The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell opens the phones for a wide-ranging Open Lines session dominated by Bob Dole's explosive speech attacking Hollywood for producing movies filled with gratuitous violence and deviant music. Art Bell questions whether Dole's blast is sincere conviction or transparent political pandering to the religious right, noting that Dole has never targeted Hollywood before and that Time Warner, one of...

Lindsey Williams, researcher and author, joins Art Bell to discuss the unfolding Ebola outbreak in Kikwit, Zaire, as conflicting reports emerge from the region. Williams challenges official assurances from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control, arguing that the true scope of the crisis far exceeds what the public is being told. He cites Richard Preston's nonfiction book...

Gordon Michael Scallion, widely regarded as one of the most accurate modern prophets, returns to share the extraordinary origin of his visionary abilities with Art Bell. Scallion recounts how in 1979, during a routine business presentation in Florida, he suddenly and completely lost his voice. That night in the hospital, a purple sphere of light appeared in his room, filling the space with floatin...

Linda Moulton Howe delivers a detailed investigative report on Project HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program based in Gakona, Alaska. Howe traces the project's evolution from a small subsidiary called ARCO Power Technologies through its acquisition by E-Systems, a secretive defense contractor handling $1.8 billion in classified work, and finally its absorption by Raytheon in Ap...

Mad Man Marcum, a 21-year-old Missouri factory worker, joins Art Bell to describe his backyard attempts at building a time machine. Marcum explains how a simple Jacob's Ladder project spiraled into something extraordinary when he noticed a strange circular vortex forming above the electrical arc. After throwing a sheet metal screw into the shimmering field, he watched it vanish and reappear moment...

Travis Walton and Mike Rogers, the central figures in one of the most documented alien abduction cases in history, join Art Bell to tell their story in full detail for the first time on the program. Rogers describes how his logging crew witnessed a glowing craft hovering just 20 feet above the ground on the Mogollon Rim in Arizona, and the terrifying moment a blast of energy threw Walton backward...

Dr. Louis Turi, astrologer and doctor of metaphysics born in the same village as Nostradamus, joins Art Bell to share specific earthquake predictions and recount his dramatic close encounter with a massive flying saucer in southern France. Turi describes how the craft hovered silently less than 30 feet above his car, killing the engine and terrifying his skeptical brother before departing at incre...

Linda Moulton Howe reports on a horse mutilation case from Salmon, Idaho, where a retired police officer found his buckskin dead with surgical-like excisions and no tracks in fresh snow. Art Bell then welcomes Jordan Maxwell, author and lecturer on secret societies and ancient theologies, for a wide-ranging discussion on hidden power structures influencing modern religion and government. Maxwell t...

Michael Brown, the investigative journalist who broke the Love Canal toxic waste story, joins Art Bell to discuss his dramatic shift from secular reporting to documenting global supernatural phenomena. Brown describes a three-part dream involving angelic beings and a demonic face on his apartment door that launched his conversion back to Catholicism and ultimately led to his book, The Final Hour....

Michael Cremo, research associate at the Bhaktivedanta Institute, presents evidence that human beings have existed on Earth for hundreds of millions of years. Art Bell guides a sweeping conversation through suppressed archaeological discoveries, from human skeletons found in 300-million-year-old coal deposits to 3.6-million-year-old footprints in Tanzania that match modern humans. Cremo details ho...

J.W. McGinnis, president of the International Tesla Society, joins Art Bell for a wide-ranging exploration of Nikola Tesla, the Serbian inventor whose contributions to modern civilization remain vastly underappreciated. McGinnis traces Tesla's journey from a childhood inventor at age five to the creator of alternating current power transmission, radio technology, and the Tesla coil found in every...

Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, returns to Art Bell with another wave of compelling UFO reports collected through his Seattle hotline, now averaging thousands of calls over just six months of operation. Howe opens with an update from western Pennsylvania where witnesses observed triangular objects accompanied by confetti-like debris over Jeanette, while television s...

Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, and investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe join Art Bell for an evening packed with fresh UFO evidence from across the country. Howe opens with a stunning report from a Denver family who watched two large black helicopters vanish before their eyes in broad daylight, raising questions about military invisibility technol...

Randolph Winters joins Art Bell to present the full story of Swiss farmer Billy Meier, whose alleged contacts with Pleiadian extraterrestrials produced over 1,200 daytime photographs of spacecraft that remain among the most scrutinized UFO evidence in history. Winters, a former retail business owner turned researcher, describes his three extended visits to Meier's compound in Switzerland, where he...

Dr. Bruce Goldberg joins Art Bell to explore the extraordinary claims of hypnotic past life regression and future life progression, a field Goldberg has pioneered over two decades of clinical practice. Goldberg explains how patients under hypnosis can perceive multiple future timelines, choosing an ideal frequency among five possible paths. He describes documented cases where age progressions prov...

Sean David Morton, founder of the Prophecy Research Institute, joins Art Bell with earthquake forecasts, geopolitical predictions, and a provocative claim that the 1994 Northridge earthquake was artificially induced by the U.S. military. Morton, who uses Tibetan meditation techniques over maps to sense geological energy, outlines a series of California quakes he expects in a triangle between Palm...

Gordon Michael Scallion delivers alarming earth change prophecies to Art Bell, followed by futurist Michael Lindemann and a research update from Linda Moulton Howe on animal mutilations. Scallion, a self-described intuitive who lost his voice during a 1979 health crisis and subsequently developed prophetic visions, details predictions for 1995 with striking specificity. He forecasts a magnitude 9-...

Dave Talbot joins Art Bell to explore the catastrophist theories of Immanuel Velikovsky and his own groundbreaking research into ancient planetary mythology, while Linda Moulton Howe reports on the mysterious military project known as HAARP. Talbot, who founded the journal Pensee and published the influential Velikovsky Reconsidered series through Doubleday, argues that ancient myths worldwide enc...

John Hogue, the world's foremost authority on Nostradamus and a featured expert on NBC's Ancient Prophecies special, joins Art Bell for an expansive discussion on the nature of prophecy and the human future. Hogue draws on 20 years of scholarship across multiple prophetic traditions, presenting his latest book compiling 777 visions and predictions from over a hundred documented seers. He walks thr...

Jim Deardorff joins Art Bell to present a radical reinterpretation of the New Testament, while Linda Moulton Howe reports live from Colorado on fresh cattle mutilation cases. Deardorff, a retired Oregon State University professor, spent six years researching a document called the Talmud of Emmanuel, which he argues was the original source behind the Gospel of Matthew. The document, discovered in a...

Lindsey Williams, author of You Can Live, warns that antibiotic-resistant superbugs and emerging diseases pose an existential threat to humanity. Williams meticulously documents his case using sources from the Journal of the American Medical Association, Newsweek, Time, and Laboratory Medicine, citing a University of Iowa pathology professor who found 85 percent of hospital-acquired bacteria have...

Art Bell opens the phone lines in the immediate aftermath of the 1994 midterm elections, dissecting the political earthquake that handed Republicans control of both chambers of Congress for the first time in decades. A new NBC poll reveals 55 percent of Americans want Congress rather than the president to lead on policy, and Clinton trails Bob Dole 39 to 45 percent in a hypothetical matchup. Calle...

Katharina Wilson, author of The Alien Jigsaw, joins Dreamland to chronicle over 119 abduction experiences spanning 32 years of her life. Linda Howe opens the broadcast with the remarkable testimony of John Vasquez, who describes a mass encounter at Fort Benning, Georgia in 1977, where a ball of light paralyzed and rendered unconscious many of the 1,200 soldiers in formation. Wilson describes consc...

Art Bell hosts the annual Halloween weekend Ghost to Ghost special, opening the phone lines exclusively for true ghost stories from across the country. Callers share chilling firsthand accounts ranging from a newspaper boy who petted a dog weeks after it had been put to sleep, to a family terrorized by slamming doors and flying coffee cups for thirteen years in an Illinois home. A Portland couple...

Dr. Richard Boylan, a clinical psychologist specializing in alien abduction cases, presents findings from over 130 cases that challenge the dominant view of extraterrestrial contact. Linda Howe opens the program with a stunning eyewitness account from New Mexico, where a rancher watched a cow being dragged sideways across a pasture toward an intense mechanical sound, only to have the animal vanish...