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Best Art Bell Episodes About Time Travel

Time travel was one of Art Bell's durable bridges between science and the impossible. Some episodes approach it through machines and research; others treat time as a mystery that leaks through callers, experiments, and fringe claims. This listener-backed sequence combines Andrew Basiago on time travel and teleportation, a themed Open Lines broadcast, Art's time-traveler hotline, David Anderson on time technology, and Mad Man Marcum describing his homemade machine. The companion caller collection goes deeper into hotline mythology, while this page gives newcomers the strongest mixed path through time travel as idea, engineering challenge, and lived claim.

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Time TravelQuantum Physics & Parallel UniversesOpen Lines & CallersConsciousness & the AfterlifeRemote Viewing

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Andrew BasiagoDr. David AndersonMike "Mad Man" Marcum

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Episode thumbnail for August 14, 2015: Time Travel & Teleportation - Andrew Basiago
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August 14, 2015: Time Travel & Teleportation - Andrew Basiago

Aug 14, 2015
2h 14m

Andrew Basiago's claims about time travel and teleportation produced the strongest listener response in this topic. The episode is an immediate, high-energy doorway into the collection.

Andrew Basiago, a Washington State lawyer with six academic degrees, joins Art Bell claiming participation in two classified defense projects involving time travel and teleportation. Basiago describes DARPA's Project Pegasus achieving eight modalities of time travel by 1970, from remote viewing to physical teleporta...
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August 22, 2004: Open Lines | Time Travel

Aug 22, 2004
2h 52m

This listener-driven episode is the strongest Apple-backed time-travel doorway in the archive. The open-line format lets theories, memories, and claims arrive without a single guest frame.

Art Bell opens the lines for an anything-goes night, dedicating the first-time caller line to anyone claiming to have traveled through time. He begins with a vivid account of a terrifying electrical storm in Pahrump, Nevada, where lightning bombarded the area around his antenna towers for nearly five hours while the...
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May 30, 2003: Time Traveler Line - Open Lines

May 30, 2003
2h 48m

The time-traveler line keeps the page tied to Art's caller culture. It is an obvious next step for listeners who want claims and stories rather than only theory.

Art Bell hosts a Friday night open lines show and dedicates one phone line exclusively to callers who claim to have traveled in time. He opens with sharp commentary on the Iraq war, noting that a top Marine general has publicly declared U.S. intelligence was "simply wrong" about chemical weapons, and that no weapons...
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April 5, 2000: Time Travel - Dr. David Anderson

Apr 5, 2000
3h 18m

David Anderson gives the page a research-and-technology anchor. His discussion provides a useful counterweight to the collection's caller-driven and first-person material.

Art Bell opens the program by taking calls from listeners who claim to be time travelers or visitors from other dimensions. One caller describes arriving from a dimension where the South won the Civil War, while another recounts meeting his older self as a child. The conversations set the stage for the evening's mai...
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April 18, 1995: Building a Time Machine - "Mad Man" Marcum

Apr 18, 1995
2h 54m

Mad Man Marcum's homemade time-machine story is a defining Art Bell narrative. It makes time travel tangible through hardware, risk, and one caller's extraordinary experiment.

Mike "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 throwi...

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