Andrew Collins
From The Red Pill
Andrew Collins was born in 1957. After an uneventful school career, in which he was banned from taking the English O-level exam because of his poor writing ability, he eagerly accepted a position working as an export shipping clerk in London. His childhood interest in the mysteries of life eventually led to him becoming a UFO investigator, whereby he would visit witnesses to strange phenomena and then file reports with national organisations. In 1976 he became a familiar figure in the embryonic punk movement, forming his own band and going to gigs with the likes of novelist and NME writer Tony Parsons and Irish pal Shane McGowan, who went on to form legendary Irish folk-rock band 'The Pogues'. At the same time, Andrew continued to investigate UFO cases, including the now famous Aveley abduction, the first full-blown time-loss UFO experience ever reported on British soil. It brought him into contact with long-term friend and colleague Graham Phillips, who was then working as a parapsychologist studying the psychological profile of witnesses to the paranormal.
Andrew chucked in his guaranteed musical career in favour of becoming a staff writer alongside Phillips on the magazine Strange Phenomena, the first news-stand publication to unite everything from UFOs to psychic studies, poltergeist phenomena, earth mysteries, folklore, witchcraft and the occult. Then in October 1979, Collins and Phillips became embroiled in a historical drama, which would be remembered as the Green Stone affair - an event that would kick-start the rebirth of psychic questing in the modern era.
Andrew went on to write and publish various books and booklets on psychic questing, local history and the earth mysteries, before scoring immense success with his ground-breaking tome From the Ashes of Angels (1996), the culmination of five years' work on the Watchers and Nephilim with the help of his friend and colleague Richard Ward. Since then he has written four more books that challenge the way we view the past: Gods of Eden (1998), Gateway to Atlantis (2000), Tutankhamun: The Exodus Conspiracy (2002) and Twenty-First Century Grail (2004). Andrew lectures worldwide, and is the organiser of QuestCon, Britain's most popular annual event on revisionist history, forbidden archaeology and ancient mysteries. He lives with his wife Sue in the Essex seaside town of Leigh-on-Sea.
