The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell welcomes David Adair, a self-described child prodigy turned rocket scientist who claims he built an electromagnetic fusion containment engine at age 17. Adair recounts growing up in his father's machine shop, originally used for building race car engines for Lee Petty, where he constructed increasingly powerful rockets starting at age 12. His first liquid fuel rocket reached 80,000 feet,...

Art Bell hosts an open lines evening under a full moon, covering a wide range of news and listener calls. He opens with updates on the UPS strike settlement, ongoing troubles aboard the Mir space station where the main computer crashed during a resupply docking, and growing concerns about the volcano on Montserrat that British officials warn could produce a catastrophic eruption engulfing the enti...

Art Bell presents a Dreamland broadcast featuring Linda Moulton Howe reporting on environmental crises and Dannion Brinkley discussing his recent encounters with Egyptian researchers. Linda covers the spreading threat of Pfiesteria, a toxic dinoflagellate devastating fish populations along the East Coast, with nearly 100 percent of juvenile menhaden in North Carolina rivers showing fatal sores. Sh...

Art Bell speaks with Kathy Keeton, wife of Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione and co-founder of Omni magazine, about her battle with late-stage breast cancer. Diagnosed in 1995 with stage four cancer that had spread throughout her body, doctors gave her weeks to live and recommended chemotherapy with only a 20 percent chance of remission. Keeton refused conventional treatment and instead chose hydra...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Wendy Lockwood, who claims firsthand knowledge of Atlantis through astral projection and decades of study in esoteric traditions. She describes Atlantis as a series of ten islands in the Atlantic that sank 50,000 years ago after a devastating war with Lemuria, and insists the lost continent is now beginning to rise, with the eruption of Montserrat serving as early evidence. D...

Art Bell dedicates the opening hours of his program to the UPS strike entering its second week, calling it a growing national emergency. He restricts phone lines to UPS employees, management personnel, and union representatives, arguing that the walkout by 200,000 Teamsters is crippling small businesses across America that depend on the delivery of nearly 12 million packages daily. He questions wh...

Art Bell welcomes abduction researcher Budd Hopkins for a Dreamland broadcast that begins with a discussion of media attacks on UFO investigators. Budd recounts how the PBS program NOVA set him up during filming, suppressing the most compelling footage of a husband describing his family's abduction while editing hypnosis sessions to falsely suggest he was leading witnesses. Linda Moulton Howe repo...

Art Bell opens the phone lines on a Friday night with a twist, designating his first-time caller line exclusively for men in black, time travelers, and anyone claiming to possess a time machine. Several callers rise to the occasion, beginning with a self-described "auditor" who claims men in black are outdated biological drones created from insect templates with human genetic material impressed up...

Art Bell speaks with Penthouse Magazine publisher Bob Guccione about his wife Kathy Keaton's remarkable recovery from terminal stage four breast cancer. Diagnosed two years earlier with cancer that had spread throughout her lymph nodes, liver, stomach, and bones, Kathy was given three to six weeks to live. She refused chemotherapy and radiation, instead choosing hydrazine sulfate, an inexpensive c...

Art Bell welcomes Maj. Ed Dames of SciTech International for a wide-ranging discussion on technical remote viewing and its implications for humanity. Ed describes his new instructional videotape series, explains how remote viewing differs from natural psychic ability, and challenges James Randi to a controlled test of his skills. He also revisits the Roswell crash, proposing that an advanced race...

Art Bell presents a Dreamland edition featuring investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe reporting on a deadly aquatic organism devastating the North Carolina coast, followed by dream analysts Jim and Pat Fregia discussing the hidden power of the sleeping mind. Howe details the spread of Pfiesteria, a toxic microorganism dubbed the cell from hell, which lies dormant in sediment until activated...

Art Bell welcomes David Oates, the founder of reverse speech analysis, for an evening of startling audio reversals covering Colonel Philip Corso, President Clinton, and NASA. The broadcast opens with Art mourning the death of his beloved Hewlett-Packard 950 fax machine before turning to the serious business of playing recorded speech backwards to reveal hidden messages embedded in forward dialogue...

Art Bell welcomes Robert Ghost Wolf, a Native American elder of Lakota and Iroquois heritage, for a sweeping discussion about environmental collapse and Native prophecy. The broadcast itself arrives amid severe weather, with lightning having struck Art''s studio and knocked out equipment the previous night. Ghost Wolf reports witnessing six-legged frogs and jackrabbits with multiple ears in the Ar...

Art Bell opens an evening of wide-ranging open lines by reflecting on animal communication, the Honda P-2 humanoid robot, and the latest budget deal in Washington. A fax from Arizona reports that optical analyst Jim Dilettoso appeared on Phoenix television claiming he was visited by figures resembling the Men in Black who told him certain NASA scientists believed the Phoenix Lights were extraterre...

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland, Tom Danley, Marv Czarnik, and Ken Franklin for a packed evening spanning two continents and one planet. In the first hour, former NASA consultant and acoustic expert Tom Danley describes his firsthand exploration of secret tunneling above the King''s Chamber in the Great Pyramid at Giza. Danley recounts crawling through newly carved passages, discovering wide...

Art Bell interviews author Jim Keith about his book Casebook on the Men in Black, a serious investigation into the phenomenon behind the Hollywood comedy. Keith identifies at least four categories of men in black encounters: government agents silencing witnesses, hoaxers, delusional reports, and a residual percentage that appears genuinely paranormal and defies conventional explanation. Keith pres...

Art Bell hosts retired Colonel Philip J. Corso and Dr. John Alexander for an extraordinary discussion about recovered extraterrestrial technology and its integration into American industry. Dr. Alexander, who personally verified Corso's military credentials through Pentagon records and the National Archives, provides independent confirmation of the Colonel's distinguished career spanning World War...

Art Bell interviews Leonard Nimoy in a brief but energetic half-hour conversation covering Star Trek, science fiction, and the possibility of extraterrestrial contact. Nimoy reflects on why the logical, dignified character of Spock resonated so deeply during the turbulent 1960s, offering audiences a trustworthy figure amid growing cynicism about government and authority. Nimoy shares behind-the-sc...

Art Bell speaks with Claire Sylvia, a dancer from Massachusetts who received a heart and lung transplant from an 18-year-old motorcycle accident victim in 1988. The first two hours feature open lines covering topics including crop circles from England, the Cunanan manhunt, and the Mars Pathfinder mission losing contact on July 20th. Sylvia describes her years-long battle with primary pulmonary hyp...

Art Bell welcomes Dannion Brinkley, a former covert military operative turned near-death experience survivor, for a deeply personal conversation about dying and returning. Brinkley recounts being struck by lightning while talking on the phone in 1975, an event that left him clinically dead for 28 minutes and fundamentally transformed his worldview from hardened soldier to spiritual seeker. Brinkle...

Art Bell welcomes author Robert Anton Wilson, whose 31 books include the legendary Illuminatus trilogy, written during his years as associate editor at Playboy. Wilson explains that the trilogy was born from letters sent to the Playboy Foundation by people claiming government conspiracies against them, blended with real and fictional elements so thoroughly that even he cannot always distinguish be...

Art Bell introduces Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a parapsychologist, doctor of divinity, and lifelong practitioner of natural magic who was trained by her grandfather, a high-ranking magus, beginning at the age of four. Art warns listeners at the outset that the discussion will disturb some people and urges the easily offended to change the station. Dr. Paglini explains the vibrational properties of color,...

Art Bell opens the show reflecting on the previous night''s split-screen broadcast from Phoenix, noting that some listeners refused to believe the technological feat was real. He covers the day''s news, including the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace, the troubled Mir space station, and the Mars Pathfinder rover''s ongoing discovery of what amounts to red rocks on the Martian surface. Art...

Art Bell broadcasts a groundbreaking split-screen event, connecting his Nevada studio with the Civic Plaza Ballroom in Phoenix, Arizona, where Richard C. Hoagland hosts a packed seminar before thousands of attendees. Hoagland presents his analysis of tetrahedral geometry encoded in NASA mission dates, coordinates, and landing sites, arguing that a Masonic influence has shaped the space program for...

Art Bell welcomes Father Malachi Martin, the renowned Catholic priest, author, and former Jesuit who served as advisor to two popes. Fr. Martin shares the remarkable story of his journey from Ireland to the Vatican, his work on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the unusual arrangement by which Pope Paul VI granted him a rare priestly status outside any diocese or religious order. The conversation turns to...