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Wednesday 20 July 2016

Let's Talk About Stats, Posts And Other Stuff!


I had wondered what might be the most viewed item on this blog?

Basically, checking other things I wanted to compare.  After all, I believe all sales of the books have been from outside the UK.

So, do you want to know the top All Time posts?  Here you go:



Please, if you haven't realised how fake Ghost Adventures and the other programmes on TV are now my little post (24, 916 views??) is not going to convince you.  Again, I need to point out that there are very few serious paranormal investigators out there -it's more like a pop culture thing and how many who get EVPs and "ghost footage" actually submit these for scientific analysis? IF GA had really genuine 'proof' as they claim then I'd expect them to be submitting that to science to study rather than ask Dudley Dumbuttons to make his oscilloscope wiggle about and say "unexplained -did you see the wiggle?"

 And I was surprised to find in the stats that there are a LOT of views from people in the UK so no language barriers involved that are stopping comments on posts.

 Pageviews by Countries


Graph of most popular countries among blog viewers
EntryPageviews
United States
54716
United Kingdom
9366
Russia
4444
China
2954
France
2784
Germany
2278
Ukraine
2255
Canada
2223
Australia
857
Ireland
524

No one in the UK wants to buy my books....I'm just hoping the "cryptozoologists"/"Ufologists" and other "Fakeologists" got the material they  needed!

Something also hit me with these numbers. I was reading the Views counter as reading just under 10,000 and never realised the total blog views stood at 95,988.  Which looks great but it hits home more how few books have been purchased -you might think better sales with that number of visitors but it gets worse because those figures are for people coming here directly. Visitors from social media and other links actually treble that figure but I'm not that concerned since dyscalculia means it's just a jumble of numbers.

But 1% sales from these figures -would be incredible.

I ought to point out that to date most every country with internet access has appeared as a viewing source.  Any TV executives out there -I'm here!

Sadly, I do not think that the organisations involved in looking into the seal deaths have even spoken to each other.  I sent emails to each in which I introduced those from the organisations in question and a year-and-a-half later....nothing.

People ask why I bother with seals, whales, canids when there are mysteries such as Sasquatch etc? Well, because whether they are scientifically known or unknown creatures I care. I didn't become a naturalist decades ago to become rich.  I spend a lot of money I need helping out.  Somehow I don't see my making a barrel of money to retire on.  Besides, naturalists do not retire.

For Lovers Of The Strange and weird!

I'll keep pushing these because there are decades of referenced work in them.  Being a naturalist, artist and what-not does not pay a wage.  These books are how I am supposed to eat and pay bills. Interesting that most sales are outside the UK though...

More on that in another post!
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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!
  
The Red Paper:CANINES vol.1
 Terry Hooper
The Red Paper: Canids
Paperback, 
A4 (21 x 30cms)
202 Pages 
Photographs, illustrations and maps
Price: £10.29
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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.

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Some Things Strange & Sinister (2013 -up-dated)


Some Things Strange & Sinister
A4 Format
B&W
Paperback
358 pages
Heavily illustrated
Price: £15.00
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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
        Whiddon Down-Saint-Jean-du-Guard:Impossible Correlations?
        The Venezuelan Horror
A Final Word.






Alleged piece of crashed UFO from Berwyn Mountains, Wales.


 Some More Things Strange & Sinister 



Some More Things Strange & Sinister

Terry Hooper-Scharf
Paperback,
A4
327 Pages 
Heavily illustrated
Price: £15.00
Ships in 3–5 business days


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 of  the 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)



Pursuing The Strange & Weird:A Naturalists Viewpoint


Terry Hooper-Scharf
Paperback, 
A4
249 Pages
Price: £15.00
Ships in 3-5 business days.
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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


The Truth About Spring-Heeled Jack  
Terry Hooper-Scharf

Paperback, 
53 Pages 
 Dimensions (centimetres) 20.98 wide x 29.69 tall  (A4)
fully illustrated and referenced
Price: £7.00
Ships in 3–5 business days


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

The Werewolf of Kladno!

Thought I'd give you a chill for the day/night -where ever you are.  Remember the TV series Nightstalker (the 1970s one)?  The werewolf on the loose?

Czech police had a similar problem!

Here is the story so remember: it may be hot at night but always lock your windows!

Naked man thinks he’s a werewolf, growls and attacks cars in moonlight rampage

 

A naked man who apparently thought he was a werewolf ran through the street growling and harassing motorists and pedestrians, police said.

In CCTV footage from Kladno in the Czech Republic, a nude man, covered in blood, chases people, jumps onto a car bonnet and attacks arresting officers.

Police reported that the man seemed to feel ‘no pain’.

Officers were eventually able to subdue the man and take him to a nearby station. The suspect continued to cause mayhem, they said, and damaged his police cell.

He had earlier climbed onto a first floor balcony of a local home, smashed through the glass window and attacked a family, according to reports.

Blood sample results showed the man to be completely sober.

He will undergo psychiatric evaluation.

Here's the slightly shorter video:

And another report:
 

Watch terrifying moment naked 'werewolf' man growls as he attacks people and cars in moonlight rampage

 
This is the terrifying moment a naked man who thought he was a werewolf terrorised police and the public during a moonlight rampage.

CCTV footage shows the man covered in blood and chasing after terrified passers-by while growling like a wild animal.

Dashcam footage from a police car then shows the man leap onto the car bonnet, smashing the windscreen and attacking the officers.

The officers can be heard shouting in confused horror as they desperately try to subdue the wildman.
Photos of the carnage show the police car smeared in blood.
Live Leak 'Werewolf' caught on camera attacking police
The naked man chases after passers-by like a wild animal
Live Leak 'Werewolf' caught on camera attacking police
A shadowy figure runs towards the police car
Eventually the suspect was arrested and taken to a police cell, where he continued to wreak havoc by smashing it up.

The bizarre incident happened in Kladno, Czech Republic on Tuesday.

According to local media, the man had earlier climbed onto a first floor residential balcony and jumped through a glass window before attacking a family.
Live Leak 'Werewolf' caught on camera attacking police
The terrifying moment the 'werewolf' leaps at the police car
Live Leak 'Werewolf' caught on camera attacking police
The 'werewolf' leaps onto the police car and smashes the windscreen
Live Leak 'Werewolf' caught on camera attacking police
The impavt smashes the windscreen but the man appears unhurt and begins attacking police
Officers reported the man seemed to feel "no pain" as he damaged five cars and smashed up a cash machine.

After taking blood samples, the man was found to be completely sober.

He will undergo psychiatric tests to determine the cause of his behaviour.
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