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Paul Nash: The Haunted Land
Event on the Downs, Paul Nash 1934 [Tate] …do you believe in ghosts? Ghosts. All right, it’s not the right word. I don’t mean something white and flitting, or an armoured man with his head held under his arm. The …
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American Henge
[photo by Sir Mildred Pierce] A nice transatlantic response to the Avebury film: The Georgia Guidestones [are] a mystery—nobody knows exactly who commissioned it or why. The only clues to its origin are on a nearby plaque on the ground—which …
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Discovering Britain: Avebury
A Shell country guide film to Avebury, narrated by John Betjemen – I think from the mid-1950s. It’s amazing how little the views around the town have changed, I felt a shiver of recognition as we swung past the burial …
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Morbid Anatomy on TV!
Take a look inside SA pal Joanna Ebenstein’s Morbid Anatomy library, which was recently featured on US TV. SAP is planning a Morbid Anatomy book with Joanna, so watch this space…
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How to save the planet… leave it!
How-To save the economy! How-To save the planet! How-To build a UFO! Thanks Ken Hollings
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Puzzling Norwegian light spiral /update
UPDATE 3: OK, forget that last explanation, here’s the TRUTH from exopolitics.com: ‘… two researchers have independently posited that HAARP, a space-based weapon of mass destruction one of whose antenna fields is close to the site of the Norwegian spiral …
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Not an authority on anything
This year saw the passing of the iconic fortean writer and adventurer John Keel. As a tribute to his friend, Doug Skinner, writer, musician, SAJ contributor and all-round renaissance man has set up a web site to gather up the …
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Antiquaries & Archaists
Antiquaries and Archaists is a new book from Megan Aldrich and SAJ contributor Robert J. Wallis, based on a fascinating day conference held at the Society of Antiquaries. From the Spire Books web site: Explore the ever-changing view of the …
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Poe's Balloon Hoax
[image by Charles Dellschau] “On 13 April 1844, the New York Sun published a breathless account of a great step for mankind: “The air, as well as the earth and the ocean, has been subdued by science, and will become …
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First Earth Battalion T Shirts!
‘If you want to be a member, you already are’ Lt. Col. Jim Channon SA co-founder John Lundberg has printed up a fresh batch of his fantastic First Earth Battalion T-Shirts, inspired by the legendary US Army unit featured in …
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Are the drones back?
Back in 2007 the online UFO community became transfixed by videos of strange, spindly craft allegedly filmed flying over parts of California. The videos were followed by a document pertaining to a project called CARET, claiming to describe the back-engineering …
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13 more things that don't make sense
From Morgellon’s disease (thought by some to be ET in origin) to the bloop and ‘nocebo‘ effect (i.e. the power of curses), New Scientist rounds up 13 more things that science can’t explain. Yet. (And here are the first thirteen). …
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