When engaging in blackout or erasure poetry, or in cut-ups of an article, you may start without knowing what you're seeking, but eventually, something profound will emerge. Sometimes it provides an answer to an unformulated, yet essential question. This process resembles automatic writing, but in reverse. It is my way of 'channeling.'Writers, painters, and musicians often remain unaware of the exact origin of their Muse. It frequently seems to reside in the 'child-like state of awe...

1.Preparation & Back-Story(Invitation, Registration Form, Special Tasks, Cast, Players, Plot,…)2. The Players are welcomed by Michael Mayer or "someone of the event bureau"3. Michael's Message4. A Séance5. The Disappearance of Michael Mayer6. The Murder of Michael Mayer

Cover photo by Marc Borms.Early in the morning, not so long ago, a visitor to the old Abbey of Orval (Belgium) discovered a corpse in the ruins. Paul Shoeman was the producer of the semi-historical documentary serial 'Mysterious Belgium'. He was working on an episode titled 'Nostradamus in Orval', about the so-called prophecies of Nostradamus which are in fact containing a code to find the lost 'fortune of the Bourbons'. This war chest of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette disappeared ...

Featuring:The spirit of Henry VIII apparently sleeps peacefully. But the two wives he executed – Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard – still haunt the world they once lived in... Here is the story of Anne Boleyn, who was believed to be guilty of treason, incest, adultery and... witchcraft!A November evening in 1974. The New York police are called to 112 Avenue, Amityville on Long Island. Six people have been killed in the six-bedroom house in Dutch Colonial style, with swimmin...

Here are some articles I wrote during the last years, about Nostradamus, and how his prophecies maybe were not prophecies at all, and how they are still used to go into politics. Did Nostradamus foresee the election of Barack Obama and the End of the World in 2012? Was Nostradamus the author of the Prophecy of Orval and are some of his quatrains containing a code to locate the Bourbon War Chest?

August 1974. Richard Evans was found dead in a city park of Mons, Belgium. In his hands: a Polaroid, showing a strange hippie girl… and then, in a secret compartment in his house, his grandson discovered a series of photographs, each one containing an image of the girl in the Polaroid, dated from August 1914 to 1964. It appears that during the Great War, Richard Evans worked as an agent for the British secret service and probably was involved in experiments with "black propaganda", which e...

"It must have been May 1917. You were one of the many orphans the Great War made, in Louvain, Aarschot, Dinant. I don't know what exactly happened with doctor Scharpeneel's happy family. But suddenly his wife was dead, he was badly wounded and where was his little girl Isabelle?""Doctor Scharpeneel recovers from his injuries and goes looking for his daughter Isabelle. In Hotel Ocean in De Panne lives one of the orphans the Great War made. Belgian soldiers adopted the girl and gave ...

Electronic voice phenomena (EVP) are sounds discovered on electronic recordings that are interpreted as spirit voices. In ghost hunting circles and parapsychology, they are typically brief, often just a word or short phrase. But which voices are hiding in the haunted realms of artificial intelligence?Have you ever heard the Ghosts of the Opera and their Spooky Orchestra make music and sing along? A classic horror tale like The ...

In The Prophecies he compiled his collection of major, long-term predictions. The first installment was published in 1555. The second, with 289 further prophetic verses, was printed in 1557. The third edition, with three hundred new quatrains, was reportedly printed in 1558, but now only survives as part of the omnibus edition that was published after his death in 1568. This version contains one unrhymed and 941 rhymed quatrains, grouped into nine sets of 100 and one of 42, called "Centuri...

An American couple on holiday in the atmospheric Italian town of Siena are on their way to witness the time-honoured Palio horse race. When they are waylaid they end up in a quiet courtyard being told a mesmerising story by a strange young man. It is an unforgettable tale that begins with the persecution of a young nun in the turbulent days of the sixteenth century and culminates in the bitter German retreat from Italy.Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously p...

A playful and inventive work from the bestselling author of SOPHIE'S WORLD.A box of Latin manuscripts comes to light in an Argentine flea market. An apocryphal invention by some 17th or 18th century scolar, or a transcript of what it appears to be - a hitherto unheard of letter to St Augustine to a woman he renounced for chastity? VITA BREVIS is both an entrancing human document and a fascinating insight into the life and philosophy of St.Augustine. Gaarder's inter...

Koroleva Margo. Queen Margot. Королева Марго. Александр Дюма (1802–1870) – французский писатель, чьи приключенческие романы сделали его одним из самых читаемых французских авторов в мире. Александр Дюма является автором таких романов, как «Три мушкетера», «Граф Монте-Кристо», «Ожерелье королевы» и т.д. «Королева Марго» – исторический роман Александра Дюма, написанный им в 1845г. и образующий перв...