The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell welcomes UFO researcher James Gilliland from his ranch at the base of Mount Adams in Washington state. Gilliland brings multiple witnesses, including aerospace professionals who describe seeing objects that stopped mid-flight, flared brilliantly, then zigzagged into space at impossible speeds. An aviation expert corroborates these accounts, noting that Gilliland seemed to sense the object...

Art Bell welcomes Scott Flansburg, known as the Human Calculator, who demonstrates his ability to instantly count by any number and calculate the day of the week for any date in history. Flansburg describes discovering that every number reduces to nine through a simple subtraction process. He explains that the human brain is wired to start counting at one rather than zero, and correcting this chan...

Howard Bloom joins Art Bell to discuss the Middle East, biofuels, flex-fuel vehicles, Iran, and intelligence emerging from the Big Bang after Art's opening headlines. Art opens with Vice President Cheney's hunting accident and record-breaking weather, including the warmest January on record. He highlights NASA scientist James Hansen's battle against agency censorship over climate change and discus...

Art Bell welcomes internet pioneer Lauren Weinstein to discuss digital privacy and technology's impact on society. Weinstein addresses the battle between piracy and legitimate downloading, warning that overly broad copy protection measures could harm non-infringing uses. He examines the NSA domestic surveillance controversy, emphasizing that oversight is key to balancing national security with civ...

Art Bell opens with Major Ed Dames, who shares his remote viewing team's findings on Bigfoot. Dames describes a teleportation device in deep space operated by unknown controllers, suggesting Bigfoot is a real creature transported temporarily to Earth. He connects this research to his upcoming Project Starman, a June 2006 field exercise aimed at making contact with higher intelligence. Dames also a...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Nick Begich for a discussion on accelerating climate change and the HAARP project in Alaska. Begich reports ocean temperature increases of 5 to 15 degrees in Alaskan waters, unprecedented deer migrations into south-central Alaska, and glacial retreat of nearly nine miles over the past century. He warns that melting permafrost is releasing trapped methane in a dangerous amplif...

Art Bell welcomes pole shift researcher Lloyd Stewart Carpenter, who presents alarming scientific indicators suggesting the Earth may be approaching a magnetic reversal. Lloyd reports that the sun's magnetic field has doubled since 1963 according to Russian scientists, that the Chandler wobble has mysteriously stopped, and that the Earth's equatorial circumference now exceeds its polar measurement...

Theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku joins Art Bell to discuss civilization, space, string theory, parallel universes, and his book Parallel Worlds after Art's emotional first hour about Ramona. Art opens with a deeply personal first hour, sharing the full story of his wife Ramona's sudden death from an asthma attack during an RV trip to Laughlin, Nevada. He describes finding her on the couch, th...

Art Bell continues the annual predictions event on New Year's Eve, collecting the final batch of listener forecasts for 2006. He reviews more results from the 2005 vault, noting hits on a bridge collapse, the shuttle tank problem, and a new cat species discovery, while bonking failed predictions about Korea becoming democratic and time travelers revealing themselves. The second night brings anothe...

Art Bell opens the annual predictions tradition by reviewing the 2005 forecast results from the Bell Family Vault. Listeners scored a few notable hits, including the passing of Johnny Carson and the auto industry depression, but the overall accuracy suffered from an overly apocalyptic mood following the tsunami. Callers then take the stage with their visions for 2006. Predictions range from a mass...

Art Bell sits down with bestselling author and physician Tess Gerritsen to explore the bizarre corners of medical history. Gerritsen discusses the thin line between life and death, describing cases of people declared dead who later woke up in body bags and morgues, including one instance where a man scheduled for autopsy grabbed the pathologist, who then died of a heart attack. The conversation ex...

Art Bell reads a major story about former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer calling on Parliament to hold hearings on relations with extraterrestrial civilizations. Hellyer declared that UFOs are as real as airplanes and warned that U.S. military preparations could provoke an intergalactic war. Art poses the central question: if we do not know whether visiting beings are friendly, should weap...

Art Bell welcomes nuclear physicist and UFO researcher Stanton Friedman to discuss the current state of ufology, including his recent trip to a World UFO Conference in Dalian, China. Friedman describes an open atmosphere among Chinese scientists and notes that the Chinese government appears to encourage public discussion of UFOs, possibly to pressure the United States toward greater transparency....

Art Bell hosts his annual Ghost to Ghost Halloween special, inviting listeners to share their most frightening encounters with the paranormal. A police officer from Ohio describes hearing a child laughing in the woods near a historic estate where two children drowned decades ago. A caller from Quebec recounts his mother seeing an apparition of her own mother the same night the woman died in a fire...

Art Bell opens the broadcast with live coverage of Hurricane Wilma as it barrels toward Florida, speaking with hurricane hunter Mark Suddeth who is stationed in Everglades City monitoring the Category 3 storm. Suddeth describes the record-breaking hurricane season, the dangers of storm surge, and the alarming trend of warming sea surface temperatures fueling increasingly powerful storms. Dr. Nick...

Art Bell opens with updates on Hurricane Rita's aftermath and his relief at hearing from lifelong friend Lynn Whitlake, whose Lake Charles home suffered a massive oak tree crashing into the garage. Art discusses the shooting of stray animals in New Orleans, melting Siberian permafrost releasing methane, and the Antarctic ozone hole approaching record size. He stresses that the lesson of Katrina is...

Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society to present electronic voice phenomena recordings captured inside a home occupied by two women who practice Wiccan traditions. The residents reported being physically scratched, finding their altar scattered throughout the house, and discovering the word "he" written in ash on the front door. The investigators des...

Art Bell broadcasts live as Hurricane Katrina, a Category 5 storm packing 160-mile-per-hour winds, bears down on New Orleans. He takes calls from residents who have chosen to stay, including Scott from Harahan who remains with five dogs because no shelters accept pets. Storm researcher Mark Suddath reports from Gulfport, Mississippi, where his mobile command vehicle streams live video while automa...

Art Bell welcomes Sir Charles Shults III for a discussion on energy solutions and discoveries on Mars. The conversation begins with nuclear fusion, where Sir Charles explains the promise of helium-3 as clean fuel found on the lunar surface but extremely rare on Earth. He describes how orbital solar power satellites could replace dozens of power plants for roughly three billion dollars, beaming mic...

Art Bell opens with Major Ed Dames, who returns to discuss his remote viewing predictions about a catastrophic solar event he calls the "kill shot." With the Space Shuttle Discovery facing repair issues in orbit and recent powerful solar flares, Dames warns that the confluence of events matches what his team has long predicted as the harbinger of a devastating solar sequence. He estimates an 85 pe...

Art Bell interviews Derrel Sims, a certified hypnotherapist and former CIA operative who has spent 38 years researching alien abduction cases. Sims describes his own abduction experiences beginning at age three in Midland, Texas, including a procedure at age 12 where an entity inserted a device through his nasal passage. He later discovered another abductee with an identically placed object visibl...

Art Bell interviews Dr. Dean Radin, senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, about the Global Consciousness Project and its network of roughly 70 random number generators distributed worldwide. Radin explains that these devices produce fundamentally random output based on quantum noise, yet during major world events, they simultaneously shift toward measurable order. After eight years...

Art Bell interviews rock legend Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad and retired Command Sgt. Major Robert O. Dean in two distinct segments. Farner reflects on the music industry's shift from personal radio to corporate programming and discusses how lyrics shape culture. He shares a 1968 UFO sighting involving a 200-foot disc hovering 100 yards from his family's Michigan farmhouse, corroborated by m...

Art Bell speaks with Major Ed Dames, retired U.S. Army intelligence officer and original member of the Defense Intelligence Agency's psychic intelligence unit. Dames opens the program discussing his recent trip to Ukraine, where he visited the formerly closed city of Dnipropetrovsk, home of the SS-18 Satan missile. He shares surprising cultural observations about how Ukrainians credit the Cold War...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Claude Swanson, a Princeton-educated physicist who has spent over 20 years researching the science behind paranormal phenomena. Broadcasting from what he describes as a ghost museum, Swanson recounts his personal experiments with remote viewing and firewalking, explaining how consciousness can alter known physical laws. He describes a model of parallel universes at slightly d...