Mike Marcum, the man who worked on a “time machine” and mysteriously disappeared

 

Mike Marcum, the man who worked on a “time machine” and mysteriously disappeared….

There are many stories in the world about very ingenious people who have tried to create incredible technological devices, capable of achieving what the scientific community tells us is impossible. This is the case of Mike Marcum, a man who tried to create a time machine in his backyard, but it mysteriously disappeared.

In early 1995, Mike “Madman” Marcum attempted to build a time machine in the backyard of his home in Stanberry, Missouri, USA. He began creating a device called the Jacobs Ladder.

The Strange Mechanism

He used a modified compact disc laser to reduce the air resistance between two poles. This would produce a continuous arc. You saw an unusual result when you turned the device on. There was a heat mark, like you would see on hot pavement, but it was circular in shape, like a vortex. So he decided to throw a sheet metal bolt through the vortex to see what the effect would be and what would happen. He claims that it disappeared for about half a second and reappeared a few feet away a second later. At the time he was only 21 years old and a student studying electrical engineering. Compared to his friends, you could say that Marcum was quite intelligent. Apparently, Marcum tried to build a time machine because he wanted to get future winning lottery numbers. However, it had one problem: it needed a lot of energy to work.

After some more testing, the CD laser caught fire. He figured that if he were to rebuild the machine again, he might as well use larger transformers.

His original plan was to buy the transformers, but they were quite expensive. He resorted to the alternative. The local power plant had 6 old transformers. Marcum stole six transformers weighing over 300 pounds from a St. Joseph Light and Power Generating Station in King City, Missouri. While testing his experiments, he caused a massive blackout in several blocks of his neighborhood. Moments later, Gentry County Sheriff Eugene Lupfer arrested him on a warrant at his home on January 29, 1995, for stealing the transformers. His purpose is revealed

After several months in prison, Marcum was released. And then he was invited to be Art Bell's guest on Coast to Coast AM. There, Mike told the story of the screw and his plans to build a time machine. He promised that from now on he would do it legally.

Marcum told Art that he still had plans to do another experiment, but that he had no money or spare parts. During the interview, he gave out his phone number and received non-stop calls for 3 days. The show really helped Marcum a lot because many listeners shared ideas, funding, and spare parts needed to build his long-awaited device. With this help and donations from his listeners, his next time machine project was more powerful and much larger than the last.

Although the original engine ran at a kilowatt rate, this time it was designed for 3 megawatts. Because he wanted to test the machine himself.

Additionally, Marcum installed a rotating magnetic field similar to the one used by the U.S. military in the Philadelphia Experiment. He said rotating magnetic fields are more effective and efficient.

Art Bell had Mike Marcum as a guest again a year later. Marcum claimed to be experimenting with a more sophisticated time machine. The electromagnetic vortex was large enough for a man to enter. The interview ended with Marcum stating that he was about to generate the desired amount of voltage to make the machine work. When asked what he would take with him if he were able to travel back in time, Mike said he would take his cell phone. At the end of the show, Mike decided to give his address instead of his phone number.

During Marcum's second and final appearance on the Bell show in 1996, he said he had 30 days to complete his "cool" time machine. Since then, nothing has been heard from Mike Marcum. There are many rumors about him on various forums, theorizing about his possible fate.

Shortly after Marcum's disappearance, a listener called into the Art Bell Show to tell him about a strange story he had come across. In the 1930s, police had found a dead man on a California beach.

He was crushed to death in a strange metal tube, the man was unrecognizable and a mysterious device was found near his body. The caller said the device looked like a cell phone. Was this man's corpse Marcum himself? Impossible to determine.