Post by Gian on Dec 17, 2003 12:56:17 GMT -5
I was able to rescue this off the old MB for those who on Coast to Coast last night expressed an interest in it.
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Hello, All:
Instead of replying to the question in the thread where it was asked about this event, I decided to post it as its own topic. I have been asked about this caller and his statement a number of times, so it becomes easier to answer the questions here.
The date was April 13, 1975. A Fort Lauderdale disc jockey, Ray Smithers, was conducting a late night hotline show on WFTL. At one point the lines all went dead and jammed, and after trying a number of lines, finally one was open. On the other end there was a male caller who stated the following. (This is a complete transcription so far as I know.)
SMITHERS: "Bermuda Triangle, you're on the air"
CALLER: "There is one of you on this program who will understand what I am going to say. In every living thing on this planet has an aura. It is its communication with the Millionth Counsel who govern this planet. The area that you are discussing now is the aura of this planet. It is the communicative channel through which the Millionth Counsel governs this planet.
SMITHERS: "Which counsel, sir?"
CALLER: "The Millionth Counsel"
SMITHERS: "The Millionth?"
CALLER: "Millionth . . .Anyone going into the area when the communicative channel is open do not disappear, but they are in the timeless void. They are all perfectly alive and well. It is the only area through which the Counsel can communciate with this planet."
A transcript of the recording was sent to Los Angeles to voice expert, John Hickman. From analysis of the stresses, all he could deduce was that the caller was not a hoax or crank, but that he really believed what he was saying.
That, of course, does not help, as it may simply mean the caller was drugged up or nuts, or both. This first appeared in Landsburg's 1977 documentary "Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle" with Peter Tomkins as the "Investigator" researching the Triangle. Later it was cannabalized for his popular late 1970s and 1980s serial "In Search of." I am not sure if I have ever heard the actual voice. On TV it sounds like Tomkins voice run through some machine (which it might have been) trying to recreate the actual voice which may have been destroyed or to which Landsburg could not get the rights. The analyst portrayed may have agreed to go through a recreation of his testing, acceptable "artifice" by documentary TV standards. (I have no probelm with it; I have done so). It is strange that the voice just sounds like Peter Tomkins.
The show, the caller, the concept, and the relevance all seem quite dated now and VERY 1970s.
Cheers to all
Gian ;D
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Hello, All:
Instead of replying to the question in the thread where it was asked about this event, I decided to post it as its own topic. I have been asked about this caller and his statement a number of times, so it becomes easier to answer the questions here.
The date was April 13, 1975. A Fort Lauderdale disc jockey, Ray Smithers, was conducting a late night hotline show on WFTL. At one point the lines all went dead and jammed, and after trying a number of lines, finally one was open. On the other end there was a male caller who stated the following. (This is a complete transcription so far as I know.)
SMITHERS: "Bermuda Triangle, you're on the air"
CALLER: "There is one of you on this program who will understand what I am going to say. In every living thing on this planet has an aura. It is its communication with the Millionth Counsel who govern this planet. The area that you are discussing now is the aura of this planet. It is the communicative channel through which the Millionth Counsel governs this planet.
SMITHERS: "Which counsel, sir?"
CALLER: "The Millionth Counsel"
SMITHERS: "The Millionth?"
CALLER: "Millionth . . .Anyone going into the area when the communicative channel is open do not disappear, but they are in the timeless void. They are all perfectly alive and well. It is the only area through which the Counsel can communciate with this planet."
A transcript of the recording was sent to Los Angeles to voice expert, John Hickman. From analysis of the stresses, all he could deduce was that the caller was not a hoax or crank, but that he really believed what he was saying.
That, of course, does not help, as it may simply mean the caller was drugged up or nuts, or both. This first appeared in Landsburg's 1977 documentary "Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle" with Peter Tomkins as the "Investigator" researching the Triangle. Later it was cannabalized for his popular late 1970s and 1980s serial "In Search of." I am not sure if I have ever heard the actual voice. On TV it sounds like Tomkins voice run through some machine (which it might have been) trying to recreate the actual voice which may have been destroyed or to which Landsburg could not get the rights. The analyst portrayed may have agreed to go through a recreation of his testing, acceptable "artifice" by documentary TV standards. (I have no probelm with it; I have done so). It is strange that the voice just sounds like Peter Tomkins.
The show, the caller, the concept, and the relevance all seem quite dated now and VERY 1970s.
Cheers to all
Gian ;D
