The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell checks in with Richard C. Hoagland, who is recovering from a severe heart attack in Miami, for an update on two developing stories. Hoagland reports that the Miami Circle archaeological site has been saved from demolition through an eminent domain proceeding, with the county winning a key hearing against the developer. He announces that Senator Bob Graham has introduced a bill to incorpor...

Art Bell opens with brain researcher Neil Slade to discuss the remarkable true story of Mike the Headless Chicken, a rooster that survived four and a half years after decapitation in 1945. Scientists at the University of Utah determined the farmer's cut left the brain stem intact, preserving all instinctual behaviors including walking, preening, and attempting to crow. Slade connects this to his r...

Guest host Whitley Strieber interviews forensic artist and investigator Bill McDonald, who presents a detailed composite description of the Roswell spacecraft assembled from multiple independent military witnesses. McDonald describes a craft resembling a diamond-shaped stingray, approximately 32 feet long and 25 feet wide, constructed as a single integrated unit that appeared grown rather than ass...

Art Bell speaks with attorney Peter Gersten, founder of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, about his ongoing legal battle to force government disclosure of UFO-related documents. Gersten describes his dismissed FOIA lawsuit against the Army over records referenced in Colonel Philip Corso's book and outlines his active case demanding Department of Defense information on flying triangle sightings. He cal...

Art Bell welcomes James McMullen, a naturalist and independent tracker who has spent 23 years in the Florida Everglades pursuing the endangered Florida panther. McMullen describes how he verified 64 individual panthers in a region where experts declared them virtually extinct, earning the trust of Seminole elders and old-time swamp dwellers along the way. The conversation shifts to Bigfoot when Mc...

Art Bell brings back investigative journalist William Thomas for an in-depth examination of the growing chemtrail phenomenon that has generated thousands of eyewitness reports since their initial broadcast. Thomas presents new lab results from a government-certified laboratory that found Pseudomonas fluorescens bacteria, a restricted DNA-cutting enzyme called bacillus, and streptomyces fungus in b...

Art Bell interviews Bonnie Crystal, a Silicon Valley CEO and pioneering technologist who co-founded the first woman-led company to go public on NASDAQ. Crystal invented video noise reduction technology that revolutionized satellite television and developed a new flat-panel display called High Gain Emissive Display. But the heart of the conversation centers on her lifelong passion for exploration s...

Art Bell returns from a three-week personal absence to sit down with Major Ed Dames, founder of the private remote viewing firm PSI TECH, now celebrating its tenth anniversary. Dames discusses contrails, revealing that his remote viewing sessions identified three distinct categories: normal condensation trails, atmospheric chemistry research missions flown by agencies like NASA and NOAA studying o...

Guest host Hilly Rose welcomes Dr. Eugene Mallove, editor of Infinite Energy magazine and MIT-trained engineer, to discuss the suppressed science of cold fusion ten years after the landmark Pons and Fleischmann announcement. Mallove explains how the two electrochemists demonstrated excess heat from a simple electrochemical cell using heavy water and palladium, only to be ridiculed and driven from...

Art Bell welcomes back author and geopolitical analyst Jeffrey Nyquist to discuss the escalating NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia and its dangerous implications for U.S.-Russia relations. Nyquist details how Russian leaders, including Boris Yeltsin, have issued direct threats of global war over the conflict, while calling up 170,000 new troops and deploying advanced nuclear submarines. He...

Art Bell welcomes Columbia University physicist Dr. Brian Greene for a conversation spanning the Big Bang, string theory, nuclear weapons, and the possibility of extraterrestrial contact. Greene explains how everything in the universe, including space and time themselves, emerged from a point smaller than a quark, and describes how string theory has revealed that tears in the fabric of space are t...

Art Bell welcomes scholar Glenn Kimball for an Easter-themed exploration of the hidden political forces behind the crucifixion of Jesus. Drawing from ancient manuscripts across Hindu, Roman, and early Christian traditions, Kimball presents evidence that the crucifixion was driven not by religious persecution but by a blackmail scheme. He describes how the Sadducees, the only Jewish faction allied...

Art Bell welcomes ethnobotanist and philosopher Terence McKenna from his home on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawaii for a wide-ranging conversation about psychedelic substances, consciousness, and the nature of time. McKenna argues that cultures selectively stigmatize certain substances while glorifying others, and that altering consciousness is as old as humanity itself. He describes his current w...

Ramona Bell hosts alongside Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a practitioner from a thousand-year lineage of magic, for a special Dreamland episode dedicated to the practical traditions of witchcraft. Paglini describes methods of spiritual protection, including environmental cleansing with sage, sulfur, and sea salt, as well as the use of reverse candles and uncrossing oils to return negativity to its source. T...

Art Bell welcomes researcher Carol Bowman, author of Children's Past Lives, to discuss the startling phenomenon of young children who spontaneously recall details from previous lifetimes. Bowman shares how her own son Chase, at age five, described vivid memories of being a soldier on a battlefield, complete with details about his uniform, a field hospital, and a cannon. Remarkably, chronic eczema...

Linda Moulton Howe and investigative journalist William Thomas join Art Bell for a two-part investigation into chemtrails, anomalous contrails, and silver-sphere reports across the United States. Howe reports witnessing massive X-shaped trails over Sedona, Arizona, and interviews an Albuquerque resident who observed through binoculars a silver sphere moving within a contrail before shooting straig...

Art Bell reconnects with Richard C. Hoagland, former advisor to Walter Cronkite and NASA consultant, just hours after his release from the hospital following emergency open-heart bypass surgery. Hoagland recounts waking in his Miami hotel room with crushing chest pain radiating down both arms, managing to call for paramedics just before collapsing. He describes the nitroglycerin temporarily reliev...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Lorraine Day, a former orthopedic trauma surgeon who spent 15 years at the University of California San Francisco Medical School and served as chief of orthopedic surgery at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Day describes her confrontation with the AIDS crisis in the late 1980s, her controversial push to test surgical patients, and her eventual departure from mainstream med...

Art Bell is joined by Major Ed Dames, former operations and training officer for the military's classified remote viewing unit, calling from his new base in Maui. Dames explains technical remote viewing as a trainable method of extracting information from what he calls the collective unconscious, describing how his company SciTech has refined the protocols originally developed for military intelli...

Art Bell welcomes Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, alongside MUFON investigator Robert Fairfax to discuss a landmark case near Mount St. Helens. Fourteen forestry workers witnessed a small disc-shaped craft descend toward a herd of elk, lift one adult animal off the ground, and rise until it vanished into the sky. Davenport and Fairfax detail their in-person intervie...

Art Bell welcomes researcher Peter Novak, whose book The Division of Consciousness proposes a unified theory of the afterlife built on the psychological distinction between the conscious and unconscious mind. Novak, driven by the tragic suicide of his young wife, spent ten years studying hundreds of cultures' afterlife traditions, near-death experiences, ghost reports, and past-life regressions, c...

Art Bell opens with sobering news that his close friend Richard C. Hoagland has suffered a massive heart attack in Miami and is in critical condition on life support, facing emergency open heart surgery. Art describes Hoagland's relentless work ethic as a serious Type A personality and connects the health crisis to months of unrelenting personal attacks from critics he considers engaged in deliber...

Art Bell appears as a guest on Larry King Live for a wide-ranging interview covering his career, beliefs, and the phenomena he investigates nightly. Art traces his path from rock and roll radio to late-night talk, explaining why the nighttime audience possesses a uniquely open and attentive quality that makes his show possible. He shares his views on crop circles, ghosts, and alien abduction with...

Art Bell hosts Whitley Strieber alongside Millennium Group members James McCanney and Earl Crockett for a provocative discussion challenging mainstream astrophysics. McCanney, a physicist fired twice from Cornell for his unconventional theories, argues that comets are not dirty snowballs but rocky bodies generating massive electrical plasma discharges as they interact with the sun's solar wind. Th...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. H. Paul Shuch, executive director of the SETI League, for a deep exploration of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Dr. Shuch, a former aerospace engineer who designed the world's first commercial home satellite TV receiver, explains how amateur radio enthusiasts can convert their backyard satellite dishes into functional radio telescopes capable of scanning the ski...