If you’ve been wondering why Cipher Mysteries has been so quiet for a few days, it’s because my PC has been out of order (the old power supply died, *sigh*). But it’s now working again, no thanks to Corsair (boo).
Though this is good, it unfortunately also means I now have a lot of catching up to do, so I shall continue to be subdued for a few days while emails get replied to and everything slowly eases back into some kind of normality.
In the meantime, I thought you might like this: a song by UK indie band Fanfarlo called “Harold T. Wilkins, or How to Wait a Very Long Time“. It was used in the (2010) film “Going The Distance”, if you were unfortunate enough to end up watching that on a plane.
If you don’t know who Harold T. Wilkins was, why, you’ve missed out on sooooo much: he wrote about allegedly lost pirate treasure (particularly Captain Kidd’s), lost Atlantean civilizations, what we now call cryptozoology, and UFO conspiracies… but all more than 40 years before the X-Files. And to my eyes, he seems to have made up a large part of everything he wrote. In short: 50% bad journalist, 50% bad Erich von Daniken. Which is… an interesting mix, you might say.
Fanfarlo also released a pretty good acoustic all-in-one-tiny-room version of the song here, though (purists look aside) the bass guitar did look to me as though it was plugged into an amp.
And here I thought it was my computer gone goofy. I shall now acquire a middle name:
Patience.
bd
Nick
I think you may be doing poor Wilkins an injustice. I have some of his files and can assure you that he collected hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles on buried treasure from all over the world (through many contacts abroad). The earliest cutting I have goes back to 1912.
The problem is that these stories were very likely far-fetched when Wilkins got hold of them, but he was a product of an age in which the wealthy were prepared to believe in, and go off hunting, hidden treasure. Later on, people were prepared to believe in UFOs. If nothing else, Wilkins knew his audience!