The Art Bell Archive

Inspired by a television special on angels, Art Bell asks callers whether mysterious interventions at moments of danger are spiritual encounters or stress-induced experiences. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/may-24-1994-open-lines-angels-and-bizarre-stories

Art Bell opens the lines on Hillary Clinton’s political future, border control, national identification proposals, health-care reform, and distrust of federal power. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/may-23-1994-open-lines-hillary-clinton-for-president-and-border-control

David Aikman joins Art Bell to discuss Waco and a fictional account of conditions that could drive the United States toward another civil war. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/may-20-1994-waco-and-the-coming-civil-war-david-aikman

John Ronner examines the evidence for guardian angels with Art Bell, from near-death experiences to the 1986 Cokeville hostage crisis where children reported angelic figures. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/may-8-1994-do-angels-exist-john-ronner

Lori Toye describes prophetic visions from Tibetan masters showing California shattered into islands, but argues human consciousness can still alter the outcome. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/april-15-1994-new-age-prophecies-lori-toye

Colorado representative Charles Duke explains a state-sovereignty resolution passed by the Colorado House and its challenge to expanding federal authority. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/april-8-1994-colorado-state-sovereignty-charles-duke

Budd Hopkins shares findings from 450 alien abduction cases with Art Bell, describing a hybridization program and a case involving a very high-level political figure. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/april-3-1994-aliens-abductions-and-more-budd-hopkins

Al Bielek returns with his account of the Philadelphia Experiment, alleged naval invisibility tests, time displacement, and the later Montauk Project. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/march-12-1994-the-philadelphia-experiment-al-bielek

John Lear details the MJ-12 shadow government, alien abductions, and claims that humans are genetically engineered containers modified by extraterrestrials over millennia. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/february-9-1994-ufos-john-lear

Linda Moulton Howe and Michael Lindemann close the Area 2000 run with evidence from UFO investigations and a discussion of what disclosure could mean for civilization. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/january-30-1994-ufo-investigations-linda-moulton-howe-and-michael-lindemann

Dr. Leo Sprinkle connects his counseling work on reincarnation, hypnosis, UFO encounters, and alien-abduction reports. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/january-23-1994-reincarnation-dr-leo-sprinkle

Dr. John Altshuler reviews decades of firsthand animal-mutilation examinations, beginning with cases he investigated in Colorado in the late 1960s. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/january-16-1994-animal-mutilations-dr-john-altshuler

Marc Davenport explores time travel, the physics implied by UFO reports, and whether unusual aerial phenomena point beyond conventional ideas of space. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/january-9-1994-time-and-space-marc-davenport

Chad Deetken offers an international view of crop-circle research drawn from fieldwork in England, Canada, and the United States. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/december-26-1993-crop-circles-chad-deetken

Stanley McDaniel evaluates the Face on Mars controversy, the lost Mars Observer mission, and the standards needed to test claims of artificial structures at Cydonia. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/december-19-1993-the-face-on-mars-stanley-mcdaniel

Linda Moulton Howe reports laboratory evidence of rapid heating in crop formations before Raymond Fowler examines alien-abduction testimony and the Betty Andreasson case. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/december-5-1993-ufo-investigations-ray-fowler-and-linda-moulton-howe

Richard C. Hoagland makes his case that the Face on Mars and other Cydonia features deserve independent scientific study after the loss of Mars Observer. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/november-28-1993-mars-and-the-face-on-mars-richard-c-hoagland

George Knapp, Linda Moulton Howe, and MUFON director Walter Andrus survey current UFO reports and the practical work of investigating sightings. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/november-14-1993-mufon-and-ufo-investigations-george-knapp-linda-moulton-howe-and-walter-andrus

Art Bell’s Halloween-night Area 2000 broadcast explores how confirmed extraterrestrial contact might disrupt science, religion, politics, and everyday life. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-31-1993-halloween-special

Art Bell launches the first Ghost to Ghost, opening phone lines on Halloween eve for real ghost stories from callers across North America. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-30-1993-ghost-to-ghost

George Knapp joins Art Bell for an extended look at investigative UFO journalism, Area 51 witnesses, government secrecy, and the evidence that keeps difficult cases open. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-24-1993-ufo-investigations-george-knapp

Budd Hopkins discusses alien-abduction investigations, shared missing-time cases, childhood memories, hypnosis, and the lasting fear reported by experiencers. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-17-1993-alien-abductions-budd-hopkins

George Knapp reports from a major UFO conference before Stanton Friedman examines Roswell evidence, missing government records, official secrecy, and the tactics of skeptical debunkers. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/september-19-1993-ufo-research-george-knapp-and-stanton-friedman

Dr. Michael D. Swords brings a scientific and historical perspective to UFO reports, parapsychology, cryptozoology, and the possibility of extraterrestrial contact. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/september-12-1993-ufos-and-the-para-sciences-dr-michael-d-swords

John Lear returns to discuss UFOs after Art Bell describes his own sighting of a massive, silent black triangular craft floating above his car near Pahrump, Nevada. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/september-3-1993-ufos-art-and-ramonas-black-triangle-sighting-john-lear

Al Bielek claims firsthand involvement in the Philadelphia Experiment, describing how Navy scientists made a warship invisible and accidentally sent sailors through time. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/june-20-1993-the-philadelphia-experiment-al-bielek

James S. Templar fields calls about alleged links among UFO entities, demonic forces, ritual magic, psychic influence, curses, reincarnation, and life after death. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/february-13-1993-ufos-magic-demons-abductions-and-the-afterlife-james-s-templar

John Lear and Bob Lazar join Art Bell to discuss Area 51, reverse-engineered alien craft, and element 115 propulsion in this landmark 1992 broadcast. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/december-12-1992-area-51-john-lear-and-bob-lazar

Art Bell fills in for one final broadcast, taking calls on politics, UFOs, shadow people, and the question of what you would do if you had no fear, in his last time on the air. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/march-11-2016-open-lines-arts-final-show

Dr. David Jacobs describes a structured alien hierarchy conducting reproductive extraction, forced hybrid offspring interaction, and the settlement of human-looking hybrids into ordinary society. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/december-8-2015-alien-experimentation-on-humans-dr-david-jacobs

Neil Sanders traces the history of mind control from MKUltra to modern ISIS recruitment, explaining how cults and brands alike exploit feelings of inadequacy and the desire to belong. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/december-7-2015-modern-mind-control-neil-sanders

Callers share inhuman encounters on a special line, including a red-eyed humanoid leaping between treetops, a horned figure clawing at a window, and a glowing sphere emerging from a firefly. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/december-4-2015-open-lines-inhuman-encounter-line

Sally Vander Veer discusses Colorado legal marijuana results including 10,000 new jobs, a 40 percent drop in drug arrests, and how teen marijuana use actually declined since legalization. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/december-3-2015-legal-marijuana-sally-vander-veer

Art Bell cancels his scheduled guest to open the lines following the San Bernardino mass shooting, with callers debating security and forensic psychiatrist Dr. John Liebert offering analysis. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/december-2-2015-open-lines-san-bernardino-shooting

Todd Robbins discusses decades in sideshows and dark entertainment, then eats a real light bulb live on the air while explaining the physics behind safely chewing glass. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/december-1-2015-master-of-the-macabre-todd-robbins

Cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard explores flying humanoid sightings worldwide, from the Mothman of Point Pleasant that chased a car at 100 mph to unidentified winged figures filmed in Mexico. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/november-30-2015-flying-humanoids-ken-gerhard

Callers discuss fast radio bursts detected in Australia, Art addresses death threats at his studio, and special lines invite people with weird addictions and self-identified shape-shifters. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/november-27-2015-open-lines-anything-goes

R. Scott Lemriel claims over 40 years of contact with benevolent extraterrestrials called the Seres, presenting an alternative history where humans were seeded on Earth. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/november-25-2015-the-seres-agenda-r-scott-lemriel

Michio Kaku discusses the mysterious dimming of Tabby Star, classifies humanity at Type 0.7 on the Kardashev scale, and describes a coming era where emotions could be transmitted online. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/november-23-2015-dr-michio-kaku

Callers share prepping strategies on a dedicated line, discussing solar power, bug-out bags, firearms, and food supplies, while Art covers the Mali siege and Paris attacks fallout. Full show notes, transcript, guests, and related listening: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/november-20-2015-open-lines-preppers-line