September 20, 2002: EVP - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society (GIS) to share their latest electronic voice phenomena recordings. The non-profit team reveals a breakthrough: they have begun capturing EVPs on a digital hard drive recorder, producing results far clearer than traditional magnetic tape. The voices recorded at a funeral director's haunted home are startling in their clarity.

The funeral director contacted GIS after experiencing apparitions of a small child and a man in his residence. The team believes a spirit followed him home from his work with the deceased. Multiple recordings capture a child's voice responding to questions and instructions in real time, including saying "father," "okay," and "it be okay." The interactive nature of these voices provides compelling evidence for the survival of consciousness after death.

Art opens the show with open lines, covering news stories including missing Russian nuclear warheads, an IBM supercomputer sold to the Air Force for tracking orbital objects, and a fascinating journal article about scientists triggering out-of-body experiences through brain stimulation with electrodes.