Episode Details

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe to report on the alarming disappearance of amphibians across the United States, where one third of frog, toad, and salamander populations have vanished. Linda connects the crisis to increased ultraviolet radiation from ozone depletion, water pollution, and radium contamination found in New Jersey wells. She also shares eyewitness accounts of orange glowing spheres observed near Pinon Canyon, Colorado, an area with a long history of unusual aerial phenomena and animal mutilations.

Parapsychologist Dr. Barry Taff then joins to discuss his 30 years investigating ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists. Taff reveals his own lifelong psychic abilities, including the capacity to diagnose medical conditions in strangers, a talent that both fascinated and frightened those around him since childhood. His experiences led him to the UCLA parapsychology laboratory, where he became both researcher and research subject.

Taff recounts extraordinary cases from his career, including the Hollymont haunting where thousands of coins rained from a ceiling, and a Hyde Park investigation where the apparition of a deceased homeowner physically attacked him before dissolving. He examines the evidence for survival of consciousness after death, weighing whether ghosts represent genuine discarnate intelligence or projections of the living human psyche.