You think you guys feel bad--I think I might actually be responsible for Ramona's death! I'm not making this up. On early morning January 1, I called Art and made a prediction for 2006 (#103): That Art would do more than 3 shows per month during the year 2006. He was like "I don't know about that", and I'm like "You never know", and he's like "Well that's right, you never know about these sorts of things..." And 4 days later, Ramona is dead!
The thing is I lied. I said that I had done some lucid dreaming and remote viewing and had consulted my Ouija board, and they all agreed in the same prediction. But I don't do remote viewing, and I haven't owned a Ouija board since I was a kid, and though I've had some pretty weird dreams after falling asleep during Coast to Coast, I've never dreamt about how many shows Art does in a month.
In short, my "prediction" wasn't a prediction at all--it was just a flat out wish! But the thing is, the moment I made my wish, however many millions of listeners heard what I said and must have had the same wish at the same time. If you recall, Art himself had done some mass consciousness experiments on the radio, and strange things happened. So he stopped doing such experiments because of the risk that unintended, bad consequences might result. So, what I did was inadvertently cause a mass consciousness experiment--and now look what's happened!
It's like that ghost story, The Monkey's Paw, where these old parents make a wish for a certain amount of money, and then they get their wish--by getting their son's life insurance money after he's killed in a horrible mining accident. And I've heard that one should be careful what one wishes for . . . .
Honestly, I didn't mean for it to happen this way. Believe me, I wouldn't care if Art never did another show ever if it would bring Ramona back. And here it is, by the time this month is out, my prediction for Art will have already come true. . . .
Art's description of Ramona's chronic asthma made me feel a little better; on the other hand, perhaps her weakened condition made her more susceptible to strange, psychic forces at work. I pray that the Michael Shermer's of the world are correct, and that there's nothing to this mass conciousness and prediction stuff. I hope it was nothing but a weird, tragic coincidence. But I tell you one thing--I am through predicting the future.
Anyway, just after he started to interview Kaku an alarm was heard in the background. Since he is now working alone in his home, he had to leave Kaku talking and shut off the alarm. When he returned, he said that some idiot here in Oregon heard him talking about Ramona [he did talk about losing the will to live], and apparently thought Bell was in trouble so he called the police! The police had set off the alarm when they entered Bell's property. 
