The Ballad of the Grays is a song about alien abductions that played on Art Bell's paranormal late-night radio show

I don’t remember this song, but that’s probably because I wasn’t listening to the show by then. Previously, I was working the graveyard shift & listened every night.

I don’t think it ‘normalized’ it, so much as it make people aware of it.
Granted, the audience was large, but it aired in the middle of the night, which would tend to limit its influence. I remember that Art Bell [and his show] was regarded as being a bit whack-a-doodle at the time.

He was one of his guests that I always looked forward to hearing. Others… no so much.

I remember one of 'em… a dude was driving to work & talking on the phone and witnessed an auto accident. The man who caused the accident was pummeled by a carload of old ladies… the dude’s running commentary & laugh was hilarious.
Ah, found it!
Laughing dude

True, that. The show lost a lot without AB at the helm.
Alex Jones was a paranoid loon then, & has got far worse over the years.

I wouldn’t listen when the loons were guests, & finally quit listening when I stopped working overnights. Haven’t listened to a full show since & even those few times were like ‘meh’…

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