“One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.” – Charles Fort Introduction Within the last three years numerous major studies of UFOs… Read more Now You See Them, Now You See Them Differently: UFOs, Shapeshifting and a New-Old Paradigm
Category: Folklore
Review: The French UFO Wave of 1954 – Graeme Rendall
Reiver Country Books, 2024. ISBN 979-8333063991 [pbk] 318 pp. I thought this book would be heavy-going at first and indeed… Read more Review: The French UFO Wave of 1954 – Graeme Rendall
Review: Alien Artifacts: The forgotten story of how we came to believe in visitors from the stars. Volume I: From Antiquity to 1880 – Chris Aubeck
Amazon, 2022. ISBN: 9798360357186. 368 pp At first sight this might seem like a curious choice of a book for… Read more Review: Alien Artifacts: The forgotten story of how we came to believe in visitors from the stars. Volume I: From Antiquity to 1880 – Chris Aubeck
Review: Saucers: Tracing the Origins of Disc-Shaped UFOs – Chris Aubeck
Amazon, 2023; ISBN: 9798862476095 There is a view of religious, spiritual – and, by extension, anomalous – experiencing that… Read more Review: Saucers: Tracing the Origins of Disc-Shaped UFOs – Chris Aubeck
Review: The First Ghosts: Most Ancient of Legacies – Irving Finkel
Review of Irving Finkel’s study of ghosts in ancient cultures.
Review: The UFO Deception: An Orthodox Perspective – Spyridon Bailey
Review of Father Spyridon Bailey’s study of UFOs from an Orthodox perspective
Review: Slenderman: A Tragic Story of Online Obsession and Mental Illness – Kathleen Hale
Review of Kathleen Hale’s examination of a curious case of online folie a deux
Review: The Wollaton Gnomes: A Nottingham Fairy Mystery – Simon Young (ed.)
Review of Simon Young’s edited anthology of essays examining a classic Fortean mystery: the Wollaton Gnomes.
A Crafty Unlocking: Covid-19 and Other Shapeshifters
Examining Covid-19 through the lens of ‘trickster studies.’ Is there a ‘bigger picture’ of the pandemic that involves no conspiracy theories whatsoever yet still allows us to see hidden things beneath the surface of recent events? If so, what might that bigger picture be?
Review: American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology – Diana Pasulka
American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology by D. W. Pasulka. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019. ISBN: 9780190692889. Hardback: 269 pp. Having… Read more Review: American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology – Diana Pasulka