Ian Freud - 'Knackers to you'
Joined on 12th December 2010
Lord Commander of the Scrolls and leader of the Knights Templar (Yorkshire West) and benign dictator of this site. I invented the harpsichord and was the first person in Europe to practice capoeira. In my spare time, I eat cheese and cultivate oysters.
Contributions
- Barghest
- Tom Leppard
- The Robert Taylor 'Livingston Incident'
- The Loch Ness Monster
- Spring Heeled Jack
- Stonehenge
- Avebury
- Rude Man of Cerne
- Peter Sutcliffe: The Yorkshire Ripper
- Jack The Ripper
- Cliffords Tower
- The Devils Arrows
- Mother Shipton
- Mary Bateman - The Yorkshire Witch
- Silbury Hill
- The Long Man of Wilmington
- The Lakenheath Bentwaters UFO Incident
- The Uffington White Horse
- Howley Hall
- Wharfedale Rise, Tingley
- Ardsley Old Hall
- The Surrey Puma
- Royal Earlswood Asylum
- Leavesden Mental Hospital
- The Preseli Hills
- The Black Lion, Brighton
- Broadmoor Hospital
- Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield
- Morag: The Beast of Loch Morar
- Bownessie
- Morgawr
- The Stronsay Beast
- Berwyn Mountain UFO Crash
- White Horse of Sutton Bank
- The Beast of Bungay
- John George Haigh: The Acid Bath Murderer
- The Rendlesham Forest Incident
- The Alan Godfrey Abduction
- The Ghosts of The Battle of Edgehill
- The Devil's Hoofprints
- The Sea monster of Soay
- The Gourock Carcass
- The Rollright Stones
- Castlerigg Stone Circle
- The Alton Barnes White Horse
- The Cherhill White Horse
- Bentwaters R.A.F. Base
- Catherine Eddowes
- Elizabeth Stride
- Mary Jane Kelly
- Annie Chapman
- Mary Ann 'Polly' Nichols
- Lakenheath RAF Base
- Wilma McCann
- Emily Jackson
- Irene Richardson
- Patricia Atkinson
- Jayne McDonald
- Jean Jordan
- Yvonne Pearson
- Helen Rytka
- Vera Millward
- Josephine Whittaker
- Barbara Leach
- Marguerite Walls
- Jacqueline Hill
- Urquhart Castle
- Loch Ness Monster Exhibition Centre, Drumnadrochit
- The Hugh Gray Loch Ness Photograph
- Outwood, Wakefield
- 79 Gloucester Road
- 2 Leopold Road, Crawley
- Olive Durand-Deacon
- 6 Garden Lane, Heaton
- Joseph Merrick: The Elephant Man
- The Royal London Hospital
- 50 Lee Street, Leicester
- The Cottingley Fairies
- Ian Brady and Myra Hindley: The Moors Murderers
- 16 Wardle Brook Avenue
- Bogus Social Worker in Caerau, Wales
- John Kilbride
- Lesley Ann Downey
- Pauline Reade
- William McGonagall
- Stephen Griffiths: The Crossbow Cannibal
- Ashworth Hospital
- Michael Ryan and The Hungerford Massacre
- Savernake Hospital
- Savernake Forest
- Froxfield Petrol Station
- John O Gaunt Community Technical College
- Gef the talking mongoose
- The Enfield Poltergeist
- Owlman
- Gareth Williams - Murdered MI6 Spy?
- The Ghost of Wem
- The Cupar Roe Deer Carcass
- Hindu Milk Drinking Statues
- Awd Nance: The Screaming Skull of Burton Agnes Hall
- Vishwa Temple, Southall
- Geeta Bhavan Temple, Manchester
- The Ravens of the Tower of London
- Asenby
- Thackray Medical Museum
- Timble Bridge, Marsh Lane, Leeds
- Fred and Rose West
- Wakefield Prison
- Jack the Ripper Suspects
- Martha Tabram
- The Humber Forts
- Fred Hoyle
- Prophet John Wroe
- East Bowling, Bradford
- Christine Carpenter: The Anchoress of Shere
- Raoul Moat
- Rothbury: Raoul Moat's Death
- The shooting of Samantha Stobbart and Chris Brown
- The shooting of PC David Rathband
- Robin Hood
- Robin Hood's Bay
- Wharram le Percy
- Julian of Norwich
- National Media Museum
- The Cragg Vale Coiners
- Clare Market
- The Sun Inn, Bradford
- The Old Cock Inn, Halifax
- The Ring of Brodgar
- St. Thomas-a-Beckett Church, Heptonstall
- Aaron Kosminski
- April Fool's Day
- The Halifax Slasher
- Lister Lane, Halifax
- Jasper Street, Halifax
- Elland Lane, Elland
- Bedford Street North, Halifax
- Green Lane, Halifax
- Crib Lane, Halifax
- Black Shuck
- The Beast of Bodmin
- Trewithen Gardens, Truro
- Spontaneous Human Combustion (SHC)
- Painting the Town Red: Melton Mowbray
- Winson Green Prison / HMP Birmingham
- HMP Low Newton
- Bickerton Cottage, Much Marcle, Herefordshire
- Lakeside Caravan Park, Bishop's Cleeve
- 25 Cromwell Street
- Shoes on a table are bad luck
- Saying 'Morning captain' to Magpies
- Tyburn
- The Mixenden Treasure
- Peaslake, Surrey
- Godalming Police Station's Surrey Puma footprint
- The Dangerous and Wild Animals Act 1976
- Secret Military Bases
- RAF Menwith Hill
- ECHELON Surveillance System
- The Beast of Stroud
- Woodchester Park Deer Killing
- Blue Spheres fall from the Bournemouth Sky
- The Surgeon's Photograph
- Mary Ann Cotton
- Clapham Common: Mary Stephens
- Beast of Stroud Caught on Video?
- Harewood Castle
- The Battle of Towton
- The Tunnel Rifle and Pistol Gun Club
- South View Hungerford
- Robert of Knaresborough
- Zygmund Adamski
- The Major Oak
- Barnsdale Forest and Robin Hood's Well
- Montague MJ Druitt
- Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum
- Sandal Castle
- Auld Betty of Halifax
- Whitby Abbey
- Newgate Prison
- The Minto Leopard Cat
- Cut-throat Lane, Isleworth
- The Widecombe Leopard Cat
- Hartlepool Monkey Hanging
- Confirmed Identifications and Escapees
- The Shepley Lion
- Jack Sheppard
- St. Dunstan's, Stepney
- St. Giles's Roundhouse
- Glastonbury Abbey
- Rosslyn Chapel
- The Goat Pub: Kensington
- RAF Macrihanish
- Mull of Kintyre Chinook Crash
- GCHQ
- Royal Secrets
- Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon: The Queen's Hidden Cousins
- York Tyburn at Knavesmire
- Harold Shipman: Doctor of Death
- John Bartendale: The Resurrectionist of York
- The Thornborough Henges
- Francis Tumblety
- The Princes in the Tower
- Sawney Bean: Scotland's Cannibal
- Tim Dinsdale Loch Ness Monster Film
- The Tay Bridge Disaster (Poem)
- Sonia Newlands (ne้ McCann)
- Donneybrook Medical Centre, Hyde
- Pontefract General Infirmary
- Abraham Ormerod Medical Centre, Todmorden
- Brady's Hunger Strike
- Ye Olde Leathern Bottle
- 'Adam': Human Sacrifice in London
- Frances Coles
- Bonfire Night
- Guy Fawkes
- Lewes Bonfire Night
- Old Palace Yard, Westminster
- Charmaine West
- 25 Midland Road, Gloucester
- Ann McFall
- High Royds Hospital
- Porton Down
- Gruinard Island: Operation Vegetarian
- Ronald Maddison
- British Witch Hunts and Trials
- The North Berwick Witch Trials
- Daemonologie: James I
- The Witchcraft Act, 1604
- Burlington: Central Government War Headquarters
- The Backbone Network
- RAF Fylingdales
- Hunters Stones
- Does the Queen really own all of Britain's swans?
- Are immigrants eating our swans?
- Cursed Football Grounds
- Leeds United: The Elland Road Curse
- Swansea City: Vetch Field
- Birmingham City: St Andrews
- Robert Maudsley
- Derby County: The Baseball Ground
- Maunsell Sea Forts
- HM Fort Roughs: The Principality of Sealand
- Glasgow Airport UFO Near Miss
- A Great Wonder in Heaven, shewing the late Apparitions and Prodigious Noyses of War and Battels
- Satanic Ritual Abuse
- The Rochdale Satanic Abuse Case
- The Cleveland Child Abuse Scandal
- South Ronaldsay Satanic Abuse
- Jimmy Savile: Satanist?
- Orford Ness
- Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling
- The Flannan Isles Mystery
- Background Report
- Bilderberg Group 2013
- The Dyfed Enigma / Broadhaven Triangle
- Broadhaven Primary School UFO Landing
- The Rudston Monolith
- Councillor Simon Parkes - Alien Abductee
- Bodmin Beast Skull - River Fowey
- Operation Deepscan
- Climate Change
- The Guy Fawkes Inn, York
- St. Peters School, York
- Mischief Night
- Keith Bennett
- London Mobilisation Centres
- Box Hill Fort
- Blidworth - Will Scarlet's Grave
- The Pendle Witches
- Witch Bottles
- David Icke
- The Queen is a Lizard
- The Princess Diana Conspiracies
- The Paget Report
- Did Princess Diana fake her own death?
- Princess Diana Murdered by MI6
- Q.E.D. A Case of Spontaneous Human Combustion
- The Kirby Sisters
- Mass Surveillance
- HMP Pentonville
- Severin Klosowski: AKA George Chapman, The Borough Poisoner
- HMP Wandsworth
- Was the Duke of Clarence Jack the Ripper?
- Marcella Claxton
- Berkeley Castle - the ghost of Edward II
- Microchips in Bins
- Fingerprinting School Children
- Police Corruption, Cover Ups and Miscarriages of Justice
- Biometrics: The False Positive Paradox
- The Beast of Trowbridge
- New Police Diana Murder Enquiry?
- UK Satanism
- Gallows of St. Leonards at Green Dykes Lane, York.
- UK Big Cats: Neil Arnold Responds
- Lesley Molseed and Stefan Kiszko
- 57 Cornwall Road
- Cu Glas
- The Beast of Cricklewood
- The man who died laughing at the Goodies
- Food Scares and Pandemics
- CCTV
- Automatic Number Plate Recognition
- The Worcester Fish Fall and 'Phantom Fishmonger'
- Amelia Dyer: The Ogress of Reading
- Fairview Road
- Hungerford Common
- The Hillsborough Disaster
- The 7/7 London Suicide Bombings
- 18 Alexandra Grove Leeds
- Tavistock Square Bus Explosion
- Was Israel warned in advance?
- The Abroath Mystery Big Cat
- Ghost Photographs and Films
- Newby Church Ghost
- Lord Combomere's Ghost
- Thomas Cutbush
- Electronic Harassment
- The Witches of Belvoir
- Targeted Individuals
- Hobs, Hobthrushes and Hobmen (and Hobbits!)
- Darrim Daoud
- The Hob of Hart Hall
- The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
- Category A Prisons
- Category B Prisons
- Secure Hospitals
- The Anonymous Movement #MillionMaskMarch
- Was Clive Driscoll removed to aid cover-up?
- GCHQ Scarborough: CSOS Irton Moor
- Joanne Dennehy
- Damian Chlywka: The Body in the Well, Warlingham
- Clown Panics
- The Bradford Clown
- The 2014 Floods
- Jimmy Savile
- Was Gareth Williams Poisoned?
- The Bristol Crocodile
- Bogus Social Workers
- Baby Examined by Bogus Social Worker in Gloucester
- Bogus Social Worker gains access to toddler in Beverley
- Bogus Social Worker in Tees
- The Westminster Paedophile Ring
- Elm Guest House
- Cyril Smith
- Jill Dando Murder
- Barry George
- The Mauthe - or Moddey Dhoo
- Grafton Close Care Home
- GCHQ Bude
- Alexander Litvinenko
- Isaac Newton
- John Humble: 'Wearside Jack'
- Man Killed by an Exploding E Cigarette
- Lukasz Slaboszewski
- Bogus Social Worker in Bury
- HMP Bronzefield
- Folklore and Urban Legends
- Children's Playground Games and Rhymes
- Hot Rice
- Tigs Off Ground
- Conkers
- Beaumaris Castle
- The Ripper Enquiry
- Hafodunos Hall
- Was the Yorkshire Ripper a 'Copycat'? Noel O'Gara's suspect
- Edward Evans
- Lucy Partington
- Olive Smelt
- Tracy Browne
- Archibald and Rose Henderson
- The Nuckelavee
- Palmira Silva: Beheaded in Edmonton
- Weird Murders
- Do conkers keep spiders out of the house?
- What's the meaning of shoes thrown over telephone lines?
- When Are We Doomed? Climatology as faith.
- World Coal Carrying Championships
- Jean Charles De Menezes
- Rena West
- The Ghosts of Hampton Court Palace
- The Iraq War
- The Death of Dr. David Kelly
- A War for Oil?
- The Dickens Dossier
- Vishal Mehrotra
- Nigel Willis: Killed By Vibrator
- Suzy Lamplugh
- Claudia Lawrence
- Renee MacRae
- Genette Tate
- April Fabb
- Steven Newing
- Jack The Stripper
- Elizabeth Figg
- British Bulldogs
- Political Correctness
- Winterval
- London Santa Claus Child Snatcher
- Child Snatchers
- Girt Dog of Ennerdale
- The Fen Tiger
- Derbyshire's Black Panther
- Disasters and Atrocities
- The Lockerbie Bombing
- The Aberfan Disaster
- Piper Alpha Platform Disaster
- The Great Storm of 1703
- The Obesity Paradox
- Pancake Day
- Was Jimmy Savile Innocent?
- Harvey Proctor
- The Princess Alice Disaster
- Peter Sutcliffe's hidden murders
- Is Peter Sutcliffe Insane?
- Theresa Sykes
- Stanley Unwin
- Gwynneth Rees
- Hannah Tailford
- June and Jennifer Gibbons: The Silent Twins
- Battle of Edgehill
- York Minster
Comments
- "OK - bragging time. I had the school record conker back in '84 or so. My brand spanking fresh conker had only registered its first win over a similar newbie when it was drawn across the legendary 111-er owned by farmer boy Buttsy. The playground held its collective breath as Buttsy took first strike, his mighty conker swinging fast and accurate to my untested chestnut... before suddenly bursting asunder on contact. I was carried aloft from the playground and hailed as a demi-god by my peers until other attractions drew the limelight away from me. Probably a girl, I imagine. Happy times." - on Conkers
- "The horse chestnut tree is such a feature of life that I genuinely had no idea that it wasn't a native tree. (More from the Woodland Trust). That's really startled me today, but I look forward to boring people down the pub with that fact - much as I like to bore them with news that the rabbit is a non-native species." - on Conkers
- "I can well imagine. By then presumably it had a much smaller number of patients than it was designed to hold and probably chronically underfunded as a result in terms of upkeep and general buildings maintenance. Must have been a lot of empty wards with those huge, high Victorian ceilings. There's a reason these places get chosen for filming zombie films." - on Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum
- "Hi Clive. Yes, I've just been reading Duncan Campbell's 'Big Brother is Listening', which dates back to the 70s and even then there was concerted, heavy duty comms tapping. Of course the step change now is technological reach - which puts pretty much ALL communication within listening distance. I'd be fascinated to know more about how things worked in the pre-digital era." - on ECHELON Surveillance System
- "The important thing though, John, is do you have any spiders!" - on Do conkers keep spiders out of the house?