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    R.I.P. Art Bell (17.06.1945 - 13.04.2018)



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    Radio host Art Bell – whose conspiracy theories and interest in paranormal activity and UFOs were broadcast into homes throughout America – is dead, according to the Nye County Sheriff’s Department in Nevada.

    “Community Announcement — Long time resident, and radio show host, Art Bell died today at 72 years old in his home in Pahrump Nevada,” the Sheriff’s Department announced on Facebook. “With an estimated 10 million listeners, Bell’s show was at the time of his retirement the most listened-to late-night radio program, and fourth overall,” ABC News reports.

    Bell leaves behind his wife, Airyn, whom he married at age 22 in 2006. She was his fourth wife, and he had four children with multiple wives. You can read more about Airyn Bell here. Bell’s life was punctuated with tragedy throughout the years, including the sudden loss of his third wife, Ramona.

    Here’s what you need to know:



    1. Bell’s Cause of Death Is Not Yet Known

    Sharon Wehrly, Nye County Sheriff, said that Bell passed away on April 13, 2018, adding that he was “best known for his conspiracy theories.” How did Bell die? That’s unknown, at least for now. He is scheduled for an autopsy later this week to determine the cause of death and was 72-years-old, the sheriff said in a videotaped press announcement.

    The Nye County sheriff also shared the news of Art Bell’s death on Twitter:


    Nye County Sheriff
    @NyeSheriff

    Community Announcement — Long time resident, and radio show host, Art Bell died today at 72 years old in his home in Pahrump Nevada. https://www.facebook.com/nyecountysheriff/videos/1084985051644669/…

    Fans responded on Twitter as news of Bell’s death broke late in the evening of April 13.


    Scott Gulbransen
    @LVGully

    Wow...Art Bell dead at 72...really enjoyed his schtick.

    Chad Bozarth
    @chadbozarth

    I miss listening to Art Bell. @coasttocoastam

    Few other details about Art Bell’s death were provided. According to IMDB, Arthur Bell III was born in North Carolina in 1945. “By the age of 13, Art was an FCC licensed radio technician. A few years later, as a young airman, Bell and an equally foolhardy buddy built their own pirate radio station right on Amarillo Air Force base, secretly broadcasing Rock ‘n’ Roll to appreciative locals,” the site reports.



    He told Larry King in an old interview that he started out as a DJ in rock ‘n’ roll music.



    2. Bell Was Active on Social Media Recently, Tweeting About UFOs & Writing About the President




    Art and Airyn Bell with their family.


    On Twitter, Bell’s last tweet was a retweet about UFOs. On Facebook, where he frequently posted photos of his family, Bell posted on April 12: “Download the free TuneIn app to listen LIVE FREE starting at 9 PM Pacific time!”

    On April 9, 2018, Bell seemed in typical form on his Facebook page, writing, “The FBI has just Raided the office of the President’s Lawyer. This is pretty serious stuff and I want to say again if the hate of Trump continues to be manifested by investigating everything Trump has ever done they will get him on something eventually. If you tear anybody’s life apart and look at every little thing they have ever done, you can get them.”


    Art Bell
    @ArtBell51

    #DirectTv Please Please Please Fix Ch104! All other 4K channels are ok but 104 is dark with bad definition, this is a known problem in Vegas, Boston and New York, please fix it.

    Earlier in the month of April, he was weighing in on Area 51 on Facebook, writing, “LATEST ON AREA 51 INVASION. Heather has made a wise decision in my opinion, she will indeed enter Area 51 as she stated she will do, but alone. She is inviting a crowd for a intention experiment to join her in trying to manifest craft, but she alone will enter the restricted area and is prepared she says to accept the consequences. She is doing something I would not do, she sure has guts. Even those of you who decide not to go can help in this wild experiment. I am very proud of her work and determination.”



    3. Bell’s Fourth Wife, Airyn, Is From the Philippines & the Couple Sued Michael Savage Together

    Bell was married to Airyn Bell at the time of his death. Her Facebook page is filled with photos of the couple. Bell’s wife is from the Philippines, and she and Art Bell had sued radio host Michael Savage for defamation in recent years, a case that ended in settlement.

    Savage was accused of making disparaging and false statements about the background of Airyn Bell, including her age when she married Bell. The lawsuit stated that Airyn Bell was 22-years-old at the time she married Bell. According to Insider Radio, Art Bell married “his wife Airyn Ruiz Bell in the Philippines.”




    Airyn Bell


    According to the book Conspiracies and Secret Societies: The Complete Dossier, Art Bell and his wife had a daughter together named Asia.

    Bell’s daughter was born in 2007, and he told radio listeners that he wanted to spend more time with his family, the book reports, adding that Airyn allegedly had some trouble getting a green card. As a result, says the book, the couple briefly returned to the Philippines, and Bell hosted a radio show in Manila.



    4. Bell’s Paranormal Radio Program Was Heard Throughout the U.S.

    Bell was a controversial radio personality whose belief in aliens and other oddities remained unshaken. According to KTNV-TV, “Bell was the original owner of the Pahrump-based radio station KNYE 95.1FM and was known across the U.S. and in Canada for his paranormal radio program, ‘Coast to Coast.'” According to The Review Journal, Bell’s show “was syndicated on about 500 North American stations in the 1990s before he left the nightly show in 2002.” He was born in North Carolina, the newspaper reported.

    According to Coast to Coast AM, “Art Bell is no ordinary talk show host, not just because ‘Coast to Coast AM’ is the dominant live all-night show in America today, but because Art’s a true radio fanatic, the ultimate ‘new media’ personality.” The site continued, “Art Bell’s grasp of the electronic revolution–and how to make it personal–is unique; he’s a talk show host primed to influence 21st century America in more ways than one.”

    In 2015, KNPR reported that “Radio host Art Bell suddenly ended his long-running program this weekend, citing alleged threats made against him and his family.” The site continued at that time, “Bell says shots have been fired outside his residency, and that he has spotted trespassers near his home late at night.” However, authorities gave no indication that Bell died of unnatural causes.

    According to KFYO, “More recently he was involved in the creation and production of the overnight talk show Midnight in the Desert on the Dark Matter Digital Network.”



    5. Bell’s Life Was Filled With Tragedy, Including a Wife Who Died of Asthma & Child Who Was Molested

    The Conspiracies and Secret Societies book, which is authored by Brad and Sherry Steiger, states that Bell’s first wife, Ramona Bell, 47, who was married to him for 15 years, died of an asthma attack in 2006. They were on a vacation when this occurred, but only weeks after Ramona’s death, Bell had revealed to his listeners that there was a mystery in his life.

    According to the book, that mystery was his marriage to Airyn, who was described as a “recent college graduate” who contacted Bell to express condolences when his wife died. They “dated” on the Internet for “hundreds of hours,” according to the book, before he went to her home country and married her.




    Coast to Coast radio wrote a memoriam for Ramona Bell, saying, “Art Bell’s beloved wife of fifteen years, Ramona, died unexpectedly last night after an asthma attack. …It apparently took place during her sleep. Until her death, Art and Ramona Bell had not been apart a day since they were married. Mrs. Bell had suffered from asthma for years, and took her normal steps to control the attack, which occurred sometime last night in Laughlin, Nevada where the Bells were taking a brief vacation. Ramona Bell was 47 years old.”

    Bell was also married to Vickie L. Baker – for 10 years – and to Sachiko Toguchi Bell Pontius. His other children were Vincent Pontius Bell, Lisa Minei Bell, and Arthur William Bell. Bell’s son, Art Bell, was the focus of a tragedy in the family. According to People Magazine, in 2007, Bell’s son Art Bell IV, “then 16 and living across town from his father in Pahrump, Nev., 63 miles northwest of Las Vegas, decided to spend the evening with friends. At the time, the younger Bell shared a house with his mother, Vickie Bell, while his father, Art III, lived nearby.”


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    RIP, Art.

    I spent a few spooky night rides on I15 between LA and Vegas listening to the crazy stuff on his program thinking to myself, “on the off chance, what if this is true?”

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    Quote Originally posted by Dumpster Diver View Post
    RIP, Art.

    I spent a few spooky night rides on I15 between LA and Vegas listening to the crazy stuff on his program thinking to myself, “on the off chance, what if this is true?”
    Art was a monument, and his style completely befitted Coast To Coast AM. Sadly enough, George Noory isn't even but a shadow of Art Bell, and Coast To Coast AM has never been the same again since Art left either.

    That's why Midnight In The Desert was so great — it had everything that the old Coast To Coast AM used to have. And when Art retired from that, Heather Wade took over, and she's doing a great job at it too, considering that she didn't have any experience as a show host — she had until then exclusively been the producer of the show.
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    The guy was the absolute best in broadcasting. He had a distinctive voice, was an excellent communicator, intelligent to a fault, asked probing questions, never belittled his guests or his audience no matter how outrageous the subject matter, told the truth, was protective of his personal privacy but let you in enough to make you comfortable with his humanity, was gentle but not milquetoast, tough but not overbearing, and had strong opinions when it was called for and stayed in the background when it wasn't. I've missed him terribly since his last broadcast but was hopeful he'd come out of retirement again. He had done so several times before. Alas, it was not to be. RIP Art.

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    Yes, RIP Art Bell....You will be sorely missed. He was, IMHO, the only alternative radio host worth listening to...

    I used to thoroughly enjoy listening to his nights when he’d open the lines to “time travellers”. Thoroughly entertaining, and there were times you’d seriously think “what if....?”

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