Thomas Edison, the first ghost buster

Thomas Edison, ghost buster

When you think of inventor Thomas Edison, you think of the light bulb, the phonograph, and any one of his amazing inventions which are still a part of modern society.  It was no wonder that he acquired the title 'the wizard of menlo park' with his invention of the electric light.  What people don't realize is that Edison also took to finding a way to contact the dead with a device full footed in science.

Thomas Edison working on an invention

Spiritualism was the craze then, and it usually centered on a 'sensitive' who could bridge our world and the other world of ghosts.  The problem was, and still is, that the evidence is completely subjective on who the sensitive is, and to enter the realm of respected science it had to pass the idea of 'repeatable experiments' in a lab, and under laboratory conditions.  The field of spiritualism became a field of fakers, hustlers, and con artists who would use crude 'proof' such as ectoplasm photographs and the like to bilk people hoping to contact the dead.  This led a backlash to the spiritualism movement, where popular magician Houdini would devote a segment of his show to showcasing the fraud in most mediums.

one of the early photo fakes which was passed off as legit contact

Enter Thomas Edison.  He believed if there was a way to confirm the world of ghosts, it could be done with science and technology.  He announced with great fan fare of his intention to make a device to contact the dead.  Edison worked on the concept and device with his usual intense drive, but with no results he reluctantly said he could not create the device(although some believe it was a strange combination of radio/electric phonograph).  There the story ended, right?

Not quite.  Although Edison himself never completed the device, some say he did and was 'dissuaded' by some in power to suppress his work.  Like the electric light, Edison's efforts are still in the field of parapsychology with the idea of EVP...Electronic voice phenomenon.  Originally the idea was to place a radio reciever in a section of 'white noise' and with electronic recordings you could pick the voices of places and things from other places, other times.  This idea moved into recording sessions where an interviewer would ask to the spirits in haunted locations and with special playback, you could confirm that there was a reply from otherworldy sources.  While still not embraced by the scientific community, EVP is a step in the right direction of gathering evidence of the beyond, and perhaps with new technology and more methods to ferret out fraud, perhaps we can discover the answer the timeless question, what is the next world?

A news segment about EVP

Edison Death Machine
I would be remiss if I didn't mention the Edison Death Machine by ZP films.  I mentioned the Edison device to filmmaker George Bonilla, I was pushing a story called spooky action...that never got anywhere, but George really liked the idea of Edison's machine and came up with the script for Edison Death Machine.  I got to help out as the assistant director on the film, and it was a fun experience working on the film. It's available at various stores right now, and worth a look.

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edison death machine trailer

Jedi knights and alien abduction

Jedi knights and alien abduction

When you see a star wars movie, the image of a brave and noble jedi knight who uses the power of his mind along his/her skills with a light saber to save the day.  The mind powers sometimes manifest itself in controlling or influencing 'weaker' minds.  In a weird way, the Jedi are connected to alien hypnosis therapy of unlocking hidden or tramautic memories with hypnotism.

jedi knights

When hypnosis first made the rounds, it was known as mesmerism after Franz Mesmer who believed his cures were the result of animal magnetism.  It was all the rage of France until it reached a blacklash from the science establishment which then decried mesmerism a fraud and a pseudo science with Mesmer and other practioners of mesmerism banished to fringe edge of science.  Only years later was the science of mesmerism given proper research under respected Scottish doctor James Braid and the practice and science of hypnosis was born.  Braid dealt more with the effects of suggestion on the human mind, and disposed of the carny aspects of mesmerism.

Franz Mesmer, first Jedi knight

Hypnosis is a means where a person could be placed into a trance, and the subconcious mind could be influenced by commands.  Seemingly miracles could be performed by people under the hypnotic state.  People could remember previous lives to minute details, perform feats of strength, and recall things with fantastic detail.  There was also some research that people could influence others without commands being spoken (my emphasis), only by suggestion in their own mind.  This aspect would be explored later with mind control and power experiments in the cold war era via government research during the cold war era.  Most notably the 'stargate' program to develop remote spy viewing from the CIA research labs.

Hypnosis is used sometimes with alien abductees to retrieve 'lost' or hidden information from their experience.  The idea is that when they are taken about a UFO, and the aliens have somehow wiped their memories of the experience and only with hypnosis can the truth of what happened be revealed.  The evidence is subjective both on the subject and the qualifications of the hypnosist (one of the main criticisms of this evidence is the witness could be 'led' to construct the situation by the therapist).  As it stands, we are only beginning to understand the human mind and some of the processes of hypnosis is still a mystery to this day.  The process of hypnosis was critical to the first modern alien abduction case of Betty and Barney Hill.  This case has more evidence to back the claims of the Hills, and the hypnosis therapy session is extremely disturbing (the therapist would not play these tapes to the Hills until after several months...one listen and you can see why).

Led Zeppelin, magic and aliens

Led Zeppelin is one of the first supergroups of rock...a combination of blues, folk, rock, and eastern music that still resonates in popular music and culture.  What is lesser known is guitarist Jimmy Page interest in occultist Aliester Crowley.  During Zeppelin's heyday Page would buy items about Crowley culminating in buying his house off of Loch Ness.  The first printings of Led Zeppelin III, had the motto 'Do what thou will' which was the beginning part of Crowley's magic invocation, so the career of Crowley in a weird way shadowed the mega stardom of rock's most famous group mirroring the same tragedies of crowley as well.

Jimmy Page

How Led Zeppelin is connected to UFO culture is a interesting connection.

Crowley's infamous 'Lam' spell has alien and UFO connections. 


Crowley created his spell at the house which eventually was bought years later by Jimmy Page. Some say the otherworldly creature that eerily mirrors the 'grey aliens' decades later haunted the place.  Fellow occultist and avant garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger worked on a film called 'Lucifer rising' which Page did the music at the Crowley mansion.  Ultimately, it was shelved from Page's erratic behavior from drugs, and touring. 

There is speak of aliens and UFOs are actually other dimensional creatures and that 'magic' was a ways and means to invite such creatures into our world.  Famous beat writer William Burroughs interviewed Page for Crawdaddy, and mentioned his impression of Led Zeppelin was steeped into some magic of some sort.  Perhaps stairway to heaven could be a calling a stairway of a different kind?  The invitation to Kashmir, an invite to the otherworldly as well?

1639- America's first recorded UFO and alien abduction

Alien space craft in 1639?

When you think of aliens, UFOs, and alien abduction, most people think of the famous 'Betty and Barney Hill' case from the early 60's.  However there is some support that the first recorded UFO and alien abduction case came much earlier in 1639.

Muddy River, outside of Boston

Governor John Winthrop wrote in his journal of a strange case of men on the Muddy River observed a great light which they followed for some time, suddenly this great light contracted into the shape of a pig, and after it had left the men had found themselves mysteriously back at their original spot up river.  The journal took great pains to say that these were men of good character, and implied others had also seen this light.

Governor John Winthrop

The takeaway from this is men from that time period described the light contracting in a shape of a pig which could be a craft with landing struts of some kind.  The mysterious missing time and finding themselves back at the origin point have all the markings of a classic alien abduction case.  Unfortunately outside of the journal, other evidence from that time period is scant, which at that point mass print media simply did not exist in the young country.



Just what happened?  Have UFO's and 'missing time' been a part of the new world from the very beginning?

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President Ronald Reagan, alien warrior?

Was hostile aliens the real  reason for Reagan's SDI program?

Rereading Philip Corso's book, The Day after Roswell, the former military intelligence point man wrote in his book that most modern items allegedly had an origin with the crashed saucer of Roswell.  Corso said the modern items of integrated circuits, night vision, bullet proof fiber vests, and fiber optics were offshoots and seedings of military 'farming out' ideas and concepts to corporate companies still somewhat under the military wing.  These were efforts to reverse engineer alien debris from the Roswell UFO crash.   Corso talks about the military scrambling to fight someone else besides the cold war with the Soviet Union, and his motivation with the book is to the truth out to the public.

Corso was Chief of the Pentagon's Foreign Technology desk in Army Research and Development in early 60's.

Corso maintains America would experiment with weapons research to combat what the military thought was a hostile alien force, under the cover of NASA space flights.  The horror, Corso implies, is that the alien creatures could fly about our space and perform clandistine genetics experiments on humans completely unfettered.  It is interesting his take on SDI, or Ronald Reagan's 'star wars' weapons technology that the Russians were in on this, we could say it was to protect the world from a nuclear first strike but it was actually for another enemy in the night sky.

From the day after Roswell, Corso is happy with the efforts of President Reagan and SDI, and reflects on the new 'foe' of the human race.

"I was so much in the routine of being a military intelligence officer, I didn't really stop to think about the implications of UFO's and EBEs.  I understood that we were fighting a cold war with the Soviets and a skirmish war with extraterrrestrials.  I believe their intentions were, and still are, hostile, and I believe we took the steps neccessary to develop the weapons to blunt their threat." (Corso, p. 273, The Day after Roswell)

Did Reagan's SDI work blunt alien agression?  Oddly enough, a high level member of Canada's military circle came out in disclosure against others (USA, Russia, China) shoot first interaction with aliens.  It was a fairly high ranking goverment official, Paul Hellyer, Canada's former Minister of National Defense.  The video has generated some buzz, but oddly not much, which is strange considering the otherworldly claims from a former goverment official.

Canada's Former Ministry of Defense official Paul Hellyer

Here is the link to the video conference, what he says in an odd way backs up the claims of Corso. 

I did a small video talking about Reagan addressing the UN wanting to talk about an alien threat among the population would make the leaders of the world unite against a common foe.  At the time, his speech advisors took it out, but Reagan insisted on putting it back into the speech.  Was there more than just a figure of speech. and a call to action with President Reagan?  Time will tell, and if there is a defense against aliens we should take another look at SDI's true foe.

Did we land on the moon?

I made a fun film exploring the idea behind 'the faked Moon landing'.  This idea is always a hot button issue with some in the UFO community.  Some are completely convinced there was a big cover up and faked so we could beat the Russians, and others who just as passionately say we landed on the moon (for the record I do think we landed on the moon, but there is some things that some talk about the moon landing that you do say 'hmmm').