December 4, 2001: Ghost Hunting, North Carolina's Brown Mountain Lights - Joshua P. Warren
December 4, 2001: Ghost Hunting, North Carolina's Brown Mountain Lights - Joshua P. Warren  
Podcast: The Art Bell Archive
Published On: Thu Jan 23 2025
Description: Art Bell welcomes paranormal investigator Joshua P. Warren to discuss his decade-long research into the mysterious Brown Mountain Lights of North Carolina's Pisgah National Forest. Warren describes the unexplained illuminations that have appeared on and around the ridge for perhaps 800 years, investigated multiple times by the U.S. government and the Smithsonian. He shares his team's recent videotape of an unidentified flying object rising from the ridge and vanishing into the sky.The conversation turns to the science behind ghost hunting, including electromagnetic field measurements, infrared photography, and Warren's experimental use of electrostatic generators as "ghost bait" to enhance paranormal activity at haunted locations. Warren explains his distinction between two types of ghosts: imprints that replay like a tape loop and conscious entities that interact with the living in real time.Art opens the first hour with news commentary on the Afghanistan war, Bobby Fischer's shocking endorsement of the September 11 attacks, and listener reports of hearing mysterious voices in the twilight state between waking and sleep. Callers share UFO sightings, entity encounters, and an Area 51 worker's firsthand account of observing disc-shaped craft from the Nevada Test Site.