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The Kenneth Arnold Saga

July 2007

by Curt Sutherly

Mount Rainier

Sixty years ago an aviator from Idaho was thrust into the national spotlight and ultimately into the global aviation record. The pilot was Kenneth Arnold, and he is listed in Air Facts and Feats: A Record of International Aerospace Achievement.

Unlike most history-making aviators, Arnold was not a stunt flyer or a test pilot, nor even an aviator out to establish a new long-distance record. A 28-year-old private pilot and owner of a fire-control equipment company in Boise, Idaho, Arnold unintentionally established his record while Read the rest of this entry »

My Proof of Survival

January 2002

by Mary R. Crawford

In 1990, Wilburn Heath purchased a couple of acres on the outskirts of Scottsboro. The area was quiet and seemed to be an ideal retirement site. He and Nina, his wife of 30 years, were making plans for their “laid back” years, which would be coming in the near future. Wilburn immediately began building the small, compact house that they both had agreed upon. It was at the stage that it could be lived in, but was lacking the finishing touches and trim work. He had completed a very large building which he intended to use for storage and for a workshop. After retirement, he planned to do some small jobs just to keep from getting bored. Wilburn was a mechanic by trade and had a habit of trading for junk car parts. He had hauled in loads of these items to the point that the lots were overflowing.

Right in the midst of their preparation for retirement, Nina was diagnosed with breast cancer. Although she fought a hard battle, she was taken from him within a period of six months. Wilburn was devastated and attempted to Read the rest of this entry »

The ghost of Maria Roux.

November/December 2008

by Jason Day

Tales of phantom hitchhikers and road ghosts span the centuries; since the invention of transport, there have been numerous reports of spectral figures with unfinished business to attend to, or a journey they must complete that was cut tragically short.

As a consequence of the volume of reports amassed over such a long period of time, some of the more remarkable of these encounters are forgotten. The following account is one such haunting.

Tragic Accident

On Good Friday, March 1968, a young couple were driving along the Barandas-Willomere Road in the Karoo Desert, 200 miles east of Cape Town, South Africa. Maria Roux and her fiancé were driving to her parents’ house to discuss plans for their upcoming wedding. As they traveled along the N9 towards Uniondale, high winds began, quickly becoming so fierce they blew the car across the road. Maria’s fiancé lost control of the car and careened into a ditch. Although her fiancé Read the rest of this entry »

by Jerome Clark

March 1991

January 1991- Vol. 44, No. 1

I have stayed out of the debate between Friedman, Schmitt and Randle on one side and my fellow columnist and old friend, John Keel, on the other as they have argued the merits of the Roswell evidence, though regular readers will have no trouble divining which side I’m on. Nonetheless, I must correct a misleading asser­tion Keel makes in The Roswell Furor in FATE’s January issue.

Keel says that witnesses to the Roswell events—as of December 1990 nearly 300 had been located and interviewed—cannot be trust­ed because ever since 1947, when the crash took place, UFO buffs have been “molesting” them to turn a Japanese balloon into a downed spaceship. “The Roswell thing has been revived every few years,” he says. In his view, in the more than four decades since some­thing plummeted into the Brazel ranch in New Mexico, participants’ testimony Read the rest of this entry »

The frog was found embedded in a lump of coal. It stirred and when placed in a pail of water was able to swim.

January 1954

by Henry Winfred Splinter

January 1954- Vol. 7, No. 1

SEVERAL prospectors, one day in the summer of 1877, were exploring a series of barren hills at the head of Spring Valley near Eureka, Nev. One of the men noticed a strange object protruding from a high ledge of rock nearby. He investigated and was amazed to find embedded about halfway in the smooth surface of the quartzite what appeared to be the leg-bone of a human being, broken off just above the knee. With the aid of his companions he dislodged the portion of rock that enclosed the bone. Carefully, with their mining tools, they removed the upper part of the encasement.

The rock was as hard as flint and the bones were solidly set in it. The quartzite was a dark red in color while the bones were almost black. When the last of the rocky covering had been removed, the leg-bone and those of the attached foot stood out perfectly, complete with all the toes, part of the femur, the patella or knee joint, tarsus metatarsus, and phalanges, the joint of each bone Read the rest of this entry »

This rare story is about the ghost of the famous president. Actually, there seems to be evidence that Mr. Lincoln himself was quite mystic. It is said he dreamed his Emancipation Proclamation.

Summer 1948

by E. Sagerquist

Summer 1948- Vol. 1, No. 2

CARL SCHURZ, the great German-American statesman, was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln.
He had taken part in the Illinois campaign between Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, and in 1861 he
was sent by Lincoln to be minister to Spain. He soon resigned this post and returned to the
United States to join the Union Army with the rank of major-general of volunteers.

After Lincoln’s death, President Johnson summoned him to Washington. On his way there he
stopped off in Philadelphia to visit his close friend, Doctor Tiedemann. Tiedemann’s father was
a renowned professor of medicine in the University of Heidelberg. Mrs. Tiedemann’s brother was
Frederick Hecker, a famous revolutionary leader Read the rest of this entry »

My Proof of Survival: The Bloody Hand Print and South Minneapolis

June 2002

by Warren Brewer

My mother died in 1965 of lung cancer. About a year later, my father died of a heart attack. A month or so after my father’s death, a neighbor came through the back door for a visit. She asked me who the man in the bedroom was. But there was no one in the bedroom.

Several times while leaving or arriving at the house, a large man’s figure was seen moving in front of the window. Searches of the house were relentless, but there was no man in the house.

Then one night, I was going up the front steps of the house with my fiancée when a loud slapping sound was heard. My fiancée screamed Read the rest of this entry »

An excerpt from Paranormal Mysteries of Eurasia.

Chapter 10: Russia’s Time Machine

by Paul Stonehill

Russian scientists have been experimenting with a machine that can physically alter time. Vadim Alexandrovich Chernobrov sent me the materials I used for writing this article. He and his colleagues have created a time machine that, although still limited, has enormous potential—and enormous dangers.
Chernobrov graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, where he studied at the Department of Astronautics and Automatic Flying Craft. His degree work and research thesis involved a project dealing with a promising space transport system (containing an unusual electromagnetic engine)—which can be transformed into a time machine. Besides his main work at the Moscow Aviation Institute, Chernobrov is also a science editor and a columnist for several Russian newspapers, including the prominent Rossiyskiye Novosti. He is also an engineer responsible for Read the rest of this entry »

An old time cryptozoologist lets readers in on how to be expert monster hunters.

January 2008

by Karl P. N. Shuker

Whereas other states of the U.S.A. have attracted considerable cryptozoological attention over the years, it is a strange yet true fact that  Hawaii’s mythic and mystery beasts have received far less notice. The present article reveals the hitherto little-realized variety of anomalous wildlife reported from the 50th state.

Mo’o—Giant Lizard Deities

One of the most prevalent yet mysterious creatures in traditional Hawaiian mythology is the mo’o or moho. According to legend, this ancient, monstrous animal, which is invariably associated with water, functions as a guardian spirit deity, variously protecting individuals, families, districts, and places (particularly fishponds), but it can be notoriously capricious. The mo’o resembles a huge, shiny-black dragonesque lizard measuring Read the rest of this entry »

March 2011

Saucer Smear, the official publication of the Saucer & Unexplained Celestial Events Research Society, dedicated to the highest principles of ufological journalism, edited by Supreme Commander James W. Moseley, is now available as e-issues from the FATE online store–$20 for a year’s subscription or $3 per issue. Legendary Jim Moseley, the voice of reason in the sea of chaos that is ufology, brings his much needed incisive wisdom and biting wit to a field too often dominated by bitter controversy, thoughtless nonsense, and downright fraud. All proceeds will go to Moseley in recognition of his outstanding, long-standing contribution to finding sanity in the search for a solution to the UFO enigma.