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The Blather University of the Weird
Posted by birdbath at 12:04 PM on August 18, 2010
Unschool.jpg Ever wanted to take a course on the paranormal? Join a study group of the weird? Delve into a curriculum of conspiracy theory? Well, now you can. Or you'll be able to when you help us create one. We're using Hootcourse to throw together a twitter-based reading-list, video play-list and blog roll of the best of the best from the world of weirdness - everything from Alien Big Cats to UFOs and cute, whiskered Zoological oddities. Join us. Go on. You know you want to.
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Fata Morgana: Mirage
Posted by daev at 12:34 AM on January 18, 2010
Fata Morgana, orb above iceberg Nares Straight, north west Greenland

.... with photographs by Dave Walsh, music by Dacianos.

There is something unnerving about watching reality bend before one's eyes. There is what one "knows" to be true, and that which one can see through a telephoto lens or binoculars - with Fata Morgana, the two are difficult to reconcile. Something is happening on the horizon. Icebergs twist and change shape, move, disappear, elongate. Islands rise from the sea. The earth warps.

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Blather.net's Map of the Weird
Posted by damien at 10:33 AM on March 28, 2008

View Larger Map For the last eleven years (yes, that's eleven) we here at Blather have been keeping track of every lake monster, UFO sighting, satanist, pornographer, ghost, exorcism, banshee attack, ABC sighting, religious quack, police state action, alien abduction and friendly neighbourhood Kangaroo that we can scribble down in this here site. But the truth is, there's such an abundance of these bloody things that keeping track of them has become somewhat problematic. Until now. So allow us reader dear, to present 'Blather.net's Map of the Weird', a first public presentation of what will become an ever-growing, all-encompassing cartographic apocalypse of filth, depravity, smut and forteana.

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Waking the Dead: Charles Fort's Grave - Albany, New York
Posted by daev at 12:35 AM on May 10, 2007
Charles Fort Grave, Albany Rural Cemetery forteana fortean strange phenomena paranormal You just can't keep us out of graveyards here on blather.net. This season sees us dashing around the New World, inquiring into the whereabouts of the corpse of that irascible iconoclast, Charles Hoy Fort, father of fortean studies and teleportation. It's 11am on the 29th day of April and I'm surrounded by dead people. I can't see any of them. The year, 2007, Gregorian, 5767 Hebrew, 1428 Islamic, 1386 Persian. In the Julian calendar it's 13 days earlier... sort of. In any case, it's heading for midday, Eastern Standard Time, if you believe in that kind of thing.
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Blast from the past: Cannonballs from the sky
Posted by daev at 4:32 PM on November 15, 2006
Civil War CannonIn October 1997, a mystery cannonball tore through the walls of a Missouri mobile home. Nobody knew where it came from, or who fired. We wrote some crazy stuff about it, here on blather.net. Now it's come back to haunt us... The owner of the mobile home, Kathy J. Mickelson, emailed blather.net, telling her side of the story. The "cannonball" was no such thing - in fact, it was a massive spudgun.
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Alien Big Cat report from Co. Kildare, Ireland?
Posted by daev at 1:00 PM on February 19, 2004
Big cat sighting near Naas!
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Blather Vs. The Hierophant of Fortean Times
Posted by daev at 5:30 PM on January 30, 2004
It's not often that he does interviews, locked away as he is in his Fortress of Arrogance, but blather.net managed to coerce the Hierophant to 'fess up...
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The Sunken Towns of Ireland
Posted by daev at 5:45 PM on January 14, 2004
For years now, I've been fascinated by accounts of 'sunken cities' of the Irish coast. I've found four so far... is there more?
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Mucky the Lake Monster in Muckross Lake, Killarney, Co. Kerry
Posted by daev at 4:00 PM on January 9, 2004
The Irish Charr Conservation group reckon that they've found a strange creature in a Co. Kerry lake...
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Deep in the Woods: Elimare Reports From The Blather Trip to the Dublin Mountains
Posted by daev at 5:03 PM on January 7, 2004
Elimare tells us about mudslides and sore thighs...
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Blather on TV Again: The Search for the Serpent (Seljord, Norway)
Posted by daev at 10:38 AM on January 6, 2004
duke.jpg Me? The 23th Duke of Blather? Here? On RTE Network 2? At 8pm on a Monday Evening? [slight pause] What were they thinking of?
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Fortean Falls: Ice From The Sky, And Global Warming
Posted by daev at 10:35 AM on December 17, 2003
Weird rains of toads, fish, blood, straw, sand etc. are well-documented. But are falls of large ice chunks a sign of global warming?
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Lucy Dell
Posted by at 10:53 AM on December 16, 2003
Guest blatherer Oliver Bayliss goes down to the dell to find something rotten...Read the comments, for recently discovered notes
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The Centre for Fortean Zoology: Jon Downes Interview - Cryptozoology, The Owlman and Other Monsters...
Posted by daev at 5:35 PM on December 15, 2003
Dave Walsh talks to the Director the of the CFZ about Owlman and other mystery creatures
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Paranormal Activity In Trinity College, Dublin?
Posted by daev at 1:01 PM on December 14, 2003
An urgent request, as found on a messageboard in Trinity College Dublin by Blather's intrepid 'Agent F'.
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The Blather Moving Statues Xmas Appeal
Posted by damien at 11:07 AM on December 9, 2003
We need your help. No, honestly...
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Bleedin' Statues!
Posted by daev at 12:15 AM on December 5, 2003
Padre Pio statue weeping blood. Apparently...
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Bolick Naked
Posted by daev at 8:40 PM on November 30, 2003
Definitely my favourite news story of the month... or even year?
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Charles Fort: Scientist or Humorist?
Posted by daev at 11:59 PM on November 27, 2003
He coined the word 'teleport'... the X-Files is a direct descendent, and where would Fortean Times be without him?
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Update! Big Cat Sightings in Ireland? Puma or some other big cat?
Posted by daev at 9:55 AM on November 19, 2003
Big cats loose in the Irish countryside!
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Fish Fall in Ireland's West
Posted by daev at 8:50 PM on September 25, 2003
While I was busy chasing fish in Greece, here's one that got away...
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UFO Crash in Kerry?
Posted by daev at 11:22 AM on August 26, 2003
Jesus Christ, there's a lot of mad news on the go at the 'mo.
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Classic Blather: Viktor Schauberger
Posted by daev at 3:00 PM on August 22, 2003
The current Fortean Times has a feature on 'Nazi UFOs' and occultism...
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For Sale: Portal to Hollow Earth
Posted by daev at 11:14 PM on July 21, 2003
Richard Shaver's studio is for sale! No bids yet, but they're looking for US $2,799.00
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Beckham and #23
Posted by daev at 6:14 PM on July 2, 2003
Why did Becks choose 23?
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The 23 enigma: Captain Clark welcomes you aboard!
Posted by daev at 6:08 PM on July 2, 2003
The '23 Enigma', as discovered by William S. Burroughs, presents itself as a good omen for some - disaster for others...
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1924: UFOs in Co. Wexford?
Posted by daev at 5:45 PM on June 13, 2003
daev's neck of the woods...
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Bleddy beasties and mad hoors
Posted by daev at 12:11 PM on June 12, 2003
Nessie back in the news... [sigh]...
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Mothman Curse Continues?
Posted by daev at 11:26 AM on June 11, 2003
Richard Gere better watch out. Apparently.
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Ghost in a Jar?
Posted by daev at 2:54 PM on June 4, 2003
Weird shite for sale on Ebay
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Invasion of the Jellyfish
Posted by daev at 10:54 AM on June 4, 2003
Wexford, Cornwall, taken over by bags of goo...
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Irish Lake Monsters
Posted by daev at 7:06 PM on June 3, 2003
More bleddy beasties! No!
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Time Travel
Posted by damien at 12:54 PM on June 3, 2003
Blather goes surfing through the mists of time. Kind of...
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Rennes Le Chateau
Posted by daev at 2:04 PM on May 28, 2003
On the trail of weirdness in the South of France
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SARS: Cats From Outer Space
Posted by daev at 1:42 PM on May 23, 2003
The virus is from space... or cats?
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"Who ye gonna call boi?"
Posted by damien at 11:12 AM on May 21, 2003
Oddly enough, trying to put together a list of suitably haunted houses/breweries is proving to be quite doggedly difficult.
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Blather Paranormal Investigators Inc.
Posted by damien at 4:51 PM on May 20, 2003
Is your PC possessed by a malevolent imp? Is your kettle making vile, satanic suggestions to you? Do you just get the feeling that you?re not alone?
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Lightning Keeps Striking
Posted by daev at 2:15 PM on May 19, 2003
Lots of lightning in the news.
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Out of the Marvellous - Black Masses, Lord Dunsany and Falling Fish
Posted by daev at 8:11 PM on February 13, 2000



TEMPIS FUGIT
Time does fly - yet another chasm gapes between the previous issue and this one. Its been a quiet couple of months, with very little in the way of Irish paranormal tales coming our way - but we've not been not been idle (the devil found work for us). On the Blather website can be found a fledgling, or worse still, skeleton bookstore, where we hope to start reviewing and recommending books.


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The Water Wizards Part II - The Interview
Posted by daev at 9:16 PM on September 30, 1999

Transcript from interview with Con Connor, Living Water Workshop, 20th July 1999. By Dave Walsh.

How did you come across Living water?
I was up at an eco-village in Clones, Co. Monaghan with some friends, and a man who has invented a device for putting Cosmic Energy into water appeared, Jonathan Stromberg, and he with him some Vortex Energisers, which were put on a table in the middle of the room, and being a dowser, a diviner, I quickly pulled out the pendulum, held them over the devices and I quickly started dowsing, and I was amazed at how strong they were. I'd seen things with huge energy before, concentrated energy, but these were phenomenally strong. I asked a few questions, and made a few suggestions, and was very shortly offered a dealership. A man named Graham Whitehead, who is part of the Living Water Workshop, came into the room then, and we had some craic, and we had some chat, and we quickly realised that we knew exactly what we were both talking about, and that this is the most important thing around.


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Unconventional Means Part 2
Posted by blather at 4:27 PM on May 11, 1999
Picknet and Prince Having savoured the delights of Saturday night London, and after crept into my bed with the sun well above the horizon, this Blatherskite was in rag-order by the time he stumbled into the Commonwealth Institute on Kensington's High St., a little too late to barge-in and search for the thread of Jan Bondeson's 11 o'clock 'Basilisks, Vegetable Lambs, Stuffed Mermaids and Other Monsters and Marvels from Old Natural History', or Daniel Wojcik's 'From Spirit Photos to Apocalyptic Polaroids'. (Image of Sergio Della Sala)
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Unconventional Means Part 1
Posted by blather at 3:55 PM on May 4, 1999
'YikesWe were somewhere over Manchester on the edge of England when the drugs began to take hold... and suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the plane, which was going about a thousand miles an hour on the way to the UnConvention in London. And a voice screaming: "Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?" 'I thought about telling the pilot, dragging myself up the aisle, fighting off the lizard-like stewardesses with my sword-stick, but no... ...no point in mentioning those bats I thought. The poor bastards will see them soon enough.'
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Lucifer in the Lavatory
Posted by blather at 5:05 PM on December 4, 1998
It comes as something of a surprise to hear that apparitions of The Devil have been claimed in one's own extended (if former) neighbourhood - at least according to *The Echo* newspaper, published in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford in September 1987. Mind you, the article in question, which made page 1, did itself seem fueled with a considerable amount of Devilment.
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Straddling Two Worlds: Lake Monsters and other weird creatures
Posted by daev at 1:38 PM on October 23, 1998
Blather's 'man on the street' encountered U.S. cryptozoologist Nick Sucik in Dublin last week, and much nattering was done about the state of Irish animalous anomalies. Nick seemed quite surprised at the 'problems' that arise when investigating Irish mystery beasties - such as reports of huge animals inhabiting tiny lakes with inhospitable ecosystems - to paraphrase Peter Costello (author of In Search of Lake Monsters), 'They all live in puddles'.
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Virgin Mary: Appearances in Georgia, Ireland
Posted by daev at 1:10 PM on October 16, 1998
Blather has, in the past, made the odd reference to 'herself', as in the Virgin Mary, apparent mother of Christ, traditionally popular here in Ireland. With a social diary to rival that of Irish President Mary McAleese (and touching that of former President Mary Robinson), the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM) has recently turned up on fridges in New Jersey, on Mexican cakes, dented Chevy fenders and sewage drains, in Georgia (Europe), and in Spain as a statue that 'cried blood' (the crying was later decried by the Church). She's back again, this time in Georgia...USA This week some 100,000 pilgrims arrived at the farm of Nancy Fowler, in Conyers, 56 km (35 miles) west of Atlanta, and not for the first time either... on the 13th of every month between October 1990 and May 1994, Ms. Fowler 'relayed' messages from the BVM. Lately, she's cut back to annual October 13th relay, whilst her audience has increased. This year is to be the last, as the BVM isn't 'permitted' to visit as she had in the past. Tuesday 13th seemed to pass seemed to have past without a major incident - the crowds behaved, as Ms. Fowler read for 30 minutes. One can only gather that she was reading out loud.
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Eamon Ansbro: No Threat Whatsoever
Posted by daev at 10:35 AM on October 9, 1998
Blather's favourite Irish ufologist - Eamonn Ansbro - is back in the news once again, this time in the Sunday Tribune of October 4th, under the headline Alert: Aliens pose no real danger. Longtime Blather readers may recall War of the Wetlands, an issue from December 1997, which recounted how this writer, like an eejit, spent an entire Sunday evening monitoring the endeavours of the ICUFOS (Irish Centre for UFO Studies) on Bull Island, Co. Dublin. The date was December 14th, the night that Ansbro had predicted would be fraught with UFOs, using Roy Dutton's rather dubious Astronautical Theory. He claimed that Dublin, Boyle (Co. Roscommon) and Bantry (Co. Cork) were to be the best places to see the UFOs. Back then, Blather commented on the curious correlation between the ICUFOS predictions, and the Geminid meteor showers, which started on December 13th.
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Super Sargasso Surfin'
Posted by daev at 2:43 PM on October 8, 1998
After spending any reasonable amount of time recording and cataloguing the odder aspects of daily life on this planet, certain conclusions almost beg to be arrived at, such as "people are generally speaking, nuts," or that perhaps half the population really are more intelligent than the average person. But from these studies, one starts to get a grasp on the "bigger picture" that Charles Fort and hundreds of others have devoted so much time, in some cases even their lifetimes, examining. In the last year, while researching my weekly email newsletter, Blather [1], several events and a few tenuous mental tangents brought me to consider Fort's humorous hypothesis on the "Super-Sargasso Sea," an aerial ocean from which eels migrate back to old mother earth, aided by the wonderful force of gravity. But when rather out-of-date military projectiles and then--saints preserve us--people starting falling out of the sky, questions arise about the connections between "Magonia"--the possible home of historical "aerial sailing ships"--and the "Super-Sargasso."
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Coincidence or Synchronicity?
Posted by daev at 9:54 PM on September 18, 1998
Coincidence: 2. a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection. Synchronicity: the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible connection (both from The Concise Oxford Dictionary) Synchronicity: 'an acausal connecting principle' - C.G. Jung, Collected Works 8 Synchronicities: 'people who investigate the daemonic are particularly prone to these -- although they can happen to anyone who is engaged on a search for some sort of knowledge or truth (every scholar, for instance knows how the very book he requires can fall off a library shelf at his feet!)' - Patrick Harpur, Daemonic Reality
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Loch Ness Monster: Is it a seal or not?
Posted by daev at 9:44 PM on September 11, 1998
Great debates are afoot concerning some 10 seconds of video footage of what is being claimed to be the Loch Ness Monster. The defenders are the curiously monikered *Loch Ness Monster Fan Club*. The detractor, apart from some seemingly nameless 'wildlife watchers', is none other than Chris Packham, presenter of BBC's 'X Creatures'. He and the mysterious OTHERS are claiming that it's a seal. Having not yet seen in the footage, my writing anything about it seems akin to performing tennis commentary whilst blindfolded, but there's other issues involved. . .
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The Ghosts of Waterford
Posted by daev at 9:19 PM on September 4, 1998
Breaking News 2008: Ghosts on the Quay in Waterford » A fine summery tale popped up in the pages of the Munster Express on August 21st, telling us that a family in the Grange area of the city of Waterford was being 'haunted by a "nice" ghost'. The family has refrained from releasing their name or address, but we're assured that the haunting has been going on for some 20 years. ME reporter Michelle Clancy was despatched to investigate, and 'is convinced there is certainly some substance to the claims'. The ghost is apparently female, 'a middle-aged woman who always wears her dark hair in a bun', who seems to like watching the family from the stairs, as they go about their business (a good liminal vantage point - between floors).
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Negative Capability: Mesospheric clouds and the Mark of Zorro
Posted by daev at 6:14 PM on July 31, 1998
EXPLAINING THE Z Following Blather's blabbers about the mysterious July 10th *Z* in the sky, a cornucopia of diverse explanatory theories have reached HQ. 'There never was an explanation which didn't itself need to be explained.' - Charles Fort Dr Carl Bradbury at the Atmospheric Physics Department at Manchester Institute of Science and Technology was in touch, and while he didn't himself witness the 'Mark of Zorro' he does have a theory -- and only a theory, mind -- to explain them: Mesospheric clouds.
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Myth on the Loose: St. Maelrun's Well
Posted by daev at 6:28 PM on July 22, 1998
Anyone familiar with the historical and monumental landscape of Ireland should be well aware of the mass proliferation of 'Holy Wells'. Any self-respecting parish has perhaps half a dozen of these places, some of them are on said to be on the sites of ancient monasteries, and are often named for the Saint said to have founded or lived at the monastery. Others are less obviously historical, but are allegedly endowed with some form of healing powers, and usually named for some saint, whether or not the canonised one even hailed from Ireland at all. Places with water said to have healing powers are not confined to Ireland, one major example being Lourdes in France.
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On the Boyle
Posted by blather at 3:26 PM on July 17, 1998
wtd_08.jpg While endeavouring to steer clear of any more weak puns regarding Boyle, Co. Roscommon, things *do* appear to have come to a head -- again. A surprisingly hefty article appeared on page 4 of The Irish Independent on Saturday July 11th 1998, containing much apocrypha drawn by journalist Ian Doherty from Eamon Ansbro (of ICUFOS) -- often spoken about in previous Blathers -- and Betty Myler, a spokesperson of the newly formed 15-member Western UFO Society in Boyle (mentioned previously in *Prophecies Fulfilled*).
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Weird Achill Island
Posted by blather at 3:12 PM on June 10, 1998
ghost_bw.JPG Previously on Blather, in *Baaaaah-Humbug*, and *Rocks from Irish Skies* , we mentioned the ongoing debacle at the Achill Island House of Prayer. Alleged stigmatic Mrs. Christina Gallagher and what appears to be a cult following of sorts have been claiming minor miracles there. Back before Christmas 1997, the Archbishop of Tuam held an inquiry, concluding that there was no evidence that "supernatural phenomena of whatever kind" was taking place at The House of Prayer. (Irish Times, December 17th 1997)
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Surviving the Unconvention: Lesson II
Posted by daev at 2:03 PM on May 8, 1998
Once more into the breach we stumble, to give a run down of the second day of the Fortean Times UnConvention 98 (with a brief hark back to Saturday). This week Blather is joined by not only by Barry 'Dacianos' Kavanagh and Mark 'Firestarter' Pilkington, but also Paul Holloway, giving his dissertations on MIBs.
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How to survive the UnConvention
Posted by daev at 1:58 PM on May 1, 1998
After surviving an evening of subconsciously premeditated alcoholic beverage consumption at what has become known as the UnDrinking, the morning of Saturday 25th of April saw some ragged Blatherskites staggering through the foyer of the University of London Union, en route to the Fortean Times UnConvention 98. This report was compiled with this week's Blather guests, Barry Kavanagh and Mark Pilkington...
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Pretty Good Friday
Posted by daev at 8:46 PM on April 10, 1998
Welcome to this week's (Pretty) Good Friday Blather extravaganza, disseminated from a uncharacteristically (for the time of year) chilly Dublin, where vague hints of snow have been all day threatening the populace. GNOMES WANT TO BE FREE A smattering of snippets assail us this week, first and foremost we have the latest on gnome-napping. With the arrest of several members of the Gnome Liberation Front last November, we at Blather Operations were devastated, long time fans that we are these daring surrealists, who tend to leave behind calling cards reading 'The Garden Gnomes Liberation Front has been here. Your gnomes are now free and can finally live in peace together deep in the forest'.
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Unofficial religious appearances
Posted by daev at 8:32 PM on April 3, 1998
A fine week of fringe religious activity it has been, what with guest appearances of the Virgin Mary in Georgia, crying statues of that same hallowed lady in Spain and a couple of hundred people becoming gods, down in Garland, Texas. According to the BBC on April 2nd, people in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, people have been reporting close facial encounters of the Virginal kind since Christmas, attracting thousands to Tbilisi's blue cathedral. The BBC's rather disjointed report proceeds to tell of Tatia, a local faith healer who has 'squiggly' lines appearing about her navel, sometimes in the shape of a cross. I felt so much wiser after reading about Tbilisi and Tatia, thanks to the BBC - why did they bother?
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Orbiting Fur Balls
Posted by blather at 6:08 PM on March 27, 1998
A NEW LIFE AWAITS YOU IN THE OFF-WORLD COLONIES On Saturday 14th March, this Blatherskite was conversing with the Church of Subgenius's Rev. Nickie Deathchick whilst attending an open-house reception in the Fringeware Store (Austin, Texas). Suddenly, a representative of a company calling themselves 'Celestis' was thrust upon us. In case you don't know, Houston based Celistis were responsible for last year launching into space the ashes of Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry, and philosopher and scientist Timothy Leary. This Celestis representative (who I shall refrain from naming) filled us in on the basic idea of their latest project - but asked us to keep mum until he contacted us with further details, as this information was not yet public knowledge. We agreed (wondering why he had told us at all). . . but on the following Tuesday, March 17th, the Daily Telegraph ran a story concerning this 'secret' information. As this story quotes David Goldstein of Encounter 2001, the consortium of which Celestis is a part, I can only assume that it involved an officially endorsed press release, and that I am at liberty to Blather away to my heart's content.
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It's the end of the Millennium as we know it
Posted by blather at 5:49 PM on March 11, 1998
Blather has been idly comparing the news of these past few days to our hypothetical dramatisation (adapted for the 'net) of the Book of Revelations. On March 8th, traffic on 200 mile stretch of North Californian highway slowed to a near halt as it was illuminated by flaming objects falling from the sky, convincing many that an aircraft had crashed. According to Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, it was a large meteor shower (The Associated Press, Via Nando News, and the San Francisco Examiner on March 10th). This was preceded by a disclosure concerning a 32-year-old Chinese farmer who had just been divested of two of his three tongues (Agence France-Presse March 9th, Reuters March 8th), and a Canadian cow which gave birth to four calves, a rather rare and momentous occurrence (The Associated Press, via Nando March 8th).
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Frog Fall
Posted by blather at 5:37 PM on March 6, 1998
MARCH SPAWNED A FROG FROG FALL Suzanne Charlton the BBC Weather Centre had a rather intriguing weather report to make on the 5th of March. A 'distraught' woman in Croydon (The Times say Croydon, while several people reckon that the BBC said Crawley), in the southern U.K., phoned the Meteorological Office to inform them of a deluge of of frogs which were proceeding to cover her garden and much of the surrounding neighbourhood. Neil Lofthouse, the U.K.'s national forecaster, was quoted as saying that : "You do get reports of things getting sucked up by water spouts, which are rotating columns of water, or tornadoes. They would have to go over a lake or something with a lot of frogs on it." Unfortunately Mr. Lofthouse is fumbling in the dark with this fairly weak, if typical explanation.
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Lord Lucan's homecoming?
Posted by daev at 11:09 AM on January 16, 1998
The Connaught Telegraph of 14th January 1998 tells us that 'Eerie occurrences haunt Government buildings', in Castlebar, Co. Mayo. Staff at local government offices have reported regular appearances of a 'ghost' clad in an Aran sweater and a hat with a downturned brim. The appearances are apparently linked to a building extension which is being constructed on land once owned by the infamous Lord Lucan, the 7th Earl of Lucan, a British aristocrat and professional gambler. He vanished on 7th November 1974, after apparently bungling a murder of his wife, and rather successfully dispatching his children's nanny, Sandra Rivett, at their London home. He has been declared 'financially dead', but his son, merchant banker Lord Bingham (29) insists that his father is dead with respect to peerage, as he wants to inherit the title, and a seat in the British House of Lords. There have been hundreds of unconfirmed sightings, and rumours that he is alive and living in an African country (Namibia has been mentioned).
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Bizarre Cults and Hairy Men
Posted by daev at 5:19 PM on January 2, 1998
Happy New Year, and all that malarkey. Rejoice, for yet again, Armageddon hasn't taken place, the Great Flood II hasn't swept us away, asteroids haven't crashed into Dublin, and this Blatherskite is pretty healthy, not a sign of plague nor pestilence. Now, on with the show... oh please maestro, please...
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Baaaaah-humbug
Posted by daev at 9:48 PM on December 24, 1997
While considering the possible ingredients for the Bumper Christmas Blather, I did toy with the idea of doing something 'Christmassy', but eventually decided against it, bah humbug, due to the sheer weight of bizarre material that I've been hoarding over the last couple of weeks, which I've been unable to squeeze in to previous issues.
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Skies Alive!
Posted by daev at 9:28 PM on December 12, 1997
This week's Blather is to be a cogno-intellectual compendium of sundry anomalous aerial tidings... While discussing the merry topic of mystery humans falling from the sky, last week's Blather mentioned the death of a woman in Miami, Florida, who was suspected of having fallen from an aircraft. A matter of hours after my sending out Blather, she had been named as Helene Deborah Gusik, and the police now reckoned that she had fallen from a nearby apartment block, but didn't know why she was in the building... (The Associated Press)
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Sargasso Sea Stuff
Posted by daev at 9:21 PM on December 5, 1997
In Charles Fort's books, Book of the Damned, Lo!, New Lands and Wild Talents, a particular thread often raises its anomalous head - the appearance of sundry articles upon our planet, appearing to have been disgorged by the heavens above. These descents are all a little acceptable and perhaps explicable when the objects are chunks of rock or ice, but what about objects which are obviously of an earthly nature? Blather 1.9, 'Raining Toads' lists some of the objects and materials mentioned by Fort - and many more have been reported since - lizards, fish, shellfish, iron balls, turtles, china fragments, insects, blood, butter, fruit and other items and substances too numerous to list here. But clouds of dead crows? And Humans?
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Missing Link - Gone AWOL
Posted by daev at 9:12 PM on November 7, 1997
We're breaking out the rum ration this week, as we are in a celebratory frame of mind. The reason? Your visual organs are currently consuming the 26th issue of 'Blather' - half a year old today. Now, on with the entertainment...
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The Smoking Cannon
Posted by daev at 8:59 PM on October 23, 1997
Each Monday, I'm given to ponder on the content of each forthcoming 'Blather', often worrying there will be nothing particularly topical to discuss. Can a week go by without anything utterly bizarre happening? Fortunately, these fears are always rapidly put to rest, due to the Universe's unerring reliability in delivering some new fortean anomaly.
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Baltic, Missing Links, Globs
Posted by daev at 9:08 PM on October 17, 1997
Welcome to Blather of the Baltic, playboy of the Skagerrak, who is now safely ensconced again in Blather HQ after some Scandinavian adventures, from which I returned relatively unscathed, save for the media exposure and arson accusations. Other points of note were the proliferation of mythical beasts adorning the beautiful architecture of Copenhagen (dragons with 12 breasts) and an odd column of black smokey stuff somewhere in the region of 10 degrees from the vertical, at about 35,000 feet (10,600 metres) above Jutland, seen from the window of the BlatherAir staff runabout.
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Passports for Aliens?
Posted by daev at 5:38 PM on October 9, 1997
Welcome to Blather, in particular all the people who signed up having found this weekly slippery soapbox through 'Cool Site of the Day' on Tuesday 7th October. In response to last week's defence of defamed marsupials, the Rev. Syd Jesus stepped in with an immortal Raymond Chandler quote, which was: 'as easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket'. Also spotted was some delirious 1920's journalism mentioned in Bernard Heuvelman's 'On the Track of Unknown Animals' (ISBN: 0710304986), describing a brontosaurus which was apparently running riot in Africa (which prompted many expeditions to find the damned thing) as having a tail like a kangaroo. Quite a brontosaurus, especially when one realises that the sum of the description led one to believe that it looked more like a triceratops. With a kangaroo's tail.
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Raining Toads
Posted by daev at 5:24 PM on July 10, 1997
A good classic anomaly, how it warms the heart. On July 5th, Associated Press reported a rain of toads in the Mexican town of Villa Angel Flores, in the Pacific Coast state of Sinaloa. Apparently a 'mini tornado' picked them up from a pond and dumped them on the town, although the report doesn't state how this can happen, or more importantly why it was only toads that the the tornado allegedly picked up.
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