The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell interviews Kevin Mitnick, widely regarded as the world's most famous computer hacker, in his first appearance on the program after years of listener requests. Mitnick traces his fascination with technology back to age 16, when he and friends physically entered a Pacific Bell facility and walked out with technical manuals, with a security guard helping carry them to the car. He describes h...

Art Bell hosts Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society for a presentation of never-before-heard electronic voice phenomena recordings. The session follows Art's recent interview with Pam Reynolds, a woman who described detailed observations during clinical death with zero brain activity, an experience that Art says has moved him closer to believing in consciousness surv...

Art Bell interviews Dr. Eltjo Haselhoff, a Dutch theoretical physicist and former Los Alamos National Laboratories researcher, about his scientific investigation of crop circles. Haselhoff describes his first encounter with the phenomenon in 1988, noting the undisturbed soil beneath flattened crops and the absence of footprints, observations that drew him into over 13 years of research. Haselhoff...

Art Bell speaks with Red Elk, a self-described medicine man of Blackfeet, Shoshone, Irish, and French heritage, who claims knowledge passed down through over 2,000 years of tradition about worlds existing beneath the Earth's surface. Red Elk describes multiple levels below ground, including subterranean civilizations, tunnel systems, and a "time cave" near Republic, Washington, where he says one c...

Art Bell welcomes Bigfoot researcher Robert W. Morgan to discuss decades of field research into the elusive creature. Morgan recounts his first encounter in 1957 in Mason County, Washington, where he mistook the being for a gorilla while still serving in the U.S. Navy. He describes organizing scientific expeditions backed by the National Wildlife Federation and assembling a 17-member science advis...

Art Bell welcomes remote viewing expert Major Ed Dames, who presents specific intelligence claims about the anthrax letter sent to NBC's Tom Brokaw. Dames states that 18 remote viewing sessions by two experts identified the perpetrator as a lone domestic terrorist, a chemical engineer living within ten miles of State College, Pennsylvania, who used the September 11 attacks as cover to mail weaponi...

Art Bell dedicates a special phone line to listeners who have been physically attacked by entities, prompting a flood of harrowing firsthand accounts. One caller describes being yanked by his ankles off a bunk bed and hurled across the room by a solid black figure at age eleven. Another reports being injected with a syringe by a dark humanoid entity, leaving three puncture marks and blood on his a...

Art Bell interviews Pam Reynolds, a musician and mother of three who underwent one of the most extraordinary surgical procedures ever performed. In 1991, surgeons at Phoenix's Barrow Institute cooled her body to 58 degrees Fahrenheit, stopped her heart, drained her blood, and achieved zero brain wave activity in order to clip a giant basilar tip aneurysm. By every medical measure, Pam Reynolds was...

Art Bell hosts researcher David Sereda and actor Dan Aykroyd for a wide-ranging discussion on UFO phenomena, NASA space shuttle footage, and ancient civilizations. Aykroyd shares his personal UFO sighting over Martha's Vineyard, describing two glowing white discs traveling at extreme speed across the sky, and announces his upcoming Sci-Fi Channel program exploring paranormal subjects. Sereda detai...

Art Bell welcomes paranormal investigator Joshua P. Warren to discuss his decade-long research into the mysterious Brown Mountain Lights of North Carolina's Pisgah National Forest. Warren describes the unexplained illuminations that have appeared on and around the ridge for perhaps 800 years, investigated multiple times by the U.S. government and the Smithsonian. He shares his team's recent videot...

Dr. Nick Begich joins Art Bell to discuss HAARP, ionospheric heating, ELF signals, underground tomography, and post-September 11 military applications after a first hour of open lines. Art covers escalating violence in Israel, a new homeland security warning about potential holiday attacks, and the underwhelming reveal of Dean Kamen's device as a gyroscopic scooter. Callers discuss earthquake swar...

Art Bell hosts a Friday night open lines edition that begins with a heartfelt tribute to George Harrison, who passed away the previous day. Art reflects on growing up with the Beatles and how their music shaped his years in rock radio before transitioning to talk. A caller from San Antonio shares the powerful experience of discovering the entire Beatles catalog in a single weekend, while a woman f...

Art Bell opens with an hour of open lines where callers weigh in on topics ranging from what should be done with Osama bin Laden to a striking ghost photograph from Indonesia posted on his website. The discussion touches on the ethics of human cloning, shadow people sightings, and fresh UFO reports of V-shaped craft spotted over Southern California and Palo Alto, complete with digital photographs...

Art Bell sits down with renowned psychic medium James Van Praagh, who shares his extraordinary journey from childhood visions to becoming one of the most recognized spirit communicators in the world. Van Praagh discusses his upcoming CBS mini-series starring Ted Danson, based on his first book, and his new publication "Heaven and Earth: Making the Psychic Connection." The conversation moves throug...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Dean Radin, senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, to discuss the Global Consciousness Project and its network of random number generators placed around the world. The conversation centers on the remarkable data recorded by these devices on September 11, 2001, when the generators showed a dramatic spike in non-random behavior that began hours before the attacks...

Art Bell speaks with ancient text collector and lecturer Glenn Kimball about a mysterious cave system in southern Illinois that may contain evidence of pre-Columbian contact between the Old World and the Americas. Kimball describes how ground-penetrating radar and metal detection equipment mapped a 525-foot inverted V-shaped cavern beneath private farmland, revealing what appears to be a 110-foot...

Art Bell welcomes self-described futurist Sean David Morton on Thanksgiving night for a session of predictions and analysis. Morton outlines his theory of seven-year war and peace cycles, claiming the United States entered a war cycle in September 2000 that would extend through 2007. He predicts the Afghan conflict will conclude within eight months of September 11th and warns that Iraq will be the...

Art Bell sits down with Dr. Ralph Merkle, co-inventor of public key cryptography and principal fellow at Zyvex, for a wide-ranging discussion on the future of nanotechnology. Dr. Merkle explains how molecular machines built atom by atom could one day pack more computing power into a sugar cube than currently exists in the entire world, and how the scanning tunneling microscope already allows scien...

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe with breaking news about a possible megalithic site discovered 2,200 feet below the ocean surface off the western tip of Cuba. Deep ocean engineer Paulina Zalitsky of Advanced Digital Communications reports finding what appears to be large architectural structures, including pyramids, roads, and carved stone blocks partially covered by...

Art Bell hosts his annual Ghost to Ghost Halloween special on a night graced by the first full moon on Halloween since 1955. Listeners from across the country call in with their most unsettling encounters, from a shadowy presence that knocked a man fifteen feet from his cabin doorway in Yosemite to a police officer who watched a translucent old woman materialize in his kitchen at three in the morn...

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist and author Kathleen Keating for a discussion on prophecy, Bible codes, and the escalating threats facing America in the weeks following 9/11. Keating claims she ran Bible code analysis on the Taliban on September 7, 2001, four days before the attacks, producing results that included "terror attack," "target USA," and "World Trade Center." She warns that h...

Art Bell devotes the entire program to an open lines challenge, asking listeners to think outside the box and propose unconventional strategies for winning the war on terrorism. The concept gains unexpected validation when Reuters reports just days later that the Pentagon itself is soliciting creative ideas from inventors and citizens. Callers respond with proposals ranging from the extreme to the...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a self-described practitioner of natural and ceremonial magic, for a discussion on using the occult as both a spiritual defense and a tool against terrorism in the wake of 9/11. Paglini describes specific rituals involving white candles, shield of protection oil, and image candles that listeners can use to create what she calls an impenetrable spiritual dome a...

Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society to present recordings of Electronic Voice Phenomena captured at a decommissioned prison in Rawlins, Wyoming. Using brand new, never-recorded-on tapes and external microphones under strict controls, the team documents whispered voices and unexplained sounds from cellblocks, the death house, and the gas chamber are...

Art Bell welcomes Howard Bloom, founder of the International Paleopsychology Project, for a sweeping discussion on the mass psychology driving the post-9/11 conflict. Bloom argues that the war against terrorism is fundamentally a battle of determination and social cohesion, drawing parallels between modern Islamic fundamentalism and historical civilizational clashes stretching back a thousand year...