The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell speaks with Professor Ted Bryant, a physical geographer from the University of Wollongong in Australia, about catastrophic tsunami and climate change. Bryant describes how he first stumbled onto tsunami evidence 13 years earlier when he found angular boulders jammed into coastal crevices in locations too sheltered for ordinary storm waves. What began as a small hypothesis grew into the di...

Art Bell speaks with Steve Quayle about the escalating India-Pakistan nuclear standoff. Quayle places the odds of nuclear war at 80 percent and outlines the geopolitical alignments, with Russia backing India and China supporting Pakistan through a mutual defense pact. He warns that terrorist groups with ties to Pakistani intelligence could serve as a trigger, and that a nuclear exchange involving...

Art Bell hosts Major Ed Dames for wide-ranging discussion that opens with a brief appearance by the Amazing Kreskin, who announces he will publicly reveal the exact date and time of his predicted massive UFO sighting over the Nevada desert. Kreskin says the event will occur the following week and invites serious observers to a meeting at the Silverton hotel in Las Vegas. Dames addresses his earlie...

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland to discuss NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft data revealing enormous quantities of water ice beneath the Martian surface. Hoagland argues the hydrogen distribution map confirms his tidal model of Mars, which posits that two ancient oceans once sat 180 degrees apart on the equator. He contends NASA is downplaying the findings for political reasons, waiting for mar...

Art Bell opens the phone lines for a themed Friday night session built around three listener-suggested topics. Callers share short-term predictions for the next six weeks, first-person encounters with monsters and unknown creatures, and accounts of sexual encounters with unseen entities or forces. A truck driver describes witnessing a massive winged shadow creature stalking a hiker in the Californ...

Art Bell interviews researcher Donna Good Higbee, who maintains the world's only database on human spontaneous involuntary invisibility, a phenomenon she has documented through more than 1,400 letters and reports from people worldwide. Higbee describes cases ranging from a woman ignored at a post office despite standing directly in line, to a driver whose car appeared driverless to horrified pedes...

Art Bell opens with an emotional account of his wife Ramona's severe asthma crisis the previous night, when she turned blue and nearly required an ambulance from their remote home in Pahrump, Nevada. He then reports on the discovery of Chandra Levy's remains in Rock Creek Park, expressing suspicion about how searchers missed the body despite exhaustive prior efforts. Art also covers new earthquake...

Art Bell discusses a stunning nighttime UFO video submitted by Carl Lynch of Chesterfield, Virginia, showing a brightly lit craft captured on a Sony camcorder that Art describes as one of the best nighttime UFO recordings he has ever seen. Carl joins by phone to describe the encounter over Highway 360, where he and his girlfriend observed a cluster of lights with a large red strobing light beneath...

Art Bell speaks with The Amazing Kreskin, the renowned mentalist who has made a bold public prediction backed by $50,000 of his own money. Kreskin claims that during May or June 2002, the Nevada desert will witness one of the largest UFO sightings of the past century, involving three or four craft visible to scores of witnesses. He describes how the prediction arose from studying the history of si...

Art Bell welcomes Stan Deyo to analyze a mysterious video showing an unidentified object crashing into the desert at high speed, bouncing airborne, and exploding on second impact. Deyo, who once worked on classified flying saucer technology under Dr. Edward Teller, breaks down the footage frame by frame, identifying an inverted cone signature and magnesium-like debris consistent with an electrical...

Art Bell returns after a two-week absence caused by an unidentified fever that reached 104 degrees, left doctors baffled, and later spread to his wife. He connects his experience to a breaking story of 18 British soldiers quarantined at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan with a similarly unidentified contagious fever. Bioterrorism author Steve Quayle questions the British Ministry of Defense's immedia...

Art Bell opens with news commentary on human cloning, the UN water crisis report, and a newly discovered predator insect species in Africa before welcoming energy conservation expert Donald Wulfinghoff. The author of the Energy Efficiency Manual, a comprehensive reference used worldwide, Wulfinghoff explains the global energy timeline. Citing Dr. M. King Hubbert's predictive model, he estimates th...

Art Bell interviews music legend Nancy Sinatra about her upcoming album California Girl, featuring collaborations with Brian Wilson and a collection of California-themed classics. Nancy reflects on her creative partnership with Lee Hazelwood, the origins of their hit that became a fan favorite through Art's bumper music rotation, and her decades-long career through her return to recording. She rec...

Art Bell welcomes investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe, who shares a firsthand account of witnessing three star-like lights moving in a slow triangular formation over the Ozark National Forest on April 14, 2002. Eight other witnesses corroborate the sighting, and pilot Bob Martin notes the formation emerged from the constellation Auriga and faded near Leo. NASA confirms its Cluster satellites...

Art Bell opens the Friday night phone lines to explore three unusual topics: spontaneous human invisibility, mysterious mirror experiences, and underground encounters. He reads from researcher Donna Good Higbee's investigation into people who report becoming spontaneously invisible in public spaces, unable to be seen or heard by those around them. Callers confirm these experiences with striking pe...

Art Bell interviews anarchist author John Zerzan, who advocates dismantling industrial civilization and believes technology inherently reduces human freedom. Zerzan, who owns no car or computer, travels by bicycle, and corresponds with Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, argues that the pre-civilization period of human history spanning roughly two million years demonstrates that organized violence and social...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Steven M. Greer, who reveals that the Disclosure Project webcast became the largest in internet history, with 400,000 simultaneous viewers and over one million video downloads of military witnesses testifying about UFOs. Greer announces that his organization, Space Energy Access Systems, is assembling a team of physicists and engineers to build a prototype zero-point energy g...

Art Bell welcomes Whitley Strieber with breaking news from Chile, where a UFO congress reportedly produced extraordinary close encounters. Witnesses describe a craft landing with beings standing six and a half feet tall in shiny body suits, while 24 conference attendees allegedly experienced a form of teleportation, disappearing physically in front of a large crowd. Strieber notes similar sighting...

Storm chaser and photojournalist Warren Faidley joins Art Bell to discuss extreme weather, tornadoes, and the destructive Pahrump windstorm that opens the broadcast. Local callers describe roofs torn away, pole barns lifted and deposited in neighboring yards, chain-link fences ripped from the ground, and zero visibility from blowing sand that forced drivers to stop in the middle of roads. Faidley...

Art Bell opens the phone lines on a Friday night packed with eclectic topics and listener suggestions. Callers propose themed lines for time travelers, extraterrestrials, inventors, and alien implant recipients, while Art covers breaking news including the Venezuelan government overthrow, Secretary Powell's troubled Middle East trip, and the discovery of an ancient underwater city off the coast of...

Art Bell welcomes self-described intuitive Sean David Morton for a wide-ranging discussion on geopolitical predictions and classified military operations. Morton claims contact with Pentagon officials involved in a program called Operation Foresight, which reportedly uses remote viewers and intuitives to track terrorist threats against the United States. He describes being given a coordinate to vi...

Art Bell speaks with physicist Russell Targ, co-founder of the Stanford Research Institute's investigation into psychic abilities and a pioneer in laser development. Targ describes how his early career as a stage magician taught him to distinguish genuine psychic signals from trickery, a skill that proved essential when the CIA recruited him to conduct remote viewing research under controlled labo...

Art Bell interviews Professor Kevin Warwick of the University of Reading, who has undergone a groundbreaking surgical procedure to become the world's first true cyborg. Surgeons at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary implanted a micro-electrode array directly into the median nerve of his left arm, with 20 small wires tunneling up to a connector pad near his elbow. The two-hour operation, performed under...

Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society to present electronic voice phenomena recordings captured during cemetery and private residence investigations. The nonprofit organization follows strict protocols, using only brand new, unopened microcassette tapes and external microphones to eliminate any possibility of recording over previous material. The EVP...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Gary Schwartz, a Harvard-trained professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, to discuss his groundbreaking research into the survival of consciousness after death. Dr. Schwartz explains how the principles of astrophysics and feedback systems in nature suggest that human consciousness, like starlight from distant stars, continues indefinitely after the body dies. The...