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Special thanks to Elonka Dunin for images of rubbings taken from the Kryptos
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Contributors
A resident of Depoe Bay, Oregon, Mike
Tymn is vice-president of The Academy of
Religion and Psychical Research as well as
the editor of the Academys quarterly bulletin. His articles on the paranormal and
psychical research have appeared in
FATE, The Christian Parapsychologist, Psychic Times, and many others, and he is
now finishing a book titled The Articulate
Dead: Bringing the Spirit World Alive,
which examines several dozen cases of
spirit communication. His article on the
Glastonbur y Scripts is an abbreviated
chapter from that book.
Valerie Porter has written countless national
magazine articles and is something of an expert
on renowned psychic Kenny Kingston, having
co-authored four of his books. She has also written and produced his Los Angeles radio show as
well as a syndicated East Coast TV show starring
Kenny Kingston. She lives in Studio City, CA.
Lynn Morgan is a freelance writer based in Los
Angeles. Her work has appeared in publications
ranging from Millionaire and Jewelry Connoisseur to the Los Angeles Times and People Magazine, and she has interviewed celebrities, politicians, sports stars, and the occasional vampire. Jewelry is her obsession, and since she can never resist a chance
to delve into the eldritch and inexplicable, the Hope Diamond was an inevitable
subject for her to tackle. Curse or no curse, shed be delighted to wear it home.
Alexandra Diaz, a life-long resident of Miami, FL,
recently graduated from Florida International
University with a bachelors degree in English.
When not busy writing, she enjoys viewing the
world through the lens of her camera.
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Feature Articles
40 P SYCH IC A R CH AE OL OG Y
Columns
A ND TH E
G L AST ONB UR Y S C R I PT S
LETTERS
By Michael E. Tymn
On June 16, 1908, Capt. John Allen Bartlett took a pencil in hand as architect and archaeologist
Frederick Bligh Bond firmly held the foolscap paper below the pencil. This text was part of more
than 60 messages now referred to as the Glastonbury Scripts, information that was supposedly communicated to the pair via automatic writing, by long-dead monks who had once lived at
Englands Glastonbury Abbey.
47 A UT O MATIC W R I T I NG
A ND T HE
F L UI D P E N
OF
P AT I E NC E W ORT H
By Michael E. Tymn
Many moons ago I lived. Again I come, Patience Worth my name. So began the communication
with a spirit named Patience Worth on July 8, 1913, by three women from St. Louis, MO, who
were playing on an Ouija board. Patience Worth would later identify herself as the spirit of a 17thcentury English woman who had been killed by Indians at the age of 44.
53 T H E E NDU RING E NI GM A
O F T HE
E D I T O R ..............................................8
N O T E W O R T H Y ...........................................................10
C R Y P T I C C O R N E R ....................................................... 26
CIA Sculpture Continues to Baffle Cryptographers
MYSTERIES
OF
S C I E N C E ...............................................28
UFOs: Creatures of the Sky?
MYSTERIES
ON
E X H I B I T ...............................................30
E G Y P T I A N E X C AVAT I O N S ..............................................32
Tests End Tuts Murder Mystery
H O PE D I A MO ND
O U R H A U N T E D H E R I TA G E ...........................................34
By Lynn Morgan
It sits alone in a place of honor in the Harry Winston Gallery of the

Smithsonian Institutes National Museum of Natural History, the
single most viewed object in their collection. Through the centuries, it has been known as the Tavernier Bleu, La Cleste, the
French Blue, and even the Diamond of Death. But it is known now
as the Hope Diamond, a gem that has been valued at upwards of
250 million dollars yet is widely believed to be cursed.
60 K E NNY K ING ST O N : P R OVING
TO THE
THE
T E ST
OF
Ontario, Canadas Haunted Cliff of Ekatenniondi
TREASURES
FROM THE
D E E P .........................................36
C R Y P T O C O R R A L ........................................................40
W E B R E V I E W S ...........................................................72
TIME
B O O K R E V I E W S ..........................................................74
By Valerie Porter
M U S I C R E V I E W S .........................................................79
64 F L O RI DA S M YSTER IOUS C OR A L C A ST L E
By Alexandra Diaz
IN
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Edward Leedskalnin, who built the castle between 1920 to 1940.
Still more fascinating, at five feet tall and 100 pounds, he reportedly
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and old Ford Model-T parts.
THE
T H E AT E R ....................................................... 80
2005-06 E V E N T S C A L E N D A R ........................................82
T H E C L A S S I F I L E S ....................................................... 90
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PROPHET SUMMONS
UFO ON LIVE TV
as Vegas, Nevada is worldrenowned for unusual sights; now

one can add to the list seeing
UFOs called down from the sky on a TV
broadcast to the list. For on May 28,
2005, Ramon Watkins, also known as
Prophet Yahweh, summoned several
UFOs for a Las Vegas TV crew.
For several years, Watkins claims to
have used passages from the Bible to call
UFOs, as part of his religious message
that fuses Biblical teachings and UFOlogy. In May, he apparently contacted the
station to bring his ideas to a wider audience. Skeptical, the KNTV crew followed him to a public park filled with
families out enjoying the sunny weather,
at a location and time chosen by the station. Turning to the sky in full view of
the film crew, Watkins began to pray to
Yahweh, asking, please show them Im
not mentally ill. Within seconds, to the
astonishment of the reporter and the
film crew, an orange spherical UFO was
clearly seen veering around the park,
then away from the camera in the direction of Nellis Air Force Base, about 10
miles from Las Vegas, then back toward
the park before zooming away again.
The remarkable sighting was broadcast on that evenings news, and the station initially made arrangements with
Watkins to perform another summoning
on June 1, this time on live TV. The
offer was mysteriously withdrawn shortly
thereafter for unknown reasons.
In a statement to the media, Watkins
claimed, It seems like the station is
coming under great pressure to not
cover any more of my summonings.
Watkins also claimed that his web site
had been vandalized by people who
wanted to discredit his message. He has
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since established a group on the website

Yahoo! in order to share his teachings
and until he can construct a more secure
and interactive website. While another
opportunity to feature a live UFO summoning by Watkins may never materialize, a video of the first incident is available over the Internet on the KNTV web
site.
To
view
the
video,
visit
www.ktnv.com/video/players/ufo.asp. For
more information on Prophet Yahweh,
visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pyufos/
RICHARD MACKENZIE
SOURCES:KNTV, YAHOO, UNKNOWNCOUNTRY.COM
40,000-year-old Footprint
Found in Mexico
cientists have concluded that

human footprints preser ved in volcanic ash along what was the shoreline of an ancient volcanic lake in central
Mexico are at least 40,000 years old, shattering previous theories of the identity of
the first humans to walk in the Americas.
The traditional view is that the first settlers walked across the Bering Strait, from
Russia to Alaska, at the end of the last ice
age around 11,500 to 11,000 years ago.

However, the discovery of footprints in the
Valsequillo Basin by a British-led team provides new evidence that humans settled in
the Americas as early as 40,000 years
ago, suggesting that there were several
migration waves at different times by different groups.
The findings suppor ted the theor y that
the first colonists might have been seafarers who took an "island hopping" route
from Australia and Polynesia, when sea
levels were lower. There was a lot of sea
ice at this time in the northern Pacific. People could have come around on the edge of
the sea ice and then down the western
seaboard of North America to Baja California and to Mexico," Prof. Matthew Bennett,
of Bournemouth University, said.
DNA tests are now being conducted on
the remains of ancient Americans to see
if genetics can help to solve the puzzle.
New funding from the Natural Environment Research Council will allow the
team to calculate the height, pace, and
stride of the human population present
40,000 years ago.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: THE LONDON TELEGRAPH
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T-Rex Yields Useable Soft Tissue
or the first time ever, paleontologists have recovered soft tissue

from the fossilized thigh bone of a
a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex,
which may help clarify the relationship
between dinosaurs and living animals
and may answer questions about the
physiology of dinosaurs, such as whether
they were cold or warm blooded.
Already, scientists have determined that
the femur is from a relatively small but
mature young female that was producing
eggs when she died.
The fossil is part of a skeleton excavated from the base of northeastern Montanas Hell Creek formation, which is so
remote that pieces had to be transported
to the Museum of the Rockies by helicopter. The thighbone was too big and
heavy to fit aboard the helicopter, so scientists reluctantly cut it into two pieces.
Once in the lab, they spied what
appeared to be soft tissue in the fossilized
bone. Initial studies suggested that at
least some fragments of the dinosaurs
original molecular material was present

and, after dissolving mineralized calcium
deposits from the bone, the scientists
were left with soft organic tissues,
including stretchy, fibrous bone material
and microscopic interior structures
resembling blood vessels and bonebuilding cells. They also found small,
reddish-brown dots inside the vessels
that could be the nuclei of blood cells.
Researchers then duplicated the findings
with at least three other dinosaur specimens, including an 80-million-year-old
hadrosaur and two 65-million-year-old
tyrannosaurs.
Paleobiologist Mary Higby Schweitzer
of North Carolina State University has
since identified medullary bone (a thin
layer of highly vascular bone found only
in female birds during ovulation). The
estrogen-linked reproductive bone is laid
down inside the hollow leg bones of
birds and persists until the last egg is laid,
at which time it is reabsorbed into the
birds body.
Renowned Crystal Skull a Fake
crystal skull in the British Museum

that was long thought to be an artifact from Mexico's pre-Columbian
Aztec civilization was recently exposed as
a 19th-century forgery.
Surrounded by many historical legends,
the nearly life-size skull has acquired a
cult following among New Age devotees,
some of whom believe that it has mystical
powers derived from its supposed ancient
origins as an Aztec symbol of death. Others believe that it is one of 13 cr ystal
skulls that will reveal the origins and destiny of humankind when brought together
in the same place. However, detailed analysis of the skull's sur face using a power ful
electron microscope has revealed that it was cut from Brazilian rock with a rotary wheel
that was common in jewelry houses in 19th-century Europe.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: THE INDEPENDENT, ICWALES, WASHINGTON POST
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No other egg-laying species (including

crocodiles, the other living dinosaur relative) produces the tissue naturally, so its
presence is evidence not only of the
dinosaurs gender, but also of a connection between dinosaurs and living birds,
specifically flightless birds such as
ostriches and emus.
Further chemical analysis will now be
conducted to determine whether individual proteins can be isolated, whether
the isolated soft structures consist of
original cells and, if so, whether the cells
still contain genetic information.
Experts say that the discovery defies
conventional wisdom that soft tissue
does not preserve beyond 100,000 years
and that when dinosaurs became fossilized, the gradual replacement of all
organic material by minerals essentially
transformed their bones into rocks. They
say that more soft tissue might be found
if researchers can overcome their reluctance to cut up specimens.
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Hitler May Have Planned

to Kidnap the Pope
ecret Vatican papers now show that

Adolph Hitler personally ordered
General Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff,
the senior SS occupation officer in Italy,
to kidnap Pope Pius XII, as the Allies
pushed north towards Rome in 1944.
But instead of carrying out the order,
Wolff arranged a clandestine audience
with the pontiff so he could warn him of
the danger.
Elements of other alleged Nazi plots to
abduct the pontiff during Germanys
occupation of Rome have previously
emerged, including testimony at the
post-war Nuremberg trials that Hitler
had considered a plan to kidnap the pope
in 1943 to punish the Catholic Church
for hiding thousands of Jews.
According to a written statement by
Wolff, in May of 1944, Hitler ordered
the SS to take over the Vatican and its
treasures, and imprison the pope and the
curia. The plan included contingencies
for the elimination of the pope, if he
became an obstacle to Hitlers plans to
eventually abolish Christianity and
impose National Socialism in its place,
with himself as the leader.
The documents were
kept secret until now
because of controversy
surrounding
the
Churchs consideration
of sainthood for Pius, who
has been criticized
for
remaining silent
while
Jews
across Europe
were persecuted
by the Nazis.
As a cardinal, Pius
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Pope Pius XII
Ancient
Geoglyphs
Discovered
JOHNNY ISLA, DIR. OF ANDEAN INST. OF ARCH. STUDIES
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was the Vaticans ambassador to Berlin
and he has long been accused of having
had pro-German sympathies.
Other Vatican documents show that
Wolff went to the Vatican late on the
night of May 10, 1944, in civilian clothes
and accompanied by a Catholic priest, to
warn Pius about the serious and very
urgent matters regarding his person. He
assured the pope that he had no intention of carr ying out the orders, and
warned the pontiff to be careful because
the situation [in Rome] was confused
and full of risks.
As a test of Wolff's good faith, Pius
asked him to free two Italian resistance
leaders who had been condemned to
death. Wolf arranged for their release
and within a month, the Allies
had taken Rome and the pontiff
was no longer in danger.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: CATHOLIC
NEWS SERVICE, AVVENIRE (NEWSPA-
rchaeologists recently discovered

a group of about 50 giant drawings of humans and animals
scraped into the hills of Peru's southern
coastal desert, that predate the nearby
Nazca lines by hundreds of years. The
geoglyphs cover an area of about 90
miles near the city of Palpa, and are are
thought to have been etched into the
ear th by the Paracas culture between
500 and 400 BC, centuries before the
Nazca culture developed.
The Paracas lines vary in size from 30
to 165 feet across and are arranged in
groups on the hills. Unlike the Nazca
lines, which were made by clearing dir t
and rocks in level areas, the smaller,
naturalistic Paracas figures were made
by clearing dark rocks from the deser t
sur face to expose lighter soil beneath,
as well as building up rocks to create
designs in both high and low relief.
Although none of the Paracas figures
were repeated in the Nazca iconography,
experts believe that both were made in
the context of a religious culture related
to water. They say that the ancient peoples who lived on the Peruvian plains
would have chosen to settle near water
sources since the rivers were not full
year-round, and that many of the geoglyphs are located on a plain that is cut
by three rivers. Several depict figures
long associated with fer tility and water
and seem to be oriented to the sources
of the rivers. Additionally, two of the
Nazca lines seem to point toward a confluence of the rivers.
PER OF ITALIAN CONF. OF ROMAN
JUDITH KANE
CATHOLIC BISHOPS), REUTERS
SOURCES: SCIENCE, THE EPOCH TIMES, AP
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UCLA
COLD FUSION
FOR REAL!
cientists Brian Naranjo, Jim

Gimzewski, and Seth Putterman
from UCLA say that they have
achieved small-scale nuclear fusion in a
tabletop machine that works at roughly
room temperature. The UCLA device
does not release excess heat that could
be used to generate power, but it does
use fusion to produce a flux of subatomic particles called neutrons.
Physicists have met previous claims of
tabletop fusion with skepticism and even
derision. In one of the most notable
cases, Dr. B. Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and Martin Fleischmann of
Southampton University in England
shocked the world in 1989 when they
announced that they had achieved cold
fusion at room temperature. But their
work was discredited after repeated
attempts to reproduce their results failed.
In fusion, light atoms are joined in a
high-temperature process that frees
large amounts of energy. It is considered environmentally friendly because it
produces vir tually no pollution nor
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radioactive waste.
For energy production, dif ferent
fusion reactions are involved. The most
suitable reaction occurs between the
nuclei of the two heavy forms (isotopes)
of hydrogen: deuterium and tritium. At
the temperatures required for fusion
(over 100 million degrees C), the fuel
changes from a gas to plasma, in which
electrons separate from the atoms
nuclei. Current fusion research involves
the use of high-voltage electricity so the
hot plasma must be kept away from

material surfaces in order to avoid cooling the plasma and releasing impurities
that would contaminate it. The process
currently consumes more power than is
given out.
In the UCLA experiment, scientists
placed a tiny cr ystal that generates a
strong electric field into a vacuum
chamber filled with deuterium gas, a
form of hydrogen. The researchers then
heated the crystal. The resulting electric
field created a beam of charged deuterium atoms that struck a nearby target,
which was embedded with yet more
deuterium. When some of the deuterium atoms in the beam collided with
their counterparts in the target, they
fused and the reaction gave off an isotope of helium along with subatomic
par ticles known as neutrons, two
byproducts that are a clear indication
that fusion was taking place.
Although the experiment is not currently useful for producing power, scientists anticipate that a simple, palm-sized
neutron generator could be used in a
neutron camera that, like X-rays, could
peer through the walls of a steel container, search underground for land mines,
or be used to build millimeter-sized
devices that could be threaded through a
body for medical purposes.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: NATURE
The visible world is the

invisible organization of energy.
Physicist Heinz R. Pagels
(1939-1988)
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Psychic Museum Opens in Britian
he recently opened Psychic

Museum in York, England, is not
a museum in the generally
accepted sense of the wordthere are no
glass cases or exhibits per se. Rather, it is
more a psychic laboratory where people
who have experienced uncanny coincidences or wonder if they are a little bit
psychic can try their hands and minds at
various paranormal experiments.
Astrologer Jonathan Cainer says that
most people have some kind of sixth
sense that helps them know instinctively
that something is right or wrong, but
many do not recognize their instincts as
latent psychic ability and simply try to
rationalize them away. So Cainer founded The Psychic Museum to help people
test their intuition and learn safe, responsible ways to discover
ones hidden abilities
and develop them.
Set in a rambling,
13th-century building,
the museums many
rooms are monitored by
ghost-hunting cameras
and filled with paranormal equipment meant
both to entertain visitors and provide them
with personal experiences of psychic power
or potential without
resorting to artifice.
During the 90-minute tours, which

are designed to engage the curiosity of
beginners and satisfy the demands of the
more experienced, groups of no more
than 12 can par ticipate in various
games, experiments, and interactions to
test abilities such as psychometry; psycho- and telekinesis (using the power of
the mind to move objects); or telepathy.
In other rooms, visitors can see their
auras projected onto a screen or participate in experiments in prophesy and
precognition, using remote viewing
experiments adapted from methods by
the legendary James Spottiswoode (in
association with the U.S. government).
In yet another room, brainwaves can be
analyzed and states of consciousness
explored using IBVA brainwave analyzers and scanning
devices.
Cainer and cofounder Uri Geller
have learned that different peoples gifts
tend to be in different
areas; those who are
good at thought
transference,
for
example, tend not to
do well at dowsing.
Cainer also says that
those who are most
doubtful about their
abilities often do the
best at the experiments.

One needs no special expertise to
enjoy the tour, with its shadowy spiral
staircase that creaks up for three floors
of dimly lit passages lined with dark
wooden doors that open into dark
rooms and even more dim passages. In
fact, it is a perfect setting for the ultimate paranormal phenomenon: ghosts.
Cainer originally intended to leave
ghosts out of the museums agenda
entirely, even though it seemed that the
nearly 700-year-old building had a few
spectral presences, including a couple in
one of the back rooms and a distraught
lady who hung around in the kitchen.
But as workmen began renovating the
building, sorting out structural problems and digging deep beneath the
foundation to correct a subsidence
problem (and uncovering Roman and
medieval coins, bones, jewelr y, and
crockery), they seem to have disturbed
something else. Suddenly we couldnt
move for the spectral figures, says
Cainer. It was like Picadilly Circus.
As the museum filled with spectral
presences and eerie apparitions that
spooked the workmen, Cainer finally
went around the building, room by
room, trying to explain to the entities
what they were up to and even asking
for their cooperation. After that, most
of the ghosts became a lot less intrusive.
Cainer says that he will leave it to visitors to decide whether they are actual
spirits, or memories, somehow burned
into the brickwork that are played back
across time like a well-worn videotape.
JUDITH KANE
For more information, visit www.psychicmuseum.com or contact The Psychic

Museum, 35 Stonegate, York YO1 8AW,
UK, 0800 1389788 or 01904 622864.
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#11
Stonehenges
Quarry Identified
rchaeologists have finally located the precise place in Wales

from which Stonehenges distinctive bluestones were quarried in
about 2,500 BC. According to Professor Tim Darvill, ongoing geologic and
chemical tests have pinpointed a small,
crag-edged enclosure at one of the high-
est points of Carn Menyn mountain,

high in the Preseli Hills of Pembrokeshire, with rock formations identical to those of the bluestones that form
the inner circle of Stonehenge. The
enclosure is little more than one acre in
size but contains numerous prone pillar
stones with clear signs of working.
Darvill says that the huge blocks were
naturally detached and did not have to
be quarried per se, just extracted and
transported more than 240 miles to Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. The
discovery comes less than a year after
scientists proved that human remains
found near Stonehenge are those of
Welshmen who had transported the

stones to the Wiltshire megalith, which
has long been thought to have been a
ceremonial gathering place where
Neolithic worshippers celebrated the
summer solstice.
However, in June of 2005, as tens of
thousands gathered at Stonehenge to
celebrate
the
years longest
day, researchers
announced that it
is likely that they
are marking the
wrong occasion
and that ancient
worshippers actually
gathered
there to observe
the winter solstice, the years
shor test
day.
They believe that
Stonehenge was
just one element
of an interconnected complex of wooden henges, barrows, burial chambers, and other monuments that they were used for
mid-winter ceremonies or rituals.
The evidence includes the remains of
pigs found at nearby Durrington Walls,
an oval ceremonial site of timber post
circles dated to approximately 3,100
BC. Experts say that the animals were
butchered and roasted around 2,500
years ago in December or January, for
what they suppose were feasts related to
the winter solstice.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY,
BBC, DISCOVERY NEWS , THE TELEGRAPH
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Mussolini May Have Been

Assassinated by a British Spy
A
ccording to a television documentary, Italian dictator Benito
Mussolini and his mistress Clara
Petacci were assassinated in April of 1945
on the orders of Winston Churchill, not
gunned down by Italian partisans as
reported in the official version of Mussolinis death. The researchers say that
the pair was actually killed by a British
secret agent who was supposed to recover letters from Churchill to Mussolini
that purportedly discussed secret negotiations by which Italy would make a separate peace with the Allies, a breach of
Churchills agreement with President
Roosevelt to seek the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers.
Broadcast in 2004, the documentary
relied heavily on the testimony of former Italian partisan Bruno Lonati, who
said that Mussolini and Petacci were
captured by partisans and held until the
arrival of British special agent Robert
Maccarrone, who stood them against a
fence and shot them.
Lonati claimed that Maccarrone then
photographed him standing beside the
bodies. To support his claim, the documentary presented testimony that the
photographs were in the possession of
the British consulate in Rome as recently
as 1981. The documentary also presented interviews with two local women, one
who said that she actually saw the shooting while the other said that she heard
shots just before 11 a.m., after which she
saw partisans take the bodies away.
Lonati said that the bodies were then
taken to Villa Belmonte, where two partisans dressed as Mussolini and Petacci
were captured by partisans, who pre-
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tended to shoot them in order to establish the official version. Lonatis claim
that the killings occurred earlier in the
day is supported by witnesses at the
scene, who say that the bodies at the Villa
were unnaturally stiff and contorted
and that there was very little blood.
Other witnesses said that when Mussolini was arrested, he was clutching a
briefcase that he said contained documents of historic importance for the
future of Italy. The program included an
interview with the grandson of Mussolinis head of covert operations, who said
that his grandfather told him about the
correspondence with Churchill, who had
promised to restore Italian territory in
exchange for Mussolinis betrayal of the
Axis pact.
The documentary claimed that several
postwar trips that Churchill made to
Italy to paint landscapes were a cover for

efforts to retrieve the correspondence. A
number of the letters have since come to
light, including Mussolinis last letter,
written on April 24, 1945, in which he
pleaded with Churchill to guarantee his
safety and provide him with the chance
to justify and defend himself against
charges that he had committed or participated in war crimes.
Skeptics argue that the letters between
Churchill and Mussolini are forgeries.
The researchers, however, say that the
official version of Mussolinis death
changed repeatedly and was full of inconsistencies, whereas after three years of
fact-checking, they found Lonatis
account completely convincing.
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: TIMES NEWSPAPERS LTD.,
THE INDEPENDENT, THE SCOTSMAN
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#11
Google Captures
UFO on Film
T
he Internet search engine Google

helps millions of Web surfers find
information about all sorts of
subjects. But the sites designers never
foresaw providing images like the ones
spotted by a sharp-eyed observer looking
at an aerial view of Magnolia Park, FL.
An unusual silvery object can be seen in
images of the town taken for
GoogleMaps, seemingly hovering over a
residential area. The image has baffled
viewers, leading some to suggest that the
photographers may have inadvertently
captured a UFO on film.
The image depicts a large, shiny object

apparently hovering over the town in the
vicinity of 39th Street and appears to be
vibrating rapidly, a characteristic that
would not be typical of a weather balloon, airplane, or other known craft.
Taken sometime in 2005, the object is
less than 17,500 feet from the ground,
since its shadow appears to have little or
no distortion as seen from the plane that

took the original photo. The objects size
is unknown, especially in relation to the
houses and streets beneath it, but it may
be fairly large. Despite this public daytime sighting, there have been no UFO
sightings in Magnolia Park or nearby
Palm Springs since 1999, according to
news sources and the National UFO
Reporting Center.
Other possible identifications for the
object include a mylar balloon, water
condensation frozen on the lens of the
camera, dust particles on the scanner, or
perhaps even
digital artifacts
when the thousands of photographs
are
seamed together
digitally to create
the panoramas
seen on the web
site.
Further analysis of other locations depicted
on the site have
revealed clusters
of similar objects
over urban areas,
including at least eight over Los Angeles,
CA. While some of the images captured
were taken from airplanes, others were
captured by satellite. But all have similar
features and many share a geometric,
almost grid-like pattern when plotted in
relation to each other.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
SOURCES: GOOGLEMAPS, UNKNOWNCOUNTRY.COM
In Passing
Paul E. Damon, a geoscientist who, in 1988 conducted carbon-14 tests on
the Shroud of Turin and
concluded that the cloth
was made somwhere
between 1262 and 1384,
died on April 14, 2005 in
Tucson, AZ, at the age of 84.
Dr. John Ostrom 77, the paleontologist
credited for the discovery of a small carnivorous dinosaur in 1964, died on July
16, 2005 from Alzheimer's disease.
Ostrom was best known for his 1964 discover y of Deinonychus,
a small two-legged carnivorous dinosaur that
he believed was a warmblooded creature, contradicting the belief that
dinosaurs were coldblooded. Ostrom was
also one of the first to
suggest that some dinosaurs were the
ancestors of birds.
National Medal of Science winner
Charles D. Keeling, whose measurements showed how a carbon-dioxide
build-up in the atmosphere helped trigger
fears of global warming, died on June
20, 2005, at the age of 77.
Keeling collected air samples to measure their carbon dioxide content. His
measurements showed
that carbon dioxide levels
were steadily rising, a finding that shattered the conventional wisdom that the
Ear th could soak up rising fossil-fuel
emissions without harm.
Nobel laureate Jack Kilby, whose 1958
invention of the integrated circuit ushered in the
modern electronics age,
died at the age of 81 in
Dallas, TX, on June 20,
2005 after a battle with
cancer. Kilby later coinvented the hand-held
electronic calculator and held more than
60 U.S. patents.
TIM SWARTZ
21
Noteworthy
Noteworthy
SCIENTIST FORGED DATES

OVER 30-YEAR CAREER
he histor y of modern man is

unraveling after an investigative
panel at Germanys University
of Frankfurt concluded last February
that Professor Reiner Protsch von
Zieten, the director of its Institute of
Anthropology, plagiarized colleagues
work and systematically falsified data,
including the dates of a skull fragment
that was thought to be the vital link
between modern humans and Neanderthals, as well as a number of other
key Stone Age discoveries.
Protsch dated the crucial skull fragment, which was found in a peat bog
near Hamburg, at more than 36,000
years old. It was thought to be proof
that Neanderthals had spread much further than was previously known and had
co-existed with modern humans.
Recent radiocarbon testing at Oxford
University, however, has shown
that the skull is
only 7,500 years
old and that other
fossils have been
wrongly dated as
well. One of
Protschs sensational finds, for
example, Binshof-Speyer
woman, lived in
17th-Century Coin
MAY DEPICT A UFO
are coin researchers are puzzled by

a 17th-centur y French coin that is
engraved with an image of a flying
saucer hovering over
a r ural
field.
22
Adding to the mystery is the copper coin's

Latin inscription Opportunus Adest, which
translates "It is here at an oppor tune
time." Some speculate that the image is
symbolic of Ezekiel's wheel from the Old
Testament, which some people believe is
a description of an ancient UFO sighting.
Numismatic experts say that the coin is
a jeton, an educational tool commonly
used to help people count money, or
sometimes used as a money substitute
for playing games. The coin is about the
size of a U.S. quar ter and is similar to
thousands of other jetons with different
religious and educational designs that
were produced and used in Europe during
the 16th and 17th centuries.
1,300 BC, not 21,300 years ago, as he

had claimed, and Paderborn-Sande
man, which he dated to 27,400 BC,
was actually an elderly man who died in
1750 AD.
Protsch has been
considered an expert
in carbon-dating techniques since the 1970s
and has tested hundreds of prehistoric
bones from Europe
and Africa. His work
has been used as the
basis
of
several
hypotheses about prehistoric population
movements in central Europe, so the revelation of his numerous falsehoods and
deliberate manipulations may mean that
our current understanding of human history between 40,000 and 10,000 years
ago will have to be revised.
Protschs 30-year-long academic career
ended in disgrace after his deceit was discovered by archaeologists who were routinely applying modern dating techniques to old discoveries to check their
authenticity. He is also suspected of passing off fake fossils as real ones, embezzling funds from the university, selling
parts of its fossil collection, and ordering
shredded thousands of documents that
related to the Nazis gruesome scientific
experiments in the 1930s. Other details
about Protsch and his lifestyle have also
failed to hold up to scrutiny; even his
aristocratic title von Zieten appears to
be bogus.
Swiss Woman Can

TASTE SOUND
N
euroscientists at Switzerlands
University of Zurich have identified a young woman who can
taste sounds. The 27-year-old woman
told the scientists that her lips pucker
from a sour taste when she hears the tone
of a minor second, a major second tastes
bitter, a major third is sweet, a fifth tastes
like water, a minor sixth tastes like cream,
a fourth tastes like mown grass, a minor
third tastes salty, and combinations of
notes have distinct flavors.
The woman, who also claims to see
musical notes as different colors, is part
of an ongoing study of a perceptual
phenomenon related to crossed brain
patterns known as synaesthesia, in
which the brain links two or more of the
senses so that one stimulus can trigger
seemingly unrelated sensor y perceptions. Scientists say that the woman
does not just imagine the taste of a
musical toneshe really tastes it, and
she has perfect tone-interval identification based on the tastes that correspond
with the musical intervals.
Previous studies show that synaesthetes have normal IQs and that as
many as one in 2,000 people may have
experiences such as smelling or hearing
colors. Some researchers speculate that
people who claim to see the colored
auras of othersor experience colors in
response to peopleare experiencing a
form of emotion-color synaesthesia.
The most common form of synaesthesia is seeing letters or digits in certain
colors (Beethoven claimed to see
sounds as colors). However, this is the
first time that anyone has been found
who tastes music and the first time
that synaesthesia has been found to help
in performing a mental task, such as
identifying tone intervals.
JUDITH KANE
or months, scientists in northern Europe have been puzzled by hundreds of reports of

toads crawling around on the ground, swelling to the more than three times their size,
and then exploding, propelling their entrails up to three feet into the air. After collecting and studying the remains of dozens of splattered toads, Berlin veterinar y surgeon
Frank Mutschmann has figured out that the toads are
being attacked by hungry crows. Based on the toads
wounds, Mutschmann says that the birds peck the
toads between their chest and abdominal cavity to
extract their livers and the injured toads then puf f
themselves up in a natural defense mechanism. Since
toads have neither a diaphragm nor ribs, without the
liver there is nothing to hold the rest of the organs in,
so the toads blood vessels explode, its lungs collapse, and its other organs burst through the puncture. Mutschmann says that although it
sounds gruesome and is dramatic, it is not that unusual.
TIM SWARTZ
Exploding Toads Not Unusual
JUDITH KANE
SOURCES: THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION,
JUDITH KANE
THE GUARDIAN, THE TELEGRAPH
SOURCES: AP, ANIMAL PLANET, THE INDEPENDENT
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Mark Chorvinsky, noted Fortean investigator, magician, publisher, and filmmaker died on July 16,
2005 after a long
battle with cancer.
Chor vinsky star ted
publishing Strange
Magazine in 1987,
was a columnist for
FATE, and an outspoken skeptic of
the 1967 Roger
Patterson-Bob Gimlin Bigfoot film footage. Chorvinsky also
investigated sightings of Chessie, a MD
sea serpent, and the Potomac Mothman.
Philip J. Klass, an aviation journalist who
investigated and debunked UFO sightings, died at the age of 85 from cancer
on August 9, 2005 in
Cocoa, FL. Klass was
an authority on UFOs
and wrote seven
books questioning
the validity of the subject and he often
claimed to have found
more mundane explanations for UFO sightings such as natural
phenomena or manmade objects. For
years, Klass offered a $10,000 prize to
anybody who could provide solid scientific evidence of extraterrestrial visitations.
It is still unclaimed.
JUDITH KANE
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Dan Scott Taylor Jr., the man who

searched for the Loch Ness monster with
his homemade mini-submarine, died on
July 23, 2005 from complications following surger y. The 65-yearold SC resident drew
attention from believers
around the world with his
intent to prove the existence of the Scottish lake
monster. Unfor tunately,
dozens of dives in the loch's murky
waters brought little more than a few
unusual sonar readings. Before his
death, Taylor had neared completion of
Nessa, a 44-foot yellow submarine that
he planned to take to Loch Ness to tr y
and harpoon the animal.
SOURCES: NATURE, NATIONAL POST, DISCOVERY
SOURCES: AMERICAN NUMISMATIC ASSOC.
In Passing
23
Noteworthy
Noteworthy
Madonna Statue Walks!
Watergates Deep Throat

Exposed as FBI Agent
been one of Washingtons best-kept

reaking a silence of more than 30
secrets
and the object of much public
years, former FBI Associate
speculation.
Director W. Mark Felt has put an
Until now, Woodward, Bernstein, and
end to one of the most enduring mysterthen Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee
ies of modern American journalism by
were the only people who knew Deep
admitting that he was Deep Throat, the
Throats identity, which they swore not
secret source who helped Washington
to reveal until after his death. However,
Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl
after Felt came forward in May of 2005,
Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal.
they
issued a statement confirming his
The scandal began in 1972, with a bunclaim.
gled break-in at the Democratic
Following Felts revelation,
National Headquarters in the
some people suggested that he
Watergate complex in Washingwas a hero who, for moral or
ton, DC. Woodward and Bernpatriotic reasons, provided
stein subsequently exposed the
the journalists with muchinvolvement of President
needed information about the
Nixons administration in a
administrations illegal activinumber of illegal activities,
ties.
However, others believe
including the burglar y at the
that
Felt,
who was disgruntled that
Watergate and a plan to wiretap the
Mark Felt
Nixon passed him over when
Democratic National Committee
appointing a successor to FBI
offices there. Nixon was eventuDirector J. Edgar Hoover,
ally implicated in the scandal,
worked with Woodward because
which culminated in his resignation in
of his personal animus toward Nixon.
1974, and prison sentences for some 40
According to Woodward, Felt had
of his aides and campaign officials.
nothing
but contempt for the Nixon
The disclosure of the administrations
administration
and its efforts to manipumisdeeds was due, in large par t, to
late the FBI and the Justice Department
dozens of articles written by Woodward
for political reasons. Felt believed that he
and Bernstein, with the help of Deep
was protecting the bureau by pressuring
Throat, who initially only corroborated
Nixon and his people to answer for their
information that they had obtained from
corrupt activities.
other sources. Eventually, however, Deep
Woodward chose not to participate in
Throat began providing context, giving
revealing
Deep Throats identity because
the reporters leads, and outlining the
he
was
concerned
that Felt, who is 91
administration-sanctioned conspiracy.
years old, enfeebled by a stroke, and sufLate in 1974, Woodward and Bernfering from the early stages of dementia,
stein co-authored All the Presidents
had been pressured to come forward by
Men, a behind-the-scenes book about
family members who hoped to profit
Watergate, that brought Deep Throat
from the disclosure.
and the cloak-and-dagger methods that
JUDITH KANE
they had employed, to public attention.
SOURCES:
WA.
POST,
VANITY
FAIR, AP, CNN
Since then, Deep Throats identity has
24
Hurricane Ivan
Generated
Tallest Wave
Ever Recorded
housands of Italians have

flocked to a small southern town
after witnesses claimed to have
filmed a miraculous walking statue of
the Madonna with their videophones.
Dozens of parishioners at the church
of San Pietro in the town of Acerra, on
the northern outskirts of Naples,
recounted seeing the simple plaster and
marble statue of the Virgin Mar y
become flesh and move her legs. Witnesses also said that her knees appeared
to move beneath the statues white robes
and a cross appeared on her breast.
The 63-inch high statue, which was
installed at the church in December of
2004, was seen to be walking in July,
cientists have revealed that hurricane Ivan, which passed over

the Gulf of Mexico in September,
2004, generated a wave more than 90
feet high, the tallest and most intense
ever measured. It would have dwar fed
a 10-stor y building and had the power
to snap a ship in half. For tunately, it
never reached land.
Hurricane Ivan caused more than
100 deaths and left a trail of devastation as it swept over several Caribbean
islands and par t of the United States.
As it moved over the Gulf of Mexico, it
triggered sensors deployed by the
Naval Research Laborator y that measured water pressure. The waves were
bigger than expected, suggesting that
their theoretical models of waves
whipped up by hurricanes may have to
be revised. Research suggests that
waves in excess of 90 feet are fairly
common during hurricanes.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCE: BBC
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2005 by a group of elderly women.

However, some parishioners said that
church cleaners had first noticed the
movement, but had kept silent for fear of
being disbelieved.
One group of pilgrims to the church
claim to have made a video of the
Madonnas movements and will show
the footage to the Bishop of Acerra
Monsignor Giovanni Rinaldiwho will
decide whether the video, together with
photographs purportedly taken with
mobile telephones, warrant examination
by a special church commission that
investigates repor ts of apparitions.

Monsignor Rinaldi said that he was
skeptical but would evaluate the evidence. The true miracle is when the
Virgin Mar y succeeds in converting
men to God, he said.
Volunteers from Italys civil protection department erected barriers in
front of the statue as news of the apparition quickly spread. As many as 2,000
people, many of them children, lined up
to pray at the statue, many of them on
their knees for several hours, despite the
intense summer heat.
Parishioners at Acerra claim not to
have been the victims of mass hysteria
and many drew an analogy with the
weeping Madonna
of Civitavecchia, a
statue brought
from a shrine at
Medjugorge in
Bosnia-Herzegovina, which was said
to have cried
blood ten years
ago. The Vatican
has never recognized the Civitavecchia miracle,
but the town has
benefited financially from the phenomenon, so much
so that the local authorities have built a
reception center for all the pilgrims who
flock to see the statue.
The Vatican has approved 15
authentic apparitions by the Virgin
Mary since 1830, but only one weeping Madonnaa statue at Siracusa in
Sicily that wept tears of blood in
1954has been proven authentic by
Church officials.
TIM SWARTZ
SOURCES: THE TIMES OF LONDON,
INDEPENDENT NEWS & MEDIA (UK)
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CIA Sculpture Continues

to Baffle Cryptographers
F
S
1998 JAMES SANBORN
Interest in deciphering an
enigmatic, coded inscription
on a sculpture at CIA
headquarters has soared
since author Dan Brown
hinted in The Da Vinci Code
that the puzzle would be
featured in his next novel.
26
by Judith Kane
or more than 15 years, amateur
and professional code-breakers
have been baffled by Kryptos, a
sculpture at the CIAs headquarters in
Langley, VA, that features a nearly 12foot-tall, copper scroll inscribed with
four long, coded passages. The coded
passages remained unsolved for eight
years, until a CIA analyst cracked the
first three in 1999. But the fourth passage is still a mystery.
Interest in solving the final part of the
puzzle has soared after the publisher of
Dan Browns bestselling novel The Da
Vinci Code posted a game on www.thedavincicode.com, which states that
numerous encrypted messages on the
books dust cover hint at the subject of
Browns next novel. The clues, which
were not recognized until the game was
posted, include a set of geographic coor-
dinates that roughly locate the sculpture.

Brown himself has recently hinted that
the Kryptos sculpture might play a role in
his upcoming novel The Solomon Key.
Deciphering the Passages

culptor Jim Sanborn claims to be
the only man alive who knows the
solution to the final passage. When
Kryptos was installed in 1990, Sanborn
was required to hand a sealed envelope
containing its solution to then CIA
Director William Webster. But Sanborn
now says that the letter withheld information critical to solving the puzzle.
Sanborn has confirmed the accuracy of
the solutions to the first three passages,
which contain deliberate misspellings,
letters carved slightly higher than others
on the same line, and other irregularities
that may themselves be clues to solving
the fourth passage and possibly for locating something buried. The first deciphered passage reads: Between subtle
shading and the absence of light lies the
nuance of iglusion [sic].
The second passage, which is followed
by geographical coordinates, suggests a
location elsewhere on the grounds of
CIA headquarters and reads, in part:
It was totally invisible. Hows that
possible? They used the Earths magnetic field. The information was
gathered and transmitted underguund [sic]to an unknown location.
Does Langley know about this? They
should: its buried out there somewhere.
The third passage is based on a diary
entr y made by archaeologist Howard
Carter in 1922, on the day that he dis-
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covered the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh

Tutankhamun. It reads:
With trembling hands I made a
tiny breach in the upper left-hand
corner. And then, widening the hole
a little, I inserted the candle and
peered in. The hot air escaping from
the chamber caused the flame to
flicker, but presently details of the
room within emerged from the mist.
Can you see anything?
Experts say that the fourth passage is
written in a more complex code than the
first three, one designed to mask patterns of recurring letters that codebreakers typically look for. There are no
breaks in the 97-character sequence of
the final passage, which begins with an
initial question mark.
Considering the Entire Sculpture
anborn, who has had no training
in cryptography, says that he collaborated with a prominent fiction
writer in composing the text to be
encoded, and then worked with a retired
1998 JAMES SANBORN
Cryptic Corner
which is intended as an interpretation

of how information has been accrued
throughout the ages. In fact, Sanborn
teases enthusiasts by saying that one
clue, the most obvious key to the sculpture, is sitting in plain view but has been
overlooked so far.
The sculpture actually begins with
two red granite and copperplate constructions that flank the walkway leading
to the entrance of the headquar ters
building, that appear as pages jutting
from the earth and are inscribed with
ters and symbols.

The scroll is supported by a piece of
petrified wood, symbolizing the source
materials on which language has been
recorded throughout the ages. It is
then surrounded by a bubbling pool of
water, which symbolizes the dissemination of information to unknown destinations. On its left is a cryptographic
table for enciphering and deciphering
code called the Vigenere Method, after
16th-centur y French cr yptographer
Blaise de Vigenere.
The as yet to be deciphered fourth passage reads:
?OBKRUOXOGHULBSOLIFBBWFLRVQQPRNGK
SSOTWTQSJQSSEKZZWATJKLUDIAWINFBNYPV
TTMZFPKWGDKZXTJCDIGKUHUAUEKCAR
CIA encryption official for four months
to create the code. He insists that the
code can be solved and says that when
he placed the sculpture at Langley, in the
thick of the worlds best code-breakers,
he thought it would take only months
for them to solve Kryptos.
Part of the difficulty in solving the
puzzle may be its location, in the center
of a high-security compound to which
few people have access. Another difficulty may be the failure to consider
Kryptos in its entirety. The inscribed
scroll is only par t of the sculpture,
International Morse Code and ancient

ciphers that spell out phrases such as
virtually invisible and it is your position. There is also a navigational compass carved into one of the rocks, with
its needle pulled off due north by a lodestone (a naturally magnetized rock) that
Sanborn placed nearby.
Then, in the courtyard of the headquarters, is a calm, reflective pool that
lies between two layered slabs of granite
and tall grasses. Directly across from this
is the centerpiece, the copperplate screen
carved with thousands of three-inch let-
The Vigenere Method involves substituting letters while shifting from one
alphabet order to another with each letter of the key, and was used to encode
one of the four enigmatic messages on
the right of the scroll, which are each
written in a different code. Another passage uses the cryptographic method of
transposing letters, or changing their
position within the message.
Sanborn says that even when the final
passage has been decoded, people will
discover that what he wrote is only part
of a larger puzzle. z
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Mysteries of Science
Mysteries of Science
UFOs: Creatures of the Sky?

I
O
Theories abound on the
reality of UFOs. One of the
most bizarre suggests
that unknown, living
creatures are responsible
for some UFO sightings.
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by Tim Swartz
t seems that when it comes to UFOs,
almost every possible explanation has
been researched, studied, and argued.
Even so, since the late 1940s, when flying
saucers first caught the publics attention,
UFOs have resisted all attempts to
pigeonhole them into one satisfying
explanation. The reason for this is that the
UFOs come in a bewildering range of
shapes and sizes, as well as exhibit behaviors that seem almost life-like.
For instance, many UFOs have the
unsettling ability to change size and shape
rapidly, which is eerily reminiscent of
some species of octopus that, when
threatened, can quickly alter their shape
to mimic rocks, plants, or even fish. As
such, early investigators theorized that
some UFOs could be living creatures.
This theor y has not been popular but
there have been a lot of interesting reports
over the years that lend credence to this
unusual theory.
UFBs (Unidentified Flying Blobs)

n September 26, 1950, two
Philadelphia, PA policemen
spotted a softly glowing light in
the sky that then fell into a nearby field.
When they stopped to investigate, Patrolmen John Collins and Joe Keenan, along
with two other officers, found an irregular shaped, six-foot long object that
glowed a soft purple color in the darkness. When one man dared to touch it, he
found that it felt like jelly and left an
odorless residue on his hand.
Although the object completely evaporated within half an hour, the officers told
reporters the next day that they were certain that the object was alive because it
occasionally undulated as if tr ying to
move away from the four men.
A similar incident was reported on
February 28, 1958 in Miami, FL, when a
glowing object swooped down from the
sky and landed in the backyard of police
detective Faustin Gallegos. The object
was round, semi-transparent, and about
three feet in diameter. Its surface glittered
with an internal light and it seemed to be
made up of thousands of minute cells that
resembled a bees honeycomb. Gallegos
also said that its surface pulsated as if it
were a living creature.
Gallegos, and later his wife, stuck their
fingers into the quivering mass. When he
withdrew his finger, he saw that he had
left a hole the size of his finger in it. It
was the first time that I had been able to
see and touch something, yet unable to
feel it, he described.
Neighbors who had heard about the
unusual event soon arrived to find that the
object was spreading out over the lawn
and evaporating. Before it completely disappeared, Gallegos scooped up enough of
the glittering substance to fill a pickle jar.
Unfortunately, by the time the detective
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had driven to the police station, the substance in the jar had disappeared as well.
Critter Sightings
ccording to legends, luminous
bodies that fall from the sky can
leave behind a foul-smelling,
gelatinous substance, which evaporates
shortly after having fallen. These jellies
came to be known in the 17th century by
the Welsh term pwdre ser, or rot of the
stars.
From newspaper reports from the 19th
and early 20th centuries of strange, jellyfish-like objects that were spotted floating in the skyand often accompanied
by showers of unidentifiable pieces of
meatresearcher Charles Fort speculated that there are weird, jelly-like beings
living in the Earths atmosphere that
used stinging tentacles to hunt for birds.
In the 1950s, Trevor James Constable,
noted military historian and engineer,
also became convinced that UFOs were
living creatures, and set off to secure the
evidence to prove his thesis. Armed with
a camera fitted with high-speed infrared
film and an ultraviolet filter, Constable
produced an amazing series of photographs that show giant, amoeba-like
objects, which he called critters, floating in the sky. He described them as
Flying Humanoids or UFOs?
FO sightings do not always involve strange lights in the sky, solid metallic craft,
or even floating blobs of living jelly. Instead, some are human in appearance, flying about with no visible means of support.
For instance, several days in June, 1905 in Voltana, Spain, over 200 people reported
seeing a woman dressed in a white, flowing
gown flying through the air. The woman sometimes flew against the wind, and several people said that they heard her singing in an
unknown language as she passed overhead.
Similarly, during the winter of 1936, in the
Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan in what was
then the Soviet Union, 15-year-old E.E. Loznaya was walking to school along a quiet road
when she saw flying quickly across the sky a
man dressed completely in black. The frightened girl said he made a rumbling noise and
appeared to wear a helmet and carr y a rucksack.
Then in 1948, many people from Longview,
WA reportedly saw three helmeted men flying
over the city. The witnesses said that they did
not see any wings or propellers but did hear
motor-like sounds as the mysterious figures rapidly flew away. More recently, on March 5,
2000, Salvador Guerrero videotaped for several minutes a dark humanoid over his neighborhood in Mexico City. The entity was stationary in the sky, spinning on its axis, clearly
revealing its arms and legs. It then slowly moved away, disappearing behind some buildings. Later that year, on October 1, La Prensa newspaper from Mexico City published a
report from a commercial airline pilot who said he had seen a "little flying man" that wore
a backpack during their descent to Mexico Citys airport.
One of the most recent reports of a flying humanoid took place in Unidad Habitacional
Lomas de Platero, Mexico, on June 17, 2005, when Horacio Roquet and his sister witnessed a tall man, dressed in long, dark clothes floating above a building. According to
Roquet, he had a device attached to his waist that emitted a bright-red glowing light.
As with other flying humanoid sightings around the world, there has been no plausible
theory to explain the phenomena, and the cases remain a complete mystery.
TIM SWARTZ
being, An elemental branch of evolution, dating from the time when the
planet was more gaseous and plasmatic
than solid.
Constable also theorized that the critters were usually invisible, existing for the
most part in the infrared range of the
electromagnetic spectrum. Occasionally,
he believed that they emerged into the
visible portion of the spectrumpossibly
when sick, or when atmospheric condi-
tions were favorablewhere they were

mistakenly identified as flying saucers.
The idea that some UFOs could be living creatures is today still treated with
considerable suspicion. However, recent
attention to the unusual orbs that many
people have been able to photograph,
and videotapes of allegedly invisible flying creatures called rods, continue to
keep the unusual concept of living sky
creatures alive into the 21st century. z
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Mysteries on Exhibit
Mysteries on Exhibit
East Coast
Midwest
American Museum of Natural History
Dayton Art Institute
NEW YORK, NY
DAYTON, OH
(212) 769-5400 I WWW.AMNH.ORG
(937) 223-5277 I WWW.DAYTONARTINSTITUTE.ORG
Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries (through Jan. 8, 2006) This
The Quest for Immortality: Treasures

of Ancient Egypt (through Jan. 3,
2006) This exhibition of ancient art
from the Egyptian national collection illuminates
the
Pharaonic concepts of their
afterlife journey,
sustenance and
renewal, and the
relationship with
the divine. It features approximately 115 artifacts, some of
which have never
been seen outside of Egypt,
including a lifesized reconstruction of the burial
chamber of the
New Kingdom
pharaoh Thutmose III.
exhibit presents recent reinterpretations

of the most puzzling mysteries about
dinosaurs, including how they looked,
moved, and behaved, and why they
became extinct.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
PITTSBURGH, PA
(412) 622-3131
WWW.CARNEGIEMUSEUMS.ORG/CMNH
The Mysterious Bog People (through

Jan. 23, 2006) The most comprehensive exhibition ever produced on the rituals of northwestern European bog people in prehistoric times, this exhibit
features numerous artifacts discovered
over the last two centuries, including
pottery, flint tools, axes, jewelry, coins,
and human bodies that were sacrificed in
the bogs to honor pagan
gods.
The Field Museum

CHICAGO, IL
(312) 922-9410 I WWW.FIELDMUSEUM.ORG
Pompeii: Stories from an Eruption

(through Mar. 26, 2006) This exhibit
uncovers the thriving society of the valley of Vesuvius and reconstructs the
lives of those who lived there when Mt.
Vesuvius er upted in 79 AD. Walk
through opulent villas in a virtual-reality tour, learn what happens when
nature unleashes its volcanic power, and
see casts of the volcanos victims.
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The New Detroit Science Center
Mary Brogan Museum

of Art and Science
DETROIT, MI
(313) 577-8400
TALLAHASEE, FL
WWW.DETROITSCIENCECENTER.ORG
(850) 513-0700 I WWW.THEBROGAN.ORG
SPACE: A Journey
to Our Future
(Nov. 5, 2005-May
14, 2006) This
exhibit
features
interactive displays
that allow visitors to
feel the rumble of a
rocket launch, touch
pieces of the moon
and Mars, test their
space survival skills,
and walk in the footsteps of astronauts.
Tutankhamun: Wonderful Things

from the Pharaohs Tomb (through
Nov. 27, 2005) From the artisans of the
Pharaonic Village in Egypt, this dazzling
collection of reproductions of
Tutankhamuns legendary treasures recreates the richest archaeological find of
all time. Artifacts from the period of
Tutankhamuns reign reconstruct both
the discovery of his tomb by Howard
Carter and the life and times of Egypts
celebrated boy king.
Michael C. Carlos Museum
(404) 727-4282 I WWW.CARLOS.EMORY.EDU
South
Lafayette Natural History
Museum and Planetarium
LAFAYETTE, LA
(337) 291-5544 I WWW.LNHM.ORG
Cosmic Questions: Our Place in Space

and Time (through Dec. 31, 2005)
Explore the latest on unsolved cosmic
mysteries, such as black holes and
extraterrestrial life, and discover what it is
like to be an astronomer. Highlights
include an object theater, a cosmic ray
cloud chamber, interactive astronomical
murals, a video fly-through of the universe, and interactive computer stations
that take visitors behind the scenes of
modern cosmological science.
Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries

From the Petrie Museum of Egyptian
Archaeology, University College London (through Nov. 27, 2005) This
exhibit presents the most important
finds of Sir
William
Matthew
Flinders
Petrie, one
of
the
worlds
most important collectors
of
Egyptian
antiquities.
The exhibit uses photographs, excavation notes, and personal journals to
bring the science of archaeology and the
early days of Egyptology to life.
The Mariners Museum
NEWPORT NEWS, VA
(757) 596-2222 I WWW.MARINER.ORG
Ironclad Evidence: Stories from the

USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
(through Dec. 31, 2005) This exhibit
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Outside the U.S.

Centre for Life
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, UK
0191 243 8223 I WWW.CENTREFORLIFE.CO.UK
MarsQuest (through Dec. 31, 2005)

More than 20 interactive displays in this
West Coast
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
LOS ANGELES, CA
(323) 857-6000 I WWW.LACMA.ORG
ATLANTA, GA
includes video clips of the recovery of

the Monitor and artifacts from two legendary Civil War ironclads, including the
original wheel of the CSS Virginia (the
former USS Merrimack) and the Monitors nine-foot propeller, engine register,
brass reversing wheel, distress lantern,
and crew-members personal items. Visitors can also tour the conservation area
and see the Monitors turret and engine.
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of

the
Pharaohs
(through Nov. 15,
2005) This exhibit
features more than
130 treasures from
tombs, royal graves,
and ancient sites in
the Valley of the
Kings, including 50
objects from the
tomb
of
Tutankhamun, such
as his gold crown
and
canopic
coffinettes.
San Diego Aerospace Museum
SAN DIEGO, CA
(619) 234-8291 I WWW.AEROSPACEMUSEUM.ORG
Space Adventures (through

Dec. 31, 2005)
Learn about space
exploration from
moon bases to
space ships, and
relive space adventures from scie n c e - fi c t i o n ,
books, TV, and the cinema.
exhibit allow visitors to play the part of

NASA scientists as they send commands
to maneuver a rover over a Martian landscape or assemble larger planetary views
from many small images.
Glenbow Museum
CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA
(403) 268-4100 I WWW.GLENBOW.ORG
Petra: Lost City of

Stone (Oct. 29,
2005-Feb.
20,
2006) This exhibit
tells the story of the
19th-century rediscovery of Petra, the
ancient crossroads of
the international silk
and spice trade
routes. The exhibit
highlights
new
scholarship
and
recent archaeological
discoveries at the site, many of which are
on view for the first time outside Jordan.
Norwich Castle Museum
and Art Gallery
NORWICH, ENGLAND
01603 493636 I WWW.MUSEUMS.NORFOLK.GOV.UK
Buried Treasure (through Jan. 13,

2006) Learn how archaeological discoveries have enhanced our understanding
of the past.
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Egyptian Excavations
Egyptian Excavations
Tests End Tuts Murder Mystery

After decades of speculation
that Tutankhamun was
murdered, CT scans suggest
that the boy pharaoh
sustained a badly broken leg
in an accident and died from
gangrene shortly afterwards.
The team opens

King Tuts tomb.
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by Judith Kane
n March of 2005, Egypts Supreme
Council of Antiquities announced
that computerized tomography
(CT) scans of Tutankhamuns 3,300year-old mummified body revealed no
evidence of a violent death or foul play,
dispelling theories that the young
pharaoh was murdered by a blow to the
back of the head. Although the scans
cannot rule out murder by less violent
means or show precisely what caused the
pharaohs death more than three millennia ago, they did raise a new possibility
that a badly broken left thighbone may
have had fatal complications.
Although his royal lineage is uncertain, Tutankhamun is believed to have
been the 12th ruler of ancient Egypts
18th dynasty, ascending the throne at
about age eight as the successor of
Akhenaten, who had abandoned Egypts
old gods in favor of monotheism.
Little is known about his 10-year rule,
but his short life has fascinated people

since 1922, when British archaeologist
Howard Carter discovered his intact
tomb and its treasure, in the fabled Valley of the Kings, near Luxor in southern
Egypt.
King Tuts mummy was bonded to its
sarcophagus by the resins that were used
to anoint his body. So in order to remove
the body from the coffin and recover the
jewels, amulets, and other items that
were wrapped with the body, Carters
team had to dismantle the mummy. After
cutting the trunk in half, detaching the
arms and legs, and severing the head,
they used hot knives to cut the head
away from its golden burial mask, to
which it had become cemented by the
embalming liquids.
When Carter replaced the badly damaged mummy in its tomb in 1926, Tuts
arms, which were originally folded across
the chest, were laid by his sides. Additionally, many parts present at the original examination were missing, including
most of the chest, which may have been
cut away in order to search for hidden
treasures. Many fragments, including the
kings penis, pieces of ver tebrae, a
thumb, and other digits were placed in a
tray of sand.
Since then, Tuts remains have been
X-rayed twice in situ, first in 1968 and
again in 1978. Both the original examination and the subsequent X-rays
revealed much about the mummy, such
as that Tut had an elongated skull and a
slightly bent spine. But they also left
many unanswered questions, such as
why there were loose bone fragments in
the skull and what caused the dense, dark
spot at the back of the skull, sparking the
theory that the pharaoh had been murdered by a blow to the head.
For the current investigation, which
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Egyptian antiquities chief Zahi Hawass carefully examines Tuts remains, prior to subjecting the mummy to a CT scan. Right: the CT scan of King Tut.
was designed to confirm or refute the

conclusions of the previous examinations
and to look for additional details that
earlier investigators might have missed,
the mummy was removed from its tomb
for the first time in more than 80 years
and carried to a nearby van that was
equipped with a CT scan machine. More
than 1,700 color images were produced
in less than 15 minutes and the fragile
mummy was then returned to its tomb.
After a two-month-long study of the
images, scientists concluded that Tut was
a well-nourished, generally healthy
young man, who stood about 56 tall,
had a slight build, and died at about age
19. They found no evidence that he had
suffered from any infectious diseases but
say that he had a slight cleft palette,
which was not severe enough to cause a
hare-lip or other facial deformities. He
also had large incisor teeth, an impacted
wisdom tooth, slightly misaligned lower
teeth, and an overbite.
The scientists were able to rule out

pathological causes for the elongated
skull and curved spine noted in the earlier examinations. They believe that the
shape of his head is a normal variation,
and that the curvature of his spine was
caused by the way the embalmers positioned the body. They also concluded
that the mummy had been carefully
embalmed, refuting suggestions by proponents of the murder theories that the
process had been rushed and therefore
evidence of foul play.
The scientists also ruled out foul play
as the cause of the bone fragments and
dense area noted in the skull on previous X-rays. They concluded that the
dense area is made up of embalming
material that had pooled and hardened,
and that the loose bone fragments
match cervical vertebra and the foramen
magnum at the top of the neck. They
say that the damage must have occurred
post-mor tem, caused by either the
embalming process or Carters

team.
Although the
scientists concluded that there
was no evidence
of head trauma,
they disagreed
about a fracture
of the lower left
femur. Some dismissed the broken bone as damage caused by
Car ters team.
Others argued
that the bone was
broken while Tut
was still alive, citing as evidence
two layers of
embalming
material present
inside the break,
suggesting that
Car ter mishandled the mummy.
As there is no evidence that the broken
bone had begun to heal, they concluded
that the injury was sustained only a few
days before his death, suggesting that
Tut had a serious accident in which he
suffered a compound fracture, leaving an
open wound. Although the break itself
would not have been life-threatening,
fatal infection may have developed, causing the pharaohs death.
According to Egyptian antiquities chief
and team leader Zahi Hawass, the
removal of the mummy from its tomb
was the beginning of a process of restoration to protect and preserve the mummy.
Hawass hopes that the research will close
the case of what killed King
Tutankhamun, so that it will not be necessary in the future to again examine the
mummy, which he says should now be
left at rest. z
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Our Haunted Heritage
Our Haunted Heritage
The rocky chasm at the base of Lovers Leap.
Canadas Cliff of
Ekatenniondi is the
setting for a tale of lost
love that bridges both
cultures and centuries.
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Spirit Rock, which the natives

considered to be a portal to
the realm of the dead.
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By Andrew Hind and Maria da Silva

n Collingwood, Ontario, a mysterious rock formation, known as Worshipping Rock, or more properly
Ekarenniondi (which means Where the
Rock Stands Out in the Petun Indian
tongue), serves as one of the highlights
of the Scenic Caves Nature Preserve.
But it is more than a photographers
dream. According to legend, the Petun
Indians avoided the area around Ekarenniondi at night because they believed
that the rock was the centerpiece of a
haunting story of eternal love. Wandering apparitions of heartbroken sweethearts, tormented by the tragedy
surrounding
their
deaths, suddenly materialized before horrorstruck witnesses. It
seemed the entire Indian nation was to pay for
the crimes committed
by a few of its members.
The stor y began
innocently enough.
Sometime before the
16th century, a chief of
the Erie Indians came to
the shores of Nottawasaga Bay to trade
amongst the Petun.
Although he had traveled a great distance in
search of valuable
goods, what he found
was the beautiful Indian
maiden Leuantido.
As the daughter of a
prominent Petun chief,
Leuantido was expected to marr y a

mighty warrior and, in the meantime,
she was to remain chaste and obedient.
But when she met the dashing Erie
chief, she could not help but fall in love
with him. The lovers romance blossomed as the weeks passed, and their
thoughts inevitably turned to marriage.
Sadly, they had to conduct their affair
in secret because Leuantidos family did
not approve. Though handsome, the
young chief was untested in either battle
or statesmanship. Worse, there would be
no strategic advantage from a union of
the two tribes. The Erie were a small
nation in danger of being annexed by
the mighty Iroquois, and an alliance
with them through a marriage might
draw the Petun into a war that they
could not win.
Unsurprisingly, Leuantidos father
refused to sanction the relationship and
forbade them to see one another. Even
so, their love affair continued. Eventually, however, Leuantidos brothers found
out about their illicit meetings and stolen
kisses. Enraged, they ambushed the Erie
chief and killed him. To hide their deed,
the brothers pitched his lifeless body off
the Ekarenniondi clliff.
Arriving in time to witness the bloody
scene, the trauma of seeing her lover
killed at the hands of her siblings caused
something to snap in the young womans
mind. Weeks passed, and with each day,
Leuantido became more despondent.
Late one night, she raced to the cliff and
pitched herself over the edge. Her brothers found her broken body upon the
rocks the following morning, wrapped in
the embrace of her lover.
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Spectral Sightings
espite these spectral occurrences, the Scenic Caves are a
popular tourist attraction,
drawing thousands of tourists every year
to the site of the legendary tragedy. It
ANDREW HIND
Ontario, Canadas Haunted

Cliff of Ekatenniondi
I
Truth to the Tale

egend says that the lovers
unearthly presence has cursed
the area, so it has long been
avoided by native peoples. But is there
any historic truth to the tale? Those
who could have shed more light on the
storythe Petun and the Eriewere
both decimated by the Iroquois around
1650, and any survivors assimilated into
other tribes.
It is interesting, therefore, that the
Indians who supplanted the Petun in the
18th and 19th centuries, the Ojibwa,
similarly dreaded the area around
Ekarenniondi, and continued to propagate the tale of the ghostly lovers. If there
was no basis in truth, surely the story
would have died with the Petun a century before. After all, if the Ojibwa were
not themselves seeing the specters, where
would they have learned the story?
There are some who view the tale as an
allegory of sorts. Both tribes represented
by the loversthe Erie and Petunwere
destroyed separately by the Iroquois.
Could the ghost story be a cautionary
tale about the folly of refusing to align
with another tribe in the face of a common enemy? Or do the deaths of Leuantido and her betrothed symbolize the
deaths of their respective nations?
If the story has no basis in fact, why
do some claim to hear strange sounds
drifting up from the base of the cliff?
Others swear to have seen the dim shape
of the lovers themselves, walking hand in
hand, only to vanish if anyone tries to
approach. Some have even heard Leuantidos voice drift over the rocky landscape, calling out for her lover in a plaintive voice.
was during one such visit in the late

1970s that Shera and her friend Bruce
had an experience that was not in the
tourist brochure.
It had been a misty fall day, and there
had been a lot of rain the previous
evening. According to Shera,
My friend and I were separated. We
were exploring the area, taking
photos. As I walked around the rocks,
there was suddenly a really intense
feeling, one that Ive only had a few
times in my life. Its that voice in your
head that says get the heck out of
here.
Eager to heed the warning, she began
looking for Bruce, only to realize she
was alone. She eventually found him, sitting dumbstruck on a boulder, the color
drained from his face, his

hands shaking.
When he was able,
Bruce explained that he
had seen a brilliantly hued
leaf floating in a puddle.
Thinking that it would
make an interesting
photo, he had bent down
to get a better angle. The
reflection of a beautiful
Indian woman suddenly
appeared in the water, as
if she were standing over
him. And he was sure he
felt the strands of her
long, flowing hair brushing against his ear.
When he turned
around slowly, no one
was there, but the feeling
of hair touching his neck
remained. When he
reached up to brush it
aside with his hand, he
found a big maggot.
If this all occurred during daylight hours, one
shudders to think what
might be encountered
after the sun sets, when Indians believe
that the spirits are most active. It is perhaps a blessing, then, that the park closes
well before dark.
As it has been for hundreds of years,
the rocky spur of Ekarenniondi is the
showpiece of the Collingwood Scenic
Caves Nature Preser ve. Its mystical
beauty overshadows Leuantidos tale,
detracting from the spot where a lovetorn maiden once cast herself off the cliff
to be with her man.
Standing on the site of this tragedy,
looking down at the rocks below, one
cannot help but hope that the lovers are
united in death. Perhaps the park closes
at dusk to provide Leuantido and her
beloved the intimacy they craved but
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Treasures from the Deep
Treasures from the Deep

Japanese WWII Underwater
Aircraft Carrier Found Off Hawaii
uring a training dive in March
of 2005, researchers from the
University of Hawaiis Undersea Research Laboratory discovered the
wreck of a gigantic Imperial Japanese
Navy submarine of f the coast of
Kalaeloa, Hawaii. Designed as an underwater aircraft carrier, the I-401 class Sensuikan Toku was one of the largest submarines built prior to the nuclear
ballistic missile submarines of the 1960s.
The 400-foot-long submarine carried a
crew of 144, three fold-up bomber
planes, and parts to construct a fourth. It
could reach a depth of 330 feet and sail
37,000 milesone-and-a-half times
around the worldwithout refueling.
The first assignment for the ships aircraft was to drop animals infected with
bubonic plague, cholera, dengue fever,
typhus, and other diseases on cities on
the west coast of the U.S. But when the
bacteriological bombs could not be prepared in time, the mission was changed
to bombing the Panama Canal.
The submarine was captured at sea
one week after the Japanese surrendered
in 1945 and was taken to Hawaii, where
it and four other top-secret Japanese
submarines were scuttled, partly because
Russian scientists were demanding access
to them.
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Bronze-Age Artifacts
Found Off Devon Coast
lso in March, a team of British
divers and marine archaeologists
discovered artifacts from a 13thcentury BC ship off Englands South
Devon coast. Found in 60 feet of water,
the artifacts include palstave axe heads,
an adze, tools, a cauldron handle, a gold
bracelet, and the blades of rapiers and
swords that are among the earliest ever
found in northwest Europe.
Some of the 3,300-year-old objects
are thought to have come from the Seine
Valley of northern France and experts
say that they may give the clearest picture yet of Britains trade links with the
continent during the Bronze Age.
was frequented by Spanish ships in

Spains war against the Moro pirates.
Remains of Lost Expedition Found

French research team may finally
be able to answer the last question asked by French King Louis
XVI as he waited to be guillotined in
1793Is there any news of Monsieur
de la Prouse?
A French naval hero, Jean-Franois de
Galaup, the Comte de la Prouse, commanded three warships that took control
of the Prince of Wales fort in Canadas
Far North from the Hudson Bay Company in 1782. In 1786, he mapped part
of the west coast of Nor th America
between Alaska and California as well as
visited the Sandwich Islands and
Easter Island.
La Prouse was
then dispatched
by Louis XVI to
open new maritime routes in the
Pacific. But after
depar ting from
Australia in 1788
with the two
frigates La Boussole and LAstrolabe, La Prouse
Cannon Recovered from

Confederate Ship
n June of 2005, divers and marine
archaeologists working in the
English Channel excavated the aft
pivot gun of the Confederacys most
feared sea raider, the CSS Alabama. The
largest piece of weaponry aboard the vesselthe 7,000-pound main batter y
pivot gunwas recovered from 200foot-deep waters, about seven miles off
the coast of Cherbourg, France, where
the Alabama was sunk 141 years ago
during a battle with the Union warship
USS Kearsarge.
The divers also recovered a bronze
piece of a block-and-tackle that had been
used to secure the
aft gun and two
pieces of British
tableware. The cannon has since been shipped to Texas
A&M University for conservation. z
I
disappeared and
was never heard
from again.
In May of
2005, researchers
identified a wreck found in 40-foot
waters off the Pacific archipelago as the
La Boussole, after finding an 18th-century
brass sextant with the inscription Mercier. (Records show that La Prouse had a
sextant made by Master Mercier aboard
La Boussole.) Researchers also believe that
a nearby wreck is that of LAstrolabe and
that the ships foundered during a storm
on a reef near Vanikoro, a tiny atoll off
the northeast coast of Australia.
Historians say that if La Prouse had
made it back to France, he may have successfully claimed the continent of Australia for France, forever changing the
colonial history of the South Pacific.
Researchers Map Sunken Blimp
n May of 2005, researchers mapped
debris fields from the USS Macon, a
785-foot-long dirigible that was
used during the 1930s as a flying aircraft
carrier. Equipped with hooks to launch
airplanes and then pull them back
aboard when they returned, the airship
was one of four blimps used by the U.S.
militarys Lighter than Air program.
The program, which began during the
Civil War, experimented with various
helium and hydrogen-filled aircraft for a
variety of purposes, such as observing
enemy troop movements and transporting heavy loads over long distances. As
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airplanes that could carr y substantial

payloads over long distances at far higher
speeds were developed, the program
turned its attention to other uses, such as
using rigid airships to launch aircraft. A
series of accidents, especially the catastrophic destruction of the Hindenburg
by fire in May of 1937, effectively ended
the era of the rigid airship, although they
continued in service with the Navy well
into the Cold War.
The Macon was damaged during a
storm in 1935 while returning to CAs
Moffett Field after a training mission. Its
upper fins were severed by strong winds
and it crashed into the ocean off nearby
Point Sur. As the ship began to fall, its 83
crew members jumped into life rafts and
all but two survived.
Scientists will return in 2006 to take
photographs of the wreckage. The
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary museum opened an exhibit on the
Macon and will eventually use the airship as the centerpiece of an educational
program.
Sub that Inspired Jules
Vernes Nautilus Found
n June of 2005, British explorer
John Blashford-Snell discovered an
abandoned 19th-century submarine
off the coast of Panama that may have
inspired the design of the Nautilus in
Jules Vernes classic novel 20,000 Leagues
Under the Sea.
Built for the Union in 1864 during the
Civil War and known as the Explorer, the

cigar-shaped submarine was the first to
have a reversible air-lock system that
allowed passengers to exit the ship, venture onto the seabed, and then return to
the vessel. Five years later, Verne published his classic adventure story about
Captain Nemos Nautilus, which he
described as
having
an identical lock-out system and to be cigar-shaped.
Launched too late to play a role in the
war, the 33-foot-long, cast-iron Explorer
ended up in Panama, where the lock-out
system made it useful in gathering pearls
from the seabed. It was abandoned after
its entire crew died of a tropical fever. It
was found half-submerged in less than 10
feet of water.
JUDITH KANE
Fishermen Plunder Sunken Treasure

hilippine officials recently learned
that in 2004, fishermen on the
island of Rapu-Rapu had discovered a sunken Spanish galleon laden with
gold and silver coins, jars, and other
valuable artifacts. Since then, the fishermen have been quietly selling the late18th and early 19th-centur y Spanish
coins to collectors for between $100 and
$175 each. Now, fewer than 20 of the
thousand coins found are left.
Coin experts and divers have been sent
to look for any remaining treasure and
other sunken galleons in the area, which
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Crypto Corral
Crypto Corral
tor was not a hyena at all. We all
know a hyena, said district
chief T.A. Chilikumwendo.
This cant be a natural
beast. even if we tried to
scare it with fire, it did not
move an inch. Thats not how
hyenas behave.
Malawis Mauler
n June 14, 2005, authorities in
Dedza, Malawi reported that a
savage beast had killed nine
persons and injured 13 others while
killing livestock. A spokesman for the
Dedza District Hospital told reporters
that the victims were grossly mutilated.
Its very pathetic, he said. In some
cases the police only recovered heads,
chests, legs, and hands in pieces. We
dont know what sort of creature it is
that can attack so many people within
the same night.
Haxwell Jamusana, assistant director
of parks and wildlife for the region,
explained that according to villagers,
the beast was breaking the doors down
and pouncing on anyone in the house
before rushing to the next house or
kraal [livestock enclosure]. Jamusana
advised local residents to sleep in houses
with stout doors, adding that hunters
were deployed to hunt the beast.
Jamusanas prime suspect was a rabid
hyena, and police sharpshooters reportedly killed one on June 15. But while
many villagers celebrated the creatures
demise, others remained skeptical. Some
continued sleeping on the roofs of
homes, convinced that the monster
would return. Their fears were only
heightened when Dr. Kholiwe Mkandawire, secretary of Malawis Veterinary
Association, predicted further attacks for
the next six months.
While Dr. Mkandawire focused on
means of eradicating rabies from the district, others still insisted that the preda-
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An Alligator Summer
hen cr yptozoologists
say, Oops, theyre
referring to known
creatures found out of place, and the
summer of 2005 brought a rash of misplaced crocodilians. The action began
on June 2, when residents of South
Bend, IN, spied an alligator sunning
itself beside the St. Joseph River. Yet
some locals were angered on June 7,
when police shot the two-foot-long
creature with no seeming effort to catch
it alive.
By that time, however, the sightings

had shifted to Council Bluffs, IA, where
tourists sighted a three-foot-long reptile
in Carter Lake, on June 5. Local taxidermist Todd Dutson captured the gator on
June 10, reporting that despite its size, it
weighed no more than three pounds.
The day before Dutsons adventure, on
June 9, police in Somers, WI, caught a
4.5-foot gator lurking in a residential
neighborhood. We dont know where it
came from, Sgt. Robert Croeker said.
The alligators not talking.
But authorities at Pakoon Springs, on
southern Utahs Arizona Strip, appear to
know the origin of their local alligator

and his name. He is known as Clem, and
hunters have apparently been stalking
him since 1986, when owner Chuck
Simmons released his pet aligator into
the springs. Clem was about a foot long
at the time, but witnesses confirm that
he got big. Clems luck ran out on July
13, when four trappers lassoed him with
steel cables and hauled him ashore at
Pakoon Springs, AZ. His destination: the
Phoenix Herpetological Society.
However, residents of Wichita, KS
could not agree on what kind of reptile
was haunting their streets until two
locals caught a three-foot-long alligator
on June 20. Eight days later and 1,200
miles away, a four-foot-long caiman
(South Americas version of the alligator) was found snoozing beneath a pickup truck in Medford, OR. As usual, its
point of origin was unidentified.
The mystery moved north on July 12
with an alligator warning published in
Canadas London (Ontario) Free Press.
According to the story, a small gator had
been sighted in Hay Swamp, outside of
Exeter, Ontario. Police were concerned,
but long-time locals seemed unfazed by
the report from an area where visitations
by strange entities are somewhat routine.
And on July 14, members of the
Brockton, MA Animal Rescue League
pulled a four-foot-long alligator from
Brockton Lake. The catch was surprising
enough, but witnesses reported another
gator still at large in the lake. Searchers
assume that the reptiles were illegally
released by private owners, but no suspects were identified.
the creature had been hopping in

and out of local yards since late
December, 2004. Suspicions
that it may have fled a private zoo in nearby Evans
brought no confirmation
from the facilitys owner.
While Charlestons
finest searched in vain for
their elusive roo, animal
control officers in South
Bend, IN, started beating
the bushes for another
hopping specimen
on
June 27. Officer
Sumyr Springfield
glimpsed the beast, but it stayed beyond
reach of her net and fled before backup
arrived. Predictably, officials at nearby
Potawatomi Zoo denied any recent
escapes while noting that a kangaroo
would be really tough to get as a pet.
Something Fishy This Way Comes
lthough piranhas were once
popular among tropical fish collectors, private ownership is now
restricted or banned in most states out of
fear that released specimens may colonize domestic lakes and turn summer
swims into the stuff of nightmares. Still,
specimens sometimes wind up on fishermens hooks to this day. One such fish
was hauled from the Fox River in South
Elgin, IL, on June 30.
But sharks are something else, entirely,
so Mario Rodriguez was naturally surprised when he found a five-foot shark
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Monster Hunt at Lake Hanas

ake Hanas (or Kanas), on Altai
Mountain in Chinas Xinjiang
Uighur Autonomous Region, is
the nations largest mountain lake. Natural beauty makes it a popular tourist
attraction, but on June 7, 2005, seven
Beijing tourists cruising on the lake
reportedly saw two black monsters
each roughly 33 feet long, leap from the
depths and then swim rapidly across the
lake. The beasts allegedly reappeared on
June 8, playing a kind of leapfrog game,
but photos snapped from shore revealed
only the lakes rippled surface.
Despite the paucity of evidence, Chinese authorities declared on June 11 that
they would dispatch a team of divers to
the lake for an extended search, which is
expected to cost 1.5 million yuan
($180,000). Thus far, no further news of
that exploratory effort has been published in the West.
Catgarookey, I Presume?
olice and residents of Salisbury,
England were bedeviled by a
strange, shape-shifting creature
during May and June, 2005. The first
two witnessespolicemen on patrol
described a two-foot-tall beast with a
ringed tail and the gait of a monkey.
Nicki Lomas, who saw the creature on
May 6, compared it to a wild big cat,
Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport!

f errant alligators are unusual, at least
they belong to the North American
continent. Not so of the meandering
marsupials who surfaced in June.
The first reports of kangaroos at large
emerged from Charleston, WV, on June
17, but follow-up stories revealed that
floating dead in the

shallows of Floridas
Lake Okeechobee,
on June 22. Officials were vague as
to the sharks identity, informing
reporters that it was either a nurse
shark or a bull shark, which have been
known to travel many miles inland in
freshwater. Five manmade canals link
Okeechobee to the Atlantic Ocean, but
locals still question whether the shark
could have traveled so far from the sea
on its own.
like a leopard. It was very big with a long

yellow-and-black tail. Yet another witness, Raymond Clark, insisted that the
creature was definitely from the coatimundi family.
By June 8, media reports described the
elusive stranger as a cross between a cat,
kangaroo, and monkey, which reporters
aptly dubbed the Catagarookey. Whatever it was, the beast eluded all pursuers
and vanished by mid-June.
Bigfoot of the Yukon
keptics and believers were still
squabbling over Aprils alleged
Bigfoot sightings in Manitoba,
Canada, when other witnesses reported
close encounters with the unknown primate even father north, around Teslin, in
the Yukon Territory. On July 9, 2005,
residents Chucka Choumant and Trent
Smarch described seeing a nine-foot-tall
creature that ran with lightning speed
past their homes, leaving 17-inch footprints in the ground. Even more intriguing was a small patch of hair that was collected at the scene. However, the hair
was found to be from a bison.
Champ Surfaces again

he supposed monster of Lake
Champlain, known to locals as
Champ, surfaced once more for
two salmon fishermen in August, 2005,
near the mouth of the Ausable River.
Dick Affolter and Pete Bodette took the
moving object for a humongous alligator-like animal and tracked it with a digital camcorder.
The tape, while not released in time
for this issue, has already sparked controversy. Steve Smith, director of ECHO at
the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain,
told reporters, I dont know what it is.
Ive never seen anything that definitively
proves the existence of Champ, and that
video doesnt, either. z
MICHAEL NEWTON
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PSYCHIC
n June 16, 1908, Capt.

John Allen Bartlett, a
retired military officer
living in Bristol, England, took a pencil in hand, as architect and archaeologist Frederick
Bligh Bond firmly held the foolscap
paper below the pencil. He then
wrote the following words:
Digge east beyond the beds of
feathered grasses. There was a
passage to the east doore in ye
walle to the streete. In the midst
it remaineth. There was a lodg-
ARCHAEOLOGY
AND THE
GLASTONBURY
SCRIPTS
ing where now is the great

howse, and wee loved passages.
They were safe, and the priesthood loveth secret places. There
is somewhat in us that loveth
mystical things, so we tell not
all, but leave it to the love which
seeketh and is not wearied.
This text was part of more than 60
messages now referred to as the
Glastonbury Scripts, information

that was supposedly communicated
to the pair, via automatic writing, by
long-dead monks who had once
lived at Englands Glastonbur y
Abbey. In addition to describing the
layout of the abbey, they described
its dcor, their everyday routines,
their problems, and the political
state of affairs governing their lives.
Thus began the successful psychic
archaeology of the abbey grounds
from 1908 to 1916.
BY MICHAEL E. TYMN
Glastonbury Abbey as it looked

in 1723, illustrated by W. Stukeley.
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Soon after its destruction during the

dissolution of the monasteries in 1539,
Queen Elizabeth deeded the thendestroyed Glastonbury Abbey to Peter
Carew, in whose family it remained
until 1907. At that time, Ernest Jardine, acting on behalf of the Church of
England, purchased the property for
30,000 (approx. $50,000). Although
the Church did not take possession of
the property until the following year, in
anticipation of acquiring the land, they
began making plans to preserve it.
In 1908, 44-year-old Frederick Bligh
Bond, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of
British Architects and a member of the
Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, was appointed director of excavations of Glastonbury Abbey.
This was a non-paying, seasonal job, one
which Bond, who specialized in ecclesiastical architecture, took on as something of a hobby while he continued his
architectural practice in Bristol.
For references to the abbeys original
layout, Bond had available to him various
antiquarian works, including Architectural History by Professor R. Willis, published in 1866. However, while the doc-
uments and books referred to Edgar

Chapel and Loretto Chapel, the locations of these two chapels were not specified and their location remained a mystery when Bond undertook his work. As
they appeared to be integral parts of the
abbey complex, Bond focused his efforts
on finding these two chapels.
First Attempts at Automatic Writing
ond had developed an interest in
psychic matters well before
being appointed to head up the
Glastonbury dig. He was a member of
the Society for Psychical Research, an
organization whose membership
included a number of esteemed British
scientists, and it was through this organization that Bond befriended Bartlett
and began experimenting with automatic writing.
Anticipating his appointment as director of excavations, Bond hoped that by
psychic means he might receive some
clues as to where to dig for the missing
chapels. So he and Bartlett made their
first attempt at automatic writing on
November 7, 1907. Bond placed two
fingers on the back of Bartletts hand to
Frederick Bligh Bond in 1910.
add whatever psychic power a sitter

might have to that of the mediums
power. He then asked, Can you tell us
anything about Glastonbury?
In clear, eloquent English, Bartlett
wrote: All knowledge is eternal and is
available to mental sympathy.
After a short interval, the following

flowed from the pencil: I was not in
sympathy with monksI cannot find a
monk yet.
Apparently, the communicating spirit
then located a monk to provide information on the abbey for the duo. After
another interval, Bartletts hand began
drawing what was a fairly correct outline
of the main features of the abbey church.
At the east end was a long rectangular
addition, which was drawn with a double line, as though to emphasize it.
Down the middle of the drawing was the
name of the communicating spirit
Gulielmus Monachus.
A detailed sketch followed, and the
words linea bifurcata, which suggested a
fork or division of some kind in the
building. The spirit who called himself
Rolf Monachus then began communicating in Latin, providing the pair with
some measurements relative to Edgar
Chapel. In his initial excavations, Bond
found such a division and the measurements given by these ghostly monks to
be fairly accurate.
Subsequent Sittings
ubsequent sittings during November resulted in a hodgepodge of
communication, some in English,
some in Latin, and some in monk Latin
(a combination of Old English and
Latin). A monk named Johannes Bryant
emerged as the chief communicator,
speaking in monk Latin, but it was often
unclear as to the identity of the communicator. As a group, the spirits referred
to themselves as The Watchers. (No
explanation was given for this, but one
might infer that they were watching
Bonds progress.)
The chief communicator Johannes
Bryant identified himself as a monk and
stonemason who had lived from 1497 to
1533. He described himself as a fat,
cheery man who preferred fishing to his
regular duties. For instance, when
responding to a question by Bond about
the location of a staircase in one of the
abbey buildings, he stated:
Soe I remember those stayres for my
fatness. But it availed me not, tho
(IIId) was written in monk Latin,

and reads, To the east, a covered
way, or cloister, leading to a church.
(IIIe) represents a drawn plan of the east end
of the chapel, with the door marked portus.
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THE HISTORY OF
GLASTONBURY ABBEY
he abbey ruins of Glastonbury are situated on 37 acres in the center of the market
town of Glastonbur y, about 140 miles southwest of London and 13 miles inland
from the Bristol Channel on the plains of Somerset County.
Although it is not known when Glastonbury Abbey was originally established, legend
has it that Joseph of Arimathea, the great-uncle of Jesus of Nazareth, came to Glastonbury in 63 AD, accompanied by 11 companions, at the direction of Philip the Apostle, to
convert the pagans to Christianity.
Aviragus, the king at that time, gave the 12 men the Island of Ynys-witrin (Glastonbury), where they built a church called the vetusta ecclesia, in honor of the Virgin Mary.
Legend further has it that Joseph brought with him the Holy Grail, the chalice used by
Jesus at the Last Supper, which he supposedly buried at the foot of the Tor, at a place
now known as the Chalice Well, just outside of the abbey grounds.
St. Patrick is said to have come to Glastonbury in 433 AD, teaching the hermits there to
live together as members of a religious community. He then became their abbot and
remained in Glastonbury until his death, when his body was buried in the vetusta ecclesia. After St. Patricks death, St. Benignus, his disciple, became the abbot of Glastonbury.
The monastery at Glastonbury was founded in 601 AD when Gwrgan Varvtrwch, King
of Dumonia, gave the land to the Celtic Church. The monaster y was ravaged by the
Danes in 878, although the vestusta ecclesiaalso referred to in later years as the Old
Wattle Churchwas not destroyed. In 943, St. Dunstan, after becoming its abbot,
restored the monastery to its former greatness and placed it under Benedictine rule.
Unfortunately, in 1184, a fire destroyed the Old Wattle Church and the greater part of
the Benedictine Monaster y. Reconstruction began in 1186 and continued for approximately 100 years. Over the next two and a half centuries, the abbey flourished as a religious center. But when King Henry VIII broke with Rome in 1534 and declared himself
head of the Church of England, he ordered that all monasteries and abbeys be dissolved.
Glastonbury was the last to be shut down in 1539. The destruction was so great that its
foundations were destroyed and most of its stones were later carried off for construction
of roads, quarries, and cottages. Today it stands in ruins, a shell of its former glory. Still,
it is an amazing sight to behold.
MICHAEL TYMN
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my father Prior recommended it

oft. Alas! I waxed more fat. Not
that my belly was my god. I wot not!
But I was cheery and troubled not,
save for services in ecclesia, for better loved I the lanes and the woods
where walked I much, with weariness because of my weight.
So said I, It is the Lords will.
Somme be made fat, and somme be
lean; and this I said to they that
jibed, that the gates of Heaven are
made full wide for all sorts, so that
none created should stick within the
portal. This I said, for they vexed me
with their quips.
On November 13, an English-speaking communicator began by stating that
other influences were crossing his and
that the monks were tr ying to make
themselves felt by both Bartlett and
Bond. Johannes then wrote:
Ye names of builded things are very
hard in Latin tonguetransome,
fanne, tracery, and the like. Wee
wold speak in the Englyshe tongue.
When in September of 1908, some
conflicting information came through
regarding dates of construction, Bond
asked for clarification. A spirit replied
that it was difficult to give exact locations and measurements because there
was overlapping construction (as, over
the centuries, one structure was built on
top of another, so the foundations rarely
matched). Bond found this to be very
much the case during future excavations
at the Abbey.
Much of the information provided by
the medieval monks was precisesome
of it accurate to the inchbut the overlapping construction resulted in confusion, as it was not always clear to Bond
which layer of ruins he had come upon.
While Bond does not give exact dates
in his books, it appears that he quickly
found Edgar Chapel from the clues
given via the automatic writing. However, because the excavation process was
slow and seasonal, and was later interrupted by World War I, the search for
Loretto Chapel did not begin until after
the war. Again, the monks told Bond
where to dig and he located it soon after
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A map of Glastonbury Abbey,

as was dictated to Bond and
Barrett via automatic writing.
Bligh Bond in
his later years.
When Bond would put a question to the spirits, at times, the communication would stop
and begin again in a different handwriting. Sketches of buildings or monks, like the
sketch of Johannes above, would occasionally accompany the writing.
the end of the war in 1918.

On at least two occasions, the monks
also made references to King Arthur. For
instance, in sitting number 34, the following was communicated:
The tombe of Ar thur in shining
blacke stone was in front of ye altare.
Ye can see hys size even now, an ye wis,
in ye claye, and certain fragmentes
that yet are for hym to seeke.
As there is no real historic evidence
that King Arthur is anything more than
a mythical character, this script suggests
that he might have actually existed.
Bonds Fall from Grace

or some 10 years, Bond kept his
mystical sources a secret from the
Church of England, sharing it
only with a few friends, including Dr.
Ralph Adams Cram, a fellow architect
who met Bond in 1912. Cram urged
him to publish his story and even offered
to publish it for him, but Bond rejected
the idea, as he believed that it would
meet with disfavor by the Church, which
had hired him to excavate Glastonbury
Abbey.
However, Bond was eventually per-
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suaded to write about his experiences,

and The Gate of Remembrance was published in 1918. As he anticipated, it invited contempt from the Church and scorn
from fellow professionals. His reputation
was further compromised after the publication in 1919 of The Hill of Vision, a
book that rehashed some of the material
from his first book, but also included the
text produced from sittings with several
different mediums, concerning World
War I and other matters unrelated to
Glastonbury Abbey.
In early 1921, insult was added to
injury when a co-director of excavations
was appointed by the excavation committee. Because Bond refused to work
with the new co-director, he was relieved
of his duties in April of 1922. As his professional clients had been abandoning
him since the publication of his first
book, Bond was, by this time, in dire
financial straits, a situation that was compounded by an earlier divorce and
lengthy litigation concerning custody of
the couples daughter.
From 1921 to 1926, Bond edited Psychic Science, a new quarterly publication.
But in August of 1926, he left for the
United States on a lecture tour, under
the auspices of the American Society for
Psychical Research (ASPR). Following
the tour, he remained in the U.S. to

work with Cram in his Boston architectural practice, eventually accepting a
part-time position as educational director for the ASPR.
Sometime around 1932, Bond was
ordained as a priest of the Old Catholic
Church of America, an offshoot of the
Episcopal Church. Exactly what his
priestly duties entailed is not clear, but it
apparently did not satisfy him. Frustrated and homesick, Bond returned to
England in January of 1936. He died
alone in 1945 at the age of 81, having
lived his final years in rooming houses in
North Wales, apparently still believing in
the imaginative function.
A Man of Integrity
cientifically, as proof of life after
death or spirit communication, the
Glastonbur y Scripts are simply
anecdotal. As skeptics point out, the fact
that Bond was successful in his excavations does not prove anything, as more
orthodox archaeological methods would
have yielded results sooner or later.
It seems unlikely, however, that Bond
fabricated the whole story in order to sell
some books, especially considering the
risks involved in going public with his
unorthodox archaeology. Further, there
is no indication
that Bond was
mentally delusional.
In
researching his
1965 biography of Bond,
The Quest at Glastonbury, author William
W. Kenawell talked to a number of people who had known Bond, and came
away from his investigation convinced
that Bond was a sincere, professional
man of high integrity.
Had Bond not gone public with his
story, he would likely have remained in
his position as director of excavations at
the abbey and would have continued
with his successful career as an architect
in Bristol. But Bond was a seeker of
truth, a truth that eventually led to his
ultimate demise.
Give it truth to feed upon and it will
evolve truth, Bond ended his first book.
And through the door of truth may
enter that which will guide us to a wider
knowledge. In many ways, Bond was a
door to a greater truth by allowing voices from the past to speak through him
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So began the communication with a spirit named
Patience Worth on July 8, 1913, by three women
from St. Louis, MO, who were playing on an
Ouija board. Patience Worth would later identify
herself as the spirit of a 17th-century English
woman who had migrated to the United States,
where she was killed by Indians at the age of 44.
Over the next 24 years, Patience dictated
approximately four million words, including
books, short stories, plays, poems, and countless
epigrams and aphorisms. She would be acclaimed
as a literary genius, even compared to such literar y greats as William Shakespeare, Geoffrey
Chaucer, and Edmund Spenser. And she communicated her works though Pearl Curran, an
uneducated housewife.
ANY MOONS AGO
by Michael E. Tymn
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It all star ted when Pearl Curran,

Emily Hutchings, and Mar y Pollard
began experimenting with the ouija
board as a way to pass the time while
their husbands played pinochle. On one
warm July evening, Patience Worth stated via the ouija board, About me you
would know much. When the women
asked her to further identify herself,
Patience responded, Yesterday is
dead. Let thy mind rest as to the
past.
When Pollard commented that
Patiences reluctance to talk
about herself was possibly the
result of not having a respectable
past, Patience responded with
anger:
Wilt thou but stay thy tung!
On rock-ribbed shores beat wisdoms waves. Why speak for me?
My tung was loosed when thine
was yet to be.
When the women persisted in
wanting to know more about
their new contact from the
other side, Patience provided
them with the information on her
background and her tragic death.
But with much bantering and sarcasm, Patience soon made it clear
that she was there to provide wisdom, not to talk about herself.
Over the next several months,
the spirit of Patience Worth dictated a number of poems and epigrams, but fur ther rejected
requests by the three women for
background information on herself as
well as requests for more universal
truths.
A Simple Housewife
n the beginning, it was assumed that
both Curran and Hutchings had to
be present for Patience to communicate. But on March 1, 1914, John
Curran, who initially scoffed at the parlor game, sat at the board with his wife
while messages from Patience came
through. Attempts by Hutchings to
channel Patience without Curran were
unproductive, and Hutchings soon
became a mere observer as other friends
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sat with Curran at the board. Eventually,

Curran found that she did not need the
board at all. Rather, she could take dictation from Patience with a pencil, and
later, by using a typewriter. Called her
harp, Patience Curran was a 30-yearold housewife who had dropped out of
school at the age of 13.
Currans limited education and travel
Pearl Curran
experience were inconsistent with the

claims of skeptics that Patience Worth
was a product of Currans imagination
or was culled from material stored away
in her subconscious from some forgotten childhood exposure to early English
literature.
As an example of the obsolete language, when Patience was asked by
Casper Yost, the Sunday editor of the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat, what she wanted
for Christmas, she wryly shot back:
Lor, I be a-tremour! Wait ye a
whit, Ill set thee a task. Ah, lawk a
me! Should it be a new buckle or a
kirtle? Alawk! Alawk! I tell ee, sir-
rah, it shall be a word frae out thy

heart. I see the script wi ees aye and
drink me in the potion like a simperin wench.
Even English scholars struggled with
some of the archaic Anglo-Saxon language dictated by Patience. In one of her
novels, Patience dictated, I wot he
fetcheth in daub-smeared smock. Even
in the early 1900s, the word
fetch was rarely used, but when
used it meant to go and get
someone or something. Patience
used it as synonymous with
came or cometh, which
philologists confirmed as the
words original meaning.
According to Dr. Walter
Franklin Prince, one of the scientists who investigated
Patience Worth, the spirit used
modern English at first to secure
attention and interest, but then
lapsed into a dialect as a means
of asserting her individuality and
showing that she was not some
fragmented personality of Pearl
Curran. However, she later
dropped much of the dialect in
her novels although she maintained it in her poems.
For example, in 1916, W. T.
Allison, professor of English literature at the University of
Manitoba, visited the Curran
home for a week and observed
that Patience dictated words
found not since the time of
John Milton, the esteemed 17th-centur y English poet. He reported that in
one evening, 15 poems were produced
in an hour and 15 minutes, an average
of five minutes for each poem. All
were poured out with a speed that Tennyson or Browning could never have
hoped to equal, and some of the 15
lyrics are so good that either of those
great poets might be proud to have
written them, Allison offered.
Going Public
atience Wor ths work became
public on Februar y 7, 1915,
when a feature article about her
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The Poetry of Patience Worth

Patient God (August 28, 1914)
Ah, God, I have drunk unto the dregs,
And flung the cup at Thee!
The dust of crumbled righteousness
Hath dried and soaked unto itself
Een the drop I spilled to Bacchus,
Whilst Thou, all-patient,
Sendest purple vintage for a later harvest.
Waiting (May 6, 1920)

Yesterday was waiting.
Today is waiting, and tomorrow-I shall come upon tomorrow
By touching the wicket gate, expectancy,
Swinging it outward, and behold
Tomorrow! All ages
That have preceded, all of today
And all that yet come, hang
Upon the hinge of waiting.
Eternity waits, else it is not Eternity.
Today and Tomorrow (February 7, 1921)

Today is, tomorrow may be, yesterday was
Yesterday I have squandered,
Today I have spent,
Tomorrowwhat shall I do with tomorrow?
Will I hope, or will I then despair?
Tomorrow is a question; will God utter it?
In His mute eloquence
Will He trust me with another sacred truth?
A Trick to Best Tomorrow (May 30, 1921)

I ha'e come to the wall
And a little wicket beyond which
Is tomorrow. Mayhap a woeful morrow,
Mayhap a tearful morrow, mayhap
A Sunny morrow, mayhap a laughing morrow,
Ye, but weal or woe I have a trick
To best her. I laugh!
On the voice of Patience Worth:

Wit is the bead upon the cup, wisdom is the wine,
Learning is the froth, and love the sweet if there be any.
What is my voice? A vague thing carrying naught but a song,
Some wisdom, little learning, keen atimes.
I have naught to enthrall thee,
save that ye would drink with me a common cup of understanding.
Lo, I proffer thee the wine of my being, for I have lived.
I proffer thee wine which is bitter, for I have wept.
I proffer thee wine which is sweet, for I have loved.
I proffer thee wine which is salt, for I have sweated.
I proffer thee wine rich in dreams, for I, too, have dreamed.
No man, however his tongue be keen, can do more.
was published in the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat by Yost. He had participated

in many ouija-board sessions with Curran before writing his stor y, which
appeared as a five-part series published in
the Sunday paper.
The articles caught the attention of
William Marion Reedy, the editor of the
literary journal Reedys Mirror. While
Reedy conceded that Patience Worths
poems were extraordinar y, he at first
concluded that the work was composed
by someone with an interest in older
English poetry. But upon visiting the
Curran home and observing the phenomenon, he was immediately intrigued.
He sat with Curran through a number of
sessions and even carried on a dialog
with Patience.
In the Mirror of October, 1915,
Reedy told the world of his flirtation
with Patience Worth. He explained that
he had ruled out fakery and stated that
he had absolutely no question as to the
integrity of the parties involved. He further noted that Curran was often puzzled by his questions, not fully understanding them. Yet even so, Patience
responded intelligently.
Reedy described Patiences personality
as piquant in the extreme, witty and
aphoristic in a homely way, and saucy
but never rude. As Reedy described,
She will not answer personal questions about herself or tell you the
usual stock things of so many spirit
communications about lost jackknives in the distant past, or when
your wealthy grandmother is going to
die. None of that stuf f goes with
Patience. She is ready with repartee
and she says things that probe the
character of her questioners.
Although Reedy referred to
Patiences poetry as wonderful in both
content and form, he rejected the idea
that Patience was a spirit, stating that he
simply could not believe that the dead
could talk to the living. Rather, he
believed that Curran suffered from multiple personalities, possibly the result of
some childhood trauma. He even asked
Patience if she and Pearl were the same
entity. Patience immediately lashed out
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The Wisdom of
Patience Worth
atience Wor th was often asked

to comment on various subjects.
Here is a sampling of her
responses:
On what is God: If I were with one

word to swing HIM, that word would
shatter into less than the atoms of the
mists that cling the mountain tops. If I
should speak HIM in a song, the song
would slay me! And going for th, man
would become deaf when he listened.
If I should announce HIM with a quill
and fluid, lo, the script would be nothing less than Eternity to hold the word I
would write.
On life: Life is a gaysome trickster.
Yea, life poureth about the atoms o
man wines of cunning, and equally is
he filled up of Him. Thereby is man
given freely and his lighting unto life
leaveth him for his choosing. Aye, and
the giving be wr y-fallen atimes, for
flesh to tarry long and dance with life,
fearing the greater thing within it.
On laughter: Me thinks that of all the
gifts from Thy prolific hand, laughter,
next to love, is dearest.
On learning: Wisdom scratcheth the
itch of the lout while learning
searcheth for the flea.
at the suggestion by exclaiming, She

be but she and I be me.
Worldwide Fame
y 1916, Patience Wor th had
become an international celebrity. when she completed her first
book Red Wing and Telka, a medieval
drama. Then in 1917, Patiences most
celebrated work, The Sorry Tale, a 644page novel about the last days of Jesus,
was published.
As Yost later wrote, the book was
begun without any previous knowledge
on the part of Curran of the time and
conditions of Palestine around the time
of Christ beyond what was revealed in
the New Testament. Yet the stor y
revealed an intimate and accurate knowledge of the time in which it was set. In
fact, Yost was present when large parts of
The Sorry Tale were dictated and was certain that what came from the ouija board
involved no forethought or planning on
the part of Curran.
Patience Worth continued to dictate
work through Curran until Thanksgiving Day, 1937, when Curran caught a
cold. Pneumonia soon developed and
she died nine days later. Although Curran had not been in ill health, Patience
apparently tipped her of f as to her
impending demise. According to a close
friend and follower, during mid-Novem-
Pearl Curran
On fear: The undergarment of ever y
armor. Man moutheth over words and
hangeth his wisdom with garments of
words. Man knoweth certainties which
even God doubteth.
On scientific fundamentalism:
Mans law is precision, Gods is
chaotic. Mans wisdom is offensive to
God, therefore, He shows his displeasure in complications. To man, the
complications are chaos, thereby is
man deceived. To God, mans precision is the fretfulness of a babe; aye,
and man at his willful deceiving is
undone. Then to God, man is precisely chaotic. To man, God is the disruption of precision.
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ber, Curran said to her: Oh, Dotsie,

Patience has just shown me the end of
the road and you will have to carry on as
best you can.
In the years following, several mediums claimed to have heard from
Patience Worth, but their claims apparently were not taken seriously and there
is no record of any serious investigation
of these claims.
Still a Mystery
uring that near quar ter of a
century of dictation, Curran
was observed by many scholars
and scientists as she recorded messages
and the words then carefully studied and
analyzed. Many of the investigators
leaned toward the subconscious theory,
believing that Curran had been exposed
to early English literature in her youth,
and had stored it away beneath her conscious self. It then manifested itself
through some kind of hidden genius.
But Dr. Prince, who investigated for the
American Society for Psychical Research,
summed it up this way:
Either our concept of what we call
the subconscious must be radically
altered, so as to include potencies of
which we hitherto have had no knowledge, or else some cause operating
through but not originating in the
subconsciousness of Mrs. Curran must
be acknowledged.
According to Prince, Patience was a
common name among Puritans of the
17th century and the surname Worth
was fairly common in England. A
genealogical search found several
Patience Worths in early Massachusetts
records, but no other information was
available on them. If one of them had
been killed by Indians in the wilds, it is
unlikely that it would have been recorded anywhere.
Two of Patiences booksThe Sorry
Tale and Light from Beyondare still
available for purchase on the Internet,
but modern critics seem to have forgotten about her works. Yet as long as there
are readers of Patience Worths books,
she and they mystery that surrounds her
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Writing
for the Deceased
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inally, after a long time, a message

began to write itself on the paper.
It was the most peculiar feeling Id
ever experienced. The hand was just writing
by itself without my conscious will being
involved in any way. It wrote scragglingly
across the page in run-together words.
So wrote the late Susy Smith in her book
The Afterlife Codes (published in 2000) of her
introduction to automatic writing. Can you
imagine how it feels to sit at your typewriter
and have your fingers type information that
mind does not consciously instigate, that you
dont even know? she of fered. She then
went on to explain that her fingers seemed to
move of their own volition and what they wrote
was as different from what she wanted to say
as popcorn is from peanut butter.
The initial messages purpor tedly came
from her deceased mother, but her mother
eventually introduced a new scribe, identified
as James Anderson. Smith later discovered
that Anderson was a pseudonym for William
James, the famous 19th-century philosopher
and psychologist. James explained that he
used a pseudonym because he was concerned that Smith would have suspected he
was a phony if he had initially given his true
identity.
Another well-known automatic writer was

Grace Rosher of England, who explained that
she was writing letters to friends one afternoon in 1957 when she heard clairaudiently
the words, Leave your hands there and see
what happens.
To her amazement, her pen started to move
without any effor t on her par t. Words began
to form and the message With love from Gordon slowly appeared. Thus began her regular
communication with Gordon Burdick, a longdeceased friend from her youth. Burdick
described life on the Other Side to her and
delivered many profound messages.
But perhaps the best known automatist of
the 20th centur y was Geraldine Cummins of
Ireland. She would sit at a table, cover her
eyes with her left hand, and concentrate on
stillness. She would then fall into a light
trance and her hand would then begin to write.
Because of her semi-trance condition and
of the speed at which the writing would come,
a friend would sit beside her and remove each
sheet of paper as it was filled, before lifting
her hand to the top of each new page. In one
sitting, Cummins supposedly wrote 2,000
words in 75 minutes, whereas her normal
compositions consisted of 800 words over
the course of seven or eight hours.
The Spirit World v. The Subconscious

any automatists, including Susy
Smith and Grace Rosher, have questioned whether or not the information
channeled through automatic writing was
actually coming from the spirit world or if their
subconscious mind was playing tricks on
them. So Rosher consulted a graphologist
who compared her script written during an
automatic writing session with that in letters
received from Burdick when he was alive.
They concluded that the writing was indeed
the same.
Both Smith and Rosher were also warned
by their communicators about spirit intruders who could sometimes push her aside
and take control of the pencil. Smith even
stated that ever yone who dies rebellious is
a potential source of mischief. Likewise,
Burdick warned Rosher that there are spirits
on his side who would tr y to use you in a
wrong way.
Automatic writing is a process of receiving
messages from those who cannot physically
control a pen or typewriter. In a sense, writers
become the tool of the dead, but they also
need to retain some independence and question their sources intentions.
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What is it like to hold the

Hope Diamond in your
hand? Like any diamond,
says Dr. Jeffrey Post of the
Smithsonian, its ice cold
to the touch.
The Enduring
Enigma of the
Hope
Diamond
I
The Smithsonian
t sits alone in a place of honor in the Harry

Winston Gallery of the Smithsonian Institutes
National Museum of Natural History, sealed
within a revolving glass case. It is the single most
viewed object in the Smithsonian collection; every
year, six million people come to catch a glimpse of
this legendary object. Through the centuries, it
has been known as the Tavernier Bleu, La Cleste,
the French Blue, and even the Diamond of Death.
But it is known now as the Hope Diamond, a gem
that has been valued at upwards of 250 million
dollars yet is widely believed to be cursed.
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The Hope Diamond seems small in person. It measures roughly an inch long,
half an inch deep, and three quarters of
an inch wide. It weighs 45.52 carats,
about one third of an ounce. But in the
realm of diamonds, it is immense: the
largest blue diamond ever discovered.
The color of the Hope Diamond is
haunting and elusive, and may conGem trader and adventurer Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
was the first to own the
Hope Diamond formally.
tribute to its otherworldly reputation. It

has been described variously as deep,
dark, or vivid blue, compared to stormy
skies and seas. People are often shocked
when they see it for the first time, says
Dr. Post. They dont realize that diamonds come in different colors; they
expect it to be white.
It is, however, the diamonds legend
that draws visitors, intrigues scholars,

baffles scientists, and even inspires
artists. Filmmaker James Cameron drew
on the diamonds image and mythology
when he created The Hear t of the
Ocean, the fictional diamond that costarred in the blockbuster movie
Titanic. (There is an obscure rumor that
the real Hope Diamond had actually
been onboard the ill-fated ship in 1912.
It is untrue.)
Wild stories circulate around the
Hope Diamond: that it was once the
property of Rasputin (see Mysteries issue
#2) or the alchemist le Comte SaintGermain; that it was once owned by
Satanists who used it in dark rituals; that
ever yone who has ever owned it has
gone mad or died prematurely; or that
evil befalls anyone who merely touches
the malefic gem.
To this day, there are those who
believe that the so-called curse of the
Hope Diamond is so profound that it is
the source of all of Americas national
problems, including Kennedys assassination, the Vietnam war, Watergate, and
even the attack on the World Trade Center. But none of these tales are true.
Rather, the history of the Hope Diamond is compelling and lurid enough.
The Birth of the Hope Diamond
he diamonds life began over a
billion years ago. Over millennia, in the depths of the earth,
pure carbon was transformed by seismic
pressure and volcanic heat into diamond crystals. In the case of the Hope
Diamondas with all blue diamonds
Tavernier's diagram of the Hope diamond's

112-carat rough form.
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the carbon was adulterated by tiny

traces of boron.
The Hope Diamond was mined in
India in 1660, in the Kingdom of Golconda, a region famous for producing
both colored and white diamonds of
extraordinary size, clarity, and brilliance.
These mines, which are no longer active,
were so ancient that many believe they
were begun as the Biblical King
Solomons mines.
Diamonds played an enormous part in
Indian history and spirituality. Not only
were they princely emblems of wealth
and power but they were also widely
believed to possess mystical powers of
protection and healing. They were an
important part of Indias economy, as
well. Easily transported, they were traded throughout Asia, North Africa, the
Middle East, even Rome as early as the
eighth century BC, continuing through
the 19th century. The largest stones,
however, were reserved for the princes
and maharajahs.
The legend of the Hope Diamond is
that it was once set as the eye of a statue
in an Indian temple. When it was blasphemously stolen by a European nonbeliever, the outraged deity supposedly
invoked the curse that followed it ever
after. However, there is no reliable evidence that the Hope Diamond ever
adorned a sacred figure. Rather, its
known history began in 1660, when it
came into the hands of Jean-Baptiste
Tavernier, a gem trader and adventurer.
The Birth of La Cleste
avernier was a swashbuckling figure who turned his back on the
powdered-wig formality of 17thcentury France to search for rare treasures. He bought the future Hope Diamond, which weighed a staggering 110
carats, on the sly.
Diamonds of more than ten carats
were supposed to become the private
property of the King of Golconda. But
Tavernier was enough of a pirate and a
daredevil to risk royal displeasure to
smuggle the fabulous gem back to Paris,
where it became known as the Tavernier
Bleu. However, Tavernier himself called
A portrait of King Louis XV, wearing the blue diamond which was set as part of the ornament for the Order of the Golden Fleece.
the gem La Cleste, for he often

named his favorite gems after beautiful
women. He then had the enormous gem
cut and polished into a 69-carat stone,
raising the question of what became of
the lost 45 carats?
In December of 1668, Tavernier delivered the blue diamond to its first royal
owner, King Louis XIV. The self-proclaimed Sun King was thrilled by the
huge blue diamond and dubbed it The
Blue Diamond of the French Crown.
Thinking it could be improved, Louis
XIV had the stone re-cut in 1672.
Although it lost nearly a third of its
weight (diamond cutting is notoriously

wasteful), the new version was more symmetrical, more brilliant, and heartshaped.
Supremely vain, the self-described
Sun King reser ved the spectacular
diamond for his personal adornment
and glory. However, he never allowed
his queen Marie-Thrseor his mistress Athnas de Montespanto wear
the diamond. (Interestingly, Mme. de
Montespan was implicated in a massive
court scandal in 1690, involving poisoning and accusations of witchcraft.
She was never tried, but she was a
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known associate of La Voisin, a selfproclaimed sorceress who made a fortune supplying the Parisian aristocracy
with aphrodesiacs and poisons for dispatching inconvenient spouses and suspected rivals. La Voisin was also known
to conduct erotic Black Mass ceremonies in which Mme. de Montespan
allegedly participated. This gave rise to
the myth that the diamond had once
belonged to a Satan worshiper.)
As part of the French crown jewels,
the diamond passed on to Louis grandson Louis XV, who had it set in an ornament called the Order of the Golden
Fleece, a rococco extravagance containing a carved red spinel and several huge
diamonds. Once again, no one but the
King himself was allowed to wear it. The
diamond remained a part of that ornament throughout the turbulent reign of
Louis XVI, the final Bourbon king.
Despite popular legend, it was never
worn by Marie Antoinette, nor by her
ill-fated friend the Princess de Lamballe, who was torn to pieces by a
French Revolutionary mob beneath the
horrified Queens window.
Unfortunately, the blue diamond vanished amid the chaos of the French Revolution. Placed in the Garde-Meuble for
safekeeping, it was stolen during a threenight-long pillage of the city in September of 1792. Ultimately, 17 people were
tried and executed for the rampage, the
very first victims of the diamonds curse.
wear it on many occasions.

Henry Hope died in 1839 without a
will, and his beloved diamond collection
was dispersed among various dissolute
relatives, all of whom fought in court for
the right to sell the now-famous Hope
Diamond. The lucky heir turned out to
be his namesake nephew, Henry.
The Hope Diamond then passed from
hand to unlucky hand among the avaricious Hope heirs. None of its inheritors
truly loved the stone as Henry Philip
Hope had, and none of them truly knew
happiness. Mental illness, drug addiction, and dissipation haunted the Hopes,
and the family fortune steadily dwindled
with each new generation.

Lord Francis Hope, the last of
Henrys descendants to own the Hope
Diamond, inherited it in 1884. In 1893,
he married May Yohe, a beautiful American actress who, more than anyone else,
is responsible for the myth of the curse
of the Hope Diamond.
The Diamonds Curse
ay only wore the diamond on
one or two occasions during
her lifetime, but she latched
onto it symbolically, claiming both the
diamond and the curse as her personal
property. Long after she and Lord Hope
"Madcap May" Yoh was

the person most responsible
for spreading the idea of the
diamonds curse.
The French Blue

obody knows exactly what
happened to the diamond
over the next 20 years but in
1812, a smaller dark-blue diamond
appeared for sale in London, conveniently after the world and the French
statute of limitations on theft during
wartime had expired.
This 44.5 carat, cushion-shaped blue
diamondby then called the French
Bluewas then sold to Henry Philip
Hope, a shy, reclusive man with a passion for beautiful gems. He was generous with the stone, lending it out for
public display and allowing his sister, a
socially prominent London hostess, to
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separatedand the diamond had been

sold to cover their massive debtsshe
continued to use the stones reputation
to polish her own, always wearing a
replica of the diamond when she
appeared on stage and giving fanciful
interviews to the press in which she wildly exaggerated the diamonds history
and her own connection to it.
The tabloid press loved her lurid fictions and printed them widely. And when
she tried to launch an acting comeback in
1920, she convinced a silent film producer to finance a 15-episode serial called
The Hope Diamond Mystery, which she
wrote and starred in, along with future
horror superstar Boris Karloff.
Madcap May, as she was known in
the gossip columns of the day, let her
imagination run amok in the script,
inventing people who had never existed
and fictional events surrounding the histor y of the diamond. By that time,
though, movie audiences had become
tired of improbable cliff-hangers and the
film lost money.
Undeterred, in 1921, May wrote a fictionalized memoir The Myster y of the
Hope Diamond, in which she described
the sinister crystal which has wrecked
so many lives and still deals death and
destruction to all who come beneath its
influence. It was a bestseller.
The real Hope Diamond, however,
had changed hands again, and once
again, its history becomes obscure. It is
impossible to state conclusively where it
was and who owned it between 1901
and 1908, when French jeweler Simon
Frankel sold it to Selim Habib, a gem
dealer from the Middle East, for
$400,000, but he was forced to sell it at
a loss when his business took a downturn. Unfortunately, Habibs name was
added to the list of the alleged victims of
the diamonds curse when he drowned
in a shipwreck off the coast of Singapore.
The diamond, however, was not with
him on his fateful voyage as many
believed, but safe in the vault of a French
jeweler named Roseau, who showed the
diamond to potential buyers for over a
year before he found its next buyer. In
1910, the famous French jeweler Pierre
Cartier bought the gem for $110,000.

He eventually sold it to the wealthy
American couple in Paris: Ned and Evalyn McLean.
Neurosis and Addiction
he McLeans were newlyweds
and on the surface, were attractive and rich. She was a mining
heiress from Colorado while he came
from a powerful family of newspaper
publishers. But underneath lurked insecurity, neurosis, and addiction.
Ned was an alcoholic and Evalyn
addicted to laudanum, designer clothes,
and extravagant jewelry. As far as Evalyn
was concerned, the diamondand its
cursewould make excellent party conversation.
In May of 1919, tragedy struck the
McLeans when their oldest son Vinson
was hit by a car and killed. Evalyn was
inconsolable, and believed that the diamond was at least partially responsible.
Even though friends urged her to sell it,
she could not give up the prestige that
the diamond lent her, which she wore
constantly, even on casual occasions.
By 1932, the couple, who were on the
brink of divorce, was forced to sell their

greatest assetThe Washington Postto
pay off some of the massive debts their
profligate lifestyle had accrued. In a
reckless and gaudy spree that bridged
the Gilded Age and the Roaring 20s
and ended, inevitably, with the Depressionthe McLeans squandered millions
on their houses, lavish entertainments,
opiates, infidelity, and, of course, jewelry. Yet no matter how precarious their
finances became, Evalyn clung to the
Hope Diamond.
Eventually, Ned Mclean was committed to Marylands Enoch Pratt Hospital,
a psychiatric facility for alcohol-induced
dementia, and died there in 1938. Still,
Evalyn continued to wear the Hope Diamond, even sleeping with it under her
pillow and a gun in her bedside table for
fear of thieves. Then in 1946, her 25year-old daughter Evie died of a drug
overdose. Evalyn blamed the diamond
for this as well, but still she could not
part with it.
At her death in 1947, Evalyn
McLeans jewels, including the Hope
diamond, were gathered up by the
executor of her estate, put in a shoe box,
Evalyn McLean wearing
the Hope Diamond.
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Challenge Your Beliefs.
and taken to the Washington headquarters of the FBI, where Evalyns friend, J.
Edgar Hoover, promised to store them
in his private office safe until they could
be placed in the bank. She had wanted
her jewels to go to her grandchildren
when they came of age, but there were
just too many debts. So the McLean
jewelry collection74 pieces, including
the Hope diamondwas sold to American jeweler Harry Winston, for over a
million dollars.
The Diamonds Last Private Owner
arr y Winston, like Henr y
Hope, loved gems passionately and, like Jean-Baptise Tavernier centuries earlier, often had
intriguing adventures pursuing them.
Winston was one of the most
renowned jewelers in the world, but for
security reasons, he never allowed himself to be photographed. His clientele
included millionaires such as Aristotle
Onassis, movie stars, and royalty such as
King Farouk and the Duchess of Windsor. Many of the most famous diamonds in histor y passed through his
hands. So it was only fitting that he
would be the last private owner of the
Hope Diamond.
Shortly after acquiring the Hope Diamond, Winston launched it and a dazzling collection of other gems on a tour
he called the Court of Jewels, with the
purpose of exposing the general public
to fine gems to raise money for what is
now the March of Dimes. The Court of
Jewels toured the U.S. for four years and
was seen by millions of people.
In 1958, in a stunning display of generosity, Winston then donated the Hope
Diamond to the Natural History Museum at the Smithsonian Institute in
Washington, DC. Instead of languishing
in a dark bank vaultor adorning the
cleavage of a vain socialite at exclusive
partiesit could finally be seen by all the
world for free.
Harry Winston did not believe in the
curse. He fearlessly traveled with it on
planes and oceanliners and routinely carried it in his pocket. My father thought
the diamond brought him good luck,
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The Winston family never suffered
any misfortune related to owning the
Hope Diamond. Harry Winston lived to
a ripe old age and the company he
founded continues to flourish under his
sons leadership. Perhaps it was his altruism in using the stone to raise money for
a worthy causeand his generosity in
donating it to the American people
that finally dispelled the dark aura that
had followed in the wake of vanity and
greed that accompanied the diamond
through the centuries.
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to the Smithsonian Institute, the Hope
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Kenny Kingston
PROVING THE TEST OF TIME
ODAY IT IS NOT UNUSUAL TO BE PSYCHIC.
Kingstons ability to contact the

spirit world came to him at birth
when he was born to the seventh
daughter of a seventh daughter. In
Irish lore, this is a psychic sign.
Some of Kingstons earliest memories are of accompanying his mother to spiritualist meetings. Although
at the time, spiritualists were referred
to as fortunetellers, Kingston recalls
being thrilled by the fact that they
were not only bringing forth messages from deceased loved ones, but
offering guidance, too.
At the age of four, he inadvertently gave his first psychic message to a
family friend when she was discussing an upcoming train trip with his mother.
The two women were having tea, and young Kenny looked at the tea leaves in the
womans cup. He had seen his grandmother read leaves many times, so he just
assumed it was something everyone could do as well. He said the first thing that
came to mind: No, no. Cwash! Cwash!
The friend did not understand what he was trying to say, but Kingstons mother explained that Kenny appeared to be warning her not to take the train because
it would crash. To her credit, she changed her travel plans, which is fortunate, as
the train she had planned to take derailed, leaving many passengers injured.
Then when he was about ten years old, during a school exam, he heard a voice
clearly give him the answers to the test. He followed what was being told him and
received an 86% score. A couple of weeks later in his bedroom, he heard the same
voice. This time, he also saw a man with a red waxed mustache, who wore a
brown derby and brown chesterfield overcoat. The man said he was Kingstons
grandfather and promised to be available to him from then on, as a spirit guide.
BUT TO GET TO THE ROOT OF ITS CURRENT

POPULARITY, IT IS NECESSARY TO HONOR
THOSE WHO PAVED THE WAY FOR THE CURRENT
CROP OF CELEBRITY PSYCHICS, SUCH AS JONATHAN
EDWARD, SYLVIA BROWNE, AND JAMES VAN

PRAAGH.THAT SOMEONE IS KENNY KINGSTON.
by
Valerie
Porter
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Enter the Spirit Man

hile Kingstons mothers side
of the family nur tured his
apparent psychic gift, his
fathers family was more pragmatic.
Oh, they didnt believe at all, he
laughs. He was also thought of as a sassy
child when he would blurt out psychic
messages or warnings to acquaintances
of his parents. But Kingstons mother
encouraged his abilities, even teaching
him psychometry (touching a piece of
jewelry or other personal item in order
to pick up psychic messages from it).
His mother played another significant
role in his psychic development by
introducing him to her famous friend,
legendary sex symbol Mae West. West
was also psychic and quickly recognized
young Kennys abilities. She would
telephone to speak to his mother but if
Kenny answered the phone, she would
first say, Now quick; tell me the first
thing that comes to mind. Do you
think I should do the play I have in
mind? Thus launched Kingstons abilities with clairaudio, or the ability to
pick up psychic vibrations from the
sound of the clients voice.
Second to his love for spiritualism was
his love of the entertainment world. In
his early teens, he worked as a radio
announcer. Then a two-year stint in the
Army brought him to Italy, where he
served as an announcer in the Special
Services. This is also where he met entertainers such as musician/composer
Andre Previn and actor/singer/dancer
Dan Dailey. It was also during those
years that he first encountered thenGeneral Dwight D. Eisenhower.
While enjoying a drink one night
with some military friends, he made the
comment that General Br yant E.
Moore, Commanding General of the
88th Infantr y, should be cautious
around water. He heard Eisenhower
behind him say, The only water he
needs to be cautious of is the water he
mixes with his scotch!
At the sound of his voice, the men all
came to attention and Eisenhower said,
Ive heard of you, Kingston. Youre the
spirit man! They chatted briefly and
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Kingston predicted that he had a brilliant

career ahead of him. Years later, they met
again when Eisenhower was President.
(As a follow-up to the message Kingston
had given General Moore, the general
perished in Korea some time later, when
his helicopter crashed into the Han
River. The general survived the crash but
suf fered a fatal heart attack while
attempting to swim to safety.)
Following his discharge from the
Army in 1947, Kingston joined his
mother, who had subsequently moved
to San Francisco. There, he began giving psychic readings professionally.
Because San Francisco was home to
many celebrated personalities, many of
his clients were famous persons, such as
Judy Garland, Joan Crawford, W. Somerset Maugham, Greta Garbo, and Marilyn Monroe.
Talk Show Appearances
lthough giving psychic readings
for a living was satisfying, he
wanted to bring the field of psychic phenomena and spiritualism to the
masses. So in 1968, he was ordained as a
minister and shortly thereafter, began
holding church ser vices. At first, he
teamed up with another minister, and
they slowly built up a congregation that
gathered for healings, prayers, and psychic readings. He also began lecturing
for women and community groups.
The year 1969 was a turning point for
Kingston, as well as for the field of psychic phenomena. He was giving a lecture
in San Diego when he received a call
from a friend who was booking guests
for Allen Luddens television program.
(Ludden went on to become the popular
host of the classic TV game show Password, but at that time, he was hosting a
talk show called Allen Luddens Gallery.)
Kingston accepted and the evening of
the show, in the make-up room,
Kingston was introduced to Ludden.
After a few pleasantries, Kingston said,
Theres a woman named Margaret
standing behind you, and shes sending
you a tremendous amount of love. He
was about to continue but noticed that
Ludden had turned pale.
Who told you? he asked Kingston
quietly.
I dont know what you mean,
Kingston replied. Im just acknowledging the spirit who stands behind
you. Ludden looked at him intensely
and then said, Someone must have
told you.
Then he turned to staff members in
the room and asked, OK, who told
Kenny Kingston sitting in his hilltop home in Studio City, CA surrounded by a den filled
with photos of the celebrities to whom he has given psychic readings over the past four
decades.
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Kenny about Margaret?

Each staff member answered that they
had not said a word, but he seemed
unwilling to believe them. He then
yelled, Go get Betty from the audience, referring to his new wife, actress
Betty White. When she arrived, he asked
her the same question and she responded, Im just meeting Kenny now for the
first time!
Shortly thereafter, a shaken Ludden
went on the air and retold the incident
to his audience, explaining that Margaret
had been his first wife who had passed
away some years earlier.
During the program, Kingston
explained how viewers could meditate
with candles to achieve goals in their
lives and invited viewers to write to him
in care of Luddens show if they would
like further details. The show was flooded with mail and soon Kingston was
making multiple appearances on many
other talk shows.
Oh, Sweet Spirits
hose who might think that
todays TV psychics are breaking
new ground might not know
that in 1978, Kingstons first television
program aired in Los Angeles on Metromedia (later Fox Television). The show
was titled Kenny Kingston: A Psychic
Experience and featured guest experts
and celebrities who had had psychic
experiences. Kingston also provided
readings for the studio audience. Also in
1978, he wrote the first of his five books
on the psychic world, titled, appropriately enough, Sweet Spirits.
However, Kingstons career really
took off in the 1980s and 1990s with
radio talk shows, including his own radio
show in Los Angeles, night club appearances, lectures aboard cruise ships, and
eventually another television show, this
time titled The Kenny Kingston Show,
which aired from 1990 to 1991 on the
East Coast.
His career took on another dimension
when radio personalities Mark and Brian
from KLOS, a rock station in Los Angeles, contacted Kingston about holding a
sance on-air. Kingston agreed, with a
few stipulations. Though Mark and

Brians show aired in the morning,
Kingston requests that the sance be
held and broadcast in the evening. There
was not to be any commercial interruptions, and Kingston was to be able to
choose the people who would attend.
They agreed and during the sance,
Mark and Brian, who were known for
their outrageous and sometimes offcolor quips, behaved like model schoolboys. I think they were really too scared
to do anything but behave! he recollects. During the sance, the spirit contacts were numerous, and included such
musical greats as Billie Holliday, Janis
Joplin, and Josephine Baker. Thus ushered in a phase of his career that has continued to this day, with Kingston appearing as a guest on many rock stations
around the country.
But his radio and television appearances have not been limited to the United States. Reporters from as far away as
Brazil, Australia, and Italy have interviewed him, though his prominence is
greatest in the United Kingdom, where
over the years, he has appeared many
times in print and on many of the top
chat shows.
Kingstons Psychic Hotline
ne particularly eventful interview occurred in 1991, when
the London Daily Star published a two-day feature on Kingston
that led up to the newspaper offering
aura readings to readers who sent
Kingston a color photo of themselves.
On the first day of the feature, Kingston
read the auras of some of Britains most
famous people of the day, including
Princess Diana.
During that reading, he advised her
that she was undergoing a major digestive disturbance (which would later
come to light as her ongoing bout with
bulimia), and that she would be wise to
avoid doing something for a moments
pleasure that she would regret a lifetime.
(It later became known that it was during that time that she was authorizing
her friends to talk to author Andrew
Morton about her life with the royal
family, something she later said she

deeply regretted).
Most chilling, however, was his warning that her danger period in the future
would be from July to November, and
that she must avoid fast-moving cars. Of
course, the world now knows that
Princess Diana passed away in a fastmoving car in Paris, in August of 1997.
Kingston reached another audience
with the Kenny Kingston Psychic Hotline. The infomercials aired on television from 1993 to 2000 and featured
segments filmed at haunted locations as
well as celebrity readings and audience
participation.
Ive been asked why I did an
infomercial,Kingston says, but it was
an excellent way to reach an enormous
amount of people. I was able to give
information on the psychic world, as
well as offer readings to people who may
not have ever had a chance to have a
reading before. (At one time, there
were more than 400 psychics available to
give readings to callers via his hotline.)
One might think that with all of this
success, he would now like to rest a bit
on his laurels. Instead, Kingston has
many plans for the future. I have two
or three more books to write, he
explains. In addition, Im working on
ideas for several television specials. I
also continue to give private consultations and love to lecture.
Perhaps Los Angeles radio hostess
Harriet Bronson (former wife of actor
Charles Bronson) summed it up best
when he was a guest on her show in the
early 1990s. One of her callers mentioned that she remembered Kenny
Kingston from years before, when he
had accurately given her a reading. Ive
seen him on television for so many years
and here he is, still going strong on your
program! said the caller.
Bronsons response was, I think that
tells us one important thing. Through all
the fads and trends, Kenny Kingston has
proven the test of time. z
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Floridas Mysterious
CORAL
CASTLE
O
n the long drive down US Highway 1, about 30

miles south of Miami, FL, there is a curious
roadside attraction called Coral Castle, three
acres of coral rock carved into one mans vision
of the ideal home. Beneath its hard surface lies the heart of
Edward Leedskalnin, who built the castle between 1920 to
1940. Still more fascinating, at five feet tall and 100 pounds,
he reportedly accomplished this feat with nothing more
than primitive hand tools and old Ford Model-T parts.
However, without anyone to bear witness to his feats, Leedskalnins accomplishments remain a modern mystery.
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The tripod Ed used to

supposedly transport
the coral into position.
Leedskalnin, a Latvian immigrant with

a fourth-grade education, left his village
in 1913, after his 16-year-old sweetheart
Agnes Scuffs jilted him the day before
their wedding. He then roamed Canada
and the U.S., working in lumber camps
and on cattle drives. After he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, he decided to
settle down in Florida City, FL, where he
began work on his castle.
In all, he quarried, carved, and erected
over 1,100 tons of coral rock from nearby tracts of land, always at night. In order
to preserve his privacy, Leedskalnin used
only a lantern to illuminate his progress.
He supported himself by performing odd
jobs for neighbors, charging visitors
admission to witness his work on the castle, and selling several pamphlets he had
authored via mail order.
No one ever watched him work, but
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some teenagers once said that they had

seen him float huge blocks of coral in the
air like hydrogen balloons. Others
swear to have witnessed a blue glow
emanating from behind the castles walls
while he worked. Still others claim that
they could hear Leedskalnin singing to
his stones, from sunset to sunrise.
He worked on Coral Castle from 1920
to 1940, pausing only in 1936, when a
new subdivision was slated for construction nearby. The secretive Leedskalnin
then moved the entire structure 10 miles
by tractor-trailer, from Florida City to
Homestead, where it stands today.
While he claimed that the bustle of a
larger community with new neighbors
simply did not suit him, some believe
that he intended for his structure to be
built on an energy vortex, and when he
found that his original calculations were
off by several miles, he moved the castle

to its current location, where the energy
vortex actually existed.
Although Leedskalnin reportedly
unloaded and reloaded the trailer with
the massive blocks of coral by himself
in only a matter of hours, no witnesses
can testify exactly how he achieved this.
A driver would leave an empty trailer
overnight and when he returned at 9
a.m. each morning, he would find the
heavy coral blocks stacked neatly on the
trailer.
According to legend, one particular
evening, the driver returned after a half
hour to retrieve a forgotten item, and
found that several one-ton blocks were
already piled onto the trailer, with no
sign of any equipment for moving the
heavy coral pieces in the vicinity.
In December of 1951, at the age of
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Here Ed points out an

imprint of important
dates in his life - when
he was born, when he
first created Coral
Castle, and when it
moved to its current
location.
64, Leedskalnin died of stomach cancer.

When he died, he took with him any
hopes of solving the castles mysteries.
His only relative, a distant nephew living
in Michigan, inherited the Castle, which
he later sold to a family in Chicago, IL.
Today, it is publicly owned and is included in the National Register of Historical
Places. Its staff upholds Leedskalnins
desire to share his creation by welcoming
visitors daily.
Within the Castles Walls
oral Castle is best appreciated
when experienced first-hand.
Just before entering the massive
three-ton gate, a sign next to the homemade bell requests that visitors ring
twice.
Upon entering the courtyard, guests
are greeted with an assortment of furniture carved out of coral, ranging from
beds to tables and rocking chairs, all of
which are scattered outdoors in an
apparently random fashion.
A bedroom consists of two adult-sized
twin beds carved out of coral, one for
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himself and one for his Sweet Sixteen,

(in reference to the 16-year-old Agnes,
who jilted him) as well as two child-sized
beds and a cradle, which were intended
for the children he dreamed of having.
Several half-ton rocking chairs also surround a solid section of rock that is
shaped like the state of Florida.
Another gathering of three chairs,
arranged to take advantage of the sunlight at different times of the day, makes
up the reading area. Leedskalnin carved
the noon chair from a single block of
coral, in a lounging position similar to a
reclining contour chair, but fitted to his
own diminutive height.
Leedskalnin also created a magnificent
2.5-ton throne, along with thrones for
Sweet Sixteen and their three fictional
children. He created the most uncomfortable seat in the castle for his wouldbe mother-in-law and placed it directly
behind his own. Behind them, he carved
Mars, Saturn, and a 23-ton crescent
moon, which he aligned with the rising
moon on the winter solstice.
Only the two-story tower has a roof
overhead. All of the other rooms in

the castle are exposed to the elements,
although their arrangement implies separate zones. His actual living quarters
on the second floor of the tower consisted of a hanging bed made of wooden slats, a hanging chair fashioned from
an old horse harness, and a small
kerosene stove.
The first-floor tool room is perhaps
the most bizarre due to its simple contents. A few iron wedges, a tripod, a
grinding wheel, and some pulleys were
the only instruments he used to supposedly carve or move the massive stone
pieces. All of the tools were built from
old car parts. Leedskalnin also constructed a nine-ton gate that once revolved on
a Model-T axle at the slightest gust of
wind, with only a quarter-inch clearance
between the door and the walls. Unfortunately, because of poorly made repairs
in 2001, the door now requires a gentle
push to open.
Other highlights of the castle include
a telescope, a sundial, and an enormous
obelisk. The Polaris telescopea 25-
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foot-tall spirehas wire crosshairs that,

when viewed from the five-foot-tall eyepiece, align perfectly with the North Star.
Leedskalnin also calibrated the sundial to
the summer and winter solstices and it is
accurate to within two minutes. The
obelisk, featuring a six-point Latvian star
at the top to commemorate his birthplace, is the heaviest single block on the
property. It weighs 28.5 tons and towers
over 40 feet above the ground, with six
additional feet buried below the ground.
The Secrets of the Ancients
he question that has perplexed
engineers and scientists for
decades is how such a tiny, uneducated man single-handedly built such a
place of extraordinar y propor tions.
Many speculate that he harnessed magnetism to levitate the heavy coral pieces
into place. Others claim that he had
superhuman powers.
Many legends exist around the world
that describe how ancient megalithic
structures were actually levitated from
one location to another. For instance, in
Britain, it is said that Stonehenge was
created when Merlin trussed the
megaliths to each other and floated
them down from Ireland, across the
ocean, to their current location on Salisbury Plain. A similar story exists in the
South Pacific, where two 13th-century
sorcerers were said to have levitated to
their current positions the basalt stones
of Nan Modal, a fortress of over 100
artificial stone islets on the Micronesian
island of Pohnpei.
Leedskalnin, who was frequently
questioned about the construction of his
castle, explained enigmatically that he
had,
discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and [had] found out how the
Egyptians and the ancient builders
in Peru, Yucatan, and Asia, with
only primitive tools, raised and set
in place blocks of stone weighing
many tons.
He also criticized scientists for lacking
thoroughness in their research of electricity, magnetism, and gravity. He even
reprimanded them for incorrectly identi-
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fying electrons and protons. Rather, he

said that electrons and protons were
actually negatively and positively
charged magnets.
He even challenged scientists of the
day to recreate his experiments to prove
his theories. For instance, in his pamphlet Magnetic Current, Leedskalnin
invited scientists to perform a simple
test, which involved connecting two
pieces of wire to each terminal of a car
batter y. According to him, the wire
attached to the positive terminal would
produce more sparks, proving that electricity is composed of two different and
equal forces.
Leedskalnins pamphlet also suggests
that by connecting the ends of a metal
wire to two different battery terminals,
the traversing ley lines in order to

manipulate the magnetic charge of coral
blocks so that he could levitate them
into place.
Although this theor y seems farfetched, author Ray Stoner suggests that
under certain conditions, the manipulation of gravity becomes a distinct possibility. A structure must be positioned
over an energy vortex, and designed in
accordance with certain celestial configurations or events that can be reliably
predicted. It must also be built with specific materials, such as non-conductive
porous stone, and in a particular shape,
such as a cube, shapes that are supposedly conducive to powerful energy forces.
Ed Leedskalnin demonstrating the

electrical generator he designed
and invented out of old car parts.
It was his only source of power
for his radio and experiments.
Manipulating Magnetism
o how did Leedskalnin manipulate
magnetism in such a way as to
move heavy coral blocks? One
answer may lie in his assumption that all
matter is composed of tiny individual
magnets.
A simple bar magnet has both a
north-seeking pole and a south-seeking
pole, where like poles repel one another
and unlike poles attract each other. Likewise, negatively and positively charged
atoms attract one another while identically charged atoms repel one another.
One way to magnetize an iron or steel
bar is to strike it against a hard surface to
disorient the atoms, after which they will
naturally align themselves with the
Earths magnetic field. So some believe
that Leedskalnin may have found a way
to re-arrange the corals atoms by striking them with some instrument, so as to
align them with the Earths magnetic
field. By doing so, he may have been
able to levitate the heavy coral blocks.
Did Leedskalnin discover how to
manipulate a magnetic anomaly in such
a way as to be able to move the immense
coral pieces into place, or did he simply
move the coral into place with brute
strength alone? Sadly, Coral Castle will
likely mystify its visitors with its stony
silence for years to come. z
one positively charged and one negatively charged, one could move the wire by
sliding a magnet underneath it. By moving the magnet so that the north pole or
south pole faces the wire, it alternately
attracts and repels it.
Harnessing Earths Energy
ome believe that an invisible gridlike pattern of energy covers the
Earth, superimposed over its magnetic fields, and that the concentration
of power at the intersections of these
ley lines intensify the Earths energies.
Since Leedskalnins castle is supposedly
situated on one of these intersections,
some believe that Leedskalnin somehow
discovered how to harness the energy of
For more information or directions to

the castle, visit www.coralcastle.com
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Web Reviews: Glastonbury
Web Reviews
Isle of Avalon
WWW.ISLEOFAVALON.CO.UK
he Isle of Avalon web site

was drawn from the inspiring Isle of Avalon Por tal,
which ran on the web from
1995 to 2001, eventually closing due to lack of funding. Featuring some adver tising (but
nothing outside of the central
topic of Glastonbur y, England),
this site offers the most extensive information on the spiritual
importance of the town and surrounding natural attractions, as
well as the historic lore of the
area.
Created just under Chalice
Hill by local Palden Jenkins,
the Isle of Avalon brims with
information, pictures, and helpful links, all tied up in cleverly
packaged sections. The sevenpage On-Line Tour of Glastonbur y is a fabulous place to
star t ones search into this
mystical, inspirational town, as
it is peppered with color ful stories of Jenkins individual connections to the attractions
around Glastonbury.
The Glastonbur y Pilgrims
Trail is an on-line re-creation of
a walking trail put together in
the first half of the centur y by
Alice Buckton, owner of the
Chalice Well. The information in
this section is extensive, covering Glastonbury Abbey, the Chalice Well, the Holy Thorn, and
Brides Mound, including photos as well as the archaeology,
histor y, and legendar y lore of
each attraction.
Not to be outdone, King
Arthur has his own section here
as well, complete with a brief
histor y and 22 links to Ar thurian sites on the net. And do not
forget to stop by the Glastonbur y Archive to check out a
couple of the free, out-of-print or
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unpublished books on such

diverse topics as the war on
dr ugs, spiritual healing, ley
lines, and the nature of time.
The pictures are perhaps the
most breathtaking par t of the
Isle of Avalon. Frolic amid mushrooms and moss-covered trees
with dragonflies and farmyard
animals in Nature around Avalon. Even trees have their own
section, with a slide show of
over 20 photos of trees, including the Gog and Magog Oaks
and the Holy Thorn.
For an informative, beautiful
web site on Glastonbur y, one
cannot get much better than the
Isle of Avalon. It is easy to navigate with mostly up-to-date links
and a strong focus on the topic.
Glastonbury Tor
WWW.GLASTONBURYTOR.ORG.UK
alden Jenkins, site author

of the Isle of Avalon web
site, has branched out to
explore in detail one of the most
famous landmarks in Glastonbur ythe Tor, the mound that
rises above the small, medieval
town. Applying a format similar
to that of the Isle of Avalon,
Jenkins uses the same breadth
of infor mation, attention to
detail, and breath-taking still

photography to present the
definitive site on Glastonbur y
Tor.
The Torduction presents a
quick overview of the history of
the Tor. Learn how Glastonbury
forms the point of connection
between fairies, King Ar thur,
and Jesus. Read actual
accounts of fair y, ghost, and
UFO sightings on the Tor.
Explore the basics of ear th
energy lines and mar vel at the
possibility of a ter raced
labyrinth forming the Tor. A map
to the labyrinth and a description of how to walk it is a major
part of The Tor Goddess. However, be warnedthere are
some provocative Goddess
images that may shock some
people and are probably not
appropriate for youngsters.
Ley Alignments fascinates
with a full-color map created
and researched by Jenkins,
showing the ley lines, Roman
roads, natural features, ancient
sites, medieval churches, and
the great circle lines that converge in Glastonbury.
The Glastonbur y Tor finishes
by giving the viewer a 360
degree panoramic shot of Glas-
tonbury from the top of the Tor.

If you have got a slow browser,
you are going to need patience
when watching it load, but it is
time well spent. Like the rest of
the web site, the panoramic
shot gives viewers a feeling of
visiting that magical attraction
without ever having to leave
ones home!
the most exciting section of the

site is the Vir tual Tour of the
Gardens. With stunning still
photography, visitors are taken
from the entrance gate, through
the various pools, past the Yew
trees and the holy thorn, past
King Arthurs court (with waterfall and Pilgrims pool) and the
Lions Head drinking area to the
source of the spring, the Chalice Well. It is an inspiring, moving tour with in-depth information, several side links, and
beautiful imagery.
The rest of the pages are
filled with practical information
on visiting the Well, including
how to rent it for special events,
how to become a companion (or
member) of the Well, and a list
of all the special events held at
the Well. Whether you decide to
become a companion or simply
relax by a shady pool, The Chalice Well will fill you with peace
and joy.
Glastonbury Abbey
WWW.GLASTONBURYABBEY.COM
ne of the most beautiful

places to take photographs in Glastonbur y
is the grounds of the r uined
medieval Catholic Church of
Glastonbury Abbey.
The majority of this web site
focuses on practical information concerning visiting the
Abbey, a holy site where people
come for mass, for yearly religious pilgrimages (in July), and
to per form walking prayer ful
meditations on the Journey of
the Cross. Despite the obviously devout tone, the Abbey caters
to King Arthur researchers and
medieval history buffs, as well.
The Myths and Legends
section explains King Ar thurs
connection to the Abbey and is
the most detailed information
you will find on King Ar thurs
connection to Glastonbur y.
The Chalice Well

WWW.CHALICEWELL.ORG.UK
trip to Glastonbury would

not be complete without a
visit to the Chalice Well.
One of the oldest continuously
used holy wells in Britain, it has
never run dr y and is sacred to
both Christians and Pagans.
The Guardians of the Well,
Lynne and Michael Orchard,
were given the role of caretakers of the well and surrounding
gardens in 1998 by the Chalice
Well Tr ust, which has been
maintaining the Chalice Well
since 1959. Their pictures and
running commentar y provide a
homey mood in which to explore
one of Glastonbur ys fabled
attractions.
With two interactive maps (on
two dif ferent pages), visitors
get their bearings. But by far
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Joseph of
Arimetheas
role in founding the
Christian faith in England is also
briefly covered as is his connection to the holy thorn tree and
the Chalice Well (other wise
known as the Red or Blood
Spring).
The Histor y of the Abbey
section is less exciting but covers the creation of the Abbey
and the turmoil that ensued during the time of King Henr y VIII.
With links to two graphs, historians can see exactly what was
going on in the world as various
impor tant events occurred at
the Abbey. The site also
devotes three pages to beautiful, lush pictures of the grounds
of the Abbey.
For information on Glastonbur y from the Christian viewpoint, this web site can not be
beat. The pictures and detailed
infor mation make it a mustvisit.
Glastonbury Circle
WWW.GCIRCLE.CO.UK
f all this web surfing on the

town of Glastonbury and Avalon has you hungering to visit
the
r e a l
thing, then
the Glastonbur y Circle web site should be your next
visit. Organized as an online
guidebook, this site provides
links to lists of accommodations, attractions, restaurants,
shops, as well as healing and
bodywork centers. With helpful
hints for the first-time visitor
(such as places to find lodgings
when the Visitors Center is
closed for the night), this site
offers practical advice.
Although the Glastonbury Circle focuses mostly on practical,
hands-on information about visiting the town of Glastonbury, in
the spirit of the town, the web
site does not shy away from
esoteric thought. The Publishing Index page has links to five
inspirational essays on such
diverse topics as the impact of
automobiles on society and the
land, ley lines, and inspirational
poems about inner peace and
Mar y Magdalene. Only in Glastonbur y could you have such
assor ted information on one
web site!
MICHELLE SANTOS
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Book Reviews
Book Reviews
The Unbelievable Truth

A Mediums Guide to the Spirit World
BY GORDON SMITH
The Inner West

An Introduction to the
Hidden Wisdom of the West
BY JAY KINNEY, EDITOR
ISBN: 1585423394
$14.95, TARCHER, 2004
or over a centur y, western

mystics have looked to the
East for inspiration and Jay
Kinney, former editor of the late
Gnosis magazine, reminds us of
the vital mystical traditions
which exist in our own backyard.
With essays from Sufism to
Swedenborg, The Inner West
gives us a sampling of the power ful and multifaceted Western
Tradition.
Kinney and his contributors
may be mystics but they are
also scholars. For instance,
instead of the long-debunked
myths about Egyptian sages creating the Tarot, Chas S. Cliftons
essay titled "The Unexamined
Tarot" provides a fascinating
and well-documented hypothesis on the origins of the Tarot
that incorporates Persian cavalr ymen, Turkish rebellions, and
Italian Ducal families.
The western mystical tradition
has always drawn from various
sources and this book also presents some of the strands
which have gone into this intricate tapestr y. Judy Harrows
"Explaining Wicca" provides a
superb introduction to ear thcentered Neopaganism while
Theodore J. Nottingham and Pinchas Giller discuss Christian
and Jewish mysticism, respectively.
Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, and Theosophy also receive due
attention here, as do
other influential but
less well-known movements, such as Rudolf
Steiners Anthroposo-
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phy and Ren Gunons Traditionalism.

If you are tired of simpleminded pap and New Age tripe,
this book will prove a potent
antidote. Instead of airy affirmations, The Inner West provides
bedrock knowledge. If you are
seeking the Path of Wisdom,
you could not ask for a better
roadmap.
KEVIN FILAN
Raechels Eyes
BY HELEN LITTRELL
AND JEAN BILODEAUX
ISBN: 0-92652460-7
$25, WILD FLOWER PRESS, 2004
any UFO researchers

believe that ETs are
aggressively executing
a genetics program in order to
produce a viable alien-human
hybrid.
And to what purpose are the
aliens breeding these hybrid
creations? One answer may
come from co-authors Helen Littrell and Jean Bilodeaux, who
tell the stor y of Raechel, a
young alien-human hybrid who
was rescued from a crashed
UFO in the Nevada deser t and
later adopted by the same Air
Force Colonel who had pulled
her out of the wreckage.
According to the authors,
Raechel was raised at the topsecret militar y installation in
Nevada (not Area 51, the
authors maintain), where it was
decided in 1971 that an
attempt should be made to
assimilate her into the
ever yday world of
humans, as par t of
the protocol of a classified program called
the Humanization
Project,
which,
among other things,
sought to determine
the amount of
ISBN: 1401903584
$23.95, HAY HOUSE, 2004
y day, Gordon Smith runs a barbershop in Glasgow, Scotland. By

night, he is a medium who puts
bereaved people in touch with their
depar ted loved ones. The Unbelievable
Truth: A Mediums Guide to the Spirit World is an engrossing
memoir of Smiths dealings with a whole host of characters,
both living and deceased.
Smith writes in a chatty, informal style, a welcome change
from the ponderous, long-winded screeds favored by many spiritual authors. Smith also avoids dogmatic pronouncements and
New Age philosophizing. Instead, his spiritual contacts dispense
good advice to their loved ones.
A longtime Spiritualist, Smith also provides readers with plenty of anecdotes about the famous mediums and psychics he has
met, as well as the con artists. Smith also brings a healthy portion of Scottish skepticism to his work. For instance, he is quick
to point out that many hauntings have non-supernatural explanations. He also comments on a variety of subjects, such as the
dif ference between ghosts and spirits; "public non-reality"
(Fortean weirdness, more or less); and the nature of consciousness. Throughout the book, his descriptions and definitions
remain clear, concise, and easy to follow.
The Unbelievable Truth is a fine addition to any library of the
paranormal and will reward readers with a new and deeper
understanding of the Hereafter.
KEVIN FILAN
ers to confront the hybrid phenomenon in a manner that may

make some of us uncomfor table, since it implies that the
hybrids are not confined to
space but may actually be living
among us. It is that ver y discomfort, like so much associated with the UFO abduction phenomenon, that makes this book
an impor tant step on the path
to a truer understanding of the
aliens interest in human genetics and reproduction.
SEAN CASTEEL
Dont Call Them Ghosts

The Spirit Children of Fontaine
Manse: A True Story
BY KATHLEEN MCCONNELL
ISBN 0-7387-0533-0
$12.95, LLEWELLYN, 2004
e have all heard horror

stories about evil
ghosts rattling chains
through haunted houses and

attacking the living who dare
enter their domain. However,
there are far fewer tales of people who have had positive interactions with the non-corporeal
denizens of their homes. Kathleen McConnells Dont Call
Them Ghosts helps fill that
niche. Told in her own words, it
explains how she came to love
the "spirit children" of Fontaine
Manse, a red brick Victorian
home located on the outskir ts
of Louisville, KY.
Her first encounter with the
spirits was less than auspicious. In 1971, Kathleen and
her husband were awakened at
1 a.m. by the sound of banging.
When they ran to the stairs,
they discovered an invisible
hand opening and closing the
double oak doors to the kitchen.
Later, Kathleen began hearing
footsteps and discovered an

unseen being playing "roll the
ball" with her toddler. This
would have sent most people
screaming from the room in terror, but Kathleen just laid down
the law to her
unseen
housemates,
ordering
them to behave.
The young spirits
who, according to
McConnells research
died during a yellow
fever epidemic in the
late 19th centur y,
apparently responded
well to her firm hand
and before long, they had
become a much-loved par t of
her household. On one occasion, they even saved her infant
son from drowning in a bathtub.
But the hauntings all came to
an end four years later, when
Broken Saints
WWW.BROKENSAINTS.COM
human emotion Raechel might

be capable of attaining.
So after Raechel reached
young adulthood, she was
enrolled in college. (For the sake
of privacy, the authors use the
pseudonym of Lost River College, saying only that it is located in Nor thern California.)
Raechel took as a roommate a
nearly blind young woman
named Marisa. The fact
that Marisa was visually
impaired made the
strangeness
of
Raechels appearance
less of a problem, and
the chain of events
leading up to Raechels
alien origins finally
being revealed to her
roommate is thoroughly engrossing.
If there is a complaint to be
made about the book, it lies in
the fact that the first half is written like a novel that awkwardly
strains to cram in factual information alongside a stor yline
that seems, on the sur face, to
be similar to an old X-Files
episode. However, the books
second half, which includes
transcripts of Helen Littrells
(who also happens to be
Marisas mother)
regressive hypnosis sessions, and
other documentation, redeems the
first half and keeps
the book grounded
and believable. In
any
case,
Raechels Eyes
forces UFO believ-
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n unusual fusion of animation, text, and music that

first appeared on the Internet in 2001, Broken Saints
was a groundbreaking foray into the field of digital art
and animation. The 24-episode series was created using
Flash animation, but its gripping visuals and haunting music
made it a cult favorite among sci-fi fans and animation buffs.
Now the release of the series on DVD brings it to the mainstream, attracting new legions of well-deserved fans.
Melding influences from sci-fi films and anime (Japanese animation), Broken Saints tells the tale
of a group of people whose divergent lives are brought together by a series of disturbing visions of
global annihilation. A Buddhist monk, an assassin, a mysterious young woman, and a computer programmer must come together to unravel their meaning and ultimately combat a sinister force that
threatens humanitys very existence.
Not fully animated but not completely still-frame either, the series flows like a comic book brought
to life with striking visuals, eerie music, and a truly unique sensibility. Unlike many internet series,
where the end result suffers from the limitations of the medium, Broken Saints turns those setbacks into a boon, using the music, text, and creative use of still frames to fill in where the restrictions of animation left off.
The DVD version features improved visuals over the original series and other additional features,
including more than 16 hours of inter views, foreign-language subtitles, stor yboards, and other
extras that only enhance this already extraordinary experience.
Beautiful, nightmarish, and thought-provoking, this highly original piece of entertainment is unique
and is a must-see for anyone who wants to glimpse the future of animation now.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
the McConnells moved out of

the Fontaine Manse. The spirits
who had frightened her in 1971
were now part of her family and
in moving to a new home, she
felt like she was ripping out her
own hear t. Her
anguished efforts to
lead the spirits "into
the light" before she
moved will leave a
lump in your throat.
While McConnell
is not a professional writer, her tales
of day-to-day suburban life are saved
from banality by
the warmth of her personality
and the obvious love she feels
for her family. The pre-production copy I reviewed had a few
sentence fragments, awkward
turns of phrase, and confusing
time shifts, but nothing that a
competent copy editor could not
correct.
If the authors tale rambles at
times, it only adds to the homespun charm. The spirit children
of Fontaine Manse may not chill
your bones, but they will certainly warm your heart.
KEVIN FILAN
Out-of-Body Exploring
A Beginners Approach
BY PRESTON DENNETT
ISBN: 1-57174-409-6
$13.95, HAMPTON ROADS, 2004
he trouble with books that

deal with an unusual
experience is that words
are generally inadequate to
convey it. Preston Dennetts
Out-of-Body Exploring suf fers
from the same problem. He
does an admirable job of talking all around it, but what,
exactly, is an out-of-body experience (OBE)? His definition is
that it occurs when an individual perceives his or her awareness as existing outside of
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Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Unleashed
Of Poltergeists and Murder: The Curious Story of Tina Resch
BY WILLIAM ROLL, PH.D.
AND VALERIE STOREY
ISBN: 0-7434-8294-8
$14, PARAVIEW, 2004
t is not often that a book about a

polter geist investigation has the
potential to break your hear t. But
when reading Dr. William Rolls latest
book, it would take a hear t of stone not
to be moved by the plight of teenaged Tina
Resch (adopted daughter of John and Joan
Resch), the focus of the poltergeist.
Unleashed details the gripping account of
the 1984 Columbus, OH poltergeist activities, and Dr. Roll and his partner Kelly Powers subsequent investigation of the phenomenon.
The poltergeist activity began in 1984 after Tina threatened
her father with a kitchen knife after a fight. Shor tly thereafter,
household items began flying about the house, furniture moving
or over turning, and glasses shattering. Additionally, the phone
was plagued by weird sounds and static, and lights would turn on
and off by themselves.
At first, the Reschs looked for more ear thly explanations for
the phenomenon but after exhausting those, they turned to ministers and psychics. However, their attempts to quiet the restless
force only seemed to make matters worse as the poltergeist
started to increasingly target Tina with its unique abuse.
With nowhere else to turn, the Reschs contacted noted parapsychologist Dr. William Roll, director of the Psychical Research
Foundation in North Carolina. Roll personally witnessed dozens
of strange occurrences that revolved around Tina.
Even though the poltergeist incidents slowly died down, Roll
continued to stay in contact with Tina, and his book recounts the
unfortunate turns of Tinas later adult life.
Many books on paranormal phenomenon approach their subject in such a clinical way that they are almost unreadable.
Unleashed, however, effectively adds a more human touch, so
that the reader is drawn along by the stor y and left profoundly
touched by the sad life of Tina Resch and the strange events that
dominated her childhood.
TIM SWARTZ
their physical body.

However, the essential paradox between experience and
explanation does not make Dennetts book any less interesting.
Indeed, Dennett is intent on
enabling the reader to experi-
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ence his or her own OBE. He

begins by describing his own
experiences, then jumps around
in time to illustrate various
aspects of the experience, such
as levitation, flying, and walking
through walls.
Dennett, a leading
UFO researcher who
has written several
books on the subject,
also cites others in the
paranormal field to elucidate aspects of an
OBE.
The chapter toward
the end of the book,
titled How to Have
OBEs and What to do
When You Succeed
contains some instructional guidelines for
those interested in achieving an
out-of-body experience (which
Dennett claims we all do during
sleep), including relaxation and
visualization techniques. The
trouble is that it all sounds like
technical jargon. Perhaps if one
really persevered and practiced
at having OBEs following Dennett's suggestions, the results
would be rewarding, but this
reviewer did not feel so inclined
CHARLES RAMMELKAMP
The Holy Grail

Mystery Solved
A Fully Documented
Research Odyssey
BY FRANK C. TRIBBE
ISBN: 1880090058
$14.95, GALDE PRESS, 2003
he identity of the Holy Grail

has been a source of contention for hundreds of
years. Is it a symbol or an actual
object? If it is real, what is it?
Author Frank Tribbe attempts to
analyze these issues in The
Holy Grail Myster y Solved, but
falls shor t of a comprehensive
solution to the myriad issues
surrounding the legend.
Much of Tribbes previous
research concentrated on the
Shroud of Turinthe infamous
relic that some believe to be the
burial shroud of Christ. Tribbe
believes that the negative image
printed onto
its sur face
pr ovide
physical
proof
of
Christs resurrection.
And in this
book, Tribbe
argues that
the
Grail
was
the
Shroud of
Turin, the
word Grail
actually referring to the filigree
border, or the graille that may
have decorated the reliquar y
that held the Shroud.
Much of the book is mired in
discussions of the various Grail
legends and the many objects
that have been identified as the
Grail over the years, from
car ved stone chalices to jeweled platters to precious gems.
But far from enlightening the
reader, these digressions
detract from the overall thesis
of the book, as Tribbe never
relates them back to his main
point concerning the Grails
identity and its purpose.
Additionally, later chapters
feature discussions on Ar thurian and Grail-themed books and
movies that read more like a
bibliography than an actual part
of the book. And while Tribbes
theories are compelling, his
rambling tone never brings them
to a full conclusion, making the
book less of an authoritative
text than a springboard for further research.
An intriguing but uneven read
that star ts out strong but provides too much information that
only tangentially relates to his
subject, The Holy Grail Myster y
Solved is anything but the last
word on the subject.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
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Civilization One:
The World Is Not
as You Thought It Was
BY CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT
AND ALAN BUTLER
ISBN: 1842930958
$24.95, WATKINS/DUNCAN BAIRD, 2004
rom 1934 until his death in

1985, Oxford engineering
professor Alexander Thom
explored many megalithic monuments throughout Great Britain.
Using statistical analysis, he
theorized that the designers of
these massive stone circles
had used a standard type of
measurement, which he called
a Megalithic Yard. (0.8296656
meters, or approximately 32.66
inches).
While Thom focused on the
megalithic monuments of Great
Britain, Knight and Butler
explored units of measurement
used throughout the ancient
world. They found that 366
Megalithic Yards equal one second of arc of
the earth's circumference as
well as 1,000
of the "Minoan
feet," the measurement used
in designing
Minoan castles
and temples
from 1800 to
1500 BC. They
discovered relat i o n s h i p s
between
the
units used to
measure distance
and those used to
measure weight, volume, and
time and found similarities
between units used in India and
Japan and the British pound,
pint, and bushel.
If you are not mathematically
minded, all these numbers and
calculations may soon find your

head swimming. Thankfully,
Knight and Butler present their
abtruse findings in a clear and
easy-to-follow fashion. Each
chapter ends with a conclusion
summarizing the points presented therein.
Some of their conclusions are
interesting. For instance, their
theor y on how the Megalithic
Yard is connected to the length
of a pendulum used to measure
the movement of Venus is certainly plausible. But at other
times they appear to be reaching. Just because two separate
cultures may have used pendulums and examined the night
sky does not mean that they
both learned about pendulums
from some early and advanced
civilization.
Knight and Butler also downplay the oft-repeated criticism
that anyone can come up with
"mystical numbers" if they play
enough games
with the figures
at hand. Still,
they seem willing to massage
their numbers
to create corollations which
might be no
more
than
coincidence.
All in all,
this is an
interesting
introduction
to prehistoric
measurement. They
may not convince you that
some ancient civilization simultaneously taught the mysteries
of measurement to cultures
around the world, but they will
certainly provide you with plenty
of food for thought.
The Twilight Zone

Scripts of Charles Beaumont, Vol. 1
ISBN: 1-887369-73-6
$66, GAUNTLET PRESS, 2004
ver the last several years, the Guantlet Press has

released beautiful and scholarly volumes that make
available long out-of-print books from seminal horror and
sci-fi writers. Their most recent book is the first in a series that
will eventually collect the complete Twilight Zone scripts of
Charles Beaumont.
While Rod Serling's name remains synonymous with The Twilight Zone TV series (1959-1964), Beaumonts work on the series should not be
underestimated, for several episodes
that have entered our social consiousness, such as The Howling Man and
The Prime Mover, were scripted by
Beaumont or based upon his short stories. As such, it was a true pleasure to
read the original, uncut shooting
scripts to these classic works.
The scripts themselves are smar t,
lean, and engaging. Beaumont knew
how to create compelling characters and hold a viewers
interest, but more importantly he knew how to plot a story in a
way that both intrigued and satisfied. Even in the unproduced
script, Gentlemen, Be Seated, there is evidence of his mastery of the craft. It is a testament to his powers as a writer that
even now, over 40 years after they were written, Beaumonts
stories caused the hair on my arms to arch and my neck to
tighten with suspense.
This thick volume leaves no doubt that Beaumont was as talented a scriptwriter as he was a shor t stor y writer, and it provides several glimpses into his creative process. By interviewing
Twilight Zone production staff, actors, and Beaumont's family,
editor Roger Aniker makes sure each episode is placed in its
proper historical, social, and literary context. Even more importantly, he places each script squarely into Beaumont's biography, revealing what was going on in his life at the time and interspersing his friend's recollections and obser vations of
Beaumonts tragically short life.
An indispensible volume for both Twilight Zone fans and
lovers of fantastic literature, the nine scripts in this book serve
as not only a por tal to other worlds, but a fitting memorial for
one of the most brilliant, creative, and unsung writers of our
time.
DJ ANDERSON
KEVIN FILAN
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Walkers Between the Worlds

The Western Mysteries from Shaman to Magus
BY CAITLIN AND JOHN MATTHEWS
ISBN 089281091-2
$19.95, INNER TRADITIONS, 2004
alkers Between the Worlds is a comprehensive survey of mystical

and magical traditions that underlie the established religions of the
west, which increasingly appear hollow and irrelevant. These mystical traditions encompass
a wealth of knowledge and experience of spirituality and the godhead that can revitalize our urge to
transcendence. Moreover, according to the authors, we all have access to this mystical knowledge
through spiritual exercise. Caitlin and John Matthews have written several books on the esoteric wisdom of Celtic traditions and this volume mines those and other paganisitic traditions further.
Dividing the study into the Native and Hermetic traditions, the authors describe the vital connections among the various strands of western spirituality. The Native tradition embraces otherworldly
rites and the use of charms and initiations that have been around since the beginning of history. The
section includes a description of the ancient gods and heroes, from Arthur and Brighid to Merlin and
Morgan le Fay. A survey of the various mythic cycles, such as the Arthurian legend, the Mabinogion,
and Robin Hood tales, bring these mythic figures to life and illuminate the mystical tradition of mythic
re-telling through active par ticipation that "brings the traditions to life." The Native tradition, the
authors assure us, is approachable by all who have a Western consciousness and cultural identity
(whatever that is, exactly).
The section on Hermetic Traditions explores what the authors call the outward spiral of the
labyrinth. The native tradition focuses on the "other world" and develops an identification with the
godhead "out there" while the hermetic tradition seeks the god "within," toward a development of
cosmic consciousness through meditative techniques. Where the traditions explored in the first part
represent native British spirituality, those of the second part include ancient mystery traditions of the
Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Persians, Indians, as well as Zoroastrianism and Mithraism and the
Near Eastern cults of Dionysus and Orpheus.
Each chapter also includes meditations designed to put the lessons to practical effect. Guardians
of Anima Mundi, for instance, instructs readers to visualize the four elemental guardians around
ones bed before going to sleep. The result, the authors assure readers, will be a heightened awareness of the earths soul and an attendant appreciation of life. While I found the theoretical material
compelling and readable, the practical exercises were time-consuming and required a dedication I did
not particularly feel. So readers will have to decide their efficacy for themselves.
CHARLES RAMMELKAMP
The Lost Colony

of the Templars
Verrazano's Secret
Mission to America
BY STEVEN SORA
ISBN: 1594770190
$16.95, DESTINY BOOKS, 2004
n 1524 Florentine explorer

Giovanni da Verrazano set out
to find a passage between the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. But
was he looking for a shortcut to
India or for something else? In
The Lost Colony of the Templars,

Steven Sora suggests that there
was more to Verrazano's voyage
than conventional historians
believe. With a narrative stretching from prehistoric monumentbuilders to modern-day Quebec,
Sora makes a solid case for a
pre-Columbian Templar colony in
Nor th America, as well as for
Templar involvement in the voyages of Columbus and other
navigators.
Leif Ericson's voyages to the
Americas in the 11th centur y

are well-documented,
but
what about other
Vikings, or Irish
navigators who
might have traveled to Iceland
and points west
centuries
before
Ericsons voyage?
And what of
Basque fisher-
men who were taking cod from

the Grand Banks centuries
before Columbus set foot on
Hispaniola? Sora provides several intriguing bits of evidence
which suggest extensive preColumbian traffic between the
Old World and the New.
Did the Templars avoid persecution by following secret trade
routes to Arcadia, a "mythical"
western land known to Templar
sea captains and navigators?
Sora points to the Newpor t
Tower, a ruined round building
located in Rhode Island, which
is nearly identical to Templar
Baptistries found throughout
Europe. And Verazzano noted
this tower as a "Norman Villa"
in the diaries of his voyage,
nearly a centur y before the Pilgrims arrived in Rhode Island!
Sora also points out that
many of the early navigators who
explored the New World had
Templar connections. The wife
of Christopher Columbus was
the daughter of a Templar
knight. And Jean-Jacques Olier,
one of the founders of Montreal,
was also founder of "Les
Messieurs de Saint-Sulpice," a
group which many believe had
secret ties to sur viving postTemplar organizations. These
connections are largely based
on circumstantial evidence, but
Sora cer tainly makes some
thought-provoking observations.
Only rarely do you
find a book which
could change the way
we look at our history:
this is one of those
books. If you are interested in alternate history or conspiracy theory, The Lost Colony of
the Templars deserves
a place of honor on
your shelves.
musical celebration that brings

out the most primordial
essence of humanity and its
relationship with nature.
Quiet Fire
Zen Moods for the
Spa Experience
RICHARD MACKENZIE
BY GARY STROUTSOS /
WILL CLIPMAN / WILLIAM EATON
Opera
WHITE SWAN RECORDS

ISBN: 17147-00552
PISCES PROJEKT
UNICORN 1 RECORDS
Ds touted as spa
music often tend to confuse the concept of relaxation with that of sedation.
Thankfully, Quiet Fire is anything
but sleep-inducing. Its mesmerizing mix of percussion, strings,
and wind instruments soothes
the senses without overwhelming them.
One of Quiet Fires most
remarkable features is its
seamless blending of musical
genre and style, including Asian
and Native American flutes,
African and South American
drums, and Asian and European
stringed instr uments. While
lesser musicians might have
merely combined them into a
generic sound, Gary Stroutsos,
Will Clipman, and William
Eatons genius lies in preser v-
WWW.UNICORN1RECORDS.COM
ing the integrity of the instruments origins while taking

them in new directions. Each
distinct sound is maintained
and yet combined with the others in such a way that one
merely accepts the fluidity of
the cadence as it changes.
For instance, on Xiao Messenger at Midnight, the flute
melody that opens the piece
transitions between Asian and
Native American influences.
Similar trends continue on
Stars over Sedona, a song
whose entrancing beauty is
calming, introspective, and
refreshing, drawing its inspiration from nature.
Quiet Fire is an exquisite
Magic and Mystery

BY KOKILA
WWW.AVALON-ISLE-MUSIC.COM
hile the title promises magic and mystery, little enough of

either are to be found on this CD; its slow, quiet tempos
and fairylike tones are pretty, but not enough to be meaningful or memorable. Filled with harp, strings, and organ-like music,
Kokilas compositions are generic, drab, and repetitive, the New
Age equivalent to elevator music. The CDs only boon is that each
piece is short and that they flow by quickly and largely unnoticed.
It is obvious that the sound of this CD is supposed to be ethereal and haunting, but every note of
the harp feels contrived and technical, far from the mystic strains we are led to expect. Occasionally,
we hear a brief period of rare beauty, as on Promises to Keep, where a haunting Celtic-inspired
melody breaks free from the droning organ tune that accompanies it. Another breakthrough comes
on The Quest, a song in which the piano and harp harmonize and soar. But these moments are not
sufficient to break the monotony prevalent on the rest of this CD.
Less mystical than muddled, Magic and Mystery is a decent effort but has little to set it apart from
the thousands of other New Age CDs out there.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
ISSUE
#11
One factor uniting all of the

tracks is their strong sense of
theatricalitynot bombastic or
stagy but vibrant and filled with
character. The rollicking rhythm
of Lovers Waltz exudes the
euphoria of love while Admonition stands in sharp contrast,
with its techno-inspired beat
heightening the feeling of judgment conjured up by the powerful war ning contained in its
lyrics. Ballads, hymns, and lullabies round out the selection on
the CD, each with its own singular approach.
Not just another set of songs,
Opera is a resplendent sonic
experience that will not easily
be for gotten. Frankly, I have
never heard anything quite like
it, and I look forward to hearing
more from these peerless performers in the future.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
KEVIN FILAN
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pera is a remarkable CD,

not just for its outstanding fusion of musical
genres but for its tone as well.
Leaving behind the inactive
music of the past, each track on
the CD vir tually demands audience involvement and emotion.
And the CDs title is a fitting
one, opera meaning both
work of art and an operatic performance.
Each track draws on multiple
styles of music, from ethereal,
almost magical New Age vocals
to Gregorian-style chanting to
the intricate rhythms of dance
and techno to inspirational
hymns. The Pisces Projekts
unique musical sensibility
recalls both past and future as
their interesting arrangements

breathe new life into ancient
for ms. For instance, I Am
recalls the work of groups such
as Enigma and even Depeche
Mode, with vocals soaring out
of the dark, driving tempo of
piano and percussion. Inspirational lyrics and vocal quality
add a dash of popular singers
such as Josh Grobin to the mix.
And Battle Song opens with
an ethereal female voice in a
simple ar rangement that
reminds one of medieval ballads.
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In the Theater
In the Theater
Do not let the fleeting attention the film got from the media
fool you. Brilliantly crafted and
mesmerizing to watch, Hide and
Seek is the type of thriller that
does not just leave viewers on
the edge of their seat; it pushes
you into the aisle and sends you
cringing in terror behind your
chair.
War of the Worlds

(2005)
I
Hide and Seek (2005)
fter her mothers suicide,

a young girl and her father
seek to star t a new life
together, moving from the city to
a small community in upstate
New York to escape the traumatic memories of their past. Father
David (Robert DeNiro) is agitated to see the change in his normally cheer ful daughter Emily
(Dakota Fanning), but his agitation quickly turns to fear as she
becomes increasingly attached
to an imaginary friend she calls
Charlie while sinister events
begin to occur in their home.
Fascinating and incredibly
chilling, the film holds your
attention from first frame to
last. Plenty of twists and turns
keep the audience guessing,
from the peculiar conduct of
their new neighbors and the
other townspeople to Emilys
erratic behavior. Even after the
climactic plot twist, there are
more surprises to come. As the
strange incidents and the messages become more violent and
threatening, the tension builds
to almost unbearable levels.
Unlike most thrillers of this
type, Hide and Seek never
slacks of f in maintaining that
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tension throughout the film.

There are no loose ends, no
deus ex machina endings, no
out-of-the-blue, wow-where-didthat-come-from momentsjust
pure, unadulterated thrills, from
start to finish.
Additionally, both Fanning and
DeNiro turn in consummate performances, creating believable
and realistic characters who are
faced with a nightmarish situation. We feel their grief, rage,
and terror acutely, simultaneously sympathetic and war y of
their plight. The cinematography
also suits the films dark tone,
heightening ones suspicions
with smoky shadows and choppy
camera angles, most noticeably
in how Emily is filmed, surrounding the little girl with ever-burgeoning gloom as her relationship with Charlie intensifies.
t says a lot about a movie

when its best par ts are the
opening and closing narration. Alas, such is the case with
War of the Worlds, where those
sequences that are graced with
the dulcet tones of Mor gan
Freeman are the only coherent
par ts of the film. The rest is a
nonsensical, interminably long
blur of desolation and gore.
The film opens with Ray (Tom
Cruise), crane operator and car
aficionado, taking care of his
children for the weekend when a
series of bizar re lightning
storms disable all communication, transpor tation, and basic
electrical functions in the area.
When enormous alien spacecraft begin to emer ge from
beneath the ear th in the ver y
spot where the lightning strikes
were concentrated, it becomes
rapidly apparent that these
aliens do not come in peace.
Commandeering the only functional car around, the family
flees toward Boston to reunite

with Rays estranged wife and
her family, barely escaping the
devastation wrought by the alien
menace at every turn.
With its paper-thin plot, the
fine cast (including Cr uise,
Dakota Fanning as Rays daughter Rachel, and Tim Robbins as
another refugee whose obsession with battling the predators
puts them all in danger) has little to work with. Despite this,
Steven Spielbergs tremendous
skill and directorial prowess is
displayed yet again in how effectively he conveys universal
human reactions in the face of
traumatic events. Almost wordlessly, we see the myriad reactions to any great catastrophe,
ranging from paralyzing terror to
anger, from selflessness in the
face of others need to mans
inhumanity to his fellow creatures and the lengths to which
people will go to save themselves. The aliens are also
extremely effective villains, as
Spielberg combines mechanical
and organic elements to make
them as disturbing and gruesome as possible.
While visually striking and
unique for its insight into human
nature, War of the Worlds lacks
much of the spirit of the original
book, earlier film, and radio versions. Ultimately, this film is as
soulless as the bloodsucking
monstrosities it portrays.
ISSUE
#11
The Ring Two (2004)
Birth (2005)
aunted by the untimely

death of her husband ten
years before, Anna
(Nicole Kidman), a young widow,
is just beginning to pick up the
pieces. She has a new job, a
new life, and she is engaged to
be married again when the
unthinkable occursshe meets
a young boy who claims to be
the reincarnation of her lost
love. A strange tale of undying
love, Bir th is yet another film
whose execution falls far short
of its conceit. Unfortunately, the
most disturbing thing about the
film is not its taboo subject matter, but the films lack of focus
and its dearth of emotion.
For such a controversial and
charged film, the plot demands
a cer tain emotional intensity
that never materializes. While
we see Anna gradually come to
believe that the boy Sean actually is her husband reborn, we
never feel her emotions truly
come through. The brilliant,
chilling por trayal of Sean by
Cameron Bright is one of the
films few highlights and his
amazing maturity in the role is
just about the only thing that

makes the film somewhat
believable.
Fur thermore, the films lack
of emotional content makes the
more intimate scenes between
Sean and Anna feel not just disturbing but actually exploitative.
The strange knowledge that
Sean seems to possess about
Anna and about their past life
together never really fits, further
blurring the line between reality
and perception. Without the
intensity, the ambiguity only
frustrates, as there is no way to
empathize with the emotional
roller-coaster Anna finds herself
on. Any sympathy she garners
from viewers is purely as a reaction against the shock and the
brutal reactions of her family
and fiance towards her growing
relationship with the boy.
Cold, even manipulative of its
viewers, Birth should have been
a film about the power of love,
grief, and the extent to which
both can drive us to lengths we
would never dream of. Instead,
it is a dark, confusing, and conscienceless film that drowns in
its own stilted pretense.
he initial installment in the

Ring series was one of the
most disturbing films I
have ever seen. The sheer novelty of it all, however, is a double-edged sword; once you have
seen the first film, it is hard to
imagine taking the concept
much further. Such is the case
with The Ring II; while it has its
moments, in no way does it
deliver the same spine-tingling
thrills of the first.
Beginning largely where The
Ring left of f, we see Rachel
(Naomi Watts) and her son
Aidan (David Dorfman) trying to
start a new life in a small town,
even though the supernatural
menace they tried to escape is
never far behind them. A new
copy of the lethal videotape that
causes the death of ever yone
who sees it has surfaced in her
community and Rachel immediately recognizes its horrifying
handiwork. In the meantime,
the vengeful spirit of the little

girl from the tape has set her
sights on Aidan, intending to
possess him so she can experience the life of a normal child.
Frankly, there is not much that
is enlightening or novel in relation to the first film; perhaps the

most telling statement is that
the films scariest moments
come through reused footage
from The Ring, not from anything
new. The plot is also a stew of
unresolved elements; while we
learn a bit more about the girls
past and her sad origins, we
never understand precisely why
all these events are occurring.
And the catatonic acting, particularly David Dor fmans per formance as Aidan, has a reverse
ef fect on the audiencewe
actually want to see him get
possessed just so we can see
him act somewhat normal.
The sublime terror of the first
film gives way to occasional
ridiculousness, as well. For
instance, a scene when Rachel
and Aidan are attacked by a
herd of deer is absurd, and the
poor rendering of the computergenerated animals makes it
ludicrously funny.
Without the shocks and the
inscrutability of The Ring, its

sequel is a poor, sometimes
silly conundrum that fans of the
original would do well to avoid.
RICHARD MACKENZIE
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2005-06 Event Listings

ARCHAEOLOGY
BIBLE & ARCHAEOLOGY FEST VIII
November 18-20, 2005; Philadelphia, PA
Cost: $385 | Contact: Biblical Archaeology Society,
Travel/Study Depar tment, 4710 41st Street NW,
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or (202) 364-3300 | | Email: travel@bib-arch.org |
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EGYPTLAYER BY LAYER: CONNECTING
THE PHARAONIC, BIBLICAL, COPTIC AND
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SAVING PLACES CONFERENCE
February 8-10, 2006; Denver, CO
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SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY
71ST ANNUAL MEETING
April 26-30, 2006; San Juan, Puerto Rico
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(202) 789-8200 | Email: headquar ters@saa.org |
Web: www.saa.org/meetings/index
THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
INTERNATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
February 7-11, 2006; Eugene, OR
Cost: $30 (single day tickets available); children
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INST. OF AMERICA TOURS:

EGYPTIAN ODYSSEY ARCHAEOLOGICAL TOUR
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TREASURES OF LEGENDARY EMPIRES:
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April 2-16, 2006; Jordan, Egypt, and Malta
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ASTRONOMY
2006 NORTH CENTRAL REGION
ASTRONOMICAL LEAGUE CONVENTION
April 21-22, 2006; Appleton, WI
Cost: $95 | Contact: Newstar, PO Box 1611,
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Speakers include Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut; Carolyn Porco, Cassini Imaging team leader;
Ron Dantowitz, astro-imager; and authors Guy Consolmagno and Dan Davis.
CHERRY SPRINGS STAR PARTY
June 22-26, 2006; Galeton, PA
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CITY STAR PARTY, SIDEWALK ASTRONOMERS
TELESCOPE CLINIC, AND LECTURE SERIES
MYTHS AROUND THE ECLIPTIC
November 5, 2005; San Francisco, CA
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December 10, 2005; San Francisco, CA
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Through the observatory's 16 reflecting telescope
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craters and mountains on the moon, the moons and
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April 20-23, 2006; Jackson, GA
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GREAT DESERT TOTAL SOLAR
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March 23-April 6, 2006; Egypt
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Every 1st and 3rd Saturday; Berkeley, CA
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events
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ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL STAR PARTY
February 22-25, 2006; Lithia, FL
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July 25-31, 2006; southwest England
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Neolithic sacred sites, including Stonehenge, Avebury, West Kennett Long Barrow, Merlin's mound,
Rollright Stones, and gothic cathedrals built by master masons on old power spots. Spiritual magic,
wonder ful pubs, and much more, including basic
dowsing and remote viewing training, gifted PhD and

psychic exper ts, ecumenical rituals, and meditations for contact and healing. We are a 501(c)(3)
non-profit so our tours are tax-deductible.
SACRED CIRCLES: STONEHENGE
& CROP CIRCLES
July 23-31, 2006; England
Contact: Power Places Tours, Inc., 2609 #A
Andromeda, Colorado Springs, CO 80906, (800)
234-8687 or (719) 448-0514 | Email: travel@powerplaces.com | Web: www.powerplaces.com | Experience the magical energy of Stonehenge, Avebur y,
and Glastonbury. Feel the mystical power and energy of Stonehenge, including access to its inner circle, which is usually off limits to the public. Walk
through crop circles to experience the thrilling vortex
of energy that created them. Visit Glastonbury, the
mystic Isle of Avalon, the Chalice Well, Tintagel, and
much more with Freddy Silva, John Michell, and
Elaine Grohman.
SIGNS OF DESTINY 2005: CROP CIRCLES,
MARY MAGDALENE & SACRED SPACE
November 18-20, 2005; Phoenix, AZ
Cost: $275 | Contact: Dr. Chet Snow, PO Box 1738,
Sedona, AZ 86339, (928) 204-1962 | Email: chetsnow@npgcable.com | Web: www.chetsnow.com/
signs | Speakers include Sir Laurence Gardner, Graham Hancock, Margaret Starbird, Michael Glickman,
sacred sites photographer Santha Faiia, William
Henry, Linda Moulton Howe, Francine Blake, Nancy
Talbott, Jeffrey Wilson, and Clarisse Conner.
UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SPRING CONFERENCE
April 9, 2006; Dorchester, Dorset, England
Cost: 20 until April 6; 25 in adv | Contact: Mrs. V.
Kingston, 26 Rex Lane, Chickerell, Dorset, DT3 4AY
England, 01305 830057 | Email: dorchester.conference@virgin.net | Web: universityoflife.users
2.50megs.com/page28 | Speakers include Graham
Philips, Barbara Lamb, David Kingston, and others.
CRYPTOZOOLOGY
18TH ANNUAL BIGFOOT CONFERENCE/EXPO
April 29, 2006; Salt Fork State Park,
near Cambridge, OH
Cost: Free | Contact: Don Keating, (740) 498-4542 |
Email: eobic@yahoo.com | Web: www.angelfire.com/
oh/ohiobigfoot/abc
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BIGFOOT FIELD RESEARCHERS
ORGANIZATION EXPEDITIONS
November 3-6, 2005; Pennsylvania
December 1-4, 2005; Oklahoma
January 26-29, 2006; Florida
February 2-5, 2006; Georgia
March 2-5, 2006; Arizona
April 27-30, 2006; Ohio
May 4-7, 2006; Oregon
Cost: $1,200; $700 for addtl. person | Contact:
BFRO, (949) 278-6403 | Email: foundation@BFRO.
net | Web: www.bfro.net
FORTNITE 2005
November 5-6, 2005; Baltimore, MD
Email:
For tFest99@yahoo.com
www.forteans.com
Web:
OTHER
ALCHEMY OF THE PARANORMAL
November 9, 2005; Virginia City, NV
Contact: Maria Sefchick, (775) 824-8656 | Email:
asefchick@tmcc.edu | Web: www.alchemylab.com/
lectures | Examine the deeper aspects of paranormal events and access the hidden level that is part
of all paranormal cases. Forge contact with another
level of reality that is causing real changes in the
human spirit, and learn to see through wishful thinking, mistaken identities, frauds, money-making
schemes, and rampant egotism to reveal the surprising core of spiritual truth that cannot be denied
in a significant number of cases. With author Dennis
William Hauck.
ANCIENT SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGIES
REVEALED: 2012 PROPHESIES FULFILLED
March 26-April 7, 2006; Egypt
Cost: $2,600 | Contact: GENESIS, 1164 Bishop
Street, Suite #124-314, Honolulu, HI 96813, (808)
222-2453 | Email: Info@AncientWisdom.Net | Web:
www.ancientwisdom.net/egypt/index | With featured speakers William Henry, Freddy Silva, and Jordan Maxwell.
DREAM WORKSHOP
November 9, 2005; Pittsburgh, PA
December 14, 2005; Pittsburgh, PA
Cost: $6 | Email: cpearson@nauticom.net | Web:
www.nauticom.net/www/netcadet/ndw | Workshop
for anyone interested in exploring dreams and
increasing dream awareness. Topics will include
spiritual dreaming, lucid dreaming, programming
precognitive dreams, making dream mandalas,
mutual dreaming, synchronicities, out-of-body
dreams, dreams and writing, dreams of the departed, dream incubation, psychic dreaming, dreams
through history, dream dictionaries, nightmare help,
healing dreams, family dreaming, and much more.
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FALL VISION QUEST

November 12-20, 2005;
Death Valley National Park, CA
Contact: Rites of Passage, PO Box 2061, Santa
Rosa, CA 95405, (707) 537-1927 | Email:
mikeb@ritesofpassagevisionquest.org | Web:
www.ritesofpassagevisionquest.org | Autumn is a
good time for reflection, quieting, and inner depth.
Three days of preparation, teachings, exploration,
and deep sharing will be followed by three days of
solo time, which will be followed by three days of
incorporation work, stories, mirroring, counsel, and
healing hot springs.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE

AND CONSCIOUSNESS:
CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLORING ITSELF
April 21-26, 2006; Santa Fe, NM
Cost: $595 | Contact: 4 Camino Azul, Santa Fe, NM
87508, (505) 474-0998 | Email: message@bizspirit.com | Web: www.bizspirit.com/science/index |
Speakers include Peter Russell, Raymond Moody,
Judith Orloff, Alan Wallace, Russell Targ, Christine
Page, Duane Elgin, Brian O'Lear y, Carlos War ter,
Danah Zohar, Saniel Bonder, Howard Martin, Meir
Schneider, Stephen Wolinsky, Onye Onyemaechi,
and Tina de Souza.
FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE CONFERENCE

July 1, 2006; Stoke on Trent, England
Cost: 25 (group, student, and senior discounts
available) | Contact: Radikal Phase, Willow Court,
Cordy Lane, Under wood, Notts, NG16 5FD, UK |
Email: info@philipgardiner.net | Web: www.phil.fahdesigns.com/forbiddenknews1.pdf | Speakers
include Andrew Collins, Nick Pope, Lionel Fanthorpe,
Paul Devereux, Philip Gardiner, Gary Osborn, Karen
Ralls PhD, Crichton Miller, Michael Cremo, Graham
Hancock, Jim Marrs, Martin Gray, Alan Craw, Robert
Feather, and more.
JOURNEY TO THE SOUL

July 16-20, 2006; Mt. Hood, OR
Contact: Gar y Zukav, PO Box 3310, Ashland, OR
97520, (541) 482-1515 or (877) 733-4279 | Email:
info@zukav.com | Web: www.zukav.com | This indepth, transformational retreat into the deepest
sources of meaning in your life provides a safe and
supportive environment in which to learn practical
ways to create a life of more joy and less pain, to
move into your full potential, and to give the gifts
that you were born to give.
INTERNATIONAL CLASSIC MONSTER MOVIE

CONVENTION AND EXPO: THE AMAZING
COLOSSAL MONSTER BASH
June 23-25, 2006; Pittsburgh, PA
Contact: Creepy Classics, PO Box 643, Latrobe, PA
15650, (724) 532-5226 | Web: www.creepyclassics.com | With Ber t I. Gordon, Herber t Strock,
Kenny Miller, Susan Gordan, and Forrest J. Ackerman.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON ENLIGHTENMENT
January 20-24, 2006; Santa Fe, NM
Cost: $545 until Nov. 1; $595 until Dec. 15; $645
thereafter | Contact: The Message Company, 4
Camino Azul, Santa Fe, NM 87508, (505) 474-0998
or (505) 474-7604 | Email: message@bizspirit.com
| Web: www.bizspirit.com/TriCon05/enlightenment05/e_index
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SACRED
SEXUALITY: AWAKENING AWARENESSAN
INVITATION TOWARDS ENLIGHTENMENT
Cost: $545 until Nov. 1; $595 until Dec. 15; $645
thereafter | Contact: The Message Company, 4
Camino Azul, Santa Fe, NM 87508, (505) 474-0998
or (505) 474-7604 | Email: message@bizspirit.com
| Web: www.bizspirit.com/TriCon05/enlightenment05/e_index
MYTHIC JOURNEYS CONFERENCE

June 7-11, 2006; Atlanta, GA
Email: john@mythicjourneys.org or mkarlin@mindspring.com | Web: www.mythicjourneys.org
NINE GATES MYSTERY SCHOOL
(Part 1) May 12-21, 2006; Santa Barbara, CA
Sept. 22-Oct. 1, 2006, 2006; Santa Barbara, CA
(Part 2) April 14-23, 2006; Santa Barbara, CA
Oct. 27-Nov. 5, 2006; Santa Barbara, CA
Contact: Ann O'Quinn, Institute of Noetic Sciences,
(707) 779-8236 | Email: mysteryschool@noetic.org
| Web: www.ninegates.org | Spiritual training for individuals seeking life's mysteries, Universal Truths,
and ways of knowing. Tap into deep sources of consciousness, use energy fields, and find hidden
meaning and inner guidance.
PATH OF EMPOWERMENT
March 18-19, 2006; Sedona, AZ
Cost: $160; one day pass $95 | Contact: | Contact:
Dr. Chet Snow, PO Box 1738, Sedona, AZ 86339,
(928) 204-1962 | Email: chetsnow@npgcable.com |
Web: www.chetsnow.com/barbara | Trance channel
Barbara Marciniak and the Pleiadians offer wit and
wisdom for freeing oneself and the planet from
ancient invisible bonds, the latest information on
astrological forecasts, understanding how the mind
builds reality, how to change realities, how understanding accelerates energy, what alien agendas
are, and how to cope with the craziness of it all.
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SCIENTIFIC AND SPIRITUAL

IMPLICATIONS OF PSYCHIC ABILITIES
February 3-5, 2006; Big Sur, CA
Contact:
(845)
266-4444
|
Web:
www.espresearch.com/#workshops | Presented by
Russell Targ.
SYLVIA BROWNE PRESENTS:
SECRETS & MYSTERIES
November 14, 2005; Los Angeles, CA
December 4, 2005; Honolulu, HI
Contact: Hay House, (800) 654-5126 | Email:
office@sylvia.org | Web: www.sylvia.org/home/lectures.cfm | Psychic Sylvia Browne will satisfy your
curiosity about the unexplained secrets and mysteries of this world. From the Great Pyramid to Stonehenge, Sylvia reveals amazing facts about some of
the world's most mysterious sites and mystifying
subjects such as crop circles, vampires, voodoo,
Atlantis, ETs, and much more. One of Sylvia's psychic friendsJohn Holland, Sonia Choquette, or Gordon Smithwill participate in each event.
TRENDS IN PARANORMAL RESEARCH
ACADEMY OF RELIGION AND
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
June 9-12, 2006; Rosemont, PA
Cost: $200 (member disc. avail.) | Contact: Boyce
Batey, The Academy of Religion and Psychical
Research, PO Box 614, Bloomfield, CT 060020614,
(860)
242-4593
|
Email:
bateyb@infionline.net
|
Web:
www.lightlink.com/arpr/#PROGRAMS | Features a
wide range of subjects relating to religion and the
paranormal, including psychic investigation, remote
viewing, quantum physics, distant healing, neardeath and out-of-body experiences, after-death communication, electronic voice phenomena, mediumship,
parapsychology,
instrumental
trans-communication, reincarnation, past-life regression, altered states, mystical states, transformative
states of consciousness, and more.
VOYAGE OF THE SOUL
A PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE AT SEA
November 1-9, 2005; Western Caribbean
Contact: Mindbodytravel, (800) 874-1996 | Email:
info@hayhouse.com | Web: www.hayhouse.com/
event_details.php?event_id=151
PARANORMAL
EAST OF MIDNIGHT SPECTRAL SHADOW
TOURS WITH THE UNDERTAKER
Various dates ; Chicago, IL
Cost: $45-$100 | Contact: Carl "The Undertaker",
(708) 638-6950 | Email: undertakertours@yahoo.
com | Web: www.shadowtours.com | Designed and
conducted by a licensed funeral director and
embalmer, these tours take you to both well-known

crime scenes and haunted locations and obscure,
out-of-the-way places that few people have even
heard about.
MANSFIELD REFORMATORY GHOST HUNT:
HAUNTED PRISON 2005ZOMBIES OF
HELLBLOCK 13
November 5, 2005; Mansfield, OH
November 19, 2005; Mansfield, OH
Cost: $50 | Contact: Ohio State Reformatory Preservation Society, 100 Reformatory Road, Mansfield,
OH 44905-1208, (419) 522-2644 | Email:
info@mrps.org | Web: mrps.org
PACIFIC NORTHWEST GHOST HUNTERS CONFERENCE: THE GHOST HUNTERS GETAWAY
November 12-13, 2005; Port Townsend, WA
Cost: N/A | Contact: AGHOST Inc., 20825 SR 410
East #330, Bonney Lake, WA 98390, (425) 2461104 | Email: AGHOSTconference04@yahoo.com |
Web: www.seattlechatclub.org/museum | Features
workshops, exhibits, vendors, book fair, psychic
games, ghost tours, improv show, and speakers.
WEST VIRGINIA PENITENTIARY
ALL NIGHT GHOST HUNT
November 12, 2005; Moundsville, WV
Cost: $50 | Contact: Pat Kleinedler, c/o MEDC, 818
Jefferson Avenue, Moundsville, WV 26041 | Email:
medc@ovis.net | Web: www.majda.net/events |
Spend an eerie night in the haunted West Virginia
Penitentiary.
REMOTE VIEWING
ADVANCED EXCURSION II - FOCUS 21
November 12-13, 2005; Phoenixville, PA
Contact: Barbara Kauf fman, (610) 983-9310 |
Email: bkauffman@auriclights.net | Web: www.auriclights.net
CONTROLLED REMOTE VIEWING 5-DAY
APPLICATIONS AND TRAINING COURSES
Various Dates; Boulder City, CO
Cost: $500 | Contact: Dr. Angela Thompson Smith,
(702) 293-3696 | Email: Catalyst@peoplepc.com |
Web: mypeoplepc.com/members/catalyst/catalyst/id4
EXPLORATION 27
February 4-10, 2006; Faber, VA
Cost: $1,695 | Contact: The Monroe Institute, 62
Rober ts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938, (866)
881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email: TMIprograms@aol.com | Web: www.monroeinstitute.org |
Provides investigation into uncharted, nonphysical
territories in order to obtain direct personal experience related to this different state of being.
GATEWAY EXCURSION WORKSHOP

November 5-6, 2005; Tucson, AZ
Contact: Amy Sharp, 9840 North Western Fork Trail,
Tucson, AZ 85742, (888) 845-9942 | Email: aredifer@hotmail.com | Web: www.monroeinstitute.org
GATEWAY VOYAGE
December 3-9, 2005; Faber, VA
December 4-10, 2005; Faber, VA
January 14-20, 2006; Faber, VA
February 18-24, 2006; Faber, VA
March 11-17, 2006; Faber, VA
April 8-14, 2006; Faber, VA
Cost: $1,695 (incl. room and board) | Contact: The
Monroe Inst., 62 Roberts Mountain Road, Faber, VA
22938, (866) 881-3440 or (434) 361-1252 | Email:
TMIprograms@aol.com | Web: www.monroeinstitute.org | Voyage into your own consciousness. With
the aid of Hemispheric Synchronization sounds, the
guidance of senior trainers, and the group sharing of
experiences, you will be carried gently into four progressively deeper altered states of consciousness.
GUIDELINES
January 21-27, 2006; Faber, VA
April 29-May 3, 2006; Faber, VA
June 17-23, 2006; Faber, VA
Cost: $1,695 | Contact: The Monroe Inst., 62
Rober ts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938,(866)
Provides learning methods through which communication can be established with greater par ts of
one's self-awareness, providing an overview beyond
our typical perception.
HEARTLINE
November 12-18, 2005; Faber, VA
Explores your internal landscape that promotes selflove, self-trust, and self-acceptance. Par ticipants
learn to let go of resistance and fear as they move
into wholeness, balance, and harmony.
LIFELINE
November 5-11, 2005; Faber, VA
January 28-February 3, 2006; Faber, VA
May 13-19, 2006; Faber, VA
Offers training in states of consciousness. Participants learn to contact those who have made the
transition from physical reality and who need assistance in moving forward.
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MC2 - MANIFESTATION AND CREATION SQUARED
June 10-16, 2006; Faber, VA
Provides tools to more fully experience the potentials of human existence through expanding belief
systems and enhancing ones abilities to influence
time-space events through non-physical means.
REMOTE VIEWING AND SPIRITUAL HEALING
Contact: (866) 607-8439 | Email: r targ@espresearch.com | Web: www.espresearch.com | Weekend workshop on learning remote viewing and transformation of consciousness. Presented by Russel
Targ.
REMOTE VIEWING AND TRANSFORMATION
OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Web: www.espresearch.com/#workshops | Presented by Russell Targ.
REMOTE VIEWING PRACTICUM
Offers training in the ability to perceive events and
locations across distance and across time; employs
a team concept (a monitor/inter viewer, a remote
viewer, and a judge) with participants learning each
role; emphasis on the five basic behaviors common
to successful remote viewers.
STARLINES
For those who possess a passion for exploration
and self-discovery and a love for the Life Force in all
of its expressions. Participants explore the mystery
of energy systems throughout the galaxy, moving
into new states of awareness and perception.
TIMELINE
Rober ts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938, 866)
Provides oppor tunities to explore the learning
adventures of other selves in other times in order to
gain new perspectives on who you are and what is
uniquely possible for you in this present life.
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WESTERN INSTITUTE OF REMOTE VIEWING

2-DAY WEEKEND WORKSHOP
November 5-6, 2005; Sacramento, CA
December 3-4, 2005; Chicago, IL
January 7-8, 2006; Houston, TX
February 25-26, 2006; Sedona, AZ
April 8-9, 2006; Seattle, WA
April 29-30, 2006; Seattle, WA
Contact: The Western Inst. of Remote Viewing, 218
Main Street #634, Kirkland, WA 98033, (800) 8243730 or (888) 540-6085 | Email: waynecarr@
remoteviewers.com | Web: www.remoteviewers.com
WESTERN INSTITUTE OF REMOTE VIEWING
INTENSIVE TRAINING WORKSHOP
November 25-29, 2005; Sydney, Australia
March 17-23, 2006; Seattle, WA
Contact: The Western Institute of Remote Viewing,
218 Main Street #634, Kirkland, WA 98033, (800)
824-3730 or (888) 540-6085 | Email: waynecarr@
remoteviewers.com | Web: www.remoteviewers.com
SACRED SITES / PILGRIMAGES

A MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR DE FRANCE:
IN SEARCH OF MARY MAGDALENE
May 25-June 8, 2006; France
Contact: 206 Tours, 289 East Main Street, Smithtown, NY 11787 | Email: Eva@206tours.com | Web:
www.seekerofthesacredtruth.net | Embrace the legend of Mary Magdalene as you explore medieval villages, Mediterranean hamlets, and Cathar castles.
Reiki Master-Teacher and Spiritual Intuitive Joy
Malumphy leads this sacred adventure across
France. Visit Vezelay, Saintes Maries de la Mer, Marseille, Carcassonne, Rennes le Chateau, Collioure,
and Rocamadour.
ANCIENT MYSTERIES REVEALED CONFERENCE:
A MYTHICAL LOST CIVILIZATION
November 2-9, 2005; Malta
Contact: Power Places Tours, Inc., 1506 Costilla
Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80904, (800) 2348687 or (719) 448-0514 | Email: travel@powerplaces.com | Web: www.powerplaces.com/maltahancock | Travel with Graham Hancock as he shares
explosive new revelations concerning the neolithic
temples and ancient sites of Malta.
CHIVALRY, THE GRAIL & THE GODDESS
November 8-17, 2005; Malta
234-8687 or (719) 448-0514 | Email: travel@powerplaces.com | Web: www.powerplaces.com | Join Dr.
Karen Ralls to explore the oldest stone monuments
in the world, the splendor of the Grand Masters
Palace of the Knights of St. John, Black Madonnas,
sites of the courageous Knights of St. John, and the
amazing mysteries of history.
EGYPT: THE ORION MYSTERY

November 4-11, 2005; Egypt
234-8687 or (719) 448-0514 | Email: travel@powerplaces.com | Web: www.powerplaces.com | Explore
the land whose origin is shrouded in myster y.
Embark on a quest for truth and experience some of
the most sacred and power ful sites in the world.
Explore the deser t landscape of highly advanced
geometric monuments that hold the secrets of the
mysterious past, ancient mysteries, and lost civilizations and possibly the keys to the future.
EXPERIENCE EARTH WISDOM
January 10-17, 2006; Yucatan
234-8687 or (719) 448-0514 | Email: travel@powerplaces.com | Web: www.powerplaces.com
JOURNEY TO THE MIDDLE KINGDOM
June 4-24, 2006; China
Contact: Insight Travel Pilgrimages, (800) 688-9851
or (937) 767-1102 | Email: info@insight-travel.com |
Web: www.insight-travel.com/china | Visit many different types of Buddhist sites, including monumental sculpted grottoes along the Silk Route, Dunhuang and its exquisitely painted caves and finely
carved statues, sacred mountains of great scenic
beauty, and the monasteries and temples of Xian.
MUNDO MAYA UNPLUGGED
March 16-24, 2006; Mexico and Guatemala
Cost: $2,450 | Contact: Aluna Joy Yaxkin, Center of
the Sun, PO Box 1988, Sedona, AZ 86339, (928)
282-6292 | Email: alunajoy@kachina.net | Web:
www.kachina.net/~alunajoy/tikal2006 | Join author,
mystic, and guide Aluna Joy Yaxk'in, the Star Elders,
and Maya guide Enrique Encalada on a life-changing
Spring Equinox pilgrimage in honor of Earth, Air, Fire,
and Water to the Mayan temples of Tikal and Uaxactun, including an authentic Mayan ceremony and
sweat lodge, Star Elder messages, and visits to a
Maya village and sacred sites.
MYSTICAL INDIA: IN SEARCH OF
ORIGINAL WISDOM
November 26-December 4, 2005; India
234-8687 or (719) 448-0514 | Email: travel@powerplaces.com | Web: www.powerplaces.com | Be
inspired in Agra, the birth place of Krishna and the
home of the Taj Mahal, the temples and magnificent
sculptures of Khajuraho, the Hindu spiritual center
at Mathura, Sarnath (where Buddha gave his first
sermon), the Hindu religious capital in Varanasi on
the banks of the sacred Ganges, and other sacred
sites in India. With Gregg Braden.
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NEW LIFE: NEW YEAR'S RETREAT IN ASSISI

December 29, 2005-Januay 4, 2006; Assisi, Italy
Cost: $950 | Contact: Cynthia Wilson, 221 SW Pinetree Lane, Lee's Summit, MO 64063, (816) 5258337 or (816) 524-3550 Ext. 8162 | Email: cynthia4assisi@sbcglobal.net
or
info@assisiretreats.org | Web: www.sacredtravel.org
| Step out of the busy-ness of daily life and into the
sanctuary of your own heart as you visit the sacred
sites and gardens of St. Francis and St. Clare as a
pilgrim, not a tourist, for daily meditations that share
their hear t practices, meditate in special silence,
explore your spirituality, and soften your heart in the
simple peace of Assisi.
OPENING THE SPIRITUAL TREASURY
May 1-14, 2006; Japan
Cost: $5,950 | Contact: Insight Travel Pilgrimages,
(800) 688-9851 or (937) 767-1102 | Email:
info@insight-travel.com | Web: www.insighttravel.com/japan | Experience the nuance and
exquisite beauty of Japan and the secret treasuries
of dharma and culture that permeate its ancient
architecture, mountain retreats, and daily life. Visit
Osaka; Kyoto, the ancient capital and city of a thousand temples; Arashiyama, where the Tale of Genji
originated; the ancient Shingon Temples of Mount
Koyasan; the extraordinary forest cemetery where
Kukai is in eternal samadhi. Walk through a bamboo
forest to the hut of Basho and take a walking meditation on the legendary ancient pilgrimage island of
Shikoku. Includes the Dogo Onsen hot mineral baths
in Matsuyama, the Peace Park at Hiroshima, and a
two-day meditation retreat and night mountain walk
with the Shugendo marathon monks on Mt. Hei.
RECOVERING LOST WISDOM CONFERENCE:
SOLSTICE AT MACHU PICCHU
June 15-22, 2006; Peru
SACRED SITES OF SOUTHWEST ENGLAND
Summer 2006; Southwest England
Contact: Denni Clarke, PO Box 2155, Freedom, CA
95019, (831) 761-3655 | Email: dclarke@cropcirclespirit.com | Web: www.cropcirclespirit.com | This is a
journey of discovery for those who would like a real
taste of England's mysteries. Explore Crop Circles,
Stone circles, the land of Avalon (Glastonbury) and
its Ar thurian legends, and Cornwall, the last
stronghold of Celtic tradition in England, and birthplace of Arthur. Visit the most beautiful sites in England, from the lush loveliness of Wiltshire to the
spectacular wilder scenery of North Cornwall.
THE INITIATE'S JOURNEY TO EGYPT

March 17-24, 2006; Egypt
THE SERPENT GRAIL
November 26-December 3, 2005; Paris, France
234-8687 or (719) 448-0514 | Email: travel@powerplaces.com | Web: www.powerplaces.com | Philip
Gardiner and Gary Osborn will teach an extraordinary
account of the quest for the truth behind The Holy
Grail, the Elixir of Life, and the Philosopher's Stone,
and will present astonishing new findings about the
origins of civilization and the roots of modern belief
systems. They will reveal the "real code" and evidence of its connections to Paris landmarks.
THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA
January 11-30, 2006; India and Nepal
Cost: $3,850 | Contact: Insight Travel Pilgrimages,
(800) 688-9851 or (937) 767-1102 | Email:
info@insight-travel.com | Web: www.insighttravel.com/indnepal | Visit sites associated with the
life of Shakyamuni Buddha, exploring ancient monuments and monasteries and learning to appreciate
the power and peace of these pilgrimage centers.
SHAMANISM/SHAPESHIFTING
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SHAMANISM:
A JOURNEY THROUGH TRANSFORMATION
Cost: $495 until September 1st; $545 until November 1st; $595 until December 15th; $645 thereafter
| Contact: The Message Company, 4 Camino Azul,
Santa Fe, NM 87508, (505) 474-0998 or (505) 4747604 | Email: message@bizspirit.com | Web:
www.bizspirit.com/TriCon05/shamanism05/sh_ind
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LEARNING TO REMEMBER - ANCIENT
TEACHINGS FOR MODERN TIMES
November 3-13, 2005; Ecuador
Cost: $2,800 | Contact: Joyce Kendall, Earth Heart
Farm, (603) 524-7829 | Email: energyjk@att.net |
Web: www.earthsummitllc.com | Journey focusing on
the teachings of the Quichua, descendants of the
Inca. Learn how to apply ancient wisdom to our lives
and spiritual pusuits today. Travel deep into the jungle, visit sacred waterfalls, and work with plant spirit
medicine. Become par t of the Eagle and Condor
prophecy.
MEDICINE WHEEL - CIRCLE OF POWER TRAINING

November 20, 2005; Sedona, AZ
Cost: $425 | Contact: Crossing Worlds Journeys and
Retreats, PO Box 623, Sedona, AZ 86339, (800)
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