Has Art Bell unretired again?
Yes.
Technically he's not retired in the sense he's retired. He still does C2C only for special occasions such as this and Halloween nights.
He retired shortly after an article was published online about him, about his eldest son and his eldest daughter from his very first marriage, long ago, to a Japanese woman.
Originally published in the Philadelphia Weekly
Lost in Space
The unacknowledged son of one of America's most popular talk show hosts works in the mailroom at Philadelphia magazine.
by Steve Volk (Philadlphia Weekly)
As a kid Vincent Pontius [Bell's son] watched In Search of … religiously, reveling in the show's mixture of myth and mystery. Did the lost city of Atlantis ever exist? How were the pyramids of Egypt built? Were growing reports of UFO-related abductions real? What about unknown animals, like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster? What happens to us when we die?
Pontius ate it all up and asked for seconds. He read fantasy novels and later, as an adult, followed The X-Files right down to the final, almost universally unwatched episodes.
Exploring the fantastic offered refuge to a kid whose life was always overly complicated.
He and his younger sister [Lisa Bell] grew up without knowing their birth father, a man who left when Pontius was just 3 years old. His mother remarried about two years later but that man left when Pontius was around 13.
Issues? Pontius had them. Trust issues. Abandonment issues. He always needed to be in a relationship. He just couldn't maintain one. Both he and his sister say they were sexually abused in the years after their birth father left. (The person they allege preyed upon them isn't named anywhere in this article because no criminal charges have been filed.) Only the last few years have brought him any peace.
Two years ago he discovered he had a 12-year-old daughter of his own. He's now 41, married, the father of a little girl he didn't know existed until recently, and he and his wife are expecting a child of their own in January. He supervises the mailroom at Philadelphia magazine, tucked away in a windowless office on the 36th floor of a sleek city office tower that boasts views stretching miles.
His interest in the paranormal continues unabated. In some ways that facet of his personality may seem more important now than it did when he was a child. Because about 10 years ago his sister made contact with their birth father, who was by then the king of the paranormal—radio talk show legend Art Bell.
Bell founded the Coast to Coast radio show, specializing in paranormal topics, in the '90s, tapping into an interest in UFOs and ghosts that few before knew existed on quite this scale. Though he's been in a kind of semiretirement for.....
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