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Mysteries
Issue #13
May-July, 2006
Any sufficiently advanced technology

is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
Feature Articles
44 E GY PTIA N M A GI C
AN D THE
Columns
P OW E R
OF
W O RD S
LETTERS
TO THE
E D I T O R ... ........ .. ........ .. ..... ......8
By Richard Mackenzie
Ancient Egypts strange deities and elaborate rituals have intrigued man for centuries. However,
many elements of Egyptian religion, from their use of symbols as a statement of faith to their
emphasis on the power of the written and spoken word, are far less esoteric than they
appear at first glance.
FR OM
U R B A N L E G E N D S ......... ... .. ........ .. .......... .........28

Freudian Interpretations of Urban Legends
I N S E A R C H O F S TA R D U S T
& C A U S A L I T Y V I O L AT I O N S . ........ ..... .......... .......30
50 E L ECT RONIC V OI CE P H ENOME NA :

W HI SP E RS
N O T E W O R T H Y . .................... ............. .. ........ ...10
B EY OND
Empty Tomb and Strange Glyphs Point to a Cover-Up in Egypt
By Tim R. Swartz
The voices are sometimes so weak that they can barely be

understood. At other times, the words stand out clearly over
the wash of background noise. They have been discovered on
blank audiotapes and heard broadcasting on the radio, television, telephones, computers, and even household appliances.
Proponents say that the voices are those of the dead who are seeking contact with the world of the living. Skeptics, however, insist that
the voices exist only in the complexities of ones imagination.
The truth is that no one knows for sure.
MYSTERIES
OF
S C I E N C E . .. .. ........ .. ........ .. ... .. ........ .. .......3 2
Unusual Lunar Activity Continues to Baffle Scientists
MYSTERIES
ON
E X H I B I T . .. .. ........ .. ........ .. ... .. ........ .. .......3 4
K U D O S ............ .................... .......... .......... .......... .. ... .. 36

Psychic Jeane Dixon Honored with a Museum
O U R H A U N T E D H E R I TA G E ........... .......... ..... .. ........ .......3 8

Haunted Greyfriars Churchyard
60 A N I NT ERVI EW
WI TH
M I CHAE L K E ATON
63 T HE J E W ISH C ONSPIR ACY

P R OT OCOLS
OF THE
TREASURES
AN D TH E
E LDERS
OF
Z ION
D E E P .. .......... .......... .......... .........40
B O O K R E V I E W S ... .......... ............... .. ............................ 72
By Kevin Filan
A century after it first appeared, The Protocols of the

Learned Elders of Zion remains one of the most influential books of our time. Consisting of 24 chapters and an
introduction, the Protocols contain a purported plan for
Jewish world domination. Within a few years after its
appearance in 1905, the Protocols were recognized as
a clumsy forgery. Yet even today, many believe that
they are a genuine record of a secret meeting.
FROM THE
C R Y P T O C O R R A L .. .......... .. ........ .. ........ .. ........ .......... .. .. 4 2
M U S I C R E V I E W S .. ........ .. ........ .......... .................... ....... 77

IN
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2006 E V E N T S C A L E N D A R .. ....... ............... .....................8 0

T H E C L A S S I F I L E S . .. .. ........ ............ ... .................... ....... 9 0
A C R Y P T I C C H A L L E N G E . .. .. ........ .. ........ .. ... .. ........ .. .......9 2
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Letters to the Editor
Satanic Graffiti Just a Name

Dear Editor,
n page 37 of issue #12, there is a
photo of puported satanic graffiti on a rock ledge in the Freetown forest area. However, if you rotate
Where are the Photos Now?

Dear Editor,
ith regard to issue #12s
review of a book challenging
the authenticity of the Patterson Bigfoot tape, I recall that in
December of 1972, I saw a TV program
called You Asked for It, which featured a film of a creature that looked
just like the Bigfoot on the Patterson
tape, but with long, white hair in sharp
focus, supposedly taken in the winter. I
have never come across any reference to
this tape since.
Also, I recall as a child seeing on the
last page of Look magazine a photo of a
creature that looked like Nessie, taken by
a British recon jet while
flying over Loch Ness. I have never come

across further mention of this photo
either, though its official origin supports
the idea that there is a creature living in
Loch Ness.
JOSEPH FORBES
PITTSBURGH, PA
Roswell Crash Survivor Witness

Dear Editor,
uring WWII, my great uncle
was a Captain as a bombardier
on a B-17 Flying For tress.
When the war was over, he was assigned
as a defense attorney to the Judge Adjutant Generals office at Wright-Patterson Army Air Base in Ohio.
In the
the image to the right, it becomes

apparent that the inscription is a date:
87, the name Scott which is underlined several times, and a broken cross
and crook symbol, which has long been
the logo of the rock band Blue Oyster
Cult. This is reinforced by the letters:
BOC at the bottom of the inscription.
Though the Blue Oyster Cult explored
the mysteries of life, death, and religion,
in their lyrics, they could by no stretch of
the imagination be described as satanic.
J. BRAD HOLT
CEDAR CITY, UT
The Susquehannocks Not Extinct

Dear Ms. Guarnaccia,
n regard to the article Deciphering
PAs Susquehanna Stones, the
author said that the Susquehannocks
were extinct. But the Susquehannocks
were an Iroquoian-speaking tribe and as a
member of the tribe, I am happy to say
that we are definitely NOT extinct. I even
live at the northern boundary of our territory, along with several Susquehannock
spirits!
PHILIP MANTLE
YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND
last week of June, 1947, he was given the case of a private

accused of theft at NMs Roswell Army Air Base. To prepare
for his defense, he traveled to Roswell to interview the private.
When he arrived, he told the MPs on duty that he was there to
see the prisoner and was surprised when another MP led him
to a cell block that was separate from the rest of the compound. The MP told him that the prisoner had not eaten since
he was brought in on July 5.
When my great uncle arrived at the cell, he saw a four-foottall, pale-looking man with white hair wearing a green-grey
garment that looked like a flight suit. My great uncle knew
that this was not the prisoner he was supposed to see and was
led out of the building after telling the MP this.
Later, my great uncle was visted by two FBI men dressed in
civilian clothing, who asked him why he had gone to Roswell
and asked what he saw. My great uncle told them and after a
few more questions, he was allowed to talk to the private.
When he returned to Wright-Patterson, he was interviewed
again by one man from the FBI and one from Army intelligence. At that time, he signed a document stating that he
would not tell anyone what he had seen at Roswell. Three
months later, he was released from military duty and returned
home.
After I first heard his story, I did not think much about it
but later on, in the National Archives, I found old flight plans
listing my great uncle as a passenger on a flight from WrightPatterson to Roswell Army Air Based on July 7, 1947. I now
believe that my great uncle had seen one of the survivors of
the legendary Roswell crash.
ANONYMOUS IN ARKANSAS
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CAROL SCHNEIDER
DUNDEE, NY
Looking for Kenneth Arnolds Daughter

Dear Colleagues,
t is my hope to make the definitive documentary on the
late Kenneth Arnold so as to cement his rightful place
in UFOlogical history. If you know where I can contact
his daughter Kim Purvis, or know of anyone that might be
able to help me locate her, please write to me at 49 East
Leigh Drive, Tingley, Near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England WF3 1PF, or email philip@mantle8353.fsworld.co.uk
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Little Ice Age Triggered by Plague
uropes Little Ice Age, a period

of some 300 years when Europe
experienced a dip in average temperatures, may have been triggered by
the 14th-century Black Death.
In a new study, Dr. Thomas van Hoof
and his colleagues studied pollen grains
and leaf remains collected from lake-bed
sediments in the southeast Netherlands.
Monitoring the variations in abundance
of cereal pollen (such as buckwheat) and
tree pollen (such as birch and oak)
enabled them to estimate changes in
land-use between 1000 and 1500 AD.
The team found an increase in cereal
pollen from 1200 onwards (reflecting
agricultural expansion), followed by a
sudden dive around 1347, linked to the
agricultural crisis caused by the arrival of
the Black Death, which wiped out over a
third of Europes population.
Counting stomata (pores) on ancient
oak leaves provided van Hoof s team
with a measure of the fluctuations in
atmospheric carbon dioxide for the same
period. This is because leaves absorb carbon dioxide through their stomata, and
their density varies as carbon dioxide
goes up and down.
Between 1200 to 1300, there was a
decrease in stomata and a sharp rise in
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atmospheric carbon dioxide, due to

deforestation. However, after 1350, the
pattern reversed, suggesting that atmospheric carbon dioxide fell, perhaps due
to reforestation following the plague.
This drop in carbon dioxide levels could
explain why the climate cooled over the

following centuries.
The new data adds weight to the theor y that the Black Death could have
played a pivotal role in the cooling trend.
But not everyone is convinced. Dr Tim
Lenton, an environmental scientist from
the University of East Anglia, UK, said,
The carbon dioxide changes could certainly be a contributor y factor, but I
think they are too modest to explain all
the climate change seen.
As well, Professor Richard Houghton,
a climate expert from MAs Woods Hole
Research Center, believes that the atmosphere is in equilibrium with the ocean
and this tends to dampen or offset small
changes in terrestrial carbon uptake, thus
compensating for the change.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: BBC
Cat Places 911 Call
uthorities in Columbus, OH, are having a hard time believing that a cat called 9-11 when its owner was in distress, but they have not been able to come up with any
other explanation.
In January of 2006, dispatchers received an emergency services call, but when there
was no one on the phone, they called back the number to make
sure that everything was okay. When no one answered, they
sent police to the address and when the officers entered the
apar tment, they found Gar y Rosheisen on the floor in his
bedroom and his orange-and-tan striped cat Tommy laying
by the telephone in the living room.
Rosheisen, who suffers from osteoporosis and
ministrokes that disrupt his balance, had fallen
from his wheelchair. He was not wearing his medical-alert necklace when he fell and was unable
to get to the telephone, or the cord above his
bed that alerts paramedics that he needs help.
Rosheisen said that he had tried to teach the
cat to dial 911 using a speed-dial button, but
had never known whether Tommy had understood
the lesson.
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Noteworthy
Stone of Destiny Not Authentic
study commissioned by Scotlands Duchess of Hamilton has

proven that the Stone of Destiny
that is on display at Edinburgh Castle is a
fake.
According to legend, the biblical
Jacob rested his head on a flat, square
stone as he dreamed of angels ascending
to heaven on a ladder, and Gods
promise that his descendants would
spread across the earth and rule as kings
until their return to the Promised Land.
When he awoke, Jacob anointed the
stone with oil and it became a holy relic,
kept in the temple at Jerusalem until the
city was sacked by King Nebuchadnezzar
of Babylon in 602 BC. Just before the
city fell, Jeremiah and two daughters of
King Davids line escaped with the stone,
carrying it first to Egypt, then to Italy,
Spain, and eventually Ireland, where it
was blessed and set up at Tara.
Tradition says that the stone was
thereafter used in all the coronation ceremonies of the Pictish kings of Ireland,
who were crowned while sitting on the
stone. It was then moved from Tara to
Scotia Minor in the early sixth century
AD, when one of the Irish kings moved
the capital of his expanding empire to
Scone, the sacred center of the Picts, in
what is now Perthshire, Scotland.
Thereafter, all of the Scottish kings sat
on the stone to be crowned, until it was
captured when Englands King Edward I
defeated the Scots in 1296. Hoping to
use the symbol of Scottish kingship to
end Scottish resistance to English rule,
Edward moved the stone to Westminster
Abbey in London and incorporated it in
the base of the coronation throne used
by the English monarchy.
Known variously as the Stone of Destiny, Jacobs Pillow, the Stone of Scone,
and the Coronation Stone, the plain slab
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of yellow sandstone has come to have

great symbolic importance to the Scots,
the Irish, the English, and to some Jews
who believe that when it one day is
returned to Israel, the Temple of
Jerusalem will be rebuilt.
Some believe, however, that the Scots
substituted another stonethe cover of
a cesspitfor the original when they saw
King Edward coming, and that the real

stone was secreted off to an abbey to
remain hidden until the rightful ruler of
the Scots could reclaim the throne. Others believe that the original stone was
replaced with a replica in 1950, when
four young Scottish nationalists stole the
stone from beneath the coronation

throne in Westminster Abbey. The stone
was not recovered for four months and
rumors have since persisted that the
recovered stone was a forgery and that
the original was taken to a secret location
in Scotland.
On St. Andrews Day in November of
1996, following a long and often bitter
repatriation campaign, the
British Crown put the stone on
permanent loan to Edinburgh
Castle, with the understanding
that it will remain the property
of the Crown and will be temporarily returned to Westminster Abbey for future coronations. It has since taken pride of
place in the castles Great Hall.
However, in September of
2005, Jill, Duchess of Hamilton, announced that geological
analysis of the stones compositionand comparison with
rock samples from the Palestinian village of Beitin, where tradition says that Jacob had his
epiphany more than 2,500 years
agoproves that the stone on
display in Edinburgh is a fake.
The samples analyzed by scientists at the British Geological
Survey contained fine-grained
crystalline limestone that is in
stark contrast to the sandstone
composition of the stone at
Edinburgh Castle. The geologists concluded that the stone
was quarried locally, not far from Scone
in Perthshire, lending credence to the
idea that the real stone may still remain
hidden elsewhere in Scotland.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: TIMES NEWSPAPERS, EDINBURGH CASTLE PRESS RELEASE, ABOUT SCOTLAND, CNN, BBC
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Noteworthy
Fossils Prove Dinosaurs

Grazed on Grass
xper ts have long considered

depictions of dinosaurs munching
on grass as foolish because they
believe that grasses did not become common until about 10 million years
after the dinosaurs died out
at the end of the Cretaceous period. But now,
microscopic examination
of fossilized dinosaur
dung has revealed that
the massive, plant-eating
dinosaurs did, in fact,
graze on at least five different types of grass,
which means that the first
grasses must have evolved and diversified
a lot earlier than was previously thought.
The key evidence is the tiny silica crystals called phytoliths that were extracted
in November of 2005 from fossilized
feces from titanosaurs (massive, longnecked sauropods shown in inset) found
in India. The phytoliths, which form
inside the cells and tissues of plants and

can survive digestion, have distinctive
shapes found only in grasses. Their existence suggest that the titanosaurs ate forest grasses that grew nearly ten feet
tall, as well as other flowering
plants, palm trees,
cycads,
and
conifers.
The phytoliths
date to 65 to 70
million years ago,
about the same age as
the oldest previously
known evidence of
grass. But they are
from more evolved types of grasses,
which indicates that grasses had diversified significantly by then and may have
evolved more than 100 million years ago.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR
THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, SCIENCE,
NEWSCIENTIST, DISCOVERY NEWS
Man Disappears From Police Photos
n Januar y of 2006, the chief of the Yangzhuang police depar tment in Chinas Henan
Province called in experts to figure out why they could not take an ID photo of Ye Xiangting, a young man from a nearby village.
According to officers, when they attempted to photograph Xiangting, no image of him
showed up in the digital photographs. So they carefully checked their equipment and then
checked the mans clothes to be sure that he did not carry anything that would interfere
with the equipment. They then tried repeatedly to photograph Xiangting from every angle,
but still failed to get any images of him. So they took several photographs of the man with
other people and were stunned when the other people showed up in the computer images,
but not Xiangting.
There is still no explanation of why they could not take photographs of Ye Xiangting, who
said that he has been photographed on many occasions and has never encountered this
sort of problem before.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY OF CHINA, AP
19TH-CENTURY
RUSSIAN
MANUSCRIPT
DESCRIBES
UFO SIGHTING
rare 19th-centur y document, discovered in the personal archive of

a Moscow senator who worked for
the Tsars Secret Ser vice in the mid1800s, details a UFO sighting over the
Kremlin in 1808. The document, entitled
Radiance Over the Kremlin, describes
the sighting of a mysterious object that
bears a striking resemblance to modern
UFO sightings by its solid shape, its ability to stop and star t abruptly, and its
brightly glowing light.
Alexander Afanasyev, an expert for the
Russian State Histor y Museum, rules
out the possibility of the manuscript
being a fake. The manuscript is written
on paper produced in 1805, says
Afanasyev. The spelling and the style
belong to the beginning of 19th century,
and the author must have been an educated person.
Afanasyev believes that the author of
the paper was a 24-year-old professor of
chemistr y at the Moscow University by
the name of Andrey Chebotar yov.
According to the minutes taken during
an 1808 meeting of the Moscow Naturalist Society, Chebotaryov submitted a
repor t on a strange object that he saw
over the Kremlin. The report was accompanied by a sketch, depicting what
Chebotaryov saw.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: MOSNEWS
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Noteworthy
TURKISH SIBLINGS SUFFER

FROM REVERSE EVOLUTION
n editor for the International

Journal of Neuroscience says he
has discovered a genetic defect
that sets back the clock on human evolution by more than a million years, shedding light on the transition from fourlegged to two-legged walking. The
siblings exhibiting this syndrome are
from a Turkish family of 19 children, five
of whom, aged 14 to 32 years, walk on
two palms and two feet, with extended
legs. They can stand up, but only for a
short time, with flexed knees and heads.
Uner Tan of Cukurova University
Medical School in Adana, Turkey,
reports that the siblings have developed a
rather primitive language, which they
speak only to each other. The children sit
with an ape-like posture, and they cannot
hold their heads upright. They cannot
count from one to ten

and are not aware of
time and space. They
do not know the country or village where they
live and are unaware of
year, season, day, and
time. Physically, however, they have extremely
strong arms and legs.
Scientists generally
consider the transition
to upright walking as
the most impor tant
event in human evolution, as it freed ones
hands for skilled movements, such as throwing and tool-making.
Tan says that with
Treasure Found in Ancient Chinese Tomb
hinese and Ger man archaeologists

announced in October of 2005 that magnetic scans of the tomb of Qin Shihuang,
Chinas first emperor, show that it contains a
remarkable amount of coins that may mean
that Quin was buried with his state treasury.
After conquering the warring Chinese states
and unifying the countr y, Qin ruled from 221210 BC. His burial site, near the former imperial capital of Xian in northwest China, became
famous in the 1970s when it was discovered
that an army of 8,000 life-size terracotta soldiers and horses guarded the imperial mausoleum.
The archaeologists, who say that the coins are likely made of bronze and silver, are
adamant that the treasure should be left in the unopened tomb, rather than risk damaging
the 2,000-year-old site.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: XINHUA, BBC, UPI
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the help of colleagues, he has

mapped the genetic
defect to a region of
the genome called
chromosome 17p, a
site of some of the
biggest genetic differences between
humans and chimps,
a chromosome that
has recently been
linked to bipedalism.
Keith Crandall of
UTs
Brigham
Young University
says that reverse
human evolution is
plausible
and
testable. Reverse
evolution occurs
when an organism returns to the genetic
state of its ancestors, said Crandall.
Reverse evolution is documented in
various organisms, such as fish that lose
their eyes after living in dark caves for
generations. To demonstrate reverse
evolution in the case of the Turkish family, says Crandall, one would have to
identify the genetic changes associated
with four-limbed walking, then show
that the same changes appear in a reconstruction of ancestral human genes.
Nicholas Humphrey, a London School
of Economics evolutionary psychologist,
says that the siblings method of walking
is not a hoax. He further stated that
however they arrived at this point, these
siblings are walking like our ancestors
did several million years ago.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: WORLD SCIENCE/BBC
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Site of Royal Massacre Found

in Ancient Maya City
uring a routine excavation of a

reservoir near the ruins of the
royal palace in the ancient
Mayan city of Cancun in the jungles of
central Guatemala, archaeologists uncovered a 1,200-year-old mass grave that
may provide clues about the mysterious
collapse of the Mayan civilization (c.
300-900 AD).
The site contained the remains of 31
people, including children of all ages
and two pregnant women, who were ritually slaughtered, some by pulling the
head back and shoving a large spear
through the chest and spine. They were
then dismembered and interred in a ceremonial cistern. Archaeologists also
found costume adornments, including
jade pieces, carved shells from the Pacific coast, and other jewelry, that suggest
that the slain were Mayan nobility.
In shallow graves about 80 yards away,
archaeologists discovered the remains of
Cancuns ruler, Kan Maax, who was

buried with his wife, with a jaguar fang
necklace bearing his name and title. Just
north of the palace, they found the dismembered remains of a dozen more
nobles. The findings suggest that the
king and queen were slain with the
extended royal family and their nobles in
about 800 AD.
Cancun was the capital of one of the
richest kingdoms of the Maya, located at
the headwaters of the Rio Pasin. The
city was a thriving commercial center and
a gateway for moving raw materials
between the city-states of Mexico and
northern Guatemala, and the volcanic
highlands and coasts to the south.
In Mayan warfare, invaders normally
occupied conquered lands, installing
their own rulers. Yet in the case of the
mass execution at Cancun, the attackers appear to have simply moved on,
inexplicably abandoning the city and its
contents.
Experts say that the fall of Cancun
foreshadowed the decline of other cities
along the river. After the ruin of the city,
the trade route along the river died out,
and some believe that the gruesome discover y at Cancun records a critical
moment at the beginning of the mysterious collapse of the Maya civilization.
Exper ts have long thought that a
major factor in its decline was unrelenting drought that resulted in economic
and ecological collapse, disease, and war
between the neighboring city-states.
Some suggest that the rulers of Cancun
may have been executed during an uprising of the people, who had long suffered
because of the drought, or that the royal
family was ritually sacrificed in ceremonies related to the drought.
Because the slain were interred
respectfully and not stripped of their
robes, adornments, and jewelry, project
co-director Arthur Demarest of Vanderbilt University agrees that the nobles
were probably killed by other Mayas.
However, Demarest believes that other
archaeological evidence, including spearheads, skeletons with markings of spear
and ax wounds, and unfinished stone and
wooden palisade walls around the palace,
suggests a desperate attempt to defend a
besieged city.
He speculates that Cancun was conquered by rivals from other Mayan citystates, who assassinated its rulers to
establish their dominion but then had to
abandon the city because of long-term
drought and warfare.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY,
WASHINGTON POST, USA TODAY, BBC
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Virtual Reconstruction of
Washington Unveiled
ost Americans think that they

know what the first president
of the United States looked
like, but no likenesses of George Washington were painted or sculpted until he
was in his 40s, and those were done at a
time when it was fashionable to idealize
the subject so the iconic images of the
American founding father may be far
from accurate. Scientists are now
attempting to correct the record by fleshing out Washingtons actual appearance
at different stages of his life.
Forensic scientists would usually begin
such a project by examining skeletal
remains, but curators at Mount Vernon,
Washingtons Virginia estate where he is
buried, opposed exhuming his remains.
So the team began instead by laser scanning a full-length marble statue of Washington, a bust, and a life mask (a direct
impression of Washingtons face), all by
French cour t sculptor Jean-Antoine
Houdon. Houdon spent weeks at Mount
Vernon in 1785 making the life mask and
using calipers to measure the 53-year-old
statesman from head to toe, in preparation for later making the statue and bust.
Led by forensic anthropologist Jeffrey
Schwartz from the University of Pittsburgh, the team scanned dozens of artifacts, including Washingtons spectacles,
snippets of his hair, several sets of his
dentures, and clothing from the 1770s
through the 1790s. They studied all
available portraits, sculptures, and written descriptions of Washingtons
physique, including those written by
Washington himself.
The research revealed many important
details about Washingtons physical
appearance, such as that Washington was
tall for his time and had long, thin legs
and unusually large hands and feet. They

also learned that in keeping with an
18th-century custom, his body had been
corseted until about the age of five,
pulling his shoulders back, puffing out
his chest, and creating a long slope from
the neck down the shoulders, which
might account for descriptions of Washington as having a regal bearing.
Washingtons dental history also provided important
clues. Washington suffered from
periodontal disease and began
losing his teeth in
his 20s (he had
only one tooth
remaining at age
57). Schwar tz
says that people
typically first lose
teeth in the back
of the jaw and
that as teeth are
lost, some of the
bone of the
underlying jaw is
reabsorbed, dramatically changing the shape of the face. Tracing Washingtons histor y of tooth loss, as
documented by a series of dentures, and
comparing that information with measurements of portraits of Washington in
his 40s, provided clues about how his jaw
would have looked when he was 45.
The team was then able to reconstruct
an image of Washington at age 19 by virtually reversing the tooth loss, digitally
adding teeth to the jaw and then combining those calculations with analyses of
how humans age (for instance, as people
age their skin does not stretch as they

lose fat around their face and, because
cartilage grows with age, noses and ears
tend to grow). The result is quite different than the familiar images of Washingtonhis face and jaw are longer, less
receded, and more symmetrical; his
cheeks are fuller; his nose and ears are a
bit smaller; and he is not quite as tall (just
over 62), but noticeably thinner.
The virtual images are now being used
to sculpt full-size, lifelike clay models,
which will be covered with plaster and
padded to simulate the softness of a real
body. The current challenge is choosing
the proper period clothing, poses, facial
expressions, and coloring.
Washington
is
often depicted with
reddish hair, pale
skin, blue eyes, and a
closed-mouth, stern
expression, but historical accounts indicate that he was actually a charismatic,
smiling sort of person
and that his hair was
quite dark, his skin
ruddy, and his eyes a
pale
gray-blue.
Experts say that the
familiar stern expression is probably the
result of the pain and
embarrassment of losing his teeth and
wearing dentures, and that artists of the
period often made his eyes bluer than
natural to compensate for the fact that
the blue pigments then available were
likely to fade.
When completed, the models will be
placed around Mount Vernon, as part of
an $85 million expansion of the estate.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN,
REUTERS, PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE,
WASHINGTON POST, USA TODAY
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Noteworthy
Noteworthy
DARK MATTER MEASURED
cientists know that dark matter

exists, but its presence is one of
the few things regarding the elusive material about which they are certain. Its existence can be inferred from
the way galaxies rotate (they would fly
apart if they were not held together by
the gravitational attraction of some
unseen material) but it is invisible to
current telescope technology. Thought
to make up almost a quarter of the universeand to be five to six times more
abundant than visible matterits
nature has mystified scientists since it
was first hypothesized about 73 years
ago. Now, however, astronomers have
been able to determine some of the
basic characteristics of dark matter.
For the past three years, a team from
the Institute of Astronomy at Englands
Cambridge University has been using
the Very Large Telescope array in Atacama, Chile, to make detailed 3D maps of
10 dwarf galaxies that skirt the edge of
the Milky Way. In Februar y of 2006,
team leader Gerry Gilmore announced
A nearby dwarf galaxy.
that by studying the movement and mass

of the galaxies stars, they could trace the
impression of dark matter among them
and calculate its minimum density and
distribution.
Because the galaxies contain different
numbers of stars and baryonic matter
(the matter that makes up the stars and
planets), the researchers expected to find
a wide range of masses. Yet to their surprise, they discovered that each galaxy
contains the same amount of dark matter, which corresponds to roughly 30
million times the mass of the sun.
They calculated that dark matter contains only about one-third of the number
Mysterious Ocean Sound Identified
uring a recent cetacean sur vey of

waters near the Hawaiian Islands,
scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration identified a mysterious sound heard by sonar
operators in the Nor th Pacific Ocean for
more than 50 years, as the song of male
minke whales. The discovery, which scientists describe as a vaguely mechanicalsounding twang, came as a surprise
because it is usually not
so hard to link a sound caught by

hydrophones to marine mammals as,
unlike fish, they have to come up for air
and therefore can be spotted on the
oceans surface.
The scientists note that the songs seem
to differ slightly at different points of latitude. They believe that the sound is likely
a mating song and that by identifying its
source, they have found a previously unknown breeding area.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: JOURNAL OF THE
ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, SAN
DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, DISCOVERY NEWS
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of particles per cubic centimeter as normal matter and it has a density equivalent
to four atoms of hydrogen per cubic centimeter of space. This means that dark
matter cannot be packed into a space
smaller than 300 parsecs (a cube that
measures 1,000 light-years along each
side) and that the par ticles move at
about six miles per second.
These findings came as a big surprisecurrent theory had predicted that
dark matter would be much denser and
extremely cold, so would move at only a
few millimeters per second. The observations, however, prove that the particles
are actually quite warm in cosmic terms.
(If they were made of atoms of hydrogen, its temperature would be about
18,000F, hotter than the surface of the
sun.) Gilmore notes, however, that dark
matter does not give off radiation and
has no charge.
Scientists believe that the most likely
candidate for dark matter material is
relic elementary particles produced in
the Big Bang. Known as weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs,
they contribute gravity through their
mass, but other wise interact weakly
with normal matter.
Experts say that the recent research
represents a quantum leap in understanding the mysterious matter. But it
will be far more difficult to find a particle
with lighter mass than it would have
been to find a heavier particle. The study
has also enabled scientists to more precisely weigh the Milky Way, which they
have found is more massive than the
Andromeda galaxy, which was previously
thought to be the biggest galaxy in the
local universe.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY, NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC, SCIENCE, BBC, TELEGRAPH NEWS
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ROBOT SHOWS
SELF AWARENESS
new robot under development

by researchers at Japans Meiji
University has demonstrated for
the first time that it can recognize itself in
a mirror and acknowledge the existence
of others. Because of this, scientists are
closer to developing self-aware robots
that model human self-consciousness and
express emotions.
Junichi Takeno, head of the development team, says that with humans, consciousness is basically a state in which the
behavior of the self and another is understood. To mimic this, a robot needs an
area in its neural network that is able to
process information on both cognition
and behavior. So Takeno and his colleagues built the robot with blue, red,
and green LEDs connected to artificial
neurons in the region that light up when
different information is being processed.
For example, two red diodes glow
when the robot is

performing
behavior it considers its own while
two green bulbs
light up when the
robot acknowledges behavior
being performed
by another robot.
One blue LED
flashes when the
robot is both recognizing behavior
in another robot
and imitating it.
Takeno says
that imitation is
an
act
that
requires both seeing a behavior in another and instantly
transferring it to oneself. For instance, in
one experiment, a robot representing the
self was paired with an identical robot
representing the other. When the self
robot moved, the other robot did the
same. The pattern of neurons firingand
the following flashes of blue light
showed that the self robot understood
that the other robot was imitating it.
In another experiment, the researchers
placed the self robot in front of a mirror.
In this case, the self robot and the reflection moved forward and back at the same
time. Although the blue lights fired, they
did so less frequently than in other experiments, indicating that the robot understood 70 percent of the time that the mirror image was itself.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: DISCOVERY NEWS
In Passing
George Walsh, a longtime newsman and

radio announcer, died of congestive
hear t failure on December 5, 2005 in
California at the age of 88. In 1947,
Walsh scored what appeared to be a
huge scoop while working at radio station KSWS in Roswell, NM, breaking a
stor y about a UFO landing based on an
Air Force press officer's claim that a flying saucer had been captured near the
city. The militar y eventually determined
that the UFO was in fact a radar target,
but the stor y by then had spread worldwide.
H e r m a n
Regusters, a
prominent
cryptozoologist
who searched
for the African
m o n s t e r
Mokele Mbembe,
passed
away
on
December 19,
2005. He was
72. In 1981, Regusters led The
Regusters African Congo Expedition to
the wilds of the Congo on a five-day journey to reach Lake Tele, home of a
dinosaur-like creature that was said to
still inhabit the area. He astounded the
world by announcing he had captured
audio recordings and a photograph of
what he said was the tail of the elusive
creature.
Ramona Bell, the 47-year-old wife of
paranormal radio talk show host Art Bell,
died unexpectedly on January 5, 2006 in
Laughlin, NV, from
circulator y failure
resulting from an
asthma attack.
Until her death, Art
and Ramona had
not been apar t a
day since they
were married, 15
years earlier. Frequently, when Ar t
needed a name or a fact, he would shout
to Ramona , sitting in another room, and
she would shout back the answer.
TIM SWARTZ
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Noteworthy
Noteworthy
New Documentary
Spotlights Killer Wives
ered arsenic in their exhumed bodies,
they finally determined that the local
midwife, Zsuzsanna Fazekas, had been
creating a lethal concoction by dousing
fly-paper in water so that the active
ingredient, arsenic, would washed off. It
was then collected in small vials and
passed out to the local women to bump
off their men.
Up to 140 men were believed to have
been murdered in Nagyrev, and 26
women from the village stood trial for
their deaths in 1929. Death sentences
were handed down to eight of them and
the rest went to prison, but none of the
women ever revealed why they poisoned
their husbands. Fazekas killed herself
with her own poison when she realized
police were onto her.
To order a copy of the The Angelmakers
documentary DVD, email info@angelmakers.nl or visit www.angelmakers.nl.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: DAILY NEWS & ANALYSIS, INDIA
CHANAN ESHEL
he tiny Hungarian village of

Nagyrev near Budapest does not
seem to be the kind of place
where wives would commonly murder
their husbands. However, these elderly
villagers nurse dark memories of a time
when they poisoned to deathunder
the super vision of a local midwife
scores of abusive husbands. The secret is
now out, however, immortalized in The
Angelmakers, a documentary by Dutch
filmmaker Astrid Bussink, which premiered in November, 2005, at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film
Festival.
Bussink, who is finishing a Masters in
Film and TV at the Edinburgh College
of Art, spent four months in Hungary
overcoming the villagers reticence to
speak about the murky chapter in their
history.
Conflicting accounts about the exact
number of deaths abound, but what is
clear is that the men of the village began
to die mysteriously after they returned
from World War I. When police discov-
Beethoven May Have

Died of Lead Poisoning
BIBLICAL
SCROLL
FRAGMENTS
FOUND IN
ISRAEL
n July of 2005, Professor Chanan

Eshel, an archaeologist from Bar Ilan
University in Tel Aviv, Israel,
announced the discover y of two fragments of a nearly 2,000-year-old parchment scroll in a cave in Nachal Arugot, a
canyon in the Judean Deser t, near the
western shore of the Dead Sea.
Each only a few centimeters long, the
fragments are inscribed in Hebrew on
animal skin with verses from Leviticus,
the third book of the Bibles Old Testament. Eschel believes that they came
from a Torah scroll used at Passover,
which the local Jews hid in the caves to
protect it from the Romans during the
Bar-Kokhba revolt, the second and final
Jewish revolt against the Romans (132135 AD).
Eschel first learned of the fragments
in late 2004, during a clandestine meeting in the deser t with a Bedouin who
had found them. The fragments are the
first to be found since the 1960s and
their discover y has given rise to the
hope that the Judean Desert may yield
more treasures.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: AP, AGENCE-FRANCE
PRESSE, ISRAEL TODAY
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esearchers at the U.S. Department of Energys Argonne

National Laboratory, near Chicago, IL, say that lead poisoning caused
legendary 19th-century German composer Ludwig van Beethoven to suffer a
lifetime of chronic and debilitating illness
and probably contributed to his death.
Documents show that Beethoven
experienced a change of personality and
the onset of chronic abdominal pain
when he was in his late
teens and early 20s,
that
worsened
throughout his adult
life. He consulted
many physicians in
search of a diagnosis
and cure for his ailments, which included
debilitating pain, bad
digestion, irritability,
depression, and progressive deafness. He
was prescribed many
treatments but the
cause of his illness
remained a myster y
and he died a slow and
painful death in 1827,
at the age of 56.
Researchers have since theorized a
number of causes for Beethovens poor
health, including toxic levels of cadmium
and mercury, which was a common treatment for syphilis at the time. But recent
tests on six of the composers hairs and a
few bone fragments from the parietal
section of his skull showed no detectable
levels of either. However, both the hair
and bone samples, which were confirmed
by DNA testing to be Beethovens, con-
tained about 100 times higher than normal concentrations of lead.

The source of Beethovens chronic
lead exposure remains a mystery. Among
the possibilities are his liberal indulgence
in wine, which often contained lead at
the time; mineral water that he drank
during frequent stays at a health spa; or a
lifetime of medical treatments, which
were often laced with heavy metals during the 18th and 19th centuries.
It is also possible
that the goblet from
which Beethoven
drankand the glass
medicine bottles in
which his many
medicines
were
storedwere made
par tially of lead,
which could have
leached from the
containers into the
liquids. Or he may
have been hypersensitive to lead and his
body was unable to
properly eliminate it.
Exper ts say that
Beethovens symptoms and the findings at his autopsy are consistent with
lead poisoning. They also say that
although there have been documented
cases of deafness resulting from lead poisoning, it is a relatively rare occurrence.
And there is no evidence that lead caused
Beethovens deafness.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY,
WASHINGTON POST, AGENE FRANCE-PRESSE,
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
In Passing
Lt. Colonel Hank

Meierdierck, who
was one of the first to
pilot the U-2, a top
secret spy plane
based at Area 51 in
Nevada, died on
March 21, 2006. He
was 84. Meierdierck
was one of the first
pilots assigned to a desolate airstrip on
the outskirts of the Nevada Test Site, a
facility so secret that the government
wouldn't acknowledge its existence for
another 45 years, a base that would
eventually be known as Area 51.
Producer and director Dan Curtis, best
known as the creator
of the popular soap
opera
Dark
Shadows, died on
March, 27 2006 in
Brentwood, CA, of a
brain tumor, at the
age of 78. Cur tis
was responsible for such 70s horror
classics as The Strange Case of Dr.
Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, The Night Stalker, and
The Norliss Tapes, as well as two movies
based on the TV show Dark Shadows:
House of Dark Shadows and Night of
Dark Shadows.
Vance Orchard, a
reporter in Walla
Walla, WA who wrote
Bigfoot of the Blues
in 1993 and The
Walla Walla Bigfoot
in 2001, died on
March 7, 2006 from
cancer at the age of
88. His interest in
Bigfoot started in 1966 when he
accompanied Bigfoot hunter Roger
Patterson to the Oregon-Washing
ton boundary to investigate large
footprints found on Tiger Canyon
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Noteworthy
Indias Red Rain Extraterrestrial
erala, India, may have had an

extraterrestrial encounter in a
mysterious red rain that fell in
2001, rain that had a biological cell structure, did not contain DNA, and was
composed of carbon, oxygen, and silicon.
The stor y of the strange red rain
began on July 25, 2001, when residents
of Kerala started seeing scarlet rain in

some areas. It has been estimated that at
least 55 tons of red rain fell over about
two months, though most of it fell in the
first 10 days. Experts said the most likely
explanation for the unusual color of the
rain was the presence of dust in the
atmosphere which colored the water.
But Professor
Godfrey Louis
from the School
of Pure and
Applied Physics
of the Mahatma
Gandhi University, speculates that
a meteor may be
responsible for
the phenomenon,
as the red rain fell
after a meteor
exploded in the
sky above Kerala
in July, 2001. If particle clouds are created in the atmosphere by the fragmentation and disintegration of a special
kind of meteor that presumably contains
a dense collection of red particles, then
clouds of such particles can mix with the
rain clouds to cause red rain, Louis
explained.
However, the explanation did not satisfy everyone. Indias Centre for Earth
Science Studies said instead that the particles may have been spores from a fungus. But how such a large quantity of
spores could appear over a small region
is as yet unknown. Astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe thinks that a more
careful examination of the red rain material is needed, but feels that at first
glance, there is solid evidence that the
red rain had an extraterrestrial origin.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: BBC/WORLD SCIENCE
Typhoid Fever Led to the Fall of Athens
cientists have long speculated

about the cause of the plague that
devastated the city of Athens,
Greece, around 430 BC, while it was being
besieged by the Spartans. More than onethird of the population of the overcrowded
city, including its charismatic leader Pericles and about 25% of its army, perished in
the epidemic, which influenced the outcome of the Peloponnesian Wars and precipitated the end of the golden age of
Athens and the citys dominance of the
ancient world.
Until now, information about the epidemic was limited to an account by historian
Thucydides, who was himself taken ill with
the plague, but recovered. Based on Thucydides description, various diseases have
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been proposed, including smallpox,

measles, scarlet fever, ebola, bubonic
plague, anthrax, tuberculosis, and lassa
fever, but scientists lacked definitive evidence on the nature of the epidemic, which
began in Ethiopia and passed through
Egypt and Libya to Greece.
Now, however, DNA analysis of dental
pulp from teeth from that era found in a
mass burial site at Athens ancient cemeter y of Kerameikos has given scientists
conclusive evidence that the culprit was
typhoid fever, transmitted by infected food
and water.
Murder Victim
Identifies Killer
in a Dream
ore than five years ago, Rod

Spraggins, a candidate in a city
council race in Lanett, AL, publicly accused political opponent Barr y
Waites of murder and dared Waites to
sue him for slander if he was wrong.
Spraggins had nothing to back up the
allegation except a series of dreams
that he claimed to have had, in which
the victim told him that her estranged
husband had been her killer.
Spraggins says that Mrs. Waites, who
was found beaten and strangled in her
home while her husband was serving as
the citys interim mayor, began appearing in his dreams within a few weeks of
her death and that the dreams prompted him to enter the city council race for
the sole purpose of making the accusation in a public forum.
Waites never responded to the accusation and never sued. Both men lost
their bids for the city council amid the
controversy, but it seems that Spraggins
was right. In Februar y of 2006, Waites
was arrested and indicted for the 1998
murder of his wife. Authorities would not
comment on what led to the arrest, saying only that it was a culmination of
years of investigative work.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCE: AP
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF
INFECTIOUS DISEASES, KATHIMERINI,
Barry Waites
DISCOVERY NEWS, THE GUARDIAN
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Satellite Spots Crater in Egypt
giant crater made by a meteorite

impact millions of years ago has
been discovered in Egypts western desert. Boston University experts
found the 19-mile-wide crater while
studying satellite images of the area. The
newfound crater was likely carved by a
space rock that was 3/4 miles wide, in an
event that would have destroyed everything for hundreds of miles.
The structure, which has an outer rim
surrounding an inner ring, has been
named Kebira, which means large in
Arabic and also relates to the craters
physical location on the northern tip of
the Gilf Kebir region in southwest Egypt.
The crater has two rings, a common
configuration. The courses of two
ancient rivers run through it from the
east and west, helping to make the crater
unrecognizable to the untrained eye.
Dr. Farouk El-Baz, director of the
Boston University Center for Remote
Sensing, said that Kebira may have also

escaped recognition due to water and
wind erosion.
The heat from this impact may have
been responsible for the extensive field of
Libyan desert glass, a natural yellowgreen glass composed of nearly pure silica
typically found on the desert surface
between the giant dunes of the Great
Sand Sea in southwestern Egypt. The origins of desert glass, because of its unusual
composition, have perplexed scientists for
years. Chemical analyses show that it is
enriched with meteoritic elements, but
until now, no meteorite crater had been
found to account for it.
The Kebira Crater straddles the border
between Egypt and Libya, and scientists
hope to conduct an on-site investigation
sometime in 2006 to determine when the
impact occurred.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: BBC
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Noteworthy
Noteworthy
Particles Talk Themselves into

Evolving, Scientists Say
ow could something as complex as intelligence and consciousness evolve from the

inorganic, elementary particles of the
early universe? This is a question being
asked by emergent properties scientists,
whose research goes to the heart of a pivotal question in evolution: why is it that
large, complicated things, such as the
human body or galaxies, have structure
and order?
For advocates of intelligent design, life
is too complex to have just happened so
some supernatural force had to guide it.
But to emergent properties scientists, it
is clear that all thingsfrom atoms to living organismscommunicate, process
information, and form new unions without any outside help. Carbon atoms, for
example, can be thought of as talking
to each other, exchanging information
on how to create a diamond crystal. This

concept is shattering the long-standing
assumption that the behavior of atoms
and of all life forms except for humanis
basically pre-programmed, preordained,
and reflexive.
Finding out how life emerges from the
interplay of inanimate matter is the goal
of a new $5 million grant from the
National Science Foundation. Its aim is
to duplicate the steps by which electrons,
protons, and all the other atoms and
molecules, form sets of chemical reactions that set the stage for life itself.
Among those whose work is funded by
the grant is University of Illinois microbiologist Carl Woese, who showed that
long before amino acids became the
building blocks of proteins, they had preferred either to associate with water
molecules or be repelled by them. By
Birds Flying While Intoxicated
xperts from Austrias national veterinary authority have determined that 40 songbirds found dead in Vienna in January of 2006 did not die of avian flu, as was initially feared, but instead broke
their necks slamming into windows because they were drunk.
The birds proved to have
advanced liver disease caused
by gorging themselves on berries
that had begun to rot. As the
berries rotted, the juice inside
turned to alcohol and probably
continued to fer ment as the
birds digested the berries, causing them to become disoriented
and to fly into things.
JUDITH KANE
communicating their preference, amino

acids may have set about organizing how
nucleic acids, the chemicals of genes, pair
up with individual amino acids to knit
them together into proteins. This dependence between amino acids and nucleic
acids ultimately evolved into the genetic
code of all living things. Evolution is
the fundamental base of biology, Woese
insists. Its not that biology gives rise to
evolution. It is that evolution gives rise
to biology.
A key issue raised by the study of
emergent properties is the nature of
intelligence and consciousness, and
whether bacteria or even diamonds can
be said to think. Some scientists say this
kind of communication is, indeed, a
basic form of thinking. Others disagree,
saying that intelligence, as defined as the
capacity to acquire and apply knowledge,
is something only humans and maybe
some animals possess.
Even though consciousness is the least
understood property of matter, humans
prize it for giving us the ability to adapt
to changing situations. However, all life
forms solve problems, says Giulio
Tononi, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin. We may be smallminded in asserting that other organisms, or, for that matter, inanimate
things, do not experience a degree of
consciousness.
Tononi also says that if consciousness
is a systems ability to integrate information, then anything that is made up of
interacting par ts will have a small
amount of consciousness.
SOURCE: AP
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: CHICAGO TRIBUNE
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BYU Professor Says Explosives

Toppled WTC on 9/11
righam Young University professor Steven E. Jones says that the

official explanation on what
caused the World Trade Center Twin
Towers to fall after the terrorist attack on
September 11, 2001, is wrong. Rather,
he supports the idea that there were prepositioned explosives in the three buildings, explosives that were detonated
after the planes crashed into the WTC
skyscrapers, and that the crashes were
just a diversion tactic.
Previous investigations, including
those of FEMA, the 9/11 Commission,
and the National Institutes of Standards
and Technology, ignore the physics and
chemistry of what happened to the Twin
Towers. The official explanationthat
fires caused such structural damage that
the buildings collapsedcannot be
backed up by either testing or history,
Jones says.
In his 9,000-word article, Jones offers
a number of arguments, including:
The three buildings collapsed nearly
symmetrically, a phenomenon only
associated with a controlled demolition.
No steel-frame building, such as the
WTC buildings, has ever collapsed
due to fire. But explosives can effectively sever steel columns.
WTC 7, which was not hit by
hijacked planes, collapsed in 6.6 seconds, just .6 of a second longer than
it would take an object dropped from
the roof to hit the ground. However,
there should have been a delay due to
conservation of momentum. But this
paradox is easily resolved by the
explosive demolition hypothesis.
Horizontal puf fs of smoke were

observed coming from the lower side
of the buildings prior to their collapse, a common phenomenon during a controlled demolition.
Molten metal found in the debris of
the World Trade Center may have
been the result of a high-temperature
submitted to relevant scientific venues

that would ensure rigorous technical
peer review.
But critics suggest that the U.S. State
Department had pressured University
officials to silence Jones by threatening
to rescind government grants awarded
to the University. However, within a
Steven E. Jones
reaction of a commonly used explosive, such as thermite.

Numerous witnesses heard a rapid
sequence of explosions from the
lower part of the twin towers prior to
their collapse.
Shortly after Prof. Jones began giving
press inter views about his research,
including a six-minute spot on MSNBC,
Brigham Young University issued a public statement discrediting him, saying
that they were convinced that his analyses and hypotheses had not actually been
week after his MSNBC interview, Jones

issued a press release stating that it was
better that he limit his speaking on his
theories to academic peer reviews. I
want to thank everyone for the attention, he said, but University officials
and I have come to an understanding
that it is best that I limit my appearances
at this time.
For more information on this topic,
check out Mysteries issue #8.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: DESERET NEWS
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Urban Legends
Urban Legends
FREUDIAN INTERPRETATIONS
OF URBAN LEGENDS
Sexual fears lurk
beneath the surface of
many urban legends.
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by Charles Rammelkamp
he theories of Sigmund Freud
and his followers have been
applied to urban legends to identify symbolic references of the unconscious needs of those who believe and circulate these stories. The idea is that just
as psychoanalysts examine dreams, childhood memories and compulsive, neurotic
behavior for clues to an individuals psychological challenges, so folk tales must
likewise reveal deep-seated symbolic
strategies for coping with certain situations. That these situations are often sexual is the crux of the Freudian approach.
The Hook, for instance, an urban
legend in which a boy and girl are parked
in a popular teenage lovers lane, is said
to involve symbolic castration and the
fears of young women concerning their

dates intentions.
In this urban legend, a young couple is
listening to music on the radio when the
broadcast is interrupted by an urgent
bulletin about an escaped homicidal
lunatic from the state mental hospital,
with a hook for a hand. Immediately,
they hear a scratching at the door and the
girl demands that the boy investigate.
Furious, he starts up the car and drives
away. When they arrive home, what do
they find hanging from the passenger
side door-handle but a hook!
Freudians say that in this urban legend, the girl feels helpless and at the
mercy of her boyfriend (as she might
with a crazy man) while the hook is a
phallic symbol. So severing it by driving
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away amounts to castrating the lunatic,

thus making him harmless.
Other Castration Tales
he Mutilated Boy is an
urban legend that has been
around for centuries,
updated to incorporate details of contemporary life. Freudians claim the legend is a manifestation of a womans
unconscious desire to castrate men. To
support their claim, they point to women
as the primar y audience for the tale,
though how they figure women make up
the primary audience is not clear.
The story of the mutilated boy often
appears during the Christmas shopping
season. The teller usually knows somebody who knows somebody who was
waiting for her son outside the mens
room in the shopping mall. When the
boy does not come out for a long time,
she knocks on the door, and when he
does not answer, she goes to the security guard for help, only to learn that her
son has been castrated by gang members and has bled to death in one of the
stalls.
The story of the mutilated boy goes at
least as far back as Geoffrey Chaucers
medieval Canterbury Tales, in which one
character tells the tale of Jews mutilating
Christian boys for their blood to use in
the making of Passover matzohs. Whereas today the hated brutes in the mall are
minority gang-members, Jews are the
object of hatred in the medieval original.
To most, this urban legend plays on
the fear of the evil other. But in the
hands of a Freudian, the story reveals a
symbolic impulse to neuter the male.
The Severed Finger is another urban
legend with a castration theme. It begins
with a woman shopping in the mall while
her boyfriend waits for her out in the car.
In the fitting room, an assailant cuts off
one of her fingers to steal her diamond
ring and the thief is never caught.
The story appears to be about penis
envy, as the womans phallic stand-in

along with her jewelsare violently
removed. (Note the ineffectual boyfriend
whose presence is noted by his absence.)
Many folklorists see the story in terms of
racial tensions; the assailant is usually a
black man and the victim a white woman,
and this is a tale urging the listener to be
careful in anonymous situations. But the
Freudian sees a deeper dynamic going
on, a violent psycho-sexual drama in
which the threatening male member is
cut off but whose power is nevertheless
envied, or identified with, so that the
powerlessness the castration achieves is
internalized by the female.
Fears of Violation
piders in the Hairdo is
another urban legend that
Freudians see as full of sexual
implications. In this tale, a school girl
wearing her hair in a beehive, a style popular in the 1950s, passes out in her
English class, and a trickle of blood
observed running down her neck. The
girl is rushed to the hospital and when
her hair is washed and combed out, they
find black widow spiders nesting there.
To the uninitiated, this might seem
like a cautionary tale with a moral about
cleanliness and vanity (urban legends
often have an implicit moral having to do
with safety), but the Freudian sees a
trickle of blood coming from a mass of
female hair in symbolic terms. That mass
of hair has womblike qualities and the
blood suggests violation, a loss of innocence. And the spiders could represent
genital lice resulting from unhygienic
sexual contact.
Another Freudian urban legend
involving adolescent anxieties is I
Believe in Mary Worth, also known as
Mary Jane or Mary Lou or Bloody
Mary. Young girls at slumber parties
and summer camps chant the formula a
set number of times while staring into a
bathroom mirror, after which Mary is
allegedly summoned from the mirror and

scratches the girls face.
Psychoanalytic folklorists have suggested that the ritual really is about the
onset of a girls first period, the dramatic
change from girlhood to womanhood.
They emphasize the bathroom setting,
the telltale blood spots on the girls face
suggesting menstruation. While this may
strike one as farfetched, the summer
camp ritual does suggest an initiation,
and Freudians speculate the name Mary
Worth might signify the worth of the
adult female.
An urban legend that began to circulate in America in the mid-1980s is
The Hairy-Armed Hitchhiker. This
urban legend likewise takes place at a
shopping mall. The stor y involves a
young woman who goes to her car and
is approached by an old woman who
asks for a lift. The girl obliges but when
the stranger gets into the car and reaches over to place her shopping bag in the
backseat, she notices the hand holding
the bag is big and hairy.
Thinking quickly, she asks the stranger
to check the rear lights because they have
been faulty and she is concerned that
they may not be working properly. When
the stranger gets out of the car to look at
the lights, the girl drives off. Later, the
girl examines the bag the lady left in
the backseat and finds a hatchet.
Freudians point to the gender-switching aspect of the tale and the distrust of
the younger woman toward the older
woman and speculate that the story is
really about a daughters attitude toward
her mother, a projection of the infantile
hostility that a daughter directs toward
her mother when she discovers that her
mother does not have a penis.
Although among folklorists there is
not a great deal of support for Freudian
interpretations of urban legends, one
thing that cannot be denied is that the
interpretations are certainly thoughtprovoking. z
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In Search of Stardust & Causality Violations
In Search of Stardust & Causality Violations
Empty Tomb and Strange Glyphs

Point to a Cover-Up in Egypt
Did people from the future
time travel back to ancient
Egypt? Recent unusual
discoveriesand bizarre
reactions from authorities
suggest that this might
have been the case.
I have found a shaft, going [95 feet] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway
between the Chefren Pyramid and the
Sphinx. At the bottom, which was filled with
water, we have found a burial chamber with
four pillars. In the middle is a large granite
sarcophagus which I expect to be the grave
of Osiris, the god.
ZAHI HAWASS, JANUARY 31, 1999
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by Michael Lohr
n 1999, a team of Belgium and German archaeologists, while excavating
an Egyptian burial chamber on the
Giza plateau, halfway between the
Chefren Pyramid and the Sphinx, discovered a tunnel that led below the chamber
to a small causeway, at the end of which
was a solid granite capstone sealing off an
apparent tomb. Zahi Hawass, director of
the Giza site for the Egyptian Antiquities
Authority, was alerted to the discovery
and immediately stepped in to supervise
the dig.
At the end of a causeway that connects
the tomb to Kharfres Pyramid, they discovered a circular door made of chocolate
basalt, at the base of which read in hieroglyphs that this was the tomb of the god
Osiris. Upon reading this, two teams of
superstitious Egyptian workers immediately stopped working and left the site.
(In Egypt, it is common practice to not
disturb the artifacts of the ancients. One
can only imagine their panic when they
discovered they were about to open the
sealed tomb of a legendary god of their
ancestors.)
According to sources, the tombs door
had a golden seal placed around the rim
of the capstone. This gold, when tested,
was dated to between 3844 BC to 4400
BC, well before the supposed establishment date for the Egyptian Upper and
Lower Kingdoms and the invention of
hieroglyphics in 3300 BC. But when
journalists from the BBC and London
Times asked about these odd results, no
one in authority would address it.
Hawass eventually hired men from the
Egyptian army to open the tombs capstone and proceed with the excavation.
Once the stone was removed, they found

a vertical shaft that dropped 95 feet down
into the cold, dark earth. Once the team
repelled down the shaft, they discovered a
large, granite sarcophagus with a hieroglyph-inscribed lid submerged under
three feet of water, in the middle of a
stone circle that was divided into four
quadrants with each dividing line aimed
to the north, south, east, and west.
The tomb was also surrounded by four
hieroglyph-inscribed pillars situated at
each point of the compass. From each
cardinal point was a tunnel filled to the
ceiling with sand and debris that led presumably under the Giza plateau. There
was supposedly nothing found in the sarcophagus except for a small stone tablet
that said, Osiris was resurrected from
the dead by Isis, who then ascended into
the heavens.
Evidence of a Cover-Up
hy would the ancient Egyptians go to the trouble of carving out a complex tomb, seal
it up, yet never place a mummy or treasure there? Certain people believe that
Hawass may have uncovered some
unusual artifact that, if revealed, would
stand traditional archaeology and perhaps
even history on its head.
Several artifacts were reportedly found
about the chamber, but a list was never
released to the public. Later, in an interview with the British newspaper The
Guardian, Hawass said that the artifacts
retrieved dated the lower tomb, the socalled Osiris tomb, to the New Kingdom,
around 1550 BC. Then a report released
in 2003 by the Egyptian Antiquities
Authority stated that the tunnels leading
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away from the tomb actually went

nowhere, a view that was challenged by a
group of Egyptologists in the September/October 2000 issue of Archaeology
magazine. Surprisingly, neither Hawass
nor any of his associates have ever
responded to the charges that the tunnels do indeed proceed farther along
under the Giza plateau, a silence that was
very much out of character.
Additionally, during the dig, it was
rumored that the Giza plateau was closed
to the public, guarded by both U.S. and
Egyptian military units. Why were the
U.S. and Egyptian armies placed on high
alert while this excavation was going on?
Surely, they were not mobilized just to
deter thieves from raiding the tomb. This
was an unprecedented move, for never
before were American and Egyptian
armies mobilized to protect an archaeological excavation, which suggests that
more is going on here than the Egyptian
authorities are willing to admit.
Thus far, no outside entities, including
historians and archaeologists, have been
permitted to inspect the Osiris tomb, the
Egyptian authorities citing that the
Osiris tomb was closed due to dangerous instabilities in the chamber ceiling
or high water levels, a move that supports the idea that there is something
unusual about this tomb that Hawass
wants to keep secret.
Odd Hieroglyphs
n a related story, it was revealed by
Fox television on their March,
1999 special Opening The Lost
Tombs: Live From Egypt that odd
hieroglyphs had been discovered in the
ruins of an Egyptian temple dedicated
to the goddess Hathor. An undercover
Fox journalist took photos of this
anomalous series of glyphs, which are
strangely similar in shape to a modern
helicopter and a space ship, and smuggled them out Egypt, much to the chagrin of Dr. Hawass and the Egyptian
Ministry of Antiquities, who attempted

to have the photos extradited back to
Egypt, sight unseen.
Once the photos were released on
national television as part of the Fox
television special, Egyptian authorities
attempted to spin the event by saying
that the helicopter-like glyph was actually part of the name of a Pharaoh. But
upon closer inspection, hieroglyphic
experts determined that the glyphs were
designed differently from name glyphs
and that these hieroglyphs are potentially new letters to the ancient Egyptian alphabet. The dispute over these
discovered glyphs continues to rage,
with both sides passionately defending
their positions.
The above photos of the odd hieroglyphs

were taken by an undercover Fox journalist in the Hathor temple. Notice how
similar the glyphs look to a Blackhawk
helicopter (left), as well as a modern
space ship. Does this suggest that
people from the future traveled back
in time to visit ancient Egypt?
For all the inexplicable events going

on in Egypt, one cannot help but wonder what the truth of the matter is. If
some wondrous discovery was made in
the tomb of Osiris at the Temple of
Hathor that could rewrite history, no
doubt that government agencies would
hesitate to release this information to the
public. Unfortunately, this serves no one
but conspiracy theorists. We can only
hope that more information and additional photographs will soon be released
to the public so that we may finally put
an end to the speculation. z
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Mysteries of Science
Mysteries of Science
Unusual Lunar Activity

Continues to Baffle Scientists
The Moon is considered to
be a dead world, but strange
shapes and lights seen on
its surface show that
earths celestial companion
is still not ready to
give up its secrets.
The crater Aristarchus is where

many unusual phenomena have
been photographed or witnessed.
by Tim Swartz
ext to the sun, no other object
in the heavens has played such
an important role for mankind
as the moon. It is our closest celestial
neighbor and has been the inspiration of
lovers and poets for countless generations. It has been the source of spiritual
awakenings and the earliest of religious
beliefs. It has been extensively studied
and photographed, yet there is still little
we know about the moon. There is even a
debate among scientists on whether the
moon is a true satellite.

The origins of the moon have been
hotly debated among scientists for years.
The most popular theory is that in the
early days of the solar system, the moon
formed from matter ejected from the
earth after a collision with a wandering
celestial body. Others say that the moon
was formed independently from the
same cloud of dust and gas as the Earth,
and immediately became the Earths
natural satellite. Another theory holds
that the moon originated somewhere
else in space before it came too close to
the Earth and was captured in the planets gravitational field.
The one thing that all scientists do
agree on, however, is that the moon is
devoid of life. It has an extremely hostile
environment, with withering radiation
from the sun and extremes in temperature that range from -250F to 250F.
Nevertheless, the moon is far from inactive. Unexplained lights and shapes seen
on the moon are a classic example of an
enigma called Transient Lunar Phenomena (TLP), and skywatchers have been
intrigued by them since the earliest times.
Transient Lunar Phenomena
he first recorded example of TLP
was on June 18, 1178, when a
group of men in Canterbur y,
England, startled by a flaming torch
which suddenly appeared on the fourday-old crescent moon, noted spewing
out, over a considerable distance, fire,
hot coals, and sparks. The moon was
said to have writhed like a wounded
snake and shor tly after, assumed a
blackish appearance.
In May, 1783, William Herschel, the
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astronomer who discovered the planet

Uranus, observed through his telescope
a strange glow on the dark half of the
crescent moon that resembled Slowly
burning charcoal thinly covered with
ashes. In 1787, when Herschel recorded other prominent TLPs, he became
convinced that the lunar surface was
experiencing volcanic activity. Then in
1821, Franz Gruithuisen, the creator of
the meteoric impact theory of lunar cratering, saw flashing points of light on the
surface of the moon and believed he had
discovered a lunar city.
Since those early observations, many
astronomers have reported witnessing
the brief appearance of inexplicable
mists, cloud-like shapes, glows, and flashes on the moon. For instance, in 1949,
astronomer F.H. Thornton reported seeing a puff of whitish vapor obscuring
details for some miles. In 1954,
astronomer Walter Haas obser ved a
milky luminosity present on the wall of
the crater Tycho.
That same year, Spanish engineer Sixto
Campo promoted the theory that a technologically advanced civilization had
once waged nuclear war against itself on
the lunar surface. Annihilation came
quickly, he claimed, and the resulting
craters remain as testament to the holocaust on a now dead world. However,
red glows continue to be observed in the
region of the moons North Pole and
blue misty glows noted near craters at
the South Pole.
Interestingly, Russian astronomer N.A.
Kozyrev has recorded numerous incidents of red TLPs, particularly in the 80mile-wide crater known as Alphonsus.
And the crater Aristarchus is not only one
of the brightest formations on the moon;
it is also the site of more than half the
reported number of TLPs.
Astronomers take TLP seriously and
one of the first real attempts to catalog
TLPs was made by NASA and published
in Technical Report R-277. The report
detailed 579 mysterious lunar events witnessed from 1540 to 1967.

TLPs were also observed close-up by
the Apollo astronauts. On July 19, 1969,
the Apollo 11 command module had just
achieved orbit around the moon when
Mission Control received word that amateur astronomers had reported a TLP in
the vicinity of the crater Aristarchus.
Asked to check out the situation, astronaut Neil Armstrong looked out his window and observed an area that is considerably more illuminated than the
surrounding area. It just... seems to
have... a slight amount of fluorescence to
it. As well, in 1972 while in lunar orbit,
Harrison Schmitt on Apollo 17 witnessed a flash of light near the crater
Grimaldi.
Some astronomers dismiss TLPs as
illusions caused by the Earths atmosphere. Yet despite the fact that scientists
are not able to explain the phenomena, it
is evident that some TLPs originate on

the moon.
It would appear that despite what has
been believed for years, the moon is far
from being earths cold, inert neighbor.
Yet despite a profusion of observations
and missions to explore the surface of the
moon, our closet planetary neighbor still
manages to retain its secrets. z
The castle anomaly above was photographed

during the manned Apollo 10 mission. The Shard
(left), standing over 1.5 miles high, was photographed in 1967 by NASA's Lunar Orbiter III.
Rather than TLPs, these appear to be permanent
structures. But it remains uncertain if they are still
there, as no other photos have been taken of these
sites since the 1960s. The implication of these
images is that there are structures on the moon
that may have been built by intelligent life.
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Mysteries on Exhibit
East Coast
Da Vinci Discovery Center
of Science and Technology
ALLENTOWN, PA
(484) 664-1002 I WWW.DISCOVERY-CENTER.ORG
Strange Matter (May 19-Sept. 10,

2006) From metals with memor y to
micro-machinery, discover the world of
materials science at this exhibit. Use a
bowling ball to try to shatter a pane of
heat-tempered glass or swish a gloved
hand through a substance that morphs
from fluid to solid and back again, at the
touch of a button.
The Maritime Aquarium
NORWALK, CT
(203) 852-0700 I WWW.MARITIMEAQUARIUM.ORG
Dinosaur Island (through Sept. 6,

2006) Venture back through timeand
past life-like robotic dinosaursand
experience an amazing 3D adventure
ride that teaches the story of extinctions
and how they actually give rise to new life
on Earth.
Midwest
Carnegie Science Center
PITTSBURGH, PA
(412) 237-3400
WWW.CARNEGIESCIENCECENTER.ORG
Magic: The Science of Illusion (May

27-Sept. 4, 2006) Explore the smoke,
mirrors, and science behind various magical mysteries, and how
scientific concepts help
create a successful illusion. Learn the magic
behind transformation,
how to float your own
head, levitate a chair
while sitting in it, and
read minds. Also learn
about famous magicians from the past.
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Mysteries on Exhibit
Lakeview Museum of Arts and Science

PEORIA, IL
(309) 686-7000 I WWW.LAKEVIEW-MUSEUM.ORG
Hatching the Past (June 9-Sept. 3,

2006) This interactive exhibit helps
answer some of the questions on
dinosaur reproductive behavior raised by
recent discoveries of dinosaur eggs, nests,
and embryos. Features more than 100
fossils of eggs, nests, embr yos, and
young, as well as paintings and photographs.
about the lives and deaths of the ancient

Egyptians, wonder at Nesperennubs
recreated face, and look inside the
mummy-case, under the wrappings, and
even inside his body.
South
Charlottes Discovery Place
CHARLOTTE, NC
(704) 372-6261 I WWW.DISCOVERSCROLLS.ORG
The Dead Sea Scrolls (through May

29, 2006) This exhibit of the earliest
written texts of the Bible features ten
original scrolls, including two that have
never before been seen outside of Israel.
Frist Center of the Visual Arts
The Field Museum
NASHVILLE, TN
CHICAGO, IL
(615) 244-3340 I WWW.FRISTCENTER.ORG
(312) 922-9410 I WWW.FIELDMUSEUM.ORG
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of

the Pharaohs (May 26, 2006-Jan. 1,
2007) This exhibit
features more than
130 treasures from
tombs, royal graves,
and ancient sites in
the Valley of the
Kings, including 50
major objects from
the
tomb
of
Tutankhamun,
which are on exhibit
in the U.S. for the
first time in 27
years. Among the
artifacts from King Tuts tomb are his
gold crown and the canopic coffinette
that contained his mummified internal
organs.
The New Detroit Science Center
DETROIT, MI
(313) 577-8400
WWW.DETROITSCIENCECENTER.ORG
SPACE: A Journey to Our Future

(through May 14, 2006) This exhibit
features dozens of interactive displays
that allow visitors to feel the rumble of a
rocket launch, touch a piece of the moon
and Mars, test their space survival skills,
and walk in the footsteps of astronauts.
The Quest for

Immortality:
Treasures
of
Ancient Egypt
(June 8-Oct. 8,
2006) This exhibition of ancient art
from the Egyptian
national collection
illuminates the
Pharaonic concepts
of the afterlife journey, sustenance and
renewal, and the
relationship with
the divine. It features approximately
115 artifacts, some
of which have never
been seen outside
Egypt, including a
life-sized reconstruction of the burial chamber of
pharaoh Thutmose III.
Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center
MOBILE, AL
Mummy: The Inside Story (through

July 31, 2006) The unopened 3,000year-old mummy of Nesperennub, priest
of Karnak, reveals its secrets through a
unique virtual mummy. Learn more
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HOUSTON, TX
(704) 372-6261 I WWW.HMNS.ORG
Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries (through July 31, 2006) This
exhibit presents reinterpretations of the
most puzzling mysteries about how
dinosaurs looked, moved, and behaved
and why they became extinct. The
exhibit features fossil specimens and
casts; interactive computer simulations
and animations; videos of fieldwork; and
a walk-through diorama.
Treasures from
the Royal Tombs
of Ur (through
Aug. 6, 2006)
This exhibit features more than
200 ancient Sumerian objects of art
and culture that
were uncovered in
the late 1920s
from the royal tombs at Ur in
Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) at its
zenith (2,600-2,500 BC).
Tut Unwrapped (through Aug. 13,
2006) This exhibit explores the life of
the famed boy king and reveals what has
been learned by analyzing his mummified remains.
Museum of Arts and Science
MACON, GA
(251) 208-6873 I WWW.EXPLOREUM.NET
Houston Museum of Natural Science
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(478) 477-3232 I WWW.MASMACON.COM
Final Frontier: Mans Exploration of

Space (through Nov. 5, 2006) This
exhibit addresses our fascination with
exploring the cosmos and answers some
frequently asked questions about space.
The Arts & Science Center

PINE BLUFF, AR
(870) 536-3375 I WWW.ARTSSCIENCECENTER.ORG
Space Adventures (through July 31,

2006) Learn about space exploration
from moon bases to space ships, and
relive space adventures from science-fiction, books, TV, and the cinema.
West Coast
The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art
SANTA ANA, CA
(714) 567-3600 I WWW.BOWERS.ORG
Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in

Ancient Egypt (through April 15,
2007) This exhibit illustrates the Egyptian ritual of preparing the dead for the
afterlife. It features 140 funerary objects,
including 14 mummies and coffins,
canopic jars, offering tables, and tomb
furnishings.
Visions of the Shaman, Song of the
Priest (ongoing) This exhibit includes a
series of galleries that communicate the
power and sophistication of the mysterious cultures that rose and fell in ancient
America.
Online Exhibits
American Museum of Photography
WWW.PHOTOGRAPHYMUSEUM.COM/BELIEVE1
Do You Believe? A Ghostly Gallery This exhibit features spirit photography (ghosts and ectoplasm captured by camera) from 1868 to 1935.
Museum of Unnatural Mystery
WWW.UNMUSEUM.ORG
Cryptozoology: Lost Worlds Learn about the study of cryptozoology and search
for previously unknown animals, including Nessie, Champ, and other lake monsters, and land monsters, such as Bigfoot. Features sections on hoaxes, unknown
animals in entertainment, and recently discovered, previously unknown creatures.
NOVA Online Adventure Series
WWW.PBS.ORG/WGBH/NOVA/EGYPT/EXPLORE
Mysteries of the Nile Explore ancient Egypt

and the Land of the Pharaohs through riveting
360 photographs.
The Haunted Museum
WWW.PRAIRIEGHOSTS.COM/MUSEUM.HTML
The Mysteries of the Spiritualism Era This exhibit chronicles ghost research,
from the heyday of spiritualism to the modern era. Discover articles, features, and
photographs about the history of ghosts and the supernatural.
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Kudos
Kudos
Psychic Jeane Dixon

Honored with a Museum
JEANE DIXON MUSEUM AND LIBRARY
Jeane Dixon
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by Mac Carey
t is unknown whether Jeane Dixon
ever predicted the existence of her
own posthumous museum that
opened in 2002. It seems that the worldrenown psychic who became a celebrity
in 1963 after her prediction of
Kennedys assassination, spent so much

time predicting events for others that she
had little time left for prophecy in her
own life.
It is even more doubtful that Dixon
would have predicted her museums
whereabouts in Strasburg, VA, a small
town of 4,000 people in the middle of
the Shenandoah, known more for its
antiques and Civil War histor y than
memorials to clairvoyants. John Schreiner, the museums curator, seems unsure
about the reason behind the museums
placement, as well. Some of the people
around here arent very happy with the
museum, he says, alluding to the religious leanings of the town.
The museum is located on the second
floor of a downtown building. On the
wall, a cracked plastic showcase displays
ribbons that Mike the Magicat, Dixons
longtime pet, had won, as well as a painted Victorian hobbyhorse that Dixon
used to perform puppet shows with him.
Various parts of the museum are organized chronologically, beginning with
Dixons auspicious childhood when a
gypsy first recognized her unusual gift
for prophesy in the lines of her hand.
Placards propped up on the upper
shelves tell the story of Dixons life and
work, from her marriage in 1939 to
Jimmy Dixon, a high-powered real estate
executive in Washington, DC, to her rise
to fame in Los Angeles, where she accurately prophesied actress Carole Lombards fatal airplane crash in 1942 and
the partition of India in 1947.
Against the walls are artifacts from
Dixons homelow rococo chairs with
dark velvet upholstery and glass curio
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JEANE DIXON MUSEUM AND LIBRARY
Psychic Jeane Dixons

personal belongings are now
on display at a VA museum
dedicated to her life and
many unusual interests.
could not fit into the museum, so many

pieces are stored in the antique emporium downstairs.
The sitting room features heavy, silk
draperies, gilded fans, and a crystal chandelier. A low sitting tea table lies next to a
large lacquerware bed that was given to
Dixon as a gift from the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek when she visited him
sometime in the late 1950s. Also displayed are small trinkets she received
from the Dalai Lama in the early 1970s.
And in Dixons bedroom display is her
massive white bed which originally
belonged to Empress Eugnie, wife of
Napoleon III of France.
Dixons Failed Prophesies
he museum attempts to present
an objective representation of
Dixons life, allowing visitors to
judge for themselves about her alleged
prophetic abilities. So to be faithful in
their portrayal of her abilities, a section
of the museum is dedicated to Dixons
failures, such her prediction that World
War III would break out in the 1980s,
that the Soviets would be the first to
reach the moon, and that the antiChrist would be born somewhere in
Egypt in the 1960s.
But it seems that whatever mistakes
Dixon made in prophecies during her
lifetime, her clair voyance ser ved her
well when predicting her own demise.
For near the exit of the museum is a box
full of prayer cards, with her autograph
stamped on the back, cards that Dixon
had made up before her death.
The museum of fers a fascinating
glimpse into the life of psychic Jeane
Dixon, a woman who witnessed and
foretold some of the major events of the
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cabinets. The walls are lined with portraits and photos of Dixon and autographed photos from many dignitaries,
including President George Bush Sr. as
well as former Speaker of the House Tip
ONeill.
Dixon had many high-powered friends
from her time as a Washington socialite.
She claimed to have been invited to the
White House twice by then-president
Franklin Roosevelt, and was the godmother to the late senator Strom Thurmonds son Paul. But her connections
with important people extended outside
of the Beltway as well, as many of her
most famous prophecies concerned Hollywood celebrities.
For instance, she disconcerted actress
Sissy Spacek in 1981 by telling her that
she would give birth to a girl in the next
year. Spacek told the press that she would
decide when she had a child, and then
gave birth to daughter Schuyler in 1982.
Despite her Christian detractors,
Dixon was a devout Catholic who credited a supreme being for her visions. In
fact, she claimed that she was praying in
DCs St. Matthews Cathedral when her

most famous prophecythat a blueeyed Democrat president elected in 1960
would be assassinated or die in office
came to her.
Dixon managed to combine her interest in Catholicism and prophecy by
reworking the zodiac, which was the
theme of her 1976 book Yesterday,
Today, and Forever, in which she connected each of the 12 apostles to a sign
of the zodiac. These connections are displayed on placards on a circular table in
the center of the museum. On a shelf
nearby is one of Dixons crystal balls,
which she began using later in her life
after receiving one as a gift from a friend.
In the back of the museum, near an
exhibit of Dixons desk and the circle of
blue leather chairs from her office is a
small, chandeliered, anteroom leading to
two rooms that features furniture from
Dixons bedroom and sitting room from
her residence in the nations capital.
Dixon was a great collector of furniture,
with a special penchant for the gilded
and grandiose. Unfortunately, most of it
For more information about the Jeane

Dixon Museum in Strasburg, VA, call
(540) 465-5884 or visit www.waysideofva.com/jdml
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Our Haunted Heritage
Sir George Mackenzies Black Mausoleum
Haunted Greyfriars Churchyard

Are sinister, paranormal
occurrences at the tomb of
Bloody Mackenzie related
to the darker side of the
famed prosecutors nature?
A painting of the Covenanters meeting

at the Greyfriars churchyard.
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By Andrew C. Ferguson
and C. Bruce Hunter
he ancient churchyard of
Greyfriars in Edinburgh, Scotland, offers a gateway to the past
via the final resting place of Sir George
Mackenzie, whose spirit, some say, still
roams the grounds.
In the 17th century, Mackenzie was
Scotlands Lord Advocate (chief prosecutor) who earned the name Bloody
Mackenzie for his vendetta against the
Covenanters, a group of religious hardliners, who had fought more than half a
century to bring Scotland to their particular brand of Presbyterianism. After
defeating them at the battle of Bothwell
Bridge in 1677, Mackenzie imprisoned
1,200 Covenanters in Greyfriars
Churchyard, where many died of hunger
and hypothermia. The rest were eventually executed or sent into exile.
Although Mackenzie is best remembered for this incident, he was actually a
learned man who published works on
law, fiction, histor y, and politics. He
founded the Advocates Librar y (the

forerunner to the National Library of
Scotland) and his law books were standard textbooks in Scotland for centuries. But he also had a link with the
supernatural.
On one occasion while visiting his
country retreat on the Black Isle in the
far north of Scotland, he agreed to help a
poor widow who was about to be evicted
from her farm, which had only been held
from year to year on a short-term lease.
That night, his clerk, who was sleeping
in the same chamber, saw Mackenzie get
out of bed, light a candle, and begin
writing furiously while apparently still
asleep. When he finished, he put what he
had written in his desk, locked it, and
returned to bed. In the morning,
Mackenzie discovered that the pages he
had written during the night contained a
legal argument that eventually saved the
widows farm.
Another time Mackenzie was taking
his evening stroll along a quiet, undeveloped area between the city and the port
of Leith, when he was accosted by an old
man who begged him to take a case concerning the ownership of a countr y
estate near London. After speaking to
him for a few minutes, the man mysteriously disappeared. When this happened
again the next night, Mackenzie decided
to visit the estate and meet its owner.
While there, he saw a portrait of the old
man he had encountered in Edinburgh
the owners long-deceased great-greatgrandfather.
Acting on information the old man
had given him, Mackenzie went to the
attic, where he found an old oak chest.
Hidden in a false bottom was the original title to the estate, evidence needed to
save the property for the family.
With curious happenings such as these
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Sir George
Mackenzie
in his past, Mackenzie finally retired to

Oxford in 1688, died in London a few
years later, and was buried in Scotland.
But ironically, he was laid to rest in
Greyfriars churchyard, the very place
where his sworn enemies, the Convenanters, had founded their movement years
earlier and had subsequently been imprisoned and killed on Mackenzies orders.
This may be the origin of Mackenzies
reputation as a restless spirit, for over the
years, a series of eerie things have happened at Greyfriars, all attributed to the
Mackenzie poltergeist. Many local psychics believe they were triggered by an
incident that occurred in 1999, when a
homeless man seeking shelter on a cold
night opened the iron door of Mackenzies tomb (now called the Black Mausoleum), climbed in beside the coffin,
and fell asleep.After a few hours, he
awoke suddenly when the coffin collapsed on top of him, showering him
with 400-year-old bone fragments. Horrified, he ran out of the mausoleum so
fast that he startled a man walking his
dog nearby.
Since then, there have been several
other incidents of people being assaulted
by unseen hands, particularly with customers of a regular ghost walk who
sometimes faint for no apparent reason

or discover strange scratches on various
parts of their bodies upon returning
home from the ghost tour.
People have also experienced unusual
cold spots in one vault in particular.
Flashlights fail, batteries are drained of
power, and mobile phoneseven when
switched of fhave their settings
changed or subsequently malfunction.
The paranormal activity often has a
sinister edge to it. For instance, on one
occasion, a visitor to the Vaults was on
the tour with her young daughter. When
the tour guide asked the party to put the
lights out so that the last part of the
vaults history could be described in the
dark for added effect, the mother felt her
daughter take her hand in the darkness.
But when the hand holding hers
squeezed her in a vise-like grip, she
screamed. When the lights came back on,
she discovered her daughter on the other
side of the chamber, where she had been
led in the darkness by an unknown hand.
After a while, it was discovered that
most of the sinister activity occurred in
the main vault, and only on its left-hand
side. Even more curiously, the Mackenzie Poltergeist seemed to attack only
women and children. A simple solution
was designed: all the women and chil-
dren on the tours were asked to stand on

the right-hand side of the vault. That
stopped the unseen hands grabbing at
the visitors, but they then started to
attack the female tour guides.
In fact, between January and March of
1999, so much phenomena occurred
that the tours were cancelled. When they
restarted, a guide on the very first tour
was knocked over by an invisible force in
the presence of several witnesses.
Jan Andrew Henderson, author of The
Town Below the Ground, an investigation
of Edinburghs spooky underbelly, also
claims that some people have blamed the
onset of their mental breakdowns to
their experiences with a strange, evil
presence on the tour.
It is not clear why Mackenzies spirit
has been blamed for all the strange
goings-on over the last few years. In his
life, he was clearly a complex man who
lived during difficult times. But if you do
decide to tour Greyfriars churchyard,
you should think twice before standing
before the Black Mausoleum and reciting the rhyme that dates from Sir Walter
Scotts schooldays:
Bloody Mackenzie,
come oot if ye daur,
Lift the sneck (catch)
and draw the bar... z
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Treasures from the Deep
Treasures from the Deep

dates to 6,000 BC and is thought to be
the worlds oldest fishing boat. The
Stone Age boat, which was made from
pine trees, was discovered 23 feet below
current sea level at a site where a large
quantity of earthenware decorated with
animal drawings was previously found.
Hurricane Uncovers
Blackbeard Artifacts
hen Hurricane Ophelia
struck the North Carolina
coast in September of 2005,
the storms waves scoured sand from the
wreckage that is believed to be that of
the pirate Blackbeards flagship Queen
Annes Revenge. Among the artifacts
unearthed near the stern of the vessel,
where the officers quarters would have
been, are two cannons, an anchor,
numerous small concretions, and an
apothecarys mortar. But archaeologists
fear that lighter-weight artifacts, such as
glassware or pieces of ceramic, may have
washed away in the storm.
Scientists working on concretions previously excavated from the wreckage
announced in January of 2006 that xrays have identified the presence of a
coat button, some glass beads that were
used as a trade commodity with both
slaves in West Africa and American Indians, and a part of a set of iron shackles.
Researchers hope that the shackles will
help identify the wreck as the slave ship
La Concorde, which was renamed when
Blackbeard captured it in 1717.
Worlds Oldest Fishing

Boat Unearthed in China
n September of 2005, archaeologists
working in Chinas South
Gyeongsang Province unearthed the
remains of a wooden fishing boat that
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Legend About Civil War

Ironclad Disproved
onservators excavating the turret
of the U.S.S. Monitor have finally
laid to rest the legend about its
last moments. Writing two decades later,
crewman Francis R. Butts claimed that
minutes before the ship went down, he
stuffed a black cat down the barrel of
one of the ships guns to stifle its yowl-
shed new light on the period and how

ancient merchant routes were forged.
Among the treasures recovered from
the wreck are nearly 14,000 pearls and a
profusion of precious stones, including
about 4,000 rubies, 400 dark red sapphires, and more than 2,200 garnets.
Other artifacts include gold jewelry, the
handle of a golden saber, an ornately
sculpted mirror of polished bronze, a
small mold engraved with the word Allah
in Arabic script, and rare ceramics from
an imperial kiln, including porcelain.
Valued at several million dollars, the
items may be purchased by museums or
will be offered for auction. Indonesia
will receive 50 percent of any proceeds
from the sale of the ancient treasures.
Legendary Sunken Treasure
Being Salvaged
n October of 2005, divers began a
project to recover a legendary treasure that sunk with the Genovese
steamship Polluce, after it was attacked
by pirates in the waters off the Tuscan
island of Elba more than 160 years ago.
The ship, which sank in less than 15
minutes, carried a cargo that included
100,000 gold coins and 70,000 silver
coins, as well as
a number of
precious jewels
and the goldplated coach of
Ferdinand IV,
then king of
Naples.
Numerous
attempts
to
locate the Polluce were unsuccessful, until a
French historian pinpointed the wrecks exact spot after combing
through documents in state archives and
libraries. He sold the information to a
group of English adventurers, who
forged the authorizations required by
I
ing while the crew tried to bail ship.
After sifting through the contents of
both of the Monitors guns and finding
no evidence of the cat, researchers say
that Butts must have fabricated the story.
Rich Treasure Recovered
from 10th-Century Shipwreck
uring an 18-month-long recovery project that ended in October of 2005, an international
team of treasure hunters recovered more
than 250,000 items from a 10th-century
boat that sank in the Java Sea, off the
coast of Indonesia, including artifacts
from ancient Egypt and Chinas Five
Dynasties period (907-960 AD). Archaeologists say that the wreck and its cargo
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Italian law to proceed with a recovery

operation in 2000. For three weeks, they
recovered 311 French and Spanish gold
coins, 2,000 silver coins, and several jewels, but destroyed the wreck in the process.
Italian authorities learned of the illegal
operation and the recovered treasure was
seized. The new, properly authorized
search will comb the sands surrounding
the wreck with equipment that is used to
recover aircraft flight recorders. Anything that is found will become the property of the Italian government.
Nova Scotia. When she sank, the Fantome was leading a convoy loaded with
items plundered during a series of key
battles in the final months of the War of
1812. She is also believed to have been
carr ying items taken from the White
House when British troops sacked Washington, D.C.
The proposed salvage operation has
sparked renewed protest from marine
experts about the provinces salvage policy, which they say allows its rich maritime history to be pillaged by modernday pirates. They argue that wrecks such
as the Fantome could contain priceless
historical artifacts and should be treated
with the same care as an archaeological
site. Salvage operators answer that they
finance costly excavations that unearth
far more shipwrecks than publicly funded salvage operations.
White House Loot in Nova

Scotia Salvage Dispute
n November of 2005, an American
salvage company obtained a license
to explore the wreck of the H.M.S.
Fantome, a British Navy brig that sank in
a storm in 1814, off the coast of Halifax,
Ancient Ships Excavated

Off Israeli Coast
n November of 2005, two ancient
shipwrecks were excavated near
Dor-Tantura, Israel, one from the
beginning of the eighth century AD, the
first shipwreck from the period ever to be
excavated in the Mediterranean Sea. It
was found at a depth of only seven feet,
covered by three feet of sand. In addition
to a large section of the hull, divers
recovered many ar tifacts, including
anchors, wooden artifacts, and about 20
ceramic pots containing food remnants,
which were found in their original positions in the ship.
The other ship is from the Byzantine
period, toward the end of the fifth centur y AD, and car ried stones neatly
stacked in its hold. After removing the
stones, divers dismantled the ships
planking and then sawed out sections
of the hull for further study. The timbers have been transferred to a conservation tank at a laboratory at the University of Haifa, where they will be
further analyzed.
Intact Victorian Steamliner

Found Off Australia
mateur divers searching for a
WWII submarine off the coast of
Wilsons Promontory in Victoria,
Australia, found instead the S.S. Queensland, a passenger steamliner that left
Melbourne in August 1876, and sank
after a collision with the S.S. Barrabool, a
small Australian coal ship.
Photographs of the wreck show that
much of the 325-foot-long Queensland
is intact, including a crockery locker with
its cupboards still stacked with plates.
The divers have located two of the ships
three masts, its engine, a box, a compass
binnacle and the compass, a toilet, portholes, a stove, glasses, pots, old bottles, a
capstan, sheets of canvas (possibly clothing or a sail), a piece of railing, and the
ships safe.
According to Australian law, the wreck
and its artifacts must stay where it settled. Its exact location will not be
revealed to protect the site from looters.
The divers never did find the submarine.
Dutch Treasure Recovered

from the English Channel
ens of thousands of dollars worth
of silver ingots have been salvaged from the wreck of the
Rooswijk, a Dutch trading vessel that sank
in the English Channel in 1739. Laden
with silver bullion, the vessel foundered
in a fierce storm just a day after sailing
from Holland, bound for Batavia in the
Dutch East Indies (modern-day Jakarta,
Indonesia), where the silver was to be
minted into coins. None of the ships
250 passengers
and crewmembers sur vived
the sinking.
The wreck
was discovered
in 2004 by an
English sports
diver. But the
discover y was
only
made
public in December of 2005, when
wooden chests full of four-pound ingots
were handed over to Hollands Finance
Minister Joop Wijn, at a ceremony in
Plymouth Harbor.
The precise location of the wreck is
still being kept secret, until everything of
value has been excavated. Divers have
already recovered more than a thousand
artifacts and other cargo, including saber
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Crypto Corral
Land of the Giants

ctober, 2005, brought a
star tling spate of Internet
repor ts concerning giant
remains allegedly discovered in India,
Iran, and Siberia. The first involved an
immense fossilized creature supposedly
found by C. Schilling in 2004 in Irans
Jebal-Barez Mountains. Schillings photos of a reptilian beast more than 200
feet long that had been uncovered by the
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2003 earthquake, prompted instant

complaints of a hoax.
Then October 18 brought video clips
of a giant, spider-like creature that had
allegedly beached itself during Indias
disastrous tsunami of December, 2004
and was somehow overlooked by every
reporter who flocked to the disaster
scene within hours of its occurrence.
Horsing Around?
n October 11, 2005, Pravda
announced that Russian
researchers had proved that
centaurs (mythical beasts half-horse and
half-human) were spawned by copulation between
humans and
animals. The
evidence for
this
theor y
included about
5,000
rock
paintings and a
batch of fossils
including lots of upper and lower parts
of centaur skeletons.
That bountiful proof (strangely
ignored by every scientific journal on
Earth) apparently convinced Paul Takon
from the Australian Museum in Sydney,
anthropologist Christopher Chippendale
from the University of Cambridge, and
mythology expert Alexander Gur yev
that centaurs were products of animal
kids born by humans and human kids
born by animals. Mainstream scientists,
meanwhile, persist in saying that interbreeding between species is physically
impossible.
for strange blips on their sonar screens.

Reports of a great blue serpent in
Loch Erne date from medieval times,
and something odd was still plying its
waters in 1999, when a beast up to
eight feet long with a spiky head frightened swimmer Claudia Westrich near
Killykeen.
Send in the Clones
hile cross-breeding between
humans and horses seems
implausible, U.S. researchers
from the University of Colorado at
Boulder stand ready to clone new specimens of Tasmanias supposedly extinct
thylacine.
Officially, thylacines were hunted to
extinction in 1933 and the last captive
specimen died three years later.
Nonetheless, more than 4,000 unconfirmed sightings of live thylacines have
been logged since 1936 throughout
much of Australia.
In Search of Lake Monsters

ovember, 2005, brought
announcements of renewed
scientific searches for freshwater cryptids in both China and Ireland.
At Chinas Lake Hanas, members of the
Xinjiang Institute of Environmental Pro-
tection spent several days trolling for

huguai, a giant, salmon-like fish that was
seen leaping from the lakes placid waters
in 2003, after a local earthquake.
Meanwhile, fishery experts in Ireland
have purchased expensive hydro-acoustic
surveying equipment in preparation for
scanning Lough Erne, in County Fermanagh. While they intend to map the
lakes fish population, they will also look
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A recent photo of a Sasquatch atop

Washingtons Silver Star Mountain
in Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
A Mystery with Bite

he unexplained mauling of a dog
at Greene, ME, in November,
2005, recalled other attacks in
the same area during 1991 and 2004.
Fleeting descriptions of the predator varied, and local authorities have failed to
produce either a culprit or a persuasive
theory. Similar attacks, claiming the lives
of cats, chickens, and a llama foal, were
also reported from Bethany, CT.
Farther afield, in the neighborhood of
Koinadugu, Sierra Leone, a ferocious
creature capable of running at unbelievable speeds, claimed at least two human
victims between August and October,
2005. In both cases, the victims were
fatally mauled, but only their entrails
were eaten. Soldiers were dispatched to
hunt the beast, and inspector Alhaji Bangura announced its death on November
10, but thus far, the type of creature he
supposedly killed remains unidentified.
Meanwhile, in mid-November, sheep
fell prey to an elusive blood-sucking creature at Sakmakam, in the United Arab
Emirates. As described by one unlucky
farmer, the night prowler, which is still at
large, takes the sheep by the neck, sucks
the blood, and leaves them dead.
Sasquatch Photo Opportunities

igfoot is usually bashful, but if
recent reports are accurate, two
more photographers on opposite
sides of the country may have captured
specimens on film. The first report, aired
on November 24, 2005, involves an
eight-year-old videotape allegedly
depicting a baby Bigfoot found climb-
ing a tree near Modena, NY.

Another photographic offering from
the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, broadcast on November 17,
allegedly por trays a Sasquatch photographed atop Washingtons Silver Star
Mountain in Gifford Pinchot National
Forest. Tests continue in an effort to
determine whether the faceless subjects
size is off the chart for a human.
Borneos What-is-it?
orneo, in Southeast Asia, harbors
two Malaysian states, four
Indonesian provinces, and the
independent sultanate of Brunei Darussalamall while supplying one-half of the
worlds total
tropical timber supply.
Ecologists
deplore its
shrinking
rainforest.
But on December 6, 2005, researchers
from the World Wide Fund for Nature
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A Big Cats Tale

lien big cats (ABCs) have long
been repor ted being seen in
Australia, but there has been no
hard evidence of their existence until
June, 2005, when deer hunter Kur t
Engel shot a supposed black panther
near Dargo, in Gippsland (east of Melbourne). Engel photographed his prize,
then severed its tail as a trophy and
buried the rest of the carcass at an undisclosed location.
Publication of his story in October
prompted calls for a DNA test on the
remnant, and it was tested in November.
The result was every bit as startling as
Engels photograph. Despite its size,
technicians declared that the 26-inchlong tail belonged to a gigantic feral
domestic cat.
DNA researcher Mike Williams pronounced himself stunned by the test
result. It was so large, he told
reporters, It is extraordinary that Australia has a mutated cat that can grow to
the size of a leopard. This might explain
why there are so many reports of monstrous black cats in Australia.
Crypto Corral
(WWFN) announced their discovery of

the first new mammalian carnivore found
in Southeast Asia since 1930.
The new creature was photographed
in Kayan Mentarang National Park, in
Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo. Stephen Wulffraat claimed discover y of the strange red-furred beastie
with stripes, small ears, a long bush tail,
and large hind legs. Unfor tunately,
Wulffraats two photos failed to capture
the animals face, leaving scientists to
guess whether it was pointed like a foxs
or flatter, like a cats. In fact, its status as
a carnivore remains speculative. However, the creature may be a viverrid
the family of animals including the
mongoose and civet.
Though still without a name, the animal has already become a poker chip in
global geopolitics, as WWFN members
blast Indonesian leaders for raping the
environment while politicians decry the
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EGYPTIAN
MAGIC
ne of the most
compelling
and least
understood
aspects of the
Egyptian world is their religious
practices. However, many elements of Egyptian religion, from
their use of symbols as a statement of faith to their emphasis
on the power of the written and
spoken word, are far less esoteric
than they appear at first glance.
AND THE
Power
of Words
BY RICHARD MACKENZIE
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Egyptian religion was based on the

understanding that if one provides offerings to, and obeys the wishes of the
gods, they would provide protection
against negative forces. Likewise, if one
were to disobey or neglect the gods,
they would bring on disaster. Thus, honoring the myriad deities of the Egyptian
pantheon was important to everyone in
Egyptian society, from the lowliest
farmer to the pharaoh himself.
And Egyptian magic, or heka,
was used as a way to gain power
over the gods themselves.
Amulets, spells, and magical
formulas were commonly used
and readily available in any
Egyptian market or in the outer
courtyards of any temple. The
simplest of these were figures or
symbols of the gods, which were
displayed in the home, worn as
jewelry, or sewn into clothing,
in an attempt to draw down
their favor.
These amulets, whether made
of faience (a blue ceramic-like
material) or enameled gold, were
owned by virtually everyone, and
as many as 40 or more of these
pieces were even placed within
the wrappings of a mummy to
protect the ka, or soul, as well as
the mummy itself, on the perilous journey through the Egyptian underworld.
Setna, one of Ramses IIs sons, and his

near-fatal quest to possess the knowledge contained within this volume,
including
the
power
to
enchant heaven, earth, hell, sea, and
mountains and know their secrets, and
even the ability to become one with the
gods themselves. Setnas encounter with
the vengeful spirit of the books previous
owner, who was cursed by Thoth for his
presumption in acquiring and
reciting the secret formulas
contained within the book
spells intended for the gods
alonenearly costs the curious prince his soul when he
loses a game of senet, a popular board game, where ownership of the book and his own
spirit are the ultimate prize.
Again, only the power of a
magical spell recited by Setna
saves him from the darkest of
fates and gains him the book,
but not for long; even his
magical skill in spellcasting,
enhanced by the forbidden
knowledge he finds within the
Book of Thoth, cannot protect
him forever from the wrath of
the gods and the ghost of the
books previous owner from
whom he stole it. Terrifying
illusions plague him and his
family, growing steadily more
threatening, until he returns
the book and begs forgiveness
The Power of Words
of the gods for his impudence.
erhaps even more imporWith its depiction of wrathtant than these physical
ful gods and the jealous prorepresentations of the The Egyptian god Thoth was believed to be the original author of tection of their powers, the
gods, however, was the Egyptian all books relating to Egyptian magic, including the Book of the
tale of Setna reveals the more
belief in the power of the written Dead. which provided the magical spells needed to successfully
negative aspects of Egyptian
transition
over
to
the
Otherworld
and
become
one
with
the
Gods.
and spoken word. Some versions
magic. Rather, most of the
of the Egyptian creation myth
time, magical spells were seen
sound strikingly familiar to those
as gifts from the gods.
versed in the Bible, as Ra creates the unibelieved to be the original author of all
The Book of Coming Forth by Day, for
verse using the power of words:
books relating to magical practices, from
example, was supposedly written by
Ra spake at the beginning of Crethe collection of funerary texts comThoth to provide guidance and protect
ation, and bade the earth and the
monly known as the Book of the Dead (or
the deceased on their journey through
heavens to rise out of the waste of
The Book of Coming Forth by Day), to the
the afterlife. This book provided the
water When Ra, according to his
priceless volume known simply as the
knowledge necessary to traverse safely
desire, uttered the deep thoughts of his
Book of Thoth.
the 42 gates of the Duat, or undermind, that which he named had
A tale in one of the books tells of
world, each of which was guarded by a
being. When he gazed into space, that
which he desired to see appeared
before him. He created all things that
move in the waters and upon the dry
land.
Given the power that the Egyptians
placed upon words, it is not surprising
that the deity who personified the
Divine Word, Thoth, was closely associated with Egyptian magic. He was
different deity, before ones final judgment before Osiris, ruler of the land of
the dead.
According to the book, the newly
deceased was to recite the name and
proper title of each deity at each gate.
The slightest misstep or mispronunciation would mean an eternity of torment, or even worseutter annihilation of the soul.
Once these dangers were met with
the help of the incantations and proper
phrases found in the book, only one
final test remained. Before Osiris, Anubis would weigh the hear t of the
deceased against the feather of Maat,
the goddess who personified truth and
balance in all things.
According to the book, during the
weighing, the best way to make ones
heart lighter than the sacred feather was
to recite a Negative Confession, or a
litany of all the evil deeds one had not
committed during ones lifetime:
In truth I have come to Thee; I have
destroyed wickedness for Thee; I have
not sinned against men; I have not
wronged my kinsfolk; I have not domineered over slaves; I have not
defrauded the poor man of his goods; I
have caused no man to suffer; I have
not allowed any man to go hungry; I
have slain no man; I have not filched
the offerings in the temples; I have not
The Egyptians believed that by writing

something down, one actually made it the
truth, and that written documents did not
just attest to the reality of a certain thing,
but could actually change reality.
stolen the offerings of the spirits; I
have not added weight to the balance;
I have not repulsed the god in all his
manifestations; I am pure, I am
pure, I am pure, I am pure.
Interestingly, the Negative Confession
was also something of a double-edged
sword. While intended to ser ve as a
moral standard for all members of Egyptian society, the document, by its very
nature as a magical spell, also became a
cheat sheet that absolved the deceased
from any wrongdoing.
For the Egyptians believed that by
writing something down, one actually
made it the truth, and that written documents did not just attest to the reality of
a cer tain thing, but could actually
change reality. Thus, by writing and
reciting the Negative Confession, the
deceased could rewrite their own past,
purify themselves, and gain entrance to

the Duat, no matter how heinous their
offenses during their lifetime.
Similarly, if the act of writing could
remake history, Egyptians believed that
destroying writing could obliterate ones
history. This may explain why there is so
little mention in the historical record of
controversial figures such as Hapshetsut
(c. 1504-1482 BC), Egypts only reigning female pharaoh, or Akhnaten (c.
1350-1333 BC), whose introduction of
monotheism revolutionized virtually
every aspect of Egyptian culture. For in
an attempt to wipe their memories from
Egyptian history, as well as to force them
to endure the ultimate punishment in
the afterlifethe obliteration of their
soulstheir mummies were destroyed
and their names and titles chiseled off of
monuments, tombs, and temples.
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The God Anubis weighing the heart of the dead against Maat's feather of Truth.
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For without a mummy to house the

ka, and without the written names and
titles that could ser ve as a temporar y
shelter for the soul in case ones mummy
was destroyed, it was believed that they
would be swallowed whole by the most
dreaded creature of the underworld
Ammat the Devourer, a fearsome hybrid
beast who had a lions mane and front
paws, a crocodiles snout, and the
hindquarters of a hippopotamus.
The Mummys Curse
he art of mummification is one
of the earliest and most characteristic aspects of Egyptian culture, and here, too, the mystical power
of words made itself felt.
Spells were recited over the body during each step of the embalming process,
which took up to 70 days to complete.
With each layer of linen wrapping,
inscribed amulets were placed in various
locations to protect the deceased in the
afterlife. Finally, written incantations
were painted onto the mummy case
itself. The most familiar, if heavily exaggerated, aspect of Egyptian funerar y
magic, however, is the mummys curse.
Fortunately, the idea of an indestructible mummy or vengeful spirit sent to
destroy those who disturb its eternal
slumber is pure fiction, popularized by
movies and sensational newspaper
accounts, particularly in the wake of the
opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun in
1922 and the mysterious death of Lord
Carnavon, one of the tombs excavators.
(See Mysteries issue #2)
Such a concept would have been
deeply disrespectful to the ancient Egyptians, who would have been horrified by
the idea of dragging the dead back from
the under world to guard their own
graves, for they had other, more concrete ways of protecting their tombs.
This is not to say that curses were not
found within the tombs to prevent
grave-robbing, but they usually took the
form of reminders of the Negative Confession, such as I have not stolen the
offerings of the Spirits or dire warnings that anyone who desecrated the
tomb would meet the fate of all sinners
in the Egyptian cosmologythe obliteration of the soul.

If this was not warning enough,
booby traps provided gruesome physical
reminders to those foolhardy enough to
venture into the tombs. In fact, Egyptian
curses were generally used to attack
ones enemies secretly, or to magically
compel someone to do a certain deed or
act a certain way. These could include
everything from cursing anothers crops
or animals to so-called love charms.
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Everyday Magic
o the Egyptians, objects imbued
with magical powers were an
important part of everyday life.
In fact, the first sight that an infant saw
upon entering this world was its
birthing brick, a mud brick that the
expectant mother squatted on during
delivery, which was painted with hieroglyphs and depictions of the goddesses
Isis and Hathor, in an effort to invoke
their blessing on both mother and child.
Amulets to ward off evil spirits were
worn by children of all ages, and the typical Egyptian house was filled with statuettes of protective deities, especially
Bes, a lion-maned dwarf who was the
protector of both children and the
household.
Additionally, many Egyptians were
named after one or more of the gods to
ensure their protection and favor. For
the Egyptians believed that names, like
words, had their own power and could
be used magically.
For instance, it was believed that to
know a persons true name was to give
ones power over to them. To prevent
this, the Egyptians gave their children
multiple names, one to be used every day
and another to be used only under certain special circumstances, such as during
religious ceremonies, when its power
was necessary to protect the individual
or to bring about some positive result.
While the protective deities so beloved
by the Egyptians were ubiquitous, exactly which deity was worshiped depended
on where one was born. For instance,
the inhabitants of Thebes honored
Amun, a powerful fertility god while citi-
An Egyptian Ushabti (c.644-525 BC) of the

Nubian Overseer of Work Djed-Ptah-iw-efankh. It is made of faience, covered in
heiroglyphs from spell 6 of the Book of
Going Forth by Day, normally called "Spell
for making a ushabti work in the god's
domain."
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In this hieroglyph, Hunnefer has died and the god Anubis stands at his shoulder ready to
guide him in the afterlife. His family weeps before him, as the priests conduct the opening
of the mouth ceremony so that new life can be bestowed upon him. At his back, his tomb
awaits.
zens of Elephantine, a small island in the

middle of the Nile, worshiped Khnum,
one of the ancient Egyptian gods who
supposedly crafted the first humans on
his potters wheel.
Egyptian society had an amazingly
sophisticated understanding of medical
techniques. Like some modern physicians who use alternative therapies in
conjunction with the latest treatments,
Egyptian doctors used magic to reinforce their remedies. For instance, no
matter what treatment was chosen, it was
accompanied by spells and prayers that
called upon a gods assistance during the
recovery process. A spell was also incorporated directly into a healing salve or
medicine by writing it down, grinding
up the papyrus it was written on, and
adding it to the ingredients. But the
strongest bond that enabled the Egyptians to connect with their deities came
during their funerary rituals.
Funerary Rituals
n Egypt, even the poor practiced
simple forms of mummification by
burying the deceased in natron, a
mineral salt commonly found in the
Nile Valley that naturally preserved the

body, thus enabling it to house ones
spirit, or ka, in the afterlife. The middle
classes practiced somewhat more elaborate forms of mummification, providing
wooden or papier-mach coffins painted
with the requisite spells from The Book
of Coming For th By Day, for the
deceased to read at the 42 gates of the
underworld.
For those unable to afford a coffin,
mass-produced copies of funerary texts
were available for a small fee in the local
marketplace, where a scribe would simply fill in ones name in a different color
ink in the appropriate places, so that one
might use the text as a guidebook on
ones journey through the Duat.
But it was the wealthy who built the
elaborate tombs that we most commonly
associate with the Egyptians, carving and
painting illustrations into the tomb walls
with spells that they believed would
cause the objects depicted on the walls
or in elaborate miniature modelsto
become real, thus providing the tombs
inhabitant with ever ything he or she
would need in the world beyond.
Yet the afterlife was not without its
hardships. One still had to work, tilling

fields or tending to ones house. So the
Egyptians concocted a magical solution
to this as well, creating little models of
servants who would tend to the menial
tasks of the afterlife. These figures, called
ushabti (meaning I will answer), were
believed to become animated during the
funeral rites so that they could serve the
deceaseds every need.
However, the most important part of
the funeral rite for any Egyptian,
whether rich or poor, was the Opening
of the Mouth ceremony. During the
ritual, one of the priests would touch
the various parts of the mummy with
special ritual tools to reanimate them,
thus enabling the deceased to function
exactly as they did in life.
This rite was essential to the persons
spirit, for without this, one would eternally be trapped within ones body but
unable to function. The horror of such a
fate was reserved for only the most reprehensible of criminals. In fact, the worst
punishment for an Egyptian was to be
buried alive, not only for the incredible
agony it produced physically as one
slowly suffocated, but also for its spiritual
repercussions.
A Universal Appeal
espite its 6,000-year histor y,
the signs and symbols of
ancient Egypt are always with
us, on our clothes, buildings, even our
money. Why do these ancient forces persist in our own consciousness? Are they a
lingering symbol of faith, of respect for
the past, or just mysterious but meaningless pictures and phrases?
Depending on whom one talks to, it
could be all of the above, but the sheer
persistence of these religious and magical practices suggests that the Egyptians
do hold meaning and relevance for us.
We all want to feel a connection with
something larger than ourselves, or
power over that which we cannot control. By seeking this, we acknowledge
this same desire in the Egyptians.
Through that acknowledgement, we
ensure their immortality, and ultimately,
our own, as well. z
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E LE C TR O N I C VO I CE P H E N O M E N A
Strange sounds and voices coming from machines are nothing

new to those familiar with the shadowy corners of our mysterious world. However, due to the recent film White Noise, EVP
has become the new media darling of paranormal researchers.
Whispers
from
Beyond
T
BY TIM
SWARTZ
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he voices are sometimes

so weak that they can
barely be understood. At
other times, the words stand
out clearly over the wash of
background noise. They have
been discovered on blank
audiotapes and heard on the
radio, television, telephones,
computers, and even household appliances. Proponents
say that the voices are those
of the dead who are seeking
contact with the world of the
living or the voices of people
from other planes of existence.
Skeptics, however, insist that
the voices exist only in ones
imagination. The truth is that
no one knows for sure.
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Ever yone at some point in life has

wondered what happens after we die.
Since we are obviously unable to answer
such a question, methods have been
developed with which to attempt to
communicate with the other side,.
The first instrument used to record the
voices of the dead was probably the
human lar ynx. Ancient shamans and
priests from ancient Persia, Chaldea,
Babylonia, and Etruria would permit the
spirits to speak through them so they
could deliver important messages and
prophecies to their people. Modern spirit mediums and channelers continue this
age-old tradition. But with the industrial
revolution, the idea that man-made
devices might also be able to contact the
dead became increasingly popular.
With the discovery of radio waves,
some 19th-century scientists speculated
that maybe the dearly departed could be
contacted somewhere within the vast
bands of electromagnetic frequencies
that inhabit our air waves. For instance,
electrical genius Nikola Tesla first heard
strange, rhythmic pulses on his radio
receiver in 1899, long before anyone
else on the planet was broadcasting.
Years later, Tesla told the New York press
that he occasionally heard mysterious
voices on unused radio frequencies, the
voices, he speculated, could be from the
spirits of the dead, or even one planet
greeting another.
What is thought to be the first
mechanical recording of spirit voices
occurred in 1901, when American ethnologist Waldemar Bogoras traveled to
Siberia to record with a phonograph a
shaman of the Tchouktchi Tribe. In a
darkened room, after the shaman had
put himself into a trance, Bogoras heard
strange voices in both English and Russian filling the room, which seemed to
come from all corners.
The shaman sat in the furthest corner
of the room, approximately 20 feet away
from the phonograph. But when the
light was extinguished, the spirits
appeared after some hesitation and, following the wishes of the shaman, spoke
into the horn of the phonograph. The
recording showed a clear dif ference
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ABOVE: Siberian Shamans were believed

to be some of the first people able to
speak with the dead.
RIGHT: Nikola Tesla first heard strange,
rhythmic pulses on his radio receiver in
1899, long before anyone else on the
planet was broadcasting.
between the voice of the shaman, which

was audible in the background, and the
spirit voices that seemed to have been
spoken close to the mouth of the horn.
(The rare wax cylinder recordings are
now part of a collection stored in the
archives of the Pushkinsky Dom in St.
Petersburg, Russia. Unfortunately, the
recordings have yet to be transcribed and
made available for study.)
However, these recordings of spirit
voices were entirely one-sided and people craved a way to actually have a conversation with the depar ted. Even
though the idea of using an electrical
device to contact the dead had been discussed among Spiritualist groups in the
late 19th century, it took the pragmatic
mind of one of the worlds greatest
inventorsThomas Alva Edisonto
first make such a monumental effort.
Other Attempts at Contact

n the 1920s, Edison confided to a
few friends that he was working on a
machine that would be able to communicate with the dead. This seemed
out of character for Edison, who, as a
shrewd businessman, supposedly had no
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If our personality survives, then it is strictly logical or scientific

to assume that it retains memory, intellect, other faculties, and
knowledge that we acquire on this Earth. Therefore, if we can
evolve an instrument so delicate as to be affected by our
personality as it survives in the next life, such an instrument,
when made available, ought to record something.
THOMAS EDISON
interest in the supernatural. However,

privately, Edison did believe that when a
person died, their body decayed but the
intelligence lived on. He thought that
the so-called spirit world was simply a
limbo where disembodied intelligence
waited before moving on.
The famous magician and friend of
Edisons, Joseph Dunninger, claimed
that in 1929, Edison showed him a prototype for a machine that was intended
for communication with the dead.
According to Dunninger, Edisons
invention consisted basically of a microphone installed inside a wooden box,
together with a large aluminum cone
filled with potassium permanganate and
crossed by an electrode. One of the
wires of the microphone cable was connected to the aluminum trumpet and
the other to an antenna.
Edisons lab assistant Dr. Miller
Hutchinson also reported that Edison
had designed several prototypes of a
telephone-like device, with which he
hoped to contact the spirit world, but
had died before they could be perfected.
Other early efforts at electronic communication with the dead included those
of Brazilian Carlos G. Ramos who,
under the penname of Oscar DArgonnel, wrote a book in 1925 on the
conversations between DArgonnel and
spirit communicators via the telephone,
which had begun spontaneously in 1917
and had continued sporadically for years.
The spirit voices appeared to be associated with a nephew who had mediumistic
abilities and assisted DArgonnel in his
research.
Then in 1936, American photographer and psychic Attila von Szalay had
moderate success capturing spirit voices
on phonograph records. Von Szalay continued his experiments with psychologist
and paranormal researcher Raymond
Bayless, who built a cabinet in which a
microphone inside a speaking trumpet
was connected to a tape recorder and a
loudspeaker outside the cabinet. Almost
immediately, they began to record whispers originating from inside the cabinet.
They named the voices they captured
aeriel voices, and in 1956, the two
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Father Agostino Gemelli.

In 1949, Marcello Bacci began hearing paranormal voices using an old vacuum tube radio,
like this one seen here.
men co-wrote an article for the Journal

of the American Society for Psychical
Research, documenting their studies.
There was, however, little interest in
their research, but von Szalay continued
taping spirit voices with an open microphone connected to a reel-to-reel
recorder for years.
Then in 1949, Italian Marcello Bacci
began hearing paranormal voices using
an old vacuum tube radio. Allegedly, a
number of spirits had spoken to him
between the frequencies of seven and
nine MHz shortwave. Bacci, who continues to hold spirit-voice sessions
especially for the parents of children who
had passed onbelieves that vibrations
from the spirits were transformed into
electromagnetic waves, thus creating the
radio transmissions. However, it appears
that Baccis mediumistic abilities play a
part in the production of the paranormal
voices, as the contacts only occur when
he is present.
Priestly Experiments with EVP
lso in Italy, in 1952, Catholic
priests Father Pellegrino Ernetti
and Father Agostino Gemelli
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came upon EVP by chance while recording Gregorian chants. After experiencing
problems with a broken wire on their
magnetophone (a device that recorded
sound on a spool of magnetized wire),
Gemelli asked his deceased father for
help. To the priests amazement, his
fathers voice, recorded on the magnetophone, answered: Of course I shall help
you. Im always with you.
They repeated the experiment and
this time, a clear voice said: But Zucchini, it is clear; dont you know it is I?
Gemelli was convinced that the voice
was that of his father because no one else
knew that Zucchini was his childhood
nickname.
Years later, the two men visited Pope
Pius XII in Rome, where Gemelli told
the Pope of the experience. To his surprise, the Pope told him not to worry
about the Catholic ban on contacting
the dead because what they experienced
had nothing to do with spiritism.
Rather, the Pope believed that the
experiment might lead to scientific studies that would strengthen peoples faith
in the hereafter.
Even though the Pope had reassured
EVP was first brought to the publics attention in 1959 when Friederich Jrgenson, a
retired Swedish opera singer, and film producer, accidentally captured human voices on
tape when he was recording bird song in the woods near his home.
him, Gemelli kept his experiments with

EVP to himself and made certain that
the results did not go public until the
last year of his life, in 1990. In fact, the
reception and study of paranormal
voices up until the 1950s received little
attention from either the general public or organizations dedicated to psychic research. However, that would
soon change with a chance discovery
by a Swedish bird-watcher: Friederich
Jrgenson.
Jrgenson, the Father of EVP

VP was first brought to the publics attention in 1959 when
Friederich Jrgenson, a retired
Swedish opera singer, film producer, and
bird-watcher, was recording wild bird
songs in the woods near his home. When
listening to his tapes afterwards, he discovered that strange, garbled fragments
of seemingly human speech had mysteriously made their way onto the tape,
although he was sure that he had been
alone when he made the recording. He
even claimed to have recognized one of
the voices as his dead mother saying in
German, Friedrich, you are being
watched. Friedel, my little Friedel, can
you hear me?
Father Pellegrino Ernetti
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Jrgenson found that the strange

voices spoke in dif ferent languages,
often changing in mid-sentence. Also,
syllables were either stretched or compressed in a way that made it difficult to
understand the messages. Even more
unusual was the uncanny way the voices
seemed to respond to his comments.
After working for more than a year, he
realized that he could improve both the
quality and quantity of the phenomenon
by connecting the output from a radio
receiver directly to the input of the tape
recorder. The receiver was then tuned to
the hiss of an open frequency. This
change greatly increased the amount of
voices he could record, though the
recordings often included distracting
background noises that hindered the

quality of the voices.
After four years of experimental
recording, Jrgenson announced his discovery to the world at a press conference. A year later, Voices From the Universe was published in Stockholm.
Jrgenson continued his research and
his subsequent multiple recordings of
alleged spirit voices, eventually earning
him the title The Father of EVP from
the paranormal community.
Raudives Voices
n 1965, Dr. Konstantin Raudive, a
Latvian psychologist who taught at
the University of Uppsala, Sweden,
became acquainted with Jrgenson and
his work, after reading his book Radio
Contact with the Dead. After attending
some of Jrgensons EVP experiments,
Raudive decided to start his own investigation. Like Jrgenson, Raudive
became so fascinated by the phe-
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Claypools CoffeeMaker
n 2001, Charli Claypool of Kent Island, MD, discovered that while in the process of brewing coffee, her Krups cof feemaker would produce a
cacophony of words, moaning noises, and voices
calling out her name, as well as distressingly loud
pleas of Help me! This prompted her to purchase a
digital recorder that succeeded in picking up a number of discernible voices, some speaking in different
dialects.
They were talking to me and to each other, Claypool said. They constantly referred to me by name,
that he was simply receiving normal radio

signals. So in 1971, two independent
investigations took place at the Belling &
Lee Ltd. labs and at Pye Records Ltd. in
London, to see if radio broadcasts were
the source of the voices.
At the Belling & Lee Ltd. labs, company engineers built a Faraday cage (a
metallic enclosure that prevents the
Konstantin Raudive amassed over
100,000 recordings of strange voices
that he believed were from spirits,
although at first he thought they may
have come from extraterrestrials.
nomenon that he continued his experiments with EVP until his death in
1974.
Following the directions given to
him by his voices, Raudive connected a
microphone and a radio receiver to the
tape recorder. At first, he set the radio
reception inbetween frequencies. Later,
The Dangers of EVP
s with other aspects of the paranormal, one must be open-minded

about EVP. Dr. Robert Carroll, author
of the Skeptics Dictionar y, says that EVP
could simply be the human brain making
sense out of the chaos of noise, hearing
what one wants to hear. Perception is a
complex process, and when our brains try
to find patterns, they are guided, in par t,
by what we expect to hear. The brain puts
together the auditory input, and we actually hear what we are informed is being
said, even though without that information,
we could discern nothing.
Additionally, the hardware in our sensory
system is actually designed to see
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changes in things. So when repeated

sounds are heard, the brain picks out and
pieces together what sounds like spoken
words. So critics believe that if one were to
listen to thousands of pieces of audio,
eventually one will be found that sounds
like a voice.
Yet EVP research is not without its hazards. In the late 1980s, English physicist
and university professor Dr. Ernst
Senkowski recorded more than 500 hours
of tape of EVP under laboratory conditions.
Over a period of seven weeks, he declared
that he began to hear inner voices that
claimed to be the same entities who had
communicated with him by EVP. He soon
remarked about events in my life, and dif ferent

aspects that they observed about our home.
Claypool is now continuing her research with EVP
and feels that even though the voices emanating
from the coffee machine can be heard in real time,
they are better understood after being recorded.
Clairaudiently, sometimes I can get a bit of back
and for th occasionally, she says, but nowhere
near the long dialogs that are possible with Instrumental Transcommunication (see pg. 59).
entry or escape of electromagnetic frequencies) around Raudives recording

equipment. If the Raudive voices were
simply stray radio transmissions, a Faraday cage, they theorized, would prevent such transmissions from being
received and recorded. Raudive was
also not allowed to touch any of the
equipment or make any modifications.
TIM SWARTZ
He was then asked to speak into a

microphone and an 18-minute recording, the length of one reel of magnetic
tape, was made of Raudive asking questions to his friends.
Everyone present agreed that they had
heard no voices or any other sounds during the experiment. Yet when they
played the tape back, over 200 voices
he fixed the receiving frequencies to

1445-1500 kHz (1485.0 kHz is now
called the Jrgenson Frequency, due to
the success that Jrgenson and others
have had receiving EVP on this frequency).
But critics of Raudives work were dismissive of his methods, for it was claimed
abandoned the experiments for the sake
of his sanity. Senkowski still believes in
the paranor mal qualities of the phenomenon, but he has become convinced
that it is not as benevolent as many have
presumed.
In fact, for centuries, the major religions
have warned of the dangers of the living
tr ying to contact the dead. Modern-day
psychics and Spiritualists echo these sentiments, saying that there are less spiritually evolved entities that still lust after the
carnal pleasures of life and are eager to
enter into contacts with the living. The danger exists, even for those who experiment
with EVP, to become the focus of unwanted
attention and manipulation by low-level
astral beings.
In 1982, scientists found

that a background of
white noise (called
stochastic resonance)
was helpful in producing
EVP. White noise can be
generated from a radio or
television or by small,
battery-driven machines
that produce white noise
to assist in meditation or
sleep. White noise from
the whirring of a fan or
running water from a
faucet or shower has
also produced results.
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American spiritual researchers George and Jeannette Meek,

along with psychic William ONeil, developed a system called
Spiricom to pick up spirit voices, where a radio receiver was
set to receive a 29.57MHz signal from a power transmitter
operating in the same room, fed with the audio signal from
13 oscillators that were set to various frequencies.
who had died in 1967, inspired Spiricom, saying that he had offered, from
the astral plane, verifiable advice on
how to improve the reception of the
Spiricom equipment.
By the fall of 1980, Spiricom had
advanced to the point where Muellers
spirit voice was loud and easily understandable. Meek and ONeil soon
recorded more than 20 hours of dialog
with Mueller.
The two researchers released their
findings in 1982, providing reporters at
the National Press Club in Washington,
DC, with recordings and a 100-page
technical report giving wiring diagrams,
photos, technical data, and guidelines for
research by others. Allegedly, the
deceased Konstantin Raudive even continued his work from beyond the grave,
phoning George Meek and EVP
researcher Mark Macy in 1994 to
announce that the spirits had succeeded
in building a new bridge to the States.
The Advent of ITC
VP and Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC)in which
tape recorders, TVs, radios, computers, telephones, and other technical
devices are used in an attempt to contact
other realities or planes of existence
have come a long way since the early
days of sances. Now, researchers point
video cameras at television screens filled
with static to record images of the
deceased. There are even programs
developed to catch spectral utterances
via computer.
The general consensus among most
EVP researchers is that discarnate spirits
are the main source for the voices. But
others believe that the voices could also
be from living inhabitants from other
planets, or from different planes of existence, worlds existing side by side with
ours, only vibrating at faster or slower
rates. Experienced EVP researchers caution beginners not to believe everything
that comes through, stating that there
are liars on the other side, just as there
are in the material world.
So has technology made a difference in
spiritual research and contact? Are
E
could be heard. One of the scientists
present from Belling & Lee Ltd. was
Peter Hale, Britains foremost expert in
electromagnetic screening. Hale later
wrote: In view of the tests carried out
in a screened laboratory at my firm, I can
not explain what happened in normal
physical terms.
Furthermore, Kenn Attwood, chief
engineer of Pye Records Ltd., stated, I
have done everything in my power to
break the mystery of the voices without
success. I suppose we must learn to
accept them.
Eventually, Raudive amassed over
100,000 recordings of strange voices.
He never wavered in his belief that
these recordings were proof of an afterlife, though at first, he wondered if the
voices were those of friends from
outer space.
To others, the recordings were an
exercise in frustration. Many of the voices spoke only a few words in length and
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were difficult to make out over the

accompanying background noise. And
often, the listener had to be told beforehand what a voice was saying before the
words became clear.
A New Generation of Researchers
he late 1970s saw increasing
interest in using electronics to
try to establish communication
with the astral plane. American spiritual
researchers George and Jeannette
Meek, along with psychic William
ONeil, developed a system, later
called Spiricom, where a radio receiver
was set to receive a 29.57MHz signal
from a power transmitter operating
in the same room, fed with an audio
signal from 13 oscillators that were
set to various frequencies from 131
to 70Hz.
Meek and ONeil admitted that
the spirit of Dr. George Jeffries
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machines and electronics even necessary

to hear paranormal voices? Psychics and
spirit mediums have been saying all along
that most people are naturally capable of
achieving contact with the other side
without the help of technology.
It has been observed, however, that
the time spent carefully listening to EVP
recordings seems to enhance ones clairvoyant and clairaudient abilities. So it
seems likely that technology can open a
door to a realm that would otherwise

remain forever cut-off from those who
are too caught up in the everyday problems of the material world to develop
their own innate psychic abilities.
Maybe it is not so much the devices
that enable the voices to speak; perhaps
spirits were speaking all along, patiently
waiting for someone with an open mind
who was willing to listen to the soft
whispers on the breeze. z
How to Record Spirit

Voices on Your Own
arah Estep, founder of the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena,

suggests that either a cassette or a digital recorder with an external microphone
and a good set of headphones is all that is needed to begin ones experimentations with EVP. She also recommends that questions such as Is there anyone here that
will speak to me? or What is your name? be spoken out-loud, leaving about a five-second period of silence between each question for the entities to respond.
Estep says that a paranormal voice is usually not heard until playback of the tape.
Experimenters report that the voices tend to become stronger and clearer as the entities
gain experience so at first, the voices may speak in whispers. Voices may not be recorded in every session and it may take several sessions to discover the first voice. However,
success at taping voices can be made in ones own home, regardless of whether it is
believed to be haunted.
For more information on the best type of equipment to use when attempting to record
EVP in your own home, visit www.aaevp.com
TIM SWARTZ
Modern EVP researcher Hans

Kennis in his recording studio.
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Michael, when you were approached to

play the role of Jonathan Rivers in the film
White Noise, what were your thoughts?
Michael Keaton: Paul Brooks said he had
script he wanted me to read which he
thought I was going to love. There arent
that many good scripts that capture my interest so I was skeptical. But the script was well
written and there was a risk in producing this
film because Electronic Voice Phenomena is
such a big concept. Paul and I talked about it
more and over time, it just came together.
An Interview with
Michael Keaton
about the film
Tell us about your character in the film.

Michael: Jonathan Rivers is a man who is living in the sweet spot of his life. His new wife
is the love of his life, and even his relationship
with his ex-wife is good. Hes about to
become a father again, and his architectural
firm is in great shape. Life is great, then his
wife passes on and he takes it very hard. Then
this opportunity comes up to make contact
with his wife from the other side via EVP, and
hes understandably skeptical. But hes so
grief-stricken that he takes the chance and
tries it, and makes contact. He soon becomes
a believer, and eventually becomes obsessed
by experimenting with EVP. His obsession
eventually spins out of control, and it gets
scarier and scarier.
White Noise
Do you believe in EVP?

Michael: Im not a non-believer, but I couldnt give you a good reason why EVP doesnt
exist. I dont know enough about it; plus, a
persons reality is a persons reality, so thats
your belief system. Its all perception anyway.
Paul Brooks Whats interesting is that the evidence for EVP is pretty compelling; some of
the things we discovered in the pre-marketing of this film have been astonishing.
What inspired you to produce White
Noise, Paul?
Paul: My brother actually sent me the script
years ago, and it was just a cracking page
turner. I didnt realize that EVP was actually
a real phenomenon; I just thought it was a
great construct for a story. So I wanted to
produce the film because I thought it was
terrific entertainment, and I was personally
fascinated by EVP.
We were actually told an extraordinary
story by a journalist who interviewed Michael
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last week, who said shed gone to do a show

in a morgue in Chicago, the morgue where
they took the 800 dead people from the
worst maritime disaster in Americas history,
when a boat capsized on one of the Great
Lakes. She went there because she was told
that someone had heard voices there. So they
had everything set up to record and when
they played the tapes back, three voices came
through.
She said it completely changed her reality.
This is a journalist with two kids and a husband. I think whats going to happen is people all over America are going to go home,
tune in to the white noise on their TV sets
and try to pick up evidence of EVP in their
own homes.
And you recommend that?
Michael: Well, people are doing it, and its a
growing trend. One woman that interviewed
me the other day said that she went right
home and immediately tried it. I hope it
works, as my uncle passed away and still has
the keys to my car. (laughter)
Have you heard examples of EVP?
Paul: We had some journalists explaining
EVP, and there were a number of them in the
room, including a TV producer who said she
was interested in contacting her dead uncle
Bob. So they broke open a tape, put it into a
tape recorder, tuned into the white noise,
and she says, Uncle Bob are you there?
When they play the tape back, a voice came
through, saying, Beck, its Bob.
She was completely freaked out, as he was
apparently the only one that called her
Beck, and it was his voice.
Michael: Whats nice about this movie is that
it forces you to think about whats on the
other side. It brings up issues of God and
how he/she play into this.
With one woman inter viewing me, I
couldnt tell whether or not she liked the
film. When the interview was over, she got up
and said, I love this movie; Ive been studying EVP for 20 years. I didnt know the
study of EVP had even existed for 20 years.
What message do you hope White Noise
will convey to the audience?
Michael: To be open to the possibility of
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The Protocols are sold on newsstands all over the globe, including
at this street bookshop in Mecca.
Right: The Jew-Bolshevik emblem
as depicted in the Protocols.
The Jewish
CONSPIRACY
and the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
itler used it as the

justification for his
genocidal Final
Solution to the Jewish Problem. In the northwestern
U.S., racist militias present it
as evidence that America is
really ruled by the Zionist
Occupying Government. Bookstores throughout the Arab world
do a brisk business selling copies as
proof that Israel seeks world domination
through nefarious means. A century after it
first appeared, The Protocols of the Learned
Elders of Zion remains one of the most influential books of our time.
Consisting of 24 chapters and an introduction, the Protocols contain a purported
plan for Jewish world domination. According to the

Protocols, this insidious plot
began in 929 BC, when
Solomon and other Jewish
elders began a plot for world
conquest.
Within a few years after its
first appearance in 1905, the
Protocols were recognized as a
clumsy forgery. Yet even today, many
believe that they are a genuine record of a
secret meeting. Still, a study of the Protocols
and their history reveals numerous conspiracies. It may not teach how the Jews gained
control of the world but it shows how bigots
and world political leaders have used lies and
fraud to further their own ends.
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In 1797, Jesuit priest Augustin Barruel, who was living in exile in England,
wrote several volumes on the French
Revolution. A translated abridgement
of these texts appeared in 1798 as Memoirs of the Histor y of Jacobinism and
Freemasonry of Barruel, translated into
English by the Hon. Robert Clifford.
According to the book, the French
Revolution was caused by a vast secret
conspiracy operating through the
Freemasons who had sworn hatred to
the altar and the throne, had sworn to
crush the God of the Christians, and
utterly to extirpate the Kings of the
Earth. After overthrowing Frances
monarchy, they had ordered all the
adepts to cry up the revolution and
its principles, until every nation would
have its apostle of Equality, Liberty,
and Sovereignty of the People.
However, Barruel neglected to mention that many 18th-centur y French
noblemen, including King Louis XVI
and his brothers, were Freemasons. He
also ignored the inconvenient fact that
the Grand Orient, Frances leading
Masonic organization, was banned during the French Revolution.
Despite these inconsistencies, Barruels work became popular and was translated into many different languages, laying the groundwork throughout Europe
for conspiracy theories and paranoia
about shadowy secret societies which
toppled empires and fomented revolutions. Soon, these anti-Masonic feelings gave rise to a new twist in
an old sickness: antiSemitism.
had spread throughout Europe.

According to Simonini, he had disguised himself as a Jew and had infiltrated a secret Jewish gathering in northern
Italy, where he learned that the Jews had
founded the Freemasons and Illuminati
and had also wormed their way into the
ranks of the Christian clergy in order to
install a Jew as Pope! The object of all
these plots was simple: world domination by the Jews.
Thanks to their plotting and bribery,
many countries had granted full civil
rights to the Jews. Once the remaining
countries followed suit, the Jews would
buy up all lands and houses until the
Christians were completely dispossessed. After abolishing all other sects
and turning Christian churches into
synagogues, they would enslave the
remaining Christians.
The Simonini letter was a forgery fabricated by order of Joseph Fouch, chief of
the French secret police. Fouch resented
Bonapartes liberal policy toward the
Jews, and sought to influence him against
them. But his efforts failed. In 1807,
along with Catholicism and Protestantism, Napoleon recognized Judaism
as one of Frances official religions. Still,
Barruel circulated the Simonini letter,
giving credence to the myth of an international Jewish conspiracy.
But perhaps the strangest French connection to the Protocols comes from a
French lawyer of liberal bent. His satire
mocking Emperor Napoleon III was
later plagiarized wholesale by a German
anti-Semite whose work was later plagiarized by the author of the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion.
Plagarized Dialogs
n 1864, an anonymous pamphlet
entitled Dialogues in Hell Between
Machiavelli and Montesquieu
appeared in France. This pamphlet presented an imaginary dialog between the
18th-centur y philosophical historian
Montesquieu (representing liberalism)
and the 16th-century statesman Niccolai
Machiavelli (representing tyranny and
despotism). Written during the reign of
Napoleon III, the author Maurice Joly
equated the emperor with Machiavelli.
For this, Joly was sentenced to two years
imprisonment for sedition.
Although Jolys Dialogues made no
mention of the Jews, that oversight
was later corrected by German
Hermann Goedsche. Writing
under the pen name Sir John
Retclif fe, in 1868, he
The Simonini Letter
n 1806, Barruel
penned a novel entitled
received a letter
Biarritz. One chapter,
The Jewish Cemetery in
from
J.B.
Prague and the Council
Simonini, a retired
of Representatives of the
army officer living
Twelve Tribes of Israel,
in Florence, congratdiscussed a secret centennial
ulating Barruel on
conference of Jews in which they
unmasking the revolureviewed the past hundred years and
tionaries, whom Simonini
made plans for the next century.
claimed were preparing the way The Simonini letter was a forgery fabricated by order of
Through the stock exchanges,
for the Antichrist. It also warned Joseph Fouch, the chief of the French secret police, who
the Jews had supposedly placed all
of a powerful Judaic sect which resented Bonapartes liberal policy toward the Jews.
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the governments of Europe in their debt

discourage republican and anti-monarwhile independent artisans were reduced
chist elements throughout Europe. And
to working as factory workers by their
when France became embroiled in a
Jewish bosses. These plots and others
controversy involving a purported Jewwere taken wholesale from Joly but
ish spy, the Okhrana (Czarist secret
instead of Machiavelli, the villains were
police) saw a chance to encourage
now a secretive Jewish cabal.
Frances reactionaries and discredit its
Four years after the release of Biarritz,
liberals. Accordingly, Goedsches plathis chapter was translated into Russian
giarism of Jolys work returned to its
and circulated as a pamphlet. But where
birthplace, albeit in a distorted form.
Goedsche had presented his work as fiction, the Russian pamphleteers presentThe Dreyfus Affair
n 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish
ed it as a document whose authenticity
captain in the French Army, was
was guaranteed by the famous English
convicted of treason and espionage
nobleman Lord Retcliffe.
and sentenced to life imprisonment on
The first translation appeared in St.
Devils Island off the coast of South
Petersburg in 1872, published under the
America. In 1896, Lieutenant Colonel
title In the Jewish Cemetery of the Czech
Georges Picquart was appointed chief of
Prague (The Jews, sovereigns of the
army intelligence. An unapologetic antiWorld). In 1876, a new publication
Semite, Picquart nevertheless deterappeared in Moscow while a second edimined that Dreyfus had been convicted
tion and new printings appeared in
in error and his findings were hotly
Odessa and Prague a few years later.
At this time, the Russian monarchy
was teetering on the brink of chaos.
After multiple attempts on his life, Czar
Alexander II was finally assassinated in
1881. The pro-royalist forces had long
blamed the unrest on Jewish troublemakers. And when it was revealed that
one of the plotters in the 1881 assassination, Gesya Gelfman, was Jewish, they
presented this as evidence that the Jews
were trying to take over Russia.
Pogroms (outbreaks of violence
against Jews) flared up throughout the
region, fueled, in no small part, by literature such as the Retcliffe pamphlet.
By stirring up anti-Jewish sentiments among the Russian population, royalists hoped to distract
attention from their
governments failings
and provide the
peasants with an
outlet for their
anger.
Knowing their position
was weak, the royalists were aware
that outside assistance could give In 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the
Russian revolutionary elements the French Army, was convicted of treason and espistrength they needed to overthrow onage and sentenced to life imprisonment. The
the Czar. Accordingly, they sought to Protocols were used as evidence of his guilt.
debated throughout France.

Socialist Frenchmen denounced the
injustice of the ruling par ty while
monarchists claimed that Picquart had
been duped (or bribed) by a JewishMasonic conspiracy. To bolster their
position, agents of the Okhrana working
in Paris distributed a manuscript which
incorporated much of the material from
the Retcliffe document. This text, called
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, was circulated and readily accepted, given the
anti-Jewish sentiments prevalent in
France at the time.
But this Russian propaganda failed to
have its desired effect. In 1899, Dreyfus
was pardoned and in 1906, he was exonerated altogether. But that was not the
end of the Protocols. In 1905, in the
wake of new civil unrest throughout
Russia, the Protocols would gain even
wider distribution.
The Russian Revolution
n 1904, Russia became embroiled in
a war with Japan over Russian
troops stationed in Manchuria.
Much to ever yones surprise, the
Japanese defeated the ill-trained and
outnumbered conscript troops of the
Czarist Army. The war ended in 1905
with the Japanese in control of several
Siberian ports and strategic bases. This
humiliation led to even greater unrest in
an already shaky Russia. In an effort to
avoid a revolution, Czar Nicholas II
agreed to a constitution guaranteeing
civil liberties for Russian citizens
and to the Duma, an elected
state assembly which
would assist in governing the country.
This move shocked
reactionaries
and
diehard autocrats, such as
the Black Hundreds, also
known as the Union of the Russian Nation, who believed that the
crumbling of the Czars authority was
the fault of Jews seeking to overthrow
the nation.
A young student named Sergius Nilus
was moved by these events and in 1905,
published The Big in the Small, and
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Antichrist as a Near Political Possibility;

Notes of an Or thodox Person. As an
appendix to this book, Nilus attached an
annotated version of the Protocols and
claimed that his source had stolen the
document from a Zionist headquarters
in France. He also stated that it was
proof that the Jews were fighting to
bring about the reign of the Antichrist
on Earth.
Nilus book served to further inflame
tensions among Russias radical right
and thousands of Jews were killed in
pogroms throughout the
coun-
try. Czarist police officers stood

by throughout this violence, intervening only against Jewish self-defense
units. Czarist newspapers printed
approving articles describing how the
rioters sought vengeance against the
perfidious Jews.
But still Nilus was unable to preserve
the monarchy or drive out the Jews he
claimed were in ser vice of the antiChrist. In 1917, the Russian Revolution
began. Despite efforts by the reactionary
W h i t e
Armies to
stir up antiJewish sentiment by
distributSergius Nilus published a book in 1905,
that included in its appendix an annotated version of the Protocols. His book
served to inflame tensions among Russias radical right and thousands of Jews
were eventually killed for their supposed
attempt in taking over the world.
Left: The French Edition of the Protocols,
C. 1934.
ing the Protocols, the Bolsheviks gained

power and sent the Czar and Czarina to
their graves.
Fleeing the revolution, Russian emigrants arrived in Europe and by 1922,
there were approximately 70,000 Russian exiles in France. By 1930, there
were over 175,000 Russian exiles living
in France, most in Paris and its surrounding environs.
Since France was suffering a labor
shortage in the wake of World War I, the
French government welcomed this
influx of foreign laborers. Many of the
Russians were former soldiers who had
fought the Bolsheviks; others were oncewealthy aristocrats who had lost everything when Lenin and his supporters
came to power. They brought with them
a passionate hatred of both Communists
and Jews.
One of the leading lights of the Revolution, Leon Trotsky, was Jewish, and
so were many of the Bolsheviks. The
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Communists drew their support from the

poor and oppressed and in Czarist Russia, few groups were poorer or more
oppressed than the Jews. But the White
Russians (so named to distinguish them
from the Communist
Red
Russians) saw
this as
proof
t h a t
t h e
Jews
had gained control of Russia and would

not rest until they ruled the world.
Many of the White Russians were
highly educated and spoke several languages. Accordingly, translations of the
Protocols began appearing throughout
Europe.
The Protocols in England
n 1920, an anonymous
English translation of the Protocols, entitled The Jewish
Peril, was published in London.
Since the publishers carried the
title of His Majestys Printers,
anti-Semites claimed that the
Protocols had been published
with the authority of the British
government.
On May 8, 1920, the London
Times published a long article which,
while remaining noncommittal as to
the authenticity of the document, noted
that no one had yet proved them false.
The Times asked its readers,
Have we, by straining every fibre
of our national body,
escaped a Pax Germanica only to
fall into a
P a x
Judaeica?
The Elders of Zion, as represented in

their Protocols, are by no means
kinder taskmasters than William II
and his henchmen would have been.
The following week, the Spectator
devoted a long review and an editorial to
The Jewish Peril.
But in August, 1921, Phillip Graves,
correspondent of the London Times in
Constantinople, discovered a small, wellworn copy of Jolys Dialogues in Hell
and recognized a sentence as being identical with one of the Protocols. His
curiosity piqued, he did a side-by-side
comparison of Jolys book with a copy of
the Protocols and found words, paragraphs, and whole pages which were
taken from Jolys original. However,
where Joly had written France, the
anonymous author of the Protocols had
written Zion; where Joly had written
the Emperor, the Protocols had inserted We the Jews.
Faced with this evidence, both the
Times and the Spectator ultimately concluded that the Protocols were a forgery.
But Britains right-wing newspapers
were not so easily convinced. The
Morning Posts Russian correspondent,
Victor Marsden, had spent years in Russia, and repeatedly vouched for the
authenticity of the Protocols. Not only
did he produce a series of 18 articles
expounding the full myth of the JudeoMasonic conspiracy, he also produced a
new English translation of the Protocols.
(In his foreword, he explained that he
had been unable to work on the translation for more than an hour at a time
because of the evil he felt when reading it.) Despite his trepidations, his
translation became popular among
right-wingers and bigots of all stripes,
and remains in publication to this day.
As popular as the English translation
of the Protocols would become, its influence pales in comparison to the damage
wrought by the German edition.
Hitler wrote Mein Kampf. One part

memoir and one part plan for the
future, Mein Kampf drew liberally
from the Protocols in justifying
Hitlers hatred of all things Jewish.
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The Protocols in Germany

hile a student in Moscow, an
Estonian of German heritage
named Alfred Rosenberg first
encountered a Russian edition of the
Protocols and when he fled Estonia, he
took a copy of the book with him. Later,
a member of the Thule Society (a panGermanic, anti-Republican and antiSemitic society which later developed
into the National Socialist Democratic
Party), Rosenberg frequently lectured
about the Protocols to an audience which
often included Adolf Hitler.
During his nine-month stay in prison
for his part in the failed 1923 Beer Hall
Putsch, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf. One
part memoir and one part plan for the
future, Mein Kampf drew liberally from
the Protocols in justifying Hitlers rabid
hatred of all things Jewish.
When Hitler finally came to power in
1933, he made sure that the Protocols
received wide distribution. To justify one
of the first boycotts against Jewishowned stores in Germany, Nazis claimed
it was a defense against the Protocols. The
Nuremberg laws and other anti-Jewish
legislation were also presented as an
effort to root out the Zionist infiltration.
To explain opposition to Nazi expansionism, Hitler pointed to the Protocols
as proof that International Jewry had
amassed all the forces of finance and
commerce against him. Yet he reserved
praise for one American tycoon who
was brave enough to stand up to the
Jewish menace: automobile-maker
Henry Ford.
Ford and the International Jew

n many ways, Henr y Ford was a
progressive. At a time when most
factory workers were making $2.50
for a nine-hour day, he was paying his
workers $5 per eight-hour shift. He was
an early supporter of womens suffrage;
and he was one of the first employers to
hire African-Americans to supervisory

positions and to pay them equal wages
for equal work. But Ford also had an
ugly anti-Semitic streak and an enormous amount of money to get his message out to the masses.
In 1919, Ford purchased a
small countr y newspaper
called the Dearborn Independent. Under Fords
leadership, the Independent became a self-proclaimed Chronicler of
Neglected Truth; among
the Neglected Truths
that Ford would reveal
were the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion.
In 1920, the Independent
ran the Protocols in serialized
form, along with other articles
warning against the machinations
of The International Jew, including bootlegging, jazz music,
cigarettes, flashy jewelr y, rising
rents, and the Jewish Degradation of American Baseball.
But not ever yone
was impressed by
Fords reasoning. The
New York Times
called the Protocols
about the strangest
jumble of crazy
ideas that ever
found its way in
print while novelist Upton Sinclair sarcastically
commented,
[Ford] said
that history is
bunk, but of
course he hadnt meant such
history as The
Protocols of
the Learned Elders of Zion.

In response, Ford commented that
the Protocols fit in with what was going
on at the time.
And since the Independent
was available free of
charge at most
Ford dealershipsand
free subscriptions
were generally provided
to
Model-T
buyershis
anti-Semitic
beliefs found a
wide audience.
At its peak in
1924, the
Inde-
In 1920, Henry Fords popular newspaper the

Independent ran the Protocols in serialized form,
along with other articles warning against the
machinations of The International Jew.
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pendent had over 700,000 readers, many

of whom found Fords newspaper more
convincing than the New York Times.
Ministers throughout the countr y
praised Ford from the pulpit and quoted
his articles approvingly.
On June 19, 1920, the Christian Science Monitor published an editorial entitled The Jewish Peril, which pointed
to the Protocols as part of,
the increasing evidence of the existence of a secret conspiracy, throughout the world, for the destruction of
organized government and the letting loose of evil.
In 1923, a Ku Klux Klan official
declared that there was no
better fitted man in America
for the office of president
than Henry Ford.
But by 1927, Fords antiJewish rants were costing him
business. 100 prominent
Americans, including former
president William Howard
Taft, attorney Clarence Darrow, and poet Robert Frost,
publicly denounced the Protocols as a fraud. After the Independent called lawyer Aaron Sapiro
the leader of a conspiracy of
Jewish bankers who had turned
millions away from the pockets of
the men who till the soil and into
the hands of the Jews and their followers, Ford found himself facing
a long and costly lawsuit.
Ultimately, he settled with Sapiro
and backed away, at least publicly,
from his anti-Semitic stance. (Said
comedian Will Rogers, Ford used
to have it in for the Jewish people
until he saw them in Chevrolets.)
But the damage had already been
done. A collection of articles from the
Independent, entitled The International Jew, had been in circulation for several years. While Ford officially forbade
its republication after 1927, unauthorized copies were (and remain) widely
available worldwide in numerous translations. And though Ford would do his
best to dissociate himself from earlier
pro-Hitler statements on the eve of
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World War II, he remained a strong supporter of the Nazi Party.

In fact, in 1937, Ford opened a motor
plant in Berlin which produced armaments for the German military. In 1938,
Ford became the first, and only, American to be awarded the German Eagle
Order, and even received a certificate of
personal congratulations from none
other than Adolf Hitler.
The Protocols Today
ver 80 years after the Protocols
were revealed to be a poorly
plagiarized forger y, many
still claim
This book was published in 2003 and is

readily available at any chain bookstore.
they are a true blueprint of Jewish plans.

One British fascist, Lord Alfred Douglas, has explained that Maurice Joly was
really a French Jew named Moses Joel
and that his original satire had been a

thin disguise over the true Jewish plans
for world conquest. Others have claimed
that Maurice Joly never existed at all,
but was a hoax created by the Zionist
plotters to discredit those who had
revealed their secret documents.
In the Muslim world, the Protocols
remain particularly popular. A 2003 edition published in Egypt featured a foreword by Ali Jumah, Mufti of Egypt and
professor of the Principles of Islamic
Jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University.
And in 2002, despite international
protests, Egyptian television ran a 41part historical drama largely based
on the Protocols.
In the chaos of post-Soviet Russia,
anti-Semitism has reared its ugly head
again and so, too, have new editions
of the Protocols. Russian Jewish
activists have reported that attacks
on Jewish people and property often
go unpunished because Russian
police officers consider such behavior a fitting response to the Elders
of Zion. In fact, The Protocols of
Zion is widely sold on the streets
alongside Yeltsin dolls, Easter
eggs with portraits of Nicholas II,
and Dale Carnegies How to Succeed in Business.
In 1935, a Swiss judge presiding at a trial of two Swiss
National Socialists charged with
circulating the Protocols, said,
I hope that one day no one
will any longer comprehend
how in the year 1935, almost
a dozen fully sensible and
reasonable men could, for
fourteen days, torment their
brains over the authenticity or lack of authenticity
of these so-called Protocols that, for
all the harm they have already caused
and may yet cause, are nothing but
ridiculous nonsense.
Alas, that day has not yet come. A
century after their first appearance, the
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
remain a testimony to the power of hate
and ignorance, even in the face of the
truth. z
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Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Essence:
Body Snatchers in the Desert
A Savannah Ghost Story

from the Ghosts Perspective
The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story

BY NICK REDFERN
BY GLENN WOODS
ISBN: 0-7434-9753-8
ISBN: 1932158588
$14. PARAVIEW, 2005
$16.95, HIGH COUNTRY PUBL, 2005
n this new novel by Glenn

Woods, readers embark on a
unique trip into the paranormal through the spectral eyes of
a ghost child.
The stor y begins in 1861, at
the beginning of the Civil War,
when 11-year-old Luzette, from
Savannah, GA, disappears on
her way home from the market.
In the wrong place at the wrong
time, she is caught in the crossfire of stray gunfire. Shot and
bleeding, the child stumbles
toward a cellar door and, barely
clinging to life, falls down the
stairs. In the dim light, she
spots a corner in which to hide.
Eighty-nine years later, her
remains are uncovered behind
a wall of brick, the body identified by a locket found around
the neck of the skeleton, a
necklace that the girls mother
had given to her. Her remains
are then laid to rest at
Bonaventure Cemeter y in
South Georgia. But bur ying her
body did not seem to bring closure to her disturbed spirit.
Bound by the confines of the
house in which she died,
Luzettes spirit wanders the
halls and rooms. From the
unique perspective of this child
ghost, the reader has the rare
oppor tunity to see, hear, and
feel what it must be like when
our souls leave our bodies unexpectedly. Through her eyes,
readers witness the evolving
changes and social attitudes of
the houses occupants throughout the generations.
Though the stor y is a novel,
according to the author, there
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are parts that are true, parts he

made up, and par ts that he
dreamt. Even so, Essence is a
novel that will be remembered
for years to come. The talented
stor ytelling and eerie atmosphere will entrance readers
from page one and do not
release their grip until the final
page is turned.
JASON MCCURRY
The Magdalene Legacy

The Jesus and Mary
Bloodline Conspiracy
BY LAURENCE GARDNER
ISBN: 0-00-720186-9
$27.95, ELEMENT BOOKS, 2005
or fans of Dan Browns

The Da Vinci Code, here is
a serious look at the facts
and fictions behind one of the
novels central conspiracy threads
that Jesus Christ
married Mar y Magdalene and created
a royal bloodline
that moved from
Palestine to the
south of France.
Gardner, the
author of several
books on the Holy
Grail and other
ancient mysteries, makes a persuasive case for
ody Snatchers in the Desert blows the lid off Roswell and
the flying saucer crash of 1947. According to author Nick
Redfern, there was a crash at Roswell (maybe more than
one), and bodies were retrieved, but they were not aliens.
This tale, unraveled through informants and a few sur viving documents from looted files, has ever ything
a
great
conspiracy
requiresmad scientists and hapless victims; Nazi fugitives and
echoes of the Yellow Peril; and vile
experiments condoned and concealed by government men in the
pursuit of higher good. Redferns
account is riveting but is it true?
If Redferns take is accurate, both
UFO believers and the skeptics who
belittle them have been deceived, in
the defense of acts and attitudes that are abhorrent. The evil
here comes not from outer space, says Redfern, but from the
dark heart of America itself.
MICHAEL NEWTON
the claim that Mary Magdalene

was actually Jesus wife, not a
prostitute, as later Church leaders have claimed. Her important
role in the early Christian community was suppressed during a
battle for control over the firstcentur y Church between the
original
Jer usalembased followers of Jesus,
led by his
b r o t h e r
James
the
Just, and the
Rome-based
faction led by
Peter and Paul.
Eventually, the
Rome-based
leadership prevailed, and the
teachings of the Jer usalem

church were suppressed, including Mary Magdalenes true role.
Muslims contend that Jesus
death on the cross was an illusion crafted by God and that he
survived the crucifixion and was
assumed bodily into heaven.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim sect,
considered heretical by most
Muslims, believes Jesus survived the ordeal on the cross
and then traveled to Kashmir.
Gardner, continuing down this
same road, argues that Jesus
crucifixion was faked with the
help of the magician Simon
Magus, and that he went on to
raise a family and eventually
continue his ministry, preaching
in such places as Crete, Malta,
central Asia Minor, and perhaps
even India. Jesus lived for many
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more years, the author says,

dying at about age 70.
According to Gardner, Jesus
and Mary Magdalene had three
children: a daughter Tamar
(Damaris) (born 33 AD in
Jer usalem), and two sons,
Jesus II Justus (born 37 AD
probably in Bethany) and
Josephes (born 44 AD in Gaul).
When Magdalene was pregnant
with Josephes, she moved her
children to Provence, France,
under the protection of James
the Just (other wise known as
Joseph of Aramathea). Jesus
himself did not accompany
Mar y Magdalene, for reasons
unknown. The bloodline of the
Desposyni or royal family of
Jesus (descended from the
Hebrew House of David) was
reputedly carried on in Provence
by Jesus second son
Josephes, a lineage that eventually made up the Merovingian
dynasty of medieval France.
The Da Vinci Code is a novel
whose plot was woven from var-
ious historical conspiracy theories, some of them persuasive

and some not so convincing.
This book, on the other hand,
has a much greater burden, as
it purpor ts to be true. For tunately, Gardner has done a fine
job of making his case, as he
sets for th his arguments with
skill and with abundant footnotes.
BOB LEBLING
Geomancy
A Method of Divination
BY FRANZ HARTMANN
ISBN: 0-89254-101-6
$14.95, IBIS PRESS, 2005
ranz Har tmann wrote his

seminal work on astrology
and divination in the 19th
centur y. Originally published by
the Theosophical Society in
1889 and re-published in 1913,
the book is now available in a
new edition with a preface by
occult editor Edward Dunning.
In the original preface, Har tmann cautioned that the book
was not intended as a fortuneteller but as a means to develop ones intuition. Still, his
guide is often used for just that
purpose.
The 2005 edition is
ar ranged in three
sectionsThe Basic
Principles of Geomancy (which contains explanations
of the planetar y
signs and the symbols of geomancy);
2048 Answers to
16 Questions;
and Astrology, a
section
that
explains the symbolic meanings of the seven
planets (Sun, Moon, Mercur y,
Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn) and the 12 signs of the
Zodiac.
Geomancy refers to divination
by means of symbols and planetary signs that correlate to planetar y and zodiacal energies.
This may be done with a pencil
Cracks in the Great Wall

UFOs and Traditional Metaphysics
and paper or with sticks by

drawing in the earth.
Har tmann also describes
astrological geomancy in detail,
analyzing the components of
an astrological
figurethe geomantic, planetary
and
zodiacal
members of the
12 houses. Entire
pages are devoted
to depictions of
single collections
of symbols and
their possible interpretations. Abundant footnotes, practical step-by-step
instr uctions, worksheets, and blank forms are
also included in this new edition, upon which to enter the
dots and symbols from which
divinations are interpreted).
For the true acolyte bent on
mastering the art of geomancy,
this is surely invaluable instruction, demonstrating the process
in detail. This edition makes
this method of divination about
as accessible as it can get,
even for casual dilettantes.
CHARLES RAMMELKAMP
BY CHARLES UPTON
ISBN: 59731-024-7
$18.95, SOPHIA PERENNIS, 2005
harles Upton presents an interesting contribution to UFO literature in this novel, as so-called alien visitors, in his perspective, are at once physical and metaphysical phenomena,
invoked by our collective will, perhaps provoked by the dark machinations of government conspiracies and sorcerers.
But all of this is nothing new. The feats of aliens in our collective
imagination are, as he points out, similar to both those of the heroes of
science fiction and of the saints of traditional Christianity. However, the
widespread appearance of UFOs and alien abduction, according to
Upton, is not due to things being the same as they ever were, but rather
to cracks in the great wall between levels of being, a sign of cataclysmic cosmic changethe Second Coming, if you will. We are, in other words, living in the End Times.
While ultimately steeped in pseudo-Christian eschatology and not really successful as a metaphysical tome (being rather quasi-New Age Kabbalah), Cracks in the Great Wall will entertain those
interested in UFOlogy as a modern iteration of the human need for the supernatural, as well as armchair philosophers looking for a holistic explanation of the weirdness of the modern age.
KEN MONDSCHEIN
House of Spirits
and Whispers
The True Story of a
Haunted House
BY ANNIE WILDER
ISBN: 0-7387-0777-5
$12.95, LLEWELLYN, 2005
n 1994, Annie Wilder was

looking to buy a house. She
had seen and rejected many,
when her real estate agent
showed her a 100-year-old Victorian in Sibley, MN, which had
a sad, still air caused by a
ponderous melancholy [that]
seemed to have settled over
everything. Worse, as soon as
she stepped inside, she felt as
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Book Reviews
Mystery of Reincarnation
The Evidence & Analysis of Rebirth
BY J. ALLAN DANELEK
ISBN: 0-7387-0704-X
$16.95, LLEWELLYN, 2005
anelek, who comes from an evangelical Christian background, describes his book as a reincarnation primer. In it, he provides a brief history of the concept, and then describes how reincarnation works and what it means. Four appendices deal with related subjects, including a
section on reincarnation in the Bible, with an emphasis on Jesus that demonstrates Danaleks evangelical roots, if only through his omission of any Old Testament references.
Except for a quick nod to Hinduism and Buddhism on page 14, Danalek does not discuss the mystical Eastern religions in which reincarnation is a central beliefa glaring omission, as the idea of
moral cause-and-effect is so thoroughly developed in these religions through the notion of karma. Instead, Danalek focuses on
stories from the popular press, such as the 1950s tabloid story,
in which the 19th-century Irish woman Virginia Tighe revealed during hypnosis that in a past life she had been a woman named Bridie Murphy.
Indeed, as a born-again reincarnationist, Danalek seems to
feel oppressed by the Western religious establishment. He discusses the suppression of reincarnationist teachings and
devotes three entire chapters to refuting objections and challenges to the belief. Moreover, his discussions of homosexuality, abortion, suicide, and euthanasia in terms of reincarnation
are speculatively bizarre. Abortion, for instance, subverts the
reincarnation processon what proof it is not clear, but it is
not surprising that he takes a fundamentalist Christian position. Essentially, though, these more or less topical issues are
not particularly relevant. Part two is unfortunately simplistic in
its analysis of the reason for reincarnation (ie. the path of love to reunification with the Divine).
Vague, misleading statements such as, it is a myth that the spiritual realm and the physical realm
are separate abound. (A myth?) And one chapter on karma comically describes how a Nazi may be
born again as a Jew as a punishment and learning experience. Karma as a moral law is lifted from Hinduism without reference to its cultural origin, but Danelek explains it in terms of dramatic irony,
such as in the film Freaky Friday, when the daughter switches bodies with her mom.
In sum, this rather imaginative examination of the concept of rebir th is idealistic and poorly
researched. The style is breezy and light as well, as a sensational tabloid.
author is creating much ado

about nothing, tr uly spooky
events star t to happen, witnessed by people other than
Wilder and her family.
For instance, several different
spirits visually manifest; voices
and a childs laugh are heard
over the phone; and glowing
orbs of light are seen floating
through rooms. Wilder and her
children handle these otherworldly events with admirable
bravery and compassion for the
spirits trapped in the house.
As the years pass and her
children leave home, Wilder
now alone in the house
becomes even more in tune with
it and its spirits. New ghosts
arrive, and Wilder develops psychic abilities, such as seeing
images in her minds eye of how
the house looked in the past,
and seeing moving patterns of
color ful geometric shapes that
she believes are energy forms.
Her expanding consciousness, combined with the
secrets left to discover in the
house, cr y out for a sequel to
this well-written and fascinating
book.
JANET BRENNAN
CHARLES RAMMELKAMP
if she were being watched. Yet

oddly, she bought it and shortly
after moving in with her teenage
kids and several cats, over t
manifestations of spirit activity
begin.
At first, readers may be
tempted to write off this haunting tale as merely Wilders
imagination. For instance, a
loud banging in the wall that
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wakes her up one night might

be explained as air in the
antique heating system. And
one of her cats suddenly developing a penchant for standing
upright on its two hind legs conjures up an eerie image, but
not necessarily a ghostly one.
Readers may feel especially
frustrated when Wilders reaction to these not-too-scar y
events is to call a psychic hotline for guidance. She does not

seem bothered by the fact that
the psychic is busy washing
dishes throughout the entire
reading, or suspicious of the
many personal questions the
psychic asks her. Skeptical
readers may feel like pulling
out their hair at this point, but
just when it seems like the
The Gospel of Thomas

The Gnostic Wisdom of Jesus
TRANSLATION BY JEAN-YVES LELOUP
ISBN: 1-59477-046-8
$14.95, INNER TRADITIONS, 2005
Jesus Goes to
Hollywood
The Alternative Theories
About Christ
BY WILLIAM BRAMLEY
ISBN: 0-975563-60-2
$24.95, DAHLIN & ASSOC., 2005
fter being crucified, dying,

descending to Hell, being
resurrected, and ascending to eternal glor y, only one
last, fearsome task remained
for the Son of Man: to go to Hollywood and get an agent. So
Jesus, who likes to be called
Joe, catches the red eye to
LA, where he meets with an
af fable talent agent named
Orion who, unbelievably, both
loves, and is faithful to, his wife.
Jesus Goes to Hollywood
alternates between chapters of
Orion and Joes conversation
(which is probably the most
polite conversation two people
have ever had in LA) with chapters of Bramley's recycling of
various Biblical scholarship,
both traditional and alternative.
(To his credit, Bramley is a
prodigious reader, even if his
prose suffers from imprecision
concerning certain details, such
as a lack of context, misapprehension, and over-explanation.)
Not surprisingly, Bramley concludes that Jesus was an
extraterrestrial and that spaceships wait in orbit around the
Ear th to catch and recycle our
souls when we die.
All in all, Jesus Goes to Hollywood is horrendously written,
stuffed full of unrealistic characters and improbable theories.
n 397 AD at the Council of

Car thage, the bishops of the
Christian Church, under the
direction of the Emperor Constantine, compiled a collection
of scriptures that we now call
the New Testament. However,
many works did not make the
cut, either because they were
considered spurious or did not
meet the doctrinal requirements
of the Church at that time.
The Church did its best to
root out and destroy these
rejected works known as the
Apocr ypha, but a number of
them sur vived, including the
Gospel of Thomas, one of 53
ancient parchments known as
the Nag Hammadi, which were
discovered in the deser t of
upper Egypt in 1945.
The Gospel of Thomas is not
a narrative of the life of Jesus
but rather a collection of his
reputed sayings and aphorisms
first translated into English from
Sahidic Coptic, an Egyptian
tongue that succeeded the language of the Pharaohs, in
1959.
Hunt for the Skinwalker

Science Confronts the Unexplained
at a Remote Ranch in Utah
BY COLM A. KELLEHER PH.D. AND GEORGE KNAPP
ISBN: 1416505210
$14, PARAVIEW, 2005
attle mutilations, crop circles, UFOs, poltergeists, telepathic communications from interdimensional entities,
and Indian shapeshiftersthis combination may sound
like something from Plan 9 From Outer Space. But for the Gorman family, it is no laughing matter. Their trials are chronicled in
Hunt for the Skinwalker, a book
which explores the various explanations for the Gormans plight.
Soon after purchasing their Utah
ranch in 1994, the Gormans were
besieged by a series of unexplainable events. Farm implements and
cooking utensils disappeared;
massive, wolf-like animals
attacked their herds; and glowing
orbs were regularly spotted in the
night sky. Three of Tom Gormans
dogs disappeared, leaving only
burned grass in their wake while
four of his prize Angus cattle were
mutilated. Ultimately, things
became so bad that the Gormans
were forced to abandon their new home.
Word of these strange happenings eventually reached Colm
Kelleher, a scientist working with a private research institute in
Las Vegas. And so a team of scientists, along with investigative
journalist George Knapp, descended upon the Gorman ranch, in
an effort to determine what was happening at this remote Utah
farm. There, the research team experienced many of the same
phenomena, ultimately collecting a large amount of fascinating
but frustratingly inconclusive data.
To protect their privacy, the Gormans and the new owners of
the ranch have asked that their names be changed. Other
sources in the book also asked for similar consideration, as
many of the scientists who studied the Gorman Ranch phenomena feared for their professional reputations should they
be named and quoted. While their concern is understandable,
this anonymity makes it difficult to speak with original witnesses and to visit the original location for verification and fur ther
study. We can only hope that future residents of the "Skinwalker Ranch" and future scientists will be more willing to be quoted on the record. Perhaps then we will be closer to solving this
baffling mystery.
KEVIN FILAN
KEN MONDSCHEIN
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In this edition, French scholar

Jean-Yves Leloup gives readers
a new translation of the Gospel
of Thomas, alongside the original Coptic text, as well as a
commentary on each of the 114
sayings of Jesus, such as:
Yeshua said:
Whoever is near to me
Is near to the fire.
Whoever is far from me
Is far from the Kingdom.
Leloups commentaries
focus on these reputed aphorisms of Jesus as examples of
Gnostic wisdom. He then compares them with canonical New
Testament materials and presents them as nuggets for personal meditation.
Even those who do not
choose to read the Gospel of
Thomas for their own selfenlightenment will find this
material fascinating. The sayings, presented by Thomas as
the actual words of Jesus, offer
a dif ferent and refreshing
glimpse into the early Christian
world.
BOB LEBLING
The Angel of Mons

Phantom Soldiers and
Ghostly Guardians
BY DAVID CLARKE
ISBN: 0470862785
$14.95, JOHN WILEY & SONS, 2005
y August 23, 1914, the

outnumbered and outgunned remnants of the
British Expeditionar y Force
were in dire need of a miracle.
And according to some soldiers, that is just what they
received at the Battle of
Monsan angelic host routed
the Ger mans and gave the
wear y soldiers time to retreat.
These stories began circulating
after Arthur Machen's Bowman
of Mons appeared in 1914;
others claimed that Machen's
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Violin Passion
Symphonic Dreams
The Martian War

A Thrilling Eyewitness Account of the Recent
Invasion as Reported by Mr. H.G. Wells
BENEDIKT
CON SORDINO MUSIC (2005)
BY GABRIEL MESTA
ISBN: 0-7434-4639-9
$23, POCKET BOOKS, 2005
abriel Mesta (aka Kevin J. Anderson) attempts a pseudo-pastiche of H.G. Wells War of the Worlds in Martian War, with
the main differences between Wells classic story and this
retelling of the real story behind events being anachronistic Victorian sexual liberation and a discrepancy in the authors ability to
make his words believable.
In Martian War, the story begins as Wells, his girlfriend Jane, and
his mentor T.H. Huxley, are accidentally blasted into space by a terrorist attack. From there, they visit a 19th-centur y version of the
moon, home to a hive-mind civilization called the Selenites. The
Martians, it seems, enslaved the Selenites eons ago, and it is Earth's turn next. Wells and company
therefore set off for the Red Planet in their improbable spaceship to thwart their nefarious plans.
Meanwhile, back on earth, Wells' nemesis Dr. Moreau has captured a martian advance scout and
has to deal with an octopus-like creature's fiendish machinations as it repeatedly tries to enact every
stock horror-movie situation in the book, such as drinking human blood and killing its only ally on
Earth.
The Martian War is, simply put, as predictable and hideous as the Martians themselves, chock full
of every clich and fantastic plot device that one could imagine. One wonders how drek like this sees
the light of day, and can only assume that the editors at Pocket Books were swayed by Andersons
16 million books in print, mainly in the X-Files and Star Wars franchises. Hopefully, they will not make
this mistake again.
KEN MONDSCHEIN
"fiction" was based on fact.

But what really happened at Mons?
That is the question
which David Clarke
addresses in his
book The Angel of
Mons.
Clarke begins by
examining the history of divine intervention in battles
and of phantom
armies that are
often seen by
many people on
the battlefield. It
soon becomes
clear that the Angels of Mons
were not an isolated incident
but a phenomenon which has
recurred throughout the history
of war fare.
From here, Clarke examines

the conditions which
prevailed during World War
I. After marching for days on
end with little
or no sleep
while carr ying
80-pound
packs, it is not
surprising to
discover that
many soldiers
were hallucinating by the time
they reached
their destination. Additionally,
the British home office
enforced strict censorship of
battleground news. As a result,
information-star ved soldiers
grabbed at any scraps of rumor

that became available. This,
combined with propaganda that
painted the Germans as devils,
led many Englishmen to believe
that God had intervened during
the battle to save Britain and
the world.
For World War I buf fs, this
book is indispensible. Clarke
has done his homework and
does right by the heroes who
fought and died at Mons and
other battlefields during the war.
But scholars of the paranormal
will find The Angel of Mons
equally valuable. Clarke has
successfully dissected the
bir th and growth of one of the
20th centur ys first urban legends.
ecording modern versions

of classical instruments
is the per fect way to set
ones music apart from the rest
of the crowd. For instance, it
was the introduction of the electric guitar in the 1960s that revolutionized rock music. In the
field of classical music, the
electric violin has had a similar
ef fect and its unmistakable
hum for ms the core of this
album.
Showcasing the electric violin
with an almost Asian-feeling
melody, Celebration Revelation, the CDs first track, is
backed by a rhythmic electronic
tempo and later, more conventional stringed instruments. Its
transitions, however, are awkward and amateurish, making
this piece feel clumsy and unfinished. The slow, lugubrious
tempo of Late
Conversations
features electric
instruments in an
interpretation of a
piece by Bach,
and the addition
of a jazz-style
tr umpet adds
modernity.
More trumpet rif fs, guitar,
and a funky percussion accentuate the flamenco feel of
Odaiba Nights. Jazzy and fun,
it picks up on the versatility of
the electric violin, but it feels
too studied and practiced to
masquerade effectively as the
passionate, improvised piece it
pretends to be. The song Dark
Star relies on a slinky, driving
tempo, inter twined with the
violin, to create a sinuous,
trance-like melody.
The CDs latter tracks are
among its finest. Gates of
Joys celestial voices gradually join the violin and electronica
in a piece reminiscent of Vival-
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Satori
GLENN KIDD
DEFINITION: MEDIA (2005)
CD#: 37101 09436
lenn Kidd regales listeners with meditative rock

on Satori, combining an
electrified, alternative-rock
Auracle
MANEKI NEKO
STRAY POINTER RECORDS (2005)
CD#: 83707 14150
ike the welcoming cat statues found in many Asian businesses,

on its debut CD, Maneki Neko beckons the listener with soothing
rhythms and flowing sounds. The brainchild of Al Mikula, the
fusion of technology and age-old musical techniques, results in a lush
soundscape that is perfect for meditation or yoga.
While some artists tend to go heavy on the electronics, Mikula errs on the side of minimalism. For
instance, the song Miroku opens with traditional Tibetan prayer bells, woven with Egyptian
melodies and backed with wind-like electronic ambience. Never overstimulating, the electronica has
a feeling of exaggerated natural forces rather than anything generated by man or machine. Likewise,
the slow, gentle opening of Daybreak evokes the lingering expansion of light that accompanies the
dawn. The occasional chiming of a gong makes the piece excellent for changing yoga poses.
The haunting sound of the shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese wooden flute, infuses an Asian flavor into Cats Sleeping on Clouds. Its electronica lulls listeners into a trancelike state, as does
Drifting Between Stars, which features electronic beeps reminiscent of drifting satellites in space.
Combined, the effect of each track is one of peace and contemplation. This is meditative music at
its finest, a musical revelation that will delight those looking for unique yoga music or an introspective backdrop for meditation or healing.
sound with positive messages.

Reminiscent of British bands
such as Oasis, it borrows their
raspy style but infuses it with
transcendence and hope. While
the contrast is striking, the hope
embodied in his message is too
often swallowed up by the
monotonous stylings. While
Kidds ef for ts are admirable,
the musical soil in which he
plants his ideas cannot bear the
fruit he seeks.
Life Loves a Tragedy starts
off the CD with a twangy, downtempo melody, and as his lyrics
ponder the negative role models
in societyits greatest irony is
that many of the musicians who
originated this style followed the
dr ug-fueled lifestyle he rails
against. The lyrics of Maybe
Tomorrow extend a feeling that
despite past mistakes, one can
still change ones life for the
better. Unfortunately, the colorless music that accompanies it
drains the life from his lyrics.
Openings on songs such as
Follow Your Bliss and the
music-box motif of Ballerina
initially anticipate some variation of tempo or instruments,
but they never materialize, droning onward in the same guitar
and slow drum melodies.
The folk and rock influences
of artists such as John Lennon
are obvious in his lyrics, but the
music that accompanies them
is not at all conducive to spreading that message. Only the
stand-alone instrumental pieces
Kismet and Satori draw
upon more new-age influences
that are better suited to the
lyrics.
Like oil and water, some substances never fully meld. Among
them, sadly, are the lyrics and
the melodies chosen by Kidd on
this album.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
KEVIN FILAN
dis Four Seasons. Pavane

and Reel for a
D e f u n k e d
Princess
begins as the
most classical
piece on the
CD, but this
does nothing to
erase the under cur rent of
unease when the piece breaks
into an electrified Celtic reel.
Violin PassionSymphonic
Dreams is a pleasant but unfulfilling musical experience. While
it seeks to introduce its listeners to the glories of the electric
violin, it falls short of exploring
the instruments full potential.
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In the Theater
In the Theater
ness and POV-type shots give
this remote-seeming world a
sense of refreshing immediacy.
In both the medieval and modern-day worlds, it is the viscerality of the filming that captures
the viewers attention. One can
almost feel every blow, bite, and
bullet in this blood-spattered
slice of cinema, and the makeup and CG effects are appropriately grotesque and chilling.
The films unique feel distances it from the typical cineplex horror-movie fare and its
well-plotted battle sequences
make for an intense viewing
experience. For wild mayhem
with everyones favorite humandevouring creatures, Underworld: Evolution is a thrilling
choice.
Indigo (2005)
Underworld: Evolution
(2006)
ur, fangs, and bullets fly

again in the second installment of the Under world
franchise. Eschewing the occasionally confusing plot of the
original, this sequel relies largely on its action sequences to
propel it for ward, a situation
that, in many ways, is an
improvement. It also clarifies
much of the first film in well-
78
done flashbacks that are among

the films highlights. These tantalizing glimpses of the origins
of both werewolves and vampires may well be fodder for a
further prequel.
Beginning where the first film
ended, Under world: Evolution
follows the flight of renegade
vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale) and Michael (Scott Speedman), whose hybrid characteristics of both werewolf and
vampire have made him a target
for both sides in their age-old

war. Prior knowledge of the first
film is unnecessary, as the filmmakers have done an excellent
job of encapsulating it within the
first few minutes. After this brief
lull, the non-stop action carries
the viewer along on a cross-continental thrill-ride.
Pursued by the ancient vampire Marcus Cor vinus, they
must stop him from releasing
his wayward werewolf brother
William from captivity and causing unspeakable chaos on the
humans upon which both
species feed. Cue car-and-giantwinged-creature chases, ultraviolet light bullets, plenty of terrifying beasts, and a wardrobe
consisting largely of pleather. A
brief appearance by Sir Derek
Jacobi as one who has a more
than casual acquaintance with
the origins of both groups, adds
a bit of culture to the mele.
The brief and stylish medieval
sequences are cunningly rendered as one pieces together
the puzzles that lie in the characters pasts; MTV-like choppi-
his mishmash of New-Age

messages is a cheap and
propagandistic attempt to
exploit the longing for spiritual
connection that so many feel.
While the messages themselves are worthwhile and commendable, it is their presentation that is both vexing and
disturbing.
Indigo, the cinematic heir to
films such as What the *@#%
Do We Know?, plays upon the
sense of alienation from society, our families, and even ourselves that has fueled the
recent spate of what Indigos
creators call Spiritual Cinema,
films that explore the human
condition and attempt to better
it by revealing our potential.
The film deals with Indigo
children, children who are said
to possess psychic gifts and the
ability to communicate with
angels and other spiritual entities. Unusually empathetic,
many of these children are
believed to be messengers,
using their apparent gifts to help
humanity attain a higher plane
of existence and spirituality.
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Grace, the young heroine of

Indigo, is one of these children;
on the run with her grandfather,
who was reluctantly entrusted
with her after her dysfunctional
family falls apar t. Her wisdom
beyond her years touches the
lives of ever yone they meet,
opening eyes and minds to their
true potential and healing their
spiritual ills. This is no Pollyanna story, however; Grace is both
tough and opinionated despite
her youth, but her confidence is
refreshing.
While its message is a joyous
and positive one, it is quickly
lost in the swamp of commercialization that surrounds the
film, especially evident in the

inter views and supplementar y
infor mation included on the
DVD version that hype upcoming films and books written by
the films directors, screenwriters, and sponsors.
An uneasy marriage of faith
and commerce, Indigo is a worthy film, but the baggage that
comes with it should have been
left behind.
Bride, which bears more than a

superficial resemblance to The
Nightmare Before Christmas,
with its unique form of stopmotion animation and musical
numbers. A darkly char ming
fairytale that older children and
adults alike will enjoy, Corpse
Bride is destined to be an animated classic.
After Victor Van Dor t (voiced
by Johnny Depp) botches his
vows at the rehearsal for his
imminent wedding, his furious
relatives send him into the
neighboring forest. Seemingly
alone in the gloom, he is able to
collect his thoughts and remember the vows per fectly. His
preparations have unintended
consequences, however, as he
soon finds himself pursued by
the spirit (and decaying corpse)
of Emily (voiced by Helena Bonham-Car ter), a young woman
who died on what would have
been her wedding day and who
now believes that Victors vows
were intended for her. This
macabre comedy of errors is
complicated by interlopers on
both sides of this unanticipated
relationship, from Victoria, Victors fiance, and his family, to
Emilys skeletal companions
from the graveyard.
True to form, Corpse Bride
has all the trappings of a typical

Burton film, perhaps even more
than usual because in animation, one can create a world
from the ground up, unfettered
by the constraints of reality.
From its deep, rich tones to the
eerie, almost surrealist landscapes, to its pale, bone-thin
(pun intended) characters that
seem bent on blurring the line
between the living and the
dead, ever ything one sees is
carefully crafted to create a certain state of mind.
One of the hallmarks of Burtons films, from Edward Scissorhands to Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory, has been his
use of characters who at first
seem eccentric and outlandish
and even frightening, to reveal
the most positive of human
traits. Despite its seemingly
morbid trappings, Corpse Bride
is no exception, tracing the relationship between Victor and
Emily with a sensitivity that is
both amusing and moving. Its
musical numbers are a visual
and aural delight and are among
the films highlights.
A rare cinematic treat, Corpse
Bride is a compelling and entertaining film for young and old
alike.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
Corpse Bride (2005)
im Bur tons latest foray

into the world of animation
returns us to the directors
unmistakable cinematic style in
the miniature world of Corpse
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CROP CIRCLES
CROP CIRCLES & GLASTONBURY
July 24-August 3, 2006; Wiltshire, England
Cost: $2,955 | Contact: Denni Clarke, PO Box
2155, Freedom, CA 95019, (831) 761-3655 |
Email: dclarke@cropcirclespirit.com | Web:
www.cropcirclespirit.com | Combine exploration
of crop circles and ancient stone circles,
including Stonehenge, Avebur y, Silbur y Hill,
and West Kennet Long Barrow, with the Glastonbury Symposium.
CROP CIRCLES AND MYSTICAL ENGLAND
July 25-31, 2006; England
Cost: $1,777 | Contact: Cariel Quinly, Sacred
MAS Productions, 1611-A South Melrose Drive
#246, Vista, CA 92081, (760) 941-0608 |
Email:
cq@cabiz.net
|
Web:
www.cabiz.net/hear tlinktour | Travel with a
master facilitator who will share the sacred stories and rituals; attend the International Crop
Circle Symposium in Glastonbur y; visit Tintagel, Glastonbury, and the fabled Isle of Avalon, and crop circle formations, with exper t
researchers and private access to Stonehenge;
and par ticipate in a peace meditation in Merlin's Cave.
CROP CIRCLES AND SACRED
SITES OF SOUTHWEST ENGLAND
2155, Freedom, CA 95019, (831) 761-3655 |
www.cropcirclespirit.com | Explore crop circles,
stone circles, Avebur y, Avalon, Glastonbur y,
Wiltshire, Cornwall, and the Arthurian legends,
with special access to the inner circle of Stonehenge for sunset meditation and meetings with
top researchers.
CROP CIRCLES TOUR
July 29-August 2, 2006; England
Cost: $995 | Contact: Ear th Mysteries &
Sacred Site Tours & Well Within, PO Box 1563,
Nevada City, CA 95959, (530) 740-0561 |
Email: sacredsitetours@tesco.net or wwithin@nccn.net | Web: www.nccn.net/~wwithin/
cropcir | Visit the the magnificent Tor, Chalice
Well, gardens, abbey, and village at Glastonbur y; West Kennet Long Barrow, Silbur y Hill,
and the incredible stone circles and formations
of Avebury. Enjoy a private, before-hours group
entrance inside the circle at Stonehenge. Learn
about crop circles, ley lines, energy and more.
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CROP CIRCLE WEEKEND

July 1-2, 2006; Avebury, Wiltshire, England
Email: secretar y@gatekeeper.org.uk | Web:
www.gatekeeper.org.uk/gatekeeper/nationalev
ents.asp | Francine Blake will lead an exploration of the most recent crop circle formations
of the season and the mysterious and exciting
world of these "temporary temples."
DREAMWEAVERS' CROP
CIRCLE ADVENTURE
August 4-11, 2006; Wiltshire, England
2155, Freedom, CA 95019, (831) 761-3655 |
www.cropcirclespirit.com | Experience the
magic and sacred relationship with crop circles, the ancient landscape, and the mysteries
of Wiltshire, visiting as many formations as
possible, with researchers. Spend time at
impor tant ancient sacred sites, including
Stonehenge, Avebury Stone Circle, Silbury Hill,
West Kennet Long Barrow, and Glastonbury.
ENGLAND'S MYSTERIOUS CROP
CIRCLES AND STONEHENGE
July 27-August 3, 2006; Wiltshire, England
Cost: $2,100 | Contact: Dr. Chet Snow, PO Box
1738, Sedona, AZ 86339, (928) 204-1962 |
Email: chetsnow@npgcable.com | Web:
www.chetsnow.com/cropcircles | Visit Salisbury cathedral, Avebury stone circles, historic
town of Marlborough, and the Barge Inn (called
the "croppies" pub). Includes an aerial flight
over the major 2004 crop circle formations,
special access to Stonehenge for group toning
and meditation, and paid admission to the Wiltshire Crop Circle Conference.
GLASTONBURY SYMPOSIUM: INVESTIGATING
CROP CIRCLES AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES
July 28-30, 2006; Glastonbury, England
Cost: 80; Single-day 30 | Contact: Sheila
Martin, 16 Chilkwell Street, Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 8DB, England, +44 (0) 139 267
7462 | Email: glastonburysymposium@btopenworld.com | Web: www.glastonbur ysymposium.co.uk
GLASTONBURY TOUR AND SYMPOSIUM
Contact: Ron Russell, PO Box 460760, Aurora,
CO 80046 | Email: ron@cropcircles.org | Web:
www.cropcircles.org
INITIATION TO CROP CIRCLES

& STONEHENGE
July 14-21, 2006; Wiltshire, England
Cost: $900EU | Contact: Dr. Chet Snow, PO Box
1738, Sedona, AZ 86339, (928) 204-1962 |
www.chetsnow.com/cropcircles | Visit Salisbury cathedral, Avebury stone circles, historic
town of Marlborough, and the Barge Inn (called
the "croppies" pub). Includes an aerial flight
over the major 2004 crop circle formations,
special access to Stonehenge for group toning
and meditation, and paid admission to the Wiltshire Crop Circle Conference.
SACRED CIRCLES: CROP CIRCLES
& STONEHENGE
Contact: Power Places Tours, Inc., 2609 #A
Andromeda, Colorado Springs, CO 80906,
(800) 234-8687 or (719) 448-0514 | Email:
travel@powerplaces.com | Web: www.powerplaces.com | Experience the magical energy of
Stonehenge, Avebur y, and Glastonbur y. Feel
the power and energy of Stonehenge, including
access to its inner circle, and walk through
crop circles. With Freddy Silva, John Michell,
Rober t Bauval, and others. Visit Glastonbur y,
the mystic Isle of Avalon, the Chalice Well, Tintagel, and much more with Freddy Silva, John
Michell, and Elaine Grohman.
SACRED SITES AND CROP
CIRCLE RESEARCH TOUR
July 19-26, 2006; Southern England
Contact: Ron Russell, PO Box 460760, Aurora,
CO 80046 | Email: ron@cropcircles.org | Web:
www.cropcircles.org
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
BIGFOOT RENDEZVOUS
June 16-17, 2006; Pocatello, ID
Contact: Brandon Tennant, Falling Rock Productions, 416 N. 11th St., Pocatello, ID 83201,
(877) 325-5765 | Email: fallingrock@mac.com
| Web: www.bigfootrendezvous.com | Includes
film festival, vendors, storytelling, eyewitness
forum, demonstrations, enter tainment, children's activities, Bigfoot paraphernalia, Bigfoot
artwork, and speakers, including Dr. Jeff Meldrum and Rick Noll.
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BIGFOOT FIELD RESEARCHERS
ORGANIZATION EXPEDITIONS
May 25-28, 2006; OR
June 22-25, 2006; WI
July 27-30, 2006; NY
August 24-27, 2006; BC, Canada
September 7-10, 2006; NC
Cost: $1,200; $700 for an accompanying person | Contact: BFRO, (949) 278-6403 | Email:
foundation@BFRO.net | Web: www.bfro.net
HONOBIA BIGFOOT FALL FESTIVAL
October 6-8, 2006; Honobia, OK
Contact: Katie Cogburn, (580) 244-3292 |
Email: honobiabigfootfest@yahoo.com | Web:
www.geocities.com/honobiabigfootfestival/ind
ex | Features Bigfoot sitings hunts, games,
vendors, food, music, art shows, and more.
MOTHMAN EXCURSION
June 17, 2006; Fulton, OH
Contact: Sherri Brake-Recco (330) 412-6114 |
Email: riverstx@sssnet.com | Web: www.hauntedhistor y.net | Guided bus trip to Point Pleasant, WV, to explore the legend of the Mothman.
MOTHMAN FESTIVAL
September 15-16, 2006; Point Pleasant, WV
Email: jef fwamsley@eurekanet.com | Web:
www.mothmanlives.com
OTHER
CONSPIRACYCON
May 27-28, 2006; Santa Clara, CA
Cost: $99; Single day $59; Additional charge
for special events; Complete package $179 |
Contact: Brian William Hall, 2351 Alexis Lane,
Tracy, CA 95377, (209) 832-0999 | Email: conspiracycon@earthlink.net | Web: www.conspiracycon.com | Topics include Mind Control, FBI
Foreknowledge of 9-11, Chemtrails and Climate Shift, the Katrina Conspiracy, MK and
New Age Disinfo, the Old World Order, and
more, with speakers Jim Mar rs, William
Thomas, Dr. Stan Monteith, Stewart Swerdlow,
Ted L. Gunderson, and others.
DREAMING AND CREATIVITY CONFERENCE
October 14, 2006; St. Paul, MN
Contact: IASD Central Office, 1672 University
Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94703, (866) 373-2612
| Email: creativedreaming@mm.rr.com | Web:
asdreams.org/2006min | Learn from some of
the world's leaders in the field of dream studies and network with others who share an interest in dreams. Explore the creative potential of
dreaming through workshops, research presentations, and panel discussions.
DREAM WORKSHOP
June 14, 2006; Pittsburgh, PA
Cost: $6 | Email: cpearson@nauticom.net |
Web: www.nauticom.net/www/netcadet/ndw |
Workshop for anyone interested in exploring
dreams and increasing dream awareness. Topics include spiritual dreaming, lucid dreaming,
programming precognitive dreams, mutual
dreaming, synchronicities, out-of-body dreams,
dreams of the depar ted, dream incubation,
psychic dreaming, dreams through histor y,
nightmare help, healing dreams, and more.
FALL VISION QUEST
November 11-19, 2006; Grapevine Mountains, Death Valley National Park, CA
Cost: $895 | Contact: Rites of Passage, PO
Box 2061, Santa Rosa, CA 95405, (707) 5371927 | Email: mikeb@ritesofpassagevisionquest.org | Web: www.ritesofpassagevisionquest.org/schedule
FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE CONFERENCE
July 1, 2006; Stoke on Trent, England
Cost: 25 (discounts avail.) | Contact: Radikal
Phase, Willow Court, Cordy Lane, Underwood,
Notts, NG16 5FD, UK | Email: info@philipgardiner.net | Web: www.phil.fah-designs.com/forbiddenknews1.pdf | Speakers include Andrew
Collins, Nick Pope, Lionel Fanthorpe, Paul Devereux, Philip Gardiner, Gar y Osborn, Karen
Ralls PhD, Crichton Miller, Michael Cremo, Graham Hancock, Jim Marrs, Mar tin Gray, Alan
Craw, Robert Feather, and others.
FULL SENSORY PERCEPTION TRAINING
Level 1-Sept. 1-14, 2006; Mount Shasta, CA
Level 2-Nov. 1-14, 2006; Mount Shasta, CA
Cost: $1,200-$2,800 (incl. accom. and meals)
| Contact: Dolphin Star Temple Mystery School,
PO Box 1582, Mount Shasta, CA 96067, (530)
926-1122 | Email: pleiades@amorahquanyin.
com | Web: www.amorahquanyin.com/calendar_2005 | Learn to accelerate spiritual growth
with clairvoyance, clairaudience, intuition, and
channeling healing energy.
INTERNATIONAL CLASSIC MONSTER MOVIE
CONVENTION AND EXPO: THE AMAZING
COLOSSAL MONSTER BASH
June 23-25, 2006; Pittsburgh, PA
Contact: Creepy Classics, PO Box 643,
Latrobe, PA 15650, (724) 532-5226 | Web:
www.creepyclassics.com | With Bert I. Gordon,
Herber t Strock, Kenny Miller, Susan Gordan,
and Forrest J. Ackerman.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE

ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF DREAMS:
DREAMS BUILDING BRIDGES
June 20-24, 2006; Bridgewater, MA
Cost: $485 until June 10, $505 thereafter;
$160/day | Contact: IASD Central Office, 1672
University Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94703, (866)
373-2612 | Email: conference@asdreams.org |
Web: http://www.asdreams.org/2006/index
INTL. HEALING SOUNDS INTENSIVE
July 15-23, 2006; Loveland, CO
Cost: $1,395 | Contact: Jonathan Goldman, PO
Box 2240, Boulder, CO 80306, (800) 2469764 | Web: www.healingsounds.com/training/intensive-desc.asp | Study with Chant Master Jonathan Goldman and learn to use your
own sounds for vibrational patterning and
alignment, and to access deeper levels of consciousness. This program covers the latest scientific material on sonics, as well as time-honored sacred sounds from different traditions.
INTL. SOUND HEALING CONFERENCE
November 10-14, 2006; Santa Fe, NM
Cost: $495 until June 1; $545 until August 1;
$595 until October 15; $645 thereafter | Contact: The Message Company, 4 Camino Azul,
Santa Fe, NM 87508, (505) 474-0998 or
(505) 474-7604 | Email: message@bizspirit.
com | Web: www.bizspirit.com/soundhealing |
oin leading-edge researchers, practitioners,
scientists, composers, musicians, and recording ar tists in the fascinating fields of sound
healing, vibrational medicine, music therapy,
and body/mind/brain/spirit research. This is
more than just a conference; it is also a celebration of music, dancing, singing, chanting,
experiential workshops, and intensive learning
sessions.
JOURNEY TO THE SOUL
July 16-20, 2006; Mt. Hood, OR
Contact: Gar y Zukav, PO Box 3310, Ashland,
OR 97520, (541) 482-1515 or (877) 7334279 | Email: info@zukav.com | Web:
www.zukav.com | This in-depth retreat provides
a safe and supportive environment in which to
learn practical, ways to create a life of more joy
and less pain, to move into your full potential,
and to give the gifts that you were born to give.
MYTHIC JOURNEYS CONFERENCE
June 7-11, 2006; Atlanta, GA
Email:
john@mythicjourneys.or g
or
mkarlin@mindspring.com
|
Web:
www.mythicjourneys.org
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NINE GATES MYSTERY SCHOOL
(Part 1)
May 12-21, 2006; Santa Barbara, CA
Sept. 22-Oct. 1, 2006, 2006; Santa Barbara, CA
(Part 2)
Oct. 27-Nov. 5, 2006; Santa Barbara, CA
Contact: Ann O'Quinn, Institute of Noetic Sciences, (707) 779-8236 | Email: myster yschool@noetic.org | Web: www.ninegates.
org | Spiritual training for those seeking life's
mysteries, universal truths, and ways of knowing. Tap into deep sources of consciousness,
use energy fields, and find hidden meaning and
inner guidance.
Pleidian Lightwork Intensive Training
Level 2: July 17-31, 2006; Mount Shasta, CA
Level 3: Oct. 3-17, 2006; Mount Shasta, CA
Cost:$1,200-$2,800 | Contact: Dolphin Star
Temple Mystery School, PO Box 1582, Mount
Shasta, CA 96067, (530) 926-1122 | Email:
pleiades@amorahquanyin.com | Web:
www.amorahquanyin.com | Training focuses on
a new healing modality that is actually ancient
Lemurian, Atlantean, and Egyptian temple practices and myster y school teachings. Include
music, meditation, anchoring of space, healing, clearing ego agendas, making paradigm
shifts, and much more.
PROPHETS CONFERENCE:
JUST FOR THE HEALTH OF IT
May 19-21, 2006; Boulder, CO
August 4-6, 2006; Vancouver, ONT, Canada
Cost: $395 | Contact: Axiom, 369 Montezuma
Avenue, Suite 103, Santa Fe, NM 87501,
(888) 777-5200 or (888) 777-5981 | Email:
office@greatmystery.org | Web: www.greatmyster y.org/events/health2 | This conference
brings together today's leading healers and
health practitioners for those who practice the
healing arts and sciences and for those seeking validation of the miraculous. Speakers and
guests include young healer Adam, Dr. Eric
Pearl, Peter Fairfield, Coyote medicine healer
Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, shamanic healing ceremonies with Sandra Inger man, Nor man
Shealy, and others.
QUESTING CONFERENCE
October 28, 2006; London, England
Cost: 30 adv.; 32 door | Contact: Questing
Conference, PO Box 189, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
SS9 1NF, England, 0207 4052120 | Email:
info@andrewcollins.com | Web: www.andrewcollins.com | Conference themes include
ancient astronomies, megalithic Britain, the
cosmic origins of shamanism, 2012, Giza's
secret revealed, and more. All-new presentations from some of the world's top freethinkers
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on alternative histor y, forbidden archaeology,
and hidden teachings.
REGRESSION FACILITATION TRAINING
June 20-29, 2006; Mount Shasta, CA
Cost: Sliding Scale $888-1,777 | Contact: Dolphin Star Temple Myster y School, PO Box
1582, Mount Shasta, CA 96067, (530) 9261122 | Email: pleiades@amorahquanyin.com |
Web: www.amorahquanyin.com
SOCIETY FOR SCIENTIFIC
EXPLORATION 25TH ANNUAL MEETING
June 8-10, 2006; Orem, UT
Contact: Society for Scientifice Exploration,
Department of Astronomy, PO Box 3818, Charlottesville, VA 22903-0818, (434) 924-7494 |
Email: scientific_exploration@yahoo.com |
Web: www.scientificexploration.org/meetings |
Intended to facilitate the investigation of all
questions that are amenable to scientific
investigation. Features lectures, talks, and
poster sessions.
STARWOOD FESTIVAL
July 18-23, 2006; Sherman, NY
Cost: $150 until June 30; $200 thereafter |
Contact: A.C.E., 1643 Lee Road, #9, Cleveland
Heights, OH 44118, (216) 932-5421 or (800)
446-4962 | Email: webchameleon2@rosencomet.com | Web: www.rosencomet.com | Now
in its third decade, this six-day camping event
features over 120 workshops, plus per formances, 15 concer ts, films, merchants, and
the biggest bonfire you've ever seen!
SUMMER SOLSTICE VISION QUEST
June 17-23, 2005; Sedona, AZ
Cost: $850 (group discounts available) | Contact: Crossing Worlds Journeys and Retreats,
PO Box 623, Sedona, AZ 86339, (800) 3502693 or (928) 203-0024 | Email:
journeys@crossingworlds.com | Web:
www.crossingworlds.com | Develop attention,
intention, intuition, and presence, with a focus
on soul-retrieval, emotional healing, working
with the energies of nature, ceremonial circles,
freeing innate body wisdom, shamanic journey,
and native medicine principles.
SUMMER VISION QUEST
July 15-23, 2006; Inyo Mountains
National Forest, CA
August 12-20, 2006; Inyo Mountains
National Forest, CA
Box 2061, Santa Rosa, CA 95405, (707) 5371927 | Email: mikeb@ritesofpassagevisionquest.org | Web: www.ritesofpassagevisionquest.org/schedule
SYLVIA BROWNE PRESENTS:

IF YOU COULD SEE WHAT I SEE
June 10, 2006; Rosemont, IL
June 12, 2006; Columbus, OH
June 13, 2006; Cleveland, OH
June 15, 2006; Milwaukee, WI
June 17, 2006; Indianapolis, IN
July 29, 2006; Kansas City, MO
September 12, 2006; Philadelphia, PA
September 14, 2006; Boston, MA
September 16, 2006; Buffalo, NY
September 18, 2006; Detroit, MI
October 27, 2006; Orlando, FL
November 14, 2006; San Francisco, CA
November 17, 2006; Los Angeles, CA
November 19, 2006; Seattle, WA
Contact: Hay House, (800) 654-5126 | Email:
office@sylvia.org | Web: www.sylvia.org | Psychic Sylvia Browne will share her most intimate
and entertaining stories, offer live readings for
audience members, and expand on the meaning of non-religious spirituality and the nature
of God and the meaning of life.
TRENDS IN PARANORMAL RESEARCH
ACADEMY OF RELIGION AND PSYCHICAL
RESEARCH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
June 9-12, 2006; Rosemont, PA
Cost: $200 (member disc. avail.) | Contact:
Boyce Batey, The Academy of Religion and Psychical Research, PO Box 614, Bloomfield, CT
06002-0614, (860) 242-4593 | Email:
bateyb@infionline.net
|
Web:
www.lightlink.com/arpr/#PROGRAMS | Features consciousness and sur vival research,
psychic investigation, remote viewing, quantum
physics, distant healing, near-death and out-ofbody experiences, EVP, mediumship, parapsychology, futuristic communication methods
with those in spirit, electronic communication
phenomena, instrumental trans-communication, reincarnation, past-life regression, altered
states, mystical states, and transformative
states of consciousness, and more.
WOMEN'S VISION QUEST
June 17-25, 2006; Inyo Mountains
National Forest, CA
Box 2061, Santa Rosa, CA 95405, (707) 5371927 | Email: mikeb@ritesofpassagevisionquest.org | Web: www.ritesofpassagevisionquest.org/schedule | This program provides a
safe environment in which women can enact a
classical rite of passage under two experienced guides. Includes stories, council work,
teachings, and necessar y skills, followed by
three days in which each woman will live alone,
looking into her own heart and soul while surrounded by the natural world.
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PARANORMAL
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRONIC
VOICE PHENOMENA CONFERENCE: LIFE
AFTER DEATH - THE EVIDENCE
June 8-10, 2006; Atlanta, GA
Contact: AA-EVP, PO Box 13111, Reno, NV
89807 | Email: aaevpsupport@aol.com | Web:
aaevp.com/conferences/aaevp_conference |
This conference will provide scientific evidence
that death is only a gateway to another level of
existence and that the dead can and do communicate with those still on earth.
ANCIENT TONES & HAUNTED HISTORY HAUNTED HEARTLAND BUS TOURS
July 8, 2006; Fulton, OH
August 12, 2006; Fulton, OH
September 2, 2006; Fulton, OH
October 28, 2006; Fulton, OH
October 31, 2006; Fulton, OH
Cost: $35; reser vations required | Contact:
Sherri Brake-Recco (330) 412-6114 | Email:
riverstx@sssnet.com | Web: www.hauntedhistor y.net | Join paranormal investigator Sherri
Brake Recco on a four-hour, guided bus trip
through several counties and some of the most
haunted historical places of Ohio.
BUMP IN THE NIGHT HAUNTED
OVERNIGHT EXCURSIONS
June 3-4, 2006; Southern Illinois
July 8-9, 2006; Bell Witch Cave, Adams, IL
Contact: (888) 446-7859 | Email:
ttaylor@prairieghosts.com
|
Web:
www.prairieghosts.com/overnight
CANADIAN PARANORMAL CONFERENCE
October 28-29, 2006; Halifax, NS, Canada
Cost: $75; Single-day passes avail. | Contact:
Paranormal Phenomena Research & Investigation Assoc., 133 Lumsden Crescent, Lower
Sackville, Nova Scotia B4C 2H3, Canada,
(866) 591-6273 | Email: info@ppri.net | Web:
www.ppri.net | Speakers include Darryll Walsh,
Elliott Van Dusen PhD, Spencer Collier, Jon
Nowinski, Chris Styles, Dr. Andrew Nichols,
Donna Davies, and others.
CHICAGO SUPERNATURAL CRUISE
Saturdays-July 8-Sept. 3, 2006; Chicago, IL
Cost: $24 | Contact: Richard T. Crowe, PO Box
557544, Chicago, IL 60655, (708) 499-0300 |
Web: www.ghosttours.com/halloween | Visit
historical and authentic Chicago supernatural
locales of ghosts, curses, and more.
E. REGIONAL PARANORMAL CONFERENCE

July 21-23, 2006; Gettysburg, PA
Cost: $75 | Email: conference@paranormalweekly.com | Web: conference.mar ylandparanormal.com | Speakers include Troy Taylor,
George Hansen, Ursula Bielski, John Zaffis,
Rosemar y Ellen Guiley, Katherine Ramsland,
Vince Wilson, and others.
EAST OF MIDNIGHT SPECTRAL SHADOW
TOURS WITH THE UNDERTAKER
Various dates; Chicago, IL
Cost: $45-$100 | Contact: Carl "The Undertaker", (708) 638-6950 | Email: under takertours@yahoo.com | Web: www.shadowtours.
com | Designed and conducted by a licensed
funeral director and embalmer, these tours
take you to both well-known crime scenes and
haunted locations and obscure, out-of-the-way
places that few people have even heard about.
FELL'S POINT GHOST WALK
Fridays and Saturdays through
November 5, 2006; Baltimore, MD
Cost: $13 | Contact: (410) 522-7400 | Email:
info@fellspointghost.com | Web: www.fellspointghost.com | Explore the many haunted
pubs, shops, and residences of historic Fell's
Point under cover of night.
GHOSTOUR: THE HAUNTED VACATION
TO ENGLAND
September 10-17, 2006; England
Contact: Tours of Terror, 315 Derby Avenue,
Orange, CT 06477, (866) TERRORTOUR or
(203) 795-4737 | Email: TOURSofTERROR@
aol.com | Web: www.ghostour.com | Features
haunted hotels and houses, haunted castles,
ghostly walks, creepy graveyards, psychic
investigations, supernatural sights and tales,
haunted pub crawl, ghost stories, haunted
churches and theaters, and more.
HAUNTED AMERICA CONFERENCE
June 22-25, 2006; Alton, IL
Cost: $50 (addtl. fee for tours and workshops)
| Contact: Troy Taylor, Histor y & Hauntings
Book Company, 515 East Third Street, Alton, IL
62002, (888) 446-7859 | Email:
ttaylor@prairieghosts.com
|
Web:
www.prairieghosts.com | The "original ghost
conference" features lectures, workshops,
tours, and investigations of haunted locations.
Speakers include Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Keith
Age, Vince Wilson, Melody Bussey, C.T.
Thieme, Len Adams, Troy Taylor, and others.
HAUNTED HARBOR CRUISE

October 28, 2006; Baltimore, MD
Cost: $30; group rates available | Contact:
(410) 522-7400 | Email: info@fellspointghost.com | Web: www.fellspointghost.com
HAUNTED HISTORY WALKS
OF CANAL FULTON
July 28, 2006; Fulton, OH
August 5, 2006; Fulton, OH
Cost: $10 | Contact: Sherri Brake-Recco (330)
412-6114 | Email: riverstx@sssnet.com | Web:
www.hauntedhistor y.net | Join paranormal
investigator Sherri Brake Recco on lantern
walks through one of Ohio's most intriguing
small towns. Reservations suggested.
HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSE TALES
AND SEA SUPERSTITIONS
October 18, 2006; Dover, DE
Contact: Ed Okonowicz (410) 398-5013 |
Email: edo@mystandlace.com | Web: www.mystandlace/events
HISTORY & HAUNTINGS CANDLELIGHT
GHOST HUNTERS TOURS
June 9, 10 2006; Alton, IL
June 16, 17 2006; Alton, IL
June 22, 2006; Alton, IL
June 30, 2006; Alton, IL
July 1, 2006; Alton, IL
July 14, 15 2006; Alton, IL
August 5, 2006; Alton, IL
August 12, 2006; Alton, IL
Cost: $30 | Contact: Troy Taylor, Histor y &
Hauntings Book Company, 515 East Third
Street, Alton, IL 62002, (888) 446-7859 |
Email: ttaylor@prairieghosts.com | Web:
www.prairieghosts.com/tours | Visit the reputedly haunted sites in old downtown Alton and
hear their detailed histor y and the ghost stories behind each site, odd and unusual stories
and facts about the city, and more.
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MANSFIELD REFORMATORY GHOST HUNT
June 2, 2006; Mansfield, OH
June 24, 2006; Mansfield, OH
July 7, 2006; Mansfield, OH
July 22, 2006; Mansfield, OH
August 4, 2006; Mansfield, OH
August 19, 2006; Mansfield, OH
September 2, 2006; Mansfield, OH
September 16, 2006; Mansfield, OH
November 4, 2006; Mansfield, OH
November 18, 2006; Mansfield, OH
Cost: $50 | Contact: Ohio State Reformator y
Preser vation Society, 100 Reformator y Road,
Mansfield, OH 44905-1208, (419) 522-2644 |
Email: info@mrps.org | Web: mrps.org
PARANORMAL CONFERENCE 2006
September 23-24, 2006; Beaver Falls, PA
Cost: $3 | Email: spiritsearch13@yahoo.com |
Web: lilyrosecurios.tripod.com/id26 | Speakers
and guests include Robyn Griggs, Janet Decker,
Patty Wilson, Scott Crownover, Jeff Wamsley,
and more.
SMOKING GUN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
PARANORMAL CONFERENCE
June 17, 2006; Westport, CT
Web: www.ppri.net
SPOOKED IN SEATTLE GHOST TOUR
Every Saturday Night; Seattle, WA
Contact: Philip Lipson, Seattle UFO/Paranormal Group, 623 Broadway East, Seattle, WA
98102, (206) 328-6499 | Email: philiplipson@hotmail.com | Web: www.seattlechatclub.org/museum | Walking tour through the
late 19th-centur y char m of Capitol Hills,
famous for its haunted sites.
SPRINGFIELD HAUNTINGS TOUR
June 10, 2006; Springfield, IL
June 17, 2006; Springfield, IL
July 1, 2006; Springfield, IL
August 5, 2006; Springfield, IL
August 12, 2006; Springfield, IL
Cost: $20 | Contact: (888) 446-7859 | Web:
www.prairieghosts.com/tours
TALES TOMBSTONES TELL
October 20, 2006; Dover, DE
Contact: Ed Okonowicz (410) 398-5013 |
Email: edo@mystandlace.com | Web: www.mystandlace/events
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REMOTE VIEWING
ADVANCED CONTROLLED REMOTE
VIEWING TRAINING
July 14-16, 2006; Alamogordo, NM
October 20-22, 2006; Alamogordo, NM
Cost: $1,000 | Email: lindabuchanan@charter.net | Web: www.crviewer.com/calendar
BASIC CONTROLLED REMOTE
VIEWING TRAINING
June 10-12, 2006; Amarillo, TX
June 16-18, 2006; Landau, Germany
July 8-10, 2006; Amarillo, TX
August 5-7, 2006; Calgary, Alberta, Canada
August 12-14, 2006; Amarillo, TX
September 16-18, 2006; Amarillo, TX
October 14-16, 2006; Amarillo, TX
November 11-13, 2006; Amarillo, TX
CONTROLLED REMOTE VIEWING 5-DAY
APPLICATIONS AND TRAINING COURSES
Various Dates; Boulder City, CO
Cost: $500 | Contact: Dr. Angela Thompson
Smith, (702) 293-3696 | Email: Catalyst@peoplepc.com | Web: mypeoplepc.com/members/catalyst/catalyst/id4
EXPLORATION 27
July 29-August 4, 2006; Faber, VA
October 14-20, 2006; Faber, VA
Cost: $1,695 | Contact: The Monroe Institute,
62 Roberts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938,
(866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email:
TMIprograms@aol.com | Web: www.monroeinstitute.org | Provides intensive investigation
into uncharted, nonphysical territories in order
to obtain information and direct personal experience related to this different state of being.
EXPLORATION ESSENCE
July 16-22, 2006; Faber, VA
(866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email:
TMIprograms@aol.com | Web: www.monroeinstitute.org/programs/eessence
GATEWAY VOYAGE
June 3-9, 2006; Faber, VA
June 3-9, 2006; Petaluma, CA
August 5-11, 2006; Faber, VA
August 26-September 1, 2006; Faber, VA
September 9-15, 2006; Faber, VA
September 30-October 6, 2006; Faber, VA
October 28-November 3, 2006; Faber, VA

December 2-8, 2006; Petaluma, CA
Cost: $1,695 (incl. room and board) | Contact:
The Monroe Institute, 62 Rober ts Mountain
Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866) 881-3440 or
(434) 361-1252 | Email: TMIprograms@
aol.com | Web: www.monroeinstitute.org | With
the aid of Hemispheric Synchronization
sounds, total immersion in a timeless retreat,
the guidance of senior trainers, feedback on
your experiences, and the group sharing of
experiences, you will be carried gently into four
progressively deeper altered states of consciousness.
GUIDELINES
August 5-11, 2006; Faber, VA
September 16-22, 2006; Faber, WV
October 21-27, 2006; Faber, WV
62 Rober ts Mountain Road, Faber, VA
22938,(866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 |
Email: TMIprograms@aol.com | Web: www.monroeinstitute.org | Provides learning methods
through which communication can be established with parts of one's self-awareness.
HEARTLINE
November 4-10, 2006; Faber, VA
(866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email:
TMIprograms@aol.com | Web: www.monroeinstitute.org | Explores your internal landscape
that promotes self-love, self-trust, and selfacceptance. Par ticipants learn to let go of
resistance and fear as they move into a greater
sense of wholeness, balance, and harmony.
INTERMEDIATE CONTROLLED REMOTE
VIEWING TRAINING
June 21-23, 2006; Landau, Germany
August 9-11, 2006; Calgary, Alberta, Canada
September 22-24, 2006; Alamogordo, NM
November 10-12, 2006; Alamogordo, NM
LIFELINE
November 4-10, 2006; Faber, VA
(866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email:
TMIprograms@aol.com | Web: www.monroeinstitute.org | Training in states of consciousness. Participants learn to contact those who
have made the transition from physical reality
and who need assistance in moving forward.
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MC2: MANIFESTATION & CREATION SQUARED

September 30-October 6, 2006; Faber, VA
(866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email:
TMIprograms@aol.com | Web: www.monroeinstitute.org | Provides tools to more fully experience the potentials of human existence
through expanding belief systems and enhancing ones abilities to influence time-space
events through non-physical (energetic) means.
Uses the most reliable and successful principles discovered in the practice of psychokinesis (PK) and of directing energy for healing.
REMOTE VIEWING AND SPIRITUAL
HEALING WORKSHOP
September 15-17, 2006; Rhinebeck, NY
Contact: (866) 607-8439 | Email: rtarg@espresearch.com | Web: www.espresearch.com |
Weekend workshop on learning remote viewing
and transformation of consciousness. Presented by Russel Targ.
REMOTE VIEWING PRACTICUM
(866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email:
TMIprograms@aol.com | Web: www.monroeinstitute.org | Training in the ability to perceive
events and locations across distance and
across time; employs a team concept (a monitor/inter viewer, a remote viewer, and a judge)
with participants learning each role. Emphasis
on the five basic behaviors common to successful remote viewers.
STARLINES
(866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email:
TMIprograms@aol.com | Web: www.monroeinstitute.org | Par ticipants explore the myster y
and majesty of energy systems throughout our
galaxy and beyond, moving gradually into new
states of awareness, being, and perception.
TIMELINE
June 25-July 1, 2006; Faber, VA
866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email:
TMIprograms@aol.com | Web: www.monroeinstitute.org | Provides oppor tunities to explore
the adventures of other selves in other times in
order to gain a perspective on who you are and
what is possible for you in this present life.
SACRED SITES/PILGRIMAGES
A CELTIC SPIRITUAL JOURNEY-POWER OF
THE MYTH, BEAUTY OF THE LAND
September 9-20, 2006; Ireland
Cost: $2,989 | Contact: Celtic Spirit Journeys,
Box 3839, Carmel, CA 93921, (800) 694-1957
| Email: treeofstars@ear thlink.net | Web:
www.celticspiritjourneys.com | Join Mara Freeman on an odyssey through Ireland to explore
some of the most beautiful and inspirational
sacred landscapes of this enchanted isle.
ANCIENT MYSTERIES REVEALED CONF.
November 2-9, 2006; Italy
Contact: Power Places Tours, Inc., 1506 Costilla Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80904, (800)
234-8687 or (719) 448-0514 | Email:
travel@powerplaces.com | Web: www.powerplaces.com/Malta_Gardiner | With Philip Gardiner.
ANDEAN COSMIC VISION: THE HEART OF
THE CONDOR INTENSIVE WITH DON
ALBERTO TAXO
October 6-16, 2006; Ecuador
Cost: $2,450 | Email: dolores@ear thsummitllc.com | Web: www.ear thsummitllc.com |
The journey of fers an oppor tunity aimed at
awakening and experiencing our connection to
nature and her cycles as we shed old patterns
and open ourselves to myster y, magic, and
beauty of a culture very different than our own.
A PERSONAL INVITATION TO MOTHER
MEERA'S DARSHAN
August 16-23, 2006; Rhineland, Germany
Cost: $1,400 | Contact: Dr. Chet Snow, Box
1738, Sedona, AZ 86339, (928) 204-1962 |
www.chetsnow.com/mothermeera | Born in
India, Mother Meera is an Avatar who has
changed the lives of thousands in total silence
since moving to Germany more than 20 years
ago. In addition to four evenings of her darshan, visit Cologne and Limburg cathedrals,
Europe's only Bah'ai House of Worship,
medieval mystic Hildegaard von Bingen's convent, and cruise down the Rhine.
AVALON TO CAMELOT: A JOURNEY
THROUGH THE MYTHS OF TIME
September 6-15, 2006; Glastonbury, England
Cost: 1,550 | Contact: Gothic Image, 7 High
Street, Glastonbur y, Somerset BA6 9DP, England, +44(0)1458 831281 | Email: tours@gothicimage.co.uk | Web: www.gothicimagetours.
co.uk | Visit sacred shrines and spend time
with some of Britain's most respected teachers, authors, and ceremonialists, who share
their knowledge and insights into the histor y,

myths, and legends of the sacred landscape
and the Pagan heritage of the British Isles.
CELTIC MYSTICAL JOURNEY TO ENGLAND
July 24-August 5, 2006; England
Cost: $2,240 | Contact: Celtic Mystical Journeys, 11188 Thousand Pine Circle, Frankston,
TX 75763, (877) 756-8763 or (903) 876-5869
| Email: brenda@celticmysticaljourneys.com |
Web: www.celticmysticaljourneys.com/tours |
Visit the sacred wells of St. Neot and St. Cleer,
St. Michaels Mount, Stonehenge, Salisbur y
Cathedral, the celebrated landscape temple
and standing stones at Avebury, mystical Glastonbury, the Chalice Well and Tor, Tintagel and
many other sites associated with the legend of
Arthur and Merlin.
CELTIC MYSTICAL JOURNEY TO FRANCE
May 20-June 4, 2006; France
September 18-30, 2006; France
TX 75763, (877) 756-8763 or (903) 876-5869
Experience the Land of the Four Heresies, Mary
Magdalene, the Black Madonna, the Holy Grail,
the Cathars, Knights Templar, and the
Troubadours.
CELTIC MYSTICAL JOURNEY TO IRELAND
June 7-15, 2006; Ireland
June 25-July 6, 2006; Ireland
August 9-20, 2006; Ireland
TX 75763, (877) 756-8763 or (903) 876-5869
Visit ancient holy wells, Celtic churches and
abbeys, round towers, ring forts, stone circles,
Christ Church Cathedral, New Grange, the Hill
of Tara, and many other Celtic and early Christian sacred and mystical sites.
CELTIC MYSTICAL JOURNEY TO SCOTLAND
July 9-20, 2006; Scotland
TX 75763, (877) 756-8763 or (903) 876-5869
Web: www.celticmysticaljourneys.com | Visit
the Kilmar tin Valley, Callanish Stone Circle,
Cluny Hill, the sacred valley of Glenlyon, the
mysterious Rosslyn Chappel, isolated sacred
isles of Iona and Sky, the holy island of Lindisfarne, and much more.
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CHIVALRY, KNIGHTS AND THE GRAIL:
THE QUEST FOR MEDIEVAL MALTA
November 2-9, 2006; Malta
234-8687 or (719) 448-0514 | Email:
travel@powerplaces.com | Web: www.powerplaces.com/maltahancock | Explore the mysteries of history and visit the powerful Neolithic
sites of Malta with Dr. Karen Ralls; learn about
the Knight of St. John and the Knights Templar
and the unique symbols car ved in the walls
ceiling, and marble floors of the Knights of St.
John's Cathedral, and much more.
DREAMWEAVERS' MYSTICAL SCOTLAND
August 12-24, 2006; Scotland
2155, Freedom, CA 95019, (831) 761-3655 |
www.cropcirclespirit.com | Mysteries abound
amongst heather-clad hillsides, tranquil lochs,
and sacred islands, such as Kilmar tin Glen,
with its mysterious cornucopia of sites dating
back over 5,000 years; the Isle of Iona, once a
Dr uid stronghold; the recently discovered
haunting Callenish stones on the remote Isle of
Lewis. Experience a Ceilidh with traditional
song and dance, attend the Oban Highland
Games, folk museums, historical castles; sail
to Fingal's Cave; journey along Loch Ness; stay
on the of Isle of Skye, and more.
ENCHANTING SCOTLAND - A CELTIC JOURNEY, SACRED SITES, MYSTERY
& MYTHOLOGY
June 4-16, 2006; Scotland
Cost: $2,395 | Contact: Sheri Nakken, Ear th
Mysteries & Sacred Site Tours & Well Within,
PO Box 1563, Nevada City, CA 95959, (530)
740-0561 | Email: earthmysteriestours@tesco.
net | Web: www.nccn.net/~wwithin/scot |
Explore the legends, mysteries, and myths of
Scotland, including Loch Ness and the highlands and lochs of western Scotland; the
standing stones and circles, cairns, mounds,
and ancient sites of Argyll, Callanish, the Isles
of Skye and Lewis, and the Orkney Islands;
mysterious Roslyn Chapel and more, with workshops and teachings in Celtic mythology and
practices, fairy kingdoms, Scottish history and
folk practices, and the Templars.
HATUN KARPAY INITIATION
September 30-October 11, 2006; Peru
Contact: Spirit Walk Journey, (281) 361-4457 |
Email: info@star walker visions.com | Join
Sandy Corcoran, Juan Nunez del Prado, and
associates for the Hatun Karpay initiation of
the Andean Mystical Tradition. This initiation
activates the hummingbird associated with the
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Machu Picchu and explores the Kausay Pacha
(world of living energy), preparing one to awaken to the fifth level of consciousness using rituals similar to the ancient crowning rituals of the
Inka Emperor. Sites included in and around
Cuzco, work with the Q'ero, Machu Picchu,
Tipon, Pisac, Pachacamaq, and more.
JOURNEY TO THE MIDDLE KINGDOM
June 4-24, 2006; China
Contact: Insight Travel Pilgrimages, (800) 6889851 or (937) 767-1102 | Email: info@insighttravel.com | Web: www.insight-travel.com/china
| Visit many different Buddhist sites, including
monumental sculpted grottoes along the Silk
Route, Dunhuang and its exquisitely painted
caves, sacred mountains of great scenic beauty, and the monasteries and temples of Xian.
LLOQUE KARPAY INITIATION
July 18-31, 2006; Peru
Email: info@star walker visions.com | Join
Sandy Corcoran and Juan Nunez del Prado in
the land of the Inca for the Lloque Karpay, left
side initiation, where the emphasis is awakening the feminine power and intuitive perspectives oriented in taking action for the inner
development of the self. Visit sacred sites in
and around Cuzco, Ollantaytambo, Yukay,
Moray, Machu Piccu, Sullustani to the shores
of Lake Titicaca.
MYSTERIOUS WALES
September 24-October 3, 2006; Wales
Cost: 1595 | Contact: Gothic Image, 7 High
Street, Glastonbur y, Somerset BA6 9DP, England, +44(0)1458 831281 | Email:
tours@gothicimage.co.uk | Web: www.gothicimagetours.co.uk/wales | Explore the land of the
Mabinogion, Merlin, cromlechs, stone circles,
holy wells, and many secret magical places.
Visit Snowdonia and the Druid isle of Anglesey,
as well as Cardigan Bay, the Gower peninsula,
Gwent, and Pembrokeshire, the ancient land of
Dyfed, with its Celtic crosses, weeping yews,
and misty Preseli mountains.
MYSTICAL ENGLAND: FROM AVALON
TO ATLANTIS
July 4-14, 2006; southwest England
Cost: $2,893 | Contact: Celtic Spirit Journeys,
Box 3839, Carmel, CA 93921, (800) 694-1957
| Email: treeofstars@ear thlink.net | Web:
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June 13-20, 2006; Mexico
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AND CORNWALL
July 15-27, 2006; United Kingdom
740-0561 | Email: ear thmysteriestours@
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Explore Glastonbury, Stonehenge, Avebury, Tintagel, Penwith, Snowdonia National Park,
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FRENCH MYSTERIES TOUR
June 20-July 3, 2006; France
Cost: $3,200 | Contact: Contact: Dr. Chet
Snow, PO Box 1738, Sedona, AZ 86339, (928)
204-1962 | Email: chetsnow@npgcable.com |
Web: www.chetsnow.com/france | Explore the
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RECOVERING LOST WISDOM CONFERENCE:
SOLSTICE AT MACHU PICCHU
June 15-22, 2006; Peru
Contact: Power Places Tours, Inc., 2609 #A
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June 3-23, 2006; Peru
Cost: $3,995 | Contact: Axiom, 369 Montezuma Avenue, Suite 103, Santa Fe, NM 87501,
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mushroom ceremony, a San Pedro ceremony in
the hot springs at night, and utilize the Matses
Indians' sacred medicines. Tour the Amazon
with Peter Gorman, including Cuzco and the
Temple of the Moon, the Sacred Water falls,
and Sacsayhuaman, Machu Picchu, Aguas
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catacombs, the Cathedral of Lima, the National Museum, the Sacred Valley of the Incas, the
ruins of Ollayantatambo, and other places.
SACRED SCOTLANDTHE BLESSED ISLES
June 19-July 1, 2006; Scotland
Cost: 1,995 | Contact: Gothic Image, 7 High
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tours@gothicimage.co.uk | Web: www.gothicimagetours.co.uk | Visit the holy wells, stone circles, hermit cells, Druid groves, dramatic dolmens, sacred rivers, majestic glens, and
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with a focus on the enchanted islands of the
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and folklore. Be enlightened and enter tained
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Email: info@star walker visions.com | Visit
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September 22-29, 2006; Peru
Email: info@starwalkervisions.com | This guided and ver y sacred journey opens one to the
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those who have previously worked with Sandy
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intent and purpose.
TEMPLES OF THE MOON & SUN
June 6-16, 2006; Scotland
Cost: $2,749 | Contact: Sacred Sites Tours,
3420 Pillsbur y Avenue South, Minneapolis,
MN 55408, (612) 823-2442 | Email:
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October 7-15, 2006; Assisi, Italy
Cost: $1,075 | Contact: Cynthia Wilson, 221
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ADVANCED MASTER SHAPESHIFTING

WORKSHOP - EMBRACING HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS
October 4-8, 2006; Deer Isle, ME
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October 1-6, 2006; Rhineback, NY
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October 28-29, 2006; Shaftsbury, VT
MA 01093, (413) 665-0101 | Email:
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HEALING, COMPASSION & SACRED WATERS
June 8-11, 2006; Deer Isle, ME
MA 01093, (413) 665-0101 | Email:
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INTRODUCTION TO SHAMANIC HEALING
August 18-20, 2006; Rhinebeck, NY
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SHAMANIC ASTROLOGY AUTUMNAL
EQUINOX NIGHT SKY WILDERNESS CAMP
September 21-24, 2006; Fishlake Valley, NV
Cost: $300 | Contact: Daniel Giamario, 11301
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| Web: www.shamanicastrology.com/events01
| Features sunrise and sunset autumnal
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SHAMANIC ASTROLOGY CHART
ANALYSIS INTENSIVE TRAINING
October 11-15, 2006; Yachats, OR
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SHAMANIC ASTROLOGY SAMHAIN
SCORPIO CROSS-QUARTER NIGHT SKY
TRACK GATHERING
Nov. 4-8, 2006; Faywood Hot Springs, NM
Cost: $320 (incl. CD recording of classes) |
Contact: Cayelin K. Castell, (520) 744-0506 or
Daniel Giamario, (310) 281-7651 | Email:
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Web:
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springs, as well as classes with Daniel Giamario, Cayelin Castell, John Dumas, sound
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SHAMANIC DIVINATION TRAINING
July 8-9, 2006; Lakefield, Ontario, Canada
July 29-30, 2006; San Francisco, CA
Contact: Journeywork Institute, PO Box 13160,
Portland, OR 97213, (503) 282-6315 | Email:
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SHAMANIC EXTRACTION HEALING TRAINING
June 10-11, 2006; Los Angeles, CA
June 24-25, 2006; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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SHAMANISM AND THE SPIRITS OF NATURE
June 17-18, 2006; New Hope, PA
June 17-18, 2006; Portland, OR
July 22-23, 2006; Toronto, Ontario, Canada
August 12-13, 2006; S. Marin County, CA
August 19-20, 2006; Frederick, MD
September 9-10, 2006; Cape Ann, MA
September 16-17, 2006; Montreal, Canada
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SHAMANISM, DYING AND BEYOND
June 17-18,2006; Portland, OR
September 9-10, 2006; Phoenix, AZ
Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2006; Lakefield,
ONT, Canada

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SOUL JOURNEY RETREAT
AND TIME OF VISION
June 21-24, 2006; Sedona, AZ
Contact: Crossing Worlds Journeys and
Retreats, PO Box 623, Sedona, AZ 86339,
(800) 350-2693 or (928) 203-0024 | Email:
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UFOS AND ALIENS

ANCIENT OF DAYS: UFO AND
ABDUCTION CONFERENCE
July 2006; Roswell, NM
Contact: Alien Resistance Headquarters, 109
North Main Street, Roswell, NM 88203, (505)
625-8496 | Email: seekye1@ear thlink.net |
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DOLPHINS AND YOUR E.T. EXPERIENCES
June 16-25, 2006 Kailua-Kona, HI
Cost: $400 | Contact: Joan Ocean's Dolphin
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EXTRATERRESTRIAL CIVILIZATIONS &
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June 9-11, 2006; Kona, HI
Cost: $345; Single-day passes avail. | Contact:
Exopolitics Institute, PO Box 2199,
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Email: communications@exopoliticsinstitute.
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INTERNATIONAL MUTUAL UFO NETWORK
SYMPOSIUMUNCONVENTIONAL FLYING
OBJECTS: THE BEST EVIDENCE
July 14-16, 2006; Denver, CO
Contact: Mutual UFO Network, PO Box 369,
Morrison, CO 80465, (303) 932-7709 | Email:
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MEET THE ANDROMEDANS SEMINAR

August 6-18, 2006 Kailua-Kona, HI
Cost: $400 | Contact: Joan Ocean's Dolphin
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MULTIDIMENSIONAL AMBASSADORS: PEACE
BUILDING WITH ETS, ANGELS & DOLPHINS
June 11-16, 2006; Kona, HI
Cost: $1,100 | Contact: Exopolitics Institute,
PO Box 2199, Kealakekua, HI 96750, (808)
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Empty Tomb and Strange Glyphs Point to a Cover-Up in Egypt

The voices are sometimes so weak that they can barely be

S C I E N C E . .. .. ........ .. ........ .. ... .. ........ .. .......3 2

Unusual Lunar Activity Continues to Baffle Scientists

E X H I B I T . .. .. ........ .. ........ .. ... .. ........ .. .......3 4

K U D O S ............ .................... .......... .......... .......... .. ... .. 36

O U R H A U N T E D H E R I TA G E ........... .......... ..... .. ........ .......3 8

63 T HE J E W ISH C ONSPIR ACY

D E E P .. .......... .......... .......... .........40

B O O K R E V I E W S ... .......... ............... .. ............................ 72

A century after it first appeared, The Protocols of the

C R Y P T O C O R R A L .. .......... .. ........ .. ........ .. ........ .......... .. .. 4 2

M U S I C R E V I E W S .. ........ .. ........ .......... .................... ....... 77

T H E AT E R . .. .. ........ ............ ... .................... ....... 7 8

2006 E V E N T S C A L E N D A R .. ....... ............... .....................8 0

Letters to the Editor

Satanic Graffiti Just a Name

Where are the Photos Now?

flying over Loch Ness. I have never come

Roswell Crash Survivor Witness

the image to the right, it becomes

The Susquehannocks Not Extinct

last week of June, 1947, he was given the case of a private

Looking for Kenneth Arnolds Daughter

Taste the Magic of

Little Ice Age Triggered by Plague

uropes Little Ice Age, a period

atmospheric carbon dioxide, due to

explain why the climate cooled over the

Cat Places 911 Call

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Stone of Destiny Not Authentic

study commissioned by Scotlands Duchess of Hamilton has

of yellow sandstone has come to have

King Edward coming, and that the real

stone from beneath the coronation

Fossils Prove Dinosaurs

xper ts have long considered

inside the cells and tissues of plants and