The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell speaks with Harvard professor Jon Beckwith, a pioneering geneticist whose lab first isolated a pure gene from an organism in 1969. Beckwith discusses how he held a press conference to announce that achievement and simultaneously warn the public about the dangers of genetic manipulation. He reveals that colleagues at Harvard once attempted to have his tenure revoked for raising ethical objections to a controversial study screening newborn boys for the extra Y chromosome supposedly linked to criminal behavior.The conversation centers on the announcement by J. Craig Venter and Hamilton O. Smith that they plan to create a new single-celled life form in a laboratory dish. Beckwith expresses skepticism about the hype, noting that Venter himself admitted scientists still understand very little despite completing the human genome. He cautions that while engineered organisms may cause harm, nature has already selected organisms to be as destructive as they can be, and genetically modified creations are unlikely to outperform natural pathogens long-term.Art and Beckwith also examine human cloning, genetic privacy, and biological weapons research. Beckwith argues that defending against biological warfare inevitably involves developing offensive capabilities and warns that the pace of genetic discovery is outrunning society's ability to establish adequate privacy protections and ethical safeguards.

Art Bell opens all phone lines exclusively for callers who claim actual physical contact with alien beings, seeking to answer one question: are the visitors friend or foe? Callers describe encounters ranging from a Pleiadian who spent two weeks reading encyclopedias without eating or drinking to terrifying bedroom visitations involving paralysis and telepathic communication. A woman named Paulette shares a detailed account of being taken to a facility by Bob Lazar in the late 1970s where she claims to have entered spacecraft and seen alien bodies.Dr. Steven M. Greer of the Disclosure Project joins for the second hour, arguing firmly that extraterrestrial visitors are not hostile. He contends that much of what passes for alien abduction actually involves clandestine military operations using man-made alien reproduction vehicles, programmable life forms, and psychotronic weapon systems. Greer warns that fear of extraterrestrials is being deliberately cultivated to justify a multi-trillion-dollar space weapons program, citing warnings from Werner von Braun.Greer also discusses his work to bring suppressed zero-point energy technologies to the public through his organization, announcing plans to test several devices within months. He maintains that civilizations capable of interstellar travel must have evolved beyond aggression, and that humanity's real challenge is escaping the grip of secrecy surrounding these issues.

Art Bell sits down with television legend Chuck Barris, creator of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and The Gong Show, whose memoir has been adapted into a George Clooney film opening December 31st. Barris reflects on the criticism that drove him into a self-imposed exile in the south of France for eight years, describing how negative reviews cut straight to his soul despite enormous ratings success. He recalls hiring an actor to impersonate an FCC agent to keep contestants from saying inappropriate things on air during the early days of The Dating Game.The conversation turns to the central premise of his book: that while producing some of television's most popular programs, Barris simultaneously served as a CIA operative. He declines to confirm or deny the claim directly, stating only that it is something he does not discuss with anyone, including his wife. Art notes that Barris would have been the least likely person anyone would suspect, making him an ideal candidate.Barris also discusses his battle with lung cancer, caught early by a CAT scan, and shares his philosophy on celebrity and the toll of public life. He urges listeners to view the upcoming film and decide for themselves whether the story could be true.

Art Bell welcomes Marcus Allen, British publisher of Nexus Magazine, for a detailed examination of whether the Apollo moon landings were genuine manned missions. Allen argues that while machines likely reached the lunar surface, the Van Allen radiation belts pose a serious obstacle to human survival during transit. He walks through radiation exposure levels, noting astronauts would have absorbed 15 to 20 REM in each direction and that an M-class solar flare during Apollo 16 would have delivered approximately 900 REM, a lethal dose.Allen also raises questions about the Apollo photography, pointing out that Kodak Ektachrome transparency film would show visible fogging at radiation levels far below what astronauts reportedly encountered, yet the returned photographs are remarkably pristine. He notes that no lead shielding or protective containers for the film were carried aboard due to strict weight limitations on the spacecraft.Art pushes back throughout the conversation, pressing Allen on why the Soviet Union never exposed a hoax and whether protective measures could have been taken. Allen responds by citing Bernard Lovell of Jodrell Bank, who reported the Russians themselves refused to send cosmonauts beyond the radiation belts until safe return could be guaranteed.

Art Bell examines the Roswell UFO crash in the wake of the Sci-Fi Channel's two-hour television special. He highlights the program's most explosive revelation: a digitally enhanced photograph of General Roger Ramey holding a dispatch that references "victims of the wreck" and objects shipped "in the disc," contradicting decades of official denials.Archaeologist Dr. Bill Doleman of the University of New Mexico joins to discuss the excavation he led at the alleged debris field. Doleman describes recovering 24 bags of unidentified materials and 60 soil samples, along with discovering a V-shaped anomaly in a backhoe trench consistent with an impact gouge reaching 18 to 20 inches deep. He also reveals a second, previously unreported furrow half a mile away that aligns with the trajectory between the skip site and the final crash location.In the second half, forensic illustrator and investigator Bill McDonald offers a guided tour of the Roswell spacecraft based on composite witness testimony. He details the craft's interior cabin, hull construction, and fluid-based life support system, drawing on years of interviews with surviving witnesses and connections to Lockheed Skunk Works leadership.

Art Bell welcomes futurist Gordon Michael Scallion for a conversation that shifts from earth changes and economic predictions into a sustained examination of demonic possession. Scallion reports that after the D.C. sniper shootings, three days of nonstop visions flooded his consciousness with information about possession as a growing crisis, and his own spiritual guidance directed him to discuss it publicly.Scallion describes possession as operating through the body's etheric field, with negative entities entering through the spinal column to influence the brain. He distinguishes between possession by agreement, as in mediumistic activity, and involuntary possession driven by a collective negative consciousness he associates with the Luciferian force. Fear, anger, depression, and sustained stress act as beacons that attract these entities, and he connects rising societal stress from terrorism, economic instability, and rapid technological change to an unprecedented vulnerability. He predicts 2003 will see a major outbreak tied to Mars approaching closer to Earth than it has in 50,000 years.Art references his interviews with the late Father Malachi Martin, who reported an 800 percent annual increase in possession cases in New York. Scallion predicts possession will eventually become a legal defense in criminal trials, framed as a failure of collective society. The first hour covers antibiotic-resistant bacteria, truckers being stalked on highways, invisible aircraft sightings, and a man's attempt to auction his soul on eBay.

Art Bell interviews technology author Howard Rheingold about the social implications of the Internet and mobile communication revolution. The conversation opens with the staggering growth of connectivity, from a few hundred thousand users a decade earlier to nearly half a billion people online, and Rheingold argues that the convergence of telephones, personal computers, and the Internet will produce something fundamentally new and more transformative than any individual component.Rheingold describes how text messaging has already toppled governments, citing the fall of Philippine President Estrada when citizens coordinated mass demonstrations through SMS within minutes. He draws parallels to collective action throughout human evolution, from tribal hunting bands to agricultural societies, arguing that each communication technology has enabled cooperation at greater scales. The discussion covers peer-to-peer file sharing threatening the recording industry's business model, eBay's reputation system enabling trust between strangers, and the potential for wearable computers and location-aware devices to reshape daily life.Art presses Rheingold on privacy concerns surrounding the newly created Information Awareness Office under Admiral Poindexter, and both express alarm at mass surveillance of email, web browsing, credit card purchases, and cell phone location data. Rheingold warns that trading freedom for security may undermine the very freedoms being protected. The first hour features Mark Burnett discussing Survivor, Eco Challenge, and his pursuit of a civilian space travel television project.

Art Bell presents a Friday night program featuring Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society, who share their most unsettling electronic voice phenomena recordings collected over years of fieldwork. The session opens with Art discussing a caller's wife who believes listening to voices of the dead can psychologically open doors to paranormal contact, and he raises the possibility that the investigators' own minds could be manifesting the recordings through their intent.The EVP recordings span cemeteries, an old Union Pacific train museum, the Rawlins Wyoming Penitentiary death house, an abandoned movie theater, and a private residence. Among the most striking captures are a voice identifying itself as "Alma Berg" in a cemetery, a child saying "come to Papa" in a train station, an entity commanding "make the pipes do it now" before audible pipe banging, a woman declaring "I'm completely dead," a child whispering "it's dark in here," and a guttural groaning from an abandoned theater that sounds like a slowed recording. At the Rawlins prison, voices demand "get out" and one announces "I appear" near the gas chamber, while a scream is captured in the exact area where a prisoner named Frank Wigfall was lynched by fellow inmates.Art questions what these recordings suggest about the nature of death, noting the emotional intensity of the voices and the presence of lost children pleading for parents. Cook and McBeath report that their recent adoption of digital recorders has produced even clearer results, and both state that their work has eliminated any personal fear of death.

Art Bell is joined by Richard C. Hoagland for an examination of newly released infrared images from NASA's Odyssey spacecraft orbiting Mars. Hoagland presents side-by-side comparisons of aerial photographs of downtown Cairo and thermal images of the Cydonia region on Mars, arguing the structural similarities point to buried artificial constructions. He contends the grid patterns visible beneath the Martian surface resemble city blocks and building foundations, estimating their age at roughly 300,000 to 500,000 years old based on celestial alignment data.Hoagland alleges that NASA released a nighttime infrared image on Halloween with a falsified acquisition date, presenting geometric evidence that the frame contains more terrain than the officially acknowledged July daytime image. He frames this as proof of a dissident faction within NASA quietly leaking data to circumvent an ongoing cover-up rooted in the 1960 Brookings Institution report, which cautioned against public disclosure of extraterrestrial artifacts.The conversation expands into claims about the Great Pyramid, including reports of radioactive sand found behind drilled walls in the Queen's Chamber passage and evidence of large-scale excavation concealed by replastering. Hoagland connects these threads to his broader thesis that human civilization may have roots in a Martian predecessor culture. The first hour features open lines with callers discussing classified prisoner transport photos, shadow people encounters, and out-of-body experiences.

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 down near massive objects and at high speeds, with Krauss explaining how cosmic ray muons prove time dilation every time a Geiger counter clicks.The conversation turns to the theoretical possibility of traveling backward in time through exotic constructs like wormholes, which would require gravitationally repulsive material unlike anything observed in nature. Krauss walks through the mechanics of how a traversable wormhole could function as a time machine, while acknowledging the staggering energy requirements involved. He also addresses the grandmother paradox and its limited proposed solutions, including the unsatisfying causality loop.Art and Krauss explore the Big Bang, tracing the universe back to a point smaller than a baseball, and discuss the evidence supporting cosmological theory through precise predictions of elemental abundances. They also touch on the likelihood of extraterrestrial life, the multiverse concept, and why interstellar travel remains practically impossible given current physics. The first hour features open lines on implantable microchips, the biblical Mark of the Beast, and Buddhist perspectives on ghosts.

Art Bell fills in for George Noory and opens the Halloween Zone with plans to feature the Ghost Investigators Society and their most compelling EVP recordings from haunted locations including the Wyoming Frontier Prison. He reads from a Denver Post article documenting how GIS members Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath captured ghostly voices at two abandoned Wyoming penitentiaries, including a spirit identifying herself as Hazel, a name later confirmed by tour guides as a girl who drowned near the property decades earlier.Before the planned EVP segment, Art addresses a range of unsettling news stories, including a shocking 1,000 percent increase in autism diagnoses over 20 years according to California's Department of Developmental Services, an unexplained ocean dead zone off the Oregon coast where oxygen levels dropped so low that all marine life perished, and political upheaval following Senator Paul Wellstone's death in a plane crash. He raises pointed questions about what environmental factors might be driving the surge in developmental disorders.Persistent telephone equipment failures throughout the broadcast prevent the full EVP presentation from taking place. After repeatedly losing all phone connections mid-call, Art is forced to cut the program short, promising to reschedule the GIS appearance and previewing the next night's Ghost to Ghost AM special focused on entity attacks.

Art Bell announces his retirement from the program effective December 31st, citing chronic back pain from a pole-climbing accident years earlier that has made maintaining his rigorous broadcast schedule impossible. He confirms George Noory will take over as permanent host while Art remains available for occasional fill-in appearances. The evening also covers breaking developments in the D.C. sniper case and the Chechen rebel hostage crisis at a Moscow theater.Author and researcher Graham Hancock joins to discuss his book Underworld, examining underwater ruins found off the coasts of Japan, Cuba, Malta, and the Bahamas. Hancock describes the massive stone structures at Yonaguni, Japan, including megalithic constructions and a stone circle with 12-foot uprights at 110 feet depth, which he argues were built by the ancient Jomon culture before rising sea levels submerged them at the end of the last ice age.Hancock argues that mainstream science has been reluctant to investigate these sites because confirming a lost civilization would undermine established models of human history. He draws parallels between flood myths found worldwide and the documented 400-foot sea level rise that swallowed over ten million square miles of habitable land between 17,000 and 7,000 years ago.

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Paul Mayewski, a world leader in ice core collection and analysis who has led more than 50 Antarctic and high mountain expeditions. Dr. Mayewski explains how ice cores function as a year-by-year record of Earth's climate history, capturing gas content, dissolved chemistry, dust particles, and volcanic signatures spanning tens of thousands of years. He describes the dramatic 100,000-year glacial cycles driven by Earth's orbital position relative to the sun and the smaller but still significant climate shifts occurring within interglacial periods like the present one.The conversation turns to evidence of accelerating climate instability, including increased El Nino frequency during the 1990s, melting permafrost in Alaska, and measurable changes in ocean salinity that could disrupt the North Atlantic current carrying heat to Europe. Dr. Mayewski confirms that greenhouse gas levels have risen faster in the last 100 years than at any point in tens of thousands of years, potentially pushing the climate system toward a threshold event with rapid and unpredictable consequences.Earlier in the program, Art discusses North Korea's acknowledged nuclear weapons program, the ongoing D.C. sniper case, and interviews entrepreneur Stan Abrams about his thermal combustor technology that converts waste tires into clean electricity and marketable byproducts in Nye County, Nevada.

Art Bell welcomes retired FBI field profiler Candice DeLong to analyze the D.C. sniper terrorizing the Washington area. DeLong draws on her 20 years of FBI experience, including the Unabomber manhunt, to construct a psychological profile of the shooter. She explains why the killer is not mentally ill but rather a highly organized individual demonstrating God-like control over life and death through the discipline of sniping, from stalking to shooting to escape. She rules out foreign terrorism and predicts the killer may eventually communicate with police or the press.In the second half, inventor Ray Alden discusses his patented three-dimensional cloaking technology that renders objects invisible from any viewing angle. Unlike two-dimensional camouflage systems, his device uses arrays of lenslets and subpixels to emit electromagnetic radiation in multiple trajectories simultaneously, requiring no computer processing. Alden explains potential military applications for light armor vehicles and individual warriors, as well as commercial uses including multi-viewer 3D displays and concealing structures like wind farms.Art reflects on the broader implications of invisibility technology for society, questioning whether the world is prepared to live alongside objects and people that cannot be seen, drawing comparisons to the ethical dilemmas faced by inventors throughout history.

Art Bell hosts a landmark UFO symposium with Whitley Strieber, Dr. Roger Leir, Linda Moulton Howe, and Bill Hamilton. The evening opens with discussion of the D.C. sniper terrorizing the Washington area, a stunning new crop circle formation in England featuring an alien figure alongside a binary-coded message, and a remarkable shadow person photograph submitted by a listener.Dr. Roger Leir shares his firsthand investigation of the 1996 Varginha, Brazil incident, where he interviewed medical personnel who treated a living extraterrestrial being with a compound leg fracture. The medical witnesses, visibly shaken even six years later, describe the creature's physical characteristics in striking detail, including dark brown reticulated skin, large red liquid eyes, four-fingered hands, and bones with ten times the tensile strength of human bone. They recount how the being emitted a greenish mist and telepathically communicated a message about humanity's spiritual disconnection.Whitley Strieber provides context on the evolving nature of the UFO phenomenon, arguing that contact between professionals and non-human intelligences is accelerating beyond what even dedicated researchers can track. Bill Hamilton joins to continue the discussion of increasing professional-level encounters with non-human entities around the world.

Art Bell interviews Dallas Thompson, a former personal trainer from Bakersfield who plans to lead an expedition to the North Pole on May 24, 2003, to locate and enter the opening into the hollow Earth reported by Admiral Byrd. Thompson intends to use a SoloTrek personal helicopter, a 350-pound one-person vertical flight vehicle, to descend into the passage with an L.A. film crew documenting the journey.Thompson describes a life-changing near-death experience after his car flew off a 250-foot cliff at 70 miles per hour during an El Nino rainstorm. Photographs of the destroyed vehicle and a newspaper article confirm the crash, with a responding officer stating decapitation should have been inevitable. Thompson credits his survival to spiritual intervention and says the NDE opened his awareness to visions of an upcoming pole shift and the existence of cave systems traversing the Earth's mantle.He claims the hollow Earth contains tropical environments with 800-foot-tall trees, herds of woolly mammoths, crystal cities, and long-lived human tribes protected by a firmament atmosphere. Thompson says he was initiated as a shaman by a Hawaiian kahuna who was later killed in a collision with a government Humvee. He insists that intelligent beings within the Earth already know of his planned arrival and will guide him safely through the passage.

Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames, retired U.S. Army intelligence officer and original member of the military's remote viewing program, for his seventh year as a guest. Dames announces his cameo role in the upcoming feature film Suspect Zero alongside Sir Ben Kingsley and discusses taking his remote viewing workshops on the road to cities across the western United States.Dames presents a striking theory about UFOs, claiming they are solid but temporary projections created by an automated system of intelligent machines located beneath the surface of Mars. He explains that these machines gather atmospheric materials like nitrogen and oxygen to construct physical objects at a distance, comparing the phenomenon to the projection technology in the film Forbidden Planet. He extends this explanation to crop circles, Bigfoot sightings, and other anomalies, describing them all as products of the same projection system.The conversation also covers shadow people, which Dames describes as literal shadows cast by ghosts that bend light between a source and a surface. Art plays a 1952 radio drama called "The Shadow People" to demonstrate the phenomenon predates his program. Dames addresses foreign terrorist cells still operating on U.S. soil, reports his team trained a student to win a major lottery, and shares remote viewing insights about an ancient Martian civilization.

Art Bell speaks with Richard Glen Boire, co-director and legal counsel for the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, about the government's authority to regulate consciousness-altering substances. Boire argues that drug prohibition amounts to cognitive censorship, with no constitutional basis for the federal government to dictate which states of mind are permitted and which are criminal. He draws parallels between banning drugs and banning books, noting both are carriers of ideas.The discussion covers the racist origins of early drug laws, the creative achievements of notable figures who used psychedelics, and the First Amendment implications of restricting religious use of substances like peyote. Boire points to Nobel Prize winner Kary Mullis crediting LSD for his DNA discoveries and physicist Richard Feynman's openness about marijuana use. The conversation is repeatedly disrupted by mysterious phone line disconnections that grow increasingly frequent.The technical problems eventually force Art to cut the interview short after the lines disconnect dozens of times in rapid succession. Art speculates whether the disruptions are coincidental or deliberate, particularly after they intensify when the Patriot Act is mentioned. He promises to reschedule Boire and shares his own views supporting Nevada's upcoming marijuana legalization ballot measure.

Art Bell interviews Dr. Leonard Horowitz, an authority in public health and bioterrorism, following Senator Patrick Leahy's call to investigate possible links between West Nile virus outbreaks and bioterrorism. Dr. Horowitz presents documentation showing that strains of West Nile virus were shipped from the United States to Iraq during the 1980s, along with multiple shipments of anthrax, raising troubling questions about the origins of current outbreaks.The conversation covers the anthrax mailings investigation, with Dr. Horowitz identifying specific defense contractors and pharmaceutical companies he believes are implicated. He describes his own visit to the FBI one week before the first anthrax mailing was announced and his subsequent treatment as a potential suspect. Breaking news during the broadcast reveals that West Nile virus can cause acute paralysis and may be transmitted through blood transfusions.Dr. Horowitz challenges the safety of vaccines, arguing that mercury and other toxic ingredients are linked to rising rates of autism and autoimmune disorders. He contends that pharmaceutical industrialists profit from both creating health crises and selling their solutions, a pattern he documented in his book published three months before September 11th.

Art Bell welcomes Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society (GIS) to share their latest electronic voice phenomena recordings. The non-profit team reveals a breakthrough: they have begun capturing EVPs on a digital hard drive recorder, producing results far clearer than traditional magnetic tape. The voices recorded at a funeral director's haunted home are startling in their clarity.The funeral director contacted GIS after experiencing apparitions of a small child and a man in his residence. The team believes a spirit followed him home from his work with the deceased. Multiple recordings capture a child's voice responding to questions and instructions in real time, including saying "father," "okay," and "it be okay." The interactive nature of these voices provides compelling evidence for the survival of consciousness after death.Art opens the show with open lines, covering news stories including missing Russian nuclear warheads, an IBM supercomputer sold to the Air Force for tracking orbital objects, and a fascinating journal article about scientists triggering out-of-body experiences through brain stimulation with electrodes.

Art Bell opens with reports of a spectacular Minuteman III ICBM launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base that triggered a wave of UFO calls across the Southwest, then covers President Bush's request for congressional authority to use force against Iraq and a chilling account from Northumberland, Pennsylvania, where witnesses reported a man being pulled into a hovering UFO by a beam of light.Dr. Paul Moller, CEO of Moller International, returns to share progress on his M400 Skycar, a four-passenger vertical takeoff and landing vehicle powered by eight compact Wankel rotary engines producing two horsepower per pound. He explains that the breakthrough came from decades of rotary engine development, with each engine small enough to hold in two hands yet delivering 160 horsepower. The vehicle's quadruple-redundant computer system maintains stability during vertical flight and has proven capable of handling engine failures mid-flight.Moller describes a future where the Skycar, priced around $50,000 in mass production, could travel at 380 miles per hour, achieve 28 miles per gallon at cruising altitude, and operate within a computerized airway network requiring no pilot skill. Art imagines hopping the mountain between Pahrump and Las Vegas in 15 minutes. Moller notes that mutual noise cancellation technology is the next major research priority to enable residential takeoffs and landings.

Art Bell brings two guests to the program on a night covering vastly different territory. In the first segment, Billy Rogers, campaign manager of Nevadans for Responsible Law Enforcement, discusses Question 9, a ballot measure that would make Nevada the first state to legalize possession of up to three ounces of marijuana for adults over 21. Rogers details how the initiative would ban public smoking, criminalize sales to minors, and create state-licensed shops generating millions in tax revenue.Art then welcomes close friend and technologist Bonnie Crystal, a Silicon Valley inventor whose video noise reduction technology shrank satellite dishes in the 1980s and whose company Telogen is developing revolutionary flat panel displays. They revisit the ongoing mystery of Art's 1,000-foot loop antenna, which Crystal helped install, and its persistent 350-volt charge from the atmosphere. After experimenting with bleeder resistors and enduring repeated shocks, Art finally reduces the resistance enough to eliminate the voltage.Crystal describes her work as a cave explorer, including discovering the deepest freefall pit in the Southern Hemisphere during a Peru expedition, a thousand-foot vertical drop only eight feet in diameter. The conversation also touches on her book about CB radio culture, her ham radio operations, and the Egyptian pyramid controversy involving photographs that appear to differ from footage aired during a recent live television special.

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a lifelong practitioner of natural magic trained by her grandfather from age four, for a Friday the 13th exploration of witchcraft, mirror magic, and the occult. Art addresses listener objections about hosting a witch by declaring his belief that magic is real while maintaining his own spiritual convictions. The first hour features open lines covering topics from the Nevada marijuana legalization ballot measure to Buzz Aldrin punching a moon-landing denier.Dr. Paglini explains that mirrors, along with any reflective surface including water, polished metal, and crystal, serve as portals and gateways to other dimensions. She describes three categories of mirror work: personal scrying mirrors painted black and consecrated under a full moon for divination, worker mirrors assigned specific protective or influential tasks, and mirrors used for astral projection into other realities. A caller recounts childhood experiences of stepping into reflected images between angled mirrors.The conversation turns to the darker applications of mirror magic, including the ability to send thought forms through reflective surfaces to influence others. Dr. Paglini connects shadow people sightings to mirror portals, suggesting these beings use glass and reflective surfaces as doorways between dimensions. She argues that sharing this formerly secret knowledge levels the playing field against practitioners who have used these techniques for centuries.

Art Bell opens with a series of striking coincidences surrounding the first anniversary of September 11th, including the New York State Lottery drawing 9-1-1 and the S&P 500 futures closing at 911.00 the day before. He presents these events as possible evidence of mass consciousness affecting random systems, connecting them to the Princeton Global Consciousness Project and his own prior on-air experiments with collective intention.Art also describes a mystery involving his newly constructed 1,000-foot loop antenna, which produces a constant 350 volts between the wire and ground even in calm, clear conditions. Multiple callers and later Dr. Michio Kaku weigh in with theories ranging from atmospheric electric gradients to electromagnetic pulse generators at nearby military installations. The voltage cannot be discharged and returns instantly after grounding.Dr. Kaku then discusses the runaway expansion of the universe driven by dark energy, explaining that galaxies will eventually recede from each other faster than the speed of light, leaving the Milky Way utterly alone. He introduces the concept of parallel universes as potential lifeboats, describes how quantum entanglement has been experimentally verified, and explains how future gravity wave detectors and the Large Hadron Collider may detect vibrations from other universes or from the Big Bang itself.

Art Bell welcomes Richard C. Hoagland, former NASA consultant and science advisor to Walter Cronkite during the Apollo missions, to present what he calls overwhelming evidence of ancient artificial structures on Mars. Using newly released daytime infrared imaging from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, Hoagland and his team claim to have uncovered a massive city-like grid beneath the dusty surface of the Cydonia region, with individual buildings the size of city blocks visible through thermal imaging.The discussion centers on how the THEMIS infrared camera can see through layers of fine Martian dust to reveal subsurface structures. Hoagland explains that MOLA laser data confirms a basin beneath Cydonia nearly as deep as the Grand Canyon, filled with ultra-fine dust that is transparent to infrared wavelengths. Image processing specialist Keith Laney joins the program to describe how he obtained and processed the multispectral data using professional imaging software.Controversy erupts when a NASA-affiliated programmer is accused of both guiding Laney to the pristine data and then publicly calling his results fraudulent. Art and Hoagland compare official website imagery with Laney's version, noting significant differences in quality and detail that raise questions about whether NASA may have degraded the publicly available data.