Ruehl's show, Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion,[4] started on a public-access television cable TV channel in the Los Angeles area in the late 1980s.
In 1988 he interviewed Louis Wendruck, president of the Dark Shadows Fan Club of Southern California,[5] on the show.
Ruehl auditioned for America's Got Talent in 2009 with an act that encompassed sticking straws into a potato, he was rejected by the judges.
Ruehl has been a regular on "A Current Affair" (2005), "9 On The Town" (with a UFO segment), "Strange Universe," "Weird TV," and Ancient Aliens (on the History Channel).
Ruehl has a series of videos entitled The Realm of Bizarre News.. On his biography page for the Contributor platform published by The Huffington Post Ruehl wrote that he held a Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics from UCLA.