Time travel is a fascinating concept in science
fiction media.
Most people think of time travel as going back in time or forward in time.
But how much of the concept is based on reality?
Is it possible to travel through time?
According to NASA, time travel is conceivable, but not in the way you may think.
According to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, time and motion are relative to each other,
and nothing can go faster than the speed of light, which is 186,000 miles per second.
Time travel occurs due to a phenomenon known as "time dilation."
But this hasn't stopped the alleged stories about successful time travel from giving people
hope.
Many examples of people travelling through time have been covered by the media and have
gone viral on the internet.
The majority of these reports were either hoaxes or based on inaccurate information.
The rumors of a purported time traveler who vanished for years before returning to the
present have recently become the focus of attention, and many are inclined to believe
this could be a genuine incident.
Join us as we attempt to unravel this mystery of time travel.
If the internet is good for anything, it's true crime or genuine mystery stories.
Anyone with even a passing interest in stories that sound too fantastic to be true will be
aware that the internet is rife with podcasts, documentaries, and YouTube series dedicated
to recounting the stories that just sound a little too insane.
And the story of a Mad Man is one that, even after twenty years, still doesn't add up.
It all started in 1995, when a man named Mike Marcum, along with many other science fiction
fans and legitimate scientists, attempted to develop a time machine.
He began working on this contraption on the porch of his home in Stanbery, Missouri.
Mike dubbed his invention Jacob's Ladder.
He was only 21 years old and studying to be an electrician at the time.
While learning electronics and wiring, he began tinkering with the hardware and came
up with the notion of building a time machine.
Mike thoroughly loved fooling around on his porch with his newly gained electrical skills,
but his big break came when he appeared on Art Bell's radio show, Coast to Coast, in
1996 and 1997.
Mike Marcum appeared on several radio broadcasts and discussed his trials with time travel.
He suddenly vanished without a trace.
Strangely, a few months later, someone called in to Art's show with a bizarre story.
The caller recalled a 1930s occurrence in which a dead body was discovered on a California
beach.
The body of a man was twisted within a bizarre metal tube where there was a device with the
appearance of a cell phone.
The unusual twist of events sparked many questions, the most pressing of which was whether this
was the first known incidence of time travel.
The device developed by Marcum made use of a modified compact disc laser; it was utilized
to decrease the amount of air resistance that existed between two poles.
This internal process resulted in the creation of a continuous Arc.
When Marcum turned on his device, he discovered an unexpected effect.
There was a heat mark, similar to what you'd see on hot pavement, except it was circular,
like a Vortex.
Mike decided to put a sheet metal screw through the Vortex to see what happens; he was eager
to see what he had discovered.
According to him, the screw vanished for over half a second before reappearing a few feet
away a second later.
Marcus thought the Jacob's Ladder caused an arc of electricity to pass cyclically between
two metallic rods.
He continued trying in attempt to replicate his results, but the CD laser caught fire
after a few more rounds.
This inspired Marcum to rebuild the machine from the ground up, but he thought that since
he had to rebuild it from the ground up, why not utilize much larger Transformers to replicate
the results on a larger scale?
Marcum did not have enough money to support his project, so he stole six 300-pound transformers
from a power producing site in King City.
Marcum was thought to be smarter than his friends, and he supposedly intended to create
a time machine in order to collect the winning lottery numbers in the future.
However, he required a great deal of power to make this thing work, which is why he resorted
to stealing.
In his efforts to refine the device, he also produced a blackout that spanned many blocks
around his area.
The Gentry County Sheriff, who had arrived with a warrant because he had stolen the transformers,
quickly detained him inside his own home.
This occurred on January 29, 1995, and Marcum was imprisoned for several months before being
released.
That's when he was asked to Art Bell's radio show as a guest.
Mike told the story of his screw experiment and his aspirations to build a time machine
on the show.
He did promise the people that he would do it lawfully this time.
He also broadcasted his phone number and received hundreds of calls from listeners who offered
him a range of options, including innovative ideas and financial assistance.
Marcum was able to build another time machine with the help of his followers, this one larger
and more powerful than the previous one.
Marcum soon found himself in legal trouble again and was evicted from his apartment after
reportedly using his machine to transfer a cat over a block away.
Marcum held firm and stated that this was false.
A year later, Art Bell invited Marcum to participate on the show Once Again, and he agreed.
This time, he stated that his new time machine was much more like the one used by the US
military in the Philadelphia Experiment.
To travel in time and space, this device used a spinning magnetic field.
Marcum claimed that his machine was large enough for a man to walk through and that
he would be ready to test it in a few weeks.
Art Bell inquired as to what Mike intended to bring with him in the machine, to which
he answered, "Just my cell phone."
According to an article in the Nexus online magazine, Marcum received a large sum of $20,000
the second time he appeared on the radio show Coast to Coast.
He was also granted a warehouse in Kansas City and a million dollars' worth of equipment
to continue his trials.
Marcum stated during his last appearance on the show that he was exactly 30 days away
from finishing his legal time machine.
According to reports, Marcum erected the time machine many feet in the air within his Kansas
City warehouse, and when the circular Vortex grew, he began throwing guinea pigs inside
of it.
According to him, these objects would emerge in the vortex and then reappear in the warehouse
parking lot on the east or west side every time, but never on the south or north side.
The article further stated that in 1998, Marcum decided to put the device to the test on himself,
jumping into the ark and waking up in an agricultural field in Ohio.
He remembered being cold, hungry, and miles from the nearest town.
He made his way to a homeless shelter in Cincinnati only to discover that he was in the year 2000,
having lost two years during his trip through time.
When Marcum returned to his Kansas City Warehouse, he found no trace of his notes record or the
time machine; it was entirely empty.
This story soon went viral, but there's no way of knowing if the Kansas City tests were
true or not.
Mike hasn't been heard from since 1997.
However, a few months after Mike mysteriously vanished off the face of the earth, a caller
to Art Bell's radio show claimed to know what had happened to Marcum.
According to the individual police found a dead body in California in the 1930s, the
body was crushed inside a metal tube and was unrecognizable.
An item resembling a cell phone was also discovered nearby, leading many to conclude that this
was Mike's body.
So, did he successfully travel back in time, and if so, how did he wind up dead in the
1930s?
Guess we'll never know!
Mike's story is intriguing, but it is not the first-time individuals have been tempted
to contemplate time travel as a possibility.
There are numerous devices that have reportedly successfully enabled time travel.
The Chronovisor is one such device.
According to Italian Benedictine monk Pellegrino Ernetti, the Vatican succeeded in constructing
a machine that allows individuals to travel back in time with the help of a few prominent
scientists.
Despite the fact that the existence of this device has yet to be verified, a book written
by a Vatican priest named Father Francois Brunei says that it is a real invention.
It was purportedly kept secret until the early 1960s, when Ernetti finally talked about it.
It appears that 12 experts were involved in its development, including physicist Enrico
Fermi and ex-Nazi scientist Wernher Von Braun.
This device used cathode rays, antennas, and metals to receive light and sound signals
at nearly all wavelengths.
The Chronovisor functioned as a window through which people could see history and even future
occurrences.
Ernetti claimed to have witnessed Jesus Christ's crucifixion, Marcus Tullius Cicero's address
to the Roman Senate in 63 BC, the birth of the Roman Empire, and the destruction of Sodom
and Gomorrah.
Apparently, Ernetti and his team had peeked into some of the most major biblical events,
but scientists appear to have rejected most of Ernetti's assertions as well.
He maintained his stand, though, until his death.
Many conspiracy theorists believe that a US project named the Montauk project was a successful
time travel experiment.
Apparently, it was a series of US government projects carried out at Camp Hero of the Montauk
Air Force Station for unusual study on several subjects, including time travel.
This report is also being branded a fabrication by specialists, who believe that science is
still a long way from producing the kind of technology that would allow humans to travel
through time.
Mike Marcum is known as Mad Mike for a reason.
It was only the listeners to his radio show who entertained his theories and experiments;
none of the experts genuinely accept what he said.
Let us know what you think about Mike Marcum and his time machine in the comments section.