Adam Gorightly

From flying saucer crashes to underground alien bases, a number of modern mythologies have come into being since the advent of the UFO era in the 1940s. But how much of these myths is real, versus being the invention of either government agencies or deluded conspiracy theorists? Saucers, Spooks and Kooks provides an eye-opening survey of the history behind these stories, and the individuals promoting them.

"Adam Gorightly offers a unique take on virtually every conspiracy of our time."--Erskine Payton, "Erskine Overnight"Kerry Thornley never imagined that after starting a spoof religion in the 1950s that worshipped Eris--the Greek goddess of chaos and discord--that this seeming joke would unleash a torrent of actual chaos into his life in the years to follow. During the late 1950s, Thornley became friends with Lee Harvey Oswald when the two served together in the Marines, and was actually writing a novel based on Oswald three years before John F. Kennedy's assassination. These connections would later cause New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison to suspect that Thornley was one of the notorious Oswald doubles and a part of a JFK assassination plot. Initially, Thornley denied these allegations, but later came to believe that he'd been used as an unwitting pawn in the conspiracy. Adam Gorightly is best known for his book on the Manson Family, "The Shadow Over Santa Susana: Black Magic, Mind Control and the Manson Family Mythos." Adam has appeared as a guest on numerous radio shows such as "Coast To Coast AM" with Ian Punnett and "Ground Zero" with Clyde Lewis. Television appearances include the History Channel's documentary "The Manson Murders."

Dark, terrifying, disturbing, and yet handy.'A Who's Who of the Manson Family'Adam Gorightly, "crackpot historian" and author of the groundbreaking 'The Shadow Over Santa Susana: Black Magic, Mind Control & the Manson Family Mythos, ' and co-author Shamus McFarland take on the daunting task of clarifying the multitude of seemingly endless nicknames, aliases and real names which spill out of the ever-growing collection of various books chronicling the Manson Family members and their bizarre activities, including murder. This mess of identities can leave the most astute reader baffled and confused as to who did what, when, where and why. The terrifying saga is complicated enough without every character having six different names and no easy-to-use guide to clarify who is really who. Who's on first? Who's on third? Who's on acid?'A Who's Who of The Manson Family' cuts through the drug-sex-and-psycho maze to compile the definitive facebook of Manson Family characters as extensive as the available information allows. Exclusively from Feejee Press.

One of the 1960s counterculture's most fascinating characters was Kerry Wendell Thornley -- a writer, philosopher, Zen dishwasher, enlightened prankster, and, possibly, an Oswald double with disturbing ties to the Kennedy assassination A lifelong provocateur, Thornley was linked to many of the fringe elements of the time. He helped create the spoof religion called the Discordian Society and its tract, the Principia Discordia. He coined the term "paganism" to describe variou