The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell welcomes climate scientist Richard Somerville, a distinguished professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, for a thorough discussion of global warming and its accelerating impacts. Somerville explains the basic science behind the greenhouse effect and presents evidence that human carbon dioxide emissions are the primary driver of rising temperatures, while acknowledging the comp...

Art Bell opens with psychic Evelyn Paglini, who delivers a series of alarming predictions including civil unrest in major cities during the summer, a deliberately released virus with flu-like symptoms, and a major stock market correction in September or October. Paglini warns of intensifying earth changes through 2012, urging listeners to prepare with food, water, and community shelters rather tha...

Art Bell speaks with Daniel H. Wilson, a robotics engineer and author, about the current state of robots and the trajectory of artificial intelligence. Wilson describes the wide spectrum of robotic technology already embedded in daily life, from anti-lock braking systems that use neural networks to autonomous vacuum cleaners and military reconnaissance drones operating in combat zones. The discuss...

Art Bell presents a two-topic broadcast beginning with the global warming debate, taking calls from listeners who weigh in on climate change, the disappearing bee crisis, and the politics surrounding environmental policy. Callers raise points about Martian polar ice caps melting, agricultural shifts needed to adapt to warming, and the urgent need for action regardless of the cause. The second half...

Art Bell welcomes researcher Ryan S. Wood for an in-depth examination of UFO crash retrieval cases spanning decades of alleged government recoveries. Wood, who maintains a comprehensive database of such incidents, walks through the evidence behind multiple crash events, including lesser-known sites beyond Roswell like the San Augustine Plains and White Sands regions of New Mexico. The conversation...

Art Bell welcomes Sean Carroll, senior research associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology, for a conversation about cosmology timed with the landmark discovery of Earth-like exoplanet Gliese 581c. Art opens with extensive coverage of this newly found world just 20.5 light years away, describing its Earth-like temperatures, potential for liquid water, and the possibility it cou...

Art Bell welcomes Stanley Alpert, a federal environmental prosecutor turned private attorney, who recounts the true story of his kidnapping at gunpoint on a New York City street. One night while walking home, Alpert was seized by a gang armed with automatic weapons. After discovering a large sum in his savings account, the kidnappers held him for 25 hours to drain his funds. Throughout the ordeal,...

Art Bell welcomes physicist Janna Levin, professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University, for a wide-ranging exploration of whether the universe is finite or infinite. The evening begins with open lines as callers weigh in on the Virginia Tech tragedy, top conspiracies, and whether alien civilizations would contact humanity given its violent tendencies. Art reads from...

Art Bell welcomes parapsychologist Dr. Evelyn Paglini to examine the rising tide of violence and evil in American society, days after the Virginia Tech massacre. The broadcast opens with Art reviewing the devastating news, including the shooting that claimed 32 lives and a murder-suicide at the NASA Johnson Space Center. Dr. Paglini reveals she began sensing a powerful evil presence back in Novemb...

Art Bell welcomes David Sereda to discuss UFO and antigravity disclosure, followed by Major Ed Dames on a mysterious wheat blight threatening global food supplies. Sereda presents his research into NASA shuttle footage showing unexplained objects and explores the physics behind potential antigravity propulsion systems. He argues that government agencies possess suppressed knowledge about advanced...

Art Bell interviews Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel of the Union of Concerned Scientists about the accelerating reality of global warming. She explains the distinction between weather and climate, noting that climate science examines decades-long data and ice core records going back 800,000 years. Ekwurzel confirms that unprecedented heat-trapping gases are warming the planet and the debate over whether it is...

Art Bell speaks with Canadian documentarian Todd Standing about his multi-year effort to prove Bigfoot exists and secure governmental protection for the species. Standing describes expeditions into the Sylvanic region of the Canadian Rockies where he recorded three pieces of video evidence, including footage that CTV News enhanced to reveal back muscles and an elbow. He explains that these animals...

Art Bell interviews British national security consultant Michael Shrimpton about the Iraq War, the 9/11 attacks, and Middle Eastern geopolitics. Shrimpton, who has briefed staffers on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, argues that Iraqi intelligence was heavily involved in planning and executing the September 11th attacks, citing meetings between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden dating...

Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames, retired military intelligence officer and remote viewing expert, for an urgent update on ecological collapse. The broadcast opens with breaking news of a major 8.0 earthquake and tsunami devastating the Solomon Islands. Dames then presents findings from a completed remote viewing project on the honeybee colony collapse, explaining that increased ultraviolet radiat...

Art Bell welcomes back Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a parapsychologist and authority on the occult, for a wide-ranging discussion on predictions, rising evil, and natural magic. Paglini shares her forecasts for devastating wildfires, many set deliberately by arsonists, along with widespread flooding and a significant earthquake in northern California. She warns of an economic downturn driven by the housing...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Laurie Nadel, author of Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power, for a wide-ranging discussion on intuition, remote viewing, and psychic phenomena. Nadel recounts interviews with over 100 scientists and remote viewers, including Russell Targ and the late Willis Harmon, whose accounts of the SRI experiments convinced her that remote viewing is a legitimate and teachabl...

Art Bell explores lucid dreaming with Dr. Stephen LaBerge and Dominick Attisani of the Lucidity Institute, then speaks with journalist Leslie Kean about the Phoenix Lights. LaBerge defines lucid dreaming as knowing you are dreaming while the dream is happening, explaining that this awareness opens the door to conscious decision-making within the dream world. Attisani, a practitioner for over 30 ye...

Art Bell welcomes engineer and author Maurice Cotterell from Ireland to discuss his theories on gravity, God, reincarnation, and the encoded wisdom of ancient civilizations. Cotterell proposes a new explanation for gravity, arguing that Isaac Newton identified the relationship between mass and gravitational force but never explained what causes it. His model traces the origin of gravity back to th...

Art Bell welcomes billionaire entrepreneur Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace for an in-depth look at the private space industry. Bigelow, who launched the Genesis 1 spacecraft in July 2006, reveals that Genesis 2 is scheduled to launch from Russia the week of April 19th. Art shares exclusive photographs from his personal tour of the Bigelow Aerospace facility in Las Vegas, showcasing the expanda...

Art Bell welcomes animal communicator Amelia Kinkade, author of Straight from the Horse's Mouth and The Language of Miracles, for a fascinating exploration of interspecies telepathy. Kinkade describes her first encounter with animal psychic Beatrice Lidecker, who accurately described details about her cat Rodney's life that no outsider could have known, including the view from his favorite perch a...

Art Bell speaks with Whitley Strieber and Nick Pope about a massive wave of UFO activity, with particular focus on sightings near nuclear installations in Iran. Strieber connects this to historical patterns, citing General Arthur Exons confirmation that the Roswell debris was not of this world and Eisenhowers alleged 1954 encounter at Muroc Air Force Base. He theorizes the visitors seek to prevent...

Art Bell interviews Jim Sparks, a multiple abductee whose experiences began in 1988 and transformed him from a terrified resistor into a cooperator with his alien captors. Sparks provides detailed accounts of being transported aboard craft, describing the physical sensations of acceleration, paralysis upon arrival, and the room where he spent six years learning an alien symbolic language. He expla...

Art Bell interviews Dick Criswell, a lifelong UFO researcher whose first encounter with Grey aliens occurred at age six on a farm in Wheeling, West Virginia. Criswell describes how two three-and-a-half-foot beings communicated telepathically, passing through walls effortlessly and telling him he would one day serve as their emissary. The visits continued through his teenage years, growing more fre...

Art Bell launches a mass consciousness experiment, asking millions of listeners to project the intent for UFOs to appear in skies worldwide. The results are staggering, with thousands of emails flooding in from people who witnessed unusual objects, spinning lights, and craft that responded to flashlight signals. A Nashville TV station even captures footage of a rotating object dismissed too quickl...

Art Bell welcomes James Gilliland, director of the Self Mastery Earth Institute and a contactee who claims ongoing communication with extraterrestrial beings following a near-death experience. Gilliland describes the massive UFO activity at his ranch near Mount Adams in Washington State, where dozens of aerospace engineers and other credible witnesses have observed craft appearing on schedule. He...