This is where the story took an unusual turn. Mike admitted in the air that he had stolen six massive power transformers from a nearby stream station to help his research. Unfortunately for Mike, his experiments were demolished when local law enforcement came out that he had stolen the transformers. This led to his arrest and a 60-day stint in prison.
When he was released, he resumed his experiments and again called ‘Coast to Coast AM’ to update art about his progress, which led to the donation of financing and equipment of listeners and even a warehouse to work out. This allowed him to improve his design and 18 months later he was able to test larger objects through the field. This time the objects did not disappear for a few seconds, they disappeared for a few minutes and appeared more than 100 meters away.
Eventually Mike told Art that he intended to step in for testing whether time travel was possible. His ultimate goal, he said, was to move only a few seconds in the future. Then Mike disappeared. He stopped calling the show and rumors were swirling among fans of ‘Coast to Coast am’. Some speculated that he had succeeded in traveling through time and was now lost in a different era. Others, including art itself, believed that he had come to an unhappy end because of the enormous amounts of power.
Mike finally rose again two years later in the year 2000 and again called Art’s Show. Mike said Art that his test led him to be again at 800 miles from his warehouse, two years in the future, and that he suffered from memory loss as a result of the test. When Mike finally returned to his warehouse, the machine and all his research had disappeared.
Mike Alt called again in 2015 and told the whole story and confirmed his place in paranormal radio history.
