THE INTERNATIONAL FORTEAN ORGANIZATION (INFO)
Presents
FORTNITE '01
Grand Ballroom, College Park, Maryland Holiday
Inn
May 5 & 6, 2001
SATURDAY:
Lecture Program, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
- JOHN ANTHONY WEST , Keynote Speaker, internationally
acclaimed and Emmy Award winning (The Mystery of the
Sphinx documentary narrated by Charlton Heston) prolific
author and independent Egyptologist whose non-fiction works
include The Serpent in the Sky: The Case for High Wisdom
of Ancient Egypt and The Travelers Key to Egypt will
present the latest astounding discoveries from the Middle
East which provides further evidence for a highly
advanced lost civilization.
- PHILIP
IMBROGNO, author of Night Siege, Contact of the
Fifth Kind, and Celtic Mysteries in New England will
explore Contact Phenomena. His data documents his
investigation into non-human intelligence and includes
channeling, UFO abductions, alien contacts, psychic
phenomena and those who claim contact of a religious
nature..
- MICHAEL
GLICKMAN, a British former architect and professor,
is considered by many to be the world's leading authority
on Crop Circles. He has devoted the last eleven
years to the study and analysis of this most enigmatic
and beautiful of phenomena. This will be a
presentation/slide show ("The Pi Factor") like
no other; he brings a wide range of skills and
disciplines to bear on the subject, including Numerology
and Sacred Geometry. Though humorous, Michael's
presentation will engage some of the fundamental issues
of our time.
- JOHN
A. KEEL, the great Daddy-O of Forteana, prolific
writer (Jadoo, Operation Trojan Horse, Our Haunted
Planet, Strange Creatures from Time and Space, The
Mothman Prophecies, The Eighth Tower and Disneyland of
the Gods), columnist (Playboy, Fate, etc. ) and humorist
on "Mothman Out of Mothballs; Monsters &
Mania" -soon to be a major motion picture with
Richard Gere-get the inside scoop on this and other
Cryptozoological mysteries!
- TRACY
R. TWYMAN, Editor/Publisher of Dagoberts Revenge
Magazine (the mag that examines Judeo-Christian history,
conspiracy theories, the Holy Grail, the Knights Templar,
the occult and fringe science) with a slide show on
"The Secret of Rennes-le-Chateau and the Atlantean
Connection". Tracy, a writer/publisher/film
producer is a recognized expert on secret societies and
the occult. She will present the latest research from her
trip to France for the Fox Television program In Search
of Secret Societies and for her upcoming book on the
subject.
- DR. BRUCE MACCABBEE,
naval optical physicist of MUFON (Mutual UFO Network)and
the Fund for UFO Research (past president) will ask if
the U.S. Air Force thinks UFOs are real and will also
discuss his latest book, The UFO-FBI Connection. New,
not-to-be-missed information!
- DOUG SKINNER,
a frequent contributor to Fortean publications (The INFO
Journal, Fortean Times, Nickelodean, Fate, etc.),
examines the hot button of phenomena, religious miracles,
in his talk "The Miracle and the
Empirical". His focus will be on the
liquefaction of the blood of San Gennaro and the stigmata
of St. Francis.
Including:
Buffet Luncheon (12:30 PM) and the phenomenal
I-Would-Almost-Sell-My-Mother Sale of Books, Periodicals and
Tapes! Plus: Friday Night, May 4th at 8:00 p.m., The Ultimate
Connection, an informal networking party with Authors and Friends
in the Moosehead Lounge at the College Park Holiday Inn! Plus,
Saturday Night Gab Fest (what Charles Fort called "rocks to
strike with our suspicions") in the Moosehead Lounge
starting at 8:30 p.m.!
Sunday Bus
Tour of Weird Baltimore - 11:00 A.M - 5:00 P.M.
Join us for a knock-your-socks-off TOUR of
The Dime Museum and The American Visionary Art Museum. The
Dime Museum is in a 19th-century building stuffed with oddities
(unicorn, two-headed calf, mummified remains of an Amazon
giantess, the renown Feejee Mermaid, Samoan Sea Wurm, etc.) plus
other special exhibits including a complete 1934
Sideshow. The American Visionary Art Museum,
dedicated to works by self-taught "outsider" artists,
features kinetic sculptures and a new show, "Treasures of
the Soul". These are insider-behind the scenes tours
that will leave you breathless! *Lunch on your own when the
bus stops at the water side Food Court at the Inner Harbor.
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20th Century Chronicler of Strange Events
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