A Bunch Of New Articles

There are a bunch of new articles from me at Mysterious Universe, one on Nessie (which can be found at the website of Llewellyn Books) and another new one at Jim Harold's website - the latter being specifically for Halloween.

Here are the links and a brief description of each article:

1. UFOs, the CIA and the Robertson Panel;

2. Men in Black or Women in Black?;

3. High-Strangeness in Book-Stores;

4. Men in Black in Libraries;

5. The Saga of a Certain Lake Monster;

6. The Cautionary Tale of Harrison Bergeron;

7. Three theories to explain the Loch Ness Monster;

8. Supernatural Invaders of Bedrooms.

Cattle Mutilations and the Sons of Satan

Over at Jim Harold's website you can find a new article from me on an alternative theory for the cattle mutilation enigma. Here's the link...

Murder, Witchcraft, and a Pitchfork...

A new article from me on a strange and mysterious death; a decades-old story of murder and the black-arts in England...

And here is the link...

Men in Black...In Sci-Fi

In a new article at Jim Harold's website I take a look at how Albert Bender's creepy-looking Men in Black influenced the world of on-screen science-fiction.

Here's the link.

1975: UFOs & "Phantom Helicopters"

 Over at Jim Harold's Paranormal Braintrust there's a new article from me which is focused on a very weird wave of UFO and "phantom helicopter" wave that hit the United States in late 1975.

Here's how it starts:

One of the many curious aspects of the UFO phenomenon is that relative to so-called “waves” and “flaps.” Over the years, there have been more than a few occasions upon which UFOs have intruded into our airspace to a significant degree. I’m talking about the likes of the summer of 1947; the Washington, D.C. invasion of July 1952; the wave of close encounters that hit the United States in 1973; and the Belgian “Flying Triangle” encounters of 1989/1990. And then there’s the curious matter of the UFO/ “phantom helicopter” wave of 1975. It’s not only curious, but disturbing, too. Chiefly because a great deal of concern was exhibited by the U.S. military, despite the fact that the Air Force’s UFO program, Project Blue Book, closed its doors six years earlier, in 1969. Notably, and thanks to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, we can see just how seriously matters were taken.

And here's the link to the article.

All the photos taken at one of my earlier homes...

Shape-Shifting Cats

Over at Jim Harold's website, there's a new article from me on the subject of Britain's ABCs. Or, as they are better known: Alien Big Cats.

There are more than a few theories to explain the ABC reports. And the theory I focus on in the article is probably the most controversial of all.

Namely, that they're supernatural shape-shifters...

UFO or Mind-Games?

And another one, this one on a famous UFO event of the 1970s that, just perhaps, was not a UFO event, after all. You can read the full article at Jimharold.com. Here's how it starts:

What if one of Ufology’s most cherished cases turned out to be something very different? Something far more down to earth, but of a distinctly conspiratorial nature. Yep, I can see the daggers being drawn already. Too bad for the belief-driven. There’s nothing worse than a mind made up. And there’s nothing better than shaking things up and addressing alternative theories when it comes to the matter of UFOs. After all, none of us really know what the truth is, when it comes to the UFO phenomenon. So, thinking outside of the box is vital. All of which brings us to a certain, famous UFO event of late 1973.

On the night of October 10, 1973, two men – Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker – were fishing on the banks of Mississippi’s Pascagoula River. All was going fine. That is, until approximately 9:00 p.m. rolled around. That’s when all hell broke loose. Yet, it all began relatively calmly. It didn’t stay that way, however. As they fished, Parker and Hickson suddenly noticed a light in the distance. Not only that, it was following the river and appeared to be coming in their direction. Which was not necessarily a good thing.

UFOs, National Security, and FOIA

Those are all the subjects of a new article you can find from me at Jim Harold's website - and here's the link.

Women in Black - Update

As some of you will know (because you have been interviewed for it!) I have a book coming out in 2016 titled Women In Black, a study of the less well-known companions of the MIB. As a taster of what is to come there is a new article from me on this very subject at Jim Harold's website, and here's the link.

MIB: Nothing to do with "the Government"

Over at Jim Harold's site, there's a new article from me on why the Men in Black are clearly not "government agents."

It starts like this:

"On the night of September 28, I was interviewed for 3-hours on Art Bell’s show, Midnight in the Desert. The subject of the Q&A was my new book, Men in Black: Personal Stories & Eerie Encounters. It was an interview which provoked a great deal of feedback and a number of previously unheard of encounters and confrontations with the MIB.

"What I found particularly notable, however, was the fact that four of the people who contacted me after the show ended took issue with one particular matter I brought up time and again. As one of them worded it,' You stubbornly tell your readers the Men in Black are not Black-Ops.' He continued: 'When you promote the Men in Black being paranormal you’re so far away from it.' 'It' meaning 'the truth,' I assume.



"Well, no, actually, I’m not. At all. His words, however, did get me thinking about the way in which so many people interpret the MIB phenomenon."

An Old Mystery - Which Remains A Mystery

I've just started writing regularly for Jim Harold's website, and my first article has just appeared. The article is focused on a strange and still-unresolved mystery that dates back to the late 1800s and which continued into the early part of the 20th Century.

The reason I decided to focus on this particular case is simple: it all went down only about ten minutes from where I lived as a kid.

The article deals with a saga filled with terrible attacks on animals, a "hypnotized ape," a "malicious aviator," a large cat, and much, much more...

Here's the link...

The Paradigm Symposium...

A few photos from this year's Minneapolis-based Paradigm Symposium which I got back from late last night: (a) David Weatherly and his wife, Teresa; (b) Paranormal Podcast host, Jim Harold; (c) me and Chris O'Brien; (d) A symposium shot; (e) a weird sign (for a tornado shelter which me and David Weatherly tried to get into but couldn't...); (f) an intrusive security camera right above my table (and since I hate security cameras I took a shot of it with one hand while shooting it the finger with the other hand); and (g) goofing off.

 

 

 

The Paranormal Podcast

You can find a new interview with me - on the subject of my Monster Diary book - at Jim Harold's Paranormal Podcast. But, that's not all: the link will also take you to a new interview with Paul Kimball, of Red Star Films and the author of The Other Side of Truth.

Here's the link...