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).

Concerning Violence

 

Concerning Violence is a documentary film from 2014 by the Swedish director Göran Hugo Olsson. It is highly acclaimed and has won three major international awards. How it came to my attention is unusual. I found its DVD lying in a box outside a house; one of those "please take" kind of things. The film is rated "E", exempt from classification. The movie consists of a series of scenes consisting mostly of archive footage of various wars for independence in Africa during the 1960's and 70's. Accompanying this is a narration by the American singer-songwriter and actress Lauryn Hill. She reads passages from a book called The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon. The author was a political activist from the Caribbean who one might describe as the first "new leftist" or "wokie". By that I mean he builds on the ideas of Karl Marx, but instead of seeing society as a product of class struggle, he believes it is born out of racial struggle. The bourgeoisie and the proletariat are substituted exactly by different demographics. Today this is one of the most widespread notions in the modern Western left; but Fanon, writing in the 1940's and 50's, pioneered the concept. The film is extremely well edited. It shows various scenes of colonial infamy with white people generally behaving badly, as we are wont to do. That is hardly original in this day and age, but it is depicted very powerfully. One scene that is etched on my mind is a heartrending shot of a young woman, probably just a teenager, nursing her baby while having just lost an arm. There is an older black-and-white video of some white South Africans patronizing and demeaning their black servants. The main thrust of the narrative is that guerrilla warfare is justified and good. It "gives a man back his self-respect" as the author puts it. It is released by a distributor with a great name: "Dogwoof", see here for the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLmYWL4TIEc. It is now available on a number of streaming platforms.
 
As I've said many times, the fixated sense of victimhood is a major malady, even if it has a legitimate cause. This is because it is highly addictive and often becomes central to the addict's identity; and even, in a strange way, their self-esteem. People dosed up on victimhood will often sacrifice everything, including their best interests, to any player who promises to rid their lives of whatever finger-pointed boogieman they have decided upon. That player is very often worse than the boogieman and knows very well the psychology of its targets. There are too many examples in history to list, including some of those featured in Concerning Violence, in which a manipulative Third World grievance-monger wins support by promising to free the people from "oppression!" They then institute a regime more terrible than any European colonial government. This pathology is not confined to the Third World, in fact it is a problem in my own country, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/02/irish-cvd-bull.html. The film is also a spiteful and frenzied white guilt trip, one of the worst I've ever seen; and, let's face it, they are everywhere! I reject and defy that call to self-loathing I constantly hear because of the colour of my skin. I should also emphasize that I oppose terrorism and political violence; not because I am a "privileged white male!", in fact I don't believe such an animal exists. I oppose it because, leaving aside the moral issues, it is impractical. It cannot work in the long-term. The state can do violence so much better than anybody else that is it invincible at that game. It's a battlefield we must never enter. "What is your solution then, Ben?" I hear you ask. I think because the current conflict is so unique and unprecedented in history, its solution has to be too. It is something we have not yet thought of; but it is there. I am looking out for it every day. I promise I will be writing about that very subject in the very near future.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/political-correctness-portal.html.

Disclosure Day Fourth Trailer

 

Last month a third trailer for Disclosure Day dropped, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/03/disclosure-day-third-trailer-livestream.html. I doubted there would be any more, but then last week at the Cinemacon festival Steven Spielberg turned up and did a presentation that included some video. He showed a clip compilation that, although not officially a trailer, has been received as one. In these clips more of the storyline is revealed, although Spielberg has stated that not one frame of the film's final act has been published so far in any of the promotional material. Spielberg is the co-producer of the film as well as the director and he's shown himself to be very proficient in both roles; in fact what he has done is a work of marketing genius. He has driven the entire UFO community into a frenzy of curiosity, and that includes me. The medley is just thirty seconds long and includes a lot of footage that we've already seen, but also adds some fascinating new shots. It opens with Colman Domingo's character, whose name has been revealed to be Hugo Wakefield, repeating his rant about the "seventy-nine year cover-up" and is followed by a shot over the shoulder of a military pilot in a fighter jet. You can hear radio chatter that may be authentic audio of the real life encounters like the Nimitz incident. It's hard to tell, but there is something ahead of the aircraft that might be an alien spaceship, or else it could just be city lights on the ground. Hugo then says: "It's the two of you; it's always been just the two of you." In the visuals we see Daniel and Emily Blunt's character, revealed to be called Margaret Fairchild. This implies there is something special and unusual about those two characters; and that has been hinted at in previous trailers. The fact that Margaret makes those strange alien noises and that Daniel can understand them. A feminine voice replies: "What happened to us?" This cuts to Noah Scanlon, Colin Firth's character, in a continuation of his meeting with Jane at her home. He says: "The human race cannot accept what we know!" This is often cited as a justification used by those running the Truth Embargo. The trailer ends with the most interesting element. We see the young girl, assumed to be Jane or Margaret, in the previous abduction scene, except this time a strange device is hovering above her head. It is a metallic ring with a number of peg shaped objects arranged evenly around it. It descends onto the girls face and the pegs move inward together. What this is I cannot guess; but then, at the same time, a pair of hands grasps her head from behind. They are clearly ET hands, very long and thin, resembling the controversial "tridactyls", see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/09/mexico-aliens-livestream.html. These thirty seconds reveal a little more of the film's plot and add to the tantalizing thrill many of us are feeling. This excitement has spilled out beyond the UFOlogical community and much of the mainstream cinematic press is now talking about Disclosure Day. At the current time the clips have only been published on Twitter (X), see: https://x.com/disclosureday/status/2046997486791983255. Expect a very detailed report on the movie from me when it hits the big screen.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2020/02/ufo-disclosure-portal.html.

HDA Review of S4- The Bob Lazar Story

 

I have written a review of the film S4- The Bob Lazar Story for The Wow! Signal, the official newsletter of the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance. Source: https://www.thewowsignal.news/latest-news/s4-the-bob-lazar-storydocumentary-film-review. See here for my previous movie review: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/03/hda-article-2.html. Many thanks to editor Dan Harary. See here for a HPANWO Radio interview with Dan: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2024/08/hpanwo-show-558-podcast-dan-harary.html.

Ben Emlyn-Jones on the Paranormal Peep Show 33

                        
I have been on the Paranormal Peep Show again. This programme features a second interview with the UFOlogist and conspiracy researcher David Griffin. It's the first of a multi-part feature.
See here for the audio version: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/paranormal-peep-show-how-marconi-suffered-from-the-black-goo-part-2-with-david-griffin--71348945.
And here for the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO3W5GtNcfg.

See here for my previous appearance on the Paranormal Peep Show: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/03/ben-emlyn-jones-on-paranormal-peep-show.html.