The Art Bell Archive

George Lutz , whose family lived the real Amityville Horror, joins Art Bell to tell the Amityville case story after a first-hour conversation with Richard C. Hoagland about solar-system warming, ancient Babylon, and the Iraq war. Hoagland notes that Baghdad sits on Sumerian ruins and that Saddam Hussein considers himself the reincarnation of Nebuchadnezzar, suggesting ritual motivations behind U.S...

Art Bell presents a special holiday rebroadcast compiling Mel Waters segments from January 29 and December 20, 2002. The program traces the full saga of Mel's Hole from its origins on Mel's property near Ellensburg, Washington, where he lowered over 80,000 feet of fishing line without hitting bottom, through the government seizure of his land under a fabricated plane crash story and his subsequent...

Art Bell welcomes a surprise visit from Mel Waters, who dispels rumors of his death and provides an extensive update on a second bottomless hole discovered in Nevada. Mel describes how Basque shepherds led him to the site, which features a nine-foot diameter opening surrounded by a mysterious metal collar. He recounts lowering a bucket of ice into the hole and retrieving cubes that were not cold,...

Psychic Sylvia Browne joins Art Bell for her predictions for 2003, including warnings about transportation attacks, biological threats, and international tensions after a first-hour Brazil abduction report from investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe . Howe presents a detailed account of an alleged human abduction in the Campo Grande region of Brazil. A businessman named Felipe Castelo Branco de...

Theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku joins Art Bell to discuss string theory, gravity, anti-gravity research, time-machine theory, and the search for a unified field theory after an opening hour on the looming war with Iraq. Art asks listeners whether they are willing to support military action without being told specifically why the country is going to war. Callers weigh in from across North Ame...

Art Bell speaks with Harvard professor Jon Beckwith, a pioneering geneticist whose lab first isolated a pure gene from an organism in 1969. Beckwith discusses how he held a press conference to announce that achievement and simultaneously warn the public about the dangers of genetic manipulation. He reveals that colleagues at Harvard once attempted to have his tenure revoked for raising ethical obj...

Dr. Steven M. Greer of the Disclosure Project joins Art Bell to discuss extraterrestrial intelligence, visitor intentions, alleged military abductions, and suppressed zero-point energy after an opening hour of physical-contact alien encounter calls. Art opens all phone lines exclusively for callers who claim actual physical contact with alien beings, seeking to answer one question: are the visitor...

Art Bell sits down with television legend Chuck Barris, creator of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and The Gong Show, whose memoir has been adapted into a George Clooney film opening December 31st. Barris reflects on the criticism that drove him into a self-imposed exile in the south of France for eight years, describing how negative reviews cut straight to his soul despite enormous ratings su...

Art Bell welcomes Marcus Allen, British publisher of Nexus Magazine, for a detailed examination of whether the Apollo moon landings were genuine manned missions. Allen argues that while machines likely reached the lunar surface, the Van Allen radiation belts pose a serious obstacle to human survival during transit. He walks through radiation exposure levels, noting astronauts would have absorbed 1...

Art Bell examines the Roswell UFO crash in the wake of the Sci-Fi Channel's two-hour television special. He highlights the program's most explosive revelation: a digitally enhanced photograph of General Roger Ramey holding a dispatch that references "victims of the wreck" and objects shipped "in the disc," contradicting decades of official denials. Archaeologist Dr. Bill Doleman of the University...

Art Bell welcomes futurist Gordon Michael Scallion for a conversation that shifts from earth changes and economic predictions into a sustained examination of demonic possession. Scallion reports that after the D.C. sniper shootings, three days of nonstop visions flooded his consciousness with information about possession as a growing crisis, and his own spiritual guidance directed him to discuss i...

Art Bell interviews technology author Howard Rheingold about the social implications of the Internet and mobile communication revolution. The conversation opens with the staggering growth of connectivity, from a few hundred thousand users a decade earlier to nearly half a billion people online, and Rheingold argues that the convergence of telephones, personal computers, and the Internet will produ...

Art Bell presents a Friday night program featuring Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society, who share their most unsettling electronic voice phenomena recordings collected over years of fieldwork. The session opens with Art discussing a caller's wife who believes listening to voices of the dead can psychologically open doors to paranormal contact, and he raises the poss...

Art Bell is joined by Richard C. Hoagland for an examination of newly released infrared images from NASA's Odyssey spacecraft orbiting Mars. Hoagland presents side-by-side comparisons of aerial photographs of downtown Cairo and thermal images of the Cydonia region on Mars, arguing the structural similarities point to buried artificial constructions. He contends the grid patterns visible beneath th...

Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss, professor of physics and astronomy at Case Western Reserve University, for a wide-ranging conversation on time travel, cosmology, and the nature of the universe. The discussion begins with Einstein's special and general relativity, exploring how clocks slow down near massive objects and at high speeds, with Krauss explaining how cosmic ra...

Art Bell fills in for George Noory and opens the Halloween Zone with plans to feature the Ghost Investigators Society and their most compelling EVP recordings from haunted locations including the Wyoming Frontier Prison. He reads from a Denver Post article documenting how GIS members Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath captured ghostly voices at two abandoned Wyoming penitentiaries, including a spiri...

Art Bell announces his retirement from the program effective December 31st, citing chronic back pain from a pole-climbing accident years earlier that has made maintaining his rigorous broadcast schedule impossible. He confirms George Noory will take over as permanent host while Art remains available for occasional fill-in appearances. The evening also covers breaking developments in the D.C. snipe...

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Paul Mayewski, a world leader in ice core collection and analysis who has led more than 50 Antarctic and high mountain expeditions. Dr. Mayewski explains how ice cores function as a year-by-year record of Earth's climate history, capturing gas content, dissolved chemistry, dust particles, and volcanic signatures spanning tens of thousands of years. He describes the dramati...

Art Bell welcomes retired FBI field profiler Candice DeLong to analyze the D.C. sniper terrorizing the Washington area. DeLong draws on her 20 years of FBI experience, including the Unabomber manhunt, to construct a psychological profile of the shooter. She explains why the killer is not mentally ill but rather a highly organized individual demonstrating God-like control over life and death throug...

Art Bell hosts a landmark UFO symposium with Whitley Strieber, Dr. Roger Leir, Linda Moulton Howe, and Bill Hamilton. The evening opens with discussion of the D.C. sniper terrorizing the Washington area, a stunning new crop circle formation in England featuring an alien figure alongside a binary-coded message, and a remarkable shadow person photograph submitted by a listener. Dr. Roger Leir shares...

Art Bell interviews Dallas Thompson, a former personal trainer from Bakersfield who plans to lead an expedition to the North Pole on May 24, 2003, to locate and enter the opening into the hollow Earth reported by Admiral Byrd. Thompson intends to use a SoloTrek personal helicopter, a 350-pound one-person vertical flight vehicle, to descend into the passage with an L.A. film crew documenting the jo...

Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames, retired U.S. Army intelligence officer and original member of the military's remote viewing program, for his seventh year as a guest. Dames announces his cameo role in the upcoming feature film Suspect Zero alongside Sir Ben Kingsley and discusses taking his remote viewing workshops on the road to cities across the western United States. Dames presents a striking...

Art Bell speaks with Richard Glen Boire, co-director and legal counsel for the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, about the government's authority to regulate consciousness-altering substances. Boire argues that drug prohibition amounts to cognitive censorship, with no constitutional basis for the federal government to dictate which states of mind are permitted and which are criminal. He dra...

Art Bell interviews Dr. Leonard Horowitz, an authority in public health and bioterrorism, following Senator Patrick Leahy's call to investigate possible links between West Nile virus outbreaks and bioterrorism. Dr. Horowitz presents documentation showing that strains of West Nile virus were shipped from the United States to Iraq during the 1980s, along with multiple shipments of anthrax, raising t...

Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society (GIS) to share their latest electronic voice phenomena recordings. The non-profit team reveals a breakthrough: they have begun capturing EVPs on a digital hard drive recorder, producing results far clearer than traditional magnetic tape. The voices recorded at a funeral director's haunted home are startling in th...