by Colin Wilson
6. Other meanings suggested by scholars are “hostage”, “comrade”, and “orderer”, in the sense of one who gives order to thoughts.
7. And I shall follow their example, as well as changing the names of other Greek gods to their more familiar Latin equivalents.
8. For a longer account of all this, see my Criminal History of Mankind (1984).
9. See my book Mysteries (1978), part 2, chapter 10.
10. For the sake of simplicity I speak here of the left eye and the right eye; in fact, both eyes are connected to both sides of the brain, so it would be more accurate to speak of the right and left visual fields. In visual experiments with split-brain patients, the patient is asked to keep his eyes fixed either to the left or the right. This piece of information is unimportant for understanding what follows.
11. For a longer account of Pagenstecher and Maria Reyes de Zierold, see my book The Psychic Detectives (1985).
12. For a longer account of all these cases, see my Mammoth Book of the Supernatural (1991).
13. See Colin Wilson and Donald Seaman, The Serial Killers (1990).
14. This was the man who invented the sandwich; rather than interrupt his gambling, he would eat a piece of meat between two slices of bread.
15. The Decembrist conspiracy was easily suppressed; most of the conspirators were executed.
16. Researched by Larry Forrester and Peter Robinson.
17. See “Atlantis” chapter 2.
18. See “Psychometry – Telescope into the Past” chapter 43
19. See “Atlantis”.
20. Poltergeist, A Study in Destructive Haunting, by Colin Wilson, 1981, Chapter 4.
21. See The Untold Story by Evelyn Nesbit (1934).
22. Actually 8 May, but the date has become displaced over the centuries.
23. 25 February 1932.
24. Described in my book The Psychic Detectives.
25. On Time, 1982.
26. “La Tradition Legendaire du Vampire en Europe” in Les Cahiers du G.E.R.F. (Groupe d’Etudes et de Recherche sur la Fantastique, Grenoble University of Languages and Letters, 1987).
27. In fact, to the Doubleday subsidiary, Blakiston: see Velikovsky Reconsidered, p. 25.
28. These excavations – and Lethbridge’s subsequent career – are described at length in my book Mysteries (1978).
29. For a fuller account of Arthur Young, see my book Mysteries (1978), pages 608–10.