Rick Osmon was selected for the United States Air Force Academy right out of high school. He later attended Vincennes University and earned an Associates of Science in Laser and Electro-Optics Technology. He worked for defense contractors a number of years and then took a job with the US
Navy as a civilian with an engineering support field activity,specializing in radar, night vision, and laser equipment for surveillance and munitions guidance Most of this work was in direct support of Special Operations forces equipment acquisitions. In that capacity, Rick also became familiar with
video-teleconferencing technology. But all those years, Rick was also reading everything he could
find about the weird and unusual, history, archeology, paleontology, geography, cartography, cryptozoology, cryptography, and hollow earth theory.

After leaving government employment in 2004, Rick began this hunt for hidden knowledge full time. He also began blogging, researching, and writing, and, in early 2007, started an internet radio show entitled “The Oopa Loopa Cafe”. In 2008, he began pestering his long time research buddy, Dennis Crenshaw, to start another internet show about the various mysteries. Dennis chose the title “Unraveling the Secrets”. 2007 was also the year Rick began documenting new sites that were part of a vast and sophisticated riverine culture of eastern North America. That work continues.
At the beginning of 2010, those 2 shows became part of an affiliation network with other show hosts to form Paranormal Soup Network. By the end of 2010, the endeavor was re-branded and renamed the Soup Media Network.

Now Rick is becoming well known on the conference circuit and is writing more than blogs. His first
book, The Graves of the Golden Bear; Ancient Monuments and Fortresses of the Ohio Valley was
released in September 2011 and he is a regular contributor to Ancient American magazine.
Now Rick has partnered with a couple other researchers to found and maintain a web site dedicated to all aspects of pre-columbian archeology, ancientamerica.com.

You can find Rick's book at his publisher, gravedistractions.com, Ancient American Magazine, on
Amazon, or at Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, or epubs are available for Kindle, Nook, Sony
eReader, Smashwords, iTunes, Diesel, and several others. You can order a signed copy through
ancientamerica.com for $24.95 plus S&H, please allow 6 weeks for delivery