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A Werewolf of the North

At New Page Books' blog - in their "Creature of the Month" section - I tell the weird, and still-ongoing, story of a werewolf-like beast seen roaming around the north of England. You can find the strange saga right here...

 

Steve Jones - Autobiography

Coming in November...the autobiography of Sex Pistols' guitarist Steve Jones. One I'll definitely be getting!

Here's the info on the book...

Women In Black - Pre-Order Now Available

The paperback edition of my forthcoming book, Women In Black: The Creepy Companions of the Mysterious M.I.B. , is now available as a pre-order from Amazon, with the official publication date being July 1.  The Kindle, however, is already available.

Here's the link. 

And here are the chapter titles:


IntroductionChapter 1: “He saw a lady in black in his bedroom at night”Chapter 2: “They are surely the saucer people you told us about”  Chapter 3: “We talked for hours about traveling in space and time”Chapter 4: “It was as if she were dead”Chapter 5: “A sinister group of pale-faced women”Chapter 6: “She was black. Her skin was black, her body was black, the wings were   
                  black;  everything was black”Chapter 7: “Whatever that young woman did to me, it was like being in a sleepwalk”
Chapter 8: “Her skin was very pale, and of an unusually smooth texture”Chapter 9: “The sky is very clear tonight”Chapter 10: “They wore long black cloaks”Chapter 11: “Rambling wolves seeking whom they can devour”Chapter 12: “We would urge everyone to be vigilant”Chapter 13: “I didn’t want to get bitten”Chapter 14: “This thing he is doing with UFOs, tell him to stop it, right away”Chapter 15: “Late at night the attic became a creepy place”Chapter 16: “May I come in?”Chapter 17: “It was a hideous-looking woman dressed in black”Chapter 18: “I used to apprentice as an embalmer, and I swear that woman smelled just like                     formalin”Chapter 19: “The scene shows a large woman dressed in black”Chapter 20: “Maybe they decided it was too far advanced for people”Chapter 21: “This scary-looking woman was tall and thin, had a face powdered white”
Chapter 22: "I have never felt such fear in my life”Chapter 23: “There was something ‘off’ about them”Chapter 24: “I had a very strange feeling when I saw the woman”Chapter 25: “She shrank from him with a hissing sound”Chapter 26: “The woods are avoided after dusk”ConclusionsBibliographyAbout Nick RedfernAcknowledgments

Nick Menza RIP

In a new article, Loren Coleman details the sudden death of former Megadeth drummer, Nick Menza, who had a deep interest in the UFO subject. Here's the link to Loren's article.

Men in Black - In Indianapolis

Well, kind of!

This past weekend I was lecturing at the Indiana MUFON Conference, on my 2015 book Men in Black . There was a good turn-out, and here's an article promoting the gig , which was held in Indianapolis. A great couple of days! And below are a bunch of photos from the weekend:

Profiling Morgawr, The Sea Serpent

Here's how it begins...

In August 2010, Elizabeth Randall ( an English author , good friend, and seeker of all-things weird) said that according to a sensational article that appeared in the pages of the British Daily Mail newspaper that same month, “…a picture has been circulating on the Internet purporting to show a sea monster that, so far seems to have eluded identification. It was seen off Saltern Cove, Devon, U.K., and has been dubbed by many as a ‘new Nessie.’ The image appears to show a greenish-brown, long-necked ‘something,’ with a reptilian-like head, that was trailing a shoal of fish just 30 yards offshore. According to reports the fish beached themselves just a few seconds later.”

Elizabeth continued: “The photo was sent to the Marine Conservation Society, who have still to decide exactly what it is. Although theories range from a sea serpent to a salt water crocodile. The lady who took the photograph at first thought that it might be a turtle but the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) says that not only do turtles not chase fish, but the description doesn’t fit.”

And here's where you can find the complete article...

A Wave Of UFOs In 1909

That's the subject of a new article from me at Mysterious Universe , and which starts as follows...

In 1909, the U.K. was hit by a strange wave of largely night-time encounters with what many might term UFOs. Particularly hard hit by the mysterious, aerial intruders was Wales. Brett Holman, who has extensively studied this issue, says in an excellent article : “On the night of 23 March 1909, a police constable named Kettle saw a most unusual thing: ‘a strange, cigar-shaped craft passing over the city’ of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. His friends were skeptical, but his story was corroborated, to an extent, by Mr Banyard and Mrs Day, both of nearby March, who separately saw something similar two nights later. In fact, these incidents were only the prelude to a series of several dozen such sightings throughout April and especially May, mostly from East Anglia and South Wales.”

In May of the same year, the London Standard newspaper told its readers that with “few exceptions” the witnesses described seeing “a torpedo-shaped object, possessing two powerful searchlights, which comes out early at night.” May 18, 1909 was the night on which one of the most amazing encounters occurred. A Mr. C. Lethbridge was walking to his Roland Street, Cardiff home, via the 271-meter-high Caerphilly Mountain. As he did so, Lethbridge was astonished by the sight of a cigar-shaped vehicle – in excess of forty-feet in length – which was sitting on the grass, at the edge of a mountain road. In his very own words…

The Flying "Thing" of Boston

What might that thing have been? Good question! Here's how my new article on "it" begins...

Now and again I’ll come across a story that isn’t just bizarre, but which is beyond bizarre. What follows is without doubt one of them. It’s the very curious saga of what became known as Boston’s “Flying black giant.” Yep, we’re talking about what are termed “Flying Humanoids.” Most people with an interest in all-things Fortean have heard of Mothman, of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Then, there’s the Owlman of Cornwall, England. And let’s not forget the flying woman of Da Nang . Boston’s own equivalent, however, is far less well known. But, arguably, it’s much weirder than all of the others combined.

The affair dates back to 1765, specifically to August 14. That was the date on which the Boston Gazette and Country Journal newspaper ran an article which told the very odd, breaking story. According to the newspaper, “A black cloud-like object approximating the shape of a human body hovered over Boston and remained until Sunset, and thousands saw it. At 7pm, the cloud landed, but quickly rose again and moved South only about twenty feet off the ground – down the main street, blowing a little vapor smoke intermixed with a few rapid sparks of electric fire, till it came before the Province House.”

"Endangered Species" - Reviewed

Over at Jim Harold's website, I review a certain 1982 movie on cattle-mutilations. Its title: Endangered Species . Here's how the article begins:

The world of Hollywood has always been quick to (a) pick up on what’s going on in the real world of unsolved mysteries of the conspiratorial and supernatural kind and (b) make use of those same mysteries in hit TV shows and mega-bucks movies. Take, for example, the 1994 movie, Roswell , starring Kyle MacLachlan and Martin Sheen. It’s a production that did a pretty good job of fictionalizing the world’s most famous UFO case. Then, there’s 1997’s Men in Black , starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, a movie that brought the dark-suited silencers of Ufology to a new, huge audience. And, of course, there’s The X-Files , which weaved far more than a few well-known enigmas into its plotlines, including the Jersey Devil, lake monsters, and the world’s most famous, secret base, Area 51.

There is, however, one particularly sinister and enduring mystery that, for the most part, falls under Hollywood’s radar. Yes, it occasionally gets touched upon. Sometimes, it will get more than a few minutes of coverage. But, chiefly, it never gets the airtime that many might say it well deserves. You may be wondering what I’m talking about. Well, I’ll tell you: it’s the mysterious matter of so-called cattle mutilations.

And here's the link to the article.

Bigfoot, Wendigo, Cannibals

At Mysterious Universe , I take a look at the possible connections between Bigfoot, Wendigo, and cannibals...