I do agree the remote viewing stuff is boring. They once had a Creationist (who actually was a fairly legitimate sounding scientist, not just some random fundie) on the show, and scientist specializing in evolution on the next night, and they were both trying to debunk each other. Those were a couple of interesting nights, and the callers actually came up with some really good Qs. That was when art was still hosting though. Spring 2001 I think.
I like the ghost shows because they’re creepy, but the ghost stuff doesn’t keep me awake at night. I have to be careful with the UFO stories, because even seeing one of those grey faces can have me sleeping only in the daytime for a week. I’ve had a pretty severe phobia of them since I was a little kid.
Muxh the way I discovered it: working the 7 pm-7 am shift driving a cab.
Some of the stuff when Art Bell was on was not utterly freakazoid, just “edgy.” Stuff like “what are the odds of an asteroid hitting Earth” or having some scientist on to try and explain String theory. Some of this was quite educational. But then on the next night, he’d say, totally deadpan … “line one will be reserved for Time Travellers. Please call line one only if you are in fact a visitor from the future.”
So long as you don’t think about the fact that many of these callers are in fact deeply disturbed people running around loose, it can be very funny.
In this thread, I told my favorite Art Bell moment. He asked for callers who thought they were the second coming of Christ.
I tend to think George Noory buys a lot more of the paranormal stuff, and the show has gone downhill; it’s lost the balance it used to have and become completely the province of the nutjobs.
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All this time I thought they were talking about contrails (and silently wondering WTF?) I’ll blame it on poor reception and low volume level so as not to wake the Mrs.
I don’t recall ever hearing that, but he did claim that he saw one once: driving across the Nevada desert at night with his wife. A giant, silent, floating black triangle the size of a football field, “so low, if I’d have thrown a rock, I practically could have hit the thing” (or words to that effect).
Several people have nailed the appeal of this show: rather like watching old “Outer Limits” episodes, or sitting out on the porch on a summer’s night, drinking beer and trading ghost stories. I, like others, don’t listen so much since Art quit (and came back, and quit, and came back, and quit), but I see he’s on weekends now. I may have to tune back in.
The ghost story nights were my favorites, but does anybody remember the Jonathan Reed story, where an alien he found in the woods killed his dog? So what does he do? He clubs it with a tree branch and takes it home and puts it in his freezer…where it REVIVES! He made three or four shows, I think, each one more outlandish than the last. Totally bogus, of course, but it made for some great late night listening. The true story behind it is almost more entertaining than the original yarn.
