Ancient Mysteries & Lost Civilizations
Episodes on ancient monuments, lost civilizations, forbidden archaeology, Graham Hancock, Egypt, Atlantis, and evidence that history may be older and stranger than we were taught.
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Graham Hancock, Richard C. Hoagland, Linda Moulton Howe, Boris Said and 29 more
36 shows, 1995–2015
- High Desert Origins1992–96 · 9
- UFO / Y2K Boom1997–99 · 16
- Post-Millennium Coast2000–09 · 10
- Return and Midnight Era2010–16 · 1
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Lost Civilizations and Consciousness
Sep 28, 2007 · Graham Hancock · 2h 35m
Art Bell welcomes bestselling author Graham Hancock to explore the mounting evidence for a lost advanced civilization destroyed roughly 12,500 years ago. Hancock presents Robert Bauval's Orion correlation theory, arguing that the Great Pyramids of Egypt mirror the three belt stars of Orion as they appeared thousands...Supernaturals and Consciousness
Dec 28, 2006 · Graham Hancock · 2h 38m
Art Bell welcomes author and researcher Graham Hancock from Great Britain to discuss his book Supernatural and the hidden dimensions of human consciousness. The conversation opens with an examination of the Great Pyramid, including new evidence suggesting some limestone blocks may have been poured like concrete, tho...Ancient Evidence
Oct 23, 2002 · Graham Hancock · 2h 5m
Art Bell announces his retirement from the program effective December 31st, citing chronic back pain from a pole-climbing accident years earlier that has made maintaining his rigorous broadcast schedule impossible. He confirms George Noory will take over as permanent host while Art remains available for occasional f...Fingerprints of the Gods
Jun 18, 1996 · Graham Hancock · 1h 55m
Graham Hancock, author of Fingerprints of the Gods and The Message of the Sphinx, joins Art Bell to present a sweeping case for a lost civilization dating back to 10,500 BC. Hancock explains how the three Great Pyramids of Giza precisely mirror the pattern of Orion's belt stars as they appeared 12,500 years ago, and...The Message of the Sphinx
Jul 11, 1996 · Graham Hancock · 2h 49m
Graham Hancock returns fresh from a worldwide book tour to take listener calls and share explosive new information about secret excavations beneath the Great Sphinx. A leaked report from someone on the research team reveals that ground-penetrating radar has detected nine underground chambers, all apparently containi...Egypt Excavation
Sep 27, 1996 · Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, & Richard C. Hoagland · 35m
Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, and Richard C. Hoagland converge for a tense discussion about the power struggle surrounding a planned excavation beneath the Great Sphinx at Giza. The Schor Foundation has received a license to open underground chambers discovered beneath the limestone plateau, but Egyptian antiquitie...Mars & Egypt
Apr 8, 1998 · Graham Hancock · 1h 21m
Art Bell welcomes bestselling author Graham Hancock live from Great Britain to discuss Mars, ancient Egypt, and the cataclysmic dangers facing Earth. Hancock shares his analysis of the controversial new Mars Global Surveyor photographs of the face on Mars, calling the rush to dismiss them premature and arguing that...Egypt & Archaeology
Nov 11, 1997 · Boris Said & Tom Danley · 3h 29m
Art Bell welcomes documentary filmmaker Boris Said and sonic engineer Tom Danley for an exploration of acoustic mysteries within the Great Pyramid at Giza. Danley, a former NASA consultant who conducted sonic tests in the King's Chamber, reveals that several resonances of the sarcophagus and the room harmonically co...Quest for the Lost Civilization
Jul 20, 2015 · Graham Hancock · 2h 37m
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...Structures On Mars
Jun 16, 1998 · Graham Hancock · 43m
Art Bell speaks with bestselling author Graham Hancock about the newly released Mars Global Surveyor photographs of the Face on Mars and the broader mysteries of the red planet. Hancock criticizes the media's rush to declare the controversy settled based on a single ambiguous image, arguing that only a manned landin...Ancient Egypt
Jan 14, 1998 · Dr. Zahi Hawass · 1h 24m
Art Bell interviews Dr. Zahi Hawass, Director of Antiquities at Giza, despite suffering from a 102-degree fever. Dr. Hawass discusses the recently completed restoration of the Sphinx, the planned six-month closure of the Great Pyramid for conservation work, and the discovery of tombs belonging to the workers who bui...Ancient Egypt
Sep 3, 1995 · John Anthony West · 1h 23m
John Anthony West, Emmy-winning independent Egyptologist, joins Art Bell on Dreamland to challenge the accepted timeline of ancient civilization and reveal what lies beneath the Great Sphinx of Giza.West explains how geological weathering patterns on the Sphinx prove it must be at least 10,000 years old, far predati...Ancient Egypt - Linda Moulton Howe & John Anthony West | Cryptozoology - Peter von Puttkamer
Apr 23, 2002 · 2h 47m
Art Bell welcomes investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe, who shares a firsthand account of witnessing three star-like lights moving in a slow triangular formation over the Ozark National Forest on April 14, 2002. Eight other witnesses corroborate the sighting, and pilot Bob Martin notes the formation emerged fro...Ancient Underwater Ruins
Feb 7, 2002 · Graham Hancock · 2h 44m
Art Bell welcomes bestselling author Graham Hancock to discuss groundbreaking underwater archaeological discoveries that challenge the established timeline of human civilization. Hancock details two extraordinary sites off the coast of India: massive cities found in the Gulf of Cambay at 120 feet deep, carbon-dated...Egypt
Mar 24, 1998 · Dannion Brinkley · 1h 20m
Art Bell welcomes Dannion Brinkley, three-time near-death experiencer and author of Saved by the Light, calling from Washington, D.C. Brinkley has just returned from Egypt, Syria, the Iraqi border, and an illegal crossing into Lebanon. He reports a major archaeological discovery near Tushka in the southwest desert,...Art's Egypt Trip
Oct 20, 1997 · 48m
Art Bell returns from an 18-day journey through Greece, the Greek islands, Israel, Rome, and Egypt, dedicating the broadcast to recounting his extraordinary experiences. The centerpiece is his visit to Giza, where Director of Antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawass granted him unrestricted access to the entire plateau, includin...Egyptian Pyramids
Sep 22, 1997 · Boris Said · 2h 45m
Art Bell welcomes filmmaker and documentarian Boris Said for a revealing conversation about the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx, and his bitter falling out with the Schor Expedition. Said, the Emmy Award-winning producer of the NBC special The Mystery of the Sphinx, shares his theory that the Great Pyramid is not a tomb b...Apollo & the Egypt Connection
Oct 25, 1996 · Richard C. Hoagland · 1h 55m
Richard C. Hoagland returns with a bombshell presentation connecting NASA's Apollo program to ancient Egyptian religious cosmology. He reveals that the official Apollo mission patch features not the Greek god Apollo but the constellation Orion, the Egyptian deity Osiris, and argues that the July 20, 1969 moon landin...Egyptology
Sep 24, 1996 · Caroline Davies · 1h 17m
Photographer and documentarian Caroline Davies joins Art Bell for a late-night conversation about the mysteries of the Giza Plateau, drawing on her years of fieldwork with geologist Robert Schoch and researcher John Anthony West on the NBC documentary Mystery of the Sphinx. Davies describes the geological evidence s...Egypt Illinois Cave
Nov 26, 2001 · Dr. Glenn Kimball · 2h 18m
Art Bell speaks with ancient text collector and lecturer Glenn Kimball about a mysterious cave system in southern Illinois that may contain evidence of pre-Columbian contact between the Old World and the Americas. Kimball describes how ground-penetrating radar and metal detection equipment mapped a 525-foot inverted...Atlantis in Cuba - Linda Moulton Howe | Open Lines
May 18, 2001 · 2h 51m
Art Bell investigates a Reuters report about a stunning underwater discovery off the western coast of Cuba, where sonar equipment has detected what appears to be an urban complex at a depth of 2,200 feet. Ocean engineer Paulina Zalitsky of Advanced Digital Communications describes high-resolution sonar images showin...Atlantis & Hollow Earth - Dr. Wendy Lockwood | Mr. Fidget
Aug 14, 1997 · 2h 42m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Wendy Lockwood, who claims firsthand knowledge of Atlantis through astral projection and decades of study in esoteric traditions. She describes Atlantis as a series of ten islands in the Atlantic that sank 50,000 years ago after a devastating war with Lemuria, and insists the lost continent is...Wolves - Teresa Martino | Egyptian Pyramid - Richard C. Hoagland & Larry Hunter
Jun 26, 1997 · 3h 20m
Art Bell welcomes Teresa Martino, author of The Wolf, The Woman, The Wilderness, who describes her year-long journey of returning a captive-born wolf named Mackenzie to the wild. Martino explains that Mackenzie''s grandparents were wild wolves, giving her the predatory instincts and shyness necessary for reintroduct...NASA, Moon, Mars, Egypt
Nov 12, 1996 · Richard C. Hoagland & Ken Johnston · 2h 11m
Richard C. Hoagland and former NASA lunar module test pilot Ken Johnston join Art Bell to recount their experiences at Cape Canaveral during the Mars Global Surveyor launch. Johnston, a 32nd-degree Mason with 30 years in aerospace, reveals that while heading the Apollo photo control department, he was ordered to des...Atlantis, Bigfoot Scream
Oct 15, 1995 · Frank Joseph & Linda Moulton Howe · 1h 44m
Linda Moulton Howe presents two Bigfoot encounter reports. Ted Fraley of Carson City describes shooting at a creature with glowing grayish-blue eyes near Redding, California in 1956, triggering an earth-shaking scream of staggering volume. Skip Hombach of Seattle recounts a 1989 encounter near Darrington, Washington...Ancient Cosmology
Mar 13, 2001 · Dr. Richard L. Thompson · 2h 47m
Mathematician Dr. Richard L. Thompson, co-author of Forbidden Archaeology, joins Art Bell to discuss ancient cosmology, Vedic cosmography, and Mysteries of the Sacred Universe after an electromagnetic event knocks the previous night's broadcast off the air. Art describes the incident as an attack on the valley confi...Underwater City
Jun 13, 2001 · Linda Moulton Howe & Stephan Schwartz · 2h 55m
Art Bell welcomes investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe, who delivers an update on the mysterious structures found 2,200 feet underwater off Cuba's western tip. She confirms that National Geographic has signed an exclusive agreement for magazine coverage and that the site lies within Cuban territorial waters. Pa...Mars Face Update
May 25, 2001 · Richard C. Hoagland with Kynthia · 1h 23m
Art Bell examines newly released high-resolution photographs of the Face on Mars with Richard C. Hoagland and multimedia artist Kynthia, who has spent nearly two decades sculpting detailed models of the Martian formation. Art admits that upon viewing the new NASA imagery, his initial reaction was that the face argum...Disclosure '99
Jan 8, 1999 · Peter Davenport, Stephen Bassett, Joe Firmage, Dr. Steven M. Greer, Richard C. Hoagland, Peter Gersten & William J. Birnes · 2h 45m
Art Bell hosts a special UFO-disclosure roundtable with Peter Davenport, Stephen Bassett, Joe Firmage, Dr. Steven M. Greer, Richard C. Hoagland, Peter Gersten, and William J. Birnes. Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center opens the show with a fresh sighting report from Paradise, California, where a pi...UFO Phenomena
Jul 27, 1998 · Whitley Strieber · 2h 55m
Art Bell welcomes Whitley Strieber for a wide-ranging conversation that begins with worldwide volcanic unrest from Mount Etna to Popocatepetl and moves into Strieber''s most detailed account of a close encounter. Art debuts a night vision camera pointed toward Area 51 that captures live images of the desert sky ever...Rocky Mountain Discoveries
Mar 27, 1998 · Robert Ghost Wolf · 3h 9m
Art Bell presents what he calls a paradigm-shattering program as Robert Ghost Wolf reveals discoveries from a month-long expedition into the Rocky Mountains. Ghost Wolf, a Native American researcher of mixed blood, was guided to a remote site at 14,000 feet by indigenous elders who knew of its existence through oral...The Life of Edgar Cayce
Feb 19, 1998 · Edgar Evans Cayce · 1h 3m
Art Bell sits down with Edgar Evans Cayce, the 80-year-old son of famed psychic Edgar Cayce, for a rare and personal conversation about growing up with America's most documented clairvoyant. The elder Cayce gave over 14,000 readings during his lifetime, roughly 60 percent of which were medical diagnoses that produce...William Henry (Partial Interview)
Nov 6, 1997 · 1h 38m
Art Bell welcomes researcher and author William Henry from Nashville to discuss his book "The Peacemaker and the Key of Life." Henry shares his background in subliminal messaging and the holographic paradigm before pivoting to his investigation of extraterrestrial involvement in human affairs. He presents his theory...Open Lines - Weird Person Line
Oct 21, 1997 · 2h 46m
Art Bell opens the phone lines with a twist, dedicating a special "weird person line" to finding the strangest caller in America. The idea comes after Strange Universe invites him to judge their upcoming weird person contest, and Art wastes no time testing the waters with his own audience.The results do not disappoi...Phoenix Lights - Peter Davenport | UFO's - Sean David Morton
Mar 13, 1997 · 3h 6m
Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center joins Art Bell with a breaking report on one of the most significant UFO events in American history. Dozens of witnesses across Arizona are calling in frantic accounts of massive formations of lights traversing the sky from Paulden to Prescott to Phoenix, covering...The Hidden History of the Human Race
Mar 12, 1995 · Michael Cremo · 1h 56m
Michael Cremo, research associate at the Bhaktivedanta Institute, presents evidence that human beings have existed on Earth for hundreds of millions of years. Art Bell guides a sweeping conversation through suppressed archaeological discoveries, from human skeletons found in 300-million-year-old coal deposits to 3.6...
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