The Most Startled I Have Been On The Road

I picked up an XM radio a while back, lucked into a shelf model at a Pilot no box, but all parts there for about 1/3 the box price. I had one in my personal car for years, and I like the great selection of what ever you want to hear, pretty much where ever you want. So there is a guy who just started a show on there, but was around AM for years named Art Bell. He does this late night talk show thing on UFOs and all things paranormal. Now while I am about the most reality based skeptic, well versed in science type guy you are ever going to find, I love hearing this stuff. You dont have to believe it to enjoy it. And I love a good spooky story that makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. So one night, he has these guys on talking about a thing called Electronic Voice Phenomenon, which they claim, they take recorder out in places and catch the voices of the dead.s And about half of what they had were childrens voices. This about midnight, and I was on, (if I remember right) I 40 in either NM or TX. And these voices of children were just the creepiest thing I had ever heard, and these guys who did it are going on about how they think some of the are actually demons who are posing as children to lure people into being possessed. The road was pretty much deserted and dark, and no where near any town. And suddenly................ the biggest damn skunk I have ever seen in my life ran into the road right in front of the truck, and I took him out.

I think I actually jumped in the seat, and I know I yelped. And there was nothing I could do. He just was there at the wrong time, and I am not going to run the truck in the ditch to miss a skunk. (I got a small rabbit once too, and just missed a deer one night). And you guys have to understand my back ground a bit. I used to catch live alligators and rattle snakes. I hung out in biker bars. Real biker bars. I have had encounters with things that wanted to have me for dinner and successfully killed those critters to defend myself. There is just not a lot on the face of the earth that normally frightens me. Heh, people who did my line of work, the land surveying, have a bad habit of going out into all sorts of wild areas by themselves because, we are just used to doing it. I am more cautious in my old age, but I still go out in the woods by myself. The desert. The mountains, even the swamps. But that little old skunk at the right time, hearing that creepy radio show, almost made me get religion.

Careful, we'll have to start calling you Roadkill Bill.

Art Bell??? I LOVE Art Bell. Man, I spent many, many nights listening to him. He is just mesmerizing to listen to. Highly entertaining.

I watch a lot of shows like that - "Ancient Aliens", "Unsolved Mysteries (science mysteries), etc. I love that kind of stuff. I'm a science buff myself which is why I love that kind of stuff - you know there's waaaay more going on than we're aware of. We've barely scratched the surface when it comes to understanding the nature of our reality so it's fun pondering what it might be we're missing.

That's hilarious about the skunk startling you!

...but listening to Art Bell at night will have you questioning everything you thought you knew. He's really entertaining.

Geez, just the other day we were talking about Red Sovine and now here's a mention of Art Bell. Great stuff! I spent a lot of time over the years enjoying both of them.

He is on Sirius/XM in a big way. They are pushing his show big time, and supposedly, it has brought in a ton of new subscribers. I had never heard him, mostly because I had not listened to AM since the 1970s, but I have heard of him. He is great, and you are spot on that he is mesmerizing. I read that originally he was an anti government type, but after the OK City bombing he vowed never to encourage that type of thing again, and switched over to the paranormal material. Which frankly, I find refreshing.

Heh, that whole thing got me laughing after it all happened. Poor old skunk. I know I creamed him. He went out giving me a scare though, at exactly the right time.But like I said, you cant wreck a truck to save a skunk.

I don't have XM, but I used to listen to Art Bell EVERY night. Coast to Coast A.M. was always on a station I could pick up. Now George Noory has the program, he is good, but no Art Bell, but he's from Michigan, so that's a plus. The weekend guys suck though.

I have always been an Art Bell fan......do you think it has something to do with all of us being truckers...and having a twisted sense of things, cuz' of spending to many nights running the ribbon ??

I have been an Art Bell fan even before I took up with the trucking industry. I have always been the driver on long trips and I think that's where I picked it up.