Sorry, but I've tried to encourage readers of this blog to send in news or personal reports that could be featured and I am not publishing every chapter of my books here.
Only so much one person can do and if there is no interest....
It's sort of come to crunch time for blogging. Basically, I would like to finish off a couple of the books I'm planning or currently writing. However, book sales are my only financial income and despite the range of subjects the books cover they just ain't selling.
There are books out there that do sell covering similar phenomena but they are not fully referenced, most have no maps or illustrations and tend to keep promoting false cases. I guess wanting to give open-minded readers a good read isn't what it's about (but the amount of my work being stolen and used by others is odd in that case?).
So everything I am doing is on hold. No point bringing out new books if no one wants them -that simple. And it means you will never know just what else remains in my previously private files.
Now, if you want to support serious research -and a hungry writer!- please go over this because EVERY sale really does count.
Yes, folks, just a few of the
things I've investigated are included in these books -all fully referenced and
including photographs and illustrations once thought lost.
Canids, in the form of foxes,
I'm still studying -and learning!
The Red Paper: Canids -Foxes, Wolves, Jackals and Coyotes in the UK
One for those interested in Wildlife -or cryptozoology!
Terry Hooper
The Red Paper: Canids
Paperback,
A4 (21 x 30cms)
202 Pages
Photographs, illustrations and maps
Price:
£10.29
Ships in 3–5 business days
By the 1700s the British fox
was on the verge of extinction and about to follow the bear and wolf having been
hunted for sport for centuries.
The answer was to import
thousands of foxes per year for sport. But foxes kept dying out so jackals were
tried. Some were caught, some escaped. Even wolves and coyote were released for
hunting and "country folk" were very far from "happy" -some
even threatening local hunts -one intending to release a wolf for a hunt- with
legal and other consequences.
The summation of over 40
years research by the noted naturalist and former UK police forces exotic
wildlife consultant reveals the damnable lie of "pest control"
hunting but also reveals the cruelty the animals were subject to and how
private menageries as well as travelling shows.
Private menageries, or single
exotic "pets" as well as travelling shows helped provide the British
and Irish countryside with some incredible events such as the 1905
"vampiric" sheep killer of Badminton, the mystery hounds of Cavan and
Coyotes of Epping Forest.
The Girt Dog of Ennerdale is
also dealt with in detail -was it a tiger? A Tasmania Thylacine? This book gives the
exact facts and details for the first time.
Up-dated 2013 edition
includes a section on sarcoptic mange in foxes and treatment plus a list of
wildlife sanctuaries and rescue centres in the UK.
After more than 40 years as
an investigator and more than fifty as a naturalist,the author has opened some
of the many files he has accumulated dealing with such things as..
The Terrifying Events At The
Lamb Inn, The Ghosts Of All Saints Church, Dead Aquatic Creatures of Canvey
Island, captured bigfoot like creatures in India -all exclusively presented
for the first time and with new added research previously unseen.
PLUS a vastly expanded
section on Spring-heeled Jack!
Photographs, maps, line
drawings and up-dated to make 358 pages looking at Things truly Strange and
Sinister.
Cryptozoologist,Ghost Hunter,Ufologist
or Fortean:this book has something for everyone -including the just plain
inquisitive!
Contents
Foreword by Travis L.
Whitehurst
Introduction
de occultis non judicat ecclesia
The Bristol Rocking Horse
The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn
The Coonian Ghost
The Ghosts Of All Saints Church
His Luminous Chamber
The Late Reverend Dr. Blomberg
And More Ghost Stories
The Thomas B. Cumpston Case
The Chupacabra
The Strange Case Of The Gotherington
Gargoyle
What’s Tall,Hairy And Vanishes?
Mystery Beasts Of Ireland
The Creature Of The Dump
The Strange Creature Of Repton Woods
The Bizarre Legends,Crimes And Truth
About Spring Heeled Jack
The Black Beast Of Darmstadt
The Nameless Thing Of Berkley Square
The Terrifying Case Of The U.S. Naval
Transport
The Case Of The Ghost Lear Jet
Ghost Planes,Crashes And Dead Aquatic
Creatures
The Mitchison Loch Ness
Monster Video
From The Deep Below To The Air Above
–USOs
Aerial Encounters Over Austria
A Crashed UFO In 1790?
Angel Hair
Quimper-Corentin:Where “Thunder Fell”
Strange Aliens From Space
The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ And Other Crash
Retrievals
Transient Lunar Phenomena,Alien
Structures And Moon Vegetation
Follow-up to the hugely
successful Some Things Strange & Sinister.
For those interested in
Ufology, cryptozoology, hominology, unusual natural history, ghosts and
mysteries in general.
The secret history of
gorillas in the UK
-before they were officially'discovered'. The history ofthe
Wild men of Europe, the UK
and US: something that in the 1800s become very "pop culture"Very pop culture and totally forgotten today!
Hominology. Sasquatch and
Bigfoot -is there evidence for their existence?No sitting on the fence here -the Patterson-Gimlin film is looked at as
well as other evidence.The Author's
conclusions? You might be surprised.
Giant snakes. Amazons. The
Giant serpent of Carthage.
The Girt Dog of Ennerdale -another big cult 'creature' amongst paranormal and
cryptozoological circles. The Beast of Gevaudan -what was it and were there
really descendents of the creature in the 19th century -one of which was
actually brought to London?
Believe it or not more than one incident of
historical crocodiles cases in the UK.In fact, far more than even the Author had thought .
And, after more than a
century of claims by 'researchers' that it no longer exists: The Silent City of
Alaska and
the near legendary 'lost' photograph taken of it.
This and much more. Updated with extra pages
and photographs.
Pursuing The Strange And Weird -A Naturalist's Viewpoint (2014 up-date)
UP DATE -From Dead Aquatic
(Humanoid) Creatures, the giant squid and yet undiscovered sea creatures;
submarine and ships crews encountering true leviathans.
There is a fully expanded
section which also refers to the so-called ‘Ningen’ sightings and video
footage.
Extinct animals at sea that
have been re-discovered. The subject of Sasquatch and other mystery Hominids
around the world is dealt with including a look at the “Sasquatch-killer”,
Justin Smeja.
Dr. Bryan Sykes and his DNA
test results for TVs The Bigfoot Files as well as the controversial Erickson
Project and Dr. Melba Ketchum’s Even more controversial Sasquatch DNA test
results.
Also included are two early
French UFO entity cases that still baffle. Ghosts, strange creatures and the
Star-Child hoax. All dealt with by the naturalist and pursuer of the strange
and weird
The Bizarre Legends, Crimes And Truth About Spring Heeled Jack (2014
Terry Hooper-Scharf
Paperback,
53 Pages
Dimensions (centimetres) 20.98 wide x 29.69 tall (A4)
The terror and mystery
created by “Jack The Ripper” has been the subject of countless books, magazine
articles as well as movies and TV documentaries. Ask anyone if they have ever
heard of Jack The Ripper and it is doubtful anyone would respond with a “no
idea.”
By that same token, ask
people who “Spring-heeled Jack” was and you would be lucky to find anyone who
had ever heard of him.
Spring-heeled Jack was the
subject (loosely) of a film The Curse of the Wraydons (1946) and Dominic
Keating also appeared as Spring Heeled Jack in the 2010 film Sherlock Holmes by
The Asylum film company. The character has also featured in both American and
British comic books and a number of books, for both children and adults.
But the fact that the
Springald held the country –not just London–
in a grip of terror much longer that the Ripper did is all but forgotten except
for some half-truths and fanciful theories.
Now be prepared to read the
full story of Spring Heeled Jack
Britain's "Atlantis" is such journalistic tripe. But if the archaeologists themselves are using that term it's quite obvious why -the work is not getting much attention (it really isn't) and the need for funding means "Britain's Atlantis" sounds "sexy" to investors and the press.
This area was looked at in a Channel 4 Time Team special a few years back so it isn't really a new discovery -as the article points out itself!
What is interesting is what we can learn from the technology we know have and so far no sunken city!
‘Britain’s Atlantis’ found at bottom of North sea – a huge undersea world swallowed by the sea in 7000BC
Doggerland was an area of land, now lying beneath the southern North
Sea, that connected Great Britain to mainland Europe during and after
the last Ice Age. It was then gradually flooded by rising sea levels
around 6,500–6,200 BCE. Geological surveys have suggested that it
stretched from Britain’s east coast to the Netherlands and the western
coasts of Germany and the peninsula ofJutland. It was probably a rich
habitat with human habitation in the Mesolithic period, although rising
sea levels gradually reduced it to low-lying islands before its final
destruction, perhaps following a tsunami caused by the Storegga Slide.
The archaeological potential of the area had first been discussed in
the early 20th century, but interest intensified in 1931 when
a commercial trawler operating between the sandbanks and shipping
hazards of the Leman Bank and Ower Bank east of the Wash dragged up a
barbed antler point that dated to a time when the area was tundra.
Vessels have dragged up remains of mammoth, lion and other land animals,
and small numbers of prehistoric tools and weapons
British
scientists and researchers have recently started using 4D technology to
explore the remains of an area inhabited before sea levels destroyed it
over 7,000 years ago. Historians believe that the area spanned over
100,000 square miles and was home to dozens of prehistoric Britons. It
was once known as Doggerland. Using the 4D technology, researchers will
show how Doggerland was colonized and inhabited before being washed
away. The researchers like to call this area “Britain’s Atlantis”.
Over the years, experts from Bradford and Nottingham have worked on
the multi-million pound 4D project. With the tool, they hope to find
evidence of flint tools, animal DNA, and pollen from plants. One of the
researchers working on the project, Mr. Vince Gaffney, says that he
hopes the 4D tool will find something so other researchers can use the
information.
Historians believe that Doggerland was submerged
sometime between the years of 18,000 and 5,500 BC. The area was just
recently found by divers in the area; they were doing research three
years ago to find more oil resources when they discovered the remains of
the other world. Some historians believe that this area could have been
home to thousands of people and was most likely once the heartland of
Europe. After the divers’ discovery, climatologists, archaeologists, and
geophysicists mapped the area and found out this Atlantis stretched
from Denmark to Scotland.
Until the middle Pleistocene, Britain was a peninsula off Europe,
connected by a massive chalk anticline, the Weald–Artois Anticline
across the Straits of Dover. During the Anglian glaciation,
approximately 450,000 years ago, an ice sheet filled much of the North
Sea, with a large proglacial lake in the southern part fed by the Rhine,
Scheldt and Thames river systems. The catastrophic overflow of this
lake carved a channel through the anticline, leading to the formation of
the Channel River, which carried the combined Scheldt and Thames rivers
into the Atlantic. It probably created the potential for Britain to
become isolated from the continent during periods of high sea level,
although some scientists argue that the final break did not occur until a
second ice-dammed lake overflowed during the MIS8 or MIS6 glaciations,
around 340,000 or 240,000 years ago.
Map
showing hypothetical extent of Doggerland (c. 8,000 BC), which provided
a land bridge between Great Britain and continental Europe. source
During
the most recent glaciation, the Last Glacial Maximum that ended in this
area around 18,000 years ago, the North Sea and almost all of the
British Isles were covered with glacial ice and the sea level was about
120 m (390 ft) lower than it is today. After that the climate became
warmer and during the Late Glacial Maximum much of the North Sea and
English Channel was an expanse of low-lying tundra, around 12,000 BC
extending to the modern northern point of Scotland
With the new
technology there is now research on two more North Sea valleys being led
by Mr. Gaffney. The project is funded by a European grant. Mr. Gaffney
and his team hope to use remote sensing data to reconstruct the ancient
landscape. Besides this research, the team hopes to get some core
sediment samples from the landscape to eventually create a map showing
rivers, lakes, hills, and coastlines.
8000
B.C.: After retreating inland from a storm, a group of hunter-gatherers
in Doggerland return to find their camp flooded. Eventually there would
be no dry land to come back to. source
After
the area slowly started sinking into the water, a storm surged and the
sea levels rose abruptly, creating an island around 6,500 BC. One
thousand years after the first storm, the whole island was then
submerged and lost.
The team hopes to learn more about the
lifestyles of the territories. One researcher from Wales says that the
project will let the team look into the ways of the people and also what
it was like to live in the Mesolithic period. The new 4D technology
will open up new doors for researchers and historians to find out more
about territories, colonies, and people from thousands of years in the
past.
The problem with these things is that they are full of equations and
put forward in papers to justify big university fees and grants. And you
also have to look at HOW they think we'll make contact.
A
passing spacecraft is not governed by statistics dreamt up by some
over-paid scientists. Also, 90% of scientists refuse flatly to look at
data from, say, UFO sightings which is what science SHOULD be doing
rather than leaving it up to con-men and other dubious types (95%).
"It's all ball lightning, grey bogey men and silly abduction stories!"
is NOT scientific.
"Leave the whackoes to the psychologists!" is NOT scientific.
If a person -Professor, Doctor -whatever paid for degrees and qualifications- is supposedly involved in something like SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) or exobiology then they have to adopt the scientific approach. Remember:
A lot of these 'scientists' even ignore information
and material from other scientists -some further up the science ladder
than them. That is NOT science.
Back in the 1970s I was told again and again that if I was going to look at the claims of UFO landings and Alien Entities, that I needed to look for rare, non-humanoid sightings because all the latest scientific fact and calculations showed that life on other planets would not involve humanoid beings. But quite gradually, over the years, theories and calculations and theories change or get altered by new "impossible" discoveries busting the nose of science. That is how it should work.
And now, after decades of searching for those non-humanoid cases, I hear saying change its mind. Those high strangeness "UFO" cases involving humanoids that Scientists were laughing at should, it seems, not have been so quickly dismissed -but not by me. I gather the data and try to draw conclusions because I use the Scientific Method. I never dismiss.
In 2015, Paul Gallaher of the Independent wrote this piece:
Forget little green men – aliens will look like humans, says Cambridge University evolution expert
The author said extra-terrestrials that resemble human
beings should have evolved on some of the many Earth-like planets that
have been discovered
They are often portrayed on screen as little green men with elongated limbs and saucer-like eyes.
From E.T to the X-Files, aliens from outer space have captured our imagination for decades.
Yet
a new book from a leading evolutionary biologist argues that if they
exist and we ever encountered them, they would look very similar to us.
Professor
Simon Conway Morris said extra-terrestrials that resemble human beings
should have evolved on at least some of the many Earth-like planets that
have been discovered by astronomers.
In his new book published on 2 July, The Runes of Evolution,
the University of Cambridge academic builds on the principle of
convergent evolution – that different species will independently evolve
similar features, with the comparison of the camera eye of an octopus
and a human eye a favourite example – and argues it will not just took
place on Earth.
“An
area of biology which is becoming popular, perhaps too popular, that
the possibility evolution is becoming much more predictable than people
thought,” he told TheIndependent. “The book is really
trying to persuade the world that evolutionary convergence is
completely ubiquitous. Wherever you look you see it.
“The theme is
to try and drive the reader, gently of course, into the possibility
that the things which we regard as most important, ie cognitive
sophistication, large brains, intelligence, tool making, are also
convergent. Therefore, in principle, other Earth-like planets should
very much end up with the same sort of arrangement.”
Professor
Conway Morris, a Fellow at St John’s College, said it follows that plant
and animal life on other planets able to support life would also look
similar to Earth’s.
He said: “Certainly it’s not the case that
every Earth-like planet will have life let alone humanoids. But if you
want a sophisticated plant it will look awfully like a flower. If you
want a fly there’s only a few ways you can do that. If you want to swim,
like a shark, there’s only a few ways you can do that. If you want to
invent warm-bloodedness, like birds and mammals, there’s only a few ways
to do that.
“The whole business of extra-terrestrial life, Kepler [the most
Earth-like planet ever discovered], the search for extra solar planets,
and of course the various missions to Mars. This is all going along at
such a pace at the moment we can be reasonably sure [any current ideas]
might be open to revision in a few years.”
His theory leads on to
Enrico Fermi’s famous paradox – why, if aliens do exist, have they not
made contact. He admits his book goes “off-piste for a bit of fun” in
the last chapter when dealing with this problem.
Professor Conway Morris said: “Fermi’s paradox seems to be coming
rather sharply into focus. If I’m on the right track then the likelihood
of intelligence is evolving and actively engaging in some sort of
transgalatic expeditions doesn’t seem to be completely beyond the realm
of possibility.
“What Fermi didn’t know when he asked that famous
question was that the number of Earth-like planets is absolutely
gigantic now. More problematic is that many of these solar systems far,
far pre-date our solar system. They would have, in principle, a major
head start of hundreds of millions, if not billions, of years.
“The
problem is exceedingly acute: we shouldn’t be alone but, famous last
words, all the evidence suggests we are. Maybe [aliens] are hiding, the
Arthur C Clarke idea, or as Stephen Baxter mischievously suggested we
live in a virtual world. I don’t honestly know. My suspicion is we have
only begun to scratch at the surface of reality, for want of a better
word.”
But here we have Fermi referenced again (I guess every movement needs a Poster Child! ).
And if you want a big name to add to the list -DR. MICHIO KAKU SAYS "UFOS AND ALIENS ARE REAL!"
This is the point: scientists are people. They have prejudices and dislikes. These should be left out of their work but are not. Prof. J hates Michio Kaku and his "Media darling" status so they'll argue against anything he says. Prof L hates Prof J so will push anything Kaku says to annoy Prof J.
There are others who, for religious reasons, argue that life beyond Earth is impossible (cus we 'know' a beardy bloke on a cloud created us). Others refuse to accept life beyond Earth because that would not make Humanity unique. Others are simply closed-minds who will not consider nor look at anything they do not want to because it is "rubbish".
And we have the scientists who deal with theory. Fermi can be used to argue pro and con and it has to be remembered that this is all on-paper or on computer theorising because you simply cannot calculate when an extraterrestrial craft will circle or land on Earth let alone when "they" will contact us. These theorists are safe because none of us will be here in 1,500 years!
New Calculation Shows We’ll Make Contact With Aliens in About 1,500 Years
The disturbing Fermi Paradox suggests we should
have made contact with an extraterrestrial civilization by now, yet we
haven’t. By applying a 500-year-old philosophical principle, a Cornell
University researcher has shown that the Great Silence is not
unexpected—we just need to give it more time.
In a new study that will be presented at an American Astronomical Society meeting
later this month, astronomers Even Solomonides and Yervant Terzian
combine the Fermi Paradox with the Mediocrity Principle to show that we
shouldn’t expect to hear from aliens for another 1,500 years. The reason
has to do with the vastness of the Milky Way Galaxy, the time it takes
radio signals to propagate through space as well as the apparent
“averageness” of humanity in the larger scope of things.
“It’s possible to hear any time at all, but it becomes likely we will
have heard around 1,500 years from now,” noted Solomonides in a press statement.
“Until then, it is possible that we appear to be alone—even if we are
not. But if we stop listening or looking, we may miss the signals. So we
should keep looking.”
Black Holes colliding. Space-time ripples. This is almost the stuff of science fiction but it is real. Recent years have been a bit of a golden age for Black Hole discoveries and research.
Seeker.com has a short video to go with this story that illustrates what they are talking about!
Smashing Black Holes Make Gravitational Waves, Again
The LIGO gravitational
wave detector has witnessed two small black holes collide and merge as
one, confirming that the original gravitational wave discovery was no
fluke.
Only months after the historic discovery of gravitational waves,
physicists have done it again! LIGO has detected ANOTHER black hole
collision and confirmed the first gravitational wave detection wasn't a
one-off.
On Dec. 26, the extremely faint spacetime ripples
washed through our planet and the Laser Interferometer
Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO, was listening. The US-based
detector recorded the distinctive gravitational wave "chirp", meaning
that, once again, we were witness to a collision of cataclysmic
proportions.
These ripples in spacetime were first theorized by
Albert Einstein over 100 years ago when he formulated his theory of
general relativity , but it's only now that humanity has the tools to
actually prove they exist. And this most recent detection is a firm
confirmation that, once again, Einstein was right.
In
a galaxy, some 1.4 billion light-years away, two small black holes got
stuck in an inescapable gravitational spiral. Their fate was sealed;
they fell closer and closer until they rapidly span around one another,
colliding and merging as one. Like the first historic detection of
gravitational waves in September, this most recent signal originated
from a black hole merger, an event that shines a previously unattainable
light on one of the most violent collisions in the universe.
Interestingly, this most recent event, called GW151226, included
black holes that were much smaller, the pair "weighed in" at only 14 and
8 times the mass of the sun -- the September event, called GW150914,
consisted of two merging black holes of 29 and 36 times the mass of the
sun. During both events, as the black holes pairs rapidly spiraled in,
they warped spacetime, generating gravitational waves. During the
collisions, "new", more massive black holes emerged from the collision
and information of these mergers were encoded in their gravitational
wave signals that LIGO could detect and decipher.
The December
event spawned a new black hole of 21 solar masses, but during the
collision, one whole solar mass was converted from matter into energy,
blasting powerful gravitational waves across the intergalactic expanse.
"It
is very significant that these black holes were much less massive than
those observed in the first detection," said Gabriela Gonzalez, LIGO
Scientific Collaboration (LSC) spokesperson in a statement. "Because of
their lighter masses compared to the first detection, they spent more
time -- about one second -- in the sensitive band of the detectors. It
is a promising start to mapping the populations of black holes in our
universe."
LIGO consists of two "L"-shaped detectors located in
Louisiana and Washington, a little under 2,000 miles apart. Each
building consists of two perpendicular 2.5 mile-long tunnels that guide
extremely sensitive laser interferometers. The project, funded by the
National Science Foundation and conceived and managed by Clatech and MIT
physicists, underwent a sensitivity upgrade last year, allowing
"Advanced LIGO" to detect the very slight spacetime wiggle as the
gravitational waves washed over us.
And "slight" is an
understatement. Advanced LIGO can detect the slightest warping, to a
precision of 10,000 times smaller than the width of a proton.
The
second discovery "has truly put the 'O' for Observatory in LIGO," said
Caltech's Albert Lazzarini, deputy director of the LIGO Laboratory.
"With detections of two strong events in the four months of our first
observing run, we can begin to make predictions about how often we might
be hearing gravitational waves in the future. LIGO is bringing us a new
way to observe some of the darkest yet most energetic events in our
universe."
For
the first time, humanity has been given a glimpse of the "dark"
universe, a domain that has, until now, remained invisible to us. The
collision of two black holes wouldn't necessarily generate any emissions
in the electomagnetic spectrum (i.e. light), so traditional astronomy,
for the most part, cannot witness these events. But LIGO is "feeling"
the motion of spacetime, waiting for when these violent collisions do
occur.
"With the advent of Advanced LIGO, we anticipated
researchers would eventually succeed at detecting unexpected phenomena,
but these two detections thus far have surpassed our expectations," said
NSF Director France A. Córdova.
But we are scraping the surface
of gravitational wave detections. Only this time last year,
gravitational waves were a confounding phenomenon that existed in theory
but had no direct observational evidence. Now Advanced LIGO has become
sensitive enough to detect the most powerful gravitational events in the
universe. As it becomes even more sensitive, and as even more
gravitational wave detectors around the globe go online, it's hard to
predict what else we'll find going "bump" in the gravitational night.
Artwork (c)2016 Terry Hooper Scharf
The problem with these things is that they are full of equations and
put forward in papers to justify big university fees and grants. And you
also have to look at HOW they think we'll make contact.
