The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell brings on Richard C. Hoagland for an unscheduled appearance to discuss two major developments in NASA's future. President Bush's 2003 budget includes funding for nuclear electric power in space and nuclear propulsion for rockets, technologies Hoagland sees as essential building blocks for a manned Mars mission. He connects these developments to the recent prioritization of Cydonia imaging...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Gregory Little to discuss his book Mound Builders: Edgar Cayce's Forgotten History of Ancient America. Dr. Little presents evidence that human presence in the Americas extends far beyond the 9,000-year Clovis barrier, citing mitochondrial DNA analysis tracing migration patterns back 50,000 years. He identifies Haplogroup X, found in Native Americans, ancient Basques, and Isra...

Art Bell speaks with Jan Lamprecht, calling from Johannesburg, South Africa, about his book Hollow Planets and the feasibility of worlds with vast internal cavities. Lamprecht challenges conventional assumptions about Earth's interior, noting that everything below 20 miles is known only through seismology and extrapolation. He presents an alternative model where density decreases at depth, allowin...

Art Bell welcomes science writer Eugene Linden to discuss the fragile relationship between climate stability and human civilization. Linden argues that all modern prosperity has grown within a remarkably stable climate period, and that rapid shifts could unravel everything. He explains how thermohaline circulation works, describing how warming could paradoxically trigger sudden cooling by disrupti...

Art Bell welcomes Mel Waters back after a rebroadcast reignited fascination with his original bottomless hole in Washington state. Mel recounts how the government seized his property under the pretense of a plane crash, then paid him a quarter million dollars monthly to relocate to Australia. He describes being abducted, beaten, and abandoned in a San Francisco alley with his money gone and his wo...

Art Bell speaks with Canadian inventor John Hutchison about the Hutchison Effect, a collection of anomalous phenomena discovered in 1979 while experimenting with Nikola Tesla's longitudinal wave technology. Using Tesla coils, Van de Graaff generators producing up to two million volts, and RF generators at 455 kilohertz, Hutchison produced effects including the levitation of objects up to 1,500 pou...

Art Bell opens the phones for a monster-themed edition of Open Lines, inspired by a harrowing call from the previous night. He brings back Ken and his girlfriend Sherry from Portland, Oregon, who describe two years of escalating paranormal terror in a house built in 1910. Sherry recounts being pinned face-down in bed by an invisible force with the weight of a body pressing on her, receiving a bite...

Art Bell interviews John A. Keel, author of The Mothman Prophecies, as the major motion picture starring Richard Gere opens in theaters. Art admits he has somehow never learned about the Mothman despite decades in paranormal broadcasting. Keel recounts traveling to Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1966 to investigate reports of a seven-to-eight-foot-tall winged creature with enormous red eyes tha...

Art Bell speaks with George Zeiler, Deputy International Director and Field Investigator for MUFON, about his investigation of the Stan Romanek UFO sighting in Lakewood, Colorado. On September 30, 2001, Romanek captured approximately 15 minutes of video showing a luminous craft following his car roughly 30 feet above telephone poles. Zeiler rates the case a 13 on a scale of one to ten, citing abou...

Art Bell welcomes bestselling author Dean Koontz to discuss his latest novel, One Door Away from Heaven, and its connections to the paranormal. Koontz explains his writing process, revealing that he begins with little more than a premise and two characters before leaping off a creative cliff. The conversation quickly moves beyond fiction into quantum mechanics and parallel realities. Koontz shares...

Art Bell presents a compilation of his conversations with Mel Waters, a rural property owner near Ellensburg, Washington, who claims to have a seemingly bottomless hole on his land. Mel describes a nine-and-a-half-foot-wide shaft lined with stone for the first fifteen feet, into which locals have tossed trash, dead livestock, and old appliances for decades without ever hearing anything hit bottom....

Art Bell hosts a Friday night open lines session with an eclectic slate of topics for callers: interdimensional beings, vanishing stories, talking pets, levitation claims, and the question of what single miracle each listener would perform. He opens with news about Rush Limbaugh's seemingly miraculous recovery of 80 percent of his hearing just weeks after cochlear implant surgery, a result Art not...

Vincent Lords describes a sensory-deprivation experiment after nine days buried alive, and Mark Hazlewood joins Art Bell later to discuss Blindsided by Planet X and a 2003 Earth-changes scenario. Lords, a hypnotist, claims that after spending nine days buried alive in a coffin to beat David Blaine's record, he began experiencing levitation, seeing light beings, and predicting future events. Lords...

Art Bell welcomes astronomer Dr. William R. Alschuler, who holds a PhD from UC Santa Cruz and a BA from Harvard, to discuss the science behind UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Unlike most astronomers who avoid the topic, Alschuler has devoted his career to public science education and authored several books including The Science of UFOs. He shares his own UFO sighting at the Adler Planetarium in Ch...

Art Bell opens the Friday night lines with a provocative question for callers: if you were God, what would you do differently? The prompt follows the previous week's popular question about what listeners would do as the devil, and Art insists callers must answer within the spirit of the question rather than deflecting with claims of divine perfection. Callers offer a wide range of responses, from...

Art Bell speaks with journalist Rob Riggs about his investigations into the Big Thicket region of East Texas, where strange lights, wild man sightings, and unexplained phenomena have been reported for over a century. Riggs describes two categories of sightings: a classic ape-like Bigfoot and a more human-looking figure resembling the Karankawa, a tribe of towering Native Americans who once inhabit...

Art Bell interviews Jim Hughes, a Florida man with a physics degree who placed a classified ad asking nine million dollars for what he claims is a piece of a UFO drive mechanism. Hughes explains that 44 years earlier, a friend witnessed a cigar-shaped craft hovering over a New Jersey dump and throwing out metal fragments. The piece, roughly pyramid-shaped and two inches long, was tested at Lehigh...

Art Bell welcomes Mark McLaughlin, lead writer for the Alternative Energy Institute, for an extensive discussion on the future of energy and the environmental consequences of fossil fuel dependence. McLaughlin, a historian and researcher based at Lake Tahoe, outlines the health costs of air pollution, the threat of rapid climate change from greenhouse gas emissions, and the possibility that Gulf S...

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Randy Eaton about a pair of orca whales stranding themselves on the Olympic Peninsula near Dungeness Bay in Washington State. Eaton, a wildlife biologist and author, explains that a female orca was found dead on a small island while a male repeatedly beached himself nearby, resisting rescue efforts. He theorizes the male is likely the female's son, as adult male orcas spen...

Art Bell welcomes Professor Ronald Munson, a bioethics expert from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, for a wide-ranging discussion on human cloning and stem cell research. Munson, who holds a Ph. D. from Columbia and completed postdoctoral work in biology at Harvard, breaks down the science behind embryonic stem cells and their extraordinary potential for regenerative medicine. The conversatio...

Art Bell opens the new year with UFO witness Stan Romanek, who describes five separate sightings in the Denver area beginning with a daytime encounter in December 2000 near Red Rocks Amphitheater. The object, roughly the size of a small car with six rotating spheres on its underside, hovered ten feet above power lines before silently rocketing skyward with a concussive pop. Video footage captured...

Art Bell welcomes Linda Moulton Howe for a surprise first-hour visit covering two major stories. Linda reports on megalithic structures discovered 2,200 feet below the ocean off Cuba's western tip by Canadian ocean engineer Paulina Zalitsky. Side-scan sonar images reveal what appear to be pyramids, streets, and buildings with 90-degree angles, and remotely operated vehicle footage shows smooth sto...

Art Bell opens a full night of listener predictions for 2002, beginning with a review of last year's forecasts. Of 18 predictions scored, seven proved accurate, a hit rate Art considers remarkable for specific, non-obvious calls. He notes that his audience may be growing more psychic over the years, with each season producing slightly better results than the last. The predictions rolling in reflec...

Art Bell welcomes self-described futurist and remote viewer Sean David Morton live from Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, where Morton claims to have won $11,000 at roulette using a remote viewing technique paired with sealed envelope targets. Morton describes his process of correlating four sealed images to quadrants of the roulette wheel, placing $1,000 bets with a reported success rate of five wins...

Art Bell opens the phone lines on a Friday night before the holiday weekend, sharing a remarkable email from a homicide detective whose investigation was guided by the apparition of a murder victim's deceased grandson. The ghost of the young boy, killed by a car two years earlier, led the detective to both the murder weapon and the killer's residence. Inspired by the Pam Reynolds case, Art dedicat...