October 30, 2004: The Dead Speak - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Art Bell is joined by Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society to present new electronic voice phenomena recordings captured at the Gold Hill Hotel in Virginia City, Nevada, and the Deer Lodge Prison in Montana. The EVP samples include a woman asking "are you alone?" during elevated electromagnetic readings, a child's voice saying "mother," and a deeply unsettling recording of a child pleading "help me."

Cook and McBeath discuss the disproportionate number of children's voices in their recordings, estimating roughly 70 percent of captured EVPs sound like children. This observation troubles both researchers, as it challenges conventional assumptions about what happens to innocent souls after death. They note that recordings from prisons and cemeteries consistently yield the most disturbed and unhappy voices, with almost no references to God, heaven, or religious themes.

Art also introduces the Spiricom tapes from the 1970s and 1980s, in which researcher George Meek and technician William O'Neill achieved sustained two-way voice communication with a deceased scientist named Dr. George Jeffries Mueller. The full technical schematics for the Spiricom device were made freely available to encourage future research into instrumental communication with the dead.