The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell welcomes paranormal researcher and author Brad Steiger, whose 149th book, Shadow World, explores encounters with ghosts, spirit entities, and what Steiger calls "spirit mimics," beings that look and act human but are not. Steiger shares results from his decades-long questionnaire of over 30,000 respondents, revealing that 48 percent have seen a ghost and 61 percent have encountered spirit...

Art Bell announces his retirement from broadcasting, revealing the painful circumstances behind his reduced schedule. He then welcomes Richard C. Hoagland, who reports on a second giant iceberg breaking from the Ross Ice Shelf and examines Dan Golden's speech at JPL, noting the NASA administrator acknowledged Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, former NSA director, as head of JPL's oversight committee at Cal...

Art Bell interviews Ingo Swann, widely regarded as the originator of remote viewing, in a rare public appearance. Swann recounts how his early psychokinesis experiments at Stanford Research Institute caught the attention of intelligence agencies after he disrupted a buried quark detector simply by attempting to visualize it. The incident prompted immediate government interest and funding for what...

Art Bell opens with a historic first, a live interview with Mike, the chef at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, who describes daily life at the isolated outpost where 200 people are sealed off from the outside world until August. Mike shares details about extreme weather reaching minus 100 wind chill, the massive iceberg that just broke off the Ross Ice Shelf, and the surreal experience of watching t...

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland to discuss a range of breaking news, beginning with the imminent calving of a massive iceberg from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, measuring 183 miles by 22 miles. Hoagland connects the event to hyperdimensional physics and rapid climate change, referencing ice core data showing the climate can shift dramatically in mere days. The conversation turns to distu...

Art Bell hosts a wide-ranging panel discussion led by Richard C. Hoagland and joined by journalist David Giamarco and political lobbyist Stephen Bassett, examining the aftermath of the Mission to Mars opening weekend. The film earned $23.1 million, the second-highest March gross of all time, despite an unprecedented campaign of negative press reviews that Hoagland finds deeply suspicious. Hoagland...

Art Bell is joined by Richard C. Hoagland and Canadian entertainment journalist David Giamarco for a final preview on the eve of the Mission to Mars theatrical release. The controversial second trailer, featuring real Viking imagery of the Cydonia face and declaring a 25-year government cover-up, is now posted on Art's website for listeners to hear firsthand. Giamarco reports that De Palma's offic...

Art Bell speaks with John Nolan, a former military intelligence officer turned business intelligence consultant, about Project Echelon and the true state of personal privacy in the modern world. The program opens with Art reading mixed early reviews of the Mission to Mars film and reporting severe weather anomalies across the country, including 100-mile-per-hour winds near Boulder and a winter tor...

Art Bell is joined by Richard C. Hoagland for a discussion about the upcoming Disney-Touchstone film Mission to Mars and the extraordinary controversy surrounding it. Hoagland reveals that director Brian De Palma has mysteriously canceled all press interviews and apparently fled the country days before the film's premiere, a move unprecedented for a director with $120 million on the line. The conv...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Albert Taylor, author of Soul Traveler, for an evening exploring out-of-body experiences and the nature of consciousness beyond the physical form. The broadcast opens with Art reporting on the mysterious disappearance of a former Echelon operative who was scheduled to discuss government surveillance but vanished before airtime, along with a chilling call from a machine shop w...

Art Bell connects live with Seth Shostak at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, where the SETI Institute is conducting Project Phoenix, the most sensitive search for extraterrestrial intelligence ever attempted. The interview features a groundbreaking live webcam feed showing Shostak and colleague Jill Tarter, the real-life inspiration for Jodie Foster's character in Contact, inside the observ...

Art Bell hosts his beloved Ghost to Ghost program, dedicating the entire broadcast to listener-submitted accounts of paranormal encounters. He opens by discussing a photograph from a recent Democratic debate showing what appears to be a demonic entity between candidates Al Gore and Bill Bradley, an image that spread across the internet after a caller mentioned it the previous night. Callers share...

Art Bell welcomes Beverly Jaegers, founder of the U.S. PSI Squad, the only known group of trained psychic investigators who assist law enforcement pro bono. A third-generation police family member and professional journalist, Jaegers describes how she learned her skills not through natural ability but by studying Soviet-era research into human cognitive abilities during the Cold War. Jaegers recou...

Art Bell opens with a chilling live account from Lawrence Notts in West Virginia, who describes three years of relentless paranormal activity in his home. Lawrence explains that the disturbances began the week he signed a contract to sell timber from inherited land containing Native American burial grounds. Entities grab his arms, gouge his eyes, shake his bed, and have driven away his mother, his...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Hugh Ross and Dr. Fuz Rana from Reasons to Believe, an organization dedicated to demonstrating harmony between science and the Christian faith. Dr. Ross, an astrophysicist who researched quasars at Caltech, and Dr. Rana, a biochemist and former Procter & Gamble researcher, discuss evidence for a transcendent creator through the lens of modern physics. The conversation covers...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Larry Dossey, a physician of internal medicine and former chief of staff at Medical City Dallas Hospital, to discuss the non-local nature of consciousness. Dr. Dossey presents evidence from double-blind studies conducted at Duke Medical Center showing that cardiac patients who received intercessory prayer from groups spanning multiple religions experienced 50 to 100 percent f...

Matthew Alper , author of The God Part of the Brain, joins Art Bell to argue that religion and spirituality may be biological impulses rooted in the brain after a first-hour NIDS black-triangle update from Colm Kelleher . Kelleher of the National Institute for Discovery Science discusses the investigation of a massive black triangle seen by four police officers over Illinois on January 5, 2000. NI...

Joel Rothschild , author of Signals and one of America's longest-surviving AIDS patients, joins Art Bell to discuss ghostly communications and signs from beyond after Peter Gersten's CAUS lawsuit update. Art opens with a recap of Peter Gersten 's courtroom victory, where a federal judge refused to dismiss the Citizens Against UFO Secrecy lawsuit and took under advisement claims that the Department...

Dr. Ronald Klatz , president of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, joins Art Bell to discuss anti-aging, life extension, and practical human immortality alongside philosopher Dr. Vernon Howard. Art opens with Richard C. Hoagland discussing the upcoming film Mission to Mars and the exclusion of his research from the movie's official website, despite his decades of work on the Cydonia regi...

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist Kathleen Keating, a close confidant of the late Father Malachi Martin, to discuss her book The Final Warning. The program opens with breaking news as UFO attorney Peter Gersten announces a federal judge in Phoenix has agreed to hear arguments in the Citizens Against UFO Secrecy lawsuit against the Department of Defense, followed by Peter Davenport reporti...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Leo Sprinkle, professor emeritus of counseling psychology at the University of Wyoming, whose two personal UFO sightings in 1949 and 1956 redirected his academic career toward investigating both the UFO phenomenon and reincarnation. Dr. Sprinkle describes how 40 years of research with thousands of experiencers led him to conclude that physical, psychological, and spiritual ev...

Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames, the former military remote viewer known to listeners as Dr. Doom, for a wide-ranging session on psychic intelligence gathering. Art opens by asking whether Dames could remote view the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Dames explains a fundamental limitation of remote viewing: once a person dies, the viewer loses what he calls chain of custody and cannot track the esse...

Art Bell hosts the third installment of the Disclosure series with political activist Stephen Bassett, the only registered lobbyist in the United States representing extraterrestrial phenomena research organizations. Bassett recounts how the first two Disclosure programs in 1998 and 1999 raised expectations that the government would formally acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence, only for the M...

Art Bell opens with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center and an anonymous witness who describes a terrifying encounter outside his rural eastern Washington home. The man, identified only as Mr. X, stepped onto his porch at 3:30 a.m. to gather firewood and found a seven-foot-tall, hair-covered bipedal creature standing just 20 feet away, peering through his dining room window. Shaki...

Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku to discuss how science will reshape daily life in the 21st century. Dr. Kaku describes what he calls the third stage of computing, predicting that by 2020 computer chips will cost a penny and be embedded in clothing, eyeglasses, and even toilets that monitor health. He explains how the AOL-Time Warner merger signals the architecture of a new...