Coast to Coast Am on Air Now Art Bell

American broadcaster

Art Bell
Born	Arthur William Bell III (1945-06-17)June 17, 1945 Due north Carolina, U.S
Died	April 13, 2018(2018-04-xiii) (anile 72) Pahrump, Nevada, U.Southward.
Occupation	Broadcaster, author
Spouse(due south)	Sachiko Toguchi Pontius ​ ​ (one thousand. 1965; div. 1968)​ Vickie L. Baker ​ ​ (m. 1981; div. 1991)​ Ramona Lee Hayes ​ ​ (thousand. 1991; died 2006)​ Airyn Ruiz ​ (m. 2006)​ [1]
Children	5
Phone call sign	W6OBB (U.S.) 4F1AB (Philippines)
Website	artbell.com

Arthur William Bell III (June 17, 1945 – April 13, 2018) was an American broadcaster and writer. He was the founder and the original host of the paranormal-themed radio program Coast to Coast AM, which is syndicated on hundreds of radio stations in the United States and Canada.^[2] He also created and hosted its companion show Dreamland. Coast to Declension still airs nightly.

In 2003, Bell semi-retired from Coast to Coast AM. During the following 4 years, he hosted the show for many weekends on Premiere Networks. He announced his retirement from weekend hosting in 2007, but occasionally served equally a guest host through to 2010. Classic episodes of Coast to Declension AM can exist heard in some radio markets on Saturday nights under the name Somewhere in Fourth dimension hosted by Bell. He started a new nightly show, Art Bell'southward Dark Matter, on Sirius XM Radio, that aired for six weeks in 2013.^{[iii] [4]}

In 2015, he returned to radio with a new show Midnight in the Desert, which was available online via TuneIn too equally some terrestrial radio stations. He announced what would be his terminal retirement on December xi, 2015, citing security concerns at his home. He said that he and his family were subjected to repeated intrusions on his property in Pahrump, Nevada. The intrusions included gunshots, and he was in fear for his family'southward safety. He chose to leave the air and along with it public life considering he believed that the intruder or intruders wanted him off the air.

Bell was the founder and original owner of Pahrump-based radio station KNYE 95.1 FM. His broadcast studio and transmitter were located near his dwelling in Pahrump, where he also hosted Coast to Coast AM.

Early life [edit]

Arthur William Bong III was born in Due north Carolina on June 17, 1945. Sources differ on whether he was born in Jacksonville or Military camp Lejeune.^{[five] [6]} He had a Lutheran background.^[7]

Bong was always interested in radio; at the age of 13, he became a licensed amateur radio operator. Bell held an Amateur Extra Class license, which is in the pinnacle U.South. Federal Communications Commission license class. His call sign was W6OBB.

Bell served in the U.S. Air Force as a medic during the Vietnam State of war and in his gratis time operated a pirate radio station at Amarillo Air Forcefulness Base. He would make a betoken of playing anti-state of war music (like "Eve of Devastation" and "Fortunate Son") that was non aired on the American Forces Network.^[8]

After leaving military service, he remained in Asia, where he lived on the Japanese isle of Okinawa. He worked equally a disc jockey for KSBK, which was the only non-military English-linguistic communication station in Nippon. While there, he gear up a Guinness World Tape by staying on the air for 116 hours and fifteen minutes. The coin raised there immune Bong to charter a Douglas DC-8, fly to Vietnam, and rescue 130 Vietnamese orphans stranded in Saigon at the war's end. They were somewhen brought to the U.s. and adopted by American families.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Bell returned to the Us and studied applied science at the University of Maryland. He dropped out and returned to radio every bit a lath operator and chief engineer, and had the opportunity to be on the air a few times. For several years, he worked behind and in front of the microphone. Afterward a menses of working in cable television receiver, in 1986 the 50,000-watt KDWN in Las Vegas, Nevada, offered Bell a v-hour fourth dimension slot in the middle of the dark. Syndication of his programme to other radio stations began in 1993.

Broadcasting career [edit]

Bell was a stone music disc jockey before he moved into talk radio. His original 1978 belatedly-night Las Vegas program on KDWN was a political phone call-in show under the proper noun West Coast AM. ^[5] In 1988, Bell and Alan Corbeth renamed the show Coast to Coast AM and moved its broadcast from the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas to Bell'southward home in Pahrump.^[5]

Circulate facilities of KNYE in Pahrump, Nevada

Bell abandoned conventional political talk in favor of topics such as gun control and conspiracy theories, leading to a meaning bump in his overnight ratings. The evidence's focus again shifted significantly afterward the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Many in the media did not want to be blamed for inciting anti-government or militia actions similar the bombing. Afterwards, Bell discussed off-beat topics such every bit the paranormal, the occult, UFOs, protoscience and pseudoscience. During his tenure at KDWN Bell met and married his third wife, Ramona, who later handled production and direction duties for the programme.

An article in the Feb 23, 1997, edition of The Washington Post said that Bell was currently America'southward highest-rated tardily-night radio talk show host, circulate on 328 stations. According to The Oregonian in its June 22, 1997, edition, Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell was on 460 stations. At its initial peak in popularity, Coast to Declension AM was syndicated on more than 500 radio stations and claimed 15 one thousand thousand listeners nightly. Bong's studios were located in his home in the boondocks of Pahrump, located in Nye County, Nevada; hence, the voice-over catchphrase, "from the Kingdom of Nye".

Critical reputation [edit]

Fans regarded Bell as a principal showman, noting that he called his evidence "absolute amusement"^[9] and expressly said he did non necessarily accept every guest or caller's claims, only only offered a forum where they would not be openly ridiculed. Bong was one of only a few talk testify hosts who did not screen incoming calls, but this changed in 2006. On the October 31, 2006, edition of Coast to Coast AM, (renamed for the night to Ghost to Ghost AM), Bell was asked why he was now using call-screeners. The caption given was that for him to use un-screened open phone lines while in the Philippines would require listeners to telephone call in that location directly at enormous cost to them. Fine art admitted that he should take chosen New Zealand instead of the Philippines as an alternative to the U.s.. He said, "It was a bad choice, and I'll regret information technology, one twenty-four hour period, in the near future."

Bong has earned praise from those who declare that the paranormal deserves a mature outlet of discussion in the media as well every bit the approval of those simply amused past the nightly parade of bizarre, typically fringe topics. Ed Dames, Richard C. Hoagland, Terence McKenna, Dannion Brinkley, David John Oates, and Robert Bigelow were all regular guests. Some of Bell's regular guests continue to appear on Declension to Coast AM now hosted by George Noory.

Bell's own interests, withal, extended beyond the paranormal. He interviewed singers Crystal Gayle, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Eric Burdon and Gordon Lightfoot, comedian George Carlin, author Dean Koontz, difficult science fiction writer Greg Carry, 10-Files writer/creator Chris Carter, TV talk host Regis Philbin, Star Trek player Leonard Nimoy, actor Dan Aykroyd, former Luftwaffe pilot Bruno Stolle, actress Jane Seymour, actress Ellen Muth, actor and Television receiver host Robert Stack, human rights lawyer John Loftus, legendary disc jockey Casey Kasem, UFC commentator Joe Rogan and frequent guests physicist Michio Kaku and SETI astronomers Seth Shostak and H. Paul Shuch.

Outset in belatedly 1996, Bell was criticized for reporting rumors that Comet Hale–Bopp was being trailed by a UFO. Some speculated that members of the Heaven's Gate grouping committed mass suicide based on rumors Bong aired, but others dismissed the thought, noting that the Heaven'due south Gate website stated: "Whether Hale-Bopp has a 'companion' or not is irrelevant from our perspective."^[10] Susan Wright reported, however, that Bell was also "one of the first to publicize expert opinions refuting the 'alien' companion" said to accept been shadowing Hale-Bopp,^[eleven] such as that published in 1998 from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory suggesting that "the satellite's main diameter is ~30 km," (20 miles) and appropriately natural rather than artificial.^[12]

Callers and guests [edit]

• On August xv, 1996, Bong interviewed William Luther Pierce, writer of The Turner Diaries,^[13] in which Pierce—writing under the pseudonym "Andrew Macdonald"—depicted a race war leading to the extermination of Jews, non-whites and gay people. Pierce denounced interracial wedlock, calling white people who married non-whites "traitors to the white race"—manifestly unaware that Bell himself was in an interracial marriage, as his and then-married woman, Ramona Bong, was an Asian-American of Filipino descent (his wife Airyn whom he married after Ramona's decease was also Filipina).^{[ commendation needed ]}
• One of Bell'southward Coast to Coast interviews occurred in 1997 with Mel Waters who discussed what is known equally "Mel's Pigsty" in rural Washington State. The opening is said to exist a fantastically deep vertical shaft which possesses bizarre backdrop. No such hole has ever been physically located by anyone attempting to verify this story.^[14]
• A caller in 2000 named "Daniel Murray" claimed he was a Royal Amanuensis from Downey, California.^{[ citation needed ]}
  • This call served as the inspiration for the alternate reality game Imperial. ^[15]
• A caller in September 1997 claimed he had discovered an unknown threat and conspiracy from Expanse 51, and his life was in danger by even talking nigh it. For unknown reasons, Bell lost connection to his transmitter during the call and, but as the caller's voice became more and more than agitated, the entire broadcast dramatically went silent. A confused Bell restored the indicate almost 20 minutes later.^[sixteen] The caller (or someone sounding similar) chosen in on a subsequent show and admitted it had been an elaborate hoax, which fooled many.^[17] Audio from the phone call was used in the Tool song "Faaip De Oiad," on the album Lateralus. ^[18]

Amateur radio [edit]

Bell became a licensed amateur radio operator at the historic period of thirteen. His offset call sign was KN3JOX, first listed in the Winter 1959 edition of the Radio Amateur Callbook. He soon upgraded to K3JOX, and he afterward held W2CKS, first listed in the Jump 1967 Callbook. Bell held an Amateur Extra Class license, which is the highest U.S. Federal Communications Commission amateur license form. His call sign was W6OBB.

Bell passed the Philippines amateur radio exams and became a Philippine Class A amateur radio operator with the call sign of 4F1AB.^[19] While in the Philippines, Bell was active on xl-ten Meters, as well equally 144.600 MHz simplex in Manila.

Honors [edit]

In 1998, Bong was named as recipient of the Snuffed Candle Laurels past the Committee for Skeptical Research'south Council for Media Integrity.^[twenty] Bell was recognized by the Quango for "perpetuating conspiracy myths... and mystery mongering". When Bell learned of the award he replied "A mind should not be and then open that the brains fall out, nevertheless it should not be so closed that any gray affair which does reside may not be reached. On behalf of those with the smallest remaining open aperture, I have with honor."^[21]

In August 2006 Art was inducted into the Nevada Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. He did not attend the presentation.^[22]

On March ten, 2007, Bell would be honored with the News/Talk Radio Lifetime Achievement Accolade from the trade publication Radio & Records in Los Angeles.^{[23] [24]}

Bong was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2008.^[25]

Marriages [edit]

• Airyn Ruiz, April 11, 2006 – April xiii, 2018 (his decease). Children: Asia Rayne Bong and Alexander William Bell.
• Ramona Lee Hayes, Baronial 4, 1991 – January v, 2006 (her death) † (see below)
• Vickie L. Baker, married March 1, 1981, divorced, July 3, 1991. Children: Arthur William Bell IV^[26]
• Sachiko Toguchi Bong Pontius, married 1965, divorced 1968. Children: Vincent Pontius, Lisa Pontius Minei.^[27]

Retirements and comebacks [edit]

Bell retired and returned to Coast to Coast AM several times.

On October 13, 1998, Bell appear his offset retirement, which was highly unexpected by his listeners. He spoke of "an event, a threatening terrible upshot occurred to my family unit, which I could not tell you nigh. Because of that effect, and a succession of other events, what yous're listening to correct now is my final broadcast on the air."^[28] Hilly Rose filled in later on Bell'south departure. Bell returned on October 28, 1998, asserting that the brief difference was brought on by threats made confronting his family. On May 29, 1999, Bell explained that this retirement was due to an accusation made past hosts of WWCR shortwave radio that Bell had paid to cover upward a criminal indictment.^[29] The facts of the matter became public noesis in 2000, when the media revealed that an actual criminal indictment was filed confronting a person who had assaulted a member of Bell's family. Because of the nature of the offense, Bell had wanted to go along the matter private. Ted Gunderson, the quondam head of the Los Angeles FBI and the hosts at WWCR shortwave radio had accused Bell of the crime. Bell responded past taking legal action confronting Gunderson, besides as the hosts and stations. The action was resolved in a settlement in 2000.^[30]

On April i, 2000, Bell again announced his retirement. He said that the event would occur on Apr 26, 2000,^[31] but offered no details other than expressing intentions to "resolve a family unit crisis." On April 11, 2000, Mike Siegel was introduced every bit the new host of Declension to Coast AM, taking over on Apr 27, to an estimated audience of 22 one thousand thousand listeners.^[32] The media later explained that Bell had left to deal with the aftermath of the kidnap and sexual assault of his son.^[26] Brian Lepley, a substitute teacher, was convicted of sexual assault and attempted manual of HIV and was sentenced to 10 to 25 years.^[33] Bell returned to Coast to Coast AM in February 2001. Bell noted that since his departure the show had lost a number of affiliates, commercial content had risen to an unbearable level, and Siegel had taken the program in a "different direction" of which Bell disapproved. Bell retained some authority over the program equally its creator and felt his render was necessary.

On October 23, 2002, Bong announced that he would retire due to recurring back pain, which was the result of a fall from a telephone pole during his youth. Bong was replaced by George Noory equally weekday host of Declension to Coast AM on January one, 2003. Those close to the affair also said that Barbara Simpson would host weekends and that Bell planned to exist an occasional guest host for Noory.^[34] Bong returned in September 2003 equally a weekend host, replacing Barbara Simpson and Ian Punnett as host of the Saturday and Dominicus evening broadcasts. In June 2005, he scaled this schedule dorsum, calling it a "semiretirement," and hosted but the last two Sundays of every month. Bong went back to hosting every weekend bear witness as his schedule permitted afterward his wife Ramona'south decease a few months later.

On July 1, 2007, Bell announced his retirement, stating that he wished to spend more time with his new wife and girl. He made it explicitly articulate that, unlike the circumstances surrounding previous retirements, this decision was an entirely positive and blithesome one and that he would not disappear completely, announcing an intention to occasionally substitute for other hosts and host "special" shows.

On December 11, 2015, Bell posted what would be his last retirement message via his Facebook page. He cited safety concerns for his family by saying "if one of them were harmed because of what I love doing my life would be over." Throughout the fall, Bell reported several incidents where an unknown number of armed trespassers came onto his property, sometimes firing gunshots. These events have been said to occur during or around the time of his broadcasting. This announcement came a mere five months subsequently the start of his most recent show, Midnight in the Desert.^[35]

Events of 2006 [edit]

Bell'southward life took some dramatic twists in the offset of 2006:

Death of Ramona Bell [edit]

On Jan five, 2006, Ramona Bong, his wife of xv years, died unexpectedly^[36] at the age of 47 of what appeared to be an acute asthma assault in Laughlin, Nevada, where the couple had been taking a short holiday.

During the January 22 broadcast of Coast to Coast AM, Bell described in great item the events surrounding his wife's decease. For weeks thereafter, callers to the station would speak to George Noory and express their sadness and sympathy for Bell; Noory had taken Bell's identify on weekdays commencement in 2002.^[37]

Change in schedule [edit]

On January 21, 2006, 16 days after the unexpected death of his wife Ramona, Bell announced he would host Declension to Coast AM every Sabbatum and Sunday evening, and that former weekend host Ian Punnett would work a new live prefeed programme for the four hours preceding Bell'due south slot on Saturday nights (ix:00 pm – one:00 am ET).^{[ commendation needed ]}

New marriage [edit]

Past the stop of January, Bell began hinting that he was making a significant life decision, but that he would keep information technology a surreptitious for at least one year, asking listeners to remind him in 2007 to allow them in on it. By March, he was proverb that he would soon take a "huge adventure" and "do something rash". On April fifteen, 2006, he ended the mystery and, to the mild surprise of listeners, revealed that, afterwards several weeks of mourning, he had recently gone to the Philippines and married Airyn Ruiz.^{[ citation needed ]}

Render to "the High Desert and the Great American Southwest" [edit]

Bell opened his December 28, 2006, program by disclosing that he had merely relocated back to Pahrump, Nevada, with Ruiz, who had obtained the necessary paperwork for immigrating to the United states of america.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Events of 2008 [edit]

On May 29, 2008, Bell sold KNYE to Station Director Karen Jackson.^[38]

On September eight, 2008, Noory stated that he would be hosting the annual Ghost to Ghost AM Halloween phone call-in show rather than Bell, who normally returns to the Declension to Coast to host information technology (along with the New Year's prediction shows).^{[ citation needed ]}

On Nov thirty, 2008, Bell hosted Coast to Declension AM. Michio Kaku was the guest. This was the showtime fourth dimension Bell had hosted the show since May 23, 2008.^[39]

Bell was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2008.^[40]

Events of 2009 [edit]

Bell returned to Coast to Declension AM on Feb twenty, 2009, for a discussion on the global fiscal crisis with Wall St. insider Michael J. Panzner. Bell and Panzner agreed the United States was headed for an economical depression.^{[ citation needed ]}

Bong was scheduled to return to Coast to Declension AM on April 24, 2009, to host an evening of open up lines, only because of engineering problems in Manila, Bong was rescheduled to a after date.^[41]

On May 17, 2009, Bong returned to host Declension to Coast AM alive from Manila. His invitee was professor Peter Ward. Topics of word were mass extinctions, Earth's "self-destructive" phenomena, and life beyond planet Earth. While on the air, Bell answered an email question from a listener who asked why he was in the Philippines once again and how long he'd exist there. Bell replied that he'd address it on "Fri" and hinted that his motion might exist permanent.^{[ citation needed ]}

Equally of May xx, 2009, the Coast to Coast website listed that Bell would exist filling in for George Noory on Friday, May 22, 2009, to interview Bob Koontz. Nevertheless, Bell did not do that testify. The Coast to Coast website, again, cited technical difficulties in Manila and that his interview would be postponed. Bell interviewed Koontz on Sabbatum, June 6, 2009.^{[ citation needed ]}

Friday June 26, 2009, Bell hosted Declension to Coast AM from Manila with guest Dean Radin. He also commented on the death of Michael Jackson and how he had lived in Pahrump, Nevada, non too far away from where Bong lived.^{[ citation needed ]}

Friday Nov xx, 2009, Bong hosted Coast to Declension AM from Manila with guest Starfire Tor, psi researcher and experiencer who discussed time shifts and fourth dimension slips, and other strange occurrences of time. During the first ninety minutes, they were joined by Whitley Strieber, who shared his take on Tor'southward inquiry.^[42]

On Wednesday, Dec 30, and Th, December 31, 2009, Bell once again hosted his annual New year's predictions special of Declension to Declension, noting that a number of the predictions this yr were of an unusual and interesting nature and not mere repeats of many that had come before, though he also took several callers to task for seemingly veiling their obvious political agendas or wishes in the form of predictions, rather than offering upward something from their "psychic centre," which is what he repeatedly asks for during the prediction show. He also suggested that maybe Coast to Declension AM should constitute some sort of prize or acknowledgment for listeners whose predictions are particularly accurate or astute.^{[ citation needed ]}

Immigration controversy [edit]

In tardily 2008, Bell and his wife filed an I-751 petition with the Usa Citizenship and Immigration Services as role of her spousal relationship-based green card process. In early 2009 the USCIS responded that they would need boosted evidence to prove that Bell's marriage to a Philippine national and subsequent green card application was in good religion. Bell responded with evidence including their wedlock license, their daughter'south birth document, Bell's last will and testament, bank records, family photos, and Social Security forms. Bell sent the package to the USCIS by return receipt mail, and he subsequently received the render receipt stamped "USCIS RECEIVED JAN-15-09."^[43]

On March x, 2009, Bell and his wife and girl left Nevada for Manila to deal with some family business including the disposition of a condo they owned. Shortly thereafter, the USCIS denied the application on the grounds that the documentary evidence was never received, and farther stipulated that Airyn Bong is non permitted to re-enter the United States, which is why Bell remained in the Philippines. Moreover, since the Bells were out of the land when the application was denied, they were required to start the process all over again.^[44]

On his June 6 circulate, Bell explained the situation and asked his listeners to send emails on his behalf to the White Firm.^{[ citation needed ]}

Events of 2010–15 [edit]

Bell hosted 10 episodes in 2010, 5 short of his publicly announced, contractually specified quota of 15 shows per yr. His terminal hosting gig was his annual Ghost to Ghost prove on Halloween night (this was the first show ever wherein Bell used call screeners). At the end of that circulate, Bell said "When they next phone call my proper name we'll come dorsum and we'll practise this one more than fourth dimension."

As of December 2010, Bell was no longer listed every bit a host on the Coast to Coast website; his shows were no longer searchable under his name; and the only references to Bell on the site were of an historical/archival nature. However, the weekly Somewhere in Time with Art Bell broadcasts of classic Bell-hosted episodes (which have aired earlier the live show on Saturday nights since 2006) were not discontinued.

On Dec 21, 2010, the "HamCam" on Bell's ham radio website^[45] featured an prototype with the following cryptic wording: "The Current of air No Longer Blows, in the End it was Without Direction. Long Live the Hot Air. 30" "-30-" is journalistic shorthand for "terminate of story."

It was announced in late December 2010 that Ian Punnett would host Bell's annual ii-function New year's Eve prediction shows. Initially, Noory had said that Bell was unable to host them because he would be traveling, but on Dec 24, 2010, Noory said: "We had asked Fine art to do his predictions show; he's going to spend time with his family unit. He's winding down, folks, he'south winding down...I don't conceptualize he'll exercise any more shows." On the first of the ii nights (December xxx, 2010), Punnett made a brief, oblique reference to his having the accolade of "picking up [Bell'due south] fallen mantle." On the Jan 1, 2011, show, Punnett stated he was "looking forward to doing the follow-up a twelvemonth from at present."

In email interactions with fans who accept written in to inquire well-nigh Bell'south absenteeism, Declension personnel confirmed that Bell had retired. According to Coast webmaster Lex Lonehood: "Art Bell decided he no longer wished to do alive C2C shows, and asked that his proper name exist removed from the host listings accordingly. Classics and Somewhere in Fourth dimension shows will proceed equally is."^[46] Coast producer Lisa Lyon told some other fan that Bong "has chosen to retire," but that "Art Bell will always be associated with our show, and he is welcome back to the mic whenever he feels the need."^[47]

Despite the in a higher place remarks from Punnett, Noory, Lyon, Lonehood and Bell, equally of January 6, 2011, an official public statement formally confirming Bell's deviation from Declension to Coast AM has all the same to be made via press release, website announcement or on-air, past any political party with the authorisation to do so—the show's producers, Premier Radio Networks, Clear Aqueduct Communications, or Bell himself. This lack of information has led to rampant speculation amidst Bong'southward fanbase as to the motivations and circumstances behind Bell'southward sudden absence; whether he had given his last live broadcast; and what—if anything—he might decide to do side by side.

During a chat on Feb 8, 2011, events became fifty-fifty more confusing for Bell'south fans as George Noory, during a public chat responding to a question regarding Bong, stated that Bong isn't responding to his emails. The questioner, "Coalspeaker," asked "Have you spoken to Fine art Bell lately? And if so is he and his family doing well?" Noory responded by saying, "No I haven't. Art has decided to retire for good this time. I assume all is well for him and his family. He has gone through many ups and downs. I sent him a very lengthy email a few months ago, and he never responded. Though he usually would."^[48] There was no further explanation beyond that point on why Bell did not answer to Mr. Noory'south email, although it only led Bell'south fanbase to speculate further.

In March 2011 a Facebook contour appeared claiming to be the legitimate page of "Arthur W. Bell 3," who posted hints that there would be a "big announcement" at the finish of April 2011. After much speculation and debate amongst fans and friends on that page and diverse Bong forums, and finally after directly intervention from a verified Bell account, the "Arthur W. Bell Iii" folio was proven to be a hoax, with no "big proclamation" imminent.^[49]

On July xx, 2011, Bell announced via his Facebook page that he had relocated with his family to Pahrump, Nevada. Subsequent posts indicate Bell and his family initially focusing on resettling his house and making it "fit for human habitation" once more, giving no indication virtually his radio plans, if whatsoever (across maintaining his HAM activity). Withal, on July xxx, Bell posted the post-obit: "There is so much to exercise and just so many hours in the mean solar day. There are things going on in the background that I will talk nigh at the proper time. The move was a large one and nosotros need time to conform."

On Baronial xix, 2011, Bell announced via Facebook "Phrase for the day...Stay tuned!", followed on Baronial 31 by the bulletin "Sorry for so few posts just we are working on this house every day similar dogs, much more before long." Some Bell fans voiced speculation that the phrase "stay tuned" may have been meant to indicate Bell's return to broadcasting in some course, but 2011 ended with no such announcement forthcoming, though presently before Christmas he did report that a malfunctioning fire extinguisher in his radio room caused tens of thousands of dollars' worth of damage to his equipment and business firm.

On Baronial twenty, 2012, Bell spoke of his grievances with Premiere Networks, claiming that he would before long tell the full story of the truth of his retirement. "I am merely virtually prepare to tell the real story of my so-called 'Retirements'. I have asked Premiere to stop the Saturday broadcasts and thus far they have not done so, as is their legal right. Gratuitous spoken language remains my right. I will shortly do information technology."

On November i, 2012, Bong updated his Facebook status with the following: "I wish my name was no longer associated with what Coast has become!"^[50]

Render to radio in 2013 [edit]

In January 2013, Bell announced on Facebook, "I am at present in negotiation for a new Radio testify, stay tuned. No promises merely the wind may be about to modify direction!"^[51]

"I approximate it is time to end any farther speculation that I will return to the air any fourth dimension soon. I accept given (2) very solid offers a lot of thought and take turned them down. My reasons are many, though I am profoundly lamentable at the current land of the testify, both offers would take been direct competition with Coast and anger is the wrong reason to keep. Also I really do not want to destroy what I built despite its current country. Asia will exist in first grade in the Fall and getting up very early on, I would exist up late and sleeping belatedly, I would not run into much of her or Airyn. Life is brusk and I want to spend what I take left with my Family. I hope my friends sympathize..."^{[ commendation needed ]}

In June 2013, Bell announced on his Facebook folio that his official website, artbell.com, would be relaunching. On July 10, 2013, a ruby, white, and blue textual representation of a smiley confront was displayed on the website. The site'due south favicon is a picture of a grayness conflicting.^[52] On July 11, 2013, the smiley face was replaced with a red, white, and blue Morse lawmaking script that translated to "Wanna take a ride?".^[53]

On July 29, 2013, Bell officially announced a return to the airwaves with a launch date of September xvi, 2013. His new show Art Bong'southward Dark Matter was broadcast on SiriusXM satellite radio's Indie Talk channel (channel #104), Monday through Th from seven PM to 11 PM PT with repeats during the residual of the night and "best of" shows airing on Fridays.^[54] His official website was updated on that date to include the announcement.^[55]

On November iv, 2013, Bell left Night Matter afterwards merely six weeks.^{[56] [4]}

On November 7, 2013, Bell appear and began testing for potential Internet streaming sources.^[57]

Midnight in the Desert radio show [edit]

On July 20, 2015, Bell returned with his new show Midnight in the Desert. The show aired on the net Nighttime Thing Digital network and on 45 stations (xx of which signed on before the bear witness started) from 9 PM to midnight PT. He as well started transmitting on shortwave radio on WTWW at 5.085 MHz as well.^{[ citation needed ]}

On Dec 11, 2015, Bell announced that he had permanently stepped down as host of Midnight in the Desert due to concerns virtually his family unit's safe.^[58] Bell had reported multiple instances of someone shooting firearms at and near his property in the fall of 2015.^[59] The show Midnight in the Desert continued with new host Heather Wade, and shortly after Art'due south death Dave Schrader became the host. Bell made the occasional guest host appearance.^[sixty]

Death [edit]

Art Bell died Apr xiii, 2018, at historic period 72 at his home in Pahrump, Nevada.^[61] An autopsy was scheduled for the following days to determine the crusade of his death.^{[62] [63]} He had suffered from health issues in the previous years. He posted on his website in July 2016 that he was hospitalized for pneumonia and revealed at the time that he suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary affliction.^[64]

On August 1, 2018, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported the Clark County coroner's function findings. The coroner'due south part stated that Bong died of an accidental overdose from a cocktail of prescription drugs. The coroner's office determined he had iv prescription medications in his organisation: the opioids oxycodone or Roxicet and hydrocodone or Vicodin, diazepam or Valium, and carisoprodol or Soma, a muscle-relaxant. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and hypertension as well contributed to his death.^[65]

George Noory, current host of Declension To Coast AM, appear Bell's expiry and while struggling to keep his composure stated, "Art and I were not that close. Nosotros had our differences, simply he was one of those instrumental in me existence where I am right at present."^[66]

Books [edit]

Bong wrote, or co-wrote, several books, including The Quickening: Today's Trends, Tomorrow's Earth; The Art of Talk (an autobiography); The Source: Journey Through the Unexplained; The Edge: Man's Mysterious Past & Incredible Future; and The Coming Global Superstorm (co-authored with Whitley Streiber), which became the basis for the pop picture show, The Day Afterward Tomorrow.^{[ citation needed ]}

Other work [edit]

In 1996, Bell appeared in an episode of the NBC scientific discipline fiction serial Dark Skies as William S. Paley, caput of CBS.^{[ citation needed ]}

On September thirty, 1998, NBC's Today Show aired a taped segment of reporter Fred Francis interviewing Bell. Francis questioned Bell almost Hale-Bopp, Area 51, eccentric callers claiming to be "6-fingered alien hybrids", also as the UFO sighting experienced past Bell and his married woman Ramona.^{[ commendation needed ]}

In 1999, Bell appeared as himself on the series Millennium. The episode called "Collateral Damage" aired in the tertiary flavour and dealt with a former U.South. soldier who claimed the government he fought for was indeed responsible for horrendous tests on soldiers and Iraqi civilians. (This episode was broadcast on January 22, 1999. The Washington Mail, Jan 22, 1999.)^{[ not specific plenty to verify ]} In 1999 Bell was interviewed on Larry King Alive. (This was broadcast on March 5, 1999. The Washington Mail, March 5, 1999.)^{[ not specific enough to verify ]}

Progressive rock band Tool's 2001 album, Lateralus, featured a track entitled "Faaip de Oiad" (Enochian for "The Voice of God"), which includes a clip of the "distraught and terrified" Area 51 employee phone call from September eleven, 1997.^{[ citation needed ]}

In 2005, Bell and then-wife Ramona were featured on the ABC News special: Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs – Seeing Is Believing, which reported on the entire scope of the UFO experience, from the first sighting by Kenneth Arnold in 1947 to the present day. (This was circulate on February 24, 2005. The Washington Post, 2-20-05.)^{[ not specific enough to verify ]}

In 2005, snippets of Bell and callers to his show were featured on the song "Conspiracy Radio" on Sean Hogan's album Catalina Sunrise: Bell is credited for "voice-overs" on this rails.^{[ commendation needed ]}

In 2006, Bell was featured in the video game Casualty and played himself. He hosts, as in real life, Coast to Coast AM, and the player is able to listen to the broadcast at several terminals throughout the game. The broadcasts describe what is happening on Earth as the game unfolds. The game plot centers around a massive spaceship and alien abductions. Bell receives a number of calls about people who have seen smaller craft as they housebreak people.^{[ citation needed ]}

In 2007, Bell appeared as himself in the movie I Know Who Killed Me.^{[ citation needed ]}

Bell appeared alongside Mark Arnold in the 2016 film titled Abduct, directed by Ilyas Kaduji and produced by Mafalda Sa. Bell plays himself as he and a group of friends try to aid protect a young woman from an conflicting threat.^[67]

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35. ^ "Facebook announcement". Facebook. Dec 11, 2015. Archived from the original on December 13, 2015. I am deplorable to have to announce this but I will not be on Tonight or any other night, yeah I am going to hang it up. Whoever this crazy person is, they are non stopping and it has come up to the point that nosotros every bit a Family unit do not experience it is worth the risk. While I remember the person or persons are after me, my Wife and at present my Daughter are actually scared, the other night afterwards the latest incident my Girl was off in the corner of her bed scared to death as the Police cars came screaming up. I volition not put my Family through this. As you all know I dearly love what I practice but non at the expense of never-ending Terrorism. I desire to give thanks those of you who accept shown so much support and information technology has been my joy, curt equally it has been to take croaky that Mic open for a last time. This was a Family decision. The girls stuck with me and still would but if one of them were harmed because of what I dear doing my life would be over. Fine art
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References [edit]

• Davis, Pamela (January 11, 2001). "ten years to abound, 1 snip to become". Leningrad Times. Retrieved April 19, 2007.
• Vance, Ashlee (July 31, 2006). "SETI urged to fess upwardly over alien signals". The Annals. Archived from the original on April 2, 2007. Retrieved Apr 19, 2007.
• Adams, Noah (Oct 14, 1998). "All Things Considered: Art Bell Signs Off". National Public Radio (NPR) . Retrieved April 19, 2007.
• "Bell Tolls No More". Wired News. Oct thirteen, 1998. Retrieved April nineteen, 2007.

Farther reading [edit]

• Ronson, Jon. The Men Who Stare at Goats, Picador, 2004 ISBN 0-330-37547-iv; Simon & Schuster, 2006 ISBN 978-0-7432-7060-1. Chapter 6, "Privatization," pp. 93–114.

External links [edit]

• Official website

toutchertakedent.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Bell

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