IN WHICH THE SPOOK PUTS OUR COLONEL ON PAROLE IN HIS TURN, SAVES THE HUNT CLUB, AND WRITES A SPEECH
Turning to Hill and myself, Moïse explained that in our trance-talk we had given a perfect description of the Commandant’s house
Read record →Browse UFO case files, paranormal reports, historical texts and research dossiers. These are accounts and leads for investigation—not proof of an extraordinary explanation.
To combine details, compare matches and investigate connections across the collection, create an account and search Anomaly Graph.
Not sure where to begin? Our research guides explain how to follow sources, compare accounts and turn matches into a useful investigation.
6,852 published records with substantive text · Page 103 of 143
Turning to Hill and myself, Moïse explained that in our trance-talk we had given a perfect description of the Commandant’s house
Read record →on 29th March, Moïse came to us in some excitement
Read record →At noon we met in the graveyard, outside the town
Read record →Then I stretched my hands above my head and began the incantation, speaking loudly to drown the noise of the shutter
Read record →As we walked through the town in our black cloaks, we passed Lieut
Read record →The Spook first made an attempt to get into telepathic touch with AAA through the board
Read record →In preparing us for the trance-talk the Spook had warned us: “It is like a battle
Read record →s been thought it is always there,” or, in more technical language, the thought-wave once created becomes telechronistic and travels in an eternal spiral in the fourth dimension of space
Read record →“You see,” the Pimple interrupted, “X is the medium of OOO
Read record →I have reason to believe they are mentally affected, and that the English doctor is endeavouring to conceal the fact.[41] A certain number of the prisoners, amongst whom Jones and Hill were prominent, have been studying occultism ever since they arrived
Read record →“For over a year two officer prisoners here have spent much time in study of spiritualism and telepathy, and have shown increasing signs of mental derangement which recently have become very noticeable
Read record →“These two officers also appear to have studied what they call ‘telepathy,’ and about two or three months ago they gave an exhibition of thought-reading, part of which my Interpreter saw and which considerably surprised their fellow-officers
Read record →Every evening, after the rest of the camp had been locked up, we held séances, and at every séance the poor Pimple was put through his lesson
Read record →The camp was crowded, and would be still more crowded when the Changri men arrived
Read record →This much is certain: on the morning of the 24th April he intended to keep the whole camp, and especially the Changri men, in very strict confinement
Read record →The Pimple was overjoyed at this advance to more speedy means of communication; for the glass and board method had been painfully slow, a séance taking anything up to six hours
Read record →Opposite the door of our room, on the other side of a small narrow passage, was the coffee-shop of the hotel
Read record →So the sentries thought they could safely begin the porterage
Read record →Hill’s eyes closed, his head fell back against the pile of butter boxes, and he seemed to go off into a deep trance-sleep
Read record →When that opinion was more than confirmed by the mysterious and infallible being in whom he placed all his faith; when possibilities were shown him of which he had never dreamt; and the vista of a glorious future was spread before his excited imagination, he w
Read record →Then I got out of bed and began a dazed wandering round the room, as Doc
Read record →One of the three negatives of the treasure-hunt, to procure which Hill and I had taken so much trouble and so many risks, was handed over to Kiazim’s superior.[80] The negative showed me standing with my arms raised over the fire in the “incantation,” and roun
Read record →On the strength of Mazhar Osman Bey’s suggestion to learn Turkish I promptly ordered “a hundred books on the Turkish language,” and gave nobody any rest until I was provided with one (at my own expense, of course)
Read record →The traces left are indeed numerous enough, and though perhaps like the dodo or the dinormis, the werewolf may have become extinct in our age, yet he has left his stamp on classic antiquity, he has trodden deep in Northern snows
Read record →Now it fell out that as they went through the forest, collecting monies, that they lighted on a house in which were two men sleeping, with great gold rings an them; they had dealings with witchcraft, for wolf-skins hung up in the house above them; it was the t
Read record →So Hallvard and his men sprang to arms
Read record →Thorgerd Brák was the name of a servant of Skallagrim, who had been foster-mother to Egill
Read record →This was not the only word connected with were-wolves which helped on the superstition
Read record →The human form vanishes, and the whole multitude become wolves
Read record →As he spoke, drops of blood fell to earth, and the nobleman, transformed into a wild dog, rushed upon his dead cattle, tore and mangled the carcasses and began to devour them; possibly he may be devouring them still (ac forsan hodie que pascitur)
Read record →The third story is as follows:—A lycanthropist was brought before a judge and accused of witchcraft, but as nothing could be proved against him, the judge ordered one of his peasants to visit the man in his prison, and to worm the truth out of him, and to pers
Read record →Bodin tells some were-wolf stories on good authority; it is a pity that the good authorities of Bodin were such liars, but that, by the way
Read record →Still under the delusion that I should obtain money, Michel persuaded me to move with the greatest celerity, and in order to do this, after I had stripped myself, he smeared me with a salve, and I believed myself then to be transformed into a wolf
Read record →The authorization was as follows:— “According to the advertisement made to the sovereign Court of Parliament at Dole, that, in the territories of Espagny, Salvange, Courchapon, and the neighbouring villages, has often been seen and met, for some time past, a w
Read record →Eight days after the feast of All Saints, again in the form of a were-wolf, he had seized another girl, near the meadow land of La Pouppe, on the territory of Athume and Chastenoy, and was on the point of slaying and devouring her, when three persons came up,
Read record →Directly after, Pierre, the brother of Pernette Gandillon, was accused of witchcraft
Read record →“You want to know about the wolf-skin cape?” continued he
Read record →Before the court gave judgment, the first president of assize, in an eloquent speech, put on one side all questions of witchcraft and diabolical compact, and bestial transformation, and boldly stated that the court had only to consider the age and the imbecili
Read record →“Vidimus frequenter in Anglia, per lunationes, homines in lupos mutari, quod hominum genus gerulfos Galli vocant, Angli vero wer-wlf, dicunt: wer enim Anglice virum sonat, wlf, lupum.” Gervaise may be right in his derivation of the name, and were-wolf may mean
Read record →“About this time (1460) there was ane brigand ta’en with his haill family, who haunted a place in Angus
Read record →In the south of France, it is still believed that fate has destined certain men to be lycanthropists—that they are transformed into wolves at full moon
Read record →In a hamlet in the midst of a forest, there dwelt a cottager named Lasse, and his wife
Read record →A man, who from his childhood had been a were-wolf, when returning one night with his wife from a merrymaking, observed that the hour was at hand when the evil usually came upon him; giving therefore the reins to his wife, he descended from the vehicle, saying
Read record →A man of the neighbourhood, who had such a girdle, forgot one day when going out to lock it up, as was his wont
Read record →Among the Bulgarians and Sloyakians the were-wolf is called vrkolak, a name resembling that given it by the modern Greeks {Greek brúkolakas}
Read record →Among the White Russians the wawkalak is a man who has incurred the wrath of the devil, and the evil one punishes him by transforming him into a wolf and sending him among his relations, who recognize him and feed him well
Read record →According to a Polish story, if a witch lays a girdle of human skin on the threshold of a house in which a marriage is being celebrated, the bride and bridegroom, and bridesmaids and groomsmen, should they step across it, are transformed into wolves
Read record →“She begged for her life, but all in vain, so he laid hold of her and cast her into the grave
Read record →