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Speaker 1: Ready, you will be amazed by the wizard of weird.
Speaker 1: This is Strange Joshua Warren. I am Joshuaipe Warren, and
Speaker 1: each week on this show, I'll be bringing you brand
Speaker 1: new my blowing content, news exercises, and weird experiments you
Speaker 1: can do at home, and a lot more. On this
Speaker 1: edition of the show, it moved again finally Art Bell's Alien.
Speaker 1: I've been doing this particular podcast called Strange Things four
Speaker 1: five years and it's amazing how many new people listen
Speaker 1: to the show every week, and they get really excited,
Speaker 1: and I get a lot of emails saying, what is
Speaker 1: this whole thing? I keep hearing about you having this
Speaker 1: statue of an alien that belonged to Art Bell, the
Speaker 1: creator of Coast to Coast am the late creator a
Speaker 1: statue that comes to life sometimes. What's the story there, Well,
Speaker 1: let me tell you what. I just took a trip
Speaker 1: and when Lauren and I got back a few days ago,
Speaker 1: Art Bell's alien statue had moved again for the first
Speaker 1: time in many, many years. So I'm going to talk
Speaker 1: about other stuff in this podcast, but I've decided that
Speaker 1: I want to do kind of a definitive overview of
Speaker 1: the story of Art Bell's alien statue and how I
Speaker 1: attained it and just how unusual this thing is leading
Speaker 1: up to the fact that once again it appears that
Speaker 1: this statue has moved. It's a big deal. And so
Speaker 1: if you're brand new to this topic that you'll enjoy
Speaker 1: this story, I promise you. But if you know you
Speaker 1: kind of know the story, well, I think you'll enjoy
Speaker 1: hearing details about this that you've never heard before. But first,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, you know, I just got back from
Speaker 1: this trip and I can't really distinguish my personal life
Speaker 1: from my professional life. If I go somewhere on a trip,
Speaker 1: it's business and pleasure. So if I'm going somewhere to
Speaker 1: work on a project, I find some fun time. And
Speaker 1: if I go somewhere to relax and get away, I
Speaker 1: can't help it but to go out and get some
Speaker 1: good stories, get into some mischief, get some ideas for
Speaker 1: new inventions and inventions and products. So I just I
Speaker 1: want to tell you a few things about one of
Speaker 1: the places that I just visited. Of course, I live
Speaker 1: here in Las Vegas, Nevada, and it's only about a
Speaker 1: four hour drive to the coast of California. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can fly there, and it's practically less than an
Speaker 1: hour to fly. So that's what I usually do when
Speaker 1: I go there. And I had never really taken time
Speaker 1: to explore this area called Newport Beach, California, which is
Speaker 1: about an hour's drive south of Los Angeles. And in
Speaker 1: Newport Beach, I mean it's there are so many bars
Speaker 1: and restaurants and gift shops and all right on the water,
Speaker 1: most of them within walking distance, that it was an
Speaker 1: action pack period of time. And so whenever I go
Speaker 1: to a new town, one of the first things I
Speaker 1: look for is the oldest bar, because that's where you
Speaker 1: find some great stories and I was like, I want
Speaker 1: to go to the oldest operating bar, and I want
Speaker 1: to see what kind of tails I can dig up,
Speaker 1: because they are almost always haunted. If they're not haunted,
Speaker 1: I think it's just because the people working there don't
Speaker 1: want to talk about it. And so I was finding
Speaker 1: some conflicting information online about what's the oldest bar in
Speaker 1: Newport Beach, California. And because that happens a lot, people
Speaker 1: kind of compete about Well, we were out of business
Speaker 1: for a little while during the prohibition, but then we
Speaker 1: came back. Except so you know, I've been hearing about
Speaker 1: this new AI search engine called grock gr ok grock
Speaker 1: dot com. So I said, you know, I'm going to
Speaker 1: try this out. So I go to Grock. I said, Grock,
Speaker 1: what is the oldest bar in Newport Beach, California. And
Speaker 1: he goes, oh, it's the Blue Beat. That's easy, the
Speaker 1: Blue Beat. And I'd done a lot of research and
Speaker 1: I had not come across this name of the Blue
Speaker 1: Beat spelled bee t and this is a bar right
Speaker 1: there on the water that apparently has been operating since
Speaker 1: nineteen twelve. And so I said, well, that's the first
Speaker 1: place I'm going to go. So when I got there,
Speaker 1: Lauren and I we walked into this kind of a
Speaker 1: down a very narrow I don't want to say an alleyway,
Speaker 1: but it was almost like a little narrow alleyway. And
Speaker 1: here is this unassuming door. We go inside. There's a
Speaker 1: bit of a hallway, it's kind of dark, and then
Speaker 1: we get in there and Wow, I couldn't believe how
Speaker 1: cool this bar was because what I'd seen online did
Speaker 1: not do it justice. You could tell you could you
Speaker 1: could smell the age, and that's a good thing. You
Speaker 1: could feel the age. Nice, big long bar. They have
Speaker 1: a stage there where they do performances. This is a
Speaker 1: three story bar with a rooftop and you can go
Speaker 1: up there and enjoy the breeze as you look out
Speaker 1: at the ocean. Really really nice place. Definitely one of
Speaker 1: my favorite spots in Newport Beach. And the bartender, she
Speaker 1: was so nice. We had gotten there right after they opened,
Speaker 1: and so we Laurene and I were literally the only
Speaker 1: people in the bar because this is probably like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, like four o'clock in the I don't know,
Speaker 1: And so we had some time to talk to this bartender.
Speaker 1: And I'll just tell you this quickly. She says that
Speaker 1: she has seen herself ghosts there. The one that she
Speaker 1: saw most prominently is the ghost of a child, and
Speaker 1: the child often turns a corner and runs up the
Speaker 1: stairs from the bottom floor there. Nobody knows who the
Speaker 1: kid is. There's also an old man that haunts the place.
Speaker 1: Nobody is sure who he is. They think it might
Speaker 1: be one of the past owners. There was a guy
Speaker 1: named Sid who owned the place for a long time,
Speaker 1: apparently not a very nice guy, who was very attached
Speaker 1: to the property, and so some people think that he
Speaker 1: refuses to leave because he just wants to maintain control.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, there was a lady of the
Speaker 1: night named Dollar Dolly. We know how those stories go,
Speaker 1: who used to hang out there. People see a woman
Speaker 1: they think might be Dolly. There's just a lot of
Speaker 1: ghostly stuff in this place. I didn't bring any ghost
Speaker 1: hunting equipment with me, but the bartenders said that just
Speaker 1: recently there had been a customer, a regular who likes
Speaker 1: to come over there, and I guess he likes to
Speaker 1: eat salad, but he has his own salad dressing that
Speaker 1: he brings. I think that's what she said, and that
Speaker 1: he had sat down with his table with this jar
Speaker 1: of salad dressing, and as he's about to eat, she
Speaker 1: was standing right there looking over there talking to him,
Speaker 1: and this entire relatively heavy jar of salad dressing just
Speaker 1: launched off of the table and burst all over the floor.
Speaker 1: Poltergeist type activity. But so if you're ever in that area,
Speaker 1: go to go to of course, the Blue Beat. But
Speaker 1: now I must tell you I kept hearing about this
Speaker 1: bar that everybody said had the like the most heavenly
Speaker 1: burgers have called Cassidys, and they were right. This the
Speaker 1: burger at this bar called Cassidys is so amazing, and
Speaker 1: that Cassidy's is a dive bar, and I love dive bars.
Speaker 1: But you see, I loved the burger there so much
Speaker 1: that I on the line my last day. I was
Speaker 1: timpted to get one of those metallic food bags and say,
Speaker 1: loaded up with burgers and I'm going to take this
Speaker 1: with me on the plane. But I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to lose weight, so that's not a good idea.
Speaker 1: But I will tell you this, Lauren and I got
Speaker 1: so excited because we're big trivia buffs, and we walked
Speaker 1: all the way back to the very back corner of
Speaker 1: the bar is kind of an L shape, and in
Speaker 1: the corner is this game that we had not seen.
Speaker 1: Used to see them a lot in bars, and I
Speaker 1: haven't seen one in years. I think it's called Double
Speaker 1: Quiz Entertainment. It's a computer screen and you can pop
Speaker 1: a dollar in there, and you can pick a certain
Speaker 1: segment or category of trivia and then you have to
Speaker 1: be accurate and very fast to try to place, and
Speaker 1: at the end it gives you your score compared to
Speaker 1: everybody else who's ever tried this machine. So we go
Speaker 1: in there and we see that the number one score
Speaker 1: holder is this guy named Oscar Meyer and didn't even
Speaker 1: spell his name the right way, spelled mye er anyway,
Speaker 1: he had six hundred and thirty five thousand, four hundred points.
Speaker 1: That's a big score. But when Lauren and I saw this,
Speaker 1: we were like, oh, Oscar, you're going down. You're going down.
Speaker 1: And so Lauren says, I'm going to be the one
Speaker 1: to do it. So she and I sit there and
Speaker 1: start competing, popping in dollar bills. We were there for hours.
Speaker 1: It's so hard to place number one on these things.
Speaker 1: But I was like, Oscar, I am not leaving until
Speaker 1: I am the number one on this machine. Well, it
Speaker 1: took us two days of playing in this place. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you just need a man from the Blue Ridge Mountains
Speaker 1: to get it done right. And yes, my dear listeners,
Speaker 1: I the Great and Terrible Joshu Wapee Warren was that man.
Speaker 1: I took down Oscar Meyer mercilessly. But when we come back,
Speaker 1: I want to tell you what happened right after that
Speaker 1: at this bar, this guy came up to me and
Speaker 1: did something that was very surprising. I got a few
Speaker 1: other weird stories to share with you, and then we're
Speaker 1: going to get into the art bell thing. So much
Speaker 1: to talk about. And you know what, by the time
Speaker 1: you hear this, I may have a brand new product
Speaker 1: posted in the Curiosity Shop on my website Joshua Pwarren
Speaker 1: dot com. I'm not certain. Again, it depends on the
Speaker 1: timing here of when you hear this show. But go
Speaker 1: to Joshua Pewarren dot com, click the link to the
Speaker 1: Curiosity Shop and just see if there's something there that
Speaker 1: you've never seen before. Because I have made one little
Speaker 1: batch of these by request and it's so cool. Also,
Speaker 1: while you're there, please sign up for my free and
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Speaker 1: I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on
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Speaker 1: And I'll be right back. Welcome back to Strange Things.
Speaker 1: Call the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.
Speaker 1: I am your host, the Wizard of Weird, Joshua P. Warren,
Speaker 1: beaming into your wormhole brain from my studio in Sin City,
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day is golden and every
Speaker 1: night is silver. Gietto zoom. So I said, Oscar Meyer,
Speaker 1: you're going down, and sure enough I am. Let's see here.
Speaker 1: If if you walk into as you hear this hopefully
Speaker 1: because I doubt I've been defeated. If you live near
Speaker 1: Newport Beach, California, and you go to a dive bar
Speaker 1: called Cassidys, and you walk all the way to the
Speaker 1: back to the trivia machine and you look up the
Speaker 1: movie Trivia, then right there at the top you will
Speaker 1: see the name JP Warren with the score of six
Speaker 1: hundred thirty seven thousand, eight hundred and I must say, however,
Speaker 1: kudos to Lauren. She continued playing, and I believe that
Speaker 1: she took up all of the other spaces number two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
Speaker 1: and ten. So we are quite quite a power couple.
Speaker 1: A power couple in the bar trivia world. Right, as
Speaker 1: I was winning, of this guy guy who looked like
Speaker 1: he was in his early fifties, very fit, well dressed
Speaker 1: kind of guy. You know, he's beach dressed, but you know,
Speaker 1: he looked like a normal guy. He came up to us,
Speaker 1: obviously intoxicated, didn't know us from Adam, put his arms
Speaker 1: around us, like, hey, you guys are great. I love
Speaker 1: you guys. Typical drunk guy talk at a bar, right,
Speaker 1: no big deal. And then he starts talking about his
Speaker 1: life and everything. And next thing, you know, just in
Speaker 1: midsentence says he's talking to us, he reaches in his pocket,
Speaker 1: pulls out a little zip lock baggie full of white
Speaker 1: powder and pours a little bit on his left hand
Speaker 1: and snorts it and puts you back in his pocket,
Speaker 1: continues talking to us, just like it was nothing. Lauren
Speaker 1: and I look at each other and Lauren was like,
Speaker 1: did you see that? So I some strange things happened
Speaker 1: in bars in California, And that's even coming from a
Speaker 1: guy who lives in Las Vegs. In fact, I was
Speaker 1: telling Lauren one of my favorite stories back in I
Speaker 1: guess this was the late nineteen seventies. At a bar
Speaker 1: in California, not too far from San Francisco, there was
Speaker 1: a guy named Gary doll Dahl. Yeah, this is like
Speaker 1: the mid seventies. He was sitting at a bar with
Speaker 1: some of his friends, and his friends were complaining about
Speaker 1: their pets. One had a dog, was saying, oh man,
Speaker 1: it's such a pain to have a dog, and Jella says, yeah,
Speaker 1: well you listen to it, how it's like to have
Speaker 1: a cat, you know. So Gary says, what do you
Speaker 1: want your pet to do? Just sit there and do nothing,
Speaker 1: like a rock, you know. And then the light bulb
Speaker 1: goes off and he comes up with this idea for
Speaker 1: this novelty item called the pat rock. You've heard me
Speaker 1: talk about it before, and I own one. Of course,
Speaker 1: I'm that stupid, and he he ended up like getting
Speaker 1: some supply of these very smooth rocks from this one
Speaker 1: area of Mexico put them in a little box with
Speaker 1: a handbook, sold them at I believe, four dollars apiece,
Speaker 1: and in six months he made fifteen million dollars. One
Speaker 1: of the greatest marketing achievements, like of all time. And
Speaker 1: that came out of a conversation that a man named
Speaker 1: Gary Dahl. He just died not too long ago, I
Speaker 1: think less than ten years ago. Yeah, you find interesting
Speaker 1: stuff in that area. There's in fact, right down the
Speaker 1: road from that bar, Cassidy's, there's a service there and
Speaker 1: their website is Scattering of Ashes at Sea. I think
Speaker 1: you can imagine what that means. And if you go
Speaker 1: to Scattering of Ashes at Sea, they have this whole
Speaker 1: plan set up where you can take a loved one's
Speaker 1: ashes and there are various ways you can have them
Speaker 1: disposed of it. See, you can get with your friends
Speaker 1: on a yacht with the bartender and caterers, and you
Speaker 1: can even have a guy playing bagpipes. They'll even release
Speaker 1: a dove if you and then they, you know, very
Speaker 1: ceremoniously put your ashes out there in the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 1: And I was trying to figure out and say how
Speaker 1: much does this cost? And on their website they didn't
Speaker 1: come right out and say it's like, you don't contact
Speaker 1: us and we'll talk about it kind of thing. So
Speaker 1: I go, hmmm, hey, Grok, Grok, how much does it
Speaker 1: cost to have them put your ashes out there, you know,
Speaker 1: in the ocean like that? And Grok said, well, you know,
Speaker 1: it depends that if you just pay a few hundred
Speaker 1: dollars to some of these services, then they'll you just
Speaker 1: hand the ashes over to some captain and he'll go
Speaker 1: and do it and tell you about it. You don't
Speaker 1: get to see it. He'll go, he'll go get rid
Speaker 1: of the ashes somehow or other, and then he'll come
Speaker 1: back and give you the GPS coordinates. So but then,
Speaker 1: of course, if you want to go to like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's get some people here. Now, you're talking thousands of
Speaker 1: dollars potentially to put together a whole party on the
Speaker 1: yacht and go do that. So I don't know, that
Speaker 1: might be a fun thing to do when I'm dead.
Speaker 1: I wish I could be there for it, though. It'd
Speaker 1: be fun for you guys. All Right, enough of the
Speaker 1: story about my recent trip. I could go on and on,
Speaker 1: but I'll tell you little stories. I'll sprinkle them over
Speaker 1: upcoming shows. Here's what I really wanted to get into.
Speaker 1: Because of course I did buy some new interesting things
Speaker 1: on my recent trip, and I'm always collecting things. I'm
Speaker 1: experimenting with things. People send me some very strange things.
Speaker 1: You may know. I did an episode of this show,
Speaker 1: episode one eighty three, called Dead Aliens. You won't believe
Speaker 1: what Joshua received. Well, I was sent a sword that
Speaker 1: was supposedly used by a man to kill over a
Speaker 1: dozen aliens. And I am still in the process of
Speaker 1: confirming the DNA testing of these stains on the blade
Speaker 1: of the sword, so I will keep you updated on that.
Speaker 1: I get said all kinds of amazing things. I'm kind
Speaker 1: of like Batman. I have a bat cave, just a
Speaker 1: whole bat cave full of underwear from fans. You know,
Speaker 1: some are gigantic. So and if you if you want
Speaker 1: me to return to the favor, I'll send you some
Speaker 1: of my underwear. But I will have to invoice you
Speaker 1: for that. Maybe about oh, I don't know. I guess
Speaker 1: I was going to say a thousand dollars, but I'll
Speaker 1: do a special this week for five hundred. Anyway, Look
Speaker 1: of all the things that I have, possibly the coolest
Speaker 1: thing that I have is Carville, which is Art Bell's
Speaker 1: alien statue. And I just want to tell you that
Speaker 1: I think I got him fourteen years ago, and I
Speaker 1: haven't seen him move in fourteen years, but he just
Speaker 1: he just moved. Let me tell you the story. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you the story, the real detailed story of
Speaker 1: Art Bell's alien statue, because five years ago I sat
Speaker 1: down and I wrote up this entire provedance with all
Speaker 1: of the facts, and I put together a website called
Speaker 1: Artbellalien dot com artbellalien dot com, and I just want
Speaker 1: to sort of you've probably seen this site. It's got
Speaker 1: all kinds of pictures and video clips and audio clips.
Speaker 1: So go there and look at the site and read
Speaker 1: the site. But let me also let me just go
Speaker 1: down the page and tell you the story. Okay, the
Speaker 1: amazing story of Art Bell's alien statue rumor to sometimes
Speaker 1: come to life at night. This is the only artifact
Speaker 1: owned by America's top rated daytime talk radio host Rush
Speaker 1: Limbaugh and America's top rated nighttime radio host, Coast to
Speaker 1: Coast am creator Art Bell. Both of them are in
Speaker 1: the National Radio Hall of Fame. This is a one
Speaker 1: of a kind piece of handcrafted art. It's unique, it's
Speaker 1: made of wood, it's mahogany. This statue is approximately five
Speaker 1: feet tall and weighs seventy two pounds. Here's the story.
Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety eight, there was a resurgence of cigar popularity,
Speaker 1: and this kept a man named Darren Hussey, a professional
Speaker 1: woodcarver in Newark, Delaware, busy. Now he created traditional cigar
Speaker 1: store native American statues, and the orders coming in were extraordinary.
Speaker 1: So as he worked at his studio, he usually listened
Speaker 1: to Rush Limbaugh's afternoon talk radio show. Darren always had
Speaker 1: a sense of humor and an interest in aliens, and
Speaker 1: so he made a few for fun. It took him
Speaker 1: two weeks of work to create this unique statue. When
Speaker 1: he was done with the mahogany, five foot tall, seventy
Speaker 1: two pound alien, he felt it looked like one of
Speaker 1: Russia's opponents, democratic pundit James Carvell. Shortly thereafter, Darren was
Speaker 1: delivering some of his art to various shops in New York,
Speaker 1: and he happened to go into a store and saw
Speaker 1: that the new Weekly World News tabloid cover featured a
Speaker 1: picture of Rush Limball meeting with space aliens, and so
Speaker 1: Darren got an idea. He signed the base of the
Speaker 1: statue Carville the Alien. He then signed his name in
Speaker 1: the year nineteen ninety eight, and he then decided to
Speaker 1: drop it off in a wooden crate at the lobby
Speaker 1: of Rush Limball's New York radio station WABC as a gift,
Speaker 1: and the rattled staff accepted the gift, and that would
Speaker 1: be the last Darren heard of the statue for fifteen years.
Speaker 1: When we come back from this break, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what transpired over those next fifteen years and how it
Speaker 1: has led up to this amazing thing that I am
Speaker 1: now experiencing in my own home. Uh. I'm glad I
Speaker 1: do this show every week because there's never enough time.
Speaker 1: I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on
Speaker 1: the iHeart Radio and Coast to Coast am Paranormal Podcast Network.
Speaker 1: And I'll be back after these important messages. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to Strange Things all on the iHeart Radio and Coast
Speaker 1: to Coast Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua Wao P. Warren,
Speaker 1: and this is the show where the unusual becomes usual.
Speaker 1: So wood Carver Darren Hussy. He he drops off this
Speaker 1: statue at Red Rush Limbaugh station and they accepted it.
Speaker 1: Darren said that he heard from others that Rush had
Speaker 1: talked about it on his show and put it in
Speaker 1: his studio. By the way, I've never found the audio
Speaker 1: of Rush Limbaugh saying that, so if you can find it,
Speaker 1: I'll give you a reward, because Rush did a lot
Speaker 1: of talking in his life. But anyway, I actually hear
Speaker 1: I interviewed on August twenty fourth of twenty thirteen. I
Speaker 1: was hosting a show called strange, called Speaking of Strange
Speaker 1: on news radio five seventy WWNC in Asheville, North Carolina,
Speaker 1: and I interviewed Darren Hussey, the woodcarver, And you can
Speaker 1: play the audio off the website here Artbellalien dot com
Speaker 1: and listen to that whole interview. It's thirty two minutes long.
Speaker 1: Darren Hussey, by the way, his website is big Bronze
Speaker 1: dot com. Big Bronze dot com. I'm assuming he's still
Speaker 1: happily making some amazing sculptures there in Newark, Delaware. Well.
Speaker 1: On Saturday, March tenth of two thousand and one, three
Speaker 1: years after Darren dropped off the statue, Art Bell was
Speaker 1: being honored at the R and R Talk Radio Seminar
Speaker 1: in the Pacific Room at the Marriott in Marina del Rey, California.
Speaker 1: I actually have the schedule there that on the website
Speaker 1: that shows everybody's picture and the lineup. So as Art
Speaker 1: was being interviewed on stage by Matt Drudge, another radio host,
Speaker 1: many radio professionals, including Coast to Coast AM producer Lisa Lyon,
Speaker 1: witnessed this session and at the end of the interview,
Speaker 1: Clear Channel. The Clear Channel at that time was the
Speaker 1: company name of the company that owned Coast to Coast AM.
Speaker 1: At the end of this interview, Clear Channel CEO Randy
Speaker 1: Michaels came on stage to present Art Bell and Matt
Speaker 1: Drudge with gifts, and a man named Craig Kitchen, chairman
Speaker 1: of the National Radio Hall of Fame, sent me this
Speaker 1: report from a radio insider named Al Peterson in quote
Speaker 1: sorry quote earlyer that morning, Randy had arranged with us
Speaker 1: to hide the alien statue behind the stage curtain, and
Speaker 1: when Art and Matt were Doney came out and told
Speaker 1: the audience to sit down because he had a special
Speaker 1: presentation for Art, and to Art's obvious delight out came
Speaker 1: the alien. End quote. A man named Art Vuelo, known
Speaker 1: as Radio's Best Friend, meticulously documented talk radio events at
Speaker 1: the time. I contacted Artvuelo and he actually sent me
Speaker 1: video footage of this happening. Footage of Art Bell receiving
Speaker 1: the alien statue on the stage, Arts grinning and hugging it.
Speaker 1: You can watch this video at artbellalien dot com. In
Speaker 1: the video, Randy Michaels says, quote this in fact, as
Speaker 1: you know, was in Rush Limbaugh's studio. End quote at
Speaker 1: Art fawns over the statue, and he says, quote, I
Speaker 1: walked into Rush's studio and I said, oh my god.
Speaker 1: It was right next to his desk. What is this?
Speaker 1: What is this here? And I think we put a
Speaker 1: cigarette in his hand and a five dollar bill on
Speaker 1: the left. But I couldn't believe it, and so Rush
Speaker 1: sent this to me. Quote, yes, said Randy Michaels, that
Speaker 1: is yours, and again Art hugs the statue affectionately. I
Speaker 1: have the email here to verify that. I also have
Speaker 1: a clip of Art describing this happening and his first
Speaker 1: encounter with Carvel in Rush Limbaugh's studio there that aired
Speaker 1: on Coast to coast am of March sixteenth of two
Speaker 1: thousand and one, and Carvill the Alien was a beloved
Speaker 1: fixture fixture in an Art studio in his house there
Speaker 1: for ten years until twenty eleven. I have a picture there.
Speaker 1: It's a screenshot from Art's studio webcam showing Art sitting
Speaker 1: there next to Carvill the Alien. Over the years, Art
Speaker 1: continued to sort of love on his resident alien, dressing
Speaker 1: Carvil with Marty Gras beads and other special ornaments. Okay,
Speaker 1: fast forward. In two thousand and one, I Joshua Warren
Speaker 1: was in California to shoot an episode of Ghost Adventures
Speaker 1: for the Travel Channel. It was season five, episode four
Speaker 1: called Winchester Mystery House, and on my way to the set,
Speaker 1: I received an unbelievable call from one of my radio
Speaker 1: producers named Mobius. You know Mobius, and Mobia said that
Speaker 1: he'd been talking to Art Bell and that Art said
Speaker 1: that his wife and daughter claimed that Carvill the Alien
Speaker 1: statue was coming to life at night and running around
Speaker 1: the house. And Art said his wife and daughter demanded
Speaker 1: that the statue be removed from the house. And Art
Speaker 1: said that Rush Limbaugh's wife had also said that she
Speaker 1: saw the statue move its head and demanded it be removed.
Speaker 1: So this was not a joke, and Art had no
Speaker 1: sense of humor about this. Art said, as much as
Speaker 1: I love the statue, it has to go asap. And
Speaker 1: I told Mobias there was no way I was going
Speaker 1: to believe this unless Art called me himself and told
Speaker 1: this to me. Art had interviewed me once or twice before,
Speaker 1: so we had a professional connection. And less than an
Speaker 1: hour later, sure enough, Art called me and he told
Speaker 1: me exactly what Mobius had said, and I was dumbfounded.
Speaker 1: And Art said I needed to come to his house
Speaker 1: in Perupt, Nevada to retrieve the alien. Now, traveling to me, Art,
Speaker 1: one of my heroes in person, was an amazing opportunity,
Speaker 1: but he insisted that i'd be there in just a
Speaker 1: few days, and that was impossible for me since I
Speaker 1: was in the middle of the TV shoot. I had
Speaker 1: to complete this Ghost Adventures chute, and then I had
Speaker 1: to fly directly from California to Michigan to speak at
Speaker 1: a big conference, and these were obligations that I had
Speaker 1: to So one of my biggest regrets in life is
Speaker 1: that I was unable to personally visit Art and pick
Speaker 1: up Carvill. The timing was so horrible it was not
Speaker 1: meant to be, but I knew I had to get
Speaker 1: this statue. So I contacted a good friend, a producer, director,
Speaker 1: an art bell fan in Los Angeles named Jim Castle,
Speaker 1: and I asked Jim if he would drive to Perumpt
Speaker 1: to pick up the statue and ship it to me
Speaker 1: in Asheville, North Carolina, where I could put Carvell on
Speaker 1: display in my Asheville Mystery Museum. Jim was excited, he
Speaker 1: had worked on the X Files TV show, and Jim
Speaker 1: and his friend drove to Parumpt and Art warmly welcomed
Speaker 1: them into his home. Art was so gracious he gave
Speaker 1: them a tour of his property, spent hours discussing all
Speaker 1: things unexplained. Art posed for numerous picks with Carvill, and
Speaker 1: even knelt down and signed and dated the base of
Speaker 1: the statue himself, all on camera. And Furthermore, Art provided
Speaker 1: a handwritten note to confirm Carvel's provenance. And this note
Speaker 1: was written on August thirteenth of twenty eleven. It says
Speaker 1: to all this alien statue was in the studio of
Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh at WABC in New York City. Rush gave
Speaker 1: it to me at a radio and records convention. He
Speaker 1: has been in my studio since the early nineties. I
Speaker 1: hope you enjoy his company art belt, and we have
Speaker 1: a number of picks from that day, including a picture
Speaker 1: of Art signing the statue right next to the wood carver.
Speaker 1: And now look, I did in fact pay Art for
Speaker 1: the statue. It wasn't that much, but it was not
Speaker 1: just given to me outright. I did pay him. Once
Speaker 1: I was back in Ashville, Jim shipped Carvel to me
Speaker 1: in a giant box full of foam, and when I
Speaker 1: received Carvil, I was super excited to set up a
Speaker 1: new exhibit in my museum and announce this to the media.
Speaker 1: So my staff and I began building the exhibit around
Speaker 1: eleven PM. I was the last person in the building.
Speaker 1: I made sure all the lighting and signage was perfect,
Speaker 1: and then exhausted, I left. The next morning, I had
Speaker 1: a meeting downtown and I popped into the museum to
Speaker 1: pick up some papers, and I was instantly angry because
Speaker 1: after all the hard work I'd done to make sure
Speaker 1: Carvel's display was perfect, the entire statue had turned a
Speaker 1: full twenty five to forty five degrees to the right. Now,
Speaker 1: my first thought was that someone was messing with me.
Speaker 1: But then I checked the single entrance security cam and
Speaker 1: I found that no one had entered since I left
Speaker 1: nothing else in the museum. However, Fragile had been disturbed,
Speaker 1: and that's when I got goosebumps and realized that Carvill
Speaker 1: had truly, somehow moved by himself in the night. The
Speaker 1: next day, the local ABC affiliate news thirteen WLOS visited
Speaker 1: and did a report on Carvil. I have a picture
Speaker 1: of me posing with the or actually it's just a
Speaker 1: picture of the reporter and the cameraman posing with Carvel.
Speaker 1: Carvill remained on public display in my museum for the
Speaker 1: next nine years. Thousands of people from around the world
Speaker 1: visited him and loved him, and when we switched the
Speaker 1: museum's location to the basement of the Asheville Masonic Temple,
Speaker 1: Carvill became even more popular. He received one hundred, he
Speaker 1: received a thousand hugs and kisses, has been in countless selfies.
Speaker 1: He was the instant star of the show at my museum. Obviously,
Speaker 1: he was talked about on countless international radio programs, including
Speaker 1: Coast to Coast AM. However, in early twenty twenty, the
Speaker 1: museum suffered from incessant flooding problems. It was in a
Speaker 1: building that was one hundred and seven years old. Sadly,
Speaker 1: I had to close down the museum, but I decided
Speaker 1: to move its contents across the country to my new
Speaker 1: homestead in Las Vegas. And let me tell you what
Speaker 1: happened after the break. I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're listening
Speaker 1: to Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast
Speaker 1: AM Paranormal Podcast Network, and I will be right back.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the final segment of this edition of
Speaker 1: Strange Things on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM
Speaker 1: Paranormal Podcast Network. I am your host, Joshua P. Warren.
Speaker 1: And yes, I finally I moved out here to Vegas.
Speaker 1: Had Carvill shipped out here? Art Bell died in twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen and twenty twenty, Rush Limbaugh announced that he had
Speaker 1: advanced lung cancer, and the next day, February fourth of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, Trump gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Speaker 1: Carvil the Alien is now in my private collection at
Speaker 1: my house. He's not available for public display, and as
Speaker 1: soon as I got him, I had, well, I lived
Speaker 1: them a condo when I first moved out here, and
Speaker 1: as soon as I got Carvel set up in my condo,
Speaker 1: I put a camera on him twenty four to seven,
Speaker 1: and I thought, surely the goodness, i'll catch him moving
Speaker 1: at some point. And oh, I probably was there for
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe five years or something like that,
Speaker 1: never moved, never moved once. So I figured, well, you know,
Speaker 1: it's funny Carvel's back home, and so he settled down.
Speaker 1: It's amazing when you think about the journey that this
Speaker 1: statue has gone on. It went from you know, when
Speaker 1: I say, Delaware to New York, to California, to Perump, Nevada,
Speaker 1: and then to Asheville, North Carolina, and then back to
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, Nevada. This is a big chunk of wood
Speaker 1: that's been moving around a lot, and it's very very special.
Speaker 1: But I figured, well, maybe he's done moving. Well about
Speaker 1: I don't know, almost three years ago, I guess. I
Speaker 1: bought my new house here in Vegas, and when I
Speaker 1: moved Carvel over to my new house, I also had
Speaker 1: a camera on him twenty four to seven. You know,
Speaker 1: a camera that picks up motion. He never moved. He
Speaker 1: never moved, And so I got to the point up
Speaker 1: until maybe about a year ago, I said again, he's
Speaker 1: back home. He's close enough to perumpt he this is
Speaker 1: where he belongs in art bell Land. And he settled down.
Speaker 1: And then I received Kennedy the statue. I'm sorry, the ventriloicus.
Speaker 1: Most people would say a ventriloquist doll, but it's a
Speaker 1: ventrillical figure. They don't like to be called dolls or dummies.
Speaker 1: Tom dan Heiser and George Norri sent me Kennedy, the
Speaker 1: ventriloqual figure that also supposedly will move around. So I
Speaker 1: had Kennedy sort of positions near Carvill and so I
Speaker 1: took the camera that had been on Carvel and I
Speaker 1: put it on Kennedy to see if I could get
Speaker 1: Kennedy moving. And nope. I hadn't seen Kennedy move. Now
Speaker 1: a lot of other weird things have happened since I
Speaker 1: got Kennedy, the little lot of weird things. I've talked
Speaker 1: about it on this show. But I never got a moving.
Speaker 1: So you can imagine my shock when Lauren and I
Speaker 1: returned from our recent trip and we walked in the door,
Speaker 1: and we're looking all around, and I finally notice Lauren
Speaker 1: come here for a second look at Carvel. Once again,
Speaker 1: this entire seventy some pound statue five feet tall or
Speaker 1: whatever has shifted, same deal, at least twenty five degrees
Speaker 1: to the right. Nothing else in the house is disturbed.
Speaker 1: And I thought to myself, you know what, what are
Speaker 1: the chances that when I would take that camera off
Speaker 1: of Carvel and put it on Kennedy, Carvel would finally move?
Speaker 1: Do you know how frustrating that is? I have so
Speaker 1: many cameras all over my property that it's like it's
Speaker 1: like an extra job tending to all these cameras and
Speaker 1: checking on them and everything. And you know, some are
Speaker 1: wired and some are just battery powered, so I'm always
Speaker 1: having to change batteries. It's like, God, how many more
Speaker 1: cameras do I have to set up around here to
Speaker 1: capture this? There is a phenomenon that I will talk
Speaker 1: more about in the future that is a part of
Speaker 1: the paranormal world. And if you're a paranormal investigator you
Speaker 1: probably know what I'm talking about. It's the phenomenon of
Speaker 1: how that it's almost like the universe does not want
Speaker 1: you to document certain paranormal activity. And I know that
Speaker 1: sounds very convenient, doesn't it, Because you're out there making
Speaker 1: some kind of an extraordinary claim and people say, well,
Speaker 1: show me the footage, show me the video. Their cameras everywhere.
Speaker 1: But somehow these phenomena often tend to just dance around
Speaker 1: the documentation. You know, there's no other way of explaining
Speaker 1: what's happened here, but they very slightly tiptoe around your
Speaker 1: attempts to document it and prove it to you know,
Speaker 1: to prove to yourself or even to others. And gosh
Speaker 1: ya I have I could tell you many good stories
Speaker 1: about that. As a matter of fact, anybody again who
Speaker 1: does paranormal investigation, if you've done it seriously, I'm sure
Speaker 1: you know that. In some cases, you'll go into an
Speaker 1: environment in which something paranormal is supposed to happen, or
Speaker 1: you're hoping it will happen, and right before it happens,
Speaker 1: your batteries just all of a sudden die, you know,
Speaker 1: you go from a full battery to a dead battery,
Speaker 1: like in the blink of an eye, boom, How did
Speaker 1: that happen? So you can't document it. I've even attempted
Speaker 1: to go out and try to document things using old
Speaker 1: fashioned mechanical film cameras to avoid that problem. And even
Speaker 1: then there can be a problem with the either the
Speaker 1: camera malfunctions, the gears malfunction, or when you developed the film,
Speaker 1: the film is overexposed. Maybe certain people are just supposed
Speaker 1: to experience this stuff and it's just not for everybody.
Speaker 1: You know, recently, I had a I had a friend
Speaker 1: who's also a serviceman, like you know, he's a handyman,
Speaker 1: come over to my house and help me and Lauren
Speaker 1: with some stuff, and he brought his wife over for
Speaker 1: the first time. And I don't have a lot of
Speaker 1: people over at my house. To be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of a hermit at this point. I'm very
Speaker 1: devoted to my work, and you know, I'm not a
Speaker 1: big social butterfly. I was back in my younger days,
Speaker 1: but not at this point. But often when somebody comes
Speaker 1: into my house and they start seeing all of this
Speaker 1: weird stuff, they say, well, can you take me on
Speaker 1: a tour? And I say, well, sure, you know, so
Speaker 1: I'll go through and walk around the house. There's actually
Speaker 1: a video on my YouTube channel. If you go to
Speaker 1: YouTube and just look for Joshua P. Warren. You'll find
Speaker 1: that I have a channel, and at one point I
Speaker 1: did a video showing some of the weird stuff inside
Speaker 1: my house. I hope if you go look at that,
Speaker 1: you'll also subscribe to my YouTube channel. It's not monetized
Speaker 1: because I don't want you to have to watch commercials
Speaker 1: or advertisements. So I'm taking her around and telling her
Speaker 1: a story after story, and at one point she's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: so what's up with the doll? You know, the doll
Speaker 1: really attracts attention to Kennedy the doll, And I said, well,
Speaker 1: here's the deal, and I start telling her this Kennedy
Speaker 1: story and then right in the middle of the story,
Speaker 1: a telephone ring that was about five feet away from Kennedy. Now,
Speaker 1: this is a telephone that I have never used. It's
Speaker 1: a red phone, like I don't know if it's Batman
Speaker 1: or Commissioner Gordon or the president. If you've got a
Speaker 1: red phone, and that is an emergency phone, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a wired line there so that if there is
Speaker 1: some kind of a problem, we have a backup to
Speaker 1: a cell phone issue. And I have I don't even
Speaker 1: know what that number is. I have never called that
Speaker 1: anybody from that number except myself just to test it
Speaker 1: occasionally to make sure that it's working. Nobody has ever
Speaker 1: called me at that number. I've had it for years.
Speaker 1: And as I'm talking in the middle, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: for the first and only time ever, that phone rings
Speaker 1: and uh, but you know what, I didn't even answer it. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's kind of freaky, Like I didn't want to. There
Speaker 1: was a name on the caller ID. I can't remember it,
Speaker 1: but I mean, of course we were in the middle
Speaker 1: of this talk and I'd never met her, and I
Speaker 1: didn't want to, like pause and spend too much time
Speaker 1: investigating this. But let me tell you, my friends, weird
Speaker 1: things happen around some of these objects. Go to artbellalien
Speaker 1: dot com, watch the videos and look at the pictures,
Speaker 1: and you'll see why he is so special. And I
Speaker 1: promise you I'm gonna do my best to finally try
Speaker 1: to capture that thing moving on camera. All right, Unfortunately,
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