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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

Predictions & Prophecy

Annual prediction shows, Nostradamus discussions, prophecy guests, future warnings, and the Art Bell tradition of testing tomorrow against the record.

36 Episodes
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December 31, 2004: Predictions for 2005 - Part 2

Dec 31, 2004
2h 54m
Art Bell rings in the new year with the second half of his annual prediction show, opening with somber reflection on the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed over 150,000 people just days earlier. He revisits prediction number 93 from the prior year, in which a caller spoke only the word "tsunami," and replays the origi...
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December 19, 2004: Predictions for 2005 - Part 1

Dec 19, 2004
2h 52m
Art Bell opens the first of two annual prediction shows by reviewing listener predictions made for 2004. He tallies the hits and misses, noting standout calls including a correct Red Sox World Series pick and a prescient HAARP prediction. Among the bonks are several failed forecasts about bin Laden's capture and the...
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July 3, 2004: Nostradamus and Our Future - John Hogue

Jul 3, 2004
2h 52m
Art Bell welcomes John Hogue, widely considered the world's foremost authority on Nostradamus, to discuss prophecy, prediction, and the future of civilization. Hogue recalls his November 2000 prediction that a Bush presidency would lead to a ground war in Iraq, drawing parallels to Vietnam. The conversation traces N...
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June 10, 2007: Prophecy: War with Iran - John Hogue

Jun 10, 2007
2h 37m
Art Bell welcomes prophecy scholar John Hogue to discuss his new e-book, Nostradamus: The War with Iran. Hogue explains how he wrote 70,000 words in just seven weeks, driven by an inner compulsion that a U.S.-Iran conflict may be closer than most people realize. He connects Nostradamus quatrains to modern geopolitic...
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September 28, 1999: Nostradamus - John Hogue

Sep 28, 1999
2h 53m
Art Bell is joined by prophecy expert John Hogue for a wide-ranging exploration of Nostradamus and the predictions surrounding the approaching millennium. Hogue interprets the famous 1999 prophecy about the "king of terror from the sky" not as a single figure but as a reference to climate disruption and the growing...
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November 15, 1994: Prophecy - John Hogue

Nov 15, 1994
2h 51m
John Hogue, the world's foremost authority on Nostradamus and a featured expert on NBC's Ancient Prophecies special, joins Art Bell for an expansive discussion on the nature of prophecy and the human future.Hogue draws on 20 years of scholarship across multiple prophetic traditions, presenting his latest book compil...
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April 23, 1995: HAARP - Linda Moulton Howe | Predictions & Prophecies - Ted Flynn

Apr 23, 1995
1h 17m
Linda Moulton Howe delivers a detailed investigative report on Project HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program based in Gakona, Alaska. Howe traces the project's evolution from a small subsidiary called ARCO Power Technologies through its acquisition by E-Systems, a secretive defense contractor han...
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March 26, 1995: Predictions & Prophecy - Dr. Louis Turi

Mar 26, 1995
1h 29m
Dr. Louis Turi, astrologer and doctor of metaphysics born in the same village as Nostradamus, joins Art Bell to share specific earthquake predictions and recount his dramatic close encounter with a massive flying saucer in southern France. Turi describes how the craft hovered silently less than 30 feet above his car...
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February 5, 1995: Prophecies & Predictions - Sean David Morton

Feb 5, 1995
1h 54m
Sean David Morton, founder of the Prophecy Research Institute, joins Art Bell with earthquake forecasts, geopolitical predictions, and a provocative claim that the 1994 Northridge earthquake was artificially induced by the U.S. military.Morton, who uses Tibetan meditation techniques over maps to sense geological ene...
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December 29, 1996: Nostradamus - John Hogue

Dec 29, 1996
1h 31m
John Hogue, a former opera singer turned prophecy scholar, joins Art Bell to examine the predictions of Nostradamus alongside those of Edgar Cayce and dozens of other seers as the year draws to a close. Hogue explains that Nostradamus deliberately obscured his writings and may have been describing quantum futures, a...
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January 4, 2000: Y2K, Religion, & Nostradamus - John Hogue

Jan 4, 2000
2h 52m
Nostradamus scholar John Hogue joins Art Bell to discuss Y2K, religion, terrorism prophecy, and Nostradamus after Art's postmortem on the millennium rollover. Art opens with a postmortem on Y2K, declaring it largely a non-event while urging listeners to keep their emergency preparations for increasingly severe weath...
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October 23, 2015: Open Lines - Future 30 Year Prediction Line

Oct 23, 2015
2h 21m
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...
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December 31, 2009: Predictions 2010 Part 2

Dec 31, 2009
2h 32m
Art Bell hosts the second and final night of predictions for 2010, broadcasting from Manila on New Year's Eve as fireworks erupt across the Philippines. He describes the scene as sounding like a war zone. Before opening the lines, Art continues reviewing the previous year's predictions, dinging forecasts of worsenin...
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December 30, 2009: Predictions 2010 Part 1

Dec 30, 2009
2h 34m
Art Bell opens the phone lines for the first of two annual prediction shows, inviting listeners to share their psychic visions for 2010. Broadcasting from Manila, he begins with news that Rush Limbaugh has been hospitalized in Hawaii with chest pains, then sets the ground rules: one prediction per caller, no politic...
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April 11, 2002: Predictions - Sean David Morton

Apr 11, 2002
2h 55m
Art Bell welcomes self-described intuitive Sean David Morton for a wide-ranging discussion on geopolitical predictions and classified military operations. Morton claims contact with Pentagon officials involved in a program called Operation Foresight, which reportedly uses remote viewers and intuitives to track terro...
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December 26, 2001: Predictions for 2002 - Sean David Morton

Dec 26, 2001
1h 55m
Art Bell welcomes self-described futurist and remote viewer Sean David Morton live from Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, where Morton claims to have won $11,000 at roulette using a remote viewing technique paired with sealed envelope targets. Morton describes his process of correlating four sealed images to quadrants of...
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August 10, 2001: Predictions - Sean David Morton

Aug 10, 2001
2h 48m
Sean David Morton returns to Art Bell with predictions about secret aerospace programs, Area 51, Cuba and Atlantis, stock-market volatility, and solar flare activity after an opening hour of open lines. Art begins with calls covering the space shuttle Discovery launch, Jesse Ventura's public comments on UFOs, human...
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April 6, 2001: Remote Viewing Predictions - Ed Dames

Apr 6, 2001
2h 46m
Art Bell brings Major Ed Dames back to discuss remote viewing predictions and global threats. Dames identifies the recent record-breaking solar flare as the "shot across the bow" he had previously predicted, a precursor event to what his remote viewing team calls the "kill shot," a future solar event capable of caus...
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June 09, 1998: Predictions - Gordon Michael Scallion

Jun 9, 1998
2h 34m
Art Bell welcomes futurist Gordon Michael Scallion to discuss his Earth change predictions and the visions that transformed his life. Scallion recounts how a sudden loss of his voice in 1979 led to a mystical hospital experience where a mysterious woman revealed future events to him. He describes his process of seei...
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August 7, 1994: UFOs & Predictions - Sean David Morton

Aug 7, 1994
43m
Sean David Morton, UFO researcher and self-described prophecy expert, joins Art Bell with bold claims about Area 51, extraterrestrial contact, and secret government programs hidden from public view.Morton describes his firsthand observations from a mountain overlooking the Groom Lake facility, where he says he witne...
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September 24, 2010: Predictions and Natural Magic - Dr. Evelyn Paglini

Sep 24, 2010
2h 34m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a practicing witch and psychic, for a wide-ranging discussion on predictions and the practical applications of natural magic. Paglini shares her economic forecasts, warning that the recession is far from over and that Main Street will not feel relief until late spring of 2012. S...
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December 31, 2008: Predictions 2009 Part 2

Dec 31, 2008
2h 35m
Art Bell continues the annual Predictions tradition on New Year's Eve, reviewing more 2008 predictions before opening the lines for part two of listener forecasts. He hands out bonks for missed calls on a Florida breakaway and Osama bin Laden ending jihad, while acknowledging a hit on BlackBerry achieving two billio...
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December 30, 2008: Predictions 2009 Part 1

Dec 30, 2008
2h 33m
Art Bell hosts the annual Predictions show, inviting listeners to call in with their single best psychic prediction for the coming year. Before opening the phone lines, he reviews predictions made for 2008, noting several accurate calls about devastating Midwest tornadoes, the Dow falling below 11,000, and the econo...
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December 31, 2007: 2008 Predictions Night 2

Dec 31, 2007
2h 34m
Art Bell continues the second night of listener predictions for 2008 on New Year"s Eve. He corrects two entries from the 2007 review, upgrading a bonk on a serial killer being found after a 63-year-old man confessed to murders from the late 1970s. The remaining 2007 predictions fare poorly, with bonks for the rebuil...
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December 30, 2007: 2008 Predictions Night 1

Dec 30, 2007
2h 35m
Art Bell opens the phone lines for the first night of listener predictions for 2008, beginning with a review of the previous year"s forecasts. The results from 2007 are mixed at best, with bonks for predictions about NASA casualties, Saddam"s execution being faked, Israel attacking Iran, and a moon base being reveal...
Episode thumbnail for March 31, 2007: Predictions, Evil, and Natural Magic - Dr. Evelyn Paglini
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March 31, 2007: Predictions, Evil, and Natural Magic - Dr. Evelyn Paglini

Mar 31, 2007
2h 32m
Art Bell welcomes back Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a parapsychologist and authority on the occult, for a wide-ranging discussion on predictions, rising evil, and natural magic. Paglini shares her forecasts for devastating wildfires, many set deliberately by arsonists, along with widespread flooding and a significant earthqu...
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December 31, 2006: Predictions for 2007 Part 2

Dec 31, 2006
2h 35m
Art Bell hosts the second night of listener predictions for 2007 on New Year's Eve as midnight sweeps across the continent. He tightens the rules from the previous night, warning that anyone attempting to slip in a second prediction will have their first one canceled. Only on-air predictions are recorded, and Art re...
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December 30, 2006: Predictions for 2007 Part 1

Dec 30, 2006
2h 35m
Art Bell hosts the first night of his annual predictions show for 2007, broadcasting once again from the high desert after returning to the United States with his wife Airyn, who has officially immigrated. He opens by reviewing the accuracy of previous years' predictions and establishes the ground rules: one predict...
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March 12, 2006: Witchcraft & Predictions - Dr. Evelyn Paglini

Mar 12, 2006
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...
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December 31, 2005: Predictions for 2006 - Part 2

Dec 31, 2005
2h 29m
Art Bell continues the annual predictions event on New Year's Eve, collecting the final batch of listener forecasts for 2006. He reviews more results from the 2005 vault, noting hits on a bridge collapse, the shuttle tank problem, and a new cat species discovery, while bonking failed predictions about Korea becoming...
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December 30, 2005: Predictions for 2006 - Part 1

Dec 30, 2005
2h 29m
Art Bell opens the annual predictions tradition by reviewing the 2005 forecast results from the Bell Family Vault. Listeners scored a few notable hits, including the passing of Johnny Carson and the auto industry depression, but the overall accuracy suffered from an overly apocalyptic mood following the tsunami.Call...
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January 31, 2004: Predictions for 2004 - Sean David Morton

Jan 31, 2004
2h 51m
Sean David Morton, described on-air as a futurist, intuitive, and earth-sensitive, joins Art Bell for predictions for 2004 after Whitley Strieber's climate-current segment. Art opens with Whitley Strieber discussing the breaking Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute report on the slowing North Atlantic current and its...