Desert Oracle Radio

Is Oumuamua a scout from another civilization? Aren't we long overdue for some outside assistance?

What happens when a civilization collapses? You can't go camping in Joshua Tree, that's what.

Welcome to the Shutdown. Chaos in the national parks. No toilets in Joshua Tree. Trouble abounds. Guest: Food writer/editor Katherine Spiers of Smart Mouth, on the desert date shake. PLUS: More air-traffic radio from the UFO invasion of Edwards Air Force Base, 1965.

A winter-holiday desert road trip, your letters about strange machinery, and a very special Joshua Tree Christmas Pageant with Brendan Maze.

We're taking a big looping road trip across the Mojave, from Area 51 to the Singing Sand Dunes of Kelso. With guest Jeremy Corbell on his new documentary about Bob Lazar and the reverse-engineered UFOs.

Night has fallen on the desert, and that’s when we like to tell monster stories. Weird tales. When there's trouble on the edge of civilization, where the wilderness meets what mankind makes, well here we encounter fierce things both natural and supernatural.

Many wonders over the desert skies—both known and unknown—give reason to be out on cool autumn nights, celebrating rituals.

We are still digging out from the Great Hi-Desert Deluge of October 2018. In fact, officials at Joshua Tree Town Hall are considering renaming the village "Dirt-Pile City," in honor of the scenic and massive dirt piles piled alongside every road, as the bulldozers and earth-movers work all day every day to try to patch the hundreds of miles of gullies and ditches and death holes created by the violent storm.

Secret civilizations beneath the Panamint Mountains, strange tales of ancient giants and the sky-ships of the the Hav-Musuvs.

Here, in the desert far from prying eyes, the members of the Solar Lodge were building their Ark of the Covenant.

Werebears and skinwalkers and other creatures of our haunted lands. With Jeremy Corbell, director of the new documentary Hunt for the Skinwalker.

These strange experiences upon the deserts should be studied with an open heart and an open mind, because these events contain a code.

Season 2 begins Friday night, 09/14/2018.

Joshua Tree has gone from turkey farmers to elaborately costumed weekenders, but the Old Testament view of the desert always comes true again.

We do some hard traveling over the Mojave looking for that sweet shortcut to the Land of Milk & Honey. There may be some hardscrabble miners chasing little space aliens from a crashed UFO, knowing the way things go out here.

Murder and madness and an estimate of the situation during this merry month of May.

People are finding all kinds of strange things on the desert ground: huge sandy circles in the Great Basin, weird three-clawed footprints in the Mojave ....

What was Andy Warhol doing up in the High Desert north of Tucson, at a dude ranch? Also: Brendan Maze calls in from one of his investment properties in Victorville, where tumbleweed drifts have surrounded the development.

Tonight we come to you live from the Palm Springs Art Museum, where we celebrate the good times, the cooler times, and the 11 days of Desert Springtime that end with the celebration of Snakesgiving.

Sure is busy this week. Apparently there's a music festival down in the Low Desert. And: We remember the late, great Art Bell.