Francis Hitching
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Francis Hitching | |
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| Born | Francis Hitching |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | English |
| Period | Active: 20th Century |
| Genre | |
| Literary movement | Paranormal |
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John Francis Hitching (1933–2018) was a British author, dowser, journalist and filmmaker.
John Francis Hitching was the son of Luise Hitching. He grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon and attended Warwick School. He worked as a journalist in Birmingham. In 1958, he married Judith Anne Wellstood at St. Nicholas Church, Loxley.[1]
Hitching has written on Earth mysteries, dowsing, paranormal and ley lines. In his book Pendulum: The Psi Connection (1977), he came to the conclusion that dowsing is genuine, listing a number of alternative explanations such as electromagnetism and psychic ability that he thought were associated with dowsing.[2][3]
Stuart Fleming in the New Scientist gave Hitching's book Earth Magic (1978) a positive review; the book linked many of the megaliths around Europe to groups of men whom he called "megalithic mathematicians".[4]
Hitching also wrote The World Atlas of Mysteries (1981); an atlas which listed many of Earth mysteries. The book was criticized in the New Scientist for some of his conclusions such as linking animal extinctions to reversals in the Earth's magnetic field.[5]
Hitching died in 2018.[6]
