{"id":47,"date":"2005-06-20T21:02:17","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T15:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2017-02-09T22:40:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T02:40:01","slug":"of-beckjord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2005\/06\/20\/of-beckjord\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Beckjord"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cJon-Erik Beckjord, BA (honors -Tulane),MBA (UC Berk.) , is a managment [sic] consultant and also an investigtor [sic] of anomalous phenomena world-wide, spirit photographer, an adventurer, traveller,[sic] lecturer and author.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thus begins the web page allegedly world-famous, Erik Beckjord.<\/a> He’s the inventor of a coat hanger wire thing <\/a>that allows one to set magazines in loose leaf binders. He also has the distinction of being kicked off more woo forums than any skeptic.<\/p>\n

How does he do it? The folks at JREF recently got a first-hand look.
\nThey were having a conversation with someone named LAL. She seems reasonable despite a very strong belief that Criptos like Bigfoot are flesh and blood creatures.<\/p>\n

Mr. Beckjord has a slightly different take on the matter, he started a new topic on the forum with this –<\/p>\n

“Erik is here and it is a new ball game. <\/em><\/p>\n

I said this in 1995 on Henry Franzoni’s IVBC list, and all hell broke loose. I introduced the paranormal\/supernatural\/tulpa\/alien concept, and was immediately attacked most viciously
\nby all the non-researcher newbies there. (This has continued on most all boards ever since). However
\nHenry himself was a secret supernaturalist, and I had many
\nbeer-soaked phone talks with him, and after he speciously
\nattacked me to his list to “preserve his cred” (ho) and stay in with
\nDahinden etc, I then OUTED him and posted some of his
\npara experiences. “<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s kind of difficult to make out where this person is coming from, a very strange place indeed.<\/p>\n

He continued;
\n
\n“I am a “semi-expert” snce nobody except abductees is an actualy expert, but I did interview two of those. (Will be in my book).<\/em><\/p>\n

So — have at it — I can take your very worst. And then convert you.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac?<\/p>\n

What he ended up doing after almost a hundred, more than 15 a day was get suspended for cussing people out.<\/p>\n

I’m converted! Far from thinking this person is a nutball, I now think he’s a world-class nutball. Way to go!<\/p>\n

The Odd Emperor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cJon-Erik Beckjord, BA (honors -Tulane),MBA (UC Berk.) , is a managment [sic] consultant and also an investigtor [sic] of anomalous phenomena world-wide, spirit photographer, an adventurer, traveller,[sic] lecturer and author.” Thus begins the web page allegedly world-famous, Erik Beckjord. He’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2909,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/2909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}