Howard West
Freelance Writer · Researcher · Explorer
Howard West is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Rock & Gem, 4-Wheeler, Golf Digest, Nevada Magazine, and numerous other publications. His research and discoveries have also been featured on programs such as Coast-to-Coast AM.
For decades, West has followed faint trails left in the oral traditions of American Tribal Nations and the mythic histories of the Eastern Mediterranean—paths that most historians overlook. His investigations reach into the shadows of ancient legends, forgotten technologies, and cryptic communication systems that once shaped civilizations. When not writing or researching, he can be found deep in remote archaeological landscapes, accompanied only by the steady silence of the desert and a pair of pack burros, searching for what time tried to erase.
About Locked Gates
In Locked Gates, West invites readers into a historical investigation where familiar stories become coded messages and unexpected connections reveal themselves as clues. Drawing upon ancient accounts, scientific evidence, wordplay, and engineering principles, he challenges readers to reconsider what history has left in plain sight—and what it has deliberately obscured.
Locked Gates, The Riddle Lord’s Secrets is not merely a book about the past. It is a summons. An invitation to step into a world where riddles were never meant to deceive, but to protect. Where myths and legends may have been crafted as elegant facades—beautiful masks hiding powerful concepts within tales of sex, violence, and the supernatural. Stories repeated for thousands of years, carrying knowledge forward in disguise.
What if the stories we think we know were never meant as entertainment? What if ancient symbols concealed practical technologies once understood, then lost? What if the past has been whispering to us all along—its voice buried in riddles, waiting for someone willing to listen?
This book opens the gate. Whether readers step through is up to them.
Locked Gates, the Riddle Lords Secrets 