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Post by Swampirella on Nov 14, 2020 16:20:17 GMT
Miss Scarlett, that Batman cover is a great find. I don't know if you are of an age or cultural background to get the reference, but that's a riff on this bizarre rumor that I was actually told about at a friend's home circa 1968--that Paul McCartney was dead and there were visual clues to this on a couple of Beatles album covers. The art here references the "I am the Walrus" track and photo shoot (from a TV film the Fabs did) from the Magical Mystery Tour concept LP (and thanks to the Vault, I now know that "mystery tours" are, or were, a "thing" in mid 20th century Britain). I don't know just how long the whole "Paul is dead" thing went on. An early instance of an urban legend? It was also said that if you played a certain track on the disc backwards, you'd hear somebody saying the words "Paul is dead" over and over again in the background. Creepy! Also love the cover with the image from the old folklore about the Cóiste Bodhar or Death Coach from Ireland and elsewhere. Fabulous find Andreas! When I was a child every sentence in a comic book had to end with an exclamation point. Funny old days. H. I have indeed heard the "legend" that Paul was/is dead, the clue in the song played backward etc, although it was long after 1968. I came across the cover accidentally, looking for some Batman/Robin photo/gif to post regarding your comment, and thought it was apropos.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Nov 14, 2020 16:32:55 GMT
I don't know just how long the whole "Paul is dead" thing went on. An early instance of an urban legend? It was also said that if you played a certain track on the disc backwards, you'd hear somebody saying the words "Paul is dead" over and over again in the background. Creepy! If you listen to the very end of the playout on "Strawberry Fields Forever", you can hear Lennon intoning something that, to the terminally credulous, sounds like "I buried Paul". Lennon later said that in fact the words are "Cranberry Sauce", slowed right down. The whole "Paul is dead" thing has it's own Wikipedia page, where it's all laid out. As dead people are...
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Post by andydecker on Nov 14, 2020 17:08:30 GMT
As it is often the case, the cover of Batman 222 is seemingly better then the content. "If you look up the entry for "meaningless filler story" in The Dictionary of Comic Book Terms, this story is reprinted in full", is the verdict on Barebones. :-)
As far as ghosts are concerned, the best - or at least the better realized - in comicland are the ones in Hellboy. Mignola did so many memorable hauntings in the pages of his creation.
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Post by humgoo on Nov 14, 2020 19:04:33 GMT
It was also said that if you played a certain track on the disc backwards, you'd hear somebody saying the words "Paul is dead" over and over again in the background. Creepy! There's a reference to it in Satan Wants Me, which is set in 1967:
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Post by Swampirella on Nov 14, 2020 20:43:47 GMT
Just came across this while price checking J. A. Brook's "Railway Ghosts"; unfortunately am not able to not skim through all 26 pages, to read some first-hand accounts that might not be in any of the purportedly-true-but-actually-not railway ghost books. Posting it here just in case anybody else might want to skim through it. People on Pgs 2/3 & probably further all steamed up as to whether ghosts exist or not.
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Post by ripper on Nov 14, 2020 21:22:35 GMT
Just came across this while price checking J. A. Brook's "Railway Ghosts"; unfortunately am not able to not skim through all 26 pages, to read some first-hand accounts that might not be in any of the purportedly-true-but-actually-not railway ghost books. Posting it here just in case anybody else might want to skim through it. People on Pgs 2/3 & probably further all steamed up as to whether ghosts exist or not. Thanks for the link, Miss S. The railway system is so old and extensive that it's inevitable that there will be ghost stories associated with it. I was reading last night about the sightings of murdered actor William Terriss at Covent Garden station in the 1950s/60s. It will be interesting to see what railway enthusiasts think about it all.
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Post by Swampirella on Nov 14, 2020 21:31:33 GMT
Thanks for the link, Miss S. The railway system is so old and extensive that it's inevitable that there will be ghost stories associated with it. I was reading last night about the sightings of murdered actor William Terriss at Covent Garden station in the 1950s/60s. It will be interesting to see what railway enthusiasts think about it all. Terriss' ghost is a famous one, featured no doubt in every book of London (underground) ghost books that exist and as far as I recall, mentioned in this video. If not, it's still worth watching for those interested in the topic.
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Post by Shrink Proof on Nov 15, 2020 7:38:58 GMT
Just came across this while price checking J. A. Brook's "Railway Ghosts"; unfortunately am not able to not skim through all 26 pages, to read some first-hand accounts that might not be in any of the purportedly-true-but-actually-not railway ghost books. Posting it here just in case anybody else might want to skim through it. People on Pgs 2/3 & probably further all steamed up as to whether ghosts exist or not. Thanks for the link, Miss S. The railway system is so old and extensive that it's inevitable that there will be ghost stories associated with it. I was reading last night about the sightings of murdered actor William Terriss at Covent Garden station in the 1950s/60s. It will be interesting to see what railway enthusiasts think about it all. Having worked in and on several preserved railways over the decades I've met numerous railway folk - amateurs, professionals and the retired. There are endless utterly bizarre tales, some strange, some hilarious, some just downright creepy. Ghosts are just part of it, there's enough weird material on the railways for a PhD thesis. It's worth checking out "Crossing the Line: Trespassing on Railway Weirdness" by Paul Screeton, a collection of what's probably best described as railway folklore. Everything from the world of gricers (discussed in the Vault passim) to haunted engines with a mind of their own, clanking from one homicidal disaster to the next. Then there's the strategic steam reserve. That's the urban legend that circulates in railway circles that not all BR's old steam locos went to the breaker's yard, actually a secret fleet of them was spirited away and is hidden somewhere (Box Tunnel is the favoured site*) to be resurrected for use in time of war when imported diesel dries up and electricity can't be generated and/or distributed for new-fangled engines - a tale I've heard from several railway folk over the years. And of course, we mustn't forget tales of "the maniac on the platform"... *There are extra underground workings in the hill through which the tunnel is driven, they were originally a quarry and later used for Luftwaffe-proof ammunition train storage in WW2, so surviving subterranean tracks are feasible. The place is weird anyway - it's so aligned by the designer, I K Brunel, that the rising sun shines through it on his birthday...
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Post by Swampirella on Nov 15, 2020 13:08:45 GMT
Thanks for the link, Miss S. The railway system is so old and extensive that it's inevitable that there will be ghost stories associated with it. I was reading last night about the sightings of murdered actor William Terriss at Covent Garden station in the 1950s/60s. It will be interesting to see what railway enthusiasts think about it all. Having worked in and on several preserved railways over the decades I've met numerous railway folk - amateurs, professionals and the retired. There are endless utterly bizarre tales, some strange, some hilarious, some just downright creepy. Ghosts are just part of it, there's enough weird material on the railways for a PhD thesis. It's worth checking out "Crossing the Line: Trespassing on Railway Weirdness" by Paul Screeton, a collection of what's probably best described as railway folklore. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I had thought of getting "Crossing the Line" last night, and in the past, but so far haven't been willing to pay $25 for it. I'm more interested in his "Hexam Heads", even rarer & more expensive, if I bought anything by him. Instead, I bought the fictional "Railway Ghosts" (thanks to Dem's currently partial synopses elsewhere) and "Supernatural Steam" by J. A. Brooks
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Post by dem bones on Nov 15, 2020 13:57:46 GMT
Thanks for the link, Miss S. The railway system is so old and extensive that it's inevitable that there will be ghost stories associated with it. I was reading last night about the sightings of murdered actor William Terriss at Covent Garden station in the 1950s/60s. It will be interesting to see what railway enthusiasts think about it all. Having worked in and on several preserved railways over the decades I've met numerous railway folk - amateurs, professionals and the retired. There are endless utterly bizarre tales, some strange, some hilarious, some just downright creepy. Ghosts are just part of it, there's enough weird material on the railways for a PhD thesis. It's worth checking out "Crossing the Line: Trespassing on Railway Weirdness" by Paul Screeton, a collection of what's probably best described as railway folklore. Everything from the world of gricers (discussed in the Vault passim) to haunted engines with a mind of their own, clanking from one homicidal disaster to the next. Then there's the strategic steam reserve. That's the urban legend that circulates in railway circles that not all BR's old steam locos went to the breaker's yard, actually a secret fleet of them was spirited away and is hidden somewhere (Box Tunnel is the favoured site*) to be resurrected for use in time of war when imported diesel dries up and electricity can't be generated and/or distributed for new-fangled engines - a tale I've heard from several railway folk over the years. And of course, we mustn't forget tales of "the maniac on the platform"... *There are extra underground workings in the hill through which the tunnel is driven, they were originally a quarry and later used for Luftwaffe-proof ammunition train storage in WW2, so surviving subterranean tracks are feasible. The place is weird anyway - it's so aligned by the designer, I K Brunel, that the rising sun shines through it on his birthday... More from the Vault Scrapbook of the SinisterNick Roberts, Tube staff have got the 'Whitechapel Willies!' , East End Advertiser, July 23rd 1998.
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Post by helrunar on Nov 15, 2020 16:54:52 GMT
Whitechapel willies eh... I'm sure you know right where my reptile brain went with that one!
Great clippings! You find the best stuff, Kev!
cheers, Steve
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Post by helrunar on Nov 15, 2020 16:59:31 GMT
It was also said that if you played a certain track on the disc backwards, you'd hear somebody saying the words "Paul is dead" over and over again in the background. Creepy! There's a reference to it in Satan Wants Me, which is set in 1967:
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Post by dem bones on Nov 16, 2020 6:37:10 GMT
Whitechapel willies eh... I'm sure you know right where my reptile brain went with that one! Great clippings! I chanced on a folder stuffed with them during recent excavation work on the spare room. Have been compiling them into scrapbooks. Vol 1 is really good! Tube tale back to haunt us, East End Advertiser, July 30th 1998 The Advertiser ran a brief second report on the Whitechapel phenomena before the editor received a visit from three unblinking, perma-smiling suits - one of whom bore a striking resemblance to the lead vocalist in Destiny's Child - who cordially suggested he might like to consider "putting the story to bed." What were so keen for us not to find out? At the time, the station superintendent told me he'd not seen the ghost, but should that change, he'd mention I'd asked after it. #NewWorldOrder #Bouncy #BeckyWithTheGoodHair #illuminati #KnightsTemplar #WhitechapelSecretSocietyClub #daeDsIluaP
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Post by Shrink Proof on Nov 16, 2020 8:21:36 GMT
The postie in the second newspaper clipping has probably cracked the case of the phantom train noises and footsteps at Whitechapel, Dem. Amazingly, the Post Office built and operated a driverless narrow guage underground railway right across (or should that be under?) London, over 6 miles from Paddington in the west to Whitechapel in the east, carrying nothing but letters and parcels. This incredible thing was completely automated and ran continuously from the 1920s. One neat feature was that the tracks were deep underground between the stations, but rose steeply to the stations (inside sorting offices) which were much closer to the surface, dropping again for the next section and so on. This helped the automatic deceleration approaching a stop and acceleration when moving on to the next station, and also meant that the mail didn't need to be lifted so far back to the surface at each point. Unlike the full size London Underground, it operated right round the clock. At various points it ran very close to the Underground so passengers could hear the narrow guage mail trains and the postal workers in the tunnel next door - spooky.
Closure came in 2003 when management decided that sending dozens of noisy, polluting trucks through the London streets all night long would be a better option...
Some of the mail trains are now in railway museums. Even better, a short section of the railway has been reopened to visitors as a working museum. You can ride in tiny converted carriages that used to be stuffed full of mail sacks for a short run, if you're so inclined.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Nov 16, 2020 10:09:19 GMT
Whitechapel willies eh... I'm sure you know right where my reptile brain went with that one! Great clippings! I chanced on a folder stuffed with them during recent excavation work on the spare room. Have been compiling them into scrapbooks. Vol 1 is really good! Tube tale back to haunt us, East End Advertiser, July 30th 1998 The Advertiser ran a brief second report on the Whitechapel phenomena before the editor received a visit from three unblinking, perma-smiling suits - one of whom bore a striking resemblance to the lead vocalist in Destiny's Child - who cordially suggested he might like to consider "putting the story to bed." What were so keen for us not to find out? At the time, the station superintendent told me he'd not seen the ghost, but should that change, he'd mention I'd asked after it. #NewWorldOrder #Bouncy #BeckyWithTheGoodHair #illuminati #KnightsTemplar #WhitechapelSecretSocietyClub #daeDsIluaP Fascinating stuff. Eerie ghost trains underground mixed in with the slow decline of common sense.
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