C.R. Berry

  • A little bit of spring-cleaning

    Hello readers! Those of you who follow me on Twitter and Facebook will have seen that I’ve been busily writing new pages for the website. These are category pages which appear in the menu and relate to the various subjects that I write about. I thought it would make it easier for people to find… Read more

  • The truth about Loch Ness – time travel and the Taos Hum

    Loch Ness in Scotland is a hotbed of intrigue, mostly because of copious alleged sightings of the Loch Ness Monster, affectionately dubbed ‘Nessie’. A little further investigation reveals that Loch Ness has also played host to poltergeists, the famous Taos Hum, birds going berserk and time travel. So just what is going on at Loch… Read more

  • The most mysterious body ever found… the Atacama Alien

    In 2003, a skeleton was discovered near an abandoned church in the deserted town of La Noria, in the Atacama Desert in Chile. It had a vaguely human shape, except for having 10 ribs instead of 12, an abnormally large and pointed head, and being only 6 inches in length. Many suspected that the Atacama… Read more

  • Roswell – so it was a cover-up all along

    When something crashed at Roswell in 1947, the US military told the media that it was a “harmless, high-altitude weather balloon.” It was revealed decades later that in fact this was a lie, and that the government did engineer a cover-up at Roswell after all… Project Mogul – the truth? In 1947 rancher William ‘Mac’… Read more

  • Serbians, corrupt footballers or the BBC – who killed Jill Dando?

    It was a sad and shocking day on 26th April 1999 when Jill Dando, newsreader and presenter of BBC TV series Crimewatch and Holiday, was shot dead outside her home. After Barry George was convicted of her murder, we all thought the case was solved. Then he was acquitted on appeal. So the question is,… Read more

  • The Death of Edward II – natural causes, suffocation or a red-hot poker up the bum?

    The death of King Edward II during his imprisonment at Berkeley Castle in 1327 is shrouded in mystery. Nobody knows for certain whether he died of natural causes, was murdered on the orders of his wife, or in fact swapped his clothes with a servant and escaped… It’s an understatement to say that Edward II… Read more

  • LA’s most dangerous hotel and the gruesome case of Elisa Lam

    On February 19th 2013, 21-year-old Canadian student Elisa Lam was found dead and decomposing in a water tank at the Cecil Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. Theories as to how she got there range from mental illness to murder to demonic possession… I’ve heard that Downtown LA has a bit of a bad rep. I… Read more

  • Did time travellers land in Rendlesham Forest in 1980?

    In December 1980, aliens allegedly landed in Rendlesham Forest, England in a triangular spacecraft. Where did these aliens come from? One of the witnesses, Sergeant Jim Penniston, has the answer. Earth. Because they weren’t aliens at all. They were us. Two famous alleged encounters with UFOs in Britain have been dubbed the ‘British Roswell’. The… Read more

  • The world’s horniest animals – a science experiment gone wrong?

    In 2009, when I was on holiday in Walt Disney World in Florida with my friend, the two of us encountered possibly the most bizarre species of flying insect ever. Then someone told us that they’re not natural. They’re the result of a science experiment gone wrong… During our two week holiday in Disney World,… Read more

  • “Rachel Can See” becomes the first Million Eyes short story to be longlisted

    One of the completed Million Eyes short stories, entitled Rachel Can See, has been longlisted in the annual InkTears short story competition. Whether it will be shortlisted and eventually published remains to be seen, but it means Rachel Can See is getting a little bit closer to publication. Without giving too much away, this is a conspiracy story… Read more

  • Roswell – witness intimidation, suspicious deaths and Majestic-12

    The last article I wrote about the Roswell UFO Incident assessed the claims that alien bodies were recovered from the crash sites. Now I’m looking closer at why people believe there was a government cover-up… The Ragsdale burglary and the death of Trudy Truelove Remember Jim Ragsdale? He’s the one who said that he and his girlfriend,… Read more

  • Movie Review – Capricorn One (1978)

    My extra blog for this week looks at the 1978 film by director Peter Hyams and starring Elliott Gould, Capricorn One. Spoilers ahead! Capricorn One is a government conspiracy thriller based on an idea that the Apollo moon landings were faked, which I explored in a blog a couple of weeks ago. In this case,… Read more