October 16, 2013: UFO and Paranormal Research - Tobias McGriff & James Fox

August 7, 2015: Alien Abductions - Travis Walton

Travis Walton, the Arizona logger whose 1975 alien abduction remains one of ufology's most documented cases, joins Art Bell from Snowflake, Arizona to revisit the night that defined his life. Walton retraces the events: his crew encountering a metallic disc in the Apache National Forest, the energy blast that threw his body 10 to 20 feet, and the crew's terrified flight. He describes waking aboard the craft surrounded by small, grayish-white beings with large eyes, lashing out in panic before a… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-7-2015-alien-abductions-travis-walton

August 6, 2015: Bigfoot Discovery Museum - Michael Rugg

Michael Rugg, curator of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in California's Santa Cruz Mountains, joins Art Bell with a childhood encounter that launched a lifetime of research. Around 1950, Rugg wandered from his parents' campsite on Northern California's Eel River and found a towering figure covered in reddish-brown hair on an open sandbar, a memory suppressed for decades until a book passage triggered a flashback his mother corroborated. Rugg presents a possible Bigfoot tooth found near his museum… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-6-2015-bigfoot-discovery-museum-michael-rugg

August 5, 2015: Flat Earth Debate - Jon "the Morgile" & Josh Grindlay

Art Bell stages a 90-minute flat earth debate between Jon "the Morgile", an anonymous skeptic known on YouTube, and Dr. Josh Grindlay, an astrophysicist with over 500 papers and Guggenheim and American Physical Society fellowships. Art Bell blows through a break to keep the exchange uninterrupted. John presents an alternative model: an infinite plane with the North Pole at its center, the sun circling 3,000 miles overhead, and Antarctica forming the outer rim. He argues buildings visible from… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-5-2015-flat-earth-debate-jon-the-morgile-and-josh-grindlay

August 4, 2015: Jay Weidner & Stanton Friedman

Stanton Friedman, nuclear physicist and original civilian Roswell investigator, and Jay Weidner, filmmaker and hermetic traditions scholar, join Art Bell for an Apollo moon landing debate that takes an unexpected turn. Weidner argues that while astronauts may have reached the moon using classified propulsion, every photograph and video shown to the public was fabricated using front-screen projection perfected by Stanley Kubrick during 2001: A Space Odyssey. He cites a 1965 U.S. Information… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-4-2015-jay-weidner-and-stanton-friedman

August 3, 2015: Open Lines - Shadow People Stories

Art Bell shares his own shadow person encounter before opening the phones for one of Midnight in the Desert's most compelling nights. Sitting in his ham shack, Art Bell saw a partially transparent being appear to his right, vanish, reappear behind him, then shift left. He fled and grabbed a gun but found nothing. Callers flood in. A woman describes years of being followed by a shadow she connects to hexes placed by her father, whose disapproval preceded her husband's death on a motorcycle her… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/august-3-2015-open-lines-shadow-people-stories