#163 – THE TOLL OF A. BELL

MonsterTalk host Blake Smith looks back at the career and impact of radio-host Art Bell who passed away on April 13, 2018 at the age of 72. Bell’s influential radio show Coast to Coast AM (still being produced today with George Noory at the microphone) was the launching pad for thousands of stories of the bizarre, the mysterious and the conspiratorial. Was he simply an entertainer? Was he harmful to the American radio listener? Some thoughts on the cultural impact of this titan of the night.

Related Links

• Ross Mitchell—the deep voice behind Coast-to-Coast-AM’s phone lines
• Art Bell’s Coast to Coast bumper music
• Use of “Shadow People” in 1985 in the Encyclopedia of Occult and Parapsychology
• The controversial Hale-Bopp Comet episodes—a detailed look
• Art Bell & Bigfoot shot in Texas
• Art Bell—Cattle Mutilations

Music

• Monstertalk Theme: Monster by Peach Stealing Monkeys