The Art Bell Archive

Bob Shell, certified photo analyst and FBI consultant, joins Art Bell to deliver groundbreaking findings about the purported alien autopsy film aired on Fox television, confirming the film stock dates to 1947. Shell reveals that his preliminary chemical analysis of actual imagery from the film matches Kodak Super XX stock manufactured in 1947, and that the film's low fog levels prove it was expose...

John Anthony West, Emmy-winning independent Egyptologist, joins Art Bell on Dreamland to challenge the accepted timeline of ancient civilization and reveal what lies beneath the Great Sphinx of Giza. West explains how geological weathering patterns on the Sphinx prove it must be at least 10,000 years old, far predating the conventional date of 2500 B.C. His seismographic surveys have detected a su...

Art Bell surveys a landscape of headlines as Windows 95 mania sweeps the nation, the O.J. Simpson trial reaches a critical juncture over the Furman tapes, and wildfires rage across Long Island, New York. Callers report mixed results from their first night with Windows 95, leaving Art Bell still too nervous to load it into his own computer. The Simpson trial dominates discussion as Detective Mark F...

Art Bell reports breaking news of volcanic activity threatening the Caribbean island of Montserrat, with scientists estimating an 80 percent chance of a major eruption, prompting calls from residents of the U.S. Virgin Islands. The volcanic crisis leads Art Bell to replay his recent interview with earth changes prognosticator Gordon Michael Scallion, whose four-quake scenario has seen three of fou...

Art Bell opens the phone lines on a night dominated by a horrifying story out of Detroit, where a young woman was attacked after a traffic accident, stripped of her clothing, and cheered by dozens of onlookers as she leaped to her death from a bridge over the Detroit River. The incident becomes a launching point for a broader discussion about the deterioration of society and the accelerating pace...

Patrick Combs, a San Francisco author, joins Art Bell to tell the astonishing true story of how he deposited a junk mail check for $95,093.35 into his First Interstate Bank ATM as a joke and watched the money appear in his account. What began as a prank, like depositing Monopoly money, escalated into a genuine legal standoff when the bank credited the full amount without question. Combs explains t...

Linda Moulton Howe reports live from England with researcher George Wingfield, who has just viewed over thirty minutes of the controversial alien autopsy footage days before its worldwide broadcast. Wingfield describes seeing autopsy sequences alongside debris bearing hieroglyphics and a strange control panel with six-fingered handprint depressions, details that challenge previous assumptions abou...

Art Bell opens with a wide-ranging news roundup covering Hurricane Felix bearing down on Bermuda, a Hamas terrorist threat targeting Kennedy Airport, and the latest developments in the O.J. Simpson trial where the explosive Mark Furman tapes threaten to dismantle the prosecution's case. He also addresses Ross Perot's Texas confab, Pat Buchanan's fiery speech drawing standing ovations, and the FDA'...

Denny Sargent, author of a new book on global ritualism, joins Art Bell to explore how ancient rituals from cultures around the world share striking similarities that point toward universal spiritual truths. Sargent draws on years of travel across twelve countries and extensive research into mythology, psychology, and anthropology to build what he calls a universal field theory of ritualism. Sarge...

Glenn Campbell, the principal local activist seeking government accountability at Area 51, joins Art Bell to share years of firsthand research from the secretive military base 90 miles north of Las Vegas. The program opens with Linda Moulton Howe reporting on the newly discovered Comet Hale-Bopp, a surprisingly bright object beyond Jupiter's orbit that astronomers believe could become the comet of...

New Mexico Congressman Steven Schiff joins Art Bell for an extraordinary two-hour interview covering both the Roswell GAO report and the ongoing Waco hearings. Schiff recounts how a routine constituent inquiry to the Department of Defense about the 1947 Roswell incident led to a bureaucratic runaround, with the military redirecting him to the National Archives, which had no records. Frustrated, he...

Linda Moulton Howe reports on the newly released GAO investigation into the 1947 Roswell crash, and Dr. Richard Sauder reveals the hidden world of underground military installations on this edition of Dreamland. Howe breaks down Congressman Steven Schiff's bombshell press release revealing that outgoing messages from Roswell Army Airfield covering 1946 to 1949 were destroyed without proper authori...

JoAnn Parks, owner of the ancient crystal skull known as Max, and spiritual healer Star Johnson join Art Bell on Dreamland to explore one of archaeology's most enduring mysteries. The program opens with Linda Moulton Howe presenting a new Bigfoot report from central Utah, where a woman heard screams identical to a recording previously aired on Dreamland. Howe recounts a family's face-to-face encou...

Art Bell opens a freewheeling Friday night edition with a deep dive into the week's biggest headlines, from NATO's latest futile threats against Bosnian Serbs to the University of California Board of Regents voting to end affirmative action. The broadcast takes an unexpected turn when Art spotlights a television report about the chronic shortage of women's restroom facilities at public venues, spa...

Presidential candidate Alan Keyes, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, joins Art Bell for a wide-ranging interview about his 1996 Republican primary campaign and the moral crisis he sees gripping America. Keyes lays out his staunchly pro-life philosophy, arguing that human rights begin at the moment of creation and rejecting exceptions for rape and incest while allowing only for the life...

Art Bell opens with a packed news rundown covering the worsening crisis in Bosnia, where safe areas are falling and the West debates airlifting European troops using American helicopters. He reports that Moscow has released fabricated photographs of Boris Yeltsin, recycling images from April to conceal what may be a serious health crisis, and predicts an imminent announcement about the Russian lea...

Kevin Randle discusses Roswell alien abduction and the Santilli autopsy film, and Dr. James R. Lewis explores the afterlife after Linda Moulton Howe's opening encounter report. Linda Moulton Howe opens with a gripping account from a Washington State woman who describes a fully conscious encounter with gray-colored beings inside her father's home, including physical contact and paralysis from an un...

Linda Moulton Howe reports live from the MUFON conference in Seattle, where researcher George Wingfield has just presented black-and-white photographs from the controversial Ray Santilli alien autopsy film. The images depict a hairless being with six fingers, six toes, and oversized eyes covered by a dark membrane that surgeons peel away during the procedure. A leading English pathologist who view...

Art Bell broadcasts live on the Fourth of July, opening with the triumphant conclusion of his weeks-long saga to trap a feral kitten living beneath his desert home. Using smoked tuna in a humane trap, the cat he calls Ghost is finally captured and awaits a veterinary visit. The program covers a wide sweep of Independence Day topics as callers weigh in on pressing issues. A Berkeley professor's ope...

Hypnotherapist Elaine Stevens joins Art Bell to explore the startling world of past life regression and future life progression, drawing from thousands of sessions conducted over her career. Stevens explains how clients under deep hypnosis spontaneously recall vivid details from previous incarnations, complete with historically verifiable dates, costumes, and locations she personally confirmed thr...

John Ronner, journalist and author of multiple books on angels including Do You Have a Guardian Angel and The Angels of Cokeville, explores the widespread phenomenon of angelic encounters across America. Ronner cites a 1993 Time magazine poll showing 69 percent of Americans believe in angels and 46 percent feel they have a personal spiritual guardian, then examines the many forms these encounters...

Richard C. Hoagland, former science consultant to CBS News and NASA, presents his case that artificial structures exist on Mars and the moon, and that a small group within NASA has systematically suppressed photographic evidence for decades. Hoagland details the 1976 Viking orbiter discovery of the Face on Mars at Cydonia, a bilaterally symmetric formation 1,500 feet high surrounded by pyramids ar...

John Rhodes, a researcher investigating underground bases and ancient civilizations, presents his theory of a genetic and historical connection between humans and an ancient reptilian species. Rhodes traces evidence through religious texts, Sumerian writings, and neuroanatomy, pointing to the R-complex at the base of the human brain, which scientists named for its shared structure with reptiles, a...

George Knapp, the investigative journalist who broke the Area 51 story, joins Art Bell to discuss his groundbreaking trip to Russia and the treasure trove of previously classified UFO documents he brought back. Knapp reveals that the Russian Ministry of Defense has studied UFOs at the highest levels since the late 1940s and possesses documents detailing American UFO monitoring stations worldwide a...

Art Bell dives deep into the Oklahoma City bombing investigation with explosive new developments from KFOR News Channel 4 in Oklahoma City. A private investigator working with reporter Jayna Davis reveals that multiple credible eyewitnesses have identified a man they believe to be John Doe Number Two through extensive photo lineups, all captured on videotape from start to finish. The suspect, repo...