WITNESS to What Was Volume 2

by Todd Fischer

Todd Fischer takes you behind the scenes of America’s haunted and hidden history. From abandoned nuclear bunkers to the spectral decks of the Queen Mary, from the burned streets of Los Angeles to the tragic 27 Club, Fischer walks where history left its scars.

From the abandoned nuclear bunkers of the Cold War to the ghostly wreckage of the Carrollton bus crash, from the haunted halls of the Queen Mary to the tragic stages of the 27 Club, Todd Fischer takes readers on a journey through America’s hidden tragedies and spectral echoes.

In Volume 2, Fischer bears witness to the places where history left its scars, the sites where human ambition, error, and violence collided with fate. You will walk with him through the eerie desolation of Kaho’olawe, where an island’s sacred lands were sacrificed for military testing. You will board ships both legendary and infamous—the Queen Mary and the decommissioned USS Eldridge—feeling the weight of the past in every creaking deckboard. You will step into the shadows of Los Angeles during the Northridge earthquake, the LA riots, and the burned-out streets, where fear and chaos became almost tangible.

Fischer explores cultural tragedies and conspiracies alike, from the deaths of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison to the cursed Gretsch guitar of Eddie Cochran, tracing the spectral footprints of talent lost too soon. He moves seamlessly between the haunted and the historical, illuminating the fine line between memory, myth, and lingering presence.

With intimate firsthand accounts, vivid descriptions, and a poetically haunting eye, Fischer reminds us that the echoes of the past are never fully gone. They linger in buildings, in objects, and in the air itself. Witness to What Was: Volume 2 is a meditation on mortality, memory, and the ghosts that live among us, waiting for those willing to see, to listen, and to remember.

131 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2026

About the author

Todd Fischer, known internationally as the Founder of Metatomics, has been a ubiquitous fixture of film, television, publishing, and digital media for the entirety of his multi-faceted career. The combination of writing the popular Metatomics book series while simultaneously cultivating a successful publishing house that provides printed and digital resources, has resulted in an unprecedented reservoir of expertise. He is a leader in the world of spirituality and a prolific broadcaster which has imbued him with the rare ability to examine any issue through the lenses of practical experience, scientific evidence, and pragmatism. Todd’s career path has provided him with the reasoned perspective required to thoughtfully examine any number of topics.

Todd is a perpetual pupil of theology and is an expert in comparative religious study with knowledge in over 4000 religions and mythologies. He has also documented over 300 case studies: with research ranging from near death experience, possession, out of body experience, past life experience, roaming souls and other metaphysical and paranormal cases. He is deeply passionate about his work and uniquely qualified to offer perspectives on matters relating to spirituality and religion, healthy thinking, mind and body methodology, matters of self and soul, and proper physiological attunement. His diverse skill set qualifies him to serve in many different capacities. As such, he is adept in the role of host, expert contributor, insightful interviewer, lecturer, and panel moderator. He is an ordained minister and is the Founder of the International Association of Metatomics, a not-for-profit wellness research company.


Todd Fischer grew up in the bible belt of the Midwest, in a small town with a population of just 20,000 people. In that small town there were 54 churches in just 34 square miles including the headquarters of two major international churches. Born into Catholicism, he never doubted the existence of God. However, he believes that to know and speak of God is a vocation that requires more than academic or professional qualifications. He believes God cannot be empirically examined because God is the creator of all things and explaining God's plan poses unique challenges. Those challenges became the basis of Metatomics. Human beings have put limitations on faith and are looking for other explanations. Metatomics is the study of how to speak truly of God and of all things in relation to God through science, hypothesis, and research.

Mr. Fischer is the author of the bestselling book that started a spiritual revolution “METATOMICS: The Grand Design” (Simon & Schuster/Metacortex Publishing), and the Advanced Metatomics series which includes “ADVANCED METATOMICS: Physiological Attunement”, “ADVANCED METATOMICS: Tenets of the Soul”, "ADVANCED METATOMICS: Embodied Practices", and “ADVANCED METATOMICS: Operational Power Dynamics” (Metacortex Publishing). Todd is also the Producer of many podcasts, including “Quest”, which he hosts and several that he co-hosts. He is also developing an adventure-travel show that documents the research conducted by the International Association of Metatomics around the world.