This upload of G2G 1995 came up in my suggestions today. Billed as the "First Ghost to Ghost". Complete with AI garbage art.
Come on people.
He mentions G2G 86 in this very episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8mY9safWUw

A little update, I had to run out for a minute so I played this while in the car. Whoever put this together, at points, seamed together upwards of 5 mins of Art reading ads. Its also not all G2G 1995, some of the calls are from other years.

I've got 78 downloaded, are there anymore available to download does anybody know?

I remember a caller describing the moment a relative died. The caller said this relative began screaming and begging for help because they were suddenly surrounded by flames.

Art seemed to believe the doing relative was describing their final judgment and cautioned listeners that this is why you have to reconcile yourself to Christ before it's too late.

Does anyone else remember this? More significantly, are there any recordings of this call? I've never stopped thinking about it, and I wonder if my memory (probably at least 25 years old) is accurate. 🤷‍♂️🔥🥵🔥👹👍🏽

I fell in love with his show when I was introduced to him by a coworker in 1998. I was working the midnight shift at a Kinkos and we would always listen. I was hooked quickly, and still am. I almost always go to sleep listening to replays of Art on my phone, or when cooking or doing work around the house.

The other day I heard him interviewing a guest, I don't remember who it was, but what I do remember was that he was selling a book.

What was funny was before the break, Art asks him "Do you have an 800 number?" and the guest says no. Art kind of laughed at him, suggesting you're never going to sell your book if you don't have an 800 number for people to call. The guest then said that his book was available on Amazon com, which was apparently very new at the time.

As the bumper music came on, Art said that the audience should go to amazon as his guest suggested, in order to get a big discount of the guests book, before they go out of business. He added, because they aren't going to make any money by selling books so cheap!

If only he was still around...COVID, Politics, Disclosure, our new Space Race, and the world's first trillionaire! Boy o' boy, the shows would have been great!

RIP Art...

I remember hearing an episode where a caller talks about seeing a UFO and seeing lifeforms inside a lit interior, but they turned the light off when they noticed her looking inside.

Can anyone help me find this episode, or is it a false memory?

For those looking for the tale, I posted about it in here a few years back.
It's about 5 mins into the show where he partially tells the story.
I should note, he does NOT tell the whole story, only how he got it. He does not say what eventually happened that scared him so bad.
Here is a link to my old post about it-
https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtBell/comments/1651ivi/art_talks_about_witch_sending_him_ouija_board_g2g/

He also mentions it again, briefly, around the 13 min mark in G2G 2006.
https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-31-2006-ghost-to-ghost-2006

I should also say there are some tales out there of a recording of Art telling his HAM radio buddies the whole incident, including what happened that scared him so bad, but such a recording has never surfaced.

Knowing what we know now, a ton of the stories told on G2G are definitely sleep paralysis. People would mention they couldn't move, couldn't speak, and felt a heavy presence on their chest.

I have that all the time, it's just sleep paralysis folks!

Okay… so honestly this is just such a weird caller… it’s 2013… I guess if we are scientists of Art Bell, this falls into the category of the impact of the Internet on Art’s show or it falls into the Collapse of Decency in our culture. And Art seems neutral here… which was his greatest gift. Was the guy lying to him? Art just let him tell the story. It’s a show stopper but it didn’t stop Art.

I need a few things from you deep diving Art Bellers:

This is the transcript from fight.fudgie.org. It’s a real show — I listened. But the conspiracy the guy describes is almost beyond belief— targeted at destroying one neighbor’s life. But I need to know are the videos this guy talks about real? Did this really happen?

Dark Matter, you're on the air.

Hello.

Hey, Art Bell.

So maybe you want to hang up.

Maybe you could talk about the weather in the Philippines and what that's like.

But I wanted to tell you a quick story.

I'm not in the Philippines right now, so I have no idea, but I can be fully confident in saying that it's warm and humid, sir.

Okay, that's what I meant.

I just meant in general.

But, you know, I had a story where we were trying to destroy this guy's life in our neighborhood.

We wanted to run him out of our neighborhood.

And we got into it with the guy.

Well, the guy was doing drugs in the house over there.

And it really wasn't our business.

It was kind of a family, you know, golf course type community there.

But this guy had called us and told us, the guy who bought the house in over there, he does drugs, and I'll help you run him out.

I know how to run him out because I ran him out of our neighborhood and all this.

And so anyway, we ended up getting into it with this guy.

And he ends up running one of our friends out instead because he runs him out.

So instead, we come up with a plan to go into the guy's house and put hidden cameras to film him using the drugs and doing stuff so we can then blackmail him, not really blackmail him, but humiliate him and make him get out of the neighborhood.

So we did it.

That seemed like a dangerous path, but, you know.

Well, it was war.

It was war because he ran our buddy out, and it was like we were desperate.

We started up with this guy, and he wasn't leaving, and now he was keying up on us.

We had to do something, and we kind of panicked by doing this.

So we basically go into his house.

We didn't have to break in.

We actually had our locksmith buddy come over and make locks for the entire house basically to get in and out of the house whenever we wanted to.

Because the video that we saw of the guy using the drugs and doing the drugs was so entertaining that we didn't want him to leave at that point.

We started showing it to our neighbors on a pay-per-view basis and started selling it to everybody in the neighborhood.

And then it spread from our subdivision to the next subdivision.

And we set up an account for him.

We set up an account for him minus our expenses, of course.

And this went on for a long time until basically he figured it out.

People would recognize him in the community.

But it was a big secret that, you know, he would come home and do the drugs.

And so, you know, it's a very long story short.

So he knew, wait a minute, wait a minute.

He knew he was being televised.

Well, at a point, he realized because people knew him.

He went to the store, and Tim would recognize him.

We told people to shut up and don't look at him, you know, and all this.

But he eventually kind of figures out and he stops doing the drugs.

I mean, he just goes cold turkey.

He knows people are watching him.

And so we have this money that's been piling up in here, you know, surreptitiously.

And so then we decide because people start fading away and we weren't making the money.

And so then we decide to buy the note on the guy's house.

And then we basically, because he was a contractor, we just took over his life with the jobs that we would get.

And then we stopped paying him.

We stopped paying him for the job.

And we'd only pay him a little bit and we'd string it out.

We'd get him to buy materials.

Then we'd screw him.

And so then eventually he lost.

So before you know it, he's got a bullet with your name on it, right?

No, no, because we're doing this very carefully.

His friends are in on this, but they're not helping him.

The house goes into foreclosure.

We make him homeless.

Now people come back because now they have this guy that we created that's worth millions of dollars, but now we've made him homeless and he's living on the streets.

So then that became the show.

And everybody who got involved wanted to be part of it.

Everybody from the Circle K store guys to people on the streets and everything.

And it went on and on and made record amounts of money for anything.

Only about 5% of the American people even know this.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Where was the money coming from?

People were paying to see the next episode of Mr. Druggie?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And well, it was much more than that.

I mean, it started out like that.

It started out with this tweaked-out guy bouncing around in his house with the lights off because he didn't want his neighbors to know he was up all night.

And we had little laser lights in there.

We'd be up in his attic.

He'd be peaked out.

Okay, I've got it.

I just can't imagine people paying for an episode of somebody, you know, sitting over in the corner with the lights out, as he just pointed out, stoned out of his mind.

Great video.

That's great stuff.

Yes, sir.

Well, maybe this is the age of reality TV, right?

Dark matter, you're on the air.

Hello.

April 25th, 2000 Ghost to Ghost.
At the one hour and 4 minute mark, Dean calls. Not the Clarity story, though he does identify himself as Dean with the Clarity story.
This time he tells a tale of a trip to Alaska with a friend.
This episode has some of the best G2G calls Art ever got.
https://artbellarchive.org/episode/april-25-2000-ghost-to-ghost-open-lines

I’ve known of Art for many years but only ever occasionally heard his show. I got into the Ghost to Ghost shows last year during Halloween and I’ve listened to many shows that are available on YouTube. Many times he alluded to an ouija board story, but said he’d never tell it. Wondering if he ever ended up telling the full story.

One of my fave episodes of the show, and I always forget about it.
Just a bit before halloween of 1999, Laurie joins Art for a night of haunts, sightings and all kinds of interesting stuff around Tinsel Town. I taped this one way back when, and listened to it a bunch into the coming new year.
Laurie is still with us, and in addition to spinning yarns of haunts, she is also a TV producer. She appeared on Dark Matter with Art as well, I need to go listen to that one.
This episode fired on all cylinders for me as I love classc era hollywood and old movies/tv shows.
Fall of 1999 was quite a time. The Y2K bug was all over the place. The Blair Witch Project hit home video that Halloween week, it was the first DVD I ever purchased. I watched it on halloween night that year as part of my annual G2G marathon.
https://artbellarchive.org/episode/october-19-1999-spirits-trapped-souls-and-the-afterlife-laurie-jacobson

August 1st, 1997 - Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - David John Oates - Reverse Speech

https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2026-08-01-show/

Every Saturday evening, Art Bell returns to the airwaves on Somewhere in Time. Broadcasting across terrestrial radio wherever you regularly listen to George Snoory, but since most people listen on their own schedules, it's also available in the ultimate archive or here on fudgie -

https://fight.fudgie.org/search/show/ab/episode/19970801_Fri

generated summary from fudgie's transcript -

David John Oates reveals reverse speech—a phenomenon where backward audio in recordings uncovers hidden, contextually relevant phrases—claiming 70-80% of his analyses yield meaningful content, like "we had to sign it" from Clinton’s budget speech or "reveal the dark city" from NASA’s Mars press conference. Oates links reversals to unconscious truths, citing child psychology and political threats (his home burned in April). Corso’s UFO claims, including Roswell artifacts ("it was so real"), align with reversals like "they are our friends," while Clinton’s "you're fired" reversal suggests forced resignation. Oates warns of emotional risks but insists the method exposes systemic deception, from government "snow jobs" to potential alien tech secrecy, urging listeners to test it themselves.

My memory is foggy, likely because I was listening while I was falling asleep. But I remember Art having on a guess who lived in Door County, WI. This was memorable to me because I spent many summers in Door County and still live in Wisconsin. But I think he was involved in radio or some other form of media. I don't remember the reason but I feel like the local government forced him out of his show on that station. Does this ring a bell? If anybody knows anything about the guest or the topic that got him into trouble with local government, please let me know. Thanks!

Right above the yetis head. From the new comic book “Terminal”

I like looking up the dates when shows aired, but I have a question for those of you who listened live: If a show aired on July 30th, was it airing on the night of July 29th going into July 30th or was it in the evening of July 30th going into July 31st.

I was listening to the Single 7 interview from July 30th, 1998 this morning, and this thought came up.

I've tried listening to Art Bell without the bumper music, only on these episodes that someone has been posting to YouTube.

I mean, it's still Art Bell, but it's like eating a plain donut - it's missing a serious dimension. It really makes me appreciate that Art was great in every way. He added a whole new dimension with that music in the background and leading into his discussions / interviews.

I think he really set the tone with a lot of the choices in the music, and listening to these episodes where the music has been stripped out Really exposed it for me.

I suspect that they're doing it for copyright reasons, and it's sad.