In 1995, a 21-year-old electrical engineering student named Mike Marcum called into Coast to Coast AM with an extraordinary claim: he'd built a device that could make objects travel through time.

He'd thrown a metal screw into an electromagnetic field and watched it vanish for a full second before reappearing several feet away.

Mike's ambition was bold. He wanted to scale up the device, make it big enough for a person to step through, and travel to the future to get winning lottery numbers. But he needed powerful transformers—so he stole six from a local power station, causing a massive blackout. He was arrested and spent 60 days in jail.

After his release, radio listeners sent him parts and money to build a bigger machine. In 1996, Mike announced he was 30 days from completion. Then, in 1997, he vanished.

Tonight on Mysteries at Bedtime, we investigate what really happened to "Madman" Mike Marcum.

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Discover the chilling true story of Skinwalker Ranch, a 512-acre Utah property plagued by decades of unexplained phenomena. From UFO sightings and cattle mutilations to shapeshifting creatures and mysterious orbs, explore why this remote ranch has become the most documented paranormal location in America. Learn about the Sherman family's terrifying experiences, the billionaire-funded investigations, and the government's secret $22 million research program. What's really happening at this cursed land that the Ute people have feared for generations?

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On March 8th, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 departed Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing with 239 people on board. Less than an hour into the flight, the Boeing 777 vanished from radar screens—and seemingly vanished from the face of the Earth.

What followed was the largest and most expensive search operation in aviation history, spanning years and covering vast stretches of the Indian Ocean. But despite cutting-edge technology, international cooperation, and countless theories, the question remains: what happened to MH370?

This is the complete story of modern aviation's greatest mystery. From the last routine communication with air traffic control to the bizarre sequence of events that followed—the transponder going dark, the dramatic turn off course, the silent flight for hours into the southern Indian Ocean. We examine the evidence, the satellite data, the debris that washed ashore years later, and the heartbreaking search that consumed nations.

Was it mechanical failure? Pilot suicide? Hijacking? A catastrophic decompression? Or something else entirely? We explore every major theory, the facts that support them, and the questions that still have no answers.

Over a decade later, MH370 remains one of the most baffling disappearances in history—a modern aircraft with sophisticated tracking systems that simply ceased to exist, leaving behind only fragments, theories, and the anguished families still searching for truth.

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A child who has never left Oklahoma suddenly remembers mansions, movie sets and a life in old Hollywood. He names streets, describes trips, and recalls a very specific death – all before researchers uncover the real man he claims he once was: Hollywood agent Marty Martyn. Was this an extraordinary coincidence, or a rare glimpse of reincarnation?

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On 24 November 1971, a quiet man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305, collected $200,000 in cash and four parachutes… then stepped out of a Boeing 727 into the night over the Pacific Northwest. In this episode of Mysteries at Bedtime, we walk calmly through the hijacking, the strange decisions Cooper made, the ransom money found in 1980, and the 2016 FBI decision to suspend the case.

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On a typical spring break night in 2006, 27-year-old medical student Brian Shaffer stepped into a bar with friends, but he was never seen leaving. What began as an evening of bar hopping in Columbus, Ohio, quickly turned into one of the most perplexing missing persons cases of our time. CCTV footage captured Brian entering the Ugly Tuna Saloona, but despite extensive searches and investigations, no footage ever showed him exiting.

Did Brian disappear voluntarily, or was foul play involved? Join us as we explore the chilling details, unanswered questions, and lingering theories behind the mysterious vanishing act of Brian Shaffer.

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/vicap/missing-persons/brian-shaffer

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A council house in North London. A single mother. Two frightened children. And a haunting that exploded into one of the most documented paranormal cases in modern history.

In this episode of Mysteries at Bedtime, we revisit the Enfield Poltergeist with a calm, immersive retelling of the key events: the knocks and violent disturbances, the chilling “Bill” voice, the alleged levitations, and the investigators who believed they were witnessing something extraordinary.

But Enfield is also a case defined by contradiction. Eyewitness accounts, recordings, and media frenzy collided with claims of exaggeration and trickery. The result is a story that still divides believers and sceptics almost fifty years later.

Whether you think it was genuine, misunderstood, or something in between, Enfield remains a rare case where the mystery is the legacy.

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