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3 November 2025 – New on Patreon: Mindwalk continues...
The latest in L&C's Stargate Conspiracy 25th anniversary updates, delving further into remote viewing's part in the StarCon, is out today on Patreon.

The US Star Gate operation presented remote viewing as an objective, almost matter-of-fact process, untainted by the paranormal – let alone the mystical, supernatural or magical. That added apparent weight to claims that it had been used to make discoveries in Egypt and - especially - on Mars that backed up certain core claims of the StarCon. But as this feature shows, things aren't as simple as that. Not by a very long way...

29 October 2025 – Lynn talks pirates on The UnXplained
'The Golden Age of Pirates', the opening episode of season 7 of The UnXplained with William Shatner, featuring Lynn, gets its first UK airing today, on Sky History2 (available on the subscription NOW streaming service). It's shown at 6am and repeated at the more reasonable 4pm.

28 October 2025 – UnXplained filming
Lynn was interviewed in London's Muswell Hill for the new series of The UnXplained with William Shatner, going out on the History Channel in 2026.

Lynn particularly wants to thank Taurence Armstrong and Bobby Ganges at Prometheus Entertainment in L.A. for their continuing support and encouragement.

16 October – Lynn on Ancient Aliens' Britain's UFO Files
Lynn features in the latest episode of History Channel's Ancient Aliens, aired tonight in the US, which focusses on UFO cases from the UK.

Also appearing are Nick Pope, Andrew Collins, Graham Phillips, Nick Redfern, David Clarke, and Hugh Newman, among others, with Robert Clotworthy, as usual, narrating.

The episode is scheduled for broadcast in the UK in November, on Sky History.

12 October 2025 – New Unchosen: 'The Whim That Saved My Life'
The latest instalment of Lynn's memoirs, out today on Patreon, tells how Lynn was literally two hours from death when a certain consultant surgeon came into work on a whim on his day off. Suddenly she was being operated on – and here she still is, 15 years later. Today, when she feels hard-done-by by life, she remembers that momentous day.

There's more about luck, health, allergies and intolerances – and the really, really bad luck that makes Lynn strangely light for her appearance....

7 October 2025 – New on Patreon: Opening and closing the Star Gate
Lynn and Clive's latest 25th anniversary update to The Stargate Conspiracy is out today on Patreon.

During their research for the book, claims emerged that some of the key – alleged – discoveries about Egypt and Mars that were being drawn into the Council of Nine scenario were made by a top-secret US government psychic spying programme with the evocative codename Star Gate. At the time there was little information to enable them to check the claims out, but over the last quarter of a century much more has been revealed about the 'psi-spy' operations. So, L&C ask, where does that leave the whole remarkable subject?

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19 September 2025 – Lynn and Clive's latest Stargate Conspiracy update
Continuing the 25th anniversary updates: With the New Millennium approaching ever faster, events at Egypt's Giza began to be portrayed as tantalisingly conspiratorial. At the same time, controversial new claims about the ancient civilisation, which had captured the imagination of millions, began to be brought together with the channelled teachings of the Council of Nine. In this feature, out today on Patreon, with new information that's emerged since the publication of The Stargate Conspiracy, L&C explore exactly how it all came together...

14 September 2025 – The latest Unchosen instalment: The Royal Family - and Lynn
In the new episode of her memoirs, out today on Patreon, Lynn focuses on certain individual royals and muses on the magic of the monarchy. As she makes clear, her attitude towards the House of Windsor is complicated and not uncritical, but after the death of the utterly wonderful Katharine, Duchess of Kent, she thought she'd explain. (But she also tells the story of having to dash through the marching guardsmen in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace... or so she was told…)

31 August 2025 – Out today on Patreon: The Stargate updates continue...
Over a quarter of a century ago, L&C's The Stargate Conspiracy was published and immediately stirred up huge controversy. Now they revisit both the book's revelations and the furore they caused.

In this new feature for their subscribers on Patreon, they continue to trace how, as the Millennium approached, the various threads of the 'StarCon' were woven together - some of them scarily apocalyptic!

19 August 2025 – Lucky Girl?
The latest instalment of Lynn's memoirs, The Unchosen at Number 15, is out today for her Patreon patrons.

In it she reflects on how she's learned the hard way that to be saved from disaster you have to be really, really up against it in the first place. And saved she has been, many times, usually at the very last minute. In fact, if a certain woman had been in when Lynn knocked on her door, her life in any real sense would have been over 60 years ago....

10 August 2025 – New on Sale on Patreon: Weirder Than Wonderland
Lynn and Clive's two 'Weirder Than Wonderland' features are now available to buy from their Patreon Shop.

Between them they explore two of science's great unknowns: cosmology's 'missing' matter and energy, and the nature of consciousness. Building on insights from their friend and collaborator Sinziana Paduroiu, PhD, CHt, who as an astrophysicist and hypnotherapist encompasses both sides, they show how evidence is growing that the answer to both mysteries might well be found in the same place…

The features, in PDF format, are £3 each, plus VAT/sales tax where relevant.

29 July 2025 – Stargate Update!
The latest in L&C's 25th anniversary Stargate Conspiracy retrospective is out today for their subscribers on Patreon.

As the 1990s began, the Council of Nine drama entered its third act. After a second decade-long hiatus, their apostles began to broadcast their message again. In parallel, mysteries of the ancient past and humankind's place in the universe began to be collated into a seemingly single, apocalyptic scenario – but which, as revealed in The Stargate Conspiracy, was then used in a massive deception. Here, with new information from the last quarter century, L&C explore how the pieces of the puzzle were brought together to see what light it sheds on the still-unanswered questions...

25 July 2025 – The UnXplained: Mad Scientists
The latest episode of The UnXplained with William Shatner is aired tonight on the History Channel in the US. It looks at scientists who pushed the boundaries of science to the edge of madness, taking them down strange, dark paths where they carried out bizarre and often unethical experiments involving mind control, animal-human hybrids and even torture.

As a contributor, Lynn delves into the dark world of the Nazi experiments and strange, Dr Frankenstein-like alchemists, besides many other examples of what, without hesitation, we'd all call mad scientists. Also appearing are Tony McMahon, A.J. Gentile of the Why Files podcast, historian Richard Brian Spence and science historian Alex Boese, among others. The show can be streamed on History and Amazon from tomorrow.

25 July 2025 – Lynn’s Favourite Encounter Ever (and it's not T Hanks!)
The latest instalment of Lynn's memoirs, out today on Patreon, rounds up her miniseries about big names she's met over the years, including rock stars and actors.... But you might just be surprised about her all-time favourite, who was never a performer - except of the most heroic and dramatic deeds....

18 July 2025 – The UnXplained with William Shatner: Mysterious Urban Legends
The latest episode of the show hosted by William Shatner airs in the US on the History Channel. It explores modern day folklore that blurs the line between myth and reality. Lynn is featured discussing the controversial phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion and many other fascinating rumoured phenomena.

Other contributors include investigative historian Tony McMahon, Andrew Gentile of the Why Files podcast, Professor of Folklore Lynne S. McNeill, and anthropologist Tok Thompson. The episode will be available for streaming on the History Channel and Amazon tomorrow.

9 July 2025 – The Unchosen at Number 15 latest
In the latest episode of her memoirs, out today on Patreon, Lynn looks back on the extraordinary number of famous people – either nationally or even internationally – she's encountered over the years. But even more remarkable is that three of the big names she'd watched starstruck on TV in that shabby little room in Eldon Terrace, York, would figure largely in her life, for different reasons...

1 July 2025 – The Stargate Conspiracy: The UFO connection
Lynn and Clive's latest 25th anniversary update feature to The Stargate Conspiracy, ‘Reflections in a Dark Mirror’, is out today on Patreon.

UFOs hardly featured in Stargate, just hovering in the background, as it were, of the Council of Nine affair. But after the book came out it was pointed out to L&C that one of the story's main characters had become extremely influential in the world of UFO research, especially in promoting a rather dubious variation of the alien contact scenario. They added something about that to the Update in the paperback edition, but their subsequent research uncovered much more...

22 June 2025 – The New Unchosen
The latest instalment of Lynn's memoirs is out today on Patreon. In it, she looks at the almost unbelievable shifts during her life, from her early years in the 1950s and 60s to today: from scratchy pen and ink to laptops; call boxes to smart phones; reference libraries to Google. But most dramatic of all has been the change in the law: once suicide was illegal; the last woman to be hanged in the UK was in the 60s and it was against the law to be a practising gay man until 1967.... All seen through the eyes of a once little girl from the near-slum of Eldon Terrace, York.

20 June 2025 – The UnXplained with William Shatner: Secret Societies
Lynn is featured in the latest episode of the show hosted by TV legend William Shatner, which goes out on the History Channel in the US. In it, she discusses Freemasonry and the notorious Hellfire Club of 18th century Britain.

The show covers the range of secret societies over the years, right up to the Mafia. Among the other contributors are writer and researcher Andrew Collins, Masonic historian and archivist Arturo de Hoyos, ex-mobster Michael Franzene and US attorney Edward McDonald. Rob O'Brien directs. The episode will be available on History Channel's streaming service and Amazon (US only) tomorrow.

17 June 2025 – Turin Shroud 30 Years On: The Finale
To conclude the 30th anniversary retrospective of their first book, Turin Shroud: How Leonardo da Vinci Fooled History, in their new Patreon feature L&C turn to the incredibly ahead-of-its-time technique they believe he used to create the mystifying image on the Shroud: photography. How has that theory fared over the last three decades?

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9 June 2025 – The Unchosen from Number 15: Education, Education, Education...
In the latest instalment of her memoirs for her Patreon patrons, Lynn looks back on her school experience way, way back in the 50s and 60s. How did a child from a deprived northern home cope with the elevation to a grammar school (an elite high school) after passing the all-important '11 Plus' exam? A strange, verbally violent and abusive time at home, but with school being something of a haven - apart from the campaign of persecution from her religious maniac of a head teacher...

6 June 2025 – Upcoming on The UnXplained with William Shatner
The latest season of The UnXplained with William Shatner begins airing tonight on the History Channel in the US. Lynn appears in three upcoming episodes: 'Secret Societies' (20 June), 'Mysterious Urban Legends' (18 July) and 'Mad Scientists' (25 July).

The show goes out on Fridays at 9pm Eastern/8pm Central, and is available to watch on History's streaming channel and Amazon the next day. Hosted by Shatner, also the show's executive producer, The UnXplained is directed by Rob O'Brien for Prometheus Entertainment.

5 June 2025 – Lynn and Clive go MAD about Leonardo!
L&C's appearance on the MAD (Minds Against Dogma) podcast is now online. 'Da Vinci vs. Dogma' is a two-hour conversation with their old friend, astrophysicist and hypnotherapist Sinziana Paduroiu, PhD, CHt, of the multidisciplinary research hub QOOSP Lab, covering all things Leonardo but focussing on his trickster and heretical mindset – and his love of jokes. And there's a lot about his inventions besides, of course, his intimate connection with the Shroud of Turin.

Minds Against Dogma is a podcast by Sinziana and hypnotherapist Joe Tabbanella, produced by QOOSP Lab, which explores cosmology, quantum physics, consciousness and AI – and what connects them.

To watch, go to QOOSP Lab's YouTube channel – and please subscribe, as there's much, much more fascinating, undogmatic content to come...

27 May 2025 – New on Patreon: The Shroud Saga Continues...
In August last year – neatly coinciding with the 30th anniversary of L&C's first book, Turin Shroud: How Leonardo da Vinci Fooled History – there was a wave of interest in the media and on the Internet in the claims of a team of Italian scientists that they had shown the Holy Shroud is, after all, 2000 years old. Was that the end for L&C's theory? In their latest Patreon feature, they take a closer look at those claims...

19 May 2025 – Out today: the latest in Lynn's memoirs, The Unchosen at Number 15
In the new instalment, exclusively for her subscribers on Patreon, Lynn muses on the vexed subject of reincarnation. Is it truly fair and just? Is karma a flawed system? She shares her thoughts and doubts about her own apparent past lives - were they so flawed because she hated herself in this life? But then there's that one amazing dream of death by drowning and instant karma that she could never doubt...

6 May 2025 – Out today on Patreon: Leonardo's Still Laughing (Part Two)
In their new Patreon feature L&C continue their 30th anniversary retrospective of their landmark book Turin Shroud: How Leonardo da Vinci Fooled History.

In the first part they set out the very commonsense reasons why the supposed image of Jesus on the Turin Shroud just can't be genuine. However, those determined to 'prove' it really is Jesus' winding sheet, miraculously imprinted with his image, tend to ignore the obvious. Instead, they focus on minute, sometimes microscopic, details they say can't be reconciled with it being a work of human ingenuity. But do these details really undermine L&C's case for Leonardo's photographic genius?

1 May 2025 – Leonardos for sale
Lynn and Clive are adding some of their early Patreon features to the platform's new Shop, where they will be available to purchase without subscribing.

To start things off, there are four features relating to their everlasting hero Leonardo da Vinci – after all, they owe their joint career to him:

Leonardo: Not the Messiah, but a Very Naughty Boy

Mona Lisa: In His Own Image?

The Mysteries of the Saviour of the World

The Million-Dollar Shroud Challenge (and Putting the Record Straight)

The features, in PDF format, are £3.50 each, except for the last which is £3, plus VAT/sales tax in relevant territories. For full details, see L&C's Patreon Shop page.

21 April 2025 – Lynn and Clive's 100th Patreon Feature! And a Very Special Anniversary...
L&C’s first book, Turin Shroud: How Leonardo da Vinci Fooled History, is currently celebrating its 30th year in print – which makes them exceptionally proud. So they thought it only right they devote their 100th Patreon feature to it, especially as it coincides with Easter, when the Shroud always becomes particularly relevant. And for extra value, it's the same week as Leonardo's 573rd birthday on 15 April – so no excuses required for returning to where it all started.

In the first of their retrospectives, 'Da Vinci’s Still Laughing...', L&C detail their responses to the latest research and how it takes the story on.

21 April 2025 – The Unchosen: The Highest Strangeness?
In Lynn's latest instalment of her memoirs The Unchosen at Number 15, out today on Patreon, she looks at happenings in the surreality that passes for her life that might be called paranormal or mystical. Had all that completely fizzled out, just things of her long past, shadows from a disturbed childhood in number 15, Eldon Terrace, York? Well, no. Remarkable things have continued – some of the very highest strangeness…

14 April 2025 – A MAD conversation (but in a good way)
L&C recorded an interview with their friend and collaborator Sinziana Paduroiu for the MAD (Minds Against Dogma) podcast, produced by her QOOSP Lab research hub, on their favourite subject – Leonardo da Vinci.

The podcast will be put out soon on QOOSP Lab's YouTube channel – watch this space!

31 March 2025 – New on Patreon: The Darkness and the Light
In the latest feature in their 25th anniversary retrospective of The Stargate Conspiracy, out today on Patreon, L&C examine one of its most controversial aspects – which became considerably more significant after an event that changed the world. Among the highly contentious and divisive racial and religious ideas they discerned lurking behind the ostensibly 'love and light' message of the Council of Nine was a distinctly negative depiction of Islam and its followers. And L&C address another, connected question: in the pages of their book, did they, as some claim, predict 9/11?

30 March 2025 – The Unchosen from Number 15 continues
The latest chapter in Lynn's memoirs is out today for her subscribers on Patreon. 'A Very British Sort of Madness' recounts an experience in one of London's gentlemen's clubs that could only happen in eccentric England.

3 March 2025 – Continuing the Stargate retrospective
The latest update to The Stargate Conspiracy is out today, exclusively for L&C’s patrons on Patreon.

Although the 1970s' plan to centre a new religion on the Council of Nine failed, as L&C revealed it was resurrected over a decade later during the countdown to the Millennium – but why? In their new feature, they look at how the Nine became rooted in the New Age through their most influential guru – and the reaction of his devotees to what they said about him...

1 March 2025 – Magical France
A new book by photographer and folklore researcher Rob Wildwood, Magical France, which includes contributions and research by Clive, is out today.

A follow-up to Rob's acclaimed Magical Britain, it's a journey into France's sacred landscape, exploring its magical and mythical past through more than 500 sites, including those connected to Mary Magdalene, Black Madonnas, ancient goddesses and Celtic saints, as well as the mysterious otherworld of fairies, giants, dragons and water spirits. In addition to the stunning photographs, there's a detailed guide to the sites with accompanying maps, GPS coordinates, information on visiting and nearby attractions.

Magical France is published by Wild Things Publishing, and is available through the website of Rob's The Jelling Dragon, which produces handcrafted reproductions of Viking artefacts (as well as the usual outlets).

24 February 2025 – New Patreon feature: 'The Stargate Conspiracy 25 Years On: Fallen Gods'
Lynn and Clive's latest 25th anniversary update feature is out today on Patreon.

With the second act of the Council of Nine drama ended by the mysterious arson attack on Lab Nine, L&C examine the evidence to find out what was really going on behind the scenes – and what it can tell us about the origins of the extraordinary plan they exposed in The Stargate Conspiracy...

17 February 2025 – Lynn filmed for The UnXplained with William Shatner
Lynn had a full and intense day of filming in London for The UnXplained with William Shatner, covering a number of subjects, including secret societies, urban legends, the dark folklore of her own county of north Yorkshire, the mysterious lost Doggerland and assorted tales of UFOs and hauntings over the centuries.

The new season is set to air in the US on the History Channel in the summer.

10 February 2025 – Unchosen, Up North
At a time when we all need a bit of light relief, the new instalment of Lynn's memoirs, out today on Patreon, relates her and Clive's adventures up in The Wrong Sort of North (Lancashire, whereas she - of course - is a Yorkshirewoman). They went twice over the years, and both times were, inevitably, somewhat surreal...

30 January 2025 – Out Today on Patreon: Continuing the 25th anniversary updates of The Stargate Conspiracy
In their latest exclusive Patreon feature, 'Into Darkness', L&C continue the story of the Council of Nine in the light of new information that's emerged since the launch of The Stargate Conspiracy in 1999. Does it change the picture, and can it shed light on some of the big remaining questions?

In this feature they revisit some very sinister and deeply disturbing events at the end of the 1970s that brought about the end of the second act of the Nine drama...

14 January 2025 – The Stargate Conspiracy 25 Years On: Playing God
L&C’s first Patreon feature of the year continues their 25th anniversary update of The Stargate Conspiracy - and you really couldn't make it up.

Tracing the strange-stranger-strangest story of the Council of Nine in the light of new information over the last 25 years, L&C reveal that beneath the surface of their messages of 'peace, love and joy' lurked something much more disturbing. That also goes for the man at the heart of it all. In fact, Lynn had known of his dark side long before she and Clive began the trail that led to The Stargate Conspiracy...

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13 January 2025 – The Unchosen latest: Promoting the 'Mascaras' of Christ
In the latest episode of Lynn's memoirs, out today on Patreon, she and Clive are invited to launch their book, The Masks of Christ (or 'Mascaras' in the local language), in Spain. She goes behind the scenes of an amazingly successful trip – often hilariously surreal and routinely with a calorie count off the scale...

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