The Skull and Bones |
Seven clandestine societies operate within the rarefied confines of Yale University. The most notorious of these, the Skull and Bones, was established in 1832 by William H. Russell and numbers amongst...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:29:00 GMT |
On False Death Rumours |
To date, I have received forty seven death threats, not counting those dispensed by Spencer on a daily basis. For most people, the fear of assassination would cause an intolerable strain which is, nin...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:09:00 GMT |
Everett, Stephen (An Excerpt from Hamilton Coe's Concise Glossary of Villainy) |
When my mother retired, she took a voluntary position in Drumfeld Museum's shop. Typically generous, she also arranged for Billy Ure to help as a guide as he recuperated from one of his sporadic emoti...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:59:00 GMT |
On Mediumship |
Last week I was informed that Muriel has been studying the 'career' of Callander medium, Helen Duncan, with a view to preparing a retrospective defence against her 1944 prosecution under the Witch-cra...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:02:00 GMT |
The Song in My Heart |
I've always considered early January to be the most dispiriting part of the year. All that remains of Christmas are the remnants of trees, dumped in gutters like the corpses of deposed monarchs. Howev...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:12:00 GMT |
Drumfeld homilies: on Fear and Brooding |
"The wicked flee when no man pursueth, but the righteous are bold as a lion...."FEAR At an early age, I learned from my Grandfather Sneddon that a guiltless man need never be troubled by fear. What ...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:52:00 GMT |
A Gloomy Reflection |
On Christmas Eve, my ninety seven year old great aunt tripped over a step, breaking her wrist and suffering a mild concussion. As a consequence, I seem to have spent much of the festive season travell...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:11:00 GMT |
Camp Killarney Memories, Part Two |
"I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's..."
In 1966, Findlay Gibson created the world's first facility for the analysis and nurture of psychically advanced children. My Aunt Alice, di...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:36:00 GMT |
Camp Killarney Memories, Part One |
The original aims of the Hamilton Coe Foundation were three-fold: to encourage research into the use of psychic ability, to encourage potential in genuine clairvoyants and and debunk fakes and scoffla...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:09:00 GMT |
Children of Courage and Achievement: the Origin of Harrison Poe |
Three years ago, when my sister first announced that she'd invited her friends Isobel and Lizzie to join us for Christmas Eve, my response was less than enthusiastic. Christine's assertion that I "sul...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:14:00 GMT |
