The Art Bell Archive

Linda Moulton Howe reports on a wave of huge, silent, black triangle sightings stretching from Greensboro, North Carolina to Allentown, Pennsylvania since November 17, 1995. Eyewitness Kathy Schreck describes a solid gray-black metallic triangle hovering silently fifty feet above her car with twenty-five to thirty round white lights on its underside. Howe also covers a disturbing rash of animal deaths across Puerto Rico, where hundreds of domestic animals have been found drained of blood through two precise puncture wounds, attributed to a creature locals call the chupacabras.Moura Tims, author of Beyond Prophecies and Predictions, discusses how ancient prophecies from the Hopi, Maya, Babylonians, the Bible, Edgar Cayce, and the Great Pyramid all converge on the same pattern of cyclical change culminating around the year 2012. She explains that the King's Chamber timeline in the Great Pyramid corresponds to 1945 and the dawn of the atomic age, marking a point where planetary karma became irreversibly set.Art Bell shares breaking news of a confirmed 8.0 earthquake in the Kuril Islands, part of sixteen quakes recorded in the region within two days.

Dr. Nick Begich, co-author of Angels Don't Play This HAARP, joins Art Bell to expose the true scope of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project in Alaska. Begich explains how HAARP uses a unique antenna array to focus up to one billion watts of radio frequency energy into a narrow beam directed at the ionosphere, unlike older heaters that dispersed energy broadly. He describes how this focused energy creates artificial plasma mirrors capable of reflecting signals back to Earth for submarine communication, earth-penetrating tomography, and over-the-horizon radar.The conversation reveals disturbing military applications documented in twelve patents now owned by Raytheon Corporation through a chain of acquisitions from ARCO. Begich cites Air Force documents from Maxwell Air Force Base detailing radio frequency weapons designed to debilitate mental functions across battlefield areas. He explains that extremely low frequency energy between one and thirty hertz, delivered at power levels as low as one-fiftieth of natural background levels, can lock onto human brainwaves and cause mood swings, confusion, and agitation through a process called brain entrainment.Begich traces the technology back to Nikola Tesla's early twentieth-century work and discusses weather modification capabilities, including the ability to redirect jet streams.

Harry Browne, Libertarian presidential candidate and bestselling investment author, joins Art Bell to lay out his platform for the 1996 election. Browne proposes cutting federal spending by fifty percent in the first year, repealing the personal income tax entirely, and reducing the federal government to only those functions specified in the Constitution. He argues that welfare, education, transportation, housing, and crime control should all be removed from federal jurisdiction and returned to private citizens and states.Art Bell challenges Browne on the Libertarian position on drug legalization. Browne contends that the thirty-year war on drugs has driven up murder rates, financed gang warfare, and filled prisons with nonviolent offenders while failing to keep drugs out of schools or even government prisons. He advocates ending all federal drug prohibition and releasing nonviolent drug offenders to make room for violent criminals. Browne also calls for eliminating the CIA, the FDA, and all federal regulatory agencies.The discussion turns to national defense, where Browne proposes a military budget of approximately fifty billion dollars focused solely on protecting American borders, including missile defense. He advocates withdrawing from all foreign treaties and international organizations.

Linda Moulton Howe and author Jim Marrs join Art Bell to examine the U.S. government's secret remote viewing program. Marrs explains how military-trained psychics at SRI discovered that remote viewing operates across both space and time, citing Pat Price's ability to describe target locations before observers arrived. He details how remote viewers perceive multiple alien races interacting with Earth and clarifies that the technique allows observation but not physical interference with targets. Howe reports on the CIA's recent acknowledgment of the program, codenamed Stargate.Art Bell investigates a mysterious 8.0 earthquake reported by Reuters and multiple news agencies that authorities later denied. Listeners and news sources confirmed hearing the report, yet official records show no such event, creating an unexplained discrepancy that generates considerable listener response throughout the broadcast.Dr. Bruce Goldberg, a hypnotherapist and author of A Search for Grace, discusses the connections between remote viewing, past life regression, and future life progression. He explains how self-hypnosis and alpha-state techniques can substitute for hours of sleep and describes how patients across 18 years of clinical work independently report consistent details about future events.

Whitley Strieber joins Art Bell to discuss his latest book Breakthrough, which presents compelling evidence that the beings he calls "the visitors" are real. Strieber describes a recent physical encounter at his home that became the final chapter of his upcoming book The Secret School, including a severe allergic reaction he associates with the close approach of non-human beings. He recounts being transported forward in time, seeing himself decades in the future, and developing what he describes as memories from that timeline.The conversation turns to geopolitical dangers, including the instability of the Russian government, the possibility of loose Soviet nuclear devices, and the compromised state of the CIA following the Aldrich Ames affair. Strieber warns that a nuclear detonation in Washington could occur without warning and leave no functioning government to respond. He shares his view that the intelligence community has been passing disinformation for years.Strieber addresses the Roswell autopsy footage, noting the eye coverings as the one familiar detail from his own encounters. He discusses the military's troubled relationship with the visitors, the connection between the encounter experience and the dead, and his belief that humanity stands on the verge of a massive evolutionary leap in consciousness.

Wayne Green, editor and publisher of 73 Magazine since 1960, joins Art Bell for a wide-ranging conversation beginning with the history and future of amateur radio. Green recounts starting a radio teletype newsletter in 1949, editing CQ Magazine, and launching 73 Magazine after selling his Porsche, airplane, and boat to fund the first issue. He describes the catastrophic 1963 incentive licensing decision by the ARRL that drove 85 percent of ham radio distributors out of business and shifted manufacturing to Japan.Green advocates eliminating Morse code as a licensing requirement, establishing a single license class, and securing geosynchronous satellite channels already offered by commercial satellite operators. He credits amateur radio repeater development as the prototype for cellular telephone technology and describes teaching King Hussein of Jordan to operate ham radio, which helped transform the country's technical workforce. Art Bell and Green discuss the declining state of American education, entrepreneurship, and manufacturing competitiveness.Green introduces his research into cold fusion, citing Dr. Patterson's cell producing 100 times more energy output than input at a University of Illinois demonstration. He also describes a low-current electrical blood treatment based on Albert Einstein College of Medicine research that he claims has documented hundreds of successful outcomes.

Zecharia Sitchin, scholar and author of The Twelfth Planet and the Earth Chronicles series, presents his interpretation of ancient Sumerian texts describing an additional planet in our solar system called Nibiru. He explains that Sumerian records detail a celestial collision billions of years ago between Nibiru and a planet once located between Mars and Jupiter, with one half becoming the asteroid belt and the other half becoming Earth. Nibiru orbits the sun every 3,600 years in a retrograde direction.Art Bell asks about the recently discovered Comet Hale-Bopp, which shares several characteristics with Nibiru including a retrograde orbit, an estimated return period near 3,600 years, and its appearance from the constellation Sagittarius. Sitchin considers Hale-Bopp not Nibiru itself but potentially a harbinger, noting that Nibiru should be three to four times the size of Earth. He discusses how the Anunnaki, meaning "those who from heaven to Earth came," used genetic engineering to create modern humans from early hominids roughly 270,000 years ago.Sitchin addresses the UFO phenomenon, suggesting current sightings represent android emissaries rather than the Anunnaki themselves, and warns that overpopulation and human evil may determine whether advanced beings choose to assist or abandon humanity when Nibiru eventually returns.

Dorian Weisel, a volcanic activity photographer living a quarter mile from the summit of Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii, joins Art Bell to discuss dramatic changes in global seismic and volcanic activity. He describes the 1992 Landers earthquake as the most significant seismic event of the late century, noting that every known magma body along the Cascade Range and Sierras shook simultaneously at the moment of rupture rather than sequentially.Art Bell reads a special bulletin from Gordon Michael Scallion warning of a three-month window for major west coast earthquakes, with high-risk areas including Palm Springs, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, and a line from Vancouver to Eureka to San Diego. Weisel reveals that he shared Scallion's theories with USGS scientists and seismologists who initially dismissed the ideas but returned within a week acknowledging the predictions align with known geological evidence. He discusses inflation at Long Valley Caldera near Mono Lake, where volcanic gas emissions now exceed those of Kilauea.The program opens with discussion of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and a Reuters poll showing two out of three Americans believe in the existence of Satan.

Linda Moulton Howe reports on new developments in the controversial alien autopsy footage story from a conference in Dusseldorf, Germany. She describes an uncut 14-minute version of tent footage showing a being similar to the autopsy subject, along with separate film depicting a crashed disc-shaped craft on a military flatbed truck. Biophysicist W.C. Levengood's analysis of plants from cattle mutilation sites in Lassen County, California, reveals biochemical changes inconsistent with simple physical force.Dr. Chet Snow, holding doctorates in sociology and history, discusses how his deceased grandmother appeared to him repeatedly over several months while he served in the Air Force, providing verifiable information that led him to regression therapist Dr. Helen Wambach. He describes the nature of consciousness after death based on these encounters, including the ability to choose one's apparent age and perceive multiple scales of reality simultaneously.Art Bell presses Dr. Snow on near-term prophecy from a recent Philadelphia conference of twelve prophets, where participants warned of accelerating earth changes beginning around 1996. Dr. Snow's future life progression research independently corroborates predictions by Gordon Michael Scallion regarding volcanic activity along the Ring of Fire and major seismic events along the west coast.

Art Bell celebrates the 75th anniversary of commercial broadcasting by announcing his wife's application for a 6,000-watt FM radio station license in Pahrump, Nevada. He shares the historic significance of the filing date coinciding with KDKA Pittsburgh's first broadcast on November 2, 1920, and outlines plans for an oldies format with overnight simulcasting of his program.The night's news covers a school bus hijacking in Miami, where a man claiming IRS grievances and a bomb strapped to his leg seized a bus of children with disabilities before being shot by police snipers. Art Bell discusses the FBI's proposal to tap one percent of phone lines in major cities, rising teenage drug use statistics showing higher usage rates among white teens than black teens, and the concept of a dedicated car chase television channel.Callers weigh in on newly released Hubble Space Telescope photographs showing the birth of stars in massive gaseous pillars 7,000 light years away. Art Bell describes the images as witnessing creation in progress and repeatedly requests copies of the photographs. Additional topics include affiliate changes in the St. Louis market, the Vince Foster suicide note forgery analysis by Oxford handwriting expert Reginald Alton, and the presidential race.

Stan Deyo, researcher and author based in Perth, Australia, joins Art Bell to discuss earth changes and advanced propulsion technology. A former U.S. Air Force Academy cadet recruited into classified programs, Deyo describes experimental high-speed flash cueing techniques used to program information into the subconscious mind. He reveals his work on plasma-driven circular wing aircraft and discusses electromagnetic propulsion systems capable of turning corners at 25,000 miles per hour without affecting the crew.Art Bell opens the program with a special bulletin from Gordon Michael Scallion warning that earth change activity continues to increase along the Ring of Fire. Scallion notes the record for yearly earthquakes above magnitude 6.0 has already been broken with two months remaining in 1995. He identifies a three-month window for seismic events along the U.S. west coast, with high-risk areas including Palm Springs, San Diego, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Art Bell notes that both Mount Vesuvius and Mount Etna have become active, precisely as Scallion previously predicted.Open lines callers weigh in on the FBI's proposal to tap one in every one hundred phone calls in high-crime areas, while Art Bell discusses the role of Cray computers in scanning conversations for keywords.

Art Bell hosts the annual Ghost to Ghost special on Halloween night, opening all phone lines for callers to share their true supernatural encounters. The evening begins with a stern warning about Ouija boards, as Art Bell references his own frightening experience with an ancient board given to him by a self-proclaimed witch in Las Vegas. A caller from Spokane describes a Ouija board session in Yosemite where a negative entity requested the lights be turned off, causing a brilliant light to form in midair while the room turned freezing cold.Callers share deeply personal accounts spanning decades and continents. A man in Canton, Michigan, describes his brother's spirit visiting him in a hotel hallway just hours after committing suicide. A caller from Houston recounts a story passed down through three generations about a spectral bird descending through a fireplace to tend a crying infant. From Guam, a caller tells of a dead brother's young sister insisting his spirit wanted them to open a cupboard that no adult could budge, revealing a letter written for her in case of his death.A camper from Graham, Washington, describes a terrifying night on the Olympic Peninsula where enormous boulders were hurled around his camper for three hours by an unseen creature, arranged in a perfect circle by morning.

Linda Moulton Howe reports on mysterious black helicopter activity following cattle mutilations near Susanville, California. An eyewitness describes three large helicopters flying just fifty feet off the ground in complete silence, with no lights or markings, hovering directly over cattle owned by the same family whose cows were found mutilated days earlier. Howe explores the longstanding connection between silent helicopters and animal mutilations, with one Colorado sheriff speculating about non-human intelligence using camouflage technology.Dave Oester and Sharon Gill, authors of Twilight Visitors, join Art Bell to discuss their hands-on approach to ghost investigation. The couple began researching after moving into a haunted house in Seaside, Oregon, where an unplugged radio with no batteries played Waltzing Matilda repeatedly on their first night. They describe capturing ghostly images on film, including a tornado-shaped energy vortex that cast its own shadow on a wall, and detecting electromagnetic anomalies jumping from normal background levels to readings four hundred percent higher in basketball-sized areas.The investigators share their findings from the Liberty Theater in Astoria, Oregon, haunted by three spirits including a 1930s figure named Paul who appears in a white tuxedo and Panama hat.

Chris Ruddy, investigative reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, delivers what Art Bell calls a foundational earthquake in the Vince Foster case. Three forensic handwriting experts, including Reginald Alton from Oxford University, have declared the torn note found in Foster's briefcase to be a forgery. Ruddy details their findings, noting the note's suspicious multi-stroke letter formations, the absence of fingerprints consistent with gloved handling, and the FBI's failure to follow standard document examination procedures.Ruddy argues the forged note points to obstruction of justice at minimum, raising questions about what happened the night Foster died. He reveals that the Associated Press buried the story in two paragraphs at the end of an unrelated article, while British outlets like the Times of London and the London Telegraph gave it prominent coverage. Art Bell provides the AP's Washington bureau phone number and urges the audience to demand proper reporting.The program opens with the legendary exploding whale story, as Art Bell tracks down Walt Amonhofer, whose brand-new Oldsmobile Regency was destroyed when the Oregon Highway Department used twenty cases of dynamite to dispose of a beached sperm whale in Florence, Oregon, twenty-five years earlier.

Martin Caidin, veteran pilot and author of over 200 books including the novel Cyborg that inspired The Six Million Dollar Man, joins Art Bell to discuss his latest work Ghosts of the Air. Caidin shares documented accounts of paranormal events witnessed by pilots and military personnel, including World War I biplanes appearing in the Battle of Britain, a B-17 that flew home with no fuel and ten dead crewmen, and a haunted B-24 bomber in a museum where a ghostly figure spoke to armed guards.The conversation turns to fractures in time, as Caidin recounts the story of a judge who landed on a fully equipped ghost airfield that later vanished without a trace. He describes his own harrowing experience flying through the Bermuda Triangle, where a mysterious yellow murk disabled two million dollars worth of electronics aboard a Catalina flying boat carrying fourteen Navy pilots. Caidin also discusses astronaut sightings, including cryptic statements from Neil Armstrong.Art Bell opens the phone lines for callers to question Caidin about his investigations. Topics range from holographic technology and Area 51 to entities encountered by Marines in Vietnam.

Linda Moulton Howe presents two Bigfoot encounter reports. Ted Fraley of Carson City describes shooting at a creature with glowing grayish-blue eyes near Redding, California in 1956, triggering an earth-shaking scream of staggering volume. Skip Hombach of Seattle recounts a 1989 encounter near Darrington, Washington, where a large black-haired bipedal creature fell off an eighty-foot cliff, stood up like a man, looked him in the eye, then later charged back through the forest pursuing him downhill.Frank Joseph, editor of The Ancient American magazine and author of Atlantis in Wisconsin, argues that Atlantis was a volcanic island approximately two hundred miles west of Gibraltar, destroyed in 1198 BC. He connects the simultaneous end of massive prehistoric copper mining in the Great Lakes region, the collapse of the Bronze Age in Europe, and the destruction of Atlantis as evidence of a single interconnected civilization. Joseph describes photographed stone pyramidal structures found twenty to sixty feet underwater in Rock Lake, Wisconsin.Joseph warns that modern civilization mirrors the Atlantean pattern of technological arrogance and ecological abuse, noting that nuclear detonations in seismically active zones and ionospheric manipulation through projects like HAARP echo the recklessness that destroyed the ancient world.

Brad Steiger, author of over one hundred thirty books on the paranormal, shares formative experiences that launched his lifelong research, including a childhood encounter with a large-headed, reptilian-eyed being at age five and a near-death experience at age eleven following a severe farm accident. During his near-death episode, Steiger describes leaving his body and being shown a series of geometric designs that conveyed a profound sense of meaning and order to existence.Steiger recounts investigating a house where multiple generations of murders had occurred, where he and several two-hundred-pound men were physically lifted into the air by an unseen force after he challenged the entity. He also describes witnessing a ghost materialize as a sparkling, holographic figure and placing his hand inside it, feeling a cold, tingling sensation. Steiger categorizes hauntings into residual energy imprints and intelligent presences, noting most dramatic cases involve violent death.Art Bell and Steiger discuss Bigfoot evidence, including hair samples a forensic scientist initially identified as human, and the Philadelphia Experiment connection through Steiger's work with Al Bielek. Steiger advocates approaching the paranormal with prayer, discipline, and respect rather than casual experimentation.

Linda Moulton Howe reports on a Canadian farmer in Saskatchewan who has lost over twenty cattle to mysterious mutilations since the early 1970s, including twelve animals in 1995 alone. The farmer describes a midnight encounter with a greenish, saucer-shaped object hovering in his pasture, accompanied by two small reptilian-looking figures roughly three feet tall. He details the precise surgical excisions found on his cattle, distinguishing them from predator kills, and explains how insurance companies refuse to pay because no official will classify the deaths as mutilations.Elton Elliot, author of the anthology NanoDreams, then introduces nanotechnology as the science of building structures atom by atom from the molecular level upward, the reverse of all previous human engineering. He describes applications including self-repairing smart bricks that regulate temperature, molecular machines small enough to travel through capillaries repairing cellular damage, and spacecraft capable of self-healing in transit.Elliot warns that nanotechnology will fundamentally transform humanity, declaring this the last generation that will be recognizably human. He raises concerns about weaponized nanomachines capable of disassembling targets molecule by molecule, and urges open development to prevent secret military monopolization of the technology.

Larry Wilson, a Bible prophecy researcher and author of Warning, Revelation is About to be Fulfilled, presents his interpretation of the four trumpets described in the Book of Revelation. Wilson outlines a sequence beginning with a global meteoric firestorm of burning hail, followed by an asteroid impact on the ocean generating tsunamis up to three thousand feet high, then a second asteroid strike on a continent contaminating underground water supplies and killing many who drink from them.Wilson supports his biblical analysis with scientific research, citing Clark Chapman and David Morrison's conclusions that Earth is statistically overdue for a civilization-threatening impact. He references the 1989 near-miss of Asteroid 1989 FC, which passed within six hours of Earth, and National Geographic modeling studies from UC Berkeley that closely match the devastation described in Revelation. He places these events within a window from 1994 to approximately the year 2000.Art Bell notes the unsettling convergence between Wilson's biblically derived predictions and the secular forecasts of Gordon Michael Scallion and other guests, all pointing toward imminent catastrophic Earth changes from vastly different starting points.

Stan Deyo joins Art Bell from Perth, Australia, to discuss his recruitment by Edward Teller's associate Dr. James Maxfield in 1971 to work on advanced propulsion systems for disc-shaped aircraft and spacecraft. Deyo describes two categories of craft he helped develop: aircraft that move air electrically around a saucer shape using ionized plasma, and electromagnetic craft that bend gravity through pulsed toroidal magnetic fields, drawing parallels to the Philadelphia Experiment.Deyo explains why these technologies remain classified, pointing to warring factions vying for global control. He names specific underground research facilities at Pine Gap in Australia, the South Pole, Saudi Arabia, and Norway. He also describes analyzing NASA satellite thermal data revealing alarming heat patterns building beneath the ocean floor off California, Japan, Florida, and the Mediterranean, which he believes signal imminent seismic catastrophe.Art Bell then speaks with air conditioning technician Pat about the ozone hole over Antarctica, now measured at the size of Europe. Pat explains how CFC-released carbon atoms destroy millions of ozone molecules each and warns that third-world industrialization will worsen the crisis despite domestic regulations.

Bob Shell, certified photo analyst and FBI consultant, joins Art Bell to deliver groundbreaking findings about the purported alien autopsy film aired on Fox television, confirming the film stock dates to 1947.Shell reveals that his preliminary chemical analysis of actual imagery from the film matches Kodak Super XX stock manufactured in 1947, and that the film's low fog levels prove it was exposed while still fresh, within a two-to-three-year window. He discloses the existence of a second autopsy not shown by Fox, filmed without protective suits and in much sharper focus. Shell describes additional unseen footage of crash debris featuring I-beams inscribed with raised metallic writing resembling ancient Greek, six-fingered control devices recovered from the creatures, and a tent scene where technicians appear to bandage a possibly still-living being. The crash site, located approximately ten miles southwest of Socorro, New Mexico, has been independently verified as containing a 50-foot excavated and refilled area. Shell notes that a still-unprocessed film canister labeled "Truman" may contain footage of the president inspecting the crash site.A riveting interview packed with details that push far beyond what Fox ever broadcast to the public.

John Anthony West, Emmy-winning independent Egyptologist, joins Art Bell on Dreamland to challenge the accepted timeline of ancient civilization and reveal what lies beneath the Great Sphinx of Giza.West explains how geological weathering patterns on the Sphinx prove it must be at least 10,000 years old, far predating the conventional date of 2500 B.C. His seismographic surveys have detected a substantial chamber buried beneath the Sphinx's paws, precisely where Edgar Cayce predicted a repository of ancient knowledge would be found. West describes the pyramids not as tombs but as sophisticated technological instruments designed to facilitate higher states of consciousness, noting their profound emotional impact on visitors who meditate inside the King's Chamber. The program also features a segment with Linda Moulton Howe reporting from Britain alongside German researcher Michael Hesemann, who reveals that photo analyst Bob Shell has confirmed the Santilli autopsy film stock dates definitively to 1947. Art Bell plays a never-before-aired recording of Barry Goldwater describing how General Curtis LeMay angrily refused his inquiry about classified materials at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.A landmark broadcast connecting ancient mysteries to modern revelations about what governments may be hiding.

Art Bell surveys a landscape of headlines as Windows 95 mania sweeps the nation, the O.J. Simpson trial reaches a critical juncture over the Furman tapes, and wildfires rage across Long Island, New York.Callers report mixed results from their first night with Windows 95, leaving Art Bell still too nervous to load it into his own computer. The Simpson trial dominates discussion as Detective Mark Furman faces recall to the witness stand, where his attorney signals he may invoke the Fifth Amendment. Art Bell walks through the devastating implications for the prosecution, noting that Marcia Clark may have to turn on her own witness to salvage any credibility. A CBS report on heroin flooding eastern cities under brand names like Tombstone, Poison, and Body Bag reveals purity levels ten times higher than a generation ago. The night also features spirited debates on U.S.-China trade relations, the Republican presidential field, Pat Buchanan's protectionist platform, Hillary Clinton's planned trip to the Beijing women's conference, and a listener prediction of imminent earthquake activity along the West Coast.An open lines night capturing the anxieties and absurdities of late August 1995.

Art Bell reports breaking news of volcanic activity threatening the Caribbean island of Montserrat, with scientists estimating an 80 percent chance of a major eruption, prompting calls from residents of the U.S. Virgin Islands.The volcanic crisis leads Art Bell to replay his recent interview with earth changes prognosticator Gordon Michael Scallion, whose four-quake scenario has seen three of four predicted earthquakes materialize on schedule. Scallion warns that the West Coast faces a seismic event within weeks and notes that volcanic islands flanking Martinique have awakened from dormancy. Callers discuss the power of prayer after an Unsolved Mysteries segment documented a woman whose cancerous lumps vanished over a weekend, supported by double-blind studies showing higher recovery rates among those prayed for. Art Bell questions whether healing comes from an external divine source or the untapped potential of the human mind. The O.J. Simpson trial looms large as the Mark Furman tapes threaten to unravel the prosecution, and the release of Windows 95 sparks consumer frenzy while Art Bell confesses he is too afraid to install it.A night where geological upheaval and cultural milestones collide in real time.

Art Bell opens the phone lines on a night dominated by a horrifying story out of Detroit, where a young woman was attacked after a traffic accident, stripped of her clothing, and cheered by dozens of onlookers as she leaped to her death from a bridge over the Detroit River.The incident becomes a launching point for a broader discussion about the deterioration of society and the accelerating pace of tragedy Art Bell calls "the quickening." Callers weigh in on whether the bystanders should face criminal charges, while Art catalogs a grim parade of recent news: child abuse cases, the busy Atlantic hurricane season spawning multiple storms, and the ongoing O.J. Simpson trial where forensic scientist Dr. Henry Lee has identified mystery footprints at the murder scene. A darkly humorous list of "40 Ways to Destroy the Earth" circulating on the Internet provides momentary comic relief. Callers also debate alien visitation, the possible discovery of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat, and the story of an 89-year-old Texas billionaire who married a 26-year-old model.A raw and unflinching snapshot of mid-1990s America grappling with violence, moral decay, and the unknown.