The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell welcomes space historian and journalist Robert Zimmerman for a wide-ranging discussion about the state of space exploration. Zimmerman describes the remarkable success of the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, now operating well beyond their planned 90-day missions, transmitting geological evidence that water once flowed across the Martian surface. He explains how Opportunity discovered...

Art Bell speaks with Ben Chertoff, a researcher for Popular Mechanics magazine, about the publication's investigation into the most persistent conspiracy theories surrounding the September 11 attacks. Chertoff describes the methodology behind the article, which assembled a team of engineers, scientists, and aviation experts to examine sixteen widely circulated claims. He addresses the theory that...

Art Bell interviews Greg Bishop, author and researcher who has spent years investigating the intersection of UFO phenomena and government disinformation. Bishop describes how intelligence agencies actively plant false information within the UFO community to discredit genuine witnesses, create confusion, and protect classified military programs. He traces this practice back to the 1950s when Air Fo...

Art Bell speaks with Douglas Mulhall, author and technology futurist, about the approaching revolution in nanotechnology and its potential to reshape civilization. Mulhall describes molecular assemblers capable of building objects atom by atom, from replacement organs to aerospace materials, and estimates these devices could become functional within fifteen to twenty years. He explains how early v...

Art Bell welcomes physicist Russell Targ, co-founder of the Stanford Research Institute's remote viewing program, for a conversation spanning two decades of government-funded psychic espionage research. Targ describes how the CIA program began in 1972 after Ingo Swann demonstrated the ability to accurately describe and influence a shielded magnetometer buried beneath the Stanford physics building,...

Art Bell interviews Chris Moneymaker, the 2003 World Series of Poker champion who turned a forty-dollar Internet entry into a 2.5-million-dollar prize. Moneymaker describes the mental exhaustion of fourteen-hour sessions and how he learned to read tells, shift between aggressive and conservative play, and exploit opponents' emotions. He credits a friend finishing a tournament on his account as the...

Art Bell opens the phone lines for a wide-ranging evening that produces some of the most memorable caller stories in the program's history. He reserves one line for anyone who has made a pact with the devil, inspired by the late Father Malachi Martin's discussions on the subject. A caller describes making such a pact in desperation over a relationship, only to find himself drawn into the occult, e...

Art Bell speaks with Charles Seife, a science journalist and author who covers physics and cosmology for Science Magazine. Seife explains how the discovery of dark energy in the late 1990s upended decades of assumptions about the fate of the universe. Rather than gravity slowing the expansion of the cosmos, distant supernovae observations revealed that the universe is accelerating apart, driven by...

Art Bell is joined by Patrick Heron, an author from Dublin, Ireland, who presents his theory that the ancient pyramids and megalithic monuments worldwide were built by the Nephilim, fallen spirit beings described in Genesis and referenced across Greek, Roman, and Egyptian mythology. Heron details the mathematical precision of the Great Pyramid, including its alignment to true north, its encoding o...

Art Bell welcomes Scott Stevens, a television meteorologist from KPVI-TV in eastern Idaho, who has spent years studying anomalies in weather patterns. Stevens describes how forecasting accuracy has declined despite advances in technology, leading him to investigate unusual cloud formations including square-shaped clouds, right angles in cirrus patterns, and geometric signatures that defy natural f...

Art Bell hosts defense scientist Dr. Joseph Resnick and technology researcher Guy Kramer for a rare discussion about the HAARP facility in Alaska, a program whose guests required senatorial-level approval to appear on air. Dr. Resnick, who holds 26 patents including classified stealth technology work, traces his involvement with HAARP back to 1983 during the Reagan-era DARPA programs. He reveals t...

Art Bell welcomes Sir Charles Shults III, a defense technology expert knighted for his research in robotics and artificial intelligence, for a conversation that begins with breaking news: the U.S. Army is deploying 18 armed robotic soldiers to Iraq. Sir Charles, who spent ten years at Martin Marietta Aerospace working on weapon systems including the Pershing missile and Patriot systems, explains h...

Art Bell speaks with investigative journalist Michael Drosnin, former reporter for the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, about two extraordinary subjects: the Bible Code and the hidden life of Howard Hughes. Drosnin recounts how he first learned of the Bible Code from Israeli intelligence contacts, initially dismissed it as nonsense, then became convinced after finding a warning of Prime Mi...

Art Bell interviews inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil about radical life extension, artificial intelligence, and the accelerating pace of technological change. Kurzweil outlines his three bridges to living forever: using today's nutrition and supplements to stay healthy, harnessing the coming biotechnology revolution to master disease at the genetic level, and eventually rebuilding bodies at the...

Dr. James V. Hardt , president and founder of the Biocybernaut Institute, joins Art Bell to discuss biofeedback, alpha waves, and brainwave feedback training. Dr. Hardt explains how his seven-day alpha wave neurofeedback program produces an average 12-point IQ boost, a 50 percent creativity increase, and profound psychological breakthroughs that would normally take years of psychotherapy. The conv...

Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku for a wide-ranging exploration of parallel universes, dark matter, and the future of civilization. Kaku explains that string theory predicts millions of possible universes, and that gravity may be the one force capable of traveling between them. He describes dark matter as potentially being shadow matter from a neighboring universe hovering j...

Art Bell dedicates a special phone line to callers who have experienced physical alien contact, setting strict criteria that exclude dreams and secondhand accounts. The first caller, Mary, describes an entity entering her body while she sat watching television with her family present. She reports the being seemed childlike in its curiosity, touching objects and petting animals through her, and her...

Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames for a New Year's Day conversation that begins with a gold-hunting adventure. Dames describes his team's attempt to locate a stagecoach robbery stash near Flagstaff, only to find a new house built directly over the site. A second expedition south of Pahrump uncovers gold-bearing soil so saturated with mineral deposits that the metal detector goes haywire, but yields...

Art Bell rings in the new year with the second half of his annual prediction show, opening with somber reflection on the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed over 150,000 people just days earlier. He revisits prediction number 93 from the prior year, in which a caller spoke only the word "tsunami," and replays the original audio for listeners. The moment sends chills through the broadcast. New predict...

Art Bell opens the first of two annual prediction shows by reviewing listener predictions made for 2004. He tallies the hits and misses, noting standout calls including a correct Red Sox World Series pick and a prescient HAARP prediction. Among the bonks are several failed forecasts about bin Laden's capture and the Pope's passing. Callers then begin registering numbered predictions for 2005. Cont...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Charles Till, a physicist who helped start up Canada's first power reactor and later led the Integral Fast Reactor program at Argonne National Laboratory for nearly twenty years. Till explains that current light water reactors use less than one percent of mined uranium, creating massive amounts of long-lived waste requiring storage for hundreds of thousands of years. His IFR...

Physicist James McCanney joins Art Bell in the second half to discuss comets and electrical energy in an electrically active solar system, after Whitley Strieber and Dr. Roger Leir examine a mysterious piece of material allegedly recovered from a New Mexico crash site, possibly connected to the 1947 Roswell incident. Multiple laboratory tests revealed the silicon sample contained isotopic ratios u...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Brian Weiss, psychiatrist and chairman emeritus at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, who describes how traditional hypnotherapy with a patient named Catherine unexpectedly led to vivid past-life memories dating back 4,000 years. When Catherine channeled specific details about Art's deceased father and infant son that she could not have known, including his father's Hebrew...

Art Bell welcomes Matthew Alper, author of The God Part of the Brain, to revisit his theory that human beings are neurologically hardwired for spiritual belief. Alper argues that every known culture, without exception, has believed in some form of spiritual reality, suggesting a genetic basis for religiosity rooted in the brain's need to cope with awareness of mortality. He explains the bell curve...

Art Bell welcomes Professor Bart Kosko, electrical engineer at the University of Southern California, to discuss whether the threat of terrorism has been grossly overestimated. Kosko argues that three years without a major attack on U.S. soil represents significant negative evidence, and that resources diverted to counterterrorism may be disproportionate to the actual risk, especially as the falli...