Does anybody know whether Anna Lykins Genzlinger is still alive? If so, could you please put me in touch with her? I would love to meet her. I’ve known Genzlinger for years as the author of a book entitled The Jessup Dimension, published in 1981 by Gray Barker’s “Saucerian Press.” It’s so rare … [Read more...]
The Philadelphia Experiment – “The Strange Case of Dr. M. K. Jessup”
He wasn’t really a doctor, although the bios on his book jackets hint misleadingly that he was. His full name was Morris Ketchum Jessup. He was born in Indiana in 1900; he died in 1959 in Coral Gables, Florida, an apparent suicide. Only one photograph, as far as I know, is extant. It shows a … [Read more...]
The Philadelphia Experiment – The Mysterious Señor Allende
“So what have I learned from my first day in the Barker archive?” I wrote in my diary on Tuesday evening, September 7, 2004. “That Carl Allen, far from being an elusive and mysterious figure (as I once fondly imagined), was a tedious and persistent lunatic who bombarded Gray Barker with tons of … [Read more...]
The Philadelphia Experiment – The “Allende Mystery”–Part 2
Part 1 of the “Allende Mystery,” described in my last post, is the strange series of letters which UFOlogist Morris K. Jessup received in 1956 from someone calling himself variously “Carlos Allende” and “Carl M. Allen.” The letters tell of what’s come to be known in American folklore as the … [Read more...]
The Philadelphia Experiment – The “Allende Mystery”
I first heard about the “Allende Mystery” in 1963, when my good friend Jerome Clark—whom to this day I’ve never met face to face—laid out the details for me in one of the multi-page letters the two of us exchanged as teen UFOlogists. It intrigued me from the beginning. I was 15 years old; Jerry … [Read more...]
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