What would you do if you built a machine that could bend time and then watched it make a screw vanish right before your eyes?

 

 

This isn’t just the plot of a science fiction movie; it truly happened to Mike Markham, a young engineer with an insatiable curiosity.

He was on a quest for knowledge, but his obsession led him down a dark path, culminating in his mysterious disappearance.

Years later, he reemerged with a truth that no one was prepared for.

This story will leave you questioning the very nature of time and reality.

Before he became known as the “Time Machine Man,” Mike Markham was just a nerdy kid from rural Missouri.

He had an unusual fascination with electricity, often scavenging scrapyards for wire scraps, broken TVs, and metal pieces.

While other kids played outside, Mike spent his afternoons tinkering in a makeshift lab, piecing together experiments with a broken toolbox.

His neighbors dubbed him “the electric kid” as they watched him connect car batteries to doorbells and attempt to light bulbs with fence wire.

By his early twenties, Mike’s interest evolved into a focused ambition: he wanted to bend electricity itself.

In a friend’s shed, he constructed a Jacob’s ladder, a device that generated high-voltage arcs of plasma.

With a wooden board supporting two metal rods shaped like a V, he created blue arcs that danced toward the roof, crackling like lightning.

In January 1995, during a pivotal experiment, Mike dropped a steel screw between the arcing rods.

For a split second, the screw vanished, only to reappear as if it had bounced through an invisible hole.

Excited by this phenomenon, Mike called into the late-night radio show Coast to Coast AM to share his experience.

His voice was calm yet filled with energy as he recounted the screw’s disappearance and the strange ripple effect he believed he had created.

The response was overwhelming; some scientists urged him to stop, fearing he might unleash something uncontrollable, while others encouraged him to continue his experiments.

The attention only fueled Mike’s obsession.

 

 

In a reckless move, he stole six industrial-grade transformers from a local power company to boost his project’s power.

This reckless act resulted in a power outage across rural Missouri, leading to his arrest and a sixty-day jail sentence.

However, prison did little to quell his determination.

While incarcerated, he sketched new designs and envisioned the moment he would make the screw disappear again.

Upon his release, Mike vowed to use only legitimate parts and began scouring markets and yard sales for used transformers.

He even bought a camera to document each experiment, hoping to provide proof of his groundbreaking work.

Despite his efforts, the letters continued to flood in—some were fan mail, while others contained threats.

One envelope, containing $500 and a note urging him to “keep going,” left Mike feeling both supported and pressured.

## The Second Experiment and Disappearance

By late 1996, Mike returned to Coast to Coast AM, but his tone had shifted.

No longer brimming with excitement, he spoke of glitches in his experiments that made even his most loyal fans uneasy.

He described how the electromagnetic field he had created was unstable, causing objects to flash in and out of existence.

Animals he tested within the field became disoriented and ill.

As the call ended, he ominously stated, “I’m almost there… I just need more power and a better field.”

Listeners eagerly awaited updates, but when March 1997 arrived, Mike had vanished.

Attempts to contact him went unanswered, and friends reported they hadn’t seen him in weeks.

Then, tragedy struck.

A fire consumed his garage, leaving behind charred tools and a mysterious circular burn mark on the concrete floor.

The official report blamed an electrical overload, but Mike was nowhere to be found.

 

 

Only a single sheet of paper remained, bearing the cryptic message: “It’s not about time; it’s about how you see things.”

This note became a crucial part of the mystery surrounding his disappearance.

As the search for Mike slowed, his story transformed into urban legend.

Online forums buzzed with speculation about what had happened to the “Time Machine Man.”

Some believed he had succeeded in time travel and was lost in a different era.

Others theorized that his device malfunctioned, sending him decades into the future or past.

A forgotten case from 1930 added fuel to the fire.

A body found on a California beach was reported to be wearing clothes that didn’t match the time period, along with a strange metal device.

As Markham’s story gained traction online, amateur sleuths began connecting the dots between the two incidents.

In 2006, a college professor received an email from someone claiming to be Mike Markham, complete with diagrams of a “Vortex Stabilization Frame.”

The IP address traced back to a public library in Kaua’i, Hawaii, but the trail quickly went cold.

 

 

In 2022, a couple named Andrew and Melanie purchased an old farmhouse in rural Ohio.

While cleaning the attic, Melanie discovered a heavy wooden box with the inscription: “M. Mark Markham – Do Not Open Until the Right Time.”

Curiosity piqued, they opened the box to find journals, rusty circuit boards, and a faded Polaroid of a young man beside a metal frame.

The back of the photo read: “June 21, 2021 – It did work, but not the way I thought it would.”

Intrigued, Andrew researched Markham’s name and stumbled upon the bizarre tale of the inventor who vanished.

To their shock, the journals referenced their farmhouse as a location with “unusually stable magnetic field behavior.”

Weeks later, Mike Markham appeared at their farmhouse, carrying only a folder containing the truth about his disappearance.

He explained that he had spent years living off the grid, trying to “reassemble memory” and relive the same decade to see if he could remember it differently.

Mike revealed that his machine never truly transported him through time; instead, it disrupted his biological clock, making him feel out of sync with reality.

He recounted waking up in Oregon in 1999, disoriented and alone, with no memory of how he arrived there.

Mike shared that anyone near his prototype experienced strange sensations—flashes of déjà vu and a feeling of being one step ahead of themselves.

He showed Andrew and Melanie a list of names of volunteers who had helped with early trials but had completely forgotten him.

With a heavy heart, he promised never to repeat his experiments.

 

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Mike quietly left the farmhouse, taking only a backpack and a thumb drive, leaving Andrew and Melanie to lock away the secrets of the attic.

The story of Mike Markham serves as a haunting reminder of the mysteries that lie within the realm of science and the potential consequences of tampering with time.

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