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A BRAND NEW MAGAZINE ON & ALTERNATIVE THINKING SHOW GUIDE The radio shows & podcasts you need to listen to ISSUE #2 JAN/FEB 2018 THE MYTH BEHIND The identity of the legendary King takes a surprising new twist DAVE SCHRADER We talk hunting, shadow beings and EVPs

MOST HAUNTED The spookiest hospitals THE MOJAVE and asylums worldwide INCIDENT The most terrifying MANDELA EFFECT case of Is it all a bad memory is you’ve never heard of time really not what it seems?

RYAN SPRAGUE Examining the human aspects of extraterrestrial abductions. ROSWELL: A NEW WITNESS? Making sense of the testimony of a former Sheriff’s Deputy.

S-4 DIGITAL PRESS Plus more great interviews and features inside! EDITOR’S LETTER WELCOME! “What we have here is, a failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach. So you get what we had here last week…” Captain, Cool Hand Luke (1967)

efore I get stuck in I just revelatory gun camera footage of want to say a BIG thank you an alleged UFO encounter with the Bto everyone who has read USAF. When I say fallout it’s because and showed their support for the there’s a lot of dissention and magazine so far. The response whispering about the video - until to the first issue far exceeded my we know more one way or another expectations and it was encouraging we’re keeping quiet. Then there was to receive so many congratulatory the momentous discovery using new comments and endorsements scanning technology of a previously from many corners of the UFO hidden chamber the Great community. It means that we’re Pyramid in Egypt, more on that on doing something right, and people page 5. Also, the first known object are responding to that. I’d also from outside our solar system paid like to officially announce that us a visit - a huge elongated asteroid Shadows Of Your Mind has been was the official explanation, others recognised as an event sponsor for weren’t so sure… Contact In The Desert 2018. It’s a truly fantastic event and always So what’s in this issue? We have a What we’ve features enlightening talks and new take on the King Arthur myth, been watching workshops from some of the biggest a previously unknown witness to names within the of ufology, the Roswell crash, we spoke with Patient Seventeen alternative history and investigation. Beyond The Darkness radio host New documentary from Jeremy You can find more on the event over Dave Schrader about , Corbell about one man’s search the page and on page 28 where with podcast host Ryan Sprague for answers - watch it on Netflix we’ve listed some of the other big about the human side of alien Falling Skies events happening soon. abductions and Ron Felber about The remnants of humankind face his terrifying book The Mojave their alien invaders in an attempt Since the last issue was published Incident. And finally there’s part to reclaim Earth for ourselves. there have been a number of huge one of Doug McKay’s investigation Knowledge Of The Forever Time news stories which, typically, were into the Mandela Effect - which Documentary series from Damon quickly brushed under the collective was heavily edited for reasons of T Berry exploring the secrets of carpet as the media continued to naughty words by the way - which our species’ hidden knowledge. kneel at the altar of false celebrity I’m sure will create a discussion or worship or searched for Russian two, one way or another! UFOs: The Lost Evidence A new series discussing evidence collusion in just about anything. for extraterrestrial visitation. We’ve had the disclosure and the See you next time, when it’s all fallout from Academy calmed down. I hope.

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A round-up of the latest If ever there was an alien Author and podcast host alternative news stories that abduction case that chilled talks to us about the human made us prick up our ears. the blood, this is it. side of alien abduction. 8 DAVE SCHRADER 25 MANDELA EFFECT 41 A NEW WITNESS TO ROSWELL The host of Beyond The The fun-loving Doug McKay Darkness radio show talks returns with his take on the Replacing our One Small about ghost hunting. latest fad phenomenon. Step… Roswell feature comes this rare testimony. 12 TOP 10: HAUNTED 28 EVENTS GUIDE ASYLUMS/HOSPITALS 49 WHO’S WHO Your guide to some of the What if some patients never best UFO and The best radio shows and left these buildings? Conferences this year. podcasts, extended. Who do you listen to? 17 FROM THE ARCHIVE 30 THE MYTHS BEHIND KING ARTHUR What was terrorizing the West Virginia town of Point Why King Arthur showed up Pleasant in the 1960s? late to the literary party.

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Our round up of the biggest news stories to hit the alternative community. CONTACT IN THE DESERT EXCITEMENT BUILDS New larger venue promises 2018 will be the best event yet.

t is one of the biggest events of its kind and has been coined the ‘Woodstock of Iufology’ on more than one occasion. This & Spa Hotel Resort Indian Wells ©Renaissance year’s Contact In The Desert promises to Contact In The Desert 2018 will be held at The Renaissance Indian Wells be the biggest and best event yet with an resort, in Indian Wells, California expected audience of 3500 filing in to the Renaissance Indian Wells Resort and Spa ‘experiencers’ and to create an environment Hotel. where each person could present their YOUR material in a setting of mutual respect in an MEMORIES The event runs from June 1st to 3rd and atmosphere where a sincere search for the OF CITD features such UFO and alternative luminaries truth around this subject could be found. Do you have as Whitley Streiber, Richard Dolan, Nick a memorable Pope, , Grant Cameron, One of the things Contact In The Desert moment from James Gilliland and Erich von Daniken. does well is to present several theories of past years? There will also be a number of special panel our own human origins on this planet going discussions throughout the weekend on back into ‘deep history’ and giving a new As part of our topics as diverse as crop circles, the secret voice to the works of Zecharia Sitchin and CITD Preview space program, quantum field technology Erich von Daniken. The inclusion of the next issue we’re and a special panel with producers of Ancient Aliens television series looking for your CoastToCoastAM radio host has been an integral part of that exploration memories of the and Ancient Aliens’ very own Giorgio A from the beginning. event in years Tsoukalos among others. gone by. Was it As we mentioned overleaf Shadows Of Your a skywatch that The event grew out of discussions between Mind is honoured to be a part of this great blew your mind organisers Victoria Jennings and Paul event and although we can’t be there in or a particular Andrews beginning in 2012. The pair were person we anticipate that this year will be presentation, or deeply involved in the Joshua Tree Spiritual especially interesting given the recent furore just meeting like Retreat Center in Joshua Tree, California at in the mainstream media over the Pentagon minded folk in a the time, home to one of the most active UFO investigation disclosure. friendly setting. sighting areas in the U.S. Let us know, Look out for our Contact In The Desert email contact@ Both had had different levels of ‘encounter’ Preview Special next issue where we’ll shadowsmagazine and decided to create a show that feature some of the speakers involved. .co.uk took a serious look at the whole UFO/ Ancient Alien paradigm. Their goal was to For more information and a full list of create a platform for all researchers and speakers visit www.contactinthedesert.com

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WORLD’S LARGEST UNDERWATER CAVE DISCOVERED Pre-Mayan civilization artifacts discovered in underground system.

ear the travellers beach paradise of Not only is this an unusual geological Tulum, in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, discovery, but the possibility of studying GREAT divers have discovered the world’s ancient civilizations through artifacts, PYRAMID Nlargest underwater cave. including centuries old skulls, embedded VOID in the walls of the caves has got them very Using high definition GoPro cameras excited. UPDATE underwater archaeologists from the Egyptologists, organization The GranAcuifero Maya It is hypothesised that the Ancient Mayans as usual, are (GAM) have been exploring the underwater considered the cave an entrance into the keeping mum. network of Sac Actun for nearly a year and underworld and have discovered human Writing on the have discovered that over 200 small caves bones and pottery dating back thousands of grahamhancock. connect underwater forming, what they years, which could help archaeologists better com website, believe to be, the world’s largest underwater understand the ancient Mayan civilization. Great Pyramid cave at 216-miles long (a series of three author Scott videos of the expedition dating back to Speaking to Reuters and the Mexican Creighton gave Nov 2016 can be found on GoPro’s YouTube press, Guillermo de Anda, the director of his opinion on the channel). GAM, and member of Mexico’s National recent find in the Institute of Anthropology and History said Great Pyramid. “This immense cave represents the most He writes that important submerged archaeological site in while mainstream the world. It allows us to appreciate how the Egyptologists rituals, the pilgrimage sites and ultimately are scratching the great pre-Hispanic settlements emerged. their heads as It has more than a hundred archaeological to why such a contexts, among which are evidence of the space should first settlers of America. It’s a place that exist above the transports you to 10-12,000 years ago.” Grand Gallery, he believes it could Click on the images for videos. be a ‘Recovery  Vault’ not unlike our modern-day seed vault on the FLYING DISK PRESS Norwegian island of Svaalbard in BOOK RELEASES the Arctic Circle. He goes on to Some new UFO books for your shelves suggest that “while everyone ormed in 2015 by renowned British is focused on the UFO researcher and author Philip You can also find ‘void’ and the Mantle, Flying Disk Press publishes books about hitherto modern science F that went into unique UFO books, covering parts of the more secretive parts world not normally represented in Ufology of the world including discovering it, lore. Russia’s USO Secrets no one is looking by Paul Stonehill; UFOs Over Romania by at what the Among the books currently available to Dan Farcas and UFOs Over Poland by Piotr ancient Egyptians purchase on the website you can find Cielebias’ all of which relate sightings and themselves have the recently re-published UFO Contact experiences rarely mentioned in the Western said with regards At Pascagoula which relates alleged hemisphere. Philp’s own books are available to the building of extraterrestrial contact from 1973 in too including Roswell a report the pyramids.” Pascagoula, Mississippi by Charles Hickson on the infamous video footage and Once For the full article and William Mendez. Turn to page 51 now for Upon A Missing Time a sci-fi novel about click here. our review the publication. alien abduction.

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IF THERE’S A BRIGHT CENTRE OF THE FITNESS APP UNIVERSE, HUBBLE HAS FOUND THE REVEALS SPOT FURTHEST FROM IT MILITARY SECRET MOST DISTANT RECORDED GALAXY HAS BEEN SPOTTED BASES More and more ccording to NASA, the Spitzer and been recorded. They however have looked people are using Hubble telescopes have revealed nothing more than tiny red dots, due to their personal fitness gadgets loaded with the tremendous unfathomable distances Aimages of the most distant galaxy GPS to shamelessly seen thus far. Named SPT0615-JD, involved. SPOT, on the other hand, was able upload their current the galaxy has been spotted due to a to be photographed due to the gravitational fitness regimes to phenomenon called “gravitational lensing” field of a massive galaxy in the foreground bore anyone who (click here for an explanation) which has amplifying the light. cares to listen. Well, stretched and amplified the cluster. it was announced recently that the Dan Coe, RELICS (Hubble’s Reionization Strava app has “No other candidate galaxy has been found Lensing Cluster Survey) principal investigator had an unforeseen at such a great distance,” said Brett Salmon added “RELICS was designed to discover embarrassing side of the Space Telescope Science Institute distant galaxies like these that are magnified affect from its in Baltimore. “By analyzing the effects of brightly enough for detailed study.” users. It turns out gravitational lensing on the image of this that a lot of military galaxy, we can determine its actual size and By combining data from both Hubble and personnel use this app, including those shape.” Spitzer telescopes preliminary analysis on supposed ‘secret’ suggests SPOT weighs roughly 1/100th the US military bases It is believed that SPT0615-JD or SPOT as mass of our fully grown Milky Way galaxy in locations such we’ll call it from now on, existed when the and is less than 2,500 light-years across. as Afghanistan, universe was just 500 million years old, Syria and Djibouti although a few other primitive galaxies have Click here for the full JPL press release. which aren’t visible  on public mapping software such as Google Maps. We can only imagine the UK GOVERNMENT VOYNICH conversations that were held in the halls SLAMMED FOR MANUSCRIPT of the Pentagon SNOOPING SOLVED? afterwards! Controversial law deemed breach Canadian scientists may have FLU VACCINE REPORTED of human rights… again. cracked the 15th Century tome. INEFFECTIVE There’s been a lot of s if Theresa May didn’t have enough ince it was purchased as part of reports, especially on her plate, the UK Government has a lot from a cash-strapped Italian in the UK, about Aonce again been dealt a blow with Spatrician villa by a Polish antique the widespread flu it’s Investigatory Powers Act of 2016, or book dealer, the 15th Century ‘Voynich’ epidemic this winter. ‘Snooper’s Charter’ deemed illegal by the Manuscript, has befuddled historians and The reason for this UK Court of Appeal. The law was designed cryptographers worldwide for years since has been explored to extend police powers over internet data it was taken Stateside. There may now be by investigative such as web browsing records and social a glimmer of light though after Computing reporter John media accounts without the need for a scientists at Canada’s University of Alberta Rappaport on his judicially approved warrant. It also involved claimed to have made the first major step in NoMoreFakeNews an that required internet and phone deciphering the language which the vellum website. He claims that the flu vaccine providers store all customer communications document - named after the buyer Wilfrid rolled out since data for a period of 12 months. Voynich - was written. Using a database of last year has had a over 400 known languages over 80% of the success rate of just Politicians in favour of the act argue that can words found in Hebrew dictionaries. 10%. The reason for in the wake of various terrorist attacks this, he reports, is that have hit the UK in recent years, it has The man responsible for the tests, Professor that the vaccine was become harder to counter and predict the Greg Kondrak, says that now this first hurdle manufactured using movements of suspected terrorists involved is out of the way, deciphering the text with eggs which in such actions. Security is undoubtedly the assistance of those with knowledge of mutated the flu needed but there needs to be a clear ancient Hebrew will be the next step. The virus itself. Read the full essay here. concise way of doing it which doesn’t original manuscript currently resides in the involve a Norsefire-esque surveillance. in the library of University.

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CHINA UNVEILS WORLD’S FIRST CLONED PRIMATES Using the ‘Dolly’ method, Chinese scientists have successfully cloned a pair of macaque monkeys.

n 1996 the collective jaw of the world from a macaque dropped when it was publicly announced foetus. While the Iscientists had successfully cloned a doctors involved sheep, henceforth known as Dolly. Two are naturally taking decades on the world’s first primates a firm against the have been successfully reproduced at the future of possible Chinese Academy of Sciences Institue of human cloning, Neurosciences using the same method. they have indicated While Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua aren’t that the successful strictly the first of their kind - that title cloning of primates belongs to a rhesus macaque born in 1999 a new era called Tetra - they still represent a huge of research into step forward in biological science. They also medical breakthroughs. Which in itself Above: Zhong Zhong throw up a multitude of moral questions too begs the question - is creating an animal and Hua Hua - who as China is notoriously lax when it comes in a laboratory for the sole purpose of knows what the future to scientific regulations, the institute having genetic and medical research for the benefit holds for them, and us? already cloned dogs, mice pigs and fish. of humankind something we should be pursuing? China has after all become a The SCNT (somatic cell nuclear transfer) pioneer in gene-editing humans. method involves replacing the DNA of a pic © Qiang Sun and Mu-ming Poo, Chinese Academy of Sciences Chinese Academy pic © Qiang Sun and Mu-ming Poo, monkey embryo with tissue cell DNA taken  Click here for more information.

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RadioDarkness and podcast host Dave Schrader delves into the world of shadow beings and ghostly adventures.

aving graced radio airwaves radio host since I was around 9-10 years old in America for over a decade, so it remained a passion and desire for me. whether on his own radio shows or as a regular guest One day Tim rang me up and informed me host on Coast To Coast AM, it wouldn’t that the station he worked for had a one be unfair to say that Dave Schrader is hour time slot to fill on Sunday nights from something of a paranormal nut. With one 11pm until midnight so he suggested we of the most distinctive radio voices you’ll do a show, I recommended a paranormal ever hear, his deep bassy vocals have the themed show as it was a common interest power to transfix, hypnotise and downright for us both. We spoke and an hour later the terrify listeners throughout the year as he format and show was created, Darkness on recounts tales of the paranormal and other the Edge of Town Paranormal Radio Show unexplained mysteries. which was quickly and affectionately called Darkness Radio by our listeners. We began His current podcast radio show Beyond SHARE January 1st 2006 and the show ran until YOUR GHOST the Darkness is available online as well EXPERIENCES December of 2016 when we made the leap as a multi-platform app and is one of the ONLINE from terrestrial radio to a new format on premier paranormal talk shows available #ShadowsMagazine the very popular PodcastOne site and part (see p49). Guests range from authors of of the famous Jericho Network (owned the , demonologists, historical by WWE wrestler Chris Jericho) where we haunting experts, hunters and relaunched the show in December of 2016 extraterrestrial . We spoke to as, Darkness Radio Presents: BEYOND the Dave about his paranormal interests and DARKNESS. some of his favourite locations. SEE OUR SOYM: You grew up in a SOYM: For the benefit of our UK readers TOP 10 GUIDE and have experienced various paranormal could you briefly describe what you feel are TO HAUNTED activity, is there any event that sticks out your primary interests? ASYLUMS AND from when you were younger? Dave Schrader: I have had the great luxury HOSPITALS DS: There are a few stories I am not quite of being surrounded with the paranormal STARTING ON ready to share but I can say that my whole P12 my whole life, from interactions with the family, including my mother and father, world since an early age to a Bigfoot have heard and seen things at one point or sighting to an encounter with a UFO in another that defy logical explanation and fall 2006. It is hard to pin down a specific topic I into the category of a ‘haunting’. Often you find more exciting or interesting. It seems to could be downstairs, alone in the house and vary depending on the week and my mood. hear conversations or footsteps walking the length of the upstairs and no one was home. SOYM: How did the original idea for Darkness Radio come about? SOYM: How often do you participate on DS: My co-host Tim Dennis and I worked ghost hunts? What techniques do you together in college radio from 1988-1990 prefer to maximise results?? and stayed close. He remained in radio and DS: I go on a few public investigations a I went into a world of sales. I wanted to be a year and a few private ones if the need www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 9 issue 02 DAVE SCHRADER

arises. I think it is important to rule out normal explanations first, bad wiring, bad plumbing, exposure to high levels of natural Electromagnetic Force, etc. Once I have ruled out those issues I like to document in photographs, video and handwritten notes the information about the people and the rooms that have activity. When investigating I use very few tools for gathering information on the paranormal. The tools usually consist of cameras, video- cameras, audio recorders and the like. I do employ a few kitschy items like the Ovilus, Paranormal Puck or SLS (Structured Light Sensor) Camera to try and gather other data like temperature, pressure changes, etc (see panel below). The Palmer House Hotel, Sauk Centre, MN a hive of unexplained goings-on. © McGhiever via Wikimedia Commons SOYM: What’s the highest level of activity you’ve experienced on one of these hunts? SOYM: We’re fascinated by the work DS: The Palmer House in Sauk Centre, undertaken by The Scole Experimental Minnesota has had some high levels of CLICK Group that occurred in England during activity from full on apparitions, shadow PLAY FOR the 1990’s which included manifestations, people, disembodied voices, unexplainable MORE INFO levitating tables and EVP’s (Electronic sounds and doors opening and shutting on ON THE SCOLE Voice Phenomena) - are you aware of their their own or lights and water going on and EXPERIMENTS experiences? off on their own accord. DS: Yes I have and I am fascinated by many of the experiments and the results as I have had the great privilege to visit historic revealed in the book and the documentary, sites like The Queen Mary Hotel, The Stanley The Afterlife Investigation: The Scole Hotel, Eastern State Penitentiary, Mansfield Experiment. Reformatory, Rolling Hills Asylum, Stardust Ranch, Bobby Mackay’s Music World and SOYM: Have you ever experienced the the Lizzie Borden house (see right). All have phenomenon of ‘Shadow’ beings? had some interesting and very remarkable DS: I had always been skeptical of ‘Shadow activity. People’ until I began having my own experiences. I know and understand how our SOYM: Have you been anywhere you’ve just eyes work and how easily they can be fooled wanted to get out as quickly as possible? in low light settings so I was never impressed DS: No, I am always excited and thrilled to with tales of ‘Shadow People’ encounters, visit any and all locations. I have a passion to especially those that were fleeting. Most see them all. often you can see there were natural

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Ovilus 5 Again used for attempted detection, light frequency communications and and temperature sensing recording EVPs, as to detect anomalies the software converts environmental readings to Paranormal Puck 2 words A popular device used to attempt communication SLS Camera and record EVPs but it ‘Structured Light Sensor’ can also monitor EMF, cameras are very portable temperature, humidity, with a variety of sensors light levels, barometric using ultrasonic distance pressure, movement

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PEOPLE WHO explanations for the eyewitness accounts. Then I went to the Waverly Hills Sanitarium THE ARE JUST LOOKING in Louisville, Kentucky where I had a fully LIZZIE formed, 3-D shadow figure walk through my BORDEN left shoulder as it passed me in a hall, then FOR CHEAP, SCARY the figure continued unabated and vanished. HOUSE I have also simultaneously witnessed some The tale behind THRILLS OFTEN END with large groups of people at locations the infamous like Eastern State Penitentiary, Rolling Hills haunted B&B in UP VERY SORRY Asylum and again, the Palmer House Hotel. Massachusetts On 4th August THEY DID! With that said, I am still skeptical and believe 1892 in the town most can be explained away but I am VERY of Fall River, MA officially acknowledge the existence of aware there is a VERY real situation going Lizzie Borden was ghost, spirits or EVPs at any point? on as well in some cases. questioned by DS: I think that some have but have been local police, and summarily dismissed so at this point I do not SOYM: What’s the best example of EVP charged with the believe science will every truly open itself evidence you’ve encountered? brutal murders to the possibility hence no further attempts DS: That is hard to say, I have had some of her father are scientific documentation and most likely interesting luck with EVP. Some of my and stepmother. they will continue to bully, chide and ridicule favorites include one from Lizzie Borden’s Some reports those in the scientific field that do try to house, I placed a white noise machine and say that food further the field. audio recorder on the spot where Mrs. poisoning and Borden was murdered and asked if someone fever had driven SOYM: Finally, do you have a piece of was there, could they please say their Lizzie to murder advice for anyone who wants to get started full name to which we got a very proper her stepmother into ghost hunting or paranormal sciences? woman’s voice announcing herself as Abigail in her bedroom DS: Ask yourself why you want to do this. If Borden in a voice as plain as day. and then, telling it is for cheap, scary thrills then please do her father she had not involve yourself. Those people seem to Another came from the Palmer House Hotel gone to visit a end up very sorry they did. If you are simply during a shoot for the TV series Ghost sick friend, took seeking proof of the existence of something Adventures when Nick Groff and I were a hatchet to him beyond our realm of current understanding in ‘Lucy’s’ room I asked is anyone here in while he took a then read and study up on the phenomena danger and a voice clearly responded, Zak nap on a sofa first. If you are passionate about Bagans (host of Ghost Adventures) and then downstairs. Lizzie investigating and helping others, that is followed it with a bit of a sinister laugh. was arrested admirable but I caution you to proceed with and jailed but caution. I do not believe there is a demon SOYM: There’s been au upturn in popularity ultimately indicted around every corner and do not believe of paranormal films such as in December 1893 there is danger at every turn, but I do believe which have captured the public’s following a lack that if you do not know and understand imagination. Do you have a favourite of convincing protection, protocol and patience you will be paranormal film? evidence. open to a myriad of potential problems. DS: I am fan purely for entertainment reasons of The Conjuring, Sinister and Dave further Please also realize that protection Insidious Part 3. recounts his visit goes beyond yourself, if you do get an to the house. attachment, it may be hard for it to affect SOYM: Have you ever visited the museum in “What started you but may go after weaker, unprotected Key West, Florida that contains that other out as a fun short members of your family. Make sure you

Robert The Doll © LongLiveRock via Flickr.com Doll © LongLiveRock The famous haunted doll, Robert? investigation, read and study up as much as you can on DS: I have not visited the museum but ended in a longer investigating and remain open but cautious I was at a conference a number of stay due to a to claims of the paranormal.. years ago in Florida called TAPS-Con hurricane that and Robert was brought there and struck the area The Darkness Radio app is only on display. We got along well and I making travel available on Android while the PodcastOne was intrigued by the way people impossible. During app is also available on Apple. Click the looked upon and responded to this prolonged respective link below to download for free his presence. stay we captured and enjoy the archives of past shows. You EVP’s, phantom can also check out Dave’s podcast online SOYM: Do you think the smells, strange here or at www.darknessradio.com mainstream knocking noises scientific and disembodied community will voices.”

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HAUNTED ASYLUMS/HOSPITALS Words: Dave Partridge

Camp fire tales have nothing compared with some of the activity evidenced at some of these former institutions where not all the patients checked out.

hosts and ghouls have Old Changi Hospital been a part of the human psyche since year dot. 10 Changi, Singapore The Victorians especially Gloved a good ghost story and many Originally built to serve the British seances were held throughout Royal Air Force in 1935 and then such was the interest in the subsequently used as a POW camp spiritual world beyond. A many good by the Japanese from 1942, the Old tale came out of it too, with authors Changi Hospital has it’s fair share of such as M.R. James, Edgar Allan Poe, hauntings. Many are thought to have HP Lovecraft taking advantage of died within its walls after extended this popularity and injecting them periods of horrific torture. The gates with fresh terror. And who can forget finally closed in 1997 and nature took the first time they read Charles over after plans to convert the site Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? into a luxury resort were shelved.

These days the popularity of Shadow people have been sighted remains in the film. Some visitors paranormal shows such as Ghost by witnesses, as well visitors relate that they followed an Adventures, Most Haunted or reporting disembodied voices unknown fellow group member to a Paranormal Investigators to name and screaming, spectral bloodied desolate part of the hospital before but three, has grown exponentially soldiers ambling about. During being told that the group should and that may have lead to people the making of a found-footage leave the site as it was dangerous. being more aware of what they are film Haunted Changi the crew Upon turning a darkened corner this seeing or indeed more sensitive to supposedly captured footage of other group member would simply their environment. We’re bound to a shadow being which alledgedly dissipate. Spooky. have missed some so let us know.

Click on the button by each entry Yorktown Memorial Hospital and it’ll take you to a selected video* featuring that location. 9 Texas, USA

*All videos remain the property of their respective authors. Shadows Of Your Mind magazine assumes The former hospital and rehab is low, almost as if the spirits are no copyright or is responsible for the content. centre was formed relatively recently behaving themselves, but if the Viewer discretion advised. the 1950s by a group known as lights are off then all bets are off the ‘Felician Sisters’ a part of the and former patients have been seen Author Bio Roman Catholic Church rising out wandering the corridors. One ghost Editor of Shadows of Poland in the 1800s. Abandoned hunting crew even recorded spectral Of Your Mind Dave since the 1980s it has earned itself pipe organ music coming from the has had a keen a reputation as one of the most hospital chapel. interest in the haunted locations in Texas. paranormal and the unknown from an early age. Wintesses have reported phenomena Having lived in a suspected such as talking dolls, shadowy haunted house during his shapes, red glowing eyes and even school years and with various a full apparition of a male figure family members experiencing in the chapel area of the hospital. paranormal activity of their The caretaker of the building, Mike own, a fascination with the life Henson, has been reported as saying beyond life was inevitable. that if the lights are on in the nurses

station then paranormal activity via Flickr © NicholasHenderson via Flickr / Old Changi ©RichardLee / Yorktown pic © Jo Hounsome Photography Author

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Letchworth 7 Village Rockland County, New York, USA Three of the buildings Built in 1911 and modeled after are still used in a the Virginia plantation of Thomas functional capacity

©sodafy via WikimediaCommons Jefferson, the village originally encompassed 2,300 acres. In an Lier Sykehus attempt to provide better living conditions patients were located 8 Lier, Norway in an open functional countryside environment rather than urban Around 40km west of the Norwegian discovered that Lier Sykehus was institutions. Sadly, as time went capital of Oslo lies the Gamle Lier guilty of conducting over 2,500 on, Letchworth developed the Mentalsykehus, a half-abandoned illegal experiments on patients same reputation that befell so hospital with a disturbing history. including the administration of many institutions for dubious Built in 1926 as the Lier Asylum LSD, electroconvulsive therapy and experimentation and inconsistent it housed around 600 mentally rumours abound of full and partial care and it became the location for afflicted patients, some cases worse lobotomies. Not only that but it was the world’s first human trials of the than others. In 1984-85 due to a said to have been a hive of illicit polio vaccine on children. As most reform in the Norwegian health pharmaceutical drug trials. Needless of these children were abandoned or system, four of the seven buildings to say the air of extreme negativity orphaned, experimental treatment were closed and evacuated in a swift makes the complex one of the most could be undertaken on them manner. Bizarrely only the occupants haunted locations in Norway. With without consent and without left, everything else - the furniture, three of the main buildings still in compassion. Finally closing in 1996, medical equipment, personal effects operation, resident patients appear the majority of buildings, on the etc. remained in situ. to be sharing their space with the property still stand but many are apparitions of former residents, in a state of disrepair, while many Now in increasingly various states three dimensional shadows and of the static features have become of degradation and decay the other unexplained activity. Whether overgrown with vines. Reports have buildings were earmarked for reported screams emanate from the been made of sightings of previous demolition in 2009 yet received a current occupants or something else residents, strange noises, and stay of execution. Soon after, it was entirely is up for debate. mysterious lights.

Waverly Hills Sanitorium 6 Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Originally serving as a hospital to the room. This treat tuberculosis throughout the was based on early to mid 20th Century, Waverly a story relating Hills Sanitorium is one of those to her apparent locations that splits opinion. While suicide in 1928, many people believe that it is indeed triggered by one of the most haunted places depression. in America, there are just as many Another staff who question the validity of the suicide followed evidence. But such are the legends four years later surrounding the place, we couldn’t when a nurse omit it. jumped from the roof, and she is It’s claimed that up to 63,000 also associated The dilapidated interior patients may have died in the facility with Room 502. is a photographers such were the squalid conditions and dream by day, not so much at night not just patients either. Many visitors Then there’s have reported unusual activity Timmy, the centred around Room 502 and the spirit of a young boy who is said voices, sudden cold spots and full hype increased when a suspicious to have remained in the building bodied apparitions including that looking photograph was released by after death and enjoys interacting of an elderly woman who roams the Missouri Paranormal Research playfully with visitors. Other the hospital, bleeding from chained purported to show an apparition of examples of unexplained activity hands and feet and crying out to

©alicethompsonphotography via Flickr ©alicethompsonphotography a former head nurse emerging from include shadow beings, disembodied visitors for help.

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Rolling Hills Asylum 5 East Bethany, New York, USA

Rolling Hills Asylum originally opened on New Year’s Day 1827, built to house the unfortunates in the Genesee County area, paupers, the mentally unstable, the blind, orphans, widows, vagrants and drunkards - quite the motley crew. Today only two 20th Century built buildings remain, the West Wing of 1938 and the East Wing, added twenty years later. Finally closing in 1974, it remained empty until the site was transformed into retail outlets Rolling HIlls Asylum, in the 1990s and that appears to be once dubbed the when the activity began. second most haunted place in America ©Jennifer Kirkland via Flickr ©Jennifer Property owners started noticing strange occurences or things going In one particularly interesting case seeing an translucent hand and arm missing of their own accord and during a public ghost hunt, the room appear attempting to grab the ball being unable to pin these mysteries known as the Christmas Room - so only to vanish as quickly as it had on shoplifters, the services of called because it’s decorated to the appeared. paranormal investigation teams were nines as at Christmas - displayed a employed. What they discovered lot of activity. An experiment was set Elsewhere on the site nurses in only enhanced Rolling Hills growing up involving a glow stick, a ball and period uniforms have been spotted, reputation as a scene of unquiet. a small child’s rocking horse. Upon their clinical shoes heard squeaking Disembodied voices were heard being asked by a certain member on the floor as can the sound of the including terrifying screams in the of the group the glow stick rolled wheelchairs creaking and recordings middle of the night; unlocked doors back and forth and the rocking on EVPs have also been made. There appeared to be being held shut by horse began moving as if someone has also been reports of unattached an unknown precence on the other was sitting on it. But that wasn’t all, shadows moving behind the doors side and shadow beings were spied. guests present in room reported of the second floor solarium.

Danvers Lunatic Asylum Danvers Lunatic Asylum, as it looked in H.P. 4 Salem, Massachusetts, USA Lovecraft’s day

There was no way we could let this of Charles Dexter one slide - the asylum said to have Ward. If you’re had some influence on the great not familiar with gothic horror writer HP Lovecraft. his work then by Located in what used to be Salem extension it’s also Village, and built in 1878 on the very the inspiration for hilltop where witch trial Judge John Arkham Asylum, Hathorne resided you’d expect it be of Batman fame spook central. Originally it was only and was used as supposed to house 600 patients but a filming location by the mid 1930’s it contained over for the horror film 2300 residents. Due to it’s to Session 9 with the public and recent conversion to Dasvid Caruso, swanky apartments it’s been pretty released in 2001. off limits to paranormal investigators which has only added to the legend. Behind the imposing gothic spires All this negative is bound to electroshock therapy was the have imprinted itself on the building HP Lovecraft used it as a model for order of the day for most, as were but to date only one paranormal his Arkham Sanitorium, featured strait jackets and even full-scale investigation team is reported to have in the tales The Thing On The lobotomies. As the population grew spent the night, but their results have Doorstep and referenced by name to include criminals and alcoholics never been shared. New residents are in two others (Pickman’s Model and as well as the mentally inhibited, it’s said to have experienced flickering The Shadow Over Insmouth) and hardly surprising that the treatments lights, apparitions and disembodied

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Aradale Asylum 3 Ararat, Victoria, Australia

Dark clouds gather - as above, so below ©Eldraque77 via Flickr ©Eldraque77

The 100-acre home of the ‘worst those probably occurred during who wanders the women’s wing and lunatics’ in the former British the Victoria-era as it’s reputation watches the tours from one of the Empire first opened its doors in the 20th century was improved rooms with an icy stare, think Nurse in 1865 on a hilltop near Ararat, somewhat as advancements in the Ratched from One Flew Over The Victoria. Described as a last resort care and treatment for the mentally Cuckoo’s Nest. Other experiences destination where the very worst ill improved. you may encounter include cold cases were sent, it played host to winds and the sensation of a foul some of the most controversial Although it finally closed in 1993 taste in the mouth while passing the psychiatric treatments in Australia, it is open for evening ghost tours, office of a former Superintendent, conveniently away from prying eyes. with one of its final residents ‘Old unexplained banging and the feeling During it’s 130 year existence, it’s Margaret’ said to haunt the building of being grasped at by icy hands as been said that upwards of 13,000 which was her lifelong home. There’s groups cross the bridge to men’s people died however many of also the overly strict Nurse Kerry, wing.

Linda Vista Hospital Just one of the many eerie 2 , California, USA corridors at Linda Vista Now a senior housing complex, Then there’s the boiler room, the the former Santa Fe Coast Lines focal point of many hauntings. The Hospital closed its doors in 1991. The hospital was filled with John and stunning architecture of the building Jane Does, who eventually passed is certainly makes it one of the more away and whose bodies were attractive buildings on our list even cremated in the boiler room furnace. if the treatment of its patients was To begin with, the ashes were distinctly less so. carefully recorded in marked boxes, on the off-chance that somebody A lot of negative energy is centered did come and claim an estranged around the former location of Room relative. The boxes remained 323. Upon entering the room, you unclaimed. Sadly the cremation of may feel chills and a strong sense of unknown corpses became routine, unease. Explorers and investigators and it wasn’t long before the ashes fear to enter the room due to the were simply left in the incinerator, extraordinarily strong and new ones piled on top of them, phenomena. If you’re brave enough rather than being collected and to stick around you’re likely to anger filed. People visiting the boiler room whatever’s in there. Ghost hunters report having strong feelings of have reported being attacked by desolation and depression overtake an unseen force with one individual them as soon as they step through suffering a series of deep claw-like the door. It’s reported to be very scratches on his back. Most people intense and very real, as if the have reported being shoved as they energy is being drained from your

©David Seibold via Flickr ©David cross the threshold upon leaving. body from an unknown source.

www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 15 issue 02 5 Honourable mentions • Old Lincoln County Hospital - Fayetteville, Tennessee, USA  Unexplained noises, silhouettes seen at windows from outside, unusual physical sensations all add to the mystery said to house more than one malevolent ghost or entity. • Denbigh Asylum, Wales Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum A Grade II Listed building in 1 Weston, West Virgina, USA a serious state of disrepair has a certain air about it that unnerves inquisitive explorers Constructed between 1858 and 1881 of their fellows before crushing his and it’s not the bats. the Tran-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum head with the frame of one of the in Weston, West Virginia, is the hospitals metal beds. Nice. On one • Kempton Park Hospital, largest hand-cut stone masonry occasion a nurse went missing only Johannesberg, S Africa building in . Originally to be found weeks later dead at the Orbs and plasma-like intended to hold 250 patients the bottom of an unused staircase. apparitions have been hospital first opened its doors in witnessed at this facility which 1864, following construction delays The hospital closed in 1994 but was hastily abandoned one caused in part by the American has been in private hands since Christmas after just 20 years. Civil War. The gothic building 2007 and the building is now a has a staggered formation of hotspot for professional paranormal • Tranquille Sanitorium, elongated wings to ensure that investigators and amateur ghost- Kamloops, BC, Canada the inhabitants had a great deal of hunters alike. There have been Disembodied voices, heavy natural therapeutic sunlight and reports of ghostly figures (patients footsteps that don’t leave prints fresh air during their stay. By the and staff) walking the hallways, in the dust strewn floor and 1950s however the facility was said objects moving of their own accord ‘sentient’ mists have all been to hold nearly 2,500 patients living and the noise of the squeaking reported at this former hospital. in desperately declining sanitary wheels of hospital trolleys are also conditions which inevitably led to a common occurrence. Due to its • Odd Fellows Asylum, an increase in violence between the links to the Civil War apparitions of Liberty City, Missouri, patients themselves and towards the soldiers have also been sighted but decreasing number of staff charged it’s the Fourth Floor of the building USA with looking after them, with many where most of the activity has been Now a sophisticated winery, this female workers especially suffering said to occur with rustling sounds, former fraternal Order Lodge abuse. One of the more gruesome eerie whispers and cackles, bangs and refuge for the poor and reported incidents was that of and crashes and many unexplained mentally afflicted has had it’s two patients ineffectively using sightings, even physical interaction share of grisly secrets. Rituals bedsheets in an attempt to hang one with tour groups. using the remains of deceased members are said to have taken Don’t let the bright place adding to the morose blue skies fool you, atmosphere, while children’s this place is filled laughing voices have been with darkness heard and some visitors have had physical interaction.

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NEXT ISSUE: Top 10 Ancient historical sites Images courtesy of www.antiquityechoes.com Images courtesy issue 02 16 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk ace on What is the best video The of Point Pleasant. footage of Bigfoot? In late 1966, sightings of a large grey creature with a 10 foot wingspan and glowing red eyes were witnessed around the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and thus the legend of the Mothman was born…

hrough 1966-67, the small town of when things started to get even stranger Point Pleasant, West Virginia, on as the pair discovered that it wasn’t only Tthe banks of the Ohio River was the Garuda-esque phenomenon that was plagued by reports of a 7ft tall humanoid haunting the area. MOTHMAN with glowing red eyes and huge -like SEEN IN wings. Local reporters in the town dubbed There were consistent reports of high levels CHICAGO? the anomalous entity ‘Mothman’ from the of UFO activity, bright lights floating above Recent reports descriptions given by credible terrified the river and witness interactions with high- suggest a return witnesses who had encountered the beast. pitched, odd-looking orientals with dark tans of the winged who seemed to be doing a census on the humanoid The Point Pleasant Register carried the first local population. Even more bizarre were public report on November 16, 1966, when the problems with eye witnesses telephones, According to two couples in a car were buzzed by a “large mimicry of and other researchers reports, in 2017 flying man with ten-foot wings”. They were which confused residents, and sightings of Chicago saw a in a part of town known locally as the TNT. the familiar type characters. spate of winged A favoured hangout for young teen lovers of humanoid the day, it was an old abandoned munitions The unusual happenings continued for the sightings - dump with decaying concrete silos and next twelve months until the fateful day of some unusually empty warehouses. The couples hightailed it December 15th, 1967, when the town’s only in daylight. It back to town after seeing the creature near crossing point over the Ohio River collapsed. started in April the old power plant only for it to follow them It was the evening rush hour and traffic was when a man was as far as National Guard Armory on Route 62 backed up on the Silver Bridge due to faulty confronted by without once flapping it’s huge wings. signals when the joints in the main section a huge creature of the bridge, not built for the increased with the same A couple of days earlier, five grave diggers volume of automobiles, finally gave and characteristics as claimed a large figure flew low over their plunged into the icy waters below taking Mothman while heads in a cemetery 50 miles away near the cars, trucks and people with it. The disaster, walking through a town of Clendenin. These weren’t the only forever associated with Mothman, albeit local park. Other sightings though as similar creatures were unfairly, had been foretold in dreams by a sightings included spotted all over the eastern seaboard, even number of witnesses to the strange activity, witnesses seeing a as far as Long Island. including Mary Hyre. huge silent flying creatures buzz Author John Keel visited Point Pleasant after To read more about the incidents in Point their vehicles. For a tip-off about the sightings and interviewed Pleasant John Keel’s book The Mothman more info click the witnesses with the help of local reporter Prophecies is available from most online link here. Mary Hyre of the Athens Messenger. That’s book stores. Click here to buy now.

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THE MOJAVE INCIDENT

THE MOJAVE INCIDENT It’s one of the most frightening alien abduction events of recent times yet few have heard of it. We spoke to Ron Felber, author of Mojave Incident.

I KNOW WHERE THE UNIVERSE ENDS… Dawn Hess © Miles Actually via Flickr.com © Miles Actually issue 02 20 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk hen you think of alien abductees your mind immediately flashes the names Travis Walton, Betty & Above: A desolate valley floor Barney Hill and , in the Mojave desert - similar to maybe even Samantha Mulder, where Steve and Dawn had their sister of The -Files’ ? frightening experience ©Pixabay You may also get the names Betty Andreasson or Antonio Villa-Boas if you’re particularly clued up. What you probably won’t think of are the Providence Mountains, and 70 miles names of Californian couple, Steve southwest of as the crow and Dawn Hess. Their experience flies, the camping ground is pretty AS STEVE and subsequent hypnotic regression much in the middle of nowhere, with is covered in a book, by crime dusty uneven roads leading to a WAS POINTING author Ron Felber, called The Mojave perfect retreat away from the bustle Incident and it is a truly terrifying of city life. and, at times, mentally draining read. OUT VARIOUS We spoke to Ron about the Hess’, The previous weekend Steve had their first meeting through a mutual been with his brother and father CONSTELLATIONS friend and the hypnotic regression in the same area and had spotted sessions where the truth of their a large buck so had brought his 12 DAWN DREW experience was finally revealed. gauge shotgun and 7mm Browning Before we get to Ron we’ll relate rifle with him, intent on taking the HIS ATTENTION the incident itself that haunted the back to his father after the couple over the space of two years, weekend. Naturally Dawn wasn’t TO AN EVEN pushing them to breaking point. too impressed as Steve stopped the truck every so often to get BRIGHTER On the weekend of 20th and 21st out and scout around the area October 1989 the young couple on foot. By the time they arrived had scheduled a weekend trip at Midhills Camping Ground, the OBJECT. to the Mojave foothills in Steve’s place was unusually full for that fathers truck, leaving their two small time of year - “not even a bad spot children in the care of his parents. available” Steve had commented, When Dawn’s voice snapped him The pair were looking forward to the so the couple had no option but out of it he played it down but an trip and after a minor success on the to find an alternative. Hitting upon uneasiness had already embedded slots at Whiskey Pete’s casino just the idea of going off-road to find itself in his mind. After the meal and inside the Nevada border, they were a secluded spot between Tabletop as the couple looked at the stars headed for the Midhills camping and Woods Mountain, a valley from drinking wine, Steve was pointing ground when inclement weather where they could look out over out various constellations like Leo, meant a night in the truck by the the desert floor, Steve drove the Aries and and was just side of the road. By morning the 2-wheel drive truck down creek beds explaining that the Demon Star, fog and mist had cleared and they surrounded by sagebrush, juniper Algol shined so bright because it started on towards Midhills again. trees and granite rocks, a trail more was a ‘double-star’ when Dawn Situated between the New York and suited to a 4-wheel drive vehicle. drew his attention to an even Dawn’s apprehension though brighter object suggesting it was a seemed to be growing, something ‘triple-star’. As it came closer they just didn’t feel right to her. When witnessed nine orbs of light shining Author Bio they finally stopped it was dark and so bright that they couldn’t possibly Ron Felber is an the silhouetted outline of Tabletop be stars. Steve tried to dismiss it author and teacher Mountain high above them a using the old US Air Force favourite of creative writing mere 500 yards away. As Steve set ‘weather balloon’ explanation and at Drew University’s up camp and got a fire pit going later as secret military manoeuvres Caspersen School of to cook steak and beans, Dawn from Nulles Air Base nearby, but as Graduate Studies in New Jersey. afforded herself to relax a little. the lights got nearer and started His non-fiction book Il Dottore: blinking as if in communication with The Double Life of a Mafia Doctor, The first incident of note occurred as each other, they noticed the desert was the inspiration for the FOX Steve was tending to the steaks. He had suddenly gone eerily quiet. television drama The Mob Doctor was absentmindedly looking at the As the lights appeared to position and Mojave Incident was his first stars when he saw a light moving themselves above Steve and Dawn’s experience of the UFO encounter above Woods Mountain that half position the flashing intensified and abduction phenomena. awoke a forgotten or suppressed before blinking out altogether, only memory and froze him temporarily. to reappear somewhere to the west www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 21 issue 02 THE MOJAVE INCIDENT

of the truck. Steve tried to reassure it part of a panic-induced psychosis? children and the feeling of being a frightened Dawn as she cried out, The beings appearance is certainly ‘watched’ by something or things hundreds of small flashing lights had consistent with other abduction in their bedroom. Dawn even was begun descending to the valley floor reports over the years. even assaulted physically on one ahead of them. occasion. Nearly two years to the In the distance they could see a date of the incident they met with In the hours that followed Steve and huge craft, beaming light down to author Ron Felber. For the complete Dawn were terrorized by a number the valley in which various flora story we recommend that you find a of beings. At first Steve was intent and fauna was being transported copy of Ron’s book. on protecting Dawn using his rifle towards an opening on the but was warned that it wouldn’t underside, almost like a giant slow SOYM: How did you get involved end well by Dawn who had received moving vacuum cleaner. Gradually with Steve and Dawn Hess? some sort of telepathic message. the small ‘gremlins’ disappeared “I met them through a man called Then what seemed like thousands of back to the craft as did the taller Paul Moran, an employee who small red-eyed gremlins ran amok in beings after the appearance by was working as a sales rep for the the desert outside the truck, leaping a luminous figure who emitted a company I ran. He lived in Southern on the surrounding sagebushes and feeling of intense calm over the California and confided in me that all over the vehicle in an excited couple. Drained by their ordeal Steve he had a best friend (Steve) who childlike frenzy. There were two and Dawn were both overcome by he’d played varsity football with bizarre sentient beings stationed extreme fatigue and lay down, falling while a student at the University to the rear who appeared to track asleep immediately bathed in a soft of Redlands. Paul told me that his the couples every movement in white light. When they awoke it was friend had had an alien experience the truck. Each time Steve moved morning and the surrounding area in the Mojave Desert that had towards the tailgate these beings was totally devoid of any evidence “changed his life forever” and countered the move ensuring that of the previous night’s activity. No though he’d promised not to tell they were effectively trapped in footprints, no bodily marks save a anyone about Steve’s experience, the back of the Ford. If that wasn’t couple of small pinpricks on Dawn’s he thought that as a writer I’d be enough nine tall, thin, translucent neck, nothing in the vicinity to interested in hearing about it and beings with large deep, featureless suggest something otherworldly that telling his story to someone like black eyes started to surround had occurred. As the couple looked me would be “cathartic”. the truck, peering in through the at each other they both made the windows. conscious decision to keep their SOYM: What were your first experience to themselves and high impressions of their story? Steve and Dawn experienced a tailed it back to their home in Los “My first impression prior to meeting wide range of emotions during their Angeles thinking it all a bad lucid the Hess’ was that I wasn’t interested enforced confinement - pride, anger, dream until they saw a large disc in writing about “alien abductions”. fear, panic, love. Both remembered shaped craft following them. The subject was not one that fell important life events, good and bad into the genres of writing I’d done - one especially horrific experience In the months that followed both before and I wanted to focus in Dawn’s case - while at the same Steve and Dawn were badly affected on true crime stories or fiction. time having thoughts projected into by their experience of that weekend However, after meeting them, that their minds, including a nightmarish and eventually told their parents in all changed. I found Steve and Dawn scene involving their son. Were February the following year. There to be exceptionally stable, upwardly these tall beings responsible for were also a number of bizarre mobile, well educated, and rational. what they were experiencing or was incidents in the home involving their They were solidly middle class with two children, a mortgage, and hopes of a successful career as a project manager for the construction of shopping malls for Steve, and ardent in her ambitions to raise a stable family for Dawn.

More than intriguing, I found their story to be absolutely mind-blowing. The detail, the emotional manner in which they told the story, and the sweeping nature of their experience told me that this was a one-of-a- kind experience, unlike anything I had ever personally heard or heard about. It was, to me, as if a curtain had been lifted and an entire realm Above: Table Mountain - it was this view that Steve and Dawn Hess woke up to the of existence heretofore unknown to morning after their ordeal ©Shawn Shebs via Wikimedia Commons humankind suddenly exposed. The issue 02 22 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk RON FELBER

did do was convince me that there through never goes away. In fact, exists another realm of existence. immediately following their desert WHAT THEIR Humans, albeit rarely, can sometimes encounter, while back at home, their catch glimpses of something that is youngest child talked about seeing STORY DID WAS perhaps more real than the existence “red-eyed monsters” in his room. At we live now, or believe we are living.” one point, Steve and Dawn ran to his room after hearing him shrieking to TO CONVINCE SOYM: Was there any reluctance of find him “spinning like a top” in the Steve and Dawn to be hypnotized? center of the room. ME THERE “Yes, to some degree. The sessions would leave them totally vulnerable SOYM: Have you been approached IS ANOTHER and at the mercy of the retrogressive to adapt Mojave Incident for the big hypnotist, Dr. William Anixter, so to screen? REALM OF this degree they were uneasy. After I’ve had a number of inquiries from meeting with the doctor, getting producers and agencies regarding a EXISTENCE. to know him, and understanding movie adaptation, including Creative his impeccable credentials, their Artists, but Hollywood is, let’s say, Ron Felber anxieties were eased ephemeral. Of course, it would be wonderful to have a movie done - SOYM: How did you feel listening on a number of levels - but it’s not authenticity of the Hess’, themselves, to the hypnosis sessions? something I’m counting on. Not yet, told me that this was undoubtedly Fascinated! I’d never witnessed a anyway. true and that their story needed to hypnotic session but to be in the be shared with the world.” room during this particular one SOYM: Do you think the public is where the subjects relived and drip fed information through the SOYM: What was the response of expanded upon their experiences entertainment media? the general public to the story? leading up to their abduction and While under hypnosis, Dawn made “The book, Mojave Incident, was including their time on the craft was it clear that the general population received well by the general more than intense. You could hear a is not ready for a massive alien public in that the critical reviews pin drop! encounter and so the media is being were exceptional and the overall used to tell the story of the select acceptance of the work as judged SOYM: During her regression, Dawn few who have experienced these by reader reviews widespread. Of states pretty matter-of-factly “I ‘Beings’ and also to desensitize the course, there were a few that rated know where the Universe ends. Our public so the moment of arrival does it “one star” because they couldn’t Universe ends when its matter stops not come to be such a shock. imagine events like this taking place mattering to us and starts mattering - despite unquestioned acceptance to them.” SOYM: What are you working on? by the medical doctors that had Perhaps the most dramatic moment I just finished a new novel titled The examined them and agreed these of the sessions! Dawn, clearly Radiant. It’s a thriller inspired by the were events “beyond the realm of deep under, rattled these word work of Nobel Prize winner Francis normal experience”. What surprised off in a staccato fashion that I Crick and his theories concerning me was the fact that so many found will never forget. The words shot panspermia and, yes, of course, it the book “haunting”, “nightmarish”, out of her mouth as did her other involves an astronaut and his ‘alien “impossible to get out of their responses during that time. It was encounter’. heads”. One reviewer called it “the as if someone or something else most frightening UFO book ever was being channeled through her. For more info on Ron’s work written”. It occurred to me then that It was chilling! The word play was visit his website www.ronfelber.com the reason so many were terrified by worthy of Shakespeare. The meaning the book was because it touched a intricate. My take on it was that as Mojave Incident is available from nerve within them that had always we move toward inevitable self- most online book stores existed but they never knew about.” destruction They, whoever ‘They’ are will re-emerge and take . SOYM: Their experience brings to The strong implication, in context, mind Betty and Barney Hill - were was that if They are forced to take LISTEN NOW you aware of the alien abduction control, we will have forfeited If you want to hear Steve and phenomenon previously? something precious - perhaps our Dawn relate their story you can “I had heard about the Hill’s true destiny which is to be like them. listen to their interview with abduction as a grammar school Jimmy Church and Ron Felber student. I never read the book, SOYM: Have you been in contact on Fade To Black radio by Journey Interrupted, and didn’t with the Hess’? Have they had other clicking the button below. think too much about it. But, as a experiences since? writer, I know a heart stopping true I have. They have six children now, story when I hear one and this was I believe, and all are well-adjusted. definitely one. What the Hess’ story Still, an experience like they went www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 23 issue 02 REVIEWS

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As an example of the fact that There have been several accounts A really engrossing thriller is hard UFOs and ufology are a world-wide of encounters with extraterrestrial to find these days, especially when phenomenon, the redoubtable Philip spacecraft and their alleged every other new commuter-friendly Mantle and Flying Disk Press takes occupants, some of these incidents book seems to be a Nordic crime us to what has to be the golden age were ‘abductions’ and included caper or kooky mystery with the of subject. This time the revelations the abductee actually being word ‘Girl’ in the title. For his come from Roberto Pinotti and taken inside the craft. Some are debut novel, former music journo the files of ‘Centro Ufologico more believable than others and Nick Cracknell has produced a Nazionale’ (CUN) the leading Italian this account of what occurred at mind-blowing, existentialist and society who still investigates the Pascagoula, which is in Jackson apocalyptic head trip set on phenomenon. Translated from Italian, County, Mississippi, is more credible the island of Lanzarote, with its this is volume one in a series that, in than most. The story concerns what juxtaposition of craggy moon-like this case, covers the years from 1907 befell two men, Charles Hickson and desolation and tourist beach towns. until 1978. Calvin Parker, who experienced a genuinely terrifying incident while When an injured man awakens in The book is an absolute treasure out on a fishing expedition and were his hotel room he finds the island trove of information and the reader apparently abducted by non-human totally abandoned, the clocks frozen can open it at any page and is entities and taken on board an alien and piles of food left untouched in guaranteed to find something spacecraft. the hotel resorts. No vehicles will of interest. The vast majority of start, and he assumes he is a part of examples presented here appear to The book succeeds in conveying some twisted MK Ultra psychological be ‘high strangeness’ encounters the feeling of oppression and experiment. As the story races along rather than anything else, which terror that these men experienced he experiences a series of weird are of course still valid and perhaps describing how they underwent visions and occurrences which make even more interesting, but not proof lengthy questioning, him question his very existence. of anything extraterrestrial. In fact tests and even hypnotic regression Inspired by post-apocalyptic classics the book takes a ‘no questions to establish the truth. They were like I Am Legend and Earth Abides, it asked’ approach and a refreshingly also interviewed by none other fuses supernatural and technological literalist view of the subject and has than the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek, at elements into a contemporary, obviously been compiled and written the time the world’s foremost UFO rollicking twist on the genre. You will by a true believer. There is no doubt expert, and he concluded that they be kept guessing what happens until that for the dedicated ufologist this were indeed describing a genuine the very last page, and even then book is an essential part of their experience. you have to use your brain to figure library. it out… Brian Allan, Phenomena Magazine Brian Allan, Phenomena Magazine Jack Gardner issue 02 24 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk THE MANDELA EFFECT WE NEED TO

TALK#2 The ABOUT... Mandela Effect - part 1 What started as an innocent musing on a blog in 2010 grew to become an international phenomenon.

n December 5th If you're interested the ISBN number 2013 a man died. is 0620151862 9780620151863 if Not just any man you fancy checking it out? So, that’s but a hero to an that sorted then? Apparently not… entire nation, an entire race of people. A man who Everything from time slides, parallel had been imprisoned for nearly universes, dimensional merging to 30 years spending 18 of those in a the mighty Hadron Collider at Cern tiny cell on Robben Island, south distorting the space-time continuum of Cape Town, before finally being have been proposed as the reason released and leading his nation out why so many people are afflicted of the oppression of apartheid and with historical ignorance. Some racism, united under a multicultural even go so far as to suggest that democracy. That man was Morgan when it was fired up in 2012 the LHC Freeman… no, wait, I mean Nelson (Large Hadron Collider) destroyed Mandela. Or was it? In 2010 a the version of Earth on which we all paranormal consultant blogging resided, but luckily had enough time by the name of Fiona Broome was to reset itself and dump us all on an convinced that Nelson Mandela had The man who started it all when he died alternative timeline none the wiser, died in prison – to quote her post for the…second time? © International a timeline where Mandela survived. Labour Organisation via Flickr Guess I missed that party eh? “I thought Nelson Mandela died in prison. I thought I remembered it during the 1980’s and was on the It’s not so much the concept clearly, complete with news clips of very precipice of death – in fact of parallel universes of inter- his funeral, the mourning in South many newspapers of the time were dimensional shifts I’m opposed to, Africa, some rioting in cities, and speculating that he was about to far from it. I can hack those any the heartfelt speech by his widow.” snuff it, and his wife at the time day of the week, except Saturday Winnie did appear on the telly a mornings, nothing happens then The problem I have with this lot, but he survived to become except the consumption of a bacon statement is that there’s no mention the iconic man we (most of us) sarnie and a litre of Irn Bru. I’m off of when or where he died, just a remember. track again – this is the effect this vague “in prison” comment. And that whole thing has had on my state ladies and gentleman is how this There is a book produced every year of mind (is that why it was over whole movement began. Since then called English Alive: Writings From three weeks late?! – Ed). I spent a it’s become this big of steaming High Schools in Southern Africa, whole day watching YouTube videos horse shite gathering speed as it a collection of essays and poems dedicated to the subject, from fancy skyrockets downhill faster than written by high school students. The cgi presentations taking me on a the career of whoever the latest 1990 edition contained the following gnat’s eye view through CERN, to celebrity is this week who’s being passage in an essay, written by a kid some incredibly horrible millennial accused of something untoward. called Andrew McCarthy: chat show guff to video after video about the Berenstein/Bernstein/ But can she have such a memory? “The chaos that erupted in the Berenstain confusion. By the end of Well it is true that Nelson Mandela ranks of the ANC when Nelson it I was ready to chuck it all in. Thank was hospitalized with tuberculosis Mandela died on 23rd July 1991…” God for Rammstain [sic]. www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 25 issue 02 THE MANDELA EFFECT

I came across all manner of Well there’s a couple of options here, examples or people remembering from my point of view anyway. First alternative versions of products, off in a mispronunciation confusion movie quotes, and film titles but of an artworker or marketing guru nothing of any actual historical assumed that ‘ain’ was a typo so importance. But in the end I had to changed it ‘ein’. There’s a famous begrudgingly admit that this was a example by a Reddit user who was topic that was just too big for one moving house and found a VHS issue and would probably better cassette tape that actually said served as a two-parter. So in this The Berenstein on the long first part I’m going to list a couple of on the front of the tape. This the more popular examples of the was considered the Holy Grail for Mandela Effect that have got the Mandela Effect devotees, at last world’s collective knickers in a twist, their whole parallel existence was starting with a big one, even bigger justified. There was just one slight than the death of Nelson Mandela. problem though, a closer look at the image itself, especially the label THE BERENSTEIN/ on the top of the cassette, clearly BERENSTAIN BEARS shows The Berenstain Bears and I’d never heard of these children’s Jan and Stan Berenstain, if only they by Stan and Jan Berenstain. Clearly books – however you spell it. When knew the controvery they've caused pointing to the fact that the front I was a wee lad, we had Peter via Wikimedia Commons label contained the most common of Rabbit, The Beano, The Broons Berenstain typos. or Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree (referenced in V For Vendetta published and was an immediate don’t you know) so this probably hit giving rise to a whole series of means a lot more to readers over books selling over 240 million copies the pond. At first I thought it was by 2003 according to Wikipedia. just a mispronunciation but then So, that’s 240 million books at least I looked up the authors. Jan and featuring the immortal words 'The Stan Berenstain, who’d met at the Berenstain Bears'? Let that sink in. Philadelphia School of Industrial Art OK, to continue… These bears lived in 1941. Nearly two decades after and in a big treehouse, and eventually with a number of minor successful had five animated specials before books under their belts they hit being commissioned for a series upon an idea of writing children’s in 1985 imaginatively titled The books using bears as the central Berenstain Bears Show. Not only characters. that but from 1990 there were a whole glut of educational computer The first story involving these games aimed squarely at the pre- Berenstain Bears was titled Freddy school market, you know the ones; ’s Spanking (try getting that learn to count, fun with colours, published today!) which ended learn about letters, how a bear shites up in the hands of none other in the woods etc… OK we made the than Theodor Geisel – or as the last one up, but these were little The Holy Grail for Mandela Effect world knows him best, Dr Seuss. money-making plastic discs of pure devotees, unfortunately on closer Enamoured, or not, by the potential unbridled joy across living rooms in inspection all is not what it seems! he requested it was rewritten and the States. But why do people insist expanded and so, in 1962, the first that they remember it as Berenstein Michael Berenstain, son of Stan book The Big Honey Hunt was or even Bernstein then? and Jan, even admits himself there was a lot of confusion over the pronunciation of the family name and there’s very good interview with THE BERENSTAIN BEARS him in the National Post which you can read here.

BOOKS HAD SOLD OVER 240 Then there was a whole plethora of official cash cow products designed MILLION BOOKS BY 2003. to make adults part with their hard- earned dollar to keep Brett and NOT TO MENTION A WHOLE Jolene happy – , breakfast cereal, chocolate, puzzles, junk food RAFT OF MERCHANDISE. 'Happy Meals', even embroidery issue 02 26 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk THE MANDELA EFFECT

things. My brain contains a lot of Star Wars trivia, and I mean a lot. I’ll admit it, I’m a total geek.

In the original Star Wars film, once that huge behemoth of an Imperial Star Destroyer has neatly parked itself over the Tantive IV CR90 Corvette and the action pans inside we see our two robotic protagonists wandering the corridors of the ship as panic ensues all around them. People naturally focus on the top I have no intention of ever visiting this half of the frame seeing Threepio all Oh, would you look at that - a quote particular page on Spotify again. in gold above the waist so naturally from a crew member on the original Star assuming… Holy Shite! He's got a Wars film in 1976. © Star War Chronicles silver leg! by Deborah Fine & Aeon Inc. kits! Christ on a bike! Which leads me neatly on to possibility number You need to remember that this is two. Counterfeiting. Aye, knock-offs, the mid 70's, gold foil photographic silver leg and the personality of a goods that DelBoy would flaunt out reflectors were used during the worrywart” and in the book The of a suitcase down Peckham Market. filming of scenes of C-3PO especially Making of Star Wars: The Definitive You see The Berenstain Bears in Tunisia, where they were filming Story Behind the Original Film by were big business, a huge honey in the desert. Now, what colour is Jonathan Rinzler there’s a lot of on- pot of fictional dungaree wearing sand? Yellow-ish right? OK, so when set photography which show… guess bears. Remember the number of you reflect a yellow-ish substance what? books sold by 2003? That’s right onto a silver object that silver object 240 million. So, it stands to reason then appears to be coloured…? So there you go. I don’t feel I have that there’d be more than a few to justify the prissy droids silver leg chancers looking for a piece and Now here’s how I know C-3PO anymore. It was there, it’s always not ashamed to exploit the armies had a silver leg. Archival and been there, it was there in Empire of pocket-money wielding kids. It fully documented evidence, stills Strikes Back and in Return Of The makes a whole lot of sense to me for photography, exhibitions predating Jedi. I even have a Kenner action a whole hooky merchandise empire the Special Editions, interviews with figure of Threepio and that has a to be created around the 'Berenstein George Lucas and the actor Anthony silver leg (although the originals Bears'. Ignorance is bliss so they say. Daniels, the living human incarnation were all gold cos they were cheaper I’ve seen a lot of bad Photoshopped of the protocol droid for Christ’s to produce – you can have that). ‘evidence’ to last me a lifetime sake! Daniels was asked about it so if anyone has actual physical, on the red carpet before The Force And with that this particular unaltered proof of Berenstein then Awakens world premiere and he installment of the Mandela Effect will please by all means send it to the mentioned the anecdote of the day now close. o usual address. the stills photographer asked him why he had a silver leg. I have a Join us next time for part two One last thing before this family of book, a huge book, one of the best of Doug's investigation into the bears is consigned to fireside rugs on Star Wars called the Star Wars Mandela Effect phenomenon. and wall trophies, check this out. You Chronicles – cost about £100 when can even listen to The Berenstain it was first published. In there in the Bears on Spotify! If that’s too C-3PO section there’s a picture with much (my record was 4 seconds) an annotation that says “Though Author Bio then try The Berenstain Bears Is A C-3PO was originally planned to be Doug McKay's by some dude calling entirely gold plated, modifications demeanour himself Ponder. Time to move on to were made during shooting, such as has improved the second most referenced piece a change to his silver left leg…” And little since last of evidence and my own personal that’s from somebody who actually issue. Christmas favourite. worked on the film back in 1976. I didn't help, according to took a photo of it otherwise you’d him no amount of scotch C-3PO’S LEG: GOLD OR SILVER? never believe me. I also took a photo could remove the memories Heh? What’s that? C-3PO never of the opposite page, well blow of watching Celebrity had a silver leg? Oh yes he did. me, look, a silver leg! Then there’s Mastermind. He's keen for the That’s why this makes this particular Stephen J Sansweet’s Star Wars weather to improve so he can theory my favourite. I’m a Star Wars Encyclopaedia published in 1998 take his bike out and ride his aficionado so to say, one of the to quote “C-3PO (See-Threepio): beloved Scottish hills. biggest, so naturally I know these A golden protocol droid with one www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 27 issue 02 EVENTS

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CONTACT IN THE INTERNATIONAL AWAKENING UFO DESERT UFO CONGRESS & CONSCIOUS LIFE June 1st-3rd February 14-18th EXPO Indian Wells, California, USA We-Ko-Pa Resort, Scottsdale, June 23rd Arizona, USA BEC Arena, Trafford Park, Manchester UK The Congress was first established in 1991 and holds the Guinness After a very successful debut World Record for the largest UFO last year, the Awakening UFO & conference. With presentations Conscious Life Expo returns to by well-respected scientists, Manchester with another impressive academics, authors, researchers -up. Erich von Daniken, Nick and experiencers it is one of the Pope, David Icke, Mike Bara and highlights in the UFO calendar. David Hatcher Childress will be This years conference should be speaking so make sure to book especially interesting as it features your ticket early as there are limited as a presentation by , numbers available. one of the members of Tom Delonge’s To The Stars Academy There will be over 20 presentations and the man who broke the recent in all split over three ‘hangars’ where Pentagon UFO disclosure which had topics as diverse as the secret space the world’s media in such a flap. program, energy healing, life after Also on the bill are Linda Moulton death, crop circles, channelling and Having relocated from its previous Howe, Stephen Bassett, Travis & Don ET contact will be on the table. home of Joshua Tree, CITD features Walton, Nick Pope and Bryce Zabel. That’s not all though as the arena a huge number of speakers and will be full of organic food and workshops throughout the whole For a full list of speakers and more drinks stalls, holistic treatments, weekend, with the conference information visit ufocongress.com meditations and strategically placed moving indoors for increased but be quick as tickets are running full size props for the all important accessibility and best of all – air out fast. souvenir selfie with ET. conditioning – a respite from the Californian desert sun! SOUTHERN UK For further information see p18-19 INTERNATIONAL Top of the list of most anticipated SCOTTISH UFO lectures will surely be the recent CONFERENCE Pentagon revelations and their April 28th & PARANORMAL impact on the UFO disclosure Holywell Community Centre, CONFERENCE movement. Anticipate some great Watford, Hertfordshire UK June 28th discussions about the newly Abertay University, Dundee, discovered vault in the Great The third Southern Conference Scotland Pyramid in Egypt as well as what hosted by Gary Heseltine of secrets were revealed in the JFK UFO Truth Magazine returns to Hosted by SPI (Strange Phenomena papers too. If past years are anything Watford. Author Grant Cameron Investigations) and features a to go by there will also be a great will be headlining and will be joined number of speakers presenting opportunity for group meditations, throughout the day by Phenomena talks on , psychic consciousness workshops and sky Magazine’s Steve Mera, lecturer on , orbs, spiritual watching too, with or without night UFO’s & crop circles Alan Foster and , ET contact and demonic vision goggles, and you can virtually also a special filmed interview with possession. It promises to be a day guarantee there’ll be some activity in David Icke who will be talking about full of mind enhancing information the skies. his new book Everything You Need that you don’t want to miss. To Know But Have Never Been Told. See opposite for more information For more information and how to and to buy full weekend tickets. Tickets are on sale here. book tickets click here. issue 02 28 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk TO SEE THE FULL LIST OF SPEAKERS CLICK HERE TO BUY YOUR FULL WEEKEND PASS CLICK HERE RALPH ELLIS KING

ARTHURThe myth behind the legend With a legacy steeped in , folklore and swords embedded in rock, there is no evidence of his actual existence, but historian Ralph Ellis believes he’s uncovered the real identity of the King.

ere in the UK we all grew the big-screen adaptations are that up with the legend of they’re based on the Thomas Mallory King Arthur. The famous or variations British king, who saved - Clive Owen’s Roman Centurion the isle from invasion many times, being the exception. So when author pushing back the Saxon hordes who and historian Ralph Ellis released the dared claim Albion for their own. //Grail Cypher//, a book that took a His advisor , steeped in Celtic different look at Arthurian history, lore; the love of his life his theories certainly turned a few and her dalliances with Lancelot; heads. Where a lot of authors and Galahad, Tristan, and the rest academics of Arthurian lore repeat of the Knights of the Round Table; the same old tales based on //Morte and the Lady In the Lake; D’Arthur// or //History of the Kings the Holy Grail; Camelot (a silly place) of Britain//, Ralph spent a lot of time and the Isle of . In fact, apart correlating and cross referencing a from Robin Hood there is probably lot of historical material. Following Author Bio no more famous British legend the train wreck that was Guy While pursuing than King Arthur. There’s one minor Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of The careers in mineral problem though, he’s not exactly Sword last year - made famous only surveying, a British. In fact there is very little because of an extremely hammy aviation, and evidence the great King actually cameo by ex-football legend David palaeoclimatology, existed at all - tourist honeypot Beckham - we felt we had to speak Ralph always maintained the grave marker at the ruins of with Ralph and put the myths into archaeological interests of Glastonbury Abbey notwithstanding. some sort of historical context. his father. As a historian, he has toured the Mediterranean There have been plenty of on-screen “In previous books I had gone and near East for over three representations too, Sean Connery, through the history of Old Testament decades searching for the Clive Owen, Graham Chapman, & New Testament and I kept noticing similarities and parallels Richard Harris and Nigel Terry are little pointers that suggests their between history and theology. the better movie incarnations of may be a connection with the the legend, but the problem with history of King Arthur. At the time © Fernando Gregory Milan/123rf.com Gregory © Fernando issue 02 30 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk KING ARTHUR

Above: Glastonbury Abbey - one of the many places with a link to King Arthur and the Holy Grail, as well as claiming to be the burial site of Arthur and Guinevere. ©Steve Slater via Flickr

I didn’t know a great deal about too impenetrable and he just Arthurian history so I had to read disregarded it but you cannot up on it. What I discovered was understand the history unless you that it is much deeper and broader read the Vulgate Cycle. So here’s than anyone has ever written an academic who professes to about. I started with the book know what the King Arthur story is Worlds of Arthur: Facts & Fictions and he concludes by saying it was of The Dark Ages by Guy Halsall all mythological, that none of this (Oxford University Press) which was existed, but he had done no proper supposed to be the ‘truth of King research in to Arthurian history and Arthur’. To tell you the truth I was this is typical of theologians and a bit disappointed when it arrived modern historians. because although some elements in his view of the Arthurian legend Throughout my studies I found were interesting, he never mentioned that the venerable historians and the Vulgate Cycle once, the biggest theologians are much much better compendium of Arthurian literature than the modern ones in that they in the whole world, about four really understood their subject. They thousand pages on Arthurian history were dedicated and it would be written in French prose and he didn’t their life’s work. They were not so mention it once, why? constrained in what they could say Perhaps he though it was unlike modern historians, because these days if you work in academia and you dare to stray outside the consensus view then you fall off the academic ladder.” KING ARTHUR IS SUPPOSED SOYM: The public perception of King Arthur is this all powerful TO HAVE LIVED IN THE 6TH warrior knight with a band of knights behind him. CENTURY BUT THE VENERABLE “Within academia they think the total opposite. They’re of the opinion HISTORIANS OF THE TIME he never existed, because there is no evidence for him. Arthur is NEVER MENTION HIM ONCE supposed to have lived in the sixth www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 31 issue 02 RALPH ELLIS

century, 500AD. If you look at the nothing. So we have to ask why do Church, they never spoke to the early chroniclers like Gildas The Wise all of the earlier chroniclers not know Western Catholic church again and (500-570AD) or the Venerable Bede anything about Arthur? that split was further cemented (672-735AD) they never mention Well there’s a reason Arthur when the armies of Islam stormed King Arthur once. And these were suddenly arrives in 1135AD and through the region and took over people who were living in the 6th that reason is the Crusades which the whole of the east. So Edessa and 7th centuries. How could they started around 1095-96. Among had effectively been hidden behind have missed the most important king the leaders of the first Crusade was an iron curtain of Islam for over 500 in British history if he’d been alive at Count Baldwin of Boulogne who years. the time of their writing? Then we was part of Godfrey de Bouillon’s come to , a Welsh monk who army. The reason for the Crusades We don’t know for sure what texts wrote Historia Brittonum around the was a papal instruction to save had survived in Edessa but I’m 9th century, and he never mentions Judea and Jerusalem from Muslim pretty sure that’s one of the reasons the King Arthur story either. He does oppression but the First Crusade why Count Baldwin went to Edessa. mention a character called Arthur didn’t go to Jerusalem, it didn’t go Interestingly this was followed who is a ‘Dux bellorum’, a warlord, to Judea - it went to Edessa, the by the formation of the Knights rather than a King who supposedly first recorded town to convert to Templar, who were later ratified in fought twelve battles against the Christianity. I didn’t know any of 1129 by the Pope as the Guardians of Saxons but that’s it. There is no this when I started writing my Grail Secrets. Guinevere, no Camelot, none of the Cypher, but this is what I like about characters from Arthurian history are research, it can suddenly explain Anyway, getting back on track, actually there. the inexplicable. I had just written five to six years after the Knights the book Jesus of Edessa and then Templar were established and return Then we end up in the 12th century I look at Arthurian history and I from the Near East we suddenly and we find William of Malmesbury suddenly find that the First Crusade get the Arthurian legend and it’s all and Henry of Huntingdon and none went to the same city, which I had very convenient. Advance 30 years of them mention the King Arthur previously known nothing about! and we get a very good chronicler story either. Again we have this Why did they go to a desert? of English history, a very readable mention of a warlord but there is no Well it can only be that they knew book by William of Newburgh who Arthurian story. Bear in mind this something about the Jesus story writes History of English Affairs is the 12th century and still there and they were attempting to find the and nowhere does he mention no Arthurian story as we know it history of Jesus. They were going the King Arthur story although today exists. And then suddenly we to find hidden and apocryphal texts he does mention King Arthur as a get to Geoffrey of Monmouth and that hadn’t seen the light of day for complete fabrication by Geoffrey his History of the Kings of Britain centuries. of Monmouth because there is and we get the complete Arthurian no evidence this guy exists in our history, almost in its entirety. There After the Eastern Orthodox church history, in British history. Newburgh a couple of characters missing from had been ostracized by the Council goes on to say how can you have the it like Lancelot du Lac but that’s of Chalcedon in the fourth century most famous King of Britain in the about it. We get the full story, from after the split in the Christian six century A.D. and nobody knows about him for five hundred years? It’s simply that he did not exist, not in that incarnation. This is what people thought in that era and that is why many historians nowadays say, that King Arthur never existed based on Newburgh’s History… and I would have to agree with them because there is no evidence whatsoever.”

SOYM: What about some of the other theories on the identity of Arthur. Have you heard of the book The Lost Tomb of King Arthur by Graham Phillips who put forward the case for Arthur being a King of Powys? Yes, and I respect him for having a look at this story. But there was bugger all evidence within his book that he’d found anything to do with a real Arthur. He failed Above: King Arthur as depicted by the great Graham Chapman in the fantastically to explain the main conundrums funny Monty Python and the Holy Grail © Sony Pictures Entertainment, 1975 about the Arthurian story. A) That issue 02 32 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk KING ARTHUR

Vulgate Cycle - The history of the Holy Grail. Both of those books say WHO WAS the original Arthurian story was JOSEPHUS written by Josephus Flavius. That’s FLAVIUS? a problem. That’s a big problem Josephus Flavius was a first because Josephus Flavius was a first century scholar and historian century historian and according to born in Jerusalem around 37AD. academia and Arthurian researchers there’s no way he can be writing Having been a leader during the about a 6th century King Arthur. It’s original Jewish Revolt against a huge conundrum and yet that is the Romans he was captured what those texts say. They clearly by forces. Soon after allude to the author of Arthurian he proclaimed that Vespasian history being Josephus the good would become Roman Emperor scribe, sometimes described as the according to the Jewish son of Joseph of Arimathea. So now Messianic prophecies. After this the story starts shifting and we start prophecy came true in 69AD introducing all of the history that Jospehus was set free by the classical historians would prefer to newly crowned Emperor. ignore. After the war he became an advisor to Vespasians son, Titus, SOYM: What about Wolfram von who also became Emperor of Eschenbach’s Parzival and his Rome. In his role as translator Above: Count Baldwin of Boulogne representation of Arthur? he tried to negotiate the Entering Edessa - by J Robert-Fleury in Parzival is probably one of the best surrender of Jerusalem but was 1840 © Wikimedia Commons histories of King Arthur and his story seen as a traitor by his former starts in Mesopotamia, so some compatriots and Jerusalem of these histories start off on the eventually fell a year and a half King Arthur goes missing for five wrong foot completely as all this later in which the city was razed hundred years and B) in Arthurian is set in first century Near East for and famous Temple completely history he is supposed to be fighting starters. It begins with the father of destroyed. against the Romans. There were no Parzival, (a knight in Mesopotamia His best known works include Romans in sixth century Britain if who became a king), who was a The Jewish War, which recounts at all. The western Roman Empire seneschal (steward or governor) to the events of the Jewish ended in 480AD, so the story makes King Barus - who I have previously Revolt including the role of no sense in historical terms. It also linked with King Abgarus (V) one of Jesus, thought long dead, makes no sense because there is no the kings of Edessa. Well, Parzival’s and Antiquities Of The Jews evidence of this king and surely as father owned a donkey that once a history of the world from a as Newburgh said, the most famous belonged to Joseph of Aramathea, Jewish perspective. Both works king in British history would have left who is one of the main characters are valuable for their insights of some evidence somewhere but he within Arthurian history and Grail the world in First century Judea doesn’t. lore and closely associated with which you can read online here. the history of Glastonbury. But if None of the things Arthur was King Arthur lived in 5-6th century reported to be doing can be done you have to start wondering what in the sixth century and then we has Joseph of Aramathea got to do have further confusion caused by with sixth century Britain? We now later manuscripts. One is called get these huge great chronological High History - we don’t know who problems because the story mixes wrote it - it’s just called High History and matches and it runs between and the other one is a part of the one and the other. So either you

THE PROBLEM WITH THOMAS MALLORY’S MORTE D’ARTHUR IS THAT YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY

NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING Above: Woodcut of Josephus Flavius from William Whiston’s translation of ON WITHIN THE STORY Flavius’ work ©Wikimedia Commons www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 33 issue 02 RALPH ELLIS

THE ARTHURIAN MYTHOS ACCORDING TO RALPH… We asked Ralph Ellis to give us his opinion on some of the main elements of the Arthurian legend

#1 The Round Table There were three round tables. The round table was the table of Jesus. The first one was the Last Supper table with 12 disciples. The second one was the round table of Joseph of Aramethea with 12 knights, and the third table was the round table of King Arthur with his twelve knights. They were all copies of each other.

This means that the twelve disciples were the twelve knights. The King Jesus character is actually the King Arthur character surrounded by his twelve Knights, his twelve disciples of the round Last Supper table. It’s the same history. If you begin to start merging these two histories into one you can see how one descended from the other and that the table itself it is representative of the Zodiac - as within true Arthurian history. We have been trying to cover up what it actually we mentioned in last issue in the so little data about this fictional lady, was. On the first level it’s a dish. On the Celestial Snow White. So from all of the Lady of the Lake, at all. Of course second level it’s a princess because it’s this it became apparent to me that there were famous ladies of the sea - Isis, linked to the bloodline and we have a the Arthurian story was just another Aphrodite for example. Mary, the mother very nice explanation of this from von gospel. The gospel that Count Baldwin of Jesus, her name was the Stella Maris, Essenbach where a knight, Feirefiz, who of Boulogne found when he went to the sea-star. So we do have ladies who is the half-brother of Parzival, is being Edessa, a secular history of Jesus in the are associated with the sea and are introduced to the Knights of the Round first century. A gospel that said that famous within gospel history, but any Table and they bring the Holy Grail Jesus was a king, a warrior, fighting the connection with the Lady of the Lake before him and they say “can you see Romans in Judea during the Jewish is difficult. She is linked very strongly the Holy Grail?” and he says “no I can’t revolt but how do you tell that story with the sister of Arthur, Morgen LeFay see anything. All I can see is this princess in the Middle Ages? It’s completely who I link with Mary Magdalene. But it’s holding a green cloth”. And of course all heretical so what they did was to turn all very tenuous because of the lack of of the other knights began laughing. On it into a mythology and just retold the information. the third level the Grail is a stone which same story in a different setting. They has been made clear in Parzival again stuck this king in dark age Britain and #4 The Holy Grail where it’s called the Lapis Ellixis I think, they spun this story around him, but That forms a large part of my Grail ‘the stone from heaven’, a meteor. There all the characters that they’re talking Cypher because the Holy Grail has is a long history of a sacred meteor which about are Biblical characters. three or four facets and the Church has I go through in my book King Jesus and again in Jesus: King of Edessa and I go #2 Excalibur through it again in the Grail Cypher. Swords were highly prized at that time. Because I think it was a meteorite it was But this is again another reference probably magnetic and this is one of the back to the Middle East because all reasons why it became such a famous the way through the Vulgate Cycle it relic. Which leads us neatly to… says that all proper names are Aramaic. As Excalibur is in Aramaic, meaning #5 The Sword in the Stone ‘sword’ it is pretty obvious, I think, Yes, if you had this stone sitting in a where the name came from. temple or in a palace and a knight came and put his sword near this meteorite #3 The Lady of the Lake? God would reach out and grab the Well the strange thing with Arthurian sword and take it from your hands. That history is that Avalon is hardly would be pretty alarming if you’re not mentioned at all within the Vulgate familiar with magnetism. But Arthur had Cycle. We have these enormous a bronze sword, not an iron one, so he volumes, 4500 pages, they mention appeared much wiser, stronger than all Avalon twice I think? That part of of these other knights because he could Arthurian history is either a very late put his sword on the stone and take it addition or it wasn’t very important away with ease, he could withdraw the Lady Of The Lake © Walter Crane/Wikimedia Commons - Knights of the Round Table © Evrard d’Espinques/Gallica/Wikimedia Commons d’Espinques/Gallica/Wikimedia © Evrard Table - Knights of the Round Commons Crane/Wikimedia © Walter Lake Lady Of The

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sword from the stone. We have this have a 500 year old donkey or SOYM: You’ve mentioned in history throughout Arthurian legend something is very wrong with the previous interviews about the of this holy grail that is a sacred stone, chronology. And so it goes on and Roman prison fortress up near this sacred meteorite being a part of on and on and some authors and Chester, that the protagonists of theology and history for hundreds researchers don’t even bother to the Jewish revolt of AD70 and and hundreds of years and it crops up make the differentiation. They put recorded by Josephus Flavius, were again Arthurian history so I do think Arthurian history contemporary with actually incarcerated there. There there’s a connection. Joseph of Aramethea. was a theory, and a half decent film starring Clive Owen, about Arthur #6 Merlin SOYM: With regards Thomas being a Roman centurion. Could Oh well if we’re putting this back in to Mallory’s Morte D’Arthur. Where do he have been stationed up near gospel history then we have a prime you think his influences came from? Chester at the time and learned candidate for Merlin. And he is Simon “Well there’s a problem with the about the Jewish revolt? Magus the primary magician of that Mallory in that you have absolutely “Well not if he was the Jesus era. Remember that the three kings no idea what’s going on! Of all of character.” that came to visit Jesus were Persian the Arthurian histories it is the least magi. As Jesus was growing up the interesting and the most stupid SOYM: Wait a minute. You’re saying primary magician within Judea was of all of the Arthurian Chronicles. that Arthur, King of The Britons may Simon Magus, who was the primary Yes, really! Thomas Mallory didn’t have been Jesus? The Jesus? The pupil of John the Baptist. He was a understand the underlying story. You King of Edessa of which you wrote? Gnostic, a scientist, and there was have to remember that this is not a “Yes, because remember the always this criticism that he did his British story, or a Welsh, or a Cornish Jesus character has been firmly through magic, through story for that matter, all of the early established as an Edessan monarch science, and not by the work of manuscripts came out of Normandy who was at loggerheads with Rome. God. So he did things like conjuring so this was an international story. We know from the Roman records up a little child out of thin air and if It had nothing to do with Britain. that his father King Agbarus was you went to touch a child he would We have Arthurian histories from under house arrest in Edessa and disappear. It is quite obvious that the Netherlands from Scotland he was not allowed out of the city, Simon Magus using a camera obscura, and Roman de Fergus’s court. We because the Romans didn’t trust and if you’ve ever seen a camera have Italian versions, the Norman him. They didn’t do the same to his obscura are working, they are very versions, you have German versions sons though so they were able to realistic. There’s a good one up at and Greek versions, we have Spanish travel down to Judea, which is what Llandudno in North Wales. It’s just a versions. The only place you cannot they did. We know from the Judean dark room with a peephole in it that find any Arthurian history in the 12th history written by Josephus Flavius you can project images on to the back and 13th century is Britain. After that the Jesus character was fighting wall. Obviously the back wall needs to Geoffrey of Monmouth the first one the Romans in Judea, that he lost be whitewashed so you can see the you get to is Thomas Mallory. He that war, and he was captured. But image and it is very clear. It is almost didn’t understand anything, it was then it’s not so explicit as to exactly like watching a modern television. most disappointing Arthurian book what happened to him. There is I’ve ever read. It’s quite obvious that however a record that says he was But back in the first century you can he thought it was just the story of taken to Alexandria and to see the imagine this magi, Simon Magus, the Kings of Britain. new Emperor Vespasian who was bringing in the aristocracy, the a commoner and not a Caesar like priesthood to his wonderful dark room Because he didn’t understand it that every Emperor before him. and setting them before this wall. tells us this is not a British story, Then he would take off the cover on whereas the other authors did. The a hole in the wall which would project other authors who linked to the the image of whatever is outside that Normans did understand this story wall on to the back wall. It’s not a because Count Baldwin of Boulogne painting because the little child can came from that region, Normandy wave his arms so of course the image in northern France. When the first THE KING on the wall will wave his arms. That Knights Templar started coming would amaze people that really would, back to having been to the ARTHUR STORY especially in the First century. This is Near East, they would have gone where people like Simon Magus got to Count Baldwin’s home town of STARTED IN their power from because they were Boulogne. And that’s where the very knowledgeable scientists, magi. Arthur story started. As Geoffrey Can you imagine the sort of tricks that of Monmouth said, someone - NORTHERN modern magicians like Dynamo do to a possibly Walter of Oxford - gave First century audience? They’d claim it him this manuscript to work from FRANCE AFTER has to be the power of God. So the so it wasn’t his manuscript. That mad magician, the Merlin chap is manuscript came from Brittany or THE FIRST Simon Magus. from Normandy.” CRUSADE. www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 35 issue 02 RALPH ELLIS

problem of what do you do with this because it says in the Gospels king who had started a revolt in the that he was incarcerated by the East against the Romans who didn’t Romans “with the insurrectionists like people to set a precedent and who had committed murder in the start revolts against Rome. They uprising” as it says in the Gospel wanted to punish these people but of Mark. So we know this guy was they couldn’t kill this particular king a revolutionary but because there because he had a lot of friends in were no real revolutions back in high places. But also he had just the AD30s, the revolution he was taken the Star Prophecy from him involved in was the great Jewish so you couldn’t exactly do that! You Revolt of AD70 and he was the can’t let him go back to his power leader of that revolt according to base in the near east either because Josephus, in his Jewish War the he’ll just go and start another revolt. leader of the Jewish revolt has two The only other thing you can do is names. He is either called Jesus or send him as far from his power base he’s called Ezus, the King of Edessa. as is humanly possible and if you And I think it is from the Persian look at the Roman Empire and go name Ezus that we get the biblical as far from Judea as you possibly Jesus, not the Judaic Aramaic name can you end up in Chester - . Joshua, it comes from the Persian And that is one reason why I think Ezus” this King Jesus was exiled to Deva. In fact that’s the whole reason for So there you go. What do you Deva being built. It was a prison make of Ralph’s King Arthur theory? fortress, a Guantanamo Bay for the Let us know on Twitter, Facebook first century, to take those people or drop us an email contact@ Above: King Arthur as featured in a away from their power base in a very shadowsmagazine.co.uk. painting - by Charles E Butler in 1903 remote location that had no military © Wikimedia Commons value whatsoever. For more info on Ralph’s books visit his website www.edfu-books.uk If you’re going to make this story The Romans were very spiritual about Jesus the Arthurian story it people and as he was a commoner makes sense to base it in Britain. he needed some sort of oracle on his Okay. He’s a prisoner and he wasn’t side, an oracle to say that he was the actually based there but he was rightful emperor of Rome. certainly associated quite strongly So what he did is he got this with Britain. And he would have READ MORE unknown king who was part of the died there of course because they Ralph has spent over 30 years Revolt, a bloodied and bruised Jesus wouldn’t have let him out.” researching the similarities of with the post crucifixion wounds, to biblical and historical records. give Vespasian his blessing so that SOYM: Let’s recap quickly - His research is well received he could go and become legitimised Josephus Flavius had written outside of mainstream theology. as next emperor. Why? The great about this warrior king who fought Click the covers for more info. oracle in the near East at the time the Romans in AD70 and who was the Star Prophecy and the Star eventually winds up in a Roman Prophecy said that a king of Judea, prison in northwest Britain, and this a star in the east, would become the is used as a basis for the legend next emperor of Rome. of King Arthur as realised by the Knights Templar and Count Baldwin So who was born under the Eastern after they found texts in the city of Star according to the Gospels? Edessa? The Star Prophecy belonged to “There would have been a great Jesus. What Vespasian wanted is tradition within Britain that Jesus to take that Star Prophecy and ride was in Britain. And if you recall it all the way to Rome. And that’s Jerusalem by William Blake, the exactly what Josephus Flavius did, great anthem “and did those feet in he bestowed the Star Prophecy ancient times, walk upon England’s upon Vespasian because he said mountains green.” the answer is Jesus was a commander in the East clear in what it’s saying - that Jesus therefore you are the star in the came to Britain. Of course we know, East. Therefore this prophecy must in traditional circles that that’s belong to you. impossible, but it is not impossible for him as a prisoner of Rome. In So Vespasian became the next fact it’s quite likely because we Emperor. But then you’ve got the know that he was a revolutionary issue 02 36 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk FANCY YOURSELF AS A WRITER OR HAVE A STORY TO SHARE? We’re always looking for talented writers, weird photos, paranormal stories and tales of UFO encounters. Do you have a story to tell? Do you think you could write or recommend a feature for the magazine? Or know someone who could? Click on the logo above to email us with your story or feature idea.

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INTERVIEW Ryan Sprague How a personal quest to learn about the mystery of UFOs turned into a book and evolved into a podcast.

t’s been quite the twelve months for SOYM: Let’s start with the book, what was screenwriter Ryan Sprague. His book the inspiration that compelled you to write Somewhere In The Skies: A Human ‘Somewhere In The Skies…’ from a human Approach To The Alien Phenomenon perspective? is a very different beast to the usual Ryan Sprague: Endless books about UFOs UFO abduction books in that, as the title have covered a UFO event, the time it suggests, it focusses on the human aspects. TALK happened, the place, and what the other What Ryan did is unique. Rather than stick ABOUT THIS proposes it may have been. I wanted to the tried and tested, and tired, clinical INTERVIEW to do something vastly different and approach to the abduction phenomena he AND MORE actually contribute to progressing the UFO explored the emotional after-effects on the ONLINE conversation. So I took a very personal abductees with astounding and at times approach. While I related UFO events, I heartbreaking effect. focussed more on the individual having the experience. I wanted to know how the event Not content with solely promoting the was perceived by them, and how it affected book though, he decided to launch his their life in every way possible. Whatever is own complementary podcast radio show happening in our skies, it starts, and in my Somewhere In The Skies. Going from opinion, ultimately ends with the observer strength to strength and having clocked up and experiencer. The human aspect of the a further 36 episodes since April at the time UFO question should not be ignored, and of writing, Ryan is primed to be one of the can lead to some amazing discoveries. And hottest new radio hosts in the alternative perhaps equally as important; new questions community. being asked. issue 02 38 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES

panicked. Everyone sat and stood in a daze, SOYM: There must have been a variety WANT transfixed by the object above. It soon of emotions flying around while you TO READ floated out of sight and the power came were interviewing people. What did you MORE? back on. But rather than reacting to what just happened, Scott and everyone else went learn about the human psyche during the If you’re tired on as if nothing had just happened. Scott process? of reading RS: I learned that no matter how hard we try, didn’t even remember the event until many, about the same the human mind isn’t perfect. You can’t ask many years later when an image on a UFO old abduction a UFO witness or experiencer to recall every book by (former director scenarios then minute detail of an experiences perfectly. - Ed) Captain Edward Ruppelt triggered we suggest The interviewer/interviewee relationship the memory. The fact that everyone in the you give Ryan’s needs to be strong, and the interviewer must vicinity basically had their minds shut down book a go. It’s always be compassionate. Some witnesses during the event really stuck with me. I available on are very excited to share their story while continue to get small bits of the story from Amazon and others are extremely guarded and hesitant. Scott as they come in. We are attempting to other retailers It truly is a case-to-case basis. Some people find others who were there that night. The - click on the broke down crying while recalling it while work never ends - and never should! cover for more others were wide-eyed and running all over information the room remembering how they felt and SOYM: Do you have an opinion on the what they saw during the experience. Just entities responsible for abductions? like a hypnotherapist, you must never lead RS: I don’t quite know what to make of the witness. Let them steer the ship, trust the entire abduction phenomenon. While their navigation, and work with them to find I’ve spoken with many “abductees” and the best route. “experiencers”, there just is no concrete evidence to prove inarguably that these SOYM: How did you feel emotionally while people were physically taken aboard craft you were re-reading the experiences during and experimented on. There are slivers the editing process? of anecdotal evidence on a case-to-case RS: It really ran the spectrum for me. Like a basis, but nothing to make me concerned journalist embedded in a war zone, you are that this is happening at an alarming rate ultimately going to be affected someway as some abduction researchers would have and somehow by the material you choose us believe. As for the entities involved? The to cover. Some stories scared me while greys and humanoids seem to be the most others angered me. Some excited me and prevalent in those I’ve interviewed and in the others completely perplexed me. The UFO abduction literature. But again, I don’t quite experience is often messy and never pre- know yet what to make of physical beings packaged into a clear message or revelation. visiting out planet and taking people. It punches you in the face and waits patiently for you to fight back. In the journey SOYM: Have you ever seen something you of editing my book, the most prevalent can’t explain in the skies? emotion I had was surprise. Surprise at the RS: When I was twelve I saw a UFO floating sheer amount of experiences happening all over the Saint Lawrence River right on the across the world to every type of individual border of the US and Canada. I was fishing in every walk of life. Something is happening alone when I stared up into the sky as in our skies that is gradually affecting this triangle-shaped craft hovered silently us back on the ground. I look forward to over the water. It started to move towards continuing that journey whether through the Canadian side of the river and soon writing or podcasting. disappeared out of sight. That event terrified me, but that fear SOYM: What was the incident that stuck eventually led to with you the most? an obsession, and RS: The incident involving a former MUFON EVERYONE ultimately led me to field investigator, Scott Santa, in 1974 at a where I am today. drive-in theater in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, IN THE VICINITY I’m no closer to an because the experience itself was so answer of what I unbelievably bizarre. Scott and a friend saw or what others were attending an evening movie when the BASICALLY HAD are experiencing, power in the drive-in parking lot suddenly but we are making went out. Above the movie screen, a massive THEIR MINDS SHUT connections -shaped object slowly floated over and asking new the screen and directly above the cars in the DOWN DURING questions, which parking lot. All the engines of the cars went I think is vitally dead. What was interesting is that nobody THE EVENT. important. www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 39 issue 02 RYAN SPRAGUE

ENOCH - SOYM: What other esoteric subjects are we’re closer than ever with regards to you interested in, away from ufology? official acknowledgement of the existence THE FIRST RS: I’ve always been fascinated by sea of ET? ABDUCTEE? creatures. The thought that perhaps some RS: The Pentagon story is extremely There have prehistoric sea-fearing cryptid could survive compelling and a revelation in its own been thousands for hundreds, if not thousands of years, convoluted ways. Many in the UFO research of documented completely undetected (or has it?) is mind- community have known for many years that abduction cases blowing to me. I’ve often had fantasies the government was most likely studying the over the years - of searching for and finding one of these UFO phenomenon in secret. But this official including a high creatures. Maybe one day! acknowledgment is validation that when it profile case now comes to this topic, we should be extremely omitted from SOYM: You started your own podcast cautious with anything the government the Bible. earlier this year, congratulations on that it’s discloses to us. In terms of whether or not great. How did that come about? Tom Delonge’s endeavors or the existence of Ezekiel may get all the Biblical RS: The podcast came about from working this clandestine Pentagon program will bring plaudits for his with the incredible Shannon LeGro of the us closer to the official acknowledgment visitation by a Into the Fray podcast. She was a Bigfoot of an ET presence, I remain skeptically flaming ‘wheel kinda gal and I was a UFO guy, so we optimistic. I think we need to be very careful within wheels’ wanted to learn more about each topic. to jump to any conclusions with this entire but it’s the rarely So I would come and talk UFOs and she’d story. It is interesting, but it is not disclosure. mentioned teach me all about our hairy hominid With many discoveries having occurred Enoch - father of friend. I learned all the ins and outs about in 2017 concerning exoplanets and the Methusela, and podcasting from her, and she really helped possibility of life within those star systems, great grandfather me when I decided I wanted to do my own I think we need to put our trust in the of ark-builder show on UFOs. The podcast picks up right scientists doing the brilliant work they do Noah - who could well be the first where the book left off as I continue my and tread lightly on both sides of the UFO documented alien journey to find answers to the UFO mystery. spectrum. I remain hopeful that 2018 will abductee. Barely It’s been going amazingly, and I have high usher in a new paradigm of UFO research, mentioned in the hopes that it will only continue to grow in UFO researchers, and technological and current Biblical quality and quantity. scientific advances we’ve only dreamed of. canon, the son I also remain hopeful that the truth, no of Jared had his SOYM: You’re one of the younger faces matter how difficult or challenging to own epigraphical breaking through in the ufo community, eventually swallow, is still within reach, (and apocryphal) who would you say is also part of this somewhere in the skies. books which new generation gearing up to take up the were found with mantle from the likes of George Noory, Art Visit www.somewhereintheskies.com the Dead Sea  Scrolls. The story Bell, George Knapp etc...? where you can read some of Ryan’s great goes that after a RS: There are many younger people getting writing as well as links to his podcast which series of visions, involved. Even younger than I am. And can also be found on YouTube (see our show Enoch was visited that excites me and gives me hope that guide on p49). We’ll have more from Ryan in by ‘two men, ufology is busy and booming. Some of the a future issue. exceeding big’ individuals I look to compare information who took him on and theories would have to be Micah Hanks wings above the of The Gralien Report, Jason McClellan clouds to see the and Maureen Elsberry of Rogue Planet, many levels of Mike Damante of Punk Rock and UFOs, MJ ‘Heaven’ and talk Banias of Terra Obscura, Jeremy Corbell of with the ‘Lord’ Extraordinary Beliefs, Erica Lukes of UFO who explains the creation of the Classified, Robbie Graham of Silver Screen world, mankind, Saucers, Seth Breedlove of Small Town MANY YOUNG the universe and Monsters, Jane Kyle of Texas UFOs, Joshua everything else in Cutchin, Rob Kristoffersen of Our Strange PEOPLE ARE NOT between, asking Skies, Chris Wolford, and Bruce Priddy of the Enoch to make a Unfathomable podcast. The list goes on and ONLY INTERESTED written record of on, but this alone shows how many younger all he has seen. He people are not only interested in the topic, is then returned but actively pursuing the truth behind it. IN THIS TOPIC BUT to Earth and given just thirty days to ARE ACTIVELY pass on what he SOYM: Do you think that the recent has learned before revelations from Tom Delonge’s To The he is re-abducted, Stars Academy which resulted in the PURSUING THE never to return. Pentagon admitting they’ve spent billions investigating the UFO phenomena means TRUTH. issue 02 40 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk PHILIP MANTLE A NEW WITNESS TO ROSWELL? In 2017 reports surfaced of a previously unknown witness to the Roswell crash. Author and researcher Philip Mantle investigated the claims with MUFON.

eleased in 2017 the book interview with the alleged witness Charles UFOs TODAY – 70 Years of H. Forgus, a video interview with him and a Lies, Misinformation and photo as well. The story of how White Tiger Government Cover-Ups by Films obtained this material is I would say Irena Scott PhD contains quite unique. an amount of controversial and thought provoking information as the title of the The witness to the Roswell crash scene was book might suggest. If I were a gambling Deputy Sheriff Charles H Forgus of Howard man I would bet on one piece of information County, Texas. He was interviewed in 1999 in this book being the most controversial by Los Angeles private investigator Deanna within its pages. With it being the 70th Short. Deanna recorded the interview on anniversary of the last year, video and later had a transcript done of the an event that many claim was the crash of interview and completed her Agency report a space vehicle from an ET origin, the news to verify facts at that time related to Charles that an alleged new witness emerging might Forgus and Sheriff Jess Slaughter - both of not be that big a surprise. Howard County, Texas. Above: Investigator THE ROSWELL FILE AND Sheriff Slaughter and Deputy Forgus were Deanna Short and CHARLES H. FORGUS allegedly travelling together in early July, former Deputy Charles In 2012 I was contacted by a gentleman 1947 from Texas to Roswell to pick up a H Forgus pictured in called Scott Ferguson. Scott was part of prisoner when they happened on a crash 1999 Pic provided by a production company called White Tiger retrieval scene in New Mexico. Both were author Films. He explained to me that he had some there and were on an overlook to view the information on the Roswell Incident that he crash scene recovery by the Army. I should would like me to take a look at. I had first note that according to Deanna’s daughter to sign a non-disclosure agreement which Mackenzie, Charles made a special effort to I did. Once this was signed I was sent what note to Deanna “not to believe what others Scott called his ‘Roswell File’. He was looking will say - he and the Sheriff did witness the to possibly make a movie based around Roswell crash scene”. this file and asked if I could help research the alleged witness. I of course agreed. The Deanna is now deceased but her daughter ‘Roswell File’ consisted of a transcript of an Mackenzie Christian has kept Deanna’s files that include the Roswell case which includes the video interview. Robert Short is Deanna’s Author Bio son. Both Mackenzie and Robert are Philip Mantle is a broadcaster, themselves experienced investigators having established UFO investigator, worked along side there mom in years past. and top-selling author of the Robert has taken up the work to investigate book Roswell Alien Autopsy. both Sheriff Slaughter and Deputy Forgus. He has held major positions In 1999 Deanna verified the background, in BUFORA and MUFON and has his own including living relatives of both law publishing company, Flying Disk Press. His enforcement individuals that existed at the knowledge of the UFO subject has seen time and documented that in her agency him interviewed in the mainstream press intelligence report. The transcript of the and on television talk shows. interview with Charles Forgus which was conducted in 1999 is reproduced overleaf. www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 41 issue 02 Charles H Forgus - 1999

C.Fogus Statement REGARDING The Roswell Incident – July 1947 DB: What was your official capacity then? Charles H Forgus - 1999 D. Bever CF: I was a Deputy The County Seat was I was riding with the Sheriff when w e went to get the prisoner. COMPLETE TAPE TRANSCRIPT He didn’t order nobody except me to go with him. The UFO was already down when we got there. We went and got the prison afterwards. We heard about it on the radio.

Mr. Charles Forgus statement taken on Monday, June 21, 1999 at 11:30 A.M. LR: What did you hear on the radio? Transcribed fromaudio cassette tape on June 22, 1999 CF: That the thing had crashed.

LR: But they didn’t know what ‘the thing’ was?

LR: What I’m trying to do is piece together… CF: No. But you would think that when people hear something like this, it scares the heck out of them. This came out of the POLICE RADIO. We were on the way through there (to pick up the prisoner) when we heard it on the police radio. CF: I was working for the Sheriff of… I was a Deputy there for Sheriff Slaughter, was back in the 40’s. We went to Roswell to It was a big distance from there to Roswell...you can look on a map and see it. pick up a prisoner. When we got there, the land was covered with soldiers. They were hauling a big, a creature. Hauling him away. LR: So let me ask you this. When you guys were driving down the road and you were listening to the police radio……

What I seen of him looked just like the one we see on television, with big eyes. There was a big round thing in the canyon. It CF: Yeh..... was about 100 feet across. They put that on a truck and hauled it away. They wouldn’t let us get very close to it either. So we LR: Do you remember what was said on the radio about whatever it was... Do you recall? headed up to get the prisoner in Roswell and back to. CF: All I remember is they said that a saucer crashed out there in the canyon. LR: So you were on your way from to Roswell to pick up a prisoner and you happened to be at that place… LR: They actually said the word ‘saucer’? CF: It already had crashed. They were taking them out. There were soldiers there….about 3-400 of them. They wouldn’t let CF: They can call it a saucer if they want to but there ain’t a big enough cup of coffee f you get very close. They were keeping all the people away. People were coming out there. or that thing. LR: How long do you think you were at the site? LR: What did the saucer (we’ll call it) look like? CF: Probably about 20 minutes. We seen them haul them (the bodies) out there, out of the canyon up to the trucks…. CF: It was a big round thing. Across the middle it was about 100 feet. puttin them on the tow trucks so they could haul them. LR: Did you see any lights around it? DB: Did anyone try to get you to leave the scene. CF: No, they went out when it banged into the wall in the creek. It was like a mountain on the side of the creek. CF: No….they told the Sheriff that we had to go. That was good enough for us….He’s the boss. LR: Did you see any creatures: How many did you see? LR: When they were taking the beings (we’ll call them), were the beings laying on the ground around the saucer? CF: Yeh, I saw them. I think I seen about four (of them). CF: Yeh, they were lifting them up with a crane that they had and picking them up and swinging them to put them on the LR: were they covered up? truck. The bodies must have been 5 feet tall.

CF: Mostly. I saw the legs and feet on some of them. LR: Did you see the heads?

LR: What did the feet look like? Do you remember? CF: Yeh….they were covered. They eyes looked like the ones we see on television and the pictures of them.

CF: They looked like our feet. LR: What color was the skin?

LR: Could you figure how tall they were? They were laying flat, Right? CF: As much as I could tell….the skin was a brownish color…. Like they were in the sun too long.

CF: Yeh, There is one thing I do remember. The Great Father didn’t just make this planet…. He made all of them. He put LR: From the time it crashed until the time you got there, do you know how much time went by? From the time you beings on these planets just like he put us on this one. They’re smarter then we are. They can get from there to here, but weheard it on the police radio until you got there? can’t get from here to there. CF: About two hours. (Note: CF is rather deaf. He wears two hearing aid appliances in this ears, so he answers my questions as follows :) LR: Did you see any writing or engraving on the saucer? LR: Why do you think they’re here then? CF: I wasn’t that close to it? CF: I don’t know where they hauled them. They might have hauled them to the hospital or somewhere. LR: If you were say 12 feet away from the beings, how far were the beings away from the saucer. Were they thrown pretty LR: How long were you and Sheriff Slaughter at that site after you arrived? far?

CF: About 30 minutes? CF: We couldn’t see that well because of the trees. It was in a riverbank. It slammed into a river bank. I saw them lifting LR: Did you tell anyone about it? one up with the crane.

CF: The Army was there and military soldiers were there. LR: Did anyone else talk to you about what was going on?

LR: Did they tell you not to say anything? CF: There were some solders, but I don’t think they were from the Air Force.

CF: No, they didn’t tell me nothing’. They wouldn’t let you get close to ‘em. LR: Where do you think they were from then?

LR: Did they actually see you observing what was going on? CF: I don’t know. They were wearing uniforms. I didn’t pay no attention cause I just wanted to go with the Sheriff to get the heck out of there before something happened. CF: Sure, they saw me lookin’ at them. LR: When you guys were in the car to go pick the guy up, did you discuss or talk about what you had seen with the LR: And they didn’t tell you to not say anything….. Sheriff? CF: No, They wouldn’t let us get close to them. We were about 10 feet away. CF: No. I didn’t know what they were and he didn’t either or where they came from or nothin. LR: You were that close? DB: Did you see any blood on the bodies? CF: We might have been further away. I didn’t have glasses then, I could see pretty good. CF: I don’t know…. I guess they were dead.

PHILIP’S INVESTIGATION Nothing has been changed in the above transcript and who LR is I have no idea. 1928 until 1940 and the second was 1953 Above: Transcript No sooner had I started to try and help to 1956. The Sheriff in 1947 was R.L. Wolf of the interview Scott Ferguson that all communication (see Sheriff’s log). We have also located his conducted by Deanna with him abruptly ceased. No matter how I military discharge papers from WWII, he was Short who ommitted tried to contact him I had no reply. So that discharged in September 1945. On top of some words. is where I left it. It wasn’t until 2014 that I that there are a number of local newspapers had an email from Robert Short (Deanna that mention Charles Forgus. Short’s son) informing me that Scott had died. Any further work on this material was On January 31st 2017 the MUFON report on again delayed because of my own serious ill Charles Forgus was sent to me by Chase health. Kloetzke. We would like to thank Chase, her colleagues and MUFON in general for their In 2016 I contacted Robert Short and asked assistance with this research into Charles him if I could publish this material and try Forgus. and continue with the investigation into it. Robert agreed and permission was granted. I MUFON REPORT asked for the assistance of Chris Evers, Irena Case # 17MSAT01ROS-001 Scott PhD and the Mutual UFO Network. January 31, 2017 By SAT The investigation into this material is on- PART ONE - DEPUTY FORGUS’S STORY going but between us we have managed to OVERVIEW establish a few things. For example Sheriff Slaughter was not the Sheriff in 1947. He In 1999 a resident of Big Spring Texas gave a was in fact Sheriff twice, the first time from deposition to a private investigator claiming

issue 02 42 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk LR: You’re 81 years old now. When and where were you born?

CF: I was born in I don’t know what city.

LR: You have been in the military? CF: I sure have, before I became a Deputy Sheriff. PHILIP MANTLE Charles H Forgus - 1999 LR: So when this thing at Roswell happened, you were already out of the Army and were a Deputy Sheriff. That happened in 1947. Now it’s 1999. That was 52 years ago, Charlie. And you still remember it clearly?

CF: Yeh, pretty clear.

LR: Has anyone ever talked to you or asked you to talk about what happened...like to the Government, cause there’s a lot of research going on now because of the cover-up.

CF: There was one that came around, and I told him to shut up and not come around. I don’t know who they were. That was when I was Deputy Sheriff.

LR: When you saw the saucer, can you remember in your mind what it looked like. Can you draw it?

CF: No….you draw it?

(Note: Charlie had LR draw because he broke his arm and can’t use it). He directed LP to draw a circle (not an oval). Then he directed LR to draw another circle with the circle. This was a drawing of the top of the saucer. Charlie was standing on top of the opposite side of the bank of the dry creek bed where the saucer had crashed.

LR: Were you standing above it?

CF: I was standing on the back side. The saucer hit the bank on this side of the creek and I was standing on the other side of the bank, at the top of the hill. I was looking down at the site.

LR: So you had a ‘bird’s eye view‘, that’s why you were able to see the top of it?

CF: I didn’t have a ‘bird’s eye, I’ve got my own eyes (he laughs)

LR: (LR shows Charlie the drawing.) If this is the top (of the saucer), how much higher were you?

CF: Probably about 20 feet above it. Above: Purported site of the crash site according LR: So, that’s why you saw the top (of the saucer). And you say, that from here to here (across the top of the saucer - diameter) is about 100 feet. to former Deputy Sheriff Charles Forgus.

CF: It was evenly round. Pic provided by author

LR: So it was absolutely round…. Not oval shaped and you were 20 feet above it, that’s why you saw the top. Did you see the fingers and hands?

CF: No, they were covered up. But I saw the head.

LR: But you said you saw the feet.

CF: Yeh, later on, when they were passing by I saw the feet. I could see them lifting it up with the crane. They wouldn’t let you close enough when they were puttin’ them into the truck. When they were liftin them on the crane you could see them WE HEARD layin’ on that thing. LR: You said the body was covered. Were the arms layin on the stomach under the cover? IT ON THE POLICE CF: When the wind blew, the cover went back so you could see the face. The same way with the feet. RADIO… THAT A SAUCER CRASHED End of Interview ©2011 Robert Short All rights reserved OUT THERE IN THE CANYON.

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that he was a witness to the Roswell UFO about 100 feet in diameter. They also saw crash in July of 1947. two dead bodies being loaded onto a truck. The disc was described as circular, metal Charles Forgus Jr. was born on January and had a second circle within it possibly a 28, 1918 and died in 2001. He would have cupola. They explained their vantage point been 29 years old in 1947 when the incident was over a dry river/creek bed viewable is alleged to have taken place. He called from the highway. The saucer had crashed himself a Deputy Sheriff for Howard County. into the riverbank below. Their vantage His co-witness was Sheriff Jess Slaughter. point was approximately 20 feet above the Slaughter was born in 1896 per the 1940 TALK embankment presumably from the highway. census. His obituary states he was born in ABOUT THIS 1894 and died in 1972. So in 1947 Charles INTERVIEW They witnessed two corpses being loaded Forgus was 29 and his Sheriff Jess Slaughter AND MORE onto a truck. The corpses were covered with was 53. Logical ages for their positions. ONLINE sheets but wind allowed the officers to see Charles Forgus related that “in the 1940s” he human type feet, brown skin, large eyes on and Jess Slaughter were travelling between the head and they approximated the bodies Big Spring Texas and Roswell New Mexico to as being 5 feet tall. pick up and return a prisoner to Big Spring which is the Howard County Texas seat. Both It is suggested that they were fairly close Forgus and Slaughter lived in Big Spring. to Roswell and actually returned with the prisoner and saw more of the clean-up In the New Mexico portion of the journey operation. The operation went on for hours travelling west to pick up the prisoner, they presumably during daylight. came across a crash and debris site in the desert. They observed three to four hundred MAIN PROBLEMS Army personnel scouring the crash site. There are three main problems associated They observed a crashed “circular” saucer with the 1999 interview of Charles Forgus Jr.

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He was interviewed by Los Angeles private Mr. Forgus became a Deputy in 1953. investigator Deanna Short. Deanna Mr. Slaughter again became a Sheriff in 1951. recorded the interview on video and later Best estimate is affair happened in 1953. The had a transcript done of the interview and most important aspect of the story is that completed her Agency report to verify facts while no location is given we know from the at that time. transcript that the two men were travelling west inside New Mexico. First, unbelievably, the interrogator did not ask Mr. Forgus for a date (not even a year) We also know that according to Google nor did she ask the location of the incident Maps there are only two principal highways such as what highway it occurred on or the between Big Spring Texas and Roswell New name of a nearby town even! Ms. Short Mexico- a northern and a southern route. included an introduction to the interview where she states the witnesses encountered The Northern Route the incident in July of 1947 but there is This route leaves Big Spring on a north- nothing to base this on in the interview. As western trajectory and then turns due west we shall see, it is more likely the witnesses to Roswell. The north-western leg of the encountered something in 1953 and not 1947. Above: Charles H route utilizes highway 87 north to highway Forgus and wife 137 north. The turn westward uses Interstate Secondly, from the information Mr.Mantle, Marlene circa 1986 380 west for the remainder of the trip into the person requesting MUFON’s assistance, Pic provided by author Roswell. initially provided to SAT, it appears Mr. Jesse Slaughter was a Sheriff in Howard County, The Southern Route Texas in the 1930s up to 1940. Subsequent We leave Big Spring Texas heading due follow-up by SAT revealed there is a gap of west on Route 176. At the Texas into New ten years until he was again elected Sheriff Mexico border route 176 becomes Rt. 234 in 1951 (not 1953 as mentioned below). and there are multiple routes to travel but I contacted the Howard County Texas Public in one good scenario described later, Route Library and was sent this reply: 234 west meets Route 18 North up to Hobbs and again goes west with Route 62 west to Subject: RE: reference request Route 529 west to Route 82 west to Route Mr. Spearing, 285 north which brings you into Roswell from the South. It is this route that is the I could find no listings for past sheriffs most promising. of Howard County. The attachment is an online search of the Big Spring The one caveat is that the Interstate . What I can determine is that Jess Highway System was only under Slaughter was sheriff in the thirties. Then construction in the late 40s and early 50s. lost the position in 1940 and later won There may have been a more rural road in re-election in 1953. Deputy C.H. Forgus existence prior to the creation of Interstate became deputy under Sheriff Slaughter in 380. Therefore, some parameters may have 1953. changed such as location of the road and the elimination of certain landmarks such You can access the Big Spring Herald as a small dry creek bed with a 20 foot online and search the articles like I did. drop to the embankment by a large group I could find no articles in the 1940’s listing Jess Slaughter as Sheriff. I found one article listing him as the Juvenile Officer.

Johnny Schafer, Reference Librarian Howard County Library, Big Spring, TX

This makes it unlikely that this was the Roswell crash of July 1947. 1953 or later is the best timeframe for the incident.

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of trees which is crucial to any continuing investigation.

THE SOUTHERN ROUTE SCENARIO The critical question is what did the two law enforcement officers see? Possible resolutions are: Extraterrestrial craft with non-human pilots Military Exercise Plane Crash (military or civilian) American VTOL disc crash

Since we no longer have witnesses to clarify their answers, perhaps the only avenue is to find a newspaper account. The southern route scenario offers a resolution. In the case of Roswell in 1947, thousands of pages of documentation have been scoured including aircraft crashes. The best course of action in this investigation was to pursue leads in 1953 when Forgus became a Deputy Sheriff. One theory is that the B-50 crash story was Above: A still of the only a cover story to obfuscate the real 1999 video interview On August 28, 1953, the Reno Evening story of a crash of a disc shaped object; a with Charles Forgus Gazette ran a small front page story on a crash where pilots (human or non-human conducted by Deanna military air crash that reads as follows: perished). It is also possible that if it was an Short American made VTOL disc shaped craft it ELEVEN AIRMEN ESCAPE IN CRASH was attempting to land on the highway but ROSWELL N.M. AUGUST 28, 1953 (AP) fell short due to mechanical difficulties. This Eleven airmen escaped unhurt last night would explain its proximity to the highway. when their 4 engined B-50 bomber landed In 1967 evidence was located at McDill Air wheels up on gently rolling plains 35 miles Force Base that VTOLS as large as 116 feet in southwest of Tatum, N.M. in southeast New diameter had been built by the U.S. Military. Mexico. The plane of the 97th bomber wing An alien craft is unlikely in that it probably at Biggs Air Force Base, El Paso Texas and would not have wanted such a strategically piloted by Chester A. Walter, was on a unpleasant location to land if it was having routine training flight. difficulties. However, the two non-human bodies, if accurate, pose a dilemma in If one draws a map southwest of Tatum, the this scenario. closest highway it approaches on Mr. Forgus and Mr. Slaughter’s southern route is Route ROBERT SPEARING 62 west about 42 miles west of Hobbs N.M. January 31, 2017 and about 10 degrees south of Tatum. It is an almost perfect fit as it is approximately THE MUFON CONCLUSION 36 miles southwest of Tatum. This would Bob Spearing went on to say that it seemed coincide with their westward trip shortly highly unlikely that Mr. Forgus was forging a before they turned north to Roswell. story from untruths. His time frame was off There are problems with this August 28th but it did seem likely that he came across story however. First, there were no dead something unusual in the desert along with bodies. All crew members survived. Second, Mr. Slaughter. Details such as that they were the craft was not circular but had a plane’s going to return a prisoner from Roswell fuselage. However, the front of the B-50 to Big Spring are superfluous details a liar bomber had a very unique multi-windowed would not include. cockpit that seen straight on could have been construed as disc shaped. It also seemed more likely Mr Spearing added, that because in 1953 the U.S. Military Additionally, Forgus reported the object as was experimenting with Vertical Take off 100 feet in diameter. The B-50 was 99 feet Landing (VTOL) disc shaped craft, some long. Coincidence? It was also silver metallic. of which were 100 feet in diameter and It is a stretch that the B-50 accident could probably piloted by one or two airmen, this have been the object seen by the lawmen is what Deputy Forgus could have seen. but it is also quite reasonable given the circumstances given the color, cockpit We wish to make it clear that we are open shape, month and year etc. minded with regards to the veracity of issue 02 46 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk PHILIP MANTLE

what Charles Forgus has claimed. We have He was my uncle. Interestingly, he never found a discrepancy in his story as Sheriff spoke to us about this incident when Slaughter was not the Sheriff in 1947. We I was young and I only recently found would also like say that we found the out about the story from an east coast MUFON report extremely compelling and we MUFON investigator. I can tell you, he is agree with their findings. not a person who would have fabricated this story. He was very straight laced and As the reported location of the original no nonsense type of person...that’s why he Roswell crash site - the Foster Ranch - is was in law enforcement. I have the full said to be miles to the north west of Deputy transcript of the interview if you would like Forgus’ testimony, nearer to the town of to read and post it…One thing I will mention; Corona, many of those that know far more my uncles’ sighting was not at Roswell. He than me about the Roswell Incident will was a deputy in 1953. I have a very good write it off as it does not fit the Roswell MUFON report I will forward to you on crash scenario. the event.” Mantle replied that he already had the transcript–as it was him who had BUT THEN, A FURTHER TWIST… released it. At that time, MUFON and we (Philip Mantle and Dr Irena Scott PhD) had researched On July 19th, he talked with Mantle again Deputy Sheriff Forgus’s claims and and said that Forgus had a son, Glen Lee speculated that he might have been witness Forgus, and a daughter, Toma Forgus, but to an event in 1953 and not 1947. It was he has not kept in touch with them. The said that Forgus travelled with Sheriff Jess nephew had found a phone listing a few Slaughter, although many times in the video months ago and called Glen Lee and left a Deputy Forgus simply said the word Sheriff, message, but never got a response. He said rather than Slaughter, which might gave the only other person that might know the one the impression that he may not have story is his nephew, Charles Buzzbee in Big remembered for sure who he went with. Spring, Texas. He also believed that Forgus could have mentioned it to his brother Thus, we had speculated that he might have but added that “if you knew the Forgus been witness to an event in 1953. One thing family and west Texans in particular, uncle that is certain is that the Sheriff he thought CH would have been roundly made fun he was likely with at the time, Jess Slaughter, of for sharing his experience. That’s what was not the Sheriff in 1947. He was a Sheriff assures me all the more that he is telling in the 1930’s and the 1950’s but not the the truth. He was ex-military and ex-law 1940’s. In addition we found articles in the enforcement and was not the type of a local paper, the Big Springs Weekly Herald, person to make up a story like this. I knew about Sheriff Slaughter and deputy Forgus him well and can tell you his personality in 1953. However, Dr Scott called the Sheriff’s was not one that liked or sought the department and they did not have records spotlight. He was also not an imaginative of who had been deputies that far back. person to create such a story.”

One of the reasons we released this The nephew added that Deputy Forgus testimony was in the hope that either a “was very straight laced like all of the Forgus family member or a friend might come men and women for that matter. It was forward with some further information. We certainly a very different time when they assumed this was along shot but we gave grew up and my father’s family grew up very it a try. poor. So, they were extremely pragmatic and not ones for hyperbole. They believed only To our surprise, what they could see and hold.” I hope this is on July 17th a of some help.” nephew of the late Deputy Sheriff On September 6 and 23, Dr Irena Scott Forgus contacted MY UNCLE IS talked to Deputy Forgus’ son, Glen Lee Philip Mantle. He did Forgus, and this conversation helped not want his name WAS NOT THE TYPE to answer several questions, such as the time used in public but frame of Forgus’ sighting, and whether he we have it on file. OF A PERSON TO had talked about it previously.

He said: “Hello, I MAKE UP A STORY Glen provided the new information that just discovered the Charles had talked about seeing the crash video you posted of LIKE THIS… previously. Glen said that he had mentioned the interview with this observation maybe 4-5 times over CH Forgus. Charles Buzzbee, nephew the years, but not in a long drawn out www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk 47 issue 02 ROSWELL REVELATION

discussion. He spoke about it to Glen when Glen was young. It was Glen’s opinion that Charles thought it was the Roswell crash. He didn’t talk about seeing bodies. At first, he did not necessarily think it was a UFO, Glen said that at that time he may have had no idea what it was. Charles might have not thought about UFOs when he first saw the crash, because he hadn’t been exposed to much or even any information about UFOs. Later when he heard in the media about UFOs and Roswell, he thought this might have been what it was.

Glen said that the family moved to California around 1951, so his observation might have happened before that. The family moved because of illness in the family, but moved back and forth several times. There were not any good doctors in Big Springs at that time.

Glen also said that he thought that when The ship slipped off the reef, squashed him Above: Charles made the trip to Roswell that he in the mud. It took three days to get him out. Dr Irena Scott PhD didn’t go with Sheriff Slaughter but with a different person, who might have been One main thing Glen emphasized was another deputy. He could not recall the that his father was very honest and name of the person that Charles had ethical. He was definitely not the kind of travelled with or who was sheriff at that person who would make up a lie. Glen time. Thus, the crash might have happened gave the same impression – he was in 1947, which was the time that Deputy very knowledgeable about current news Forgus recalled that it was. and events and very civic minded. He had an electric car and powered it using a wind Glen said that Charles was very straight turbine power generator. arrow and not impressed by false knowledge. He was a no-nonsense type of Thus the possibility exists that Deputy WANT TO person, having been in law enforcement. Charles Forgus did see the crash in the time KNOW He had been a police officer and in the frame that he reported. Charles had said that MORE? military. Glen looked up to his father as a neither he nor the person he was with talked This is among John Wayne kind of hero. During the war, about it much, and this was likely because many cases Charles was in the army but on loan to the no one had heard of UFOs or Roswell at featured in the Navy and was a deep-sea diver. Charles and that time, which might help to further date book UFOs his crew would dive down and weld patches the event. In addition, he did not recognize Today: 70 on the sunken ships so they could refloat the uniforms of the attendant soldiers as Years of Lies, them and get them out of the harbour. When Air Force, which did not did not become Misinformation General MacArthur made his reappearance a separate military service until September and Government to the Philippians in 1945, there had been a 1947. Cover-Ups by lot of fighting and there were a lot of ships Irena Scott PhD sunk in the harbour. One of the ships settled When we released the original information on a reef, and the wave action would rock it. regarding the late Deputy Charles Forgus Click on the we were criticised far and wide despite the cover image to fact that we also pointed out the number buy the book. of discrepancies in the testimony on tape. One well-known Roswell researcher simply labelled the testimony from Deputy Forgus THE POSSIBILITY as a lie. Now, we have information from a nephew and the son of this witness the latter of whom supports his late fathers EXISTS THAT DEPUTY story. No doubt we will still be criticized but I think it is fair to say that we have now been FORGUS DID SEE vindicated in releasing this information and THE ROSWELL to continue to look for more.  For more info on Philip Mantle visit his UFO CRASH website flyingdiskpress.blogspot.co.uk issue 02 48 www.shadowsmagazine.co.uk WHO’S WHO SHOWGUIDE As we all know the internet is a digital minefield of information, both good and bad, real and fake, so how do you know who to trust?

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