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Tuesday, 8 December 2015

Review: Walking Among US -David Jacobs loses The Plot?




  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Disinformation Books (September 1, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1938875141
  • ISBN-13: 978-1938875144
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches

In his 1998 book, The Threat, Jacobs uncovered disconcerting reports about aliens' plans for the future of Earth. He reported that a "change" is coming; a future when very human-like hybrids would intermingle with humans in everyday life. "Soon we will all be together," the aliens said. "Soon everyone will be happy and everyone will know his place."

This book examines a disturbing phenomenon that Jacobs began noticing in 2003. The alien integration action plan has kicked into high gear.The incidents of alien abductions have accelerated as have occurrences of alien involvement in everyday human life. A silent and insidious invasion has begun. Alien hybrids have moved into your neighborhood and into your workplace. They have been trained by human abductees to "pass," to blend in to society, to appear as normal as your next door neighbor.

This book illustrates in detail the process of alien integration into society and the strategy and support structure that has been developed to make this happen seamlessly. While he is not certain why they are doing it, the final chapter of the book will provide some chilling possible answers as to why they are here and what they want to accomplish.

Jacobs is a careful researcher who has investigated more than 1150 abduction events experienced by more than 150 abductees. This book focuses on the experiences of thirteen abductees.

 David M. Jacobs is an American historian and recently retired associate professor of history at Temple University specializing in 20th-century American history and culture. Jacobs is also well known in the field of UFOlogy for his research and authoring of books on the subject of alien abductions. Visit him at www.ufoabduction.com.

Review

"David Jacobs has spent his career as a history professor at a major university, and--what matters most of all--he backs his claims with an impressive mass of evidence.…Jacobs treats his subject with ethnographic depth and detail, but without academic ponderousness." --Thomas E. Bullard, PhD, board member, Center for UFO Studies and Fund for UFO Research and author of UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery

"Once we accept the extraterrestrial origin of UFOs and that the beings can act purposefully as rational beings invariably do, it is only a small step from UFO phenomena to the co-residency of the two species. It is this logical consistency that makes Walking Among Us constantly grip our imagination with such vengeance." --Young-hae Chi, D Phil, faculty of Oriental studies, University of Oxford

"Walking Among Us is a chronicle of human experience that contradicts every current theory about the universe that we think we live in. Jacobs' human observers have experienced a concealed reality that is literally next door to some of us, and that he believes is about to interact, secretly and insidiously, with the rest of us. Walking Among Us explains why extraterrestrial UFOs are here, who is aboard them, and what they are doing. To put it mildly, the evidence from the people that Jacobs has interviewed shows that the extraterrestrials are up to no good. You will find Walking Among Us hard to put down. If enough of us read and pay attention to the evidence in this book, we might be able to avoid the disaster that its evidence portends." --Don C. Donderi, PhD, associate professor (retired) of psychology, McGill University, Montreal, author of UFOs, ETs, and Alien Abductions

"David Jacobs has written an extremely important book about UFO abductees and the meaning of their abductions." --Ron Westrum, PhD, emeritus professor of sociology, Eastern Michigan University

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You know, I once defended Jacobs in an article that Fortean Times refused to publish.  It was after Peter Brookesmith wrote a typical sat-in-a-chair Fortean attack on Jacobs' work.  Just look online, Brookesmith tends to write a lot of attacks on cases or peoples work that others then correct him on.

Anyway, as with Budd Hopkins, whom I supported publicly -and in other ways- I felt that it was very important that their work be monitored and encouraged and peer reviewed by other researchers.  I defended Budd in print a few times, too.  You see, we need to assess what we can and from what knowledge we gain and move on from there.

I had doubts creeping in regarding Budd's work and I know Ann Druffel has suggested that it might be possible that some form of accidental telepathy might be at work -the percipient under hypnosis picking up what the hypnotist is thinking, hence Hopkins outlook on what "They" were up to differed from what Jacobs felt "They" were up to,or even what John Mack thought. I am not saying that telepathy is rubbish for various reasons, but I do not think this is what is going on here.

Druffel in  How to Defend Yourself Against Alien Abduction (1998), notes how, pre-Hopkins and Whitley Streiber there were no "Greys" (she does get rather piqued that the English spelling "Greys" seems to be used more than the American "Grays" spelling!).  Yes, there were small, large headed entities but not "Greys" -in fact,  it amazes me how Greys are represented in art or witness sketches: they are all Greys but with differences.  Ufologists don't tend to point this out.  Even old cases are now represented as involving Greys when they were never described as such.

And here is another thing: Betty and Barney Hill were not abducted by Greys. We have Ufologists and witnesses stating "They were Greys exactly as shown on Streiber's book cover" (Communion). The problem is that I, and a few other serious researchers, do not believe Streiber is doing anything other than selling and promoting a profitable series of books.  Fiction.  So,these abductors look like an imaginary alien on a book cover...though witness drawings then start differing.

But all those UFO abduction cases in the past not involving Greys were all "screen events" -false mental images designed to hide the great alien mastermind abductors -The Greys.

Except now, according to Jacobs, the Greys are probably some form of hybrid worker. This could get confusing.

We have, according to Jacobs, the burly reptilian security aliens who look a lot like the reptilian alien captain, Gorn,  from the original 1960s Star Trek TV series, and in recent years cameo guest in The Big Bang Theory.  The witness drawings look like him.  But these guys are subservient too.  Maybe or maybe not some hybrid form -who knows!

Then we have the Hybrids who look part human but still mostly unusual and alien looking.

Then there are the ultimates.  The Hubrids who could pass for human.  They are everywhere. They command you to come move their furniture as you are heading off to shops and you forget about it and turn up at home hours late but no one pays that much attention. Jacob notes that one alleged abductee showed him a photo of the Hubrid attached to him -standing right next to him in the photo.  But the photo is not reproduced.

The real masterminds are....the Insectilians.  Giant preying mantis type creatures and it may be the Greys are hybrids from these or another species or...at this point I had to sit back and take a breather.

Oh, and the nasty aliens like to beat up abductees who talk to Jacobs.  And they threaten all kinds of things -killing family members and so on.  Arrange for Jacobs to have an 'accident' or just make him vanish.  No.

When I read Sight Unseen by Budd Hopkins I realized he had been duped.  Not some secret government plot to discredit him.  He had been conned pure and simple and as each new chapter unfolded I realized that his credibility had gone.

On reading Walking Among Us it was clear that Jacobs had gone over the top. I checked out a few videos from MUFON and other conferences plus an online live interview. Jacobs tells us that UFO witnesses "say they stopped to look at this bright UFO in the sky then, suddenly -it's gone. Shot away at incredible speed!" Jacobs gets very excited because he knows the truth: "No. It didn't! What happened was that you were abducted!"  But it is worse, Jacob tells us that we shouldn't "even try to fight back because they are so far advanced we cannot do a thing!"

So, everyone who sees a light in the sky is an abductee.  Fifty or one hundred people watch a UFO and they have all been abducted?  According to Jacobs yes.   Jacobs and Hopkins, the Wise Men of abduction research, sat down and were happy to estimate that 2% of the Earths human population had been abducted. So, 2013 human population was around 7.125 billions so 2% means one hundred forty-two million five hundred thousand people on Earth are abductees.  And if you marry an abductee and have kids THEY will become abductees.

And Jacobs repeatedly states that these "experiencers" are fifth columnists.  They are helping the aliens to out-breed and control humans. More than one has stated this but Jacobs is being irresponsible because he not only writes this but says it at UFO events and online interviews. If we look at the US and the number of guns there, not to mention people who have mental health issues or who seriously believe what Jacobs is saying then a target has been pinned to everyone who has claimed to be an abductee.  How long before some gun-toting idiot decides "action needs to be taken" to save his/her kids, grand children or the human race? And, sadly, it will happen. Jacobs tells us how abductees state they are "above humans" and are trained to control those other humans, to herd them, come The Change.

So, why are these important abductees, such as Kara Turner, allowed to die from cancer,strokes, heart attacks or other human maladies?  According to Jacobs because there is such a large stock of abductees the aliens can move on to.

All those quotes about the book. Crap.  Simplest way of putting it.  What "evidence" has Jacobs' work unearthed?   Somebody found a scratch or cut on themselves and "I'm pretty sure it wasn't there yesterday..."  Bruises -ditto.  "Implants"?  Not one single alleged "implant" removed has proven to be anything than organic material -nothing alien and, yes, I am including those bunko-men who, if genuine medical doctors, should be investigated  and prove their case or be struck off.  "Wow. Look at the radio signal coming off that thing!"  Same stupid con played by TV "ghost hunters" with their "scientific equipment".

So, what "evidence" is there?  Ann Druffel put the whole "missing foetus" myth in the bin back in the 1990s.  Being announced pregnant but then not being pregnant -false result,is not rare.  It is why pregnant women get scans these days.  Nothing from the "missing foetus" syndrome has ever stood up to scrutiny and the worst thing is that we only have the "experiencers'" word that any of this happened.

Experiencers go into "altered states" prior to abductiuons. One instance demonstrates this ( emphasis mine. pp. 55-56):

"I conducted the following session with Betsey without hypnosis.  She had so many sessions with me that she had learned to place herself back into an event and to remember consciously and accurately what had happened to her.  This session took place using Instant Messaging.  Often, our messages crossed each other in cyberspace..."

I read this and had to re-read it three times.  Betsey had "so many sessions with me" and she could put herself back into an event.  I wonder how many times is "so many" and do I really need to point out that this is going beyond any medical guidelines on the use of hypnosis?  

In fact, as Betty Hill herself pointed out, Dr Benjamin Simon, a highly accredited psychologist with a very honorable record and who made ground-breaking -provable- treatment for traumatized patients, and who conducted the hypnosis sessions with the Hills, warned and was concerned that untrained people with no real understanding of what they were doing would increasingly turn to hypnosis if "alien abduction" was mentioned.  His fears are alive and well and hypnosis is being used more and more by Ufologists who seem to have no idea just what they are getting into.

Oh, and on page 8, para. 3, Jacobs has the audacity to write that although Dr Simons was  "talented and experienced, (he) did not know about abduction phenomena and its attendent memory problems."  This is the arrogance of the evangelical Jacobs who notes how one abductee, between 1999-2007, had weekly sessions for over a year and recalled 100 events and was able to delve into them more deeply!  And regarding the use of hypnosis: "Learning comes from trial, error, and experience" and goes on to make sure that everyone knows he is the undoubted expert in this matter.

It is utterly unbelievable.  And another thing, while internet messaging with Betsey she had to stop as she was getting "that feeling" -meaning that she was about to be abducted.  For all we know, Betsey could have been eating cookies and sipping on coffee whiling away the time until her TV program started. This is NOT gathering evidence.

Jacobs seems to be almost playing with experiencers and is certainly not helping them as he interprets what they are telling him because only he can sort out the truth.

He dismisses -ignores- commonalities between Contactees and Abductees (p. 9), though in some cases there may be the same cause because he knows better.

Abductees not being told of the aliens' planet(s) of origin nor of the ultimate aim of what they are doing and to Jacobs this is "hard evidence" that it is not all psychological because if it were the abductees would tell us all of that.  But Jacobs book shows that abductees are told what things are leading up to if not the end event itself and some have been told about alien planets if not their planetary name (which would still prove nothing).



Jacobs (p. 17) notes that abductees can be as normal and unstable as non-abductees.  In fact, Jacobs, and those who have allegedly read his work, do not seem to pick up on the fact that it contradicts itself in many areas.  And I think his breakdown and analysis of the alien types just got so hysterically ridiculous that "the cat-in-the-hat" might have been included.  "No apparent heart or lungs" and no noticeable waste or reproductive organs.  I had to say "WTF" out loud.  How does he know there aren't? Lungs and hearts are internal organs and in some cases it is believed the aliens are wearing all-covering outfits so how on earth are abductees -"controlled and seeing only what "they" want them to see" going to check for an anal cavity, penis or vagina.  Oh, perhaps someone ought to ask "Can I see your "junk",please?"


Now, Gort and the hybrids or whichever, are determined to "securing silence" and...do I really have to point out that this is Jacobs third book?  He talks allover the place on abduction.  He hypnotises (though he is obviously -and this is scary- has his own definition of what hypnosis is, though with "abduction specialists" you'll find they all use hypnosis but all define what hypnosis is in varying ways!) many abductees -hundreds of times and even conducts sessions using Internet Messaging.  But the aliens threaten injury, beatings and death to silence abductees -who next day contact Dr Jacobs to tellhim what happened.

I'd like to break here and speak to our alien overlords if I may?

Hey, guys -kill the abductees that are talking -you got millions of others to spare.  Oh, and ground the abductees from using the internet or car.  Seriously, you are not giving this a lot of thought, are you? And why don't you just kill off the abduction researchers -heart attack here.  Stroke there. Come on. And, please, I'm not being silly but, you and your hybrids and hubrids have total, unchallengeable control over human minds and can warp and break the laws of physics...and you've been doing this on Earth since at least the 19th century?  What are you the mental rejects?  

Back to Jacobs.  "No evidence" of an alien language and that makes you wonder what all the symbols are that abductees see? Or the book mentioned by Betty Hill -or what other abductees have----damn.  Sorry, I forgot, only Jacobs KNOWS. 

Aliens can mind-scan abductees to see what they have been doing since the last abduction.  They can "upload" information to abductee minds -even though they can only remember some of it. Hybrids scan abductee minds and control them -as do hubrids.  So why, after generations, are the ultimate end product, the super mind hubrids such dumb-asses.  Seriously, they do not know how to rent an apartment and when they do they live there as a group (are the special needs?).  They need help with getting furniture they bought back to their apartment.  These super intelligent, mind controlling hubrids are such dumb-asses that they cannot drive a car or own one -they mentally command an abductee to stop what they are doing and drive to transport things.  Money.  These super intelligent folk cannot understand the decimal system of currency (we really have not, as a planet, attracted the galaxy's finest).

Taught EVERYTHING from when little hubrids and as they grow up and reach adulthood mental retardation sets in.

Now, and I began to despair at this tripe, the "caretaker hybrids", who went through the whole contact with a human female, etc., as in all the female abduction accounts, who have mind-scanned blah blah blah abductees do not know what parents are or what they do.  Here's something else.  They have no idea that the United States is the United States or that there are different countries....you see what I mean by the Galaxy's dimmest?

Abductee Paula's experiences are all in keeping with her school experience, younger kids and keeping order amongst them.

And these super superior dim-wits have no idea what music is or how it has made. Do they not have internet access -it's all on there! Here is an idea for our alien overlords: to maintain secrecy of your not very secret project to replace the human race (oops!) and stop abductees breaking the strict silence and secrecy: steal their computers and laptops and look all this stuff up and that way you'll stop abductees internet messaging all the secrets to Jacobs.  Oh, and you won't be paying the internet bill even -the abductee will!

Ah, it seems that hubrids are the successes of generation after generation of breeding and refining so that they may take over the Earth....but no one has taught them to read or write?

You can see how absurd this is?

And there are examples of Jacobs using leading questions.

Have I mentioned that abductees kids are a great threat? Yep, all part of the scheme to subjugate humanity so pin a target on them little bastards, too...I think that's what Jacobs is saying.  Well, no he is not saying that just laying it on pretty damn thick that abductees feel they are above humans and will control us for their masters "come the day" and their children will also be at their sides.

And gradual take-over because, as Jacobs has stated over and over again like some evangelist on a super high: these aliens are totally unstoppable.  "Don't even try -nothing you can possibly do!".  Their technology to enter buildings undetected.  Control human minds.  In an hour they could send "Greys" or whatever into every single military or governmental facility and mind control every human there and disarm the military and control politicians.  Absolutely no one anywhere can stop them.  

This is what Jacobs seems to not realize.  No,they are taking more than a century to rape or have their females impregnated -or female abductees being raped by male abductees- and abducted many millions to breed super intelligent half-wits.  In 1898 the Greys or Insectalians or whatever the hell they are could have taken over the Earth.  Full stop.

And Jacobs, and again, those who have allegedly read his work, cannot see just how absurd all of this is? How one thing contradicts another?  That it is just sheer nonsense?

Movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The X-Files, Dark Skies, The UFO Incident, Invaders From Mars -TV, movies, comic books, pulps going back to 1900 all have elements of what these experiencers /abductees report.  But, I guess Jacobs will tell us, that is what They want us to think. The screen images -images mentally created by large-headed super intelligent aliens with no real grasp of human emotion?  Star Trek, the original 1965 pilot, ""The Cage", was not shown on TV until 1988. However, it was used in a two part story "The Menagerie" in 1966.  It contains the short, dome headed, super-intelligent aliens who don't quite understand humans and use "screen images" to create various scenarios.

Many of the abductions cited by Jacobs have elements of even cult TV series such as The Invaders. It goes on and on.

In a letter to me, some years ago now, Jacobs told me that he feared for the future of his grandchildren. At the time I guessed that there must be even more to be revealed than was in The Threat.  I was wrong.

This book, and not to mention Jacobs statements in public, is proof of nothing.  Lead the witness in the right direction because "you have to interpret what they are telling you means" (!) and you'll get what you want.  The abductees seem to have experiences that correlate with their normal lives and employment and it is easy to say that accounts "agree on these points" but what do they not agree on?  And why is Jacobs not pointing this out?

If there were ever a case that proved why peer review is vital it is this book and Jacobs work.  It is a potpourri of contradictions and fantasy and there is absolutely not one piece of hard evidence or provable fact. There is evidence that Jacobs has no understanding about the use of hypnosis or how it should be used and of leading questions and egotistical arrogance that really took me by surprise.

I have no doubt that some of his "subjects" genuinely believe these abductions and events are happening -though many do say, as in Kara Turner's works, that they are not sure whether what they are experiencing is real or a dream or an altered state.  But if you are going to go into this to simply collect abduction stories -do not.  David Jacobs is/has not helped these people but seems to have encouraged them to go further -internet messaging should never ever be used to fill in gaps or allow a subject to put themselves into a "relaxed state" to find out more. It is unethical and non-scientific.

Abductees or experiencers  need long term help and from properly qualified, psychologically trained professions who will not say "Let's try hypnosis -that works!"  These people, I do not believe, are being abducted by aliens or beings from"Magonia" or parallel dimensions and used as breeding machines or whatever. They are NOT mentally ill  -but they do need to learn how to cope with what is happening to them and once they understand they can learn to control.

This is part of a bigger problem in Ufology today.  Abductee researchers and hypnotists who suddenly realize THEY are an abductee or experiencer.  In fact, in the last year I have encountered more experiencers involved in UFO 'investigation' and collecting abductee reports (by the dozens each year) than I have the old time plain and ordinary UFO investigation and researcher.

This does not call for more tests to prove pet theories on piezoelectric or electro-magnetic phenomena nor "imaginary abduction tests".  This calls for serious study by psychologists because we are now seeing -excluding the fakes and Wannabees"- thanks to better communication and the internet, something that has probably been going on for a very -VERY- long time and kept mostly hidden until modern UFO abductions meant more people felt easier to speak out.

They certainly do not deserve to be targeted as potential threats to humanity and all that might entail.

I was expecting to find out more and see how Jacobs' work had progressed.  I was left stunned at what I found.



Monday, 7 December 2015

Close Encounter - SNL

Someone Just Queried....

....my stance on confidentiality. I'll make it clear.  You report ANYTHING to me then your name, exact location and any identifying material is never ever given out to anyone without your express permission.

There are things in my files that could net me more than a little money - maps, names of very important people I worked with or who were witnesses and much more- and I need the money. But it will never happen.  If I reach the point and feel it better to destroy correspondence than let it fall into public domain then I will burn everything.

Whether the AOP Bureau work (despite betrayals by the authorities there) or exotic fauna I say "it's confidential" that is how it stays.  It goes with me to the grave.

Clear enough?

"Swansea University Says You Are Lying---"


I have to say that I am very angry and have been put in a position I should not have been. Last Friday I was contacted by two reporters -one from Radio Wales and the other from a newspaper.  Both had been told by Swansea University that there had never been any "Exotic Cat Study" based at the university.

That immediately meant that I was a liar.  Apparently, Swansea had never heard of me.  So,I explained to both parties that there had been such a study and I had numerous documents to prove this -including university headed note paper, compliments slips and my name on documents along with those involved. The immediate response was "So you think this is a cover-up by the university -is DEFRA involved?  Followed by "What is your response to the university cover up and calling you a liar?"  If you have dealt with journalists you'll know how it works.

Did I have to copy all the documents and submit them as proof I was not a liar?

You see, I have always treated my work as private and correspondence as confidential and I have never ever breached that rule in over 40 years. I had bad experiences with two universities before Swansea but I was promised that those involved followed strict protocols and data is fully credited and acknowledge and they would not give me cause for complaint: this was a serious project.

So I agreed.

I even (and I could smash my head into a wall repeatedly over this) handed over field maps, documents and rare books -none were ever returned.  Replacing the books cost me around £400 when I eventually managed to find copies.  The other material -lost. 

My phone calls and messages to the project supervisor at home and the university -never responded to.  Letters -never responded to.  This happened suddenly and without explanation and considering that I had publicly defended the professor in charge when her credibility was challenged online -and had been there to listen and offer advice on attacks on this persons own livestock you can imagine that it was not just a betrayal but a really hard kick to the stomach. I contemplated just stopping the work.  As it was, the original Red Paper: Felids had to be scrapped because it included photographs,maps and data from the people at Swansea that I could not use without permission.

Even after a few years that still hurts.

I could have given the sort of publicity no university wants.  But, no, you see,  I abide by clear-cut and professional behaviour.   All I did was give the reporters the details below from the University of Swansea website.

 I have had two other universities contact me since that time and I have refused outright to have any dealings with them.  Three times "academics" have used me, my data and then back-stabbed me. If you see anything in the press now -you know the facts.  I am tight-lipped.

  • Folk demons or exotic cats: patterns and perceptions of predation in rural Wales (awarded 2009)

    Student name:
    PhD
    Supervisor: Professor Alayne Street-Perrott
    Other supervisor: Dr Pyrs Gruffudd

Sunday, 6 December 2015

Haunted Skies -A National Treasure

Interesting to hear from John Hanson, one of the compilers of Haunted Skies.  John noticed, as did I, that online (Amazon and Ebay) copies of volume 2-11 are on sale for £6-7,000 (that's $13-15,000) a copy.  There are also copies for £350-700.

NOTHING special about them.  Just con-man prices being asked.

These books are a national treasure and will be the historical reference archive for historians in future who are looking into the UK UFO scene.

I cannot recommend these highly enough!

 
As an historian and bibliophile I only tend to recommend or purchase books that I think will contribute to my own knowledge or to add to my own data base.

If you read the "About" at the top of this page you'll see I've been involved with the strange and unexplained and this started before I had even reached the age of ten because of personal experiences.  At school I got involved in a couple of mysteries.  And while at Greenway Secondary Boys School, Southmead, Bristol, I decided that I had heard enough family talk and ghost stories -I wanted to learn more and the paranormal eventually led to my getting involved in UFOs in 1974.

So, I have read a lot.  I have seen a number of "UFO Encyclopaedia" over -too many- years. They were so-so and generally focussed a lot on the United States -or were just pot-boiler explain-it-all-away type books that tended to have the author(s) heavy slant to them.

I initially read volume 2 (1960-1965) of Haunted Skies with the ennui that decades looking at these things bring. But I was impressed.  There is a mass of information in the book and a lot of fresh information dug up by the authors -Dawn Holloway and John Hanson.  Photographs, maps, sketches and more.  When I finally put the book down I decided that I really had finished a good book -and I am buying the rest!

Haunted Skies has been set the challenge to be "The Encyclopaedia Of British UFOs" and with eleven volumes to date it certainly is turning into that.  Have I written that I highly recommend the books yet?  Well, I do!

Now if you are interested then visit the Haunted Skies web site and buy through that -there are unauthorised copies being sold by others and the authors get no money from those sales!

http://www.hauntedskies.co.uk/index.html

John Hanson  Dawn Holloway




John Hanson is a retired CID Officer in the West Midlands Police and first became interested in the UFO subject in January 1995, after colleagues sighted a UFO hovering over some trees. This was the trigger for his curiosity; prior to that the very mention of UFOs and ‘flying saucers’ was impossible for him to accept as having any reality in the modern world. The publication of ten Volumes of Haunted Skies which painstakingly catalogue thousands of reports of UFO's/Close Encounter experiences by the public from 1940 onwards, is a project that John and his partner Dawn Holloway have been working on for many years.

Their objective is to educate the public and therefore have published the books at their own expense since the inception of the project.






Notable cases covered in the ten published volumes to date include:

The David Daniels case in which a man who alleged he was an alien actually met up with Admiral Lord Hill-Norton and Ralph Noyes, former head of the MOD.

An investigation into the Rendlesham Forest incident of December 1980, including amazing photographic anomalies from Rendelsham Forest itself.

The Rendlesham Forest incident will also be the subject of a future book looking at events from Colonel Halt's angle.



Eventually, Hanson and Holloway will have provided valuable historical volumes showing that Britain truly had Haunted Skies!

Well, That 1930s Incident DOES Exist....But Braemar...

 
I  asked for help in tracking this case down:

1930 (approx date) - 2130 hrs
TOMINTOUL (BANFFSHIRE : SCOTLAND)

Alexander Irvine and a friend were walking in Smiddy Lane when they saw a white light like a meteor. This light brightened and in it a number of figures could be seen moving around. It was regarded locally as the prevision of a nun’s death.
Note (TH): book published 1937 so contemporary not modern take on event.  Awaiting copy of book.
  • MacGregor 1955 p200.

Well, no help.  But what can you expect?  It seems everyone was quoting IntCat or Jerome Clark, and Clark got his info from IntCat. Dogma repeated is still dogma.

So,I put my hand in my pocket and bought a copy of the only book it might possibly be since the reference cited by IntCat is all that is given.

Book arrived. It IS the source though interpretation of what happened is open.  What book? What are the details?  You will have to wait until MY book is published.

This week alone I have corrected -by going to the original sources- 30 reports from Ufology to "cryptozoology" and the reason I know the 'experts' have never read the sources cited is because in the same paragraphs of some are even more events that they would have jumped on.

Do you know how many Ufologists/"cryptozoologists" and others want me to tell them what I find out -these are people who CONSTANTLY quote the sources- thirty (30) all of whom have spouted in word and writing the same incredibly inaccurate 'facts' for decades.

So we know they DO NOT carry out real research.

Oh, and the 1958 Braemar, Deeside CE IIIK incident seems to have been a hoax...by someone at FSR who never thought anyone would check.  And the bat-winged entity from Kent in 1963...in my book I'll show just how complicit FSR was in misleading readers over that one.

We haven't been lied to by World Governments" on UFOs all these decades: we have been lied to by the false "truth-seekers" and still are. 
 
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Oh,liked the illo above of the 1963 Hythe "Bat Winged Beast" (though it is inaccurate) but no idea who drew it.  If you do please let me know!

Saturday, 5 December 2015

Photographs from a séance with Eva Carrière (1913)


Yes, before Most Haunted, Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures the fraudulent claims had to be read about and people, in their naiivete, saw the photographs and since there was no photo-shop back then they were amazed. I'm guessing more than a few were not, though!

 It is interesting to read and see this.  Back then, cutting paintings of faeries from a book and propping them up around you and taking a few photos (Cottingley Fairies) got national -international- press attention. Chop up a couple photos of dinosaurs and rephotograph those and there is your proof that dinosaurs still existed in the 1920s-1930s (Kasai Rex , etc.).

This site is worth visiting anyway and I love it:  http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/photograps-from-a-seance-with-eva-carriere-1913/

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This remarkable series of photographs are from a book entitled Phenomena of Materialisation by German physician and psychic researcher Baron von Schrenck-Notzing. The book focuses on a series of séances that Schrenck-Notzing witnessed between the years 1909 and 1913 involving the French medium Eva Carrière, or Eva C. Born Marthe Béraud, Carrière changed her name in 1909 to begin her career afresh after a series of seances she held in 1905 were exposed as a fraud. Her psychic performances as Eva C gained the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery series, who believed she was genuine, and also Harry Houdini, who was not so convinced. Another researcher who became interested in her case was Albert von Schrenck-Notzing. A series of tests he devised between the years 1909 and 1913 convinced him that Eva C was the real deal and in 1913 he published his Phenomena of Materialisation detailing the sessions and the reasons for his belief.

It has been noted that these sessions with Schrenck-Notzing verged on the pornographic. Carrière’s assistant (and reported lover) Juliette Bisson would, during the course of the séance sittings with Schrenck-Notzing, introduce her finger into Carrière’s vagina to ensure no “ectoplasm” had been put there beforehand. this would be followed by Carrière stripping nude at the end and demanding another full-on gynaecological exam. Whether the audience members were obliging is up for debate, but reports that Carrière would run around the séance room naked indulging in sexual activities with her audience suggests perhaps so. One can imagine that this deliberate eroticisation of the male audience might go some way to explaining the ease with which these “investigators” believed the psychic reality of the seances. A decision of fraud on their part would distance their involvement somewhat from the special and heightened context of the séances and so cast their complicity in, or at the least witnessing of, sexual activities in the sober (and more judgemental) cold light of day.

The spiritualist debunker Harry Price wrote that the photographs taken by Schrenk-Notzing, rather than proving the reality of Carrière’s mediumship, in fact did just the opposite. In 1920 Carrière was investigated by the Society for Psychical Research in London and an analysis of her ectoplasm revealed it to be made of chewed paper and the ghostly faces as cut from the French magazine Le Miroir. Back issues of the magazine matched some of Carrière’s ectoplasm faces, including Woodrow Wilson, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria and the French president Raymond Poincaré. This is something Schrenk-Notzing tries to address in his book, but with not much success. A 1913 newspaper article explained how “Miss Eva prepared the heads before every séance, and endeavoured to make them unrecognizable. A clean-shaven face was decorated with a beard. Grey hairs became black curls, a broad forehead was made into a narrow one. But, in spite of all her endeavours, she could not obliterate certain characteristic lines.”

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