Art Bell interviews author William Henry about his provocative thesis that Jesus visited America 2,000 years ago to hide a powerful device and spread secret teachings, and that he will return in July 1999 in fulfillment of Nostradamus's King of Terror prophecy. Henry draws connections between Essene traditions, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Sumerian mythology, and Mayan calendars to argue that a golden pillar called the Pillar of Osiris served as a gateway between dimensions and a channel for souls to enter the Earth plane.The discussion traces this device through Egypt, France, Mexico, and Mongolia. Henry reveals that President Franklin Roosevelt sent agents to Mongolia in 1934 searching for this artifact after his Secretary of Agriculture, Henry Wallace, became convinced that Jesus had reincarnated there. He connects the placement of the Great Seal on the dollar bill in 1935 to the possible recovery of the device. Henry also links the word "terror" to Jesus through medieval Grail legends and the Hebrew linguistic connection between moon, mother, and terror.Art presses Henry on how a returning messianic figure could be taken seriously in modern cynical America and how his theories reconcile with traditional Christian theology. Henry argues that America is the prophesied New Jerusalem where a temple school will be constructed, initiating a thousand years of peace. He also hints at discovering a substance on the periodic table with cancer-curing properties through his decoding of a French parchment.

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January 6, 1999: Borderland Science Research - Michael Theroux

Jan 62h 41mMichael Theroux

Art Bell interviews Michael Theroux, director of the Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, covering a wide range of fringe science topics. The conversation begins with the conclusion of the Robert A.M. Stephens affair, as Theroux, who built Stevens's website, confirms that investigations revealed his NASA contractor and Navy SEAL claims were fabricated. Stevens ultimately admitted to the deception and asked that his site be taken down.The discussion moves to plant consciousness research, where Theroux describes recreating Cleve Baxter's polygraph experiments from the 1960s. Their four-year study confirmed that plants exhibit measurable electrical responses to human thoughts and emotions, even from distant locations. Theroux references the famous experiment in which a plant reacted violently when the scientist who had previously destroyed a lettuce re-entered the room, footage captured in the 1974 film The Secret Life of Plants. He also describes L. George Lawrence's research suggesting plants communicate at speeds exceeding light.The program covers Y2K preparedness, with Theroux taking a moderate position that problems will occur but will not be catastrophic. He discusses Nikola Tesla's suppressed wireless power transmission technology, the Taos Hum phenomenon, HAARP's military potential, anomalous SOHO satellite images, and weather modification experiments. A fax from a professional pilot claims direct involvement in government-funded weather modification programs using chemical dispersal from aircraft.

#0505

January 7, 1999: Dates from Hell - Open Lines

Jan 72h 46m

Art Bell opens the phone lines for an all-topics evening and designates a special line for callers to share their worst dating experiences. Listeners recount tales of forgotten concert tickets, disastrous blind dates, jealous roommates, and being thrown out on Christmas Eve in a Montana snowstorm. Art also discusses the Clinton impeachment trial, Y2K preparedness letters from Nevada Power, and a Yale astronomer warning that sun-like stars can produce catastrophic super flares.Between the dating horror stories, callers weigh in on internet stock valuations, the New World Order, and a creative proposal to place a giant sun filter in orbit to control Earth's climate. Art shares news of El Nino's unexpected persistence, fire ant invasions in Southern California, and FEMA officials urging communities to prepare for potential Y2K disruptions. A caller from Canada reports that military reserves have been denied leave through March 2000 for possible riot control duties.The broadcast moves freely between the lighthearted and the serious as callers debate why humans have not returned to the moon, whether the Ouija board is dangerous, and what it means when Canadian authorities prepare for civil unrest over Y2K while their citizens remain famously calm.

#0506

January 8, 1999: Disclosure '99 - Stephen Bassett & Peter Davenport

Jan 82h 45mStephen Bassett, Peter Davenport

Art Bell hosts a special evening devoted to the state of UFO disclosure, featuring political lobbyist Stephen Bassett and a lineup of prominent figures in ufology. Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center opens the show with a fresh sighting report from Paradise, California, where a pilot witnessed a massive diamond-shaped craft with a starburst center traveling west at low altitude. Bassett outlines his strategy for pressuring Congress, arguing that the end of the Clinton impeachment saga will create a political vacuum ripe for the disclosure issue.Dr. Steven M. Greer joins to announce his Witness Archive Project, an effort to record broadcast-quality testimony from nearly 200 military witnesses before they pass away. Richard C. Hoagland discusses anomalous weather radar signatures he believes reveal a covert defense system, and teases a forthcoming Fox television special linking Cydonia on Mars to a chamber beneath the Sphinx in Egypt. Attorney Peter Gersten of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy reflects on lessons learned from the Robert Stevens hoax.Throughout the evening, the guests debate whether disclosure can come through political channels or requires a civilian-led media effort to overwhelm government secrecy. Bassett suggests President Clinton, seeking a post-impeachment legacy, could become the ideal disclosure president.

#0507

January 11, 1999: Psychic Joseph DeLouise

Jan 112h 55mJoseph DeLouise

Art Bell welcomes Joseph DeLouise, named one of America's top ten psychics by American Woman magazine, for a wide-ranging conversation about prediction, belief, and the dangers of the occult. DeLouise, also a registered financial advisor, shares his forecast that the stock market will take a significant dip in 1999 but recover quickly as billions in sidelined money rush back in. He advises listeners to watch European markets over the next few years and look to Asia after that.The conversation turns personal as DeLouise describes his decades of psychic work, including contributions to the Sharon Tate murder case and the Chappaquiddick tragedy. He explains his belief that anyone can develop predictive abilities by turning inward rather than intellectualizing, though he warns that tools like the Ouija board can become dangerously obsessive. Art shares his own unsettling experience with an ancient Ouija board left for him anonymously at a Las Vegas radio station, calling it one of the few things he refuses to discuss on air.Callers raise topics from the government's plan to develop a fungal agent to eradicate marijuana worldwide to earthquakes rumbling beneath Mount Hood in Oregon. DeLouise and Art agree that tampering with any species put on Earth by nature or a creator risks unintended and potentially catastrophic consequences.

#0508

January 12, 1999: Y2k Power Grid Problems - Stuart Rodman

Jan 122h 54mStuart Rodman

Art Bell welcomes Stuart Rodman, a researcher who has studied the North American Electric Reliability Council's assessment of Y2K vulnerabilities in the continental power grid. Rodman explains that the real threat lies not in computers, which handle mostly billing functions, but in automated embedded chips found in voltage regulators, digital surge protectors, circuit breakers, and relay switches scattered throughout the infrastructure. Many of these mission-critical components were built without human-accessible controls and may contain date-sensitive chips that have never been tested.Rodman introduces the concept of a common mode failure, the nightmare scenario in which identical components from the same manufacturer fail simultaneously across multiple regions, defeating the grid's built-in sector isolation. He reveals that NERC's official plan calls for operating the grid in a precautionary mode during a critical transition period around the year 2000 rollover, reducing power transfers between utilities and bringing older generation equipment online as backup.Art presses Rodman on whether January 1, 2000 will be a good day or a bad day. Rodman answers that it depends on where you live, noting that midwinter weather emergencies could compound any technical failures. Callers share early Y2K glitches already surfacing, including Social Security phone outages and taxi meter failures in Singapore.

#0509

January 18, 1999: Apocalypse Pretty Soon - Alex Heard

Jan 182h 43mAlex Heard

Art Bell welcomes Alex Heard, editor at Wired Magazine and author of Apocalypse Pretty Soon, a book exploring American subcultures driven by millennial and utopian visions of transformation. Heard describes years spent embedded with groups ranging from Christian pre-millennialists awaiting biblical prophecy to libertarians planning artificial island nations in the Pacific. He discusses Jerry Falwell's recent claim that the Antichrist is alive on Earth and likely a Jewish male, placing it in the historical context of Antichrist theorizing from Nero to Ronald Reagan.The conversation shifts to longevity research and the unsettling patent filed by lawyer Chet Fleming for a device to keep a severed human head alive on a console. Heard connects this to Dr. Robert White's monkey head transplant experiments and raises the question of who would deserve or want such preservation. Art notes that the technology may already be closer than most people realize and speculates that private labs could be conducting such work in secret.Heard shares his experience at the Monroe Institute attempting out-of-body travel and his research into earth changes prophecies from figures like Lori Toye and Gordon Michael Scallion. A ghost photograph arrives mid-broadcast from Canton, Michigan, which Art scans and posts to his website in real time, prompting an on-air call with the photographer.

#0510

January 20, 1999: Prophecy - Arvol Looking Horse

Jan 202h 42mArvol Looking Horse

Art Bell welcomes Chief Arvol Looking Horse, the 19th generation keeper of the sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe and spiritual leader of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota nations. At just 12 years old, Looking Horse inherited this sacred responsibility based on his grandmother's prophetic dream, making him the youngest keeper in history.The conversation moves through Lakota spiritual beliefs, including the four stages of life, the spirit releasing ceremony, and the profound significance of four white buffalo calves born since 1994, fulfilling ancient prophecy. Chief Looking Horse describes attending a NASA workshop on climate and earth changes, where scientists sought indigenous perspectives on environmental shifts already visible in unusual weather patterns, burning sun, and ecological disruption.Art and the Chief discuss the prophecy of a coming black cloud, the crisis of youth suicide across communities, and the suppression of Native spiritual practices from 1890 until the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978. Looking Horse calls for a global World Peace and Prayer Day on June 21st, urging collective spiritual energy to heal Mother Earth.

#0511

January 25, 1999: Chemtrails, HAARP, Other Topics - William Thomas

Jan 252h 34mWilliam Thomas

Art Bell is joined by investigative journalist William Thomas, who reports on unusual aerial spraying patterns observed across 18 U.S. states. Thomas describes formations of multi-engine aircraft flying in grid-like patterns, leaving trails that do not dissipate like normal contrails but instead spread into milky overcast skies, accompanied by reports of cobweb-like filaments drifting to the ground.Thomas presents HAARP patent documentation from inventor Bernard Eastland, including U.S. Patent 4686605, which references using directed energy beams exceeding one billion watts for altering upper atmospheric wind patterns. He connects this to a U.S. Air Force paper titled "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025," confirming military interest in weather modification through ionospheric manipulation and aerial seeding.Callers from across the country report severe respiratory illnesses, hospitals overwhelmed with patients, and mysterious fibrous material falling from the sky. Thomas notes that subscribers to the Environmental News Service have nearly doubled since his reporting, with new sign-ups traced to FAA, Pentagon, and National Security Agency addresses.

#0512

January 26, 1999: Terminator Seed Technology - Patrick Roy Mooney

Jan 262h 54mPatrick Roy Mooney

Art Bell speaks with Patrick Roy Mooney of the Rural Advancement Foundation International about a jointly developed technology between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Delta and Pine Land Company that genetically alters plants so the seeds they produce are sterile. Mooney, who coined the term "Terminator" for this technology, explains how it forces farmers to repurchase seed every season rather than saving harvested seed for replanting.The discussion reveals that 1.4 billion people worldwide depend on farm-saved seed for survival. Mooney warns that pollen from Terminator crops could spread to neighboring fields, potentially sterilizing crops of farmers who never purchased the engineered seed. A University of Chicago study suggests genetically altered plants are 20 times more likely to outcross with natural varieties, raising the specter of widespread unintended crop failure.Mooney details how 34 related patents are pending or granted across major agrochemical corporations, with an estimated 80 percent of commercial seed projected to carry Terminator traits by 2010. He urges listeners to write Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman demanding the technology be shelved before it reaches the global marketplace.

#0513

January 29, 1999: Remote Viewing Satan - Ed Dames

Jan 292h 53mEd Dames

Art Bell reconnects with Major Ed Dames, a former military intelligence officer and trained remote viewer, who has spent five weeks in seclusion on the Big Island of Hawaii attempting to remote view Satan. Dames reports that Satan is a distinct entity separate from the devil, describing it as a glorious but cold crystalline white light being whose mind remains active on Earth through communication with subordinate forces.Dames distinguishes between Satan, who exists far from Earth, and the devil, whom he identifies as a powerful angel operating as commander-in-chief of dark forces on the planet. He describes the devil's primary strategy as catalyzing war and hatred among humanity, exploiting extremism to maximize the destruction of human souls. According to his sessions, these entities cannot steal souls directly but work to engineer conditions where people extinguish their own through chronic sin.The discussion turns to the Antichrist, which Dames says has shifted from a general field effect to a specific individual, a male child born the previous year under horrific circumstances. Dames also reveals current satanic strategies involving a Middle Eastern assassination plot and a biological warfare facility that the devil appears to oversee as a personal project.

#0514

February 2, 1999: Hide Your Assets, Detective Work - Ed Pankau

Feb 23h 14mEd Pankau

Art Bell is joined by private investigator Ed Pankau, author of the forthcoming book "Hide Your Assets and Disappear," who draws on decades of experience tracking fugitives to explain how someone could vanish and start over. Pankau, ranked among the nation's top ten private investigators, reveals that only about one in four or five people who attempt to disappear actually succeed long-term.The conversation covers practical realities of modern surveillance, from credit bureau tracking to airline records and electronic communications monitoring. Pankau explains that countries like Belize and Honduras welcome Americans with modest savings, offering citizenship and passports for deposits as low as fifty thousand dollars. He notes that retirees living on Social Security can stretch their income significantly in such locations, enjoying a better quality of life at half the cost.Art and Pankau discuss the fine line between privacy and criminality, the role of technology in modern investigation, and how the Unabomber evaded capture for years by living completely off the grid. Pankau emphasizes the cardinal rule of disappearing: three can keep a secret if two of them are dead, meaning anyone who brings others along dramatically increases their chances of being found.

#0515

February 4, 1999: NDEs, Sarah's Hell - Dr. Jeffrey Long & Trisha McGill

Feb 42h 41mDr. Jeffrey Long, Trisha McGill

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Jeffrey Long, a radiation oncologist and near-death experience researcher, alongside licensed clinical psychologist Trisha McGill to examine the rarely discussed phenomenon of frightening near-death experiences. Dr. Long reveals that up to 15 percent of NDEs may be terrifying rather than blissful, yet experiencers seldom speak about them due to shame and fear of judgment.The broadcast features an extraordinary firsthand account from a woman named Sarah, who was struck by a pickup truck while bicycling home from church and flatlined five times over three days. She describes passing through a tunnel of clouds containing doorways to different realms, including a hellish landscape of torment, a world of isolated wandering souls, a luminous paradise she could not enter, and ultimately a place of pure light and joy. Her account stands as one of the most detailed negative NDE testimonies ever shared on the program.Dr. Long then shares his own frightening experience for the first time publicly, discussing how prophetic dreams and a terrifying vision transformed his understanding of consciousness. Both guests emphasize that frightening NDEs hold equal potential for profound personal transformation as their blissful counterparts.

#0516

February 7, 1999: Alien Abductions - Budd Hopkins

Feb 71h 52mBudd Hopkins

Art Bell sits down with renowned abduction researcher Budd Hopkins, author of Intruders, Missing Time, and Witnessed, for a wide-ranging discussion on the alien abduction phenomenon. The program opens with Linda Moulton Howe reporting on mysterious livestock deaths in Ash Fork, Arizona, coral reef die-offs in the Florida Keys, and unexplained bird deaths in Louisiana before Hopkins takes the microphone.Hopkins draws on over two decades of research and more than 650 individual cases to outline what he believes is a systematic genetic breeding program conducted by non-human intelligences. He describes the mechanics of screen memories, where abductees recall seeing owls, car accidents, or other false images implanted to mask the true experience. He shares striking cases of apparent invisibility during abductions, including a woman whose presence failed to trigger electric eye sensors at an airport.The conversation turns to the NOVA documentary that Hopkins says suppressed all conscious recollection evidence and physical traces while claiming there was no proof. He and Art also discuss government knowledge, the motives of the visitors, and the growing media interest in the subject.

#0517

February 9, 1999: Biblical Prophecy - Hal Lindsey

Feb 92h 37mHal Lindsey

Art Bell welcomes Hal Lindsey, bestselling author of The Late Great Planet Earth and one of the most recognized prophecy teachers in the world, for a sweeping conversation about biblical end-times scenarios and their apparent alignment with current events. Lindsey shares his personal journey from tugboat captain in New Orleans to prophecy scholar after a transformative encounter with the New Testament.The discussion covers the prophesied revival of a Roman-style European superpower, the significance of Israel's rebirth as a nation in 1948, and the characteristics the Bible attributes to the coming Antichrist, whom Lindsey believes must already be alive. Art presses him on timelines, cloning ethics, near-death experiences, the Y2K threat, and whether extraterrestrial life conflicts with scripture. Lindsey responds that nothing in the Bible precludes the existence of alien life.Callers challenge Lindsey on topics ranging from abortion and deals with the devil to whether Christianity holds exclusive claim to truth. Throughout, Lindsey maintains that the convergence of wars, earthquakes, plagues, and extreme weather mirrors the biblical pattern of birth pangs increasing in frequency and intensity as a prophesied climax approaches.

#0518

February 12, 1999: Psychic Powers - Sylvia Browne

Feb 1217mSylvia Browne

Art Bell welcomes psychic and author Sylvia Browne for an intimate conversation covering the nature of the afterlife, spirit guides, guardian angels, and the distinction between ghosts and spirits. Browne explains that ghosts are souls who have not made the transition and remain unaware they have died, while spirits are those who crossed over successfully and can return to comfort the living.The discussion moves into deeply personal territory as Browne describes her work counseling AIDS patients in their final moments, drawing parallels to Dannion Brinkley's hospice work with veterans. She recounts guiding a dying man through his last breaths by telling him to lift out of his body the way a plane lifts off a runway. Art and Sylvia explore the idea of life contracts made before birth, the role of guardian angels, and the nature of dark entities and spiritual possession.Callers raise questions about reaching their guardian angels, children who see balls of light, and whether making a pact with evil forces condemns a soul permanently. Browne insists that God is all-loving and all-forgiving, arguing that even those who believe they have bargained with darkness were always destined to find their way back to the light.

#0519

February 17, 1999: Earth Changes - Gordon Michael Scallion

Feb 172h 2mGordon Michael Scallion

Art Bell welcomes futurist and visionary Gordon Michael Scallion, editor of the Earth Changes Report, for a detailed examination of planetary upheaval and the forces driving accelerating weather catastrophes. Scallion recounts the health crisis in the late 1970s that triggered his prophetic abilities, when a mysterious woman appeared in his hospital room and showed him visions of future earthquakes in Mexico and San Francisco that later came to pass.The conversation delves into Scallion's theory that the core of the Earth has shifted, forcing magma into new pathways and releasing heat into the oceans, which he identifies as the true cause of El Nino. He connects this internal process to the intensifying solar cycle, predicting solar flux counts reaching 500 and warning that massive flares could trigger a magnetic pole shift. He forecasts record-breaking tornadoes, unprecedented floods, and hailstorms with softball-sized stones for the year ahead.Scallion also addresses geopolitical predictions, warning that political unrest in Turkey will escalate into a broader conflict engulfing the Middle East and Europe. He discusses Y2K vulnerabilities, the symbiotic relationship between solar activity and Earth's magnetic field, and his belief that while humanity has passed the fail-safe point for preventing global changes, localized communities can still prepare and adapt.

#0520

February 18, 1999: Chemtrails - William Thomas | Miami Circle - Richard C. Hoagland

Feb 182h 17mWilliam Thomas, Richard C. Hoagland

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist William Thomas to examine disturbing reports of unusual aerial spraying across the United States. Thomas presents evidence of persistent contrails, which he calls chemtrails, that linger for hours and spread into cloud banks rather than dissipating like normal contrails. He details lab findings of ethylene dibromide, a banned carcinogen, in ground samples and connects widespread respiratory illness to spraying patterns across 41 states.Thomas traces the precedent for open-air biological testing back to the 1950s, citing Senate testimony confirming that 239 American cities were sprayed with various agents. He identifies pseudomonas and mycoplasm as potential pathogens linked to the mysterious ailments, noting that antibiotics prove ineffective against the illness. Callers from across the country report matching symptoms and sightings of grid-pattern contrails over their communities.The program opens with breaking news that the Miami-Dade County Commission has voted 10 to 1 to save the Miami Circle through eminent domain, a victory Art credits to listener activism. The show later features Richard C. Hoagland with updates on the legal battles surrounding the archaeological site.

#0521

February 22, 1999: Atheist Hotline - Dr. Albert Taylor

Feb 222h 46mDr. Albert Taylor

Art Bell welcomes back Albert Taylor, author of Soul Traveler and former NASA engineer who trained astronauts at Johnson Space Center. Taylor reveals he held back roughly 40 percent of his experiences from his first book, including detailed accounts of reincarnation and what he calls "the game," a set of rules for living that he discovered through his out-of-body journeys. He shares how a catastrophic travel mishap on his way to Greece led to a meaningful encounter that confirmed his philosophy of remaining available to life's unexpected redirections.The conversation shifts to reincarnation, with Taylor and Art debating whether consciousness carries forward between lives. Taylor argues that past life experiences shape present behavior even without conscious recall, while Art challenges the value of reincarnation without continuity of memory. They discuss the historical removal of reincarnation from Christian teachings and its implications for spiritual control.Art opens an atheist hotline, inviting non-believers to call and engage directly with Taylor. Several atheists share their perspectives, with Taylor responding that he never seeks to prove his experiences but simply shares them. Art poses the famous question from the film Contact, asking a caller to prove his love for his mother, drawing a parallel to proving the existence of the soul.

#0522

February 25, 1999: A Woman's Viewpoint of Y2K - Lia Marie Danks

Feb 252h 40mLia Marie Danks

Art Bell welcomes Lia Marie Danks, author of Building Your Arc, to discuss Y2K preparedness from a practical, household perspective. Danks, a Texas native living in rural Arkansas, shares that her research began three years earlier when a college professor handed her an early draft of Ed Yourdon's Time Bomb 2000. She rates her personal concern between a five and a nine on a ten-point scale, explaining that the uncertainty itself drove her to write a survival guide for everyday families.Danks offers detailed advice on water storage and purification, recommending expedition-grade filters over cheap store-bought models and explaining that boiling works for temporary situations but cannot remove heavy metals. She shares creative tips, including freezing water in two-liter bottles to both preserve frozen food during outages and provide drinking water as they thaw. She also suggests burying an old refrigerator in the backyard as an improvised root cellar to keep food cool without electricity.The discussion turns to food storage strategies for people at every income level, from pre-packaged nitrogen-sealed meals to bulk beans and grains stored with oxygen absorber packets. Danks addresses the difficult moral questions of sharing limited supplies, health care vulnerabilities, and the pharmaceutical industry's unreadiness, citing a Senate report that 64 percent of hospitals had no plans to test their Y2K fixes.

#0523

February 26, 1999: Trumbull County UFO Sightings - Kenny Young

Feb 262h 40mKenny Young

Art Bell welcomes UFO researcher Kenny Young, who presents the complete, unedited 911 dispatch recordings from a December 1994 mass UFO sighting in Trumbull County, Ohio. Young explains that he stumbled onto the case by accident when a wrong phone number from directory assistance connected him to the wrong Liberty Township police department, where officers had their own extraordinary account to share. He later received the full dispatch tapes from a 911 center employee who discovered his internet report and felt the story deserved public attention.The recordings capture multiple civilian callers and police officers describing a large, silent object with blue-green and red pulsating lights hovering as low as 50 feet above homes along Samson Drive. Officers observe the object through binoculars, noting it changes colors and remains stationary for extended periods before slowly moving away. The FAA tower operator confirms nothing appears on radar within a 60-mile radius of Youngstown, leaving dispatchers without any conventional explanation to relay to units in the field.Young highlights that a local television reporter from Channel 33 in Youngstown monitored the entire event on a police scanner and even called the dispatch center, yet the station never aired a story. He contrasts the raw evidence with the dismissive conclusion offered on NBC's Confirmation special, where a skeptic attributed the sightings to twinkling stars.

#0524

March 2, 1999: UFO Sightings - Peter Davenport & Dr. Roger Leir | Miami Circle Update - Richard C. Hoagland

Mar 21h 0mPeter Davenport, Dr. Roger Leir, Richard C. Hoagland

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Roger Leir and Peter Davenport about a remarkable UFO sighting witnessed by approximately 40 people at the International UFO Congress in Laughlin, Nevada. Both men describe watching star-like objects arranged in a triangular formation begin moving in ways that defied conventional aircraft behavior, darting and stopping with a quality Davenport compares to tropical fish in an aquarium. The objects gradually dimmed as they drifted toward the corona of a nearly full moon before disappearing entirely.Dr. Leir recounts the emotional weight of the experience, noting the crowd fell into complete silence rather than the expected excitement. He describes a distinct feeling that the objects were acknowledging the observers before departing. Davenport, normally a self-described scientific skeptic, confirms this was among the strangest things he has witnessed in a decade. Neither man was able to photograph the event, as the objects appeared only as faint star-intensity lights impossible to capture with standard cameras.Richard C. Hoagland joins later with an update on the Miami Circle, reporting that the site remains protected by court order while multiple lawsuits entangle the county, the city, and the developer. He connects the archaeological find to a broader theory of a prior sophisticated civilization, citing hieroglyphic panels at the Temple of Seti I at Abydos depicting what appear to be technological devices carved thousands of years ago.

#0525

March 3, 1999: SETI - Dr. Paul Shuch

Mar 32h 43mDr. Paul Shuch

Art Bell welcomes Dr. H. Paul Shuch, executive director of the SETI League, for a deep exploration of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Dr. Shuch, a former aerospace engineer who designed the world's first commercial home satellite TV receiver, explains how amateur radio enthusiasts can convert their backyard satellite dishes into functional radio telescopes capable of scanning the skies for alien signals.The conversation covers the science behind choosing optimal listening frequencies, particularly the "waterhole" region between the hydrogen and hydroxyl spectral lines at 1.3 to 1.7 gigahertz. Dr. Shuch details how the SETI League's Project Argus aims to do what even NASA could not afford, organizing a grassroots all-sky survey using hundreds of volunteer-operated stations worldwide to complement the SETI Institute's targeted search.Art and Dr. Shuch share their common roots in early satellite television, bond over ham radio, and walk listeners through the surprisingly affordable equipment needed to join the search. The episode also touches on the Monica Lewinsky interview, military urban warfare exercises, and reports of mysterious contrails over the San Fernando Valley.

#0526

March 4, 1999: Hale-Bopp - Whitley Strieber | NASA & Weather - James McCanney & Earl Crockett

Mar 41h 17mWhitley Strieber, James McCanney, Earl Crockett

Art Bell hosts Whitley Strieber alongside Millennium Group members James McCanney and Earl Crockett for a provocative discussion challenging mainstream astrophysics. McCanney, a physicist fired twice from Cornell for his unconventional theories, argues that comets are not dirty snowballs but rocky bodies generating massive electrical plasma discharges as they interact with the sun's solar wind.The group presents evidence that the sun functions as an electrical generator, producing more energy electromagnetically than through visible light. They connect this theory to intensifying weather patterns on Earth, claiming that Hale-Bopp spent six years electrically connected to the sun, pumping energy into it and contributing to extreme storms. They also allege that NASA suppresses data from the SOHO satellite and Hubble Space Telescope because it contradicts established models of the solar system.The conversation takes a dramatic turn when the guests revisit the Hale-Bopp companion controversy, alleging that the photograph labeled fraudulent was actually genuine and that the debunking itself was orchestrated. They claim Hale-Bopp's nucleus was planet-sized and suggest NASA hides these findings because they point to catastrophic solar events capable of sterilizing Earth.

#0527

March 5, 1999: Larry King Live - Art Bell

Mar 526mLarry King, Art Bell

Art Bell appears as a guest on Larry King Live for a wide-ranging interview covering his career, beliefs, and the phenomena he investigates nightly. Art traces his path from rock and roll radio to late-night talk, explaining why the nighttime audience possesses a uniquely open and attentive quality that makes his show possible. He shares his views on crop circles, ghosts, and alien abduction with characteristic balance, presenting himself as a reporter rather than a believer.The interview takes a personal turn when Art recounts his out-of-body experience in Paris, describing a spontaneous separation from his physical body that left him floating above the city in a state of total ecstasy. He also describes witnessing a massive silent triangular craft pass over his car near Area 51, an encounter he says defied all known principles of aerodynamic flight.Art presents Larry King with a sample of bismuth and magnesium allegedly retrieved from the Roswell crash site, noting that no lab has been able to reproduce its composition. He also addresses the Hale-Bopp photograph controversy, the Miami Circle preservation effort, and his philosophy that the paranormal is simply the unexplored dimension of ordinary life.

#0528

March 8, 1999: Richard C. Hoagland Heart Attack - Stephen Bassett

Mar 830mStephen Bassett

Art Bell opens with sobering news that his close friend Richard C. Hoagland has suffered a massive heart attack in Miami and is in critical condition on life support, facing emergency open heart surgery. Art describes Hoagland's relentless work ethic as a serious Type A personality and connects the health crisis to months of unrelenting personal attacks from critics he considers engaged in deliberate character assassination.Art reads a chilling letter from an unnamed scientist who warned Hoagland that investigating Tesla-based weather radar technology posed mortal danger, with the scientist estimating his own life expectancy at only months. The letter warns Hoagland to pull back or risk meeting a sudden end. Art presents this alongside the heart attack without drawing a definitive conclusion, leaving the audience to weigh the possibilities.UFO lobbyist Stephen Bassett joins from Washington to deliver an impassioned defense of Hoagland and a broader indictment of infighting within the research community. Bassett argues that personal attacks and orchestrated smear campaigns are destroying people's health and careers while playing directly into the hands of those in government determined to suppress disclosure. He calls on the field to unite around its responsibility to the public.

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March 10, 1999: Division of Consciousness - Peter Novak

Mar 102h 40mPeter Novak

Art Bell welcomes researcher Peter Novak, whose book The Division of Consciousness proposes a unified theory of the afterlife built on the psychological distinction between the conscious and unconscious mind. Novak, driven by the tragic suicide of his young wife, spent ten years studying hundreds of cultures' afterlife traditions, near-death experiences, ghost reports, and past-life regressions, concluding that a single mechanism explains them all.Novak argues that at death, the conscious and unconscious minds separate. The conscious mind, stripped of all memory and emotion, enters a state of total amnesia before eventually reincarnating with no recollection of prior lives. The unconscious mind, cut off from rational thought, retreats into an automatic review of its stored memories, generating its own heaven or hell based on moral self-judgment.The theory elegantly accounts for commonly reported phenomena, from the emotionless calm of early near-death experiences to the repetitive behavior of haunting ghosts. Art also shares an update that Richard C. Hoagland survived his surgery, reads a dismissive response from NASA's SOHO team about solar super flares, and takes a remarkable call from a grandmother whose three-year-old granddaughter described memories of a previous life and death in vivid detail.

#0530

March 11, 1999: Phoenix Lights 2nd Anniversary - Peter Davenport

Mar 111h 55mPeter Davenport

Art Bell welcomes Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center, alongside MUFON investigator Robert Fairfax to discuss a landmark case near Mount St. Helens. Fourteen forestry workers witnessed a small disc-shaped craft descend toward a herd of elk, lift one adult animal off the ground, and rise until it vanished into the sky. Davenport and Fairfax detail their in-person interviews with three of the witnesses, describing them as sober, reluctant to seek publicity, and entirely credible.The conversation shifts to breaking reports from the Chicago area, where a teenager and her mother independently observed a massive, silent triangular craft over Lamont, Illinois. Minutes later, a similar object was reported near Sandusky, Ohio. Davenport also shares audio from a former LAPD officer's wife describing a luminous split object seen below cloud cover near Los Angeles.On the second anniversary of the Phoenix Lights, Art and Davenport revisit audio from that historic night and discuss the government's continued silence on UFO phenomena. Davenport expresses alarm at the increasing frequency and boldness of sightings nationwide, calling the official denial the biggest lie on the planet.

#0531

March 12, 1999: Remote Viewing - Ed Dames

Mar 122h 2mEd Dames

Art Bell is joined by Major Ed Dames, former operations and training officer for the military's classified remote viewing unit, calling from his new base in Maui. Dames explains technical remote viewing as a trainable method of extracting information from what he calls the collective unconscious, describing how his company SciTech has refined the protocols originally developed for military intelligence collection against strategic targets in Russia and China.Dames delivers stark warnings about an approaching series of catastrophic solar events he calls the "kill shot," predicting coronal mass ejections that could penetrate Earth's atmosphere and cause widespread destruction. He explains this is why SciTech relocated from California to Hawaii, citing the islands as a safer zone based on remote viewing data. He also discusses the use of a nuclear weapon on the Korean Peninsula as a precursor event.The conversation takes a darker turn as Dames outlines what he calls the Devil's Workshop, describing an Iraqi biological weapons facility near Mosul and a plan to covertly release anthrax over Jerusalem using sun-dried gel containers. He closes with optimistic news about Project Starman, his effort to make contact with extraterrestrial civilizations using projected time-space windows.

#0532

March 15, 1999: Cancer Recovery - Dr. Lorraine Day

Mar 153h 22mDr. Lorraine Day

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Lorraine Day, a former orthopedic trauma surgeon who spent 15 years at the University of California San Francisco Medical School and served as chief of orthopedic surgery at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Day describes her confrontation with the AIDS crisis in the late 1980s, her controversial push to test surgical patients, and her eventual departure from mainstream medicine after developing a massive cancerous tumor.Dr. Day explains how she refused chemotherapy and radiation, instead adopting a rigorous natural healing plan that included a vegan diet, fresh vegetable juicing, sunlight exposure, exercise, stress reduction, and spiritual practice. She details consuming the juice of 35 pounds of carrots and dozens of other vegetables weekly. After reaching the point where she was not expected to survive the night, she recovered fully within 18 months. She also claims knowledge of 300 individuals who reversed their HIV-positive status through similar methods.Art candidly admits his own unhealthy lifestyle of coffee dependence, meat consumption, overnight hours, and minimal sleep. Dr. Day warns that anger is the true leading cause of death in America and shares how she applied the same program to cure her 85-year-old mother's autoimmune disease, eliminating all medications within weeks.

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March 16, 1999: Richard C. Hoagland Heart Attack Interview

Mar 1636mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell reconnects with Richard C. Hoagland, former advisor to Walter Cronkite and NASA consultant, just hours after his release from the hospital following emergency open-heart bypass surgery. Hoagland recounts waking in his Miami hotel room with crushing chest pain radiating down both arms, managing to call for paramedics just before collapsing. He describes the nitroglycerin temporarily relieving his pain before the full cardiac event struck in the ambulance.Hoagland reveals that doctors found a single, precisely located arterial blockage while all surrounding blood vessels showed remarkable health and elasticity. Medical staff repeatedly expressed surprise at the vitality of his cardiovascular system, a finding he considers deeply anomalous. He had been in Miami investigating NEXRAD radar anomalies and the Miami Circle archaeological site when the attack occurred, days after a scientist friend warned him his research could prove fatal.Both Art and Hoagland credit the seventh mass consciousness experiment with aiding his rapid recovery, noting that Hoagland could physically feel the energy shift when listeners focused healing intentions toward him. Hoagland declares he will not back down from his investigations, interpreting the event as a deliberate attack using advanced scalar technology.

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March 17, 1999: Chemtrails - Linda Moulton Howe & William Thomas

Mar 172h 55mLinda Moulton Howe, William Thomas

Linda Moulton Howe and investigative journalist William Thomas join Art Bell for a two-part investigation into chemtrails, anomalous contrails, and silver-sphere reports across the United States. Howe reports witnessing massive X-shaped trails over Sedona, Arizona, and interviews an Albuquerque resident who observed through binoculars a silver sphere moving within a contrail before shooting straight upward at extraordinary speed. Art connects this to his own sighting of a silver disc in a contrail two years earlier and a matching photograph from Missouri.Investigative journalist William Thomas then presents his findings from eight weeks of research spanning 43 states and over 400 witnesses. He explains that KC-135 and KC-10 tanker aircraft have been identified laying persistent trails that spread into overcast skies rather than dissipating like normal contrails. A signed letter from Major General Barlow confirms these tankers operate below contrail-forming altitudes. Thomas describes witnesses observing trails being switched on and off and substances falling as gel-like material.Thomas reveals lab results from researcher Joe Burton showing amino acid poisons and trifluoronitrosomethane, an ingredient in EPA-registered pesticides, along with ethylene dibromide found in fuel samples. He references congressional investigations confirming decades of open-air biological and chemical testing on American cities, drawing parallels between current symptoms and Gulf War illness.

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March 18, 1999: Children's Past Lives - Carol Bowman

Mar 182h 45mCarol Bowman

Art Bell welcomes researcher Carol Bowman, author of Children's Past Lives, to discuss the startling phenomenon of young children who spontaneously recall details from previous lifetimes. Bowman shares how her own son Chase, at age five, described vivid memories of being a soldier on a battlefield, complete with details about his uniform, a field hospital, and a cannon. Remarkably, chronic eczema on the same wrist where he described being shot disappeared within days of the memory surfacing, along with his phobia of loud noises.The conversation digs into how children as young as two years old casually describe prior lives before societal conditioning teaches them otherwise. Art reads listener accounts of toddlers making statements no small child could fabricate, describing former families, deaths, and historical details with unsettling accuracy. Bowman explains the difference between fantasy and genuine past life memory in children.Callers share their own extraordinary stories of children revealing apparent memories of previous existences. The discussion considers whether reincarnation was once part of early Christian doctrine and how these spontaneous childhood memories represent some of the most compelling evidence for the continuation of consciousness beyond death.

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March 21, 1999: Witchcraft - Ramona Bell interviews Dr. Evelyn Paglini

Mar 2143mRamona Bell, Dr. Evelyn Paglini

Ramona Bell hosts alongside Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a practitioner from a thousand-year lineage of magic, for a special Dreamland episode dedicated to the practical traditions of witchcraft. Paglini describes methods of spiritual protection, including environmental cleansing with sage, sulfur, and sea salt, as well as the use of reverse candles and uncrossing oils to return negativity to its source. The discussion covers how to identify and address psychic attacks on finances, relationships, and health.The two women explore image candle magic and the principles of imitative and sympathetic magic, explaining how practitioners use colored candles, personal items, and essential oils to influence attraction, love, and healing. Paglini distinguishes between the stages of magical work, warning listeners about the consequences of rushing love spells before confirming compatibility with a potential partner.Art Bell's wife Ramona draws on her own knowledge of the craft as the conversation turns to practical herbalism and preparedness. Paglini recommends growing medicinal herbs and learning their properties, predicting that herbal knowledge will become a valuable bartering commodity in coming times of upheaval. The episode closes with guidance on magical dos and donts for beginners.

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April 01, 1999: Psychedelic Substances - Terence McKenna

Apr 12h 40mTerence McKenna

Art Bell welcomes ethnobotanist and philosopher Terence McKenna from his home on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawaii for a wide-ranging conversation about psychedelic substances, consciousness, and the nature of time. McKenna argues that cultures selectively stigmatize certain substances while glorifying others, and that altering consciousness is as old as humanity itself. He describes his current work cataloging hallucinogenic botany and discusses DMT, a compound produced naturally in the human brain, and its potential connection to near-death experiences and deep dream states.The discussion shifts to McKenna's theory of novelty, which holds that the universe is a system that produces and conserves increasing complexity over time. He draws parallels between Art's concept of "the quickening" and his own notion of concrescence, both pointing toward an accelerating series of climactic transformations in human civilization. McKenna cites the Italian Renaissance and the Greek Enlightenment as historical spikes of concentrated novelty.Persistent power outages throughout the broadcast provide an unintended demonstration of technological fragility as the two discuss Y2K preparedness. McKenna advises listeners in dense urban areas to consider temporary relocation, estimating roughly 72 hours of social breakdown before systems could be restored.

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April 02, 1999: Politics of the Crucifixion - Dr. Glenn Kimball

Apr 21h 48mDr. Glenn Kimball

Art Bell welcomes scholar Glenn Kimball for an Easter-themed exploration of the hidden political forces behind the crucifixion of Jesus. Drawing from ancient manuscripts across Hindu, Roman, and early Christian traditions, Kimball presents evidence that the crucifixion was driven not by religious persecution but by a blackmail scheme. He describes how the Sadducees, the only Jewish faction allied with Rome, threatened to expose the secret political relationship between Pontius Pilate and the Roman conspirator Sejanus unless Pilate executed Jesus.Kimball reveals that Jesus held status as a Roman citizen through his foster father Joseph of Arimathea, who was named Noblest of Curio by Tiberius Caesar. He describes how Pilate and Jesus shared a connection through the Druid universities of ancient Britain, and how Pilate ultimately converted to Christianity after reportedly encountering the resurrected Jesus in the streets. Kimball notes that early Christians celebrated Pilate's birthday as a religious holiday for two centuries and that he remains a saint in Byzantine and Coptic traditions.The conversation extends to the political aftermath of the crucifixion, including accounts of the dead rising in both Jerusalem and Rome, the preservation of temple artifacts by Roman forces, and speculation about the current location of the Ark of the Covenant. Callers and Art share personal reflections on visiting biblical sites in the Holy Land.

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April 08, 1999: Cosmology, EMP Weapons - Dr. Brian Greene | UFO Sightings - Peter Davenport

Apr 82h 46mDr. Brian Greene, Peter Davenport

Art Bell welcomes Columbia University physicist Dr. Brian Greene for a conversation spanning the Big Bang, string theory, nuclear weapons, and the possibility of extraterrestrial contact. Greene explains how everything in the universe, including space and time themselves, emerged from a point smaller than a quark, and describes how string theory has revealed that tears in the fabric of space are theoretically possible, potentially allowing for wormholes and interstellar travel. He pushes back against physicist Lawrence Krauss's definitive claim that aliens have not and will not visit Earth.The discussion turns to the physics of destruction as Art asks Greene about reported electromagnetic pulse weapons used in the Kosovo conflict. Greene confirms awareness of non-nuclear EMP device research but cannot detail the mechanisms behind them. He also reflects on the legacy of Oppenheimer, arguing that scientists must remain vigilant about the applications of their discoveries rather than simply delivering products to policymakers. Greene expresses optimism that humanity will ultimately survive its discovery of nuclear power.Art and Greene debate the likelihood of advanced civilizations existing elsewhere in the universe, with Greene acknowledging that life could take forms radically different from anything on Earth. The conversation touches on unified field theory and the energy contained within the strings that permeate even the vacuum of space.

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April 13, 1999: Yugoslavia War - Jeffrey Nyquist

Apr 132h 1mJeffrey Nyquist

Art Bell welcomes back author and geopolitical analyst Jeffrey Nyquist to discuss the escalating NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia and its dangerous implications for U.S.-Russia relations. Nyquist details how Russian leaders, including Boris Yeltsin, have issued direct threats of global war over the conflict, while calling up 170,000 new troops and deploying advanced nuclear submarines. He outlines Russia's extensive anti-ballistic missile network and first-strike capabilities that challenge the assumption of mutual assured destruction.The conversation examines how NATO's offensive action violates its own defensive charter, and how the bombing has empowered Russian communists while uniting the Russian public against the West. Nyquist argues that America's arrogant assumption that economic leverage neutralizes Russia's military threat is dangerously misguided, pointing to historical precedents where Russia fought and won wars while on the brink of starvation.Callers weigh in on the geopolitical fallout, raising concerns about simultaneous threats from North Korea, China, and the Middle East stretching American forces dangerously thin. Nyquist warns that inserting 200,000 ground troops into Yugoslavia could trigger NATO's disintegration and a catastrophic wider conflict.

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April 21, 1999: Cold Fusion & Oil Company Coverup - Dr. Eugene Mallove

Apr 212h 38mDr. Eugene Mallove

Guest host Hilly Rose welcomes Dr. Eugene Mallove, editor of Infinite Energy magazine and MIT-trained engineer, to discuss the suppressed science of cold fusion ten years after the landmark Pons and Fleischmann announcement. Mallove explains how the two electrochemists demonstrated excess heat from a simple electrochemical cell using heavy water and palladium, only to be ridiculed and driven from the scientific establishment by hostile physicists who dismissed the results without proper investigation.Mallove reveals that a Department of Energy panel stacked with skeptics produced a negative report that discouraged even oil companies like Amoco from pursuing research despite their own positive results. He describes how MIT researchers allegedly altered their own data to show null results, and how the institutional bias of the academic-government complex has blocked progress for a decade. Multiple private companies, including Clean Energy Technologies and Blacklight Power, have since confirmed excess heat production.The discussion covers recent breakthroughs by Dr. Les Case involving catalytic fusion that produces measurable helium, the nuclear byproduct skeptics had long demanded as proof. Mallove argues that cold fusion could eliminate fossil fuel dependency entirely, noting that one cubic mile of ocean contains enough fusion fuel to equal all known oil reserves on Earth.

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May 4, 1999: Remote Viewing - Ed Dames

May 42h 50mEd Dames

Art Bell returns from a three-week personal absence to sit down with Major Ed Dames, founder of the private remote viewing firm PSI TECH, now celebrating its tenth anniversary. Dames discusses contrails, revealing that his remote viewing sessions identified three distinct categories: normal condensation trails, atmospheric chemistry research missions flown by agencies like NASA and NOAA studying ozone depletion, and a classified defense initiative involving material falling from the sky that he cannot fully disclose but suggests may protect the public in a national emergency.The conversation shifts to the devastating F5 tornadoes that ravaged Oklahoma and Kansas, which Dames had predicted months earlier on the show. He links the increasing severity of storms to accelerating ozone loss, warning that the problem is far worse than publicly acknowledged and will fundamentally alter how humanity grows food and inhabits the planet. Dames also announces PSI TECH's Operation Guiding Light, donating remote viewing training tapes to American high schools in the wake of the Columbine tragedy.Art and Dames explore deep philosophical territory, including the nature of consciousness, the mechanics of teleportation, and the distinction between mind and soul. Dames describes PSI TECH's new Transluminonics division working on wireless quantum teleportation switching devices and warns that 1999 will bring events of biblical proportions that will eclipse Y2K concerns.

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May 5, 1999: Caving - Bonnie Crystal

May 52h 40mBonnie Crystal

Art Bell interviews Bonnie Crystal, a Silicon Valley CEO and pioneering technologist who co-founded the first woman-led company to go public on NASDAQ. Crystal invented video noise reduction technology that revolutionized satellite television and developed a new flat-panel display called High Gain Emissive Display. But the heart of the conversation centers on her lifelong passion for exploration speleology, the science of venturing deep into the Earth's uncharted cave systems.Crystal describes vertical caving expeditions reaching thousands of feet below the surface, where teams of four navigate pitch-black passages using specialized rope techniques and carry three of every essential piece of equipment. She details her invention of through-the-rock cave radio communications using low-frequency magnetic energy at 185 kilohertz, allowing contact with the surface from deep underground. The discussion covers remarkable discoveries including blind fish, spiders as large as a fist, bipedal lizard tracks from an unknown species weighing up to 20 pounds, and microbes found in Lechuguia Cave that NASA scientists study as analogs for potential extraterrestrial life.Art and Bonnie discuss plans for her upcoming month-long expedition to a remote area of the Andes Mountains in South America, where limestone formations suggest caves could reach depths approaching 15,000 feet. They agree to attempt a live ham radio link from the expedition's base camp during the trip.

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May 6, 1999: Chemtrails - William Thomas

May 62h 25mWilliam Thomas

Art Bell brings back investigative journalist William Thomas for an in-depth examination of the growing chemtrail phenomenon that has generated thousands of eyewitness reports since their initial broadcast. Thomas presents new lab results from a government-certified laboratory that found Pseudomonas fluorescens bacteria, a restricted DNA-cutting enzyme called bacillus, and streptomyces fungus in brown gel samples collected from buildings in two separate states nearly a year apart, with matching results that alarmed the lab technicians.A Boeing senior flight test engineer calls in to argue that the unusual sky patterns are simply test flight contrails, but Thomas counters with evidence that the cross-hatching occurs far from major airways and navigation beacons. An airline pilot with 15 years of experience at Continental confirms he has never seen contrails cover an entire sky. William Wallace, the original witness whose report launched the investigation, describes repeated low-altitude spraying over his property that left him and his wife chronically ill with joint pain and Epstein-Barr virus.Thomas connects the symptoms to mycoplasma infections linked to Gulf War illness research and reveals correspondence from a high-ranking Air Force officer whose own inquiries into the spraying resulted in his security classification being elevated. Multiple callers from Salt Lake City report hazmat teams rushing to clean up brown deposits falling from aircraft, incidents confirmed by local news coverage that same day.

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May 11, 1999: Bigfoot & the Florida Panther - James McMullen

May 112h 44mJames McMullen

Art Bell welcomes James McMullen, a naturalist and independent tracker who has spent 23 years in the Florida Everglades pursuing the endangered Florida panther. McMullen describes how he verified 64 individual panthers in a region where experts declared them virtually extinct, earning the trust of Seminole elders and old-time swamp dwellers along the way.The conversation shifts to Bigfoot when McMullen reveals that his decades of panther tracking also led him to unexplained encounters with an unknown creature. He details his August 1997 sighting of a large, upright, chocolate-brown figure standing 35 feet away in a tree line, breathing visibly, with dark caramel skin and long hair-covered arms ending in clearly defined fingers. He compares and contrasts the creature with the famous Patterson film footage.McMullen discusses the physical evidence he has gathered, including plaster casts of massive footprints with dermal ridges, strange vocalizations heard at close range, and his philosophy of naturalistic observation over capture or killing. He argues that a skilled tracker can build a case for an unknown species without ever harming one, and urges protection for the creature he believes has inhabited the Everglades for generations.

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May 12, 1999: Citizens Against UFO Secrecy - Michael Cremo | Lawsuit - Peter Gersten

May 122h 55mMichael Cremo, Peter Gersten

Art Bell speaks with attorney Peter Gersten, founder of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, about his ongoing legal battle to force government disclosure of UFO-related documents. Gersten describes his dismissed FOIA lawsuit against the Army over records referenced in Colonel Philip Corso's book and outlines his active case demanding Department of Defense information on flying triangle sightings. He calls on listeners to submit affidavits and photographic evidence to support future legal proceedings.In the second half, researcher Michael Cremo joins to discuss evidence of extreme human antiquity that challenges conventional archaeology. He describes metallic spheres found in South African mineral deposits dated to roughly two billion years ago, with machined precision that metallurgists cannot explain as natural formations. He also reveals stone tools and human skeletal remains discovered deep inside California gold mines beneath layers of rock dating back tens of millions of years.Cremo recounts the fierce resistance his work has provoked from the scientific establishment, including campaigns to pressure NBC into canceling a television special featuring his findings and a petition to the FCC demanding the network be fined and forced to issue public apologies for airing the program.

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May 14, 1999: UFO Crash - Whitley Strieber & Bill McDonald

May 142h 2mWhitley Strieber, Bill McDonald

Guest host Whitley Strieber interviews forensic artist and investigator Bill McDonald, who presents a detailed composite description of the Roswell spacecraft assembled from multiple independent military witnesses. McDonald describes a craft resembling a diamond-shaped stingray, approximately 32 feet long and 25 feet wide, constructed as a single integrated unit that appeared grown rather than assembled. Its outer skin functioned as its engine through magneto-aero-electrodynamics, propelling the vehicle through atmosphere and water alike.McDonald details the interior layout of seven seats arranged around a bell-dome reactor, with crew stations that merged seamlessly into the occupants' bodies. He describes the alien occupants as childlike humanoids with screen-mesh skin who absorbed nutrients and oxygen through their tissue while immersed in a ballistic fluid. The craft's layered hull contained patterns resembling neural ganglia that functioned like massive microprocessors.The discussion covers the craft's multiple flight modes, including atmospheric flight using cambered lift, underwater submersion as a neutrally buoyant vessel, and the theory that lightning caused the crash. McDonald also addresses the secrecy surrounding recovered alien technology and the gradual transfer of that technology from military to private sector control.

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May 18, 1999: The Brain - Neil Slade | Pole Shift & Earth Changes - Stewart Best

May 182h 40mStewart Best, Neil Slade

Art Bell opens with brain researcher Neil Slade to discuss the remarkable true story of Mike the Headless Chicken, a rooster that survived four and a half years after decapitation in 1945. Scientists at the University of Utah determined the farmer's cut left the brain stem intact, preserving all instinctual behaviors including walking, preening, and attempting to crow. Slade connects this to his research on the amygdala and the untapped potential of the human frontal lobes.The program shifts to author and former corporate jet pilot Stewart Best, who presents his case that Earth is approaching a catastrophic pole shift. Best describes the mechanics of such an event, where the planet's surface moves rapidly while the atmosphere lags behind, generating winds of 800 miles per hour or more and drawing super-cold upper atmosphere air to the surface. He points to escalating tornado violence, magnetic pole fluctuations, disrupted bird migration patterns, and the earthquake swarm at Mammoth Lakes as warning signs.Best ties these geological predictions to biblical prophecy, describing a timeline that converges with predictions from Nostradamus, Hopi elders, and modern remote viewers. He warns that the NATO campaign in Yugoslavia is systematically pushing Russia, China, and Islamic nations into the alliance foretold in scripture as a precursor to global conflict.

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May 19, 1999: Miami Circle Update - Richard C. Hoagland

May 1918mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell checks in with Richard C. Hoagland, who is recovering from a severe heart attack in Miami, for an update on two developing stories. Hoagland reports that the Miami Circle archaeological site has been saved from demolition through an eminent domain proceeding, with the county winning a key hearing against the developer. He announces that Senator Bob Graham has introduced a bill to incorporate the 2,000-year-old site into the national park system and urges listeners to fax their senators in support.The conversation turns to a revelation from NASA when Hoagland reports that the Hubble Space Telescope photographed the lunar surface on April 16, 1999, despite years of official claims that the moon was too bright for the instrument. He details how NASA officials, including the head of public affairs at the Space Telescope Institute, had repeatedly stated on record that even the earthlit portion of the moon would damage the telescope. Hoagland theorizes that honest insiders may be working to expose a deceptive element within the agency.Hoagland also discusses new magnetic striping discoveries on Mars from the mapping orbit, addresses the personal attacks he endured during his recovery including accusations that he faked his heart attack, and hints at upcoming revelations connected to the Taurid meteor stream and NASA's hidden research into potential Earth impacts.

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May 19, 1999: Time Travel - Dr. Bruce Goldberg

May 192h 2mDr. Bruce Goldberg

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Bruce Goldberg, a hypnotherapist and author who has regressed over 11,000 patients into past and future lives, to discuss one of Art's favorite subjects: time travel. Dr. Goldberg outlines four methods of traveling through time, from physical time machines based on exotic matter and warp drive theory to teleportation and fifth-dimensional out-of-body techniques that listeners can practice themselves.The conversation covers mathematical models proposed by physicists like Kip Thorne and Miguel Alcubierre, the grandfather paradox resolved through parallel universes, and Dr. Goldberg's claimed encounters with Traxa, a time traveler from the 36th century whose name spelled backward reads "Ask Art." He also reveals what he describes as Art's past life as an Atlantean quantum physicist named Drako who predicted a catastrophic earthquake 50,000 years ago.Dr. Goldberg shares predictions for the next thousand years, including anti-gravity cars, telepathic communication, and free energy through cold fusion. He also presents alleged cases of spontaneous teleportation, from a 16th-century Spanish soldier appearing in Mexico City to his own claimed trip to Montego Bay, Jamaica from his Baltimore living room.

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May 20, 1999: Intuitive - Kevin Ryerson

May 202h 40mKevin Ryerson

Art Bell is joined by Kevin Ryerson, an acclaimed intuitive and trance channel in the tradition of Edgar Cayce and Jane Roberts, whose abilities were featured in Shirley MacLaine's bestselling books. They examine the crisis of collective consciousness as school shootings, ecological disasters, and political dishonesty signal what Kevin describes as humanity entering an "event horizon" of profound change.Kevin discusses the breakdown of emotional intelligence in modern society, tracing the problem to Descartes' philosophy of pure rationalism that stripped away the capacity for empathy. He connects this to Jung's monitoring of collective dreams before World War II and argues that humanity faces a choice between ecological collapse and a new era of collective awareness. The conversation touches on the hundredth monkey effect, the harmonic convergence's role in the fall of the Berlin Wall, and whether focused group consciousness can alter weather patterns and global events.Art shares his own caution about conducting mass consciousness experiments on the air, expressing genuine fear about unintended consequences. Kevin offers perspective on crop circles, the nature of good and evil, reincarnation, and the psychic bonds that connect all living beings to the planet itself.

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May 25, 1999: Rods - Jose Escamilla

May 251h 58mJose Escamilla

Art Bell presents what he calls broadcast history as researcher Jose Escamilla returns to discuss rods, mysterious elongated creatures captured on video that appear to coexist with humans on Earth. For the first time, Art simultaneously streams Jose's rod footage via internet video while broadcasting the radio discussion, allowing online viewers to see the evidence in real time.Jose describes how he first discovered rods in 1994 near Roswell, New Mexico, while filming UFO activity. After five years of research, he explains that these creatures propel themselves using undulatory wave fins similar to a cuttlefish, effectively swimming through the atmosphere at speeds reaching 200 miles per hour. The evidence includes footage from a Mexican cave system, National Geographic underwater video from the Yucatan Peninsula, and shots of rods maneuvering around human subjects without contact. Even skeptic Philip Klass declined to debunk the findings.Callers who watched the streaming video share their reactions, confirming the footage is unlike anything depicting ordinary insects or birds. Jose reveals that rods appear in every environment, from oceans to living rooms, and that birds and cats seem able to perceive them. He appeals for scientific funding to mount an expedition to a Mexican cave where rods are consistently present.

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May 26, 1999: Flying Triangles, Various Topics - Jeffrey Mishlove | Lawsuit - Peter Gersten

May 262h 43mJeffrey Mishlove, Peter Gersten

Art Bell opens with the troubling news that his friend Terence McKenna is reportedly gravely ill in a Honolulu hospital, then welcomes attorney Peter Gersten of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy to discuss his ongoing Freedom of Information lawsuit against the Department of Defense regarding flying triangle craft. Peter describes how the DOD claims to have zero records on the triangles despite decades of sightings, and reveals plans to subpoena Dr. Steven M. Greer for the names of his reported 200 military witnesses.The conversation shifts to broader questions about technology as a possible "virus in reality," with Peter arguing that advanced technology introduced around 1947 disrupted humanity's natural evolutionary progression. Art shares his own close encounter with a silent, gravity-defying triangle and confirms he has provided notarized affidavits of the sighting to support the legal case.In the second half, Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove joins to explore consciousness, the nature of God, and whether mass focused attention can produce measurable physical effects. He describes documented quantum-level deviations during events like the Olympics and Princess Diana's funeral, and discusses whether UFO phenomena might originate from human consciousness itself rather than external sources.

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May 27, 1999: Internet Defamation - Art's Secret

May 271h 53m

Art Bell devotes this deeply personal broadcast to addressing a nightmare that has consumed his life for over a year. He introduces his attorney, Gerald Fox of Fox, Sigler and Spillane in Los Angeles, to explain two major defamation lawsuits filed on Art's behalf. The first targets Ted Gunderson, David Hinkson, and shortwave station WWCR in Nashville for broadcasting false claims that Art was indicted for child molestation and bribed officials to cover it up.The second lawsuit, filed that same day in Los Angeles Superior Court, targets David John Oates and Robert A.M. Stevens for fabricating claims that Art was arrested for trafficking in pornography. Jerry Fox details how independent investigation, including records from the Monterey County clerk and the Monterey Herald, confirmed every allegation to be completely false. The complaint includes six counts ranging from slander and conspiracy to intentional infliction of emotional distress.Art reveals that these attacks connect to an undisclosed family tragedy from December 1997 that prompted his sudden departure from the air. He and Jerry discuss the lack of accountability on the internet, the difference between free speech and defamation, and the devastating personal toll of being publicly branded with the worst accusation imaginable. Art promises that the full story will become public within the week.

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June 3, 1999: NDEs - Dr. Jeffrey Long & Tricia McGill

Jun 32h 1mDr. Jeffrey Long, Tricia McGill

Art Bell welcomes back Dr. Jeffrey Long, a radiation oncologist, and Dr. Tricia McGill, a licensed clinical psychologist, to discuss near-death experiences and share a stunning update on their previous guest Sarah. The doctors reveal they were approached by a European group proposing to induce cardiac arrest in prisoners to study NDEs, an experiment they refused on ethical grounds. Art also asks Dr. Long about Terrence McKenna's grim brain tumor diagnosis.The conversation takes a remarkable turn when Tricia reveals that past-life regression work on Sarah uncovered a connection to a Tibetan Buddhist monk who was beheaded during the Chinese invasion of Tibet. Despite Sarah having no knowledge of Tibetan Buddhism in her current life, her NDE closely mirrored descriptions found in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, raising profound questions about how prior lifetimes may shape the afterlife experience.A second NDE experiencer named Karen then shares her account of a car accident she had foreseen in a premonition dream months earlier. Karen describes being told she was dead, receiving a life review, and being shown her own funeral and her son's future. Her deep grief over leaving her infant son ultimately led to her return, despite her guides insisting she was not meant to come back.

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June 8, 1999: Overcoming Negativity - Alan Mesher

Jun 82h 42mAlan Mesher

Art Bell welcomes spiritual healer and author Alan Mesher to discuss his book The T-Zone and the concept that humanity has entered a prolonged dark period at the end of a 500-year cycle. Mesher explains that the world is experiencing a massive discharge of collective negativity, and that increasing instability, violence, and social breakdown are symptoms of an energetic shift occurring on the planet. He argues that individuals have the power to shorten this dark period by taking personal responsibility and healing their inner wounds.Mesher shares striking cases from his 25 years as a healer, including a woman whose cervical cancer traced back to a past life in Nazi Germany where she was attacked for smuggling Jews to safety, and a man whose testicular cancer connected to his castration and death during the Inquisition. These accounts illustrate his view that unresolved trauma from prior lifetimes lodges in the body and manifests as disease until it is consciously confronted and released.The discussion turns to how collective healing could reshape civilization. Mesher describes his discovery of healing through a gifted woman named Eleanor Moore and explains that the energy he channels comes from a higher source. He and Art explore whether mass consciousness and directed prayer could alter planetary outcomes during this turbulent transitional era.

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June 9, 1999: Crop Circles, Chemtrails - Linda Moulton Howe

Jun 92h 0mLinda Moulton Howe

Art Bell is joined by investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe for a wide-ranging discussion that begins with a remarkable eyewitness account from Holland. A 19-year-old named Robert watched from his bedroom window as a small pinkish-purple light expanded into a disc-shaped object over a farm field, emitted electrical discharges, and left behind two fresh crop circles. Linda details biophysicist W.C. Levengood's hypothesis that a spinning plasma vortex containing microwave energies may be responsible for the genuine formations.The conversation shifts to the chemtrail phenomenon as Linda introduces Charles Warren, a New Jersey resident whose photographs of unusual grid-pattern contrails over Philadelphia prompted him to create a website. Warren reveals that military and government agencies including Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, NASA Langley, Lawrence Livermore, and the Air Force Combat Climatology Center have been making repeat visits to his site. Art reads a letter from a listener in New Hampshire reporting persistent rashes coinciding with heavy contrail activity.Linda also reports on Dr. James Baker's discovery of nanobomb technology at the University of Michigan, an oily water substance capable of destroying anthrax and other pathogens on contact. The three discuss whether government dispersal testing of similar substances could explain the unusual aerial activity and the oily residues reported by witnesses across North America.

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June 10, 1999: Ghost to Ghost | Open Lines

Jun 102h 41m

Art Bell opens the phone lines for his beloved Ghost to Ghost edition, inviting listeners to share their most chilling encounters with the unexplained. A Navy veteran from World War II recounts waking aboard his ship near Okinawa at 3 a.m. to the unmistakable scent of his Aunt Melanie's floral bathing powder, only to later learn she had died at that exact moment. A caller reports a shadowy figure with glowing red eyes lurking beneath her son's bed, while a cemetery photographer describes being led telepathically by a spirit to a freshly dug grave.The stories grow increasingly bizarre as a parapsychology researcher at a university sleep lab describes watching a translucent apparition of an elderly woman in a flower-print dress float through walls and pass directly through his sleeping research subject. A commercial pilot flying a Cessna over Northern California at night recounts hearing a disembodied voice say "check your six," then watching a phantom World War II flying boat pull alongside before vanishing. He later identified it as the Philippine Clipper, which crashed in the Ukiah area decades earlier.A mother shares how her three-year-old son's imaginary friend Irving turned out to be a real person buried in the community cemetery, confirmed when the child pointed directly to Irving Riggs' headstone during a walk. Years later, a photograph of the great-grandfather matched the figure her son had described visiting him at night.

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June 14, 1999: Wicca - Hilly Rose & Lady Amber Maeve

Jun 143h 22mHilly Rose, Lady Amber Maeve

Guest host Hilly Rose welcomes the Reverend Lady Amber Maeve Shemansky, High Priestess of the Grove of the Winged Scarab and public information officer for the Covenant of the Goddess, to explore the rapidly growing Wiccan religion. With witchcraft ranking as the number one interest among teenage girls in a recent poll of 60 topics, and the U.S. Army now sanctioning Wiccan practice at multiple bases including Fort Hood and Fort Polk, Hilly digs into what this ancient faith actually teaches.Amber explains that the word witch derives from an Anglo-Saxon term meaning "wise one" and that Wicca is a pre-Judeo-Christian, nature-based religion centered on the balance of male and female energies. She describes the faith as matriarchal, empowering women to stand on their own while maintaining balance with their male counterparts. The discussion covers rituals, the use of ceremonial blades called athames, and the Wiccan Rede's central command to harm none. Amber firmly distinguishes Wiccans from Satanists and Goths, calling the Church of Satan a reverse Christianity that defiles all spiritual belief.Hilly presses Amber on Congressman Bob Barr's objections to military Wiccans and asks how practitioners reconcile their faith with combat duty. Amber cites the self-defense provision within Wiccan law and describes her unsuccessful attempts to secure a meeting with Barr. Callers weigh in with curiosity and concern as Amber directs seekers to metaphysical bookstores and community resources for further exploration.

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June 15, 1999: NIDS Investigations, Brookings Report - Colm Kelleher

Jun 152h 2mColm Kelleher

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Colm Kelleher of the National Institute for Discovery Science to discuss a groundbreaking Roper survey on public attitudes toward extraterrestrial contact. The poll reveals that 80% of influential Americans believe the government would suppress evidence of alien life, while significant gaps emerge between how people think they would handle contact versus how they expect others to react.Kelleher details NIDS field investigations at undisclosed hotspots in the American Southwest, including cattle pathology cases with inexplicable findings such as a shredded heart inside an intact pericardium. He shares a never-before-reported account of investigators using Generation 3 night vision to observe a dark humanoid figure crawling out of a glowing tunnel of light suspended above the ground.The conversation turns to surveillance cameras at a monitored site where wiring was violently ripped from a pole, yet footage from a camera aimed directly at the location captured nothing. Art and Kelleher discuss the implications for contact, the role of media in shaping public reaction, and whether humanity possesses the spiritual maturity to handle such a revelation.

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June 16, 1999: Comet Lee - Stewart Best | Goodbye Terence McKenna

Jun 163h 25mStewart Best, Terence McKenna

Art Bell opens with an emotional conversation with Terence McKenna, who reveals he has been diagnosed with a stage four glioblastoma, the fastest-moving brain tumor known to medicine. McKenna describes his seizure, the gamma knife procedure that destroyed roughly 90% of the tumor, and the doctors' prognosis of six to nine months. He reflects on love, mortality, and consciousness existing beyond the body, while Art announces the Terence McKenna Research Foundation for listener support.The program shifts to Comet Lee, recently discovered by amateur astronomer Stephen Lee in Australia. Earl Crockett and Gary Goodwin of the Millennium Group challenge NASA's dismissal of any potential Earth effects, arguing that comets are plasma discharge objects rather than dirty snowballs. They contend that electromagnetic interactions between the comet, the sun, and planetary alignments in September 1999 could trigger significant solar events and extreme weather.Stewart Best then connects Comet Lee to Nostradamus prophecies about a great king of terror arriving from the sky in the seventh month of 1999. He links the comet's trajectory through the constellation Cancer and its timing near the August 11th solar eclipse to specific quatrains, while also noting Bible code references to September 1999 upheavals.

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June 22, 1999: Remote Viewing - Ed Dames | Art's Lawsuit - Peter Gersten

Jun 223h 22mEd Dames, Peter Gersten

Art Bell speaks with attorney Peter Gersten, director of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, about his pending FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Defense concerning V-shaped triangular craft. Gersten reveals his plan to subpoena and depose both Peter Davenport and Dr. Steven M. Greer, seeking the identities of government insiders who have privately confirmed the reality of UFOs. Art wrestles with the ethical dilemma of forcing disclosure from researchers who promised confidentiality to their sources.Major Ed Dames of the PsyTech Corporation joins to discuss remote viewing and the significance of NIDS research at an undisclosed hotspot in the Southwest. Dames describes his own past discovery of UFO hotspots through military remote viewing sessions he conducted covertly as training exercises. He connects his findings to Jacques Vallee's concept of a control system, arguing that the phenomena at these sites are projections designed to test human intelligence and readiness.Dames asserts that Bigfoot sightings, chupacabra encounters, and cattle mutilations are temporary projections created by this system as coded messages. He contends that genuine contact will only occur when researchers demonstrate a fundamental shift in understanding, moving beyond the desire to capture technology and toward recognizing the deeper nature of the intelligence behind the phenomena.

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June 30, 1999: The Brain & Cloudbusting - Neil Slade

Jun 302h 20mNeil Slade

Art Bell welcomes brain researcher Neil Slade, a student of pioneering neuroscientist T.D.A. Lingo, for a deep exploration of untapped human brain potential. Slade explains the three-layered structure of the brain, from the survival-oriented reptile brain through the emotional mammal brain to the advanced primate frontal lobes, and introduces the amygdala as a master switch that directs neural energy either backward into fear responses or forward into creativity and higher consciousness.Slade describes a simple visualization technique he calls clicking the amygdala forward, in which a person imagines tickling the front of the almond-shaped organ located one inch inside each temple. He claims this practice can produce waves of pleasure, heightened intuition, and dramatically improved fortune. The conversation turns to cloud busting, where Slade explains that focused frontal lobe energy directed at a cumulus cloud can cause it to dissipate within minutes, with video evidence posted on his website.Art and Slade debate whether advanced brain functions can be used for negative purposes, using Hitler as an example. They discuss research showing that frontal lobe activation correlates with extended sexual response, drawing on Stanford University studies and ancient Taoist practices. Callers share personal experiences with the amygdala clicking technique and its effects on mood, intuition, and intimacy.

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July 6, 1999: Hollywood Film Producer - Stephen Simon

Jul 62h 41mStephen Simon

Art Bell sits down with film producer Stephen Simon, the creative force behind two beloved movies: Somewhere in Time and What Dreams May Come. Simon recounts how reading Richard Matheson's novel Bid Time Return inspired him to enter the film industry, how he secretly delivered the script to Christopher Reeve's home after agents refused to pass it along, and how Jane Seymour arrived at her audition dressed in full 1912 period costume, instantly winning the role.Simon traces his 20-year journey to bring What Dreams May Come to the screen, explaining how advances in visual effects technology and shifting cultural consciousness finally made the film possible. He describes the innovative LADAR process used to create the painted afterlife world, Robin Williams' immediate commitment to the project, and the creative decisions around depicting suicide and the afterlife without imposing any single religious framework.The conversation grows personal when Simon shares the story of Amanda Weber, a 17-year-old terminal cancer patient whose fear dissolved after watching the film in her final days. Art and Simon discuss the responsibilities of Hollywood filmmakers, the difference between freedom of expression and accountability, and Simon's vision for Metaphilmix, a consciously spiritual film company dedicated to producing movies that explore what it means to be human.

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July 15, 1999: Theoretical Physics - Dr. Michio Kaku

Jul 151h 50mDr. Michio Kaku

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Michio Kaku, co-founder of String Field Theory and professor of theoretical physics at City University of New York, for a wide-ranging exploration of the frontiers of modern physics. They discuss the quest for a unified field theory, the possibility of parallel universes existing like bubbles in quantum foam, and whether time travel could split reality into divergent timelines.Dr. Kaku explains how scientists recently slowed light to 20 miles per hour using Bose condensation, and why the universe appears to be accelerating toward a cold, dark future. The conversation turns to NASA's upcoming Deep Impact mission to slam a projectile into a comet and the controversial Cassini spacecraft carrying 72 pounds of plutonium set to fly just 700 miles from Earth in August 1999. Dr. Kaku reveals a classified memo estimating tens of thousands of potential casualties if Cassini were to reenter the atmosphere.The discussion also covers rogue planets with possible subsurface oceans, genetic engineering ethics, the discovery of new super-heavy elements, and Einstein's brain autopsy revealing structural differences linked to abstract thinking. Callers press Dr. Kaku on M-theory's eleven dimensions and the clumpiness of the visible universe.

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July 20, 1999: Rods Update - Jose Escamilla | OBEs - Dr. Albert Taylor

Jul 202h 51mJose Escamilla, Dr. Albert Taylor

Art Bell opens with the somber news that Father Malachi Martin has suffered a massive stroke and is near death, before turning to updates from Jose Escamilla on his ongoing research into the aerial anomalies known as rods. Escamilla describes new high-velocity footage captured at a cave in Mexico by Fox TV cameras, showing rod-like objects making sharp U-turns at extraordinary speeds. He announces upcoming public screenings of the footage in Burbank and Anaheim.The second half features Albert Taylor, a former NASA aeronautical engineer and author of Soul Traveler, discussing out-of-body experiences and their connection to consciousness survival after death. Taylor describes his interrupted sleep technique for inducing OBEs and shares how his experiences fundamentally changed his worldview. On the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, he and Art discuss why America abandoned deep space exploration and the political and financial forces that have kept humanity in low Earth orbit.Taylor asserts that soul travel reveals dimensions beyond the physical, including encounters with deceased relatives and non-human entities. He and Art debate whether humanity's pursuit of technology is a distraction from spiritual development or a necessary stage of evolution that must be transcended.

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July 21, 1999: Serial Killers - Dr. Drew Ross

Jul 212h 55mDr. Drew Ross

Dr. Drew Ross, a forensic psychologist and author of Looking Into the Eyes of a Killer, joins Art Bell to discuss serial killers and murderers after Stephen Bassett's UFO PAC segment. Art opens the program with UFO lobbyist Stephen Bassett announcing the creation of the Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee, the first PAC in history dedicated to government disclosure of the UFO phenomenon. Bassett outlines plans to fund congressional hearing petitions, television ads, and direct questioning of presidential candidates about the extraterrestrial presence.Ross spent seven years evaluating and treating murderers inside the criminal justice system. Dr. Ross describes the unsettling experience of sitting across from unrepentant killers and the even more chilling encounters with inmates who skillfully feign remorse to manipulate parole boards. He identifies multiple converging causes of violent behavior, including brain damage, childhood abuse, substance use, and profound disconnection from personal identity.Art and Dr. Ross engage in a spirited debate over the death penalty. Dr. Ross argues capital punishment functions as a modern form of ritual sacrifice, while Art maintains that society deserves swift justice for violent offenders. Dr. Ross advocates replacing the current prison system with graduated monitoring and reintegration, contending that incarceration as practiced breeds greater violence rather than reducing it.

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July 22, 1999: UK UFO Reports - Nick Pope

Jul 221h 47mNick Pope

Art Bell interviews Nick Pope, a Ministry of Defence employee since 1985 who investigated approximately 300 UFO cases per year for the British government. Pope describes how roughly 10 percent of those reports involved structured craft capable of speeds and maneuvers far beyond known technology. He details the 1978 Frederick Valentich case, in which a pilot reported a hovering object before his aircraft vanished without a trace over the Tasman Strait.Pope discusses the Rendlesham Forest incident at RAF bases Cossford and Shawbury, where military witnesses observed a massive triangular craft firing a beam of light into nearby fields before accelerating instantly to the horizon. He reveals that radiation readings at the landing site were ten times background levels, a finding confirmed by the Defence Radiological Protection Service. Pope shares his conclusion that abduction phenomena represent a covert alien agenda, noting patterns of hybridization programs, environmental warnings shown to abductees, and transformative psychological changes in those who report contact.Callers recount their own experiences of missing time, unexplained nosebleeds, and encounters with unknown craft. Pope and Art discuss the biological hazards of extraterrestrial contact, the contrast between British and American government openness, and why senior UK military officials have spoken publicly about an extraterrestrial reality while their American counterparts remain silent.

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July 27, 1999: Space Travel - Robert Bigelow | Madalyn Murray O'Hare - James Napier

Jul 272h 35mRobert Bigelow, James Napier

James Napier reveals a private Madalyn Murray O'Hare conversation, and Robert Bigelow makes his radio debut to discuss space travel and private aerospace after Father Malachi Martin's death. Art opens with the news of Father Malachi Martin's passing, honoring the exorcist and papal advisor as a singular figure who enriched the program over many years. Napier, a veteran television journalist, reveals a private conversation with O'Hare that challenges her public identity. After persistent questioning about meaning and purpose, O'Hare reportedly acknowledged an organizing intelligence beyond the scope of human knowing, a striking admission from the woman who removed prayer from American public schools.The second half features the radio debut of billionaire Robert Bigelow, founder of Bigelow Development Corporation and longtime patron of the National Institute for Discovery Science. Bigelow describes his lifelong fascination with the UFO phenomenon, sparked by family sightings in the 1950s, and shares findings from the NIDS ranch where a newborn calf was stripped of flesh and bone within 45 minutes in broad daylight with no blood on the ground. He confirms his personal conviction that the phenomenon is not connected to government black projects.Bigelow then unveils his plan to build a privately funded orbital cruise ship, a half-mile-wide rotating habitat accommodating 100 passengers on six-day voyages around the Moon. He argues that reducing launch costs from the shuttle's $10,000 per pound to roughly $550 would make commercial space tourism viable, breaking NASA's monopoly on human spaceflight.

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July 30, 1999: UFO Propulsion Systems - Hilly Rose, Mark Bean

Jul 3045mHilly Rose, Mark Bean

Guest host Hilly Rose welcomes researcher Mark Bean for a discussion on electrogravitics and the propulsion systems behind unidentified flying objects. Bean explains how charging metal discs with high voltage creates directional movement, comparing the effect to a horse chasing a carrot. He details the classified work of Thomas Townsend Brown, whose 1950s demonstrations of levitating discs for the U.S. Air Force were buried under Project Winter Haven.Bean describes his own experiments replicating symptoms reported during UFO encounters, including corona discharge lights around disc rims, ozone production, and even the euphoric effects of nitrous oxide emissions. He connects these findings to the consistent disc shapes photographed and videotaped by unrelated witnesses across the globe, arguing the evidence would settle any court case.The program opens with Hilly Rose fielding wild open lines calls, including a caller claiming 355 U.S. spacecraft sit grounded at Baker Lake, Canada, following a supposed galactic war. Rose also covers Y2K preparedness concerns from callers warning about the FCC and FEMA contingency plans for the coming conversion period.

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August 3, 1999: UFO Research - Joe Firmage

Aug 31h 50mJoe Firmage

Art Bell interviews tech entrepreneur Joe Firmage, who left his position atop a multi-billion dollar internet company to pursue breakthrough physics research through his nonprofit organization ISSO. Firmage describes how discoveries about the nature of mass and inertia convinced him that advanced propulsion beyond conventional rocketry is not only possible but likely already achieved by other civilizations. He also recounts a personal experience involving a translucent figure and a sphere of blue energy that left a lasting physical impression.The conversation turns to a groundbreaking French report in which former defense and space agency officials concluded that the extraterrestrial hypothesis represents the most efficient explanation for UFO evidence. Firmage notes that ISSO is studying four interconnected domains: new physics for propulsion, alternative energy sources, societal implications of such breakthroughs, and the physical dynamics of consciousness.Art and Joe discuss cosmological anomalies involving quasar redshifts that challenge the expanding universe model, the SETI at Home project and Team Art Bell, and the possibility that humanity may be approaching a transformative moment of broader contact with intelligence beyond Earth.

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August 9, 1999: Eclipses & Meteor Showers - Hilly Rose, Steve "Dr. Sky" Kates

Aug 932mHilly Rose, Steve "Dr. Sky" Kates

Guest host Hilly Rose is joined by astronomer Steve "Dr. Sky" Kates for a preview of an extraordinary week of celestial events. The centerpiece is the last total solar eclipse of the century, set to cross Cornwall, England, and sweep through Europe on August 11th. Dr. Sky explains eclipse safety, describes the experience of witnessing totality, and notes that the average town sees a total solar eclipse only once every 410 years.Beyond the eclipse, Dr. Sky covers the Perseid meteor shower building toward its peak on August 12th, a rare grand cross planetary alignment spanning multiple zodiac signs, and the upcoming Cassini spacecraft flyby on August 18th. He warns that solar activity is on the rise and will intensify into the year 2000, bringing potential effects on radio signals and power grids along with spectacular auroral displays.Callers contribute theories connecting solar flare activity to weather pattern disruptions and propose that a sufficiently powerful flare striking from the solar equator could theoretically cause a magnetic pole flip. Dr. Sky directs listeners to his website for live NASA eclipse coverage and ongoing sky-watching updates.

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August 10, 1999: Corporate Espionage - John Nolan | Miami Circle, Cydonia - Richard C. Hoagland

Aug 102h 45mJohn Nolan, Richard C. Hoagland

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland back from recovery at his New Mexico home for a rapid preview of developing stories. Hoagland reports that the Wall Street Journal is preparing a front-page piece on how grassroots activism saved the Miami Circle, and he announces plans for a celebrity benefit concert in early October ahead of the eminent domain trial. He urges listeners to fax NASA administrator Dan Goldin and Ted Koppel at Nightline, pushing for a proper full-resolution photograph of the Cydonia region when Mars Global Surveyor passes overhead on August 21st.Hoagland connects the unprecedented complexity of 1999 crop circle formations in England to hyperdimensional physics and suggests the approaching total solar eclipse could become a catalyst for disclosure. He references Comet Lee brightening beyond projections and mysterious internet reports of unidentified objects, cautioning that none of this is confirmed.In the second half, retired military intelligence officer John Nolan discusses corporate espionage and counterintelligence in the business world. He explains how companies legally gather competitive intelligence through vendor contacts, former employees, and elicitation techniques, and shares a story of an Asian delegation caught broadcasting plant tour details via hidden body microphones to a bus outside.

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August 11, 1999: Psychic & Spirit Medium - Sylvia Browne

Aug 112h 22mSylvia Browne

Art Bell welcomes renowned psychic Sylvia Browne for a wide-ranging conversation about her predictions, spiritual philosophy, and views on the state of humanity. Browne shares her forecast that within 30 to 40 years, environmental degradation will force people to live in domed cities, attributing atmospheric damage partly to rocket fuel tearing through the upper layers. She discusses immune deficiency illnesses she foresaw 15 years prior and predicts major advances in gene therapy and molecular surgery.The conversation deepens as Browne describes her inability to see anything beyond the year 2100, a blank vision that troubles her despite repeated attempts. She and Art explore reincarnation, the nature of consciousness, and spirit guides, with Browne explaining that the other side operates at a faster vibration in a dimension layered directly upon our own. She recounts her regression work uncovering an ancient dialect later validated by a Stanford linguistics professor.Browne offers predictions including the end of the U.S. presidency in favor of a Greek senate model within 20 years, the gradual surfacing of Atlantis by 2023, and West Coast submersion by 2026. She and Art discuss the rise of random violence, the importance of restoring family bonds, and why she believes genuine extraterrestrial contact is imminent.

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August 12, 1999: Water Shortages - Ed Dames

Aug 122h 39mEd Dames

Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames, former military remote viewer and head of SciTech, for a wide-ranging discussion on technical remote viewing and its alarming environmental predictions. Dames warns that dwindling water supplies across North America will soon trigger food shortages, mass migration from cities, and the collapse of social systems, urging listeners to relocate near large freshwater sources like Glacier National Park.The conversation turns to geopolitics as Dames reveals his team's remote viewing data on North Korea, predicting that Kim Jong-il plans to launch a nuclear-armed missile into the Pacific Ocean as an open-air test rather than a direct attack. He describes this as a form of nuclear blackmail designed to extract concessions from the international community without crossing the threshold for military retaliation.Art and Dames also revisit the solar "kill shot" prediction, the possibility of extraterrestrial contact through symbolic communication involving a mother and infant, and the discovery of seas on Saturn's moon Titan, which Dames claims his team remote viewed years earlier. Callers press Dames on his track record and the Nostradamus quatrain about the King of Terror.

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August 17, 1999: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Bruce Friedrich

Aug 172h 53mBruce Friedrich

Bruce Friedrich, vegetarian campaign coordinator and general spokesperson for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, joins Art Bell to debate vegetarianism, animal rights, factory farming, and the ethics of eating meat after Art's opening news on the Turkey earthquake, Cassini, and a mysterious Peru photograph. Art also shares his obsessive search for a song that has been stuck in his head all weekend, which callers identify as "Isn't It Time" by the Babies.Friedrich joins the program after a previous caller's spirited defense of vegetarianism prompted a flood of calls to PETA. Art and Friedrich debate the ethics of eating meat, with Friedrich citing heart disease research from Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. Esselstyn showing that low-fat vegetarian diets can reverse arterial blockage and restore health.Art pushes back as an unapologetic meat lover, arguing that quality of life matters more than longevity and advocating for better treatment of farm animals rather than full abstinence. The two spar over factory farming conditions, the taste of Boca Burgers versus real beef, and whether the concept of stewardship can justify raising animals humanely for food.

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August 18, 1999: Coral Castle - Richard C. Hoagland

Aug 182h 40mRichard C. Hoagland

Richard C. Hoagland joins Art Bell to connect Coral Castle GPS anomalies with a wider investigation of NASA eclipse footage, Comet Encke, the Beta Taurid stream, and Lloyd Albright's reported meteor fears after the August 11 solar eclipse. Art presents an unverified Associated Press story about Lloyd Albright, a NASA Kennedy Space Center computer programmer found hiding in an Ohio cave with 16 guns, 200 pounds of wheat, and camping supplies, claiming a meteor would strike the Atlantic and generate a massive tidal wave.Hoagland analyzes NASA video from Turkey showing three bright objects visible near the sun during totality. He argues these objects align precisely with the orbital path of Comet Encke and the Beta Taurid meteor stream, suggesting a potential collision scenario in November. He theorizes that exotic spacecraft visible in prior NASA footage may be monitoring the situation. Charlie Plyler also calls in to describe ultra-low frequency signals he has been tracking that peak when the sun is overhead.In a surprising turn, Art reaches Albright by phone. The NASA contractor attributes his flight to marital stress and psychic correspondence with a woman in Ohio, downplaying any connection to secret NASA data. Hoagland remains skeptical of the cover story, noting inconsistencies with the original reporting. Late in the program, Hoagland says GPS tests at Coral Castle produced unusual location and altitude readings, but he holds back fuller claims pending more documentation.

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August 25, 1999: Living off the Grid - Edmund Pankau

Aug 252h 54mEdmund Pankau

Art Bell welcomes back Edmund Pankau, one of the nation's top ten private investigators and author of Hide Your Assets and Disappear, whose book shot to number one on Amazon after his previous appearance. Pankau discusses the case of Marty Frankel, who allegedly stole up to a billion dollars from insurance companies and was spotted wandering Rome with gold bars and diamonds, making rookie mistakes that any competent fugitive would avoid.The conversation shifts to practical strategies for Americans considering life abroad. Pankau describes countries like Belize, Estonia, and Costa Rica as affordable havens where retirees can stretch Social Security checks three times further, earn high interest rates on deposits, and enjoy longer life expectancy than in the United States. He explains how international bank accounts and offshore MasterCard or Visa cards can provide financial privacy without leaving a domestic paper trail.Art and Pankau also examine the recent Cayman Islands banking scandal, where an informant turned over 1,500 client names to the IRS. Pankau warns against ever entrusting a third party with offshore funds, stressing that the safest approach is to personally open and manage foreign accounts.

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August 26, 1999: Doomsday - Philip Hoag

Aug 262h 1mPhilip Hoag

Art Bell speaks with Philip Hoag, author of No Such Thing as Doomsday, a 406-page preparedness manual covering everything from water filtration to underground shelter construction. Hoag, who built a 7,000-square-foot underground facility with three diesel generators and a ham radio communications room, argues that rational preparedness is the sensible middle ground between panic and denial.The discussion covers practical survival priorities in order of importance: portable water purification devices, long-term food storage, heating alternatives like wood stoves and propane radiant heaters, and backup power generation. Hoag explains how to legally stockpile antibiotics through veterinary supply catalogs and extend medication shelf life through freezer storage. He also addresses disaster communications, recommending ham radio equipment and hand-crank radios for situations where phone systems and power grids fail.A police officer calls in to report that his department was instructed to watch for citizens stockpiling supplies, and a Canadian caller describes authorities confiscating a private generator during an ice storm. Art and Hoag debate the tension between personal preparedness and government overreach, with Hoag quoting George Washington on the dangerous nature of unchecked governmental power.

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September 1, 1999: Streaking UFO - Peter Davenport

Sep 12h 0mPeter Davenport

Art Bell reports live as a massive aerial event unfolds across the western United States. Multiple witnesses from Oregon to California describe a formation of glowing objects traversing the sky for up to two minutes, with reports of maneuvering and formation changes. A valley-wide power outage strikes Art's broadcast location simultaneously, forcing the show onto emergency generator power.Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center presents recorded witness accounts describing clusters of seven or more objects trailing sparks, with one witness noting an object leaving and rejoining the formation. Reports emerge of F-15s scrambling from Portland, military scanner traffic continuing past midnight, and a couple in Utah describing a U-turn maneuver followed by an apparent ground impact. News outlets attribute the event to a Russian booster rocket reentering early.UFO attorney Peter Gersten joins to discuss his new lawsuit under Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution, arguing the federal government must protect states against invasion. He details his unsuccessful attempt to subpoena Davenport regarding a meeting with federal officials who privately confirmed UFOs are real, intelligently controlled, and a source of concern to their agency.

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September 2, 1999: Gulf War Syndrome & Waco Investigation - Joyce Riley

Sep 21h 52mJoyce Riley

Art Bell welcomes Joyce Riley, registered nurse and spokesperson for the American Gulf War Veterans Association, for an urgent broadcast covering two major investigations. Riley details the plight of Gulf War veterans suffering from undisclosed biological experiments, including a disturbing new development involving parasitic organisms emerging from the skin of affected soldiers. She describes four documented cases of what the VA internally labels "Biological Agent A" while medical records are being systematically sanitized from VA facilities.The conversation turns to Waco as Riley reveals testimony from a Gulf War veteran stationed at Fort Hood who claims 20 Apache attack helicopters from the F-227 Aviation Squadron were fully armed with Hellfire missiles, Sidewinder missiles, and 20-millimeter cannons for deployment at Mount Carmel. The source states the helicopters returned with approximately half their ordnance expended. Riley confirms Delta Force presence and notes this information has been shared with attorney Dick DeGuerrin and the Texas Rangers.Art connects these stories to a broader pattern of government accountability failures, from Agent Orange cover-ups affecting his late friend John Pyre to Title 50 U.S. Code Section 1520-A, which Riley says expanded rather than restricted the government's authority to conduct experiments on American citizens.

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September 4, 1999: Hilly Rose - Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Dr. Ann Blake Tracy

Sep 42h 10mHilly Rose, Dr. Ann Blake Tracy

Guest host Hilly Rose welcomes Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, executive director of the International Coalition for Drug Awareness, for an extensive examination of serotonergic medications including Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and Luvox. Dr. Tracy draws connections between these drugs and a growing list of violent incidents, from the Columbine shooting to the killing of Phil Hartman by his wife Brynn, whose family is now suing Pfizer. She reveals that the driver in the Princess Diana crash was on these medications and that Monica Lewinsky's recent single-car accident may also be linked.Dr. Tracy explains that these drugs function similarly to LSD and PCP in their effect on serotonin levels, causing patients to enter REM sleep states while appearing fully awake. She presents brainwave evidence showing patients in total anesthetic sleep with eyes open, acting out nightmares without awareness. The discussion covers Ritalin's classification as a methamphetamine, its effect of reducing brain blood flow by 20 to 30 percent, and the military's policy of permanently rejecting anyone who has ever taken it.Callers share contrasting personal experiences with these medications while Dr. Tracy advocates for natural alternatives including omega-3 oils, hypoglycemic diets, and early sleep schedules. She warns that long-term use gradually overwhelms the liver enzyme system responsible for metabolizing these drugs, leading to dangerous toxic buildup.

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September 7, 1999: Parapsychology Research - Russell Targ & Peter Davenport

Sep 72h 49mRussell Targ, Peter Davenport

Art Bell interviews physicist Russell Targ, co-founder with Hal Puthoff of the Stanford Research Institute's classified remote viewing program. Targ recounts how the CIA-funded initiative began in 1972 when he and Puthoff bet their careers on developing repeatable psychic experiments. He describes the landmark test where psychic Pat Price accurately drew both the exterior and interior of a secret Soviet weapons factory from geographical coordinates alone, stunning the CIA contract monitor and launching two decades of intelligence work.Targ explains the methodology of remote viewing, emphasizing that successful practitioners must surrender ego, quiet analytical thinking, and avoid guessing. He discusses teaching six Army intelligence officers at Fort Meade, noting four achieved independently significant results. The conversation explores distant healing research, where healers demonstrate measurable effects on patients thousands of miles away, and the "distant staring" experiments showing physiological changes in subjects whose video images are being observed.Art shares his own experiments with audience participation, including a mass remote viewing test that yielded two exact drawings from listeners, and rainfall concentration exercises that produced consistent results. Targ discusses silver market forecasting that went nine for nine and his views on consciousness surviving death based on Ian Stevenson's reincarnation research.

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September 8, 1999: Near Death Experiences - Betty Eadie | Canadian Crop Circles - Linda Moulton Howe

Sep 82h 42mBetty Eadie, Linda Moulton Howe

Art Bell begins with Linda Moulton Howe reporting on a wave of Canadian crop formations discovered during the summer of 1999. Farmer Clint King describes finding wheat stems intricately braided and woven in a 300-foot pictogram near Hagersville, Ontario, while a neighbor reports observing a large red glowing object moving above the tree line near the field. In Saskatchewan, farmer David Robertson recounts discovering 11 circles while swathing wheat, noting perfectly bent stalks with undisturbed soil.Betty Eadie then joins to discuss her near-death experience and new book The Ripple Effect. She describes dying from a hemorrhage after surgery in 1973, leaving her body through her chest, and traveling to her home where she observed her husband and children in specific detail later verified as accurate. She recounts passing through a darkness filled with overwhelming love before following a pinpoint of light, encountering beings in brown robes, and undergoing a life review revealing that simple acts of kindness carried far greater spiritual weight than grand gestures.Eadie addresses the nature of God, hell, and reincarnation, explaining that hell exists as a state of mind rather than a physical place, and that cellular memory accounts for past-life recall. She emphasizes that no single religious path holds exclusive truth and that the fundamental nature of existence is love without conditions.

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September 9, 1999: NASA Career & UFOs - Gordon Cooper

Sep 91h 13mGordon Cooper

Art Bell welcomes Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper to discuss his extraordinary NASA career and personal encounters with unidentified flying objects. Cooper recounts his time as a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base, his record-setting 22-orbit Mercury mission, and the harrowing moment he lost all electronics and had to manually guide his capsule back to Earth. He also shares his belief that the saucer shape holds untapped potential for aircraft design through his company Galaxy Group.Cooper describes chasing metallic, wingless craft over Germany during the Cold War and reveals that photographers at Edwards captured images of a saucer-shaped vehicle with tricycle landing gear that landed on the dry lakebed. After reporting the incident through official channels, a general ordered the negatives shipped to Washington immediately. Cooper confirms he never received an explanation. He also recounts flying alongside Neil Armstrong when they investigated a distant object that turned out to be a weather balloon.Throughout the conversation, Cooper states his strong belief in extraterrestrial intelligence and criticizes Project Blue Book as a cover-up. He expresses disappointment that America has not returned to the Moon or reached Mars, and advocates for privatizing space travel. Cooper discusses his forthcoming book Leap of Faith and offers his perspective on shuttle footage from STS-80 that appears to show an object launching from Earth at tremendous speed.

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September 14, 1999: Open Lines - Hurricane Floyd

Sep 1429m

Art Bell tracks Hurricane Floyd in real time as the massive Category 4 storm bears down on the southeastern United States, prompting the largest evacuation in American history. With 2.6 million people fleeing the coast, Art monitors radar imagery showing the enormous eye of the storm east-southeast of Cape Canaveral. He fields calls from listeners across the country sharing local conditions, evacuation experiences, and storm observations while reading the latest meteorological updates throughout the broadcast.Between hurricane coverage, callers weigh in on a wide range of topics during open lines. A self-proclaimed fertility goddess delivers a comedic exchange about her divine responsibilities, while a commercial pilot explains the strict cockpit sterilization protocols that prevent any non-essential conversation during takeoff and landing. A listener from Nova Scotia calls seeking a past broadcast, and others share webcam links and personal weather reports from areas in the projected path of the storm.Art recalls his own storm-chasing days in the Air Force, pursuing tornadoes across Oklahoma in a Volkswagen with his friend Lynn Whitlake. He compares the size of Floyd to Hurricane Andrew, noting that if Andrew were a dime, Floyd would be a half dollar. The broadcast serves as both a community lifeline and a window into the anxious anticipation gripping the eastern seaboard as the storm approaches landfall.

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September 15, 1999: Long Call with JC

Sep 151h 2m

Art Bell opens with world news including China's disclosure of its neutron bomb capability, Y2K preparation concerns for major U.S. cities, and reports that a regular caller known as Dr. Reed may have been shot. He also discusses the mysterious failure of New Mexico's chili pepper crop and heavy military helicopter traffic over his valley near Area 51.The centerpiece of the evening is an extended call from JC, a bombastic recurring caller who has not been heard in over a year. JC delivers passionate declarations about the decline of civilization, insisting that women should be subservient to men and that Art is working for Satan. Art turns the tables by opening the phone lines and letting listeners question JC directly, leading to heated exchanges about biblical interpretation, religious freedom, and the proper role of women in society.The second half features Chuck Missler, a former defense contractor executive, joining Dr. Mark Eastman to discuss UFOs from a biblical perspective. Missler reveals personal knowledge of government disinformation programs, describes classified levels of secrecy beyond standard black operations, and shares his suspicion that the 1997 Phoenix Lights may have been a military holographic projection test. The guests also explore the connection between Genesis Chapter 6 and modern UFO encounters.

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September 16, 1999: CSETI & Alien Contact - Dr. Steven M. Greer | UFOs - Peter Davenport

Sep 162h 55mDr. Steven M. Greer, Peter Davenport

Art Bell welcomes Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center to present dramatic new evidence from the September 1st event over Oregon. Multiple witnesses describe an enormous object, compared to a flying skyscraper, that entered the atmosphere engulfed in fire, then stopped burning, leveled off glowing blue, and accelerated beyond any known aircraft. Audio recordings from a federal law enforcement officer and a broccoli farmer near Corvallis paint a picture of something far more complex than the Russian booster re-entry that NORAD officially claimed.Davenport reveals that the Oregon Air National Guard failed to issue its standard press release before the scramble, making it the only such omission on record. Witnesses report F-15s departing Portland at full afterburner, shattering windows in their wake. A second sighting that same evening describes a massive stationary dome glowing maroon-red near Interstate 5.Dr. Steven M. Greer of CSETI joins to describe a triangular formation observed over Mount Shasta during a week-long contact expedition. He outlines the Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind protocols his team uses, involving lasers, tones, and directed consciousness. Greer discusses his meetings with CIA Director Woolsey and argues that many abduction experiences could involve military disinformation using reverse-engineered technology.

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September 22, 1999: The Ultimate Frontier - Richard Kieninger

Sep 222h 44mRichard Kieninger

Art Bell speaks with Richard Kieninger, author of The Ultimate Frontier, a book that has remained in print for 36 years since its 1963 publication. Kieninger explains that since the age of 12, he has received teachings from individuals representing an ancient organization called the Brotherhood, a group he describes as saints who have preserved knowledge across millennia. He outlines a cosmology involving seven planes of existence and describes human consciousness as something that persists through multiple incarnations.Kieninger discusses his prediction that May 5th, 2000, when the visible planets align on the far side of the sun, could trigger a displacement of Earth's crust relative to its core. He cites geological evidence of three separate polar ice locations within the past 30,000 years and references Albert Einstein's endorsement of Charles Hapgood's crustal displacement theory. He also points to increasing solar flare activity and seabed volcanism driving El Nino patterns as compounding factors.The broadcast also features Colm Kelleher of NIDS announcing a new 24-hour national hotline for reporting UFOs, animal mutilations, and other anomalous phenomena. Kelleher describes the organization's capabilities including eight simultaneous phone lines, PhD-level scientific staff, and contracts with ten nationally accredited laboratories, all privately funded by Robert Bigelow at no cost to the public.

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September 23, 1999: Loss of Mars Orbiter - Richard C. Hoagland

Sep 2342mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland to discuss the sudden disappearance of NASA's $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter, which vanished as it approached the red planet after traveling 416 million miles. Hoagland questions the official explanation of a navigation error, noting that the spacecraft dove 12 to 15 miles deeper into the Martian atmosphere than planned, a mistake he considers nearly impossible given 30 years of precision spaceflight experience.The conversation draws parallels to the 1993 loss of the Mars Observer probe and explores Hoagland's theory that a rogue element within NASA may be deliberately sabotaging missions to prevent the public from seeing certain discoveries on Mars. Hoagland reveals that four engineers contacted him after the Mars Observer incident claiming the spacecraft was still operational and had been taken into classified programs.In a surprise announcement, Hoagland discloses that he and filmmaker Paul Davids have spent six years developing a major motion picture about the Face on Mars, with the script currently under review by Universal Pictures chairman Ron Meyer. He urges listeners to email Universal in support of the film as a means of bringing public pressure to bear on the secrecy surrounding Mars exploration.

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September 24, 1999: Nanotechnology - Charles Ostman

Sep 242h 40mCharles Ostman

Art Bell sits down with Charles Ostman, a senior fellow at the Institute for Global Futures with 25 years of experience in electronics and physics, to explore the emerging world of nanotechnology. The discussion begins with Y2K concerns, where Ostman warns that disruptions to global supply chains could trigger economic consequences lasting nine to twelve months beyond the rollover, particularly as third-world manufacturing hubs experience severe failures.The conversation shifts to artificial intelligence, where Ostman describes autonomous battlefield agents capable of strategizing and negotiating, as well as evolvable systems that learn from input stimuli. He explains how companies like Affymetrix are placing human DNA on silicon chips, creating biochip technology capable of precise diagnostics tailored to individual genetics. Ostman details how modified viruses called quasi-viral components could target specific cell types, with the protein P53 serving as a molecular switch to shut down cancerous cells.Art raises the alarming possibility that engineered biological agents could mutate beyond their intended targets, creating what Ostman calls a "biological Y2K" scenario far more dangerous than any computer glitch. Both agree that policy and ethical frameworks lag dangerously behind the science.

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September 28, 1999: Nostradamus - John Hogue

Sep 282h 53mJohn Hogue

Art Bell is joined by prophecy expert John Hogue for a wide-ranging exploration of Nostradamus and the predictions surrounding the approaching millennium. Hogue interprets the famous 1999 prophecy about the "king of terror from the sky" not as a single figure but as a reference to climate disruption and the growing environmental crisis, connecting it to global warming, collapsing fisheries, and rainforest destruction.The discussion covers potential Y2K disruptions, with Hogue warning of power outages in the former Soviet bloc and developing nations, along with longer-term economic consequences. He addresses the symbolic meaning of Nostradamus's vision of the world plunging into "perpetual darkness," suggesting the prophet may have been witnessing massive electrical blackouts from his 16th-century perspective. Hogue also examines prophecies about water wars in the Middle East and the Temple Mount as a flashpoint for conflict.Art and Hogue debate whether humanity can navigate what Hogue calls a critical 30-year transition period. Hogue argues that the real transformation must be individual rather than collective, with each person examining their own contribution to the problems facing civilization. He notes that many prophetic traditions also foresee an extraordinary future if humanity survives this passage.

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September 29, 1999: Gordon Lightfoot | Soviet UFOs - Paul Stonehill

Sep 293h 12mGordon Lightfoot, Paul Stonehill

Art Bell interviews legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot in a rare and personal conversation about music, creativity, and life. Lightfoot reveals the deeply personal origins of his iconic songs, explaining that "If You Could Read My Mind" emerged from the painful end of his first marriage, while "Sundown" was born from a period of infidelity and heartbreak. He describes his creative process as arriving in intense binges, working through the night when inspiration strikes.The second half features Soviet-born researcher Paul Stonehill discussing UFO phenomena behind the Iron Curtain. Stonehill describes how Stalin was briefed on UFO documents, including materials related to Roswell, and how Soviet naval intelligence amassed extensive files on unidentified underwater objects moving at impossible speeds. He recounts an incident where Soviet divers attempting to capture a nine-foot humanoid "swimmer" at the bottom of a lake were violently expelled and killed by decompression.Stonehill also provides a sobering analysis of post-Soviet Russia, warning that economic collapse and military frustration could lead to a military dictatorship under figures like General Lebed, with dangerous implications for nuclear security and Western relations.

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October 5, 1999: Dreams - Katia Romanoff & Lauri Loewenberg

Oct 52h 53mKatia Romanoff, Lauri Loewenberg

Art Bell welcomes dream interpretation experts Dr. Katia Romanoff and certified dream analyst Lauri Loewenberg for an exploration of the hidden meanings behind our nightly visions. Art shares his frustration with an intense period of vivid dreaming, describing a recurring sense of being chased by the mafia and a disturbing dream where a doctor repaired his hearing by twisting scissors into his ear. The interpreters suggest these dreams point to issues he is avoiding in waking life.The discussion covers the science of dreaming, including the fact that every person dreams approximately two hours per night regardless of whether they remember. The guests explain precognitive dreams and the strict criteria required to validate them, prompting Art to share his own dramatic precognitive experience in Santa Barbara where an overwhelming sensation correctly warned him someone was about to hit his parked car.Callers share their own dreams for interpretation, including a recurring vision of a powerful tiger that kills others but only bats gently at the dreamer. The interpreters identify the tiger as a personal symbol of suppressed power and advise the caller, an artist, to paint it. The conversation also touches on out-of-body experiences, shared dreaming, and the striking difference in how frequently men and women think about sex.

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October 6, 1999: The Creation & Evidence - Steve Grohman | Aliens in Print Ads - Peter Gersten

Oct 62h 55mSteve Grohman, Peter Gersten

Art Bell welcomes UFO attorney Peter Gersten and creationist minister Steve Grohman for a two-part evening covering alien controversies and the creation-evolution debate. Gersten reports on a bizarre two-page R.J. Reynolds tobacco advertisement appearing in weekly newspapers that mocks alien abductees, asking why aliens keep abducting the dumbest people on Earth. He and Art dissect the ad's strange implications, with Bob Bigelow weighing in via email demanding an apology on behalf of abductees everywhere.Grohman, an ordained Baptist minister who travels the country with fossils and live reptiles he considers modern dinosaurs, makes his case that Earth is only six to seven thousand years old. He challenges carbon dating methods, argues that reptiles in the original creation grew to enormous sizes due to longer lifespans, and claims cave art proves humans and dinosaurs coexisted.Art pushes back on both guests with pointed questions about dating science, the possibility of extraterrestrial life, and whether biblical literalism can accommodate the vastness of the universe. Callers weigh in on everything from evolution to eternal consequences of belief.

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October 7, 1999: Preparedness - Stan Deyo & Holly Deyo | NIDS Hotline Reports - Colm Kelleher

Oct 72h 56mStan Deyo, Holly Deyo, Colm Kelleher

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Colm Kelleher of the National Institute for Discovery Science about early results from their new UFO hotline, then shifts to preparedness experts Stan and Holly Deyo broadcasting from Australia. Kelleher describes roughly 70 reports received in just weeks, including a massive silent triangular craft spotted over Oklahoma and a deeply strange encounter on Bob Bigelow's research ranch where a glowing blue orb and a large black object were visible to one investigator but completely invisible to another standing fifteen feet away.Stan Deyo shares alarming observations about ocean surface temperatures, describing an anomalous cold circle in the North Atlantic that behaves like a thermal sink, along with unusual solar activity including new ultraviolet frequencies the sun began emitting in 1991. Holly Deyo discusses their book Dare to Prepare, offering practical advice for urban and rural families facing potential disasters from weather disruptions to Y2K uncertainties.The conversation turns to persistent rumors of a possible event in November 1999, asteroid detection gaps caused by the shutdown of Australia's Space Guard program, and a striking map showing that 70 percent of known meteor impact craters are concentrated in the Northern Hemisphere.

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October 13, 1999: Alien Encounters - Ellen Crystall

Oct 134h 45mEllen Crystall

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Ellen Crystall, a researcher who claims over 2,000 photographs of UFOs taken across nearly three decades of fieldwork in Hollywood, California and Pine Bush, New York. Crystall describes her first encounters in 1971, when residents of a Hollywood apartment complex pointed out lights in the night sky that gradually revealed themselves as structured craft over subsequent weeks. She explains how her photographs capture shortwave radiation emissions invisible to the naked eye, producing unexpected images that took years of scientific consultation to decipher.Crystall recounts her closest encounter in Pine Bush in 1986, when a small boomerang-shaped craft with a geodesic dome hovered directly above her, close enough to touch. She describes shouting at the craft in frustration over the lack of communication, prompting it to fan one of its swiveling paddle-like wings over her. She also details seeing aliens approximately three and a half feet tall with thin frames and beige skin.Art presses Crystall on the interpretive nature of her photographs and the challenge of presenting evidence that requires guided examination rather than offering immediately recognizable images. The discussion touches on the Senate's rejection of the nuclear test ban treaty and listener calls ranging from alien technology to the JFK Jr. crash.

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October 19, 1999: Spirits, Trapped Souls, & the Afterlife - Laurie Jacobson

Oct 192h 54mLaurie Jacobson

Art Bell welcomes author Laurie Jacobson to discuss her book Hollywood Haunted, exploring ghost sightings connected to some of the entertainment industry's most famous names. Jacobson shares accounts of Lucille Ball's melancholy apparition watching her beloved home being demolished, Ozzie Nelson's spirit taking liberties with women who moved into his former residence, and Clifton Webb lingering on Earth because he feared being forgotten despite his celebrated career.The conversation deepens when Jacobson recounts Ricky Nelson's daughter Tracy describing violent poltergeist activity in Errol Flynn's former estate, where rooms shook with the sound of crashing furniture and gold records being smashed, yet nothing was ever disturbed. Jacobson shares her own experience at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, where an unseen presence angrily shook a floor-to-ceiling velvet drape, later identified as the ghost of a former employee named Fritz who had hanged himself behind the movie screen.Art reveals a mysterious photograph from his webcam taken at the exact moment he was discussing a Satanist guest, showing an unexplained white mass gathered above his head. The pair debate reincarnation, near-death experiences, the dangers of Ouija boards, and whether the manner of death directly shapes what happens to the spirit afterward.

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October 20, 1999: Open Lines - Secret Societies Hotline

Oct 203h 17m

Art Bell opens the phone lines with a special challenge, dedicating one line exclusively to members of secret societies willing to share something about their organizations. The evening draws multiple callers claiming Masonic membership, including a self-described Master Mason who insists all Masonic secrets are publicly available and a second Mason who flatly contradicts him, confirming that higher degrees hold information inaccessible to lower ranks.A caller from New Mexico describes a hierarchy of secret societies placing the Brotherhood of the Snake and the Brotherhood of the Dragon above the Illuminati, the Knights Templar, and the Freemasons. He claims these groups guard the true origins of mankind, knowledge allegedly stolen from the Library of Alexandria and now hidden within the Vatican. He asserts that Jesus was a member of the Illuminati who served as a messenger rather than a divine figure, and that the G7 nations represent the power structure controlling these secrets.Between society calls, Art checks in with a listener in St. Thomas bracing for Hurricane Jose, fields a call from a former Rosicrucian who describes psychic development exercises involving mirrors and candles, and hears from an Order of the Eastern Star member who explains the organization's blood-relative requirement connecting it to Freemasonry. Art declares that when he dies, he intends to return and provide proof of the afterlife by broadcasting his voice through the radio spectrum.

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October 21, 1999: Wooly Mammoth Discovery - Richard C. Hoagland

Oct 2137mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland to discuss the stunning discovery of a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth frozen in Siberian ice. They examine the scientific possibilities of cloning the ancient creature using DNA extraction and elephant surrogacy, while weighing the risks of releasing dormant pathogens trapped in the permafrost for thousands of years.The conversation shifts to the broader implications of ancient history, touching on the Piri Reis map as evidence of advanced pre-ice age civilizations and the mysterious glyphs of Abydos. Hoagland connects these threads to suggest humanity may not be the first advanced civilization on Earth, and that the mammoth discovery offers a window into a forgotten era.Art and Hoagland also address President Clinton's increasingly erratic behavior, including an unusual solo golf outing in the rain and repeated remarks about wanting a third term. They explore whether these oddities signal foreknowledge of a coming event, and Hoagland appeals to listeners with insider knowledge to come forward with information about what may be planned for November 1999.

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October 26, 1999: Telepathy & Predictions - Uri Geller | The X-Files - Chris Carter

Oct 262h 34mUri Geller, Chris Carter

Art Bell interviews X-Files creator Chris Carter about the cancellation of Harsh Realm after only three episodes and the upcoming seventh season of The X-Files. Carter reveals that airline pilots he meets almost always report having seen UFOs, and he shares how government insiders have told him his fictional stories come unsettlingly close to classified truths. They discuss the coming millennium, a possible second X-Files film, and Lance Henriksen reprising his Millennium role.In the second half, Art speaks with Uri Geller, the Israeli-born psychic known worldwide for spoon bending and telepathy. Geller recounts his childhood discovery of psychokinetic abilities, his service in the Six-Day War, and his secret work with the CIA attempting to erase floppy disks and influence Soviet negotiators. He describes being asked to kill a pig with his mind in a government laboratory and refusing.Geller conducts a live experiment asking listeners to concentrate on broken watches and clocks. Callers from Hawaii, Reno, and New York report timepieces suddenly working again, while others describe spoons moving near their radios. The segment becomes a demonstration of collective psychic energy channeled through the broadcast.

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October 27, 1999: Spiritual Healing & NDEs - Stuart Wilde

Oct 272h 40mStuart Wilde

Art Bell opens with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center, who presents audio recordings from commercial airline pilots and a former F-16 fighter pilot describing a massive triangular object seen at 37,000 feet over the southern United States. A second witness in Mississippi reports a silent, hovering craft covered in rows of white lights. Art then interviews actress Jane Seymour about the beloved film Somewhere in Time, the magic of filming at Mackinac Island, and Christopher Reeve's progress toward spinal cord research breakthroughs.The main guest is author and teacher Stuart Wilde, who describes his encounters with grey beings that appeared in his bedroom on multiple occasions. He explains his theory that these entities are interdimensional rather than extraterrestrial, vibrating at frequencies beyond normal human perception. Stuart connects this to physicist Michio Kaku's theories of 10 to 26 dimensions of hyperspace and describes a crop circle near Avebury that encoded this same mathematical framework.Stuart teaches listeners how to develop peripheral vision using the rod cells in their eyes to perceive etheric energy fields around living things. He and Art discuss near-death experiences, the mechanics of inducing them through theta brainwave meditation, and a dark band of negative energy he believes surrounds the Earth and influences governments toward increasing control.

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November 2, 1999: Psychic Twins - Linda Jamison & Terry Jamison

Nov 22h 46mLinda Jamison, Terry Jamison

Art Bell welcomes Linda Jamison and Terry Jamison, identical twin sisters known as the Psychic Twins, who use automatic writing to channel information from what they describe as the Akashic Records. They explain this as an etheric band surrounding Earth where all actions and thoughts are recorded, distinct from channeling individual spirits. The twins describe how they independently produce identical written predictions when working in separate rooms.The sisters offer a series of millennium prophecies, including an AIDS cure by 2006, breast cancer prevention by 2008, a stock market crash around 2003, and two-way voice communication with other dimensions as early as 2012. They predict that George W. Bush will win the next presidential election and foresee cloning of body parts becoming reality in the near future. They also claim to have predicted the Egypt Air Flight 990 crash the day before it occurred through their automatic writing practice.Callers press the twins on topics ranging from the New Madrid fault to the third secret of Fatima, the tenth planet theory, and the prospect of Quebec separating from Canada. The twins share their Buddhist practice and explain how meditation and grounding techniques help them manage the emotional toll of psychic work, particularly when communicating with spirits of the recently deceased.

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November 3, 1999: Chemtrails - William Thomas

Nov 32h 24mWilliam Thomas

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist William Thomas for an extensive update on the chemtrail phenomenon. Thomas reports a sharp increase in sightings of persistent chemical trails spreading across skies nationwide, accompanied by widespread illness including sore throats, respiratory problems, and a troubling new pattern of psychological symptoms such as depression, inability to concentrate, short-term memory loss, and unexplained anxiety attacks.A fax from a self-identified former NOAA pilot is read on air, claiming his atmospheric research missions were quietly converted into chemical dispersal operations with no filed flight plans, cleared airspace, and crew rotations through remote bases including Area 51. When pressed for more details, the pilot went silent, writing that the truth could set him free or he could turn up missing. Thomas connects these operations to CIA-linked C-130 aircraft diverted from Forest Service firefighting duties.Researcher Patty Doyle joins to present evidence linking the West Nile virus outbreak in New York to Plum Island Animal Disease Center, a biosafety level five facility just two miles offshore. She documents safety violations, illegal waste dumping, and dead lab birds found outside containment areas. A caller who grew up near Plum Island confirms her father worked there and that families were forbidden from visiting zoos due to disease transmission risks.

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November 4, 1999: Mystery Objects - Richard C. Hoagland

Nov 438mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland for an update on the much-discussed November 7th date and the mysterious objects reportedly captured on video during a solar eclipse in Turkey. Hoagland reveals that after extensive analysis, the objects turned out to be flashbulbs and light poles in a crowd shot, undermining the foundation for claims of incoming objects. He explains how the investigation exposed a complex web of disinformation involving competing power groups within Washington.The conversation shifts to EgyptAir Flight 990, which crashed under puzzling circumstances. Hoagland raises the possibility of an electronic attack on the aircraft's fly-by-wire computer systems, noting that the radar data showing a steep dive followed by a partial recovery does not match a mechanical failure like a thrust reverser deployment. He also highlights the unreported Operation Bright Star military exercises happening simultaneously in Egypt.Art takes open lines where callers discuss topics ranging from ancient Arctic fossils suggesting a dramatically warmer climate thousands of years ago to the ongoing threat posed by the Taurid meteor stream. The program also touches on Y2K concerns, government preparedness drills, and the FBI's Operation Megiddo targeting potential millennium-related extremist activity.

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November 10, 1999: George Carlin & Government Agents

Nov 102h 55mGeorge Carlin

Art Bell opens with Y2K updates and listener mail before taking calls from a man claiming to be a former Illuminati controller and liaison to the Pleiadian Supreme Commandant. The caller insists he has traveled through time and holds secret knowledge about the New World Order. Art presses him for verifiable evidence, highlighting the difficulty of separating genuine insiders from elaborate storytellers on late-night radio.Comedian George Carlin joins the program following a Las Vegas performance. The two discuss government secrecy, the nature of power structures, and why citizens remain complacent in the face of institutional corruption. Carlin shares his characteristically sharp observations about language, politics, and human behavior, bringing his trademark irreverence to subjects that align naturally with the show's themes of questioning authority.The episode also features discussion of the November 7th date aftermath, with callers offering theories about what may or may not have occurred. One caller proposes that everyone actually died on November 7th and now exists inside a Matrix-like simulation created by extraterrestrials. Art navigates the spectrum from comedy to conspiracy with his signature late-night ease.

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November 11, 1999: Remote Viewing Satan - Ed Dames | Flight 990 - Richard C. Hoagland & Peter Davenport

Nov 113h 18mEd Dames, Richard C. Hoagland, Peter Davenport

Art Bell makes radio history by bringing forward members of two separate airline crews who publicly describe encountering unidentified objects while flying over Missouri. A Learjet pilot at 39,000 feet reports a missile-like object passing within 1,000 feet below his aircraft, while a second crew in a Beech BE-40 at 37,000 feet independently confirms the sighting. Peter Davenport presents FAA controller testimony and recorded conversations documenting the event.The air traffic controller on duty confirms he had no radar returns for the object despite switching to primary radar. Both pilots describe being visibly shaken, with one calling back to the controller's frequency minutes later still seeking answers. A former F-16 pilot now flying commercial, Jose, offers his perspective from the cockpit, noting the lights were significantly brighter than anything he had encountered during military refueling operations at altitude.The program also features Major Ed Dames discussing remote viewing targets including Satan, and Richard C. Hoagland returning to analyze the EgyptAir Flight 990 crash. Hoagland draws attention to the aircraft's evasive-action-like maneuvers captured on radar, suggesting the flight profile resembles a response to an external threat rather than mechanical failure.

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November 24, 1999: Reincarnation - Dr. Walter Semkiw

Nov 242h 54mDr. Walter Semkiw

Art Bell broadcasts on Thanksgiving evening, opening with holiday-themed open lines before welcoming Dr. Walter Semkiw, a medical doctor who presents what he calls visual evidence of reincarnation. Dr. Semkiw argues that physical facial features carry over between lifetimes, offering side-by-side photographic comparisons of historical figures and their alleged modern counterparts as proof of soul continuity across incarnations.During the first hour, callers discuss a range of topics including a Y2K glitch that struck two Victoria, British Columbia hospitals, causing their phone systems to crash and display January 1, 2000 on their screens weeks early. Art reads listener correspondence debating President Clinton's reassurances about Y2K preparedness, with skeptics pointing to the 50 percent of 911 systems still not compliant as reason for concern.Dr. Semkiw walks through his methodology for identifying reincarnation cases, emphasizing that he approaches the subject as a trained physician seeking empirical patterns rather than relying on past-life regression or anecdotal testimony alone. Callers weigh in with their own experiences and questions about the implications of soul return for personal identity and spiritual belief.

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December 1, 1999: The Coming Tokyo Earthquake - Peter Hadfield | Missouri Sightings - Peter Davenport

Dec 13h 16mPeter Hadfield, Peter Davenport

Geologist and Tokyo-based journalist Peter Hadfield joins Art Bell to discuss the coming Tokyo earthquake, while Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center reports on Missouri UFO sightings. Art begins the program with an unusual and personal revelation, explaining why he missed the previous night's broadcast. He received a credible death threat relayed through another nationally syndicated talk show host, warning that a mentally unstable individual recently released from the Carl Albert Mental Health Center had fixated on Art and was potentially en route to Pahrump. Art describes sitting armed with a shotgun through the night while the Nye County Sheriff's office attempted to verify the threat.The investigation proved frustrating as the mental health facility refused to share information even with law enforcement. Art explains the impossible choice between doing a five-hour live radio show and remaining vigilant against a potential intruder, ultimately choosing safety over broadcasting. He shares the story to illustrate the real dangers faced by public figures who discuss controversial topics.Hadfield discusses seismic research predicting a major earthquake in Tokyo, examining the geological evidence and Japan's preparedness. Davenport returns with updates on the Missouri UFO sightings, where airline pilots encountered unidentified objects at high altitude. The episode also touches on the Jonathan Reed alien encounter case, including new photographic negatives being submitted for independent analysis.

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December 7, 1999: Mars Conspiracies - Richard C. Hoagland

Dec 72h 21mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland to discuss NASA's loss of the Mars Polar Lander, the latest in a string of failed Mars missions. Hoagland argues that the failures are not accidents but the work of a rogue group within NASA that is deliberately sabotaging missions to prevent the public from learning about ancient ruins on Mars.Hoagland traces this conspiracy back to Operation Paperclip and the Nazi rocket scientists brought to America after World War II, claiming some carried occult beliefs tied to ancient Egyptian religion and a conviction that the Aryan race originated on Mars. He presents documents from the National Archives and details ritual alignments he has found embedded in NASA mission timelines.Art presses Hoagland on motive, asking why anyone would suppress such knowledge. Hoagland contends that the group seeks to monopolize information about humanity's true origins and ultimately control access to space technology. He calls on honest NASA insiders to come forward with evidence and urges listeners to demand congressional investigations into the agency's pattern of unexplained mission failures.

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December 8, 1999: Remote Viewing - Ed Dames

Dec 82h 1mEd Dames

Art Bell hosts Major Ed Dames of Psi Tech, who arrives fresh off two confirmed hits: predicting the EgyptAir Flight 990 cockpit altercation and the loss of the Mars Polar Lander. Dames explains that his military remote viewing team targeted the Lander mission before launch and determined it would fail, attributing the loss to the spacecraft bouncing violently in a Martian atmosphere far thicker than NASA had calculated.The conversation shifts to geophysical predictions as Dames warns that Y2K disruptions will pale compared to what the sun has in store. He forecasts severe drought, massive crop failures, cattle starvation, and opportunistic plant diseases driven by increasing solar activity. He also describes a forbidden zone on Mars guarded by sentient robotic machines that rose from the surface and damaged the Russian Phobos 2 probe.Dames announces Psi Tech's new millennium project: pinpointing the location of the Ark of the Covenant. He reveals that his military team previously confirmed the Ark's existence and says he plans to publish coordinates on the company's website. The discussion also touches on remote viewing one's own death and the nature of personal destiny.

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December 9, 1999: The Captured Alien - Jonathan Reed & Robert Raith

Dec 93h 37mJonathan Reed, Robert Raith

Art Bell revisits the controversial story of Dr. Jonathan Reed, who claims to have encountered and captured an alien being in the Pacific Northwest woods. Tonight's broadcast introduces new witnesses and forensic evidence, including never-before-seen photographs of an alien artifact with hieroglyphic symbols and gold needle-like protrusions, which Art has scanned and posted on his website.Microbiologist Harold Chacon presents his laboratory analysis of tissue and blood samples allegedly taken from the creature. He reports that the skin tissue is denser and more transparent than human skin, with half the fat-producing glands. The blood reveals a chromosome count of 46, matching humans, but nine of those chromosomes are found only in dolphins and certain sea tortoises. Chacon states that no known earthly animal matches the complete biological profile.Former landlord Larry Arthur confirms that Reed's Seattle home was ransacked by unknown parties who cut through floors and ceilings, removed electrical outlet covers, tore apart furniture, and pried a steel garage door from its frame. Arthur describes finding mysterious probe holes in the yard. Reed reports that his fireproof filing cabinets and all personal belongings were taken.

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December 14, 1999: The Coming Global Superstorm - Whitley Strieber

Dec 142h 51mWhitley Strieber

Art Bell presents extended readings from his co-authored book with Whitley Strieber, "The Coming Global Superstorm," a work of researched fiction that dramatizes a catastrophic climate shift. The narrative opens with ocean buoys detecting sudden temperature drops in the North Atlantic and Antarctic, signaling that the world's ocean currents are changing course with devastating consequences.The book weaves between a fictional scenario of civilization-ending storms and factual climate science, examining how the North Atlantic current regulates global weather. Art and Whitley explore geological evidence of past sudden climate shifts, the mysterious origins of ancient monuments like the Sphinx and the sunken structure off Yonaguni, Japan, and legends of prior civilizations destroyed by superstorms. They argue the Zodiac may be an ancient warning calendar marking cyclical catastrophes.Art shares alarming listener reports from Alaska, New Hampshire, and the Great Lakes region describing unprecedented winds, glacial retreat, and weather anomalies. He notes that 40 percent of Arctic ice has disappeared in two decades and that the North Atlantic current may already be shifting, suggesting the book's fictional scenario is becoming reality.

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December 15, 1999: Open Lines - Y2K

Dec 152h 51m

Art Bell opens the phone lines with Y2K just sixteen days away, fielding calls from across North America as anxiety builds toward the millennium rollover. He reports that a Nebraska bank posted signs limiting cash withdrawals to three thousand dollars, sparking the very panic officials hoped to avoid. Massachusetts officials, meanwhile, prepare to monitor the transition from a concrete bunker forty feet underground.Callers from Alaska describe glaciers in unprecedented retreat, with mountain rocks exposed for the first time in 25,000 years. A New Hampshire listener reports 106-mile-per-hour winds and 150-mile-per-hour gusts in the White Mountains. Art connects these weather extremes to his new book with Whitley Strieber, arguing that the signs of a coming climate catastrophe are already visible. He reads listener accounts of Lake Erie water levels rising unevenly and solar wind anomalies that NASA kept quiet for months.The night takes an unexpected turn when a caller describes telling a Christian minister his theory that grey aliens are humans from the future. The minister responded not with disbelief but with the question, "How did you find that out?" Art promises to track down the minister for a future interview. Between calls, he promotes the final night of autographed book sales and fields reports from a Canadian donut baker and a Colorado police officer preparing for New Year's Eve duty.

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December 16, 1999: Ancient Artifacts in the US - Robert Ghost Wolf & Dannion Brinkley

Dec 162h 2mRobert Ghost Wolf, Dannion Brinkley

Art Bell welcomes Robert Ghost Wolf and Dannion Brinkley to discuss an extraordinary archaeological discovery in the central United States. Ghostwolf describes unearthing over 200 artifacts from a buried temple site, including Egyptian hieroglyphics, Celtic inscriptions, Hebrew tablets, and what appears to be a depiction of the Ark of the Covenant. The find suggests multiple ancient civilizations left records in one location long before Columbus arrived in 1492.Brinkley reveals he took photographs of key artifacts to famed Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, who identified one piece as originating from the Ptolemaic period without knowing it was found in American soil. The two guests also discuss the last-minute cancellation of the planned gold capstone ceremony atop the Great Pyramid, speculating that officials feared activating what they believe is an ancient machine designed to harness electromagnetic energy.Callers react with a mix of astonishment and skepticism as Art examines the high-resolution photographs posted on his website. Ghostwolf maintains that 12 such sacred record sites exist across the continent, each containing knowledge left by previous civilizations to guide future generations through cyclical catastrophes. The discussion touches on connections to the Book of Mormon, Edgar Cayce prophecies, and Native American oral traditions about ancient visitors known as the Old Ones.

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December 21, 1999: Open Lines

Dec 2141m

Art Bell opens the show with a startling announcement: all long-distance telephone service to Pahrump, Nevada, has been down since late afternoon, leaving him unable to take calls from the outside world. With only local lines working, he transforms the broadcast into an unprecedented Pahrump-only open lines night, inviting his desert neighbors to call in on local numbers while the rest of the nation listens to a one-way show.Local callers share their experiences with the outage, reporting that credit card machines are also failing and internet service is spotty. A caller who works in the telecommunications industry explains that a switching failure in the local equipment likely caused the trunk lines to block all toll traffic. Art speculates about whether the outage could be an accidental Y2K test, given the approaching millennium deadline.The evening takes on a warm, small-town character as Art reconnects with familiar Pahrump residents, including a woman his late wife Ramona once gave rides to and Joe from the now-closed local pizza shop who remembers a secret olive oil recipe Art brought back from Paris. After an hour of local conversation, Art signs off and sends the network to tape, marking one of the most unusual broadcasts in the show's history.

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December 28, 1999: Life After Death - Gary Schwartz

Dec 282h 40mGary Schwartz

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Gary Schwartz, professor of psychology, medicine, neurology, and psychiatry at the University of Arizona, to discuss scientific research into life after death. Schwartz explains his systemic memory hypothesis, which proposes that all systems in the universe store information through feedback loops, much like audio feedback from a speaker or the infinite regression seen when pointing a video camera at its own monitor. He describes how this replicable phenomenon led him to predict that consciousness could survive physical death.Schwartz recounts how his co-researcher Linda Russek inspired him to apply the theory to mediumship experiments after the passing of her father, a distinguished cardiologist. Early studies recorded high-frequency sound anomalies during attempted communication sessions, while a later clock experiment with Linda's mother produced statistically significant results suggesting an unseen intelligence was influencing the device on command.The conversation turns to a picture-matching experiment using two mediums who did not know each other. Medium two, working in a trance state, attempted to receive images from four deceased individuals and achieved a 100 percent accuracy rate when researchers used the information she provided. Art also reveals a Sprint outage report found on a government website listing Area 51 among the affected locations, a discovery that dominates the first hour of the broadcast.

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December 29, 1999: Politics, J. Edgar Hoover, & Aliens - Jack Anderson

Dec 292h 44mJack Anderson

Art Bell interviews legendary investigative columnist Jack Anderson, whose career spanned decades of exposing government corruption and tangling with the most powerful figures in Washington. Anderson recounts his decision to investigate FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by conducting a burlesque FBI-style probe, including going through Hoover's garbage and following him around the capital. The columns that resulted reduced Hoover from near-deity status, prompting the director to call Anderson lower than the regurgitated filth of vultures.Anderson shares the chilling story of G. Gordon Liddy walking out of a White House staff meeting after misinterpreting a remark about getting rid of Anderson as an order for assassination. He details how Nixon's administration deployed the IRS, FBI, and CIA against him, forging a tax return in his name and placing him under surveillance in an operation codenamed Mud Hen. His own children spotted and photographed the CIA operatives watching their home.The conversation shifts to broader themes as Anderson reflects on political elites, media complacency, and the priceless American heritage of free speech. He reveals his belief, drawn from ancient scriptures, that populated planets are linked in a vast celestial society and that Earth remains under quarantine due to spiritual pollution. Art shares his own UFO sighting near Area 51, and the two discuss whether humanity can earn its place among the stars.

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December 31, 1999: Millennium New Years

Dec 318h 9m

Art Bell broadcasts a special early edition on New Year's Eve, beginning at 7 p.m. Pacific time to track the millennium's arrival across every time zone. News reports confirm that Y2K computer fears have so far produced only minor glitches worldwide, though a credit card failure across Britain days earlier serves as a reminder that problems may still surface when businesses reopen. Boris Yeltsin's sudden resignation adds geopolitical uncertainty to an already anxious evening.Gordon Michael Scallion joins for three hours of predictions and discussion about earth changes. He describes his mystical experiences inside the Great Pyramid, where a mysterious Egyptian guard granted him private access to the chambers, telling him he remembered Scallion from when they built the structure together. Scallion presents his theory that the pyramid was built 12,500 years ago by Atlanteans, Egyptians, and Darians as a machine for bending time, astronomical observation, and spiritual initiation.The discussion turns to the accelerating pace of climate disruption, record sunspot activity, and the planetary alignment approaching in May 2000. Scallion warns that the next 24 months represent a critical window, assigning 90 percent odds to significant magnetic and weather changes that could redraw maps of the world. As midnight strikes on the East Coast, Times Square erupts and Art rings in the year 2000 with the sound of Big Ben.

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