ARTICLES

Surviving the UnCon: Lesson II
May 8th 1998 Part II of the ongoing UnCon98 report, with Kavanagh, Pilkington, Holloway and Walsh bringing you up to date on Men In Black and Hollow Earth theories, the Thunderbird photo and mammoth hunting in Nepal.

How to Survive the UnConvention
May 1st 1998 In part one of a two part story, Barry Kavanagh and Mark Pilkington conspire with Blather to bring you the inside track on last week's Fortean Times UnConvention in London. Grip Reaper visitations, the Count(s) of St. Germain, Martian Cats and plenty more.

Poltergeist Down Under
April 24th 1998 Cheyne D. Conrad is this week's special guest, bringing you the very latest on alleged poltergeist activity in Australia. In addition, Blather delves deeper into calendrics to explain why the apocalypse didn't happen on October 23rd 1996. . .

About that Millennium
April 17th 1998 Blatherboy finds a copy of Stephen Jay Gould's 'Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown' on his couch, and in an apparently unrelated incident, discovers that Blather now occupies the same market bracket as The Economist.

Pretty Good Friday
April 10th 1998 Deer run amok with Chainsaws, the Virgin Mary is still on tour - this time it's Mexico, 100 gnomes are liberated from their lives of slavery, and Ernest Hemingway is back. . .

Unofficial Religious Appearances
April 3rd 1998 God shows up in Texas! The Virgin Mary, meanwhile appears in Georgia, (the one in Europe) whilst her statue cries in Spain. U.S. government experiments to make your pet caribou walk balkwards. And a capuchin monkey runs amok in a teashop.

Orbiting Fur-Balls
March 27th 1998 Blather meets the folks who want to shoot your DNA into space, God refuses to show up on your telly, and more daftness about apocryphal kangaroos. . .

Animalous Phenomena
March 20th 1998 African monkeys launch attacks on hospitals and soccer matches, Irish badgers go bodysnatching, and a we present a brief mystery kangaroo retrospective. . .

It's the End of the Millennium as we know it
March 11th 1998As part of Blather's dramatisation of the Book of Revelations, he skies rain fire in California, three tongued Chinese men are de-tongued, a cow has a prodigious birth, and the Vatican upgrades it's exorcisms. Oh, and a priest in Limerick foretells the apocalypse.

Frog Fall
March 6th 1998 Frog Falls in Croydon, or is it Crawley?, a letter from the leader of the Norwegian ' lake monster' hunting expedition, a lack of new Loch Ness photos and a look at the little known ufologist Carl Jung.

A Monster Hunting We Will Go
February 27th 1998 Smatherings of Smidgens from the Blather newsroom: Monster hunting in Norway, Chinese UFO cults, black market organ trading and all you ever wanted to about the the connection between fast food and the shape of the universe.

The Raelly Late Late Show
February 20th 1998 Rael, the Liberace of ufology appears on RTE's 'The Late Late Show', along with the Irish Centre for UFO Studies. Blather gets more email from Sweden, this time from Saab themselves.

The Glasshouse Effect
February 13th 1998 Blather gets letters from Sweden about testpilots, goes to town on articles concerning Irish paranormal 'window areas', and stirs up a few cans of choice worms.

The Subjectiveness Trap
February 6th 1998 Another Cogno-intellectual Blather, discussing the whys and wherefores of the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project's new lease of life.

Occam the Barber
January 30th 1998 A curious development in the 'Roscommon UFO Crash' saga decides to peep its head above ground, and 'UFOs and Ufology' by Paul Devereux and Peter Brookesmith is reviewed.

More Bleddy Ewe-Eff-Oze
January 23rd 1998 Strange puzzlement at Croatian speaking aliens, British politicians in apparent UFO coverups, January cult-roundups, and some globster news. Blather delivers nothing less. . .

Lord Lucan's Homecoming?
January 16th 1998 This week, Blather has reports of an alleged spectre terrorising local government employees in Co. Mayo -- with a strange link to the missing (and wanted) Lord Lucan. We also demand both photographs of blubbery globsters and at least some consistancy regarding them. . .

Creme, Cults and Suicides
January 9th 1998 Blather gives the lowdown on the recent cultish goings on in Tenerife, and finds fault with some newspapers for jumping the gun a little. For dessert, Mark Pilkington serves up the Creme of the crop on Share International.

Bizarre Cults and Hairy Men
January 2nd 1998 The first Blather of the new year brings more news on the Princess Grace/Solar Temple allegations, and Loren Coleman's second report on that still elusive hairy hominid of Sumatra, the orang pendek.

Baaaaah-Humbug!!!
December 24th 1997 In this Bumper Christmas Issue, Blather examines alleged stigmata on Achill Island, crow infestations, vampire bats, meteor falls, allegations concerning the occult activities of Princess Grace of Monaco, Nepalese monkeys, and other shreds of typical guff. . .

War of the Wetlands
December 19th 1997 Blather gives an on the spot report from a skywatch windswept north Dublin sand dune, wincing as dozens of people apparently mistake Sirius for an extraterrestrial craft hovering over Dublin. . .

Skies Alive!
December 12th 1997 This week's Blather is to be a cogno-intellectual compendium of sundry anomalous aerial tidings. . . more on people falling out of the sky, Irish UFO stuff and anomalous aerial booming sounds in Co. Wexford. . .

Sargasso Sea Stuff
December 5th 1997 Blather drags together a sudden spate of humans falling out of the Florida sky, crows falling out of China's sky, and a murder case in the Irish High Court which has brought to light some terribly dubious allegations of mind control experiments and microchip implanting carried out on the brains of Dublin hospital patients.

Pontifications On Pabulum
November 28th 1997 The front page of the Friday, November 21st issue of a certain national Irish newspaper had a piece headlined with 'Yes, the aliens landed. .. in Mexico - Film of alien shown in public for the first time'. Blather - having witnessed this video - sees fit to spew fire and brimstone upon the unfortunate journalist responsible. . .

All Gone PEIR Shaped
November 21st 1997 Blather starts digging into what seemed like a cut and dried Irish UFO flap, uncovering some coincidental astronomical phenomena, and extraterrestrial theories taken from the Old Testament. . .

Watching the Skywatchers
November 14th 1997 Blather emerges from the IUFOPRA UFO Conference reasonably unscathed, despite absurd tales of abductions, black triangles, subterranean secret civilisations and close encounters with noted ufologists.

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