Golden Dawn, Bradford

Golden Dawn Shines on Heaton

The Golden Dawn Temple of Horus in Bradford was first featured on our then website 'Black Feathers', back in 2005.  We still retain all the eerie photos from this website, which was also featured on local radio at the time.  The site was removed because it seemed to carry 'bad vibes', possibly because of its content and this is why it was mentioned on the radio. 

At the beginning of 2007, I started writing a blog on paranormal Bradford and surrounding areas.  A great deal of what was featured on the blog was fresh, word of mouth material, though occasionally I used other sources.

I couldn't believe it when an article appeared in the Bradford Telegraph & Argus mentioning someone called David Richardson and quoting him as if he was the author of information taken directly from one of our web outlets in September 2009. I actually rang the Telegraph and Argus and complained to the author of the piece, David Barnett, as I could prove plagiarism.  He apologised and later featured another of our blogs (at this moment closed) in a Telegraph & Argus article in January 2010.

I have come across other blogs which have clearly taken information from one of our websites but not acknowledged us.  We recently closed three of our major websites because they were being copied, but again no acknowledgement to us was given.  Instead we have started producing e-books which are for sale at a small cost.

A lot of researchers, writers and journalists use the internet for ideas for TV and radio programmes and magazine articles.  They want juicy freebies in the form of information from internet hobbyists, which can then be passed off as their own work to the much wider general public through real-world sources and hard copy book deals.

I also think that ghost hunters and paranormal investigators should charge the owners of haunted properties they visit, as they take the professionalism out of the job if they spirit seek at pubs and venues for free and also devalue themselves and their abilities.  It is not rude to ask to be valued for yourself and what you do.  Psychic work is very tiring, as is typing out long articles for websites.  Researchers get paid for their time, so the least someone should expect is acknowledgement for their efforts.

And now Facebook culture has taken over creating a moral panic in its own right.  I am not on Facebook, or Twitter.  I know a good number of film makers and writers who are not on Facebook either, neither are my friends.  So there is a market outside Facebook.  Facebook is not giving you a web page for free, it is harvesting all your information. and selling shares in Facebook to others.  This may be fine, as long as people realise it is not free, they are paying with their information.  So why then, should other internet resources on blogs or private websites be taken for free without acknowledgement to the writers and web masters who spend hours creating these websites?