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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.

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Brad Steiger, Barry Taff, Brendan Cook, Barbara McBeath and 9 more

  • High Desert Origins1992–96 · 5
  • UFO / Y2K Boom1997–99 · 11
  • Post-Millennium Coast2000–09 · 14
  • Return and Midnight Era2010–16 · 6

Selected episodes

  1. 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...
  2. 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...
  3. 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...
  4. 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...
  5. 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...
  6. Ghosts

    Oct 29, 1997 · Brad Steiger · 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...
  7. 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...
  8. Mass Deaths of Species, Colorado Sightings - Linda Moulton Howe | Ghosts - Barry Taff

    Aug 16, 1998 · 2h 53m

    Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe to report on the alarming disappearance of amphibians across the United States, where one third of frog, toad, and salamander populations have vanished. Linda connects the crisis to increased ultraviolet radiation from ozone depletion, water pollution, an...
  9. 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...
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. Ghost to Ghost 1998 | EQ Pegasi - Richard C. Hoagland & Seth Shostak

    Oct 30, 1998 · 1h 21m

    Art Bell opens his annual Ghost to Ghost broadcast with a stunning photograph from a firefighter in Missouri showing what appears to be a Native American warrior on horseback in the flames of a practice fire on an Indian burial ground. Listeners share chilling accounts of apparitions, haunted hotels, and ghostly enc...
  13. 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...
  14. Poltergeists

    May 13, 1998 · Dr. Barry Taff · 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...
  15. 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...
  16. Recorded Voices of Ghosts

    Jul 3, 2002 · Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath · 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...
  17. 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...
  18. 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...
  19. 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...
  20. Ghosts and Spirits

    Apr 4, 2000 · Brad Steiger · 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,...
  21. 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...
  22. 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...
  23. 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...
  24. 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...
  25. Ghosts in the Air

    Oct 22, 1995 · Martin Caidin · 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...
  26. 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...
  27. 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...
  28. 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...
  29. Sounds of Ghosts

    Oct 18, 2003 · Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath · 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...
  30. 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...
  31. 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...
  32. 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...
  33. 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...
  34. Halloween Zone, Telephone Failures & Postponed EVP Segment

    Oct 30, 2002 · 47m

    Art Bell fills in for George Noory and opens the Halloween Zone with plans to feature the Ghost Investigators Society and their most compelling EVP recordings from haunted locations including the Wyoming Frontier Prison. He reads from a Denver Post article documenting how GIS members Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath...
  35. Ghost Research

    Dec 19, 1997 · Dale Kaczmarek · 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...
  36. The Ghost Phenomenon

    Oct 26, 2015 · Dr. Michael Lynch · 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...

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