The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell hosts the annual Ghost to Ghost Halloween special, opening the phone lines for listeners to share their most frightening true ghost stories. Broadcasting from Manila on All Saints Day, Art begins by reading a Philippine news story about a real-life exorcist priest who describes demons making possessed people speak in foreign languages and levitate. Callers deliver a steady stream of eerie accounts. A ham radio operators family hears their deceased father making scheduled contacts on… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-31-2010-ghost-to-ghost-2010

Art Bell welcomes back EVP researchers Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeath of the Ghost Investigators Society for an evening exploring electronic voice phenomena just days before Halloween. The husband-and-wife team shares recordings captured at reportedly haunted locations, presenting voices that appear to respond directly to questions and demonstrate awareness of the living. Art presses the pair on what they believe they are actually recording. While Cook and McBeath lean toward the voices being… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-29-2010-evp-research-brendan-cook-and-barbara-mcbeath

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a practicing witch and psychic, for a wide-ranging discussion on predictions and the practical applications of natural magic. Paglini shares her economic forecasts, warning that the recession is far from over and that Main Street will not feel relief until late spring of 2012. She predicts a particularly deadly flu season and identifies China, Iran, and Mexico as three major areas of escalating conflict. The conversation shifts to the nature of magic… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/september-24-2010-predictions-and-natural-magic-dr-evelyn-paglini

Art Bell welcomes Butch Witkowski, founder of the UFO Research Center of Pennsylvania, to discuss the disturbing topic of human mutilations and abduction phenomena. Witkowski, a former MUFON chief investigator, describes assembling a team of forensic experts, law enforcement officers, and scientists to pursue cases of high strangeness that conventional organizations left unresolved. The conversation centers on documented cases of human mutilation that mirror the surgical precision found in… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-27-2010-human-mutilations-and-abduction-phenomena-butch-witkowski

Art Bell welcomes Professor Peter Ward, a biologist and earth scientist at the University of Washington, to discuss the Gulf oil spill and the broader threat of climate change. Ward expresses deep concern about heavy crude sitting unseen on the Gulf floor, comparing it to a massive blob no one is properly investigating. He warns that this submerged oil will decompose into hydrogen sulfide, a lethal gas capable of devastating the seagrass beds where commercial fish species begin their lives. The… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/july-23-2010-gulf-oil-spill-and-climate-change-peter-ward