January 16, 2005: The Life of Howard Hughes - Michael Drosnin
Podcast: The Art Bell ArchivePublished On: Mon Oct 20 2025
Description: Art Bell speaks with investigative journalist Michael Drosnin, former reporter for the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, about two extraordinary subjects: the Bible Code and the hidden life of Howard Hughes. Drosnin recounts how he first learned of the Bible Code from Israeli intelligence contacts, initially dismissed it as nonsense, then became convinced after finding a warning of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination encoded in the text a full year before it occurred.Drosnin explains how the code was validated through a double-blind experiment published in a peer-reviewed mathematical journal, comparing results in the Bible against control texts like War and Peace. He emphasizes that the phenomenon is statistically real regardless of who or what created it, and that he regularly briefs heads of intelligence agencies because the code keeps proving accurate. Art asks whether the future it reveals can be changed, and Drosnin insists that free will remains central to the code's purpose.The conversation shifts to Drosnin's book Citizen Hughes, based on nearly 10,000 secret documents he obtained after tracking down the burglars who stole them from Hughes' headquarters. Drosnin reveals how Hughes bribed presidents with bundles of cash, bought the Las Vegas gaming commission, and persuaded Richard Nixon to move nuclear bomb tests to Alaska. Art and Drosnin discuss the bizarre reality of the world's richest man living as a reclusive, unclothed figure in a blacked-out penthouse.
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