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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

Essential Art Bell Episodes About Exorcism and the Occult

Exorcism and the occult brought a different kind of fear into Art Bell's archive: not distant lights or hidden agencies, but moral and spiritual danger. Father Malachi Martin's appearances gave the topic unusual gravity, while later episodes connected possession, evil, Nephilim lore, Catholicism, and occult practice to the broader paranormal landscape. These episodes cover the major exorcism and occult thread without pretending the subject is simple or uniform. Related links point toward ghost stories, EVP, shadow people, Evelyn Paglini, and other spiritual-paranormal collections for listeners who want adjacent material across the archive.

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Episode thumbnail for October 18, 1996: Exorcism - Father Malachi Martin
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October 18, 1996: Exorcism - Father Malachi Martin

Oct 18, 1996
3h 22m
Father Malachi Martin, ex-Jesuit priest and former advisor to three popes, joins Art Bell for a sprawling conversation about the reality of demonic possession and the rituals used to combat it. Drawing on decades of performing exorcisms, Martin describes the process in chilling detail, from the initial psychiatric s...
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April 4, 1997: Exorcism - Father Malachi Martin

Apr 4, 1997
3h 9m
Father Malachi Martin, an Irish-born Jesuit who advised two popes and performed exorcisms for three decades, delivers one of the most harrowing accounts of spiritual warfare ever broadcast. Speaking from his Manhattan apartment, Martin describes his rigorous Jesuit training, his path to the Vatican, and the terrifyi...
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December 3, 1997: Father Malachi Martin

Dec 3, 1997
2h 23m
Art Bell welcomes Father Malachi Martin for a wide-ranging conversation that begins with Art recounting his recent pilgrimage to the Vatican, where he discovered a globe bearing all twelve signs of the zodiac inside the Sistine Chapel. Father Martin explains that several popes over centuries kept court astrologers,...
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January 30, 2005: Nephilim and the Apocalypse - Patrick Heron

Jan 30, 2005
2h 54m
Art Bell is joined by Patrick Heron, an author from Dublin, Ireland, who presents his theory that the ancient pyramids and megalithic monuments worldwide were built by the Nephilim, fallen spirit beings described in Genesis and referenced across Greek, Roman, and Egyptian mythology. Heron details the mathematical pr...
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March 5, 2006: Catholicism, Exorcisms, and Evil - Rama Coomaraswamy

Mar 5, 2006
2h 28m
Art Bell welcomes Rama Coomaraswamy, a former thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon turned Catholic priest who was a close friend of the late Father Malachi Martin. Coomaraswamy shares stories of his friendship with Martin, including the revelation that Martin believed a demon struck him down in the fall that led to h...