Posted on 04/15/2018 10:22:54 AM PDT by rktman
He was awake when most of the country was asleep, cultivating a loyal following while sharing his fascination with the unexplained on his nighttime paranormal-themed show.
For the better part of two decades, longtime late-night radio personality Art Bell was his own producer, engineer and host of his show, “Coast to Coast AM.” He later launched his own satellite radio program from his Pahrump home after retiring from full-time hosting duties in 2003.
On the airwaves, Bell captivated listeners with his fascination for the unexplained, such as UFOs, alien abductions and crop circles. He died Friday at his home at the age of 72.
“As he begins his journey on the ‘other side,’ we take solace in the hope that he is now finding out all of the answers to the mysteries he pursued for so many nights with all of us,” Coast to Coast said in a statement Saturday.
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Goodbye Art. Great show from a great storyteller.
Enjoy your new manifestation along the astral plane.
Oh, and Art, if you happen to run into Father Malachi Martin, tell him that he was absolutely correct in his predictions about The Vatican.
Thanks. Guess I missed it from being up all night? More than a couple of times I listened to Coast to Coast when working third shift. Sometimes the topics were good other times they didn’t quite fly. At least with me anyway. But that’s what makes us interesting right? ;-)
This has been posted a dozen times already.
There used to be an Art Bell archive of his old radio shows that I'd pull up and listen to, but it was a work of passion from an individual who lost interest. It was kind of funny, my server was next to his in a old utility closet, quietly sucking up bandwidth from a university who couldn't care less so long as folks logged in and maintained their servers.
I every once in a while think about how many zombie servers like that are buried across campuses, just waiting for someone to pop onto the IP address. Went checking some of my old archives when traveling down memory lane and was shocked to find two of them still up and running. Last file transfer off of either of them was 4 years ago when the university imaged off the old pizza box servers onto blades then booted them up.
Are we sure he is dead?
Okay okay okay okay x 3. LOL! Search didn’t turn up with the header I used.
Oh absolutely! He was the best, even when his guest was spouting nonsense he treated them with respect, although you’d catch him winking at you over their shoulder...
George Noory seems to believe anything his guests say. It’s just not the same.
Heather Wade played an encore show Friday on Midnight in the Desert, I wonder if she knew, or was at his bedside?
Died or Abducted? Bodysnatchers?
RIP, Art. You did a greater service than you know.
In the days immediately after 9-11, and in the weeks that followed, I couldn't sleep, and was truly worried because no one knew what was really happening, and our governement was playing everything politically correct. No confidence with them.
I listened to Art Bell every night, and after the anthrax attacks too. Art had the best information, and the best guests, and the most thoughtful analysis of what was going on. I always held him in great respect after that period of time.
And there were all the times when I was working in a distance city, and Art rode shotgun with me on the long late night drive home.
We sure can make 'em in America, can't we? When they made Art Bell, they broke the mold.
Was his body spirited away by aliens? We asked a prominent UFO apologist...
Yes -- about eight or nine times.
Do you know if he has some Native American ancestry? His looks seem to indicate that...
And this is the first time I'm reading about it.
Threads die quickly on Free Republic so I'm glad that events get posted here multiple times.
It was fun listening to Art Bell back in the day. I knew 99% of it was conspiracy nonsense but it was fun to listen to, sort of like watching the "X Files", which was a favorite show of mine back in the 1990s. I remember listening to Bell late at night when I was on some long drives. I used to do a lot of overnight driving in my younger days. Now I stop at hotels and get a good night sleep.
Chuck Harder was another radio show host I used to listen to a lot. I wonder whatever happened to him.
Apparently you’re short on your count. Someone else said a dozen, so.........
I can only speak to the number of times I've seen it, but who cares? The story's simply been over-posted.
Little tidbit: Art and I once discussed our possible familial connection. Some twenty years ago I came across an interesting intersection of our genealogical paths that had too many linkages to be mere coincidence.
He wasn't curious enough to do much digging on his end, but he was gracious enough to share what details he knew about his family tree, and acknowledged that we were likely related in some way.
He’s taking a year dead for tax reasons.
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