The Magic Castle
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In a recent Dreamland, quantum physicist
Fred Alan Wolf told Whitley that time travel could be real.
Those of you who follow this website know that we've been
having our
own time travel adventures. Now
Starfire
Tor, along with her
magician friend
Brandon Scott,
have done MORE investigating
about exactly may have happened to Starfire and
Anne Strieber that
night in the Magic Castle.
Brandon writes: "I was on stage preparing for my show, when
the time line anomaly event was experienced, and therefore
was not at the ladies restroom location when it happened. I
heard the whole story after my performance. Earlier, Anne
and Whitley Strieber, and Starfire Tor and I dined at the
Magic Castle before my 10:30 PM stage show. We all shared
many experiences and interests, including the topics of time
travel, time line anomalies, and instances when people had
appeared and disappeared in the most unlikely of places in
the strangest of ways. I have experienced some of these
appearances myself, when I was with Starfire Tor. There is a
good reason why she is the discoverer of Time Shifts and the
Core Matrix, and those who have been fortunate enough to
work with her find that out sooner or later. When you are
around Starfire Tor, 'time' and 'reality' have a habit of shifting.
"As a professional stage magician, my expertise includes
creating the illusion of people disappearing and appearing. I
also have an interest in the paranormal, time travel, UFOs,
psychic abilities, and Synchronicities. Starfire Tor has called
me in on many of her Time Shift and time line anomaly
research investigations. She utilizes my expertise to
determine unintentional misidentification of physical
phenomena, as well as intentional physical fraud perpetrated
by a claimant. Starfire and I agreed that we needed to return
to the Magic Castle, to conduct a more thorough
investigation on whether the ladies restroom had a hidden
door. The Striebers also needed conclusive evidence, even
though we all did a cursory search of the ladies restroom the
night of the time line anomaly event, and found no hidden or
visible secondary door.
"Upon Starfire Tor's request, I had done some research for
her report by consulting reliable sources about the
construction and history of that ladies restroom. I discovered
that there was no hidden door, and that the room had not
been a part of the original mansion that eventually became
the Magic Castle. For the Striebers, Starfire Tor, and myself,
the investigation would not be complete until I was able to
conduct a hands on inspection of that ladies restroom. I
arranged for Starfire and I to carry out this investigation on
Tuesday, July 25, 2006. With Starfire Tor's guidance and
participation, I conducted an intensive, hands on
investigation of the interior and exterior of the ladies
restroom. Even though my expertise is critical to this part of
the investigation, a great deal of the investigative reasoning
could not have been achieved without Starfire Tor's research
criteria and analytical mind.
"Interior Overview: The interior of this ladies restroom, where
the time line anomaly occurred, is a small rectangular room
about 12 ft by 10 ft. Filling more than half of this area are
two narrow stalls with one toilet each, two side-by-side
sinks, and a trash basket. There is no furniture, and little free
space to move around. The restroom door swings open into
the room, taking up valuable space between the stalls and
the sinks.
"Walls, Stalls, and Sinks: Most of the walls, the stalls, and
the stall doors are covered with a collage of magazine cut
outs. The collage design has no detectable seams where a
door would slide open. None of the wall surfaces have a
hidden door. I checked the two sinks, and the basin they are
seated in, for any mechanisms that would allow the sinks to
slide away from the wall revealing a door. There are no such
mechanisms and no hidden door behind or under the sinks. I
also checked the stall toilets for sliding mechanisms, and
there are none. There are no hidden doors in the stalls. I
checked the wall lighting sconces, a lone wooden shelf, and
other hanging wall items and did not find any mechanisms
which would reveal a hidden door as there is no hidden door.
"Flooring: The flooring is made of 12 inch squares tiles. None
of the tiles, when examined, triggered a hidden door in the
floor or elsewhere in the room. The floor has no hidden doors.
"Ceiling: The ceiling has three different heights. The two
lower parts are over the sinks and where the front door
opens. These lower ceilings contain no vents and no trap
doors. The highest part of the ceiling is over the two stalls,
and is about 15 ft high. A small chandelier hangs over the
outer edge of the stalls near the stall doors. There is a small,
square, grated air vent over the stalls, more to the far upper
left at the ceiling's highest point. The air vent is too high to
be reached without a ladder, cannot be reached by a person
standing on the toilet or stall dividers, and is too far from the
chandelier for the lighting fixture to be used as a step down.
I could see that the air vent was dusty and undisturbed,
indicating that it had not been removed for a long time.
Because of the air vent size, height, and location, the woman
did not enter the ladies restroom by descending through the
ceiling air vent.
"Besides the logistics, the woman and her clothing would
have shown signs of having squeezed through a very small
opening after crawling through ductwork. By all accounts, the
woman was dressed in a skirt, shirt, and high heels that did
not show signs of being dirty, dusty, or damaged. A fine layer
of dust on the chandelier was not disturbed, which it would
have been had someone touched it. Nor were there any signs
of how she would have descended from that height, without
the help of a ladder or rope. No rope or ladder was visible at
the time the woman was seen in and leaving the ladies
restroom. Had the woman descended from the small vent, she
would have needed a helper up in the ductwork to pull the
rope or ladder back up and out of sight. Starfire Tor and I
both concluded that this did not happen, because the vent
screws were on the inside of the ladies room. No one in the
vent would have been able to pull the ladder back up, and
then screw the vent closed from inside the ductwork -
especially without disturbing the dust on the vent. Besides,
Starfire Tor was in the restroom when the woman appeared
and did not witness the woman dropping down from the
ceiling, which she would have witnessed had it happened.
Therefore, the small vent is an air vent and nothing more.
"Adjoining Walls: I further inspected the walls of any room or
corridor that has a wall adjoining that ladies restroom. I did
this to double confirm that there is no other entrance, even
an older one that was sealed. There is no outer adjoining wall
with a secondary or hidden door leading into that ladies
restroom.
"Door: The obvious way into the ladies restroom is by a
wooden door, which is accessed from the main corridor that
leads from the dining room staircase to the bar and stage
doors beyond. The door is normal size, and pushes open into
the ladies restroom. The door is a few feet from the bottom
of the staircase, where the stair railing ends in a 3 ft tall post
with a flat square wooden top. That position has a good
vantage point. It is possible to stand by this post and see
who enters and leaves the ladies room, plus see who is
standing at the top of the stairs and who is down the corridor.
"I pointed out to Starfire Tor, that once the ladies restroom
door is opened it is slow to close. This is due to a controlled
closing of the door by a common, hydraulic mechanism fixed
at the top of the door. When anyone opens the door, either
to enter or exit, the door will slowly inch it's way closed.
Anne would have seen the woman already in the ladies
restroom near the sink, or entering the room as Anne exited.
But Anne was only aware that Starfire Tor was the sole
remaining person in that small room. Starfire was only aware
that she was the sole person in the room, once Anne had
left. Anne and Starfire, one still inside the room and one
exiting to the corridor, believed the same thing about the
occupancy of the ladies rest room. When Anne Strieber left
that ladies restroom, Starfire Tor was the only person left in
there. Yet it is undeniable that another woman exited from a
room where Starfire was the sole occupant, and Anne
Strieber witnessed this anomaly.
"Even if Anne Strieber had been positioned outside the door,
and diverted her attention for a few seconds and someone
had slipped into the ladies restroom past her position, Anne
would have seen the door ajar and slowly inching its way to
close. This would have alerted Anne that someone had
opened the door. Furthermore, because the door would have
been ajar, Anne would have been able to see the woman
standing inside the ladies restroom. At the very least she
would have seen Starfire Tor still inside, or possibly even
seen the near collision between that woman and Starfire Tor.
Inside or outside of the room, Anne Strieber didn't witness
any of these things. From her position she didn't see the
woman entering the ladies restroom, and she didn't see the
door to the ladies room ajar.
"Anne Strieber might have missed one element of the
woman's passage through the door, but from her position she
would not have missed all of the markers. From inside the
ladies restroom, Starfire might have missed some of the
markers, but she would not have missed the biggest marker
of all ... the woman standing in the ladies restroom only feet
away from her.
"Conclusion: Whether the account is that the woman brushed
by Anne on Anne's way out of the ladies restroom, or the
woman exited the restroom while Anne was positioned outside
the door, the evidence is clear that Anne experienced a
woman leaving a room that the woman never entered. This is
further corroborated by the experience Starfire Tor had in the
restroom, moments after Anne Strieber exited, and that was
Starfire's near collision with a woman who she should have
seen but didn't. No matter how Starfire and I tried to reenact
the near collision event in that small space, Starfire could not
have missed seeing the woman standing between her and the
sinks. Had a woman been standing near the sinks, Starfire
would have seen her and there would not have been a near
collision.
"My conclusion, which Starfire Tor agrees with, is that the
field investigation proves that there is no secondary or hidden
door into that ladies restroom. The only way in and out is
through the one door at the bottom of the staircase. This
dispels any speculation that what Anne and Starfire
experienced was orchestrated as a practical joke of the
Magic Castle, or one of the stage magicians. Without a
hidden door, the set up isn't there. For all intents and
purposes, Anne Strieber witnessed a woman exiting the ladies
restroom who did not enter the ladies restroom. For all
intents and purposes, Starfire Tor nearly collided with a
woman who suddenly appeared near the space that Starfire
was occupying.
"If Anne and Whitley Strieber would like to return to the
Magic Castle, to conduct their own physical examination of
this ladies restroom, Starfire and I can arrange for this to
happen." As you can imagine, we are planning another trip to
the Magic Castle very soon!
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