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Episode Archive

2013 Episodes

Direct links to every Art Bell Archive episode from 2013, inside the Return and Midnight Era (2010-2016) stretch of the archive.

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September 16, 2013: Fate of the Universe - Dr. Michio Kaku

Sep 163h 29mDr. Michio Kaku

Art Bell launches his new SiriusXM program Dark Matter with theoretical physicist Michio Kaku as his inaugural guest. Art admits to nervousness before the premiere but settles into a far-reaching conversation about the fate of the universe, the search for extraterrestrial life, and the frontiers of modern physics. He lays out ground rules for the new show: no bad language, unscreened open lines, and a focus on science, the paranormal, and questions of existence.Professor Kaku explains the discovery of the Higgs boson, comparing the process to throwing a piano from a building and reconstructing it from the crash. He describes dark matter as invisible, ghost-like substance that passes through solid objects and oscillates through the Earth, and shares hopes that the Large Hadron Collider may create it in the laboratory. The discussion turns to whether bigger colliders could pose dangers, with Kaku arguing that cosmic rays already exceed anything humans can produce.The pair explores the explosion of exoplanet discoveries, with Kaku estimating roughly a billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way alone. They debate the Fermi Paradox, the possibility that Type 0 civilizations routinely destroy themselves before advancing, and the prospects for fusion energy within the next decade.

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September 17, 2013: New Energy - Steven Greer

Sep 173h 29mDr. Steven M. Greer

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Steven M. Greer, founder of the Disclosure Project and the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, for a wide-ranging discussion on UFO secrecy and suppressed energy technology. Greer recounts his private briefings with CIA Director James Woolsey and the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, both of whom admitted they were denied access to classified UFO programs operating outside normal government oversight.Greer describes how unacknowledged special access projects have kept extraterrestrial-related information hidden from even the highest levels of government since the Eisenhower era. He details the testimony of FAA official John Callahan, who preserved radar tapes and pilot transcripts from a 1980s encounter between a Japan Airlines 747 and a massive UFO over Alaska, only to have the CIA confiscate the evidence.The conversation shifts to zero-point energy and the suppression of breakthrough technologies that could replace fossil fuels. Greer reveals that over 5,000 patents have been seized under the National Security Act and shares how a contracted inventor working on a free energy device was threatened by a former CIA director. He argues that the secrecy is driven not by fear of public panic but by trillions of dollars in fossil fuel interests.

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September 18, 2013: Alien Encounter - Jonathan Reed

Sep 183h 29mJonathan Reed

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Jonathan Reed, who returns to share what he calls one of the most compelling alien contact cases ever documented. Reed recounts the October 1996 incident near Snoqualmie Pass, Washington, where his golden retriever Susie was killed by a small, dark, vibrating being. After striking the creature with a branch and cracking its skull, Reed became violently ill for hours with symptoms resembling radiation poisoning.Reed describes discovering a black, diamond-shaped obelisk hovering two and a half feet above the forest floor. The object was cold as dry ice and anchored motionless in the air. He photographed everything with 35mm film, wrapped the apparently dead creature in a thermal blanket, and carried it to his Jeep. At home he placed it in a chest freezer, only to discover days later that the being had revived and screamed at him when he opened the lid.The story takes a darker turn as Reed details visits from men in black accompanied by police, the interception of his phone calls by people impersonating MUFON investigators, and the intimidation of friends and colleagues who had viewed the body. Multiple witnesses, including his friend Gary, confirmed seeing the creature firsthand.

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September 19, 2013: NASA's LADEE Moon Mission & Curiosity's Gale Crater - Richard C. Hoagland

Sep 193h 29mRichard C. Hoagland

Art Bell reunites with Richard C. Hoagland, former NASA consultant and science advisor to Walter Cronkite during the Apollo missions, for a spirited examination of alleged ancient structures on the moon. Hoagland presents a 1967 Surveyor 6 photograph showing an anomalous geometric glow above the lunar horizon after sunset, which he interprets as light scattering through the shattered remnants of an enormous glass dome.Hoagland compares the original NASA print from the Goddard Space Flight Center with a 2009 digital version published in a peer-reviewed journal, arguing both show identical geometric patterns unexplainable by natural phenomena. He points to Apollo 12 footage from the film Pinpoint for Science displaying similar layered structures in the lunar sky, and notes that lunar soil samples brought back by astronauts contain an extraordinary percentage of glass fragments.The discussion expands to the newly launched LADEE mission, which Hoagland suspects may carry undisclosed star tracker cameras capable of confirming his dome hypothesis. Art pushes back on the implications, and the two debate whether NASA astronauts may have had their memories of lunar surface observations altered. Hoagland connects the alleged cover-up to broader questions about suppressed technology that could transform civilization.

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September 23, 2013: The Ely, Nevada UFO Crash - Jeremy Meador

Sep 233h 29mJeremy Meador

Art Bell welcomes Jeremy Meador, a Las Vegas researcher, to discuss a little-known UFO crash near Ely, Nevada on July 7, 1952, exactly five years after Roswell. Meador explains that two fiery objects were tracked across multiple states, with Hill Air Force Base scrambling a B-17 to pursue one. The objects converged over northern Nevada, resulting in two separate crash sites near the towns of Montello and Cherry Creek.Witnesses describe a silvery craft with a smooth, liquid-like surface that destroyed 48 feet of railroad track on impact. Ranchers reportedly climbed onto the wreckage before the military cordoned off the area. Meador shares accounts from children who encountered a metallic, robotic being with pincher-like arms on nearby Squaw Peak. He also describes magnetized rock samples from the crash site that multiple geologists have been unable to identify.The investigation has drawn unwanted attention. Meador recounts unsolicited calls from a Hill Air Force Base historian, being followed by blacked-out vans during field research, and learning that men in black impersonated him to interview a witness. He notes that the government later built radar stations overlooking the crash site under the cover of Project High Range.

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September 24, 2013: The Kepler Telescope and the Future Search for ET - Seth Shostak

Sep 243h 29mSeth Shostak

Art Bell sits down with Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, for a conversation spanning the Kepler telescope's demise, new strategies for finding extraterrestrial civilizations, and the implications of first contact. Shostak explains that Kepler's second reaction wheel failure has ended its planet-hunting mission, though years of unprocessed data may yield thousands of new planetary discoveries.Shostak describes a proposal to detect alien civilizations by measuring waste heat from their cities using large optical telescopes focused on stars within 60 light years. He updates listeners on SETI's ongoing search of Kepler's planetary candidates in Cygnus, scanning across an unprecedented range of radio frequencies. Art presses him on whether the government would disclose a confirmed signal, and Shostak walks through official detection protocols, insisting that SETI's decentralized structure makes a cover-up impractical.The two spar over UFO evidence, with Art recounting his own sighting of a silent triangle craft passing 150 feet overhead. They explore how confirming extraterrestrial intelligence would affect religious institutions and debate whether a message revealing alien involvement in life's origins on Earth could ever be made public. Shostak also recalls his advisory role on the film Contact and shares behind-the-scenes production stories.

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September 25, 2013: The God Part of Our Brain - Matthew Alper

Sep 253h 29mMatthew Alper

Art Bell welcomes Matthew Alper, author of The God Part of the Brain, to discuss his provocative theory that human spirituality is hardwired into our neurobiology. Alper argues that the universal nature of religious belief across every culture points to an inherited cognitive function, a brain mechanism that evolved to help our species cope with the overwhelming awareness of mortality.The conversation moves through four pillars of evidence: the sociobiological argument that cross-cultural spiritual behavior suggests genetic origins, neurophysiological findings showing measurable brain changes during prayer and meditation, the genetic basis for why some people are hyper-religious while others are atheists, and the ethnobotanical reality that psychedelic substances can reliably induce religious experiences. Alper also addresses near-death experiences, attributing them to the brain releasing glutamate under oxygen deprivation.Art pushes back throughout, challenging Alper on whether brain-based explanations truly disprove the existence of God or simply describe the mechanism through which the divine might operate. The two spar over whether atheism itself functions as a kind of faith, and whether any evidence could ever change a committed nonbeliever.

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September 30, 2013: UFOlogy, ETs, and MJ-12 - Dr. Michael Heiser

Sep 303h 29mDr. Michael Heiser

Art Bell sits down with Dr. Michael Heiser, a scholar of biblical studies and ancient Semitic languages, to examine where ufology, theology, and ancient texts intersect. Heiser shares the results of his groundbreaking computational linguistics study of the Majestic-12 documents, in which forensic analyst Dr. Carol Chaskey tested authorship attribution on 17 MJ-12 papers. Only one document passed the test, while eight others showed suspicious authorial similarities suggesting a common forger.The discussion ranges across the landscape of extraterrestrial belief. Heiser explains why he finds the ancient astronaut theories of Zechariah Sitchin unsupported by actual Sumerian texts, having personally verified that key claims about the Anunnaki simply do not exist in the cuneiform record. He walks through his creation of searchable databases so anyone can confirm this independently rather than relying on his authority alone.Art and Heiser also explore the compatibility of evolution with religious faith, the philosophical limits of intelligent design arguments, and what the discovery of exoplanets means for the probability of extraterrestrial life. Heiser maintains he would welcome proof of alien existence but insists on holding all claims to rigorous evidentiary standards.

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October 1, 2013: Communion - Whitley Strieber | NASA - Richard C. Hoagland

Oct 13h 29mWhitley Strieber, Richard C. Hoagland

Art Bell presents a packed evening beginning with Richard C. Hoagland discussing Comet ISON and its flyby of Mars, followed by a deep conversation with Whitley Strieber about his landmark close encounter described in Communion. Hoagland walks through a series of images posted at ArtBell.com, including Hubble telescope anomalies in the comet nucleus, the mysterious green coloration caused by cyanogen gas, and his theory that some comets may be ancient derelict spacecraft. He also revisits the infamous Mars anomaly known as Number Nine.Strieber then recounts the harrowing events of December 26, 1985, when he was taken from his cabin in upstate New York and subjected to a terrifying encounter with non-human beings. He describes the insect-like faces, the paralysis, and the physical assault confirmed by his doctor days later. Art and Whitley discuss how the experience destroyed his public life and became a national punchline despite its traumatic reality.The conversation takes a profound turn when Strieber reveals that encounters with deceased loved ones are commonplace in the abduction phenomenon. His wife Ann, after reading hundreds of thousands of letters from experiencers, concluded that the phenomenon has something fundamental to do with what we call death.

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October 2, 2013: Robotics in Paranormal Investigations | Soul Traveler - Dr. Albert Taylor

Oct 23h 29mDr. Albert Taylor

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Albert Taylor, a former aerospace engineer who worked on the International Space Station and the F-117A stealth fighter, to discuss his journey from secret government programs to out-of-body experiences and paranormal robotics. Taylor describes a lifetime of sleep paralysis episodes beginning at age five, which his grandmother attributed to witches stealing his soul, and how he eventually learned these were precursors to full out-of-body travel.Taylor recounts his first verifiable OBE, in which he visited a woman he barely knew and observed specific details about her bedroom, including a heating pad on her leg and her husband sleeping in a separate bed across the room, all confirmed the following day. He discusses navigating the fear that accompanies early experiences and addresses the light-versus-darkness question surrounding near-death, firmly recommending people move toward the light without hesitation.The second half of the show shifts to Taylor current work building autonomous robots for paranormal investigation. Constructed from salvaged electronics, his robots feature 360-degree sensors, night vision, EMF detectors, and solar recharging capability. Taylor explains how these machines eliminate human limitations like fear, fatigue, and restricted field of vision, dramatically increasing both time on station and quality of evidence gathered.

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October 3, 2013: Fukushima, Bigfoot, Animal Mutilations, and Government Knowledge of ETs - Linda Moulton Howe

Oct 33h 29mLinda Moulton Howe

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe for a wide-ranging evening covering Fukushima, Bigfoot, animal mutilations, and extraterrestrial genetic manipulation of life on Earth. Linda opens with a detailed report on the ongoing Fukushima crisis, revealing that 80,000 gallons of highly radioactive water leaked undetected for a month and that fish caught off the coast measured over 2,500 times the legal limit for radioactive cesium.The conversation shifts to Bigfoot when Linda replays a 1978 audio recording of alleged Sasquatch howls captured by a woman in Snohomish, Washington, who watched two eight-foot-tall creatures at her gravel pit. Linda connects this to a witness who in 1977 saw a silver disc descend over the same forest, discharging blue-suited beings followed by a Sasquatch. A sheriff deputy later found massive five-toed prints and a bloodless mutilated deer at the site.Linda then presents her most provocative material on cattle mutilations and resurrection technology described by abductees. She shares testimony from a retired Defense Intelligence Agency officer who claimed his 23-year career involved monitoring territorial conflicts between three competing extraterrestrial groups on Earth, entities that have been genetically harvesting this planet for over 270 million years.

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October 7, 2013: EVP Recordings - Brendan Cook & Jimmy Chunga

Oct 73h 29mBrendan Cook, Jimmy Chunga

Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Jimmy Chunga of the Ghost Investigator Society for a night of genuine electronic voice phenomena recordings. The duo, who have spent over 15 years capturing voices of the dead using digital recorders, present a chilling collection of EVPs gathered from mausoleums, funeral homes, cemeteries, and private residences across the country.The recordings range from unsettling to deeply disturbing. A child's voice in a Boston funeral home pleads to be hidden from monsters. A woman's clinical tone instructs someone to put something in a patient's eyes. At a private home plagued by a dark entity that has followed one family across three residences over ten years, a drawn-out voice hisses pure hatred. Cook and Chunga also discuss the controversial SB7 Spirit Box, a radio-scanning device that some investigators use for real-time spirit communication.Throughout the evening, Art and his guests wrestle with the deepest questions raised by their work. Why do so many EVPs feature children's voices? Are they truly lost souls, or something else entirely masquerading as the innocent and defenseless? The answers, Cook admits, remain more elusive than ever.

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October 8, 2013: What Happens if the US Defaults - Yalman Onaran & John Hogue

Oct 83h 3mYalman Onaran, John Hogue

Art Bell sits down with Bloomberg News reporter Yalman Onaran to examine what a United States debt default would actually mean for ordinary Americans and the global economy. With the debt ceiling deadline of October 17 approaching and Congress locked in a standoff, Art expresses genuine alarm, revealing he has already contacted his banker in the Philippines about transferring funds.Onaran draws a stark comparison to the 2008 Lehman Brothers collapse, noting that U.S. government debt is 25 times larger than Lehman's was. He explains how even the mere debate over the debt ceiling in 2011 destroyed six trillion dollars in global market value. Treasury bill auction yields have already doubled, and Italian and Spanish bond markets are showing signs of panic. Goldman Sachs estimates that cutting all government payments except debt service would shrink the economy by five percent.In the second half, prophecy scholar John Hogue joins to discuss Nostradamus, the prospect of war with Iran, and the cycles of history that drive nations toward repeated conflict. Hogue warns that the 2015-2016 window remains the highest-risk period for a Middle Eastern confrontation and argues that diplomatic breakthroughs, while possible now, face sabotage from forces on all sides.

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October 9, 2013: Fukushima Reactor and Yucca Mountain - Dr. Andrew Karam

Oct 93h 5mDr. Andrew Karam

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Andrew Karam, a radiation safety expert and former nuclear submarine crew member, about the ongoing Fukushima reactor disaster and the future of nuclear energy. Karam, who traveled to Japan one month after the accident, shares firsthand observations and explains the critical difference between detectable radiation and harmful exposure levels.The conversation covers the state of the three melted reactor cores, the risk of spent fuel pool collapse during a typhoon, and cesium-137 contamination spreading through the Pacific. Karam notes that while radioactive material has been detected in tuna as far away as the U.S. coast, current levels remain below natural background radiation. He reveals he received more radiation on his airplane flights to and from Japan than during ten days on the ground near the reactors.The discussion then shifts to Yucca Mountain and the challenge of storing high-level nuclear waste safely for 100,000 years. Art, who lives near the proposed site and gets his water from a well, presses Karam on risks of contamination reaching the water table. Karam points to a natural nuclear reactor in Gabon, Africa, that retained its waste for two billion years as evidence that deep geologic burial can work.

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October 10, 2013: Open Lines

Oct 103h 3m

Art Bell opens the phone lines for a freewheeling Thursday night covering time travel, Bigfoot sightings, and mysterious implants. With the U.S. government still closed and the debt ceiling deadline approaching, Art shares an alarming email from an FDIC employee claiming the agency projects 20 bank failures per weekend if default occurs.Callers bring a wild assortment of stories. A truck driver in New Mexico describes an eight-foot-tall, dark-haired figure crossing the road at 3 a.m. A pipe welder recounts having a shiny stainless steel cylinder removed from his shoulder by doctors who refused to let him examine it. A listener in Arizona describes an enormous, nearly transparent craft traveling along the curvature of the Earth. Others ask about Mel's Hole, John Titor, and the forgotten Dallas Thompson.Art reveals details about his five-acre loop antenna, which generates a mysterious 330-volt charge even on calm, clear days with no wind and no connection to local power lines. He tests Skype for the first time, successfully connecting with a listener in Melbourne, Australia. He also reflects on the spiritual nature of animals after a caller describes hearing his deceased cat's unmistakable meow just hours after she was put to sleep.

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October 14, 2013: Parapsychology and the Paranormal - Loyd Auerbach

Oct 143h 12mLoyd Auerbach

Art Bell welcomes Professor Loyd Auerbach, director of the Office of Paranormal Investigations and a leading figure in parapsychology for over 30 years. Auerbach, who teaches parapsychology at multiple universities and serves as president of the Forever Family Foundation, brings academic rigor to a field often dominated by reality television sensationalism.The conversation ranges across the full spectrum of paranormal research. Auerbach explains the Princeton random event generators that detect shifts in global consciousness during major world events, and Art recalls his own experiments directing millions of listeners to collectively visualize rain over drought-stricken regions. They discuss the science behind psychic healing, the distinction between genuine mediums and cold readers, and the certification processes used to vet mediums through organizations like the Winbridge Institute.The most surprising revelations come from Auerbach's work on an upcoming book about Cold War psychic programs. He describes how Russian military leaders placed trained psychics inside tanks during the Chechnya War and details Soviet efforts to develop psychotronic generators as potential weapons. Auerbach also shares his own field experiences witnessing psychokinesis, including objects moving on command in haunted locations, and explains why the decline of traditional religion has fueled growing public interest in paranormal phenomena.

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October 15, 2013: Alien Encounters, Time Travel, and UFO Sightings - Jim Sparks

Oct 153h 8mJim Sparks

Art Bell welcomes Jim Sparks, a self-described professional abductee who has maintained total recall of his extraterrestrial encounters since 1988. Sparks recounts how his experiences began as recurring dreams before escalating into fully conscious abductions by gray beings, occurring two to three times a week for months at a time.Sparks describes being taught an alien alphabet and number system aboard a craft, where he was initially paralyzed and forced to trace symbols on a screen. Over six years of resistance, he attempted to escape by driving between states and even bought a .357 Magnum to confront his captors. When he finally pointed the weapon at a gray, he found himself unable to pull the trigger. The beings responded telepathically: "We know you are not a killer."The conversation covers mass abductions involving dozens of people in a Florida field, the extraction of tar from his lungs as a gift, and a mysterious black box containing compressed symbolic language. Sparks explains that the beings track human genetic lineages spanning thousands of years and carry a message about environmental stewardship for humanity.

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October 16, 2013: UFO and Paranormal Research - Tobias McGriff & James Fox

Oct 163h 11mTobias McGriff, James Fox

Art Bell welcomes Tobias McGriff, a historian of the strange and founder of Blue Orb Ghost Tours in Savannah, Georgia, alongside filmmaker James Fox, director of I Know What I Saw. The conversation opens with McGriff recounting how he tracked down Fred Hart, a previously silent eyewitness to President Jimmy Carter's 1969 UFO sighting in Leary, Georgia.Hart reveals for the first time that the luminous, color-changing object appeared in the east, contradicting decades of claims that Carter mistook Venus in the western sky. McGriff explains that Carter's sighting was actually the first in a rash of over three dozen UFO reports across southern Georgia between 1969 and 1975, documented through painstakingly recovered newspaper archives.Fox joins to discuss his upcoming film 701, named for the unexplained cases from Project Blue Book. He shares details of the 1994 Ruwa, Zimbabwe incident where 200 schoolchildren witnessed a landed craft and beings who communicated telepathic warnings about environmental destruction. Fox describes flying in four of those now-adult witnesses for their first reunion in 20 years, capturing emotional testimony on camera.

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October 17, 2013: Demons, Spirits, and Ghosts - The Ghost Buster Gals

Oct 173h 6mThe Ghost Buster Gals

Art Bell welcomes The Ghost Buster Gals, Ronnie Renee Foster and Laura Lee Mystica, a duo combining angelic intuition and Wiccan practice to investigate hauntings. The episode opens with a disturbing discussion of the Elisa Lam case, in which a young woman was captured on hotel security footage behaving erratically moments before her body was found in the Cecil Hotel's rooftop water tank.Ronnie and Laura offer their interpretation of the footage, suggesting Lam was manipulated by a dark entity they call a puppet master operating through a hotel employee who was himself under a form of possession. They describe how such beings feed on fear and chaos, and explain the difference between ordinary ghosts, trapped between worlds due to unresolved issues, and darker forces they refer to as cryptos.The Ghost Buster Gals share stories from their decade of fieldwork, including a mass clearing of hundreds of spirits at the Amargosa Hotel near Death Valley. They describe containing a tyrannical entity using an etheric cryogenetics egg, encountering Sasquatch spirits in Canada, and helping veterans cross over peacefully through hospice work with Dannion Brinkley's organization.

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October 21, 2013: Turkish UFOs & Alien Implants - Dr. Roger Leir

Oct 212h 57mDr. Roger Leir

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Roger Leir, a podiatric surgeon who has performed 16 surgeries to remove suspected alien implants from abductees. Leir discusses his return after a severe bout with shingles and shares remarkable findings from years of laboratory analysis on the recovered objects, including the discovery of carbon nanotubes, both single-walled and double-walled, embedded within metallic structures.Leir presents extraordinary video footage from Kumburgaz, Turkey, captured over three consecutive years showing a craft hovering over the sea with apparent occupants visible through ports on the vessel. The footage was analyzed by Istanbul University and a Chilean researcher using frame-splitting technology. A physicist on Leir's team theorizes the recurring appearances at the same time and location may represent a time loop.The conversation turns to what the implants actually do. Leir explains that radio frequency emissions have been detected from the objects in the FM band, and that nuclear physicists on his board have traced isotopic signatures in the implants to a civilization one-third across the Milky Way, estimated to be 80 to 100 million years older than humanity. He believes the devices transmit genetic monitoring data rather than serving as tracking or control mechanisms.

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October 23, 2013: Biological Terrorism in the US - Charles Faddis

Oct 233h 9mCharles Faddis

Art Bell welcomes Charles Faddis, a retired CIA operations officer with 20 years of field experience and former head of the CIA's Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism Unit. Faddis discusses his novel Kaffa, named after a medieval siege where plague-infected corpses were catapulted into a fortified city, historically linked to the spread of the Black Death across Europe.Faddis reveals that biological weapons represent the most realistic terrorist WMD threat facing the United States. He explains how an attack using infected human carriers could unfold undetected for days, since initial symptoms mimic common flu. By the time hospitals identify the pathogen, infected individuals would have already spread it through airports and cities worldwide, potentially overwhelming the nation's antibiotic stockpiles.The conversation covers Faddis's firsthand experience leading the first CIA team of eight operatives into northern Iraq in the summer of 2002, months before the invasion. He confirms the decision to invade was made by February 2002 and describes the intelligence landscape, including Saddam Hussein's paradoxical strategy of destroying weapons while telling his own people they still existed. Faddis advises listeners to prepare for self-quarantine with basic supplies, warning that civil order could collapse rapidly in a serious biological event.

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October 24, 2013: ET and UFO Encounters | Missing Time - Timothy Good

Oct 243h 7mTimothy Good

Art Bell welcomes Timothy Good, one of the world's leading civilian authorities on alien phenomena, for a wide-ranging discussion on extraterrestrial encounters and UFO evidence. Good recounts his own personal experiences with beings he believes were aliens, including encounters in New York, on tour with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and at a debating salon in Poland where a mysterious speaker left no one able to recall his presentation.The conversation covers the controversial claims of George Adamski, whose photographs Good considers genuine and whose meetings with Pope John XXIII are described in detail. Good shares a secondhand account attributed to Neil Armstrong, allegedly admitting that Apollo 11 astronauts were warned off the Moon by enormous craft far superior to anything built on Earth. He also discusses the Amicizia case from Italy, where a professor claimed decades of direct contact with alien beings.Good presents claims of technological transfers from extraterrestrial races to human scientists, including assertions that U.S. Air Force Space Command has operated secret shuttle flights and that certain alien factions are engaged in a long-term conflict over Earth. Callers weigh in with their own sighting reports and challenge Good on the lack of verifiable evidence behind his claims.

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October 28, 2013: The Lost Cycle of Time - Jason Martell

Oct 283h 10mJason Martell

Art Bell sits down with researcher Jason Martell to examine ancient advanced civilizations and the possibility that sophisticated cultures existed long before recorded history. Martell explains how his interest began with structures on Mars and evolved into studying Sumerian cuneiform texts, which he argues contain detailed accounts of human creation, the Great Flood, and cosmological events that predate and parallel biblical narratives.Martell describes the Sumerian account of the Anunnaki and the creation of the first human worker, complete with cylinder seal depictions he interprets as representations of in vitro fertilization. He discusses a roughly 24,000-year cycle recognized by over 30 ancient cultures, which he believes explains the rise and fall of civilizations from golden ages into dark ages. The conversation touches on astronomical alignments at Giza, Gobekli Tepe, and other megalithic sites that point to dates far older than mainstream archaeology accepts.The discussion covers vitrification of stone at ancient sites, the Baghdad Battery, the Dendera light bulb reliefs, and the Planet X hypothesis. Martell shares his recreation of ancient technologies for the History Channel and argues that binary star system models may better explain the orbital mechanics behind Nibiru than traditional single-sun theories.

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October 29, 2013: Fukushima and Nuclear Reactor Hazards - John McAfee & Paul Gunter

Oct 293h 9mJohn McAfee, Paul Gunter

Art Bell speaks with tech pioneer John McAfee and nuclear safety advocate Paul Gunter in a two-part episode covering cybersecurity and the Fukushima nuclear crisis. McAfee recounts his escape from Belize after a dispute with local authorities, including faking a heart attack in Guatemala to avoid extradition. He discusses NSA surveillance, vulnerabilities of the Obamacare website, and his development of D-Central, a device designed to create untraceable floating networks that would thwart government snooping.Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear then delivers a detailed assessment of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. He traces the catastrophe from its origins in regulatory capture and cost-cutting by TEPCO through the sequential explosions of Units 1 through 4 after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Gunter explains that three molten reactor cores remain unlocated, with even robots sent to find them failing to return from the extreme radiation.Gunter warns that the upcoming removal of 400 tons of spent fuel from the damaged and leaning Unit 4 building represents the most dangerous salvage operation ever attempted. He describes ongoing contamination of the Pacific Ocean, biomagnification of cesium-137 through the marine food chain, and the possibility that a future earthquake could trigger a cascading failure dwarfing Chernobyl.

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October 30, 2013: Night Terrors & Dreams - Michael Sebastian & Nicole Sebastian

Oct 303h 9mMichael Sebastian, Nicole Sebastian

Art Bell welcomes dream experts Michael Sebastian & Nicole Sebastian, known as The Dream Team, for an exploration of night terrors, dream intrusion, soul travel, and astral entities. The Sebastians explain that night terrors are often rooted in past trauma or past life memories, and that children under five are especially prone because they retain connections to prior incarnations that fade with socialization.The conversation turns darker as the Sebastians describe how psychic criminals and astral entities can intrude upon dreams, sometimes without the intruder realizing it. Nicole shares a personal account of being frozen and confronted by a malevolent presence while between waking and sleep. They discuss how practitioners of the dark arts can cause harm through dream manipulation, and how public figures face greater risk due to the volume of people focusing energy upon them.The Sebastians offer protective techniques including the HU toning method, wrapping oneself in white light and reverse mirrors, and programming dreams before sleep. They discuss how cats serve as monitors of dark forces, the existence of astral police who enforce spiritual laws, and the claim that death in a dream can result in physical death through heart attack or severing of the silver cord.

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October 31, 2013: Spooky Matter | Ghost Stories

Oct 313h 8m

Art Bell hosts his annual Halloween special, Spooky Matter, opening with ghost photo contest winner Rebecca O'Donnell for her entry, Babushka. The night unfolds as a marathon of listener ghost stories submitted in advance and called in live, with no guests and no barriers between Art and his audience.Callers share accounts from around the world. A soldier in Korea describes military vehicles starting on their own near a site where a serviceman died. A homeowner in Iowa recalls a nine-drawer dresser sliding by itself to block a doorway in a house that would change hands seven times. A Border Patrol agent in Texas recounts stumbling upon a robed ritual circle near the Rio Grande. A woman in Minnesota reports shadow figures, knives flying off tables, and the discovery of human bone fragments buried in her backyard.Other stories include a colonial-era apparition seen simultaneously by a couple in Boston, a child's imaginary friend in Australia who knew details he could not have known, and a volunteer firefighter in Texas who senses a recently deceased accident victim following him home. Art reflects throughout the evening on the nature of hauntings and his belief that the recently dead linger before departing.

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