The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries (120 page)

ENDNOTES

1
. These and many similar cases are discussed in my 1981 book
Poltergeist
, in the chapter entitled “The Black Magic Connection”.

2
. For the history of psychometry, see my book
The Psychic Detectives.

3
.
The Devil’s Footprints
, edited by G.A. Household, Devon Books 1985.

4
. In E. F. Bleiler, ed.,
Science Fiction Writers
(New York: Scribner), 1982.

5
. Rowe achieved a different kind of notoriety in 1963 when he was murdered by two out-of-work labourers, who were later hanged.

6
. Other meanings suggested by scholars are “hostage”, “comrade”, and “orderer”, in the sense of one who gives order to thoughts.

7
. And I shall follow their example, as well as changing the names of other Greek gods to their more familiar Latin equivalents.

8
. For a longer account of all this, see my
Criminal History of Mankind
(1984).

9
. See my book
Mysteries
(1978), part 2, chapter 10.

10
. For the sake of simplicity I speak here of the left eye and the right eye; in fact, both eyes are connected to both sides of the brain, so it would be more accurate to speak of the right and left
visual fields
. In visual experiments with split-brain patients, the patient is asked to keep his eyes fixed either to the left or the right. This piece of information is unimportant for understanding what follows.

11
. For a longer account of Pagenstecher and Maria Reyes de Zierold, see my book
The Psychic Detectives
(1985).

12
. For a longer account of all these cases, see my
Mammoth Book of the Supernatural
(1991).

13
. See Colin Wilson and Donald Seaman,
The Serial Killers
(1990).

14
. This was the man who invented the sandwich; rather than interrupt his gambling, he would eat a piece of meat between two slices of bread.

15
. The Decembrist conspiracy was easily suppressed; most of the conspirators were executed.

16
. Researched by Larry Forrester and Peter Robinson.

17
. See “Atlantis” chapter 2.

18
. See “Psychometry – Telescope into the Past” chapter 43

19
. See “Atlantis”.

20
.
Poltergeist, A Study in Destructive Haunting
, by Colin Wilson, 1981, Chapter 4.

21
. See
The Untold Story
by Evelyn Nesbit (1934).

22
. Actually 8 May, but the date has become displaced over the centuries.

23
. 25 February 1932.

24
. Described in my book
The Psychic Detectives
.

25
.
On Time
, 1982.

26
. “La Tradition Legendaire du Vampire en Europe” in
Les Cahiers du G
.
E
.
R
.
F
. (Groupe d’Etudes et de Recherche sur la Fantastique, Grenoble University of Languages and Letters, 1987).

27
. In fact, to the Doubleday subsidiary, Blakiston: see
Velikovsky Reconsidered
, p. 25.

28
. These excavations – and Lethbridge’s subsequent career – are described at length in my book
Mysteries
(1978).

29
. For a fuller account of Arthur Young, see my book
Mysteries
(1978), pages 608–10.