Longtime radio host. His Coast to Coast show dealt with conspiracy theories, aliens, demonic possessions, etc. Used to hold the midnight to 4am shift on 890am until Red Eye Radio replaced it.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/loc ... ies-at-72/

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

Used to listen to him when I worked midnights.

I remember a posse of chupacabra hunters calling in from South Texas one night. They were out looking for the creatures armed with weapons.

Art Bell must have told them to "BE. CAREFUL." a dozen times.

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

faaip de oiad

Original call:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee3bld4lTG0

From Tool's Lateralus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqO3BByBflg

It was the perfect show for that time of night. There was something to be said for working late, driving home and listening to it. It made sense at that time.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

this sucks! art bell was great. what a nut.

Here you go
https://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/somewhere-in-time-shows

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

I use to work graveyard shift on a job back in the late 90s and found him on radio. I liked the show because I thought I was the only one with these conspiracy thoughts about history and the current state of affairs. It was neat to learn I was not the only one that thought that way.

Dude,that was not the radio but the voices in your head. You are the only one

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Working overnight as the insecure security guard at the Newberry Library, when I wasn't in the office, curled up in a ball and sleeping, I'd listen to Art Bell and it would scare the liver out of me.

One night when I was working, I actually got spooked so bad I shut and locked my door.

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

Thats what Im saying . I mean in the daytime listening to those kooks would've made me laugh but there was something about it at night that gave me pause and a little creeped out.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

He had a rough life. The reason he quit was his teenage son was kidnapped by his school teacher , locked in chains and dragged to some location in the desert and sexually molested. The teacher had HIV and the son contracted it. The teacher got life, but I dont know what happened to Art's son. Hope he is still around but I heard he had gone thru many suicide attempts.

He remarried and had 2 younger kids at an old age.

That asshole George Noory who is like the Jay Leno of radio still doesn't have anything about Bell's passing on the C2C website. I guess it was one of those old guard vs new guard things as those 2 never got along.

Appropriate he died on Frid the 13th

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

I discovered Art Bell after going into a YouTube black hole of Terrence McKenna interviews. From then on, I’d pull up YouTube on occasion and pick a random Coast to Coast show when I couldn’t sleep.

i remember that guy. he was far out.

All I’ll say is it wasn’t the right show to listen to at 2am in the middle of a field while doing field work.

On the other hand it was a hoot to listen to while driving cross country.

I probably don't believe in like 97% of the shit on that show but its still scary at times. And if I don't believe it in, most of the time it comes off as a good story or entertaining. Con men/women can be good storytellers too you know.

His brother Archie and his Drells were much cooler.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Archie never had the career as his brother Art had. Archive really needed to "TIGHTEN UP" his act.

how long til they get a medium type individual to dial up Art on the after-life-line:

From somewhere inside the pearly gates, caller, you're on the air.

"That asshole George Noory who is like the Jay Leno of radio still doesn't have anything about Bell's passing on the C2C website. I guess it was one of those old guard vs new guard things as those 2 never got along."

Perfectly summed up. Noory is a hack.

https://www.coasttocoastam.com/

Its up. Plus George did break the news last night.

For C2C fans

http://bellgab.com/index.php?PHPSESSID= ... &board=7.0

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

Art Schlichter....that guy had problems...

we would go visit my granparents in buffalo ny for holidays. we'd leave after school on some day and drive through the night. since i can remember i'm not a good sleeper unless its in a bed so i would stay up wiht my father and we'd listen to coast to coast. from the late 80's into the 90's.

some of the best art bell i remember :

john titor - guy would call in and claim he was a time traveler.
jon lear - son of the guy who invented the lear jet. was a cia test pilot claimed he had regular interactions with aliens. moon was a soul factory and you could see the buildings with a telescope.

my uncle who lived in remote kodiak island AK for 6 mo of the year (counted fish for dept of fish and game) would listen to coast to coast am in the middle of the wilderness. it got dark around 10:30-11 and we'd just sit and listen when we visited. it was awesome.

George changed the format of the show in Art's opinion. Art was more alien, gvt, secret society, military base, off grid, global apocalypse, and like origins. George noory allowed the ghost and spiritual paranormal people onto the show and art HATED it. he thought all that stuff was BS funny enough.