July 30, 1996: Time Travels - 'Mad Man' Marcum
The Art Bell Archive · Arthur William Bell III
July 7, 20232h 2m
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Show Notes
Mike Marcum, affectionately dubbed Mad Man Marcum by Art Bell, returns to provide a dramatic update on his homemade time machine experiments. Since his previous appearance and subsequent arrest for stealing power company transformers, Marcum has quietly assembled a massive new apparatus in a rented garage, featuring seven circles of 24 electromagnets each, a 15-kilowatt generator, and transformers capable of producing three million volts.
Marcum describes how his original small-scale Jacob's Ladder, powered by a laser from a CD player, caused a steel screw to vanish for half a second before reappearing two feet away. His new design replaces the laser with rotating magnetic fields on the advice of a physicist, creating what he believes will be a vortex of electrical energy capable of punching a hole in spacetime. Art notes the striking similarity to both the Philadelphia Experiment and Bob Lazar's descriptions of extraterrestrial propulsion systems.
Callers offer suggestions ranging from strapping a camcorder to a pole to sending a clock through the field, while Marcum's psychiatrist has diagnosed him as delusional. Art volunteers to fly out and videotape the experiment, whether it documents the first time travel or serves as a memorial.
Marcum describes how his original small-scale Jacob's Ladder, powered by a laser from a CD player, caused a steel screw to vanish for half a second before reappearing two feet away. His new design replaces the laser with rotating magnetic fields on the advice of a physicist, creating what he believes will be a vortex of electrical energy capable of punching a hole in spacetime. Art notes the striking similarity to both the Philadelphia Experiment and Bob Lazar's descriptions of extraterrestrial propulsion systems.
Callers offer suggestions ranging from strapping a camcorder to a pole to sending a clock through the field, while Marcum's psychiatrist has diagnosed him as delusional. Art volunteers to fly out and videotape the experiment, whether it documents the first time travel or serves as a memorial.