About this episode
Art Bell concludes his annual prediction marathon on New Year's Eve with Part 2 of this mystical tradition. As 2006 rushes toward the West Coast, the final predictions are sealed away in the Bell family vault for another year. What supernatural insights will prove prophetic when reviewed twelve months hence? Art reviews corrections to previous predictions, including a celebrity tree accident that claimed former Pittsburgh Steeler Steve Corson and breakthrough technology developments from IBM and Toshiba. The conversation reflects on the passage of time itself as Art remembers wondering as a child whether he would ever see the year 2000. Now, facing 2006, he continues this remarkable ritual that has connected him with his audience's collective psychic abilities for over a decade. Callers share their deepest premonitions about the coming year while Art maintains the sacred protocols that have made these shows legendary. The discussion touches on record-breaking winter storms battering the Northeast and the government's slow response to Hurricane Katrina. As the final predictions are numbered and stored away, listeners contribute to a unique archive of human intuition that has produced surprisingly accurate results over the years. The mystical countdown to 2006 concludes another chapter in this ongoing experiment in mass precognition.