Radio host Art Bell dies at 72

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Longtime radio host Art Bell died Friday at his Pahrump home, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office announced. He was 72.

Bell’s paranormal-themed show, “Coast to Coast AM,” was syndicated on about 500 North American stations in the 1990s before he left the nightly show in 2002. He broadcast the show from Pahrump’s KNYE 95.1 FM, a station he founded.

Bell retired several times in his career, which included a short-lived show on SiriusXM satellite radio in 2013.

Returning to terrestrial radio afterward was not a difficult decision, he told the Pahrump Valley Times in August 2013.

“That’s easy, because I love it,” he said at the time. “It’s my life, and that’s all I have ever done. I went through a lot of family problems, so that interrupted things, and I was overseas for four years, and that certainly interrupted things. I went back into radio because I love it.”

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/pahrump-based-radio-host-art-bell-dies-at-72/

[closetojumping 65275]

Do they actually have the body? I refuse to believe this wasn't an alien abduction until I see evidence to the contrary. 

[Sawbonz 28086]

He was getting too close to the truth

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Men in black.

[Shaggy3.0 1695]

The truth is out there.



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Hello caller, you’re on the air. 

[Sawbonz 28086]

I was always amazed how rationally he interacted with absolute lunatics. After listening awhile I would start to think maybe I was the crazy one

[RDCanecutter 26855]

East of the Rockies, working night shift.

[David Dennison 19441]

I listened to the shit out of Art Bell from 1994 to 1999. 

I didn't believe a lick of it, but he put on a good show. Kind of like Alex Jones back in the day.

[RDCanecutter 26855]

A non-screamy Alex Jones. More like ghost stories at camp.

[David Dennison 19441]

2 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

A non-screamy Alex Jones. More like ghost stories at camp.

Yep. He was so good at narrative you almost wanted to believe the paranoid nonsense he was peddling. It was very entertaining. Now he's just a clown.

[demos 3032]

He was taken.

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[EastTexan 669]

Ted was a pretty good header.

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[Gil Bang 26177]

Pahrump?  I wonder if he frequented the whorehouses out there.

[El Diablo 4232]

Art may be gone but his show lives on. I like his successor George Noory, he's gentle with the random nutjobs that call in to the show and he's got a cast of regulars that call too. Sometimes it's actually even informative depending on the subject and the guest.

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[markstanco 12773]

I listened to the shit out of Art Bell from 1994 to 1999. 
I didn't believe a lick of it, but he put on a good show. Kind of like Alex Jones back in the day.

Me too in 95 and 96 living in Dallas, then lost interest. I'd have it on my delayed off button on the clock radio and fall asleep to it.

[RDCanecutter 26855]

Shadow people.

[KaiserSoze 1016]

Fall 2003 on the road from Baton Rouge to Houston on the middle of the night I ended up listening to his show. The topic than night was Vampires and so a steady stream of vampires were calling in to discuss their lifestyle. After a bit the show was flooded with vampires calling on to discuss how all of the other vampires were full of shit and that there was no way they "others" were real vampires.

It was a total shit show and the only time I ever listened to Coast to Coast, but damn it was entertaining.

[RDCanecutter 26855]

All I know is that Barnabas Collins didn't have a phone, but Quentin did. But Quentin was some kind of zombie, right?

[Surly Bevo 25660]

Junior Miller...the wackos turn their lonely eyes to you

[Stella Link 535]

Interesting that he died on Friday the 13th.....RIP

[MNLonghornFUKM 8964]

Loved listening Coast2CoastAM while I fell asleep back in jr high/high school. Lived for the Big Foot nights.

[CHIEF 5201]

Has no-one here given that man a Pahrump? 

 

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[MaybeACoordinator 8350]

Shadow people in the treeline and silent black helicopters hovering above rural shacks -- so many of Art's callers were bedeviled by both of them. Both of those hallucinations are quite common among meth addicts, and I imagine the tweaker / Art Bell fan combo was and is quite a large and motley crew.  

They sure as hell were entertaining, mostly because they really believed what they were saying. 

And he can forget when the Russians drilled down into hell? 

 

 

[El Diablo 4232]

4 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

Shadow people in the treeline and silent black helicopters hovering above rural shacks -- so many of Art's callers were bedeviled by both of them. Both of those hallucinations are quite common among meth addicts, and I imagine the tweaker / Art Bell fan combo was and is quite a large and motley crew.  

They sure as hell were entertaining, mostly because they really believed what they were saying. 

And he can forget when the Russians drilled down into hell? 

 

 

That commotion you hear was from the dining hall at lunch. We had put out a salad bar but no tongs. 

[Reagan1k 3041]

Spent a lot of nights listening to Art Bell and Bruce Williams on the only static-filled AM channel we could get at our deer camp.   Good memories. 

[Knoxtnhorn 6262]

Had never heard of the guy or his program.  Friend and I are driving back to TN in the middle of the night and I come across his show.  It was some War of the Worlds-esque shit where callers were calling in with live updates of close encounters over several major cities.  Freaked me the f out.