Wednesday, 12 September 2018

Rise of Weirdness - Part 19


January 1, 1955
Benigno Andrade holds yet another demonstration in Madrid.


January 18, 1955:
Project SUNSHINE; U.S. Department of Defense and the Department of Energy, conduct experiments across the country to "trigger" persons into Transformed for possible use in a military capacity,.....


February 10, 1955
The library from Ashley, Kansas reappears on the former site of the town. Subsequent investigation finds no clues as to where the rest of the town went.


April 25th, 1955 :
First reports in Auvergne of the existence of a dragon.


July 17, 1955:
Walt Disney unveils his first series of "golems" with the Disneyland amusement park in Anaheim, California, sparking international attention with the technological development,.....


September 2, 1955:
"Gummy the Golem" makes his television debut on the Howdy Doody Show (CBS-TV) sparking international attention to the idea of golems for entertainment purposes in Hollywood, California,....


September 17-20, 1955:
German Chancellor (insert name here) meets with Lavrentii Beria, in an effort to prevent possible Soviet invasion,...


September 24, 1955:
President Douglas MacArthur dies of a heart attack, Vice-president Dwight Eisenhower is sworn in as president,....


September 25, 1955:
French troops are deployed into Cambodia, as violence spreads throughout Indochina, sparking international attention and concern,...


September 29, 1955:
CIA operatives in Maracaibo, Venezuela claim to have seen Adolph Hitler alive, fueling tensions in the region,...


December 9, 1955:
French troops are deployed into South Vietnam , as violence spreads throughout Indochina, sparking international attention and concern,...


March 23, 1956:
Song Fluffy is Untrustworthy by Wendy Oliver sparks controversy with its lyrics being seen as an attack against Transformed persons, sparking national controversy,....


May 27, 1956:
French writer Jean Cocteau joins fascist leader Pierre Plantard in support of a "French National Renewal" at Annemasse, France,...


June 25, 1956:
Fascist leader Pierre Plantard leads the "Priory of Sion" proclaiming that a "national rebirth" at Montaigne du Sion, France,...


July 17, 1956:
Macbeth based on the play by William Shakespeare, starring Vivian Leigh and Laurence Olivier, flops at the box office amidst talks of "the Curse", on the play,...


October 15, 1956:
IBM invents "Formula Translation" (a.k.a. FORTRAN) for purposes of effectively using spells in Urbana, Illinois,.


October 22, 1956
The Winchester Library of Magic is discovered by Laura Neverton...


October 29, 1956:
British Prime Minister Anthony Eden and French President Rene Coty announce the formation of the Anglo-French Union, becoming the largest land empire in recorded history, fueling tensions with the United States and Soviet Union,.....


February 27, 1957:
Soviet Premier Lavrentii Beria warns of the "grave threat" posed by Transformed and neo-pagans during a speech before the Duma,...


May 11, 1957:
French troops are deployed into Laos, as violence spreads throughout Indochina, sparking international attention and concern,...

September 4, 1957:
The term 'Buzzer' becomes popular slang for magical practitioners; 'Fluffy' becomes a popular slang for magical beings,...


October 5, 1957
A strange contact is reported over the Caspian sea by several Soviet radar stations.


October 8, 1957
Eisenhower receives a visit from a mysterious visitor, who states that 'the world is changing', and that America needs to be ready for that change.


October 9, 1957
In a small village somewhere in Nebraska, a strange humming stone is discovered.


October 14, 1957
Eisenhower issues an Executive Order establishing a Magical Investigations Office...


October 15, 1957
The Nebraska Stone is put on display, in the town's museum.


October 18, 1957
An American agent in Moscow, learns of a special Soviet Project.


October 19, 1957
Several strange contacts are sighted in the Caspian Sea by Soviet radar stations.


October 20, 1957
A strange signal is detected by a tracking station in the Canadian Arctic.


October 22, 1957
An Oxford student discovers a strange tome in her college library.


October 24, 1957
The Magical Investigations Office officially sets up it's first team.


October 25, 1957
A tanker that had disppeared in the Pacific is found again, but empty of both crew and cargo...


October 27, 1957
A Coast Guard cutter, sent to find one of the missing tankers, also disappears.
October 28, 1957
The student who had discovered the strange tome six days before returns to the same spot in the library, but finds it missing!


October 31, 1957
In many American cities, some children vanish while going on 'trick or treat'.


1 November 1957
Authorities begin searching for the missing children...


November 3, 1957
An Air Force warplane sent over the area where the ships disappeared, also disappears.


November 4, 1957
A second plane sent into the area, does return.


November 6, 1957
A third flight sent to look for the missing ships sends out a confusing radio message before disappearing off radar...


November 7, 1957
It is decided to try to map the anomalous area, where the ships and planes had vanished.


November 8, 1967
Wreckage from one of the planes is discovered near the anomalous area.


November 12, 1957
A fourth plane disappears in the anomalous area while on a mapping mission.


November 13, 1957
Storm activity begins to make attempts at mapping of the anomalous region impossible.


November 14, 1957
The Oxford student finds that she can't sleep, due to nightmares.


November 15, 1957
An American agent in Warsaw disappears...


November 16, 1957
In Oxford, an agent rummages through the room of the student who had read the mysterious tome. He doesn't find it, as she was returning it to the library, having read it a second time.
Upon returning to find her room a mess, she is gripped by intense paranoia.


November 17, 1957
In Oxford, police are called to St. Hilda's College, where a student is threatening other students while rambling in what seems to be gibberish. Upon seeing the police the student faints. When she comes to, she doesn't remember what had transpired...


November 18, 1957
The St. Hilda's student, having (mostly) recovered from the previous day's experience, goes back to the library to look for that tome, wondering what was in it that may have affected her so.


November 19, 1957
The St. Hilda's student borrows the tome another time, so that no one else would read it...


November 20, 1957
Oxford is enveloped in some kind of unnatural fog... Strange reports come from the university, particularly St. Hilda's. One thing is certain, the student has vanished...


November 21, 1957
Second day of the Oxford Fog. Students at St. Hilda's find that the structure of the building is changing...


November 22, 1957
Third day of the Oxford Fog. St. Hilda's is evacuated.


November 23, 1957
An American task force approaches a spot in the Pacific where a Soviet ship has been investigating, something...


November 24, 1957Fifth Day of the Oxford Fog. The team from the American Magical Investigations Office arrives...


December 24, 1957

Christmas Eve proves quite eventful in an otherwise quiet town in northern Maryland, when a father tries to be Santa using a jury-rigged sleigh and robot reindeer. (However, see Sept. 18th entry for the next year...)



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