Art Bell welcomes Mel Waters back after a rebroadcast reignited fascination with his original bottomless hole in Washington state. Mel recounts how the government seized his property under the pretense of a plane crash, then paid him a quarter million dollars monthly to relocate to Australia. He describes being abducted, beaten, and abandoned in a San Francisco alley with his money gone and his wombat research facility dismantled. A Roosevelt dime found buried on Mel's property draws particular ...
Feb 22, 2025•2 hr 55 min•Season 2002Ep. 821
Art Bell welcomes Mel Waters back after a rebroadcast reignited fascination with his original bottomless hole in Washington state. Mel recounts how the government seized his property under the pretense of a plane crash, then paid him a quarter million dollars monthly to relocate to Australia. He describes being abducted, beaten, and abandoned in a San Francisco alley with his money gone and his wombat research facility dismantled. A Roosevelt dime found buried on Mel's property draws particular…...
Feb 22, 2025•2 hr 55 min•Season 2002Ep. 821
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 insi...
Feb 21, 2025•1 hr 50 min•Season 2002Ep. 820
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… Ful...
Feb 21, 2025•1 hr 50 min•Season 2002Ep. 820
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...
Feb 20, 2025•2 hr 54 min•Season 2002Ep. 819
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… Full s...
Feb 20, 2025•2 hr 54 min•Season 2002Ep. 819
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 ...
Feb 19, 2025•3 hr 11 min•Season 2002Ep. 818
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… ...
Feb 19, 2025•3 hr 11 min•Season 2002Ep. 818
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 b...
Feb 18, 2025•2 hr 41 min•Season 2002Ep. 817
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… F...
Feb 18, 2025•2 hr 41 min•Season 2002Ep. 817
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 ...
Feb 17, 2025•3 hr 15 min•Season 2002Ep. 816
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…...
Feb 17, 2025•3 hr 15 min•Season 2002Ep. 816
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 weigh...
Feb 16, 2025•3 hr 6 min•Season 2002Ep. 815
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… Full ...
Feb 16, 2025•3 hr 6 min•Season 2002Ep. 815
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 troop...
Feb 15, 2025•2 hr 57 min•Season 2002Ep. 814
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… Full...
Feb 15, 2025•2 hr 57 min•Season 2002Ep. 814
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 a...
Feb 14, 2025•2 hr 40 min•Season 2002Ep. 813
Vincent Lords describes a sensory-deprivation experiment after nine days buried alive, and Mark Hazlewood joins Art Bell later to discuss Blindsided by Planet X and a 2003 Earth-changes scenario. Lords, a hypnotist, 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. Lords says the sensory deprivation experiment was documented by cameras and covered by California media th...
Feb 14, 2025•2 hr 40 min•Season 2002Ep. 813
Mark Hazlewood discusses Planet X and claims about an approaching brown dwarf star threatening catastrophic earth changes. Hazlewood examines evidence for a massive planetary body in the outer solar system and theories about its orbit bringing it near Earth. Vincent Lords shares experiences with sensory deprivation experiments and altered states of consciousness achieved through isolation. The conversation explores Hazlewood's predictions about Planet X causing pole shifts, earthquakes, and weat...
Feb 14, 2025•2 hr 40 min•Season 2002Ep. 813
Dr. William R. Alschuler brings an astronomer's perspective to examining UFO evidence and the scientific case for extraterrestrial visitation. Alschuler discusses why mainstream astronomy ignores UFO evidence despite numerous credible reports from trained observers. The conversation explores specific UFO cases with strong evidence including radar confirmation and multiple witnesses. Alschuler examines the physics of interstellar travel and whether advanced civilizations could develop propulsion ...
Feb 13, 2025•2 hr 36 min•Season 2002Ep. 812
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 ...
Feb 13, 2025•2 hr 36 min•Season 2002Ep. 812
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… ...
Feb 13, 2025•2 hr 36 min•Season 2002Ep. 812
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 telepa...
Feb 12, 2025•2 hr 48 min•Season 2002Ep. 811
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… Full ...
Feb 12, 2025•2 hr 48 min•Season 2002Ep. 811
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 hi...
Feb 11, 2025•2 hr 5 min•Season 2002Ep. 810
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… F...
Feb 11, 2025•2 hr 5 min•Season 2002Ep. 810
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. ...
Feb 10, 2025•2 hr 42 min•Season 2002Ep. 809
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.… ...
Feb 10, 2025•2 hr 42 min•Season 2002Ep. 809
David Brin discusses technological advances and their implications for privacy, freedom, and human civilization. Brin examines the transparent society concept where surveillance works both ways protecting citizens from those in power. Jim Hughes discusses a mysterious artifact allegedly from a crashed spacecraft and analysis suggesting non-terrestrial origin. The conversation explores Brin's vision of using technology to enhance accountability rather than enable tyranny. Hughes shares details ab...
Feb 10, 2025•2 hr 42 min•Season 2002Ep. 809
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...
Feb 09, 2025•2 hr 35 min•Season 2002Ep. 808
