1. Copy-and-paste the ballot below into an e-mail.
2. Choose HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD in the BOOK OF THE YEAR (NON-FICTION) category.
3. Then email to David Colton (taraco@aol.com) by midnight on May 1, 2026.
Don’t forget to include your name in the e-mail!
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11) BOOK OF THE YEAR (non-fiction):
— HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD: An Investigation into the Cinema of Occulted Taboos,
by Robert Guffey (Headpress, softcover, 368 pages, $29.95). From UFOs
to JFK, how filmmakers have handled conspiracies and the supernatural.
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By the way, you can hear me talking about the secret origins of HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD on several different podcasts including CONSPIRINORMAL, FORGOTTEN HOLLYWOOD, HI, STRANGENESS, THE NEW BOOKS NETWORK, RAVENSTAR'S WITCHING HOUR, THE WARPED REALITY PARANORMAL PODCAST, and WHERE DID THE ROAD GO?
PRAISE FOR HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD:
From Lauren Aratani's 4-18-26 GUARDIAN article entitled "Traders Placed Over $1bn in Perfectly Timed Bets on the Iran War. What Is Going On?":
Sixteen bets made $100,000 each accurately predicting the timing of the US airstrikes against Iran on 27 February. Later, a single user would make over $550,000 after betting that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would topple, just moments before his assassination by Israeli forces. On 7 April, right before Donald Trump announced a temporary ceasefire with Iran, traders bet $950m that oil prices would come down. They did.
These bets and other well-timed wagers accurately predicted the precise timing of major developments in the US-Israel war with Iran, creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers and experts over potential insider trading.
Betting – once largely siloed to sporting events – has now spread to include contracts on news events where insider information could give some traders an advantage.
The proliferation of online betting markets like Polymarket and Kalshi has allowed bets on virtually any news event. It’s also easier than ever to buy commodity derivatives like oil futures, where traders gamble on what the price of oil will be in the future [...].
On the night of 27 February, the day before the US and Israel would carry out strikes on Iran, an unusual influx of about 150 accounts on Polymarket placed bets that the US would strike Iran the next day. A New York Times analysis found the bets totaled $855,000, with 16 accounts pocketing more than $100,000 each.
Soon after, a single anonymous Polymarket user, under an account named “Magamyman”, made over $553,000 after betting that Khamenei would be “removed” from power just moments before he was killed by an Israeli airstrike, according to a complaint filed to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal agency that regulates futures markets, by Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group. The complaint also cites a crypto-analytics firm that identified six “suspected insiders” who made a total of $1.2m on Polymarket after Khamenei was killed.
The well-timed surge of wagers were seen again on 7 April, when at least 50 Polymarket accounts placed bets that the US and Iran would reach a ceasefire hours before Trump would announce it in a Truth Social post. Earlier, the president had said “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran did not open the strait of Hormuz.
But traders weren’t just active on Polymarket: there were similar surges of oil futures trading activity just hours before Trump announced updates to the conflict that would lower oil prices.
On 23 March, traders placed $580m in bets on the oil futures market just 15 minutes before Trump said on social media that the US was having “productive” talks with Iran, according to the Financial Times. The traders made a windfall after Trump’s comments triggered a sell-off in the oil markets that made oil prices plummet [...].
To read the entire article, click HERE.
From Eric Garcia's 4-26-26 INDEPENDENT article entitled "White House Correspondents’ Dinner Suspect Cole Allen Sent Anti-Trump Manifesto to Family Before Opening Fire":
The suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner sent a manifesto critical of President Donald Trump to his family before he allegedly opened fire at the Washington Hilton, The New York Post reports.
Authorities identified the shooter as 31-year-old Cole Allen, a teacher from Torrance, California. Allen’s brother notified police in the New London, Connecticut, police department. Allen’s document was signed “Cole ‘coldForce’ ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ Allen.”
The Post reported that the manifesto showed that Allen allegedly wanted to kill officials from the Trump administration.
“Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed,” he wrote. Allen would proceed to list off some of the actions from the Trump administration that allegedly drove him to open fire.
“I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial,” he said. “I’m not a schoolkid blown up, or a child starved, or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration. Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.”
Allen said that officials from the Trump administration — with the exception of FBI Director Kash Patel — were targets for his alleged rampage.
“I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,” he wrote in reference to the president [...].
To read the entire article, click HERE.
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The latest episode of FORGOTTEN HOLLYWOOD has just dropped! Hosted by Doug Hess, this episode covers my most recent nonfiction book, HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD (Headpress, 2025). Topics include Stephen R. Bissette, TABOO, Val Lewton, Jacques Tourneur, Mark Robson, THE CAT PEOPLE, THE SEVENTH VICTIM, Philip K. Dick, the JFK assassination, INHERIT THE WIND, THE PARALLAX VIEW, Loren Singer, MK-ULTRA, the OSS, the CIA, Curt Siodmak, Dr. Jose M.R. Delgado, CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN, Oliver Stone, John Carpenter, THEY LIVE, Keith David, Roddy Piper, the Freemasons, Jonathan Lethem, D. Harlan Wilson, Gnosticism, THE LOWDOWN, Jim Thompson, Hunter S. Thompson, THE GREAT GATSBY, and the forthcoming Rondo Awards! To listen to the entire episode, click HERE!!!
Recommended Listening: On the most recent episode of WHERE DID THE ROAD GO?, Seriah Azkath and Timothy Renner (co-author of WHERE THE FOOTSTEPS END) discuss the implications of Marq Evans' forthcoming documentary film, CAPTURING BIGFOOT. To listen to the interview, click HERE.
