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  1. Yithian

    John Wayne, Sacheen Littlefeather & The 'Six Security Men'

    The New Yorker, March 1994 This well-know anecdote about the 1972 Academy Awards Ceremony ('The Oscars') to which Marlon Brando sent a young Apache woman to refuse his award for Best Actor (for The Godfather) has entered the realm of Hollywood folklore--fittingly, perhaps. The tale runs...
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    The Philip Experiment (Toronto; 1970s)

    "made up" polt/spirit/gestalt I am sorry - I know we have talked about this before, but I have searched the message board without being able to find it ... so ... can anyone tell me the name of the group who decided to "contact" an entity, the name, personality, life etc of which they all just...
    • _Lizard23_
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    • 1972 alexandra david-néel banachek books canada cbc television conjuring up philip diddington manor dr. a.r.g owen iris owen james randi man alive mike edwards peter underwood philip (entity) project alpha psychokinesis / telekinesis steve shaw the australian journal of parapsychology the ghost hunter's guide the philip experiment the toronto society for psychical research toronto tulpas washington university
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    • Forum: Parapsychology
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    The Hexham Heads

    Does anyone know what happened to the Hexham Heads, or where they are now? I was fascinated with this story as a child, and seem to remember reading somewhere that someone owned up to making them in the end. However, I also seem to remember that in the original story there were a range of...
    • Anonymous
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    • 1953 1972 artefacts artifacts celtic dog-headed men hexham heads northumberland poltergeists werewolves
    • Replies: 330
    • Forum: General Forteana
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    Eastern Airlines Flight 401 (Crash; UL; Ghost Of Flight 401 Book; Movie)

    I remeber a film from the early-mid eighties but can't quite remember it's name, can anyone help? It was based around an internal US flight which crashed through some sort of flaw, killing I'm not sure how many including the pilot. Bits salvaged from the plane were transplanted into others...
    • Anonymous
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    • 1972 airplanes aviation aviation accidents aviation ghosts books donald repo eastern airlines flight 401 florida everglades ghosts john g. fuller lockheed l-1011 tristar miami plane crashes robert loft television & film the ghost of flight 401
    • Replies: 78
    • Forum: Ghosts: General
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    Spring-Heeled Jack, East-End Disappearances & Other Mysterious Characters

    East End Disappearances 1881-1890 I am trying to find information regarding unusual disappearances which began in the East End of London in 1881 and continued unsolved until January 1890. Apparently men, women and children from all classes disappeared into a 'Fortean void', never to be seen or...
    • Ali_Strachan
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    • 1838 1876 1881 1882 1890 1904 1920 1924 1926 1972 1978 1979 1986 2005 alan haley albert fish aldershot arthur machen attercliffe bearhind lane bow (london) bradford broughty ferry cassandra eason central railway station london charles wagner charlton lea child prostitution claude reignier conder clawed men colonel robert cook county durham crime & criminals david rodinsky disappearances dundee eliza carter everton fairies & magical beings (2001) flashers florida folly ditch fortean studies 3 gainesville ghazipur green dragon alley / yard harold schecter huddersfield human sacrifices india jack the ripper jai prakash paswan jan bondeson jane allsop john walters keogh road kerrin evans lawrence kusch lieutenant w.t. day limehouse liverpool london maria davis mark fraser mary seward maryland street mass hysteria mesopotamia mike ash mike dash millie jeffs missing persons mothman murder & murderers nannygoat bank new dehli norfolk park paul begg penny dreadfuls peter haining pikkhi pilot officer d.r.stewart piquerism polly adams ramsgate ripper street rivals of the ripper (2016) satanism & satanists sheffield spitalfields spring legs spring-heeled jack spring-heeled jack: to victorian bugaboo from suburban ghost stephen king steve moore strawberry spring the bermuda triangle mystery - solved the east end the education act of 1872 the halifax slasher the illustrated police news the legend & bizarre crimes of springheeled jack the monkey man the portway the press the south east london folklore society the standard the victorians tom slemen tow law tranmere urban myths/legends uttah pradesh walter sickert west ham whitechapel william henry street
    • Replies: 259
    • Forum: Urban Legends & Folklore
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