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• 05 Nov 2009 07:59

  November 5 Experts Cannot Explain Paranormal Events In Czech House Prague Monitor In Strasice, an area of Prague, Czech Republic, a family has had several sleepless nights due to paranormal disturbances within the house recently. Upwards of sixty small fires a day have broken out, scortching items such as plastic bags, disconnected electrical sockets, and several personal items. Even glass objects like windows seem to breaking at an alarming pace. The family has lived in the house for ten years without incident. Neither the utility companies nor the mayor can explain the strangeness. Beginning to take its toll psychologically, the family's son has moved out but his parents remain behind to put out the fires. Still searching for an answer however, a Czech telecommunications office is to test the home for "high-frequency waves." Videos posted here Iraq Swears by Bomb Detector U.S. Sees as Useless New York Times Iraqi security forces at hundreds of checkpoints have been relying on a hand-held wand known as the ADE 651, which costs from $16,500 to $60,000 each. USAF Lt. Col. Hal Bidlack describes the wand as nothing more than an explosives divining rod, and regards it as psuedoscience. The James Randi Educational Foundation publicly offered $1 million if a scientific test could prove that the device could detect explosives, but the offer was not taken up by the manufacturer. How is it supposed to work? The operator inserts one of several plastic-coated cardboard cards with bar codes into a holder connected to the wand by a cable. The operator must then walk in place a few moments to “charge” the device, since it has no battery, and walk with the wand at right angles to the body. The wand is supposed to swivel, like bent coat-hangers used as divining rods, toward the location of explosives. “Whether it’s magic or scientific, what I care about is it detects bombs,” said Maj. Gen. Jehad al-Jabiri, head of the Ministry of the Interior’s General Directorate for Combating Explosives. Zamora Dies Twilight Language Former Socorro, New Mexico police officer and close encounter eyewitness to one of the most well-known UFO cases in history, Lonnie Zamora died Monday night, November 2, 2009, of heart failure. Complete background on the 1964 incident and its subsequent investigation is provided here, while at Magonia the possible "hoax theory" is discussed in The Pelican at Socorro. Could Zamora have been the victim of a hoax devised by a group of physics students? Long before the recent Anthony Bragalia investigation, the Pelican wrote: "As no one could identify these people or suggest what they could have rigged up to fool Zamora, then managed to dismantle and remove before anyone else arrived, then this explanation was taken seriously by hardly anyone." Why Are Placebos Getting Stronger? Examiner The placebo effect is getting stronger results and, not surprisingly, big pharmaceutical companies are getting concerned. Used mostly in double-blind studies in new drug testing, the startling results of the placebo's effectiveness are holding up the release of new drugs poised to be available on the market by the sugar pills beating new drugs effectiveness in trials. Stranger still are the side effects people are claiming after taking placebos under supervision. Since the pills consist of nothing of medicinal value, how can that be? Perhaps it is all in the mind. Darwin’s Wolf Mystery Solved Wired Researchers have some answers for a perplexing mystery that struck Charles Darwin as a young man upon his visit to the Falkand Isalnds, which are located three hundred miles off southeastern South America. Darwin pondered how the small Falkland Islands Wolf, originally thought to be a unique fox, came to differ in size so vastly from island to island and where it had come from since no other mammal was native to the island. Force to use samples from museum specimens, since the wolf is extinct from being hunted for its fur, researchers have determined that the animal shares an common ancestor dating back some 70,000 years ago and its closest cousin is of a maned wolf still found in South America. But how it got to the Falklands in the first place is another mystery. Trolling for Evidence Herald Tribune After witnessing a strange craft at the age of twelve in San Jose, CA, Gwen Gleason has wanted to know what showed up over her house and suddenly disappeared one night. Now aged fifty, she sees inspiratiom in the night video work of Gary McDaid of Dundee, Scotland, after watching many of his compelling night vision filming of UFOs cruising the night skies. Seeing the white, star-like unknowns maneuver across his video monitor, Gleason looks to replicate his work using a similar set up. Although she's still honing her skills, she takes learning cues from McDaid, 'You’ve got to look for the ones that go really fast" she says. With video. Elsewhere, an Update on Bryant's "Bleak House" Redux

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