Michael Jackson: Psychic Channeled News of Oxygen Tanks One Week Before News Media

Exclusive Series: Michael Jackson Seen and Heard From Beyond?

On Monday we brought you the news of Dr. Christian von Lähr channeling Michael Jackson on Coast to Coast am in an exclusive story by Phantoms and Monsters guest blogger Chris Herget. A freelance reporter in Seattle, Herget took a special interest in this story because she felt that Jackson was communicating with her psychically, asking her to write a series of stories about the show. During the hour that von Lähr was guest on the late night talk show, a wealth of information was revealed that is just now being confirmed in the media.

In yesterday's story, she revealed that the singer himself broke the news of oxygen tanks in the room, saying "... the oxygen tank was 1/2 empty. Did it run out? There's something wrong with the air... it wasn't.. I wasn't gone eight.. eight or eighteen? I'm not sure when I passed. There's something wrong with that."

What follows is the 2nd story in this series detailing important psychic events since the Michael Jackson's untimely death, written from the reporter's own experiences with the singer, the psychic and the news.

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By Chris Herget

I was part of a grieving audience that was listening to Coast to Coast a.m. two nights after the king of pop passed away, and there were many questions that had not been answered, and even more that no one had bothered to ask.

The show's format lends itself to paranormal topics, and I was anxious to hear Dr. Christian von Lähr discuss his line of work and thoughts on Jackson's death. What wasn't on the agenda however was what I heard on a last-minute promo before the show began, which was that von Lähr would attempt to channel the late singer.

I'm sure I wasn't alone in my concerns over how presumptuous that sounded. When psychic Mary Occhino claimed to have channeled the late Anna Nicole Smith recently, with all the news behind us, the public knew just about everything there was to know surrounding the celebrity and the circumstances around her death. She also had a popular reality show for years, so it wasn't a big surprise that the story didn't reveal anything that hadn't been reported at some point by someone.

But Michael Jackson? I wasn't sure how von Lähr could pull it off, considering all the mystery that surrounded the pop icon. How much did any one of us really know about him anymore?

I waited anxiously for the show to start, not sure if I was more concerned that the clairvoyant would make a joke out of the show with an embarrassing act he prepared the night before, or if the Saturday evening host Ian Punnett would be able to pull it off without snorting a few times between an occasional giggle.

But it didn't take me too long to forget my concerns and become mesmerized by the persona that von Lähr began to take on, at one point sounding so much like the singer that it became almost surreal. The even keel that was maintained between soft spoken replies, punctuated with the emotional highs and lows that the singer would demonstrate in later interviews convinced me that I needed to leave my opinions at the door tonight.

After the segment with von Lähr was finished, I felt numb and unusually tired, and drifted into a deep sleep. I woke up a few times with faint memories of a spiraling moonwalk performed by a thin man who sang songs with words I had never heard, and told stories about things I couldn't remember when I opened my eyes. When I woke up the next morning, I had a strong feeling that there was more to this story than just an entertaining talk show and that I should go back and listen to it again, which I did.

As the days passed, I was waiting to hear some sort of news about the show and find out if any of the things that were talked about would turn out to be true-- the trust he set up for his kids, the oxygen tank and time of death he revealed, the bacterial infection and the secret meeting in February with his nurse and other handlers, the drugs, his wishes for the children, and most revealing and controversial of all, what the king of pop had to about the afterlife and how he felt now about the decisions he made while living.

I thought it was so ironic that after enduring a lifetime of the tabloids poking fun at him for his ghostly or alien-like appearance and interest in science fiction, when there's a real possibility that he could actually now be a ghost and trying to communicate with us via the astral plane, the story is totally ignored.

Maybe I was becoming too invested emotionally in this aspect of Michael Jackson's death based on my own personal interest in life after death, but there was more. Every time time that I would have a thought about the singer, something strange would happen. The phone would ring, or a bird would start singing, or the sun would come out suddenly after being hidden by clouds for hours.

But after cuing up a few Michael Jackson songs to accompany my workout, a curious idea dawned on me, which was to simply write the stories myself. And that's when the CD player dropped to the floor, shattering nothing except the feelings of ambivalence that had been nagging at me for years since the illness. At that moment I felt driven, capable, prepared and most importantly, willing to do whatever it takes to affect change, and it felt really good.

Minutes later I was found myself frantically trying to get in touch with Dr. von Lähr, and I was able to schedule a telephone interview for the following day. My first question was to ask him about the oxygen tank, and before he answered he stopped short and stated "You've got a connection with this story, I can feel it. How are you connected?" he demanded.

I stammered but recovered quickly by telling him that I had also dealt with a life-threatening bacterial infection, the same one he mentioned on the show. That seemed to satisfy him and he moved on, but I knew he was sensing something more than that. I was not however, about to claim to a world-renowned clairvoyant, psychic, and author with a doctorate that I've been sensing that Michael has been nudging me to help get the word out on a few things that the media isn't covering.

Imagine if I had responded by saying "Oh that?!? You must be sensing that Michael communicated with me earlier from the astral plane, and he asked me to give you a ring!" -- surely the interview would have been over before the first question was out of the gate. But if it's true, that Michael has been nudging me and connecting directly through Dr. von Lähr, perhaps he feels that we're both thick-skinned enough to deal with the usual ridicule and public scrutiny that is inevitable whenever anybody claims to have seen or heard a ghost.

I'm hoping that in this case things might be a little different, because the facts speak for themselves. No one could have predicted that there may have been oxygen tanks in the home, yet the dialog is clear and precise. Also, Dr. von Lähr said on Friday, July 3rd that the singer had showed him what looked to be a laboratory, and told him that he felt he was being kept in some type of stasis prior to requesting emergency services. "During that time there were people moving in and out of the room removing equipment... and that it had something to do with benefiting a contract," he said although he wasn't sure whether it was Jackson's contract or the physician's contract to administer patient services that was in question.

I have to add that the psychic was adamant about the color green having a strong connection to something that was present in the room while he was dying. When I urged for clarification on this, asking if he was seeing fluorescent green or olive green, he stated that it was more like a metal type, saying "maybe the tanks were green." Three days later, on Monday July 6th I saw an interview on the news with Jackson's private chef, who revealed that he had seen oxygen tanks in the house. After a short pause, he went on to describe the metal tanks as being "waist high... and green on the top."

Another item we discussed was that Dr. von Lähr felt that Jackson seemed to be indicating trouble breathing, and that an infection was present that had some connection to an animal bite, possibly on the nose. In fact, the psychic mentioned an infection at least five times during our conversation, and that the bacteria MRSA may have played a role in his death.

It is now being reported by CNN news and other outlets that because of severe insomnia, the singer had requested the drug Diprivan on at least two occasions from a hired nurse, who refused to accommodate Jackson and also told him how dangerous the drug was. His response was nonchalant, saying that he felt it was safe because in the past they would always monitor him throughout the night. Interestingly, I learned in my own research that the drug Diprivan is not what is considered an antimicrobially preserved product under USP standards and that strict aseptic technique must be adhered to when using it.

Additional warnings on this drug state that sedated patients should be continuously monitored, and facilities for maintenance of a patent airway, providing artificial ventilation, administering supplemental oxygen, and instituting cardiovascular resuscitation must be immediately available. So if Diprivan was being used to sedate Jackson, it is highly likely that an oxygen tank was being used.

So what happened to the tanks and monitors? No mention was made of any laboratory equipment by police officers who investigated the scene, yet it has now been revealed that another doctor who had toured with Jackson ten years ago was an anesthesiologist, and some of the crew members have come forward to report that they were traveling from city to city with what looked like a mini laboratory or hospital room, complete with IV poles and different monitors.

While the news continues to accumulate about the late Michael Jackson, it is getting harder to suggest that the magical hour Dr. Christian von Lähr shared with Coast to Coast listeners connecting to Michael Jackson in the astral plane was anything but genuine. There is more to come on this story, and you'll find it here first at Phantoms and Monsters

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Chris Herget is a freelance journalist in Seattle and is a guest blogger for Phantoms and Monsters who sent us this exclusive story. For media inquiries only contact Herget at seattle.beat@gmail.com

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LAPA Investigation: Alcatraz – Ghosts Live Here

In early November, a couple of the members of Los Angeles Paranormal Association visited Alcatraz Island.

Alcatraz island is a cold, yet beautiful place. There is no protection on this outcrop from the icy pacific gusts that assault non-stop. Birds nest here, wildflowers grow. But standing stark and ominous above it all, and clearly unforgiving, the infamous prison dominates this tiny piece of land that juts out in the middle of San Francisco Bay. Simultaneously a symbol of both despair and the undying hope of the human spirit, The Rock housed the most notorious criminals of the day. The prison was dubbed as inescapable, and some men died trying to find out if this was true.

The cracked and aged concrete walls loom high as you enter the foreboding structure, and immediately the mind begins to travel back in time. Ghosts do exist here – you can feel them all around you, as they scuffle past you in their dark uniforms, staring curiously. Here inside these walls, you are a curiousity, a reminder of worlds long ago lost. They sniff at your perfume and brush against you as you pass.

As you move deeper into the depths, you become completely possessed by the spirits of those that languished here. You too, have become a prisoner inside these walls. And when you finally pile back into the ferry that will take you safely back to the mainland, you cannot help but feel that a piece of you will forever remain behind.


I snapped this photo (above) of Cell Block A, which was the only cell block closed off to the public. The block appeared to be in a greater state of disrepair than the others. The photo was taken through the metal cage/fence that kept the public out of the run-down cell block. I did not see anyone in the cell block at the time, and I noticed nothing in the photo until i got home and blew it up on my computer screen. That’s when I saw the dark, shadowy figure at the opposite end of the block. This could potentially be the ghost of a former prisoner, either from Alcatraz’ days as a a federal prison, or perhaps earlier, from it’s days as a military prison.

I took the next photo while standing inside one of the solitary confinement cells in cell block D.


Surprisingly, it shows an odd, mist like apparition,which again, I only noticed after blowing up the photo. So, is Alcatraz haunted? You be your own judge, but I believe so, yes. Ghosts live here, at the very least.

LAPA Investigation: Alcatraz – Ghosts Live Here

*Thanks to Layla and LAPA for permission to use text and images

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Video: Yellow UFO Emitting Orbs - Mexico City, Mexico

NOTE: the video was taken by Pedro Hernandez and shows a 'yellow' UFO in the vicinity of KLM 747. As the video progresses, you will see the UFO emit a number of orbs. Hernandez is shown in the video, along with host Jamie Maussan. The video is quite interesting...I'll leave it up to you to determine if it's authentic...Lon

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Couple Encounters Unusual Lights On Kansas Road

On June 25, 2009, we were driving from Colorado to the St Louis, Missouri area at 11 25 PM. We were heading East on I-70 in Kansas. We were driving a 4 door Infiniti sedan G20, so we could see all of the way around our vehicle without obstruction.

We just passed mile marker 25. It was a very clear dark night - not a cloud in the sky, we could see for miles. There were off in the distance, several antenna type (red lights) flashing sequentially, continuously in unison. We commented on the red lights and was wondering why so many antenna were in the area.

While traveling approximately 70 mph heading East bound, we witnessed a flash of light to our right near the outside of our car. It seemed to be just above the height of the car, off in the distance about 20 feet out from the car behind the passenger head / shoulder area.

Then another flash light a huge very bright quick LED about a foot back farther from the first. Then a third flash closer in time, but further in distance toward the rear of the car. (As if it were a old fashioned photo flash bulb), only very bright and much Larger.

We both looked at each other. I slowed the car. I said:

"Did you see that?"

She said: "I saw the bright light flash 3 times, but not at the same time as if it was in a delayed pattern."

I agreed. We decided to pull over on the side of the shoulder to see if we could see anything more.

I looked behind us and there was not a car in sight for miles, but I could see an overpass ahead. We pulled over to the shoulder on the right side of the road just past the overpass. We stopped the car and pulled to the side of the road but there was nothing.

We took off back onto the interstate. We were going about 50 miles hour increasing our speed when another bright flash occurred. Closer this time, almost touching the car hood, in front middle.

The light floated to the passenger side of the vehicle almost as if it was hugging or surrounding the car. Again, it was off the ground above the car approximately at the height of the rear view mirror.

The second blink or short surge of light was directly even with the car at the passenger window. The third flash again in a later 2 second delay pattern from the first.

It was if something was flying like a very large Lightening Bug, only with a very bright LED light flash about the size of a volleyball. After each flash, it appeared to have a diamond-shaped light or a cross formation as it dimmed out.

We kept driving in disbelief as to what we just saw. We never did see an object. Just very bright Orb-like LED lights in 3 sequential flashes, but with a delay between the 2nd 3rd flash, 2 separate times.

Driving at that speed we were just dumbfounded as to what it could be. Especially after the second incident, as it was in front of the car and we were traveling over 50 miles an hour, but it seemed to mock our speed and hang in the air right with us. We never heard any odd sounds.

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Exclusive Series: Michael Jackson Seen and Heard From Beyond?

While working on an upcoming breaking news story about Michael Jackson, investigative reporter and freelance journalist Chris Herget was reviewing news clips and couldn't help but notice the ghostly silhouette reflected in the window of Dr. Neil Ratner's home. Ratner had accompanied Jackson on tour and was interviewed by CNN at his home in upstate New York, and at the end of the interview a shadow of a figure wearing a fedora suddenly appears in the window and it seems to be waving a hand. Dr. Neil Ratner interview

Herget will be posting the 1st in a series of stories she has been working on since last week following the news that clairvoyant and spiritual medium Dr. Christian von Lahr claims to have connected with Michael Jackson during a radio interview. The story will premiere on Phantoms and Monsters this week and a link to the story will be included in an upcoming subscriber email.

Last Saturday on Coast to Coast am, a popular late night talk show, Ian Punnett interviewed von Lahr who surprised the host by revealing that Michael Jackson had contacted him via the astral plane shortly after his death, and expressed his wish to be channeled for the show.

For nearly an hour the guest toggled back and forth between his own responses and Jackson's. While speaking beyond the grave is highly controversial, there were a number of things that were said which have since been proven, and some information has not yet been revealed by traditional media but seems to rings true. Jackson (through von Lahr) revealed that he had prepared a family trust account, spoke directly to members of his family and even thanked Oprah Winfrey. He thanked host Punnett as well, quipping that he now has more air time than the host and described a new dance move he calls "the swirl."

He was confused about the time of his death, saying "... the oxygen tank was 1/2 empty. Did it run out? There's something wrong with the air... it wasn't.. I wasn't gone eight.. eight or eighteen? I'm not sure when I passed. There's something wrong with that." Herget talked with Dr. von Lahr at great length on Friday and learned more information from last Saturday that was not broadcast on the show. More details about this, a complete transcript and the conversation Herget had with an inventor who met with Jackson's handlers in February to discuss an alternative therapy for the star will be forthcoming later.

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Chris Herget is a freelance journalist in Seattle and is a guest blogger for Phantoms and Monsters who sent us this exclusive story. She does not represent Coast to Coast radio or Dr. Christian von Lahr. For media inquiries only contact Herget at seattle.beat@gmail.com

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Amateur Researcher Continues 1884 'Heavenly Body' Quest

His searching has moved a little further north into western Chase County, Nebraska.

That’s where Robert Golka of Brockton, Mass., hopes he’ll find what he’s been searching for—proof that a “heavenly body” (some call them UFOs) landed in this area in 1884.

Since 2007, after reading the 1884 news articles of a “heavenly body” hurling from the sky to the ground and witnessed by several cowboys, Golka has spent a lot of time and money on his research in this area.

Originally, he was looking at areas in Dundy County, but now his search has moved north in Chase County, and he feels pretty good about this latest possibility.
On Monday, he said it’s the best yet.

“I can’t say for 100 percent, but this is the best place I’ve seen so far. It looks real good,” Golka said Monday.

He arrived in Imperial last Friday, ready to explore, and as of Monday, had driven the 18 miles or so west of Imperial and back three times.

He was hoping to get permission from landowner Ernest “Gunner” Martin to look at it more closely. He planned to call him Monday.

The reason he feels so good about this site being the real one is that it has a sandy bottom, a lot of drainage and hills surrounding it. He estimates the hills to be about 30 feet above the lowest point.

“It seems to have all the attributes I’m looking for,” he said.

According to the news reports on the 1884 landing, the heat from the object was so intense that grass was scorched along its path after hitting the ground.

It was described as “50 to 60 feet long, cylindrical and about 10 feet in diameter.”

If the object did hit the ground with the amount of heat described in some of the old news stories, Golka said the sand would have fused into pieces of what appear to be “blueish, greenish or black glass.”

It would have left a deep indentation in the ground, Golka said.

Finding some of the fused sand that now would look like the colored glass is his goal.

He’s had several people tell them they recall seeing such pieces from their ancestors, but so far, Golka said none of it is the real thing.

He needs such physical proof to get the scientific community interested. He believes the find could have nuclear characteristics if, in fact, it landed as described.

Golka, a semi-retired consultant in high energy physics and lightning analysis, says there is a lot about our universe we do not know, “We probably know only about five percent of what’s out there,” he said.

That’s why he doesn’t shy away from finding out as much as he can on the subject. He recently spent five weeks in Australia working on quantum physics.

He was also in Las Vegas last month at a convention of the International Remote Viewing Association. Remote viewing is a mental faculty that allows a perceiver (a “viewer”) to describe or give details about a target that is inaccessible to normal senses due to distance, time or shielding.

He’s hoping to possibly utilize some “remote viewing” experts with his search in Chase County.

This year, he rented a Hummer to drive here after his flight from Massachusetts. He wanted a vehicle that would easily climb the hills, and said it’s worked real well in his investigating.

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Mayan Motif, Giant Hummingbird Crop Circles - Wiltshire, UK

This event brings back memories of another wonderful formation also with a Mayan motif that appeared in the same field at Silbury Hill in 2004. Both these events could be making us aware of the date of the 21st December 2012. This is the date the Mayan calendar comes to an end.
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The latest discovery was photographed by crop circle hunters in Alton Barnes as the spate of crop circles seen across Britain this summer continues.

Experts say birds are seen as messengers of the gods.

The enormous pattern formed around a dew pond in a field and has left crop circle experts scratching their heads for a meaning.

The design echoes the giant jellyfish which appeared in an Oxfordshire field in early June, sparking conspiracy theories about the meaning of the huge number of patterns appearing in fields across the country.

Karen Alexander, a crop circle expert, said: "This is the first crop circle in the world to include real water elements, so it is very exciting.

"The area of Wiltshire where it has appeared is known its chalk hills and for being quite dry land, so it is even stranger that it should appear there.

"We believe it is a close relative of the jellyfish crop circle which appeared earlier in June, but beyond that we are still trying to decode the message of it.

"There are a myriad of theories about what these crop circles are trying to tell us, but at the moment we are no closer to knowing the truth it is incredibly exciting."

Crop circle theorists known as 'croppies' - believe the patterns are created by UFOs during nocturnal visits, or caused by natural phenomena such as unusual forms of lightning striking the earth.

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Idaho Museum's Odd Artifacts Include a Ghost

The Asotin County Museum certainly offers an educational experience.

And it also may offer a place for inhabitants of the spirit world to reside.

One thing is for sure, the museum holds many interesting items. There are fashions from the turn of the 20th century, Civil War discharge papers signed by Abraham Lincoln...and a special guest.

“We have a ghost – definitely,” claims museum President Jo Anne Miller. “The ghost haunts the museum's basement, scaring off dogs. Dogs will not go down there. They will stop at the steps and that's it.”

For over 30 years many who came down the stairs weren't alive and one might have left his or her spirit behind. That's because the museum used to be a funeral home and the basement is where the embalming was done.

“Harry Merchant had built this into a mortuary and it was a funeral home for many years,” says Miller.

The museum took over the space in 1972, but the former owners left a couple of morbid items behind.

“We have a casket down there that has a mannequin in it.” “The kids all get really excited over that.”

There is also a wicker carrying basket which was used to bring bodies out of homes to the mortuary.

Miller says she's never felt scared in the basement and believes the ghost is friendly and gives off a warm feeling.

And because children are so intrigued by the ghost, the museum is holding a “Name Our Ghost” contest.

“We've had 12 children come in and name it and there is going to be a prize for the children when we name it and we are going to let a Ouija board decide the winner,” said Miller.

When asked if she knew if the ghost were male or a female, Miller said no one seems to know.

“We don't. We really won't until the Ouija board decides by the name.”

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Carcass From Okanagan Lake...is it Ogopogo?

From Cryptomundo.com

Kelowna, British Columbia’s Daily Courier is reporting two scientists have agreed to analyze the remains of a mysterious-looking specimen found along the shore of Okanagan Lake.

A tissue sample of the creature will be sent to a researcher in Ontario for DNA testing, and the carcass itself will be examined by a scientist in Alberta.

The remains were found two weeks ago by Kelowna resident Dan Poppoff as he paddled his kayak near the far end of Lakeshore Road. For now, he’s still got the carcass, which measures more than a metre-long in his freezer at home.

Poppoff is reluctant to suggest the strange-looking carcass might be an example of an Ogopogo, the legendary inhabitants of Okanagan Lake. But he is interested in finding out just what it is. He contacted Arlene Gaal, a Kelowna woman who was written extensively on Ogopogo sightings over the years.

Gaal is making arrangements to send the tissue sample and carcass to the two researchers, who she declines to identify.

“If I name them, people will be calling them left and right, and they won’t be able to get on with the business of determining just what this creature is,” Gaal said late in June.

“But I can assure you that both of them are very reputable people, experts in their fields. Both of them are attached to universities,” Gaal said.

Gaal isn’t sure when the results of the investigation will be available, but she hopes it will be fairly soon.

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Sanger Paranormal Society States Bigfoot Photo Authentic

MEDIA RELEASE - SANGER PARANORMAL SOCIETY - JULY 6, 2009

The Sanger Paranormal Society has confirmed the object that was photographed with a trail camera is not a tree stump or a bear. The team returned on Wednesday July 1, 2009 to the exact spot where the photo was taken. It was verified by Jeffrey Gonzalez, his wife Cheryl, Emerald Bonilla, Investigator for Sanger Paranormal and David Raygoza, veteran Bigfoot investigator. Other photographs were taken by the same camera during that same time period but were not posted because we wanted to see what kind of a reaction we would get from the paranormal field. Many Bigfoot investigators simply said the object was a tree stump or a figment of our imagination. Other said it was a bear standing on its hind legs and / or scratching its behind on a tree. One Bigfoot organization simply said and I quote, “we went to your site but we didn’t see anything”. But there are several problems with the opinions stated by the public and the paranormal investigators. For example, its not a tree stump because the dark object is no longer there. (see photo’s) Another problem with the bear theory is that if you notice the head, it does not have a snout. You can see the features of a human face such as the nose, mouth and chin. The arms on a bear, when standing, do not hang that far down. We also took measurements on how high this thing was. According to the leaves and the branches that were covering the objects face, the tape measure said it was between 8 and 9 feet tall. The same camera that took the picture of the object also took pictures of other animals such as black bear and deer, which does not resemble the object in any way. These cameras were left up in the Sierra National Forest Memorial day weekend and retrieved on June 7, 2009. The memory cards were downloaded that same day on my computer and the memory cards were taken back home with David Raygoza. We did go through the photos on my laptop while we were in the forest but never saw the object until 3 days later. I received a email from David Raygoza telling me to take a look at picture # so and so and look at the top left hand corner. I had all the photos on my laptop so I was able to look at them. David Raygoza has been visiting this location for 6 years now and was told about this spot by an elderly native American. He told David this particular spot in the forest was sacred Indian land and that weird things happened there. David Raygoza has had many individual sightings with many footprints but has never had the shot until now. With examining all the evidence and debunking the tree stump and bear theory, we can honestly say that we have captured a photograph of a bigfoot. I don’t care what people are going to say...this is for real……Jeffrey Gonzalez

UPDATE: I received this next batch of photographs from Jeffrey Gonzalez taken at the same location as the original photos. There are images from different times during daylight for comparison. Jeffrey points out that the angle of the hill is close to 45 degrees which would make it very hard for a bear to stand upright. As well, he states that there is no stump and that the object is clearly brown in color (not a black bear). Anyway, he promises that his group will continue to investigate the area. Jeffrey Gonzalez states ..."If this bear was walking up the hill on his hind legs, well, I better go find it because it needs to be in a circus. Also, they say it was a tree stump, well, the tree stump grew legs and walked away. They were saying that it was a bear rubbing its ass, what....between the 2 tree's and at a 45 degree angle? Quote me...we have a photo of BIGFOOT!" (click images for larger detail versions)
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I received these images from the SangerParanormalSociety.com Sunday June 28th with the following note:

Please look top left hand corner. You need to zoom in. Feel free to crop it and clean it up or go to my web site where its already cleaned up. If you use the picture on this email, please put on there Copyright-David Raygoza. He is a BFRO investigator who was with me and this picture is his property. We are going back this Wednesday to take measurements of the tree and see if there are any tracks or hair samples. I am also going to stand in the same place and have a picture taken. This is not a bear. Look how long the arms are. They go past the knees. Also, the face looks more human than bear. Jeffrey Gonzalez

NOTE: since I was not involved in the investigation and asked only to initially release this information, I will reserve any and all personal comments at this time. I thank Sanger Paranormal Society for giving me the opportunity to present these findings to the public...Lon

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Exclusive: Michael Jackson Seen and Heard From Beyond?

While working on an upcoming breaking news story about Michael Jackson, investigative reporter and freelance journalist Chris Herget was reviewing news clips and couldn't help but notice the ghostly silhouette reflected in the window of Dr. Neil Ratner's home. Ratner had accompanied Jackson on tour and was interviewed by CNN at his home in upstate New York, and at the end of the interview a shadow of a figure wearing a fedora suddenly appears in the window and it seems to be waving a hand. Dr. Neil Ratner interview

Herget will be posting the 1st in a series of stories she has been working on since last week following the news that clairvoyant and spiritual medium Dr. Christian von Lahr claims to have connected with Michael Jackson during a radio interview. The story will premiere on Phantoms and Monsters this week and a link to the story will be included in an upcoming subscriber email.

Last Saturday on Coast to Coast am, a popular late night talk show, Ian Punnett interviewed von Lahr who surprised the host by revealing that Michael Jackson had contacted him via the astral plane shortly after his death, and expressed his wish to be channeled for the show.

For nearly an hour the guest toggled back and forth between his own responses and Jackson's. While speaking beyond the grave is highly controversial, there were a number of things that were said which have since been proven, and some information has not yet been revealed by traditional media but seems to rings true. Jackson (through von Lahr) revealed that he had prepared a family trust account, spoke directly to members of his family and even thanked Oprah Winfrey. He thanked host Punnett as well, quipping that he now has more air time than the host and described a new dance move he calls "the swirl."

He was confused about the time of his death, saying "... the oxygen tank was 1/2 empty. Did it run out? There's something wrong with the air... it wasn't.. I wasn't gone eight.. eight or eighteen? I'm not sure when I passed. There's something wrong with that." Herget talked with Dr. von Lahr at great length on Friday and learned more information from last Saturday that was not broadcast on the show. More details about this, a complete transcript and the conversation Herget had with an inventor who met with Jackson's handlers in February to discuss an alternative therapy for the star will be forthcoming later.

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Chris Herget is a freelance journalist in Seattle and is a guest blogger for Phantoms and Monsters who sent us this exclusive story. She does not represent Coast to Coast radio or Dr. Christian von Lahr. For media inquiries only contact Herget at seattle.beat@gmail.com

*All text and original images appearing on this article are protected by copyright. Redistribution or commercial use is permitted only if the original links with credit and reference to Chris Herget and this website are used. Copyright - Chris Herget



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Video: Michael Jackson's Ghost Captured at Neverland Ranch?

NOTE: At the 8:22 mark, an apparition 'walks' across the room at the far end of the hallway during an interview and tour of 'Neverland Ranch' on the Larry King Show...Lon

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Recent Nogoya Mutilations Reminiscent of Attacks in 2002

From the July 3, 2009 posting, it seems that cattle mutilation activity has returned to Nogoyá in Argentina’s province of La Pampa.

On June 26, 2002, two cases were reported in this very same area and made known in the city of Paraná’s “El Diario” newspaper. The authorities were no more certain then about what was going on:

“Two new cases of bovine mutilation became known at this time in the Department of Nogoyá. One of the animals was found in Laurencena, and another in the Urquiza Sector.

“Pablo Seeling, a veterinarian for the Police Department’s Cattle Theft Unit, indicated his astonishment at the find. He recalled that the Laurencena case involved “a bull missing its testicles, and its tongue had been removed in a very special way. These are very special characteristics, given the fact that it is necessary to have a specific scalpel or something similar to make a cut as clean as the one that appeared on that animal. I do not wish to believe in extraterrestrials or anything, but I wonder how such a perfect incision could be made. I made an cut of my own with my scalpel right next to the existing one, and it was completely different.”

“Regardless, the expert believed that tne animal must have been dead for at least five days, yet its flesh “looked like what one sees in a butcher shop. This certainly caught our attention.”

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Sewer Monster Confirmed as Bryozoan Colony

A slimy, pulsating blob living beneath the streets of North Carolina is not an extraterrestrial "sewer monster" as first feared.

It is, instead, a colony of prehistoric creatures called bryozoans — thousands of worms — that eat using a set of brown tentacles, the Charlotte Observer reports.

The harmless worms, moving around 10cm a day, normally live near ponds although environmental inspector Ed Buchan said the phenomenon was rare to see.

The blob was captured on film by a maintenance company doing a routine inspection on the sanitary sewer, which is located beneath one of America's oldest shopping centres.

A two-minute video showing the worms throbbing and contracting when shone with light made it to YouTube, sparking conspiracy theories about aliens and extraterrestrial life.

News outlets also went monster-crazy with headlines like: "Sewer monster is this summer's Susan Boyle" and "Mystery life form ... looks like heart meat!"

A spokeswoman from Malphrus Construction, the firm that shot the video, said the blob was the size of a golf ball and appeared much larger on video.

Authorities will not remove the blob as it is not clogging the pipes.

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Videos: Massive 'Orb' Activity - Perth, Australia

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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Crop Circle 'Expanded' the Following Evening - Alton Barnes, Wiltshire - UPDATE!

Researcher Colin Andrews is reported the following:

Dramatic Development in the Crop Circes - A Design Has Been 'Visited' Three Times

When I received an e-mail a few minutes ago from researchers in the fields back in England, I was shocked to see what has taken place. Ive been to many countries over nearly 30 years looking at the now thousands of crop circle designs - but Ive never felt the reaction I had when I saw the attached aerial photograph.

A design which was discovered some days ago now near Milk Hill in Wiltshire, England, had received a visit and new elements added. Now a third visit has taken place and the evolving design is quite shocking. At least that is how I automatically reacted. I am making several inquiries at this very moment, to try and establish who, if human have done this. I would be curious to know other peoples reactions. Please take a look at this design and let me know on my 'Contact' button. The design is #45 at the bottom of that page. Select the heading above to go to the link on my site.

Colin Andrews - 1st July 2009
ColinAndrews.net

Original post below
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(original crop circle - June 21, 2009)

This crop circle was originally created on early morning June 21st, 2009 on Milk Hill near Alton Barnes, Wiltshire.

The crop circle was expanded to a remarkable shape the following day.
(same crop circle expanded following evening)

NOTE: If anybody has further information on this crop circle, please forward...Lon

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Solar Design Crop Circle - Waden Hill, Wiltshire

Medium size solar design crop circle found on July 1, 2009 at Waden Hill, near Avebury, Wiltshire. This is one of the more interesting designs because of the of wavy features depicting solar flares...supposedly, since it closely mimics a few ancient pictograms. Though, there very well may be a different meaning to the design.

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'No Rational Explanation' to Mutilations in Nogoya, Argentina

The police found four cows whose eyes, uteruses and tongues had been removed. The animals were found dead in the rural area of Nogoyá. The absence of water in a nearby lagoon also drew their attention.

Residents of the rural area known as Crucesita Tercera, in the Department of Nogoyá, are shaken by the strange death of four cows in the interior of two fields and the unforeseen draining of a lagoon. Personnel of the Office of Cattle Theft and the Nogoyá Police ascertained that the cows had succumbed to a mysterious mutilation, but also noted that a nearby lagoon, which a day earlier had been full of water, was now empty.

Once more, fantasy, myth and mystery began to weave themselves over the deaths of these animals. Apparitions of the so-called “Chupacabras” and even a UFO sighting are now part of the comments being made in the heart of the province.

The cows found by police officers were missing their reproductive organs, tongues and eyes. For this reason, the veterinarian attached to the Office of Cattle Theft, a part of the Nogoyá Police force, stated that there is no rational explanation for the animals’ deaths and much less for their strange mutilations.

The dead bovines, according to police, were the property of Gustavo Cabañas, an employee of the Banco de Entre Rios, Nogoyá branch. The man owned the field and the herd of cows and calves within it.

A few days later, Cabañas had surveyed the farm and found that everything was in good order. Even the volume of water of nearby lagoon presented a generous quantity of the vital fluid, considering the drought. But for reasons that remain unclear, the lagoon dried up in a few hours, forcing the field’s owner to transfer the animals. He found the dead animals as he performed the transfer.

Nogoyá’s cattle rustling authorities and agents of the Sheriff’s office confirmed their investigation and the mysteries that surround it. The events cannot be explained scientifically.

Crucesita Tercera is some 50 kilometers from the departmental capital. Due to this event, the Cattle Theft officers spoke to local residents, who gave scant details on elements that could help explain the deaths of these animals.

The subject expanded yesterday when it was learned that Police found another mutilated bovine in an adjacent field. The carcass displayed the same characteristics: it was missing both eyes, its tongue and uterus. The cow belonged to a woman surnamed Sanchez and the incident was discovered only a short distance from the Sheriff’s office.

The Cattle Theft office noted that they had reported the mutilations on the three cows found over the weekend, but that the bones near the mutilated parts were clean, as if death had occurred some time ago, and not a matter of days, either. Furthermore, surgical incisions were confirmed, some of them without scarring or blood on the grass of the animals’ hides.

Three years earlier, a pair of bovines was found lifeless and mutilated only a short distance from this last discovery.

Veterinarian Esteban Puntín, who investigated the events a while ago explained, “while he is aware of these last cases from remarks, he believes that [all of this] is the result of natural action.”

Puntín noted:“due to uncontrolled deforestation, predators began looking for food in smaller and cleaner fields. With the onset of cold weather and the drought, there is very little grass. Therefore, animals are hungry. Bovines look for grass, and they may end up eating “yuyos” (brambles) which are poisonous, such as the Mio Mio. When the animal dies, foxes, weasels, vultures and even mice report to the site, eating the softer parts of the carcass, which are generally the anus or vulva, the udders and the tongue. Carrion animals also eat the eyes. These animals are great feeders, and only stop at bones and harder tissue.”

He added, “If there is no blood to be found, it is due to the cold weather, which dries up all manner of fluids.”

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Strange Activity During Examination of Kansas Masonic Temple

While a thunderstorm blew through Fort Scott on Saturday night, an investigation of the ghostly kind was underway at the Fort Scott Scottish Rite Temple.

About 9 p.m. Saturday, members of the Wichita Paranormal Research Society began investigating the Scottish Rite Temple in order to determine whether or not there is paranormal activity occurring at the Temple.

According to Scottish Rite Temple Executive Secretary Terry Claar, when he was contacted by Nancy Wimmer from the Fort Scott Chamber of Commerce about allowing a paranormal investigation to be conducted at the Scottish Rite Temple, he was excited to allow the researchers access to the temple.

Wimmer said the paranormal investigators were in Fort Scott in April to investigate the Chamber of Commerce building and a private home. While they were in the area, they expressed an interest in investigating the Scottish Rite Temple. After getting the okay from Claar, the investigators scheduled a day to begin the research.

According to Shane Elliott, founder of the Wichita Paranormal Research Society, the investigators brought in eight infrared cameras that were hooked up to a DVR system.

"We broke up into small two-person groups to capture things on audio and video," Elliott said.

According to Elliott, the group of investigators research different places to either "prove or disprove" that there is paranormal activity going on. An official determination that either proves or disproves paranormal activity at the Temple has not been reached yet because the investigators are still examining the data received during their investigation. However, research participants said they had several "personal experiences" during the investigation that could indicate paranormal activity could exist.

According to Wimmer, who was present during the investigation, all of those involved in the exploration saw, heard and felt indications that something out of the ordinary could be present at the Temple.

"We all had some personal experiences," Wimmer said. "We were trying to go on the balcony, and we heard a piano playing on the stage. One of the girls heard a door at the back of the stage open and shut. We can't confirm anything. It was just personal experiences."

According to Elliott, the investigators did come away with five possible electronic voice phenomenon (EVP). However, researchers still have to examine the recordings before a determination can be made as to their source.

"When you are recording with a digital recorder and you play back and listen, you hear a voice that wasn't there when you were talking," Elliott said, explaining what an EVP is.

In addition to the recordings, Elliott said he too had strange personal experiences during the investigation.

"I did find bats up in the theater," he said. "That was interesting. Two of them kept flying around my feet."

Claar said he would not be surprised if the investigation proved the existence of paranormal activity inside the Scottish Rite Temple. The existence of a cemetery next door to the temple is one of the reasons Claar said it would not surprise him to find out there is paranormal activity going on.

Claar explained that before the building connected to the Scottish Rite Temple was built, town officials had to exhume the bodies of about 16 people who were buried in a small cemetery at that location. The bodies were re-buried in the Evergreen Cemetery, and a hotel was built on top of the very spot the cemetery once stood.

"I'm pretty much convinced that there's forces or whatever you want to call it, especially since I found out there was a cemetery next door ... The spirits don't like to be moved around," he said.

Claar said he believes, if the investigators prove the paranormal activity exists, that existence might be caused from a combination of the spirits from the cemetery and spirits from the Scottish Rite Temple.

"I think it's intermingled," he said. "I think we have our own and some of it is over there (building next door). I am anxious to hear the results. We'll wait and see what they say."

Elliott said it usually takes about two-weeks for his team to go through and analyze all of the data collected during the investigation. He added, about 85 to 90 percent of the time he and his team are able to disprove the existence of paranormal activity.

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Reports of a Monster Snake in Rumford Canal, Maine

OK, snake owners. Check your cages. Anybody missing a 17-foot-long boa constrictor?

On Wednesday morning, two people contacted Rumford police dispatcher Sue Milligan and told her they'd seen a monster snake entering the canal system off Canal Street behind Bartash's store.

Milligan said that based on the descriptions of the reptile, she believed it to be a 17-foot-long boa constrictor.

Because an apparent large snake sighting isn't a police matter, Milligan said she alerted the Maine Warden Service.

"Once it gets into the water, it's not our problem," Milligan said.

Wardens will be investigating, spokeswoman Deborah Turcotte said early Wednesday evening via e-mail.

"The Maine Warden Service has received a report of an apparent large snake in the river, and a broad description of where it may be," Turcotte said.

"If anyone has detailed information of a specific location where it may be for an extended period of time, please call the Warden Service so that the snake can be identified and removed, if necessary," she added.

If there is a giant snake in the Rumford canal system, it would most likely be a red-tail boa constrictor or a Burmese python, according to Robbie White of Mexico.

White keeps several large snakes as pets and is regarded as the local expert based on his annual show-and-tell sessions using his snakes to teach youngsters about the reptiles during summer reading programs in libraries.

"When people see a snake of that length, they automatically think it's a boa," White said. "But there are no snakes in the state of Maine that I know of that are going to grow to that length, unless it was a pet and it escaped."

If it's at least 14 feet long, it's a red-tail boa constrictor, he said.

"But if it's much bigger - like 16 feet or 18 feet - then you're talking more along the lines of what I understand is a Burmese python," White said. "But a Burmese python, once it gets that size, would be very aggressive."

"I mean, you wouldn't want to go in there after it unless you had a catch pole and a couple of people with you, because they are quite strong and they are very aggressive," he added.

When told of the Rumford sightings, White said a 17-foot-long boa would have an elongated head the size of a grapefruit. It would also be right at home in the water.

"Boa constrictors love the water, oh yeah," White said. "My 10-foot red-tail boa, she stayed in her pool of water for almost two months one time; just had her nose sticking out of it."

So how does one spot a monster boa constrictor that enjoys its watery environment?

"When it gets hungry or whenever the sun comes out so it can sun itself," White said. "That's the best chance to see it."

If a 17-foot-long snake is actually living in the water and brush along the canal, it isn't likely to go anywhere if it's got plenty of food, he said.

"When I get some free time, I will go over there to the canal system and see if I can spot it, because I can tell what it is from a piece of snake skin," he said. "I can also tell by the byproduct from them digesting something if it's a large pile of poop."

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Public Utilities Group Confirms 'Sewer Monster' Is Real

If you've been following the ongoing sewer monster story from North Carolina, I've got some seriously crazy news for you. First of all, the video of the throbbing creature has been confirmed as real. But what is it?

We've been tipped off by an anonymous source about how the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, is responding as the viral video of a seething blob in the city sewers made its way across the internet yesterday. Marti Gibson is the Environmental/EMS Coordinator for Public Utilities in the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, and she has been as confused as the rest of us. When she first looked at the video, she emailed our anonymous source to say it was a slime mold that was in the phase of its lifecycle where it looks like a throbbing, breathing animal.

She assured our tipster that any water passing by this slime would pass through a treatment plant and be thoroughly cleansed.

But then, a few hours later, Gibson retracted her statement in an email:

The video was taken in a private sewer system by a private contractor working for them. It does not belong to the City of Raleigh nor will it reach the Neuse River Wastewater Treatment Plant. This is the response from our director: "The video is of the private sanitary sewer in the Cameron Village and was taken by a private contractor working for them and not taken by our staff. The blob has been identified by others as worms."

Worms? What kind of worms look like that?

Also I love how the privatization of the sewer system under this particular town has led to a terrible situation where the city's public utilities commission has no ability to guarantee that the situation will be dealt with in a reasonable way.

Can some environmental scientist or worm expert please step up and tell us what this really is?

UPDATE:

According to the News & Observer:

Actually, the sewer monster is made up of thousands of tiny organisms called bryozoans, or moss animacules, said N.C. State University biologist Thomas Kwak. Invertebrates, they bunch together in colonies and feed with tiny tentacles.

But another scientist said no way to bryozoans. DeepSeaNews interviewed Dr. Timothy S. Wood, an expert on freshwater bryozoa and an officer with the International Bryozoology Association. He said:

No, these are not bryozoans! They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting.

NOTE: I'm not buying any of these explanations, especially the Tubifex worms. Anyone who has raised exotic fish knows that Tubifex worms (used to feed some fish species) don't look like this mass. The mystery continues...Lon

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Here We Go...Conspiracy Theorists Claim Michael Jackson 'Faked Death'

It's Elvis all over again - but this time, it's happening to the former King of Pop.

Just days after Michael Jackson died, rumours are flooding the internet that he faked his own death.

Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton was first. He claimed Jacko pulled a similar stunt in 1995 when getting ready for a big TV special. Jackson died just weeks before a big comeback tour in London.

Perez seems to have toned it down since then, after howls of condemnation from fans of the gloved one.

Many lesser-known sites have followed though. Some even use the tried and tested journalistic terms "sources" and "insiders".

Blogger Derek Clontz, says it's all a ploy to pump up Jacko's comeback tour. "Sources in a position to know" claim the star is hiding out in Hungary.

And that led, naturally, to the comparison with Elvis.

"Michael is following in the footsteps of a man he greatly admired – another rock icon, Elvis Presley, who also faked his death and is still alive, and in hiding, today," Clontz writes, quoting "exclusive" comments from William Stern, a man who has written extensively on Presley.

Given Elvis has seemingly toured the world since, showing up everywhere but conventions for lookalikes, who knows where Jackson will next be sighted?

Gutter press tabloid The Weekly World News (which carries the laughable tagline: "The world's only reliable news") claims to have broken the fake death story 15 years ago.

It quotes "world-renowned psychic and metaphysician" Andy Reiss, who specialises in "celebrity predictions". These words are from 1994: "The only way out of this mess he's in is to fake his death, cut his hair and go underground. The cover story will be that Michael Jackson suffered a fatal heart attack while riding his Ferris wheel (at the Neverland ranch). Jackson's 'remains' will be cremated and his 'ashes' will be scattered on the grounds of his estate."

Another site reckons he's moved to this bedsit above a Lebanese restaurant in London. Easy access to the concert venue, maybe?

And then there's this photo on michaeljacksonsightings.com supposedly taken of Jacko on Saturday, almost two days after he died.

The website claims the man who actually passed away on Friday was part of the scam. "Those close to Michael have known about the plot for years, it was a very expensive and intricate venture," the website says.

"The man who died had a terminal illness and his death was long overdue. He was given facial surgery to resemble Michael exactly. Even the fingerprints will match. No doubt his family will be taken care of."

The body double theory has proved popular, with other sites claiming the Jackson who recently appeared to announce his series of London concerts was in fact a body double.

Other bloggers, have even wilder theories, including that Jackson and the recently deceased Farrah Fawcett were killed by the "Triad of Death".

But even the sceptics have a softer side.

A "top internet psychic" named Chele says they saw him ascending to heaven. And the first bloke to greet him? You guessed it ... Elvis.

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Johnny Depp Convinced Dillinger's Spirit Was With Him

Johnny Depp was visited by the spirit of a gangster on his new movie.

The Hollywood star portrays John Dillinger in 'Public Enemies' and insists the notorious bank robber was watching over him while he was filming scenes.

He told BANG Showbiz: "It was magical to be able to literally walk in the same steps that he took. You could almost feel him. I did feel him, not to be spooky or anything, but there were moments when I felt his presence. There were moments when I felt a certain level of approval from the guy.

"To be able to fire my Thompson gun out of the very window Dillinger was firing his Thompson out of during the gun battle at Little Bohemia - you can't put a price on that."

After playing a string of charismatic male leads Johnny is now ready for a totally different challenge - and is keen to portray an 88-year-old American singer-and-actress.

The 46-year-old hunk explained: "I would like to play Carol Channing next. I do like Carol Channing, I really do."

Johnny is so determined to test his acting skills he has set his sights on portraying another unlikely character.

He laughingly explained: "In the digital age you can do anything. I could even play a 12-year-old girl at this point."

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Audio Evidence From Oklahoma Theater Probe Captivates Investigators

The Constantine Theater in downtown Pawhuska once having hosted Vaudeville acts, silent movies, operas and original showings of movie classics such as “Gone with the Wind,” is now said to host ghosts. In fact, it is one of the top haunted sites in Oklahoma.

People have reported hearing the sound of opening and closing doors, footsteps going up and down the stairs and once reported was a mist seen drifting in the crawl tunnel underneath the theater’s stage.

Because of the strange experiences at the building, it has been investigated a number of times, with some of the investigations resulting in recordings of footsteps, a gunshot followed by a gasp and laborious breathing.

Originally built around 1880 as the Pawhuska House Hotel, the building was purchased by Greek immigrant Charles Constantine in 1910. He then renovated the building and turned it into the theater it is today.

“The first time we came here we walked in and we go, ‘Wow!’” said the co-founder of Northeast Oklahoma Research, speaking of the elegant Greek d/cor of the theater. He identified himself as Dustin and refused to disclose his surname to the Journal-Capital.

Dustin and his team of investigators from N.O.R.S. conducted an investigation on the theater on May 23 and from 7:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. took approximately 40 hours worth of video and audio recordings focusing much of the equipment on the stage where most reports of paranormal experiences seemed to have their source.

N.O.R.S. returned to the theater Saturday evening to present their findings. to the public.

“The things on the Internet have been people walking across the stage during a bar room brawl kind of setting — hear glass breaking,” he told the dozen people in attendance at the presentation. “We didn’t experience that.”

He said the team did, however, have some findings but the events didn’t seem to occur on the stage as they had anticipated. Rather occured around the boardroom.

“The boardroom above the lobby ended up being a very interesting place,” he said, adding he regretted focusing the most highly sensitive equipment on the stage. He said if he were to do it over, he would put it in the boardroom. “That is were we had some experiences. That is where we heard someone walking up and down the stairs. It’s not disturbing its just a little awkward.”

He said the video evidence, although capturing some dark movements and shapes was overall not so impressive, but that rather it was the audio that was especially interesting.

He played audio clips of odd whooping, whipping sounds, and then later a knocking or tapping sound.

Then he played a recording of a whisper from what sounded like a male saying “Where is she?” He said the team members before the investigation agreed to speak at normal tones during the recording and if they accidently whispered, to tell the other team members and to log the instance so as not to mistake it as a paranormal event.

Dustin then played a clip of someone whispering “Peter, I was right here when the store closed.”

“Nobody that was with us is named Peter or rhymes with Peter. That is what we thought what interesting,” said Dustin. “We heard Peter clearer than anything.” He said team members debated whether the voice said “door” or “store” but the name Peter was clear. “So that was a little awkward.”

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Oops! NASA Reacquires Original Moon Landing Footage

NASA has seemingly confirmed that the original taped recordings of the first Moon landing have turned up in Australia - almost three years after the agency admitted it had carelessly mislaid them.

The Parkes Observatory in Australia captured the 1969 live images straight from the lunar surface to magnetic tape. What the US public saw, though was a compressed feed "downsized" to local TV resolutions, while NASA itself grabbed a 16mm copy from a TV monitor.

The Parkes Observatory tapes were apparently shipped to the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland a year after the landing, but in 2006 NASA confirmed that despite an extensive search, their whereabouts was unknown.

However, the Sunday Express now claims the footage was actually gathering dust in a storage facility in Perth among other tapes containing Moon dust data - presumably the same material which Oz scientists hoped to run through a vintage IBM 729 Mark V tape drive earlier this year.

A NASA spokesman confirmed the Apollo 11 landing recordings are the real deal, and said: "We’re talking about the same tapes."

He added: “At this point, I’m not prepared to discuss what has or has not been found. The research team is preparing its final report and we’ll release those findings publicly in the coming weeks.”

The Sunday Express notes that "if the visual data can be retrieved, NASA is set to reveal them to the world as a key plank of celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of the landings next month".

Whether the world will finally enjoy high-quality pics of Aldrin and Armstrong strolling the Moon's surface remains to be seen. When NASA coughed to having lost the original tapes, John Sarkissian of the Parkes Observatory noted that even if a machine could be found to replay them, they would be "so old and fragile, it's not certain they could even be player"

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