Exploring the secrets of the dark while unveiling an enigmatic world feared by many and misunderstood by most.
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Explore the shadow phenomena in a variety of ways — through the Shadow Dimension documentary series, the Connected Universe courses and community, the books, and the Beyond the Shadows supernatural podcast with Mike Ricksecker.
About Me
About Me
Shadow entities are some of the most mysterious phenomena in the known universe, and Mike Ricksecker has experienced many, starting with a tall, dark humanoid figure that appeared in his room as a child...
Mike Ricksecker
Author & researcher
Mike Ricksecker
Author & researcher
Mike Ricksecker is the author of the best-selling A Walk In The Shadows: A Complete Guide To Shadow People and the historic paranormal books Ghosts of Maryland, Ghosts and Legends of Oklahoma, Campfire Tales: Midwest, Ghostorian Case Files, and the Encounters With The Paranormal series. He has appeared on multiple television shows and programs as a paranormal historian, including Travel Channel’s The Alaska Triangle, Animal Planet’s The Haunted, Bio Channel’s My Ghost Story, and RenTV’s (Russia) Mysteries of Mankind, Fox 5 News (Washington DC), Fox 25 News (Oklahoma City), ABC 3 News (Virginia Beach), Coast-to-Coast AM with George Noory, and he produces his own Internet paranormal shows Ghosts and Legends, Paranormal Roads, and Friday Night Ghost Frights. On Tuesday nights, he hosts The Edge of the Rabbit Hole Livestream Show and Beyond The Shadows on the Haunted Road Media YouTube channel. Haunted Road Media is also his own paranormal and supernatural book publishing and video production company representing a number of paranormal authors, winning the award for Excellent Media In The Paranormal Field at the 2019 Shockfest Film Festival.
Mike’s historic paranormal articles have been published in The Baltimore Sun, Paranormal Underground Magazine, and he previously wrote an
Oklahoma City paranormal column for Examiner.com (2010 – 2014). His work has
also been featured in The Oklahoman, The Frederick News Post, Marshall University’s
The Parthenon, and Louisiana State
University’s Civil War Book Review.
Additionally, Mike is an Amazon best-selling mystery author with two entries to his Chase Michael DeBarlo private detective series, Deadly Heirs and System of the Dead. With nearly 30 years of involvement in the paranormal, Mike serves as a paranormal investigator and “Ghostorian” with Society of the Haunted and regularly travels to speak about supernatural phenomenon.
