June 14, 2002: Open Lines
June 14, 2002: Open Lines  
Podcast: The Art Bell Archive
Published On: Tue Apr 22 2025
Description: Art Bell opens the Friday night lines with a provocative scenario built around the Planet X hypothesis. Drawing from recent guests Mark Hazelwood and Nancy Lieder, along with a detailed listener email, he lays out claims that a rogue planetary body will pass Earth in spring 2003, potentially killing nine out of ten people on the planet. He asks listeners a stark question: if you knew you had three months left, what would you do?The responses reveal a vivid cross-section of human nature. One caller announces he would form a roving band and become a warlord, sweeping across the land to establish order through force. Others speak of digging underground shelters, heading for the mountains, or simply sitting on the porch to watch it all unfold. A woman from Idaho says she cannot flee to Canada because her cats would face six months of quarantine. Several callers connect the scenario to the third secret of Fatima and the late Father Malachi Martin's cryptic warnings.Art also covers an earthquake on the New Madrid Fault, fulfilling a prediction by Gordon Michael Scallion, and reports on a bottomless pothole discovered under a street in King County, Washington. The night balances genuine unease about planetary catastrophe with dark humor about government bunkers and who would be invited inside.