The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Gary Ridenour for a sobering discussion about the threat of an avian flu pandemic. Dr. Ridenour explains that the H5N1 virus kills roughly 60 percent of those it infects and has shown signs of human-to-human transmission in at least two countries. He argues the pandemic is not a matter of if but when, citing the virus"s massive reservoir in global bird populations and its abi...

Art Bell welcomes Whitley Strieber, who reveals a new encounter experience from December 7th that left him questioning the nature of human existence. Whitley describes waking in the night and finding himself in a different house with dogs that should not have been there. As the experience unfolded, he became aware of living simultaneously in five parallel universes, each containing a different ver...

Art Bell continues the second night of listener predictions for 2008 on New Year"s Eve. He corrects two entries from the 2007 review, upgrading a bonk on a serial killer being found after a 63-year-old man confessed to murders from the late 1970s. The remaining 2007 predictions fare poorly, with bonks for the rebuilding of Solomon"s Temple, CERN creating a black hole, and crop circles on the White...

Art Bell opens the phone lines for the first night of listener predictions for 2008, beginning with a review of the previous year"s forecasts. The results from 2007 are mixed at best, with bonks for predictions about NASA casualties, Saddam"s execution being faked, Israel attacking Iran, and a moon base being revealed. Hits include Philippine earthquakes, a weakening dollar, and an increase in ani...

Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku for a wide-ranging conversation about the future of energy, the fate of the universe, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Dr. Kaku explains how dark energy is accelerating the expansion of the universe and why humanity may one day need to escape to a parallel universe. He breaks down the challenges of achieving controlled nuclea...

Art Bell hosts his annual Ghost to Ghost Halloween special, opening the phone lines for unscreened callers to share their scariest true ghost stories. He establishes clear ground rules: one story per caller, first-person accounts preferred, and no cell phones unless necessary. Art also reads select ghost stories emailed by listeners throughout the broadcast, peppering them between calls to keep th...

Art Bell presents a split program featuring EVP researchers Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society alongside psychic Evelyn Paglini with urgent warnings. Cook and McBeath share their most compelling electronic voice phenomena recordings collected over a decade of cemetery and haunted location investigations. Using digital recording equipment, the pair captures ghostly...

Art Bell welcomes bestselling author Graham Hancock to explore the mounting evidence for a lost advanced civilization destroyed roughly 12,500 years ago. Hancock presents Robert Bauval's Orion correlation theory, arguing that the Great Pyramids of Egypt mirror the three belt stars of Orion as they appeared thousands of years before the accepted timeline of Egyptian civilization. He connects this a...

Art Bell welcomes cyber war columnist Charles R. Smith to discuss China's growing military threat and its covert support for global terrorism. Smith reveals that China has been directly supplying the Taliban with advanced weaponry, including HN-5 man-portable surface-to-air missiles, improved RPG-7s, and shoulder-launched fuel-air munitions. The weapons have been flown directly into Taliban-contro...

Art Bell welcomes researcher Tom Carey to discuss groundbreaking developments surrounding the Roswell crash on its 60th anniversary. The centerpiece is a sworn affidavit left by Lieutenant Walter Haut, the base public information officer at Roswell Army Air Field in 1947, who kept his account sealed until after his death. Haut's document goes beyond his original story of merely distributing a pres...

Art Bell welcomes astronomer Richard Massey, a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology, to discuss his groundbreaking work mapping dark matter using the Hubble Space Telescope. Massey explains that dark matter constitutes roughly 86 percent of the total mass in the universe yet remains completely invisible, detectable only through its gravitational influence on light from di...

Art Bell speaks with peak oil analyst Matt Savinar, a California attorney who runs the website Life After the Oil Crash. Savinar presents a stark picture of global energy decline, explaining that oil discovery peaked in 1961 and that major companies now spend more searching for oil than the value of what they find. He argues that the effective decline rate, worsened by war and political instabilit...

Art Bell welcomes James Gilliland for a UFO update from his ranch in Washington state, where more than 4,000 witnesses have now reported sightings of unexplained aerial objects. Gilliland describes face-to-face encounters with beings he identifies as Pleiadian, portraying them as genetically refined, telepathic, and deeply concerned about Earth's environmental decline and human consciousness. He r...

Art Bell welcomes author Lynne McTaggart to discuss her book The Intention Experiment, which examines scientific evidence that human thought can influence physical reality. McTaggart describes laboratory studies where focused intention has affected plant growth, altered the molecular structure of water, and even changed the output of random event generators. She argues that consciousness operates...

Art Bell welcomes prophecy scholar John Hogue to discuss his new e-book, Nostradamus: The War with Iran. Hogue explains how he wrote 70,000 words in just seven weeks, driven by an inner compulsion that a U.S.-Iran conflict may be closer than most people realize. He connects Nostradamus quatrains to modern geopolitical tensions, including the missile defense standoff between the U.S. and Russia, an...

Art Bell speaks with Whitley Strieber about mysterious drone photographs from Northern California and the accelerating crisis of global warming. Strieber analyzes the Chad UFO drone images, noting their unusual clarity and strange writing, and suggests the object may have been designed to look fake as concealment. The conversation shifts to alarming climate developments, including rapid ice loss i...

Art Bell interviews first-time guest Robert Collins, a career Air Force veteran who spent 22 years in avionics, communications, engineering, physics, and intelligence at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base's Foreign Technology Division. Collins describes how a casual conversation in a classified vault in 1985 led him to retired lieutenant colonel Ernie Kellerstrauss, who shared extraordinary stories a...

Art Bell welcomes back Peter Ward, professor of biology and earth sciences at the University of Washington and NASA Astrobiology Institute investigator, to discuss his book Under a Green Sky and the science of mass extinctions. Ward explains that while the dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago was caused by an asteroid impact, the other 15 mass extinctions over 500 million years show no such ev...

Art Bell speaks with researcher and author Tom Horn about his book Nephilim Stargates, which examines ancient accounts of fallen angels, hybrid beings, and interdimensional portals through the lens of modern science. Horn describes how the biblical Watchers, a group of 200 angels described in the Book of Enoch, descended to Earth, mated with human women, and produced the Nephilim, a race of giants...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Mark Eberhart, professor of chemistry and materials science at the Colorado School of Mines and author of Feeding the Fire, for an in-depth discussion on America's growing energy crisis. Eberhart explains why corn-based ethanol is a flawed solution, noting that farm subsidies rather than real energy gains drive the push for biofuels, and that converting cellulose to ethanol h...

Art Bell welcomes climate scientist Richard Somerville, a distinguished professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, for a thorough discussion of global warming and its accelerating impacts. Somerville explains the basic science behind the greenhouse effect and presents evidence that human carbon dioxide emissions are the primary driver of rising temperatures, while acknowledging the comp...

Art Bell opens with psychic Evelyn Paglini, who delivers a series of alarming predictions including civil unrest in major cities during the summer, a deliberately released virus with flu-like symptoms, and a major stock market correction in September or October. Paglini warns of intensifying earth changes through 2012, urging listeners to prepare with food, water, and community shelters rather tha...

Art Bell speaks with Daniel H. Wilson, a robotics engineer and author, about the current state of robots and the trajectory of artificial intelligence. Wilson describes the wide spectrum of robotic technology already embedded in daily life, from anti-lock braking systems that use neural networks to autonomous vacuum cleaners and military reconnaissance drones operating in combat zones. The discuss...

Art Bell presents a two-topic broadcast beginning with the global warming debate, taking calls from listeners who weigh in on climate change, the disappearing bee crisis, and the politics surrounding environmental policy. Callers raise points about Martian polar ice caps melting, agricultural shifts needed to adapt to warming, and the urgent need for action regardless of the cause. The second half...

Art Bell welcomes researcher Ryan S. Wood for an in-depth examination of UFO crash retrieval cases spanning decades of alleged government recoveries. Wood, who maintains a comprehensive database of such incidents, walks through the evidence behind multiple crash events, including lesser-known sites beyond Roswell like the San Augustine Plains and White Sands regions of New Mexico. The conversation...