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Tuesday 20 September 2022

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In Pursuit: Things Known and UNKNOWN

 Although prices are increasing In Pursuit is currently at it's old price possibly until the beginning of October.



62pp

A4

B&W

£5.00

https://www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/terry-hooper/in-pursuit-vol-1-no-1-november-2020/paperback/product-pjpjkk.html

 Fact NOT fiction journal looking at trange creatures and stories from around the world 

Contents:- 

A "Cold Case" Too Old? The Beast Of Faudiere –Mystery Killer 

The Strange Creature in Repton Woods 

Cry Werewolf ! and The Curious And Frightening Case Of The Hull Werewolf 

On The Scientific 'Need' To Kill A Sasquatch 

The Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy group has blood on their hands?. 

On Gathering Hard Evidence 

The Strange Case Of The Gotherington Gargoyle 

Photographic Evidence That Dinosaurs Exist 

The Monster of the Forest of Mouliere

UAP/UFO, Close Encounters, Alien Abductions and UFO Crashes

 


530 pages
illustrated with maps, photographs and more
A4 format
B&W

Since 1947 it has been claimed that UFOs/flying saucers are evidence of aliens visiting the Earth.  Since the 1950s claims of encounters with landed craft and alien beings were talked about but not taken seriously.

In the 1960s the subject of UFO abduction was a "slow-burner" until the whole "Grey" abduction phenomenon and claims made by researchers such as Budd Hopkins, Prof. John Mack and Dr David Jacobs and Whitley Streiber.

But is there evidence to back up any of the claims -and what about those encountering Alien Entities but who were not abducted?

Are these people all hoaxers, psychotic or suffering from some other mental illness as some claim?

Are those people who were exposed by Ufologists against their wishes, people who wanted to report what happened and then just get back to their everyday lives -thrust into the media glare against their will?

And if US authorities were so interested that in one case at least they broke into the home of two abductees and this was later proven -why?

Why did a hard core of these people never want publicity or to make money from what happened to them?

Above all, why did a major UFO landing incident take place on a US Inbterstate road in front of a large number of observers (all willing to talk to investigators) never get investigated? If it were not for a radio presenter interviewing and taking notes we would know nothing of the case -it would be labelled "insubstantial".

James and Coral Lorensen -the Scopolamine Kids; using a very notorious "truth drug" on alleged UFO witnesses and selling stories to newspapers.  An investigator (a veteran) showing a witness images of "aliens" encountered in other cases before any memories were retrieved.  Worst of all, the constant "pissing competition" and breaches of trust between UFO investigators.

2017 is the time to assess the past evidence and look at the faults within Ufology.

Not everyone is going to be happy -debunkers or ufologists.

Praised by Dr Mark Rodheiger of the Centre for UFO Studies and, below, John Hanson of the Haunted Skies Project and Colonel Charles Halt the officer involved in the Rendlesham incident.


220 pages
A4
perfect bound
paperback
Fully illustrated with photographs and illustrations
£20.00 (excl. VAT)

The follow up to the comprehensive book "UFO Contact?" The Author spent 1974 to 2018 specializing in the investigation and research of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K) and alien entity cases; the former involving an Unidentified Flying Object and the latter, apparently, involving none. Previously unreported cases as well as 'lost' cases are looked at as well as the possibility that some percients suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome after their encounters

A must read for those with a serious interest in UFOs Some of the contents:

 The Nottinghamshire UFO Crash of 1987…or 1988                                     
 The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ and Berwyn Mountains ‘UFO’ Crash Retrieval   
 Strange Pennsylvania Entity Encounter                                                         
 UFO Abductees and Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome                               
 The UFO That Landed On A US Highway                                                     
 My Encounters With The Men In Black                                                         
 A Previously Un-noted Alien Entity Type                                               
       
 Early 20th Century UK Close Encounters of the Third Kind                       
 Close Encounter with a Boggart                                                                      
 Some Odd and Unusual Cases                                                                         
 Rosa Lotti and the Happy Entities                                                                  
 The Strange Case of the Woollaton Gnomes and the Mince-pie Martians 
 What Happened on the Isle of Wight and at Felixstowe?                             
 The ‘Lost’ Belgian UFO Landing Case                                                        
  
 Strange Aliens from Outer Space?                                                              
 Encounter with Black Aliens and Landed UFO                                 
 Preliminary UK CE3K/Alien Entity Catalogue        


A4
Paperback
370pp
Profusely illustrated with photos and maps
£25.00


The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) says that we may have to wait many thousands of years before any signals sent gets a response if they are detected.

The real SETI may already have established the there is alien life –and it has been visiting Earth for at least 70 years.

Once the mass of reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and entity encounters are sifted there remains a strong core of cases that defy logical explanation and suggest that these encounters have resulted in physiological effects and post traumatic stress.

Terry Hooper-Scharf of the CE3K/AE Project has led research into these reports for over 40 years and in this work takes a look at rare or obscure reports as well as cataloguing encounters from Germany and Portugal and focuses in on correlations in the reports and how the Dandenong (Kelly Cahill) encounter could be the best case ever reported.

Have the serious investigators and researchers looking into UFOs been unearthing better evidence of extra terrestrial life and contact with humans than established SETI ?



A4

B&W

350 pp

Fully illustrated containing photographs and maps

£20.00

https://www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/terry-hooper/beyond-ufo-contact-aliens-from-mind-time-space/paperback/product-qw8wjm.html?page=1&pageSize=4


Beyond UFO Contact i the fourth book in the groundbreaking series looking at reports of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Alien-Entity reports from around the world and reassessing these. In addition there is a look at the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligences (SETI) and its relevance to the UFO phenomenon. 

contents list: 

Introduction: The Path of Counter-Actuality 

1. Dionisio Llanca: Truck Driver, UFO Abductee and Human Guinea Pig 

2. Aliens -What Can We Expect? 

3. The Moreland Incident 

4. It Is All Fake: Ufology Needs To Be Reassessed 

5. Warminster UFOs and Entity Reports 

6. Have Things Changed Since 1977? 

7. The Beausoleil Cas -Even Aliens Like Theatre 

8. The Pwca 

9. Contact...with the Vegetable Alien 

10. The Casitas Dam UFO Photograph and Entity 

11. The Crystal Lake Encounter 

12. The Humanoids at South Riverand the Luczkowich Encounter 

13. Harrison Bailey 

14. Sonny DesVerger 

15. The UFO "Borderline"-The Imjarvi Skiers 

16. Some Interesting Reports to Note 

17. Dead Aliens in Photographs 

18. Ufology, Government Cover Ups and Disclosure 

19. The Reports That You Might Not Want To Look Into 

20. Conil de la Frontera -a Credible Report? 

21. Eighteenth Century Aliens? 

22. Clearview Ranch 

23. The Pat McGuire Case 

24. Piero Fortunato Franzetta 

25. The Silbury Hill Encounter 

26. The Bridge Abduction 

27. The Bagshot Heath UFO Incident 

28. Lurkers and Alien Disinterest 

29. What If YOU See Aliens Land? 

30. So What Would YOU Do If You Encountered A Landed UFO?


26pp

A4

B&W

£9. 50

https://www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/terry-hooper/1973-eupora-mississippi-multi-witness-ufo-landing-event/paperback/product-qwvnkp.html?page=1&pageSize=4


1973 –Year of the “Global UFO Wave” 
1973 –The “Year of the Humanoids” 
1973 –The year of the Pascagoula alien abduction claim 
1973 –Several witnesses observed two Unidentified Flying Objects: one temporarily landed on a US Interstate road while the other hovered close-by. An entity appeared from the landed object. A car driver approaching from the opposite direction stops, turns his/her car and races off. This is classed as a Major Incident in Ufology. 
1973 –a driver observes a landed UFO and entities and opens fire with his gun when he felt threatened. A High Strangeness account. 
Neither of these cases was investigated despite requests for local investigators to do so. Even in 2020 the idea of opening up either as a cold case was flatly Rejected by America’s ‘top UFO investigation’ group. 
Reports now probably lost to history. 
1973 –a year in which UFO reports from African-Americans were frowned upon and ignored. Nothing has changed.

UAP/UFOs, Close Encounters, Alien Abductions, Cryptozoology and Ghosts

 


 


A4 Format
B&W
Paperback
358 pages
Heavily illustrated
£20.00

After more than 40 years as an investigator and more than fifty as a naturalist,the author has opened some of the many files he has accumulated dealing with such things as..  

The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn, The Ghosts Of All Saints Church, Dead Aquatic Creatures of Canvey Island, captured bigfoot like creatures in India -all exclusively presented for the first time and with new added research previously unseen.  

PLUS a vastly expanded section on Spring-heeled Jack!  Photographs, maps, line drawings and up-dated to make 358 pages looking at Things truly Strange and Sinister.  

Cryptozoologist,Ghost Hunter,Ufologist or Fortean:this book has something for everyone -including the just plain inquisitive!   

ContentsForeword by Travis L. Whitehurst
Introduction        
de occultis non judicat ecclesia                                                                            
The Bristol Rocking Horse        
The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn        
The Coonian Ghost        
The Ghosts Of All Saints Church        
His Luminous Chamber        
The Late Reverend Dr. Blomberg        
And More Ghost Stories        
The Thomas B. Cumpston Case        
The Chupacabra        
The Strange Case Of The Gotherington Gargoyle        
What’s Tall,Hairy And Vanishes?        
Mystery Beasts Of Ireland        
The Creature Of The Dump        
The Strange Creature Of Repton Woods        
The Bizarre Legends,Crimes And Truth About Spring Heeled Jack        
The Black Beast Of Darmstadt        
The Nameless Thing Of Berkley Square        
The Terrifying Case Of The U.S. Naval Transport        
The Case Of The Ghost Lear Jet        
Ghost Planes,Crashes And Dead Aquatic Creatures        
The Mitchison Loch Ness Monster Video        
From The Deep Below To The Air Above –USOs        
Aerial Encounters Over Austria        
A Crashed UFO In 1790?        
Angel Hair        
Quimper-Corentin:Where “Thunder Fell”        
Strange Aliens From Space        
The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ And Other Crash Retrievals        
Transient Lunar Phenomena,Alien Structures And Moon Vegetation        
Whiddon Down-Saint-Jean-du-Guard:Impossible Correlations?        
The Venezuelan Horror
A Final Word.
Alleged piece of crashed UFO from Berwyn Mountains, Wales.

A4
322 pages
B&W
Illustrated throughout
Paperback:
£20.00http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/some-more-things-strange-sinister/paperback/product-23770998.html


Follow-up to Some Things Strange & Sinister.  For those interested in Ufology, cryptozoology, hominology, unusual natural history, ghosts and mysteries in general.

The secret history of gorillas -before they were officially 'discovered' along with exclusive lost photographs.  

Wild men of Europe, the UK and US; from the bizarre to blood chilling. Hominology.

Giant snakes.  
Amazons. 
The Giant serpent of Carthage
Girt Dog of Ennerdale.  
The Beast of Gevaudan. 
Crocodiles in the UK
Silent City of Alaska.

And much more.  Updated with extra pages and photographs.

240 pp
A4
B&W
Profusely Illustrated with photographs and illustrations
£20.00

http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/pursuing-the-strange-weirda-naturalists-viewpoint/paperback/product-23770944.html


UP DATE -From Dead Aquatic (Humanoid) Creatures, the giant squid and yet undiscovered sea creatures; submarine and ships crews encountering true leviathans. This is a fully expanded section which also refers to the so-called ‘Ningen’ sightings and video footage.

Extinct animals at sea that have been re-discovered.

The subject of Sasquatch and other mystery Hominids around the world is dealt with including a look at the “Sasquatch-killer”, Justin Smeja. Dr. Bryan Sykes and his DNA test results for TVs The Bigfoot Files as well as the controversial Erickson Project and Dr. Melba Ketchum’s even more controversial Sasquatch DNA test results.

Also included are two early French UFO entity cases that still baffle.

Ghosts, strange creatures and the Star-Child hoax. All dealt with by the naturalist and pursuer of the strange and weird


A4
324pp
B&W
£20.00
http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/mysterious-strange-beasts/paperback/product-23771024.html

Below cover for smaller format version





Strange & Mysterious Beasts is the smaller format book while Mysterious & Strange Beasts is the standard larger A4 format.

 some of the contents:
 
The Monster of the Forest of Mouliere  
The Beast of Lyonnais  
The Beast of Cevennes, Gard and Vivarais     
The Beast of Sarlat   
The Beast of Gevaudan    
British Man Beasts    
Bigfoot and Werewolves in the West Midlands   
The Strange Creature in Repton Woods  
Bigfoot Returns – To Kent!      
Werewolf!        
The Curious and Frightening Case of the Hull Werewolf      
The Gnome of Girona    
The Caponi Close Encounters and Photographs      
Return of the Shark Killing Thing –a Possible Identification   
The Dingellchough Mystery Creature 
The Unidentified Corfu Sea Creature          
Strange Sea Creature Found In Persian Gulf    
The Devil of Gatagon     
The Supernatural Invasion: Slender-man and Black Eyed Kids   
The Sheep Killer of Niali     
Mystery Creature of the Bay of Flamanville  
Things Caught on Camera –Fact and Fiction   
The Bat Creatures     
The Owl-man  
The British Pig-man and Snake-man   
The Pictish Beast             
Shunka Warak'in –A Hyena Too Far?  
The Chupacabra

Wednesday 14 September 2022

REVEREND CROSS BOOK 1 -out now!


 

100 pp

US comic book size
B&W

UK £10.99

EUROPe £15.99 

OUTSIDE EUROPE £17.99

Order from Kult Creations page here http://reverendcross.blogspot.com/


The first three issues of Reverend Cross have sold out but have been collected  into a new trade paperback version  with 25 pages of brand new Reverend Cross action.  It's available to buy now of course  and it has a specially commissioned cover by Vince (Harker/Clock Strikes!) Danks. With art and stories by Atlantisvampir, Jason Dennis, Gabrielle Noble, Patrick O'Connor, Andrew Richmond, John A. Short and Grant Springford! 

Reverend Abigail Cross  the first ever female vicar action hero. Licensed by the Church of England to kick demon ass! This collection contains 12 stories... 4 of them new! Hitler has escaped from Hell and only Cross can stop him! 


Art by Gabby Noble -she brought us Oktobriana versus Wladimir Putin so why not Cross versus Hitler? Incredibly Noble's art is getting even better.
Art by Andy Richmond
Art by Patrick O'Connor -art wise this is probably the weaker of the strips but still good fun.
Art by Jason Dennis -the art here is lovely. The character designs look good and the composition -spot on.
Art by Atlantisvampir -first thing I thought was "Manga". The whole point of an anthology comic is that you get strips drawn by different artists and so this fits in well and if I complain its because I want to...overall it is not that bad.
Art by Grant Springford -first thought: "It looks like an animation cell. Is that bad? No. What it shows is that the mix of artists works and the page above is a lot better than some Marvel Comics art I've seen over recent years (and I am not kidding).
Full contents (art by Jason Dennis) -it's a contents page. Nothing spectacular but it works and white lettering on black background does work and is more eye-catching than just black on white (I'll get "Woked" for that!).

Is it a good package (as we publishers call it)? Yes, the mix works and you get 100 pages so not bad  at all. The glue binding everything together (get me!) is John Short and his stories and scripts. They have the right pacing of action and a good smattering of tongue-in-cheek gags that Roger Moore would have loved as James Bond. 

Short does one thing that the pretentious artistic babbies do not understand ("I'm waiting for the HBO TV series offer!") and that is that comics are fun. Entertainment. In the world we live in escapism is something we need and this is what Short has been doing: creating good fun and entertainment. Believe me if this was bovine excrement I would not be pulling any literary punches.

You can see what I thought of books 1-7 via my reviews of the Cross books  here:
https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2016/05/kult-creations-reverend-cross-001.html

here
https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2016/11/kult-creations-reverend-cross-2.html

here
https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2018/04/kult-creations-reverend-cross-no3.html

then here
https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2018/04/kult-creations-reverend-cross-3.html

and here
https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2018/04/kult-creations-reverend-cross-5.html

oh and here
https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2018/06/kult-creations-reverend-cross-006.html

aaaaaaand here
https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2019/05/kult-creations-reverend-cross-007.html

Recommended? Yes.


Tuesday 13 September 2022

Where Have I Been? Who Cares

 I have a review to do in the next couple of days depending on certain things.  

I am without a scanner and printer at the moment and the new sky-rocketing prices mean I will probably have to without either which screws things up.

So as far as I am concerned I post here when I have the time or feel like it and as this is all unpaid I have no obligation to post daily or weekly (despite what a certain moron who got in touch thinks)  

New review when ready.


Tuesday 6 September 2022

New! Major Victory #1



A4

44pp

Black and white

£6.48

https://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper/major-victory-no-1/paperback/product-krqv5v.html?q=&page=1&pageSize=4

 He is Britain's latest super hero...or is he?

What part do the gods have to play in the life of Woking's hero?

Why the symbolic "V" and Welsh dragon motif?

Who IS Major Victory and why is the President of the United States visiting Woking and WHO is plotting his assassination?

Is it safe to live in Woking?

Easy solution: buy the book and find out! Big Bad Ben Dilworth is back (admittedly he was only captured by tiny super heroes and whisked away to a mysterious tower in his head but....he's cheap!)

Monday 5 September 2022

The Big Moon - Trouble

Announcement

  I was up until around 0400 hrs and made a decision.

When you have poured decades into work that goes into a book (we are talking the "World Mystery" and UFO books) and you try to keep that book at a low price to encourage buyers that is a publisher decision and I made it.

When a £20.00 book brings in 75p that is far from good. Put it this way; if people went buy crazy and purchased 100 copies of a book I would not even get £100 -only £75 (if you are American just think of £ as $).

As it happens the sales have been so bad because no one recommends them and there is no word-of-mouth to let people know about them.

My posts on the books have been seen, as of today, by just under 1 million people. No sales.

So I have decided that this cannot go on.

I am going to withdraw the books from the online store and see whether I can get a publisher or agent and if I cant well people haver had between 12-5 years to purchase the books so no one is going to miss them. You will NOT find them on Amazon nor on Ebay because those sellers have to buy them from me and generally add up to £10/$10 to the cost and that is why I blocked that (also selling on Amazon would earn me less than 75p a copy).

The books will be gone and I am not that worried because they are doing nothing anyway. People are more illiterate these days and do not read and, in fact, when they do they prefer fantasy substituted for fact.

Big weight off my shoulders and the albatross will be gone.