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John A. Keel (1930 - 2009) was an American Journalist and influential UFOlogist

Book excerpt from "Operation Trojan Horse":

[..] There is another type of experience which I call time compression. Here the witness undergoes a sequence of events which seem to consume a specific period of time. Later he or she discovers that only a few minutes had actually passed, even though the whole sequence seemed to consume hours. Time compression is common among contactees who think they have been taken on visits to other planets.

I do not believe that any of these people are suffering directly from clinical insanity. Rather, the evidence seems to indicate that their minds are manipulated by an exterior influence and that sometimes their intellects are unable to digest the information they are given, and their emotional structure is unable to retain its stability in the face of these experiences. So some of these people crack up under the strain, or at best, they greatly misinterpret these events. Induced confabulation produces memories of experiences which are convincingly real, and a chain reaction of emotional responses creates irrational fanaticism. These people abandon their jobs and devote all of their time and thought to spreading the gospel of the space people. Their family relationships disintegrate because all of their energies are channeled into one direction. They become martyrs to their cause, be it the eminent arrival of the Big Brothers or the Second Coming of Christ; or, as in the case of the run-of-the-mill hard-core UFO enthusiasts, trying to convince the world that flying saucers are real and are extraterrestrial.

What all this really means is that SOMEONE or something actually has the power to completely possess and control the human mind. Human beings can be manipulated through this power and used for both good and evil purposes.

[..] Now perhaps we can better understand RAF Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard's remarks: "The astral world of illusion, which is greatly inhabited by illusion-prone spirits, is well known for its multifarious imaginative activities and exhortations. Seemingly some of its denizens are eager to exemplify principalities and powers. Others pronounce upon morality, spirituality, Deity, etc. All of these astral exponents who invoke human consciousness may be sincere, but many of their theses may be framed to propagate some special phantasm... or simply to astonish and disturb the gullible for the devil of it."

These "illusion-prone spirits" are responsible for nearly all of the UFO appearances and manipulations. The flying saucers do not come from some Buck Rogers-type civilization on some distant planet. They are our next-door neighbors, part of another space-time continuum where life, matter, and energy are radically different from ours. Ancient man knew this and recognized it. The original Biblical texts employed the word "sheol", which meant invisible world. Somehow, the translators turned this into "hell" and gave it an entirely different meaning.

After spending more than a decade investigating and researching the UFO phenomenon, an engineer named Bryant Reeve published this statement in 1965: "...We began to see that vehicles in outer space were not really the important thing. They were merely an indication of something vastly greater, of earthman's awakening to a tremendous new awareness."

[..] It had taken Mr. Reeve many years to arrive at a conclusion which had apparently been reached in the halls of Washington long before. In January, 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency collected together a group of leading scientists to review the flying saucer evidence compiled by Captain Edward Ruppelt and his Air Force Project Blue Book teams.

[..] The panel agreed generally that this mass of poor-quality reports containing little, if any, scientific data was of no value. Quite the opposite, it was possibly dangerous in having a military service foster public concern in "nocturnal meandering lights." The implication being, since the interested agency was military, that these objects were or might be potential direct threats to national security. Accordingly, the need for deemphasization made itself apparent The panel suggested a program for "debunking" UFOs and systematically destroying the mystique which had grown up around the subject.

[..] As part of a plan for deemphasizing the sightings, the Air Force files were closed to newsmen and researchers for several years, and military personnel were forbidden to discuss UFO material with outsiders. This move inspired the cries of "Censorship!" which are still bandied about in the cultist circles.

[..] Since the phenomenon is partly reflective, it had played the censorship game in earnest and had worked to manipulate the cultists into believing that some great official conspiracy was under way. Mystery men appeared in flap areas and warned, even threatened, witnesses into silence. Some of these men appeared in Air Force uniforms, and when fragments of these stories reached the cultists, they howled even more about "suppression of the truth."

[..] For years many of the UFO cultists have believed that these men in black were CIA and Air Force agents, just as they believed that the government was tapping their phones and censoring their mail.

[..] The real truth is that the UFO cultists have been played for suckers for years, not by the government, but by the phenomenon. Mischievous, even malicious rumors and nonsense have been passed on to them through the contactees, and they have accepted this rubbish as fact. Other classic UFO stories had their beginnings as clearly labeled fiction in cheap men's magazines.

[..] Situations have been engineered by the phenomenon to make the UFO cultists suspicious of the government and even of one another. The in-fighting between the various groups deserves special study by itself. Many cultists are living in genuine terror. Some no longer trust their own families. Several have suffered nervous breakdowns.

Ironically, the UFO organizations have, themselves, suppressed and censored more UFO reports than the Air Force. When the National Investigation Committees on Aerial Phenomena received a report from one of their members on the sighting of Betty and Barney Hill in 1961, in which they suffered extraordinary effects after they saw humanlike figures in the window of a UFO, they hid the full report in their office. The whole story would never have become public knowledge if author John Fuller had not stumbled across the Hills years later during his own independent UFO investigations.

The demonological events discussed in this book have so baffled and confused the UFO organizations that they have dismissed most of them as hoaxes without any kind of investigation. In many cases, they have publicly branded the witnesses liars, publicity nuts, and mercenaries trying to exploit the subject.

There's no doubt that the UFO cultists themselves have thwarted effective research into these matters, and their antics have created the atmosphere of ridicule which surrounds the subject and makes qualified professionals wary of becoming involved.

By early 1967, I had decided that the evidence for extraterrestrial origin was purely circumstantial, and I began to hint in print that perhaps a more complex situation was involved. To my astonishment, my rejection of the outer-space hypothesis focused the wrath and suspicion of the UFO cultists on me.

[..] No responsible government could really attempt to explain this bizarre situation to the general public. Our military establishment has therefore been forced to follow a simpler policy, denying the reality of the phenomenon without trying to explain it. If flying saucers are a cosmic hoax, then it follows naturally that many of man's basic beliefs may be based on similar hoaxes. No government is willing to expose these beliefs or become involved in the terrible controversies that would result from such exposure.

The Air Force studies of the early 1950's, and my own recent independent investigations, proved that when the sighting data alone is reviewed quantitatively, it automatically negates itself. The individual sightings are not part of a whole but are part of something else. They form the point of the needle which the ultraterrestrials choose to show us. There are undoubtedly many objects in the sky which we never really notice, but which are a part of all this: strange clouds, weird birds and winged creatures, conventional-looking airplanes. They constitute the real phenomenon. And there are other objects, invisible to human eyes, but discernible, on occasion, to radar and to those people who are more attuned to receiving the signals from those unknown electromagnetic radiations around us.

Sir Victor Goddard pointed out that he believed that most UFO sightings were made by people with psychic abilities, and by nonpsychics who were standing in the auras of the real percipients and were, therefore, temporarily tuned in. There seems to be some merit to this hypothesis, incredible though it may seem.

However, it would be very dangerous for us to exclude the possibility that a very small residue of sightings may be very real. Most scientists agree that there is a chance that there may be billions of inhabitable planets within our own galaxy, and there is always a chance that living beings from those planets might have visited us in the past, are visiting us now, or are planning to visit us in the future. To regard all UFO sightings as illusions, hallucinations, and paraphysical manifestations would expose us to a potentially volatile situation — an invasion from another world.

There have been many apparently physical sightings and landings which produced markings on the ground and other evidence that the objects were solid machines. But if those events represent the presence of true manufactured spacecraft in our atmosphere, then the overall evidence suggests that they are following a long-range plan — a covert military-style buildup — which will culminate in hostile action.

In psychic phenomena and demonology we find that seemingly solid physical objects are materialized and dematerialized or apported. There are many baffling cases of houses which appeared and disappeared mysteriously. In religious demonic possession, well documented by attending priests and doctors, the victims regurgitated impossible quantities of stones and even sharp steel needles. Apparently these foreign objects materialized in their bodies. Some victims have levitated to the ceiling and had to be forcibly tied to their beds to keep from floating away.

Ufologists have constructed elaborate theories about flying-saucer propulsion and antigravity. But we cannot exclude the possibility that these wondrous "machines" are made of the same stuff as our disappearing houses, and they don't fly — they levitate. They are merely temporary intrusions into our reality or space-time continuum, momentary manipulations of electromagnetic energy. When they "lower their frequencies" (as the contactees put it) and enter a solid state, they can leave impressions on the ground. But to enter that state, they need some atoms from our world—parts of an airplane, an auto, or blood and matter from an animal or human being. Or, in some cases, they need to drain off energy from the human percipients or from power lines and automobile engines. This may seem like a fantastic concept, but we have wasted twenty years trying to simplify all this, trying to find a more mundane explanation. The fact is, all of the evidence supports our fantastic concepts more readily than it supports the notion that we are receiving visitors from Mars or Aenstria.

But if we want to be properly cautious and objective, we find ourselves facing a double-barreled dilemma. On the one hand, all the real facts of the situation, the manifestations and physical effects of the phenomenon, seem to point to a negative, paraphysical explanation. The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects. They do not conform to the accepted natural laws of our environment. They seem to be nothing more than transmogrifications tailoring themselves to our abilities to understand. The thousands of contacts with the entities indicate that they are liars and put-on artists. The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon. Officaldom may feel that if we ignore them long enough, they will go away altogether, taking their place with the vampire myths of the Middle Ages.

On the other hand, suppose that some other world, either from another planet or from a region composed of different frequencies and a different kind of physical matter, had designs on this world. Suppose that their time cycle was radically different from ours, and they could launch a plan for take-over which could require thousands of our years to complete? While they were making preparations for this invasion, it would be necessary for them to divert us, just as we planted all kinds of false evidence to convince Adolph Hitler that the invasion of Europe was going to take place far from Normandy. It would then be logical for them to instrument a plan of psychological warfare to keep us confused and even to convince us that flying saucers don't really exist at all. The few thousand people who took a real interest in the UFO reports could be deftly diverted by contacts which assured them that the flying saucers were really being operated by "nice guys," by Big Brothers from outer space who had our best interests at heart.

[..] Having been trained in psychological warfare during my stint as a propaganda writer for the U.S. Army, I have been particularly conscious of this double-barreled threat and particularly concerned over the obvious hoaxes and manipulations apparently designed to foster both belief and disbelief in the reality of the flying saucers. I have tried objectively to weigh all of the factors, pro and con, throughout my investigations and in this book. Frankly, I have gone through periods when I was absolutely convinced that those Trojan horses were, indeed, following a careful plan designed to ultimately conquer the human race from within. The physical Trojan horse concept seemed alarmingly valid to me for a long time.

But I am now inclined to accept the conclusion that the phenomenon is mainly concerned with undefined (and undefinable) cosmic patterns and that mankind plays only a small role in those patterns. That "other world" seems to be a part of something larger and more infinite. The human race is also a part of that something, particularly those people who seem to possess psychic abilities and who seem to be tuned in to some signal far beyond our normal perception.

Perhaps the U.S. government was equally concerned with the Trojan horse possibility in the 1940's, and perhaps that explains the peculiar official machinations of the early years. Nobody in Washington has been inclined to confess to me that this is so, but at a press conference in 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower told reporters that flying saucers were hallucinatory and existed only in the minds of the observers. In 1966, then-Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara called them illusions. So it seems probable that, after a period of paranoia in the 1940's and early 1950's, the government settled upon a negative hypothesis based, undoubtedly, on the same kind of material I have outlined here.

If intelligent beings actually do exist on Ganymede or Andromeda, it is even very possible that they, too, have been observing and wondering about the same kinds of unidentified flying objects which haunt our planet. Our astronauts and cosmonauts have frequently sighted mysterious objects deep in space — objects which appeared and disappeared just as enigmatically as the things flitting about the highways and farmfields of earth. The UFO phenomenon may be universal. And it may be unsolvable.

Finally, we come to the problem: How do you investigate something that doesn't exist?

The answer is that you investigate and study the people who have experienced these things. You don't investigate them by checking their reliability. You study the medical and psychological effects of their experiences. This cannot be done by teenagers with telescopes and housewives with tape recorders. It must be done by trained professionals.

We need to know much more about the human mind and how it is linked up to the greater source. We must study the process of confabulation (falsification of memory) which produces the majority of our UFO landing and contact stories and demonological events.

[..] The elementals or ultraterrestrials are somehow able to manipulate the electrical circuits of the human mind. They can make us see whatever they want us to see and remember only what they want us to remember. Human minds which have been tuned into those super-high-frequency radiations, described early in this book, are most vulnerable to these manipulations. Discovering and understanding this process should be given top priority.

The symptoms of the contactee syndrome usually appear in early childhood, even though overt contact may not be established until many years later. Many contactees, like Howard Menger, have a long sequence of experiences with the paraphysical entities before their real UFO encounters formally begin. Some contactees begin to receive telepathic messages sporadically years before they have overt contact. Those whose minds misinterpret the information (or the signal) often begin to suffer weird forms of psychic attack. Once they untangle the misinterpretations, the attack ceases, and they become silent contactees and remain in almost constant communication with the source. I do not mean to imply that any of these people are insane. Far from it. But many are driven insane when their minds are unable to translate the signal properly. They fall prey to the negative aspects, and their mental confusion attracts induced hallucinations, visits from Oriental gentlemen in dark suits and black Cadillacs, and they can eventually suffer total deterioration of personality. I had to find this out the hard way, only to discover later that Dr. Meade Layne had worked it all out in the early 1950's, but nobody would listen to him.

Dr. Layne tried to express his ideas in occult terminology. He called the ultraterrestrials the Etherians and thought in terms of "ultrasonics" as well as electromagnetic frequencies. In 1955, he published a concise (and time has proven it valid) appraisal of the situation in which he stated: "It is possible that some persons may be less affected by supersonic frequencies than others; this may account for the selection of certain persons by the Etherians. It is also possible that some such persons are now showing signs of amnesia and other physical and mental deterioration."

If Dr. Layne was aware of these factors fifteen years ago, then it is almost criminal that no suitable psychiatric program has been instituted to study and understand this phenomenon. Thousands, perhaps millions, of people all over this planet are being directly affected. My mail is filled with cries for help. I have watched helplessly as witnesses fell into hopeless personality deterioration and went insane or even committed suicide. For some time now I have been working closely with a small group of psychiatrists, but our efforts can be compared only to the proverbial drop in the bucket. The whole UFO subject has been so widely ridiculed and denounced that most qualified men are reluctant to enter into it.

Not all ultraterrestrial contacts are evil and disastrous, of course. But there are many people throughout the world who are deeply involved in all this without realizing it. They have entangled themselves through other frames of reference and, in many cases, have been savagely exploited by the ultraterrestrials in the games being played. These games have been thoroughly documented and defined in the literature of the various frames of reference. The psychology of the elementals or ultraterrestrials is well known and fully described in the fairy lore of northern Europe and the ancient legends of Greece, Rome, and India. In fact, we know almost everything there is to know - about the entities and their games. Unfortunately, most of the valuable information has been buried in the beliefs of the various frames of reference and clouded by obscure terminology. It will take teams of accomplished and objective scholars to wade through all the literature and distill all the facts. This job should be begun immediately, for the game seems to be headed for some kind of grand climax.

Everything from the Dead Sea Scrolls, the ancient scriptures of the Orient, and the records of early Egypt to the modern messages of the psychics and contactees and the thousands of inspired books indicates that mankind was directly ruled by the phenomenon for many centuries. The god-king system established a universal theocracy which enabled ultraterrestrials posing as gods and superkings to supervise human events. Remnants of this system prevailed until the early 1800's when the United States established a political structure which separated the church from the state. More than fifty major revolutions were staged in Europe in 1848, breaking the back of the god-king system for all time. The phenomenon simply shifted to new frames of reference, notably spiritualism and a new cycle of minor religions based upon the teachings of prophets who were contacted by angels and elementals. Even Abraham Lincoln was a spiritualist and openly admitted that he based some of his decisions upon information and advice he received at seances.

Rapid industrialization and technological development in the Western cultures apparently led to further restructuring of the phenomenon's frames of reference. The inundation of airships in 1896-97 marked the beginning of the modern UFO phase. Although the phenomenon experimented with the "outer space" frame of reference as early as 1866, it did not attempt to advance this concept on a worldwide scale until 1946. By 1950, it had, in a mere four years, firmly established the extraterrestrial visitants idea as a humanly acceptable frame of reference for the flying objects and manipulations.

The study and interpretation of all this belongs in the hands of historians, philosophers, psychiatrists, and theologians. However, physical scientists can also make a contribution by applying standard scientific methods to the wealth of data and preparing statistical studies of the events themselves.

[..] It is probable that manifestations are dependent upon unknown conditions which have an electromagnetic basis. When specific individuals (people with latent or active psychic abilities) are in specific places (window areas) at specific times (flap periods when the undefined electromagnetic conditions exist), the phenomenon is able to manifest itself in one of its many forms.

These events are staged year after year, century after century, in the same exact areas and often on the same exact calendar dates. Only the witnesses and the frames of reference used are different.

The phenomenon can be extremely dangerous, since the objects move through frequency changes which can produce deadly gamma and ultraviolet rays.

[..] This is not a subject for teenagers and wild-eyed believers. It demands a cautious, comprehensive, well-financed investigation by independent, objective professionals unhampered by the petty causes of the cultists and the political machinations of the government agencies.

Somebody or something somewhere is trying to tell us about all this. Our skies are filled with Trojan horses and always have been. They are operating on a mysterious timetable, deliberately sowing confusion and nonsense in their wake. The believers and cultists have been crying for us to throw open the gates of the city and wheel the Trojan horse in. But the governments of the world, and the churches, have been trying to nail the gates shut. The Vatican has repeatedly warned that spiritualism is "evil" and the "work of the Devil." When seemingly authentic religious miracles occur today, and there have been many, the theologians and churches approach them with great caution and try to play down their significance. The Bible warns us that during "the last days" this planet will be overrun with wonders in the sky and false prophets and performers of miracles.

There are now many cases in which the voices of deceased persons have seemingly called up their loved ones on the telephone, just as the metallic-voiced space people have been phoning researchers and reporters around the world.

[..] As Sherlock Holmes used to say, the game is afoot. It is happening on every level of our society, manifesting itself in countless ways. The year 1968 was comparable to the year 1848. Great changes are taking place on our college campuses, in our churches, and in the halls of government. The demons of old are marching among us again.

In 1966, I was a lifelong atheist raised in the hard school of objective journalism, skeptical but hopeful that I could somehow validate the enthusiasts' speculations about extraterrestrial visitants. The extraterrestrial hypothesis then seemed to me to be the only acceptable explanation. But my experiences over the past few years have changed both me and my outlook, just as similar experiences have changed so many others. I have stood on many a windy hilltop staring in amazement at the multicolored objects cavorting about the night skies. I have dealt with thousands of honest, sincere witnesses by mail, phone, and in person. My skepticism has melted away, and I have turned from science to philosophy in my search for the elusive truth. The late Wilbert Smith, the Canadian scientist who chased UFOs in the 1950's, apparently followed a similar course. "The inevitable conclusion was that it was all real enough," Smith said in 1958, "but that the alien science was definitely alien — and possibly even beyond our comprehension. So another approach was tried — the philosophical — and here the answer was found in all its grandeur...."

All of the various ologies represent the famous blind men trooping to Cathay who encountered an elephant. Each ology has been examining a different part of the elephant and giving it a different interpretation. It is time now for us to gain the total vision necessary for viewing the elephant as it is, not as we would like it to be.

We all seem to be embarked on some new adventure. Our little planet seems to be experiencing the interpenetration of forces or entities from some other space-time continuum. Perhaps they are trying to lead us into a new Dark Age of fear and superstition. Or perhaps they will be guiding us upward to some unexpected destiny. I am not a scientist, theologian, or philosopher. I am only a reporter. My business is asking questions, not answering them.

-- John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse (1970)

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triciamfoster · 1 year

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Ghost of Freddy Jackson

The ghostly apparitions captured in photographs have always been a source of fascination and mystery. One such eerie occurrence is the ghost of Freddie Jackson, who is said to haunt a group portrait of Goddard's squadron taken in 1919 during World War I. This paranormal phenomenon has become known as the "Freddy Jackson ghost" and has intrigued believers and skeptics alike.

The story goes that the squadron of the Royal Air Force (RAF) led by Sir Victor Goddard took a group photograph in 1919. However, when the photo was developed, a ghostly figure was spotted among the crew members. The figure was identified as Freddy Jackson, a mechanic who had tragically died two days before the photograph was taken, in an accident involving an aircraft propeller.

The photograph, which has been widely circulated, shows a row of men in uniform, with Jackson's face appearing behind one of the officers, peering over his left shoulder. His ghostly image is said to be unmistakable, with his face clearly visible, despite the fact that he was already deceased at the time the photograph was taken.

The incident sparked widespread interest in the paranormal and has been debated by skeptics and believers alike. Some have dismissed the photograph as a hoax or a result of double exposure, while others believe it to be genuine evidence of the existence of ghosts.

Adding to the intrigue of the story, Sir Victor Goddard himself reportedly believed in the paranormal and claimed to have experienced other supernatural occurrences during his career as a pilot. He was said to have been convinced that the photograph captured the spirit of Freddy Jackson, whom he had known personally.

The story of Freddie Jackson's ghost in the group portrait of Goddard's squadron continues to be a topic of debate and speculation among paranormal enthusiasts and skeptics alike. While some remain skeptical and attribute the phenomenon to various technical explanations, others see it as compelling evidence of the existence of ghosts and the possibility of life beyond death.

Regardless of one's beliefs, the story of Freddie Jackson's ghost is a fascinating tale that has captivated the imaginations of many. It serves as a reminder that the world of the paranormal is still shrouded in mystery, and that even in the age of advanced technology, there are phenomena that continue to defy explanation. Whether the photograph is a genuine depiction of a ghostly presence or not, it remains a compelling piece of paranormal lore that continues to intrigue those interested in the mysteries of the supernatural.

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theparanormalperiodical · 4 years

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The Top 10 Scariest REAL Ghost Pictures And The True Stories Behind Them That Will Make You Lie Down And Cry (Promise)

Proof.

We’ve spent hundreds of years looking for proof.

We’ve untangled paranormal theories, we’ve pieced together ghost stories, and some of us have even fabricated reality in the inexorable search for the evidence that there might just be more to this realm than first seems.

But the thing about the proof of the paranormal is that we can never be sure of what’s real, and what’s five minutes with a broken flash button and Photoshop.

Then again, there are some photos which stun even the most ardent non-believers into a haunted silence, in particular those images which bare no scars of editing.

The whispers of ghost stories and the murmurs of urban legends mean nothing when compared to the physical evidence of the afterlife, and that’s why these photographs documenting the paranormal - whether fake or fo’ real - have garnered so much attention, especially in the Internet Age.

Many have claimed to have captured footage of ghosts, sightings of demons, and the murmurs of the supernatural on camera, and many like to emblazon their efforts with the necessary clickbait needed to boost their subscriber count.

But there are some images of the paranormal that have stood out through history, even if they hadn't GONE SEXUAL GONE WRONG (PRANK).

There are some images of the paranormal we simply cannot explain.

But we can try, right?

#1 - The Brown Lady Of Raynham Hall

It’s a dark, grainy image taken with the best technology this side of 1936 has to offer - and it’s one of the most famous pieces of evidence supposedly proving the existence of the paranormal.

On the evening of September 19th 1936, Captain Hubert Provand - a photographer for Country Life magazine - was taking photographs of Raynham Hall for the magazine. But while he was busy tending to another task, his assistant saw something rather peculiar.

It was a silvery vapour that took the shape of a woman. She was moving down the stairs towards them, and was in perfect alignment of the camera.

The assistant quickly told him to take a picture. He did.

But if the image alone isn’t enough to keep you having nightmares for the rest of lockdown, I’m sure the fact that this picture shows one of the most famous ghosts resident at Raynham Hall will certainly do the trick.

The Brown Lady was first seen in 1835 at Christmas.

Multiple sightings of the spectre were recorded by visitors to this Norfolk country house who’s history has spanned 400 years. It was her brown dress that gave the spirit her name, but it was the dark and empty eye sockets and glowing face that secured her reputation as one of the famous spirits in the UK.

It was shortly after this first set of sightings that a large portion of the staff left Raynham Hall, confirming this might not be the sole murmur of spirits at Raynham Hall. The next famous sighting took place in 1926, when the son of Lady Townshend, a noble of the family that had owned this house for the entirety of its existence, saw her on the staircase she would be seen on ten years later.

She would be the first person to identify the Brown Lady as Lady Dorothy Walpole, and she would be the first to point out the tragic reality of this haunting.

Walpole - born in 1686 - was known for being the second wife of Charles Townshend, a man infamous for his violent temper. This was to be revealed to her when he discovered she was having an illicit relationship with another man, Lord Wharton.

He locked her in a room in Raynham Hall, and it was here that she stayed until the day that she died.

#2 - The Tulip Staircase Ghost

The Brown Lady is not the only supernatural entity that let her guard down whilst using a staircase.

Regardless of how those from beyond the grave like to traverse their former family homes, we can all agree that this is one of the most haunting images to make it to this list - and it’s all the more terrifying knowing that skeptics have proven this image has not been tampered with.

I repeat, not been tampered with.

Tulip staircases are an incredible feat of construction, and create a perfect swirl when seen from the top - but this spirit hit the jackpot of British architecture. They were haunting Queen’s House (Greenwich).

In 1966, a retired reverend and his wife visited the tourist destination. Upon their visit, they took a picture of the famous staircase known for its finesse and beauty - but little did they know this image would alter the course of paranormal investigation forever.

Having returned to their home nation of Canada, they developed the images they took. But in one of them was something odd:

A shrouded figure gripping the handrail and attempting to ascend the stairs began to emerge from its shadows.

Unfortunately, that’s about as much evidence of a potential spirit at queen’s house as we have. Seances have been conducted, vigils have occurred, and nights have been spent there to capture evidence of the spirit.

All we have is some bloke in 2002 seeing something in a white-grey dress glide across a balcony, and plunge headfirst through a wall.

#3 - Lord Combermere Sits At His Desk

It’s an incredible image, isn’t it?

Shadows linger in the late afternoon sun, bright light reflects off the leather furnishings - it honestly took me a while to work out which spectre I was meant to be looking at. But there you can see him, sitting in the large chair on the left of the photograph.

This picture was taken in the library of Combermere Abbey in Cheshire, and it was taken by Lady Sutton who was renting the Abbey for a personal stay. She was able to take this one-hour exposure as the house was empty - the entire family and staff were at a funeral that day.

But it turns out the guy being mourned failed to turn up to the ceremony.

That’s him in the picture.

That’s Lord Combermere.

Once the image had been developed a year later and Lady Sutton had noted the translucent figure she showed the residents of the Abbey. They immediately noted its likeness to their late father. In fact, the spirit was sitting in his favourite chair.

The coincidence doesn’t end there, however; some claim we can only see his torso in this image and not his legs. It is believed that this is related to the manner of his death from which he was run over by a horse-drawn carriage, an accident that caused serious injury to his legs.

(Ouch.)

#4 - Freddy Jackson Is Pictured With His Squadron

This picture was taken in 1919 by Sir Victor Goddard of his squadron and appears to show a typical photograph from the early 20th century. But the translucent face appearing behind one of the squadron members in the back row makes this post-war image stand out in a whole new light.

Apparently this image shows the face of Freddy Jackson, a member of the squadron. But the thing is, he died a few days before the image was taken having walked into a moving propeller.

(Ouch.)

But this isn’t the spookiest thing about this picture.

Goddard was actually best known for his interest and experience with the paranormal - even outside of snapping this pic. The most famous experience he had was a clairvoyant episode in 1935:

He claimed he had a vision at RAF Drem - an airfield in Scotland - which showed it as an active airfield in operation despite it being abandoned at this time. By 1939 it was in use, confirming his prophecies. He also foresaw the death of an officer in 1946, a prophecy that not only came true, but also inspired the film The Night My Number Came Up (1955).

He would spend his post-war years lecturing on the existent of UFOs.

#5 - Madonna of Bachelor’s Grove

Sightings of the Virgin Mary have always piqued interest in us mere mortals, drawing together the potential for the believers in the paranormal and Christianity - but this image leans much closer to those seeking out the supernatural.

The Ghost Research Society Of America was investigating Bachelor’s Cemetry in 1991 when their equipment showed strange readings.

There was a spirit nearby.

The researchers quickly took pictures in an attempt to catch a glimpse of the spirit in question, but at first saw nothing out of the ordinary. It was only when the image was exposed that a female spirit in white clothing was seen sitting on one of the graves.

(Photographs capturing the paranormal at graveyards often show spirits sitting on graves.)

But what makes this image a rather notable piece of evidence is that this isn’t the first time a woman in white has been seen at the cemetery. A variety of manifestations have been reported, including a phantom farmhouse, ghost monks, a two-headed ghost, but the White Madonna’s story is the most famous:

It is said she is most often seen walking the grounds during the night of the full moon and carries an infant around the gravestones.

#6 - The Amityville Ghost Boy

It’s one of the most famous images documenting the paranormal - and it’s one the most disputed, too.

The story goes that in 1976 a picture was taken at 112 Ocean Avenue.

(For those new to the world of all things horror and haunted, this is the location of the Amityville Horror.)

This picture was taken by Gene Campbell, a photographer who was working with paranormal investigators - including Ed and Lorraine Warren - looking into the activity supposedly occurring at the house. As a part of his duties, he set up an automatic camera that took infrared pictures in an attempt to snap somethin’ supernatural.

He was successful.

This picture was taken on the second floor of the house, and it shows a young child in what appears to be pajamas with bright, glowing eyes.

It is believed that this is the spirit of John Defoe, one of the children murdered by his older brother only a few years before the next residents of the house - the Lutzes - moved in, and began to report paranormal activity.

On the other hand, some claim this photo shows an investigator working with the Warrens who happened to be captured by the camera. But given the size of the face and the height we can see, this appears to be the spirit of a child.

#7 - Waverly Hills Sanatorium

It’s the ultimate urban legend:

*Lights up face with torch*

An abandoned TB hospital is haunted by ghosts of its past, whether it’s the former patients who suffered at the hands of the illness, or the doctors and nurses caring for them.

*Turns off torch*

Bu rarely do these stories have any evidence to back up the stories. Until now.

This picture was taken in 2006 in Louisville, and it was taken in one of the US’ most famous haunted locations. This image doesn’t just echo the eerie atmosphere often experienced by those visiting this former hospital, however.

It shows Mary Lee, a nurse who used to work at the location. But there is a twist in the tale.

This nurse had a relationship with a doctor also working at the sanatorium and soon fell pregnant. Unfortunately, he was not interested in having a relationship with her, and so she hung her in the hospital in grief.

#8 - The Coventry Spectre

Coventry is a hotspot of horrors, from the dreary midlands skyline to the wasteland atmosphere engulfing all mortal souls that dare tread there. Trust me, I’ve lived there.

But it turns out there are more supernatural threats to those that might end up there that you’ll want to know about.

This picture was taken in 1985 and shows the Coventry Freeman Society in the midst of a lively event. But there, in the corner of the room, is a cloaked figure with his head bowed in unison with the rest of the attendees.

None of the attendees noted the presence of such a figure when this image was taken.

It is believed that this monk-like spirit could have been from the middle ages when the craftsmen association was founded. Indeed, the hall the photo was taken in goes back to the 14th century.

#9 - The Phantom of Newby Church

Just like that of Amityville, this image has been subject to a lot of debate given the figure’s costume-like appearance, as well as the claims that this figure is almost posing for the picture.

But the fact it was taken in 1963 when such technology was limited and that experts say it hasn’t been subject to a double exposure confirms this image might be showing us the dark side of historic location.

Also known as the Newby Monk, this entity is believed to be a 16th-century monk with a shroud over his face to disguise disfigurement. But this still isn’t the scariest thing about this image.

Given the height of the other objects including in the image, it is believed this figure would actually measure 9 feet tall, making him far bigger than even the tallest humans ever recorded, suggesting this entity might have been a much more inhuman entity that you’d expect to turn up in The Conjuring universe.

#10 - An Aboriginal Woman At Corroborre Rock

Some of the most striking ghost stories known to man are based on the details of our history. And this photograph gives a voice to a history often forgotten.

This photograph was taken in 1959, and features one of the most famous spots in Australian Aboriginal history. It is said brutal ceremonies were carried out by Aboriginal tribesmen at this location, perhaps explaining the forlorn figure in the picture.

The melancholy stance is especially true given that this image shows the spirit of a woman; this location was considered spiritually dangerous for women, children, and uninitiated men to attend.

Although many claim software could’ve manipulated the image, the lack of human activity around this location at the time still raises the eyebrows of believers and skeptics alike.

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Evidence of the paranormal is still one of the most hotly debated topics on the planet, bringing together our firm trust in science and our personal beliefs regarding what might just exist.

But despite the debunking, the discussions, and the deliberate doctoring of images, one thing is for certain:

It was the dead that first used Facetune.

#snatched

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Al diablo con la respuesta: ¿Cuál es la pregunta? resulta ser el nombre de uno de los mejores capítulos del libro “Operación Caballo de Troya” de John Keel. Este ha sido mi material de consulta obligado, cada vez que pierdo las ganas de seguir en la búsqueda y, mejor, ha sido el mejor compañero a la hora de realizar nuevas preguntas.

Por eso, en esta entrada, reproduciremos párrafos traducidos exclusivamente. El material y las reflexiones son demasiado buenas como para que queden perdidas entre el tiempo y la barrera del idioma. Decía Keel:

“Kenneth Arnold (el piloto privado cuyo avistamiento el 24 de junio de 1947, desató el primer susto moderno para con los platillos volantes), investigó a fondo los ovnis en profundidad durante años. Luego, en 1955, también emitió declaraciones públicas que expresaban su creencia de que los objetos eran: “en realidad, alguna forma de energía viva y no eran necesariamente naves espaciales maravillosas”.

En 1957, Ray Palmer comenzó una nueva revista llamada Flying Saucers. En los primeros números, entusiasmó a sus lectores al insinuar que sabía el secreto. Luego, en 1958, publicó su conclusión de que los OVNIs no eran de algún otro planeta, ofreciendo como alternativa una teoría compleja sobre civilizaciones secretas con vínculos parafísicos (o psíquicos) con la raza humana (Ya en 1949, había publicado en su editorial que los platillos eran extradimensionales y no extraterrestres). Se pegó obstinadamente a sus armas y publicó varias revistas pequeñas dedicadas en gran parte a los aspectos psíquicos del fenómeno.

Después de una lucha de doce años, sus Flying Saucers lograron acumular un número limitado de lectores de solo 4,000 suscriptores pagados y 6,000 ventas en los puestos de periódicos a pesar de la distribución en todo el país. Cabe señalar que Palmer dominó por completo el pequeño pasatiempo OVNI estadounidense durante los primeros veinte años, publicando características diseñadas para atraer a los adolescentes al redil y mantener vivo al sujeto durante los largos y aburridos períodos de sequía. Fue un escritor prolífico y, sin duda, escribió más sobre el tema que ningún otro. Sin embargo, poco después de su muerte en 1977, fue expulsado de la historia de los ovnis por los fanáticos de la hipótesis extraterrestre de “tuercas y tornillos”.

El Dr. Leon Davidson, un físico que trabajó en el proyecto de la bomba atómica, se interesó en los ovnis a principios de los años cincuenta. Debido a su estado, la Fuerza Aérea le permitió ver fotos y películas oficiales de ovnis. Finalmente, comenzó a investigar los desconcertantes casos de contactados, y su mente entrenada pronto detectó un engaño.

Como otros investigadores objetivos, reconoció que los polémicos contactados decían la verdad tal como la conocían. Reconoció que estas personas estaban siendo engañadas a través de algún proceso hipnótico, pero no pudo aceptar ninguna explicación parafísica. En cambio, finalmente desarrolló una teoría que señalaba a la CIA con el dedo de la culpa. Él especuló que la CIA estaba creando deliberadamente estos eventos como una táctica de distracción en la Guerra Fría. Una proporción muy pequeña de los datos parecía encajar en esta conclusión, pero finalmente resultó ser insostenible”.

John Keel.

Kenneth Arnold.

Tapa del libro por REEDICIONES ANÓMALAS.

KEEL Y LA NICAP

Para John Keel, NICAP fue una organización lanzada por la CIA. Es decir, un experimento de la agencia de inteligencia. También se refiere a la clásica ineptitud de los agentes estatales por mantener un presupuesto y se mofa de que en 1957, Townsend Brown, dilapidó el magro capital de la NICAP en el desarrollo de una hipotética “propulsión OVNI”.

También habla de Donald Keyhoe (autor de Los Desconocidos del Espacio), a quien conoció y se refiere como el culpable de que la NICAP “rápidamente se convierta en otro loco culto de aficionados”.

Sin embargo, se encarga de un sucesor, que sigue con el camino en esta suerte de “repensar” el fenómeno: “Durante muchos años, Al Chop, un oficial de información de la Fuerza Aérea, prestó su nombre a la junta de gobernadores de NICAP. Pero en 1966, retiró su nombre, y en su correspondencia personal y en apariciones en programas de radio, declaró que ya no aceptaba la idea de que los platillos voladores eran máquinas físicas reales. Explicó el estado de ánimo con la declaración irónica: “Yo también creía en Santa Claus”.

Sir Victor Goddard (RAF)

Logo actual de NICAP

Edgar Keyhoe

Muchos otros investigadores tempranos de OVNI, la mayoría de ellos muy por encima del promedio en educación y capacidad intelectual, llegaron a conclusiones negativas similares después de un estudio independiente largo y cuidadoso, generalmente adoptando la posición de Sir Victor Goddard (ver más abajo). Algunos, como el Dr. Donald Menzel, un astrónomo de Harvard, reconocieron que las personas estaban viendo algo y habían tratado de explicar el fenómeno dentro de las restricciones de sus propias disciplinas científicas. El Dr. Menzel argumentó convincentemente por una teoría del espejismo y la inversión de aire.

Ivan T. Sanderson, un conocido biólogo y antropólogo, y el Dr. Jacques Vallee, un astrónomo de la NASA y experto en informática, estudiaron la teoría extraterrestre durante años y finalmente recurrieron a la hipótesis parafísica.

¿Qué es exactamente la hipótesis parafísica? Es el tema central de este libro.

Se puede resumir mejor en los comentarios del mariscal de la RAF Sir Victor Goddard, KCB, CBE, MA, un miembro del gobierno británico de muy alto rango. El 3 de mayo de 1969, dio una conferencia pública en el Caxton Hall en Londres, en la que citó estos puntos principales:

‘Si bien es posible que algunos operadores de OVNI sean normalmente los habitantes parafísicos de un planeta que no sea la Tierra, no hay una necesidad lógica de que esto sea así. Porque, si la materialidad del OVNI es parafísica (y, en consecuencia, normalmente invisible), el OVNI podría ser (más plausiblemente) creación de un mundo invisible coincidente con el espacio de nuestro planeta físico de la Tierra, que creaciones en los reinos parafísicos de cualquier otro planeta físico en el sistema solar… Dado que los OVNIs reales son parafísicos, capaces de reflejar la luz como fantasmas; y dado también que (según muchos observadores) permanecen visibles a medida que cambian de posición a velocidades ultra altas de un punto a otro, se deduce que aquellos que permanecen visibles en transición no se desmaterializan para esa rápida transición, y por lo tanto, su masa debe ser de una naturaleza diáfana (muy difusa) y su sustancia relativamente etérica.

La validez observada de esto apoya la afirmación parafísica y hace que la probabilidad de que el OVNI sea creado en la Tierra, sea mayor que la probabilidad de su creación en otro planeta. El mundo astral de la ilusión, que (en evidencia psíquica) está habitado en gran medida por espíritus propensos a la ilusión, es bien conocido por sus múltiples actividades imaginativas y exhortaciones.

Al parecer, algunos de sus habitantes están ansiosos por ejemplificar principados y poderes. Otros se pronuncian sobre la moral, la espiritualidad, la Deidad, etc. Todos estos exponentes astrales que invocan la conciencia humana pueden ser sinceros, pero muchas de sus tesis pueden estar enmarcadas para propagar un fantasma especial, tal vez de una encarnación anterior, o para complacer a un inveterado y el continuo impulso tecnológico hacia el progreso materialista, o simplemente para asombrar y perturbar a los crédulos por el demonio’.

EN LA ACTUALIDAD

Este capítulo, del que he tomado el anterior extracto, se llama (como dije) “Al diablo con la respuesta: ¿Cuál es la pregunta?”. De ese modo, John Keel abría el juego para que, aquellos que supieran leer, comenzaran el camino signado por realizar nuevas preguntas. John Keel, a finales de los años 70’s, había dado ya por muerto el fenómeno OVNI de “chapa y tuercas” (como leímos), incluso la hipótesis extraterrestre.

Hoy por hoy, encontramos referencias a esta postura en las obras del SIFO, de Juan Acevedo Peinado y también en el inminente libro sobre la Teoría de la Distorsión de José Antonio Caravaca.

La pregunta grande, la que nos puede dar el siguiente racimo de cuestionamientos, es la que nos llevaría a identificar el fenómeno tras todas estas “delusions”. Ahora le queda a usted, señor lector, pensar en cuál sería su pregunta.

Y las esperamos aquí mismo.

**Los párrafos escritos por John Keel en la presente entrada corresponden al libro “Operation Trojan Horse” 1970. Puede comprar el libro en español gracias a esta reedición: https://www.reedicionesanomalas.com/product/operacion-caballo-de-troya

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