The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell opens the phones after a guest cancellation and discovers a defining theme: widespread dread about September 2015. Americans are stocking up on emergency supplies anticipating economic collapse, natural disaster, or judgment. Art Bell frames it through a metaphor he returns to all night: humans as animals sensing a predator on soft paws, aware something is closing in even if they cannot n...

Dr. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer and director of SETI Research, joins Art Bell for a conversation that turns into a direct confrontation with claims made by Stephen Greer on a previous broadcast. Shostak describes the Allen Telescope Array scanning 30 million channels simultaneously and credits Moore's Law for doubling search capability every few years. Art Bell plays audio of Greer claiming SE...

Joe McMoneagle, Remote Viewer 001 and 20-year participant in Project Stargate, joins Art Bell with a resume spanning the CIA, NSA, DIA, FBI, and most major Defense Department commands. McMoneagle describes how the Army recruited him not by asking for psychics but by identifying soldiers inexplicably exceptional at their jobs. His first Stanford Research Institute test produced a p-value of .003 ac...

Travis Walton, the Arizona logger whose 1975 alien abduction remains one of ufology's most documented cases, joins Art Bell from Snowflake, Arizona to revisit the night that defined his life. Walton retraces the events: his crew encountering a metallic disc in the Apache National Forest, the energy blast that threw his body 10 to 20 feet, and the crew's terrified flight. He describes waking aboard...

Michael Rugg, curator of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in California's Santa Cruz Mountains, joins Art Bell with a childhood encounter that launched a lifetime of research. Around 1950, Rugg wandered from his parents' campsite on Northern California's Eel River and found a towering figure covered in reddish-brown hair on an open sandbar, a memory suppressed for decades until a book passage triggere...

Art Bell stages a 90-minute flat earth debate between Jon "the Morgile", an anonymous skeptic known on YouTube, and Dr. Josh Grindlay, an astrophysicist with over 500 papers and Guggenheim and American Physical Society fellowships. Art Bell blows through a break to keep the exchange uninterrupted. John presents an alternative model: an infinite plane with the North Pole at its center, the sun circ...

Stanton Friedman, nuclear physicist and original civilian Roswell investigator, and Jay Weidner, filmmaker and hermetic traditions scholar, join Art Bell for an Apollo moon landing debate that takes an unexpected turn. Weidner argues that while astronauts may have reached the moon using classified propulsion, every photograph and video shown to the public was fabricated using front-screen projecti...

Art Bell shares his own shadow person encounter before opening the phones for one of Midnight in the Desert's most compelling nights. Sitting in his ham shack, Art Bell saw a partially transparent being appear to his right, vanish, reappear behind him, then shift left. He fled and grabbed a gun but found nothing. Callers flood in. A woman describes years of being followed by a shadow she connects...

Blanche Barton, former High Priestess of the Church of Satan and companion to founder Anton LaVey, joins Art Bell for a frank exploration of a philosophy widely misunderstood. Barton establishes that the Church does not worship a literal devil. Satan serves as metaphor, she explains, and the name functions as a litmus test forcing people to confront what they have been conditioned to fear without...

Art Bell dedicates a full Midnight in the Desert broadcast to paranormal open lines, drawing callers with firsthand accounts of ghosts, UFO encounters, and unexplained phenomena. An Australian recounts a 1967 breakdown near Pine Gap, the secretive American installation, where a worker described anti-gravity experiments from a UFO crash between Russia and China and beings with thin vertebrae sugges...

Dr. John Dvorak, a Caltech-trained planetary geophysicist who operates one of the largest telescopes on Mauna Kea, joins Art Bell with frontline experience from earthquakes and volcanoes worldwide. Dvorak introduces the concept of earthquake storms, decades-long clusters of major quakes, drawing a direct parallel between California's San Andreas Fault and Turkey's North Anatolian Fault, which prod...

Preston Dennett, MUFON field investigator and author of 17 books on UFOs and the paranormal, joins Art Bell for a detailed exploration of out-of-body experiences drawn from thousands of his own conscious astral travels. Dennett describes passing through solid objects with startling specificity: brick feels grainy across the entire body, wood offers moderate resistance, and glass yields like pushin...

Richard Dolan, UFO historian and author of UFOs for the 21st Century Mind, joins Art Bell for their first-ever conversation, bringing two decades of research grounded in declassified government documents. Dolan describes how FOIA releases hooked him on the subject, citing the 1947 Twining Memo in which a three-star general described flying discs as real and not American, and a 1952 CIA memo acknow...

Grant Cameron, award-winning Canadian UFO researcher, joins Art Bell to argue that consciousness, not propulsion technology, is the most classified element of the UFO phenomenon. Cameron traces his thesis to a 1950 top-secret Canadian document in which American officials told a military liaison that "mental phenomena" might be associated with flying saucers, leading him to conclude that the U.S. e...

Art Bell launches a dedicated time traveler phone line routed through Roswell, New Mexico on the fifth night of Midnight in the Desert, producing one of the most memorable open lines broadcasts of his career. Before the calls begin, an Anonymous contact describes the collective as "an emergent phenomenon of the first generation born and raised on the internet," detailing its hive-mind structure an...

Nassim Haramein, a self-taught physicist who has spent 30 years researching physics, geometry, and consciousness, joins Art Bell to present his unified field theory and its startling implications. Haramein explains how his peer-reviewed paper predicted the proton's mass and radius more accurately than existing theories, a prediction confirmed two months later by an independent Swiss accelerator me...

Linda Moulton Howe, Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and veteran researcher of animal mutilations and UFO phenomena, joins Art Bell for a sweeping Midnight in the Desert broadcast connecting solar system discoveries, mysterious worldwide booms, and Earth's overdue magnetic pole reversal. Howe details NASA's New Horizons findings at Pluto, where 11,000-foot ice mountains and zero impact...

Charles Faddis, a 20-year CIA clandestine service veteran and former head of the agency's WMD terrorism unit, joins Art Bell for an unflinching tour of global security threats. Faddis, who led the first CIA team into Iraq in 2002, argues that ISIS grew from fundamental fissures in an artificial nation cobbled together by the British after World War I, with formerly secular Ba'athist officers now a...

Graham Hancock joins Art Bell for the premiere of Midnight in the Desert, marking Bell's return to live broadcasting after a two-year hiatus. Hancock previews his sequel to "Fingerprints of the Gods," titled "Magicians of the Gods," presenting evidence from roughly 30 university scientists who have identified impact proxies confirming a giant comet struck Earth approximately 12,800 years ago durin...

Art Bell hosts his annual Halloween special, Spooky Matter, opening with ghost photo contest winner Rebecca O'Donnell for her entry, Babushka. The night unfolds as a marathon of listener ghost stories submitted in advance and called in live, with no guests and no barriers between Art and his audience. Callers share accounts from around the world. A soldier in Korea describes military vehicles star...

Art Bell welcomes dream experts Michael Sebastian & Nicole Sebastian, known as The Dream Team, for an exploration of night terrors, dream intrusion, soul travel, and astral entities. The Sebastians explain that night terrors are often rooted in past trauma or past life memories, and that children under five are especially prone because they retain connections to prior incarnations that fade with s...

Art Bell speaks with tech pioneer John McAfee and nuclear safety advocate Paul Gunter in a two-part episode covering cybersecurity and the Fukushima nuclear crisis. McAfee recounts his escape from Belize after a dispute with local authorities, including faking a heart attack in Guatemala to avoid extradition. He discusses NSA surveillance, vulnerabilities of the Obamacare website, and his developm...

Art Bell sits down with researcher Jason Martell to examine ancient advanced civilizations and the possibility that sophisticated cultures existed long before recorded history. Martell explains how his interest began with structures on Mars and evolved into studying Sumerian cuneiform texts, which he argues contain detailed accounts of human creation, the Great Flood, and cosmological events that...

Art Bell welcomes Timothy Good, one of the world's leading civilian authorities on alien phenomena, for a wide-ranging discussion on extraterrestrial encounters and UFO evidence. Good recounts his own personal experiences with beings he believes were aliens, including encounters in New York, on tour with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and at a debating salon in Poland where a mysterious speaker...

Art Bell welcomes Charles Faddis, a retired CIA operations officer with 20 years of field experience and former head of the CIA's Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism Unit. Faddis discusses his novel Kaffa, named after a medieval siege where plague-infected corpses were catapulted into a fortified city, historically linked to the spread of the Black Death across Europe. Faddis reveals that biolog...