The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell declares a witch hunt, searching for what he describes as a real broom-riding, spell-casting, cauldron-stirring witch, distinct from practitioners of Wicca. The quest produces a Canadian psychic energy worker who admits she would never hex a rude bag boy, and a self-described gray witch from Minneapolis who practices both light and dark magic. Meanwhile, the newly launched live studio web...

Linda Moulton Howe reports live from Queensland, Australia, where she has been investigating orange light formations seen over the Pacific coast and animal mutilations across the continent. Joined by Nexus Magazine editor Duncan Rhodes, she reveals the existence of the UK-USA Agreement, a secret 50-year-old intelligence pact linking Pine Gap, Menwith Hill, and the NSA in a global surveillance netw...

Keith Rowland, the webmaster behind artbell.com, joins Art Bell to pull back the curtain on the rapidly growing website and its notorious run-in with the FBI. On April 1st, 1997, Rowland posted a fake FBI seizure notice on the site as a joke, complete with a doctored Bureau seal and references to the Heaven's Gate investigation. The prank fooled thousands of visitors, and roughly 30 days later, a...

Art Bell opens the phone lines on a night filled with wide-ranging caller topics, but not before delivering a personal meditation on revenge and Christianity. After a listener challenges whether his belief in retaliation is consistent with being Christian, Art offers an unflinching response, declaring that if someone comes after him or his family, he will come right back at them harder. It is a ra...

Wayne Green, legendary publisher of 73 Magazine and founder of Byte magazine, joins Art Bell for a sprawling conversation that covers nearly every frontier of human curiosity. Green, who has visited 132 countries, piloted nuclear submarines, and helped launch the personal computer revolution, brings his trademark maverick energy to topics ranging from amateur radio's uncertain future to cold fusio...

Attorney and foundation president Rosalie Osias joins Art Bell with a message that women love to hate and men quietly applaud. On the same day the Supreme Court unanimously allows Paula Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton to proceed, Osias argues that women should embrace their femininity and sexuality as powerful tools for career advancement rather than suppressing them in...

Art Bell and his wife Ramona take to the airwaves together on Memorial Day to describe a dramatic daytime UFO sighting they witnessed that morning at approximately 11:40 AM near their Pahrump, Nevada home. While closing a gate, they noticed a military jet leaving a double contrail at extreme altitude, and just below it, a brilliant, glowing, cylindrical silver object tracking alongside the aircraf...

Sean David Morton and the mysterious whistleblower known only as Victor join Art Bell for an extraordinary evening centered on Area 51 and a smuggled video allegedly showing the interrogation of a live extraterrestrial being. Victor, speaking through a voice-changing device to protect his identity, claims to have extracted digital footage from the S4 facility at Papoose Lake during a period of ins...

Terence McKenna, calling from his remote home on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawaii, presents his radical theory of novelty and time to Art Bell in a conversation that leaves the host stunned by its alignment with his own book, The Quickening. McKenna argues that the universe has an inherent preference for novelty over habit, accelerating exponentially toward a singular moment he calculates will ar...

Art Bell dives into one of the most extraordinary mass UFO sightings in American history as Phoenix City Councilwoman Frances Barwood joins the program to discuss the mysterious lights that appeared over the Phoenix metropolitan area on March 13, 1997. Barwood, who dared to formally request a city investigation into the event, found herself ridiculed by the mayor's office, mocked by the state atto...

Canadian author Ann N. Martin delivers a deeply disturbing investigation into the commercial pet food industry, revealing that euthanized dogs and cats from veterinary clinics and animal shelters are routinely sent to rendering plants where they are ground up, fur, tags, plastic bags, and lethal injection drugs included, and processed into pet food and livestock feed. Her seven years of research f...

Art Bell opens the Friday night phone lines with several tantalizing announcements, including a world-exclusive second photograph from the alleged Area 51 alien interrogation video and the upcoming interview with the mysterious Victor who claims to have smuggled the footage out. He also reports that AP reporter Harry Rosenthal became furious and trashed all listener faxes sent after the previous n...

Richard C. Hoagland returns to confront an Associated Press article by Harry Rosenthal that painted him as a fringe conspiracy theorist linked to the Heaven's Gate tragedy. Art Bell and Hoagland systematically dismantle the piece, revealing that Rosenthal specifically requested the most hostile faxes NASA could provide and refused to speak with scientist Tom Van Flandern about the actual science b...

Television producer Bryce Zabel joins Art Bell on the night NBC officially cancels his critically acclaimed alien conspiracy series Dark Skies. Zabel explains how the show was undermined by a deadly Saturday night time slot, repeated multi-week preemptions, and the network's refusal to give the ambitious program time to build an audience despite strong international ratings, including a 21 share i...

Country music legend Willie Nelson joins Art Bell for a wide-ranging late-night conversation from his tour bus in Atlantic City. Nelson reflects on his early days playing with a Bohemian polka band at age nine, the devastating $32 million IRS battle, and his tireless advocacy for American family farmers through Farm Aid. The discussion moves through the crisis facing small agriculture, with Nelson...

Dr. Steven M. Greer, founder of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, delivers a detailed account of the historic April 9th closed briefing he organized for nearly 30 congressional offices in Washington. Over a dozen military and intelligence witnesses with top-secret clearances presented firsthand testimony, and all signed statements agreeing to testify under oath before Cong...

Captain Bill Miller, a U.S. Coast Guard licensed captain and author of Tampa Triangle Dead Zone, takes listeners on a journey through one of Florida's most paranormally active regions. The episode opens with sailor Robert Bodell recounting how he lost three days from his meticulous ship's log during a delivery trip from Tampa to Long Island, a case of missing time he has never been able to explain...

Richard C. Hoagland and astronomer Dr. Tom Van Flandern return to respond point by point to the previous night's appearance by NASA officials. Van Flandern presents his exploded planet hypothesis, arguing that comets are not pristine dirty snowballs but fragments of a planet that detonated approximately 3.2 million years ago, a date strikingly close to the emergence of hominid species on Earth. Ho...

NASA public affairs officers Don Savage and Ray Villard appear on the program after the agency sends Art Bell a two-page letter defending its Hubble Space Telescope observations of Comet Hale-Bopp. The letter was prompted by listener faxes flooding NASA headquarters following claims by Richard C. Hoagland that Hubble images were being withheld or deliberately degraded. Art presses both men on Hubb...

UFO researcher Kevin Randle and Strange Universe correspondent Renee Barnett join Art Bell to preview an upcoming TV special ranking the top ten UFO incidents of all time. Randle, an Army helicopter pilot turned Air Force intelligence officer, reveals that of roughly 125 documented crash reports dating back to 1886, only four stand as solid, credible cases. The conversation moves from the Kenneth...

Richard C. Hoagland opens the program with stunning news that NASA has quietly ruled out sending a probe to Europa, just two weeks after celebrating its potential as the most likely harbor for extraterrestrial life. Hoagland calls it proof that the space program is politically rigged, urging listeners to flood ABC Nightline and CNN with faxes demanding answers about why the most promising discover...

Charles Ostman, senior fellow of the Foresight Institute and nanotechnology researcher, takes Art Bell on a breathtaking journey through the convergence of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and molecular engineering. Ostman describes a near future where sentient autonomous agents roam the Internet, experiential conveyance replaces passive media, and the boundary between human cognition and...

Richard C. Hoagland returns with explosive claims spanning NASA's suspicious lockdown at Cheyenne Mountain, the mysterious disappearance of an A-10 attack aircraft in Colorado, and newly obtained shuttle footage from STS-80 that he says shows intelligently controlled objects performing maneuvers impossible under Newtonian physics. Hoagland describes objects that stop, reverse direction, and statio...

Elizabeth Clare Prophet, mystic, author, and spiritual teacher, joins Art Bell for a rare and wide-ranging interview about reincarnation as Christianity's missing doctrine. Prophet recounts her childhood soul travel experience to ancient Egypt at age four, an awakening that set her on a lifelong mission to recover what she believes the early church deliberately stripped from the teachings of Jesus...

Richard C. Hoagland joins Art Bell to celebrate a rare moment of vindication as Ted Koppel's Nightline gives him long-overdue credit for predicting oceans on Jupiter's moon Europa 17 years earlier. Hoagland breaks down the stunning new Galileo images showing cracked ice fields, subsurface water, and volcanic potential that could harbor life. The show takes a dramatic turn when Strange Universe pro...