The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell speaks with former NASA scientist-astronaut Dr. Brian O'Leary about Mars, free energy, UFOs, and the state of global consciousness. O'Leary, who received his Ph. D. in astronomy from UC Berkeley and was selected to go to Mars during the Apollo program, describes the current state of zero-point energy research as comparable to the era just after the Wright brothers flew. O'Leary argues tha...

Art Bell brings on currency historian Andrew Gause to break down the stock market bloodbath of October 27, 1997, when the Dow Jones fell 554 points, its largest single-day point drop in history. Gause explains how the Federal Reserve will likely flood the system with liquidity to prevent total collapse, warning that the inevitable consequence is severe inflation. Gause traces the crisis beyond the...

Art Bell welcomes Michael Holm, the musical genius behind Cusco, live from Bavaria, Germany, to discuss the creation of Apurimac 3. Holm describes how he composes melodies while riding his horse through the Bavarian countryside and how visiting buffalo in Colorado inspired one of the album's centerpieces. Listeners call in to suggest Polynesian and ocean themes for a potential Apurimac 4. The seco...

Art Bell interviews a former U.S. Navy submarine communications officer, identified only as "Officer X," who reveals a harrowing incident from his time aboard the USS Ulysses S. Grant during the Libya crisis of the 1980s. When a series of equipment failures cut all communications for six hours at DEFCON 3, the crew found themselves unable to confirm whether nuclear war had begun. Officer X describ...

Art Bell opens the phone lines with a twist, dedicating a special "weird person line" to finding the strangest caller in America. The idea comes after Strange Universe invites him to judge their upcoming weird person contest, and Art wastes no time testing the waters with his own audience. The results do not disappoint. Callers include a man who manufactures and sells orgasm machines as a legitima...

Art Bell returns from an 18-day journey through Greece, the Greek islands, Israel, Rome, and Egypt, dedicating the broadcast to recounting his extraordinary experiences. The centerpiece is his visit to Giza, where Director of Antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawass granted him unrestricted access to the entire plateau, including areas normally closed to visitors. Art describes watching a single worker split a...

Art Bell sits down with physicist Bob Lazar and his longtime friend Gene Huff for a rare and detailed interview about Lazar's work back-engineering extraterrestrial craft at a facility called S4, located roughly 15 miles south of Area 51 in the Nevada desert. Lazar recounts how a chance meeting with Edward Teller at Los Alamos National Laboratory eventually led to his recruitment for the classifie...

Art Bell speaks with bestselling author Guy Finley about what Finley calls the "intimate enemy," the internal psychological nature that keeps people trapped in cycles of reactive behavior. Finley, raised in a Hollywood show business family, describes how witnessing unhappiness among the wealthy and famous launched his lifelong study of self-development and higher consciousness. The conversation be...

Art Bell hosts theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku of the City University of New York for a far-reaching conversation about the scientific breakthroughs awaiting humanity over the next century. Drawing from interviews with 150 top scientists, including six Nobel laureates, Kaku outlines coming revolutions in genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and space exploration. Kaku describes the...

Art Bell welcomes reverse speech researcher David John Oates, calling in from Anchorage, Alaska, for an evening of startling audio reversals found hidden in human speech. Oates explains his theory that the brain constructs two simultaneous messages when speaking: one forward from the conscious mind, and one in reverse from the unconscious. The session features reversals from public figures includi...

Art Bell welcomes filmmaker and documentarian Boris Said for a revealing conversation about the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, and his bitter falling out with the Schor Expedition. Said, the Emmy Award-winning producer of the NBC special The Mystery of the Sphinx, shares his theory that the Great Pyramid is not a tomb but a sophisticated scientific instrument tuned to the resonant frequency of the Ear...

Art Bell welcomes futurist Gordon Michael Scallion for his first appearance in over a year, along with open lines and updates on Dannion Brinkley's worsening medical condition. Scallion recounts the traumatic 1979 event that launched his career as a visionary, when he lost his voice during a business presentation and began receiving vivid holographic visions of ancient cities, future catastrophes,...

Art Bell sits down with Major Ed Dames of PsyTech for a packed evening covering the Phoenix Lights, Comet Hale-Bopp, remote viewing, and dire predictions for the near future. Dames presents his controversial conclusion that the March 1997 Phoenix Lights were a laser-generated hoax orchestrated by a television network seeking ratings, claiming his remote viewers found no physical structure in the s...

Art Bell welcomes medium James Van Praagh for a wide-ranging conversation about psychic ability, life after death, and communication with the spirit world. The episode opens with a replay of the previous night's extraordinary moment when a frantic Area 51 caller was cut off as the broadcast satellite lost Earth lock, an event GE AmeriCom confirmed had never occurred before. Van Praagh describes ho...

Art Bell opens a special phone line for current and former Area 51 employees willing to share their secrets. The evening begins with a heartfelt hospital room interview with Dannion Brinkley, who describes his battle with three brain aneurysms and the healing power of prayer and love he received from listeners during his crisis. Callers on the Area 51 line deliver a range of extraordinary claims....

Art Bell opens with encouraging news that Dannion Brinkley's three brain aneurysms have stopped bleeding and surgery may no longer be necessary. He credits the prayers of listeners and discusses CNN's recent reporting on the power of prayer, noting that placebos work 70 to 90 percent of the time through faith alone. Art also announces that his book "The Quickening" has debuted at number 22 on the...

Art Bell assembles a panel to examine new evidence connecting Roswell to modern technology. Linda Moulton Howe reports on a former Bell Labs consultant who claims the transistor was not invented through normal research but was back-engineered from technology recovered at the 1947 Roswell crash site. The consultant asserts the Army delivered alien switching devices made of silicon and arsenic to Be...

Art Bell welcomes back engineer and author Albert Taylor, whose book "Soul Traveler" is being developed into a feature film by four major studios. Taylor, who helped design the stealth fighter, the B-1 bomber, and components for the International Space Station, describes his lifelong out-of-body experiences and explains how sleep paralysis serves as a gateway to conscious soul travel. He offers pr...

Art Bell sits down with retired LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman to discuss his 20-year career in law enforcement and his book "Murder in Brentwood." Fuhrman shares candid reflections on working gangs in the late 1970s, watching crack cocaine transform street crime, and the emotional toll of two decades on the force. He describes the dark humor that sustains officers and the crisis point where many dec...

Art Bell welcomes nurse-turned-advocate Joyce Riley, who presents declassified government documents about experimental vaccines given to Gulf War veterans without informed consent. Riley reveals that a Tri-Service Vaccine Task Force authorized untested immunizations, including an investigational cholera vaccine and hepatitis A vaccine, as part of what internal memos called a "Manhattan-like projec...

Art Bell sits down with country music legend Merle Haggard for a freewheeling conversation that ranges from Princess Diana's death to UFO sightings, prison reform, and the changing American landscape. Haggard recounts his troubled youth, from riding freight trains at age eleven to landing in San Quentin at nineteen, where a cell next to death row inmate Caryl Chessman sparked a life-changing momen...

Art Bell returns from a week-long vacation in Alaska to share photographs and stories from his trip before opening the phone lines. Callers weigh in on the death of Princess Diana, debating whether the paparazzi or the intoxicated driver bears primary responsibility for the crash. Art maintains that the driver, who had three times the legal blood alcohol limit and was traveling at roughly 121 mile...

This special Labor Day weekend compilation showcases some of the most memorable moments from the Art Bell archives. The program opens with a return visit from Mel, the Washington State man who claims to have a bottomless hole on his rural property near Ellensburg. Mel reports letting down over 80,000 feet of fishing line without hitting bottom, and shares local legends including a story about a de...

Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku for a wide-ranging conversation about ten-dimensional hyperspace, time travel, and the classification of civilizations in the universe. Dr. Kaku explains that humanity is a Type 0 civilization, still dependent on dead plants for energy, and describes how Type 1, 2, and 3 civilizations could harness planetary, stellar, and galactic power respe...

Art Bell hosts a fiery debate between Richard C. Hoagland and filmmaker James Collier over one of the most provocative questions in American history: did we actually go to the moon? The program opens with a discussion of Pat Robertson's controversial remarks suggesting Biblical punishment for UFO believers, featuring commentary from journalist Skip Porteous and former 700 Club co-host Danuta Soder...