Mystery of the Month Issue 1 - Caspar Hauser - now available - FREE!

[Chris Scott]

The first issue of Mystery of the Month (MOTM) on the subject of Caspar Hauser is now available - and it is free!
If you would like a copy sent to you (electronic only) you can either PM me here on Forums or mail me at chris.scott@btinternet.com
PLEASE make sure you include the e-mail address you want the issue sent to.
MOTM Issue 1:
Format: PDF Document
File Size: 485 Kb
No of pages: 30
No of words: 16,650

I hope you enjoy:-)
Any comments or suggestions are welcome...

[Paul]

Now, I am old and jaundiced and I don't often get enthusiastic anymore, unless it's in the pub and someone else is buying; at times like that, which happen about as often as I'm woken by a herd of dinosaurs passing outside my bedroom window, my enthusiasm knows no bounds. But...

Wow! I got mine and whilst I'd have welcomed an examination of the accretion of myth and how it, er, accreted, and and examination of primary later theories, the collected contemporary source materials are worth their weight in gold. I don't know how the hell Chris hopes to maintain this standard on a monthly basis, but this will prove a researcher's treasure chest. I can hardly wait to see the topics he has lined up for the future... Congratulations!

[Chris Scott]

Hi Paul
Many thanks for the very kind comments and I hope you find the venture both useful and enjoyable.
I appreciate your comment about the interest in the accretion of myth but the whole rationale of this little venture is to get back to the first accounts of incidents that later became mystery "classics" and see how they were reported and thought of at the time.
Definite changes of emphasis occur. Below, as an example, is one of the earliest reports I have found of a Bigfoot sighting, this one in 1934. The whole impression I get from the tone of this report is of a creature much more like a primitive human - minimally clad, tool using etc - than of the giant ape of modern thinking.
San Mateo Times
2 March 1934
"Wild Man" Seen in Canada Revives Tale of Vanished Mountain Race.
Montreal, March 2.
A giant wild man who has been terrorizing residents of Harrison Mills, near Vancouver, has caused revival of legends of a vanished race of "hairy mountain men," according to dispatches here today.
The wild man, described as "huge, hairy and nearly nude," has been seen three times in as many months according to the reports. The last person he frightened was Frank Dean of Harrison Mills.
Dean was aroused during the night by the barking of his dog. He stepped out of the door of the cabin and saw, in clear starlight, a huge hairy man who advanced at him growling. Dean leaped back inside his cabin and barred his door. Tracks in the snow next day showed the wild man had prowled around the cabin and later gone into the bush.
A hunter also said he saw the wild man and was so frightened he dropped his bag of game as he fled before the giant's attack.
Indians of the Chelais reserve, asked about the creature, said that many years ago, a whole tribe of the wild men lived in the region. They were called "Sasquatch" or "hairy mountain men." They lived in caves and hunted with clubs and stones.

Themes I am working on at the moment include the Mary Celeste (in your case that is DEFINITELY coals to Newcastle!), early Bigfoot reports, early crop marks, etc.
Hope you enjoy
regards
Chris

[Howard Brown]

Chris:

I enjoyed the first edition myself...again, thanks for sending Nina and myself a copy.

[Chris Scott]

How and Nina
Many thanks and so glad you enjoyed it
I realise that from the nature of the "zine" it is not the sort of thing you would sit down and read through at a sitting - it is more reference material
Thanks again for the comment
All the best
Chris

[Livia Trivia]

I'd love to read your first effort Chris, if it's
not too much trouble.

Thanks!

[Chris Scott]

I'd love to read your first effort Chris, if it's
not too much trouble.

Thanks!

Hi Liv - can you let me know the mail address you want it sent to.
You can PM me if you don't want to post in the thread
Chris

[Belinda]

That was fascinating! I look forward to many more!


The first thing that struck me when I saw this portrait of Casper Hauser

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hauser_Kreul.jpg

Was he looks so like Marie Antoinette especially about the mouth and chin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Antoinette_1767.jpg

I wonder if he was an illegitimate Habsburg?

[Nemo]

Nice work Chris

An intriguing and tragic mystery - well worth a read if anyone hasn't had a look yet

[Nemo]

I don't think I've seen any reference to a sasquatch wearing clothes before

[Maria Birbili]

Endless thanks to Chris Scott for the free issue of his mag on Kaspar Hauser. I'm afraid that due to being busy with research and work in Paris, I might need a couple weeks to read it carefully, but I'll eventually get to it.
There was also a German movie about the case, if anyone is interested.