The Art Bell Archive

Dr. Nick Begich returns to Art Bell to discuss HAARP, ionospheric manipulation, electromagnetic pulse effects, surveillance, and mind-control technologies after a first-hour news roundup. Art opens with alarming headlines including a failed Pentagon missile intercept test over Kwajalein, 115-mile-per-hour winds devastating the Pacific Northwest, eight-pound blocks of ice falling from Spanish skies...

Science reporter Linda Moulton Howe joins Art Bell to examine climate change, accelerating global warming, Arctic ice loss, and sudden climate shifts after Art's New York trip recap. Art returns from a whirlwind trip to New York City, recounting interviews on the Today Show, WABC with Sean Hannity, and a packed book signing at Barnes and Noble in Rockefeller Center. He also reveals that Y2K disrup...

Art Bell brings environmental chemist Mike Castle on to offer a different theory about the persistent trails being observed in skies across the country. Castle, an industrial polymer chemist who has testified before Congress on Superfund cleanups, suggests the iron compounds and bacteria found in ground samples may indicate an airborne bioremediation effort, possibly an emergency attempt to repair...

Art Bell welcomes Wayne Green, the 77-year-old editor of 73 Magazine, to discuss a landmark FCC ruling that reduces the Morse code requirement for all amateur radio license classes to just five words per minute. Both men celebrate the change as essential to reversing the steep decline in new ham operators, noting that Japan has long thrived with a no-code license and school-based radio clubs that...

Nostradamus scholar John Hogue joins Art Bell to discuss Y2K, religion, terrorism prophecy, and Nostradamus after Art's postmortem on the millennium rollover. Art opens with a postmortem on Y2K, declaring it largely a non-event while urging listeners to keep their emergency preparations for increasingly severe weather ahead. He notes record warm temperatures in New York, tornado damage in Kentucky...

Art Bell broadcasts a special early edition on New Year's Eve, beginning at 7 p.m. Pacific time to track the millennium's arrival across every time zone. News reports confirm that Y2K computer fears have so far produced only minor glitches worldwide, though a credit card failure across Britain days earlier serves as a reminder that problems may still surface when businesses reopen. Boris Yeltsin's...

Art Bell interviews legendary investigative columnist Jack Anderson, whose career spanned decades of exposing government corruption and tangling with the most powerful figures in Washington. Anderson recounts his decision to investigate FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by conducting a burlesque FBI-style probe, including going through Hoover's garbage and following him around the capital. The columns...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Gary Schwartz, professor of psychology, medicine, neurology, and psychiatry at the University of Arizona, to discuss scientific research into life after death. Schwartz explains his systemic memory hypothesis, which proposes that all systems in the universe store information through feedback loops, much like audio feedback from a speaker or the infinite regression seen when p...

Art Bell opens the show with a startling announcement: all long-distance telephone service to Pahrump, Nevada, has been down since late afternoon, leaving him unable to take calls from the outside world. With only local lines working, he transforms the broadcast into an unprecedented Pahrump-only open lines night, inviting his desert neighbors to call in on local numbers while the rest of the nati...

Art Bell welcomes Robert Ghost Wolf and Dannion Brinkley to discuss an extraordinary archaeological discovery in the central United States. Ghostwolf describes unearthing over 200 artifacts from a buried temple site, including Egyptian hieroglyphics, Celtic inscriptions, Hebrew tablets, and what appears to be a depiction of the Ark of the Covenant. The find suggests multiple ancient civilizations...

Art Bell opens the phone lines with Y2K just sixteen days away, fielding calls from across North America as anxiety builds toward the millennium rollover. He reports that a Nebraska bank posted signs limiting cash withdrawals to three thousand dollars, sparking the very panic officials hoped to avoid. Massachusetts officials, meanwhile, prepare to monitor the transition from a concrete bunker fort...

Art Bell presents extended readings from his co-authored book with Whitley Strieber, "The Coming Global Superstorm," a work of researched fiction that dramatizes a catastrophic climate shift. The narrative opens with ocean buoys detecting sudden temperature drops in the North Atlantic and Antarctic, signaling that the world's ocean currents are changing course with devastating consequences. The bo...

Art Bell revisits the controversial story of Dr. Jonathan Reed, who claims to have encountered and captured an alien being in the Pacific Northwest woods. Tonight's broadcast introduces new witnesses and forensic evidence, including never-before-seen photographs of an alien artifact with hieroglyphic symbols and gold needle-like protrusions, which Art has scanned and posted on his website. Microbi...

Art Bell hosts Major Ed Dames of Psi Tech, who arrives fresh off two confirmed hits: predicting the EgyptAir Flight 990 cockpit altercation and the loss of the Mars Polar Lander. Dames explains that his military remote viewing team targeted the Lander mission before launch and determined it would fail, attributing the loss to the spacecraft bouncing violently in a Martian atmosphere far thicker th...

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland to discuss NASA's loss of the Mars Polar Lander, the latest in a string of failed Mars missions. Hoagland argues that the failures are not accidents but the work of a rogue group within NASA that is deliberately sabotaging missions to prevent the public from learning about ancient ruins on Mars. Hoagland traces this conspiracy back to Operation Paperclip and t...

Geologist and Tokyo-based journalist Peter Hadfield joins Art Bell to discuss the coming Tokyo earthquake, while Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center reports on Missouri UFO sightings. Art begins the program with an unusual and personal revelation, explaining why he missed the previous night's broadcast. He received a credible death threat relayed through another nationally syndica...

Art Bell broadcasts on Thanksgiving evening, opening with holiday-themed open lines before welcoming Dr. Walter Semkiw, a medical doctor who presents what he calls visual evidence of reincarnation. Dr. Semkiw argues that physical facial features carry over between lifetimes, offering side-by-side photographic comparisons of historical figures and their alleged modern counterparts as proof of soul...

Art Bell makes radio history by bringing forward members of two separate airline crews who publicly describe encountering unidentified objects while flying over Missouri. A Learjet pilot at 39,000 feet reports a missile-like object passing within 1,000 feet below his aircraft, while a second crew in a Beech BE-40 at 37,000 feet independently confirms the sighting. Peter Davenport presents FAA cont...

Art Bell opens with Y2K updates and listener mail before taking calls from a man claiming to be a former Illuminati controller and liaison to the Pleiadian Supreme Commandant. The caller insists he has traveled through time and holds secret knowledge about the New World Order. Art presses him for verifiable evidence, highlighting the difficulty of separating genuine insiders from elaborate storyte...

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland for an update on the much-discussed November 7th date and the mysterious objects reportedly captured on video during a solar eclipse in Turkey. Hoagland reveals that after extensive analysis, the objects turned out to be flashbulbs and light poles in a crowd shot, undermining the foundation for claims of incoming objects. He explains how the investigation expo...

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist William Thomas for an extensive update on the chemtrail phenomenon. Thomas reports a sharp increase in sightings of persistent chemical trails spreading across skies nationwide, accompanied by widespread illness including sore throats, respiratory problems, and a troubling new pattern of psychological symptoms such as depression, inability to concentrate,...

Art Bell welcomes Linda Jamison and Terry Jamison, identical twin sisters known as the Psychic Twins, who use automatic writing to channel information from what they describe as the Akashic Records. They explain this as an etheric band surrounding Earth where all actions and thoughts are recorded, distinct from channeling individual spirits. The twins describe how they independently produce identi...

Art Bell opens with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center, who presents audio recordings from commercial airline pilots and a former F-16 fighter pilot describing a massive triangular object seen at 37,000 feet over the southern United States. A second witness in Mississippi reports a silent, hovering craft covered in rows of white lights. Art then interviews actress Jane Seymour ab...

Art Bell interviews X-Files creator Chris Carter about the cancellation of Harsh Realm after only three episodes and the upcoming seventh season of The X-Files. Carter reveals that airline pilots he meets almost always report having seen UFOs, and he shares how government insiders have told him his fictional stories come unsettlingly close to classified truths. They discuss the coming millennium,...

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland to discuss the stunning discovery of a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth frozen in Siberian ice. They examine the scientific possibilities of cloning the ancient creature using DNA extraction and elephant surrogacy, while weighing the risks of releasing dormant pathogens trapped in the permafrost for thousands of years. The conversation shifts to the broader...