Jesse Ventura exclusive: Conspiracy Theory host talks 9/11, JFK, and Vietnam

"The Pentagon doesn't do anything unless there's a military value in it," Ventura says with agitation, "and here's the conspiracy end: Do you remember the Tsunami that hit Indonesia? ... Global warming? Could there be a tie in there?"

He's onto mind control now. Radio waves used at HAARP are on the same frequency as the ones in a human brain. "Do you think that's just happenstance?"

Jeremy Freeman

Jesse Ventura

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Ventura in Alaska, investigating mind-controlling radio waves

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The Mind wanted answers, so a scientist beamed radio waves into The Body.

"I was able to hear sounds, but not through my ears," Ventura says. "My ears were plugged. It came in through the front of my skull.

"No one else in the room could hear the music. I heard it...."

THE SUN IS WANING. VENTURA'S gravelly voice has progressed to a dry rasp. He peels off his ball cap and wipes a palm across his balding head. He's tired of talking, so he stands to stretch his legs. There's a little stiffness in his walk. He orders an orange juice. Pays cash. The barista shows him no extra attention. Does she even recognize him?

Ventura's not waiting around to find out. He twists off the bottle top, takes a sip of orange juice, and steps out into the slanted light of a late autumn day. Down the avenue, the strip joint lights are flickering. Commuters are hung up in traffic, fingering their cell phones, paying no attention as he stops on the sidewalk and looks south to the Minneapolis skyline's gleaming skyscrapers. He points at one.

"Know what that reminds me of?" he asks, rising to his favorite topic one more time. "Building 7. You know about building 7?"

Building 7 was the 47-story structure that stood across the street from the main World Trade Center complex. It was not struck by either of the two jets that crashed into the Twin Towers, but in the conflagration caught fire and eventually collapsed in the early evening. Conspiracy theorists don't accept the official explanation. They claim conspirators rigged explosives, perhaps Thermite, to cover their tracks. After all, a BBC reporter said that the building had collapsed 20 minutes before it fell. How could she have known that?

The official reports and explanations "defy the laws of physics," Ventura says in one last salvo.

Standing close, his craggy eyebrows furrowed, he speaks about explosives that can be concealed in paint used to coat the walls of buildings, and how the Twin Towers could never have collapsed at the speed they did without some kind of accelerant to speed the debris to the ground.

Then, as the light fades, he shakes hands and heads for his car, alone.