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art bell
From the high desert and the great American Southwest, I bid you good evening, good morning, good afternoon, wherever you may be in the world's 25 time zones, each and every one covered like a blanket by this program.
Midnight in the desert.
My name is Art Bell.
Great to be here.
Lots to talk about.
And we're going to be doing a show tonight on feral humans.
That's right.
Feral humans.
Actually, it'll probably, as a show, be all over the place.
But feral humans is definitely the topic.
Wild humans.
They may even be in urban areas.
Anyway, a couple of things to, several things to note.
Heavily armed French SWAT teams, as I am sure you have seen numerous times now on TV, swooped in Wednesday, neutralized a cell.
This is another cell in France, ready to launch new attacks.
Looks like two dead after the police fired about 5,000 rounds during an hour-long siege.
It occurred while I was on the air last night, and we brought you breaking news as it occurred.
Eight people were arrested.
The raid was targeted, actually, on the suspected planner of all of this, but his fate at this hour remains unclear.
They do have one body mangled too badly, so I guess we'll have to do DNA and then we'll know.
In measuring progress in the American-led air campaign war against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, numbers tell a story, but the results, unfortunately, tell another.
Fighter jets, bombers, attack planes, drones, dropping an average of 2,228 bombs per month.
Get that on targets ranging from training camps, machine gun positions, to oil facilities and weapon shacks.
Pentagon says it doesn't do body counts, but they figure around 20,000 ISIS fighters killed.
Well, I remember body counts in Vietnam, and what a mess that was.
So their guess is just that, a guess.
In other news, not really other news, continuing news, I guess, Honduras.
And this is something we really need to, I believe, worry about.
Honduras detained four Syrian men with fake passports.
Honduras.
So let's see now.
If Syrians could get into Honduras, they could presumably go north.
Who's north?
We're north.
So nice, they caught them.
I wonder how many others are doing the same thing.
Maybe we do need that wall.
ISIS claims that that bomb on a Russian plane was indeed theirs.
They say and show in a picture that it was a soda can, which they kindly provided a picture of for everybody.
A can of soda with some Arabic writing on it.
Something to set the charge off and perhaps some kind of switch.
They say that brought the plane down, and it might have.
I am seeing, by the way, all kinds of stories about how effective Anonymous is in shutting down ISIS public propaganda on the internet.
Anonymous has declared, as you heard on this program, and then backed up the next day in an article, all out war on ISIS.
And apparently, they're having some success or even a great deal of success.
It will force ISIS to the dark net, but I'm sure they're there anyway.
If we can keep this video out of our media, that would be really great.
And there is a new video that threatens New York City, shows Times Square, that kind of thing.
So all the news is ISIS, ISIS, ISIS.
I do have a couple of other things I want to bring to your attention.
One is this email, and I want to read it to you.
At least three times in recent memory, you've posed the idea to guess that there are fewer and fewer UFO sightings as the years go by, despite the fact that our ability to document them has dramatically risen.
A few have disagreed that they've decreased, but anecdotally, at least from my observation, they do seem to have done so.
Although the question has been raised, I haven't once heard a guest posit a pretty plausible reason, one that correlates directly to our increased ability to document them.
And that's the fact that although we walk around with cameras in our pockets, we do, those cameras are seldom in our pockets.
That is to say, we're constantly staring at them.
More than any other time in our culture's history, we are deeply distracted by our handheld technology, myself included, at times.
And the devices that enable us to document, in quotes, The paranormal are the very same devices that prevent us from raising our heads to witness it, or I might add anything.
I've worked at a number of universities for a number of years now, and I swear to God, most days you could fly an Independence Day-sized craft right over the quad, and the number of people who would see it you could count on one hand.
Oh, you'd have one or two people saying they saw something for every 300 whose eyes were on their iPhones tell you there was nothing there.
Incidentally, there was an absolutely fascinating episode, this goes back to something I said last night, of a National Geographic TV show called Brain Games regarding the unreliability of eyewitness testimony, season one, episode three, if you like.
Remember this, available on Netflix as well.
In the episode, the show stages a crime.
It's a robbery in a public park over the span of a week or two.
It interrogates the eyewitnesses in jury room setting at one point to see how their memories are of what they saw, how their memories might change and are altered over time by their communication with other witnesses.
I'll never fully trust an eyewitness again after seeing that show.
It'll blow your mind.
Highly recommend it.
And he adds, it's Chandler.
Thank you, Chandler.
Absolutely loved your show with the cave diver, by the way.
Have her back.
unidentified
Ha ha ha.
art bell
Thanks for all that you've done on Midnight in the Desert.
And I thought that was a very, very interesting email.
And then I've got one other.
This is from Elizabeth Art.
I live in Texas.
And today, 11, 18, 2015, at 5 o'clock p.m., I saw two Russian Heinz, those are helicopters, two Russian Heinz, she says, fly heading northeast, over her, heading northeast.
Now, to me, it is strange because I've never seen a Russian craft fly overhead before.
I thought it was interesting.
I wanted to let you know.
If you're wondering how I know they were Russian Heinz, yes, I am.
It's because when I was married, I was an Army wife, and we lived in Berlin, Germany.
And he showed me what they look like.
That's from Lisa.
Really?
Hind helicopters in Texas.
Interesting report.
Sounds legit to me.
All right, coming up in a moment is Jeffrey Hind.
He is an author, photographer, originally from the wilderness of Kentucky, currently living in Florida.
Interesting.
His lifelong interest in cryptids and paranormal culminated in his popular book, Weird Kentucky and its fictional accompaniment, The Devil and Daniel Boone.
He co-starred in Something Wicked on the Biography Channel, and an independent film based on his novel, The Bartender, is scheduled for 2017.
He released in 2017.
Holland's recurring fascination with feral humans, partially inspired by his rural upbringing, has become something of a cult legend since his original appearance on my show, Everybody Reminds Me, in 1997.
His upcoming non-fiction paranormal book, Invisible Topography, postulates the possibility of communicating with ghosts via microscope and Undomesticated, a novel which will explore the feral human and werewolf phenomena, which are currently in the works.
Really?
Werewolves.
I wonder if we're going to be allowed to ask him about that.
unidentified
Werewolves.
art bell
Feral humans.
unidentified
Ghosts and goblins and things that go bumping the night.
art bell
I'm Art Bell.
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If I call the right, I need to find an answer on the road.
Know that I'll never leave you.
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art bell
Call Art Bell.
Nothing at all gentle about the nights around here.
Believe me, Jeffrey Holland is my guest, and he's going to talk to us about feral humans.
Jeffrey, welcome to Midnight in the Desert.
jeffrey scott holland
Salutations, Art.
It's good to speak to you again.
art bell
And we have not spoken since 1979.
1997.
unidentified
1997.
That was a long time ago.
jeffrey scott holland
17 years ago?
art bell
Yeah, 17 years ago.
Good Lord.
jeffrey scott holland
Wow.
art bell
I almost made it longer.
All right, so the way to begin, obviously, is for us to get a definition of what is a feral human.
jeffrey scott holland
Well, you know, when we first spoke back then, I was more thinking along the lines of humans that were living a feral existence, but reproducing as a sort of a species of their own, like feral cats.
art bell
Right.
jeffrey scott holland
But in the years since, I've come to think more of it like just a syndrome in which humans, ordinary humans, can just suddenly snap and go rogue and enter a feral-like state due to various factors, which we'll get into.
art bell
Okay, well, we sure are seeing a hell of a lot of that going on?
jeffrey scott holland
Indeed.
art bell
This country and around the world.
So you say snap and essentially become as a feral person.
jeffrey scott holland
Right.
art bell
All right.
When we originally did the interview, there had been a movie that had recently come out about an actual feral girl.
Remember the name of that?
jeffrey scott holland
I don't.
And was that about Kamala the Wolf Girl?
art bell
No, no.
jeffrey scott holland
No.
art bell
I'm going to find it.
I'm going to find it.
I've got to know.
But there was, in fact, I think in real life, an actual feral woman discovered, and they had to teach her to talk.
jeffrey scott holland
Right.
That sounds like Kamala the Wolf Girl, which is what they called her.
art bell
The movie was called Nell.
jeffrey scott holland
Nell.
art bell
Nell, yes.
jeffrey scott holland
I don't remember Nell.
art bell
Okay.
Well, it doesn't matter.
jeffrey scott holland
I'll have to Netflix it up.
art bell
It could well be the exact same case.
The horrific story of Jeannie, the feral child, who suffered, and it goes on and on here.
But, yeah.
And they've got pictures of her here as well.
So apparently there are actually records of feral humans, whether you still talk about it or not.
jeffrey scott holland
Right.
And whether you use that term or not.
Throughout history, I mean, there have been people who have just sort of emerged from the woods and they don't speak English.
I don't know if you're familiar with Caspar Hauser and his story, but he was a child who was apparently reared in total isolation and could not speak or reason.
And he gets lumped into feral humans by others, not by me.
I think that if we discount all of these stories of feral children and just look at people who have snapped.
art bell
Well, all right.
Let's then define snap.
In other words, we have people these days walking into schools and shooting as many people as they can before they shoot themselves.
That's one snap, right?
jeffrey scott holland
Right, that is indeed.
art bell
Is that the kind of snap you're talking about?
jeffrey scott holland
A feral human technically would not be operating a gun.
I'm thinking more like completely losing one's senses, one's reason, not just philosophically or morally, but actually entering an animal-like state purely.
art bell
You remember the Unabomber?
jeffrey scott holland
Oh, yes.
art bell
Okay, so that's another kind of feral.
In other words, this guy goes off to a cabin up in the mountains and isolates himself utterly and completely from the world.
Has nothing to do with humanity.
Is that another kind of snap?
jeffrey scott holland
I suppose so.
And his love for isolation probably did contribute to his insanity.
But again, animals don't write long, pompous, pretentious manifestos.
Good point.
So I'm not sure I would lump a unibomber type either into the concept, which would be something closer to Bigfoot, a cryptid, something that is, for all intents and purposes, a wild animal.
art bell
So you're suggesting that there's another guy.
I've described two kinds of snaps that I can think of offhand.
And you're describing an entirely different snap.
When this person snaps, what happens to them?
jeffrey scott holland
I say snap, but it could be a gradual process akin to dementia, something that deteriorates one's sense of reason over time until it reaches the point where they go off on their own.
art bell
Okay, so the feral human you're describing would snap and then would go off on their own, and they just would...
Would they be completely antisocial?
Would they go, if they're in a city, they'd go out of the city, go into the woods?
What would they do?
jeffrey scott holland
It depends on where they are, and it would take many forms, I think.
Like NPR did a story a couple years back talking about how dementia is on the rise in America.
art bell
It is.
jeffrey scott holland
And they connected it, interestingly, to the growing statistics of missing persons in America.
Now, your listeners know that David Polades has a very interesting book called Missing 411 about this, how missing persons are on the rise in America, especially in national parks.
art bell
Oh, that's right.
jeffrey scott holland
and especially Yellowstone.
art bell
Okay, well, the only...
I think his case is interesting.
However, I asked him something that he could not answer, and I would have thought that surely somebody who has researched the national parks and missing people to the degree that he has would be able to answer this question.
I said, look, how do the number of missing people in national parks, and it's still a valid question, compare to the number of people that go missing right out in society and get reported to the police for that matter?
And he couldn't answer that question.
jeffrey scott holland
He didn't have that statistic on hand.
art bell
No, and one would imagine If you were trying to make a case that there's something special about the national parks, you'd at least compare it to the general population missing figures.
jeffrey scott holland
Sure, sure.
And I don't know the correlation between those two statistics myself.
I bring up the national parks just as an example of if someone was to enter a feral state, doesn't have to be national parks, in the vicinity of any body of woods.
art bell
Sure.
jeffrey scott holland
Then, well, you've got the ready-made setting for the myth of the feral human.
art bell
It's true.
What you're saying, Jeffrey, is true.
Now, every now and then, here in Perump, Nevada, my little town, we have nothing but desert outside.
And in the summer, the temperatures rise typically to 110, 112 degrees.
And every year, Jeffrey, we have somebody who snaps and just goes walking off into the desert.
And, of course, they die of the heat.
But that's it.
They're gone and they're dead.
It's simple as that.
They snapped in some way and just wandered off into the desert.
It's a phenomenon.
Is that the kind of thing you're talking about?
jeffrey scott holland
That approaches it.
And if it happened to somebody who was, say, more of a woodsy type, outdoorsy, in a forest setting, they might not die so quickly as in the desert.
They might actually persevere for a little while enough for there to be sightings.
art bell
Yeah, no, that's right.
Okay, so you have researched cases of what you call feral humans.
Though you've modified your definition of them a little bit, you've researched cases.
So tell us about what you have found and what you regard as cases of somebody going feral.
jeffrey scott holland
Well, originally my interest was that, and I must say I'm not a Bigfoot skeptic.
I'm all for Bigfoot, but we have to at least consider the possibility that some of these sightings are actually people.
art bell
Of course, I mean.
You mean that Bigfoot sightings are actually feral humans?
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The possibility of that, yes.
jeffrey scott holland
There were four original case studies on the Feral Humans website that I had at the time of the old show.
And two of them are from the body of Bigfoot reportings.
They're both in Kentucky.
All of my research at the time was in Kentucky because that's where I was from.
It was my focus.
But November 5th, 1980, in Mason County, Kentucky, a truck driver saw what he described as a humanoid creature with a head of white hair.
And he didn't call it a Bigfoot sighting.
He didn't think of it in those terms.
But the Bigfoot lore built up around it after the fact, of course.
And apparently he didn't get enough of a good glimpse of it to determine because he didn't know what it was.
He didn't call it a Bigfoot.
But it's interesting to note that there's another case, also in Mason County, Kentucky, in October 7th, 1980.
There's a family who are watching television when they heard their pet rooster outside start crowing.
And they went outside to see that there was what he described, the man, the husband of the house, described as a man-like creature with pink eyes and a big head of white hair.
Now, I think it's very interesting, the same county, same time period, same rather un-Bigfoot-like description of a man-like creature with a head of white hair.
art bell
Do you know if it was described that the person was wearing any clothes or not?
jeffrey scott holland
No clothes were described, and this is, I think, why they describe it as a creature and not just a person.
art bell
Right, gotcha.
jeffrey scott holland
So jumping off from that point, I mean, it stands to reason that these two might be connected and that they probably are not Bigfoot per se as we understand the term.
Okay.
So if we assume that both cases were in the dark, so we can postulate that this might be a person that, for whatever reason, is acting this manner, like a wild animal, choking animals in the backyard and wandering around on the interstates at night.
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Huh.
Um...
art bell
Okay, so do you have any theory of, I guess you have, how many stories do you have of what you're describing as feral humans?
I do want to get through those.
jeffrey scott holland
Well, those are the two that are from the Bigfoot lore that resonate to me more like feral humans.
Now, the other two from the original Feral Humans website, one is my own experience in Red River Gorge.
art bell
Okay, I like that.
Anything first person, I appreciate.
What happened to you?
jeffrey scott holland
Well, it's rather anticlimactic to describe, but Red River Gorge is basically Kentucky's version of the Grand Canyon.
It pales in comparison to it in terms of size, but it's a beautiful gorge.
I was in the gorge near a place called Cloud Splitter Rock, and I encountered this naked bearded man in the woods, looking like one of ZZ Top, and he was covered with mud and leaves and vines, which were matted into his hair and beard,
giving him sort of a swamp thing appearance, which sort Of you know, gives you the feeling that okay, he didn't just get that way, he must have been out there for some time and he was not behaving like a human being.
art bell
We're gonna finish this up.
Uh, we've got a break coming up that I have to do, so hold that story, and I'm never gonna get that picture out of my mind.
ZZ Top.
Naked screaming through the forest.
ZZ Top sent me a special recorder that enables me to phase music if I want to.
They're a great group, but somehow that mental picture I know now is not going to go away.
Naked ZZ Top, tearing through the forest.
Ah, yes, you can tell it's midnight in the desert.
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I thought that we had made it to the top.
I gave you all I have to give.
Why didn't have to stop to blow it all sky?
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art bell
Absolutely my favorite.
All right.
Once again, Jeffrey Scott Holland is here, and we are discussing feral humans, what he calls feral humans.
Not Nell, not the movie, if any of you saw that.
But he has changed his position, actually, from 1997 till now.
And now he believes that feral humans are, well, people who have in some way snapped.
Fair, Jeffrey?
jeffrey scott holland
Fair enough.
art bell
But you can't tell me in what way they...
I mean...
jeffrey scott holland
The reasons are...
I mean, I don't claim to know what drives people to madness in general.
I mean, even with or without the feral humans concept, we noted that people have a tendency more and more these days to just go insane and snap.
art bell
That's true.
jeffrey scott holland
So, and we can get to those cofactors here in a bit.
art bell
Anyway, your story.
Continue with that.
jeffrey scott holland
Well, this man, this bearded naked man with vines and mud all over him, tromping through, I mean, we're totally in the middle of nowhere at this point.
I got there by car and then hiked several miles.
How he got here, I have no idea.
But his eyes seem to show like a little bit of intelligence, but I mean, he was basically out there.
Now, this is sort of the classic, this is what sparked me to thinking about feral humans, obviously, because this person did not seem to be a person anymore, as we understand the term.
But the similarities.
art bell
What was this person or creature doing when you saw it?
jeffrey scott holland
Shuffling around, hunched over, meandering through the woods in a circuitous, ant-like, not walking as a person would from point A to point B with intent, just sort of, you know, puttering around.
Aimlessly.
art bell
Aimlessly, yeah.
And so this was Kentucky, right?
jeffrey scott holland
Yes.
Red River Gorge near Slade, Kentucky, Powell County.
art bell
I wonder how something or somebody like that survives very long, or maybe they don't.
jeffrey scott holland
Well, when I talked about this to other locals, I heard a lot of similar stories in subsequent years from people who talked about old mountain men who have lost their minds living deep in the mountains and revert to an animal-like state.
And so I began to think, okay, I'm onto something here.
What if there really are like feral humans living in these deep remaining pockets of wilderness still in America?
art bell
Boy, I sure would like to interview somebody like that or in some way.
I'd love it.
I mean, what happened to them and what happens to them?
A psychiatry, you know, you'd want somebody like to sit down and be analyzed.
And I do understand that it can happen because God knows people are snapping in a million different ways.
And there is a lot more dementia out there.
We're in a period where one in 50 some odd male children are not well.
I guess you've heard about that, right?
jeffrey scott holland
What's that?
art bell
We have a disease in this land which seems to be affecting male children.
And I'm not even sure if it's fair to call it a disease, but they're just not right.
Anyway, I'm kind of off the track here.
They don't snap, as far as I know.
But I'm trying to really envision what you're talking about and how such a person could live.
I mean, it wouldn't be long.
If you're without clothes and you're in the forest, even in Kentucky, you're not going to last very long.
jeffrey scott holland
Surely not, one would think.
And that's if we even think, okay, this is just somebody who ate a bad mushroom, somebody's out in the woods on drugs, eventually the drugs wear off, and you're yourself again.
So I'm at a loss to explain.
art bell
All right, well, I hate to come back to this, but I guess I'm going to.
It's autism I was talking about, and it's one in 50 some odd male children now in America.
Now, I don't know how a lot of parents handle autistic children.
Some, of course, try to pull them out of it.
Some of them get treatment.
But you know what, Jeffrey?
It could be that some of them get just turned out.
jeffrey scott holland
I'll consider that possibility, absolutely.
art bell
Or if they disappear, maybe the parents don't do a lot to locate this child.
You know, it's horrible to think about, but I mean, something's adding up to this, and I just thought I'd toss that in.
jeffrey scott holland
Yeah, absolutely, because GMOs, vaccines, these are other cofactors that I think of when I think of what would send somebody into a feral state.
And of course, these have also been pointed towards autism.
art bell
And I'm not, you know, I'm just, I'm sort of using my imagination in a not-so-nice way, really.
I don't want to think of parents letting their children go, but an autistic child is a really big burden on a family And becomes increasingly so as a child, you know, medical bills and all the rest of it, as a child grows.
And so, if we really have the kind of rates of autism that scientists are claiming right now, I guess you cannot rule this out as a possibility.
And that's just how that child, or even preteen, for example, would, I guess, react.
They just wander off, Jeffrey.
jeffrey scott holland
It happens with many different syndromes, many different problems.
They just wander off.
Now, how long they survive out there, you know, it's very limited, as you say, but it might be long enough to generate some sightings.
And especially from a distance, and these sightings could be enough to start generating Bigfoot rumors.
art bell
Well, did you hear the email that I read earlier?
The gentleman referenced a study that was done by a TV show, I believe, in which people were witness to a robbery, right?
A bunch of them.
They all got to witness the staged robbery, and then they were later questioned about what they saw.
And they got it so wrong that it would scare you to death.
Eyewitness testimony is not particularly reliable.
So if you see an unclothed something or another in the woods or near a housing development, whatever, you're going to just sort of, I think, add to it in your mind, my God, what did I see, right?
jeffrey scott holland
Exactly.
Exactly.
And I don't know if you're aware that there are certain permutations of the Bigfoot story in which Bigfoot is carrying a lantern, which I've always found fascinating how Bigfoot would come to be carrying a lantern.
But this actually sounds more like an old mountain man wandering around in a days than it does a prehistoric cryptid.
art bell
Well, I can frankly count that.
I know a lady who saw a Bigfoot which was wearing a shirt.
Now, maybe this is beginning to make a little bit of sense because if there is, if we really imagine there's such a thing as Bigfoot, it would, whenever it gets close to civilization, it would see people, right?
And they wear clothes.
So it might try and emulate, it might find a shirt hanging on somebody's line and try it on.
It's not unreasonable.
jeffrey scott holland
It's not unreasonable, I think.
art bell
Wow.
So we might imagine that these people are wandering around out there, and you think a lot of it is a form of dementia as well, or is dementia?
jeffrey scott holland
Yeah, for lack of a better word.
There's one more of the old case files here, and this was a newspaper clipping, which, alas, I no longer have, and I need to find it again.
It was in the Citizen Voice and Times, which is the newspaper of Estel County, Kentucky.
There were Bigfoot rumors circulating in the area about a man-like figure prowling in the woods near their homes.
Now, police combed the wilderness in the area, and this is in, you know, this is not in some oddball website or something.
This is an actual newspaper that reports that the police went searching for this Bigfoot, and what they found was a human being who had been on the missing persons list for quite some time.
art bell
No kidding.
jeffrey scott holland
And according to the report, he was naked, but covered in mud, covered in foliage, and it said this in the newspaper, to the extent that vines and moss and lichen were actually growing in his hair and on his body.
art bell
Wow.
Yeah, surely if somebody saw somebody like that, they'd report it as Bigfoot.
jeffrey scott holland
And he was in a completely animal state of mind, could not, would not speak English, had to be forcibly subdued like a wild bear or something.
The article said he was taken to Pettier Clay Hospital in Richmond, but there were no follow-ups on the story.
art bell
Of course.
jeffrey scott holland
And it's always just left me wondering.
art bell
I sure would like to know the end of that story.
I mean, obviously he would have been put in psychiatric care, and there would have been some follow-up, but I know that happens all the time.
You get a really weird story like this, and then you never see another thing about it.
It's really odd, but the media does that.
jeffrey scott holland
They do indeed.
They leave you hanging.
The ending is perhaps anticlimactic and not as exciting as they would have hoped, so they just skip the ending.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
And you say that many times the ability of these feral people to talk becomes lost.
jeffrey scott holland
It would seem so.
Yeah.
That's part of going into an animal-like state, is that you're just bereft of your senses.
art bell
Okay, you say an animal-like state.
That's a little scary all by itself.
Animal-like state.
I hate to utter this word, but I'm going to do it.
Zombie.
jeffrey scott holland
There you go.
unidentified
There I go.
jeffrey scott holland
It's actually the recent proliferation of the popularity of zombies that has got me rethinking feral humans once again.
There is a book called Fever Rising by Joe Mori, and you should probably get him on your show.
He and other bloggers and authors have gradually in the past two or three years been pointing to hydrogen sulfide and methane As the culprits behind a modern-day zombie outbreak.
art bell
You mean the possibility of a modern-day zombie outbreak?
jeffrey scott holland
Possibility, or some would say it's taking place right now.
And I'm struck, I mean, you're familiar, of course, with the Miami face-eating so-called zombie.
art bell
I am, yes, I recall that.
Do you know the story behind the story for that story?
jeffrey scott holland
Only what I've read in the mainstream media.
Bath salts were pointed to, but that was later turned out to be not true at all.
No one really knows what sent that guy over the edge.
art bell
Oh, but that guy, the one you just spoke of, tried to eat another guy's face.
Right?
jeffrey scott holland
He largely succeeded.
art bell
Yeah.
And so you would point to that, perhaps, as what you're talking about here, or is that a step even beyond, I mean, I can understand dementia, wandering into the woods, perhaps an autistic child away from home, a lot of things.
But boy, when you're talking about somebody eating somebody else's face, what could be more animalistic?
Another category.
Yeah.
Yeah, definitely.
God, that's weird.
jeffrey scott holland
So there are lots and lots of cases like this, and some of them came to prominence after the popularity of the pandemic.
art bell
What do you mean there are lots and lots of cases like people trying to eat or successfully eating other people's paces?
Seriously?
jeffrey scott holland
They're not all as extreme as that, but they come close.
And some of them, in fact, might be even more extreme.
If you...
There's a great blog I recommend to everyone called The Jumping Jack Flash Hypothesis.
And it is one of the best blogs for monitoring perceived effects of hydrogen sulfide and methane on the populace.
Now, you know hydrogen sulfide, it's a deadly poison.
Now, it's in the environment more and more with methane because of the leaks dense undersea that are gushing out methane and hydrogen sulfide.
art bell
It's true.
Now, if we accept that it is, but I know that immense amounts of methane are trapped beneath the ocean, increasing amounts.
A lot of scientists figure it can't hold forever, and one day, like that lake, wherever it was in Europe or somewhere, no, Africa, that suddenly exploded with methane and killed a whole village.
If the ocean were to let go, that would not be good.
So you're saying hydrogen sulfide is also with methane stored in the ocean?
jeffrey scott holland
As the methane comes out, as I understand it, now ancient anaerobic bacteria that predate oxygen-dependent life, they're naturally in the ocean in some quantities, but they're thriving around these methane vents and melting permafrost where the methane is seeping out.
And these anaerobic bacteria in archaea, they generate hydrogen sulfide.
So they work hand in hand, and it's a circular action that just keeps building on itself.
art bell
So I think I'm hearing all this right.
You're building a case for zombies.
jeffrey scott holland
Yeah, and it's important to note that it's not my theory.
There are plenty of others, as I say, out there espousing hydrogen sulfide as a culprit.
But where I come in is to connect it to the feral humans concept.
And I think it's one and the same.
art bell
You know, I watch The Walking Dead, so you're messing with me big time here.
So based on what you've heard, I expect to wake up one day and the radio will be saying, citizens, stay at home.
This is some weird phenomena that we don't understand.
The authorities will get it under control.
Everything will be fine.
Please keep your doors and windows shut.
And then, of course, we see the masses walking the streets.
Right?
So it's not quite that.
jeffrey scott holland
For a very short time.
But if it is, in fact, the methane and hydrogen sulfide that is doing this to them, it's going to be doing it to us as well.
So it's even more frightening than that, really.
If we accept that it's a deadly neurotoxin and it's out there, we have to ask ourselves, what effect is it having on the populace?
art bell
Well, I'd be willing to ask that.
What does the EPA say about that combination?
jeffrey scott holland
They list it as a very deadly broad-spectrum poison.
They don't talk about the effects of very tiny amounts.
I am assuming they think it's negligible.
I'm inclined to think it's not negligible.
art bell
And you're inclined to think that it causes the snap that turns a human into virtually an animal.
jeffrey scott holland
Perhaps not a snap.
That is probably ill-advised to say off the bat because it's a very gradual snap.
It's a deterioration.
art bell
Well, I'm going to keep an eye on my wife.
unidentified
A deterioration, okay.
art bell
Hold it right there.
So, young, we're talking about zombies.
Possibility of zombies.
No happy days till summer.
unidentified
I tried to wait for you, but you have close to mine.
Whatever happened to our love, I wish I understood.
By the little things I say, I can set my heart back on to your face.
Well, it's all right and it's coming on.
We gotta get right back to where we started from.
The clock strikes 12, and Midnight in the Desert is counting Packets Your Way on the Dark Matter Digital Network.
To call the show, please direct your finger to dista dial, 1-952-225-5278.
That's 1-952.
Call Art.
Well, it's from ZZ Top to Zombies.
art bell
Okay, so my guest is Jeffrey Scott Holland.
I'm reminded that...
Have you ever noticed that?
jeffrey scott holland
It's been said.
art bell
Jeffrey Scott Holland.
Snapped in some unusual card.
unidentified
Yeah, that's right.
art bell
Sorry, but you took me into the world of zombies and now I don't know what to do.
Let me just, because we're there, sort of, ask you, is it your opinion that mankind one day could face what we see in these horrible movies?
And by that I mean a general snapping, if you will, of the greater part or a great part of the population, which would then be out there virtual zombies and, you know, I mean, take care of your own face, right?
jeffrey scott holland
Yes, indeed.
art bell
Is that a yes?
The answer is yes.
Oh, great.
Oh, wonderful.
And you really?
jeffrey scott holland
Well, I mean, if you look at The Walking Dead, I mean, a lot of people actually see it less as entertainment than a training film.
art bell
Well, it's true.
There certainly are preppers out there who speculate on the possibility of a zombie apocalypse or something like that.
But, yeah, I mean, yeah.
But, gee, I never thought anybody would suggest the possibility for real, and that appears to be what you're doing.
Okay, let's say that it happened.
How would you handle it?
How would Jeffries got Holland with three names handle it?
jeffrey scott holland
Handle the zombie apocalypse?
That's right.
Well, I've got my bunker all prepared, but I don't.
Seriously?
Semi-seriously.
art bell
Yeah, I mean, how do you have a bunker in Florida?
The water table's way up there.
jeffrey scott holland
Yeah, I don't think that will help in a true bona fide zombie apocalypse.
Sad to say, I don't think there's a solution.
unidentified
It would be an unsolvable problem.
art bell
Well, even in The Walking Dead, they're fighting back.
But you're imagining something here along those lines.
I mean, it's not actually, you're not actually talking about, I mean, people still die and they stay dead, right?
jeffrey scott holland
Right.
I mean, the metaphor ends there.
Obviously, these would not be people infected with a zombie virus that makes their dead matter reanimate.
These would just be ordinary people who have gone rogue.
art bell
Bad.
Okay, so yes, good that it wouldn't be the dead getting us, but bad that it would be the living gone wild getting us.
Might as well call them zombies.
jeffrey scott holland
And that's bad enough.
And yeah, for lack of a better word by any other name, zombies.
art bell
So we don't really know the results of anybody who's been brought in, either by the police or by anybody else who's been examined psychiatrically, and we don't know, do we?
jeffrey scott holland
Very little.
And I would love to find out exactly what happened to these people.
art bell
Well, we do know they lose the ability to communicate in language.
That's amazing all by itself because it happens, I guess, pretty quickly.
jeffrey scott holland
It has to be quickly because unless they still retain some innate sense of survival skills despite their inability to otherwise speak and reason, I just don't see how they get by in the woods.
art bell
I don't either.
Or the swamps down there in Florida.
jeffrey scott holland
Yeah.
And yet some actually seem to survive for extended periods of time.
And when they're captured, I don't know of any cases where it's been overtly explained how they were treated, if they were able to regain their sanity, if they gained speech back again and understanding.
I just don't know.
art bell
Do you think, I mean, you can throw around the word insanity, but do you think really that's what it is, that they have gone insane?
Or do you think that they have just been chemically changed by, what was it, hydrogen sulfide and methane?
jeffrey scott holland
That would be a form of insanity, though, as it's a neurotoxin.
And I would say that the effects of the neurotoxin, depending on the dosage, would be pretty permanent, you know, debilitating to the nervous system.
So I don't think it's something that you could come back from completely.
unidentified
I think some of the damage would be permanent.
Yeah.
art bell
I forget.
I forget what happened down in the case that you were talking about, Miami, right?
jeffrey scott holland
Right.
art bell
About eating another guy's case.
Do you recall what happened?
Or is that another one that just dropped?
jeffrey scott holland
Well, there was a lot of feel-good stories about the face graft that the victim got, and there was a lot of talk about him.
But actual information about the psycho himself vanished off the map.
I'm sure I could do some digging.
I don't think it's been suppressed, but it wasn't paraded in the media strongly enough that a headline made an impression on me.
There was a lot more talk about the victim and the miracle that he survived.
art bell
All right.
All right.
We're going to come back to this, but it's scaring me a little.
So we're going to talk about the Louisville Pope Lick Monster for a moment while I gather myself together over this other thing.
What in the world is the Pope Lick Monster?
jeffrey scott holland
The Popelick Monster is a legend, a legendary creature in Louisville, Kentucky.
There is a railroad trestle that runs across two very distant tall hills.
It's much like the one in the Stephen King film Stand By Me with the kids daring each other to cross it, if you're familiar with that movie.
It is a trestle that is so long that if a train comes along while you're halfway across it, you won't make it.
There's no time to turn and run back.
And many, many people have died on this railroad trestle, either out of foolishness or out of a dare.
And somehow, out of this has grown a legend of a furred, sometimes goat-like horned creature called the Popelake Monster.
art bell
Okay.
jeffrey scott holland
Now, by itself, that would be a pretty cute legend to kick around, except that an entire Boy Scout troop and their cub master personally witnessed this,
and it began to give the story some legs that whether it was connected to the original legend or not, coincidentally enough, here is a similar furry creature in the vicinity of the Pope Lake Trestle.
art bell
All right, so people have seen it and reported it?
jeffrey scott holland
Yes.
It's not as very sporadic.
Maybe once a decade between the 40s and the 90s, there's been a major sighting by a reputable person.
art bell
All right, Eric, are you sort of getting around to the public monster might be what you're calling a feral person?
jeffrey scott holland
It's certainly within the realm of possibility.
I believe the horns would be just an embellishment of somebody's imagination that belongs more to the original fictional legend of a more satanic goat god that lures children across the trestle.
You know, I don't know about all that.
I do know that actual descriptions of a furry humanoid creature have been made repeatedly over the span of half a century in this same spot by people who previously had no awareness of this legend until they were told.
And it makes me scratch my head.
art bell
And think feral.
jeffrey scott holland
And it makes me think feral.
art bell
All right, let's try this out.
With regard to sightings of feral humans or whatever we want to call them, are there geographic areas where you're hearing more reports than other areas?
I'm trying to pin down what we've got here.
jeffrey scott holland
Well, that's very interesting because getting back to the hydrogen sulfide and methane that are filling up the oceans, we find that these incidents are more likely to occur near the ocean and near bodies of water in general because it is in bodies of water that these anaerobic bacteria are thriving.
art bell
I shouldn't laugh.
I mean, it's just sounding more and more like the setup for some zombie movie.
And you're right.
People are fascinated now with zombies.
And what you're describing is certainly close to zombies in some ways.
Again, going back to the Miami thing, you said something that I wasn't aware of.
Originally, they did attribute, I mean, a human eating another human's face, jumping on him like an animal eating his face.
That was attributed to bat salt originally.
And you said that that has been debunked?
Really?
jeffrey scott holland
They tried to downgrade it, I think, to marijuana.
art bell
Oh, please.
Somebody smokes pot and eats another person's face?
I don't think so.
jeffrey scott holland
I don't think so.
I don't know of any potheads who have that much energy.
art bell
No.
No, not pot.
Gee, that sounds like a setup for another government movie, you know, on the evils of pot.
jeffrey scott holland
Yeah, the Reefer Madness 2.
unidentified
That's right.
art bell
How do I get in these discussions?
So in other words, it's most prevalent where there is water.
Well, now, where is there water?
Well, there's water all up and down the East Coast, all up and down the West Coast, right?
Not to mention the Gulf.
jeffrey scott holland
So we've got lots of Great Lakes, rivers, streams, anywhere where these aquatic bacteria can take hold.
art bell
Okay.
I guess I'm laughing because I don't want to cry.
I mean, when I think about what you're actually saying.
So you can geographically assign more of these cases near coastlines and water, even the Great Lakes, than you can to other areas of the country?
jeffrey scott holland
I'm not a statistician.
I haven't done the math.
All I can tell you is that when you go down the line of all the cases, you keep going, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.
And then sometimes you see one that doesn't look like it sticks out, and then you Google the Google Maps, and sure enough, there's some lake you've never heard of right adjacent to where the incident took place.
art bell
Well, there's no lake here in Perup, where I live.
There is a lake at an RV park just up the road.
I'm now starting to worry about that.
Sorry, I'm just thinking as you're describing here.
So is there some way, anyway, to delineate between a person who has gone mad from chemical exposure and a person who has just gone mad or is delusional and has gone to an animal-like state or zombie state, if you will?
jeffrey scott holland
Well, for our purposes here, I'm not even sure there's a need to make that distinction.
The end result is what it is, regardless of the means.
Now, even if all this stuff about hydrogen sulfide is completely way off, we have to admit that something in general is having this effect on the populace.
Violence is on the rise.
Madness is on the rise.
Dementia is on the rise.
art bell
Yeah, I can't argue with it.
No argument from me.
All of that, I think, is probably true.
But you're the first person that I've ever heard really assign it to the possibility of zombies.
jeffrey scott holland
For lack of a better term, a lot of people, especially Walking Dead fans, I think there's this unconscious, unspoken, maybe not so unspoken, sense of us and them where increasingly we think of everybody else.
We put them in that box.
And it isn't fair, but it is sort of the way the mentality is going of distrust because there's just so much crime and violence and strangeness going on, especially here in Florida.
Florida is everything that everyone says it is.
unidentified
What does that mean?
jeffrey scott holland
It's a thrill ride, but it's filled with unusual people.
art bell
A thrill ride.
Florida sounds like an advertisement on TV for the Chamber of Commerce there.
Florida, a thrill ride.
Why do you say a thrill ride?
What makes you say that?
jeffrey scott holland
There's a little HTML sarcasm.
art bell
Uh-oh.
Where'd you go?
Hello?
Well, I see.
It says internet connection problem.
Why not?
We've had everything else.
Jeffrey, are you there?
Internet connection problem.
And it's attempting to call him back.
Yeah, some zombie probably ate the lines between there and here.
Or am I suddenly not on the air?
You know, I never know.
Things happen, right?
When you're talking zombies, things really happen.
So I understand that I am on the air.
That was the evil Roland's voice in my ear.
I am, however, disconnected from Jeffrey.
So tell you what I'm going to do, folks.
We're going to open the lines.
I'm sitting here thinking about a zombie apocalypse, and I'm going to open the lines.
Anybody else out there have any thoughts on this?
When you do talk radio enough years, I guess you get to the point where you've heard it all.
So here are the phone numbers.
Area code 952-225-5278.
Now, we have an absolute disconnect now with Jeffrey.
So I'm not sure exactly what's happened here.
It appears as though Skype is still connected.
Anyway, again, the public lines, area code 952-225-5278.
Or if you're calling, if you want to try Skype, give it a shot.
It's very simple.
I'm still thinking about zombies.
Please use your iPhone 6 or your Android device or whatever it is.
And let me set it up so it actually takes the calls here.
And download Skype.
Skype is, of course, absolutely free.
There we go.
And then put in MITD51.
If you're in North America, America, and or Canada, it's MITD51.
If you are somewhere outside of that area, use the worldwide Skype at MITD55.
That's MITD55.
And I'm looking now at the Skype connection.
It shows me that there is no connection right now.
Interesting.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to begin to take some calls.
We'll see if we can get back hold of Jeffrey.
Gloucester, somewhere or another.
You're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Hey, Orc.
Good morning.
art bell
Good morning.
unidentified
I'd just like to say that with all the massive homeless population in the country, a lot of homeless people do revert to the mountains, the woods.
And there's a lot of wet areas.
One of my brought to mine is the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
art bell
So you're kind of backing up what Jeffrey was saying.
unidentified
Oh, most definitely, because the homeless person needs water, and sometimes they'll drink water.
They're thirsty out in the woods, you know, regardless if they have a filter or not.
And I'd just like to wish Jeffrey a quick return and you have a beautiful week, Art.
art bell
Just one little question before you go.
Can I do that?
unidentified
Sure.
Sure.
art bell
Just because Jeffrey got us there, if you woke up one morning and you turned on the radio and TV and there were those kind of messages and a zombie apocalypse had begun, no matter what the cause, how would you handle it?
unidentified
Well, my TV went in the dumpster a long time ago.
We're using the upper and lower sidebands and just being on the road.
I do drive a truck.
I handle it every day, Art.
And the way I handle it is just by the power of love is stronger.
Love has never slept.
Love never will sleep.
And there's a lot of evil out there.
Zombie's just part of the evil, so be it.
art bell
Well, okay.
So without a television, if you didn't happen to have the sideband radio on, you're going to be one of the first ones to go down, right?
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
He's, I think, said not really, and he's dropping out on us.
I think he was in a truck, actually.
Zombie apocalypse.
Let's go to Medford, Oregon.
Hello.
unidentified
Hello in Medford.
Hello.
art bell
Please turn your device off.
You're on the air.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
Okay, excellent.
Welcome.
unidentified
Welcome.
Thank you.
I've been listening, and I was just wondering if maybe they already, the government or whoever already knew about this, and that's why we're having the onslaught of Walking Dead and all the zombie movies.
art bell
Oh, the movies.
Yeah.
Well, we've got them.
unidentified
Is that their way of telling us, you know, that this is actually going to happen?
Because I'm 64 years old, and I don't remember ever hearing anything about zombies actually being a real thing.
art bell
Same here.
So if you were to wake up some morning and you heard that there was a zombie apocalypse going on, they have, if not risen, they have gone nuts, and they are walking the streets waiting to eat your face, what would you do?
unidentified
That's a good question because evidently you can't shoot them, huh?
art bell
Well, if somebody tries to eat my face, I'd shoot them.
unidentified
Well, I'd shoot first then, and then maybe take the knife and go after them.
Probably stand there and scream.
art bell
Standing there and scream.
Yeah, that.
Oh, my God.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
Well, anything else I can do for you?
unidentified
No, I just threw that out because we've just been noticing an awful lot of zombies in the movies and TV shows.
art bell
Well, there's no question about that.
Look, I don't argue with the fact that zombies are popular in the movies and on TV.
Walking Dead, great show.
Enjoy it.
unidentified
I don't watch it.
art bell
Did not imagine that I'd be doing a Midnight in the Desert actually talking about zombies.
And so maybe your question, ma'am, is relevant.
In other words, why are they showing us so many theatrical versions of zombies?
Are they getting us ready for the inevitable?
unidentified
Well, you know, if it's coming from the water and they've been spraying stuff in the air, who knows?
You know, they could have put stuff in the water that's affecting people.
art bell
Is that something banging on your door?
unidentified
No?
art bell
You're sure?
unidentified
Hey, hey.
No banging.
All right.
art bell
Thank you for the call.
unidentified
Okay, Art.
You have a great time and keep up the good work.
art bell
Sure.
Barry on Skype.
You're on the air.
Yes, good evening.
unidentified
I appreciate this email tonight.
art bell
Okay, you don't have a good audio, Barry.
Very bad.
unidentified
Yeah?
art bell
Yeah, no, bad, bad, bad.
What are you on?
unidentified
I'm actually running through my mixer and shotgun microphone.
art bell
Well, unmix some of it.
Turn it down.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
Turn it down.
Well, anyway, turn it down, Barry, some more.
unidentified
Sent you an article from Science Magazine regarding the fact that one of the great losses of world life is a result of hydrogen sulfide.
Oh, I know.
Great.
art bell
Okay.
All right.
Well, thank you very much for the call, and good luck with getting that turned down because you're way, way over modulated, buddy.
Way over modulated.
That's the problem with putting additional gear on your setup.
One in a million.
Hello there on the phone.
You're on the air.
unidentified
Hey, Art.
How are you doing tonight?
art bell
I am doing well.
Thank you.
A little weird, but I'm okay.
unidentified
I hear you.
Have you seen the shapeshifter lately?
art bell
You here to add to all this, huh?
Shapeshifter?
Sure, bring it on.
Shapeshifter.
No, I have not seen a shapeshifter.
But should I be expecting one?
unidentified
Well, you saw one about a week ago.
The mouse?
art bell
That was just a mouse, sir.
It didn't shift.
It did vanish very quickly, but it didn't shift.
unidentified
Yeah, it was just in the shape of a mouse, so it didn't want to frighten you.
art bell
Oh, wait a minute.
So you're saying you are a shapeshifter.
You were the mouse.
Could be.
unidentified
Don't like peanut butter.
art bell
Smooth or chunky?
unidentified
It was creamy, dude.
It was awful.
art bell
Get off my phone.
Let's go to Louisville, Kentucky.
Hello.
unidentified
Oh, hey.
art bell
Sorry to stop you laughing, but.
unidentified
Oh, this is the last caller.
But yeah, I just was turning you on the internet, and I was hearing that you were within the top 25 radio.
Actually, I just kind of caught it at the end.
Were you saying that within all the radio shows, you're top 25?
art bell
You know, I have no idea what you're hearing.
unidentified
You were talking about as far as ratings, and I really did catch at the end.
art bell
Honestly, I wasn't talking about that.
unidentified
I really don't know because I caught it at the end.
art bell
Uh-huh.
I have no idea what you're hearing.
Let me ask you a couple questions.
All right.
Where are you calling from?
unidentified
Louisville, Kentucky.
art bell
Louisville, Kentucky.
And what are you listening to?
The internet?
unidentified
Yeah, that's the thing that was kind of confusing me because I listened to you on WinAmp and then sometimes I listen to you on the Link.
They're both streaming, but they were saying different things.
And on one of the ones I was linking to, it was talking about how you had made it into the top 25, which is, you know, based on how long you've been doing that.
art bell
Yeah, well, there is a, yeah, we are in the top 25 in Talkers Magazine.
They cover the top 25 streamers in the country.
And the very first issue of who was in the top 25, and we popped in the top 25 like that, boom.
unidentified
But, sir, I wasn't talking about that tonight.
Actually, I kind of broke your, what's the number of drinks rule you have?
art bell
Two.
And it applies to Friday night, Saturday morning.
And so you're telling me you're over the two drink max even on what is Wednesday?
unidentified
Yeah, yeah, I kind of broke that rule a little bit.
So I was having trouble leaking up to it, but I was hearing two different shows at the same time.
And one was talking about the zombie apocalypse.
And one was, I heard you talking about being in the top 25.
art bell
Well, do you realize being in the impaired condition that you're in right now, if there was a zombie apocalypse, you, sir, would be one of its first victims?
unidentified
Actually, I believe the zombie apocalypse has been upon us for quite a while.
Every time I see a new iPhone released, I know we're in the zombie apocalypse.
art bell
Oh, that's just plain cruel.
Absolutely just plain cruel.
unidentified
Sorry, I'm sorry.
art bell
All right.
All right, sir.
I've got to go too.
So to you as well, get off my line.
This is, is it midnight in the desert?
unidentified
I'm already known.
I'm already known.
Changes are coming, no doubt.
It's been a good long time with no peace of mind.
And I'm ready for the time to get better.
This is Midnight in the Desert.
To call the show.
If you're East of Midnight, call 1-952-Call Art.
If you're west of midnight, call 1-952-225-5278.
art bell
Those are the numbers, all right?
Sometimes, I guess, in life, you just have to roll with it.
My guest was, and perhaps is, Jeffrey Holland.
And we were to talk of feral humans.
However, a number of things have happened.
One being that I lost his contact after he acknowledged that we're actually not talking about feral humans in the old sense, the 1997 sense, but more like zombies.
Zombies.
That's right.
Jeffrey, we have you back?
jeffrey scott holland
I am indeed.
art bell
Okay, what happened to your connection?
jeffrey scott holland
I haven't the foggiest.
Maybe it's sunspots.
Maybe it's hydrogen sulfide.
art bell
Well, it's dark out there right now, so we're not facing the sun.
My goodness gracious.
Okay, well, what I would like to do, Jeffrey, is you've stopped me with this whole thing.
When we get to the point of talking about zombies, I don't know what to do with it.
It's like, and that is what you mean, right?
Not putting any punches?
Yeah, zombies, all right.
Other than the man, before we proceed with the show, who ate another guy's face in Miami, have you heard of any other cases of apparent zombie-like behavior?
jeffrey scott holland
Well, that's the thing.
The classic Miami-style facing zombie, let's not forget, he, for some reason, took off all of his clothes before he did this.
art bell
That's true.
jeffrey scott holland
You find an inordinate amount of naked people going on insane rampages.
You can visit the Jumpin' Jack Flash Hypothesis blog, which does a very good job of collating these, or you can simply enter search queries like Naked Man Berserk, Naked Man Rampage, in the Google News or what have you,
and you will find day after day, week after week, there's just a flood of these insane naked, sometimes women, but usually Naked Man eruptions all over the country.
art bell
All right.
You're talking to a guy with an iPhone 6, and I am going to do just as You suggested, I'm going to Google Naked Man Rampage.
And Google wants to know where I am.
No, don't allow.
I don't want to know where, you know, I don't want them to know I'm asking this.
Yes, look at this.
Naked Man crashes through closed van window.
Naked man on parking lot rampage.
Runs headfirst into minivan.
Oh, my God.
Naked man hurls himself.
Okay, I get the idea.
It goes on and on.
Even down in Anaheim.
jeffrey scott holland
I have here in front of me, I have like literally dozens of cases from October alone.
October alone.
art bell
You know what, Jeffrey?
I'm starting to think that maybe it's not crazy to talk about zombies the way things are these days.
Why the hell not?
Listen, let me finish giving out the phone numbers because we are definitely going to let you talk to Jeffrey before I say something I'll beat somebody about.
So here we go.
Public number 952-225-5278.
You know that one, right?
The first time caller line.
Let me get that out.
Area code 775-285-5800.
775-285-5800.
And, of course, Skype at MITD 51 or 55.
Al on Skype, you're on the air with John.
Hello.
Hello.
jeffrey scott holland
Hey, guys.
unidentified
Okay, so I saw a, it was a short documentary.
Well, I believe it was Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
Oh, they did a thing on zombies, didn't they?
unidentified
They did, yeah.
art bell
I never saw it.
Tell me, it was really good.
unidentified
So the thing that stood out the most was, and they take everything very seriously, and they had biologists on, and they said that if it were to be viral, the closest thing that they could think of as a zombie would be someone, would be if the rabies virus were to spread like the flu through sneezing and coughing.
art bell
Right, rabies is horrible, and people bite.
unidentified
If it were to ever spread, if it were to ever mutate and spread that way, it could become a big problem because by the time you have symptoms, it's too late.
art bell
All right, well, how about hydrogen sulfide and methane?
unidentified
I think if you combine the two, it would be even worse.
But the problem is, yeah, again, it causes aggression because it basically rots the part of the brain that holds you back from being aggressive.
And again, by the time you have the symptoms, you're already practically dead.
And that would be a huge problem.
Well, Jeffrey is right about one thing.
art bell
If you Google something like Naked Man, Rampage, or you pick it, there's story after story after story after story.
I never even thought to check on this, but he's right.
unidentified
He is, yeah.
Yeah.
art bell
Okay, well, thank you very much for the call, I guess would be the way to put it.
Jeffrey, what do you say?
jeffrey scott holland
Well, you know, there have been a lot of reports out there of the possibility of weaponizing rabies.
So I totally saying it's plausible.
art bell
Weaponized rabies.
You know, in this day and age, it's hard to say something like this could not happen.
I hate to even begin to think to believe that it really could happen, but apparently the answer is it could.
All right, let's go to the phones.
Las Vegas, Nevada.
Hello, you're on the air with Jeffrey.
unidentified
Oh, hi, this is David the Economist.
All right, nice to talk to you again, Art.
The thing I was struck with most about this is there's a lot worse things coming down the pike when it comes to...
Yes.
We're a live source, but...
They call them tetrogenic mutagens.
And you could have walking zombies that are still alive that are generational mutants.
And that's even more frightening than actual dead zombies.
Exactly.
That's what I was just about to say.
And when you have assimilative capacity for pollution dumping, the best place to put it in is the water sources.
So if you're going to be getting these tetragonic mutagens like bamates, that's herbicides and pesticides.
You also have the DDT contamination.
But more troubling is the benzene rings, and they're all tetragonic mutagens.
So we could have walking zombies if you do live near the water.
But my question to Jeffrey is, and this is kind of intriguing, have you seen that series, Naked and Afraid?
jeffrey scott holland
I haven't, but I'm aware of it, and I know the gist of it.
art bell
Okay, sir.
I, on the other hand, have seen every episode.
unidentified
Oh, I love that show.
Isn't that tremendous?
Yes.
As they go in through the 21st day to the 19th day, you notice how they're just like Jeffrey is saying.
They have less language skills.
art bell
Oh, I see.
unidentified
They're much more animalistic.
They're eat dead bugs.
art bell
It's true.
It's fair enough.
True.
I appreciate it.
Yeah, if that could be it.
Yeah, the Naked and Afraid series is slowly turning them into zombies two by two.
unidentified
Well, I was wondering what Jeffrey would say in elaboration, is that how a feral human would become born?
art bell
You know, I hate to say it, but it's a fair comment.
He's right.
If you watch the series, which obviously you don't, Jeffrey, they send two people, they get two people, let them have limited stuff, you know, like maybe a fire starter, if they're lucky, and a knife.
Right?
And they send them into these remote areas.
And as the caller pointed out, by the time you know, they're 18, 19 days into it, if they haven't had much to eat, they start going crazy.
I mean, really kind of crazy.
And it's what you would expect, Jeffrey.
So he was saying, well, could it have some connection to human beings who, whatever reason, are away from nourishment, away from any help, or even wanting it?
And so they become peril or zombies, if you will, and I know you will, pretty quickly, right?
jeffrey scott holland
Sure, sure.
You take the civilization away from a person.
You take the civilization out of a person.
And the longer you stay out there, your sense of reason would atrophy.
It stands to reason.
art bell
You know, I'm going to hear every noise now in the middle of the night in a very different way.
And I'm going to wonder, is it happening?
Is it a forecast you're making, Jeffrey, that if we don't do something soon, there will be zombies?
jeffrey scott holland
Yes and no.
I think we're already seeing it happen.
I don't think it's as dire as...
Well, in the short term, I think it's going to be very dire.
In the long term, I do not think this is a zombie apocalypse that will wipe out mankind.
I think we will take care of the ecological problems that are contributing to it.
And I don't even say that it's the sole cause of it.
We still have Monsanto.
We still have GMOs.
We still have big pharma medications.
We have all sorts of other factors.
But as far as the methane and the hydrogen sulfide, I think we're going to get it under control.
I'm an optimist.
What can I say?
art bell
And you're an optimist.
You spend the first hour of the program talking about how people are going mad, going out of their minds, going naked, going into the woods, becoming, Carol, virtual zombies.
And let me add, here's Jasmunda.
I can't resist.
Jasmunda, you are on the air with Jeffrey Holland.
unidentified
Hi, Art.
Hi, Jeffrey.
I'm not sure we can leap to it being zombies at the moment.
These cases of the face-eating, believe, wasn't there, there was definitely bath salts involved in that.
art bell
No, no, no, no.
No, he says that that was ruled out.
unidentified
Well, to me, it sounds like bath salts, it sounds like we've got a junkie on our hands.
It's just gone crazy.
But, I mean, as much as I'd love to believe it was zombies, do you want zombies?
Well, from a fan's perspective of the Walking Dead, but I think that if we had a case of zombies, I'd be quite unprepared to protect my family.
jeffrey scott holland
Well, when we say zombie, we mean it's sort of a metaphor for the walking dead type zombie.
We don't literally mean the walking undead.
art bell
Well, if you start talking about people eating people's faces, it may not be the walking dead, but it's nobody I want anything to do with.
jeffrey scott holland
It'll do until the walking dead gets here.
art bell
Well, Jazz, I don't know what to say.
Be glad you're in Australia because if it's like everything else, it'll begin here.
unidentified
Yeah, probably.
All Hollywood disasters begin in the U.S. Yeah, and a lot of them, by the way, in Las Vegas.
art bell
Usually, Vegas is the first to fall.
unidentified
Oh, yes, definitely.
And Art, if you're going to be searching for a naked man on Google, I would clear your browser history before you go to bed.
art bell
Yeah, before they get me.
Jaz, thank you for the call.
And take care.
That's all the way from Australia.
Jeffrey, you know, I mean, you didn't back away from it when I finally came out.
And I mean, in the beginning, you said, well, not feral, the way I talked about in 97, but, well, okay, not that, but even worse, zombie.
And you didn't disagree with that word at all.
You sort of jumped on it.
jeffrey scott holland
I fully support the term zombie, you know, for lack of a better term.
As I say, I see The Walking Dead as a training film.
art bell
a lot of people would say I would rather be dead than be faced with what those people are faced with right?
You're behind a giant fence and they're still getting in anyway or you're locked away and they're clawing at the What can I say?
Yeah, I know.
Eureka, California.
Hello.
You're with us at the moment.
Hello, Eureka.
Going once.
Going twice and gone like the wind.
Perump, Nevada, you're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Yes.
Yes.
art bell
Hi.
unidentified
What because if you go to a funeral now, somebody sits up, turns their head, and says no.
art bell
Wait a minute.
Let's back up a little bit.
You're telling me you go to a funeral and the person who is supposedly dead sits up?
unidentified
Yeah.
Sits up, turns their head, and says, no.
art bell
You're really screwing with us here, sir.
unidentified
This actually happened.
art bell
Okay, why don't you tell the story?
It actually happened where and when?
unidentified
In Wisconsin.
art bell
How long ago?
unidentified
Oh, about three months ago.
art bell
Three months ago?
unidentified
Yeah.
And what happened?
art bell
You witnessed this with your engineers.
unidentified
Yeah.
And I literally almost jumped out of my shoes.
It scared the living stuff out of you.
art bell
Yeah.
unidentified
Okay.
There was still air in them and bombed them and everything.
art bell
Yeah.
unidentified
The rigor motors didn't set completely.
And so for some reason, the body just snapped up.
art bell
Okay, but bodies might snap up.
I mean, it's outrageous to even think about a body snapping up.
But to say no, where does that come from?
unidentified
That was something in his lungs or something that they couldn't explain at all because they couldn't understand it either.
art bell
They wouldn't be able to explain enough of it to me as I was running.
unidentified
I agree.
I mean, I left and I came back a little bit later and I talked to the person there at the funeral home.
Yes.
And he says it happens from time to time.
art bell
Really?
Really?
unidentified
Like, really?
This is the first time I've ever heard of it.
I've heard people joke about bodies slowly rising.
art bell
Yeah, I'm wondering if my show has moved into another universe here.
Some sort of parallel and unfriendly universe where I'm suddenly getting calls now about the rising dead.
Speaking rising dead.
I appreciate your call, sir.
Don't ever call again.
jeffrey scott holland
I love that story.
art bell
Why?
You love that story.
Why?
jeffrey scott holland
Again, there's a trace of sarcasm there.
art bell
Oh.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
I'll go with that.
Hello, you're on the air with Jeffrey Scott Holland.
unidentified
Hi, Art.
Hi.
I had two things, actually.
First of all, that guy that was hauled off like a bear, captured and hauled off to the hospital and all that.
What if some of these people are people that have some basic survival skills and are just fed up with society's stuff and decide to live off the land?
And isn't it rather cruel and inhumane to capture them, imprison them, and force them to live in the very circumstances that they wanted away from in the first place?
art bell
Well, in the land of the free and home of the brave, yeah, I guess so.
I mean, we have freedom, right, to pursue happiness.
And if that's getting naked and going into the forest, I guess from a, I don't know, constitutional point of view, I guess that'd be all right.
unidentified
Yeah, and the second thing where you mentioned the people that do the mass shootings and all that.
Yes.
The big school shootings and all that.
art bell
That's right.
unidentified
And if you look at what they all have in common, they all have one thing very much in common.
Every single one.
art bell
Hydrogen sulfide.
unidentified
Investigate enough.
No psychiatric drugs, actually.
art bell
That is an awfully good point.
Yeah, you really are right about that.
I know.
All right, we've got to take a break here.
Thank you for the call.
unidentified
Thank you.
Late December, back in 63.
Midnight in the desert doesn't scream calls.
We trust you, but remember, the NSA bell, you know.
To call the show, please dial 1-952-225-5278.
That's 1-952-CALLART.
art bell
Yeah, that's the number.
unidentified
And we have a first-time caller line too.
art bell
We give that out.
It's area code 775-285-5800.
Once again, area code 775-285-5800.
Skype, of course, at MITD51 and or outside the country at MITD55.
And once again, here is Jeffrey.
Jeffrey, so let me pause, even though the phone lines are sitting there full, let me pause for a moment and see if there is anything that you want to say that thus far into the interview you have not managed to squeeze in or take a bite of.
jeffrey scott holland
Well, I do think what that last caller said was very relevant about antidepressants and big pharma drugs being a contributor.
It's a huge contributor to what's going on.
art bell
Well, maybe one day we get the alert via radio and television that the apocalypse has begun, and it will turn out to be some sort of drug they're advertising on TV now in combination with something else.
And something else again, and something rising out of the ocean, and all together, it's added up to be the zombie apocalypse.
You still there?
jeffrey scott holland
I am here.
art bell
I am.
So you are.
So, in other words, you agree with that?
jeffrey scott holland
Very much so.
art bell
Okie-doke.
Let's go to the phones and say you're on the air.
Hello.
fax in radio land
Hello, Art.
art bell
Hi.
fax in radio land
Hi, it sounds like your normally calm voice over there, you're getting just a tad bit edgy.
art bell
Just a little.
Well, have you been listening to the show?
fax in radio land
The whole thing.
art bell
The whole thing.
All right, then you ought to be a little on edge yourself.
fax in radio land
Well, I'm thinking back to 1965 when we went up to a ranch and people had invited me up there.
His mother said, I was 15, his mom says, now I don't want you boys going too far out in the woods because there's a lot of stories about feral humans.
Use that exact word.
art bell
Really?
Where was this?
fax in radio land
That was in 1965.
We were up near Marfa, M-A-R-F-A, Texas, on about a 200-acre ranch.
And the next day, we were down playing chase around the dam, and it was my turn to chase the other two.
They were on what I call the left side of the ranch.
I was over on the right chasing footsteps in the dry leaves, and every time I'd chase in one direction, it would outrun me.
Finally, I got tired of chasing it, thinking it was Charlie, the little brother.
It was faster than I was.
So I moseyed over and looked out across over the dam.
Both Charlie and Vernon were standing there looking upward where I was.
That scared me to death.
art bell
Yes.
Well, so there were feral humans in that area.
You were warned.
Jeffrey?
jeffrey scott holland
You know, I thought I coined the term, but it turns out they were using it in 1965.
I had no idea.
unidentified
Yep.
fax in radio land
My jaw about dropped when you started talking about this tonight, because I was warned when I was a teenager.
I was told, I'm as old as you are now.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
fax in radio land
My Lord.
Wow.
It's scary, especially this, another thing.
I'm a hand loader, and so I pay a lot of attention to different manufacturers of ammunition, and I believe it's Hornady manufacturers, a whole line of what they call zombie ammunition.
What?
It's even got funny-looking faces on the boxes, and that Kawasaki green and everything.
art bell
Oh, go on.
It's just a marketing thing, right?
fax in radio land
It's been going on for a couple years now.
Zombie ammunition.
Who in the heck ever heard of something like that?
jeffrey scott holland
You sock them away just in case you need zombie-stopping ammunition, I suppose.
fax in radio land
They're all talking about it.
art bell
No, you're kidding.
You're just messing with me.
fax in radio land
No, I'm not, Art.
Look it up.
You got your little iPhone thing-majigger there?
unidentified
Yeah.
fax in radio land
Zombie ammunition.
Hornady manufacturing.
art bell
Seriously?
fax in radio land
I'm serious.
I wouldn't lie to you, Art.
You're my favorite person.
unidentified
Zombie ammunition.
art bell
All right.
Zombie ammunition.
I'm going to look it up.
And I hope it's not true.
fax in radio land
It is true.
I wouldn't lie to you, Art.
You are my favorite calm voice in the night.
When you were gone, I about lost my mind.
art bell
Oh, well, you just would have turned into one of them.
All right.
Let's see.
Oh, my God.
fax in radio land
Oh, my God.
Looky there.
art bell
40 caliber.
unidentified
It's all the calibers.
art bell
All of them.
unidentified
40 caliber.
It says right there, zombie decal bullet ammo.
fax in radio land
Does that raise the hair on your neck or what?
art bell
There are various calibers available here.
unidentified
They're all there.
art bell
Oh, we're so doomed.
All right.
fax in radio land
We're done for.
jeffrey scott holland
The times we live in.
art bell
Yes.
I think I appreciate your call.
fax in radio land
I hope so.
art bell
As had previous callers, get off my phone.
fax in radio land
20 years.
unidentified
Goodbye.
art bell
Goodbye.
Huh.
Good lord.
That's the ammunition.
jeffrey scott holland
It's come to this.
Yeah.
art bell
What is going on in our society?
jeffrey scott holland
That we need zombie stopping ammo.
art bell
Yeah.
This is probably all your fault somehow.
jeffrey scott holland
Rename guy.
It's my marketing plan.
art bell
Yeah.
jeffrey scott holland
Sell bullets.
unidentified
Hello there.
art bell
You're on the air.
unidentified
How you doing there, Art?
How you doing there, Jeff?
I think I got the answer for you.
art bell
It's getting to be an increasingly rough night, actually, now that you've asked.
unidentified
I hear you.
I definitely do hear you.
Anyway, I do have some of that zombie ammo on 223.
It's some stopping stuff.
I'll tell you that.
But anyway, I got an answer to you.
I know why, what's going on.
The military in the early 80s.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
Knew that they were going to have to have population control because there's like millions of people in this country.
Yes.
When they all start starting to rise up, they're going to need some way to control them.
So what they did is, I'm telling you now.
art bell
I'm listening.
I'm listening.
Sorry, I'm listening.
unidentified
Okay.
So what they did is they developed microwave energy and they're using it to control the populace.
They actually used it in Uganda back in the 90s.
They flipped the switch.
They set up these signals.
They flipped the switch.
Everybody started killing each other.
art bell
So you're saying that our own government is creating zombies with microwaves.
unidentified
Yeah, because they want to test it.
Because when you've got a million people getting out of hand, they need some way to control everybody.
So what they're doing is, see all these things you're spraying up in the Scotty's, these chemtrail things?
Well, that's getting into your body.
And when they flip the switch with these microwaves, when everything goes to hell, they can...
Okay.
art bell
So now let me get this straight.
You're saying that it's a combination of what's coming from the chemtrails and then that's setting you up for the microwave switch and then you essentially become a zombie.
unidentified
Well, you can become a zombie.
They can stay, depending on the signal that they send you through these microwaves, through your...
your little iphones there and and your android phones and and these wi-fi things are sticking on them smart meters and yes yes yes you know when they flip this switch they can either send you a signal to make you go crazy and kill each other or they can send you a signal to make you passive like a puppet dog so in other words this could happen to anybody with an iPhone or an Android or even a smart meter on the side of their house.
Correct.
Okay.
art bell
You know, earlier in the evening, I wouldn't have given this any credence, any conversation whatsoever, but my callers, throughout the last now, hour at least, have proven to me that a zombie apocalypse, if not possible, may even be probable and may be underway right now.
unidentified
Bro, you told us mind control stuff you're doing, this MKL for something.
art bell
And you've helped out.
unidentified
I'm telling you now.
You got to tell me.
I know.
art bell
You're telling me?
unidentified
All right.
art bell
Thank you.
unidentified
Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I just tell you one more thing there.
There's more.
There's just a little bit more.
Okay, go ahead.
There is a thing called Operation Crimson Train.
Crimson Mist.
Operation Crimson Mist.
You look it up on the internet, and it'll tell you all about it.
art bell
I've done enough looking up.
unidentified
What is it?
It's what they did in Uganda when they went over there and they sent all these guys in, set up these antennas, and they flipped the switch, and everybody just went crazy, killing each other.
art bell
Crimson Mist.
I've got to write that down.
unidentified
Crimson Mist.
You've got to watch out for them shapeshifters, Art.
I'm telling you, man, we don't like peanut butter.
art bell
Goodbye.
Let's, well, we can still move here.
Let's go to Skype.
Hello, Gabriel, I believe.
You're on the air.
unidentified
Oh, wow.
art bell
Oh, wow.
unidentified
Hey, Art.
How are you doing?
I'm down here in Roswell, New Mexico.
art bell
Roswell, New Mexico.
All right.
unidentified
Sure.
art bell
All right.
Talk right into your mic.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
That's better.
unidentified
Well, I'm a big fan of Resident Evil, you know, and all the horror movies are awesome about the Walking Dead stuff.
I don't know about the Walking Dead.
Well.
I don't like that show too much.
art bell
Well, you understand, nevertheless, the concept of zombieism, right?
unidentified
Yes, sir.
People are awesome.
I mean, it's pretty cool.
But I've been just listening all night, I guess.
Wow, I'm really a new listener, alright?
art bell
You are?
Yes, sir.
What brought you to me?
How did you find out about the show?
unidentified
I guess it's just a newer interest in what's going on with the UFOs and stuff.
And I stumbled across your name on the internet and just started listening about a month, maybe two months ago.
art bell
So you don't think it's chemtrails and microwaves that caused you to lose?
unidentified
Oh, no, no.
There's something crazy going on out in our space and stuff.
art bell
Hydrogen sulfide or methane.
unidentified
I don't know about all that.
But, yeah.
art bell
Maybe it's, you know, I think it's actually come to the point where if the radio and TV announced there was an actual beginning of a zombie apocalypse, nobody'd be surprised.
Or, you know, they'd be shocked.
But judging from the calls I've been getting, the American people are nearly expecting it.
unidentified
Yeah, it'd be really, really something else.
It'd be something else.
But I think I'd be prepared.
art bell
You would be prepared.
Why?
unidentified
I think I'd be prepared for a zombie apocalypse if it happened.
art bell
I'm asking why would you be prepared?
I'd be asking how.
Yeah, how would you be prepared, sir?
unidentified
I don't know.
I just say that, you know, you just got to stay down and just keep your area, I guess.
art bell
See, you'd be one of the first to fall.
I mean, you can't articulate why you'd be prepared.
So you're down and out.
Quick.
One of the first victims.
unidentified
I'm already out in the country.
I'm out here.
It's all secure out in the country.
It seems, you know, head in somewhere.
art bell
All right, sir.
I appreciate the call and stay prepared and stay alert.
unidentified
All right, I will.
art bell
Right.
Crunching sounds are bad.
Remember that.
jeffrey scott holland
Sounds very excited.
Apocalypse.
art bell
He actually does, Jeffrey.
You're quite right.
Hello there on the phone.
You're on the air.
unidentified
I'm there.
art bell
Hi, how are you?
unidentified
Oh, in Fedora.
This is the first time I've called.
And I'll tell you, I was going out with this guy who was a total jerk.
But I stopped going out with him, but I did pick up you instead because we used to listen to you all the time.
So now he's gone and you've replaced him.
art bell
You mean I've replaced him?
unidentified
Yes, because the person I was going out with we used to would listen to you at night all the time.
And so far now he's gone, but I'm still in the habit of listening to you.
art bell
Even though we're talking about a zombie apocalypse.
unidentified
Yes, my question is, do you do anything with your family to prep for these kind of situations?
Absolutely.
art bell
We've been expecting zombies for some time now.
And we have a food supply.
Here's what I recommend to everybody.
If possible, you want to have a portable water, of course, because water is the first thing you're going to need, followed by some sort of dried food supply.
And then, of course, you've got to be able to protect your residents.
So you've got to have some sort of protective measure, you know, a gun, a knife, something, right?
Because they'll be coming at you.
Not fast, but they'll be coming at you in a stride that you understand means the end if they get to you.
And then, of course, you need transportation, some way to move about if you have to.
I don't know.
That's about the best I can do, but, you know, I'm ready, sort of.
unidentified
Do you have any regenerative food supply, like animals, livestock?
art bell
We have a garden.
It doesn't regenerate as quickly as one might like, but it does.
We grow our own vegetables, for example.
My wife is very good at growing vegetables.
And then, of course, there's Walmart.
We depend on Walmart.
unidentified
Okay, please start Roswell.
Thank you very much for the call.
art bell
Oh, boy.
I'll tell you, I've done a lot of shows, Jeffrey, in my life.
This one takes the cake and throws it in the face of somebody.
Let's go to whoever is next on the phone.
You're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Hello?
art bell
Yes, Jeffrey Scott Holland is at your beck and call.
unidentified
Very good.
I'm calling because I am a feral human.
art bell
Of course you are.
unidentified
You said you wanted to talk to me?
art bell
Sure.
Sure.
Why not?
You're a feral human.
unidentified
Yes, I am.
art bell
For real.
Because we've heard, sir, that feral humans really can't talk.
And you're saying that's wrong.
unidentified
I'm saying that's wrong.
art bell
Okay, when did you become feral?
unidentified
Well, it's kind of hard to say, but I think Probably the first time I decided to shed my clothes and go running off through the woods.
art bell
So you have stripped your clothes off and run through the woods?
unidentified
Of course.
art bell
Of course.
Okay.
What about mentally?
I mean, obviously you still have the power of speech.
So how has this...
unidentified
Well, and this is why I'm calling.
And of course, I'm done being facetious, but I wanted to address your previous talker, the fellow who'd documented and researched.
And he talked about seeing people running wild through the forest.
And he also talked about people in the city.
And now, this is something that I have a lot of experience with.
Schizophrenia is very widespread.
Unfortunately, schizophrenia, and it's so often hard to recognize.
And I've lived with people who have clinically diagnosed with this disease.
And it comes in many different forms.
But I do recognize it on the bus, in the restaurant, and such as.
Yes, in the description of a feral human, which I'm not, but it's fun to say, but in that description, I think what is being described would be people who are having a hard time dealing with authority on any level, even if it's authority that's trying to help them.
That's been my experience.
You need to take these pills.
Well, I don't want to take these pills.
You need to see these people.
They'll put you in a house.
And that's the last thing a personality would do.
art bell
Okay, what you're saying makes some sense.
Jeffrey was talking about the pharmaceuticals late, you know, just a little while ago.
And, yeah, I mean, look, a lot of these so-called psychiatric drugs could be driving people into places that we can't even imagine.
unidentified
I agree with that.
And sometimes they even help with weight loss.
And then you turn around and market them that way.
art bell
I know.
I've seen the ads.
I appreciate your call.
So, Jeffrey, why not comment?
He's talking about pharmaceuticals, right?
jeffrey scott holland
You know, they say that the amount of pharmaceuticals that get excreted from the human body are actually becoming more and more prevalent in our drinking water.
And that's something to consider in light of the subject.
art bell
Well, I guess it is.
So pharmaceuticals in, some pharmaceuticals out, and into the environment.
jeffrey scott holland
And here in Florida, there's a charming little tradition known as reclaimed water, in which we take sewer water, sewage water.
art bell
Reclaim it, yeah, I know.
jeffrey scott holland
Yeah, we crudely extract the sewage, but we have water that's left over that still has traces of it.
So we are essentially spraying very minute quantities, but quantities nonetheless, of sewage everywhere that we have water sprinklers and garden hoses.
So point being, if there's pharmaceuticals in the sewage and we're spraying sort of sewage-y water on everything here, that doesn't bode well for the whole situation, though, does it?
art bell
Jeffrey's Scott Holland, using all three names.
Honestly, no.
Reclaimed water means that it's treated, it's purified, it's absolutely perfect drinking water, they claim.
jeffrey scott holland
They claim, and yet...
art bell
All right, let's go to the next call.
Hello in Seattle, Washington, I believe.
Hello in Seattle.
Going once.
unidentified
Hello heart?
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
Hello heart.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
You talking about the people going crazy?
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
Increasingly?
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
Well, recently, Stump Up Bump a show interview a doctor named Dr. John Hall.
He talked about government using satellites, ELF waves, to target certain individuals who are mentally unstable, who's on these psychotropic drugs.
art bell
Well, extremely low frequency radio waves can affect a person's behavior.
That much I know.
unidentified
Yeah, so he wrote a book about a new breed satellite terrorism in America.
And he's talking about how government is targeting these people who are already on these psychotropic drugs.
And they're targeting them and passing messages through their head and telling them, a lot of these people, when they finish these atrocities, shooting a lot of these people, and they always say they hear noises.
They hear messages passing on to them.
jeffrey scott holland
That's true.
unidentified
My contention, this is a precursor to the police state.
See, they don't want the majority of us to have guns.
For them to take the guns away, the majority of the people, population have to agree on what's going on in this country.
art bell
Well, I think the theory is that if they scare you sufficiently with talk of terrorism and bombs and all kinds of things, they can take more and more of your freedom.
There is that.
unidentified
There is that, but they need public to agree upon that this is going on so they can take your weapon away.
Right now, the technical scale is not on the other side of the, you know, on the public that agreed to take the gun away.
There's still a lot of people.
art bell
if we keep talking about the zombie apocalypse, I'm doubling my ownership.
unidentified
Well, you should look into this guy called Dr. John Paul and have him on the show because he going deaf about what's going on in this country.
And this country is a big experiment.
art bell
All right, well, I know that my listen to me, sir.
Listen to me.
I know my producer is listening right now.
So slowly give this man's name again, please.
unidentified
His name's John Hall.
Dr. John Hall.
He wrote a book on it called A New Bree Satellite Terrorism in America.
art bell
All right.
I guarantee you my producer has it.
And by the way, if you have an idea for a guest and you would like to get it to my producer, it's really easy.
You just send the idea off to producer at Art Bell.
No, that's wrong.
Producer at Art Bell.
No, it is right.
Artbell.com.
Producer at Art Bell A-R-T-B-E-L-L dot com.
So, there you have it.
Well, Jeffrey, you've really stirred up a hornet's nest tonight.
jeffrey scott holland
So it would appear.
art bell
And including me, incidentally, on Skype, William, hello.
unidentified
Yes, Lord, I just wanted to make a comment about one of your previous callers, and he was mentioning the zombie ammunition.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
Well, first off, that's the exact same ammo hornet he's been selling for years.
They just changed the little polymer tip in it from red to green.
art bell
Well, let me assume the spirit of one of my earlier callers who said that, well, why aren't you think we're having all these zombie apocalypse TV shows and movies?
They're getting us ready.
Now, I find there is zombie ammunition.
Well, how about same reason?
unidentified
Did you see the ad that CDC, they put it out earlier about a year or so ago, you know, to get ready for a zombie apocalypse?
That was their big press release.
What?
That's kind of what got the whole thing started.
What, what, what, what, what?
art bell
You're talking about the CDC now?
unidentified
Correct.
I got it in an email at the time, but it was all over the internet.
It was just more joke than anything.
art bell
That's what I was going to ask.
unidentified
If you could prepare for zombies, then you'd be prepared for anything, whether it be flood, hurricane, you know, anything.
art bell
So the CDC was just joking?
unidentified
Well, that's what they claim.
But if you go to YouTube, you can look up hundreds of videos of people, you know, preparing for it, weaponry.
Ruger made a revolver, normally the LCP, but they called it the LCZ, their little zombie gun.
art bell
Yeah, yeah, of course.
unidentified
It was a multi-million dollar thing there for quite a while.
It's kind of died down somewhat.
art bell
You know what worries me?
Somebody's going to kill somebody, and they're going to offer up as a defense that they thought they were shooting at a zombie, not a human.
unidentified
I thought the same thing, Art.
art bell
Really?
See, it just shows you how far down the road of disconnect we have gone.
We're all going to die.
Yeah, you take care, my friend.
jeffrey scott holland
It is only a matter of time, I think, until we hear of the zombie defense in court.
art bell
Yeah, no doubt.
No doubt at all.
And sure enough, I mean, if somebody were trying to pin me down to take a chunk of my face, why I'd fill them full of holes, no question about it.
To the phone we go.
Hello, you're on the air.
Hello?
unidentified
Hello?
Yes, hello.
Is kudos or mega-kudos still in the if you wish?
art bell
Probably it would be Mega Roswell's, but sure, go ahead.
unidentified
Okay, well, I just had a question.
I kind of had the feeling of the zombie effect.
I learned and grew up that zombie was something that originated basically in Africa, and they gave them a neurotoxin or poison and virtually almost put the person into a state of near-death or pseudo-death and buried them for a day or so.
And then they woke up and they were just virtually brain dead.
I think I got that from years ago from Discover Magazine or National Geographic.
art bell
You know what?
I don't really know exactly what you're talking about, but it does ring some bells about them being able to accomplish that actually with a person and then bury them in there.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
jeffrey scott holland
Yeah, there's a great book called Serpent in the Rainbow, which they subsequently made a movie out of.
It deals with African Haitian voodoo and postulates that there is actually some magical and scientific basis to it.
But of course, when we say zombies regarding feral humans and these modern incidents of violence, we're simply using zombies as a metaphor.
unidentified
Okay, I think it was better.
It sounds like zombies is more of a universal term for generalization, that it could come from any one of any multiple causal factors.
It's just, aren't you just basically talking about the parameters of the person after they have become pharaoh?
They're more analystic and have lost all reasoning and rationale control?
jeffrey scott holland
Well, once they get to that state, there's the problem.
How'd they get that way?
Well, I don't know.
I don't think anyone knows right now.
But the problem remains whether we know or agree what the factors are that led to it.
The situation right now is out of control.
art bell
Well, that's for sure.
All right, Jeffrey, what I'm going to do is a break.
So I want you to Hold on right where you are, and I can't say you haven't freaked me out tonight.
I'll be thinking about zombies for sure.
Midnight in the Desert, I'm Art Bell.
unidentified
Midnight in the Desert, I'm Art Bell.
Midnight in the Desert, I'm Art Bell.
To initiate a dialogue sequence with iPhone, please coordinate your values and call 1952-225-5278.
That's 1952.
art bell
Call heart.
It is.
Or there are other options, other things you can do as long as you're still in control with your fingers.
You can call me on the first line, which is ARIACODE 775-285-5800.
Nothing but a heartache to be sure.
Area code 775-285-5800, and of course, on Skype at MITD51 in North America and MITD55 in the rest of the zombie-infested world.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
Going briefly to the wormhole.
This is just great.
Hi, Art.
Somebody has actually used the zombie defense, and he lists a URL to the story.
Art, there's been a recent murder with the killer killing his best friend.
He claimed that he thought he was turning into a zombie, so he killed him.
And I think it was after he watched the Walking Dead TV show.
True story.
Look it up.
No doubt, sir.
I've looked up enough tonight to last a lifetime.
You said someone, this is Dustin, you said someone would end up using a defense of they thought it was a zombie.
Well, it happened a month ago.
Somebody stabbed their friend.
There it is again.
After watching 25 hours of The Walking Dead and claimed that he was, in fact, turning into a zombie.
One of the EOTech holographic sites called the Zombie Stopper uses a green biohazard symbol.
This is the kind of thing I'm getting on the wormhole.
So, Jeffrey, are you still there?
unidentified
I am.
art bell
Good, good.
Glad to hear your internet's holding up, and it will until something bites through the cord.
Let's go to Bill on site.
Hello, Bill.
unidentified
Hello, Art.
Hello, Jeffrey.
Why not, Ark?
art bell
Why not?
unidentified
Why not?
Yeah.
I really surprised us to come up when you had a guest on a year ago talking about biochemical warfare, how dangerously realistic it is.
I'm an avid watcher of Walking Dead, and if it really happens, The Walking Dead, I think, is the kind of zombies I want.
They are so slow.
I do not want World War Z zombies.
art bell
No, you don't want World War Z zombies, and you're right.
The zombies on Walking Dead are slow, but they still get a lot of people, and it's because of the numbers thing.
unidentified
I don't want zombies at all.
Let me make that.
art bell
Good point.
unidentified
It's interesting, and it's the survival kick in us that makes us want to see a tornado, but not really be in one.
I mean, who doesn't want to go out with a snowball?
art bell
You feel the same way about a zombie.
You don't really want it, but you're interested in it, and you'll watch it, and if it happened, oh, well.
unidentified
Yeah.
I think it's a survival thing.
But before I hang up, I do have a question, and I know you're prepared, and all your tips are great.
You had a survivalist guy on like a week ago.
art bell
I did.
Are you prepared for the poop?
Are you prepared for the zombie poop?
Yeah, that's a good point.
And you know, that's something never addressed on the show.
unidentified
You know what?
I know I just laughed.
Well, it's actually not funny.
art bell
Yeah, it's actually not.
And zombies probably don't poop because they don't eat.
unidentified
Right.
art bell
Well, wait a minute.
I'm wrong about that, aren't I?
unidentified
I don't know.
art bell
Well, I am.
I mean, they regularly are seen to be trying to chew off faces.
unidentified
Have you ever played any of the Call of Duty games?
art bell
I've watched a little bit of it.
Why?
unidentified
You and the wives play the zombies part.
I don't know which one releases it, which game it was, but we do.
We have a blast.
And they start off like Walking Dead zombies real slow.
And then next thing you know, when you get up there, they're like World War Z zombies.
And it's a blast.
You get to pick all different guns and blow them up.
But that's the extent of it.
art bell
I don't know.
I don't know.
World War Z was actually a very, very good movie in terms of the way the zombies were depicted and the CGI that was done in World War Z. It was excellent.
It was frightening.
It was very frightening.
And I'm a little bit worried about that.
Did you happen to catch that movie, Jeffrey?
unidentified
I did indeed.
jeffrey scott holland
It's a great movie.
I did.
art bell
Oh, you did?
Okay.
I was going to say, how could you possibly have missed that with the song you're singing?
Hello there on the first time caller line.
You are on the air.
unidentified
Oh, I was listening in on your guys' zombie conversations.
What do you think about if most of the zombie cases were mostly, let's say, drug-related or chemical-related, something that messes with the person's head?
art bell
Well, it does seem like if something like that could happen, it would be somehow related to pharmaceuticals or a bad combination of various drugs or something in the environment in combination with drugs.
Who knows?
unidentified
Yeah, that's a good point.
Do you think there's a certain way you can prepare for that if it were, let's say, chemical-related?
art bell
no, I honestly don't know how anybody prepares for zombies.
Really, I don't.
I mean, I'm doing a show because people are calling about it, but I don't know.
I don't have a clue other than, you know, I mean, everything you see in the popular media says it's got to be a headshot, right?
unidentified
Yeah, pretty much.
art bell
Or they get up and keep coming.
unidentified
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
art bell
Take care, and thank you for the call.
I appreciate it.
So there you've got it, Jeffrey.
A lot of people apparently are fully prepared to believe that this really could come about.
Are you surprised or what?
jeffrey scott holland
I am not surprised.
The Walking Dead is popular for a reason.
It resonates in popular culture with people for various different levels and reasons, but it's out there.
It's part of what's happening.
art bell
Maybe so much weird stuff has happened in today's world, including the kind of programs that we have on TV now, The Walking Dead and all the rest of that.
And then even some of the science shows beginning to do things about The Walking Dead as a possibility, zombies as a possibility.
Well, yeah, maybe people are just ready.
Portland, Oregon, hello.
unidentified
Hello?
jeffrey scott holland
Hello.
unidentified
Yes.
Well, just, you know, one thing to offer about a zombie apocalypse.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
Flamethrowers is the only thing that's proven to work.
art bell
That's not true.
I watch the shows, and a headshot takes care of a zombie virtually every time.
Or a knife.
Yeah, a knife.
unidentified
I'll have to find that movie.
And thank you, and I'll get off your lines.
art bell
So you just called me to encourage me to get a flamethrower.
unidentified
Absolutely.
art bell
They're leaving us quick out there, Jeffrey.
Let's go to Columbus, Ohio, and just hope for the best.
Hello.
unidentified
Hey, Belgab Roswell Art and Jeffrey.
Just real quick, just real quick, this is James from Columbus.
Yes.
Just wanting to bring it sort of back to reality.
There is a documented, very well-documented case of a feral human.
And the gentleman, I can't, his name's eluding me.
He was a Japanese soldier.
And he lived in the Philippines until like 74 or something.
art bell
He did.
And he thought that the war was still going on.
unidentified
Exactly.
And they even formed posse to look for him, both the police and the military.
And he eluded them.
art bell
Well, now there you go.
In other words, if somebody wants to stay hidden, they're able to do it.
And you just gave us proof of that.
In other words, if you want to go into the jungle or you want to go into a heavily forested area and stay hidden, good luck.
They're probably not going to find you.
unidentified
And I mean, he was even like stealing livestock and stuff.
So, I mean, the people knew he was still there, but they just never could catch him.
Finally, they had to have the Japanese ambassador or something come in and actually tell him, yeah, you know, through a loudspeaker, the war is over.
art bell
The war is over.
unidentified
Come on out, man.
art bell
And he did.
unidentified
And he did.
Yeah, he actually surrendered because Japan had surrendered, but I guess his Arisco rifle was in battered shape.
He had tattered clothes.
There's a famous picture of the gentleman when he surrendered, the day he surrendered with the Philippine police.
And they didn't even prosecute him or anything.
It's an absolute fantastic story of survival and what he went through from the time his squad was eliminated to his time being alone.
And it was a bunch of years, and he still had vocal capability, everything.
So, you know, just something to chew on.
And hopefully I didn't bring everybody back to reality from the zombie apocalypse.
art bell
Oh, it's quite all right.
I think what's going on here, and I, you know, I could be wrong about this, but I think what's going on, and the reason we're getting the calls we're getting, is because, well, people are sensing that it's getting near the end.
They're sensing that things are going so far off the rails that there may soon be no going back.
And so zombies wouldn't be a particular surprise, I suppose, at some point.
What do you think, Jeffrey?
jeffrey scott holland
Well, it's also important to note that in this case, the monster is us.
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Your neighbor, your family, anybody could eventually end up being a zombie.
art bell
Yeah, actually, as I look at my neighbor of late, he has been taking on some disagreeable aspects in both his appearance and some of the things that he's growled.
I mean, said.
jeffrey scott holland
Keep an eye on him.
art bell
I'll do that.
Crypto Lord, I think it is, on Skype.
It's your turn.
unidentified
Well, Lord, I'm driving the big rig tonight.
art bell
Oh, you.
Yep, I hear it.
unidentified
And I'm contemplating a zombie apocalypse.
art bell
Oh, so are we.
unidentified
Visioning them marching down the freeway.
art bell
Ah, well, I imagine you could plow through a whole bunch of them in that rig.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
But I'm thinking tonight now, when you go to leave the studio, you're going to open the door up, look to the left, look to the right, and you're going to smutter under your breath, zombies.
art bell
Oh, good lord.
Well, I might.
Or if I actually see movement, I'll be screaming it.
unidentified
That's it.
And you have to pick up some of that zombie ammunition, I guess, and be prepared.
art bell
It was nice of people to point that out.
Yeah, I can hear you rattling down the road there.
jeffrey scott holland
Yeah.
art bell
Well, look, here's a little comfort for you.
In most of the movies that I've seen, yes, they plow through a few zombies, But, you know, people like self-driving trucks, they generally end up as mutilated pieces.
unidentified
That's it.
I'd have to put the pedal to the metal if I see them.
I'm not going to stop.
Yeah, well, that works until you run out of petrol.
art bell
And then, you know, by then they're really upset and they're coming for you.
unidentified
That's it.
art bell
All right.
Well, listen, thank you for that uplifting call.
unidentified
Have a nice evening, Arnie.
art bell
You too.
And to our phones in Oregon, I think you're on the air.
Hello.
Hello.
What's going on?
unidentified
Do you remember reading something about that?
Are you there?
art bell
I'm there.
I'm here now, yes.
You just suddenly showed up.
unidentified
I was going to say, thanks for taking my call, but I remember reading something.
I don't remember if it was on the internet or when they did the autopsy on the guy that ate the guy's face, that they didn't find any of the guy's face in his stomach.
It was something weird like that.
I think I recall reading something like that.
Do you remember anything like that?
art bell
No, I don't, because I don't remember a follow-up story, but how could they not?
Because they didn't find, as far as I know, they didn't find the pieces there adjacent to the body.
So then where are the pieces?
unidentified
That was the weird thing I thought was really weird is how did he not have it in his stomach, but they didn't find it at the theme, which blew me away, and I was thinking, well, where did it go?
I had the same question, you know, I mean, but.
art bell
I know I'll spend the rest of the night thinking about that myself.
Appreciate the.
What is that noise in the background?
unidentified
Oh, I'm driving a big rig, too.
art bell
Doggone.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
Thank you very, very much.
How did you guys find out about me anyway?
unidentified
You know, I was listening to you, and then they switched over to Nori took over coast to coast, and I heard you came back on right after Twite Lewis and over here in Portland, so that's how I'm listening to you again.
art bell
I've got you.
So the Big KXL.
unidentified
Yes, sir.
art bell
I appreciate the call.
Thank you.
unidentified
You have a good one.
Thank you.
Yeah.
art bell
Speaking of zombies.
Hello there.
unidentified
You're on the air.
art bell
Hello.
On the phone.
You're on the air.
Robert.
Hello.
Going once.
Going twice.
Going like the wind.
You're on the air instead.
unidentified
Hello.
art bell
What was that again, please?
I think that's a bark.
unidentified
I think so too.
art bell
Let me hear that again.
Come on, bark it up.
No, they're fine.
And just yesterday, that was one of our senators.
Thank you for the call.
Davenport, somewhere in Iowa, probably.
You're on the air.
Hello.
unidentified
Going?
art bell
Yes?
You are there.
unidentified
Hello.
art bell
People are supposed to be on the alert when they call a radio program and then they hear the audio coming to them on the phone.
This should alert you to the fact that we might come to you shortly.
So go ahead, sir.
unidentified
Yeah, can you hear me all right?
art bell
I do indeed, yes.
unidentified
Okay, thank you.
Well, I'm a security guard way out here in the oil fields in Texas, and it is so nice to hear your voice again.
art bell
Well, thank you.
Security guards, as you well know, are always the first to go in this kind of situation.
unidentified
Well, I guess I'm a feral security guard because we don't get out of here for months at a time.
We're about 12 miles from the Rio Grande.
It takes us two hours to get to a blacktop road.
art bell
Or put it another way, you bite back.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
You bet you we do.
You bet.
I don't know if you remember me.
You and me talked a lot.
I used to work you a lot on ham radio.
We done slow scan.
I worked you on 4D.
art bell
Now he's talking to ham radio, folks.
unidentified
Yeah.
And I think I was the second one to ever talk to you after you put your loop for 17 meters on your motorhome.
art bell
Oh, yes.
Yeah, it makes it very distinguishable.
Listen, the show is ending.
Do you want to do the honors and say goodnight, world?
unidentified
Oh, I would love to.
art bell
All right.
All 25 time zones, good night, world.
That's what you want to say.
unidentified
All 25 time zones, good night, world.
And it's great to have the bell back.
art bell
Thank you, Archie.
You're welcome.
Thank you.
And Lucy, Jeffrey Scott Holland, I think.
Thank you.
jeffrey scott holland
Thank you for the opportunity.
It's been even more surreal the second time around than the first.
art bell
Good night.
unidentified
Good night.
art bell
Good night, world.
unidentified
Good night, world.
Good night, world.
Midnight in the desert, and there's wisdom in the air.
I've been looking for the answers.
All my life I found you there.
As the world we live in, are we heating over the sun?
Have we lost our intuition?
Are we running out of time?
Midnight in the desert.
And we're listening.
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