Ghost Writers; A Brief Overview. Peter Rogerson
From Magonia 11, 1982 Ghosts are making a belated academic comeback, with officially sponsored volumes by the Folklore Society (1) and the Society for Psychical Research (3), and a detailed social...
View ArticleVenus With Her Trousers Down! Nigel Watson and Granville Oldroyd
From Magonia 17, October 1984 WHILST researching newspaper files for reports of phantom airship sightings made between 1909 and 1913 some interesting incidental material has been collected. In...
View ArticleVisions of Bowmen and Angels. Kevin McClure
In August 1914, Brigadier-General John Charteris was one of the senior officers in the British Expeditionary Force in France. He was a staff officer to General Sir Douglas Haig, working with him at...
View ArticleThe Victorian Charm of the Protong, part 1. David Sivier
From Magonia 88, May 2005 One of the strangest responses to the religious furore surrounding the release of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ in 2004 was that of veteran fringe writer, Stan Gooch....
View ArticleThe Victorian Charm of the Protong, part 2. David Sivier
The Victorian Charm of the Protong – Part 2. From Magonia 88, May 2005 Apart from the demonstrably erroneous nature of the claim that the Passion narrative represents human sacrifice in a real,...
View ArticleWho Taught God to Drive? The Origins of the Ancient Astronaut Myth. Gareth...
Gareth Medway looks at the writers who developed the Ancient Astronaut concept, and why that belief system proved so popular. (From Magonia 57, September 1996) R.L.Dione’s God Drives a Flying Saucer...
View ArticleThe Age of Infantilism: A Response to Brookesmith. David Sivier
From Magonia 64, August 1998. In issues 54, 56 and 63 of Magonia, that stalwart of ufological scepticism and scourge of the wooly-minded, Peter Brookesmith, presented his thesis that the imagery and...
View ArticleThe Plurality of Worlds, Part 3. Deserts of Arid Speculation. John Harney
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View ArticleNightmares, Sex and Abductions. Manfred Cassirer
From Magonia 31, November 1989 Demonologists of the Renaissance – generally much less enlightened or humane than one would have expected – subtly distinguish the male incubus from his female...
View ArticleThe Sun Maiden. Peter Rogerson
An examination of some mythological traditions, with relevance to contemporary ufology From MUFOB volume 4, number 2, June 1971 Since the publication of Vallée’s Passport to Magonia there has been a...
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