The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell welcomes back Matthew Alper, author of The God Part of the Brain, now in its fifth edition, following Newsweek's cover story validating his thesis that humans are neurologically wired for spiritual belief. Alper distinguishes between two separate brain mechanisms: a spiritual impulse seated in the frontal and parietal lobes that produces feelings of cosmic unity during meditation, and a r...

Art Bell hosts Dr. David Livingston, whose doctoral dissertation examined the business prospects of space tourism, for a discussion on the future of commercial spaceflight in the wake of Dennis Tito's historic trip to the International Space Station. Livingston recounts how his research journey began after discovering Richard C. Hoagland's work, leading him to propose a space tourism dissertation...

Art Bell speaks with Michael Heiser, a doctoral candidate specializing in divine beings in ancient Semitic texts, about the intersection of ufology, theology, and ancient languages. Heiser presents his novel The Facade, which explores what would happen if intelligent extraterrestrial life were revealed to mainstream Western religions, and argues that the Hebrew Bible contains a divine council of m...

Art Bell interviews Kent Walker, author of the national bestseller Son of a Grifter, about growing up with one of America's most notorious con artists. Walker describes how his mother, Sante Kimes, trained him to shoplift at age six, stole cars from dealerships, committed at least twelve arsons for insurance money, and was convicted of enslaving household workers through intimidation and locked do...

Art Bell welcomes brain researcher Neil Slade for a wide-ranging discussion on the untapped potential of the human brain. The conversation centers on an extraordinary video of a Taoist physician in Indonesia known as "Dynamo Jack," who generates electricity from his own body, delivers shocks to a film crew, and sets a newspaper ablaze using only the energy from his hands. Slade explains how the am...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Patch Adams, the physician and social activist whose life inspired the Robin Williams film, for a wide-ranging conversation about health care, compassion, and American society. Adams, founder of the Gesundheit Institute, describes his 30-year mission to provide free medical care and his plan to build a full-scale hospital in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, where doctors and...

Art Bell welcomes journalist Leslie Keane, who reports on a new study by retired NASA scientist Richard Haynes documenting over 100 cases where pilot UFO sightings affected aviation safety. TWA Captain Phil Schultz described a round silver craft with portholes that descended from above and nearly collided with his aircraft in 1981, writing "spaceship" in his official report. Keane discusses the sy...

Art Bell welcomes Reverend Howard Storm, a former atheist and art professor who describes his harrowing near-death experience during a medical emergency in Paris in 1985. After a perforation in his small intestine went untreated for hours in a French hospital with no surgeon available, Storm found himself standing beside his own body, feeling more alive than ever, with heightened senses and full p...

Art Bell welcomes Professor Peter D. Ward, a geological sciences professor at the University of Washington, to discuss his book Rivers in Time and the search for clues to Earth's mass extinctions. Ward presents evidence from ice core records showing that catastrophic climate shifts can occur in as little as ten years, with the potential to plunge Europe into a devastating ice age through disruptio...

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland for an update on the mysterious events unfolding in Antarctica, including the strange rescue flight from the South Pole and the revelation that the NSA has maintained a presence on the continent for decades. Hoagland also discusses the Dennis Tito space tourism controversy, NASA's resistance to civilian access, and the suspicious simultaneous crash of all spac...

Art Bell hosts Dr. Scott Mandelker and David Wilcock for an expansive discussion on what they call the Time of Global Shift. Wilcock presents data showing a 230 percent increase in the sun's magnetic field strength since 1901, a 500 percent rise in worldwide volcanic activity since 1875, and a 400 percent increase in significant earthquakes since the mid-1970s. The guests connect these physical ch...

Art Bell brings back Richard C. Hoagland for a focused discussion on the deepening mystery surrounding Antarctica's Lake Vostok. A former Navy radio operator who served at McMurdo in the early 1970s writes in to confirm that winter crew illness is essentially unheard of, casting doubt on official explanations for the emergency medical evacuations. Hoagland reveals that Raytheon's general manager h...

Art Bell opens with Linda Moulton Howe, who reveals that the previous night's guest, Deek Richards, has confessed his UFO crash retrieval story was a hoax. Howe discovered that Richards is the same caller who fabricated a JPL story years earlier under the name Kent. Art and Linda discuss whether his repeated pattern of elaborate lies followed by immediate confession suggests deeper motivations. Ho...

Art Bell interviews Deek Richards, a self-described Army veteran who claims to have participated in the recovery of a crashed non-human craft near the Fulda Gap in Germany during the 1982 Reforger exercises. Richards describes a triangular craft with rounded edges buried halfway into the earth, five small gray beings in black leotard-like suits, and a strong ammonia smell emanating from the bodies...

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland to discuss alarming developments at Antarctica's Lake Vostok. An email from a former Navy radio operator who wintered at McMurdo in 1972-73 confirms that illness during this season is virtually unheard of, raising serious questions about why personnel are now critically sick. Hoagland reports that sources in New Zealand have confirmed two U.S. workers are hosp...

Art Bell interviews technologist and author Mark Pesce about the rapidly approaching nanotechnology revolution and its potential to reshape civilization within a generation. Pesce explains that molecular-scale machines could eliminate disease, end hunger by converting raw soil into food, and extend human lifespans. He describes how nanobots built from atomic-level components would operate like min...

Art Bell opens with a firsthand account from Grant Cameron in Winnipeg, who reveals he was the caller who asked Vice President Dick Cheney about UFOs on the Diane Rehm Show. Cameron details Cheney's response that any such briefing would be classified, and points out that a congressional letter of inquiry about UFOs had already been sent to the Vice President, contradicting his claim of not encount...

Art Bell speaks with ancient astronaut theorist Zecharia Sitchin, who reveals that the recently completed human genome project identified 223 genes that cannot be traced through normal evolutionary progression from bacteria to vertebrates. Sitchin notes that the science editor of Newsweek labeled these "alien genes," a finding that aligns with his translations of Sumerian clay tablets describing g...

Art Bell sits down with Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John Mack, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose research into alien encounters drew intense scrutiny from the academic establishment. Dr. Mack recounts how publishing his findings in 1994 led to a 15-month investigation by Harvard, which ended only when his legal team, led by attorney Danny Sheehan, prepared to mount a full defense with witnesses a...

Art Bell welcomes futurist and intuitive Gordon Michael Scallion to discuss the possibility of an imminent pole shift and accelerating earth changes. Scallion describes the layers beneath the Earth's crust, comparing them to the layers of the atmosphere, and explains how these boundaries move at different speeds. When they get stuck and release, he warns, the lithosphere itself could slip over the...

Art Bell opens with David Wilcock, a specialist in theoretical science, to discuss alarming solar activity. Two massive coronal mass ejections have narrowly missed Earth, including one estimated at X-22 intensity, the largest ever recorded, which saturated monitoring equipment. Wilcock explains that the sun's magnetic field has increased 230 percent since 1901 and presents research from Russian as...

Art Bell hosts his beloved Ghost to Ghost edition on Good Friday, opening the phone lines exclusively for real ghost stories from listeners across the country. He sets the ground rules early: only serious, genuinely frightening accounts will make the cut, and quality ghost photographs can be submitted to his webmaster for posting on the website's growing gallery. Callers share a remarkable range o...

Art Bell opens with Richard C. Hoagland, who reveals photographs of the D&M pyramid region on Mars that appear to show Arabic script on the surface. Hoagland had held these images for three years at the request of a colleague. He presents two possibilities: either the lettering is genuinely on Mars, which would be an extraordinary discovery, or someone inserted it into the digital images during a...

Art Bell welcomes Canadian writer Paul Coulbeck, who investigated the extraordinary claims of Daniel Hammer, a French-Canadian carpenter who says he was abducted from his living room in 1975. According to Hammer, two humanoid beings took him aboard a granite-interior spacecraft, shrunk him to atomic size, and guided him through the workings of an energy frequency generator. The experience left him...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Carla Wills-Brandon, a licensed therapist and author, to discuss the phenomenon of deathbed visions. Unlike near-death experiences, deathbed visions occur specifically when a person is actively passing, often involving visitations from deceased relatives who appear with the purpose of easing the transition into death. Dr. Wills-Brandon shares her research, which draws on thou...