Open Lines & Callers

Art Bell returns to the microphone one last time, filling in for Heather Wade on a Friday night for what would become his final broadcast. He opens with reflections on the discovery of gravity waves, the Apple encryption battle, and his love of drone technology before diving into the 2016 presidential race.Callers f...

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...

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 mont...

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...

Art Bell opens the phone lines on Independence Day for a special edition dedicated to listener prophecy. Rather than the usual end-of-year predictions, Art issues a challenge to the genuinely gifted among his audience, seeking short-term visions of events about to unfold. The callers respond with striking specificit...

Art Bell opens the lines for an anything-goes night, dedicating the first-time caller line to anyone claiming to have traveled through time. He begins with a vivid account of a terrifying electrical storm in Pahrump, Nevada, where lightning bombarded the area around his antenna towers for nearly five hours while the...

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 pers...

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...

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 se...

Art Bell hosts a Friday night open lines show and dedicates one phone line exclusively to callers who claim to have traveled in time. He opens with sharp commentary on the Iraq war, noting that a top Marine general has publicly declared U.S. intelligence was "simply wrong" about chemical weapons, and that no weapons...

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...

Art Bell opens a special phone line for current and former Area 51 employees willing to share their secrets. The evening begins with a heartfelt hospital room interview with Dannion Brinkley, who describes his battle with three brain aneurysms and the healing power of prayer and love he received from listeners durin...

Art Bell opens the phone lines on a Friday night with a twist, designating his first-time caller line exclusively for men in black, time travelers, and anyone claiming to possess a time machine. Several callers rise to the occasion, beginning with a self-described "auditor" who claims men in black are outdated biolo...

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...

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 Weste...

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...

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...

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 th...

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 firs...

Art Bell opens the phone lines for a freewheeling Thursday night covering time travel, Bigfoot sightings, and mysterious implants. With the U.S. government still closed and the debt ceiling deadline approaching, Art shares an alarming email from an FDIC employee claiming the agency projects 20 bank failures per week...

Art Bell opens the phone lines for a special Christmas edition of Open Lines, asking callers to share the best and worst days of their lives, inspired by Dean Koontz's novel Life Expectancy. Broadcasting from Manila, Art shares his own story of a military doctor who falsely told him he had six months to live before...

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...

Art Bell opens with a brief interview with Dr. Rick Strassman, author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule, who discusses dimethyltryptamine as a naturally occurring compound that may mediate mystical experiences. Strassman describes his government-approved clinical research with DMT, noting that intravenous doses peak withi...

Art Bell opens the phone lines for a themed Friday night session built around three listener-suggested topics. Callers share short-term predictions for the next six weeks, first-person encounters with monsters and unknown creatures, and accounts of sexual encounters with unseen entities or forces. A truck driver des...

Art Bell opens the Friday night phone lines to explore three unusual topics: spontaneous human invisibility, mysterious mirror experiences, and underground encounters. He reads from researcher Donna Good Higbee's investigation into people who report becoming spontaneously invisible in public spaces, unable to be see...

Art Bell opens the phone lines on a Friday night packed with eclectic topics and listener suggestions. Callers propose themed lines for time travelers, extraterrestrials, inventors, and alien implant recipients, while Art covers breaking news including the Venezuelan government overthrow, Secretary Powell's troubled...

Art Bell opens the phone lines on a Friday night before the holiday weekend, sharing a remarkable email from a homicide detective whose investigation was guided by the apparition of a murder victim's deceased grandson. The ghost of the young boy, killed by a car two years earlier, led the detective to both the murde...

Art Bell opens the phone lines two weeks after the September 11th attacks to gauge a growing undercurrent of anti-war sentiment he has detected in his email. He reads provocative listener messages arguing against military retaliation, then fields calls from across the country representing sharply divided opinions on...

Art Bell opens the phone lines for a Friday night edition of Truth or Trash, a game where callers tell outrageous stories and a jury of fellow listeners votes on whether each tale is true or fabricated. Callers are encouraged to lie convincingly or tell true stories so unbelievable they sound fake.The evening produc...

Art Bell opens the phone lines with Y2K just sixteen days away, fielding calls from across North America as anxiety builds toward the millennium rollover. He reports that a Nebraska bank posted signs limiting cash withdrawals to three thousand dollars, sparking the very panic officials hoped to avoid. Massachusetts...

Art Bell opens the phone lines with a special challenge, dedicating one line exclusively to members of secret societies willing to share something about their organizations. The evening draws multiple callers claiming Masonic membership, including a self-described Master Mason who insists all Masonic secrets are pub...

Art Bell opens the phone lines for an all-topics evening and designates a special line for callers to share their worst dating experiences. Listeners recount tales of forgotten concert tickets, disastrous blind dates, jealous roommates, and being thrown out on Christmas Eve in a Montana snowstorm. Art also discusses...

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...

Art Bell opens the phone lines exclusively for those who have experienced alien abduction. Callers describe enhanced night vision following contact, sexual experiments aboard craft, missing time lasting several days, and mysterious implants still present beneath their skin. One caller recounts a Travis Walton-like e...

Art Bell opens the phone lines as the Monica Lewinsky scandal dominates the news cycle. Newsweek has obtained 17 audio tapes containing 20 hours of conversations between former White House intern Lewinsky and Pentagon aide Linda Tripp, in which Lewinsky appears to describe a sexual relationship with President Clinto...

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...