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Longtime radio host Art Bell died Friday at his Pahrump home, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office announced. He was 72.

Bell’s paranormal-themed show, “Coast to Coast AM,” was syndicated on about 500 North American stations in the 1990s before he left the nightly show in 2002. He broadcast the show from Pahrump’s KNYE 95.1 FM, a station he founded.

Bell retired several times in his career, which included a short-lived show on SiriusXM satellite radio in 2013.

Returning to terrestrial radio afterward was not a difficult decision, he told the Pahrump Valley Times in August 2013.

“That’s easy, because I love it,” he said at the time. “It’s my life, and that’s all I have ever done. I went through a lot of family problems, so that interrupted things, and I was overseas for four years, and that certainly interrupted things. I went back into radio because I love it.”

Bell was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina, on June 17, 1945. He served in the the U.S. Air Force as a medic during the Vietnam War.

According to the Coast to Coast AM website, Bell was an FCC licensed radio technician at age 13. He also set a Guinness World Record for a solo broadcast marathon, at more than 116 hours, while working as a DJ in Okinawa, Japan, the website said.
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Much respect to the man. His radio shows brought much entertainment to me and his shows were always interesting.
RIP.
 
Coast to Coast just wasn't the same without him, and now it won't be ever again. Your guests were insane, but that was always the point of a fun conspiracy theory oriented broadcast.

Rest well Art. You put on a good show.
 
I remember listening to him back when his wife died, and he moved to the Philippines and married a girl he met there.

 
ICametoLurk said:
I remember listening to him back when his wife died, and he moved to the Philippines and married a girl he met there
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I was listening that night. Art is the only person in the world that wouldn't take the night off that his wife died, and instead used his radio platform to mourn to the listeners. I swear to God, he actually said at one point, "sighhhhh, I can't believe she's gone! Oh Ramona!!"

Very, very sad.


For all the ships at sea, for Gina Silvati, Lisa Lyon, Lex Lonehood, Ross Mitchell, Ian Punnet, John B Wells, and Art Bell, I'm George Noory, and you've been listening to Coast to Coast AM and until our next edition, be safe.
 
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I remember the night he was on when that wife died. That was some real heavy shit. I was working overnights at an AM station that was running paid programming so I'd start the tape and go back to listening to C2C all night from some station out of the Caribbean that streamed because Clear Channel blocked US stations from streaming it.

I think I have a few bits I downloaded from that old Star Trek looking site.

He made allusions to having run a pirate music station during his Air Force days.

He was a real serious radio nerd. He'd always spaz out at the callers on cell phones for not being on a land line.

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Also they should probably wait a day or two, Art Bell retirements aren't known for sticking.

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The area 51 call, I remember hearing about that from a friend and I was hooked. There was something about listening to his show in the middle of the night on giant headphones when I should have been a sleep, hoping my mom wouldn't know I was awake.
 
Art Bell was a legend and I am a huge fan of Coast to Coast AM, even if I started listening to it after he officially left, I still love the "Somewhere in Time" broadcasts when they re-air old Art Bell-era Coast to Coast programs from the 1990's and very early 2000's.

I like George Noory and Clyde Lewis's Ground Zero show is also entertaining, but Art Bell cannot be replaced and he will be truly missed.




Coast to Coast AM was crazy stuff, and still is. But Art Bell's years were the best, and he was a truly awesome radio host.
 
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