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03 Nov 2009 23:15
November 3Loren Coleman's obituary of Robert H. Rines, a tireless seeker of the Loch Ness Monster, who died on Sunday at the age of 87. Rines became interested in the search for Nessie after attending a talk in 1969 by Roy Mackal. Two years later he saw a 20-foot-long hump moving in Urquhart Bay. That encounter led Rines on his quest, the culmination of which was probably the underwater photographs of what he felt was the cryptid in the 1970s. In recent years, Rines theorized that the creatures known collectively as the Loch Ness Monster may have become extinct, citing the lack of significant sonar readings and a decline in eyewitness accounts.'I Will See His Spirit' Says Witchdoctor On Search For Cop Brisbane TimesShortly after Senior Sergeant Mick Isles disappeared in Queensland, Australia, on September 23, an exhaustive search involving police, army and SES personnel was launched. But they failed to find any trace of the missing policeman. Now the family of Mick Isles has turned to an Aboriginal tracker and self-professed witchdoctor to find the missing police officer. The tracker says he has never failed to find the person he's looking for. Elsewhere, Student gets psychic scholarship and Can A Nice Irish Girl Speak With The Spirits?First we had a Cow Abducted by Flying Saucer. Now it's a buffalo. Or a bison. Or a horse, The nabbing took place near one of the UK's biggest herds of water buffalo, which notably is close to a military base used by special forces. When the witness took the video, he did not realize at the time that "something was dangling beneath" the two white lights in the sky. The aliens are cooking up quite a feast. Elsewhere, a Texas teenager catches UFO on cell phone camera while attempting to capture "spirit orbs." And in Argentina, Resident of La Pampa Stood Under a "Flying Saucer."Your favorite dinosaurs may be history, as in nonexistent--ever. Following the loss in recent years of quite a few duck-billed hadrosaurs and the probable disappearance of Nanotyrannus, a supposedly miniature Tyrannosaurus rex, as well as a three-horned dinosaur, Torosaurus, comes the demise of two species of dome-headed dinosaur. A new study suggests that these dinosaurs were not separate species, as some paleontologists claim, but different growth stages of previously named dinosaurs.Legend of the Belt Road Booger Times HeraldThirty years ago a strange creature was seen in Newman, Georgia. It was said to stand about five feet tall, was "big across the chest," and had "a face like a monkey and a long bushy tail." Was it just a local prank? It was seen again the following decade and some insist it still prowls the local roads. Also, the Jersey Devil is featured in Woodland mysteries not just for HalloweenYou're sure to laugh when you see the movie, but much of it is true. Many of the exploits that the filmmakers ascribe to Task Force Delta took place just a few miles from Baltimore, at Fort Meade. The site was two crumbling barracks belonging to a Defense Intelligence Agency unit devoted to "remote viewing"--the term for envisioning an unseen target using extrasensory perception. Dale Graff, a sometime-Marylander who now lives in Hamburg, Pa., directed the program and gave it an enduring name: "Stargate." While some are criticizing the film for obscuring the seriousness of what the task force tried to accomplish, Graff says the film gets several anecdotes dead right.Shadow People and Poltergeist Activity: A Connection? The ParaFactorA shadow people case from Illinois raises an interesting question: Does a troubled adolescence serve as a gateway to the shadow people phenomenon, as it often appears to be in poltergeist cases, or is it simply a fuel that allows entities to manifest themselves after leaching off of the child's distress? Also at the ParaFactor, a wide-ranging interview with Jason Offutt, author of Darkness Walks, the only book entirely dedicated to the shadow people phenomenon.Hey Cato--Consistent Libertarianism! Herald TribuneHow do you break the alleged media embargo on UFO stories? Keep it local. That's what Dom Armentano, a professor emeritus in economics from the University of Hartford, found out when he tried to pitch his piece on the 1965 Heflin UFO photos to the Christian Science Monitor, which turned him down without looking at his submission. But the Orange County Register picked it up, if for no other reason that the incident had occurred in their backyard. And the Cato Institute connection? Read the story and find out."Black archaeologists," the name for people conducting independent excavations in the places of World War II battles and looking for precious war trophies, have sometimes encountered some very strange phenomena. Yeah, we know. It's from Pravda. So take these stories with a grain of salt. Elsewhere, The Ghost Held Me DownNick Refern uses the theme of a forthcoming film, The Fourth Kind, a thriller set in modern-day Alaska, to discuss some real cases of the abduction phenomenon, including the Betty and Barney Hill case of 1961, the Tammy Stone case of 1973, and Whitley Strieber's own "visitor" experiences from the 1980s. (Speaking of which, is The Gateshead Grey: Britain's earliest alien abduction?) Elsewhere, Redfern reviews The Vermont Monster Guide and is interviewed about his new book, , in Sci-Fi and Halloween
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