Mapping a mystery light. From an article by Jeffrey G. Liss, "The Light That Chased a Car," featured in Fate, Volume 16 - Number 11, November 1963.
UFOs, Bigfoot, Lost Continents and more in the wide, wild world of the 1970s paranormal paperbacks ... and beyond!
Monday, March 22, 2021
COSMIC DEBRIS: Witchcraft 1970!
Talk about the season of the witch! A gaggle of ads all from a single issue of Fate, Volume 23 - Number 12, December 1970.
"THINGS" by Ivan T. Sanderson
"Things" indeed! Ivan T. Sanderson presents this broad little volume of Forteana (mostly reprinted from articles he wrote for Fate magazine) that covers a multitude of funny, nasty, live, dead THINGS including ABSMs, UFOs and saucer nests, globsters, telepathic ants, singing stones and much more besides!
Sanderson spends a lot of time on Victorian explorer Percy Fawcett's 1914 account of a hostile tribe of ape-men encountered deep in Brazil's Mato Grosso state, who wield bows and arrows and build crude palm leaf shelters. The creatures threaten Fawcett's crew with screams and dances until he fires his pistol into the ground, scattering the beasts. Fawcett would later disappear on another expedition into the green inferno, continuing his search for a mystical lost city and leaving yet another mystery in his wake. When Sanderson compiled this book, and before environmentalism filtered into popular culture in the '90s, the jungle was still an impenetrable, alien landscape, with a thousand ways to die and a cumulative mythology of lost civilizations, hostile tribes of cannibals and vicious predators such as jaguars, anacondas, and piranha.
Heading north, Sanderson attempts to cast the wendigo cannibal spirit of the Algonquin as an Abominable Snowman! Here is an early example of authors crowbarring Bigfoots into Amerindian mythology, and an especially weak one at that.
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
MAPS OF THE UNKNOWN: Atlantis Reconstructed
Atlantis reconstructed as a casualty of the Minoan eruption which devastated the island of Santorini c.1600 BCE. From Atlantis: The New Evidence by Martin Ebon. Courtesy Signet Books, 1977.
COSMIC DEBRIS: Build Your Own Pyramid Resonator
Two different schematics for making your own pyramid, the first uncredited and the second by communications theorist Eric McLuhan (son of the famous Marshall McLuhan).
From Mysterious Pyramid Power, edited by Martin Ebon. Courtesy Signet Books, 1976.
THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE CALENDAR: March 1975
March brings us some more Triangle legends with the disappearance of 306 souls aboard the USS Cyclops, the dual loss of Norwegian freighters MV Norse Variant and MV Anita off of New Jersery, and the presumed drowning death of racing jockey Al Snider while fishing in the Florida Keys, among others.
Lawrence David Kusche, 1974
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