The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell reports on snow closing the highway between Pahrump and Las Vegas, NASA's discovery of cracks in Earth's magnetosphere allowing solar wind to penetrate, Arctic tundra now releasing rather than absorbing carbon dioxide, and mysterious gamma ray bursts occurring daily across the cosmos. Parapsychologist and occult practitioner Dr. Evelyn Paglini delivers unprecedented warnings drawn from mo...

Art Bell discusses failed intelligence reform legislation blocked by turf-protecting agencies, ionospheric anomalies disrupting ham radio communications for six weeks, California's proposed GPS tracking devices for vehicles, and alarming bird flu pandemic projections before welcoming longevity medicine specialist Dr. Terry Grossman of the Frontier Medical Institute in Denver. Dr. Grossman outlines...

Art Bell opens with updates on the Battle of Fallujah, Arafat's mysterious death, Iran's pledge to suspend uranium enrichment, and climate change reports showing dramatic Arctic ice loss and Antarctic krill population collapse. Callers debate whether the United States is engaged in a religious war with Islam, with a Lutheran pastor arguing that American foreign policy and colonialism bear signific...

Art Bell opens with a disturbing report from the former head of the CIA's bin Laden unit, who reveals that Osama bin Laden has obtained religious authorization to use a nuclear weapon against Americans. Callers weigh in on the threat and what a nuclear attack on a U.S. city would mean. The conversation shifts dramatically when theoretical physicist Dr. Fred Alan Wolf joins to discuss time travel....

Art Bell welcomes forensic illustrator and investigator Bill McDonald, who presents his composite analysis of the Roswell spacecraft based on 248 witness interviews. McDonald describes the craft as a metal crystalline vehicle resembling a cross between a dolphin and a stingray, detailing its magneto-aeroelectrodynamic propulsion and morphable camber wing design. He attributes much of his technical...

Art Bell interviews Dr. Anthony Rizzi, a theoretical physicist who earned degrees from MIT, the University of Colorado, and Princeton, and who served as the first scientist at Caltech's LIGO gravitational wave observatory. Rizzi explains his discovery of the first definition for angular momentum in general relativity, describing how gravity waves rippling through space make it nearly impossible to...

Art Bell opens the annual Ghost to Ghost broadcast on Halloween night by presenting the complete Spiricom recordings, a historic series of two-way voice communications between living researchers and deceased individuals conducted by George Meek and William O'Neill between 1977 and 1982. The audio documents the evolution from barely audible initial contact with a spirit called Doc Nick to sustained...

Art Bell is joined by Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society to present new electronic voice phenomena recordings captured at the Gold Hill Hotel in Virginia City, Nevada, and the Deer Lodge Prison in Montana. The EVP samples include a woman asking "are you alone?" during elevated electromagnetic readings, a child's voice saying "mother," and a deeply unsettling record...

Art Bell speaks with attorney and researcher Matt Savinar about the concept of peak oil and its potentially catastrophic implications for modern civilization. Savinar explains that global oil production follows a bell curve, and once the halfway depletion point is reached, declining output collides with an economic system built on perpetual growth, triggering financial collapse. Savinar argues tha...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. J.J. Hurtak, founder of the Academy for Future Science and author of The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch. Hurtak discusses expanding consciousness, the power of prayer, and his discovery of the Osiris tomb in Egypt through remote sensing and mental visualization techniques he experienced during a 1973 meditation breakthrough. The conversation moves into extraterrestrial...

Art Bell hosts Dr. Michael Shermer, founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, for a spirited debate about the limits of scientific skepticism and the nature of belief. Shermer explains his journey from paranormal believer to professional skeptic after watching James Randi replicate psychic feats, and he outlines how confirmation bias and self-deception fuel belief in the paranormal. The two clash ov...

Art Bell welcomes Sir Charles Shults III, the aerospace researcher and former Martin Marietta engineer, who presents his growing body of evidence for past and present life on Mars. Shults describes fossils he has identified in NASA rover images, including sea urchins, trilobites, seashells, coral, and sand dollars, all consistent with an ancient ocean environment on the Martian surface. The conver...

Art Bell interviews Zeph Daniel, a survivor of satanic ritual abuse and mind control, who shares his extraordinary account of childhood trauma, institutionalization, and eventual spiritual liberation. Zeph describes how satanic groups systematically traumatize victims to dislodge the soul from the body, creating an opening for demonic entities to inhabit the person and wield power within occult hi...

Art Bell sits down with Major Ed Dames, the decorated former military intelligence officer and remote viewing instructor, for a wide-ranging and sobering discussion about global threats on the horizon. Dames opens with his assessment that a nuclear weapon will be used on the Korean Peninsula, pointing to North Korea's provocative statements and growing arsenal of six to seven nuclear devices as in...

Art Bell welcomes Cleve Backster, the pioneering researcher behind the "Backster Effect," to discuss his decades-long investigation into plant perception and biocommunication. Backster recounts his groundbreaking 1966 discovery, when a polygraph test on a plant produced tracings strikingly similar to human emotional responses, including reactions to mere thoughts of harm directed at the plant. The...

Art Bell opens with tributes to the late Dr. John Mack, killed by a drunk driver in London, and broadcaster Bill Balance, who passed at 85. He reports on Mount St. Helens repressurizing after spewing steam and ash, and speculates about drilling into volcanic domes to relieve pressure before catastrophic eruptions. He also notes the Navy dismantling its ELF submarine communication system, suggestin...

Art Bell reports on Hurricane Jeanne's aftermath across Florida, Mount St. Helens raising its volcanic alert to level three, the Navy's shutdown of its ELF submarine communication system in Wisconsin, oxygen generator failures threatening the International Space Station crew, and Denmark's bid to claim the North Pole by proving a geological connection to Greenland. British astronomer Dr. David Dar...

Art Bell broadcasts live as Hurricane Jeanne makes landfall in Florida with 120-mile-per-hour winds, taking calls from residents in Boca Raton, Port St. Lucie, Orlando, Tampa, and Pensacola who describe horizontal rain, debris-filled streets, and prolonged power outages still unresolved from previous storms. Financial analyst Joseph Meyer reports that Florida faces recession after four hurricanes...

Art Bell replays HAARP transmissions that provoked hundreds of listener responses the previous night, ranging from headaches and sweating to one caller reporting an amorous reaction. He also covers a Reuters survey revealing most Americans would refuse to follow government instructions during a terror attack, preferring to take matters into their own hands. Dr. Jeffrey Long, a radiation oncologist...

Art Bell opens with a surprise visit from Whitley Strieber, discussing a rare hurricane tracking across the Arizona desert, a swarm of 200 earthquakes on the California-Nevada border, and the connection between atmospheric temperature differentials and increasingly violent weather. Strieber warns that changes in the stratosphere are intensifying storms at an unprecedented rate. Award-winning inves...

Art Bell opens with updates on Hurricane Ivan, now at Category 5 strength with 160-mile-per-hour winds bearing down on the Cayman Islands. He covers the mysterious North Korean explosion that left a satellite-visible crater, insurgent attacks in central Baghdad, and a SETI signal detected from a thousand light years away that scientists cannot yet explain. A Florida businessman announces plans to...

Art Bell opens with an interview featuring Hank Cohen, president of MGM Television Entertainment, and Ellen Muth, star of Showtime's Dead Like Me. They discuss the dark comedy's unique blend of humor, mortality, and family dysfunction, with Muth describing her character George as a reluctantly rebellious reaper who continues to grow despite being dead. Cohen reveals the show's Emmy-nominated visua...

Art Bell discusses a Reuters report on a mysterious radio signal detected three times by the Arecibo telescope at the hydrogen frequency of 1.420 gigahertz, a potential marker for extraterrestrial communication. He also covers NIDS research on silent black triangle craft spotted over American highways and cities, a recurring crop circle in Tennessee grass, and a UFO debris fragment collected by po...

Art Bell begins with live reports from listeners across Florida as Hurricane Frances batters the coast, stalling at the shoreline and dumping relentless rain. Callers from Fort Lauderdale to Punta Gorda describe sustained winds, power outages, and the eerie calm of the hurricane's 70-mile-wide eye. A truck driver stranded on I-95 near Fort Pierce shares his plan to ride out the storm parked butt-f...

Dr. Roger Leir , author of Aliens and the Scalpel, joins Art Bell to discuss alleged alien implants and the Varginha UFO case after Art's long-delayed echo demonstration. Art plays audio recordings captured by operators in Washington and Arizona, walks through the science of radio propagation, and invites listeners to help explain what no physicist yet can. Callers weigh in on topics from Lake Vos...