Topic: What was your Fav Artbell Memory

[Chupacabra]

For me ill always remember the Chupacabra show, on a warm florida summers night, I didnt want to look out the window at night for a few months after that one. Great Days..

[Michael Vandeven]

While it's not one of my favorite Art Bell memories, my clearest memory is of Art announcing the stabbing of George Harrison. In an obvious state of disbelief, Art's words were, "First John Lennon, now George Harrison."

My favorite memory is, strangely enough, is of how f-ing scared I was the first time I heard Ed "Bullshit" Dames. Thankfully, I've grown up since then and learned to wipe my ass with anything Dames says. However, at the age of 16, wow was that scary.

[Chupacabra]

Yeah, back then when I was about 14 or 15 I would take Ed dames (Dr Doom) lol at face value, but now I just have fun with it and just use my imagination for enternainment.

One Guy I knew was full of it was Mel (mels hole), LOL, when he talked about the little seal on the side of the rim on the Hole, LOL

[Michael Vandeven]

Yeah, back then when I was about 14 or 15 I would take Ed dames (Dr Doom) lol at face value, but now I just have fun with it and just use my imagination for enternainment.

One Guy I knew was full of it was Mel (mels hole), LOL, when he talked about the little seal on the side of the rim on the Hole, LOL

HAHA, yeah, Mel sort of jumped the shark with the whole magical seal thing.

[Chupacabra]

The Sounds of Hell was really scary,at the time.... of course artbell did his warning before the show.

[Michael Vandeven]

The Sounds of Hell was really scary,at the time.... of course artbell did his warning before the show.

art definitely knew how to keep an audience from tuning out by telling them they should tune out.

[Chupacabra]

The rumor is that the Sound came from a Porno Movie, lol,but maybe not....  man that was a fun clip...Great memories 

SOUNDS OF HELL???

''this could scare you'' LOL

[mikemcc]

My favorite Art Bell memory comes from back in 1997. My wife and I lived in Vegas -- actually Green Valley/Henderson -- and we had been out to eat that night and then briefly visited a local bar where we had a couple of drinks and scored a joint from a friend that we were going to smoke when we got home. We pulled into the driveway at 10, just when Dreamland was coming on. It was a beautiful night and that music that signaled the start of Dreamland, and then Art's voice announcing the topic -- I think it had something to do with ghosts -- filled me with a pleasant anticipation for what I thought was going to be both a fun and interesting night. And it was just that.
 
Can you imagine having that same kind of anticipation with George? 

[Michael Vandeven]

My favorite Art Bell memory comes from back in 1997. My wife and I lived in Vegas -- actually Green Valley/Henderson -- and we had been out to eat that night and then briefly visited a local bar where we had a couple of drinks and scored a joint from a friend that we were going to smoke when we got home. We pulled into the driveway at 10, just when Dreamland was coming on. It was a beautiful night and that music that signaled the start of Dreamland, and then Art's voice announcing the topic -- I think it had something to do with ghosts -- filled me with a pleasant anticipation for what I thought was going to be both a fun and interesting night. And it was just that.
 
Can you imagine having that same kind of anticipation with George?

holy shit, this was one of the most pleasurable posts i've read in a while.  you took me straight back to some of my most nostalgic memories of the 1990s.  for me, if the 90s had a soundtrack, art bell was it.


and the only thing i've ever anticipated with george is a potential power outage or on-air seppuku.

[zeph]

I remember listening through the whole night on weekends listening to Art in the mid-90s on AM. Being a teenager, as i was, the stories of UFOs and ghosts had a profound effect on me at the age of 14 to 17ish. My imagination would go 'crazy' listening to his show and i too felt that anticipation as the theme song came on introducing the show. The unfortunate thing is how things have changed from those times. Back then it seemed liked the guests and Art had more 'heart' put into it. I think the money, along with a host like Snoory, has diluted the show.

[Michael Vandeven]

I remember listening through the whole night on weekends listening to Art in the mid-90s on AM. Being a teenager, as i was, the stories of UFOs and ghosts had a profound effect on me at the age of 14 to 17ish. My imagination would go 'crazy' listening to his show and i too felt that anticipation as the theme song came on introducing the show. The unfortunate thing is how things have changed from those times. Back then it seemed liked the guests and Art had more 'heart' put into it. I think the money, along with a host like Snoory, has diluted the show.

zeph, are you about 30?  i am.

[The General]

Listening, in the dark, with headphones to the ghost EVP people as a teenager always scared the HELL out of me in the most pleasing guilty way.  It would get to the point that I was too scared to move to turn the radio OFF.

[Michael Vandeven]

Listening, in the dark, with headphones to the ghost EVP people as a teenager always scared the HELL out of me in the most pleasing guilty way.  It would get to the point that I was too scared to move to turn the radio OFF.

i used to drive a truck across all 48 states and canada.  i had some scary nights listening to those EVPs, to be sure.

[Chupacabra]

Like me most of you were in your teens back in the good ol days of c2c. Artbell had a way of making something that otherwise would not be creepy, and making it creepy, lol

Remember the show about little green men in caves on the Moon,

[zeph]

zeph, are you about 30?  i am.

29, i'll be 30 in December.

[punkinpie]

I had a crazy, wild Coast 2 Coast night back in the '90's.  I worked third shift at a hotel and one of the topics was about a Taiwanese UFO Cult that had gone to Gary, IN from Garland, TX to wait for a UFO that was supposed to come and take them away.  They went there and waited and then finally gave up and headed back to Texas.  Art talked about it for a long time that night. 

Unbeknownst to me, they were staying in the hotel that night.  About 5 am a bunch of Asians, all dressed in white with white cowboy hats  start filling the lobby.  Lemme be the first to tell you that you've never seen anything until you see a couple dozen Asians in cowboy hats.  They were all driving the exact same white cars.  I was laughing so hard.  I tried to talk to one that was wearing a gold belt because I figured he was the leader, but he didn't speak much English.  I did manage to have a conversation with a couple of them.  God only knows what I said because I didn't have much couth back then.

[Michael Vandeven]

I had a crazy, wild Coast 2 Coast night back in the '90's.  I worked third shift at a hotel and one of the topics was about a Taiwanese UFO Cult that had gone to Gary, IN from Garland, TX to wait for a UFO that was supposed to come and take them away.  They went there and waited and then finally gave up and headed back to Texas.  Art talked about it for a long time that night. 

Unbeknownst to me, they were staying in the hotel that night.  About 5 am a bunch of Asians, all dressed in white with white cowboy hats  start filling the lobby.  Lemme be the first to tell you that you've never seen anything until you see a couple dozen Asians in cowboy hats.  They were all driving the exact same white cars.  I was laughing so hard.  I tried to talk to one that was wearing a gold belt because I figured he was the leader, but he didn't speak much English.  I did manage to have a conversation with a couple of them.  God only knows what I said because I didn't have much couth back then.

were you at all expecting this to be a possibility, or was it a complete surprise when they came walking in?

[punkinpie]

It was a complete and total surprise.  The goonball working second shift didn't even mention it.  The parking lot was circular, so the way that I came in I didn't even see all of the white cars.  I FREAKED when I realized what was going on.  I'd even read an article about it in the USA Today a few minutes before they started walking in.

[Michael Vandeven]

It was a complete and total surprise.  The goonball working second shift didn't even mention it.  The parking lot was circular, so the way that I came in I didn't even see all of the white cars.  I FREAKED when I realized what was going on.  I'd even read an article about it in the USA Today a few minutes before they started walking in.

so what was the general mood of these people as they were leaving?  what was their demeanor?  the expressions on their faces?  i'm thinking they were like, "Well... shit."

[punkinpie]

I would classify it as stunned.  With the language barrier, it's hard to say but that was my general impression.  Asians tend to be kind of stoic anyway.  They really didn't talk to each other very much.  It wasn't complete silence but it was very very quiet for a roomful of people. 


It was a total flea bag Days Inn.  We had a huge truck parking lot.  There were a couple of good old boy truck drivers who were regulars came in and the looks on their faces said it all.  They'd look at them, then look at me, then back at them.  I remember sliding the USA Today article across the counter to one of them and the dude busted out laughing and walked out shaking his head.

[Michael Vandeven]

I remember sliding the USA Today article across the counter to one of them and the dude busted out laughing and walked out shaking his head.

HAAAAAAHAHA.  what a picture that paints.  beautiful.  i can just SEE that scene with the steely trucker guffawing at what you'd shown him.