The Invention of the Time Machine Disappears

Mike Marcum Built a Time Machine and he disappears. Did it work?

Mike “Madman” Marcum attempted to construct a time machine on his front porch in Stanberry, Missouri, in early 1995. Instead, he started working on the Jacobs Ladder gadget.

He was only 21 years old, and a student majoring in electrical at the time. Marcum can be considered intelligent when compared to his peers. Marcum allegedly attempted to construct a time machine to obtain the winning lotto numbers from the future. He did, however, have one issue: he needed a lot of electricity to make it function.

His initial intention was to buy the transformers, but they’re pretty pricey. So he turned to the other option. There were six ancient transformers at the local power plant. So Marcum took six transformers weighing more than 300 pounds from a St. Joseph Light and Power generating station in King City, Missouri.

While testing his experiments, he produced a colossal blackout several blocks across his area. On January 29, 1995, Gentry County Sheriff Eugene Lupfer arrested him with a warrant inside his residence for stealing transformers.

Marcum was released from prison after several months. Then he was invited to join Art Bell on Coast to Coast Radio as a guest. He describes the screw and his ideas to construct a time machine. He promises to do things legally from now on.

Marcum told Art that he still wanted to do another experiment but lacked the funds and replacement parts. During the interview, he volunteered his phone number and received non-stop calls for three days. Marcum benefited greatly from the broadcast since many listeners contributed ideas, funds, and spare components.

With his listeners’ help and donations, his next time machine project was more powerful and much bigger than the previous one.

While the original engine ran at the kilowatt rate, this time, it was designed for 3 megawatts because he wanted to test the machine on himself.

Marcum indicated he was 30 days away from finishing his “legal” time machine on his second and final visit to Bell’s show in 1996.

In 1997 Mike Marcum was never heard from since. Shortly after Marcum vanished, a listener called the Art Bell show to share a weird story he had discovered. A dead guy was…