5.3.5
Hello fellow travelers on the road of the
paranormal. Allow me to introduce myself, my name is
Lesley, I live just a tad east of Albuquerque, New
Mexico. I don’t know exactly how many years I have
been listening to c2c, but I started listening about 6
months before Art had his first UFO related show.
Maybe someone can tell me what year that was because I
honestly don’t know, but I do know I was much younger
then. I can’t remember ever not being interested in
UFO’s and paranormal related subjects.
The first
exposure I really had to such subjects was I believe
when I was about 6 years old. There was a show called
“In search of” hosted by Mr. Nimoy and there I first
learned about UFO’s, bigfoot, ancient civilizations,
spontaneous human combustion and much more. I think
they are now rerunning these, but in the 1970's to my
knowledge this was the only show of that type on TV.
I always through my formative years scoured libraries
for books on paranormal subjects and tried to learn as
much as I could. Then I became an “adult” and I no
longer thought much about such subjects, maybe because
I thought I was too old and knowledgeable to believe
in such things or I was just to busy doing “adult”
things to spend time on such subjects.
Fast forward through some years and you see me a
bored adult who can’t find anything good on TV after
about 10 pm (or really anytime) turning on the radio.
On the radio is music which is also pretty boring or
the local talk station KOB which is broadcasting a guy
named Art Bell. I don’t much like Art, he has a
political talk show and his views are a bit too right
winged for me. Still his show manages to be somewhat
entertaining since he doesn’t screen callers and you
never know what someone might say so I continue
listening over the months and one night Art has on
this guy John Lear who is talking about UFO, ET
related subjects. See the line being thrown out and
it’s hooking me and being reeled in. Not just me, my
SO (who shall remain nameless so I won’t embarrass
him) was equally as taken with it. It seems to me
that it was only a few months afterwards that Art had
his big triangle shaped UFO sighting while he and
Ramona were coming home from Vegas. After that things
picked up even more and then started expanding to more
and more subjects.
During the following years there were many seriously
scary things said and things that are now so
ridiculous that it is unbelievable that people (myself
included at times) completely believed them. I am
thinking of things like comet Hale Bopp which several
guests assured listeners was not really a comet, but a
spaceship coming to earth. I think depending on whom
the guest was spaceship Hale Bopp was either full of
good space brothers coming to save the planet or evil
space beings coming to destroy all the good people of
earth.
Then came the Heaven’s Gate mass suicide so
obviously there were people who really believed in
this theory. Another more fond memory is of c2c is
Richard Hoagland’s ranting one night that Old Navy was
part of some vast conspiracy and were passing info to
people “in the know” via their ads. Also, they were
according to RCH holding something very like meetings
of the illuminati at their headquarters. I have been
a proud Old Navy shopper ever since. There were bad
things like the guy (I will not give him the
satisfaction of using his name) Art had to throw off
his show and eventually had to sue for slander. Oh,
not too terribly long after that was the news that Art
was leaving. I was devastated. During the year Art
was gone I don’t believe I listened to the show more
than maybe 6 times. Then suddenly the news that Art
was returning. Oh joy During that time I got to
know George Noory whom I have always thought was a
very apt host for the show. Many people think I don’t
like George and that is just not true. Though I admit
to preferring Art, George has a wonderful enthusiasm
with every guest that I think is refreshing in a host
of any kind. The host I did not like after Art left
the second time was Barbara Simpson, so you can
imagine how happy I was when Art returned yet again on
the weekends.
So now we are pretty much up to the present day. Do
I still listen every night? Every night that I can I
am surfing the internet while listening to c2c. I
admit that I have become jaded over the years and
things I might have believed when I first started this
crazy ride have to show at least some molecule of
proof before I consider believing them now. Belief in
a subject is not criteria for my listening though, the
only criteria I have for c2c is to entertain me.
There are also the shows where I feel I could easily
do the show for the guest because I have heard them so
many times that I seem to know their answer to every
question. But, I know somewhere there is a person who
is bored turning on their radio and listening to c2c
for the first time and they are finding this
information revolutionary and the line is going, they
are being hooked and reeled in. You gotta love the
newbies.