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January 28, 2002: Hutchison Effect - John Hutchison

Feb 21, 20251h 50m

January 28, 2002: Hutchison Effect - John Hutchison

Art Bell speaks with Canadian inventor John Hutchison about the Hutchison Effect, a collection of anomalous phenomena discovered in 1979 while experimenting with Nikola Tesla's longitudinal wave technology. Using Tesla coils, Van de Graaff generators producing up to two million volts, and RF generators at 455 kilohertz, Hutchison produced effects including the levitation of objects up to 1,500 pounds, metals turning transparent or jelly-like, and the spontaneous fracturing of steel from the inside out.Video footage on Art's website shows wrenches rocketing off tables, water being pulled upward from dishes, and a knife fused partway into a solid metal slab. Hutchison explains that the combined electromagnetic fields appear to open an interdimensional gateway disrupting gravity and possibly time. The effects were documented by Boeing scientists, analyzed at Los Alamos National Laboratory where the footage was confirmed authentic, and studied by Germany's Max Planck Institute. Background radiation reportedly dropped to near zero during active experiments.Hutchison recounts how the Canadian government seized his equipment under the pretense of PCB contamination when he attempted to ship it to European researchers. Colonel John Alexander confirmed the phenomena on television, and Jane's Defence Weekly aviation editor Nick Cook revealed in his book on black budget programs that Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works had obtained Hutchison Effect documentation.

Feb 21, 20251h 50m

January 26, 2002: Open Lines - Monsters

Feb 20, 20252h 53m

January 26, 2002: Open Lines - Monsters

Art Bell opens the phones for a monster-themed edition of Open Lines, inspired by a harrowing call from the previous night. He brings back Ken and his girlfriend Sherry from Portland, Oregon, who describe two years of escalating paranormal terror in a house built in 1910. Sherry recounts being pinned face-down in bed by an invisible force with the weight of a body pressing on her, receiving a bite mark on her back that took six weeks to heal, and spending nearly two years confined to the kitchen because every other room felt threatening.Ken describes the final confrontation. A search-and-rescue dog brought to the basement storage room reacted with extreme panic, giving what handlers call a death alert. The next morning, a massive black figure approximately six feet tall with an enormous head ascended the staircase, rotating in the air without visible legs. Both Ken and Sherry witnessed the entity simultaneously before it vanished at the bedroom doorway. They fled the house shortly after.Callers contribute their own encounters, including a man in Chicago who woke to find five hooded monk-like figures examining his apartment, and a caller from Fairbanks, Alaska, who describes shipping ancient frozen walrus meat from a remote Bering Sea island to a researcher in Massachusetts studying regenerative spore cells.

Feb 20, 20252h 53m

January 24, 2002: The Mothman Prophecies - John A. Keel

Feb 19, 20253h 11m

January 24, 2002: The Mothman Prophecies - John A. Keel

Art Bell interviews John A. Keel, author of The Mothman Prophecies, as the major motion picture starring Richard Gere opens in theaters. Art admits he has somehow never learned about the Mothman despite decades in paranormal broadcasting. Keel recounts traveling to Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1966 to investigate reports of a seven-to-eight-foot-tall winged creature with enormous red eyes that could launch straight upward and chase automobiles.Over the course of that year, Keel collected more than a hundred eyewitness reports and personally observed luminous objects moving along the Ohio River, some of which responded when he signaled them with a flashlight. He describes mysterious phone calls featuring mechanical voices that accurately predicted events including the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The calls also warned of an impending tragedy on the Ohio River.The 13-month wave of phenomena culminated in the December 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge, killing 47 people during Christmas rush hour traffic. Keel explains his theory of "window areas" where paranormal activity clusters across generations. Two men in unusual clothing were spotted climbing the bridge days before the disaster. Art and Keel discuss whether such entities represent interdimensional visitors emerging through temporary openings between realities.

Feb 19, 20253h 11m

January 23, 2002: Investigating the Romanek UFO Sighting - George Zeiler

Feb 18, 20252h 41m

January 23, 2002: Investigating the Romanek UFO Sighting - George Zeiler

Art Bell speaks with George Zeiler, Deputy International Director and Field Investigator for MUFON, about his investigation of the Stan Romanek UFO sighting in Lakewood, Colorado. On September 30, 2001, Romanek captured approximately 15 minutes of video showing a luminous craft following his car roughly 30 feet above telephone poles. Zeiler rates the case a 13 on a scale of one to ten, citing about 50 witnesses and multiple videos.Zeiler describes testimony from a corporate CEO who watched a beam of light from the object scan through Romanek's vehicle, leaving the executive so shaken he locked himself inside his home for hours. Young girls at a nearby park picnic spotted the object first, shouting about aliens as it glided along the treetops. The craft executed sharp 90-degree turns, entered clouds producing lightning without thunder, and appeared to display itself deliberately before vanishing.The investigation also reveals unusual physiological effects on Romanek, including fluorescent lesions on his feet and wrists that glowed under black light. Dozens of birds struck his car windows during that same month. Zeiler discusses his broader conviction, drawn from field investigations and declassified military documents, that the government possesses far more knowledge about the UFO phenomenon than it publicly acknowledges.

Feb 18, 20252h 41m

January 22, 2002: One Door Away From Heaven - Dean Koontz

Feb 17, 20253h 15m

January 22, 2002: One Door Away From Heaven - Dean Koontz

Art Bell welcomes bestselling author Dean Koontz to discuss his latest novel, One Door Away from Heaven, and its connections to the paranormal. Koontz explains his writing process, revealing that he begins with little more than a premise and two characters before leaping off a creative cliff. The conversation quickly moves beyond fiction into quantum mechanics and parallel realities.Koontz shares personal anecdotes about objects vanishing inexplicably, including a fork that disappeared under a dining table and was never found. He discusses reader responses to his novel From the Corner of His Eye, in which people reported glimpsing alternate realities and seeing strangers momentarily appear in their homes. Art and Dean explore the phenomenon of shadow people, with both noting the flood of listener reports about dark figures seen at the edge of peripheral vision.The discussion turns to consciousness as a fundamental force. Art describes his on-air experiments with mass concentration, including measurable effects on Princeton University's random number generators. Koontz argues that quantum mechanics demonstrates the power of observation and will to shape reality, suggesting that consciousness may be the most powerful form of energy in existence.

Feb 17, 20253h 15m

January 18, 2002: Bottomless Hole Replay Compilation - Mel Waters

Feb 16, 20253h 5m

January 18, 2002: Bottomless Hole Replay Compilation - Mel Waters

Art Bell presents a compilation of his conversations with Mel Waters, a rural property owner near Ellensburg, Washington, who claims to have a seemingly bottomless hole on his land. Mel describes a nine-and-a-half-foot-wide shaft lined with stone for the first fifteen feet, into which locals have tossed trash, dead livestock, and old appliances for decades without ever hearing anything hit bottom. Using shark fishing reels and 20-pound monofilament line, he has lowered over 80,000 feet of weighted line without finding the floor.Local legends add to the mystery. One neighbor reportedly threw his dead hunting dog into the hole only to later encounter the same animal alive in the woods, wearing its original collar and tags. Another neighbor describes seeing a beam of absolute blackness shooting skyward from the uncovered hole at night. An elderly resident recalls stone columns once surrounding the opening in a formation resembling Stonehenge. Dogs universally refuse to approach within a hundred feet of the shaft.In a dramatic update, Mel reports that armed military personnel have blocked access to his property, claiming a plane crash. A plainclothes official warned him that a drug lab could easily be found on his land if he pressed the issue. Mobile buildings and generators have been moved onto the site, and a real estate agent has conveyed a generous purchase offer from an unnamed buyer.

Feb 16, 20253h 5m

January 18, 2002: Bizarre Open Lines

Art Bell hosts a Friday night open lines session with an eclectic slate of topics for callers: interdimensional beings, vanishing stories, talking pets, levitation claims, and the question of what single miracle each listener would perform. He opens with news about Rush Limbaugh's seemingly miraculous recovery of 80 percent of his hearing just weeks after cochlear implant surgery, a result Art notes should be medically impossible so soon after the procedure.The calls range widely. A state trooper from the 1960s recounts watching a stranded motorist walk toward a gas station during a blizzard and never arrive, his car abandoned and unclaimed to this day. A woman in Las Cruces describes seeing a cat walk along a steel I-beam, step off into midair, and simply vanish. Listeners attempt to coax their dogs into saying words on air with mixed results. Others propose miracles including healing the deaf, granting universal clarity, and lifting the oceans to reveal what lies beneath.Art also reports on a BBC story about 9,500-year-old man-made structures found off the coast of India, a double-peaked solar cycle confirmed by NASA, and the discovery of flesh-eating pet lizards found feeding on their deceased owner in Delaware. He announces that Monday's replay will feature the complete saga of Mel Waters and his bottomless hole.

Feb 15, 20252h 57m

January 18, 2002: Bizarre Open Lines

Feb 15, 20252h 57m

January 16, 2002: Blindsided by Planet X - Mark Hazlewood | Sensory Deprivation Experiment - Vincent Lords

Feb 14, 20252h 40m

January 16, 2002: Blindsided by Planet X - Mark Hazlewood | Sensory Deprivation Experiment - Vincent Lords

Art Bell speaks with Vincent Lourdes, a hypnotist who claims that after spending nine days buried alive in a coffin to beat David Blaine's record, he began experiencing levitation, seeing light beings, and predicting future events. Lourdes says the sensory deprivation experiment was documented by cameras and covered by California media through Clear Channel radio. He shares a photograph on his website appearing to show him floating off the ground during meditation and offers to demonstrate for any skeptic, including the Amazing Randi.In the second half, Art interviews Mark Hazlewood, son of singer-songwriter Lee Hazlewood, about his book Blindsided: Planet X Passes in 2003. Hazlewood argues that a rogue planet on a 3,600-year orbit, consistent with the Sumerian concept of Nibiru, is approaching Earth and will pass between the sun and Earth by late May 2003. He claims the approach is already causing increased volcanism, seismic activity, and weather disruption across the entire solar system.Hazlewood suggests that NASA insiders know about the inbound object and that multiple layers of disinformation are keeping the public unaware. Lee Hazlewood himself briefly joins the broadcast from Texas to discuss the origins of Some Velvet Morning and the Greek goddess Phaedra who inspired the song.

Feb 14, 20252h 40m

January 14, 2002: An Astronomer Examines the Science of UFOs - Dr. William R. Alschuler

Feb 13, 20252h 36m

January 14, 2002: An Astronomer Examines the Science of UFOs - Dr. William R. Alschuler

Art Bell welcomes astronomer Dr. William R. Alschuler, who holds a PhD from UC Santa Cruz and a BA from Harvard, to discuss the science behind UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Unlike most astronomers who avoid the topic, Alschuler has devoted his career to public science education and authored several books including The Science of UFOs. He shares his own UFO sighting at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, which turned out to be a cosmic ray experiment balloon.The conversation covers the growing catalog of extrasolar planets, then numbering around 70 confirmed discoveries. Alschuler estimates roughly two-thirds of nearby sun-like stars likely harbor planetary systems and argues that carbon-based life is almost certainly widespread given the chemical uniformity of stellar compositions. He and Art discuss detection methods, from spectroscopic wobble measurements to emerging laser-based SETI searches led by Paul Horowitz at Harvard.Art also reads a chilling letter from a trucker named Mark who encountered a burning, overturned car on an icy pass near Flagstaff, Arizona. Despite his efforts to free the trapped couple, the flames suddenly vanished along with the entire vehicle, leaving only a rock where he had knelt. A waitress later told him a couple had burned to death at that exact spot years earlier.

Feb 13, 20252h 36m

January 11, 2002: Open Lines - If You Were God

Feb 12, 20252h 47m

January 11, 2002: Open Lines - If You Were God

Art Bell opens the Friday night lines with a provocative question for callers: if you were God, what would you do differently? The prompt follows the previous week's popular question about what listeners would do as the devil, and Art insists callers must answer within the spirit of the question rather than deflecting with claims of divine perfection.Callers offer a wide range of responses, from instituting a universal language and eliminating the seven deadly sins to granting all humans telepathy or logical thinking. One caller suggests making all creatures vegetarian, while another proposes that God should simply show up every five years and perform an undeniable miracle. Art challenges each answer, pointing out unintended consequences and paradoxes, noting that removing free will or suffering could strip existence of meaning.Between calls, Art reads humorous true crime stories about spectacularly dim criminals, shares news about Taliban prisoners heading to Guantanamo Bay, discusses the Enron scandal's Watergate-like momentum, and speculates about the implications of quantum computing for time travel. The evening reveals as much about human nature as it does about theology.

Feb 12, 20252h 47m

January 10, 2002: Mysterious Sightings of East Texas - Rob Riggs

Feb 11, 20252h 5m

January 10, 2002: Mysterious Sightings of East Texas - Rob Riggs

Art Bell speaks with journalist Rob Riggs about his investigations into the Big Thicket region of East Texas, where strange lights, wild man sightings, and unexplained phenomena have been reported for over a century. Riggs describes two categories of sightings: a classic ape-like Bigfoot and a more human-looking figure resembling the Karankawa, a tribe of towering Native Americans who once inhabited the Texas Gulf Coast and may not have been fully Homo sapiens.Riggs presents photographs from his research on Bragg Road, an eerily straight eight-mile stretch through dense forest where ghost lights manifest in phases, from a luminous fog to basketball-sized plasma spheres. He describes how the lights have chased vehicles, stalled car engines, and passed through automobiles. Professor Otsuki of Waseda University in Japan confirmed the presence of plasma balls at the location and told Riggs that Texas has more ghost light sightings than anywhere in the world.The discussion ventures into theories about parallel dimensions and Riemann surfaces, the idea that these creatures may possess psychic abilities allowing them to become invisible or shift between worlds. Riggs connects the phenomena to ancient shamanic traditions, noting that Native Americans avoided the heart of the Big Thicket, calling it haunted by demons. Callers from across Texas and beyond share their own encounters with mysterious tracks, howling sounds, and unexplained lights.

Feb 11, 20252h 5m

January 9, 2002: Technology Advances - David Brin | Spacecraft Artifact - Jim Hughes

Feb 10, 20252h 41m

January 9, 2002: Technology Advances - David Brin | Spacecraft Artifact - Jim Hughes

Art Bell interviews Jim Hughes, a Florida man with a physics degree who placed a classified ad asking nine million dollars for what he claims is a piece of a UFO drive mechanism. Hughes explains that 44 years earlier, a friend witnessed a cigar-shaped craft hovering over a New Jersey dump and throwing out metal fragments. The piece, roughly pyramid-shaped and two inches long, was tested at Lehigh University as indium antimonide and at another lab as pure antimony, yielding conflicting results. Hughes recently noticed a layered structure in the artifact that aligns with his personal theory of anti-gravity.In the second half, science fiction author David Brin discusses his novel "Kiln People," set in a future where people copy themselves into temporary clay golems each morning to be in multiple places at once. Brin argues that Americans have always managed to have both freedom and security, and that the panic after September 11th threatens to create a false choice between the two. He credits the passengers of Flight 93 with demonstrating the power of citizen initiative over institutional doctrine.Brin also shares his ideas about uplifting dolphins to intelligence and speech, the coming century of empowered amateurs, and why he believes intelligent life in the cosmos is rare based on two billion years of Earth history showing no evidence of prior alien colonization.

Feb 10, 20252h 41m

January 7, 2002: Alternative Energy - Mark McLaughlin

Feb 9, 20252h 35m

January 7, 2002: Alternative Energy - Mark McLaughlin

Art Bell welcomes Mark McLaughlin, lead writer for the Alternative Energy Institute, for an extensive discussion on the future of energy and the environmental consequences of fossil fuel dependence. McLaughlin, a historian and researcher based at Lake Tahoe, outlines the health costs of air pollution, the threat of rapid climate change from greenhouse gas emissions, and the possibility that Gulf Stream disruption could turn Western Europe into a climate resembling Alaska.The conversation turns to hydrogen fuel cells after General Motors unveils a prototype hydrogen vehicle at the Detroit Auto Show. McLaughlin explains that while the technology works, current methods of producing hydrogen still rely on fossil fuels, meaning the pollution simply moves from tailpipes to power plants. Art shares his own experience powering his Nevada home entirely with wind and solar energy, acknowledging the system cost far more than it will ever save him financially.McLaughlin and Art wrestle with the core economic dilemma facing alternative energy: wind and solar are not yet cost-competitive with fossil fuels, and persuading the current generation to subsidize technologies that will only pay off decades later is a formidable political challenge. They also discuss peak oil predictions, European leadership on renewable energy policy, and government secrecy laws that could suppress breakthrough energy discoveries.

Feb 9, 20252h 35m

January 4, 2002: Open Lines | Orca Whales - Randy Eaton

Feb 8, 20252h 34m

January 4, 2002: Open Lines | Orca Whales - Randy Eaton

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Randy Eaton about a pair of orca whales stranding themselves on the Olympic Peninsula near Dungeness Bay in Washington State. Eaton, a wildlife biologist and author, explains that a female orca was found dead on a small island while a male repeatedly beached himself nearby, resisting rescue efforts. He theorizes the male is likely the female's son, as adult male orcas spend their lives helping their mothers raise young.Eaton presents his theory that whale strandings are deliberate acts of self-removal, a way to protect surviving pod members from disease or predators that might feed on a dead body in the water. He connects the deaths to PCB pollution accumulating through the marine food chain, compounded by declining salmon populations that force adult males to cannibalize their own fat reserves. The discussion also covers orcas that let out their air and sank to the bottom of capture cages in the 1970s Puget Sound captures.The second half features open lines where Art poses the provocative question of what listeners would do if they were the devil. Callers offer a range of responses, from controlling media to stealing human joy, while Art reflects on book burnings of Harry Potter in New Mexico and the psychology behind the overwhelming listener response.

Feb 8, 20252h 34m

January 3, 2002: Human Cloning - Dr. Ronald Munson

Feb 7, 20252h 54m

January 3, 2002: Human Cloning - Dr. Ronald Munson

Art Bell welcomes Professor Ronald Munson, a bioethics expert from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, for a wide-ranging discussion on human cloning and stem cell research. Munson, who holds a Ph.D. from Columbia and completed postdoctoral work in biology at Harvard, breaks down the science behind embryonic stem cells and their extraordinary potential for regenerative medicine.The conversation covers the ethical battleground surrounding the destruction of embryos for stem cell harvesting, with Munson arguing that a 300-cell embryo is fundamentally different from a developing fetus. He outlines the promises of the technology, from growing replacement organs using a patient's own genetic material to treating Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and spinal cord injuries. Art pushes the discussion further into designer humans, enhanced intelligence, and the creation of subservient beings.Art and Munson also examine the inevitability of reproductive cloning, the failures observed in animal cloning experiments, and whether the United States risks falling behind Europe and Asia by restricting research. The program opens with listener reactions to a striking Japanese parking garage ghost video and a lively open lines segment on the merits of broadcasting in stereo.

Feb 7, 20252h 54m

January 2, 2002: Creativity - Neil Slade | UFO Footage - Stan Romanek

Feb 6, 20252h 38m

January 2, 2002: Creativity - Neil Slade | UFO Footage - Stan Romanek

Art Bell opens the new year with UFO witness Stan Romanek, who describes five separate sightings in the Denver area beginning with a daytime encounter in December 2000 near Red Rocks Amphitheater. The object, roughly the size of a small car with six rotating spheres on its underside, hovered ten feet above power lines before silently rocketing skyward with a concussive pop. Video footage captured across multiple sightings, corroborated by dozens of witnesses and under active MUFON investigation, is posted on Art's website. Romanek reveals that 34 birds inexplicably crashed into his car windshield over subsequent months, stopping only after a fifth sighting in which an unknown craft beamed his vehicle.In the second half, brain researcher Neil Slade discusses frontal lobe activation and paranormal phenomena. Drawing on 11 years assisting researcher T.D.A. Lingo at Colorado's Dormant Brain Research and Development Laboratory, Slade walks listeners through his amygdala clicking technique, a visualization exercise using an imagined feather to redirect neural energy toward the frontal lobes and unlock dormant creative and intuitive potential.Slade proposes that Romanek may function as a psychic conduit, unconsciously focusing the energy of UFO enthusiasts around him. He notes that Uri Geller cannot manifest telekinetic abilities alone, and that Romanek's own skepticism may have made him an ideal receiver. The discussion expands into near-death research and the question of consciousness existing independent of brain function.

Feb 6, 20252h 38m

December 28, 2001: Open Lines - Predictions for 2002 | Lost City Near Cuba - Linda Moulton Howe

Feb 5, 20252h 49m

December 28, 2001: Open Lines - Predictions for 2002 | Lost City Near Cuba - Linda Moulton Howe

Art Bell welcomes Linda Moulton Howe for a surprise first-hour visit covering two major stories. Linda reports on megalithic structures discovered 2,200 feet below the ocean off Cuba's western tip by Canadian ocean engineer Paulina Zalitsky. Side-scan sonar images reveal what appear to be pyramids, streets, and buildings with 90-degree angles, and remotely operated vehicle footage shows smooth stone blocks stacked in patterns that Cuban archaeologist Dr. Gabino La Rosa considers difficult to explain naturally. ADC is building a deep water robot to drill samples at the site the following summer.Linda then presents an interview with Dutch cardiologist Dr. Pim van Lommel, lead author of a landmark Lancet study examining 344 cardiac arrest survivors across 10 Dutch hospitals over 12 years. Of those patients, 18% reported near-death experiences, and the researchers concluded that medical factors cannot account for the phenomenon. One patient, clinically dead for over 90 minutes, later identified the nurse who removed his dentures and described the entire resuscitation in detail.The remainder of the program continues with listener predictions for 2002, ranging from Yasser Arafat's assassination to the dead rising from their graves, a grizzly bear killing a Bigfoot in northern Canada, and a caller from New Jersey who fears her candle weather ritual caused Buffalo's record seven-foot snowfall.

Feb 5, 20252h 49m

December 27, 2001: Predictions for 2002

Feb 4, 20252h 52m

December 27, 2001: Predictions for 2002

Art Bell opens a full night of listener predictions for 2002, beginning with a review of last year's forecasts. Of 18 predictions scored, seven proved accurate, a hit rate Art considers remarkable for specific, non-obvious calls. He notes that his audience may be growing more psychic over the years, with each season producing slightly better results than the last.The predictions rolling in reflect a nation still reeling from September 11th. Callers forecast suicide bombers in Times Square on New Year's Eve, a biological attack at the Winter Olympics, and China invading Taiwan by July 4th. A 13-year-old from Oregon predicts terrorists will release smallpox on American soil. Among the few optimistic voices, callers predict a great spiritual revival, increasing appearances of angels, and the merging of alternative medicine with mainstream practice.Art intersperses the predictions with news of the growing India-Pakistan nuclear standoff, a record seven feet of snow burying Buffalo, extreme weather events across the globe, and the bizarre story of a pilotless airplane that flew for two hours over Sonoma County after its owner accidentally left the throttle forward. He also takes a call from a professional asteroid hunter who predicts 2002 will bring the discovery of a near-Earth object requiring active mitigation.

Feb 4, 20252h 52m

December 26, 2001: Predictions for 2002 - Sean David Morton

Feb 3, 20251h 55m

December 26, 2001: Predictions for 2002 - Sean David Morton

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 the roulette wheel, placing $1,000 bets with a reported success rate of five wins out of six attempts.Turning to geopolitics, Morton predicts a seven-year war cycle with the Islamic world beginning in 2001, warns that the United States will pursue Saddam Hussein in a repeat of Desert Storm, and forecasts Colin Powell's possible departure from the Bush administration. He claims Osama bin Laden has fled to Kyrgyzstan and will die a violent public death through betrayal, likely at the hands of Pakistani authorities.On the economy, Morton forecasts a market rebound led by communications technology and home improvement sectors, predicts the NFC will win the Super Bowl, and declares that 2002 will see the first human clone produced offshore on a research vessel. He reiterates his annual prediction that the Pope will die, while suggesting Pope John Paul II is determined to visit Russia to fulfill the Fatima prophecies before passing.

Feb 3, 20251h 55m

December 21, 2001: Open Lines - Clinically Dead Line

Feb 2, 20252h 46m

December 21, 2001: Open Lines - Clinically Dead Line

Art Bell opens the phone lines on a Friday night before the holiday weekend, sharing a remarkable email from a homicide detective whose investigation was guided by the apparition of a murder victim's deceased grandson. The ghost of the young boy, killed by a car two years earlier, led the detective to both the murder weapon and the killer's residence.Inspired by the Pam Reynolds case, Art dedicates a special phone line exclusively to callers who have experienced clinical death. The stories pour in: a man born clinically dead who recalls details of his own birth confirmed by his mother, a woman whose heart stopped from a pulmonary embolism and watched from the ceiling as doctors worked to revive her, and a teenager who spent a month in a coma after a head-on collision and returned with the sense of having lived an entire alternate lifetime.Throughout the night, callers also share guardian angel encounters and ghost stories, including a woman in rural New Mexico reporting real-time paranormal activity in her former chicken coop home. Art repeatedly challenges the scientific explanation offered by physicist Michio Kaku, arguing that dismissing near-death experiences as residual neuron activity is a guess, not science.

Feb 2, 20252h 46m

December 19, 2001: Computer Hacking - Kevin Mitnick

Feb 1, 20252h 47m

December 19, 2001: Computer Hacking - Kevin Mitnick

Art Bell interviews Kevin Mitnick, widely regarded as the world's most famous computer hacker, in his first appearance on the program after years of listener requests. Mitnick traces his fascination with technology back to age 16, when he and friends physically entered a Pacific Bell facility and walked out with technical manuals, with a security guard helping carry them to the car. He describes his hacking motivation as purely intellectual curiosity about how systems work, not malicious intent or financial gain.Mitnick addresses several myths surrounding his case, including the false New York Times report that he broke into NORAD and a prosecutor's claim that he could launch nuclear missiles by whistling into a telephone. Despite these exaggerations, a federal judge held him in solitary confinement for eight months and he ultimately served four and a half years as a pretrial detainee. The government attributed $300 million in damages by simply tallying the research and development costs of source code he accessed.The conversation turns to broader security concerns, including a phone company back door system called SAS that allowed remote wiretapping without court orders, and the FBI's Magic Lantern program, a government-developed Trojan horse capable of logging every keystroke on a target's computer.

Feb 1, 20252h 47m

December 18, 2001: EVPs - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Jan 31, 20252h 43m

December 18, 2001: EVPs - Brendan Cook & Barbara McBeath

Art Bell hosts Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society for a presentation of never-before-heard electronic voice phenomena recordings. The session follows Art's recent interview with Pam Reynolds, a woman who described detailed observations during clinical death with zero brain activity, an experience that Art says has moved him closer to believing in consciousness surviving physical death.Cook and McBeath play recordings captured on brand-new, never-previously-recorded audio tapes at cemeteries, an abandoned mental hospital, a funeral parlor, and a historic hotel. Highlights include a voice responding "I'm not far" to a request directed at a ghost light nicknamed Parker, a child's voice asking "Do they talk good?" after an investigator's question, and a clear "Yes" responding to a comment about time having no meaning for spirits. At the haunted Ben Lomond Hotel in Ogden, Utah, a woman's voice declares "It's a white night," later identified as possibly referencing a discontinued Mary Kay perfume.Cook explains that the spirits recorded through EVP appear stuck in this plane of existence rather than having moved on. He advises listeners that personality persists after death, urging people to resolve personal issues during life because mental troubles and unresolved conflicts carry over to the other side.

Jan 31, 20252h 43m

December 17, 2001: Deepening Complexity of Crop Circles - Dr. Eltjo Haselhoff

Jan 30, 20252h 54m

December 17, 2001: Deepening Complexity of Crop Circles - Dr. Eltjo Haselhoff

Art Bell interviews Dr. Eltjo Haselhoff, a Dutch theoretical physicist and former Los Alamos National Laboratories researcher, about his scientific investigation of crop circles. Haselhoff describes his first encounter with the phenomenon in 1988, noting the undisturbed soil beneath flattened crops and the absence of footprints, observations that drew him into over 13 years of research.Haselhoff confirms the findings of American biophysicist Dr. Levengood, particularly the node-lengthening effect in affected plants, which can be replicated using microwave radiation. He presents his peer-reviewed research demonstrating that eyewitness accounts of luminous spheres creating crop formations align with measurable heat signatures found in the crops. One Dutch formation he analyzed contained hidden geometric relationships involving triangles, squares, pentagons, and hexagons, with a probability of occurring by chance calculated at one in 46 million.When pressed on explanations, Haselhoff acknowledges that conventional physics cannot account for the self-sustaining plasma balls observed near formations. He distinguishes between four types of crop circles and concedes that while some are man-made, the biophysical anomalies and mathematical complexity found in many formations remain genuinely unexplained by mainstream science.

Jan 30, 20252h 54m

December 12, 2001: The Secret Knowledge - Red Elk | Bioterrorism, Murdered Microbiologists - Steve Quayle

Jan 29, 20252h 24m

December 12, 2001: The Secret Knowledge - Red Elk | Bioterrorism, Murdered Microbiologists - Steve Quayle

Art Bell speaks with Red Elk, a self-described medicine man of Blackfeet, Shoshone, Irish, and French heritage, who claims knowledge passed down through over 2,000 years of tradition about worlds existing beneath the Earth's surface. Red Elk describes multiple levels below ground, including subterranean civilizations, tunnel systems, and a "time cave" near Republic, Washington, where he says one can witness holographic visions of the future through specific rituals.Red Elk insists that human beings possess untapped abilities including levitation, teleportation, and healing, skills he says are suppressed by generations of conditioning. He offers listeners instructions on how to attempt levitation by jumping on a mattress or trampoline with childlike joy rather than forced concentration. He warns of a coming Earth "flip" within approximately 25 years and urges people to move inland, away from coastlines and rivers.In the final hour, Steve Quayle joins to discuss bioterrorism threats, reporting 140 quarantine bases established across Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan in response to an Ebola outbreak. He connects the suspicious deaths of multiple microbiologists worldwide to concerns about aerosolized biological weapons falling into terrorist hands.

Jan 29, 20252h 24m

December 11, 2001: Bigfoot - Robert W. Morgan

Jan 28, 20252h 54m

December 11, 2001: Bigfoot - Robert W. Morgan

Art Bell welcomes Bigfoot researcher Robert W. Morgan to discuss decades of field research into the elusive creature. Morgan recounts his first encounter in 1957 in Mason County, Washington, where he mistook the being for a gorilla while still serving in the U.S. Navy. He describes organizing scientific expeditions backed by the National Wildlife Federation and assembling a 17-member science advisory board to study the phenomenon.The conversation takes a dramatic turn when two Oklahoma police officers, Dan and Jeff, call in to share their own encounters. Both describe a seven-to-eight-foot-tall, reddish-brown-haired bipedal creature they observed at close range on separate occasions. Despite carrying firearms, neither officer considered shooting, and both have since returned to the area to cast footprint impressions measuring approximately 13 inches long.Morgan shares his theory that Bigfoot represents the original prototype human, perfectly adapted to Earth, while modern humans are a less-suited mutation. He notes that Bigfoot families have been observed watching schoolchildren play and sitting along railroad tracks watching trains pass, suggesting a quiet curiosity about human civilization.

Jan 28, 20252h 54m