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39 STALKING THE ZODIAC KILLER By Michael Newton British author John Brophy coined the term “serial murder” in 1966, in his book The Meaning of Murder. American authorities would not adopt the label for another decade but in that same year, a terrifying serial killer who called himself “Zodiac” debuted in California. Despite four decades of intense investigation, his identity still remains unknown today.

47 ATRADITION OF TRIUMPHS: THE HISTORY OFTHE TAROT By Alexandra Diaz A considerable factor in the appeal of Tarot cards is their fabled exotic background. Many people have devised theories that attempt to explain their origins while others simply sustain the myths that shroud them. Although these myths seize the imagination, the Tarot’s true history remains equally captivating. In fact, Tarot cards, which were originally designed in the 15th century, were not actually used for divination until the 18th century.

54 NAPOLEON’S BOOK OF FATE By Mary Franz History remembers Napoleon Bonaparte as a brilliant general, fearless leader, and powerful emperor.Yet few know that he was also influenced by the occult and actually based many of his life decisions on advice from prognosticators, palm-readers, astrologers, and his unusual Book of Fate, an ancient oracle that he supposedly found in an Egyptian mummy’s sarcophagus.

62 DID NAPOLEON ESCAPE ST. HELENA? By Kelly Bell

67 AN INTERVIEWWITHTHE SCI-FI CHANNEL’S GHOST HUNTERS

’S LEON NAPO K BOO Caveat: The opinions of the contributors to Mysteries Magazine are not necessarily those of the editors of Mysteries Magazine. F However, Mysteries Magazine welcomes helpful criticism or comments on any of the articles contained herein. Please note that O we reserve the right to edit all submissions. ATE We also may occasionally use photos and illustrations that have been placed in the public domain. As it is not always possi- F ble to indentify the copyright holder, if you claim credit for something we have published, please let us know so that we can acknowledge you in the following issue.

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torted area behind the horse on the right Could A Nature Spirit, Not an Alien (figure 2). 9/11: Debunking the Myths Dear Editor, Unlike squirrels, these creatures trav- Dear Editor: n issue #7, pg. 76 shows a photo not el in pairs and are known to frequent oral decency compels me to Have of an alien but of a forest friend, the Japan, where priests have been known direct your readers to the Icousin of the Irish Leprechaun. It to communicate with them.They live in MMarch, 2005 issue of Popular looks similar to a squirrel, although trees and especially groves, and can be Mechanics and the excellent article Alexandra Diaz, a life-long resi- squirrels are smaller and the creature has most easily detected near water sources “9/11: Debunking the Myths.” Been dent of Miami, FL, recently the natural ability to attract the attention After consulting several hundred in the moonlight.They move in the graduated from Florida Inter- of mortals who have not had the veil of space just outside of human perception experts that are each named and identi- this world removed from their minds, fied, the editors at Popular Mechanics national University with a bach- and although they are not warm-blood- Your Ad such as holy men or those who live close ed, they are indeed flesh and blood and collaborated to destroy every sacred elors degree in English. When to nature. do die. argument of 9/11 conspiracy buffs with not busy writing, she enjoys The camera was in motion when the Based on this photo, I estimate that rational, simple explanations and com- viewing the world through the photo was taken, separating the creature there may be as many as 100 of these mon sense. for Just —ROBERT A. GOERMAN from his natural ability to blend in with creatures living in the park. lens of her camera. nature. What most won’t be able to see, —HENRY LEWIS, AKA SUNDRAGON, NEW KENSINGTON, PA $125/issue! however, is that there is at least one addi- PALADINOF THE SILVER WHITE FLAME A freelance writer who lives just outside of Boston, MA, Mary Franz col- tional creature in the shot—in the dis- HUNTSVILLE, TX Ask Elvis for a Second Opinion! Dear Editor: (based on an 8x contract) lects Tarot cards and is interested in mysticism and the occult. She urely William Lewis was writing in bought her first copy of Napoleon’s Book of Fate when she was 18, and jest when he came up with his fan- has enjoyed reading and consulting it ever since. Stasy article on the 9/11 terrorist attacks in issue #8? If anyone believes this garbage, maybe they should get a Working from his home in Tyler, TX, Kelly Bell has been freelancing second opinion from Elvis or John F. since 1981. Concentrating on history, his credits include articles pub- Kennedy. I’m surprised that Lewis didn’t lished in many historical magazines as well as Georgia Magazine and mention the fact that Bigfoot and Nessie were in one of the airplanes. Travel & Leisure. He is also a regular contributor to East Texas Review All joking aside, this kind of idiotic newspaper. junk does a great disservice to those who f lost loved ones on that tragic day. Lewis Michael Newton has published 174 and Mysteries Magazine should be ashamed of themselves. books since 1977, with 11 more —TOM R. KOVACH For more info, forthcoming. While 143 of them have PARK RAPIDS, MN call or email been novels, he is best known for nonfiction, including a history of the Kim at Florida Ku Klux Klan (The Invisible Email your editorial comments and critiques Empire (2001), The Encyclopedia of to [email protected], or write to: Kim Guarnaccia, Editor, Mysteries Mag- Serial Killers (2000), and The FBI Mysteries azine, PO Box 490, Walpole, NH 03608 Encyclopedia (2003). Upcoming titles USA. We reserve the right to edit any letter include The Encyclopedia of Unsolved published. Magazine original figure Crimes, The Encyclopedia of Cryptozo- figure 2 (603) 352-1645 ology, and The Encyclopedia of Con- spiracies and Conspiracy Theories. [email protected]

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arine biologists are baffled by the sudden appearance in M2004 of large Humboldt squid along the coast of British Columbia and as far north as Alaska, pos- sibly signaling a major change in the temperature of the waters along the coastline. James A. Cosgrove, manager of the Royal British Columbia Museum’s natu- ral history department, says that before now, the farthest north the species had been seen was off the coast of Oregon in 1997.The aggressive predatory squid are usually found around Baja California and farther south. A five-foot-long specimen caught off- shore from Sitka in September, 2004, has been sent for further study to Califor- nia’s Santa Barbara Museum of Natural AP History. Since news of the squid captures , ON

was made public, seven more were RS reported seen from Ore- gon to Alaska, including ANDY HENDE one sighting near Yaku- R tak and Kodiak Island. Greg Cowling, a deckhand on the F/V Commander, holds up a jumbo flying squid that In an effort to deter- he caught in the ocean near Sitka, Alaska, in September, 2004. The squid was mine their origins, Eric one of a school of thousands seen there by fishermen. Hochburg, curator of the Santa Barbara Muse- um of Natural History The Humboldt squid are mally found much farther south. and a man who has been not the only forms of Shifting currents and a water tempera- researching the species’ marine life that appear to ture increase of about two degrees Cel- spread north, hopes to be heading north.Also sius over normal temperatures during the compare the recent finds sighted during the summer of 2004 may be responsible, says with previously collected summer of 2004 Bruce Wing, a biological oceanographer specimens. “We’ll try to get a were a thresher with the National Oceanic and Atmo- handle on if they are moving shark, two great spheric Administration. north with warmer waters and if white sharks, a jack they die out as they head north,” mackerel, and a —RICHARD MACKENZIE he said, “or if the cold water con- hard-shell turtle, all SOURCES: CNN ACTION NEWS, CLEVELAND, OH, SAN strains their northward movement.” animals that are nor- FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, SEATTLE TIMES

1 0 MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E , I SS U E # 9 WWW. MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E . C O M 1 1 Noteworthy We Want Your Implant Allows Email by Thought Spooky Photos! y tapping directly into the brain’s was first implanted into the cerebral cortex on the surface of the brain. neurons, a computer chip has now of a 24-year-old patient in June, 2004. While these devices are promising, oth- Have you captured on film a UFO, Ballowed a quadriplegic Unlike other communicative ers caution that more research is neces- man to change TV channels, devices that require the sar y before brain-computer inter faces ghost, light orb, or any other event send emails, and play comput- patient to use eye or tongue become widely used. Stephen Roberts, an that defies easy explanation? er games with his mind, possi- movements which are difficult engineer at Oxford University, states, “We bly revolutionizing communica- to learn how to use, the have to make something that works robust- If so, we want to publish it! Just mail us the photo, slide, or tions and assistive devices for implant frees the patient to ly and without a lot of patient training. the disabled. The BrainGate, as move or talk while controlling a Most of these devices work well on a small negative with a brief explanation as to where and when it the device is called, can be television or computer. It may subset of patients, but there’s a long way was taken and what is unusual about it. If we publish connected to up to 100 neu- also help patients who are to go before getting them to work for the your photo, you will receive a FREE 1-year subscription rons at a time, far more than similar unable to use other methods of communi- general population.” (or if already a subscriber, a FREE 1-year renewal). implants, allowing for far greater range of cation. —RICHARD MACKENZIE functions. Other devices are also in the works, SOURCES: [email protected], Manufactured by CyberKinetics, a com- many of which do not tap directly into the AMER. ASSOC. FOR TECH. IN PSYCHIATRY, pany in Foxborough, MA, the BrainGate brain, including conductive plates that sit UNKNOWNCOUNTRY.COM Mysteries Magazine PO Box 490 • Walpole, NH 03608 USA • www.MysteriesMagazine.com (Note: All submitted photos become the property of Mysteries Magazine and will not be returned.) Sleeping Dinosaur Discovered in China recent discovery in China pro- played other avian traits, including the found fossilized in a characteristic vides the first evidence of how light bone structure needed for flight. “death pose,” with head and neck Adinosaurs slept and, in the pro- Discovered near the city of Beipiao in thrown back and spine twisted, the 21- cess, further bolsters the theory that the Liaoning province, the specimen is inch-long specimen was curled up, modern birds are descended from similar to other dinosaurs found in this apparently in a sound sleep, when it dinosaurs. Extraordinarily well-pre- fossil-rich region, where a rock forma- died. “There is no disturbance.The served, the fossilized speci- tion comprised of ancient river sedi- body is arranged in a life-like posture,” men of a small, two- ments and compressed ash states Xu. “It is one of the most com- legged dinosaur was provide perfect condi- plete skeletons I have ever seen. It is a found with its head tions to preserve perfect preservation. We have almost curled under one fish, birds, every bone in the skeleton.” forearm, just as insects, reptiles, Although Xu and Mark Norell of the modern birds do. plants, mammals, American Museum of Natural History “This is the first and dinosaurs, are unsure as to what caused the crea- report of sleeping from the late Jurassic ture’s demise, they think that the behavior in dinosaurs,” and Early Cretaceous periods. dinosaur may have been quickly buried says Xing Xu, a In many cases, skin and internal under layers of volcanic ash or possibly researcher at the Chi- organs were also pre- in a burrow or den that collapsed, con- nese Academy of Sci- served, giving paleontol- tributing to its outstanding preserva- ence in Beijing. ogists valuable infor- tion. “What you can see from the skele- Named Mei Long, or mation about ton is that it died peacefully, quickly,” “soundly sleeping these ancient life says Xu. dragon” in Chinese, forms. —RICHARD MACKENZIE the new species of Unlike many SOURCES: PEOPLE’S DAILY ONLINE (CHINA), dinosaur also dis- other dinosaurs PRAVDA, CNN

1 2 MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E , I SS U E # 9 WWW. MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E . C O M 1 3 Noteworthy EARTH A Head Injury May Have Led ENERGIES To the Red Baron’s Demise ENIGMAS severe head injury nine months Richthofen was the most famous fighter peramental.According to neuropsychol- before the final flight of the Red pilot of World War I, and was known for ogist Daniel Orme, “He is described as ABaron may have impaired the ace his extraordinary abilities in the air as well much more immature after the injury, Learn how to help pilot’s ability to fly, setting the stage for as his composure under fire.After a bullet and we have found that is common with his eventual demise, states two neuropsy- grazed his skull and left a four-inch gash this type of brain injury.” chologists. Citing the dramatic change in during a dogfight in July, 1917, he suf- Orme, a retired neuropsychologist yourself and others his behavior noticed by his friends and fered temporary vision loss and loss of who once evaluated injured pilots for the family—as well as records of his motor skills, but regained them long Air Force, and his colleague Tom Hyatt, be healthy in body, injuries—suggests that his judgment was enough to crash-land the plane.The became intrigued by the subject after compromised by his injury, causing him effects of the wound were far-reaching, watching a PBS documentary about the mind and spirit. to make piloting errors that placed him however, and both friends and family Baron’s death.They described the in the line of fire on April 21, 1918, members noticed changes in his behavior wound as causing a “severe concussion,” American Institute of Holistic Theology offers when he was shot down and killed.(See and personality as he recuperated. bruising his brain and possibly causing nonsectarian college degree programs through Mysteries issue #5) Although normally reserved before the injury to the frontal lobe, where judg- distance learning.You can earn these self-paced Credited with 80 kills, Manfred von incident, he was now brooding and tem- ments and decisions are made. advanced degrees from home: “People do things they wouldn’t nor- mally do” after suffering this type of • PARAPSYCHIC SCIENCE - the investigation of psychic phenomena. What in the Heavens was That? injury, Orme says. “They can be impul- • METAPHYSICS - a branch of philosophy On the night of December 17, 2004, the sive, have difficulty monitoring their own concerned with first causes. continuous web camera (CONCAM) behavior, difficulty recognizing if what in Haleakala, Hawaii, saw some- they’re doing is appropriate.” • NATUROLOGY - the study of natural healing thing streak across the night During his final flight, von Richthofen and God’s laws as they apply to the health of humankind. sky. Later, the Mauna Kea displayed unusual flying maneuvers that CONCAM on the next included fixating on a single plane in • DIVINITY - the study of health and healing Hawaiian island record- as presented in the Old and New Testaments. ed the same thing. front of him, breaking a rule he himself • HOLISTIC CHILDCARE - education for the The NightSkyLive.net had laid down in a flight manual he had “whole child.” team might have written.As he pursued the Allied target disregarded the in front, another Allied plane attacked • HOLISTIC MINISTRIES - learn to minister to streak as a satel- from behind, bringing him down in a the “whole person.” lite, but no record burst of gunfire. • HEALTHEOLOGY - a theological study of it was found at The Red Baron’s actions and behavior of health. www.heavens- above.com, a site are classic symptoms of post-concussive Learn how to build and that documents syndrome. “In combat… the individual maintain a private health bright satellite has to act quickly and make critical deci- practice teaching the events. Current sions,” says Orme, “and he just lost the universal laws of candidates include capacity to incorporate all that data health and healing. Taste the Magic of a satellite that was quickly and make solid judgments. He For a free catalog, call somehow missed by didn’t have the mental flexibility to real- ACCREDITED MEMBER: heavens-above, a rocket, 1-800-949-4325 The American Association Triple Eight Vodka. ize he shouldn’t pursue that plane.” a passing space rock, or per- or www.aiht.edu of Drugless Practitioners —RICHARD MACKENZIE Certification & haps even an alien spacecraft. Accreditation Board www.888Vodka.com —KIM GUARNACCIA SOURCES: AP, WWW.HEALTHFINDER.GOV, Produced and bottled by Triple Eight Distillery, LLC • Nantucket, MA UNIV. OF MISSOURI, THE HERALD 40% alcohol by volume (80 Proof), 750 ml

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Security Camera Association, says that the descriptions she has heard do not fit the insect expla- hen officials in Chestertown, moving object was probably a bug nation, although she has not yet seen the MD in July, 2004, decided to crawling on the surface of the lens, and tape for herself. She has offered to bring Winstall a new security system was distorted into a white spot by the in specialized equipment in an effort to for the Kent County Courthouse, they curvature of the lens. “I’ve seen it so resolve the matter, but thus far, Kent were looking to deter vandals.To their many times, it’s not funny,” commented County officials have said that they are surprise, however, a ghostly entity may Brooke Eyler, the company’s general satisfied with the more mundane expla- have made its presence felt on several manager. “It’s definitely a bug.” nation and that no further investigation occasions, at least two of which were Members of the Maryland Ghost and is necessary. caught on a security camera in one of the Spirit Association beg to differ, however. —RICHARD MACKENZIE building’s stairwells. Beverly Lipsinger, a resident of nearby SOURCES: AP, NETSCAPE, PARANORMAL A glowing orb of light was seen briefly Randallstown and the president of the AUSTRALIA, MD GHOST AND SPIRIT ASSOC. on the tape on July 29, less than a month after the cameras were installed. The next day, it appeared again, “walk- Ghost Investigators to ing” up and down the stairwell for more than an hour. Curious, security officer Phillip Price Explore Mining Museum went to investigate.Although he saw famous museum in County Durham, England, has invited a group of investiga- nothing in the hallway, eyewitnesses tors to check out the seemingly supernatural goings-on on the premises. Staff at watching the camera feed saw the AKillhope, the North of England Lead Mining Museum, have become increasingly strange light hovering directly ahead of concerned about strange activity at night, starting in late September, including a game of checkers that seems to continue night after night, long after everyone has left. Price, apparently mimicking his move- “At first, we thought it was someone playing a prank, but we’ve eliminated that theo- ments and pausing and moving as he ry,” said Pauline James, an information assistant at the museum. “Some staff are did.At one point, the employees wit- beginning to feel a little bit edgy about it all, so we’ve decided to call in a ghostbuster nessed him walk through the spectral team… to… investigate.” light. Price reported that at that very With its long reputation for being haunted—possibly by victims of past mining disas- moment, an extreme chill gripped him. ters from the now-restored mine’s heyday in the 19th century—Killhope seems to be a The building is said to have had a long paranormal researcher’s dream. Dean May- history of peculiar phenomena, perhaps nard and two colleagues attempted to visit relating either to its role as an execution the site last year in hopes of filming a ghost, site dating back to 1746 or the fact that but peculiar activities and noises, capped by part of the building was constructed the sound of screams emanating from an over a 19th-century cemetery. unknown source, sent the investigators flee- ing from the museum in fear, in the middle of Searching for a more scientific expla- the night. nation, courthouse officials sent a copy —RICHARD MACKENZIE of the tape to Atlantic Security for fur- SOURCE: BBC ther analysis.They concluded that the

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A Verse to Murder Arctic Yields Evidence of an New Treatment Murder, murder, write me true, Tap my keys, forget the clock. Why did I get involved with you Elizabethan Gold Swindle Reverses Paralysis When I’ve got writer’s block? Murder, murder too contrary, the largest Arctic expedition in history, researchers concluded that the gold must n July of 2004, Canada’s National Tell me how my novel grows. with 1,136 tons of black ore. But assays have been deliberately added by the Science and Engineering Council in Dogs With gun and club or poison berry? Iannounced that drops of proved that its gold content, if any, assayers in London. (They estimate that it Single gravestone? Grim, gray rows? was exceedingly small. In all, would have taken only about two ounces molten lead from a 16th-cen- n experimental treatment that is nerve cells and allows the membrane Frobisher hauled nearly of gold to “salt” the samples.) tury archaeological site chemically related to antifreeze below to reconstruct itself.” Murder, murder, fix my plot, 1,200 tons of worthless They say that even if Frobisher’s grasp have provided conclu- may revolutionize treatment for All of the injured dogs were treated Find my setting, probe my theme. sive evidence that the iron pyrite to Eng- of metallurgy was so weak that he actually A paralyzing injuries in dogs, and possibly with the polymer within three days of Seethe my brain, make me hot, land and the Arctic believed that the original ore samples infamous “Arctic in humans as well, according to scientists their initial injury, so rapid treatment Give me pages, ream on ream. Eldorado turned were full of gold, by his third trip to Kod- Eldorado,” an Eliz- at Purdue University. Over a two-year may have been a factor in their recovery. into a financial lunarn Island, when he had better testing abethan-era invest- period, 19 paraplegic canines were treat- Additionally, the polymer was used as Murder, murder, fire my muse, nightmare. Many equipment, he and his chemists had to ment frenzy turned ed with the chemical polyethylene gly- only part of a series of treatments, Write me fast, crush the doubt. of the investors have been parties to an elaborate gold Give me suspects, leads, and clues. financial night- col. Of those treated, 13 regained partial including surgeries and medications to went bankrupt and swindle. It has been suggested that they Command my machine.... Print it out! mare, was nothing to complete motor function in their legs reduce pain and Frobisher was pub- did so, so that Queen Elizabeth would more than a massive within eight weeks. While swelling.The licly humiliated. continue to provide the financial backing If I should die from prolix shock, mining fraud, delib- preliminary, the results dogs that The ore was eventu- needed for additional expeditions. far better death than writer-s block. erately perpetrated on give researchers hope that received only ally used to pave the by Carole Spearin McCauley Queen Elizabeth I and spinal cord injuries may the standard streets of London. —JUDITH KANE her court. be completely repairable treatments for their For more than 400 years, SOURCES: CANADIANNATIONAL SCIENCE & The notorious incident in the future. injuries had a Graveyard Epitaphs historians have speculated about ENGINEERING RESEARCH COUNCIL, CANADIAN began in 1576, when British Polyethylene much lower rate of ERECTED BY THE mariner Martin Frobisher (above) whether Frobisher and his assayers had JOURNAL OF EARTH, NSERC NEWSBUREAU BULLETIN recovery, with glycol or PEG, VIGILANTE COMMITTEE: returned from an expedition to the New mistakenly believed that they had found about 62 percent apparently repairs Here lies the body World with ore samples that contained gold, or if the Arctic Eldorado incident experiencing lit- damaged cells in the of ARKANSAS JIM significant concentrations of gold from was a massive con job. spinal cord when tle or no We made a mistake Kodlunarn Island, a tiny, barren Arctic In the mid-1990s, using a combina- injected into the improvement in but the joke's on him. island in what is now Frobisher Bay. tion of Elizabethan-era and high-tech bloodstream, allowing nerve signals to motor function. (Culver City, CA, c. 1880) methods, Laval University geologist Dr. Frobisher returned to the Arctic in be sent to the limbs and preventing fur- Of those who did receive the PEG injec- Georges Beaudoin and historian Régi- 1577 and hauled back more than 200 ther tissue damage. How precisely this tion, however, most were able to walk EBENEZER PRICHARD nald Auger analyzed five coin-sized beads tons of ore, which was also touted as occurs is still under investigation, but its again, some almost as well as before the Here lies low of molten lead found in the assay work- gold-laden. Believing that she had a apparent effects are astounding. injury occurred. Having forsook life ON I

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M to 90 percent of the guinea pigs. ble.The queen commissioned yet anoth- tent of the rock.Analysis showed that Major JAMES BRUSH AN I According to Richard Borgen, a Pur- mistic, but suggest that further animal neither had detectable levels of gold, er voyage for Frobisher, who set sail in due neuropsychologist who pioneered tests and long-term studies of the chemi- Killed by accidental discharge ANAD 1578 with 15 ships, 300 Cornish miners, which prove that Frobisher’s on-site C of a pistol by his orderly, / the research, “This stuff is kind of like a cal’s effects are needed. assayers did not tamper with the worth- and enough lumber to build a colony. radiator stop-leak for the nervous sys- —RICHARD MACKENZIE April, 1831 GHEE Frobisher returned from the expedi- less rock. Even so, they must have known C “Well done, good & faithful servant”" M tem.The polymer spreads out and forms SOURCES: YAHOO NEWS, PURDUE CENTER FOR T

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Another surprise was the use of tin rather than lead as a component in the Tsunami Uncovers Ancient Indian City Roman Cosmetics Found cream. White lead was a common ingre- he deadly tsunami that crashed village famed for its rock carvings dating temples during the Pallava period in the dient in Roman cosmetics, but tin was into southern India in Decem- back to the great Pallava dynasty (first seventh and eighth centuries. “These to Be Amazingly Modern more plentiful in Britain, so the cream’s ber, 2004, has unearthed price- century BC-eighth century AD). structures could be part of the leg- maker may have been trying to use local T height of beauty in the Roman world. materials to replicate a popular product less relics, including two granite lions The six-foot rocky structures that endary seven pagodas,” said archaeolo- “As far as I can tell, the tin oxide was that had been buried under sand for cen- have emerged in Mahabalipuram gist,T Sathiamoorthy. With the waters found elsewhere in the Roman world. quite inert so it wouldn’t cause any der- turies off the coast of the centuries-old include an elaborately carved head of an receding and the coastline changing, “Perhaps they didn’t understand the matological problems,” said Richard pilgrimage town of Mahabalipuram, a elephant and a horse in flight.Above we expect some more edifices to be chemistry of everything, but they obvi- the elephant’s head is a exposed.” Evershed, a chemist at the University of ously knew what they were doing,” small, square-shaped niche The archaeologists are also excited Bristol who helped to analyze the cream. explains Evershed. “This is an ancient in which sits a carved statue about a report from locals that just Its exceptional preservation, due to its technology and one that doesn’t differ of a deity.There are also two before the waves struck on December being sealed airtight under a heavy layer so much from some of the cosmetic giant granite lions, one seat- 26, the sea withdrew a great distance, of mud, has been a boon to archaeolo- technologies in use today,” he added. ed and another poised to baring a temple structure and several gists and historians, who have written charge.The statues are each rock sculptures on the seabed.Archaeol- formulas for similar products but rarely —RICHARD MACKENZIE carved out of a single piece ogists have now begun underwater exca- have access to something so unusual. SOURCES: WHAT’S NEW NETSCAPE, BBC NEWS of granite, testifying to the vations on what is believed to be an carver’s skill. ancient city and parts of a temple. According to archaeolo- Cartographers say the waves that left Virtual Tour of gists, lions, elephants, and nearly 16,400 dead or missing in both peacocks were commonly southern India and the country’s far- used to decorate walls and flung Andaman and Nicobar islands Stonehenge Launched have redrawn the n 2004, English Heritage launched an online virtual tour of the Stonehenge World Her- entire Mahabalipuram itage Site, enabling visitors to explore Stonehenge, its surrounding landscape, and coastline. One of a Ithe many prehistoric monuments nearby. The interactive microsite, which can be group of temples in remarkably well-preserved jar of found in the “Explore the Stonehenge Landscape” section on www.english- heritage.org.uk/stonehenge, the area is now partly skin cream that is more than centers on Stonehenge, submerged but the 2,000 years old is expanding our A points out places of archaeo- understanding of the ancient Romans, magnificent eighth- logical interest that surround surprising scientists with its sophistica- century Shore Temple, it, and includes a “time travel” tion.Found in a ditch near an excavation a UN World Heritage option. It features an interac- T C E site that is famed for its of a Roman temple just outside of Lon- tive map of the area, leading L SE

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objects through parallel universes. Many physicists, however, do not Scientists Say Universe Air Force Releases agree with the conclusions of the report, calling into question the scientific quality control of the Air Force. “It is, in large Just a Computer Sim Study on Teleportation part, crackpot physics,” says physicist Z T

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Now, Sir Martin tum mechanical engineering at the Mas- the stuff that dreams are made of,” he published in August, 2004, a study on tions, from damaging an enemies’ com- Rees, Royal Society professor of astrono- sachusetts Institute of Technology, said said. “It’s interesting to speculate on, teleportation (the ability to move oneself puters by telepathy to mentally influenc- other things from nonsensical ones.” my at Cambridge University, suggests such a computer would have to be but it still remains fiction.” from location to location through pow- ing enemy combatants to surrender. The Air Force paid $25,000 for the that reality may be no more than a giant unimaginably large and use incalculable —TIM SWARTZ ers of the mind), in which they investigat- computer simulation, with humans amounts of energy. “Right now this is SOURCE: THE SUNDAY TIMES, LONDON ed the possibilities that material objects reduced to bits of software. could be teleported using unconvention- “Over a few decades, computers have al methods; described teleportation as it evolved from being able to simulate only Last Speaker of Unique, occurs in physics; and discussed its poten- simple patterns to being able to create tial applications. The study also examined virtual worlds with a lot of detail,” says teleportation phenomena that occur Rees. “If that trend were to continue, All-Female Language Dies both naturally and under laboratory con- then we can imagine computers [that n September 2004, one of the last links guage’s written form, as complete ditions. Report author Eric Davis of could] simulate worlds perhaps as com- to a remarkable ancient language that manuscripts are rare because they were Warp Drive Metrics Davis states that if plicated as the one we are living in.” Iwas spoken only by women was lost with traditionally burned upon the author’s verified, psychic teleportation could Rees suggests that the philosophical the passing of Yang Huanyi. Huanyi was death or buried with the departed. Schol- offer potential military, intelligence, and question is that we ourselves could be in one of the only surviving people to have ars have become particularly interested in commercial applications. fluency in the Nushu language of China, a Nushu because the language bears a such a simulation and that the universe In support of the idea, the report cited 400-year-old set of charac- strong resemblance to could be some sort of “vault of heaven” Soviet and Chinese studies of psychics ters used by women with carved letters and symbols rather than the real thing. Rees empha- which to share their inner- found on tor toise shells and U.S. military studies of psychokine- sizes that this is just a theory, but increas- most secrets. and bone artifacts in ruins sis (PK), the ability to move objects with ingly, eminent physicists and cosmolo- Having learned the lan- more than 3,000 years old. only the mind. For instance, biologist gists are discussing the possibilities. guage as a small girl in Although Huanyi, who Zhu Yi Yi in a paper published in the Among them is John Barrow, profes- Jiangyong province, where was in her 90s, did not Chinese journal Ziran Zazhi (Nature sor of mathematical sciences at Cam- some scholars believe the pass her linguistic exper- Journal), cited Chinese research in the Yang Huanyi bridge University, who points out that Nushu tongue originated, tise on to her children or 1980s with psychic children who exhib- A teleportation machine, as envisioned in the movie Timeline. the universe has a degree of fine-tuning she honed her knowledge grandchildren, she regularly ited extraordinary PK abilities. One girl, that makes it safe for living organisms. through correspondence with consulted with scholars in for example, could make cigarettes van- Even a tiny alteration in such a thing as the eldest of seven “sworn order to preser ve the ish from a closed box. Four other young sisters” who maintained its unique, age-old tongue. in gravity would make stars burn out, girls were reported to be able to teleport The report also reviewed a range of report, part of a $20.5 million rocket secrets. After their deaths in Many of her poems and let- atoms fly apart, and the world impossible flowers into covered teacups. teleportation concepts and experiments, and missile design contract. The report the 1980s and ‘90s, Huanyi ters were also published at including: calls for an additional $7.5 million for to live in. Such fine-tuning, he suggests, became the leading source Tsinghua University in Bei- Even though Davis offers no examples, conducting further psychic teleportation could be taken as evidence for some kind of information on the lan- jing earlier in the year. Along one can imagine the military applications • Quantum teleportation, a technique experiments. Explaining why the lab of intelligent designer at work. guage, which has been used by women to with the letters, a dictionary compiled last of being able to teleport military equip- that shifts the characteristics but not “Civilizations only a little more convey their thoughts and feelings to one year by Zhou Shuoyi—a rare male student ment, or even personnel, instantaneously the location of subatomic particles at sponsored the study, AFRL spokesman advanced than ourselves could have the another without fear in a largely male-dom- of the language—have sparked renewed to a war-zone. Commercially, teleporta- great distances. Ranney Adams said, “If we don’t turn capability to simulate universes in which inated society. interest in the ancient language both in tion could replace more conventional • Wormholes, whereby the intense grav- over stones, we don’t know if we have self-conscious entities communicate with Phrases, poems, and words were often China and abroad. means of transportation and could gener- itational field near black holes could missed something.” one another,” he said, suggesting that embroidered on handkerchiefs and other ate a dramatic revolution in technology. open entrances to distant locales. this may be exactly what happened with linens or painted onto fans, so these have —RICHARD MACKENZIE Davis notes that there are numerous • Exotic (or Extra-Dimensions), the —TIM SWARTZ become a chief source of study for the lan- SOURCES: CHINAVIEW.CN, LIVING NEWS PORTAL our own universe. supporters within the U.S. military who conveyance of persons or inanimate SOURCE: USA TODAY

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human brain grew over time. They say that behaviors such as making and using New Human Species Discovered tools and fire—and hunting the dwarf elephants, which would require planning Skeletal remains unearthed by Judith Kane brain about the size of a large grapefruit and communication—demonstrates that on a remote Indonesian n October of 2004, scientists (one-quarter to one-third the size of the Flores Man was intelligent, despite his announced the discovery of a previ- brain of a modern human). island may be the first small cranial capacity. Iously unknown, dwarf-sized human Scientists have named the species Some scientists argue that it is prema- evidence in more than a species on the tiny island of Flores, Homo florensiensis (Flores Man), after the ture to classify Flores Man in the genus located on the eastern tip of Java, mid- island on which it was discovered. As no century of a new species Homo, which are generally characterized way between Asia and Australia. smaller species of human is known to sci- by a relatively large braincase, erect pos- of hominid that shared the At first, archaeologists thought that a ence (the smallest previously known ture, opposable thumbs, and the ability skeleton found in a shallow limestone humans are African pygmies, who average Earth with modern man. to make tools. They argue instead that cave in 2003 was that of a modern less than five feet tall), archaeologists have Flores Man’s diminutive stature, small human child. However, examination of dubbed the skeletons “the hobbits,” after brain size, receding chin, the shape of its wear on its teeth, the growth lines of its the diminutive characters in J.R.R. lower mandible, and the shape of the skull, and the shape of its pelvis showed Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. base of its skull are all reminiscent of that the remains were from an adult Sediment deposits in the cave were early Australopithecus, a pre-human female who died 18,000 years ago at found to contain stone tools and spear species thought to around the age of 30. Further tests points that were apparently used for The skulls found on Flores (left) show that the species had big, round eyes, a thick eyebrow ridge, a sloping forehead, a receding chin, and a have existed only in The archaeological site on Flores is revealed that the woman stood only 3.3 hunting. Also found were fossil remains brain about the size of a large grapefruit (one-quarter to one-third the Africa three million located on the eastern tip of Java, feet tall, weighed about 55 pounds, and of dwarf elephants, giant rodents, Komo- midway between Asia and Australia. size of the brain of a modern human, on the right). Right: A model of years ago. had unusually long arms. do dragons (giant lizards that grow up to what a Flores woman might have looked like. Proponents answer Subsequent excavations of the cave 10 feet long), and a variety of other ani- that H. florensiensis has uncovered the remains of six other indi- mals. Some of the animal remains are a number of facial and viduals, both male and female, of the same charred, suggesting that H. florensiensis skull traits that closely dwarfish size. The remains show that they used fire to roast their food. that are smaller than rabbits grow larger remote jungles of the resemble a miniature were bipedal, with shinbones similar to The artifacts date from 95,000 to so that they can compete for available Indonesian island of H. erectus. This, cou- those of apes, and had large, blunt teeth. 12,000 years ago, when a massive vol- resources while animals that are larger Sumatra.) pled with its surpris- The skulls show that the species had big, canic eruption apparently caused the than rabbits get smaller to minimize ingly human behav- round eye sockets, but had a hard, thick extinction of both Flores Man and the energy requirements.) Contradicting iors, puts it firmly eyebrow ridge and a sharply sloping fore- pygmy elephant, as well as several other Since the first evidence of modern Conventional Wisdom within the Homo fami- head. They also had a receding chin and a unusual species that lived on the island. humans reaching the island of Flores cholars say that ly, they say, despite its appears only 11,000 years ago—above the fact that H. smaller body size, Flores Man’s Ancestors the layer of volcanic ash—it is unknown Sflorensiensis sur- smaller brain, and mix- s stone tools previously found on whether there was any interaction vived for at least ture of primitive and Flores date as far back as 840,000 between the two species. Contact 10,000 years longer advanced anatomical Ayears ago, experts speculate that between the two species, however, might than Neanderthals—a features. another species of early humans, probably account for the local legends of tiny, hob- species that co-existed As a result of their Homo erectus, may have migrated to the bit-like creatures called “Ebu Gogo.” with modern humans age and the damp island nearly a million years ago and And if some of the tiny humans had sur- in Europe 30,000 conditions of the cave in which the became marooned there, dwarfing and vived the volcanic eruption and had years ago and was thought to have been bones were found, the remains are not evolving into H. florensiensis over hun- escaped the island, it might account for the last pre-modern species—contra- fossilized (they have been described as dreds of thousands of years, according to the persistent reports of sightings of Ebu dicts conventional wisdom that modern being “like mashed potatoes”). So sci- Island Rule. (Island Rule is an evolution- Gogo living in the caves on Flores and humans systematically crowded out entists are hopeful that the bones might ary theory that postulates that in isolated nearby islands as late as the 19th century. other upright-walking species. yield DNA, which would help clarify environments with finite resources, few (Cryptozoologists even believe that simi- Scientists also say that Flores Man’s the relationship between the species predators, and few species competing for lar small, hairy creatures called orang pen- small brain is a major departure from the and provide a new perspective on the the same environmental niche, animals dek, or “little persons,” still live in the general evolutionary trend that the evolution of the human lineage. z

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G REAT BALLS O F F IRE! Did a Comet Cause the 1871 Great Chicago Fire? New research lends by Judith Kane and discovered that it returned at regular “great balls of fire” or “fire balloons” n March of 2004, engineer and intervals of 6.6 years. During the comet’s that fell from the sky and exploded over credence to a theory that on physicist Robert Wood told a confer- 1846 pass, astronomers noted that it had the trees. He believes that reports by October 7, 1871, a comet ence of the Aerospace Corporation broken into two large pieces. The posi- Chicago firemen that buildings “burned I Above: Up until now, most have believed that the Great Chicago fire was caused when crashed into the Earth’s and the American Institute of Aeronau- tion of the fragments was recorded dur- Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over a lantern, catching the barn on fire. Right: a map of the blue” may be evidence that the Chicago tics and Astronautics that his review of ing subsequent orbits, until the comet fires that burned in a V-shaped trajectory across Michigan in 1871. This pattern is identi- fire was caused by the methane that is atmosphere, showering fiery 19th-century astronomical observations failed to appear in 1866. cal to what one would expect to find if a comet had exploded in the upper atmosphere, commonly found in comets. debris on parts of the Great bolsters an old theory that the calami- The comet was never seen again but, raining firey debris over many miles, catching hundreds of acres on fire. Systems design engineer and Mun- tous Chicago fire began when Biela’s in early 1872, when it was scheduled to sing resident Ken Rieli suggests addi- Lakes and sparking the Comet broke up and rained white-hot return, a meteor shower radiated from tional evidence to support Wood’s con- Great Chicago Fire. debris over an area of the Midwest that the part of the sky where it would have clusion, including a 58-pound was already parched by drought condi- appeared. Meteor showers of diminish- Fires Across the Midwest forest, prairie, and farmland were carbonaceous chondrite meteorite that tions. Wood believes that the debris not ing intensity continued at regular inter- lthough most people have heard destroyed and as many as 2,500 people he found on the Port Sanilac shores of only started the Chicago fire but also vals for the remainder of the 19th cen- about the fire that destroyed lost their lives. Fire department officials Lake Huron several years ago. A huge ignited a number of more devastating tury, leading astronomers to believe AChicago’s downtown area, claim- say that the fires occurred during the impact crater was also found by geolo- blazes that burned in areas north of the that the meteors marked the death of ing 250 lives and leaving 100,000 resi- same 24-hour period; that all were very gists in the early 1990s, nearly 200 feet city on the same night, including a fire in Biela’s Comet. dents homeless, few know about the hot and fast-moving, raging out of con- beneath the surface of Lake Huron. Peshtigo, WI, that still ranks as the dead- Based on his analysis of the positions other fires that burned concurrently trol within minutes; and that no cause Meteorite-like rock was also discovered liest fire in American history. of the fragments during the comet’s across the tri-state area and as far away as was ever determined for any of them. at the same depth in Lake Huron by First sighted in 1772, the comet was final passes, Wood now concludes that Minnesota, northern Ohio, and southern crews drilling a water pipeline. A photo of the decimated city of named for Wilhelm von Biela, who cal- the comet broke into pieces after a Ontario. Fires also blazed in Peshtigo, The Comet Theory Reili also says that the fires burned in a Chicago, after the Great Fire of 1871. culated its orbit around the sun in 1826 close encounter with Jupiter’s asteroid WI, a town located hundreds of miles he comet theory, first suggested cone-shaped, north-to-south pattern, belt in 1845. He also thinks that north of Chicago. There, the fire jumped in 1882, has often been dis- emanating from the shores of Lake Jupiter’s gravity affected the trajectory over the waters of Green Bay and burned Tmissed by scientists, who say that Huron and fanning out in a V-shaped and speed of the fragments again dur- both sides of the inlet town. The fire meteorites cannot sustain sufficient heat trajectory across the lower peninsula of ing the comet’s penultimate orbit, spread to consume approximately 1.5 from their entry into the Earth’s atmo- Michigan (the area that suffered the sending the smaller of the two frag- million acres of land, destroying several sphere to ignite a fire on the ground. worst of the fires), to Chicago and ments on a path toward Earth. smaller, nearby communities. Proponents of the theory, however, insist Peshtigo. He says that the pattern is Wood theorizes that the main body of Across Lake Michigan, the towns of that the fires must have been kindled by identical to the ballistic pattern of a shot- the fragment crashed into one of the Manistee and Holland also burned to the fiery fragments from the dying comet gun cluster of pellets, suggesting that Great Lakes on October 7, 1871, and that ground and, during the same period, fires and argue that it cannot be a coincidence there were hundreds or thousands of peripheral fragments and debris, includ- also threatened Lansing, Muskegon, that so many unexplained fires started pieces of debris. This would make Lake ing small pieces of frozen methane, acety- South Haven, Menominee, Sturgeon within such a short time and over such a Huron “ground zero” for the 1871 lene, and other highly combustible chem- Bay, Saginaw, Grand Rapids, and Way- wide area. astral bombardment. icals, exploded from the friction of land. Flames blackened the outskirts of Wood, who says that the orbital If correct, the comet theory may final- entering the Earth’s atmosphere and Big Rapids and a steamship passing the parameters of the rogue comet have ly vindicate Mrs. O’Leary’s cow, long ignited the Chicago fire and dozens of Manitou Islands that evening even never before been taken into considera- been blamed for starting the Chicago fire other fires that burned simultaneously in reported that the islands were all on fire. tion, cites eyewitness reports of sponta- by kicking over a kerosene lantern in her Wisconsin and Michigan. In all, more than four million acres of neous ignitions, lack of smoke, and barn. z

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years. Among the artifacts from King East Coast Midwest Cranbrook Institute of Science Shipwreck Museum South Carolina State Museum Tut’s tomb are his gold crown and the BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI PARADISE, MI COLUMBIA, SC canopic coffinette that contained his (877) 462-7262 | WWW.CRANBROOK.EDU/INSTITUTE (877) 744-7973 I WWW.SHIPWRECKMUSEUM.COM (803) 898-4921 I WWW.MUSEUM.STATE.SC.US mummified internal organs. American Museum of Natural History American UFO Museum Strange Matter (June 4-Sept. 5, 2005) The Haunting World of Shipwrecks Prehistoric Predators: Dinosaurs NEW YORK, NY WISCONSIN DELLS, WI From metals with memory to micro- (May 1-Oct. 31, 2005) This exhibit Unleashed (through July 17, 2005) The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art (212) 769-5400 I WWW.AMNH.ORG (608) 253-5055 | WWW.UFOMUSEUM.COM machinery, discover the amazing world uses artifacts and first-hand accounts to This exhibit examines prehistoric life in SANTA ANA, CA Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Dis- Alien Planet Extreme 3D Adventure of materials science. Use a bowling ball explore the perils of maritime transport the forms of skeletons and fleshed-out (714) 567-3600 I WWW.BOWERS.ORG coveries (May 14, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006) (through Sept. 5, 2005) This walk- to try to shatter a pane of heat-tempered along Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast, robotic dinosaurs, recreated environ- Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in This exhibit presents reinterpretations of through exhibit features 3D technology glass or swish a gloved hand through a the 80-mile stretch of rugged shoreline ments, videos, and more. A full-sized Ancient Egypt (through Apr. 17, the most persistent and puzzling myster- that accents depth perception and incor- substance that morphs from fluid to solid that extends west from the museum, skeleton of the largest carnivore ever 2006) This exhibit illustrates the Egyp- porates animatronics, lasers, special and back again, at the touch of a button. which is located on the site of the Great found—and numerous hands-on activi- tian ritual of preparing the dead for the effects, and a complex sound environ- Lakes’ oldest active lighthouse. ties—are also featured. afterlife. It features 140 funerary objects, ment to create an adventure that begins Gilcrease Museum of Art including 14 mummies and coffins, in a hologram room where visitors are TULSA, OK Virginia Air & Space Center canopic jars, offering tables, and tomb welcomed by an android. Visit a botani- (918) 596-2700 | WWW.GILCREASE.ORG South HAMPTON, VA H furnishings. cal nursery where strange eggs are at var- (757) 727-0900 I WWW.VASC.ORG MM Machu Picchu: A

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C tographs, interac- William Matthew Flinders Petrie, the size of a refrigerator, it was recovered in I Martin Frobisher simulations and animations; videos of (888) 819-2674 | WWW.COSI.ORG M tive displays, Inca father of Egyptian archaeology, and 1999 and will be displayed alongside the (through Sep. fieldwork; a large wall of mounted Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition art and artifacts, as well as replicas of an items from the Petrie Museum at Uni- history of the space program and the 11, 2005) This dinosaur skulls; and a walk-through dio- (through Sept. 5, 2005) This exhibit ancient Inca road, a burial chamber, a versity College, London. The exhibit story of the recovery mission. exhibit presents rama that is the world’s most detailed re- features a chronology of the life of the ill- palace complex, and the house of the uses photographs, excavation notes, and Martin Frobish- creation of a prehistoric environment. fated vessel, through recreated first- and Inca king. personal journals to bring the science of er’s 1576-78 third-class cabins, a large simulated ice- archaeology and the early days of Egyp- West Coast expeditions to The Maritime Aquarium Prince Conference Center tology to life. Nunavut in Arc- NORWALK, CT at Calvin College Los Angeles County Museum of Art tic Canada, the (203) 852-0700 I WWW.MARITIMEAQUARIUM.ORG GRAND RAPIDS, MI Museum of Science & Industry LOS ANGELES, CA first European expe- Into the Abyss: Extreme Deep Discov- (616) 526-7800 | WWW.CALVIN.EDU/PETRA TAMPA, FL (323) 857-6000 I WWW.LACMA.ORG dition to search for a ery Zone (through Sept. 6, 2005) This Petra: Lost City of Stone (through (813) 987-6100 I WWW.MOSI.ORG Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of northwest passage to Asia, the exhibit includes hands-on displays that Aug. 15, 2005) This exhibit tells the SPACE: A Jour- the Pharaohs (June 16–Nov. 15, first large-scale mining venture in Cana- delve into the story of the 19th-century rediscovery of ney to Our Future 2005) This exhibit da, and the earliest English attempt to geology, history, Petra, located at the (through May 30, features more than establish a colony in the New World. biology, chemistry, ancient crossroads of the 2005) This exhibit 130 treasures from weather, and silk and spice trade features dozens of tombs, royal graves, Hancock Museum exploration of life routes. The exhibit high- interactive displays and ancient sites in NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, ENGLAND at the bottom of lights new scholarship that allow visitors to the Valley of the (0191) 222 6765 the ocean and the and recent archaeological feel the rumble of a Kings, including 50 WWW.TWMUSEUMS.ORG.UK/HANCOCK technology that berg, and more than 200 artifacts recov- discoveries that feature rocket launch, objects from the Buried Treasure (through June 26, enables oceanogra- ered from the wreckage. Learn about the more than 200 objects touch a piece of the tomb of Tutankh- 2005) Learn how archaeological discov- phers to deal with technology, artistry, and incredible effort found at the site, many of moon and Mars, amun, which are on eries have enhanced historical knowledge the crushing pres- needed to find and reach the ship that which are on view for the test their space survival skills, and walk in exhibit in the U.S. for and have revolutionized our understand- sures of the deep. now lies 2.5 miles under the sea. first time outside Jordan. the footsteps of astronauts. the first time in 27 ing of the past. z

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C O M 3 1 Urban Legends Urban Legends A “WAVE” OF HOAXES Follows the 2004 Tsunami Staggering devastation by Charles Rammelkamp unusual animal rescues. always excites the ot surprisingly, the recent Soon after the tsunami struck, the tsunami that devastated Asia, internet was flooded with bogus images imagination and frequently, Nimmediately killing over a of the waves crashing down on innocent people will tell tales about quarter of a million people, has bred people, accompanied by a message say- many urban legends, from bogus pho- ing something like, the disaster that end up tographs to tales of sea monsters stirred “I just received these photos from a being based not on fact up from the ocean’s depths, warnings former business associate who was but on wishful thinking. not to eat seafood from the area for fear vacationing in Thailand when the Above: This photo and the one on the previous page were circulated as depicting the 2004 of being poisoned, and even tales of tsunami struck. Fortunately, she was tusnami, but they were actually taken in 2003 of a Chinese tidal bore. Right: Photos of able to escape.” deep-sea fish that were circulated on the internet as fish dredged up by the tsunami. But In the rush to print compelling pho- in reality, they were photos taken of fish found in the Tasman Sea in 2003. tographs of the disaster—and boost sales—newspapers from South Africa, to India and Canada did not verify the pic- should avoid eating seafood from tsuna- there are still few takers. In Singapore, tures as real. If they had, they would have mi-devasted areas because it may con- seafood prices have dropped by half. found that these photos were actually tain the Zulican virus. But according to thing was wrong and, according to the taken in 2002 of a tidal bore (unusually Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit of the Rumors of Unusual Animal Rescues rescued child, ran with her on its back high tides resulting in waters flowing Philippine Department of Health, there ouching rumors of animals rescu- away from the incoming sea, escaping far upstream at high speeds) on the Qian is actually no such thing as the Zulican ing humans during the tidal wave enough inland that when the wave Tang Jiang River, in Hangzhou, China. virus. (Who made up the term “Zuli- Thave also circulated on the inter- caught up with them, the onrushing Tidal bores occur at predictable times, can” and why they perpetrated this net. One states that as the waves had sub- waters reached only up its side, leaving and watching these events is a four-day, hoax is not known.) sided, elephants in Thailand broke free the little girl unharmed. government-sponsored festival in China. A similar hoax that was spread in the from their handlers and returned to the But the animal’s owner disputes this Other bogus photographs that have wake of the tsunami suggests that fish, beach to rescue 42 people. account. According to Yong Chataisong, been circulated are of “sea monsters” crabs, and prawns from the seas affected No doubt because the tsunami was there were actually two little girls, and that were supposedly dredged up from by the tsunami are now feeding on the such an extraordinary natural disaster, when he saw the wave coming in, he the bottom of the ocean by the tsunami. human corpses that were washed out to people struggling to make sense of it placed one of the girls on the elephant’s These are genuine images of strange, sea. This feeding, the story asserts, pass- looked for other equally unbelievable back, commanded the animal to grab up deep-sea creatures, but the photographs es diseases from the decaying bodies to acts, exaggerating actual occurrence into the other child, then jumped up there have nothing to do with the Indian the fish, and then to those who eat the tall tales. Certainly, some tsunami victims himself, and the elephant carried all three Ocean tsunami. Most actually were seafood. were rescued by tamed elephants, but to safety. taken as part of a joint Australian-New But this is not true. Fish eat plankton, urban legend trackers have determined Overwhelming natural disasters such Zealand research expedition conducted plants, and other dead fish, not rotting that they were not the heroic savings as the tsunami last December inevitably in 2003, to explore deep sea habitats corpses. Yet this urban legend has caused reported in the press. excite our imaginations, resulting in fan- and biodiversity in the Tasman Sea. the price of seafood to plunge in many The most legitimate instance of a real tastic stories of danger and rescue that we countries, especially in Sri Lanka and animal rescue was that of an eight-year- want to believe are true, simply to mea- Poisoned Seafood Tamil Nadu. There, fish markets have old girl who was riding an elephant on sure up to the reality of the event. This nother urban legend surround- become virtually deserted. Even though Laguna Beach in Phuket, Thailand, “tall-tale syndrome” often comes into ing the recent tsunami disaster seafood is now being sold for only one- when the tidal wave hit. When the waters play even when the reality is as devastat- Ais the assertion that consumers tenth of its price before the tsunami, receded, the elephant recognized some- ing as any fiction could ever be. z

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for the obvious devastation to the sur- The Controversy Continues rounding forest, most in the scientific uri Lavbin is certain, however, Was the Tunguska Blast Caused by community would have dismissed the that the Tunguska explosion was Tunguska blast as a figment of the imag- Ynot a natural event. He and his ination of superstitious reindeer herders. team say that on their 2004 expedition a Comet Collision with an ET Craft? In fact, Tunguska was largely ignored to the Podkamannaya Tunguska river, On June 30, 1908, by Tim Swartz Researchers then chipped off a piece of and almost forgotten, a curious footnote they found two strange black cubes, fiery object streaked across the the object and sent it to an unnamed lab in dusty academic journals, until after with each side measuring a meter and a something exploded in the morning sky over Tunguska, in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk in World War II, when Russian scientist half in length. sky above Siberia. One ASiberia, on June 30, 1908. Any- order to test its composition. Aleksander Kazansev began evaluating These stones “are manifestly not of the atomic bomb explosion at Hiroshi- natural origin,” Lavbin said. They Russian researcher claims one unlucky enough to be in the forested The head of the expedition, Yuri tundra that day would probably have Lavbin, who has spent 12 years working ma for the Soviet government. Kazansev appear to have been fired and their he has proof that the thought that the end of the world had on the mystery of the Tunguska blast, quickly noticed similarities between the material recalls an alloy “used to make Tunguska explosion was come, as a tremendous explosion burned believes that the explosion was caused two events. space rockets.” Although analysis of the down hundreds of miles of forest and when a comet and a mysterious flying The American atomic bomb had stones has not yet been completed, he more than a natural event. ignited controversy among researchers, machine collided 10 kilometers above reported unusual disturbances in the exploded at a high altitude and the believes that the cubes are the remains who have struggled to discover the true the Earth’s surface. Earth’s magnetic field, and magnetic downward rushing shock wave had left of a flying machine, perhaps an extrater- cause of the explosion ever since. “We were saved by a superior civiliza- storms similar to the ones produced by the trees directly beneath it standing restrial spaceship. Up until now, scientists have believed tion,” Lavbin said. “They exploded this nuclear test explosions in the atmo- while flattening trees and houses further Lavbin also claims to have found a that the blast was caused by a meteor enormous meteorite that was heading sphere also occurred. The seismograph out, in a radiating pattern, a similar pat- huge white stone “the size of a peasant’s that exploded in the atmosphere above towards us with enormous speed. Now station in St. Petersburg even recorded tern as found in the Tunguska region. hut” stuck in the top of a crag in the the forest. But in the summer of 2004, this great object that caused the mete- tremors from the blast, as did more dis- The mushroom cloud and the black rain middle of the devastated forest, which members of a Russian scientific expedi- orite to explode is found at last,” he tant stations around the world. that followed the blast also conformed local people call the “Reindeer Stone.” tion announced that they had discov- added. But with little to go on other The first expedition to study the to eyewitness reports from Tunguska. Lavbin suggests that it is made of a crys- ered in the Tunguska area a large metal- than a few news reports, scientists all over Tunguska meteorite was organized in Kazantsev then suggested that the talline matter that could have been part lic block that they believed to be the world attacked the claims of the Rus- 1927 by Professor Leonid Kulik and Tunguska event may have been caused of the core of a comet. A photo taken in the Tunguska region the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Kulilk by an atomic-powered spaceship that If chemical analysis shows it to be of Siberia, soon after the 1908 blast. extraterrestrial in origin. sian group as a hoax. and his team then walked more than exploded in the area. While most scien- from space, the Reindeer Stone could A Light In The Sky 100 miles through treacherous swamps tists laughed at his explanation, some reinforce Lavbin’s theory that the 1908 here is no doubt that something and bogs, forded countless streams and took seriously his suggestion that the explosion was caused by a collision of an extraordinary happened in the rivers, and fought through dense mass- blast was atomic in nature. atomic-powered extraterrestrial space- Tsky over the Tunguska region in es of bloodthirsty mosquitoes to reach They also began to notice other simi- craft with either an asteroid or comet. 1908. Witnesses reported seeing a fiery their destination. larities. For instance, both Tunguska’s However, most astronomers are less object streak across the morning sky and When they arrived, they found evi- reindeer population and Hiroshima’s than excited by the recent announce- then explode with a force rivaling an dence that something extraordinary had human population had developed similar ments, stating that the expedition went atomic bomb, flattening an estimated indeed happened. Kulilk was certain that skin diseases from the radiation fallout. looking for evidence of a UFO, ignor- 60 million trees in an 800-square mile a huge meteorite had fallen, but was dis- There was also evidence of accelerated ing evidence that the explosion was area. Witnesses up to 40 miles away mayed to discover that there was no plant growth at both locations. caused by a comet impact. Science even felt the blast of heat through sever- crater at the epicenter of the blast. He Over the years, other novel sugges- writer James Oberg also points out al layers of clothing. speculated that the bulk of the meteorite tions have been put forth as explanations that the Tunguska area may be yielding Ash and powdered tundra fragments lay embedded somewhere within the of the blast, including a comet hit, a debris from a Russian space rocket that were then sucked skyward by the fiery central epicenter, but magnetic probes black hole, a small piece of antimatter, supposedly crashed in the area some- vortex. Caught up in the global air circu- and drilling over the years failed to and even an experiment gone wrong time in 1960. lation, unusually colorful sunsets and detect a buried meteoric body. from the laboratory of the electrical Hopefully, photographs of the frag- sunrises were reported from many coun- genius Nikola Tesla. Most astronomers ments, as well as the results of laboratory tries, including Western Europe, Scandi- Exploring the Blast were convinced, however, that the blast tests, may become available in the near navia, and Russia. cientists were baffled by this was caused by a stony asteroid exploding future. Until then, it is doubtful that the strange event, for nothing like it as it entered the Earth’s atmosphere sev- controversy surrounding the Tunguska Almost 1,000 miles southeast of the z blast, the Irkutsk Observatory also Shad ever been seen before. If not eral miles above the Siberian forest. blast will be settled anytime soon.

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states of Rome and Carthage. Medieval Ship Found in Norway graveyard of scuttled vessels upriver from Dog Leads to Discovery As artifacts now on display at the 14th-century wooden ship was New Orleans’ French Quarter is the of an Ancient Wreck Marsala Museum are rapidly deteriorat- discovered in Norway’s Skien famed USS Chickasaw, a hulking Civil n October of 2004, an Israeli ing from exposure to the air, experts are ARiver near Telemark, in Septem- War gunship that played a heroic role in archaeologist’s dog led his owner to concerned that excavating the recently ber by divers who were placing stones the 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay. Until Ithe remains of an ancient ship, discovered ships would similarly damage along the bottom of the river to hinder now, there were no known examples of including a huge stone anchor that is the them. So they have proposed creating a underwater erosion. First recorded in the 1,300-ton Milwaukee class twin-tur- first artifact ever found from the era of high-tech museum that would allow visi- the 1950s, when it was struck by a ret ironclad river monitor that dominat- King David and his son Solomon. tors to explore the wreck using under- dredger, the 65-foot-long vessel was ed the war’s critical battle for control of Marine archaeologist Kurt Raveh was water cameras. found at a depth of just 33 feet, largely the country’s rivers and bays. watching his dog swimming and playing T

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SE divers and treasure hunters, the exact tion. Dubbed Bølevraket, the ship is West Gulf Blockading Squadron and ranean coast, near his home in Hof Dor, C I P believed to have been built during the remained on the bay for the rest of the about 25 miles north of Tel Aviv, when PA late 1300s in either Scandinavia or the war, bombarding the Confederate-held she seemed to get into trouble. Thinking ND A

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O masted vessel offers rare insight into ship The new owners sent the vessel to New found that she was standing on an D construction of the period. Orleans, where she was converted to a anchor and a number of wooden beams, Missing Section of Tudor on the top rail of the front section of the coal ferry and later used to carry railroad buried just a few inches beneath the Flagship Recovered ship. In addition to 40 huge carved tim- Divers Locate Oldest Western cars across the Mississippi under the sand. Raveh also discovered a number of ivers returned to the wreck of bers from the lost front section and large Ship Ever Found in Hawaii name Gouldsboro. wooden beams that are believed to be King Henry VIII’s favorite pieces of the hull, timber finds include ivers removing debris from The ship was used briefly to protect from a boat’s keel that dates to between Dwarship, the Mary Rose, in frame ribs, planks, and parts of cabins. location of the shipwrecks, which lies reefs around a remote atoll in England’s Portsmouth Harbor in Other artifacts recovered include a gun- only about 130 feet from the shore and the Hawaiian Islands discov- The sinking of the D USS Chickasaw. August of 2004 to recover a missing sec- ner’s tool, lead and iron shot, and stone seven feet below the water’s surface, has ered in September the wreckage of at tion of the legendary flagship and one of cannon balls. Only the forecastle remains not yet been revealed. least one of the two British whaling ships the cannons that may have caused her to to be found. for which the atoll is named. sink during an engagement with the The majority of the timbers have Ancient Trade Vessels Located 1,210 miles northwest of French in 1545. been reburied to preserve them while Found Off Naples Honolulu, the Pearl and Hermes Atoll Discovered in 1971, most of the Mary decisions are made about the difficult lso in August, archaeologists was named in 1822 after the ship Pearl Rose was raised in 1982 before a live TV and expensive task of raising them. exploring the bottom of the sea struck the reef and the Hermes raced to audience of more than 60 million. How- Those brought up have been stored in Aoff the island of Capri in the Gulf help, but also struck the reef, both sink- ever, the ship’s bowcastle (fortified front conservation tanks and will eventually of Naples, Italy, discovered the wrecks of ing as a result. The wreck site is scattered section that housed archers and cannon) join the previously recovered portions three ancient trade vessels that once plied across 700 yards of reef and ocean floor, remained missing and scholars had no of the Mary Rose, which now sit in her the Mediterranean between Rome and and includes anchors, whale oil caul- contemporary or reliable evidence of the original cradle in the Portsmouth His- the colonies in northern Africa. drons, cannons, gear for hunting and appearance of the bowcastle, which has toric Dockyard. Found at a depth of about 425 feet, processing whales, and even parts of the the Mississippi’s bridges from saboteurs 997 and 806 BC, which overlaps with been shown in reconstruction drawings two of the wrecks are from the first cen- wooden ships. during WWII and in 1945, after con- the rule of the ancient House of David as a fanciful turreted structure, similar to Ancient Punic Warships tury AD. Experts believe that one was struction of a new railroad bridge, the (1,000 to 925 BC). a miniature medieval castle. Discovered Off Sicilian Coast used to transport goods on the route Civil War Ironclad Found historic ship was scuttled in the grave- Raveh will soon lead a team of Then, in May of 2003, during the ini- n August of 2004, archaeologists between Rome and present-day Tripoli, in Shipwreck Graveyard yard full of outdated and unusable ves- archaeologists from Haifa University in tial stages of a survey of the harbor, exploring the shallow waters off the Libya. The other sank with a load of uring recent survey work to sta- sels and barges, designated only as Ship- exploring his discovery further. z divers located the front stem timber IItalian island of Sicily discovered the amphorae (slender terra cotta storage bilize part of the bed and banks wreck No. 2. from the keel only five feet from where remains of at least 25 warships that were containers) which the Romans used to Dof the Mississippi River, archae- Although there are no immediate —JUDITH KANE the earlier search had left off. The recent sunk in 241 BC during the battle of the transport fruit. The third ship dates to ologists and engineers from the Army plans to raise the vessel, the Chickasaw exploration yielded hundreds of artifacts, Egadi Islands at the end of the First the fourth century, and was laden with Corps of Engineers were surprised to will be preserved in situ and placed on including a swivel gun that was mounted Punic War, between the ancient city- similar amphorae containing fish sauce. discover that a long-forgotten wreck in a the National Registry of Historic Sites.

3 6 MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E , I SS U E # 9 WWW. MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E . C O M 3 7 *#"!% *  &! !##( British author John Brophy coined the term “serial murder” in 1966, in his book The Meaning of Murder. American authorities would not adopt the label for another decade but in that same year, a terrifying serial killer in California debuted, one who called himself “Zodiac.” Despite four decades of intense investigation, his identity still remains unknown today.     

3 8 MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E , I SS U E # 9 WWW. MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E . C O M 3 9 The Golden State’s most elusive predator rin joined 19-year-old Michael Mageau for a claimed his first known victim in Riverside, on night on the town in Vallejo. Mageau  October 30, 1966. That evening, 18-year-old thought a stranger was following them at one Cheri Jo Bates emerged from the campus point, but Ferrin seemed to recognize the    library at Riverside City College to find her other motorist, telling Mageau, “Don’t distributor coil disconnected and her car dis- worry about it.” Cheri Jo abled. A stranger approached with an offer of Midnight found them at Blue Rock Bates age 18 help, then dragged her behind some nearby Springs Park, where a second vehicle pulled killed shrubbery, where a furious struggle ended up alongside them, flashed a bright light in Oct. 30, 1966 with Bates stabbed in the chest and back, her their eyes, then opened fire with a nine-mil- throat slashed so deeply that she was nearly limeter pistol. Hit four times, Mageau sur- decapitated. vived; Ferrin, with nine bullet wounds, was Near Bates’ corpse, police found a Timex dead on arrival at the hospital. Forty minutes Betty Lou watch with a broken band, which was pre- after the shooting, Vallejo police received an Jensen sumed to be the killer’s. They also found a anonymous telephone call directing officers age 16 killed unique footprint, made by a shoe manufac- to the crime scene. Before hanging up, the Dec. 20, 1968 tured at Leavenworth prison and sold exclu- male caller declared, “I also killed those kids sively through U.S. military outlets. Neither last year.” item was ever traced to its owner. In retrospect, acquaintances recalled that Days after the murder, police received a Darlene had received harassing phone calls David typed confession of sorts, warning that Bates and intimidating visits from a heavyset Faraday “is not the first and she will not be the last.” stranger in the weeks before her death. She age 17 killed The author then described how he disabled called the man Paul and told a girlfriend that Dec. 20, 1968 Bates’ car then choked and stabbed her. “I he wished to silence her because she had seen am not sick,” he wrote. “I am not insane. But him commit a murder. Police searched for that will not stop the game.” Paul in the wake of Ferrin’s slaying, but he On April 30, 1967, following publication was never found. Darlene of an newspaper article on the case, three Ferrin age 18 identical letters were mailed to the newspa- “This is the Zodiac Speaking” killed July 4, 1969 per, to police, and to Bates’ father. They n July 31, 1969, the killer mailed

read: “Bates had to die. There will be more.” letters to three Bay Area newspa- M O C In July 1967, a state psychiatrist profiled pers, each containing one-third of a . R

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with intense hatred against female figures like killing people because it is so much fun.” O Z Shepard or his own unconscious feelings of inade- The author explained that he was killing in an . age 22 quacy, he is not likely to act out his feelings effort to “collect slaves” who would serve WWW killed Sept. 27, 1969 sexually, but in fantasy, as a rule… There him in the afterlife. is a real possibility that he can become Another letter, mailed on August 7, 1969, homicidal again.” introduced the “Zodiac” name and provided details of the latest killing, leaving police in Paul Stine The Reign of Terror no doubt that its author was the murderer. age 29 eventeen months later, that diagnosis The police recovered at least five “finger- killed proved prophetic. On December 20, prints of value” from the killer’s July-August Oct. 11, 1969 S1968, 17-year-old David Faraday was correspondence, but they matched no prints parked with his date, 16-year-old Betty Lou found in existing criminal files. Future corre- Jensen, on a rural road outside Vallejo, CA. A spondence typically opened with the stock night-stalking gunman found them there and phrase, “This is the Zodiac speaking.” Donna Ann killed both teenagers, shooting Faraday in On September 27, 1969, the killing con- Lass the head as he sat in the driver’s seat of his tinued. Twenty-year-old Bryan Hartnell and age 25 car. Betty Jensen ran 30 feet before she was 22-year-old Cecilia Shepherd were enjoying a missing, cut down by five shots to the back, fired from picnic at Lake Berryessa, near Vallejo, when Sept. 6, 1970 This letter was mailed to the San Francisco a .22-caliber semiautomatic pistol. they were accosted by a hooded gunman. Chronicle on April 20, 1970, postmarked San On July 4, 1969, 22-year-old Darlene Fer- Brandishing a pistol, the man described him- Francisco, CA. The cipher is still unsolved.

4 0 MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E , I SS U E # 9 WWW. MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E . C O M 4 1 self as an escaped convict who needed nine-millimeter semiautomatic pistol. As Then on March 22, 1970, Kathleen their car “to go to Mexico.” Producing police descended on the area in force, Johns was driving with her infant a coil of clothesline, he bound both vic- witnesses saw the gunman escape on daughter from San Bernardino to tims before drawing a long knife and foot toward the Presidio. Crime scene Petaluma, CA, along Interstate 5. Near     stabbing Hartnell five times in the back. technicians lifted several fingerprints Modesto, another motorist signaled for espite a collection of up to 40 finger- Lawrence Kane few miles of the Stine murder scene and the Shepherd was stabbed 14 times, includ- from Stine’s cab that showed “traces of Johns to stop, flashing his lights and prints allegedly left by Zodiac, the rofiled as a Zodiac suspect in 1998 by call letters of a radio station where Marshall ing four wounds in the chest as she blood [that] are believed to be prints beeping his horn. Reluctantly, Johns Dkiller remains unidentified today. The Pthe television program America’s Most worked in the early 1970s (KTIM) allegedly twisted away from the plunging blade. from the suspect,” yet once again, they pulled over and the man stopped behind Zodiac suspects publicly identified to date Wanted, Kane was 38 years old in 1962, resemble cryptic symbols from one of the Departing from the scene, their matched no prints on file with California her, leaving his car to explain that her include the following: when he suffered brain damage in an auto- Zodiac’s letters. On balance, it is something assailant paused at Hartnell’s car to authorities or the FBI. left-rear tire seemed dangerously loose. mobile accident. Three years later, a psy- less than a compelling case. scribble on the door with a felt-tipped In the wake of Stine’s murder, the Johns later described the stranger as 30- Bruce Davis chologist declared that Kane was “losing pen: “Vallejo 12-20-68 7-4-69 Sept 27- Zodiac mailed a new barrage of letters, something, clean-shaven, and neatly one-time member of the Charles Man- the ability to control self-gratification.” Michael O’Hare 69-6:30 by knife.” some containing swatches of the cab- dressed, with short brown hair and Ason “family,” Davis is presently serving Darlene Ferrin’s sister reportedly named nitially named in 1987 as a Zodiac sus- The killer then phoned police to bie’s bloodstained shirt. Successive mes- “deadpan eyes.” a life sentence Kane as the man who followed and Ipect by author report the crime, but by that time, a sages claimed that he had killed seven The man worked briefly on Johns’ car for two counts of harassed her sister for several weeks Gareth Penn and first-degree mur- before her murder, and Kane disposed of later featured as one fisherman had already found the victims. victims instead of the established five with a lug wrench but when she tried to der in California. his car five days after the 1969 Mageau-Fer- of several suspects Brian Hartnell survived his wounds but and threatened to “wipe out a school drive away, the wheel fell off. Her bene- Although a rin shooting. Kathleen Johns also reportedly on the Learning Cecilia Shepard was doomed, another bus some morning.” He also vowed to factor then offered her a lift to the near- proven killer with identified Kane as the man who abducted Channel’s review of victim of the phantom stalker. Officers change his method of “collecting souls” est garage, but turned cold when she a fascination for her in 1970. the case, O’Hare is found the telephone booth from which when he wrote, “They shall look like asked if he often helped drivers in dis- occult symbol- Researcher Tom Voigt also claims that linked to the crimes the slayer called them, isolating four fin- routine robberies, killings of anger, & a tress. “When I’m done with them,” he ism, Davis does Kane’s surname “can be easily seen” in a only by a web of con- gerprints that remain unidentified to few fake suicides, etc.” said, “they don’t need any help.” not fit the Zodiac cipher jecture involving the alleged appearance of this day. A clear palm-print was also At least one letter (dated October 13, The trip then became a waking night- descriptions of mailed to police Morse code and binary mathematical sym- found on the telephone receiver but 1969) included several latent finger- mare, with the stranger taking Johns on the crew-cut Zodiac and his fingerprints do on April 20, 1970, bols in various Zodiac letters. (Most technicians accidentally smudged it, prints believed to be the killer’s, but an aimless drive through the country- not match those alleged to be the Zodiac’s. but other students researchers attribute those ephemeral thereby rendering it useless. again, they remained unidentified. Then side, threatening her life and that of her Since Davis was in custody by the mid- of the correspon- clues to Penn’s imagination). Penn’s theory 1970s, he has been ruled out as the writer dence dismiss also flies in the face of established evi- five days before Christmas, Zodiac child, before she managed to leap from of the Zodiac letters mailed after that time. that assertion as dence, as he also blames the Zodiac for Losing Control wrote to prominent attorney Melvin the car with her baby and hide in a road- fantasy. Kane was murders committed in Massachusetts as ut the killing spree did not stop Belli, pleading for help, with the chilling side drainage ditch. Theodore Kaczynski also living in Neva- late as 1981. there. On October 11, 1969, San remark that “I cannot remain in control When she reached a local sheriff’s sta- he elusive Unabomber who is presently da as of early BFrancisco cab driver Paul Stine for much longer.” A meeting was tion to report the kidnapping, Johns saw Tser ving life without parole in federal 1999, a fact Charles Clifton Collins was shot in the head and killed with a arranged, but the killer never showed. a wanted poster bearing sketches of the prison on three counts of first-degree mur- apparently unknown to producers of Ameri- amed as a suspect in 2002, Charles der, Ted Kaczynski was named as a Zodiac ca’s Most Wanted when they broadcast NCollins was fingered by his son, New suspect after FBI agents arrested him in pleas for viewers to locate him. His present York journalism student William Collins, in a 1998. The evidence normally cited in sup- whereabouts are unknown, but as no formal report aired by television’s Primetime Live. port of his candida- charges have been filed against him, he is As the younger Collins explained, he was cy includes his resi- free to travel where he will. reading a book on the Zodiac murders dency in the San sometime in the 1990s, when he saw pho- Francisco area dur- Rick Marshall tocopies of the killer’s letters and thought, ing the late 1960s, Texas native and 38 years old at the “Oh my God, that’s my dad’s handwriting.” his penchant for Atime of the Zodiac’s first known murder Further research persuaded Collins that his writing to the press in 1966, Marshall is linked with the crimes father, who died in 1993, resembled sus- after various crimi- more by geographic coincidence than any- pect sketches of the Zodiac, that his shoe nal acts, and his thing resembling solid evidence, and even size matched the killer’s, and that he lived exper tise at build- though his fingerprints match none of those in San Francisco when the murders were ing bombs. (The collected from the committed. The suspect’s initials (CCC) Zodiac never used explosives but one of his Zodiac crime scenes were also penned on one of the cards that letters did include a crude diagram of a or letters. Yet Mar- the Zodiac sent to police in his heyday. M

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4 2 MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E , I SS U E # 9 WWW. MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E . C O M 4 3 Zodiac and told police, “That’s him!” Arthur Leigh Allen, shown weapons and plans to attack a school various Zodiac correspondence for DNA Today, some students of the case in this photo taken in 1972, bus (which was also threatened in testing. Their hope was that if the killer reject that identification, claiming the is the most widely known one of the Zodiac’s subsequent let- #* &+ ##%)(, licked a stamp or envelope flap, saliva Zodiac never strayed so far from San Zodiac suspect. ters to the press). traces would contain enough genetic Francisco. Others, however, insist that However, Cheney’s credibility suf- $&%* )!%)** material to identify the killer. Kathleen Johns and her daughter repre- fers from the fact that he first revealed &)'!*#&($&#)*!% Dr. Cydne Holt, supervisor of the San sent two more surviving victims of the the alleged conversation in 1971, Francisco Police Department’s DNA lab- Zodiac. nearly two years after the last known oratory, did recover DNA samples from Zodiac murder made headlines. Even  !#
%& ( ) one stamp on a Zodiac card, but the test The Last Letters from the Zodiac then, he told an employer rather than -(,(!# !%)* results were disappointing. When com- he killer mailed nine more letters contacting the police directly, and pared to brain tissue preserved from between 1970 and 1971, but important details of his story changed !$!%&%%*!&%-!* Allen’s 1992 autopsy, the DNA conclu- Tpolice identified no further vic- over time. Critics also note that sively eliminated him as the man who tims in the murder series. A San Francis- Cheney once complained of Allen * &!) licked the stamp. The same test also co detective reported that fingerprints attempting to molest his daughter on excluded suspects Charles Clifton Collins found on a Zodiac note mailed on April a camping trip, which might have year prison term for his part in an and an unnamed San Francisco lawyer. 28, 1970, “were not made by persons been a motive for accusing Allen. armed robbery in Nevada. As in the handling the card after its receipt.” But 4. On October 6, 1969, Allen was ques- case of Don Cheney, Spinelli also had So Whodunit? still, they led nowhere. Then on January tioned by Vallejo police concerning a prior history of conflict with Allen, oes DNA testing clear Allen as 30, 1974, a San Francisco newspaper the Lake Berryessa attack. In that which may have motivated this accu- the killer? Dr. Holt equivocat- received the first authenticated Zodiac interview, he reportedly told authori- sation. Ded, noting that the Zodiac letter in nearly three years, which was ties that he was going to go to 8. In 1992, Zodiac survivor Michael stamp bore only four of the nine possible signed off with the notation: “Me-37; Berryessa on the day of the crime, but Mageau allegedly picked out Allen’s DNA markers plus gender indicators, SFPD-0.” changed his mind and went up the mug shot from a police photo line- proving that the subject was male. “It’s

One officer who took this estimated M coast instead. Allen cited a couple up, telling detectives, “That’s him! not enough to positively identify anyone O C . He’s the man who shot me!” True body count seriously was Sheriff Don R from Treasure Island as alibi witnesses as Zodiac,” Holt told reporters, “but it is E

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unsolved murders in four western states, Z . which seemed to form a giant “Z” when prints left by the Lake Berryessa killer August of 1992. smith, author of two books touting Allen plotted on the map. While tantalizing, WWW (though the prints were never as the slayer, hedged his bets in a 2002 Striepke’s theory seemed to fall apart in killer during his lifetime by several Cali- miles south of Calaveras County, and matched to shoes owned by Allen). Allen Officially Exonerated interview with the San Francisco Chroni- 1977 when serial killer Theodore Bundy fornia detectives, and was investigated Allen taught classes the following day 5. Sometime in the mid-1970s, survivor espite the public allegations cle. “I’ve always wondered if there wasn’t was named a prime suspect in some of by various law enforcement agencies without incident. Br yan Hartnell allegedly viewed against Allen, certain facts more than one person involved,” Gray- those cases. from 1969 until a week after his death in 2. A Royal typewriter with Elite type— Allen at work, and reportedly told Dremain undisputed. A 1971 smith said. “Someone running interfer- The Zodiac mailed his last confirmed 1992. Although he pled guilty to child the same kind used to write the police that Allen’s physical appear- report to Vallejo police from the Califor- ence for Allen.” (Graysmith also specu- letter on April 24, 1978, chilling Bay molestation in 1975, serving 29 months anonymous letters following Cheri ance and voice were the same as nia Department of Justice stated that lates that Zodiac may have killed 40 Area residents with the announcement in a California state hospital, no charges Bates’s murder—was seized in a Zodiac’s. However, several years had Allen’s handwriting had been compared additional victims throughout California that “I am back with you.” No traceable were ever filed against him in connec- search of Allen’s home in 1991. passed since the attack, and Hartnell to that of all Zodiac letters, and none between 1969 and 1981, none of whom crimes were committed, however, and tion with the Zodiac case. Although police specifically listed supposedly never saw the masked were found to match. A year later, Vallejo is currently linked to Allen by any known Homicide Inspector Dave Toschi was Arguments for and against Allen’s the typewriter on their search war- killer’s face. police sought a second opinion from FBI evidence.) later removed from the Zodiac detail on guilt in the Zodiac murders include the rant, for some unknown reason, no 6. A foot-long knife was seized at Allen’s handwriting experts. They agreed with While the search for evidence contin- suspicion of writing the letter himself. following: effort has yet been made to match home during a police search in 1991, the Justice Department’s findings and ues, we can do no more than echo Although Toschi confessed to writing 1. While employed as a schoolteacher in the machine with the Bates corre- but again, no efforts have been made Allen was dismissed as being the author author Don Rumbelow’s sentiment, several anonymous letters to the press Calaveras County, CA, Allen missed spondence. to match the blade with wounds suf- of the Zodiac letters. penned in 1975 with respect to another that praised his own performance on the work on Tuesday, November 1, 3. Sometime in late 1968, Allen fered by the Lake Berryessa victims. Additionally, a search of Allen’s home elusive serial killer: case, handwriting analysts agree now 1966, first claiming the time as allegedly told acquaintance Don 7. Four days after the Vallejo police inter- in 1972 found nothing incriminating, “I have always had the feeling that on that the April note was indeed written “school business,” but later changing Cheney that he planned to commit a view in 1969, Allen allegedly told and he subsequently passed a 10-hour the Day of Judgment...when I and by the killer, not Toschi. to it a sick day. Accusers suggest that series of random murders, shooting acquaintance Ralph Spinelli that he polygraph test. His fingerprints also pro- other Ripperologists ask for Jack the he took the day off to recuperate couples in lovers’ lanes and taunting was going to San Francisco to kill a duced no matches when compared with Ripper to step forward and call out Allen: The Prime Suspect from facial wounds inflicted by River- police with letters signed “Zodiac.” cabbie. Although the Paul Stine mur- those collected in the Zodiac case. his true name, then we shall turn and he most widely-known Zodiac side murder victim Cheri Bates on Allen’s off-hand discussion of the der occurred one day later, Spinelli Police took what may be their last stab look with blank astonishment at one suspect, Arthur Leigh Allen, was October 30. However, Bates was crimes-to-be supposedly included made no report of the conversation at solving the case in October of 2002, another when he announces his name Tpublicly named as the Zodiac killed on Sunday night, some 350 specific descriptions of his intended until 1990, when he was facing a 30- when they submitted envelopes from and say, ‘Who?’” z

4 4 MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E , I SS U E # 9 WWW. MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E . C O M 4 5 considerable factor in the appeal of Tarot cards is their fabled exotic Abackground. Many people have devised theories that attempt to explain their origins while others simply sustain the myths that shroud them. Although these myths seize the imagination, the Tarot’s true history remains equally captivating. In fact, Tarot cards, which were origi- nally designed in the 15th century, were not actually used for divination until the 18th century.

A TRADITION OF TRIUMPHS THE HISTORY OF TAROT BY ALEXANDRA DIAZ

4 6 MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E , I SS U E # 9 WWW. MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E . C O M 4 7 Both playing cards and the Tarot con- tain ten numbered cards and the page, knight, and king court cards. Tarot decks also consisted of four suits: Swords, Cups, Batons (later called Wands), and Coins (later called Pentacles). An impor- tant difference, however, is the Tarot’s 22 trump cards, bringing the total num- ber of cards in a deck to 78. Despite the popular belief that Tarot cards were created for the sole purpose of divination, they actually first emerged in the first half of the 15th century in Italy for playing the carte de trionfi (Game of Triumphs), a fashionable card game among Italian aristocrats. Played similarly to today’s Bridge, these cards, unlike earlier numbered playing cards, displayed symbolic figures such as the Pope, the Devil, the Emper- or, and the Sun. As the trump cards con- tained no actual numerical identifiers, players were expected to familiarize themselves with their order.

The Visconti-Sforza Deck Cards from the 16th-century Tarot de Marseilles, illustrated by an unknown artist in Italy. ilippo Maria Visconti, the Duke of Milan, along with his illegitimate daughter’s husband Francesco F The Marseilles Motif Sforza, were among the first to commis- Although by the early 18th century, sion a Tarot deck from Milanese court y the 16th century, the Tarot had Tarot games had faded out of fashion artist Bonifacio Bembo sometime spread to northern Italy, where among the French aristocracy, it between 1420 and 1440. Now known as Bthe Tarot de Marseilles was born. remained popular with the lower classes, the Visconti-Sforza deck, the first cards Illustrated by an unknown artist in Lom- so local villages continued to produce depicted a series of heraldic devices, such bardy, Italy, it became the most recog- both the Marseilles Tarot as well as their as the Visconti family motto a bon droyt nized Tarot pattern in the world. own regional versions. But when a new (“by legitimate right”), and the recurring The earliest known model of the Mar- breed of occultists published their emblem of a winding snake. Two later seilles pattern was the Cary sheet, an respective theories concerning the mys- decks commissioned by Visconti and uncut sheet of Tarot cards that depicted terious origins of the cards during the Sforza similarly portrayed several Sforza the Popess, the Emperor, the Empress, second half of the 18th century, there family designs. the Moon, the Star, and the Magician. was a resurgence of interest in the Tarot. Some of these devices, as well as the When Napoleon conquered northern high quality of the cards’ designs, sug- Italy in 1796, the Cary sheet was Legends of Far-off Lands gest that they may have been created to Filippo Maria Visconti (inset), the Duke of Milan, along brought back to France by his troops. he cards’ appeal started to be given as a wedding gift for Visconti’s with his illegitimate daughter’s husband Francesco Sforza French cardmakers quickly imitated its expand after Antoine Court de marriage to Maria de Savoy. For (above), are believed to have commissioned some of the design and began adding titles to the TGebelin reintroduced the Tarot instance, the Lovers’ card in one deck earliest Tarot decks. cards. For unlike Italian Tarot players of Marseilles to the French nobility dur- depicts a couple under a canopy, which who were well-acquainted with the ing the 18th century. A Swiss Protestant may represent Visconti and his bride, images, French players were unfamiliar pastor and occultist, de Gebelin was fas- for the fringe on the canopy alternates marriage was strictly political, the society, such as clergymen and political with the game and so required labels to cinated with esoteric studies, mythology, with the Visconti shield (a white back- sweetness of this theory is dubious. figures of the time. For instance, the differentiate between the cards. The and ancient societies. ground with a black snake) and the With these first decks, the subjects— Popess card may have been designed to In the Visconti-Sforza deck, many of the existence of title banners soon standard- As a member of several freemason Savoy shield (a white cross on a red particularly of the trumps—featured represent Sister Manfreda, a Visconti images may have been designed after ized the cards’ order, the names of the organizations, he was introduced to the background). However, because their figures from renaissance and medieval cousin. Visconti or Sforza family members. trumps, and their designs. Tarot when a member invited him to

4 8 MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E , I SS U E # 9 WWW. MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E . C O M 4 9 ter, forged a connection to the Kabbal- THE MEANING BEHIND ah, a form of Jewish mysticism that interpreted Hebrew scriptures. He also agreed with de Gebelin’s THE ORDERING OF THE conjecture that the set of trumps came from the Egyptian Book of Thoth. MAJOR ARCANA (Thoth was the Egyptian god of wis- dom.) He then described how one hough obscured by nearly 600 virtues and the habits of moral living (For- could read Tarot cards by using a layout years of cultural change and end- titude and Justice), turns upon the Wheel that he had adapted from a similar Tless layers of interpretation, the of Fate in the middle, and is climaxed by model that was supposedly used by medieval order of the Tarot can still be Death and the promise of eternal life ancient Egyptian priests. found in the allegorical images of the 22 (Time/Temperance). However, like de Gebelin, de Millet trionfi (“triumphs” or “trumps”) now The triumph of Time/Temperance over contributed no evidence to support his known as the Major Arcana. Death provides a moral transition to the theories, and when the Rosetta Stone Individually, any given Tarot trump card "eschatological realm," which concerns was discovered in 1799—a stone which can seem ambiguous, with endless ways the second coming of Christ, the resur- Antoine Court de Gebelin theorized that decoded Egyptian hieroglyphics—it to interpret it. Viewed collectively, howev- rection of the dead, the Last Judgment, the Tarot trumps were actually taken soon became clear that there was no from the Book of Thoth, an Egyptian book er, and within the context of the Middle and the nature of human existence at Egyptian document that resembled the Nevertheless, he provided no evidence of ancient wisdom. However, he provided Ages, it becomes clear that the Tarot the end of the world. Like the exalted to prove his claims, and his theories were no evidence to support this theory and trumps have an underlying, sequential status of the Pope, the degraded status images on the Tarot’s trump cards. Any most people now believe that this was design that would have been immediately of the Devil is an inescapable boundary lingering doubts concerning the validity soon dismissed as inaccurate. just pure speculation on his part. recognizable to its intended audience— of the internal design of the sequence. of both de Millet’s and de Gebelin’s the- After the success of his books, Etteilla educated 15th-century Italian nobility. As there can be no lower station than ories quickly dissolved. published the first Tarot deck specifical- The late Middle Ages in Europe was the Devil in the eschatological realm, the ly designed for divinatory purposes. In play the game. Entranced by its intricate dominated by religion and a marked ten- lowest ranking card necessarily begins The French Fortune-Teller it, he reordered the Major Arcana to dency to embody thought in images. the final section. illustrations, he asserted that he immedi- n 1770, Jean-Baptiste Alliette, a reflect his views and reordered key Most thinking tended to religious inter- In the initial triptych of the final section, ately recognized the symbolism as being Parisian wine merchant who pre- words around the subject’s image in pretation and instruction and, consid- the lowest card (the Devil) is immediately ancient Egyptian in origin. ferred the pseudonym Etteilla (his order to assist the card reader in divin- ered within the constraints imposed by triumphed by fire from heaven (the Tower I ing its meaning. He also assigned each Between 1773 and 1782, de Gebelin the intended sequence, the metaphori- of Lightning/the Tower of God) and Christ surname spelled backwards), initiated Etteilla believed that the Tarot originated card a prescribed definition, whose published Le Monde Primitif (The Primi- cal figures of the Tarot trump cards (the Star). To a medieval audience, this Tarot’s acceptance as a divinatory tool. from a small Egyptian cult of 17 ancestors tive World), a nine-volume collection exemplified the medieval propensity to would have represented the triumph of In that year, he published Etteilla, ou of the Egyptian God Thoth. He was the interpretation depended on the spread that attempted to recreate early civiliza- correlate nearly everything to the story Christ over his two great adversaries— maniére de se récréer avec un jeu de first to design a Tarot deck (above) specif- and the individual’s situation. Although tions by hypothesizing what occurred of Christian salvation. Death and the Devil—and the Christian cartes (Etteilla, or a Way to Entertain ically to be used for divinatory purposes. many of the cards’ meanings have during the daily lives of the Greeks, The sequence of the trump cards can promise of resurrection and salvation. Yourself with a Deck of Cards), in which evolved since then, several of Etteilla’s Romans, and particularly the Egyptians. be divided into three sections. The first That promise, the "Triumph of Eterni- he discussed how to use regular playing interpretations are still used to this day. In it, he also discussed the Tarot’s ori- consists of six cards that represent the ty," was a per vasive motif during the cards for divination. gins, theorizing that the 22 trumps were, social hierarchy, or “ranks of man,” Middle Ages, and is depicted by the final Specifically, he advocated the use of Tarot). Although it was published after The Esoteric Radical which include two representatives from cards of the trump sequence. Here, the in fact, taken from the pages of a mysteri- the piquet deck—a popular shortened de Gebelin’s book, Etteilla claimed that n the 19th centur y, Alphonse- each of the three “estates” of medieval temporal lights of the world (the Moon ous Egyptian book of ancient wisdom. pack typically used for gaming—to he had been studying the Tarot since Louis Constant thrust occultism society (the traditional ranks of social and the Sun) are triumphed by Christ’s which he added one nontraditional card 1757 and had learned cartomancy from and the Tarot into the forefront of He also explained that the order of the and political power: the clergy, the nobili- resurrection and the resurrection of the I the esoteric community when he pub- trumps was originally inverted to portray ty, and the middle class). These cards faithful (Judgment/the Last Judgment). called “Etteilla.” To consult the cards, an Italian who had divulged the secrets the creation of the world, beginning begin with the commoners (the Fool) and In the final triumph, the Lord reigns over one dealt them into a spread and then of his folk traditions to him. He also felt lished La Bible de la liberté (The Bible of with the World card and the other celes- end with the Pope. Since there is no all (the World). interpreted each one. Each card carried that the last seven trumps belonged at Liberty) in 1841. tial trumps. However, he provided no higher social station than the Pope, any Other layers of meaning may have been upright and reversed meanings. For the beginning of the Major Arcana (the It was during the turmoil of a failed evidence to support his theory, and card ranked higher in the sequence is of lost through simplification of the allegori- example, the Ten of Hearts meant a term used to refer to the 22 trumps) to marriage—and during the political many historians maintain that his asser- a different type. cal images, reordering of the sequence, town and, when reversed, an inheri- represent the story of Creation. upheaval of the French Revolution— tions were mostly based on speculation. The nine cards of the middle section and conflation with other ideas or tance. Similarly, the King of Spades Etteilla also attributed the cards’ exis- that Constant met Polish occultist Another essay in Le Monde Primitif, cycle through allegories that depict the themes. However, considered within the meant a lawyer but, when reversed, a tence to a small cult of 17 supposed Hoene Wronski. Magic as an acceptable “conditions of man.” These include suc- context of medieval theological doctrine, written by the Comte de Millet, a widower. ancestors of the Egyptian god Thoth. spiritual path was generally scorned in cess, both individual (the Lovers) and col- the underlying design of the Tarot's Major French nobleman and cavalry officer In 1785, he published a book dedi- He even went so far as to speculate that Europe, but Constant studied it dili- lective (the Chariot); the hardships of Arcana epitomizes the Christian mythos cated to divination with Tarot cards, the Tarot was created exactly 1,828 years gently and eventually adopted the with an interest in the occult, linked the time (the Hermit) and fate (the Wheel of of man’s relationship to God and the Maniére de se récréer avec le jeu de after Creation and 171 years after the Hebrew version of his name—Eliphas 22 trumps to the 22 letters in the Fortune); and mortality (the Hanged Man divine. titled Levi—due, in part, to his respect for the Hebrew alphabet. He conjectured that and Death). This section is seasoned with —JUDITH KANE cartes nomées Tarots (How to Entertain Great Flood of the Old Testament, mak- each trump, with its corresponding let- Yourself With the Deck of Cards Called ing the Tarot 2,125 years old in 1757. Kabbalah but also because he desired to

5 0 MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E , I SS U E # 9 WWW. MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E . C O M 5 1 Edward Waite, Aleister Crowley, and the Aleister Crowley’s greatest Alphonse-Louis Costant, renowned poet William Butler Yeats. aka Eliphas Levi, harmonized achievement may have Waite, who was initiated into the the principles of the been his design of the Kabbalah with the Tarot. Order in 1891, shaped the future of the Toth deck, shown below. Tarot by designing the Rider-Waite Tarot, the most commonly used deck today. When the Hermetic Order disin- tegrated in 1903, Waite founded his own organization, the Holy Order of the Golden Dawn. Waite was also the author of several occult works, including books, articles, and translations of an assortment of eso- teric subjects. But his most valuable con- tribution to occultism was the Rider- Waite Tarot, alternately known as the Waite-Smith Tarot or the Universal Waite Tarot (depending on the illustra- Arthur Edward Waite shaped the future of tor), which was published in 1909 with the Tarot by designing the popular Rider- its companion book The Pictorial Key to Waite Tarot deck. the Tarot. His deck later inspired hundreds of decks, including Aleister Crowley’s principles of the Kabbalah with the Thoth Tarot, published in 1944, and its Tarot. For instance, he wrote that the complementary Book of Thoth, which ten numbered cards in each suit correlat- described his interpretations of the ed to the ten Sephiroth, or branches of Major Arcana. Crowley also redesigned spiritual energy of the Kabbalah’s Tree of several trumps to be more erotic. For Life. He also paired each of the four suits instance, the Judgment was replaced with one of the four natural elements of with The Aeon card, and the Strength earth, air, fire, and water. card was replaced with the Lust card. Several of the Tarot images that he The fusion of Waite’s interpretations described in Dogme et rituel, such as the and Crowley’s postmodern aesthetic Empress as a Venus figure and the inspired a fresh batch of Tarot Popess as the Egyptian goddess Isis, designers during the 1960s. Most shaped the visual representations on new decks adapted Waite’s universal some of the most popular Tarot decks, themes and symbols with different such as the Rider-Waite deck. In fact, artistic styles, such as the PoMo Tarot, distance himself from his painful past. nius would materialize in a puff of drift- Levi’s efforts to make the Tarot and eso- which depicts several postmodern As he immersed himself deeper into ing smoke. Unfortunately, no witnesses tericism acceptable to various occultist designs of the traditional trumps and magic, Levi wrote about his newfound were ever present to confirm this claim. communities that disregarded magic as a court cards. Other decks deviated passion, developing what would become In Dogme et rituel, Levi also fused viable spiritual outlet sparked renewed entirely from previous patterns. For a lifelong career as an authority in together several magical elements, such interest in the occult, spawning new instance, the feminist Motherpeace occultism. He experimented with pecu- as certain principles of the Kabbalah, organizations such as the Hermetic Tarot, released in 1983, introduced the liar ceremonies, such as his alleged invo- forms of divination (including the Tarot), Order of the Golden Dawn. first circular Tarot deck. cation of Apollonius of Tyana, a leg- nature, and astrology. He also endorsed Although the legends regarding the endary magician and Jesus’ supposed magic as a legitimate spiritual affiliation, The Dawn of the Modern Tarot Tarot’s origins are ripe with exotic contemporary. claiming that in magic lay the potential to he short-lived Hermetic Order images of fortune-telling gypsies, history In his most influential work, Dogme et unite science and Christianity. of the Golden Dawn was con- reveals a European aristocracy who were rituel de la haute magie (Transcendental Additionally, Levi eagerly praised the Tceived in 1888 to focus on vari- as captivated by the mysterious cards as Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual), pub- Tarot, calling it the basis for all ancient ous magical disciplines, such as divina- we are today. Although fragments of the lished in 1855, he claimed that when he dogmatic principles, and encouraged his tion, alchemy, magic, and astrology, in Tarot’s past reveal themselves slowly, the prepared an altar, complete with ritualis- readers to embrace the Tarot as a order to help its initiates achieve self- cards’ history matters less than the tic accoutrements, a specter of Apollo- prophetic tool. He also harmonized awareness. Members included Arthur meanings we assign to them today. z

5 2 MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E , I SS U E # 9 WWW. MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E . C O M 5 3 ?S NNAAPOLEONPOLEON’S HISTORY REMEMBERS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE AS A BOOKK BRILLIANT GENERAL, FEARLESS LEADER, AND POWERFUL BOO EMPEROR. YET FEW KNOW THATHE WAS ALSO INFLUENCED OF BY THE OCCULTAND ACTUALLY BASED MANY OF HIS LIFE OF DECISIONS ON ADVICE FROM PROGNOSTICATORS, PALM-READERS, ASTROLOGERS, AND HIS UNUSUAL FATEE BOOK OF FATE, AN ANCIENT ORACLE FAT THATHE SUPPOSEDLY FOUND IN A MUMMY’SSARCOPHAGUS DURING

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5 4 MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E , I SS U E # 9 WWW. MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E . C O M 5 5 Empress Josephine, After her release from prison, Rose set about commanded great respect in French society. aka Rose Tascher, 1763. establishing herself as a fixture in Parisian soci- Known simply as “The Sorceress” or “The ety, courting the admiration of wealthy and Sibyl,” Lenormand had risen to fame by pre- politically powerful men. Rose and Napoleon dicting the executions of Maximilien Robe- met when she arranged a meeting with him to spierre and Jean Paul Marat, radical leaders and seek the return of her deceased husband’s spokesmen during the French Revolution. sword, which was then in Napoleon’s posses- She also claimed to be able to communicate sion. Napoleon fell instantly in love and, want- with the dead and practiced many forms of ing Rose to have a Christian name, renamed divination, notably palm-reading, astrology, her “Josephine.” and the Tarot. She also believed that the behavior of birds and animals provided omens The Celebrity of “The Sibyl” about the future, and worked with fire, ashes, ost-Revolution France was rife with inter- water, broken mirrors, candles, hair, and fin- est in mysticism. The French were weary gernails, which she used in various ways to Pof the bloodshed and turmoil of the predict the future. French Revolution and the occult provided Madame Lenormand was also gifted in pleasant respite from the tedium of everyday card-reading and even designed her own deck life. To serious believers, it was also a way to of 36 cards, which bore cryptic messages and divine the future and to make contact with brilliantly colored images and symbols. In fact, departed loved ones, many of whom had died the Lenormand deck is still used by card-read- during the “Reign of Terror.” Rose herself ers today. believed deeply in the supernatural, citing the partially fulfilled prediction of the seer on Mar- The Predictions of Lenormand tinique as evidence of the power of clairvoyance. uring their courtship and marriage, She soon began to regularly seek the coun- Josephine encouraged Napoleon to Napoleon was born in the French-controlled 26, he was promoted to the rank of General of the sel of Parisian fortune-tellers, including seek the advice of Madame Lenor- port of Ajaccio, Corsica, on August 15, 1769, to western division of the French army. Later that D Madame Villeneuve, who practiced her trade mand, who had by then reached celebrity status Carlo and Letizia Bonaparte, Italian aristocrats year, he met Rose du Beauharnais, his wife-to-be on Rue l’Antechrist, and Monsier Martin, an in Parisian society. Both consulted the seer, from privileged backgrounds. Both of his parents and the future Empress Josephine of France. Italian palm-reader who concealed his legless who read their palms and cast their horoscopes. were extremely superstitious, believing in the “evil lower body in a wooden box and stocked his She supposedly predicted that Josephine would eye,” ghosts, and even vampires. His mother was The Rise of Rose reading rooms with skeletons and other enjoy a life of privilege and honor and that her particularly sensitive to the callings of the mystical osephine’s own life was colorful and turbu- macabre trinkets of black magic. husband would achieve status as an honored world, heeding the hooting of owls and the howl- lent. She was born Rose Tascher in 1763 in However, Rose’s favorite reader was Marie leader. She also foresaw his great military career ing of dogs in the night as omens of the approach- JMartinique, the child of struggling plantation Adelaide Lenormand, a prominent psychic who and rapid rise to immense political power, fol- ing death of a loved one. These early influences owners. When she was a young girl, an aged undoubtedly shaped Napoleon’s view of the world soothsayer told Rose’s fortune, predicting that she and set the stage for his life-long curiosity about would suffer through an unhappy marriage and the occult. widowhood, followed by a second marriage and a In 1779, Napoleon entered military school. He rise to prominence “greater than that of a queen.” was a voracious reader, and one of his favorite Ambitious and bored with island life, Rose left books was The Art of Judging Character From home at the age of 16 and traveled to Europe, Men’s Faces, by Jean Gaspard Lavater. Lavater was a where she met and married French nobleman Swiss theologian, mystic, and proponent of phys- Alexandre du Beauharnais. Although they had iognomy (face-reading), believing that a man’s dis- two children (Hortense and Eugene), their mar- position and character could be determined by riage was not a happy one, and both partners studying his facial features. Napoleon was fascinat- engaged in extramarital affairs. ed by this premise, and his exploration of Lavater’s By 1790, the French Revolution was shaking the work heralded his budding interest in the occult. foundations of French society, and Alexandre was Napoleon graduated from military school in executed, along with countless other aristocrats, 1785, joined the French artillery, and soon began confirming at least part of the prophecy of the for- his meteoric rise as a military strategist and leader. tune teller in Martinique. Rose herself was impris- His outstanding performance as an army officer did oned for a time and her health suffered terribly as a Madame Lenormand designed her own deck of 36 cards, which bore cryptic messages and brilliantly col- not go unnoticed and in 1795, at the tender age of result of her incarceration. ored images and symbols.

5 6 MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E , I SS U E # 9 WWW. MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E . C O M 5 7 The halt of the French army at Syene (Upper Egypt) in February, 1799. Asking the Oracle he 32 questions listed here are believed to mirror those found in the Oracle used by Napoleon. The questions address a variety of concerns, including love and marriage, friendship and family, Thealth, business, and career, as well as issues of character, ethical behavior, and personal responsibility. After choosing a question, the querent was instructed to draw five lines of random dashes. The pat- tern formed by the marks in the lines was then matched to a key in the text of the Oracle, to provide an answer.

Will the stolen property be recovered, and will the thief be detected? Inform me of any or all of the particulars which relate to the woman I shall marry. Inform me of all particulars relating to my future husband. Shall I live to an old age? Shall I ever be able to retire from business with a fortune? Shall I be eminent and meet with preferment in my pursuits? Shall I be successful in my present undertaking? Will my name be immortalized and will posterity applaud it? What is the aspect of the seasons and what political changes are to take place? Will the marriage about to take place be happy and prosperous? lowed by a crushing defeat and exile to a foreign incarceration only served to make her even more After my death will my children be virtuous and happy? island. She finally predicted that he would eventual- famous in French society. Napoleon, uneasy with Shall I ever find a treasure? ly divorce his beloved Josephine, and warned him her ever-skyrocketing popularity, then had Lenor- What trade or profession ought I to follow? to temper his lust for conquest. She noted that his mand expelled from Paris. She later took up resi- Have I any, or many, enemies? unusually long forefinger revealed his most trouble- dence in Germany and then Brussels, where she some character traits: egotism, pride, and a warring continued to consult for Russian, German, and Will the prisoner be released or continue captive? nature. (Today, the “finger of Napoleon” remains English officers and aristocrats. Shall I travel far by land or sea or reside in foreign climes? part of the jargon used by palm-readers.) Shall I be involved in litigation and, if so, shall I gain or lose in my cause? Legend has it that Napoleon was greatly angered The Rolls of Man’s Fate Shall I make or mar my fortune by gambling? by Lenormand’s predictions and refused to believe apoleon’s skill as a commanding officer Shall I ever inherit testamentary property? that his personal power and great influence could be rapidly catapulted him to fame. His deci- usurped. Nonetheless, he respected her opinions Nsive squashing of an uprising against the Shall I spend this year happier than last? and, when Napoleon was crowned Emperor of French government in 1795—as well as successful Will the stranger soon return from abroad? France in 1804, she was given her own sumptuous invasions of Italy and Austria in the following Will the friend I most reckon upon prove faithful or treacherous? house on the palace grounds so she could be regu- years—gave him almost unlimited popularity and Will my reputation be at all or much affected by calumny? larly consulted by members of the royal court. power. In 1798, he set sail for Egypt, accompanied Will my beloved prove true in my absence? Yet it is true that from the start, the Bonapartes’ by an elite corps of scientists, historians, and marriage was troubled. Napoleon traveled exten- artists. The goal of the expedition was to seize key Shall I ever recover from my present misfortunes? sively, leaving Josephine to find amusement in lavish Egyptian cities and ports, thereby expanding Does my dream portend good luck or misfortune? parties and outrageous spending, and both took France’s empire. Will it be my lot in life to experience great vicissitudes? part in extramarital trysts. Napoleon was soon frus- But Napoleon was fascinated with ancient Egyp- Shall the patient recover from illness? trated by Josephine’s indiscretions, as well as her tian culture, particularly the pyramids. It is said that Does the person whom I love, love and regard me? apparent inability to bear children. As he desperate- during a trip to Mount Libycus near Thebes, a ly wanted an heir, in 1809, he divorced Josephine member of Napoleon’s party broke into a pyramid’s Shall my intended journey be prosperous or unlucky? to marry Princess Marie Louise of Austria. inner chamber and found there a perfectly pre- Are absent friends in good health? Prior to the finalization of the divorce, served mummy inside an ornate sarcophagus. Shall my wife have a son or daughter? Napoleon had Madame Lenormand imprisoned Attached to the mummified king’s breast was a —MARY FRANZ for two weeks, apparently fearful of further prog- sheet of papyrus bearing hieroglyphics. nostications that might embarrass him. But her An Egyptian scholar was supposedly summoned

5 8 MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E , I SS U E # 9 WWW. MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E . C O M 5 9 day in Egypt. From then on, the oracle became back to Napoleon’s second wife Empress Napoleon’s most closely guarded possession. Marie Louise, who attempted to return it to He kept it by his side in a locked box and her husband while he was living in exile at St. sought its guidance before every battle or Helena. However, she was unsuccessful in this before making any major decision. endeavor and Napoleon and his oracle were Napoleon’s career continued to flourish when never reunited. he returned to France in 1799. He was instru- After Napoleon’s death, Marie Louise gave mental in helping to overthrow the French gov- the German translator Herman Kirchenhoffer ernment and was appointed First Consul, a posi- permission to translate the oracle into English tion that provided him with unbridled political and to publish it. Public interest was so strong power. In 1804, he was crowned Emperor of that 17 editions of the oracle, in the form of a France, and renewed his campaign of conquest. book entitled Napoleon’s Book of Fate, were By 1808, France controlled nearly all of central released between 1822 and 1829. and western Europe. However, Napoleon’s attempt to topple Eng- Disputing the Book’s Authenticity land led him into serious conflicts with Russia ince then, the authenticity of Napoleon’s and Austria. During the famed Battle of Nations Book of Fate has often been disputed. at Leipzig in 1813, Napoleon’s army was SAccording to a preface to the book writ- soundly defeated. And when the tide of popular ten by Kirchenhoffer, the oracle was discov- opinion turned against the mighty Emperor, ered in 1801. But historians maintain that Napoleon abdicated his throne in 1814. Napoleon departed Egypt and returned to From then on, his military success and political France two years earlier, suggesting that he power unraveled rapidly. He was defeated by would not have had access to the Oracle while the British at Waterloo in June of 1815 and was in Egypt. Other skeptics note that Napoleon exiled to the island of St. Helena scarcely a himself never mentioned the existence of the month later, where he supposedly lived until his oracle in his memoirs and that the verbiage of death from stomach cancer in 1821. The Book of Fate is more reflective of the lan- guage of 19th-century Europe rather than that A Battle Lost and a Book Found of ancient Egypt. to decipher the manuscript. It was then translated ficed animal and to draw quickly five rows of hori- apoleon’s demise is often portrayed Even so, proponents of the book’s validity into German by Napoleon’s secretary Herman zontal lines, with each row containing approximate- as the inevitable defeat of a maniacal insist that its strict attention to detail points to Kirchenhoffer, presumably in an attempt to secure ly 12 lines. No thought was to guide this process; Ndictator who was undone by his its genuineness and maintain that the language its most unusual contents—an oracle used by Egyp- the drawing of the lines was intended to be entirely inability to control his thirst for world domi- chosen by the German secretary demonstrates tian priests to predict the future. random. The priest then counted the number of nation. Certainly this is true. However, one his meticulous attempt to render an accurate The ancient oracle, referred to as the “Roll of lines in each row; marking one dot to indicate an startling and little-known piece of informa- translation. They also note that the practice of Man’s Fate,” was purportedly written by the high odd number of lines and two dots to indicate an tion casts a different light on the Emperor’s occult science was quite common in Europe priest Balaspsis of the Great Temple at the sacred even number. The pattern formed by the dots was fall from grace—Napoleon and his beloved during the late 18th centur y, and that city of Diaspolis Parva, but the content of the ora- then matched to a corresponding hieroglyphic in oracle were separated on that doomed battle- Napoleon’s fascination with mystical phenom- cle was believed to have come directly from the the oracle’s text, which provided the response to the field at Leipzig in 1813. ena was well known. Some even speculate that god Osiris himself. Only priests were purportedly question. The answer was then communicated by Distraught by its loss, he reportedly risked had Napoleon heeded the stern warning allowed to see and touch the sacred oracle, which the priest to a prophetess, who sat at the door of the his life attempting to find it, to no avail. The offered by the oracle (“Abuse not the power was kept in an alabaster chest and stored beneath temple on a sacred seat and proclaimed the findings oracle was later found by a Prussian soldier, the Lord giveth thee”), the direction of his life the temple’s altar. in a loud voice. who failed to recognize its importance, and might have taken a far different course. Napoleon reportedly asked the oracle the follow- instead sold it to a wounded French general Since its first appearance in 1822, Using the Oracle ing set of questions and was so struck by the accura- who had been captured in battle and impris- Napoleon’s Book of Fate has been published he text of the oracle consisted of 32 ques- cy of the responses that he seized both the original oned. The general, who understood the signif- many times in several languages. One fact tions related to such topics as health, mar- and translated manuscripts, pirating them for his icance of Napoleon’s coat of arms on the cover seems clear—whether truth or fiction, the Triage, family, friends, travel, occupation, suc- own personal use. of the manuscript, planned to return it to enduring popularity of the book demonstrates cess, money, reputation, and character. Before a Even cynics might agree that the answers Napoleon when he was released. However, the power of the occult to captivate and question was asked of the oracle, an animal sacrifice Napoleon received from the oracle were eerily when the general died from his injuries before intrigue us. It also offers a tantalizing glimpse was to be made to the gods by the temple priest. reflective of his concerns during that period in his he could return the book, the oracle was sent into the mysterious realm of divination which After asking his question, an individual was next life but for Napoleon, there was no doubt of the instead to his family. may have guided Napoleon, one of the great- instructed to dip a quill into the blood of the sacri- value of the manuscript he consulted on that fateful Eventually the manuscript made its way est rulers of all time. z

6 0 MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E , I SS U E # 9 WWW. MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E . C O M 6 1 A P OL E O N B O N A P A R T E HA D survived military campaigns that Nsaw millions of men fall, as well as one of the worst military defeats in history at Waterloo. By emerging alive and well from this debacle, he created an awkward situation for his enemies. He was still too popular a figure throughout Europe for his captors to execute him, so they imprisoned him instead on the barren South Atlantic island of St. Helena. It seemed his vanquishers’ problems were solved when, in May of 1821, Napoleon died on St. Helena. His French guards were certain he had not escaped, as he had from his earlier confinement on Elbe Island. The Royal Navy squadrons who endlessly patrolled the waters around St. Helena were likewise positive that their ward had stayed put. Yet some historians believe that the emperor actually managed to smuggle a double onto the island to take his place, that this impersonator later died on the island, and that the real Bonaparte escaped to Italy, where he lived peacefully for the next several years, before being shot down as he attempted to break into an Austrian castle.

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6 2 MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E , I SS U E # 9 WWW. MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E . C O M 6 3 The island of St. Helena on which Napoleon was imprisoned. in diamonds. Interestingly, Petrucci called his new friend “emperor” because of his striking resemblance to Napoleon. Revard turned out to be very gener- ous, frequently walking the streets hand- ing out expensive jewelry to impover- ished people. Yet he seemed to have inexhaustible personal funds with which to repay the till. Revard lived quietly in Italy for a num- ber of years until August, 1823, when an elaborate carriage arrived at the shop and Nineteen years after Napoleon Bonaparte’s supposed death at St. Helena, his casket was the driver handed Revard a letter. Petruc- opened before returning his body to France. Those who were present were astonished to ci later recalled that after Revard repeat- see that the emperor’s unembalmed body was almost perfectly preserved, as ostensibly, edly perused this missive, he turned to the arsenic that may have been used to poison him had checked the processes of decay. Petrucci to say that he had to leave at But was the person in the casket actually Napoleon or his body double François Robeaud? once on important matters and that he was leaving the shop in Petrucci’s hands. A couple of hours later, Revard rode a Some said Napoleon lived a charmed congenial that he would be less disposed money and delicacies arrived via courier. carriage to Petrucci’s home and gave him the unknown man was buried on the cas- serious trouble with his memory, for- life, yet he went to great pains to frus- to attempt an escape.) When he asked where he could find a thick, sealed letter. He then told him tle grounds. getting numerous events that transpired trate would-be assassins by hiring men A month after the change in com- her brother, she said that François had that if he was not back in three months, Before it was time for Petrucci to before his arrival on St. Helena. His who closely resembled him in his appear- mand, neighbors saw a glittering carriage gone to sea and had not contacted her he was to take his letter to the King of deliver Revard’s missive to the King of personality was also said to have ance and diminutive stature. Four men pull up in front of the house in Balycourt since so she had no idea where he might France. Climbing back into the coach, France, four French officials visited him changed from that of his prior, urbane eventually acted as doubles for the where Robeaud lived with his spinster be located. Although it was painfully Revard rode out of Petrucci’s life forever. and paid him 100,000 gold crowns for inclination to that of an uncouth com- emperor, giving the bewildering impres- sister. After a lengthy conference behind clear that something odd had happened, the enigmatic sealed letter, the shop, moner. Most significant was that when sion that he was in several places at once. closed doors, Robeaud’s mysterious visi- there was no evidence that any criminal An Ignomious Demise and for his silence. He kept his secrets he wrote his will about a year before his One of these impersonators was killed tors re-boarded their coach and drove activities had transpired, so Ledru t 11 p.m. on the night of for over 30 years, but he eventually told death, his handwriting differed greatly by a bullet that may have been intended away. It was business as usual in Baly- returned to Balycourt. September 4, Napoleon’s son by his hometown authorities, under oath, from his pre-St. Helena days. for his master; one died by poison; and a court until autumn, when neighbors Worried that Robeaud may have Ahis second wife Marie Louise— that he was certain his mysterious busi- If Revard was actually Bonaparte, he third was crippled in a riding accident. noticed one morning that the Robeauds attempted to swap places with Napoleon, Napoleon II—was stricken with scarlet ness partner indeed had been Napoleon may have been promised that he could The only surviving double at the time of were gone, apparently having left government leaders in both Paris and fever while living in Austria’s Schon- Bonaparte. remain at liberty as long as he stayed hid- Napoleon’s imprisonment was French- furtively during the night. London quietly checked on their star brunn Castle. According to legend, a Could it be that the man killed at den. If it was Robeaud on St. Helena, he man François Eugéne Robeaud. Fearing foul play, local authorities prisoner. However, unwilling to make guard heard a rustling in the vines that Schonbrunn Castle was actually may have been promised a munificent Although records in Robeaud’s home- launched a search for the missing sib- the long, arduous sea journey themselves, draped the walls surrounding the com- Napoleon Bonaparte, who was attempt- reward for remaining on the island for town of Balycourt, France cryptically lings. Two years later, two Balycourt they contacted the island garrison’s com- pound and seconds later, he saw a dark ing to visit his sick son? some set length of time, but by accident recount that he died on St. Helena, the merchants saw Robeaud’s sister in Paris mander by mail, where General Bertrand silhouette drop to the ground and sprint (or design), he may have passed away date of his death is missing, obliterated and were puzzled when she pretended assured them that Bonaparte remained toward the palace. Further Evidence before this date arrived. many decades ago by an unknown hand. not to know them. They informed their secure on St. Helena. The sentry fired at the interloper, who nother titillating piece of physi- The circumstances surrounding But what was Robeaud doing on St. hometown police, and a federal investi- collapsed and quickly died of a musket cal evidence surfaced. In the Napoleon’s death suggest that there are Helena in the first place? gator named Ledru eventually managed The Appearance of M. Revard ball through his abdomen. Guards car- Aspring of 1956, the British gov- some inconsistencies with the official to locate her in Tours, where she was liv- t about the same time Ledru was ried the corpse into an illuminated hut, ernment announced that it had in its report that Napoleon died on the island The Search for Robeaud ing quite well, despite having no visible in Tours, General Bertrand’s wife took one look at him, and then sent for possession a piece of Napoleon’s intes- of St. Helena. His impact on the western lthough the garrison guarding means of support. Awrote to a friend, “Success is their officers. Just after dawn, two high- tine. Although the intestine showed no world’s course of history was immense, Bonaparte on St. Helena was When Ledru asked how she was sup- ours! Napoleon has left the island!” Soon ranking bureaucrats from the Austro- evidence of cancer, it bore a perforation and his accomplishments on the battle- Aoriginally commanded by a Gen- porting herself, she claimed to be the after, an opulent-looking stranger arrived Hungarian government arrived to view that could well have been made by a field altered the conduct of warfare. eral Gourgand, when he retired in 1818, paramour of a rich doctor who was pay- in Verona, Italy. Calling himself merely the body. These officials then surprising- gunshot wound. The image of Napoleon’s death from he was replaced by a general named ing all her expenses, but she refused to Monsieur Revard, he claimed to be a ly contacted the French embassy, which Two years before the shadowy intrud- illness and while under confinement is Bertrand, who had served under give his name. Even if someone had fall- widowed merchant from Normandy who sent emissaries to claim the cadaver. er was shot to death, the man impris- hardly in keeping with his character. On Napoleon and was a great admirer of the en in love with the homely old maid, it said he was now fulfilling his lifelong Before the remains could be shipped oned on the island of St. Helena was the other hand, a tale of escape and a former emperor. (The authorities may must have been a platonic romance, for ambition of living in Italy. back to France, however, Marie Louise stricken by what some thought was desperate attempt to see an unknown have hoped that being guarded by one of from what she told him, she had never Revard soon formed a joint venture insisted that the remains be returned to stomach cancer and what others thought son seems like a more fitting end for a his adoring former generals would make even seen her supposed consort. 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N might actually be caused by noisy pipes. I R E It has been said that you find Pennsyl- What is the percentage of reports negative entity. When we interviewed vania to be particularly haunted. Is to actual hauntings? her, we found out that her symptoms that because it is an old state? Jason: We actually disprove about 80 were actually menopausal, not demonic. Grant Wilson: There’s a difference percent of all claims. The other 20 per- Another woman who thought she was between a place being haunted and cent does not mean that there is a haunt- being possessed was actually taking two thinking that a place is haunted. Certain- ing. “Paranormal” means “above the different prescription drugs that actually ly there have been a lot of claims of norm,” so it just means that we have became hallucinogenic when combined. hauntings in Pennsylvania. Although we found activity going on that we just do have not been able to investigate all of not understand or cannot explain. Given that you are both plumbers, them, there is definitely a higher amount have you ever been in the position of of claims of the paranormal in this state. Is there any moment in the series explaining a so-called haunting as Ghost Hunters that might convince a noisy plumbing? Do you think people in Pennsylvania skeptic that hauntings are real? Jason: Absolutely. Once someone are just paranoid about ghosts? Jason: In one episode, Frank, one of our claimed that a ghost was flushing their Jason Hawes: Many people who live sound guys, got knocked down. He was toilet every night at 2 a.m. But we found where there are hard winters, such as in a total non-believer. His arms were both that it was actually just a bad flapper Pennsylvania, have a tendency to spend over his head holding his boom mike valve leaking. We’ve also had situations more time in their homes. By doing so, during one session and his bag mysteri- where people who thought ghosts were they tend to hear more noises and some- ously rose up and struck him in his face. knocking on the wall but the sound was times their imagination just kicks in. All of this was caught on film. actually just caused by air in the pipes. That’s why more claims of paranormal We have also had cases where people activity occur during the winter. had actually built speakers into their How did you get interested in the L walls to try to fool us in believing that paranormal and how did you get HANNE C

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priestesses in their crystal tem- human spirit. Andrews suggests Lemuria and Atlantis is a book Hunter's quest begins in the Charles’ "Maister of Wark" modern Freemasonr y, but he Lemuria and Atlantis ples, the ser vile lives of the that the Atlanteans fell into this that every Atlantis enthusiast Masques of Solomon 17th centur y with scattered William Schaw, Principal Warden gives readers a set of interest- Studying the Past beings who were part man and trap, becoming so self-impor- should have in his/her library, C. BRUCE HUNTER complaints from Scotland about and Chief Master of Masons, is ing theories on the Order’s ori- to Survive the Future part animal, and the crushing tant in their efforts to acquire as it provides a fascinating look ISBN: 0-88053-095-2 a sinister "Mason word" known given credit for introducing many gins which are as believable BY SHIRLEY ANDREWS egoism of the late Atlantean knowledge and science that into the lives of the Atlanteans. $22.50, MACOY PUBLISHING, 2003 only to initiates of a secret modifications into the Lodge and as workable as anything ISBN: 0-7387-0397-4 scholar-priest-scientists. even the best scholars were If, however, your main focus is any of the historical cabal. Taking the date of the system. Later, when James unit- else available on the subject. $12.95, LLEWELLYN, 2004 For those interested in geog- taken by surprise when the cata- Lemuria, this book offers little records of the Masonic earliest recorded complaint— ed the English and Scottish The Masques of Solomon is emuria and Atlantis is a raphy, Andrews devotes five clysm erupted, having ignored insight. Morder are inaccessible 1637—he marks the begin- thrones, many of these changes an excellent addition to any fascinating look into the chapters to the possible loca- nature’s warning signs. —MICHELLE SANTOS to non-members. Not only that, nings of Masonry's change from were introduced into the English Mason's library, and will be of Llost civilizations of old. Not tions of Atlantis and the spread- but Freemason historians are a craft guild to a fraternal order. craft lodges. These changes interest to any student of alter- only does author Shirley ing of Atlantean culture. bound by oaths of secrecy, so From here, he moves backward, were made permanent after nate histories and conspiracy Andrews link the civilizations of She adamantly subscribes to Calling on Extraterrestials there has been little solid schol- pointing to such subtle signs as London’s Great Fire of 1666, theories. Atlantis and Lemuria through arship on the beginning and Lord Boswell’s 1600 mason when many masons were —KEVIN FILAN two possible locations for 11 Steps to Inviting Your Own UFO Encounters timelines and shared histories, Atlantis: in the Caribbean per development of Freemasonry. mark—-a circle in a cross—a brought in to rebuild the devas- BY LISETTE LARKIN but she also describes little- the trance-induced information C. Bruce Hunter’s Masques of design that is far more difficult tated city. JFK: The Second Plot ISBN: 1-57174-372-3 known facts concerning the from psychic Edgar Cayce, or in Solomon attempts to redress to car ve into stone than the However, Hunter's connec- BY MATTHEW SMITH $15.95, HAMPTON ROADS, 2003 Maya in Mexico and the Native this lack. The first in a series straight lines favored by most tions between the 16th-century ISBN: 1-84018-501-5 the Atlantic Ocean per informa- n the sequel to her Talking to Extrater- Americans. that explores various elements working masons. Hunter pre- Masque Plays of Ben Jonson $16.99, MAINSTREAM PUBL., 2003 tion from psychic Madam Blat- restrials, Lisette Larkins combines two As Andrews is a noted of Masonic ritual, this volume sents this as evidence that by and the Third Degree Ritual are he assassination of John vasky. She combines these the- best-selling genres: the how-to book I concentrates on the famous 1600, Masonic lodges were no a bit more tenuous. Jonson F. Kennedy is an endlessly Atlantean scholar, it is not sur- ories to form her own and the tale of a spiritual journey, draw- prising that the majority of this Third Degree of Craft Masonry. longer exclusively craft guilds; may have been a court favorite, fascinating episode in hypothesis that the Atlantean ing on the desire for self-improvement T book focuses on Atlantis. In In it, various influences upon rather, these Mason's marks but there were many equally American histor y. Already 41 culture began in the Atlantic and personal transcendence. In so fact, she relegates Lemuria to this complex ritual are dissected were used to mark Masonic doc- popular playwrights at the time years have passed since his Ocean as a unified geopolitical doing, Talking with Extraterrestrials is the first two chapters and ran- is an attempt to shed light on uments. and Morality Plays and Masques death on November 22, 1963, society, then subsequently, nothing less than a pseudo-religious dom, inconsequential sen- the period when Masonic lodges King James I of Britain, first were being per formed long and still the controversy over spread all over the world when manual, giving an 11-step program for tences throughout the rest of went from being a workingman’s ruler of a united England and before Jonson entertained the the assassination rages on. the Atlantean landmass first inviting the mystical experience of alien the book. Despite this flaw (and Order to a speculative and philo- Scotland, receives Hunter's Jacobean cour t with his own The conclusion drawn by the began to show signs of an contact into one’s life. the rather deceiving title of the sophical society that claims as attention as well, as does his productions. Warren Commission, the official impending catastrophe. What does spirituality have to do with book), Andrews clearly uses sci- members the bourgeoisie and mother Mary, Queen of Scots, Hunter does not provide repor t on the assassination, Any Celtic and fairy scholars aliens? In our modern, scientific world, entific discovery, metaphysical landed gentry. and his son Charles. For irrefutable proof of the origins of was that Lee Har vey Oswald will also recognize the names of where scientists debate not how many knowledge, and historical shot the president and two days the Atlantean city-states of angels can dance on the head of a pin but how many research to present an easy-to- later, he was, in turn, shot by Finias, Gorias, Murias, and quarks can fit into a proton, aliens—at once plausible and read overview of the lifestyles, Jack Ruby. Yet from the ver y Falias, the same names of the unknowable—are the perfect representation of a Higher Power. How to Be a Ghost Hunter societal structure, and hidden four fairy cities which reside in beginning, many have rejected More importantly, those like Larkin who have been contacted by BY RICHARD SOUTHALL knowledge of Atlantis. the Celtic Otherworld of Tir na this conclusion, believing ETs have been now given imprimatur to write their own books ISBN: 0738703125 Andrews does not clarify Nog in Irish mythol- Kennedy to be the target of a and be held in awe by their peers at UFO conventions. $12.95, LLEWELLYN PUBL., 2003 where she found conspiracy masterminded by ogy. This is a fasci- In the language of a self-help manual that is inflected with the host hunting is not a generally accepted pastime, so a writer who seeks all the descriptions Castro, the USSR, the Mafia, nating connection New Age accents of a Wiccan ceremony, Larkins thus sets out to draw new practitioners into the field must write informatively and well. of life in Atlantis, the CIA, Texas oil men, or a between Atlantis her program: Call it forth. Remember soul connections. Forgive Alas, this is only occasionally the case in How to be a Ghost Hunter. G combination of all of these. but the implication and the British the pain. Energize. Discern readiness in others. Shapeshift. Fear With chapters ranging from paranormal photography (the most interesting is that much of the Matthew Smith’s JFK: The Sec- Isles that may not. Metamorphose. Her program reads like a democratized the- and well-written chapter) to how to form a paranormal group, there is much information was ond Plot is a new attempt to shed additional ory of Calvin’s Chosen Elect—it is possible for everyone to be opportunity for the author to teach and entertain his readers. Unfortunately, the obtained through make sense of the assassina- light on the part of the spiritual elite if they just work for it. introduction to the book provides a valid indicator that neither teaching nor psychic techniques tion conspiracy. Atlantis as Larkins, whose own experiences of being contacted by ETs entertaining is likely to be found here. Comprised of 38 pages of self-promotion, and past life regres- The Second Plot is divided Lyonesse/Isle of led, by her own admission, to a mental hospital, divorce, and the introduction largely references the Haunted Parkersburg Ghost Tours, of which Southall is co-cre- sions, as well as into two parts. “The Main-Tier Avalon theory. loss of custody of her children, is plainly looking for some sort of ator. Meanwhile, his chapter on the history of paranormal photography is half as long. Such superfi- through the writings Plot” looks at the assassination Andrews final- salvation. Salvation, however, comes from within, not from the cial treatment is also accorded to the topics in each of the book’s other chapters. of other Atlantis itself and analyzes the conclu- ly presents the stars. The writing, too, is disappointing. Words such as “definitely” and “actually” are overused and many scholars. Regardless sions made by the Warren end of Atlantis In fact, Larkins’ premise is that aliens will only contact those sentences end with prepositions. While Southall clearly has experiences worth sharing, he lacks the of the source, these Report, which Smith maintains as a lesson for who are ready for them. The thing is, reality is not something structure and style with which to adequately convey them. Ironically, it appears that all Southall need- chapters are filled was written to avert a war with all of us: do not become so that one asks to happen to one; it just happens. ed for this book was a ghost writer. with excitement and energy, as enamored of technology that Cuba or the Soviet Union. —KEN MONDSCHEIN —ANDREW AND JOCELYN COMENDUL Andrews describes the you forget the importance of the Smith then shows how eyewit-

7 2 MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E , I SS U E # 9 WWW. MY S T E R I E S M A G A Z I N E . C O M 7 3 Book Reviews Book Reviews Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye Alchemy and the End of Time BY JAN WEIDNER AND VINCENT BRIDGES ISBN: 0-89281-084-X ness accounts, photographs, learned Russian. Even- bring him home. zine should know. In keeping oils, acrylics, and tattoos.) unusual things scattered across $22.95. DESTINY BOOKS, 2003 film, acoustic, and medical evi- tually he defected to Smith convincingly with its tradition of publishing In our secular, atheistic age, the sur face of the red planet, an Weidner and Vincent Bridges may have started out with dence all point to the existence the Soviet Union, mar- develops his theor y, high-quality weirdness, Feral it is perhaps necessar y to be including formations of rocks an obscure monument in an equally obscure seaside French of at least one other gunman. ried a Russian but some aspects of House has brought forth Sondra reminded that evil is real. With that looked like pyramids and Jtown, but their Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye Part Two is an examination of woman, and then returned to the crime remain murky, such London’s True Vampires, an its detailed descriptions of hor- unusual tube-shaped features takes us on a journey which starts in 13,000 BC and ends in an Lee Har vey Oswald, from his the United States. Though as Jack Ruby’s involvement in exploration into the darker side rific crimes—and Claux’s dis- that snaked through vast apocalypse that the authors believe may occur in the next ten bir th in 1939 to his death in impossible to prove, Smith Oswald’s assassination and of the human species. turbing illustrations—True Vam- canyons. As well, there were years. Cathars, Merovingians, Tarot Trumps, Incan astrology, the 1963. Smith asserts that not speculates that Oswald was Oswald’s wife’s possible con- The book’s title is somewhat pires ser ves this purpose organic-looking objects that Black Stone of Mecca, the Freemasons, Kabbalists, and Surreal- only was Oswald not the lone working for the CIA while in the nection to the KGB. To develop misleading, as Real Vampires is admirably. It will no doubt prove appeared to be giant trees or ists all come together in a dizzying romp here. gunman, he was not even one USSR, recruited from the mili- his theory, Smith makes asser- not so much about vampires as extremely appealing to readers growths of coral. More impor- You have to give the authors credit for their ambition. Starting of the shooters. Rather, Oswald tary for the express purpose of tions about various par tici- it is a catalog of some of the with a sense of the outré, but tantly was a human face that with the writings of Fulcanelli, a pseudonymous alchemist acted as a patsy to enable the becoming a double agent to the pants’ motives and actions that more demented murderers, those with delicate sensibilities, appeared to be carved onto a whose theories on magical symbolism and architecture were real gunmen to escape. USSR. But the Soviets were are impossible to prove. sadists, and psychos of our however, would be well advised hillside in an area of Mars beloved by many Surrealists, the authors then go on to discuss As a Marine, Oswald had suspicious of Oswald and he For instance, Smith claims time. Besides their horrific to give it a pass. called Cydonia. the various Gothic cathedrals of France. They then explore the been involved in naval intelli- was allowed so little freedom that J. D. Tippit, the police offi- crimes, all of the —KEN MONDSCHEIN Since the first photos were controversy surrounding the Cathars, and gence in Japan, where he that it was decided by the CIA to cer who was killed that day, was subjects— published, there have been later the Templars, as well as the secret involved in the plot to kill JFK, from Ed After the Martian numerous books written about brotherhoods of ancient Egypt, the although he suggests that Gein, the Apocalypse the anomalies, most of which Troubadors, and Atlantis. One might eas- Thoughts Through Space Oswald was not aware of what i nspi r a ti on Extraterrestrial Artifacts and have been either in favor of the ily get lost amidst the shifts in time and A Remarkable Adventure in the Realm of the Mind was going on and was being set for the movie the Case for Mars Exploration ET hypothesis or completely place, were it not for their consistently BY SIR HUBERT WILKINS & HAROLD M. SHERMAN up as a patsy. Tippit was sup- Psycho, to BY MAC TONNIES skeptical. After the Mar tian clear writing. ISBN: 1-57174-314-6 posed to take Oswald to Red- Issei Sagawa, ISBN: 0-7434-8293-X Apocalypse, however, takes a And what does it all mean, you may $14.95, HAMPTON ROADS, 2004 bird Airport where he was to be who, despite $14, PARAVIEW, 2004 refreshing look at these strange ask? According to Weidner and Bridges, houghts Through Space is part of Hampton Roads’ Studies flown to Cuba in order to impli- having killed here has been an enor- features and finds that a num- 2012 is going to be a very interesting in Consciousness series, which reprints, under the guid- cate Fidel Castro in the assassi- and eaten a mous amount of informa- ber are, indeed, natural forma- year. We may be looking at either cos- Tance of physicist and consciousness research pioneer Rus- nation. Since this never actually female student Ttion written about the pos- tions or tricks of light and shad- mic chaos which only the select (and sell Targ, several “lost classics” of consciousness studies— happened and both Tippit and in Paris in 1981 is now a sibility that anomalies ow. Life-on-Mars proponents those hiding in a small Peruvian village) books that have largely been forgotten, despite the insights they Oswald were killed, it is impos- celebrity in Japan—have one photographed on the Mars sur- should not despair, however, for will survive, or at a profound shift in human consciousness. offer into human consciousness and science. sible to prove. Still, his analysis additional thing in common: face could be intelligently built. Tonnies also finds that other Unfortunately, at times, the authors seem to be stretching the Originally published in 1951, Thoughts Through Space tells of the assassination seems They consumed, wore, or other- Mac Tonnies has taken on the Martian anomalies do appear to evidence to fit their hypothesis. Yes, the Kabbalistic "Tree of the story of Sir Hubert Wilkins and Harold M. Sherman’s experi- plausible and, to Smith’s credit, wise used parts of their victims. unenviable task of presenting be intelligently constructed. Life" design fits pretty well on the front of the Cathedral of Notre ments in mental telepathy from 1937 to 1938. These experi- he does not finger any one con- London, former fiancée of an updated look at the contro- Even though NASA has all but Dame, but it would also fit on the front of New York's Trump ments were conducted while Wilkins was on an Arctic rescue spirator. serial killer Danny Rolling (who versy. The result is a well-writ- written off the Cydonian Face as Tower. (Also surprising to read that Estonian is a dead language, mission and Sherman remained in New York. A concise look at “the crime is not mentioned in the book) is ten, even-handed book that is a natural formation, Tonnies although not nearly as surprised as it will be to 1.1 million Esto- The book is broken down into three sections. First is Wilkin’s of the century,” The Second Plot cer tainly qualified to scribe sure to pique the interest of any- spends a great deal of time re- nians!) And it is doubtful that the authors’ interpretation of the story, which entertainingly follows the trials and tribulations of is worth reading as much for its such an oeuvre, but her choppy one even half-familiar with Mar- examining the photos and pre- Great Cross will convince skeptics that Fulcanelli's work was not his expedition. Second is Sherman’s account of his attempts at factual research that highlights writing style (no pun intended), tian anomalies. senting evidence on why the just a witty Surrealist prank. receiving the telepathic messages sent by inconsistencies in the "lone unfortunately does not hold up Besides Ear th, out of all of face deser ves closer inspec- Still, in the best Surrealist tradition, this book is a starting Wilkins, which is slightly less exciting, but no gunman" theory as for the imag- through the whole book. the planets in the solar system, tion. Additionally, Tonnies point for their own flights of fancy. Once finished, readers may be less interesting, as Sherman attempts to pick inative and plausible conclu- The book is ghoulishly illus- Mars was thought to be the insists that the features on inspired to dig through dusty tomes to further their knowledge up both conscious and unconscious messages sions the author draws. trated by oil paintings executed most likely to harbor life. But Mars, if artificial, are not neces- on 10th-century Kabbalists, crop circles, and perhaps even from Wilkins. The final section features the —CHARLES RAMMELKAMP by Nicolas Claux, the so-called when the first Mars probes sarily high-tech, as the civiliza- Tibetan monasteries. record of the experiment, including supplemen- “Vampire of Paris,” a convicted began sending back tion that built the —KEVIN FILAN tary letters, tests, and logbooks, all of which True Vampires murderer, grave robber, and close-up photos of the Face may have serve to support the men’s accounts. BY SONDRA LONDON cannibal. Amongst Claux’s art- surface, scientists and been technological- our society into social chaos. knee-jerk dismissals. As Ton- Ultimately, Thoughts Through Space is a ISBN: 0-922915-93-8 work is a facsimile of his oath to dreamers alike were ly equivalent to Maybe NASA just does not want nies points out, only by sending thought-provoking look at two men’s experi- $16.95, FERAL HOUSE, 2004 Satan, sealed with his own shocked to find a dr y, earthly Bronze Age to be the one responsible for crewed missions to Mars will ences, particularly regarding the existence of hether the subject is blood. (Claux was released from crater-ridden planet, societies. Yet instigating the collapse of our we be able to answer once and ESP, the methodology and mechanics of sending and receiving government conspira- prison in 2002, having served seemingly devoid of even there seems to be civilization. for all if Mars was once the thoughts over wide distances, and the continuing quest for sci- Wcies, Norwegian death just seven years of a 12-year the most rudimentar y the impression After the Martian Apocalypse home of intelligent life or sim- entific proof for what many consider a "pseudo science." metal, or 1950s pulp fiction, sentence for a thrill-kill crime he forms of life. that evidence of makes a good point for scientif- ply another dead planet that is —DEREK ANDERSON Feral House is a publisher that committed in 1994. He is now a However, these same life beyond Earth ic examination of the unknown, adrift in the darkness of space. every reader of Mysteries Maga- professional artist, working in photos also showed some is sure to plunge rather than presenting outright —TIM SWARTZ

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From of Hindi vocals, accordion, gui- ering that our bodies are made up of 95% water, it makes sense your sixth sense, to get into $10.95, LLEWELLYN, 2004 death, suffering, and cosmic Buchanan tire- sitars to bamboo flutes to ocari- tar, and kora in “Hari Bol.” And Iyour "blue zone" where spirit ooner or later, we are all injustice. Rather, it is a warm, lessly points out that although that water has a power ful hold on our hearts as well as our nas, many instruments from the waxy sound of the samisen- communication becomes as going to shuffle off this fuzzy, New Age take on death. CRV was developed as an intelli- minds. many regions have had their like strings in “River” drifts and clear as speaking with your Smortal coil and find our- Still, this is a worthy effort, in gence-gathering tool for military A babbling brook or stream, the roar of the ocean surf, or even turn in the spotlight. Those from eddies around pounding drum friends and family. This is the pri- selves on the Other Side. Yet which Staume provides a light, and political espionage, he feels the tap running in the bathtub has a powerful soothing effect on the African continent, however, rhythms, its tempo increasing mary objective of renowned psy- travel guides for the afterlife are easy-to-read version of socialist, that these techniques could us, and this power is used to great effect on Spirit of the Healing rarely seem to get much expo- and decreasing like the rapids chic medium Jef frey Wands’ few and far between and tend to suffragette, and second presi- have many civilian uses today in Waters. As if washing away the stresses of a busy day, this CD’s sure. Hopefully this will change and pools of a mountain creek. book The Psychic in You. In it, contradict each other. Will we be dent of the International Theo- police work, medical diagnos- mixture of nature sounds and soft music makes it excellent lis- with the release of Kora So Far, Delicate and forceful yet often Wands traces his own psychic devoured by Kali or sophical Society Annie tics, business, and archaeology. tening for yoga, relax- a tribute to the Kora, an unusu- unexpected, Ravi’s music is development, from gut instincts wooed by black-eyed Besant’s philoso- In The Seventh Sense, ation, or meditation. al harp-like stringed instrument. worlds away from other New Age and prophetic dreams to meet- virgins? Does Heaven phy on the afterlife. Buchanan delineates the role Conjuring up memo- Truly eclectic and wildly imagi- artists, who serve up an anar- ing inspirational, mentoring psy- look like Dixie or is it a (If you have ever that CRV played during and fol- ries of a day at the native, Kora So Far displays the chic stew of sound and call it chics, such as Carol and Helen place where nothing slogged through lowing high-profile cases as the beach, this album rich versatility of traditional fusion. Kraus, whom he affectionately ever happens? Should Besant’s writing, you 1980 Iranian hostage crisis; the evokes the ocean’s African music. The influences of Imagine walking along the refers to as "the Aunts." we dress for the Sum- will understand why 1986 nuclear power plant melt- beauty without its some- India, Asia, and South America path at a multicultural street fair Wands believes that everyone merlands or bring this is such an down in Chernobyl, Russia; the times frightening power merge here with jazz and New and reveling in the distinct musi- is psychic and that our abilities along asbestos achievement.) kidnapping and murder of and changeable moods. Age sounds to create an album cal styles from around the should be developed further in u n d e r w e a r ? The Beginner’s Colonel Rich Higgins in 1988; There is no turbulence that is filled with depth, sinceri- world—some closer, some each of us. He relates how he Thanks to David Guide for the Recent- and the 1988 sabotage and here, only the swirling of ty, and beauty. more distant, but all in glorious honed his psychic ability from his Staume we can now ly Deceased enter- crash of Pan Am flight 103. sea foam and the circling Kora So Far contains so many harmony. Kora So Far contains childhood through present day, rest easier, for his tains and instructs Did controlled remote influ- of gulls, as heard in the diverse elements that ever y all the excitement and exuber- and he turns his own challenges Beginner's Guide for the Recent- without challenging or offend- encing (CRI) sway Mikhail Gor- song “Seashore Drive.” One of the best features of these pieces time one listens to it, nuances ance of this global celebration and successes into lessons and ly Deceased gives readers a ing. It is also a consistently bachev to end Communist rule is their balance of natural sounds with instrumental accompani- are revealed, as seemingly in a form that, unlike the fleet- exercises for the reader to try. guide to what we can expect good read, if not a particularly in Soviet Russia? Buchanan ment. For instance, “Quiet Waters” combines the eternal beauty improvised elements gradually ing joys of the fair, can be He also deals with issues such “over there” and offers ways in deep one. explains that for two and a half of gentle sea-spray with silvery flute, guitar, and finger cymbals, give way to tightly structured enjoyed again and again. sounds that surge before dispersing in an undersea fantasia that as how to open up and listen for which we can improve our after- —KEVIN FILAN months, he worked to instill the melodies and harmonies. For —RICHARD MACKENZIE spirit communication, how to life experience. idea into Gorbachev's subcon- reflects the vast quietude of the oceans. instance, the deal with sessions that can be The secret to any successful The Seventh Sense scious. Although ending commu- Other pieces seem to take the listener on a journey to sample delicate plucking emotionally and trip is knowing what to bring. The Secrets of Remote Viewing nism in Russia was the only logi- the different musical influences from around the world, all tied of strings is physically taxing, Since the deceased cross over as Told by a "Psychic Spy" for cal thing to do at the time, together by the universal flow of water. For instance, “Indian mixed with saxo- how to get valida- without a body, they do not need the U.S. Military Buchanan wonders whether his Springs” draws upon traditional Native American music and bird- phone melodies tion that your to worry about voltage adaptors BY LYN BUCHANAN psychic tinkering paved path- calls to evoke the mystical qualities of nature. “Dream Essence” and drums in readings are cor- or clean socks. Instead, they will ISBN: 0743462688 ways that allowed thoughts of cleanses the soul with its mixture of tropical rainstorms and a “Ngama,” a fluid rect, and how to be carrying the karmic baggage $14, POCKET BOOKS, 2003 democracy to flow more freely. unique Asian-inspired sound while “Mediterranean Shore” has a piece that effort- cope with criti- acquired in this lifetime. Spend- n 1995, the Central Intelli- Although The Seventh Sense crystalline quality that evokes the feeling of sunshine on a Greek lessly blends cism from non- ing centuries reliving one’s gence Agency publicly is not a how-to book, readers will beach, occasionally punctuated with the roaring force of the surf. jazz and tradi- believers. shortcomings might well leave Iacknowledged that a secret appreciate the Remote Viewing In contrast, “Ocean Rhapsody” leaves Earth entirely in a space- tional musical H i s the newly deceased longing for unit had used controlled remote Sourcebook section at the end age ebb and flow of futuristic electronica. styles. There is a approach is fire and brimstone, even though viewing (CRV) which the author that provides terminology, struc- The peacefulness that water grants us is amply evident on sense of time- honest and Staume reassures us that Eter- explains "is a physically based ture, and theory behind the CRV Spirit of the Healing Waters. Resplendent with the timeless beau- lessness about straight-forward, nal Damnation is a myth. martial art with the body used process, as well as exercises, ty of nature and outstanding musical accompaniment, this CD is Ravi’s music, at religiously neutral yet emotional Yet despite what Shakespeare as an interpreter and communi- methods for scoring, and a sam- an exquisite fusion of both genres that is guaranteed to soothe once modern yet and spiritual in every sense. says, good deeds are not cator between the conscious ple remote viewing session. even the most tempestuous of moods. ancient, stirring —JEFF BELANGER interred with your bones. Rather, and subconscious minds." —ROBERT GOERMAN —RICHARD MACKENZIE some primordial

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story, and the excuse that she The Grudge (2004) California’s Most could not be found for comment ripping at one’s hear t Haunted (DVD, 2001) also dampens the story’s credi- with bizarre imagery and fter seeing many so- bility. Gprimal fear, The Grudge called documentaries The real draw for the docu- is a masterpiece of horror that Aabout ghosts, hauntings, mentary, though, is the promise proves that fear is universal, and paranormal events, I am of actual footage of supernatu- regardless of its trappings. usually more than a bit war y ral entities, and this one really The movie begins when an when presented with them. delivers. The footage from exchange student studying in Thus, I sat down to watch Cali- inside a hospice’s pitch-dark Japan is drawn into a series of fornia’s Most Haunted with a broom closet, a closet that had nightmarish events after stop- large bowl of popcorn and an so disturbed the nurses that no ping in to check on a home- viewers may have many sleep- begin to encroach on the vil- equal helping of skepticism. To one would enter is wor th the bound patient as part of a vol- less nights waiting for a sequel. lage, harming its livestock and my surprise, this DVD turned price of admission when an unteer project. All who enter the —RICHARD MACKENZIE threatening its inhabitants, out to be one of those rare, grip- eerie human face materializes house soon become targets of recriminations and suspicion ping exceptions that presents a out of nowhere, vanishes, and a lethal supernatural force The Village (2004) begin to spread. And when genuine case for the existence then further materializes within which is tied to a tragedy that . Night Shamalan has tragedy necessitates a trek to of ghosts. the space of a few moments, all occurred there years before. garnered a reputation the outside world for much Presenting five unique with no apparent camera trick- Directed by Takashi Shimizu, Min recent years for his needed medical supplies, even accounts from all over Califor- ery. The DVD presentation also unique computer-generated revised and rewritten. who also directed the series of unique style of filmmaking, more of the village’s secrets are nia, the DVD runs the gamut of includes additional interviews What the Bleep Do effects. Taking everything one learned four films upon which this including such films as The Sixth exposed. ghostly activity, from comforting and photographic evidence for We Know? (2004) Like Heisenberg’s uncertainty in high-school physics and turn- remake is based, the film Sense and Signs. All of these The Village is visually fasci- spirits seen by the patients at a those who wish to delve deeper his surreal exploration of principle brought to life, every ing it inside out, upside down, thrives on subtle twists and movies share certain character- nating and attention-grabbing, Granada Hills hos- into these mysterious cases. the deepest-held convic- thought, movement, and action and in directions yet unnamed implications that add up to an istics—not all of them posi- in keeping with Shamalan’s pice to vengeful, Another Ttions about the world has a profound effect on our and undiscovered, this film is exceptionally disturbing whole. tive—and The Village is no previous films. Its use of color violent spirits s e g m e n t around us is a compelling and reality and the disorienting yet thought-provok- Striking visual ef fects pull exception. In fact, it only exacer- to foreshadow events is espe- who lash out not r e c o r d s eye-opening fusion of cinema ing. Traditional views of cosmol- innocuous details from the bates the faults of the director’s cially interesting, with the con- only at the resi- the fright- and documentary. What ogy and religion are challenged house and its occupants and previous efforts into a drawn-out trast between the dark colors dents of the e n i n g the Bleep Do We Know? by much of quantum physics, remold them in sinister and melodramatic nightmare. worn by the village’s inhabi- homes they encounter examines the stranger- from theories of creation to our chilling ways, from the sound of The stor y begins in a small tants and the red associated haunt but also an unsus- than-fiction world of quan- society’s abiding faith in sci- a wind chime to the haunting, idyllic community that is marred with the creatures and the for- at anyone else pecting cam- tum physics and its impli- ence and rationality. Are these staring silence of a young child. only by their uneasy truce with est. The acting, however, is who enters. eraman had cations for our ideas liberating or terrifying? One of the film’s creepiest the creatures that live in the atrocious; a fine cast, including Each seg- with an entity understanding of life, our The theories presented imply elements is the sheer inexora- woods just outside the village’s Adrien Brody, Sigourney ment is well- on a paranor- place in the universe, and that total and absolute bility of the curse. Brought on by perimeter. As long as the vil- Weaver, and William Hur t, is p r e s e n t e d , mal investiga- even reality itself. Its unique responsibility for everything forceful emotions of hatred, lagers do not venture into the reduced to near-comatose plod- p r o v i d i n g tion in San visual style and subject mat- in our lives is within our grief, and anger, it blights those forest and follow certain other ding through a repetitive, bor- plenty of eye- Pedro, as the ter is sure to provoke discus- grasp, a concept some may with even the slightest connec- rules, their safety is said to be ing script. The usual plot-twist w i t n e s s spirit apparent- sion and contemplation, not wish to face, although tion to itself and the house. The guaranteed and the creatures at the end of the film applies a c c o u n t s . ly picked him regardless of one’s beliefs. others may see it as a dec- gruesome fates they encounter will not harm them. here, which adds interest to an The inter- up and left him Fascinating, disturbing, and laration of freedom. are made all the more disturb- Despite its restrictions, life in other wise agonizing film, but views with many of the hanging on a even beautiful at times, the film Both as an unparalleled ing by the irrationality of it all. the village is believed to be bet- the lack of conclusion detracts main participants in the terrify- nail in the attic of a house. goes a step beyond science primer on the subject and The use of implied horror height- ter than that in the bustling, from its impact. ing real-life story that eventually Far better than most similar documentaries such as A Brief a springboard for further ens the impact of the film’s few crime-ridden cities from which Maddeningly slow and utterly became the basis for the film documentaries of its kind, Cali- History of Time with a harder- discussion, What the Bleep grotesque moments, making the inhabitants fled in the first lacking in conclusion or reward, The Entity is particularly fasci- fornia’s Most Haunted is a edged look at the strange theo- closer one affords an uncompromising yet them even more horrifying. place, and the life of the towns- the film has little to commend it, nating. However, the lack of an thought-provoking, hair-raising ries that make up the cutting- focuses on one specific detail, enter taining glimpse into the The visceral impact of The people goes on as it always has, apart from its cinematography. inter view with the woman ride, and I eagerly await its cre- edge of physics research. As the more one less understands bizarre and brave new world of Grudge cannot be denied, delv- with the quiet passions, joys, In all, The Village is another dis- involved—a person who suf- ators’ exploration of the other top physicists explain the basic the big picture. Ultimately, reali- modern science. ing into one’s darkest fears of and grief that all must face. appointing outing into the realm fered almost continuous 49 states’ ghost stories. premises of quantum physics, ty is not necessarily concrete, To order, visit www.whatthe- death, pain, and the unknown. When the creatures inexplica- of the pseudo-supernatural. attacks over a several-year peri- To order, visit www.world- we see them in action through they explain, but fluid and bleep.com. One wishes all horror films were bly (for the villagers), and pre- —RICHARD MACKENZIE od from a par ticularly vicious oftheunknown.com. vivid visual metaphors and dynamic, constantly being —RICHARD MACKENZIE this good, but in the meantime, dictably (for the audience), spirit—leaves a void in the —RICHARD MACKENZIE

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2005 Event Listings Web: www.chetsnow.com/cropcircles I Visit Salis- SIGNS OF DESTINY 2005: CROP CIRCLES, SASQUATCH RESEARCH CONFERENCE bury cathedral, Avebury stone circles, historic town MARY MAGDALENE & SACRED SPACE May 27-29, 2005; Bellingham, WA of Marlborough, and the Barge Inn (called the "crop- November 18-20, 2005; Phoenix, AZ Cost: $40 until May 14; $50 thereafter; Single-day LOVELAND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY pies" pub). Includes a flight over the major 2004 Cost: $225 until August 30; $275 thereafter I Con- $25 I Contact: Jason Valenti, 2324 North Nugent STONE AGE FAIR ARCHAEOLOGY CROP CIRCLES crop circle formations, special access to the inner tact: Dr. Chet Snow, PO Box 1738, Sedona, AZ Road, Lummi Island, WA 98262, (360) 758-2443 I September 24-25, 2005; Loveland, CO circle of Stonehenge for group toning and medita- 86339, (928) 204-1962 I Email: chetsnow@npgca- Email: [email protected] I Web: APOLLO & PROPHECY: Cost: Free I Email: [email protected] I Web: CROP CIRCLES AND GLASTONBURY tion, and admission to the Wiltshire Crop Circle Con- ble.com I Web: www.chetsnow.com/signs I Speak- www.sasquatchresearch.com/src I Includes eye-wit- SACRED PLACES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD www.stoneagefair.com/stone_age_fair I Features July 18-27, 2005; Wiltshire, England ference. ers include Sir Laurence Gardner, Graham Hancock, ness forum, demonstrations, Bigfoot paraphernalia, May 23-June 5; Greece exhibits, live demonstrations, and speakers, includ- Cost: $2,577 I Contact: Denni Clarke, PO Box 2155, Margaret Starbird, Michael Glickman, sacred sites and speakers, including Lloyd Pye, Christopher Mur- Contact: Archaeological Institute of America Tours, ing Dr. Dennis Stanford, Dr. Pegi Jodry, Dr. Marie Freedom, CA 95019, (831) 761-3655 I Email: FIELD RESEARCH TRAINING INTENSIVE photographer Santha Faiia, William Henry, Linda phy, Thomas Steenburg, Jimmy Chilcutt, Al Berry, PO Box 938, 47 Main St., Suite One, Walpole, NH Wormington, Dr. George Frison, Dr. C. 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I Web: www.archaeological.org/ pdfs/tours/AIA- its to Glastonbury Tor, Chalice Well, Abbey and Wells Contact: Ron Russell, PO Box 460760, Aurora, CO tours_schedule OXFORD UNIVERSITY BIBLICAL Cathedral, plus an extended visit to Glastonbury. 80046 I Email: [email protected] I Web: THE WILTSHIRE CROP CIRCLE EXPERIENCE SASQUATCH SYMPOSIUM ARCHAEOLOGY SEMINAR www.cropcircles.org I Use electrostatic and magnet- July 8-15, 2005; Wiltshire, England June 5, 2005; Seattle, WA BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY SEMINARS August 7-19, 2005; Oxford, England CROP CIRCLES AND SPIRITUAL RENEWAL TOUR ic meters to plot energy fluctuations, construct a August 6-13, 2005; Wiltshire, England Contact: Philip Lipson, Seattle UFO/Paranormal May 12-14, 2005; Santa Clara, CA Contact: Biblical Archaeology Society, 4710 41st August 23-31, 2005; Southern England legal test-bed formation, and participate in a sky- Cost: $1,777-$1,885 I Contact: Denni Clarke, PO Group, 623 Broadway East, Seattle, WA 98102, July 17-23, 2005; Northfield, MN Street NW, Washington, DC 20016, (800) 221-4644 Cost: $3,950 I Contact: Ron Russell, PO Box watch on a sacred site using CSETI protocol. Box 2155, Freedom, CA 95019, (831) 761-3655 I (206) 328-6499 I Email: [email protected] I August 14-20, 2005; Portland, OR or (202) 364-3300 I Email: [email protected] I 460760, Aurora, CO 80046 I Email: ron@cropcir- Includes discussion and training in remote viewing. Email: [email protected] I Web: Web: www.seattlechatclub.org/museum I Speakers September 8-10, 2005; Chicago, IL Web: www.bib-arch.org/bswbTravel cles.org I Web: www.cropcircles.org I Join Rev. Gail Guest experts include Rodney Ashbury, Paul Vigay, www.cropcirclespirit.com I Focusing on first-hand include Chris Murphy, Matt Crowley, and others. October 25, 2005; Albuquerque, NM Barrow Finlay, Ron Russell, and guest experts to Busty Taylor, Dr. Simeon Hein, Lucy Pringle, Matthew experience in the fields in the heart of crop circle Contact: Biblical Archaeology Society, 4710 41st St. visit Neolithic temples, henges, stone circles, ley Williams, and others. All costs of this non-profit country, includes a private visit to Stonehenge and a SOUTHERN CRYPTO CONFERENCE NW, Washington, DC 20016, (800) 221-4644 or lines, energy veins, barrows, great cathedrals, ASTRONOMY research training, including air fare, hotel and day in Glastonbury. Experience the magic of crop cir- June 18, 2005; Conroe, TX (202) 364-3300 I Email: [email protected] I Web: labyrinth, Merlin's barrow, Avebur y, and more. meals, and field training are tax-deductible. No previ- cles, the ancient landscapes, and the mysteries Cost: $10 I Contact: Chester Moore, 101 Broad www.bib-arch.org/bswbTravel 2005 RTMC ASTRONOMY EXPO: Includes a private access to Stonehenge and a pri- ous experience necessary. that abound while exploring new formations and Street, Orange, TX 77630 I Email: bigfoot@crypto- THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY vate ceremony at the Chalice Well. ancient sacred sites with experts and researchers. keeper.com I Web: www.cryptokeeper.com/confer- BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY May 27-29, 2005; Big Bear City, CA GLASTONBURY SYMPOSIUM: INVESTIGATING ence I Speakers include Dr. Kent Hovind, Chester SEMINAR IN THE AEGEAN SEA Contact: Rober t Stephens, 8300 Utica Avenue, CROP CIRCLE TOUR CROP CIRCLES AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES Moore, Ken Gerhard, and others. 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EXPLORING YOUR PAST LIVES PROPHET’S CONFERENCE SERIES: Contact: Hay House, (800) 654-5126 I Email: CHICAGO SUPERNATURAL TOUR ernghosts.com I Web: www.southernghosts.com/ of genuine hauntings, residual hauntings, and psi May 21, 2005; Denver, CO WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW!? offi[email protected] I Web: www.sylvia.org/home/lec- May 28, 2005; Chicago, IL Events/Gettysburg.asp I Perform EVP and psychic phenomena. June 18, 2005; Philadelphia, PA June 3-5, 2005; Miami, FL tures.cfm I Psychic Sylvia Browne will satisfy your June 18, 2005; Chicago, IL experiments at several haunted properties and the July 16, 2005; Chicago, IL July 1-3, 2005; Portland, OR curiosity about the unexplained secrets and myster- July 2, 2005; Chicago, IL Gettysburg battlefield using high-tech equipment. PARANORMAL WEEKEND IN ST. AUGUSTINE Cost: $100 I Contact: (408) 376-2123 I Email: August 12-14, 2005; Vancouver, BC, Canada ies of this world. From the Great Pyramid to Stone- July 30, 2005; Chicago, IL Features private tours of the Gettysburg historic May 13-15, 2005; St. Augustine, FL offi[email protected] I Web: www.sylvia.org/home/ October 14-16, 2005; Phoenix, AZ henge, she will reveal amazing facts about some of Cost: $37 I Contact: Richard T. Crowe, PO Box downtown district and battlefield, a moonlight ghost Cost: $550 I Contact: Southern Ghosts, 2120 Black pastlives.cfm I Classes taught by ministers of the Cost: $375 (group disc. and single-day passes the world's most mysterious sites, as well as crop 557544, Chicago, IL 60655, (708) 499-0300 I Web: tour of Seminary Ridge, a walkthrough of the haunt- Mangrove Drive, Orlando, FL 32828, (407) 616- Society of Novus Spiritus, which was founded by psy- avail.) I Contact: Mystery School, PO Box 567, Kula, circles, vampires, voodoo, magic, Atlantis, extrater- www.ghosttours.com/halloween I Visit historical and ed Farnsworth House sniper's nest, investigation of 4697 I Email: [email protected] I Web: chic Sylvia Browne. Maui, HI 96790, (888) 777-5981 I Email: restrials, and much more. John Holland, Sonia Cho- authentic Chicago supernatural locales of ghosts, the Lightner farmhouse, and an exploration of Under- www.southernghosts.com I Investigate the Ashley [email protected] I Web: greatmystery.org/ quette, or Gordon Smith will also participate. curses, the arcane, and more. ground Railroad sites. House and the existence of genuine hauntings, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR NEAR-DEATH bleep5 I Bringing together filmmakers, scientists, residual hauntings, and psi phenomena. STUDIES (IANDS): MESSAGE AND MEANING— theologians, and visionaries, along with individual SYLVIA BROWNE PRESENTS: EASTERN REGIONAL PARANORMAL CONFERENCE HAUNTED VIRGINIA PARANORMAL CONFERENCE THE NDE AS A TOOL FOR LIVING presentations, panel discussions, a faculty delegate VISITS FROM THE AFTERLIFE July 22-24, 2005; Baltimore, MD August 19-20, 2005; Williamsburg, VA ROSE CITY PARANORMAL CONFERENCE September 8-10, 2005; Virginia Beach, VA reception, book signings, a large bookstore and mer- May 24, 2005; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Cost: $75; $50 single-day I Email: conference@para- Cost: $70 (lunch incl.) I Contact: Old Dominion Para- October 14-16, 2005; Portland, OR Contact: IANDS, PO Box 502, East Windsor Hill, CT chandise area, and other exhibits and attractions, October 4, 2005; Calgary, Alberta, Canada normalweekly.com I Web: conference.marylandpara- normal Investigators, c/o Ray Finchum, 6084 Lock- Email: Catherine@trailsendparanormalsocietyofore- 06028-0502, (860) 882-1211 I Email: these conferences examine the mysteries and mar- October 6, 2005; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada normal.com I Speakers include Troy Taylor, Mark ett Road, Rice, VA 23966 I Email: odpifounder@vir- gon.com I Web: rosecityparanormalconference. offi[email protected] I Web: www.iands.org/conf vels of our minds and bodies, showing ways to come Contact: INprove Productions, 200–5 Donald Street, Nesbitt, Ed Okonowicz, Kelly Weaver, Rosemar y giniaparanormal.com I Web: virginiaparanormal.com bravehost.com I Speakers and guests include to a deeper understanding through beauty, genius, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3L 2T4, (204) Ellen Guiley, Charles Adams, Rick Fisher, and Dale I Features ghost tours, displays, vendors, authors, Michael Jones, Martina and Todd Baker, Eric Byerly, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIA- and a life path in a complicated, fear-driven, and 255.4239 or (866) 743-7326 I Email: Kaczmarek. and speakers, including L.B. Taylor Jr., Dale Kacz- authors Jefferson Davis and Leonore Sweet PhD, Liz TION FOR THE STUDY OF DREAMS rapidly changing world. [email protected] I Web: www.inprove.ca/ marek Rosemary Guiley, Mark Nesbitt, Ed Okonow- Freske, and others. June 24-28, 2005; Berkeley, CA events_sylvia I Psychic Sylvia Browne will answer GHOST CONVENTION INTERNATIONAL icz, Patty Wilson, Scott Crownover, and others. Contact: ASD Central Office, PO Box #1592, PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT questions and discuss how she contacts loved ones September 9-11, 2005; Long Beach, CA SHIPWRECK HALLOWEEN TERROR FEST Merced, CA 95341-1592, (209) 724-0889 I Email: June 11, 2005; Detroit, MI who have passed on, explain what life is like on the Cost: $100; $50 single-day; $25 per workshop I HORRIFIC HAUNTED HALLOWEEN HOLIDAY October 29, 2005; Long Beach, CA ASDCentralOffi[email protected] I Web: Cost: $150 I Contact: (408) 379-7070 x188 I Email: other side, where angels and spirit guides are and Contact: Ghost Convention Intl., 44729 Fern October 27-November 3, 2005; Contact: The Queen Mary, Attn: Haunted Encoun- www.asdreams.org/2005/index offi[email protected] I Web: www.sylvia.org/home/ how to know when your spirit guide is around you, Avenue, Lancaster, CA 93534, (661) 723-0962 I Transylvania, Romania ters, 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach, CA pyschicdevelopment.cfm I Learn to increase your how to take an active part in healing and protecting Email: [email protected] I Web: www.ghost- Cost: $1,799 I Contact: Tours of Terror, 315 Derby 90802, (562) 435-3511 I Email: ghostmaster@ M.A.R.S.—MAGICAL ANCIENT REALMS innate psychic abilities and creativity and develop yourself, how to expand your mind to enhance all conint.com I Meet paranormal researchers, attend Avenue, Orange, CT 06477, (866) TERRORTOUR or ghostsandlegends.com I Web: www.queenmary.com October 7-9, 2005; Metarie, LA confidence in your insights and a more positive, life- aspects of your well-being, and how to prevent nega- seminars, and tour the haunted Queen Mary. (203) 795-4737 I Email: [email protected] I The Queen Mary is transformed into "The Most Ter- Cost: $55; $25 single-day pass I Email: enhancing attitude. This hands-on class, which tive influences that can keep you from staying well. I Web:www.dractour.com I Follow in the footsteps of rifying Place on Earth," with a new creation that will [email protected] I Web: www.magickalancien- explores many areas of psychic ability, is taught by GHOST FEST '05 Jonathan Harker from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. deliver ultimate horror to daring mortals; mazes, 3D trealms.com I Covering all aspects of the unusual, ministers of the Society of Novus Spiritus, which VOYAGE OF THE SOUL: August 5-7, 2005; Red Boiling Springs, TN Visit haunted hotels and castles, creepy graveyards, Frightvision, the sexy Fright Mistress and her lair; the including paranormal, alternative sciences, mysti- was founded by psychic Sylvia Browne. A PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE AT SEA Email: [email protected] I Web: www.apsoci- and spend a night in Dracula's Castle. Boiler Room Club; and live bands in a three-level cism, magic, ancient mysteries, ancient technology, August 17-24, 2005; Alaska ety.com/ghostfest/index I A festival devoted to dance party. UFOlogy, and cryptozoology. Speakers include Kiria SKEPTIC'S SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE: November 1-9, 2005; Western Caribbean ghosts and hauntings, with speakers, workshops, MICHIGAN GHOST CONFERENCE Gypsy, Monte Plaisance, Kalila Smith, Raymond THE BRAIN, THE MIND, AND CONSCIOUSNESS Contact: Mindbodytravel, (800) 874-1996 I Email: spirited tours, and more. October 8, 2005; Westland, MI SOUTH JERSEY GHOST RESEARCH Buckland, Derek Bartlett, Malefica, Raquel Digati, May 13-14, 2005; Pasadena, CA [email protected] I Web: www.hayhouse.com/ Email: [email protected] I Web: ghost- GROUP LECTURE SERIES Ed Fitch, Trish Winkler, Jim Pacifico, Elliot Gorten, Contact: The Skeptics Society, (626) 794-3119 I event_details.php?event_id=151 HAUNTED AMERICA CONFERENCE watchers.org I Includes a buffet dinner, paranormal May 18, 2005; Matawan, NJ Oberon Zell, and Shawn Poirer. Email: [email protected] I Web: June 23-26, 2005; Alton, IL investigators, a ghost photo slide show, a raffle for October 6, 2005; Franklinville, NJ www.skeptic.com Cost: $50 (addl. fee for after-hours tours and work- paranormal prizes, a Tarot reader, an aura photogra- October 13, 2005; Bellmawr, NJ NINE GATES MYSTERY SCHOOL PARANORMAL shops) I Email: [email protected] I Web: pher, book signings, and guest speakers, including October 19, 2005; Manahawkin, NJ May 13-22, 2005; Santa Barbara, CA SOCIETY FOR SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION 24TH www.prairieghosts.com I The original ghost confer- keynote speaker Dale Kaczmarek, president and October 20, 2005; Bayville, NJ Contact: Ann O'Quinn, Institute of Noetic Sciences, ANNUAL MEETING CHICAGO SUPERNATURAL CRUISE ence in one of the most haunted small towns in founder of Chicago's Ghost Research Society. October 26, 2005; Point Pleasant, NJ (707) 779-8236 I Email: [email protected] I May 19-21, 2005; Gainesville, FL May 13, 2005; Chicago, IL America features lectures, workshops, tours, and October 27, 2005; Mt Laurel, NJ Web: www.ninegates.org I Spiritual training for those Contact: Society for Scientifice Exploration, Depart- July 9, 2005; Chicago, IL investigations of haunted locations. Speakers, NEW ENGLAND GHOST CONFERENCE Cost: Free I Contact: (877) 478-3168 I Email: pubre- seeking life's mysteries, universal truths, and ways ment of Astronomy, PO Box 3818, Charlottesville, VA July 16, 2005; Chicago, IL including Rosemar y Ellen Guiley, Alan Brown, October 22, 2005; Lewiston, ME [email protected] I Web: southjerseyghostresearch. of knowing. Tap into sources of consciousness, use 22903-0818, (434) 924-7494 I Email: cr t@vir- July 23, 2005; Chicago, IL Stephen Graham, John Kachuba, John Brill, Len Cost: $50 I Contact: Bill Washell or Nancy Caswell, org I Video and audio presentation with infrared energy fields, and find hidden meaning and inner ginia.edu I Web: www.scientificexploration.org/ August 6, 2005; Chicago, IL Adams, hosts Troy Taylor, and others. 1260 Lisbon Street-2nd front, Lewiston, ME 04240, video clips, photographs, and EVPs from actual guidance. meetings.php August 13, 2005; Chicago, IL (207) 782-2032 I Email: [email protected] cases, photo and equipment displays, demonstra- August 20, 2005; Chicago, IL HAUNTED CASTLES OF IRELAND I Web: www.mainesparanormalresearchassoc. tions, and Q&A. NO-NONSENSE PROPHECY CONFERENCE SYLVIA BROWNE PRESENTS: August 27, 2005; Chicago, IL October 25-30, 2005; Dublin, Ireland com/2005 I Speakers include John Zaffis, Rev. Larry MAY 13-15, 2005, Phoenix, AZ SECRETS & MYSTERIES September 3, 2005; Chicago, IL Cost: $1,699 I Contact: Butch Hart, Fugazy Travel, Elward, Deb Elward, Derek Bartlett, Carrie Shimkus, SOUTH JERSEY GHOST RESEARCH Cost: $400; Master's Ball: $50 I Rain Morgan, June 24, 2005; Chicago, IL September 4, 2005; Chicago, IL 1550 Hendersonville Road, Asheville, NC 28803, Bill Washell, Keith Johnson, Sandra Johnson, Mike GROUP SEMINARS Prophecy Conference, (866) 575-1514 I Email: June 26, 2005; Minneapolis, MN Cost: $24 I Contact: Richard T. Crowe, PO Box (800) 221-7181 or (828) 274-2555 I Email: Sinclair, and others. October 22, 2005; Washington Township, NJ [email protected] I Web: www.rain- August 15, 2005; Seattle, WA 557544, Chicago, IL 60655, (708) 499-0300 I Web: [email protected] I Web: shadowboxent. October 28, 2005; Glendora, NJ oftruthtalkradio.com I Down through the ages we September 14, 2005; Long Island, NY www.ghosttours.com/cruise I Cruise the Chicago brinkster.net/ParaEx/Ireland/HauntIre PARANORMAL WEEKEND IN NEW ORLEANS Contact: (877) 478-3168 I Email: pubrelations@ have listened to the prophecies. What really is com- September 16, 2005; Philadelphia, PA waterways, river, and lakefront and hear tales of November 4-6, 2005; New Orleans, LA sjgr.org I Web: southjerseyghostresearch.org I Use ing, what must we do to make the transition that all September 18, 2005; Detroit, MI mystery and wonder, such as the Lake Michigan A HAUNTED WEEKEND IN GETTYSBURG Cost: $550 I Contact: Southern Ghosts, 2120 Black our equipment in a haunted building with our investi- the prophecies have foretold. Spend time with some October 2, 2005; Boston, MA ghost ships, lake monster, jinx ships, haunts of the September 23-25, 2005; Gettysburg, PA Mangrove Drive, Orlando, FL 32828, (407) 616- gators, plus video and audio presentation with of the best-known master teachers to get the latest November 12, 2005; San Francisco, CA skyline, the Eastland tragedy, the truth about Cost: $550 (double occ.) I Contact: Southern 4697 I Email: [email protected] I Web: infrared video clips, photographs, and EVPs from information on the coming events of this millinneum. November 14, 2005; Los Angeles, CA "Cement Overshoes," a Lake Michigan "Triangle," Ghosts, 1106 New Hampshire St., Orlando, FL www.southernghosts.com/main/Event.asp?event_id actual cases, photo and equipment displays, demon- December 4, 2005; Honolulu, HI and more! 32804, (407) 234-6611 I Email: info@south- =8 I Investigate the Ashley House and the existence strations, Q&A, and more.

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TULSA GHOST CONFERENCE [email protected] I Web: www.monroeinstitute.org I HEARTLINE STARLINES renewal, and once-in-a-lifetime experiences. sacred sites of Lhasa, Gyantse, Shigatse, and September 18, 2005; Tulsa, OK Provides intensive investigation into nonphysical ter- August 12-19, 2005; Faber, VA June 18-24, 2005; Faber, VA Mount Kailas, the great mythological mountain that Cost: $30 ($45 incl. ghost tour/hunt) I Contact: ritories in order to obtain information and personal November 12-18, 2005; Faber, VA October 22-28, 2005; Faber, VA ANCIENT MYSTERIES OF FRANCE is the axis of the world in traditional Buddhist cos- Paranormal Investigation Team of Tulsa, PO Box experience related to this different state of being. Cost: $1,695 I Contact: The Monroe Institute, 62 Cost: $1,695 I Contact: The Monroe Institute, 62 May 25-June 6, 2005; Auvergne, mology and the most sacred of mountains for Hin- 803, Broken Arrow, OK 74013 I Email: PIT- Roberts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866) Roberts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866) Languedoc, and Provence dus, Buddhists, Jains, and Bonpos. 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Learn to let go our galaxy and beyond, moving gradually into new www.chetsnow.com/france I Explore the legends of Cost: $2,865 I Contact: Vanessa Guillemot, Contact: Lynda Cowen, Director, Farsight Remote of fear as you move into a greater sense of whole- states of awareness, being, and perception. Mary Magdalene and Jesus, the cult of the Black Antahkaranah Publ., (760) 329-5417 I Email: vanes- THE TWISTED NIGHTMARE WEEKEND Viewers Association, 2140 East Southlake Blvd., ness, balance, and harmony. Madonnas, and Nostradamus. Walk the Chartres [email protected] I Web: August 5-7, 2005; Middleburg Heights, OH Suit L605, Southlake, TX 76092, (817) 481-4262 I TIMELINE Cathedral labyrinth. Visit Clermont-Ferrand, Roca- www.antahkaranah.com I Follow the path of the Cost: $25 in adv.; $35 at the door (single-day pass- Email: silentvisitor@char ter.net I Web: www.far- LIFELINE June 25-July 1, 2005; Faber, VA madour, Saintes Maries de la Mer, Salon de divine royal bloodline & integrate the Grail codes with es avail.) I Contact: Keith Kline, 1901 Marks sight.org/updates May 14-20, 2005; Faber, VA Cost: $1,695 I Contact: The Monroe Institute, 62 Provence, Vézelay, and Montsegur, plus mysterious Michael El Nour. Visit Rennes le Château, Black Avenue, Akron, OH 44305 I Email: info@twisted- July 30-August 5, 2005; Faber, VA Roberts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866) Rennes le Chateau, where Abbé Saunier boasted Madonnas & Magdalene areas, Chartres, Paris, and nightmareweekend.com I Web: www.twistednight- FARSIGHT VOYAGER TRAINING IN BASIC October 8-14, 2005; Faber, VA 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 I Email: TMIpro- hoarding a treasure greater than gold. St. Michael’s Mount. mareweekend.com I Guests include Bruce Camp- SCIENTIFIC REMOTE VIEWING November 5-11, 2005; Faber, VA [email protected] I Web: www.monroeinstitute.org I bell, JR Bookwalter, Patrick Desmond, Robyn Griggs, May 26-29, 2005; London, England Cost: $1,695 I Contact: The Monroe Institute, 62 Provides opportunities to explore the adventures of ANCIENT MYSTERIES REVEALED CONFERENCE: EARTH MYSTERIES, ANCIENT SITES, Joe Knetter, Josh Medors, Debbie Rochon, Rune July 20-24, 2005; Atlanta, GA Roberts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866) other selves in other times, in order to gain new per- A MYTHICAL LOST CIVILIZATION AND CELTIC TEACHINGS Shepherd, Brinke Stevens, Tom Sullivan, and others. August 17-21, 2005; Atlanta, GA 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 I Email: TMIpro- spectives on who you are and what is possible for November 1-8, 2005; Malta July 18-30, 2005; Wales, England and Cornwall October 19-23, 2005; London, England [email protected] I Web: www.monroeinstitute.org I you in this present life. Contact: Power Places Tours, Inc., 1506 Costilla Cost: $2,295 I Contact: Sheri Nakken, Earth Myster- VAMPIRE INFESTATION: OHIO STATE Contact: Lynda Cowen, Director, Farsight Remote Learn to contact those who have made the transition Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80904, (800) 234- ies & Sacred Site Tours & Well Within, PO Box 1563, REFORMATORY HAUNTED PRISON EXPERIENCE Viewers Association, 2140 East Southlake Blvd., from physical reality and who need assistance in WESTERN INSTITUTE OF REMOTE VIEWING 8687 or (719) 448-0514 I Email: travel@power- Nevada City, CA 95959, (530) 740-0561 I Email: September 30-October 31, 2005; Mansfield, OH Suit L605, Southlake, TX 76092, (817) 481-4262 I moving forward. 2-DAY WEEKEND WORKSHOP places.com I Web: www.powerplaces.com/maltahan- [email protected] or [email protected] Cost: $13 I Contact: Mansfield Reformatory, 100 Email: silentvisitor@char ter.net I Web: www.far- May 28-29, 2005; Orlando, FL cock I Travel with Graham Hancock as he shares new I Web: www.nccn.net/~wwithin/walesengcorn I Visit Reformator y Road, Mansfield, OH 44905, (419) sight.org/updates MC2: MANIFESTATION AND CREATION SQUARED June 18-19, 2005; Dallas, TX revelations concerning the neolithic temples and Tintagel, Penwith, Snowdonia National Park, Angle- 522-2644 I Email: [email protected] I Web: June 11-17, 2005; Faber, VA July 23-24, 2005; Seattle, WA ancient sites of Malta. sey Island, Conwy Castle, Tintern Abbey, Glaston- www.hauntedx.com GATEWAY VOYAGE October 1-7, 2005; Faber, VA August 20-21, 2005; Phoenix, AZ bury, Stonehenge, Avebury, and crop circle forma- May 7-13, 2005; Faber, VA Cost: $1,695 I Contact: The Monroe Institute, 62 September 17-18, 2005; Eugene, OR A PERSONAL INVITATION TO tions. Explore the history of the land, with teachings VAMPIRE VACATION TO TRANSYLVANIA June 4-10, 2005; Faber, VA Roberts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866) October 1-2, 2005; Virginia Beach, VA MOTHER MEERA'S DARSHAN in Celtic history, practices; history's mysteries; earth July 10-17, 2005; Transylvania, Romania June 4-10, 2005 ; Petaluma, CA 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 I Email: TMIpro- November 5-6, 2005; Sacramento, CA June 29-July 6, 2005; Rhineland, Germany energies, ley lines, and stone circles; earth myster- Cost: $1,799 I Contact: Tours of Terror, 315 Derby June 25-July 1, 2005; Faber, VA [email protected] I Web: www.monroeinstitute.org I December 3-4, 2005; Chicago, IL Cost: $1,350 for 7 nights in Germany I Contact: Dr. ies; sacred sites; and Welsh and Cornish history. Avenue, Orange, CT 06477, (866) TERRORTOUR or July 23-29, 2005; Faber, VA Provides tools to experience the potentials of human Contact: The Western Institute of Remote Viewing, Chet Snow, Box 1738, Sedona, AZ 86339, (928) (203) 795-4737 I Email: [email protected] August 6-12, 2005; Faber, VA existence through expanding belief systems and 218 Main Street #634, Kirkland, WA 98033, (800) 204-1962 I Email: [email protected] I Web: ENCHANTING SCOTLAND: A CELTIC JOURNEY, I Web: www.dractour.com I Follow in the footsteps of August 27-September 2, 2005; Faber, VA enhancing abilities to influence time-space events 824-3730 or (888) 540-6085 I Email: www.chetsnow.com/mothermeera I Born in India, SACRED SITES, MYSTERY & MYTHOLOGY Jonathan Harker from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. September 10-16, 2005; Faber, VA through non-physical (energetic) means. Uses princi- [email protected] I Web: www.remote- Mother Meera is an Avatar who has changed the August 19-31, 2005; Scotland Visit haunted hotels and castles, creepy graveyards, October 1-7, 2005; Faber, VA ples discovered in the practice of psychokinesis (PK) viewers.com lives of thousands since moving to Germany more Cost: $2,395 I Contact: Sheri Nakken, Earth Myster- supernatural sights, and spend a night of fun and October 15-21, 2005; Faber, VA and of directing energy for healing. than 20 years ago. In addition to four evenings of her ies & Sacred Site Tours & Well Within, PO Box 1563, fear in Dracula's Castle. Cost: $1,695 (incl. room and board) I Contact: The WESTERN INSTITUTE OF REMOTE VIEWING 5-DAY darshan, visit Cologne and Limburg cathedrals, Nevada City, CA 95959, (530) 740-0561 I Email: Monroe Institute, 62 Roberts Mountain Road, Faber, PLANETARY INTELLIGENCE WORKSHOP INTENSIVE TRAINING WORKSHOP medieval mystic Hildegarde von Bingen's convent, ear [email protected] I Web: WEST VIRGINIA PENITENTIARY VA 22938, (866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 I October 22-23, 2005; Boulder, CO September 23-27, 2005; Seattle, WA and cruise down the Rhine. www.nccn.net/~wwithin/scot I Explore the legends, ALL NIGHT GHOST HUNT Email: [email protected] I Web: www.monroein- Cost: $295 I Contact: The Institute for Resonance, October 21-25, 2005; Stockholm, Sweden mysteries, and myths of Scotland, including Loch May 14, 2005; Moundsville, WV stitute.org I With the aid of Hemispheric Synchro- 1942 Broadway, Suite 314, Boulder, CO 80302, November 25-29, 2005; Sydney, Australia AVALON TO CAMELOT: A JOURNEY Ness; the standing stones and ancient sites of Argyll, June 18, 2005; Moundsville, WV nization sounds, total immersion in a timeless (303) 440-7393 I Web: www.mountbaldy.com I Get Contact: The Western Institute of Remote Viewing, THROUGH THE MYTHS OF TIME Callanish, the Isles of Skye and Lewis, and the July 9, 2005; Moundsville, WV retreat, the guidance of senior trainers, feedback, in touch with planetary intelligence and inner aware- 218 Main Street #634, Kirkland, WA 98033, (800) September 7-16, 2005; Glastonbury, England Orkney Islands; mysterious Roslyn Chapel. With work- August 20, 2005; Moundsville, WV and group sharing of experiences, be carried into ness and practice exercises that allow you to con- 824-3730 or (888) 540-6085 I Email: waynecarr@ Cost: £1,550 I Contact: Gothic Image, 7 High Street, shops in Celtic and pre-Celtic mythology and prac- September 17, 2005; Moundsville, WV four altered states of consciousness. nect with your body's intelligence and ability to remoteviewers.com I Web: www.remoteviewers.com Glastonbur y, Somerset BA6 9DP, England, tices, fairy kingdoms, Scottish history and folk prac- November 12, 2005; Moundsville, WV sense nature's intelligence. +44(0)1458 831281 I Email: tours@gothicimage. tices, and Roslyn Chapel and the Knights Templar. Cost: $50 I Contact: Pat Kleinedler, c/o MEDC, 818 GUIDELINES co.uk I Web: www.gothicimagetours.co.uk/arthurian I Jefferson Avenue, Moundsville, WV 26041 I Email: July 23-29, 2005; Faber, VA REMOTE VIEWING PRACTICUM SACRED SITES/PILGRIMAGES Visit sacred shrines and spend time with some of IN SEARCH OF ORIGINAL WISDOM [email protected] I Web: www.majda.net/events I September 17-23, 2005; Faber, VA October 8-14, 2005; Faber, VA Britain's most respected teachers, authors, and cer- June 17-July 8, 2005; Tibet Spend a night in the haunted WV’s Penitentiary. October 22-28, 2005; Faber, VA Cost: $1,695 I Contact: The Monroe Institute, 62 AMERICAN SOUTHWEST SACRED PILGRIMAGE OF emonialists, who share their knowledge of the histo- Contact: Power Places, 2509 #A Andromeda, Col- Cost: $1,695 I Contact: The Monroe Institute, 62 Roberts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866) HEALING AND RENEWAL 2005 ry, myths, and legends of the sacred landscape of orado Springs, CO 80906, (800) 234-8687 I Email: Roberts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 I Email: TMIpro- May 6-15, 2005; Sedona, AZ the British Isles. [email protected] I Web: www.powerplaces. REMOTE VIEWING 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 I Email: TMIpro- [email protected] I Web: www.monroeinstitute.org I Cost: $2,295 (double occupancy) I Contact: Mystery com/bradentibet I Join Gregg Braden in Tibet, a land [email protected] I Web: www.monroeinstitute.org I Training in the ability to perceive events and loca- School, 369 Montezuma Avenue, Suite 103, Santa CENTER OF THE MANDALA of mystery, memory, mystics, sacred mountains, and EXPLORATION 27 Provides learning methods through which communi- tions across distance and across time; employs a Fe, NM 87501, (888) 777-5981 or (505) 988-2223 I May 8-June 3, 2005; Tibet ancient wisdom. Includes exotic Kathmandu; the May 21-27, 2005; Faber, VA cation can be established with parts of one's self- team concept (a monitor/interviewer, a remote view- Email: [email protected] I Web: www.great- Cost: $5,650 I Contact: Insight Travel Pilgrimages, Yarlung Valley; Yumbhulakhang and the Temple of Cost: $1,695 I Contact: The Monroe Institute, 62 awareness. er, and a judge) with participants learning each role. mystery.org/sw05 I Venture into the Southwest for a (800) 688-9851 or (937) 767-1102 I Email: Ten Thousand Pearled Tangkha; the Samye Roberts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866) pilgrimage to some of the most sacred and beautiful [email protected] I Web: www.insight- Monastery, where Tibetans believe the souls of the 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 I Email: TMIpro- places on Earth for a time of transformation, healing, travel.com/mtkailas I A month-long journey to the recently deceased travel; the Jokhang Temple and

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the Norbulingka; a week in Lhasa; stops at isolated MYSTICAL IRELAND: CELTIC JOURNEYS, co.uk I Web: www.gothicimagetours.co.uk/scotland I Boyabreen glacier, the English church of St. Olav, the FIVE-DAY SOUL RETRIEVAL TRAINING spirit. The program focuses on cleansing the soul, monasteries and towns near Mt. Everest; private ANCIENT SITES, & HISTORY'S MYSTERIES Visit the holy wells, stone circles, hermit cells, Druid Norwegian Glacier Museum, and the mountains, July 17-22, 2005; Santa Fe, NM aligning with the deeper intentions of the soul, and audiences with Tibetan Lamas; and more. June 25-July 7, 2005; Ireland groves, enchanted woods, dramatic dolmens, lakes, waterfalls, fjords, and glaciers of this land. Contact: Raven Snow Inc., 2405 Figueroa NE, Albu- expanding awareness. It offers the information and September 24-October 6, 2005; Ireland sacred rivers, majestic glens, and bonnie lochs of With teachings in the sacred in nature, Norse querque, NM 87112, (505) 271-9306 I Email: experience needed to develop and teach all levels of A MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR DE FRANCE: Cost: $2,295 I Contact: Sheri Nakken, Earth Myster- Scotland and its islands. Be enlightened and enter- mythology, history, and legend. [email protected] I Web: www.shaman- Reiki, cultivating the confidence and inspiration to IN SEARCH OF MARY MAGDALENE ies & Sacred Site Tours & Well Within, PO Box 1563, tained by authors, historians, musicians, and story- ism.org/workshops/schedule_advanced trust innate wisdom in order to become uniquely gift- May 25-June 8, 2005, France Nevada City, CA 95959, (530) 740-0561 I Email: tellers along the way. ed healers and teachers. Contact: 206 Tours, 289 East Main St., Smithtown, [email protected] or wwithin@nccn. SHAMANISM/SHAPESHIFTING FIVE-DAY SHAMANIC COUNSELING TRAINING NY 11787 I Email: [email protected] I Web: net I Web: www.nccn.net/~wwithin/irel I Explore SACRED SITES EXPERIENCE August 22-26, 2005; San Francisco, CA MEDICINE FOR THE EARTH GATHERING www.seekerofthesacredtruth.net I Embrace the leg- Celtic legends, folklore, and mythology, and the June 10-12, 2005; Dorset, England ADVANCED MASTER SHAPESHIFTING INTENSIVE Contact: Journeywork Institute, PO Box 13160, Port- June 17-19, 2005; Whitney, Ontario, Canada end of Mary Magdalene as you explore medieval vil- mountains and lakes that are the homes of the gods Cost: £165 I Contact: Lalitya, Osho Leela, Thorn- May 11-15, 2005; Deer Isle, ME land, OR 97213, (503) 282-6315 I Email: flana- Cost: $397 I Contact: The Edge, 100 Ottawa lages, Mediterranean hamlets and Cathar castles. and goddesses. Visit ancient, magical, sacred, and grove House, Common Mead Lane, Gillingham, Contact: (413) 665-0101 I Email: info@dream- [email protected] I Web: www.shamanism.org/work- Avenue, Box 329, South River, Ontario, Canada P0A Reiki Master-Teacher & Spiritual Intuitive Joy inspirational sites, with teachings in Celtic and pre- Dorset, SP8 4RE, UK, +44(0)1747 821221 I Email: change.org I Web: www.dreamchange.org/pro- shops/schedule_advanced 1X0, (800) 953-3343 I Email: edge@shamanism- Malumphy leads this transformational, sacred Celtic mythology and mysteries and Irish history. [email protected] I Web: www.osholeela.co. jects/apr-jun2005 canada.com I Web: www.shamanismcanada.com/ adventure across France. Visit Vezelay, Saintes uk/3cal I Find one’s connection to the earth, to FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE: A SHAMANIC upcomingevents I Explore the power of visioning and Maries de la Mer, Marseille, Carcassonne, Rennes MYSTICAL SCOTLAND one’s inner essence, and to each other on this mag- BASIC SHAMANISM RETREAT: JOURNEY TO THE ANDES & AMAZON learn to transform negative beliefs, attitudes, and le Chateau, Collioure, & Rocamadour. August 23-September 6, 2005; Scotland ical weekend. We will explore sacred sites and ener- A SHAMAN'S WALK July 14-24, 2005; Ecuador the energy that comes from emotions. Learn about Cost: $3,555 I Contact: Denni Clarke, PO Box 2155, gize with shamanic dancing May 27-29, 2005; Whitney, Ontario, Canada Cost: $2,690 I Contact: Joyce Kendall, Earth Heart the beings of ear th, water, fire, and air through MYSTERIES OF FRANCE; THE CELTS, THE Freedom, CA 95019, (831) 761-3655 I Email: Cost: $397 I Contact: The Edge, 100 Ottawa Farm, (603) 524-7829 I Email: [email protected] I shamanic journeying and work in cooperation with GODDESS, THE BLACK MADONNA, ANCIENT [email protected] I Web: www.cropcircle- SACRED SITES OF ITALY Avenue, Box 329, South River, Ontario, Canada P0A Web: www.earthsummitllc.com I Soar to higher lev- spirits of the land to receive the abundance that the SITES, MERLIN, AND EARTH MYSTERIES spirit.com I Mysteries abound amongst heather-clad May 15-28, 2005; Italy 1X0, (800) 953-3343 I Email: edge@shamanism- els of consciousness learning from Andean Yachaks earth offers. With Martha Lucier. June 3-15, 2005; Languedoc-Roussillon, S. France hillsides, tranquil lochs, and sacred islands, includ- Contact: Association for Research and Enlighten- canada.com I Web: www.shamanismcanada.com/ (shaman) and Amazonian healers. Learn from the October 15-27, 2005; Languedoc-Roussillon, S. ing Kilmar tin Glen, with sites dating back over ment, 215 67th S., Virginia Beach, VA 23451, (888) upcomingevents I This introduction to core shaman- many spirit realms with which the Shamans are in MEDICINE FOR THE EARTH WORKSHOPS France 5,000 years; the Isle of Iona, once a Druid 273-3339 Ext. 7289 I Email: [email protected] ism teaches how to restore spiritual health and contact, explore sacred mountains and jungles, trav- May 22, 2005; Whitney, Ontario, Canada Cost: $2,295 I Contact: Earth Mysteries & Sacred stronghold, now a pilgrimage site; and the recently I Web: edgarcayce.org/tours/2004_travel_schedule power, the use of percussion instruments as door- el to indigenous markets, and work with the plant June 12, 2005; Whitney, Ontario, Canada Site Tours & Well Within, PO Box 1563, Nevada City, discovered Callenish stones on the Isle of Lewis. I Visit the holy and cultural sites of Rome, Florence, ways into the spiritual world, how to connect with spirit medicine magic. Cost: Free I Contact: The Edge, 100 Ottawa Avenue, CA 95959, (530) 740-0561 I Email: sacredsite- Experience a Ceilidh with traditional song and Padua, Milan, Piza, Venice, Assisi, and more. spiritual allies through shamanic journey to the Box 329, South River, Ontario, Canada P0A 1X0, [email protected] or [email protected] I Web: dance; attend the Oban Highland Games, folk muse- Threads of Roman mythology, early Christian experi- upper, lower and middle worlds, and how to tap into HOPI AND NAVAJO INDIAN LANDS SOUL JOURNEY (800) 953-3343 I Email: edge@shamanismcana- www.nccn.net/~wwithin/france2 I Visit Brittany, ums, historical castles; sail to Fingal's Cave; journey ences, and concepts from the Edgar Cayce readings infinite wisdom. Emphasis on applying core shaman- June 25-26, 2005; Sedona, AZ da.com I Web: www.shamanismcanada.com/ Mont St-Michel, the Chartres Cathedral, and the along Loch Ness; and more. will be woven throughout the journey, which will be ism to daily life, to help heal oneself, each other, Cost: $495 (group discounts avail.) I Contact: Cross- upcomingevents ancient sites, chateaux, castles, subterranean led by John Van Auken. and the earth. With Martha Lucier. ing Worlds Journeys and Retreats, PO Box 623, rivers and caves, the Mediterranean Sea, the Pyre- PILGRIMAGE TO ANCIENT GREECE: HOLY ISLES, Sedona, AZ 86339, (800) 350-2693 or (928) 203- MEDICINE WHEEL: CIRCLE OF POWER TRAINING nees, Romanesque churches, abbeys, walled cities, SACRED TEMPLES AND ORACLE SHRINES SACRED SITES OF PERU CIRCLE OF POWER: 0024 I Email: [email protected] I Web: November 20, 2005; Sedona, AZ and sites of great mystery, including the Holy Grail September 1-15, 2005; Greece June 15-28, 2005; Peru MEDICINE WHEEL WORKSHOP www.crossingworlds.com/retreat I Tour the Canyon Cost: $425 I Contact: Crossing Worlds Journeys and myster y, the Magdalene myster y, Rennes le Contact: Martin Gray, PO Box 4111, Sedona, AZ Contact: Association for Research and Enlighten- July 15-17, 2005; Sedona, AZ de Chelly, a beautiful and ancient sacred place of Retreats, PO Box 623, Sedona, AZ 86339, (800) Chateau, the Cathars, ley lines and geometric align- 86340 I Email: mar [email protected] I Web: ment, 215 67th Street, Virginia Beach, VA 23451, Cost: $425 I Contact: Crossing Worlds Journeys and spiritual connection; prehistoric cliff dwellings of the 350-2693 or (928) 203-0024 I Email: ments on the land, Nazi treasure hunters, and more. www.sacredsites.com/pilgrimages/greece_2005 I (888) 273-3339 Ext. 7289 I Email: tours@edgar- Retreats, PO Box 623, Sedona, AZ 86339, (800) Hopi ancestors; and a Navajo sweat lodge, with [email protected] I Web: www.crossing- Join Martin Gray and Thanassis Vembos to visit the cayce.org I Web: edgarcayce.org/tours/2004_trav- 350-2693 or (928) 203-0024 I Email: vision-quest time and a blessing ceremony to help worlds.com/wheel2 I Learn to work with ceremony, MYSTERIOUS WALES holy islands of Patmos and Tinos, the oracle shrine el_schedule I Visit the Nasca Lines and the ruins, [email protected] I Web: www.crossing- connect with those who inhabit this mythical place. spiritual healing, cosmic energies, principles of the September 17-26, 2005; Wales of Delphi, sites in and around Athens, and other lit- monuments, and temples of the sacred valley of worlds.com/retreat I Learn to work with energy in power of the circle, shamanic insights of healing, Cost: £1595 I Contact: Gothic Image, 7 High Street, tle-known magical places in the Peloponnese, with Ollantaytambo, including the Mother Earth Temple, order to ground your hara line to Mother Earth; to LEARNING TO REMEMBER: drumming, sound healing, and balance direct from Glastonbur y, Somerset BA6 9DP, England, lectures on the archaeology, mythology, and culture the Sun Temple, and the site near Machu Picchu consciously use the flow of energy that comes ANCIENT TEACHINGS FOR MODERN TIMES the Source; universal earth-spirit ways and sending +44(0)1458 831281 I Email: tours@gothicimage. of ancient Greece and teachings on Nomadics where the Incas chiseled the profile of the "face," through the heart of Mother Earth, Spirit, and your- November 3-13, 2005; Ecuador our heart wave out to the cosmos. Will focus on co.uk I Web: www.gothicimagetours.co.uk/wales I movement meditations. through the eye of which the sun's light shines self to help balance and release yourself and others; Cost: $2,800 I Contact: Joyce Kendall, Earth Heart deepening skills with setting intention, spirit-helper Explore the land of the Mabinogion, Merlin, stone across the valley and onto the altar during the sol- and to sense and clear imbalances in order to con- Farm, (603) 524-7829 I Email: [email protected] I communication, reading signs, shamanic journeying, circles, holy wells, and secret magical places. Visit RITES OF PASSAGE RETREAT IN TUSCANY stice. Spend the solstice at Machu Picchu following nect more fully and take in needed energy. Web: www.earthsummitllc.com I Focusing on the energy work, and sound healing. Snowdonia and the Druid isle of Anglesey, as well as May 14-June 11, 2005; Tuscany, Italy a shamanic cleansing-sound performance and expe- teachings of the Quichua, descendants of the Inca. Cardigan Bay, the Gower peninsula, Gwent, and the Cost: $975 one week; $1,659 two weeks; $2,550 rience a meditation ceremony in the Mother Earth EARTH MEDICINE VISION QUEST RETREAT Learn how to apply ancient wisdom to your life by NEW YEAR'S WEEKEND SOUL JOURNEY RETREAT ancient land of Dyfed, with its Celtic crosses, weep- three weeks; $2,950 four weeks I Contact: Barbara Temple. Led by Henry Reed and Thomas Morton. May 14-18, 2004; Sedona, AZ traveling deep into the jungle, visiting sacred water- December 29, 2005-January 1, 2006; Sedona, AZ ing yews, and misty Preseli mountains. Lange, 985 Toe River Road, Green Mountain, NC Cost: $1,250-$1,395 I Contact: Crossing Worlds falls, and working with plant spirit medicine. Cost: $850 (group disc. avail.) I Contact: Crossing 28740, (828) 682-4684 I Email: laughinghearts@ SACRED SITES SLIDE SHOW WITH MARTIN GREY Journeys and Retreats, PO Box 623, Sedona, AZ Worlds Journeys and Retreats, PO Box 623, Sedona, MYSTICAL BRITAIN yahoo.com I Web: www.ritesofpassageretreats.com I June 17, 2005; Williamsburg, VA 86339, (800) 350-2693 or (928) 203-0024 I Email: MASTERS' CIRCLE OF REMEMBERING: AZ 86339, (800) 350-2693 or (928) 203-0024 I August 1-8, 2005; Salisbury, England Join Barbara Lange and friends for a journey to the Web: www.sacredsites.com/upcoming [email protected] I Web: www.crossing- LIFE EMPOWERMENT AND SHAMANIC Email: [email protected] I Web: Contact: Power Places Tours, Inc., 1506 Costilla sacred sites of Tuscany and Umbria. Visit Assisi, worlds.com/earthmedicineretreat I Experience com- REIKI CERTIFICATION www.crossingworlds.com/retreat I Develop atten- Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80904, (800) 234- Arezzo, San Gimignano, and many other sites. THE SACRED IN NATURE AND NORSE MYTHOLOGY munion with the spiritual energies of nature for per- Winter 2005; West Whately, MA tion, intention, intuition, and presence, with a focus 8687 or (719) 448-0514 I Email: travel@power- September 7-18, 2005; Norway sonal vision and power. Includes shamanism Contact: Lyn Rober ts-Herrick, (212) 674-0525 I on soul-retrieval, emotional healing, working with the places.com I Web: www.powerplaces.com SACRED SCOTLAND: THE BLESSED ISLES Cost: $2,195 I Contact: Earth Mysteries & Sacred training, a vision quest, Navajo sweatlodge and fire Email: [email protected] I Web: www.dream- energies of nature, opening to vision, ceremonial cir- June 19-July 1, 2005; Scotland Site Tours & Well Within, PO Box 1563, Nevada City, blessing ceremony, and visit with Hopi traditional change.org/projects/oct-dec2004 I Eighteen-month cles, freeing innate body wisdom, shamanic journey- Cost: £1,995 I Contact: Gothic Image, 7 High CA 95959, (530) 740-0561 I Email: wwithin@ people, join a circle of power ceremony, soul intensive training emphasizes personal develop- ing, reading signs, and native medicine principles. Street, Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 9DP, England, nccn.net I Web: www.nccn.net/~wwithin/norway I retrieval, and develop emotional healing practices. ment/empowerment, and the natural and compas- +44(0)1458 831281 I Email: tours@gothicimage. Visit Viking burial mounds, Supphellebreen, sionate brilliance that arises from attunement to

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PEACEMAKING: SHAMANISM, PEACE & HEALING SHAMANIC EXTRACTION HEALING A SHAMAN'S JOURNEY TO July 16-17, 2005; Frederick, MD AN E.T. BASE: DOLPHINS AND WHALES OF THE NORTHWEST UFO PARANORMAL CONFERENCE August 26-28, 2005; Whitney, Ontario, Canada July 30-31, 2005; San Francisco, CA ORACLES & SACRED SITES July 30-31, 2005; East Dundee, IL AZORES ISLANDS AND SASQUATCH SYMPOSIUM Cost: $447 I Contact: The Edge, 100 Ottawa Contact: Foundation for Shamanic Studies, PO Box May 30-June 6, 2005; Crete and Greece July 30-31, 2005; Bellingham, WA July 9-15, 2005; Azores Islands June 4-5, 2005; Seattle, WA Avenue, Box 329, South River, Ontario, Canada P0A 1939, Mill Valley, CA 94942, (415) 380-8282 I Contact: Power Places Tours, Inc., 1506 Costilla August 27-28, 2005; Ontario, Canada July 17-22, 2005; Azores Islands Cost: $50 I Contact: Philip Lipson, Seattle 1X0, (800) 953-3343 I Email: edge@shamanism- Email: [email protected] I Web: www. Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80904, (800) 234- Contact: Foundation for Shamanic Studies, PO Box Cost: $1,699 I Contact: Joan Ocean's Dolphin Con- UFO/Paranormal Group, 623 Broadway East, Seat- canada.com I Web: www.shamanismcanada.com/ shamanism.org/workshops/schedule_advanced 8687 or (719) 448-0514 I Email: travel@power- 1939, Mill Valley, CA 94942, (415) 380-8282 I nection, PO Box 102, Captain Cook, HI 96704, tle, WA 98102, (206) 328-6499 I Email: philiplip- upcomingevents I As peace-makers, we begin to places.com I Web: www.powerplaces.com/ Email: [email protected] I Web: (888) 755-7750 I Email: [email protected] I Web: [email protected] I Web: www.seattlechatclub.org/ heal a history of trauma that spans the generations SHAMANIC JOURNEY TECHNIQUES GreeceWess05 I Join Hank Wesselman on a pilgrim- www.shamanism.org/workshops/basicwk I Work- www.etfriends.com/Seminars museum I Features exhibits; special presentations and whose seeds live in the soil. This workshop June 18, 2005; Hudson, NH age to Delphi, the fabled Oracle of the Dead, the shop introduces shamanism for divination, problem- by authors, researchers, and inventors on North- explores peace, justice, harmony, balance, and spir- Contact: Joyce Kendall, Earth Heart Farm, (603) Tree Oracle of Dodona, and other ancient sites and solving, and healing. Initiation into shamanic jour- E.T. CIVILIZATIONS AND DOLPHINS CONFERENCE west UFO histor y, electronic technology, and it from a variety of traditions. Discover what they can 524-7829 I Email: [email protected] I Web: temples where oracular divination took place. Experi- neying for awakening dormant spiritual abilities, July 10-12, 2005, Kona, HI Sasquatch evidence; and speakers, including Bill teach us about healing conflicts and bringing peace www.ear thsummitllc.com I Learn the basics of ence vibrational fields of energy and healing and including connections with nature, restoring spiritual Cost: $295 I Contact: Joan Ocean's Dolphin Con- Beaty, Dr. Nick Begich, Budd Hopkins, Lloyd Pye, to our times. Shamanic journeying by using music and guided open your soul to the mystery of these places. power and health, and applying shamanism to help nection, PO Box 102, Captain Cook, HI 96704, Charlette LeFevre, Philip Lipson, and others. meditationin order to meet spirit guides, obtain heal oneself, others, and the planet. (888) 755-7750 I Email: [email protected] I Web: SHAMANIC ASTROLOGY ADVANCED NIGHT SKY sacred items, and better one’s spiritual intuition. SUMMER SOLSTICE CEREMONY & www.etfriends.com/conference/index NWSURC UFO CONFERENCE SAMHAIN SCORPIO CROSS-QUARTER NIGHT Includes info on how to set up a drumming circle. ANCESTRAL WISDOM CELEBRATION August 5-6, 2005; Saskatoon, SKY TRACK GATHERING June 22, 2005; Sedona, AZ UFOS/ALIENS E.T. CONTACT SEMINAR Saskatchewan, Canada November 2-6, 2005; Faywood Hot Springs, NM SHAMANIC PADDLING ADVENTURE Contact: Crossing Worlds Journeys and Retreats, PO June 12-18, 2005; Kailua-Kona, HI Web: www.cccrn.ca I Speakers include I Stanton Cost: $320 (incl. CD recording of classes) I Contact: August 7-12, 2005; Whitney, Ontario, Canada Box 623, Sedona, AZ 86339, (800) 350-2693 or ANCIENT OF DAYS: UFO AND Cost: $400 I Contact: Joan Ocean's Dolphin Con- Friedman, Chris Rutkowski, Fern Belzil, Ken Carolyn Brent, (520) 744-0506 or Daniel Giamario, Cost: $690 I Contact: The Edge, 100 Ottawa (928) 203-0024 I Email: journeys@crossing ABDUCTION CONFERENCE nection, PO Box 102, Captain Cook, HI 96704, Burgess, Paul Anderson, and others. (310) 281-7651 I Email: p3@shamanic Avenue, Box 329, South River, ONT, CANADA P0A worlds.com I Web: www.crossingworlds.com/retreat July 2-4, 2005; Roswell, NM (888) 755-7750 I Email: [email protected] I Web: astrology.com I Web: www.shamanicastrology.com/ 1X0, (800) 953-3343 I Email: edge@shamanism- I This celebration will include a drum journey for a Cost: $99 until June 15th; $125 thereafter I Con- www.etfriends.com/Seminars I Use remote viewing ROSWELL UFO FESTIVAL 2004_Samhain I Features Samhain sunrise, sunset, canada.com I Web: www.shamanismcanada.com/ powerful connection with ancestral guides and a tact: Alien Resistance Headquarters, 109 North and dolphin consciousness to access new July 1-4, 2005; Roswell, NM and night sky ceremonies at the stone circle over- upcomingevents I Awaken the dreamer within you healing ceremony to help you release the old that no Main Street, Roswell, NM 88203, (505) 625-8496 I paradigms, receive messages, sightings, and awak- Contact: (505) 623-5695 I Email: roswell@ looking the hot springs, as well as classes with and explore your soul's landscape. Connect with longer serves, evoke the inner fire of your true spiri- Email: [email protected] I Web: www.ancientof- enings, and interact with extraterrestrials. uforoswell.com I Web: www.roswellufofestival.com Daniel Giamario, Carolyn Brent, John Dumas, sound nature and all that stirs within you as you open your tuality, and call forth your soul's vision. days.net I Speakers include Stephen Bassett, Grant healer Didgeridoo, and others. awareness and learn to journey with your eyes open Cameron, Richard Dolan, Terr y Hansen, William MCMENAMINS 6TH ANNUAL UFO FESTIVAL UFO DAZE and dialogue with the spirits of nature. SUMMER SOLSTICE SOUL JOURNEY RETREAT Lyne, Jim Marrs, Peter Robbins, Guy Malone, Bill May 13-15, 2005; McMinnville, OR July 16, 2005; Dundee, WI SHAMANIC ASTROLOGY AUTUMNAL EQUINOX June 21-24, 2005; Sedona, AZ Alnor, Jim Wilhelmsen, Norm Franz, Stan Deyo, Bill Email: [email protected] I Web: Cost: FREE I Contact: Bill Benson, (920) 533-8219 I NIGHT SKY WILDERNESS CAMP SHAMANIC REIKI MASTER PRACTITIONER Cost: $850 (group disc. avail.) I Contact: Crossing Schnoebelen, David Flynn, Mike Heiser, and others. www.ufofest.com/McHO/ufo I With both a serious Email: [email protected] I Web: September 22-25, 2005; Dyer, NV (Pre-Requisite to Apprenticeship Program) Worlds Journeys and Retreats, PO Box 623, eye and a lighthearted tone, the festival welcomes www.ufowisconsin.com Cost: $300 I Contact: Daniel Giamario, 11301 Vista October 7-9, 2005; West Whately, MA Sedona, AZ 86339, (800) 350-2693 or (928) 203- ANCIENT TEXTS & THE ET CONNECTION... believers and skeptics, noted experts and trekkies, Avenue, Grass Valley, CA 95945, (310) 281-7651 I Contact: Lyn Rober ts-Herrick, (212) 674-0525 I 0024 I Email: [email protected] I Web: WHO IS CALLING THE SHOTS? and everyone in between. 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