.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You couldn't see a thing.
unidentified		I didn't see a thing.
		So that evening, I'd been reading a book that offered techniques for protecting yourself from malevolent energies.
		And the author spoke of visualizing a white light and surrounding yourself with it and expanding it to push these things away.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Heard about that.
unidentified		So I closed my eyes and I started the process.
		I started to visualize the white light.
		And when I felt that I was surrounded with that, I expanded it to surround the entire bed.
		Then I further increased it to engulf the entire house.
		And it was at precisely this point.
		She turns at me and grabs my arm and yells, what did you do?
		I said, what do you mean?
		She said, you put something around the house.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Really?
unidentified		I almost had a heart attack.
		Yes.
		I was doing this only in my mind.
		I had never mentioned the technique to her at all before.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
unidentified		And the next day, she had no recollection of what had happened.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		My God, what a story.
		All right.
		I like this story.
		Jury, what do you all think of it?
		Chairman?
unidentified		Oh, that one gives me the hibie-jeebies.
unidentified		I will say, considering that I was bamboozled the last time, okay, I'm going to say it's true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
unidentified		Lewis?
unidentified		I'm going to say it's true as well.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		That's true.
		Terry.
unidentified		There's just a little bit too much coincidence in the whole story.
unidentified		I'm going to say trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
unidentified		So splitting and Ed.
unidentified		I'll say true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		True.
unidentified		Since Arlington was originally owned by Robert E. Lee, it might have been the ghost of the Confederate soldiers being pissed off or something, I guess.
		So I'll say true.
		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		So there you have it.
		One, two, three trues.
		What's the absolute truth, please?
unidentified		Art, I've been wanting to tell you this story on the air for close to 20 years now.
		It's absolutely true.
		Wow.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Wow.
		All right.
		Well, no matter how you look at it, it's a cool story.
		You were doing that in your mind, and what a story.
		Excellent.
		All right.
		Let's go to, I think it's Jim.
		If he's there.
		Are you there, Jim?
		No, he's not.
		Let's go to Rob.
		Hello, Rob.
unidentified		Hi.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hi.
unidentified		I'm calling from the land of the midnight sun in Anchorage, Alaska.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Way up north.
unidentified		Yep, and my story is this.
		So when I was 16 or 17, I lived with my mom and dad along with my whole family.
		My older sister used to get really bad nightmares, and she used to sleepwalk very, very bad.
		She would have dreams that she was at work, and she would act out her work.
		She was even like a pirate queen one time, and she was shouting, burn them all, and laughing maniacally.
		But one night, she was on our love seat, crouching, because we were trying to get her to calm down.
		And she jumped 20 feet from the middle of the room up onto this professional speaker system that we had.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		20 feet?
unidentified		Yep.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		My God.
unidentified		Straight up.
unidentified		Straight up.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		To a speaker system.
unidentified		Yep.
		Well, it wasn't straight up.
		It was over and up.
		Over and up.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		But a total of 20 feet.
unidentified		Yep.
		The speaker system was about.
		Yeah, it was crazy.
		The speaker system was about five feet off the ground.
		So he was up and over.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		But then you didn't have surrounds on it.
		So that's a true story.
		You're you're telling me that's a true story, right?
		How do you think the jury will see that?
		A twenty foot jump is like superhuman.
unidentified		I was going to say that that story is actually not true.
unidentified		It was only 10 feet, but it was pretty impressive.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You shouldn't have told me that.
		You just spoiled, we didn't even check with the jury yet.
		Oh, even a 10-foot jump is pretty outstandingly crazy.
		What do you guys think?
unidentified		Rob, I have a question for you.
		Your sister, you said, sleptwalk a lot.
		So you said just a moment ago you were trying to get her to calm down.
		I thought you weren't supposed to disturb someone when they're sleepwalking.
		Yeah.
		I know that, but we were really afraid that she was going to hurt herself because there was a couple times she was heading to work and she grabbed her keys and was starting to go out the door.
		So we were mainly just trying to keep her corralled.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And she actually jumped 10 feet.
unidentified		It was 10 feet.
unidentified		I will say, Rob, I'm going to say it's trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Trash.
		Okay, Sharon.
		Not buying that one.
		Lewis?
unidentified		I'm going to say trash because, I mean, no one can jump 10 feet.
unidentified		No one.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's right.
unidentified		Terry?
		Gosh, Rob, it sounds like nobody had a measuring tape that night.
		Can't quite decide.
		I'm going to have to say trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Trash.
unidentified		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's three trash.
unidentified		And Ed, quick question.
		How many stories was the home you lived in?
		Just one.
		It was just a one story.
		I'm going to say trash as well.
		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thoroughly, completely trashed.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Now, the real truth is or isn't 10 feet?
unidentified		It was 10 feet over.
		She dumped.
		It was the weirdest thing that I have ever seen.
		And she landed right on top of the speaker and perched there.
		It was one of the craziest things I've seen in my life.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		For real true, huh?
unidentified		For real true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, buddy.
		Thank you very much for the call and the story.
		I, too, had a sister that sleepwalked.
		And while you don't, you're not supposed to wake them up.
		Indeed, they can do damage.
		I mean, something bad can happen.
		So I kind of get it.
		But 10 feet up onto a speaker.
		Holy moly.
		Let's try.
		I think it's Mike.
		Is that right?
unidentified		That's correct.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello, Mike.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Do you have a story?
unidentified		I do.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Good.
unidentified		Eight years ago, I had a cyst.
unidentified		And it was, let's say, an unmentionable reason.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It was in a what?
unidentified		Unmentionable reason.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, a cyst in a bad place.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, we get it.
unidentified		Okay.
unidentified		They're called pilonidal cysts.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		How big was this cyst?
unidentified		Oh, about the size of three thumbs.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's a big cyst.
unidentified		I couldn't sit down.
		I couldn't sleep.
		And I went and had it removed.
		I woke up from anesthesia.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Uh-huh.
unidentified		And the doctor came in and said, well, we got some news for you.
unidentified		He said they got it all, and all was good, but they found teeth, hair, and a small bit of brain matter.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, my God.
unidentified		Yeah.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		For real, huh?
unidentified		Okay.
unidentified		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, go ahead.
unidentified		We did some DNA testing on it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		And found out it was my twin.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Boy, we had one other story like this, sort of.
unidentified		We actually had it buried in the family plot.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, my God.
unidentified		It was horrible.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Right.
		All right.
		I don't know what to do with that story.
		Jury, good luck with this one.
unidentified		I want to know is how long has this cyst been on you?
unidentified		Or were you living with this?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		How long had it been there?
unidentified		Yes.
		Yes.
		Well, it didn't really start bothering me until, you know, it was a couple months where it really got really bad.
		But, I mean, I'm guessing it had been in there since I was born.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		You wouldn't notice it, like prior to it beginning to hurt you, you didn't notice it at all, prior to this pain?
unidentified		Honestly, I thought it was just part of my tailbone.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
unidentified		Part of your tailbone.
		Yeah.
		Okay.
		I'm going to say true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		Lewis?
		I'm going to say that it's true.
		It could happen.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		He's going to get teeth in there, though.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, Terry?
unidentified		Well, he does have the cyst in the right location.
		It would be at the tailbone.
		I'm just trying to decide that the rest of it is true.
		And I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.
		True.
		All right, Ed?
		Well, I will say trash because I've also had a polynidal cyst in that same exact spot.
		They are started by ingrown hairs, not twins.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, let's find out what's for real and what's not.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Mike, it's time for the truth.
unidentified		Oh, no.
unidentified		Isn't so much trash?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's trash.
unidentified		It's trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		See, but you know how to lie, buddy.
unidentified		You got it.
		You're a liar.
		Good on you, Ed.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		All right, everybody, hold on.
		We might have time to do, let's go here.
		Hello there.
		Ryan, I believe.
		Hey, Art.
unidentified		How's it going?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It's going well, Ryan.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Where are you?
unidentified		I'm in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Excellent.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, well, the jury listens.
unidentified		Okay.
		About 20 years ago, I lived in Raleigh, North Carolina.
		And I'm a musician, but I was Working in a sign shop at the time.
		And this guy walked in one day and he asked, How big can you make signs?
		And I mean, that's a really general question.
		I'm like, oh, I don't know how big you need to make it.
		And he's like, well, I've got kind of an odd request.
		I said, okay, well, what is it?
		He says, I want to communicate with aliens, and I want to make some symbols that'll go on the side of a mountain.
		And he had my attention immediately.
		I'm sure.
		And I'm like, okay, well, I gave him a couple of suggestions.
		I was like, look, man, you know, if you're really wanting to do this, we can come up with a way to make it happen.
		How big do you want to go?
		And he's like, well, I was thinking 150 feet per character.
		And I'm like, well, what kind of characters are you going to make to communicate with aliens?
		And he was like, well, I've got some symbols.
		I'm like, okay, fair enough.
		And, you know, I couldn't spend that much time with it.
		So we talked a little more about how we would actually fabricate these things.
		He thanked me and went on his way.
		And over the years, you know, I've thought about it here, there, and, you know, just briefly, it'll pop into my head and whatnot.
		Well, the more I think about it, I remember what the guy sounded like.
		I remember what the guy looked like.
		I think it was Dr. Stephen Greer.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, really?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Dr. Stephen Greer, Dr. Stephen Greer, we interview from time to time here.
unidentified		Exactly.
		He's from North Carolina.
		Right.
		He was going to do this in the Appalachian Mountains.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Cool.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Might be something Dr. Greer would have done, too.
unidentified		And, yeah, I mean, it sounds like the kind of thing he would do.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It really does.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And you've seen photographs of Dr. Greer since, I presume.
unidentified		Oh, yeah, absolutely.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So are you suggesting to us that it was, in fact, Dr. Greer?
unidentified		I think so.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Hold it right there.
		We will come back to you after the break, okay?
		That's an amazing story.
		Don't hang up.
		Just stay there, Mark.
		This is Midnight in the Desert.
unidentified		When all the others turn you the way they're around, it's not radio, but it is.
		It's my private pleasure.
		He didn't finish.
		To initiate a dialogue sequence with Art Bell, please coordinate your Valanges and call 1-952-225-5278.
		That's 1-952-Call Art.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Technology.
		Okay, so unfortunately, unless he calls back, we lost Ryan.
		Sorry about that, Ryan.
		Although, it sounded as though...
		There's Ryan...
		Good.
		Hello, Ryan.
		Hello, hello, Ryan.
unidentified		I'm back.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, good, good, good.
		All right, judgment time.
		And it's a pretty cool story, actually.
		Sharon, what do you think?
		Could that have been the real thing?
unidentified		Well, I think by your response, I'm going by how you responded with almost delight learning who this person was.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, but my delight, let me tell you, Sharon, let me tell you, my delight was just thinking about the possibilities because it's really something that he might have done.
unidentified		True.
		I'm going to say true.
		True.
		Okay.
		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So she's going by what I said.
unidentified		Lewis?
		I'm going to say true as well, just because the guy, I heard the interview, and it sounds like something he'd do.
		It does.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Terry?
unidentified		It does.
		It's kind of weird.
		Okay, I think this is a masterfully constructed lie.
		Okay.
		And he's crafted it so well, and he's got you to buy in on it kind of on a personal level.
		You might know.
		I'm going to say trash.
		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
unidentified		You've said it.
		Ed?
		I'm going to say trash as well because I would have been like, sure, I can build you anything you want.
		Here's my price.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, that splits the jury right down the middle.
unidentified		So, Ryan, the truth, please.
		I swear to God, it happened.
		Okay.
		With a caveat.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
unidentified		It was 20 years ago.
		And I've seen his movie.
		I've seen some clips of him on YouTube.
		It could be my brain.
		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Well, look, I'll settle this once and for all because I'm going to have him on the show and I will ask him, okay?
unidentified		Please tell him.
unidentified		That'd be great.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		All right.
		Jury, thank you.
		Hold on, Jury.
		And we will get back to you.
unidentified		In the meantime, I think we will go to Amy.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Are you there?
unidentified		I are.
		It's Amy.
		It's the haunted skeptic.
		How are you?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm fine.
		Fine, Amy.
		Do you have a story for us?
unidentified		Yes, I do.
		I get really nervous thinking about this story because it happened about five years ago.
		I was out on a road trip with my girlfriend.
		We were doing this great American road trip through the Southwest.
		It was wonderful, brilliant.
		But we were on our way back home, and we were taking this route through West Texas, and we had some car trouble.
		So it was getting late.
		It was really late in the day.
		And as you probably know, it's like there's no cellular reception out there in West Texas in a lot of places.
		It's really spotty.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Right, even in movies, when people get in trouble and monsters and bad people come, there's never cell reception.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Never.
unidentified		I know, right?
		Well, I've driven plenty of places.
		I am a road trip queen.
		I love my road trips.
		I've hardly ever had any issues going out on road trips or anything.
		But back to the story.
		So started having some car trouble, and we had no cellular reception.
		And it was around the end of the day.
		But I had remembered passing this house about maybe a mile or so back.
		And so after walking for a little bit, we came upon this, I guess it was like a farmhouse.
		So we knocked on the door and we asked if we could use the phone.
		And this guy answers and he just tells us he's like a caretaker there for the owner.
		But they didn't actually have a phone there.
		So it was getting late, but he said that we could go ahead and stay overnight.
		And he promised to drive us to the nearest town the next morning, which was probably about maybe 50 miles away.
		So what could we do?
		We said, okay, it was better than sleeping in the car.
		So it was totally weird, though.
		The guy had no food.
		We just sat there maybe for the better part of an hour and he just stared at us before he offered to let us go ahead and sleep in like one of the guest rooms or something.
		And so I decided, okay, well, I'm getting tired.
		I don't want to just sit there and stare at this guy anymore for the rest of the night.
		So I went off to get changed.
		And I had this really funny feeling.
		And I just kind of, out of the corner of my eye, I glanced out the window and I noticed the guy was peeking in on me from the outside.
		And I did not want to say anything.
		I didn't want to act startled or anything.
		I just kind of turned around slowly.
		I was going to go and get my girlfriend.
		I think she was like outside looking for a dog or something.
		She'd let her dog out because we'd had it on the trip too.
		But then I turned around and like there he was.
		He was right there in front of my face.
		And so I was thinking, how in the world is this possible?
		And then he started talking like really nice to me.
		And so I just kind of pushed past him.
		And I decided, okay, well, I'm going to go and find my girlfriend.
		And so she's probably outside with her dog.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What was he saying?
unidentified		Like, I really like you.
		You're a really nice, nice girl.
		You know, it was actually kind of like that.
		I mean, he was talking about my hair and everything.
		And it was really weird.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so we've got to get to the end of it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		So what happened?
unidentified		Okay, so getting to the end of it, I went outside and I was looking for my girlfriend.
		I see this light kind of out in this field back behind the house.
		And I don't see her anywhere.
		I don't hear the dog.
		So I decided, okay, well, maybe there's like another house or something over there.
		Maybe she went to go and talk to somebody else for the phone.
		So I walked over this light and turns out it's like this giant bonfire.
		And so I approach like this area, this whole area, and I just see nothing but like maybe it was like maybe eight women out there fighting in nightgowns.
		It was just so strange.
		It was the strangest thing.
		It was like they were in some sort of makeshift temple or something.
		Got it.
		And then I heard this really loud growl.
		It's like nothing I have ever heard in my life.
		And then I turned around again, and I saw this guy.
		He was this really dark figure.
		He was a really tall, dark figure.
		He was dressed in these robes, these black robes.
		And I was just really freaked out about that.
		And so I ran straight back to the house.
		I found my girlfriend.
		She was there.
		She had not found her dog yet.
		But she told me, yeah, that she had met the women out there, and they said that they were like the wives of the sky.
		And I was like, wives, so this is like some strange polygamous cult thing going on.
		I don't know.
		I have no idea.
		We decided that we were just going to get out of there.
		And we thought we'd heard her dog a little bit further down the road.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And we're about out of time here, so real quick.
unidentified		Okay, real quick.
		We walked down the road.
		Eventually, a cop car drove past.
		He picked us up, and we told him everything that had happened.
		And he basically said that nobody had lived there for the better part of a decade after these two vacationers were found dead there.
		And we never found my girlfriend's dog.
		It just went completely missing.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's a hell of a story.
		All right.
		Let's go to the jury.
		Sharon?
unidentified		I don't know what I, Amy, you spin quite the yarn.
unidentified		I'm going to say it's trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Trash.
		All right.
		That's one.
unidentified		Lewis?
		I've lived in, unfortunately, lived in Texas and driven through West Texas, and there are some weird things like that out there and weird people.
		So I'm going to say it's absolutely true because that's what happened in Texas.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Wrap on Texas.
unidentified		Terry?
		Well, I think this is straight out of Rod Serling and Night Gallery.
		So I'm going to say trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Trash, okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And Ed.
unidentified		I'm going to say trash as well because I'd rather sleep in my car and then a strange home with no phone.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, that's three trashes and a true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Give us a straight scoop, Amy.
unidentified		Okay, so the straight scoop is, that's just a variation on a really old B movie called Manos the Hands of Fate.
		B movie is right.
		Whatever.
		I knew it.
		I knew it.
		I knew it was like one of the worst movies of all time.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I told the man when there was no cell service, I knew it.
unidentified		All right.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, Amy.
		And this is one where you can make up what you want to make up.
		It's just fine.
		Let's go to Mark.
		Hello, Mark.
		Hello, Mark.
		Going once, Mark.
		Going twice.
		Gone.
		Looks like it's going to be Richard.
		Hello, Richard.
unidentified		Hey, Art.
		Hi.
		Hi, I do.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		I'm fine.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Do you have a story, Richard?
unidentified		Oh, I do, Yort.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, turn your radio device, whatever, down, off.
unidentified		I'm going to turn the opp off, Art.
		Yes.
		The omp's off.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, okay, good.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Got a story?
unidentified		Yes, I do, Yort.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Go ahead.
unidentified		First of all, can I just say, before I start my story, to my stepkids and to my grandchildren in Texas, I love you.
		And can I also say to everyone at Belgab, I love you too.
		And everyone who recover, please sign up.
		It will cost you £3.50, £4.40.
		You will get the best entertainment you have ever got.
		Please, please, please stand up and keep this man on the radio.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right, thank you.
		It's very kind, Richard.
		Now, your story.
unidentified		Well, here's the story.
		Until I was 14, I did not realize that my parents weren't my parents.
		They were my grandparents.
		So, a lot of your people won't know who this person even is.
		But back in the day, I was terrified by a guy called Frankenstein in the old black and white movies and a guy called Boris Carliffe.
		So, I used to go to England from Northern Ireland, and I used to go to England, and I used to see a man who I thought was my brother, but he wasn't my brother, he was actually my father.
		I didn't realize this, but my father had been a stage hypnotist.
		And one day he said to me, let's go, we're going to go and have lunch with a man, and his name is Bill Pratt, and we're going to go and have lunch with him.
		And we went out and we had lunch, and I'll never forget the woman that served me the worry called.
		She wasn't, she was the most beautiful of women, not in a playboy sense, but her skin was perfection.
		I'll never forget it.
		I'll never forget the spell.
		served us a little trays little trays of fish pie ok and the story is well And he says to me, he says, Richard, this is Bill.
		This is Bill.
		And I says, oh, I says, hello, Bill.
		And I shook his hand.
		I never forget it.
		And he took me out into his room.
		He says, come on, he says, Bill's going to show you who he is.
		Bill Pratt was Boris Karloff.
		It was Boris Karloff.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		It was the real Boris Karloff?
unidentified		It was Boris Karloff.
		It was Frankenstein.
		And I never forgot.
		I never forgot that day.
		And I was never afraid again.
		I was never afraid again.
		So you met the real Frankenstein?
		I met Bill Pratt.
		I was never terrified after that.
		Every time I seen Frankenstein after that, I looked at the black and white movies.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Got it.
unidentified		And I thought, mah, that's fantastic.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		True story, Jerry?
		What do you think?
unidentified		You softened my heart.
		I think it's that Irish accent.
		And I could just sit and listen to you all night, but I'm going to say, but I'm going to say it's not true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		And Steve?
unidentified		Trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Lewis, I'm sorry.
		Trash, okay?
		Too trash.
		All right.
		Terry?
unidentified		It's a little too convoluted.
		I'm going to say trash.
		Trash.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
unidentified		Ed?
		Quick question for Richard.
		What year around did this happen?
		This happened in 1974.
		Okay, well, Boris Korloff died in 1969, so it's trash.
		Okay.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, well, I'm afraid you lost that one, buddy.
		But we appreciate your attempt anyway.
		It was good.
		And that was a good catch there.
		Very good catch, Jerry.
		All right.
		Do we have time for more?
		I think we do.
		Let's try Andy.
		Hello there, Andy, from somewhere.
		Yeah?
unidentified		Hey, how's it going, Arthur?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, I can sort of just barely hear you, Andy.
		Not a good connection.
		I've got my mic right up.
		Still can't hear me?
		No, not a good connection.
		I can hear you, but it's not a good connection for a story.
		So you might want to repair that and get back to us.
		Jacob, we're going to give you a try.
		Hello, Jacob.
unidentified		Hello.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Hello.
unidentified		And good evening to the jury as well.
unidentified		I was telling you because I wanted to tell a story about it.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You're going to have to get good and close to your mic there.
unidentified		Oh, sorry.
unidentified		Is that better?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		What are you using?
unidentified		It's on my webcam, but it's...
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Here's what you do.
		And everybody hear this.
		Pick the webcam up with your hand and talk into it like a mic.
unidentified		That's what I had been doing.
		Okay.
		Okay, so can I go with my story?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yes, you may.
unidentified		All right, so my cat has me trained, basically.
		She'll jump into my windowsill at night when she wants to come in and, like, slap the window, and I'll go out and get her.
		But one night it was pretty foggy outside, so I couldn't really see, and I heard the knocking.
		So I was going on my way out to get her, and I saw a room with a light on, and I went to turn it off because I figured my brothers had left it on when they went to bed, but my cat was in there sleeping, and I ended up not going outside at all.
		Okay.
		And that's the whole story.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		That's the story.
		Well, I'm not even going to submit that one.
		Thank you for the attempt.
		But very quickly, Joe, do you have a story?
unidentified		Yeah.
		Hello?
		Can you hear me?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, now I can.
unidentified		Okay.
unidentified		Yeah, back in about 2001, I was looking at a photo, Matt.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay, your audio is not good, buddy.
unidentified		Can you hear me now?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		A little better.
		I don't know.
		What are you using?
unidentified		It's an Android phone.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		An Android phone.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Are you speaker phone or what?
unidentified		How's that?
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Oh, God, much better.
unidentified		Okay.
		Yeah, back in 2001, I was working at a photo mat in North Carolina inside of a Target.
		It was like a Kodak booth, you know.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Right.
unidentified		And there would be this arson investigator that would come in, and, you know, maybe a couple times a week, he would have photos developed of different fire scenes he was investigating.
		Right.
		And he, you know, the work he did was kind of interesting.
		So when his photos popped out of the developing machine I would look at him kind of closely.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Very quickly, because the show was ending on us here.
unidentified		Anyways, I pointed out this little like burnt can that was in one of the photos and he said he hadn't noticed it.
unidentified		And he went back to that place, investigated it again.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Right.
unidentified		And basically I solved an arson case by looking at a photograph.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Holy mackerel.
		Congratulations.
		That is quite a story.
		All right, jury, that's a good one.
		What do you think?
		Sharon?
unidentified		I'd say true.
		True?
		Lewis?
		I'm going to say true as well.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Really?
		Okay.
		Let's see.
		Who have we got left?
		We've got Ed left.
		And what do you say, Ed?
unidentified		I'll say true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		True.
unidentified		And Terry here, Art, I'll say true.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Terry, listen, I want to take a moment.
		Well, first, let's find out.
		Is it a true story or not?
unidentified		No, it's completely false.
		I just see it.
		I saw a picket rock thing, but I can't talk about that because then I'll get sued.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		You tore them up, man.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Good job.
unidentified		Good one.
		Good one.
		Yep.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Thank you very much.
		And, Jury, thank you for your, I want to thank you for your service.
		I mean, you've been overwhelmingly good, all of you.
unidentified		Oh, thank you, Archie.
		Thank you.
		Thank you.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Everybody have a good night.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		Everybody have a good weekend.
unidentified		All right?
unidentified		Later, everybody.
art bell ▲ ● ▼		All right.
		Solved an arson crime.
		Totally false.
		Blew them all away.
		From the high desert, I'm Art Bell.

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