July 22, 2015: Linda Moulton Howe

August 1, 2015: Church of Satan - Blanche Barton

Blanche Barton, former High Priestess of the Church of Satan and companion to founder Anton LaVey, joins Art Bell for a frank exploration of a philosophy widely misunderstood. Barton establishes that the Church does not worship a literal devil. Satan serves as metaphor, she explains, and the name functions as a litmus test forcing people to confront what they have been conditioned to fear without examination. Art Bell presses Barton on what he sees as a contradiction: if magic is real, how can… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-1-2015-church-of-satan-blanche-barton

July 31, 2015: Open Lines - Paranormal Stories

Art Bell dedicates a full Midnight in the Desert broadcast to paranormal open lines, drawing callers with firsthand accounts of ghosts, UFO encounters, and unexplained phenomena. An Australian recounts a 1967 breakdown near Pine Gap, the secretive American installation, where a worker described anti-gravity experiments from a UFO crash between Russia and China and beings with thin vertebrae suggesting a low-gravity origin. An Iowa City caller tells an escalating story of a woman in a nightgown… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/july-31-2015-open-lines-paranormal-stories

July 30, 2015: Life Beyond Earth - John Dvorak

Dr. John Dvorak, a Caltech-trained planetary geophysicist who operates one of the largest telescopes on Mauna Kea, joins Art Bell with frontline experience from earthquakes and volcanoes worldwide. Dvorak introduces the concept of earthquake storms, decades-long clusters of major quakes, drawing a direct parallel between California's San Andreas Fault and Turkey's North Anatolian Fault, which produced 13 major earthquakes between 1939 and 1999. He warns that California has been in a seismic… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/july-30-2015-life-beyond-earth-john-dvorak

July 29, 2015: UFOs & the Paranormal - Preston Dennett

Preston Dennett, MUFON field investigator and author of 17 books on UFOs and the paranormal, joins Art Bell for a detailed exploration of out-of-body experiences drawn from thousands of his own conscious astral travels. Dennett describes passing through solid objects with startling specificity: brick feels grainy across the entire body, wood offers moderate resistance, and glass yields like pushing through a bubble. He admits to early failures including bouncing off walls and sinking knee-deep… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/july-29-2015-ufos-and-the-paranormal-preston-dennett

July 28, 2015: Richard Dolan

Richard Dolan, UFO historian and author of UFOs for the 21st Century Mind, joins Art Bell for their first-ever conversation, bringing two decades of research grounded in declassified government documents. Dolan describes how FOIA releases hooked him on the subject, citing the 1947 Twining Memo in which a three-star general described flying discs as real and not American, and a 1952 CIA memo acknowledging technology beyond anything known. The discussion maps the political architecture of UFO… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/july-28-2015-richard-dolan