Legendary Showmen, Occultists, And Hoaxers Codexery

A source-cited reference to legendary showmen, occultists, and hoaxers

Legendary Showmen, Occultists, And Hoaxers (18)

• Alessandro Cagliostro — Italian occultist and confidence trickster known as Count Alessandro di Cagliostro.
• Daniel Dunglas Home — Scottish physical medium with reported abilities to levitate, speak with the dead, and produce rapping and knocks.
• Emperor Norton — Self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States and San Francisco icon.
• Forrest J Ackerman — The Ackermonster: Father of Sci-Fi Fandom and Collector of the Fantastic
• Geoffrey of Monmouth — The cleric who forged the Arthurian legend
• Iolo Morganwg — Welsh antiquarian and forger who shaped modern Druidry.
• Larry Harvey — Main co-founder of the Burning Man event.
• Nostradamus — French astrologer and reputed seer of the 16th century.
• Alexei Stakhanov — Soviet miner whose record sparked the Stakhanovite movement.
• Alija Sirotanović — Yugoslav miner and udarnik who set a coal-extracting record in 1949, celebrated as a model worker by the Communist…
• Charles Boycott — English land agent whose ostracism coined the term 'boycott'.
• Dane Rudhyar — Pioneer of humanistic and transpersonal astrology.
• Ed and Lorraine Warren — American paranormal investigators who popularized alleged hauntings in film and media.
• Erich von Däniken — Swiss author who popularized ancient astronaut theory.
• Ian Stevenson — Psychiatrist who studied children's past-life memories.
• Immanuel Velikovsky — Russian-American psychoanalyst, writer, and catastrophist author of Worlds in Collision.
• Ivan T. Sanderson — British biologist and writer; founding figure of cryptozoology; frequent TV guest with exotic animals.
• Samuel Conway — Chemist, Anthrocon chairman, and furry fandom storyteller.

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