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See Also: Channeling
Further Reading
Brown, Michael F., 1997. The Channeling Zone:
American Spirituality in an Anxious Age. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press.
Melton, J. Gordon, 1996. Encyclopedia of American
Religions. Fifth edition. Detroit, MI: Gale Research.
“Who Is Michael?” n.d. http://amt.to/mef/mchan.
html.
Ya r b ro, Chelsea Quinn, 1979. Messages from Mi c h a e l .
New Yo rk: Pl a y b oy Pa p e r b a c k s .
———, 1986. More Messages from Michael. New
York: Berkley Paperbacks.
Michigan giant
According to the Saginaw Courier-Herald of
April 17, 1897, a “flying machine” landed half
a mile southwest of Reynolds, Michigan, at
4:30 A.M. on the fourteenth. Witnesses who
had seen it hovering rushed to the scene,
where, to their shock, they spotted its pilot,
who appeared human but was nine and a half
feet tall. His “talk, while musical, is not talk at
all, but seems to be a repetition of bellowing.”
The being looked hot and uncomfortable
even though he was nearly naked. What
looked like polar-bear pelts lay nearby, apparently
winter clothing for which the traveler
had no use at the moment.
One farmer made the mistake of approaching
the figure too closely. For his efforts he
found himself at the receiving end of a severe
kick. It was delivered with sufficient ferocity
and velocity that the man’s hip broke.
The article, clearly written with tongue in
cheek, concludes, “Great excitement pre va i l s
h e re, and lots of people are flocking here fro m
Morley and How a rd City to view the strange
being from a distance, as no one dares to go near.
He seems to be trying to talk to the people.”
See Also: Aurora Martian; Close encounters of the
third kind; Oleson’s giants; Smith; Wilson
Further Reading
Bullard, Thomas E., ed., 1982. The Airship File: A
Collection of Texts Concerning Phantom Airships
and Other UFOs, Gathered from Newspapers and
Periodicals Mostly during the Hundred Years Prior
to Kenneth Arnold’s Sighting. Bloomington, IN:
self-published.
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Migrants
In George Hunt Wi l l i a m s o n’s alternative hist
o ry Other To n g u e s — Other Fl e s h (1953), “Mig
r a n t s” are spirit beings from the Sirius Star system.
They arrived on Earth during the Mi o c e n e
Epoch (between twe n t y - five and thirteen million
years ago) with the intention of looking for
bodies to inhabit. At first, they gave serious consideration
to cats, but after due re flection they
decided that apes we re more likely to evo l ve tow
a rd intelligence, civilization, and technology.
In the meantime, employing their vast paranormal
powers, the Migrants conjured up
g rotesque material forms for themselves. T h i s
period is known among extraterrestrial historians
of Earth as the “Great Ab o m i n a t i o n . ”
Williamson reported, “The abomination
was so vast that forms were fusing together
into monsters having no purpose but self-destruction.
Men and animals were growing interchangeable
of spirit and structure. Man was
beastly and beast was manlike.” These abominable
entities took the forms of the creatures
remembered in legend and mythology as
griffins, centaurs, dragons, and sphinxes.
Eventually the “Host on the Sirian planets”
could take no more of this insubordination.
Men were to be men, beasts were to be beasts,
the Host declared before setting loose a kind
of global warming that melted the poles and
sparked huge floods. “Monsters and anomalies
were destroyed,” the channeled entity
Elder Brother informed Williamson. “No
longer could they propagate. Pure species
were saved and pronounced sterile unto all
but themselves.” The Migrants lost all their
psychokinetic powers and became normal primates.
They began engaging in sexual unions
with ape-women, and out of these alliances
modern Homo sapiens eventually emerged.
See Also: Williamson, George Hunt
Further Reading
Williamson, George Hunt, 1953. Other Tongues—
Other Flesh. Amherst, WI: Amherst Press.
Mince-Pie Martians
The so-called Mince-Pie Martians appeared in
a kitchen in Rowley Regis, in England’s West