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The Wild Woman of Changy, France
If anyone has read my book Some More Things Strange & Sinister they will be aware that a bulk of it deals with mystery hominids, wild men and women and gorillas before #discovery' etc. I am always trawling the newspaper archives and once in a while a new wild person report crops up.
This is from the Newcastle Courant - Saturday 20 November 1731
A4
322 pages
B&W
Illustrated throughout
Paperback:
£20.00
Thursday 12 October 2023
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Wednesday 4 October 2023
The Ancient Ram Inn and Dybbuk Boxes
If you see one of the 'paranormal' shows on TV or You Tube who show a Dybbuk Box and make claims about them here are things to remember:
When asked about these boxes several Rabbi stated they had never heard of them and they were not an established "Hebrew paranormal phenomenon"
Read this from Wikipedia:
"The Dybbuk box, or Dibbuk box (Hebrew: קופסת דיבוק, romanized: Kufsat Dibbuk), is a paranormal hoax consisting of an antique wine-cabinet claimed to be haunted by a dybbuk, a concept from Judaism. The box gained notoriety when it was auctioned off on eBay by owner Kevin Mannis, who created a story featuring Jewish Holocaust survivors and paranormal claims as part of his eBay item description. Mannis' story was the inspiration for the 2012 horror film The Possession.
"In 2021, Mannis told Input magazine that the Dybbuk Box story was entirely fictional."
I mention this as these fake boxes are still being sold as 'genuine' on places like Ebay.
If you ever go on a ghost hunt to the Ram Inn (or "The Ancient Ram Inn" ) remember that 99% of what is claimed about the location is false. Go to You Tube and watch some of the old interviews with the late owner, John Humphries. Ghost Adventures, Most Haunted etc all got the same stories with "added" bits for the people he was speaking to. Also I know one investigator who slept in a car just along the road when he got a migraine so never went into the Inn with his mates. He watched two young men (the then owners relatives) climbing around the outside and the "Bumps", "Knocks" were explained to his mates later. There are plenty of true investigation reports as well as reveals of hoaxing online that you can check. Remember that You Tube paranormal shows are there to make money so they always sensationalise things.
Do actual research on places you are going to and DO NOT rely on the people who own or run the 'attractions' because most go by the lies perpetuated by owners and 'ghost hunters' who are invested in perpetuating a myth.
You can spend decades investigating alleged haunted sites and see and hear nothing. Everything that I experienced was away from haunted locations and spontaneous. Ghost hunting is 99% boring
There is also all this "Satan", "fallen angel" and "Hell" and "demon" junk not to mention "666". Andy Hamilton looked into all of this in Andy Hamilton Searching For Satan and you can find the documentary on Daily Motion. Once you watch it you will realise why the "demonic possessions"/"demons" etc on You Tube paranormal shows makes me laugh.