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Out of Thin Air: The Search for Hasaka Yutashi

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Regret is a hard thing to live with in life. We all have times we look back and see into our past and think about the things we should have done, could have done, or would have done. How different would life have been in those moments you made a choice? Would it be what it is today? That’s the key word here: choice. We all have that God-given free will to exert over our lives power to make a choice. And how we move through life is honestly a series of choices that intersect across the boundaries and lives of others. I think in many cases with these frauds it will be the regret that they lied as they so often did, using claims to long-deceased people or making it all up as they went along until finally in the end they look back and realize that lies do catch up and one will reap what they sow. Most likely not but a guy can dream, right? It is with that thought in mind that I look now at what is the most important and pivotal claim of Bret Gordon, that of him being allegedly the headmast...

A Legacy of Ill-Standing (Part Three) - "They Were His Own Words...."

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  Grandmaster Myung Jae-nam, founder of Hankido It is without a doubt the last couple of years of my life have been filled with adventure and excitement. If you would have told me years ago as a child watching the film Bloodsport that I would be covering a story that led directly to Frank Dux himself I would have told you that you were insane. There was no way that would have ever have been my life. And yet here I am doing exactly that and finding still more people who deserve the same attention and hard scrutiny as he does. While everything Frank says or tells is without a doubt a lie to cover more lies, the same can be said about those others who I am currently covering. I would argue that the stories that they have blended together, restructured and laid back into the public view over the years are just as convoluted as anything which people like Frank Dux and Jack “Papasan” Stern created. We should all be so lucky to have kids who were gold medalists in the “1987 Olympics.” Y...