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81Merlin's Doomsday Chronicles
Photo by alicepopkorn (cc Flickr) There are far more "Doomsday Chronicles" than the ones that are hyped now, featuring Nostradamus or the Mayan Calendar. They mostly regenerate very ancient symbols of...
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64Mister Mystery Pop
The Dutch singer-songwriter and "alternative history investigator" Corjan de Raaf writes pop songs with a head, a tail and a mystery story in between. Until now, Corjan was probably best known as Rennes-le-Chateau researcher...
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74Nostradamus and the End of the World in 2012
There are countless sites stating Nostradamus "predicted" the End of the World in 2012. This is nonsense, written down by people who are simply copy-pasting what others have said, without even reading the...
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76The Lost Adams Diggings
"The Lost Adams Diggings" is the name of a legendary lost gold mine somewhere in New Mexico, United States. In 1864, a teamster listening to the name of Adams (no first name known) and some prospectors were...
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71Doctor Dee and His Mirror of Magick
The greatest magician of all time was undoubtedly the Englishman John Dee. His life and his works are wrapped in shrouds of mystery, surrounded by all sorts of rumours. In November 1582, an angel appeared in...
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70The War of the Magicians: Part 2
On the night of 4 January 1893, Joseph-Antoine Boullan was beaten by the invisible hands of fearsome hidden forces. He wrote about his presentiments to the author Joris-Karl Huysmans, who had just finished his history of satanism...
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73Joris-Karl Huysmans and the Essence of Decadence
The French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans started his career as a naturalist, but with "A Rebours" ("Against Nature") he wrote "the bible of decadence" and with "Down There" a history of satanism, facts turned...
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78The Holy Sepulchre of Bruges-la-Morte
Visiting the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Bruges-La-Morte, the Venice of the North, is a strange and morbid experience. Not only because the Holy Grave is to be found here, or a statue of the dead Christ,...
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77Ghost Cavalry of the Great War
Captain Cecil Wightwick left us an account of the strange things that happened between April and August 1918 near Bethune (France), in the middle of an area of front line trenches between the city of Ypres...
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74The Magdalene Line of Kathleen McGowan
I've just spent three days in Belgium with Kathleen McGowan, author of "The Expected One" and "The Book of Love". So don't think this is a literary review or something. It's always tricky to write a review...
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