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CONTACT in the DESERT SPECIAL Featuring: Linda Moulton Howe, James Gilliland, John Desouza, Jeremy Corbell, Stephen Bassett A BRAND NEW MAGAZINE ON UFOLOGY & ALTERNATIVE THINKING TOP 10 ANCIENT SITES OF THE AMERICAS ISSUE #3 APR/MAY 2018 CONTACT IN THE DESERT SPECIAL Featuring: Linda Moulton Howe, James Gilliland, John DeSouza, Jeremy Corbell, Stephen Bassett OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES What are they and how not to freak out if it happens to you! THE CULROSS WITCH TRIALS 50 years before Salem, accusations abound in Scotland. S-4 DIGITAL PRESS Plus more great interviews and features inside! EDITOR’S LETTER WELCOME! “Humans…[sigh] Hillbilllies of the Universe.” Ildis Kitan, The Orville, S1 E8 (2017) ust as this issue was in the flying high on Netflix. We also had a final stages, we learned of the fascinating chat with ex-FBI Special Jpassing of a true alternative Agent John DeSouza about his radio legend - Art Bell. The founder investigations into the paranormal and original host of the ultra- and Preston Dennett gave us his popular CoastToCoastAM had been guide to Out Of Body Experiences, ill for some time and you can read which we fully intend to follow when our tribute to the great man over we get five minutes! the page. With researchers Jim Marrs and John Anthony West also I’d like to extend hearty thanks to passing within the last 12 months, the incredibly talented Erik Stitt, and Graham Hancock having a near who provided our beautiful cover miss as well, it seems the alternative image. Erik is a lifelong experiencer community has taken a bit of a hit and channeller and has also of late. It is therefore important generously provided a signed copy people can get together with like- of the artwork, to be given away minded individuals who supported free to one lucky reader - see page the work of Art, et al. So this issue 29 for details. While I’m thanking What we’ve we have great interviews with people I’d also like to mention been reading some of the speakers who will be two readers who wanted to get attending the premier alternative involved; Paul Budding gives his Rendezvous With Rama event, Contact In The Desert which take on To The Stars Academy of Arthur C Clarke takes place from June 1-4 in Indian Arts and Sciences and their ex-CIA Hunt For The Skinwalker Wells, California. man Luis Elizondo; and Leonard Colm Kelleher & George Knapp Low who has done an incredible The Grays Whitley Streiber Kicking things off we have the amount of research in to witchcraft incomparable in Scotland. Unfortunately if you’re Dark Mission: Linda Moulton who talked us through her looking for the second part of our The Secret History of NASA Howe Richard Hoaglund & Mike Bara early investigations into cattle Mandela Effect feature, that has mutilations. We also spoke to ECETI been put back an issue due to the Missing 411: Off The Grid founder James Gilliland about his author having a “crisis of faith”, an David Paulides ranch and the incredible levels of anecdote that’s worth the wait! The Para-Invesigators regular paranormal and ufo activity. John DeSouza In the first of a three-part series of Anyway, I truly hope you enjoy this Solomon Island Mysteries interviews we had a conversation issue and it encourages you to get Marius Boirayon with documentarian Jeremy Corbell involved, after all, this mag is made whose work Patient 17 is currently by somebody like you, for you. SHADOWS TEAM WEBSITE: EDITORIAL & DESIGN www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk Dave Partridge CONTRIBUTORS FACEBOOK: Paul Budding /ShadowsOfYourMind Leonard Low TWITTER: PUBLISHED BY S-4 DIGITAL PRESS @ShadowsMagazine Content © Shadows Of Your Mind magazine and GET IN TOUCH! S-4 Digital Press, 2018. No part of this magazine may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or If you have an idea for a feature, or ONSTELLAR: reproduced without prior consent of the publisher. would like to contribute and write for @ShadowsOfYourM1nd The opinions are those of the respective authors and Shadows Of Your Mind then contact us. may not necessarily represent the opinions of the magazine. S-4 Digital Press recognises all copyrights E-MAIL: ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES: contained in this issue were possible we acknowledge [email protected] [email protected] the copyright holder. issue 03 2 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk CONTENTS CONTENTS 14 32 58 40 8 Top 10 © kamchatka/123rf.com / Other images supplied 10 © kamchatka/123rf.com Top 4 NEWS 20 CONFIRMATION OF 52 PRESTON DENNETT A PHENOMENON A round-up of the latest A guide to out of body alternative news stories Paul Budding discusses Luis experiences. including a tribute to Art Bell. Elizondo of To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences. 58 JOHN DESOUZA 8 LINDA MOULTON HOWE 26 ERIK STITT The former FBI Special Agent talks about his paranormal The legendary researcher Our cover artist divulges the investigations. talks cattle mutilations. source of his inspritation. 63 THE CULROSS 14 TOP 10: ANCIENT 32 JAMES GILLILAND WITCH TRIALS SITES OF THE AMERICAS The owner of ECETI Ranch Five decades before the give us the lowdown on its infamous events at Salem, a Pyramids, petroglyphs and paranormal activity. Scottish village was in turmoil. abandoned ruins. 40 JEREMY CORBELL 66 UFOS OVER EUROPE: 17 FROM THE ARCHIVE THE RAVEO CASE The ridiculously talented Cloven rooftop footprints filmmaker on his latest film A professor’s encounter in the in southern England. Patient 17. hills of Italy. www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 3 issue 03 NEWS GET INVOLVED Have an opinion on any of our features? Is there a topic you want to see covered? Get in touch below Our round up of the biggest news stories to hit the alternative community. ART BELL 1945-2018 Legendary radio host embarks on the next great adventure. t seemed almost fitting that one of the alternative and paranormal broadcast Ilegends should happen to shuffle off this mortal coil on Friday 13th at his home in Pahrump, Nevada. As the original host of ©CoastToCoastAM Coast To Coast AM he set the standard for Art Bell: The voice of alternative and paranormal radio since the mid 1990s. others to follow in the alternative talk radio arena. A statement on www.coasttocoastam. com read “Over the course of countless in 1988, which he broadcast from his home programs throughout the decade and into in Pahrump, where he talked mostly about ART BELL: the 2000s, Art Bell captivated listeners by politics. That all changed though after the AUTHOR way of his intellectually-curious and open- Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 when Art Art also wrote minded conversations with guests who changed tack and started talking about and released were attempting to find answers to the the paranormal, UFOs and the occult. a handful of paranormal mysteries which baffle us all.” Unsurprisingly listener figures soared, books. Other tributes poured in from all corners of peaking at around 15 million. Not content with the alternative community as the sad news monopolising spread with author Whitley Streiber one of Over the course of the years, Art would the airwaves the many people paying respects at Art’s interview hundreds of guests, including well Art authored a funeral. known celebrities such as Dan Aykroyd, number of fiction Leonard Nimoy and X-Files creator Chris and non-fiction Having worked in radio for most of his Carter. But it wasn’t all serious talk as Art books including: career Art co-founded Coast To Coast Am was well known for being a bit mischievious, The Art of Talk occasionally playing the part of trickster (autobiography); when it came to some listeners calls such The Source - as the Area 51 callers (see next Journey Through issue) and he continually sparred The Unexplained with regular caller known as ‘JC’, ART BELL WAS AND (with Brad who considered Art to be doing Steiger) and The the Devil’s work. But when it was ALWAYS WILL REMAIN Coming Global all said and done Art was a true Superstorm (with pioneer and his influence will be Whitley Streiber) AN EXCEPTIONAL MAN felt far and wide for many, many which was the years to come. IN THE WORLD OF basis for the 2004 Dennis Quaid To hear some clips of the movie The Day JOURNALISM. great man at work click here - After Tomorrow Joseph P Farrell - www.gizadeathstar.com www.coasttocoastam.com issue 03 4 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk NEWS ONSTELLAR: SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM FOR THE FUTURE? With censorship rife on various community sites such as YouTube and Facebook is it time for a change? ocial media is dead, long live social a world-class user experience, media. At least that’s the goal of the our members will have access to STANTON people behind new online alternative the largest publicly-available digital FRIEDMAN Scommunity ONSTELLAR. With concerns archive of curiousity-quenching audio, video, RETIRES publications, images, newspaper clippings mounting over privacy and the selling of Eminent UFO and investigatvie documents.” Big name data, not to mention the relentless tracking researcher calls researchers and authors have already signed by corporate entities who try and convince it a day at 83. that tailored advertising is a good thing, up so the platform will eventually become a it’s time for a new approach. We’ve signed huge reference library for all things related Having given his up naturally and are looking forward to to UFOs, the paranormal and alternative first lecture on participating in the early stages of what history - a massive online resource for the flying saucers could be the biggest revolution in social collective consciousness. back in 1967, media for a long time. nuclear physicist and long-term The site was open for registrations in March, researcher and was quickly embraced by the alternative Stanton Friedman community.
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