In her book ‘Travels In West Africa’, the British explorer Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) describes an encounter she had in 1895 on Lake Ncovi with a glowing ball of light. She had brought her canoe to the side of the lake so she could wash, or bathe and her account is as follows.
The following article entitled ‘Did something crash in Sylvan Lake on Monday? Authorities in Forest Lake say they don’t know’ appeared on the Forest Lake Times website on Tuesday 28 Jult 2009. It was written by staff writer Jennifer Larson.
Fairies / Folklore / Folktales / Other Mysteries / Scottish Fairies / Scottish Folktales
by Ian · Published July 27, 2009 · Last modified December 17, 2018
On 14th July 1990, eighty-eight bird watchers got off a ferry organised by the Orkney Heritage Society and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds at the uninhabited Eynhallow Island. Only eighty-six returned for the journey back, which sparked a huge search and rescue operation involving the police and coastguard.
Articles / Cryptozoology / Folklore / Legends / Other Mysteries
by Neil Boothman · Published November 13, 2008 · Last modified December 9, 2018
"Wolf at Large in Allendale" was the headline of The Hexham Courant on 10th December 1904. The Courant reported that in the last three weeks, farmers around the village of Allendale were stabling their animals at night as loss of livestock had become a serious concern.
Articles / Cryptozoology / Folklore / Legends / Other Mysteries
by Neil Boothman · Published November 12, 2008 · Last modified December 9, 2018
It was 1972, and at the Robson family home in Hexham, only ten minutes walk away from where the legendary Wolf of Allendale had roamed the woods, the two young Robson brothers dug up two small, carved stone heads whilst they w
Occult / Occult Traditions / Other Mysteries / Spiritualism
by Ian · Published October 2, 2008 · Last modified January 2, 2019
The following article is constructed by an anonymous contributor who both Dan (Danny Parkinson) and I know very well and have worked with closely. This person started seeing apparitions in their mid teenage years and tried to catalogue the types he/she saw in order to try and make sense of the experiences he/she was having.
The mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers on Eilean More in the Flannen Isles in 1900, is probably the best-documented mysterious disappearance to have occurred in Britain.
Ancient Sites / Articles / Burial Mounds / Earth Works / Other Mysteries / Sacred Geometry / Standing Stones / Stone Circles
by Ian · Published August 15, 2008 · Last modified December 13, 2018
History, the ritual landscape and geometry once resonated very much as one. Faint traces of our ancestors whose silent whispers in the landscape once conveyed so much awe and splendour now sadly lie silent, their purpose and meaning largely forgotten, for in general there is a present day lack of any real sense of connectedness.
Ancient Sites / Early Christianity / Earth Works / Folklore / Ley Lines
by Ian · Published August 6, 2008 · Last modified November 20, 2018
The Tor has been associated with magic and mystery for thousands of years. It seems likely that early man used the tor for rituals, and maze like path has been identified spiralling around the tor seven times. Professor Philip Rahtz dated the terraces to the Neolithic period, and concluded that they may have been part of a maze.
Golden Dawn / Occult / Occult Biographies / Other Mysteries
by Ian · Published August 6, 2008 · Last modified November 5, 2018
Iona is a small island off the West coast of Scotland with a long religious and mystical history. In the late 1920s it was the scene of the mysterious death of Netta Fornario. Her motives and the manner of her passing have been the subject of much debate over the years.
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