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2015 Episodes

Direct links to every Art Bell Archive episode from 2015, inside the Return and Midnight Era (2010-2016) stretch of the archive.

98 episodes
Return and Midnight Era
All years
20132016
Era context ยท 2010-2016

Return and Midnight Era

Art returns through Dark Matter and Midnight in the Desert, revisiting old obsessions with a new internet-native audience.

135 era episodes
4 years
2016 ยท 12015 ยท 982013 ยท 262010 ยท 10

July 20, 2015: Quest for the Lost Civilization - Graham Hancock

Jul 202h 37mGraham Hancock

Graham Hancock joins Art Bell for the premiere of Midnight in the Desert, marking Bell's return to live broadcasting after a two-year hiatus. Hancock previews his sequel to "Fingerprints of the Gods," titled "Magicians of the Gods," presenting evidence from roughly 30 university scientists who have identified impact proxies confirming a giant comet struck Earth approximately 12,800 years ago during the Younger Dryas period, triggering a cataclysm that he argues wiped out an advanced predecessor civilization.The conversation spans decades of fieldwork, from five climbs of the Great Pyramid to diving expeditions at Japan's submerged Yonaguni monument. Hancock describes the Ark of the Covenant as possible lost technology, citing Ethiopian guardian monks who reportedly develop cataracts and die within two years of their appointment, suggesting radiation exposure. He discusses ayahuasca's role in consciousness research, recounting how the brew ended his 24-year daily marijuana habit, and names Carl Sagan, Francis Crick, and Steve Jobs as innovators whose breakthroughs were informed by altered states of consciousness.A landmark episode pairing Bell's long-awaited return with one of his most prolific guests and a bold new body of scientific evidence challenging mainstream archaeology.

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July 21, 2015: Biological Warfare - Charles Faddis

Jul 212h 38mCharles Faddis

Charles Faddis, a 20-year CIA clandestine service veteran and former head of the agency's WMD terrorism unit, joins Art Bell for an unflinching tour of global security threats. Faddis, who led the first CIA team into Iraq in 2002, argues that ISIS grew from fundamental fissures in an artificial nation cobbled together by the British after World War I, with formerly secular Ba'athist officers now allied with radical Islamists against Baghdad's Shia-dominated government. He calls the current air-only strategy a slow-motion failure risking a permanent terrorist state in the heart of the Middle East.Faddis dismantles the Iran nuclear deal point by point, noting that military sites are exempt from inspections, enriched uranium transfers depend on Vladimir Putin's good faith, and Iran's ballistic missile program was excluded entirely. He warns that Saudi Arabia could purchase a turnkey nuclear arsenal from Pakistan in response. The conversation covers EMP vulnerability, with Faddis confirming that critical grid transformers are no longer manufactured domestically, before touching on Edward Snowden, suitcase nukes, and his own congressional campaign.A rare episode featuring a career intelligence operator willing to speak with operational specificity about threats most officials discuss only in generalities.

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July 22, 2015: Linda Moulton Howe

Jul 222h 36mLinda Moulton Howe

Linda Moulton Howe, Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and veteran researcher of animal mutilations and UFO phenomena, joins Art Bell for a sweeping Midnight in the Desert broadcast connecting solar system discoveries, mysterious worldwide booms, and Earth's overdue magnetic pole reversal. Howe details NASA's New Horizons findings at Pluto, where 11,000-foot ice mountains and zero impact craters suggest active resurfacing on a world 3.6 billion miles from the Sun, and reports on Saturn's moon Enceladus, where a confirmed 30-mile-deep ocean with 194-degree seafloor temperatures mirrors Earth's life-sustaining hydrothermal vents.The episode's most striking thread involves unexplained booms shaking homes worldwide since 2011. Howe reveals that a Department of Defense geophysicist warned her that "something is going on in the inner core of the Earth," and details a July 2015 Rhode Island beach incident where a woman was catapulted ten feet from her chair, cracking two ribs, while a buried electric cable of unknown origin was found beneath the sand. She ties the phenomena to the most rapid magnetic field decline ever recorded by European Space Agency satellites, a pattern preceding pole reversals in computer models.A masterclass in connecting planetary science, geophysical anomalies, and unexplained phenomena into a coherent, unsettling picture.

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July 23, 2015: Nassim Haramein

Jul 232h 31mNassim Haramein

Nassim Haramein, a self-taught physicist who has spent 30 years researching physics, geometry, and consciousness, joins Art Bell to present his unified field theory and its startling implications. Haramein explains how his peer-reviewed paper predicted the proton's mass and radius more accurately than existing theories, a prediction confirmed two months later by an independent Swiss accelerator measurement that matched his model while contradicting the standard model of physics.The conversation builds toward gravity modulation as civilization's next technological frontier. Haramein connects NASA's EM drive results, which attribute thrust to pushing against quantum vacuum fluctuations, to research involving spinning superconducting disks that reportedly produced a gravitational beam propagating at 64 times the speed of light. He argues that spinning electromagnetic fields at high velocity can warp space-time with far less energy than assumed, enabling craft that pull themselves through gravitational depressions, the same principle Bob Lazar described regarding craft at S4. The discussion extends to CERN's potential influence on Earth's magnetic field, rapid pole shift timelines, consciousness research, and time travel as a consequence of gravity modulation.An episode Art Bell calls "radio platinum," pairing accessible explanations of frontier physics with dramatic real-world implications.

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July 24, 2015: Open Lines

Jul 242h 38m

Art Bell launches a dedicated time traveler phone line routed through Roswell, New Mexico on the fifth night of Midnight in the Desert, producing one of the most memorable open lines broadcasts of his career. Before the calls begin, an Anonymous contact describes the collective as "an emergent phenomenon of the first generation born and raised on the internet," detailing its hive-mind structure and encryption training.The time traveler line delivers callers ranging from entertaining to chilling. A man born in 2078 describes being moved backward through time in five-year increments by a mysterious agency. A caller from 2085 reports three percent of humanity has vanished and a fascist global state requires citizens to be physically tagged. A motorcyclist claims he rides through a projected doorway into the past, losing his bike to Confederate soldiers who melted it for gun metal. Most unsettling, a man says the black-eyed children have enslaved him, each forced trip erasing more of his identity. Between calls, a New Mexico listener recounts witnessing a full Native American ceremony on an Anasazi ruin that left no trace by morning.A night that captures exactly why Art Bell's open lines format remains unlike anything else in broadcasting.

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July 27, 2015: Grant Cameron

Jul 272h 35mGrant Cameron

Grant Cameron, award-winning Canadian UFO researcher, joins Art Bell to argue that consciousness, not propulsion technology, is the most classified element of the UFO phenomenon. Cameron traces his thesis to a 1950 top-secret Canadian document in which American officials told a military liaison that "mental phenomena" might be associated with flying saucers, leading him to conclude that the U.S. encountered telepathic communication during the 1947 Roswell recovery. A civilization capable of projecting thoughts into human minds, he argues, could make any world leader believe they are hearing the voice of God.The conversation challenges conventional abduction narratives. Drawing on 2,000 hypnotic regressions, Cameron contends experiencers consistently report volunteering for contact before birth. He cites a poll of 1,200 experiencers in which only 9 percent would undo their encounter, 43 percent report receiving scientific downloads, and 11 percent claim to have piloted craft. Cameron recounts confronting Vice President Dick Cheney on live radio about UFO briefings, drawing the reply that such information would "probably be classified." The episode opens with abductee Adam Ambrose describing a schoolyard craft landing witnessed by dozens of paralyzed children.A provocative reframing of the UFO question around consciousness, telepathy, and the political reasons disclosure remains suppressed.

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July 28, 2015: Richard Dolan

Jul 282h 37mRichard Dolan

Richard Dolan, UFO historian and author of UFOs for the 21st Century Mind, joins Art Bell for their first-ever conversation, bringing two decades of research grounded in declassified government documents. Dolan describes how FOIA releases hooked him on the subject, citing the 1947 Twining Memo in which a three-star general described flying discs as real and not American, and a 1952 CIA memo acknowledging technology beyond anything known.The discussion maps the political architecture of UFO secrecy. Dolan argues that seventy years of concealment have produced what he calls "a corpse of a republic," with black budgets officially at fifty billion dollars but sustained partly through intelligence involvement in narcotics trafficking. He shares a CIA source's claim that President Carter was found sobbing at his desk after a 1977 UFO briefing, and recounts a dying Army operative who said Eisenhower sent him to Area 51, where he encountered a being that communicated telepathically. Both Dolan and Art Bell express belief in Bob Lazar's core account of craft at S4, while speculating that technical details Lazar received may have been deliberate disinformation.A first meeting between two researchers that traces the institutional machinery behind the longest-running secrecy program in American history.

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July 29, 2015: UFOs & the Paranormal - Preston Dennett

Jul 292h 29mPreston Dennett

Preston Dennett, MUFON field investigator and author of 17 books on UFOs and the paranormal, joins Art Bell for a detailed exploration of out-of-body experiences drawn from thousands of his own conscious astral travels. Dennett describes passing through solid objects with startling specificity: brick feels grainy across the entire body, wood offers moderate resistance, and glass yields like pushing through a bubble. He admits to early failures including bouncing off walls and sinking knee-deep into a staircase.The conversation moves through astral dimensions where colors intensify and thought has immediate creative power, before turning to darker encounters. Dennett recounts finding a deceased friend trapped in a lower realm repeating "I'm not ready," and describes guiding a murdered child's spirit toward the light. He shares a verifiable case of seeing his father's friend in the heavenly realms, then learning the man had suffered a stroke and fallen into a coma. Art Bell shares his own OBE during a trip to Paris, describing overwhelming joy that defied language. Callers include a Marine with lifelong sleep paralysis and a listener who stood on the moon picking up lunar soil.A rare interview where firsthand detail elevates a familiar subject into something genuinely new.

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July 30, 2015: Life Beyond Earth - John Dvorak

Jul 302h 38mJohn Dvorak

Dr. John Dvorak, a Caltech-trained planetary geophysicist who operates one of the largest telescopes on Mauna Kea, joins Art Bell with frontline experience from earthquakes and volcanoes worldwide. Dvorak introduces the concept of earthquake storms, decades-long clusters of major quakes, drawing a direct parallel between California's San Andreas Fault and Turkey's North Anatolian Fault, which produced 13 major earthquakes between 1939 and 1999. He warns that California has been in a seismic lull since 1906 and that a major Bay Area quake would eliminate water, power, and communications for weeks.The conversation spans volcanic hazards, with Dvorak identifying Mount Rainier's ice cap as capable of sending mudflows into Seattle's suburbs, and recounting standing inside Indonesia's Galunggung crater hours before it exploded in 1982. On NASA's New Horizons findings, he confesses expecting a cratered billiard ball at Pluto and was stunned by active geology driven by an unknown heat source, suggesting a possible internal ocean. Dvorak calls the multiverse potentially the century's biggest discovery, noting that quantum computers could only be explained by parallel universes and that gravity waves might cross between dimensions.A scientist equally at home inside volcanic craters and behind telescope eyepieces, delivering hard data with infectious wonder.

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July 31, 2015: Open Lines - Paranormal Stories

Jul 312h 36m

Art Bell dedicates a full Midnight in the Desert broadcast to paranormal open lines, drawing callers with firsthand accounts of ghosts, UFO encounters, and unexplained phenomena. An Australian recounts a 1967 breakdown near Pine Gap, the secretive American installation, where a worker described anti-gravity experiments from a UFO crash between Russia and China and beings with thin vertebrae suggesting a low-gravity origin.An Iowa City caller tells an escalating story of a woman in a nightgown appearing barefoot in the snow, leaving no footprints, then reappearing over months before standing in the highway screaming silently with a dark stain across her gown. A former military policeman on Okinawa describes a legless apparition inside a building once used to store corpses. An Oklahoma caller recounts a gray alien in his headlights for 45 seconds before it cleared a thirty-foot fence at extraordinary speed. A California witness watched a massive light rise from Monterey Bay trailing kelp before hovering near a power plant. A Hawaii teenager memorized a phone number during a lucid dream by watching someone dial it, confirming the number was correct the next morning.A night Art Bell calls one he will remember forever, powered entirely by the audience.

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August 1, 2015: Church of Satan - Blanche Barton

Aug 12h 14mBlanche Barton

Blanche Barton, former High Priestess of the Church of Satan and companion to founder Anton LaVey, joins Art Bell for a frank exploration of a philosophy widely misunderstood. Barton establishes that the Church does not worship a literal devil. Satan serves as metaphor, she explains, and the name functions as a litmus test forcing people to confront what they have been conditioned to fear without examination.Art Bell presses Barton on what he sees as a contradiction: if magic is real, how can she deny a creator? Barton holds firm, describing ritual work as a laboratory where practitioners build focused emotional energy and release it, citing emerging consciousness research as a potential scientific framework. She offers a vivid portrait of LaVey as carnival musician, hypnotist, and police photographer who distilled human hypocrisy into a coherent philosophy, and flatly denies the circulated claim of a deathbed conversion, stating she was present in his final moments. The 1980s Satanic Panic receives extensive treatment, with Barton noting the FBI found no evidence of an international conspiracy despite two legislatures attempting to ban Satanism as a religion.Long-form talk radio doing what Art Bell argues it exists to do: examining what others will not.

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August 3, 2015: Open Lines - Shadow People Stories

Aug 32h 39m

Art Bell shares his own shadow person encounter before opening the phones for one of Midnight in the Desert's most compelling nights. Sitting in his ham shack, Art Bell saw a partially transparent being appear to his right, vanish, reappear behind him, then shift left. He fled and grabbed a gun but found nothing.Callers flood in. A woman describes years of being followed by a shadow she connects to hexes placed by her father, whose disapproval preceded her husband's death on a motorcycle her father sold him. An Australian woke to find a cloaked figure reaching her ceiling that spoke "everything will be all right" before she fell instantly asleep. A caller who faced his shadow without fear watched it become an eight-foot praying mantis. A high school marcher encountered his doppelganger on the band field, then heard his own voice deliver announcements two years later while sitting in class. A deceased father visited his daughter's dream to expose her boyfriend, telling her to check Facebook where his wife's account had been created one hour earlier.A night where Art Bell's personal experience unlocks an extraordinary wave of listener testimony about shadow people, doppelgangers, and visitations from the dead.

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August 4, 2015: Jay Weidner & Stanton Friedman

Aug 42h 37mJay Weidner, Stanton Friedman

Stanton Friedman, nuclear physicist and original civilian Roswell investigator, and Jay Weidner, filmmaker and hermetic traditions scholar, join Art Bell for an Apollo moon landing debate that takes an unexpected turn. Weidner argues that while astronauts may have reached the moon using classified propulsion, every photograph and video shown to the public was fabricated using front-screen projection perfected by Stanley Kubrick during 2001: A Space Odyssey. He cites a 1965 U.S. Information Agency document evaluating top filmmakers including Kubrick, production values improving suspiciously from mission to mission, and NASA's destruction of the original moon landing videotapes.Friedman pushes back but concedes more than expected, acknowledging a NASA source confirmed most photography resulted from post-processing enhancement. Both guests express disbelief the original tapes were erased. Weidner claims Buzz Aldrin became physically ill when asked about his lunar experience, and that Edgar Mitchell sought hypnotherapy because he could not remember his time on the moon, a detail Art Bell confirms from his own Mitchell interview. Friedman places much of the evidence in what he calls his large gray basket of unresolved questions.An evening Art Bell ends genuinely rattled, not because his guests agreed, but because of what their convergence implies.

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August 5, 2015: Flat Earth Debate - Jon "the Morgile" & Josh Grindlay

Aug 52h 37mJon "the Morgile", Josh Grindlay

Art Bell stages a 90-minute flat earth debate between Jon "the Morgile", an anonymous skeptic known on YouTube, and Dr. Josh Grindlay, an astrophysicist with over 500 papers and Guggenheim and American Physical Society fellowships. Art Bell blows through a break to keep the exchange uninterrupted.John presents an alternative model: an infinite plane with the North Pole at its center, the sun circling 3,000 miles overhead, and Antarctica forming the outer rim. He argues buildings visible from fifty miles should be below the horizon on a curved surface, that flight times should differ on a spinning globe, and that gravity is a theoretical fantasy. Dr. Grindlay counters with inertial frames, atmospheric optics, and centuries of physics, while John dismisses Apollo footage, Hubble imagery, and NASA's Pluto flyby as fabrications. Dr. Grindlay exits graciously, telling John the beauty of science is at his fingertips and returning to a primitive cosmology is a shame. Callers include an Australian flat earth convert and an Israeli who suggests crowdfunding a conference aboard a 747 that flies until it lands where it started.A debate Art Bell calls "Radio Gold," staged not to settle the question but to let every argument be heard.

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August 6, 2015: Bigfoot Discovery Museum - Michael Rugg

Aug 62h 37mMichael Rugg

Michael Rugg, curator of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in California's Santa Cruz Mountains, joins Art Bell with a childhood encounter that launched a lifetime of research. Around 1950, Rugg wandered from his parents' campsite on Northern California's Eel River and found a towering figure covered in reddish-brown hair on an open sandbar, a memory suppressed for decades until a book passage triggered a flashback his mother corroborated.Rugg presents a possible Bigfoot tooth found near his museum that seven dentists identified as resembling a human molar but far too large. He details Bill Munns' frame-by-frame Patterson-Gimlin film analysis, in which the Hollywood makeup artist with 30 years of costume experience proved the figure is not wearing a suit. Rugg describes his fieldwork approach: sitting quietly in documented sighting areas projecting kind thoughts rather than carrying weapons, based on his belief that Sasquatch retain sensory powers humans lost. He explains Melba Ketchum's DNA study, where genome sequencing showed human X chromosomes paired with Y chromosomes matching nothing in known databases, suggesting a hybrid cross roughly 60,000 years old.A researcher whose childhood encounter and decades of fieldwork converge into one of the most grounded Bigfoot investigations on record.

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August 7, 2015: Alien Abductions - Travis Walton

Aug 72h 38mTravis Walton

Travis Walton, the Arizona logger whose 1975 alien abduction remains one of ufology's most documented cases, joins Art Bell from Snowflake, Arizona to revisit the night that defined his life. Walton retraces the events: his crew encountering a metallic disc in the Apache National Forest, the energy blast that threw his body 10 to 20 feet, and the crew's terrified flight. He describes waking aboard the craft surrounded by small, grayish-white beings with large eyes, lashing out in panic before a human-looking figure led him into a hangar containing multiple craft.All seven crew members passed polygraph examinations, with the American Polygraph Association stating the odds of collective error exceeded a million to one. An EEG at the Barrow Neurological Institute under a false name revealed brainwave patterns consistent with neurological injury. New research by former FBI agent Ben Hansen found trees nearest the site show accelerated growth on the side facing where the craft hovered, mirroring radiation patterns near Chernobyl. Walton now believes the blast was a propulsion side effect and his abduction was essentially an emergency medical response rather than a planned capture.Forty years later, a case whose physical evidence, witness corroboration, and medical documentation remain unmatched.

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August 10, 2015: Remote Viewing - Joe McMoneagle

Aug 102h 16mJoe McMoneagle

Joe McMoneagle, Remote Viewer 001 and 20-year participant in Project Stargate, joins Art Bell with a resume spanning the CIA, NSA, DIA, FBI, and most major Defense Department commands. McMoneagle describes how the Army recruited him not by asking for psychics but by identifying soldiers inexplicably exceptional at their jobs. His first Stanford Research Institute test produced a p-value of .003 across six trials, and the program went operational within three months when the Iran hostage crisis required identifying embassy staff from 500 photographs.McMoneagle recounts his 1970 near-death experience, arriving at an Austrian hospital without a heartbeat for 8 to 15 minutes, passing through a tunnel into white light he now believes represents the "totality of identity" across lifetimes rather than God, because he noticed it had edges. On remote viewing's reach, he cites experiments targeting outer-rim planets before Explorer satellites and his 1983 viewing of the Great Pyramid's construction, describing features confirmed by archaeology 13 years later. He predicts sea-level rise will inundate coastal nuclear plants and says Florida is already in trouble.An interview Art Bell says he could have continued for hours, with the most credentialed remote viewer to have served American intelligence.

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August 11, 2015: SETI - Seth Shostak

Aug 112h 13mSeth Shostak

Dr. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer and director of SETI Research, joins Art Bell for a conversation that turns into a direct confrontation with claims made by Stephen Greer on a previous broadcast. Shostak describes the Allen Telescope Array scanning 30 million channels simultaneously and credits Moore's Law for doubling search capability every few years.Art Bell plays audio of Greer claiming SETI founder Frank Drake told him the institute received and suppressed interplanetary signals. Shostak responds that he personally asked all four scientists connected to the project, including Drake, and none had heard of Greer. He notes Greer places the Wow signal at Harvard when it was detected at Ohio State, and asks why a privately funded organization would suppress the discovery that would secure its future. Shostak confirms he chaired the committee that wrote international detection protocols, which contain no secrecy provisions. On the Wow signal itself, decades of follow-up with more sensitive equipment have never reproduced it, and modern real-time analysis has eliminated the ambiguous detections that plagued earlier methods. After decades of searching, no confirmed extraterrestrial signal has been received.A sharp, good-humored exchange between a veteran broadcaster and a scientist willing to answer every challenge directly.

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August 12, 2015: Open Lines - September Doom

Aug 122h 17m

Art Bell opens the phones after a guest cancellation and discovers a defining theme: widespread dread about September 2015. Americans are stocking up on emergency supplies anticipating economic collapse, natural disaster, or judgment. Art Bell frames it through a metaphor he returns to all night: humans as animals sensing a predator on soft paws, aware something is closing in even if they cannot name it. He cites a Lloyd's of London report projecting potential global collapse from food and water shortages within 30 years.Callers from Michigan, Belgium, the Philippines, and London echo the same unease. A London caller offers the most grounded prediction: a stock market correction from hot money leaving China after the yuan devaluation, and describes a migrant crisis overwhelming Europe largely invisible to American audiences. Three time travelers call, including an Australian "fixer" who corrects timeline disruptions for a shadowy agency with only 17 hours of advance knowledge. Perhaps most affecting is a Spokane woman who has never planned for a long-term future because she has always sensed she would not need one, filling her life with serendipitous adventures instead.A night capturing something difficult to name: the collective intuition of an audience sensing change.

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

Aug 142h 14mAndrew Basiago

Andrew Basiago, a Washington State lawyer with six academic degrees, joins Art Bell claiming participation in two classified defense projects involving time travel and teleportation. Basiago describes DARPA's Project Pegasus achieving eight modalities of time travel by 1970, from remote viewing to physical teleportation via Tesla-derived technology. He recounts teleporting at age six from New Jersey to Santa Fe and being sent to Gettysburg on November 19, 1863, where he claims a photograph of Lincoln's address contains his dematerializing image.The episode's climactic revelation comes when Basiago describes a 1971 visit to ITT Defense Communications in Nutley, New Jersey, where a young technician working on a chronovisor identified himself as "Arthur William Bell III." Art Bell, audibly stunned, confirms he worked for ITT in Nutley on a classified project during that exact period, information he has rarely discussed publicly. Basiago frames this as evidence of adjacent timelines where Art Bell worked on chronovision rather than waveguide propagation at the same facility.An episode that delivers a revelation tailor-made for its host and an audience primed to hear it.

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August 17, 2015: ET Contact - Joe Rogan & David Sereda

Aug 172h 19mJoe Rogan, David Sereda

Joe Rogan, comedian, UFC commentator, and podcast host, joins Art Bell in the first half for a conversation anchored by his DMT experiences. Rogan describes DMT as a neurotransmitter present in the human brain, lungs, and liver as well as thousands of plant species, producing encounters with entities that communicate through telepathic language and geometric patterns. He connects the telepathic contact users report to classic abduction narratives and speculates that endogenous DMT released during REM sleep may explain many such experiences. Rogan discusses sensory deprivation tanks, inviting Art Bell to try his Float Lab, and credits Terence McKenna's appearances on Art Bell with shaping his psychedelic interests.The second half features David Sereda, who presents a framework for faster-than-light communication by calculating the resonant frequencies of distant stars using their circumference and the speed of light. Sereda claims that by inducting Pleiadian star frequencies into his nervous system through copper coils, he achieved contact with beings and remote-viewed Pluto's atmosphere days before New Horizons confirmed it. Art Bell plays calculated tones of five Pleiadian suns alongside NASA's recording of our own.A night moving from DMT entities and deprivation tanks to quantum physics and Pleiadian frequencies without losing a step.

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August 18, 2015: Exorcism - Father Jack Ashcraft

Aug 182h 16mFather Jack Ashcraft

Father Jack Ashcraft, a traditional Byzantine Catholic priest called the Malachi Martin of the 21st century, joins Art Bell for a conversation on exorcism, Vatican corruption, and the paranormal's intersection with Christian theology. Ashcraft reveals that Martin himself worked for Cardinal Bea in the 1960s, participating in subversive forces at Vatican II before switching allegiances, and suggests Martin's fatal fall was suspicious given he had been preparing to expose a bishop.The broadcast centers on demonic possession. Ashcraft distinguishes levels from temptation through oppression to "perfect possession," where the host has voluntarily surrendered control for money, fame, or power. He describes his most frightening case: a Kentucky woman whose home featured levitating objects and words appearing on walls, witnessed by a psychiatrist and by Ashcraft himself. Art Bell connects the discussion to his recent Blanche Barton interview, noting it seemed pleasant until he re-listened and recognized what Ashcraft confirms: Satan comes as an angel of light. Ashcraft breaks down LaVeyan Satanism as self-worship dressed in ritual psychodrama versus practitioners who recognize a literal entity, calling them flip sides of the same coin.A priest willing to address the subjects that made Malachi Martin both celebrated and feared.

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August 19, 2015: TWA Flight 800 - Jim Sanders & Bill Birnes

Aug 192h 19mJim Sanders, Bill Birnes

Bill Birnes, bestselling author, and Jim Sanders, retired police investigator turned journalist, join Art Bell to present evidence that TWA Flight 800 was accidentally shot down by the U.S. Navy during a 1996 exercise. Sanders argues the automated Cooperative Engagement Capability system locked onto the delayed 747 in restricted airspace and fired without human intervention. He presents video obtained through 19 years of FOIA requests showing what he describes as a missile contrail rising before an explosion, footage seized from a cameraman and classified until 2015.Sanders details witness testimony including a woman who saw a missile strike where the wing meets the fuselage, and National Guard pilots who saw missiles converge on the aircraft. He recounts obtaining seat fabric with a red residue a missile scientist identified as consistent with a thermite warhead, for which the government indicted him on felony conspiracy. Sanders refused to reveal his source despite prosecutors threatening his wife, a TWA flight attendant. Birnes reveals that Pierre Salinger held Mossad satellite imagery concluding the Navy shot down the plane, a detail Sanders could not share while Salinger lived.Art Bell signs off: "I guess they don't always tell us the truth, do they?"

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August 20, 2015: EVPs - Barbara McBeath & Brendan Cook

Aug 202h 13mBarbara McBeath, Brendan Cook

Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeth of the Ghost Investigators Society return after years away for a marathon playback of EVP recordings from nearly two decades of fieldwork. The five original GIS members have been together since 1998, and the material they bring ranges from whispered phrases on analog tape to voices captured in abandoned asylums.The most harrowing recording comes from an empty room in a mental asylum in Ogden, Utah, where a microphone left running captured a child saying "help me" and "can't breathe," accompanied by water sounds and a heavy thud. Brendan waited two days before telling anyone. Both investigators hope the recording is a residual loop rather than an intelligent spirit reliving the experience. Other clips include a voice responding "talk to the dead" at a funeral home, a child crying "I can't see" near entombed infants, and a spirit asking "you guys dead?" at a cemetery, implying the dead may not know whether they address the living. Brendan surprises everyone by recommending cell phones in airplane mode as effective EVP recorders, a revelation Art Bell calls stunning.The night ends with a promise: the GIS will return for a Halloween special with their most powerful recordings.

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August 21, 2015: Open Lines - Pact with the Devil

Aug 212h 17m

Art Bell declares a special phone line after the Vatican's International Association of Exorcists announces demonic possession at "emergency levels." The question: have you made a deal with the devil? Such a pact need not involve a contract but can be sealed in one's own mind, and Art Bell warns repeatedly that the deal is irrevocable. The line never stops ringing.A caller describes exchanging blood with a self-described vampire at a Hollywood Gothic club at 21, trading his soul for unlimited women. Now 38, he estimates over a hundred partners with only "a quick bout of chlamydia" as downside. A woman recounts offering her soul during catastrophic childbirth, crying out to "anyone" for her daughter's survival. The heartbeat picked up moments later. Most unsettling, a caller confesses praying as a teenager for the devil to take his stepmother's life. Months later she died in a car accident. He was nearly catatonic, knowing the source. Art Bell plays the infamous recording purportedly captured by Russian scientists who lowered a microphone into the deepest borehole drilled in Siberia: agonized screaming. "Sounds crowded," he observes.A night where the devil line never stopped ringing, not once, across the entire broadcast.

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August 24, 2015: Global Consciousness - Dean Radin

Aug 242h 15mDean Radin

Dr. Dean Radin, chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, joins Art Bell to discuss scientific evidence for psychic phenomena and the yogic abilities known as siddhis. Radin reveals the Global Consciousness Project has accumulated results at three-trillion-to-one odds against chance using a worldwide network of random number generators that detect moments of coherent global attention. He describes deploying quantum noise generators at Burning Man, where 60,000 attendees provide natural conditions for measuring coherence during collective events.Drawing from his book Supernormal, Radin frames telepathy, precognition, and psychokinesis as inherent human capacities. Laboratory research consistently shows weak but significant effects, while the strongest practitioners have powerful incentives to stay hidden. He describes experiments where remote influencers measurably affect concentration, and tests where skin conductance changes depending on whether someone watches via closed-circuit video. A caller recounts premonitory visions for two months before September 11, waking that morning beside Building 7. Radin notes the Project detected a trend three hours before the attacks, and reveals his team conducts genome analyses comparing psychic families to controls, searching for gene networks that could be targeted pharmacologically.Art Bell signs off calling Radin "years ahead of the scientific community with regard to consciousness."

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August 25, 2015: Global Market Turmoil - Gerald Celente | Rendlesham Forest - Peter Robbins

Aug 252h 14mGerald Celente, Peter Robbins

Gerald Celente, founder of the Trends Research Institute, joins the first hour to dissect the global market turmoil. Celente argues China is "the canary in the global equity mine," pointing to the Bloomberg Commodity Index at sixteen-year lows, Brazil's real down thirty-six percent, and Canada in recession. He traces the crisis to post-2008 bailouts he calls fascism, noting six banks were convicted for rigging rates yet no one went to prison. Celente forecasts gold past $2,000 and predicts Trump would win if the election were held that day, comparing him to Berlusconi.The second half features Peter Robbins on the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident: three consecutive nights of events over RAF Bentwaters in December 1980, including Sergeant Penniston's encounter with a triangular craft and Colonel Halt's famous audio recording of an object overhead, aired by CNN in 1985. Robbins unveils a photograph with a previously unnoticed object matching witness Larry Warren's drawings of the craft encountered on the ground. The interview turns contentious when Robbins airs grievances against Halt and Nick Pope. Art Bell pushes back, and callers agree the infighting undermines the case.A split-format night pairing economic forecast with one of the most important UFO cases in history.

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August 26, 2015: Artificial Intelligence - Marcus Hutter

Aug 262h 18mMarcus Hutter

Professor Marcus Hutter, researcher at Australian National University and author of "Universal Artificial Intelligence," joins Art Bell for a three-hour conversation on machine intelligence. Hutter developed the first mathematically complete theory of AI, and his first PhD student co-founded DeepMind before Google acquired it for half a billion dollars. He rates current capabilities: chess at a perfect ten, speech recognition around seven, autonomous driving at three, cooking robots at one.The conversation moves from narrow capabilities to existential questions. Hutter estimates self-aware AI roughly 30 years away and lays out paths: machines viewing humans as threats, cyborgification where brains atrophy as function transfers to implants, or consciousness uploaded into simulation. He argues consciousness emerges from information processing, using the neuron replacement thought experiment: swap neurons one by one for artificial equivalents and consciousness never disappears. Art Bell asks whether a digitized brain would need sleep. Hutter says yes, since the brain performs essential processing during rest a simulation would replicate. He suggests lawyers may be among the next professionals displaced, since legal work relies on knowledge bases and rules computers handle naturally.An episode where the math behind artificial intelligence meets the question of what it means to be conscious.

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August 27, 2015: Anti-Aging - Dr. Ronald Klatz

Aug 272h 21mDr. Ronald Klatz

Dr. Ronald Klatz, the physician who coined "anti-aging medicine" and founded the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine overseeing 100,000 practitioners across 105 countries, joins Art Bell spanning stem cells, cannabis therapeutics, and broken American healthcare. Klatz points to Harvard data showing a nearly 25-year life expectancy gap between college-educated women in Bergen County, New Jersey at 91.5 years and American Indian women receiving government healthcare in South Dakota at 68, calling the difference the "anti-aging dividend" of preventive medicine.Klatz details stem cell therapy now working for arthritic joints and torn ligaments using adult and amniotic cells, with the long-term promise of repairing every organ. On cannabis, he describes over 104 cannabinoids in the plant with separate effects, noting the psychoactive THC can be removed while leaving compounds that stimulate immunity, reduce inflammation, and improve sleep. He tells the charming story of Lex, his aging Airedale who regained black fur, lost visible cataracts, and lived to nearly 17 after hormone replacement therapy. Klatz estimates 90 percent of an anti-aging program costs under $4,000 annually, with 60 percent achievable without a doctor simply by following reputable literature.A physician making the case that aging itself is the disease worth treating.

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August 28, 2015: Open Lines - Truth or Trash

Aug 282h 18m

Art Bell unveils Truth or Trash, a game show format where callers tell stories, true or fabricated, and a jury of fellow listeners renders a verdict. A caller describes accidentally crossing the Area 51 perimeter and being fined $650 by armed interceptors. The jury splits evenly. Every word was invented, and Art Bell admits he was completely sold by the details.A San Francisco woman tells of willing herself to meet David Bowie during his 1990 tour using Wiccan focusing techniques from Salem. She raced across Quebec City as elevator doors opened to reveal Bowie and his bodyguards. She curtsied. Unanimously voted truth, confirmed true. A caller claims a twin absorbed in utero discovered during a football physical until a sharp juror presses on medical terminology the caller cannot produce, unraveling the lie. A trucker describes his friend dangling 500 feet below a helicopter after a finger got wedged in a bucket release. The jury splits. Entirely true. A man dreamed his cat dead on the porch, woke, and found it lying in exactly that position.The fabricators succeed with mundane, specific details that make true stories believable, while genuine accounts sometimes sound too strange for the jury to accept.

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August 31, 2015: Asteroids & the Cosmos - Dr. David Darling

Aug 312h 16mDr. David Darling

Dr. David Darling, British astronomer and science writer, returns to Art Bell after eleven years for a conversation spanning asteroid defense, extraterrestrial life, and consciousness. Art Bell poses a vivid scenario: a six-mile asteroid with five years' warning. Darling's answer is sobering. Nuclear weapons might produce a shotgun blast of fragments still on course, and deflection requires decades of lead time. Even confirming the object would strike Earth could take a year of orbital calculations.Darling predicts definitive evidence of extraterrestrial life within 10 to 15 years through spectroscopic analysis of exoplanet atmospheres, where oxygen or methane combinations would constitute near-proof of biology. He suggests advanced civilizations may have merged with their machines, becoming synthetic intelligences communicating by means humans cannot comprehend. The interview's most striking turn comes when Darling reveals views he calls unconventional for a scientist: consciousness is more fundamental than the brain, persists after death, and the brain acts as receiver rather than generator. He frames reincarnation as continuation of awareness, drawing on his books "Soul Search" and "Zen Physics: The Science of Death and the Logic of Reincarnation."A scientist who follows evidence from asteroid trajectories to what survives when the body is gone.

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September 1, 2015: EVPs - Patrick Burns

Sep 12h 16mPatrick Burns

Patrick Burns, paranormal investigator and star of TruTV's Haunting Evidence, joins Art Bell from Savannah, Georgia, where he leads ghost tours through a city "built on its dead." Burns traces his career to his brother Billy's 1985 death, a loss that ignited a search for afterlife evidence. Savannah's reputation stems from an estimated 1,000 to 6,000 slave graves beneath Calhoun Square alone, never disturbed because Southern foundations rarely dig deep.Burns plays EVP recordings captured on an obsolete BlackBerry with its radio disabled. At Arthur Smith Antiques, a voice responds "hey, you, come inside." A recording on the shop owner's death anniversary captures "I'm with God." Outside 432 Abercorn, cackling laughter comes through before the Skype connection fails. At an Atlanta plantation house, an unearthly screech follows a voice saying "go." Burns's own name is called in clipped fashion at Calhoun Square, something he says happens so regularly he has lost count. At the Mercer Williams house from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, a voice says "fall" when Burns addresses Tommy Downs, an 11-year-old who fell from the roof in the 1960s.A night of recordings from a city whose dead have no intention of staying quiet.

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September 2, 2015: Open Lines - Married to an Alien Line

Sep 22h 23m

Art Bell opens a special phone line out of Roswell for anyone who believes they are married to an alien. The lines fill immediately and stay jammed all night, Skype crashing under the volume.A Midwest caller describes his wife of fifteen years as devoid of emotion, functioning perfectly but disconnected from feeling. From New Orleans, a man claims his wife bleeds "Gerber green," the color of baby food. Most dramatically, a caller who witnessed his wife shape-shifting in sleep, skin turning grayish and reptilian, loses the connection when she apparently overhears. Beyond the alien line, an Apple Valley caller describes a time-slip where his bedroom reverted to childhood and he regressed to age nine. A first-time caller shares an abduction memory from age four where everyone went catatonic and floated toward a spacecraft while a helmeted being lifted her. An Australian named Peter was woken by a whispered voice and found his stepdaughter suffocating between bed and wall. Art Bell reaffirms belief in Colonel Corso's Roswell testimony, calls Bob Lazar a friend whose story never changed, and clarifies he never spoke with John Titor.Art Bell drops "America" from his sign-off, acknowledging the worldwide audience with a simple "Goodnight."

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September 2, 2015: UFO Center - Peter Davenport

Sep 22h 19mPeter Davenport

Peter Davenport, director of the National UFO Reporting Center since 1994, joins Art Bell for what both call the most profound of their many programs together. His center hosts 102,000 sighting reports, with monthly volume doubling over the past decade.Davenport details his passive radar proposal: antennas listening for reflections of FM and television signals off airborne objects, covering North America with six to eight stations under $750,000. He reveals in 2004, a CIA officer delivering the daily presidential briefing called to say building the system would answer whether UFOs are real. The broadcast turns when Davenport ventures into what he calls ufology's darkest territory: the possibility a landing has already occurred and alien species may be manipulating events. He emphasizes he has no proof, basing this on instinct from decades of immersion. He revisits the Phoenix Lights, describing the chevron as 7.4 miles tip to tip, and recounts its instantaneous jump from Camelback Mountain to Sky Harbor faster than a witness could track. He connects the timing to President Clinton's knee injury and a reported jump from DEFCON 5 to DEFCON 3.Art Bell closes noting this marks the most profound statements Davenport has ever made on the air.

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September 3, 2015: Weird Creatures - Linda S. Godfrey

Sep 32h 16mLinda S. Godfrey

Linda S. Godfrey, Fortean investigator and author of 16 books on strange creatures, joins Art Bell with 23 years of eyewitness accounts describing large, upright, wolf-like beings typically seven feet tall with yellow-green eye shine. Godfrey traces her career to 1991 Wisconsin, when a county animal control officer opened an official folder labeled "werewolf" containing reports from witnesses who did not know each other. One woman described a creature squatting by the roadside holding roadkill in upturned palms.Godfrey distinguishes the dogman from Bigfoot by its canine muzzle, fangs, and backward-bending hock, and from skinwalker entities whose red glowing eyes suggest something more sinister. Trail cameras consistently malfunction when bait is taken by something leaving large canine prints. Multiple witnesses report emptying weapons into these creatures with no effect. A Ho-Chunk elder with a doctorate in anthropology told Godfrey these beings existed longer than humans and move between worlds. She documents footprints beginning in snow-covered fields with no approach tracks and discusses the connection between winged creature sightings and tragedy, from Mothman and the Silver Bridge to bat-winged humanoids appearing before an unexplained drowning in La Crosse, Wisconsin.Twenty-three years of investigation from the journalist who opened the file.

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September 4, 2015: Time Traveler - Michael "Mad Man" Marcum

Sep 42h 16mMichael "Mad Man" Marcum

Mike "Mad Man" Markham resurfaces after nearly two decades of silence. Art Bell first interviewed the young Missouri experimenter around 1995, dubbing him "Mad Man" out of fear he would cook himself. Markham then vanished completely. Tonight he explains why.Markham describes building a teleportation apparatus in an Overland Park warehouse: concentric cylinders surrounded by electromagnets producing three million volts across 24 phases, standing 17 feet wide and elevated 35 feet to prevent arcing. After over 200 tests displacing objects and animals up to 150 yards along an east-west axis attributed to Earth's magnetic field, Markham rode a cherry picker to the top and jumped. He woke in a field near Fairfield, Ohio, 800 miles east, with total amnesia. At a Cincinnati homeless shelter, a newspaper revealed he had skipped two years. His fingernails were unchanged, with no facial hair growth or burns. When he returned to the warehouse, a new tenant occupied the space. The machine, footage, and journal were gone. A caller who heard the original broadcasts confirms the story has remained consistent across 20 years.Art Bell urges Markham not to fry himself but not to give up, because the world needs people willing to push boundaries.

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September 7, 2015: Missing 411 - David Paulides

Sep 72h 15mDavid Paulides

David Paulides, former law enforcement officer with twenty years in street crimes and SWAT, joins Art Bell to discuss Missing 411: 1,600 documented disappearances across national parks. The investigation began when a ranger described a pattern others quietly discussed. The Park Service quoted $1.4 million to compile missing persons records and told a congressman asking about a vanished girl: "Don't touch it."The profile is unsettling. Victims vanish with no suspects or evidence. Search dogs cannot find scent or refuse to engage. Victims appear miles away over impossible terrain, often missing clothing, near water, with fevers and no memory. Two intellectual extremes are overrepresented: physicists and physicians on one end, individuals with cognitive impairment on the other. Paulides details six-year-old Dennis Martin's disappearance during hide-and-seek in Great Smoky Mountains, where Green Berets arrived by helicopter with independent communications, the Park Service concealed witness information from the family, and the monitoring FBI agent later committed suicide. Art Bell presses for a theory all night. Paulides declines, explaining that offering one would destroy his credibility with law enforcement and victim families who trust him.He has never found a case where someone vanished while carrying both a firearm and a personal transponder.

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September 8, 2015: Witchcraft - Debbie Anderson

Sep 82h 18mDebbie Anderson

Debbie Anderson, criminal defense attorney in Washington, D.C. and third-degree witch in the Blue Star tradition, joins Art Bell bridging courtroom law and magical practice. She confirms witchcraft can kill but such power takes decades to develop, and anyone skilled enough is wise enough to rarely use it, framing lethal force through common law self-defense.Anderson describes lighting a "smart candle" before trials and reports winning every one of roughly two dozen gun cases following the Heller decision. She wears her pentacle openly in court alongside Masonic pins from Le Droit Humain, a co-Masonic lodge admitting men and women equally. On ethics, she refuses love spells that override free will, citing the threefold return and "harm none, do as ye will." Her reincarnation view differs from Buddhism: witches enjoy being on Earth and view each life as opportunity rather than a cycle to escape, suggesting souls may incarnate on other inhabited worlds between lifetimes. A caller announces he has been praying against Anderson, claiming credit for the night's persistent Skype failures. She responds that Satanism requires belief in Satan, which requires Christianity, and she follows none of those faiths.Art Bell names Anderson the show's resident witch by night's end.

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September 9, 2015: Bigfoot in the Back Yard - Elaine

Sep 92h 16mElaine

Art Bell welcomes Elaine, a first-time radio guest from rural East Texas, who shares her extraordinary nine-year experience living alongside a Bigfoot and its offspring on her isolated property. After relocating from Hawaii in late 2006, Elaine noticed rabbits being freed from cages, rocks hitting the house, and a persistent feeling of being watched before a face-to-face encounter with a massive, light-colored creature standing over eight feet tall.Elaine describes the creature as intelligent and aware, capable of unplugging surveillance cameras, avoiding detection, and distinguishing between familiar and unfamiliar vehicles. Her son Sierra corroborates the sightings, recalling glowing yellow eyes behind a hay bale illuminated by a million-candle-power flashlight. The family has collected audio recordings of screams and vocalizations but has been unable to photograph the elusive being.Callers share their own Bigfoot encounters from across the country, while Elaine reveals unsettling details including a possible assault by a creature years earlier and her decision to leave food offerings as a gesture of coexistence. She expresses a protective instinct toward the creature despite the constant unease it brings to her daily life.

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September 10, 2015: Space Warp Technology - David Pares

Sep 102h 16mDavid Pares

Art Bell interviews Professor David Pares, president of Space Warp Dynamics and adjunct professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, who describes his decades-long quest to build a functional space warp motor. Pares traces his inspiration to a 1969 UFO sighting of a silver disc that banked without losing altitude and accelerated instantly out of sight, an event that redirected his entire career toward the sciences.Pares explains how pilots caught in thunderstorms have experienced unexplained linear displacements of 100 to 300 miles, most notably Bruce Gernon in 1970, whose Beechcraft Bonanza traversed from Bimini to Miami Beach in roughly one second. Drawing on Miguel Alcubierre's 1994 theoretical framework and the discovery of antimatter generation within thunderstorms, Pares details how his team replicated cross-field conditions in the laboratory using custom-built fractal antenna arrays.His experiments at less than 100 watts have produced measurable laser compression, redshift, and movement of both ferrous and non-ferrous materials toward the motor. Now building Model 14 with plans to scale up to 4,000 watts, Pares projects that the exponential relationship between power input and spatial compression could eventually allow his quarter-scale Bluebird 2 craft to lift off the ground by year's end.

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September 11, 2015: Open Lines - Atheist Debate & Planet X

Sep 112h 17m

Art Bell opens the lines on a wide-ranging Friday night that centers on two volatile topics: the impending September 23rd doomsday predictions and a spirited atheism debate. Art expresses frustration that the Planet X believers who flood his inbox with urgent warnings refuse to call in and defend their claims on the air.Ronald from North Hollywood obliges, announcing that he and his wife are packing up and heading to Mount Shasta to ride out an asteroid impact he believes will strike Puerto Rico on September 23rd. His evidence draws from YouTube documentaries, hidden references in Hollywood films, and the Pope's upcoming U.N. visit. Michelle, calling from Japan, and other callers challenge Ronald's reasoning, pointing out the impossibility of pinpointing an asteroid's landing zone and the lack of any scientific confirmation. A caller named Cody insists Planet X is real and shares his plan to survive underground in mountain storm drains.In the second half, Art sets up a debate between Matt, a self-described atheist from Denver, and a caller from Manila who identifies himself as "His Holy Eminence Junior." The exchange quickly turns personal before touching on the nature of belief, consciousness, and whether morality requires a divine source.

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September 14, 2015: Crop Circles - Charles Maxwell

Sep 142h 16mCharles Maxwell

Art Bell speaks with filmmaker Charles Maxwell about the hidden science of crop circles and his attempt to build a propulsion drive from their decoded geometry. Maxwell recounts investigating formations across Wiltshire, England, where he estimates 95 percent are hoaxes but a small number display blown apical nodes and microwave or plasma signatures that defy conventional explanation.Working with electrical engineer Nicola Romanski, Maxwell articulated three verified crop circles into 3D wireframe models using Autodesk software. The blueprints revealed boundary conditions for an electromagnetic field, a klystron-like microwave array, and a rotating disc structure resembling a flying saucer. Maxwell invested 150,000 dollars to build a prototype called Sweet Potato using neodymium magnets and a plasma ignition system, but hit insurmountable engineering obstacles with disc rotation and mounting.He then consulted physicist Nassim Haramein, who confirmed the team was correct about rotation and plasma manipulation but advised that spinning the electromagnetic field rather than physical metal was the key breakthrough needed. Maxwell also discusses the fertility science connection to ancient sites built over electromagnetic anomalies and researcher W.C. Levengood's findings that crops growing in genuine circle formations show 20 to 30 percent greater protein yield.

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September 15, 2015: Loyd Auerbach

Sep 152h 20mLoyd Auerbach

Art Bell welcomes parapsychologist Loyd Auerbach, director of the Office of Paranormal Investigations and co-author of ESP Wars, for a conversation covering psychokinesis, ghosts, near-death experiences, and Cold War psychic espionage programs. The episode opens with Art debunking a viral hoax claiming Pope Francis warned of hellfire from above, a fabricated story that had fueled September doomsday panic across the internet.Auerbach distinguishes between conscious apparitions and residual hauntings, explaining that most ghost experiences involve loved ones appearing at the moment of death to say goodbye. He describes witnessing psychokinetic events firsthand, including a glass ashtray launching into the air at the haunted Banta Inn and objects moving inside sealed rooms during experiments with the late author Martin Caidin, creator of The Six Million Dollar Man. Auerbach reveals that the key to psychokinesis is not forceful concentration but a calm, visualization-based altered state similar to an athlete being in the zone.The discussion turns to Soviet research on psychic Nina Kulagina, whose apparent telekinesis was traced to histamine-laden sweat generating electrostatic fields strong enough to move objects. Auerbach also addresses poltergeist phenomena, attributing them not to spirits but to unconscious psychokinetic outbursts from living people under stress.

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September 16, 2015: Shadow People - David Weatherly

Sep 162h 15mDavid Weatherly

Art Bell welcomes paranormal investigator David Weatherly to discuss the deeply unsettling phenomenon of shadow people. Art opens the show by sharing his own terrifying encounter with a shadow being in his ham radio room, describing a semi-transparent human-shaped figure that appeared on his right, then behind him, then to his left before vanishing with a faint visual effect resembling a portal.Weatherly draws on over 35 years of research to explain that shadow people reports span centuries, from medieval accounts of phantom monks to modern encounters worldwide. He discusses the spectrum of experiences, from silent observers to rare physical attacks, including a harrowing account of a man dragged by a shadow being with glowing red eyes. The conversation explores theories linking these entities to other dimensions, the stone tape theory, and how emotional turmoil or altered consciousness may create conditions for encounters.The discussion expands to include black-eyed children, mysterious figures who appear at doorsteps demanding to be invited inside, and the grinning man phenomenon. Callers share their own shadow people experiences from around the world, while Weatherly offers practical advice including playing classical music as a potential deterrent against these disturbing visitors.

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September 17, 2015: Rendlesham Forest UFO - John Burroughs

Sep 172h 18mJohn Burroughs

Art Bell speaks with John Burroughs, the only military witness present on all three nights of the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident near RAF Woodbridge in England. Burroughs recounts how he and his supervisor first spotted strange lights in the forest during a routine patrol on December 26, 1980, and how radar confirmation of an unknown object led to an authorized off-base investigation.Burroughs describes approaching a glowing red oval object surrounded by white light, feeling intense static electricity, and losing all memory of what followed. Under hypnosis, he recalled entering the object and receiving telepathic communication. Sergeant Penniston reported touching a triangular craft with glyphs that triggered a binary code download, later corroborated by a 1986 CIA remote viewing session conducted before any details were public.The conversation takes a dramatic turn as Burroughs reveals the U.S. government altered his military records to deny he served during the incident and classified his medical files. A CIA doctor ultimately helped save his life after exposure to terahertz radiation shredded his heart valve. Senators Kyle and McCain intervened to restore his records and secure disability benefits for injuries officially recognized as sustained in the line of duty at Rendlesham Forest.

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September 21, 2015: NDEs - Dr. Jeffrey Long

Sep 212h 16mDr. Jeffrey Long

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Jeffrey Long, a radiation oncologist and founder of the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation, who has studied over 4,000 NDEs in the largest scientific investigation of the phenomenon ever conducted. Dr. Long explains that between 9 and 18 percent of people who come close to death report lucid, organized experiences when their brains should be incapable of conscious awareness.The discussion covers consistent elements found across NDEs regardless of culture, religion, or geography: out-of-body experiences with verified observations of resuscitation efforts, passage through a tunnel toward an unearthly light, encounters with deceased loved ones, life reviews, and a boundary between life and death. Dr. Long presents evidence including blind-from-birth individuals who report detailed visual NDEs, experiences under general anesthesia unaffected by powerful medications, and people declared dead in morgues who later revive with vivid accounts.Callers share remarkable stories, including a man from Toronto who nearly materialized in his aunt's living room in Hawaii while gravely ill, confirmed by his aunt witnessing twinkling lights on her floor. Dr. Long addresses skeptical arguments about brain chemistry and electrical stimulation, finding none adequate, and shares data suggesting 27 percent of NDErs encountered evidence of prior existence.

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September 22, 2015: Climate Change - Dr. Kevin Trenberth

Sep 222h 15mDr. Kevin Trenberth

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Kevin Trenberth, a distinguished senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, to discuss climate change as Pope Francis arrives in the United States with the issue high on his agenda. Dr. Trenberth presents evidence for a warming planet, citing rising global temperatures, a 40 percent decrease in Arctic sea ice since the 1970s, accelerating sea level rise, and a 40 percent increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide since pre-industrial times.The conversation covers mechanisms connecting fossil fuel consumption to observable changes, including the ice albedo feedback loop where melting ice exposes darker surfaces that absorb more heat, ocean acidification, and the relationship between warmer oceans and more intense storms. Dr. Trenberth explains how a strong El Nino in the Pacific will likely bring heavy rains to drought-stricken California, potentially causing flooding after years of devastating wildfires.Art presses Dr. Trenberth on solutions, and the scientist advocates putting a price on carbon to incentivize renewable energy innovation. Callers challenge the economic implications, while Dr. Trenberth notes that climate disasters already cost tens of billions annually and that sea level projections of two to three feet by 2100 could devastate coastal cities worldwide.

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September 24, 2015: UFOs & Alien Abductions - David Jacobs

Sep 242h 21mDavid Jacobs

Art Bell welcomes retired Temple University history professor Dr. David Jacobs, who has investigated over 1,150 abduction cases during his decades of research. Dr. Jacobs presents his controversial conclusion that the alien abduction phenomenon is not benevolent but represents a systematic program of hybridization, with beings he calls "hubrids" now being integrated into human society.Dr. Jacobs explains that abductions begin in infancy and continue throughout a person's lifetime, often numbering in the hundreds, with a consistent focus on reproductive procedures including extraction of sperm and eggs. He describes a hierarchy of hybrid types, from those who appear half-alien to human-looking "hubrids" specifically bred to blend into society. According to his research subjects, these hubrids possess the ability to neurologically control human thoughts and actions, making them undetectable and essentially unchallenged.The professor details how abductees report being compelled to teach hubrids everyday skills like shopping, driving, and furnishing apartments, all while forgetting these interactions immediately afterward. He characterizes what he calls a global acquisition program orchestrated by insectoid beings, noting that no religious invocation or act of resistance has proven effective against their neurological control. Art and callers grapple with the staggering implications of these claims.

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September 25, 2015: Open Lines - Anything Goes & I'm Losing My Mind Line

Sep 252h 21m

Art Bell opens the phone lines for an anything-goes Friday night, introducing a special segment he calls the "I'm Losing My Mind" line for listeners who feel pushed to the edge by modern life. Callers share their frustrations with society, from anxiety attacks to political absurdity, while others recount deeply personal paranormal encounters.A geologist in his fifties describes a chilling meeting with a stranger at a Starbucks who knew details about his life, warned him not to travel to Alaska in October, and whispered "Love you, Grandpa" before vanishing without a trace. Multiple callers report shadow people encounters, including one man who physically wrestled a dark figure in his basement bedroom and another who watched a seven-foot shadow entity standing over his dog in the kitchen. A woman from Australia admits she can read minds after a lifetime of abduction experiences.Art reads a published account of shadow people attacks and takes calls ranging from a self-proclaimed vampire struggling with a sudden thirst for blood to a man in Saskatchewan who believes he saw his parents before he was born. The night becomes a vivid cross-section of human strangeness, fear, and wonder.

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September 28, 2015: Unsolved Mysteries - Nick Redfern

Sep 282h 23mNick Redfern

Art Bell welcomes British-born author and journalist Nick Redfern to discuss the real Men in Black, a phenomenon far stranger than its Hollywood portrayal. Redfern traces the mystery back to Albert Bender, a 1950s UFO researcher in Connecticut whose International Flying Saucer Bureau was thriving until three pale, short, fedora-wearing entities materialized in his home, communicated telepathically, and warned him to abandon the subject. Bender complied, shutting everything down and never returning.Redfern describes receiving 40 to 50 new MIB reports per year, with witnesses consistently depicting entities around five feet tall, unnaturally pale, emotionless, and unable to perform basic human tasks like eating with utensils. He draws striking parallels to Dr. David Jacobs' research on alien-human hybrids, noting that both MIB and hybrids camouflage themselves with hats and sunglasses while struggling to mimic human behavior. The discussion extends to black-eyed children, the hat man, and shadow people as potentially related phenomena.Art and Nick explore how these entities appear to employ mind control, compelling witnesses to open their doors despite obvious danger, yet retreat quickly when someone breaks free of their influence. Callers from Thailand, Romania, and Australia weigh in with their own theories.

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September 29, 2015: Nuclear War - Steven Starr

Sep 292h 23mSteven Starr

Art Bell speaks with Steven Starr, director of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the University of Missouri and associate member of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, about the catastrophic consequences of nuclear war. Starr explains that a single 800-kiloton warhead can ignite 150 square miles simultaneously, and a full U.S.-Russia exchange would produce up to 180 million tons of smoke, blocking 70 percent of sunlight and plunging Earth into temperatures colder than the last ice age for years.Even a limited exchange between India and Pakistan involving just 100 atomic bombs would generate enough stratospheric smoke to reduce global crop production for a decade and potentially starve two billion people. Starr notes that the U.S. and Russia maintain roughly 2,000 launch-ready weapons each, capable of firing in under 15 minutes, and that a single high-altitude detonation over the East Coast could knock out 60 nuclear power plants through electromagnetic pulse.Art shares his own experience answering the DEF CON phone at Amarillo Air Force Base during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Starr laments that no leader of a nuclear weapons state has publicly acknowledged peer-reviewed science showing nuclear war represents a self-destruct mechanism for the human species.

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September 30, 2015: OBEs - Dr. Albert Taylor

Sep 302h 23mDr. Albert Taylor

Art Bell reunites with Dr. Albert Taylor, a former aeronautical engineer who worked on the International Space Station, the F-117A stealth fighter, and the Strategic Defense Initiative, to discuss out-of-body experiences. Taylor recounts how spontaneous OBEs began disrupting his life so frequently that he sought psychiatric evaluation, only to receive a clean bill of health. Left without a medical explanation, he turned his scientific training toward documenting the phenomenon.Taylor shares his step-by-step technique for inducing OBEs, which he calls the interrupted sleep method. He advises setting an alarm for two in the morning, staying awake for about an hour, then lying perfectly still until the body drops off while consciousness remains alert. He describes the telltale signs of separation: loud buzzing, rushing wind, paralysis, and sometimes hearing your own body snoring. Fear, he emphasizes, is the primary barrier.The discussion takes a profound turn when Taylor reveals that during OBEs he has encountered deceased relatives and communicated through shared emotion rather than spoken words. He describes these meetings as confirmation that consciousness survives physical death. Callers share their own experiences, including one man whose cat appeared to separate from its body alongside him during an OBE.

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October 1, 2015: Father Michael Maginot

Oct 12h 30mFather Michael Maginot

Art Bell speaks with Father Michael Maginot, a Catholic priest from the Diocese of Gary, Indiana, who performed an exorcism on the Ammons family in a case that received worldwide attention. Father Maginot explains the theological framework of possession, tracing evil to Lucifer's rebellion, and details how curses and occult practices open doors to demonic influence.The case began when a mother and three children moved into a Gary house and experienced escalating phenomena: swarms of horse flies, muddy footprints from the basement, pounding on locked doors, and children waking with unexplained blood. At a hospital, multiple professionals witnessed a nine-year-old boy walk backwards up a wall and flip over his grandmother. A seven-year-old was thrown against walls and spoke in a growling voice about death. Father Maginot's investigation pointed to the mother's ex-boyfriend as the source of a curse.During his visit to the home, Father Maginot witnessed lights that responded to conversation, Venetian blind rods swaying in coordination, wet footprints materializing around the mother, and convulsions triggered by placing a crucifix on her forehead. He performed multiple exorcisms, finding the old Latin rite most effective in clearing the demonic presence from the mother and, through her, the children.

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October 2, 2015: Open Lines - I Married an Alien

Oct 22h 15m

Art Bell opens the show addressing behind-the-scenes crew drama, then launches into a freewheeling open lines night with a special twist: the "I Married an Alien" line. Inspired by recent discussions with Dr. David Jacobs about alien-human hybrids living among us, Art invites listeners who suspect their spouse may not be entirely human to call in.The calls range from deeply personal to wildly entertaining. One man describes his wife as emotionless and cold from the moment they married, while another from New Orleans claims his wife bleeds green and has alien relatives from a distant star system. A third caller recounts being taken to an alien home planet with his then-wife for a reproductive study, delivering his account with deadpan humor. Between the alien spouse calls, listeners share ghost encounters, abduction memories from childhood, and a moving story from a nurse who watched her deceased sister appear to speak after flatlining.Art weaves the evening together with his trademark curiosity, balancing humor with genuine interest in each caller. He also fields questions about Mel's Hole, John Titor, Bob Lazar, and Colonel Philip Corso, making for one of the most varied open lines episodes of the series.

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October 5, 2015: Gravity - Dr. Tess Gerritsen

Oct 52h 22mDr. Tess Gerritsen

Art Bell welcomes bestselling author and physician Tess Gerritsen to discuss her novel Gravity, a thriller set aboard the International Space Station that Art considers one of the finest books he has ever read. Tess describes her two years of research at NASA's Johnson and Kennedy Space Centers, immersing herself so deeply in astronaut culture that she dreamed of weightlessness each night.The conversation takes a sharp turn when Tess reveals that the blockbuster film Gravity bears striking similarities to her book and an alternate third act she wrote in which satellite debris destroys the station and leaves the heroine drifting untethered. A confidential source informed her that director Alfonso Cuaron had once been attached to direct the adaptation of her novel. Her lawsuit against Warner Brothers was dismissed, and Tess shares the troubling statistic that no writer has won an intellectual property case against a Hollywood studio in the Ninth Circuit in two decades.The discussion shifts into the nature of evil, touching on sociopathy, the biblical Nephilim, and strange correspondence Tess received from self-identified non-human entities after publishing The Mephisto Club. Multiple industry insiders warned her that major studios employ occult protections known as egregory in legal matters.

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October 6, 2015: Time Travel - Ronald Mallett

Oct 62h 22mRonald Mallett

Art Bell sits down with Professor Ronald Mallett, a research professor of physics at the University of Connecticut, to explore the science behind time travel. Professor Mallett shares the deeply personal origin of his lifelong obsession: the death of his father from a heart attack at age 33, when Ronald was just ten. Reading H.G. Wells' The Time Machine at eleven sparked a determination that shaped his entire career.The professor explains how Einstein's theories of relativity provide the foundation for manipulating time. He details his breakthrough discovery that circulating beams of light in a ring laser can twist space and potentially bend time into a loop, allowing information to travel into the past. Art and Professor Mallett discuss the differences between sending information versus people through time, the grandfather paradox, parallel universe theory as proposed by Hugh Everett III, and the costs of experimental verification.The conversation also covers quantum entanglement, the safety of CERN's Large Hadron Collider, and whether advanced extraterrestrial civilizations may have already achieved time travel. Art raises the question of whether we should be watching for messages from the future, and Professor Mallett explains why such signals would require a specialized receiver to detect.

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October 7, 2015: Sounds of Sasquatch - Ron Morehead & Scott Nelson

Oct 72h 27mRon Morehead, Scott Nelson

Art Bell presents some of the clearest Bigfoot audio recordings ever captured, joined by researcher Ron Morehead and retired Navy crypto-linguist Scott Nelson. Ron recounts how he first encountered Sasquatch vocalizations at a remote Sierra Nevada camp in 1971, where creatures approached the shelter nightly and interacted with his group over several years. The recordings, known as the Sierra Sounds, were authenticated by Professor Kirlin at the University of Wyoming.Scott Nelson, who spent 35 years analyzing foreign language communications for the U.S. Navy, explains why the recordings contain unmistakable markers of genuine language. He identifies conversational turns between two creatures, repeating morphemes, inquiry and response inflections, and a full spectrum of emotions from aggression to humor. Art plays multiple recordings, including a striking exchange between what sounds like a male and female in heated discussion, rhythmic body slapping, rock cracking between two creatures, and whooping calls.Ron describes seeing a creature moving between trees with impossible speed and finding 25-inch tracks with a 13-foot stride. Both guests discuss the possibility that Bigfoot possesses intelligence far beyond what most researchers assume, with Ron suggesting a paranormal dimension based on unexplained lights and anomalous sounds observed at camp over the years.

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October 8, 2015: Hacking - Kevin Mitnick

Oct 82h 22mKevin Mitnick

Art Bell welcomes Kevin Mitnick, once the FBI's most wanted hacker, for a conversation about computer security, social engineering, and his extraordinary life as a fugitive. Kevin traces his path from childhood magic enthusiast to phone phreak to federal prisoner, explaining how his fascination with understanding systems led him to compromise 40 major corporations and spend years evading federal authorities.Kevin shares gripping stories from his fugitive years, including setting up an early warning system that monitored FBI agents' cell phones, leaving a box labeled "FBI Donuts" in his refrigerator the night before a raid, and hacking the prison phone system while in solitary confinement. He describes spending a year in solitary after a prosecutor convinced a judge he could launch nuclear missiles by whistling into a pay phone, and later serving five years in custody after being tracked down in North Carolina.Now a trusted security consultant, Kevin discusses modern threats including ransomware, tech support scams from overseas call centers, the Sony Pictures hack, and the massive Office of Personnel Management data breach. He explains why he remains skeptical that North Korea was behind the Sony attack and demonstrates how even major companies remain vulnerable to simple social engineering.

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October 9, 2015: Open Lines - Scott Free Line

Oct 92h 23m

Art Bell opens the phone lines for a freewheeling Friday night, featuring a special "Scott Free Line" where callers confess things they got away with. He begins with a provocative story about George H.W. Bush allegedly telling a crowd that Americans "can't handle the truth" about UFOs, and asks callers throughout the night whether the former president and CIA director really said it.The Scott Free confessions range from a man who smuggled marijuana through Mississippi and narrowly avoided a police search, to a caller who sold LSD on communion wafers in high school, to a former contractor who did illegal intelligence work in Indonesia only to get fined for cigarettes in Singapore. Between confessions, callers share UFO sightings, a chilling Ouija board experience that led to the dark web, and a firsthand account of feeling a dying neighbor's spirit pass through a doorway.The night takes a memorable turn when JC Webster calls to announce he has "arisen" from his wilderness exile, claims a divine revelation under the blood moon, and proposes marriage to Kim Davis live on the air. Art fields it all with sharp humor and a two-drink maximum rule for callers.

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October 10, 2015: Bigfoot Sounds - Ron Morehead & Scott Nelson

Oct 102h 38mRon Morehead, Scott Nelson

Art Bell welcomes Bigfoot researcher Ron Morehead and retired Navy crypto linguist Scott Nelson to examine the famous Sierra Sounds, audio recordings captured over several years at a remote wilderness camp in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The recordings, made beginning in 1971, feature striking vocalizations that Nelson identifies as containing virtually every characteristic of human language, including conversational turns between a male and female creature.Morehead recounts how hunters first encountered the creatures and began recording their vocalizations using portable cassette recorders. He describes brief sightings of large, incredibly fast beings moving between trees, 25-inch footprints with 13-foot stride lengths, and strange paranormal occurrences including unexplained lights and sounds with no visible source. Nelson explains that his decades of military experience transcribing foreign voice communications allowed him to immediately recognize articulated language in the recordings.The episode features seven distinct audio samples played on air, ranging from aggressive vocal exchanges and eerie whistling interactions to rhythmic rock clacking and what Morehead calls "the question," a vocalization seemingly directed at the researchers. Both guests agree the creatures possess intelligence far beyond what most people assume, and Nelson notes he produced 75 pages of transcription from roughly 90 minutes of tape.

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October 12, 2015: Psychedelic Research - Dr. Dennis McKenna

Oct 122h 23mDr. Dennis McKenna

Art Bell sits down with ethnopharmacologist Dr. Dennis McKenna, brother of the late Terence McKenna, for a wide-ranging discussion on psychedelic research and its implications for understanding consciousness. McKenna describes his decades of fieldwork in the Amazon studying ayahuasca and tryptamine-based hallucinogens, and explains how FDA-approved clinical trials at Johns Hopkins and NYU are demonstrating remarkable therapeutic results with psilocybin.McKenna presents striking data from psilocybin research, including smoking cessation rates of 60 to 80 percent in lifetime smokers after just two high-dose sessions with counseling. He discusses how psilocybin helps terminal cancer patients overcome existential anxiety, and describes evidence that ayahuasca rewires brain neurochemistry by upregulating serotonin transporters linked to depression and addiction. Art presses McKenna on whether the entities encountered during DMT experiences represent genuine contact with another dimension or neurochemical phenomena.McKenna navigates the line between scientific rigor and phenomenological honesty, acknowledging that everything humans experience is a model constructed by the brain, and that psychedelics may simply tune the receiver to a different frequency. He argues the war on drugs has been a trillion-dollar failure and advocates for education over prohibition, while callers share their own experiences with ayahuasca in Peru.

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October 13, 2015: Dr. Barry Taff

Oct 132h 26mDr. Barry Taff

Art Bell reunites with parapsychologist Dr. Barry Taff, who spent nine years at UCLA's parapsychology lab and has investigated over 4,000 cases involving ghosts, poltergeists, and abductions while consulting for the CIA, NSA, DARPA, and the FBI. Taff reveals his lifelong ability as a medical intuitive, describing how since childhood he has seen inside people's bodies and detected illnesses without examination.Taff provides a detailed account of the famous Entity case from 1974, where a woman named Doris Bither in Culver City reported being assaulted by an unseen force. His team documented ice-cold temperature drops, a nauseating decomposition odor, and luminous lime-green orbs that coalesced into the apparition of a large male torso witnessed identically by 25 people. Taff concludes the phenomena were poltergeist activity generated by Doris herself, triggered by the interaction between her temporal lobe epilepsy and the electromagnetic properties of her environment.The discussion expands into precognition, remote viewing, and Taff's theory that long-term memories may be stored externally rather than in the brain. He describes a precognitive remote viewing experiment at UCLA where researchers accurately described a randomly chosen subject one week before she arrived, including her family connection to the actor who played Zorro.

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October 14, 2015: Disclosure - Steven Greer

Oct 142h 22mDr. Steven M. Greer

Art Bell opens with breaking news about the star KIC 8462852, where astronomers detected a light pattern suggesting possible alien megastructures, before welcoming Dr. Steven M. Greer of the Disclosure Project. Greer reacts by noting that classified programs have already imaged massive artificial objects in our own solar system, citing sources at the Naval Research Labs who described structures hundreds of miles in diameter.Greer makes several first-time revelations, naming Dr. Frank Drake, Jim Malaney, and George Fennell as senior scientists who independently confirmed that SETI received extraterrestrial signals that were kept secret. He claims the public SETI search functions as a smokescreen while classified programs possess far more advanced detection technology. Art challenges Greer on why these people would carry the secret, and Greer describes career-ending threats directed at those who attempt disclosure.The conversation turns to suppressed energy technologies, with Greer describing a cleared engineer near Redstone Arsenal who was developing a prototype free-energy device with authorization before being shut down by threats from a separate compartmented program. Greer argues that the real reason for UFO secrecy is not the existence of extraterrestrials but the revolutionary energy technologies their craft imply, which would collapse the global fossil fuel economy.

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October 15, 2015: Reality Shifting - Cynthia Larson

Oct 152h 20mCynthia Larson

Art Bell welcomes physicist and author Cynthia Larson to discuss the science behind reality shifts and the Mandela Effect. The conversation opens with breaking news about KIC 8462852, the distant star exhibiting mysterious light dips that have serious scientists speculating about alien megastructures, before transitioning into the nature of shifting realities.Larson explains how quantum physics principles like superposition and entanglement may operate at every scale of existence, not just the subatomic level. She describes her research into cases where people remember events differently than recorded history, including the widespread false memory of Nelson Mandela dying in prison. Her surveys show that roughly 27 percent of respondents share this alternate recollection. She also connects spontaneous disease remissions to the same quantum framework, citing her grandmother's inexplicable recovery from inoperable liver cancer.The discussion expands into quantum biology, embodied cognition research from Harvard, and whether the Large Hadron Collider's work has increased collective awareness of parallel realities. Art and Larson also explore artificial intelligence, the nature of consciousness, and whether humans can learn to intentionally make quantum jumps between possible outcomes.

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October 16, 2015: Open Lines - Super Power Line

Oct 162h 23m

Art Bell opens the phone lines for a Friday night open lines session with a special superpower line reserved for callers who possess extraordinary abilities. The evening begins with a recap of the week's biggest story, the mysterious star KIC 8462852 and its possible alien megastructures, along with a chilling coded military emergency action message recorded on a SAC frequency.Callers share a wide range of experiences. A man from Albuquerque claims he can hear normal conversations from 1,000 feet away, a woman from Illinois reports frequent precognitive dreams that her daughters also share, and a listener in Utah describes a hypersensitive sense of smell that allowed her to diagnose patients during her years as an ER nurse. Art also fields calls about the technological singularity, the Library of Babel website, and a caller from Scotland who rings in at six in the morning local time.Between calls, Art discusses Playboy's decision to remove nudity, a possible return of the Phoenix Lights based on a new photograph, and an underground landfill fire in Missouri creeping dangerously close to buried nuclear waste. The show features multiple Skype calls from listeners worldwide, including Switzerland and Australia.

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October 20, 2015: Hubrids Part II - David Jacobs

Oct 202h 21mDavid Jacobs

Art Bell welcomes back retired Temple University professor David Jacobs for the second part of their discussion on human-alien hybrids, or "hubrids," who Jacobs claims are now living among the general population. The show opens with news that the Large Hadron Collider hopes to make contact with a parallel universe, and that Vice President Biden has decided not to run for president.Jacobs describes how hubrids are placed into apartments in small groups as young adults. Because they were raised aboard craft rather than on Earth, abductees are recruited to teach them basic skills like grocery shopping, using computers, and navigating social customs. He explains that humor, sarcasm, and family structure are entirely foreign to them. Despite their human appearance, Jacobs says they possess a neurological ability to control human minds through direct mental contact.The conversation turns personal when Jacobs reveals that a security hybrid once impersonated one of his research subjects via email, threatening harm if he continued his work. He describes eight extended conversations conducted with a hubrid through instant messaging, some lasting four hours. Callers press Jacobs on what can be done, and he mentions a special velostat-lined hat that some abductees claim prevents abductions.

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October 21, 2015: Space Elevator & EMPs - Dr. William Forstchen

Oct 212h 18mDr. William Forstchen

Art Bell welcomes professor and bestselling author William Forstchen to discuss two very different visions of the future. Art reveals a second NASA source from JPL confirms the agency believes at 50 percent confidence or better that star KIC 8462852 represents evidence of an alien civilization. He also reports that SETI has canceled all other projects to focus on that star.The first half explores Forstchen's novel Pillar to the Sky about constructing a space elevator using carbon nanotube technology. Forstchen explains how a thread dropped from geosynchronous orbit to the equator could reduce launch costs from 100,000 dollars per pound to just 10, enabling massive solar energy collection in space and opening a practical pathway to Mars. He and Art discuss engineering challenges including space debris and the potential to permanently solve the global energy crisis.The conversation shifts to Forstchen's One Second After about electromagnetic pulse attacks. He warns that a small fission weapon detonated above the atmosphere could destroy the entire U.S. power grid, with congressional estimates projecting 90 percent casualties within a year. The broadcast is interrupted when shots are fired near Art's studio, adding real tension to a sobering discussion of existential threats.

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October 22, 2015: Nanotechnology - Douglas Mulhall

Oct 222h 22mDouglas Mulhall

Art Bell welcomes researcher and author Douglas Mulhall from Germany to discuss how nanotechnology is transforming medicine, energy, and daily life. The show opens with an update on the shooting incident near Art's studio the previous night and a denial-of-service attack on his website, followed by confirmation from a second NASA source that star KIC 8462852 may represent an alien civilization.Mulhall tells the remarkable story of how Cuba developed a nanoparticle-based vaccine for bacterial meningitis in 1983, years before nanotechnology was widely known. He explains that cells naturally release nano-sized particles that can be isolated and reprogrammed to target specific diseases with precision, avoiding the devastating side effects of conventional treatments. He reports that conjugated nanoparticle therapies are now moving through FDA approval and predicts the potential to reverse heart disease by 2020.The conversation broadens into smart dust for environmental sensing and surveillance, the role of nanotechnology in solar energy and electric vehicles, and the risks of uncontrolled nanoparticle release from car tires and consumer products. Mulhall and Art debate whether pharmaceutical companies will allow affordable nanomedicine to reach the public, explore the concept of technological singularity, and discuss whether artificial intelligence could become self-aware.

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October 23, 2015: Open Lines - Future 30 Year Prediction Line

Oct 232h 21m

Art Bell opens Friday night open lines with a major announcement about KABC Los Angeles joining the network. He dedicates a special phone line to callers willing to predict what the world will look like 30 years from now, inspired by Back to the Future Day. Listeners share visions ranging from space elevators and self-driving cars to economic collapse and corporate feudalism.The conversation weaves through technology predictions, the search for alien megastructures around star KIC 8462852, and a spirited debate about what the discovery of alien life would mean for religious faith. A blind caller from Nevada describes how he experiences dreams through sound and touch, while a military contractor phones in live from Iraq to share his appreciation for the show.Callers also vote on a name for the upcoming Halloween special, with Art favoring the radio term Dead Air over other suggestions. A wide range of personalities contribute to the evening, from an eight-year-old Minecraft fan to a first-time caller with a tale about encountering a flying witch on a country road in the Deep South.

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October 26, 2015: The Ghost Phenomenon - Dr. Michael Lynch

Oct 262h 27mDr. Michael Lynch

Art Bell welcomes parapsychologist Dr. Michael Lynch for an exploration of ghost phenomena backed by 27 years of field investigation. Lynch describes how specialized infrared cameras and digital photography have allowed his team to capture energy signatures he identifies as consciousness surviving physical death. He presents photographs from a haunted house investigation where a team member suffered 17 unexplained claw marks that appeared from beneath the skin.The discussion covers the mechanics of how spirits interact with the physical world, from manipulating objects and leaving EVP recordings to attacking the living. Lynch explains his theory that ghosts are plasma-based energy forms that retain human memory and personality after death, and he describes encounters at locations including the Birdcage Theatre in Tombstone, Arizona, where an entity attempted to choke a soldier through apparent possession.Lynch also shares his views on the afterlife as a torus-shaped energy field, the role of soul collectors who corral lost spirits, and the development of protective equipment designed to ground out hostile paranormal energy. Art challenges the traditional interpretation of orbs while acknowledging that the structured anomalies in Lynch's photographs appear distinctly different from common photographic artifacts.

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October 27, 2015: Tish Owen

Oct 272h 23mTish Owen

Art Bell welcomes practicing witch Tish Owen of Nashville, Tennessee, for a conversation about witchcraft, spells, curses, and magical energy. Owen, a former Catholic turned pagan practitioner of 25 years, explains how spells, hexes, and curses differ in scope and intensity, and why karmic consequences make baneful magic a serious undertaking.The discussion covers practical folk magic, including splitting storms with a buried axe head, the use of colored candles and protective salt lines, and the power behind focused intent. Art draws on his own experiments directing millions of listeners to influence weather patterns, finding common ground with Owen on the reality of collective willpower. Owen also shares a harrowing account of being held at gunpoint by park rangers during a ritual in a Nashville park.The conversation turns to past-life regression, where Owen describes her work as a certified hypnotherapist conducting hundreds of successful sessions. She recounts a case where a woman discovered that her adoptive grandfather had been the drunk driver who killed her in a previous life. Owen and Art also discuss the Bell Witch legend of Adams, Tennessee, and the negative energy her shop experienced after filming an A&E documentary about the famous curse.

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October 28, 2015: The Amityville Horror Hoax - Joel Martin & Bill Birnes

Oct 282h 24mJoel Martin, Bill Birnes

Art Bell presents a bombshell revelation with journalist Joel Martin and author Bill Birnes: the Amityville Horror was a deliberate hoax. Martin, present the night of the DeFeo family murders in 1974, recounts how attorney William Weber admitted on his radio show that he and George Lutz fabricated the haunting over bottles of champagne to generate book and movie profits.Martin details how parapsychologist Stephen Kaplan spent 20 years investigating the fraud, systematically debunking each claim. The demon cat was a neighbor's pet, the oozing walls were fingerprint powder residue, the red room was chipping paint, and the green slime was leftover forensic chemicals. Weber later sued Lutz for his share after Lutz fled to the West Coast without paying. Martin also reveals the eerie personal toll, including learning of his wife's death by car just minutes before taping the Weber interview.Bill Birnes then shares a stunning claim from a former intelligence officer: Father Malachi Martin, the famed Catholic scholar and exorcist, served as a cooperating individual for the CIA. According to this source, Martin retrieved an ancient artifact containing alien mathematical data from a Paris hotel room after the original finder was dispatched by an operative.

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October 29, 2015: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Oct 292h 24mNeil deGrasse Tyson

Art Bell sits down with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson for a conversation spanning the mysteries of star KIC 8462852, the Large Hadron Collider, and the future of the American space program. Tyson urges caution on the alien megastructure hypothesis, noting that unexplained astronomical phenomena overwhelmingly resolve into natural causes, though he acknowledges the 22 percent light occlusion is genuinely mysterious.The discussion moves to the Large Hadron Collider's upcoming high-energy runs and the possibility of creating miniature black holes, which Tyson explains would evaporate almost instantly through Hawking radiation and pose no danger. He laments the cancellation of the superconducting supercollider in Texas, linking it to the end of the Cold War and the loss of political will to fund big science.Tyson delivers a passionate case for reinvigorating space exploration, arguing that a bold government commitment would spark innovation across every sector of the economy. He points to declining infrastructure, slower air travel, and scientific illiteracy among voters as symptoms of a national malaise. Art and Tyson also discuss the existential threat posed by groups willing to use advanced technology for destruction, the promise and peril of nanotechnology, and why Pluto's reclassification was scientifically justified despite public outcry.

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October 30, 2015: Halloween Special - Dead Air

Oct 302h 24m

Art Bell hosts a Halloween special called Dead Air, opening with listener-submitted ghost stories ranging from a glowing Franciscan monk apparition at a California cemetery to a heartbreaking tale of forgiveness from beyond the grave. A retired Las Vegas police officer shares his chilling encounter with a ghostly girl matching a cold case murder victim from 1975.The program features Barbara Macbeth of the Ghost Investigators Society, who presents rare electronic voice phenomena recordings captured over decades of fieldwork. The EVPs, collected at prisons, cemeteries, military forts, and private homes, include voices of children calling for their mothers, prisoners declaring their own deaths, and spirits pleading for release. Many of these recordings had never been aired publicly before this broadcast.Callers from around the world share their own encounters, including a haunted hotel in Honduras, a theater ghost in North Georgia, and a doppelganger sighting in Australia. Art and Barbara discuss the nature of consciousness after death, the ethics of Ouija boards, and whether personality persists beyond physical life. A mysterious mouse appearance in Art's studio adds an unexpected layer of strangeness to the evening.

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November 2, 2015: Survival - Cody Lundin

Nov 22h 25mCody Lundin

Art Bell welcomes survival expert Cody Lundin for a wide-ranging conversation about wilderness preparedness, the fragility of modern civilization, and the dangerous misinformation spread by reality television survival shows. Lundin, known for his 26 years of professional instruction and his appearance on Dual Survival, explains why the term survivalist has been corrupted by media coverage of domestic terrorism.The discussion turns to Ted Koppel's warning that a prolonged grid failure could leave only one in ten Americans alive after a year. Lundin confirms this grim assessment, arguing that modern society has lost the basic skills needed to meet fundamental human needs like water, food, and thermal regulation. He describes the desert as the most challenging survival environment due to its lack of resources.Lundin shares his frustration with Discovery Channel, detailing how he was fired from Dual Survival after refusing three times to lie to his audience about his departure. He criticizes the network for hiring unqualified hosts and producing content that has contributed to real deaths. He reveals he is secretly developing his own independently produced survival show, drawing parallels to Art's own journey of breaking free from corporate media control.

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November 3, 2015: Mega Structure, Cerius & More - Linda Moulton Howe

Nov 32h 24mLinda Moulton Howe

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe to discuss the mysterious star KIC 8462852, nicknamed Tabby's Star, whose erratic and asymmetrical dimming patterns have baffled astronomers worldwide. Howe reports on Professor Jason Wright's protocol for evaluating whether the dimming could indicate alien megastructures, and reveals that SETI has redirected the Allen Telescope Array to observe the star with expanded broadband scanning.The conversation covers the Dyson sphere hypothesis and what it would mean if the objects blocking up to 22 percent of the star's light are confirmed to be opaque structures rather than dust or comets. Howe shares insights from her interviews with Wright and SETI senior scientist Gerald Harp, who stated that the observations point to either a planetary collision or alien intelligence. Art raises the profound question of how contact with an advanced civilization would challenge religious belief systems.The program also examines a growing cold water anomaly in the North Atlantic, the embargoed NASA images of bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres by the journal Nature, and NASA's confirmation that the experimental electromagnetic drive produces thrust. Howe and Art discuss concerns about scientific information being withheld from the American public through journal publication embargoes.

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November 4, 2015: A True Haunting - Deborah Moffitt

Nov 42h 23mDeborah Moffitt

Art Bell interviews Deborah Moffitt about the terrifying six-year demonic haunting that plagued her family, beginning in 1984 when a Guatemalan housekeeper practicing Santeria inadvertently opened a doorway to something malevolent. The entity followed the family across multiple homes, destroying property, teleporting objects, and targeting her mother-in-law Lee, whom it claimed was promised as a blood sacrifice by monks in a past life centuries ago.Moffitt describes escalating phenomena including furniture stacking itself within minutes, kitchen cabinets ripping from walls, windows exploding, and knives appearing embedded in chairs and pillows. The entity communicated by writing on bathroom mirrors with soap, identifying itself as Prince and detailing its ancient claim on Lee. Despite seeking help from priests, psychologists, the Warren investigators, shamans, and researcher Dr. Evelyn Paglini, no one could remove it. Paglini called it the most powerful ancient deity she had ever encountered.The account includes a provocation ritual by Ed Warren during which Deborah's father-in-law became briefly possessed, speaking in an unrecognizable voice. Art shares the bizarre coincidence of a mouse appearing in his studio during the interview, sitting inches away and staring at him, echoing Moffitt's own description of rats exhibiting identical behavior in her haunted home.

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November 5, 2015: Past Life Regressions - Gregory Paxson

Nov 52h 22mGregory Paxson

Art Bell welcomes past life regression therapist Gregory Paxson, who has conducted over 13,000 regressions with 3,500 clients across 38 years of practice in Chicago. Paxson describes guiding clients through a tunnel of light into previous incarnations, where their higher self selects the most relevant lifetime. He explains how unresolved declarations from past lives, such as a widower vowing never to love again, can create persistent blocks in the present.The conversation explores the mechanics of hypnosis, the ethics of regression therapy, and the evidence supporting reincarnation. Paxson reveals that clients occasionally speak languages unknown to them in their current life, occurring roughly six times per 10,000 sessions. He shares how clients have independently verified details through historical research, including finding gravestones matching past life identities. Most lives recalled are ordinary people, not famous historical figures.Paxson describes what clients consistently report at the moment of death: leaving the body, seeing a brilliant light, and being greeted by guides who facilitate a life review. He also shares his unusual method for stopping alien abductions and discusses regressions revealing lives on non-physical astral and mental planets where beings float above the ground and possess more than five fingers on each hand.

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November 6, 2015: Open Lines - Past Lives Line

Nov 62h 21m

Art Bell opens the Friday night phone lines, dedicating a special line to callers who believe they recall their past lives. Inspired by the previous evening's past life regression episode with Gregory Paxson, Art invites listeners to share their own experiences of prior incarnations. Callers describe vivid memories ranging from Greek coastal cities destroyed by walls of water to Spanish village squares recognized from recurring Navy dreams.A retired airline pilot recounts childhood deja vu in 1950s San Jose, where he inexplicably knew the layout of small Southern towns he had never visited. A woman in California details a dream-state download revealing her life as a 1940s band singer in Chicago, later confirmed through online research. A Canadian caller shares a moving story about his father, who clinically died in a nursing home but returned, telling his mother he had been sent back for her.Between calls, Art discusses the Keystone XL pipeline decision, the Russian passenger jet explosion in Egypt, and an Area 51 worker's compensation case. He also shares the saga of Abby Normal, a mysterious mouse that visited his desert studio and vanished without touching the peanut butter bait left overnight.

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November 9, 2015: Ralph Sarchie

Nov 92h 27mRalph Sarchie

Art Bell welcomes retired NYPD sergeant Ralph Sarchie, who served in the South Bronx and has spent decades investigating cases of demonic possession. Sarchie, a close friend of the late Father Malachi Martin, describes the three stages of diabolical activity: infestation, oppression, and possession. He explains that an invitation, whether through occult practices, Ouija boards, or even the actions of a family member, is required for a demon to enter the physical world.The conversation explores the signs of genuine possession, including speaking in unknown languages, superhuman strength, and knowledge the afflicted person could not possess. Sarchie recounts assisting in the exorcism of an eight-year-old girl who spoke fluent Latin with no prior training. He discusses how the decline of spirituality in modern society creates a vacuum that dark forces increasingly fill, drawing parallels between rising violence and a growing distance from faith.Art presses Sarchie on whether demonic possession could serve as a legal defense, the difference between mental illness and genuine diabolical activity, and whether some individuals actually seek possession. Sarchie shares his own close call when he was shot off duty and describes the disciplined spiritual life he maintains to protect himself and those he helps.

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November 10, 2015: Digital Simulated Reality - Jim Elvidge

Nov 102h 23mJim Elvidge

Art Bell welcomes Jim Elvidge, who holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell, to explore the theory that our reality may be a digital construct. Elvidge outlines philosopher Nick Bostrom's simulation argument, positing that if civilizations eventually create simulations indistinguishable from reality, the odds heavily favor us already being inside one. He presents evidence ranging from the fine-tuned physical constants of the universe to the digital nature of quantum mechanics.The discussion examines how matter itself may be nothing more than data, with each successive era of physics revealing that solid material is overwhelmingly empty space. Elvidge explains how paranormal phenomena, precognition, and the Mandela Effect could function as features or glitches within a digital system. He argues that consciousness is primary rather than emergent, citing near-death experiences and out-of-body experiences as evidence that awareness exists independent of the brain.Art and Elvidge consider the ethical implications of humanity eventually creating its own simulated worlds with conscious beings inside them. They discuss whether free will can exist within a programmed reality, how the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment suggests retrocausality, and whether the universe contains a retrievable record of past events that remote viewers may be accessing.

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November 11, 2015: Storm Chasing - Warren Faidley

Nov 112h 24mWarren Faidley

Art Bell welcomes Warren Faidley, widely regarded as America's original and premier storm chaser, for a wide-ranging conversation about severe weather, tornado science, and the evolving culture of storm chasing. Faidley recounts his journey from newspaper journalist to full-time extreme weather photographer, beginning with his iconic 1987 lightning strike photograph in Tucson and his sobering first tornado chase in Saragossa, Texas, where a twister killed children during a graduation ceremony.The discussion covers how drought conditions have shifted the dry line eastward, pushing violent supercell storms closer to populated areas like Oklahoma City. Faidley explains the dangers of core punching, nighttime chasing without radar, and the tragic deaths of three researchers during the 2013 El Reno tornado, which expanded with terrifying speed. He criticizes the Weather Channel's embrace of what he calls "chaser-tainment," entertainment-driven coverage that risks lives by delaying viewers from seeking shelter.Art and Faidley discuss the science of El Nino and its global weather impacts, the impossibility of current tornado control technology, and what would happen if an EF5 tornado struck a major downtown area. Faidley shares his triangle of survival framework for storm safety: know the danger, know what to do, and take action immediately.

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November 12, 2015: Lucid Dreaming - Dr. Gillian Holloway

Nov 122h 23mDr. Gillian Holloway

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Gillian Holloway, a dream researcher at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon, to discuss the science and practice of lucid dreaming. Dr. Holloway explains that lucid dreaming occurs when a person becomes fully aware they are asleep while the dream continues to unfold. She describes techniques for achieving this state, including recognition triggers and a meditation she calls dreamwalking, where one maintains awareness while drifting into sleep.The conversation ranges across the landscape of dream phenomena. Dr. Holloway discusses how dreams serve a developmental purpose, preparing us for upcoming life stages, and how recurring dreams often cluster around challenges arriving within the next few years. She addresses after-death communication dreams, noting that visitation dreams are qualitatively different from grief dreams, with deceased loved ones often appearing decades younger than when they died.Art shares his brief out-of-body experience in Paris, and callers describe flying dreams, precognitive visions of the September 11 attacks, and visits to other dimensions. Dr. Holloway explains that people can direct their dreams toward solving problems through incubation and that nightmares can be reduced simply by asking one's own mind to present the same message less intensely.

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November 13, 2015: Open Lines - Paris Attacks

Nov 132h 23m

Art Bell opens the broadcast with breaking coverage of the devastating terrorist attacks in Paris, where six sites were targeted and over 150 people were reported dead. He is joined by retired FBI agent Rick Hahn, a counterterrorism specialist, who discusses the likely involvement of ISIS, the vulnerability of Western nations to sleeper cells, and the role of social media in terrorist recruitment.New York broadcaster John Batchelor provides additional analysis, comparing the Paris assault to the 2008 Mumbai attacks and warning that French intelligence, among the best in the world, was caught completely off guard. Both guests agree that the political class in the United States lacks the resolve to confront the growing threat, and that no current presidential candidate appears equipped to lead on the issue.Art then opens the phone lines, where callers share their reactions to the attacks, debate concealed carry laws, discuss the implications for American cities, and speculate about which targets ISIS might strike next. Several callers draw parallels between the spread of ISIS and the spread of a virus, echoing a theme Art returns to throughout the night.

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November 16, 2015: Underwater Cave Exploration - Jill Heinerth

Nov 162h 26mJill Heinerth

Art Bell welcomes explorer Jill Heinerth, one of the most accomplished underwater cave divers on the planet, for a conversation about her extraordinary career navigating some of the most dangerous environments on Earth. Before the interview, Art provides updates on the Paris attacks, including raids in France and Belgium, and features a segment with a representative of Anonymous who describes the hacktivist group's declared war on ISIS social media operations.Jill recounts her harrowing expedition to Antarctica in 2000, where her team intercepted the largest iceberg in recorded history after it calved from the Ross Ice Shelf. She describes diving inside the iceberg in water one-tenth of a degree from freezing, losing the entrance when ice calved over their exit, and narrowly escaping when the entire structure explosively collapsed shortly after their final dive.The discussion also covers Jill's work in the Yucatan, where Mayan sacrificial remains sit preserved in underwater caves, her exploration of ancient Roman irrigation systems beneath the Egyptian desert, and the discovery of species new to science in volcanic lava tubes. Art presses her on climate change, ocean health, and the deterioration of freshwater springs near her Florida home.

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November 17, 2015: 100 Years of UFO Coverups - Kevin Randle

Nov 172h 23mKevin Randle

Art Bell sits down with retired Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Randle, a veteran UFO researcher with over 45 years of investigation experience, to discuss the state of ufology and the contents of his new book, The UFO Dossier. The conversation opens with the recent discovery of possible megastructures around star KIC 8462852 and the limitations of pointing radio telescopes at a target 1,480 light years away.Kevin walks through several landmark cases, including the 1957 Levelland, Texas sightings where a craft stalled car engines at 13 separate locations, and the suppression of evidence from White Sands, New Mexico. He details his ongoing efforts to decipher the text in General Ramey's memo from the Roswell incident using modern scanning technology, and explains how the U.S. Air Force actively misled Australian and British allies to discourage their own UFO investigations.The pair debate whether UFO sightings have genuinely declined or whether modern camera culture has simply raised the bar for credible evidence. Kevin shares Steve Pierce's account of Philip Klass allegedly offering money to discredit Travis Walton, discusses the shutdown of missile silos by unknown craft, and weighs David Jacobs's theory that a slow alien integration of humanity may already be underway.

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November 18, 2015: Feral Humans - Jeffrey Scott Holland

Nov 182h 25mJeffrey Scott Holland

Art Bell welcomes author Jeffrey Scott Holland for a discussion about feral humans, a topic they first explored together in 1997. Jeffrey explains that his thinking has evolved since then. He no longer focuses on humans living a wild existence by choice, but on people who snap and enter an animal-like state, losing the ability to speak and behaving in ways indistinguishable from wild creatures.Jeffrey presents several case studies from Kentucky, including Bigfoot-like sightings that turned out to involve missing persons found naked and covered in mud and lichen. He recounts his own encounter with a bearded, unclothed man shuffling aimlessly through Red River Gorge, and describes a police search that ended with the capture of a feral individual who had been on the missing persons list for an extended period.The conversation takes a sharp turn when Jeffrey connects feral behavior to rising levels of hydrogen sulfide and methane from oceanic sources, drawing parallels to zombie-like incidents including the infamous Miami face-eating attack. Art tests the theory by searching for naked rampage incidents on his phone and finds page after page of results. Callers weigh in with theories ranging from weaponized microwaves to psychiatric medications as potential triggers.

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November 20, 2015: Open Lines - Prepper's Line

Nov 202h 26m

Art Bell dedicates the Friday open lines to prepping, inviting callers to share what they are preparing for and why. He opens with updates on the terrorist siege at a hotel in Mali, the lockdown in Brussels, and the ongoing fallout from the Paris attacks. Art also highlights a listener's observation that the very smartphones capable of documenting UFOs are the same devices keeping people's eyes glued downward.A special prepper line draws a wide range of callers. One describes growing up nearly feral in the desert, learning to build water traps and identify edible plants from childhood. A recovering Y2K prepper reveals that his food supply from the late 1990s remains perfectly good. Others discuss solar power, bug-out bag weight, and the merits of different firearms for survival scenarios, with Art expressing his preference for the reliability of the AK platform.Between prepper calls, the conversation wanders into spontaneous human disappearances, residual hauntings that may contain actual spirits, a bilocation experience, and a live call from Beijing where an American expat confirms he receives the show without a VPN. A Las Vegas caller reports a formation of twelve UFO lights seen circling above the Luxor hotel beam.

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November 23, 2015: Dr. Michio Kaku

Nov 232h 24mDr. Michio Kaku

Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku for a wide-ranging discussion on the frontiers of modern science. They begin with the mysterious dimming of Tabby's Star, where starlight dropped by an unprecedented 22 percent, leaving astronomers without a conventional explanation and keeping the possibility of an alien megastructure on the table.Dr. Kaku outlines his classification of civilizations by energy use, placing humanity at a Type 0.7 on the Kardashev scale and roughly a century from reaching Type 1 status. He identifies the internet, global trade blocs, and international sports as early markers of a planetary civilization, while noting that terrorism represents resistance to that transition. The conversation moves through nuclear weapons policy, third-generation warheads, and the legacy of scientists who built the atomic bomb.The discussion turns to neuroscience and the future of the mind, including recorded memories in mice, brain pacemakers for Alzheimer's patients, and the scientific verification of lucid dreaming. Dr. Kaku describes a coming era of Brain Net, where emotions and memories could be transmitted online. He also addresses fusion energy research at ITER, the stalemate at Fukushima, and the Large Hadron Collider's search for evidence of string theory and higher dimensions.

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November 25, 2015: The Seres Agenda - R. Scott Lemriel

Nov 252h 22mR. Scott Lemriel

Art Bell welcomes researcher and author R. Scott Lemriel, who claims over 40 years of direct contact with benevolent extraterrestrial beings he calls the Seres. Lemriel recounts childhood experiences beginning at age three, when he left his body and perceived mathematical equations related to star charts and interdimensional travel. He describes later encounters involving telepathic communications from human extraterrestrials aboard craft near his home and over the Utah salt flats.Lemriel presents an alternative history of Earth, asserting that humans did not evolve on this planet but were seeded here by the Seres over millions of years. He describes a galactic treaty signed half a million years ago between benevolent races and tyrannical reptilian factions, with Earth caught in the middle. According to Lemriel, malevolent races have manipulated human leaders through subconscious implants, while benevolent forces have intervened multiple times to prevent nuclear war by disabling launch systems.The conversation covers Eisenhower's alleged meetings with two extraterrestrial groups, the origins of reverse-engineered technology from the Roswell crash, and a secret space program alongside NASA. Lemriel asserts the Seres have permanently suspended Earth's polar shift cycle and are preparing humanity for a transformation involving the recovery of suppressed memories and abilities.

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November 27, 2015: Open Lines - Anything Goes

Nov 272h 21m

Art Bell opens with breaking news about fast radio bursts detected at the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia, including an unprecedented double signal that astronomers compare to the famous Wow signal. He discusses the potential for extraterrestrial origins and notes this is the second major discovery within a month, following the ongoing mystery of Tabby's Star.Before taking calls, Art addresses the shooting incident and death threat targeting him and his family at his desert studio, describing three separate events since October that have disrupted his broadcasts. He also covers the Chicago police shooting controversy, the Blue Origin rocket landing, and a dome-shaped anomaly photographed on Mars. The open lines segment features four special caller categories: weird addictions, people who hate Art Bell, soulless individuals, and shape-shifters.Callers share a range of stories, from post-apocalyptic obsessions and Dungeons and Dragons addiction to a man in Japan collecting thousands of photos of an idol singer. A caller from Switzerland discusses the Australian signal, a Virginia ham radio enthusiast shares remote viewing memories from the fax era, and a caller from Tokyo describes his vintage video game collection. The night closes with continued speculation about the newly detected radio bursts.

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November 30, 2015: Flying Humanoids - Ken Gerhard

Nov 302h 23mKen Gerhard

Art Bell welcomes cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard for an exploration of flying cryptids reported around the world. Gerhard explains that while mainstream cryptozoology focuses on creatures like Bigfoot, flying humanoid encounters are overlooked despite hundreds of documented sightings. They discuss the Aswang of the Philippines, the Papabawa of Africa, and the chupacabra before turning to the most famous case.The Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia takes center stage, beginning with the 1966 Scarberry-Mallet sighting of a gray, winged figure with glowing red eyes that chased their car at nearly 100 miles per hour. Gerhard details the year-long flap of sightings preceding the Silver Bridge collapse, alleged men-in-black harassment of witnesses, and the recurring link between flying humanoid appearances and catastrophic events. He also covers the Owlman of Cornwall and unidentified flying humanoids filmed in Mexico.The conversation broadens to the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film, proving cryptid existence in the CGI era, and Gerhard's History Channel series Missing in Alaska. Callers share their own sightings, including a flying figure over El Paso and a giant bird-like creature near Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. Art highlights a photograph from September 11 appearing to show a massive prehistoric creature over New York.

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December 1, 2015: Master of the Macabre - Todd Robbins

Dec 12h 22mTodd Robbins

Art Bell welcomes Todd Robbins, a New York City performer and creative artist who has spent decades immersed in the dark worlds of sideshows, magic, con artists, and seances. Todd shares how he became fascinated with arcane entertainment as a child in Southern California, from visiting a local magic shop to discovering the sideshow at a traveling carnival.The conversation turns to Todd's most famous feat: eating real light bulbs. He explains the anatomy and physics behind safely chewing and swallowing glass, revealing he has consumed roughly 5,000 bulbs over his career. He then eats a Sylvania bulb live on the air, crunching through it in seconds while Art and listeners react with a mixture of horror and fascination.Todd also discusses the Magic Castle in Hollywood, the decline of the traditional sideshow, his Investigation Discovery series True Nightmares, and a chilling coincidence involving a corporate event he performed at months before September 11, 2001. Art and Todd explore what draws people to the dark and mysterious, the nature of real magic, and whether truth and opinion are often confused.

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December 2, 2015: Open Lines - San Bernardino Shooting

Dec 22h 23m

Art Bell cancels his scheduled guest to open the phone lines following the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, where 14 people were killed at the Inland Regional Center. As details emerge identifying suspect Syed Farouk and linking the attack to possible Islamic extremism, Art reads the latest reporting and shares his belief that this represents a new kind of terrorism on American soil.Callers from across the country and around the world weigh in on what should be done. Many advocate for armed citizens and increased security measures, while others urge caution against military overreaction that could serve as a recruiting tool for ISIS. A retired NYPD officer who worked with the FBI Anti-Terrorist Task Force after September 11 describes the psychological toll of sustained threat levels and argues that Americans must prepare for a permanent increase in security.Forensic psychiatrist Dr. John Liebert joins the broadcast to offer his professional analysis, comparing this event to the hundreds of suicidal mass murder cases he has studied. He notes that coordinated husband-and-wife attacks are extremely rare and discusses cultural factors that may explain why mass violence is more prevalent in the United States than in other nations.

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December 3, 2015: Legal Marijuana - Sally Vander Veer

Dec 32h 21mSally Vander Veer

Art Bell welcomes Sally Vander Veer, president of Medicine Man, one of the largest marijuana cultivation and dispensary operations in Colorado. Sally describes her transition from the pharmaceutical industry to the cannabis business, which her brother Pete started as a small medical caregiver grow in 2007. She explains how Colorado moved from medical-only sales to full recreational legalization and what the results have been after several years.The conversation covers the real-world impact of legalization in Colorado: tourism is at record highs, 10,000 new jobs have been created, drug arrests have dropped 40 percent, and violent crime has decreased. Sally addresses the federal Schedule I classification that prevents proper medical research and blocks banks from serving cannabis businesses, forcing most of the industry to operate on a cash-only basis at significant personal risk.Callers ask about pain relief, cancer treatment, opioid substitution, and the sexual and creative effects of different marijuana strains. Sally explains the difference between sativa and indica varieties and shares how her stores serve roughly 750 customers per day. She notes that teen marijuana use in Colorado has actually declined since legalization, and that the U.S. government itself holds a patent acknowledging the medicinal benefits of cannabis.

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December 4, 2015: Open Lines - Inhuman Encounter Line

Dec 42h 20m

Art Bell opens Friday night with the latest news on the San Bernardino shooting, now confirmed as ISIS-inspired after the FBI reveals that Tashfeen Malik pledged allegiance to the Islamic State on Facebook moments before the attack. He also notes that Germany has voted to join the bombing campaign in Syria and that Britain has begun airstrikes.The open lines bring a wide range of calls. On a special Inhuman Encounter line, a caller from Kansas describes a red-eyed humanoid that leaped between treetops and dive-bombed his car on a muddy road near an old burial ground. A woman from Michigan recalls six siblings witnessing a horned, red-faced figure clawing at their second-story farmhouse window. Other callers report orange eyes in a ceiling vortex, violent banging from an empty locked bathroom, and a glowing sphere that emerged from a firefly.Between encounter stories, Art fields calls about gun rights, the Attorney General's remarks on anti-Muslim rhetoric, the prospect of one-world government, and the possibility of secret human cloning at an Idaho university. He also pranks his audience by pretending to eat a light bulb live on the air, inspired by guest Todd Robbins from earlier in the week.

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December 7, 2015: Modern Mind Control - Neil Sanders

Dec 72h 22mNeil Sanders

Art Bell welcomes Neil Sanders, a British mind control researcher and author of Your Thoughts Are Not Your Own, for an expansive discussion on modern psychological manipulation. The conversation opens with Sanders describing his background as a qualified hypnotherapist and past life regressionist before turning to the night's central theme.Art frames the discussion around ISIS recruitment as a present-day example of mind control, questioning how violent propaganda distributed over the internet can transform ordinary people into radicalized killers. Sanders draws parallels between terrorist recruitment tactics and corporate advertising, explaining how cults and brands alike exploit feelings of inadequacy and the desire to belong. He outlines historical programs like MKUltra, Operation Chatter, and the Phoenix Program, detailing the use of truth serums, trauma-based conditioning, and psychological warfare on civilian populations.The conversation broadens into media manipulation, including the CIA's liaison office with Hollywood, embedded journalists at CNN, and the Tavistock Institute's role in shaping public perception through engineered fear. Sanders and Art debate Western foreign policy, Syrian regime change efforts, and how propaganda selectively paints world leaders as villains to serve economic interests.

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December 8, 2015: Alien Experimentation on Humans - Dr. David Jacobs

Dec 82h 22mDr. David Jacobs

Art Bell welcomes Dr. David Jacobs, retired Temple University history professor and longtime UFO abduction researcher, for his third appearance on the program. Art introduces Jacobs as the person who has made the most compelling case for both alien abductions and a quiet invasion of Earth.Dr. Jacobs describes a structured alien hierarchy consisting of insect-like beings at the top, gray aliens performing procedures, and various stages of human-alien hybrids. He explains that abductees undergo table procedures involving neurological control through eye contact, egg and sperm extraction, and forced interaction with hybrid offspring. Jacobs details how fertilized embryos are altered, implanted in women, then removed around nine to twelve weeks. Art reads a letter from an emergency room nurse describing a patient whose documented ten-week pregnancy vanished without any sign of miscarriage.The discussion turns to what Jacobs calls "hubrids," hybrids so human in appearance they are indistinguishable from ordinary people. These beings possess the ability to neurologically control human thoughts and actions. They are being settled on Earth, taught by abductees how to navigate daily life, and integrated into society. Jacobs warns this represents an existential threat he calls "the change," a gradual, silent takeover requiring no military force.

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