The Art Bell Archive

Nassim Haramein, a self-taught physicist who has spent 30 years researching physics, geometry, and consciousness, joins Art Bell to present his unified field theory and its startling implications. Haramein explains how his peer-reviewed paper predicted the proton's mass and radius more accurately than existing theories, a prediction confirmed two months later by an independent Swiss accelerator measurement that matched his model while contradicting the standard model of physics. The… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/july-23-2015-nassim-haramein

Linda Moulton Howe, Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and veteran researcher of animal mutilations and UFO phenomena, joins Art Bell for a sweeping Midnight in the Desert broadcast connecting solar system discoveries, mysterious worldwide booms, and Earth's overdue magnetic pole reversal. Howe details NASA's New Horizons findings at Pluto, where 11,000-foot ice mountains and zero impact craters suggest active resurfacing on a world 3.6 billion miles from the Sun, and reports on… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/july-22-2015-linda-moulton-howe

Charles Faddis, a 20-year CIA clandestine service veteran and former head of the agency's WMD terrorism unit, joins Art Bell for an unflinching tour of global security threats. Faddis, who led the first CIA team into Iraq in 2002, argues that ISIS grew from fundamental fissures in an artificial nation cobbled together by the British after World War I, with formerly secular Ba'athist officers now allied with radical Islamists against Baghdad's Shia-dominated government. He calls the current… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/july-21-2015-biological-warfare-charles-faddis

Graham Hancock joins Art Bell for the premiere of Midnight in the Desert, marking Bell's return to live broadcasting after a two-year hiatus. Hancock previews his sequel to "Fingerprints of the Gods," titled "Magicians of the Gods," presenting evidence from roughly 30 university scientists who have identified impact proxies confirming a giant comet struck Earth approximately 12,800 years ago during the Younger Dryas period, triggering a cataclysm that he argues wiped out an advanced predecessor… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/july-20-2015-quest-for-the-lost-civilization-graham-hancock

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 accounts from around the world. A soldier in Korea describes military vehicles starting on their own near a site where a serviceman died. A homeowner in Iowa recalls a nine-drawer… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-31-2013-spooky-matter-ghost-stories

Art Bell welcomes dream experts Michael Sebastian & Nicole Sebastian, known as The Dream Team, for an exploration of night terrors, dream intrusion, soul travel, and astral entities. The Sebastians explain that night terrors are often rooted in past trauma or past life memories, and that children under five are especially prone because they retain connections to prior incarnations that fade with socialization. The conversation turns darker as the Sebastians describe how psychic criminals and… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-30-2013-night-terrors-and-dreams-michael-sebastian-and-nicole-sebastian

Art Bell speaks with tech pioneer John McAfee and nuclear safety advocate Paul Gunter in a two-part episode covering cybersecurity and the Fukushima nuclear crisis. McAfee recounts his escape from Belize after a dispute with local authorities, including faking a heart attack in Guatemala to avoid extradition. He discusses NSA surveillance, vulnerabilities of the Obamacare website, and his development of D-Central, a device designed to create untraceable floating networks that would thwart… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-29-2013-fukushima-and-nuclear-reactor-hazards-john-mcafee-and-paul-gunter

Art Bell sits down with researcher Jason Martell to examine ancient advanced civilizations and the possibility that sophisticated cultures existed long before recorded history. Martell explains how his interest began with structures on Mars and evolved into studying Sumerian cuneiform texts, which he argues contain detailed accounts of human creation, the Great Flood, and cosmological events that predate and parallel biblical narratives. Martell describes the Sumerian account of the Anunnaki… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-28-2013-the-lost-cycle-of-time-jason-martell

Art Bell welcomes Timothy Good, one of the world's leading civilian authorities on alien phenomena, for a wide-ranging discussion on extraterrestrial encounters and UFO evidence. Good recounts his own personal experiences with beings he believes were aliens, including encounters in New York, on tour with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and at a debating salon in Poland where a mysterious speaker left no one able to recall his presentation. The conversation covers the controversial claims of… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-24-2013-et-and-ufo-encounters-missing-time-timothy-good

Art Bell welcomes Charles Faddis, a retired CIA operations officer with 20 years of field experience and former head of the CIA's Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism Unit. Faddis discusses his novel Kaffa, named after a medieval siege where plague-infected corpses were catapulted into a fortified city, historically linked to the spread of the Black Death across Europe. Faddis reveals that biological weapons represent the most realistic terrorist WMD threat facing the United States. He… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-23-2013-biological-terrorism-in-the-us-charles-faddis

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Roger Leir, a podiatric surgeon who has performed 16 surgeries to remove suspected alien implants from abductees. Leir discusses his return after a severe bout with shingles and shares remarkable findings from years of laboratory analysis on the recovered objects, including the discovery of carbon nanotubes, both single-walled and double-walled, embedded within metallic structures. Leir presents extraordinary video footage from Kumburgaz, Turkey, captured over three… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-21-2013-turkish-ufos-and-alien-implants-dr-roger-leir

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 moments before her body was found in the Cecil Hotel's rooftop water tank. Ronnie and Laura offer their interpretation of the footage, suggesting Lam was manipulated by a dark entity… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-17-2013-demons-spirits-and-ghosts-the-ghost-buster-gals

Art Bell welcomes Tobias McGriff, a historian of the strange and founder of Blue Orb Ghost Tours in Savannah, Georgia, alongside filmmaker James Fox, director of I Know What I Saw. The conversation opens with McGriff recounting how he tracked down Fred Hart, a previously silent eyewitness to President Jimmy Carter's 1969 UFO sighting in Leary, Georgia. Hart reveals for the first time that the luminous, color-changing object appeared in the east, contradicting decades of claims that Carter… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-16-2013-ufo-and-paranormal-research-tobias-mcgriff-and-james-fox

Art Bell welcomes Jim Sparks, a self-described professional abductee who has maintained total recall of his extraterrestrial encounters since 1988. Sparks recounts how his experiences began as recurring dreams before escalating into fully conscious abductions by gray beings, occurring two to three times a week for months at a time. Sparks describes being taught an alien alphabet and number system aboard a craft, where he was initially paralyzed and forced to trace symbols on a screen. Over six… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-15-2013-alien-encounters-time-travel-and-ufo-sightings-jim-sparks

Art Bell welcomes Professor Loyd Auerbach, director of the Office of Paranormal Investigations and a leading figure in parapsychology for over 30 years. Auerbach, who teaches parapsychology at multiple universities and serves as president of the Forever Family Foundation, brings academic rigor to a field often dominated by reality television sensationalism. The conversation ranges across the full spectrum of paranormal research. Auerbach explains the Princeton random event generators that… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-14-2013-parapsychology-and-the-paranormal-loyd-auerbach

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 weekend if default occurs. Callers bring a wild assortment of stories. A truck driver in New Mexico describes an eight-foot-tall, dark-haired figure crossing the road at 3 a.m. A pipe… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-10-2013-open-lines

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Andrew Karam, a radiation safety expert and former nuclear submarine crew member, about the ongoing Fukushima reactor disaster and the future of nuclear energy. Karam, who traveled to Japan one month after the accident, shares firsthand observations and explains the critical difference between detectable radiation and harmful exposure levels. The conversation covers the state of the three melted reactor cores, the risk of spent fuel pool collapse during a typhoon, and… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-9-2013-fukushima-reactor-and-yucca-mountain-dr-andrew-karam

Art Bell sits down with Bloomberg News reporter Yalman Onaran to examine what a United States debt default would actually mean for ordinary Americans and the global economy. With the debt ceiling deadline of October 17 approaching and Congress locked in a standoff, Art expresses genuine alarm, revealing he has already contacted his banker in the Philippines about transferring funds. Onaran draws a stark comparison to the 2008 Lehman Brothers collapse, noting that U.S. government debt is 25… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-8-2013-what-happens-if-the-us-defaults-yalman-onaran-and-john-hogue

Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Jimmy Chunga of the Ghost Investigator Society for a night of genuine electronic voice phenomena recordings. The duo, who have spent over 15 years capturing voices of the dead using digital recorders, present a chilling collection of EVPs gathered from mausoleums, funeral homes, cemeteries, and private residences across the country. The recordings range from unsettling to deeply disturbing. A child's voice in a Boston funeral home pleads to be hidden from… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-7-2013-evp-recordings-brendan-cook-and-jimmy-chunga

Art Bell welcomes investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe for a wide-ranging evening covering Fukushima, Bigfoot, animal mutilations, and extraterrestrial genetic manipulation of life on Earth. Linda opens with a detailed report on the ongoing Fukushima crisis, revealing that 80,000 gallons of highly radioactive water leaked undetected for a month and that fish caught off the coast measured over 2,500 times the legal limit for radioactive cesium. The conversation shifts to Bigfoot when… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-3-2013-fukushima-bigfoot-animal-mutilations-and-government-knowledge-of-ets-linda-moulton-howe

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Albert Taylor, a former aerospace engineer who worked on the International Space Station and the F-117A stealth fighter, to discuss his journey from secret government programs to out-of-body experiences and paranormal robotics. Taylor describes a lifetime of sleep paralysis episodes beginning at age five, which his grandmother attributed to witches stealing his soul, and how he eventually learned these were precursors to full out-of-body travel. Taylor recounts his first… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-2-2013-robotics-in-paranormal-investigations-soul-traveler-dr-albert-taylor

Art Bell presents a packed evening beginning with Richard C. Hoagland discussing Comet ISON and its flyby of Mars, followed by a deep conversation with Whitley Strieber about his landmark close encounter described in Communion. Hoagland walks through a series of images posted at ArtBell.com, including Hubble telescope anomalies in the comet nucleus, the mysterious green coloration caused by cyanogen gas, and his theory that some comets may be ancient derelict spacecraft. He also revisits the… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-1-2013-communion-whitley-strieber-nasa-richard-c-hoagland

Art Bell sits down with Dr. Michael Heiser, a scholar of biblical studies and ancient Semitic languages, to examine where ufology, theology, and ancient texts intersect. Heiser shares the results of his groundbreaking computational linguistics study of the Majestic-12 documents, in which forensic analyst Dr. Carol Chaskey tested authorship attribution on 17 MJ-12 papers. Only one document passed the test, while eight others showed suspicious authorial similarities suggesting a common forger.… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/september-30-2013-ufology-ets-and-mj-12-dr-michael-heiser

Art Bell welcomes Matthew Alper, author of The God Part of the Brain, to discuss his provocative theory that human spirituality is hardwired into our neurobiology. Alper argues that the universal nature of religious belief across every culture points to an inherited cognitive function, a brain mechanism that evolved to help our species cope with the overwhelming awareness of mortality. The conversation moves through four pillars of evidence: the sociobiological argument that cross-cultural… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/september-25-2013-the-god-part-of-our-brain-matthew-alper

Art Bell sits down with Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, for a conversation spanning the Kepler telescope's demise, new strategies for finding extraterrestrial civilizations, and the implications of first contact. Shostak explains that Kepler's second reaction wheel failure has ended its planet-hunting mission, though years of unprocessed data may yield thousands of new planetary discoveries. Shostak describes a proposal to detect alien civilizations by measuring waste… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/september-24-2013-the-kepler-telescope-and-the-future-search-for-et-seth-shostak

Art Bell welcomes Jeremy Meador, a Las Vegas researcher, to discuss a little-known UFO crash near Ely, Nevada on July 7, 1952, exactly five years after Roswell. Meador explains that two fiery objects were tracked across multiple states, with Hill Air Force Base scrambling a B-17 to pursue one. The objects converged over northern Nevada, resulting in two separate crash sites near the towns of Montello and Cherry Creek. Witnesses describe a silvery craft with a smooth, liquid-like surface that… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/september-23-2013-the-ely-nevada-ufo-crash-jeremy-meador

Art Bell reunites with Richard C. Hoagland, former NASA consultant and science advisor to Walter Cronkite during the Apollo missions, for a spirited examination of alleged ancient structures on the moon. Hoagland presents a 1967 Surveyor 6 photograph showing an anomalous geometric glow above the lunar horizon after sunset, which he interprets as light scattering through the shattered remnants of an enormous glass dome. Hoagland compares the original NASA print from the Goddard Space Flight… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/september-19-2013-nasas-ladee-moon-mission-and-curiositys-gale-crater-richard-c-hoagland

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Jonathan Reed, who returns to share what he calls one of the most compelling alien contact cases ever documented. Reed recounts the October 1996 incident near Snoqualmie Pass, Washington, where his golden retriever Susie was killed by a small, dark, vibrating being. After striking the creature with a branch and cracking its skull, Reed became violently ill for hours with symptoms resembling radiation poisoning. Reed describes discovering a black, diamond-shaped obelisk… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/september-18-2013-alien-encounter-jonathan-reed

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Steven M. Greer, founder of the Disclosure Project and the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, for a wide-ranging discussion on UFO secrecy and suppressed energy technology. Greer recounts his private briefings with CIA Director James Woolsey and the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, both of whom admitted they were denied access to classified UFO programs operating outside normal government oversight. Greer describes how unacknowledged special… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/september-17-2013-new-energy-steven-greer

Art Bell launches his new SiriusXM program Dark Matter with theoretical physicist Michio Kaku as his inaugural guest. Art admits to nervousness before the premiere but settles into a far-reaching conversation about the fate of the universe, the search for extraterrestrial life, and the frontiers of modern physics. He lays out ground rules for the new show: no bad language, unscreened open lines, and a focus on science, the paranormal, and questions of existence. Professor Kaku explains the… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/september-16-2013-fate-of-the-universe-dr-michio-kaku

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 people speak in foreign languages and levitate. Callers deliver a steady stream of eerie accounts. A ham radio operators family hears their deceased father making scheduled contacts on… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-31-2010-ghost-to-ghost-2010

Art Bell welcomes back EVP researchers Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society for an evening exploring electronic voice phenomena just days before Halloween. The husband-and-wife team shares recordings captured at reportedly haunted locations, presenting voices that appear to respond directly to questions and demonstrate awareness of the living. Art presses the pair on what they believe they are actually recording. While Cook and McBeath lean toward the voices being… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-29-2010-evp-research-brendan-cook-and-barbara-mcbeath

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. She predicts a particularly deadly flu season and identifies China, Iran, and Mexico as three major areas of escalating conflict. The conversation shifts to the nature of magic… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/september-24-2010-predictions-and-natural-magic-dr-evelyn-paglini

Art Bell welcomes Butch Witkowski, founder of the UFO Research Center of Pennsylvania, to discuss the disturbing topic of human mutilations and abduction phenomena. Witkowski, a former MUFON chief investigator, describes assembling a team of forensic experts, law enforcement officers, and scientists to pursue cases of high strangeness that conventional organizations left unresolved. The conversation centers on documented cases of human mutilation that mirror the surgical precision found in… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-27-2010-human-mutilations-and-abduction-phenomena-butch-witkowski

Art Bell welcomes Professor Peter Ward, a biologist and earth scientist at the University of Washington, to discuss the Gulf oil spill and the broader threat of climate change. Ward expresses deep concern about heavy crude sitting unseen on the Gulf floor, comparing it to a massive blob no one is properly investigating. He warns that this submerged oil will decompose into hydrogen sulfide, a lethal gas capable of devastating the seagrass beds where commercial fish species begin their lives. The… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/july-23-2010-gulf-oil-spill-and-climate-change-peter-ward

Art Bell speaks with Larry Schweiger, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, about the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Broadcasting from Manila, Art notes that the disaster has dominated headlines worldwide. Schweiger, who has made multiple trips to the spill zone, describes raw crude stretching across the water as far as the eye can see, with oil so thick that nothing was visible beneath the surface. Schweiger explains the controversy surrounding… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/june-25-2010-environmental-disasters-larry-schweiger

Art Bell is joined by planetary scientist Dr. David Grinspoon, curator of astrobiology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and a recipient of the Carl Sagan Medal. The conversation ranges from the likelihood of extraterrestrial life to the private space travel revolution, with Grinspoon noting that the discovery of billions of exoplanets has transformed alien life from speculation into statistical probability. He argues that any intelligent species humanity encounters will almost… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/april-9-2010-astrobiology-and-astronaut-training-david-grinspoon

Art Bell sits down with Dr. Robert Lanza, a scientist whom U.S. News and World Report once likened to Einstein, to discuss his groundbreaking theory of biocentrism. Lanza argues that life and consciousness are not accidental byproducts of physics but are fundamental to the structure of reality itself. He points to well-established quantum experiments showing that particles do not possess definite properties until they are observed. Lanza walks through landmark experiments including the… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/march-26-2010-consciousness-and-the-universe-robert-lanza

Art Bell welcomes back Dr. David Lewis Anderson, a physicist who disappeared from public view five years earlier while conducting time control research at his Long Island laboratory. Anderson reveals that he went dark to protect his third-generation time warp field generator, which demonstrated the ability to accelerate time at rates far beyond the 300% achieved in 2002. He has since built a global organization spanning Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas. Anderson describes how his team… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/january-31-2010-time-technology-and-research-david-lewis-anderson

Art Bell sits down with theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku for a wide-ranging conversation about the frontiers of modern physics. Kaku reports that the Large Hadron Collider is operating smoothly after its troubled start, dismissing the theory it was being sabotaged from the future. He explains the collider may soon produce dark matter, invisible material that has mass and gravity but passes through ordinary objects like a ghost. The discussion explores dark matter's role in forming the… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/january-29-2010-a-conversation-with-dr-michio-kaku