https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/pahrump-based-radio-host-art-bell-dies-at-72/

Longtime radio host Art Bell died Friday at his Pahrump home, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office announced. He was 72.

Bell’s paranormal-themed show, “Coast to Coast AM,” was syndicated on about 500 North American stations in the 1990s before he left the nightly show in 2002. He broadcast the show from Pahrump’s KNYE 95.1 FM, a station he founded.
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Bell was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina, on June 17, 1945. He served in the the U.S. Air Force as a medic during the Vietnam War.

According to the Coast to Coast AM website, Bell was an FCC licensed radio technician at age 13. He also set a Guinness World Record for a solo broadcast marathon, at more than 116 hours, while working as a DJ in Okinawa, Japan, the website said.

 

He now has all the answers to his questions.

 

He now has all the answers to his questions.

The truth is out there.

I'm not saying it was aliens, but....

 

For a short period of time about twenty years ago I would have the Art gulliBell show on for noise late at night. It was that or infomercials. It didn't take too long to realize that the infomercials were more internally consistent and less an affront to any semblance of rational thought, at which point I concluded that silence has its virtues -- or that it was time for me to get a decent portable CD player.

 

For a short period of time about twenty years ago I would have the Art gulliBell show on for noise late at night. It was that or infomercials. It didn't take too long to realize that the infomercials were more internally consistent and less an affront to any semblance of rational thought, at which point I concluded that silence has its virtues -- or that it was time for me to get a decent portable CD player.

He sometimes had guests that were pretty good. This is a classic on demonic possession that was informative on the subject even for a non-believer.

https://www.independent.ie/entertai...ars-in-netflixs-new-documentary-35363428.html

Born in Ballylongford in 1921, he became a Jesuit priest, did a doctorate in archaeology and Semitic languages in Belgium's Louvain University, worked on the famous Dead Sea scrolls, participated in archaeological digs in Egypt and served as private secretary to a Vatican cardinal, among many other achievements.

In 1965, unhappy with certain aspects of Vatican 2, Malachi left Rome and the priesthood, moving to New York where he worked as a taxi driver, waiter and writer. He became a US citizen and published 17 books, both fictional and not, including Hostage to the Devil in 1976, which described five "real" exorcisms he claimed to have carried out in America.

 

I concluded that silence has its virtues

it does indeed ... and it's extremely hard to fin nowadays ...

 

He sometimes had guests that were pretty good. This is a classic on demonic possession that was informative on the subject even for a non-believer.

https://www.independent.ie/entertai...ars-in-netflixs-new-documentary-35363428.html

The last line you quoted sums up his guests pretty well -- "he CLAIMED to have carried out".

His guests made lots and lots of claims. So what? He had guests that claimed to be remote viewers. He had guests that claimed to be from the future. He had guests that claimed to be aliens. At some point, ANY claim made by ANY guest has to be assumed to be completely bogus until independently proven otherwise just due to guilt by association.

 

He was very entertaining. I never really put any credence in any of his shows. It was all fun. Sort of like ghost stories at camp. Everyone knows it is not true but if you suspend logic and reasoning for a whil, it can be a good time.

I never liked when he had the EVP folks on. That was always really stupid. The recordings rarely sounded anything like they said it was and your opinion of what is being said is tainted anyway if somone makes a suggestion.

The psychics were always dumb because the reading was really only of interest to the caller.

Then there was the remote viewing folks. Major Ed Dames was a popular guest. I don't ever remember of them talking about anything that was the least bit entertaining. There just seemed to be very general discussions on his various projects. I never got the purpose of those shows.

But mostly it was lots of fun. Far better than the current coast to coast by George Norry that has people giving medical and financial advise. Yeah that is what I am going to do. Take advice from some unknown person on the radio that is willing to stay up past 1AM to give advice.

 

Art would have often have Michio Kakau as a guest. That was always entertaining.

 

The last line you quoted sums up his guests pretty well -- "he CLAIMED to have carried out".

His guests made lots and lots of claims. So what? He had guests that claimed to be remote viewers. He had guests that claimed to be from the future. He had guests that claimed to be aliens. At some point, ANY claim made by ANY guest has to be assumed to be completely bogus until independently proven otherwise just due to guilt by association.

I treated his nightly show like crazy episodes of the X files with lots of nuts, fruits and cream on the top but still some of it was interesting in a strange way on a long nights drive because of Arts' talent to be the straight man in a wacky conversation.