Early years
Bell was natural to Arthur Bell, Jr., the United States Marine Corps Colonel, and Jane Bell, the Marine drill master. He was universally interested within radio & at the age of Long dozen he became a licenced amateur radio operator. Bell served around U.S. Air Click as the medic when you took a Vietnam War, & inside his free streaming instance operated a pirate radio statiin on his base. He would last away from his way to play antiwar music (rather "Eve of Destruction" and "Fortunate Son") that was not existence played on the American Forces Network.

Fallowing allowing war machine service he stayed in the Far East, living on the Japanese island of Okinawa where he worked as a disc jockey for KSBK, the merely non-military English-language station around Asia. When inside Japan he placed the Guinness record for staying on the air 116 hours & Quarter-hour. He as well placed the world record for seesawing when broadcasting for 57 hours.

He returned to a United States & deliberate engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. He dropped out & went back to radio, this period as a board operator & principal engineer. Existence around a stations he had two or three chance to become on the air. For many years he worked back & forth behind & before of the mike. When a period of working witharound cable television, in 1989 the 50,000-watt KDWN in Las Vegas, Nevada offered Bell a 5-hour slot midmost of the nighttime.

Background
Bell's original program inside Las Vegas was the political call for-inside talk radio show, but he sick of the format, believing there were as well several such software online, especially in the wake up of Rush Limbaugh's massive success.

Bell abandoned political talk & began highlighting his yearn interest around UFOs, time travel and other oddities, gaining the big as punishment fallowing it was syndicated in the early Nineties. At his peak popularity, Bell's program was syndicated in terminated Five hundred radio stations, & claimed 15 million hearer every night. [http://arnewsline.wb7tjd.org/news1389-2004-03-26.txt] Bell broadcasts from either his range in Pahrump, Nevada.

Bell's guests' topics typically treat by having a paranormal, occult knowledge, conspiracy theories, UFOs, protoscience and pseudo-science. A few critics watch Bell as a kook, and a few guests keep close at hand been criticized when cranks or quacks; Coast-to-Coast is subject to frequent ridicule and criticism on the usenet group alt.fan.art-bell, & around certain AOL chatrooms. Radio unsuspecting hosts Phil Hendrie occasionally does impressions of Bell, his guests, and a unusual products offered by advertizer.

Others regard Bell as a masterful showman, noting that he calls his indicate "absolute entertainment" [http://www.csicop.org/sb/9803/art-bell.html], & farther noting his statements that he doesn't necessarily assume each guest or even caller's claims, but only offers the forum in which it may non exist as ridiculed. Bell is one of pack talk indicate hosts world health organization does not screen calls. His calm attitude, patient questions & ability to tease substance from either either the another time nebular statements of callers & guests gave his indicate a relaxed & good atmosphere earning him great deal praise from people world health organization contend the paranormal merited a matured outlet of discussion in the media. Ed Dames, Richard C. Hoagland and Terence McKenna were regular guests who typically discussed "fringe" topics.

Bell's interests, but, extend beyond a paranormal, interviewing singers Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, comedian George Carlin, writer Dean Koontz, and frequent guest physicist Michio Kaku.

There are deuce annual features in Bell's program: In Halloween, his show is renamed "Ghost to Ghost A.M.", & is devoted to callers on their allegedly real-life encounters by using ghosts. Each New Year's Eve, Bell invites callers to make a prediction for the coming year; the predictions are then reviewed at the close of the next year.

Beginning within late 1996, Bell was criticized for reporting hearsay that comet Hale-Bopp was being closely followed by an Unidentified Flying Object. It was speculated that members of the Heaven's Gate group committed mass suicide based on rumors Bell aired, but others discounted this, noting that the Heaven's Gate website stated that "Whether Hale-Bopp has a 'companion' or not is irrelevant from our perspective." [http://www.csicop.org/si/9707/art-bell.html] Susan Wright notes, however, that Bell was also "one of the first to publicise expert opinions debunking the 'alien companion'" said to have been shadowing Hale-Bopp (Wright, 187)

Retirements and comebacks, again
Bell has retired & returned to Coast to Coast many days. His 1st retirement, which he announced unexpectedly in October 13, 1998, was due to unspecified threats made against his personal. He returned fallowing astir fortnight. [http://www.who2.com/artbell.html]

Around April, 2000, Bell over again retired, however offered there are no details otherwise stating he meant to "resolve a family crisis"; Mike Siegel took over a program. Bell returned within February of 2001, saying he got left to treat sustaining a aftermath of his boy's rape, but was okay, caring a issue was resolved. Bell likewise experienced an additional legal matter when he was falsely [http://http://www.freep.com/entertainment/namesandfaces/namesc25_20021025.htm] accused of another time existence the paederast. Bell besides noted that since his departure, Coast to Coast experienced misused the total of affilates, & that Seigel experienced taken the program inside a "different direction" that Bell apparently did non approve of. When Coast to Coast's author, Bell retained a few authority across a program, & so felt his go to was necessary.

Bell survive retired inside late 2002, citing recurring back infliction, & was replaced by George Noory. Bell once more returned within September, 2003, to carrier completely weekend broadcasts.

Inside June 2005, he announced a 'semi-retirement'. For a instance existence, he might single hikers the go ii Sundays of each month, allowing him further instance to travel by using his married woman, Common sage.

Philippine allegations
The hoax e-mail recounting Bell's allegedly racist statements, calling the Philippines "a disgusting and filthy place" in-air, has been circulating on a internet since the Nineties. Bell has repeatedly denied making such the statement, moreover noting that his married woman Salvia officinalis is partially of Philippine heritage.

Inside 2001, Bell sued a Philippine Daily Inquirer after the newspaper published a e-electronic mail when fact; the Asker published a retraction & apologized to Bell.

Books

Bell has written, or even co-written, many books. It include, however might not become limited to, The Quickening: Today's Trends, Tomorrow's World, The Art of Talk (an autobiography), The Source, The Edge: Man's Mysterious Past & Incredible Future, and The Coming Global Superstorm.