The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell welcomes renowned psychic Sylvia Browne for a wide-ranging conversation about her predictions, spiritual philosophy, and views on the state of humanity. Browne shares her forecast that within 30 to 40 years, environmental degradation will force people to live in domed cities, attributing atmospheric damage partly to rocket fuel tearing through the upper layers. She discusses immune defici...

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland back from recovery at his New Mexico home for a rapid preview of developing stories. Hoagland reports that the Wall Street Journal is preparing a front-page piece on how grassroots activism saved the Miami Circle, and he announces plans for a celebrity benefit concert in early October ahead of the eminent domain trial. He urges listeners to fax NASA administra...

Guest host Hilly Rose is joined by astronomer Steve "Dr. Sky" Kates for a preview of an extraordinary week of celestial events. The centerpiece is the last total solar eclipse of the century, set to cross Cornwall, England, and sweep through Europe on August 11th. Dr. Sky explains eclipse safety, describes the experience of witnessing totality, and notes that the average town sees a total solar ec...

Art Bell interviews tech entrepreneur Joe Firmage, who left his position atop a multi-billion dollar internet company to pursue breakthrough physics research through his nonprofit organization ISSO. Firmage describes how discoveries about the nature of mass and inertia convinced him that advanced propulsion beyond conventional rocketry is not only possible but likely already achieved by other civi...

Guest host Hilly Rose welcomes researcher Mark Bean for a discussion on electrogravitics and the propulsion systems behind unidentified flying objects. Bean explains how charging metal discs with high voltage creates directional movement, comparing the effect to a horse chasing a carrot. He details the classified work of Thomas Townsend Brown, whose 1950s demonstrations of levitating discs for the...

James Napier reveals a private Madalyn Murray O'Hare conversation, and Robert Bigelow makes his radio debut to discuss space travel and private aerospace after Father Malachi Martin's death. Art opens with the news of Father Malachi Martin 's passing, honoring the exorcist and papal advisor as a singular figure who enriched the program over many years. Napier, a veteran television journalist, reve...

Art Bell interviews Nick Pope, a Ministry of Defence employee since 1985 who investigated approximately 300 UFO cases per year for the British government. Pope describes how roughly 10 percent of those reports involved structured craft capable of speeds and maneuvers far beyond known technology. He details the 1978 Frederick Valentich case, in which a pilot reported a hovering object before his ai...

Dr. Drew Ross , a forensic psychologist and author of Looking Into the Eyes of a Killer, joins Art Bell to discuss serial killers and murderers after Stephen Bassett's UFO PAC segment. Art opens the program with UFO lobbyist Stephen Bassett announcing the creation of the Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee, the first PAC in history dedicated to government disclosure of the UFO ph...

Art Bell opens with the somber news that Father Malachi Martin has suffered a massive stroke and is near death, before turning to updates from Jose Escamilla on his ongoing research into the aerial anomalies known as rods. Escamilla describes new high-velocity footage captured at a cave in Mexico by Fox TV cameras, showing rod-like objects making sharp U-turns at extraordinary speeds. He announces...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Michio Kaku, co-founder of String Field Theory and professor of theoretical physics at City University of New York, for a wide-ranging exploration of the frontiers of modern physics. They discuss the quest for a unified field theory, the possibility of parallel universes existing like bubbles in quantum foam, and whether time travel could split reality into divergent timeline...

Art Bell sits down with film producer Stephen Simon, the creative force behind two beloved movies: Somewhere in Time and What Dreams May Come. Simon recounts how reading Richard Matheson's novel Bid Time Return inspired him to enter the film industry, how he secretly delivered the script to Christopher Reeve's home after agents refused to pass it along, and how Jane Seymour arrived at her audition...

Art Bell welcomes brain researcher Neil Slade, a student of pioneering neuroscientist T.D.A. Lingo, for a deep exploration of untapped human brain potential. Slade explains the three-layered structure of the brain, from the survival-oriented reptile brain through the emotional mammal brain to the advanced primate frontal lobes, and introduces the amygdala as a master switch that directs neural ene...

Art Bell speaks with attorney Peter Gersten, director of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, about his pending FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Defense concerning V-shaped triangular craft. Gersten reveals his plan to subpoena and depose both Peter Davenport and Dr. Steven M. Greer, seeking the identities of government insiders who have privately confirmed the reality of UFOs. Art wrestles with th...

Art Bell opens with an emotional conversation with Terence McKenna, who reveals he has been diagnosed with a stage four glioblastoma, the fastest-moving brain tumor known to medicine. McKenna describes his seizure, the gamma knife procedure that destroyed roughly 90% of the tumor, and the doctors' prognosis of six to nine months. He reflects on love, mortality, and consciousness existing beyond th...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Colm Kelleher of the National Institute for Discovery Science to discuss a groundbreaking Roper survey on public attitudes toward extraterrestrial contact. The poll reveals that 80% of influential Americans believe the government would suppress evidence of alien life, while significant gaps emerge between how people think they would handle contact versus how they expect other...

Guest host Hilly Rose welcomes the Reverend Lady Amber Maeve Shemansky, High Priestess of the Grove of the Winged Scarab and public information officer for the Covenant of the Goddess, to explore the rapidly growing Wiccan religion. With witchcraft ranking as the number one interest among teenage girls in a recent poll of 60 topics, and the U.S. Army now sanctioning Wiccan practice at multiple bas...

Art Bell opens the phone lines for his beloved Ghost to Ghost edition, inviting listeners to share their most chilling encounters with the unexplained. A Navy veteran from World War II recounts waking aboard his ship near Okinawa at 3 a.m. to the unmistakable scent of his Aunt Melanie's floral bathing powder, only to later learn she had died at that exact moment. A caller reports a shadowy figure...

Art Bell is joined by investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe for a wide-ranging discussion that begins with a remarkable eyewitness account from Holland. A 19-year-old named Robert watched from his bedroom window as a small pinkish-purple light expanded into a disc-shaped object over a farm field, emitted electrical discharges, and left behind two fresh crop circles. Linda details biophysicist...

Art Bell welcomes spiritual healer and author Alan Mesher to discuss his book The T-Zone and the concept that humanity has entered a prolonged dark period at the end of a 500-year cycle. Mesher explains that the world is experiencing a massive discharge of collective negativity, and that increasing instability, violence, and social breakdown are symptoms of an energetic shift occurring on the plan...

Art Bell welcomes back Dr. Jeffrey Long, a radiation oncologist, and Dr. Tricia McGill, a licensed clinical psychologist, to discuss near-death experiences and share a stunning update on their previous guest Sarah. The doctors reveal they were approached by a European group proposing to induce cardiac arrest in prisoners to study NDEs, an experiment they refused on ethical grounds. Art also asks D...

Art Bell devotes this deeply personal broadcast to addressing a nightmare that has consumed his life for over a year. He introduces his attorney, Gerald Fox of Fox, Sigler and Spillane in Los Angeles, to explain two major defamation lawsuits filed on Art's behalf. The first targets Ted Gunderson, David Hinkson, and shortwave station WWCR in Nashville for broadcasting false claims that Art was indi...

Art Bell opens with the troubling news that his friend Terence McKenna is reportedly gravely ill in a Honolulu hospital, then welcomes attorney Peter Gersten of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy to discuss his ongoing Freedom of Information lawsuit against the Department of Defense regarding flying triangle craft. Peter describes how the DOD claims to have zero records on the triangles despite decades...

Art Bell presents what he calls broadcast history as researcher Jose Escamilla returns to discuss rods, mysterious elongated creatures captured on video that appear to coexist with humans on Earth. For the first time, Art simultaneously streams Jose's rod footage via internet video while broadcasting the radio discussion, allowing online viewers to see the evidence in real time. Jose describes how...

Art Bell is joined by Kevin Ryerson, an acclaimed intuitive and trance channel in the tradition of Edgar Cayce and Jane Roberts, whose abilities were featured in Shirley MacLaine's bestselling books. They examine the crisis of collective consciousness as school shootings, ecological disasters, and political dishonesty signal what Kevin describes as humanity entering an "event horizon" of profound...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Bruce Goldberg, a hypnotherapist and author who has regressed over 11,000 patients into past and future lives, to discuss one of Art's favorite subjects: time travel. Dr. Goldberg outlines four methods of traveling through time, from physical time machines based on exotic matter and warp drive theory to teleportation and fifth-dimensional out-of-body techniques that listeners...