Michelle Ainsworth holds an MA in History and she is currently researching a cultural history of stage magic in the United States. She is a humanist and lives in New York City.

Robert Bartholomew is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He has written numerous books on the margins of science covering UFOs, haunted houses, Bigfoot, lake monsters—all from a perspective of mainstream science. He has lived with the Malay people in Malaysia, and Aborigines in Central Australia. He is the coauthor of 2 seminal books: Outbreak! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior with Hilary Evans (Anomalist Books, 2009), and Havana Syndrome with Robert W. Baloh (Copernicus Books, 2020).

Izhar Cohen was born in Raanana, Israel. He studied at the Bezalel academy of art in Jerusalem, the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. His work has been published in the Sunday Times, Times, New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Reader’s Digest, Prospects, and the Wall Street Journal. He regularly illustrated Michael Shermer’s column Skeptic in Scientific American. Throughout the years he taught in academia in Israel and Paris, exhibited one man shows, illustrated books and pursued his personal creative work. He and his family currently reside in Tel Aviv. His work can be found online at izharcohen.wordpress.com and on Instagram @izhar_cohen