Three-Time Lottery Winner Says ‘Aliens’ Gave Him the Numbers

Posted on: April 12, 2026, 12:32h. 

Last updated on: April 21, 2026, 05:14h.

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  • Pennsylvania man links lottery wins to alien EVP communication
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  • Doubts emerge over unverified professorship and evolving origin story

A Pennsylvania man claims that ‘alien’ beings helped him win the lottery on three separate occasions by communicating with him via “electronic voice phenomena” (EVP) and visual patterns he says appear in spectrogram-generated images.

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Gary Arnold poses with one of his Pennsylvania Lottery prize checks. He says “alien” voices helped him pick the winning numbers, on one occasion via a pigeon. (Image: Pennsylvania Lottery)

That Gary Arnold did win the lottery at least twice is a verifiable fact, perhaps one of the few things in this story that is, so we’ll have to take his word for the rest. In 2022, he scooped $17,500 playing the Pennsylvania Lottery’s Pick 4 draw, and two years later he won another $27,500 on the same game.

Last year, Arnold said he was directed by the mysterious beings to play the Powerball using numbers revealed in a spectrogram. Disappointingly, the aliens were toying with him – he was two numbers short of the multimillion-dollar jackpot, picking up only a few hundred dollars.

‘The Intangibles’ Make Contact

Arnold was described by CBS 21 News a professor at the University of Lincoln in Oxford Township – more of which later – when the beings he likes to call “the Intangibles” first made contact, back in 2017. He says he was sitting in the university library at the time when he heard a strange noise in his right ear.

Arnold attempted to record the sound by holding a cheap cell phone with a voice recorder up to his ear.

“Upon playback, I thought I was going to hear this maybe squelch or frequency because I couldn’t figure it out,” Arnold told CBS. “But instead, I hear a whisper, and the whisper says my name.”

Arnold has been enthusiastically conversing with the beings ever since. Aware that people might be suspicious of his claims, he uploads recordings of these encounters to his personal website. He says he has had the voice checked by “forensic experts” who confirmed it “was not made by human vocal cords.”

Casino.org has reached out to the CIA for comment but had not heard back at the time of publication.

Lottery picks are usually communicated to Arnold via spectrograms, visual representations of the sounds on his computer that form into numbers.

Although on one occasion, the beings chose an even stranger channel to communicate their message – his pet pigeon, Sherbertz.

When viewing a playback of a video he had made of Sherbertz, Arnold realized the beings were communicating lottery numbers via an EVP through the bird. The numbers? One, one, one, one. This was the occasion of Arnold’s second Pick 4 win.

“You can’t make this stuff up!” he marveled, inaccurately.

Made-Up Stuff?

Speaking of which, Casino.org has been unable to verify that Arnold was a professor at Lincoln in 2017 – or ever – as no publicly available records link him to the university as faculty.

Meanwhile, in a 2020 article in The Chester County Press, he recounts the same story of his first encounter with the voices but with no mention of a professorship or a university library.

UPDATE: An earlier version of this article stated Arnold “claimed” to be a professor at Lincoln. He has since contacted Casino.org to confirm he never held nor claimed to have held this position, but says he was once a writing instructor there. He stated that CBS 21 wrongly assumed he was a professor during their interview earlier this month. Lincoln’s Office of Communications & Public Relations passed our query on to the Human Resources Department which had failed to respond at the time of this update.