SimonBurchell
Justified & Ancient
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I've just finished reading Truth-Proof by Paul Sinclair, very interesting with all kinds of forteana in there. I do feel that he somewhat underestimates Cold War shenanigans in the North Sea, which would explain some of the stuff off Flamborough Head... fishing boats snagging massive objects in their nets - almost certainly Soviet submarines (or NATO submarines for that matter). Some of the aircraft lost in conjunction with unidentified lights may well have been the result of cat-and-mouse dogfights against intruding Soviet aircraft testing British air defences. I also didn't read too much into the search for an aircrew recovering a wrong body - not really a coincidence, since far more attention was being paid to objects in the water than normal; if the second aircraft hadn't gone down, the body from the first aircraft some weeks earlier might never have been found, since no-one was looking for it any more. Not to mention that unexpected corpses probably turned up in the water from time to time due to aforementioned Cold War shenanigans.
However, that is a minor gripe, because I really enjoyed the book, and it also introduced me to the Rudston Monolith, which I had somehow managed to miss all these years. How did I not know about this! Some years ago I used to visit the region from time to time, and would have certainly gone to look at the monolith if I'd known about it. Great stuff about lightforms, a werewolf/dogman, phantom black dogs, alien big cats etc. etc. and the author has really put in the legwork, talking to local farmers and fishermen. I'll now be heading off for Volume 2...
However, that is a minor gripe, because I really enjoyed the book, and it also introduced me to the Rudston Monolith, which I had somehow managed to miss all these years. How did I not know about this! Some years ago I used to visit the region from time to time, and would have certainly gone to look at the monolith if I'd known about it. Great stuff about lightforms, a werewolf/dogman, phantom black dogs, alien big cats etc. etc. and the author has really put in the legwork, talking to local farmers and fishermen. I'll now be heading off for Volume 2...