Art Bell Back in Time

I used to work obscenely late hours in my QA days at Bliizard and I would listen to Art Bell alone in my car late at night outside an undeveloped area of Irvine looking at the hills and the stars at 1am for my dinner break. I still listen to Coast to Coast for 30 minutes every night for the bumper music or more if the topic is interesting.

Art Bell had the absolute best voice for late night radio. Used to listen to him on my overnight road trips between Salt Lake and Vegas. Just the endless desert under a full moon, and Art's guest is rambling on about interdimensional beings. Could almost believe it for that moment.

One of my favorite things about Art was the tension. Did he believe what his guests and callers are saying? Or is he just humoring them for the show? I never knew the answer. Not sure if I would want to know.

At around the 1:21:00 mark of Ep69 we get into extreme internet nostalgia when Art's brand new website gets overloaded after announcing some new photos he uploaded. He got his web guy on the air to explain the phenomena.

Just a great little bit of internet nostalgia from the 90's in living AM filtered audio. Worth a listen on the 1 hour and 21 minute mark.

In addition to his professional radio career, Art Bell was also an amateur radio operator, call sign W6OBB.

https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/from-art-bell-w6obb...

Art Bell was amazing in the late 1990s........then I think his son being sexually assaulted messed him up because was all downhill after that. He would constantly flake out and always had an excuse. He finally got a new show, then claimed people were shooting guns outside of his house so he had to cancel his show. Always some kind of drama with him for the last 15 years of his life.

This is a scam. Period. I just said. In my phone three times in a row. Abel didn’t on the rights to most of the shows he did. Clear Channel did. They didn’t sell them to his wife or anyone else. Whoever is running the site is making money off art bell. Art probably wouldn’t of minded this at all by the way but I do. I happily gave money to Art when he was alive but when he checked out he checked out. There’s a better option on Apple anyway for art bell. Rekola Midnight. I’m sure that’s not anything to do with his family either. It’s just that they’re not looking for Patreon donations. Have people no shame that they’ll stoop so low to prey on a dead man’s legacy?

I love Art Bell and late night spooky AM radio.

Who’s behind this patreon and podcast, though? I don’t see any evidence that his estate is benefitting.

If you are an Art Bell fan you owe it to yourself to listen to the Phil Hendrie parodies of the show that he did back in early 00's ...

"North of the rockies ... South of the rockies ..."

Oh man, I remember listening to Ghost to Ghost when Art Bell used to take calls from audience for Halloween. Those were some of the best shows! Also, does anybody remember the show where some dude called him while supposedly flying over Area 51? Thank you for sharing this list!

Many drives across the country Art kept me awake. The more crazy and outrageous, the more alert I remained. Seemed like a feature I’m sure saved lives in the short term; and seemed, at the time, harmless in the long term.

I'm in the UK, and I would listen to Art Bell recordings late night in the office (absolutely HAS to be listened to late at night!). I always loved the slightly lonely, ominous vibe it conjured up, and I'm delighted to hear other people describe the EXACT same thing! Reading some people's memories on here about listening while driving through the night desert in the South Western US - proper UFO country! That must have been super intense.

Rest in Peace, Art. I spent many many nights glued to my radio listening to your show.

Oh man I remember a series of episodes about a tech ceo (American Computer Co or something like that) spilling the beans about all the info tech came from reversed alien craft, the Shockley semi conductor was a cover and bell labs was so productive because they were working from examples. My younger self ate it up, lots of nostalgia for those late night spooky revelations.

The 90's while in college, pulling late nights working on homework listening to Art Bell was like an old friend telling you crazy stories and bringing in guests to tell even crazier stories. And every once in a while you'd think really? Is that true? Nah...couldn't be.

Request for advice: I don't know Art Bell, though the name seems like one I have heard previously. Would you advise me to just start listening, or would you advise me to use a search engine first? As a guide to your advice, were it Andy Kaufman or Henry Fielding, the advice I'd want would be "just start watching" or "just start reading"; but if it were Robin Hanson, the advice I'd want would be "read this report about Hanson at the academic philanthropy meeting first."

I loved listening to Art Bell in the 90s when I was doing college homework or just hanging out at home. I’ll never forget listening to the Sept. 11, 1997 show live with my roommate - that was kind of freaky. (https://kprcradio.iheart.com/featured/the-pursuit-of-happine...)

My dad loves going to sleep with the radio on. My mom isn't a fan, and is more of a night owl. She would roll into bed between 12 and 4 and hear the quiet voices on the radio discussing all manner of alien visits, conspiracy theories, etc. She would turn it off, go to sleep, and he would turn it back on if he woke up.

Lots of late nights in high school learning about Linux and basic networking things while listening to Art Bell in the background.

I have been trying to find the episode where he talks about monsters that are almost human, but have two rows of teeth.

I took all the mp3s I collected of the show, dumped them through dictation, and grepped like a madman. I have a real appreciation for people that are good at this.

We listened to it in the late 90s as teens turning 20 and we would be absolutely petrified by the combination of being that age, from that time, and up that late. It was great.

What was a wonderful pre-apocalyptic buzz guilty pleasure back in the 90s is now the sad precursor to MAGA. Why are people so utterly stupid?

But, for real, I was in the theater next to Art Bell when he watched Contact. And you know how much he loved that movie.

That said, the night the satellite feed was cut after the supposed Area 51 worker called in and said everything about the aliens was real was to die for.

Only the great Art Bell could take you on a ride while questioning the mystique of the night from the Kingdom of Nye

His shows with Richard C Hoagland are supposed to be the most funniest and entertaining. He knew Richard was blowing smoke and yet let’s him left destruct :)

https://youtu.be/2K5705D74ms

Remember listening to Art Bell as a teenager when I would go to bed at night. Would scan for channels on my clock radio. Have no idea where the AM signal was coming from but it was interesting listening and was unlike what I was used to hearing on the radio.

I loved Art Bell. My wife and I would stay up late rehabbing our first house listening to Art. I’m convinced all of the talk about the wall on the southern border was a smokescreen to hide the extent of the Chupacabra problem in Texas and New Mexico

Art Bell was one of a kind. Out there, but a mostly harmless lovable breed of crazy.

So many great memories from the 1990s and early 2000s… driving in the night over lonely desert roads in the American southwest with Art Bell.

This is one of the good podcasts that I used to listen when I'm alone driving late at night going at home.

Art Bell was probably a sort of proto-Alex Jones, i.e. a controlled and managed outlet for parapolitical topics and a way to mix up the truth with a hefty dose of misinfo and shitcoating.

Mae Brussell's entire back catalog is easy to find if you're looking for something along these lines without the compromised elements. Dave Emory also has a massive library and is still going strong, doing great work on the origins of SARS-CoV-2 in particular. For modern-day parapolitical podcasts there's The Liminalist, Subliminal Jihad, The Farm, Psyop Cinema, and many others.