Gutter Press

Gutter Press is an investigative newspaper, part of the Scurrilous Group of Companies. Our mission is to uncover the truth about famous people, the facts behind urban legends and dirty dealings by governments.
In “A Man Called Che”, an elderly Spanish gentleman turns up at a lawyer’s office in Tampa, Florida claiming to be Che Guevara, the communist revolutionary. Is he who he says he is? Che was supposed to be killed by the Bolivian army decades ago. And, what does he want from the lawyers?
In the second story “We have a Problem”. The truth about the Apollo 11 landing on the moon comes out. Gutter Press is proud to reveal that the whole episode was filmed in a Hollywood film studio. Also, the Russians got there first.
In the third story “Romeo & Giulietta”, the original play by William Shakespeare is published by Gutter Press. Unfortunately for William S, the Elizabethan censors banned the play and Shakespeare’s manuscript lay forgotten in a library for five hundred years, until one of our journalists discovered it.
Bring on “Climate Change” (story number 4). Global warming can only benefit the United Kingdom.
In “Mortuary Rock” our investigative reporter interviews a person who prepared Elvis Presley for his fake funeral. Yes, Elvis did not die in 1977. What actually happened was that Elvis decided to have his final rock concert in the mortuary. This is front-page stuff and as usual Gutter Press is first with the news.
The sixth story “Primaries” is about the American Presidential elections in the 1930s. What is not generally known, however, is that Laurel and Hardy were front-runners in the race.
“Tea with Mrs Beethoven”. Do join us. There’s lots of hot gossip to hear over tea und apfelstrudel.
“Interpretation of Dreams” poses the absurdity of Sigmund Freud meeting Joseph Stalin the dictator of the Soviet Union. Stalin needed the eminent doctor to do a psychoanalysis on the dictator’s nightmares. Trust me on this one. It really did happen.
“The Other Roswell Incident” finally puts paid to the US Government’s cover-up. The family on whose farm the UFO crash happened wrote it up in a diary which a reporter from Gutter Press found in a second-hand bookstore.
“Walkies” tells about Mrs Barbara Whitehouse, famous for dog training. But, did you know she also trained members of Mrs Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet (the British Prime Minister) in total, slavish obedience?
“The Flight of the Icarus” describes the Wright brothers’ experiments with heavier-than-air, powered aircraft. They named their aircraft after the Greek legend of Icarus which was probably a mistake.
In the story, “E=M*C Cubed”, Gutter Press reveals that Albert Einstein did not discover the Special Theory of Relativity after all. His wife did. Only, she never received any recognition for her work. After many years of languishing in the shadow of her famous husband, Gutter Press is proud to reveal her contribution to science. Give the lady a fur coat!
“Kentucky Fried Colonel” reveals the truth behind the famous chain of fried chicken restaurants. Namely, that the founder, Colonel Saunders, was a vegetarian.
“The Immigrant” tells of the desperate attempts by Count Dracula to immigrate to the United Kingdom. After being foiled by bureaucracy and red tape, the Count has only one option left, namely, to immigrate illegally.
In “The Iceberg” the famous British murder mystery writer, Agatha Christie, writes her last novel during a luxury cruise. Only, the unfortunate woman bought a trip on board a ship called The Titanic.
Do you believe in Santa Claus? Of course you do. Who else eats the biscuits and drinks the milk you put out on Christmas Eve along with your stockings? In “Ho…. ho….ho” Santa is plagued by the modern problems of running a multi-national enterprise.
In “Thomas” our investigative reporter proposes an alternative explanation for the origin of the apocryphal “Gospel of Thomas”.