Dr. David Darling, British astronomer and science writer, returns to Art Bell after eleven years for a conversation spanning asteroid defense, extraterrestrial life, and consciousness. Art Bell poses a vivid scenario: a six-mile asteroid with five years' warning. Darling's answer is sobering. Nuclear weapons might produce a shotgun blast of fragments still on course, and deflection requires decades of lead time. Even confirming the object would strike Earth could take a year of orbital… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-31-2015-asteroids-and-the-cosmos-dr-david-darling

Art Bell unveils Truth or Trash, a game show format where callers tell stories, true or fabricated, and a jury of fellow listeners renders a verdict. A caller describes accidentally crossing the Area 51 perimeter and being fined $650 by armed interceptors. The jury splits evenly. Every word was invented, and Art Bell admits he was completely sold by the details. A San Francisco woman tells of willing herself to meet David Bowie during his 1990 tour using Wiccan focusing techniques from Salem.… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-28-2015-open-lines-truth-or-trash

Dr. Ronald Klatz, the physician who coined "anti-aging medicine" and founded the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine overseeing 100,000 practitioners across 105 countries, joins Art Bell spanning stem cells, cannabis therapeutics, and broken American healthcare. Klatz points to Harvard data showing a nearly 25-year life expectancy gap between college-educated women in Bergen County, New Jersey at 91.5 years and American Indian women receiving government healthcare in South Dakota at 68,… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-27-2015-anti-aging-dr-ronald-klatz

Professor Marcus Hutter, researcher at Australian National University and author of "Universal Artificial Intelligence," joins Art Bell for a three-hour conversation on machine intelligence. Hutter developed the first mathematically complete theory of AI, and his first PhD student co-founded DeepMind before Google acquired it for half a billion dollars. He rates current capabilities: chess at a perfect ten, speech recognition around seven, autonomous driving at three, cooking robots at one. The… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-26-2015-artificial-intelligence-marcus-hutter

Gerald Celente, founder of the Trends Research Institute, joins the first hour to dissect the global market turmoil. Celente argues China is "the canary in the global equity mine," pointing to the Bloomberg Commodity Index at sixteen-year lows, Brazil's real down thirty-six percent, and Canada in recession. He traces the crisis to post-2008 bailouts he calls fascism, noting six banks were convicted for rigging rates yet no one went to prison. Celente forecasts gold past $2,000 and predicts… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-25-2015-global-market-turmoil-gerald-celente-rendlesham-forest-peter-robbins

Dr. Dean Radin, chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, joins Art Bell to discuss scientific evidence for psychic phenomena and the yogic abilities known as siddhis. Radin reveals the Global Consciousness Project has accumulated results at three-trillion-to-one odds against chance using a worldwide network of random number generators that detect moments of coherent global attention. He describes deploying quantum noise generators at Burning Man, where 60,000 attendees provide… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-24-2015-global-consciousness-dean-radin

Art Bell declares a special phone line after the Vatican's International Association of Exorcists announces demonic possession at "emergency levels." The question: have you made a deal with the devil? Such a pact need not involve a contract but can be sealed in one's own mind, and Art Bell warns repeatedly that the deal is irrevocable. The line never stops ringing. A caller describes exchanging blood with a self-described vampire at a Hollywood Gothic club at 21, trading his soul for unlimited… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-21-2015-open-lines-pact-with-the-devil

Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeth of the Ghost Investigators Society return after years away for a marathon playback of EVP recordings from nearly two decades of fieldwork. The five original GIS members have been together since 1998, and the material they bring ranges from whispered phrases on analog tape to voices captured in abandoned asylums. The most harrowing recording comes from an empty room in a mental asylum in Ogden, Utah, where a microphone left running captured a child saying "help… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-20-2015-evps-barbara-mcbeath-and-brendan-cook

Bill Birnes, bestselling author, and Jim Sanders, retired police investigator turned journalist, join Art Bell to present evidence that TWA Flight 800 was accidentally shot down by the U.S. Navy during a 1996 exercise. Sanders argues the automated Cooperative Engagement Capability system locked onto the delayed 747 in restricted airspace and fired without human intervention. He presents video obtained through 19 years of FOIA requests showing what he describes as a missile contrail rising… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-19-2015-twa-flight-800-jim-sanders-and-bill-birnes

Father Jack Ashcraft, a traditional Byzantine Catholic priest called the Malachi Martin of the 21st century, joins Art Bell for a conversation on exorcism, Vatican corruption, and the paranormal's intersection with Christian theology. Ashcraft reveals that Martin himself worked for Cardinal Bea in the 1960s, participating in subversive forces at Vatican II before switching allegiances, and suggests Martin's fatal fall was suspicious given he had been preparing to expose a bishop. The broadcast… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-18-2015-exorcism-father-jack-ashcraft