Ben Bowlin 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. Ben began an internship at HowStuffWorks in late 2007, and is currently a Lead 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. His additional podcasts include The Control Group, Ridiculous History, and Carstuff.