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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

Best Art Bell Episodes About Near-Death Experiences

Near-death experience episodes brought Art Bell into one of the archive's most personal questions: what happens when people cross the edge of death and return? These five broadcasts feature NDE accounts, researchers, and witnesses, then connect naturally to afterlife, consciousness, EVP, Ghost-to-Ghost, shadow people, and past-life material elsewhere on the site.

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September 19, 2004: NDE Accounts - Dr. Jeffrey Long

Sep 19, 2004
2h 52m
Art Bell replays HAARP transmissions that provoked hundreds of listener responses the previous night, ranging from headaches and sweating to one caller reporting an amorous reaction. He also covers a Reuters survey revealing most Americans would refuse to follow government instructions during a terror attack, prefer...
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December 6, 2001: Near Death Experience - Pam Reynolds

Dec 6, 2001
2h 46m
Art Bell interviews Pam Reynolds, a musician and mother of three who underwent one of the most extraordinary surgical procedures ever performed. In 1991, surgeons at Phoenix's Barrow Institute cooled her body to 58 degrees Fahrenheit, stopped her heart, drained her blood, and achieved zero brain wave activity in ord...
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May 3, 2001: A Hellish NDE - Rev. Howard Storm

May 3, 2001
2h 52m
Art Bell welcomes Reverend Howard Storm, a former atheist and art professor who describes his harrowing near-death experience during a medical emergency in Paris in 1985. After a perforation in his small intestine went untreated for hours in a French hospital with no surgeon available, Storm found himself standing b...
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February 16, 2001: Near Death Experiences - Dr. Melvin Morse

Feb 16, 2001
2h 50m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Melvin Morse, a pediatrician and neuroscientist who spent 15 years studying near-death experiences in children at Seattle Children's Hospital. Dr. Morse describes his first case, a young girl submerged underwater for 19 minutes who later recounted every detail of her own resuscitation, includin...