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Shattered Souls

Thinking Sideways: Area 51 Broadcast Interruption

Shattered Souls

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

4.34.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2016

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

On September 11, 1997, on Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM show, a frantic caller claiming to be a recent employee at Area 51 made some startling revelations. A few minutes into the call, the Coast to Coast AM broadcast is mysteriously disrupted. Seventeen years later, a man calls a different show called Fade to Black, claiming to have made the whole thing up. Was the call really a hoax? And if so, what took out the broadcast?

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0:00.0

Thinking Sideways is not brought to you by a C-Gull playing guitar.

0:04.3

Instead, it's supported by the generous donations of our listeners on Patreon.

0:09.7

Visit patreon.com slash thinking sideways to learn more.

0:13.7

And thanks!

0:14.7

Thinking Sideways

0:18.8

I don't understand.

0:21.2

I don't know how to go to it.

0:23.0

You never know.

0:24.6

It's a big mistake that I thought you'd ever smile.

0:27.4

What's this?

0:28.8

Stories of things we simply don't know the answer to.

0:33.6

Hey everyone!

0:35.6

Welcome to another episode of Thinking Sideways.

0:39.2

Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh.

0:45.5

I think none of us listened to our show.

0:48.7

That's what we're getting from this.

0:50.7

I was doing the other theme song for the show talking about.

0:53.8

Oh, that was bad.

0:54.8

I never said I was the dumpster for gin of it. Oh, okay. It was the remix. Yeah, the Skrillex remix. Yeah.

1:01.7

Well, I'm Devon joined as usual by Joe and Steve

1:08.5

Can't remix. No, he doesn't know how he knows how to mix our show pretty good and that's about it

1:14.2

That's all I'm done did good at yeah, yeah

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