About this episode
Vance Davis recounts the extraordinary true story of six military intelligence personnel who went AWOL from Germany after receiving prophetic messages through a Ouija board. Davis, trained in military intelligence and stationed in Pensacola, Florida in 1983, joined five colleagues in using the board to communicate with entities predicting major world changes. The group received detailed prophecies about coming gun control laws, civil rights restrictions, and apocalyptic events that compelled them to abandon their posts and flee to the United States. Their odyssey took them from Germany to Tennessee, then down to Gulf Breeze, Florida, where they sought UFO activity and validation of their supernatural communications. Art Bell explores how these trained intelligence operatives, skilled in analysis and investigation, became convinced enough by Ouija board predictions to risk their military careers. Davis reveals the shocking aftermath: despite going AWOL and defying orders, all six soldiers received honorable discharges rather than court martial. The conversation delves into their encounters with multiple entities, the difference between predictions and prophecies, and how their military training both helped and hindered their supernatural investigations.