The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell opens the phone lines with a special challenge, dedicating one line exclusively to members of secret societies willing to share something about their organizations. The evening draws multiple callers claiming Masonic membership, including a self-described Master Mason who insists all Masonic secrets are publicly available and a second Mason who flatly contradicts him, confirming that high...

Art Bell welcomes author Laurie Jacobson to discuss her book Hollywood Haunted, exploring ghost sightings connected to some of the entertainment industry's most famous names. Jacobson shares accounts of Lucille Ball's melancholy apparition watching her beloved home being demolished, Ozzie Nelson's spirit taking liberties with women who moved into his former residence, and Clifton Webb lingering on...

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Ellen Crystall, a researcher who claims over 2,000 photographs of UFOs taken across nearly three decades of fieldwork in Hollywood, California and Pine Bush, New York. Crystall describes her first encounters in 1971, when residents of a Hollywood apartment complex pointed out lights in the night sky that gradually revealed themselves as structured craft over subsequent wee...

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Colm Kelleher of the National Institute for Discovery Science about early results from their new UFO hotline, then shifts to preparedness experts Stan and Holly Deyo broadcasting from Australia. Kelleher describes roughly 70 reports received in just weeks, including a massive silent triangular craft spotted over Oklahoma and a deeply strange encounter on Bob Bigelow's rese...

Art Bell welcomes UFO attorney Peter Gersten and creationist minister Steve Grohman for a two-part evening covering alien controversies and the creation-evolution debate. Gersten reports on a bizarre two-page R.J. Reynolds tobacco advertisement appearing in weekly newspapers that mocks alien abductees, asking why aliens keep abducting the dumbest people on Earth. He and Art dissect the ad's strang...

Art Bell welcomes dream interpretation experts Dr. Katia Romanoff and certified dream analyst Lauri Loewenberg for an exploration of the hidden meanings behind our nightly visions. Art shares his frustration with an intense period of vivid dreaming, describing a recurring sense of being chased by the mafia and a disturbing dream where a doctor repaired his hearing by twisting scissors into his ear...

Art Bell interviews legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot in a rare and personal conversation about music, creativity, and life. Lightfoot reveals the deeply personal origins of his iconic songs, explaining that "If You Could Read My Mind" emerged from the painful end of his first marriage, while "Sundown" was born from a period of infidelity and heartbreak. He describes his creati...

Art Bell is joined by prophecy expert John Hogue for a wide-ranging exploration of Nostradamus and the predictions surrounding the approaching millennium. Hogue interprets the famous 1999 prophecy about the "king of terror from the sky" not as a single figure but as a reference to climate disruption and the growing environmental crisis, connecting it to global warming, collapsing fisheries, and ra...

Art Bell sits down with Charles Ostman, a senior fellow at the Institute for Global Futures with 25 years of experience in electronics and physics, to explore the emerging world of nanotechnology. The discussion begins with Y2K concerns, where Ostman warns that disruptions to global supply chains could trigger economic consequences lasting nine to twelve months beyond the rollover, particularly as...

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland to discuss the sudden disappearance of NASA's $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter, which vanished as it approached the red planet after traveling 416 million miles. Hoagland questions the official explanation of a navigation error, noting that the spacecraft dove 12 to 15 miles deeper into the Martian atmosphere than planned, a mistake he considers nearly imposs...

Art Bell speaks with Richard Kieninger, author of The Ultimate Frontier, a book that has remained in print for 36 years since its 1963 publication. Kieninger explains that since the age of 12, he has received teachings from individuals representing an ancient organization called the Brotherhood, a group he describes as saints who have preserved knowledge across millennia. He outlines a cosmology i...

Art Bell welcomes Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center to present dramatic new evidence from the September 1st event over Oregon. Multiple witnesses describe an enormous object, compared to a flying skyscraper, that entered the atmosphere engulfed in fire, then stopped burning, leveled off glowing blue, and accelerated beyond any known aircraft. Audio recordings from a federal law...

Art Bell opens with world news including China's disclosure of its neutron bomb capability, Y2K preparation concerns for major U.S. cities, and reports that a regular caller known as Dr. Reed may have been shot. He also discusses the mysterious failure of New Mexico's chili pepper crop and heavy military helicopter traffic over his valley near Area 51. The centerpiece of the evening is an extended...

Art Bell tracks Hurricane Floyd in real time as the massive Category 4 storm bears down on the southeastern United States, prompting the largest evacuation in American history. With 2.6 million people fleeing the coast, Art monitors radar imagery showing the enormous eye of the storm east-southeast of Cape Canaveral. He fields calls from listeners across the country sharing local conditions, evacu...

Art Bell welcomes Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper to discuss his extraordinary NASA career and personal encounters with unidentified flying objects. Cooper recounts his time as a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base, his record-setting 22-orbit Mercury mission, and the harrowing moment he lost all electronics and had to manually guide his capsule back to Earth. He also shares his belief that the s...

Art Bell begins with Linda Moulton Howe reporting on a wave of Canadian crop formations discovered during the summer of 1999. Farmer Clint King describes finding wheat stems intricately braided and woven in a 300-foot pictogram near Hagersville, Ontario, while a neighbor reports observing a large red glowing object moving above the tree line near the field. In Saskatchewan, farmer David Robertson...

Art Bell interviews physicist Russell Targ, co-founder with Hal Puthoff of the Stanford Research Institute's classified remote viewing program. Targ recounts how the CIA-funded initiative began in 1972 when he and Puthoff bet their careers on developing repeatable psychic experiments. He describes the landmark test where psychic Pat Price accurately drew both the exterior and interior of a secret...

Guest host Hilly Rose welcomes Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, executive director of the International Coalition for Drug Awareness, for an extensive examination of serotonergic medications including Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and Luvox. Dr. Tracy draws connections between these drugs and a growing list of violent incidents, from the Columbine shooting to the killing of Phil Hartman by his wife Brynn, whose fami...

Art Bell welcomes Joyce Riley, registered nurse and spokesperson for the American Gulf War Veterans Association, for an urgent broadcast covering two major investigations. Riley details the plight of Gulf War veterans suffering from undisclosed biological experiments, including a disturbing new development involving parasitic organisms emerging from the skin of affected soldiers. She describes fou...

Art Bell reports live as a massive aerial event unfolds across the western United States. Multiple witnesses from Oregon to California describe a formation of glowing objects traversing the sky for up to two minutes, with reports of maneuvering and formation changes. A valley-wide power outage strikes Art's broadcast location simultaneously, forcing the show onto emergency generator power. Peter D...

Art Bell speaks with Philip Hoag, author of No Such Thing as Doomsday, a 406-page preparedness manual covering everything from water filtration to underground shelter construction. Hoag, who built a 7,000-square-foot underground facility with three diesel generators and a ham radio communications room, argues that rational preparedness is the sensible middle ground between panic and denial. The di...

Art Bell welcomes back Edmund Pankau, one of the nation's top ten private investigators and author of Hide Your Assets and Disappear, whose book shot to number one on Amazon after his previous appearance. Pankau discusses the case of Marty Frankel, who allegedly stole up to a billion dollars from insurance companies and was spotted wandering Rome with gold bars and diamonds, making rookie mistakes...

Richard C. Hoagland joins Art Bell to connect Coral Castle GPS anomalies with a wider investigation of NASA eclipse footage, Comet Encke, the Beta Taurid stream, and Lloyd Albright's reported meteor fears after the August 11 solar eclipse. Art presents an unverified Associated Press story about Lloyd Albright, a NASA Kennedy Space Center computer programmer found hiding in an Ohio cave with 16 gun...

Bruce Friedrich , vegetarian campaign coordinator and general spokesperson for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, joins Art Bell to debate vegetarianism, animal rights, factory farming, and the ethics of eating meat after Art's opening news on the Turkey earthquake, Cassini, and a mysterious Peru photograph. Art also shares his obsessive search for a song that has been stuck in his head...

Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames, former military remote viewer and head of SciTech, for a wide-ranging discussion on technical remote viewing and its alarming environmental predictions. Dames warns that dwindling water supplies across North America will soon trigger food shortages, mass migration from cities, and the collapse of social systems, urging listeners to relocate near large freshwater s...