WEBVTT - Episode 231: It Moved AGAIN! Art Bell’s Alien! 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:04.200 Welcome to the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM paranormal 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:07.520 podcast network. Now get ready for us Strange Things with 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:08.680 Joshua P. Warren. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:17.159 Welcome to our podcast. Please be aware the thoughts and 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:21.200 opinions expressed by the host are their thoughts and opinions 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:26.440 only and do not reflect those of iHeartMedia, iHeartRadio, Coast 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:30.880 to Coast AM, employees of Premiere Networks, or their sponsors 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:34.120 and associates. We would like to encourage you to do 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:54.640 your own research and discover the subject matter for yourself. 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:58.000 Ready, you will be amazed by the wizard of weird. 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:10.120 This is Strange Joshua Warren. I am Joshuaipe Warren, and 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.600 each week on this show, I'll be bringing you brand 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:17.959 new my blowing content, news exercises, and weird experiments you 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.960 can do at home, and a lot more. On this 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:30.520 edition of the show, it moved again finally Art Bell's Alien. 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:38.959 I've been doing this particular podcast called Strange Things four 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:45.040 five years and it's amazing how many new people listen 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.920 to the show every week, and they get really excited, 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.160 and I get a lot of emails saying, what is 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.200 this whole thing? I keep hearing about you having this 0:01:56.320 --> 0:02:00.200 statue of an alien that belonged to Art Bell, the 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.880 creator of Coast to Coast am the late creator a 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:10.280 statue that comes to life sometimes. What's the story there, Well, 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:12.960 let me tell you what. I just took a trip 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.720 and when Lauren and I got back a few days ago, 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:22.200 Art Bell's alien statue had moved again for the first 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:26.160 time in many, many years. So I'm going to talk 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.360 about other stuff in this podcast, but I've decided that 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:34.320 I want to do kind of a definitive overview of 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:40.200 the story of Art Bell's alien statue and how I 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:45.000 attained it and just how unusual this thing is leading 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.880 up to the fact that once again it appears that 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:52.360 this statue has moved. It's a big deal. And so 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.800 if you're brand new to this topic that you'll enjoy 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.280 this story, I promise you. But if you know you 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.640 kind of know the story, well, I think you'll enjoy 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.920 hearing details about this that you've never heard before. But first, 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.880 as I mentioned, you know, I just got back from 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:14.600 this trip and I can't really distinguish my personal life 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.440 from my professional life. If I go somewhere on a trip, 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.520 it's business and pleasure. So if I'm going somewhere to 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:22.760 work on a project, I find some fun time. And 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:24.960 if I go somewhere to relax and get away, I 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.679 can't help it but to go out and get some 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:31.520 good stories, get into some mischief, get some ideas for 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:37.200 new inventions and inventions and products. So I just I 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:38.760 want to tell you a few things about one of 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.920 the places that I just visited. Of course, I live 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:46.640 here in Las Vegas, Nevada, and it's only about a 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:52.960 four hour drive to the coast of California. I mean, 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.360 you can fly there, and it's practically less than an 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.960 hour to fly. So that's what I usually do when 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:01.280 I go there. And I had never really taken time 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:05.120 to explore this area called Newport Beach, California, which is 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:10.000 about an hour's drive south of Los Angeles. And in 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:15.000 Newport Beach, I mean it's there are so many bars 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:20.239 and restaurants and gift shops and all right on the water, 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.039 most of them within walking distance, that it was an 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:28.200 action pack period of time. And so whenever I go 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.320 to a new town, one of the first things I 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.520 look for is the oldest bar, because that's where you 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:38.320 find some great stories and I was like, I want 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.600 to go to the oldest operating bar, and I want 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:43.840 to see what kind of tails I can dig up, 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:47.400 because they are almost always haunted. If they're not haunted, 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.839 I think it's just because the people working there don't 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.839 want to talk about it. And so I was finding 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:58.280 some conflicting information online about what's the oldest bar in 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:03.599 Newport Beach, California. And because that happens a lot, people 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.039 kind of compete about Well, we were out of business 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.320 for a little while during the prohibition, but then we 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:13.119 came back. Except so you know, I've been hearing about 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:21.239 this new AI search engine called grock gr ok grock 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.160 dot com. So I said, you know, I'm going to 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.800 try this out. So I go to Grock. I said, Grock, 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:32.000 what is the oldest bar in Newport Beach, California. And 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.039 he goes, oh, it's the Blue Beat. That's easy, the 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.039 Blue Beat. And I'd done a lot of research and 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.359 I had not come across this name of the Blue 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:45.839 Beat spelled bee t and this is a bar right 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.920 there on the water that apparently has been operating since 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:52.640 nineteen twelve. And so I said, well, that's the first 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.200 place I'm going to go. So when I got there, 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.719 Lauren and I we walked into this kind of a 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.800 down a very narrow I don't want to say an alleyway, 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.520 but it was almost like a little narrow alleyway. And 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.880 here is this unassuming door. We go inside. There's a 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:10.719 bit of a hallway, it's kind of dark, and then 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.599 we get in there and Wow, I couldn't believe how 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:19.719 cool this bar was because what I'd seen online did 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.880 not do it justice. You could tell you could you 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.760 could smell the age, and that's a good thing. You 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:30.200 could feel the age. Nice, big long bar. They have 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.680 a stage there where they do performances. This is a 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:36.599 three story bar with a rooftop and you can go 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.840 up there and enjoy the breeze as you look out 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.680 at the ocean. Really really nice place. Definitely one of 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:48.279 my favorite spots in Newport Beach. And the bartender, she 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:52.120 was so nice. We had gotten there right after they opened, 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.440 and so we Laurene and I were literally the only 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.920 people in the bar because this is probably like, I 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:01.000 don't know, like four o'clock in the I don't know, 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:07.000 And so we had some time to talk to this bartender. 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.920 And I'll just tell you this quickly. She says that 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.800 she has seen herself ghosts there. The one that she 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.720 saw most prominently is the ghost of a child, and 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.120 the child often turns a corner and runs up the 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.360 stairs from the bottom floor there. Nobody knows who the 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.560 kid is. There's also an old man that haunts the place. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.760 Nobody is sure who he is. They think it might 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.320 be one of the past owners. There was a guy 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.480 named Sid who owned the place for a long time, 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:39.560 apparently not a very nice guy, who was very attached 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.840 to the property, and so some people think that he 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:47.280 refuses to leave because he just wants to maintain control. 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.080 Back in the day, there was a lady of the 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:55.560 night named Dollar Dolly. We know how those stories go, 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:57.840 who used to hang out there. People see a woman 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.440 they think might be Dolly. There's just a lot of 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.559 ghostly stuff in this place. I didn't bring any ghost 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:08.280 hunting equipment with me, but the bartenders said that just 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:12.080 recently there had been a customer, a regular who likes 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:15.960 to come over there, and I guess he likes to 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.720 eat salad, but he has his own salad dressing that 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.840 he brings. I think that's what she said, and that 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.360 he had sat down with his table with this jar 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:29.600 of salad dressing, and as he's about to eat, she 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.520 was standing right there looking over there talking to him, 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:37.760 and this entire relatively heavy jar of salad dressing just 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:43.520 launched off of the table and burst all over the floor. 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:49.800 Poltergeist type activity. But so if you're ever in that area, 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.680 go to go to of course, the Blue Beat. But 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:55.920 now I must tell you I kept hearing about this 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:59.400 bar that everybody said had the like the most heavenly 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:05.480 burgers have called Cassidys, and they were right. This the 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.280 burger at this bar called Cassidys is so amazing, and 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:13.679 that Cassidy's is a dive bar, and I love dive bars. 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.960 But you see, I loved the burger there so much 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.800 that I on the line my last day. I was 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:24.160 timpted to get one of those metallic food bags and say, 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.160 loaded up with burgers and I'm going to take this 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.920 with me on the plane. But I was like, I'm 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.040 trying to lose weight, so that's not a good idea. 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.480 But I will tell you this, Lauren and I got 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:39.040 so excited because we're big trivia buffs, and we walked 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:42.000 all the way back to the very back corner of 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.480 the bar is kind of an L shape, and in 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:49.839 the corner is this game that we had not seen. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.200 Used to see them a lot in bars, and I 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:56.079 haven't seen one in years. I think it's called Double 0:09:56.400 --> 0:10:00.680 Quiz Entertainment. It's a computer screen and you can pop 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.840 a dollar in there, and you can pick a certain 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:09.280 segment or category of trivia and then you have to 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:13.280 be accurate and very fast to try to place, and 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.560 at the end it gives you your score compared to 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:19.360 everybody else who's ever tried this machine. So we go 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.040 in there and we see that the number one score 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:28.360 holder is this guy named Oscar Meyer and didn't even 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:32.600 spell his name the right way, spelled mye er anyway, 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:39.079 he had six hundred and thirty five thousand, four hundred points. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:44.360 That's a big score. But when Lauren and I saw this, 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:50.800 we were like, oh, Oscar, you're going down. You're going down. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.160 And so Lauren says, I'm going to be the one 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:56.800 to do it. So she and I sit there and 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:01.559 start competing, popping in dollar bills. We were there for hours. 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.440 It's so hard to place number one on these things. 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:10.680 But I was like, Oscar, I am not leaving until 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:16.160 I am the number one on this machine. Well, it 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:21.080 took us two days of playing in this place. Sometimes 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.679 you just need a man from the Blue Ridge Mountains 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:25.680 to get it done right. And yes, my dear listeners, 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:29.920 I the Great and Terrible Joshu Wapee Warren was that man. 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:34.960 I took down Oscar Meyer mercilessly. But when we come back, 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.160 I want to tell you what happened right after that 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.880 at this bar, this guy came up to me and 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:45.760 did something that was very surprising. I got a few 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.600 other weird stories to share with you, and then we're 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:51.240 going to get into the art bell thing. So much 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:53.800 to talk about. And you know what, by the time 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:58.800 you hear this, I may have a brand new product 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:04.439 posted in the Curiosity Shop on my website Joshua Pwarren 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:08.160 dot com. I'm not certain. Again, it depends on the 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:11.400 timing here of when you hear this show. But go 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.120 to Joshua Pewarren dot com, click the link to the 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.800 Curiosity Shop and just see if there's something there that 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:21.520 you've never seen before. Because I have made one little 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:27.440 batch of these by request and it's so cool. Also, 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.280 while you're there, please sign up for my free and 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.920 spam Free e newsletter on the homepage. It takes you 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.960 two seconds, and yeah, you'll be You'll be happy it did. 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.680 I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:47.040 the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. 0:12:47.880 --> 0:13:32.880 And I'll be right back. Welcome back to Strange Things. 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:37.800 Call the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.559 I am your host, the Wizard of Weird, Joshua P. Warren, 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:46.200 beaming into your wormhole brain from my studio in Sin City, 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:50.400 Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day is golden and every 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:58.000 night is silver. Gietto zoom. So I said, Oscar Meyer, 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:05.560 you're going down, and sure enough I am. Let's see here. 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:09.320 If if you walk into as you hear this hopefully 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.240 because I doubt I've been defeated. If you live near 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.800 Newport Beach, California, and you go to a dive bar 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.520 called Cassidys, and you walk all the way to the 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.920 back to the trivia machine and you look up the 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.240 movie Trivia, then right there at the top you will 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:29.440 see the name JP Warren with the score of six 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:37.320 hundred thirty seven thousand, eight hundred and I must say, however, 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:42.400 kudos to Lauren. She continued playing, and I believe that 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:49.720 she took up all of the other spaces number two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:55.400 and ten. So we are quite quite a power couple. 0:14:56.080 --> 0:15:01.680 A power couple in the bar trivia world. Right, as 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.880 I was winning, of this guy guy who looked like 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:09.400 he was in his early fifties, very fit, well dressed 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.200 kind of guy. You know, he's beach dressed, but you know, 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.920 he looked like a normal guy. He came up to us, 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:19.240 obviously intoxicated, didn't know us from Adam, put his arms 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.520 around us, like, hey, you guys are great. I love 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:26.320 you guys. Typical drunk guy talk at a bar, right, 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.480 no big deal. And then he starts talking about his 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:33.680 life and everything. And next thing, you know, just in 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.680 midsentence says he's talking to us, he reaches in his pocket, 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.600 pulls out a little zip lock baggie full of white 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:45.760 powder and pours a little bit on his left hand 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:49.840 and snorts it and puts you back in his pocket, 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:55.440 continues talking to us, just like it was nothing. Lauren 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.160 and I look at each other and Lauren was like, 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:02.800 did you see that? So I some strange things happened 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:07.360 in bars in California, And that's even coming from a 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:11.840 guy who lives in Las Vegs. In fact, I was 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:16.320 telling Lauren one of my favorite stories back in I 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:21.440 guess this was the late nineteen seventies. At a bar 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:27.280 in California, not too far from San Francisco, there was 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:32.920 a guy named Gary doll Dahl. Yeah, this is like 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.880 the mid seventies. He was sitting at a bar with 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:39.840 some of his friends, and his friends were complaining about 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.760 their pets. One had a dog, was saying, oh man, 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.200 it's such a pain to have a dog, and Jella says, yeah, 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:46.800 well you listen to it, how it's like to have 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:51.080 a cat, you know. So Gary says, what do you 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.240 want your pet to do? Just sit there and do nothing, 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.520 like a rock, you know. And then the light bulb 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:01.280 goes off and he comes up with this idea for 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.960 this novelty item called the pat rock. You've heard me 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:08.280 talk about it before, and I own one. Of course, 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:12.959 I'm that stupid, and he he ended up like getting 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.760 some supply of these very smooth rocks from this one 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:20.159 area of Mexico put them in a little box with 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:25.240 a handbook, sold them at I believe, four dollars apiece, 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:33.880 and in six months he made fifteen million dollars. One 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:39.680 of the greatest marketing achievements, like of all time. And 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.320 that came out of a conversation that a man named 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.000 Gary Dahl. He just died not too long ago, I 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:50.400 think less than ten years ago. Yeah, you find interesting 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.040 stuff in that area. There's in fact, right down the 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.879 road from that bar, Cassidy's, there's a service there and 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:02.320 their website is Scattering of Ashes at Sea. I think 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:05.080 you can imagine what that means. And if you go 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:08.399 to Scattering of Ashes at Sea, they have this whole 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.080 plan set up where you can take a loved one's 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.920 ashes and there are various ways you can have them 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.560 disposed of it. See, you can get with your friends 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:20.000 on a yacht with the bartender and caterers, and you 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:23.479 can even have a guy playing bagpipes. They'll even release 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:27.080 a dove if you and then they, you know, very 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:31.439 ceremoniously put your ashes out there in the Pacific Ocean. 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:33.199 And I was trying to figure out and say how 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:37.160 much does this cost? And on their website they didn't 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.080 come right out and say it's like, you don't contact 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:40.840 us and we'll talk about it kind of thing. So 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:46.800 I go, hmmm, hey, Grok, Grok, how much does it 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.439 cost to have them put your ashes out there, you know, 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:55.159 in the ocean like that? And Grok said, well, you know, 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.679 it depends that if you just pay a few hundred 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:02.720 dollars to some of these services, then they'll you just 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.480 hand the ashes over to some captain and he'll go 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.280 and do it and tell you about it. You don't 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:12.119 get to see it. He'll go, he'll go get rid 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:15.640 of the ashes somehow or other, and then he'll come 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:19.240 back and give you the GPS coordinates. So but then, 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.080 of course, if you want to go to like, hey, 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:23.639 let's get some people here. Now, you're talking thousands of 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.200 dollars potentially to put together a whole party on the 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.359 yacht and go do that. So I don't know, that 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:31.320 might be a fun thing to do when I'm dead. 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:35.480 I wish I could be there for it, though. It'd 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:41.080 be fun for you guys. All Right, enough of the 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:43.719 story about my recent trip. I could go on and on, 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.760 but I'll tell you little stories. I'll sprinkle them over 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:50.439 upcoming shows. Here's what I really wanted to get into. 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:54.920 Because of course I did buy some new interesting things 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:58.920 on my recent trip, and I'm always collecting things. I'm 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:04.199 experimenting with things. People send me some very strange things. 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:06.800 You may know. I did an episode of this show, 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:11.080 episode one eighty three, called Dead Aliens. You won't believe 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:16.199 what Joshua received. Well, I was sent a sword that 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:20.560 was supposedly used by a man to kill over a 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:24.639 dozen aliens. And I am still in the process of 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:29.679 confirming the DNA testing of these stains on the blade 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.160 of the sword, so I will keep you updated on that. 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:36.520 I get said all kinds of amazing things. I'm kind 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:40.600 of like Batman. I have a bat cave, just a 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:43.560 whole bat cave full of underwear from fans. You know, 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:46.880 some are gigantic. So and if you if you want 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:48.719 me to return to the favor, I'll send you some 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:51.919 of my underwear. But I will have to invoice you 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:55.080 for that. Maybe about oh, I don't know. I guess 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:57.840 I was going to say a thousand dollars, but I'll 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:01.680 do a special this week for five hundred. Anyway, Look 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:07.120 of all the things that I have, possibly the coolest 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:13.639 thing that I have is Carville, which is Art Bell's 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:20.280 alien statue. And I just want to tell you that 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:24.760 I think I got him fourteen years ago, and I 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:28.320 haven't seen him move in fourteen years, but he just 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:33.119 he just moved. Let me tell you the story. Let 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:36.919 me tell you the story, the real detailed story of 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:39.880 Art Bell's alien statue, because five years ago I sat 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:43.040 down and I wrote up this entire provedance with all 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:49.000 of the facts, and I put together a website called 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:54.320 Artbellalien dot com artbellalien dot com, and I just want 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:56.760 to sort of you've probably seen this site. It's got 0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:59.400 all kinds of pictures and video clips and audio clips. 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:03.320 So go there and look at the site and read 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:07.040 the site. But let me also let me just go 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:10.240 down the page and tell you the story. Okay, the 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:16.240 amazing story of Art Bell's alien statue rumor to sometimes 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:20.600 come to life at night. This is the only artifact 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:25.280 owned by America's top rated daytime talk radio host Rush 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:31.720 Limbaugh and America's top rated nighttime radio host, Coast to 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:35.080 Coast am creator Art Bell. Both of them are in 0:22:35.119 --> 0:22:38.840 the National Radio Hall of Fame. This is a one 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:43.919 of a kind piece of handcrafted art. It's unique, it's 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:48.160 made of wood, it's mahogany. This statue is approximately five 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:55.399 feet tall and weighs seventy two pounds. Here's the story. 0:22:55.440 --> 0:22:59.640 In nineteen ninety eight, there was a resurgence of cigar popularity, 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:03.840 and this kept a man named Darren Hussey, a professional 0:23:03.840 --> 0:23:09.280 woodcarver in Newark, Delaware, busy. Now he created traditional cigar 0:23:09.400 --> 0:23:14.720 store native American statues, and the orders coming in were extraordinary. 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:18.480 So as he worked at his studio, he usually listened 0:23:18.960 --> 0:23:23.679 to Rush Limbaugh's afternoon talk radio show. Darren always had 0:23:23.680 --> 0:23:26.199 a sense of humor and an interest in aliens, and 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:29.840 so he made a few for fun. It took him 0:23:29.880 --> 0:23:34.800 two weeks of work to create this unique statue. When 0:23:34.800 --> 0:23:38.200 he was done with the mahogany, five foot tall, seventy 0:23:38.280 --> 0:23:41.480 two pound alien, he felt it looked like one of 0:23:41.520 --> 0:23:49.040 Russia's opponents, democratic pundit James Carvell. Shortly thereafter, Darren was 0:23:49.080 --> 0:23:51.760 delivering some of his art to various shops in New York, 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:55.960 and he happened to go into a store and saw 0:23:56.440 --> 0:24:01.399 that the new Weekly World News tabloid cover featured a 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:06.280 picture of Rush Limball meeting with space aliens, and so 0:24:06.840 --> 0:24:10.639 Darren got an idea. He signed the base of the 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:15.040 statue Carville the Alien. He then signed his name in 0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:19.560 the year nineteen ninety eight, and he then decided to 0:24:19.640 --> 0:24:22.960 drop it off in a wooden crate at the lobby 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:28.639 of Rush Limball's New York radio station WABC as a gift, 0:24:30.160 --> 0:24:34.320 and the rattled staff accepted the gift, and that would 0:24:34.320 --> 0:24:39.160 be the last Darren heard of the statue for fifteen years. 0:24:40.440 --> 0:24:42.440 When we come back from this break, I'll tell you 0:24:43.200 --> 0:24:48.800 what transpired over those next fifteen years and how it 0:24:48.840 --> 0:24:54.280 has led up to this amazing thing that I am 0:24:54.359 --> 0:25:02.320 now experiencing in my own home. Uh. I'm glad I 0:25:02.440 --> 0:25:05.200 do this show every week because there's never enough time. 0:25:07.680 --> 0:25:11.280 I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on 0:25:11.359 --> 0:25:15.760 the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast am Paranormal Podcast Network. 0:25:15.960 --> 0:25:54.600 And I'll be back after these important messages. Welcome back 0:25:54.640 --> 0:25:59.520 to Strange Things all on the iHeart Radio and Coast 0:25:59.520 --> 0:26:05.800 to Coast Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua Wao P. Warren, 0:26:05.840 --> 0:26:10.280 and this is the show where the unusual becomes usual. 0:26:12.160 --> 0:26:18.159 So wood Carver Darren Hussy. He he drops off this 0:26:18.280 --> 0:26:21.520 statue at Red Rush Limbaugh station and they accepted it. 0:26:23.040 --> 0:26:26.120 Darren said that he heard from others that Rush had 0:26:26.160 --> 0:26:28.240 talked about it on his show and put it in 0:26:28.320 --> 0:26:31.320 his studio. By the way, I've never found the audio 0:26:31.400 --> 0:26:34.280 of Rush Limbaugh saying that, so if you can find it, 0:26:34.280 --> 0:26:40.080 I'll give you a reward, because Rush did a lot 0:26:40.119 --> 0:26:44.439 of talking in his life. But anyway, I actually hear 0:26:44.800 --> 0:26:50.520 I interviewed on August twenty fourth of twenty thirteen. I 0:26:50.600 --> 0:26:54.240 was hosting a show called strange, called Speaking of Strange 0:26:54.880 --> 0:26:59.000 on news radio five seventy WWNC in Asheville, North Carolina, 0:26:59.560 --> 0:27:05.680 and I interviewed Darren Hussey, the woodcarver, And you can 0:27:05.880 --> 0:27:09.359 play the audio off the website here Artbellalien dot com 0:27:09.640 --> 0:27:12.240 and listen to that whole interview. It's thirty two minutes long. 0:27:15.480 --> 0:27:18.320 Darren Hussey, by the way, his website is big Bronze 0:27:18.400 --> 0:27:23.000 dot com. Big Bronze dot com. I'm assuming he's still 0:27:23.280 --> 0:27:29.520 happily making some amazing sculptures there in Newark, Delaware. Well. 0:27:30.640 --> 0:27:33.879 On Saturday, March tenth of two thousand and one, three 0:27:33.960 --> 0:27:37.359 years after Darren dropped off the statue, Art Bell was 0:27:37.400 --> 0:27:41.320 being honored at the R and R Talk Radio Seminar 0:27:42.000 --> 0:27:46.680 in the Pacific Room at the Marriott in Marina del Rey, California. 0:27:47.200 --> 0:27:54.480 I actually have the schedule there that on the website 0:27:54.560 --> 0:28:02.160 that shows everybody's picture and the lineup. So as Art 0:28:02.240 --> 0:28:08.040 was being interviewed on stage by Matt Drudge, another radio host, 0:28:09.240 --> 0:28:13.560 many radio professionals, including Coast to Coast AM producer Lisa Lyon, 0:28:14.200 --> 0:28:17.920 witnessed this session and at the end of the interview, 0:28:18.480 --> 0:28:22.159 Clear Channel. The Clear Channel at that time was the 0:28:22.200 --> 0:28:26.120 company name of the company that owned Coast to Coast AM. 0:28:26.240 --> 0:28:28.959 At the end of this interview, Clear Channel CEO Randy 0:28:29.040 --> 0:28:32.760 Michaels came on stage to present Art Bell and Matt 0:28:32.840 --> 0:28:40.000 Drudge with gifts, and a man named Craig Kitchen, chairman 0:28:40.040 --> 0:28:43.120 of the National Radio Hall of Fame, sent me this 0:28:43.320 --> 0:28:48.840 report from a radio insider named Al Peterson in quote 0:28:49.040 --> 0:28:54.000