December 28, 2003: Annual Predictions Show - Open Lines
December 28, 2003: Annual Predictions Show - Open Lines  
Podcast: The Art Bell Archive
Published On: Sat Jul 12 2025
Description: Art Bell opens the annual predictions show by reviewing the previous year's results from the Bell Family Vault and urging listeners to quiet their minds before calling. He instructs callers to let predictions come naturally rather than pulling them from the top of their heads, emphasizing that only predictions made live on the air will be officially numbered and recorded for review the following year.Callers deliver a wide range of forecasts for 2004, including the detonation of a North Korean nuclear weapon, the Pope's passing during Lent, first contact with alien life, the capture of Osama bin Laden, and the discovery of a pre-Egyptian civilization. One caller predicts a dual currency system in the United States following the dollar's steep decline against the euro. Another foresees a massive explosion of nuclear proportion at a location called Wolf's Head near the Bering Strait, claiming the information came from an entity he has communicated with for a decade.Art notes that the overwhelming majority of predictions skew negative, reflecting what he describes as a dire national mood heading into the new year. He pauses to share a deeply moving Associated Press account from the Iranian earthquake in Bam, where a young girl kissed her father four times before bed, telling him she might not see him again, suggesting a chilling premonition of the disaster that killed her hours later.