Meeting a Reform Candidate

 

Today I met a candidate for tomorrow's local government election, none of the people depicted in the illustration. In fact I don't think I should name this candidate or reveal her seat because we were speaking privately and informally, and she said a few things to me I doubt she would raise at the hustings. She wasn't canvassing at the time, but was just sitting on a park bench trying to work out how to find her way around. She seems to be quite bad at map reading; in fact I had seen her a few days ago in the area doing the same so I guided her to her destination. She had a huge suitcase of flyers for her campaign and I helped her carry it because she is a small woman. She is running for Reform UK. Because of this, she engaged me in a discussion about politics. I told her that eighteen months ago I would probably have voted for her, but I wouldn't now because I don't trust Nigel Farage. I was honest and said I preferred Restore Britain. I dislike the way Nigel has treated Rupert Lowe, Ben Habib and many of his other former supporters. I consider them far more honest men than Nigel. I expected her to become scornful at that point, but she did not. She said "I completely agree with you" and then went on to explain that despite her agreement she thinks Reform UK are still the best hope for the country. This is not an uncommon position. Many people I know are voting Reform despite knowing full well that Farage's latest incarnation is something deceptive; possibly set up deliberately by the Deep State to be a controlled counterproposition. It's the usual dilemma of tactical voting: do we vote for the right thing and lose or the wrong thing and win? Reform may be false opposition, but it is the only opposition we have. It's our only chance of beating the uniparty. It currently has enormous momentum behind it; and no doubt tomorrow it will be the principle winner of the election. All the opinion polls are clear on this. Labour and the Tories are going to be eviscerated, justly so, and Reform is the weapon that will achieve it. Last year I also did not vote Reform for the same reasons, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/05/why-i-did-not-vote-reform.html. What happened to me today paints a very different picture that I didn't know existed because this lady is not just some average voter; she is an actual activist and official of the party who has been selected to contest a council seat. I wonder how many other people in Reform feel the same way as her; not just the voters, but the members, maybe even people quite senior and close to the centre. Is it possible that the only true blue Reformers could be Nigel himself and his inner circle, Richard Tice, Zia Yusuf etc. (I won't include their current influx of opportunistic ex-Tories.) Maybe this is what Landeur meant when he said "Reform's support is a hundred miles wide, but only an inch thick", see: https://www.youtube.com/@BritishLandeur. I'm tired of voting for deformed and watered down forgeries of what I really want. A Reform vote is just a vote for another proto-establishment centrist bureaucracy in waiting. Should Farage become prime minister he will backtrack, U-turn and shift his position very quickly on everything; in fact he has already started. There will be a "Nigel wave" and he will not save the House of Lords or repeal the Online Safety Act; in fact he will deliver none of the goodies we all hoped he would. I myself will probably back the IOA again. They won last time in my own ward, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/05/i-backed-winner.html.

The Tragedy & The Triumph Tour 2

 

There will be a second 2026 Oxford walking tour hosted by Mark Devlin and myself. It will be themed on Mark's allegorical novel trilogy. He has just published the third and concluding book, The Tragedy & The Triumph. We will be visiting many of the locations featured in the story. We will be giving alternative information about this fascinating city which is the world's primary Illuminati education centre. It will take place on Saturday 30th of May starting at 6.30 PM. To join the tour, come to the Oxo Bar, 48 George Street. Please book in advance if possible. Tickets coming soon. The whole event is outdoors so we will have to postpone if the weather is too bad. See here for details and tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/109869.
See here for a HPANWO TV film of the event: (coming soon).
See here for my accompanying HPANWO Radio interview with Mark: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2026/03/hpanwo-show-623-mark-devlin.html.
See here for a HPANWO TV film of the previous tour: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/04/mark-devlin-oxford-tour-3.html.

Missing 411- National Parks, Washington State

David Paulides is becoming more and more prolific as a filmmaker. It was only a couple of months ago that I reviewed his Bigfoot research movie American Sasquatch, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/02/american-sasquatch.html. Now he has released a new Missing 411 documentary, the fourth. Paulides understands that people who mysteriously vanish are a global phenomenon, but he has centred his research on the US national parks. There are sixty-three of these in the United States and they cover a combined area of 82,000 square miles. These parks are beautiful places, containing grand scenery and unspoilt wilderness. They are perfect for the traditional American pastime of outdoor sports and recreations. Millions of people visit them every year to go hunting, fishing, swimming, skiing, mountaineering, rambling, camping and sightseeing. In this new project Paulides teams up with somebody I have collaborated with myself, David Mason, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2022/05/programme-464-podcast-dave-altman-and.html. Mr Mason is an engineer who has invented many of the new tools used by modern skywatchers. He has helped find part of an aeroplane that crashed on Mount Rainer in 1946 killing thirty-two members of the US Marine Corps. He wonders if maybe it suffered a midair collision. If so, with what? Considering that six months later Kenneth Arnold had his famous sighting there that launched the modern UFO era, it makes me wonder too. The UFO presence has never left the mountain and still exists today, eighty years later. As Paulides explained in the previous Missing 411 film, there is a connection between UFO's and some of the disappearances. Like with the research of Nik Hayes, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-invisibles.html, Mason and Paulides discover that some UFO's cannot be seen in normal light and only manifest outside the band of the electromagnetic spectrum that our eyes can see.
 
As in his previous productions, Paulides emphasises the human cost of this phenomenon. We, who love paranormal mysteries, talk about quirky and fun high strangeness stories all the time; but this particular element of it is frightening and heartbreaking. A young man called Jacob Gray vanished in the Olympic National Park and his father has left his bicycle trailer where his son abandoned it as a memorial. When Laura Macke vanished in the same region searchers found a few items of her clothing and equipment, and nothing else. This is a common recurring factor. We see it with last year's disappearance of Monica Reza, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/05/ufo-disclosure-2026-may-surprise.html. You could argue that there are mundane explanations for some of these disappearances. It is possible that Laura and Jacob fell into rivers. Another man, Bryan Lee Johnston, might have drowned in the sea while walking across to a tidal island; but Paulides takes that into consideration and weighs it up against other "profile points", strange anomalies that normal missing persons cases don't have. Not listed as one of the profile points, but still noteworthy, is the unusual reaction from the authorities. Vincent Dije, a student who vanished in 2020 on Mount Rainier, was declared officially dead prematurely. Despite the assistance of remote viewers, he has never been seen since. In his previous works, Paulides has noted how agencies get involved in the search-and-rescue missions that don't normally meddle in such matters, like the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. We saw this also with the Fillipidis case; which, I'm glad to say, ended happily, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2018/02/missing-skier.html.
 
The National Parks Service is inexplicably evasive when it comes to commenting on missing people. Absurdly, they once offered to help in exchange for an extortionately high price. Whatever is behind these disappearances is not new and predates research into it considerably. Paulides has a very well documented case from 1999, the journalist and writer Joseph Wood. Missing 411- National Parks, Washington State hearkens back to the first two films in the series in that there is no explicit theory about the cause of these disappearances. In some of the cases Paulides hints that supernatural forces might be at work, but this time different mysteries are nominated too. One of the phenomenon's victims, Gilbert Gilman, is something of a man of mystery. He was involved in the intelligence services, but it's unclear what his exact role was. He vanished in the Olympic in 2006. It's possible this was deliberate on his part because of his involvement. If he had disappeared more recently he may well have been added to "the list", see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/03/ufo-disclosure-2026-bring-neil-home.html. Obviously there are many reasons why people die or vanish in the wilderness. They fall and break bones so they can't move and succumb to exposure. They drown in water or are eaten by predators. These tragedies are far more numerous than the unexplained Missing 411 cases; and it is these Paulides focuses on. One man even vanished from a climbing rope while scaling a glacier. There are some reconstruction scenes in the documentary, one of which shows a man literally fading away into nothing. Either way, as they say on Crimewatch, don't have nightmares. For every person on the Missing 411 list there are a million who have a wonderful time in the countryside; rambling, fishing, hunting, bird watching; enjoying the great outdoors. The phenomenon is extremely rare and I wouldn't want to scare people away. Sometimes strange phenomena actually help people who are lost. One of them was Christopher Wearstler. He was led to safety by an esoteric helper. This film is a worthy addition to the Missing 411 canon and carries on neatly from the previous ones. It's a touching narrative, probably inspired by the fact that David Paulides has suffered his own ultimate tragedy, the loss of a child. The film was funded with the help of donors who are all named in the credits. Missing 411- National Parks, Washington State is available on streaming platforms for rental or purchase. I recommend purchasing it because the rental fee, at least in my country, is not much lower.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/01/ufo-truth-magazine-issue-58.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/03/portal-caught-on-film.html.

UFO Truth Magazine- Issue 78

 

UFO Truth Magazine Issue 78 is now available. It can be purchased on this page as a single copy, but please subscribe and save money if you want to read it regularly, see: https://www.ufotruthmagazine.co.uk.
Issue 78 includes an article in my column entitled Crediting the Conman- Can we
Learn Anything from Hoaxes?.
 
Also you will find in Issue 78: Westall 66 2026 reunion, Nick Pope obituary, Trump UFO files release and much much more.
Also in this HPANWO Show programme I interview the UFO Truth Magazine's editor Gary Heseltine: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2023/06/hpanwo-show-514-podcast-gary-heseltine.html.
See here for details on UFO Truth Magazine Issue 77: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/02/ufo-truth-magazine-issue-77.html.

Pië Andrew Dominae

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/01/andrew-has-questions.html.
I've worked out that there is actually more than one kind of backslapper. The paranoid backslapper is the most common kind; but there is another rarer and more extreme variety, the messianic backslapper. This kind of backslapper appoints themselves as what can only be described as a "Truth Messiah". They see themselves as possessing special knowledge and have a unique destiny to bring enlightenment single-handedly to the Conspirasphere. Andrew Johnson is definitely one of that type. A few weeks ago he wrote: "I have become rather jaded and disenchanted about the lack of acceptance of (for me) obvious conclusions about what happened on 9/11 2001 which are based on voluminous evidence. I have also largely given up trying to explain these obvious conclusions to people that really shouldn't need things explaining to them." This is part of an article in which Andrew castigates Dr David A Hughes for disagreeing with just one little aspect of Dr Judy Wood's evidence, that relating to Hurricane Erin. Source: https://www.checktheevidence.com/wordpress/2026/04/01/dr-david-a-hughes-dr-judy-wood-9-11-energy-the-hutchison-effect-and-hurricane-erin/. So, as far as Andrew is concerned, his "jaded" feeling comes completely from a failure on the part of everybody else; and that he is blameless, weeping as if at the tomb of Lazarus because the 9/11 Truth movement stubbornly refuses to accept His Divine Word. Now, to be fair, Andrew has had to fight against some admittedly genuine stinkers in his time. He describes his journey in his Finding The Truth book. However, most of the people I speak to who have interacted with him and rejected his ideas report that Andrew's conduct towards them was the main reason. In the groups and forums he was sarcastic and belligerent when answering questions or discussing people's concerns. I think Andrew has yet to learn something that even the skeptics have grasped; summed by Phil Plait as "Don't be a dick!", see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2012/08/skeptics-evolution-and-revolution.html. Mick West operates on this principle all the time, which explains why he is more pleasant company than many woo-woos I could mention. If you insult and intimidate people you will not convince them. They will in fact be repelled by your attitude and stick to the "thermitically correct" position out of a sense of righteous indignation. There is a lot of psychological study that shows if you persecute somebody for their beliefs they are less likely to change their minds, not more. Source: https://theconversation.com/cognitive-biases-and-brain-biology-help-explain-why-facts-dont-change-minds-186530.

I actually agree with Andrew Johnson about 9/11, but then I am an ex-hospital porter, as I said in the background link above. I did not reach that conclusion because Andrew browbeat me into it. This intimidation doesn't necessarily have to be physically or mentally violent; it can be far more subtle and passive-aggressive. The People's Voice was a media project by David Icke that unfortunately sank on the slipway, but before it did, David made a video called: "You're either part of the solution or part of the problem". During this fifteen minute monologue he tried to persuade the viewers to send donations to the project. There's nothing wrong with such a request if done politely and respecting people's voluntary sovereignty, but David's plea included out-and-out moral blackmail. The reaction from the Conspirasphere was outrage. Entire Facebook groups appeared with names like "We're not Donating to TPV!". What I'm saying is that Andrew needs to learn a few social skills if he seriously plans to convince people of his evidence. He needs to take responsibility and accept that maybe his own behaviour is not helping his cause. Perhaps that way he can avoid his "jaded" feeling. Unfortunately, from what I've seen, he shows no current signs of doing so. In fact his saviour complex appears to be worsening. Most people know this so it's no secret, but I fell out with Andrew because of his treatment of Ian R Crane. I actually share a lot of Andrew's criticisms of Ian, but Andrew decided to launch into his usual tirade against Ian while the man was lying on his deathbed. The entitlement of Andrew is breathtaking! This is pure and extreme narcissism. He has not apologized to Ian's family and friends, and has simply doubled down. In fact his response was simply to write a piece about me that is loaded with factual errors. Worst of all, he had a tab open next to the one with my own video called Ian R Crane Dies with the words on it: "And this is a blessing". I don't believe this was accidental. I cannot bring myself to post a link to that publication; you can find it on his website with the search function. For this reason I will be avoiding all contact with Andrew in future. No doubt our paths will cross at some point, at a conference or similar event. I will simply have to stay out of his way. Andrew, could you please do the same for me? Do not approach me! You are not my messiah, and you are far worse than any naughty boy. Please! Look at yourself in the mirror and think about whom you really are and what rights you really have to demand what you do from other people.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/09/911-portal.html.

To Sleep Perchance for Psi

 

For the second Saturday in a row I headed to London for a one day paranormal conference; see here for the previous one: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/04/strange-central.html. This time I was going to the headquarters of the Society for Psychical Research, one of the world's oldest paranormal investigation organizations, founded in 1882. The conference was called "To Sleep Perchance for Psi"; and, as its name suggests, it was all about the paranormal factors related to sleeping. This was a far smaller event than the one at Conway Hall. About twenty-five people were there, tucked into a small conference room, including my good friend and comrade Mark Froud of Crafty Nihilist fame, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/09/ben-emlyn-jones-and-crafty-nihilist-8.html. The HQ itself is a very modest affair, as you'd expect because the SPR is registered as a non-profit. It is set back from the main street in some "mews" next to the Olympia London and has three floors with a stair-lift for disabled people. On the top floor is the world famous library and it's a pity I didn't have a longer time to browse there. I've recently joined the SPR and it's worth doing that just to read those classic paranormal books. The Society has no "party line" and people involved have all kinds of viewpoints. They just share a fascination with all things spooky. I saw a couple of other people I recognized from other conferences, but most of the delegates were new to me. However, I did meet a lady called Ursula who had been at Weird Weekend North 2026. I didn't recognize her so our paths must simply never have crossed; things like that do happen at large events, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2026/04/hpanwo-show-627-weird-weekend-north.html. 

The first speaker was called Chris Roe. He did a talk about dream precognition, the strange phenomenon of having dreams that come true. He gives a number of examples; some of them very famous, such as the schoolchildren who refused to go to school before the Aberfan disaster because they'd had nightmares about it the night before. Chris has controlled for many of the mundane explanations often posed by skeptics, such as the "law of large numbers". Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks followed Chris to the stage and described her research into sleep paralysis. This is something that I myself regularly experience and so was keen to learn more, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2016/06/sleep-paralysis-again.html. She is interested in its connection to other phenomena like the near-death experience and ghostly encounters. Regular readers will know that I have had a very significant experience like that myself. I told Sheila about it and she was impressed. I'm going to write to her and tell her the whole story, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2008/10/real-ghost-train.html. We took a lunch break and headed for a nearby pub where I got to talk to some of the new people I'd met; then when we came back it was time for Anthony Peake, the main reason Mark and I had chosen to attend the conference. Anthony is somebody I'm very familiar with, for example see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/07/anthony-peake-at-watkins-books-2.html. Somehow Anthony always manages to inject some new information into every one of his numerous lectures and this time he described a strange altered state of consciousness he had in 1996 when living an ordinary life as an airport administrator. The memory of it later came back to him when he visited Argentina in more recent years and saw the same place. He thinks it might be connected to the famous writer Jorge Luis Borges who lived near where Anthony visited and who wrote stories with esoteric themes that Anthony really likes. Cal Cooper came on next and talked about another famous element of sleep, after death communication in dreams. This is actually one of the most common weird phenomena of all; somebody dies and their relative sees them in a very vivid dream. He also talked about the history of the SPR's research into such dreams by former experts like William Dewi Rees, a vicar whose congregation reported them. He's also interested in the experience of people in the "death industry" like undertakers and morticians. I suppose I should include myself in that as a former hospital porter (have I mentioned that before?). He cited an early SPR publication called Phantasms of the Living. Unfortunately at this point I had an opportunity to add to the relevant literature personally by suffering another drowsiness attack. This time it was not possible to hide it because the auditorium was so much smaller than Conway Hall. I hope Cal doesn't think I dozed because he was boring me. He was not. As I said last week, it's just a problem I always have at conferences. The final speaker was Dr David Luke, somebody I know of though my collaboration with Niall Murphy, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2024/07/hpanwo-show-55-podcast-niall-murphy.html. 

David runs "Breaking Conventions" at the October Gallery which Niall used to record for his own podcast. David talked about the history of dream research and interest. It dates back much further than I thought, to the ancient world. We all know about Moses and Joseph in the bible who have interesting dreams; but such knowledge is even older. There is a Mesopotamian dream analysis book dating to the 1700's BC. In ancient Greece and Rome there were sleep healing centres. David also understands a lot of the skeptic arguments and in the panel Q and A at the end we had an interesting back-and-forth about coincidence theory and the limits of pareidolia. He has coined the term "randomania" to describe the skeppers' bias towards false-negatives, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2014/04/pan-pareidolia.html. 

After the event there was a meeting in the room for members only, but I decided not to go and headed to the pub with Mark and some more of our new acquaintances. A different pub this time, The Cumberland Arms which is literally across the road from the SPR office. I bet the bar staff there are used to overhearing strange conversations! We had a really good time with the speakers and other delegates; and then Mark and I both left because we had long journeys home. I'm going to stay in touch with some of the conference attendees and hopefully go along to future SPR events. If I do I will report on them too. What an amazing fortnight it has been for me!

See here for more information: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/skeptics-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2023/06/afterlife-portal.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones at Bases 2026 International Disclosure

 

I'm pleased to announce that I will be speaking at the upcoming Bases 2026 International Disclosure conference. My lecture is as yet untitled, but it will take place on the Sunday. (Unfortunately that is the only day I can attend because of other commitments.) It might be a dialogue with another speaker. Other speakers include Maria Wheatley, Laura Eisenhower, Dr Amir Jahangiri and Thomas Mikey Jensen. The event will take place om Friday the 19th, Saturday the 20th and Sunday the 21st of June. The venue is Bouverie Hall in Pewsey, Wiltshire, SN9-5EQ. Tickets will be available soon, see: https://www.basestv.org/tidc2026. 

See here for a video promo: (coming soon).

See here for a HPANWO Radio interview with Miles Johnston about the conference: (coming soon).