The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell sits down with spiritual medium James Van Praagh, whose book Talking to Heaven holds the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list. Van Praagh describes how he first discovered his abilities after visiting a British medium at age 24, and within two years was accurately relaying names, personal details, and specific memories from those who had passed on. He built a three-year w...

Art Bell welcomes self-described prophet Sean David Morton to discuss his prediction of the Clinton scandal months before it broke. Morton traces his forecasting of Clinton's troubled presidency back to September 1992, when he published that Clinton would win with exactly 42 percent of the vote. He connects astrological patterns to political destiny, explaining that Clinton took his second oath of...

Art Bell opens the phone lines exclusively for those who have experienced alien abduction. Callers describe enhanced night vision following contact, sexual experiments aboard craft, missing time lasting several days, and mysterious implants still present beneath their skin. One caller recounts a Travis Walton-like experience involving a domino-shaped craft, a four-day catatonic state, and a strang...

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist Jim Marrs to discuss his book Alien Agenda and the broader implications of government secrecy. Marrs argues that the Clinton scandal has conveniently derailed a growing momentum toward government openness on the UFO issue, noting that plans for a full-page Washington Post ad demanding disclosure have been shelved. He describes how every military-trained r...

Reverse speech analyst David John Oates examines Clinton-Lewinsky audio reversals with Art Bell before authors Trish and Rob MacGregor discuss dreams, literal dream warnings, lucid dreaming, and out-of-body experiences. Oates plays recordings of President Clinton, Mike McCurry, Al Gore, and George Stephanopoulos speaking forward, then reveals hidden messages embedded in the reversed audio. Among t...

Art Bell opens the phone lines as the Monica Lewinsky scandal dominates the news cycle. Newsweek has obtained 17 audio tapes containing 20 hours of conversations between former White House intern Lewinsky and Pentagon aide Linda Tripp, in which Lewinsky appears to describe a sexual relationship with President Clinton and indicates she plans to deny it under oath. Art reads extensively from wire re...

Art Bell interviews Dr. Zahi Hawass, Director of Antiquities at Giza, despite suffering from a 102-degree fever. Dr. Hawass discusses the recently completed restoration of the Sphinx, the planned six-month closure of the Great Pyramid for conservation work, and the discovery of tombs belonging to the workers who built the pyramids. He confirms that genetic studies on the skeletal remains are being...

Art Bell broadcasts while battling a returning flu, joined by former Phoenix City Councilwoman Frances Barwood and political activist Stephen Bassett. Barwood announces her candidacy for Arizona Secretary of State, making her one of the first major-party candidates to run on a platform demanding government transparency about unexplained aerial phenomena, particularly the massive craft witnessed ov...

Art Bell speaks with Peter Gorman, editor-in-chief of High Times Magazine, about the failed war on drugs, the counterculture legacy, and his extensive fieldwork in the Amazon. Gorman argues that mandatory minimum sentences for marijuana possession have filled American prisons with nonviolent offenders while violent criminals are released early. He reveals that the DEA has recently acknowledged it...

Art Bell welcomes retired Command Sergeant Major Robert O. Dean, president of Stargate International, for his first appearance on the program. Dean describes his 27 years in the U.S. Army, including his assignment to NATO's Supreme Headquarters war room in the 1960s, where he held a Cosmic Top Secret clearance and gained access to a classified study concluding that Earth has been visited by multip...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Kent Hovind, a former high school science teacher turned traveling creationist debater from Pensacola, Florida, for a provocative discussion challenging the theory of evolution. Hovind argues that the Earth is approximately 6,000 years old, that dinosaurs coexisted with humans, and that the fossil record has been fundamentally misinterpreted by mainstream science. He offers a...

Art Bell assembles a landmark panel of seven researchers and figures for a night centered on one word: Disclosure. Washington UFO lobbyist Stephen Bassett serves as the thread connecting each segment, while Richard C. Hoagland opens the broadcast discussing Webster Hubbell's reported admission that he was tasked by President Clinton to investigate UFOs and that he could not find answers within the...

Art Bell rings in the New Year with a final night of open lines dedicated to listener predictions for 1998. Broadcasting as midnight sweeps across the nation's time zones, Art manages to connect with a caller standing in the freezing cold of Times Square, where half a million people braved wind chills of five degrees below zero to celebrate. Callers offer a wide array of forecasts for the coming y...

Art Bell kicks off his annual predictions tradition by reviewing listener forecasts from the previous year, scoring hits and misses with his signature ding and bonk system. Several 1996 predictions proved accurate, including Jacques Villeneuve winning the Formula One championship, Chinese expansionism, and tightened U.S. immigration. Others, like Clinton being assassinated and Rush Limbaugh retiri...

Art Bell hands the microphone to his wife Ramona Bell for a special Christmas Eve broadcast. Ramona opens the show by reading a listener-submitted parody of Twas the Night Before Christmas, rewritten as a tribute to Art and the Kingdom of Nye, complete with references to the show's cats, the webcam, and the quickening. With Art listening in the background, Ramona takes open line calls from across...

Art Bell welcomes retired Navy Commander William S. Donaldson, a 25-year naval aviator and crash investigator, who presents what he calls smoking gun evidence that TWA Flight 800 was destroyed by an external explosion rather than a center fuel tank malfunction. Donaldson challenges the NTSB's flight test methodology, noting the test aircraft's fuel tank was 25 degrees warmer than Flight 800's actu...

Stan Deyo joins Art Bell from Perth, Australia, to analyze SOHO solar imagery, a bright X-ray flare, and possible coronal mass ejection precursors in a dramatic solar event. Art reports that the SOHO satellite captured extraordinary X-ray imagery with concentric light rings across the camera plate. Deyo explains the difference between solar flares and coronal mass ejections, noting that this parti...

Linda Moulton Howe joins Art Bell for a Dreamland cosmology report on matter, light, and 1997 science stories, followed by Dolores Cannon on Nostradamus and her Conversations with Nostradamus trilogy. Howe opens with a year-end review of 1997, covering accelerating environmental deterioration, the Mars Pathfinder mission, the cloning of Dolly the sheep, and breakthroughs in quantum physics. She hi...

Dale Kaczmarek of the Ghost Research Society joins Art Bell to discuss ghost research, paranormal investigation tools, and hauntings after Art's account of an anomalous studio webcam photograph. The image shows an unexplained protoplasmic mass surrounding his head, taken under the same lighting conditions that had produced tens of thousands of normal photographs over six months. Art rules out smok...

Art Bell welcomes David Oates back to the program to present reverse speech analysis on a wide range of subjects. Oates begins with his foundational research, playing recordings of infant children whose babbling, when reversed, reveals clear and startling phrases. He then moves into political reversals, including Bill Clinton's inauguration and press conferences, where hidden statements emerge fro...

Richard Preston , author of "The Hot Zone" and "The Cobra Event," joins Art Bell to discuss biological warfare, anthrax, Ebola, and bioterrorism after Joyce Riley 's first-hour warning about military anthrax inoculations. Riley presents alarming findings about the Pentagon's plan to inoculate 1.4 million military personnel against anthrax. She cites Senate Report 103-97, which states that the vacc...

Art Bell welcomes Robert Ghost Wolf, a mixed-blood Native American author and ceremonial leader, to discuss his manuscript "Winds of Change" and the prophetic traditions of indigenous peoples. Ghost Wolf describes participating in the first Ghost Dance ceremony held in 108 years, attended by pipe carriers from numerous tribes on Blackfoot sacred land. He explains the purification practices of the...

Art Bell reunites with Dannion Brinkley for an emotional broadcast following Brinkley''s third near-death experience. Art opens the show with an unusually personal endorsement, stating from direct observation that Brinkley is genuine in his psychic abilities. Brinkley recounts his early life as a military operative and government contractor before a lightning strike in 1975 sent 180,000 volts thro...

Art Bell welcomes investigative reporter Chris Ruddy with breaking developments in the Ron Brown death investigation. Ruddy reveals that a second Armed Forces medical examiner, Lieutenant Colonel David Hause, has come forward to confirm an apparent bullet wound at the top of Commerce Secretary Brown''s head. The first whistleblower, Lieutenant Colonel Steve Cogswell, has faced severe retaliation,...

Linda Moulton Howe reports on the Kyoto greenhouse-gas negotiations, followed by investigative journalist Sue Kovach discussing Hidden Files, her collection of law-enforcement paranormal cases. Howe also covers NASA''s upcoming Lunar Prospector mission and provides an extensive update on the Cydonia region of Mars, featuring an interview with Dr. Mark Carlotto, whose fractal analysis suggests the...