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KTPF Magazine
The KTPF Magazine
Issue 6 - Oct/Nov 2015
Oct. 2015 issue6
The KTPF Magazine is a FREE monthly publication produced by The KTPF
Community Talk Show, covering the paranormal, conspiracies and other
strange phenomena.
Each 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
Editor and Compiler
Andy Mercer
Co-Editors
Steve Taggart
Susanne Taggart
Contributors
Alison Wynne-Ryder
Ben Emlyn-Jones
Andrew Collins
Nicole Strickland
Brian Langdon
Jenny Ashford
Jenney
Credits: Front Page: Sue Taggart
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Page 5 – Paranormal News
A Special Announcement
Page 6 – Steve T’s Ghost Hunting Guide
The first part of Steve’s guide, that takes us through his tips on ghost
hunts and paranormal investigating.
Page 8 - Alison Wynne-Ryder’s regular feature.
Angel Affirmations and how to write them
Page 12 – ‘Spotlight On’- New World Paranormal
Page 15 – Haunted locations across the UK Special Editon
Borley, the famous Essex Village home to probably the most famous
haunting of all
Page 18 – KTPF Interview Review – JFK Assassination
Following on form his talk about the JFK assassination Andy looks in
detail at the actual shots fired at Kennedy. The official version compared
to what many believe really happened
Page 26 – KTPF Interview Review - Psychic Questing
Andy Collins with a second excerpt for the updated ‘Black Alchemist’
Page 33 – KTPF Interview Review - RMS Queen Mary
Nicole Strickland tell us all about the hauntings of RMS Queen Mary,
possibly the most haunted ship in the world
Page 40 – KTPF Interview Review - Special Debate
The 9/11 Debate – Ben Emlyn-Jones and Andy Mercer discuss the
events surrounding the collapse of the Twin Towers and the attack on
the Pentagon
Page 48 – KTPF Interview Review – Mammoth Mountain Ghost
Jane Ashford and Tim Ross talked to us about the poltergeist, and Jane
gives us an excerpt from her book on the case
Page 53 – The Fleet Street Phantoma
true-life ghost story from Brian Langston (who will be a guest live on
the show in November)
Editor’s note
Welcome to issue 6
Oct/Nov 2015
In this issue-
Following his appearance on
the show we offer another
extract from the re-vamped
edition of the ‘Black Alchemist’
by Andy Collins.
We have an extract from Jenny
Ashford and Tom Ross’ book on
The Mammoth Mountain
Poltergeist
Following On from the JFK
assassination show Andy
Mercer outlines his own theory
on the number a trajectory of
bullets fired.
Ben Emlyn-Jones expounds
the intriguing theory that on
9/11 the Twin Towers were
brought down by a directed
energy weapon.
Alison Wynne-Ryder talks
‘Angel Affirmations, and Brian
Langdon tells us the tale of
The Fleet Street Phantom
All this and much more
Paranormal News
Special
Announcement!
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Special announcement!
We are joining up with Worsley radio who will be broadcasting our show
live on Sunday evening!!
This all starts from the 11 th of October
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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 …
EMF Meters (ElectroMagnetic Field)
I’m sure you have seen people using EMF meters during Ghost Hunts on the TV.
Well these are not as daunting as they may seem and will sound an alarm, flash lights or both
depending on what type you have, when close to electric cables, alarm and fuse boxes, that do generate
a Magnetic Field.
It is said, that Spirits can interfere with the Electromagnetic Field.
If this should happen, when you know you are not close to a natural source
of electromagnetic field, then there is a good chance there could be a
Spirit near.
Of course this has not yet been proven.
On a visit to Doncaster Air Museum, we used an EMF meter called the KII
The KII is a meter with five lights, which flash the higher the EMF is detected and on this occasion we
placed it on the floor, next to the front end of the fuselage of a Fighter Plane. We started by asking
Spirit to flash the lights if there was a Male Spirit with us and the lights flashed.
For the next 10 minutes we had a conversation by asking Spirit to flash the lights in a certain way and
when we had finished, we thanked the Spirit for talking to us. We continued to talk amongst ourselves
for the next 5 minutes or so about what just happened and during this time, not once did the lights
flash. And for this reason and this reason alone, the KII is the EMF meter I would recommend.
If you encounter significantly high EMF readings, then this could be the reason for what people are
feeling as very high levels of EM waves can cause feelings of nausea.
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ANGEL AFFIRMATIONS
Positive thinking
Affirmations are statements we make about ourselves. Those of you who already follow me on twitter
or who are friends on Facebook will know that I write my own affirmations which I share with
everyone as guided by the angels. An Angel Affirmation is a short positive declaration which you can
keep with you, repeat to yourself and your Angels mentally, and use on a practical and emotional level
right throughout the day. It can be something short and sweet which is easy for you to remember. It
can be difficult sometimes to think of positive words to say about ourselves because In our society we
find it acceptable to say negative things and not think twice about it. We are taught Pellentesque: from when we are
little, not to be vain, not to brag, to be modest, quiet and socially acceptable. You know how it goes...
“Oh, aren’t I silly”? “I am so forgetful”, “I’m always broke”, “I’m not very clever”, “I’m not very
attractive”, “I never have any luck” and so on, and so on.... Everything you say is being taken in and
stored away and in the end you believe it and bring it into your life.
Change is possible
To change something, you have
to work at it, believe in yourself
and stop procrastinating. To
have a positive life you need to
start training. Reversing a
negative attitude will not
happen overnight, but it really
is amazing how quick it can be.
Start to make positive
statements about yourself,
make small adjustments in the
way you take things on board
and you will be amazed at the
results.
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!
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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Educate yourself and those around you
Even if you have learned with the angels help to think in a positive way there is often someone around
you who says "Nothing good happens to me" or, "I never have good luck". Well of course they won't
have good luck or have something good in their life because if they are thinking in a negative way or
expecting only negative things to happen then hey presto, that's what the Universe will bring them!
Ensure that you don't let such people drag you down, ask the angels to buoy you and repeat your
affirmation over and over in your mind so you are not taking their negative vibes on board. Once you
learn how to write your own positive affirmations with the help of the angels then you can shine your
light out and others will follow in your footsteps.
Write your own
Say your affirmation out loud every morning before you leave the house or even better, look at yourself
in the mirror deep into your own eyes and say those words with love from your heart. Another tip is to
make, or buy affirmation cards and put them all over the house, read them often until you know them
by heart and start to believe them. Ensure you do not use words such as ‘I won’t’, I can’t, shouldn’t, etc,
and you will see then, how much potential you have, so be creative and stay positive. An example of a
daily affirmation card is ‘I release the past & concentrate on my future". Remember that the angels love
you for who you are, a unique child of the Universe so another wonderful affirmation could be "I love
myself for who I am". There are so many wonderful affirmations that you could say and/or write
down. The key is to believe the words, say them over and over each day until you believe them and
watch the magic happen!
Angel wings
A lovely way of connecting to the angels as well as affirming positivity in your own life is to make your
very own 'angel wings'. Get some white card, draw an angel's wing in pencil, and cut round it. Start
with around 6 wings and write positive affirmations on them. Dot them around the house in places
where you will see them regularly, and pop one in your car so that when you are driving to work on a
Monday morning you will see your angel wing affirmation filling you with positive vibes for the day
ahead.
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12 magical Angel Affirmations!
1. I am a loving & unique child of the Universe
2. My Guardian Angel loves me unconditionally
3. I have freedom of choice & trust in the guidance of my heart
4. I believe in the magic of my dreams
5. I grow stronger in spirit every day
6. I live a peaceful life of love, inner strength & wisdom
7. I see the beauty in myself & every living thing
8. I trust in my ability to accomplish my goals
9. I follow the guiding light of my angel & believe
10. I exercise my own power of truth speaking lovingly from my heart
11. I feel blessed every minute of every day as my Guardian Angel shows me the way
12. I believe in the power of destiny as I move through the winds of change
You can add to this list by writing your own positive
affirmations to include words about getting the job you
want, passing your driving test, bringing romance into
your life, and so on. Enjoy reading your affirmations
every day and enjoy seeing them come to fruition.
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My Name is Darren Jensen and I have been investigating in the paranormal for the past 8 years.
As a child I was brought up in an environment that was surrounded by family that was
spiritualists, my mum, gran, auntie and even my sister was all firm believers of the paranormal.
Growing up I had several experiences that I could not explain, from doors closing to hearing
voices in the house when I was alone .
I decided that I would like to look deeper in to the paranormal and decided to look up local
research groups in my area. I came across local teams and attended my first investigation, and
what an insight and experience that was. We went to Harwich Redoubt Fort to which even now
going back there 4-5 times since has still been as active as my first visit.
As time went on I was eager to discover more and chose to set up my own team, and that's
when New World Paranormal was born. Since then and time has gone by I have been learning
and making more sense of my personal experiences and have learnt to develop the ability to
communicate with spirit, but a lot of this has been thanks to my partner who unbeknown to me
before we had even met had an interest in the paranormal 3 yrs ago.
The team is made up of myself who is the founder and a lead investigator and also one of the
team mediums. My partner Tequila: she is a lead investigator and medium who starting having
an interest in this field at a young age, when she was very young growing up In a spiritual
family deriving from Spanish gypsies. She does alot of tarot readings and also works with
crystals, but mainly uses her ability on investigations to keep the team safe from anything
negative.
Richard who heads up our technical division of the team, Richard has several degrees ranging
from Television Production - Media and Editing alongside this he is heavily involved with all
other aspects of the teams activity's. Having a history of personal experiences and discovering
many years ago that he was able to communicate John and his wife sue: they originally attended
the team as regular guests and was complete Sceptics to which after several experiences are
now firm believers in the paranormal. Sue also helps out doing a lot of background research on
historic locations, to which helps confirm and also deny the teams findings after an
investigation. Kay is a team investigator who has sensitive capabilities as well as also working
heavily alongside Sue with research in to locations, but to date has said that her knowledge in
the paranormal field has widened more than she could ever imagine. We have investigated
several locations in the time we have been together and each member takes the research as
seriously as the next.
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I had never thought the team would be as popular as it is today, word of mouth has been fantastic
and most locations we investigate have been just as fantastic as the next. Guest investigations have
been selling out within 48hrs and the feedback has been amazing.
We have captured some remarkable evidence over the years and all guests that have attended have
more often than not been as excited when they have left the investigation from when they started
,due to coming away with there own personal experiences.
The paranormal umbrella is so wide that it covers an array of topics such as UFO's, Crop Circles, Big
Foot to the Loch Ness monster. We have recently been looking in to and investigating other such
claims to see for ourselves if such claims are really true. To begin this we have began to launch our
new series which will soon be available online 'The Paranormal Archives' each episode will go deep
in to the claims of such topics starting with Episode 1 'Pluckley' being recorded in the Guinness book
of world records as the UK'S most haunted town.
We have many locations lined up for this year and are really excited about our new series
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Borley The Scientific Investigations by Leighton Barrable
As a child I grew up very close to Borley, me and my friends used to cycle up to Borley, in those days
we only had the courage to visit during the daytime, but Borley was and still is very famous for its
ghostly tales.
I have since moved away from the area and now live in Southsea in Portsmouth. I still have two very
good friends who live in Long Melford, which is just a short distance away from Borley. Back in 2010 I
decided to visit my friends and we decided to pay a visit to Borley to re-kindle our childhood.
We took with us some basic equipment such as voice recorders, camera's etc. Just to see if we could
capture anything unusual. This first investigation lasted three days and we did encounter issues with
our camera's and a couple of times our voice recorders just turned themselves on which was all a bit
strange.
It was after this first investigation that we decided to set up a facebook group so we could post our
photo's and a short investigation report on there. Slowly the facebook group grew in size and I was
lucky enough to get in contact with Eddie Brazil the co-author of the Borley Rectory Companion. He
then put us onto a family who lived in a bungalow at Borley right next to where the old Rectory used to
stand. Back in November 2012 we spent a night in their back garden and although nothing out of the
ordinary happened it was an amazing experience.
Since 2010 we have now carried out five investigations at Borley, We still continue to have issues with
our camera's and voice recorders around the churchyard, although to date we have never seen
anything unusual or captured anything with our camera's. Most of the experiences we have are of an
auditory nature around the church. Our facebook group now has 750 members which include Eddie
Brazil and Paul Adams co-authors of The Borley Rectory Companion and they regularly post rare
photo's and information about Borley within the group. The group has now become the leading group
dedicated to all things Borley, with a collection of photo's and rare documents that is second to none.
The late Peter Underwood was also aware of our work at Borley. We now also have a Borley twitter
account with currently 600 members.
I am also in contact with Neil Spring whose book called the Ghost Hunters based on Harry Price's
investigations was published last year and is now going to be made into a ITV drama. Also I am in
contact with Ashley Thorpe of Carrion Films who is currently producing a short independent film
based on Borley Rectory.
A word of caution… Residents of Borley are well aware
of the history of the villages and don’t like lots of ‘ghost
hunters’ roaming the streets. The famous rectory has
long since gone and the church is now surrounded by
searchlights connected to motion detectors that will go
off if you approach at night. Also local police also
regularly petrol the area.
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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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In September KTPF team member Andy Mercer discussed the events
surrounding the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Having previously
concentrated on the events of the day, in a previous show, this second
discussion looked at the wider implications including who may have been
behind the assassination and who contributed to the subsequent cover up.
One area we discussed was exactly how many shots were fired and from what direction? While we
were able to talk about some of the details we didn’t really have enough time to discuss it in full
detail, so presented here is a detailed examination of the actual shooting. The ‘Six seconds in Dallas‘
that changed the world.
The Shots that Killed Kennedy – how many and where from?
There has been so much already written about the assassination that I’d really rather not bore you all
to death with another article on the whole thing, so I’ve limited myself to discussing the actual shots
themselves.
Determining how many and from which direction(s) can give us a better understanding of what
actually happened. There have been various theories put forward, both for the number of bullets fired
and their respective trajectories they followed. But we cannot say, which if any of these theories, is
correct. Of the Shots fired at President Kennedy there are very few things that can be said definitively,
that are agreed by virtually all.
What can be agreed is that At least 3 shots were fired
i) At least 1 hit Kennedy/Connelly.
ii) 1 missed the car and hit the ground
iii) 1 hit Kennedy in the head, killing him.
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However, there is very little agreement about anything else….
The US government’s official chronology of events is as follows.
Shot 1 fired from right rear hits Kennedy in the back of the neck, comes out the front of his neck then
hits Texas Governor John Connelly in the back. It leaves Connelly from his right front before slamming
into Connelly’s wrist. The bullet then exists Connelly wrist and finally sticks in Connelly’s thigh
Creating 6 wounds in total
Shot 2 fired from right rear hit the curb in the far side of Deally plaza. The proof is the wound
suffered by an observer of the shooting. Originally the FBI claimed no such miss occurred, but there
was irrefutable evidence of its existence.
Shot 3 fired from the right rear Bullet appears to break up or shatter on impact, as the wound to
Kennedy’s head is large.
This is the official order of shots proposed by the presidential commission (known as the ‘Warren
report’ after Earl Warren the head of the commission.) This was published in 1966.
Partly following the discovery of a recording accidently made by a police officer during the shooting; A
new commission was appointed in 1976. Officially called the ‘House Select Committee on
Assassinations’ (HSCA) The HSCA was supposed to investigate the assassinations of Martin Luther King
and Robert Kennedy as well as JFK. But this was soon changed to JFK alone as the original remit was
considered too broad.
The HSCA concluded that, partly based on the recording, 4 shots had been fired. The HSCA accepted the
Warren commissions ‘three shots theory’ but added to it claiming that one shot did come from the
front. However, they concluded it had missed and were unable to determine from where exactly it had
been fired. While essentially agreeing with the Warren commission, this inclusion of a 4 th shot meant
there HAD to be a conspiracy, with more than one person firing from more than one location. Perhaps,
in an attempt to avoid this conclusion, some in the commission actually claimed that it could a have
been a coincidence! Two ‘lone nuts’ choosing the same location and time for their own independent
assassination attempt.
The Warren commission in 1964
The HSCA’s first meeting in 1976
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What is all the more astounding is that, despite contradicting the original Warren report, this second
report into the events did not override or cancel out the first report. So America, and the world, is left
with two official verdicts, both a lone nut solution and a ‘limited’ conspiracy.
Leaving this contradiction aside and returning to the shots themselves, it’s interesting to note that not
one witness to the shooting described the events as happening in the way the Warren
Commission/HSCA did. Not a single one of the 53 witnesses questioned by the commission. Why is this?
It is at least partly due to the second shot, as this bullet apparently caused 6 wounds to 2 people before
being found on a stretcher in Parkland Hospital, Dallas, where JFK and Texas governor John Connelly
were taken. This is something we’ll look at in more detail a little later.
Following the initial examination of Kennedy, who was pronounced dead at 2pm, central time. JFK’s
body was then removed from the hospital and taken to a plane to be flown back to Washington, where
an autopsy was to be performed. While this journey was remarkable, in that it broke Texas federal which
states a murder victim’s body should be autopsied in Dallas; It’s nothing compared to the amazing
journey that the aforementioned bullet takes through two human beings, creating 6 wounds, hence it’s
become known as the ‘Magic Bullet’.
So, what according to the commission is the journey of the Magic Bullet?
According to the Warren commission-
Injury 1 (of a total of 6) hits Kennedy in the back of his neck.
And yet the doctors at the Dallas hospital said it was in the upper back. AND one of the doctors at the
Washington autopsy said he felt the end of this wound and found it to be approximately 1 inch deep.
Also, photographs of Kennedy’s clothing clearly show the bullet hole in the upper back.
Injury 2 According to the commission there is an EXIT wound in Kennedy’s throat. The Washington
autopsy describes a large wound of exit. But at Parkland hospital in Dallas ALL the staff (doctors and
nurses) saw what they describe as a small wound of ENTRY. (Who, how and why the wound changed is
something I’ll leave for another time.)
Injury 3 having supposedly left Kennedy’s throat the bullet next enters Connelly’s back.
However, we can clearly see that, as Kennedy emerges from behind a road sign in the Zapruder film, a
home movie, which actually captures the shooting, Kennedy is raising his hands to his throat, obviously
having been hit, but there’s no sign that Connelly has been hit. In fact there’s 1.6 seconds between
Kennedy emerging from the sign and indications that Connelly has been hit (he jerks forward and
slumps) How on earth can a bullet hang in the air for more than a second? Impossible
So, after hanging around in the air the bullet enters Connelly’s back. Simple enough? Well, the bullet
enters the right side of Connelly. However, the angle that the bullet supposedly left JFK meant that is
should have hit Connelly on the LEFT. For it to have hit Connelly on the right the bullet would have to
have changed direction mid air; Twice in fact. So we have a bullet performing aerial gymnastics and
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Injury 4 The bullet leaves Connelly’s chest, also on the right. Importantly this shot does not line up
with someone firing from where the ‘lone gunman’ was supposed to be firing, strongly suggesting that
there was a SECOND gunman to the rear of the car.
Injury 5 the bullet hits Connelly’s wrist and apparently leaves it via the same hole, as there is no other
wound in the wrist. The wrist itself is shattered and the bullet leaves fragments behind. The problem is
that the total amount of bullet fragments left behind in the wound is greater than the measured
amount missing from the ‘found’ bullet.
Injury 6 and the remarkable journey of the magic bullet is over when it supposedly embeds itself into
Connelly’s thigh. The bullet apparently falls out of the wound while Connelly is in Hospital in Dallas as
it’s found on a stretcher.
This is the remarkable journey of the Magic Bullet
The Supposed journey of the single
bullet. Notice that, even though the
report itself states that bullet enters
JFK’s neck at the rear and yet this
diagram from the report shows it hit
him in his upper back.
Notice also how the image suggests
that the route of the bullet was almost
direct. But this image is a con and
totally misrepresents where Kennedy
and Connelly were sitting in relation to
each other.
This image is more accurate for
how the Magic Bullet would
have to have travelled for it to
have cause the injures it’s
supposed to have.
Also note that the bullet took
over a second to get from JFK
to Connelly and that the bullet
entered Kennedy’s back which
is below the supposed exit
point in his neck
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Given that the above is clearly nonsense can we estimate what is more likely to have happened?
Based upon the reports of witnesses, the testimony of the Parkland hospital staff, and watching the
Zapruder film over and over again. Here’s my own take on the real number and order of shots. It’s also
the general conscious of other researchers who’ve studied the case.
Shot 1 - Fired from behind. Watching the Zapruder film it seems that JFK and others hear something
and look around. Connelly himself states he hears something, which he thinks is a shot. This may be
the shot that struck the curb at the far side of the Plaza.
Shots 2 and 3 - It’s hard to say the exact order of these two shots as they occur almost simultaneously.
But what is certain is one came from behind and one from in front. As Kennedy emerges from behind
the road sign he’s grabbing for his throat having been hit in the neck by a shot that has to have from the
front. All the Parkland staff describes an entrance wound.
Almost imperceptible at normal speed, but slowed down it is possible to see, just after JFK emerges
holding his throat and as Jackie Kennedy turns to him, Kennedy jolts forward, as if being hit in the back.
This is most likely when Kennedy is hit in the back. Remember, this is the wound that the Washington
autopsy ‘moved’, and the wound that one of the doctors confirmed was only an inch deep.
So shot 2 and 3 – one from the front and one from behind
Shot 4 from behind, hits Connelly in the back and comes out the front. The obvious question is; where
does it go from there? Examining photos of the car immediately following the assassination there is
clear damage in the middle of the dashboard this is clearly damage from being hit by a bullet. There is
also a crack in the windshield above the bullet hole suggesting a fragment had hit it.
Shot 5 also from behind; this bullet is the one that hit’s Connelly’s wrist. When Connelly is first hit in
the back his cheeks puff out from force of impact and the collapse of his lung, he is still holding his
Stetson hat. If it was the same bullet that went through his chest and then hit his wrist he wouldn’t be
still holding it as he puffed out and slumps. You can see he’s still holding it for a couple of seconds in the
Zapruder film, impossible if his wrist is shattered.
Zapruder film frame 225 shows Kennedy emerging
from behind the road sign. He’s clearly been hit as
his hands are rising to his throat. Connelly is clearly
uninjured. He is however turning, having heard
something. Connelly actually stated he heard a shot
and only then felt an impact. As a bullet moves at 5
times the speed of sound there is no way he could
have heard the shot that hit him.
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Shot 6 – this is the key shot.
Fired from the right front, it hits Kennedy in the head and kills him.
This is key, a shot clearly coming from the right front as Kennedy’s head is violently thrown backwards
and to the left. Despite what was publically claimed by CBS Anchor man Dan Rather said. Rather was
the number 2 face of news in America in the 60’s and 70’s (behind Walter Cronkite) Dan was one of the
first people to see the Zapruder film and, following his viewing of the recording he immediately went
live in air and described the film. He finished by say the president’s moved forwards! FORWARDS!
Anyone view the Zapruder film can see the president goes BACKWARDS. Rather later claimed he got
carried away and accidently said forwards when he meant back, but as a reporter and newsman at the
top of his game, this seems ridiculous!
So what actually happened? The shot hits Kennedy in the right front of his head. There is then an
explosion of blood and brain matter exiting the rear of his head as his head is thrown back. He then
slides over to his left and into Jackie’s lap. This all lasts for only a couple of seconds, and yet it’s
probably the most hotly debated piece of film ever recorded and, of course, was never supposed to
exist. In fact it’s an absolute miracle is does as without it would have been left with the ‘forwards’ lie
and no way to disprove it
There are all sorts of questions surrounding this injury. While the Texas doctors describe a wound in
the back of Kennedy’s head that was about the size of a large egg or baseball. The autopsy surgeons in
Washington describe a much larger wound with 1third of JFK’s skull missing. While in Texas the staff
saw an entry wound just below the hairline to the right. The Washington autopsy photos show an
entrance wound in the back of JFK’s head. It’s interesting to note that when a member of the Dallas
Hospital staff told the waiting media that JFK was dead he said, “… it was a simple matter of a bullet
right through the head.” He then pointed to the right side of his temple indicating that that was where
the bullet entered. There are many more strange and irreconcilable discrepancies between what was
seen in Dallas and what was later recorded in Washington. But I’ll leave the issue here.
The Parkland hospital spokesman telling the
reporters that JFK was dead indicating that the
bullet that killed him hit at the right front of his
head.
Compare the two images above. Parkland is
how the wound appeared to the Doctors
and nurses who saw it. Bethesda is how the
autopsy doctors described the head wound.
These two wounds are clearly very
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So, to summaries
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Shot 1 from rear – misses
Shot 2 from the front – hits JFK in the throat
Shot 3 from the rear – hits JFK in the upper back
Shot 4 from the rear – hits Connelly in the chest
Shot 5 from the rear – hits Connelly in the wrist
Shot 6 from the front – hits JFK in the head, killing him
Lastly, as this all happened more than 50 years ago why should we care now?
There are several important answers to this question. Firstly the 50 years would have been very
different. First and foremost there would not have been a Vietnam War. Kennedy was on the verge of
pulling out all US troops. In fact he signed a document to this effect only days before being
assassinated. Secondly he was strongly in favour of ending the Cold War and working with the
Russians on the Moon mission. All of these ideas utterly enraged both the CIA and Military
intelligence.
Had the USA and Russia ended the cold war Russia would almost certainly not invaded Afghanistan.
Why is this important? The subsequent Afghan ‘civil’ war lead to chaos in the region and gave rise to
Islamic resistance, first in the form of the Mujahedeen, which would eventually morph into the
Taliban, the long time protectors of Osama Bin Laden. Also the Iran/Iraq war directly came about
because of the US/Russia arms race in the Middle East with each Superpower selling more and more
weaponry to each country. No war would have meant Saddam Hussein would not have risen to power
in Iraq, so no invasion of Kuwait and subsequent Gulf war (1 and 2).
No Gulf War would have meant no massive military presence of the US in the Middle East. This
presence of ‘the great Satan’ in the Middle East has given rise to organisations like Al Qaida and I.S.
and the horrific consequences of their existence.
Much if not all of this could have been prevented had the Cold War ended in the 60’s as JFK planned it
would. These are not just my views they are the views of many historians who have speculated what
the world would have been like had JFK lived and won the landslide victory he was undoubtedly
heading for in 1964.
Click on the left image to
listen again to the show.
Click in the right image to
view the Zapruder film.
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At the End of August we were joined by writer, researcher and lecturer
Andrew Collins. Andrew talked about research and exploration of The
mysterious archaeological site Gobekli Tepe, it’s history and significance.
But we started with the events that first brought Andrew to the Public’s –
the true life occult adventure and drama that is ‘The Black Alchemist’
Below is an except from the book
“The Mystic’s Gift
Sunday, 30th November, 1986. There was something nagging at the back of Bernard’s mind as he got up.
It was an impulse within him – an urge to go somewhere, meet someone, find something, although what
exactly he did not know.
The feeling intensified as the morning went by, and with this impulse now came the distinct impression
of an area in Essex and an event taking place that very day.
Without either believing or disbelieving his feelings, Bernard consulted a newspaper to see what was
going on locally. Finger-flicking the pages, he first passed, and then returned to the coming events
section. Scanning the different display adverts, he found it – and, yes, it was that day – an antiques and
collectors’ fair not far from the Essex village of Margaretting.
He wanted to go. But what would he find? A relevant book on heraldry. Yes, that seemed the obvious
answer. For the past year he had been researching and painting the heraldic devices of all early
members of the Order of the Garter, from its inception in the fourteenth century right down to the
present day. Not an easy task by anyone’s standards. Yet to achieve this aim, he needed books – old, rare,
out-of-print – and these were often difficult to obtain, and so it had been in this respect that in the past
his acute psychic ability had come in useful. On at least three occasions he had received distinct
impulses to go to either a specific second-hand bookshop or an antiques and collectors’ fair, like the one
taking place that day. Once there Bernard had been intuitively drawn to rare books on heraldry relevant
to his research at that particular moment.
Such a talent was, he believed, one of the few ‘perks’ of being a good psychic So he would go, and should
he be wrong and there was no book to be found, then it would still be a good excuse to get out of the
house for a few hours before dinner.
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Having locked the car, Bernard walked across the car park to the entrance foyer and queued behind a
couple waiting to pay their admission fee. Seconds later he was through the pay desk and within the
hall itself. Before him stalls selling every kind of antique and collectable item filled the entire hall. The
air was alive with the muted conversation of stallholders, dealers and visitors buying, selling, bartering
and admiring. Yet the large room was by no means full. There was still ample room to wander from
table to table without hindrance.
Bernard strolled about not quite noticing anything other than the occasional pile of dusty books
occupying some corner of a stall dedicated to other, more attractive items. One by one, he turned them
over or lifted their covers to search for an author or title. None appeared to be relevant to his work.
However, something would leap out at him eventually, he was sure. For twenty minutes he wandered
about studying more or less every stall in the hall. But there was nothing at all that interested him.
Growing a little disappointed, he began to accept that, on this occasion, his psychic abilities might have
let him down. His earlier feelings were probably just his own imagination giving him an excuse to get
out of the house. Having given up, Bernard wandered aimlessly and without interest along the rows of
stalls stacked with curious objets d’art of every shape, size and colour. Glimpses of faces and snippets
of conversation broke through his senses as he ambled about, not really knowing what to do next.
‘I can come down to twenty-two. No less, I’m afraid,’ a male face with receding grey hair and a
moustache responded to a lady close by.
‘No, these are repro, darling. Those over there are original art deco,’ a pretty woman with shoulderlength
blonde hair said from behind another stall.
He did not glance to see what they were talking about. It did not seem to mean anything to him. He was
lost in his own frustration. Why had he been led to this place? There had to be something here
somewhere.
Images blurred into moving and stationary forms, and distinct conversation now became just a
background murmur. He was losing orientation and perspective. Something was happening.
‘Yes sir. Can I help you?’ the clearly Asian voice asked.
Bernard stared up at the intrusion. A smiling Indian youth in his late teens, dressed in an old, out-offashion
man’s casual shirt, with frayed collar, stood behind a stall waiting for a reply. In front of the
boy was an assortment of Indian and oriental curios and antiques, mostly of brass or wood.
Geometrically- patterned plates stood behind brass incense burners, cheap jewellery and crudely-cast
statues of Hindu deities. Bernard shook his head, but found his eyes scanning the stall for anything of
interest. They caught sight of an antique brass cobra, standing some three inches in height, nestling
among the collection of statuettes. They resembled cobra candle sticks that Andy possessed and they
had used during Egyptian-based meditational rituals, recently. He picked it up. It was a little worn and,
turning it around in one hand, he saw that on the snake’s head was a small Hindu deity who appeared
to be dancing. Not that much interested, he placed it back down.
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How much?’ he asked.
The Indian youth took hold of the item and surveyed it for a moment. ‘Two pound,’ he
announced, a note of exactness in his tone.
Nodding in acceptance, Bernard produced two pound coins and handed them over.
The Indian carefully wrapped the coiled snake and returned it to him, the transaction over. For
a few seconds Bernard paused, enough for the young Asian to meet his eyes and ready himself
to speak: ‘You are in conflict with the one who reverses the wheel. Is this true?’
The question caught Bernard off guard. Looking up at the youth, he realised that he was merely
conveying the question on behalf of an elderly Indian gentleman sitting down behind the stall,
who also now looked up, waiting for a reply.
Bernard tried to take in the situation before even contemplating an answer to the curious
question
The old man looked strange. He wore a long white robe which contrasted sharply with his deep
brown wrinkled skin, jet black eyes, long grey hair and beard. In his right hand he fingered a
long string of orange beads; an act he appeared to be doing almost involuntarily.
It seemed that whilst Bernard had been studying the brass cobra, the old man, who, he
assumed, could speak no English, had asked the youth to put the question to him and now the
pair eagerly sought an answer.
What did they mean? ‘You are in conflict with the one who reverses the wheel.’ Bernard decided
that the statement had to be a reference to the Black Alchemist and his warped alchemical
operations. Could he not be described as ‘reversing the wheel’ by causing the harmonious forces
at ancient sites to fall into a state of chaotic disarray through dark ritualistic activity? It was the
only explanation so, in response, he said, simply, ‘Yes.’
Accepting his word, the old man beckoned for the youth to lend an ear again. More words were
spoken and, nodding, the boy returned to Bernard. ‘There is one who seeks to unblock the dam.
“Is this true?’ He thought carefully before answering. One who ‘seeks to unblock the dam’. That
had to be Andy. Yes, Andy. He was undoubtedly attempting to repair the psychic damage caused
by the Black Alchemist. It was a reference to him so, once again, he said, simply, ‘Yes.’ The reply
was acknowledged by the old man who again beckoned the boy down to his level. Further
words were exchanged and once more the youth stood up straight and looked towards Bernard.
‘Is he the one where the two rivers meet?’
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Where the two rivers meet? That was a tricky one, Andy lived with his parents in Wickford,
but was he anywhere near the meeting of two rivers? He was nowhere near the Thames. But
what about the River Crouch and the River Blackwater? He couldn’t think.
It did not appear to be an answer.
He thought again. Was it then, perhaps not a reference to real rivers, but rivers of life, their
coming together creating a duality, opposing polarities – one positive and the other
negative, one black and the other white. “Andy often trod a narrow path between what some
might consider as black and white magic. One week he might be in prayer with Orthodox
monks in a secluded monastery on Mount Athos in Greece, whilst the next he would be
wielding powerful and dangerous occult forces under the cover of darkness, combating fire
with fire, so to speak. This was the answer the Indians were looking for, so he agreed and
once again waited for a response.
The old man, still turning the beads over in his hand, then spoke again via the youth, a more
serious expression on his face this time.
‘The one you seek is like the coiled serpent,’ were the boy’s next words.
It was, he felt, another reference to the Black Alchemist’s cunning activities, so he agreed
once more. More conversation between the old man and the youth produced another
strange statement: ‘The one will stand in front of many dangers.’
‘Oh,’ he responded, assuming this to be another reference to Andy.
‘My grandfather asks that you accept a gift from him,’ the boy said.
A sort of smile appeared on the face of the old man, who now nodded at Bernard.
‘Yes, but what for?’ he responded, wondering what was going on here.
More words passed between the grandfather and the grandson before the youth spoke
again: ‘But it will not be yours. You will not keep it.’
Bernard saw that with this statement the old man had “now raised up his hands in a gesture
which said: need I say more? You will know what to do. He did. It was to be given to Andy
A similar sword stick to the one given to Bernard for Andy
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At that point the young Indian turned around and picked up a long, thin package wrapped in brown
paper, which he handed to Bernard. It was over four feet long, pole-like and quite weighty.”
Instantly, Bernard began to feel his hands tingle, almost as if he had just grabbed hold of a live wire.
What was this ‘gift’?
It seemed to be exuding an intense energy field of some sort, so much so that he almost dropped it.
Still the conversation between the grandfather and the grandson continued. The boy looked up at
Bernard. ‘It will protect you and give protection of the seven.’
Protection of the seven? He did not understand. Seven what? And protection from what? The Black
Alchemist? Was he to just take it?”
“Yes,’ the grandson responded.
Did he want any money?
The boy shook his head, and the old man merely lifted up his string of beads with a smile, as if to
gesture goodbye.
It was time to leave. Bernard moved away from the stall still holding the gift at arms’ length, as if he
should not get too close to it. Without stopping, he walked away from the hustle and bustle of the fair
and stepped out into the solitude of the gravel-floored car park.
Once inside the car, the wrapping paper was carefully removed from around the object. It was a long
walking stick in varnished black wood with chiselled grooves grouped in rings and lines running down
the shaft, a metal cap protecting its tip. Around the bottom half of the handle was an inch wide brass
ring set into the wood, and nudging up to this was what looked like an inset bone piece with a
recurring floral pattern. Screwed into the cap was the face of a lion in brass.
It looked very much like a standard design in oriental walking sticks, had it not been for one seemingly
unique feature. Scratched into the “wood were strange looking symbols composed of zig-zags, circles
and lines. He partially recognised their symbolism, but decided to leave their interpretation to Andy for
when he saw him at The Griffin the following evening.
More extraordinary than the walking stick’s physical appearance was the bright aura of light which
surrounded the shaft and extended beyond each end by at least a couple of inches. But that was not all.
Moving down from the handle towards the tip was a pulsating spiral of rainbow-coloured energy
which – about midway along the shaft – altered into individual coloured rings of light that slowly
advanced towards the tip, before reforming back into a spiral and extinguishing completely just
beyond the metal cap. At any one time, no less than five of these detached rings of light could be
observed moving down the central axis of the walking stick.
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It was an amazing sight, yet one that Bernard knew could only be seen by another psychic.
And its purpose was becoming apparent as well. It was a rod of magical power, a highly-charged ritual
tool, imbued with supernatural energies by someone – possibly the old man, maybe someone else – for
a specific purpose. If this was so, then it was to be used by Andy to invoke, banish and channel psychic
energies for magical purposes. It would be able to protect them from the rising might of the Black
Alchemist and, what’s more, it somehow embodied the true energies of the Stave of Nizar, for which it
was surely a just replacement.
You can listen again to our interview with Andrew Collins on our You Tube Channel where
he talks about the Black Alchemist and his research in the ancient Turkish site Gobekli Tepe
Click on the image below
Click the image to visit
Andrew’s website
Andrewcollins.com
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In September we were joined by Nicole Strickland
who talked about the Haunting of RMS Queen Mary
RMS Queen Mary: A Haunted Legend of the Seas
*** I want to dedicate this article to Mark and Debby Constantino, who both passed away in a domestic
crime on 9/22/15. The paranormal community is very saddened by their loss. They were well-known
American EVP researchers. The last time I saw them was on the Queen Mary during a conference.
There are very few ships still in existence that compare to the innate beauty and rich history of the
RMS Queen Mary. The RMS Queen Mary is perhaps, the most legendary liner to ever sail the oceans. A
testament to British shipbuilding, the Mary is currently moored in Long Beach, California, where it has
ebbed and flowed with the tide since 1967. I have been conducting both historical and paranormal
research on the Queen Mary for ten years. I have been able to investigate many popular and highly
travelled to areas on the ship. When I step aboard the ship’s decks, I am instantly entranced by her
innate beauty, innocent aura and historical significance.
The task of building the RMS Queen Mary represented a brave and elusive responsibility, especially in
the early 1930s, as she was to be the biggest, quickest and most luxurious liner ever constructed. The
RMS Queen Mary’s design concept began in 1926 and continued for two years. It came at a time when
there was fierce competition between ship building companies in Britain, Germany, Italy and the
United States. Cunard’s elderly trio of express liners, Mauritania, Aquitania and Berengaria, were
eventually replaced by the Mary and her running mate, the RMS Queen Elizabeth. Completely built, the
RMS Queen Mary was equipped with many public rooms and facilities to cater to each passenger. Art
Deco-inspired, she was equipped with Sports, Sun, Promenade, Main and A-H Decks. She had 27 public
rooms, 21 elevators, three restaurants, a ball room, gymnasium, hair and beauty salons, a Turkish bath
and two pools, a garage, mailing processing areas, two cargo holds, three children’s playrooms, a chapel
and synagogue, writing and drawing rooms, two libraries, three lounges, three smoking rooms, a
shopping area, isolation wards and a completely functioning hospital. Furthermore, her machinery
was nothing less than pure engineering excellence. In fact, 56 different varieties of woods from all over
the world were utilized for the ship’s interior rooms. The Queen Mary’s utilization of this material was
so ubiquitous, that she was given the name, “The Ship of Beautiful Woods.”
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September 26, 1934 marked the official day of the RMS Queen Mary’s launching. More than 200,000
eager people came to watch her meet the waters. Children even had a day off of school to witness this
majestic event. No one knew the ship’s new title. Interestingly, there were 101 suggested titles for Job
534. People assumed the liner would be named Queen Victoria and keep up with the tradition of titles
ending in “ia.” However, as H.M. Queen Mary cut the satin cord and crashed a bottle of Australian wine
against the ship’s bow, she said, “I am happy to name this ship, Queen Mary.” She went on to say, “I
wish success to her and to all who sail in her.”
The Queen Mary began her maiden voyage as a luxury cruise liner on May 27, 1936, completing
successful pre-WWII and post-WWII round trip voyages from Southampton to New York City. Many
notable people, such as business moguls, entertainers and actors, have traveled aboard the Queen
Mary. While sailing on the Queen Mary, passengers had the opportunities to exchange viewpoints,
political beliefs and ideas, while further enjoying various amenities catering to a broad range of
interests. Furthermore, Art-Deco brilliance can still be seen throughout its inner walls. Even in
retirement, the Queen Mary historic ship still remains as popular as she was the day she sailed.
Arduous times lay ahead for the RMS Queen Mary. On August 30, 1939, the Queen Mary anxiously
sailed from Southampton to New York, as war was nearly imminent. In September of 1939, war was
officially declared between Britain and Germany, ultimately placing the Queen Mary in a precarious
situation. Both the RMS Queen Mary and her sister liner, RMS Queen Elizabeth, were therefore
requisitioned for service in World War II. In March of 1940, the British Government informed Cunard
that the Queen Mary would be outfitted for troopship duties, lasting the length of combat. In fact, due
to the liner’s fast speeds, she was able to carry numerous servicemen from all walks of life to and from
their destinations. Adolf Hitler even had a ripe award of $250,000 out to any skipper who could sink
the massive liner. Of course, Hitler’s plan never succeeded, as The Grey Ghost consistently outsmarted
the enemy. The ship’s crew and servicemen should be remembered for their diligence in keeping its
hull and inner walls afloat. The RMS Queen Mary, alongside her sister ship, the RMS Queen Elizabeth,
have contributed to the World War II allied forces in so many unimaginable ways. Prime Minister, Sir
Winston Churchill said, “, “Built for the arts of peace and to link the old world with the new, the Queens
challenged the fury of Hitlerism in the battle of the Atlantic. Without their aid, the day of final victory
must have unquestionably been postponed.”
Post World War II, the RMS Queen Mary returned
to luxury as an extravagant cruise vessel, where
many people could relax, vacation and enjoy her
ornate and gorgeous ambience, as well as the
abundance of onboard activities. As previously
mentioned, quite a few celebrity names have
touched upon her decks during her reigning days on
the seas. Long Beach, California has been Queen
Mary’s docked home since 1967. Thousands of
visitors flock from all over the world each year to
visit the RMS Queen Mary in Southern California.
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The RMS Queen Mary is equipped to fulfill the curiosity of many people, from children to elderly adults.
She is loaded with many attractions, shops and various dining options. The Queen is home to annual
events, various tours and a variety of ongoing and seasonal attractions. She has a variety of gift and
souvenir stores that cater to those who love to shop. For those who love art, the ship still houses some
of her original Art-Deco pieces. She also features great sightseeing views from her Promenade and Sun
Deck. The ship wouldn’t be Queen without featuring award-winning restaurants, gratifying the pickiest
of eaters. The Mary is quite the entertainer, as she has even been home to various television and movie
productions. There is even a great hotel onboard for those who want to spend the night on the Queen.
Passengers have the option of staying on A deck, B deck or M deck. There are many different cabins
available ranging from small twin bed cabins to luxurious first class staterooms.
Currently, plans are underway to develop a maritime history and science museum aboard the ship.
Once established, this museum will offer educational opportunities for both, children and adults,
another milestone for the Mary’s New Golden Era.
Today, the Queen Mary is noted as the 6 th most haunted location on our planet. Considering her
history, it is no wonder why she has this statistic. There are some theories for why the liner has so
much spiritual energy. History and the paranormal share a deep kinship. Ghosts and spirits seem to be
attracted to places that have experienced a lot of emotion, tragedy and death. While the Queen Mary has
experienced both tragedy and death, it has also seen much happiness and good times. There seems to be
a connection between sentimental states and psychokinetic energy. Scientifically, water is a natural
conductor for electricity and the ship sits in a body of water. Furthermore, she has elements that
contain spiritual energy, such as quartz, iron and bronze. Inanimate objects, such as antiques and
personal belongings, may also explain why a location becomes paranormally active. The Queen Mary
holds numerous artefacts and original furniture pieces. It is theorized that some energies are attached
to a particular object. Places that contain portals and vortexes are also known to house ghostly energy.
Portals and vortexes are kind of difficult to explain and understand. Generally speaking, a portal allows
spirits to travel from the living world to the spiritual world. Think of it like a bridge connecting two
planes of existence.
You guessed it: the Mary is said to house at least one
portal in the women’s changing room, located in the
former first and third class pool. Additionally, the ship
seems to have some kind of psychokinetic influence
where visitors from all over the world project their
emotions and excitement on the ship. In my opinion, I
do believe that there are other, more elusive reasons
why the Mary is so paranormally active. Perhaps, we
are not meant to know all the reasons for why she is.
The image of a ghostly figure captured on a staircase
leading to the indoor pool. Is it real?
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People experience many different types of ghostly energy on the ship. There are numerous visual
sightings of apparitions and shadow figures. Individuals experience disembodied voices, cold spots
and many personal accounts of the paranormal. There seems to be an equal amount of both residual
and intelligent spiritual energy. In my experience aboard the vessel, and having investigated numerous
locations throughout California and even out-of-state, I believe that the Queen Mary is the most active
location I have ever researched. The historic ship is a mecca for paranormal researchers and a huge
capacitor for spiritual energy. As moths are to a flame, spirits are to the Queen Mary!
RoomB340
There is one room aboard the Queen Mary that
has seen its share of legend and lore. I talked
about stateroom B340 on my most recent KTPF
Community Talk Show radio interview. B340
has been duped by a huge fable of nonsense,
originating from when Disney had management
rights of the ship. The company created a story
around the room, claiming that murder and
suicide occurred inside its premises. Patrick
Wheelock and his team, Beyond Investigation
Magazine, have conducted many paranormal
research projects on the Mary. Additionally, he and his team have thoroughly researched these claims
and found them to be entirely false. They found out that B340 has not been rented out since the ship
docked in Long Beach in December of 1967, dispelling the claim that cleaning crews refused to work
inside the room. Truth reveals that cleaning crews were never assigned to the empty B340 room since
the ship has been in Long Beach. Furthermore, there is no forensic evidence suggesting that anyone
died inside B340.
So, we now know the story behind B340. With this said, is it possible that it sees paranormal activity
from time to time? The entire ship is a spirit magnet, so it would make sense that this applies to B340
as well. I have investigated this vacant room a few times and haven’t come away with too much
evidence. However, I do have one piece to share. One of my most memorable EVPs from this fabled
space was captured in 2014. While reviewing my videotape of an audio session, the name, “Sarah” was
captured. Could this be the child spirit named “Sarah” that is also witnessed inside the former first and
third class pool room?
Since I have been investigating the ship for so many years, I have been able to develop a rapport with
some of its resident intelligent energies. There is one little spirit that I want to discuss in particular.
Her name is Jackie. There are many theories attempting to understand her origins; however, no one
really knows where she comes from. I will say that there is no forensic evidence that proves a little
female child by the name Jackie passed away on the ship. None. With that said, it leaves many of us
with questions about her: Was she a stowaway that somehow got lost aboard the ship
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Was the name “Jackie” a middle name suggesting why she wasn’t recognized in the passenger
manifests? Did she ever travel the RMS Queen Mary with parents and other siblings? Or, was her dad
one of the many servicemen fighting for freedom during World War II? Has she come through one of
the alleged portals? Is she somehow the Queen Mary’s innocent voice? These questions and a lot
more, are ones that investigators and researchers have tried to answer. Even though she displays
typical childlike tendencies, I do believe that Jackie is a highly evolved spirit that has many ethereal
duties on the Queen Mary. In many ways, I believe that she is a spirit ambassador aboard the liner.
Another popular spirited individual aboard the Mary is an 18-year-old former fireman/cleaner who
tragically passed on while working in the aft engine room. Out of respect for this individual and his
family, I will refer to him by the initials JP. Before JP’s passing, he had worked on three prior
voyages aboard the liner. Employed as of March 30, 1966, JP was originally assigned to the boiler
rooms to work on bilge pumping duties. However, tragedy struck the ship in the early morning
hours of July 10, 1966, as JP was found crushed inside watertight door #13, located in the aft engine
room’s starboard side of shaft alley. Medical personnel administered morphine and the young man’s
death was later announced in the ship’s hospital.
There are many rumours and legends circulating around his demise; however, I do believe that his
death was due to an accident. The ship was in a fog situation at the time and it was found that all
watertight doors were working properly. Since JP was familiar with the boiler rooms, perhaps, he
wasn’t as knowledgeable of the aft engine room’s layout – therefore, leading to this tragedy.
Many paranormal researchers and visitors have reported interactions with JP’s spirit. Based on
interviews and my own personal experiences, I do believe that he is quite content with spirit life
aboard the Mary. He is most often sensed in the aft engine room, but has been known to travel
throughout the ship, even making his way to staterooms from time to time. Just a few months ago, I
had the honor of seeing his spirit inside boiler room #4 – an experience I hold dear to my heart. I am
sure that JP was a remarkable man in life and continues to be in spirit. When you visit the ship,
hopefully you will have the opportunity to meet him.
Visitors can have a ghostly encounter in any area of the ship. Many people report the phantom smell
of strong cigar smoke right outside British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s suite. There have
been reports of disembodied conversations and screams on various decks. Queen Mary’s curious
ghosts also like to knock on passenger doors and walls throughout. Phantom footsteps, sounds,
smells and voices can be heard from anywhere on the ship. You name the ghost and Queen Mary
most likely has it. For ghost seekers alike, the Queen has various paranormal tours, where
passengers can embark on the ship’s paranormal hot spots.
The RMS Queen Mary isn’t just a ship, she’s a legend: a legend with a beautiful spiritual aura. She
definitely speaks of a nostalgic and bygone era. There were many people from different walks of life
who travelled the oceans on the Queen. The RMS Queen Mary has navigated folks who might not see
the next day’s beautiful sunrise all the way to those folks who saturated themselves in her luxury and
extravagance are waiting for you…
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For more information about the RMS Queen Mary, you can visit her website at
http://www.queenmary.com or you can call her directly at (562) 435-3511.
You can also visit Nicole Strickland’s www.spiritedqueenmary.com website and blog as well as her
team’s site at http://www.sandiegoparanormalresearch.com
Written by Nicole Strickland
Paranormal Researcher, Author and Public Speaker
Founder/Director of the San Diego Paranormal Research Society
http://www.sandiegoparanormalresearch.com
Southern California Area Research Director – Ghost Research Society
http://www.ghostresearch.org
Spirited Queen Mary Website and Blog
http://www.spiritedqueenmary.com
Author
Field Guide to Southern California Hauntings (2009)
The Haunted Queen of the Seas: The Living Legend of the RMS Queen Mary (2010)
Reference
Strickland, Nicole. (2015) RMS Queen Mary: A Spirited Ship. Paranormal Underground
Magazine.
You can listen again to Nicole and the Queen Mary enigma on our You Tube by clicking on the
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The September 11 th debate between Ben Emlyn-Jones and Andy Mercer was the first time we’d tried
something like this. A live discussion, on any subject, where two people present opposing views on the
same subject could easily descend into argument and chaos! Thankfully this was not the case and our
two debaters listened to each other’s argument and responded respectfully. Neither was intent on
trying to convince the other that their view was right; but as this was never the intent of the debate it
was not a problem. And it was certainly not a ‘point scoring’ exercise. It was more about expounding
theories and ideas based on each person’s interpretation of the presented evidence, and as such I
believe the debate was a success – The Editor
The following article written by Ben is a summation of his position
regarding the events of 9/11
9/11- What really happened? – Ben Emlyn-Jones
Everybody remembers where they were when it happened. A news flash
appeared on TV explaining how an airliner had crashed into the side of one of
the world's tallest buildings. A short while later another rammed the wall of
its twin in New York City USA. A similar attack at the Pentagon followed soon
afterwards. It occurred to me that I was watching mass murder being
broadcast live. After burning fiercely for a while longer, first one and then the other tower of the World
Trade Centre collapsed to the ground. For many months afterwards it never occurred to me that I
should doubt or reconsider anything related to the atrocity. Like most other people I was simply
stunned and dismayed by what had been done to so many innocent people. However in 2001 I was
already a long way down the road to becoming a "conspiracy theorist". I put that term in quotes
because it is laden with so much pejorative baggage, but it is literally true and it would be dishonest of
me to deny it; I theorize about conspiracies, ergo. It did not take long for the authorities to explain what
had happened. Apparently 9/11 had been planned by Osama bin Laden, a Muslim extremist living in
hiding in the mountains of Afghanistan. Nineteen of his agents had infiltrated the United States of
America and carried out the attacks by hijacking airliners. Some of them were trained as pilots and so
were able to direct the aircraft at the WTC and Pentagon in suicide strikes like the Japanese Kamikaze
bombers of World War II.
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The damage to the buildings by the impact of the aircraft plus the fires caused the towers to collapse
completely into rubble. When the police investigate a crime they first have to work out what happened
before they can find out who did it. This is why they do a forensic pathology examination of the body.
Does it have bullet wounds? Is there poison in the bloodstream? Are there strangulation bruises on the
neck etc? When it comes to 9/11, the evidence definitely does not fit with the official narrative given to
us by the authorities. Several years after the disaster I came across an organization calling itself "9/11
Truth". I joined the local chapter of the group and got involved in its activism events. I carried placards
down the street yelling "Nine Eleven was an inside job!" The reason this tendency were suspicious of
the 9/11 official story was because they believed that the twin towers had been brought down by
controlled demolition. Explosives had been planted in the towers along with thermite, a chemical
mixture that burns through steel structure. I did not question this hypothesis because it seemed
natural to me that when you turn away from a lie you will invariably come across the truth. If you
search the internet for "9/11 truth UK" you will find this group straight away and so for anybody who
finds themselves travelling away from the official story of 9/11, this is their first and most obvious port
of call. (3)
However, it didn't take long for me to become dissatisfied with the 9/11 Truth UK group. To begin
with, they objected to my interest in other paranormal and conspiratorial phenomena. 9/11 Truth UK
is determined not to be associated with "that sort of thing!" (Interestingly the UFOlogist Bryce Zabel
once wrote an article called UFO's and 9/11 Truth don't Mix making the exact opposite proposition, that
UFO research is tainted if it becomes associated with 9/11 conspiracies). I also came across some new
information that I found very credible, but the 9/11 Truth UK was not interested in, indeed they
consider it nonsensical and misleading. One of the slogans of the Truth movement is "Reinvestigate
9/11!" You'll see it printed on banners, T-shirts and scrawled on
walls as graffiti. However there already has been a proper
scientific reinvestigation of 9/11. It was carried out by one Dr
Judy Wood, a professor of mechanical engineering at Clemson
University in North Carolina USA. She has published a detailed
book called Where Did the Towers Go? explaining her discovery.
Also, along with two other people, she has filed a lawsuit against
the National Institute of Standards and Technology for the
falsehoods in the original 9/11 "investigation", so-called. Dr Wood
has proved that no conventional explosives were used to destroy
the World Trade Centre, instead a weapon was deployed based on
the "Hutchison Effect"; which was itself discovered by the
Canadian investigator John Hutchison. Hutchison runs a private
laboratory in which has been attempting to repeat some of the
experiments of the Serbian electrical genius Nikola Tesla. He
found that if electromagnetic fields interfere in a certain way
strange things start to happen
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A very powerful force is unleashed that is not currently understood by physics. When Hutchison
generated this effect he found that it had certain properties that Dr Wood noticed were also present
during the 9/11 attacks. For instance when the "collapse" of the north tower begins it looks as if it
does so from the plane impact site and continues down the building.
According to the NIST report this was a chain reaction of structural failure due to the weight of
descending debris above; however when buildings normally collapse bits fall off them and make a pile
of rubble on the ground beside it. In the case of the north tower, when the wave of destruction has
reached the point where half the tower has already gone nothing yet has touched the ground. Instead
there was a huge cloud of dust surrounding the carnage. There are chunks of masonry falling, but
these are falling only slightly faster than the rate of general dissolution and they dissolve in mid air
like a soluble tablet dissolving in water. In one of the news shots you can see the central core columns
of the tower standing naked after the rest of the building has gone, and these then pulverize as we
watch. There are bizarre effects noticeable in the vicinity during the period after the destruction of the
towers too. Cars and emergency vehicles were found which are ruined, but this does not appear to be
fire damage. They look more like cars that have been left in a scrap yard for twenty years, withered
away by rust and the elements. This degeneration seems to be very localized. There is even a
photograph of a police car in which the front half is completely destroyed and the back half completely
intact; the tyres haven't even been punctured and the plastic fittings have not melted. Fires can be
seen at Ground Zero which are burning right next to piles of paper, but the paper is not catching fire.
Some of the "toasted cars" are parked next to trees which are completely intact. There are far too
many other strange phenomena in the 9/11 attacks to list here, but Dr Judy Wood's book and website
does (1). The mission to find the truth about 9/11 is accomplished. The challenge now is not to locate
new information, but to persuade people to understand the importance of the information that already
exists. So if we know what happened, can we now move on to find out who did it? There are some
curious and suspicious clues. In 1982 John Hutchison received a strange visitor who spent several
months with him observing him at work in his laboratory. This man was none other than Col. John
Alexander who is a US military specialist in experimental forms of warfare, from non-lethal weapons
to remote viewing. Could that visit have sparked the development of a secret weapon which was
deployed in action on September the 11th 2001? (2) I have no firm answers,
but clearly some people have serious questions to answer. At the time of
writing it is just over fourteen years since almost three thousand lives were
lost in New York, Washington and in the air above the USA. How many more
anniversaries will pass before everybody finally knows the truth of what
really happened.
Sources:
1. http://www.drjudywood.com/
2. http://www.checktheevidence.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=412&Itemid=60
3. http://investigate911.org/
Clink the image to visit
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While I don’t intend to present a detailed reply outlining what I believe happened, mainly because
I’m still open to various possible explanations and have not adopted a particular position.
Saying that, I do believe that these were real aeroplane that really did hit both the Twin Towers, and
the Pentagon as well as the plane that come down in fields close to Stoneycreek. And I believe they
were hijacked and crashed by Islamic terrorists.
However, there are certainly questions surrounding the events, serious questions that do need
answering. Did the CIA know in advanced and allowed it to happen? The Twin Tower’s rate of
collapse is highly unusual and seemed too fast, was some kind of accelerant used to enable almost
direct decent of the towers at near free fall speed (Although physics may explain this) And, for me,
the biggest mystery was the collapse of the Solomon building, WT7 – this was not hit, it was on fire
but many large building have suffered extensive burning and yet not fallen. And how did the BBC
reports its collapse BEFORE it fell?
Following our show Ben and I continued to discuss the events and the conspiracies surrounding it.
And I’ve decided to purchase and read Dr. Wood’s book. However, before I accept her theory I’d want
to find answers to some questions. The following is a list of those questions that feel must be
answered for the theory to be fully accepted. (These are MY questions not borrowed from elsewhere)
- Andy
‘Where Did the Planes Go?’ – Questions for Dr. Judy Wood
The following are 10 questions that I feel need answering; hopefully I’ll
find the answers in Dr. Wood’s book
1) If aeroplanes were not involved what happened to the 4 aircraft and
300+ passengers and crew of the four missing planes?
2) What happened to the Pantagon? Was that an energy weapon too? If not, what then hit the
building and where did the widely photographed debris come from?
3) If no planes were involved, what came down in the fields at Stonycreek? If not a plane what
caused the damage in the field and who called the relatives of the people on the plane.
4) If the planes were not real how was the ‘image’ of planes hitting the building created? News
media footage could be faked but what about the home movies filmed and 100’s of not 1000’s who
saw the second plane ‘hit’
5) At what point in time were the buildings hit by the directed energy weapon?
The initial apparent impact of ‘planes’ or just prior to the fall i.e. to make them fall, or both?
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6) If none of the planes were real what appeared on radars? Not just military but also on civilian radar
tracked all 4 planes and show all 4 disappear from radar precisely as the planes apparently hit the
buildings and field
7) Can Dr wood point to any other occasion where directed energy weapons have been used on this
scale?
8) Where are these weapons based? Where were they fired from on the day?
(Found statements online with Dr Wood saying “in orbit” and ‘hidden’ – rather contradictory)
9) Dr Wood describes her work as fact when it fails the basic definition of the word ‘fact’ i.e.
independently verifiable and repeatable. Shown to be accurate through repeated experimentation. Has
Dr Wood carried out any investigation of debris herself, or been able to replicate any of her
observations.
10) Why are there no other seriously minded, independent researchers coming to the same conclusion
as Dr Wood. Dr Wood alone proposes the Energy Weapons solution to 9/11.
I have read through Dr Wood’s websites and those who closely follow her and I’ve not found answers
to the above questions. I hope to in her book. And, at Ben’s suggestion, I’ve emailed this list to Dr Wood
and will certainly let you all know if/when I hear from her. I’ve also asked if she’d like to come on to
our show. You never know until you ask!
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In August we were joined by Jenny Ashford and Tom Ross who talked about Tom’s amazing
experiences at the Mammoth Mountain holiday home in California in 1982.
Below is an extract from Jenny’s book based on the Events
From that point forward, the family got very little respite from the actions of
the unknown entity that shared their environment. “It was pretty much
constant activity after that. Whatever it was, it definitely wasn’t subtle,” Tom
says. “Obviously, there was an ebb and flow to it, with more things happening
at certain times, and then there might be an hour or so where nothing
happened. But it was surprisingly active. It would build up to a crescendo and
then it would drop off for a little while. And then the sequence would start
again, slowly building up and then dropping off.”
Lois gives a short litany of some recurring incidents that took place over the next couple of days: “The
oven and stove burners turned on and off. The TV would turn on and off. The hanging chain light in the
stairwell would swing in a slow circle, up to about two feet. Small soaps and washcloths appeared
everywhere, on the beds, in the kitchen, on the counters, even in our suitcases one time. The bunk bed
that had moved up against the door moved back to the middle of the room at some point, even though
we never heard it move.”
She also describes a particular afternoon on the second or third day of their stay when she had been
standing near the kitchen, talking on the phone. As she looked on in fascination, a coffee cup slowly
traveled about twenty-four inches across the bar, evidently pushed by an unseen hand. “It occurred to
us that the cup moving could have been just condensation,” she says. “But we checked, and neither the
bar nor the cup was wet. Besides that, the top of the bar was a rough, tiled surface with grout between
the tiles. It wasn’t the kind of smooth surface that would make a cup slide like that.”
The feeling of being watched was also ever-present. Tom admits that he was reluctant to look into
mirrors or glance at blank TV screens as he passed them, for fear of seeing a reflection of someone or
something in the room that wasn’t there. “The feeling of a presence in the place was really intense,” he
says. “You could just feel it everywhere, like someone was standing just behind you or in the corner of
the room you were in. You were always expecting to see someone, pretty much every minute you spent
in there.” Lois experienced this intense sensation firsthand one evening while she was taking a shower
in the locked master bathroom. Her discomfort had been growing the entire time she had been
showering, until finally the feeling of a presence in the small room with her was so overwhelming that
she very quickly turned off the water,
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tore aside the curtain, and almost lunged out of the tub and toward the door. She then noticed that
there were washcloths folded on the sink and over the doorknob that hadn’t been there seconds
before. “God, that was so creepy,” she says with a shudder.
And the following afternoon, while Red was in the master bedroom and Tom was standing in the
doorway, the window shades behind Red abruptly slammed open with a sound like an explosion. “The
shades were instantly open,” Tom recalls. “They flew open so quickly that I don’t think a person could
grab the shade string and pull it down fast enough without breaking something. It was just, bam! And
it was loud. I remember it being much louder than it should have been. It startled Red so badly that he
just ran into me, trying to get out of the room. That wigged us out.”
The family was exhausted and anxious from the almost unceasing onslaught of eerie phenomena, and
wanted to spend an evening away from the house. Red was confused about the incidents, still hoping
that a rational explanation could be found, and angry that someone was likely ruining his vacation
with ridiculous pranks.
Lois admits that while the phenomena were understandably amazing, they were also aggravating and
stress-inducing because no one was sure what might happen next. There was also the additional
pressure on both Lois and Red to protect their son and nephew from something that no one seemed
able to control. “I don’t remember having any fun at Mammoth,” she says. “Other than a couple of days
when we went skiing, we were mostly just holed up in that condo almost the whole time, waiting to
see what else was going to happen, when the next shoe was going to drop. We hardly ate or slept. We
just weren’t really having fun at all.”
Tom remembers this ambivalence well. “In a way, it was sort of exciting because it was so
unbelievable,” he says. “All these crazy things were happening around us and we didn’t know what
was causing it, so for me, being a kid, it was kind of thrilling, like a real-life mystery or ghost story. But
there was a lot of fear too, for all of us. We didn’t know what this thing was, or what it could do. Did it
want to hurt us, or kill us? It didn’t seem to be doing anything overtly hostile, but obviously that could
change at any time. So we were really just constantly on edge.”
One evening, Red suggested they drive to a nearby pizza restaurant for dinner, to give themselves a
break from the paranormal for a while. Many of the restaurants and shops in the area were shut down
due to the snowstorms, but a few remained open. Relieved, the others agreed, and Red made the
rounds of the condo, closing all of the window shades and shutting off the lights.
All four of them piled into the Wagoneer, which was parked directly under the window of the secondfloor
master bedroom. Tom, in the back seat of the car with his cousin, happened to glance up at the
window. “Look!” he said, pointing.
They could plainly see that the shades that Red had closed were now wide open, and the light in the
room was on. “I closed that,” Red said. “I closed the shades and shut off the lights just now. I know I
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He squinted through the front windshield up at the offending window. There was a pause, and then he
said quietly, “Do you see that?”
They all stared up at the window, and immediately knew what Red was talking about. “It’s blue,” Lois
said.
Tom tries to elaborate on what they saw: “It was a blue…I want to call it a haze, almost like blue
cigarette smoke, but it wasn’t wispy like smoke. It was solid, like an energy field. It was up on the
ceiling. It was maybe two or three feet thick, covering everything you could see of the ceiling through
that window. It wasn’t luminescent, or glowing. If you were to turn the lights off, it wouldn’t glow, I
don’t think. It reminded me of…you know when you rub your eyes and you see those weird colors? It
was like that. If you tried to focus on it too hard it would go away. But if you relaxed your eyes you
could see it.”
This was apparently the same blue fog that Wes had seen in his room on the first night of their stay,
though at the time he had vehemently refused to believe that he had seen such a thing.
The family sat in the parking lot, not speaking, for almost five minutes, staring up at the strange blue
haze in the window. Here was perhaps a definitive visual manifestation of the thing that had been
invisibly toying with them since they arrived at number seventeen. The sight of it was somehow both
intriguing and deeply disturbing.
At last Red said, “Let’s get out of here.”
At the restaurant, the family ate their pizza in almost complete silence, all four of them lost in their
own anxieties about the entity that had for some reason chosen them as a target for its unfathomable
activities. Tom remembers his thoughts as he sat at the table: “I still just couldn’t believe it was true. It
was like something you were told your whole life, even though I was only thirteen at the time, you
were told that something doesn’t exist—like ghosts—and they do. That’s all we could imagine this
thing as being, was some kind of a ghost at this point. We had never heard the word poltergeist before,
so we thought it must be the spirit of a person.”
Tom also points out that they were all in a particular kind of denial about the entire situation. “It
wasn’t the type of thing you sometimes see on paranormal shows, with people taking something
ambiguous and blowing it out of proportion, making it into something supernatural,” he says. “What
we experienced was so in-your-face, so undeniable, that our first instinct was just sheer disbelief. We
were trying to tell ourselves that it just couldn’t be real. It couldn’t be happening. But it was.”
Although Lois and Red had discussed calling someone to ask for help in dealing with their experiences,
in the end the fear of being stigmatized was just too great, and they decided to keep their ordeal to
themselves for the time being.
Red, perhaps to lighten the mood, observed that it was a good thing they weren’t talking about their
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He then jokingly suggested that they should come up with a code word to refer to the thing, so that
they could talk about it in front of others without being hauled off to an asylum. He chose a word that
rhymed with ghost, but was still silly and meaningless enough to pass unremarked. From then on, the
thing occupying number seventeen was referred to as “The Blost.”
Reluctantly, the family left the restaurant after dinner and returned to number seventeen. When Red
pulled the Jeep into the parking lot, they all looked up at the master bedroom window in unison. The
shades were still open and the lights were still on, though the blue haze was no longer apparent. Lois
noticed that there was something different about the window—almost as though an invisible hand was
in the process of writing in the frost—but at that distance there was no way to tell exactly what it was,
so immediately upon entering the condo, they huddled together in a tight clump and went upstairs.
“We went directly to that window to see if we could see any kind of evidence of anything strange,” Tom
says. “I stood there at the window, and my uncle was behind me. We were looking at the windowsill
and the shades and the lights. And I noticed something on the window.
“It was a clear mark, like scratching,” he continues. “I looked closely at it, and it was like a child’s
scribble. It said, ‘Go.’ It was clearly written, but it was done in a primitive hand. It was a clear smudge.
And then I looked right down below the window, and there on the carpet was a folded twist tie, one of
the old-fashioned twist ties for a loaf of bread. I picked it up and I made a line on the window right next
to the word, ‘go,’ and it made that same smudge.”
Tom showed the twist tie to Red. “Look. It wrote it with that,” he said.
The family was simultaneously amazed and terrified. Was their “blost” now trying to communicate
with them? Was the phenomena escalating to a point where they would no longer be able to deal with
it? And what did the alleged entity mean by writing the word “go” on the window?
“We were trying to interpret what it meant,” Tom says. “Did it mean, ‘Go, get something to eat, it’s
going be all right,’ or ‘Go, get out and never come back?’ The way it had been behaving so far, it really
could have gone either way.”
He points out that until then, the blost hadn’t seemed particularly hostile toward them, the savage
breaking of the front door chain notwithstanding. But that was part of the reason that the seemingly
commanding tone of the writing was so confusing for them. “It didn’t usually communicate, it just did
things. They weren’t, for the most part, intimidating things. You could read into it if you wanted to, and
it would be spooky. But it was best not to read into things. We tried not to let our imaginations run
away with us. We just kind of accepted it. It said, ‘Go.’”
But of course, they were still snowed in on Mammoth Mountain, and couldn’t go anywhere.
You can listen to our interview of
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The Fleet Street Phantom- Hallowe’en London 1684 - Brian Langston
Who was the menacing and malevolent stranger who climbed into Tom Cox’s Hackney Carriage on All
Hallows Eve 1684 who not only terrified him out of his wits but changed his life forever?
Tom Cox was a well known and popular cab driver in the London of Charles II. He had previously
worked for years as a labourer, grafting on building sites in the City during the vast rebuilding
programme, led by Sir Christopher Wren, following the Great Fire of London in 1666. The work had
been hard and brutal but Tom had saved assiduously to buy his own Hackney Carriage and a pair of
fine horses and now revelled in plying his trade through London’s dark and narrow streets. Although
in no way as physically demanding as his former occupation, the job had its own hazards. Cutthroats
and highwaymen lurked in every alley but Tom was strong and fearless and gave short shrift to anyone
who tried to relieve him of his hard-earned fares. Many a vagabond who had chanced their arm had
felt the searing pain from lash of his whip across their face.
For several years, Tom worked the City streets night and day and became a familiar sight around
London with a reputation for being an honest and industrious cabbie. On Halloween eve, Friday 31 st
October 1684, Tom picked up a fare little suspecting that it would be his last and he would never drive
a cab again.
The evening had begun innocently enough. Tom was coming to the end of a busy 12 hour shift. He had
taken a fare from White-Hall Gate to Water Lane which was a narrow street leading down to the
Thames. He drove down to the end of Water Lane to turn his carriage around and headed back up
towards Fleet Street stopping off at the tavern for some much-needed refreshment. After a pot or two
of ale he got into his carriage and began his journey home. Just before the upper end of Water Lane he
was beckoned by a man standing by one of the posts near the
wall. Although it was dark, Tom could see from his attire that it
was a gentleman dressed all in black and holding a roll of
parchment in his hand. Tom was in two minds whether to take
the fare but when he asked for the Lower Church Yard at Fleet
Ditch near St. Brides Church, he realised it was on his way
home and so would be no great hardship. Tom opened the door
to the carriage and the mysterious stranger climbed inside.
Immediately his horses began to agitate which was unusual and
Tom had difficulty in bringing them to order. He took the lash
to them and they bolted causing him to lose his hat. Cursing
under his breath Tom stopped the carriage and climbed down
into the inky black cobbled streets to search for his hat. He
searched in vain for several minutes before the stranger called
out from inside the carriage and asked what he was doing. Tom
told him that he’d lost his hat and would rather have lost eight
shillings from his pocket than his precious hat.
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The stranger told him to look under the feet of the horses which he did and to his surprise discovered
his hat even though it was so dark that he had to find it by touch. Tom thought this was a little odd as
the stranger could not possibly have seen it but climbed back into the driving seat and continued the
journey.
The horses were restless throughout the journey and when he finally arrived at the Fleet Ditch they
stopped a few paces from the churchyard and would go no further. Tom tried to gee them on but they
resisted and behaved in such and unruly manner that had difficulty in controlling. He shouted to his
fare from his seat that he could take him no further and opened the door of the coach with one hand
whilst clutching the reins of his horses on his whip, which he had made into a bow to lengthen them so
that he could reach the door handle.
The gentleman held out his hand and told the coachman to take what he would for the fare. Tom
looked down and could see the man’s hand but saw no money and as he went to take it he could feel no
hand although he man was standing plainly before him. The man then emerged from the coach which
caused the horses to rear up in terror and drag the coach forwards. As he struggled to control them he
looked back at the carriage and standing where the stranger had been he saw the monstrous figure of a
roaring black bear with flaming red eyes lunging towards him. Tom screamed out in terror and lashed
out repeatedly with his whip as the enormous beast descended upon down on him. Tom screamed and
struggled for all he was worth then in a huge flash of fire and sparks the monster was gone.
Tom had collapsed on top of his carriage and the next thing he knew he was at home in Cradle Alley in
Baldwin’s Gardens. His horses had taken him home where his wife found his unconscious body
slumped on the coach. He was taken from the carriage and carried to bed where he remained delirious
and unable to move or talk for a week.
At dawn on Thursday 6 th November, his wife entered his bedroom just as the cock crowed and at that
instant he roused and with difficulty spoke for the first time, telling her of the dreadful apparition that
had attacked him. Tom Cox recovered his speech but was paralysed and unable to move any of his
limbs. He was visited by a great many friends and scholars of the day who listened with horror to his
ordeal. Many were convinced that he was one of the few men who had met the Devil himself and
survived to tell the tale. Tom Cox never regained his mental or physical faculties and was unable ever
drive his carriage again through his beloved London streets. He went to his grave a broken man and
the truth of what malevolence befell him on that Halloween night in 1684, remains a mystery.
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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