Art Bell opens with updates on Hurricane Ivan, now at Category 5 strength with 160-mile-per-hour winds bearing down on the Cayman Islands. He covers the mysterious North Korean explosion that left a satellite-visible crater, insurgent attacks in central Baghdad, and a SETI signal detected from a thousand light years away that scientists cannot yet explain. A Florida businessman announces plans to dump thousands of pounds of absorbent powder from a 747 into Ivan to weaken the storm. Lynne McTagga...
Sep 17, 2025•2 hr 53 min•Season 2004Ep. 1030
Art Bell opens with updates on Hurricane Ivan, now at Category 5 strength with 160-mile-per-hour winds bearing down on the Cayman Islands. He covers the mysterious North Korean explosion that left a satellite-visible crater, insurgent attacks in central Baghdad, and a SETI signal detected from a thousand light years away that scientists cannot yet explain. A Florida businessman announces plans to dump thousands of pounds of absorbent powder from a 747 into Ivan to weaken the storm. Lynne… Full s...
Sep 17, 2025•2 hr 53 min•Season 2004Ep. 1030
Art Bell opens with an interview featuring Hank Cohen, president of MGM Television Entertainment, and Ellen Muth, star of Showtime's Dead Like Me. They discuss the dark comedy's unique blend of humor, mortality, and family dysfunction, with Muth describing her character George as a reluctantly rebellious reaper who continues to grow despite being dead. Cohen reveals the show's Emmy-nominated visual effects and Stewart Copeland's acclaimed score, while Muth reflects on the deeply personal fan mai...
Sep 16, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2004Ep. 1029
Art Bell opens with an interview featuring Hank Cohen, president of MGM Television Entertainment, and Ellen Muth, star of Showtime's Dead Like Me. They discuss the dark comedy's unique blend of humor, mortality, and family dysfunction, with Muth describing her character George as a reluctantly rebellious reaper who continues to grow despite being dead. Cohen reveals the show's Emmy-nominated visual effects and Stewart Copeland's acclaimed score, while Muth reflects on the deeply personal fan… Fu...
Sep 16, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2004Ep. 1029
Tom Kasmer introduces revolutionary Hydristor technology that could transform energy production by extracting power directly from water molecules. What if the solution to the world's energy crisis has been hiding in plain sight within the most abundant substance on Earth? Kasmer explains how his proprietary process separates hydrogen from water more efficiently than conventional electrolysis, potentially providing unlimited clean energy at minimal cost. He describes the technical principles behi...
Sep 16, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2004Ep. 1029
Art Bell discusses a Reuters report on a mysterious radio signal detected three times by the Arecibo telescope at the hydrogen frequency of 1.420 gigahertz, a potential marker for extraterrestrial communication. He also covers NIDS research on silent black triangle craft spotted over American highways and cities, a recurring crop circle in Tennessee grass, and a UFO debris fragment collected by police in Brazil. Rupert Sheldrake , Cambridge-trained biochemist and author of "The Sense of Being St...
Sep 15, 2025•2 hr 53 min•Season 2004Ep. 1028
Art Bell discusses a Reuters report on a mysterious radio signal detected three times by the Arecibo telescope at the hydrogen frequency of 1.420 gigahertz, a potential marker for extraterrestrial communication. He also covers NIDS research on silent black triangle craft spotted over American highways and cities, a recurring crop circle in Tennessee grass, and a UFO debris fragment collected by police in Brazil. Rupert Sheldrake, Cambridge-trained biochemist and author of "The Sense of Being… Fu...
Sep 15, 2025•2 hr 53 min•Season 2004Ep. 1028
Art Bell begins with live reports from listeners across Florida as Hurricane Frances batters the coast, stalling at the shoreline and dumping relentless rain. Callers from Fort Lauderdale to Punta Gorda describe sustained winds, power outages, and the eerie calm of the hurricane's 70-mile-wide eye. A truck driver stranded on I-95 near Fort Pierce shares his plan to ride out the storm parked butt-first into the wind. Stephan Schwartz , a leading authority on remote viewing and extraordinary human...
Sep 14, 2025•2 hr 51 min•Season 2004Ep. 1027
Art Bell begins with live reports from listeners across Florida as Hurricane Frances batters the coast, stalling at the shoreline and dumping relentless rain. Callers from Fort Lauderdale to Punta Gorda describe sustained winds, power outages, and the eerie calm of the hurricane's 70-mile-wide eye. A truck driver stranded on I-95 near Fort Pierce shares his plan to ride out the storm parked butt-first into the wind. Stephan Schwartz, a leading authority on remote viewing and extraordinary human…...
Sep 14, 2025•2 hr 51 min•Season 2004Ep. 1027
Art Bell opens with a demonstration of long delayed echoes, a baffling ham radio phenomenon where transmitted signals return seconds later in apparent violation of physics. He plays audio recordings captured by operators in Washington and Arizona, walks through the science of radio propagation, and invites listeners to help explain what no physicist yet can. Callers weigh in on topics from Lake Vostok anomalies to the Arizona mass sighting. Dr. Roger Leir joins to discuss his surgical removal of...
Sep 13, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2004Ep. 1026
Dr. Roger Leir , author of Aliens and the Scalpel, joins Art Bell to discuss alleged alien implants and the Varginha UFO case after Art's long-delayed echo demonstration. Art plays audio recordings captured by operators in Washington and Arizona, walks through the science of radio propagation, and invites listeners to help explain what no physicist yet can. Callers weigh in on topics from Lake Vostok anomalies to the Arizona mass sighting. A podiatrist turned ufology researcher, Dr. Leir describ...
Sep 13, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2004Ep. 1026
Art Bell interviews Eric Brende , a Yale and MIT graduate who abandoned modern technology to live for 18 months with a group he calls the Minimites, a strict Anabaptist community that prohibits electricity, motor vehicles, and all automated machinery. Brende, who describes himself as a technological subversive, infiltrated MIT specifically to gather evidence against the assumption that more technology automatically improves life. His book Better Off chronicles the experiment he and his fiancee u...
Sep 12, 2025•2 hr 53 min•Season 2004Ep. 1025
Art Bell interviews Eric Brende, a Yale and MIT graduate who abandoned modern technology to live for 18 months with a group he calls the Minimites, a strict Anabaptist community that prohibits electricity, motor vehicles, and all automated machinery. Brende, who describes himself as a technological subversive, infiltrated MIT specifically to gather evidence against the assumption that more technology automatically improves life. His book Better Off chronicles the experiment he and his fiancee… F...
Sep 12, 2025•2 hr 53 min•Season 2004Ep. 1025
Art Bell opens the lines for an anything-goes night, dedicating the first-time caller line to anyone claiming to have traveled through time. He begins with a vivid account of a terrifying electrical storm in Pahrump, Nevada, where lightning bombarded the area around his antenna towers for nearly five hours while the towers themselves were never hit, proving a theory about grounded steel structures creating protective discharge zones. Callers deliver extraordinary stories throughout the night. A ...
Sep 11, 2025•2 hr 53 min•Season 2004Ep. 1024
Art Bell opens the lines for an anything-goes night, dedicating the first-time caller line to anyone claiming to have traveled through time. He begins with a vivid account of a terrifying electrical storm in Pahrump, Nevada, where lightning bombarded the area around his antenna towers for nearly five hours while the towers themselves were never hit, proving a theory about grounded steel structures creating protective discharge zones. Callers deliver extraordinary stories throughout the night. A…...
Sep 11, 2025•2 hr 53 min•Season 2004Ep. 1024
Art Bell opens all phone lines for an unpredictable evening of caller stories, with special attention to those claiming time travel experiences. The show features completely unscreened calls covering a vast range of topics, from unusual personal encounters to conspiracy theories and unexplained phenomena. Bell establishes a dedicated time traveler hotline, expressing his belief that if time travel becomes possible in the future, temporal visitors might already be present in our timeline. Callers...
Sep 11, 2025•2 hr 53 min•Season 2004Ep. 1024
Art Bell sits down with polymath Howard Bloom , author of Global Brain, for a wide-ranging discussion that connects Michael Jackson's genius to Osama bin Laden's apocalyptic ideology. Bloom, who managed Jackson's public image in the mid-1980s, describes the pop star as the most astonishing person he has ever met, possessing an almost supernatural capacity for wonder and appreciation. He argues that manipulative handlers isolated Jackson from reality, turning his deliberate eccentricities into ge...
Sep 10, 2025•2 hr 53 min•Season 2004Ep. 1023
Art Bell sits down with polymath Howard Bloom, author of Global Brain, for a wide-ranging discussion that connects Michael Jackson's genius to Osama bin Laden's apocalyptic ideology. Bloom, who managed Jackson's public image in the mid-1980s, describes the pop star as the most astonishing person he has ever met, possessing an almost supernatural capacity for wonder and appreciation. He argues that manipulative handlers isolated Jackson from reality, turning his deliberate eccentricities into… Fu...
Sep 10, 2025•2 hr 53 min•Season 2004Ep. 1023
Art Bell hosts Dr. Steven M. Greer , founder of the Disclosure Project and CSETI, for an explosive discussion about UFO secrecy and government cover-ups. The episode opens with open lines focused on close encounter reports, as callers from across the country share detailed sightings of massive black triangles, glowing orbs, and zigzagging lights, echoing Art's own famous triangle sighting. ABC television crews film the broadcast for a special scheduled to air in February 2005. Art plays a chilli...
Sep 09, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2004Ep. 1022
Art Bell hosts Dr. Steven M. Greer, founder of the Disclosure Project and CSETI, for an explosive discussion about UFO secrecy and government cover-ups. The episode opens with open lines focused on close encounter reports, as callers from across the country share detailed sightings of massive black triangles, glowing orbs, and zigzagging lights, echoing Art's own famous triangle sighting. ABC television crews film the broadcast for a special scheduled to air in February 2005. Art plays a… Full s...
Sep 09, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2004Ep. 1022
Art Bell welcomes Richard Perez , publisher of Home Power Magazine, for a comprehensive discussion about energy independence and living off the electrical grid. Perez, who has been powering his Oregon home with solar and wind energy since 1970, shares practical insights on reducing household energy consumption through efficient appliances, compact fluorescent and LED lighting, and proper insulation. The conversation covers the fragile state of America's aging power grid, which Perez describes as...
Sep 08, 2025•2 hr 51 min•Season 2004Ep. 1021
Art Bell welcomes Richard Perez, publisher of Home Power Magazine, for a comprehensive discussion about energy independence and living off the electrical grid. Perez, who has been powering his Oregon home with solar and wind energy since 1970, shares practical insights on reducing household energy consumption through efficient appliances, compact fluorescent and LED lighting, and proper insulation. The conversation covers the fragile state of America's aging power grid, which Perez describes as…...
Sep 08, 2025•2 hr 51 min•Season 2004Ep. 1021
Art Bell features cave explorer Bonnie Crystal reporting from Lima, Peru, where she describes discovering thousands of unexplored caves in the Andes at elevations reaching 14,000 feet. Crystal has found ancient writing resembling Chinese kanji on cave walls and a rock carving beneath Machu Picchu that bears a striking resemblance to the grey alien figure. She describes descending 600-foot ropes into pitch darkness where prehistoric bones litter the cave floors. Dr. Ronald Klatz , president of th...
Sep 07, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2004Ep. 1020
Dr. Ronald Klatz , physician founder and president of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, joins Art Bell to discuss stem cell research after cave explorer Bonnie Crystal reports from Lima, Peru. Crystal describes discovering thousands of unexplored caves in the Andes at elevations reaching 14,000 feet, ancient writing resembling Chinese kanji on cave walls, and a rock carving beneath Machu Picchu that bears a striking resemblance to the grey alien figure. She describes descending 600-fo...
Sep 07, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2004Ep. 1020
Art Bell interviews James Bamford , bestselling author of The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets, about his new book A Pretext for War. Bamford describes how the Bush administration entered office with a predetermined agenda to attack Iraq, driven by both personal animosity toward Saddam Hussein and the ideological goals of neoconservative officials who had advocated regime change since 1996. Bamford reveals that on September 11th, only 14 fighter jets were on alert across the entire United State...
Sep 06, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2004Ep. 1019
Art Bell interviews James Bamford, bestselling author of The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets, about his new book A Pretext for War. Bamford describes how the Bush administration entered office with a predetermined agenda to attack Iraq, driven by both personal animosity toward Saddam Hussein and the ideological goals of neoconservative officials who had advocated regime change since 1996. Bamford reveals that on September 11th, only 14 fighter jets were on alert across the entire United… Full ...
Sep 06, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2004Ep. 1019
Art Bell presents a UFO eyewitness named Jim who describes seeing a silent, perfectly triangular black craft gliding over Seattle's Interstate 5 corridor. Jim, who has extensive experience identifying military aircraft, insists the object bore no resemblance to any known aircraft, including the B-2 bomber, and moved with effortless silence at low speed. Art notes his own similar sighting over Pahrump, Nevada. Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center then introduces a proposal he pres...
Sep 05, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2004Ep. 1018
Peter Davenport of the National UFO Reporting Center joins Art Bell to discuss finding UFOs with passive radar after a Seattle triangular-craft eyewitness report. Art presents a UFO eyewitness named Jim who describes seeing a silent, perfectly triangular black craft gliding over Seattle's Interstate 5 corridor. Jim, who has extensive experience identifying military aircraft, insists the object bore no resemblance to any known aircraft, including the B-2 bomber, and moved with effortless silence ...
Sep 05, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2004Ep. 1018
Art Bell opens with a collection of strange stories, including mysterious satellite photographs showing unexplained lights in the Sea of Japan rivaling the brightness of Tokyo, a translated Pravda article describing alleged time travel experiments at the South Pole, and new data from European satellites confirming that massive rogue waves previously dismissed as myth are far more common than scientists believed. Professor Bart Kosko of USC joins to discuss the rapidly advancing field of nanotech...
Sep 04, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2004Ep. 1017
Dr. Bart Kosko , a USC electrical engineering professor, joins Art Bell to discuss nanomaterials, carbon nanotubes, nanotechnology, fuzzy logic, and military applications after a strange-news opening. Art opens with mysterious satellite photographs showing unexplained lights in the Sea of Japan rivaling the brightness of Tokyo, a translated Pravda article describing alleged time travel experiments at the South Pole, and new data from European satellites confirming that massive rogue waves previo...
Sep 04, 2025•2 hr 52 min•Season 2004Ep. 1017
