One of today's most acclaimed voices of esoterica, parapsychology, and the unexplained, Mitch Horowitz is a PEN Award-winning historian whose books include Occult America, The Miracle Club, Daydream Believer, Modern Occultism, Happy Warriors, and Practical Magick. A former vice president at Penguin Random House, Mitch has written on alternative spirituality for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, Time, and The Wall Street Journal. A frequent presence in national media, Mitch hosts Discovery / HBO Max's Alien Encounters; plays himself in AMC-Shudder's V/H/S/Beyond, a 2025 Critics Choice Award nominee for Best Movie Made for Television; appears regularly on the History Channel's The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd, and hosts SpectreVision's podcast Extraordinary Evidence: ESP Is Real. Mitch's 2022 feature documentary The Kybalion, shot on location in Egypt, premiered as the #3 doc on iTunes. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.