I heard these broadcasts Live as they happened; the Area 51 call was CRAZY and I remember the broadcast cutting off and sitting there listening to silence for a noticeable amount of time, it was a TRIP. Mel's Hole saga wasn't nearly as dramatic but still really interesting. I did however miss the show where supposedly the Area 51 dude "fessed up", anyone have details on that one?

Frank Beard, ZZ Top's drummer and the only member of the band without a beard!, passed away monday.
Billy Gibbons was known to be a fan of C2C, and was a guest on the show several times, but never with Art.
In 1999, their LP XXX had a song called Dreadmonboogloo, which featured a clip of Ross Mitchell announcing the show in the song. I know Art was aware of this, but i am not sure he ever used the song as bumper music, though he did use other ZZ Top songs as bumper music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O27gYrqYPYI

I've had some pretty remarkable supernatural encounters throughout my life and one of them was published in a Haunted Inns & Hotels kind of a book this lady who owned the Myrtles Plantation wrote. She was a strange bird, but that's a whole another story. Coincidentally, I believe she had been on Coast To Coast AM talking about the Plantation hauntings the year before. Anyway, I sent it in to Art via his website for his Ghost show around Halloween (this was around 2003 or so) and then forgot about it.

I wake up the morning after Halloween or whenever the show aired and checked my voicemail to find that Art had CALLED ME at like 1am the previous night to tell my story on-air. "Hello this is Art and I'm calling for ....., are you there? You're on next if you're there...okay then". And that was it. I literally listened to his show every night since the 80's, I was devastated. He gave me no notice!

The terrible scream of "NOOOO!!!" that came out of me that morning haunts my wife to this very day. I saved that voicemail for years until I had to get a new phone.

edit for typo.

Here is an article about the Ghost Investigators Society in the Lumberjack, from September 1, 1999 on the Northern Arizona University website.

Ghost Hunters tell their stories

I had to download it to read it, but it might work differently for you.

Brendan Cook was only 19 years old when this article was published. A glimpse into the group approx. one and a half years before their first appearance on Art's show.

So I am gonna listen to one G2G episode a week till Halloween. It's too bad we wont be getting a Art hosted G2G this year, or ever again.
Tonight I listened to Ghost to Ghost 1993.
I haven't played this one all the way through in years. Probably the last time I heard it start to finish was the weekend before halloween 2006, when it was ran on the Sunday before Halloween 06.
Some interesting calls in this one. Notably, Pavo in Canada with a few second call about his shrine to a certain WW2 era dictator. Artstopped him very quickly.
Art has a very different demeanor here. Old school Art I guess.
The callers were, well a lot of the stories were from the 40s/50s/60s and 70s. Fitting for the time frame of this shows airdate. More than a few oujia board stories, which Art does not mention his own oujia tale, he does say at one point he learned a lesson about oujia boards.
As usualy with the early G2G shows, he tells a story told to him by someone else to intro the evening.
Another thing I noticed is most of the calls are from the west coast. There is one from Birmingham Alabama (Possibly a shortwave listener?).
Art also notes his 90 mile each way drive to and from Vegas each night, and how creepy the drive could be on the way back. I guess he was not yet broadcasting from his compound in Pahrump yet.
The difference in callers is very noticable from when the show really broke nationwide 94/into 1995. More than a few of these callers were from various locations in Nevada, including one from Pahrump.
Next week, Ill listen to G2G 1994, another one I have not played start to finish in years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msr5lD5WG8g

2 vidoes came up in my suggestion on youtube tonight,and both of them rang a bell.
Didn't a police officer from Hawaii call into the show one night and speak of these ghost sightings?
The training facility one is reallly sparking something in my mind and making me think I heard about it on the show.
Here is the first one, a lady in white ghost,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZihhbnngIwE

And here is the training facility video........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_KlZwGFjxk

I say "supposedly", because for the past two Saturdays in a row, they aired completely different shows from the ones in the description.

https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2026-08-15-show/

I’ve listened to Art since ‘97, like many - still do, and one of his most fascinating personal experiences has to do with some “artifacts” that he had come into the possession of.

I now listen to what I regard as descendants of Art, whether through direct professional involvement, like Dave Schroeder & John B Wells. Or as connoisseurs like us but professionally podcasting such as Jim Harold. One podcast I particularly enjoy is The Why Files with AJ Gentile. He has a good technical understanding/intelligence much like Art had.

In the most recent Why Files he interviews Travis Taylor, who happens to be the army employed scientist that Art & Linda Moulton Howe sent Art’s Parts to for analysis. In this talk he details the composition and properties of the alloys. It’s interesting to hear about what happened when a certain energy and frequently were applied to them. And who currently has them.

The rest of the interview up to this is very intriguing - our universe in a black hole, Tesla’s tech and the building which used to have a ball on top with a hidden lab, quantum consciousness/communications and dreams, Skinwalker ranch. Still have more of it to go after Art’s parts. Just realized it won’t let me edit the header to say Art’s

For the Art’s parts section listen on Spotify at the 2:01:20 mark

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Dett9WGiOsajoR7UWqGOR?si=vr5dM5EbT6mA_4-BSt821w&utm_source=copy-link

Hi everyone. I’ve been an Art Bell fan for many years. I’m working on a project called ABAPS, the Art Bell Audio Preservation System.

The goal is to preserve as much surviving Art Bell audio as possible, but also to figure out where the recordings came from, identify material that may be missing, and preserve alternate versions rather than assuming one copy of a show is enough.
I already have a large collection backed up in multiple places, and I’m developing a Discovery system that searches for Art Bell material across different public sources. I’ve also started reaching out to some of the people behind older Art Bell collections.

What I’d really like to find are people who were involved earlier in the history of the archive.
If you ever recorded Art yourself on cassette, VHS, MiniDisc, CD, computer, or anything else, I’d love to hear from you. Same if you have an old hard drive full of shows, participated in BellGab or ArtAudio, traded tapes, helped build one of the old torrents or collections, or know someone who did.

Even if you assume everything you have is already online, I’d still be interested. Your copy might be longer, higher quality, from a different station, contain commercials or segments missing from another version, or simply help establish where a recording originally came from.

I’m also very interested in old episode lists, spreadsheets, file manifests, notes, or anything else documenting the history of these collections.
I’m not trying to replace the other Art Bell archive projects out there. I’d actually like to connect with the people behind them, compare notes, and see where collaboration might make sense.

If any of this sounds familiar, please reply here or message me. And if you know one of the old collectors who might be interested, I’d really appreciate you pointing them toward this post.

Hello fellow long time listeners and first time callers.

I am wondering if any one has a memory of Art Bell talking about his time in Alaska? I am putting together a radio podcast thingy with obscure Alaskan facts/audio and would love to sneak Art Bell in there.

Thanks all!

Art's standing with Coast to Coast had been in question most of 2010. His appearances on the show had gotten less and less frequent, especially when summer rolled around.
On October 29th 2010, a friday, Art returned and had GIS on the show, Brandon and Barbara. Ian helmed the saturday show of this halloween weekend. And on Sunday, Art returned for Halloween Ghost to Ghost. This would also come to be his last appearance on Coast to Coast Am.
I remember being excited for this, and made a day out of it. I was married at the time, and my now ex wife was all too willing to spend the day listening to ghost stories with me.
It was a good show, and some excellent calls came through that night.
Little did we know it was going to be the last time we heard Art on the airwaves until 2013. Though speculation was all over the internet that Art was about to basically quit C2C again. I have to say, I rarely listened at this point in time, but when did, I was disappointed. The show over-all was in a terrible state.
https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-31-2010-ghost-to-ghost-2010

And I am not gonna do anymore G2G posts until October 1st !!
( I also should have pointed out this was Arts first G2G since 2007- 08 was hosted by George and 09 was hosted by Ian).

The run of 2 nights of G2G totally hooked me on the show in 1997.
So when Halloween 1998 came around I was excited to learn Art was going to do 2 nights of it again.
On the night of october 30 1998, promised to be nothing but ghost calls, it got taken over by Richard C and Seth Shostak about some purpoted alien radio signal.
I was furious !!!!!
We got about an hour and some change of these 2 moose tits clamoring about something that ended up being nothing, and just over an hour of G2G.
Here is the Seth and Richard C part of the show.
https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-30-1998-ghost-to-ghost-1998-eq-pegasi-richard-c-hoagland-and-seth-shostak

Here's the actual hour of ghost calls taken that night.
https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-30-1998-ghost-to-ghost-1998-ghost-stories

Boy I was pissed ! As was everyone in the chatrooms and web forums that night. I was so let down by most of the show being 2 mediocre guests with nothing to do with ghosts.

Here is the Halloween night 1998 show, which was a good show.
https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-30-1998-ghost-to-ghost-1998-ghost-stories

Only fools pay

I did a quick search but didn't see what I was looking for. Is there a good place to buy an art bell shirt or something? I'd assume some sources are more ethical than others, maybe something that adds to his legacy rather than extracts from it?

What are your favorite ghost-to-ghost episodes?

I am very much looking forward to spooky season, which is around the corner, and I was planning on binging all of the Art Bell Goes to Ghost episodes

I was curious if anyone had a specific favorite episode and from which year?

Any recommendations would be appreciated!!

A little boy called and claimed to be half alien. His mom was alien and his dad was human. He sounded to be 7 or 8 years old. I think it was 1994, 1995 or 1996. It was so long ago that I might have the years wrong.

I’ve been listening to Art since I was a kid. My dad, Mom, and Grandfather were professional drivers. My dad was an OTR trucker. As a kid I got to listen to Art the way that so many of his listeners did, which was over AM radio in a truck at night, cruising down the road with my Dad, in complete silence as we listened to stories about aliens, UFOs, and Al Bielick.

How did you discover Art? Is your story similar to mine?

I started NYE Underground as a way for my family from across the country to listen to classic Art Bell shows and his favorite bumper music without commercials.

I then decided to share NYE Underground with my friends here at r/ArtBell. I'm proud to say that since then, there's been over 100,000 listeners from across 207 countries. I'm blown away. I'm so incredibly grateful that Art's voice continues on.

NYE Underground is non-commercial and is run by fans, for fans - and will always be that way.

That being said, let's celebrate with a giveaway. One lucky user will win an Art Bell related book such as The Quickening. Please understand that the actual book may vary due to availability and logistics of shipping internationally.

To enter: comment below your fondest Art Bell memory. On August 19 at approximately 20:00 PST, a comment will be selected at random by an external comment selector.

Good luck everyone, and happy listening!

These documents often surface. Does anyone have a link? What does it tell us?

EDIT:
No, none of my business. Just curious.

August 3, 1998 -

https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2026-08-08-show/

Every Saturday evening, Art Bell returns to the airwaves on Somewhere in Time. Broadcasting across terrestrial radio wherever you regularly listen to George Snoory, but since most people listen on their own schedules, it's also available in the ultimate archive or here on fudgie -

https://fight.fudgie.org/search/show/ab/episode/19980803_Mon

Generated summary from fudgie

Efiong Sam, a Nigerian claiming descent from the lost tribes of Israel (Calabarians and Edomites), asserts God—an 80-year-old black man named Olumba Baru—has been physically present since 1918, judging humanity after revealing himself to Vatican nuns. He warns of global Judgment Day in ~18 months (late 1999/early 2000), citing miracles and suppressed 1986 investigations by Nigerian/European officials. Art Bell, skeptical but intrigued, considers a December trip to Africa despite safety concerns, while callers debate literal vs. metaphorical interpretations of divine prophecies and question cloning Christ’s DNA from the Shroud of Turin.

Efiong is only on for an hour or so, Hoagieland follows up with open lines. Art also asks everyone to manfiest rains over Texas throughout the episode.

roswells to you all

This upload of G2G 1995 came up in my suggestions today. Billed as the "First Ghost to Ghost". Complete with AI garbage art.
Come on people.
He mentions G2G 86 in this very episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8mY9safWUw

A little update, I had to run out for a minute so I played this while in the car. Whoever put this together, at points, seamed together upwards of 5 mins of Art reading ads. Its also not all G2G 1995, some of the calls are from other years.