On his way to a different dimension!

thanks for the great lunch breaks for many years!

wow, sorry to hear that. yes, i stayed up way to late for a few years listening to Art.
Can't replace that guy. He'll be missed, but we've still got the Somewhere in Time flashback episodes, i guess.

I'll never forget the shows about "Mel's Hole."

All I really know of his work were a couple of well known calls I have heard on YouTube and his work on the 2006 video game Prey.

Nice voice for what he did. R.I.P.

RIP Art Bell..Loved talking about Area 51,On his show one night he recievied a call from a dude claiming he worked at area 51 and all of a sudden Art radio transmissions was knocked off the air...Really weird its on Youtube.

And the one where the pilot called in and said he is flying to Area 51 despite Art telling him not to. That pilot soon was removed from the sky....

Haha!! yeah,he was shot down...If you listen closely you can hear Kaboom!! Kaboom!! Man,When they say your not getting anywhere near Area 51 they mean it!!

Yeah,He treated everyone the same and i know we have a lot of weirdos out there but Art made everything they say was real..Haha!!

If nothing else, his show was always entertaining, and really made one think.
His show was the first place I ever heard of the famous theoretical physicist Michio Kaku.
I spent many a night lying in bed with ear buds, drifting in and out of sleep while listening to CTCAM.
George Noory tried, but couldn't generate that same spooky aura that Art did.

Art was one of a kind,Oh yes listening to him made me think on a whole new different level..

Was a listener during the Chupacabra era (I'd say late 90s when the X-Files was still on TV). I remember listening late one night, and swore I could hear a chupacabra breathing outside my open window on a warm Summer night.

Those were simpler times.

Spooky should do Art Bell pin!!

I heard that a Y2K disaster is imminent any day now!

The ~1999 period was purely spectacular, and to me was Art's greatest era. Not only would he have guests explaining, clearly, how the world economy would fail, but he had advertisers selling products that allow folks to survive the catastrophe: Radios powered by hand cranks, bulk purchases of food in long-term storage cans...

I worked at a very-late night pizza place during that time. C2C would be on in my car, and we'd also have it on inside the store. So. Freaking. Great.

Some of Art's regular guests were outstanding, and Art would play along perfectly. We'd have drunken/high folks who would wander into the store looking for pizza. 99% of the time, they'd have no idea what they were listening to. But the employees would all be listening intently (for entertainment) and the drunks thought it was "real". They often became truly paranoid about whatever impending disaster was being discussed. Of course we would play along like we believed it too. Art made such great radio entertainment.

He spurred a lot great conversations amongst us employees too.

So much appreciation for him.

Several stations playing archived Art Bell shows on Tune In

Had a Breakfast toast to him passing. So Sad.
What a character! Had many spirited emails with him on Striber, Area 51, and John Titor.
All about inside dirt that involved my brother.
Amazing how a story could grow, but no one did it like him. RIP.

There was a certain kind of adrenaline rush I'd experience while listening to some of the creepy episodes of C2C and Art Bell. Nothing like hearing those broadcasts out of the Vegas desert during the witching hour. From aliens to shadow people, world disaster and the afterlife...What fun times!

Man i miss listening for an hour before i went to sleep back in the day. Stopped listening when george noory started hosting - no offense to him, but wasnt thr same at all. RIP Art

Used to listen to Art when I was a janitor mopping up cath labs @ a hospital. RIP

Rods
Grays
Y2K
Chupacabra
Big foot
Shadow people

Keep em coming I had listened for at least 3 years of him and then George. Boy I forgotten a lot.

Some of those episodes you would roll your eyes and laugh, some you would get all parinoid and start looking over your shoulder.

Great stuff, wacky people.

Father Malachi Martin
Time Travel
Ghost's
Giant's
Alien Abdution
Witches

George Noory is ok but, Coast to Coast was at it's best when Art was doing it.

I remember specifically laughing out loud one time when a guy that claimed to be a time traveler called in, and said something about having a computer in his brain - Art asked if it was a Mac, and if he died, would it be the blue screen of death.

I havent looked for a while, but there used to be vault episodes you could listen to on the website. I might go back and search through that today if so. Total nostalgic awesomeness.

I don't need to use the website. I can remote-view the whole Art Bell catalog.

It was impossible for anybody to step into Art's shoes. George has done many great shows, too. Ian Punnett did some amazing ones, too. I haven't listened in quite a while. No matter the host, what made a show good was the quality of the guest. When Art felt the show was lacking, he'd challenge the guest, turn on the guest, and sometimes just dump the guest and take phone calls (or play some Dancing Queen). George didn't do that (and probably didn't have the authority to do that). He'd fake interest for the whole 3 hours, and the show would languish.

I'm sure many of you don't know this, but Art was a pinball guy... Pre-war pinball... Here's a post about his passing from the Pre-War Pinball Newsgroup...

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Art Bell (yes, THAT Art Bell) was the third person to join this group when I first started it, only joining after Russ Jensen and Mike Sands.

Some may not know this, but Art was not only a great guy in real life but also quite possibly the world authority on the 1932 Rockola Juggle Ball pinball machine... possibly the most eyemelting pinball of all time.

He was one of those who really loved prewar pinball, and was willing to share his knowledge and data with anyone who needed it. A great example of this was the USPTO database of early pinball patents that we were collecting - he spent hours in the patent office databases trying to find rare patents to share with us.

Vaya Con Dios Art... and say Hi to Russ and Hal for me

Ken Lyons
Founder
Prewar Pinball Yahoo! Group
14 April 2018

Pretty amazing!
http://ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=1323&picno=6586

What a cool end note on Art Bell. I never would have known about his interest in pinball. Thanks for sharing.

For those that have interest there will be an Art Bell Tribute Show on Coast to Coast tomorrow (Thursday the 19th) evening hosted by George Noory. Special guests and audio clips etc. Should be a fun listen.

https://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2018/04/19

Not intending to clutter this thread and I apologize for multiple posts but here are 5 of the greatest Art Bell audio clips (including the Roswell Area 51 call mentioned earlier in this thread). These where posted by C2C.

https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/5-amazing-art-bell-audio-clips