Art Bell Dies

I'm very sorry to report that Art Bell has died. He was the founder, and was for many years the leading presenter, of Coast to Coast AM, the original and definitive UFO/Paranormal/Conspiracy Theory radio programme, first hitting the air in 1984, appropriately, see: https://www.coasttocoastam.com/. As such, Art has been very influential on many other UFO/Para/Con radio broadcasters, including myself. Coast to Coast lived up to its name, producing the most widely syndicated radio shows in North America. His guests included almost every big name imaginable in the UFO/Para/Con community, including some of David Icke's earliest interviews. Other regular superstars were Richard Hoagland, Linda Moulton Howe and Giorgio Tsoukalos. He had been semi-retired for about ten years but kept popping back. He even brought out a number of specialist programmes where he invited on past guests from classic interviews called Art Bell's Dark Matter, see: https://www.youtube.com/user/DMArchive. He occasionally brought in more mainstream people to interview such as the physicist Dr Michio Kaku. His style was always calm and gentlemanly; unlike Alex Jones and others, he never felt it necessary to become a shock-jock. For his whole career he hosted his show from a room in his house in Pahrump, Nevada USA. It is sad to think we'll never hear his distinctive catchphrases again: "East of the Rockies..." "Wildcard line, you're on the air!" He was seventy-two years old and is survived by his widow Airyn and his four children. RIP Art Bell.