The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell dedicates a special phone line to the self-identified paranoid, inviting callers who believe the government is watching them, tapping their phones, or otherwise conspiring against ordinary citizens. The result is a wildly entertaining open lines session that veers between genuine unease and comedy. One caller cryptically warns Art that agents have been making contact in Pahrump, at the lo...

Art Bell celebrates Independence Day with a lively round of Truth or Trash, the beloved audience game where callers spin tales that are either completely true or elaborate fabrications, and a panel of listeners renders judgment. The night produces one astonishing revelation after another, beginning with Marv from Washington who describes flying a crippled C-123 support aircraft for the Air Force T...

Art Bell opens with sharp commentary on the arrest of the Viper Militia in Phoenix, a group caught stockpiling automatic weapons and 400 pounds of ammonium nitrate while planning attacks on federal buildings. He draws a firm line between patriotism and terrorism, challenging listeners to consider which side they would choose if armed conflict erupted in America. The night's news also covers the Sa...

Travis Walton and Mike Rogers recount the most thoroughly documented UFO abduction case in history, the 1975 incident on Arizona's Mogollon Rim. Mike Rogers, the logging crew boss, describes the moment his team encountered a glowing disc hovering above the forest floor and watched in horror as a beam of energy struck Travis, hurling him through the air like a ragdoll. Rogers details the panicked f...

Graham Hancock, author of Fingerprints of the Gods and The Message of the Sphinx, joins Art Bell to present a sweeping case for a lost civilization dating back to 10,500 BC. Hancock explains how the three Great Pyramids of Giza precisely mirror the pattern of Orion's belt stars as they appeared 12,500 years ago, and how the Sphinx functions as an equinoctial marker aligned to the constellation Leo...

Major Ed Dames of Psi Tech returns for an extended deep dive into remote viewing applications, delivering revelations that range from the mundane to the extraordinary. He begins by sharing his team's preliminary remote viewing results on Art Bell's mysterious Roswell material, concluding that the parts are not alien but originate from a prototype time-travel device built roughly a decade in the fu...

Physicist John Kierein presents a radical challenge to modern cosmology, arguing that the universe never began with a Big Bang and instead exists as a static, eternal system. Drawing on his 40 years in aerospace physics and a bachelor's degree from Notre Dame, Kierein explains how the Compton effect causes light from distant galaxies to lose energy to free electrons in intergalactic space, produci...

Consulting geologist Charles Watson returns to break down a massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake that has rocked the Aleutian Islands, triggering thousands of aftershocks and a tsunami warning across Alaska. Watson, a self-described earthquake enthusiast who compares the thrill of seismic events to a kid in a candy store, walks Art Bell through the extraordinary chain of quakes rattling the Pacific pl...

Professor Gerald Uelmen, a key member of O.J. Simpson's legal defense team, joins Art Bell fresh off his book tour for "Lessons from the Trial." As both a practicing attorney and law professor, Uelmen offers a unique insider perspective on the trial of the century, explaining how television viewers saw a fundamentally different case than the jury experienced in the courtroom. Uelmen reveals that t...

Art Bell opens the phone lines on a night filled with startling developments, from the Israeli election of Benjamin Netanyahu to horrifying quickening stories of juvenile violence across America. Callers weigh in on the mysterious "Art's Parts," alleged Roswell crash debris that scientists have confirmed as pure aluminum weighing twice what it should, a baffling anomaly that deepens with each new...

Dr. William Pierce, retired physicist and author of The Turner Diaries, joins Art Bell for an extended and probing interview following his recent 60 Minutes appearance with Mike Wallace. Pierce traces his ideological evolution from physics professor to political writer, explaining how the Vietnam War and Civil Rights Movement drove him to study history and eventually produce his controversial nove...

Linda Moulton Howe returns with the second round of analysis on the alleged Roswell crash fragments sent anonymously to Art Bell, now widely known as "Art's Parts." After the initial testing revealed pure aluminum at an impossible weight, new scrutiny from metallurgists and independent researchers has deepened the mystery. A listener calculated that pure aluminum at the measured dimensions should...

Richard C. Hoagland and Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell go head to head in a live debate over whether ancient glass structures exist on the lunar surface. Hoagland presents enhanced Apollo 14 photographs showing geometric brightening and scattering patterns above the lunar horizon, which he argues are consistent with the remains of enormous, deteriorated glass domes stretching tens of miles...

Linda Moulton Howe returns to present the first laboratory results from mysterious metal fragments sent anonymously to Art Bell, allegedly recovered from the 1947 Roswell crash. A credentialed university scientist has examined ten pieces using a scanning electron microscope with energy dispersive spectroscopy, revealing that every sample tested greater than 99% pure aluminum with no detectable sec...

Art Bell opens the lines on a night packed with news and a surprise guest appearance from science fiction author Dr. Jerry Pournelle, co-author of Lucifer's Hammer. Art announces the upcoming blockbuster debate between Richard C. Hoagland and Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell over alleged glass structures on the Moon, a radio event he calls potentially historic. The night's news spans a tragi...

Science fiction author Dr. Jerry Pournelle, co-author of the classic novel Lucifer's Hammer, joins Art Bell for a fascinating discussion on the real dangers of asteroid and comet impacts, the politics strangling America's space program, and the state of planetary defense. Pournelle, a former aerospace engineer who worked on the Apollo program, brings both scientific credibility and sharp political...

Hector "Tito" Armstrong, a Princeton University student from Puerto Rico who operates the internet's premier Chupacabra webpage, joins Art Bell as reports of the mysterious blood-draining creature explode across the Americas. What began as a Puerto Rican phenomenon has rapidly spread, with mainstream television news in Los Angeles, San Antonio, and beyond now covering the attacks on livestock with...

Wayne Green, the iconoclastic editor and publisher of 73 Magazine, returns for a wide-ranging conversation with Art Bell covering amateur radio, cold fusion energy, electronic health devices, and his famous list of books that challenge conventional thinking. Green, who helped pioneer repeater technology that became cellular phones and launched Byte magazine at the dawn of personal computing, has a...

Marshall Barnes, an independent researcher who spent three years investigating the Philadelphia Experiment, presents his scientific case that the legendary 1943 naval invisibility test actually occurred. Preparing to address Columbus State Community College, Barnes explains how he bypassed government channels entirely, instead pursuing the physics and optical science behind the alleged event to de...

Robert Ghost Wolf, a Native American metisse of Apache, Iroquois, Lakota, and Haudenosaunee heritage, joins Art Bell on Dreamland to discuss indigenous prophecies and the accelerating pace of global change. The episode also features Linda Moulton Howe reporting from the Whole Life Expo with updates from Edgar Mitchell and Whitley Strieber, along with Peter Davenport sharing dramatic new UFO sighti...

Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell joins Art Bell for a landmark interview, offering firsthand accounts of walking on the moon and revealing the philosophical transformation that followed. Mitchell describes the lunar surface as deceptively hilly, compares a Saturn V launch to a vertical subway ride, and recalls the five backup systems designed to ensure the lunar module could lift off if the...

Richard C. Hoagland returns to break down a cascade of extraordinary developments. Edgar Mitchell has just appeared on NBC Dateline claiming the government covered up the Roswell crash. Carl Sagan has publicly admitted on KABC radio that Hoagland might be right about structures on Mars. And Art Bell has received alleged Roswell crash debris now undergoing independent laboratory analysis. Hoagland...

Dannion Brinkley joins Art Bell on Dreamland fresh from a spiritual pilgrimage to Machu Picchu, buzzing with an energy that sets this interview apart from his previous appearances. The bestselling author of Saved by the Light recounts being struck by lightning in 1975, dying for 28 minutes, and experiencing a panoramic life review that forced him to feel the consequences of every interaction from...

Art Bell delivers an open lines night packed with bizarre news, from an Ebola outbreak at a Texas quarantine facility to Marines being court-martialed for refusing to submit DNA samples. He raises urgent concerns about the approaching anniversary of April 19th, wondering aloud whether domestic terrorism will mark the date again. The evening takes a dramatic turn when the mysterious faxer known as...

Art Bell opens the phone lines for a wide-ranging night dominated by the arrest of Theodore Kaczynski, the suspected Unabomber. Art reads passages from the manifesto and probes its unsettling critique of technology, asking whether industrial society truly narrows human freedom with each advancement. Callers weigh in on the philosophical tension between technological progress and social regression,...