Episode 231: It Moved AGAIN! Art Bell’s Alien!

As of the date of this published show, Art has been deceased almost 7 years. He may be sending signs to the Wizard!

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Episode Transcript

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Speaker 1 (00:55):
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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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,

(07:35):
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

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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

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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.

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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

(09:05):
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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

(11:01):
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

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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

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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

(12:08):
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

(12:30):
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I'm Joshua Pee Warren. You're listening to Strange Things on
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And I'll be right back. Welcome back to Strange Things.

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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,

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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

(16:11):
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

(16:32):
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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

(18:23):
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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

(20:11):
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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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.

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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

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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

(25:54):
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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

(34:10):
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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

(38:19):
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

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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

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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,

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

(43:19):
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

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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

(44:05):
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

(44:26):
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,

(44:48):
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

(45:12):
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,

(45:36):
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,

(45:57):
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

(46:20):
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,

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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,

(47:10):
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

(47:33):
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.

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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

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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

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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.

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