Syndicated radio talk show host Art Bell, whose late-night talk of UFO sightings and conspiracy theories made him famous, has announced his retirement. Bell, 57, told listeners this week that he’ll ...

Before conspiracy theories ran amok on the Internet, there was AM and talk radio host Art Bell. Scott Simon talks with Andrew Paul, who wrote about the newly launched Art Bell Vault for AV Club.

It might be difficult to imagine, but there was a time when American culture’s kookier side was confined primarily to AM radio broadcasts and TLC daytime documentary filler—and not, say, disseminated ...