Former U.S. Army Special Forces soldier Jack Murphy stood in the basement of a corner building in Belgrade, Serbia and stared at a “death ray.” At least, a drawing of one.
The sketch, pulled from a shelf in an environmentally controlled room, was buried in row after row of documents — some never before seen publicly — belonging to legendary inventor Nikola Tesla, the man who claimed before his death 75 years ago that his latest creation could annihilate a million-man army in a single blast.
“I’m not a TV guy, and I’m not much for melodrama, but it’s hard not to be impressed when you get your hands on original Tesla documents,” Murphy told Real Clear Life in a recent interview. “An actual hand-drawn sketch of the tower… It looks just like something straight out of science fiction.”