The Art Bell Archive

Jose Escamilla , the researcher who first documented the phenomena known as "rods," joins Art Bell to revisit invisible flying creatures and evidence of an unknown life form coexisting with humanity. Escamilla returns with extensive new video and photographic evidence captured by sources including Fox TV, the Learning Channel, National Geographic, and Swedish military cameras. The program features...

Art Bell reunites with Dr. Lorraine Day, the former orthopedic surgery chief at San Francisco General Hospital who famously reversed her own severe cancer through dietary changes rather than chemotherapy. The program opens with a brief segment on the Raelian religion's human cloning effort before turning to the main topic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and its implications for human health. D...

Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society to explore electronic voice phenomena, or EVP. The team uses brand-new microcassette tapes and external microphones to record anomalous voices at cemeteries, abandoned hospitals, historic hotels, and other locations with reported paranormal activity. They estimate voices appear on roughly 50 percent of their reco...

UFO Magazine research director Don Ecker joins Art Bell to discuss lunar anomalies, NASA archive photographs, and UFO secrecy after a mystery-signal segment with Nick Begich. Art opens with a signal detected at 3.39 megahertz that listeners across the country are reporting at unusual strength. Begich, author of Angels Don't Play This HAARP, reveals that Dr. Bernard Eastland, inventor of the HAARP...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Melvin Morse, a pediatrician and neuroscientist who spent 15 years studying near-death experiences in children at Seattle Children's Hospital. Dr. Morse describes his first case, a young girl submerged underwater for 19 minutes who later recounted every detail of her own resuscitation, including watching a tube being placed in her nose. The conversation turns to the science b...

Art Bell hosts a debate between Richard C. Hoagland and Wayne Green over a Fox television special questioning whether Apollo astronauts landed on the moon. Hoagland, who served as Walter Cronkite's science advisor during the missions, addresses claims about missing stars in photographs, inconsistent shadows, and radiation exposure, arguing the photos were altered to conceal artifacts discovered on...

Art Bell presents a Valentine's Day broadcast featuring Linda Moulton Howe reporting on the historic landing of the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft on asteroid 433 Eros. Howe interviews project scientist Lucy McFadden, who describes how the orbiter, never designed to land, touched down at four miles per hour and survived, snapping 69 photographs during its final descent that revealed features as small a...

Major Ed Dames joins Art Bell to discuss remote viewing, the secretive "Ginger" project, UFOs, time, and nuclear-weapons incidents after a first-hour interview with Dr. Stuart Meloy. Meloy, a pain management specialist, describes accidentally discovering that spinal cord stimulator electrodes, when positioned at a specific vertebral location, can reliably induce orgasm in women. Dr. Meloy describe...

Colm Kelleher , Deputy Administrator of the National Institute for Discovery Science, joins Art Bell to discuss NIDS investigations, black triangle cases, UFO-related phenomena, and animal mutilations after Loren Coleman 's skunk ape segment. Coleman analyzes photographs of an alleged skunk ape taken by an anonymous woman in Sarasota County, Florida. Coleman explains that the creature fits the pro...

Art Bell welcomes Ian Xel Lungold, who presents a theory rooted in the Mayan calendar that creation itself is accelerating. Lungold explains that nine distinct cycles of consciousness, each twenty times shorter than the last, reveal a pattern of exponential change building toward a dramatic conclusion in the near future. He shares a formula for converting Gregorian dates to Mayan calendar days, ar...

Art Bell welcomes longtime friend Whitley Strieber to discuss his self-published book The Key and a startling new development in UFO research. Dr. Roger Leir has submitted a small claw recovered from a UFO witness for laboratory analysis, and preliminary results suggest its surface is vegetative rather than animal in nature, with white crystals resembling biological adhesive. Whitley connects this...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Michio Kaku for a wide-ranging discussion on his second night back on the air. Dr. Kaku describes how Einstein's death when he was eight years old inspired his lifelong pursuit of the unified field theory. They examine the recent experiment where scientists stopped light in a laboratory, with Dr. Kaku explaining that Einstein still has the last laugh since light speed remains...

Art Bell returns to the airwaves and welcomes a massive roster of new and returning affiliate stations before reuniting with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center. Peter opens with a tribute to the late Holger Berg, who preserved a 1936 UFO sighting from Eklutna, Alaska, describing a cigar-shaped craft with blue-green lights and a sound resembling a jet engine decades before jet tec...

Art Bell sits down with webmaster Keith Rowland for a candid interview about his decision to return to the airwaves after months away. Art explains that personal and legal crises drove his departure, and that both have since been resolved. He reveals that Premier Radio Networks approached him about returning, and rather than requesting more money, he negotiated fewer commercials and a return to th...

Art Bell hosts his final broadcast, opening with an emotional farewell and a conversation with Crystal Gayle about the bumper music that has defined his show for years. He thanks his production team, network executives, wife Ramona, webmaster Keith Rowland, and sponsor Bob Crane for their roles in making the program what it became. Mike Siegel, Art's successor, joins to discuss the transition and...

Art Bell opens with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center, who presents two witnesses from Clearfield, Utah, who observed five separate clusters of luminous objects streaking across the sky in tight V-formations on April 20, 2000. The witnesses describe silent, glowing formations traveling from horizon to horizon in seconds, far faster than conventional aircraft and without any soun...

Art Bell reconnects with Mel Waters, the man behind one of the show's most legendary stories, for a long-awaited update on the mysterious bottomless hole on his former property near Ellensburg, Washington. Mel confirms the story is no hoax and recaps how he lowered 80,000 feet of monofilament fishing line into the nine-foot-wide hole without ever reaching bottom. Mel reveals that after his origina...

Art Bell revisits what he calls the most controversial alien contact story of modern times with Dr. Jonathan Reed and his associate Robert Wraith. Reed recounts his 1996 encounter in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, where he says he struck and apparently killed a small creature that had attacked and destroyed his golden retriever during a day hike. Reed describes photographing both the b...

Art Bell hosts investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe for a detailed examination of environmental research making headlines in the spring of 2000. NASA atmospheric physicist Dr. Paul Newman reports that over sixty percent of Arctic ozone at eleven miles altitude has deteriorated, driven by the interaction between industrial chlorofluorocarbons and polar stratospheric clouds formed in an incre...

Art Bell welcomes James Oberg, a 22-year veteran of NASA's Mission Control in Houston, for a wide-ranging discussion on the space program's past, present, and future. Oberg describes his front-row seat in the "trench" during shuttle missions and reflects on the Apollo era's spirit of excellence that has since eroded. The conversation turns to the recent Mars probe failures, where Oberg's reporting...

Kathleen Keating , author of The Final Warning and a close confidant of Father Malachi Martin, joins Art Bell to discuss end times prophecy, the Antichrist, and three days of darkness. Art opens with calls from listeners describing alien encounters, including a mother and son who witnessed a towering black energy being with glowing red eyes leaning over a child's bed, and a man who claims he met a...

Art Bell welcomes back Richard C. Hoagland and astronomer Tom Van Flandern for a deeper examination of newly released high-resolution photographs of Mars' Cydonia region. Hoagland reports that his Enterprise Mission website crashed under listener traffic after the initial broadcast, and the team has spent days analyzing the wealth of detail contained in the image strips. The discussion focuses on...

Art Bell covers a night packed with breaking developments, beginning with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center presenting two fresh Texas sighting reports. A driver northwest of Dallas describes an egg-shaped object with pulsating red bands and blinding white light that rose silently over his SUV, while a high school teacher near Dallas reports two circular objects streaking across...

Art Bell welcomes back Neil Slade, a composer, musician, and former assistant to brain researcher T.D.A. Lingo, to discuss the untapped potential of the human brain. Slade walks listeners through the three evolutionary layers of the brain, from the reptilian core responsible for basic survival to the mammalian layer governing emotions and finally the advanced frontal lobes where abstract thought,...

Art Bell opens the program by taking calls from listeners who claim to be time travelers or visitors from other dimensions. One caller describes arriving from a dimension where the South won the Civil War, while another recounts meeting his older self as a child. The conversations set the stage for the evening's main guest. Dr. David Anderson, a former U.S. Air Force officer and physicist, joins A...