Mitch Horowitz is the host of Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction on Discovery, a PEN Award-winning historian, a former vice-president at Penguin Random House, and one of today's most literate voices of occultism, mysticism, and the unexplained, with bylines in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, and appearances in Sundance-premiering movies, popular TV docuseries, and award-winning documentaries, as well as on CBS Sunday Morning, Dateline NBC, NPR's All Things Considered, and other major media. His books include Occult America, Uncertain Places, The Miracle Club, Daydream Believer, and Modern Occultism.