The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell welcomes prophecy scholar John Hogue to discuss his new e-book, Nostradamus: The War with Iran. Hogue explains how he wrote 70,000 words in just seven weeks, driven by an inner compulsion that a U.S.-Iran conflict may be closer than most people realize. He connects Nostradamus quatrains to modern geopolitical tensions, including the missile defense standoff between the U.S. and Russia, and warns that forces within the old order of humanity resist the changes a new age demands.The conversation ranges across climate science, with Art citing alarming data on Greenland glaciers accelerating from six feet per year to seventy-five feet per year of ice loss. Hogue argues that mainstream scientists have been too cautious in their projections and that cascading tipping points, including methane release from warming tundra, could push sea level rise decades ahead of schedule.Hogue frames the current era as a moment of profound transformation, where humanity must balance rational science with subjective intuition. He urges listeners to document precognitive experiences rigorously, and both host and guest agree that the paranormal deserves serious scientific attention rather than ridicule or blind belief.

Art Bell speaks with Whitley Strieber about mysterious drone photographs from Northern California and the accelerating crisis of global warming. Strieber analyzes the Chad UFO drone images, noting their unusual clarity and strange writing, and suggests the object may have been designed to look fake as concealment. The conversation shifts to alarming climate developments, including rapid ice loss in Greenland and Antarctica far exceeding predictions.Strieber warns that sea level rise could displace hundreds of millions from low-lying nations like Bangladesh. He and Art discuss the geopolitics of emissions, noting Exxon recently abandoned its support for climate denial. Strieber emphasizes that Western nations must lead global reduction efforts despite the challenge of bringing China and India along.In the second half, Art welcomes first-time guest Paul F. Eno, a paranormal investigator since 1970 and author of five books on the subject. Eno describes his early seminary-era investigations where he encountered ghostly sounds of children, farm animals, and an ox cart at an abandoned Connecticut settlement. He challenges the traditional view of ghosts as spirits of the dead, proposing instead that these phenomena represent overlapping realities where living people from other timeframes briefly intersect with our own.

Art Bell interviews first-time guest Robert Collins, a career Air Force veteran who spent 22 years in avionics, communications, engineering, physics, and intelligence at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base's Foreign Technology Division. Collins describes how a casual conversation in a classified vault in 1985 led him to retired lieutenant colonel Ernie Kellerstrauss, who shared extraordinary stories about UFO encounters and recovered materials.Collins recounts the 1959 Misawa, Japan incident in which an F-106 pilot fired a full salvo of missiles at a hovering disc-shaped UFO with no effect. According to the account, a tractor beam then emerged from the craft and pulled the aircraft toward it while ground controllers listened to the pilot's screams. He also discusses classified compounds on Sandia Base used for testing on recovered non-human biological materials, with body parts allegedly on loan from Wright-Patterson.The discussion expands to cover underground tunnel systems connecting military installations, including Area 51, Los Alamos, and Dulce. Collins explains how he spent years verifying these accounts through multiple sources within the intelligence community, ultimately concluding that the government UFO cover-up spanning over 60 years is real. The first hour features open lines with callers discussing current events.

Art Bell welcomes back Peter Ward, professor of biology and earth sciences at the University of Washington and NASA Astrobiology Institute investigator, to discuss his book Under a Green Sky and the science of mass extinctions. Ward explains that while the dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago was caused by an asteroid impact, the other 15 mass extinctions over 500 million years show no such evidence.Ward presents his theory that most mass extinctions were driven by greenhouse gas-induced ocean chemistry changes. He describes how rising CO2 levels acidify oceans until marine organisms cannot form shells, and how saturated oceans can suddenly release massive amounts of carbon dioxide in catastrophic overturning events. He draws a parallel to the 1986 Lake Nyos disaster in Africa, where volcanic CO2 burst from a lake and killed nearly 2,000 people.The conversation grows urgent as Ward reveals the Southern Ocean around Antarctica is already saturated with CO2 decades ahead of predictions. He warns that current warming trends mirror conditions that preceded the Permian extinction, the worst in Earth's history, which eliminated roughly 90 percent of all species. The first hour covers the Chad UFO photo controversy and open lines.

Art Bell speaks with researcher and author Tom Horn about his book Nephilim Stargates, which examines ancient accounts of fallen angels, hybrid beings, and interdimensional portals through the lens of modern science. Horn describes how the biblical Watchers, a group of 200 angels described in the Book of Enoch, descended to Earth, mated with human women, and produced the Nephilim, a race of giants referenced across multiple ancient texts.Horn connects these ancient narratives to contemporary developments in transgenics and biotechnology. He explains how his earlier fiction novel, The Ahriman Gate, required deep research into genetic modification, which led him to discover striking parallels between modern species-blending experiments and the ancient stories of gods creating hybrid creatures. He notes that a significant portion of federal research funding was already going toward transgenic science, raising questions about what is being developed behind closed doors.The discussion also touches on potential political and prophetic dimensions, including references to Masonic symbolism and inaugural speeches. Horn presents his theory that stargates or portals described in ancient mythology may represent actual mechanisms through which non-human entities entered the physical world. The first hour features unscreened open lines with callers discussing current events.

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Mark Eberhart, professor of chemistry and materials science at the Colorado School of Mines and author of Feeding the Fire, for an in-depth discussion on America's growing energy crisis. Eberhart explains why corn-based ethanol is a flawed solution, noting that farm subsidies rather than real energy gains drive the push for biofuels, and that converting cellulose to ethanol holds far more promise.The conversation explores Eberhart's central thesis that energy and human imagination are inseparable. He argues that everything civilization has created, from automobiles to books, exists because humans harnessed energy to give substance to their ideas. Art and Eberhart discuss how exponentially rising energy consumption, combined with dependence on foreign oil funding hostile nations, creates both economic and security vulnerabilities.Eberhart addresses hydrogen as a potential fuel source, explaining the scientific challenges of storage and production that make it less viable than many assume. He also weighs in on climate change, stating that the evidence for human-caused global warming is overwhelming, and warns that China has already surpassed the U.S. as the world's largest carbon emitter. The hour opens with unscreened listener calls on topics ranging from the Iraq War to personal stories.

Art Bell welcomes climate scientist Richard Somerville, a distinguished professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, for a thorough discussion of global warming and its accelerating impacts. Somerville explains the basic science behind the greenhouse effect and presents evidence that human carbon dioxide emissions are the primary driver of rising temperatures, while acknowledging the complexity of climate modeling.The conversation addresses specific projections, including a NASA study suggesting eastern U.S. summer temperatures could rise nearly ten degrees Fahrenheit by the 2080s, with cities like Chicago, Washington, and Atlanta potentially averaging between 100 and 110 degrees during dry spells. Somerville discusses the international dimension of the crisis, noting that China is poised to surpass the United States in carbon emissions and opens a new coal-fired power plant every few days.Art presses Somerville on practical solutions and political obstacles, including the influence of industry-funded skepticism that mirrors tactics once used by the tobacco lobby. They discuss the so-called BRIC nations, the challenge of balancing economic development with environmental responsibility, and why Somerville believes the scientific consensus on human-caused warming is as strong as the link between smoking and lung cancer.

Art Bell opens with psychic Evelyn Paglini, who delivers a series of alarming predictions including civil unrest in major cities during the summer, a deliberately released virus with flu-like symptoms, and a major stock market correction in September or October. Paglini warns of intensifying earth changes through 2012, urging listeners to prepare with food, water, and community shelters rather than relying on government response.Richard C. Hoagland joins in the second half to present his hyperdimensional physics theory as an explanation for Colony Collapse Disorder, the mass disappearance of honeybees. Hoagland notes that the bees are not dying but vanishing without a trace, leaving behind untouched hives that even predators avoid, a pattern he compares to cattle mutilation cases. He calculates roughly one billion bees have disappeared across the northern hemisphere.Hoagland highlights that only commercially farmed bees are affected while organic hives remain healthy, suggesting the corporate practice of trucking bees across the country and feeding them sugar water may play a role. He and Art discuss the debunked Einstein bee quote, the potential collapse of one-third of the American food supply, and how torsion field physics might explain the disruption of bee navigation systems.

Art Bell speaks with Daniel H. Wilson, a robotics engineer and author, about the current state of robots and the trajectory of artificial intelligence. Wilson describes the wide spectrum of robotic technology already embedded in daily life, from anti-lock braking systems that use neural networks to autonomous vacuum cleaners and military reconnaissance drones operating in combat zones.The discussion moves into the concept of general-purpose human-level intelligence and when machines might pass the threshold where a person cannot distinguish between human and artificial conversation. Wilson explains how Moore's Law continues to drive exponential growth in processing power, while parallel computing and massive data storage bring the possibility of truly intelligent machines closer each year. He also addresses the ethical dimensions of weaponized robots and autonomous killing machines already in development.Art and Wilson explore the longer-term implications, including whether robots could eventually store and replicate the entirety of a human's sensory experience. They discuss the cultural fear surrounding intelligent machines, the practical benefits robots already provide in surgery and search-and-rescue operations, and the question of whether humanity will ultimately merge with its own technological creations.

Art Bell presents a two-topic broadcast beginning with the global warming debate, taking calls from listeners who weigh in on climate change, the disappearing bee crisis, and the politics surrounding environmental policy. Callers raise points about Martian polar ice caps melting, agricultural shifts needed to adapt to warming, and the urgent need for action regardless of the cause.The second half features Brother Michael Dimond, a traditional Catholic Benedictine monk who argues that the post-Vatican II Church represents a counterfeit version of Catholicism. Brother Dimond explains how changes to the Mass introduced by Pope Paul VI, particularly the alteration of consecration words from "many" to "all," mirror Protestant reforms made by the Church of England centuries earlier. He contends these changes invalidated the sacraments for millions of Catholics worldwide.Brother Dimond connects these institutional changes to biblical prophecy, citing Daniel and Thessalonians as predictions of apostasy within the Church. He discusses the invalidation of priestly ordinations under the new rites, the Third Secret of Fatima, and Pope Leo XIII's reported vision in which the devil was granted a period of roughly 75 to 100 years to attempt the destruction of the Catholic Church from within.

Art Bell welcomes researcher Ryan S. Wood for an in-depth examination of UFO crash retrieval cases spanning decades of alleged government recoveries. Wood, who maintains a comprehensive database of such incidents, walks through the evidence behind multiple crash events, including lesser-known sites beyond Roswell like the San Augustine Plains and White Sands regions of New Mexico.The conversation covers the methods Wood uses to authenticate documents related to crash retrievals, including his analysis of purported MJ-12 papers and other classified materials. He explains why advanced extraterrestrial craft might crash at all, pointing to factors like lightning interference, radar disruption, and even mid-air collisions between craft. Wood also discusses photographic evidence he has obtained through Google Earth showing unusual convoy routes and pentagon-shaped road formations near restricted military zones.Callers contribute their own sightings, including a trucker who photographed what appeared to be a saucer-shaped object on a military flatbed traveling through Iowa. Art and Wood also discuss underground installations, the secrecy surrounding recovered materials, and why the government would maintain such extreme classification protocols around crash evidence for over sixty years.

Art Bell welcomes Sean Carroll, senior research associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology, for a conversation about cosmology timed with the landmark discovery of Earth-like exoplanet Gliese 581c. Art opens with extensive coverage of this newly found world just 20.5 light years away, describing its Earth-like temperatures, potential for liquid water, and the possibility it could harbor life far older than our own given its ancient host star.Carroll explains how astronomers detected the planet through tiny Doppler shifts in starlight caused by the gravitational tug of orbiting planets. He notes that finding such a world among only the hundred closest stars suggests there could be a billion similar planets in our galaxy alone. The discussion covers what conditions would truly make a planet habitable, including atmosphere composition, tidal locking, and the effects of doubled surface gravity on human survival.The conversation expands into broader cosmological territory as Carroll discusses dark matter, dark energy, the expansion of the universe, and modifications to Einstein general relativity. Art and Carroll debate the likelihood of extraterrestrial life, the challenges of interstellar travel, and Seth Shostak revelation that the president would be notified first if SETI ever confirmed an alien signal.

Art Bell welcomes Stanley Alpert, a federal environmental prosecutor turned private attorney, who recounts the true story of his kidnapping at gunpoint on a New York City street. One night while walking home, Alpert was seized by a gang armed with automatic weapons. After discovering a large sum in his savings account, the kidnappers held him for 25 hours to drain his funds. Throughout the ordeal, Alpert secretly gathered clues that would later help the FBI and NYPD capture the gang within two days of his release.Before the interview, Art opens with unscreened phone lines as callers discuss the Virginia Tech aftermath and whether the government would reveal evidence of extraterrestrial contact. Art reads a report about astronomers detecting water in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet for the first time.The Alpert interview covers his career prosecuting environmental crimes against major corporations including ExxonMobil, his work on MTBE gasoline contamination cases alongside the real Erin Brockovich, and how his legal instincts helped him survive the kidnapping and bring his captors to justice. Art and Alpert also discuss the broader state of environmental protection in the United States and the ongoing challenges of corporate pollution.

Art Bell welcomes physicist Janna Levin, professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University, for a wide-ranging exploration of whether the universe is finite or infinite. The evening begins with open lines as callers weigh in on the Virginia Tech tragedy, top conspiracies, and whether alien civilizations would contact humanity given its violent tendencies. Art reads from reports about mass shootings becoming more common since the 1960s and a Swedish physicist predicting peak global oil production between 2008 and 2018.When Levin joins the program, the conversation shifts to fundamental questions about the shape and size of the cosmos. She discusses her research into the topology of space, explaining how the universe could be finite yet have no boundary or edge, much like the surface of a sphere. The discussion covers how cosmic microwave background radiation might reveal patterns suggesting a finite, wrapped geometry of space.Art and Levin also explore the nature of infinity, black holes, the Big Bang, and what it means for the universe to be expanding. Callers contribute questions about whether atoms contain miniature universes and the practical implications of a finite cosmos for space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life.

Art Bell welcomes parapsychologist Dr. Evelyn Paglini to examine the rising tide of violence and evil in American society, days after the Virginia Tech massacre. The broadcast opens with Art reviewing the devastating news, including the shooting that claimed 32 lives and a murder-suicide at the NASA Johnson Space Center. Dr. Paglini reveals she began sensing a powerful evil presence back in November 2006, months before the tragedy unfolded.Audio clips from her appearance just weeks earlier are played back, in which she warned of coming carnage surpassing anything previously seen, including references to people jumping from windows. Paglini explains that the Virginia Tech shooter underwent a transformation, becoming a soulless vessel manipulated by dark external forces. She connects this to the teachings of Father Malachi Martin, who reported an 800 percent increase in evil activity during his time in New York.Looking ahead, Paglini delivers further warnings of additional school shootings, an attack involving both guns and explosives, killer heat waves striking the United States and Europe, massive wildfires fueled by arson, and a deadly virus she describes as being deliberately unleashed. Art and Paglini discuss whether evil exists as an external force beyond the human mind.

Art Bell welcomes David Sereda to discuss UFO and antigravity disclosure, followed by Major Ed Dames on a mysterious wheat blight threatening global food supplies. Sereda presents his research into NASA shuttle footage showing unexplained objects and explores the physics behind potential antigravity propulsion systems. He argues that government agencies possess suppressed knowledge about advanced energy technologies that could transform transportation and power generation.Major Ed Dames joins in the second half to address a newly evolved wheat rust called UG-99, first discovered in Uganda and now spreading across East Africa toward the Middle East. Dames notes that he predicted years earlier through remote viewing that a fungal plant pathogen originating in Africa would threaten worldwide agriculture. He explains that one of the fungus spores is uniquely resistant to ultraviolet light and can survive at high altitudes on the wind for weeks, making containment nearly impossible.The conversation turns urgent as Dames warns that existing fungicide supplies are already stretched thin protecting soybean crops and cannot handle an additional wheat epidemic. He advocates for the immediate development of environmentally controlled agricultural habitats as the only viable long-term solution to protect the food supply from mounting biological and solar threats.

Art Bell interviews Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel of the Union of Concerned Scientists about the accelerating reality of global warming. She explains the distinction between weather and climate, noting that climate science examines decades-long data and ice core records going back 800,000 years. Ekwurzel confirms that unprecedented heat-trapping gases are warming the planet and the debate over whether it is happening is over.The discussion focuses on regional impacts, with Ekwurzel warning that the American Southwest faces increased wildfire risk, brutal heat waves, and prolonged drought. She describes how sea level rise threatens island nations and regions like Bangladesh facing flooding from both ocean storms and Himalayan glacier melt. She also shares findings from a survey showing widespread government muzzling of federal climate researchers, with officials blocking scientists from using the term "global warming" in press releases.The first two hours feature open lines with callers discussing the honeybee colony collapse and the theory that cell phone radiation may be disrupting bee navigation. Art opens the show noting that bee disappearances have spread across Europe, with two-thirds of London's hives now empty, and cites Einstein's warning that humanity would have four years to live without honeybees.

Art Bell speaks with Canadian documentarian Todd Standing about his multi-year effort to prove Bigfoot exists and secure governmental protection for the species. Standing describes expeditions into the Sylvanic region of the Canadian Rockies where he recorded three pieces of video evidence, including footage that CTV News enhanced to reveal back muscles and an elbow. He explains that these animals use sophisticated evasion strategies, posting day watchers at high vantage points who alert the main group when humans approach.Standing argues that Bigfoot is not a paranormal phenomenon but a flesh-and-blood primate, scientifically classified as Gigantopithecus, that migrated to North America via the Bering Strait alongside early humans. He believes the species demonstrates a theory of mind comparable to a human child of five or six years old. His petition for species protection has been certified by the Canadian Clerk of Petitions, with the House of Commons expected to vote within 30 days.The first two hours feature open lines dominated by the honeybee colony collapse crisis, the contaminated pet food scandal, and the firing of radio host Don Imus. Callers share stories about hummingbird disappearances and speculation about whether cell phones or chemtrails are responsible for the vanishing bees.

Art Bell interviews British national security consultant Michael Shrimpton about the Iraq War, the 9/11 attacks, and Middle Eastern geopolitics. Shrimpton, who has briefed staffers on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, argues that Iraqi intelligence was heavily involved in planning and executing the September 11th attacks, citing meetings between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden dating back to 1989. He explains that an internal conflict between loyalists of the first President Bush and the current administration has paralyzed efforts to communicate this intelligence publicly.Shrimpton firmly rejects 9/11 conspiracy theories alleging U.S. government involvement, stating that President Bush and Vice President Cheney were clearly taken by surprise. He criticizes the administration for failing to counter these theories effectively, noting that simple engineering explanations for the building collapses have gone largely unarticulated by officials. He also discusses the growing Iranian nuclear threat and the diplomatic crisis surrounding captured British sailors.The first two hours feature open lines and extensive coverage of the contaminated pet food crisis, with Art reading an investigative article revealing that nearly 39,000 pets were sickened or killed rather than the 15 initially reported. Art passionately calls for a national reporting agency for animal health emergencies.

Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames, retired military intelligence officer and remote viewing expert, for an urgent update on ecological collapse. The broadcast opens with breaking news of a major 8.0 earthquake and tsunami devastating the Solomon Islands. Dames then presents findings from a completed remote viewing project on the honeybee colony collapse, explaining that increased ultraviolet radiation from ozone layer degradation is blinding the bees, destroying one-third of their visual capacity dedicated to finding flowers and navigating.Dames delivers a stark warning that honeybees will soon be extinct and that their disappearance is merely symptomatic of a far larger ecological crisis. He connects the bee die-off to his earlier predictions about frogs, a deadly wheat fungus called UG-99, and the coming solar maximum. He states bluntly that Earth faces becoming a barren planet within 50 years due to a combination of man-made ecocide and geophysical forces beyond human control.On a more positive note, Dames reports that his decade-old remote viewing prediction of seas on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, was recently confirmed by NASA's Cassini mission. He suggests that humanity's only viable survival strategy involves self-contained habitats or underground living to weather the coming environmental storm.