The Magonia Exchange

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The Magonia Exchange is a smallish clique of individuals who scour ancient or old manuscripts, newspapers, and other written accounts for reports of weird sightings, odd encounters, obtuse happenings, and other ephemera that falls into the paranormal or Fortean categories that UFO enthusiasts and paranormalists find amusing or interesting.

Albert S. Rosales, himself a member of the select group I’m guessing, uses many of the findings in his vast Humanoid Encounters books (which I’ve often noted here).

One will find selections from Jerome Clark, a prolific Kay Massingill, and even the dour but fastidious Theo Paijmans, who visits here on occasion to berate, and others.

(I was once invited by Chris Aubeck to join the group, which I did, but was only a member for a day or less as others in the group got Chris to negate my “membership” for reasons not proffered.)

If one scans the group’s findings or actually reads Mr. Rosales’ books, they will enjoy UFO-like accounts, many MIB-like reports, and a host of other strange tales, many of which provide “corroboration” of Jose Caravaca’s “external agent” Distortion Theory, often explored here and clarified by Mr. Caravaca right below this posting.

The work that The Magonia Exchange locates and offers to writers or buffs of the paranormal genre is not only fascinating (for a number of reasons) but invaluable, even though no one provides explanations for the intriguing stories ferreted from archives, libraries, and newspaper morgues; the Magonia Exchange people operating, similarly (as I see it) to the monks found in one of my favorite fictive works, A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

So, if you wish to read material that makes Jose Cravaca’s “theory” sensible, or want to see antecedents of Nick Redfern’s Men in Black, or want a plethora of Big Foot accounts, all way back when, before the modern day hype, get some of the Rosales books or look for snatches of The Magonia Exchange discoveries via Google.

You will be charmed or amazed (as the current hackneyed word would have it).

RR