just thought I would say hello on this interesting thread still naving around
just thought I would say hello on this interesting thread still naving around
Ooh, he's got a new little animated GIF thing on his site;
Seems his Wikipedia entry has been deleted. Does anyone know why? I can guess though!
Just clicked through and his wikipedia entry still seems to be there - I clicked through on the link given on he previous page of this link. Does this mean he is saying it is wrong?
The Wiki article feeds his ego ok enough so dunno why he has that on his site.
He's put his local mysteries column online now and starts off with the Speke Werewolf .
http://www.slemen.com/newlocalmysteries.html
Gididi Gididi Goo.
Strange that he doesn't like wikipedia all of a sudden because his detective cohort from olive mount and he used to say they'd solved the ripper case and julia wallace case on there and to watch out for a new book coming out. Was 7 years ago mind.
No, his Haunted Liverpool article is still there his actual biographical article is gone.
http://www.slemen.com/wherestom.html
Love the ego feeding In this.
Except for Radio Merseyside, Radio Is funded by advertisements and sponsors and there was the Issue he had with Mick Ord of Radio Merseyside.
http://www.slemen.com/slemmy.html
Original eh.
Gididi Gididi Goo.
Only false ghost stories
First, from an old post that I wrote here in the Scouser Hall of Fame, and then some other information to add to the pot:
Hi MissInformed
If Tom [Slemen] does join the forum I would like him to explain why his story The Valentine Ghost said to have occurred on the iron bridge in Sefton Park, featuring the lovers named William Robert D'Onston and Alice Harwood, appears to be a direct borrowing of the story of the Ripper suspect Robert D. Stephenson otherwise known as Roslyn D'Onston who related a very similar story that took place not in Sefton Park but in Hull.
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Recently, at JtRForums, Hull researcher Mike Covell has been discussing the different versions of this story, often known as "The Lovers of Porthangwartha." It seems that the story goes back centuries and that if indeed Roslyn D'Onston contributed the story to W. T. Stead's Review of Reviews 1892, New Year's Extra Number, or else Stead contributed it himself, crediting it to the mysterious D'Onston, either man was just borrowing it from other sources, just as Mr. Slemen apparently did as well.
All the best
Chris
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The trouble is, i've been at a couple of events that TS has also attended. People do come up to him with stories and whether these are quantified before publication, I don't know. How do you quantify something that nobody has any visual evidence of, only their word or even something they've heard second or third hand?
I have always said that I don't mind Slemen publishing stories that people tell him - researched or not, what I do take umbrage with is when he falsifies Liverpool's history and makes stuff up.
I have recently been doing a lot of research on 'William MacKenzie' and was myself checking Slemen's original published work in 'Haunted Liverpool 4'. He cannot even get the name of the guy right, he calls him 'James McKenzie'. It's things like this that I find unforgivable in his work.
The casebook guys asked him about the D'Onston story and he avoided the question by saying It's not relevant and that he's too busy to explain.
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http://www.casebook.org/forum/messages/4922/12197.htmlTomSlemen
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Posted on Monday, September 20, 2004 - 5:25 pm:
First of all Mr Wescott (whoever you are, never heard of you) I didn't. Secondly, I do not have time to enter into further discussion with you, too busy. Can't see how a folklore tale written many years ago is relevant to this valuable forum when so much badly-researched laughable rubbish makes it into books on Jack the Ripper. You seem quite flustered, and it amuses me. No doubt you'll be grinding your teeth when the book comes out. Do you really have a clue as to who the Ripper was? I imagine you've been trying to find out for a very long time. Perhaps in another hundred years you'd be wiser?
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