the black sun

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Wilhelm Friedrich Mader, Wunderwelten (Wonder Worlds), 1911.

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In 1942, Hans Hartmann's Über Krankheit, Tod und Jenseitsvorstellungen in Irland. Erster Teil: Krankheit und Fairyentrückung was published by Max Niemeyer Verlag, as issue 9 of the Schrif...

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More than a century ago, on of the first science fiction series ever appeared in Germany. Entitled Der Luftpirat und sein Lenkbares Luftschiff (The Air Pirate And His Dirigible Airship), it feat...

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The history of early German space flight and rocket development is complex, puzzling and riddled with unexpected esoteric influences. Then there is the strong yearning to return to a mythical f...

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In 1917, a book with strange and uncanny tales that bore the remarkable title Lemuria was published in Germany. The horrible blackness and the almost pathological nature of its haunting illustr...

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Otto Sigfrid Reuter has obtained in recent years the dubious sobriquet of, together with Hermann Wirth, the founding father of Nazi Archaelogy. Reuter (1876 - 1945) was a staunch Ariosophist ...

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While the Third Reich made sure to eradicate the bewildering maze of occult orders, esoteric societies and Volkische movements the minute it came into power, it strangely left that other field ...

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Mars has held the fascination of mankind since times immemorial. Starting in the early 19th century many books were written about travels to Mars, or Martians travelling to earth, the most f...

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A beautiful museum was erected in Slovenia to preserve and honor the work of early space pioneer Herman Potočnik (pseudonym: Noordung). In 1925, a chronically ill and impoverished enginee...

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The first issue of Weird Tales, March, 1923. It is often claimed that the first magazines devoted to science fiction and the fantastic orginated in the United states and exerted their influe...

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Recent years have seen the emergence of a rumour that float around the internet like moths to a flame about a crashed UFO in the Black Forrest in 1936 which was spirited away to the dark heart ...

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In the relatively modern variant of the Vril Society saga, it is claimed that, amongst others, in 1944 a huge, 139 meter long cylindrical mothership called the Andromeda-Gerat (depicted on t...

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In their article Re-engineering the Ark which was published in Fortean Times 207 , authors Michael Blackburn and Mark Bennett speculate on the Ark as being a source of electrical energy. This ...

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