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08 Nov 2009 07:59
November 8Journalistic Plunder Jim SchnabelJim Schnabel is the author of an excellent book published in 1997 called Remote Viewers. He also did a documentary on remote viewing called The Real X-Files: America’s Psychic Spies. In this post Schnabel charges that Jon Ronson, the author of the book The Men Who Stare at Goats and the movie on which it is based, has "plundered," or made "extensive borrowings" of, his own work. He provides several examples to support his contention. Elsewhere, in another movie related post, Micah Hanks wonders if it's correct to say that the new movie, The Fourth Kind, is a "hoax" in Hoax of the Fourth Kind: Popular Mechanics InvestigatesHow common are out-of-body experiences? Are there other experiences we don't normally think of as OBEs that nevertheless might fit into the same general category? These are questions that Michael Prescott began asking himself when he started reading John Mack book, Abduction. "What I found interesting, and rather unexpected," writes Prescott, "about Mack's book was how closely the so-called 'abduction experiences' resemble OBEs, at least in many important respects...The bottom line is that the OBE phenomenon may be considerably more complex and multifaceted than we might assume at first glance. It may take in not only "ordinary" OBEs, but 'alien abductions,' as well, and perhaps even the curiously persistent legends of 'little folk' of various kinds who have a penchant for carrying off unwary mortals." Other recent Prescott posts worth reading include: Under the tableZulu timeMongolia: Shamanism Is Making A Comeback EurasianetShamans--people who supposedly have a direct link to the world of the spirits of dead ancestors--have an ancient history among Mongolians. After coming close to disappearing during the Communist era, shamanism is now making a comeback. Why? A traditionally Mongolian take on the situation is that there's a clash going on in the spirit world between "black heaven" and "white heaven." "When black and white heaven fight, the one who has more spirits is more likely to win. So now those spirits are recruiting new, let us say, soldiers." Others attribute the rise in shamanism to more mundane economic and cultural factors.Cllr Adrian Hicks Demands Answers Over Extra-terrestrials This is HampshireAdrian Hicks, the Hampshire, UK, councillor who claims that aliens are secretly walking the planet, has posted a video asking for a shady organisation called Majestic--which he alleges is made up of scientists, military officers and politicians tasked with making contact with extraterrestrials following a UFO crash in 1947--to come clean and tell the public about the existence of aliens. A fellow Liberal Democrat says: "“Adrian is an excellent councillor and works really hard for his constituents. His UFO beliefs are his beliefs and have nothing to do with the Liberal Democrats.” Also, Forgetomori's alien-of-the-day: Chilean Park AlienWelcome To Paranormal Journalism Paranormal JournalismWhat if reporters treated stories about ghosts, UFOs, Bigfoot, and Shadow People with all the seriousness of covering a car accident or investigating government corruption? Jason Offutt set out to find out and is reaching a course in journalism on the paranormal at Northwest Missouri State University. He has 22 students in his class; ten of their stories are posted here.UFOs: What Is Known? The Big StudyIt's often said that we don't know much about UFOs. But that's not true, says UFOlogist Michael Swords. While we don't know enough to solve the mystery, it's not true that we don't know much about UFOs. In fact, we know so much about them, as case incidents, he says, that it's hard to keep track of it all. Swords attempts to delineate what we do know. Elsewhere, in Puerto Rico, a Triangular UFO Over the Southwest. -
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November 7The new movie The Men Who Stare at Goats may look like a comedy but more of it is true than you probably realize. If you're wondering how many of the film’s outlandish military research projects really happened, here is the low-down. Turns out plenty of material in the movie sticks quite close to the truth: everything from psychic spies to killing animals with telepathy. In fact, the New Movie Can’t Top Real-Life Men Who Stare at Goats. And be sure to listen to the Skeptiko interview with Jon Ronson, the man who wrote the book on which the new movie is based.A Missouri Bigfoot From the ShadowsThe first of a two-part story of Bigfoot encounters in Southeast Missouri, where they are not uncommon. After hearing a "crunch, crunch, then limbs started breaking and falling," Ken Mattheis saw a "large black shadow" near his parent's farmhouse one January. His mother later saw "a large black shadow" stand up and walk off into the woods. Ken went to the spot the next day and found large footprints in the grass. The heel of the foot had pressed deeper than the rest, the curve of the arch almost invisible. Elsewhere, 'Destination: Truth' Team Hits Yeti Paydirt AgainJim Stevens of Jonesborough, Tennessee, doesn't understand why an image resembling Jesus Christ keeps appearing on his pickup. Nearly every morning, in the condensation on the driver's side window of his Isuzu truck, an image of what looks to him like the face of Jesus Christ appears, though Stevens says he's not particularly religious. With pic. And speaking of strange images, a Drowned Woman's Phantom appears in a video taken at a lake near the French town where stories are told about a woman who drowned. See also A Few New Ghost Photos And Investigating The Real Ghosts Of Fort MifflinThe Eye of the Watcher Paranormal PastorPastor Swope's church has been in the midst of a lot of paranormal investigations and news reports lately. From the local ABC station to the new show "Ghost Lab," a lot of the stuff that paranormal teams have discovered has made news. Usually Pastor Swope stays out of the way so as not restrict the crews as they gather their evidence. But this Halloween he decided to join the local crew and had a strange discovery. He not only saw small pinpoint flashes of light in the sanctuary but also caught one on film. Here he mulls over what he caught and the esoteric implications of the picture.Part Three of Playing With Fire: Ashes and Embers Intangible MaterialityWhat if aliens do not exist? Does the logical conclusion to the manipulation of public perception of X Craft as UfOs lead to a Trojan Horse scenario? Does H.G Welles lesser known novel Wings Over the World contain a clue as to the ultimate purpose of a wonder weapon? Will we be faced with an ultimate decision regarding who or what is behind the UFO phenomenon? Can these questions really be answered? And in Part Four of Playing With Fire; Plasmas and Unidentified Aircraft, Bruce Duensing examines the potential role of plasmas as a potential motive force in unidentified craft and how they seem to be a random phenomenon. Also, the ET photo of the day in The Intensive-Care Unit Alien. -
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November 6A new Hollywood motion picture, The Fourth Kind, is being promoted as a semi-documentary that claims to include some actual footage of case studies the film is based on. The premise: a psychiatrist investigating sleep disorders among the population of Nome, Alaska, exposes an ET abduction scenario through hypnotism sessions. The credibility of the scenario is bolstered by the inclusion of the supposedly non-fictional psychiatrist, Abigail Tyler, interview footage. The only snag? It's not real footage. Or is it? There seem to be conflicting reports of whether or not an Abigail Tyler conducted her research and reported it to Alaska Psychiatry Journal, a group that Denise Dillard, president of the Alaska Psychological Association, never heard of. Also, the website of the journal was suspiciously created a mere month ago, say those digging for records of ownership. Abigail Tyler, as it turns out, may not even exist since no one has heard of her within the field either. With pics and video. And in More ‘Exorcist’ than ‘JFK’ Billy Cox wonders if The Fourth Kind docu-drama has the potential to do for Project Blue Book what Oliver Stone’s “JFK” did in 1991 for the National Archives and the Dallas Police Department (i.e., provoke a public clamor for access to sealed records, a fluttery congressional response, etc.). But enough with the fake documentary, here is the real thing: The Aztec UFO Crash That Was Bigger (and More Classified) Than Roswell.The Big Grey Man Man-Beast UKAlthough some would describe the Big Grey Man of Ben Macdhui as a British Bigfoot, fortean researcher Andy Roberts explains in this video presentation at Weird Weekend that the story is not quite so clear-cut. Elsewhere, Sallie Ann Clarke Dies. Clarke was a tireless researcher and chronicler of the 1969 "Lake Worth Monster" of Texas. Also, On The Track Episode 26. And don't forget that today is the "grand opening" of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine: It Does Exist!An Alien like Dolores Barrios… ForgetomoriOn August 7-8, 1954, a meeting of contactees took place atop Mount Palomar in California, with more than a thousand people in attendance. At this congress, George Adamski explained that the Venusians were much like human beings. So much so they had infiltrated our society and were living in the big cities. "At the end of the first day there was some commotion when the audience noticed the presence of two men and a woman with an exotic appearance. The rumor started that they were disguised Venusians." One of the attendees asked: “Are you or are you not Venusians?” The woman, Dolores Barrios, a dress designer, smiled and calmly replied. “No.” More beautiful blonde alien women in Asket and Nera. And more recently, an Update: Alien Entity Images/Evidence.Dynamic Entanglement In Living Systems Entangled MindsDean Radin quotes a piece from the new issue of Scientific American on entanglement and then predicts "that eventually a mainstream neuroscience group will seriously test whether the brains, and then the minds, of identical twins or emotionally bonded couples, are entangled. And they'll find there is such evidence." And they'll probably be hailed for discovering a completely new phenomenon.Did a UFO Abduct 11-Year-Old Lisa? All News WebIn the Ural mountain region of Russia, an eleven year old girl, Lisa Hlupinoy, has been reported missing since last August. In a story that has gripped Russia, Lisa was last known to have accompanied three friends into the woods near their home, yet strangely all became lost, prompting a large search. Upon finding the three boys some three days later without any trace of Lisa, the youths were initially suspected of foul play. The boys emphatically deny they had anything to do with her disappearance. Desperate for clues, police have turned to psychics and UFO investigators in the area, which is known for UFO sightings aplenty. Police are beginning to suspect the girl may have been abducted by unknown entities upon the boys insistence that white beams of light followed them in the woods and "took Lisa." Or were these "white beams" merely flashlights?In a remote part of Ethiopia, a massive rift, some sixty kilometers in length, has formed due to volcanic activity starting in mid-2005. Although continents separate from each other with such rifts, the location of these fissures are typically deep within the Earth's oceans. The relatively new land-based rift allows scientists to study tectonic movement in a much easier, cost effective way since the oceanic rifts often prove too deep for many experiments. Scientists currently studying the area claim that eventually the rift will stretch to Mozambique and possibly create a new ocean.Two brothers managed to capture video of a large red light hovering near the Bay Bridge in San Francisco in May of 2008. Standing outside of their apartment building, the duo fished out binoculars from their parked vehicle in an attempt to get a better fix on what the object was. Without seeing any identifying lights or additional structure, one of the brothers returned home to get a video camera and managed to capture over two minutes of it moving slowly towards them. As it silently passed overhead, the light began blinking on and off as a plane approached its flight path, until the object ultimately disappeared. Elsewhere, Michael Swords discusses a list of cases that 35 veteran UK and USA UFO researchers "believed", that is, the ones they would "take to war" with the skeptics, in UFOs: What Is Believed?Copyright 1996-2010. 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05 Nov 2009 07:59
November 5Experts Cannot Explain Paranormal Events In Czech House Prague MonitorIn 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 hereIraq Swears by Bomb Detector U.S. Sees as Useless New York TimesIraqi 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 LanguageFormer 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? ExaminerThe 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.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 TribuneAfter 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 -
04 Nov 2009 15:33
November 4UFO Plunges Sicilian Town Into Darkness All News WebSeveral witnesses reported a UFO over Montserrat, Sicily in September that shut down power to parts of the village as it passed overhead. The UFO slowly made its way across the night sky but witnesses were able to get a clear view of the silvery grey craft before it took off at a high rate of speed. According to a retired local police officer who saw the unknown object, electricity to the town was restored upon its departure. Elsewhere, Bright Orb UFO Travels Ahead of Moving Vehicle - Palmas, Tocantis, Brazil.Playing With Fire: Part Two Intangible MaterialityThis post examines the first aircraft to utilize stealth technology, the Reich's HO-229, that was delivered to the U.S in 1946 and was possibly sighted by Kenneth Arnold during a test flight one year later. It also examines the USAF development of stealth technology as well as plasma propulsion and its use in EMP warfare, as it relates to the possible hidden history of UFOs, all of which, if true, dooms the disclosure movement as well as making it a Quixotic quest. Elsewhere, Spanish researcher Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos has produced an general overview of the state of UFO "disclosure" activities worldwide: State-of-the-Art in UFO Disclosure Worldwide & the Australian Experience.Eerie Screams Spook Villagers The StarIn the village of Kampung, Malaysia, a recent murder and discovery of human skeletal remains in a well, coupled with reports of chilling screams heard in the night, have residents on edge. In early October, a man was accused of killing his mother in their home and placed her remains in a bag under the sink. After the arrest, he led police to the skeletal remains; that's when locals began hearing screams in the middle of the night. Police are still trying to identify the body. The suspect is now under psychiatric evaluation in a nearby hospital.Who Owns www.2012.com ? 2012 RisingWant to visit a website that ranks high in Google but has no content or even a welcome page? Then welcome to 2012.com, the website that seemingly doesn't exist. Most web marketers know that SEO campaigns (search engine optimization) are the best way to get a decent page result from a search engine but it typically involves a heavy inclusion of relative links and content on the page to get ranked. So how does a website, one with more that a passing curiosity considering the hype and inevitable countdown panic that will ensue, rank so high with nothing on it? Stranger is that the website has been held, without possibility of sale, for fourteen years and has never appeared to have any content--ever. Maybe the mysterious Jacoby Group, the apparent owners of the site, among others, will tell us soon enough. Most likely within two years.Nature and Supernature Michael Prescott's BlogMichael Prescott is impressed by Lyall Watson's 1987 book Beyond Supernature: A New Natural History of the Supernatural, a serious overview of parapsychology, enlivened by accounts of his personal encounters with anomalous events, including a destructive poltergeist in Indonesia. Key quote by Watson: "The fact is that unusual things do sometimes happen. I have seen them happening often enough now to be certain of that. And, as a scientist myself, I admit that they present us with a problem. But it is not insoluble and it does not require any desperate mental gymnastics. I see it, in truth, as more of a paradox than a problem. An apparent contradiction produced by poor definition rather than faulty procedure." Elsewhere, Part Two of a primer on parapsychological research and perspectives: Types of Apparitions, and Part Two of Michael Swords on Eileen Garrett: Would The U.S. Intelligence Agencies Try To Turn A Nice Irish Girl Into A Weapon?Gnomes - A Sustainable Population? The Heavy StuffAre gnomes temporal beings? In an article comparing the evidence, and lack thereof, of gnome populations to that of possible Bigfoot populations, the theory that both these beings are temporal entities, visible here for only a short time to the witness, is a compelling one. There is no solid evidence of the existence of either gnomes or Bigfoot. Years of research into the Bigfoot phenomenon have never yielded solid proof, say like a captured specimen, or remains of a deceased creature, and as the argument of the theory goes, it never will be found due to the beings ability to shift in and out of our realm, either due to multidimensional manipulation or another factor of their abilities not even comprehensible to us.Cousin: Japanese Captured Amelia Earhart Nevada AppealWally Earhart, fourth cousin to Amelia Earhart, is claiming a cover-up by our government over the real fate of doomed flight that ended over the Pacific more than 70 years ago. As he explains it, Amelia did crash into the water but instead of dying on impact she and her co-pilot Fred Noonan, were hauled out of the sea, along with their plane, by a passing Japanese fishing boat and were taken to the island of Saipan. OKay. So why cover it up? Wally believes that a secret order from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a family friend to the Earhart's, combined with botched rescue efforts by the US Navy at the time, may have been a major factor.The Alien: Adults Only ForgetomoriEach and every day of this month, the Forgetomori site will post an extraordinary alien photo--along with their ordinary investigations. This is the one that fooled the editor of Penthouse Magazine. Two more have appeared to date: The Container Alien and The New Mexico Alien--with a zipper. -
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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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November 2Up to ten thousand pilgrims came from around the world to a rain-soaked corner of western Ireland in order to witness the apparition of the Virgin Mary, which a Dublin-based spiritual healer named Joe Coleman predicted would occur. They waited on the exact spot where villagers claimed they saw the Virgin Mary in 1879. "Before leaving the shrine yesterday, Coleman said the Virgin Mary had appeared but he was not yet prepared to reveal the message she had sent him for the world."The Socorro UFO: Physical Evidence Points To A Prank (Part 3) UFO Iconoclast(s)A second look at the physical evidence in the Socorro case seems to support the hoax interpretation by Anthony Bragalia. The "charred cardboard" found at the site by Air Force investigators is indicative of something very terrestrial, perhaps the use of pyrotechnics. The sounds that the witness said he heard as the craft was in flight also suspiciously sound like the whines and whistles of advanced pyrotechnics. And the burning bush found at the site by AF investigators again resemble more the burn from pyrotechnics than the blast from a rocket or a jet. These three factors suggest the event could well have been a student-created hoax. Elsewhere, Former Brazilian Air Force Minister Re UFOs: "Technology Far More Advanced Than Ours."Bigfoot: Legend or ... Petoskey NewsAfter encountering "the thickest wall of live human body odor that you could ever imagine" and later hearing "three faint taps like two pieces of wood being hit together, then a slight pause, then one more" while in Wilderness State Park in Michigan last July, Ron Kostrubiec believes he may have encountered Bigfoot. Later he discovered a set of footprints including one of "a right foot print about 16 inches long and really wide... with a little rise of dirt between the little and next toe." Kostrubiec spoke to the local police as well as the state police, both of whom said they had not had Bigfoot reports in the area. Elsewhere, Man hopes to prove Bigfoot exists in W.Va. and in Pennsylvania, they're asking, is there a Sasquatch in our woods?. And the first day of the newly opened International Cryptozoology Museum was quite a success as reported in If We Build It, They Will ComeA video of Larry King talking with Brad and Barry Klinge, hosts of Discovery channel's "Ghost Lab," about their recent investigations. Elsewhere, a Paranormal Investigator is Looking for Stories on Ghosts that Get Personal and Ghost buster team lifts veil on haunted homes in Brisbane.James Gilliland Declares ECETI Ranch Off Limits Phantoms & MonstersHis ranch is said to be a UFO hotspot that regularly visited by UFO enthusiasts and investigators who expect to see UFOs, orbs, and light trails. Some of the UFOS have reportedly been pursued by US Government aircraft. Now, because "the UFO community has become convoluted and riddled with disinformation" Gilliard wants to pursue investigations without UFO and paranormal groups getting in the way. It's an odd turn of events, given that the whole enterprise seemed to be just a business anyway. And a response: An Open Letter To James Gilliland.The Burning Times BBC News MagazineWitches remain a significant cultural presence centuries after thousands of women, and men, accused of sorcery were burned at the stake. But what caused the craze for burning witches, and why did it stop? According to some, they occurred in the aftermath of the Reformation, when the split in the Christian faith caused great turmoil.
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November 1The Catholic Church in Poland is investigating claims of a miracle after a piece of communion wafer was reported to have been transformed into human heart tissue after falling into water during a mass. The claim is being made by Professor Maria Sobaniec-Lotowaska, of the medical university in Bialystok. Skeptics say it's nothing more than bacteria growing on the small piece of wafer. Police and the Church are convinced there is no fraud involved.Workers at the Lake County Coroner's office in Illinois began hearing strange knocking sounds and glimpsing figures walking around the autopsy room after the body of a woman who died in a nursing home was inadvertently left in a cooler for several months before she was identified. Elsewhere, I Do Believe in Spooks and Twits, tweets and a tweance – it must be Halloween.Disinformation Shadow of the ShinigamiHow Jaime Maussan came to be a UFO personality on Mexican TV and how he was repeated duped by the most obvious of hoaxes. Marla Pena provides an unflinching look at his gullibility and bemoans the sad state of UFOlogy when some organizations still promote "investigators" who "keep promoting and talking about cases that were already explicitly proven to be hoaxes!" Elsewhere some are convinced that the answer to the question Is Disclosure Imminent? is yes. Everything you might want to know and more.Yowie Report Still on the TrackAn undated newspaper report entitled "Yowie 'sighting' the ultimate forest experience for a busload of kids" in which a "wild looking" hairy figure was seen moving through the trees and running toward the bus in the Pilliga scrub, North West NSW. The article is accompanied by a photograph showing the shape of "an unidentified hairy creature" next to the bus. Elsewhere, in Cryptid Keeper, a profile of Loren Coleman and his upcoming International Cryptozoology Museum, which will have a "soft" open today despite permit problems with the city of Portland, as described in Museum Opening Slightly Delayed.Apparitional Experiences: A Primer Public ParapsychologyThe introduction to a forthcoming “crash course" for paranormal enthusiasts and the general public "for the prime reason that there has been much misunderstanding within the paranormal enthusiast community regarding what has been learned in the past about ghosts and apparitions, particularly by parapsychologists." Elsewhere, Stacy Horn mentions A Few Things in the course of which she recommends a new book called Queer Hauntings. She says: "There’s a connection, at least some of the time, between the paranormal and sex."Visited by the Dead The ParanomalistFrom the sound of his recent posts, John Carlson seems surrounded by the paranormal. This post is about Tina, his cousin’s best friend of some 35 years, who is a gifted medium. He tells the story of the spirit of her date's father who appears to her and asks her to pass on a message to his son, that he was sorry he didn't believe him, when as a boy of 10, his uncle had molested him. And in Giant Wolves, UFOs, and Invisible Monsters Carlson reviews Hunt for the Skinwalker.Playing With Fire: Flares, Plasma Weapons and UFOs Intangible MaterialityBruce Duensing asks: Is there a connection between night flare drops, ball lightning, the stealth testing of new plasma weaponry, and UFOs? You might be surprised. With videos. Elsewhere Fascinating "Mothership‚" UFO filmed in China and ‘UFO Hunters’ vs. werewolves.Fowler's Bog GhostwoodsThe dark forests of Maine hold many secrets. Natives to any of the smaller towns in its vast wilderness know the land well and its creatures. Fowler's Bog in Albion, Maine, may indeed hold a secret of its own and a young boy playing hooky with some friends may have stumbled upon it years ago. During their walk home, as darkness descended, an enormous black creature emerged from the tree line and into the bog with a terrifying sound that has haunted the witnesses to this very day. Upon returning the next day with parents and sheriff in hand, clear evidence of the sighting was obvious. Suspiciously, however, the sheriff was quick to determine it was a pair of bears and told them to forget the incident but their parents knew well it must have been something else.The Stone Heads of Easter Island Philip CoppensA thorough look at enigmatic Easter Island and its surviving population of stone heads. Visible to this day, paths leading some 10 kilometers through grassy plains to volcanic craters containing a type of soft pumice stone named red scoria are known to be the source of the stone for the heads. What is still uncertain is who built these magnificent idols. Some claim it was the first two native tribes on the island, which was discovered in 1722. Others claim South American origins, though researchers tried unsuccessfully to sail from Peru to Easter Island using primitive boat designs that would have been used at the time. Polynesian influence, Tamils from India, as well as extraterrestrials, via Erich von Daniken, have all been proposed as well. Perhaps the real clue lies in the hieroglyphs inscribed on tablets called, rongo rongo. If only someone were still alive who could read these hieroglyphs.
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