Episode Details

Art Bell hosts remote viewer Major Ed Dames, who had urgently faxed the show days earlier with a warning he wanted broadcast immediately. Dames reminds listeners that roughly two years prior, he predicted a global economic collapse arriving in late spring or summer of 1998 and asserts that the prediction has now materialized. He warns that people fleeing the stock market into U.S. government bonds are making a grave mistake, claiming his remote viewing data shows the United States will default on both interest payments and the bonds themselves.

The conversation shifts to the sun, where Dames describes a creeping rise in baseline X-ray flux that concerns him deeply. He connects increasing solar radiation to agricultural devastation, blinded bee populations, and a coming wave of plant pathogens targeting global food crops. Dames predicts millions will die of starvation in 1999, followed by fast-spreading human disease epidemics. He reaffirms his prediction that a catastrophic solar event he calls the "kill shot" remains on the horizon.

Richard C. Hoagland briefly joins, citing sources who claim the North Korean missile test was actually a failed attempt to strike a Japanese nuclear reactor. Dames disputes this interpretation, arguing the launch was simply a ballistic test. Dames also provides an update on his search for Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra, which he says remote viewing has located underwater near a Micronesian atoll.