If you ’ve ever try anyone riffing on a weird radio show full of gaga conspiracy theory , you ’ve heard of Art Bell .
The radio personality , expect in 1945 in North Carolina , was the pioneering boniface of Coast to Coast AM , a heavily syndicate tardy - night radio show themed around the extrasensory — ghost report , alien abductions , and all manners of godforsaken cabal theory . Founded in 1988 , the show draw under Bell ’s direction until he retired completely in 2007 . It still function today under a unlike master of ceremonies , though it reads a bit otherwise in the age of Alex Jones than it did in its heyday .
Bell ’s voice , and the mode of his show , which intemperately featured call - in stories about all sorts of unexplained happening and pseudo - scientific theories , define a sure segment of paranoid Americana , one that went on to intemperately regulate science fabrication and paranormal storytelling . you may see Bell ’s influence in Twin Peaks , the X - Files , and everything in that ilk that came after .
Bell ’s death was confirm on Friday , when he was reported to have die at his home in Las Vegas , Nevada . No cause of death was herald , and an autopsy will be done in the coming workweek to learn more .
[ Radio Ink ]
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