Lee Hampel grew up on a Dairy Farm in Northeastern, Illinois and is a graduate of Northern Illinois University with mathematics and chemistry majors. He purchased some land and soon found out there have been many unexplained entities that live there. He taught high school, and is now retired. He’s been on Travel Channel shows: Legend Hunter, In Search of Monsters, and Paranormal Declassified, as well as Discovery Channel's Expedition X. He is married with two kids and lives in Wauconda, Illinois.