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titchagain Grey Joined: 06 Jun 2013 Total posts: 23 Gender: Unknown |
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I am getting bored with phenomenix, from being one of my favourite parts of the mag its now one i wouldnt miss if it was axed. It isnt anywhere near as funny or informative as it used to be.
Both the gang stalker articles seemed more the product of mental illness then anything else and i wonder why they where thought worthy of getting published.
And finally...what happened to el mastubatory, the sex ghosts of sicily article? did it come and i missed it? My workmates where both really looking forward to reading it.  |
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| Urvogel Yeti Joined: 24 Dec 2012 Total posts: 87 Location: England Age: 28 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 06-09-2013 13:00 Post subject: |
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Actually I think the scariest thing about the gangstalking article was that it was apparently written by a guy who teaches English at a university. Seriously? The writing was terrible and seemed high school level at best. Eesh, if I was one of his students I'd want my money back.
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And finally...what happened to el mastubatory, the sex ghosts of sicily article? did it come and i missed it? My workmates where both really looking forward to reading it. |
Take the 'coming next month' with a pinch of salt. Sometimes due to problems articles get delayed, but they do turn up eventually. I seem to recall the London necropolis article eventually got published about a year after it announced... |
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| DrWhiteface Great Old One Joined: 09 Jun 2010 Total posts: 356 Location: Head Fool, Fools Guild, Ankh-Morpork Age: 35 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 07-09-2013 01:22 Post subject: |
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| Urvogel wrote: | Actually I think the scariest thing about the gangstalking article was that it was apparently written by a guy who teaches English at a university. Seriously? The writing was terrible and seemed high school level at best. Eesh, if I was one of his students I'd want my money back.
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And finally...what happened to el mastubatory, the sex ghosts of sicily article? did it come and i missed it? My workmates where both really looking forward to reading it. |
Take the 'coming next month' with a pinch of salt. Sometimes due to problems articles get delayed, but they do turn up eventually. I seem to recall the London necropolis article eventually got published about a year after it announced... |
Just like the White Pyramid article about ten years ago - that took several months for it to be published... |
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| Anomaly Militant Intermediatist
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| Posted: 07-09-2013 18:33 Post subject: |
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As an infrequent visitor to this forum I'll go out on a limb and say, I think you all are being entirely too hard on the cover article about gang-stalking.
I just sent an email to the author thanking him for the article and I'll extend that thank you to the editors / publishers.
While I would agree with much of the criticism leveled at the 2 articles so far as the indeterminacy of the reality of the perceived persecutions is concerned, I found them both helpful, revealing and educational. I was unaware of Richard Schowengerdt's work and claims of mil-int-industrial shenanigans by SAIC (surely an org who are known to most Forteans with a ufological bent) regarding his alleged optical chamouflage tech.
I realize that the claims of self-proclaimed mind-control victims and high-tech harassment gang-stalkees are probably even less believable in the minds of Forteans (let alone the general public) than are claims of alien abductees, ufo close encounter witnesses and perceivers of apparitions but seriously, wtf is about the inclusion of these 2 articles that causes such a negative reaction amongst you all?
For my own take on the issue of "hearing voices" please see my 2008 article:
GUIDED BY VOICES
http://www.anomalymagazine.com/zine/2008/02/01/guided-by-voices/
Meanwhile ... where in the issue is the article about the Cumberland Spaceman?
| WhistlingJack wrote: | Got mine yesterday. Like what I've read, so far.
I would have made more of the "Cumberland Spaceman" mystery apparently being solved, though  |
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| HenryFort Bad Craziness - Wide Asleep at the Wheel
Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Total posts: 927 Location: UK Again Age: 43 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 07-09-2013 21:45 Post subject: |
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| crook frightfulness was an interesting piece well presented ... the other was a lot of noise ... i mean i think i actually laughed out loud when the list of provided car number plates was "run by a contact in washington" ( or similar ) ... and the failure to produce a hit was proof that there was some substance to the whole shenanigans ... for me it was the kind of piece that shouldve appeared in the letters page, edited down to a column and a half with (sic) throughout |
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| sherbetbizarre Great Old One Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Total posts: 1418 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 08-09-2013 00:33 Post subject: |
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| Anomaly wrote: | Meanwhile ... where in the issue is the article about the Cumberland Spaceman?
| WhistlingJack wrote: | Got mine yesterday. Like what I've read, so far.
I would have made more of the "Cumberland Spaceman" mystery apparently being solved, though |
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It's in the UFO section. |
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| Zoffre Joined: 23 Nov 2002 Total posts: 620 |
| Posted: 20-09-2013 23:30 Post subject: |
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I couldn't find a thread on the Washington navy yard shooting, but something in this otherwise rather dry piece from the Washington Post reminded me of the "Crook Frightfulness" article:
| Quote: | Officials: Navy Yard shooter carved odd messages into his gun before carnage
Aaron Alexis carved bizarre phrases on the stock of his shotgun before he killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, and investigators are hoping the words provide clues to what prompted the shooting, two law enforcement officials said.
The phrases were “Better off this way” and “My ELF weapon,” according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
The officials cautioned they do not yet know what, if anything, Alexis meant in the etchings.
ELF generally stands for “extremely low frequency” and can refer to weather or communications efforts, among other things.
Alexis, who was battling mental health issues, told police in Rhode Island in August that he was hearing voices of three people who had been sent to follow him and keep him awake and were using “some sort of microwave machine” to send vibrations into his body, preventing him from falling asleep, according to police reports.
The law enforcement officials said they do not know whether he was referring to those vibrations in his carvings. The Navy has used extremely low frequencies in several capacities, including a joint effort with the Air Force on the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP). HAARP is often cited by conspiracy theorists.
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Perhaps a Fortean angle on this story after all? |
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| djoltes Joined: 18 Feb 2009 Total posts: 18 Location: New England Gender: Male |
| Posted: 26-09-2013 20:50 Post subject: |
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| HenryFort wrote: | | crook frightfulness was an interesting piece well presented ... the other was a lot of noise ... i mean i think i actually laughed out loud when the list of provided car number plates was "run by a contact in washington" ( or similar ) ... and the failure to produce a hit was proof that there was some substance to the whole shenanigans ... for me it was the kind of piece that shouldve appeared in the letters page, edited down to a column and a half with (sic) throughout |
I think you're overrating it. That article was just plain horrible all around. Probably the worst I've seen in several years, actually. Aside from the fact that NV goggles aren't anything particularly sensitive or secret, that kind of petty theft would be roundly ignored by anyone but military police.
The rest of the "gangstalking" description sounded like something one might read in an old 1970s issue of Head Comix (i.e. written after partaking in a not a few recreational pharmaceuticals).
Definitely interesting as an example of what clinical paranoia can do to someone, though. |
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| HenryFort Bad Craziness - Wide Asleep at the Wheel
Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Total posts: 927 Location: UK Again Age: 43 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 26-09-2013 21:23 Post subject: |
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| crook frightfulness or dion fuller ? or both ? i enjoyed reading the crook frightfulness piece as at least it was well written and had a lot of historical context ... i bet that book is an interesting read ... the other however was irritating dross |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 26-09-2013 22:29 Post subject: |
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The Crook Frightfulness article was a first-rate piece with genuine new research by a Fortean talent I hope FT will cultivate. More of this quality, please! 
I think the sniping has been directed at "related?" pieces in the issue.  |
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| werkware Grey Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Total posts: 1 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 15-10-2013 19:13 Post subject: Gangstalking |
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The Robert Guffey article was the worst piece I have read in FT.
Was any evidence put forward for this. |
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