Frank is the creator of MortalsOfEarth.com, author of Saving Civilization: Cracking Open Reality, Beyond the Mainstream Veil, host of Disclosure in Mackinaw, and one of the four Rogala brothers whose family built and operates Mackinaw Mill Creek Camping, one of Michigan’s largest and most beloved family-owned campgrounds.
Frank’s life has followed an unusual path through music, filmmaking, hospitality, ancient-site research, consciousness studies, hidden history, frontier science, and firsthand field investigation. His background as a musician, songwriter, producer, filmmaker, and creator has shaped the way he approaches research: not as a single isolated discipline, but as a living pattern of connections between history, perception, technology, consciousness, and the human story itself. His public bio describes a career spanning music, filmmaking, and thought leadership around unconventional ideas, with work that challenges mainstream narratives and crosses boundaries between art, science, philosophy, and ancient history.
At Disclosure in Mackinaw, Frank will present his new book, Saving Civilization, along with the patent-pending knowledge structure introduced at the end of the book: the Rogala Dynamic Toroidal Knowledge Structure. This framework proposes a new way of organizing human understanding, not as a rigid hierarchy of approved ideas, but as a dynamic, interconnected field where knowledge, perception, contradiction, and discovery can be mapped in a more living and adaptive way. The book asks what happens when the systems that claim to protect knowledge become the very systems that prevent civilization from seeing what it most needs to understand.
Frank will also present material from recent field investigations, including his expedition to Mexico involving ancient artifacts, unusual iconography, crystal skulls, cave discoveries, and evidence that raises profound questions about forgotten civilizations and lost technologies. A special pop-up museum at the event will feature part of Frank’s collection of ancient Mexican artifacts, allowing attendees to see and experience objects connected to the research being discussed on stage.
Together with Trevor Grassi, Frank will also present their expedition to Piedras Negras and the larger pattern of ancient-site investigations that now connect Mexico, Egypt, hidden structures, anomalous artifacts, and the deeper mystery of what may have been preserved, buried, or deliberately forgotten. Their work brings together field documentation, comparative symbolism, artifact research, and the kind of direct investigation that begins where conventional explanations often stop.
Frank will also share previews from ongoing film projects, including an investigation into Coral Castle and an extraordinary Mexico artifact discovery involving alien iconography and crystal skulls. These previews will give attendees an early look at material still in development, including footage and discoveries that connect directly to the larger themes of the conference: hidden history, lost knowledge, anomalous technology, ancient intelligence, and the possibility that the accepted map of human history is far too small.
As host of the conference, Frank will do more than present his own work. He will guide the event’s conversations, introduce speakers, and schedule many of the sit-down discussions between experts, experiencers, researchers, and field investigators. One of the unique goals of Disclosure in Mackinaw is to bring into the open the kinds of private conversations that usually happen only offstage, after hours, or between people who have seen too much to speak casually in public. Frank’s intention is to create a space where those conversations can unfold in front of witnesses.
The setting itself is part of the story. Mackinaw Mill Creek Camping was founded by Frank’s parents, Richard and Rose Rogala, after a 10,000-mile camping journey across North America in search of the perfect location for a family campground, and it opened in Mackinaw in 1964. Frank and his brothers continue that family legacy on a 200-acre campground with a mile of shoreline facing the Mackinac Bridge and Mackinac Island. For this event, Frank is not only welcoming attendees to a conference, but inviting them into the family landscape where his own lifelong questions began.
Frank’s presence at Disclosure in Mackinaw ties the entire gathering together: the book, the patent-pending knowledge structure, the Mexico expedition, the ancient artifacts, the film previews, the expert conversations, the campground, the family history, and the larger question running through all of it — what becomes possible when people from different worlds finally sit down together and compare what they know?