August 22, 2004: Open Lines | Time Travel

Art Bell opens the lines for an anything-goes night, dedicating the first-time caller line to anyone claiming to have traveled through time. He begins with a vivid account of a terrifying electrical storm in Pahrump, Nevada, where lightning bombarded the area around his antenna towers for nearly five hours while the towers themselves were never hit, proving a theory about grounded steel structures creating protective discharge zones.

Callers deliver extraordinary stories throughout the night. A woman in West Palm Beach reports communicating with UFOs using a flashlight, claiming the objects move up and down for yes and side to side for no. A trucker recounts hauling a mysterious drum from the Navy Research Lab to Miami, told only it contained diesel fuel. A father in Alabama describes stumbling onto an underground government facility when his children crawled through a deactivated missile silo ventilation fan.

Art reads a report about a Russian scientist claiming to have found debris from an extraterrestrial vehicle at the Tunguska blast site, including two stone cubes of non-natural origin. He highlights a warning about La Palma in the Canary Islands, where a volcanic flank collapse could send 300-foot mega-tsunami waves into the U.S. East Coast.