The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell broadcasts on Good Friday with a program spanning the Unabomber investigation, genetic engineering, and plans for international shortwave expansion. He reports that one of Theodore Kaczynski's manual typewriters appears to match the one used to type the Unabomber manifesto, and that hotel records show 25 visits to Helena coinciding with bombing incidents. Art Bell reflects on the manifest...

Art Bell reports on the arrest of Theodore Kaczynski, the suspected Unabomber, now held in a Helena, Montana jail. Federal investigators have found a partially finished pipe bomb, explosive chemicals matching previous attacks, and two manual typewriters in his hand-built cabin. Art Bell notes that Kaczynski's family in Chicago discovered suspicious writings while preparing to move and turned the e...

Art Bell reads a breaking Associated Press report from Roswell, New Mexico, where a metal shard delivered to the local UFO museum is undergoing analysis at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. The fragment, described as copper plated with silver with holes caused by catastrophic forces, was submitted by a local citizen who claims it originated from the 1947 crash cleanup. Art Bell an...

Art Bell tackles two explosive stories shaping the national conversation in the spring of 1996. A federal appeals court in New York has ruled that the Constitution does not ban doctors from helping terminally ill patients die, a decision Art Bell predicts will rival Roe v. Wade when it reaches the Supreme Court. He shares deeply personal reflections on end-of-life suffering, recounting his wife's...

Art Bell opens the phone lines as the FBI standoff with the Montana Freemen dominates national headlines. The broadcast begins with a live report from "Madman Bob" Crane, calling from a Sanjean radio factory in Taipei, Taiwan, where he describes the post-election mood following President Lee's landslide victory amid Chinese military threats. Art Bell dedicates much of the program to the escalating...

Richard C. Hoagland and Ken Johnston join Art Bell live from Washington, D.C., hours after their press conference at the National Press Club. Johnston, who served as data and photo control department supervisor at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory under a Brown and Root-Northrop contract, describes how he preserved a personal collection of approximately 1,000 first-generation Apollo photographs rathe...

Art Bell opens with updates on the upcoming Hoagland press conference at the National Press Club, reporting conflicting signals from C-SPAN and CNN about coverage plans. He confirms the event will be carried live on his IRC Internet Relay channel. A fax from Valdez, Alaska, alerts the audience that HAARP tests are scheduled to begin that Friday in conjunction with the Space Shuttle Atlantis missio...

Richard C. Hoagland returns to reveal major developments ahead of a planned press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., scheduled for March 21st. He announces that former NASA scientists and engineers will present suppressed photographic evidence of ancient artificial structures on the lunar surface. Hoagland describes obtaining multiple versions of Apollo frame 4822, which de...

Larry Arnold, author of Ablaze: The Mysterious Fires of Spontaneous Human Combustion, presents two decades of research into cases where human bodies incinerate under conditions that defy conventional fire science. Arnold details the 1966 death of Dr. John Irving Bentley, a 92-year-old Pennsylvania physician whose body was reduced to a pile of ash and a single leg, while his bathroom remained virtu...

Richard C. Hoagland and Dr. Nick Begich join Art Bell for an unprecedented meeting of minds, connecting two seemingly unrelated programs: NASA's Tethered Satellite System and the HAARP facility in Alaska. Hoagland presents evidence that the TSS-1R mission, which deployed a 13-mile conductive tether from the Space Shuttle Columbia, served as a covert military antenna rather than a simple power gene...

Richard C. Hoagland, former science advisor to Walter Cronkite, joins Art Bell to analyze the space shuttle tethered satellite experiment that ended in dramatic failure when a 12-mile conductive wire mysteriously severed in orbit. Hoagland argues that NASA has no explanation for what destroyed the tether, which was rated to withstand over ten times the 24 pounds of actual tension on it. Close-up v...

Charles Watson, consulting geologist and publisher of the Seismo Watch newsletter, joins Art Bell to discuss a dramatic surge in global earthquake activity. Watson reveals that 1995 produced 192 earthquakes of magnitude 6.0 or greater, the most in any recorded year, surpassing the previous high of 164 set in 1965. He details the recent 8.2 magnitude earthquake near New Guinea that generated 476 af...

Budd Hopkins, best-selling author of Intruders and Missing Time, joins Art Bell along with abductee John to expose what they describe as a deliberately dishonest NOVA documentary set to air on PBS. Hopkins details how the program, titled Kidnapped by Aliens, was designed to discredit the UFO abduction phenomenon by assembling hostile experts who never investigated a single case while suppressing a...

Raymond Fowler, veteran UFO investigator and author of the Watchers series, joins Art Bell to discuss his decades-long research into the Betty Andreasson Luca abduction case. Fowler recounts how the Massachusetts MUFON group first investigated Betty's 1967 encounter, in which beings entered her home through solid walls and placed her family in a state of suspended animation. He describes the inves...

Dr. Nick Begich, author of Angels Don't Play This HAARP, returns to discuss the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program operating in Alaska. Art Bell explores the HAARP antenna array, a jointly managed Air Force and Navy project capable of one billion watts of effective radiated power, designed to beam focused energy into the ionosphere. Begich details the system's potential applications, i...

Ray Crowe, director of the Western Bigfoot Society in Portland, Oregon, joins Art Bell to discuss the search for Sasquatch from a grounded, investigative perspective. Crowe describes his introduction to Bigfoot research in 1991 when he discovered a set of large tracks and an unidentified hair sample near Yale Reservoir in Washington. He outlines Peter Byrne's sophisticated research operation funde...

Linda Moulton Howe opens this Dreamland broadcast with field reports from Puerto Rico on the chupacabras phenomenon. She presents recorded interviews with eyewitnesses in Canovanas who describe encountering a three-to-four-foot humanoid with large dark eyes, three-toed feet, and feathers on its back. A separate witness describes a different creature with non-reflective black skin and glowing red e...

Krsanna Duran, author and researcher of crop circles, UFOs, and the Mayan calendar, joins Art Bell to explore the ancient Mayan timekeeping system and its prophetic implications. Duran explains how the Mayan calendar operates on a base number of 52, with a 260-day sacred calendar and a 360-day civil calendar synchronizing every 52 years. She traces the calendar's origins back to 3113 B.C. and refe...

Ken Goddard, director of the National Fish and Wildlife Forensic Laboratory in Ashland, Oregon, joins Art Bell for a wide-ranging discussion on viruses, genetic science, and emerging biological threats. Goddard, a biochemist and forensic scientist, examines the alarming 87 percent increase in infectious disease deaths in the United States and explores the dangers of viruses jumping between species...

Linda Moulton Howe opens this Dreamland broadcast with an update on the 1,700 cattle that vanished from the A.D. Richardson farm in Waurika, Oklahoma in August 1994. She reports that the insurance company finally settled the claim, but law enforcement never found any of the animals or arrested anyone for the crime. Howe also presents eyewitness accounts of slow-moving orange glowing spheres spotte...

Art Bell opens the Friday night program with a wide-ranging monologue covering the severe winter weather battering the United States, from record flooding in the Northeast to wind chill readings of minus eighty degrees in Minnesota. He discusses the political fallout from a deadly Chicago apartment fire, the baby boomer retirement crisis with ten thousand Americans turning fifty every day, and a t...

Linda Moulton Howe, award-winning investigative journalist, joins Art Bell on Dreamland with updates on animal mutilations, the Chupacabras phenomenon in Puerto Rico, and unusual aerial sightings. Howe reports on a fresh cattle mutilation at the Tim Howard Ranch near Klamath Falls, Oregon, where a pregnant heifer was found with its tongue, eye, ear, and reproductive organs removed with precise cut...

Robert Morning Sky, a Hopi and Apache Native American researcher and dancer, joins Art Bell on Dreamland for what he describes as one of his final public appearances before retiring from the lecture circuit. Morning Sky discusses his yearlong speaking tour fulfilling a promise to his grandfather, and explains why so few Native Americans share their ancient knowledge publicly, citing centuries of e...

Dannion Brinkley, best-selling author of Saved by the Light and At Peace in the Light, joins Art Bell to recount his two near-death experiences and the profound transformation they brought. Brinkley describes his earlier life as a violent, self-centered man who performed clandestine intelligence work, and how a bolt of lightning struck him through a telephone line in 1975, stopping his heart for t...

Emmanuel McLittle, founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of Destiny Magazine, joins Art Bell to share his remarkable personal transformation from an angry young man on Detroit's west side to an independent thinker living in rural Oregon. McLittle describes growing up in a family of fourteen children, becoming a teenage father, and working as a security guard before seizing an opportunity to atte...