With a 30 year background in researching and writing about UFOs and the paranormal, Mike is the author of the award-winning Travels Through Time, Amazon best-sellers A Walk In The Shadows and Alaska's Mysterious Triangle, as well as several historic paranormal books. He has appeared on multiple television shows and programs, including History Channel's Ancient Aliens and The UnXplained, Travel Channel's The Alaska Triangle, Animal Planet's The Haunted, multiple series on Gaia TV, and more.
Mike is the producer and director of the docu-series, The Shadow Dimension, available on several streaming platforms, and produces additional full-length content on ancient wisdom, lost civilizations, UFOs, and the supernatural on his extensive YouTube channel.
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another piece of thrown to the mix there with the shadows out of the periphery and that's because our eyes are made up of rods and cones and the the rods from the sides they're more grouped around the sides of cones and more towards the front the rods Were Meant to take in more light so we actually take in more light from the periphery we actually see a touch into the infrared over there as well and so that's why you know we might see something out of the corner of our eye we turn and look and it seems like it's gone it's probably not gone though with us today is author researcher and filmmaker Mike Ricker Mike it's been a long time since you were last on the show how have you been uh been pretty busy doing really well and thanks so much for having me back Christina I always enjoy talking with you we have some great conversations it is always a pleasure to speak with you you open my mind to so many bizarre and interesting possibilities when it comes to this world and I said you know what he's been insanely busy I know he has some stuff that he wants to talk about I want to hear it let's bring him on and so here we are today doing exactly that following through on our actions and our words don't you think that's a good thing to follow through is always important it is so I'm not going to fluff around here as you've been here on the show a few times so we're gonna actually go into the deep end because I want to start off with this first question have any of your theories on Shadow People portals or time travel have they changed or shifted in the the past two years due to further research on those topics yeah know what's interesting is there has been some research that has come out here lately it's on on the quantum level in the lab but where they are actually able to at a about a 25% success rate go back and change a previous decision so that's really significant and they're looking at it in like and I don't necessarily agree with taking tactic uh but the examples they're using are well you know if uh a gambler you know threw some money down and they bet on the wrong horse the wrong team or what have you they could go back and change that decision and basically try again with a 25% success rate I I don't know if that's our best use of that type of Technology it's almost kind of a scary effect when you think of like Back to the Future and Biff tannan and what he did with the uh with the sports book but uh but yeah they have been making some progress there on the scientific level so then let me ask you this because obviously you're not agreeing with using it for gambling and I'm with you I'm with you on that one so if you had access to that technology how would you use it yeah I wouldn't go back really and and change the past I know a lot of people will look at you know there are so many atrocities that happen and yes our human history is littered with that even our Natural History is when you look at you know the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs Mount fuus certain uh Pompei you know those are horrible things that happened but we would not be here today without those things uh as unfortunate as many of them are I would go back really to watch and observe and really study the past we have so many debates as to what really happened and you know how technology was used you how far back does technology in Civilization go so I would use it as an observation tool that's actually a really interesting point not only do humans have an interest with the past that's why we have archaeology but there's also this Theory as of more recently that UFOs extraterrestrials that's a quotation marks might actually be Time Travelers they could either be evolved humans from the future that ALS also want to see what they classify as the past and that being our present do you think that theory has any credibility to it there's certainly credibil credibility to it uh where I would kind of uh draw the line is there are some of my colleagues that have started to say well all ETS and extraterrestrials are just us from the future and I have to kind want to try to pull the reins in a little bit well let's not go with all um some certainly but but you look at the history of our planet right now it's about 4 and a half billion years old we have about about another five billion before the the sun becomes a red giant and destroys the planet so we're kind of uniquely positioned right in the middle of our planet's history but our species Homo sapiens sapiens the earliest fossils we have for ourselves are about 35,000 years old we're we're we're not we're fairly young we're not that old at all uh you think about the dinosaurs you know they went extinct 64 million years ago well that's just over 1% of the entire history of the planet ago so it's in the grand scheme of the planet it's not that long even though it's very very long to us so you know millions of years from now Humanity might not even be here we may have destroyed ourselves we may have had to go colonize somewhere else we don't know what will happen but uh there's a good chance that humans won't be here but perhaps some other intelligent life form has evolved developed civilization and maybe they developed time travel technology and went back in time and that's what we're seeing or even again millions of years from now could be extraterrestrials colonizing on Earth deciding it's a habital planet for them maybe humans aren't around again uh and they in the course of developing their civilization here on Earth develop that time travel technology so still could be extraterrestrials but from the distant future so there's a lot of possibilities at play here and those things are so exciting to imagine to Muse about because like you said the possibilities are endless and especially when we couple it with our current evolution of AI at some point in time we're going to just merge with it as we're seeing with neuralink but hopefully doesn't get as bad as the Borg from Star Trek that's GNA be a hot mess but you know what if we don't destroy ourselves AI might do that for us but looking looking at that possibility what really interesting with AI in these last really in these last few months they have taken exponential strides in understanding patterns more quickly than humans by about 100 to 600% faster they found one of the Scrolls to attempt and find Plato's tomb back near right below vvus right right and so when we're looking at these things it would be interesting to see if AI will Aid the development of time travel and from your research you've looked into time travel it's one of your favorite topics and mine as well but you look at it from a different perspective in the sense of Consciousness and you actually did a show on it about a month ago dealing with black holes time travel and Consciousness and let me tell you in instant brownie points right there because all those topics mixed together Chef kiss it's amazing but for those for those that didn't watch that or or know your research on that can you run us through some interesting findings or theories that you came across yeah that that opens up a whole can of worms uh you know it does I I'm all for yeah I mean I'm all for the development of of AI um to a point we need to be responsible with it yeah we don't want to recreate The Matrix or Terminator or anything crazy like that um there needs to be some sort of responsibility but we can use it as a tool to help us with so many things on this planet we've been using AI for decades I think people kind of tend to forget that you know even our just our basic household appliance have a small degree of artificial intelligence in there um but when it comes to Consciousness and where the angle that I took this at was um so Nicola Tesla he actually had back in the late 1800s he had ideas and Concepts about artificial intelligence we don't ever think about that but he actually built what you could really call uh almost the world's first drone uh he called it a telet tomaton it was a little tiny submarine and his ideas was he built this for the Spanish American war his idea of warfare was let's get the humans out of it and just have machines fight each other and so his idea was to have this little submarine that he actually did develop and he demonstrated uh that could go out into the waters make a decision on its particular targets and choose when exactly to launch a torpedo that's artificial intelligence and this is the 1890s that he's developed this he took it a step further and said you know what I could build I could build a teletom of myself that would look like me act like me think like me make decisions just like me so he's talking about essentially building a robot of himself with artificial intelligence again in the 1890s now he was laughed out of the room uh because of these ideas and Concepts that he had but in today's day and age we're like oh yeah you know we've been doing this for a while now and then of course we have our science fiction that yeah shows us all these different ideas of where we might take that technology but um but I've always found that really fascinating with him because I believe that he was tapping into uh what I call Eternal knowledge uh Carl Young called it the collective unconscious you have the idea of the akashic records but essentially it's that Eternal knowledge of the universe that's out there so when we look at different concepts of time and the idea that all time is concurrent past present future that we're really talking about our existence here in the fourth dimension and those that are in Fifth Sixth sth eth and Beyond would be able to access time as an object like we do any three-dimensional object um I believe that he was able to Via his Consciousness tap into that Eternal knowledge that's out there he could already see he could already Envision these concepts of artificial intelligence uh he had concepts of like the cell phone and things like this and which made him too far ahead of his time but he was bringing those Concepts back with him into that day and age when you think about it like that either referring it to as the akashic records or this kind of untapped level of Consciousness it it gets a little tricky to talk about it it's a little bit of taboo just because there is this woo factor to it not everyone's going to agree with me and that's okay but for a good chunk of people they're like I don't really want to go there I want the science I want the mathematics but there are certain people in this world that are just able to tap into to this information that again is just way ahead of their time like Tesla like child prodigies like 10-year-olds that can that can beat the Masters in chess right yeah it's insane it kind of is but you know it's it's a part of our world um when we talk about I I love so Dr Hans holer who's um he did he he's kind of one of those forefathers of ghost hunting paranormal investigations and that sort of thing but he had a great quote that said there is no Supernatural world everything that exists is natural so basically when we have things like child prodigies when we have uh things that we would consider woo it's it's just things that they exist in our universe they just don't happen as often uh so we kind of chalk it up to all this you know Supernatural sort of thing but um so let's try to take the out of it a little bit and I know a lot of people Tred to look at our world um as a simulated un Universe in a computer and I I do believe we are living in some sort of sim simulation not necessarily a computer even though I have a degree in simulation programming um I believe it's something more organic or biological in nature but we can use concepts of computing and trying to describe it so if we do that and we look at uh all of time the whole universe being here as a whole so in this sense like a computer program or a even like a computer game like your um I don't know your your disc for your your PlayStation or the cartridge for the Nintendo or whatever all the information is there right the entire game the entire program is there when you access it you're running through it basically more in a linear F fashion like you know with us we're going through time in a very very linear fashion that's because there's a rule set in place that keeps the flow going so like when we talk the river of time well you know time is the water but the water isn't making itself flow it's the banks holding the water in place that's keeping the flow going if you to remove the banks then all the water would fall out and just be like a giant stagnant Pond or lake or what have you and it would be all accessible so the banks in that analogy are really that rule set that's keeping things in order and flowing in a linear fashion but all of that information is there you know the the programmers when they created the program or they created the game or whatever it is they they created the whole thing to be there and they might as like the game master or the programmer they might be able to have access from outside so outside the simulation they could access it um so in in this sense with all that information already there a guy like Tesla he was basically hacking the program so he was able to like you take the old um I don't know the old Super Mario game when you could find those like uh secret worlds and things like that like okay we'll jump above the screen and go to the secret location that you don't normally get to that's essentially what Tesla was doing was he was hacking the program or finding a back door uh in into the system and getting some of that extra knowledge that's a really interesting analogy because I think almost everyone has played Mario at least once and then you hear these rumors especially as a kid about those kind of more you have to like jump up really high and get to those little Sky levels within the level that you're already in and so I think that was just a fantastic analogy but I wanna I want to bring it back down a little bit going from the skies back to the Earth here because you also have an interest and then significant research in Shadow People and paranormal entities and so this is a question that actually sent to me and it says why do some paranormal entities appear as Shadows or light from your research yeah it's a it's a great question and you know it has to do with the way that um we're talking about a the human physiology you know the way that our eyes work we only see into a very narrow band of the entire Spectrum so these particular entities are um you know they have energy they have um a way that they are visible to the light spectrum that really is a bit foreign to us and we're just getting a a glimpse of what they are so when we talk shadow people I mean they can be a number of different things for one um you they could be they could be a human Spirit now fully manifesting into our plane of existence they could be an ET they could be an extraterrestrial they could be what we would call an interdimensional being so you know they and many other things too so it's really several different species using the same energetic modality to enter into uh our Dimension here and again we're in the fourth dimension so especially some of these that are like interdimensional beings well they're coming from you know beyond five six seven8 and so forth and so when they come into here well we're we don't fully understand our body can't register that full geometry so it's coming off to us in this sort of form you know might be a wispy Shadow could could be almost you know fully formed like a um you know look like a bean um some of these that are ETS you know might be some sort of cloaking device that uh they've instituted that just doesn't fully come off us again our eyes seen in certain uh wavelengths so uh there there's a lot of different ways that we can actually look at that there's no there's really no one way to answer that question but is there any way to decipher or like how you're aware how some show up kind of dark and while some of them show up more as like balls of light right and we could even be talking about um different things here or the idea that um well I mean one solution here um or one concept is that uh humans we we each resonate at a little bit of a different frequency and testing that was done back in the 90s um they determine that the uh human human standing resonance is anywhere between 9 and 16 Hertz we're all a little bit different these beings and entities are also resonating at different frequency so it's you know how well are you able to sync up and actually be able to see and detect this so I could be standing and I've been in situations like this before I could be standing right next to somebody or with a group of people and we're all looking at the same thing and it it comes off differently like one time there five of us standing there and we had all seen this Apparition of a little girl morph out of Shadow smoke which was you know for one already bizarre but uh you know trying to coax her a little bit closer a little bit closer and she just stayed there in the middle of this hallway and kind of looked at us uh but we all saw her a little bit differently I saw her fully formed from her head down to about her knees and then she dissipated away other saw her fully formed at her feet and then as it went up dissipated away the head and I believe that had to do with the way that each of us individually resonate and then uh what her particular resonance is or was Mike you only gave us the appetizer to that story I want to hear this whole story about this little girl give us the whole meal okay okay you want the whole thing okay so this was um oh geez this was like five or six years ago now Mineral Springs Hotel Alton Illinois and I had been running some events out there uh some little conventions and having a uh a ghost hunt afterward so this was really just winding down at the end of that was only five of us left and we were in the top floor abandoned part of the hotel in a room called Pearl's room unfortunately there was a there's a confirmed suicide in that room uh Pearl who had passed away uh back in the 60s and she is still there to this day a lot of people go up there and they're able to interact with her so we were in that room couple of guys are there doing an EVP session and I started hearing something out in the hallway so I go out in the hallway to take a look and I'm looking down the hall and all of a sudden I see this smoke start to Billow up and come toward me and at first you're thinking is is the place on fire um couldn't smell anything and and but I started doing something really strange and odd too as it's coming closer and closer it started creeping up the wall on the right hand side of the hallway creep back down back up all the wild it's coming closer and closer and then one of those times it creeped up that wall on the right hand side that's when it morphed into The Apparition of the little girl all the others by that point had uh joined me and we all trying to coax her come closer come closer where she stopped was at this Doorway to another room in the hall where there had been reports over the years of the spirit of a little girl being in that room so there were what we'd call trigger object items in there like teddy bears and toys and things like that and we were actually seeing that curl right outside the door and that's where uh that's where she had stopped uh which was really really fascinating because i' had never seen her interacted with her before all the times that I was there investigating but there she was and like I said we all saw her a little bit differently two things that I want to bring up with this story number one referring to seeing it differently this is really interesting cuz it's the same thing that goes for a lot of UFO sightings when groups of people see it they see different colors they even see different shapes with this weird object this weird anomaly in the sky and so when we couple that with the Paranormal I think it just continues to blur the line between the UFO phenomenon and the Paranormal there's a lot of similarities between the two and maybe just maybe labels are the things that confuse us we might be dealing with very similar if not the same kinds of entities Andor anomalies the second thing that I wanted to bring up here is I haven't come across that many stories of people that have had a paranormal sighting and there was Smoke involved we see it in the movies it really adds this this flare of horror and Thriller but in real life I haven't come across that many do you have a possible reason for that um right place right time I mean I I've collected so many stories over the years and I do have some of those smoke stories I kind of categorize it under the shadow Mist phenomenon um but like uh the the The Conjuring house the house at the first Conjuring movie was based off of in in Harrisville Rhode Island um the movie is very very different than what happened there but that's a location where they reported the uh the shadow smoke um the the very first television show that I had been on the haunted which is over 12 years ago uh that entity there which turned out to be a red-eyed Shadow entity one of the manifestations one particular evening was of a just large black Misty Smoky type of a shadow like it didn't fully form up into the bean itself so I have collected several of those over the years I would say um it's not as popular as say you know the full figured shadow person or what we would call the uh or like the hat wearing entities um you know those are a little bit more commonplace but uh but you do get the smoke too you do but like you said you only collected a few out of your Decades of research just just not that many now to bring up the the concept of red eyes this is something that only a handful of entities I think really possess consistently you have the yellow eyes you have the red eyes or you don't really have any um and do you feel like do the red eyes display a certain pattern from your research are they more malevolent are they bevent is there any kind of of commonalities or differences that you've possibly seen when it comes to entities with red or yellow eyes yeah it's I think this is where we as humans try to categorize and compartmentalize things that we are experiencing so okay here's a being with red eyes we tend to uh especially in our horror film culture uh we tend to you know look at things with red eyes things that are evil in nature or you know yellow might be like yellow gets used a lot for de demonic possession films and things like that um and also people reported to me you know glowing white eyes blue eyes purple eyes you could just pick a color I've probably heard a story about it um so I think it's yeah and don't happen in all of these cases a lot of times it is just a you know dark figure no eyes no face no mouth nothing it's just black like that uh so that is a good question as to why do some of these have eyes and some don't and I think we're just dealing with the different species here uh when we talk about these different shadows there's there's not just one clear cut this is what a shadow person is and that's it we're dealing with a number of different species so I think there is a species that does have eyes and and they have different colors for those eyes but I don't think the color necessarily means that um you know because you have red or because you have blue you're good or bad or anything like that I mean we have it just take humans um you have humans that are good humans that are bad and they all have you might have a good person has brown eyes and a bad person has brown eyes doesn't you know just because they have brown eyes doesn't mean they're one or the other um is the individual person in the decisions that they make I think when you place it like that it it makes a lot of sense we we do really want to see patterns that that's what humans are all about is trying to place things in categories but when you begin to pull that rug under people's feet they they stumble a little bit and then we begin to understand that maybe just maybe we don't always need patterns to understand something but it does help it it it does help us to try to start going down that path and learning and understanding but I think it's just scratching the surface there and from your research are there any specific locations on Earth where Portal activity or dimensional anomalies seem to be more prevalent such as the Bermuda Triangle or Skinwalker Ranch like where do you think we might be able to find one it's funny those the first two places that came to mind I can read your mind m a little absolutely yes you can um yeah places like that and and the reason why uh those places have that type of activity we could go Alaska triangle Dragon sea any any of like the real ancient sites of power stonehinge the pyramids um you know it's because there is more Earth Energy at those locations and there's there's a reason for that you you have the uh Earth core which is a spinning metallic ball of iron and it is uh you there is a magnetic uh force that is emanating out from that that becomes our mag magnetic Shield which helps protect us from the solar wind you we just had those fantastic Northern Lights the auroras uh a couple of weeks ago it was amazing but that was showing that our uh magnetic Shield is working because the solar wind was bouncing off into the ionosphere and creating those colors we didn't have that magnetic protection we would have been fried uh we would have been a long time ago actually but um but as that magnetism is moving through the Earth it's interacting with different metals and minerals and depending on what it interacts with and the quantity of it it's going to create different types of electromagnetic phenomena so you know you have these different electromagnetic fields here on Earth so when we talk about the ber triangle we talk about Skinwalker Ranch that's what's going on is something is there in the ground that our magnetic core is interacting with in creating these strange magnetic fields that are creating the strange phenomena usually we hear terms or ideas of there being a rip in the veil but talking about the Earth's core and using Earth Energy I think is rather interesting do you think in that case with the Earth's core it might have what could be classified as exotic matter in order to create portals or dimensional anomalies yeah whatever might be there in the ground and and certainly places like Skinwalker um there's something significant that's there that I mean yes it's it's helping to create these these rips in the veil that um it's creating different magnetic uh or electric frequencies that are basically able to give us it might be a time slip it might be a view into another dimension might be a portal that opens up that somebody disappears through and maybe they go to another dimension maybe they go to another point in time and while they're reluctant to admit it here on Earth uh science sure you know the the science backs up we have electromagnetic grid across the Earth but they're reluctant to say they're opening portals here on Earth but NASA will say out in space we do have portals and basically where that um magnetic Shield interacts with the solar wind up there there are portals I call them X points that are opening and closing and they've actually sent up satellites to study this they have not yet really found a pattern they kind of open and close randomly and at different sizes but when they do open they allow that solar wind to come in uh a little bit more quickly and they smack a little harder against the ionosphere uh so science has admitted yes we do have portals even though they they're reluctant here uh to say yeah you know stonehinge has a portal or something like that um but but it does happen the science really does back it up could you imagine if NASA said yep there's portals here on Earth that's right at Stonehenge imagine the flock of people that would go yeah and and they would just be chaotic across the board in any way that you could think it'd be chaotic it would be in ex that exact form but to continue with that thought have you come across any stories or cases dealing with portal and missing people yeah a number of them um David PES has done a lot of work in this uh Missing 411 but uh the Alaska triangle there's so many missing person cases up there uh it's just absolutely bizarre uh the number of missing airplanes and many of these cases uh are suspected to not all of them I mean people go missing out in the woods get eaten by a bear there are kidnappings so obviously not all of them uh but many of them cuz there are so many it's just uncanny so many of them are believed to be somebody stepped through a portal out in the woods because all of a sudden you know they turned around and they were gone uh where did they go that sort of thing and people that get found say you know I don't I don't know what happened because I was on the path maybe there with a friend heard a noise out in the woods took two steps off the path to take a look couldn't find what the noise was turned around and get back on the path and the path was gone so did they step into something they step up across that Veil they step into a portal some sort of Wormhole uh it's quite possible uh some of these missing airplanes and um so with the Alaska triangle television show we covered uh several of these but one of them was a large Douglas Sky Master plane from 1950 and where this went missing it was in January but it was a nice day and it was just over the Canadian border uh in around a place called snag just completely lost contact never heard from it again massive and rescue mission largest one up to that date both uh joint uh US and Canada they were actually doing some ex military exercises together at the time so they got off the exercises and they went looking for this plane nothing and yet just a couple weeks later there was a smaller plane that actually went down in that area that same area where they had last heard from the Douglas skym they would have find that immediately not a problem a smaller one so that's really bizarre and then before and after the uh the sky Master went missing there were UFO side on both side of it just before and just after so one of the ideas is that it passed through some sort of portal into another dimension or I throw out there maybe another point in time and if it did go back to another point in time let's say it went back just use an arbitrary number 500 years ago well what would an airplane if it popped into existence 500 years ago what would an airplane look like to the indigenous people of the area at that time it would have no concept whatsoever of an airplane to them it would be some massive bird in the sky very loud very thunderous in nature so is this where we're getting some of our Thunderbird legends from so um there there's a lot of different ways that we can look at these I think that's a really cool analogy to consider if these play did go through a portal and then coupling it with the idea of Thunderbirds I can dig that but there obviously when we're dealing with time travel there's a lot of issues with it according to just like basic theories and Science in the sense of if you enter through a portal or if you have a time traveling machine and you go into any point in time are you going on a different timeline are you going on the same timeline had because because then you have the butterfly effect you can have the grandfather Paradox you have all of these issues going on it doesn't mean that there may be 100% true as their only Theory but I think there are certain things to consider so if that is the case bear with me here Mike I think this is gonna be really interesting bear with me okay because then what if you have these interdimensional beings that are sharing these stories of the Thunderbird they share it to this timeline and that's how we get these these stories is that crazy to think like that or do you think it it could be possible um I don't think it's crazy to think of I know a lot of people have uh especially with our science fiction these days a lot of people have really taken that idea of a Multiverse to heart that you know there are a lot of different timelines that are out there that are getting created I do have a little bit of a hard time with that you know the idea that just because I picked up my coffee mug now I spawned off another unive
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