Marc Hartzman

MARC HARTZMAN
ABC News has called Marc Hartzman "one of America's leading connoisseurs of the bizarre" and George Noory from Coast to Coast AM said he's "as bizarre as Robert Ripley." Hartzman considers both high praise since his passion for the unusual started with Ripley's Believe It Or Not and the annual Guinness World Records books during his youth.

In addition to his books about UFOs, ghosts, Mars, Oliver Cromwell's embalmed head, weird things on eBay, sideshow performers, and unorthodox messages from God, Hartzman has written for Mental Floss, HuffPost, AOL Weird News, All That's Interesting, The Morbid Anatomy Online Journal, and Bizarre magazine. He's discussed oddities on CNN, MSNBC, Ripley’s Radio, History Channel’s The UnXplained, Xploration Outer Space, the Travel Channel's Mysteries at the Museum, and dozens of podcasts. Hartzman has also been a featured speaker at a various of events for a range of audiences, including the Explore Mars Humans to Mars Summit in Washington, D.C., the Coney Island Congress of Curious Peoples, New York ComicCon, the Exeter UFO Festival, and the Brooklyn Historical Society.

More of his love for the unusual can be found online at Weird Historian. Outside of these projects, Hartzman earns a living as an award-winning advertising creative director.

DAN MEYER
Dan Meyer grew up a child of ridicule, teased and beat up by bullies, who vowed to one day do real magic and change the world. Today, he’s known as the world’s leading expert on sword swallowing as president of the Sword Swallowers Association International, founder of World Sword Swallower’s Day, and winner of the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine at Harvard for award-winning medical research on sword swallowing. As a performer, Meyer has been called the “world’s top sword swallower” by Guinness World Records and Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for his 40 world records and death-defying stunts featured in Ripley’s cartoons, books and museums, seen by 800 million viewers on over 100 TV shows, on 15 Got Talents including the finals of America’s Got Talent and Golden Buzzer winner on Sweden’s Talang, and live in 60 countries around the world. A global TEDx speaker, Meyer enjoys inspiring audiences to cut through fear and do the impossible in their lives. His viral TED Talk on sword swallowing, “Cutting through Fear,” is now the most translated TED Talk in the world. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona.