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

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

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