The dragon and the disc: An investigation into the totally fantastic,

Science & Math

Holiday, F. W.

Nature & Ecology

Sidgwick and Jackson

The Great Orm of Loch Ness: A Practical Inquiry into the Nature and Habits of Water-Monsters

Reviews the mystery of the Loch Ness monster and presents a plausible explanation

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A provocative answer to the ancient question: Is the Loch Ness monster fact or fantasy? Just below the surface, I then made out a shape. It was thick in the middle and tapered towards the extremities. It was a sort of blackish-grey in colour. To demonstrate that it was no trick of light-defraction, it moved steadily from one side of the leat to the other and then back again. When a chance puff of wind touched the surface it disappeared in a maze of ripples but when the water stilled it was always there. Its size―judging from the width of the leat―was between 40 and 45 feet long. No details were visible nor did any portion of it again break surface. It was simply an elongated shape of large size moving purposefully to and fro at the edge of deep water. ―F. W. Holiday, The Great Orm of Loch Ness

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

W.W.Norton&Company

Creatures from the Inner Sphere

Popular Library

THE GREAT ORM OF LOCH NESS - A Practical Inquiry into the Nature and Habits of Water - Monsters

Faber&Faber

From St. George to Tolkien's Hobbit, in the land of faeries and the fathomless depths of Loch Ness, ravaging the countryside or guarding fabulous treasure, dragons have exercised a perennial fascination over human imagination. This is a myth rivaled only by that of Bigfoot, the flying saucer, and the ghost. In prehistoric times, men painted symbols on cave walls that looked remarkably like flying saucer. They also drew forms that look a lot like dragons or "Mothman." F.W. Holiday, author of "The Goblin Universe," "The Dyfed Enigma," and "The Great Orm of Loch Ness," now suggests that dragons and flying saucers are in fact connected, and constitute twin symbols of man's earliest religion. "The Dragon and the Disc," brilliantly and convincingly argued, links the winged dragons of mythology with the Altamira frescoes, the Loch Ness monster, early Christian art, and modern UFO abductions, thus constituting a remarkable challenge to the inconsistencies of superstition and the limitations of science. "Brilliant..." -John A. Keel, author of "The Mothman Prophecies"

The Dragon and the Disc: An Investigation Into the Totally Fantastic

Futura

The Goblin Universe

Are paranormal events real, or are they only a figment of our imagination?  Ted Holiday addresses this issue with some startling revelations. In "The Goblin Universe" is found the world of the mind - the greater universe. This is the place of psychic phenomena, prophecies, ghosts, poltergeists, UFOs, the Men in Black, dragons, Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster.  This amazing world is explored through Ted Holiday's personal experiences and his search for a unified theory of the paranormal. As Colin Wilson points out in the introduction, we must use our intuition, as Holiday did, in order to "see" into the goblin universe - the realm of unexplained illusions.  "The Goblin Universe" examines a wide range of fascination "occult" phenomena, and explores the technologies we may use to expand our native psi abilities.  In what sense is this a "real" world? Ted Holiday spent the greater part of his life investigating such things, and gained valuable first-hand experience of natural phenomena, which enabled him to develop groundbreaking ideas about what they really are.  Throughout history, mankind has been confronted by things that just do not fit with conventional notions of reality, yet scientists have completely failed to come to grips with the mass of evidence that has emerged. Here, at last, is a reasoned argument that offers a new way of thinking about phenomena - the foundations of a new science.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

"The Dyfed Enigma" represents a history of some of the more dramatic manifestations of ufological activity that occurred in West Wales between 1974 and 1977.  The skeptic and the cynic will doubtless dismiss these case histories as products of the imagination, hallucinations, mental aberrations, or downright hoaxes. But the authors and the many witnesses interviewed know otherwise, for the bizarre events described in this book actually happened, and involved normal, sane, down-to-earth country people:  -A 17-year-old youth takes a punch at a silvery-suited monster which suddenly appears before him.  -An 11-year-old boy is chased by a robot-like figure.  -For almost an hour, a retired civil servant watches a silver, egg-shaped object hover over a house, accompanied by the grotesque figure of a man hanging motionless in space twenty feet above him.  -A farmer’s wife is chased in her car by a "flying football" for over a mile.  -Fourteen schoolchildren view a UFO that landed near their school.  How does one explain the weird effects that UFOs have on animals, and in what way does the ancient history and folklore of the region contribute to this strange drama?   "The Dyfed Enigma" considers questions such as these, and discusses the implications of the sightings in precise, clinical detail. Scientifically speaking, the events described are an impossibility, since they cannot be scientifically explained. But they did occur. And they are frightening. And they could happen to you.  The authors have presented the facts as they know them. They leave the interpretation of them to the reader.  Randall Jones Pugh, son of a village schoolmaster, was born at Haverfordwest in 1915. On leaving grammar school, he served four years in the RAF during World War II, before qualifying at Glasgow University as a veterinary surgeon. He has had numerous articles published in both farming and veterinary journals, and he became interested in the investigation of UFOs largely through the involvement of domestic animals.  F.W. Holiday was born at Stockport in 1921, and educated in Canada and at the Halton RAF School. He was a columnist for The Western Mail for 15 years, and published eight books, as well as short stories and articles on wildlife subjects. His interest in UFOs began in 1966, when he watched a low-level UFO in Dyfed through binoculars. Until his death in February 1979, he believed that there is convincing evidence, such as UFOs, for paranormal levels of existence.

The Dyfed Enigma: Unidentified Objects in West Wales

Pugh, Randall Jones

F. W. Holiday's lifelong "investigatins of the fantastic" left him with two stunning conclusions. First, there is strong hard evidence that the Loch Ness Monster and its Irish and English counterparts do in fact exist. Secondly, man's oldest religious beliefs make heavy use of not only the monster phenomena (the earth dragons) but also UFO phenomena (the sky serpents). Serpents of the Sky, Dragons of the Earth presents verbally and photographically his documentation of the fascinating intermarriage of both phenomenal fields.

Serpents of the Sky, Dragons of the Earth

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Horus House Pr

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