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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

Ghost to Ghost & Hauntings

The best haunted-house calls, Ghost to Ghost specials, apparitions, poltergeist stories, and listener encounters from Art Bell's Halloween tradition.

36 Episodes
Episode thumbnail for October 31, 2004: Ghost to Ghost 2004
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October 31, 2004: Ghost to Ghost 2004

Oct 31, 2004
2h 53m
Art Bell opens the annual Ghost to Ghost broadcast on Halloween night by presenting the complete Spiricom recordings, a historic series of two-way voice communications between living researchers and deceased individuals conducted by George Meek and William O'Neill between 1977 and 1982. The audio documents the evolu...
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October 31, 2005: Ghost to Ghost 2005

Oct 31, 2005
2h 30m
Art Bell hosts his annual Ghost to Ghost Halloween special, inviting listeners to share their most frightening encounters with the paranormal. A police officer from Ohio describes hearing a child laughing in the woods near a historic estate where two children drowned decades ago. A caller from Quebec recounts his mo...
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October 31, 2003: Ghost to Ghost 2003

Oct 31, 2003
3h 33m
Art Bell hosts the 2003 edition of Ghost to Ghost on Halloween night, opening the phones for listeners to share their most frightening supernatural encounters. The program is entirely caller-driven, with no guest, as Art fields stories submitted by email and live calls from across the country.Callers recount chillin...
Episode thumbnail for October 31, 2006: Ghost to Ghost 2006
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October 31, 2006: Ghost to Ghost 2006

Oct 31, 2006
2h 39m
Art Bell hosts the annual Ghost to Ghost program, opening the lines to listeners for Halloween. Broadcasting from Manila, he reads emailed accounts before the calls begin, including a woman who saw the ghost of a wreck victim walking up a highway off-ramp and a man who encountered a legless apparition floating acros...
Episode thumbnail for October 30, 1997: Ghost To Ghost 1997 - Night 1
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October 30, 1997: Ghost To Ghost 1997 - Night 1

Oct 30, 1997
3h 17m
Art Bell opens the 1997 Ghost to Ghost broadcast by recounting a terrifying experience from the previous night during his Brad Steiger interview. Something struck his studio door with tremendous force while no living person or animal in the house was responsible. With that unsettling setup, he turns the program over...
Episode thumbnail for October 29, 1997: Ghosts - Brad Steiger
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October 29, 1997: Ghosts - Brad Steiger

Oct 29, 1997
3h 7m
Art Bell welcomes prolific paranormal author Brad Steiger for a Halloween eve discussion about ghosts and the supernatural. With over 130 books to his name, Steiger shares personal experiences from a lifetime of psychic research, including growing up in a haunted Iowa farmhouse where salt shakers lifted on their own...
Episode thumbnail for October 30, 1993: Ghost to Ghost
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October 30, 1993: Ghost to Ghost

Oct 30, 1993
2h 53m
Art Bell hosts the inaugural Ghost to Ghost broadcast on the eve of Halloween 1993, opening the phone lines for callers across North America to share their real-life encounters with ghosts, spirits, and the unexplained.Art Bell sets the tone with a newspaper account of spectral sightings at the U.S. Capitol Building...
Episode thumbnail for October 30, 1996: Ghost to Ghost
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October 30, 1996: Ghost to Ghost

Oct 30, 1996
3h 13m
Art Bell hosts his beloved annual Halloween tradition, Ghost to Ghost AM, dedicating the entire broadcast to real ghost stories from callers across the country. The night opens with read-aloud accounts of a rocking chair moving on its own beside a sick infant's crib in Ashland, Oregon, and a haunted painting whose e...
Episode thumbnail for October 17, 2013: Demons, Spirits, and Ghosts - The Ghost Buster Gals
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October 17, 2013: Demons, Spirits, and Ghosts - The Ghost Buster Gals

Oct 17, 2013
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...
Episode thumbnail for October 31, 2010: Ghost to Ghost 2010
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October 31, 2010: Ghost to Ghost 2010

Oct 31, 2010
2h 35m
Art Bell hosts the annual Ghost to Ghost Halloween special, opening the phone lines for listeners to share their most frightening true ghost stories. Broadcasting from Manila on All Saints Day, Art begins by reading a Philippine news story about a real-life exorcist priest who describes demons making possessed peopl...
Episode thumbnail for October 28, 1994: Ghost To Ghost 1994
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October 28, 1994: Ghost To Ghost 1994

Oct 28, 1994
3h 26m
Art Bell hosts the annual Halloween weekend Ghost to Ghost special, opening the phone lines exclusively for true ghost stories from across the country. Callers share chilling firsthand accounts ranging from a newspaper boy who petted a dog weeks after it had been put to sleep, to a family terrorized by slamming door...
Episode thumbnail for May 13, 1998: Poltergeists - Dr. Barry Taff
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May 13, 1998: Poltergeists - Dr. Barry Taff

May 13, 1998
2h 53m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Barry Taff, a world-renowned parapsychologist who investigated more than 3,500 cases of ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists during his 30-year career at UCLA's parapsychology laboratory. Dr. Taff recounts the real story behind the 1983 film The Entity, starring Barbara Hershey, which was based...
Episode thumbnail for October 31, 2007: Ghost to Ghost 2007
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October 31, 2007: Ghost to Ghost 2007

Oct 31, 2007
2h 35m
Art Bell hosts his annual Ghost to Ghost Halloween special, opening the phone lines for unscreened callers to share their scariest true ghost stories. He establishes clear ground rules: one story per caller, first-person accounts preferred, and no cell phones unless necessary. Art also reads select ghost stories ema...
Episode thumbnail for July 3, 2002: Recorded Voices of Ghosts - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath
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July 3, 2002: Recorded Voices of Ghosts - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Jul 3, 2002
2h 9m
Art Bell hosts Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society for an evening of electronic voice phenomena recordings captured at cemeteries, a haunted house, and the Laramie Territorial Prison in Wyoming. The five-member nonprofit group uses brand-new, never-recorded-on cassette tapes and five...
Episode thumbnail for October 31, 2001: Ghost to Ghost 2001
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October 31, 2001: Ghost to Ghost 2001

Oct 31, 2001
2h 37m
Art Bell hosts his annual Ghost to Ghost Halloween special on a night graced by the first full moon on Halloween since 1955. Listeners from across the country call in with their most unsettling encounters, from a shadowy presence that knocked a man fifteen feet from his cabin doorway in Yosemite to a police officer...
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April 13, 2001: Ghost to Ghost

Apr 13, 2001
2h 16m
Art Bell hosts his beloved Ghost to Ghost edition on Good Friday, opening the phone lines exclusively for real ghost stories from listeners across the country. He sets the ground rules early: only serious, genuinely frightening accounts will make the cut, and quality ghost photographs can be submitted to his webmast...
Episode thumbnail for February 28, 2001: Ghost To Ghost Stories
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February 28, 2001: Ghost To Ghost Stories

Feb 28, 2001
2h 46m
Art Bell opens with coverage of the devastating 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Seattle, speaking with geologist Jim Berkland about tidal prediction windows and Peter Davenport about experiencing the quake firsthand. A caller's eerily accurate prediction of a morning earthquake in Seattle, recorded weeks earlie...
Episode thumbnail for April 4, 2000: Ghosts and Spirits - Brad Steiger
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April 4, 2000: Ghosts and Spirits - Brad Steiger

Apr 4, 2000
3h 4m
Art Bell welcomes paranormal researcher and author Brad Steiger, whose 149th book, Shadow World, explores encounters with ghosts, spirit entities, and what Steiger calls "spirit mimics," beings that look and act human but are not. Steiger shares results from his decades-long questionnaire of over 30,000 respondents,...
Episode thumbnail for June 10, 1999: Ghost to Ghost | Open Lines
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June 10, 1999: Ghost to Ghost | Open Lines

Jun 10, 1999
2h 41m
Art Bell opens the phone lines for his beloved Ghost to Ghost edition, inviting listeners to share their most chilling encounters with the unexplained. A Navy veteran from World War II recounts waking aboard his ship near Okinawa at 3 a.m. to the unmistakable scent of his Aunt Melanie's floral bathing powder, only t...
Episode thumbnail for October 31, 1998: Ghost to Ghost 1998
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October 31, 1998: Ghost to Ghost 1998

Oct 31, 1998
4h 19m
Art Bell continues his Halloween tradition with a second night of real ghost stories from callers across the country and around the world. An EMS worker recounts a deeply personal encounter while staying at the Hotel Del Coronado, where unexplained upgrades, free meals, and a vanishing hotel bill suggest he became t...
Episode thumbnail for October 31, 1997: Ghost To Ghost 1997 - Night 2
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October 31, 1997: Ghost To Ghost 1997 - Night 2

Oct 31, 1997
3h 9m
Art Bell continues the annual Ghost to Ghost tradition on Halloween night with another marathon session of real ghost stories from listeners across the country and around the world. He opens by revisiting the mysterious door-pounding incident from his studio two nights earlier, noting that the vicarious thrill of he...
Episode thumbnail for October 30, 1995: Ghost to Ghost 1995
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October 30, 1995: Ghost to Ghost 1995

Oct 30, 1995
3h 6m
Art Bell hosts the annual Ghost to Ghost special on Halloween night, opening all phone lines for callers to share their true supernatural encounters. The evening begins with a stern warning about Ouija boards, as Art Bell references his own frightening experience with an ancient board given to him by a self-proclaim...
Episode thumbnail for October 22, 1995: Ghosts in the Air - Martin Caidin
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October 22, 1995: Ghosts in the Air - Martin Caidin

Oct 22, 1995
2h 23m
Martin Caidin, veteran pilot and author of over 200 books including the novel Cyborg that inspired The Six Million Dollar Man, joins Art Bell to discuss his latest work Ghosts of the Air. Caidin shares documented accounts of paranormal events witnessed by pilots and military personnel, including World War I biplanes...
Episode thumbnail for October 31, 2013: Spooky Matter | Ghost Stories
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October 31, 2013: Spooky Matter | Ghost Stories

Oct 31, 2013
3h 8m
Art Bell hosts his annual Halloween special, Spooky Matter, opening with ghost photo contest winner Rebecca O'Donnell for her entry, Babushka. The night unfolds as a marathon of listener ghost stories submitted in advance and called in live, with no guests and no barriers between Art and his audience.Callers share a...
Episode thumbnail for November 27, 1998: Ghost Stories - Open Lines
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November 27, 1998: Ghost Stories - Open Lines

Nov 27, 1998
3h 14m
Art Bell dedicates the entire broadcast to listener ghost stories, fulfilling a promise delayed from Halloween when the Pegasus story interrupted the planned Ghost to Ghost edition. He opens by explaining his fascination with spirits as potential evidence of existence after death, then reads accounts including a 192...
Episode thumbnail for September 15, 2015: Loyd Auerbach
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September 15, 2015: Loyd Auerbach

Sep 15, 2015
2h 20m
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...
Episode thumbnail for October 18, 2003: Sounds of Ghosts - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath
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October 18, 2003: Sounds of Ghosts - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Oct 18, 2003
2h 50m
Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society to present a collection of electronic voice phenomena recordings captured at two locations: a funeral director's home and the historic Rawlins prison in Wyoming. The investigators use both analog tape recorders and digital devices...
Episode thumbnail for April 25, 2000: Ghost to Ghost | Open Lines
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April 25, 2000: Ghost to Ghost | Open Lines

Apr 25, 2000
3h 10m
Art Bell opens with Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center, who presents two witnesses from Clearfield, Utah, who observed five separate clusters of luminous objects streaking across the sky in tight V-formations on April 20, 2000. The witnesses describe silent, glowing formations traveling from horizo...
Episode thumbnail for February 23, 2000: Ghost to Ghost
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February 23, 2000: Ghost to Ghost

Feb 23, 2000
1h 0m
Art Bell hosts his beloved Ghost to Ghost program, dedicating the entire broadcast to listener-submitted accounts of paranormal encounters. He opens by discussing a photograph from a recent Democratic debate showing what appears to be a demonic entity between candidates Al Gore and Bill Bradley, an image that spread...
Episode thumbnail for October 30, 1998: Ghost to Ghost 1998 | Ghost Stories
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October 30, 1998: Ghost to Ghost 1998 | Ghost Stories

Oct 30, 1998
1h 4m
Art Bell hosts the annual Ghost to Ghost broadcast, inviting listeners to share their most unsettling encounters with the unexplained. He opens by reading several submitted accounts, including a martial artist who threw punches through a transparent figure kneeling beside his bed and a police officer who witnessed a...
Episode thumbnail for October 30, 2015: Halloween Special - Dead Air
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October 30, 2015: Halloween Special - Dead Air

Oct 30, 2015
2h 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 gi...
Episode thumbnail for December 19, 1997: Ghost Research - Dale Kaczmarek
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December 19, 1997: Ghost Research - Dale Kaczmarek

Dec 19, 1997
1h 23m
Dale Kaczmarek of the Ghost Research Society joins Art Bell to discuss ghost research, paranormal investigation tools, and hauntings after Art's account of an anomalous studio webcam photograph. The image shows an unexplained protoplasmic mass surrounding his head, taken under the same lighting conditions that had p...
Episode thumbnail for October 26, 2015: The Ghost Phenomenon - Dr. Michael Lynch
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October 26, 2015: The Ghost Phenomenon - Dr. Michael Lynch

Oct 26, 2015
2h 27m
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...