Art Bell dissects 1996’s political chaos—Bob Dole’s 24-point deficit against Bill Clinton, Medicare/Social Security fears among seniors, and GOP infighting—while weaving in fringe theories: Michael Irvin’s lenient probation, Boris Yeltsin’s health rumors, and a July 27–28 UFO conference in Sioux Falls. Callers debate vampirism, from New Orleans’ "voodoo country" origins to June 1966 soul-trading claims, with some insisting it’s tied to devil worship while others dismiss blood as essential. A Nashville alien attack aligns with chupacabra lore, and Bell muses on mainstream skepticism versus listeners’ eerie convictions, reaffirming his commitment to exploring the unexplained despite its "creepy" reception. [Automatically generated summary]
From the high desert and the great American Southwest, I bid you all good evening.
Good morning across all these many, many time zones from the Hawaiian and Tahitian Island chain all the way east over Liover country to the Caribbean and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Good morning in St. Thomas, down to South America, north to the pole worldwide.
Yes, worldwide on the internet.
This is Coast to Coast AM.
Good to be with you.
A programming note.
Now, who else would do this?
It will compete with my show in the Western time zones, but Nightline tonight will do a show about UFOs and life from elsewhere.
And that'll be in about a half hour from now.
Who else gives away their audience?
Those of you that are in time zones that have already seen it, I caught the last five minutes of it.
That's not awful.
We will, of course, record it here in a half hour, but I caught the last five minutes of it.
And it seemed seemed to leave the question open.
I guess they really had no choice, did they?
Since we don't know, is life frequent?
Is life infrequent?
Are we alone?
Would that be sad?
You know, that sort of thing at the very end.
But I did not catch the body of the program somebody else wrote and said basically was no good.
But I wouldn't make that judgment till I saw it, and I will depend on your judgment.
So Nightline, all about the kind of things we talk about many times.
Now, the stock market was quite remarkable today.
I watched it.
I'm very, very interested in the market.
And I don't know why, actually, because I'm not invested in the market.
I don't have any money.
I have no money in the market at all, but I am fascinated by it.
And it went down around one o'clock in the afternoon to about 167 points.
And at that point, the little talking heads were coming on CNN saying, this is it, free fall.
Everybody is selling at any price.
It's the end.
You know, and then, of course, it came back and ended up plus nine points by the end of the day.
And I told you yesterday, I've learned over a long period of time that can easily occur.
The volatility will no doubt continue tomorrow, I would imagine.
And it's hard to say where it's going to go.
But it sure is interesting to watch.
And I don't know why.
Maybe it's that end-of-the-world thing.
I don't know.
So watch the market.
Anybody have any idea why it is so interesting to watch the market?
I'm not sure myself.
Michael Irvin has apologized.
He has received four years probation as part of a plea bargain.
And I frankly, I kind of bought his apology.
I thought it was heartfelt.
And the poor guy, I kind of felt sorry for him.
I mean, it really was a good apology.
It doesn't exactly change the question.
And that is whether the one I asked yesterday, and that is whether if you or I were caught with cocaine, whether we would have the opportunity to get probation as he did.
I kind of doubt it.
So did he get this because he's Michael Irvine up?
Probably to some degree.
But his apology did seem to me to be heartfelt.
And I'm not sure what he's going to do now.
He's going to go home.
He's going to talk to his wife and he's going to think about his future, and he may or may not play football.
Boris Yeltsin's back, maybe.
The vice president, not exactly a physician, said, why, he looks good.
But everybody else seemed to observe that he didn't look good at all.
He was slow, pale, not looking good at all, in some sort of health retreat, which I think they have renamed.
It's a hospital, actually.
So I don't think Yeltsin's in very good shape, no matter what you may hear from the VP.
All have had athletes test positive for steroids.
This is kind of interesting.
One British doctor said that, in his opinion, 75% of the people competing use some kind of drugs, illegal drugs, steroids, whatever.
And that the facilities to detect these drugs are not keeping pace with the ability of the athletes to mask the use of drugs.
So I guess win at any price, eh?
Seismologists, this is rather interesting.
At Columbia University in New York, this, by the way, is Reuters tonight, are reporting what they say is a major and surprising find.
Listen to this.
The researchers say they've measured the motion of the Earth's solid inner core for the first time and found, guess what?
They found that the inner core rotates in the same direction as the Earth, but completes its once-a-day rotation about two-thirds of a second more quickly than the entire planet.
The scientists say this discovery could lead to a greater understanding of earthquakes and knowledge about the Earth's magnetic field.
The research is published in the current issue of the journal Nature.
So the core, the solid core now they're talking about of the Earth is actually going faster than the Earth itself.
Now, isn't that something to contemplate?
Again, the latest poll politically says Mr. Dole continues to lose ground about 24 points down.
George Will, as I told you yesterday, beginning to talk about an insurrection at the convention.
I got a letter from a listener earlier today addressed to Mr. Barber, Haley Barber.
And I'll read it to you, and you see if you agree or disagree with this.
Dear Chairman Barber, the choice of Susan Molinari to be the keynote speaker at the Republican Convention is unacceptable and an insult to all pro-life Republicans.
Susan Molinari's pro-death views, his words, Are a terrible thing to contemplate to all pro-lifers, and her choice to be the keynote speaker is tantamount to a slap in the face of all pro-life Republicans.
Now, Bob Dole should immediately withdraw his name from consideration as the Republican candidate, and you, Mr. Barber, should resign.
You and your cronies in the Eastern pro-death liberal wing of the Republican Party are so totally out of touch with the mainstream Republicans that unless you resign and Bob Dole releases his delegates to an open convention, both of you will be blamed for a Democratic sweep of the House and Senate, as well as the reelection of the president in November.
We want an open convention in San Diego.
We want Bob Dole to either withdraw his candidacy or release his delegates before the first ballot.
Dreamville, he's not going to do that, of course.
And then this piece of email: Dear Art, there is no great surprise that Bill Clinton is 24 points ahead of Bob Dole, according to the latest polls, in spite of the sleazy conduct of the first couple and their cabinet over the past three years.
Simply put, women voters find Bill Clinton very vibrant and attractive.
And like JFK, whose approval ratings were rarely above 50% throughout his term, Clinton has become a political juggernaut because of the quote gender gap.
End quote.
Moreover, Dole and the Republicans face a gerital gap, that is, seniors falsely believe the Republicans want to do away with Medicare and Social Security benefits.
Now that this image is lodged firmly in the collective consciousness of American seniors, Dole and Gingrich are powerless to prevent the Democrat landslide in 96.
Now, this is a little bit of a study in human nature for you.
I came on the air very, very excited last night, as I am still tonight, about this amazing, amazing crop circle at Stonehenge.
Now, you've never seen anything like it.
Do you remember when we had a talk and I said, no matter what the evidence of anything, people would doubt?
Well, I would say 90% of you in responding by email and facts have been as amazed by it as I have been.
But I've really, after I tell you what's up there again, I've really got to read you a couple of facts that perfectly point out, illustrate my opinion about no matter the evidence, how some people will disbelieve.
Now, Linda Moulton Howe reported on the Crop Circle Sunday, a remarkable one at Stonehenge.
And it is 915 feet long, 508 feet wide, covers 10 acres, and is composed of 151 circles, ranging in size from 6 to 60 feet.
That's big.
We have a good, high-detail, color, aerial photograph of this crop circle with Stonehenge in the background.
And I would guess since yesterday, I've received no less than 300 pieces of email and faxes and so forth about this, responding to it.
I couldn't keep my mailbox clear.
So here are just two facts that will, I guess, illustrate for you the great body of everything I got.
I listened to all the raves about the picture on last night's show.
It's true, it is a lovely image, but I think it was created on a photo editing software.
Thus, the elaborate fractal image superimposed on an otherwise perfectly good aerial view of Stonehenge.
Somebody in England sure is having a lot of fun with this stuff.
So you see, no matter what it is, here is somebody who is convinced that they took a picture of aerial view of Stonehenge and superimposed or did a bit of computer fun and made this picture up.
So it does not matter the fact that people have been walking in it, that there's been scientific examination of it.
It does not matter that thousands have now seen it.
This person is not going to believe that what they're seeing is real.
Period.
I don't care what you say to them.
It is from somebody named Linda, and she is not going to believe that it is real, no matter what.
And I just thought that's sort of an interesting study in human nature.
Now, a couple of I promised I would do this, and if I have time, I'm going to do it.
Last night, somebody called and said, gee, you had promised to reread that vampire thing, and I had promised and did not do it last night.
I will do it tonight.
Now, don't forget, tomorrow night, the libertarian candidate for the party, Harry Brown, is going to be my guest.
And it's going to be a very, very interesting show.
If you're interested in libertarianism, you definitely do not want to miss it.
And then Courtney Brown, professor from Emory University, is going to be here on Friday night, Saturday morning talking about remote viewing.
And I suspect he's going to have a lot of very interesting stuff to say.
So tonight we'll have open lines.
And it should be fun.
Stay right where you are.
Just a couple of notes.
Unmarried teens.
Really interesting.
In 1994, here in America, there were 393,000 babies born to unwed teens.
Of that number, 300,000 are receiving public benefits.
Tax money.
In Idaho, they have exorcised a 75-year-old law and actually put on trial and convicted, well, it was a couple,
17-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy, 17-year-old girl, Pragers, and as she's delivered now, she decided to fight the charge, and she was convicted of fornication.
Fornication.
Now, that's, of course, fornication just means unmarried sex.
It's okay when you have the license, but if you don't have the license, then it's fornication legally.
Now, the young lady fought it because she said, look, yeah, I had sex.
I got pregnant.
I've got a baby.
But why are you just arresting me?
Because the law on fornication applies to everybody.
All the adults, too.
And I've been considering that argument.
I think we certainly need to do something about this teenage sex problem or the teenage pregnancy problem.
But I'm not sure that arresting people for fornication.
And frankly, I sort of agree with her.
In other words, if they are going to arrest her for a law that applies to everybody, then they've almost, and by the way, they did not arrest her until she applied for public assistance.
Now, I realize it's a problem, and we sure need to do something about it.
But frankly, it seems to me she's got kind of a case.
If they were to, now I know Idaho's a pretty conservative state, but if they were to go around Idaho and virtually police everybody, equal enforcement of the law, in other words, and they were to begin arresting everybody who had sex without benefit of holy matrimony or license or whatever, I rather doubt any of the Idaho jails could hold them all.
Right?
I don't think they build that many jails up in Idaho.
Maybe they do.
I don't know.
But if they're going to enforce such a law, it seems to me it should be, as she argues, equally enforced.
There has got to be a better way to get stopped teens from having babies and then going on the public dole.
And that leads very nicely into this next little diddy.
You're going to love this.
It is from the state of Washington.
And I've got some response to it since I read it several nights ago.
Dear Miss Bell, please, sir, you must listen to me.
I have met a vampire on the internet.
And for the last few days now, I've been afraid to sleep because of what might happen to me in my dreams.
It appears this vampire is using the net as a way to meet its victims.
It also appears this particular vampire doesn't drink blood, but it does try to seduce you so it can steal your body for one of its demonic friends.
On the night this all happened, I was so scared that I locked up the house, got out a white bar of soap, and marked all my windows with crosses.
Here is a transcript of what occurred on the internet.
It is two pages and double typed, so I'll be able to get through it here quickly.
I was in this chat room, a kind of cyber singles bar located on the web.
I was contacted by what I believed to be a female who introduced herself as Claudia.
She told me she was a vampire.
Asked me if I wanted to chat.
First, I thought it was some kind of stupid joke, so I agreed to chat.
She sent me a description of herself.
Here we go, right?
Told me she liked to dress up in black skin tights, bandex bodysuits with black knee-high, high-heeled leather boots and black leather gloves.
She described herself as looking as if she was 17, but actually she was much older.
She said she had white, almost pale-colored skin, long dark hair, big brown eyes, long, slender legs, and a small oval face.
Sounds cute, huh?
I asked her if she was going to suck my blood or something, and she told me real vampires don't do that.
She said that if I wanted her, I mean, really wanted her, that I would give her my soul.
I said, okay.
She said that tonight she would come to me in my dreams and that tonight I would be a king.
She also told me if I wanted it, that she could come to me in any form, male or female.
I told her I loved women and that she would do just fine.
She said that tonight I would journey to the other world.
She said that tonight I would be king.
Tomorrow, I would be one of them.
She told me the land of the dead and the world of dreams are one and the same.
I was then told to remove any religious symbols or pictures and Christian Bibles from my room.
I was told that if possible, I should leave some access to my room open.
I was also told that she had some problems going through doors, windows, and walls.
I was even told that the sex could be ten times better if I would just take the time to break an egg into a small bowl and then urinate on it.
I was told I should sprinkle some urine on my feet before I went to bed at night.
Yuck.
I was told that the bowl was supposed to be placed at the foot of my bed.
The egg and urine were supposed to be some kind of offering.
I was told the offering was being made to its Tuxaman, whoever that is, Tuxaman.
She then promised me the best sex I'd ever had.
She told me my orgasm would last forever, that when I awoke, I'd be in another world, a world of magic and dreams.
She told me that this new world was also known as the etheric plane.
She told me when she came for me, my soul would leave my body.
She said that once I was in her arms, she'd break the fine silver cord attached to the top of my head, and that my body would be given to another, someone much stronger.
Finally, she said that the other name for this person, this tuxaman, was the soul sucker.
That's it.
Then I received these.
Remember a few shows ago when you read a fax on the air, said that it was from someone who said they'd met a vampire on the internet somewhere on IRC.
Well, I'll tell you, I've been hunting for her because I want to ask her some questions.
And I won't do anything to get myself, quote, in trouble, end quote, you know, right?
Believe me.
Well, that guy said her name was Claudia, and I went into a vampire room and asked someone if they'd seen her.
They have vampire rooms?
Anyway, he said he spoke to her yesterday.
Maybe it's the same Claudia or not, but I think it is, and I'll keep you posted.
By the way, that night when you read the facts, I really couldn't and didn't want to sleep.
It was kind of frightening to me.
And then this.
Your listener who sent the account of the internet vampire is indeed doomed.
This particular vampire is an incubus or succubus, a sexual predator who steals souls from unknowing individuals, draining them like the classic vampire.
Usually, they can be warded off with any religious symbol as long as the faith of the user is strong.
In other words, a cross won't work if you don't believe in God.
I hope Dominique in Washington is well.
So, there you've got it.
The old, the ancient, the occult moves to the new, the amazing, the enveloping internet.
This is not something the freshman Republicans had managed to get through.
I mean, I would even argue with you that it would be causing market troubles had they managed to get it through, but they didn't, and there's no chance they will.
So the market absolutely was not reacting to that.
And you can only have cooked that up in your ideological, narrow little mind so that you can make a call saying something nasty about the Republicans.
I am taping it as we speak, and I suspect a lot of people here in the West are watching it.
What do you think?
Was it good?
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Well, overall, I agree with that earlier factor or whatever that it was pretty much a waste of time.
But interesting, in the beginning of the program, the show was supposed to have been an Air Force tape where they were using camera and telescope to track incoming space debris.
Wouldn't it be sort of sad for all these worlds and all these suns and all these Sagan-ish billions and billions of planets out there, no doubt, and we would be the only intelligent life?
I've been listening to your show, and you have some people out there that know a little about supernatural things, and I had something kind of freaky happen to me today.
Okay.
Me and my friend were at the grocery store, so I know this wasn't something that I just saw.
Of course, sitting there, my girlfriend was in the grocery store, and we were waiting out in the parking lot, and there was this crow I noticed on top of a grocery store.
And I sat there, and I was joking with him, saying, you know, it's not a good thing when a crow is sitting there just staring at you because it just sat there and stared at us.
You think maybe what he did is, you know, maybe he went into the bathroom and he was innocently brushing his zillion-dollar teeth as he does every morning.
And he looked down and he saw three sixes hidden in the hairline as it was receding.
I want to urge everybody to go up there and get it.
Can you believe this person sent me a vaccine?
That's a perfectly good, accurate picture of Stone Edge.
But they've obviously computer generated this crop circle, which proves to me that no matter how good the evidence of anything would be, there would be people who would doubt it.
I mean, if this is not absolute proof of that, I don't know what is.
Now, I'm not saying this is absolute proof of ETs, but I'll tell you one thing for sure.
That crop circle absolutely is there.
This is no computer manifestation or trickery or anything like that.
And yet, that's exactly what this person said.
A lot of fun, but obviously a fake.
Well, it's not obviously a fake.
It's not a fake at all.
That crop circle really is there.
You need to take a look at it.
It is astounding.
It's on my webpage, which is www.artbell.com.
That's www.artbell.com.
We break here at the top of the hour.
Who knows what lies ahead?
Uncharted talk waters, I would say.
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Now, this isn't quite fair because if you're going to arrest me for fornication, I don't note that this fornication law says anything about 17 and under, or 21 and under.
So I particularly, of course, would like to hear from Idaho.
Now, if they were to go around, arrest the sex police in Idaho.
I understand it's a noble thing they're trying to do to put a curb on teenage pregnancy, but this is not the way to do it.
Unless you want to modify the law to apply to those under 21, make fornication okay at the age of consent, 21, but fornication without benefit of marriage earlier than that would be against the law.
Then you'd have something.
But as the law stands right now, it seems to me it'd be applicable to everybody.
And the Idaho jails, it'd be real full.
Or we could talk about vampires.
I read the internet vampire story a few moments ago, and now I have received this.
Listen now.
Arthur, I've been away for some time now, but I returned tonight to hear you speaking of Claudia and her exploits on the internet's IRC channels.
I fear the harm has already been done, but I sincerely hope if you read this to your audience, it will help to curb some of what is certain to occur.
Our friend Claudia is indeed an immortal.
I think she calls herself a vampire simply because there are so many people, especially on the internet, who are fascinated with vampires.
Now, see, I didn't know that.
She uses Claudia because that is the name of the child vampire in Anne Rice's novel, Interview with the Vampire, which has been recently brought to life in the form of a movie.
I just have to say to all of those people who have heard your show that what Claudia and her type are doing is purely evil.
And by reading that letter, not only have thousands of victims been lured to the vampire rooms on the internet, but many, many of Claudia's kind are now aware of the grand pool of victims present there as well, indeed.
As you have undoubtedly surmised, there are a great deal of immortals who listen to your show.
Yes, I know that.
Please, to all those listening, do not fall victim.
You will lose your soul.
As some callers have previously stated, religious symbols will protect the faithful.
However, there are immortal predators that are not affected by that sort of thing.
Now, you know, this is a great promo for the show that I'm going to be doing Sunday because I am going to be doing the first program I've ever done on Dreamland on vampires.
Konstantinos is going to be my guest, author of Vampires: The Occult Truth.
And you can darn well bet I will save this story, internet story for Constantinos.
And so we're going to do a show about vampires.
But in the meantime, I thought tonight that Matt here in Portland is dead on the money.
Let us do it.
Let us open a vampire line.
Only vampires, real vampires.
Anybody caught joking around, if I can recognize your voice, and after all the years of doing this, I'm getting very good at that.
Anybody joking around will be ejected for all time, eternal, on this program.
So unless you're a serious vampire, don't you call this line only real vampires.
Serious vampires.
Area code 702-727-1222.
That is, as of this moment, my vampire line.
702-727-1222.
Incubus, succubus, soul suckers.
Are they real?
Apparently, they are on the internet.
One quick note.
Hello art D from Peoria Illinois.
I've been listening to you talking about the Levitron spinning top.
Have you gotten one to levitate?
If so, how long did it take you to be successful at it?
The sad answer is an honest no.
I have not.
Now let me tell you the story.
The Levitron is a most amazing, amazing device.
And when I got it, I unpacked it and I said, cool!
Levitation.
I have got to see this.
And so for the next two hours, I fumbled and fumbled and fumbled.
And I couldn't get it to levity.
And I got angry at it.
And I almost threw it through a window, actually.
You see, it's a bit of a puzzle.
Now, I'm going to admit a truth to you.
I restrained myself.
I'm older now.
I don't throw things through windows.
So I said, I will give it to my son.
I gave it to my son.
I said, here, take this.
Enjoy.
Here, there's a videotape.
Go watch it.
Let me see if you can do it.
Well, sadly, embarrassingly, about 20 minutes later, he came into the living room, laid down the magnetic base, took the Levitron, went, lifted it up, and that Levatron sat there levitating in space minute after embarrassing, minute after embarrassing minute, and he kept doing it and doing it and doing it.
So, the answer to the question is, I have not yet done it.
That, however, obviously does not mean that it cannot be done.
In fact, a determined 15-year-old can embarrass his father in about five minutes with the Levitron.
So, I'm going to, I've got another one, and I'm going to dedicate myself.
I mean, if he can do it, I know damn well I can do it.
That's the answer to that.
There's also a picture of the Levitron levitating on my webpage.
W and get that crop circle photograph, Stonehenge.
It is www.artbell.com.
www.artbell.com.
back to the lines in a moment all right back to it we go Now, see, I've already screened out a whole bunch of calls on the vampire line, people that are not vampires.
Anybody calling, I'm telling you, on that line, who is not a real serious attempt at being a vampire on my show is dog meat.
They're more than vampire.
I mean, they're just out of luck.
For all I know, they are real, and they do suck souls.
I work with a guy, and he told me about this today.
It was kind of eerie because what it is, is I didn't get the whole gist of the whole thing, you know, but it's a state of mind where you control what you do really well, you know.
So you do things really well.
Yeah.
And we were really bored today.
We were kind of slow.
So I had a tape ball.
And about 20 yards away and 15 feet in the air, there's a 5 by 5 opening, 5 inches.
And he was like, okay, throw it in there.
So I threw it.
I missed it, like, you know, by a mile.
And he told me about the true gravity.
And he said, what it is, is you don't think.
You just let your body do what it can do.
You know, do it naturally.
So I whipped around, I threw it, and it went straight through this opening.
And another question: I just started listening to your show, and I can physically blame you for almost being fired now for staying up for the past week till early in the mornings.
But basically, if you saw Jurassic Park, I think that it postulates that if any system becomes sufficiently complicated, sufficiently gigantic, something will go wrong.
Now, that's a slaughtering of chaos theory.
It's really not, but it's the way it was applied to that situation.
The complexity of any given thing will lead to its ultimate demise.
Somebody else help me out here.
I'm not really good with the chaos theory, but that was a general application as it seemed to apply in Jurassic Park.
And if I have the number for you handy, which I'm sorry I don't, I could get it given enough time, but it's buried here in about a million commercials that I've got, so I can't rattle it off for you this moment.
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Okay.
All right.
Well, I'll try to get it.
I've been listening a good while trying to catch that number again, but I'll be listening, and I really appreciate your program.
Walked in, beautiful gals, white skin, black lips, dark eyes, dark hair, and it was, you know, four flights up, and it was the most amazing club I've ever been into, and things started to happen from there.
There are certain projections from my existence that do affect, on a cosmic level sometimes, different events that unfold as a direct result of situations that have been imposed on me in a negative manner.
Negative energy feeds on negative energy.
And the darker and the deeper the negative energy is, the more power that comes out of that negative energy.
Whether you're recycled into the vast electromagnetic field created by the core of the earth, whether you escape the earth and you go to the solar system, the center of electromagnetic energy in our solar system, and you're not going to believe this, but this is true.
But I can understand that those who are involved in it, if taking of the essence of another makes you more powerful or immortal, then from his point of view, it is a subjective thing.
So he wouldn't likely call it, or a vampire would not likely call it evil, would they?
Interesting.
All right, listen, my wife, having had a nap, is now up on the internet trying to help me in my search for a vampire.
And so actually, she's on AOL in the chat room.
And here's the way you get there.
You go on America Online, and she will be using my name.
That's how you'll know it's her.
She'll be using the name Art Bell.
So you go on America Online.
Just go hit keyword at the top of the screen and type in Art Bell.
A-R-T-B-E-L-L.
That'll take you, you'll see a little photograph of me, and then you'll see something that'll say the Grassy Knoll Chat Room.
Check that, and you will go in there, and there she will be, and she will be searching for vampires in there.
Meanwhile, we will continue searching for vampires.
That last one that I had on had the ring of some truth to it.
So the vampire line remains open at Area Code.
What other radio show ever does anything like this?
Then I also believe that when I die, they are going to lop off my head using new technology, mount me in a box, put me in front of a microphone, and make me talk forever.
Yes, and the coward, well, I don't want to call myself a coward, but the more timid amongst us will do it by asking and finding people that want to give their blood.
But there are those that enjoy taking it by force.
I was a medic in the Air Force, but the ingestion of blood is not the same, or is it, as the commingling of blood, which is required to transmit the AIDS virus?
Or is it possible that if you were to consume blood with the AIDS virus, as it passed through your digestive system, it would infect you?
Do you know?
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You can take the chance because here's the thing.
What about in your mouth where you have a gum problem?
You could have a sore in your mouth.
You could have bit your tongue.
You know, you could have a million little openings.
Now, across America, there is this thing going on with animal mutilations, with the blood removed from animals, all kinds of horrible, strange things going on.
But there is, and I think you need to do get back to the astral.
I know that you've had some talk on the show also of astral traveling and so forth.
I feel that unless you're doing it in a sort of in a prayer mode or you're kind of really aligned up with whatever, you know, however you worship God, you're in great danger.
Otherwise, believe it or not, we have for the last couple of hours been talking vampires.
I was asked yesterday to reread a fax I had received from somebody who was on the internet, a vampire fax, which I did.
Then somebody faxed me and said, open a vampire line, and you know me.
So I opened a vampire line.
I just finished talking to a nurse who admitted she was a vampire for five years.
She drank blood, and she had a ready supply of blood, and she also took it from people who volunteered to give it.
So we've been talking about the nature of vampires a little bit.
It's been actually very interesting.
Right now, my wife is entertaining those with the guts to go up into America Online's chat room.
She's up using my name.
That's how you'll know it's Ramona because she's using my logon, Art Bell.
And if you want to go in and say hello, you may do so.
Simply go on America Online, hit keyword up there, and type in Art Bell.
And you'll go to this little area where you'll see my photograph and then check on the Grassy Knoll.
Just check or click on Grassy Knoll and you'll be in that chat room and there she will be.
So I've got two things.
Oh, yes, in the Nashville story.
I want to find out about that.
Doggone it.
Where's my Nashville story?
Darn it.
There is a story that apparently ran on the Nashville news tonight about a man, a man who swears he was attacked by an alien.
It actually ripped up part of his porch and bit his dog.
And so would somebody from Nashville please give me a call and tell me if this is true or baloney?
He says it's really true and swears he will take a lie detector test.
So an attack in Nashville, maybe.
So how about it?
Nashville, only Nashville, please, east of the Rockies.
If anybody knows anything about this story, please call now.
1-800-825-5033.
Everybody else, hold off.
Hold off.
Nashville only at 1-800-825-5033.
Reminding you, we return your radio to normal talk tomorrow night.
Harry Brown, the Libertarian candidate, will be here.
And by the way, thank you for all the faxes regarding vampirism as it relates, in your opinion, to politicians and attorneys and ex-wives, but I choose not to read them.
One politician, Harry Brown, will be here tomorrow night, and we will interview him.
He is the Libertarian Party's candidate for the presidency.
Then on Friday, Courtney Brown, a professor from Emory University doing a lot of work with remote viewing, is going to be here.
There have been strange, obscure stories in the news.
There was a story, for example, about a wife who I think was killed by her husband who had seen a movie about vampirism and actually took all, drank his wife's blood.
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That's entirely possible.
Some people get into it just because of a mental state or implanted thought.
A man claiming he was outside, an alien or something like it attacked him, ripped up his porch, bit his dog, and he's willing to take a lie detector test.
There is a confirmed story in California the last few days of a sheriff and a driver of one of the big 18-wheelers that got hit with a laser retinal damage and burns.
just because you're not like me you're good you know it was a question not a statement on it was a well known as well Well, here's what I'm trying to get at.
She said that in a planet that is dense, that they need a, they would take an element such that would be very dense heavily and try to make it lighter.
The thought would never occur to them to take a light metal and go like aluminum and transport in it because they did not have it.
In the early 20th century, somewhere, I don't remember exactly, 1909, 10, somewhere around there, I played professional baseball in New York City on a team, the New York Nine, one of the very first professional ball clubs here in the United States of America.
Upon that team were several players who had homosexual tendencies.
Anyone who tells you that a damned soul's life has nothing to do with sex is a liar, Mr. Belt.
Avidity and lust feeds the fire.
Every part of my life details with sex and lust and desire.
Once you spill the blood, once you've tasted the blood, and I'm calling it blood right now because that is what your folklore and your history has provided.
i will let you go to whatever whatever it is you're going to do that's an interesting that is an interesting description That it is a compulsion as other things are compulsions.
He compared it to smoking.
Something you have to do, something you have to repeat.
Now, I asked him, was it sustenance?
Was it maintenance?
And his answers just sort of seemed to be that it had to be.
Yes, but what I'm saying to you here on the air, right to your face, is that what you told me on the phone and then what you told me in the letter were two very different things.
You went all the way away from the machine angle of it into another area, and I was sort of disappointed in that.
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Well, I've got to apologize.
I tend to wander a little.
Please forgive me.
Anyway, this idea of taking life force that has come across to us tonight from these people.
Remember when they trapped the essence within the machine at cryogenic temperatures, I think it was, or something?
I can't quite recall that.
It all got away.
Well, it may be that if the nature of the soul is in some way electromagnetic, that there would be the possibility of a machine that would trap or contain that essence.
Or maybe we are foolish to think man can do such a thing.
I mean, I started out with this facts of the internet business, but I really am coming to believe this is real.
I thank you for the call.
Art, vampires are not evil in the sense that Claudia is.
They are simply a product of their nature.
They do consume blood.
However, they do not need it nearly as much as is commonly believed.
After they are, quote, embraced, end quote, which is the word used to describe when a human is taken and transformed into a vampire, they need to replace the blood, which was taken from them in the process almost immediately.
However, after that, they only need, in caps, to feed every few days.
And as months and years pass, they must feed less and less.
The blood does not get digested and ejected as food does.
It becomes transformed into vampire tissue and begins to harden and strengthen the organs.
Eventually, the entire body will have been transformed, and blood is no longer necessary.
I do not know any individuals who have achieved it.
Typically, in modern times, vampires mostly feed off the willing.
They lure a following and feed off of them in small amounts to quench their thirst.
However, there are vampires who are evil in nature and do enjoy the hunt.
They are very good at the game, have learned methods of avoiding authorities.
Vampires cannot get AIDS.
They're not human any longer.
They cannot fall ill from disease, any disease that would afflict man, and can only be killed through unique means.
The only illness I've ever known to afflict a vampire is through a type of magic that hinders the flow of energy that night gives them.
There seems to be such a split in different kinds of vampires you're getting on your vampire line.
I was thinking you should have one of your debates, a debate between two vampires, one that thinks they need blood and the other that doesn't think they need blood, or the vampire that thinks it's good versus the vampire that thinks it's evil.
And then I had this blood transfusion, and when I came home and the doctor notified me that he had to give me more blood than usual, I came home and I felt like I was on top of the world, and I couldn't understand why.
The transfusion I had, and like that one fellow that called in and said it was addicting, that's the way I felt after I had the transfusion, like I was addicted to something because I felt so great.
And when I mentioned it to my doctor, when I saw him, he got a very weird look on his face and did not want to stay in the same room with me.
And the answer could be that after the election, with nothing to lose, or very little to lose, being at that point, you know, a lame duck, I suppose the president, if we can imagine that he is threatened by stories that might be told, could issue a pardon.
It could happen.
It would be politically very difficult, and it would be a high price to pay.
And you could almost presume, just thinking about this in a linear fashion, that if such a pardon was issued, it would be a virtual admission of guilt.
Because the Republican Party is a conservative party.
The Republican Party is a party of loyalty.
And the Republican Party is being loyal to Bob Dole right now.
Now, look here, don't ask me whether this is smart or not.
I'm just giving you ⁇ I'm giving you an answer, one that you may not like, or a lot of people may not like, but in a way, Bob Dole achieved the nomination by succession, almost by succession.
That's my answer.
He earned it.
He was tenured into the position.
That's one answer.
Another is it was a setup.
In other words, because of the reasons I just stated with regard to the root beliefs and values of the Republican Party, his chief opponent was allowed to be Pat Buchanan, who was able to be painted as an extremist, fairly or unfairly.
It was always going to be a fairly easy job to do that.
And he was painted as the main opposition.
He grabbed the core radical part of the party, the Republican Party, and appealed to those people.
And that gave him an early running start against Bob Dole.
But all along, there could not have been, and I told you this, and I'm telling you again now, there could not have been another result.
Bob Dole would beat Pat Buchanan.
Purity, no problem.
I knew that all along.
So it was a done deal.
Bob Dole was and is the presumptive nominee, indeed is going to be.
I would like to believe that the Republican Party could have what would amount to an insurrection, George Will's words, and there would be an open convention.
Bob Dole would politely concede to someone else, but it's not going to happen.
Bob Dole is going to be the nominee.
And, frankly, I'm glad that I'm going to be in Europe when it happens.
I'm not looking forward to this convention.
Bob Dole has made so many concessions on the way that I'm not sure what's left.
You know about the keynote speaker, right?
Even Pat Buchanan had a nice word or two to say about the keynote speaker.
Bob Dole has changed his mind on the assault weapons business and so many things now that I have no idea what he is, except as I just explained.
In a sense, he has simply risen through the ranks, kind of like a private who rarely can become a general.
He has risen through the ranks, and the nomination is his, by right.
Now, that may not be smart.
It may not be a winning strategy, certainly.
But you asked how it happened, why it happened, and that is my answer.
When you're searching for something, when you're on a quest, you're searching for someone, and someone tantalizes you with some bait, you will follow that bait to satisfy your quest, thinking that you're going to be satisfied.
It's about 3:35 in the morning here on the West Coast.
Temperature outside right now here in the desert, about 76 degrees.
Really is the nicest time of day, you know.
Here's some news, not so good.
After Robert Downey Jr. is under arrest this morning after sheriff's deputies found him cast out inside a Malibu home.
Authorities say Downey has been booked for investigation of trespassing and being under the influence of a controlled substance.
Last night's arrest came only hours after authorities filed charges against the 31-year-old actor for alleged drug possession, driving under the influence of having a concealed weapon in a vehicle.
Those charges stem from a June 23rd traffic stop in Malibu.
The most recent incident occurring at about 9:30 p.m., that's last night now, when the sheriff's station received a call about a possibly intoxicated, suspicious person inside a home in Malibu.
He's presently in the hospital and will be charged and released, apparently, when he is stabilized.
But I have like five paragraphs in front of me and quite long paragraphs about what they had written about Jesus.
And I felt like Jesus should give equal time after what they had to say.
And it's all the things that we know about already about Jesus.
But there was one last paragraph that had to do about what Jesus, I mean, Josephus wrote about the rending of the veil at the time of the resurrection.
And I was wondering, do you think I could just read it real quick to you?
Yes, that's been one of my areas of inquiry with Linda Moulton Howe.
Once again, no matter what else you do or don't do, if you have a computer, if you can get to the net, go to my webpage and get a copy of the Stonehenge Crop Circle.
It is one of the most amazing things you've ever seen.
Period.
So you've got to get up there.
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You take a look at that and contemplate what you see in the scale of it.
What difference look, other than the vice president declaring a pale, sick-looking Yeltsin to be healthy, what have you seen our vice president do lately?
So then what possible difference does it make who he picks?
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Well, that's true, yeah.
But I just kind of thought that might be something people might look at with the age of goal, and I don't think Clinton will be around that long if he does win.
20th Century Fox, I don't want a thing to do with him.
I hate TV.
I don't want the movies.
I don't want anything like that.
I like radio.
I don't want to go to the next level.
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Depending on the offer, my friend.
anyway as a matter of fact did you know that rush limbaugh's tv shows i don't care about rush limbaugh By the way, that's one thing you should do is concentrate on the topic at hand.
The politics are irrelevant at this stage in the game.
In other words, that's your opinion, and that's fine.
You can have yours.
Don't tell me what mine must be.
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No, I'm not telling you what your opinion must be, but you also have to understand that more intelligent human beings are able to pick up easier able to assemble patterns from other people and other observations they make.
Therefore, they can easily detect lies and truths.
Now, and also you must understand, and I'm sure you do from interviewing a lot of the doctors and PhD level people you talk to, These people in dealing with theoretical physics and stuff like that can automatically look at a certain group of people and say, well, these people are full of crap because it's simply.
But look, you know, the PhDs don't know everything.
The degreed people don't know everything.
And I have no idea what in the world makes you think that four or eight or twelve years of formal education gives one the wisdom to declare that whatever else they hear is a bunch of crap.
That is the kind of elitist BS that keeps a lot of eyes closed out there.
Now, no, I have no way of knowing how many of these people were serious.
Some of them sounded very serious.
And half of what I did, I did for entertainment.
Half of what I did, I did seriously.
so no thank you are i don't want to go to the next twentieth century fox uh... uh...
level which is what you were apparently dangling in front of me telling me if i just do it your way while end up at i don't want to end up at twentieth century fox I don't want to be on TV.
If I want to do any of that, I'd have already done a long time ago.
I'm doing.
You see, I know that I'm doing what I was meant to do, what I love doing.
This.
I don't want to do anything else.
I do not wish to be part of the Peter principle, which absolutely assures somebody will eventually, given enough blind ambition, rise past their level of competence.
No, I don't want to do that.
So I very much enjoy what I'm doing.
And I think it is very presumptuous and elitist of you to suggest that, why, anybody with enough formal education would declare these people full of crap.
That sort of myopic thinking is what gets us in trouble.
I was trying to figure out this pyramid thing, and a thought occurred to me like an anthill.
Why couldn't like 100,000 slaves carry up to fixed-in position moles that were already set?
You know, 100,000 slaves pouring concrete mixture into the moles, let layer number one dry, and then put some more mold on top of the first layer, and so on, clear on up to the top.
Instead of, you know, dragging 100-ton slabs along, you know, like the movies show it to be.