In the fall of 1987, local news channel, W.S.B. TV2 of Atlanta, Georgia, was attempting to fill a scheduling gap in their Sunday morning lineup.

After a few solicitations by local business owners, they decided to allow the young Revland Marley Sosh to take the available hour block to do a religious-themed

show. It premiered October 18th, with little promotion.

The show was standard religious fair and consisted of the reverence sitting in a simple chair,

reading passages from the Bible to the camera, and discussing their interpretation

and significance to our modern day-to-day life.

The show received a reasonable number of viewers, and continued to be shown into early December.

It was then that the studio began to receive extremely strange complaints from the viewers of the words of light with Reverend Marley Sash.

The calls were from women and women only, who vaguely referred to uncomfortable feelings that they had at very specific intervals during the program.

They described feelings of nausea, back pain,

dizziness, and blurred vision. These callers, for no discernible reason, were convinced

that it was the viewing of the program that was causing these symptoms. It was later determined

after three weeks of complaints that these feelings were

happening at roughly 12-minute intervals during the course of the program. The small studio staff

checked all recording equipment, both audio and video, and found nothing faulty. When the Reverend

was made aware of these incidents, he merely shrugged and stated cryptically

that some can't handle the voice of God.

The head of the studio, at a loss to explain the cause of these complaints, decided to continue

running the program.

By February, viewership had dropped sharply, and it was decided to pull

the plug on the show. The studio head figured it would be more prudent to spend as much time

as possible on the news story that had the other two local networks abuzz, the miscarriage

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