Magic Castle
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On May 4 on Dreamland, Whitley Strieber interviewed
Starfire
Tor, who claims many unusual experiences involving
distortions of space and time. After the interview, Whitley
and Anne Strieber had a small one, which they more-or-less
attributed to being affected by the interview. But now they
recently visited
the Magic Castle in Los
Angeles, a legendary magician's club,
with her and magician
Brandon Scott. At the Magic
Castle, Anne had an experience
of a 'timeslip' while actually with Starfire, and this one
is getting harder to deny. (For details about what happened,
read Anne's recent
diary.)
Starfire
promised to investigate and now she HAS and these are the
results of her investigation.
The odd experience involved somebody coming out of a tiny
ladies' room behind Anne, who could not have been there at
that moment. There was no mystery about who this was: it
was
one of the Castle's photographers. But she had come out of a
room with no other entrances, which Anne had just left
seconds before. The Striebers asked the woman what she
remembered, and she recalled nothing unusual. Her presence
in the ladies' room had startled Starfire, also, because she
seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. But magicians and
trickery abound at the Magic Castle. Was it a magic trick
being played on Anne and Starfire, perhaps by the very
skilled Brandon Scott and an accomplice? If so, then this
Ladies' Room needs to have a secret entrance.
Starfire Tor has investigated the matter further. First, she
wanted to find blueprints for the Castle, so she
could determine if the photographer entered by a
hidden door. She found the book "Milt Larsen's Magic Castle
Tour," which, as she says, "explores the origins of every
nook, hall, room and corner of the Castle. Along with
photographs and text,
Brandon and I discovered that the ladies room didn't exist
until a new wing was built in 1976. Before that, the area
where the ladies room is now was nothing but open space
and outdoor air. That ladies' room was built without secret
doorways. Therefore, I can say with certainty that the
public door was
only one way for the woman to enter that ladies restroom,
and that was through the one and only door."
But here's something even more interesting: she
writes, "Brandon?noted, that of all the rooms and walls in the
Magic Castle, this one section?in front of that ladies room?
changes more than any other one. Posters change, statues
come and go, and railings change color?Does this change so
often because that area is prone to the shifting of reality due
to time line anomalies...or is it magic?"
Whitley Strieber
comments, "I was standing outside the room
waiting for Anne, close enough to know that something odd
did indeed happen. But the Magic Castle is literally full of
tricks--every sort of secret door, etc., that you can
imagine, including many which are not well known. So, for
me, the jury is still out. I'm going back to investigate
further. I'm tempted to say that I'll eat my hat if we
weren't tricked, but I don't care for hat."
Art credit: freeimages.co.uk
To read Starfire's version of these events,
click here. To see a wonderful photo history of the
Magic Castle, including photographs of the Ladies Room,
click here.
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