phantom Issue 2: April 2011 Quarterly Edition encounters Neil Arnold takes a look at some of the lesser known inhabitants of South-East England. Ask yourself, ‘How dead...is dead? It s a plucking mystery! Author Neil Arnold looks at the mysterious avian spectres of London Phantom Birds Jason Day takes an in-depth look at the ghosts of The Comedy Store Inexplicable Tales Mike Hallowell joins the team The last laugh ZOMBIE INVASION Higher education Who was Arthur Findlay? Jason Day find out!! Black stick men Threat? Mystery? Fiend? Sara Kettley finds out more! PLUS: Sarc-astrology The Witch’s Kitchen Book Reviews And much, much more...
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phantom Issue 2: April 2011
Quarterly Edition encounters
Neil Arnold takes a look at some of the lesser
known inhabitants of South-East England.
Ask yourself, ‘How dead...is dead?
It’s a plucking mystery! Author Neil Arnold looks at the
mysterious avian spectres of London
Phantom Birds
Jason Day takes an in-depth look at
the ghosts of The Comedy Store
Inexplicable Tales Mike Hallowell joins the team
The last laugh
ZOMBIE INVASION Higher education
Who was Arthur Findlay?
Jason Day find out!!
Black stick men
Threat? Mystery? Fiend?
Sara Kettley finds out more!
PLUS: Sarc-astrology
The Witch’s Kitchen Book Reviews
And much, much more...
Returning to the airwaves
July 2011
The UK’s Best Loved & Most Successful Paranormal Radio Show
from Beyond: My Fort PaulL experience Phantom Encounters guest Hayley Grant takes you through
her emotional and enlightening experience on her first Fort
Paull event.~ Page 31
Issue 1: Oct-Dec 2010
Zombie Invasion– Neil Arnold takes a look at some of
the lesser known inhabitants of South-East England. Ask your-
self, ‗How dead...is dead?‘~ Page 33
Phantom BIRDS OF LONDON - Author & Zooform
specialist Neil Arnold investigates the strange legends and
curious tales of London‘s avian spooksters. ~ Page 7
Inside This Issue
encounters
Regular Features
Phantom Encounters event Listing Your first look at the latest locations and events
UFO Watch See what‘s creating a buzz in UFO circles
Book Reviews Add these to your Summer Reading List
We take a look at the latest Paranormal Book releases.
SARC-Astrology Your Spring Stars We take a light hearted look at your Spring Stars‘
Ghosts of the Comedy Store– Jason Day
takes an in-depth look at the not-so-funny side as he examines
the ghosts of The Comedy Store in Los Angeles. ~Page 19
Higher Education– Jason Day looks at the man be-
hind the largest spiritual education facility in the UK;
Arthur Findlay~ Page 38
Have something you think might fit our magazine?
Feel free to email the team for article submissions,
advertising or with any suggestions you have for next
Quarters articles!
From The Witch‘s Kitchen DO try this at home. Herbal fun from the Witch‘s Kitchen?
Black stick men– Sara Kettley reports on the odd
phenomena of Black Stick Men~ Page 27
UFO‘s: Objects of mystery– Tim Jones looks
at the mysterious nature of Ufo sightings ~ Page 17
Inexplicable Tales Mike Hallowell takes a look at the weird and wonderful
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Screams of Laughter The Ghosts of The Comedy Store
Jason Day takes a look at the ghosts and spectres ruling one of the USA’s happiest places.
When all is said and done...who is having the last laugh?
For many of us watching a performance by a stand up comedian
is highly entertaining and very amusing. Some people would
even go as far as to say ‗that was a scream‘. So it stands to reason
that employees and visitors to the world famous Comedy Store in
Hollywood, USA should expect every day to be a scream.
According to some of those involved there have been many a
scream at the Comedy Store, but not all of them have been
caused by amusing anecdotes. Some of the screams have come
from the terrified witnesses who have encountered the ghostly
spirits that are said to dwell within the building alongside their
earthly counterparts. Apparently the greatest performances take
place at the Comedy Store long after the stage lights have gone
down and there‘s barely a living soul left in the building.
The Comedy Store is a comedy club located on Sunset
Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, USA. The building began life in 1939 as a nightclub called Ciro‘s. The club was the
conception of publisher Billy Wilkerson. Wilkerson owned a
string of nightclubs on the Boulevard and before long Ciro‘s
began attracting the elite of Hollywood clientele. During its
golden age in the late 1940‘s and into the 1950‘s the club became
the playground of movie stars such as Cary Grant, Humphrey
Bogart, Bette Davis, Tyrone Power and Lucille Ball. Regulars
making appearances on stage at Ciro‘s included Dean Martin,
Nat King Cole and Sammy Davis Jr. As the place became Holly-wood‘s number one hotspot, celebrities were not the only people
attracted to the club at the time it would seem. Author Laurie
Jackson explained:
―Ciro‘s was the most popular nightclub in Hollywood and when a
nightclub is that popular the mob is often involved.‖
Mickey Cohen was the most notorious of the club‘s gangland
regulars and it was during this period that the management at
Ciro‘s was said to be more than a little controlled by the mob. It
has long been rumoured that a few unfortunate souls that had had
a run in with ‗the management‘ came to a sticky end in the base-ment of the club.
As the 1960‘s rolled around Ciro‘s became a rock and roll club
and bands such as the Byrds were discovered at the club in 1964.
Screams of Laughter The Ghosts of The Comedy Store
The Comedy Club opened its doors in April 1972. Comedians
Sammy Shore and Rudy DeLuca ran the show at Ciro‘s and
eventually the last owner of Ciro‘s, Frank Sennes sold the
building to them in 1976. Sammy Shore‘s ex-wife Mitzi Shore
later gained ownership of the club in a divorce settlement. In 2005 Sammy Shore‘s son Paul Shore took control of the Comedy
Store and attempted to revitalise it to its former glory. During the
Comedy Store‘s 37 year history the club has played host to co-
medians such as Richard Pryor, Andy Kaufman, Jim Carrey,
Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy, Whoopi Goldberg and many
more illustrious names. According to many witnesses the Com-
edy Store has been haunted for decades by the former residents
and visitors from the ‗old days‘ of Ciro‘s.
Former employee of the Comedy Store and author Laurie
Jacobson recalled her time at the club:
―This place is haunted from the basement to the rafters. When I
was a waitress here waitresses would have to set up the show-
room, put tablecloths on tables and put an ashtray on every ta-
ble...we would set up an hour before the customers were due to
arrive. On occasion girls would set up the room, leave for a mo-
ment, come back and everything would be put back. The table-
cloths would be refolded and put back and the ashtrays would be
stacked. We all knew exactly what we were dealing with here.
What was happening in those rooms, with those tables being set
and then unset, was being done by ghosts.‖
The waitresses at the club were not the only ones to witness
paranormal phenomena; comedian Joey Gaynor encountered his
fair share of unexplained encounters during his time there. Joey
began his career as a doorman at the Comedy Store and as a con-
sequence, most evenings he would be the last person to leave the
building. It was on one of these occasions that Joey had one of
his first experiences of the ghostly activity that occurred within
the club's walls. Joey explained:
―It was about 3 o'clock in the morning and everybody had left the
building. I went to get my coat and there were two candles lit on
the table. I blew them out, turned around, and they were lit again. I went back over to the table and I thought 'man'. I blew them out
again; I thought maybe I hadn't blown them out properly the first
time. I started to go down the stairs and it was freezing all of a
sudden. I turned around and the candles were lit again. So I said
'ok, stay lit' and I split. I didn't want to hang around and find out
why. It wasn't a figment of my imagination, I wasn't drunk, I
wasn't high, I didn't get hit in the head with something. It's easy
to know once you've seen it, you believe it.‖
This was to be one of many pranks the spirits of the club were
to play on Joey during his late night routines.
―One night I was going to shut the lights down in the building.
It takes four to five seconds tops.‖
„This place is haunted from the basement
to the rafters..‟
Joey went across the stage, behind the curtain and switched off
the lights. As he came back from behind the curtains, an
unnerving sight greeted him as he stood on the stage. Joey
recalled:
―I walked back out and there were all these chairs just piled in
the middle of the isle. I never heard anything; nobody could have
come in and done that in five seconds. Even if it had been ten
seconds, if you can stack eight to ten chairs in that amount of
time you should be in Vegas, because that is pretty amazing.‖
Another doorman at the club was having similar encounters
with the disembodied jokers around the same time that Joey
Gaynor was. Blake Clark, who has gone on to guest star in such
American television sitcoms as 'Boy Meets World', 'Home Im-
provement' and 'My Name Is Earl', was also working as a door-
man at the Comedy Store whilst starting his career as a comedian.
One of Blake's first experiences, like Joey's, happened when he
was checking the main room for 'stragglers' after the club had
closed. Blake explained:
―I was coming in to lock up the main room and I heard a noise.‖
As Blake walked through the tables his attention was drawn to
the stage and the noise coming from that area. To his amazement
he discovered the noise was being caused by a stool moving around the stage of its own accord.
―It was moving like somebody was just dragging it across the
stage except there was no-one there. I'm not a scientist, but it
wasn't an earthquake, it wasn't wind, it wasn't a person, it was
some supernatural or as yet unexplained force.‖
Seeing the chair slide twenty feet across the stage as if guided
by an unseen spirit was enough for Clark, an ex-Marine, to make
a hasty exit.
Soon Blake Clark and Joey Gaynor were to begin witnessing the paranormal phenomena at the Comedy Store collectively. The
first instance of this took place whilst they were moving chairs in
the main room one night. Blake and Joey were discussing the
misadventures with the supernatural that they had both had at the
club when Joey challenged the ghosts to show themselves.
All of a sudden an ashtray began to levitate in front of them and
hover for a second or two. The ashtray then shot across the room
toward Joey and narrowly missed hitting him before thudding
against the wall and falling to the ground. Blake Clark recalled: ―I saw this ashtray just go across the room and burst onto the wall. So Joey said 'did you throw that at me?' and I said no it
came from over there.‖
Joey Gaynor added:
Screams of Laughter The Ghosts of The Comedy Store
―It was like 'zoom'. To see it come up and take off is what was
scary.‖
This wasn't to be the last time the spirits actions changed from
almost benign pranks to malevolent attacks. Blake Clark seemed to receive a warning in a later encounter, which was also wit-
nessed by another co-worker. One evening, whilst locking the
building up with a colleague, Blake heard a 'growl' coming from
the basement. As the men walked down the corridor to confront
whoever or whatever was making the noise they were met by an
incredible sight. The basement was locked shut with a metal gate
and it appeared that an unseen force was trying to push the gate
open. The gate was 'pulsating' and almost bending into the
corridor. Blake Clark described the event:
―We looked back and saw the gate and it just started bending out
into the hallway, making a creaking noise. As I was looking at it I thought, this is certainly approaching the boundaries of physical
possibility, that something can do that.‖
Author Laurie Jackson has her own theory as to what was behind
the gate of the basement that night:
―Most of the ghosts at the Comedy Store are not dangerous at all,
however there is something in the basement that is very terrifying
and you'll have a hard time convincing people to go down there,
at least alone.‖
Frustrated by their numerous encounters with the restless spirits
within the club, Blake Clarke and Joey Gaynor decided to brave
an after hours foray into the clutter of the Comedy Store base-
ment in search of answers. As the men rummaged amongst the
clutter on the shelving units a dark figure materialised in the mid-
dle of the basement and floated in front of them. Joey Gaynor
said:
―It had no features, no features at all it just moved and started to
snake upwards and down towards us.‖
Joey and Blake stood in frightened awe. Joey kept asking the figure what it wanted. The figure just continued to float in front
of them before suddenly flying past the men. Joey and Blake took
their opportunity and sprinted up the stairs and out of the cellar.
Blake Clarke said:
―Spirit, demon, whatever. Whatever was down there in that base-
ment just didn't like us.‖
Performers at the Comedy Store were also antagonised by the
entity or entities that resided at the club. Comedian Sam Kinison
was routinely plagued by lighting and audio malfunctions during
his routines on the clubs stage. Kinison once even battled an in-creasingly loud, disembodied buzzing with his trademark scream
during a performance. Witnesses claim to have heard voices
chanting 'it's him' within the buzzing noise. Kinison finally chal-
lenged the ghostly tormentors to show themselves one night and
the room fell into complete darkness
„“Spirit, demon, whatever. Whatever was down there in
that basement just didn't like us.”
Who are the ghosts of the Comedy Store? There are at least two
encounters with the spirits that frequent the building that may be
able to shed some light on the dark happenings within its walls.
One afternoon, whilst at the club, Blake Clark sensed that some-body was watching him. From the corner of his eye he saw a man
in a brown leather bomber jacket standing just off to his side.
When Blake turned to face the man, the man became transparent
and faded away. The apparition was witnessed later the same day
cowering in the third floor office of a female assistant before
vanishing again.
When Clark and the woman compared details of what they had
seen they were convinced they had both seen the same man.
Another daylight sighting also helped employees at the Comedy
Store to draw some conclusions as to what was behind the haunting. Michael Becker, a former Vice President of the Com-
edy Store, claimed to have encountered a phantom during an
important telephone call. Becker was in his office when another
member of staff at the club was using his telephone. Needing to
make an important call, Becker walked outside to use the
telephone that was situated just outside of his office. As he stood
there talking a ghostly figure walked past him and into the office.
Becker recalled:
―As I was standing there I saw someone in kind of a 1940's jacket
walk right into my office. There was nobody there except the guy that was on the phone originally, and to top it off the guy that
was on the phone didn't see anything. So it was not a guy but it
was something that walked into my office. I was always sceptical
because we are talking about comedians telling stories. However,
I did see it, there's no doubt about it in my mind.‖
Some believe that the spirits who haunt the Comedy Store were
victims left over from the old days of Ciro's and the mafia ran
club that it was in the 1940's. This theory was born out to some
extent when a team of parapsychologists from UCLA were in-
vited to investigate the club in 1982. One of the psychic members
of the group felt a sense of searing psychic pain whilst in the basement and traced the experience back 'psychically' to the
1940's.
Michael Becker thinks that there may be something to the UCLA
team's findings:
―It kind of all fits together that something happened back in the
forties, perhaps because it's never like a hippy looking guy, or it's
never somebody from the eighties or something like that. The
clothing is always forties, every time I've ever heard a story.‖
Screams of Laughter The Ghosts of The Comedy Store
The more sceptical amongst us may think that the former 'mob'
connection to the club and subsequent explanation for the haunt-
ing may seem a little too convenient. There was however another
incident that lends weight to this theory. In 1994 a local news
crew were filming a television segment at the Comedy Store. One of the original UCLA investigators from 1982 was present at
the filming. The investigator noticed a group of three men in
1940's clothing, complete with wide lapelled suits, who were
watching the news crews‘ activities intensely. When the parapsy-
chologist approached the men they simply vanished. Dr Barry
Taff, the witness to this event commented:
―Once you rule out all the prosaic explanations such as a hoax, a
fraud, misinterpretation of natural events…you are left with
something that is totally inexplicable in terms of modern sci-
ence.‖
It would seem the paranormal activities at the Comedy Club
have even turned some of the most hardened sceptics into ardent
believers. Blake Clark stated:
―I was a person who did not believe in ghosts. Absolutely,
unequivocally, undeniably, did not believe in any sort of
paranormal manifestation…until I started working at the Comedy
Store.‖
So far author Laurie Jacobson has documented more than fifty
unexplained events during her research into the alleged paranor-mal activity at the Comedy Store. Perhaps, in the case of this
venue, the saying ‗life‘s a scream‘ could also extend to ‗the
afterlife‘s a scream‘ too.
Jason Day is a Director of Phantom Encounters Ltd & your host on Phantom Encounters events. Jason is also a prolific
author with three paranormally focussed books in print,
two more in production & a further three commissioned!
Jason has written for magazines internationally, with his work appearing in FATE, Paranormal Magazine and
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New to Phantom Encounters Quarterly Edition this month is The Witch’s Kitchen column, headed by
our ‘really trying to be good but ever so slightly failing’ resident witch Prudence Snarkington.
Brightest Blessings to you all and welcome to my first column in Phantom Encounters Quarterly Edition.
I thought we‘d start off easily this time, bearing in mind that some of you are non-magickal folk and therefore utterly useless with a wand.
Unlike some potions masters at a certain prestigious school of magic (who shall remain nameless—guess who, don‘t sue!)
we shall be focussing on low budget, family friendly recipes for you all to enjoy.
There will be no exams and at no point will I be purring at you to ‘...turn to page 394.’
Now, without further ado, take out your Size 2 pewter cauldron and let‘s begin...
Recipe for Bath Bombs
1 cup bicarbonate of soda
½ cup citric acid
20 drops essential oils
1. Mix the bicarbonate of soda and the citric acid together
in a bowl, make sure you get rid of any lumps.
2. If you are adding colourings, clay, carrier oils, cocoa
butter, or dried herbs or flowers add these now and mix
again thoroughly.
3. Add your essential oils and mix again thoroughly
4. Press mixture into muffin tins/moulds be as firm as pos-
sible.
5. Leave overnight then remove from the tins and place on a
hard surface for another day until the bath bombs are hard.
A couple of combinations to try:
* Vanilla and Sandalwood
* Lavender and Geranium
* Rose and Ylang Ylang
Try not to make your bath bombs too brightly coloured; it‘s
murder on your bath tub and can stain delicate porcelain.
Less is more...and plain, is GOOD!
WARNING: Under no circumstances should you use essential oils if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
Although using naturally derived ingredients ALWAYS conduct a ‗spot test‘ for allergic reactions before using any new product.
In the case of an allergic reaction, seek medical advice immediately.
Summer Heaven Sugar Scrub
If you‘ve ever been on a Spa retreat then you‘ll be familiar
with the heavenly softness that a decent exfoliation can bring to tired, Winter stressed skin. So, fresh from the Witch‘s Kitchen,
here is the recipe for a sugar scrub to banish the winter skin
blues!
1 cup of white sugar
½ cup olive oil
5 drops essential oil or scent of your choice.
Kilner Jar to store your scrub in.
Mix the sugar and oil together until they form a paste. Add your essential oil/fragrance.
And you‘re done!
To Use: Wet body in shower/bath
Rub sugar scrub into the skin,
Wash off.
Scrub will last about a week in the jar, take my advice, make
small amounts and use as necessary.
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months for you, well join the queue! Really, you are fast becoming the poster child for the astrological equivalent of
an ASBO! When things don‘t go your way stop stamping
your little whiney lamby foot and just get on with it. Alter-natively you could just run back to Mummy and hope she
fixes it all.
Taurus: Try to overcome that bull headedness and
accept the drastic change that this season brings. Because
you‘re organised people (wrongly) assume you‘re available
and make massive demands on your time; if you can‘t say
‗No‘ then the smart thing to do is blackmail a Virgo into
sharing the workload – they‘ll just think you‘re being
friendly!
Gemini: Thinking about a career change Gemini?
It‘s a time of restless energy and feeling dissatisfied with
your lot in life so do something useful with it. Turn your
love of gossip, subterfuge and dressing like a tart into a new career as a Private Detective or join MI6. That way
when you walk into a room looking mysterious and slightly
dodgy there will at least (finally) be a reason for it!
Cancer: It‘s called Spring for a reason; so instead
of moping around in bed moaning about how crap your life
is, how about dragging your arse out of bed and doing something constructive...like cleaning! Strictly speaking
mould spores are not ‗house plants‘ and no matter how
virulent the strain Staphylococcus can not be called a pet! Get scrubbing.
A sarcastic look at Your SPRING stars
Leo: Newsflash Leo: no one cares what you‘re going
to be doing in Benidorm in three months time. In fact, if they could club together the money, most people who know
you would pay to have you permanently exported to Spain!
As much as you think people love to bask in the rays of your Day-Glo orange tan and miasma of Britney Spears
latest perfumic monstrosity, most people are counting the
days until you leave so they can enjoy a few blissful weeks
of Leo-Free silencio!
Virgo: Well, well, well aren‘t you an cranky little
camper this month? You know, nothing gives the rest of
the Zodiac quite as much pleasure as watching Virgo‘s
trying to get used to the change in Daylight Savings. Twice a year we get to watch as you run late, arrive early and
exhibit a level of dishevelment that would make a Pisces
proud. Thanks for cheering us up Virgo.
Libra: What to do, what to do? Having another crisis
are we Libra? How delightfully predictable. I‘d love to
think that your crisis involved something ‗substantial‘ like
how to fix world hunger, clothe Tsunami victims or prevent disease but it is far more likely to involved clothing,
perfume, shoes or a combination of all of them. Solution?
Go naked and give us all a laugh!
Scorpio: A Scorpio on the hunt for a new job is one
to be wary of indeed. Try and avoid occupations where
making people cry is a ‗bad thing‘ like care homes, funeral
directors, orphanages etc. On the upside, your fab Scorpio social skills uniquely qualify you for work as a prison
guard, S&M dungeon master and a reporter for the Daily
Mail.
There was an overwhelming response to our Christmas Stars feature, with many of our
readers asking us if it was going to become a regular feature of the magazine?
We are delighted to announce that our resident part-time astrologer/ full-time smartarse has
consented to provide astrological pearls of wisdom to the masses in every issue…
You have been warned!
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Sagittarius: There is a difference between honesty and ‗truth‘. Truth is absolute, honesty requires tact to impart—
learning the difference between these two things is your Spring mission as it will save you from a bruising, meaning this year you are in with a shot at being able to wear short sleeves like the rest of us.
Capricorn: Hiding away in your study will not change the fact that Summer is on it‘s way. Time to throw open the
windows, grab the paint tins and make your home look respectable. Just a tip: If the paint in the can is solid, no amount of
thinner will sort it out; you‘ll just have to drag your wallet down to B&Q and buy some more. Feel free to moan about it, at length, to the person behind the paint counter and spare the rest of us your ‗When I was a lad paint only cost £2.00‘
speech ...please!!!
Aquarius: Ah Summer, the season when Airy types get to wear suitably ‗floaty‘ clothing, advertising their astrological
status to the world. This Summer, Aquarian‘s will either: A) Be found parading down the beach wearing nothing but strategi-
cally placed cheesecloth and eco-friendly sunscreen whilst advising beach donkey owners on the rights of their animals...or B) In the A&E department suffering from hypothermia and suspected beating by donkey owners.
Pisces: ‗Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swim, swim, swim, swim...just keep swimming‘. The wisdom of Dory
is not lost on you this season Pisces; it seems your battles are never ending. Well, when in doubt, do as Gwyneth does and
Yoga your way into a good mood. Remember, there is nothing a fat-free tofu ice cream can‘t fix...except maybe your obvious
Sarc-astrology A sarcastic look at Your Spring stars
These stars were compiled without the benefit of an ephemeris or any real astrological knowledge; although a large degree
of random personality typing was used.
Although it should be totally obvious, it must be stated that these stars are for entertainment purposes only
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