Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist (24 page)

35
Personal communication from John Green to author, May 27, 2010.

36
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxq8h-ymPr0.

37
Beck,
I Fought the Apeman
.

38
Personal communication from John D. Pickering to author, June 6, 2010; Jerome Clark,
Unexplained!
(Detroit, MI: Visible Ink Press, 1998), 335.

39
Personal communication from Michael Perry to author, December 11, 2009.

40
Personal communication from John Green to author, May 27, 2010.

41
Longview Daily News
(Longview, WA)
, June 27–28, 1964.

42
Personal communication from Christopher L. Murphy to author, May 31, 2010.

43
Personal communication from Christopher L. Murphy to author, June 1, 2010 [my italics].

44
Franklin C. Jillson and Mary Jillson,
Green Leaves from Whitingham, Vermont: A History of the Town
(private press, 1894), 116; Walter R. Hard and Janet C. Greene, “Mischief in the Mountains,”
Vermont Life
(1970), 128.

45
Ruth Ann Musick,
The Bloody Lilac Bush
, 68–69.

46
D. Michael Quinn,
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
(Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1998), 25.

47
Jillson and Jillson,
Green Leaves from Whitingham, Vermont
, 119.

48
Mark Ashurst-McGee, “Moroni as Angel and as Treasure Guardian,”
FARMS Review
, vol. 18, no. 1 (2006), 34–100.

49
Indiana Progress
, March 16, 1870; Colonial Society of Massachusetts,
Transactions 1917–1919,
vol. 20 (Published by the Society, Boston, 1920), 357.

50
Ashurst-McGee, “Moroni as Angel and as Treasure Guardian,” 45.

51
Law Notes
12 (E. Thompson Company, January 1907), 191.

52
Wait v. Westfall
(161 Ind. 648).

53
Grillot de Givry,
Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy
(New York: Dover, 1971), 172–173.

54
Beck,
I Fought the Apeman
.

55
Ibid.

56
Ivan Sanderson,
Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life
(New York: Chilton, 1974), 51.

57
Ibid., 53.

58
Beck,
I Fought the Apeman
.

59
Jack “Kewaunee” Lapseritis,
The Psychic Sasquatch and Their UFO Connection
(Mill Spring, NC: Wild Flower Press, 1998), 22.

60
Richard W. Kimball, “Bigfoot Lives in the Arizona Wilds,”
Chino Valley Review
, December 12, 1990. http://members.tripod.com/Arizona_Bigfoot/bf1.htm.

61
Ibid.

62
The (Frederick, MD) News
, July 30, 1892.

63
Linda Godfrey,
Hunting the American Werewolf
(Madison, WI: Trails Media Group, 2006), 255–256.

64
Ibid.

65
Mary Granger,
Drums and Shadows
(Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1940).

66
Longview Washington Times
(August 1963). http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/spiritlake.htm.

67
Hans Biedermann,
Dictionary of Symbols
(New York: Plume, 1994), 350.

Psychic in the White House

1
The Jeane Dixon Museum and Library was at 132 North Massanutten Street, Strasburg, Virginia, http://archive.today/p9vdm, originally http://www.waysideofva.com/jdml/default.htm.

2
Mike the MagiCat was the subject of a children's book,
Jeane Dixon's MagiCat
. Some saw Dixon's affinity for cats as that of a witch for her familiar. President Harry S. Truman had a cat with the same name.

3
She elaborates on the idea in
Yesterday, Today and Forever
(New York: Morrow, 1976). Aries is identified with Peter, Taurus with Simon, Gemini with James the Less, and so on. Pisces is both Judas Iscariot and Matthias.

4
“In Strasburg, a Medium Well Done,”
Washington Post
, July 31, 2002. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2002/07/31/AR2005033107245.html.

5
Ruth Montgomery,
A Gift of Prophecy
(New York: Bantam Books, 1966), 18.

6
Dixon was a “dollar-a-year man,” a business executive who accepted a token salary for performing government service; he acquired warehouses and depots.

7
Much of the information in this section comes from Daniel St. Albin Greene, “The Untold Story of Jeane Dixon,”
National Observer
, October 27, 1972.

8
Denis Brian,
Jeane Dixon: The Witnesses
(New York: Doubleday, 1976), 147–148. When Daniel St. Albin Greene was researching “The Untold Story of Jeane Dixon,” he received telegrams from Dixon's siblings stating that she had been born in 1918. He spoke to Curt Pinckert before the article was published, yet Curt had no recollection of sending a telegram and confirmed that Jeane Dixon was born Lydia Pinckert in 1904.

9
Greene, “The Untold Story of Jeane Dixon.” “In January 1928, according to a marriage certificate on file in Santa Ana, Calif., ‘Jeane A Pinckert,' daughter of Frank and Emma Pinckert, married Charles Zuercher, a Swiss immigrant who had come to California the same year the Pinckerts did. The document says the groom was a 37-year-old ‘superintendent,' the bride an accountant, aged ‘22.'”

10
Brian,
Jeane Dixon: The Witnesses
, 198.

11
Montgomery,
A Gift of Prophecy
, 33.

12
Ibid., 77. Four years later, Jeane claimed that James wanted her to devote herself to charitable and psychic pursuits, but she felt that working kept her grounded. Rene Noorbergen,
My Life and Prophecies
(New York: Morrow, 1969), 26–27.

13
Greene, “The Untold Story of Jeane Dixon.”

14
Harvey Katz, “The Jeane Dixon Touch (II): This Is No Way to Run a Charity,”
Washingtonian
(March 1970), 49.

15
“Another merry time was had by 288 top Congressmen and government officials who thronged a white tie dinner-dance tossed by former TV glamour-girl Martha Rountree and her publisher husband, Oliver Presbrey . . . 300 chickens, 150 lobsters and platters of flaming cherries jubilee vied for attention with two dance orchestras and fortune-telling Jeane Dixon until well past curfew.”
Sunday Times (Cumberland, MD)
, February 12, 1956.

16
Montgomery,
A Gift of Prophecy
, front cover blurb.

17
Dixon saw the statue's face come to life in 1958 when the cathedral seemed filled with people of every race and religion in what she
claimed was a vision of Vatican II. Presumably, the sculpture she referred to once stood in the Lady chapel, which was smashed by a vandal in the early 1980s and replaced in 1984 by the unusual statue that now occupies the spot. Jeane Dixon had other visions in St. Matthew's, including a fully materialized Blessed Virgin Mary, two diabolical red boots that walked around a side altar, a vision of the zodiac that assigned astrological signs to particular apostles, and a wheel-shaped medical center.

18
Ibid.

19
Jack Anderson and Fred Blumenthal, “Washington's Incredible Crystal Gazer,”
Parade
, May 13, 1956, 12.

20
Brian,
Jeane Dixon: The Witnesses
, 191.

21
Ibid., 60.

22
Ibid., 192; Montgomery,
A Gift of Prophecy
, 11.

23
Brian,
Jeane Dixon: The Witnesses
, 192.

24
Montgomery,
A Gift of Prophecy
, 192–193.

25
Mary Bringle,
Jeane Dixon: Prophet or Fraud?
(Gainesville, FL: Tower, 1970), 69.

26
Montgomery,
A Gift of Prophecy
, 174.

27
Ibid., 180.

28
Gordon Lindsay,
The Mystery of Jeane Dixon: Prophetess or Psychic Medium?
(Dallas, TX: Christ for the Nations Institute, 1973), 29.

29
“Miss Dixon: Door Open, But Can GOP Get In?”
Gastonia Gazette
, October 24, 1967.

30
Helen Thomas: “White House Calls Book Vengeful,”
Tyrone (PA) Daily Herald
, May 10, 1988.

31
Dixon,
Yesterday, Today and Forever
, 424.

32
Montgomery,
A Gift of Prophecy
, 107.

33
Jeane Dixon,
Jeane Dixon's Astrological Cookbook
(New York: Morrow, 1976), 17. Montgomery was the first of several unhappy collaborators. She claimed that her editor and Dixon had pressured her into writing the book (“Mrs. Dixon . . . has been insisting that I
write a book about her since 1960”), that the editor had removed most of the wrong predictions, and that commercial success had interfered with Dixon's powers. Rene Noorbergen, of
My Life and Prophecies
, was “convinced Jeane is inspired by the devil.” Brian,
Jeane Dixon: The Witnesses
, 145.

34
The model was displayed at the Jeane Dixon Museum. Circular layouts are often associated with visionaries, including Laputa, Atlantis, the City of the Sun, John Murray Spear's circular cities, and Walt Disney's plans for Epcot.

35
Katz, “The Jeane Dixon Touch (II),” 51.

36
“Dangers of Being a Nation of Number Numbskulls,”
New York Times
, January 23, 1989.

37
Memorandum from unnamed special agent in the Washington field office to J. Edgar Hoover, January 28, 1966.

38
Memorandum from Mr. Wick to M. A. Jones, February 4, 1966.

39
Letter from Jeane L. Dixon to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, January 2, 1970.

40
Memorandum from Mr. DeLoach to T. E. Bishop, January 13, 1970.

41
Joe Beaird, “Psychic Jeane Dixon Was FBI Stooge,” December 27, 1999. lists.village.virginia.edu/lists___archive/sixties-1/2335.html. Letter from correspondent (name removed) to J. Edgar Hoover, February 16, 1968.

42
Letter from correspondent (name removed) to Sen. Hale Boggs, April 1971.

43
According to American National Biography Online, Dixon was godmother to Senator Strom Thurmond's son and contributed at least $30,000 to the Republican Party in the last ten years of her life.

44
Thomas, “White House Calls Book Vengeful.” Jeane Dixon was neither the first nor last psychic to become involved with presidents and their families. Mrs. Franklin Pierce met with Maggie Fox, Mary Todd Lincoln engaged several mediums, and her
husband attended at least one White House séance. More recently, Mrs. Clinton held “imaginary conversations” with the late Eleanor Roosevelt.

45
Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, “Terror Watch: Nixon and Dixon,”
Newsweek
, March 23, 2005. http://www.newsweek.com/id/48973.

46
Bringle,
Jeane Dixon: Prophet or Fraud?
, 136.

47
J. Edgar Hoover, quoted in an FBI memorandum from M. A. Jones to Mr. Wick, February 4, 1966. Denis Brian's book,
Jeane Dixon: The Witnesses
, might be the fairest evaluation of her record.

48
Jeane Dixon had long been associated with Billy Graham, especially by conspiracy-minded and lunatic writers. See “Billy Graham's Active Role in Satanic Ritual Abuse,” www.whale.to/b/sp/for1.html, and “Will Teddy Listen to the Prophet?”,
Cedar Rapids (IA) Gazette
, June 16, 1968.

49
Descriptions taken from the auction catalog
Sloans & Kenyon: Estate of Psychic Jeane Dixon
, Sloans & Kenyon, Chevy Chase, Maryland, July 26, 2009.

Ku Klux Klowns

1
Loren Coleman generously explained how he discovered, researched, and named the clowns-in-vans for this book. Personal communication from Loren Coleman to author, January 10, 2014.

2
Memo from Daniel O'Connor, investigative counselor of the Boston Public School District, to elementary and middle school principals. Quoted in Loren Coleman,
Mysterious America
(Boston: Faber and Faber, 1983), 266.

3
Joseph A. Citro,
Weird New York
(New York: Sterling Publishing, 2005), 32.

4
Associated Press, May 23, 1981.

5
United Press International, May 23, 1981.

6
United Press International, May 24, 1981.

7
Associated Press, May 23, 1981.

8
Ibid.

9
United Press International, May 24, 1981.

10
Milton Meltzer,
Slavery (I)
(Chicago: Cowles, 1971), 189.

11
Gladys-Marie Fry,
Night Riders in Black Folk History
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975), 87–88.

12
KKK Report, Georgia, 649, quoted in Fry,
Night Riders in Black Folk History
, 123.

13
Fry,
Night Riders in Black Folk History
, 115–116.

14
Charleston (SC) Mercury
, October 12, 1838, 171, reprinted in Theodore D. Weld,
American Slavery as It Is
(New York: Arno Press, 1839).

15
Vanessa Northington Gamble, “Under the Shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and Health Care,”
American Journal of Public Health
87, no. 11 (November 1997).

16
Fry,
Night Riders in Black Folk History
, 210.

17
Nebraska State Journal
, October 22, 1893.

18
Frederick C. Waite, “Grave Robbing in New England,”
Medical Library Association Bulletin
33 (1945), 272–294.

19
Janesville (WI) Gazette
, January 23, 1872.