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ELSEWHEN
The Journal of the Strange & Unusual Phenomena Research Association
Volume Four
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Hypnotism and False Memories
Sweating Statues and Invisible Ships
The Evidence for Abductions
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FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK
the
Greetings, friends! Welcome to what may be the final issue of Elsewhen. Yes, this could be it
penultimate issue. It's been a long, interesting time since the first issue came out in 1989. Many of you
already know the story of how my article on temporal anomalies was rejected by the new editors at Fate
(after having been accepted by their predecessors), so I decided to start my own publication around that
Elsewhen. In the years that followed I made changes to format and content. It was starting to
really look good. My goal was for this to become a slick, glossy magazine.
article
I lost money in 1989 and broke even in 1990, but in 1991 made a reasonable profit, which I put back
into the organization. Unfortunately, 1992 and 1993 showed a tapering off of income despite the continual
improvements I was making. 1993 was a disaster in many ways, with several major problems coming up
that made continuing this time-consuming endeavor very difficult, if not impossible.
The bottom line now is to continue or not. Actually, all I need to continue publishing Elsewhen is
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a very modest amount. With that money I would buy the inkjet printer I need to continue
quality output and an upgrade in software. We are held back considerably by the software and dot matrix
printer we're using now. I want this to be a very professional-looking journal.
I will be contacting all former members and people who've sent for sample issues in a final membership
blitz in the next couple of months. If this is successful, Elsewhen continues. I will make my final decision
in June. I also need material - I have no articles and little material for another issue at this time.
Thank
you for all of your support. This issue is dedicated to you. Peace and love to you.
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RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
(Formerly The Temporal Anomaly Research Association)
Volume Four
Number Four
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Bufo Calvin
James & Tracy McDonald
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HYPNOTISM AND FALSE MEMORIES: THE TRUTH
BEHIND THE ALIEN ABDUCTION PHENOMENON?
"WEW U.S. STEALTH AIRCRAFT RUMORED"
SWEATING STATUES AND INVISIBLE SHIPS
PUBLICATION REVIEWS
CELEBRITY PSYCHICS AND THE GREAT NEW AGE
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THE EVIDENCE FOR ABDUCTIONS
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HYPNOTISM AND FALSE MEMORIES:
THE TRUTH BEHIND THE ALIEN
ABDUCTION PHENOMENON?
by Mark Gardner
with suggestions from
James McDonald &
Magnús Eiríksson
I have always had grave doubts about the reality of
the UFO alien abduction phenomenon, because the vast
majority of cases are so dependant upon evidence
obtained from hypnotic regression. Digging about in
the subconscious or unconscious mind of another
human being is still something of a mystery and we
have yet to unlock all the secrets of the mind. The
memory is not a solid thing, set in granite, unchanging
and faithful. All of us know that after a certain
amount of time our memories fade and become
untrustworthy. All of us have experienced a family
member bringing up an incident from the past that
never happened or did not happen the way they claim.
Parents are especially good at recalling things from our
childhoods that we know never really happened.
"The memory is not a solid thing,
set in granite, unchanging
Many therapists are out to make money and a
name for themselves, so are very motivated to get
useful stories from the buried subconscious of their
patients. It often takes two or three sessions of
hypnosis to get out the "good stuff" lurid accounts
of abuse in childhood or abduction by little grey men.
Some of these "experts" conducting hypnotic
regressions of suspected victims don't have a degree in
psychology or even a license of any kind. I absolutely
do not in any way, shape or form believe that anyone
other than a professional psychiatrist or psychologist
has any business messing around in the heads of
others. A person's mental health is at stake!
Experts have always suspected that some of our
memories, no matter how detailed and real they seem,
are false. In recent years the existence of a condition
known as False Memory Syndrome (FMS) has become
identified and accepted as a genuine disorder often
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brought about through the improper use of techniques
such as hypnotism. In fact, there is an organization,
the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, based in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From what I gather from
second-hand information, it was originally created as a
support for people falsely accused of child abuse due
to the overzealous work of police and social agencies.
A person's life can be totally and irrevocably ruined by
the accusation of child abuse; even when proved later
that it never occurred, the damage cannot be undone.
Now it seems that the Foundation may be expanding to
support the victims of the regression therapists who
created or evoked false memories in people under their
charge. I recommend you read "False Memory
Syndrome" by David Gotlib, M.D., in Issue 7 of The
Wild Places (42 Victoria Road, Mount Charles, St.
Austell, Cornwall PL25 4QD, ENGLAND), which I
discovered after the first draft this article.
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In my
You
Now, to move on with this article . . .
opinion, there are two main kinds of false memories:
internally generated and externally influenced.
must also remember that many of the abductees most
likely are just plain liars or hoaxers. The money they
get for speaking at conventions and writing books on
their 'experiences' more than adequately makes this
type of scam well worth the ridicule they receive.
Internally produced false memories are those
created by the person themselves without any outside
'assistance' from therapists or others. These may have
been consciously, subconsciously or unconsciously
created in the minds of the experiencer. These often
have to do with some sort of mental illness or
condition, although earlier traumas play a big rôle in
this. What often happens is that a child or adult has
memories of being victimized by agents
human or
otherwise. These memories may be anywhere from
very vague to quite explicit and detailed. They can
seem very real indeed.
Where one type of false memory comes in is
where they accuse Uncle Bill, Father O'Reilly or some
other known person as a victimizer when that person
was unable to have done any such thing because they
were away at the time of the alleged incident(s), were
never alone with the person, etc. Something may or
may not have happened but the face of someone
familiar was superimposed over the 'real' victimizer.
Another version of this is the alien victimization which
never actually occurred or was created by the mind to
'dehumanize' the monster who did the deed. As a
defense mechanism, the mind is able to superimpose
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because the pain of the betrayal or whatever is more
than the mind can accept. There have been many cases
of children who were adamant they were molested by a
family member or other known person but could not
the person in question was either
have been
geographically distant, deceased, never had the
opportunity (ie. never alone with the "victim" when the
incident(s) supposedly occurred), etc.
"We have a large number of
poorly trained, inept therapists
who are propagating a cottage
industry of discovering child
abuse in their patients."
Herbert Slegel, New York Psychiatrist
The second major kind of false memory is that
which is induced by a therapist or hypnotist. In this
type of scenario someone who has been having bad
dreams, emotional problems or unexplainable
depression, for example, goes in for help and through a
varying number of sessions recalls victimization of one
sort or another by a person (or alien). There had been
no specific memory before the hypnosis. The danger
here is that there is no way to objectively know
whether these "assisted memories" were
real
submerged memories or creations brought out through
the questioning of the therapists.
they were misapplying
hypnosis to recover memory,
unaware that they were creating
the very problem that they
would then have to treat.'"
Michael Yapko, San Diego Psychologist
A major case of some importance is that of
Cardinal Bernadin who was accused recently by Steven
Cook of having molested him 17 years before. The
memories of this "abuse" were brought out by a
Philadelphia therapist without the proper credentials to
provide useful evidence. Her master's degree had been
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earned while studying weekends at a New Age guru's
school. At the time she treated Cook she had only
completed three of the twenty hours required to
complete a hypnotism course.
cardinal, the court
Fortunately for the
sent Cook to specialist in
hypnotism, psychologist William Wester II, who
conducted a session which lead to Cook dropping
charges against the cardinal (but not against another
priest). Although the cardinal has been exonerated, the
stigma will endure. The most useful article on this
case was "A Memory that Tells Lies Can Do Evil" by
Kenneth L. Woodward of Newsweek, which appeared
in the March 8, 1994 edition of The Oregonian."
Then there are the cases where a troubled person
suddenly "recalls" memories of abduction and abuse by
UFO aliens. I think this is another example of the
"dehumanization" which the mind overlays on the
victimizer, whether there really was an incident or not.
If someone goes to a therapist and the therapist is sure
that there are submerged memories of abuse, then they
will likely produce memories of abuse whether they
were based in actual, physical reality or not. Who
knows what is a genuine memory and what is a "cover
story" invented by the mind as some sort of mental
self-defense mechanism.
Many cases of the UFO alien abduction
phenomenon are simply the contemporary version of a
mental manifestation that has existed since prehistoric
times. Primitive people were abducted by evil spirits,
people from the civilizations of Mesopotamia up to the
Viking Age were abducted by gods or demigods,
people from the Middle Ages up to a hundred years
ago or so were abducted by fairies or agents of Satan,
The cultural and
and so on to the present.
technological state of a civilization dictates the
framework for these "memories" of being "abducted",
examined and/or molested, then released. We are in
the Space/High Tech/Computer Age now,
machines travel to the Moon and beyond. And how
about all those science fiction realms? In this climate
it is no surprise that our monstrous abductors come
from beyond our own world, since space travel is in
the realm of possibilities. I suspect in another 100-200
years we'll be abducted by something entirely different.
With the doubts about the validity
our
or veracity of
therapists poking about in the minds of others, lack of
memories recovered through hypnosis, unqualified
witnesses to people being levitated out of bedroom
windows or abducted from their cars, no concrete
physical traces, etc., there is just no credible evidence
for actual UFO alien abductions of humans so far.
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The following AP article appeared in the
February 24, 1994, issue of The Oregonian, our
state's largest circulation newspaper:
New U.S. Stealth Aircraft Rumored
LONDON The U.S. Air Force apparently has
developed a new stealth aircraft capable of spying or
bombing, an authoritative British defense journal
reported Wednesday.
Jane's International Defense Review published a
drawing of the diamond-shaped plane, which strongly
resembles a smaller version of the B-2 stealth bomber.
The unidentified aircraft has been seen in flight in
several places across the Southwestern United States
and was captured on two videotapes, one made near
Groom Lake Air Force Base in Nevada, the magazine
said in its March issue.
The Air Force "is not in a position to comment on
the story, one way or another,' according to
spokesman Col. Doug Kennet in Washington.
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American aviation writer Bill Sweetman, who
wrote the report, said he believed the plane was a
superior, all-weather successor to the F-117 stealth
fighter, the world's first radar-evading warplane.
The new aircraft flies at medium or low altitude at
more than 500 mph, said Clifford Real, the magazine's
features editor who viewed the videotapes.
The F-117, conceived in 1978 and first tested in
1981, was the only aircraft to attack heavily defended
Baghdad during the Persian Gulf War in 1991. The
[AD] $46 million jets destroyed more than 40 percent of
their targets and were never hit by Iraqi fire.
The F-117 was put into service so quickly that
some features of conventional fighters were omitted.
"Compared with the F-117, the new aircraft would
have greater range, all-weather sensors, greater
weapons capacity" and perhaps new measures to
frustrate advanced radars, Sweetman said.
"The F-117 does not have any ability to hit targets
that are covered by cloud. This aircraft could very
likely do that," he said in an interview.
Associated Press
This illustration in Jane's International Defense Review allegedly shows the Air Force's new stealth aircraft.
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SWEATING STATUES
AND INVISIBLE SHIPS
by Hugh H. Trotti
The Modem Propensity for seeing "miracles"
everywhere is not at all a new thing. In fact, if
Gibbon's views in his Decline and Fall are true, the
early church fathers believing that the pagan gods
were real, and were really demons or devils - would
have felt that the growing church lacked a competing
body of "evidence" of the power and reality of their
new Christian religion.
saw
While it's true that the ancient pagans did not
see divine personages in potato chips or pictured upon
the sides of barns or grain storage towers, they
and
nevertheless
signs
portents,
omens,
everywhere, and recorded all sorts of anomalous
events. They even had what some call "poltergeist"
Though some scholars claim that
phenomena.
"poltergeists" are "modern", the Romans recorded a
case in which a person who went to bed in a "sacred"
room (it had been Emperor Augustus' nursery) suffered
a most peculiar happening: he was picked up from
sleep and flung out of bed.' And Julius Caesar's
household was disturbed when, just before his death, a
door in his house burst open ominously.²
existed
Mysterious fires that lighted themselves also
taken to be a good omen when an emperor
was in the neighborhood. The pagan priests who were
in charge of the altar where such took place were often
rewarded with money for such "good" omens, any may
have caused such fires themselves. The Roman
historian Livy wrote of the fall from the sky of such
oddities as stones and blood. These things, then, go
back a long time in history -but are they all figments
of imagination, superstition or nonsense?
Plants that grew in unexpected places were
considered miraculous, and if statues produced sweat it
was thought highly significant. Could the sweating
statues have a reasonable and even "scientific"
explanation? Aside from such possible contributors to
wetness as dew points and fog, it may be that they way
some statues were made could cause "miraculous"
sweating. The contemporary historian Michael Grant
noted a case where authorities in modern times have
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taken ancient statues to a laboratory for work to
remove original impurities. He wrote:
"In 1989 the Riace statues have been
returned to the laboratory in order to
extract the earth introduced at the time
of fusion, so as to stop sweating."
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It would appear that there is something here
that is understandable, and that, in addition to simple
weather causes (e.g. dew point), at least some statues
produced moisture not due to imagination, superstition
or priestly hoaxes. Of course, ancient believers could
have said that the gods may have caused the
introduction of foreign elements into certain bronze
statues so that they could display their worries at
appropriate times...
Those who follow with some interest the
general area of the strange, odd, and peculiar, will
recall the case called the "Philadelphia Experiment," in
which a ship was said to have disappeared from one
place and reappeared in another some distance away.
This was supposedly caused, in some people's view, by
government scientists performing secret work of an
experimental nature, in order to render ships visually
invisible to the enemy. The United States was in the
midst of World War II in those days, and government
scientists were supposedly engaged in all sorts of wild
There were claims that
and dangerous projects.
experiments gone awry had regrettable effects the
upon
These
crew of a ship, causing madness and worse.
caused by
unfortunate results supposedly
powerful electromagnetic fields placed aboard ship, and
it was claimed that this new equipment altered normal
space-time relationships.
Actually, the
were
This story was detailed at length by Berlitz and
Moore in their book The Philadelphia Experiment.
Hollywood followed up this scenario with a motion
picture with a sort of "mad scientist" theme.
picture of "invisibility
experiments" was likely a simple misunderstanding of
attempts to find a system to neutralize Japanese or
German sea-going magnetic mines, as some authors
That suggestion is made
have already suggested.
plausible by an interesting book (banned in Britain),
which details British successful attempts to equip their
ships to evade German magnetic mines, and to evade
In an interesting event,
German detection devices."
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these "degaussing systems were used on British
midget submarines, allowing them to pass over without
notice German detectors on the sea floor which
guarded the battleship Tirpitz at anchor in a fjord.
Those carried by those submarines were able thus to
place explosive charges against the warship, which had
been considered a danger to Britain's ocean shipping.'
It would be odd if the United States
government had not done similar research in order to
"mine-proof" its ships. It therefore seems very likely
that the tale of the "Philadelphia Experiment" carries a
kernel of truth, although not of the more sensational
sort. Perhaps this may be yet another case wherein it
is possible to provide what seems a likely explanation,
The
rather than to scoff at strange allegations.
"invisibility" experiments would in reality make
magnetic fields invisible to detection.
NOTES
Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, (trans. by
Robert Graves). New York: Penguin
paperback, 1987, p. 56.
Suetonius, op. cit., p. 50.
Ibid., pp. 105 and 122, for examples.
Livy, Rome and the Mediterranean, (trans. by
Henry Bettenson). New York: Penguin
paperback, 1976, p. 546. (Covers Livy's
history of Rome, Books XXXI through XLV.)
Grant, Michael, The Visible Past. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990, p. 199 (Note 3
to Chapter 3).
Moore, William L., and Charles Berlitz, The
Philadelphia Experiment. New York:
Ballantine Fawcett Crest, 1979 paperback.
Wright, Peter, with Paul Greengrass,
Spycatcher. New York: Bantam Doubleday
Publishing Group, 1988 paperback, pp. 19-21.
Wright and Greengrass, op. cit., p. 19.
Ibid., p. 21.
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REVIEWS
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The INFO Journal #70 - It was a very welcome
surprise to receive the "January 1994" issue a
couple of weeks ago. With the conflicting stories
regarding INFO's recent reorganization, many had
thought this excellent publication had gone the
way of the Dodo. The issue contains interesting
articles, although the feature is their claim to a
never-before-published story by Charles Fort that
was recently found, although I'd like to see proof
of its authenticity. (Address on Page 19.)
Phoenix Newsletter A new little newsletter
which I wish all success for the future! The first
two issues (January 1994 and April 1994) were
interesting reads with an emphasis on UFO themes
but included some fortean material. See for
yourself, order both issues. Contact: P.O. Box
[AD] 209, Woodbridge, VA 22194-0209 U.S.A.
Total Eclipse J. Taylor Block continues his
success with one of our favorite publications. The
March/April 1994 issue was 10 pages of good
reading, especially the article on cult leader Jan
Kowalski. Total Eclipse has always had good
computer-generated illustrations, which is
something I always wanted to add to Elsewhen.
(Address on Page 19.)
UFO Encounters -It's hard to believe Michael
Norris is up to the 12th issue of his UFO
publication already. He's been successful enough
that he will switch to a bigger, glossy format with
the next issue. This is a useful addition to
anyone's UFO library. (Address on Page 19.)
UFO Newsfile- Although I'd heard of it, I had
never seen one until I received the August 1993
issue a couple months ago. It is published by
BUFORA in England and its emphasis is on UFO-
related clippings from British newspapers. It is a
worthwhile complement to Lucius Farish's U.F.O..
Newsclipping Service. Contact: BUFORA (NF),
Suite 1, The Leys, 2c Leyton Road, Harpendon,
Herfordshire, AL5 2TL GREAT BRITAIN.
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Celebrity Psychics and
the Great New Age Leg-Pull
by Mark Gardner
Some time ago, in Issue #8 of Elsewhen, I
originally published my well-received article, "A Gift
of Fallacy: The Great Prediction Game." A few people
wondered about the name of the article and what it
meant.
Well, I based it on the title of Ruth
Montgomery's book about so-called psychic Jeane
Dixon, "A Gift of Prophecy." (I personally like Mary
Bringle's "Jeane Dixon: Prophet or Fraud?" better.)
Before I go further, I want to reprint that earlier article
for those of you who might have missed it:
Since at least the beginning of civilization there
have been those persons who claim to have insights
into or visions of the future. These people were usually
of no great importance before making a prediction that
came true in some dramatic fashion. The problem with
this scenario is the fact that the so-called seer might
have made hundreds of predictions before without
anything happening. Then, suddenly, here comes their
big break and they are famous from that point on.
Would you have faith in a 'psychic" if they were 99%
wrong in their predictions? I wouldn't.
Amongst the scores of frauds and con artists there
are a handful of persons that seem to really be able to
see into the future. But these are extremely rare. The
real ones, if they do exist, are keeping a low profile.
Just what should we look for in successful
predictions? I personally feel that there should be
sufficient enough detail of the coming event to pinpoint
it exactly. Any vagueness or ambiguity negates the
prediction. The problem with this criterion is that most
predictions immediately get thrown out. Still, I am very
strict in my definition of what a true, on-the-nose
prediction is. What is sufficient enough detail? Exact
dates, times, places, names, colors, and weather
conditions are major details I would look for, demand
and expect.
The common excuse for failed predictions is that
the seer or psychic "misread the signs" they received.
I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. A true psychic with
inborn (or dare I say God-given) abilities to see the
future should not make such mistakes often, if at all.
This hocus-pocus of "interpreting signs" is something
that was invented long, long ago and has been used in
take fortune-telling ever since. It comes directly from
superstition. A seer was more likely to impress their
clients with ominous or mystic mumbo-jumbo. Does
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bit before we address that very important question.
this mean that there are no real psychics? Let's wait a
I have spent the last five years or so tracking every
published prediction
5%!!!
of a
dozen
well-known,
"respected" psychics. The results I have obtained are
fascinating. Of all of these psychics the most accurate
(using my previously stated criteria) hit on only about
massive scale. Indeed, when I compared predictions
That would sure seem to prove fraud in a
made by some thirty psychics from North America and
Europe, I found that the accuracy rate was under 5%
What kind of success is this? What kind of psychics
are these people? The simple fact is that they are not.
They are only playing a role.
In all generosity I would consider a person to be
gifted with a true ability to see into the future if they
were correct in at least 50% of their predictions. This
seems to be a very reasonable figure to me. If you
have a gift and might possibly misinterpret from time to
time, then a 50-50 success rate seems to be a fair
indicator. There does not appear to be any tabloid
psychic in the world that comes close to this figure!
Indeed, the most accurate psychic was only correct in
about 5% of their predictions. Most shocking of all is
the fact that one very renowned psychic appears to
have made only one correct prediction ever (using my
- the one that made her famous - and even
criteria)
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it was somewhat vague. One correct prediction out of
hundreds is nothing more than a lucky guess. It takes
no special abilities to make an informed guess, as we
shall soon see.
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explain how seemingly intelligent people could send off
their savings to people like Jim and Tammy? Everyone
has been suckered at least once, but some people
never learn the lesson or open their eyes.
I know of several people, though, who have made
many predictions that have come true. One of these
persons has an accuracy rate far above my 50%
requirement. A real one, you say. Nope. He
vehemently denies any psychic or supernatural
abilities. He is an expert with statistics and
probabilities. He makes predictions after studying
trends. His accuracy is around 65%. The best
"psychic" is nowhere near that figure.
I am not psychic. I have no special abilities. Yet I
have an accuracy rate of about 80% in the predictions I
have made over the last ten to fifteen years! Boy, I
should be the one making millions of dollars instead of
some fraud. There is no secret to my success. I am
rather well-informed about the world around me and I
read quite a broad variety of materials. I only make a
prediction after carefully studying the facts and then
applying the data to trends. Also, the laws of
probability play an important part in successful
predictions of future events. Most of the predictions |
have made over the past ten years or so I have shared
with friends or relatives before they occurred but I have
kept some to myself. I have no desire to make a living
from playing a psychic. I am not one and will not play
one.
Many of the predictions I make are for my own
amusement. What are some of the things I predicted
that later came true? The eruption of Mount St.
Helens, the loss of Skylab, the frustrating delays in the
Space Shuttle program, that Vikings 1 and 2 would find
no life on Mars, the fall of the Shah of Iran, the
assassination of Sadat, an assassination attempt on
Ronald Reagan, the Falklands War, the legalization of
I have read of many persons who have a
premonition or make a prediction that comes true and
then never repeat the deed. To me that is either a
lucky guess or perhaps something more like a one
time telepathy contact. Those psychics that make a
living peddling garbage under the guise of predictions
after having had only one lucky guess are hypocrites Solidarity in Poland, Reagan's defeat of Mondale, the
much like some of today's political and religious
leaders. A true psychic would be a blessing that could
even save lives. A fake psychic (or false prophet) has
the potential of causing great anxiety and possibly
endangering or costing lives. It has happened many
times in history.
assassination of Indira Gandhi, Bush's defeat of
Dukakis, the loss of a Space Shuttle due to a booster
malfunction, a great military scandal in the U.S., the
existence of the stealth fighter and bomber, major
changes in Eastern Europe, the operation into Panama
to get Noriega, that the replacement space shuttle
would be reunited.
Pretty impressive, huh? Well, the fact of the matter
Every November or December the tabloids publish would be named Endeavour, and that the Germanies
their lists of predictions made by celebrity psychics fo
the coming year. There have been times when not one
of these predictions has come true, even partially is that I read journals, kept abreast of current events
Whenever a psychic is partially correct, though, they
immediately whip out that sorry
excuse abou
misreading the signs. How very convenient. Give m
a break! Why do people spend thousands of dollar
on these predictions? Basically, it is because peopl
are suckers for a good con job. How else do you
and then applied trend analysis and probability to the
situation. It is easy to make a guess, it is much harder
to make an informed guess. Let's now go back to
some of my predictions and see just how they came
about:
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Mount St. Helens: I was still in grade school when I
first suggested that Mount St. Helens was the most
likely of all the mountains of the Cascades to become
active again in the near future. Years later when it
started to rumble a bit, I predicted it would reawaken
explosively. I did not predict a date and time, of
course. When it blew its top off over ten years ago, I
was not surprised.
No life on Mars: Although many people hoped for
and some even expected it, I never believed that there
was any life now on Mars. I felt that the thin
atmosphere and distance from the sun made any
chance of life being present negligible. I don't rule out
the possibility of past life on the planet, now extinct.
The fall of the Shah: It was obvious with the unrest
in the country and the Shah's failing health that things
were going to change in 1979-80. But I didn't foresee
the long hostage crisis.
The loss of the Space Shuttle: Because of the
complexity of the Space Shuttle Transportation System
it was obvious that, given enough time, one would
eventually be lost. I studied the technical aspects and
came to the conclusion that a booster failure would be
the most likely cause of the loss of an orbiter and its
crew. I did not name a particular shuttle. I made this
prediction nine months before it happened. I told this
to my mother, amongst others.
A great military scandal: Although not very specific
as to details, I predicted that there would be a great
military scandal sometime during the first term of Bush.
The Iran-Contra Affair seems to fit this bill. Having
been in the military and understanding the real way our
government works, this one was a sure bet.
The Stealth Planes: Logical developments of
modern technology. No problem here.
Changes in Eastern Europe: I predicted the
breakdown of the Communist governments of the
Eastern Bloc countries as soon as Solidarity was
legalized. I felt that the time was right for sweeping
changes. Lech Welesa and Mikhail Gorbachev were
key components in this situation. It did happen a little
faster than I expected, though.
The Panama Operation: It had to happen
eventually, since assassination of Noriega was out of
the question and he definitely was not going to give up
his power regardless of the election results.
The newest Space Shuttle would be named
Endeavour: On the day of the Challenger tragedy |
started to think about the names that might be given to
a replacement orbiter. I was afraid that some idiot in
the government would name it Challenger II! I felt that
Endeavour (the name of a famous ship, hence the
British-English form of the word) was the perfect
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and Enterprise II. This one might have been nothing
more than a lucky guess, of course.
What does this all prove? It proves that an
informed person can make more accurate predictions
than any of the people that call themselves a psychic.
Indeed, I contend that all of the celebrity psychics are
using this technique to make predictions. There is no
psychic ability needed.
Let's look at Jeane Dixon as an example. She is
venerated for her supposed great accuracy in
predictions made during her life. The prediction that
made her name a household word was apparently the
foreseeing of JFK's assassination several years before
he was even elected. Basically, she predicted that a
young, blue-eyed Democrat would be elected President
In 1960 and would later be assassinated. That's it -
she never gave a name. It was a good bet that the
country would go for a "young Democrat" after two
terms of an "old Republican" (Eisenhower). And there
was also the famous 20-year cycle which seemed to
claim Presidents. 1960 would be the next year to fit
the pattern. But she screwed up by later saying that
Nixon would win. This canceled the previous
prediction, since you can't have two winners. When
Nixon lost, Ms. Dixon swore up and down that he had
actually won and the Democrats had cheated. You
can't have it both ways, Jeane! This prediction took no
psychic ability at all.
Other great predictions were Roosevelt's death
several months before it happened (it was obvious that
FDR was driving himself too hard and that he looked
really bad in early 1945), Martin Luther King's
assassination (he was the leader of a movement many
did not approve of and was an obvious target), and
Robert Kennedy's assassination (the past history of
tragedy in the Kennedy family plus RFK's liberal ideas
in 1968 made this one easy). People without any
special powers could have (and many did) predict these
Although her wrong predictions are played
events.
down, she has made quite a lot of them. Some of the
real whoppers were that World War III would start in
1958, the Vietnam War would be over in nine months,
and that a comet would strike the Earth, causing great
destruction.
Just about every accurate prediction by the celebrity
psychics over the past twenty years or so could have
been made by trend analysis and informed guessing.
The tiny remainder could be simply lucky guesses. The
large percentage of wrong or faulty predictions proves
that there is no special power, gift or ability involved.
A small number of one-time only predictions or
visions can be accounted for by statistical probability,
lucky guesses and the possibility of a one-way
telepathic contact.
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If we throw out all of today's psychics as not being
the genuine article, how about the legendary
Nostradamus? Well, even though my French is not all
that great, I've read through his prophecies in both the
cryptic that it can be twisted to fit just about anything.
original and translation. Most of the stuff is so vague or
And that is just what has happened. He wrote it that
way intentionally.
Are there really people that can see into the future
I and reveal it to us accurately? There is a possibility
that there are such people in the world but they are
keeping it to themselves. None of the famous seers
and prophets seems to be genuinely gifted. There are
just too many errors and too much show business
involved.
Since the above article appeared ten issues ago, we
continued to monitor the published predictions by the
tabloid psychics. The results did fascinate us, although
they were in no way unexpected. You see, the
successful prediction rate actually declined in 1992 and
― a
From all of 1992, we accepted only two
1993!
predictions as correct out of several hundred
percentage rate of less than 1%. But what was really
interesting was the fact that there were no correct
predictions made during 1993. No, not a single one!
This fact even appeared in a local paper in early
January of this year with a small article titled
"Psychics Strike Out in 1993".
We have now decided that it is an absolute waste
of time to continue tracking the predictions of the
tabloid psychics. After eight years of research and
giving these "psychics" the benefit of the doubt, we
must sadly conclude that not one of them is genuine.
We find it amoral and bordering on criminal that
persons can make a living peddling fiction as a divine
insight into the future. The pain and embarassment
they have caused celebrities, as well as the anxiety and
fears they have caused in hundreds of thousands of
naïve people through their doomsaying, is a scandal
beyond description. I have no doubt that our founding
fathers would weep if they saw how their guarantee of
a free press for all has been perverted in such &
shameful way.
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THE EVIDENCE FOR ABDUCTIONS
by Bufo Calvin
Evidence can be broadly divided into two
categories: anecdotal (although this is hardly the
correct term, it has come to mean anything simply
stated by a person) and physical. In what has
become known as the Abduction Phenomenon, it
is a question commonly (and properly) asked by
skeptics: what evidence is there?
In the first category, we can further divide it
into two kinds: individual (specific cases) and
abstract (being drawn from a variety of cases).
The next step is to decide the ground rules: "I
will accept this because..."; "I will not accept this
because..."; "I will reject this because..."; and "I
will not reject this because..."
can
By setting up specific grounds, one
minimize subjective prejudice. Of course, people
revise the rules as they go along, and that can
prevent any eventual conclusion.
Some ground
rules are so simple that the evaluation is mostly
done on intuition. For instance, a common rule is
that "I will not accept anything which is
impossible.'
That's certainly a reasonable
position, however it requires a clear-cut boundary
of what is and is not impossible.
A truly
open-minded person does not set that boundary,
realizing that what may seem impossible now may
be proved possible in the future.
As to individual anecdotal evidence, there is a
That's the first
considerable amount of it. Most of us, though,
only see it at best second-hand.
problem. Suppose that you simply say, "I will not
accept anything which is not first-hand." At that
point, you certainly will not accept the Abduction
Phenomenon until you yourself are abducted.
by just a few researchers. If you reject (or do not
The next time you go to the supermarket, please
I don't waste your loose change on a rag filled with
fabulous psychic predictions that won't come true, put Most evidence of this nature has been presented
those coins to use by dropping them in a donation can
for the March of Dimes, American Cancer Society, accept) the evidence of Budd Hopkins, John
Save the Children, United Good Way, Multiple Mack, and David Jacobs, the party is basically
Schlerosis, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, or any
worthwhile charity. Help save a precious child, instead
of helping a fraud make a dishonest living.
The truth shall set us free.
other
over.
Brand these three as liars or deluded and
the amount of evidence available to most people is
certainly two-thirds (and probably more) gone.
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So, there's the first area to set ground rules:
who will I believe? Most people simply cannot
set a hard and fast rule on this. Do you require
certain degrees? Do you want it to be someone
who is impartial? Do you want it to be someone
who receives no income from their beliefs? Do
you require the same ground rules for someone
making other sorts of claims?
Personal anecdotal evidence is frequently
rejected on the suggestion that the people who
make the claims are lying or deluded. Is this a
falsifiable statement? Can you prove that
someone is deliberately presenting a lie or is
pathologically (or otherwise) observing something
which is not real? Unlike most UFO sightings,
there isn't much leeway for simple mistakes here.
The observations are of complex, detailed, often
lengthy events. It would seem that the percipient
would be unlikely to simply misinterpret other
events. Can we apply science to this? Much of
the study of UFOs is devoted to proving the
honesty and/or credibility of particular witnesses.
Many people require that the witnesses be honest
and credible before they will accept any portion of
their claims. Prove that the person has ever lied
about anything, and many people will drop their
stories like a hot potato. This makes it difficult to
come up with any sort of supportable story.
Travis Walton, a famous abductee, ran afoul of
the law years before the event. For many, that
means that anything he said cannot be considered
valid.
That's a sweeping and easy way to
eliminate evidence from examination...and not
very scientific.
Another major technique is to try and find lies
or errors within the specific story. That is, it
would seem, a much fairer method. It may be
the falsehood of a statement that
possible to prove
way. For instance, suppose that someone says it
normally takes an hour to get from point A to
point B. Within a margin of error, that is a
testable statement. This is sort of the Sherlock
Holmes approach to testing personal anecdotal
evidence, and Phil Klass is a great practitioner of
this. If you say that the moon could not be seen
above the horizon at a certain time, be prepared to
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be challenged on that. Most abduction reports,
though, do not have enough specific external
detail for this kind of testing.
Lack of corroborating evidence is also often
cited. If a UFO is supposed to have followed a
path over a highly populated area, why can't
secondary witnesses be found more easily? That's
an important point, and one that would be used in
"Ms. So-and-so, you claim to
a court of law.
have been abducted from your car on a busy
freeway during commute time by an 'object which
was 100 feet across and glowing bright orange...
yet you cannot produce one witness to corroborate
this colossal, attention-getting object's presence,
even from the people in the same car with you?"
Keep in mind, though, that there may be a
reluctance on the part of witnesses to come
forward. And if they do, who will you accept as
being independent from the principals in the case?
This issue has been particularly true in the Linda
Are there
case and in the Pascagoula case.
corroborative witnesses or not? If the events
happened as reported, should there have been
witnesses?
This leads us into the question of abstract
anecdotal evidence. In the examination of this
evidence, it is not the individual case which is of
prime importance, it is the patterns and
correspondences between different cases. First,
does the evidence seem to suggest the same
external cause in a variety of cases? Secondly,
does the pattern suggested make sense?
The first question is of paramount importance,
and is a subject of great controversy. How can
that be tested? Put a guy in a green uniform in a
red convertible and have him drive down a main
street. Say you want to prove what was there.
You would think that if you asked a hundred
people who were in the area to describe what had
happened, it could prove whether it happened or
not.
We know that those hundred people will
simply not describe the event the same way.
Quite possibly, the majority of the people will
have no recollection of the car at all: they may
have been talking to someone else, looking the
other way, etc. Others may disagree about the
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color of the car or the uniform or the gender of
the driver or what the car did. How, then, can we
test a set of stories to see if they are describing
separate occurrences of similar events?
Many people will seize on corroborative
details as prove. For instance, if the abductors
were all reported to wear the same uniform,
wouldn't that be proof? The first objection is that
it would have to be demonstrated that the
witnesses had not corroborated, either directly or
through the medium of the investigator, or by
exposure to an idea about what alien's uniforms
should look like.
Total lack of contagion is
virtually impossible to prove.
Here again is a
place to set ground rules for yourself. Will you
only accept corroborative statements if it can be
proved that there was not contagion? If that's the
case, scratch abductions
and virtually
everything else. Suppose I tell you that I do not
believe in elephants. Every single witness you
could present would have been contaminated.
There is certainly a cultural idea of what elephants
look like. Also, because you would be bringing
me the witnesses, and you already believe in
elephants, they would be suspect. The best sort of
evidence here is that obtained from different
cultures. However, it is always presented by
someone who has a knowledge of the subject, and
thus can be accused of tainting the testimony. We
need a clearer picture of how people report true
events. Suppose that the variation in reports of
elephants was approximately the same
variation in reports of abductions? And that the
variation in reports of Elvis sightings (if you
accept that Elvis sightings are false) was of an
entirely different magnitude than the first two?
Would that tend to substantiate abduction reports
For me, this area of evidence is one of the
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for you?
trickiest and most complex.
Is
as the
absolute
confirmation of every detail good or bad?
Folklore tends to repeat itself pretty exactly,
perhaps more exactly than actual observation.
Maybe exact repetition is
evidence for a
mythology rather than a fact. The evidence which
does exist for corroboration has also been
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noses.
restricted on the part of some researchers, because
they don't want to blow their indicator. Maybe
"true aliens" have happy faces tattooed on their
If an investigator reports that, then
someone can make up a story and include that
detail. If it is not reported publicly, then it can be
used as a test of reality (if the presenter of the
story has not
to the "secret
had access
information"). While a legitimate investigatory
technique, it is the opposite of science.
This area also includes statistical analysis of
events and experiencers. Are there patterns? Do
they imply anything about the nature of the event?
Here, you must decide if the pool of evidence is
sufficient. Do people select which cases to use in
the sample? Should they? Is the sampling
technique legitimate? And vitally, does it
show what the interpreters of the study say it
does? Two good examples of the last point are
the Condon study and the Roper poll.
people feel that the conclusions of these
two reports (one condemnatory of UFOs, the other
supportive of abductions) are not warranted by the
work within the study.
Many
Now, onto the question of physical evidence.
Once more, we will divide it into two areas:
primary evidence (actual pieces of abductors or
their technology) and secondary (effects of the
abductors on other objects, including percipients).
In the primary category, there are probably
not ten examples still extant and available for
study. Here are some questions for you: what
would constitute proof? What techniques would
you want to have used to study the objects? By
whom and how should those analyses be done?
Would an autopsy report satisfy you? What if it
was reported in the National Enquirer? The
The Journal of the American
Mufon Journal?
assess,
Medical Association?
The secondary category, that of effects on the
environment by abductors, is extremely difficult to
and yet can be an essential part of
Scars are one common
collaborative evidence.
type of evidence. How can these scars be shown
to have been produced by the abductors? So far,
they can't. A scar is easy to produce. Radiation
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effects might be harder to fake, but these are
rarely if ever reported in abduction cases (they
have been reported on occasion in sighting events,
such as Cash/Landrum). Soil analysis of landing
traces, magnetic changes to nails in the walls of
houses, etc., are also difficult to demonstrate the
It is simply very difficult to show what
caused a particular effect, since the recording
surface is limited in the variety of ways in which
it can respond to stimuli. Also, you again fall into
the question of who runs the tests and presents the
evidence.
causes.
SPECIFIC CASES
me
Now that I've commented on the types of
evidence available, let give you some
examples which you can examine yourself, if, in
many cases, only third-hand or so. This list is by
no means complete; it is intended only to point
you towards some notable ones. New abduction
appears frequently, particularly in
evidence
specialty magazines.
PERSONAL ANECDOTAL: Communion by
Whitley Strieber; Abducted (out of print) by Coral
and Jim Lorenzen; The Alagash Abductions by
Raymond Fowler, Intruders by Budd Hopkins.
ABSTRACT ANECDOTAL: Secret Life by
David Jacobs; Close ET Encounters: Positive
Experiences with Aliens by Dr. Richard Boylan;
UFO Abductions A Dangerous Game by Phil
Klass.
PRIMARY PHYSICAL: "Results of the
Analysis of the Recovered Specimen" from
MUFON Report, May 1993.
This is covered
There has been
SECONDARY PHYSICAL:
in many of the sources above.
some good work on UFO secondary physical
evidence, for instance Physical Traces Associated
with UFO Landings by Ted Phillips in 1975,
associated
not often
however these were
specifically with abductions.
Editor's Note: Bufo welcomes comments on
and discussion of things he writes about.
Contact him at his P.O. box or Internet e-mail
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Weirdness in the West
by Bufo Calvin
Some recent happenings in the West...
On the Bigfoot beat, the Big Guy is back
(actually, he never went away!). The bipedal
behemoth made a couple of appearances near
Colton, Oregon, about a year ago, and near Green
Mountain Falls, Colorado, in the Summer of 1992.
An apparent family of them was observed near
Wylandville in Washington County, Washington,
in July of 1992. Also, there was a sighting near
The Dalles, Oregon, last year (in January).
Whatever happened at Rock Creek, Colorado,
the story continues to build. It began with
NORAD officials alerting local authorities to a
The local
"significant explosion" in January.
folks couldn't find anything, which was deemed
odd. Following that, strange things have been
Blue flares, unmarked helicopters
reported:
(spotted by a deputy), and a brown pickup truck
full of electronic gear. Although the suggestion of
a UFO crash and recovery hasn't really been a top
contender, it does sound a little like an episode of
The X-Files so far.
Will we finally have an answer to the Roswell
Incident mystery? It sounds like some
investigation is going on at the request of U.S.
Rep. Steve Schiff of New Mexico, but don't hold
your breath. Supposedly, Barry Goldwater wasn't
allowed to see some UFO evidence (supposedly in
the "blue room" at Wright-Patterson AFB), and he
had considerably more pull than Schiff does.
Meanwhile, strange aerial lights and objects have
been seen in San Juan County, NM, late last year.
Abduction stories go on, and I'm becoming
aware of more mental health professionals who
are seeing abductees as patients. This publicity
will really heat up with the release of Dr. John
Mack's book in April.
Both Utah and Texas residents have had to
deal with "skyquakes" lately sort of like sonic
booms. In Utah, in early February of this year, it
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was associated with a flash. In Texas, they were
heard in mid-January.
Editor's Note: This is the third of a series of
little updates that Bufo has circulated amongst
friends and associates. This is the first one to
appear in Elsewhen.
Speaking of weirdness in the West, the following
article of a classical fortean subject, skyfalls,
appeared in the July 12, 1993, issue of Salem's
dally newspaper, The Statesman Journal:
Dust devil showers
hay on Keizer
- A hay shower that filtered down
KEIZER
on northwest Keizer on Sunday was the handi-
work of a hot-weather culprit called a dust devil, a
National Weather Service forecaster conjectured.
in tiny bits to 12-inch
A shower of hay
rained down on several streets from 3
clumps
to 4 p.m. Sunday.
"It just fell out of the sky in globs. Then
you'd get little flakes," Nancy Wichmann, of 1039
Juniper St. N, said. "It's all over the roofs, and
yards and streets."
Fred Mann of the National Weather Service in
Salem said a pocket of low pressure in a field
probably set the hay to swirling.
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"When you get hot weather like this, you get
miniature cyclones," Mann said.
"They pick the straw up out of the field.
When the wind dies down, it drops."
Clint Naslund of Woodwind Court N first
noticed a clump of the dry, yellow-brown sticks in
his dog's mouth. He strolled east five blocks on
Willow Lake Road to gauge the range of the hay-
strewn area and still didn't reach the end of it.
Then it was time to haul out his rake and clean
up. "I'm just going to put it on my compost pile,"
he said.
Editor's Note: I got a sample of this hay.
Say it's no so, Nessie:
Famed photo was faked
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
LONDON - A deathbed confession has exposed a
famous photo of the purported Loch Ness monster as
an elaborate 60-year-old hoax.
Instead of a prehistoric monster, the 1934 picture
actually depicts a toy submarine fitted with a fake
sea-serpent head, two Loch Ness researchers say.
Alastair Boyd and David Martin say one of the
conspirators in the hoax told them about it just before
he died last November at the age of 90, The Sunday
Telegraph newspaper has reported.
The photograph, depicting a sea beast with a
humpback and long neck, was attributed to Robert
Wilson, an eminent London gynecologist. He said he
took it April 19, 1934, after his companion saw a
commotion in the water and shouted, "My God, it's the
monster!"
The London newspaper said Boyd and Martin
learned that Wilson was part of a hoax hatched by his
friend Marmaduke Wetherell, a filmmaker and self-
styled big-game hunter hired by The Daily Mail in
1933 to hunt for Nessie. Wetherell's son, Ian, and
stepson, Christian Spurling, were also involved.
Boyd and Martin said Spurling, a skilled model
maker and the last surviving conspirator, told them he
built the model for the 1934 photograph at Wetherell's
request.
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Spurling created a "monster" 12 inches tall
and 18 inches long, the newspaper said. The
keel of a toy submarine was fitted with lead to
make the model ride steady in the water. The
fake Nessie was taken to Loch Ness in
Scotland to be photographed in authentic
surroundings.
The Daily Mail ran the photo as a world
exclusive, arousing huge interest.
Some researchers used the picture to back
claims that Nessie is descended from
plesiosaurs, large reptiles with small heads and
long necks that died out 65 million years ago.
The hoax has not dealt a fatal blow to those
who seek the truth behind the Loch Ness
legend ― or those who profit from the world's
curiosity.
"It's a breakthrough" in the scientific research, said
David Cotton, chief general manager of the Loch Ness
Center at Drumnadrochit, which welcomes tourists to
an exhibit on research and theories about the
"monster."
"This head has always been a wild card to us. ... It
was the only sighting of its sort and always caused us
enormous problems," Cotton said Tuesday. "Our
resident biologists have never been happy about this.'
The photo did not fit in with the majority of
reliable sightings, he said. And because the photo was
taken long ago, on a film plate rather than a modem
roll of film, it could not be subjected to ultraviolet
tests or computer enhancement, he added.
Other theories include one that Nessie may be a big
Baltic sturgeon.
The Times of London on Monday quoted Adrian
Shine, the Loch Ness Project's chief, as saying he
accepts the report of the hoax but that the hunt for
Nessie will go on.
"Eyewitness accounts still suggest that there is
something powerful in the loch," Shine was quoted as
saying.
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The legend dates to A.D. 565, when St. Columba is
said to have saved a farmer from a monster's grasp.
The first locally recorded sighting, reported by the
Inverness Chronicle in 1868, told of a huge fish.
Nearly 1 million tourists visit Loch Ness each year
hoping to see Nessie. While there, they pump $37
million into the local economy.
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A LISTING OF EVENTS BY LOCATION IN
MARION COUNTY, OREGON
COMMUNITIES CHECKED: Aumsville, Aurora,
Brooks, Butteville,
Breitenbush, Broadacres,
Chemawa, Detroit, Donald, Four Corners, Gates,
Gervals, Hayesville, Hubbard, Idanha, Keizer,
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Turner, West Woodburn, Woodburn
NATURAL FEATURES CHECKED: Abiqua Creek,
Butte Creek, Drift Creek, Pudding River,
Willamette River
HUBBARD: UFO with landing traces, 5-19-1992
(AGOAGEBE0068)
KEIZER: Fall of anomalous ice, 5-17-1971
(IBID0068)
MILL CITY:
(IBID0070)
UFO (nocturnal light), 1-21-1976
SALEM: Photographic anomaly, 1953 (IBID0073);
UFO (CE1, close-range (sighting), 6-24-1947,
1780 Oxford (IBID0073, Salem OREGON
STATESMAN for 6-29-1947); UFO (CE1,
close-range visual sighting), photograph taken,
3-16-1967, 1893 32nd Avenue (IBID0073); UFO
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(daylight disc), 6-25-1947 (IBID0073, Salem
OREGON STATESMAN, 6-29-1947); UFO
(daylight disc), 7-4-1947 (IBID0073, Salem
OREGON STATESMAN, 7-5-1947), 3115 D Street
Windshield Pitting, 1954, 2375 Lee Street
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(IBID0073)
STAYTON: UFO (nocturnal light), 10-24-1958, E.
Norfleet (IBID0073)
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This is a long listing of organizations, their
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CANADIAN UFO REPORT
Box 758
Duncan, B.C. V9L 3YI
CANADA
CENAP REPORT
Limbacher Str. 6
6800 Mannheim 52
GERMANY
CENTER FOR BIGFOOT STUDIES (CBS)
(formerly SOUTHWESTERN BIGFOOT
RESEARCH TEAM)
10926 Milano Avenue
Norwalk, CA 90650
[AD] PHONE: 714-351-9034
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FORTEAN RESEARCH ON A BUDGET:
THE ULTIMATE, CHEAPEST AND MOST
BASIC RESEARCH OF ALL
NEWSPAPERS!
by Gary S. Mangiacopra
Are you pressed for time in today's world?
Working two jobs due to the present economic
recession we're in? Yet you can still do the
equivalent of research of two books a day
looking for fortean
during some off moments
incidents. How? Just read your local
newspapers!
One of the most basic and often overlooked
sources of fortean data that one can begin to
collect and start your own files is from the
newspaper columns that are published in your
local papers. What many people do not realize is
that a typical daily newspaper has a total word
count equal to the length of two books. Each day,
hundreds of thousands of words are printed,
though one must realize that weeks and weeks
may pass before something fortean or off the
beaten track gets published in the newspaper
columns.
And all for the most modest cost of some
loose change in your pocket!
If one wishes to be even cheaper than that,
just read whatever newspapers that have been
lying around for several days. News of this type
does not go stale even after the passage of some
time. At one of my jobs which is connected to a
newsstand, during my breaks, I go through the
newspapers which are left around from that week.
I can
examine Connecticut, New York, and
Boston newspapers at no cost to me for whatever
I may find. And to be frank, I cannot afford to
pay the $5-$10 a week to buy these newspapers
that I can read for free. Through this I get a few
leads which can be the basis for fortean research
and articles.
It is best to remember that you will find such
fortean data through all of the various different
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columns: the news column of what is happening
locally; the sportsman columns, great for bigfoot
reports, black panthers, and other "odd wildlife";
the national column; the international column;
anywhere throughout.
The best time of the year to specifically look
for newspaper forteana is the last two weeks of
October ending with Halloween (great for local
hauntings or things that happened in the past), and
the summer months when more people are out in
the woods and likely to report what they had seen
and encountered.
area
Another overlooked local source for your
state
is regional and
magazines that
occasionally carry something in their pages on
past occurrences, or a passing mention that the
recently remodelled hotel has a ghost in one of its
rooms, or the nearby park had occasional
appearances of UFOs, etc.
So to build up your files at next to nothing
just read! And read everything you get your
hands on!! Clip those interesting items out or
make a note of where you got it from to later get
a copy of them.
And remember, though fortean items are rare,
what is common is background data of an area.
What is the history of a haunted hotel, when was
the park founded, how has the area changed in the
past decades, etc. This can be accomplished by
other articles published in newspaper columns. In
20+ years of amateur newspaper clipping I have
amassed files that total thousands of clippings
clippings that are now the basis for future articles.
Never assume that this most modest of
efforts one can do just a few minutes a day is
worthless, for in effect it is one of the most
invaluable items of research anyone can do. But
do is what someone must. So start this research
now for your benefit and those of other future
forteans!
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Elsewhen
TO DATE ELSEWHEN BACK ISSUE ARTICLE DIRECTORY
Issue #1: Who Is TARA?; "Temporal
Anomalles: Fortean Mysteries
Part I: Letters to the
Explained?
Editor
Issue #2: Eye On the New Age Intro;
Spotlight on Religion Intro; "Temporal
Anomalles: Fortean Mysteries
Explained? Part II"; Visit To the
Cryptozoo Intro; Letters
Issue #3: The Cryptozoo: Lake
Monsters; Things That Go Bump, "The
Cape Ann Sea Serpent of 1817 Reprint:
The Science Corner Intro; Spotlight on
Religion; Letters
Issue #4: The UFO Observer; "A
Dictionary of Fairies, Elves and
Monsters
Part One"; Letters;
Synchronicity, "Comets and Serpents";
The Cryptozoo: Sea Monsters;
"Megalith Mysteries"
Issue #5: "The Great Airship Hoax
(3)": "A Dictionary of Fairies, Elves and
Monsters
Part Two"; Parallel
Universes and Prefixion; Personal
Experiences; "Final Words"; "The Truth
About Déjà Vu"; Letters
Issue #6: "Sub-Temporal Particles and
the Mechanism of Time"; "A Revived
Cultural Fossil: The Werewolf"; The UFO
Observer, The Cryptozoo: Lycanthropy,
"Time Traveler in Morongo Valley": The
Collin Werewolf of 1589 Reprint;
Forebodings of Doom
Issue #7: "Big Wally of Oregon: The
'Monster' of Wallowa Lake"; "The
Relative Purchasing Power of Metals in
Ancient Times"; "Strange Desert
Encounters"; "Cosmic Theory"; The UFO
Observer; "The Ancient Poltergeist"
Issue #8: "A Gift of Fallacy: The
Great Prediction Game"; "The Time
Factor": "Anomalistic ABC's";
"Revelation From the Crystal Skulls";
"Fears & Phobias" List; "The Other
Realitles of Space & Time"
Visit to the Cryptozoo
Issue #9:
"Fortune-Telling" List; "What Are
Ghosts? Subject: Time Travel
Part I: "The Red Falry, Black Dogs
and Hedgerows"; "The Crossover":
"Glimpses of the Fourth Dimension";
"More On Cometary Imagery"; Fortean
Research On A Budget: Tip #1;
Letters
"George Van Tassel
Issue #10:
Glant Rock and the Integratron";
Subject: Time Travel Part II; "The
Hidden People' of Iceland"; Things
That Go Bump.... "Parapsychology.
Things to Think About"; The UFO
Observer, The Cryptozoo: Issle of
Japan's Lake Ikeda; Folklore:
"Concerning Trolls..."; "The Dolmen
Mystery: Fortean Research On A
Budget: Tip #2
Issue #11: "Scandals, Rumors &
Controversies"; "Kill My Grandfather?
I Couldn't Even Find Poughkeepsie!";
"Fairies and the UFO Connection";
"The Hairy Man of the Caucasus";
Subject: Time Travel Part II;
"Strange Happenings In Northeast
Scotland"; Fortean Research On A
Budget: Tip #3
Issue #12: "Time, Ghosts and
Dinosaurs"; Things That Go Bump,
"The 'Laws' of Time Travel"; "Matter,
Energy and Thought: The Great Circle
of Science and Mysticism"; Personal
Experiences: "The Legend of the
Lechuza"; Parapsychology: Things to
Think About; The Monsters of Japan:
Ningyo, "Deceptions: Ancient and
Modern"; Our Strange World; Letters;
Fortean Research On A Budget: Tip
#4, Explained!
losue #13: Britain's Haunted
Airfields: An Introduction; "UFOs:
Extraterrestrial or Terrestrial?
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Issue #18
(Intro)"; "On the Trail of the Demon-
Girl"; "What is Precognition Telling
Us?"; The Monsters of Japan: Kappa,
"Ghost Theory and Etherial Film";
Fortean Research On A Budget: Tip
#5; SUPRA Crossword; Explained!
Issue #14: The Ghosts of Scotland's
Montrose Aerodrome; "The Mystery
Hill Mystery: The Cryptozoo: Hairy
Blobs Explained?; "UFOs and the
Ocean"; Monsters: The Oni of Japan;
"New Universes: Do 'Alternates'
Exist? Fortean
Research On A
Budget: Tip #6; "From a Psi-ologist's
Notebook: Definitions"; "The Myth of
the Great Lakes Triangle"; Explained!,
Great
Local Clips; Research Trip | -
Britain 1991: A Summary
Issue #15: The Ghosts of RAF
Hendon; "Imaginary Time, i(t)": "666'
and 'Medusa's Lair"; Public
Awareness; "Has Anyone Really Been
Abducted?"; "The Mystery of the Men
in Black"; Monsters: The Tengu of
Japan; "UFOs: Extraterrestrial or
Fortean
Terrestrial? (Part II)";
Research On A Budget: Tip #7; Now
the News...; "The Men in Black and
UFOs"; "Mysterious MIBs"; Movie
Scene; Back Issue Article Directory
losue #16: The Ghosts of RAF
Scampton; "UFOs: Extraterrestrial or
Terrestrial? (Part III)"; "Was Atlantis
Real? Thoughts On Stonehenge; The
Bookshelf; "The Parallel Invention/
Composition Controversy"; "Do Space-
Time Vampires Exist?"; "A Visit to
Haunted York": Now
Fortean Research On A Budget: Tip
#8, Back Issue Article List (1-15)
the News....
A
the
losue #17: Military Hauntings:
Sampling: Little People and
Wilderness; Another Temporal Oddity?:
Back to the Harmonics of Venus;
Elemental
Reviews; Our
Book
Neighbors; The Cologne Werewolf of
1590 (A Translation)
The Following Are Some of the Exciting
Subjects That Appear in Elsewhen:
✓ Time Travel & Temporal Anomalies
✓ Lake Monsters & Sea Serpents
Bigfoot & The Abominable Snowman
Ghosts, Poltergeists & Hauntings
Vampirism & Lycanthropy
UFO's & USO's
✓ Lost Civilizations & Technology
Mystery Spots & Vortices
The Bermuda/Devil's Triangle
Out-Of-Place Artifacts (Oöparts)
✔ Impossible Fossils
✓ ESP & Other Psychic Abilities
✔ Unusual Skyfalls
The New Age Movement
Hoaxes, Scandals & Conspiracies
Spontaneous Human Combustion
✔ Pyramids & Megalithic Sites
✔ Fairies, Elves, Mermaids & Others
✓ Strange Aerial & Ocean Phenomena
✓ Mysterious Appearances & Disappearances
✓ Witchcraft & Other Pagan Practices
Near-Death Experiences
✓ Meteorological Anomalies & Ghost Lights
✔Plus Much, Much More...
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