January 27, 1997: Open Lines

Art Bell opens the lines on a night dominated by a remarkable discovery: a long-lost 1907 medical study by Dr. Duncan MacDougall documenting measurable weight loss at the precise instant of human death. Art reads portions of the study aloud, detailing how patients on precision beam scales lost three-quarters of an ounce instantaneously upon dying, with all other explanations methodically ruled out. The study found no such weight change in 70 dogs at the moment of death. The first hour features… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/january-27-1997-open-lines