The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell begins with the 40-meter ham band mystery noise, a 100-kilohertz-wide signal of unknown origin appearing daily across the western United States. He then welcomes back Professor Ramon Lopez to discuss the historic solar flare activity, including the record X-28 flare that saturated scientific instruments for eleven minutes. Lopez explains that solar magnetic activity has been intensifying...

Art Bell opens with remote viewer Major Ed Dames, who declares that the recent extreme solar activity represents the long-predicted shot across the bow, a precursor to escalating solar events he calls kill shots. Dames describes an 11,500-year solar cycle and warns of progressive coronal mass ejections that will destroy satellites and disrupt power grids in coming weeks. Art then transitions to Pr...

Art Bell interviews legendary pilot John Lear, son of Learjet inventor Bill Lear, who breaks a decade of silence to discuss UFOs, government cover-ups, and the nature of reality. Art reads Lear's extraordinary biography detailing over 19,000 flight hours, CIA missions, and his friendship with Bob Lazar, who claimed to have worked on extraterrestrial craft at Area S4 near Area 51. Lear recounts wit...

Art Bell welcomes Whitley Strieber for a wide-ranging Saturday night broadcast that begins with an extensive news segment covering the unprecedented solar flare activity, California wildfires, Antarctic ice shelf collapse, and the HAARP facility's planned expansion to 3.6 megawatts. Art draws connections between these simultaneous global changes, warning that humanity may be fiddling while Rome bu...

Art Bell hosts the 2003 edition of Ghost to Ghost on Halloween night, opening the phones for listeners to share their most frightening supernatural encounters. The program is entirely caller-driven, with no guest, as Art fields stories submitted by email and live calls from across the country. Callers recount chilling firsthand experiences including a mother who discovered a drowned man on a Galve...

Art Bell interviews Dr. Allan Botkin, a clinical psychologist who discovered that a modified form of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing can reliably induce after-death communication experiences in grieving patients. Botkin explains that by targeting the core sadness underlying grief rather than surface emotions like anger or guilt, and then applying rhythmic eye movement, he achieves a...

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Paul Moller, inventor of the M400 Skycar, a vertical takeoff and landing vehicle designed to combine the capabilities of helicopters and airplanes at automobile-level costs. Moller describes a four-passenger craft that fits in a single-car garage, flies at 325 miles per hour, reaches altitudes of 25,000 feet, and achieves a range of 750 miles on alcohol fuel. The vehicle r...

Art Bell opens with psychic Sean David Morton, who shares predictions about Osama bin Laden's alleged death, potential threats to the president, a biological attack on U.S. soil, the eruption of Mount Rainier by 2005, and economic forecasts drawn from both his intuitive work and Bible Code research. Morton also discusses the Harmonic Concordance planetary alignment and its potential spiritual sign...

Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society to present a collection of electronic voice phenomena recordings captured at two locations: a funeral director's home and the historic Rawlins prison in Wyoming. The investigators use both analog tape recorders and digital devices with external microphones to document voices they believe belong to the dead. Among...

Art Bell welcomes author and ham radio operator Harry Helms to discuss the shadow government and the world of clandestine radio. Helms reveals the frequencies used by FEMA's Mount Weather emergency facility, explains how CIA number stations transmit coded messages worldwide using one-time pad encryption, and describes the mysterious signal traced to the Nevada Test Site that vanished moments befor...

Art Bell celebrates his return to WABC in New York City and shares news items ranging from a well-preserved furry limb found in Siberian permafrost that may belong to a Yeti, to mysterious gelatin-like material appearing in an Oregon family's yard, to scientists determining the universe is finite and shaped like a soccer ball. He also offers personal reflections on Rush Limbaugh's painkiller addic...

Dr. Roger Leir recounts the years-long investigation of a mysterious claw found embedded in a towel placed to capture alien footprints. Initial DNA analysis returned non-terrestrial results, but further RNA testing ultimately identified it as a slug from New Zealand. Leir uses the story to illustrate proper scientific methodology in phenomenological research and discusses his surgical removal of s...

Art Bell covers a string of current events including a deadly bombing in Israel, the California recall election, Roy Horn's tiger attack in Las Vegas, and Rush Limbaugh's public admission of prescription painkiller addiction. Art shares his own experience with severe back pain and defends Limbaugh against what he sees as a media feeding frenzy, drawing from his personal understanding of how intrac...

Art Bell reports on breaking news including Italy's nationwide blackout blamed on a single fallen tree, the fracturing of the Arctic's Ward Hunt ice shelf, and a remarkable quote from Defense Secretary William Cohen about electromagnetic weapons capable of altering climate and triggering earthquakes remotely. Australia's worsening drought linked to ozone depletion and a shrinking polar vortex also...

Art Bell opens the program with Jose Escamilla to examine new photographic evidence challenging the existence of rods, the mysterious elongated objects Jose has filmed for years. A website called UFO Theater presents compelling images suggesting rods may be insects captured at low shutter speeds, and Jose concedes the evidence is "pretty damning" while defending his high-shutter-speed protocol res...

Art Bell opens with Whitley Strieber for a discussion on the surge in UFO activity coinciding with Mars at its closest approach to Earth in recorded history. Strieber describes a detailed abduction case from British Columbia involving two women who encountered five sets of glowing green eyes belonging to gray beings on a roadside, followed by 35 minutes of missing time and physical injuries includ...

Art Bell returns to weekend broadcasting and explains how a call from KFI's Robin Bertolucci led to his comeback on the full network. He shares news about a magnetar burst from 45,000 light years away that overwhelmed solar X-ray levels, a star caught swallowing three planets, and a genetics professor at Oxford warning that the human Y chromosome is deteriorating toward eventual extinction in roug...

Art Bell guest hosts and opens with Marshall Masters, a former CNN producer who discusses a 1995 crop circle formation that he believes encodes a prediction for September 6th. Masters presents a chronological analysis linking recurring crop circle glyphs to a communication protocol, suggesting the formations contain headers and messages from an extraterrestrial source. He alleges that the 2003 cro...

Art Bell returns as guest host and opens with reflections on extreme weather sweeping the globe, from record floods in Las Vegas to unprecedented heat deaths in Europe. He reviews reports from the World Meteorological Organization warning that worldwide weather has gone haywire, and shares news about Atlantic Ocean temperatures dropping suddenly along the U.S. East Coast during summer months. Auth...

John Hutchison , a Canadian scientist, joins Art Bell to discuss the Hutchison Effect, zero-point energy, levitation, and jellification of metals after Linda Moulton Howe's crop-circle report. Linda details an extraordinary photograph from Montenegro, Italy, showing a sphere of light sending a beam into a field, captured by a teenager's cell phone camera. Witnesses in Belgium and Germany also repo...

Major Ed Dames , a retired military officer and former U.S. Armed Services remote viewing instructor, joins Art Bell to discuss remote viewing assessments after a false online report of Art's death. Art also provides updates on his dual-loop antenna project, now featuring a buried ground mesh, and notes the Supreme Court striking down laws against private sexual conduct and the death of Senator St...

Art Bell hosts a Friday night open lines show and dedicates one phone line exclusively to callers who claim to have traveled in time. He opens with sharp commentary on the Iraq war, noting that a top Marine general has publicly declared U.S. intelligence was "simply wrong" about chemical weapons, and that no weapons of mass destruction have been found. Art also updates listeners on his anomalous a...

Art Bell opens with personal updates on his recovery from back problems and his massive dual-loop ham radio antenna project in Pahrump, Nevada. The antenna produces an unexplained 400 volts of mixed AC and DC current and delivers signal gains of 20 to 25 decibels that defy conventional physics. Art also discusses the acceleration of what he calls "the quickening," pointing to record tornado activi...

Best-selling novelist and Wired contributing editor Wil McCarthy joins Art Bell to discuss Hacking Matter, quantum dots, artificial atoms, and programmable matter after a detailed report from Linda Moulton Howe on the emerging SARS crisis. Scientists have confirmed a new coronavirus is responsible, and Russian experts publicly speculate the virus could be man-made. Linda interviews doctors from To...

Art Bell broadcasts his final regular show on New Year's Eve, bidding farewell to over a decade of late-night radio. He takes time to acknowledge his support staff in the Medford, Oregon office, many of whom are losing their jobs as operations shift to Los Angeles. Crystal Gayle calls in to wish him well and they reflect on the song she wrote inspired by the program. The evening centers on the ann...