Ryan has been an academic of paranormal research since his high school days, but that interest only developed into more professional research in college. Incorporating his electrical engineering training into his research, Ryan works to incorporate a scientific approach into every analysis of a claimed paranormal event.

In 1995, during a lab experiment that detailed the conversion of electromagnetic energy from an invisible energy (magnetism on copper coils) into visible kinetic energy (the movement of an electric motor), Ryan began examining the field of the paranormal with the hypothesis that the events people experience are caused by nothing more than forces that are not yet fully understood.

In the years following that lab experiment, Ryan dove into every story he could find, and collected thousands of pages of notes on the parallels between paranormal events, in an effort to isolate the characteristics of these invisible fields. One day, through the use of the scientific principles of magnetism, electricity and gravity - Ryan hopes to uncover the nature of this energy that humanity has yet to identify.