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.
Conjuring the Truth: Enfield
Poltergeist Investigator Says Ed and Lorraine Warren Never Investigated
Case
Hot on the heels of the debut trailer for The Conjuring 2:
The Enfield Poltergeist comes a new revelation from Guy Lyon Playfair, one of
the original investigators of the famous British ghost appearance, who says
that controversial paranormal researchers Ed and Lorraine Warren were never
involved in the case.
Billing itself as being ripped from the “true case files of
Ed and Lorraine Warren”, the sequel to The Conjuring claims to follow the duo
to Brimsdown, Enfield, England, where they proceed to
investigate one of the most famous cases of poltergeist activity ever recorded.
There’s only one problem: Guy Lyon Playfair, member of the Society for
Psychical Research and one of the chief investigators of the Enfield
Poltergeist case, says they showed up “uninvited”, stayed for only a day, and
alleges that they manufactured their own paranormal evidence simply “to make
money out of it.”
The claims come from a brand new interview with Darkness
Radio host Dave Schrader that aired on Thursday evening. You can listen to the
whole interview with Playfair here (which I highly recommend), but I’ve taken
the liberty of transcribing the relevant revelation for your convenience:
Above: Guy Lyon Playfair and Maurice Gross
Dave Schrader: Mr.
Playfair, I’m sure you’re familiar with Ed and Lorraine Warren and their
research and work. Have they ever worked along with the Society for Psychical
Research?
Guy Lyon Playfair:
No. I bumped into Ed Warren once or twice, and Lorraine… and I got the impression that Ed
Warren was, well.. (laughs) fill in your own expletive. I wasn’t impressed at
all. Lorraine
is still living, so I’ll refrain from commenting on her, but she was very…
quite pleasant when I met her.
They did turn up
once, I think, at Enfield,
and all I can remember is Ed Warren telling me that he could make a lot of
money for me out of it. So I thought, “well thats all I need to know from you”
and I got myself out of his way as soon as I could. I said was not impressed.
He didn’t spend… I don’t think he went there more than once. And I did read
somewhere a transcript of a lengthy interview which he’s alleged to have with
one of the girls – which they couldn’t remember giving him – and it was
describing all sorts of marvelous wonders which I don’t think ever happened. I
think he was a complete…um… well… (laughs)… fill in whatever word…
Dave: (laughs) I
understand. So you don’t feel that – and especially in the interactions you had
with him – you don’t feel that maybe they had the best intentions when it came
to the investigations of these cases?
Guy: No, they just
wanted to make money out of it.
Dave: Okay. Did –
have you heard, or in your research, have you come across any proof that Ed or
Lorraine Warren had anything to do with consulting or being a part of this
investigation?
Guy: Certainly
not. Nobody ever mentioned them. I mean, I don’t think anybody in the family
had ever heard of him until he turned up. Uninvited. And uh..
Dave: Oh, so just
came out…
Guy: …he said who
he was and he didn’t come again and we just sort of forgot about him.
Dave: So he came
out to the site uninvited, and just showed up to try and insert himself into
the story, is what you maintain?
Guy: Thats what I
remember, yes.
Dave: Okay,
fascinating.
Guy: It was quite
brief. He was just one.. we had so many people coming and going. I mean I
remember one day he did turn up. I think Lorraine
was there as well – I’d also met them in Brazil. They sort of pop up all
over the place. And it was just no big deal at all. I mean, I had a brief
conversation with Ed at Enfield,
and as I say, he was telling me how much money he’d help me make, and I
politely declined his help, and I strained that that’s not what we exist for in
the SPR, and that was the last time I saw him.
Above: Ed and Lorraine Warren
The claims shouldn’t come as any surprise to those who’ve
taken even a cursory glance at the Enfield Poltergeist case themselves, in
which there’s no real record of Ed and Lorraine’s involvement save for their
own. Admittedly, as someone who grew up reading the Warrens’
books and was a big fan of the first Conjuring film, I was a little perplexed
when the plot for the sequel was announced, already knowing that it was SPR who
handled the entire Enfield
case.
The question is: why would a studio take two paranormal
investigators who worked on cases like The Amityville Horror, wrote six books,
and were featured in seven others, and jam them into a story they barely earned
a cameo in? Turns out, they probably don’t own the rights to their real cases.
In the wake of the
original film’s box office success, Warner Bros. was subject to a lawsuit that
aimed to prevent them from making any sequels. The suit came from producer Tony
DeRosa-Grund’s Evergreen Media Group, who owned the rights to the “real-life
case files of Ed and Lorraine Warren” before licensing them Warner Bros..
Evergreen Media claims that ‘New Line was only granted rights on a “very
limited, selection of the Case Files – i.e., less than one percent (1%) of the
total number of Case Files – and the Warrens’ life stories, in exchange for a purchase
price for each theatrical production or use of those select Case Files as well
as a crediting and employing Mr. DeRosa-Grund as producer.” Fun fact: Evergreen
also sold the rights to a Conjuring television series to Lionsgate, which
opened a whole other can of worms.
According to Evergreen Media, the Warrens’ career resulted in some 8,000 “Case
Files”, of which 25 were licensed as possible films. Evergreen also claims that
in order to circumvent their licensing agreement, Warner Bros. simply optioned
rights to The Demonologist, a 1980 book by written by Gerald Brittle about the
Warrens, which included brief mentions of their “Case Files”, including one
that led to the Annabelle spinoff and another in which Ed and Lorraine claim
that they were present for the Enfield Poltergeist investigation. Sneaky stuff,
if true.
Sneakier still, is the claim that The Conjuring 2 is from
the “true case files” of the Warrens when not only can the original witnesses
to the Enfield Poltergeist not recall speaking to Ed Warren, but one of the
head investigators for the Society of Paranormal Research adamantly states they
allegedly manufactured “marvelous wonders” to make money off their very brief,
uninvited house call.
This article from 2016 shows where some of my research was leading. My next book would have looked at alleged time slips as well as certain ghost reports. The major problem was that I had planned to fund the work with money from book sales -I think I expected far too much! :-)
Like most of my work (my laptop just closing down again being a problem) this is all on hold. You really cannot get by working on books and producing manuscripts without a computer these days. However, I would like to hear opinions of blog readers (it's never happened before but who knows?) but I hope it gets a few people thinking.
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To me, time travel is a science fiction device used by authors and TV/Movie and even comic creators. You can get good stories out of it but there were always two big flaws that, however much I tried to work through, I never could.
If you look into accounts of ghosts you will hear all sorts of theories including the Stone Tape Theory which would take up too much time but, luckily, Wikipedia deals with it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Tape
Now, the Stone Tape Theory might work if the same type of things is replayed over and over through decades but there are cases in which the accounts purport to be of percipients involved in Time Slips: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_slip These are usually involving buildings or places where someone has stayed but turn out to have not been there for "many years" yet the person was in a physical location or even ghosts challenging people as "intruders". These could all be just personal breakdowns in reality -something that may explain alien abduction scenarios -I'm looking into one case from the 1970s that involves UFOs, doubles of persons known to the witness and Sasquatch amongst other things.
But Time Slips have featured in many faked videos such as the 1920s old lady using a mobile phone or photographs of a car or other items in photographs taken "a hundred years before" the said items were invented. The Saqqara Bird -did ancient Egyptians build an aircraft or did they carve an image of some future aircraft lost in time from, say, the Bermuda Triangle? http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-technology/controversial-saqqara-bird-00386
How about this for a claim regarding the above? "These are
jewelry pieces found in Inca ruins dating back to 1000 years ago. They
seem to depict jet fighters from the 20th century, with an artisitic
flair."
It is claimed that some Meso Americans saw these "aircraft" -that came from a time slip or from space. The Tolima "fighter jets" have filled many chapters of many books and minutes of TV.
It tends to all blur in the mind. I have never stated that I do not believe the Earth could have been visited by entities from other planets in the past. I tend to disagree a lot with Carl Sagan but he got it right when he stated the same thing and added "there just is no evidence of such visits".
Again, I can't see this as a possibility. You see:
(1) The past is gone. Over so it's not "there".
(2) The future has not happened yet so it isn't there.
Time Slips back and forth. No.
However, since the 1970s I have thought that the Parallel Universe theory might explain some cases. Where you have what seems to be an intelligent "haunting" could we be dealing with some kind of breach in a multiversal reality? To be honest I really do think a good solid case of this "intelligent haunting" needs to be proven since we know from Poltergeist phenomena that the human mind may be capable of a great deal -and deceptive if unknowingly so. And, yes, I have seen minor poltergeist-like events -after doubting some things my mother claimed to have seen (basically, "Here you go Mr Know-it-all!").
If we support the -unproven- theory of the multiverse and parallel Earths then is it likely that, say, 5, 10 or 20 are all currently in the year 2016? Depending on many, many factors, it is possible that some are more advance in stages of civilisation and scientific development than we are. It is also possible that some are less well developed scientifically or socially than our Earth.
TheBlack Death -one of many plagues that hit Europe in its history- that arrived in Europe by sea in October, 1346/47 when some 12 Genoese trading ships docked at the Sicilian port of Messina after a long journey through the Black Sea. There are various other theories of origin and even that more than one form of plague was responsible. 75-200 million deaths occurred during 1346-1353 some 30-60% of Europe's population -it is believed that, in total, the plague reduced the world population
from an estimated 450 million down to 350–375 million in the 14th
century and the world population as a whole did not recover to pre-plague
levels until the 17th century (1)
On another Earth the population may not have recovered so well and technology developed more slowly. You can talk and argue this sort of scenario out for hours. But here is the point (I know you were hoping I'd get down to it soon!) . Someone says that they were walking at "this" location or staying at "that" house and encountered a seemingly solid -"as you or I!"- ghost. The "ghost" seemed taken aback by the percipient and a very brief conversation takes place and when the percipient asks "Are you aware that you are dead?" the "ghost" looks at them as though they were touched or state they are not dead. Some even give the year or other information then -pop! Gone.
Here is the possibility: the percipient could be both the "ghost" or the person seeing the "ghost". In some journal of 1899 on a parallel Earth someone could write an entry on how they encountered a curious ghost who had no idea it was dead but thought he/she was! And in 2016 someone goes on the internet or writes to some paranormal group about meeting and talking to a "spirit" of a person who 'died' in 1899 -it even gave the year!
Two percipients and two 'ghosts'.
Or two people on different Earths whose paths crossed at the same geographic point when barriers between those Earths somehow weakened -each making an incursion into the others world?
I have a list of questions in my mind to ask if I ever come across such a "ghost" -"Who on Earth is Abraham Lincoln?" as a response to one might be a good give away.
Brain hurt yet?
This article from April by Elizabeth Howell on Space.com gives you something to think about and there are links on the page if you want to delve further into this.
Parallel Universes: Theories & Evidence
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Parallel Universes: Theories & Evidence
Our universe may live in one bubble that is sitting in a
network of bubble universes in space.
Is our universe unique? From science fiction to science
fact, there is a proposal out there that suggests that there could be other
universes besides our own, where all the choices you made in this life played
out in alternate realities. So, instead of turning down that job offer that
took you from the United States
to China, the alternate
universe would show the outcome if you decided to venture to Asia
instead.
The idea is pervasive in comic books and movies. For
example, in the 2009 "Star Trek" reboot, the premise is that the Kirk
and Spock portrayed by Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto are in an alternate
timeline apart from the William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy versions of the
characters.
The concept is known as a "parallel universe," and
is a facet of the astronomical theory of the multiverse. There actually is
quite a bit of evidence out there for a multiverse. First, it is useful to
understand how our universe is believed to have come to be.
Arguing for a multiverse
Around 13.7 billion years ago, simply speaking, everything
we know of in the cosmos was an infinitesimal singularity. Then, according to
theBig Bang theory, some unknown trigger caused it to expand and inflate in
three-dimensional space. As the immense energy of this initial expansion
cooled, light began to shine through. Eventually, the small particles began to
form into the larger pieces of matter we know today, such as galaxies, stars
and planets.
One big question with this theory is: are we the only
universe out there. With our current technology, we are limited to observations
within this universe because the universe is curved and we are inside the
fishbowl, unable to see the outside of it (if there is an outside.)
There are at least five theories why a multiverse is
possible, as a 2012 Space.com article explained
1. We don't know what the shape of space-time is exactly.
One prominent theory is that it is flat and goes on forever. This would present
the possibility of many universes being out there. But with that topic in mind,
it's possible that universes can start repeating themselves. That's because
particles can only be put together in so many ways. More about that in a
moment.
2. Another theory for multiple universes comes from
"eternal inflation." Based on research from Tufts University
cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin, when looking at space-time as a whole, some
areas of space stop inflating like the Big Bang inflated our own universe.
Others, however, will keep getting larger. So if we picture our own universe as
a bubble, it is sitting in a network of bubble universes of space. What's
interesting about this theory is the other universes could have very different
laws of physics than our own, since they are not linked.
3. Or perhaps multiple universes can follow the theory of
quantum mechanics (how subatomic particles behave), as part of the
"daughter universe" theory. If you follow the laws of probability, it
suggests that for every outcome that could come from one of your decisions,
there would be a range of universes — each of which saw one outcome come to be.
So in one universe, you took that job to China. In another, perhaps you were
on your way and your plane landed somewhere different, and you decided to stay.
And so on.
4. Another possible avenue is exploring mathematical
universes, which, simply put, explain that the structure of mathematics may
change depending in which universe you reside. "A mathematical structure
is something that you can describe in a way that's completely independent of
human baggage," said theory-proposer Max Tegmark of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, as quoted in the 2012 article. "I really believe
that there is this universe out there that can exist independently of me that
would continue to exist even if there were no humans."
5. And last but not least as the idea of parallel universes.
To go back to the idea that space-time is flat, the number of possible particle
configurations in multiple universes would be limited to 10^10^122 distinct
possibilities, to be exact. So, with an infinite number of cosmic patches, the
particle arrangements within them must repeat — infinitely many times over.
This means there are infinitely many "parallel universes": cosmic
patches exactly the same as ours (containing someone exactly like you), as well
as patches that differ by just one particle's position, patches that differ by
two particles' positions, and so on down to patches that are totally different
from ours.
Arguing against a parallel universe
Not everyone agrees with the parallel universe theory,
however. A 2015 article on Medium by astrophysicist Ethan Siegal agreed that
space-time could go on forever in theory, but said that there are some
limitations with that idea.
The key problem is the universe is just under 14 billion
years old. So our universe's age itself is obviously not infinite, but a finite
amount. This would (simply put) limit the number of possibilities for particles
to rearrange themselves, and sadly make it less possible that your alternate
self did get on that plane after all to see China.
Also, the expansion at the beginning of the universe took
place exponentially because there was so much "energy inherent to space
itself," he said. But over time, that inflation obviously slowed — those
particles of matter created at the Big Bang are not continuing to expand, he
pointed out. Among his conclusions: that means that multiverses would have
different rates of inflation and different times (longer or shorter) for
inflation. This decreases the possibilities of universes similar to our own.
"Even setting aside issues that there may be an
infinite number of possible values for fundamental constants, particles and
interactions, and even setting aside interpretation issues such as whether the
many-worlds-interpretation actually describes our physical reality," Siegal
said, "the fact of the matter is that the number of possible outcomes
rises so quickly — so much faster than merely exponentially — that unless
inflation has been occurring for a truly infinite amount of time, there are no
parallel universes identical to this one."
But rather than seeing this lack of other universes as a
limitation, Siegal instead takes the philosophy that it shows how important it
is to celebrate being unique. He advises to make the choices that work for you,
which "leave you with no regrets." That's because there are no other
realities where the choices of your dream self play out; you, therefore, are
the only person that can make those choices happen.
Our universe may live in one bubble that is sitting in a network of bubble universes in space.
Credit: Sandy MacKenzie | Shutterstock
Is our universe unique? From science fiction to science fact, there is a
proposal out there that suggests that there could be other universes
besides our own, where all the choices you made in this life played out
in alternate realities. So, instead of turning down that job offer that
took you from the United States to China, the alternate universe would
show the outcome if you decided to venture to Asia instead.
The idea is pervasive in comic books and movies. For example, in the
2009 "Star Trek" reboot, the premise is that the Kirk and Spock
portrayed by Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto are in an alternate timeline
apart from the William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy versions of the
characters.
The concept is known as a "parallel universe," and is a facet of the astronomical theory of the multiverse.
There actually is quite a bit of evidence out there for a multiverse.
First, it is useful to understand how our universe is believed to have
come to be.
- See more at:
http://www.space.com/32728-parallel-universes.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=socialfbspc&cmpid=social_spc_514630#sthash.mz4yaJFI.dpuf
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Our universe may live in one bubble that is sitting in a network of bubble universes in space.
Credit: Sandy MacKenzie | Shutterstock
Is our universe unique? From science fiction to science fact, there is a
proposal out there that suggests that there could be other universes
besides our own, where all the choices you made in this life played out
in alternate realities. So, instead of turning down that job offer that
took you from the United States to China, the alternate universe would
show the outcome if you decided to venture to Asia instead.
The idea is pervasive in comic books and movies. For example, in the
2009 "Star Trek" reboot, the premise is that the Kirk and Spock
portrayed by Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto are in an alternate timeline
apart from the William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy versions of the
characters.
The concept is known as a "parallel universe," and is a facet of the astronomical theory of the multiverse.
There actually is quite a bit of evidence out there for a multiverse.
First, it is useful to understand how our universe is believed to have
come to be.
- See more at:
http://www.space.com/32728-parallel-universes.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=socialfbspc&cmpid=social_spc_514630#sthash.mz4yaJFI.dpuf
Parallel Universes: Theories & Evidence
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor |
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106
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2507
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Our universe may live in one bubble that is sitting in a network of bubble universes in space.
Credit: Sandy MacKenzie | Shutterstock
Is our universe unique? From science fiction to science fact, there is a
proposal out there that suggests that there could be other universes
besides our own, where all the choices you made in this life played out
in alternate realities. So, instead of turning down that job offer that
took you from the United States to China, the alternate universe would
show the outcome if you decided to venture to Asia instead.
The idea is pervasive in comic books and movies. For example, in the
2009 "Star Trek" reboot, the premise is that the Kirk and Spock
portrayed by Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto are in an alternate timeline
apart from the William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy versions of the
characters.
The concept is known as a "parallel universe," and is a facet of the astronomical theory of the multiverse.
There actually is quite a bit of evidence out there for a multiverse.
First, it is useful to understand how our universe is believed to have
come to be.
- See more at:
http://www.space.com/32728-parallel-universes.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=socialfbspc&cmpid=social_spc_514630#sthash.mz4yaJFI.dpuf
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.
