Ben Bowlin is a writer, actor, and producer born to Melungeons from the hinterlands of TN. He has lived in Nashville, Quetzaltenango and, currently, Atlanta. He spent much of his youth traveling, conducting bizarre experiments, watching the Twilight Zone and hunting reports of paranormal activity. He is the recipient of numerous awards for writing and onstage performance. The legends surrounding his family's past instilled within him a fascination with the fringes of what's known to be true -- an obsession, of sorts, with the blank spaces on the edges of the map -- and, most importantly, a certainty the world is both understandable and worth understanding. Ben began an internship at HowStuffWorks in late 2007 and is currently an Executive Producer. In 2008, with his esteemed colleagues, Ben created Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, one of the world's most popular explorations of those same, strange topics that fascinated him since childhood. He has attended Georgia State University, El Universidad Rural de Guatemala and The Georgia Institute of Technology, where he studied at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. He coined the term “conspiracy realism” and believes a good idea can change the world.