By Tim Binnall
Nikola Tesla and the Tunguska event, potential ancient artifacts on Mars, and angels were among the fascinating topics explored this past week on Coast to Coast AM. And, here at the C2C website, we told you about a Bigfoot statue unveiled in Illinois, a photo of a possible ghost boy, and a man arrested to pelting people with Skittles. Check out our round-up of highlights from the past week ... In Coast You Missed It.
Angels took center stage on Monday night's program as master harpist and sound traveler Peter Sterling discussed his interactions with these heavenly beings. He recalled first encountering the entities while on a "spiritual quest" in Sedona, Arizona and revealed that, at the time, he was enveloped by a golden light wherein a group of cherubs played musical instruments. These angels, he said, instructed him to learn the harp, which he subsequently did with assistance from one such heavenly being who acted as something of a teacher to him. According to Sterling, the main function of these entities is to help humans connect with the heavenly spirit that resides within themselves.
Two paranormal-themed statues wound up in the news this past week for decidedly different reasons. First, in Illinois, a massive depiction of Bigfoot was unveiled by a city where a Sasquatch-like creature, which came to be known as the 'Big Muddy Monster,' spawned national headlines fifty years ago after it was spotted by multiple residents of the community. The nearly ten-foot-tall statue was created to commemorate the golden anniversary of the eerie encounters. Meanwhile, in New Jersey, a popular wooden sculpture of the infamous Jersey Devil was stolen from outside of a restaurant. Fortunately, police were able to identify the suspected perpetrator and have issued a warrant for his arrest.
Could famed inventor Nikola Tesla have inadvertently caused the infamous Tunguska event of 1908? Dr. Bruce Goldberg explored this intriguing scenario on Tuesday night's program. He noted that the mysterious explosion, which wiped out 80 million trees in a remote part of Siberia, occurred at around the same time that Admiral Robert Peary was set to embark on an expedition to the North Pole. Remarkably, Tesla had offered to illuminate the sky in the Arctic with his 'death ray' as both a way of helping Peary and to promote his own work. As such, Goldberg observed that it's quite possible that the blast was not the result of an asteroid striking the planet, but actually some kind of miscalculation on the inventor's part when he attempted to pull off the feat.
This past week featured a pair of stories involving potential evidence of ghostly activity, beginning with a chilling photograph taken at a notoriously haunted hotel in Texas. The spooky picture, which was snapped in the attic of the building during an investigation by one of the owners, appears to show the spirit of a young boy peering through a doorway. Later in the week, a woman attending a festival in England captured footage of what resembles an apparition manifesting on the edge of a campfire and then vanishing into thin air. Though some have suggested that the anomaly could have simply been smoke or a reflection, the witness who filmed the video believes that it was, in fact, a spirit taking in the revelry of the event.
The possibility that there could be ancient ruins on Mars was discussed on Wednesday night's program as Richard C. Hoagland returned to the show to talk about his work investigating anomalies spotted on the Red Planet. He recounted how there was actually a 1959 Brookings Institute study that predicted evidence for an ancient civilization being discovered on Mars and he postulated that this prognostication proved to be true, but it has been covered up by NASA. During his appearance, Hoagland discussed the iconic 'Face on Mars,' theorizing that it is actually made of glass and suggesting that it was likely created by ancient denizens of the Red Planet.
By far the most bizarre story of the week came by way of Minnesota, where a man was arrested for pelting people with Skittles. Police say that the very strange incident started when Tristan Stetina burst into an unnamed eatery and began berating both the staff as well as the patrons. The young man then produced a bag of Skittles and began flinging them at people. By the time cops arrived on the scene, the floor of the restaurant was covered with the fruit-flavored candies. Stetina was subsequently arrested for assault in addition to several other charges that he accrued during a misguided and ultimately futile attempt to thwart being taken into custody.
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