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  • The Pre-Christmas 2001 Art Bell show revisited

    The Pre-Christmas 2001 Art Bell show revisited

    Tonight, courtesy of the Premiere Radio Network, Coast to Coast AM is airing a “Somewhere in time” with Art Bell that takes us back to just about 20 years ago tonight: December 18, 2001..

    Whitley Strieber was first to talk about the COMING GLOBAL SUPERSTORM, but then freaky Christmastime ghosts took over afterwards for the duration of the show .. Brendan Cook and Barbara McBeth shared their EVP recordings..

    Cook and McBeth were guests so often–but for some reason this exact show sticks out in my memory..

    I recall that night I was listening to it, the Christmas season after 9/11.. we were all freaked out by the mass death that occurred just months prior. Twenty years later the mass death of a virus has far exceed that which occurred in 2001…

    Also I think–just a fading memory–that I listened to this Art Bell show partially on the car radio coming home from a bar or bowling that night and finishing up at home …

    And I recall listening until the sun came up…

    20 years ago.
    So many years ago, but seemingly like just yesterday.

    One of the most amazing parts about Art airing the ghost EVPs is that they were credible –at least on his show– and his reactions were just as all of ours would have been. What were these voices in the night, in the darkness. Did these strange voices mean anything? Were they from beyond.. are they stuck here? Art seemed to get so freaked out during these EVP sessions. 20 years later as we listen here at Horror Report central, we are confronted with the same chills that we had that very night December 2001…

    On a personal note, so much changes in 20 years. My mom, now deceased for only weeks, was alive then. We were preparing for Christmas with family that were young and now old, and those who exist now did not then. Our national crisis of 9/11 then is a global pandemic of COVID in ’21..

    Twas the best of times. And the worst of times.

    And Art Bell listening to a child’s EVP saying “stay with me” in the darkness of the night is as scary in 2021 as it was in 2001..

  • The legacy of Art Bell at stake in a New Jersey lawsuit

    The legacy of Art Bell at stake in a New Jersey lawsuit

    The radio legend died on Friday the 13th in April 2018, but his name is living on. Not just because of an online networks of fans still trading and listening to all of his past shows, but because of a court case–about his past shows!

    The subject of all of this is the Dark Matter Radio Network. This was the little network that could that was able to broadcast out Bell’s final program, DARK MATTER, to the masses.

    There is an ongoing lawsuit in the state of New Jersey about the final 100 programs that Art Bell did for the network.. It’s Michael Marshalek of Hoboken vs David Rubini of Texas.. The crux of the suit: Rubini claims that Marshalek invested in his online radio venture and then stole Bell’s archives. He aims to get them back..

    THE CASE

    Tom Nobile reports this,

    In court documents, Rubini declares himself the company’s rightful owner, saying he agreed to buy the network with Marshalek’s help. But the deal went south, with Marshalek seizing the company and archives of Bell’s last 100 shows, according to the suit. 

    Rubini is based in Dallas. But the battle for Bell’s former company will play out inside a courtroom in Hudson County, where Marshalek lives and Rubini is suing him.

    Rubini’s demands: the company and its master recordings, plus $5 million in damages. It’s a steep number, but if you ask Rubini, the legal fuss is all about ensuring that Bell’s legacy — in all its mad glory — remains in the right hands.

    According to Rubini, the two struck a handshake agreement in March 2020 for Marshalek to buy the service at $80,000 and then sign it over Rubini, who would pay back the loan with no interest. Marshalek would be a silent lender who just wanted Dark Matter to flourish, Rubini says he thought. But his opinions have changed. 

    The report goes on to say that a lengthly legal battle is about to begin..

    More from the report on Marshalek:

    In October, Marshalek was arrested at his Garden Street home after allegedly barricading himself inside the apartment with his son. Hudson County’s SWAT team put the neighborhood on lockdown. After four hours, they breached the brownstone and removed the child, according to a police affidavit.

    In October, Marshalek was arrested at his Garden Street home after allegedly barricading himself inside the apartment with his son. Hudson County’s SWAT team put the neighborhood on lockdown. After four hours, they breached the brownstone and removed the child, according to a police affidavit.

    The incident stemmed from a dispute over whether his disabled son would have to wear a mask at school, Marshalek told the Hudson County View in January. He’s filed a notice of his intent to sue the city for wrongful arrest and property damage, the paper said.

    Those who follow this page know that our reports on Art Bell are nothing new.. a long time fan .. never-time caller.

    And the history of lawsuits involving his name go back as well.. One of our first reports, 20 years ago now!!, on the HORROR REPORT, was about him..

    We will continue following this newer story the best we can.. It may play out in a fashion that is not always in the public eye. Perhaps mysterious and reassuring?

    DEVELOPING..