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The KTPF Magazine is a FREE bi-monthly publication produced by The KTPF Community Talk Show, covering the paranormal, conspiracies and other strange phenomena.

Every other month we will bring you the latest news from a variety of subjects, as well as mentioning the interviews and features expressed on our weekly talk show. Including contributions from reputed writers in their field; we will also be showcasing groups and haunted venues from around the world. Plus incorporating the forthcoming events as advertised on our sister site, Paranormal Events 4U. Contributors Wanted The KTPF Magazine is always looking for contributors to add their work to our magazine. So if you’re interested then contact us at publisher@ktpf.co.uk and let us know if you would like to regularly publish your work with us. We regret that we cannot accept every article we receive.

These are unpaid, yet rewarding opportunities. Authors can write about almost anything paranormal, including ghosts, monsters, psychic phenomena, or other supernatural and unexplained mysteries. You can also contribute articles on conspiracies as well as theories of mind and consciousness.

Submissions must represent the original work of the author’s and may include the author's by-line, biography, and photograph. Authors retain the copyright of their work and may publish the identical article elsewhere if desired.

Disclaimer - Contributors, who wish to submit articles and photographs, do so at their own risk. By submitting material, you certify that it is original. The KTPF are not responsible for articles that appear in the magazine which do not belong to the individuals submitting them. The opinions expressed by any contributor are solely the opinions of the original source who express them.

NB: If you are aware of any material featured in the KTPF Magazine that is not credited correctly, then please inform us as soon as possible Credits: Front Page: Dark Morte, Design Sue Taggart

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Editor/Compiler Andy Mercer Co-Editors Steve Taggart Susanne Taggart Contributors Alison Wynne-Ryder Richard Thomas Brian Langdon Brian J. Allan Sean Casteel

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Editor’s note Page 5 – Paranormal News A round up of the stories covered during the show and one or two we might have missed….

Page 9 – Steve T’s Ghost Hunting Guide In this part of Steve’s guide, that takes us through thermometers, both Laser and ambient Page 13 - Alison Wynne-Ryder’s regular feature.

Alison talks dreams and their significance Page 15 – ‘Spotlight On’We focus on David Farrant’s British Psychic and Occult Society Page 17 – Haunted locations across the UK – International Edition Sue describes the amazing Bram castle in Romania and the UKSS investigation of this spookiest of locations Page 23 – KTPF Interview Review - Brain J. Allan Following his appearance on the show Brain talks more of his experiences as being something of a ‘heretic’ in the world of UFOlogy Page 25 – KTPF Interview Review - Peter Robbins Long term researcher and writing partner of Larry Warren, Peter spoke to us of his experiences in investigating UFO’s and the controversy surrounding the Rendlesham forest incident. Peter allowed us to reproduce the introduction to his book Deliberate Deception Page 37 – Special Report - The Vampire Symposium 2015 Following his appearance as a guest on the Ghost Debate Andy summaries the day and reviews the symposium Page 43 – The Devil’s Doctor by Brian Langdon The astonishing life and extraordinary death of Jacobean alchemist and magician Dr. John Lambe Page 52 - The Bell witch and UFO phenomena Is there a relationship between Poltergeists and UFO’s By Sean

Casteel Page 59– Do Aliens Control our Dreams? - Richard Thomas Thomas asks an interesting question and finds some equally interesting answers

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Here is our ‘late summer’ issue.

From this edition on we’re switching to bi monthly as the magazine takes too much time to assemble.

In this edition we present Brian J. Allan’s article on his life researching UFO’s. And Peter Robbins allows us to reproduce the introduction to his book Deliberate Deception. We offer another part of Steve’s guide to ghost hunting. We look at a haunted location in Eastern Europe. We have other true tale from Brian Langdon and a new writer Sean Casteel.

Alison Wynne-Ryder talks of Dreams and Richard Thomas asks an intriguing question. All this and a special report on the ‘Highgate Vampire Symposium.

Paranormal News Sources Crop Circle and invasion! – Sunday News online Photobomb by ghost – Daily mail online Rendlesham and Col.Holt – The Mirror online Cloud or UFO? Huffington post website Harry Price on TV – Digital Spy

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What’s new in the world of the paranormal?

Most intricate crop circle yet warns of alien invasion

We’ve all seen crop circles and heard various theories about them: they are naturally occurring, they are the work of pranksters and, most believably, they are the work of aliens from another planet marking out landing coordinates for the inevitable invasion and colonisation of our world.

But this latest one really takes the biscuit for creative design.

The intricate crop formation appeared seemingly overnight in Torino in Italy in late June – and has baffled locals and experts alike.

If it was the work of moonlighting pranksters it is estimated it would have taken a team of up to 15 people to etch it out in the space of a night. And very quickly at that. That’s 15 tight-lipped people, of course, who wouldn’t want to brag about their handiwork after a few glasses of vino. Which brings us back to the most likely theory – that of an impending alien invasion.

I, for one, welcome our new extraterrestrial overlords – and applaud them on their attention to detail *Please don’t eat me when you arrive.

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Two terrified tourists claim they were photobombed by an 18th century ghost dubbed The Watcher during a visit to Edinburgh vaults    

Ghostly apparition photobombed two sisters at tourist attraction night tour Emma Surgenor, 32, took a photo of her sister Lauren at Edinburgh vaults She was shocked to find what appeared to be 'The Watcher' behind Lauren 18th century ghost of The Watcher apparently seen by hundreds of visitors

This eerie photograph is thought to show the ghostly apparition of a man dubbed 'The Watcher' photobombing a tourist at the Edinburgh vaults. Emma Surgenor and her sister Lauren were given a fright when they looked back at their pictures from a tour of the 'haunted' Scottish tourist attraction.

In one, what appears to be the 18th century ghost is seen ominously standing behind Lauren.

'To our shock this figure which looks like a man appeared in one of them. We got a chill sensation and just screamed "oh my god".

'It was a creepy moment. My sister was petrified. She was going on about how he was standing right behind her. Then she thought it was pretty cool. It's pretty scary stuff. There was no one else there.'

The 'spectral figure' that photobombed Emma's picture is standing directly behind her sister wearing what appears to be a long coat and boots. She believes it may be a ghost known as 'The Watcher' or 'MrBoots' Emma said: 'There are a lot of stories about a man down there who wears big boots and a coat and another called "The Watcher" with long hair and 18th century clothing. It's weird that my sister was standing there behind him. She was pretty creeped out at first.' The Edinburgh vaults are a series of chambers formed in the arches of the South Bridge, which were completed in 1788.

For around 30 years, the vaults were used to house tradesmen, and as a storage facility for illicit material, reportedly including the bodies of people killed by serial killers Burke and Hare for medical experiments.

As the conditions in the vaults deteriorated, due to damp and poor air quality, the businesses left and the poorest of Edinburgh's citizens moved in. But by around 1820 even they are believed to have left, too. That people had lived there was only discovered in 1985 during an excavation when toys, medicine bottles, plates, and other signs of human habitation were found.

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Issue 5 August 2015 Due to frequent reports of paranormal activity and ghost sightings, the Edinburgh vaults were featured on Living TV's Most Haunted. The vaults were monitored in both a 24-hour investigation and for a Most Haunted Live show on Halloween 2006, in which Scottish Investigator Ryan O'Neill took part.

Another television programme, Ghost Adventures, also filmed a show in the vaults and claimed to have experienced numerous encounters with spirits.

The original image The image ‘lightened’ to reveal Emma said: 'There are a lot of stories about a man down there who wears big boots and a coat and more detail another called "The Watcher" with long hair and 18th century clothing. It's weird that my sister was standing there behind him. She was pretty creeped out at first.' The Edinburgh vaults are a series of chambers formed in the arches of the South Bridge, which were completed in 1788.

For around 30 years, the vaults were used to house tradesmen, and as a storage facility for illicit material, reportedly including the bodies of people killed by serial killers Burke and Hare for medical experiments. As the conditions in the vaults deteriorated, due to damp and poor air quality, the businesses left and the poorest of Edinburgh's citizens moved in.

But by around 1820 even they are believed to have left, too. That people had lived there was only discovered in 1985 during an excavation when toys, medicine bottles, plates, and other signs of human habitation were found.

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Rendlesham Forest UFO sighting: New evidence 'proves authorities covered up paranormal activity' In December 1980, the skies above Suffolk were ablaze with strange lights in the biggest UFO sighting in the UK as dozens of witnesses allegedly saw an alien aircraft land. Now, nearly 35 years later, a former US army commander is convinced he has found new "evidence" to prove the extraordinary sightings at Rendlesham forest were real.

Colonel Charles Halt, who was deputy colonel at the Bentwaters airbase on the two nights the flashing lights appeared, said he now has statements from radar operators that an unknown object was tracked at the time. He insists, "we are not alone" and has accused the authorities of covering up paranormal activity. Speaking at a UFO conference in Woodbridge, Suffolk, he said: "There is no doubt in my mind we are not alone and there are some people (in power) who know this, but even Mr (Barack) Obama won't get through to them."

The 75-year-old, who now lives in the US state of Virginia, said some former service people had not wanted to speak until they retired. He said: "I have confirmation that (Bentwaters radar operators)... saw the object go across their 60 mile (96km) scope in two or three seconds, thousands of miles an hour, he came back across their scope again, stopped near the water tower, they watched it and observed it go into the forest where we were.

"At Wattisham, they picked up what they called a 'bogie' and lost it near Rendlesham Forest.

"Whatever was there was clearly under intelligent control." The Rendlesham legend has been dubbed Britain's Roswell after the mystery UFO crash said to have happened outside the town in New Mexico, USA, in July 1947. Three US officers based at RAF Bentwaters claimed a "triangular shaped craft" landed in neighbouring woods in the early hours of December 26 1980. Col Halt was not present during the first encounter, but was informed the next morning. He claimed the officers who first saw the lights and then a UFO "on the floor" could not account for a 40 minute period while searching in the woods when their communication systems went "off air". The three - John Burroughs, Bud Steffens, and James Penniston, later told of feeling "static" as they observed the object's flashing lights and hieroglyphic-like markings. Mr Halt then said on the evening of December 27 1980 that officers had shouted: "It's back, the UFO's back." He went to investigate with a team who found three 1.5inch "impact holes," damage to the canopies of trees and "higher radiation levels" in the "landing" area. He said soon after they saw a mysterious object with a red light that kept on bobbing up and down in a field. Sparks came off it and it exploded. They then spotted objects in the sky, 3,000 to 4,000ft up. One was "elliptical, but became a "full circle".

He later saw bright white lights, like landing lights, one of which shot out a laser beam from 3,000 feet.

He says he told his superiors who said it was a British matter and refused to investigate. He also accuses the Ministry of Defence of trying to suppress reports of the incident by hiding documents such as medical records. UFO researcher John Hanson said he found Col Halt to be a reliable witness and there had been a "concerted effort to hide the truth". He said the evidence of the UFO being picked up by radar seriously undermined the suggestion by the government at the time that the reported phenomena was due to witnesses seeing the light from Orfordness lighthouse and misinterpreting what they saw.

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Cloud-Like UFO Glides Through Philadelphia

It may look like a cloud at first, especially when you see it as individual screen shots (shown above).

But the video shot by Philadelphia resident Hector Garcia over the July 4th weekend, you might think twice about this being a simple mass of floating water particles or vapour. As Garcia focused on the object, he described seeing "sparkling lights in it."

The cloud-like object was seen moving slowly through the sky and tumbling in such a way to reveal a transparency effect and twinkling lights within it. That's some talented cloud.

Garcia told WTXF FOX 29 News that he went outside on July 5, looked up and noticed the odd object, so he caught it on his cell phone. "As soon as I started recording, it starts to move and come down," Garcia said. "As I zoomed in on it, it starts to swerve and starts going to the side, and I'm still looking at it and I don't know what it is. I was shocked." The TV news team said they'd heard a variety of explanations, including a big bag, weird cloud, and soap suds, One question comes to mind: Why didn't Garcia immediately take his camera and try to find the location where this object hit the ground after it disappeared behind some nearby buildings? (see below composite image).

Also, how was he able to get such a smooth, non-shaky track on this object, unless his camera was already set-up on a tripod before he spotted the object in the sky? But he said he used his cell phone.

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And there's one other thing. When it comes to UFO reporting, you can't and shouldn't always believe what you read. Whatever this Philadelphia UFO was, it was either videotaped by Garcia over his neighborhood in the City of Brotherly Love, or it was a clever CGI or Photoshop fabrication by someone.

Even the on air WTXF-TV news team gave the location of the UFO sighting as the intersection of 7th and Tioga Streets in North Philadelphia (see map image below). With clear Philly references surrounding this story, why is it that at least two other media sources said this all happened over New York City, and that Garcia lives in New York?

Real or Fake? - Judge for yourself Click on the image below to view the footage

Sue’s Twopenneth ‘The Lighter side of spooky’ Paranormal investigator Harry Price will be the subject of a new ITV drama Harry Price: Ghost Hunter will be produced by indie Bentley Productions, and will air on ITV in 2016. Written by Death in Paradise's Jack Lothian, it is based on the novel The Ghost Hunters by Neil Spring, and begins with Price having fallen on hard times.

Resorting to work as a fake medium and ghost hunter, he conducts séances for families who think their lives have been haunted by a ghost. However, his actions lead to a young man committing suicide on the doorstep of Price's home. He is given the chance to investigate the haunting of a local politician's home to avoid a scandal for the MP and his wife. He soon teams up with the MP's family maid Sarah Grey and his old friend Albert to conduct his investigations.

"It's a great thrill to be making Harry Price: Ghost Hunter for ITV," said executive producer Jo Wright. "Bentley Productions is developing a raft of new and exciting projects and this is one of my favourites. To be able to combine the book by Neil Spring with a script by Jack Lothian has been a delight, and we look forward to making this for our ITV audience." Casting has yet to be announced for the project, with filming set to begin in London in September.

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The Tameside and Glossop branch of the RSPCA is separate and independent from the parent charity (National RSPCA) and run entirely by unpaid volunteers.

Volunteer Driver to assist our cat rehoming coordinator urgently needed download our leaflet here Please note that this branch does NOT have an office as it is managed and operated by volunteers from their own homes.

Email: office@rspca-tameside-glossop.org.uk

2015 Psychic Ether Tour Derek Acorah's brand new theatre tour.

Derek Acorah needs no introduction. The pioneer for Spiritualism and mediumship on television, he is arguably the world’s most renowned Spirit Medium having demonstrated to many hundreds of thousands of people in theatres throughout the UK. Derek’s television career dates back over fifteen years when he became the first medium ever to demonstrate live on air and without the benefit of an edit suite on a weekly basis bringing hope and comfort to the viewing public.

Visit Derek’s website for more details on dates and venues

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Hi, my name is Steve Taggart and I have been interested in the Paranormal for many years. I decided to join a local paranormal group, which took my path towards starting my own back in 2007.

And with the help of some enthusiastic friends, the UK Shadow Seekers was born.

And the Rest as They Say is History …

Thermometers I am sure you have heard of Cold and Hot Spots. Both of which you can feel with your hand. But to document this, you will need to know what the temperature is.

There are two main types of temperature gauges we recommend; Laser Thermometer, which only tells you the temperature where the laser hits. This is good for pinpointing areas where the temperature varies. And an Ambient Thermometer, which tells you the temperature of the surrounding environment; the overall temperature of the room or area you are in. If you can afford it, get both, if not then I would suggest the Laser Thermometer, which start at about £21.

With the Laser Thermometer, we have asked Spirit to drop the temperature, whilst keeping the laser directed on one spot and Spirit have been kind enough to do so. In some cases, as much as 10 degrees and then taken it back up again on request.

These are the kind of things that make Ghost Hunting worthwhile, as you know you have made a contact.

And if you were lucky enough to get something on the Dowsing Rods as well, then maybe you can connect the two by asking questions for example... ‘Is it a Male/Female dropping the temperature’ or try using the name of the person, if known. The sceptics among us would suggest that this is the result of a window being open or the fact that it is just cold.

Well that is why we ask for the temperature to go down and back up again.

Check out the P.I.G.’s Ghost store for a thermometer! www.ukghoststore.com 12

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Here are some paranormal events company offering you the chance to experience ghost hunting for yourself.

(Click on the image to visit the site)

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DREAMWORLD “If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.”― Walt Disney Company

BELIEVE YOU CAN AND YOU WILL One of my favourite words is 'believe'. It conjures up everything magical about life. Even if you are feeling low, you won't stay down for long if you have belief in yourself and your dreams. One of the things you can do is to ensure you have enough sleep! (Yes really, and I explain why, below). You can also ask your Guardian Angel to help promote good dreams prior to you falling asleep. Just ask, and Pellentesque: thank your angel because if you truly believe, they may 'speak' to you through your dreams.

SLEEP Sleep is essential to our well-being, for the repair of the body, and there is nothing as nice as a good night’s sleep. If I have a sleepless night or haven’t slept properly for a while I can get irritable, and feel unwell. Think about what you are eating or drinking before going to bed. Absolute no no’s are stimulants such as coffee or alcohol. Also avoid heavy meals, fatty foods, cheese or chocolate – unless you want to be awake for most of the night as your digestion system will be working overtime. So what happens when we are asleep?

DREAMING I find dreams absolutely fascinating and have always had vivid dreams as far back as I can remember.

I always intrigued me how some dreams stay with me for days afterwards whereas others seemed to come and go and no matter how much I tried to remember them, the information had gone the minute I got out of bed. I believe that we are only meant to remember certain dreams as they have symbolic meanings and could be answers or clues to what is going on in our lives at this very time.

PEN & PAPER BY BEDSIDE In order to remember details of your dreams, always have a pen and paper by your bedside so you can jot down salient notes. I write mine down as soon as I can, and then I write them up properly in my own dream journal.

DREAM BOOK I also have a dream book, or dream dictionary as they are sometimes called. If I feel I have had a dream that has an inner meaning that I cannot decipher myself, I will look it up in my dream book and it usually denotes something that is going on in my life at that time.

Alison tweets @rescuemediumali and can be contacted via e-mail at thequirkymedium@gmail.com or through the contact page on her websites at http://thequirkymedium.blogspot.co.uk/

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PROPHETIC DREAMS I do try to make sense of my dreams & look up the interpretation as they are symbolic and can be attributed to my past or the present. Most of my dreams are so vivid I feel I am actually there, and I have had ‘visions’ in these dreams of places I will visit in the future, and when I go there, I will often get a sense of déjà vu that accompanies it.

While working in Canada on the Rescue Mediums show, I had a dream about one of our homeowners. For those of you who have not yet seen the show, we rely on Premonitions and Psychic Art given to us by our respective Spirit Guides as well as our own psychic investigative skills when walking around the property. This particular evening, I had a dream about someone wearing what I could only describe as a crotched snood. I had never seen anything like this before, and I describe this to Jackie my co-host on the show and our head of Research, Edna. When we got to the property, the lady owner opened the door in exactly the same Snood I had had in my dream. We couldn’t believe it! I commented on the ladies beautiful head gear which suited her perfectly, and she said it was a Jewish Snood and she had several of them. It turned out that a lot of the activity in the house was around her, and the dream was confirmation of that fact SLEEP PARALYSIS This has happened to me lots of times over the years and I remember as a child lying in bed fully awake but not being able to move. I was so frightened, but I couldn’t speak or shout out. If anyone has experienced this, it can be a very frightening experience. So what is sleep paralysis? It is the inability to move at all, although you are fully conscious. From a health point of view it is nothing to worry about as it is purely your body which is not moving smoothly through the stages of sleep. Sleep paralysis usually lasts no longer than a couple of minutes although it seems much longer. Editor’s note – This is a subject I’ve researched for years and would certainly say that Sleep Paralysis can definitely explain a whole host of apparent supernatural occurrences, including Alien abduction and Incubus visitations.

BIO - ALISON WYNNE-RYDER Alison Wynne-Ryder is a Clairvoyant Medium of international fame whose extraordinary abilities bring comfort and guidance to her many clients worldwide. Her book ‘The Quirky Medium has been published and is receiving excellent reviews globally. She has been awarded a Silver Winner's certificate in the Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards and was a runner up in the People's Book Prize awards. In her book, Alison shares the astonishing story of her life as a Medium and co-host on the popular reality TV Show Rescue Mediums with candour and humour.

Alison has been practicing Reiki for 13 years & is a Reiki Master/Practitioner with an excellent reputation. She is an angel tutor and enjoys sharing her knowledge and love of the angels with others through her popular workshops. In addition to this she is an Angelic Reiki Practitioner working with the Angelic Kingdom of Light to bring the highest form of healing to her clients. Alison’s work has been featured in the National and Local Press as well as magazines such as Spirit & Destiny, Chat Magazine, Woman’s Own and The Magical Times. She a regular guest on KTPF talk Radio & has hosted and guested on numerous other radio stations. Alison has recently moved to the Costa Blanca region of Spain with her husband John, dog Libby and cats Tara and Celeste. She particularly enjoys sitting in her prized roof top garden having a cheers to the Universe with a nice glass of vino in her hand!

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In this special ‘Spotlight’ we focus on the famous (or, to some, infamous) British Psychic and Occult society The British Psychic & Occult Society (BPOS) is one of the UK’s oldest grassroots paranormal research groups. Founded in 1967 by myself and a small group of local people from Highgate, North London, the Society began as an offshoot of a coven which I was running at that time known as The Order of the Black Moon. General feeling within the coven and among local people with an interest in the supernatural was that it would be productive to create a kind of working group specialising in more paranormal than mystical areas of work and research. Over time the BPOS as it is known today expanded to include members from all around the country, and even abroad.

Essentially, the main aims of the new society were to conduct serious investigations into cases of seemingly genuine paranormal phenomena, with a view to always looking for some natural explanation for their causation, or to uncover otherwise ‘very human’ theories - even hoaxes - that might have caused such cases to have been recorded as ‘fact’; to keep detailed records of all such investigations, furnishing these where necessary to other occult/paranormal groups or researchers where this might serve to throw light on similar cases; and generally to investigate various other aspects of occultism and the supernatural - such as clairvoyance, telekinesis, poltergeist activity, unexplained apparitions, etc. - where these might contain any ‘hidden truths’ that might underlie their manifestation.

Over the last 48 years the society has investigated alleged cases of unexplained phenomena across the UK, including well and lesser known locations such as Waltham and Netley Abbeys, Hampton Court, Minsden Chapel in Herts., Slad Valley in Stroud, Bloxworth Manor in Bere Regis, Cadbury Castle in Somerset, and even a haunted tea room in Rochdale. We have also contributed to many paranormal magazines, radio and TV broadcasts and given talks on our findings and research methods, as well as carrying out joint investigations with paranormal research groups across England and Wales.

We remain very proud of our contribution to the furtherance of understanding of the “supernatural”, and of our role in facilitating debate both within that world and general public perception. These days the BPOS has somewhat come full circle, and returned to its origins as a small group of dedicated researchers who meet up when we can to keep up to date with the progress of paranormal studies, and when possible carry out occasional investigations We have retained and continue to nurture our relationships with other interested parties in the field, and above all remain dedicated to keeping the paranormal friendly.

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Until recently the BPOS has largely stuck to its original investigation techniques – making field trips, interviewing local people and witnesses, researching the history of haunted locations, using the assistance of psychic mediums and clairvoyants where appropriate and employing old school technology – thermometers, compasses, talcum powder, various cameras and recording equipment etc.

In recent weeks, however, we have committed to re-opening our investigations into the phenomena which manifests in Swains Lane and Highgate Cemetery, after being approached by another established group from the North West of England, and an international organisation based in London.

This will involve using many techniques which we have partially utilised in the past, but never to the degree currently planned. We look forward to embracing the modern age of psychic investigation, and reporting our findings in the near future. So watch this space! - David Farrant President BPOS

The image above will take you to the BPOS Facebook page

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In keeping with the ‘theme’ of this issue of we looks a very famous location KTPF’s very own Sue T. tells of the amazing UK Shadow Seekers amazing investigation of Bram castle, the supposed home of count Dracula

Bran Castle - Romania One day, due to my passion for Christopher Lee as Dracula, one of our team members said that I fancied a 90 year old man after seeing him on an award show back in 2011, so I tried to find a picture of him giving the (what I call) ‘love bite’, showing his more seductive look, but I couldn’t find one. Instead I came across Bran Castle and knowing it was portrayed as Dracula’s Castle, I decided to contact them to see if the UK Shadow Seekers would be able to investigate this fantastic place.

Fat chance I thought, but they came back and said yes!

Boy, what a dream come true! Bran Castle has NEVER been investigated before, so I provisionally booked a date for 2012 and put the feelers out to our members and we as a team saved up, as we thought if it goes ahead we will make a week’s holiday of the trip, thinking this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, But No! We were invited back and returned a year later. Since watching those films, Transylvania has always been a place I have longed to visit. Even more so, by the latest film with Gary Oldman, which was considered to be more like the book than any other “Dracula” films? But on this trip, it became obvious that the hype inspired by the Bram Stoker novel was relatively unknown. To the people of Romanian, the association of his name with vampirism does not make sense, as our Bran Castle Guide explained, ‘The villages didn’t know of this man ‘Dracula’. And when asked, they would say; ‘who is Dracula?’

But when they found out, it was apparent that the legend would live on, their replies would change to ‘Yes, my daughter had been bitten by this Devil and has 2 marks on her neck to prove this’.

Even though he jests during our visit, it is true that many villagers still believe in vampires and the threat of the undead (or Strigoi) does indeed stretch as far back as the fifteenth century leader of Wallachia and still continues in Transylvania and other parts of Romania today.

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History Surrounded in myth and legends, it was first documented in the act issued by Louis I of Hungary on November 19, 1377. It is associated with Vlad Dracul III and famously known as "Dracula's Castle" although it is among several locations linked to the Dracula legend, including Poenari Castle and Hunyad Castle.

Apart from the infamous stories of Vlad ‘Tepes’ aka The Impaler, it now stands as a museum dedicated to the history of the surrounding area and of the Royal Residency of WW2.

The first known castle on the site was a wooden structure built in the year 1212 but after the fort's destruction in 1242 by Mongols, Ludovic I D'Anjou, ordered the construction of a new stone stronghold on November 19th 1377, while the settlement Bran began to develop nearby.

There is conflicting evidence of the castle being once the residence of Prince Vlad III, son of Vlad Dracul, but some say that Vlad, who was called Tepes (pronounced tzse-pesha and means Impaler) after his death in 1476, never actually lived there, but only stayed in the Castle as a prisoner for one night. Contrary to this, it is also quite possible that as leader of the army, he could have stayed there whilst it was a military fort. To the people of his country, he is still considered by some, to be a “saviour” and one of the greatest leaders and defenders of Romania.

It is said that Vlad received the surname Dracul (English: Dragon) in 1431, after being inducted into the Order of the Dragon, which was founded in 1408 by the King, Sigismund of Hungary (the later Holy Roman Emperor). The intention was to gain political favour for the Catholic Church and to aid in protecting Wallachia against the Ottoman Empire.

By accepting membership, Vlad was not only accepting a great honour, but binding himself to the Christian side.

The region between Bucegi and Piatra Craiului has sparked a series of historical episodes, from prehistoric days until current times, all due to one major geographical and historical factor: The Bran Gorge, one of the most important trans-Carpathian passages, which has had a dynamic history.

It’s story has been characterized by two major components: The trade routes of it’s crossroads, and the recurring military invasions that utilized them. As planned, the Fortress' location ensured that it dominated the Bran passage, thus controlling one of the most important entry routes to Transylvania, amplifying it’s military significance. The protection of the gorge was assured by the Fortress' garrison.

Bran, called Turciu in old Romanian, is a small town in Brasov County. The name Bran is derived from Turkish, and in Turkish language it means “gate”, or “gateway”.

During the Bran Fortress' occupation and use by the Wallachian ruler, a customs centre was built near the Fortress. 3 bani were collected “from riders passing by Turciu (Bran)” and 1 ban from “pedestrians.” Evidence of this can be found in the document issued in 1412 by the Voivode (prince and military leader) of Transylvania, Stibor of Stiboricz (1395–1401 and 1410–1414), which referred to the relocation of the customs centre, as the toll was originally collected at Törcz (in Braşov) 21

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For centuries Bran Castle has witnessed Romania’s turbulent history of and has had varied uses, such as: a garrison, an observation site, a commercial site and also a summer residence for Queen Marie in 1920.

Marie of Romania (Marie Alexandra Victoria, previously Princess Marie of Edinburgh) was born on 29 October 1875 at Eastwell Park in Kent, the eldest daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. Her father was the second-eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She became Queen consort of Romania from 1914 to 1927, as the wife of Ferdinand of Romania. After coming into Queen Marie's possession, between 1920 and 1930, the Castle underwent a series of architectural transformations, arising out of her wish to transform it into a modern summer residence.

Two towers were added to hold additional staircases, the ramparts and the shooting orifices became windows, the stoves and the fireplaces were transformed into modern chimneys.

In order to become the home of the royal family, Bran Castle was endowed with all the necessary facilities for a true royal residence. Water was provided by the fountain drilled in the castle's patio, 57 meters down. To light the castle, Queen Marie ordered, in May 1932, the construction of a power plant with a turbine, to which the communities of Bran, Simon and Moeciu were connected.

The turbine, manufactured by the Voith Company, was put into service on August 29, 1932.

Additionally, an 85 HP hydroelectric power station was built on the Turcu River in December of 1932 to light the castle and its surroundings. Bran Castle was, along with the Balchik Palace, Queen Marie's dearest residence, as she, with her well-known imagination, transformed the solid and seemingly unwelcoming fortress into a modern and comfortable summer dwelling.

The castle was only inhabited by some members of the royal family, for whom separate apartments were arranged. Among them was Queen Marie, whose apartment included a hallway, a dressing room, two parlours (including the Yellow one), a bedroom, a bathroom and a dining room, as well as apartment where the sovereign gathered a variety of personal items (tableware, icons, statues, paintings, and books).

The Queen brought two of her cherished children close to her, Ileana and Nicolae. Prince Nicolae, to whom the Queen intended to bequeath Bran in 1930, received the most elegant apartment in the castle, comprised of a bedroom, a parlour, a room called “Princess Maşka”, a guest room, the German room, the music salon, the dressing room, a bathroom and two terraces. Queen Marie transformed not only the castle, but also the Bran Castle Park, which was arranged in accordance with her plans and sensibilities. Flowers were the Queen's great passion, and all her royal residences included modern greenhouses equipped with heaters, which were used during the winter. In Bran, a greenhouse and a small garden of roses were inaugurated in July of 1922.

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After the death of her husband in 1927, Queen Marie remained in Romania, writing books and her memoirs, The Story of My Life.

During Queen Marie's time, Bran Castle witnessed a period of glory as a royal residence. The domain of Bran Castle was extended by the Queen by purchasing or transferring the meadows around the castle into her property.

Throughout her domicile at Bran, Queen Marie did everything she could to help the adjoining villages and their residents. Many villagers were dayemployees on the Domain, either in the gardens of Bran Park or in various projects at the Castle that allowed them to earn an income. After the power plant was built, three adjoining villages (Bran, Simon, and Moeciu) were also annexed to the newly created system, and the Handicrafts School of Bran was supplied with electricity free of charge.

Queen Marie passed away on July 18, 1938. Her passing was the end of a glorious period in the history of Romanian monarchy. “The grief was omnipresent,” recalled Constantin Argetoianu, “as Queen Marie was beloved by all: she was beautiful and lovely. During her last years, compassion amplified the people's love for her: we all knew that, with the exception of Ileana, her children were not treating her as well as they should have”.

Queen Marie died rather young, at the age of 62, the same age as King Ferdinand. One could not say, however, she did not live her life to the fullest. She experienced all of life's pleasures, as a queen and as a woman; and lived up to some great expectations. Among the greatest of them was being remembered as a bright icon by an entire nation.”

In her will, Queen Marie bequeathed Bran Castle to Princess Ileana, as well as several houses at Balchik.

Her wish was also that her heart was kept in a cloister at the Balchik Palace which she had built.

In 1968 Communist partisans defiled the marble sarcophagus in which the heart was preserved. Both silver coffers containing Queen’s heart were transferred to Bucharest and nowadays are in the custody of National Museum of Romanian History as well as Queen’s heart.

The coffers are part of Romanian National Thesaurus and can be seen at National Museum of Romanian History. The decision of preserving Queen’s heart in a museum, even though not open to the public, continues to be a controversial subject Bran Castle had been her principal home for much of the early 20th century, and the artefacts with which she chose to surround herself (traditional furniture and tapestries, for example) can be seen by visitors today.

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Other Interesting Facts: In 1931 explorers dug up the tomb of Vlad Dracula the Impaler...they found only animal bones.

In Romania, Vlad is still remembered as a saviour to his country, with many praying for his return...

Some even believe Werewolves roam around at night looking for victims. Even people of the village believe that they exist not only in the castle but in the mountains and surrounding areas as well.

Hauntings There are many different ghosts and apparitions that are said to roam ‘Dracula’s Castle’. According to locals, the castle has numerous claims of paranormal activity.

Within the Great Hall and especially in the Torture Chamber, loud banshee like screams can be heard reverberating throughout the castle in the middle of the night.

With access to 100% of the castle, including the Towers, Prison and Tunnel to investigate, as we continue our research into one of the World's Most Haunted Locations.

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In July we were joined by writer and researcher Brian J. Allan.

Brian Allan is a Scottish born investigator, researcher, presenter, scriptwriter and author whose specialty is the paranormal in all its diverse forms. Brian has been privileged to witness paranormal phenomena at first hand and has written about this in his books. He has also extensively investigated the legends behind the almost legendary Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland and believes he has discovered the existence of functioning portal inside the Chapel and, crucially, also the means to activate it. Brian has also been the editor of Paranormal magazine.

Ufology and The Grover’s Mill Syndrome by Brian J. Allan The ‘Grover’s Mill’ referred to in the title, a real place in the American state New Jersey, reflects two things; one is a unique occurrence in broadcasting and the other is how some UFO groups will accept nothing other than their own version of how Ufology operates; but first a remarkable event that occurred in the first half of the 20th century. In 1938, a surprisingly large section of the radio audience (numbering in their many thousands) listening to a radio broadcast from the Orson Wells’ Mercury Theatre of the Air featuring H.G Well’s ‘War of the Worlds’, was panicked into thinking that beings from the planet Mars really had landed in the USA and were rampaging across the country killing anything and everything that got in their way. Although the broadcasting company had transmitted a warning prior to the play starting, some of the audience tuned in after the show had begun and since it was dramatized as a ‘live’ broadcast from the landing site, this fooled some of them into thinking it was real.

What this demonstrates is that, given the right set of circumstances and despite the fact that the event was unlikely; if frightened enough (and in this case they were) people will accept at face value almost anything that has a veneer of authenticity. This includes the possibility that, for no good or obvious reason, an extraterrestrial race would want to invade the planet we live on. Perhaps it also reveals a deep rooted fear that lies within human beings that what we do not understand necessarily wants to do us harm. This is the rationale behind many motion pictures depicting extra-terrestrials as inherently inimical to human beings. It has also been suggested that the event was staged as part of an experiment orchestrated by a department within the US Government to see just how effective the broadcast media could be in terms of influencing the public. Perhaps it was and perhaps it was not, but either way the effects were quite dramatic. In many ways this paradigm highlights the second part of the ‘Grover’s Mill Syndrome’, because it runs a close parallel to some groups of UFO enthusiasts 26

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who completely accept that extraterrestrials along with their spacecraft regularly arrive here on earth and interact with the general public, often on no more solid basis than someone’s say so, especially if that ‘someone’ is apparently knowledgeable or has unique information about the subject.

Despite having no real proof of this they continue to hold these beliefs to the point of actively denying and rejecting any information to the contrary; this is a prime example of something called ‘cognitive dissonance’, where someone, despite abundant and solid evidence to the contrary, illogically persists in maintaining a particular mindset. In many ways this is similar to religion, any religion, where people hold a belief in a deity of one sort on another despite having absolutely no concrete evidence regarding its existence. They, like many Ufologists, rely entirely on faith alone and that again mirrors what people listening to the 1938 radio broadcast did when they took what was said on faith, trust of you like, and acted accordingly. This tendency does not escape governments the world over who use instinctive trust, faith and belief (in this case the assumption that those in authority are always going to tell you the truth) as a tool to maintain a measure of control.

This is seen repeatedly in wartime, or it used to be in the days before instant 24 hours news coverage, when reports from the battlefield could take some time to reach those back at home and anything considered negative or adverse was frequently censored before transmission. It still happens now, but is much more subtle and difficult to monitor when reporters are frequently embedded with fighting units and carry satellite broadcasting equipment. What we are actually talking about here is propaganda and how it is used. Similar psychological techniques are regularly employed by advertising agencies and supermarkets and we fall for it time and time again. In truth, the public is continually manipulated in a variety of ways, particularly in the manner in which supermarkets are laid out; the flat pack furniture retailer IKEA is one of the companies who helped pioneer this technique. This iconic multinational company uses a remarkable formula designed to disorientate the people (i.e. its customers) who pass through its doors. This is called the ‘Gruen Transfer’ and is named after an Austrian architect called Victor Gruen and IKEA deliberately configures the layout, colour schemes and sometimes scents and sounds in their stores to disorientate, confuse and partly make the customer forget why they originally decided to visit.

If you think that any given supermarket is laid out in a random manner then think again, for they are not, they are laid out specifically to induce you to spend money and they are very good at it too, it is why in many cases we ‘impulse buy’ an article.

Manufacturers are well aware of this and pay a premium to have their products placed in specific parts of the stores.

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In other words people can be influenced into thinking just about anything. With that in mind, what follows is a commentary on my own ideas regarding some aspects of Ufology and some of the groups who fall into the category of, and I mean no offence here, ‘True Believers’.

The Heresy Sadly, because I try to maintain an open mind on a variety of related subjects, I am currently considered a heretic in hard-core Ufological circles. This is simply because I do not accept the reality or validity of most aspects of the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH), i.e. that we are routinely visited by entities who originate on worlds far (and intriguingly perhaps not so far) removed from our own. This is to use the word, ‘heretic’, in its original and correct sense, i.e. one who makes a careful and considered personal choice based on evidence and in this case it is a choice not to accept the orthodox views pertaining to UFOs both in what they are and where they come from. This is simply because, in spite of claims to the contrary, there is absolutely no consensus or solid evidence, none, to support the ETH. Formerly I accepted the ETH and all that went with it as a fact, but over many years the more I thought about it the less likely it seemed, until I finally abandoned it. However my own situation within the UFO community is now rather worse than being merely a heretic: I am currently regarded in some quarters as being active in the supposed conspiracy to conceal the ‘truth’ (and I use inverted commas here) about contact between humans and extraterrestrial races and that is absolutely not the case. This (usually inflexible) paradigm has come from those within the field who view the subject of Ufology and their opinions about it as unique and unassailable and theirs is the only possible interpretation; in other words ‘It’s our Ufology, they are our ideas and we are not interested in hearing anything that conflicts with them, so f*** you!’ This is tantamount to sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting ‘La, la, la, I can’t hear you’. I have seen this at first hand and for the dedicated, (some might say blinkered) Ufologist, it’s all very comforting I suppose, but unlikely to further their cause.

It is deeply saddening that those who are supposed to be on the same side seem willing to indulge in this kind of negative bloodletting. It is on a par with the knee-jerk reaction expected from the rabid ultra-rationalists and others from the scientific community who continually deny and denounce anything that does not conform to their rigid denials regarding anything apparently involving paranormal phenomena. To be absolutely clear; my issue is not that I doubt we are visited by non-human entities, because I am certain that we are. However, based on my own experiences, I believe that these entities have more in common with what we loosely define as ‘the paranormal’ rather than anything extraterrestrial, although I suppose a paranormal entity is by definition also nonterrestrial.

I make no apologies for my opinion, because since I became more deeply involved with ‘mainstream’ paranormal studies, the more similarities I saw between these two ostensibly unrelated subjects. I increasingly saw this in cases where I investigated manifestations by, e.g. ghosts and poltergeists and how this affected the people experiencing these events. In a surprisingly large number of cases these individuals also experienced UFO related incidents either just before the encounters or just after and sometimes simultaneously.

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The same proved true in reverse with people who had experienced UFO related events; a perfect mirror image and always this strange connection. Why? My problem lay in the fact that I spoke out about it and both welcomed and encouraged an informed debate on the matter, which is exactly what the ‘true believers’ were, as previously mentioned, apparently not prepared to have and risk ‘contamination’ by a viewpoint that conflicted with their own and that is far from healthy. In fact a reaction such as this is something one would expect from the member of a cult.

The Entities I base my comments about the paranormal/UFO interface on the fact Artist’s impression of Mothman that the descriptions we have of ET’s and their craft, i.e. their abilities and how they behave, (more on the craft shortly) seems to describe beings that either resemble demons (the greys and so-called reptilians etc) or at the other extreme the tall, blond, Nordic ‘space brothers’ who share many similarities with our perception of what angels should look like. So far they have not been reported as sporting angelic wings, although the late John Keel’s notorious and monstrous ‘Mothman’, assuming it was both real and non-terrestrial, that apparently turned up at Point Pleasant in Virginia in the USA seemed to buck that trend. Keel implied that it was a sort of multidimensional entity, maybe even a bona-fide time traveller, and it reputedly had wings (plus large, scary red eyes). The wings sported by scriptural angels were an addition awarded them by various religions who assumed they would need them in order to fly to Heaven, which of course by tradition was above us, just as Hell was assumed to be below. Although all the major religions recognise them, the concept of angels as we know them was an attempt by the Catholic Church to anthromorphisise these supposed spirit beings and servants of God and make them more accessible and credible to a largely uneducated and gullible population. That said, if our forefathers especially up to and including the 17th century had chanced upon entities like the Nordics alighting from spacecraft, then they would probably quite naturally have assumed that they were ‘otherworldly’ (the idea of living, non-terrestrial races was simply not within their frame of reference) and therefore angelic, especially if they had been helped or otherwise assisted by them.

This of course introduces the highly contentious subject of UFO’s and the Bible (Ezekiel’s famous ‘wheels’, which belched fire and if the bible is to be believed carried living creatures are a case in point). This subject is an absolute minefield, but one of the few areas that still recognises and wholeheartedly promotes and endorses the reality of angels is found within the New Age community.

Here there is a thriving business based around supposed angelic beings, although it is arguable whether or not these ‘angels’ have any connection to those espoused by scripture. The truth is more as well if required, but the final decision to engage a target would normally be left to human operators, especially if that target was a specific human being or might involve an unacceptable level of collateral damage.

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Another feature attributed to these craft is that they sometimes display a shift in colour just before they disappear, sometimes shifting to blue and sometimes to red. This may hint at the fact they are vanishing or phasing into either the infrared or ultraviolet parts of the spectrum where we could not see them anyway. Never forget that as human beings we can only ever see into a tiny sliver of what surrounds us because we are not equipped to see that far: yes, with technology we can, but not with or own eyes. It’s the same with colours, we have receptors called ‘cones’ in our eyes and each receptor reacts to a particular colour, either red, blue or green so what we see comprises various percentages of these three basic colours.

However, some birds and fish have four different ‘cones’ and some insects even more, so they can see colours that we cannot, perhaps they can actually see these craft (and maybe the entities that travel in them) as a matter of course, and we have no way of either knowing or asking. For that matter this may be why some animals can apparently detect the presence of ‘ghosts’, is it because they can actually see or hear them using their naturally enhanced senses of hearing and vision? This may be why a dog or cat will, for no apparent reason, sometimes sit staring at a fixed point in a room as if seeing, or hearing, something that we cannot.

Furthermore, the craft belonging to ET must be, indeed have to be, capable of superluminal speeds to cover the distances that they do and this is a technology we simply do not have (yet), although we can perhaps make informed guesses at how it might be achieved. There is another possibility and that is that these craft do not travel from A to B in an accepted linear fashion, but move ‘sideways’ through alternate versions of reality. Either that or they are constructed on principles using techniques at which we can only guess that are more akin to magick, in effect a kind of genuine ‘voodoo technology’, or they are simply not nuts and bolts spacecraft as we understand them at all. However, the really frustrating thing is that they might be none or all of these things, in other words they have more than one source.

Window Areas In terms of Ufology, it has been suggested that some locations dotted around the world, the Bermuda Triangle is a good example, the Skinwalker Ranch is another, are very ‘special’ indeed, because strange and anomalous events seem to occur there on a semi-regular and almost predictable basis. These ‘strange events’ cover everything from UFO sightings and ghostly manifestations to the sudden disappearance (and appearance) of people and objects, these locations are sometimes called ‘window areas’ or simply ‘portals’. Just why (and even if) these anomalies exist is a matter of great conjecture and speculation and many explanations for their existence have been offered. These include the action of ley lines and volcanic activity to rather more exotic explanations like the influence of other civilisations bringing their (presumably) advanced technology to bear on us. One aspect of the idea of these ‘special’ areas that is rather concerning in that neither of the two areas mentioned here seem to have lasted the course particularly well. During the late 1970’s through to the 1990’s the aforementioned Bermuda Triangle and Skinwalker Ranch emerged as being possible ‘window areas’ or places where alternate realities interfaced with our own and strange evens and creatures manifested.

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This flurry of interest produced witnesses who swore they had seen and/or experienced all sorts of high-strangeness events; possibly they did, but why only certain people, why only relatively infrequently and why did it cease?

There is another issue here; there are very few cases of UFO sightings that have been well documented and attested to. There is of course the iconic Roswell incident, but the truth will never be known about what did or did not occur there chiefly because the waters have become irrevocably muddied by claim and counterclaim, but there is at least one incident that just might bridge the gap and that is what occurred around Christmas time in 1980 close to the joint USAF/RAF base at Bentwaters in the UK, i.e. the Rendlesham Forest sighting. This incident here in the west is about as solid an example of well-attested contact with ‘something’ non-human and some form of advanced technology as we are likely to get, but unfortunately once again there are conflicting versions of events and besides, the pros and cons of what occurred there are not the purpose of this article

Supposed ‘Whistle Blowers’ There are other problems with the current views of those who accept the unquestioned reality of the ETH and this lies with the quality of the evidence so far produced. This is especially true of one seminal book which is still held as proof positive of a vast governmental cover-up. The book is called ‘The Day After Roswell’ and was written by the late Col Philip J Corso aided and abetted

by Bill Birnes, a well-known figure on the UFO landscape.

The book purports to be a revelation about just how far the US government went to conceal a whole host of information about the presence of extra-terrestrials amongst us. Not only that, but how much modern technology was developed in ‘the black’ and back-engineered from artefacts removed from the spacecraft that supposedly crashed at Roswell. According to the hype, Corso would have been best placed to know about this given that he ran the US Army’s Foreign Technology Department, which was charged with finding out what kind of technology was being developed and used by the militaries of other countries, both friendly and otherwise. This was deemed the best cover and most discrete way of researching the Roswell artefacts and filtering the results to mainstream firms to be used, initially for military purposes, then on to the civilian market. Corso claimed that items such as integrated circuits, Kevlar, lasers, depleted uranium munitions, fibre optics etc., etc. all came indirectly from the Roswell crash; after all he was in charge so he would know…right? Well yes and no: yes, he was in charge of the Foreign Technology department but no, I am certain that nothing from Roswell ever arrived there and the book is an absolute masterpiece of disinformation, misinformation and fantasy 31

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leavened with a generous sprinkling of checkable facts. It is these checkable facts regarding times, people and places that lend an air of gravitas and authenticity to the other material. Although Corso mentions such wartime operations as Project Paperclip, the extremely efficient intelligence gathering programme which he helped organise to the extent of selecting both the scientists and the projects. He plays down the fact that he was well aware of the kind of cutting edge military technology being developed in Nazi Germany in the closing days of WWII, especially relating to semi-conductor work being carried out by major companies like Siemens and Telefunken. This also incudes the precursors of items like lasers and projected energy weapons (early work on microwaves and of course radar lead to these), which were also being considered. Corso also claims to have seen the actual ET’s that were aboard the craft when they were being kept in a hanger on an airbase where he was stationed, but we only have his word for that: there is no independent corroboration of any kind.

What we have looked a here is absolutely typical of what is used as the bedrock of irrefutable ‘proof’ used by some UFO groups to claim that assertions like these have a basis in fact when the truth is rather more uncertain. In some ways the use of Bill Brines (whose integrity and total sincerity cannot be called into question) to help write the book further draws in the believers, who, because Bill had been around the UFO scene for many years, assume he must automatically have an insight into how accurate the claims made by Corso actually were. I am reminded of what happened to the poor Paul Bennewitz who was fed a line of specious, albeit highly convincing, fiction from the US Air Force special investigation unit (AFOSI) concerning what he thought he was seeing above an airbase close to his home in New Mexico. In other words they told him exactly what he wanted to hear and as a result AFOSI (and other organisations) were able to conceal their own secret projects.

It was case of hiding in plain sight, the aircraft in this case almost certainly experimental drones of one kind or another, or perhaps the precursors of remarkable aircraft like the F35 joint strike fighter currently serving with the US air force. Even here the use of such craft must be ultimately limited by the endurance of the pilots and the futures of attack and surveillance aircraft must surely fall within the possibilities offered by either satellite technology or even more advances versions of the drones that currently flit around our skies. The reason for the retention of manned aircraft must be due, in part at least, to the desire of the US Air Force to defend its budget against cuts etc. We should never forget that, especially in those days, the paranoia of the UFO groups was and probably still is equally matched by that of the intelligence agencies who watch them and pretty much set the agendas of what information is released and what is seen, although there is little doubt that this is not nearly as intense as it once was. This is why the Grover’s Mill Syndrome is still valid and why various government agencies will still use their influence to control and shape what the public thinks and to some extent does. Ultimately it is who Ufology is still alive and well in the 21st century The Day After Roswell by Philip J Corso pub Pocket Books ISBN: 9780671017569

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In July Peter Robbins joined us; Peter previously joined us with Larry Warren. On this occasion we spoke to Peter alone, discussing his experiences of the ever changing ‘story’ of the Rendlesham Forest incident. Particularly as a speaker at a recent conference, seems to have changed their story…

Introduction to Peter Robbins’ book - Deliberate Deception Last autumn my friend and colleague Gary Haseltine, (another former guest) who is also publisher of UFO Truth Magazine in beautiful in West Yorkshire, asked if I’d be willing to use one of my regular magazine columns to review a new book due for publication in late April 2014. Issue number six of UFO Truth would be going out to subscribers early that May so it was imperative that I locate, read, then write my review as soon as possible, then make my deadline, something I regularly excelled at failing to do. Keenly aware of my adversarial history with its two authors, Gary just wanted to make sure I was up for the assignment. He knew I would write an objective, evenhanded review if I accepted the assignment. About a month or so prior to the book’s release date I requested a review copy from the publisher through proper channels. Several weeks later it had yet to arrive. I was visiting New York City that week and as usual when in town, I stopped by my favorite bookstore, the Strand on Broadway and 12th Avenue. I quickly made my way down the stairs to the basement, then advanced on the UFO and paranormal stacks, specifically the shelves belonging to the “P” authors. And there it was, two copies of Encounter In Rendlesham Forest actually, and weeks before the book’s official publication date, and at half the list price at that.

Thank-you Strand. Once home I flipped through it, but it sat for about a week before I actually begin reading it and beginning to make my notes. And so it happened that as I read and wrote, I began to notice something about the narrative that made me feel decidedly uneasy.

Until I was fully able to take in the implications of what I was reading - implications for me personally, for my Left At East Gate coauthor, Larry Warren, and for the good reputation of our book, I felt a bit like I was falling into some Kafkaesque short story. A magazine editor asks one of his columnists to review a book and the writer agrees; he’s written numerous book reviews before, but the more of this book he reads, the more he sees his own and his coauthor’s original work, used but never credited, and in a manner that is repeatedly turned against them. More, it is written in a manner that all-but-insures that the book’s readers will not notice. Fantasy? Ego? Madness? Not in this story. What I was reading was very real indeed 34

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The pattern, for there was no other term for it, was subtle at first, then more apparent. It emerged from just below the surface of the key author’s words, and if my imagination wasn’t running away with me, it was a pattern of deceptive writing that seemed to have been deliberately undertaken in an intentional manner, and calculated only to manifest negative intent. And the more I observed it come into play, the more uncomfortable it made me feel. This feeling was soon replaced by one of anger, and finally one of serious concern. More, it was clear to me that this was something very few readers would ever pick up on or even look for. The reason for this was that each separate element in the overall pattern was a specific piece of information that was could have only been found in one source: the book Left At East Gate, which I had coauthored with Larry Warren on the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident that has been published seventeen years earlier in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Each data point in the pattern was presented respectfully and authoritatively by Nick Pope, but always in an incomplete, misleading or reconfigured form, and always – always with the seeming intent of leading readers to doubt Larry Warren’s account, credibility and motivations regarding his involvement in the events of December 1980, and in the process, to reflect poorly on my professionalism, research and investigation skills, and reputation as well.

Not wanting to believe my own deductions or conclusions, I read Incident In Rendlesham Forest with a level of care I rarely applied in my routine nonfiction reading. As I continued to write my review, I paid careful attention to literally every aspect of what I was reading, intent on writing the most detailed, even-handed and objective review I was capable of, always careful to offer specific praise where appropriate for what Nick and his coauthors had written, and to criticize only where I felt it was warranted, and never in generalized terms. The last thing I wanted was to be perceived as having written a review based on my subjective feelings rather than the objectivity I was striving to maintain throughout the process. I also felt that I owed it to the authors to do the most objective job I was able and that details mattered, all of them, and very much. The result of this approach was to write the most comprehensive book review I was capable of, and one which ran far, far longer than had been my intention. As usual I was late in meeting my deadline, though Gary agreed to print the piece in its final form, even if he did have to breakdown and redesign that issue’s page layouts in order to accommodate same. Concurrent to writing the review, I began to write a separate paper, the intention of which was to focus on, detail, document, and delineate my concerns about the book in a more appropriate form. It was not lost on me that if I failed to make the case for what I perceived as the grave series of conscious distortions threading their way throughout Incident In Rendlesham Forest, no one else ever would. Over the next weeks and months I put more and more time into the paper until, by no stretch of the imagination could my efforts any longer be defined as a ‘paper.’ It was at about this point I realized I was writing a small book, albeit one made up in great part of an extended book review. And so I continued to write, research, investigate, fact-check, edit, review and finalize the manuscript with an expanded version of the original book review published in UFO Truth Magazine included.

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I am indebted to Stephen Mera and Brian Allan, the editors of Phenomena Magazine, and to their dedicated team for sponsoring an expanded and illustrated edition of the manuscript I originally sent them..” (..in the form of a Special Report..”) – the first in the publication’s six-year long history, and in their getting it out to their staggeringly large list of subscribers at no cost to their readers, or for that matter, to anyone else who wishes to read it. Let me just add the following in closing. I took no pleasure and little satisfaction in writing what you are about to read. At the same time I knew it was important for me to do so. Throughout the process of writing I found myself constantly looking for some way out of this, or at the least, for some alternate set of reasons that might explain or justify why Encounter In Rendlesham Forest was written in the precise manner it was. I regret that I was completely unsuccessful in these efforts and was unhappily left to conclude that parts of this book were indeed written with conscious intent to deceive readers, and in so doing, demean the value of an important investigative work that my coauthor and I had put almost ten years of our lives into. I appreciate that in publishing Deliberate Deception: A Case of Disinformation in the UFO Research Community, I must take full responsibility for all of the opinions, views and conclusions expressed herein and I do. There is no doubt that they are extremely serious in nature, and while others may share them with me, what you are about to read does not necessarily represent the views or conclusions of UFO Truth Magazine, Phenomena Magazine, or of any other publication, organization, group or individual. Be aware however that I stand firm on every word I’ve written.

Click on the image to download the special report: Deliberate Deception: A Case of Disinformation in the UFO Research Community. This is the text only version

The full version with photos is in seven parts and can be downloaded from Phenomena Magazine

Click on the image above to listen again to the Peter Bobbins interview

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SP E CI AL E VE NT RE P O R T The long anticipated Highgate Vampire Symposium had finally arrived and I for one was really looking forward to hearing what was going to be said, especially as I’d now been invited to be a member of the ‘ghost debate’ panel at the end of the day. After a long walk up hill from the tube station I walked in the Gatehouse, the venue, and straight into an old friend Geraldine Beskin, the owner of the world famous Atlantis bookshop. After failing to be served by one of the rudest members of bar staff I’ve ever met, I headed upstairs and sat next another old friend and fellow speaker, Charles Walker.

We all settled back while our host and compare for the day; Paul Adams opened proceeding with a short talk about how it all began…

David Farrant then spoke and stated very early on that he did not believe in vampires and that much of the subsequent TV footage was as a result of the BBC’s request for David to reconstruct what he was accused of doing. And NOT what he was actually doing. From this, Redmond McWilliams gave us a history of all the paranormal sightings that were known about, dating back to the 1800’s. It was interesting to hear how similar all the descriptions where. Especially the early ones We then took a break before we moved into what Paul Adams described as potentially the darkest part of the day – ‘Highgate and the Occult’ Included on the Occult panel was former KTPF guest; Charles Walker, Geraldine Baskin and a rather enigmatic chap who called himself ‘Fox the Rebel’ Charles spoke first discussing his experiences investigating supposed black magic activity in the Sussex Woodland, around the village of Clapham. Including the possibility that there may be a link between this activity and what was happening in Highgate. Next to speak was ‘Fox’ who spoke of his involvement in ‘chaos magic’, and necromancy.

Fox pointed out that anyone who supposedly speaks to ‘the dead’ is actually a necromancer, which is indeed the case, he differentiated between a person who speaks to the dead and someone who ‘controls’ the dead. – Personally, I’m unconvinced by this differentiation.

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Fox then talked of the availability of human remains, particularly human skulls discussing rather humorously how it was important to have the lower jaw so the skull could speak. However I had a feeling that some in the audience were not confortable with the idea. (One or two comments in the crowd) Fox then moved on to the famous image of a supposed black magic ritual taken in one of the Highgate tombs. While he correctly pointed that the circle, triangle combination was the basis for magical evocation there were additional symbols included that don’t normally appear in the ‘Triangle of the Arte’.

The strange symbols on the floor

Also included is an odd script, which appears to be words of some kind, composed mainly of circles and lines. Fox suggested it may have been from Agrippa, but he was not familiar with it. I was less sure of its origin as I’d not seen anything like it before apart from some alchemical scripts. (Subsequent to the symposium I sent the image to a friend of mine who has to be one of the foremost authorities on Western Magic and he was not able to identify it exactly, however he did suggest that some symbols resembled certain alchemical scripts)

We then moved on to Geraldine Beskin. As well and being the owner of London’s (indeed Europe’s) oldest Occult bookshops, Geraldine has been around the London paranormal and occult scene for years and knows many of the famous names involved in the scene from the 60/70’s onwards. Geri spoke more generally on the occult scene at the time and pointed out how big the whole Highgate ‘show’ had become in the period. There was also a discussion on the spread of ‘Satanism’ at the time. One member of the audience took offence at how their own faith was being treated so negatively. I had to say I partly agreed and felt the term ‘Black Magic’ (magic intended to do harm or control others) was more appropriate. In any case Geri apologized if she caused offence, however her comment that Anton La’vey’s ‘Satanic Bible’ could now be found in the children’s section of some bookshops, was both true and rather disturbing.

We took another break (late lunch) before moving on to the next section of the Symposium – The Vampire Theory.

Personally speaking I have never at any point even entertained the notion that the entity was a vampire, despite the adamant claims by certain individuals. And this seemed to also be the opinion of the panel.

Indeed one speaker, Jon Kaneko-James, took the bull by the horns and talked directly about the other name attached to the story. Jon then talked about the idea of vampires in general and how such beings could be explained as being folkloric figures in history. Patricia Langley then spoke of the history of the site. Putting to bed once and for all any possibility that an East European nobleman lived on the site, as Patsy had traced all the previous owners and occupants of. A myth put forward by others less aware of the location’s history. Patsy also pointed examples of mysteries and ghostly figures seen on and around the site for centuries, long before the cemetery was built.

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The discussion was then taken over by the excellent Folklorist and writer Dr. Jacqueline Simpson. Dr. Simpson gave us a quick tour of the history of the vampire myth and made the interesting observations that the myth may be a projection of the human condition.

We had a brief break before going into the next talk – Highgate and liminal Space, where Carrie Fitzpatrick and Sam Perrin joined Patsy Langley to discuss the idea of lay lines and the space between worlds. I must admit Carries did talk rather more about herself than about Highgate although, being a resident of the area, it was relevant. Especially when she talked of the crossroads and it being linked to the liminal space in Highgate cemetery. There are, of course, several actual crossroads. But there is also the real possibility that ley lines also cross within the cemetery. And both Patsy and Carrie talked of this possibility.

One last quick break before we moved into the final session of the day - The Great Ghost Debate. This panel consisted of John Fraser, vice chair of the Ghost Club. Gareth Davies, the American (Welsh born), Podcaster ‘extraordinaire’, and my humble self. Unfortunately we were now running quite late so the debate was short, made even shorter by two stories. However, these two stories were well worth losing time for. Two first hand accounts of sightings of the ‘entity’. Then first was a brief description, which tallied very much with previous descriptions.

I think the gentleman was a little uncomfortable as he left after giving his short story. The second personal recount had most the audience spellbound! The woman had an encounter with what can only be described as a full-bodied apparition. She was a taxi driver who’d had a good night’s work, it being Christmas Eve. She’d spotted a lone figure standing at one end of Swain’s Lane, which runs parallel to the cemetery. She offered the ‘man’ a free taxi ride, as it was very late and Christmas. Apparently the man turned towards, and looked directly at, her. The woman driver was suddenly filled with a feeling of utter dread and without asking again got back into her taxi and drove off. She looked back in her car mirror and, despite there being 8 feet high walls on either side of the road the figure had gone. The woman was visibly shaken by her sighting, which she revealed was not the only time she’d seen it. The woman was clearly upset by her experiences. After a pause to allow the woman to regain her composure, John of the panel spoke of why the idea of a vampire was at odds with British and Western European folklore.

In western forms of Christianity (especially Catholicism) the Idea of an immaculately preserved body was seen as holy. However, in Eastern Europe it was seen as something evil. (Like the preserved vampire ‘sleeping’ in its coffin) This, to me, was one of the most significant points made on the day; that the idea of a real vampire simply doesn’t fit with British folklore. An interesting and salient point.

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We, the ghost panel, spoke briefly of these experiences, pointing out that of the few who have come forward how many have seen and experienced things but kept quiet? We rounded off the day by generally agreeing that the notion of a ‘vampire’ had distorted that story and taken away from the real story of a more ‘real’ paranormal entity, which had been witnessed by many of decades if not centuries.

This was one of the most interesting day of talks I’ve been to and I sincerely hope that this won’t be a ‘on off’. Here’s to the Highgate ‘Entity’ Symposium 2016!

Some images from the day

The Banner left leads to Della Farrant’s own excellent website

You can also re-listen to our interview with David Farrant himself (with Della) on the KTPF back in May

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Coming next month...

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Coming in September...

The JFK Assassination – what happened?

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The Devil’s Doctor by Brian Langdon The astonishing life and extraordinary death of Jacobean alchemist and magician Dr. John Lambe Another strange true tale from Brian’s excellent book One of the most controversial figures of the early seventeenth century was alchemist, astrologer and mystic Doctor John Lambe (1546-1628). A formidable character, he was feared and hated in equal measure not only because of his alleged supernatural powers but because of his proximity and malign influence over the Stuart dynasty of England.

Myths and legends followed him wherever he went and stories of incredible acts of sorcery were attributed to him which prompted unsuccessful attempts indict him for witchcraft. Other more sinister rumours however painted a picture of him as a demonic child molester and led to him being sentenced to death for rape and yet he mysteriously escaped the hangman’s noose.

What was the truth behind the legend of the man dubbed ‘The Devil’s Doctor’? How did he come to exert such a Rasputin-like influence on the Royal Household and why did he meet a gruesome end at the hands of a London mob ‘Bad Vybes’ Little is known of John Lambe’s early life.

Worcestershire around 1546

He is believed to have been born in Tardebigge,

As a young man he was a writing tutor to the sons of gentlemen and for a time studied medicine but soon became drawn to the darker arts and ‘other mysteries, as telling of fortunes, helping of divers to lost goods and shewing to young people the faces of their husbands and wives-to-be in a crystal glass’.

He quickly developed a reputation as an astrologer and fortune teller and people came from far and wide to avail themselves of his services.

Whilst practising his magic at Tardebigge, he was accused of ‘on 16th December 1607 practising execrable arts to consume the body and strength of Thomas, Sixth Lord Windsor of Bromsgrove’ and ‘...generalley givving bad vybes’.

He was indicted early in 1608 and found guilty, but judgment was suspended, and he soon gained his liberty and moved to Hindlip, Worcestershire where on 13th May 1608, he again fell foul of the authorities was arraigned at the County assizes on a charge of having invoked and entertained 'certain evil and impious spirits.' It was proved that he caused apparitions ‘to proceed from a crystal glass’, and prophesied death and disaster with fatal success. He was again convicted and was imprisoned in Worcester Castle.

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It was claimed that after this trial 'the high sheriff, foreman of jury, and divers others of the justices’ gentlemen then present of the same jury died within a fortnight’. Other accounts accused Lambe of causing the death of 40 people but this was more likely this was a coincidental outbreak of typhus, then known as ‘Gaol Fever’ which helped to cement his reputation as a deadly sorcerer.

‘Dirtey Deedes’ The local authorities feared keeping him in such close proximity and petitioned for his removal to King's Bench prison in London. He was removed to London and was apparently kept there in comfortable confinement for some fifteen years. Far from deterring his mystical activity, this period of imprisonment raised his profile to new heights and he revelled in his notoriety. He was known to occupy two rooms, employed servants and practiced as a ‘physician’ very much as he had previously done in Worcestershire, offering to invoke spirits, find missing items with his crystal ball, treat maladies, exorcise witchcraft, and ‘do dirtey deedes’ cheaply.

Lambe showed himself to be a master showman and spin-doctor managing to give sorcery an air of respectability, in an age when witches were reviled and persecuted. He was hugely successful and records show that he charged £40-50 for his mystical services, equivalent to £12000-£15000 today.

Despite being branded a ‘mountebank and impostor’ by the Royal College of Physicians in 1619 who objected to his adopting a medical title, his wealth and reputation as an astrologer continued to grow during his incarceration in London where he received many prominent and titled visitors eager to witness his remarkable powers of prophesy and magic. One such visitor with a penchant for sorcery and a track record for ‘dirtey deedes’ was Sir George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628).

Buckingham was a dashingly handsome but ruthless courtier who used his charm to inveigle himself into the court of King James I and saw an astonishing rise to power under the patronage of his Royal master. He soon became James’ favourite and was widely believed to be his lover. It was not long before he was rewarded with the Dukedom of Buckingham and became the most powerful subject in the land accumulating vast wealth and influence.

Buckingham commanded the King’s army in a number of expensive and badly-led campaigns which led to a great loss of life of his own troops. On several occasions, senior courtiers attempted to impeach Buckingham for his incompetence but each time he was protected by the King and rewarded with ever- greater responsibility and resources. Buckingham soon became the most hated man in England and saw clear benefits in having Dr. Lambe as his personal advisor and in 1623 secured his release from prison to act as his private sorcerer.

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Power over the Throne The Buckingham- Lambe alliance soon became a fearsome partnership using a combination of political guile and witchcraft to exert what many believed to be a malign influence over James I and later his equally unpopular and ill-fated son Charles I. For a time the diabolical affiliation thrived, although popular opinion was divided over Lambe’s professed magical abilities. Some believed he was nothing but a charlatan whilst others believed he was the Devil incarnate and referred to him as such.

In the public’s imagination the young King was controlled by Buckingham who in turn was manipulated by Dr. Lambe. Many believed he cast spells which brought about misfortune on the Kingdom. A popular rhyme at the time ran; Who rules the Kingdom? The King.

Who rules the King? The Duke.

Who rules the Duke? The Devil!

One thing that public opinion did agree upon was that he was a universally loathed and reviled figure.

Myths and legends followed Lambe wherever he went. On Monday 12th June 1626 a sudden and violent whirlwind came up the Thames and unearthed corpses from a churchyard, scattering them around London. An eerie mist hung over the river near York House, Buckingham’s London home and the superstitious discerned ominous shapes in the fog which included a skull, a horse and a giant collar. When Dr. Lambe appeared on the river during the day in the wake of the storm, this was seen as evidence of him surveying his diabolical handiwork.

In another extraordinary demonstration of his powers, Dr. Lambe invited an audience into the inner sanctum of his London home where he conjured up a miniature tree out of thin air and then invoked three miniature woodmen who proceeded to chop down the tree in front of the awe-struck spectators.

One of the witnesses retained several chips of wood from the magical tree as evidence but his house was plagued by mysterious violent storms until he disposed of the fragments.

Londoners were terrified of Dr. Lambe and resentful of his influence over the King and Buckingham and several attempts were made to have him indicted as a witch but each time they were thwarted by his powerful masters.

Sentenced to Death Resentment and fear began to fester in London and in 1626 it appeared Dr. Lambe’s luck ran out when at the age of almost 80, he was accused of raping 11 year old Joan Seager. Lambe vehemently protested his innocence claiming it to be a complete fabrication but he was indicted to the Court of the King’s Bench. The surviving accounts detail the evidence put before the court. A feisty Mabel Swinnington deposed that on the Friday of Whitson week, Elizabeth Seager went to her; ‘in a pitifull manner wringing her hands like a woman over-whelmed with extreame griefe, crying out and saying, I am undone, I am undone.’ Elizabeth told her ‘that villaine Doctor Lambe had undone her child’. Mabel Swinnington questioned young Joan and found her; ‘much abashed and ashamed’. Joan finally disclosed that, on Whitson Eve, Dr. Lambe needed someone to bring him a basket of herbs, but his women were busy elsewhere, so she brought it to him at the King's Bench.

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When she arrived, Lambe sent away his serving-man and locked the door, then led her into his closet and locked that door as well. He put her on a joint stool and stuck his tongue in her mouth. Though she; ‘strived with him as much as she could, but hee would not let her alone, but strove with her’.

Mabel Swinnington took Joan Seager into her home to dress her wounds. She reported that; ‘when I opened her to dresse her: the place did smoake like a pot that had seething liquor in it that were newly uncovered, and I found her to bee very sore, and could not abide to bee touched.’

She added that someone had tried to dress the girl's injuries, when she asked Joan about it, she said; ‘Lambe’s maid Becke had brought her a thing in a dish, and had drest her.’ However, the dressing contained a venomous speck in the ointment that had stuck to Joan's inner thigh. When Mabel pulled it away, she found that it had festered the spot it was stuck to.

Mabel Swinnington said that she went to see Dr. Lambe the next day at Elizabeth Seager's request. She confronted him, declaring that; ‘You have undone an honest man’s child, for well shee may recover her health of body again, but never her credit, for it will bee a staine to her reputation whilst shee lives.’

He denied the deed, but demanded to see Joan and examine her. Mabel replied; ‘She hath bin too late with you already, she will come no more here’ and told him she not only knew he had sent his maid to dress Joan, but that the dish holding the venomous substance had been left behind.

Presented with this compelling testimony the court found Dr. Lambe guilty of rape and sentenced him to death. The cheers of the public gallery however soon turned to gasps of incredulity when the Judge announced that he was pardoned; ‘by his Majesties especiall grace’. Once again the remarkable Doctor had escaped death thanks to his privileged connections.

A Brutal End He fled the court amidst a scene of pandemonium and outrage. He rented a house in another part of London for a year and a quarter hoping the scandal would die down but if anything, loathing of Lambe and his despised benefactor Buckingham reached new heights. Charles I was proving to be a despotic and clumsy King who had reached a dangerous stand-off with parliament over his demands for more taxes to pay for his ill-judged wars with France and Spain. Strutting in the vanguard of these military failures was Buckingham who was held singularly responsible for the enormous cost to the country in both financial terms and human life.

Buckingham’s mother, also alleged to be a practitioner of the ‘cunning arts’, said she had seen in Lambe’s crystal ball, the shadowy figure of a large man holding a dagger poised to kill her beloved son. In one of the earliest recorded ghost stories, the spectre of Buckingham’s father appeared to a courtier at Windsor Castle predicting his son’s murder unless he mended his ways.

(See ‘True Ghosts and Ghouls of Windsor & Eton’ by Brian Langston).

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However it was the demon- summoning, childdefiling wizard Dr.Lambe who was considered to be the cause of all the nation’s woes and was the most accessible of this unholy trinity. The volatile situation reached a crescendo, ominously, on Friday 13th of June 1628. The octogenarian Lambe, attended a play at the Fortune Playhouse in Finsbury. He was recognised leaving the theatre by ‘the boyes of the towne, and other unruly people’.

Word quickly spread and a mob formed chasing him towards the City. He appealed to some sailors on the way to protect him and for a while they acted as his bodyguards to get him safely through the streets of London. With their help he reached Moorgate in safety but the crowd pursued him through Coleman Street to the Old Jewry. He briefly escaped the mob and sought refuge at the Windmill tavern and at a nearby barrister’s chambers, but fearing the wrath of the baying crowd, both turned him out onto the streets. His guards fled for their lives leaving him to the mercy of the mob.

Despite his advanced years, Lambe drew his sword and for a few minutes put up a spirited defence against the violent mob but the odds were hugely against him and the he was and stoned, beaten with sticks and kicked unmercifully. One contemporary account reads that ‘by the time the frenzy had passed, Lambe’s skull was broken, one of his eyes hung out of his head, and all partes of his body bruised and wounded so much, that no parte was left to receive a wound.’ When he was finally rescued by four constables, he was still clinging to life. He was taken to the Counter prison in the Poultry where he died of his injuries the next morning.

His body was put on public display and paying crowds flocked to see the battered corpse of the notorious magician at the Counter prison. It was reported that Lambe had a strange assortment of conjuring paraphernalia on his person when he died, as befitting an astrologer-physician. These included a sword, several knives, a crystal ball, a gold nightcap, twelve silk pouches, forty shillings, and eight small-engraved portraits, including that of the Countess of Somerset, a favourite at court, and an alleged witch and pardoned murderess. He was buried the following day at the newly consecrated churchyard near Bishops Gate. On balladeer wrote captured the public mood after his death: "Neighbours cease to moan, And leave your lamentation, For Doctor Lambe is gone, The Devil of our Nation."

Villiers was said to be furious and initiated an inquiry to identify the murderers of his trusted advisor.

Two days after his murder the Privy Council expressed the King’s outrage to the Lord Mayor and decreed that the guilty persons should be arrested and treated with the utmost severity. Despite his best efforts, Buckingham met with a wall of silence and the culprits were never identified. In a fit of pique he imprisoned several constables for neglect of duty in failing to protect the doctor and fined the City of London authorities £6000, almost £2million by today’s standards, for not giving up those responsible for the murder

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The death of Dr. Lambe was the cause of much rejoicing in London and a woodcut issued capturing his moment of death sold in its thousands. Among the pamphlets issued afterwards was one that prophesied the death of Buckingham himself; ‘Let Charles and George do what they can, The Duke shall die like Doctor Lambe’.

The prophesy proved frighteningly accurate. Within ten weeks he was dead too at the hands of an assassins knife. On 23rd August 1628 during a visit to Portsmouth to plan another futile military campaign, Villiers was stabbed by one of his own disillusioned army officers, Lieutenant John Felton, who had been wounded and lost many colleagues thanks to Villiers’ incompetent leadership.

After fatally plunging his knife under Villiers’ left rib from behind, Felton disappeared into the crowd and may well have escaped had he not dropped his hat in the chase. He found someone wearing it a short time later and claimed it as hisexpressing a smug satisfaction at his murderous deed. This led to his arrest and trial for murder. During his imprisonment hundreds flocked to the Tower of London to visit ‘Honest Jack’ as he became known. Felton was widely hailed as a hero by the public, but this did not prevent him from swinging from the gallows at Tyburn, the following November.

The doggerel writers continued to mock Buckingham after his death recalling the dead alchemist whose supernatural exertions could no longer protect his wicked patron.

‘The shepherd’s struck, the sheep are fled, For want of Lambe, the wolf is dead!’

Whether a diabolical sorcerer or misunderstood astrologer, Dr. John Lambe is remembered as one of the most remarkable figures in English witchcraft.

His extraordinary life and death was immortalised in a variety of literature. An anonymous biography of the mystical figure was published in 1628 and a play entitled, Dr. Lamb and the Witches was performed in 1634. Further accounts of Lambe's life would also appear in later writings, such as Isaac D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature and Sir Walter Scott's Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft.

His epitaph was summed up by one of his contemporaries who wrote: Here Dr Lambe, the conjurer lyes, Against his will untimely dies The Divell did show himselfe a Glutton In taking this Lambe before he was mutton The Divell in Hell will rost him there Whome the prentises basted here.

In Hell they wondred when he came To see among the Goats a Lambe.

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Even years after their violent deaths, Villiers and Lambe were blamed for leading the King astray and setting him off down a path which ultimately led to the deaths of thousands during the English Civil War. On 30th January 1649 at the age of 48, Charles I became the first and last British monarch to be beheaded. The absolute Monarch paid the ultimate price for his arrogance and refusal to negotiate with Parliament and was executed at Whitehall Palace ushering in the austerity of the Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell.

Many have suggested that history would have taken a different course had it not been for the influence of the Duke of Buckingham and Dr. John Lambe over the Stuart reign

John Lambe supposedly summoning the devil

About the Author Brian Langston QPM is the former Assistant Chief Constable for Thames Valley Police. He was born in Bilston although now lives in the South of France where he writes on topics including true crime and the paranormal. His book True Ghosts and Ghouls of Windsor & Eton is due to be published later this year.

He can be reached on GhostsofWindsor@gmail.com

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THE BELL WITCH – POLTERGEIST ACTIVITY AND THE UFO PHENOMENON The Supernatural Is A Key Element In Discovering The True Origin Of Our UltraTerrestrial Visitors

By Sean Casteel That poltergeist activity often follows in the wake of a UFO encounter is a generally recognized fact and has been documented frequently by researchers of alien abduction and other paranormal investigators. Whatever the source of the energy is that drives a “noisy ghost,” UFO witnesses seem to possess it in abundance.

There is even a scene in Steven Spielberg’s classic 1977 UFO movie, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” in which actress Melinda Dillon is laid siege by various household objects moving of their own accord and creating a frightening sense of chaos that precedes the abduction of her young son by the aliens. It is sometimes argued that many kinds of paranormal events – including Near Death Experiences and hauntings – form a kind of supernatural continuum and are all manifestations of the flying saucer occupants operating from various planes outside our everyday reality.

If such is the case, then it behoves us to study subjects like poltergeist hauntings in the hope of better understanding how the different aspects of UFOlogy form a cohesive whole. The new release from the publishing house Global Communications called “The Bell Witch Project” does just that when it examines an early 19th century poltergeist haunting that received wide publicity in the U.S. and remains a controversial case to this day. The new book is part of the “Very Strange People” series that also includes a volume on “Mad” Mollie Fancher, a celebrated “fasting girl” who claimed to live for 51 years without ingesting a single morsel of food.

WHO WAS THE BELL WITCH? The uniquely American story of the Bell Witch haunting, in which a ghost took up residence in the home of a Kentucky farming family in 1817, began when John Bell, the head of the family, was out walking through his cornfield. He sighted a strange, doglike creature in the distance that suddenly disappeared. Around the same time, Bell’s son and daughter were walking through an orchard when they noticed an old woman walking beside them. When the daughter spoke to the old woman, the old woman simply disappeared.

These sightings were followed by strange, inexplicable noises in and around the Bell house, such as knocking sounds on doors and windows, wings flapping against the roof and animals fighting and scratching. As the noises became more intense, the family tried desperately to find the source but found nothing. Then bed coverings began slipping off the beds as if being pulled by someone.

Sometimes one could hear noises like lips smacking and gulping. The Bell household became a noisy nightmare.

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One night the spirit began to talk, introducing itself with hysterical, mocking laughter. When asked its name, the spirit answered “Kate.” The spirit began to speak incessantly, arguing theology, teasing and tormenting, spreading gossip and singing loudly. She seemed to know intimate details about everyone and took great delight in being able to pester the household at will.

The poltergeist claimed to have been conjured by the deceased spirit of a woman named Kate Batts, whose invalid husband had been cheated in a slave deal with John Bell. There are historical records to the effect that Bell had been convicted of the crime of usury, or charging excessive interest, in the deal.

On her deathbed, Kate Batts swore she would haunt Bell and his descendants.

The spirit abused John Bell in many ways. She threw furniture and dishes at him, pulled his nose, yanked his hair and poked needles into him. She yelled at night to keep him from sleeping and snatched the food from his mouth at mealtime, all in the effort to vent her anger and hatred.

No one ever saw Kate/the Bell Witch, but every visitor to the Bell home could hear her all too well.

Future president Andrew Jackson, who at the time was a general in the Tennessee militia, once visited the Bell home, curious to see if the widely circulating stories were true. “I’d rather fight the British in New Orleans than have to fight the Bell Witch,” Jackson is alleged to have said after spending the night in the Bell home.

John Bell died in 1820, weak and exhausted by years of physical abuse from the Bell Witch. At his funeral, attended by hundreds of friends and curiosity seekers, Kate laughed and mocked the family, singing loudly and joyously in her triumph. Kate stayed on the Bell property for another year and then departed. She returned briefly seven years later. The remaining members of the Bell family either died or moved away but to this day, strange lights and ghostly apparitions have been seen in the area. Some believe that John Bell’s restless ghost still wanders the land he once owned and farmed.

ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE ON THE BELL WITCH STORY “The Bell Witch Project” also offers the perspective of present day psychic Shawn Robbins, a protégé of the late ghost hunter, Hans Holzer.

Hans often relied on Shawn’s psychic abilities in order to facilitate contact with spirits from the other side since he possessed few such powers himself. In the book’s opening chapter, Shawn talks about the day Hans invited her over to try to establish a “remote-viewing” link to the Bell Witch house. After Hans put Shawn into a hypnotically induced, trancelike state, she revealed aspects of the story previously unknown.

“I immediately encountered the ethereal spirit, Kate Batts,” Shawn writes, “who had a distraught and distressed look on her face. She quickly pointed to her belly and said, ‘It is not my child.’ “‘Who then?’ I asked. ‘The slave Wilbur,’ she replied. I asked Kate why this was important. She answered, ‘I was raped.’ At that very moment I knew this was the information that Hans sought and had eluded so many others.

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In further conversations with the Bell Witch, Kate revealed to me she carried the child for seven months and gave birth to it prematurely. The male child died a few hours later. When her husband saw the baby was not his, he immediately went into shock and accused Kate of having an affair.” The relationship between Kate Batts and her husband Frederick was never the same afterward. Frederick never forgave what he took to be her adulterous union with a slave, and Kate never forgave herself for never telling Frederick she was raped.

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When Shawn awakened from her trance, Hans wrote down everything she said and later used the material on the Bell Witch in one of his many books. The idea that a slave raped Kate Batts adds credibility to the notion of her anger and desire for vengeance and its expression from beyond the grave.

VAMPIRES IN EARLY AMERICA “The Bell Witch Project” also covers other forms of paranormal strangeness, including legends of vampires and spectral invaders. Noted author and talk show host Paul Eno – www.behindtheparanormal.com – has collected many a weird tale over the years, including – surprisingly enough – real life vampires in early America.

“Each of our six New England states has had vampire cases,” Paul writes. “Several of the more striking incidents occurred in eastern Connecticut and Rhode Island in the period between roughly 1770 and 1900. Belief in vampires, in one form or another, has filtered down from the remote past.”

Eno tells the story of the Brown family of Rhode Island. Mary Brown, the mother, died of consumption on December 8, 1883, leaving her husband to care for their one son and several daughters. Six months later, the oldest daughter, 20-year-old Mary, died of the same disease. Edwin, the son, contracted consumption and relocated to Colorado, hoping to recover in a different climate. Declining rapidly, Edwin returned to Rhode Island, only to find that his 19-year-old sister Mercy had the disease and was in even worse shape than he. As Edwin battled for his life, Mercy died in January of 1892. Twelve members of the Brown family conferred on what could be done for Edwin, who, given his former strength and health, should not be wasting away. They concluded unanimously that a vampire must be draining the life out of him – a vampire that likely resided in the grave of one of the three deceased family members “So, on a cold March day in 1892,” Eno recounts, “a grim assembly arrived at the Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Exeter. The remains of Mrs. Brown and Mary, buried for years, proved to be only skeletons. But in Mercy’s grave was a startling find. Not only did the body look in the pink of health, with blood in the heart and arteries, but it had turned over partway in the coffin. The vampire hunters cut the girl’s heart from her body and burned it on a rock that still can be seen not far from the grave.”

The ashes of the heart were gathered up, to be dissolved in medicine in the hope of curing Edwin. The grotesque remedy did Edwin no good; he died shortly thereafter.

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Issue 5 August 2015 HOOLIGAN SPIRITS INVADE

Paul Eno has another interesting story to tell in “The Bell Witch Project.” In 1692, in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, an apparent invasion by an army of ghosts or demons took place. It started at the home of Ebenezer Babson, who, along with his family, on a nightly basis, heard strange noises outside their home “as if some persons were running hither and thither about the house,” Eno writes. Returning home late one night, Babson saw two figures emerge from his front door. After his family told him no one had been there, Babson grabbed his gun and gave chase. The two figures fled into a swamp and one was heard to say, “The man of the house is now come, else we might have taken the house.”

In the days that followed there were other similar local incidents of phantom figures who were immune to bullets and spoke in an incomprehensible language. More of these specters appeared both by day and night, dressed in white and carrying “bright guns,” though they acted more like hooligans than soldiers. Some believed the Devil was loose in Cape Ann. Whoever the phantoms were, they grew more emboldened every day.

“They threw stones, beat upon barns with clubs, and otherwise acted more in the spirit of diabolical revelry than as actuated by any deadlier purpose,” wrote 17th century historian and witch hunter Cotton Mather. “They moved about the swamps without leaving any tracks like ordinary beings. It was evident that such beings as these were must be fought with other weapons besides matchlocks and broadswords; consequently, a strange fear fell on the Cape.”

The residents of Cape Ann called upon the nearby town of Ipswich for help, and Ipswich sent 60 men to do battle with the “Powers of Darkness.” The demonic hooligans were not impressed and treated the mortal combatants with open contempt. Once it was settled that the “insults” proceeded from specters and not human beings, the incidents ended as suddenly as they began.

Eno offers the theory that the Cape Ann demon invasion had much to do with stirring people up about the paranormal and contributed to the witch hysteria in Salem and Danvers that would begin in earnest that same year.

THE MONSTROUS CANNIBAL ROLLING HEADS The monstrous Rolling Heads of Native American lore are almost too horrifying for the movies, though it would be just the sort of thing current CGI technology could do a good job with. There are several different versions of this story, but they all center on man-eating monsters who appear as an undead, disembodied head with long, tangled hair. The heads roll along the ground chasing humans to kill and devour.

Rolling Heads are created when victims of particularly violent murders rise from the dead to seek revenge. In most stories, this takes the form of an angry man who murders his unfaithful wife, although in some versions the victim is killed for witchcraft or violating some taboo. The story is sometimes made more gruesome by the addition of forced cannibalism, such as feeding the flesh of the mother to her unsuspecting children or feeding the wife part of her own meat as she lays dying.

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GHOSTLY SLEEPY HOLLOW AND HAUNTED JEROME, ARIZONA GHOSTLY SLEEPY AND HAUNTEDwriter JEROME, ARIZONATimothy Green Never being one to take the easy HOLLOW path, intrepid adventurer, and publisher Beckley shares his accounts of visiting Sleepy Hollow, New York, the home of the Headless Horseman, Never being one to take the easy path, intrepid adventurer, writer and publisher Timothy Green and Jerome, Arizona, a sleepy former mining town made alive by the continual presence of spectral prospectors and tragically wronged ladies of the evening.

As Beckley pondered the fact that Sleepy Hollow had been overflown

by UFOs repeatedly in the famous Hudson Valley flap of the 1980s, his traveling companion, a woman named simply Circe, cracked open their copy of Washington Irving’s famous story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and read: “A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land and to pervade the very atmosphere. Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie. They are given to all kinds of marvelous beliefs, are subject to trances and visions, and frequently see strange sights and hear voices and music in the air. Stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country.”

That last sentence, about the frequency of stars shooting and meteors glaring, seems to offer a clue that Sleepy Hollow was a UFO hotspot even centuries ago when Irving first wrote about the bewitched New York hamlet. It serves as an excellent example of the paranormal continuum that connects ghosts and UFOs and other mysterious phenomena.

Meanwhile, in the aforementioned Wild West tourist locale, Jerome, Arizona, prostitution was never formally legal but it was tolerated by city lawmakers and essentially flourished. Jerome even had its own Red Light District known as Husband’s Alley.

According to tour guide Ron Roope, “The women of the night often underwent cruel hardships at the hands of their clients. There were beatings, stabbings and strangulation. There was also the specter of alcoholism and opium addiction, to say nothing of disease. Sammie Dean is probably the most famous case of a lady of the night who was murdered under horrendous circumstances.”

The story goes that Sammie was murdered in 1931 by the son of the mayor of Jerome when she refused his offer of marriage as he wined and dined her at an upscale restaurant. The next morning she was found brutally strangled to death. No charges were ever pressed, but the mayor’s son left town shortly after the incident. The spirits of Sammie and other lesser-known “sporting gals” can be seen and heard wandering the streets by the town’s community center, which has been tagged “Spook Hall.”

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BECKLEY WEIGHS IN Publisher, researcher and co-host of the “Unraveling The Secrets” podcast Tim Beckley has long been pushing the connection between the paranormal and UFOs. “I have discovered that there are many similarities,” Beckley said, “between what happens in a séance room and what happens at a UFO landing site. Objects move, people levitate, mysterious orbs appear to dance around, and sometimes the primary observer will start to channel the occupants of the craft they have seen. There is a certain ‘dark side’ of UFOlogy which encompasses what I call the ‘fear factor.’

Many UFO percipients tend to keep silent about what transpires in the aftermath of their encounter.

They feel that seeing a UFO is strange enough, so why add to the ‘believability’ and trauma of the episode in question? Even physical trace investigator Ted Phillips, who was a close associate of the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek, started out believing in the ET Hypothesis for the origin of UFOs but now concedes – mainly because of his research into the ongoing phenomena surrounding Marley Woods – that there is a paranormal aspect to UFOs that serious ‘nuts-and-bolts’ researchers have long overlooked.”

SUPERNATURAL AMERICANA With the foregoing (and many other) bizarre narratives on offer, the profusely illustrated “The Bell Witch Project” is essential reading for those interested in supernatural Americana. From 19th century poltergeist hauntings to New England vampires to man-eating Rolling Heads, stories abound that will surprise and terrify and which most likely have escaped your notice until now. When we think of the hardy pioneers who settled this country, we should also consider the frightening paranormal encounters that came with the territory. Our forebears not only fought Indians and British and French armies but also strange interlopers from the unknown who sometimes came to vent the rage of hell itself on hapless farmers and ordinary folks of all stripes.

SUGGESTED READING THE BELL WITCH PROJECT: POLTERGEISTS, GHOSTS, EXORCISMS AND THE SUPERNATURAL IN EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY

AMERICA'S STRANGE AND SUPERNATURAL HISTORY: INCLUDING PROPHECY OF THE PRESIDENTS LEVITATION AND INVISIBILITY

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Issue 5 August 2015 The Bohemian Bazaar will be opening at the Grand Pavilion from March 2015, where there will be the usual alternative stalls such as Holistic Therapies, (Reiki Healing, Bamboo Massage etc.) plus Pagan/Gothic Giftware, Homemade Arts and Crafts plus lots more, including some unusual and unique items!

You will also be able to come and have your tarot

or oracle read, and there will be talks, demos and workshops available for you to attend too.

For more information & Booking Stalls Please contact Jules on 07854 725246 or Email julestone45@yahoo.co.uk

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Can Aliens Control Your Dreams?

Director James Cameron has said in interviews that the idea for the first Terminator film came to him during a fever dream, when his subconscious came up with the image of a chrome torso emerging from an explosion, dragging itself across the floor with kitchen knives. In The Making of The Terminator - A Retrospective documentary the film maker added: "Terminator was an idea I had when I was in Rome. I was sitting around my hotel room. I was sick at the time. I had a real high fever. I was just lying on the bed thinking, and came up with all this bizarre imagery. I think also the idea, because I was in a foreign city by myself. "I felt very dissociated from humanity in general, it was easy to project myself into these two characters from the future, who were out of sync, out of time, out of place, that sort of thing. I’d always wanted to do some sort of really definitive robot story.

Cause it had really never been done. "Was this "bizarre imagery" Cameron talked about really just brought on by a normal fever, or did someone or something want the director to make his "definitive robot story"? In another science fiction film that played with the idea of robots, Blade Runner, the protagonist Rick Deckard portrayed by Harrison Ford has a peculiar dream about a unicorn.

Richard Thomas is a published author, freelance feature writer and columnist.

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While it is never fully explained in the script what Deckard's unicorn dream means; in the final scene of the Director's Cut Deckard finds an origami unicorn made by his mysterious superior Gaff.According to Ridley Scott in the documentary On The Edge of Blade Runner, the reason why Gaff knows what Deckard has been dreaming about is because the dream is a memory implant created by the Tyrel Corporation. So is it possible that in the real world somebody could control our dreams, much in the same way the Tyrel Corporation implant Deckard's unicorn dream in Blade Runner?The idea that dreams can be controlled or implanted by others goes right back to the Bible; where God uses dreams to communicate with mankind. In Genesis 41, after being sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, Joseph (son of Jacob) rises to become the second most powerful man in Egypt after correctly interpreting the dreams of the Pharaoh: 'Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do. The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years; it is one and the same dream. The seven lean, ugly cows came up afterward are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind: They are seven years of famine.'

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There are also other examples of God using dreams to communicate with humans in the Bible. In Matthew 1 another Joseph decides not to divorce his wife Mary after being visited by an angel in a dream. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. Ancient astronaut theorists believe that aliens visiting Earth thousands of years ago were misinterpreted resulting in the God of the Bible; is it possible then that aliens been influencing human history for thousands of years by controlling the unconsciousness human mind? Certainly dreams have had a massive impact on human history.

Adolf Hitler reportedly had a dream that saved his life. During the First World War he was asleep in his trench when he dreamed of himself and his fellow soldiers being engulfed by earth and molten metal.

He awoke and left the trench. Whilst he was away the trench was hit by a shell and the other soldiers were all killed. If it wasn't for Hitler's mysterious nightmare then the Second World War would have probably not have taken place; but dreams have had a more positive impact on human development too. Albert Einstein's theory of relativity was inspired by a dream in which he was going down a mountainside ever faster, watching the appearance of the stars change as he approached the speed of light. And at the Ted 2005 conference Nobel laureate James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, reported stumbling upon the double helix image for the DNA chain through his dream of a spiral staircase. Classic novels including Dracula, Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and more recently the Twilight series, were all inspired by dreams also. The idea that aliens or anyone else can control dreams might sound like science fiction, but there is a state called lucid dreaming where people realise they are dreaming and are able to control their dream. In 2012 it was reported that scientists were developing a special sleep mask that helped the wearer control their dream: While the ability to implant or control someone else's dreams has not been developed yet, at least in public, in July 2013 scientist did announce that they had implanted memories in mice: 'Tinkering with the brains of mice, scientists have given the rodents memories of events that never occurred.'

Abductees, people who believe they have been abducted by aliens, have reported communicating telepathically with the short grey skinned beings they have encountered. Perhaps aliens use their psychic powers to implant dreams just as they seem to be able to create "screen" or fake memories in abductees.

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