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2001 Episodes

Direct links to every Art Bell Archive episode from 2001, inside the Post-Millennium Coast (2000-2009) stretch of the archive.

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The 2000s run: post-9/11 geopolitics, surveillance, disclosure arguments, science fringes, and recurring Coast voices.

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January 9, 2001: Art Bell - Keith Rowland Interview

Jan 928mKeith Rowland

Art Bell sits down with webmaster Keith Rowland for a candid interview about his decision to return to the airwaves after months away. Art explains that personal and legal crises drove his departure, and that both have since been resolved. He reveals that Premier Radio Networks approached him about returning, and rather than requesting more money, he negotiated fewer commercials and a return to the five-hour format.The conversation covers what Art did during his time off, including purchasing a 37-foot diesel RV, working on his FM radio station KNYE 95.1 in Pahrump, and spending time with ham radio. Art addresses rumors that KNYE was his planned return vehicle, clarifying it was never intended as such. He discusses the state of affiliate stations, noting losses in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and announces his move to KFI in Los Angeles.Art shares his thoughts on the 2000 election, UFO research, spirituality, and a mysterious radioactive circle discovered in the desert near Pahrump. He confirms his return date of February 5th, with an appearance on the Today Show that morning, and promises more open lines and unscreened calls.

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February 5, 2001: UFO Reports - Peter Davenport

Feb 52h 50mPeter Davenport

Art Bell returns to the airwaves and welcomes a massive roster of new and returning affiliate stations before reuniting with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center. Peter opens with a tribute to the late Holger Berg, who preserved a 1936 UFO sighting from Eklutna, Alaska, describing a cigar-shaped craft with blue-green lights and a sound resembling a jet engine decades before jet technology existed.Two witnesses using pseudonyms, Tim from Detroit and Denise from Signet, Ohio, recount their Halloween night encounter with an egg-shaped craft hovering over Interstate 75. Tim describes watching the object change colors for twenty minutes through binoculars, while Denise independently saw the same black craft glide silently from a tree line with glowing energy trailing behind it. The witnesses met by chance at the roadside and exchanged information without sharing details.Tim reveals disturbing aftereffects including chronic headaches, abdominal inflammation, hearing strange binary-sounding voices outside his home, and episodes of missing time. Additional witnesses from Oregon describe a remote Idaho hunting camp encounter with a craft that left the FAA calling Peter Davenport directly with the report.

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February 6, 2001: Theoretical Physics - Dr. Michio Kaku

Feb 62h 47mDr. Michio Kaku

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Michio Kaku for a wide-ranging discussion on his second night back on the air. Dr. Kaku describes how Einstein's death when he was eight years old inspired his lifelong pursuit of the unified field theory. They examine the recent experiment where scientists stopped light in a laboratory, with Dr. Kaku explaining that Einstein still has the last laugh since light speed remains constant in a vacuum.The conversation turns to the future of computing, with Dr. Kaku predicting that Moore's Law will collapse within 20 years as silicon layers shrink to just five atoms across, causing electron leakage. He envisions quantum computers, smart dust for military applications, and a world where the word "computer" disappears from the English language as intelligence becomes embedded in clothing, glasses, and household objects.Dr. Kaku outlines his civilization classification system, explaining that humanity remains a Type 0 civilization still burning dead plants for energy. He estimates a 10 to 20 percent chance of successfully transitioning to Type 1 within the next century, citing nuclear proliferation as the greatest threat. They discuss Star Wars missile defense, wandering black holes, and whether the universe itself is a bubble floating in 11-dimensional hyperspace.

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February 7, 2001: UFOs - Whitley Strieber

Feb 72h 4mWhitley Strieber

Art Bell welcomes longtime friend Whitley Strieber to discuss his self-published book The Key and a startling new development in UFO research. Dr. Roger Leir has submitted a small claw recovered from a UFO witness for laboratory analysis, and preliminary results suggest its surface is vegetative rather than animal in nature, with white crystals resembling biological adhesive. Whitley connects this finding to testimony from his uncle, Colonel Edward Strieber, who handled Roswell debris and was told the biological material was vegetative matter.Whitley recounts his extraordinary late-night encounter at the Delta Chelsea Hotel in Toronto, where a mysterious man calling himself Michael arrived uninvited and delivered a sweeping discourse on God, the soul, intelligent machines, and humanity's need to escape Earth. The visitor produced a white liquid that Whitley drank before losing consciousness, and no trace of the man was ever found afterward.The discussion weaves through climate change and the accelerating confirmation of predictions from their co-authored book The Coming Global Superstorm, a spectacular New York City UFO video showing a craft emerging from behind the World Trade Center, and the visitor's provocative claim that Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam form one interconnected spiritual system rather than three separate religions.

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February 8, 2001: Mayan Calendar - Ian Xel Lungold | Afterlife Consciousness - Dr. Gary Schwartz

Feb 82h 33mIan Xel Lungold, Dr. Gary Schwartz

Art Bell welcomes Ian Xel Lungold, who presents a theory rooted in the Mayan calendar that creation itself is accelerating. Lungold explains that nine distinct cycles of consciousness, each twenty times shorter than the last, reveal a pattern of exponential change building toward a dramatic conclusion in the near future. He shares a formula for converting Gregorian dates to Mayan calendar days, arguing that aligning with these natural rhythms can expand human awareness.In the second half, Art speaks with Dr. Gary Schwartz, a professor of psychology, medicine, and neurology at the University of Arizona. Dr. Schwartz introduces his systemic memory hypothesis, which proposes that all dynamic systems engaged in feedback loops store information and energy indefinitely. He traces the logic from atoms and molecules up through organs, organisms, and beyond, suggesting that consciousness itself arises from and is sustained by these recursive feedback processes.Dr. Schwartz describes laboratory experiments conducted with medium Laurie Campbell, whose ability to relay specific personal details from deceased individuals produced results he calls jaw-dropping. He discusses the implications for survival of consciousness after death and previews future technologies that could enable direct communication with the other side.

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February 12, 2001: NIDS - Colm Kelleher

Feb 122h 55mColm Kelleher

Colm Kelleher, Deputy Administrator of the National Institute for Discovery Science, joins Art Bell to discuss NIDS investigations, black triangle cases, UFO-related phenomena, and animal mutilations after Loren Coleman's skunk ape segment. Coleman analyzes photographs of an alleged skunk ape taken by an anonymous woman in Sarasota County, Florida. Coleman explains that the creature fits the profile of a smaller, more ape-like primate distinct from the Pacific Northwest Bigfoot, and he notes that enhanced images reveal anatomical details inconsistent with a hoax, including visible canines, fingernails, and proper eye shine for a nocturnal animal.Kelleher reports on 600 investigated cases received through the NIDS hotline, with 116 involving large, silent, low-flying black triangles displaying extraordinary performance characteristics. He details two cases involving biological effects on witnesses, including radiation-like burns on a child in Maine and dramatic genetic changes in plants exposed to a triangular craft in Saskatchewan.Kelleher also discusses a newly published statistical analysis linking UFO sightings, mysterious helicopter activity, and animal mutilations around Malmstrom Air Force Base during the 1970s. He addresses the persistent enigma of unmarked silent helicopters seen in association with UFO events and raises the question of whether the phenomenon itself may manipulate human perception.

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February 13, 2001: Remote Viewing - Ed Dames

Feb 133h 34mEd Dames

Major Ed Dames joins Art Bell to discuss remote viewing, the secretive "Ginger" project, UFOs, time, and nuclear-weapons incidents after a first-hour interview with Dr. Stuart Meloy. Meloy, a pain management specialist, describes accidentally discovering that spinal cord stimulator electrodes, when positioned at a specific vertebral location, can reliably induce orgasm in women. Dr. Meloy describes two separate clinical encounters that confirmed the phenomenon, discusses the potential applications for treating orgasmic dysfunction affecting roughly thirty percent of women over thirty, and reveals he has obtained a patent on the technology.Dames, former operations and training officer for the military remote viewing unit, explains how technical remote viewing accesses the collective unconscious through trained bypassing of conscious thought, comparing it to the spontaneous information downloads observed in autistic savants. He shares his team's remote viewing results on the secretive "Ginger" project, identifying it as a personal transportation device powered by a revolutionary engine.Dames reveals that during his military tenure, remote viewing sessions targeting UFOs indicated that many sightings involve objects moving through time rather than space. He describes classified incidents where glowing objects disabled nuclear warhead targeting codes and interfered with submarine-launched missile tests, suggesting an ongoing intervention by an unknown intelligence monitoring Earth's nuclear arsenal.

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February 14, 2001: Alien Area 51 - Linda Moulton Howe | Time Traveler Lines

Feb 143h 40mLinda Moulton Howe

Art Bell presents a Valentine's Day broadcast featuring Linda Moulton Howe reporting on the historic landing of the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft on asteroid 433 Eros. Howe interviews project scientist Lucy McFadden, who describes how the orbiter, never designed to land, touched down at four miles per hour and survived, snapping 69 photographs during its final descent that revealed features as small as one centimeter across. NASA extended the mission to gather gamma-ray spectrometer data on the asteroid's elemental composition.Art then reads alarming reports from listeners about environmental anomalies, including mysterious geese die-offs in New Jersey, an unidentified goo washing up on Florida beaches, and a disturbing account of a man hemorrhaging fatally in a Tacoma bank. He also shares a letter from a trucker who drove 38 miles into the Nevada Test Site with DOE clearance and mentions the newly signed presidential determination by George W. Bush exempting Area 51 from hazardous waste disclosure laws.The program shifts to open lines focused on MRI-related experiences, featuring Dr. Linda Honor, a behavioral neuroscientist who connects the electromagnetic fields generated by MRI machines to the Philadelphia Experiment and suggests these fields may compromise the integrity of the human electromagnetic energy system. Callers describe seeing entities, buffalo herds, and angelic figures following MRI exposure.

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February 15, 2001: Time Travel - Dr. David Anderson | Apollo Missions - Richard C. Hoagland & Wayne Green

Feb 152h 41mDr. David Anderson, Richard C. Hoagland, Wayne Green

Art Bell hosts a debate between Richard C. Hoagland and Wayne Green over a Fox television special questioning whether Apollo astronauts landed on the moon. Hoagland, who served as Walter Cronkite's science advisor during the missions, addresses claims about missing stars in photographs, inconsistent shadows, and radiation exposure, arguing the photos were altered to conceal artifacts discovered on the lunar surface rather than to fake the landings. Green maintains his position that the missions never occurred, citing insider testimony.Both guests agree NASA has not been truthful but reach opposite conclusions. Hoagland suggests the agency was shocked by what astronauts found and has spent decades concealing the discovery. The discussion covers why humanity never returned to the moon, with Art reading a presidential determination by George W. Bush reaffirming the classified status of Area 51 operations.Dr. David Anderson of the Time Travel Research Center then describes his third-generation time warp field generator, which uses rotating electromagnetic fields, gas reagents, and a laser array to create a spherical zone where time rates can be accelerated or decelerated. Anderson explains that his discovery of a coupling between time and energy, similar to electromagnetic coupling, enables time dilation at far lower energy levels than classical physics predicted.

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February 16, 2001: Near Death Experiences - Dr. Melvin Morse

Feb 162h 50mDr. Melvin Morse

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Melvin Morse, a pediatrician and neuroscientist who spent 15 years studying near-death experiences in children at Seattle Children's Hospital. Dr. Morse describes his first case, a young girl submerged underwater for 19 minutes who later recounted every detail of her own resuscitation, including watching a tube being placed in her nose.The conversation turns to the science behind NDEs. Dr. Morse explains that fighter pilots in centrifuges regain consciousness at the exact moment blood stops flowing to their brains, mirroring the experiences children describe. He presents three key findings: people die fully conscious and aware, roughly 20 percent of the brain appears hardwired for this experience, and theoretical physicists describe a timeless, spaceless reality consistent with what dying patients report.Art presses Dr. Morse on life after death, reincarnation, and the nature of memory. Dr. Morse offers a striking position: NDEs teach us about living, not necessarily about what follows death. He argues that memories may be stored outside the brain entirely, citing cases of patients functioning normally after losing half their brain tissue. The discussion also covers how NDEs boost immune function and could save billions in unnecessary end-of-life medical spending.

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February 19, 2001: UFO Expert - Don Ecker

Feb 192h 56mDon Ecker

UFO Magazine research director Don Ecker joins Art Bell to discuss lunar anomalies, NASA archive photographs, and UFO secrecy after a mystery-signal segment with Nick Begich. Art opens with a signal detected at 3.39 megahertz that listeners across the country are reporting at unusual strength. Begich, author of Angels Don't Play This HAARP, reveals that Dr. Bernard Eastland, inventor of the HAARP patents, suspects the signal may involve electron acceleration from either the HAARP facility, Norway, or Russia. HAARP officials deny involvement, though their own staff cannot agree on when the last test occurred.Ecker presents photographs from NASA archives showing objects that appear to have rolled upward out of craters on the moon, leaving tank-like tread marks. In the King's Crater region, Ecker points out structures resembling a satellite dish and buildings with illuminated windows. He notes that a NASA geologist at Ames Research Center agreed to discuss the photos on camera but withdrew after actually viewing them.Ecker argues that secrecy surrounding lunar findings parallels UFO concealment, citing the Brookings Institute report prepared for NASA that warned contact with a technologically superior civilization could destabilize human societies. Art and Ecker debate why NASA would suppress such evidence rather than use it to secure funding for future missions.

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February 20, 2001: Electronic Voice Phenomena - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Feb 202h 6mBrendan Cook, Barbara McBeath

Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society to explore electronic voice phenomena, or EVP. The team uses brand-new microcassette tapes and external microphones to record anomalous voices at cemeteries, abandoned hospitals, historic hotels, and other locations with reported paranormal activity. They estimate voices appear on roughly 50 percent of their recordings.Over 30 audio clips are played throughout the broadcast, capturing a striking range of personalities and emotions. A child's voice says "it's dark in here" at a former military barracks. A menacing voice at an abandoned military hospital growls "you little murdering tramps." At a cemetery, a spirit provides directions saying "Roger, back near the car" and another identifies himself clearly as "I'm Lewis." One recording captures a German-language voice at an old theater, while another says "near Mark Wood" at a gravesite Barbara has never been able to locate.Barbara shares her theory that ghosts retain fragments of their living personality but gradually lose definition over time. She distinguishes ghosts from entities contacted through seances or Ouija boards, which she believes are non-human spirit beings that were never alive. The guests stress that their research is unfunded and they sell nothing, driven purely by a desire to document and understand what persists after death.

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February 21, 2001: Mad Cow Disease - Dr. Lorraine Day

Feb 212h 49mDr. Lorraine Day

Art Bell reunites with Dr. Lorraine Day, the former orthopedic surgery chief at San Francisco General Hospital who famously reversed her own severe cancer through dietary changes rather than chemotherapy. The program opens with a brief segment on the Raelian religion's human cloning effort before turning to the main topic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and its implications for human health.Dr. Day argues that mad cow disease is already present in the United States, pointing to hundreds of thousands of "downer cows" that collapse without explanation. She explains that when these animals are ground up and fed to mink, the mink develop a similar fatal neurological disease. She contends that prions, the misfolded proteins associated with BSE, are not the root cause of disease but rather a symptom of immune system breakdown caused by feeding vegetarian animals an unnatural meat-based diet through factory farming practices.The conversation broadens into Dr. Day's philosophy that all disease stems from violating natural laws of health. She challenges the germ theory of disease, advocates for plant-based nutrition, and warns that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease cases are being misdiagnosed as fast-onset Alzheimer's. A United Nations report confirming that BSE could spread to over 100 countries supports her assertion that the crisis will eventually dwarf the AIDS epidemic in scope.

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February 22, 2001: Invisible Flying Creatures, Rods Revisited - Jose Escamilla

Feb 222h 51mJose Escamilla

Jose Escamilla, the researcher who first documented the phenomena known as "rods," joins Art Bell to revisit invisible flying creatures and evidence of an unknown life form coexisting with humanity. Escamilla returns with extensive new video and photographic evidence captured by sources including Fox TV, the Learning Channel, National Geographic, and Swedish military cameras.The program features over 15 video clips and multiple still photographs. A side-by-side comparison clearly distinguishes rods from birds and insects based on speed, structure, and movement patterns. Footage from a 1,250-foot cave in northern Mexico shows rods interacting with base jumpers falling at terminal velocity, with one rod matching a jumper's descent, executing a U-turn, and reversing course in a fraction of a second. Another clip captures a rod circling a young boy's waist before darting back toward the camera.Escamilla describes three distinct varieties of rods identified so far, estimating their size at up to four or five feet in length and speeds ranging from 65 to 300 miles per hour. He reports that National Geographic footage shows rods entering the ocean, leaving bubble trails, and accelerating underwater without slowing. Two separate accounts describe captured rods disintegrating into fine dust upon contact. Native American elders, Escamilla notes, call these beings "arrows" and consider them spiritual in nature.

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February 28, 2001: Ghost To Ghost Stories

Feb 282h 46mPeter Davenport

Art Bell opens with coverage of the devastating 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Seattle, speaking with geologist Jim Berkland about tidal prediction windows and Peter Davenport about experiencing the quake firsthand. A caller's eerily accurate prediction of a morning earthquake in Seattle, recorded weeks earlier on the show, adds a chilling dimension to the evening's events.The program transitions into its annual Ghost to Ghost tradition, beginning with WTAM Cleveland sports reporter Mark Schwab, who recounts his harrowing experience in a rented Florida house where alarm clocks activated on their own, footsteps approached his bed, a night light flashed inexplicably, and a paranormal expert identified two spirits flanking him on live radio. A second guest, Todd, describes living in the late actor J.T. Walsh's home, where locked doors, cigarette smoke from empty rooms, and a shaking bed became nightly occurrences.Art then opens the lines for listener ghost stories, including an EVP recording captured at a reportedly haunted apartment and accounts of phantom touches and objects moving on their own. The stories range from protective spirits to deeply unsettling encounters, each told by callers who insist on the reality of their experiences.

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March 1, 2001: CBS Big Brother | Reality TV - Brittany Petros & Burt Kearns

Mar 12h 50mBrittany Petros, Burt Kearns

Art Bell welcomes former CBS Big Brother houseguest Brittany Petros, who shares the story of her unlikely selection for the reality show after answering a tiny newspaper ad in Minneapolis. She describes the intense secrecy surrounding the casting process, quitting her pharmaceutical sales career without explanation, and the culture shock of entering the Big Brother house with nine strangers under constant surveillance.Brittany reflects on the emotional dynamics inside the house, her complicated relationship with fellow houseguest Josh, and the frustrations of being edited for television while millions watched unfiltered feeds online. Art reveals that he and his wife watched obsessively on the Internet, recalling moments Brittany herself had forgotten. She offers candid assessments of housemates including Jamie and Karen, and discusses how the American public consistently voted out the most interesting contestants.In the second half, veteran television producer Burt Kearns joins to discuss his book Tabloid Baby and the evolution of reality TV. He traces the genre from the wild early days of A Current Affair through Survivor and Temptation Island, examining how Australian newspapermen reinvented American television and how the line between news and entertainment dissolved permanently during the O.J. Simpson trial.

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March 2, 2001: Predictions - Sean David Morton

Mar 22h 49mSean David Morton

Art Bell welcomes Sean David Morton for a wide-ranging predictions session covering economics, geopolitics, and emerging technology. Sean points to his February newsletter, which forecast deep earthquakes near Seattle along the Juan de Fuca fault days before the 6.8 magnitude quake struck. He connects unusual weather patterns across the United States to potential HAARP activity, noting mysterious signals Art detected on shortwave radio frequencies.The discussion turns to the stock market, where Sean outlines two scenarios for the NASDAQ. If it bounces off a support level around 1789, recovery to 4100 is possible by year's end. If it breaks below that floor, a prolonged technology depression awaits. He forecasts the Dow recovering to 12000 by autumn, driven by defense and financial stocks. Sean also describes front companies allegedly downloading alien-derived mathematics from Area 51 that could increase broadband speeds ten thousand fold over phone lines.On geopolitics, Sean predicts a renewed Desert Storm triggered by Chinese military installations in Iraq, an Israeli apartheid state displacing Palestinians, and an Islamic confederation forming under Iranian leadership. He discusses the presidency of George W. Bush, referencing his 1998 on-air prediction that Bush would win but not complete his term, and describes a coming betrayal within the administration.

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March 5, 2001: The Final Warning - Kathleen Keating

Mar 52h 48mKathleen Keating

Art Bell speaks with investigative journalist Kathleen Keating about her book The Final Warning and its troubled publishing history, including 10,000 invoices lost by UPS for months and books mysteriously vanishing from shopping bags. Kathleen discusses her close relationship with the late Father Malachi Martin and their shared conviction that the Vatican released a false version of the Third Secret of Fatima in June 2000, designed to lull the public into complacency.Kathleen describes what she believes are coming chastisements including nuclear destruction of a major American city, a catastrophic Midwestern earthquake, and a Russian-Chinese invasion of the United States. She recounts her personal encounter with a figure she identifies as the Antichrist, who appeared uninvited in her fenced backyard in western Nebraska wearing an Armani suit while her guard dog stood frozen and unable to bark. A British author reportedly had a similar visit at her front door.The conversation covers Bible Code research revealing details about Dick Cheney's heart problems, a dramatic increase in demonic possession cases worldwide, and Kathleen's belief that the Antichrist operates through a UN-funded international organization. Art admits his own struggle to make the leap of faith required to accept the prophetic framework, even as he acknowledges the accelerating signs around him.

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March 6, 2001: Glass Tunnels on Mars - Richard C. Hoagland

Mar 61h 18mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell and Richard C. Hoagland examine stunning Mars Global Surveyor photographs showing what appears to be a translucent, ribbed tube structure approximately one mile long and 600 feet wide in a crevasse northwest of Cydonia. Richard argues the object's regular structural supports, sun glint off its surface, and silicon-rich Martian soil composition all point to an engineered glass tunnel, possibly part of an ancient transportation network now exposed by wind erosion of overlying ocean sediments.The discussion frames these images within a remarkable week of apparent disclosure. Sir Arthur C. Clarke stated publicly that he is fairly convinced large forms of life have been discovered on Mars, referencing photographs from JPL. Senator John Glenn, appearing on the sitcom Frasier, delivered an unscripted monologue about astronauts being told to stay quiet about strange things seen in space. Richard connects both statements to the 1959 Brookings Report, which recommended a generational program of public conditioning before revealing extraterrestrial contact.Richard speculates that biological engineering by an ancient Martian civilization could explain structures that appear both technological and organic. He outlines how a manned Mars mission could cost as little as ten billion dollars using nuclear-powered MHD plasma engines, and suggests President Bush's trillion-dollar contingency fund may quietly include such plans.

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March 7, 2001: Cloning - Brian Alexander | Open Lines | Antichrist Letter

Mar 72h 51mBrian Alexander

Art Bell opens with a brief update from Kathleen Keating on the firestorm surrounding her identification of the Antichrist, then reads a lengthy and unsettling letter from a man in North Vancouver who claims to hold that title himself. The show transitions to a conversation about the Mir space station's impending reentry and the mutant fungus growing aboard it that Russian scientists warn could pose a genuine biological threat upon reaching Earth.In the second segment, journalist Brian Alexander from Wired Magazine joins to discuss his six-month investigation into human cloning. He explains that a true genetic copy is impossible due to mitochondrial DNA from the donor egg, that cloning may have already occurred accidentally during standard fertility procedures, and that infertile couples are the primary clients seeking this technology. Alexander warns that 95 to 97 percent of animal cloning attempts still end in failure.Open lines round out the broadcast with callers weighing in on school shootings, the nature of evil, and the Alternative 3 broadcast. A caller from Hawaii shares a ghost encounter with his recently deceased grandfather, and Art fields questions about everything from ham radio to the prospect of interviewing the alleged Antichrist.

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March 8, 2001: Psychoactive and Healing Plants - Dr. Dennis McKenna

Mar 83h 32mDr. Dennis McKenna

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland to discuss the growing controversy over Senator John Glenn's UFO-related remarks on the television comedy Frasier. Hoagland reports that the show's production company claims Glenn approached them, not the other way around, and argues the statement functions as a trial balloon for disclosure. NBC posts partial video clips online, and Hoagland notes that two major newspaper reporters plan to investigate further.Dr. Dennis McKenna, brother of the late Terence McKenna, then joins for a wide-ranging discussion on psychoactive plants and ethnopharmacology. Dennis reflects on his brother's legacy and expresses gratitude for listener support during Terence's illness. He explains the pharmacology of DMT and ayahuasca, how Amazonian peoples combine two plants to make DMT orally active, and describes his fieldwork in Peru and Colombia during the 1970s and 1980s.The conversation turns to the war on drugs, where Dennis argues for distinguishing between plants and purified compounds. He discusses endogenous DMT in the human brain, Rick Strassman's research showing a spike in DMT production on the 49th day of fetal development, and the possible connection between naturally occurring tryptamines and near-death experiences.

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March 12, 2001: The Case for NASA's UFOs - David Sereda & James Oberg

Mar 122h 45mDavid Sereda, James Oberg

David Sereda joins Art Bell to discuss Evidence 2001 and NASA shuttle UFO footage, with NASA mission-control veteran James Oberg joining later as a self-described debunker. Art also presents what he calls the best ghost photograph ever submitted to the program, showing a half-materialized figure on a Montreal sidewalk. He covers the Mir space station's mutant fungus, mysterious ice rings appearing across Canada, and Wall Street's sharp decline. Reports of a massive orange orb sighting near Las Vegas and the Radio and Records convention in Los Angeles round out the first hours.Sereda explains that the shuttle's black-and-white video cameras detect light in the near-ultraviolet spectrum, making visible phenomena the human eye cannot see. He details Dr. Louis Frank's discovery of millions of apparent water balls entering Earth's atmosphere and Dr. Joseph Nooth's confirmation that these objects appear only in ultraviolet wavelengths.Sereda focuses on the 1996 STS-75 tether incident, arguing that disc-shaped objects passing behind the 12-mile-long tether measure two to three miles in diameter. He connects the pulsing, notched disc shape to ancient dropa stones found on the Tibetan-Chinese border and to the Dogon tribe's knowledge of the Sirius star system, suggesting a connection spanning thousands of years.

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March 13, 2001: Ancient Cosmology - Dr. Richard L. Thompson

Mar 132h 47mDr. Richard L. Thompson

Mathematician Dr. Richard L. Thompson, co-author of Forbidden Archaeology, joins Art Bell to discuss ancient cosmology, Vedic cosmography, and Mysteries of the Sacred Universe after an electromagnetic event knocks the previous night's broadcast off the air. Art describes the incident as an attack on the valley confirmed by dead microwave frequencies across multiple bands. He also discusses mysterious ice circles appearing in Canada and shares photographs on his website.Dr. Thompson presents findings from his book Mysteries of the Sacred Universe, revealing that an ancient Indian text appearing to describe a flat earth actually contains an accurate map of the solar system. The planetary orbit dimensions encoded in the text match modern astronomical data with odds of roughly one in 20,000 of occurring by chance. He connects these measurements to ancient Egyptian units of length that correspond precisely to subdivisions of latitude, suggesting both civilizations shared advanced geodetic knowledge.The discussion expands to evidence of cyclical rises and falls of civilization, the planetary alignment on the traditional flood date of February 18, 3102 BC, and ancient Indian literature describing flying machines and hydraulic automata such as automatic door openers. Thompson argues that dark ages caused by climate change or drought periodically destroyed the institutional frameworks needed to preserve scientific knowledge, leaving only fragmentary traces behind.

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March 14, 2001: Chemtrails - William Thomas | UFO Reports - Peter Davenport

Mar 142h 51mWilliam Thomas, Peter Davenport

Investigative journalist William Thomas joins Art Bell to discuss chemtrails, while Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center addresses orange UFO reports over Nevada and elsewhere. Art reads a report from a Nevada political figure describing a hunter-orange orb over the Spring Mountains that separated into six objects and recombined twice before vanishing. Davenport confirms a surge of similar orange-colored sightings across the Pacific Northwest, Puget Sound, and Wisconsin, suggesting a possible UFO flap is underway.Thomas returns to present what he calls a breakthrough in chemtrail credibility. Victoria, British Columbia resident Mark Porter shares his experience calling the local airport authority about intense aerial grid patterns over his city. The program plays a recorded voicemail from Terry Stewart, Manager of Airport Planning and Environment at Victoria International Airport, confirming the activity as a joint U.S. and Canadian military exercise and calling it "very odd." This marks the first official acknowledgment that the persistent plumes are not normal airline contrails.Thomas presents lab results showing aluminum levels seven times above Canada's maximum permissible safe levels in rainwater collected beneath chemtrail activity. He connects this to a 1994 Hughes Aircraft patent and Lawrence Livermore Lab studies proposing stratospheric aluminum spraying to reflect sunlight and counteract global warming, estimating the program cost at one billion dollars annually.

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March 15, 2001: Natural Magic - Dr. Evelyn Paglini

Mar 152h 36mDr. Evelyn Paglini

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a practitioner of natural magic rooted in the ancient Italian Strega tradition. Initiated at age four by her grandfather, Paglini describes a lineage she claims stretches back tens of thousands of years, predating Egyptian and Greek civilizations. She distinguishes her practice from Wicca, noting that while Wiccans follow a creed to harm none, Strega practitioners believe in justified retaliation against those who attack them or their families.The conversation covers psychic self-defense in detail, including cleansing rituals using black salt, sea salt, sulfur, and herbs like sage and rosemary. Paglini explains how practitioners can set up protective shields and mirror spells to reverse negative energy back to its sender. She discusses the use of familiars, particularly cats, as spiritual guardians and watchers prized for their heightened sensitivity.Art and Paglini examine the darker aspects of organized ritual magic, including secret societies that use ceremonial practices to manipulate and control populations. They also address President Bush's controversial stance against recognizing Wicca as a legitimate religion and debate the growing influence of evil forces in modern society, from school shootings to institutional corruption.

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March 16, 2001: Alien in the Freezer - Dr. Jonathan Reed

Mar 163h 28mDr. Jonathan Reed

Dr. Jonathan Reed returns to Art Bell with Robert Rafe for the controversial "alien in the freezer" story after Robert Steenson's report on Dean Kamen's "Ginger" device. Steenson reveals what he believes is the true identity of the mysterious invention known as "Ginger" or "IT." Using secretly recorded video from a private engineering convention and a photograph of Kamen with President Clinton, Steenson identifies the device as the iBot Transporter, a revolutionary self-balancing wheelchair that rides on just two wheels using gyroscopic servos.Reed recounts his October 1996 encounter in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, where he claims a creature killed his golden retriever by ripping the dog apart before Reed struck it with a branch. He describes the aftermath, including crippling sickness, close-up photographs of the being, and a mysterious obelisk found nearby.Art examines the photographs and evidence, noting that the story falls into a category where the evidence is considered too good for many skeptics to accept. Reed describes ongoing threats to his safety, having lived in his car and faced multiple assaults since the alleged encounter.

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March 19, 2001: SETI - Dr. Seth Shostak

Mar 192h 32mDr. Seth Shostak

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute, fresh from a research run at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Shostak describes the search process, including how the system monitors 28 million channels across two polarizations to detect narrow-band signals that could indicate an extraterrestrial transmitter. He recounts a brief moment of excitement during the latest run when a signal turned out to be an orbiting satellite, a common source of false alarms.The discussion turns to optical SETI, a newer approach using telescopes to detect laser pulses from other civilizations. Shostak explains that a powerful laser could momentarily outshine our sun as seen from a nearby star, making detection possible with modest equipment. He also previews the Allen Telescope Array, a planned instrument that could observe stars 100 to 1,000 times faster than current methods, potentially surveying millions of star systems.Art and Shostak debate the probability that advanced civilizations may have evolved beyond biology into machine intelligence, raising the possibility that first contact could be with artificial minds rather than biological beings. They also spar over whether the government would suppress a confirmed detection, with Art arguing secrecy would prevail and Shostak maintaining transparency.

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March 20, 2001: Remote Energy Clearing - Ginny Porter & Diana Burney

Mar 202h 47mGinny Porter, Diana Burney

Art Bell opens with an extended monologue on the California energy crisis and rolling blackouts, criticizing every administration from Reagan through Bush for failing to invest in solar, wind, and alternative power sources. He argues that even modest adoption of existing technology could resolve the shortfall at the margins and calls the lack of leadership on the issue criminal negligence.Guests Ginny Porter and Diana Burney of Earth Release join from Jacksonville, Florida, to discuss their work in remote energy clearing. They describe removing over 80 categories of negative entities from people, homes, and businesses, including curses, demonic energies, fragmented souls, and off-planet influences. Porter, who has practiced since 1992, confirms Gordon Michael Scallion's 1994 prediction of an exponential increase in astral entities creating psychic disturbances.The pair shares notable cases, including clearing the Versace mansion in Miami, which sold within five weeks of their work for $19 million after sitting on the market for a year. They discuss how animals, especially cats, absorb negative energy to protect their owners, and explain the difference between healthy grief and pathological attachment that can keep departed souls earthbound.

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March 21, 2001: Animal Mutilations - Linda Moulton Howe

Mar 212h 47mLinda Moulton Howe

Researcher and reporter Linda Moulton Howe, introduced for her crop-circle and animal-mutilation work, joins Art Bell with a report on the USDA seizure of 233 Vermont sheep over prion-disease concerns. Art also surveys a cascade of troubling headlines, from foot-and-mouth disease spreading to the Netherlands and mad cow fears reaching Vermont, to stock markets in freefall and rolling blackouts threatening to spread beyond California. He describes the convergence of crises as evidence of an accelerating quickening, noting that just months earlier, the nation seemed prosperous and secure.Howe covers the USDA's seizure of 233 sheep from Vermont farmers whose animals tested positive for antibodies to transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. She interviews USDA veterinarian Dr. Linda Detweiler, who reveals that definitive testing to determine whether the sheep carry BSE, scrapie, or another prion disease will take two to three years, requiring mouse inoculation studies. Howe explains how prions resist destruction by ordinary burning and require autoclaving with bleach for hours.The conversation shifts to Howe's new book, Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles, as she presents eyewitness accounts of luminous phenomena emerging from crop formations. She describes a 1994 incident near Avebury where a Swiss researcher watched four successive lights rise from a formation, one taking a transparent rectangular shape that moved toward observers before retreating when it seemed to sense their fear.

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March 22, 2001: Infinite Energy - Dr. Eugene Mallove & Richard C. Hoagland | Fall of Mir - Steve "Dr. Sky" Kates

Mar 222h 42mDr. Eugene Mallove, Richard C. Hoagland, Steve "Dr. Sky" Kates

Art Bell opens the show with the dramatic deorbiting of Russia's Mir space station, which plunged into the South Pacific just minutes before airtime. Astronomer Steve "Dr. Sky" Kates joins to discuss the fiery reentry, the mysterious fungus that thrived aboard Mir by consuming titanium, and what happens when that organism reaches the nutrient-rich ocean.Dr. Eugene Mallove, editor of Infinite Energy magazine, and Richard C. Hoagland then take center stage to discuss the suppression of cold fusion research. Mallove reveals that MIT fudged its 1989 calorimetry data, shifting positive results to appear negative, while Caltech fumbled basic algebra in its analysis. He presents findings from the 8th International Conference on Cold Fusion showing Mitsubishi Heavy Industries confirmed nuclear transmutation in laboratory conditions.The conversation turns to the economics of space exploration, with Hoagland and Mallove lamenting that billions of dollars in orbital infrastructure were allowed to burn up for political reasons. They argue that cold fusion could power ion engines for solar system travel and that NASA resists private space tourism to maintain institutional control.

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March 23, 2001: Antichrist & Time Traveler Lines

Mar 233h 31m

Art Bell dedicates the evening to open lines with two restricted phone lines: one for callers claiming to be the Antichrist and another for time travelers. He reasons that if time travel is ever invented, travelers from the future would logically exist in the present. Multiple self-proclaimed Antichrists phone in with wildly different personas, from a San Diego man who speaks of a coming spiritual awakening to a caller with a sinister voice who identifies as a son of Lucifer.The time traveler calls prove equally memorable. One caller claims to be reaching the show from 2008 via the internet, predicting Bush will win a second term and that mad cow fears will reduce beef consumption by 30 to 40 percent. He fades out mid-sentence in a way Art finds genuinely unsettling. Another caller from 2008 warns of nationwide rolling blackouts and claims 90 percent of the population carries a variant of mad cow disease.Between calls, Art covers headlines including another school shooting near San Diego, a massive crack forming in Antarctic ice, stock market declines, and growing fears about mad cow and foot-and-mouth disease. The atmosphere of mounting real-world crises gives the stranger calls an eerie resonance.

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March 27, 2001: Technology Failures - Matthew Stein

Mar 272h 54mMatthew Stein

Art Bell welcomes engineer and author Matthew Stein to discuss his book "When Technology Fails," a comprehensive guide to self-reliance when modern systems break down. The conversation opens with real-world examples of technological vulnerability, including California's record electricity rate hikes, the unreported nuclear accident at San Onofre that likely caused the state's rolling blackouts, and a mysterious electromagnetic pulse in Bremerton, Washington that disabled thousands of keyless car entries.Stein, who holds degrees from MIT and Harvard, explains that he received the concept for his book during a flash of intuitive inspiration during meditation. He covers renewable energy options for homeowners, from solar panels and wind turbines to micro-hydro systems using backyard creeks. He also discusses bio-intensive farming methods developed by John Jevons that use one-fifth the water of conventional agriculture and can transform arid land into productive gardens.The discussion touches on the fragility of interconnected systems, from nuclear reactors with single-point failures to antibiotic-resistant bacteria bred through livestock overmedication. Art and Matthew agree that the pendulum of technological dependence is swinging and that within a decade, current disruptions will seem mild by comparison.

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March 29, 2001: Wacky 911 Calls - Leland Gregory

Mar 292h 45mLeland Gregory

Art Bell welcomes author and former 911 dispatcher Leland Gregory to share recordings from his CD "Wacky 911" and stories from his book "What's the Number for 911?" Gregory, a former writer for Saturday Night Live and co-author of the bestseller "America's Dumbest Criminals," spent years cultivating an underground network of dispatchers who traded their most memorable calls.The recordings range from absurd to touching. A man stuck in a pool pump for three hours requires an industrial lubricant for extraction. A robbery victim, bound and gagged, desperately tries to communicate his address while operators ask him to spell it. A lonely elderly woman calls 911 because she cannot open her beer bottles, and the dispatcher kindly sends a police officer to help. The "Joe vs. the Deer" call features a motorist trapped in a phone booth by both a deer and a dog after a chaotic roadside encounter.Gregory, who spent a year as a dispatcher in Monterey County, explains the dark humor that sustains people in the profession. He notes that cell phones have created a major burden on 911 centers, with hundreds of callers reporting the same fender bender and accidental pocket dials flooding emergency lines.

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March 30, 2001: Richard C. Hoagland

Mar 305mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell and Richard C. Hoagland share a remarkable night of live observation as a massive solar storm produces aurora borealis visible across the United States, extending far south of its usual range. Hoagland, calling from 8,000 feet in the Manzano Mountains of New Mexico, describes brilliant blue-green curtains and deep red streamers stretching past the zenith and into the southern sky, bright enough to see color despite the limitations of nighttime vision.Art watches from the high desert of Nevada, observing sections of red sky sweeping from east to west while Hoagland reports waves of color moving in the opposite direction. The display results from a coronal mass ejection launched by a sunspot complex 16 times the size of Earth, sitting at 19.5 degrees north solar latitude, a position Hoagland connects to his hyperdimensional physics model. Charged particles from the eruption spiral along Earth's magnetic field lines and cascade into the atmosphere, exciting nitrogen and oxygen to produce the colors.Both men urge listeners to wake their families and go outside, calling this a once-in-a-lifetime event at the peak of the solar cycle. Hoagland suggests the display will continue through the night as particles continue streaming past Earth.

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April 2, 2001: HAARP - Nick Begich

Apr 22h 50mNick Begich

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Nick Begich to discuss the HAARP installation in Alaska and the broader world of electromagnetic weapons technology. Begich explains how the phased antenna array focuses radio frequency energy into concentrated beams capable of achieving an effective radiated power of up to a billion watts. He details the differences between HAARP, the nearby High Pass facility, and similar installations operating in Russia and China.The conversation covers mysterious signals detected on shortwave frequencies, including transmissions on 3.39 MHz that HAARP officials denied producing. Begich describes how pulsed electromagnetic energy can trigger releases in Earth's natural systems, raising questions about recent anomalous events including an electromagnetic disturbance in Pahrump and an earthquake in Washington state.Art opens the program with news of a record-breaking solar flare that saturated scientific instruments, earning the unofficial designation of an Omega Flare. He also addresses the U.S.-China spy plane standoff at Hainan Island, early reports on the shadow people phenomenon that generated over 2,000 listener emails, and DNA evidence from a possible Yeti specimen that British scientists cannot identify.

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April 3, 2001: Shroud of Turin - Dr. Gilbert Lavoie

Apr 33h 28mDr. Gilbert Lavoie

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Gilbert Lavoie, a medical doctor and internist who has spent years researching the Shroud of Turin. Lavoie presents his scientific analysis of the burial cloth, using his medical expertise to examine the bloodstain patterns and body image that appear on the linen. He argues that the evidence supports the shroud's authenticity as the actual burial cloth of Jesus Christ.The discussion covers Lavoie's methodology for studying the shroud, including his experiments recreating body positions and blood flow patterns to match the markings on the cloth. He addresses common objections such as the controversial 1988 carbon dating results that placed the shroud in the medieval period, explaining why he believes those findings are flawed or incomplete.Art also updates listeners on the massive solar activity that narrowly missed Earth, noting the planet dodged what could have been a catastrophic electromagnetic event. He continues tracking the shadow people phenomenon, reporting that emails on the subject have now surpassed 3,500, and shares a story from England about hair samples from a possible Yeti that have stumped DNA analysts.

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April 4, 2001: Fuzzy Science - Bart Kosko

Apr 42h 48mBart Kosko

Art Bell interviews Professor Bart Kosko, an electrical engineering professor at USC and author of "Heaven in a Chip," about fuzzy logic, digital immortality, and the future of computing. Kosko explains how fuzzy logic enables computers to reason in shades of gray rather than strict binary, a technology already embedded in automobile transmissions, camcorders, and industrial control systems worldwide.The discussion explores the possibility of backing up an entire human brain onto a chip the size of a sugar cube, achieving a form of digital immortality. Kosko, who wears a cryonics bracelet and holds a cryo-suspension contract with the Alcor Foundation, discusses neural networks, biological computing, and how intelligent signal processing could reshape society, from tax policy to genetic design of children.The first hour features a major chemtrails investigation. Reporter Tiffany Brent and researcher Will Thomas present taped interviews with an anonymous air traffic control manager who confirms that unusual aerial operations involved military tanker aircraft and were described to him as weather modification exercises. The source reports being ordered to reroute civilian air traffic during these operations.

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April 5, 2001: The Shadow People, OBEs - Dr. Albert Taylor

Apr 52h 40mDr. Albert Taylor

Art Bell welcomes Albert Taylor, aerospace engineer turned consciousness researcher, to discuss out-of-body experiences and their possible connection to the shadow people phenomenon. Taylor, who worked on the Lockheed U-2, SR-71, the F-117 stealth fighter design team, and the B-1 bomber program, describes how childhood sleep paralysis episodes eventually led him to explore OBEs through a scientific lens.Taylor explains that shadow people sightings likely involve three categories of beings: the living who are having OBEs, the deceased who exist in a non-physical state, and entities existing between lives. He describes how the physical senses operate on a vibratory level that makes these figures visible primarily in peripheral vision, where sensory focus is relaxed. As a person nears death, their physical senses diminish and perception of these shadow figures becomes clearer and more detailed.Taylor shares personal accounts including his uncle seeing a smiling figure in a hospital room days before dying, and a friend's near-death experience where non-physical beings surrounded him and offered passage. Art recounts his own spontaneous OBE above Paris, describing an indescribable ecstasy before snapping back into his body.

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April 6, 2001: Remote Viewing Predictions - Ed Dames

Apr 62h 46mEd Dames

Art Bell brings Major Ed Dames back to discuss remote viewing predictions and global threats. Dames identifies the recent record-breaking solar flare as the "shot across the bow" he had previously predicted, a precursor event to what his remote viewing team calls the "kill shot," a future solar event capable of causing widespread destruction and loss of life. He warns that the next major solar event will be the kill shot itself.Dames revisits his prediction from 14 years earlier about dying babies, originally interpreted as a disease in cow's milk. He now clarifies that the actual threat is the elimination of cows entirely through disease, leaving no milk for infants. He connects this to the mad cow crisis devastating European agriculture and predicts a subsequent worldwide die-off of food crops caused by a fast-spreading fungus attacking grains and grasses.He also discusses the revival of the television series "In Search Of" for Fox, in which his Technical Remote Viewing Institute is featured in the first episode. A student named Aaron Donahue reportedly identified an unknown target by name during filming. Dames also reveals his team is actively working to locate a murdered child's body in Oregon, claiming positive identification of both the killer and the body's location.

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April 10, 2001: Death Bed Visions - Dr. Carla Willis-Brandon

Apr 102h 47mDr. Carla Willis-Brandon

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Carla Wills-Brandon, a licensed therapist and author, to discuss the phenomenon of deathbed visions. Unlike near-death experiences, deathbed visions occur specifically when a person is actively passing, often involving visitations from deceased relatives who appear with the purpose of easing the transition into death. Dr. Wills-Brandon shares her research, which draws on thousands of accounts spanning decades.The conversation examines the consistency of these visions across cultures, ages, and belief systems. Patients who are fully lucid and unmedicated report speaking with departed loved ones, sometimes identifying relatives whose deaths they had not been told about. Art shares his own experience of intuitively knowing the moment his father passed. Dr. Wills-Brandon also describes the "deathbed stare," where dying individuals appear to track invisible presences in the room, and cases where caregivers witness something leaving the body at the moment of death.The episode also features an opening segment with members of the Playboy Xtreme Team, who recount their harrowing experience completing the Eco Challenge endurance race in Borneo, surviving bat-infested caves, leeches, and a grueling 320-mile course through the jungle.

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April 11, 2001: UFOs, Crop Circles, & Ancient Sites - Paul Coulbeck

Apr 112h 52mPaul Coulbeck

Art Bell welcomes Canadian writer Paul Coulbeck, who investigated the extraordinary claims of Daniel Hammer, a French-Canadian carpenter who says he was abducted from his living room in 1975. According to Hammer, two humanoid beings took him aboard a granite-interior spacecraft, shrunk him to atomic size, and guided him through the workings of an energy frequency generator. The experience left him with detailed knowledge of how to build such a craft himself.Coulbeck describes visiting Hammer in Ontario, where he photographed the construction of a full-scale spacecraft built with stainless steel rings lined with precisely positioned magnets. Hammer had previously built two smaller models. The first exploded in his garage, and the second escaped into the sky when he lost control of it, knocking out power in the surrounding area. Newspaper reports and power outage records corroborate these incidents. After mysterious government agents searched his property, Hammer relocated to Ontario to continue his work.Art also discusses a growing listener phenomenon involving possible timeline manipulation, with hundreds of emails from people who recall historical events differently than recorded history, including vivid memories of Nelson Mandela dying in prison.

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April 12, 2001: Shadow People - Thunder Strikes | Monuments of Mars - Richard C. Hoagland

Apr 122h 40mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell opens with Richard C. Hoagland, who reveals photographs of the D&M pyramid region on Mars that appear to show Arabic script on the surface. Hoagland had held these images for three years at the request of a colleague. He presents two possibilities: either the lettering is genuinely on Mars, which would be an extraordinary discovery, or someone inserted it into the digital images during a suspicious 36-hour gap in the chain of custody at JPL. Hoagland also shares a new email from Sir Arthur C. Clarke expressing his conviction that vegetation exists on Mars.In the second segment, Art welcomes Thunder Strikes, a twisted-hairs elder of Cherokee and Irish descent, to address the shadow people phenomenon after receiving over 4,500 listener emails. Thunder Strikes describes these entities as inorganic beings from parallel dimensions that feed on negative human emotions in a vampiric manner. He explains that ancient records first documented them in 1153 B.C. and connects their increasing visibility to a prophesied period called the quickening, which began in 2001.Thunder Strikes notes that animals, particularly cats, have always been able to perceive these beings. He relates their growing presence to the acceleration of human metabolism and consciousness as described in the Rainbow Bridge Prophecies, which point toward a transformative period culminating in 2012.

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April 13, 2001: Ghost to Ghost

Apr 132h 16m

Art Bell hosts his beloved Ghost to Ghost edition on Good Friday, opening the phone lines exclusively for real ghost stories from listeners across the country. He sets the ground rules early: only serious, genuinely frightening accounts will make the cut, and quality ghost photographs can be submitted to his webmaster for posting on the website's growing gallery.Callers share a remarkable range of experiences. A man in Indiana recalls his sister being grabbed at her feet by an unseen force at Fort Meade, while he felt something breathing directly into his face. A woman in Oregon describes a dark entity that announced "I want you" to her husband, and a house fire that destroyed the upper floor also eliminated years of paranormal activity linked to the previous tenants' witchcraft books. In California, a former high school filmmaker recounts a courthouse haunting where objects moved on their own, cell doors slammed shut, and a statue of justice opened and closed its eyes while he watched.Other stories include a man whose deceased brother communicates through flickering lights and a radio that played one song at the funeral before going permanently silent, and a listener whose recording equipment turns itself on and off while his hair was set on fire by an invisible presence.

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April 16, 2001: Solar Events - David Wilcock | Radio - Harold Ort

Apr 162h 50mDavid Wilcock, Harold Ort

Art Bell opens with David Wilcock, a specialist in theoretical science, to discuss alarming solar activity. Two massive coronal mass ejections have narrowly missed Earth, including one estimated at X-22 intensity, the largest ever recorded, which saturated monitoring equipment. Wilcock explains that the sun's magnetic field has increased 230 percent since 1901 and presents research from Russian astrophysicist Dr. Alexei Dmitriev showing that all planets in the solar system are exhibiting energetic changes, including magnetic pole shifts on Neptune and Uranus.Wilcock draws correlations between sunspot cycle peaks and economic downturns, social upheaval, and severe weather, pointing to the devastating tornadoes that recently struck the Midwest during heightened solar activity. He discusses anomalous tornado phenomena where matter appears to change phase, with objects passing through solid walls without damage. He frames these events within ancient prophecies describing a transformative period for human consciousness and suggests that a magnetic pole reversal may be approaching.In the second half, Art speaks with Harold Ort, editor of Popular Communications magazine, about the state of radio technology. They discuss the frustrations of digital cell phones, the appeal of illegal cell phone jammers, the demise of low-power FM radio at the hands of the NAB, shortwave pirate radio stations, and the promise of solar energy for powering home radio equipment.

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April 17, 2001: Pole Shift and Earth Changes - Gordon Michael Scallion

Apr 172h 47mGordon Michael Scallion

Art Bell welcomes futurist and intuitive Gordon Michael Scallion to discuss the possibility of an imminent pole shift and accelerating earth changes. Scallion describes the layers beneath the Earth's crust, comparing them to the layers of the atmosphere, and explains how these boundaries move at different speeds. When they get stuck and release, he warns, the lithosphere itself could slip over the layer beneath it.Scallion shares a vivid vision in which he watched the sun rapidly cross the sky in an unnatural direction during summer, followed by intense winds. He interprets this as the crust displacing rather than the entire planet tilting, drawing parallels to the cataclysm that flash-froze the mammoths roughly 12,000 years ago. He points to the current record-breaking sunspot cycle and declining magnetic field as warning signs.The conversation also covers the unprecedented solar flare activity of cycle 23, the relationship between solar energy and El Nino events, and the Chandler wobble. Art notes aurora borealis visible across the mid-latitudes that very evening, adding real-time synchronicity to Scallion's forecast of a volatile summer ahead.

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April 18, 2001: Alien Abduction Phenomenon - John Mack

Apr 181h 25mJohn Mack

Art Bell sits down with Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John Mack, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose research into alien encounters drew intense scrutiny from the academic establishment. Dr. Mack recounts how publishing his findings in 1994 led to a 15-month investigation by Harvard, which ended only when his legal team, led by attorney Danny Sheehan, prepared to mount a full defense with witnesses and affidavits.Dr. Mack argues that the abduction phenomenon signals a broader shift in human consciousness. He connects the increasing frequency of encounter reports to the ecological crisis, suggesting that beings from other dimensions may be reaching out as humanity threatens the web of life on Earth. He notes that indigenous cultures worldwide accept such encounters as normal, while Western society has narrowed its perception of reality over the past 300 years.The discussion turns to a proposed public tribunal featuring three retired federal judges to formally examine the evidence for alien contact. Dr. Mack also addresses the sexual dimensions of the phenomenon, praising experiencer Pamela Stonebrook for her courage, and emphasizes that not a single encounter case has shown evidence of malevolent intent comparable to human violence.

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April 19, 2001: Near Death Experiences - Dannion Brinkley | DNA Genome Pattern - Zecharia Sitchin

Apr 193h 30mDannion Brinkley, Zecharia Sitchin

Art Bell speaks with ancient astronaut theorist Zecharia Sitchin, who reveals that the recently completed human genome project identified 223 genes that cannot be traced through normal evolutionary progression from bacteria to vertebrates. Sitchin notes that the science editor of Newsweek labeled these "alien genes," a finding that aligns with his translations of Sumerian clay tablets describing genetic engineering by the Anunnaki some 300,000 years ago. He also exposes a sentence about extraterrestrial intelligence that was removed between editions of a New York Times article on intelligent design theory.In the second half, Dannion Brinkley shares his extraordinary near-death experience after being struck by lightning in 1975. He describes floating above his body, observing the energy fields of paramedics and plants, and entering a tunnel where he underwent a full panoramic life review. Brinkley recounts feeling every emotion he ever caused in others and confronting the consequences of his violent past as a former military operative.Both guests challenge conventional understandings of human origins and the afterlife. Sitchin connects ancient texts to modern genetics while Brinkley offers firsthand testimony of consciousness surviving physical death, each pointing toward dimensions of existence beyond mainstream acceptance.

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April 20, 2001: Open Lines - Truth or Trash - Sarah's NDE

Apr 202h 54m

Art Bell opens with a firsthand account from Grant Cameron in Winnipeg, who reveals he was the caller who asked Vice President Dick Cheney about UFOs on the Diane Rehm Show. Cameron details Cheney's response that any such briefing would be classified, and points out that a congressional letter of inquiry about UFOs had already been sent to the Vice President, contradicting his claim of not encountering the subject since returning to government.The program features a replay of Sarah's near-death experience from February 1999, widely considered one of the most detailed NDE accounts ever broadcast. After being struck by a pickup truck while bicycling home from church volunteer work, Sarah flatlined five times over three days. She describes passing through a black void where flaming demonic creatures charged through her body, then entering a cloud tunnel lined with doorways opening onto different realms, including a graphic depiction of hell and a world of isolated, depressed souls.Sarah recounts discovering a luminous paradise she could not enter because she lacked "the information," then merging with a great light filled with overwhelming joy. Art plays the controversial recording allegedly captured from the deepest borehole in Siberia, and Sarah confirms it matched the sounds from the hellish realm she witnessed.

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April 23, 2001: Nanotechnology - Mark Pesce & Richard C. Hoagland

Apr 232h 55mMark Pesce, Richard C. Hoagland

Art Bell interviews technologist and author Mark Pesce about the rapidly approaching nanotechnology revolution and its potential to reshape civilization within a generation. Pesce explains that molecular-scale machines could eliminate disease, end hunger by converting raw soil into food, and extend human lifespans. He describes how nanobots built from atomic-level components would operate like miniature mechanical computers, millions of times faster than anything available today, with functional prototypes expected within a decade.The conversation turns to the darker possibilities, including the notorious "grey goo" scenario in which self-replicating nanobots consume all matter on Earth's surface within approximately 48 hours. Pesce reveals that nanotechnology researchers discuss this threat privately but downplay it publicly to avoid alarming the public. He notes that the basic tools for nanotechnology are relatively inexpensive, meaning even individuals working from home could eventually build dangerous devices.Pesce also explores how nanotechnology will blur the line between physical reality and simulation, noting that video game graphics are improving at eight times the rate of Moore's Law. He warns that military applications, genome-targeted weapons, and the displacement of entire economic systems built on material scarcity represent challenges that current social evolution may not be prepared to handle.

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April 24, 2001: Lake Vostok - Richard C. Hoagland

Apr 2419mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland to discuss alarming developments at Antarctica's Lake Vostok. An email from a former Navy radio operator who wintered at McMurdo in 1972-73 confirms that illness during this season is virtually unheard of, raising serious questions about why personnel are now critically sick.Hoagland reports that sources in New Zealand have confirmed two U.S. workers are hospitalized in Christchurch in critical but stable condition, yet the hospital cannot account for their exact location. The mysterious request to "fill your pockets with salt" draws a connection to nuclear industry protocols, where iodized salt substitutes for iodine tablets during radiation emergencies.The discussion turns to a 1972 U.S. patent for a nuclear tunneling machine capable of melting through rock and ice, raising the possibility that a clandestine drilling operation at Vostok may have exposed workers to radiation. Hoagland notes that bacteria discovered thriving in the frozen lake in 1998 included never-before-seen microbes, adding another layer of mystery to what is unfolding at the bottom of the world.

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April 25, 2001: Recovered UFO & Alien Bodies - Deek Richards & James Gilliland

Apr 253h 0mDeek Richards, James Gilliland

Art Bell interviews Deek Richards, a self-described Army veteran who claims to have participated in the recovery of a crashed non-human craft near the Fulda Gap in Germany during the 1982 Reforger exercises. Richards describes a triangular craft with rounded edges buried halfway into the earth, five small gray beings in black leotard-like suits, and a strong ammonia smell emanating from the bodies.Richards details the three-day recovery operation involving wreckers, bulldozers, and personnel with no military insignia giving orders. He describes tubes protruding from a gash in the craft that oozed a luminescent green substance visible at night, and metal that would repair its own dents within seconds. The craft was loaded onto a 60-foot flatbed, disguised with lumber framing, and transported under cover of darkness.Richard C. Hoagland then provides an Antarctic update, reporting that sources confirm a container ship carrying 138 truckloads of equipment departed for McMurdo. James Gilliland joins later to discuss his near-death experience and ongoing UFO research at his ranch in Washington state.

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April 26, 2001: Deek Richards - Linda Moulton Howe | Antarctica - Richard C. Hoagland

Apr 2640mLinda Moulton Howe, Richard C. Hoagland

Art Bell opens with Linda Moulton Howe, who reveals that the previous night's guest, Deek Richards, has confessed his UFO crash retrieval story was a hoax. Howe discovered that Richards is the same caller who fabricated a JPL story years earlier under the name Kent. Art and Linda discuss whether his repeated pattern of elaborate lies followed by immediate confession suggests deeper motivations.Howe then presents testimony from Sergio Arellano, a retired master sergeant who witnessed a massive helmet-shaped craft over Mannheim, Germany, in April 1986. Arellano describes the object as liquid and solid simultaneously, resembling mercury, observed by roughly 1,600 military personnel. He recalls three small white objects merging into the craft from different directions before the military dismissed the sighting as space debris.Richard C. Hoagland provides a major Antarctic update, reporting that JPL scientist Dr. Frank Carsey has confirmed on the record that the NSA previously funded operations in the polar regions. Hoagland also notes the evacuated South Pole doctor walked off his rescue plane appearing healthy, refused media interviews, and showed no signs of the serious illness that justified his unprecedented winter extraction.

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April 26, 2001: Lake Vostok Magnetic Anomaly - Richard C. Hoagland

Apr 2619mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell brings back Richard C. Hoagland for a focused discussion on the deepening mystery surrounding Antarctica's Lake Vostok. A former Navy radio operator who served at McMurdo in the early 1970s writes in to confirm that winter crew illness is essentially unheard of, casting doubt on official explanations for the emergency medical evacuations.Hoagland reveals that Raytheon's general manager has confirmed two American personnel are in critical but stable condition at Christchurch Hospital in New Zealand, yet hospital staff report confusion about where the patients are located. A listener with nuclear industry experience suggests the urgent request for salt is code for radiation exposure, as iodized salt can substitute for iodine tablets to protect the thyroid.The conversation examines a patented nuclear tunneling machine designed to melt through rock and ice, technology developed by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in the early 1970s. Hoagland and Art consider whether a secret drilling operation may have breached the lake and exposed workers to radiation, violating international treaties banning nuclear activity on the continent.

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April 30, 2001: Phenomenon of ET Identity - David Wilcock & Dr. Scott Mandelker

Apr 302h 48mDavid Wilcock, Dr. Scott Mandelker

Art Bell hosts Dr. Scott Mandelker and David Wilcock for an expansive discussion on what they call the Time of Global Shift. Wilcock presents data showing a 230 percent increase in the sun's magnetic field strength since 1901, a 500 percent rise in worldwide volcanic activity since 1875, and a 400 percent increase in significant earthquakes since the mid-1970s.The guests connect these physical changes to the Bermuda Triangle and its Pacific counterpart, the Devil's Triangle off Japan, arguing that these vortex points represent areas where higher-dimensional energy bleeds through Earth's geometric energy grid. Wilcock describes a National Airlines flight that vanished from radar for ten minutes, with every clock and watch on the plane found to be exactly ten minutes slow upon landing in Miami.Dr. Mandelker introduces the concept of ET souls or wanderers, beings who have incarnated on Earth from higher densities of existence. Both guests point to the Mayan calendar endpoint near 2012 and channeled material suggesting that Earth is approaching an energetic transition into what they term fourth density, a transformation they believe will fundamentally alter both the planet and human consciousness.

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May 1, 2001: Psychic Healing - Alan Mesher | Antarctica, Mars - Richard C. Hoagland

May 12h 50mAlan Mesher, Richard C. Hoagland

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland for an update on the mysterious events unfolding in Antarctica, including the strange rescue flight from the South Pole and the revelation that the NSA has maintained a presence on the continent for decades. Hoagland also discusses the Dennis Tito space tourism controversy, NASA's resistance to civilian access, and the suspicious simultaneous crash of all space station computers just before Tito's arrival.The conversation turns to the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which captured an image of Antarctica as it departed Earth, and the implications of what may lie beneath Lake Vostok. Hoagland shares details about the PAX TV Mars special and addresses criticism from fellow researchers in the field.In the second half, healer and author Alan Mesher joins Art to discuss the purpose of life, the tension between material success and spiritual growth, and the concept of a planetary "cusp period" of chaos and transformation. Mesher describes his healing work and shares a past-life regression case involving a woman with cervical cancer.

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May 2, 2001: Climate Change - Dr. Peter D. Ward

May 22h 54mDr. Peter D. Ward

Art Bell welcomes Professor Peter D. Ward, a geological sciences professor at the University of Washington, to discuss his book Rivers in Time and the search for clues to Earth's mass extinctions. Ward presents evidence from ice core records showing that catastrophic climate shifts can occur in as little as ten years, with the potential to plunge Europe into a devastating ice age through disruption of Atlantic Ocean circulation patterns.Ward explains how global warming could paradoxically trigger rapid cooling, threatening agriculture and potentially reducing world population from billions to three billion. He describes the relationship between glacial periods and extreme weather, including hundred-mile-per-hour winds that would make jet travel impossible. The professor shares his encounter with Edward Teller, who revealed concerns about nuclear weapons used for planetary defense and their atmospheric risks.The discussion covers the current rate of species extinction, which Ward says approaches the level seen during the dinosaur die-off 65 million years ago. He argues that while intelligent life is rare in the universe, humans are remarkably resilient and likely "extinction-proof" compared to other species on Earth.

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May 3, 2001: A Hellish NDE - Rev. Howard Storm

May 32h 52mRev. Howard Storm

Art Bell welcomes Reverend Howard Storm, a former atheist and art professor who describes his harrowing near-death experience during a medical emergency in Paris in 1985. After a perforation in his small intestine went untreated for hours in a French hospital with no surgeon available, Storm found himself standing beside his own body, feeling more alive than ever, with heightened senses and full physical presence.Shadowy beings in a dim hallway beckoned him to follow, leading him on what felt like an endless journey into complete darkness. A growing mob attacked him viciously, tearing at his body and tormenting him psychologically. Storm describes the assault as sadistic and personal, with the creatures delighting in his suffering. Curled up and broken, he discovered that any mention of God drove the attackers away.A desperate cry to Jesus brought a brilliant light that healed his wounds and filled him with indescribable peace. Beings of light showed him a review of his life, skipping his professional achievements to focus on moments where he failed to show compassion. They answered his questions freely, assuring him that nuclear war would never be permitted because the planet belongs to God.

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May 4, 2001: Disclosure Project, Government Coverups - Steven M. Greer

May 42h 51mDr. Steven M. Greer

Art Bell welcomes journalist Leslie Keane, who reports on a new study by retired NASA scientist Richard Haynes documenting over 100 cases where pilot UFO sightings affected aviation safety. TWA Captain Phil Schultz described a round silver craft with portholes that descended from above and nearly collided with his aircraft in 1981, writing "spaceship" in his official report. Keane discusses the systemic ridicule that prevents pilots from reporting encounters and the resistance she faces publishing serious UFO journalism.Dr. Steven M. Greer then joins to announce the upcoming Disclosure Project press conference at the National Press Club on May 9th, where over twenty military and intelligence witnesses will testify publicly. Among them is the fourth-ranking FAA official during the Reagan administration, who confirms a 1986 Alaska UFO incident was covered up after CIA agents declared the meeting "never happened" and confiscated evidence.Greer reveals testimony about UFOs disabling sixteen ICBMs at Malmstrom Air Force Base, weapons already deployed in space in violation of treaties, and Werner von Braun's warning that an alien threat would be fabricated to justify space weaponization. He urges citizens to write their representatives demanding open congressional hearings on the subject.

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May 7, 2001: Gesundheit! - Dr. Patch Adams

May 71h 25mDr. Patch Adams

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Patch Adams, the physician and social activist whose life inspired the Robin Williams film, for a wide-ranging conversation about health care, compassion, and American society. Adams, founder of the Gesundheit Institute, describes his 30-year mission to provide free medical care and his plan to build a full-scale hospital in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, where doctors and nurses would work for $3,000 a year.Adams shares his personal history, from growing up on army bases as a military child to voluntary psychiatric hospitalization at age 17 after struggling with racism, his father's death, and suicidal thoughts. He criticizes managed care as entirely negative, argues that malpractice insurance breeds fear and mistrust between doctors and patients, and notes that despite decades of practicing medicine without insurance, he was never sued.The conversation covers forced psychiatric incarceration, the case of Rodney Yoder held involuntarily for a decade in Illinois, and Adams's belief that 95 percent of Christians fail to live Christ's message of service. He challenges listeners to support his hospital project and confronts what he sees as a society that worships money and power at the expense of genuine human connection.

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May 8, 2001: The Brain - Neil Slade

May 82h 50mNeil Slade

Art Bell welcomes brain researcher Neil Slade for a wide-ranging discussion on the untapped potential of the human brain. The conversation centers on an extraordinary video of a Taoist physician in Indonesia known as "Dynamo Jack," who generates electricity from his own body, delivers shocks to a film crew, and sets a newspaper ablaze using only the energy from his hands.Slade explains how the amygdala and focused mental training allow individuals to harness incredible abilities, drawing parallels to Carlos Castaneda's teachings about projecting will from the belly. He introduces a new scientific discovery suggesting humans possess a second brain in the intestinal tract, an independent network of 100 billion nerve cells called the enteric nervous system, which may function as a biological transformer capable of stepping up the body's low-level electrical signals.The discussion also touches on brain pleasure centers, the concept of a one-hour "braingasm," and the remarkable power that lies between our ears. Art attempts to replicate the fire experiment with his lighter, burning Neil's bio and his own hand in the process.

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May 9, 2001: Son of a Grifter - Kent Walker

May 92h 51mKent Walker

Art Bell interviews Kent Walker, author of the national bestseller Son of a Grifter, about growing up with one of America's most notorious con artists. Walker describes how his mother, Sante Kimes, trained him to shoplift at age six, stole cars from dealerships, committed at least twelve arsons for insurance money, and was convicted of enslaving household workers through intimidation and locked doors.Walker recounts how his mother possessed extraordinary intelligence and charisma, could fool lie detector tests, and maintained multiple aliases simultaneously in a room full of people who each knew her by a different name. He traces his own break from the criminal lifestyle at age twelve after being caught stealing a surfboard, while his half-brother Kenny fell deeper under their mother's influence. The siblings took opposite paths, with Kent becoming a vacuum cleaner salesman and Kenny joining Sante in the long con.The conversation covers the final scheme to steal a Manhattan millionairess's $10 million townhouse, resulting in murder convictions without a body or physical evidence. Walker discusses his brother's 125-year sentence and his personal fight against the death penalty in the pending California case.

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May 10, 2001: The Watchers - Michael Heiser

May 101h 10mMichael Heiser

Art Bell speaks with Michael Heiser, a doctoral candidate specializing in divine beings in ancient Semitic texts, about the intersection of ufology, theology, and ancient languages. Heiser presents his novel The Facade, which explores what would happen if intelligent extraterrestrial life were revealed to mainstream Western religions, and argues that the Hebrew Bible contains a divine council of multiple beings beneath a singular supreme God.Heiser challenges Zecharia Sitchin's translations of key terms like Nephilim and Elohim, demonstrating through Hebrew and Akkadian grammar that several of Sitchin's foundational claims contain errors a first-year language student would recognize. He shows that the plural word Elohim frequently functions as a singular noun and that Sitchin's translation of Nephilim as "people of the fiery rockets" requires changing the spelling of the original word.The discussion shifts to Heiser's new work, The Bible Code Myth, where he argues that textual criticism and manuscript variations undermine the premise of hidden letter sequences in scripture. Art proposes future debates pairing Heiser against both Sitchin and Bible code proponents.

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May 11, 2001: Space Tourism - David Livingston

May 112h 52mDavid Livingston

Art Bell hosts Dr. David Livingston, whose doctoral dissertation examined the business prospects of space tourism, for a discussion on the future of commercial spaceflight in the wake of Dennis Tito's historic trip to the International Space Station. Livingston recounts how his research journey began after discovering Richard C. Hoagland's work, leading him to propose a space tourism dissertation that was nearly rejected by his conservative business school and only approved by a single vote.Livingston outlines how NASA functions as a barrier to commercial space development, citing administrator Dan Goldin's statements that discouraged Wall Street investment in reusable launch vehicles and the agency's refusal to publish its own study showing space tourism could be profitable with existing technology. He contrasts 66 years of aviation progress from Kitty Hawk to the Moon with 29 years of stagnation since the last Apollo flight, during which launch costs rose from $1,000 to $10,000 per pound.The conversation explores practical approaches to space hotels using modified wide-body aircraft fuselages, inflatable structures, and the cruise ship model for operations. Richard C. Hoagland joins to argue that NASA's resistance stems from a desire to maintain exclusive control over access to space.

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May 14, 2001: The God Part of The Brain - Matthew Alper

May 142h 2mMatthew Alper

Art Bell welcomes back Matthew Alper, author of The God Part of the Brain, now in its fifth edition, following Newsweek's cover story validating his thesis that humans are neurologically wired for spiritual belief. Alper distinguishes between two separate brain mechanisms: a spiritual impulse seated in the frontal and parietal lobes that produces feelings of cosmic unity during meditation, and a religious impulse in the temporal lobe that drives adherence to doctrine, ritual behavior, and group worship.Alper argues that universal religious behavior across all isolated cultures points to an inherited genetic trait shaped by natural selection, evolved to protect human intelligence from the paralyzing anxiety of death awareness. He cites new functional MRI research identifying specific brain regions activated during prayer and love, the case of Phineas Gage demonstrating how prefrontal cortex damage transforms moral character, and temporal lobe epileptics who report feeling the presence of God during seizures.Art presses Alper on whether identifying biological mechanisms for belief actually disproves God's existence. Alper concedes it cannot be proven but maintains that all evidence of a spiritual reality traces back to brain chemistry rather than transcendental sources, while acknowledging the danger of religious tribalism during economic downturns.

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May 15, 2001: Exorcism - Bob Larson

May 152h 47mBob Larson

Art Bell welcomes Reverend Bob Larson, an expert on cults, the occult, and the supernatural who has lectured in more than 80 countries. Larson presents audio clips from seven actual exorcisms performed in public conferences across America, each featuring disturbing voices and encounters with what he identifies as demonic entities.The discussion covers the nature of possession, how individuals become susceptible through generational curses, sexual abuse, substance use, and occult involvement. Larson describes cases ranging from a young church usher to a former member of the pop group Color Me Badd, all of whom exhibited inhuman voices and supernatural strength during confrontations. He explains the concept of legal authority by which demons claim the right to inhabit a person and the process of breaking ancestral curses.Art and Larson also explore the rise of extreme violence in American culture, shadow people sightings, the relationship between out-of-body experiences and possession, and why the United States faces a unique epidemic of what Larson calls perverted and violent demons compared to other nations.

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May 16, 2001: Remote Viewing - Russell Targ & Paul H. Smith

May 161h 16mRussell Targ, Paul H. Smith

Art Bell hosts physicist Russell Targ and military remote viewer Paul H. Smith, two pioneers of the government's psychic espionage program at Stanford Research Institute. Together they discuss the upcoming 2001 Remote Viewing Conference in Las Vegas and reveal details about the CIA-funded program that operated for over two decades at Fort Meade, Maryland.Targ and Smith explain how remote viewing works through non-local consciousness, describing how trained viewers can perceive distant targets using only random number coordinates. They discuss the program's real intelligence successes, including descriptions of Soviet weapons factories verified by satellite photography and a Congressional investigation that endorsed continuing the work. The pair also addresses precognition, sharing personal stories of psychic warnings that saved lives and describing laboratory experiments proving physiological responses to future events.The conversation turns to practical applications, including their success using associative remote viewing to predict silver futures markets. They discuss why the program was officially shut down despite its effectiveness, the 98 percent of records that remain classified, and the physics of non-locality that may explain how consciousness transcends space and time.

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May 18, 2001: Atlantis in Cuba - Linda Moulton Howe | Open Lines

May 182h 51mLinda Moulton Howe

Art Bell investigates a Reuters report about a stunning underwater discovery off the western coast of Cuba, where sonar equipment has detected what appears to be an urban complex at a depth of 2,200 feet. Ocean engineer Paulina Zalitsky of Advanced Digital Communications describes high-resolution sonar images showing pyramids, roads, and buildings amid rolling white sand plains.Reporter Linda Moulton Howe joins to present her investigation into the story, including her difficulty tracking down the company and her recorded interview with National Geographic spokeswoman Barbara Moffat. Moffat confirms that Zalitsky is known to National Geographic and has submitted a proposal for joint exploration with the Cuban Academy of Sciences, but states the project remains at a confidential stage. The 2,200-foot depth raises profound questions, as the last ice age only accounts for 300 feet of sea level change, leading to speculation about Atlantis or catastrophic geological events.Open lines follow with callers sharing stories of time travel, possession, and earthquake predictions. A caller claiming to have been accidentally sent to the distant past through a university time experiment provides one of the more elaborate accounts of the evening.

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May 21, 2001: NDEs - Dr. Jeffrey Long | NASA & Cydonia - Richard C. Hoagland & Peter Gersten

May 212h 51mDr. Jeffrey Long, Richard C. Hoagland, Peter Gersten

Art Bell opens with Richard C. Hoagland and attorney Peter Gersten revealing that their organization FACETS wrote to NASA requesting high-resolution imagery of the Cydonia region on Mars. NASA responded with a three-page letter from Associate Administrator Ed Weiler stating that stereo images at 1.5 meters per pixel had been acquired and posted online. However, despite extensive searching by a dozen researchers, nobody can locate the images on any NASA or Malin Space Science Systems website.The letter acknowledges Cydonia as an enigmatic landform and invites FACETS to submit additional imaging requests for five more Martian sites. Hoagland suspects an internal division between NASA headquarters and JPL, speculating that Malin may have withheld or hidden the images despite orders from above. Gersten confirms the letter is authentic through NASA's own records.Later, Dr. Jeffrey Long presents a harrowing near-death experience from a man named Cougar, whose third NDE involved a descent into a hellish abyss. Stripped of all spiritual protection, Cougar encountered dark beings who presented an alternative creation story designed to recruit him. The account parallels ancient Sumerian writings about the goddess Inanna's descent to the underworld, discovered by Cougar 13 years after his experience.

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May 22, 2001: Homemade Rocket - Brian Walker

May 222h 52mBrian Walker

Art Bell interviews Brian Walker, a self-taught rocket scientist and toy inventor from Bend, Oregon, who is building a hydrogen peroxide-powered rocket in his backyard to launch himself 35 miles into space. Walker details his plan to ride Earth Star One on a 15-minute suborbital flight, accelerating to Mach 4 during a 90-second engine burn before coasting to the edge of space and parachuting back to a dry lake bed.Walker explains the engineering behind his project, including a pneumatic launch system that catapults the rocket before engine ignition, a finless bullet-shaped capsule redesigned for stability, and multiple redundant recovery systems featuring drag chutes, ram-air parachutes, and a personal bailout option. He has built a backyard centrifuge to simulate the six-G forces he will experience and traveled to Russia to fly a MiG-25 at 80,000 feet and train at the cosmonaut facility.The self-made millionaire describes his lifelong dream of spaceflight, his 250 media interviews since going public, and his plan to launch in May 2002. He discusses FAA considerations, the possibility of relocating to Mexico if permits are denied, and the broader significance of a private citizen attempting what only governments have accomplished.

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May 23, 2001: Horse Deaths, Tent Caterpillars - Linda Moulton Howe | Mars update - Richard C. Hoagland

May 2339mLinda Moulton Howe, Richard C. Hoagland

Art Bell welcomes investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe for an update on the mysterious horse deaths sweeping central Kentucky. Since late April, over 500 thoroughbred foals and fetuses have been lost to unknown causes. Scientists initially suspected mycotoxins from stressed grasses, but lab results came back negative. Attention has shifted to eastern tent caterpillars and the cyanide found in wild cherry tree leaves, though experts remain skeptical that horses would ingest the insects.Howe speaks with University of Kentucky entomologist Dr. Lee Townsend and equine nutritionist Stephen Jackson, both of whom express doubt about the caterpillar theory. Jackson estimates the true number of losses could be ten times the official count, with some farms losing 100 percent of early pregnancies. The economic toll on Kentucky's billion-dollar thoroughbred industry could reach hundreds of millions over the coming years.In the second half, Richard C. Hoagland reports breaking news from Washington. NASA headquarters is holding emergency meetings about newly acquired high-resolution images of the Face on Mars, taken in response to a formal request from the FACETS organization. Hoagland's political sources suggest the Bush administration may be laying groundwork for a manned Mars mission announcement, possibly tied to the July 20th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

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May 25, 2001: Mars Face Update - Richard C. Hoagland with Kynthia

May 251h 23mRichard C. Hoagland, Kynthia

Art Bell examines newly released high-resolution photographs of the Face on Mars with Richard C. Hoagland and multimedia artist Kynthia, who has spent nearly two decades sculpting detailed models of the Martian formation. Art admits that upon viewing the new NASA imagery, his initial reaction was that the face argument appeared to be over. The straight-on photograph, taken at comparable lighting to the original Viking images, does not show the symmetrical features many expected.Hoagland argues that symmetry was never his model. At a 1992 United Nations presentation, he proposed the Face as a fusion of two species, hominid on one side and feline on the other, similar to the Egyptian Sphinx. He points to the Skeptical Inquirer's recent acknowledgment that his lion-head interpretation should not be ridiculed. Kynthia explains how wind erosion and sand deposits account for the differing textures on each side of the formation, and compares the dual-image technique to Mayan split-face sculpture traditions documented by researcher George Haas.Art remains unconvinced by the visual evidence but acknowledges the mathematical alignments Hoagland presents between Cydonia and Giza. The audience response runs roughly 50-50 on whether the formation is artificial. Hoagland reports that separate political sources confirm rumors of a potential manned Mars mission announcement from the Bush White House.

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May 29, 2001: UFOs and Abductions - David M. Jacobs

May 292h 50mDavid M. Jacobs

Art Bell speaks with Temple University Associate Professor of History David M. Jacobs, a 35-year veteran of UFO research who has conducted over 800 hypnotic regressions with more than 130 abductees. Jacobs discusses his latest edited volume from the University of Kansas Press, featuring contributions from ten researchers including Bud Hopkins and John Mack. He describes the academic hostility that has kept serious UFO scholarship nearly absent from university presses for half a century.Jacobs lays out his controversial thesis that the abduction phenomenon centers on a systematic hybridization program. He explains how women report being used as hosts for hybrid fetuses, and describes a hierarchy of beings observed aboard craft, from insectoid commanders to various stages of increasingly human-looking hybrids. He characterizes the alien social structure as resembling a hive, with telepathic communication, restricted emotional range, and no apparent interest in human political or cultural institutions.Art presses Jacobs on whether resistance is possible. Jacobs admits he sees few options, noting that the beings possess neurological control capabilities humans cannot counter. He estimates the phenomenon began around the 1890s and has spread intergenerationally, with perhaps five percent of the population affected. Despite calling his own conclusions embarrassing, Jacobs maintains the evidence from independent witnesses consistently points in the same troubling direction.

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May 30, 2001: Home Power Magazine - Richard Perez

May 302h 54mRichard Perez

Art Bell opens with observations about record-breaking heat in San Francisco and shrubs growing in Arctic tundra, declaring that the argument over whether climate is changing should be over. He then welcomes Richard Perez, editor and publisher of Home Power Magazine, who has lived off-grid since 1970 and spent decades installing renewable energy systems in rural communities.Perez details practical steps any homeowner can take to slash electricity bills. Replacing just two incandescent bulbs per household with compact fluorescents nationwide would eliminate the equivalent of a large power plant. Modern refrigerators use one-third the energy of models from five years ago. Efficient washing machines cut consumption by more than half. Solar batch water heaters, costing under $1,500, pay for themselves within three years. Perez explains that a fully off-grid solar system can cost as little as $6,000 for an efficient home, far less than the luxury car price tag most people assume.The conversation turns to the looming national energy crisis. Perez predicts widespread blackouts beyond California, potentially reaching New England and the Pacific Northwest. He criticizes the Bush administration's energy plan for ignoring efficiency and renewables, and notes that Home Power Magazine offers its complete issues free for download online. Art emphasizes that individual action on energy efficiency represents the most immediate path forward when government policy falls short.

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May 31, 2001: Shadow People - Morgan Spence

May 312h 54mMorgan Spence

Art Bell reads a detailed letter from a military technology worker who began seeing shadow beings after prolonged exposure to laser scanning displays and DVD players. The man describes a small, robed figure that appeared in his office, locked eyes with him for twenty seconds, then sprinted along the wall and vanished at impossible speed. Art proposes that modern digital technology operating at high frame rates may be shifting human visual perception into frequency ranges where these entities become visible.Dr. Morgan Spence, who has researched shadow beings for 11 years, joins to share her findings. She recounts seeing shadow figures as a three-year-old child and connects the phenomenon to electromagnetic energy, hormonal factors, and expanding dimensional awareness. Spence argues these entities are likely not demons in the biblical sense, though she allows that some sightings could involve residual soul energy from the deceased. She compares the experience to viewing dim stars only through peripheral vision, suggesting the beings exist at frequencies humans normally cannot detect.Callers share firsthand encounters, including a muscular, featureless humanoid observed in a fully lit bedroom. Art notes that reports skew toward younger people and those surrounded by electronic devices. The emerging consensus points toward a frequency-based explanation, with these beings having always shared our space but only now becoming perceptible as human sensory thresholds shift through technological exposure.

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June 1, 2001: Open Lines

Jun 12h 55m

Art Bell opens the phone lines for a Friday night edition of Truth or Trash, a game where callers tell outrageous stories and a jury of fellow listeners votes on whether each tale is true or fabricated. Callers are encouraged to lie convincingly or tell true stories so unbelievable they sound fake.The evening produces memorable entries, including a World War II veteran's account of a Japanese fighter plane landing perfectly on Tinian Island with a dead pilot inside whose neck was broken, a man from New Orleans who claims he built a comedy career around getting kicked in the tailbone, and a fisherman in Virginia who allegedly found a class ring inside a fish eight years after it was lost in the Gulf of Mexico. Art also reads a shadow people encounter from a listener who saw two pixelated, glowing beings enter her bedroom.Between rounds, Art covers news including a devastating Tel Aviv bombing, the Nepal royal palace massacre, Arizona blackout warnings, and a British housewife who sold UFO footage for 20,000 pounds. The show captures the freewheeling spirit of late-night open lines at their most entertaining.

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June 5, 2001: Bigfoot Research - Robert W. Morgan

Jun 52h 52mRobert W. Morgan

Art Bell welcomes Bigfoot researcher Robert W. Morgan alongside a returning caller known as Bugs, a Vietnam veteran and former hunter from Texas who years earlier confided a shocking story. Bugs recounts how in the mid-1970s, while hunting bobcats and coyotes at night with two fellow veterans, they fired on an unknown creature with glowing red eyes in a wheat field near Elm Creek, believing it to be a bear.The creature rose to over seven feet tall and fled on two legs. After tracking it into a plum thicket, Bugs encountered a second creature at close range and killed it in self-defense with a .44 Magnum. Both bodies displayed human-like sexual organs, brownish-red hair covering their frames, six toes on each foot, and faces resembling a cross between human and ape. Terrified they had killed something partly human, the three men buried the bodies together and swore secrecy.Bugs reveals he has sent Art a detailed burial map, to be used after his death. Morgan confirms that every detail matches documented Bigfoot characteristics. Art wrestles with the ethical and legal implications of possessing the map, while Bugs expresses deep guilt over the killings that ended his hunting career forever.

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June 8, 2001: Underwater City Off Cuba & Shadow People - Ed Dames | UFO Video - Robert Kiviat

Jun 82h 47mEd Dames, Robert Kiviat

Art Bell presents a striking anonymous UFO video from North Bay, Ontario, then speaks with Hollywood producer Robert Kiviat, who has secured exclusive rights to footage shot by a British housewife showing a structured craft with pulsing colors hovering for six and a half minutes. Kiviat explains the object matches UFOs captured by NASA cameras during the STS-75 tether incident, both displaying a disc shape with a distinctive notch and central circle.Remote viewer Major Ed Dames joins to report his team's findings on the underwater structures discovered off Cuba at 2,200 feet. Dames confirms the site contains at least one, possibly two, large intact pyramids set on raised square bases amid extensive rubble. He attributes the catastrophe that sank the site to a close planetary passage matching descriptions from Zacharias Sitchin's work on Nibiru.Dames then addresses the shadow people phenomenon, describing it as the most difficult target he has ever pursued. He also discusses his Mind Dazzle remote viewing training kit and the challenge James Randi's backers posed when they learned the military remote viewing team intended to take up Randi's million-dollar challenge.

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June 12, 2001: Bible Code Debate - Mike Heiser & Grant Jeffrey | Echelon - David Ruppe

Jun 122h 54mMike Heiser, Grant Jeffrey, David Ruppe

Art Bell hosts ABCNews.com reporter David Ruppe for a discussion on Echelon, the global surveillance system operated by the NSA and its five partner nations. Ruppe explains how the system collects vast quantities of international communications and filters them using keywords, with rules theoretically protecting American citizens from warrantless surveillance. Art weighs Fourth Amendment privacy rights against national security needs, and Ruppe acknowledges that public trust remains the system's ultimate safeguard.The program then shifts to a spirited debate between Grant Jeffrey, a leading Bible Code authority, and Mike Heiser, author of The Bible Code Myth. Jeffrey presents equidistant letter sequences found in Isaiah 52 and 53, including 41 names associated with the crucifixion and a 22-letter code reading "Yeshua is my mighty name." He argues the astronomical odds validate divine authorship.Heiser counters that 115 letter differences between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Medieval Masoretic text used by code researchers undermine the entire enterprise. He insists that spelling conventions changed when rabbis replaced consonantal vowel markers with dots and dashes, shifting every letter chain and invalidating the statistical claims. The two scholars clash over which manuscript tradition represents the authentic data set.

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June 13, 2001: Underwater City - Linda Moulton Howe & Stephan Schwartz

Jun 132h 55mLinda Moulton Howe, Stephan Schwartz

Art Bell welcomes investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe, who delivers an update on the mysterious structures found 2,200 feet underwater off Cuba's western tip. She confirms that National Geographic has signed an exclusive agreement for magazine coverage and that the site lies within Cuban territorial waters. Paul Weinzweig, husband of discoverer Paulina Zalitsky, states that video cameras aboard a remotely operated vehicle will provide conclusive evidence this summer.Dr. Frank Muller-Carger of the University of South Florida, who viewed the sonar images firsthand, describes seeing straight-edged geometric shapes across several square kilometers, noting that such features at that scale would be an extraordinary geological formation if natural. Linda reads Plato's famous account of Atlantis sinking beneath the sea, drawing parallels to the Cuban discovery.Remote viewing pioneer Stephan Schwartz then joins, describing his Deep Quest submarine experiments that proved psychic functioning operates independent of electromagnetic shielding. He recounts using remote viewers to locate Cleopatra's Palace and the Lighthouse of Pharos in Alexandria, Egypt, and proposes organizing a mass remote viewing experiment targeting the Cuban site before cameras reach the ocean floor.

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June 14, 2001: US, Russia, & China Nuclear Confrontations - Philip Hoag

Jun 142h 48mPhilip Hoag

Art Bell welcomes Philip Hoag, author of No Such Thing as Doomsday, for a sobering examination of the shifting nuclear landscape between the United States, Russia, and China. Hoag details alarming policy changes under the Clinton administration, including the decision to absorb a first nuclear strike before retaliating, the removal of submarine commanders' unilateral launch authority, and the grounding of strategic bombers.The discussion turns to Russia's multi-layered missile defense system, its massive underground bunker complex at Yamantau Mountain, and its road-mobile ICBMs. Hoag argues that incremental U.S. disarmament has left the nation vulnerable, while technology transfers to China through most-favored-nation trade status have financed a rising military superpower. Art presses him on whether mutual assured destruction still holds.Hoag warns that without course correction, the country faces either a nuclear exchange or eventual capitulation within five years. The first hour features open lines with callers discussing NASA's proposal to move Earth's orbit, shadow people detection via strobe lights, and a Methodist minister's perspective on the Bible's origins.

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June 15, 2001: ET Disclosure - Dr. Steven M. Greer

Jun 152h 48mDr. Steven M. Greer

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Steven M. Greer, founder of the Disclosure Project, fresh from his landmark May 9, 2001 press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Over 20 military, government, and intelligence witnesses testified before a global audience of more than one billion people about extraterrestrial contact and the reverse engineering of advanced energy and propulsion systems.Dr. Greer reveals that multiple U.S. presidents, including Carter and Clinton, were deliberately denied access to classified UFO programs by intelligence officials operating outside constitutional authority. He shares testimony from senior FAA official John Callahan, who preserved radar data and recordings from a 1986 Alaska UFO encounter that the CIA attempted to confiscate and suppress entirely.A congressional staffer named Rhiannon joins the broadcast to urge listeners to write physical letters to their representatives, explaining that emails are routinely deleted while constituent mail demands attention. She and Dr. Greer outline a nationwide campaign for open congressional hearings, a ban on space weapons, and the declassification of suppressed energy technologies that could address the global environmental crisis.

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June 18, 2001: The Brain - Neil Slade

Jun 183h 21mNeil Slade

Art Bell welcomes brain researcher Neil Slade for a wide-ranging exploration of untapped human mental potential, anchored by an extraordinary video posted on the show's website. The footage, filmed by respected documentarians Lawrence and Lorne Blair in Indonesia, shows a Taoist physician known as "Dynamo Jack" generating powerful electrical currents within his own body through decades of meditative training.In the video, Dynamo Jack treats an eye ailment using acupuncture needles near the amygdala, then shocks both a cameraman and a sound technician with electricity produced from his hands. The segment culminates with the physician holding his open palm above a crumpled newspaper, which begins to smoke and bursts into flames without physical contact. Art attempts to replicate the feat on air with Neil's bio page, succeeding only with a Bic lighter.Neil introduces the concept of a "second brain" located in the gut, citing research on the enteric nervous system and its billions of independently functioning nerve cells. He connects this to Carlos Castaneda's teachings about willpower residing in the belly and to Dynamo Jack's own explanation that his energy originates from where yin and yang forces converge in his abdomen.

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July 17, 2001: NIDS Research - Colm Kelleher | EMP Burst - Ted Randall

Jul 173h 11mColm Kelleher, Ted Randall

Ted Randall describes an apparent EMP burst at WJKM radio, and Colm Kelleher of NIDS discusses paranormal research after Art Bell's medical absence. Randall, chief engineer for a Nashville radio group, describes a devastating energy burst that struck WJKM radio in Hartsville, Tennessee on July 6, 2001. On a clear blue day with no lightning, the station lost its transmitter, all computer motherboards, phone lines, and ISDN connections. At least 60 birds were found dead across a mile-wide city park, their wings scorched while their feet remained intact.Ted reports that the adjacent newspaper experienced interior flashes of light and power surges, and that an insurance company over a mile away suffered similar disturbances that same afternoon. He also reveals that a nearby decommissioned nuclear power plant has generated persistent rumors of clandestine activity, including unmarked helicopters and fluorescent bulbs spontaneously lighting at two miles distance.In the second segment, Kelleher of the National Institute for Discovery Science discusses NIDS becoming the FAA's official reporting point for pilot UFO sightings. He covers the recent Carteret, New Jersey mass sighting of orange V-formation lights, and shares analysis showing triangular craft sightings clustering along flight paths between Air Force logistics bases.

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July 18, 2001: Asian Enigma, Wild Forest Creatures of Laos - Linda Moulton Howe

Jul 1836mLinda Moulton Howe

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe, who reports from Philadelphia with updates on the Hartsville, Tennessee energy burst and a firsthand account of her expedition to Laos for an upcoming Discovery Channel series called Asian Enigma. Linda reveals that the mysterious power surges at WJKM radio have continued, with another event striking at 4 a.m. on July 18th and forcing the station to relocate its computer equipment entirely.Cornell physicist Michael Kelly, a consultant on the HAARP facility in Alaska, tells Linda the Hartsville event involved enormous concentrated energy inconsistent with conventional explanations. He suggests ball lightning as one possibility but acknowledges it cannot account for the mile-wide debris field of scorched birds. A seismic disturbance registering 2.6 on the Richter scale was also confirmed in nearby Franklin, Tennessee the day after the original burst.Linda then describes her journey along Route 9 in Laos, a region climatologists say has remained unchanged since the age of dinosaurs. Local villagers and Vietnam War veterans have reported encounters with tall, bipedal, hair-covered creatures ranging from six to fifteen feet tall. She recounts navigating unexploded ordnance, encountering a venomous snake, and gathering physical evidence for the Discovery Channel production airing in November 2001.

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August 1, 2001: Psychic - Sylvia Browne

Aug 12h 50mSylvia Browne

Psychic Sylvia Browne joins Art Bell to discuss psychic ability, prophetic dreams, remote viewing, reincarnation, and past-life healing after a first-hour Disclosure Project update from Dr. Steven M. Greer. Greer reports on meetings with members of Congress, foreign embassies, and United Nations committees, describing testimony from military witnesses about weapons in space and extraterrestrial vehicles neutralizing nuclear missiles at Malmstrom Air Force Base.Browne discusses the genetic roots of psychic ability, the nature of prophetic dreams, and her views on reincarnation and past life healing. She explains how cellular memory from previous lifetimes can manifest as physical ailments, sharing cases where patients experienced relief after identifying traumatic past life events. Sylvia also draws parallels between her work and remote viewing, suggesting both access the same source of information.The conversation touches on the power of prayer as a healing force, the circular nature of time, and why Sylvia turned down lucrative offers to sponsor psychic hotlines. Art and Sylvia explore whether psychic ability requires a connection to God and how religious texts contain contradictory messages about prophecy and divination.

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August 2, 2001: Studies of the Mind - Marilyn Schlitz

Aug 22h 46mMarilyn Schlitz

Dr. Marilyn Schlitz, Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, joins Art Bell to discuss psi research, consciousness studies, remote viewing, distant healing, and staring-detection experiments after a first-hour Bigfoot caller. Art opens with a caller named Rob from Michigan who claims to have struck a large, hair-covered creature with his car at high speed on a rural highway. Rob describes the animal as weighing roughly 700 pounds with long brown hair, a flat face, and horse-like teeth, now stored in his underground fallout shelter and possibly still alive. Art advises him to contact a veterinarian and agrees to send a Bigfoot investigator.Schlitz describes her own remote viewing experiment between Detroit and Rome that produced six direct hits out of ten trials, with odds against chance of four in a million. She details her laboratory studies showing that one person can measurably influence another person's physiology at a distance under double-blind conditions.The conversation covers groundbreaking clinical studies where distant healing intentions improved health outcomes for AIDS patients regardless of the healer's religious tradition. Schlitz also discusses her staring detection experiments, online psi tests at the IONS website, and the relationship between belief and psychic performance in research settings.

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August 3, 2001: Remote Viewing - Ed Dames

Aug 32h 21mEd Dames

Major Ed Dames joins Art Bell to discuss technical remote viewing, Operation GoldenEye, Chandra Levy, Amelia Earhart, HIV, and Mars after Art celebrates 500 radio affiliates and reports Mars science news. Art shares news of giant flood channels discovered beneath the surface of Mars, along with reports of extraterrestrial bacteria found in Earth's upper atmosphere at 25 miles altitude. He discusses what these discoveries suggest about the prevalence of life in the universe.Dames explains the technical remote viewing process in detail, comparing it to assembling a jigsaw puzzle where pieces of information are collected through strict protocols that keep the analytical mind from interfering. He describes how his team hunts child murderers through Operation GoldenEye by systematically identifying a killer's workplace, sketching nearby recognizable landmarks, and narrowing the search area before sending ground teams to match their drawings against real locations.Dames announces that Chandra Levy was murdered by suffocation, her body located in the Potomac River near the Arlington Memorial Bridge, and that the killer was someone she knew personally. He also discusses the intelligence of the HIV virus from a remote viewing perspective, Amelia Earhart's wreckage location near Kuria Atoll, and the existence of an ancient civilization on Mars whose remnants remain on the planet's surface.

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August 6, 2001: GIS - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Aug 62h 37mBrendan Cook, Barbara McBeath

Art Bell provides updates on the Michigan Bigfoot story, human cloning plans by Italian embryologist Severino Antonori, and a mysterious shower of corn husks falling from clear skies over Wichita, Kansas. A caller from Montana reports fresh cattle mutilations with surgical precision, including extracted eyes, removed tongues, and green bruising at injection sites.Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society then join Art to present electronic voice phenomena recordings captured on brand new, never-before-used audio tapes at cemeteries, mausoleums, crematoriums, and private residences. The recordings include responses that directly interact with the investigators' conversations, such as a voice identifying Brendan by name and another commenting on laughter with a childlike question. Barbara explains that ghosts retain the same personalities they had in life and should be viewed as people deserving of compassion rather than fear.The pair describes physical encounters during their investigations, including being slapped and having objects thrown at them, experiences that only deepened their commitment to the research. They discuss how electromagnetic field detectors correlate with voice captures and encourage listeners to try recording EVP themselves using any standard tape recorder with an external microphone.

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August 8, 2001: Remote Viewer - Stephan Schwartz

Aug 82h 54mStephan Schwartz

Remote viewer and researcher Stephan Schwartz joins Art Bell to discuss remote viewing, consciousness, creativity, and his 2050 future-viewing project after a first-hour climate segment with Whitley Strieber. Strieber discusses accelerating climate change evidence, from record Arctic temperatures of 75 degrees to mysterious 30-degree temperature spikes in Morocco occurring in just 15 minutes. Strieber warns that two years of crop failure in the United States could starve the world and describes scarlet rain falling in Kerala, India, followed by plagues of unidentifiable black insects.Schwartz explores the relationship between consciousness, creativity, and psychic functioning. He argues these are three manifestations of the same information channel, citing research showing that CEOs who score high on precognitive tests consistently lead more profitable companies. He describes how breakthrough ideas emerge from the collective unconscious, noting that Edison was the 37th person to patent a light bulb concept.Schwartz discusses his ongoing 2050 remote viewing project, where participants as early as 1978 described a blood disease sweeping out of Africa and something resembling virtual reality. He addresses the political paralysis around energy policy, comparing American oil dependence to drug addiction, and argues that climate change represents the most serious threat facing humanity, with evidence suggesting glacial transitions could occur in as few as ten years.

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August 9, 2001: Monuments of Mars - Richard C. Hoagland

Aug 92h 41mRichard C. Hoagland

Richard C. Hoagland joins Art Bell to present his solution to the mystery of Mars, including Viking life data, Gilbert Levin's Labeled Release experiment, Joseph Miller's circadian analysis, and evidence for liquid water. Art opens with current events, including President Bush's stem cell research decision, a Jerusalem bombing, record-breaking heat waves, and cattle mutilations in Montana. Open lines bring in colorful stories, from a 1950s balloon adventurer to reality TV debate, before the conversation shifts to the mysteries of the red planet.Hoagland traces the history of Martian exploration from the canal debates of the early 1900s through the Mariner and Viking missions, recounting his firsthand experience at JPL during Viking's 1976 landing. He examines Gilbert Levin's Labeled Release experiment, which detected what appeared to be biological activity in Martian soil, and new analysis by neurobiologist Joseph Miller showing circadian rhythms in that 25-year-old data.The discussion expands into evidence of liquid water seeping from underground on Mars, with Hoagland presenting images of dark stains flowing downhill on the Martian surface. Art and Richard explore the implications for life, terraforming, and what the death of a once-vibrant world might teach us about protecting our own planet from a similar fate.

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August 10, 2001: Predictions - Sean David Morton

Aug 102h 48mSean David Morton

Sean David Morton returns to Art Bell with predictions about secret aerospace programs, Area 51, Cuba and Atlantis, stock-market volatility, and solar flare activity after an opening hour of open lines. Art begins with calls covering the space shuttle Discovery launch, Jesse Ventura's public comments on UFOs, human cloning ethics, and a mysterious report from a Canadian listener about an entire small town's population vanishing without explanation.Morton gives updates on secret military aerospace programs, claiming the Air Force is testing craft capable of Mach 50 and describing anti-gravity fighter disks reportedly used during the Gulf War. He recounts a visit to Area 51 where electromagnetic interference disabled all recording equipment. The conversation turns to the underwater city discovered off Cuba at 2,200 feet, with Morton connecting it to Atlantis through Edgar Cayce's prophecies and British megalithic alignments.Morton delivers his stock market predictions, correlating solar flare activity with market volatility and warning of a major October downturn. He also raises provocative questions about Timothy McVeigh's execution, citing anomalies including reports of breathing after death and the use of a decoy hearse. Art presses him on motivation, and Morton outlines a conspiracy theory connecting the Oklahoma City bombing to a broader cover-up.

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August 22, 2001: Science Topics - John Gribbin | Crop Circles - Linda Moulton Howe & Lucy Pringle

Aug 222h 53mJohn Gribbin, Linda Moulton Howe, Lucy Pringle

Art Bell returns after a severe back injury to deliver two major revelations on his website: moving video of a ghost crossing a road in Nova Scotia and aerial photographs of the Milk Hill crop formation in Wiltshire, the largest ever recorded with 409 circles. Linda Moulton Howe and Lucy Pringle from Hampshire, England, provide detailed analysis of this unprecedented formation spanning 787 feet across undulating terrain.Lucy Pringle describes the disorienting experience of walking through the massive pattern, where even finding the center proved nearly impossible. A professional New Jersey land surveyor estimates that using the most advanced GPS equipment, simply staking out the center points of all 409 circles would take far longer than the seven hours of darkness in which it appeared. A German surveyor, Andreas Mueller, confirms the formation showed no footprints in the rain-dampened soil and no distortion despite severe ground irregularities.Professor John Gribbin from Great Britain discusses climate change, warning that a five-degree Celsius increase could exceed the temperature shift that ended the last ice age. He then turns to time travel, explaining that nothing in the laws of physics forbids it and describing how cosmic strings or wormholes could theoretically enable backward travel. He also addresses quantum computing and the possibility of parallel universes.

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August 23, 2001: Vampire Hunter - Rev. Sean Manchester | Crop Glyphs - Richard C. Hoagland

Aug 2338mReverend Sean Manchester, Richard C. Hoagland

Art Bell opens with breaking news about a face-shaped crop glyph that appeared overnight near the Chilbolton radio telescope in Hampshire, England. Richard C. Hoagland analyzes the formation, noting it uses varying pixel sizes to create light and shadow effects resembling both the Face on Mars and a primitive hominid with heavy brow ridges. He connects it mathematically to Cydonia through the global grid work of Carl Munck and Michael Morton.Hoagland then presents a stunning comparison between a rectangular crop glyph found in the same field and the Arecibo message sent to deep space in 1974. The differences between the sent and received versions include an added element (silicon), a changed population figure of 21 billion, an altered solar system diagram showing additional planets, and modified DNA with an asymmetrical helix. He argues these differences constitute a coherent response, possibly representing first contact or a message about humanity's ancient origins.Bishop Sean Manchester of Great Britain joins to discuss his decades of investigating the occult and performing exorcisms. He describes infiltrating witchcraft covens in the 1970s and finding that leaders privately admitted to dark practices including death curses and animal sacrifice. He warns that practitioners of alternative belief systems now outnumber Christians in Britain and criticizes mainstream churches for abandoning the fight against supernatural evil.

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August 24, 2001: The Isaiah Effect - Gregg Braden | More Crop Glyphs - Richard C. Hoagland

Aug 242h 52mGregg Braden, Richard C. Hoagland

Art Bell continues coverage of the Chilbolton crop glyphs with Richard C. Hoagland, who presents new ground-level photographs showing the intricate pixel work of the face formation and its proximity to the radio telescope. Close-up images reveal that standing wheat creates the dark areas while flattened wheat forms the light areas, producing a sophisticated negative image. A Gaussian blur of the face photograph reveals unmistakable hominid features with prominent cheekbones and shadowed eye sockets.Hoagland details differences between the Arecibo message and the crop glyph response, including the addition of silicon to the element list and an altered solar system diagram consistent with his tidal model of missing planets. The face and rectangular glyphs appeared simultaneously in a field directly adjacent to the Chilbolton telescope, oriented with the forehead pointing toward the research facility. The website crashes under unprecedented traffic as listeners worldwide attempt to view the images.Gregg Braden, author of The Isaiah Effect, connects the crop glyph phenomenon to ancient traditions describing this era as a time of great change. He discusses a fifth DNA base called 5-methylcytosine that diminishes with aging, and references 1998 research showing AIDS patients developing genetic mutations granting up to 3,000 times greater immune response. He suggests human emotion directly modulates DNA, proposing an internal technology referenced in the Dead Sea Scrolls' Isaiah text.

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August 27, 2001: Michael Glickman | Crop Glyphs Images - Seth Shostak & Richard C. Hoagland

Aug 2740mMichael Glickman, Seth Shostak, Richard C. Hoagland

Art Bell welcomes SETI astronomer Seth Shostak and former NASA advisor Richard C. Hoagland to examine the extraordinary crop glyph that appeared at the Chilbolton Observatory in England. The formation bears a striking resemblance to the 1974 Arecibo message, a three-minute binary transmission beamed into space with an effective radiated power of two trillion watts.Shostak details the original message's contents, including representations of human DNA, a stick figure of a human, and a map of the solar system. He notes key differences in the crop glyph response: a larger-headed figure replacing the human, three offset planets instead of one, and the addition of silicon to the list of life-essential elements. Despite these intriguing modifications, Shostak remains skeptical, questioning why advanced beings would communicate through grain rather than radio.Hoagland counters that the silicon addition reflects real biochemistry research unknown to the original message designers. He argues the glyph's precision and placement directly in front of a government observatory suggest something far beyond amateur hoaxing. The two debate whether the formation represents genuine extraterrestrial contact or an elaborate but earthly creation.

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August 28, 2001: FBI Investigator - Candice DeLong

Aug 282h 38mCandice DeLong

Art Bell interviews retired FBI Special Agent Candice DeLong, author of Special Agent: My Life on the Front Lines as a Woman in the FBI. DeLong recounts her path from psychiatric nursing to a 20-year FBI career, beginning in 1980 when women comprised only four percent of the bureau's workforce. She shares stories of going undercover as a call-girl madam to recover stolen FBI equipment and her role in the manhunt for the Unabomber in Montana.The conversation turns to criminal profiling, where DeLong explains how statistics guide investigations. She reveals that 95 percent of children killed by blunt force trauma in their homes were struck by a primary caretaker, and 76 percent of murdered women are killed by someone they know. She applies these principles to the then-ongoing Chandra Levy case, expressing confidence it would eventually be solved.Art presses DeLong on Waco and Ruby Ridge, and she candidly discusses the demoralizing effect both incidents had on the FBI. She describes how lessons from those standoffs directly shaped the careful approach used to arrest Ted Kaczynski without violence. DeLong also shares her evolving views on the death penalty, noting that DNA exonerations have tempered her earlier certainty.

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August 29, 2001: NIDS Research Projects - Colm Kelleher

Aug 292h 6mColm Kelleher

Art Bell speaks with Colm Kelleher, deputy administrator of the National Institute for Discovery Science, about the Chilbolton crop glyphs and ongoing animal mutilation investigations. Kelleher reports that the formations have sparked the most intense debate among NIDS scientists in years, with physicists and engineers arguing whether the glyphs could have been created from the air using directed energy technology.Kelleher shares his own experience inside a freshly formed crop circle near Stonehenge in 1996, where all four members of his team experienced severe dizziness and nausea. He describes collecting plant samples that later showed measurable differences in their biochemical composition compared to controls taken outside the formation. The discussion turns to a statistical study from 1970s Montana linking animal mutilations with UFO sightings recorded in police blotters.On mutilations, Kelleher details a case where NIDS received a severed cow head via FedEx for laboratory analysis, and another where an 84-pound newborn calf was stripped of all internal organs in broad daylight within 45 minutes while the rancher was 300 yards away. He outlines four consistent forensic findings across cases: sharp instrument use, foreign substances added to the animals, hemorrhaging beneath the hide, and abnormally low copper levels in the liver.

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August 31, 2001: Open Lines - Area 51, Earthquakes, & Crop Circles

Aug 312h 49m

Art Bell hosts a Friday night open lines program under a full moon, opening a dedicated phone line for Area 51 workers and government whistleblowers. He covers a wave of bizarre animal behavior stories, from deer crashing through office windows in Des Plaines to a cougar killed in Iowa for the first time since 1865, connecting them to his theory that events are accelerating toward some larger culmination.Callers provide a range of claims about Area 51. A former electrical technician at Nellis Air Force Base describes mysterious glowing buildings around nuclear weapons storage structures and a civilian scientist who attributed the phenomenon to Project Blue Book. Another caller identifying himself as a 25-year civilian employee at S4 on Groom Lake says he works in back-engineering alien craft alongside live extraterrestrials. A third caller claims to have worked at the base from its inception in 1958, estimating 80 percent of the facility is underground.Art also documents a new earthquake prediction from his longtime radon monitor in Southern California, who reports the highest radon count ever recorded and forecasts a major quake in Northern California within nine days. A woman from Washington State describes recurring lights near a lake that vanish into the water, reinforcing the discussion about possible underwater UFO activity.

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September 10, 2001: Crop Circles - Richard C. Hoagland, Colin Andrews, & Andrew Yoder

Sep 102h 37mRichard C. Hoagland, Colin Andrews, Andrew Yoder

Art Bell brings together Richard C. Hoagland and crop circle researcher Colin Andrews to present breaking findings from the Chilbolton formations. Andrews, freshly returned from five days of fieldwork in the English wheat fields, reports that he found no stake holes, no stomper board marks, and no compression evidence typically left by human circle-makers. He confirms his view that whatever created these glyphs represents a departure from anything seen in two decades of research.Andrews reveals a startling discovery: electrostatic readings of 80 volts measured along grid lines within the formations, pulsing repeatedly two weeks after their creation in the damp English climate. He explains that the readings correspond precisely to energy patterns that dowsers have reported for years, providing the first instrumental confirmation of those claims. Hoagland argues the sustained electrostatic signature points to a replenishing energy source and technology beyond conventional physics.The program shifts to author Andrew Yoder, who discusses the world of unlicensed shortwave pirate radio. Yoder explains that pirate broadcasters range from creative professionals seeking an unregulated outlet to political dissidents and hobbyists. He notes that a Belgian station was audible in the United States at just 30 milliwatts of power, and that no FCC enforcement actions against pirates had occurred since 1998.

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September 11, 2001: The September 11, 2001 Show

Sep 112h 55m

Art Bell broadcasts live on the night of September 11, 2001, opening the phone lines to let America speak in the aftermath of the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Having watched the horrific events unfold since early morning, he decides against bringing on experts, instead giving listeners across the country and around the world a forum to process their shock, grief, and disbelief.Callers pour in from New York, Australia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Mexico, and Canada, sharing eyewitness accounts and raw emotion. Craig Kitchen, president of Premier Radio Networks, describes the eerie silence that fell over Manhattan as millions of commuters were stranded on the island. Whitley Strieber calls from Texas, and Major Ed Dames reports that his remote viewers have pinpointed what they believe is the command and control center for the attacks in Kandahar, Afghanistan.Art repeatedly asks callers a single question: how will this change America? The responses range from willingness to sacrifice freedoms for security to warnings against directing anger at Arab Americans. Throughout the broadcast, Art reflects on the contrast between Pearl Harbor and this attack on civilians, noting the profound silence in skies now empty of aircraft.

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September 12, 2001: Open Lines - Callers Respond & React to 911, Day 2

Sep 122h 43m

Art Bell continues his open lines coverage on the second night after the September 11 attacks, expressing a deep foreboding that the danger to America is far from over. He highlights the passengers of Flight 93 who voted to rush the hijackers, calling them heroes deserving the nation's highest civilian honor, and urges the country to recognize their extraordinary sacrifice.A caller from near ground zero in Tribeca describes the zombie-like atmosphere below Canal Street, the smell of burning debris, and a piece of human skin that fell on him from the sky. Art discusses the fraudulent Nostradamus prediction circulating on the Internet, then brings on John Hogue, the world authority on Nostradamus, who confirms the viral quote is an absolute fabrication stitched together from unrelated quatrains. A photograph showing what appears to be an evil face in the impact fireball draws intense interest on his website.Throughout the night, callers debate whether America should formally declare war, wrestle with rising anger toward Arab Americans, and share the unsettling experience of looking up at skies completely devoid of aircraft for the first time in their lives. Art warns repeatedly that the attack is not over and that more danger lies ahead.

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September 13, 2001: Open Lines - Callers Respond & React to 911, Day 3

Sep 132h 47m

Art Bell opens the show an hour early on the third night of continuous 9/11 coverage, reporting that arrests at LaGuardia and JFK have shut down those airports again. He shares his growing conviction that the attack on America is not finished, noting that individuals with fake pilot credentials have been apprehended at multiple airports across the country.Callers weigh in on whether the attempted airport boardings are deliberate acts designed to keep American planes grounded rather than genuine hijacking attempts. A caller theorizes the terrorists may have pre-booked hundreds of seats on the doomed flights to ensure low passenger counts, making the planes easier to overpower. Art reads a Washington Post article revealing that Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson blamed the ACLU, feminists, and homosexuals for the attacks, drawing a sharp parallel between their religious extremism and that of the terrorists themselves.Richard C. Hoagland calls to announce he is canceling his Bay Area UFO Expo appearance out of respect, and speculates that the passengers of Flight 77 may have also fought back since the plane struck the wrong side of the Pentagon. A New York police officer expresses frustration that off-duty officers are being turned away from volunteering at ground zero.

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September 14, 2001: Open Lines - Callers Respond & React to 911, Day 4

Sep 142h 45m

Art Bell returns after finally getting ten hours of sleep, his first real rest since Tuesday morning. He opens the fourth consecutive night of 9/11 open lines by posing a somber question: what have we learned from all of this so far? He again reads from the Washington Post article about Falwell and Robertson, comparing their statements directly to bin Laden's own writings and challenging listeners to distinguish between the two brands of religious extremism.Callers range from a young man in Georgia describing the strange quiet on normally busy streets to a black caller in Chicago who questions whether America truly includes all its citizens in times of crisis. A truck driver on the road to Arizona raises concerns about the vulnerability of the nation's supply chain. CNN transitions its coverage branding from "America Under Attack" to "America's New War," and Art muses about who decides these slogans and whether he will ever be important enough in the media to sit in on such meetings.Art reads Tom Clancy's essay from the London Sunday Mail comparing the attacks to Pearl Harbor and describing the quiet, steely resolve of American military professionals. He closes the hour warning that the war dice are about to be rolled and that once they are, nobody can predict where they will land.

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September 24, 2001: Nuclear, Biological, & Chemical Warfare - Craig O. Thompson

Sep 242h 46mCraig O. Thompson

Art Bell welcomes terrorism and NBC warfare expert Craig O. Thompson to examine the real threat of biological and chemical attacks in the wake of September 11. With crop dusting planes grounded by the FAA after investigators discovered that hijacker Muhammad Atta had researched aerial spraying operations, Art presses Thompson to explain exactly what a terrorist with a crop duster could accomplish over a major American city.Thompson explains that as little as 100 grams of properly dispersed anthrax could kill hundreds of thousands of people, that the agent is colorless and odorless, and that victims would not show symptoms for one to five days. He describes how most doctors would initially misdiagnose exposure as the flu, sending patients home to die. A retired crop duster pilot calls in to warn that thousands of unmarked dirt strips across rural America make an FAA grounding order virtually unenforceable and that agricultural aircraft fly too low to appear on radar.The discussion turns to America's lack of preparedness, including insufficient vaccine stockpiles, the failure of mock disaster exercises like Operation Top Off, and the absence of biological detection equipment in most cities. Thompson argues the nation should triple its defense budget for domestic preparedness and urges listeners to assemble disaster supply kits for their families.

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September 25, 2001: Open Lines - To War or Not

Sep 252h 35m

Art Bell opens the phone lines two weeks after the September 11th attacks to gauge a growing undercurrent of anti-war sentiment he has detected in his email. He reads provocative listener messages arguing against military retaliation, then fields calls from across the country representing sharply divided opinions on whether America should strike back.Callers opposed to war cite past U.S. foreign policy failures, the risk of escalation into World War III, and concerns about killing innocent Afghan civilians. Supporters counter that the attacks represent the clearest act of war in modern history and that failing to respond would only embolden future terrorism. Art pairs callers from opposing sides in spontaneous on-air debates, letting them argue directly with each other.Throughout the evening, Art expresses astonishment at how quickly the initial post-attack unity has begun to fracture. He warns that the window of opportunity for military action may be closing as public resolve weakens, and he shares his own view that those responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans must be removed from the equation with prejudice.

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September 26, 2001: Joshua's Hammer - David Hagberg

Sep 262h 43mDavid Hagberg

Art Bell welcomes thriller novelist David Hagberg to discuss his eerily prophetic book "Joshua's Hammer," which depicts Osama bin Laden acquiring a nuclear weapon and planning a devastating attack on American soil. Published over a year before September 11th, the novel's plot mirrors real events so closely that Art purchased it at a local supermarket and immediately tracked down the author.Hagberg draws on his background in military cryptography and relationships with former CIA operatives to explain Al Qaeda's structure, bin Laden's transformation from Saudi playboy to religious zealot, and the intelligence failures that left America vulnerable. He describes how bin Laden surrounded himself with engineers and professionals who could plan sophisticated operations far beyond crude truck bombs.The conversation turns to whether killing bin Laden would dismantle the network. Hagberg argues that removing the charismatic leader would fragment the organization, comparing it to assassinating historical figures like Hitler or Patton. He also raises the chilling possibility that bin Laden may already possess a nuclear device, citing reports of offers made to Russian weapons depots.

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September 27, 2001: Remote Viewing September 11 - Ed Dames

Sep 271h 34mEd Dames

Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames, a former military remote viewer trained in the U.S. government's classified psychic intelligence program, to discuss his team's work in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. Dames explains that remote viewing is a disciplined intelligence collection skill, not psychic prediction, and that his team has shifted all resources toward identifying planned terrorist attacks on American soil.Dames reveals that his remote viewers have identified a specific target for the next major terrorist attack and describes the attacking team as currently on the move with explosives. Art declines to broadcast the target location on air but directs listeners to Dames' website where the information is explicitly detailed. Dames confirms the intelligence has been shared with federal authorities and emphasizes that publicizing it may help prevent the attack.The discussion also revisits Dames' longstanding prediction of a catastrophic solar event he calls the "kill shot." With the sun exhibiting unprecedented activity during solar cycle 23, Art notes the striking timing. Dames connects this to a future moment when all warring parties on Earth suddenly stop fighting and look skyward as global events overtake human conflict.

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September 28, 2001: The Delphi Associates - Sean David Morton

Sep 281h 36mSean David Morton

Art Bell welcomes psychic and futurist Sean David Morton, who presents evidence of his longstanding warnings about terrorist attacks on New York City dating back to 1992. Morton references appearances on Hard Copy in 1995 where he described a series of attacks and a white cloud covering the city, and a 1999 newsletter featuring a police sketch he drew of the face he kept seeing in visions, which he identifies as Osama bin Laden.Morton lays out a detailed military scenario, predicting that U.S. forces will launch operations on October 16th with a multi-pronged attack targeting Kandahar in Afghanistan and northern Iraq simultaneously, supported by Turkish and British forces. He warns that the war will extend well beyond Afghanistan and forecasts an eventual broader conflict between Islamic extremists and the Western world lasting decades.The conversation covers Nostradamus quatrains that Morton and colleague Robert Egan believe describe the World Trade Center attacks with startling specificity, including references to towers contracting and a name resembling hijacker Mohammed Atta. Morton also warns about long-term health consequences from the massive asbestos cloud released when the towers collapsed, a danger he believes the media has largely ignored.

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October 2, 2001: Demonology & Excorcisms - Ralph Sarchie

Oct 22h 18mRalph Sarchie

Art Bell welcomes NYPD Sergeant Ralph Sarchie, a 16-year veteran working the South Bronx who is also an experienced demonologist and close confidant of the late Father Malachi Martin. Sarchie shares his firsthand account of visiting Ground Zero, describing the overwhelming devastation and the unprecedented outpouring of support from New Yorkers toward police and rescue workers.The conversation shifts to Sarchie's work investigating demonic cases alongside Bishop Robert McKenna. He outlines the three stages of diabolical activity, from infestation through oppression to full possession, and describes a harrowing three-day exorcism of a woman harboring an extraordinarily powerful demon. Sarchie recounts seeing pure hatred in the possessed woman's eyes when he held a relic of the true cross near her, a look unlike anything encountered in years of police work.Sarchie discusses the shadow people phenomenon, confirming it aligns with demonic manifestation in cases he has investigated. He notes an alarming increase in possession cases nationwide, with new exorcists being trained across multiple dioceses. He also reveals that photographs taken at Ground Zero by fellow officers contain unexplained spirit energy, which he interprets as the confused souls of those who perished in the attacks.

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October 8, 2001: Bioterrorism - Linda Moulton Howe | Investigative Journalist - Chris Ruddy

Oct 82h 34mLinda Moulton Howe, Chris Ruddy

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe and reporter Chris Ruddy for a two-part program examining bioterrorism fears in the wake of September 11th. Linda reports on the alarming anthrax cases in Florida, where two American Media employees have tested positive for inhalation anthrax, and interviews Dr. Donald Henderson of Johns Hopkins about the threat of weaponized pathogens. She also introduces a promising decontamination technology called nano bombs, developed at the University of Michigan, capable of destroying anthrax and smallpox without harming living tissue.Chris Ruddy discusses the broader implications of the attacks, arguing the government is withholding critical information from the public about bioterror preparedness. He reveals that a Russian government economist predicted a devastating financial attack on America months before September 11th, and raises concerns about missing nuclear suitcase bombs from the former Soviet arsenal.Art shares news of Rush Limbaugh losing his hearing and announces plans to conduct a mass consciousness healing experiment the following night. The conversation spans anthrax preparedness, geopolitical threats from Iraq and Russia, and whether America is truly ready to confront a new era of unconventional warfare.

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October 17, 2001: Time Travel - J. Richard Gott

Oct 172h 39mJ. Richard Gott

Art Bell opens with updates on the anthrax attacks spreading across the country and growing tensions between India and Pakistan before welcoming Princeton astrophysics professor J. Richard Gott for an in-depth discussion on the physics of time travel. Professor Gott explains how Einstein's special relativity makes time travel to the future not only theoretically possible but already demonstrated, citing Russian cosmonaut Sergei Avdeev as humanity's greatest time traveler to date.The conversation turns to time travel to the past, where Gott describes his own discovery involving cosmic strings moving at near-light speeds and Kip Thorne's wormhole solutions. He offers a compelling answer to why no time travelers have visited us: no one can use a time machine before it has been built. The pair debate the grandmother paradox, weighing the conservative self-consistent universe model against the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.Art presses Gott on whether he would personally take a one-way trip a thousand years into the future. The professor says yes without hesitation, comparing the journey to Marco Polo's 24-year voyage. They also discuss humanity's long-term survival prospects and the importance of colonizing Mars as a species-level insurance policy.

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October 18, 2001: Mass Consciousness Experiment - Richard C. Hoagland

Oct 182h 55mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell conducts two extraordinary live experiments with his audience, one aimed at healing Rush Limbaugh's rapidly deteriorating hearing and another designed to influence random number generators monitored by Princeton University's Global Consciousness Project. He asks millions of listeners to simultaneously close their eyes and concentrate, sending healing energy toward Limbaugh and then attempting to drive Princeton's instruments away from randomness toward coherence.Richard C. Hoagland joins to explain the Princeton project, which since 1997 has tracked deviations in 39 random number generators scattered worldwide. Hoagland reveals that on September 11th, the instruments registered anomalies beginning four to five hours before the first plane struck, with odds against chance reaching 10,000 to one. He proposes that mass consciousness physically alters the local constants of reality through hyperdimensional physics windows.Art and Hoagland discuss whether this power could be used for both positive and negative purposes, with Art expressing deep caution about tampering with forces he does not fully understand. The broadcast also features the announcement of a Crystal Gale visit and updates on the escalating anthrax crisis nationwide.

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October 19, 2001: Open Lines - Princeton University Mass Consciousness Experiment

Oct 192h 55m

Art Bell opens with stunning news: Princeton University's random number generators recorded two massive spikes precisely when the previous night's mass consciousness experiments were conducted. The graph, covering a two-day period, shows virtually no anomalous activity except for two dramatic vertical surges that correspond exactly to the two concentration sessions. Art displays the Princeton graph via his studio webcam and declares the results undeniable proof of what he has long suspected about collective mental energy.Callers flood the lines with reactions ranging from awe to apprehension. Several propose using the power for healing diseases, influencing peace, or targeting terrorists, but Art repeatedly counsels caution. He draws parallels to the Twilight Zone, warning that wielding a force no one fully understands could produce unintended and dangerous consequences. He recounts how earlier weather experiments worked too well, producing floods in previously drought-stricken areas.Crystal Gale calls in from Las Vegas after performing a show, discussing her visit to Art's desert home and the original song she composed about the program. Princeton scientist Dean Radin responds with mild scientific interest, requesting repeatable results. Art announces he will pause before conducting further experiments, recognizing the profound and possibly perilous nature of what has been demonstrated.

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October 22, 2001: Bio Terror - Steve Quayle

Oct 222h 47mSteve Quayle

Art Bell welcomes author Steve Quayle, who years earlier wrote Breathe No Evil, a prescient book warning about biological terrorism in America. With 42 confirmed anthrax exposures now reported nationwide and two postal workers dead, Art expresses deep unease that the official narrative does not add up, particularly regarding how sealed, taped letters could cause widespread inhalation infections among postal employees.Quayle argues the anthrax attacks represent a probing action by state-sponsored terrorists, likely a prelude to something far worse involving smallpox or weaponized plague. He cites former Soviet bioweapons director Ken Alibek's congressional testimony on smallpox and reveals that an entire Afghan village was reportedly exposed to Crimean hemorrhagic fever weeks earlier. Quayle contends that Russia's sudden withdrawal of diplomats from the United States signals insider knowledge of an impending escalation.The discussion covers practical preparedness measures including stockpiling antibiotics, acquiring NBC-rated masks, and sealing living spaces against airborne pathogens. Art questions why the government continues to downplay threats while officials privately secure their own protective supplies. Quayle urges citizens to take personal responsibility for their safety rather than relying on a government he believes is dangerously unprepared for what may come next.

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October 23, 2001: Paleopsychological Mass Behavior - Howard Bloom

Oct 232h 39mHoward Bloom

Art Bell welcomes Howard Bloom, founder of the International Paleopsychology Project, for a sweeping discussion on the mass psychology driving the post-9/11 conflict. Bloom argues that the war against terrorism is fundamentally a battle of determination and social cohesion, drawing parallels between modern Islamic fundamentalism and historical civilizational clashes stretching back a thousand years. He warns that Osama bin Laden has achieved heroic status across much of the Islamic world and that America risks losing the psychological war.The conversation traces how societies throughout history have fallen to seemingly inferior forces when their social bonds weakened. Bloom contends that the anthrax attacks serve as a deliberate distraction while more devastating plans may be developing. He describes the current moment as a confrontation between pluralistic modernity and religious fundamentalism, with the outcome hinging on whether Western civilization can articulate its own values with genuine passion.Earlier in the program, Richard C. Hoagland reports on the successful orbital insertion of the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft and discusses its potential to discover water and signs of life on Mars. Art also addresses the Princeton Global Consciousness Project graph from a recent mass consciousness experiment.

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October 24, 2001: Electronic Voice Phenomena - Ghost Investigators Society

Oct 242h 42m

Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society to present recordings of Electronic Voice Phenomena captured at a decommissioned prison in Rawlins, Wyoming. Using brand new, never-recorded-on tapes and external microphones under strict controls, the team documents whispered voices and unexplained sounds from cellblocks, the death house, and the gas chamber area of the century-old facility.The recordings include a voice saying "Dr. Whitehead," another declaring "I'm always walking" near a cell where a prisoner paced for over forty years, and a chilling scream captured at the spot where inmates threw a fellow prisoner from the fourth tier. Art notes that all four of his cats react strongly to certain recordings, and listeners report similar animal responses. The team explains that EVP research dates back to the 1920s, with pioneers including Thomas Edison, who was working on a device to communicate with the dead at the time of his passing.The first hour features open lines, with callers discussing shadow people, the random number generator experiments, and twin psychic connections. Art previews Friday's upcoming show challenging listeners to think outside the box about winning the war on terrorism.

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October 25, 2001: Parapsychologist - Dr. Evelyn Paglini

Oct 252h 30mDr. Evelyn Paglini

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a self-described practitioner of natural and ceremonial magic, for a discussion on using the occult as both a spiritual defense and a tool against terrorism in the wake of 9/11. Paglini describes specific rituals involving white candles, shield of protection oil, and image candles that listeners can use to create what she calls an impenetrable spiritual dome around themselves, their loved ones, and the nation.She introduces the "jumbo double action reverse candle," a ceremonial magic tool she says requires at least an hour of focused visualization to redirect hostile energy back toward its source. Art presses her on the nature of the power behind these practices, and Paglini maintains it originates from a neutral divine source that practitioners must direct responsibly. She recounts how a worldwide call to arms among occult practitioners helped combat Nazi Germany during World War II and claims a similar mobilization is now underway.The conversation also touches on the mass consciousness experiments Art has conducted, with Paglini arguing that focused collective intention combined with ritual practice amplifies results dramatically. She warns that the forces behind the current terrorism have their own practitioners of ceremonial and ritualistic magic operating behind the scenes.

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October 26, 2001: Open Lines - Out of the Box Thinking About Terrorism

Oct 262h 55m

Art Bell devotes the entire program to an open lines challenge, asking listeners to think outside the box and propose unconventional strategies for winning the war on terrorism. The concept gains unexpected validation when Reuters reports just days later that the Pentagon itself is soliciting creative ideas from inventors and citizens. Callers respond with proposals ranging from the extreme to the inventive, including nuclear options, religious summits between major faiths, and deploying HAARP technology to locate underground cave networks.Among the more creative suggestions, one caller proposes using CGI technology to fabricate a convincing video of bin Laden ordering his followers to lay down their arms, which would force the real bin Laden to break cover. Another suggests projecting holographic images of Allah in the Afghan sky to lure Taliban fighters to a specific location. A caller from Houston advocates convening a summit of the world's top religious leaders to address the root causes of the conflict, an idea Art calls the first truly outstanding suggestion of the night.Other proposals include genetic targeting using DNA from bin Laden's children, defoliating Afghanistan's opium fields to cut off funding, and making the country uninhabitable to flush out combatants. Art maintains a mostly non-judgmental stance throughout, though he admits his own instinct leans toward direct military retribution.

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October 30, 2001: The Gates of Hell - Kathleen Keating

Oct 302h 31mKathleen Keating

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist and author Kathleen Keating for a discussion on prophecy, Bible codes, and the escalating threats facing America in the weeks following 9/11. Keating claims she ran Bible code analysis on the Taliban on September 7, 2001, four days before the attacks, producing results that included "terror attack," "target USA," and "World Trade Center." She warns that her government and visionary sources are again converging, suggesting a possible nuclear or large-scale attack before the end of the week.The conversation covers the growing anthrax crisis, with Art noting emerging evidence that the anthrax strain may be of American origin, prepared using a classified U.S. weaponization process. Keating discusses her Bible code findings suggesting that diseases like West Nile virus were manufactured, and that contaminated currency could accelerate a move toward a cashless society. She also claims to have found Art Bell's name embedded in Genesis alongside descriptors including "radio," "high desert," and "back injury."Keating warns about false documents she believes will eventually be unearthed from the Temple Mount to undermine Christianity and pave the way for a one-world religion. She urges listeners to pray intensely and to keep children home on Halloween, expressing concern that the period through Christmas represents a spiritually dangerous window.

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October 31, 2001: Ghost to Ghost 2001

Oct 312h 37m

Art Bell hosts his annual Ghost to Ghost Halloween special on a night graced by the first full moon on Halloween since 1955. Listeners from across the country call in with their most unsettling encounters, from a shadowy presence that knocked a man fifteen feet from his cabin doorway in Yosemite to a police officer who watched a translucent old woman materialize in his kitchen at three in the morning.The stories range from deeply personal to outright bizarre. A caller describes a ghost cat that rubbed against campers' legs before a hand passed straight through it. A Cherokee reenactor recounts a terrifying night surrounded by phantom war drums at an old Civil War fort. A sheriff's deputy shares how a deceased resident's ghost still thumps the floor of the condo where he died, directly above the spot where his body was found.Art reflects on whether animals possess souls, whether the living can project spirits of their own, and why the very young and very old seem most attuned to the other side of the veil.

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November 19, 2001: Lost Underwater City near Cuba - Linda Moulton Howe

Nov 192h 5mLinda Moulton Howe

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe with breaking news about a possible megalithic site discovered 2,200 feet below the ocean surface off the western tip of Cuba. Deep ocean engineer Paulina Zalitsky of Advanced Digital Communications reports finding what appears to be large architectural structures, including pyramids, roads, and carved stone blocks partially covered by sand.In an on-air interview, Zalitsky reveals that preliminary ROV videotape has captured inscriptions on the stones, including symbols resembling a Central American cross found in underwater caves throughout Cuba. The lettering appears Greek-like but is not Greek, with possible connections to the mysterious Etruscan language. Linda traces the crossed-oval symbol to the ancient Luvian linear sea script from Minoan Crete.Ancient American Magazine editor Frank Joseph offers a sweeping theory connecting the site to Atlantis, the Bronze Age copper trade from Michigan, and a catastrophic comet convergence around 1200 B.C. that a 1997 Cambridge symposium confirmed nearly drove humanity to extinction.

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November 20, 2001: Nanotechnology and Cryonics - Dr. Ralph Merkle

Nov 202h 39mDr. Ralph Merkle

Art Bell sits down with Dr. Ralph Merkle, co-inventor of public key cryptography and principal fellow at Zyvex, for a wide-ranging discussion on the future of nanotechnology. Dr. Merkle explains how molecular machines built atom by atom could one day pack more computing power into a sugar cube than currently exists in the entire world, and how the scanning tunneling microscope already allows scientists to move individual atoms.The conversation turns to nanomedicine, where Dr. Merkle describes artificial red blood cells that could carry enough compressed oxygen to keep a heart attack victim conscious and functioning long enough to reach an emergency room. He outlines how nanodevices equipped with onboard computers could identify and destroy cancer cells with pinpoint precision by monitoring multiple chemical signatures simultaneously.Art presses Dr. Merkle on the dangers, including the theoretical "gray goo" scenario and weaponized nanotechnology. Dr. Merkle argues that broadcast architecture designs, where devices require external instructions to function, provide built-in safety. He also reveals his personal decision to sign up for cryonic preservation with Alcor.

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November 21, 2001: Predictions - Sean David Morton

Nov 212h 34mSean David Morton

Art Bell welcomes self-described futurist Sean David Morton on Thanksgiving night for a session of predictions and analysis. Morton outlines his theory of seven-year war and peace cycles, claiming the United States entered a war cycle in September 2000 that would extend through 2007. He predicts the Afghan conflict will conclude within eight months of September 11th and warns that Iraq will be the next target.Morton recounts a remote viewing class he taught in New York on October 15th, where students accurately described the World Series matchup between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Yankees at Yankee Stadium under a full moon, weeks before it happened. He suggests the class also perceived elements of American Airlines Flight 587, which crashed in Queens the following month.The discussion shifts to the first cloned human embryo, announced by Advanced Cell Technology over Thanksgiving weekend. Art opens the phones to gauge listener reaction, finding sharp divisions between those who see medical promise in stem cell research and callers who consider the creation of human life outside natural means fundamentally wrong.

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November 26, 2001: Egypt Illinois Cave - Dr. Glenn Kimball

Nov 262h 18mDr. Glenn Kimball

Art Bell speaks with ancient text collector and lecturer Glenn Kimball about a mysterious cave system in southern Illinois that may contain evidence of pre-Columbian contact between the Old World and the Americas. Kimball describes how ground-penetrating radar and metal detection equipment mapped a 525-foot inverted V-shaped cavern beneath private farmland, revealing what appears to be a 110-foot spiral stone staircase leading underground.Among approximately 7,000 stone artifacts recovered by locals between 1982 and 1984 are carvings depicting figures with Jewish side locks, Moorish sailor headdresses from first-century North Africa, and solid gold pieces bearing what appear to be Egyptian inscriptions. Kimball reports that the original cave entrance was deliberately destroyed with black powder explosives roughly 15 to 20 years prior, apparently to cover the tracks of looters who may have extracted around $12 million in precious metals.Sonogram imagery from recent expeditions reveals reflective surfaces consistent with gold, what appears to be a mummy on a table, and possible helmets hanging from a wall. Kimball estimates 28 statues remain inside, including at least one solid gold figure too heavy to remove.

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November 27, 2001: Random Number Generators - Dean Radin

Nov 272h 33mDean Radin

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Dean Radin, senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, to discuss the Global Consciousness Project and its network of random number generators placed around the world. The conversation centers on the remarkable data recorded by these devices on September 11, 2001, when the generators showed a dramatic spike in non-random behavior that began hours before the attacks even occurred.Dr. Radin explains how decades of research into the connection between mind and matter led scientists to focus on random noise as the most sensitive indicator of consciousness effects. He describes how the project uses 37 devices called "eggs" distributed globally to detect coherent shifts in randomness that correlate with major world events. The discussion covers the paradox that publicity about the project itself can compromise its effectiveness as a monitoring tool.Art shares his own experiences with the Princeton ShapeShifter program and his controversial mass consciousness experiments that appeared to produce rain in drought-stricken areas. Dr. Radin offers insights into the relationship between geomagnetic fields and psychic performance, and introduces his online psi-testing platform at GotPsi.com, which has attracted over 34,000 participants from 106 countries.

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November 28, 2001: Psychic Medium - James Van Praagh

Nov 282h 33mJames Van Praagh

Art Bell sits down with renowned psychic medium James Van Praagh, who shares his extraordinary journey from childhood visions to becoming one of the most recognized spirit communicators in the world. Van Praagh discusses his upcoming CBS mini-series starring Ted Danson, based on his first book, and his new publication "Heaven and Earth: Making the Psychic Connection."The conversation moves through Van Praagh's earliest experiences seeing auras and spirit forms as a child, his skeptical period in early adulthood, and the pivotal reading where a medium told him he would become a messenger for the spirit world. He recounts a stunning demonstration where a deceased brother came through with specific details about a boat trailer wheel falling off on the freeway, leaving a skeptical audience member completely transformed. Art presses Van Praagh on how he addresses accusations of cold reading and fraud in his field.Van Praagh offers his perspective on what happens after death, explaining that individuals create their own afterlife experience based on the thoughts and energy they cultivated during their lifetime. He connects his observations to the Global Consciousness Project data from September 11, noting he had sensed a coming war and great sorrow over a year before the attacks occurred.

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November 29, 2001: More Wacky 911 Calls - Leland Gregory

Nov 292h 34mLeland Gregory

Art Bell opens with an hour of open lines where callers weigh in on topics ranging from what should be done with Osama bin Laden to a striking ghost photograph from Indonesia posted on his website. The discussion touches on the ethics of human cloning, shadow people sightings, and fresh UFO reports of V-shaped craft spotted over Southern California and Palo Alto, complete with digital photographs from a listener in Oceanside.In the second half, comedian and author Leland Gregory returns with his collection of outrageous real 911 emergency calls. Gregory reveals he was in the NBC makeup chair at 30 Rockefeller Center on September 11, eight minutes from appearing on the Today Show, when the first plane hit. He describes the chaos that followed and how his book promotion collapsed because its title contained "911." The pair listen to recordings including the legendary "Joe and the Deer" call and a woman who demands police put her cat to sleep, then spirals into a profanity-laden tirade against the dispatcher.Gregory shares stories from his dumbest criminals research, including a suspect who identified his own robbery victim in a lineup and a burglar who showed up to court wearing the stolen suit. Art and Gregory discuss the importance of humor in difficult times and the underappreciated work of 911 dispatchers across the country.

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November 30, 2001: Open Lines

Nov 302h 47m

Art Bell hosts a Friday night open lines edition that begins with a heartfelt tribute to George Harrison, who passed away the previous day. Art reflects on growing up with the Beatles and how their music shaped his years in rock radio before transitioning to talk. A caller from San Antonio shares the powerful experience of discovering the entire Beatles catalog in a single weekend, while a woman from the Ozarks recounts barbecuing ribs with Harrison in Tulsa during his visit to Carl Radle and the Shelter Records scene.The program covers a wide range of topics as callers discuss the war in Afghanistan, immigration policy, the ethics of human cloning, and the newly revealed Segway scooter, which Art finds disappointing compared to the hype surrounding it. Several callers debate whether cloned humans would possess souls, and one listener firmly states she would refuse a cloned organ even on her deathbed. A photograph of magician David Blaine apparently levitating on a Las Vegas sidewalk generates heated debate about whether the feat is genuine or an optical illusion.Art previews a packed upcoming week featuring discussions on Atlantis, the paranormal in Asheville, a near-death experience survivor, and a UFO conversation with Dan Aykroyd. A caller shares a chilling encounter with a Bigfoot-like creature while using the woods as a restroom in rural New Hampshire.

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December 3, 2001: HAARP - Nick Begich

Dec 32h 30mNick Begich

Dr. Nick Begich joins Art Bell to discuss HAARP, ionospheric heating, ELF signals, underground tomography, and post-September 11 military applications after a first hour of open lines. Art covers escalating violence in Israel, a new homeland security warning about potential holiday attacks, and the underwhelming reveal of Dean Kamen's device as a gyroscopic scooter. Callers discuss earthquake swarms near Spokane, declining global fish catches, and a listener's unsettling experience of hearing thousands of voices while falling asleep.Begich joins in the second hour to discuss HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project in Alaska, and its expanding military applications in the post-September 11 landscape. He explains how the system modulates the ionosphere to generate extremely low frequency signals capable of penetrating deep underground, potentially mapping tunnel networks and bunkers with hemispheric coverage. Begich reveals that contracts for full power operation at one billion watts of effective radiated power are now being negotiated.The conversation takes a sobering turn as Begich describes emerging mind-reading technologies that map brain activity to detect emotional states and specific thoughts, as well as military research into deleting and replacing human memories. He warns that the Patriot Act contains provisions without sunset clauses that grant intelligence agencies expanded surveillance authority with reduced accountability, and argues that fear-driven legislation risks permanently eroding civil liberties that may never be restored.

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December 4, 2001: Ghost Hunting, North Carolina's Brown Mountain Lights - Joshua P. Warren

Dec 42h 38mJoshua P. Warren

Art Bell welcomes paranormal investigator Joshua P. Warren to discuss his decade-long research into the mysterious Brown Mountain Lights of North Carolina's Pisgah National Forest. Warren describes the unexplained illuminations that have appeared on and around the ridge for perhaps 800 years, investigated multiple times by the U.S. government and the Smithsonian. He shares his team's recent videotape of an unidentified flying object rising from the ridge and vanishing into the sky.The conversation turns to the science behind ghost hunting, including electromagnetic field measurements, infrared photography, and Warren's experimental use of electrostatic generators as "ghost bait" to enhance paranormal activity at haunted locations. Warren explains his distinction between two types of ghosts: imprints that replay like a tape loop and conscious entities that interact with the living in real time.Art opens the first hour with news commentary on the Afghanistan war, Bobby Fischer's shocking endorsement of the September 11 attacks, and listener reports of hearing mysterious voices in the twilight state between waking and sleep. Callers share UFO sightings, entity encounters, and an Area 51 worker's firsthand account of observing disc-shaped craft from the Nevada Test Site.

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December 5, 2001: The Case for NASA UFOs - David Sereda & Dan Aykroyd

Dec 52h 47mDavid Sereda, Dan Aykroyd

Art Bell hosts researcher David Sereda and actor Dan Aykroyd for a wide-ranging discussion on UFO phenomena, NASA space shuttle footage, and ancient civilizations. Aykroyd shares his personal UFO sighting over Martha's Vineyard, describing two glowing white discs traveling at extreme speed across the sky, and announces his upcoming Sci-Fi Channel program exploring paranormal subjects.Sereda details his investigation into anomalous objects captured on NASA shuttle camera feeds, recorded over six years by a Canadian cable station program manager named Martin Stubbs. The discussion connects these modern sightings to ancient history through the Dropa Stones, mysterious discs found in Tibetan-Chinese mountains in 1938 containing spiraling hieroglyphics that reportedly describe a spacecraft crash-landing 12,000 years ago from the star system Sirius.The first hour features open lines with callers discussing the Mandela Effect, David Blaine's street levitation witnessed firsthand by a caller in Pittsburgh, and the breaking mainstream news of a possible submerged city discovered off Cuba's coast. Art notes the mainstream press took six months to cover the Cuban underwater discovery after it was first discussed on his program.

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December 6, 2001: Near Death Experience - Pam Reynolds

Dec 62h 46mPam Reynolds

Art Bell interviews Pam Reynolds, a musician and mother of three who underwent one of the most extraordinary surgical procedures ever performed. In 1991, surgeons at Phoenix's Barrow Institute cooled her body to 58 degrees Fahrenheit, stopped her heart, drained her blood, and achieved zero brain wave activity in order to clip a giant basilar tip aneurysm. By every medical measure, Pam Reynolds was dead for approximately one hour.During that time, Reynolds describes leaving her body through the top of her head with heightened consciousness, observing the surgical instruments and overhearing specific conversations in the operating room. She recounts being drawn toward a brilliant light, encountering her deceased grandmother and uncle among a sea of luminous beings, and learning that the light was not God but "what happens when God respirates." She was told she could not proceed further or the connection between her spiritual and physical self would be severed permanently.Reynolds shares that her detailed account of surgical events matched the actual timeline of the operation, verified by the medical team. Art reflects that of all near-death experience interviews he has conducted, this case stands as the most scientifically documented and impossible to dismiss, given the complete absence of brain activity during her experience.

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December 7, 2001: Open Lines - 'Entity Attack'

Dec 72h 45m

Art Bell dedicates a special phone line to listeners who have been physically attacked by entities, prompting a flood of harrowing firsthand accounts. One caller describes being yanked by his ankles off a bunk bed and hurled across the room by a solid black figure at age eleven. Another reports being injected with a syringe by a dark humanoid entity, leaving three puncture marks and blood on his arm, followed by persistent memory loss.A woman recounts being thrown through windows repeatedly as a child, leading her parents to board up her bedroom. A man in Redding, California, shares years of escalating torment by shadow entities that culminated in attempts to crush his larynx and chest, ending only after a two-week fast spent in prayer. A caller from Memphis admits that he and friends attempted to sell their souls for money and power, after which dark entities began dragging him from his bed in spirit form.Art reflects on the previous night's profound interview with Pam Reynolds, whose death experience during brain surgery he considers the strongest evidence for an afterlife ever presented on the program. Between entity calls, listeners discuss the breaking news of the submerged city off Cuba, melting Martian ice caps and their implications for Earth, and the 60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.

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December 10, 2001: 9-11 Attacks and the Anthrax Killer - Ed Dames

Dec 102h 46mEd Dames

Art Bell welcomes remote viewing expert Major Ed Dames, who presents specific intelligence claims about the anthrax letter sent to NBC's Tom Brokaw. Dames states that 18 remote viewing sessions by two experts identified the perpetrator as a lone domestic terrorist, a chemical engineer living within ten miles of State College, Pennsylvania, who used the September 11 attacks as cover to mail weaponized anthrax prepared in a basement glove box. The detailed findings were submitted to the FBI and the Office of Homeland Security director Tom Ridge.Dames reaffirms his earlier prediction that the World Trade Center attack was orchestrated from a bunker near Kandahar, Afghanistan, and Art highlights his verified remote viewing of Dean Kamen's Segway invention months before its public reveal. On the terrorism front, Dames assesses that the worst Al-Qaeda attacks on U.S. soil are over, though one undetected cell remains in the country.The conversation shifts to Dames' long-standing warnings about North Korea, which he identifies as the most likely nation to use a nuclear weapon in anger. He connects the recently discovered submerged city off Cuba to a catastrophic Earth-shifting event caused by a large passing celestial body, referencing the deep-space object KX-76 as a candidate. Art questions the lack of media attention to what solar heating of Mars implies for Earth's own climate.

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December 11, 2001: Bigfoot - Robert W. Morgan

Dec 112h 54mRobert W. Morgan

Art Bell welcomes Bigfoot researcher Robert W. Morgan to discuss decades of field research into the elusive creature. Morgan recounts his first encounter in 1957 in Mason County, Washington, where he mistook the being for a gorilla while still serving in the U.S. Navy. He describes organizing scientific expeditions backed by the National Wildlife Federation and assembling a 17-member science advisory board to study the phenomenon.The conversation takes a dramatic turn when two Oklahoma police officers, Dan and Jeff, call in to share their own encounters. Both describe a seven-to-eight-foot-tall, reddish-brown-haired bipedal creature they observed at close range on separate occasions. Despite carrying firearms, neither officer considered shooting, and both have since returned to the area to cast footprint impressions measuring approximately 13 inches long.Morgan shares his theory that Bigfoot represents the original prototype human, perfectly adapted to Earth, while modern humans are a less-suited mutation. He notes that Bigfoot families have been observed watching schoolchildren play and sitting along railroad tracks watching trains pass, suggesting a quiet curiosity about human civilization.

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December 12, 2001: The Secret Knowledge - Red Elk | Bioterrorism, Murdered Microbiologists - Steve Quayle

Dec 122h 24mRed Elk, Steve Quayle

Art Bell speaks with Red Elk, a self-described medicine man of Blackfeet, Shoshone, Irish, and French heritage, who claims knowledge passed down through over 2,000 years of tradition about worlds existing beneath the Earth's surface. Red Elk describes multiple levels below ground, including subterranean civilizations, tunnel systems, and a "time cave" near Republic, Washington, where he says one can witness holographic visions of the future through specific rituals.Red Elk insists that human beings possess untapped abilities including levitation, teleportation, and healing, skills he says are suppressed by generations of conditioning. He offers listeners instructions on how to attempt levitation by jumping on a mattress or trampoline with childlike joy rather than forced concentration. He warns of a coming Earth "flip" within approximately 25 years and urges people to move inland, away from coastlines and rivers.In the final hour, Steve Quayle joins to discuss bioterrorism threats, reporting 140 quarantine bases established across Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan in response to an Ebola outbreak. He connects the suspicious deaths of multiple microbiologists worldwide to concerns about aerosolized biological weapons falling into terrorist hands.

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December 17, 2001: Deepening Complexity of Crop Circles - Dr. Eltjo Haselhoff

Dec 172h 54mDr. Eltjo Haselhoff

Art Bell interviews Dr. Eltjo Haselhoff, a Dutch theoretical physicist and former Los Alamos National Laboratories researcher, about his scientific investigation of crop circles. Haselhoff describes his first encounter with the phenomenon in 1988, noting the undisturbed soil beneath flattened crops and the absence of footprints, observations that drew him into over 13 years of research.Haselhoff confirms the findings of American biophysicist Dr. Levengood, particularly the node-lengthening effect in affected plants, which can be replicated using microwave radiation. He presents his peer-reviewed research demonstrating that eyewitness accounts of luminous spheres creating crop formations align with measurable heat signatures found in the crops. One Dutch formation he analyzed contained hidden geometric relationships involving triangles, squares, pentagons, and hexagons, with a probability of occurring by chance calculated at one in 46 million.When pressed on explanations, Haselhoff acknowledges that conventional physics cannot account for the self-sustaining plasma balls observed near formations. He distinguishes between four types of crop circles and concedes that while some are man-made, the biophysical anomalies and mathematical complexity found in many formations remain genuinely unexplained by mainstream science.

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December 18, 2001: EVPs - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Dec 182h 43mBrendan Cook, Barbara McBeath

Art Bell hosts Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society for a presentation of never-before-heard electronic voice phenomena recordings. The session follows Art's recent interview with Pam Reynolds, a woman who described detailed observations during clinical death with zero brain activity, an experience that Art says has moved him closer to believing in consciousness surviving physical death.Cook and McBeath play recordings captured on brand-new, never-previously-recorded audio tapes at cemeteries, an abandoned mental hospital, a funeral parlor, and a historic hotel. Highlights include a voice responding "I'm not far" to a request directed at a ghost light nicknamed Parker, a child's voice asking "Do they talk good?" after an investigator's question, and a clear "Yes" responding to a comment about time having no meaning for spirits. At the haunted Ben Lomond Hotel in Ogden, Utah, a woman's voice declares "It's a white night," later identified as possibly referencing a discontinued Mary Kay perfume.Cook explains that the spirits recorded through EVP appear stuck in this plane of existence rather than having moved on. He advises listeners that personality persists after death, urging people to resolve personal issues during life because mental troubles and unresolved conflicts carry over to the other side.

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December 19, 2001: Computer Hacking - Kevin Mitnick

Dec 192h 47mKevin Mitnick

Art Bell interviews Kevin Mitnick, widely regarded as the world's most famous computer hacker, in his first appearance on the program after years of listener requests. Mitnick traces his fascination with technology back to age 16, when he and friends physically entered a Pacific Bell facility and walked out with technical manuals, with a security guard helping carry them to the car. He describes his hacking motivation as purely intellectual curiosity about how systems work, not malicious intent or financial gain.Mitnick addresses several myths surrounding his case, including the false New York Times report that he broke into NORAD and a prosecutor's claim that he could launch nuclear missiles by whistling into a telephone. Despite these exaggerations, a federal judge held him in solitary confinement for eight months and he ultimately served four and a half years as a pretrial detainee. The government attributed $300 million in damages by simply tallying the research and development costs of source code he accessed.The conversation turns to broader security concerns, including a phone company back door system called SAS that allowed remote wiretapping without court orders, and the FBI's Magic Lantern program, a government-developed Trojan horse capable of logging every keystroke on a target's computer.

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December 21, 2001: Open Lines - Clinically Dead Line

Dec 212h 46m

Art Bell opens the phone lines on a Friday night before the holiday weekend, sharing a remarkable email from a homicide detective whose investigation was guided by the apparition of a murder victim's deceased grandson. The ghost of the young boy, killed by a car two years earlier, led the detective to both the murder weapon and the killer's residence.Inspired by the Pam Reynolds case, Art dedicates a special phone line exclusively to callers who have experienced clinical death. The stories pour in: a man born clinically dead who recalls details of his own birth confirmed by his mother, a woman whose heart stopped from a pulmonary embolism and watched from the ceiling as doctors worked to revive her, and a teenager who spent a month in a coma after a head-on collision and returned with the sense of having lived an entire alternate lifetime.Throughout the night, callers also share guardian angel encounters and ghost stories, including a woman in rural New Mexico reporting real-time paranormal activity in her former chicken coop home. Art repeatedly challenges the scientific explanation offered by physicist Michio Kaku, arguing that dismissing near-death experiences as residual neuron activity is a guess, not science.

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December 26, 2001: Predictions for 2002 - Sean David Morton

Dec 261h 55mSean David Morton

Art Bell welcomes self-described futurist and remote viewer Sean David Morton live from Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, where Morton claims to have won $11,000 at roulette using a remote viewing technique paired with sealed envelope targets. Morton describes his process of correlating four sealed images to quadrants of the roulette wheel, placing $1,000 bets with a reported success rate of five wins out of six attempts.Turning to geopolitics, Morton predicts a seven-year war cycle with the Islamic world beginning in 2001, warns that the United States will pursue Saddam Hussein in a repeat of Desert Storm, and forecasts Colin Powell's possible departure from the Bush administration. He claims Osama bin Laden has fled to Kyrgyzstan and will die a violent public death through betrayal, likely at the hands of Pakistani authorities.On the economy, Morton forecasts a market rebound led by communications technology and home improvement sectors, predicts the NFC will win the Super Bowl, and declares that 2002 will see the first human clone produced offshore on a research vessel. He reiterates his annual prediction that the Pope will die, while suggesting Pope John Paul II is determined to visit Russia to fulfill the Fatima prophecies before passing.

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December 27, 2001: Predictions for 2002

Dec 272h 52m

Art Bell opens a full night of listener predictions for 2002, beginning with a review of last year's forecasts. Of 18 predictions scored, seven proved accurate, a hit rate Art considers remarkable for specific, non-obvious calls. He notes that his audience may be growing more psychic over the years, with each season producing slightly better results than the last.The predictions rolling in reflect a nation still reeling from September 11th. Callers forecast suicide bombers in Times Square on New Year's Eve, a biological attack at the Winter Olympics, and China invading Taiwan by July 4th. A 13-year-old from Oregon predicts terrorists will release smallpox on American soil. Among the few optimistic voices, callers predict a great spiritual revival, increasing appearances of angels, and the merging of alternative medicine with mainstream practice.Art intersperses the predictions with news of the growing India-Pakistan nuclear standoff, a record seven feet of snow burying Buffalo, extreme weather events across the globe, and the bizarre story of a pilotless airplane that flew for two hours over Sonoma County after its owner accidentally left the throttle forward. He also takes a call from a professional asteroid hunter who predicts 2002 will bring the discovery of a near-Earth object requiring active mitigation.

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December 28, 2001: Open Lines - Predictions for 2002 | Lost City Near Cuba - Linda Moulton Howe

Dec 282h 49mLinda Moulton Howe

Art Bell welcomes Linda Moulton Howe for a surprise first-hour visit covering two major stories. Linda reports on megalithic structures discovered 2,200 feet below the ocean off Cuba's western tip by Canadian ocean engineer Paulina Zalitsky. Side-scan sonar images reveal what appear to be pyramids, streets, and buildings with 90-degree angles, and remotely operated vehicle footage shows smooth stone blocks stacked in patterns that Cuban archaeologist Dr. Gabino La Rosa considers difficult to explain naturally. ADC is building a deep water robot to drill samples at the site the following summer.Linda then presents an interview with Dutch cardiologist Dr. Pim van Lommel, lead author of a landmark Lancet study examining 344 cardiac arrest survivors across 10 Dutch hospitals over 12 years. Of those patients, 18% reported near-death experiences, and the researchers concluded that medical factors cannot account for the phenomenon. One patient, clinically dead for over 90 minutes, later identified the nurse who removed his dentures and described the entire resuscitation in detail.The remainder of the program continues with listener predictions for 2002, ranging from Yasser Arafat's assassination to the dead rising from their graves, a grizzly bear killing a Bigfoot in northern Canada, and a caller from New Jersey who fears her candle weather ritual caused Buffalo's record seven-foot snowfall.

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