Art Bell opens with an extensive discussion on the looming war with Iraq, asking listeners whether they are willing to support military action without being told specifically why the country is going to war. Callers weigh in from across North America, expressing skepticism about the justification for an invasion. Theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku joins to address both the geopolitical crisis and cutting-edge science. He warns that war could destabilize Pakistan, where roughly twenty Hiroshim...
May 31, 2025•2 hr 47 min•Season 2002Ep. 921
Theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku joins Art Bell to discuss string theory, gravity, anti-gravity research, time-machine theory, and the search for a unified field theory after an opening hour on the looming war with Iraq. Art asks listeners whether they are willing to support military action without being told specifically why the country is going to war. Callers weigh in from across North America, expressing skepticism about the justification for an invasion. Kaku also addresses the geopoli...
May 31, 2025•2 hr 47 min•Season 2002Ep. 921
Art Bell speaks with Harvard professor Jon Beckwith , a pioneering geneticist whose lab first isolated a pure gene from an organism in 1969. Beckwith discusses how he held a press conference to announce that achievement and simultaneously warn the public about the dangers of genetic manipulation. He reveals that colleagues at Harvard once attempted to have his tenure revoked for raising ethical objections to a controversial study screening newborn boys for the extra Y chromosome supposedly linke...
May 30, 2025•2 hr 50 min•Season 2002Ep. 920
Art Bell speaks with Harvard professor Jon Beckwith, a pioneering geneticist whose lab first isolated a pure gene from an organism in 1969. Beckwith discusses how he held a press conference to announce that achievement and simultaneously warn the public about the dangers of genetic manipulation. He reveals that colleagues at Harvard once attempted to have his tenure revoked for raising ethical objections to a controversial study screening newborn boys for the extra Y chromosome supposedly… Full ...
May 30, 2025•2 hr 50 min•Season 2002Ep. 920
Art Bell opens all phone lines exclusively for callers who claim actual physical contact with alien beings, seeking to answer one question: are the visitors friend or foe? Callers describe encounters ranging from a Pleiadian who spent two weeks reading encyclopedias without eating or drinking to terrifying bedroom visitations involving paralysis and telepathic communication. A woman named Paulette shares a detailed account of being taken to a facility by Bob Lazar in the late 1970s where she cla...
May 29, 2025•2 hr 49 min•Season 2002Ep. 919
Dr. Steven M. Greer of the Disclosure Project joins Art Bell to discuss extraterrestrial intelligence, visitor intentions, alleged military abductions, and suppressed zero-point energy after an opening hour of physical-contact alien encounter calls. Art opens all phone lines exclusively for callers who claim actual physical contact with alien beings, seeking to answer one question: are the visitors friend or foe? Callers describe encounters ranging from a Pleiadian who spent two weeks reading en...
May 29, 2025•2 hr 49 min•Season 2002Ep. 919
Art Bell sits down with television legend Chuck Barris , creator of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and The Gong Show, whose memoir has been adapted into a George Clooney film opening December 31st. Barris reflects on the criticism that drove him into a self-imposed exile in the south of France for eight years, describing how negative reviews cut straight to his soul despite enormous ratings success. He recalls hiring an actor to impersonate an FCC agent to keep contestants from saying inapp...
May 28, 2025•2 hr 20 min•Season 2002Ep. 918
Art Bell sits down with television legend Chuck Barris, creator of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and The Gong Show, whose memoir has been adapted into a George Clooney film opening December 31st. Barris reflects on the criticism that drove him into a self-imposed exile in the south of France for eight years, describing how negative reviews cut straight to his soul despite enormous ratings success. He recalls hiring an actor to impersonate an FCC agent to keep contestants from saying… Full ...
May 28, 2025•2 hr 20 min•Season 2002Ep. 918
Art Bell welcomes Marcus Allen , British publisher of Nexus Magazine, for a detailed examination of whether the Apollo moon landings were genuine manned missions. Allen argues that while machines likely reached the lunar surface, the Van Allen radiation belts pose a serious obstacle to human survival during transit. He walks through radiation exposure levels, noting astronauts would have absorbed 15 to 20 REM in each direction and that an M-class solar flare during Apollo 16 would have delivered...
May 27, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2002Ep. 917
Art Bell welcomes Marcus Allen, British publisher of Nexus Magazine, for a detailed examination of whether the Apollo moon landings were genuine manned missions. Allen argues that while machines likely reached the lunar surface, the Van Allen radiation belts pose a serious obstacle to human survival during transit. He walks through radiation exposure levels, noting astronauts would have absorbed 15 to 20 REM in each direction and that an M-class solar flare during Apollo 16 would have delivered…...
May 27, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2002Ep. 917
Art Bell examines the Roswell UFO crash in the wake of the Sci-Fi Channel's two-hour television special. He highlights the program's most explosive revelation: a digitally enhanced photograph of General Roger Ramey holding a dispatch that references "victims of the wreck" and objects shipped "in the disc," contradicting decades of official denials. Archaeologist Dr. Bill Doleman of the University of New Mexico joins to discuss the excavation he led at the alleged debris field. Doleman describes ...
May 26, 2025•2 hr 47 min•Season 2002Ep. 916
Art Bell examines the Roswell UFO crash in the wake of the Sci-Fi Channel's two-hour television special. He highlights the program's most explosive revelation: a digitally enhanced photograph of General Roger Ramey holding a dispatch that references "victims of the wreck" and objects shipped "in the disc," contradicting decades of official denials. Archaeologist Dr. Bill Doleman of the University of New Mexico joins to discuss the excavation he led at the alleged debris field. Doleman describes…...
May 26, 2025•2 hr 47 min•Season 2002Ep. 916
Art Bell welcomes futurist Gordon Michael Scallion for a conversation that shifts from earth changes and economic predictions into a sustained examination of demonic possession. Scallion reports that after the D.C. sniper shootings, three days of nonstop visions flooded his consciousness with information about possession as a growing crisis, and his own spiritual guidance directed him to discuss it publicly. Scallion describes possession as operating through the body's etheric field, with negati...
May 25, 2025•2 hr 49 min•Season 2002Ep. 915
Art Bell welcomes futurist Gordon Michael Scallion for a conversation that shifts from earth changes and economic predictions into a sustained examination of demonic possession. Scallion reports that after the D.C. sniper shootings, three days of nonstop visions flooded his consciousness with information about possession as a growing crisis, and his own spiritual guidance directed him to discuss it publicly. Scallion describes possession as operating through the body's etheric field, with… Full ...
May 25, 2025•2 hr 49 min•Season 2002Ep. 915
Art Bell interviews technology author Howard Rheingold about the social implications of the Internet and mobile communication revolution. The conversation opens with the staggering growth of connectivity, from a few hundred thousand users a decade earlier to nearly half a billion people online, and Rheingold argues that the convergence of telephones, personal computers, and the Internet will produce something fundamentally new and more transformative than any individual component. Rheingold desc...
May 24, 2025•2 hr 55 min•Season 2002Ep. 914
Art Bell interviews technology author Howard Rheingold about the social implications of the Internet and mobile communication revolution. The conversation opens with the staggering growth of connectivity, from a few hundred thousand users a decade earlier to nearly half a billion people online, and Rheingold argues that the convergence of telephones, personal computers, and the Internet will produce something fundamentally new and more transformative than any individual component. Rheingold… Ful...
May 24, 2025•2 hr 55 min•Season 2002Ep. 914
Art Bell presents a Friday night program featuring Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society, who share their most unsettling electronic voice phenomena recordings collected over years of fieldwork. The session opens with Art discussing a caller's wife who believes listening to voices of the dead can psychologically open doors to paranormal contact, and he raises the possibility that the investigators' own minds could be manifesting the recordings through their intent. ...
May 23, 2025•2 hr 48 min•Season 2002Ep. 913
Art Bell presents a Friday night program featuring Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society, who share their most unsettling electronic voice phenomena recordings collected over years of fieldwork. The session opens with Art discussing a caller's wife who believes listening to voices of the dead can psychologically open doors to paranormal contact, and he raises the possibility that the investigators' own minds could be manifesting the recordings through their intent.…...
May 23, 2025•2 hr 48 min•Season 2002Ep. 913
Art Bell is joined by Richard C. Hoagland for an examination of newly released infrared images from NASA's Odyssey spacecraft orbiting Mars. Hoagland presents side-by-side comparisons of aerial photographs of downtown Cairo and thermal images of the Cydonia region on Mars, arguing the structural similarities point to buried artificial constructions. He contends the grid patterns visible beneath the Martian surface resemble city blocks and building foundations, estimating their age at roughly 300...
May 22, 2025•2 hr 50 min•Season 2002Ep. 912
Art Bell is joined by Richard C. Hoagland for an examination of newly released infrared images from NASA's Odyssey spacecraft orbiting Mars. Hoagland presents side-by-side comparisons of aerial photographs of downtown Cairo and thermal images of the Cydonia region on Mars, arguing the structural similarities point to buried artificial constructions. He contends the grid patterns visible beneath the Martian surface resemble city blocks and building foundations, estimating their age at roughly… Fu...
May 22, 2025•2 hr 50 min•Season 2002Ep. 912
Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss , professor of physics and astronomy at Case Western Reserve University, for a wide-ranging conversation on time travel, cosmology, and the nature of the universe. The discussion begins with Einstein's special and general relativity, exploring how clocks slow down near massive objects and at high speeds, with Krauss explaining how cosmic ray muons prove time dilation every time a Geiger counter clicks. The conversation turns to the theor...
May 21, 2025•2 hr 47 min•Season 2002Ep. 911
Art Bell welcomes theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss, professor of physics and astronomy at Case Western Reserve University, for a wide-ranging conversation on time travel, cosmology, and the nature of the universe. The discussion begins with Einstein's special and general relativity, exploring how clocks slow down near massive objects and at high speeds, with Krauss explaining how cosmic ray muons prove time dilation every time a Geiger counter clicks. The conversation turns to the… Full ...
May 21, 2025•2 hr 47 min•Season 2002Ep. 911
Art Bell fills in for George Noory and opens the Halloween Zone with plans to feature the Ghost Investigators Society and their most compelling EVP recordings from haunted locations including the Wyoming Frontier Prison. He reads from a Denver Post article documenting how GIS members Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath captured ghostly voices at two abandoned Wyoming penitentiaries, including a spirit identifying herself as Hazel, a name later confirmed by tour guides as a girl who drowned near the...
May 20, 2025•48 min•Season 2002Ep. 910
Art Bell fills in for George Noory and opens the Halloween Zone with plans to feature the Ghost Investigators Society and their most compelling EVP recordings from haunted locations including the Wyoming Frontier Prison. He reads from a Denver Post article documenting how GIS members Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath captured ghostly voices at two abandoned Wyoming penitentiaries, including a spirit identifying herself as Hazel, a name later confirmed by tour guides as a girl who drowned near… Fu...
May 20, 2025•48 min•Season 2002Ep. 910
Art Bell announces his retirement from the program effective December 31st, citing chronic back pain from a pole-climbing accident years earlier that has made maintaining his rigorous broadcast schedule impossible. He confirms George Noory will take over as permanent host while Art remains available for occasional fill-in appearances. The evening also covers breaking developments in the D.C. sniper case and the Chechen rebel hostage crisis at a Moscow theater. Author and researcher Graham Hancoc...
May 19, 2025•2 hr 6 min•Season 2002Ep. 909
Art Bell announces his retirement from the program effective December 31st, citing chronic back pain from a pole-climbing accident years earlier that has made maintaining his rigorous broadcast schedule impossible. He confirms George Noory will take over as permanent host while Art remains available for occasional fill-in appearances. The evening also covers breaking developments in the D.C. sniper case and the Chechen rebel hostage crisis at a Moscow theater. Author and researcher Graham… Full ...
May 19, 2025•2 hr 6 min•Season 2002Ep. 909
Art Bell speaks with Dr. Paul Mayewski , a world leader in ice core collection and analysis who has led more than 50 Antarctic and high mountain expeditions. Dr. Mayewski explains how ice cores function as a year-by-year record of Earth's climate history, capturing gas content, dissolved chemistry, dust particles, and volcanic signatures spanning tens of thousands of years. He describes the dramatic 100,000-year glacial cycles driven by Earth's orbital position relative to the sun and the smalle...
May 18, 2025•2 hr 55 min•Season 2002Ep. 908
Art Bell speaks with Dr. Paul Mayewski, a world leader in ice core collection and analysis who has led more than 50 Antarctic and high mountain expeditions. Dr. Mayewski explains how ice cores function as a year-by-year record of Earth's climate history, capturing gas content, dissolved chemistry, dust particles, and volcanic signatures spanning tens of thousands of years. He describes the dramatic 100,000-year glacial cycles driven by Earth's orbital position relative to the sun and the… Full s...
May 18, 2025•2 hr 55 min•Season 2002Ep. 908
Art Bell welcomes retired FBI field profiler Candice DeLong to analyze the D.C. sniper terrorizing the Washington area. DeLong draws on her 20 years of FBI experience, including the Unabomber manhunt, to construct a psychological profile of the shooter. She explains why the killer is not mentally ill but rather a highly organized individual demonstrating God-like control over life and death through the discipline of sniping, from stalking to shooting to escape. She rules out foreign terrorism an...
May 17, 2025•2 hr 48 min•Season 2002Ep. 907
Art Bell welcomes retired FBI field profiler Candice DeLong to analyze the D.C. sniper terrorizing the Washington area. DeLong draws on her 20 years of FBI experience, including the Unabomber manhunt, to construct a psychological profile of the shooter. She explains why the killer is not mentally ill but rather a highly organized individual demonstrating God-like control over life and death through the discipline of sniping, from stalking to shooting to escape. She rules out foreign terrorism… F...
May 17, 2025•2 hr 48 min•Season 2002Ep. 907
