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Why would a Shadow-like apparition suddenly appear in an old house? Could it be some kind of residue from Walter Gibson’s very powerful mind? We do know that some people can move objects, even bend spoons and keys, with the power of their minds alone. Mental telepathy is now a tested and verified phenomenon.
Camera malfunctions are remarkably common among would-be UFO photographers, and even those who try to take pictures of the serpent at Loch Ness. It almost seems as if some outside force fouls up cameras when monsters and UFOs are around.
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Xenophanes, one of the first great philosophers (sixth century B.C.), observed that the Ethiopians thought their gods were black and snub-nosed like themselves. Today many of us no longer believe in direct visits with our God, so we have shaped a new mythology based upon the belief in spacemen carved in our own image. When the ancients sighted giant, shambling bipeds covered with hair, their eyes blazing like fierce coals, they assumed they were confronting demons. Early investigators eventually concluded that such demons did not really exist, even though they often left footprints behind and
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I have been chasing these critters for twenty-five years and have traveled from Tibet, the land of the Abominable Snowman, to West Virginia, home of the strangest unknown “Bird.” In the course of all these adventures and frenetic activities I have come to reject outright the popular extraterrestrial hypothesis.
Instead of thinking in terms of extraterrestrials, I have adopted the concept of ultraterrestrials—beings and forces which coexist with us but are on another time frame; that is, they operate outside the limits of our space-time continuum yet have the ability to cross over into our reality. This other world is not a place, however, as Mars or Andromeda are places, but is a state of energy.
The Indians must have known something about West Virginia. They avoided it. Before the Europeans arrived with their glass beads, firewater, and gunpowder, the Indian nations had spread out and divided up the North American continent. Modern anthropologists have worked out maps of the Indian occupancy of pre-Columbian America according to the languages spoken.1 The Shawnee and Cherokee occupied the areas to the south and southwest. The Monacan settled to the east, and the Erie and Conestoga claimed the areas north of West Virginia. Even the inhospitable deserts of the Far West were divided and
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The Cherokees have a tradition, according to Benjamin Smith Barton’s New Views of the Origins of the Tribes and Nations of America (1798), that when they migrated to Tennessee they found the region inhabited by a weird race of white people who lived in houses and were apparently quite civilized. They had one problem: their eyes were very large and sensitive to light. They could only see at night. The
But nothing was stolen … except their copy of the sketch.1
The Bell witch of Tennessee is supposed to have manipulated the love life of a Bell daughter, almost tragically.
Europe has been plagued with phantom animal killers for generations. Sweden had a plague of this sort of thing in 1972. The extensive vampire legends of Middle Europe were undoubtedly based on such incidents.
Vampires were cloaked beings, often accompanied by strange aerial lights,
As I have noted, UFOs, hairy monsters, and Mothmen all appear to have the ability to ferret out human females during their menstrual period.
Soon after the Mothman’s first appearance in November 1966, police found the body of a dog in the TNT area. It was completely charred, yet the surrounding area was unburned. I wondered if it might not have been sacrificed in some secret magical ritual by some unknown local warlock: a ritual that brought Mothman into being?
“Gypsies”
North of Gallipolis, Ohio, I impulsively stopped at an isolated farmhouse one afternoon and when I knocked at the door a grim-faced man answered with a shotgun in his hands. I started to show my credentials and explain who I was but he cut me short. “I know who you are,” he growled. “We don’t want anything to do with you. Get out of here.”
“You’re not going to believe this,” the farmer began apologetically, “but ten minutes before you arrived here yesterday I got a phone call. It sounded like a neighbor of mine and he said he was calling to warn me about a crazy man … a real dangerous type … with a beard … that had just been to see him. Said I shouldn’t have anything to do with him. Ten minutes later you showed up. After you left, I called him back. He was out in the fields. Had been all day. His wife had to go get him. He said he hadn’t made that call.”
“fairy circles”
Contactees seem to develop heightened perceptions, ESP, and precognition.
In their meetings with the entities they are served up platters of propaganda along with rumors and nonsense which they accept and repeat as fact. Many of the choicest tidbits in UFO lore were not actual events but were put into circulation by contactees who placed their complete trust in their contacters.
He said he received telepathic messages from Indrid Cold giving him specific information.
Ted Owens and Uri Geller
recent years a new element has been added by the few scientists pulled into the controversy. This is the tiresome use of probabilities to explain that there must be zillions of other planets and therefore there must be uncounted numbers of inhabited places in the universe. In the early 1960s exobiology became the new scientific rip-off.
since there is not the slightest bit of evidence that even a single planet exists in any other star system,
Enoch became the first space traveler, visiting seven worlds or planets
Swedenborg, the great Swedish mathematician, went wandering through the cosmos in the 1700s, and a proper Bostonian named William Denton was given a guided tour of Venus in the 1860s. George Adamski, Howard Menger, and several others visited the moon in the 1950s, preceding Neil Armstrong by more than a decade.
The View Over Atlantis,
But as man followed the angelic dictate, “Multiply and replenish the earth,” our planet began to suffer from psychic pollution. The record on that great phonograph in the sky cracked and stuck in a single groove … single groove … single groove … single.…
A hypnotized subject very often thinks he is fully conscious, that the hypnosis isn’t working and he is just going along with the hypnotist, but when he tries to move or disobey a command he is surprised to find he can’t. The paralysis reported in so many UFO cases is really a form of hypnosis.
There are cases in which some people were triggered by the flickering of a motion-picture image and overcome by an urge to strangle the persons sitting next to them.
“A few subjects yielded epileptic patterns,” Dr. Walter noted in his book The Living Brain.
One subject said that he had been ‘pushed sideways in time’—yesterday was at one side, instead of behind, and tomorrow was off the port bow.”
have been watching, with great consternation, the worldwide spread of the UFO belief and its accompanying disease. If it continues unchecked we may face a time when universal acceptance of the fictitious space people will lead us to a modern faith in extraterrestrials that will enable them to interfere overtly in our affairs, just as the ancient gods dwelling on mountaintops directly ruled large segments of the population in the Orient, Greece, Rome, Africa, and South America.
F. W. Holiday,
“Make him look like a nut!”
“Twice a very powerful specterlike influence visited the house which projected FEAR of an incredible nature,”
percipient
In trying to nail down the exact chronological order of events in the contactee experience, I found that the witnesses observed the flash first and then they saw the entity approaching with some kind of flashlight. A second flash paralyzed them or rendered them unconscious.
A month later I was called to Washington, D.C., to serve as a consultant to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. I worked in the Capital for a year, heading a special project under Elliot Richardson, then-secretary of HEW.
My life has gone through many abrupt changes, and each major change has been preceded by some form of inexplicable phenomena. In observing other witnesses, this also seems to be true in their lives. Are these things clues to a psychic force which controls us all?
Black magicians, witch doctors, and shamans of other ages evolved explanations as fanciful as those of modern UFO buffs.
Nothing in the paranormal world is as it seems.
Eugenio Siragusa,
Mr. Siragusa was reprogramed in the classic manner of all fanatics, and he has been used to disseminate propaganda couched in terms understandable and acceptable to us.
Pascagoula, Mississippi,
Perhaps someone in the air force had read my 1967–68 articles in Flying Saucer Review advising investigators to “find out what they had for breakfast.”
Some of these mistakes seem intentional and have some allegorical purpose. But others seem to be just … mistakes.
“I’ll see you in time,”
“My presence here would be detrimental to the family trade,” Vadig said at one point with a chuckle.
“I’ll see you in time,”
“This is Lanulos,”
