October 29, 1997: Ghosts - Brad Steiger
The Art Bell Archive · Arthur William Bell III
December 12, 20233h 7m
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Show Notes
Art Bell welcomes prolific paranormal author Brad Steiger for a Halloween eve discussion about ghosts and the supernatural. With over 130 books to his name, Steiger shares personal experiences from a lifetime of psychic research, including growing up in a haunted Iowa farmhouse where salt shakers lifted on their own and spectral great-grandparents appeared from closets. He recounts investigating a haunted mansion where a ghost materialized before a skeptical police officer and describes putting his hand directly into the apparition.
Steiger offers his theory that roughly 90 percent of hauntings are psychic recordings replaying on a loop, though he acknowledges a remaining percentage involves genuine intelligent entities. He discusses his near-death experience at age 11 after a farm machinery accident, where he witnessed geometric patterns conveying purpose and meaning before arriving at a peaceful community on the other side. The conversation also covers his wife Sherry's mediumistic abilities and their investigation of a bed and breakfast where a deceased infant reached out to grasp her hand.
The discussion ranges from the dangers of inviting dark spiritual forces to the parallels between ghost phenomena and UFO encounters. Steiger argues these manifestations represent a single interconnected phenomenon on what he calls a haunted planet. Art and Brad also explore reincarnation and the nature of the afterlife as they set the stage for the annual Ghost to Ghost broadcast.
Steiger offers his theory that roughly 90 percent of hauntings are psychic recordings replaying on a loop, though he acknowledges a remaining percentage involves genuine intelligent entities. He discusses his near-death experience at age 11 after a farm machinery accident, where he witnessed geometric patterns conveying purpose and meaning before arriving at a peaceful community on the other side. The conversation also covers his wife Sherry's mediumistic abilities and their investigation of a bed and breakfast where a deceased infant reached out to grasp her hand.
The discussion ranges from the dangers of inviting dark spiritual forces to the parallels between ghost phenomena and UFO encounters. Steiger argues these manifestations represent a single interconnected phenomenon on what he calls a haunted planet. Art and Brad also explore reincarnation and the nature of the afterlife as they set the stage for the annual Ghost to Ghost broadcast.