A special hotline was devoted to people who've had unusual experiences at cemeteries. There was Bill from Oklahoma, who recounted his Grandmother's Dust Bowl days, when she lived next to a cemetery and saw spirits dancing by a well.

A caller from outside Sioux City, Iowa said he lived near homesteader graves dating back to the Indian conflict with the settlers. He described hearing a baby cry in the middle of the night and later witnessed a teenage girl holding an infant just before she walked right through a wall. A night watchman at a cemetery also called in, and said he sees Shadow People every other night. He traipsed through the graveyard live on the air, and read the names off a few headstones.

We also heard from T.J., an "archaeologist/parapsychologist" who told of finding a 65-million-year-old artifact that contained Gaelic-like writing. He said it was written on an unusual kind of paper that wouldn't burn when put under fire, and claimed that the text referred to an ET spaceflight.

Spotlight on: Ralph Nader

Inspiring a generation of activists, Ralph Nader came to national attention in 1965 with the publication of his book Unsafe at Any Speed, which documented how the auto industry resisted safety innovations.
Later Nader came to be an outspoken critic of what he calls multinational corporate predators. "They openly and confidently strive to control our jobs; our environment; our political and educational institutions, our food, drugs and other consumptions; our savings; our childhoods; our culture; even our genetic futures," he writes in The Good Fight(1).
An Independent Party candidate for President, currently on 30 state ballots in the 2004 race, Nader's 2000 candidacy was considered by many to be the "spoiler" that cost Gore the election. Yet an article on his website(2) contends that in the year 2000, exit polls reported "fully 25% of [Nader's] votes came from Republicans, 38% from Democrats, and the remainder from people who would not have voted." Still, because the vote was so close in Florida, if as little as 1% of Nader's votes had gone to Gore, he would have won the presidency.

Yet Nader is unapologetic about the 2000 election. He writes: "More and more the major parties become Coke and Pepsi, frantically highlighting their dwindling differences and masking their growing similarities."
--L.L.(3)

1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060756047/ctoc
2. http://www.votenader.org/why_ralph/index.php?cid=2
3. http://archive.coasttocoastam.com/info/about_lex.html

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