Of the many ideas that put him on the fringe—and, later, the center of the fringe, if that makes sense—the least of them was being a Fortean.
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Robert Ernst Dickhoff was born 6 February 1904 in Germany. I do not know anything about his family and very little about his early life. Much later, he remembered that when he was eight—around 1912—and living in a suburb of Cologne, he saw two “little people,” no more than three-and-a-half feet tall sitting against his fourposter bed. Realizing that they had been seen, the naked creatures, humanlike and tan, dissolved into the thing air.
He arrived in the United States in the 1927 (although there is at least one document that says 1925.). The manifest of the ship “New York” shows him arriving in New York on 4 July 1927 from Hamburg. He was a member of the crew, and had been for a few weeks, since 4 June 1927, but had bene at sea for two-and-a-half years. He was not supposed to be discharged in New York, but seems to have jumped ship. According to the manifest he was tall and slim, 5’10” and 166 pounds. He would later admit that he had entered the United States illegally.
This one is long.
Robert Ernst Dickhoff was born 6 February 1904 in Germany. I do not know anything about his family and very little about his early life. Much later, he remembered that when he was eight—around 1912—and living in a suburb of Cologne, he saw two “little people,” no more than three-and-a-half feet tall sitting against his fourposter bed. Realizing that they had been seen, the naked creatures, humanlike and tan, dissolved into the thing air.
He arrived in the United States in the 1927 (although there is at least one document that says 1925.). The manifest of the ship “New York” shows him arriving in New York on 4 July 1927 from Hamburg. He was a member of the crew, and had been for a few weeks, since 4 June 1927, but had bene at sea for two-and-a-half years. He was not supposed to be discharged in New York, but seems to have jumped ship. According to the manifest he was tall and slim, 5’10” and 166 pounds. He would later admit that he had entered the United States illegally.