“The Conspiracy Journal” is a venerable publication that has gone unnoticed by a huge swathe of readers who most likely would enjoy receiving a free subscription, either of the print or online editions. The print edition, which is sent through the mail several times a year, is published by Timothy Green Beckley of Global Communications and covers a wide range of conspiracy-related topics, from the UFO cover-up to government mind control efforts to covert political intrigue of all kinds. The online chores are handled by Mr. Tim R. Swartz, who, in addition to being the author of “The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla,” co-hosts his own weekly ipod show, “The Outer Edge.”

For the purposes of this article, we concern ourselves only with Beckley’s editorial expertise and his longtime preference for printed publications as opposed to the online “blogazine” types, which are just not his “cup of tea” – with or without the saucers!

But don’t despair that such a gem of “punk/alternative paranormal journalism” has gotten by you somehow. Beckley has recently released a collection of past articles from the magazine and has titled it – a no brainer – “Conspiracy Journal Reader: The Darkest, Deepest Secrets,” which features some of the best material published there by an impressive roster of writers. There are a total of 37 articles in the book, any one of which will fascinate those already predisposed to believe that something wicked is lurking around the next proverbial corner that has the intention of controlling and manipulating an unsuspecting populace. Those few who are still “unsuspecting” will quickly revise that thinking after reading “Conspiracy Journal Reader.”

COSMIC TOP SECRET

For example, writer William Hamilton III (author of “Cosmic Top Secret” and “Time Travel Now”) contributes an article called “Area 51 Breeding Tanks.” He begins by recounting a story told to him by abductee Christa Tilton, who claims that in 1987 she was taken by two small grey aliens to a hillside location, where she encountered a man dressed in a military-type jumpsuit. She was led through a series of computerized checkpoints and traveled on some kind of “transit vehicle” to an area where she was weighed and issued an identification card. At that point, she was told they had just entered Level One of a seven-level underground facility. After being moved to Level Five, she saw alien craft and greys as well as large tanks with computerized gauges.

Hamilton, of course, is just warming up. He also tells the tale of a man, given the pseudonym Thomas C., who was at one time a security officer in the facility and could no longer cope with the disturbing things he had seen there. He decided to leave his job and take some evidence with him. He took over 30 photos, collected documents and removed a security camera video tape that had recorded aliens and government personnel working side-by-side. He made five copies of everything and then concealed the originals.

Now it was time to flee and go into hiding. But when he went home to pick up his wife and son, he found a van and government agents waiting for him. His wife and son had already been kidnapped. A fellow worker named K. Lomas had alerted the authorities, and Thomas C. was now in even deeper trouble. The agents demanded the return of the evidence Thomas C. had collected in exchange for getting his wife and child back. When it became apparent that his family would be used in biological experiments and not returned unharmed, he decided to “get lost,” as Hamilton puts it.

 After explaining some of Thomas C.’s background, which included several years working as a security officer for the Air Force and the Rand Corporation, Hamilton   discusses more of what Thomas C. saw at the underground facility, located in Dulce, New Mexico. Thomas C. alleges that there were over 18,000 greys at Dulce, as well as reptilian humanoids there. A tube shuttle system connecting Dulce to Area 51 in Nevada and another facility in Page, Arizona, is also part of the package. Dulce’s Level Six is privately called “Nightmare Hall,” where genetic experiments are conducted on fish, seals, birds and mice, producing creatures that are vastly altered from their original forms. Even more chillingly, there are multi-armed and multi-legged humans and several cages and vats of humanoid, bat-like monstrosities, some as tall as seven feet, to be found on Level Six.

Things reached a climax for Thomas C. when he saw humans in cages on Level Seven, many of whom were dazed or drugged and crying out for help.

“We were told they were hopelessly insane,” Thomas C. said, “and involved in high-risk drug tests to cure insanity. We were told to never speak to them at all.”

DEEP INSIDE THE LAIR OF THE SERPENT RACE                                              

Even as one shudders to think this story could be true, “Conspiracy Journal Reader” moves on to other equally bizarre subjects. I have an article of my own reprinted in the book about Zulu shaman Credo Mutwa, and my primary source was an interview from “Spectrum Magazine” conducted by Rick Martin.

The late Harvard psychiatrist, Dr. John Mack, in his book “Passport To The Cosmos” (1999), devoted a chapter to Credo and his lifelong encounters with friendly, guardian spirits who were quite unlike the greys and reptilians Credo would deal with later as an adult. Nevertheless, Credo would seem like an unlikely source for information on conspiracy theory, but the Zulu culture from which he sprang takes for granted the existence of reptilian aliens/shape-shifters, though the place where the reptilians originate is still unknown to them.

“It is said that these creatures feed on us human beings,” Credo said, “and that they at one time challenged God himself to war because they wanted full control of the universe. And God fought a terrible battle against them and He defeated them, injured them, and forced them to hide in cities underground. They hide in deep cavities underground because they are always feeling cold. In these cavities, we are told, there are huge fires which are kept going by slaves – human, zombie-like slaves.”

These defeated reptiles are not capable of eating solid food and must survive on human blood. They also “feed” on the power or energy that is generated by human warfare and violence and the terror such bloodshed induces.

“There ARE such creatures,” Credo said, “and the sooner skeptics among us face up to this fact, the better it shall be. Why is humankind not progressing? Why are we running around in a great circle of self-destruction and mutual destruction? People are basically good; I believe this. People don’t want to start wars. People don’t want to destroy the world in which they stay, but there are creatures, or there is power that is driving we human beings toward self-annihilation. And the sooner we recognize this, the better.”   

Later in the interview with Rick Martin, Credo dropped quite a bombshell.

“Far too many people,” Credo said, “fall into the temptation of looking upon these ‘aliens’ as supernatural creatures. They are just solid creatures, sir. They are like us; and furthermore, I’m going to make a statement here which will come as a surprise: the Grey aliens, sir, are edible. Their flesh is protein, just as animal flesh on Earth is, but anyone who ingests Grey alien flesh comes very, very close to death. I nearly did.”

He next told the story of how the alien flesh came into his hands.

“You see,” he said, “in Lesotho there is a mountain called Laribe; it is called Crying Stone Mountain. On several occasions, in the last 50 years or so, alien craft have crashed against this mountain. One such incident was reported in the newspapers not so long ago. An African who believes that these creatures are gods, when they find the corpse of a dead Grey alien, they take it, put in a bag, and drag it into the bush, where they dismember it and ritually eat it. But some of them die as a result of ingesting the thing.”

Credo said that a friend of his from Lesotho gave him the flesh from what the friend called a “sky god.”

“I was skeptical,” Credo said. “He gave me a small lump of grey, rather dry stuff which, he said, was the flesh. And he and I and his wife ritually ate this thing one night.”

Credo did not in fact die from sharing this otherworldly dinner, but it is not possible to tell the rest of the story in the space available here. Those who wish a crash course in what Credo believes and in reptilian aliens in general should be steered in the direction of a book by Commander X and Branton. “Reality of the Serpent Race and the Subterranean Origin of UFOs” reveals more from the fertile mind of the Zulu shaman, who is now well into his eighties and has been confronting the reptilian “menace” for as long as he can remember.

Not surprisingly, Credo confirmed one of the pet theories of his mentor David Icke, namely that many global leaders are really shape-shifting reptilians – people like Queen Elizabeth, George Bush, Bill Clinton and many other elite rulers who have long been associated with the bloodline of the Illuminati, a secret society said to be in charge of political and economic matters worldwide. When pressed for more information, Credo seemed uneasy, as if there might be serious, dangerous consequences for talking about such things.

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In this present-day know-it-all scientific age, a woman can erupt into flame in the full view of witnesses and her body be ravaged with flames while sitting on newspapers in a chair and neither the papers nor the chair suffer any fire damage, and the facts will be denied in a coroner's court because such things cannot be.

That comment came from page185 of The Entrancing Flame by John E. Heymer (Little, Brown and Company, 1996). I had finally got around to reading it, and it took me by surprise. For those unfamiliar with the concept, spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is a phenomenon assumed to have taken place because the victims are burned to ashes without any obvious source of fire, and with the damage limited to the body and the seat to which it was attached, and everything else in the room being untouched - including the victim's legs, which are presumed to have been out of the circle of combustion. But this was the first time I was aware that the phenomenon had been actually witnessed.

As a forensically trained police scene of crime officer in Wales, Mr Heymer had attended many grisly scenes of death. He became interested in SHC when, in 1980, he was called to the scene of one such event, and saw the refusal of the establishment to consider the evidence. As a result, he does not, like most authors, recount the "classic cases", but concentrates on those he himself had investigated, or those in which he had read the official police and coroner's reports.
    
Now, the official explanation of SHC is the "wick effect", whereby a fire started on a person's clothing burns his flesh, causing the fat to melt and act as a wick for the whole body. Although it is superficially plausible, Heymer shows that the scientist who originated the theory also pointed out how difficult it was to achieve in practice. Indeed, the few cases where it has been proven to have occurred all bear the following features:

The victim was certainly dead when the burning commenced.
   
There was a definite, identifiable source of ignition. In one case, the victim suffered a heart attack, and her hair fell into an open fire when she collapsed forward. In another, a murderer attempted to burn the body by using a pint of starter fluid.
    The bones were reduced to a grey ash, but were often incompletely consumed.
    Once the fire started, the clothes burned normally, independently of the body.
    The surroundings were well ventilated.

In contrast, the common features of SHC were:

    The victim was alive when the fire started, as revealed by the carbon monoxide discolouration of the remaining flesh.
    No obvious source of fire could be found.
    The bones were reduced to a white ash, indicating a temperature higher than regular combustion, and higher than that of a crematorium.
    The extremities of the legs, outside the zone of combustion, were unconsumed, and there was a distinct line where the clothing was uncharred.
   
Although this is probably not essential to the phenomenon, in the cases investigated by the author, the room was more or less hermetically sealed, such that a normal fire would soon splutter out once the original oxygen had been consumed.

All right, I can hear you say, but what about the eye witnesses you mentioned? We shall start off with the simplest cases first.
    
Bailey. An alcoholic tramp in a derelict house. When the firemen arrived, they discovered a blue flame issuing with the force of a blowlamp from a split four inches wide in his abdomen. It was necessary to shove the hose into his abdomen in order to extinguish it. And it had been going on for at least seven minutes, from the time the fire was first reported. True, nobody actually witnessed the commencement of the fire, but if anybody can suggest how it might have happened, they will have provided a great service to science.

Jack Angel. Strictly speaking, nobody actually saw this fire start either. What happened was that Jack Angel, a travelling salesman, parked his mobile home in the carpark of a motel, went to sleep, and didn't wake up for another four days. When he did, he found:

    [h]is right hand was completely charred black. He had a hole in his chest which he described as 'this big explosion in my chest'. He was also burned between his groin, on both his legs and one ankle and up and down his back in spots.

Incredibly, he felt no pain. Instead, staggering like a drunk and only half conscious of his injuries, he showered, dressed, and went into the cocktail lounge of the motel. He collapsed and was rushed to hospital. About midnight, he woke up in excruciating pain. A doctor told him he had been burned internally, but not externally. They had to amputate his right hand and part of his forearm.
    
Amazingly, the bed sheets in his mobile home revealed no sign of burning. And there was absolutely nothing which could have explained the fire.
    
Wilfred Gowthorpe. Aged 71 and described as "basically a lonely man", Mr Gowthorpe had been decorating the house of Mike and Sandra Stubbins. Mrs Stubbins left the kitchen for about half an hour, only to return and find the paste bucket and brush in the sink, the cold water tap running, and Mr Gowthorpe in a corner, apparently in a trance. Thinking he had suffered a stroke, she called a doctor, and her husband. The doctor immediately noticed that his left hand and arm were burned up to the elbow, and immediately had him rushed to hospital. Two fingers were charred so severely that they required amputation.
    
The surprising thing was that his thumb was all right. Also, his left sleeve was still buttoned up to the wrist. Also, although it was a cold day, Mr Gowthorpe was soaked in sweat, and his clothes were also wet, except for the left sleeve of both coat and shirt. There was not a single thing in the kitchen which could have been responsible. Not only that, but up to the time he died from a heart attack eighteen months later, the victim failed to remember a single thing about the accident.
    
From these two cases, as well as the fact that, in cases where the victims had died, they had not moved from their seats, Mr Heymer deduces that the victims were all in some sort of "trance" or altered state of consciousness, and feeling no pain. Furthermore, in all the cases he was able to investigate, the victims were lonely, or at least socially isolated, so he believes their psychological state is somehow implicated.
    
Not only that, but Heymer himself had attended a scene where a pilot had been burned in a crash, and he knows that cooking human flesh smells like succulent roast pork. But Mrs Stubbins reported an indescribably foul odour at the time. More of this later.
    
By now, a sceptic will say that, although the phenomena are difficult to explain, so far no-one has actually witnessed a person burst into flame. That brings us to the final case, which inspired the quote at the top of this post: Jeannie Saffin. Her relatives asked Heymer to look into it, because they got no joy from the coroner. He read all the official reports, and interviewed all the witnesses.
    
Due to a bungled forceps delivery, she never progressed beyond a mental age of five or six. Now aged 61, and unable to even understand the concept of death, she had spent the previous year moping and pining over the loss of her mother, to whom she had been almost pathologically attached. On that fateful day in 1982, as usual, seated sadly in the kitchen, some sheets of newspaper between her and the chair, her hands clasped despondently on her lap. The day was hot and humid, and the only flame present was the pilot light on the grill. Her aged father was writing something at the kitchen table, while her brother-in-law, Donald Carroll, was upstairs decorating.
    
Suddenly, she burst into flames. Calling to Donald for assistance, her father got her to the sink and started throwing cups of water at her, suffering burns to his own hands in the process. She was apparently in some sort of trance, and impervious to pain, but was sufficiently alert to come with him to the sink. Donald rushed down, and saw flames issuing from her abdomen and mouth, "like a dragon". Although partially deaf from military service, he could hear the roaring sound of the flames issuing from her mouth. Quickly, he grabbed a large saucepan full of water and threw it over her, extinguishing the flames. He estimated that the whole process had lasted just a minute. Also, there was in indescribably foul odour, the same as with Wilf Gowthorpe.
    
The newspaper on which she had been sitting was untouched. There was no clothing ash on the floor. Her red nylon cardigan was melting, but not in flames.
    
She was rushed to hospital, where she died eight days later, suffering from burns over 30 to 40 percent of her body. There were full thickness burns over her face and both surfaces of the hands, meaning that the skin had been destroyed to expose the underlying fat. Further burns, both full thickness and deep dermal were present on the neck, shoulders, chest, left arm, thighs and left buttock, with superficial patches on the abdomen. And what sort of external fire could burn the face down to the fat without touching the hair?
    
In Heymer's opinion, this is all consistent with the centres of the combustion being the two parts of the body which were uncovered: her face and hands. The burns on the midriff resulted from her hands being held clasped on her lap. He also thought that she had been hyperventilating, thus alternately sucking in and breathing out, "like a dragon", the flames from her face.
    
The coroner ruled that death was by misadventure ie accident, but didn't say what the accident was. He told the relatives that it couldn't be spontaneous human combustion, because such a thing doesn't happen.

There is one other point to note. I have quoted only those cases in which witnesses were involved. Mr Heymer himself managed to track down quite a few others in his own bailiwick. This therefore raises the question: just how common is the phenomenon? He quotes Ron Westrum's finding that many quite common events can go unnoticed if people fail to recognize and publicise them. His example is the battered child syndrome. Originally, just a few doctors recorded individual cases, but because people initially refused to believe that significantly large numbers of parents were going so far as to break their children's bones, no-one took any notice. Now authorities see it all the time - perhaps more often than its presence actually demands. I could add another example. As I pointed out before, one in ten people claim to have encountered a ghost. It is unlikely that all their experiences are genuine but, in any case, you won't find them reported in the newspapers. However, ghosts are part of our cultural heritage, so you will hear them discussed among friends. But spontaneous human combustion never gets reported by the press, nor do friends sit down and chat about it. So how common is it?
    
Mr Heymer discovered that the Home Office Pathologist, Dr G. S. Andrews, dealt with six cases per year in his own area, in which the abdominal area was totally destroyed. From this he deduced an average of 200 cases per year in the UK alone.
    
It makes you think.

Source: Malcolm's Musings
http://malcolmsanomalies.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/flames-roaring-out-of-her-mouth.html

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