{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68365201e1abc4be6b3dadce/6977d8f4eefa744a9c89c7e6?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Madman Mike Marcum Case: Time Traveller or Elaborate Hoax?","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/68365201e1abc4be6b3dadce/1769461927363-f158495f-5774-4214-b575-8bef370a8a68.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>&nbsp;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. </p><p><br></p><p>He'd thrown a metal screw into an electromagnetic field and watched it vanish for a full second before reappearing several feet away.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>Tonight on Mysteries at Bedtime, we investigate what really happened to \"Madman\" Mike Marcum.</p>","author_name":"Jack Laurence"}