Comments on: Chris O’Brien Interview at Radio Misterioso

By: craig york

craig york — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:53:04 +0000

I had to go back and re-read the ‘Yellow Book’ post. The description
reminds me more than a little of the
‘crystals’ in the first Superman
film…:) the title, on the other hand,
rings a more sinister, albeit still literary, bell-namely the horror classic
The King In Yellow, a series of
stories about a play that drives its
readers mad…but the notion of a more
prosaic explanation, that of ‘Yellow
Book’ being a reference to the “Yellow
Pages” of your local phone book, is
probably closer to the mark-especially if this is all coming out of ‘The Aviary’.

By: Greg Bishop

Greg Bishop — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:50:04 +0000

Craig,

Of course there’s the so-called “yellow book,” which was described as a giant crystal which allowed the beholder to see any event in the history of the universe. It was first described on the “UFO Coverup Live!” show in 1988. Sounds like the AFOSI may have been reading up on Erneti.

By: Greg Bishop

Greg Bishop — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:47:19 +0000

RPJ,

I’ve never heard of this! I’ll have to look it up. Thanks!

By: craig york

craig york — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:28:36 +0000

Seems to me I’ve heard of the Chronoscope, though I don’t remember
any details. Outside of that, the only
reference to such a device I’m familiar
with are from Science Fiction. TOM
SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRONIC RETROSCOPE
is one instance, young Tom developing a
machine that ‘views’ the past of any
physical object, and there is also an
Isaac Asimov short story ( Can’t recall
the title at the moment ) that deals
with the social repercussions of a
similar device.

By: red pill junkie

red pill junkie — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:35:53 +0000

I’ve always been fascinated by the rumors surrounding the ‘chronoscope’ allegedly invented by Father Erneti, an Italian catholic priest who was something of a genius—it was considered an authority in Gregorian chants among other things— who asked the help of Scientific celebrities like Von Braun to create his machine, which he then used to take a picture of Jesus dying on the cross… or so the legend goes; a legend which seems to have been taken seriously by some members of the KGB for a while.