Video: Yellow/Orange UFO - Murraysville, PA - 7/7/09

Witness statement: Was home in great room which is glass mostly on 3 sides. Watching TV, I glanced to my right and saw really bright, pulsing light, round in shape, through patio door over the valley in front of south side of house. It was like the color of a dimmed down halogen light, but more white when it pulsed brighter. It headed east coming from the west. Totally silent. Had left my good HD camcorder at river house, so I grabbed daughter's cheap Sony Handycam and shot video of it, which would have been longer had it not been for the DVD loading stuff.

It seemed to be round with a flat side and rotating--same as our sighting on May 18, 2009 here (pics are already on Mufon.com). That sighting was a much bigger sized thing than this. I estimate this one to be only about 10 feet in diameter--although purely a guess, as the distance and other factors were hard to gauge because of the light.

On July 8, 2009 at 4:07 AM another one more orange in color came from WNW sky heading to SE sky into the trees also. Perhaps the color appears darker the further away you are. Our sighting on May 13th was a darker colored orange and was higher up overhead also.

I went and got my good HD camcorder and waited in farm field across the street from my house and at 10:00:11 PM another bright one higher up appeared overhead silently and headed one tick above East. It was steady lit until it started descending into the tree line, at which time it began to pulse like the night before.

The orange ones seem to be an epidemic lately all over the world--wonder when the powers that be will address their presence?

NOTE: granted....it's really shaking. The Murraysville, PA and western PA area in general have had many reports of similar sphere type UFOs over the past year or so. BTW, Murraysville is near Kecksburg, PA, site of the famous UFO crash. Below is an interesting reference I recently read..Lon

Murrysville, Pennsylvania - A possible corridor for UFO's?

This up-scale community in western Westmoreland county, just east of Pittsburgh, has been a hot-bed of UFO sightings since last year. Reportings have been coming in on a regular basis over the past couple of months. The most recent report is of yet another event that occurred on May 22. At approximately 4:00 a.m., the witness observed an object moving slowly and just above the treeline in front of their house. The object doesn't appear to be any type of conventional aircraft. The picture at the right is a blown-up still photo of the object photographed with a Sony HDR-XR500V HD camcorder. The Mutual UFO Network (Mufon) continues to work with the witness to identify this recurring mystery in this rural section of the county. The witness has observed a variety of strange and unusual objects in the sky since 2008, including neon green and orange fireballs, red pulsating disks, cigar-shaped UFO's, and triangular shaped UFO's.

There are suspected "UFO corridors" that are believed to exist throughout the United States. These corridors have unusually high sightings of UFO's that may suggest that there are routes that are used by the objects as they carry out whatever their mission may be. Perhaps the Murrysville area may be located within one of these corridors.

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Three Strange Beings Reported at Crop Circle - Silbury Hill, Wiltshire

ColinAndrews.net is reporting an event that occurred 7th July 2009, Silbury Hill, Wiltshire, England, near the crop circle located south west of the hill off the A4 highway.

This is the same location where on the 23 May 1994, four researchers (including one nuclear scientist) visiting a crop design in this field, witnessed intense military presence moments before they each experienced 45 minutes missing time and within a short while a further period of missing time. Each had red marks appear on their necks and had severe nose bleeds hours later.

This is also the site of a secret military stake out which took place during the 1990 Operation Blackbird, where over these fields a large unidentified white orb was filmed by the army.

The latest bizarre event took place yesterday morning (7th) at approximately 5:00 AM local time, when a off duty Wiltshire Police Sergeant was driving towards Marlborough on the A4 highway and about to pass Silbury Hill on his left. He looked to his right and witnessed three exceptionally tall beings inspecting the new crop circle which appeared there on the 5th July. He stopped his vehicle and watched them for several minutes because they stood out as odd. Each of them were well over six feet tall, each had blond hair and also they all were wearing one piece white suits, with hoods that had been dropped onto the back of their heads.

After a few minutes watching them, he said they appeared to be examining the crop in the circle, he shouted at them from a distance of about 400 yards but they ignored him. As soon as he entered the field, they became aware of him and ran at an amazing speed to the south, away from Silbury Hill. He said "I recognized that I could never catch up with them since they were exceptionally fast." He glanced away for just a few seconds and looked back to find that they had completely vanished. He became very uneasy and left the scene.

The police officer was very aware of hearing a static crackling sound in the field and around him. He said as the plants moved around, he could see the movement coincided with the level of sound, as if the static was effecting the plants by moving them.

He also started to experience a headache in the field, which became worse as the day went on and he could not shake it off all day.

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The 'Bates Motel' in Idaho...Possibly Haunted, Definitely Spooky

And now, a few words from management at the Bates Motel.

Rooms are available now. Really available.

No, this is not the building they used when filming "Psycho," the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller about madness and murder at a creepy motel of the same name. It's not even the building they used when filming the "Psycho" remake (1998).

This Bates Motel is the real deal, a lodging at 2018 Sherman Ave. in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, with 13 rooms and a manager's unit arrayed around a ragged parking lot.

It sits along the gritty east end of Coeur d'Alene's main drag. A website devoted to "haunted places in Idaho" reports that "people have often reported 'creepy feelings' " in Rooms 1 and 3. The following warning is posted at the front desk:

"Party policy: No. Don't do it. Don't think about doin' it. And don't ask."

Yes, this Bates Motel is a tad spooky in its own right. But it has cable and Wi-Fi, and apparently somebody has been slashing prices. They go as low as $28 nightly in winter, up to $48 in summer. (There's no website, but the phone is [208] 667-1411.)

"It's been the Bates Motel for way longer than I've been here," said a man working the desk and phone on an afternoon in mid-June. He gave his name as Dusty Van, described himself as manager and co-owner, and said he'd been there for 10 years.

Last name?

"I don't have one. I've been Dusty since the fourth grade."

His customers, he said, are "mainly tourists in the summer. In the winter, it's maybe locals or transients who are here for a few days or whatever." The motel gets high marks on a few biker websites as well.

Dusty reported that the building began life as a barracks for officers at Farragut Naval Training Station about 30 miles north. After World War II, "they sold off the building, and it was moved down here to Coeur d'Alene," Dusty said. "And after a certain amount of time, it was bought by a gentleman named Randy Bates. He named it the Bates Motel."

A title search suggests that the transaction happened in 1990, long after the movie came out. Anyway, the motel makes the most of the connection.

At Halloween, "sometimes we'll do a haunted house," Dusty said. "Other times we'll just have mannequins and costumes. One year we had one dressed up as Mother. She sat in a rocking chair in the lobby."

As for the sign out front, which includes a stylized silhouette of Norman Bates' house in the movie, "there was one of those cheap horror movies made here," Dusty said. "And they're the ones who put the sign up. And when they left, they left the sign. And the rest is history. . . . We're playing it up unmercifully."

Cool. Anything else we should know?

"Yeah," said Dusty. "It's for sale."

What?

"The value is in the property," he said. "Three-hundred feet by about 100 feet on Sherman Avenue -- that's where the value is."

The motel building, priced at $625,000, hit the market in early June. But there's also a lot next door with a cottage, which you can have for $375,000 more.

And really, what's the point in running a Bates Motel if you can't live close and lend a hand?

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Voice From the Past Recorded at Florida Museum

It was Sunday night and the ghost hunters stood on the steps of the West Pasco Historical Society, trying to talk with William Barber, a Union soldier whose desk is inside the building.

The desk dates to 1850 and was donated to the society in 1983. It is said that Barber's spirit is still very fond of his desk and that he doesn't like things put on it. Museum volunteers say people often smell wafting cigar smoke when they pass by the desk.

The museum was closed. The ghost hunters — Courtney Micalizzi, 20; Sarha Chapman, 21, and Nathan Thomas, 20 — like to go at night, when all else is sleeping. They addressed Barber as "colonel," although his actual rank is disputed. With their recorder rolling, they talked to him, hoping to capture "electric voice phenomenon," known as EVPs. They heard nothing and went home, thinking their night was a bust. Thomas stayed up late going through the tape.

Toward the end, he heard a voice answering back in the darkness. The group believes it was Barber's spirit.

"I had no choice," the hushed voice says, after Chapman asks how he feels about his desk being in the South, when he fought for the North during the Civil War.

The air conditioning system roared to life while the group asked questions, so they retreated to a gazebo. As they left, the voice on the recording said:

"Where are you going?"

"Come back."

Thomas couldn't believe it. He shouted to Chapman, who lives with him. They are engaged and have a 7-month-old daughter. Chapman called Micalizzi. They all had chills.

"I was shaking," said Chapman, the founder of their paranormal investigating organization, Hunting the Haunted. She and Micalizzi have been ghost hunting since they were students at Mitchell High School, toting their tape recorders to places with alleged high paranormal activity in West Pasco.

They said they once saw a full body apparition when they both worked at a hotel in Tarpon Springs. Micalizzi now works at a bowling alley. Chapman, at Target. Thomas, at 7-Eleven. But the three of them spend all their free time researching the paranormal. They say they do it because they want to know if there is an afterlife and what it's all about; if spirits need help or comfort.

"After you die, who are you going to talk to?" Micalizzi said.

They swear the tape is real. Thomas held the camera as the others asked questions. They said it couldn't have been Thomas talking, because his mouth was next to the microphone and it would have been really loud.

David Prace is the president of the Historical Society and said, while he's not a ghost believer, if his building does have a spirit lurking, he just hopes it's a friendly one. He's invited the group to come back another night, though this time they will be allowed inside. His wife, Midge London-Prace, doesn't know what to make of it all.

"A lot of people think it's for real," she said. "Maybe he is a ghost here."

One of the things attributed to Barber's ghost is the knocking of items off his desk and the surrounding walls. When London-Prace opened the museum Wednesday, a painting that had been hung for years was found on the floor, the frame shattered, everything around it still in place.

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Update: SPARS Confirms Korner's Folly Is Haunted

The "Strangest House in the World" is about to get a little stranger.

The results are back from tests conducted in May and it's official, Korner's Folly is haunted.

Members of the Southern Paranormal and Anomaly Research Society (SPARS') investigated the house on May 23, 2009. SPARS is a member of The Atlantic Paranormal Society, better known as TAPS, made famous by Sci-Fi Channel's Ghost Hunters.

The Winston-Salem paranormal society also did their own investigation of the historic home last month. They used electro-magnetic field detectors and audio equipment to try to detect anything out of the ordinary.

"Any house that's this historic and has this much history in terms of the types of people and experiences that have happened here lends itself to this type of research," Bruce Franke, Korner's Folly Executive Director, explained.

The mansion was reported to be haunted by its former owner. The word is, there have been several encounters.

The results from the TAPS expedition will be officially unveiled next week in a press conference. The Winston-Salem paranormal society has not released their results.
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Investigating Korner's Folly, the 'Strangest House in the World'

A Triad-area landmark known as the strangest house in the world is getting some attention from paranormal experts.

Officials from the Southern Paranormal and Anomaly Research Society plan to conduct an investigation to see if the creaks and moans of the more than 100-year-old Korners Folly home are those of age – or something more.

Officials say the home has always been surrounded by an air of mystery.

“People say, well, it was vacant for 30 years, people over time have remembered it when it was boarded up. They've heard strange sounds, maybe when they went by,” Bruce Frankel, executive director of the Korners Folly Foundation, said. "People have interesting minds in how they look at something and because it's not a traditional-type house, I think even more so."

But SPARS hopes to settle the many active imaginations. The society plans to investigate the house in the next week.

“SPARS comes into a property under the assumption that it is not haunted, and what we try to do is prove or disprove a haunting. We try to figure out natural explanations of any supposed paranormal phenomena,” Deonna Kelli Sayed, an investigator-in-training from SPARS, said.

And she says they use science to figure it out.

“We'll have a thermal imaging camera, which gives us heat signatures and cold signatures.” Sayed said. “We will use digital audio to hear if there are any noises or disembodied voices that we can't hear with our human ears.”

Paranormal experts say one of the things that makes this house so unique is that 90 percent of it is filled with original furniture, something that's important during their investigation.

“There are some theories in the paranormal community that whatever is there, whether it's spirits or entities or energies, may attach themselves to objects,” Sayed said.

And whether it's really a ghost or a tricky mind, Sayed said by the end of the investigation, they hope to have definitive answers.

“We are just trying to find ways to understand things that perhaps we don't yet understand,” she said.

SPARS is affiliated with The Atlantic Paranormal Society, made famous by the Sci-Fi Channel's Ghost Hunters.
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History of Korner's Folly

Korner's Folly, dubbed "The Strangest House in the World," has long amused visitors who gape at its fanciful Victorian rooms and showy furniture. Starting next month, the historic home in Kernersville hosts a year-long set of activities to celebrate its 125th anniversary. Festivities include a community party with barbecue and masquerade costume ball on April 2, and an ice cream social on June 25.

The eccentric Victorian structure was born when a dapper interior designer named Jule Korner broke ground on what he intended to be a showplace home. His unconventional design rose in the sky at a snail's pace, and reportedly caused a local to remark, "That will surely be Korner's folly." Jule overheard the crack and delightedly named his house thus, even setting an ornate nameplate out front. When Korner's Folly was "finished" in 1880, Jule continued to vigorously revamp it.

The house's original design featured three floors, but because Jule placed steps, up or down, at most doorways, the house has seven staggered levels. Ceiling heights for the Folly's 22 rooms range from six on up to 25 feet.

Jule's ad hoc approach included transforming stables into a sewing room/library and turning the drive-through carriageway into a dining room. Shortly before his marriage to Polly Alice Masten, he renovated rooms for family life, converting storage spaces into children's playrooms with floor-to-ceiling windows visible from rooms below.

On the front porch, the words "Witches Corner" are playfully inscribed into the tile, arranged to appear as throw rugs. Inside, intricately carved moldings frame the ceilings, with other decorative flourishes in abundance such as silk damask panels, maiden statues and painted frescoes. Jule was afraid of fire and only permitted cigars in a tiled "smoker" room.

One window there is about three feet high,while the other extends upward and is shared by a room upstairs. Neither window opens. The master bedroom includes grand furniture Jule designed, such as his S-shaped conversation chair. It's a three seater, with room for a chaperone. Many of Jule's inventive pieces were so massive they could not fit through doors and were constructed in the room. Jule also included whimsical "courting corners" where guests could sneak smooches behind silk curtains.

In keeping with its experimental spirit, Korner's Folly boasts the first little private theater in the United States, located in soaring attic space. Like Jule, his well-traveled wife (who went by "Alice") loved the arts. The Folly's theater got its start when a local girl came back from Boston hoping to give an elocution recital, only to be denied use of all community meeting places. In that time, play-acting was considered sinful. Alice decided to present her at the Folly.

Korner died feeling that his work-in-progress was unfinished. Later, the house fell into neglect and eventually Preservation North Carolina oversaw the establishment of Korner's Folly Foundation, which owns it now. "There are no two rooms alike:' says Connie Martin, the foundation's executive director. "People are amazed at its insight and ingenuity." Today, the plays live on at the Folly every fall, staged by the Kernersville Little Theatre, along with family puppet shows per formed every fourth Saturday. And just like its original owner, the house still causes talk.

"There are no two rooms alike. People are amazed at its insight and ingenuity. " -Connie Martin, Executive Director Preservation North Carolina

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Video: Bright Red UFO Launches Orb - Greer, SC - 7/3/09

Witness statement: My son and I were camping out in the backyard the night of July 3 2009. At approximately 10:30 pm we went to bed and I noticed a huge bright red light through the mesh door of the tent. So I fumbled around in my backpack for the video camera, unzipped the tent door and about 20 seconds after I first saw it I started filming.

The bright red light moved slowly southward, then a white light emerged and went up from it. I tried to follow the white light with the camera, but it was really hard to see in my small viewfinder, hence the jerky camera. Shortly after the white light emerged, the red light blinked off while the white light went south at a pace that was about 3x faster than the red light had been traveling, then it faded and disappeared completely.

I'm not sure what this is, but I don't think it could be one of those flare/balloon hoaxes due to the increased speed of the white light. You can get a feel of the speed based on the silhouette of the plant in the final frames. Also, there was no wind that night. At any rate, it was pretty cool to see something like this in the sky. If anyone has seen something similar please comment about it. I'm curious about what this could be.

NOTE: first thing I thought of was that this was a rocket or firework. But, after watching it a few more times and reading some of the response, this probably something else...Lon

The witness later added: If I could film it over again I would have not zoomed in. That was a mistake, because without the treeline it's hard to see how it's moving.

The red light was actually there longer than the video shows... about 20-30 seconds. It just sort of appeared & moved sideways.

It is hard to tell which object goes which direction from the footage. However when I saw this it definitely seemed to me that the white light was ejected upward from the red light.

It really didn't seem to move like a rocket when viewed with the naked eye. It moved straight to the south and the red light didn't change in size.

That said, I haven't ruled out the possibility that this could be some kind of firework or rocket, but it was in the air for over a minute total, the red light was extremely bright, and I just can't explain the white light coming out and moving quickly to the south in a straight line. Just weird.

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Theater's Resident Ghost Up To Her Old Tricks

Ottawa Little Theatre's resident ghost "Martha" is up to her old tricks again after a fire alarm went off inside the building on Canada Day.

Over the years, theatre staff have reported strange and unexplained disturbances, along with a few sightings of Martha. It's believed the theatre is haunted because a tombstone bearing the name "Martha" was discovered after the excavation of the King Edward Avenue site's original building, which once housed Eastern Wesleyan Methodist Church.

Wednesday night, Ottawa firefighters arrived at the theatre and found no evidence of a break-in or fire. The fire alarm is in a backstage staircase where, years ago, Martha's partially broken tombstone was unearthed.

The plot thickens, as Wednesday's false fire alarm came 39 years to the day after a devastating blaze

destroyed the original theatre building.

"It sent a shiver up my spine when I heard the news," said stage manager Jim Hogan.

"We never had a false alarm at the theatre. We had one actual alarm that we triggered ourselves when we overloaded the green room and the heat sensor went off, but we never had a fire alarm go off when nobody was in the building."

"The (old) theatre burned down on July 1, 1970, before midnight, so it's such a coincidence," said John Muggleton, the theatre's director of marketing and communications, who arrived at the site after receiving a call from the alarm company.

He said a few people were in the building earlier on Canada Day, but the theatre had been closed following a performance Sunday night.

Martha's identity has long been a mystery to the Ottawa Little Theatre, said Muggleton.

"The story goes that, when it was a church, there was a small theatre group called Under the Stairs Players. They wanted a bigger performance space, so they excavated the walls of the foundation of the church, and when they were knocking out the walls a tombstone came through the earth. The only name on it was Martha."

The building was a Methodist church from 1873 to 1928, then home to the Ottawa Drama League. It was formed in 1913 and was a forerunner to the Ottawa Little Theatre.

The theatre staged plays in the stone and frame building until 1970, when fire swept through and destroyed it. A fundraising campaign was launched and a new building was erected on the same site.

The cause of the 1970 fire was never determined, said Muggleton.

Hogan has never seen the ghostly Martha, although he's been inside the theatre when strange things have occurred.

"I was there late one night by myself working the sound cues for a show, I think it was back in 1985," he said.

He was in the sound and light booth, high up in the ceiling of the hall. The booth is reachable by a corrugated aluminum walkway and anyone coming to the booth could be heard, he said.

"I heard the sound of someone running down the walkway. I first thought someone was trying to scare me, so I called out and nobody answered."

Hogan looked around, saw no one, and then again heard the sound of footsteps, which whizzed right past him.

"I'm not an easily spooked person, but from that point I left the building, and I didn't even go back to the booth."

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AMAZING Videos: Massive 'Orb' Activity - Perth, Australia - UPDATE

These videos are, by far, the most incredible examples of paranormal activity I have ever witnessed.


Check out the bottom left of the screen near the 0.32 sec. mark. What does that look like to you? To me, it looks like something was moving near the floor.


I enlarged one of the 'orbs' from Paul's video 7-6-09. I enhanced it a bit...it has a yo-yo shape to it.





Here is an enhanced 'orb' from the last video. It's hard to get great detail but there seems to be some structure to it. I estimated that this object was just 2-3 feet from the camera.

NOTE: I'm going to continue reporting on this phenomena. We have contacted several paranormal groups in Western Australia to investigate this location...so far, no response...Lon
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Remarkable videos of 'orb' activity in a small flat in Perth, Australia. The user has setup a CCTV as well as a video camera that monitors his computer screen. Currently, he has posted several weeks worth of activity though it has been present for much longer. Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQgQVnb9zBY to view all the videos. Granted, it is hard to see some of the video (when the computer screen is captured by the video cam) but the activity and audio is detectable.

NOTE: the user (Paul) had contacted me previously in reference to this paranormal activity in order to pinpoint the problem. I have ask several friends and associates to contact him and offer advise...Lon

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