Demons, Exorcism & the Occult
Father Malachi Martin on possession, exorcists and demonologists, Nephilim and fallen angels, witchcraft, and the darkest religious and occult corners of the archive.
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Father Malachi Martin, Dr. Evelyn Paglini, Ed Dames, Ralph Sarchie and 19 more
36 shows, 1993–2015
- High Desert Origins1992–96 · 3
- UFO / Y2K Boom1997–99 · 10
- Post-Millennium Coast2000–09 · 15
- Return and Midnight Era2010–16 · 8
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Exorcism
Oct 18, 1996 · Father Malachi Martin · 3h 22m
Father Malachi Martin, ex-Jesuit priest and former advisor to three popes, joins Art Bell for a sprawling conversation about the reality of demonic possession and the rituals used to combat it. Drawing on decades of performing exorcisms, Martin describes the process in chilling detail, from the initial psychiatric s...Exorcism
May 15, 2001 · Bob Larson · 2h 47m
Art Bell welcomes Reverend Bob Larson, an expert on cults, the occult, and the supernatural who has lectured in more than 80 countries. Larson presents audio clips from seven actual exorcisms performed in public conferences across America, each featuring disturbing voices and encounters with what he identifies as de...Demonology & Excorcisms
Oct 2, 2001 · Ralph Sarchie · 2h 18m
Art Bell welcomes NYPD Sergeant Ralph Sarchie, a 16-year veteran working the South Bronx who is also an experienced demonologist and close confidant of the late Father Malachi Martin. Sarchie shares his firsthand account of visiting Ground Zero, describing the overwhelming devastation and the unprecedented outpourin...Catholicism, Exorcisms, and Evil
Mar 5, 2006 · Rama Coomaraswamy · 2h 28m
Art Bell welcomes Rama Coomaraswamy, a former thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon turned Catholic priest who was a close friend of the late Father Malachi Martin. Coomaraswamy shares stories of his friendship with Martin, including the revelation that Martin believed a demon struck him down in the fall that led to h...Nephilim and the Apocalypse
Jan 30, 2005 · Patrick Heron · 2h 54m
Art Bell is joined by Patrick Heron, an author from Dublin, Ireland, who presents his theory that the ancient pyramids and megalithic monuments worldwide were built by the Nephilim, fallen spirit beings described in Genesis and referenced across Greek, Roman, and Egyptian mythology. Heron details the mathematical pr...Exorcisms
Jul 13, 1998 · Father Malachi Martin · 2h 27m
Art Bell welcomes Father Malachi Martin, eminent theologian and former Jesuit professor at the Vatican''s Pontifical Biblical Institute, for a sweeping discussion of the Roman Catholic Church''s decline and the reality of demonic possession. Martin describes how the Second Vatican Council fundamentally altered core...Exorcism
Apr 4, 1997 · Father Malachi Martin · 3h 9m
Father Malachi Martin, an Irish-born Jesuit who advised two popes and performed exorcisms for three decades, delivers one of the most harrowing accounts of spiritual warfare ever broadcast. Speaking from his Manhattan apartment, Martin describes his rigorous Jesuit training, his path to the Vatican, and the terrifyi...Exorcism
Jul 11, 1997 · Father Malachi Martin · 3h 2m
Art Bell welcomes Father Malachi Martin, the renowned Catholic priest, author, and former Jesuit who served as advisor to two popes. Fr. Martin shares the remarkable story of his journey from Ireland to the Vatican, his work on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the unusual arrangement by which Pope Paul VI granted him a rar...Demonic Possession
Nov 21, 2002 · Gordon Michael Scallion · 2h 48m
Art Bell welcomes futurist Gordon Michael Scallion for a conversation that shifts from earth changes and economic predictions into a sustained examination of demonic possession. Scallion reports that after the D.C. sniper shootings, three days of nonstop visions flooded his consciousness with information about posse...Exorcism & Remote Viewing
Nov 15, 1996 · Father Malachi Martin & Ed Dames · 3h 3m
Father Malachi Martin, the 76-year-old former Jesuit and Vatican insider, returns to discuss the passing of Cardinal Bernardin, the political pressures facing Pope John Paul II, and the internal battles over the future of the Catholic Church. Art Bell then engineers a remarkable meeting of minds by bringing Major Ed...Exorcism
Aug 18, 2015 · Father Jack Ashcraft · 2h 16m
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, partici...Vatican Murders
May 4, 1998 · Father Malachi Martin · 2h 25m
Art Bell welcomes Father Malachi Martin to discuss the brutal murder of exorcist Father Alfred Kunz, found with his throat slashed in Wisconsin in what Martin identifies as a Satanist-inflicted killing. Martin reports a 750 percent increase in demonic possession cases since the early 1970s, including disturbing new...Father Malachi Martin
Dec 3, 1997 · 2h 23m
Art Bell welcomes Father Malachi Martin for a wide-ranging conversation that begins with Art recounting his recent pilgrimage to the Vatican, where he discovered a globe bearing all twelve signs of the zodiac inside the Sistine Chapel. Father Martin explains that several popes over centuries kept court astrologers,...Witchcraft & The Occult
Sep 13, 2002 · Dr. Evelyn Paglini · 2h 47m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a lifelong practitioner of natural magic trained by her grandfather from age four, for a Friday the 13th exploration of witchcraft, mirror magic, and the occult. Art addresses listener objections about hosting a witch by declaring his belief that magic is real while maintaining...Aliens, Demons, and Souls
Oct 10, 2004 · Zeph Daniel · 2h 53m
Art Bell interviews Zeph Daniel, a survivor of satanic ritual abuse and mind control, who shares his extraordinary account of childhood trauma, institutionalization, and eventual spiritual liberation. Zeph describes how satanic groups systematically traumatize victims to dislodge the soul from the body, creating an...Ralph Sarchie
Nov 9, 2015 · 2h 27m
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...Father Michael Maginot
Oct 1, 2015 · 2h 30m
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 an...Witchcraft
Sep 8, 2015 · Debbie Anderson · 2h 18m
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 le...Demons, Spirits, and Ghosts
Oct 17, 2013 · The Ghost Buster Gals · 3h 6m
Art Bell welcomes The Ghost Buster Gals, Ronnie Renee Foster and Laura Lee Mystica, a duo combining angelic intuition and Wiccan practice to investigate hauntings. The episode opens with a disturbing discussion of the Elisa Lam case, in which a young woman was captured on hotel security footage behaving erratically...Possession and Visions
Feb 4, 2007 · Gordon Michael Scallion · 2h 35m
Art Bell welcomes futurist Gordon Michael Scallion for a conversation that shifts away from his usual earth changes focus into the unsettling territory of possession. Scallion explains that visions he received beginning in 1979 revealed a connection between solar activity, geophysical upheaval, and a rising tide of...Witchcraft & Predictions
Mar 12, 2006 · Dr. Evelyn Paglini · 2h 28m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a parapsychologist and self-described spiritual warrior born into a centuries-old family of occult practitioners. Art vouches for her authenticity, noting that his late wife Ramona was close to Paglini and practiced the craft. Paglini explains that witchcraft involves manipulati...Remote Viewing Satan
Dec 21, 1998 · Ed Dames · 2h 1m
Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames from the Hawaiian Islands, where the former military remote viewer has relocated his company. Dames opens with results from his team's remote viewing of Nostradamus' Century 10, Quatrain 72, which references the seventh month of 1999. Rather than confirming the solar kill shot he pre...UFOs, Magic, Demons, Abductions & the Afterlife
Feb 13, 1993 · James S. Templar · 2h 42m
James S. Templar fields calls about alleged links among UFO entities, demonic forces, ritual magic, psychic influence, curses, reincarnation, and life after death.Art Bell presses Templar on the difference between physical extraterrestrials and spiritual beings, predictions of hostile contact, and the limits of magi...Crop Glyphs - Richard C. Hoagland | Vampire Hunter - Rev. Sean Manchester
Aug 23, 2001 · 38m
Art Bell opens with breaking news about a face-shaped crop glyph that appeared overnight near the Chilbolton radio telescope in Hampshire, England. Richard C. Hoagland analyzes the formation, noting it uses varying pixel sizes to create light and shadow effects resembling both the Face on Mars and a primitive homini...Church of Satan
Aug 1, 2015 · Blanche Barton · 2h 14m
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 litm...Sex and the Occult
Jul 11, 2004 · Dr. Evelyn Paglini · 2h 51m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a parapsychologist and practitioner born into a centuries-old family of occultists, to address a topic the program has long avoided: the deep connection between sexuality and the supernatural. Art reveals that a single on-air question months earlier generated thousands of listen...Using the Occult
Sep 21, 2003 · Dr. Evelyn Paglini · 2h 50m
Art Bell opens with Whitley Strieber for a discussion on the surge in UFO activity coinciding with Mars at its closest approach to Earth in recorded history. Strieber describes a detailed abduction case from British Columbia involving two women who encountered five sets of glowing green eyes belonging to gray beings...UFO Sightings - Peter Davenport | Remote Viewing Satan - Ed Dames | Flight 990 - Richard C. Hoagland
Nov 11, 1999 · 3h 18m
Art Bell makes radio history by bringing forward members of two separate airline crews who publicly describe encountering unidentified objects while flying over Missouri. A Learjet pilot at 39,000 feet reports a missile-like object passing within 1,000 feet below his aircraft, while a second crew in a Beech BE-40 at...Witchcraft
Mar 21, 1999 · Ramona Bell interviews Dr. Evelyn Paglini · 43m
Ramona Bell hosts alongside Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a practitioner from a thousand-year lineage of magic, for a special Dreamland episode dedicated to the practical traditions of witchcraft. Paglini describes methods of spiritual protection, including environmental cleansing with sage, sulfur, and sea salt, as well as t...Remote Viewing Satan
Jan 29, 1999 · Ed Dames · 2h 53m
Art Bell reconnects with Major Ed Dames, a former military intelligence officer and trained remote viewer, who has spent five weeks in seclusion on the Big Island of Hawaii attempting to remote view Satan. Dames reports that Satan is a distinct entity separate from the devil, describing it as a glorious but cold cry...The World of Witchcraft
Jul 16, 1997 · Dr. Evelyn Paglini · 2h 44m
Art Bell introduces Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a parapsychologist, doctor of divinity, and lifelong practitioner of natural magic who was trained by her grandfather, a high-ranking magus, beginning at the age of four. Art warns listeners at the outset that the discussion will disturb some people and urges the easily offend...Open Lines - Pact with the Devil
Aug 21, 2015 · 2h 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...Open Lines - Invisibility | Global Climate Change - Dr. Roy Spencer
Oct 20, 2006 · 2h 37m
Art Bell welcomes climate scientist Dr. Roy Spencer for a first-hour discussion on global warming, then opens the phone lines with a playful challenge: what would you do if you could become invisible? Broadcasting from Manila and filling in for George Noory, Art covers a recent earthquake he felt on the 19th floor o...Amazing Open Lines
Feb 6, 2005 · 2h 54m
Art Bell opens the phone lines for a wide-ranging evening that produces some of the most memorable caller stories in the program's history. He reserves one line for anyone who has made a pact with the devil, inspired by the late Father Malachi Martin's discussions on the subject. A caller describes making such a pac...The Final Warning
Mar 5, 2001 · Kathleen Keating · 2h 48m
Art Bell speaks with investigative journalist Kathleen Keating about her book The Final Warning and its troubled publishing history, including 10,000 invoices lost by UPS for months and books mysteriously vanishing from shopping bags. Kathleen discusses her close relationship with the late Father Malachi Martin and...The Amityville Horror Hoax
Oct 28, 2015 · Joel Martin & Bill Birnes · 2h 24m
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...