Whatever Happened to Art Bell?

On Christmas Eve 2010, an affiliate of the Art Bell show said that "We had asked Art to do his predictions show; he's going to spend time with his family. He's winding down, folks, he's winding down....I don't anticipate he'll do any more shows."

Art Bell's Retirements

One of the reasons why there seems to be mystery surrounding Art Bell is because he has retired from his show, Coast to Coast AM, four times. His show is based on life after death experiences and other sorts of strange phenomena of the paranormal breed, which seems to make the whole situation even creepier.

Here is a list of Bells' retirements. Then we will go on to look at the events of his life in the past few years.

On October 13, 1998, Bell retired because he said that there were threats made against his family.
On April 1, 2000, he said that he was retiring in order to deal with a family crisis.
On October 23, 2002, Bell announced that he would be retiring because he was dealing with recurring back pains.
On July 1, 2007, Bell said that he would be retiring in order to spend more time with his new wife and his daughter.

However, he was still listed as doing 15 shows per year.

Art Bell's Recent Career History

Now we will go through the past few years of Bell's life in order for you to see what happened to him. We are starting at 2006, instead of 2007 where our list left off, only because there was a significant, life altering, traumatic event that occurred in 2006 for him.

2006

On January 5, 2006, his wife, Ramona Bell, passed away unexpectedly. She had an acute asthma attack and died at the very young age of 47.

However, by April 15, 2006, Art Bell announced that he had gone to the Philippines and married Airyn Ruiz only four days before. They had a baby together who was born on May 30, 2007.

2007

As we have already mentioned, his daughter was born and he announced that he was retiring once again.

2008

Art Bell hosted a couple of shows during this year. He also lost his mother this year. A couple of the shows that he hosted were as follows:

May 23: He announced that there would be a change to his website. Shortly after, the website stopped responding to requests.
November 30: He hosted the show with Michio Kaku as his guest.
December 30 & 31: He hosted the New Year's prediction special, as he had done in the past.

2009

Once again, Bell returned to host several editions of his show during this year.

He discussed the global financial crisis on February 20.
He came through live from Manila on May 17.
He did an interview with Dr. Bob Koontz on June 6.
On June 26, he spoke about the death of Michael Jackson.
He also hosted on November 20.
As he did the year before, he hosted the New Year's prediction special on December 30 and 31.

2010

This year is the one where everything really gets cryptic. The last time that he hosted was on Halloween. As of December 18, he was no longer listed as a host on the website and information can only be found about him in the archives. He will not be doing the annual New Year's prediction show either. On December 21, Art's ham radio website read,

"The Wind No Longer Blows, in the End it was Without Direction. Long Live the Hot Air. 30"

That information is the most up to date that anyone has. We shall have to see what future years bring in Art Bell's career and what else will happen to Art Bell.