Gorebag and Mme. Corriveau Unveil "Roswell" Alien

By Claude Needham

Halloween was the date that slimeworld.org and several "mirror" websites simultaneously revealed 35 heretofore unpublished photographs including many of a figure representing an alien which has gained international celebrity over the past decade and has been the subject of much controversy. Published in nearly a dozen books, on several magazine covers, in countless newspaper and magazine articles and in several documentaries, this alien has most often been said to represent the mold taken from the face of an alien recovered at Roswell. How this rumor began circulating is anyone's guess, that part will probably remain a mystery forever, but one thing is for certain, while rumors prevail, Gorebag just happened to be sitting on the truth for a full two years before enticing the cat out of the bag and convincing the originator of this unwitting international hoax that it was safe to tell the whole story. As it happens, Gorebag had taken photos of it himself which remained buried all these years among the thousands in his extensive collection. How did Gorebag come to take photos of this creature you are probably wondering? Well that's a story that goes back to 1978 when he was doing workshops throughout Canada and continued doing so intermittently until 1983. It was during one of these trips that he was introduced to the humanoid by its very originator, Linda Corriveau, who has since become Gold's biographer and Gateways editor, but who, at the time, was the director of Strange, Strange World, a 10,000 square foot exhibit at Man and His World in Montreal. The exhibit had many fascinating displays including a whole section devoted to UFOs. Madame Corriveau was dissatisfied with the aliens in the display and decided to make one herself that would correspond to the majority of reports. She sculpted it out of clay and had it reproduced by the Tussaud Wax Museum who did a great job and made it so lifelike that visitors often thought it was an actual corpse! Corriveau had wanted it to look good, be convincing and shock visitors but not frighten them away. It seems she succeeded in doing far more than that by contributing to the mythology of the planet. A healthy dose of paranoia kept her from revealing the nature of the humanoid to a broad public. And if you're wondering what there is to be paranoid about check out some of the responses from the UFO community when this was launched: "The photos you have are forgeries, they can't be real, you made them up in Photoshop or in some other program." Or, "You can't publish photos of that thing. The copyright is owned by the photographer." !!!! All this before they were released. Well, in spite of all efforts to suppress them, the photos are on the web for the whole world to know the truth. We'll see what happens next....