You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.

Have you ever done any late night driving and tuned into the AM radio station looking for something to listen to?

Since you're listening to a podcast right now, perhaps that's not something you've done in a while,

but there was a time when the nightly airwaves of America were dominated by tales of

UFOs, psychics, and other mysterious phenomena. I bet you can practically hear the theme

music of this multi-hour AM radio juggernaut. No I'm not talking about George Norry and his Coast to Coast A.M. show or even Art Bell who preceded him.

We're going to go way back to the 1950s when this was the sound of your radio taking you on a journey into the bizarre. My name is Long John, we call this the party line.

My name is Long John, we call this the party line. We're around from midnight to 5.30, six

mornings during the week. Monday mornings we get started about one. We continue through

to 5.30. That means we're around for 37

and a half hours a week before norie before bell there was long John Nebble

it's actually quite unlike any Long John Nebbble.

It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

A giant hairy creature, part 8, part of that. In Larkness, a 24 mile long bottomless lake in the Highlands of Scotland.

It's a creature known as the Loch Ness Monster. Oh, yeah. Monster Dogg. Monster Talk.

Welcome to Monster Talk, the science show about monsters.

I'm Blake Smith and my co-host is Dr. Karen Stolzno,

and in this episode we're going to take a little trek into the history of American

radio.

In the 1990s, one of the most influential injection points for Fortiana and the mysterious

into American pop culture was Art Bell's Coast to Coast radio show.

I'd long assumed that Art had invented the format of the paranormal themed Collins show

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