COVER DESIGN

RICHARD T. COLE
 EDITORIAL CONTENTS
Hello and welcome to another issue of Phenomena Magazine.
Now on our 52nd issue, the months fly by very quick. I’ve recently
heard a lot about the movie ‘The Conjuring’, so… I decided to go Page 2: MIBs Part 2 : Dare to think differently.
and have a watch of it. A so-called true story of a family plagued A magazine advert was handed to me by a man in black. Having read
by a diabolical haunting. Of course I’ve seen quite a lot of similar
movies that claim to be true stories. My suspicions rose when I my account, you will understand why this is ‘impossible.’ The product
discovered the case was that of Ed and Lorraine Warren’s. I’ve on offer is patently absurd. Nevertheless, it conveyed a precise and
always been a little suspicious of their claims of alleged paranor-
mal disturbances ever since their involvement at Amityville. unique message. Rather ironically, I held a key to the paranormal for
33 years, but never realised this took the form of an old toaster!
Even though numerous families living at the Amityville home on Ocean Drive
have claimed no such disturbances take place there, it does not stop folk annoy- Richard T. Cole describes in this fascinating part 2 to his MIB article.
ing them with questions and invasive photography. So much so, the house was
redesigned so not to show the commonly known arched windows on its top floor
and the house number was also changed. Apart from the deaths that took place Page 5: Cannock Chase: The alleged UFO crash of 1964.
in the home many years back and another family claiming to have had to flee The July 2013 issue of Phenomena Magazine contained an article by
the home after 28 days… no one has reported anything odd. As for the truth
behind the Amityville house, I think there’s a lot of fabricated reports, just as Lee Brickley concerning Cannock Chase. This is an area that renowned
there may be with ‘The Conjuring’. Good film though, and very very creepy... investigative researcher Peter McCue has written about for example,
in Chapter 10 of his book ‘Zones of Strangeness: An Examination of
SUB-EDITORIAL Paranormal and UFO Hot Spots’. Peter discusses the alleged UFO
Dear All,… A couple of editions ago I was less than complimen- crash that took place in Cannock Chase in 1964 and sheds some light on it.
tary about the investigative journalist Jon Ronson. I gave the
impression that he tended to be unnecessarily flippant about very
serious subjects; but I was wrong. I just read some more of his Page 13: George Hunt Williamson: A Privileged Witness.
work and I have completely changed my opinion of him. I now
think that he achieves the very difficult balancing act of writing
I have recently corresponded with a well-known American ufologist
about subjects that are extremely contentious and sometimes who revealed himself to be hopelessly and staggeringly ignorant re-
deeply troubling.
garding the events of Desert Center. This is especially so regarding the
In fact subjects that many people and organisations would rather were not message left by the extraterrestrial. He never bothered to examine
exposed to the light, in an accessible manner that makes them very easy to
read. Some of the subjects he covers are right in our faces, but like the wood
the content of the photos and even ignored their Existence. Michel
and the trees they are so blatant and obvious that we just don’t see them, or Zirger discusses the first Extraterrestrial message of modern history.
perhaps just don’t think about the process behind them. These include seem-
ingly trivial things like how subjects are routinely selected for reality TV shows,
or the Alpha Course designed to recruit people into the Christian church and one Page 19: Feminism and Freemasonry: The Templar’s & the Hidden Christ.
of the very worst, how people are targeted by the companies who offer cash, the
notorious so-called ‘payday loans’ at horrendous and ruinous rates of interest. On Dec 2nd 2011 the Dalai Lama was speeking at the Sathya Sai Inter-
national Centre at New Delhi, and when touching on his role as an
Things that are part of day to day living, so common in fact that they have effec-
tively become invisible and Ronson does sterling work by dragging them out and ever reincarnating spiritual leader, he conveyed, an astonishing ad-
exposing them to the light. He also reveals the truly alarming tendency for monition, ‘I often express how a future Dalai lama could be female…a
psychopaths to populate the highest of global businesses, all the markers are
there; Mr Ronson, my apologies, you may write in a light hearted manner, but female Dalai Lama.’ This gender bending statement reminded me of a
what you write about is profoundly troubling and deserves our respect. controversial 1988 book by author Anthony Harris. Dan Green investigates.

Page 29: How I learned to love Ghosts.

Paranormal TV shows have such an insidious influence these days
that many people assume an ‘investigation’ requires electrical gadg-
ets, plus the obligatory team of psychics and parapsychologists. Yet a
‘ghost’ remains a subjective experience, and when we confront a
seeming ghost (or any other paranormal event) something poten-
tially traumatic enters our world. Duncan Barford explains.

Page 33: Slayers! The Last Vampire Hunters.

Tales of vampires and their familiars have now become so embedded
in our culture, especially in recent times, that it can be difficult to
separate fact and from fantasy. There is no doubt that the vampire
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 MIBs Part 2 : Dare to think differently
By Richard T. Cole

A MAN IN BLACK
DARE TO THINK DIFFERNTLY
PART 2 OF RICHARD T. COLE’S FASCINATING ARTICLE...

My interest in the paranormal began during Moreover, my evolving construct hinted

childhood, when a bottle once belonging to towards a radical and innovative conclusion
notorious Victorian sorcerer Aleister Crow- that paranormal incidents are not the
ley mysteriously vanished from a drawer. I ‘external’ events we presume, and quite
assumed Crowley’s ghost fluttered down to the converse. The mechanism I envisaged
retrieve it, and this naïve interpretation ‘beamed’ otherworld entities onto the
initiated a lifelong fascination with both the ‘screen’ of reality, by means a ‘projector’
supernatural, and a hugely controversial deep inside human consciousness. In other
individual dubbed “The wickedest man in words, a ghost is the physical reflection of
the world.” an idea, as manifested in response to a
specific set of conditions. In many respects,
Over the years, countless personal experi- the process is curiously akin to that of
ences assured me that paranormal inci- sneezing.
dents do occur. I wanted to understand
what these comprised and what factors When exposed to pollen, some peo-
foreshadowed manifestations. Like all re- ple react disproportionately. Simi- compartment, or am I?” With hindsight, I Men in Black
searchers, I got absolutely nowhere. On larly, ‘seeing a UFO’ may be a symp- recall the incident with considerable mirth.
many occasions, I felt within touching dis- tom exhibited by individuals sensitive to At the time, I was wholly out of my depth. Some believe
that Men in
tance of an answer. Ultimately, my quest ‘supernatural pollen.’ If my hunch was cor- Much to my relief, Laurie pointed to a slice Black are linked
revealed no clues towards a solution I intui- rect, a trawl of published accounts should of cold browned bread and said, “You for- to a branch of
tively sensed had been staring Mankind in reveal a hitherto unsuspected commonality got your toast!” I left matters at than and the US Air Force
Special Activities
the face for millennia. of circumstances – The elusive supernatural never again spoke of the incident. Centre known as
pollen! When an extensive reappraisal of the 1127th Field
In 1995, I became involved with a ‘psychic noted historical cases failed to uncover A reconstruction (above) of the advertise- Activities Group,
experiment’ focussing on a crystal skull. My anything of significance, I turned to my own ment reproduced on a magazine page which was said
to comprise a
experiences with “Skully” resulted in a 180° memories. Disappointingly, nothing in par- handed to me by a man in black. Having group of under-
reversal of my belief-system. I began to ticular caught my attention. However, one read my account, you will understand why world figures
realise that our attempts to understand the incident lingered at the back of my mind. In I described this as ‘impossible.’ The prod- who were spe-
cialists in lock-
paranormal are still fatally handicapped by the autumn of 1980, I experienced a text- uct on offer is patently absurd. Neverthe-
picking and
a catastrophic misconception made at the book ‘ghost.’ An event I briefly recount. less, it conveyed to me a precise and intimidation.
dawn of time. Like children, we are playing unique message. Rather ironically, I held a
with the reflection of a toy. Following my grandmother May’s death, key to the paranormal for thirty-three
her daughter Barbara and husband Laurie years, but never realised this took the
began to note an ongoing series of inexpli- form of an old toaster!
cable bangs. Disturbances jokingly dis-
missed by family members – “Oh, May was To my mind, the biggest question raised by
stomping around again last night.” Eventu- grandma’s impromptu visit related to its
ally, my grandfather and father (a builder initial bang. I certainly didn’t imagine a
and electrical fitter) subjected the premises blow that hauled me across the kitchen.
to a comprehensive inspection. They found Yet, an explosive detonation I felt sure
no fault. Nevertheless, the noises contin- rattled windows across the street went
ued. By November 1980, I was the only completely undetected by my uncle and
person yet to experience this phenomenon. aunt. Quite how they remained oblivious
Late one evening, whilst slouched on a defeated my powers of deduction for
worktop waiting for toast, a force of con- three decades.
siderable intensity hurled me across the
room. As my vision slowly cleared, a vague In June 2012, whilst sheltering from
blur resolved into the ghost of my grand- a storm, my contemplations were
mother. Utterly stunned, I retreated to the shattered when an unknown projec-
living room. Barbara immediately asked, tile collided with my nose. Struggling to
“Richard, are you alright? You’re white as a clear my senses, I watched in horror as my
sheet.” I mumbled an excuse about feeling partner’s aged dog scampered away into
From these thoughts emerged a theory dizzy, and she returned to the television. the distance. With vision still blurred, I
suggestive that paranormal incidents are My uncle wasn’t so easily convinced. He lurched after the animal and immediately
different forms of the same basic principle. strode into the kitchen and shouted, snagged my wrist on the leash of her new
Though diverse in appearance, all super- “Richard. Here a minute.” His next state- pet. The dog I was chasing died several
natural activity (from UFOs and religious ment could be nothing other than, “So, are months previously. I’d just seen the ghost
experiences, to Bigfoot sightings and OO- you going to tell Barbara that her dead of a Miniature Schnauzer! At that moment,
BEs) originates from a common source. mother is hovering above the vegetable another raindrop burst on my nose and I www.theforbiddenkno
wledge.com

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Men in Black finally understood why the spectacular singularity - A water droplet. Whilst opens paranormal gateways. On this
entrance of May’s ghost failed to register ‘trapped’ within this microcosm, all the theme, consider the dark art of sacrifice.
In 1971, UFO
on my uncle and aunt’s radar. I had also sensory self-defence mechanisms em- We presume that the ritual slaughter of an
author Timothy
Green Beckley stumbled on crude though effective form of ployed to protect us from precisely this animal releases ‘occult energy’ harvested
published a ‘supernatural pollen’ and the outline of a type of experience work against the individ- by a sorcerer. An alternative perspective
pamphlet enti- gadget that could, in theory, artificially ual. During this brief moment, a suggests that the ‘battery’ utilised to
tled MIB - Aliens
Among us, in
precipitate a supernatural incident. In es- ‘paranormal’ mutation of reality becomes power a spell or conjuration originates not
which he re- sence, I had invented a 21st century Ouija reality. in some mysterious force emanating from
vealed a US Air Board! a dying beast, but from the psychological
Force memoran-
To illustrate this mechanism, I return to my effect imparted on a participant by this
dum apparently
written by one Lt grandmother’s ghost. At the time, I was barbaric act. The ultimate sacrifice, it is
Gen Wheless. It gazing at a distorted view of the room as rumoured, is that of a virgin or newborn.
warned military reflected in the toaster’s polished surface. Again, consider this unsavoury mythology
personnel to be
on the alert for
The low drone from a fridge compressor, with reference to the enhanced psycho-
people imperson- warmth from the toaster’s element, and logical impact of human torture, mutila-
ating air force of the aroma of baking bread conspired to tion and murder. Practitioners of Sex
fixers, describing
nudge me into a daydream. Several min- Magick employ perhaps the most potent
a person in a
USAF uniform utes later, the toaster popped. Prior to the of all triggers – Orgasm! In clinics across
who summer of 2010, I never once connected country, the religious and supernatural
"approached the fireworks heralding grandmother’s beliefs of mental health patients are scruti-
local police and
other citizens
arrival with this event. Barbara and Laurie nised closely. As the medical profession
who had sighted did hear the explosion, but correctly inter- tacitly acknowledges, there is a direct con-
a UFO". Appar- preted it as ‘the sound made when a nection between physical injuries inflicted
ently, this shad-
toaster pops.’ Conversely, all of my senses by an abusive partner, and corresponding
owy figure as-
sembled them were ‘off with the birds,’ and my dispropor- psychological ripples, ‘the voices!’ The
and told them tionate physical reaction reflected the in- message is clear – Trauma opens super-
that they had not ternal chaos. As my brain rebooted, it natural doorways!
seen what they
thought they had
merged incoming sensory data with a gen-
seen. Nor should eralised image derived from my memories. I initially presumed that the func-
they talk to Before divulging the big secret and offering Until only a few months previously, I inex- tionality of my visualised paranor-
anyone about
you a chance to test-drive PARA01, it is tricably associated the aroma and warmth mal portal opener was reliant on its
their imagined
sighting essential to explain how it works and what of baking bread in my grandmother’s capacity to focus five physical senses at a
it does. To keep things simple, I’ll employ a kitchen, with my grandmother! When re- point, in conjunction with a synchronised
familiar image – A drop of water. constructing the world, my brain initially trigger. However, as I discovered, the mo-
included May in the rough sketch. At some tor driving this phenomenon has a toler-
The fabric of space-time is comparable to a point, it incorporated her death into the ance beyond my most optimistic ideals. On
rubber mat, and distorted by mass. Its evolving scenario, but was unable to block Thursday 18 October, whilst experiment-
natural elasticity bends to accommodate the original data stream. A conflict be- ing with two of the sensory components (a
immense density (a collapsing star, for in- tween reality and my recovering brain’s low-frequency tone and video loop), I
stance). However, beyond a certain point it ‘best guess’ resulted in a compromise – i.e. drifted into a daydream. Eventually, my
ruptures, resulting in a Black Hole. Simi- A person, when seen after death, is a ghost. muscles relaxed and I dropped a mug of
larly, the fabric of consciousness is compa- This mechanism replicated itself, precisely, coffee onto my lap. With my consciousness
rable to a rubber mat, and distorted by during my later encounter with the ghost of ‘out to lunch,’ the shock punched down to
sensation. Its natural elasticity bends to a dog. In this instance, my disproportionate the deepest recesses of my mind and pro-
accommodate immense sensory density. reaction to a raindrop manifested an alter- jected a temporary reality based on my
However, beyond a certain point it rup- nate reality in which, for the last decade, I thoughts. My inadvertent circuit-test
tures, resulting in a paranormal incident. only ever walked in the rain when exercis- manifested a man in black specifically be-
ing my partner’s recently-deceased Minia- cause I was preoccupied with the potential
When disturbed by a pebble, impact energy ture Schnauzer. dangers of the device and increasingly
dissipates as ripples across a pond. Beyond concerned as to what I may be unleashing
a certain limit, atomic bonds governing The ‘trauma effect’ was utilised ex- on an unsuspecting population. In re-
water’s physical structure break and for a tensively by our ancestors, though sponse, my brain formulated an ingenious
few seconds a single droplet crowns the they never quite understood its en- solution. Three days later, the manifest
collapsing column. In this illustration, the gine. From the priests of ancient Egypt to voice of my conscience, disguised as a man
surface (fabric of space-time) represents modern day Freemasons, occult custodians in black, warned me to forget about
waking consciousness, with the initial bulge guard closely their secret rituals of initia- PARA01.
(event horizon) indicating dream states. tion. Tradition assets that Magickal words
The tunnel correlates to mystic visions, and gestures open gateways to supernatu- Until now, a massive shock was required
religious encounters and alien abductions. ral domains, but consider another possibil- to punch a hole into the supernatural. This
At its head (the singularity) is the ultimate ity. A candidate with prior knowledge of all changed when I stumbled over a crude,
dream factory – A terrifying engine that the script cannot be startled. The psycho- yet effective means of generating a vastly
transforms thoughts into reality. In all but logical impact of, say, a naked man leaping disproportionate response to a minor
the most extreme of circumstances, inter- out in front of an initiate diminishes greatly stimulus - A psychic sneeze from super-
nal filtering mechanisms buffer our lives with foreknowledge. For this reason, Aleis- natural pollen! I am confident to state that
from its devastating power. However, the ter Crowley suggested, “Self-initiation is PARA01 replicates the conditions required
application of a suitable shock, in conjunc- almost impossible. Because is it difficult to to precipitate a paranormal incident, but
tion with a specific frame of mind, com- surprise oneself!” It is ‘shock,’ not the ac- must emphasise that unique personal fac-
www.theforbiddenkno
wledge.com press layers of consciousness to a companying whistles and bells, which tors shape, colour and animate the

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experience. At the outset, I assumed that It is a key to the gates of Heaven and Hell. mechanisms.’ A detailed account of the Men in Black
my device would emulate a ‘one shot’ oc- Following a great deal of consideration, I technique is also included, as is a compen-
Film star Dan
currence lasting only a few seconds. As accept that its potential to reveal a new dium of tips helpful in ‘shaping’ the experi-
Aykroyd has
events transpired, nothing happened for layer of understanding regarding Mankind’s ence. claimed to have
seventy-two hours. After which, the visit of evolving relationship with the universe witnessed Men
a man in black initiated an epidemic of low- outweighs innumerable risks. The final We think, therefore we are. We do, there- in Black who
suddenly van-
level paranormal activity that endured for segment of this article features a step by fore we become. ished from sight
months. In short, PARA01 unlocks a door- step guide to the construction of a paranor- along with their
way lost for sixty millennia. It provides an mal portal opening device. It explains the To be concluded… large classic
vehicle they were
individual with the requisite tools to trans- function of various sensory keys and sug-
travelling in.
form a single life, or the lives of all. gests numerous simple ‘trigger

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Alleged UFO Crash near Cannock Chase - 1964
By Peter A. McCue

The July 2013 issue of this magazine

contained an article by Lee Brickley
concerning Cannock Chase. This is an area
that I’ve written about myself for example, in
Chapter 10 of my book Zones of
Strangeness: An Examination of Paranormal
and UFO Hot Spots (AuthorHouse,
Bloomington, Indiana, 2012).
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By Peter A. McCue

Lee’s article describes Cannock Chase emerged: USAF Intelligence had been
as a “vast area of enchanted forest”. involved in the recovery operation;
Vastness is a relative concept, and is three dead bodies had been found;
subject to personal interpretation. I’d and, as the significance of the incident
describe the Chase as being relatively became evident, other US forces, and
small. It’s a 26-square-mile area of elements of NATO, had also become
heath and woodland, much of the lat- involved.
ter being of the planted, coniferous
type. Unfortunately, our forebears In his article, Lee Brickley states that
destroyed the bulk of the original US Navy files show that an apparently
broadleaf forest in the area. It’s possi- unidentified craft “blew up in the skies
ble to walk across the Chase in just a over mainland Europe”, with the larger
few hours, but that necessitates cross- of two parts coming down near Penk-
ing roads, which is a sad reflection on ridge. This differs from Redfern’s ac-
how over-developed and over- count in three ways: (1) Redfern’s book
populated the British Isles have be- doesn’t go as far as to claim that offi-
come. cial confirmation of the alleged event is
available in US Navy files. (2) The book
Lee mentions a UFO crash that alleg- leaves it open to question whether the mentioned photographs. During the
edly occurred near Cannock Chase in UFO blew up – it states that, by acci- interview with Bott and Redfern, South
1964, and which is discussed by Nick dent or design, the UFO broke into two claimed that he’d had a phone call,
Redfern in Chapter 4 of his book Cos- parts as it descended (p. 70). (3) Al- purporting to be from the Ministry of
mic Crashes (Simon & Schuster, Lon- though the book claims that the UFO Defence (MoD) police, that very day.
don, 1999). However, as noted below, was supposed to have been over There was some mention of a com-
there are some discrepancies between Europe when it malfunctioned, it does- plaint. He was given a number to ring
Lee’s summary and Redfern’s account. n’t narrow this down to mainland back on, although he’d not done that.
First, it’s worth noting that Nick Red- Europe. (Lee Brickley’s article wrongly states
fern’s book discusses two UFO crashes that “when Redfern arranged to inter-
that allegedly occurred on or near Can- Irene Bott, an associate of Redfern’s, view [South], he began receiving calls
nock Chase – one in 1964 and one in mentioned the alleged crash during an from Army officers, warning him not to
1974. I’ve corresponded with Redfern interview with a local newspaper in talk to the UFO investigator.”) The call Author information
about them. I shan’t dwell on the al- 1996. She subsequently received a had allegedly come about 15 minutes
Peter McCue worked for many
leged crash in 1974, because it appears letter from a man who claimed to have after Bott had telephoned him from
years as a clinical psycholo-
that the testimony of the informant seen the recovery operation in pro- Redfern’s home (but using her own gist. He lives in Scotland. His
(who claimed to be a first-hand wit- gress. He’s referred to as ‘Harold mobile phone) to confirm the arrange- qualifications include a Ph.D.,
ness) was very inaccurate. Indeed, South’ in Redfern’s book, but I under- ments for the meeting. To ascertain from the University of Glas-
Redfern no longer believes that the stand from Redfern that that’s a pseu- the number of the caller, Bott rang gow, awarded for a thesis on
incident occurred. donym. 1471 from South’s telephone, only to hypnosis. He believes that
be given a different number from the paranormal events occur, and
Bott and Redfern interviewed South at one that he’d been asked to ring back that many UFO experiences
It was in 1991 when Redfern first heard
are genuinely anomalous. He
about the supposed 1964 crash, from a his home. He claimed that he’d been on. Bott rang the number (the one
contends that if we want to
friend and colleague, who thought that driving towards Penkridge from Can- obtained by dialling 1471) and found obtain a comprehensive un-
Leonard Stringfield (since deceased) nock on a weekday morning in Febru- herself talking to someone who derstanding of ourselves and
knew about it. (Stringfield, a former ary or March 1964 when he came upon claimed to be from a telephone oper- the nature of reality, these
United States Air Force intelligence a roadblock manned by Army, RAF and ating service that channelled calls to enigmatic phenomena can’t
officer, had a particular interest in police personnel. He reportedly saw an and from military establishments in the be ignored.
reports of crashed UFOs held by the US aircraft transporter in a field. He drove Midlands! When Bott dialled the num-
authorities.) Three days later, Redfern back towards Cannock. But curiosity ber that had been given to South, she
received Stringfield’s most recent possessed him, and after about half-a- was told that she was through to the
‘status report’, which mentioned the mile, he parked his firm’s van and MoD Guard Service in Lichfield.
event in question. Redfern subse- made his way back over some fields,
quently contacted Stringfield, who taking his camera with him. He alleg- This intriguing account raises the possi-
agreed to let Redfern make use of tes- edly saw a large delta-shaped object, bility that one or more of the partici-
timony from his source, who’s given partially covered with a tarpaulin, on pants were under surveillance, with
the pseudonym ‘S. M. Brannigan’. But the trailer of the transporter. He took telephone calls being monitored. But in
Redfern had no direct contact with a couple of photographs. Noticing that respect of the phone call supposedly
Brannigan himself. he’d been spotted by the police who made by the MoD police to South, it
were co-ordinating the roadblock, he seemed that no attempt had been
In 1964, as a petty officer 3rd class in quickly retreated to his van and drove made to prevent the caller’s number
the US Navy, Brannigan had reportedly away. When he got home, his mother being found (by dialling 1471). Redfern
translated an intercepted Soviet mili- told him that he was required to report considers the possibility that someone
tary transmission referring to a UFO to the police in Bloxwich, ostensibly in in the intelligence or defence commu-
that had malfunctioned and fallen to connection with a motoring infringe- nity wanted to signal that he and Bott
earth in two parts. The larger section ment. While he was at the police sta- had opened a can of worms by enquir-
had supposedly come down at Penk- tion, officers called at his home and ing into the Penkridge crash. But he
ridge, to the west of Cannock Chase, took away the camera, which was notes that if the intent had been to
the rest of it having crashed in West eventually returned to him, although keep everything under wraps, some-
Germany. As Brannigan continued his with a new film substituted for the one one could have been sent to visit
work, further details allegedly he’d used to take the above- South, to request his silence.

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More Chase Mysteries Accordingly, Redfern asks whether the

telephone call to South could have
During 2010 a wave of para- been an attempt – officially sanc-
normal and mysterious epi- tioned, or made unofficially, by a sym-
sodes in the town have helped
pathetic informer – to encourage the
usher in a new decade of
spooky sightings, with readers investigation.
encountering UFOs and wild
wolves in the first week of the Could South have been involved in a
year. The area has a long
hoax? I raised this with Nick Redfern,
standing association with
paranormal activity – with but he doubts whether South was a
websites across the World hoaxer. He explained that Irene Bott
recording spooky incidents in was able to verify that the telephone
the area. Resident, Jane
McNally, recently had a run-in number given to South was indeed one
with a mysterious canine for the Guard Service.
creature while out walking
with her partner on Cannock
As noted above, the Penkridge incident
Chase. “I was walking with my
partner and his dog,” Jane allegedly occurred in February or
said. “We put the dog back on March 1964. I contacted Cannock Li-
the lead as we thought in the brary, wondering whether there might
distance there was an enor-
mous ‘dog.’ As we approached be a press report from February or
the animal we realised this March of that year, mentioning mili-
wasn’t a dog and it just stared tary and police activity between Can-
at us for a while – I said I
nock and Penkridge, or a possible air-
thought it looked like a fox, but
the size of a lioness – it then craft crash. Ian Parker, from the library,
turned into the wooded area, looked at the editions of the Cannock
and we proceeded to walk on. Advertiser and the Cannock Courier
“As it turned its long, bushy
black tipped tail, we realised it from February through to April 1964,
was definitely not a dog. but without seeing any reports of such
“I have just logged onto the an incident. That doesn’t, of course,
net and went onto images of
wolves, and can honestly say
rule out the possibility that there’s
whatever we saw yesterday some truth in South’s story. It’s con-
was the closet thing to a wolf.” ceivable, for example, that he was
The area has also become a wrong about the time of year when the
hotbed of UFO sightings, with
dozens of people claiming to incident occurred. However, while the
have witnessed strange lights matter of a possible UFO crash is inter-
in the sky. Christie Oliver be- esting in its own right, it doesn’t neces-
came the latest person to
experience a close encounter,
sarily have a bearing on whether the
when she spied mysterious Cannock Chase area is a UFO hot spot.
lights over Heath Hayes at the If some sort of exotic craft (or part of
turn of the year. “Me and my such a craft) did indeed crash there in
partner came home from
celebrating New Year in Can- 1964, it may have been a chance
nock and I let the dog out, event…
turned to my left and saw four
red dots in the sky,” she said. “I
have never seen anything like
______________________________
this before. I immediately
called my other half out to look ‘It would seem that Cannock Chase is
at it. I could not believe my somewhat of a hotspot for not just UFO
eyes. “They then flew north
and two of them disappeared. activity, but numerous other events
The last one went around six such as paranormal and supernatural
seconds later. I can’t believe incidents. UFO sightings were also re-
what I saw, and I would like to
ported during the 1990s where numer-
find out if anyone else saw it
too? It was around 00.37 on ous UFO investigators such as Omar
New Years Day.” Fowler, Nick Redfern and even myself
visited the location in hope of finding
answers. The location is often visited by
groups and organisations that have
interests in such subjects. Nick Pope
believes that Cannock Chase is a UK
hotspot for UFO activity after the Min-
istry of Defence claimed that is was a
prime location where UFOs have been
spotted and reported. To the right is a
list of such UFO hotspots which was
first published by the Sun Newspaper
and detailed information provided by
Nick Pope’. Cannock chase is a beauti-
ful location well worth visiting, even if
its just for the scenery’.
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George Hunt Williamson: A Privileged Witness
By Michel Zirger

I have recently corresponded with a well-known American ufologist who revealed

himself to be hopelessly and staggeringly ignorant regarding the events of Desert
Center. This is especially so regarding the message left by the extraterrestrial.
He never bothered to examine the content of the photos and even ignored their
Existence. Well, I zapped this useless correspondence. However the stubborn
ignorance of this ufologist gave me the idea of writing this sort of “film”
summarising the results of my own research on George Hunt Williamson and the
extraterrestrial message! Here are the main sequences of this “film,” but make no
mistake,... this is not fiction! And now, action!
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 George Hunt Williamson: A Privileged Witness
By Michel Zirger

August 13, 1949, 2 p.m.

Old Tucson, AZ.

A Hopi Indian, Star Hunter, gives a very old and beautiful Hehea Kachina
doll to the future best-selling occult and UFO writer, George Hunt William-
son, then a 22 years old student in Anthropology, studying for his doctor-
ate,

11 p.m.
Granite Dells Lodge, Prescott, AZ.

While hanging the doll on his bedroom wall, he notices that it doesn’t have
the rattle that these wooden dolls traditionally carry in their right hands.
That’s strange … why has he given me this doll which lacks its rattle?

Three days later, 5 p.m.

University of Arizona, Tucson.

The young Williamson is alone in his study revising his writings. His atten-
tion is attracted by something which suddenly has appeared in view: a
small round object, yellow and grey, directly in front of him on top of the
stack of his papers. I was sure that there was nothing there the second be-
fore. Intrigued, he picks it up, looks at it, and realizes that it is probably the
missing wooden rattle of his Kachina doll. How on earth could this object
have arrived? Has it “materialized?” The explanation seems crazy, but at
that moment, none other occurred to him.

August 20, 9:10 p.m.

Granite Dells Lodge, Prescott, AZ.

He hurries home to attach the rattle to the right hand of the Kachina. He
must drill a hole. Painted conspicuously on the rattle of the Hopi doll is one
of the most common symbols of American Indians: the swastika. He will
never part with this Kachina doll. Years later he will note in a letter that
“this rattle in 1949 seemed to contain a prophetic message of an event, Among them was the enigmatic swastika. It was identical to the one which
destined to take place three years later in 1952.” was on the Kachina doll of 1949 !!!

Three years later... November 20, 1952. From 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Mid-February 1953.
At the foot of the Coxcomb Mountains, near Desert Center, CA. Palomar Gardens Cafe, Palomar Mt, CA.

George Hunt Williamson is witness to the encounter of George Adamski Adamski and Williamson have fallen out. One of the reasons for this sudden
with a human-looking extraterrestrial. It is Williamson who will be the first coolness: their profound disagreement regarding the interpretation of the
to report this historical event. The report is to a local newspaper on the symbols of Desert Center. Adamski stubbornly sees in them only purely
same day. This is what he will stress later during interviews or lectures: technical indications of a hypothetical free energy propulsion system used
“I would like to state that the experience related by George Adamski in Fly- by the “space friends.” Williamson sees in them things that are rather quite
ing Saucers Have Landed, was witnessed by my wife and me, together with different. His intuition is validated by several symbols of the footprints
several friends of ours, and that it happened exactly as he describes in his combining astronomical indications and occult lore. What he deciphers is
book. The large craft was witnessed, and we also witnessed through binocu- baffling, and light years away from what might be expected coming from an
lars other events in the desert about half a mile away. We saw Adamski extraterrestrial. According to Williamson, it is a message alluding to the
talking to someone in the distance. (This “someone” being of course the transition from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius with an unmistak-
extraterrestrial “Orthon” as he will be named later by Adamski. Author’s able reference to Prophet Ezekiel’s first “vision.”
Note.) We saw the large craft and flashes of light from it. Later, a smaller
craft came out of the larger one. We saw a large opening in the bigger craft [Exclusive drawings and wide shots of the right and left footprints of the
through which the smaller scout-ship must have come. We did see the small extraterrestrial encountered by George Adamski on Novembre 20, 1952
ship itself as it hovered over the low point between two hills, sometimes near Desert Center, together with a complete analysis supplemented
known as a “saddle.” In Flying Saucers Have Landed (1) there is a photo of with illustrations will be found in Michel Zirger’s Italian book (co-written
this “saddle” with the “scout ship” partly hidden behind. Later my wife and I with Maurizio Martinelli) “Extraterrestri: il contatto è già avvenuto” pub-
both read the manuscript of Adamski’s account before it was sent to the lished by Verdechiaro Edizioni this year 2013. The first exhaustive biogra-
publisher, and we both signed sworn affidavits.” phy of George Hunt Williamson]

Williamson died in 1986. He was never to deviate from this account. Out of Mid-September 1958.
the six witnesses present during the events he was the first to arrive at the Chartres, France.
spot where the extraterrestrial left, apparently intentionally, many foot-
prints during the conversation of about forty minutes with Adamski. As one George Hunt Williamson is in France, where he stays five days before going
studying for a doctorate of anthropology, his first reflex was to take photos, to England, the last stop of a European lecture tour started in August. A
make drawings and plaster casts of these strange hieroglyphics from space. group of admirers takes him to visit various places likely to interest him,

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 George Hunt Williamson: A Privileged Witness
By Michel Zirger

including the Chartres Cathedral. Standing immobile in front of the Royal November 14, 1959. Late morning.
Portal, he seems fixated on one thing, almost mesmerized. The magnificent South-West of England.
tympanum from another time sends him back in a dazzling moment to his
Desert Center experience six years previously. He scribbles a few notes in a The physical world around him fades away little by little. An interlacing of
notebook, makes a sketch, and takes a series of photos. There, mirrored in symbols and pictures intermingle in his brain: the symbols of the footprints
stone, he saw what he had conceptualized in his 1954 book Other Tongues– of Desert Center, the portal of the Chartres Cathedral, the Christ within the
Other Flesh (2). It was the link of the footprints and the Tetramorph, with Mystical Almond, the Vesica Piscis, the Christ on the Cross, the swastika. A
the famed Ezekiel’s Vision, and consequently with the four Gospels: the voice seems to comment on this kaleidoscope and repeats that “the sign
Man (or Angel) for Saint Matthew, the Bull for Saint Luke, the Lion pour has been given.” A pervasive flash makes the vision disappear and all is
Saint Marc and the Eagle pour Saint John. This astonishing play of mirrors again calm and serene. He is now aware of being in an alley of a garden, at
was unforeseen at the time of the events. Glastonbury, near a well called the Chalice Well.

End of September 1958. Aside from the regular use of “voice channeling,” it was not uncommon for
England. Williamson to be susceptible to “waking dreams,” to “visions.” These vi-
sions in fact had increased since that trip to Italy the preceding year, al-
Williamson stays with the aristocrat ufologist, Brinsley Le Poer Trench, though now he was managing them with a certain amount of control.
whose bestseller, The Sky People, is soon to be released, followed by Men “Mister Williamson… Mister Williamson…”
Among Mankind. Williamson takes this opportunity to do some further The voice seems to be muffled, as though coming from a great distance.
research on the Arthurian legends and the Grail. He has the idea for a
screenplay, The Grail, which will be finalized in 1981. However, it will never “Mister Williamson…”
be turned into a movie despite the fact that one of his friends, the actress, Finally he turns and sees a young woman walking briskly towards him down
Dame Judith Anderson (Rebecca, Star Trek III) “very much wanted to play the main alley. The walk is accompanied by a faint crunching of the gravel.
the main female role, Dame Margaret…” and that another of his celeb
friends, Jane Russell, was quite interested in the project. “Mister Williamson, Tudor Pole has just arrived. He is waiting for you at the
entrance to Little St. Michael’s cottage.” These words are music to his ears.
Williamson and the young woman walk up the alley, chatting as they do.

This meeting with Wellesley Tudor Pole was etched into Williams’ memory.
Pole was 75 years old at the time. A former army officer and business man,
and descendant of the founder of the Royal House of Tudor, he was known
for having initiated, with the consent of Winston Churchill, the
“silent minute” of prayer for peace during the Second World War. How-
ever, in this year of 1959, it was not the soldier nor the honest businessman
that Williamson came to see, but the seer and the mystic, for the name of
Tudor Pole by then had been linked mostly to his spiritual activities and to
the site of Chalice Well whose purchase was arranged by him at the very
beginning of that year. The meeting was arranged by Brinsley le Poer
Trench, who had just completed an introduction to Wellesley Tudor Pole’s
first important book, The Silent Road –– the latter, in turn, will provide a
short text for Le Poer Trench’s book Men Among Mankind.

The Chalice Well Garden lies nestled at the foot of Glastonbury Tor, a mysti-
cally charged hill surmounted by a lone, bleak tower, sole vestige of a me-
dieval church dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel. It stood like a beacon
watching over the entire region. Going down towards the plain, a few
streets from the garden rise the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey. It is there that
was discovered what is considered to be King Arthur’s grave. These three
sites are indeed connected with this legendary figure, but curiously enough
they happen to be just as much connected with a disciple of Jesus and sup-
posed uncle of the Virgin Mary, Joseph of Arimathea. A long-entrenched
tradition, supported by many puzzling elements, says that it is at Glaston-
bury that Joseph of Arimathea took refuge in A.D. 63. According to the tra-
dition, he was accompanied by twelve men and women, and he founded
there the first Christian church. He is said to have brought the Cup used by
Jesus at the Last Supper as well as two silver cruets, one of them holding
sweat and the other blood, collected during the deposition from the Cross.
Some even add that he had with him the Spear that pierced Christ’s side.
He is said to have hidden the Cup within a stone’s throw from the well,
hence its name.

“Mister Williamson,”
Tudor Pole says, “you may not know it, but our mutual friend, Brinsley,
Let us note though that the third film of the series Indiana Jones, which is having had the good idea of sending to me your books Road in the Sky and
said to have been patterned after Williamson, and entitled Indiana Jones Secret Places of the Lion, I have read them with great interest. I do not
and the Last Crusade, was released in 1989. It deals with this same topic, share all of your ideas, far from it, but I have to concede that I have espe-
the search for the Holy Grail! cially appreciated, in one of the chapters of Secret Places of the Lion, your

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 George Hunt Williamson: A Privileged Witness
By Michel Zirger

reference to the Upper-Room in which the Last Supper took place. For you
know the great significance of this place to me. In fact, what you are saying
matches my own visions or “glimpses” of it.”

Such a compliment coming from one of his two heroes of the moment (the
other one being Frederick Bligh Bond (1864-1945), father of psychic archae-
ology) could not but please Williamson. It is through Le Poer Trench that he
had familiarized himself with these two figures of British spiritualism. Their
common point: Glastonbury and the search for the Holy Grail. As a matter
of fact Frederick Bligh Bond had designed in 1919, after a pattern from the
13th century, the wrought-iron sculpture decorating the well’s wooden
cover. That sculpture consists of two interlocking circles forming a Vesica
Piscis, pierced by a bleeding lance. It is this Vesica Piscis, the brainchild of
Frederick Bligh Bond, which had induced, so to speak, Williamson’s vision a
few moments earlier. It was the first time he came near this place. The
connection with Desert Center was becoming now so clear to him that he
could not help seeing in it one of those synchronicities which had already
so often punctuated his life. Judge for yourself: To find, here in England,
this same Vesica Piscis, of which he had made drawings and plaster casts at
Desert Center, and even very recently had made sketches and taken photos
in Chartres, was not an ordinary occurrence. He saw in it a sign.

Another sign did not escape him. In an area adjacent to the main alley lead-
ing to the well there is a fountain carved in stone. The spring water flows
out of the mouth lion’s head, water perceptibly reddish in hue as if the
blood of Christ had mixed with it forever. He remembered the vision he had
had on September 2nd the past year in Venice in the street at the corner of
the Palace of the Doges. At that time and place he had been “reminded”
that he would open the way for the emergence into light of the ancient
“secret places of the lion.” He felt that the domain of Chalice Hill has all the
characteristics of one of these “secret places.” “Since I know you are an
experienced archaeologist,” Tudor Pole continues, “I would like you to join
us as, shall we say, Archaeological Consultant in the excavations that will be
carried out in and around Chalice Well next summer.”

“It will be an honor for me to offer you my help and my expertise in these
excavations,” Williamson replies to Pole.

Tudor Pole was the man who, in 1907, had made newspaper headlines, stand around him. Tudor Pole opens the wooden casket in which is kept the
most particularly in the July 26 issue of the Daily Express, for being respon- Cup. Everyone can inspect it as he wishes. When Williamson takes it
sible for the discovery, not far from the Chalice Well, of what some still strangely the object seems familiar to him. As soon as he touches it this
consider as the Holy Grail, or at least having a close connection to it. It was unmistakable sensation of slipping into one of those “waking visions” over-
a blue glass saucer-shaped vessel about 14 centimeters in diameter. The comes him… The pictures fade and he is aware again of the reality around
repeated pattern like a Maltese cross on this Glastonbury Chalice is also him. How much time has this “trip” lasted? A few seconds? One microsec-
reminiscent of one of the symbols found at Desert Center: the swastika. ond? One minute? He has not the faintest idea. Hiding his confusion as best
he can, he puts the Cup back in the casket with an obvious feeling of devo-
July 3, 1960, around 10 a.m. tion. The circle is now complete, he thinks. For me the experience of Desert
Glastonbury, England. In a house on Wearyall hill. Center comes to an end here. The significance of what I’ve lived at Desert
Center on November 20, 1952… seems to me clear, full and complete!
“But I wish to say to you: The Grail, remember The Grail. It is shining and
glowing and beckoning even as it was to you long centuries ago when we I was put on the trail of this episode thanks to a few handwritten notes by
held it within our hands. (…).” (3) Williamson found in the original manuscript of Secret Places of the Lion
which I own. It seems that these notes were intended for a new edition.
Williamson is making the last corrections in the manuscript of his next book Wanting to know more I talked about it with a well-known and respected
Secret of the Andes, and this sentence, which belongs to a communication person in the UFO community (whose name I withhold to reveal later), one
by “channeling” that he had received in 1957, was now taking on a particu- of the very few to have known personally some of the closest friends of
lar significance. It came from Joseph d’Arimathea, and today he was going Williamson. This person had indeed heard this “story” and accepted, with
to see or see once again, what was being said to be the Grail. As a matter of some understandably skeptical caution, the conclusion which had been so
fact Wellesley Tudor Pole was bringing especially the “Cup” with him to difficult for me to escape. It was the conclusion that Williamson had be-
Glastonbury for the archaeologists to examine. lieved he had glimpsed one of his past lives while holding this Cup! I reveal
the identity of this “past life” in my book.
5 p.m.
Little St. Michael’s cottage at the entrance of Chalice Well garden, not far Yet, it would seem that for Williamson the Glastonbury Cup was not the
from the ongoing excavations in which Williamson participates. Grail itself but rather an object having been in contact with it, either the
element on which the Holy Grail had been lying for years, or one of the
Wellesley Tudor Pole is there. Williamson and five other archaeologists other vessels used during the Last Supper.

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By Michel Zirger

October and november 1960.

California, Washington State, and Canada.

Williamson give a series of lectures whose titles are unambiguous, New

Quest for the Holy Grail and Footprints of Prophecy, in which he speaks
about some of his latest lines of investigation. These complementary lec-
tures are given over two evenings. As usual they are done within the frame-
work of Understanding, an organization founded and headed by Daniel Fry.

1961

From February to June, a final few lectures on topics not related to Glaston-
bury. In August and September important trip to Japan coinciding with the
release of the Japanese translation of his book Other Tongues–Other Flesh.

From 1962 to 1986.

Never more will he give lectures or publish anything whatsoever: George

Hunt Williamson is no more… (4) He has changed his name and he is hence-
forth legally Michel d’Obrenovic, the family name of his ancestors, the
House of Obrenovic, direct heir to the throne of Serbia. After leading some
archaeological explorations in Mexico, he will disappear from the radar
screens so to speak, then will become priest, then bishop in a Catholic reli-
gious order in California! Indeed, the circle was now complete… On January
25, 1986, he passes away leaving behind him books at the crossroad of
occultism and ufology, in which, for the first time, was envisioned the inter-
vention of extraterrestrials in the history of mankind.

1993.

I undertake systematic research on Williamson.

1995. MICHEL ZIRGER’S

EXCELLENT BOOK
I buy the original manuscripts (ribbon copies) of Williamson’s works: Chip- AVAILABLE AT AMAZON
pewa Diary, Other Tongues–Other Flesh, Secret Places of the Lion, Road in
the Sky, some other unpublished manuscripts, a part of his archives and of
his library.

2013. Notes :
1. Desmond Leslie and George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed,
I continue my research on Williamson… Werner Laurie, London, plate 12.

2. Amherst Press, Amherst, Wisconcin, 1953. The original manuscript

(ribbon copy) of George Hunt Williamson’s book Other Tongues–Other Flesh
Rare are those who have bothered to delve into the message left on No- is property of Michel Zirger.
vember 20, 1952 at Desert Center, and even rarer are those who have done
so with the knowledge and required state of mind. It has to be said, in their 3. Brother Philip (G. H. Williamson), Secret of the Andes, Neville Spearman,
defense, that they were lacking most of the information and developments London, 1961, p. 83.
I have brought to light these last years, as for instance the prophetic Ka-
china doll. The few essential keys I have revealed here, already permit re- 4. In fact, he did give a few rare lectures and publish a couple of papers but
consideration of this message with a new model. However, I have dealt only under the name of Michel d’Obrenovic.
with certain episodes obliquely, sometimes even leaving things conspicu-
ously unsaid, and this is in order for the reader to have fun in reassembling THE AUTHOR:
Michel Zirger is now a full-time French UFO author, living
this jigsaw puzzle. I will give other keys to the puzzle in a book soon to be in Tokyo, Japan. Over the years he has specialized in
released. If a good part has been devoted to “scenes” lived by George Hunt George Hunt Williamson, becoming one the leading
Williamson, it is because over the years I have become convinced that the authorities on this enigmatic figure of the UFO scene. He
owns, among many other of Williamson’s former belong-
message imprinted on the ground of Desert Center was first intended for
ings, the manuscripts (original ribbon copies) of his three
him, being the only one in the group able to decipher it. Consequently, only major books, Other Tongues–Other Flesh, Secret Places of
Williamson has put us on the right track. These footprints and their mes- the Lion and Road in the Sky. He contributes regularly to
sage mark certainly a link, a “contact” between two worlds, ours, and the French magazines and to Roberto Pinotti’s Italian maga-
zine UFO International Magazine. He has also written
other, whatever it may be… etherical, divine, or strictly extraterrestrial… several articles in English for Flying Saucer Review. His
Italian book on George Hunt Williamson, Extraterrestri: il
One thing is sure, the message of Desert Center turns out to be of a com- contatto è già avvenuto (Extraterrestrials: the contact has
already happened), is currently available.
plexity that ufologists had never suspected, nor even would have liked to
envision. [email protected]

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August 6 - New Moon. The Moon will be directly between the Earth and the Sun and will not be visible from
Earth. This phase occurs at 21:51 UTC. This is the best time of the month to observe faint objects such as
galaxies and star clusters because there is no moonlight to interfere.

August 11, 12 - Perseids Meteor Shower. The Perseids is one of the best meteor showers to observe, pro-
ducing up to 60 meteors per hour at its peak. It is produced by comet Swift-Tuttle, which was discovered in
1862. The Perseids are famous for producing a large number of bright meteors. The shower runs annually
from July 17 to August 24. It peaks this year on the night of August 11 and the morning of August 12. The
first quarter moon will set shortly after midnight leaving dark skies for what should be an excellent show.
Best viewing will be from a dark location after midnight. Meteors will radiate from the constellation
Perseus, but can appear anywhere in the sky.

August 21 - Full Moon. The Moon will be directly opposite the Earth from the Sun and will be fully illumi-
nated as seen from Earth. This phase occurs at 01:45 UTC. This full moon was known by early Native
American tribes as the Full Sturgeon Moon because the large sturgeon fish of the Great Lakes and other
major lakes were more easily caught at this time of year. This moon has also been known as the Green
Corn Moon and the Grain Moon.

August 27 - Neptune at Opposition. The blue giant planet will be at its closest approach to Earth and its
face will be fully illuminated by the Sun. This is the best time to view and photograph Neptune. Due to its
extreme distance from Earth, it will only appear as a tiny blue dot in all but the most powerful telescopes.
 Feminism and Freemasonry: The Templar’s & the Hidden Christ
By Dan Green

On December 2nd 2011 the Dalai Lama was giving a speech at the Sathya Sai International Cen-
tre at New Delhi, India, and when touching on his role as an ever reincarnating spiritual
leader of his Tibetan race he conveyed, what was to many, this astonishing admonition,
‘I often express how a future Dalai lama could be female…a female Dalai Lama.’ This gender
bending statement instantly reminded me of a controversial 1988 book by author Anthony
Harris, who, in his ‘The sacred virgin and the holy whore’ postulated that Jesus had been a fe-
male, citing as part of his evidence that Leonardo da Vinci had been approached to fake a
Turin Shroud in his own image to reinforce a male identity...
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Such was the impact of this suggestion, that I system found in humans, to discover the gynae- point, within the female parent for it is on this
thought I would set about investigating in my cological path of early conception, the egg leav- day, the 4th that the egg starts development in
own capacity of a British Poirot thinking outside ing an ovary to pass through the fallopian tube the follicle. At Station 5 Simon of Cyrene carries
of the box, with the assistance of synchronicity for expectant pregnancy. Was this option an the Cross for Jesus, and we cannot mistake the
and the lost Mother Tongue of the Knights Tem- invite into discovery of the inescapable duality of term ‘carrying’ meaning that of a pregnant
plar, a tool that echoes ancient depth psychol- Godhead? Or even something else? mother. Station 6 sees Veronica wiping the face
ogy, for it was this military order of warrior of Jesus. From this account arose the legend that
monks themselves who allegedly had discovered that upon pausing to wipe sweat away from the
something of great importance during a deliber- Lord using her veil, his image imprinted itself on
ate search under the ruins of Temple Mount, her cloth. What is happening here is the imprint
Jerusalem, in circa 1110, a secret that was cen- of Jesus on her cloth replicates the way external
tral to their rise of power and bargaining power. genital changes in an embryo develops on the 6th
Despite him being the major figure in the bible, week after fertilisation.
there is no description of how Jesus looked, and
scholars will point out no real record of him in As the Cross carrying Jesus in the story is male
Hebrew or Roman – outside of Christianity’s own we are therefore being indicated in this instance
teachings and assurances. Was there something the sex determination of a boy as the embryonic
missing, that had been found by the Templars? gender cannot be determined for the initial six
weeks of development. Station 8 shows us how
Jesus ‘meets with the daughters of Jerusalem’,
the biblical Luke 21-23 refers to this encounter as
Jesus making further reference to motherhood or
lack of; ‘But woe to them that are with child..’
Jesus is ‘stripped of his garments’ at Station 10,
which parallels with an egg which if unfertile
causes the uterine lining to shed or strip away
enabling the body to prepare for the next egg
Above Photo: Templar’s repudiate a male Jesus. and potential for pregnancy.

Above Photo: Modern day Temple Mount, The number 14 is important in these Stations,
Jerusalem. the 14th day in pregnancy being the most fertile
day of fertilisation when the rupturing follicle
Perhaps the first to probe any secret were con- releases the egg. In obstetrics, the study of the
tained in the words of the 14th century female reproductive process within a fertilised female
mystic and anchorite Julian of Norwich venerated body, ‘station’ is the expression for the measur-
in Anglican and Lutheran churches, formulating; ing distance of a baby travelling down the birth
‘And so Jesus is our true Mother in nature by our canal. When it is ‘fully engaged’, it is ready to be
first creation, and he is our true Mother in grace born, and another expression of this term could
by taking our created nature.’ So why an empha- remind us of the myth that Jesus and Mary Mag-
sis on a female aspect of Jesus? Are we looking dalene were a couple, Mary being pregnant. The
for a Father-Mother aspect of Godhead? Utilising term ‘falling pregnant’ takes on a poignant
the psychology of the Collective Unconscious meaning other than stumbling when Jesus is
where it is believed pure Truth resides and can- mentioned falling on his journey at Stations 3, 7,
not be besmirched or twisted, safely entrenched and 11. Are we looking at the Gestations of the
and submerged, hiding away like a hermit in our cross, ‘gestation’ alluding to the carrying of an
individual mind, any previous readers of my sub- embryo inside a female? Both 7 and 11 are sig-
missions will by now know that it is the joint nificant for it is on the former that the egg begins Above Photo: Allegorical stripping of uterine
wonder of the Collective Unconscious and syn- to develop and the latter when it reaches matur- lining.
chronicity introduced to us first by the Swiss ity.
psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, that I trust as my
tools of deduction and investigation, I wondered
if we might find out why the Knights Templar
would trample on the cross of a male Jesus. In
their written Charter, the Templars dedicated
themselves to Mary, suspected in this case to be
Mary Magdalene, a figure whom it appeared
they secretly worshipped as equal to Jesus. Equal
to Jesus?

Using the Lost Mother Tongue, I studied the 14

Stations of the Cross depicting the Cross carrying
Christ before the final hours – or ‘Passion’ - of
his death by crucifixion and found that it could
also be viewed as synchronising with the work-
ings of the female body, the ‘Cross’ taking on a
new significance for if we are going to probe the Above Photo: The (Ge) Stations of the Cross? At Station 12 the outstretched arms of Jesus
magnificent workings of this mechanism we are hang on the Cross, a full representation of the
going to celebrate its finest moment by replacing Jesus meets with his mother at Station 4 and the female fallopian tubes and womb that bleeds,
a wooden cross with the XY sex determination suggestion here is that the spark of life is at that Christ, in this respect being in all women.

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His body is removed from the Cross at Station 13 noticing that when we pronounce the syllable wearing what most western minds will perceive
and at this point of death, the potential of new ‘Cal’ we have to express an ‘o’ as we approach as a female dress.
birth, the key word ‘transformation’ is recorded the second syllable, providing us with a ‘Cal-
in the symbolism of the Tarot Death card 13. ovary’, a reference to an ovary. The phonetic ‘get
Modern Hebrew affords the name ‘Yeshu’ for semen’ can also be determined in the name of
Jesus, and resembles the phonetic pronunciation the garden Gethsemane. It then becomes clearer
of ‘Issue’, the description of the blood during a why at Easter we celebrate the Jesus story with
woman’s period. Station 14 presents Jesus laid in eggs, (now, unfortunately replaced with the com-
the tomb and day 14 of pregnancy is when ovula- mercial chocolate variety) as this confirms an
tion is most fertile. It is at this juncture that the unconscious reflection on the female gamete sex
mysterious figure of Mary Magdalene comes to cell or egg, the ovum.
seek her Lord and biblical text tells us she thinks
the tomb has been looted and he is no longer One traditional story concerning Mary Magda-
there. lene after Jesus’ resurrection captures this well.
The Emperor Tiberius held a banquet and invited
her and when she appeared she greeted him by
holding a plain egg thought to symbolise the
rising Christ. Caesar declared the chance of hav-
ing Christ rising from the dead as unlikely as the
egg she was holding turning red, but no sooner
had he uttered it than the egg obliged. Another
version from the Greek tells of Mary placing a
basket full of eggs at the foot of the crucifixion, a Above Photo: Female Jesus, Cathedral of Santo
Above Photo: The Fallopian Tubes – Out- clear symbolism from what we have now Domingo de la Calzada.
stretched arms of Jesus on Cross. learned, of ovary eggs. Both accounts remind us
that failure of the (white) egg to fertilise will lead A question to ask is, if crucifixion was not meant
The Magdalene is thought to have come from to the oncoming return cycle of menstruation, only as execution but as a humiliation designed
Magdala, a town said to have been on the west- and red. In John 17:1 just before the betrayal to expose vulnerability, why then were loin
ern shore of the Sea of Galilee, hence her nam- and crucifixion, Jesus says ;’Father, the time has cloths placed to cover the genitals? Writings by
ing, but if we resort again to the Collective Un- come…’ - ‘timing’ is what differentiates a fertil- Seneca the Younger suggest otherwise, recording
conscious we will see her title within the neuro- ised egg from an embryo. that victims were crucified entirely naked. Could
logical word ‘Amygdala’, the almond-like nucleus’ it be that the male Jesus had his genitalia cov-
within the brain, recent studies suggesting that Left Photo: The Magda- ered because covertly the figure was to have
there are correlations between brain structure, lene, Scarlet Saint, Blood been a divine representation of a female?
the amygdala and sexual orientation. Allowing of Christ.
the Collective Unconscious to elucidate further at Left Photo: Male Jesus
this recorded scene of a ‘looted tomb’ of a Easter is celebrated as one side, Female Jesus
corpse, we are being imprinted the memory of the time that Jesus is opposite.
‘Corpus luteum’, essential for maintaining and slain and resurrects, and
establishing pregnancy, being what is left of the the precise date of this More striking visual evi-
follicle after a woman ovulates. In some ac- slightly changing yearly dence is at Galicia, where
counts, we are told that the Roman soldier Longi- celebration is decided by we see on one side of the
nus pierced the side of Christ with what is now the first Sunday after or on the full moon, which Cross our traditional male
known as ‘The Spear of Destiny’ and surely so given us further clues into our arrival at a female Jesus but on the obverse
one of destiny, for here the egg has been rup- aspect to Jesus as menstruation and ovulation side a crucified female,
tured and bleeds, the menstrual cycle starting more or less follow the 28 day lunar cycle. Our inferring a divine balance,
over as pregnancy has been missed. Within his English word ‘Easter’ heralds from the Anglo- and that the double cross
title Longinus, veils the word ‘gyn’, which means, Saxon ‘Eastre’ taken from the pagan goddess at the Last Supper is an
in composition, ‘female’. whose Spring festivals were called Eastron. How- allegory of the double
ever, the unconscious origin of these semantics cross, the XX, of the fe-
brings us full circle back to obstetrics and the male chromosome. Given
variant of estrus, oestrus – the period of sexual that an increasing number
receptivity in most female mammals when ovula- of historians are trying to
tion occurs. It appears that the French myth of erase the figure of a Jesus
Jesus being married to a pregnant Mary Magda- completely, I hope I can
lene stems from an unconscious memory that a equally erase that notion by ‘resurrecting’ the
male Jesus is mirroring a representation of a figure to include balance with female, the hidden
pregnant female. The word ‘marry’ is from the Christ discovered by the Templars, deliberately
Old French ‘Marier’, phonetic ‘Maria’ as in Maria concealed and altered by a male church who not
Magdalene. only wanted emphasis and importance put on
Above Photo: The looted corpse at the tomb – the male alone by stamping evidence out and
Corpus Luteum. Finally, I felt that with the Collective Unconscious eradicated all the adherents of ancient Mother
providing deep psychological evidence for a dual- Goddess worship, but who wanted neither men
If we leave the Stations for now and turn to addi- istic, female aspect of Jesus by revealing an ob- nor women to have any understanding of female
tional hidden meanings in the Lost Mother stetric alternative of The Stations of the Cross, gynaecology. Furthermore, have we discovered
Tongue, we can find further female reproductive then maybe it had also provided at least further that the historical male Jesus was a fiction, and
references from the Collective Unconscious, for evidence hidden in architecture or art. I found it ‘his’ story based on a woman? Was ‘Jesus’ a
as Jesus made his way to Calvary we cannot help at Spain, firstly at the Cathedral of Santo Do- woman and was this woman actually Mary Mag-
enunciating the place name Calvary without mingo de la Calzada where we can see Jesus dalene?

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By Dan Green

suppressed and deposed Knights Templar, are Below Photo: Dan Green’s new book - The Mur-
perceived to be an exclusively male organisation, der of Mary Magdalene: Synchronicity and the
and yet are responsible for constructing Gothic Scarlet Saint.
Cathedrals as a representation of the female
body. Perhaps this is why the Songs of Solomon,
he whose Temple is so key to Freemasonry, are
often interpreted as the relationship as the
Church of Christ and the human souls as husband
and wife. That we can find the word ‘Christ’ hid-
den and contained within the word
‘Synchronicity’ is one in its own right, and may
explain why so many are now warming to the
thought that synchronicity is a Male-Female
God’s way of communicating with mankind.

Below Photo: The ‘X’ chromosome – the Female

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 Title: The Best British Fantasy 2013
Author: Various
Publisher: Salt Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-9077723-35-8
Price: £9.99

This fantasy anthology is one of the most thought provoking and disturbing reads I’ve come across in some time. Although not
‘in-your-face’ horror stories as such, the tales in this book succeed in combining a number of genres, fantasy, sci-fi and horror
and the seventeen authors chosen by editor Steve Haynes are all masters of their dark craft who create truly visceral and trou-
bling images. Thanks to the editor, the overall quality of the material makes it difficult to single out any of the tales, but there
are a few that deserve special mention.

One of the most effective stories is also one of the shortest and is called simply, ‘Dermot’. This is guaranteed to set you teeth on
edge with its grisly and nauseous pragmatism and gains much of its impact from what is implied rather than stated. ‘Fearful
Symmetry’ is another truly excellent piece of story telling where the characters leap off the page and ‘Pig Thing’ keeps its sucker
punch right to the end and serves as a dire warning about emigrating to the wilds of New Zealand.

‘The Complex’, ‘The Last Osama’, ‘Too Delicate for Human Form’ and the poignant ‘The Scariest Place in The World’ are also
worthy of special mention. There is even a delightful example of ‘steam punk’ with a very different take on Peter Pan called ‘The
Island of Peter Pandora. This book is crammed with story telling of the highest calibre and a must buy for lovers of high strange-
ness and fantasy fiction.

Title: Paranormal Devon

Author: Daniel Codd
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-84868-166-8
Price: £12.99

Yet another welcome addition to the canon of paranormal literature from Amberley Publishing and author Daniel Codd, this
time looking at the unseen and unknown side of the county of Devon in the South of England. The book is a splendidly eclectic
collection of tales both ancient and modern concerning just about every variation on the theme, from phantom soldiers, ladies
of various hues, haunted buildings, castles and of course pubs, to reports of creatures of myth and legend (the ever elusive cryp-
toids) and the old favourite poltergeists.

He also and wisely includes such modern paranormal variants as UFOs and their occupants and as befits the location there is
even a section dealing with the doings of fairies and pixies, both of which are staple fare in the south of England. The author
also includes mention of the attitude of the print media towards reports of the supernatural that accompanied the late 19th
century industrialisation of Britain, when rationalism was king and reports of unconventional phenomena were, as a matter of
course, treated with sneering disdain. Strangely enough, as we come forward in time to the present day we find that reports, it
not immediately believed, at least receive a much fairer and open minded hearing. Perhaps this is why books such as this con-
tinually sell well as people seem want, and perhaps need, a spiritual dimension, an area of genuine mystery, in their lives. If you
are visiting Devon, or indeed the south of England, this book would be the perfect travel guide for a wonderfully atmospheric,
possibly haunted and beautiful part of the world.

Title: Magic, The Esoteric and The Occult

Author: Stephen Wakefield
Publisher: 11th Dimension Publishing
ISNB: 978-1-907126-20-8
Price: £9.99

This, the first published work from Stephen Wakefield, is undoubtedly a classic in the making. It succeeds in taking a little under-
stood and frequently badly misrepresented subject and sets out its development through the ages in an extremely comprehen-
sive manner. What makes this book doubly enjoyable is the fact that while remaining both accessible and easy to read, some-
thing that has eluded many other works of a similar nature, it never loses sight of the truly breathtaking and frequently terrify-
ing majesty of its subject. The book opens with an examination of the roots of magic as practised in the natural system of sym-
pathetic magic of the shamans (which is of course still the case) and moves steadily forward taking in the pagan practises and
rituals of ancient Egypt, Rome and Greece. These in turn gradually morph into the emerging religions of Judaism, Christianity
and eventually Islam, describing how all of these deistic belief systems embraced magic and its conjoined twin Gnosticism. It
could be no other way, because religion is only magic wearing a more acceptable face. It is far from easy to encapsulate this
excellent work in a few words because it covers such a broad sweep of strange traditions, beliefs, cultures and times, but just
about everything is considered from alchemy and demonology to fortune telling, wicca and phrenology. The author, thought-
fully, has included the influence of such magical originals as Agrippa, Paracelcus and John Dee to the teachings of modern mages
like Anton LaVey, Michael Aquino, and the notorious Aleister Crowley and his magical (although in Crowley’s case it would be
magickal) system of Thelema. The author also explores avenues normally ignored by some researchers and looks at the genu-
inely bizarre and potentially dangerous school of magical thought unintentionally created by the author H.P Lovecraft with his
originally fictitious grimoire, the Necronomicon.

The Necronomicon and its cosmology were so endlessly fascinating that it was eventually created by at least two authors, Colin Wilson was one, and there are
even modern groups that actually practise Lovecraftian magic. The book continues with a consideration of what may be the next evolutionary step in the long
lasting magical process: the possibilities and processes of sigil magic pioneered by the likes of Austin Osman Spare, Kenneth Grant and latterly Peter J Carroll
that became Chaos Magic, a technique which may in fact underpin the very nature of reality itself. Finally we discover why magical belief is still as significant
today (perhaps even more so) as it has always been. The answer is simple, because it provides a welcome release, an escape from the humdrum of slavish and
frequently self-serving rationality that surrounds us, it is our ultimate doorway to freedom and fulfilment. This important work deserves to be a success and
should provide both food for thought and practical advice for anyone with even a passing an interest in magic: thoroughly and unreservedly recommended!
 Title: Once Upon a Missing Time
Author: Philip Mantle
Publisher: Richard Dolan Press
ISBN:-10: 1491026596
Price: Book $14.95. Kindle version $7.99

In this fascinating new book, Philip Mantle swaps roles as a knowledgeable investigator of the UFO phenomenon to assume the
garb of Sci-Fi author and makes the transition seamlessly. In doing so he brings first hand knowledge to a subject still deeply
mired in doubt, mystery and speculation. What makes the book doubly interesting is that all the characters, although fictitious,
are drawn from actual cases involving alleged alien abduction and the attention to detail shows. In fact one the investigators
could easily be the author. This well constructed tale is set in the county of Yorkshire in England, home turf for Philip Mantle,
and tells of a teacher, Alan Morrison, and his young family who gradually come to realise that they are the focus of something
that is not of this earth and the tale follows their slow, but inexorable slide into a world of malevolent fear and madness.

After some meticulous scene setting the story really comes to life when the family undergo hypnotic regression and this is when
the comprehensive UFO background of the author really shines through. The description of what takes place is so true to life
and visceral that the reader is drawn headfirst into the exchange and some of the terror and helplessness of those directly in-
volved in the experience can be felt. Based on this outing one can only hope that this is a not just a ‘one off’ effort and that
many more UFO related tales will come from the author, because he seems to have found a niche that he can successfully mine.
I have no hesitation in recommending this well researched and entertaining work.
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Title: On the edge of Reality

Author: Colin Andrews with Synthia Andrews
Publisher: New Page Books
ISBN:-10: 160163255X
Price: $17.99

A global expansion of consciousness is underway. As predicted by ancient prophecy, old ways of thinking and of seeing the
world are shifting. Mind-stretching new phenomena are challenging current reality. New frontiers of science are disclosing a
connection between our consciousness and physical reality. As consciousness changes, so do our perceptions. The door is open-
ing to a new reality. Join Colin and Synthia as they explore what is beyond this door. Examine the multitude of current changes
from the bases of society to the foundations of science that indicate the unfolding of a new paradigm. Investigate non-ordinary
reality and unexplained phenomena as interactions of consciousness.

In this fascinating new title, you will explore and learn about parallel cases of inexplicable exchanges between lights in the sky
and crop circles on the ground. Strange sounds in the sky heard and recorded around the world. Photographic orbs of light. The
Norway Spiral, a rotating spiral of light seen by hundreds of people in 2009 and Unexplained RADAR interference patterns corre-
lating with weather anomalies.

I have seen a number of books that Colin Andrews has been involved with or wrote over the years. I’m not too much of a believer
that crop formations are in fact anomalous. I believe they are simply works of art. So, this book may not exactly be for me…
However the other subjects Colin and Synthia write about certainly grabbed my attention. Generally, it is a well written book
that covers numerous topics which are considered unknown. Worth a read. (Steve Mera: PM Editor).

"Title: Inside the real Area 51

Author: Thomas j. Carey & Donald R. Schmitt
Publisher: New Page Books
ISBN:-13: 978-1601632364
Price: $16.99

Never again should it be said that we simply don't have evidence of extraterrestrial visitation. If the eyewitness testimony of
dozens of honorable, distinguished, and heroic military men and women is to account for anything…then we should listen to
what they've been telling us about Wright-Patterson AFB. Schmitt and Carey take us on a riveting journey inside underground
hangars and down secret tunnels to the testing labs and storage facilities of quite possibly the world's most historically impor-
tant air base. My own grandfather's unusual employment at the base is interwoven with the secrets guarded within its gates. It
was because of his experiences on special assignments at the facility that he was compelled to tell his family from his deathbed,
'We are not alone.'"--Ben Hansen, lead host of SyFy Channel's Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files. "Through their tenacious efforts
to document mysterious events surrounding Roswell, Hangar 18, and alien beings as reported to them by top military officials,
Carey and Schmitt show that good, old-fashioned investigative reporting is still alive and well."--Cheryll Jones, former anchor,
CNN News. "Don Schmitt and Tom Carey know the truth about UFOs. Someone from someplace that isn't here has been flying
around in our skies using technology that we don't have to execute aerial maneuvers that we can't match. The question now is,
what are we going to do about it? The answer is that men like Schmitt and Carey--who hate being lied to--are going to present
us with the facts, and if we're as courageous as they are, we are not going to take it much longer."--Bryce Zabel, creator, pro-
ducer, and director of Dark Skies, and coauthor of A.D. After Disclosure. The true nature of what actually crashed in Roswell, in
1947 remains classified. Only a select few have ever had access to the truth about what became known as Area 51.

But what happened to the remnants of that crash is shrouded in even greater mystery. What began in the high desert of New Mexico ended at Wright-
Patterson, an ultra top-secret Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio. The physical evidence of extraterrestrial visitation was buried deep within this nuclear strong-
hold. How tragic that such seismic news should be kept from the people of the world...pieces of history, now quickly dwindling into oblivion as the last of the
secret-keepers passes on. In spite of its rich history of military service to our nation, Wright-Patterson also stands as the secret tomb of one of the greatest
occurrences in recorded history. But be prepared...the real Area 51--Wright-Patterson's vault--is about to be opened.

I simply could not put this book down. Absolutely fascinating. Both authors have really done their research revealing some amazing facts that convinces you
that we are definitely not alone and they may be already here… I’d grab yourself a copy as soon as possible. (Steve Mera: PM Editor).
 Satanic cult blamed for ritualistic killing of
Dartmoor foal which was horrifically muti-
lated in centre of ring of fire during full moon.
By Stuart Woledge

Genitals, ear and tongue sliced during what is thought to be a

False Memories take life in the lab satanic ritual. There are fears the stricken animal may have
been alive during its ordeal. The pony was found in a remote
Stressful events can often coincide with the creation of false part of Devon National Park. Patches of burned grass sur-
memories, when people recall things that never happened, and rounded it was discovered and it had white paint on it's leg…
scientists said Thursday they are learning more about this curious
phenomenon. A better understanding of false memories could
help treat post-traumatic stress and possibly cut back on inaccu- A Satanic cult has been blamed for the sick-
rate eyewitness testimony that jails innocent people, experts say. ening death of a pony, which was found
The latest advances in studying manipulated memories in the lab
horrifically mutilated and laying in the rem-
were reported in the journal Science by researchers in a US-
Japanese partnership at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- nants of a ring of fire after full moon. Police
ogy. They say they can make mice remember a traumatic event are investigating after the young male had
that never happened. its genitals, right ear and tongue sliced off,
According to lead author Susumu Tonegawa of MIT, the method
and eyes gouged out. It is thought the ani-
involves recognizing the brain cells that are changed physically mal may have been alive when the atroci-
and chemically during the formation of a memory, known as an ties were committed. Its belly was hacked
engram. "Whether it's a false or genuine memory, the brain's
open and the young pony also had traces of
neural mechanism underlying the recall of the memory is the
same," explained Tonegawa, a 1987 Nobel laureate and director white paint on one of its legs, suggesting it
of the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics. was killed as part of a bizarre ceremony.
"Our experiments provide the first animal model in which false It was also surrounded by circular patches
and genuine memories can be investigated at the memory engram
level."
of burnt moorland, which experts believe
were left by a ring of torches or candles.
Tonegawa and colleagues showed they could identify the cells for
a specific memory in the hippocampus of mice and program the
The two-month old pony seemed to have been dragged into a clearing and placed at the foot of a slope to
engram to respond to pulses of light, known as optogenetics.
Researchers placed the mice in a peaceful place, Box A, and iso- face the previous night’s full moon. It was found on Tuesday morning by a horse rider at Yennadon Down,
lated the animals' brain signature of that secure setting. Then, a remote, area of Devon National Park. Animal welfare officers are investigating and police have appealed
they placed the mice in Box B and reactivated the secure memory to the public to be extra vigilant. Horse carers believe the butchery was part of an evil occult or ceremony
while delivering a shock to the mice's feet. When researchers
returned the mice to Box A, they froze, exhibiting a common fear
by Devil worshippers. Dartmoor’s Livestock Protection Officer Karla McKechnie said: 'We do get strange
response, signifying they remembered something bad happening things happening from time to time, normally when its a full moon.
there, even though it had not. Scientists also observed they could
reactivate the false memory at will by manipulating the light
'I’ve come across strange circles in the
pulses to the part of the brain where the memory was stored.
Even more, they could see the false memory aroused other parts ground, boulders used as altars, that sort of
of the brain, such as the amygdala, where active fear responses thing, but thankfully animal mutilations are
are based. rare. 'I suspect its witches or devil worship-
"To the animal, the false memory seems to have felt like a 'real'
pers but it’s always hard to get to the bot-
memory," said co-author Xu Liu. Learning how to turn on false tom of it. 'My main concern is how some-
memories may also help scientists figure out how to turn off, or one has been able to walk up to a foal and
erase, bad ones, he added. According to Bill Klemm, senior profes-
kill it in the middle of the night. I’m almost
sor of neuroscience at Texas A&M University, the research could
help treat conditions like post-traumatic stress. "False memory is a certain more than one person was in-
big deal. It comes up in criminal trials and post-traumatic stress volved.' South West Equine Protection's
syndrome, all sorts of things. "This paper is important in the sense Jenny Thornton believed Dartmoor ponies
that here is an animal model where you can do things you can't do
in people," said Klemm, who was not involved in the research. had become so used to being fed by hu-
However, the study offers only a preliminary glance at how these mans they were now easy targets. She said:
processes may work in humans, since the lives of lab mice are 'I’ve seen plenty of dead animals but this
much less complicated, and the memory span studied was short,
was horrendous.
he added. "There was only a one-day interval in between each
condition," Klemm told AFP.
'The belly has been sliced open. It’s a boy and its genitals had been cut off. The tongue had been pulled
"In a real world situation, like eyewitnesses at a crime or some- out and his eyes are missing. 'There have always been rumours of animal sacrifices and sheep have been
thing, days or weeks or months may elapse between the different
contexts and a lot of intervening things may happen." found dead in the past, often around the time of a full moon. 'All we can be absolutely certain of is that
Elizabeth Loftus, a distinguished professor of psychology at the someone has caused unnecessary suffering to an animal, possibly severe suffering if it was still alive at the
University of California - Irvine, said she found the research "kind time.' Dartmoor and the surrounding countryside in Devon and Cornwall has been dogged by rumours of
of exciting," because it appears to answer a key question raised by
Satanic rituals for years. In 2012 a two-year-old horse called Eric belonging to Dawn Jewell, 27, was found
critics. "When you work with humans you do have a concern
about what we in psychology call demand characteristics -- the mutilated on the day of satanic animal sacrifice. He was found dead in his field in Stithians, near Fal-
idea that humans are giving you the response they think you mouth, Cornwall, after a full moon with his right eye gouged out, his teeth removed and his genitalia
would like to hear," she told AFP. "That is probably not true for hacked off. The horrific attack happened on St Winebald Day, a date in the satanic calendar traditionally
mice."
celebrated with bloody rituals.
Besides, not all false memories are harmful. Loftus said this flexi- In 2006 around 100 sheep animals were found slaugh-
bility allows humans to self-correct after misremembering some- tered with their tongues, eyes and sexual organs re-
thing, and even helps plan for the future. "Even without external
moved on Dartmoor.
influence, people remember that their grades were better than
they were, or that they voted in elections that they didn't vote in,
or that their kids walked and talked at an earlier age than they The bodies had been arranged in a Satanic star shape,
really did," she said. "These self-enhancing memory distortions known as a pentangle, or laid out in a circle with their
allow people to feel better about themselves." MIT researchers
said they are planning more study of how false memories are
necks broken. In June of this year police appealed for
created, and whether they can extend to memories for objects, information after two horses were found with 'gaping'
food, or even companions. knife wounds in neighbouring fields in the village of
Stokeinteignhead, Devon. Locals feared the two thor-
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Teenager sparks alien scare after discovering
'extra terrestrial corpse'… which turns out to be
misshapen baboon.
By Matt Blake
The strange figure had spindly
arms, a shriveled head and giant
teeth. Villagers in Plettenberg Bay,
South Africa, hailed it as proof of
aliens. Others said it was probably a
cross-breed between a seal and a
monkey
But local vet Dr Magdalena Braum
said: 'Anyone could see it was a
baboon' She said it was probably
killed by its mother and carried
around after death. When 17-year- Moon seems to influence Sleep
old Curt-Leigh Dixon stumbled Given its links with werewolves, vampires and witchcraft, it may
across a mysterious dead body with not be surprising that the full moon is associated with restless
nights. But now researchers have found scientific evidence that
spindly arms, a shriveled head and the lunar cycle really does influence sleep. Just as the myth says,
giant teeth, he thought he'd found when the full moon is high it is harder to slumber soundly, a study
an alien corpse. has shown. But the bad night has nothing to do with the moon's
eerie glow, or its gravitational influence. Rather, scientists believe
an internal clock that follows the cycles of the moon may be
His 'groundbreaking' discovery sparked a frenzy of speculation online and in his hometown of Plettenberg hardwired into our genes. It ticks away even on the darkest of
Bay, South Africa, where villagers hailed it as proof extra-terrestrials live among us; others said it was, at cloudy nights, when the moon cannot be seen. "The lunar cycle
the very least, a strange cross-breed between a seal and a monkey. Either way, they knew it would make seems to influence human sleep, even when one does not 'see'
the moon and is not aware of the actual moon phase," said psy-
the town rich... until the local vet revealed it was a baby baboon. Pictures of the strange beast taken by chiatrist Dr Christian Cajochen, from the University of Basel,
Curt-Leigh's father Llewellyn Dixon, a national park ranger, appeared to show a wrinkled and mummified Switzerland.
beast unlike any on Earth.
His team studied 33 young and old volunteers whose brain waves,
eye movements and hormone secretions were monitored as they
The body was sent to local vet Dr slept. Around the time of the full moon, brain activity related to
Magdalena Braum who immedi- deep sleep dropped by 30%, the researchers found. Participants
ately scotched the discovery within took five minutes longer than normal to fall asleep, and slept for
20 minutes less time on average during the night. They also
seconds, saying: 'Anyone could see showed reduced levels of melatonin, the "body clock" hormone
it was baby baboon. 'It was a new- that regulates sleep and wake cycles. Questioned by the scien-
born female baboon, with umbilical tists, the volunteers said they felt their sleep was poorer when
the moon was full.
cord still attached to her body. 'It
was most likely killed by the bite
through her scull soon after birth, The ghost of Earl Grey? Spooky goings-on in cor-
possibly infanticide, which is very ner shop as CCTV appears to show boxes of tea-
common in some primate species bags floating down the aisles.
when a new male takes over the By Anne Edwards
troop.' She said its strange shape
and apparent mummification was
down to the fact it had been carried
around by its mother after death.

'We have seen it quite often in baboon research troops, when females carry the deceased infants some-
times for as long as three to four weeks on their tail section before finally discarding them,' Braum told
Algoa FM.

It comes a month after a Chinese farmer was

The phrase 'dying for a cuppa' has never been so true. CCTV has
jailed for posing with an 'alien' that he claimed captured boxes of teabags floating down the aisles, in what
to have electrocuted after its UFO crash- appears to be a spirit haunting a corner shop. The startling foot-
landed on his farm but that he had really made age from inside the small store seems to show boxes of tea levi-
from rubber. The pictures of Mr Li standing tating from the shelves before falling down, close to an unaware
shopper. Shopkeeper Michelle Newbold said she is baffled after
next to the apparent extraterrestrial sparked a CCTV from the Whitstable Nutrition Centre in Whitstable, Kent
frenzy of speculation on social networking captured two boxes of tea bags hover off the shelves. The foot-
sites across China. Mr Li had claimed he saw a age, uploaded to YouTube, then shows them drop to floor and
startle the man - in what could be a ghost attempting to make off
formation of UFOs buzzing across the night sky with a brew. The shop, which sells a range of natural products,
along the Yellow River in Binzhou Shangdong has now become a viral sensation. Ms Newbold said: 'I was per-
province. But he has been forced to admit he plexed I suppose. I just couldn't believe it. 'I have no idea about
made the whole thing up following five days in how it has happened. It is just a complete mystery. 'I have never
seen anything like it since I've been running the shop. The cus-
prison after police arrested him. Despite origi- tomer never said anything and I don't even know who it was.'
nally sticking to his story that a craft plum- Ms Newbold runs the shop with her step-mother and father
meted to earth before Mr Li discovered the Michael Knowles, who has run businesses in Whitstable since the
1970s when he opened a hairdressers. She added: 'I showed my
charred remains of an alien visitor in an elec- dad and he couldn't quite believe it as well. I review the CCTV
trified rabbit trap, he changed his mind follow- about once a week and that's when I came across it. 'We check
ing interrogation by police. But he refused to sometimes if we think something is suspicious or if a dodgy char-
admit the rubber doll was a fake - claiming he acter is in the shop. 'I'd be interested to find out more if anyone
knows anything because I have no clue. I have never seen any-
bought the 'body' from a villager and decided thing like this since I have been in the shop.' 'I don't believe in
to keep it in his freezer. However, when police ghosts and this hasn't changed anything.' The YouTube video has
discovered files on his computer that provided received more than 8,000 hits in just a few days.
further evidence of the deception, Mr Li finally
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This is a full-on, white-hot action blaster that irresistibly reminded me the Call of Duty game franchise, especially
the ‘Modern Warfare’ series when the White House is under threat from the Russians and I mean that in a good
way. Gerald Butler plays a patriotic and ultra-reliable secret service agent (Mike Banning) who, in the opening
scenes while part of a motorcade, is forced to make a life-or-death choice of either saving the president or his
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the bad guys (two of the delegation are not what they seem to be and Rick Yune as the evil Kang is excellent)
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How I Learned To Love Ghosts
By Duncan Barford

Paranormal TV shows have such an insidious influence these days that many people assume an
‘investigation’ requires electrical gadgets, plus the obligatory team of psychics and parapsycholo-
gists. Yet a ‘ghost’ remains a subjective experience, and when we confront a seeming ghost (or any
other paranormal event) something potentially traumatic enters our world. Fortunately, when the
paranormal gets personal, there are other technologies we can use. Extremely ancient ones. Last
year, I put myself in a position to test them and I was surprised by the results...

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 How I Learned To Love Ghosts
By Duncan Barford

Halloween night, 2010, I spent alone in one of

the most haunted places in my city. Throughout
most of the 19th century up until the middle of
the 20th, the basement of Brighton Town Hall
was the headquarters of the local police force,
including rows of cells in which a century’s
worth of miscreants were locked up. If you visit
The Old Police Cells Museum, as it’s now called
[1], you can read on the walls the graffiti they
left behind. It’s easy to imagine what an ex-
tremely unpleasant place it must have been.
One violent death at the site is well-recorded:
the murder in 1844 of Henry Solomon, Brigh-
ton’s Chief Constable, who acquired the unfor-
tunate distinction of the only British Chief Con-
stable murdered in his own station [2].

Solomon was questioning in his office a 23 year-

old detainee, John Lawrence, suspected of steal-
ing a carpet. Solomon had invited Lawrence into
his comfortable office because he had been
behaving oddly. Accounts differ on what hap-
pened next – Lawrence was left alone for a mo-
ment, or Solomon turned his back – but in either
case Lawrence grabbed a poker from the fire-
place and smashed Solomon’s head so badly he
died within a few days. Lawrence was hanged
for the murder. that anything would happen. Unfortunately, I Buddhism by a female teacher named Machig
came away even more nervous than before. Labdron (1055-1153) [5]. In essence, her ap-
These days, the cells occupy only a part of the proach is simple: one willingly offers up one’s
building, the rest of which is in regular use. But I’ll mention only one of numerous ‘incidents’. body to be devoured by demons. Often, this
odd sensations and events are frequently re- Each of us chose a cell along the most ‘active’ simply takes the form of visualisation, but it can
ported by town hall staff, usually focused on the corridor and sat inside for a few minutes, doors also involve visits to lonely and haunted places.
basement, which hosts not only the former cells closed in complete darkness. ‘This isn’t so bad,’ I It’s still common for Buddhist monks to medi-
but also an ancient well, dating back to the pri- was thinking, when I suddenly noticed coming tate in graveyards, in order to confront their
ory that previously stood on the site. Besides from behind an extremely unpleasant smell of dread of ghosts.
Solomon’s ghost in the basement, a ghostly unwashed bodies. I was the only person present
monk has allegedly also been spotted, plus the and I’d had a nice hot shower beforehand, so To many westerners, the idea of offering oneself
ghost of a woman in black that haunts the first where was the smell coming from? And why did to demons sounds insane. It should be remem-
floor [3]. it instantly depart when I snapped on my flash- bered, though, how fear is a response to the
light? This brings us back to those ‘ancient tech- prospect of harm inflicted on our bodies or
When I wrote asking permission to spend the nologies’ I mentioned, for at this point I should minds. We instinctively hang onto these at any
night, I wasn’t confident of a positive response. confess I’m a compulsive meditator. I’ve prac- cost. Yet mystics like Machig Labdron, and oth-
In our secular-materialist age, an unmitigated tised various types for a couple of decades, so ers who have had spiritual experiences, insist
interest in the paranormal is regarded with sus- when that odour assaulted me in the cell, it was that our ‘true nature’ transcends both. If we are
picion. Yet for a long time I’d been appalled by second nature to turn my mind into the experi- neither our bodies nor our minds, then our fear
how easily people seemed to scare themselves ence and make a close examination. of losing them arises from a misplaced attach-
on shows like Most Haunted, and had been han- ment. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with
kering for an opportunity to see if I could do any The odd thing I discovered was this: I couldn’t avoiding unpleasant experiences and taking care
better. To provide an acceptable pretext for my really smell that unwashed odour at all. Looking of ourselves. Machig Labdron understood this
vigil, I made it into a charity fund-raising event at it meditatively, I saw it was only the impres- also, because her aim was never to harm her-
[4]. I asked people to sponsor me to spend the sion we get when we imagine a smell. If I write self, but only to destroy the attachment that
night alone, on Halloween, in the dark, without ‘burning hair’, it’s likely an image of a smell caused her fear in the first place.
leaving – no matter what happened. When per- arises as you read. That’s what I experienced:
mission was granted I felt a curious mixture of something mental, rather than something physi- It was bearable, meditating in the haunted cell
elation and panic. When the sponsorship money cal in the air. The thing was, I wasn’t intending for the first 90 minutes – until I heard the inex-
started coming in, it really hit me: I would actu- to imagine the smell. So was I unconsciously plicable sound of something shuffling along the
ally have to do this! imagining it? Or was something (or someone) corridor, which put paid instantly to my concen-
causing me to do so? tration. Instead, I focused on the image of a
A few weeks before Halloween, a paranormal tormented, spectral prisoner: my mind’s sponta-
investigation group kindly invited me to join Inevitably, Halloween rolled around and at the neous conjecture as to the cause of the noise.
their vigil in the cells. They were a sizeable stroke of midnight my solo vigil began. For eve- Then came a metallic taste and the sensation of
group (9 in total), and employed what has now ryone else, it was a bit of fun to raise some cash adrenaline flooding my body, followed a mo-
become the common approach: electronic for a local mental health charity. But in fact, by ment later by the perversely pleasant blood-
equipment, plus psychics and techies. I was so descending into a dark place where frightening rush as my heart hammered like crazy.
bowled over by the excellent opportunity to visit spirits were known to dwell, I was performing a
the site and work out how best to tackle my chöd ritual. Chöd (pronounced ‘choh’) is a medi- What was the noise? I still don’t know. But I do
night alone that the last thing I expected was tation technique introduced into Tibetan know what my mind wanted to make of it, and

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How I Learned To Love Ghosts
By Duncan Barford

the effect this had. On TV shows, when the in- Fundamentally, I was simply hearing a noise. If it http://youtu.be/nVjB57lGeDM.
vestigators lose it and run away screaming, it’s were a ghost, then I’d offered help and been
rarely because of what they’ve actually seen or ignored. So I went back into the cell, sat on my [5] See, for instance, http://
heard, but because they helplessly respond to cushion and continued with the meditation, even tinyurl.com/62mzlub (abuddhistlibrary.com).
what their minds make of it. Around 2am things as my limbs trembled, and my mind recoiled
shifted up a gear. I was alone in the building, from the weird images it conjured for itself. After [6] Dakpo Tashi Namgyel, Clarifying the Natural
apart from the security guard who was far away half an hour, the noises faded away and there State: A Principal Guidance Manual for Maha-
upstairs in his cubicle. So when loud footsteps were no more incidents. mudra (Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe, 2001), p.
proceeded down the staircase to the cells, I 74.
assumed he’d come to tell me something. But Investigators on paranormal TV shows often
instead, the footfalls just ended, with a noise strike me as goading and aggressive. It’s not un- [7] Cited in: Daniel P. Brown, Pointing Out The
like a heavy door being roughly tried. No foot- common for them to behave like sleazy journal- Great Way: The Stages of Meditation in the Ma-
steps went back up. And later, it happened ists, taunting spirits in order to make them an- hamudra Tradition (Boston: Wisdom Publica-
again: footsteps coming down, except this time grily manifest, or calling out leading questions, tions, 2006), p. 470.
the finale was a sound of rattling keys. such as ‘Do you mean us harm? Do you want us
to leave?’ Groups who use this approach, unwit-
I was truly scared by this. In fact, I had to hold tingly or otherwise, are creating situations that
my breath to stop panting with fear. But the perhaps make the phenomenon seem more ma-
meditation practice was helping. It wasn’t for levolent and ominous than it actually is, adding
preventing fear (because I was, indeed, very an extra layer of obscuration that prevents inves-
afraid) but for recognising it, and what I recog- tigators from realising the extent to which their
nised was this: once you’re scared, that’s it. Fear own minds create the experiences.
has already done its worst. Only focusing on the
fear as clearly as possible can (counter- Looking back on my night in the cells, I can’t be-
intuitively) help us see that there’s really noth- lieve I had the balls to knock on a door with a
ing left to do, other than to be scared. As an- ghost behind it and ask if it was okay. What’s
other teacher, Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (1511– more, I can honestly say that at the time I felt
1587), instructed: ‘When full of dread and terror genuine concern for it. I was able to do so be-
caused by magical displays of gods and de- cause of the meditation practice, which didn’t
mons... recognize the fearful thought. Neither prevent me at all from feeling terror, but enabled
suppress nor indulge it. Rather than trying to me to see more clearly what I was actually terri-
correct it, train in simply being in that fearful fied of: just a dark place with an unpleasant his-
thought... By doing so, the thought is experi- tory, some noises, and images provoked from my
enced as the meditation training’ [6]. own imagination. Kunkhyen Pema Karpo (1527-
1592) advised that: ‘[V]iewing them to be gods
Even so, I was fast realising the limitation of this and associated demons is a mistake, and results
approach, because no matter how well I coped in seeming divine influences occurring in this
with my fear, I wasn’t actually coming to grips lifetime. When recognizing [the act of] holding
with what was making those sounds. I realised them to be gods and demons these influences Duncan Barford’s fascinating e-Book is available
that, the next time it came, I would have to go become transmuted into special psychic pow- to purchase at Barnes & Nobel:
out there and find out what it was. In perhaps ers’ [7]. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/occult-
the oddest incident of the night, the next time experiments-in-the-home-duncan-
the footsteps approached and I quietly stood up He was saying, I think, that if we recognise how barford/1101962697?ean=9781780498645
in readiness, they simply faded away, as if they our minds make the ghost from our perceptions,
knew exactly what I was planning. 4am had then we are seeing far more deeply into the na- Using occultism to understand the paranormal
passed when the next opportunity came. The ture of reality than otherwise. This is not to say sounds like diluting water or burying earth, but
footsteps descended, I heard again the rattling that ghosts don’t exist because, of course, every- in this thoughtful and unusual book Duncan
of keys, but after I’d opened the cell door and thing we experience is manufactured from our Barford draws on a deep familiarity with mod-
stepped into the corridor, I realised to my horror perceptions, in which case ghosts may be as ern magick to provide a valuable toolbox of
that the sounds were now coming from inside likely as anything else. Nevertheless, I would concepts for exploring the relationship between
the cell right next-door to mine! certainly recommend anyone involved with the consciousness and the paranormal. Writing in an
paranormal to consider how a more meditative accessible and humorous style, Barford exam-
This cell, I later discovered, was a locked storage approach might benefit them. Not only does it ines intriguing first-hand accounts of polter-
cupboard. But something, somehow had got in, offer an antidote to dubious paranormal TV geists, telepathy, communication with the dead,
and seemed to be rifling through loose packag- shows – but who knows? The next time you meet religious phenomena and astral projection. The
ing, frantically searching for something. When I a ghost, you might also get enlightened. essence of his unique exploration is that the
looked inside the next morning, the cell indeed paranormal does not happen only to special
contained sheets of paper, polythene, and other Notes people and on rare occasions. In fact, to experi-
bric-a-brac. In the dark at 4.20am, however, it [1] http://www.oldpolicecellsmuseum.org.uk. ence the paranormal we need simply turn our
sounded so very weird and desperate. attention to the nature of our consciousness
[2] http://tinyurl.com/6ynwb9s (wikipedia.org). itself.
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 Title: Modern Witchcraft: Facts Leaned From Experience
Author: Bill Love
Publisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN: 978-1-78155-090-8
Price: £18.99

This book, which is subtitled ‘Facts Leaned From Experience’, is one of the better new offerings covering the
subject of practical witchcraft, and it makes the point that it is the oldest and most accurate version of the
‘craft’. Credited to Bill Love, a former R.A.F fighter pilot and lapsed Roman Catholic, the book which is lav-
ishly illustrated with photographs, is commendably concise and lucid, something we should be thankful for,
because books like this can be annoyingly obscure. It was put together after his death and is the result of
the efforts of three people, Jak P Showell, Toni Hughes and the late, titular, Bill Love.

It begins with a brief history of how the practise of witchcraft developed, and mentions some of the night-
marish trials and tribulations it has suffered over the centuries, but, sensibly, concentrates on its modern
incarnation and the ceremonies and beliefs of the type of Wicca practised by the coven overseen by Bill
Love. It presents a remarkably detailed number of accounts of what actually goes on during the various rites
and do so in a very matter of fact and captivating manner, which never becomes too lurid.

Although an honest and workmanlike account, the book does really need to give more credit to the animists
and shamans upon whose practises Wicca is based. It does tip a brief nod to its Gnostic origins explaining
how our forefathers tried to draw down the heavens to earth and by doing so exert some control over them
(the origin of the Gnostic mantra ‘as above, so below’). It also mentions how Tantrism and Tantric practises
play a major part in the sexual aspects of the craft, something that is common in various types of magic long
predating Wicca.

By marginalising its roots the book tends to give the misleading impression that Wicca sprang into being
fully formed rather that the grab-bag of influences that it really is. That said this work is an absorbing and
fascinating account of one man’s abiding interest in one of the oldest forms of religion that still exists, it is
after all called ‘The Old Religion’, and to anyone seeking practical information about an often obscure and
secretive subject, this book provides an excellent insight.

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Slayers! The Last Vampire Hunters
By Brian Allan

Tales of vampires and their familiars have now

become so embedded in our culture, especially in
recent times, that it can be difficult to separate
fact and from fantasy. There is no doubt that the
vampire has evolved into something considerably
more than an enigmatic shape changer with de-
monic associations, instead, this often terrifying
blood drinking immortal has become the very epit-
ome of raffish sophistication and ‘cool’. The syba-
ritic lifestyle of the vampire has become a byword
for all that is sensuous, hedonistic and even ro-
mantic. The only downside to this is that in order
to achieve such a nirvanic state one has, unfortu-
nately, to be dead…or undead to be absolutely
correct and from traditional accounts the transfor-
mation process is not exactly pleasant. All of this is
in direct opposition to the image of that other
iconic shape changer and traditional foe of the
vampire: the werewolf; but that is another tale for
another day.

Although shape changers have millennia long his-

tories in folklore, especially in shamanic traditions,
the modern image of the vampire first appeared in
the early 19th century from a short story written
by Dr John Polidori entitled ‘The Vampyre’. The
tale centred round a supernatural aristocratic
fiend who, in order to survive, consumed the
blood of his peers. This struck a resonant chord in on these shores at Whitby in the North of England. course of action was to locate the body, drive a
the psyche of the general public and morphed into A more concrete and recent example of a belief in wooden stake through its heart, behead it and
other similar creatures starting with Bram Stokers the reality of vampires first emerged in the 1960’s burn the body. This was splendid, lip smacking,
long lived, much imitated, but never equalled when a group of people in London, all amateur meaty stuff and displaying a typically journalistic
Dracula and also into generic offshoots like Count ghosthunters, began conducting their dubious instinct for sensation, local and national newspa-
Orlok in another classic of the oeuvre, Nosferatu. research in the marvellously atmospheric Highgate pers went into overdrive. A short time later both
However the only one that actually stayed the Cemetery in London. men stated that they had seen the remains of
course and fired the imagination was the aristo- several foxes in the cemetery, all with their throats
cratic (and as a rule dictatorial and autocratic) It has to be said that this decaying and overgrown torn out and completely drained of blood.
Count Dracula. Quite why this should be, especially urban city of the dead has all the necessary cre-
now, is not too difficult to work out. Perhaps it has dentials to be a ready made location for horror Farrant and Manchester had by now declared a
a lot to do with a desire to emulate the lifestyles of films. In 1969 David Farrant who belonged to such sort of ‘bidding war’, with each of them trying to
the rich and famous with the additional bonus of a group wrote an account of spending a night outdo the other with claims of how they intended
black magick, plus a smidgeon of sex, immortality, there and according to him had caught sight of a to permanently remove the perceived menace.
incredible strength and general naughtiness supernatural grey figure, (but, significantly, not a Manchester, a former president of the British Oc-
thrown in. A version of all this can be see in two vampire) and the word soon spread. Shortly after cult Society, eventually announced that he would
separate but thematically connected film (and this event several other witnesses came forward conduct an exorcism on Friday the 13th of March
book) franchises, i.e. the ‘Twilight’ series and of with similar tales of ghostly figures drifting around 1970 and in the early evening of that date the
course ‘Underworld’. the graveyard: and this is when, as they say, the location was inundated with hoards of thrill seek-
plot thickens. ers. However what actually occurred next is not
While both of the variant tales effectively highlight 100% clear, nor is it fully independently verifiable.
the differences between vampires and were- The Vampire Hunters What evidence there is comes from Manchester’s
wolves, Underworld is by far the more effective, Sean Manchester own account set out in his book of the affair, The
gritty and visceral. For all that and in spite of the Highgate Vampire’, which he wrote in 1991 and his
obvious links to fiction this has not prevented a Following Farrant’s announcement a second account of what went on can be condensed as
thin layer of belief that such creature really do seeker appeared on the scene, a local man called follows.
exist to take root and not only in places like Tran- The Rev. Sean Manchester, who was determined
sylvania and Romania, both traditional homes of to track down and eliminate this ghostly presence. To avoid a police cordon that had been placed
the vampires. In the case of the undead, unholy According to the Rev Manchester this was no ordi- around the main cemetery to thwart the crowds
creatures of the night mentioned here, each had nary spectre, but was instead a ‘Vampire King of that had assembled, Manchester and some associ-
their nemesis in the form of vampire hunters in- the Undead’. According to him, this entity was a ates entered the cemetery covertly via an adjoin-
tent on destroying them, charismatic individuals medieval, black magick practising minor member ing graveyard. Once inside and using the talents of
like Abraham van Helsing, and, appropriately, even of the Romanian nobility, who had been brought a female psychic they located a vault that, the
fictional characters like that found an analogue in into this country in a coffin by some followers medium said, was the vampire’s lair. They repeat-
the real world. The belief in the reality of vampires during the 1700’s. He had been buried in the area edly attempted to force the heavy vault door
and vampire-like creatures even reached the that had since become Highgate Cemetery. Man- (which was made of iron) open, but were unable
shores of the United Kingdom and this was almost chester was adamant that the activities of modern to do so. Not to be thwarted they climbed up on
a century after Stokers’ fictional Dracula set foot Satanists had roused this creature and the only the roof of the tomb and gained entry via ropes

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Before leaving the actions of Sean Manchester we should perhaps look a little more closely at the man. Manchester, who

lowered through a hole in the roof and once inside was apparently Christ’s uncle, Joseph of Arimat- place to prevent individuals like Summers having
found several empty coffins. Assuming that the hea, claims to have been consecrated by none any contact with children. It should also be noted
occupants of the coffins were otherwise absent other than Jesus Christ himself and arrived in Brit- that the God ‘Antinous’ is also referred to as ‘The
and engaged in gruesome pursuits, using one of ain around AD 36. However, the church is also Gay God’ and there is currently a ‘Temple of Anti-
the traditional anti-vampire techniques they (and better) known by the name of ‘The Old Catho- nous’ located in California USA.
placed cloves of garlic in the coffins finishing up lic Church’, and is a schismatic offshoot of the tra-
with a generous sprinkle of holy water. After this ditional Roman Catholic Church as we know it Perhaps it reflected the hypocritical values of his
they climbed back up the ropes (they must have today. Oddly enough it does have a connection times where many things were swept under the
been very well prepared, not to mention fit) and with another vampire hunter and (among other carpet to maintain the public façade of religious
surreptitiously left the cemetery though the point things) self-styled exorcist, the late, some might respectability and decency. Unfortunately it is also
of entry. According to his book ‘The Highgate Vam- say notorious, Montague Summers. something that still bedevils the Catholic Church to
pire’, apparently he did return some months later this day and has been highlighted by, at the time
this time during the day, and managed to obtain Montague Summers of writing, the evidence of an ongoing cover-up by
access to the tomb after finally forcing open the the Church in Ireland during the late 20th century
main door, but there were no independent wit- Much has been said about the barbaric excesses of when it evidently put its own reputation before
nesses to this event. the medieval inquisitors and rightly so, but less is the interests of children abused by its priests in
known about those who chose to condemn magick that country. The severity of the issue also forced
Whether their efforts were fruitful is not clear, but (and witchcraft) in the most graphic terms in more Pope Benedict XIV to issue a letter of public apol-
a few months later the charred remains of a fe- recent and presumably enlightened times. Only ogy.
male corpse were discovered a short distance from the fact that we no longer live trapped in a morass
the vault. It is assumed this was the handiwork of of superstition, ignorance and fear (plus of course In 1909 Summers converted to Roman Catholicism
the satanic groups that, to this day, still allegedly a much more enlightened legal system) prevented and began to adopt the garb and manner of a
use the location for their ceremonies. It was also them from inciting new witch-hunts with the at- priest in that religion which, given his theological
at around this time that Manchester’s main com- tendant hysteria, fear and butchery. Nevertheless, training and the similarity between the two faiths,
petition David Farrant, was discovered in the a few of these malicious zealots still were around would have been relatively easy. It is here that we
cemetery brandishing a crucifix and wooden stake; and one such man was Augustus Montague Sum- should look more closely at his actions, because
he was arrested, but when he appeared in court mers. He was born in April 1880, the youngest of there may be considerably more to this than
no charges were pressed. Farrant persevered in his seven children of a prosperous banking family in meets the eye. Yes, he did convert to a form of
attempts at vampire hunting in Highgate Cemetery Bristol, England. His early schooling was unremark- Catholicism and adopted the extravagant soubri-
and was eventually jailed for desecrating graves able, but he went on to study theology at the pres- quet of Father Alphonsus Jesus-Mary Augustus
and interfering with the dead. The means of dis- tigious Trinity College located in Cambridge with Montague Summers, but this conversion was not
suading individuals from disinterring remains is the intention of becoming a priest in the Church of in the mainstream Catholic Church, it was a schism
dealt with slightly differently in Scotland where England. called ‘The Old Catholic Church’.
there is a legal ruling called the ‘Right of Sepul-
chre’ which specifically forbids it. This legal pro- The Old Catholic Church was founded during the
scription has been used in places of considerable 1870’s in Germany as a result of the announce-
interest, like Rosslyn Chapel, to prevent legitimate ment of papal infallibility by the First Vatican
archaeological investigations taking place. Council in 1869-70 and took the name, ‘The Union
of Utrecht of Old Catholic Churches’. Although it
Eventually the increasing and intense rivalry be- has no formal connection with the Holy See it does
tween these two men culminated in rumours of an maintain contact with and share many of the ideas
eagerly anticipated ‘magicians duel’ that was sup- of the Anglican Communion. Tellingly, among its
posed to take place on Parliament Hill, but, to differences with the Catholic Church is its accep-
much dismay it did not materialise. This so called tance of homosexuality as a lifestyle, which at that
‘magicians duel’ must call into questions the moti- time was almost unheard of.
vations and outlook of both men. Such a duel
(similar to one that really did take place between The beliefs of the Old Catholic Church differ from
the iconic ritual magician Aleister Crowley and one the must less liberal and conservative Church of
time head of the Golden Dawn, Samuel Liddell Rome in its already mentioned views on homo-
MacGregor Mathers) strongly implies that both sexuality, the ordination of women priests, which
men had (or should have had) a considerable it has done since 1996, and its refusal to condemn
knowledge of the subject. However given their artificial contraception, preferring instead to leave
relative youth it is unlikely that either of them had He continued his training at Lichfield College and it up to the individual couple. From this it is not
sufficiently well versed in this highly dangerous art in 1908 achieved the minor rank of deacon in the unreasonable to assume that Summers could more
to engage in such a battle, so it is more likely that Anglican Church. He did not receive any further easily identify with the liberal attitude to homo-
this announcement was more to do with attention promotions in the church, which may have been sexuality and therefore would feel better disposed
seeking and grossly inflated egos than anything due to his abiding curiosity about Satanism. How- to a church like this. However he also became a
else. ever, his interest in the subject and actually prac- member of a secret society called ‘The Order of
tising it were two entirely different things and Chaeronea’, which may give a clearer understand-
Before leaving the actions of Sean Manchester we should have been no impediment, but rumours of ing of his motives in joining the Old Catholic
should perhaps look a little more closely at the his alleged interest in young boys certainly was. He Church and of course to the other charges laid
man. Manchester, who in addition to his claims was tried on charges of this nature, but was even- against him. George Cecil Ives founded the Order
about the reality of vampires, also holds the rank tually found not guilty and acquitted. That said, his of Chaeronea in 1897 with the intention of pro-
of Bishop and Primate of the Ecclesia Apostolica first published work in 1907, ‘Antinous’, dealt with moting homosexuality with a cultural and spiritual
Jesu Christi, or The Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ the debased subject of pederasty. It seems strange ethos, a concept which at that time was anathema
in Great Britain. This church, whose first bishop that it is only now that effective legislation is in to the general public, but now seems to resonate

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with the teachings of the Temple of Antinous that he used to his advantage. The former wartime So there we have it, two men convinced of their
amongst other organisations. Ives realised that member of the British intelligence service and mission to remove vampires, whether real or not,
there was little chance of the homosexual lifestyle author of many novels on black magick, Dennis from the face of the earth. .However might they
being even close to acceptable in that era so he Wheatly, said quite categorically that Summers just have been on to something? Without wishing
decided to cultivate it secretly and in this way cre- ‘Inspired him with fear’. to delve too deeply into a real nest or vipers, it has
ate an environment where homosexuals could mix been suggested that, in line with the rationale
and socialise with less fear of discovery and the It has been suggested that Wheatly based the behind Chaos Magick (yes, the spelling is deliber-
consequent possibilities of ruin and probable im- character, the enigmatic Canon Copley-Style, in his ate) certain things, wishes if you like, can be made
prisonment. To this end he invented an elaborate extremely influential and alarming work, ‘The Devil real by concentrating on them. They are called
set of rituals and initiations on similar lines to the Rides Out’, on Summers. In addition to his self ‘Tulpas’ and are a part of the techniques and lore
Freemasons and other quasi-secret organisations appointed role as an implacable foe of witchcraft of Tibetan Buddhism. Is if possible that, given the
that used signs and handshakes. Another thing and other evil doings, in common the Sean Man- high profile of fictional vampires in our society
that also strikes a resonant chord with Freema- chester, Montague Summers also developed an today, we might actually create one through sheer
sonry was the development of a sign-word, in this keen interest in vampires and werewolves and ‘thought pressure’?
case, ‘AMRRHMO’, which finds a close parallel espoused an unshakable belief in both of these
with Masonic term, ‘HTWSSSTKS’, which is often legendary creatures. He went on to produce three The Gorbals Vampire
found stamped on Masonic pennies. HTWSSSTKS, books devoted to them, ‘The Vampire, His Kith and
the original meaning of which is supposedly lost, is Kin’ (1928), ‘The Vampire in Europe’ (1929) and As a footnote to this, there is a curious parallel
remembered by the mnemonic, ‘Hiram The Wid- ‘The Werewolf’ (1933). that took place in Glasgow’s sprawling and ex-
ows Son Sent Soon To King Solomon’ or variants tremely atmospheric Southern Necropolis in Sep-
thereof. The meaning of the mnemonic, In the course of his occult researches it was inevi- tember 1954. One evening a local policeman was
‘AMRRHMO’, is unknown. table that Summers should come into contact with summoned by concerned locals to a disturbance
the legendary occultist Aleister Crowley, which he that had broken in the Necropolis. When he ar-
The keen interest that Summers apparently had in did, and against all expectations both men devel- rived he found dozens of local schoolchildren pa-
homosexuality and his possible paedophile inclina- oped a friendship and mutual respect, meeting trolling the walkways in groups armed with knives,
tions aside, two of the things best known about regularly to discus and air their totally different pointed sticks and stones. When asked what they
him were his, at the time, unique translation of the viewpoints. On second glance perhaps it is not so were doing they assured the policeman that they
odious Dominican witch finding manual, the surprising after all, since both of them were were there to seek out a seven foot tall, steel
Malleus Malleficorum, and the publication of his equally capable of plumbing the depths of the pit fanged vampire that had been seen in the vicinity,
best known work, ‘The History of Witchcraft and in their studies, both were extremely knowledg- it had supposedly attacked and killed two children.
Demonology’. (1926, reprinted in 1969). This was ably in their respective fields and both had strange
followed by a succession of works such as ‘The sexual proclivities. In addition it is a fair bet that The alarming tale seems to have escalated from a
Geography of Witchcraft’, (1927) ‘A Popular His- both men had grossly inflated egos and these playground rumour that had got out of hand, but
tory of Witchcraft’ (1937) and ‘Witchcraft and meetings would probably allow them to preen and given the sombre nature of the necropolis it is not
Black Magic’ (1946). Summers was absolutely con- demonstrate their knowledge. This same ego hard to see why. Might this or something like it, be
vinced that all witches, black or white, were irre- driven vanity is also why both enjoyed and deliber- why tales of vampires abounded at Highgate
deemably in league with Satan and his narrow ately cultivated a high public profile. It should Cemetery? The answer to this is unknown, but
definition of witchcraft provided no niceties of come as no surprise to learn that at one Aleister perhaps we should start looking closely at some of
distinction between Wiccan’s, shamans, pagans Crowley attempted to set up his own religion using the reports of strange happenings and sightings in
and Satanists. the title of ‘Crowleyanity’. the pages of newspapers, because the truth, as
they said in the X Files, might just be out there.
As far as he was concerned they were one and the Right until he died in August 1948, the year after
same thing and thoroughly deserved everything Crowley, Summers continued his vehement de-
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