Rearranging the Furniture

Yes the templates have changed. You are not seeing things. Bonky has not hacked the page.

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Crazed Sean on YouTube

For your weekend enjoyment, here is a clip from YouTube featuring Sean and his hippy side-kick, "Brother" Keith. Notice in the comments section Sean is posting as SoLateIntotheNight. Sean has a Lord Byron fetish.



Edit: The Overseer has some great points on this vid. Read about it in this post!

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Another Blog Debuts!

That poor maligned feline, John Baldry's Cat, has his very own blog. Sometime tomorrow when we cube rats return to work, the office will erupt in laughter reading his age old wisdom. Think of it - casual Friday.- reading a brilliant satire by John Baldry's Cat whilst consuming coffee and donuts waiting for the next pink slip to fall.

Of course Cat has a better layout on his blog than we do. That means we Joes have to get in gear and tweek ours because it looks ratty.

C Ya Cat!

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The Nocturnal Radio Brouhaha Continued

The Arminius Vámbéry Saga Continues

With special thanks to Alex Berger, he has been kind enough to forward the rest of the Nocturnal Frequency fracas for everyone's enjoyment! (note to US readers - date is posted in European form)

Alex Berger
10/06/2009 15:20
Who are the "many" that observed David in that way? Name names or don't make the claims.

Arminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 07:51
If, as you claim, Farrant's non-existent "BPOS" has "considerably in excess of 350 members" where are these members? Farrant is on Facebook as self-styled "president" of the "BPOS." He can barely muster 40 "friends" who, bar a couple of exceptions, are people young enough to be his grandchildren living in various parts of the world who he has never heard of before. Why have none of the mythological "350" ever materialised?

Arminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 07:56
The alleged "350" members have never materialised anywhere Farrant has created a group, forum or message board? They simply do not exist and have never existed. Farrant is the only member of his "BPOS." He has provided no evidence to suggest otherwise. The history he has given for his non-existent "BPOS" is risible. Anyone with half a brain could work out that if he was living rough in France picking grapes he could not be running a UK occult society. It is all lies

Arminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 07:57
So now "Alex Berger" (and we all know who he is) calls the shots? Whatever happened to freedom of speech? It's apparently all right for Farrant to spout libel about Seán Manchester in two interviews but apparently not all right for someone to refute what Farrant claims? That sounds a bit like running scared to me. The truth hurts, I suppose, and Farrant is obviously reallly hurting. By the way, what has any of this got to do with "Alex Berger"? He's just a hanger-on.

Alex Berger
11/06/2009 09:39
You make the mistake of assuming everyone has a facebook account. I don't have one and many of our members are c. 50-70 in age and a lot of those will also not be as net savvy as younger people. I could ask you where all the members of the VRS/BOS are hiding, but as I don't want to be on facebook I guess I'll never know. Much of our society's caseload is dealt with in private, for much the same reason as the VRS also only discuss a small percentage of their cases. You must realise that despit[cut off]

Alex Berger
11/06/2009 09:41
My friend Barbara Green has summed this situation up nicely: "Bonky doesn’t have any existence without David, its like me and my shadow, waltzing down the avenue etc! Psychic Siamese Twins, poor David, one of those conjoined twins where one is a parasite ( Bonky) feeding on the other."

Alex Berger
11/06/2009 09:54
We notice that you are contributing to a facebook page owned by David's ex-secretary. We believe this woman to be socially vunerable and your cinical attempts to stir the troubled waters are sad reflection on the levels to which you will stoop in order to harm David. This is not appropriate behaviour for a man of the cloth. When you finally push this woman "over the edge" it will be something you will have to live with forever.

Arminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 10:12
"'There is no British Psychic & Occult Society'." How would you know Arminius? For your information there are considerably in excess of 350 members, I don't have the exact figure to hand," claims "Alex Berger" without a shred of evidence to support such a claim. I cannot prove a negative because Farrant's members do not exist, but of they really existed that fact could be demonstrated. There is, however, plenty of circumstantial evidence to show they do not exist.

Alex Berger
11/06/2009 10:19
I join Mr Anthony Hogg in condemning the removal of Don Ecker's account of the Highgate Vampire Hoax on Anthony's website by the spurious claim of copyright infringement. Manchester accuses me of preventing free speech when I asked Steve to remove his malicious bile from Nocturnal Frequencey Radio, and yet he goes and pulls a stunt like this. What a hypocrite.

Arminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 10:19
"You make the mistake of assuming everyone has a facebook account," says "Alex Berger." I would say two things to that: (1) get a Facebook account and (2) groups can be viewed without registering or being a member. "Berger" has no answer as to why none of Farrant's "350" have joined any of the forums/boards etc set up by Farrant. Membership of the Vampire Research Society is purposely kept small. The British Occult Society was formally dissolved in 1988.

Arminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 10:24
"My friend Barbara Green has summed this situation up nicely: 'Bonky doesn’t have any existence without David'," repeats "Berger." Why have none of you people got an ounce of originality? You take something I said weeks ago and mirror it back as if you are somehow being clever. I am flattered that my words are so potent, but it is, of course, Farrant who desperately needs Seán Manchester. Why else would he talk endlessly about him in both interviews on Genier's blogtalk?

Arminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 10:31
"I join Mr Anthony Hogg in condemning the removal of Don Ecker's account of the Highgate Vampire Hoax on Anthony's website by the spurious claim of copyright infringement," says "Berger." The images uploaded by Ecker were predomiantly from "The Highgate Vampire" book and the VRS website, all of which is the exclusise copyright of Seán Manchester. If Seán Manchester owns the copyright to stolen images how can any action to recover them be spurious?

Arminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 10:34
"We notice that you are contributing to a facebook page owned by David's ex-secretary. We believe this woman to be socially vunerable and your cinical attempts to stir the troubled waters are sad reflection on the levels to which you will stoop in order to harm David," states "Berger." It was, however, Farrant's ex-girlfriend Catherine Fearnley who started the Facebook group, not me, in order to refute all the malice and hatred on Farrant's blog.

Arminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 10:37
"When you finally push this woman 'over the edge' it will be something you will have to live with forever," claims "Berger." Yet this woman, whose name is Catherine Fearnley, says she has never been happier than she is now and that she was pushed over the edge when she was Farrant's girlfirend and he had her do all his dirty work for him; something she now deeply regrets.

Arminius Vámbéry
11/06/2009 10:43
You are a rather silly person, "Alex Berger," who always manages to make a bad situation worse. Your claims are adolescent and asinine. Allowing yourself to become an extension to Farrant's malicious hate campaign is something you must live with. Perhaps one day, like Miss Fearnley, you will perhaps wake up and recognise what is going on and regret your deceitful allegations? Until that day arrives, you are transparently no more than Farrant's dupe.

Alex Berger
11/06/2009 10:49
"Yet this woman, whose name is Catherine Fearnley, says she has never been happier than she is now and that she was pushed over the edge when she was Farrant's girlfirend ..." David denies that Catherine was his girlfriend. But that aside, you must agree that Catherine felt she had been spurned and lots of what she said and did in the aftermath of this was malicious. (Such as contacting the police about emails supposedly sent from David's computers - None were found).

Alex Berger
11/06/2009 10:54
"If Seán Manchester owns the copyright to stolen images how can any action to recover them be spurious?". OK - So let's ask Don to remove the images whose copyright you so closely guard and republish the original sans images. What you really object to is that he failed to believe your lurid vampire story and had the guts to say so. Copyright is being used as a smokescreen.

Alex Berger
11/06/2009 11:02
"You are a rather silly person, "Alex Berger," who always manages to make a bad situation worse. Your claims are adolescent and asinine." That's a cheek! It's a damn sight less adolescent and asinine than claiming to have fought a "giant vampire spider" whilst dressed only in a shiny purple robe standing in a magic circle of burning sulphur!!

Alex Berger
11/06/2009 11:07
Despite your obviously low opinion of me I don't actually hate you Sean. All I want is for David to get a fair crack of the whip and not be bullied into a corner by your reams of copy and paste
nonsense. You refuse to contribute to any project involving David but often turn up later trying to malign him. You stared this comments row by calling David "disingenuous and deceitful".

Arminius Vámbéry - what a fruit loop! LOL! FYI, Mr. Berger is right. Sean is notorious for shutting down blogs who use images that Sean clearly does not own (like from TV shows) or those that can be used in accordance with the Fair Use laws of the US. However, Sean regularly steals images he does not own and claims Fair Use privilege.

A warning to Bonky: this blog is archived. Pull this stunt with us and we'll move the whole thing to a private account with a provider that could care less. Play fair with us and we will play fair with you.

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Bonky Blows Top On Nocturnal Frequency Blog

Speak of the Devil!

Sean attempted to hijack another blog, this time Nocturnal Frequency Radio's blog. The internet paranormal radio show invited David Farrant, not once, but twice to do an interview.

Of course, the Bishop of the Church of Net Curtains wouldn't stand for it as David proved to be quite popular. And so, as so many times, Bonky ranted, raved and stamped his feet in outrage - under an alias of Arminius Vámbéry. The admins have since deleted the thread as they lost patience with Sean. Thanks to the archive at Google, here is the whole tirade:

Arminius Vámbéry

6/2/2009 9:13 AM

I doubt anyone could meet a more disingenuous and deceitful person; so utterly void of sincerity; so totally consumed by his hatred for Seán Manchester. From Farrant's lips spills a poisonous brew of malice and falsehood with each and every utterance. Why anyone would take any notice of this non-entity who will do just about anything to seek attention is baffling. Far worse, he will defame and damage those he envies and fears in the pursuit of his malicious agenda.

Arminius Vámbéry

6/2/2009 11:37 AM

Like the previous interview in April, David Farrant reads at length from Seán Manchester's bestselling book THE HIGHGATE VAMPIRE, but nothing from his own self-published pamphlet. He also repeats the same defamatory allegations about an 8mm film which was never made by Seán Manchester who wants absolutely nothing to do with this convicted felon. The reason Farrant is so disliked is not because he doesn't believe Seán Manchester's account, but because of his malicious vendetta.

NOCTURNAL FREQUENCY

6/3/2009 2:56 PM

Pathetic is you spending way too much time trying to defame someone who has nothing to hide and has been completely open about this situation. Pathetic is the amount of time you must spend on the computer stocking David's every move.....

David Farrant

6/3/2009 3:27 PM

What IS pathetic Sean, are your desperate attempts to try and pretend that 'Arminious Vambery is not really yourself. You are really the coward here, Sean, hiding behind an alias to tell lies about myself. And lets make no mistake, Sean, everybody knows that this fictitious character is really yourself. You are quite incapable of telling the truth; in fact, you don't even know what the word means. You are a compulsive liar, Sean, and note, I am saying this to your face directly and signing my

Arminius Vámbéry

6/3/2009 3:46 PM

Farrant is a vile and depraved character who puts people's private addresses on both the internet and in his self-published pamphlets together with incitements of extreme hatred. People he dislikes are subject to gross defamation. Anyone who actually checks out what he says will discover he is distorting the facts and lying. He is such a coward. He refuses to meet Seán Manchester face to face in private. The only reason he uses his own name is because he desperately craves publicity.

Arminius Vámbéry

6/3/2009 3:49 PM

I am not Seán Manchester. I am my own person and know a great deal more about these matters than Steve Genier who has become Farrant's mouthpiece. Farrant is a fraud and Genier is his patsy. Genier has no idea what Farrant does to those he dislikes. And he needs no help in blackening his own name. He manages to do that every time he opens his twisted mouth out of which pours a poisonous brew of malice, misrepresentation and unsubstantiated allegations.

NOCTURNAL FREQUENCY

6/3/2009 4:09 PM

As you say Arminius..I'm my own person and no one patsy. As for mouthpieces..I think you take the award for that! It seems if you aren't Sean Manchester, then it is you who his his mouthpiece and patsy!

David Farrant

6/3/2009 4:32 PM

You ARE Sean Manchester, Sean - and everybody knows it! Everybody also knows that your 'vampire' accounts are just pure fiction and everybody knows that as well! DAVID FARRANT

Arminius Vámbéry

6/3/2009 4:49 PM

Let's cut through the smokescreen of saying I'm Seán Manchester. He accuses everyone who challenges him of being Seán Manchester. Forget that little game and let's play for higher stakes. Farrant has recently threatened to descend on Seán Manchester's private residence on the latter's birthday in a few weeks' time. He made the same threat five years ago, but failed to carry it out. Why doesn't this twisted non-entity actually turn up as promised?

Arminius Vámbéry

6/3/2009 4:54 PM

Why doesn't David Farrant have the guts to face Seán Manchester in private? They haven't been in communication for decades. Why not sort everything out once and for all? Or is hiding behind a computer posting libel and threats all Farrant can manage? His comments where he talks of turning up uninvited at Seán Manchester's private residence can be found in posts made on 14/15 May 2009 at: http://davidfarrant.org/TheHumanTouch/?p=389#comments

David Farrant

6/3/2009 6:06 PM

I have invited you to come and knock on my door. I have an injured foot and don't have a car, Sean Your wife does. Get her to drive you up from Bournemouth; you know where I live. Well? Come on you gutless fake, you know where I live. All you're really capable of Sean is hiding behind fake aliases ('Arminious' in this instance) and telling cowardly lies about people whilst pretending to be a 'bishop'. You are a sick little man Sean. David Farrant.

David Farrant

6/3/2009 6:09 PM

PS You can take that as a public invitation, Sean. David Farrant

David Farrant

6/3/2009 6:33 PM

I see you have deleted my last post Sean,where I publicly invited you to get your wife to drive you up from Bournemouth and come and knock on my door. I made the invitation publicly - which is why you deleted it. This has been copied and will keep being posted until I get a public answer, Sean. Don't hide behind your fake alias of 'Arminius'. Answer me under your real name Sean. Well? DAVID FARRANT

Arminius Vámbéry

6/4/2009 7:49 AM

I am not Seán Manchester, but I am aware of the situation better than most. The fact is that David Farrant threatened to descend on a private residence owned by Seán Manchester and he threatened to do so on Seán Manchester's birthday. Seán Manchester did not threaten to arrive on Farrant's doorstep in Muswell Hill, London. The onus is therefore on Farrant to carry out his threat which he made in posts found at: http://davidfarrant.org/TheHumanTouch/?p=389#comments

Arminius Vámbéry

6/4/2009 7:55 AM

Many have observed that if you extract Seán Manchester from any interview Farrant gives he is left with nothing to say; if you extract Seán Manchester from anything Farrant has self-published he is left with nothing to write about; and if you extract Seán Manchester from Farrant's life he becomes a poorly educated non-entity without any skills who nobody would notice. It is only by exploiting and riding on the coat-tails of Seán Manchester that Farrant has any public life.

David Farrant

6/4/2009 1:52 PM

As you’ve deleted my last post Sean, here it is again: CONTINUED: Remember, it was yourself who invited me to your bunglow in Bournemouth in 1998 to be “exorcised” (as reported by the Press then). I am merely returning the invitation now! You say . . . “Without me (you) my life would be nothing!”. Ye gods! Just reverse that and you will get the truth! David (Farrant)

David Farrant

6/4/2009 12:34 PM

Hello again Sean – sorry I mean ‘Arminious’. Still pretending not to be yourself I see. Rather like the time you pretended to be ‘dead’ after one of our duels in 1978 and I was visited by the police to ask where you were buried in Northern France! You remember surely, you did a radio interview on LBC and I said to you . . . “But you’re supposed to be dead!”. You said . . . “Don’t worry, nobody will know that its me”! Times change little don’t they Sean! Remember, it was yourself who invite...

Arminius Vámbéry

6/4/2009 3:39 PM

All Farrant can do is copy what I or someone else supportive of Seán Manchester writes. Is he obsessed with Seán Manchester or isn't he? I've lost count of all the people he has accused of being Seán Manchester who has never lived in a bungalow in his life. This is just more Farrant falsehood. To confront the man himself couldn't be easier. All he need do is carry out his threat - but Farrant is only fond of making public threats - not carrying them out. It's all about publicity.

Arminius Vámbéry

6/5/2009 7:35 AM

Farrant wouldn't recognise the truth if he walked into it with both eyes open. He can't see that most people who follow this dreary saga are well aware of his black propaganda tactics and are thoroughly bored by his smokescreen of diverting attention away from any issue or topic by alleging the other person is Seán Manchester. If Farrant is so obsessed with Seán Manchester he should face him in person. But that is something requiring more courage than Farrant could ever muster.

David Farrant

6/4/2009 4:30 PM

The only people I have accused of being yourself, Sean, have all been yourself using your various aliases., just as you’re doing now with “Arminious”. I have made no threats to you Sean, public or otherwise. I just said if you wanted to speak to me face to face(as you said) just come and knock on my door. That’s all! Where’s the threat in that??? Please enlighten me. David Farrant

Arminius Vámbéry

6/4/2009 4:17 PM

David Farrant is a non-entity who will do absolutely anything to see his name in print. This life-long social security scrounger, who has done nothing throughout his existence except engage in mindless feuds and pretend to be something he is not will defame those he envies and fears in pursuit of what can only be described as meaningless self-publicity. Never has the phrase "GET A LIFE" been more apposite than when applied to this sad, pathetic creature.

Arminius Vámbéry

6/5/2009 7:43 AM

David Farrant said he was would pay Seán Manchester a visit by posting the following on his blog (May 14th, 2009 at 7:54 pm): "Speedqueen suggested knocking on the person’s door and giving his the MMM book for his birthday ... There were other people here as well who really thought this was a good idea and offered to drive us down there ... Might go actually. Could do with a day by the sea. David" http://davidfarrant.org/TheHumanTouch/?p=389#comments

NOCTURNAL FREQUENCY

6/5/2009 10:10 AM

David, I wouldn't bother with this parrot, he's not worth the crackers you feeding him. He is only posting these false accusations to get a raise out of you. I think from the amount of feedback I've gotten through email, they certainly don't believe the bogus bishop's claims anyhow! Arminius, it's time for you to go play in that sandbox already! Maybe you'll find that friend you've always wanted! ;)

Arminius Vámbéry

6/5/2009 10:42 AM

Who is making false accusations? All anyone has to do is go to the link I provided on Farrant's blog to see there is nothing false in what I have alleged. What Steve Genier and David Farrant don't seem to understand is that they just can't publicly say whatever they like about someone, maligning them and spreading libel, and get away with it. Why are either surprised that there is a response to their anti-Manchester rants on blogtalk radio? They have created the problem.

David Farrant

6/5/2009 4:01 PM

‘Parrot’ is an excellent word. They can only repeat words out of context having no idea of their original meanings. And ‘no’. I have not got a bias against parrots! I kept several in the late 1960’s which I mentioned in Vol 1 of my autobiography. I never managed to get any to talk though! David

Arminius Vámbéry

6/6/2009 7:35 AM

Yet all these distractions do not hide the fact that Farrant cannot point to one example of where Seán Manchester has been interviewed on radio and has mentioned or even alluded to David Farrant. Indeed, why would he want or need to? Seán Manchester spoke for hours on Art Bell, George Noory and dozens of other radio programmes without once referring to Farrant. Meanwhile, Farrant cannot get through a single interview without constantly referring to Seán Manchester and his book.

David Farrant

6/6/2009 2:55 PM

You mention me the whole time, Sean, just as you are doing now. That’s the whole point! David Farrant

After that exchange, there was a request to delete the argument. Of course, the hosts were not fooled by Arminius Vámbéry. LOL! What is it with that old man and accent marks?

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Feud Watch!

Rumor has it Arminius Vámbéry (Sean Manchester) is spinning out of orbit somewhere on the internet as I type.

Someone post the link for the Lone Stranger to investigate!

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The Great Vampire Hunter and His Kit.

Sean (Arminius Vámbéry) Manchester, claims to have an authentic vampire killing kit. The problem is, there never was such a thing. It was an invention of a man named Michael Dewinter who like horror films and thought it would be a nice prop.

I am prompted to write this true story of The Vampire Killing Kits, which have proliferated during the last few years since the coming of the Internet.

My story starts in or around 1970 when I was employed in the printing industry. My hobby was buying, selling and refurbishing antique guns. I sold mainly at the famous Portobello Market in London. My usual stock of guns for sale was only 10-20 at any one time and these tended to be of superior quality. I had a number of regular clients who arrived every week to see if I had any new stock. One of my regulars wanted a fine flintlock pistol and asked me to take in part exchange a Belgian percussion pocket pistol. I grudgingly agreed and allowed him �15.00 off the price of the flintlock.

And so the tale goes. The poor man spawned an urban legend that eventually ripped off many people to the tune of 5 figures.

Unfortunately, no one told poor Sean. Now he proudly shows his own vampire killing kit in his books and on his websites, but doesn't realize, like vampires, such things never existed until 1970.

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