r/ArtBell

I just posted about an hour ago about my experience.The mods took it down saying it did not follow the rules.

I astral traveled. Art was interested in this. I do not see how sharing my experience was taken down despite the fact I had over 1.4k views in 46 minutes.

I broke no rules, and I am happy to share my experience.

Take this for what you will. The cancer had spread to his brain, and we were administering morphine, but he was completely lucid when he said this.

My dad worked for the federal government for most of his life. He never talked about his job, and everyone in our family understood you simply didn't ask.

A few days before he passed away, he brought up Art Bell out of nowhere. He asked if I remembered the late-nineties broadcast where a frantic caller claimed to work at Area 51, talking about disasters and wiping out population centers right before the show got knocked off the air. I told him I didn't, but I have since listened to it.

He looked at me and told me it wasn't a hoax.

Then he said something that sounded completely unhinged to me at the time. He told me time travel exists, and that observers are arriving right now just to witness what life was like before everything falls apart. He kept fixating on one number. He said that once the war begins, over five billion people will die from starvation.

I wanted to share this, but reddit keeps censoring it so I had to post to my own subreddit.

I've been binge listening to the G2Gs/spooky episodes the past week, and I gotta say I can't believe I've never heard of this one before. I really had thought there wasn't a G2G that year since I don't ever remember coming across a "Halloween/G2G 1999" or something. Then I realized there was one, but in June instead of October.

Anyways, that caller a little over an hour & a 1/2 in: Florida, TV station, ghostly apparition of a woman, and as I was listening I thought this sounded familiar, it has to be referencing something. And the kicker was of course that the caller was told by coworkers that a woman had shot herself at the station years ago. Sounds like the (1974) incident with Christine Chubbuck, which I doubt many people had heard of or even remembered in 1999, even in that area of Florida where it happened. Definitely not nationally after 25 years back then. True ghost story or not, this one sticks out the most for this episode imo.

As an aside, I was almost 2 when this episode aired. I didn't discover the wonderful world of Art Bell until 10 years ago when I came across a clip from a MITD show on YT. Late 2016 so he had already quit and Heather Wade was doing it. I listened to her Halloween show that year and a few of her shows after that if the guest/subject sounded like it was worth listening to, but I got bored with her pretty quickly.

During the original call with Mr.Fidget, when he puts the random truck driver on the phone he mentioned that there is a stop watch between the two payphones.

Fidget tells Art that he has a secret to getting on the Air that he will share but Art cuts him off and tells him not to mention it.

Did it have something to do with timing of when you called in? Anyone got any theories. Apparently Mr.Fidget could get into the lines anytime he felt like it.