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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

Time Travel

Shows about time machines, timeline anomalies, John Titor, temporal physics, predictions, and the recurring question of whether the future can reach back into the present.

36 Episodes
Episode thumbnail for August 22, 2004: Open Lines | Time Travel
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August 22, 2004: Open Lines | Time Travel

Aug 22, 2004
2h 52m
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...
Episode thumbnail for November 8, 2003: Parallel Universes - M.R. Franks
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November 8, 2003: Parallel Universes - M.R. Franks

Nov 8, 2003
2h 51m
Art Bell opens with remote viewer Major Ed Dames, who declares that the recent extreme solar activity represents the long-predicted shot across the bow, a precursor to escalating solar events he calls kill shots. Dames describes an 11,500-year solar cycle and warns of progressive coronal mass ejections that will des...
Episode thumbnail for January 20, 2007: Parallel Universes and Quantum Science - Charles Seife
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January 20, 2007: Parallel Universes and Quantum Science - Charles Seife

Jan 20, 2007
2h 35m
Art Bell interviews science journalist and mathematician Charles Seife about the nature of information as a fundamental property of the universe. Seife explains how Claude Shannon's mid-20th century discovery of the laws of information created a third great scientific revolution, revealing that information behaves a...
Episode thumbnail for December 3, 2006: Cosmology and Time - Sean Carroll
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December 3, 2006: Cosmology and Time - Sean Carroll

Dec 3, 2006
2h 39m
Art Bell welcomes Sean Carroll, senior research associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology, for a wide-ranging discussion on the nature of time, space-time, and the possibility of time travel. Carroll explains that time has multiple definitions in physics, from the universal clock that labels eve...
Episode thumbnail for August 8, 1997: Open Lines - Men in Black, Time Travelers
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August 8, 1997: Open Lines - Men in Black, Time Travelers

Aug 8, 1997
2h 42m
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...
Episode thumbnail for November 12, 2006: Towards a Time Machine - Ronald Mallett
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November 12, 2006: Towards a Time Machine - Ronald Mallett

Nov 12, 2006
2h 39m
Art Bell welcomes Professor Ronald Mallett, a theoretical physicist at the University of Connecticut, who presents his research on building a time machine grounded in Einstein's general theory of relativity. Mallett explains that his quest began at age ten when his father died suddenly, and reading H.G. Wells inspir...
Episode thumbnail for March 23, 2001: Antichrist & Time Traveler Lines
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March 23, 2001: Antichrist & Time Traveler Lines

Mar 23, 2001
3h 31m
Art Bell dedicates the evening to open lines with two restricted phone lines: one for callers claiming to be the Antichrist and another for time travelers. He reasons that if time travel is ever invented, travelers from the future would logically exist in the present. Multiple self-proclaimed Antichrists phone in wi...
Episode thumbnail for July 29, 1998: Time Traveler Line
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July 29, 1998: Time Traveler Line

Jul 29, 1998
3h 15m
Art Bell opens a dedicated phone line for callers who claim to have physically traveled through time. Inspired by a recent Dreamland interview with Dr. Bruce Goldberg about time travelers living among us, Art reserves his wildcard number exclusively for those who say they arrived here via a machine or device.The cal...
Episode thumbnail for May 19, 1999: Time Travel - Dr. Bruce Goldberg
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May 19, 1999: Time Travel - Dr. Bruce Goldberg

May 19, 1999
2h 2m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Bruce Goldberg, a hypnotherapist and author who has regressed over 11,000 patients into past and future lives, to discuss one of Art's favorite subjects: time travel. Dr. Goldberg outlines four methods of traveling through time, from physical time machines based on exotic matter and warp drive...
Episode thumbnail for September 4, 2015: Time Traveler - Michael "Mad Man" Marcum
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September 4, 2015: Time Traveler - Michael "Mad Man" Marcum

Sep 4, 2015
2h 16m
Mike "Mad Man" Markham resurfaces after nearly two decades of silence. Art Bell first interviewed the young Missouri experimenter around 1995, dubbing him "Mad Man" out of fear he would cook himself. Markham then vanished completely. Tonight he explains why.Markham describes building a teleportation apparatus in an...
Episode thumbnail for May 30, 2003: Time Traveler Line - Open Lines
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May 30, 2003: Time Traveler Line - Open Lines

May 30, 2003
2h 48m
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...
Episode thumbnail for March 12, 2002: Time Traveler Open Lines - David Anderson
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March 12, 2002: Time Traveler Open Lines - David Anderson

Mar 12, 2002
37m
Art Bell opens with one of his favorite subjects, time travel, dedicating the first hour to callers who claim to be travelers from other times or dimensions. One caller describes arriving from the Confederate States of America, a dimension where the South won the Civil War, Canada was annexed by the United States, a...
Episode thumbnail for February 14, 2001: Alien Area 51 - Linda Moulton Howe | Time Traveler Lines
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February 14, 2001: Alien Area 51 - Linda Moulton Howe | Time Traveler Lines

Feb 14, 2001
3h 40m
Art Bell presents a Valentine's Day broadcast featuring Linda Moulton Howe reporting on the historic landing of the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft on asteroid 433 Eros. Howe interviews project scientist Lucy McFadden, who describes how the orbiter, never designed to land, touched down at four miles per hour and survived,...
Episode thumbnail for July 15, 1997: Open Lines | Time Traveler Hotline
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July 15, 1997: Open Lines | Time Traveler Hotline

Jul 15, 1997
44m
Art Bell opens the show reflecting on the previous night''s split-screen broadcast from Phoenix, noting that some listeners refused to believe the technological feat was real. He covers the day''s news, including the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace, the troubled Mir space station, and the Mars Pathfinder r...
Episode thumbnail for October 6, 2015: Time Travel - Ronald Mallett
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October 6, 2015: Time Travel - Ronald Mallett

Oct 6, 2015
2h 22m
Art Bell sits down with Professor Ronald Mallett, a research professor of physics at the University of Connecticut, to explore the science behind time travel. Professor Mallett shares the deeply personal origin of his lifelong obsession: the death of his father from a heart attack at age 33, when Ronald was just ten...
Episode thumbnail for October 17, 2001: Time Travel - J. Richard Gott
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October 17, 2001: Time Travel - J. Richard Gott

Oct 17, 2001
2h 39m
Art Bell opens with updates on the anthrax attacks spreading across the country and growing tensions between India and Pakistan before welcoming Princeton astrophysics professor J. Richard Gott for an in-depth discussion on the physics of time travel. Professor Gott explains how Einstein's special relativity makes t...
Episode thumbnail for January 13, 1997: Time Machine Inventor - Steven Gibbs
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January 13, 1997: Time Machine Inventor - Steven Gibbs

Jan 13, 1997
3h 6m
Steven Gibbs, a self-taught inventor from rural Nebraska, joins Art Bell to describe his Hyper Dimensional Resonator, a device he claims enables physical time travel. Gibbs explains that the machine works by capturing the soul's energy at 7.8 hertz, stepping it through a diode circuit and zero vector field, then tra...
Episode thumbnail for November 30, 2008: Future Technology and Parallel Worlds - Dr. Michio Kaku
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November 30, 2008: Future Technology and Parallel Worlds - Dr. Michio Kaku

Nov 30, 2008
2h 36m
Art Bell returns after a six-month absence to welcome Dr. Michio Kaku for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of technology, nuclear threats, and parallel worlds. The discussion begins with the Mumbai terror attacks and quickly pivots to the nuclear standoff between India and Pakistan, where Dr. Kaku explains...
Episode thumbnail for July 30, 1998: Time Travel - Single Seven
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July 30, 1998: Time Travel - Single Seven

Jul 30, 1998
1h 6m
Art Bell speaks with a caller identifying himself as Single Seven, a self-described time traveler from the year 2063 whose real name is Jonathan. He claims to be a paleo agriculture technician sent back to collect ancient heat-resistant seeds for hybridization in a future ravaged by deliberately accelerated global w...
Episode thumbnail for March 11, 1997: Time Travel - Fred Bell
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March 11, 1997: Time Travel - Fred Bell

Mar 11, 1997
3h 25m
Dr. Fred Bell, a former NASA spacecraft checkout engineer and physicist, joins Art Bell to discuss time travel, the Philadelphia Experiment, and exotic propulsion technologies. Bell describes building an octahedral time machine in his Laguna Beach backyard, a 20-foot structure using Wimhurst-style electrostatic gene...
Episode thumbnail for February 12, 1995: Future Life & Past Lives - Dr. Bruce Goldberg
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February 12, 1995: Future Life & Past Lives - Dr. Bruce Goldberg

Feb 12, 1995
1h 52m
Dr. Bruce Goldberg joins Art Bell to explore the extraordinary claims of hypnotic past life regression and future life progression, a field Goldberg has pioneered over two decades of clinical practice.Goldberg explains how patients under hypnosis can perceive multiple future timelines, choosing an ideal frequency am...
Episode thumbnail for August 14, 2015: Time Travel & Teleportation - Andrew Basiago
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August 14, 2015: Time Travel & Teleportation - Andrew Basiago

Aug 14, 2015
2h 14m
Andrew Basiago, a Washington State lawyer with six academic degrees, joins Art Bell claiming participation in two classified defense projects involving time travel and teleportation. Basiago describes DARPA's Project Pegasus achieving eight modalities of time travel by 1970, from remote viewing to physical teleporta...
Episode thumbnail for February 26, 2006: Lucifer, Pan, and Time Travel - Aaron C. Donahue
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February 26, 2006: Lucifer, Pan, and Time Travel - Aaron C. Donahue

Feb 26, 2006
2h 30m
Art Bell welcomes self-proclaimed Luciferian and remote viewer Aaron C. Donahue for a wide-ranging conversation about the nature of Lucifer, a new psychic methodology he calls PAN, and his claims of building a time machine. Donahue distinguishes Luciferianism from Satanism, describing Lucifer as a physical entity an...
Episode thumbnail for November 13, 2004: Time Travel - Dr. Fred Alan Wolf
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November 13, 2004: Time Travel - Dr. Fred Alan Wolf

Nov 13, 2004
2h 53m
Art Bell opens with a disturbing report from the former head of the CIA's bin Laden unit, who reveals that Osama bin Laden has obtained religious authorization to use a nuclear weapon against Americans. Callers weigh in on the threat and what a nuclear attack on a U.S. city would mean. The conversation shifts dramat...
Episode thumbnail for February 8, 2004: A Dark Future - Ed Dames
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February 8, 2004: A Dark Future - Ed Dames

Feb 8, 2004
2h 51m
Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames, retired military intelligence officer and remote viewing instructor, for a wide-ranging discussion on looming global threats. Dames opens with claims about Earth's most intelligent non-human life form, identifying a species of giant squid whose sophisticated photophore communication...
Episode thumbnail for November 6, 2002: Time Travel and Cosmology - Lawrence M. Krauss
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November 6, 2002: Time Travel and Cosmology - Lawrence M. Krauss

Nov 6, 2002
2h 46m
Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss, professor of physics and astronomy at Case Western Reserve University, for a wide-ranging conversation on time travel, cosmology, and the nature of the universe. The discussion begins with Einstein's special and general relativity, exploring how clocks slow...
Episode thumbnail for April 5, 2000: Time Travel - Dr. David Anderson
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April 5, 2000: Time Travel - Dr. David Anderson

Apr 5, 2000
3h 18m
Art Bell opens the program by taking calls from listeners who claim to be time travelers or visitors from other dimensions. One caller describes arriving from a dimension where the South won the Civil War, while another recounts meeting his older self as a child. The conversations set the stage for the evening's mai...
Episode thumbnail for July 30, 1996: Time Travels - 'Mad Man' Marcum
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July 30, 1996: Time Travels - 'Mad Man' Marcum

Jul 30, 1996
2h 2m
Mike Marcum, affectionately dubbed Mad Man Marcum by Art Bell, returns to provide a dramatic update on his homemade time machine experiments. Since his previous appearance and subsequent arrest for stealing power company transformers, Marcum has quietly assembled a massive new apparatus in a rented garage, featuring...
Episode thumbnail for September 4, 1994: Past Lives & Future Lives - Dr. Bruce Goldberg
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September 4, 1994: Past Lives & Future Lives - Dr. Bruce Goldberg

Sep 4, 1994
2h 6m
Dr. Bruce Goldberg, a hypnotherapist who has conducted over 30,000 past-life regressions, joins Art Bell on Dreamland to explore reincarnation, the nature of the soul, and the space-time continuum. Goldberg details his journey from dental practice to full-time regression therapy after witnessing a colleague overcome...
Episode thumbnail for August 12, 2015: Open Lines - September Doom
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August 12, 2015: Open Lines - September Doom

Aug 12, 2015
2h 17m
Art Bell opens the phones after a guest cancellation and discovers a defining theme: widespread dread about September 2015. Americans are stocking up on emergency supplies anticipating economic collapse, natural disaster, or judgment. Art Bell frames it through a metaphor he returns to all night: humans as animals s...
Episode thumbnail for July 15, 1999: Theoretical Physics - Dr. Michio Kaku
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July 15, 1999: Theoretical Physics - Dr. Michio Kaku

Jul 15, 1999
1h 50m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Michio Kaku, co-founder of String Field Theory and professor of theoretical physics at City University of New York, for a wide-ranging exploration of the frontiers of modern physics. They discuss the quest for a unified field theory, the possibility of parallel universes existing like bubbles i...
Episode thumbnail for October 23, 2015: Open Lines - Future 30 Year Prediction Line
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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...
Episode thumbnail for November 18, 2006: Extreme Future Trends - Dr. James Canton
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November 18, 2006: Extreme Future Trends - Dr. James Canton

Nov 18, 2006
2h 37m
Art Bell welcomes Dr. James Canton, futurist and CEO of the Institute for Global Futures, for a wide-ranging discussion on the trends shaping the coming decades. Canton, freshly returned from Asia and jet-lagged, covers the looming end of affordable oil and forecasts breakthroughs in hydrogen fuel cells, solar volta...