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Researcher Mike Ricksecker is the author of the award-winning Travels Through Time, Amazon best-sellers A Walk In The Shadows and Alaska's Mysterious Triangle, as well as several historic paranormal books. He has appeared on multiple television shows and programs, including History Channel's Ancient Aliens and The UnXplained, Travel Channel’s The Alaska Triangle, Discovery+’s Fright Club, Animal Planet’s The Haunted, multiple series on Gaia TV, and more. Mike is the producer and director of the docu-series, The Shadow Dimension, available on several streaming platforms, and produces additional full-length content on ancient wisdom, lost civilizations, UFOs, and the supernatural on his extensive YouTube channel. For more than seven years he has hosted The Edge of the Rabbit Holelivestream show and he also hosts the Connecting the Universeinteractive class on his online learning platform, the Connected Universe Portal. He operates his own book publishing and video production company, Haunted Road Media, representing a number of authors, and winning the award for Excellent Media In The Paranormal Field at the 2019 Shockfest Film Festival. Mike also hosts the annual Stargates of Ancient Egypt Tour, an exploration of Egypt’s pyramids and temples for lost advanced technologies, the secrets of esoteric alchemy, and ancient stargates. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Mike is a U.S. Air Force veteran with a background in Intelligence and a degree in computer simulation programming. He’s been researching unexplained phenomena across the world for over 30 years  

Tim R. Swartz Tim R. Swartz is an Indiana-based Emmy Award–winning television producer and videographer, as well as an accomplished author specializing in paranormal phenomena and unexplained mysteries. He is the author of several widely read books, including The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla and Gef the Talking Mongoose, and has contributed to notable anthologies such as Brad Steiger’s Real Monsters, Gruesome Critters, and Beasts from the Darkside and Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits and Haunted Places. In collaboration with author Sean Casteel, Swartz has co-written recent titles including The Persistence of Ghosts: A Cross-Cultural Study of Ghost Behavior from Ancient Times to the Modern Era, Weird Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Time and Space, and Mimics: The Others Among Us. His work is recognized for its in-depth research and global perspective on anomalous experiences. As a photojournalist and investigator, Swartz has traveled extensively, examining paranormal reports and historical mysteries at renowned locations ranging from the Great Pyramid of Giza to the Great Wall of China. His professional experience includes work with major national and international television networks. Swartz has also appeared as an on-camera expert in numerous documentary and television productions, including Ancient Aliens, Ancient Aliens: Declassified, The UnXplained, History’s Greatest Mysteries, the History Channel Latin America series Contacto Extraterrestre, and the documentary The Myth of Tesla. His articles have been featured in a wide range of publications, including Mysteries, FATE, Strange, Atlantis Rising, UFO Universe, Flying Saucer Review, Renaissance, and Unsolved UFO Reports, further establishing him as a respected voice in the field of paranormal research.