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posted by fyngyrz on Monday April 16 2018, @12:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the coast-to-coast-I-believe dept.

Submitted via IRC for Sulla

From heavy.com:

Art Bell, the radio host, is dead. How did he die? The cause of death is not yet known.

From The Washington Post:

Long before fake news became a political topic, Mr. Bell made a good living encouraging Americans to accept the most fantastic and unlikely tales, to believe that we are not alone, to accept that in a world where the pace of life seemed to quicken with every passing year, there were forces from beyond that were trying to tell us something.

Sources:
https://heavy.com/news/2018/04/art-bell-dead-cause-of-death-dies-how/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/art-bell-mysterious-narrator-of-the-american-nightscape-is-dead-at-72/2018/04/14/b6f2b278-4015-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html?utm_term=.7a7db7da9686


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  • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Monday April 16 2018, @12:50AM (9 children)

    by Snotnose (1623) on Monday April 16 2018, @12:50AM (#667435)

    Listened to your show a handful of times, a few decades ago. Back then it was common to get together with friends, smoke a joint or 3, have a beer or 6, and talk about whatever was on the radio.

    None of us bought into your conspiracy theories but we all enjoyed listening to your show.

    Then job, responsibilities, house, etc etc etc and my time to listen to your brand of crap dwindled to 0.

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    • (Score: 2) by Kilo110 on Monday April 16 2018, @01:09AM (8 children)

      by Kilo110 (2853) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 16 2018, @01:09AM (#667441)

      I can relate to this. I was huge into paranormal stuff, listened to him, loved the xfiles, and generally nerded out on the internet during the web 1.0 days. Fun times. Good memories.

      Maybe it's in my head, but I feel the culture and society was radically different pre 9/11. Shows like art bell wouldn't work today.

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @01:51AM (6 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @01:51AM (#667455)

        Maybe it's in my head, but I feel the culture and society was radically different pre 9/11. Shows like art bell wouldn't work today.

        It's not in your head. Millennial culture demands obedience to authority, participation in social media, and virtue signalling on social media to show obedience to authority. GenXers who never lost the emo attitude of the 1990s, who are quietly confident instead of spamming social media about their lives, and who continue to show irreverence toward authority have no place in society. They don't work, literally, because they are middle aged homeless bums who are incapable of performing the requisite cocksucking to land a job.

        • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @01:58AM (5 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @01:58AM (#667456)

          quietly confident instead of spamming social media about their lives
          Says the dude posting on the internet in a forum under AC...

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @02:06AM (4 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @02:06AM (#667457)

            You don't understand the meaning of quietly confident, do you? I post as AC because I know who I am and who I am doesn't matter. I make a bonfire of my reputation by not having a reputation. I am the exact polar opposite of MICHAEL DAVID CRAWFORD who spams his name everywhere and builds his reputation around his giant ego while disingenuously posting articles on his blog about making a bonfire of his reputation.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @02:14AM (3 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @02:14AM (#667460)

              I am the exact bi-polar opposite of MICHAEL DAVID CRAWFORD

              FTFY! Sometimes weird is just not wierd enough.

              • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @02:36AM (2 children)

                by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @02:36AM (#667469)

                MDC is ego manic. AC is emo depressive.

                • (Score: 2) by black6host on Monday April 16 2018, @03:45AM (1 child)

                  by black6host (3827) on Monday April 16 2018, @03:45AM (#667490) Journal

                  I'm glad this place is a small place, with personality. Where else would the initialism of MDC make sense?

                  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday April 17 2018, @09:24AM

                    by Bot (3902) on Tuesday April 17 2018, @09:24AM (#667972) Journal

                    > Where else would the initialism of MDC make sense?
                    Wherever people know Roman numerals, you insipiens clod. :D

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      • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Monday April 16 2018, @07:05PM

        by fyngyrz (6567) on Monday April 16 2018, @07:05PM (#667759) Journal

        Shows like art bell wouldn't work today.

        The show definitely still works. It's called "Coast to Coast AM" now, and it's still on. [coasttocoastam.com] Lots and lots of listeners.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @12:59AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @12:59AM (#667438)

    Prominent guest, member of the Stargate Project, and psychedelic artist

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo_Swann [wikipedia.org]
    https://ingoswann.com/artist [ingoswann.com]
    http://www.avam.org/our-visionaries/ingo-swann.shtml [avam.org]

    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by TaxiCabJesus on Monday April 16 2018, @02:47AM

      by TaxiCabJesus (6455) on Monday April 16 2018, @02:47AM (#667472) Homepage

      A friend gave me a cassette tape with most of Ingo Swann's interview with Art Bell. The interview was probably around 1998, when Penetration: The Question of Human and Extra-Terrestrial Telepathy was originally (self-)published; I got the cassette in 2001 or so.

      In 2004 I was clicking around Mr. Swann's website, was annoyed that the book was out of print, and ordered everything else he had for sale... In the process of completing that order I noticed that Ingo was going to be speaking in Las Vegas in 2 or 3 weeks. At the book signing after his talk, I told him why I thought he'd let his self-published book go out of print. He responded... "I suppose..." (me: doh!). Then I said that it was $120 on amazon. He said, "really? Don't pay that, you'll find a copy."

      As the years went by, the price of secondhand copies got up to $1000... (They've republished it since he passed - 1st editions are probably reasonably priced now.)

      I quoted Ingo to a passenger once. She'd interrupted my safety talk to say something about a 'psychic' having told her something-or-other. I hrmph'd [urbandictionary.com], and responded with "The Super-Psychic Ingo Swann said that we all have the ability to see the future, so that we can change it.." She didn't know anything about Ingo Swann, but that little quip sealed my crucifixion.

      I eventually found a copy of Penetration at the 2016 VNSA booksale [vnsabooksale.org]'s rare & unusual section ($17). Someone had categorized it as an 'Adult' book. I wonder if this was as Mr. Swann had foreseen.

      In 2004 Ingo said he didn't prepare speeches anymore, and just answered questions, but something must've motivated him to put a talk together for 2006... Ingo's 2006 las vegas speech is on Youtube, I think.

  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday April 16 2018, @01:00AM (4 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 16 2018, @01:00AM (#667439)

    R. Lee Ermey also reported dead. I've never seen the two of them together at the same time... could they be the same guy? naw... well, maybe. Both did have memorable voices.

    • (Score: 2, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday April 16 2018, @01:15AM (3 children)

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday April 16 2018, @01:15AM (#667443) Homepage

      Let's hope he's unscrewing Allah's head and shitting down his neck.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @02:20AM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @02:20AM (#667463)

        Duke Nukem, is that you? Remember the old days when Alien Bastards abducted President Bill Clinton? Now that Slick Willy, he was worth rescuing. Bush, Obama, the aliens can keep them. Trump wouldn't need rescuing. He'd grab the Alien Queen by the pussy and tweet about it.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @01:04AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @01:04AM (#667440)

    Is Friday the 13th now officially Bellend day?

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday April 16 2018, @01:37AM (6 children)

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday April 16 2018, @01:37AM (#667449) Homepage

      Why in the new Rampage movie is George the gorilla depicted as an albino when in the original game he was clearly not? [wordpress.com]

      Is it now wrong, for some mysterious reason, to depict primates with their natural coloring that God gave them?

      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @02:16AM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @02:16AM (#667461)

        Well, it's a White Rampage, alt-right?

        • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday April 16 2018, @03:12AM (1 child)

          by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday April 16 2018, @03:12AM (#667477) Homepage

          Albino gorillas happen in nature, but my point is that the original George was not an albino gorilla.

          This Jew-run version typical of modern historical revisionism has gone beyond portraying noble Whites as Blacks, now it seeks to portray angry Blacks as Whites, albeit in a subtle manner.

          George the albino silverback did everything he could to embrace the rites of his own people: he had learned how to "hip-hop-rap," he had submitted to Dr. Dre in the studio as a "bottom bitch," and yet, the darker kind refused to accept him. Now, after becoming addicted to meth some other mysterious incident allowed him to grow to the size of a multi-story building, and during that process he magically became an allegory of the alt-right: Now he takes out all that alt-right rage on everybody he can, destroying much shit in the process.

          The Jews running Hollywood learned their lessons from the remake of Planet of the Apes. This is a brilliant-but-subtle adaptation of their technique.

          • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @04:29PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @04:29PM (#667685)

            I wouldn't be surprised. In nearly every commercial, tv show and web image slide show, the voice, the hero, the boss, the person positioned in the front, etc. all have to be black. Affirmative action has gone full psyop. I don't know if it's all the Jews' fault, but the neo nazi propaganda about an alliance between Jews and blacks certainly turned out to be true. Now, i think it's more the blue haired zombie soldiers churned out of scholastic and Judaeo-christian religious institutions who are so self destructive they do all the dirty work for their masters. I would be very picky with the tv if i were a parent.

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Monday April 16 2018, @04:10AM (2 children)

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday April 16 2018, @04:10AM (#667501) Homepage Journal

        They call him George. That's too bad. Because they could call him Gorilla Ice.

        • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday April 16 2018, @04:49AM (1 child)

          by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday April 16 2018, @04:49AM (#667511) Homepage

          You are thinking of Blizzard, the Gorilla fighter featured in the game Primal rage. [wikipedia.org]

          He was like the Mortal Kombat's Sub-Zero in that he used ice as his weapon.

          Now, I like references to old video games in movies. But the Jews are getting intellectually lazy in raping old ideas to be exploited. They are running out of ideas. Captain America 10 and Transformers 43 are getting old. It's only a matter of time until they are so bankrupt of ideas that they make Galaga or Space Invaders movies. But while they are listening, hopefully they will make Two Crude, [wikipedia.org] Bad Dudes, [wikipedia.org] or Operation Wolf [wikipedia.org] movies.

          Those just may keep the rest of us sated for awhile.

          • (Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Monday April 16 2018, @07:39PM

            by Osamabobama (5842) on Monday April 16 2018, @07:39PM (#667767)

            ...the Jews are getting intellectually lazy in raping old ideas to be exploited.

            I know, right? They keep trotting out those 2000 year old persecution stories, too. I mean give it a rest, nobody sane has blamed the Jews for their problems for a very long time.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by CZB on Monday April 16 2018, @03:32AM (1 child)

    by CZB (6457) on Monday April 16 2018, @03:32AM (#667485)

    I was up late in college doing math homework, listening to Art Bell talk about chupacabras. I went to bed thinking about how much I didn't believe there could be such a thing, but the in the dark late night ... that's when - the only time - the cat jumped on my chest.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by black6host on Monday April 16 2018, @03:49AM

      by black6host (3827) on Monday April 16 2018, @03:49AM (#667491) Journal

      Indeed. Pure entertainment... It's funny how people want to argue, or debate, about things that are troll bait all the way. But people do and Art Bell made a lot of money having fun with it. And a lot of people enjoyed it. Take for what it is and RIP Mr. Bell.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Hartree on Monday April 16 2018, @03:42AM (2 children)

    by Hartree (195) on Monday April 16 2018, @03:42AM (#667489)

    I called in and got on the air on his program once when I lived in Albuqueruqe in the 90s. He was talking about foreign military gear being seen in New Mexico.

    I told about the various Russian SAM and ballistic missile launchers (An SA-6 that had been captured during the Yom Kippur War and mockups of a Scud TEL) at Kirtland Air Force Base (Air Force Weapons Lab/Phillips Lab), and that no, they weren't part of a new world order invasion force. If you're building sensors to detect and target them, you have to have something to test them on.
    We'd occasionally see them drive off base to get to some of the testing areas. My roommate at the time was an Air Force officer stationed there.

    There was also a German Tornado squadron at Holloman AFB in (for training). One squadron was hardly a major threat to the entire USAF. ;)

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @04:54AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @04:54AM (#667512)

      There was also a German Tornado squadron at Holloman AFB in (for training). One squadron was hardly a major threat to the entire USAF. ;)

      Indeed, as
      a. They were German.
      b.(More Importantly) They were flying Tornados.

      Now, had it been a squadron of RAF Buccaneers.....

      • (Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday April 17 2018, @09:33AM

        by Bot (3902) on Tuesday April 17 2018, @09:33AM (#667974) Journal

        c. the F35 wasn't already deployed in full

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  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday April 16 2018, @04:44AM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday April 16 2018, @04:44AM (#667507) Homepage Journal

    About 911, about many things. 👽👾🌌 @ArtBell51 [twitter.com] was one of our greatest showmen. RIP!! Thoughts & prayers with Airyn Bell and the kids.

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by ilPapa on Monday April 16 2018, @05:52AM (2 children)

    by ilPapa (2366) on Monday April 16 2018, @05:52AM (#667523) Journal

    I learned to sleep with headphones on, listening to Art Bell (so as not to disturb the wife). I'd fall asleep right away but the stories on Coast2Coast would filter into my dreams, as would his bumper music. I remember one morning, many years ago, with vivid memories of a dream of a bottomless hole in my back yard, and strange screams coming up from the hole. I later figured out that it was my subconscious mixing two different Art Bell stories.

    When Bell retired, I no longer enjoyed sleeping to Coast2Coast. His successor didn't have those wonderful pipes and ability to tell stories and interview. So now I find paranormal and esoteric podcasts about high strangeness. There are a few out there that strike the right tone for me. I like Radio Misterioso and Where Did The Road Go?. Sometimes The Higherside Chats is good, but too often their host gets used by alt-right conspiracy jackoffs like pizzagate and qanon. Then, he wastes a few shows on those topics before figuring out that they're bullshit. Unfortunately, a lot of the podcasters believe their personal lives and banter are interesting, and that spoils a lot of such podcasts, like Mysterious Universe and Grimerica. I wish they'd just get to the spooky shit and knock off the chit chat. Not many people can be as arresting just telling some mundane story the way Art Bell was.

    If any of you know of any high strangeness podcasts that you can recommend, I'd love you to list a few.

    RIP, Art Bell.

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    • (Score: 1) by justinb_76 on Monday April 16 2018, @11:39AM (1 child)

      by justinb_76 (4362) on Monday April 16 2018, @11:39AM (#667582)

      you should check out the Paranormies podcast - yeah I suppose it falls under the "alt-right conspiracy jackoffs" category to some extent, but worth a listen. They recently did a multi part bit on the Hollow Earth theory, and the episode they did on the Titanic actually being the Olympic was awesome...

      • (Score: 2) by ilPapa on Monday April 16 2018, @10:41PM

        by ilPapa (2366) on Monday April 16 2018, @10:41PM (#667834) Journal

        you should check out the Paranormies podcast

        I just did a quick scan and I see they're Holocaust "skeptics". No thanks. If I want to hear that stuff, I'll go straight to Red Ice Radio, Stormfront or Fox News.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday April 16 2018, @03:04PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Monday April 16 2018, @03:04PM (#667652) Journal

    He was my graveyard-shift security job's fuel in the early 90s. I drifted away from Coast to Coast when he moved from politics into paranormal. I thought he was an astute and entertaining political commentator and even when I disagreed with his opinions he was still worth listening to. But even after he transitioned C2C to Dreamland, I'd tune in and often listen to his intro or bits and pieces, just because I loved his radio voice. His successors, not so much.

    Oh well. We all go sometime, and I'm glad he found a life doing what he wanted and where he wanted. Condolences to Airyn and his family and friends, and all of us.

    And when I want to buy broadcast radio gear - not often but it happens - I still turn to C. Crane first and I have gotten several things from them over the years.

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  • (Score: 2) by Hartree on Monday April 16 2018, @03:23PM (1 child)

    by Hartree (195) on Monday April 16 2018, @03:23PM (#667657)

    "Now, had it been a squadron of RAF Buccaneers....."

    We would have been very surprised because the last of the Buccaneers were retired a couple years earlier.

    • (Score: 2) by Hartree on Monday April 16 2018, @04:29PM

      by Hartree (195) on Monday April 16 2018, @04:29PM (#667686)

      Whoops. Posted in the wrong place. Must have been a time warp created by aliens?

  • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Monday April 16 2018, @08:15PM (1 child)

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Monday April 16 2018, @08:15PM (#667782) Homepage

    Cause of Death Unclear

    It's what he would have wanted.

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    • (Score: 1) by Sulla on Monday April 16 2018, @11:55PM

      by Sulla (5173) on Monday April 16 2018, @11:55PM (#667857) Journal

      Glad that the Kingdom of Nye's Sheriff made that happen

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @08:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @08:34PM (#667789)

    It was Aliens!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @10:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 16 2018, @10:26PM (#667828)

    Video killed the radio star!

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