Art Bell rings in 1997 with a New Year's Day open lines show that quickly becomes a sprawling exploration of politics, prophecy, and the strange. With catastrophic flooding devastating the Pacific Northwest and Nevada, callers report from the front lines of what many are calling a hundred-year flood. Art weighs in on the federal government's push to override state marijuana legalization in Arizona and California, calling it an arrogant dismissal of the voters' will.The night takes unexpected turns as callers debate the biblical and legal origins of laws against polygamy, with theories ranging from Mormon persecution to a banker conspiracy. A CBS radio report about asteroids breaking out of their orbits and potentially crossing Earth's path adds a note of cosmic unease. Meanwhile, the mysterious countdown signal on 940 AM in central California fuels Hale-Bopp companion speculation, and Art shares his prediction that the government will try to seize control of the internet by planting classified data online.From flood-ravaged listeners sandbagging through the night to philosophical musings on royalty and mortality, this episode captures the restless energy of a nation stepping into an uncertain new year, with Art Bell as its late-night guide through the unknown.

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January 3, 1997: Near Death Experiences - Dannion Brinkley

Jan 33h 22mDannion Brinkley

Dannion Brinkley, the man who was clinically dead for 28 minutes after being struck by lightning while talking on the telephone, joins Art Bell fresh from a trip to Egypt with revelations about both the afterlife and the ancient world. Brinkley recounts his two near-death experiences and the panoramic life review that forced him to feel the impact of every interaction he ever had, transforming him from a self-described violent man into a devoted hospice volunteer now in his 18th year of service.The conversation moves from the deeply personal to the geopolitical as Brinkley describes his meetings with Zahi Hawass on the Giza Plateau. He flatly contradicts Richard C. Hoagland's claims of a secret chamber opening, stating he was present and nothing of the sort occurred. Yet Brinkley expresses absolute certainty that a Hall of Records exists beneath the plateau, one that will rewrite human history and challenge every major institution. He positions himself as a mediator between warring Egyptological factions.Brinkley's central message is both simple and radical: human beings do not die, religious institutions have built empires on fear, and the baby boomer generation must prepare to care for aging loved ones as government safety nets collapse. Callers push back with biblical challenges, but Brinkley holds firm, offering his scars as evidence.

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January 7, 1997: Paranormal - Dr. Barbie Taylor

Jan 73h 24mDr. Barbie Taylor

Dr. Barbie Taylor, a clinical psychologist with deep ties to the Bigelow Foundation and Dr. Steven M. Greer's CSETI organization, joins Art Bell from Las Vegas to discuss a career that spans human sexuality research, parapsychology, and direct UFO encounters. Commissioned by Robert Bigelow to find the world's greatest mediums, Taylor spent five months networking globally and sitting with extraordinary practitioners, including George Anderson, emerging convinced that the veil between the living and the dead is remarkably thin.Taylor recounts a dramatic 1993 CSETI expedition east of Mexico City where her team witnessed a silent, triangular craft the size of a 747 respond to their light signals, approach within a mile, and shut down all their electronic equipment. She also describes afternoon sightings of reflective disc-shaped objects near the volcano, reinforcing her belief that multiple types of extraterrestrial beings are interacting with Earth. Her work with a retired FAA psychic associate on the TWA Flight 800 crash produced detailed material supporting the missile theory, which was sent to the FBI.The episode weaves together remote viewing, interdimensional theory, and contact with deceased loved ones into a picture of reality far broader than conventional science acknowledges. A caller who was shot four times describes living in an alternate reality during his three-week coma, adding visceral testimony to the night's themes.

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January 8, 1997: Gulf War Syndrome - Joyce Riley

Jan 82h 48mJoyce Riley

Nurse and Gulf War veteran Joyce Riley returns with devastating new evidence that the federal government is actively covering up a communicable illness devastating hundreds of thousands of troops and their families. Just one day after a presidential advisory commission blamed Gulf War illness on stress, Riley presents confidential VA data showing a 600% increase in tumor rates among active-duty military and reports that 67% of sick veterans are producing children with birth defects, a figure far beyond any normal baseline.Riley details the mycoplasma incognitus organism identified by Dr. Garth Nicholson, which contains 40% of the HIV envelope gene and produces AIDS-like symptoms without being AIDS itself. She describes how Nicholson was forced out of MD Anderson Cancer Center for researching the disease, how VA doctors who speak out face termination, and how roughly 50% of tested Gulf War veterans are positive for the organism. A Marine Corps caller confirms seeing chemical detection tape turn pink during the ground offensive into Kuwait.The episode reaches its most sobering moment when Riley reveals that Gulf War veterans have filed a formal complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Commission, accusing the U.S. Department of Defense of crimes against humanity. American soldiers forced to seek justice from a foreign body against their own government represents a profoundly disturbing state of affairs.

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January 10, 1997: The Entity - Dr. Barry Taff

Jan 102h 23mDr. Barry Taff

Dr. Barry Taff, the UCLA parapsychology researcher who served as principal investigator on the case that became the film The Entity, joins Art Bell to recount the real events behind one of the most documented paranormal investigations in history. Beginning in 1974, Taff and his team witnessed luminous balls of light flying through a Culver City bedroom, a full-bodied male apparition materializing in a corner, and a Geiger counter reading that dropped to zero as phenomena intensified.The photographs Taff sent to Art Bell's website show arcs of light hovering in free space above the terrified woman, confirmed as three-dimensional by their failure to bend with the walls behind them. Taff describes how the phenomena followed the woman through multiple moves across California and into Texas, and how neighbors who knew nothing of her history experienced poltergeist outbreaks after she moved in next door. The later San Pedro case proved even more violent, with photographer Jeff Wheatcraft nearly hanged by an unseen force and physically hurled across rooms.Taff's clinical perspective grounds the extraordinary testimony. He links poltergeist activity to epileptic seizure patterns and repressed psychological conflict, while acknowledging that no current technology can explain how emotional distress translates into a force capable of snapping keys, throwing bodies, or producing human blood plasma from inside wooden cupboards.

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January 13, 1997: Time Machine Inventor - Steven Gibbs

Jan 133h 6mSteven Gibbs

Steven Gibbs, a self-taught inventor from rural Nebraska, joins Art Bell to describe his Hyper Dimensional Resonator, a device he claims enables physical time travel. Gibbs explains that the machine works by capturing the soul's energy at 7.8 hertz, stepping it through a diode circuit and zero vector field, then transmitting it via an electromagnet placed over the stomach. He says the device must be activated over an Earth grid point during a full moon to achieve results.Gibbs reveals he has sold over 100 machines since 1985, and estimates that 36 or more buyers have simply vanished, presumably traveling to other time periods. He recounts stories of customers journeying to the 1500s, the 1960s, and even the future. He describes his own trip to September 1997, where he claims to have witnessed aerial warfare and an intercontinental ballistic missile launch. He also discusses a mysterious barrier at the year 2012 that time travelers and remote viewers alike cannot penetrate.Art presses Gibbs on the practical dangers and paradoxes of time travel, from encountering your past self to arriving in an era without electrical outlets. Gibbs addresses each with surprising specificity, describing time laws that prevent disruption of the space-time continuum and a built-in return mechanism that brings travelers back within six to nine hours.

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January 14, 1997: Disaster Preparedness - Philip Hoag

Jan 142h 43mPhilip Hoag

Philip Hoag, a Montana-based preparedness expert and author of No Such Thing as Doomsday, joins Art Bell to make the case that civilian shelter building is not paranoia but practical necessity. Hoag draws on over a decade of hands-on experience, including organizing the construction of a 7,000-square-foot underground shelter equipped with diesel generators, running water, and air filtration systems capable of sustaining 150 people for up to a year and a half.The conversation covers a wide spectrum of threats, from nuclear attack and biological warfare to economic collapse and totalitarian government overreach. Hoag explains that anthrax could be deployed from a single van or aircraft with virtually no detection, killing millions before symptoms appear. He details how the Soviet Union violated arms treaties to build shelters for 70% of its population while the U.S. dismantled its own civil defense programs. He also addresses the vulnerability of America's centralized food, water, and power infrastructure.Art and Hoag discuss the moral dilemmas of shelter life, including security against desperate outsiders and the agonizing decision of when to seal the door. Hoag emphasizes community cooperation over lone survivalism, arguing that self-sufficiency and preparedness are acts of responsibility, not fear.

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January 16, 1997: Whitley Strieber & Courtney Brown

Jan 162h 4mWhitley Strieber, Courtney Brown

Art Bell hosts a tense and historic confrontation between author Whitley Strieber and Professor Courtney Brown of Emory University over a photograph that was presented as evidence of an anomalous object traveling alongside Comet Hale-Bopp. After holding the image for two months at Brown's urging, Art and Whitley released it on January 15th. Within 24 hours, astronomers at the University of Hawaii confirmed it was a manipulated version of their own September 1995 image of the comet.Dr. Oliver Hainaut of the University of Hawaii presents devastating forensic evidence, matching the star positions, pixel sizes, filter combinations, and limiting magnitudes of both images. He concludes there is absolutely no doubt the released photograph was derived from their original. Art replays key audio from the November 14th broadcast in which Prudence Calabrese described the alleged astronomer's credentials and the hours of conversation she had with him, making the depth of the deception painfully clear.The episode becomes a gripping debate as Art and Whitley press Brown to name the astronomer who supplied the photograph or at least submit the claimed negatives and film rolls for independent examination. Brown refuses on both counts, citing legal concerns and a desire not to ruin a potentially innocent career.

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January 20, 1997: Open Lines

Jan 203h 27m

Art Bell opens the phones on Inauguration Day 1997, as callers weigh in on President Clinton's second term, Newt Gingrich's $300,000 ethics fine, and the lingering fallout from the Courtney Brown Hale-Bopp photograph scandal. Art shares his weekend of deep reflection on the human toll of the fraud, revealing that Prudence Calabrese has resigned from the Farsight Institute and that Brown has posted a public statement refusing to release any physical evidence or name the astronomer who supplied the fraudulent image.Callers debate whether Brown was a willing participant or a victim of disinformation designed to discredit remote viewing. Art reaffirms that while the photograph is undeniably fraudulent, other unexplained images of a Hale-Bopp companion still exist and the comet itself remains real. He also floats an ambitious proposal for micro-broadcasting, suggesting the FCC create new AM and FM bands where citizens could operate low-power neighborhood stations without heavy regulation, sparking a new industry of transmitters, receivers, and grassroots media.The episode captures a pivotal moment in the show's history, with Art candidly discussing the power and responsibility of mass media broadcasting. He concludes that honesty at every juncture is the only protection against the inevitable controversies that come with exploring the unknown.

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January 21, 1997: Open Lines

Jan 213h 15m

Art Bell continues open lines with callers still processing the Courtney Brown Hale-Bopp controversy while branching into a wide range of topics. A caller from Mission Viejo announces plans to purchase Steven Gibbs' time machine and test it on video near a Sedona grid point. Another caller phones in claiming to be from 1998, reporting that the time machine works and that Art's ratings go up. The time travel segment from the previous week clearly captured the audience's imagination, and Art declares he will pursue anyone else building a time machine.The conversation shifts as callers share earthquake reports from Northern California, Colorado, and the Pahrump Valley. A woman from Illinois describes recurring visions of a catastrophic New Madrid fault event, pinpointing July 10th and October 7th of 1997 as dates of major tremors. Art also discusses Gulf War syndrome survey results showing alarmingly high rates of symptom transmission to veterans' spouses and children, suggesting the illness may be contagious rather than stress-related.Throughout the night, Art reflects on the quickening, his term for the accelerating convergence of social decay, earth changes, political dysfunction, and ecological disruption heading toward some unknown resolution. A Canadian caller confirms that people across the political spectrum sense something is coming.

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January 22, 1997: Ham Radio & Other Topics - Wayne Green

Jan 223h 23mWayne Green

Wayne Green, legendary publisher of 73 Magazine and lifelong ham radio operator, joins Art Bell for a wide-ranging conversation that spans decades of adventure and unconventional thinking. From his World War II submarine service to his views on the decline of amateur radio, Green brings a rebellious spirit to every topic he touches.The discussion moves from ham radio's uncertain future and the rise of the Internet to Green's passionate advocacy for cold fusion research, colloidal silver, and a bioelectric blood purification device he claims has produced hundreds of positive anecdotal reports. Green also shares his controversial theories on education reform, entrepreneurship, and a firsthand account connecting Amelia Earhart to a secret spy mission over Japanese naval installations at Truk Island, sourced from her own airplane mechanic.Art and Wayne find common ground as fellow hams mourning the hobby's fading relevance while celebrating its legacy of producing generations of engineers and scientists. Green's irrepressible curiosity and willingness to challenge scientific orthodoxy make this a spirited exploration of ideas most would consider far ahead of their time.

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January 23, 1997: Hemp & Marijuana Advocate - Chris Conrad

Jan 232h 33mChris Conrad

Chris Conrad, founder of the Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp and an acknowledged expert on cannabis policy, joins Art Bell to separate fact from myth surrounding marijuana and industrial hemp. Conrad traces the history of hemp prohibition back to 1937, revealing how corporate interests from DuPont and the Hearst newspaper empire conspired to outlaw a crop that once formed the backbone of American agriculture.The conversation examines hemp's staggering industrial potential, from paper production that could save 240 trees per cultivated acre over four years to biomass fuel that could reduce dependence on foreign oil. Conrad also addresses the medical marijuana debate head-on, detailing how California's Proposition 215 passed with 4.8 million votes despite opposition from the federal drug czar, and why the synthetic THC pill Marinol falls short of the natural plant's 60 medically active compounds.Art challenges Conrad on the real downsides of marijuana use while highlighting a critical point about drug education. When authorities equate cannabis with hard drugs, young people who discover the lie may lose trust in all warnings, potentially opening the door to genuinely dangerous substances.

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January 24, 1997: Non-Lethal Weapons - Col. John Alexander

Jan 242h 46mColonel John Alexander

Col. John Alexander, widely known as the father of non-lethal weapons, joins Art Bell from Las Vegas to discuss the emerging field of warfare designed to incapacitate rather than kill. Alexander, a retired Army colonel who rose from private to full colonel across a career spanning Special Forces command in Vietnam, Los Alamos National Laboratory research, and NATO advisory roles, explains how technologies from rubber bullets to electromagnetic pulse systems are reshaping military strategy.Alexander describes how laser targeting was used effectively against snipers in Somalia, how psychological operations led to mass surrenders in Desert Storm, and why the United States remains dangerously vulnerable to information warfare attacks on its own financial and communications infrastructure. He candidly assesses the limitations of directed energy weapons through the atmosphere while confirming that lateral laser strikes against ICBMs from space have already been demonstrated.The discussion takes unexpected turns into remote viewing, psychokinesis witnessed by senior military officers, and Alexander's involvement with the Council on Foreign Relations. His assessment that terrorism will increasingly target America's technology-dependent society carries a chilling prescience that resonates well beyond 1997.

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January 27, 1997: Open Lines

Jan 272h 46m

Art Bell opens the lines on a night dominated by a remarkable discovery: a long-lost 1907 medical study by Dr. Duncan MacDougall documenting measurable weight loss at the precise instant of human death. Art reads portions of the study aloud, detailing how patients on precision beam scales lost three-quarters of an ounce instantaneously upon dying, with all other explanations methodically ruled out. The study found no such weight change in 70 dogs at the moment of death.The first hour features Timothy O'Reilly discussing his documentary Round Trip, which profiles five people who experienced clinical death and returned with strikingly similar accounts of unconditional love, transparency of form, and a complete absence of fear. Their experiences transcended religious boundaries, with none finding deeper meaning in organized religion afterward. Art connects O'Reilly's work to the MacDougall study as potential evidence for the existence of the soul.Callers weigh in on a mysterious metallic sphere recovered in Seguin, Texas, a bright flash tracked on radar over Kansas and Nebraska, the missing Telstar 401 satellite that vanished from orbit near an unidentified object, and the looming return of Hong Kong to China. The evening captures Art at his most animated, electrified by a piece of lost science finally rediscovered.

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January 28, 1997: Three Mile Island Disaster - Scott Portzline

Jan 282h 37mScott Portzline

Scott Portzline, a researcher who spent 13 years investigating the Three Mile Island nuclear incident and reviewed over 30,000 pages of documents, joins Art Bell to present evidence suggesting the 1979 disaster may not have been an accident. Portzline details how emergency feedwater valves were found inexplicably closed, critical paperwork went missing, and a local cult had warned members to leave Harrisburg before April 1979, with a newspaper editorial specifically urging Three Mile Island to increase security.The technical chronology of the disaster reveals how close Pennsylvania came to catastrophe. Fuel melted twice inside the reactor, temperatures exceeded 5,000 degrees, and the Rogovin Commission concluded the state was within 30 minutes of a release that could have killed 130,000 people and rendered an area the size of Pennsylvania uninhabitable. Portzline describes how the FBI opened and then denied a sabotage investigation within 24 hours.The conversation shifts to present-day vulnerabilities at nuclear plants nationwide, including vehicle barriers that remain open half the day, spent fuel pools accessible to truck bombs, and 149 of 150 known sabotage incidents committed by insiders. Portzline's testimony before Congress and the NRC exposed security gaps that remain deeply unsettling nearly two decades after the original disaster.

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January 30, 1997: Remote Viewing - Ed Dames

Jan 303h 23mEd Dames

Major Ed Dames, former military intelligence officer and head of PSI Tech, returns to discuss the frontiers of technical remote viewing, including his company's startling findings on Telstar 401 and the alien autopsy hoax. Dames reveals plans to release a home study course that would bring remote viewing skills to the general public for the first time, a move he acknowledges will eventually put his own company out of business.The conversation takes a dark turn when Dames presents his most alarming prediction yet. He describes a cylindrical structure attached to Comet Hale-Bopp containing engineered plant pathogens that, once released into Earth's atmosphere, will systematically destroy all terrestrial plant life beginning in equatorial Africa. He projects a global economic collapse by mid-1998 driven by catastrophic food shortages, with an estimated 80 to 85 percent reduction in the world's population over several years.Art Bell presses Dames on the Courtney Brown controversy, the ethics of remote viewing, and the spiritual implications of what Dames calls the discontinuity, a future event where all timelines appear to shift simultaneously. The episode captures a pivotal moment in 1990s paranormal culture, blending classified military history with apocalyptic prophecy.

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February 3, 1997: Crime Scene Investigation - Alexander Jason

Feb 32h 46mAlexander Jason

Alexander Jason, a certified senior crime scene analyst and former San Francisco police detective, joins Art Bell for an in-depth exploration of firearms, self-defense law, and the realities of deadly force in America. With over 100 million guns in American homes, Jason breaks down when citizens can and cannot legally use a firearm, dispelling dangerous myths perpetuated by Hollywood and gun store folklore.Through vivid real-world cases, Jason illustrates how good intentions can lead to criminal charges. A convenience store owner who chased down a shoplifter with a gun ended up convicted of kidnapping and manslaughter. Jason explains that the central legal principle is simple but widely misunderstood: deadly force is justified only when your life or someone else's life faces imminent threat, and it must be a last resort. He also details what to say and what not to say when police arrive at a shooting scene.The discussion ranges from carjacking scenarios and concealed carry permits to the O.J. Simpson civil trial verdict, which had just been handed down. Jason offers his forensic perspective on the case while sharing interviews with imprisoned burglars who admitted their greatest fear was an armed homeowner.

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February 4, 1997: Open Lines

Feb 43h 33m

Art Bell opens the phone lines on the night the O.J. Simpson civil trial verdict arrives, as a jury unanimously finds Simpson liable for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, ordering $8.5 million in compensatory damages. Art questions whether a monetary judgment truly constitutes justice for two murders, and callers from across the country weigh in with reactions ranging from relief to frustration.The evening takes an unexpected turn when Art puts his mother, Jane Bell, on the air for an extended segment. Listeners quiz Ma Bell about her son's childhood mischief, including his habit of electrifying doorknobs, blowing things up with fireworks, and once escaping his crib to wander the neighborhood naked at age two. She reveals that Art's fascination with the unknown runs in the family and traces his radio career back to ham radio at age twelve.Between family stories and Simpson commentary, Art shares a bizarre report from Wilmington, California, where UFO sightings were allegedly followed by a 1950s vintage automobile falling from the sky. He also replays a revealing 30-minute interview with presidential candidate Steve Forbes on flat tax reform and the future of Social Security.

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February 11, 1997: Mysterious Infections - Joyce Murphy

Feb 113h 25mJoyce Murphy

Joyce Murphy, president of Beyond Boundaries UFO research newsletter, joins Art Bell to investigate a disturbing incident in Jasper, Arkansas, where 45 elementary school children collapsed on a playground with severe headaches, rashes, breathing difficulties, and fatigue. Seven students were hospitalized in intensive care, and emergency workers who treated the children also fell ill, as did hospital laundry workers who handled their contaminated clothing two days later.A caller from Jasper confirms the essential details, reporting that an unknown compound was detected in the children's blood and urine samples but officials claim they cannot identify it. The school was temporarily closed, and a state health department meeting left parents with no answers, only assurances that the threat had passed. Art reads from U.S. Code Title 50, which permits the Department of Defense to conduct chemical and biological testing on human subjects with minimal oversight, raising uncomfortable questions about what really occurred.A self-described military-connected caller phones in to suggest the incident was part of a civilian control experiment, a claim that infuriates Art. The episode also features Murphy discussing her UFO expeditions to Mexico, where she has filmed anomalous craft near the active Popocatepetl volcano, and reports of the chupacabra appearing in the California high desert.

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February 12, 1997: Asteroids & Global Warming - Whitley Strieber

Feb 122h 42mWhitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber, bestselling author of Communion and The Secret School, joins Art Bell for a sweeping discussion of two existential threats converging on humanity: asteroid impacts and the accelerating collapse of Antarctic ice. Strieber details how near-Earth objects have gone from a non-threat in 1992 to a weekly concern, citing the 1996 passage of asteroid JA-1, an object large enough to end civilization, discovered only four days before it narrowly missed Earth.The conversation shifts to the Larson Ice Shelf, which leading glaciologists predict will completely disintegrate within two years. Strieber explains how the resulting freshwater dilution of the Antarctic Ocean could alter the Gulf Stream and transform northern Europe's climate into something resembling Greenland within decades. He connects this to a mysterious catastrophic event 12,000 years ago that flash-froze mammoths with food still in their mouths, suggesting Earth may be approaching a similar inflection point.Art and Whitley engage in a memorable thought experiment about how humanity would behave given advance warning of a planet-killing asteroid, from credit card companies to Las Vegas casinos. The discussion weaves together ancient prophecy, the Fatima letter, population pressures, and the possibility that the zodiac itself may be a calendar warning of cyclical catastrophe.

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February 21, 1997: Contact & Disclosure - Steven M. Greer | Mel's Hole - Mel Waters

Feb 212h 50mDr. Steven M. Greer, Mel Waters

Dr. Steven M. Greer, emergency physician and founder of CSETI, joins Art Bell to unveil his ambitious Project Starlight Initiative, a plan to bring together dozens of government, military, and intelligence witnesses for a definitive public disclosure on extraterrestrial intelligence. Greer reveals he has assembled roughly 70 to 80 firsthand witnesses willing to testify under oath before Congress, including individuals who have worked on retrieval operations, tracked craft on radar, and encountered extraterrestrial technologies in classified facilities. He describes briefings with senior CIA officials, members of Congress, and White House staff, while detailing efforts by covert programs to suppress disclosure through the United Nations.The conversation shifts when Art reads a stunning listener fax from a man named Mel Waters in rural eastern Washington, who describes a mysterious hole on his property near Manastash Ridge. The hole measures nine feet across, has never filled despite decades of dumped trash, and has swallowed 80,000 feet of fishing line without reaching bottom. Dogs refuse to approach it, birds avoid it, and nothing tossed inside produces an echo or impact sound.This landmark episode introduces two of the most enduring mysteries in the show's history. Greer's disclosure crusade would reshape the UFO conversation for decades, while Mel's Hole instantly captivated listeners and became one of Art Bell's most legendary segments.

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February 24, 1997: Flying Sickness - Diana Fairchild | Mel's Hole Update - Mel Waters

Feb 242h 47mDiana Fairchild, Mel Waters

Diana Fairchild, a retired flight attendant with 21 years and 10 million miles of service for Pan Am and United Airlines, reveals the hidden health hazards of commercial air travel. She explains how airlines reduce fresh air circulation to save roughly $80 per hour on fuel costs, leaving passengers breathing recycled air with dangerously low oxygen and humidity levels drier than the Sahara Desert. Fairchild discloses that pilots breathe separate, higher quality air, receive up to ten times more ventilation than economy passengers, and are still permitted to smoke in the cockpit on certain carriers.Art Bell, still recovering from severe illness contracted on a recent flight, presses Fairchild on practical defenses. She recommends passengers request full utilization of air from the cockpit and demand portable oxygen bottles, which airlines are required to provide free of charge in flight. She also reveals that several countries spray pesticide directly on passengers before landing, a practice she blames for her own debilitating chemical sensitivity illness.The episode concludes with a dramatic Mel's Hole update. Mel Waters returns to describe finding his property blockaded by armed military personnel claiming a plane crash, a non-uniformed man warning him the land might not be his, and a neighbor's account of witnessing a beam of solid black light shooting skyward from the uncovered hole.

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February 25, 1997: Hong Kong - Emily Lau

Feb 252h 55mEmily Lau

Emily Lau, an elected member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council and outspoken pro-democracy advocate known as the Iron Lady of Hong Kong, speaks with Art Bell just months before the July 1997 handover to China. Lau describes the National People's Congress decision to repeal Hong Kong's civil liberties protections, including freedoms of demonstration, association, and assembly, and warns that all 26 pro-democracy legislators will be thrown out of office when China's handpicked provisional legislature takes power.Lau paints a sobering picture of mounting self-censorship across Hong Kong's press, business community, and academia. She recounts her own arrest by Hong Kong police during a peaceful demonstration in December 1996, and acknowledges she is likely a marked person facing dire consequences for continuing to speak out. Despite this, she refuses to be silenced. She challenges the Clinton administration's prioritization of trade over human rights, calling American diplomatic support little more than lip service.Art Bell draws parallels between Hong Kong's complacency and American civic apathy, asking listeners to consider what happens when freedoms are taken gradually rather than all at once. Lau's courage and candor make this a rare and powerful episode of geopolitical journalism, capturing a historic moment as one of the world's most vibrant cities faced an uncertain future.

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February 26, 1997: Project S.T.R.A.T. UFO's - John Shepherd | Mel's Hole Update

Feb 263h 27mJohn Shepherd, Mel Waters

John Shepherd, a self-taught electronics enthusiast from rural Michigan, has spent his entire adult life converting his grandparents' home into a massive ultra-low-frequency transmitter designed to attract UFOs. Art Bell walks listeners through astonishing photographs on his website showing an 18-foot-tall resonator array, high-voltage coupling stations reaching 150,000 volts, and rooms overtaken by floor-to-ceiling racks of hand-built equipment. Shepherd explains he chose extremely low frequencies after observing that UFOs are drawn to 60-hertz power lines, and he broadcasts music and tonal sequences at up to 1,000 watts in the 40-hertz range.Shepherd recounts the childhood sighting that set him on this path, his grandmother's willing investment of her life savings into the project, and early experiments that appeared to attract unexplained aerial objects. He describes building custom capacitor banks from glass plates and hand-wound magnetic coils, blowing up equipment in spectacular high-voltage failures, and the constant struggle to fund his obsession.The episode opens with a stunning final fax from Mel Waters announcing he has leased his property to an unnamed party in exchange for monthly payments, immigration funds for Australia, and the promise that his remains will someday be disposed of in the hole. Art reads the farewell message as Mel's Hole passes into what Mel himself calls urban mythology.

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February 27, 1997: Open Lines

Feb 273h 39m

Art Bell opens the night by teasing tomorrow's guest on cloning, a Loyola University professor who is simultaneously a geneticist, Jesuit priest, and bioethicist. He dives into a flood of strange news, including over 50 UFO encounters across Australia since February 1st, a captured chupacabra near San Antonio with video footage on the way, and a sheep in Spain found with a fully jointed leg growing from its head.Callers range across wildly diverse territory. A Gulf War veteran from Maine reveals he was told never to give blood again after service and has spent five years unable to obtain his medical records. A Seattle caller describes her roommate's uncanny ability to predict earthquakes weeks in advance. Art reads a Washington Post article on scientists discovering that intuition plays a measurable role in decision-making. A Peoria listener reports severe Illinois River flooding while another recounts a ghost encounter complete with an audible boo.Art addresses the persistent internet rumor of his own death, fielding panicked calls from affiliates and reading bewildered emails from fans. He caps the night with an audience game, asking listeners to finish the sentence "If I were a dictator, I would..." with answers ranging from eliminating animal cruelty to commanding an army of chupacabras.

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February 28, 1997: The Implications of Cloning - Dr. Kevin FitzGerald

Feb 282h 55mDr. Kevin Fitzgerald

Dr. Kevin FitzGerald of Loyola University, a geneticist, Jesuit priest, and bioethicist, joins Art Bell to dissect the stunning news of Dolly the cloned sheep and what it means for the future of humanity. His rare combination of disciplines makes him uniquely suited to address the science, ethics, and theology colliding in this breakthrough moment.The conversation dives deep into the mechanics of cloning, from the mammary cell technique used at the Roslyn Institute to the prospect of growing replacement organs and its unsettling implications. FitzGerald explains why cloning armies would be genetically vulnerable, how cancer cells hold paradoxical clues to immortality, and why insurance companies gaining access to genetic data poses a serious societal threat. Art pushes hard on whether a clone would possess a soul, drawing FitzGerald into profound territory.This episode captures a pivotal moment in scientific history as the world grapples with a discovery Art compares to splitting the atom. FitzGerald brings measured wisdom to a debate already spiraling into panic, offering listeners both intellectual grounding and spiritual perspective on the dawn of genetic manipulation.

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March 4, 1997: Open Lines

Mar 43h 30m

Art Bell opens the phone lines on a night thick with strange news, from catastrophic flooding along the Ohio River and deadly tornadoes in Arkansas to the doubling of pre-teen marijuana use in America. He muses on what is driving so many people, especially the young, toward escape through drugs, pointing to a loss of national purpose and the erosion of innocence as possible culprits.Callers deliver a wild range of stories. A man in San Diego claims a meteorite cracked the bottom of his swimming pool and offers to trade it for a Tickle Me Elmo doll. A long-haul trucker describes stretches of Interstate 94 where time seems to compress, covering 25 miles while a single song plays. A woman from Jacksonville describes her voluntary encounter with extraterrestrial beings and the implant she has carried for 20 years. Meanwhile, Art urges listeners to witness Comet Hale-Bopp, now blazing in the predawn sky.The episode is a quintessential open lines night, weaving together the absurd and the profound. Art navigates talk of cloning ethics, 666 conspiracies, Mel's Hole, and the speed of light encoded in the Bible with his signature mix of skepticism and genuine curiosity.

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March 6, 1997: Deadly Pathogens & Solar Rays - Ed Dames

Mar 62h 43mEd Dames

Major Ed Dames of PsyTech returns with remote viewing results on two fronts: the disappearance of Iron Butterfly bassist Philip Taylor Kramer, and a chilling prediction about a plant pathogen heading toward Earth. Joined first by Kramer's sister Kathy, Dames delivers the grim conclusion that her brother was murdered, shot in his own vehicle by people he knew, with his body transported to a burial site near a small river in Montana.After the Kramer segment, Dames expands on his forecast of ecological collapse. He describes a cylindrical object that has detached from Comet Hale-Bopp and is heading toward Earth, carrying a pathogen that will begin killing plant life starting in Africa by summer 1998. He predicts cascading food shortages, economic collapse, and widespread disease. As a survival measure, his team has identified chlorella, a green algae, as the food source that future survivors will depend on. He also addresses James Randi's million-dollar challenge, accepting it and proposing the program as a forum for terms.This episode is classic Ed Dames, blending actionable remote viewing casework with sweeping apocalyptic predictions. Art presses him on timelines, mechanisms, and credibility, giving listeners a thorough examination of both the promise and the controversy surrounding technical remote viewing.

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March 7, 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp - Alan Hale

Mar 71h 50mDr. Alan Hale

Dr. Alan Hale, co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp, joins Art Bell for an in-depth conversation about the most spectacular comet in a generation. Hale recounts the July 1995 night he spotted a fuzzy object near a star cluster in Sagittarius, the rush to confirm it was not a cataloged object, and the moment he knew he had found a comet. He and Tom Bopp discovered it within minutes of each other, though Hale's proximity to his home computer gave him the edge in reporting first.The discussion covers the comet's unprecedented brightness at great distance, its carbon monoxide-driven outgassing, the dual tail structure of ionized gas and dust particles, and Hale's forecast that peak viewing will come in early to mid-April. Art asks pointed questions about the Chuck Shramek companion object controversy, which Hale dispatches as a bright overexposed star with diffraction artifacts. They also explore near-Earth asteroid threats, the Cretaceous extinction impact, and the disappointing retreat from manned space exploration since Apollo.Hale brings scientific rigor and genuine enthusiasm to a subject swirling with conspiracy and myth. His firsthand account of discovery, combined with accessible explanations of cometary physics, makes this an essential episode for anyone watching the once-in-a-lifetime visitor blazing across the predawn sky.

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March 11, 1997: Time Travel - Fred Bell

Mar 113h 25mDr. Fred Bell

Dr. Fred Bell, a former NASA spacecraft checkout engineer and physicist, joins Art Bell to discuss time travel, the Philadelphia Experiment, and exotic propulsion technologies. Bell describes building an octahedral time machine in his Laguna Beach backyard, a 20-foot structure using Wimhurst-style electrostatic generators, capacitor arrays creating Bifield-Brown effects, a caduceus cancel coil, and a high-powered laser, all aimed at warping local spacetime through field collapse.Bell claims his device achieved brief forward displacement in time, during which he observed a car's headlight photons as discrete speckled points rather than a continuous beam. A deeper activation produced total blackness outside the porthole, which he interprets as confirmation that no physical future exists until consciousness creates it. He connects his work to the Philadelphia Experiment, describing his involvement at the University of Michigan's Randolph Laboratory in the 1950s where researchers used billion-electron-volt power supplies to vaporize coil arrangements in sealed rooms.The conversation ranges from human aura fields and endocrine gland consciousness to Element 115 propulsion, Pleiadian contact, and the Great Pyramid's true age. Art oscillates between fascination and skepticism, ultimately unable to fully categorize his guest. Bell emerges as equal parts rocket scientist and mystic, a compelling figure operating at the far edge of experimental physics.

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March 13, 1997: Phoenix Lights - Peter Davenport | UFO's - Sean David Morton

Mar 133h 6mPeter Davenport, Sean David Morton

Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center joins Art Bell with a breaking report on one of the most significant UFO events in American history. Dozens of witnesses across Arizona are calling in frantic accounts of massive formations of lights traversing the sky from Paulden to Prescott to Phoenix, covering over a hundred miles in mere minutes. Military jets from Luke Air Force Base reportedly pursued the objects before they vanished.Sean David Morton follows with an examination of stunning new UFO photographs from a Pleiadian contactee in Miami named Audrain, whose images rival the famous Billy Meyer case. Morton details the contactee's extraordinary claims about his relationship with tall Nordic beings and shares insights from his recent expedition to Egypt's Giza Plateau, where he investigated rumors about hidden chambers beneath the Sphinx and debunks several widely circulated conspiracy theories about scheduled openings.The episode captures a pivotal night in UFO history as real sightings unfold during the broadcast itself. Art navigates between hard evidence and fantastic claims, pressing Morton on prophecy, earth changes, and the potential for a coming global shift in consciousness around the turn of the millennium.

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March 14, 1997: Phoenix Lights

Mar 143m

Art Bell devotes the program to the extraordinary Phoenix Lights event that unfolded just hours earlier on March 13, 1997. Thousands of Arizona residents witnessed a massive formation of lights traversing the state, and the phone lines are flooded with firsthand accounts from stunned observers across the Phoenix metropolitan area and beyond.A remarkable piece of audio dominates the broadcast. A recording purportedly from a military source at Luke Air Force Base describes F-15 fighter jets scrambled to intercept the unknown craft. The source details how pilots observed five distinct lights in a triangular pattern descending near Sky Harbor Airport, encountering commercial aircraft in the flight path. The witness describes gun camera footage captured by shaken pilots, radar returns replaced by white noise, and a complete base lockdown following the encounter.Callers share vivid descriptions of the objects, from enormous silent triangles blocking out the stars to shimmering formations that moved in perfect unison. The episode serves as a real-time historical document of one of the most witnessed UFO events in American history, recorded while the experience was still raw and unfiltered.

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March 19, 1997: NASA's New Face - Richard C. Hoagland

Mar 193h 30mRichard C. Hoagland

Richard C. Hoagland returns to discuss what he sees as NASA's deliberate suppression of space imagery, the deteriorating state of the Mir space station, and a startling claim that Comet Hale-Bopp may have been intentionally sent to Earth. The conversation opens with a detailed examination of environmental crises including ozone depletion and Hoagland's proposal to deploy sun-pumped ultraviolet lasers in orbit to repair the damage.Hoagland presents evidence that NASA is deliberately degrading Galileo images of Jupiter's moons through lossy JPEG compression, preventing independent analysis. He connects this to a broader pattern of concealment stretching back to the Viking missions and the Face on Mars. A mysterious personal story involving stolen NASA materials recovered by practitioners of lunar magic rituals leads Hoagland toward secret societies as the hidden hand behind space program secrecy.The discussion builds toward Hoagland's most provocative assertion, that Hale-Bopp's orbital characteristics suggest deliberate placement rather than random cosmic chance. He ties together Finnish anti-gravity experiments, shuttle video anomalies, and the concept of a trans-governmental group operating advanced technology far beyond what the public has been shown.

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March 20, 1997: The Philadelphia Experiment - Al Bielek

Mar 202h 2mAl Bielek

Al Bielek, self-described survivor of the Philadelphia Experiment, delivers a meticulous technical account of the Navy's alleged 1943 attempt to render the USS Eldridge invisible. Beginning with the project's origins in 1931 under Nikola Tesla, Bielek details the interplay of rotating RF fields at 160 megahertz, pulsed magnetic fields driven by massive alternators, and their interaction with gravity and time fields.Bielek describes a successful 1940 test on a small tender at Brooklyn Navy Yard that achieved full optical invisibility, then traces Tesla's departure after he sabotaged a battleship test to protect the crew from lethal biological effects. Under John von Neumann's direction, the project shifted to pulsed systems with dramatically increased power. The August 12, 1943 test produced catastrophic results, with sailors fused into the ship's steel decking and the vessel allegedly displaced through time.The account reaches its most extraordinary claim when Bielek describes jumping overboard with his brother Duncan and landing at Montauk, Long Island in 1983, where an aged von Neumann tasked them with returning to destroy the equipment. At 70 years old, Bielek presents himself as one of the last living witnesses to an experiment that merged physics with nightmare.

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March 21, 1997: Earth Changes - Lori Toye

Mar 212h 54mLori Toye

Lori Toye, creator of the prophetic I Am America map, shares visions received from Ascended Masters that depict catastrophic transformation of North America. A former farm wife and advertising saleswoman, Toye describes how a 1983 visitation from Master St. Germain launched her on a path from single mother of three to reluctant prophet, eventually selling her home to fund publication of her now-famous map.The prophecies unfold in devastating sequence. An asteroid strikes the Nevada desert, triggering the Ring of Fire and years of volcanic ash and rain. The polar ice caps melt, destabilizing Earth's rotation. California sinks beneath the waves, the East Coast is battered into islands by hurricane winds, and the Great Lakes merge into one enormous body of water. Five protected Golden City Vortex areas in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois-Indiana, Georgia-South Carolina, and Montana-Idaho are identified as zones of spiritual acceleration and survival.Art Bell draws striking parallels between Toye's visions and those of Edgar Cayce, Hopi elders, and military remote viewers. Broadcasting as Comet Hale-Bopp blazes overhead on the eve of a lunar eclipse, the conversation captures a moment when ancient prophecy, modern observation, and growing unease about the planet's trajectory converge with unsettling clarity.

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March 24, 1997: The Terra Papers - Robert Morning Sky

Mar 243h 17mRobert Morning Sky

Robert Morning Sky, a Hopi and Apache researcher, joins Art Bell to unveil his decades-long investigation into what he calls the hidden history of Planet Earth. Morning Sky explains how his college research into the world's oldest religions led him to a common origin story connecting ancient Egypt, Native American traditions, and biblical prophecy, all converging on the appearance of Comet Hale-Bopp.The conversation dives deep into Hopi prophecy surrounding the Nangasohu, or Chasing Star Kachina, which Morning Sky controversially renamed the Blue Star Kachina. He reveals that the comet's rare dual blue and white tails may fulfill twin prophecies, and predicts a seven-year timeline before the arrival of a purifier who will judge humanity. Morning Sky also draws a provocative connection between crop circles and ancient petroglyphs, suggesting they contain survival instructions from returning star ancestors.This episode captures the peak of Hale-Bopp fever in 1997, blending indigenous cosmology with astronomical observation in a way that remains deeply compelling. Morning Sky's willingness to challenge both mainstream science and the UFO speaking circuit makes for an unforgettable evening of prophecy and revelation.

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March 25, 1997: Remote Viewing Program: Stargate - Lyn Buchanan, Paul H. Smith, & Joseph McMoneagle

Mar 252h 55mLyn Buchanan, Paul H. Smith, Joseph McMoneagle

Three former operatives from the U.S. military's classified Project Stargate gather for a rare joint appearance to discuss their experiences as government remote viewers. Lyn Buchanan, Paul H. Smith, and Joseph McMoneagle each served in the program during its two-decade run, and they describe the protocols, accuracy rates, and real-world intelligence applications of psychic espionage.The three men detail how remote viewing was used to profile Saddam Hussein's plans and intentions, discuss the controversial topic of remote influencing, and explain why the CIA's 1995 report declaring the program a failure was based on a review of less than five percent of the actual case files. They also address the contentious figure of Ed Dames, alleging he disclosed classified information and exaggerated his role. Among the most striking moments, Buchanan recounts remote viewing Jesus Christ during a session and describes the encounter as life-changing.Art Bell presses all three on whether aliens exist, whether the government truly shut down psychic operations, and whether remote viewing can pierce the veil of time. Their carefully worded answers suggest far more remains hidden than has ever been revealed.

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April 4, 1997: Exorcism - Father Malachi Martin

Apr 43h 9mFather Malachi Martin

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 terrifying reality of confronting demonic entities face to face.Martin reveals that the need for exorcisms in America has increased by 800 percent since 1970, driven in part by a new phenomenon of young professionals who deliberately made pacts with dark forces in exchange for career success. He recounts a year-and-a-half exorcism involving a powerful demon whose function was the desecration of human love, describing how exorcists probe for weaknesses while the entity probes theirs. Martin explains that losing an exorcism destroys the priest permanently, and admits he possesses a second sight that allows him to sense demonic presence in ordinary people on the street.The conversation extends into the crisis of faith within the Catholic Church, the nature of the soul, and Martin's cryptic warning to watch the skies for an abnormal sign that spring. His calm authority transforms every revelation into something genuinely unsettling.

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April 7, 1997: & the Waters Turned to Blood - Rodney Barker

Apr 71h 52mRodney Barker

Investigative author Rodney Barker joins Art Bell to discuss his alarming book about Pfiesteria piscicida, a shape-shifting microorganism discovered in the coastal waters of North Carolina that has killed tens of millions of fish and poses a growing threat to human health. Barker details how aquatic botanist Dr. JoAnn Burkholder identified this ancient organism, dormant for possibly millions of years in river sediment, now activated by agricultural runoff and industrial pollution.The organism releases a powerful neurotoxin that becomes airborne, causing open sores, cognitive impairment, immune suppression, and memory loss in exposed humans. In laboratory experiments, it was observed swarming around human blood cells and consuming their contents. Barker reveals that 110 North Carolina physicians wrote to Vice President Gore pleading for federal intervention, while state bureaucrats continued to downplay the crisis to protect the tourism and fishing industries.Callers from North Carolina and surrounding states confirm encounters with mysterious fish kills, unexplained illness, and official silence. Art Bell connects the ecological disaster to the broader theme of environmental reckoning explored in his own book, The Quickening, painting a picture of a coastline in quiet crisis.

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April 8, 1997: Solar Flares - Richard C. Hoagland

Apr 838mRichard C. Hoagland

Richard C. Hoagland reports on a massive solar plasma ejection that occurred days earlier at 19.5 degrees south latitude on the sun's surface, a location he considers significant to his hyperdimensional physics model. Hoagland walks listeners through the science of solar activity, explaining how a blob of electrified hydrogen gas racing through space at thousands of miles per second is on a collision course with Earth's magnetosphere.The potential consequences range from spectacular aurora borealis visible as far south as New York to billions of dollars in satellite damage. Hoagland argues that NASA brought the shuttle home early under the false pretense of a fuel cell problem, claiming the agency secretly predicted the event using planetary geometry models derived from the work of RCA engineer John Nelson. He suggests the government cannot reveal its predictive capability without exposing the reality of hyperdimensional physics and its implications for free energy.The discussion also touches on a Time magazine article linking Art Bell to the Heaven's Gate tragedy, which Hoagland calls libelous. This episode captures the intersection of solar science, government secrecy, and Hoagland's relentless pursuit of what he believes mainstream institutions refuse to acknowledge.

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April 9, 1997: Europa Images - Richard C. Hoagland | Strange Universe - Whitley Strieber & Renee Barnett

Apr 91h 23mRichard C. Hoagland, Whitley Strieber, Renee Barnett

Richard C. Hoagland joins Art Bell to celebrate a rare moment of vindication as Ted Koppel's Nightline gives him long-overdue credit for predicting oceans on Jupiter's moon Europa 17 years earlier. Hoagland breaks down the stunning new Galileo images showing cracked ice fields, subsurface water, and volcanic potential that could harbor life.The show takes a dramatic turn when Strange Universe producer Renee Barnett reveals a smuggled videotape allegedly showing an alien being under interrogation at Area 51. Whitley Strieber, who viewed the footage firsthand, describes a disturbing scene of a large-eyed creature in visible distress while military personnel handle it with cold indifference. Strieber weighs both the compelling and suspect elements of the footage. The conversation then shifts to chilling reports of arson and threats targeting UFO witnesses preparing to testify in Washington, including retired pilot Guy Kirkwood.Art Bell navigates a sprawling evening that moves from planetary discovery to alleged extraterrestrial contact to the dangerous politics of disclosure, capturing a moment when the boundaries between science, secrecy, and the unknown felt razor thin.

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April 10, 1997: Reincarnation - Elizabeth Clare Prophet

Apr 102h 48mElizabeth Clare Prophet

Elizabeth Clare Prophet, mystic, author, and spiritual teacher, joins Art Bell for a rare and wide-ranging interview about reincarnation as Christianity's missing doctrine. Prophet recounts her childhood soul travel experience to ancient Egypt at age four, an awakening that set her on a lifelong mission to recover what she believes the early church deliberately stripped from the teachings of Jesus Christ.Prophet explains how the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. removed reincarnation to maintain control over believers, replacing personal spiritual accountability with the promise of instant absolution. She discusses karma, the violet flame of the Holy Spirit, and the role of Ascended Masters in guiding humanity through a pivotal transition between the Piscean and Aquarian Ages. The conversation also addresses the Heaven's Gate tragedy, with Prophet offering a striking perspective on why suicide traps souls rather than liberating them.Art challenges Prophet on cult accusations, weapons stockpiling, and her Montana community while listeners call in with personal questions about soulmates, spiritual growth, and the nature of the soul itself. Prophet emerges as a passionate advocate for individual spiritual empowerment over institutional religion.

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April 17, 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp - Richard C. Hoagland

Apr 173h 14mRichard C. Hoagland

Richard C. Hoagland returns with explosive claims spanning NASA's suspicious lockdown at Cheyenne Mountain, the mysterious disappearance of an A-10 attack aircraft in Colorado, and newly obtained shuttle footage from STS-80 that he says shows intelligently controlled objects performing maneuvers impossible under Newtonian physics. Hoagland describes objects that stop, reverse direction, and station-keep with the shuttle before accelerating away at extraordinary speeds.The conversation takes a provocative turn when Hoagland suggests the Heaven's Gate deaths may not have been voluntary suicides but a staged operation designed to poison public interest in extraterrestrial phenomena at a critical moment. He points to contradictions in the official narrative, the group's consistent belief in physical spacecraft pickup, and the political utility of the tragedy in discrediting serious UFO research. Hoagland also revisits the Old Navy store mystery, presenting new reports of fiber optic cable installations and communications equipment hidden above retail floors.Art Bell celebrates record-breaking ratings in Los Angeles and Chicago while navigating one of the most densely layered episodes in the archive. Hoagland weaves together secret societies, media manipulation, and suppressed space footage into a portrait of deliberate concealment at the highest levels.

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April 23, 1997: Nanotechnology - Charles Ostman

Apr 233h 18mCharles Ostman

Charles Ostman, senior fellow of the Foresight Institute and nanotechnology researcher, takes Art Bell on a breathtaking journey through the convergence of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and molecular engineering. Ostman describes a near future where sentient autonomous agents roam the Internet, experiential conveyance replaces passive media, and the boundary between human cognition and machine intelligence dissolves entirely.The discussion builds methodically from the Internet as a self-modifying organism to virtual environments capable of breaking through the human belief barrier. Ostman details experiments where subjects became so immersed in virtual worlds they needed recovery time upon disconnection. He warns that the same technology enabling spectacular educational breakthroughs could become a tool of unprecedented manipulation and control, creating a techno-elite class separated from the rest of humanity.When the conversation finally reaches nanotechnology itself, Ostman explains how molecular-scale assembly will allow engineers to design materials atom by atom, potentially solving superconductivity, curing all disease, reversing aging, and even contriving artificial gravity. Art presses him on the dangers, and Ostman frames the entire trajectory as an evolutionary test that civilizations across the universe either pass or fail.

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April 25, 1997: Sacred Amulets - Robert Ghost Wolf | Richard C. Hoagland

Apr 253h 27mRobert Ghost Wolf, Richard C. Hoagland

Richard C. Hoagland opens the program with stunning news that NASA has quietly ruled out sending a probe to Europa, just two weeks after celebrating its potential as the most likely harbor for extraterrestrial life. Hoagland calls it proof that the space program is politically rigged, urging listeners to flood ABC Nightline and CNN with faxes demanding answers about why the most promising discovery in decades simply did not make the cut.Native American researcher Robert Ghost Wolf then joins with a remarkable presentation of 10,000-year-old stone amulets recovered from a burial chamber inside an Illinois pyramid. The carved stones depict winged beings wearing helmets, figures that Ghost Wolf connects to petroglyphs found across North America, South America, and beyond. He describes the amulets as memory holders carrying healing energy, linking them to a vast network of pyramids and sacred sites spanning continents and millennia.Ghost Wolf weaves together Hopi, Mayan, Iroquois, and Navajo prophecies into a unified tapestry suggesting humanity has been visited before and is now approaching a threshold of transformation. The combination of NASA's suppression and ancient evidence of contact creates one of the archive's most compelling arguments that we are not, and have never been, alone.

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April 30, 1997: UFO Crashes - Kevin Randle & Renee Barnett

Apr 302h 18mKevin Randle, Renee Barnett

UFO researcher Kevin Randle and Strange Universe correspondent Renee Barnett join Art Bell to preview an upcoming TV special ranking the top ten UFO incidents of all time. Randle, an Army helicopter pilot turned Air Force intelligence officer, reveals that of roughly 125 documented crash reports dating back to 1886, only four stand as solid, credible cases.The conversation moves from the Kenneth Arnold sighting that launched modern ufology to the Roswell crash and its aftermath, including the military's deliberate suppression of sighting reports. Randle recounts testimony from Edwin Easley, the provost marshal at the 509th Bomb Group, who confirmed the craft was extraterrestrial but was sworn to secrecy. The discussion also touches on Art's mysterious bismuth-magnesium sample that no laboratory has been able to replicate, and the frustrating refusal of mainstream science to engage with physical evidence.Art and Randle explore why Jimmy Carter broke his promise to disclose UFO information, the inadequacy of every official government investigation from Blue Book to the Condon Committee, and the global nature of the phenomenon stretching from France to Mexico City. The episode paints a picture of a field struggling to achieve scientific legitimacy against entrenched institutional resistance.

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May 1, 1997: NASA - Ray Villard & Don Savage

May 12h 51mRay Villard, Don Savage

NASA public affairs officers Don Savage and Ray Villard appear on the program after the agency sends Art Bell a two-page letter defending its Hubble Space Telescope observations of Comet Hale-Bopp. The letter was prompted by listener faxes flooding NASA headquarters following claims by Richard C. Hoagland that Hubble images were being withheld or deliberately degraded.Art presses both men on Hubble's proprietary data policies, the decision not to risk the telescope for shadow-zone observations of the departing comet, and the controversial rejection of two Europa mission proposals despite NASA scientists publicly expressing excitement about possible oceans beneath its ice. Savage explains the Discovery program's competitive selection process while acknowledging the agency plans eight additional Galileo flybys of Europa. The conversation also covers the Brookings Report's relevance to modern disclosure policy, the face on Mars, and whether NASA would immediately reveal an extraordinary discovery.Both officials insist shuttle video feeds are transmitted without delay and that NASA operates with full transparency. The exchange provides a rare, extended opportunity for listeners to hear NASA directly address accusations of secrecy, data manipulation, and institutional reluctance to pursue evidence of extraterrestrial life.

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May 2, 1997: NASA - Richard C. Hoagland & Dr. Tom Van Flandern

May 23h 13mRichard C. Hoagland, Dr. Tom Van Flandern

Richard C. Hoagland and astronomer Dr. Tom Van Flandern return to respond point by point to the previous night's appearance by NASA officials. Van Flandern presents his exploded planet hypothesis, arguing that comets are not pristine dirty snowballs but fragments of a planet that detonated approximately 3.2 million years ago, a date strikingly close to the emergence of hominid species on Earth.Hoagland details his extensive survey of global observatory data on Comet Hale-Bopp, noting that the recent discovery of a sodium tail supports Van Flandern's model by suggesting the comet's water was once salty ocean water. The pair challenges NASA's claim that risking Hubble for shadow-zone observations was unjustified, arguing that the real risk was to the agency's decades-long commitment to the Whipple comet model. Hoagland also alleges that outside shuttle cameras carry a roughly one-minute video delay, contradicting what NASA officials stated the night before.The episode builds into a sweeping discussion connecting Europa mission politics, Cydonia on Mars, proprietary data policies, and the possibility that secret military programs already possess anti-gravity craft derived from recovered technology. Van Flandern and Hoagland present a unified case that NASA's institutional culture has become hostile to paradigm-shifting discoveries.

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May 4, 1997: The Tampa Triangle - Capt. Bill Miller

May 41h 29mCaptain Bill Miller

Captain Bill Miller, a U.S. Coast Guard licensed captain and author of Tampa Triangle Dead Zone, takes listeners on a journey through one of Florida's most paranormally active regions. The episode opens with sailor Robert Bodell recounting how he lost three days from his meticulous ship's log during a delivery trip from Tampa to Long Island, a case of missing time he has never been able to explain.Miller details the deadly four-mile stretch of Tampa Bay shipping channel where three major maritime disasters claimed over 58 lives, including the 1980 collision that sank the Coast Guard cutter Blackthorn and the 1980 freighter strike that toppled the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. He describes the ghost of a Greyhound bus that plunged from the broken bridge, still seen by fishermen in early morning fog with passengers staring forward and a woman in the last window waving mechanically. Other apparitions include a vanishing blonde hitchhiker on the rebuilt Skyway and a romantic ghost fisherman visible only to women.The conversation spans spontaneous human combustion, the scientifically unexplained immolation of Mary Harder Reeser in 1951, a sunken Nazi U-boat with tanned corpses preserved in petroleum fumes, chupacabra sightings near Tampa Bay, and a massive Virgin Mary apparition on a Clearwater glass building that drew over a million visitors.

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May 8, 1997: Disclosure - Steven M. Greer

May 81h 22mDr. Steven M. Greer

Dr. Steven M. Greer, founder of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, delivers a detailed account of the historic April 9th closed briefing he organized for nearly 30 congressional offices in Washington. Over a dozen military and intelligence witnesses with top-secret clearances presented firsthand testimony, and all signed statements agreeing to testify under oath before Congress with penalty of perjury.Greer reveals that an astronomer formerly associated with Harvard's observatory confirmed receiving approximately three dozen signals of apparent extraterrestrial origin through the beta system, signals ruled out as Earth-based, satellite, or naturally occurring. A former Space Command officer described tracking a massive metallic disc off the eastern seaboard in October 1981 that moved from Newfoundland to Norfolk in a single radar sweep. Perhaps most strikingly, Greer claims witnesses described alien reproduction vehicles, human-built craft using recovered extraterrestrial technology, demonstrated at a secret 1988 air show at Edwards Air Force Base.The conversation turns to the architecture of secrecy itself, from black budget funding that even Senate appropriations staff cannot penetrate to alleged threats against a UN Secretary General. Greer urges listeners to contact their representatives and calls on military witnesses to join a growing coalition of over 115 individuals prepared to force public disclosure of what he calls the most important issue in human history.

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May 9, 1997: Willie Nelson

May 92h 13mWillie Nelson

Country music legend Willie Nelson joins Art Bell for a wide-ranging late-night conversation from his tour bus in Atlantic City. Nelson reflects on his early days playing with a Bohemian polka band at age nine, the devastating $32 million IRS battle, and his tireless advocacy for American family farmers through Farm Aid.The discussion moves through the crisis facing small agriculture, with Nelson detailing how corporate interests and predatory lending have reduced family farms from eight million to fewer than two million. He makes an impassioned case for hemp legalization, explaining how petrochemical lobbyists engineered its prohibition to eliminate competition. Nelson also shares his views on reincarnation, his four marriages, life on the road, and what it takes to perform 200 shows a year.Callers from across the country phone in with personal stories about Nelson's concerts, his charitable prison performances, and his impact on their lives. From songwriting advice to his thoughts on world government, Nelson reveals himself as both a deeply philosophical thinker and a man who found freedom by simply letting go of expectations.

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May 12, 1997: Dark Skies - Bryce Zabel

May 1242mBryce Zabel

Television producer Bryce Zabel joins Art Bell on the night NBC officially cancels his critically acclaimed alien conspiracy series Dark Skies. Zabel explains how the show was undermined by a deadly Saturday night time slot, repeated multi-week preemptions, and the network's refusal to give the ambitious program time to build an audience despite strong international ratings, including a 21 share in Great Britain.Rather than accepting defeat, Zabel outlines a grassroots rescue plan powered by the internet. He urges fans to send physical letters to UPN, the Sci-Fi Channel, and other networks willing to pick up the series. Art immediately posts Zabel's open letter on his website, and the two discuss how the changing media landscape offers new possibilities for shows abandoned by major networks. Zabel reveals the five-year creative plan that would have traced the alien conspiracy from the 1960s through the millennium.The conversation becomes a broader meditation on fan power in the emerging digital age, drawing parallels to how Star Trek was saved by viewer campaigns decades earlier. Listeners flood the phone lines with support, demonstrating the passionate community Dark Skies had built.

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May 15, 1997: NASA Coverup - Richard C. Hoagland

May 152h 40mRichard C. Hoagland

Richard C. Hoagland returns to confront an Associated Press article by Harry Rosenthal that painted him as a fringe conspiracy theorist linked to the Heaven's Gate tragedy. Art Bell and Hoagland systematically dismantle the piece, revealing that Rosenthal specifically requested the most hostile faxes NASA could provide and refused to speak with scientist Tom Van Flandern about the actual science behind the Hale-Bopp imaging questions.A 20-year-old listener named Lindsay Tackett delivers a bombshell account of his half-hour phone conversation with Rosenthal, in which the reporter allegedly called astronaut Edgar Mitchell a nutcase, dismissed all of Hoagland's work as worthless, and admitted he printed only the most inflammatory correspondence. Tackett describes AP colleagues laughing in the background at the mention of decorated astronauts. Hoagland draws on his own experience inside CBS News to illustrate how producers and reporters routinely manage public perception rather than pursue truth.The episode evolves into a searing examination of journalistic integrity in America, with Art reading historical quotes from former New York Times chief John Swinton about the press being tools of wealthy interests. Listeners are urged to fax Rosenthal directly, not with vitriol, but with demands for fair reporting.

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May 16, 1997: Open Lines

May 162h 48m

Art Bell opens the Friday night phone lines with several tantalizing announcements, including a world-exclusive second photograph from the alleged Area 51 alien interrogation video and the upcoming interview with the mysterious Victor who claims to have smuggled the footage out. He also reports that AP reporter Harry Rosenthal became furious and trashed all listener faxes sent after the previous night's broadcast.The night takes a philosophical turn when Art describes a 2020 segment about a woman in her fifties who received a heart-lung transplant from a teenage boy and suddenly developed his cravings and even dreamt his name. Callers explore whether the soul might be distributed throughout the body's cells, with one listener citing rat experiments where injected blood transferred maze-running knowledge between animals. Art poses the provocative ethical question of whether organ transplants are morally acceptable if they transfer elements of identity.Other callers weigh in on President Clinton's Tuskegee apology and what atrocities future presidents might apologize for, Russian nuclear missiles automatically switching to combat mode, and a vivid UFO sighting over middle Tennessee. The evening captures Art Bell at his most curious, weaving science, philosophy, and the unexplained into a single sweeping broadcast.

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May 20, 1997: Pet Food - Ann N. Martin

May 202h 45mAnn N. Martin

Canadian author Ann N. Martin delivers a deeply disturbing investigation into the commercial pet food industry, revealing that euthanized dogs and cats from veterinary clinics and animal shelters are routinely sent to rendering plants where they are ground up, fur, tags, plastic bags, and lethal injection drugs included, and processed into pet food and livestock feed. Her seven years of research for the forthcoming book Food Pets Die For traces the journey of dead companion animals from London, Ontario, to rendering facilities in Quebec.Martin explains that veterinarians themselves were unaware their euthanized patients were being recycled rather than cremated. A former rendering plant worker calls in to confirm that cats and dogs went through with their fur intact, contradicting industry claims. The conversation turns to the terrifying parallel with Britain's mad cow disease crisis, where feeding cattle to cattle spawned a brain-wasting illness that jumped to humans. Martin notes that over 100 cats in England have already died from the feline variant.The broadcast provokes an overwhelming emotional response from listeners, many of whom are pet owners confronting the possibility that their beloved animals were unknowingly fed back into the very system that consumed their predecessors. Art urges the press to investigate the billion-dollar industry.

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May 21, 1997: The Phoenix Lights

May 212h 45mCouncilwoman Frances Barwood

Art Bell dives into one of the most extraordinary mass UFO sightings in American history as Phoenix City Councilwoman Frances Barwood joins the program to discuss the mysterious lights that appeared over the Phoenix metropolitan area on March 13, 1997. Barwood, who dared to formally request a city investigation into the event, found herself ridiculed by the mayor's office, mocked by the state attorney general, and stonewalled by Luke Air Force Base, all for simply asking what flew over a valley of two million people.Callers from across the Phoenix area flood the phone lines with remarkably consistent eyewitness accounts. They describe a massive, silent, V-shaped or boomerang formation of lights attached to a single enormous craft, estimated at up to a mile wide, gliding at extremely low altitude. Witnesses include a 27-year pilot, families at a putt-putt course, and residents who watched it pass directly over Sky Harbor Airport, yet air traffic controllers reported nothing on radar despite seeing it visually.The episode captures a pivotal moment in UFO history, revealing how one elected official's simple question exposed a deep institutional reluctance to acknowledge what thousands of citizens witnessed with their own eyes.

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May 22, 1997: Time Wave Zero - Terence McKenna

May 223h 0mTerence McKenna

Terence McKenna, calling from his remote home on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawaii, presents his radical theory of novelty and time to Art Bell in a conversation that leaves the host stunned by its alignment with his own book, The Quickening. McKenna argues that the universe has an inherent preference for novelty over habit, accelerating exponentially toward a singular moment he calculates will arrive on December 21, 2012, a date derived mathematically from the ancient Chinese I Ching that independently matches the Mayan calendar.The discussion ranges across the fractal nature of time, the inadequacy of Western probability theory, and the role of psychedelic plants in accessing other dimensions of consciousness. McKenna proposes that alien beings reported in UFO encounters may reach us through the human mind rather than physical spacecraft, with the naturally occurring compound DMT serving as a key to these experiences.Art and Terence find remarkable common ground on the acceleration of change in human affairs, with McKenna providing mathematical structure for what Art had documented anecdotally. Their exchange on time travel, the nature of souls, and the transcendental object at the end of time makes this one of the most intellectually ambitious episodes in the archive.

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May 23, 1997: Area 51 - Sean David Morton & Victor

May 233h 19mSean David Morton, Victor

Sean David Morton and the mysterious whistleblower known only as Victor join Art Bell for an extraordinary evening centered on Area 51 and a smuggled video allegedly showing the interrogation of a live extraterrestrial being. Victor, speaking through a voice-changing device to protect his identity, claims to have extracted digital footage from the S4 facility at Papoose Lake during a period of institutional chaos as operations were being shut down.Victor describes a small, bulbous-headed creature with enormous dark eyes seated at a table in a darkened room, monitored by medical equipment, that suffers a seizure during the interview. He reveals that S4 has four underground levels, that the beings breathe oxygen but appear only symbolically biological, and that all aliens in government custody are now believed dead. His most provocative claim is that these beings engineer their own captivity as a kind of test for humanity, drawing a parallel to the story of Christ.Morton opens the program with his own predictions and theories about artificially induced earthquakes before the conversation shifts entirely to Victor's account. The episode captures a singular moment in Area 51 lore, with Victor declaring this his final public statement as the secret facility transitions its operations to new locations in Utah.

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May 26, 1997: Open Lines | Art & Ramona's UFO Sighting #2

May 262h 49m

Art Bell and his wife Ramona take to the airwaves together on Memorial Day to describe a dramatic daytime UFO sighting they witnessed that morning at approximately 11:40 AM near their Pahrump, Nevada home. While closing a gate, they noticed a military jet leaving a double contrail at extreme altitude, and just below it, a brilliant, glowing, cylindrical silver object tracking alongside the aircraft before stopping dead in the sky.Art details his frantic attempts to report the sighting to Nellis Air Force Base, Edwards Air Force Base, and McCarran Airport, all of which deny any knowledge. Callers quickly corroborate the sighting, including a deputy sheriff in southern New Mexico, a woman in Arizona's Verde Valley who watched five such objects cluster together, and a man in Henderson, Nevada who observed the same craft from Black Mountain. The consistency of the independent accounts is striking.The second half of the program features the remarkable story of John McKinnon, a television station manager in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, who was fired and had police confiscate his tapes after producing programs modeled on Art's format covering UFO witnesses and unconventional guests.

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May 27, 1997: Rosalie Osias

May 272h 43mRosalie Osias

Attorney and foundation president Rosalie Osias joins Art Bell with a message that women love to hate and men quietly applaud. On the same day the Supreme Court unanimously allows Paula Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton to proceed, Osias argues that women should embrace their femininity and sexuality as powerful tools for career advancement rather than suppressing them in the name of corporate conformity.Osias, who represents 40 banks and built her legal empire through provocative advertisements in banking trade publications, contends that the feminist movement's push for gender-blind workplaces has stripped women of their greatest natural advantage. She argues that sexuality, properly combined with competence and strategy, can shatter the glass ceiling far more effectively than conforming to male standards of dress and conduct. Her position generates a surprising wave of support from female callers across the country.The conversation covers the Paula Jones case, the failures of corporate feminism, and the double standard that celebrates sexuality in entertainment while condemning it in the boardroom. Art's website crashes under the traffic as listeners rush to see photographs of his guest, inadvertently proving her central thesis about the power of attraction in generating attention and opportunity.

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May 28, 1997: Ham Radio & More - Wayne Green

May 282h 43mWayne Green

Wayne Green, legendary publisher of 73 Magazine and founder of Byte magazine, joins Art Bell for a sprawling conversation that covers nearly every frontier of human curiosity. Green, who has visited 132 countries, piloted nuclear submarines, and helped launch the personal computer revolution, brings his trademark maverick energy to topics ranging from amateur radio's uncertain future to cold fusion experiments anyone can try at home.The discussion moves from the state of ham radio and the threat posed by internet communication tools to far more provocative territory. Green makes the case for cold fusion, citing NASA's Lewis Research Center confirmation of excess heat, and describes the bioelectrifier, a device he claims can eliminate viruses from the bloodstream. He shares his theory that time travelers may be the mysterious men in black, and recounts the suppressed story of Amelia Earhart's secret spy mission to Truk Island, sourced from her own airplane mechanic. Art pushes back with healthy skepticism, demanding proof of overunity energy devices and questioning conspiracy claims.The episode captures the restless intellect of a man who started industries before others saw the potential. From consciousness research and cellular memory to the cosmic snowballs bombarding Earth daily, Green and Art explore the boundaries between innovation and speculation with infectious enthusiasm.

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May 29, 1997: Open Lines

May 292h 48m

Art Bell opens the phone lines on a night filled with wide-ranging caller topics, but not before delivering a personal meditation on revenge and Christianity. After a listener challenges whether his belief in retaliation is consistent with being Christian, Art offers an unflinching response, declaring that if someone comes after him or his family, he will come right back at them harder. It is a rare moment of philosophical vulnerability from the host.Callers bring a diverse mix of subjects throughout the night. A Texan reports that the Jarrell tornado has been upgraded to a devastating F5, reinforcing Art's warnings about accelerating weather change. A caller from Pasco, Washington, raises alarm about mandatory home inspections. Others discuss pyramid-shaped milk cartons from European flights, the Oklahoma City bombing trial heading to jury, and the discovery of what may be the oldest known European fossil. Art also addresses the FBI's response to Keith Rowland's April Fool's joke on the website and promotes his book The Quickening.The episode paints a vivid portrait of late-night America in 1997, where listeners grapple with faith, government overreach, extreme weather, and the mysteries of human history, all filtered through Art Bell's singular perspective from the high desert.

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May 30, 1997: Keith Rowland

May 301h 58mKeith Rowland

Keith Rowland, the webmaster behind artbell.com, joins Art Bell to pull back the curtain on the rapidly growing website and its notorious run-in with the FBI. On April 1st, 1997, Rowland posted a fake FBI seizure notice on the site as a joke, complete with a doctored Bureau seal and references to the Heaven's Gate investigation. The prank fooled thousands of visitors, and roughly 30 days later, a real letter arrived from the FBI demanding its removal and warning of legal consequences from the U.S. Attorney's Office.The conversation shifts to the nuts and bolts of running one of the internet's most popular talk radio websites in the late 1990s. Keith explains the partnership with AudioNet in Dallas for live streaming, the challenges of printing from dark-background web pages, and the new registration system for chat rooms designed to keep out disruptive users. Art and Keith also discuss the explosive growth of the Art Bell Chat Clubs forming across the country, with a new toll-free number for inquiries.The episode offers a fascinating time capsule of the early web era, when 2.6 million visitors was a staggering number, real audio streaming was cutting-edge technology, and a simple April Fool's joke could draw the attention of federal law enforcement.

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June 1, 1997: The Flying Saucer Physicist - Stanton Friedman | Australia Sightings - Linda Moulton Howe

Jun 11h 58mStanton Friedman, Linda Moulton Howe

Linda Moulton Howe reports live from Queensland, Australia, where she has been investigating orange light formations seen over the Pacific coast and animal mutilations across the continent. Joined by Nexus Magazine editor Duncan Rhodes, she reveals the existence of the UK-USA Agreement, a secret 50-year-old intelligence pact linking Pine Gap, Menwith Hill, and the NSA in a global surveillance network. Nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman listens from New Brunswick, Canada, connecting the threads to UFO secrecy and government classification.Friedman then takes center stage to discuss the approaching 50th anniversary of the Roswell incident and the media's ongoing dismissal of the evidence. He details firsthand testimony from Colonel Thomas Jefferson DuBose about direct orders to cover up the crash, dismantles the Air Force's Project Mogul explanation, and criticizes publications like Popular Science for ignoring witness testimony. Art shares his own recent daylight sighting of a glowing disc following a military jet near Pahrump, and offers Friedman a piece of the mysterious bismuth-magnesium material for laboratory analysis.This Dreamland episode spans three countries and multiple time zones, weaving together Australian UFO activity, international intelligence agreements, and the Roswell legacy into a compelling case that the truth about unidentified aerial phenomena remains deliberately concealed by cooperating governments.

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June 3, 1997: Open Lines 'Witch Hunt'

Jun 32h 56m

Art Bell declares a witch hunt, searching for what he describes as a real broom-riding, spell-casting, cauldron-stirring witch, distinct from practitioners of Wicca. The quest produces a Canadian psychic energy worker who admits she would never hex a rude bag boy, and a self-described gray witch from Minneapolis who practices both light and dark magic. Meanwhile, the newly launched live studio webcam generates enormous excitement, with listeners flooding Art's inbox as they watch him broadcast in near real-time from the high desert.The night takes a dramatic turn when a caller named Jim, recently fired from the NSA after 21 years, reveals that a glowing sphere once hovered over the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy, disabling all electronics, radar, communications, and even aircraft engines for approximately 20 minutes. Art also reports on a possible chupacabra attack in Ocoee, Florida, where three horses were mauled and drained of blood. Ramona Bell makes a studio appearance to recount how she neutralized a cursed doll sent by a listener, using salt before disposing of it.From webcam technology and UFOs over Navy warships to witch hunts and blood-drained livestock, this open lines episode captures Art Bell at his most playful and unpredictable, welcoming new affiliates while embracing the strange and unexplained.

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June 6, 1997: Reverse Speech - David John Oates

Jun 63h 18mDavid John Oates

Art Bell welcomes David John Oates, the originator of reverse speech technology, to examine hidden messages embedded in human communication. Oates explains that when recorded speech is played backwards, clear and grammatically correct phrases emerge every five to ten seconds, revealing what the speaker truly thinks and feels. He demonstrates reversals on baby speech, showing that children produce coherent reverse statements before they can speak forward.The program takes a dramatic turn when Oates plays reversals from Patsy Ramsey''s CNN interview, where backward phrases suggest disturbing knowledge of the JonBenet case. He also shares reversals from Neil Armstrong''s famous moonwalk statement and a Clinton interview that produced an amusing personal admission. Oates reveals that his reverse speech headquarters was burned to the ground under suspicious circumstances, and audio tape from the fire captured at least one intruder rummaging through filing cabinets.Art then guides the discussion toward NASA reversals taken from a previous program featuring Ray Villard and Don Savage. The backward statements suggest hidden knowledge about life in space, secret involvement with the Cydonia region of Mars, and classified information about spacecraft. The reversals on Venus produce a particularly startling phrase referencing ships, buildings, and Americans.

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June 9, 1997: Bible Codes - Stan Tenen

Jun 92h 42mStan Tenen

Art Bell welcomes Stan Tenen, director of research for the Meru Foundation, to discuss patterns hidden within the original Hebrew text of the Bible. Tenen, who holds a physics degree from New York Polytechnic Institute, explains that the oldest Hebrew manuscripts contained no word breaks or vowels, forming a continuous sequence of letters. He distinguishes his findings from Michael Drosnin''s popular claims of prophetic codes, arguing that the Torah functions not as a list of predictions but as a navigational system for achieving higher states of consciousness.Tenen describes his discovery that Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic letters originate from hand gestures, and that arranging the letters of Genesis on a bead chain reveals geometric forms when identical letters are aligned. These forms correspond mathematically to the angle of the Great Pyramid, suggesting a connection between the Bible and Egyptian architecture. He recounts the Talmudic story of Rabbi Akiba and the dangerous Pardes meditation, where three of four practitioners were destroyed or damaged by the experience.Art draws connections between Tenen''s geometric patterns and the visions described by prophet Gordon Michael Scallion before acquiring his abilities. Tenen cautions that approaching these teachings with arrogance or without proper grounding in tradition poses genuine spiritual danger, comparing the reckless pursuit of such knowledge to giving children matches in a room full of gasoline.

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June 10, 1997: Cold Fusion & Free Energy - Dr. Eugene Mallove

Jun 103h 12mDr. Eugene Mallove

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Eugene Mallove, editor-in-chief of Infinite Energy magazine and former chief science writer at the MIT News Office, to discuss cold fusion technology on the eve of a Good Morning America demonstration. Mallove holds engineering degrees from MIT and a doctorate from Harvard. He reveals that a working prototype water heater by Clean Energy Technologies has been producing hundreds of watts of excess energy continuously since February 1997, using a process related to the Patterson cell.Mallove presents a damning account of institutional suppression against Pons and Fleischmann''s 1989 cold fusion discovery. He alleges that MIT researchers fudged their experimental data, shifting results that initially showed excess heat to appear negative, and that the director of MIT''s hot fusion laboratory planted fraud allegations against Pons and Fleischmann in the Boston Herald. He argues the motivation was protecting $350 million in annual federal hot fusion funding from even a modest $25 million congressional allocation toward cold fusion research.The discussion expands to zero-point energy, with Mallove confirming that devices by Dr. Paolo and Alexandra Correa appear to generate electric power from the vacuum. He describes the revolutionary implications of cold fusion: zero fuel cost, no deadly radiation, transmutation of radioactive waste within hours rather than millennia, and compact power sources that could transform space exploration.

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June 11, 1997: Alien Agenda - Jim Marrs

Jun 112h 55mJim Marrs

Art Bell welcomes journalist and author Jim Marrs to discuss his comprehensive new book Alien Agenda, which examines the extraterrestrial presence from ancient astronauts to modern abductions. Marrs, a lifelong researcher of the UFO phenomenon and author of the Kennedy assassination book Crossfire, describes himself as a skeptical believer and states flatly that the controversy over the reality of UFOs is over. He credits government-trained remote viewers, many of whom reported direct contact with non-human intelligence during classified military programs, as a key factor in his research.The conversation covers cattle mutilations as possible ecological monitoring, the remote viewing theory that crop circles serve as transitory guideposts for interdimensional travelers, and evidence of advanced technology in human prehistory. Marrs connects the 1947 Roswell incident to the sudden creation of the national security state, arguing that the military treats UFO technology as potential weaponry and maintains secrecy to preserve control. He notes that even Senator Barry Goldwater was denied access and cursed out by General Curtis LeMay when he inquired about classified UFO materials.Art and Marrs discuss why disclosure remains unlikely through government channels, with Marrs warning that an undeniable public event could be exploited to justify emergency restrictions on civil liberties. They also examine NASA''s withholding of anomalous lunar photographs and the significance of the STS48 shuttle footage showing objects performing impossible maneuvers in orbit.

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June 12, 1997: Crop Circles - Doug Ruby

Jun 122h 54mDoug Ruby

Art Bell welcomes Doug Ruby, a veteran commercial airline pilot and author of The Gift: The Crop Circles Deciphered, in a broadcast marked by extraordinary synchronicity. Just an hour before airtime, a listener alerts Art to a massive new crop circle at Stonehenge, and Ruby identifies it on the spot as depicting a specific harmonic frequency related to a spacecraft power plant. Ruby explains that he arrived at his decoding method by studying how dolphin trainers build communication from the simplest gestures upward over years.Applying that principle to crop circles, Ruby began with the simplest formations from 1990 and discovered they are meant to be cut out, mounted on a shaft, and spun. When rotated at specific speeds, interrupted rings become whole, flat patterns transform into three-dimensional objects, and assembled pictograms reveal the structure of a disc-shaped craft complete with visible energy fields. He describes building a spinning device from a fan motor and rheostat to test progressively complex formations, finding that each crop circle season adds new components to what amounts to an engineering blueprint.Richard C. Hoagland calls in to validate the breakthrough, noting that the same sacred geometry numbers found in the Cydonia ruins on Mars appear in crop circle measurements. Ruby explains that the later formations provide instructions for a power plant operating on tachyon or zero-point energy, requiring no fuel whatsoever. He views the entire phenomenon as a patient, respectful gift from an advanced intelligence, gradually raising human consciousness one formation at a time.

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June 16, 1997: Chupacabras - Scott Corrales

Jun 162h 53mScott Corrales

Art Bell welcomes researcher Scott Corrales to discuss his book "Chupacabras and Other Mysteries," investigating the blood-draining creature terrorizing livestock across the Americas and beyond. Corrales describes the Chupacabra as a kangaroo-bodied entity with wraparound red eyes, vibrating quills, and a proboscis capable of extracting blood and organs through a single puncture wound. He traces its origins to Puerto Rico in 1995, where over a thousand animals were found drained and hollowed.The conversation examines the creature's spread from the Caribbean to Mexico, Central America, and even Spain and Portugal, where authorities acknowledged it as a likely culprit in mass livestock deaths. Corrales details its apparent ability to float rather than fly, its sulfuric odor, and radiation signatures left at attack sites in both Puerto Rico and Guatemala.Art and Corrales explore competing theories, including government genetic experiments, interdimensional beings, ritual magic, and the paranormal cycle that mirrors historical precedents like the 1970s Moca Vampire. Callers contribute their own encounters with Bigfoot and mysterious creatures, while Corrales notes similar cryptid traditions extending from the Andes to the Pyrenees.

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June 17, 1997: NASA Mars Missions - Richard C. Hoagland

Jun 173h 14mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell celebrates his 52nd birthday before welcoming Richard C. Hoagland for a wide-ranging discussion on NASA, Mars Pathfinder, and hidden agendas within the space agency. Hoagland previews the extraordinary STS-80 shuttle video, describing an object that streaks upward from Santiago, Chile, captured by a camera operator who appeared to know exactly where to point. He details non-Newtonian behavior of objects that stop, hover, and reverse course in ways no ice crystal or debris could replicate.The discussion shifts to Hoagland's bold prediction that Mars Pathfinder will disappear within days and later reappear, with its landing delayed from July 4th to July 20th. He bases this on 30 years of documented celestial alignments showing recurring Egyptian and Osiris-Orion patterns across NASA missions, verified through the Redshift computer program and corroborated by former NASA engineers.Hoagland connects these patterns to the city of Phoenix and its Egyptian mythological roots, the ongoing Giza plateau controversies, and what he calls a secret adherence to tetrahedral geometry embedded throughout the space program. He warns that critical NASA personnel have recently died under suspicious circumstances.

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June 18, 1997: Mars Pathfinder - Richard C. Hoagland

Jun 1836mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell continues with Richard C. Hoagland as listeners and critics weigh in on the previous night's prediction that NASA will delay the Mars Pathfinder landing from July 4th to July 20th. Hoagland defends his methodology against accusations of convoluted reasoning, explaining that the celestial cartography he mapped through decades of mission data was validated by former NASA engineers who helped land men on the moon.A caller presents alternative research on the Great Pyramid, claiming its cornerstone was laid in 3434 B.C. based on polar star alignments and connecting its construction to the biblical figure Enoch. The caller ties the Phoenix name itself to Pa-Henok, meaning "father of the house of Enoch," and offers spectral analysis data linking pyramid stone to a rare rhyolite found only near Racine, Wisconsin.Art and Hoagland field questions from callers across the country about the connections between Phoenix, Atlanta, Masonic symbolism, and NASA's trajectory decisions. Hoagland reveals plans to relocate his Enterprise Mission headquarters to the Southwest, closer to Phoenix, citing the region's significance in both native Hopi traditions and the unfolding investigation.

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June 19, 1997: Open Lines - Phoenix Lights

Jun 192h 44m

Art Bell opens with a declaration that he has never witnessed a period of greater high strangeness in his 13 years of broadcasting. He presents a stunning chronology from June 19th, 1997: Arizona Governor Fife Symington announces a full investigation of the Phoenix Lights at 12:45 p.m., returns to federal court at 1 p.m., then calls an emergency press conference at 5 p.m. reversing course entirely and presenting the whole matter as a joke with a staffer dressed as an alien.UFO investigator Bill Hamilton describes the March 13th sightings in detail, noting at least four separate events including a massive V-shaped object witnessed by thousands. Councilwoman Frances Barwood, who faced political retaliation for simply requesting an investigation, confirms reports of unusual FBI presence in Phoenix and military convoys moving toward the city. Both guests express bewilderment at the governor's abrupt reversal.Richard C. Hoagland returns to address how his predictions from just 24 hours earlier appear to be unfolding, connecting the Phoenix events to NASA's Mars mission timeline. Whitley Strieber then joins to discuss media orchestration, the upcoming Air Force Roswell explanation involving German lifting bodies, and the broader implications of coordinated national coverage appearing months after the original sighting.

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June 20, 1997: Phoenix Lights Images Analysis - Jim Dilettoso

Jun 201h 16mJim Dilettoso

Art Bell welcomes Jim Dilettoso of Village Labs in Tempe, Arizona, whose computer analysis of the Phoenix Lights footage has been running on CNN around the clock. Dilettoso brings credentials spanning concert production technology, NASA imaging, military flight simulators, and Hollywood special effects to his examination of the March 13th sightings. He describes the investigation identifying four separate events that evening, beginning at 8:16 p.m. when witnesses reported a massive V-shaped object moving slowly over central Phoenix.Dilettoso explains that his team triangulated multiple videos using 3D topographical maps from the U.S. Geological Survey, loading them into AutoCAD and 3D Studio Max to establish precise positions for the lights. Witnesses described the object as so close they could hit it with a ball, taking two to three minutes to pass overhead. One former military pilot estimated its size at a square mile.The program grows contentious when MUFON state field investigator Richard Motzer calls in to challenge the 10 p.m. footage, arguing it shows military flares based on descent rates matching the Mark 45 flare's three-minute burn time. Dilettoso counters that optical waveform analysis and a written report from a covert operations flare manufacturer found no match. Art presses both investigators to produce definitive military confirmation one way or the other.

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June 22, 1997: Psychic Discoveries - Sheila Ostrander & Lynn Schroeder

Jun 221h 1mSheila Ostrander, Lynn Schroeder

Art Bell welcomes authors Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder to discuss their book Psychic Discoveries: The Iron Curtain Lifted, revealing decades of secret Soviet research into psychic phenomena. The guests describe dangerous trips behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, where they smuggled manuscripts hidden inside flower bouquets and relied on diplomatic pouches to get research materials to the West.The conversation covers Kirlian photography and its ability to capture energy leaving the body at death, Soviet experiments in telepathic hypnosis capable of putting subjects into trance from over a thousand miles away, and the KGB''s massive 500-million-ruble budget for psychic warfare devices. Ostrander and Schroeder also reveal cosmonaut UFO sightings suppressed for decades, including claims that Neil Armstrong reported mysterious objects during the Apollo 11 moon landing.Art and his guests discuss Soviet remote influencing experiments, the potential for psychic assassination, the use of microwave beaming against the U.S. embassy, and how Russian parapsychology research inadvertently confirmed spiritual ideas about human consciousness and interconnection. Callers weigh in with questions about super learning techniques and electronic voice phenomena.

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June 23, 1997: The Alcor Foundation: Cryonics - Brian Shock

Jun 232h 41mBrian Shock

Art Bell speaks with Brian Shock, membership manager of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the largest cryonics organization in the world. Shock explains the science of preserving human bodies at minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit in liquid nitrogen, stored in massive insulated containers called dewars, with the hope that future technology will allow revival and cure of whatever caused death.The discussion covers the costs involved, with whole-body suspension requiring $120,000 and head-only neuro-suspension at $50,000, funded through pooled trust investments managed by Smith Barney. Shock describes Alcor''s 35 patients, split between whole-body and neuro cases, and addresses the spiritual implications of the process. He draws parallels to hypothermic arrest surgery, where patients are clinically dead for extended periods before being revived with full memory intact.Art raises the possibility that physician-assisted suicide laws could transform cryonics by allowing pre-mortem suspension, potentially doubling the chances of future revival. The conversation touches on nanotechnology as the key to eventual reanimation, the Dora Kent legal controversy, and the philosophical question of whether cryonics represents a form of one-way time travel into the future.

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June 24, 1997: Roswell Case Closed - USAF Press Conference

Jun 242h 45m

Art Bell reacts to the Air Force''s noon press conference declaring the Roswell case officially closed. Lieutenant Colonel John Haynes presented a Pentagon-backed report attributing the 1947 incident to high-altitude balloon research and crash test dummies, but the evidence shown came from experiments conducted between 1953 and 1959, missing the Roswell date by six years. When pressed by reporters, Haynes offered the explanation of ''time compression,'' suggesting witnesses simply confused their dates.Art reads a flood of listener faxes mocking the presentation, including commentary from researcher Linda Moulton Howe and author Jim Mars, who told CNN the only dummies involved were those who believed the explanation. Art imagines the behind-the-scenes meeting where a general assigned the hapless colonel his impossible mission, coaching him to invoke time compression when confronted about the six-year gap.Richard C. Hoagland joins to argue the press conference was intentionally absurd, designed as a psychological operation to make Americans believe Roswell was real without an official admission. He notes the simultaneous presence of Colin Powell, George Bush, and Hillary Clinton in Phoenix, suggesting something larger is building toward a revelation.

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June 25, 1997: Mir & Pathfinder - Richard C. Hoagland | UFO in Storm Chaser Video - Lan Lamphere

Jun 252h 52mRichard C. Hoagland, Lan Lamphere

Richard C. Hoagland joins Art Bell to analyze the Mir collision and Mars Pathfinder, and storm chaser Lan Lamphere discusses a UFO captured in tornado video after Art's urgent Mir coverage. Monitoring Mir's VHF signal at 143.625 MHz, Art reports rapid fluctuations in signal strength that indicate the station is tumbling, a detail not being reported by mainstream media. He reads newly released accounts revealing the earlier Mir fire actually raged for 14 minutes with two-foot flames, far worse than officials initially admitted.Hoagland analyzes the crisis, noting the suspicious coincidence of the Mir accident occurring simultaneously with a delayed Mars Pathfinder mid-course burn. He questions why NASA posted no results from the burn for over 36 hours and speculates the drama may serve as a diversion from Pathfinder developments.Lamphere then describes a cylindrical object captured on his video camera while filming a tornado near Loco, Oklahoma. Frame-by-frame analysis reveals the object crossed 75 degrees of wide-angle lens in 49 frames, yielding an estimated speed of Mach 25. A second storm chaser two miles away captured the same object, and Lamphere reveals that a high-level NASA contact reached out to him about the footage.

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June 26, 1997: Wolves - Teresa Martino | Egyptian Pyramid - Richard C. Hoagland & Larry Hunter

Jun 263h 20mTeresa Martino, Richard C. Hoagland, Larry Hunter

Art Bell welcomes Teresa Martino, author of The Wolf, The Woman, The Wilderness, who describes her year-long journey of returning a captive-born wolf named Mackenzie to the wild. Martino explains that Mackenzie''s grandparents were wild wolves, giving her the predatory instincts and shyness necessary for reintroduction. She fed Mackenzie roadkill deer before gradually teaching her to hunt live prey in the northern wilderness, traveling together for weeks at a time and learning to move slowly through the brush like a wild animal.Martino describes the emotional moment when Mackenzie successfully took her first deer and chose not to return to base camp, effectively deciding to rejoin the wild. She later confirmed Mackenzie had found a mate and produced cubs. Art shares his own parallel experience bonding with a feral cat named Comet, and both discuss the possibility of telepathic communication between humans and animals.Later, Richard C. Hoagland and Larry Hunter join to announce explosive findings from Egypt regarding access and control at the Giza plateau. Hoagland reveals that evidence was delivered to Egyptian officials and a Cairo newspaper editor, and announces a major presentation planned for Phoenix connecting Mars, Egypt, and hyperdimensional physics.

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June 27, 1997: Reverse Speech - David John Oates

Jun 272h 55mDavid John Oates

Art Bell welcomes reverse speech pioneer David Oates to analyze hidden messages embedded in recorded speech. Oates explains how playing spoken words backward at the same speed reveals subconscious thoughts, consistently producing statements that align with the forward conversation. He shares classic examples, including a reversal from the live broadcast of JFK's assassination and Neil Armstrong's moon landing.The heart of the program focuses on reversals found in two recent broadcasts. NASA representatives discussing Hubble, Mars, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life produced startling results, including references to Cydonia, shielded vessels, and the simple backward declaration that life exists. Oates then dissects the Air Force press conference in which Colonel John Haynes attempted to explain away the Roswell incident using crash test dummies and time compression.Colonel Haynes's reversals prove devastating to the official narrative. Phrases such as sharing secrets with NASA, admitting fabrication, and acknowledging untruth emerge clearly in the backward audio. Oates also discusses the suspicious fire that destroyed his home and a recent break-in at his office, raising questions about who might want to silence his work.

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June 30, 1997: Open Lines

Jun 3042m

Art Bell opens the phone lines on a night loaded with breaking developments. He addresses the Holyfield-Tyson fight, questioning why spectators who witnessed the ear-biting incident overwhelmingly declined refunds, and what that reveals about the appetite for violence in American sports. He also reflects somberly on the handover of Hong Kong to China, recalling his own visit two years prior and predicting the territory will never feel the same.Callers weigh in on topics ranging from a hollow moon theory and Mel's Hole to reverse speech techniques and a retired aerospace engineer who claims the Phoenix lights were a classified V-shaped military craft. Art challenges the logic of testing secret vehicles over a city of two million people. He also reports that Hubble has detected a massive dust storm inside Valles Marineris on Mars, heading toward the Pathfinder landing site just days before the July 4th touchdown.The evening builds anticipation for a historic week ahead. Art previews upcoming interviews on Roswell, teases a press conference promising scientific proof of extraterrestrial crash debris, and fields calls from listeners worldwide on the mysteries of the moment.

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July 1, 1997: Open Lines

Jul 11h 20m

Art Bell opens with a promise to answer the Air Force press conference on Roswell over the coming evenings. He announces that a July 4th presentation in Roswell will feature isotopic ratio tests on crash debris, with scientists from major universities prepared to argue the material is manufactured and not of Earth origin. He also teases developments in Phoenix he is not yet ready to reveal publicly.Callers bring a wide range of topics to the table. An ex-NASA contractor who worked television operations at Johnson Space Center during mission STS-80 offers to share information about video handling procedures. The original provider of the STS-80 footage calls in to discuss anomalous objects captured during the shuttle mission. Other callers debate the Mars dust storm threatening Pathfinder, the Mir space station crisis, and the ongoing mystery of Mel's Hole, with a caller who owns land near the alleged site weighing in.Art also reports on bizarre weather sweeping multiple continents, from unprecedented flooding in Switzerland to unseasonably cool desert temperatures near Death Valley. He notes the dust storm on Mars is now confirmed by Reuters and mainstream outlets after initially being dismissed when he reported it days earlier.

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July 2, 1997: Roswell Crash - Jaime Shandera

Jul 23h 21mJaime Shandera

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist Jaime Shandera, who has spent over a decade tracing the chain of evidence behind the 1947 Roswell incident. Shandera lays out a detailed timeline beginning with the July 2nd explosion heard over the New Mexico desert, rancher Mac Brazel's discovery of strange metallic debris, and the military recovery that followed. He reveals that General Clements McMullen in Washington directed the operation personally, bypassing normal chains of command.Dr. J. Bond Johnson, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reporter who photographed the debris in General Ramey's office, joins the broadcast. Johnson describes handling lightweight, stiff, dull-gray material that bore no resemblance to a weather balloon. He recalls that General Ramey himself appeared to be seeing the material for the first time and could not identify it. Johnson states firmly that a general of Ramey's stature would have resigned before posing with balloon wreckage.The conversation exposes how General DuBose, when shown the photographs decades later, confirmed the material was from Roswell and was not a weather balloon. Shandera argues the recent Air Force press conference was designed not to quell public interest but to fan the flames as a deliberate test of public reaction.

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July 3, 1997: Art's Parts - Linda Moulton Howe & Budd Hopkins

Jul 32h 55mLinda Moulton Howe, Budd Hopkins

Art Bell connects with Linda Moulton Howe live from Roswell, New Mexico, on the eve of a press conference claiming scientific proof that crash debris is extraterrestrial. Linda reports that Paul Davids and Chris Wyatt, who organized the announcement, declined to preview their evidence on air. She reveals that a Stanford University professor has examined a sample containing over 20 elements with isotope ratios described as non-terrestrial.Linda then provides a comprehensive update on the bismuth-magnesium layered material known as Art's Parts. After 15 months of analysis by six institutions, including Carnegie Institute isotope testing and Freedom of Information requests to 13 government agencies, no laboratory has been able to identify how the micron-thin layers were manufactured or replicate them. She reports that a major corporation has agreed to conduct new tests exploring whether the material responds to pulsed magnetic fields, potentially connecting it to electrogravitic propulsion.Budd Hopkins follows with a preview of his book Witnessed, describing a 1989 New York City abduction observed from five separate locations. He recounts how a woman was seen floating from a 12th-story window alongside alien figures, witnessed by security agents escorting a prominent political figure whose motorcade stalled beneath the craft.

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July 4, 1997: Beyond Roswell - Michael Hesemann | UFO Crash Site Debris - Linda Moulton Howe

Jul 42h 49mMichael Hesemann, Linda Moulton Howe

Art Bell broadcasts live on Independence Day with reporter Linda Moulton Howe calling in from Roswell, New Mexico. Howe covers a groundbreaking press conference where Dr. Russell Vernon Clark of UC San Diego presents isotope ratio analysis of a mysterious fragment. The nearly pure silicon piece contains trace amounts of zinc, nickel, silver, and germanium, all with ratios that do not match any known terrestrial source. Paul Davids explains that replication tests through Stanford University confirmed the findings.German researcher Michael Hesemann joins from Roswell to discuss his book Beyond Roswell and his investigation of the Santilli alien autopsy film. Having communicated extensively with filmmaker Ray Santilli, Hesemann reports that chemical analysis of the film stock confirms it dates to the 1940s. He notes that pathologists worldwide have identified the subject as a real biological entity rather than a dummy. Hesemann contrasts the serious scientific coverage of UFOs in Europe with the pop-culture treatment the subject receives in American media.Art also touches on the successful Mars Pathfinder landing earlier that day, praising NASA for the mission while setting up a later discussion with Richard C. Hoagland about the significance of the Pathfinder images and the questions they raise.

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July 6, 1997: The Day After Roswell - Colonel Philip J. Corso & William J. Birnes

Jul 61h 50mColonel Philip J. Corso, William J. Birnes

Art Bell hosts a special Dreamland broadcast from Roswell, New Mexico, featuring Colonel Philip J. Corso and co-author William J. Birnes discussing their book The Day After Roswell. Linda Moulton Howe moderates as Corso recounts his 1947 experience at Fort Riley, Kansas, where he saw a small, gray, non-human body floating in liquid inside a veterinary building. The creature had a large head, no ears, slit-like features, and spindly limbs.Birnes describes the fierce internecine warfare between military intelligence and the CIA during the Cold War. Army leaders distrusted the civilian intelligence apparatus, believing it had been penetrated by Soviet agents. This distrust shaped the decision to keep recovered alien technology strictly within military channels. Corso then describes the file cabinet General Trudeau assigned him in 1961, filled with artifacts from the Roswell crash.Corso details how he and Trudeau seeded alien technologies into American industry through standard R&D contracts. Items from the cabinet became precursors to integrated circuit chips, fiber optics, lasers, night vision devices, and super tenacity fibers. He also discusses Project Horizon, a classified Army plan for a lunar outpost, and directed energy weapons derived from recovered materials.

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July 8, 1997: The Meru Foundation - Stan Tenen

Jul 82h 42mStan Tenen

Art Bell welcomes Stan Tenen, director of research for the Meru Foundation, to discuss hidden patterns in the Hebrew text of Genesis. Tenen distinguishes his 30 years of research from the statistical Bible codes popularized by Michael Drosnin, explaining that the Torah is not a collection of specific prophecies but rather a system designed to guide a person toward a prophetic state of consciousness. He compares this to a fishing pole rather than a fish.Tenen describes how he discovered the patterns by writing Hebrew letters on a bead chain and curling it until matching letters aligned. The chain folded itself into recognizable geometric forms that unfolded in an elegant sequence. He connects these forms to the Great Pyramid, noting that the mathematical measurements of the Genesis spiral correspond to the pyramid angle of approximately 52 degrees. He also explains how Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic letters appear to derive from shadows cast by specific hand gestures.The conversation turns to the Pardes meditation from the Talmud, where Rabbi Akiba and three companions attempted to reach a transcendent state. Only Akiba returned whole. Tenen warns that such experiences require humility and grounding in tradition, cautioning against arrogance when approaching these spiritual realities.

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July 9, 1997: Pending Cassini Launch - Karl Grossman

Jul 92h 45mKarl Grossman

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist Karl Grossman to discuss alarming risks surrounding NASA's upcoming Cassini mission to Saturn, scheduled to launch October 6, 1997. The probe will carry 72.3 pounds of plutonium-238 oxide, the most plutonium ever placed on a space device, to generate just 745 watts of electricity for its instruments. Grossman notes the Titan IV rocket has roughly a five percent failure rate, raising concerns about a launch accident dispersing radioactive material over Florida and beyond.The greater danger comes in August 1999, when Cassini is scheduled to fly back past Earth at 42,300 miles per hour, passing just a few hundred miles above the surface to gain speed for its journey to Saturn. NASA's own environmental impact statement acknowledges that a re-entry accident could release plutonium dust affecting approximately five billion people. Independent scientists project potential fatalities ranging from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions, far exceeding NASA's estimate of 2,300 cancer deaths.Grossman argues the mission could use high-efficiency solar cells developed by the European Space Agency instead. He questions why NASA insists on plutonium when ESA plans to send its Rosetta probe beyond Jupiter on solar power alone.

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July 10, 1997: Roswell Investigator - John Kirby

Jul 102h 55mJohn Kirby

Art Bell welcomes researcher John Kirby from Portland for a definitive wrap-up of Roswell's 50th anniversary. Kirby presents audio recordings from key witnesses, starting with Walter Haut, the officer who delivered the famous press release announcing the capture of a flying saucer. Haut explains that Colonel Blanchard handed him the draft and sent him to the local media. He describes the event with striking calm, noting he delivered the release and went home for lunch.Frank Kaufman, who claims he was part of the impact site cleanup crew, describes the craft as roughly 24 feet long with a shape resembling a stealth bomber. He reports finding bodies and describes the beings as small, about five feet tall, with ash-colored skin and features that looked surprisingly human. He dismisses the Santilli autopsy film as a hoax.Jesse Marcel Jr. recounts handling debris his father brought home, including foil-like material and small I-beams bearing purple geometric symbols. He disputes the mogul balloon explanation after examining actual mogul materials. A rare tape captures Jesse Marcel Sr. phoning his son years later. Colonel DuBose confirms the balloon was a cover story, and Major Easley says he remains sworn to secrecy.

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July 11, 1997: Exorcism - Father Malachi Martin

Jul 113h 2mFather Malachi Martin

Art Bell welcomes Father Malachi Martin, the renowned Catholic priest, author, and former Jesuit who served as advisor to two popes. Fr. Martin shares the remarkable story of his journey from Ireland to the Vatican, his work on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the unusual arrangement by which Pope Paul VI granted him a rare priestly status outside any diocese or religious order.The conversation turns to the nature of demonic possession, which Fr. Martin describes as a slow, staged process similar to addiction. He explains the difference between partial possession and "perfect possession," a state from which no person has ever emerged. He estimates roughly ten million Americans may be perfectly possessed, many of them occupying positions of power and influence. Fr. Martin reports that exorcism cases in the northeastern United States have increased 750 to 800 percent since 1970.Art opens a special phone line inviting atheists and practitioners of the dark arts to interact with Fr. Martin. Callers raise questions about the nature of God, the profile of possessable individuals, and the dangers of the middle plateau where psychics and remote viewers operate. Fr. Martin warns against Ouija boards, transcendental meditation, and spiritual seances as gateways to dangerous spiritual territory.

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July 14, 1997: Live from the Phoenix Connection Seminar - Richard C. Hoagland

Jul 141h 25mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell broadcasts a groundbreaking split-screen event, connecting his Nevada studio with the Civic Plaza Ballroom in Phoenix, Arizona, where Richard C. Hoagland hosts a packed seminar before thousands of attendees. Hoagland presents his analysis of tetrahedral geometry encoded in NASA mission dates, coordinates, and landing sites, arguing that a Masonic influence has shaped the space program for decades. He notes that the Pathfinder rover, named Sojourner, carries deep Masonic significance rooted in ancient tradition.Phoenix Councilwoman Frances Barwood details the political intimidation she has faced for publicly investigating the March 13th Phoenix Lights. She describes the mayor''s office distributing mocking business cards with her name and the dismissive responses she received from every level of government. Despite a recall effort launched against her, Barwood remains committed to seeking answers about the massive object witnessed by thousands over the city.Panelists Ken Johnston and Vance Davis trace Masonic traditions back through ancient Egypt while researcher Larry Hunter presents GPS-verified coordinates linking the Giza Plateau to the Orion constellation. Hoagland projects that a significant event will occur between July 20th and 26th, connected to celestial alignments over Phoenix, Mars, and the moon.

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July 15, 1997: Open Lines | Time Traveler Hotline

Jul 1544m

Art Bell opens the show reflecting on the previous night''s split-screen broadcast from Phoenix, noting that some listeners refused to believe the technological feat was real. He covers the day''s news, including the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace, the troubled Mir space station, and the Mars Pathfinder rover''s ongoing discovery of what amounts to red rocks on the Martian surface. Art questions the scientific value of landing at the chosen site when the far more intriguing region of Cydonia remains unexplored.The open lines segment produces a memorable parade of unusual callers. A woman from Wisconsin describes seeing a one-foot-tall elf wearing a green suit with pointy shoes, peering into a glass of water in her childhood home. A caller from Jacksonville reports a mysterious new creature in Texas dubbed the "chupalavetga," said to be a cousin of the chupacabra that feeds on snakes. Another caller shares documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base referencing flying saucers.Art reopens his "Time Traveler Hotline," a dedicated phone line for callers claiming to have physically traveled through time. The line rings constantly as self-proclaimed time travelers call in with predictions, echoing the eerie success of similar callers from previous broadcasts.

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July 16, 1997: The World of Witchcraft - Dr. Evelyn Paglini

Jul 162h 44mDr. Evelyn Paglini

Art Bell introduces Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a parapsychologist, doctor of divinity, and lifelong practitioner of natural magic who was trained by her grandfather, a high-ranking magus, beginning at the age of four. Art warns listeners at the outset that the discussion will disturb some people and urges the easily offended to change the station. Dr. Paglini explains the vibrational properties of color, the mechanics of imitative and sympathetic magic using wax effigies and personal items, and the real power behind tools like candles, herbs, and essential oils.Art shares personal stories about his wife, including her successful water witching using coat hangers to locate an underground water source on undeveloped land, and her instinctive reaction to a cursed doll that arrived in the mail, which she immediately buried in salt. Dr. Paglini confirms these as natural abilities rooted in sensitivity and vibration. She discusses familiars, shape-shifting traditions among Native Americans, and the karmic consequences of misusing magical power, which she says returns tenfold.The conversation takes a serious turn when Art, without revealing details, asks whether magic can be used to take a life in cases of justified retaliation. Dr. Paglini affirms this is possible when true justification exists, describing it as setting up a mirror that returns the harm to its sender.

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July 17, 1997: Encyclopedia of Conspiracies - Robert Anton Wilson | Remote Viewing Training - Ed Dames

Jul 173h 18mRobert Anton Wilson, Ed Dames

Art Bell welcomes author Robert Anton Wilson, whose 31 books include the legendary Illuminatus trilogy, written during his years as associate editor at Playboy. Wilson explains that the trilogy was born from letters sent to the Playboy Foundation by people claiming government conspiracies against them, blended with real and fictional elements so thoroughly that even he cannot always distinguish between them. He traces the Illuminati from Adam Weishaupt''s 1776 founding through competing theories about its true nature and purpose.Wilson shares his experience of being falsely declared dead on the Internet, a hoax that spiraled into theories about CIA assassination and android replacement. The two discuss the consolidation of media ownership, the suppression of alternative energy technologies by petroleum interests, and Buckminster Fuller''s principle of doing more with less. Wilson describes nanotechnology as the coming revolution that could rebuild the rainforest in 48 hours and make everything practically free. He expresses optimism that increasing information flow, despite the chaos it creates, will ultimately lead to greater prosperity.Callers press Wilson on topics ranging from the Priory of Sion and Oriental Masonry to the murder of Pope John Paul I and the Tesla conspiracy. Wilson recommends his three Cosmic Trigger volumes for readers interested in secret societies and maintains that the unpredictability of modern life stems not from hidden conspiracies but from the accelerating speed of information itself.

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July 18, 1997: NDE's - Dannion Brinkley

Jul 182h 54mDannion Brinkley

Art Bell welcomes Dannion Brinkley, a former covert military operative turned near-death experience survivor, for a deeply personal conversation about dying and returning. Brinkley recounts being struck by lightning while talking on the phone in 1975, an event that left him clinically dead for 28 minutes and fundamentally transformed his worldview from hardened soldier to spiritual seeker.Brinkley describes floating above his own body, observing the energy fields around those trying to save him, and traveling through a tunnel into a place of brilliant light. He details his panoramic life review, where he re-experienced every interaction from the perspective of those he had affected. He recounts encountering a being of light and visiting crystalline cities where 13 beings showed him visions of future events, including Chernobyl and the collapse of the Soviet Union.The conversation also explores Brinkley's second near-death experience following emergency open heart surgery years later, his 18 years of hospice volunteer work, and what he learned about forgiveness and the true nature of human existence beyond the physical body.

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July 21, 1997: Organ Transplant - Claire Sylvia

Jul 212h 54mClaire Sylvia

Art Bell speaks with Claire Sylvia, a dancer from Massachusetts who received a heart and lung transplant from an 18-year-old motorcycle accident victim in 1988. The first two hours feature open lines covering topics including crop circles from England, the Cunanan manhunt, and the Mars Pathfinder mission losing contact on July 20th.Sylvia describes her years-long battle with primary pulmonary hypertension, a rare fatal lung disease, and the dramatic day she received the call for her transplant just one day after being evaluated. Following surgery, she began experiencing unexplained cravings and personality changes that seemed to belong to her young male donor. She craved beer and chicken nuggets, foods she had never wanted before, and began having vivid cross-gender dreams.Most remarkably, Sylvia dreamed her donor's name, Tim L., six months after the transplant and later confirmed it through his obituary. She discusses the concept of cellular memory, her eventual meeting with Tim's family, and the moment years later when she felt his spirit finally depart from her body, freeing her to form new relationships.

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July 22, 1997: Leonard Nimoy Interview

Jul 222h 46mLeonard Nimoy

Art Bell interviews Leonard Nimoy in a brief but energetic half-hour conversation covering Star Trek, science fiction, and the possibility of extraterrestrial contact. Nimoy reflects on why the logical, dignified character of Spock resonated so deeply during the turbulent 1960s, offering audiences a trustworthy figure amid growing cynicism about government and authority.Nimoy shares behind-the-scenes stories about the creation of the Vulcan mind meld during a filming session for the episode "Dagger of the Mind," and candidly discusses the emotional difficulty of filming Spock's death scene in The Wrath of Khan. He reveals that on the day of shooting, producer Harv Bennett asked him to leave a thread for a possible sequel, leading to the iconic "remember" moment. Nimoy also discusses his audio book productions with Alien Voices and his career in musical theater.The remainder of the program features open lines where Art discusses the first artificial brain unveiled at Stanford's Genetic Programming Conference, a million-neuron machine capable of evolving its own neural networks. Art and callers debate the implications of creating a sentient artificial intelligence without human morality or emotion.

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July 23, 1997: The Day After Roswell - Colonel Philip J. Corso & Dr. John Alexander

Jul 232h 43mColonel Philip J. Corso, Dr. John Alexander

Art Bell hosts retired Colonel Philip J. Corso and Dr. John Alexander for an extraordinary discussion about recovered extraterrestrial technology and its integration into American industry. Dr. Alexander, who personally verified Corso's military credentials through Pentagon records and the National Archives, provides independent confirmation of the Colonel's distinguished career spanning World War II, Korea, and the Eisenhower White House.Corso describes seeing an extraterrestrial body at Fort Riley, Kansas in July 1947, floating in liquid inside one of five crates being transported to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. He details how General Arthur Trudeau later assigned him a file cabinet containing artifacts from the crash, which he systematically distributed to military laboratories and defense contractors. Among the technologies Corso claims originated from this material are fiber optics, night vision devices, integrated circuits, and irradiated food preservation.The conversation also covers a secret war involving U.S. reconnaissance aircraft probing Soviet borders, abandoned American POWs, and Project Horizon, the Army's classified plan to establish a military base on the moon. Dr. Alexander notes that Corso's methods created an untraceable path, making the alien origin of these technologies virtually impossible to confirm or deny.

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July 24, 1997: Casebook on the Men In Black - Jim Keith

Jul 242h 44mJim Keith

Art Bell interviews author Jim Keith about his book Casebook on the Men in Black, a serious investigation into the phenomenon behind the Hollywood comedy. Keith identifies at least four categories of men in black encounters: government agents silencing witnesses, hoaxers, delusional reports, and a residual percentage that appears genuinely paranormal and defies conventional explanation.Keith presents the disturbing case of Dr. Hopkins in Maine, who was visited in 1976 by a bald, lipless man in black while researching a UFO abduction. The visitor demonstrated apparent psychic ability by identifying coins in the doctor's pocket, then caused a penny to slowly dematerialize in Hopkins' open hand. The man warned that the same thing had happened to UFO abductee Barney Hill's heart. Hopkins destroyed all his research and never investigated UFOs again.The program traces men in black accounts back to the 1500s, when similar figures appeared in connection with witchcraft and plague outbreaks across Europe. Callers share their own encounters, including a woman whose terminally ill father was visited by men in black who told him they would return to take him to his deceased wife. Keith concludes that while most cases involve government intimidation, a small but irreducible core of encounters remains unexplainable.

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July 25, 1997: Great Pyramid - Richard C. Hoagland & Tom Danley | Mars Imagery - Richard C. Hoagland, Marv Czarnik, & Ken Franklin

Jul 253h 23mRichard C. Hoagland, Tom Danley, Marv Czarnik, Ken Franklin

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland, Tom Danley, Marv Czarnik, and Ken Franklin for a packed evening spanning two continents and one planet. In the first hour, former NASA consultant and acoustic expert Tom Danley describes his firsthand exploration of secret tunneling above the King''s Chamber in the Great Pyramid at Giza. Danley recounts crawling through newly carved passages, discovering widened cavities, and finding bags of limestone hidden in upper chambers, evidence of clandestine digging that Egyptian authorities deny.The conversation shifts to Mars as NASA veterans Czarnik and Johnston join Hoagland to examine growing anomalies around the Pathfinder mission. They challenge official explanations for a communications blackout on July 20th, arguing that experienced mission controllers could not accidentally miss a contact window by ten minutes. The group questions why the rover''s published operational range appears deliberately understated.Hoagland presents his theory that Pathfinder landed at coordinates encoding hyperdimensional physics constants, claiming a super-resolution image of the right Twin Peak, briefly posted then removed by NASA, reveals the exposed interior of a buried pyramid. He calls on listeners to preserve the image and help verify the discovery.

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July 28, 1997: Men in Black - Jim Dilettoso | Open Lines

Jul 282h 55mJim Dilettoso

Art Bell opens an evening of wide-ranging open lines by reflecting on animal communication, the Honda P-2 humanoid robot, and the latest budget deal in Washington. A fax from Arizona reports that optical analyst Jim Dilettoso appeared on Phoenix television claiming he was visited by figures resembling the Men in Black who told him certain NASA scientists believed the Phoenix Lights were extraterrestrial in origin.Dilettoso joins the program live from his Village Labs facility in Tempe to discuss his analysis of the March 13th Phoenix Lights footage. He explains that frame-by-frame optical testing of the unknown objects reveals light signatures fundamentally different from military flares, comparing the distinction to the difference between a violin and an oboe. He notes the objects vanished not like dimming artificial lights but as though an iris closed over them.Callers share stories of a glowing UFO hovering over the aircraft carrier USS Kennedy, a blue flash accompanied by missing time during a camping trip, and pets that appear to speak. Art fields calls from listeners whose dogs say ''mama'' and whose cats demand milk, turning the first-time caller line into a dedicated talking animals hotline for the evening.

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July 30, 1997: Earth Changes - Robert Ghost Wolf

Jul 303h 22mRobert Ghost Wolf

Art Bell welcomes Robert Ghost Wolf, a Native American elder of Lakota and Iroquois heritage, for a sweeping discussion about environmental collapse and Native prophecy. The broadcast itself arrives amid severe weather, with lightning having struck Art''s studio and knocked out equipment the previous night. Ghost Wolf reports witnessing six-legged frogs and jackrabbits with multiple ears in the Arizona desert, signs he says confirm that genetic mutation has spread far beyond waterways.The conversation covers the rapid deterioration of ecosystems worldwide, from millions of diseased fish off the North Carolina coast to migratory birds flying south months early and crops ripening ahead of schedule. Ghost Wolf connects these events to electromagnetic fluctuations in the Earth''s poles and the depletion of essential minerals in food and water. He warns that the human immune system is weakening as the very substances needed to carry information through the blood disappear from the environment.Ghost Wolf explains the Ghost Dance, a spiritual ceremony he is organizing to reconnect humanity with ancestral consciousness before what Hopi elders describe as the end of the current dream. He outlines prophecies of major earth changes between 1998 and 2007, including three and a half days of darkness caused by a collapse of the energy holding physical reality together.

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August 1, 1997: Reverse Speech - David John Oates

Aug 12h 55mDavid John Oates

Art Bell welcomes David Oates, the founder of reverse speech analysis, for an evening of startling audio reversals covering Colonel Philip Corso, President Clinton, and NASA. The broadcast opens with Art mourning the death of his beloved Hewlett-Packard 950 fax machine before turning to the serious business of playing recorded speech backwards to reveal hidden messages embedded in forward dialogue.Oates explains that the human brain constructs speech sounds so that a second message communicates simultaneously in reverse, occurring roughly every 10 to 15 seconds as short phrases with over 80 percent contextual relevance to the forward words. He demonstrates with infant reversals, including babies saying intelligible phrases months before learning to speak forward. Art and Oates conduct a live experiment proving that listeners cannot hear a suggested reversal unless it actually exists in the audio.The centerpiece of the program is the analysis of Colonel Corso, whose reversals Oates declares completely congruent and truthful. Reversals including ''sworn the general,'' ''it was so real,'' and ''produced illegal patents'' directly support Corso''s claims about Roswell crash debris being seeded into American industry. Oates also plays Clinton budget speech reversals and the classic George Bush inauguration reversal where a commentator''s words play back as ''you''re fired.''

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August 3, 1997: Cell from Hell - Linda Moulton Howe | Know Your Dreams - Jim & Pat Fregia

Aug 32h 53mLinda Moulton Howe, Jim Fregia, Pat Fregia

Art Bell presents a Dreamland edition featuring investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe reporting on a deadly aquatic organism devastating the North Carolina coast, followed by dream analysts Jim and Pat Fregia discussing the hidden power of the sleeping mind. Howe details the spread of Pfiesteria, a toxic microorganism dubbed the cell from hell, which lies dormant in sediment until activated by pollutants and then attacks fish and humans with open bleeding sores.The Fregias explain that dreams are messages from the subconscious mind, arriving primarily in symbolic form every 90 minutes during sleep. They describe techniques for programming specific dreams, including writing questions on paper tucked inside a pillowcase, and discuss lucid dreaming as a method of taking conscious control within the dream state. Jim shares that he and Pat have verified out-of-body experiences by independently confirming details observed during astral travel.Callers share vivid dreams including a Washington state listener warned to evacuate within 180 days and multiple reports of precognitive dreams preceding real-world events. The Fregias note that six callers from different states reported dreaming of a frequency change on Earth during the same week, coinciding with an unusual spike in disorientation cases reported by a local doctor.

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August 4, 1997: Roswell & Project Starman - Maj. Ed Dames

Aug 42h 55mEd Dames

Art Bell welcomes Maj. Ed Dames of SciTech International for a wide-ranging discussion on technical remote viewing and its implications for humanity. Ed describes his new instructional videotape series, explains how remote viewing differs from natural psychic ability, and challenges James Randi to a controlled test of his skills. He also revisits the Roswell crash, proposing that an advanced race orchestrated the event and later erased physical evidence through time travel.The conversation takes a darker turn as Ed outlines environmental catastrophes he says remote viewers have tracked, including ozone layer collapse and an artificial component detached from Comet Hale-Bopp carrying a plant pathogen toward Earth. Art presses him on the timeline for global disruption, and Ed points to late 1998 as the beginning of widespread agricultural and economic consequences.Ed then reveals his most ambitious undertaking, Project Starman, a plan to initiate contact with a non-human race using laser technology. He explains that technical remote viewing identified the means, location, and recipients for a laser beacon he intends to build at a facility in Polynesia. He describes the target race as transient occupants of a planet within our solar system who are angry about the deteriorating condition of Earth.

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August 5, 1997: Alternative Cancer Treatments - Bob Guccione

Aug 540mBob Guccione

Art Bell speaks with Penthouse Magazine publisher Bob Guccione about his wife Kathy Keaton's remarkable recovery from terminal stage four breast cancer. Diagnosed two years earlier with cancer that had spread throughout her lymph nodes, liver, stomach, and bones, Kathy was given three to six weeks to live. She refused chemotherapy and radiation, instead choosing hydrazine sulfate, an inexpensive compound Penthouse had investigated for 18 years.Bob details how hydrazine sulfate combats cachexia, the wasting process that ultimately kills cancer patients, while also shrinking tumors. He describes flying staff to Japan and Italy to obtain vitamin K3, a complementary treatment unavailable in the United States due to pharmaceutical industry resistance. He reports that Kathy is now in complete remission and healthier than ever, at a treatment cost of roughly $150 per year compared to tens of thousands for conventional therapy.Bob describes how the National Cancer Institute sabotaged UCLA clinical trials by administering incompatible substances to 600 patients, then declared hydrazine sulfate ineffective. He announces plans for a class action lawsuit and urges families of the trial participants to contact Penthouse with their stories.

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August 8, 1997: Open Lines - Men in Black, Time Travelers

Aug 82h 42m

Art Bell opens the phone lines on a Friday night with a twist, designating his first-time caller line exclusively for men in black, time travelers, and anyone claiming to possess a time machine. Several callers rise to the occasion, beginning with a self-described "auditor" who claims men in black are outdated biological drones created from insect templates with human genetic material impressed upon them. He says their files are full of holes and they desperately need upgrading.A second caller identifies himself as both a man in black and a time traveler, offering elaborate claims about the Roswell crash being staged technology, Phoenix being prepared as a future provincial capital of Earth, and a coming revolution in 2018. He says the hierarchy controlling the men in black has been taken over by a new female leader who has decided to let information flow to the public. A self-proclaimed time machine inventor then calls to describe his "fidget," a handheld device made from bicycle chain links that he says helps users manipulate their perception of time.Between calls, Art discusses the UPS strike, new crop circle formations near Silbury Hill in England, and a possible response to a message sent through crop circles. He also previews his upcoming appearance on the TBS program Topics about American conspiracy culture.

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August 10, 1997: Abductions - Budd Hopkins

Aug 102h 2mBudd Hopkins

Art Bell welcomes abduction researcher Budd Hopkins for a Dreamland broadcast that begins with a discussion of media attacks on UFO investigators. Budd recounts how the PBS program NOVA set him up during filming, suppressing the most compelling footage of a husband describing his family's abduction while editing hypnosis sessions to falsely suggest he was leading witnesses. Linda Moulton Howe reports on Bigfoot sightings near Ochopee, Florida, where multiple tour guides and a fire chief observed a tall primate creature, followed by visits from men in black and mysterious helicopter activity.Budd then shares the extraordinary case documented in his book Witnessed, in which a woman was floated out of her twelfth-story New York City apartment window in a beam of light in November 1989. Multiple independent witnesses came forward, including government security agents protecting a major political figure whose motorcade had stalled below due to electromagnetic effects. A woman on the Brooklyn Bridge and other observers corroborated identical details.The discussion turns to the purpose behind abductions. Budd explains that the phenomenon centers on genetic harvesting and hybridization, with alien beings extracting human reproductive material and later presenting hybrid children to their human parents. He notes the beings seem envious of human emotional depth, a quality they appear to lack entirely.

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August 11, 1997: UPS strike

Aug 1142m

Art Bell dedicates the opening hours of his program to the UPS strike entering its second week, calling it a growing national emergency. He restricts phone lines to UPS employees, management personnel, and union representatives, arguing that the walkout by 200,000 Teamsters is crippling small businesses across America that depend on the delivery of nearly 12 million packages daily. He questions why President Clinton, who intervened in the baseball strike, refuses to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act despite $2.4 million in Teamster campaign contributions.A UPS management caller contradicts union claims that part-time workers receive no benefits, stating that all part-timers who reach seniority get full medical, dental, and vision coverage. An 18-year part-time feeder driver confirms he earns $17.89 per hour with excellent benefits and says he chose part-time work for the lifestyle flexibility. Both callers express frustration at being kept in the dark by negotiators in Washington and support giving rank-and-file members an opportunity to vote on the company's offer.A third caller, a preloader and air driver, identifies the pension plan as the central sticking point, explaining that UPS wants to take over pension management from the Teamsters. He supports the strike on the pension issue but agrees the membership should be allowed to vote on the proposal rather than having the decision made entirely by union leadership.

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August 11, 1997: Atlantis & Hollow Earth - Dr. Wendy Lockwood | Mr. Fidget

Aug 112h 42mDr. Wendy Lockwood, Fred Bell, Mr. Fidget

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Wendy Lockwood, who claims firsthand knowledge of Atlantis through astral projection and decades of study in esoteric traditions. She describes Atlantis as a series of ten islands in the Atlantic that sank 50,000 years ago after a devastating war with Lemuria, and insists the lost continent is now beginning to rise, with the eruption of Montserrat serving as early evidence.Dr. Lockwood discusses the hollow earth theory, asserting she has visited the inner world through astral travel and encountered diverse races of beings living beneath the surface. She connects the Great Pyramids to Atlantean builders and describes them as portals to both the inner earth and other planets. Callers challenge her claims while others share their own encounters with underground phenomena, including the mysterious hum reported across the Southwest.In the second half, Mr. Fidget impossibly gets through the phone lines again from a Santa Cruz payphone, prompting a growing crowd of listeners to gather around him. A truck driver, a scoutmaster, and a local artist all verify his presence as he hands out fidgets and explains his philosophy of stress relief through tactile engagement.

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August 15, 1997: Cancer Cure - Kathy Keeton

Aug 1541mKathy Keeton

Art Bell speaks with Kathy Keeton, wife of Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione and co-founder of Omni magazine, about her battle with late-stage breast cancer. Diagnosed in 1995 with stage four cancer that had spread throughout her body, doctors gave her weeks to live and recommended chemotherapy with only a 20 percent chance of remission. Keeton refused conventional treatment and instead chose hydrazine sulfate, an inexpensive drug costing roughly three dollars per week.Keeton describes how within ten weeks of taking hydrazine sulfate, a major tumor wrapped around her aorta had completely disappeared. She explains that the drug works by redirecting nutrition back to the body and starving tumors, while requiring a strict diet that excludes certain amino acids, alcohol, and sleeping pills. She notes a 65 percent cure rate across 76 studies conducted over 17 years in Russia and advocates for an intravenous form to push effectiveness even higher.She criticizes the National Cancer Institute for suppressing information about the drug and urges listeners to seek details through Penthouse magazine or public libraries. Callers share their own experiences with alternative treatments while Keeton directs those interested to contact Dr. Joseph Gold in Syracuse for medical guidance.

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August 17, 1997: At Peace in the Light - Dannion Brinkley | Pfiesteria 'Cell from Hell' - Linda Moulton Howe

Aug 172h 51mDannion Brinkley, Linda Moulton Howe

Art Bell presents a Dreamland broadcast featuring Linda Moulton Howe reporting on environmental crises and Dannion Brinkley discussing his recent encounters with Egyptian researchers. Linda covers the spreading threat of Pfiesteria, a toxic dinoflagellate devastating fish populations along the East Coast, with nearly 100 percent of juvenile menhaden in North Carolina rivers showing fatal sores. She also reports on worldwide ocean pollution, shark overfishing, and a massive El Nino forming across the Pacific.Dannion Brinkley recounts attending a conference with Dr. Zahi Hawass and Robert Bauval, describing their surprisingly cordial exchanges about ongoing discoveries at Giza. He shares his perception that Hawass knows more than he publicly reveals but believes his honesty and integrity would prevail if a major discovery were made. Dannion connects the unfolding archaeological revelations in Egypt, China, and South America to the return of what Edgar Cayce called Christ consciousness.Art shares a personal endorsement of Brinkley, confirming that Dannion sensed a crisis in his life from thousands of miles away without being told. Dannion discusses his ongoing health struggles from being struck by lightning twice and his work with dying veterans through his Twilight Brigade hospice program.

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August 18, 1997: Open Lines

Aug 1841m

Art Bell hosts an open lines evening under a full moon, covering a wide range of news and listener calls. He opens with updates on the UPS strike settlement, ongoing troubles aboard the Mir space station where the main computer crashed during a resupply docking, and growing concerns about the volcano on Montserrat that British officials warn could produce a catastrophic eruption engulfing the entire island.Art announces a newly posted photograph of Area 51 on his website, calling it the best image he has ever seen of the classified facility. He also promotes the Rogue Market, an online stock trading game where listeners can invest fake money in media personalities, urging his audience to buy Art Bell stock and overtake Howard Stern and Don Imus. A caller from Altoona asks about his UFO sighting, and Art confirms he once saw one at close range, an encounter that sparked his intense interest in the subject.The evening takes a strange turn when Art reveals he has been contacted by surviving members of the Heaven's Gate group and may conduct an interview. A caller reports seeing an object speeding past the Mir space station from eastern Washington, leading Art to speculate about electromagnetic pulses and the mysterious computer failure aboard the station.

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August 19, 1997: Rocket Science - David Adair

Aug 193h 25mDavid Adair

Art Bell welcomes David Adair, a self-described child prodigy turned rocket scientist who claims he built an electromagnetic fusion containment engine at age 17. Adair recounts growing up in his father's machine shop, originally used for building race car engines for Lee Petty, where he constructed increasingly powerful rockets starting at age 12. His first liquid fuel rocket reached 80,000 feet, and his work eventually attracted the attention of Congressman John Ashbrook and retired General Curtis LeMay.Adair describes how his mathematical work on fusion containment fields paralleled the research of a young Stephen Hawking, whom he met at Ohio State University in 1969. With congressional funding and military authorization, he built a fusion engine and launched it from White Sands in June 1971, with the rocket redirected to land at Groom Lake. Upon arriving at the classified base, he was taken into the center hangar and lowered 200 feet underground on a massive elevator platform.In the subterranean facility, Adair says he was shown an engine identical to his own design but scaled to the size of a school bus. He discusses technology transfer from the space program to consumer products, criticizes NASA for the preventable Challenger disaster, and predicts artificial intelligence will soon transform civilization. Adair testified under oath before Congress on April 9, 1997, about recovered extraterrestrial hardware.

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August 20, 1997: Moon Hoax Debate - Richard C. Hoagland vs. James Collier

Aug 202h 35mRichard C. Hoagland, James Collier

Art Bell hosts a fiery debate between Richard C. Hoagland and filmmaker James Collier over one of the most provocative questions in American history: did we actually go to the moon? The program opens with a discussion of Pat Robertson's controversial remarks suggesting Biblical punishment for UFO believers, featuring commentary from journalist Skip Porteous and former 700 Club co-host Danuta Soderman.The main event pits Collier, who argues that photographic evidence proves the Apollo missions were faked, against Hoagland, who maintains the missions were real but that NASA concealed what astronauts found on the lunar surface. They clash over film technology, shadow angles, the famous rover rooster tail footage, and whether specialized Kodak film could survive lunar temperatures. Hoagland introduces his own twist, claiming some Apollo photographs were indeed staged in studios, not to fake the missions but to hide evidence of ancient structures on the moon.Art referees the rapid-fire exchanges, scoring rounds like a boxing match while pressing both guests for hard evidence. The debate produces no clear winner but raises sharp questions about photographic anomalies that neither side fully resolves.

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August 22, 1997: Theoretical Physics - Dr. Michio Kaku

Aug 222h 35mDr. Michio Kaku

Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku for a wide-ranging conversation about ten-dimensional hyperspace, time travel, and the classification of civilizations in the universe. Dr. Kaku explains that humanity is a Type 0 civilization, still dependent on dead plants for energy, and describes how Type 1, 2, and 3 civilizations could harness planetary, stellar, and galactic power respectively.The discussion covers how higher dimensions could explain phenomena commonly associated with the paranormal, from objects passing through walls to instantaneous teleportation. Dr. Kaku describes black holes not as collapsed points but as spinning rings that could function as gateways to other regions of spacetime, providing the scientific basis for wormholes and stargates depicted in popular films like Contact and Stargate.Art and Dr. Kaku also examine the grandfather paradox of time travel, which quantum theory resolves through parallel universes that split like soap bubbles. They discuss self-replicating von Neumann probes as the logical method for advanced civilizations to explore the galaxy, the future of DNA manipulation, and whether humanity will survive its transition from Type 0 to Type 1.

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August 29, 1997: Best of Open Lines - Mel's Hole, Area 51 Pilot, Bugs, Robert Salas, & more..

Aug 293h 19mRobert Salas

This special Labor Day weekend compilation showcases some of the most memorable moments from the Art Bell archives. The program opens with a return visit from Mel, the Washington State man who claims to have a bottomless hole on his rural property near Ellensburg. Mel reports letting down over 80,000 feet of fishing line without hitting bottom, and shares local legends including a story about a dead dog thrown into the hole that was later seen alive wearing its original collar.The second hour features the classic call from a man identifying himself as a pilot flying a homebuilt Long-EZ aircraft directly into restricted Area 51 airspace. He describes searchlights, a scrambled F-16, and something rising from an underground elevator before the call cuts out abruptly. The program also includes segments on Bigfoot, with a caller named Dan from Missouri describing a nighttime encounter with a creature standing ten to twelve feet tall, accompanied by a blue ball of light.An update from Mel reveals he has signed a lucrative lease agreement for his property and plans to emigrate to Australia, with a stipulation that his remains be disposed of in the hole upon his death.

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September 1, 1997: Mars Images - Richard C. Hoagland & Ron Nicks

Sep 13h 25mRichard C. Hoagland, Ron Nicks

Art Bell returns from a week-long vacation in Alaska to share photographs and stories from his trip before opening the phone lines. Callers weigh in on the death of Princess Diana, debating whether the paparazzi or the intoxicated driver bears primary responsibility for the crash. Art maintains that the driver, who had three times the legal blood alcohol limit and was traveling at roughly 121 miles per hour, is the most likely cause rather than the pursuing photographers.At midnight, Richard C. Hoagland and geologist Ron Nicks join the program to present new findings from Mars Pathfinder images. Nicks, a 35-year veteran of engineering geology, reports that features near the Pathfinder landing site display geometric patterns and orientations difficult to explain through natural geological processes. Hoagland describes what he calls artifacts, broken machines, and geometric debris scattered across the landscape at 19.5 degrees north latitude on Mars.The team raises concerns that NASA appears to be discarding half the gray-scale information from its publicly released images, with independent analyst Jim Diletoso confirming the observation. Hoagland theorizes the landing site sits within the debris field of ancient structures destroyed by catastrophic flooding.

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September 2, 1997: Merle Haggard Interview

Sep 23h 6mMerle Haggard

Art Bell sits down with country music legend Merle Haggard for a freewheeling conversation that ranges from Princess Diana's death to UFO sightings, prison reform, and the changing American landscape. Haggard recounts his troubled youth, from riding freight trains at age eleven to landing in San Quentin at nineteen, where a cell next to death row inmate Caryl Chessman sparked a life-changing moment of clarity that set him on the path to becoming one of country music's all-time bestselling artists.The conversation shifts to the old days of Las Vegas when the mob kept order, Haggard's friendship with casino owner Benny Binion, and the time he lost $25,000 to a quick-handed hotel waiter during an Elvis show. Haggard shares his own UFO encounter near Vandenberg Air Force Base and his wife's sighting of five objects over the Colorado River during the Phoenix Lights period. He advocates for ending the drug war and legalizing marijuana, arguing that hemp could revitalize American farming.Art and Merle find common ground discussing strange weather patterns, the feeling that civilization is approaching a major turning point, and the mysterious booming sounds both hear regularly from the direction of Area 51.

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September 3, 1997: Gulf War Syndrome - Joyce Riley | Ocean Warming - Stan Deyo

Sep 32h 48mJoyce Riley, Stan Deyo

Art Bell welcomes nurse-turned-advocate Joyce Riley, who presents declassified government documents about experimental vaccines given to Gulf War veterans without informed consent. Riley reveals that a Tri-Service Vaccine Task Force authorized untested immunizations, including an investigational cholera vaccine and hepatitis A vaccine, as part of what internal memos called a "Manhattan-like project" to evaluate vaccines in an operational setting.Riley shares her belief that squalene, an unapproved oil-based adjuvant found in the blood of 400 Gulf War veterans, points to a secret anti-AIDS vaccine experiment conducted on military personnel. She reports that 80 percent of affected veterans have transmitted the illness to family members and that 700,000 shot records have gone missing. Riley also discusses video evidence of U.S.-marked chemical weapons found inside Iraqi bunkers at Khamisiyah.In the final hours, Stan Deyo joins from Perth, Australia, to discuss alarming ocean warming patterns in the Pacific. He describes sea surface temperatures reaching 500 percent above the previous year and warns of coming crop failures and severe weather tied to what the UN calls potentially the most damaging El Nino event ever recorded.

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September 4, 1997: Murder in Brentwood - Mark Fuhrman

Sep 43h 54mMark Fuhrman

Art Bell sits down with retired LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman to discuss his 20-year career in law enforcement and his book "Murder in Brentwood." Fuhrman shares candid reflections on working gangs in the late 1970s, watching crack cocaine transform street crime, and the emotional toll of two decades on the force. He describes the dark humor that sustains officers and the crisis point where many decide whether to stay or leave the job.The conversation turns to the O.J. Simpson case, where Fuhrman recounts discovering key evidence at both the Bundy and Rockingham crime scenes. He explains how the case was taken from his division by Robbery-Homicide detectives Lange and Vannatter, who he says failed to collect a bloody fingerprint on the rear gate and left critical evidence behind. Fuhrman addresses the perjury charge, the controversial tapes from a screenplay project, and reveals he passed a polygraph covering every allegation against him.Art and Fuhrman also discuss the NYPD plunger assault case, civilian concealed carry laws, the code of silence among officers, and whether TV cameras belong in courtrooms. Fuhrman argues that the Simpson trial was lost in the first 12 hours and that Judge Ito never controlled his courtroom. Callers press him on the case throughout the night.

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September 6, 1997: OBEs - Dr. Albert Taylor

Sep 62h 55mDr. Albert Taylor

Art Bell welcomes back engineer and author Albert Taylor, whose book "Soul Traveler" is being developed into a feature film by four major studios. Taylor, who helped design the stealth fighter, the B-1 bomber, and components for the International Space Station, describes his lifelong out-of-body experiences and explains how sleep paralysis serves as a gateway to conscious soul travel. He offers practical techniques for listeners struggling to break through the fear barrier.Taylor describes verifying his experiences by visiting colleagues and accurately describing details of their homes he had never physically seen. He explains that the soul can perceive physical reality, pass through walls, and travel at speeds far beyond light. The conversation takes an unexpected turn when Taylor discusses astral sex, describing sensations ten times more intense than anything physical. Art admits he has experienced sleep paralysis many times but has never been able to let go of the fear and cross over.Taylor also recounts a troubling experience with time travel in which he witnessed his own future marital breakdown, which later came to pass despite his efforts to prevent it. He warns listeners that seeing the future carries emotional risks. The program opens with updates on Dannion Brinkley recovering from three brain aneurysms and the passing of Mother Teresa.

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September 8, 1997: Roswell - Richard C. Hoagland, Frances Barwood, Stephen Bassett, Linda Moulton Howe

Sep 82h 48mRichard C. Hoagland, Frances Barwood, Stephen Bassett, Linda Moulton Howe

Art Bell assembles a panel to examine new evidence connecting Roswell to modern technology. Linda Moulton Howe reports on a former Bell Labs consultant who claims the transistor was not invented through normal research but was back-engineered from technology recovered at the 1947 Roswell crash site. The consultant asserts the Army delivered alien switching devices made of silicon and arsenic to Bell Labs in September 1947 and that a cover story was manufactured under President Truman's orders.The consultant corroborates retired Army Colonel Philip Corso's account of extraterrestrial technology transfers to American defense contractors. He describes two delta-shaped craft retrieved near Roswell, one damaged and approximately 40 feet across, the other intact at 76 feet. A 1961 eyewitness named Devin Ryan reports seeing a similar wedge-shaped craft and three transparent-skinned beings with six fingers at Area 51.Phoenix Councilwoman Frances Barwood discusses a photograph published in the Arizona Republic on July 9, 1947, showing a wedge-shaped craft over Phoenix taken by aircraft identifier William Rhodes. She reveals the FBI confiscated his negatives and never returned them. Barwood faces a recall election the next day for asking questions about the 1997 Phoenix Lights. UFO lobbyist Stephen Bassett and Richard C. Hoagland argue that her case represents a political turning point for the disclosure movement.

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September 9, 1997: Open Lines

Sep 92h 54m

Art Bell opens with encouraging news that Dannion Brinkley's three brain aneurysms have stopped bleeding and surgery may no longer be necessary. He credits the prayers of listeners and discusses CNN's recent reporting on the power of prayer, noting that placebos work 70 to 90 percent of the time through faith alone. Art also announces that his book "The Quickening" has debuted at number 22 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list and number six on the business list.Callers respond to the previous night's program about Bell Labs and Roswell. A listener shares a story from a former NASA instructor who said the leap from vacuum tubes to microchips was not invented but "deciphered" with "a little help from above." Art breaks news from an underground source that the American Chemical Society, meeting in Las Vegas, plans to reveal that the U.S. leaked significant radiation during underground nuclear testing in Nevada, with the Department of Energy expected to confirm it.Frances Barwood calls in to announce she has won her recall election with 47 percent of the vote, defeating two opponents despite being outspent five to one. Art retells his own close encounter with a massive, silent, triangular craft that passed roughly 100 feet above him in the Pahrump Valley. He dedicates the final hour exclusively to Canadian callers in celebration of the show's rapid expansion across Canada.

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September 11, 1997: Open Lines with Area 51 Employees Call-in

Sep 113h 14m

Art Bell opens a special phone line for current and former Area 51 employees willing to share their secrets. The evening begins with a heartfelt hospital room interview with Dannion Brinkley, who describes his battle with three brain aneurysms and the healing power of prayer and love he received from listeners during his crisis.Callers on the Area 51 line deliver a range of extraordinary claims. One self-described former employee says he lived at the S4 facility and was ordered to disclose information about recovered craft from parallel timelines, a planet called Lanulos, and revelations planned for July 1998. Another caller claims to be a time traveler from the year 2072, when Area 51 serves as the relocated national capital following catastrophic events around the turn of the century.Art fields calls from across the country, including a listener who describes secret satellite dish installations in Morocco and another who proposes trick questions to verify real Area 51 workers. The evening blends sincere emotional moments with some of the most outlandish caller claims in the history of the program.

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September 12, 1997: Psychic Ability & Life After Death - James Van Praagh

Sep 122h 47mJames Van Praagh

Art Bell welcomes medium James Van Praagh for a wide-ranging conversation about psychic ability, life after death, and communication with the spirit world. The episode opens with a replay of the previous night's extraordinary moment when a frantic Area 51 caller was cut off as the broadcast satellite lost Earth lock, an event GE AmeriCom confirmed had never occurred before.Van Praagh describes how his mediumistic abilities emerged in his early twenties and explains his work as a survival evidence medium, bringing through specific names, places, and details from the deceased that he could not otherwise know. He discusses the nature of the soul, reincarnation, different spiritual levels, and what happens during a life review after death. He shares his view that the fear of death is humanity's greatest obstacle and that understanding the spirit world would transform how people treat one another.The conversation touches on ghosts, suicide, electronic communication with the dead through instrumental transcommunication, and Van Praagh's personal encounter with non-human intelligences near Sedona, Arizona. Callers ask about trapped spirits, the afterlife, and whether prayer truly reaches the other side.

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September 18, 1997: Phoenix Lights, Hale Bopp - Ed Dames

Sep 181h 53mEd Dames

Art Bell sits down with Major Ed Dames of PsyTech for a packed evening covering the Phoenix Lights, Comet Hale-Bopp, remote viewing, and dire predictions for the near future. Dames presents his controversial conclusion that the March 1997 Phoenix Lights were a laser-generated hoax orchestrated by a television network seeking ratings, claiming his remote viewers found no physical structure in the sky above the city.The conversation takes a darker turn as Dames outlines what his technical remote viewing team has identified as coming threats. He describes a cylinder that separated from Hale-Bopp carrying a plant pathogen expected to impact equatorial Africa, killing green plant life for roughly four years. He also predicts the next use of a nuclear weapon will occur on the Korean Peninsula, delivered by missile from the North against the South, followed by a reactor-based incident in northern Spain.Dames recommends chlorella and earthworms as survival food sources for the difficult years ahead and discusses global economic collapse, severe weather tied to El Nino, and the spiritual dimensions he has encountered through years of remote viewing research into the collective unconscious.

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September 19, 1997: Predictions of Major Earth Changes - Gordon Michael Scallion & Stan Deyo

Sep 192h 46mGordon Michael Scallion, Stan Deyo

Art Bell welcomes futurist Gordon Michael Scallion for his first appearance in over a year, along with open lines and updates on Dannion Brinkley's worsening medical condition. Scallion recounts the traumatic 1979 event that launched his career as a visionary, when he lost his voice during a business presentation and began receiving vivid holographic visions of ancient cities, future catastrophes, and a mysterious female figure who told him he had entered the time stream.Scallion explains how years of performing thousands of medical-intuitive readings drained his health, forcing him into a year of recovery and the completion of his book, Notes from the Cosmos. He describes his system of seeing three possible futures, with the brightest and most vivid image representing the most probable outcome. Six weeks before this broadcast, however, he saw only one vision remaining for the first time, with the other two possibilities gone entirely.His trance source revealed that an internal pole shift occurred around mid-July 1997, the third such event since the 1930s. Scallion warns this shift will cause rising ocean temperatures far beyond a normal El Nino, satellite and aircraft electronic failures from magnetic pulses, and the beginning of tectonic disruptions leading into 1998.

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September 22, 1997: Egyptian Pyramids - Boris Said

Sep 222h 45mBoris Said

Art Bell welcomes filmmaker and documentarian Boris Said for a revealing conversation about the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, and his bitter falling out with the Schor Expedition. Said, the Emmy Award-winning producer of the NBC special The Mystery of the Sphinx, shares his theory that the Great Pyramid is not a tomb but a sophisticated scientific instrument tuned to the resonant frequency of the Earth itself.He describes sonic experiments conducted by NASA consultant Tom Danley inside the King's Chamber, where sub-audible vibrations below nine hertz were detected even in silence. When raised several octaves, these tones produced an F-sharp chord, a frequency that ancient Egyptian texts and Native American shamans alike associate with the Earth. Said proposes that the pyramid may have functioned as a means of inducing altered states of consciousness, possibly serving as a gateway to other dimensions.Said also details ground-penetrating radar confirmation of a rectangular chamber beneath the Sphinx's paws and his discovery of a polished black granite sarcophagus lid inside a well shaft near the causeway. He explains how the Schor Foundation's revoked permit and a controlling Fox Network contract led to the suppression of this footage and his decision to finally speak publicly.

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September 23, 1997: Reverse Speech - David John Oates

Sep 232h 42mDavid John Oates

Art Bell welcomes reverse speech researcher David John Oates, calling in from Anchorage, Alaska, for an evening of startling audio reversals found hidden in human speech. Oates explains his theory that the brain constructs two simultaneous messages when speaking: one forward from the conscious mind, and one in reverse from the unconscious.The session features reversals from public figures including Mike Tyson, whose apology after the ear-biting incident yields a childlike phrase a caller later identifies as old boxing slang for "punch drunk." Queen Elizabeth's speech following Princess Diana's death produces unsettling reversals suggesting the royal family views the tragedy as politically convenient. President Clinton's tobacco regulation announcement contains a reversal about paying for drugs. Mark Fuhrman's reversals reveal unexpected compassion toward gang members rather than the hostility many anticipated.Oates also analyzes the famous frantic Area 51 caller who knocked the show off the air, finding three high-confidence reversals. Children's speech reversals demonstrate the phenomenon appearing as early as four months of age, and Oates describes new software capable of detecting reversals by their unique tonal signature.

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September 24, 1997: Theoretical Physics - Dr. Michio Kaku

Sep 242h 46mDr. Michio Kaku

Art Bell hosts theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku of the City University of New York for a far-reaching conversation about the scientific breakthroughs awaiting humanity over the next century. Drawing from interviews with 150 top scientists, including six Nobel laureates, Kaku outlines coming revolutions in genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and space exploration.Kaku describes the recent isolation of genes linked to cellular aging, including telomerase, and predicts that within 20 years gene therapy could allow patients to receive injections that correct hereditary diseases. He envisions human lifespans potentially doubling to 200 years as organs become replaceable through cellular regeneration. On computing, he forecasts invisible, ubiquitous intelligence embedded in walls, furniture, and clothing within two decades, with human-level machine consciousness emerging within 50 to 100 years.The discussion turns to Kardashev's civilization scale, where humanity rates as Type 0 and faces the critical challenge of reaching Type 1 without destroying itself. Kaku explains string theory, wormholes, and the energy requirements for interdimensional travel, noting that Einstein's equations technically permit time travel for sufficiently advanced civilizations.

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September 25, 1997: Life of Learning Foundation - Guy Finley | Travel Tips - Ramona Bell

Sep 253h 3mGuy Finley, Ramona Bell

Art Bell speaks with bestselling author Guy Finley about what Finley calls the "intimate enemy," the internal psychological nature that keeps people trapped in cycles of reactive behavior. Finley, raised in a Hollywood show business family, describes how witnessing unhappiness among the wealthy and famous launched his lifelong study of self-development and higher consciousness.The conversation becomes a spirited philosophical debate as Art pushes back against Finley's position that anger is always a destructive force. Art argues passionately for the existence of "rational anger," sharing personal stories of seeking constructive revenge against those who wronged him, including someone whose negligence killed his beloved dog. Finley counters that negative emotional states possess people rather than serve them, comparing destructive thoughts to a shark offering a friendly ride. Callers join the discussion, including a law enforcement officer who bridges both perspectives.Later in the program, Art's wife Ramona comes on to share practical overseas travel tips ahead of their upcoming trip to Egypt, Greece, Israel, and Rome, advising listeners on packing strategies and what to leave behind.

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September 26, 1997: UFOs & Area 51 - Bob Lazar

Sep 262h 42mBob Lazar

Art Bell sits down with physicist Bob Lazar and his longtime friend Gene Huff for a rare and detailed interview about Lazar's work back-engineering extraterrestrial craft at a facility called S4, located roughly 15 miles south of Area 51 in the Nevada desert. Lazar recounts how a chance meeting with Edward Teller at Los Alamos National Laboratory eventually led to his recruitment for the classified project.Lazar describes the extensive security protocols he encountered, including signing away constitutional rights, submitting to phone monitoring, and undergoing allergen testing for exotic materials. He recalls walking past a sleek, saucer-shaped craft he dubbed the "sport model," initially believing it to be an advanced American fighter due to a small American flag sticker on its hull. He later learned the facility housed nine craft of varying designs, all sharing identical reactor and propulsion systems, with his assignment focused solely on understanding the power and propulsion technology.A surprise call from Stan Deyo in Perth, Australia, who claims his own recruitment by Teller into a related anti-gravity research program, adds an unexpected layer. Deyo describes a secretive organization operating since the 1950s on dozens of propulsion-related projects.

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October 20, 1997: Art's Egypt Trip

Oct 2048mArt Bell

Art Bell returns from an 18-day journey through Greece, the Greek islands, Israel, Rome, and Egypt, dedicating the broadcast to recounting his extraordinary experiences. The centerpiece is his visit to Giza, where Director of Antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawass granted him unrestricted access to the entire plateau, including areas normally closed to visitors.Art describes watching a single worker split a five-ton granite block with only a sledgehammer in two minutes, which Hawass presented as proof of ancient construction methods. Inside the Great Pyramid, Art climbed to the King's Chamber and lay in the sarcophagus, experiencing what he describes as a deep, unmistakable vibrational resonance unlike anything he had ever encountered. He also visited the Sphinx excavation site and a then-undisclosed burial ground containing hundreds of graves of pyramid workers, complete with pristine hieroglyphics.Beyond Egypt, Art recounts seeing Pope John Paul II at the Vatican by pure chance, touching the birthplace of Christ in Bethlehem and the site of the crucifixion in Jerusalem, sneaking into the closed Colosseum in Rome, and making what he believes was the first live radio broadcast from the base of the Great Pyramid using a satellite phone.

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October 21, 1997: Open Lines - Weird Person Line

Oct 212h 46m

Art Bell opens the phone lines with a twist, dedicating a special "weird person line" to finding the strangest caller in America. The idea comes after Strange Universe invites him to judge their upcoming weird person contest, and Art wastes no time testing the waters with his own audience.The results do not disappoint. Callers include a man who manufactures and sells orgasm machines as a legitimate business, a collector who keeps a coffee can full of celebrity toenails and once followed a single ant for five hours, and a listener who claims he can control the wind within a fifteen-mile radius. A caller with the ultra-rare blood type "RH equal" says he never catches colds or the flu, prompting Art to joke that science needs his blood.Between calls, Art plays exclusive audio recordings from his recent trip to Egypt, capturing Zahi Hawass splitting a five-ton granite block and dismissing claims that anything significant lies beneath the Sphinx. Art also discusses global warming, the finite supply of fossil fuels, and the profitable industry built around the common cold.

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October 22, 1997: Nuclear Submarine - Officer X

Oct 222h 40mOfficer X

Art Bell interviews a former U.S. Navy submarine communications officer, identified only as "Officer X," who reveals a harrowing incident from his time aboard the USS Ulysses S. Grant during the Libya crisis of the 1980s. When a series of equipment failures cut all communications for six hours at DEFCON 3, the crew found themselves unable to confirm whether nuclear war had begun.Officer X describes how the navigation officer, convinced the worst had happened, began rallying crew members toward launching nuclear weapons. The captain posted armed guards at the small arms locker as tensions escalated. Only the calm intervention of the executive officer and a risky decision to deploy an antenna near the surface restored contact with the outside world. The fault turned out to be a shorted trailing wire combined with a Scottish transmitter station going offline.The interview ends abruptly when Officer X receives a phone call during a break and announces he must leave immediately. Art suspects he was contacted and told to stop talking. The episode also previews a controversial upcoming interview with a self-proclaimed satanic witch named Harlot.

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October 23, 1997: Harlot the Witch | Cusco - Michael Holm

Oct 233h 19mMichael Holm, Cusco

Art Bell welcomes Michael Holm, the musical genius behind Cusco, live from Bavaria, Germany, to discuss the creation of Apurimac 3. Holm describes how he composes melodies while riding his horse through the Bavarian countryside and how visiting buffalo in Colorado inspired one of the album's centerpieces. Listeners call in to suggest Polynesian and ocean themes for a potential Apurimac 4.The second half takes a sharp turn as Art interviews a self-described satanic witch named Harlot. She claims to be a fourth-generation practitioner from a bloodline that made a pact with the devil during a period of starvation generations ago. She describes her mission as spreading evil, destroying families, and infiltrating churches while secretly worshiping Satan. She states she fully accepts eternal damnation and feels no remorse.Art presses her on the logic of choosing a side she admits will lose. Harlot responds that Satan seeks vengeance, not victory, and that her purpose is to inflict maximum damage on God's creation before the apocalypse. The broadcast draws intense listener reaction from both supporters and critics.

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October 27, 1997: Stock Market, Gold, & Debt - Andrew Gause & Don McAlvany

Oct 272h 46mAndrew Gause

Art Bell brings on currency historian Andrew Gause to break down the stock market bloodbath of October 27, 1997, when the Dow Jones fell 554 points, its largest single-day point drop in history. Gause explains how the Federal Reserve will likely flood the system with liquidity to prevent total collapse, warning that the inevitable consequence is severe inflation.Gause traces the crisis beyond the Asian currency collapses, pointing to overinflated price-to-earnings ratios, rampant margin buying by individual investors, and mutual fund managers who leveraged their holdings. He predicts another 1,500 to 2,500 points of decline and issues a strong buy signal on gold coins, arguing that physical gold represents the only reliable store of value. He also describes how insiders likely exited the market weeks before the crash.Don McAlvany follows in the second half, characterizing the market as a speculative mania rather than a healthy bull run. With 75 million Americans invested in the most overpriced market in history, he warns the correction is far from over. Both guests recommend moving 40 to 60 percent of investment funds into physical gold.

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October 28, 1997: Mars, Free Energy, UFOs - Dr. Brian O'Leary

Oct 283h 19mDr. Brian O'Leary

Art Bell speaks with former NASA scientist-astronaut Dr. Brian O'Leary about Mars, free energy, UFOs, and the state of global consciousness. O'Leary, who received his Ph.D. in astronomy from UC Berkeley and was selected to go to Mars during the Apollo program, describes the current state of zero-point energy research as comparable to the era just after the Wright brothers flew.O'Leary argues that cold fusion technology could render radioactive waste harmless and that practical free energy devices are five to ten years away, held back primarily by oil industry resistance and lack of investment. He estimates that just one hundred million dollars would be enough to bring the concept to commercial viability. He also addresses the anomalous features at Cydonia on Mars, calling NASA's dismissal of them as mere tricks of shadow "absurd."Callers ask about remote viewing, which O'Leary confirms experiencing firsthand at Princeton, and about astronauts who have witnessed UFOs. He names Gordon Cooper and Ed Mitchell as fellow space program veterans who have reported sightings. Art and O'Leary also discuss global warming, the finite oil supply, and the urgent need for alternative energy sources.

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October 29, 1997: Ghosts - Brad Steiger

Oct 293h 7mBrad Steiger

Art Bell welcomes prolific paranormal author Brad Steiger for a Halloween eve discussion about ghosts and the supernatural. With over 130 books to his name, Steiger shares personal experiences from a lifetime of psychic research, including growing up in a haunted Iowa farmhouse where salt shakers lifted on their own and spectral great-grandparents appeared from closets. He recounts investigating a haunted mansion where a ghost materialized before a skeptical police officer and describes putting his hand directly into the apparition.Steiger offers his theory that roughly 90 percent of hauntings are psychic recordings replaying on a loop, though he acknowledges a remaining percentage involves genuine intelligent entities. He discusses his near-death experience at age 11 after a farm machinery accident, where he witnessed geometric patterns conveying purpose and meaning before arriving at a peaceful community on the other side. The conversation also covers his wife Sherry's mediumistic abilities and their investigation of a bed and breakfast where a deceased infant reached out to grasp her hand.The discussion ranges from the dangers of inviting dark spiritual forces to the parallels between ghost phenomena and UFO encounters. Steiger argues these manifestations represent a single interconnected phenomenon on what he calls a haunted planet. Art and Brad also explore reincarnation and the nature of the afterlife as they set the stage for the annual Ghost to Ghost broadcast.

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October 30, 1997: Ghost To Ghost 1997 - Night 1

Oct 303h 17m

Art Bell opens the 1997 Ghost to Ghost broadcast by recounting a terrifying experience from the previous night during his Brad Steiger interview. Something struck his studio door with tremendous force while no living person or animal in the house was responsible. With that unsettling setup, he turns the program over to callers sharing their own true ghost stories as Halloween arrives across American time zones.Callers report an astonishing range of encounters. A parapsychologist in Syracuse describes cold and hot spots followed by a massive bang in an attic. A truck driver witnesses a bowing shadow figure announce his grandfather's death moments before the phone confirms it. A woman in Boston watches her stalled car restart just long enough for her deceased father to guide her to safety. A man in Minneapolis recalls waking at age seven to find 15 to 20 translucent cocktail party guests from another era gathered in his kitchen, one of whom tucked him into bed.Among the most haunting stories, a young woman in Texas describes a spirit in a deceased woman's apartment that cleaned the kitchen, opened locked windows, and physically held a door shut against her. A motel desk clerk receives a phone call from the empty room next to a departed guest, hearing a distant elderly woman's voice. Art reads an Associated Press report confirming White House staff have witnessed the ghost of Abraham Lincoln roaming the halls.

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October 31, 1997: Ghost To Ghost 1997 - Night 2

Oct 313h 9m

Art Bell continues the annual Ghost to Ghost tradition on Halloween night with another marathon session of real ghost stories from listeners across the country and around the world. He opens by revisiting the mysterious door-pounding incident from his studio two nights earlier, noting that the vicarious thrill of hearing ghost stories becomes very different when the experience happens to you personally.Callers deliver a wide range of chilling accounts. A woman in Kansas City describes a spirit peeking its head and shoulders out of a bedroom closet, only for her boyfriend to casually identify it as a friendly presence. A former security guard at O'Hare Airport recounts how his roommates attempted to summon a demon using a protective circle, and after he sarcastically demanded a sign from the devil, a broken radio sealed inside a locked footlocker began playing on its own. A truck driver in Memphis describes a presence sitting on his waterbed and grabbing his ankle. From Vancouver, a caller shares years of terrifying activity in a home once occupied by three generations practicing voodoo, so severe that a priest refused to enter.Art poses a thought-provoking question throughout the night: if you woke up dead and found yourself invisible among the living, what would you do? Callers respond with answers that illuminate exactly why departed spirits behave the way witnesses describe them.

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November 4, 1997: Apollo 14 Astronaut - Dr. Edgar Mitchell

Nov 42h 0mDr. Edgar Mitchell

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person to walk on the moon during Apollo 14, covering topics from lunar exploration to consciousness research. Mitchell describes the difficulty of navigating the moon's deceptively undulating surface and reveals he secretly conducted a telepathy experiment during the flight, transmitting Zener card symbols to four receivers on Earth. The results showed odds of one in three thousand against chance, consistent with decades of laboratory findings.Mitchell shares his conviction that the 1947 Roswell incident involved a genuine crash and coverup, noting approximately 130 witnesses have come forward. He flatly denies Richard C. Hoagland's claims of glass structures on the moon, calling them pseudoscience. The conversation turns to zero-point energy research and the possibility that the speed of light might be locally modified. Mitchell describes how viewing Earth from space triggered a profound epiphany about the interconnectedness of all matter, launching his 25-year investigation into consciousness.Mitchell discusses his dyadic model of reality, which integrates quantum physics with mystical experience, and recounts how his mother was healed of glaucoma by a Buddhist shaman only to reject the healing when she learned he was not Christian. He argues that awareness is a fundamental attribute of nature rather than merely a product of biological evolution and that science must expand to accommodate first-person subjective experience.

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November 5, 1997: Awakening to Zero Point - Gregg Braden

Nov 52h 42mGregg Braden

Art Bell interviews former Earth scientist and aerospace engineer Gregg Braden about measurable changes occurring within the planet that ancient traditions predicted thousands of years ago. Braden explains that Earth's magnetic field has declined from a peak of 10 on a relative scale two thousand years ago to roughly 1.5 today, while the planet's base resonant frequency, historically stable at 7.8 hertz, has been rising since the mid-1980s. These two parameters appear to be converging toward what he calls zero point.Using the analogy of copper wire wound around an iron bar, Braden describes how Earth generates its magnetic field through the rotation of inner cores around an iron center. He explains that geologic records preserved in ocean floor lava reveal at least 14 magnetic reversals in the last 4.5 million years. The most recent occurred between 10,500 and 13,000 years ago, correlating with the end of the last ice age. Ancient calendars from Mayan, Egyptian, and Tibetan traditions all terminate in this current era.Braden presents research showing that human DNA may be a variable code responding to environmental conditions. He cites a 1996 global blood study revealing that a significant portion of the population has activated dormant genetic codes conferring high resistance to the AIDS virus. He argues that emotion serves as the biological switch controlling these genetic changes, connecting modern science to what the ancients called the technology of compassion.

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November 6, 1997: William Henry (Partial Interview)

Nov 61h 38mWilliam Henry

Art Bell welcomes researcher and author William Henry from Nashville to discuss his book "The Peacemaker and the Key of Life." Henry shares his background in subliminal messaging and the holographic paradigm before pivoting to his investigation of extraterrestrial involvement in human affairs. He presents his theory of a prophetic figure called the Peacemaker, a herald who will precede the return of the Messiah.Henry traces this figure across multiple traditions, from the Hopi and Iroquois to the Egyptians and the prophecies of Nostradamus. He connects Sumerian texts, the works of Zechariah Sitchin, and Gnostic scriptures to argue that the Old Testament God Yahweh is not the creator of the universe but rather a lesser being. Art challenges these assertions, and callers vigorously debate whether the Peacemaker might actually be the Antichrist.The conversation spans biblical interpretation, the Hall of Records beneath the Sphinx, the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau in France, and the possibility that a stargate will open at Armageddon. Henry also discusses the role of Mary Magdalene, the Sumerian creation story, and his belief that humanity is approaching a transformative cosmic event.

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November 7, 1997: HAARP - Nick Begich

Nov 72h 6mNick Begich

Art Bell is joined by Dr. Nick Begich to discuss Project HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program based in remote Gakona, Alaska. Begich, co-author of "Angels Don't Play This HAARP," explains how the phased array antenna system focuses unprecedented amounts of radio frequency energy into the ionosphere, with the developmental prototype rated at one billion watts and plans for up to one hundred billion.Begich details the military applications hidden behind public research claims, including the ability to block global communications, manipulate weather patterns by punching holes in the ionosphere, conduct earth-penetrating tomography, destroy low-orbit satellites through atmospheric drag, and potentially disable enemy forces through behavioral manipulation using extremely low frequency signals. He cites Secretary of Defense William Cohen acknowledging that electromagnetic weapons can alter climate and trigger earthquakes remotely.Art and Begich discuss the biological risks of ELF radiation that matches human brainwave frequencies, the project's new fiber optic link for remote operation, and how military officials have repeatedly misled legislators about the facility's true capabilities. Begich also describes the European Parliament's growing interest in investigating the project.

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November 9, 1997: Out of Body Experiences - Dr. Bruce Goldberg | Pfisteria, Wind Storms - Linda Moulton Howe

Nov 91h 57mDr. Bruce Goldberg, Linda Moulton Howe

Linda Moulton Howe reports on Pfiesteria, wind storms, and coral reef disease before Dr. Bruce Goldberg discusses out-of-body experiences, dimensional travel, and Peaceful Transition. Howe reports on the spread of Pfiesteria, the virtually indestructible dinoflagellate devastating fish populations along the U.S. East Coast, now suspected of crossing the Atlantic in ship ballast water. She also presents an alarming interview with University of Georgia ecologist Dr. James Porter, who documents a 276% increase in coral reef disease locations in the Florida Keys within a single year.Goldberg follows with a discussion of out-of-body experiences and his book "Peaceful Transition." He describes 13 planes of existence, from the physical earth plane through the astral, causal, mental, etheric, and soul planes, each with characteristic sounds. Goldberg explains the difference between unconscious dying, which perpetuates the karmic cycle, and conscious dying, which can liberate the soul from reincarnation.Goldberg also discusses dimensional travel through hyperspace, time travelers from the 30th century, and his challenge to Art to verify astral voyaging by describing what Art is wearing during a future broadcast. Art admits his own fear of attempting an out-of-body experience.

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November 10, 1997: Alien Coverup - Dan Sherman

Nov 103h 18mDan Sherman

Art Bell interviews former Air Force electronic intelligence specialist Dan Sherman about his book "Above Black," which details his involvement in a classified program called Project Preserve Destiny. Sherman describes being told by an NSA captain that his DNA had been genetically managed before birth as part of a program initiated after government contact with an alien species in 1947. His mother, he was informed, had been abducted in the early 1960s for genetic compatibility testing.Sherman recounts his training at an NSA facility where he learned to mentally flatten sine waves on a computer screen without any physical connection, developing what the military called intuitive communication abilities. Once stationed at his operational base, he spent over two years receiving transmissions from two alien contacts, initially consisting of number strings and military intelligence data including launch coordinates and temperature readings.The communications eventually shifted to abduction data, including latitude and longitude coordinates, residual pain levels, and potentiality for recall scores. This deeply disturbed Sherman. When his classified commander informed him he would never be allowed to leave the military, Sherman found a way to secure an honorable discharge and chose to share his compartmentalized piece of a much larger puzzle.

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November 11, 1997: Egypt & Archaeology - Boris Said & Tom Danley

Nov 113h 29mBoris Said, Tom Danley

Art Bell welcomes documentary filmmaker Boris Said and sonic engineer Tom Danley for an exploration of acoustic mysteries within the Great Pyramid at Giza. Danley, a former NASA consultant who conducted sonic tests in the King's Chamber, reveals that several resonances of the sarcophagus and the room harmonically coincide at the same frequencies. His measurements detected ambient low-frequency vibrations present even without artificial sound sources, some reaching as low as three hertz, well within the range of human brainwave activity.Danley explains that the pyramid's structure functions like a giant Helmholtz resonator, with wind passing over the air shafts producing infrasound that pervades the chamber. During one nighttime testing session, the low frequencies became so intense that the entire crew fled the King's Chamber, convinced an earthquake was occurring. He also notes that the resonant frequencies form an F-sharp chord, matching the tuning of Native American ceremonial flutes crafted 12,000 miles away.Boris Said discusses plans to access the 30-by-40-foot chamber detected by ground-penetrating radar beneath the Sphinx, connected by a tunnel running from beneath the causeway. He outlines a diplomatic approach to obtain Egyptian permission for excavation, proposing that Egyptian institutions lead the effort while his crew documents the findings.

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November 13, 1997: Commerce In Space - Gene Meyers

Nov 133h 25mGene Meyers

Art Bell welcomes space commerce advocate Gene Meyers, a colleague of rocket scientist David Adair, to discuss a bold vision for commercial tourism in orbit. Meyers outlines a plan to repurpose the space shuttle''s massive external tanks into rotating ring-shaped space stations, each capable of hosting 300 people. He explains how connecting twelve of these tanks could create artificial gravity on the outer ring and zero gravity at the center, all for a fraction of the cost of NASA''s International Space Station.The conversation covers the engineering details behind these proposed "Space Islands," including agricultural tanks for growing food, hydroponics systems for oxygen recycling, and inflatable interior modules designed decades earlier by Goodyear. Meyers reveals that major cruise lines have expressed interest in the concept, comparing the cost of a commercial shuttle to that of a luxury cruise ship at roughly $500 million.Art and Meyers explore the possibilities of booking two-week orbital vacations, with tourist suites positioned in the zero-gravity core of the station. The discussion expands to even grander ambitions, including propelling entire stations into orbit around the moon within three days or reaching Mars in nine months.

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November 14, 1997: Fiery Lights Over Northwest (Partial) - Whitley Strieber

Nov 1419mWhitley Strieber

Art Bell and author Whitley Strieber find their interview overtaken by a breaking news event as hundreds of witnesses across the Pacific Northwest report fiery objects streaking through the sky. Beginning around 9:06 PM Pacific time on November 14th, callers from Vancouver to central Washington describe slow-moving orange balls of fire at remarkably low altitude, some appearing to pass behind trees and pulsate with light.NORAD and the Air Force claim the objects are debris from a Russian SL-12 rocket booster that crashed into the Pacific Ocean. However, dozens of eyewitnesses contradict this explanation, reporting the objects continued eastward well beyond Seattle into central and eastern Washington. A caller from near the Kingdome describes up to seven distinct objects in a straight horizontal line, moving at the speed of a landing airliner with no sound whatsoever.Between the live reports, Strieber shares a startling personal update regarding an alleged implant in his ear. He reveals that during a surgical attempt to remove the object, it migrated away from the surgeon''s scalpel, prompting the doctor to remark that it appeared to be alive. The object later returned to its original position after the wound healed.

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November 16, 1997: Lights over the Northwest (Partial) - Linda Moulton Howe

Nov 1618mLinda Moulton Howe

Art Bell presents investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe''s follow-up report on the mysterious lights witnessed across the Pacific Northwest two nights earlier. Howe interviews Ken Henriksen, president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in Vancouver, who watched the event for over a minute. He describes a white object that descended slowly before breaking into 36 pieces, insisting it was not a meteor based on its deceleration and extended duration.NORAD confirms they tracked a Russian SL-12 rocket body launched November 12th, saying it broke apart over Vancouver. Reports of booms and shuddering walls in Abbotsford, British Columbia, along with newspaper accounts of debris falling in the suburb of Burnaby, support this explanation for the western sightings. However, NORAD acknowledges they cannot account for reports further east.Howe presents witness testimony from Tenasket, Washington, describing red lights flying in formation, and from Sandpoint, Idaho, where seven stationary glowing globes hovered silently for up to ten minutes before vanishing instantaneously. She concludes that the events of November 14th involved more than a single Russian rocket reentry, with multiple unexplained phenomena occurring simultaneously across several states.

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November 17, 1997: UFOs & Area 51 - David Adair

Nov 173h 20mDavid Adair

Art Bell welcomes rocket scientist David Adair, who recounts his extraordinary journey from building rockets as a child in rural Ohio to a classified encounter at Area 51. Adair describes growing up around NASCAR machine shops with access to titanium, aircraft aluminum, and cryogenic fuels, which allowed him to build and launch increasingly powerful rockets from age 11. By 17, he had constructed a half-ton electromagnetic fusion containment engine with funding secured through his congressman and oversight from retired Air Force General Curtis LeMay.Adair details the test launch at White Sands, where his rocket accelerated so rapidly that witnesses thought it had exploded. NORAD tracked the vehicle as it traveled 456 miles northwest to Groom Lake, better known as Area 51. Upon landing at the secretive base, Adair was escorted past his own rocket and into the central hangar, where he encountered former Nazi rocket engineer Dr. Arthur Rudolph among the officials present.The episode also revisits the Space Islands concept from the prior week with Gene Meyers, as Adair confirms the engineering feasibility of converting shuttle external tanks into orbital tourist stations. He discusses the physiological effects of reduced gravity on the human body and explains why NASA has resisted cheaper alternatives to the International Space Station.

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November 18, 1997: Theories of the Sun - Charles Cagle

Nov 181h 57mCharles Cagle

Art Bell interviews self-educated physicist Charles Cagle, a Vietnam veteran and former commercial fisherman whose research into ball lightning led him to a sweeping theory connecting solar activity to catastrophic Earth changes. Cagle explains how ball lightning forms a stable plasma structure capable of sustaining fusion reactions, something billions of dollars in laboratory research has failed to achieve. He connects this phenomenon to the sun''s coronal mass ejections, which he describes as magnetotoroidal bubbles that maintain their structure across 93 million miles of space.Cagle presents evidence that coronal mass ejections strike Earth more frequently than random chance would predict and warns that Solar Cycle 23, then just beginning, shows signs of becoming the most powerful ever recorded. He explains that a sufficiently strong ejection could overwhelm Earth''s magnetic field and trigger a pole reversal, a process geological records show has occurred at least 171 times since the Jurassic period.The most alarming predictions involve the consequences of such a reversal. Cagle describes how the loss of Earth''s protective magnetic field would expose the planet to direct solar bombardment, while internal forces could generate massive earthquakes exceeding Richter 10 and cause volcanic island chains like Hawaii to rapidly subside beneath the ocean.

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November 19, 1997: UFOs - Whitley Strieber

Nov 193h 32mWhitley Strieber

Art Bell welcomes author Whitley Strieber for an evening of extraordinary reports from the world of UFOs and close encounters. The program opens with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center providing a detailed update on the mysterious lights seen streaking across Pacific Northwest skies the previous week. Davenport reveals that witness accounts and trajectory data contradict the official explanation of Russian space debris, noting that objects appeared to maintain formation and travel in the opposite direction from what NORAD reported.Strieber then shares the remarkable story of Glenrock, Wyoming, a small town with an astonishing concentration of UFO sightings and unexplained phenomena. Residents describe sequences of three powerful knocks heard throughout town in 1988, matching an identical experience Strieber documented at his New York cabin in 1986. Witnesses Jamie Eager and Marla Hendrix recount their own encounters, including a strange amber-colored fog that blanketed the town and an episode of missing time during which they unknowingly videotaped a UFO emerging from a rainbow-colored cloud.The program also features discussion of alien implants, with Strieber recounting how a surgeon attempting to remove an object from his ear reported that the implant physically moved away from the scalpel. Dr. Roger Lear, a pioneering implant researcher, joins to discuss his work recovering anomalous objects from experiencers. Chile's announcement of an official government committee to study UFOs provides an ironic contrast to American reluctance on the subject.

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November 19, 1997: Space Exploration - Dr. Michio Kaku

Nov 193h 23mDr. Michio Kaku

Art Bell sits down with theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku of the City University of New York for a wide-ranging conversation about the frontiers of science and the future of space exploration. The discussion begins with NASA's announcement that astronomers have observed a black hole dragging space and time around itself, confirming a 1918 prediction from Einstein's general relativity. Dr. Kaku explains gravity not as a force but as the bending of space itself, using vivid analogies of marbles rolling in funnels and ants walking on crumpled paper.The conversation turns to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, where Dr. Kaku argues that SETI's approach of scanning single frequencies is fundamentally flawed. He suggests advanced civilizations would use spread spectrum technology to communicate, smearing signals across all frequencies, meaning the galaxy could be full of conversations we simply cannot detect. He introduces the Kardashev scale of civilization types and explains why the transition from Type 0 to Type 1 is the most dangerous period for any civilization, estimating only one in ten makes it through.Dr. Kaku also discusses the future of propulsion technology, from ramjet fusion engines to the theoretical possibility of monopole-based travel through galactic magnetic fields. He addresses the greenhouse effect, El Nino, and the looming depletion of fossil fuels, advocating for a transition to solar hydrogen energy.

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November 24, 1997: Cancer Treatments - Dr. Joseph Gold | TWA Flight 800 Investigation - Capt. William S. Donaldson

Nov 243h 13mCapt. William S. Donaldson, Dr. Joseph Gold

Art Bell opens the program with Dr. Joseph Gold of the Syracuse Cancer Research Institute to discuss hydrazine sulfate, an inexpensive compound he has researched for decades as a cancer treatment. Dr. Gold explains that the drug works by inhibiting an enzyme in the liver that drives cachexia, the wasting process responsible for up to 70 percent of cancer deaths. He reports that controlled clinical trials worldwide have shown positive results, while the National Cancer Institute's negative studies were later revealed to have used tranquilizers in 94 percent of patients despite knowing the drugs were incompatible with hydrazine sulfate.The second half presents a detailed investigation into the TWA Flight 800 disaster. Aviation expert Capt. William S. Donaldson, a retired Navy commander, challenges the official center fuel tank explosion theory. He notes that in the entire history of U.S. civil jet aviation, no fuel tank has ever spontaneously exploded. Two eyewitnesses join: Major Fred Myers, a decorated helicopter pilot who observed what he describes as an ordnance-type explosion, and Richard Goss, who watched a bright object rise from near the surface and make a sharp left turn before a massive explosion.Donaldson presents forensic evidence including a six-inch through-hole in the fuselage and debris field analysis showing pieces displaced thousands of feet from the aircraft track, patterns he says are inconsistent with a fuel tank explosion and consistent with a proximity-detonating missile warhead.

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November 25, 1997: Remote Viewing & Discontinuity - Ed Dames

Nov 253h 26mEd Dames

Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames of PSI Tech for a program that builds toward a long-anticipated revelation about what remote viewers call the discontinuity. The first hour covers current events including the Iraq weapons crisis, with Dames drawing on his background as a former biological warfare case officer to explain the realities of weaponizing chemical and biological agents. He notes that while Saddam Hussein possesses dangerous stockpiles, effective deployment requires sophisticated science that limits their actual threat.Dames provides updates on several PSI Tech projects, including remote viewing the botched Mossad assassination attempt on a Hamas leader, which he says traced back to a bacterial toxin produced at a facility within Israel. He also discusses the company's finding that the next nuclear weapon used in anger will involve North Korea launching a missile-mounted device. Art presses Dames on the Kardashev civilization scale and the risks facing humanity's transition from Type 0 status.The program culminates with Dames revealing the nature of the discontinuity, the barrier past which remote viewers could not perceive the future. After extensive cross-checking, his team concluded it is a catastrophic solar event, a massive discharge from the sun that will scorch the exposed surface of the Earth. Dames explains that the event felt like death to remote viewers attempting to perceive it, which is why they initially could not identify its nature.

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November 26, 1997: News, Commentary, Open Lines

Nov 2645m

Art Bell opens this Thanksgiving eve broadcast with a sweep through the day's headlines and listener calls. He reports that the U.N. AIDS agency has dramatically revised its global infection estimate upward to 30 million people, one-third higher than previous figures, with 16,000 new infections occurring daily. A new California study on declining sperm density also draws his attention, showing an average annual decrease of 1.5 percent per year across Western countries.Listeners call in to react to the previous night's program with Major Ed Dames, offering their own theories about the discontinuity. Art shares news items including Defense Secretary William Cohen's statement that more than 25 nations have or may be developing nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. He also discusses a Duluth research team's confirmation that UV radiation is causing widespread frog deformities, and reports on a deer in Ohio found with an extra leg growing from its back, noting the mutations are moving up the food chain.The broadcast features lighter moments as well, with Art describing his newly adopted stray dog and the outpouring of name suggestions from listeners. He recounts the saga of the dog stealing tools from construction workers and caching them in her doghouse. Callers weigh in on topics from two-foot mutant rats in Chile to the lovable qualities of pet rats, and Art previews his unconventional 4 AM Thanksgiving dinner of roast beef instead of turkey.

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December 1, 1997: Everything You Know Is Wrong - Lloyd Pye | UFO Reporting - Peter Davenport

Dec 13h 35mLloyd Pye, Peter Davenport

Art Bell welcomes Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center, who reports a dramatic sighting near Chicago where a pilot and other motorists observed a large, blood-red orb descending through solid overcast. Cars on Interstate 80 reportedly slowed to a crawl as the object dropped toward the ground over a period of 20 to 30 seconds. A similar incident in Kansas City that same evening raises the possibility of connected events. Davenport also shares reports of magnetic compass anomalies in the Pacific Northwest linked to earlier sightings.In the second half, author Lloyd Pye joins to discuss his book arguing that both creationism and Darwinism contain fundamental flaws. Pye draws a distinction between microevolution, observable changes within a species, and macroevolution, the wholesale transformation of one body plan into another. He points to the fossil record's pattern of fully formed species appearing suddenly after extinction events rather than through gradual transition.Pye also challenges the mainstream narrative of human origins, arguing that the pre-human fossil record shows no bones that look genuinely human. He connects hominoid sightings worldwide to the creatures whose bones scientists mistakenly classify as our direct ancestors.

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December 2, 1997: News, Commentary, Open Lines

Dec 241m

Art Bell opens with news commentary covering a string of disturbing headlines, including the school shooting in West Paducah, Kentucky, where a 14-year-old killed three classmates at a prayer meeting, and a Tennessee father who confessed to killing his four children. He reflects on how modern violence has become indecipherable, lacking the clear motives that once characterized violent crime. Art also covers the latest AIDS statistics, which have doubled previous estimates, and a mysterious new virus called monkeypox emerging from Zaire.During open lines, callers weigh in on topics ranging from Ed Dames and his remote viewing predictions to the hollow earth theory and the HIV-AIDS debate. One caller recounts a strange encounter with a man in black at a bookstore who introduced her to the program. Art reads a listener proposal to destroy Iraq's economy by flooding Baghdad with counterfeit currency rather than dropping bombs.The night also touches on a bizarre Associated Press story about an unidentified woman who fell from the sky and landed on a garden wall in Miami. Art notes the FBI claims violent crime is declining, but argues the nature of that violence has fundamentally changed.

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December 3, 1997: Father Malachi Martin

Dec 32h 23mFather Malachi Martin

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, viewing planetary alignments as one channel through which God might communicate his will.The discussion turns to exorcism after the 60 Minutes story about psychiatrist Dr. Kenneth Olson performing an unauthorized exorcism on a patient with 126 alleged personalities. Father Martin describes the rigorous process of distinguishing genuine possession from mental illness, noting he rejects seven out of ten cases. He warns that anyone attempting exorcism without proper authority risks becoming possessed, and shares that some exorcists have died or emerged as broken shells of their former selves.Art raises his unsettling interview with a self-described Satanist named Harlot, who claimed she took steps to ensure her murdered young daughter would join her in hell. Father Martin confirms such a thing is possible, leading to a chilling exchange about the nature of evil, perfect possession, and the spiritual war he believes is intensifying across the world.

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December 4, 1997: Navy Records - Richard C. Hoagland & Stephen Bassett | Navy Records, Brookings Report, Mars - Chris Ruddy & Ron Brown

Dec 43h 28mRichard C. Hoagland, Stephen Bassett, Chris Ruddy, Ron Brown

Art Bell opens with investigative reporter Chris Ruddy, who presents explosive evidence that Commerce Secretary Ron Brown may have had a bullet hole in his head when his body was returned from the 1996 plane crash in Croatia. Ruddy cites Lieutenant Colonel Steve Cogswell, deputy medical examiner at the Armed Forces pathology lab, who identified a perfectly circular, inwardly beveling wound consistent with a gunshot. Photographs and early X-rays showing metal fragments in the brain are posted to Art's website, though Ruddy says subsequent X-rays were deliberately re-calibrated and originals destroyed.Richard C. Hoagland then joins to discuss the Enterprise Mission's ongoing investigation of possible artificial structures on Mars. He explains how the Brookings Report, commissioned by NASA in 1959, recommended withholding any discovery of extraterrestrial artifacts from the public. Hoagland also addresses the Mars Surveyor spacecraft's delayed aerobraking, questioning NASA's claim that the Martian atmosphere inexplicably doubled in density.Stephen Bassett appears on behalf of Dr. Steven M. Greer to discuss government secrecy around UFO records, while geologist Ron Nicks presents his analysis of Pathfinder imagery suggesting the lander touched down amid the ruins of an ancient constructed environment.

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December 5, 1997: Earth Changes, Solar Cycle 23, Christianity - Charles Cagle & Stan Deyo

Dec 51h 16mCharles Cagle, Stan Deyo

Art Bell brings together researcher Charles Cagle and Stan Deyo from Perth, Australia, for a discussion linking solar physics, earth changes, and biblical prophecy. Cagle explains his model of planetary magnetic field behavior, describing how a sufficiently powerful coronal mass ejection from the sun could drive the current density of Earth's magnetotoroid past a critical threshold, causing the magnetic field to collapse. Without that protective shield, the planet would be exposed to devastating solar radiation and internal geophysical upheaval.Cagle warns that the onset of Solar Cycle 23 increases the probability of such an event, predicting that magnetic loop collapses on Earth's surface could trigger earthquakes beyond anything in recorded history and generate massive tsunamis capable of killing over a hundred million people in a single day. He also suggests that volcanic island chains like Hawaii could rapidly subside during such a period.Both guests frame these scientific scenarios within a Christian prophetic context, arguing that the signs described in scripture align with observable geophysical and solar data. They urge listeners to prepare both physically and spiritually, emphasizing that the window for repentance is closing as these events draw near.

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December 7, 1997: Greenhouse Gases, Hidden Files - Sue Kovach & Linda Moulton Howe

Dec 71h 49mSue Kovach, Linda Moulton Howe

Linda Moulton Howe reports on the Kyoto greenhouse-gas negotiations, followed by investigative journalist Sue Kovach discussing Hidden Files, her collection of law-enforcement paranormal cases. Howe also covers NASA''s upcoming Lunar Prospector mission and provides an extensive update on the Cydonia region of Mars, featuring an interview with Dr. Mark Carlotto, whose fractal analysis suggests the formations there are 100,000 to one in favor of being artificial rather than natural.In the second half, Kovach discusses her book "Hidden Files," a collection of true paranormal encounters reported by law enforcement officers. She shares accounts of police helicopter pilots chased by unidentified orange objects in Kentucky, a Florida officer who witnessed a massive black triangular craft, and a Hawaiian homicide case where luminol revealed a murder scene at the exact location where employees sensed a ghost.Art opens the phone lines exclusively to law enforcement and military callers. Officers from across the country respond with their own accounts of unexplained encounters, including a Florida officer who fired two rounds at a brown figure that vanished without a trace, and a Marine who describes radar contacts at 29 Palms that were invisible through night vision equipment.

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December 7, 1997: Ron Brown Case - Chris Ruddy | The Brain - Neil Slade

Dec 73h 9mChris Ruddy, Neil Slade

Art Bell welcomes investigative reporter Chris Ruddy with breaking developments in the Ron Brown death investigation. Ruddy reveals that a second Armed Forces medical examiner, Lieutenant Colonel David Hause, has come forward to confirm an apparent bullet wound at the top of Commerce Secretary Brown''s head. The first whistleblower, Lieutenant Colonel Steve Cogswell, has faced severe retaliation, including office confinement and military police arriving at his home to seize photographs. Ruddy also reports that all head X-rays from Brown''s examination have gone missing from official files.In the second half, Neil Slade joins to discuss the untapped potential of the human brain, drawing on eleven years of work with brain researcher T.D.A. Lingo. Slade explains Dr. Paul McLean''s triune brain model, describing how reptilian, mammalian, and primate brain layers compute different behaviors. He identifies the amygdala as a master click switch that, when activated forward, opens access to frontal lobe abilities including creativity, intuition, and extrasensory perception.Art shares his own powerful precognition experience in Santa Barbara, where overwhelming waves of awareness warned him something was about to happen to his car moments before another driver reversed into it. Slade explains that such abilities are tied to cooperative consciousness and cannot be accessed through selfish motivation.

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December 10, 1997: NDEs - Dannion Brinkley

Dec 102h 34mDannion Brinkley

Art Bell reunites with Dannion Brinkley for an emotional broadcast following Brinkley''s third near-death experience. Art opens the show with an unusually personal endorsement, stating from direct observation that Brinkley is genuine in his psychic abilities. Brinkley recounts his early life as a military operative and government contractor before a lightning strike in 1975 sent 180,000 volts through his body, killing him for 28 minutes and leaving him paralyzed for months.That first near-death experience produced detailed prophetic visions, including descriptions of chip technology, armies of women in black robes marching through European cities, and environmental catastrophes. Art reads from Brinkley''s published account and confirms that these visions, written over two decades earlier, have been steadily coming true. Brinkley describes how the lightning also opened overwhelming psychic abilities that initially made normal life nearly impossible.The broadcast then turns to his most recent medical crisis. Cerebral hematomas caused massive bleeding in his brain, complicated by the mechanical heart valve that requires constant blood thinners. Art reveals he was personally involved during the ordeal, speaking with doctors and family members who believed Brinkley would not survive. Brinkley describes drilling holes in his skull on September 17th, exactly 22 years to the day after the original lightning strike, and the profound spiritual experiences he encountered during surgery.

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December 11, 1997: Winds of Change - Robert Ghost Wolf

Dec 112h 48mRobert Ghost Wolf

Art Bell welcomes Robert Ghost Wolf, a mixed-blood Native American author and ceremonial leader, to discuss his manuscript "Winds of Change" and the prophetic traditions of indigenous peoples. Ghost Wolf describes participating in the first Ghost Dance ceremony held in 108 years, attended by pipe carriers from numerous tribes on Blackfoot sacred land. He explains the purification practices of the sweat lodge, where participants enter a structure mirroring the geometry of the Great Pyramid''s King''s Chamber and can experience shifts in consciousness through heat, fasting, and prayer.Ghost Wolf presents research connecting the Lakota star maps, Mayan calendars, and biblical accounts of Christ''s birth. Using NASA''s Star Globe program, his group identified a celestial alignment on September 15, 5 BC, where the stars Regulus and Venus merged into a single brilliant light, correlating with the Star of Bethlehem. A corresponding alignment at the ascension date showed every star identical except Venus, which had moved. He proposes a five-year calendar correction that would place 1998 at the actual year 2003.The conversation also addresses environmental warnings from Native prophecy, including accounts of mountain lions in Montana actively stalking hunters rather than avoiding them. Ghost Wolf introduces the Seven Thunders prophecies, ancient warnings describing widespread starvation, holes appearing in the sky producing green mist, and strange bacteria emerging in the waters. He notes the first three thunders have already occurred.

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December 17, 1997: Biological Warfare - Richard Preston

Dec 172h 43mRichard Preston

Richard Preston, author of "The Hot Zone" and "The Cobra Event," joins Art Bell to discuss biological warfare, anthrax, Ebola, and bioterrorism after Joyce Riley's first-hour warning about military anthrax inoculations. Riley presents alarming findings about the Pentagon's plan to inoculate 1.4 million military personnel against anthrax. She cites Senate Report 103-97, which states that the vaccine's effectiveness against inhaled anthrax is unknown, despite being FDA-approved for skin contact exposure. Riley warns that the inoculation program uses a vaccine considered investigational for biological warfare purposes and notes that 43 percent of Gulf War veterans reported immediate side effects from the same vaccine.Preston describes the 1989 Ebola outbreak at a monkey facility in Reston, Virginia, where military biohazard teams in spacesuits secretly killed 600 infected monkeys over 18 days. He reveals that Ebola has been weaponized and loaded into warheads by Russia, and that the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo sent teams to Zaire to collect Ebola blood samples, bringing them back to a biological laboratory that Tokyo police have still not entered.Preston explains how anthrax presents like a common cold before killing victims in mid-sentence, and describes Russia's development of antibiotic-resistant super anthrax at the Obolensk laboratory. He warns that the FBI currently has approximately 50 open cases involving biological or chemical weapons and terrorism, suggesting that a scientifically trained individual will eventually succeed in carrying out a devastating attack.

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December 18, 1997: Reversing Harlot the Witch - David John Oates

Dec 182h 25mDavid John Oates

Art Bell welcomes David Oates back to the program to present reverse speech analysis on a wide range of subjects. Oates begins with his foundational research, playing recordings of infant children whose babbling, when reversed, reveals clear and startling phrases. He then moves into political reversals, including Bill Clinton's inauguration and press conferences, where hidden statements emerge from forward speech.The program takes a darker turn as Oates presents his analysis of the Harlot interview, the self-proclaimed Satanist who previously appeared on the show. Her reversals reveal a disturbing mix of anger, blasphemy, and unexpected vulnerability, including a heartbreaking statement about her deceased son. Oates also shares chilling reversals from an FBI press conference on TWA Flight 800, where officials appear to contradict their own public statements.Art describes death threats and harassment Oates has endured for his controversial work. Near the end of the broadcast, one of Art's studio webcams captures an inexplicable photograph showing a strange cloudy mass around his head, taken at precisely 1:26:21 AM, a timestamp that reads identically forward and in reverse.

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December 19, 1997: Ghost Research - Dale Kaczmarek

Dec 191h 23mDale Kaczmarek

Dale Kaczmarek of the Ghost Research Society joins Art Bell to discuss ghost research, paranormal investigation tools, and hauntings after Art's account of an anomalous studio webcam photograph. The image shows an unexplained protoplasmic mass surrounding his head, taken under the same lighting conditions that had produced tens of thousands of normal photographs over six months. Art rules out smoke, reflections, and camera malfunction as possible explanations.Kaczmarek describes his three decades of paranormal investigation from the Chicago area. He describes the scientific equipment he uses, including tri-field meters and non-contact infrared thermometers, to detect electromagnetic anomalies and cold spots at haunted locations. Kaczmarek shares cases ranging from a haunted bowling alley to a home plagued by spontaneous fires centered around a 14-year-old girl.Kaczmarek distinguishes between residual hauntings, which replay like an endless tape loop, and intelligent hauntings involving genuine interaction between spirits and the living. He recounts his own encounter with a swirling mist in a Missouri cemetery that spiraled into the ground before his eyes, comparing it to Art's mysterious studio photograph.

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December 21, 1997: Nostradamus - Dolores Cannon | Cosmology - Linda Moulton Howe

Dec 211h 49mDolores Cannon, Linda Moulton Howe

Linda Moulton Howe joins Art Bell for a Dreamland cosmology report on matter, light, and 1997 science stories, followed by Dolores Cannon on Nostradamus and her Conversations with Nostradamus trilogy. Howe opens with a year-end review of 1997, covering accelerating environmental deterioration, the Mars Pathfinder mission, the cloning of Dolly the sheep, and breakthroughs in quantum physics. She highlights physicist David Bohm's insight that all matter is essentially condensed light, connecting it to new experiments at Princeton where scientists created matter from beams of photons.Cannon then joins to discuss her trilogy Conversations with Nostradamus. She explains how, through deep hypnotic regression, she established what she describes as direct communication with the living Nostradamus in 16th-century France. Working through twelve different subjects over several years, Cannon says the prophet explained his coded quatrains symbol by symbol, correcting centuries of misinterpretation.Cannon relays warnings about a period Nostradamus called the Time of Troubles, involving escalating wars in the Middle East, biological weapons, weather manipulation technology, and a third Antichrist figure born on February 4, 1962. She emphasizes that these represent worst-case scenarios and that focused human intention could alter the predicted outcomes.

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December 22, 1997: Coronal Mass Ejection Images - Stan Deyo

Dec 2241mStan Deyo

Stan Deyo joins Art Bell from Perth, Australia, to analyze SOHO solar imagery, a bright X-ray flare, and possible coronal mass ejection precursors in a dramatic solar event. Art reports that the SOHO satellite captured extraordinary X-ray imagery with concentric light rings across the camera plate.Deyo explains the difference between solar flares and coronal mass ejections, noting that this particular event formed from start to finish in roughly four hours. He describes how the flare's polarity produced an unusually bright X-ray output, which could serve as a precursor to a larger ejection event. If the active region rotates to face Earth in the coming days, high-speed protons and debris could reach our planet within four to five days of the event.Art revisits the mysterious studio webcam photograph from the previous week, noting the numerical palindrome in its timestamp of 1:26:21. The conversation touches on biblical prophecy, Ed Dames' solar predictions, and the approaching solar maximum. Deyo cautions against panic but advises that the coming months could bring spectacular and potentially consequential solar activity.

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December 23, 1997: TWA 800 investigation - Capt. William S. Donaldson

Dec 2341mCapt. William S. Donaldson

Art Bell welcomes retired Navy Commander William S. Donaldson, a 25-year naval aviator and crash investigator, who presents what he calls smoking gun evidence that TWA Flight 800 was destroyed by an external explosion rather than a center fuel tank malfunction. Donaldson challenges the NTSB's flight test methodology, noting the test aircraft's fuel tank was 25 degrees warmer than Flight 800's actual conditions on the night of the crash.Donaldson reveals that the flight data recorder's final line of data was physically lined out in documents distributed to media at the public hearing. When deciphered, that last second of recording shows the altimeter plunging 3,672 feet instantly, airspeed dropping from 298 to 100 knots, and the angle of attack vane swinging to 106 degrees before returning to normal within half a second. He argues these readings can only be explained by an external high-explosive detonation.Using pressure calculations, Donaldson demonstrates that even at ten times the maximum estimated center tank pressure, the overpressure at the static port 70 feet away would measure only 0.43 PSI, far below the 1.32 PSI actually recorded. He urges listeners to contact Congressman Jimmy Duncan's aviation subcommittee demanding a full investigation.

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December 24, 1997: Open Lines - Ramona Bell

Dec 2415mRamona Bell

Art Bell hands the microphone to his wife Ramona Bell for a special Christmas Eve broadcast. Ramona opens the show by reading a listener-submitted parody of Twas the Night Before Christmas, rewritten as a tribute to Art and the Kingdom of Nye, complete with references to the show's cats, the webcam, and the quickening.With Art listening in the background, Ramona takes open line calls from across the country. Listeners share a range of topics, from a first-time caller in Missouri advocating for year-round Black history education in schools, to a self-described amateur remote viewer in Illinois who claims to have been practicing astral projection since 1986. One caller alerts Ramona to a Bob Dylan song titled "To Ramona" and shares his perspective on the life of Jesus as an example to emulate rather than follow.Ramona fields the calls with warmth and humor throughout the half-hour appearance, reflecting on the experience as a rare treat for the audience and herself. The broadcast offers a personal glimpse into the Bell household during the holiday season.

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December 29, 1997: Predictions - Sean David Morton

Dec 293h 14mSean David Morton

Art Bell kicks off his annual predictions tradition by reviewing listener forecasts from the previous year, scoring hits and misses with his signature ding and bonk system. Several 1996 predictions proved accurate, including Jacques Villeneuve winning the Formula One championship, Chinese expansionism, and tightened U.S. immigration. Others, like Clinton being assassinated and Rush Limbaugh retiring, earned definitive bonks.Callers phone in with their 1998 predictions, ranging from a massive stock market crash sending the Dow to 3,800, to friendly alien contact during the week of November 15th, to a Goodyear blimp crashing into a baseball field. One fisherman from San Pedro, California, describes a missing time experience near Catalina Island that left him with a vivid impression of coming extraterrestrial contact.In the second half, Sean David Morton of the Delphi Associates joins to deliver his 1998 forecast. Morton discusses artificial weather vortexes he claims to sense through meditation, predicts El Nino will not be as destructive as feared due to protective cold air blasts from Alaska, and foresees a massive storm devastating Cuba that could topple the Castro government. He also warns that 1998 will be defined by airborne phenomena, from viruses to objects falling from the sky.

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December 31, 1997: New Year's Predictions

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Art Bell rings in the New Year with a final night of open lines dedicated to listener predictions for 1998. Broadcasting as midnight sweeps across the nation's time zones, Art manages to connect with a caller standing in the freezing cold of Times Square, where half a million people braved wind chills of five degrees below zero to celebrate.Callers offer a wide array of forecasts for the coming year. One listener predicts the Hong Kong chicken flu was biologically engineered by the Chinese government as a test. A man locked in his basement shower in Lake Charles, Louisiana, nervously warns about chemical testing contaminating local groundwater and causing seismic activity. Another caller predicts tainted vaccines will be distributed as a population control measure. Art shares his own prediction that 1998 will be one of the most tumultuous years in recorded history.Between predictions, Art reports on a mysterious illness overwhelming emergency rooms across the American Southwest, from Southern California to El Paso. Callers confirm packed hospitals and confused medical authorities unable to agree on whether the outbreak is influenza or something else entirely. The broadcast captures the anxious energy of a nation entering an uncertain new year.

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