Art Bell brings on Richard C. Hoagland for an unscheduled appearance to discuss two major developments in NASA's future. President Bush's 2003 budget includes funding for nuclear electric power in space and nuclear propulsion for rockets, technologies Hoagland sees as essential building blocks for a manned Mars mission. He connects these developments to the recent prioritization of Cydonia imaging by Mars Odyssey, suggesting NASA may be preparing to reveal something extraordinary that would just...
Feb 26, 2025•2 hr 36 min•Season 2002Ep. 825
Art Bell brings on Richard C. Hoagland for an unscheduled appearance to discuss two major developments in NASA's future. President Bush's 2003 budget includes funding for nuclear electric power in space and nuclear propulsion for rockets, technologies Hoagland sees as essential building blocks for a manned Mars mission. He connects these developments to the recent prioritization of Cydonia imaging by Mars Odyssey, suggesting NASA may be preparing to reveal something extraordinary that would… Ful...
Feb 26, 2025•2 hr 36 min•Season 2002Ep. 825
Dr. Edward Tenner discusses unintended consequences of technology and how innovations often produce unexpected problems. Tenner examines historical examples where technological solutions created new difficulties more serious than original problems. Richard C. Hoagland provides updates on nuclear technology and discoveries suggesting advanced ancient nuclear knowledge. The conversation explores Tenner's analysis of revenge effects where improvements backfire in paradoxical ways. Hoagland discusse...
Feb 26, 2025•2 hr 36 min•Season 2002Ep. 825
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Gregory Little to discuss his book Mound Builders: Edgar Cayce's Forgotten History of Ancient America. Dr. Little presents evidence that human presence in the Americas extends far beyond the 9,000-year Clovis barrier, citing mitochondrial DNA analysis tracing migration patterns back 50,000 years. He identifies Haplogroup X, found in Native Americans, ancient Basques, and Israel but absent from Siberia, as possible Atlantean mitochondria dating to 10,000 B.C. The conversatio...
Feb 25, 2025•1 hr 50 min•Season 2002Ep. 824
Art Bell welcomes Dr. Gregory Little to discuss his book Mound Builders: Edgar Cayce's Forgotten History of Ancient America. Dr. Little presents evidence that human presence in the Americas extends far beyond the 9,000-year Clovis barrier, citing mitochondrial DNA analysis tracing migration patterns back 50,000 years. He identifies Haplogroup X, found in Native Americans, ancient Basques, and Israel but absent from Siberia, as possible Atlantean mitochondria dating to 10,000 B.C. The… Full show ...
Feb 25, 2025•1 hr 50 min•Season 2002Ep. 824
Dr. Gregory Little discusses Edgar Cayce's readings about ancient mound builders and archaeological evidence confirming Cayce's accuracy. Little examines excavations of ancient mounds revealing sophisticated civilizations predating accepted timelines. Scott Portzline discusses nuclear reactor safety and the dangers posed by aging nuclear facilities. The conversation explores Cayce's psychic archaeology providing accurate details about locations and artifacts before their discovery. Little discus...
Feb 25, 2025•1 hr 50 min•Season 2002Ep. 824
Art Bell speaks with Jan Lamprecht , calling from Johannesburg, South Africa, about his book Hollow Planets and the feasibility of worlds with vast internal cavities. Lamprecht challenges conventional assumptions about Earth's interior, noting that everything below 20 miles is known only through seismology and extrapolation. He presents an alternative model where density decreases at depth, allowing seismic waves to curve around a central cavity rather than pass through solid mass. The discussio...
Feb 24, 2025•1 hr 47 min•Season 2002Ep. 823
Art Bell speaks with Jan Lamprecht, calling from Johannesburg, South Africa, about his book Hollow Planets and the feasibility of worlds with vast internal cavities. Lamprecht challenges conventional assumptions about Earth's interior, noting that everything below 20 miles is known only through seismology and extrapolation. He presents an alternative model where density decreases at depth, allowing seismic waves to curve around a central cavity rather than pass through solid mass. The… Full show...
Feb 24, 2025•1 hr 47 min•Season 2002Ep. 823
Art Bell welcomes science writer Eugene Linden to discuss the fragile relationship between climate stability and human civilization. Linden argues that all modern prosperity has grown within a remarkably stable climate period, and that rapid shifts could unravel everything. He explains how thermohaline circulation works, describing how warming could paradoxically trigger sudden cooling by disrupting the Gulf Stream, and cites ice core evidence showing temperatures once plummeted 20 degrees in ju...
Feb 23, 2025•2 hr 31 min•Season 2002Ep. 822
Art Bell welcomes science writer Eugene Linden to discuss the fragile relationship between climate stability and human civilization. Linden argues that all modern prosperity has grown within a remarkably stable climate period, and that rapid shifts could unravel everything. He explains how thermohaline circulation works, describing how warming could paradoxically trigger sudden cooling by disrupting the Gulf Stream, and cites ice core evidence showing temperatures once plummeted 20 degrees in… F...
Feb 23, 2025•2 hr 31 min•Season 2002Ep. 822
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
