Strange Image Sparks Debate In Rhode Island

wpri.com - The phones lit up at a Rhode Island radio station Thursday morning after a listener came forward with a quite unusual cell phone picture.

The Lite Rock 105 listener, Kasey, said she took a cell phone picture of her 22-month-old niece, Penny, while babysitting last week. After looking at her photos, she noticed what appeared to be an older woman standing behind Penny. However, she said the two of them were alone in the house when the picture was taken.

“When I first saw the image I jumped out of my skin,” Kasey said on Jones and Heather in the Morning. “There were no mirrors or television in the room to produce such an image.”

Is this the woman in the photo? Kasey's family members think the image could be of her great-grandmother, who passed away in 1990.

The photo sparked quite the debate among listeners, who began flooding the radio station with calls about their beliefs and personal experiences with the afterlife, and some with their doubts about the legitimacy of the photo.

NOTE: a photo/computer tech associate examined the image and declared that was NOT altered. Another colleague concurred as well. They did a comparison with the great grandmother's 'living' photo stating that they believed it was the same person, though the recent image looked a few years younger but the features were very similar. BTW, do you want to 'freak yourself out'? Stare at the woman behind the child for 10-15 sec....I swear it looks like she's moving towards me. Maybe I just need some more sleep..Lon

South African Family Has Destructive Spirit Exorcised

The Naidoo family of Stanger Manor remain convinced they had close encounters with the paranormal which started to affect their family negatively... that is, until they had the destructive "spirit" exorcised.

"At first all I noticed was a feeling of darkness with intermittent sensations of heat moving through the house which we moved into in March this year. At night my family and I would hear furniture in the lounge being dragged across the floor. Taps which were closed would open while we were asleep, and kitchen utensils which were securely placed on the counter would fall while my wife Prisha cooked."

Naidoo said the uneasy feeling continued unabated and the constant nightmares he started to experience in April this year, together with the mysterious illnesses that befell his family, forced him to seek help.

"My wife slumped into a depressed state and my daughter Vash, 10, started to look frail and terrified, which had doctors baffled as to the cause.

"I confided in relatives and friends who suggested I consult a local psychic healer who, after an initial visit to our home, said 'there was no light' in the home. That was when it dawned on me that the lamp we lit for prayer almost always went off by itself before the wick burnt out," said the devout Hindu. During the cleansing process, the psychic, Lavina Govender, said she learnt through her spiritual guide "that the soul of an elderly, lost and angry man prowled the house.

"Using a bunch of white roses and a lit candle, I succeeded in guiding the lost soul out of the house, to its spiritual realm," said Govender.

Naidoo said he and his family felt an immediate sense of relief after the cleansing prayer and had now decided to buy the home they rented.

He added that he tried to find out who had previously lived at the house and learned that there were many former occupants, which made it difficult to identify the lost soul.

Laying the matter to rest, Naidoo discovered that the original owner had died after suffering a stroke, but the spirit could have been anyone's.

Govender concluded: "Sometimes lost souls are confused and angry. They then create a negative atmosphere which can result in them manifesting themselves physically, moving objects or amplifying unnatural sounds. These wandering souls, commonly referred to as ghosts, need to be guided to their spiritual dimension." The founder of the South African Society for Paranormal Research in Gauteng, Marius Nienaber, said places that were haunted "were usually ancestral land".

Nienaber said he researched using clairvoyants together with cameras and electro magnetic field monitoring devices. He added most video footage they had of spirit activity came up as yellow, green or blue beams, which he said confirmed paranormal activity.

New Owner Wants to Rid Enfield Pub of Haunted Reputation

enfieldindependent.co.uk - The landlord of a haunted pub in Enfield is hoping to rid the 100-year-old establishment of its ghoulish past.

Aside from the ghost who is said to be trapped in the cellar, the Hop Poles, in Baker Street, has also been damned by residents for being a hotspot for trouble.

But the new management are keen to portray the place as a family pub and continued their relaunch with a fun day yesterday.

Manager Phil Irwin, who took over with his partner Gemma Mehmet in May, said it was important to show potential punters that the pub's problems were in the past.

“A lot of the people who came along are from the community and they can see there is a lot to do for everyone here,” he said.

“We want it to be about getting the community in here and showing it is a different place to the reputation it has got.

“We had a refurb recently and it is a much cleaner environment and better atmosphere, especially during the football.”

The fun day, which also marked the pub's centenary celebrations, featured a horse riding school, magicians and dancers, and live music by bands from the Ponders End youth centre.

But Mr Irwin admitted it was George, the pub's former glass collector, who still pulls in the punters.

Legend has it that pot boy George was hit by a bus outside on the main road many years ago. He now haunts the basement where it is said if anything is put in the wrong place, by the next day, he would have moved it neatly to where it should be.

“Everyone knows the pub and knows the story of the ghost,” said Mr Irwin, who claims a camera crew who were trying to film the haunted cellar once ran out without their equipment after becoming too scared.

“I think it's quite a good laugh really. We always get people asking us 'how's George'.

“I'm down there most days but he hasn't even said 'hello' to me yet. Apparently he moves stuff around, but with all the renovation we've been doing, he could have helped us out.”

Amy Winehouse Warned by the King of Pop

The latest buzz about troubled singer Amy Winehouse is that she has been reportedly warned by Michael Jackson's ghost to quit her drug addiction soon. Earlier, many of her friends including her ex-hubby Blake Fielder-Civil had advised her to quit the habit, but all was in vain. In fact, the singer had exiled herself in the Caribbean that prompted her to really kick the habit.

It is said that the 'Back to Black' singer was visited by mediums during her stay on the Caribbean island of St Lucia. "Amy Winehouse heard Michael Jackson's voice telling her if she didn't sort herself out, she'd lose everything," People quoted a friend of Amy saying.

This is really a good advice from the spirit of King of Pop. Winehouse has been a great Michael Jackson fan. Once she had said, “I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him. I don’t care what people say because he’s a f**king genius.”

Amy Winehouse's pal said that they might have been telling her that for years, but it's finally taken a ghost to make her listen. They also said that she has been great MJ fan she will definitely try to sort herself out of drug addiction.

UFO’S - Chris Holly's Paranormal World - Reader's Sightings

My last few articles that I have written about the fear that is felt by those who have had close encounters resulted in many emails from those who also have felt this fear and also have had encounters that they have not really talked about openly due to the ridicule and reaction of the public.

My article about the large UFO sighting by a group of men who watched it attached to a group of main electric tower lines along with a cell tower and radio tower transmitter also resulted in many emails. The emails continued with my article concerning the grid and my thoughts of what is going on with so many sightings of unknown crafts all over the world near electric wires or plants as well as other infrastructure parts of our society.

Most all the emails were positive. Many were from people telling me about their own experiences with the unknown. I also had one or two run of the mill hate emails. The hate mail is always the same and always ridiculous ranting of hatred and ignorance by those who really have no idea what they are talking about.

I think it is sad that people who are limited in thinking would rather send out short sentences of hate always misspelled instead of spending time reading and learning. It is a sad- but part of the life of all paranormal writers who try to open people’s minds to what is going on all around them. It also is something that is silly and not going to stop what we do or is given much attention or consideration. It is however a symptom of why people shy away from coming forward when they encounter the paranormal.

Who needs to listen to close-minded fools after experiencing once in a lifetime events? It is easier to just shut out the world and keep your experience close to your family and friends. I try to bridge this gap making the knowledge we do have at least available to those who wish to read about it.

I have had people send me the events that they have experienced trusting that I will protect their identities yet share what they have encountered with those who are interested in knowing what others have endured or experienced.

I want to share a few of these real people real events with you and have compiled a few of my emails as to share what other people all across the country have experienced. I understand how exhausting dealing with the limited thinkers and haters can be and fully intend to be one who will tell the stories of those who have encountered the unknown while protecting them from the ignorant and cruel.

My first email came from someone I grew up with that only recently sent me this report of what he and his family witnessed back in 1972 on the Connetiqout River on Long Island New York.

“Back in 72 my family and I were on our cabin cruiser anchored at the mouth of the River. We would often stay the night on the boat before heading out in the morning to go fishing or dock over at Fire Island for the weekend.

This was a Friday night in August and it was like many other nights we slept over on the boat before heading out for an early morning trip. It was a beautiful clear night and my brother and I decided to sleep on the open deck in our sleeping bags instead of below.

Shortly after midnight I woke up. As I adjusted my eyes from my sleep I thought I saw a bright light skim across the boat. I got out of my sleeping bag and stood up to look around. The moment I stood up I saw it over the river hovering in the sky. I quickly bent down trying hide from view and crawled back to my brother. I woke my brother and told him to not say a word and crawl with me so we could get inside the boat and wake my parents. Slowly we made it below where we woke my mother and father whispering to them that a UFO was hovering over the river above the boat.

My father looked at us as if we were nuts but also could see how terrified we were. I told my parents you could clearly see it from the boats windows that lined our small sitting area topside. We all silently crept into this sitting area and watched staying hidden from view at the large craft hanging over the river.

The thing was about the size of a house in width but only about one story in height. It was gunmetal gray and seemed to illuminate a white glow every minute or so but mainly stayed dark which made it much harder to see in the night. When the thing glowed you could see it clearly defined. It was like a big cucumber looking thing that just hung there in the night sky. It made no noise and did not cause the water to ripple or move under it. I could not see any openings or windows at all.

The water under it began to move in small whirlpools and we heard a slight noise like a distant motor and it started to glow and rise. It just went straight up and then as it got smaller just shot off away out from the river over the bay towards the ocean. In seconds it was gone.

The next morning my parents asked a few other boats that were also spending the night if they had seen or heard anything the night before. The people all looked at us like we were crazy. That was our first taste of how you are treated when you see something and say something.

We only told the people we knew and trusted about this sighting as we quickly learned how those who have never seen anything receive this kind of thing. We heard by way of town gossip that a widow who lived alone in one of the houses along the river claimed she saw a UFO that summer also. The poor woman was made the laughing stock of the town.”

I found the above story were interesting as I grew up along that river and know this family for many years. I had no idea that this event occurred until my friend recently sent me that email. He also told me that it bothered him all these years that they never reported or talked about the event and wanted me to write about it. That is when I decided to compile his and other sightings sent to me into articles I can share with all of my readers . It is in my mind very important that these events are shared and made public. The more we know about what others have experienced the better prepared we all can be for what may one day be right in front of our own eyes.

I received this next email from a man who now lives in Europe but grew up in New Jersey. He wanted to share what happened to him in 1987 while living in New Jersey.

“Your latest article about people seeking out alien abductions is most interesting for several reasons. The first one being that me and one of my friends tried doing exactly that by driving up to High Point, NJ 22 years ago. This was, an area that was reported to have had its fair share of UFO sightings back then. I now realize the foolishness of that endeavor, and am grateful that we weren't abducted!

I've always been interested in the UFO phenomenon because I actually experienced a UFO incident when I was 9 years old back in 1977 in Garfield, NJ. It was the creepiest thing. Back then we had a backyard swing, and I was playing on it when all of a sudden I had the scary feeling that someone was watching me.

I noticed that all the usual summertime sounds had disappeared. Sensing that something was up, I stopped swinging and looked around, only to be shocked out of my mind at seeing a UFO hovering right above our garage, about 50 feet away.

The thing was as wide as the garage, about 15 feet and was shaped like a lentil, having a top and a bottom half, one of which was black, and the other silver/chrome and segmented. One of the halves was rotating but for the life of me I can't remember whether the top half was black or the bottom was, or which of the halves was rotating.

I looked at this craft for about 15 seconds before running upstairs in a panicked state to tell my parents. By the time they could look outside it was gone. I was quite shaken by this for many weeks.

I know for a fact that what I saw was real, because even at that tender age I knew the difference between an airplane and I knew what the Goodyear Blimp looked like. Years later, when I first got on the internet I started looking up UFO sightings in northern New Jersey, and lo and behold other people in the area saw the exact same craft as I did around that same time!

A couple of years before that was the famous Passaic sighting where a UFO the size of a city block hovered over the city for like an hour and was seen by soldiers, doctors, police officers, and other highly credible witnesses.

Mind you, I have no conscious recollection of any abduction event taking place I don't ever want to be hypnotized, because in the event I really was abducted, I really don't want to know.”

I have gotten other emails concerning sighting by people when they were children and realize that many of us spent so much of our time out doors as children, which of course increased our odds of having sightings. We also were more aware of our surroundings as children and were able to realize when things were different and took the time to stop and look around. As adults we seem to be lost in the daily grind of obligations and are far less in touch with our surroundings.

Another man sent me this report of a very odd event he endured as a child.

“I had this encounter at my home in 1961. I was 7 years old.

I was in my backyard playing when an extremely bright light appeared along the fence. Out of the light a door opened and two creatures emerged.

Being 7 years old at first I thought these were power company men to fix power lines. They had on bright aluminum suits with an emblem on shoulder that was in blue of a flying snake. It was similar to a doctor’s emblem.

Communication with these beings was instant as they could read your mind and knew my thoughts. One of the beings touched me on the head and said "This ones mind is well organized."

I never forgot this incident or what that little man said. Shortly afterward I learned about the Hill's abduction and I could relate.

I think they target children due to their lack of fear and the alien's lack of fear of our children. It can go on for years with the same person I am told.”

This man never forgot what he saw that day. I received other reports very much like this one where children where approached and had communication with the beings.

The common thread I found in these reports is that the children did not remember physical talking but knew the beings were communicating with them. I also found a similar description of the beings- being of light or covered in light or looking like glowing angels. It seems as though something is brazenly approaching our children right in their own yards while they are playing without our being aware of it.

The last email I have added to this article is one that can be added to the many others that I receive or read from all over the world involving electric power plants, electric wires or blackouts.

It is obvious that there is a connection with UFO’s and our infrastructure. I know the idea is frightening to many and that this fear has been the base of a few of my hate emails. I can only say that it is best to understand what may be going on around you. Being angry when it is brought to your attention is foolish and extremely dangerous. It is far better to understand what we are dealing with then to hide or scream at those who try to open your minds to new thinking.

Many reports come from the area of our grids or our interior systems that connect us all. It is impossible to 'not' think there are reasons to justify this type of report. These sightings have been going on for as long as we have had wires and communication devices connecting our building and homes.

The following email is from a woman who gives this report that took place in Texas in 1974.

“At the time I was a teenager out in my car with a boyfriend. We were cruising around at a popular place called Mt Creek Lake in Dallas, Texas.

The area is hilly with winding roads and thick woods. There’s an electrical plant located there alongside the lake.

It was a late summer weeknight and we were about the only ones out there. The year was 1974 and it was evening in late Aug or early Sept. I was planning on ending my relationship with this boyfriend and was riding around looking for a good spot for us to sit and talk. I think we both had the same idea that night. While on our way to a good spot we literally were almost run off the narrow road by a car speeding out of the area.

Dirt and road rocks hit my car. Being a new driver I was really shaken up by this and pulled over immediately into the first lit up area which was the amber tone lights of the electric power plants parking area.. The amber lights made things surreal. I’d never been to this location before or this part of the lake before.

As we looked around the lake we both had the shock of our lives- as there it was.

Right there in front of us was this huge craft hovering no more than 3 ft above the lake water next to the plant. The plant appeared closed as it only had on what looked like night-lights on. I’ll never forget the plant had a 2nd story picture window. I could see the plant was dimly lit inside. I was amazed that not a soul was looking out that window. They would have had an extra close and perfect view of the huge dull metal color, no windows, and no doors, UFO.

It was perfectly still and no more than 3 ft above the water with nothing between it and water. It had great height to it and it was round. We could not see all around it because of its size. It was round in shape, like a big dome shape. It was kind of plain looking. It was just hanging there still over the lake above the water. It was a dull metal color This UFO was the size of a 2-story house. It had to have at least 2 levels to it. It was so low I couldn’t see the flat bottom side of it.

It was running because it had lights operating. I remember the eerie white lights mostly but I do also think I remember seeing blue and red ones too.

After about a minute’s time we spoke to each other. What is that, not a plane, not the shape of a blimp, not any flying thing I’ve ever seen, it must be a UFO.

How is that huge thing staying above water and not moving? It’s quiet but it’s running, those lights are like search lights, what’s behind those lights? There’s a strange low operating sound to those lights, look there’s no doors, hey there’s no writing on it either, what is it then? There are no windows; it’s definitely a UFO.

It must be getting it’s energy from the electric currants under water, maybe it’s gassing up, can something see us behind those lights hitting us (intermittently)?

The lights are frightening- do they see us? What the hell’s inside it? The car that went speeding by us must have seen it too. If this were supposed to be here somebody would be in the bldg looking out.

We started to get really scared. I felt as if they were watching us. We are really scared. We did the very same thing the other car did and got out of there as fast as possible.

We might have been there 5 minutes…couldn’t say for sure. The parts I remember seem like that amount of time. It could have been longer. We both just wanted to get back to safety as fast as possible. I remember my boyfriend being very anxious to get to his home showing me shortcuts to his house. He was not the type to act that way.

When I got home I told my mother and it seemed like she believed me somewhat. She vaguely does remember me telling her about the incident today. I never saw the boyfriend again to discuss it. I didn’t have to break up with him. I guess a lot was said without saying it. After all who would have ever believed us? In fact I pretty much went on about my life and kept this to myself until much later in my life. I hear others do the same.”

I found this email to be an excellent report of a sighting near an electric plant that fits in with so many other reports out there. Many people are seeing huge crafts silently hovering over electric plants, power plants and other sources of infrastructure areas. They also go hand in hand with black outs and drone sightings above our electric lines. How can so many people be seeing such similar things yet no one seems to be aware of it?

I will leave you with these emails to decide if you think we all need to pay far more attention to what is taking place right under our noses all over this country, all over this globe- without our being aware of it.

To my readers who sent and allowed me to share their experiences with all of you I thank you all. If you have had a encounter, sighting or event tell someone. Who knows one day maybe your report will help some other person make it through the moment they come face to face with the unknown.

Be careful out there and always keep looking up!

Thanks to Chris Holly at Chris Holly’s Paranormal World

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Have You Noticed Anything Unusual? Military Prepares For H1N1 Outbreak

These photos were obtained by a Fresno, CA resident. The Fresno area currently has 11 known hospitalized H1N1 cases. Another H1N1 patient passed away 7/30/09.
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It seems the Pentagon is in the process of making troops and equipment available to aid the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) if there is an aggressive outbreak of H1N1 virus, commonly known as Swine Flu, this fall, according to reports by CNN.

The proposal for the troop standby originated from U.S. Northern Command's Gen. Victor Renuart, but according to CNN has not yet been formally approved by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The plan is for the military to put in place regional teams of military personnel to aid civilian authorities in the event of any serious outbreak.

A senior U.S. defense official told sources that no final decision has been reached on how the military effort would be manned, but would most likely include personnel from all the military branches. At this point, however, it remains uncertain as to whether the personnel would come from the active duty or the National Guard and Reserve. Nonetheless, recent activity at one California National Guard facility in Fresno seems to indicate that the plan is already underway. A new compound (photos above) has been built adjacent to the base that includes massive tents, satellite communications equipment, etc.

In the event of a major outbreak, civilian authorities would be at the head of the relief efforts, according to the source report. The military would be most useful in supplying air transport or testing of large numbers of viral samples from sick citizens.

Recently a special government panel advise that swine flu vaccinations be offered first to pregnant women, health care workers and children six months and over.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices panel also recommended that priority in the vaccination line be given to parents of infants; non-elderly adults who have high-risk medical conditions, and adults ages 19 to 24, the group that has proven to be the most at risk for the infection.

For reference, National Guard websites and locations are listed here. As well, FEMA has established a network of locations under the Rex 84 Program that could possibly be used in case of an H1N1 outbreak emergency.

Scientists traced the genetic lineage of the H1N1 swine flu to a strain that emerged in 1998 in U.S. factory farms, where it spread and mutated at an alarming rate. Experts warned then that a pocket of the virus would someday evolve to infect humans, perhaps setting off a global pandemic.

NOTE: this posting is not meant to scare anyone but there seems to be something stirring within the U.S. military. Personally, I have a 21yo son, a 33yo daughter and 4yo grand daughter, so this strain of flu has me somewhat concerned. Have you noticed anything new or unusual at your local national guard armory or base?

Sources:
http://www.cnn.com/
http://www.prisonplanet.com/
http://www.newsmax.com/
J. Gonzalez

Photo: Ghost Debuts at Norwich Cinema

eveningnews24.co.uk - It would add a whole new meaning to the words “scary movie”, but could a ghost have been captured on camera at a Norwich cinema?

City-based photographer Andrew Kitt felt chills down his back as he processed his pictures from a photo shoot at Cinema City.

As he flicked between two images of the venue's courtyard, he noticed a shadow in one of the pictures that was absent from the next shot in the sequence.

Zooming in on the image on his computer, Mr Kitt saw what looked suspiciously like a figure. As he looked closer, it appeared as a hunched shape wearing what could, with a little imagination, be described as Tudor-style dress.

“The hairs on the back of my neck went up when I first saw it. I'm keeping an open mind. I'm not saying it's a ghost or anything, but it is certainly strange,” said Mr Kitt.

He took the picture from steps overlooking the courtyard at about 10.40pm one night last month , and while he cannot explain the shot he is adamant that it has not been tampered with in any way.

“It's not a hoax. Nothing has been done to that image,” he said.

The most likely explanation for the picture is that someone walked across the shot as he was taking it - the spot at which the figure appears is close to the kitchen door, which is used constantly by waiting staff - but Mr Kitt said he was “near enough 100 per cent sure” that didn't happen.

Cinema City and its bar and restaurant The Dining Rooms occupy some of Norwich's oldest buildings, parts of which date from the 14th century. The site itself has been occupied since the 13th century.

In the mid-1500s Robert Suckling, lord mayor, sheriff and burgess in parliament, bought the property, making substantial alterations to the buildings and renaming them after himself.

The centre of the house was, as it remains today, the Great Hall, with its scissor brace and crown post roof. Staff tell of odd, unexplained happenings on the site. Could the building's recent restoration have shaken up a few old inhabitants?

Bar and restaurant manager Steven Smith said: “One of the projectionists was closing down one night and heard a whisper in one of the cinemas. It just said 'Get out!' so he did, as fast as he could run. I'm here early in the morning but I've never come across anything eerie myself.”

He said the venue was virtually empty at the time the photo was taken, with just himself and a couple of staff present, and a few customers still in the cinema.

“I can't explain what it is in the picture at all,” he said.

Photos: Triangle Shaped UFO - Wesley Chapel, Florida

Witness statement - MUFON: 11:42 PM, 7/17/2009, my neighbor knocked on my door. It was unusual because it was really late so I thought it was an emergency.

She said "Sorry to bother you so late, but my husband is in the backyard looking at some weird lights in the sky and thought you might want to see them too."

I then said "Ok, I'm out back right now."

I then opened up my sliding glass door to go to the lanai, and I looked up in the eastern sky at about 45 degrees, or the 1 o'clock position, and saw a triangular object in the sky moving from left to right, and back left, and up and down and it surely didn't look like anything I've ever seen in my life.

I then ran back into the house to wake up my wife, who is the biggest UFO skeptic that I know, and said, "Wake up! Wake up! You've got to come outside and see this thing!"

She said "No, I have to go to sleep, I have to work in the morning!"

I preceded to say "You have to see this thing in the sky, just trust me, you have to come out and see this!"

I then looked for our camera, a Casio Exilim 10.1 mega pixel camera, and went back outside with my dog and started recording footage of this thing in the sky. I walked over to my neighbor's house and the three of us watched this thing for 2 and a half hours.

My neighbor had binoculars and a telescope, but it was easier to use the binoculars to see the silhouette of this object. It was moving in different patterns, but generally stayed in the eastern sky moving from left to right in a pendulum type pattern, but it would also moved westward a little bit, but remained at the 1 o'clock to 1:30 position in the sky.

If you held a dime towards the sky, the size was a little smaller than the dime. It seemed to be about 1000-3000 feet in the sky hovering over I-75 near SR 54. The feeling I felt was "what the heck is that?"

We sat on some chairs and watched this thing for a couple hours. I started to feel really sleepy so I went back inside the house to go to sleep, but I kept checking out my window because I wanted to see where this thing will go once it's done hovering over Wesley Chapel, FL.

I found my other battery that was fully charged, so I went back outside for a few more minutes and filmed one more video. I don't know what we saw, but it wasn't a plane.

Matter of fact, we saw 2 planes fly by that night, one was flying from East to Southwest. We heard the sounds of the engines as it came closer to us, and as it flew past us. The sounds were evident even when the plane seemed to be further to us than the triangular object in the sky.

The next plane flew past us from South to North, and you could also hear it as it flew past us. But this object made no sounds at all. The night sky was very clear, and there was no or very little wind that night.

What Crashed Into the Ottawa River?

Inquisitr.com - Dozens of residents of Canada’s capital city, Ottawa Ontario and nearby Gatineau, Que., witnessed an object streak across the night sky at about 10pm local time Monday night and crash into the Ottawa River with a “thunderous boom.”

The object had lights on it and appeared to change course several times, like a small plane struggling to stay airborn, before it hit the water.

It was such a sight that emergency rescue and search crews in the area sprung into action and began searching the area using sophisticated sonars and underwater cameras to try and figure out what the object was. Even helicopters from the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) in nearby Trenton took part. On Tuesday at 1:30pm, they discovered an object about 9 meters (30 feet) below the surface, but because of currents and nearby rapids, sending divers down would be extremely dangerous since they would be instantly swept away by the currents.

The mystery? Authorities and residents have no idea what this object laying at the bottom of the river is. There are no planes missing from the area, no other aircraft like helicopters, etc. are missing. There is no debris, no oil slick and even space agencies that were contacted said nothing disappeared from orbit.

On Tuesday afternoon, Ottawa police Const. Alain Boucher said of the object they found on the riverbed:

“The size and the shape doesn’t lead us to believe it’s any piece of an airplane or fuselage or anything like that. It could be a rock, it could be a bunch of logs stuck together, it’s hard to say. No one has come forward with any kind of videos or anything like that at this time. None of the people actually reported seeing a plane go down at the same time.”

But the fact still remains - something fell into the Ottawa River Monday night that prompted a massive co-ordinated search by local authorities and the Canadian Military. They found an object below the surface and don’t know exactly what it is.

It truly is a UFO mystery at this point.
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ORIGINAL REPORT - WellandTribune.ca

It truly was an unidentified flying object that darted across the night sky over the Ottawa River this week.

“There's nothing in the river for us to find in terms of an airplane or helicopter or something that went down (Monday) night,” Ottawa police Const. Alain Boucher said Tuesday afternoon.

“We're still looking into what could have caused this. There's a number of reasons this could have happened. We'll be looking into that in the next couple of days.”

Several residents, both in Ottawa and in Gatineau, Que., reported lights smashing into the water around 10 p.m. Monday, along with a thunderous boom.

The calls prompted police, firefighters, paramedics and a helicopter from CFB Trenton to scour the waters for a downed aircraft.

Problem was, there was no physical evidence pointing to a plane wreck: No debris, no oil slick and no indication from airspace authorities that something fell off the radar. There was also no report of a missing aircraft.

Still, searchers launched their boats on Tuesday morning looking for clues that could confirm witness accounts.

They found a few objects in the water, but nothing significant until around 1:30 p.m., when sonar discovered something bulky more than nine metres below the surface.

An underwater camera couldn't reach it and searchers called off the mission not knowing exactly what the object was.

“The size and the shape doesn't lead us to believe it's any piece of an airplane or fuselage or anything like that,” Boucher said. “It could be a rock, it could be a bunch of logs stuck together, it's hard to say.”

“No one has come forward with any kind of videos or anything like that at this time,” Boucher said. “None of the people actually reported seeing a plane go down at the same time.”

NOTE: I don't know what to make of this story. I would tend to think it was a meteorite if not for the witness statements contradicting that theory. It'll be interesting to see what comes of this. The Canadian government and military are tight-lipped about these type of incidents for the most part...Lon

Photos: Into the Storm

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July 28, 8:15 p.m. There was a storm approaching from the Southwest and the cloud tops were magnificent. I could see rain and lightning to my WSW. I decided to grab my little Sony digital camera and take a few shots and some video, hoping to catch the lightning. What showed up in 2 of the stills is a mystery. Also, what showed up in 2 of the video shots is also questionable. One is most likely a bird but the other is just plain baffling. This is especially so, since I was watching the sky and not the camera view screen. I never saw anything but clouds and didn't hear anything unusual.

While I took the shots, some pics blurred. I had set the camera on auto and the camera would refuse to focus, then it just shut off. I checked and still had half a charge on the battery but every other time I'd turn the camera on and point it at the sky, it would switch off.

My spouse called me 15 minutes later from the west end of town, saying that it was pouring down rain, with pea to marble sized hail. I could hear the clatter in the background as we spoke. Moments later the rain reached our home, so my picture taking came to an end.

SW

Thanks to SW at Lights in the Sky

British Coast Invaded By Deadly Portuguese Man-of-War Jellyfish

dailymail.co.uk - Deadly Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish have invaded British beaches – and more are expected to arrive, it emerged today.

At least eight of the creatures, which can deliver a potentially lethal sting, were found on Tregantle beach in Cornwall.

Another two were spotted in estuary sands between Bantham and Bigbury in Devon, prompting authorities to warn bathers to be vigilant.

It is thought the deadly animals, which have a distinctive body that is said to resemble a 16th Century Portuguese warship, could have come all the way from Australia.

A spokesman for the National Marine Aquarium said the sail-like creatures, which have sting-carrying tentacles that are up to 15ft long, were blown here by strong South Westerly winds.

And Tom Hardy, a marine conservation officer at the Cornwall Wildlife Trust, said he expects more man-of-wars to arrive during the summer.

‘They have been blown across by the prevailing winds. I would expect many more to follow.’

Mr Hardy said bathers and beach-goers should take care around the creatures and seek advice from local lifeguards if they are stung.

‘If people are stung they may suffer a shortness of breath in the most severe cases. In most cases they may have a bad sting,’ he told the Plymouth Herald.

‘We would advise people to rinse the area with either warm water or sea water, and try to remove the stingers carefully.’

They can produce a nasty and painful sting which leaves red welts on the skin, and if untreated they could take months to heal.

Friends Jess Manford and Donald Mann were walking along Tregantle beach on Monday evening when they spotted the pink-rimmed creature.

Miss Manford, 26, a freelance photographer from Hartley, said: ’It was really exciting.

‘I was just walking along the beach with Donald when we spotted about eight of them washed up on the shore.

‘It was pretty dark, so we couldn’t see much, but we assumed that there must have been a lot more in the sea.

‘I am quite interested in marine wildlife anyway so I knew that they were Portuguese man-of-war.

‘Being a professional photographer I own an underwater camera, but it broke about two weeks ago, which is so annoying.

‘In the end I had to take the photos quickly on my phone.’

The last time a major number were washed up on our beaches was in 1945 and that saw hundreds washed up.

But in the last two years approximately two dozen of the creatures have been reported on south coast beaches.

The Portuguese man-of-war is not a true jellyfish, but a siphonophore - a single animal made up of a colony of organisms, which normally lives far out in the ocean.

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The 'Flying Humanoid' Phenomenom

NOTE: MonsterQuest presented a show Wednesday night centered on the 'flying humanoid' phenomena...mostly in Mexico and California. Since I have received several emails after the show asking my opinion of these 'beings', I have decided to reprint and update the information from my previous reports at the time of the events. BTW, there are several videos...if these do not appear in the email newsletter or subscription feeds, please use the link to the site..Lon

7/4/07

Testimony from dozens of persons and police officers depict seeing what appear to be witches flying through the skies of remote Mexican towns. Several people videotaped the strange phenomenon. The creatures appear to infest the skies over an old cemetery.

12/22/07

This was posted originally about a year ago but new sightings of the 'flying witches' are again being reported from Mexico. A police officer had a close encounter with one of these humanoids.

5/9/08





Lic. Daniel Sanchez Rosales, a resident of Mexico City, recorded an unidentified flying object that he describes as having humanoid characteristics.

The video was taken on February 28 of this year in the Moctezuma district, not far from Mexico City International Airport, at 6:50 a.m.

It should be mentioned that the first one to see it was his nephew Quique (Erik) as left home toward his middle school. It was then that he woke his uncle Daniel and they observed the phenomenon through binoculars, at first. During this observation, the witnesses described it as "a flying humanoid" resembling an astronaut. They claimed that it was facing them and it seemed to survey its surroundings.

As part of this investigation, I visited the household and interviewed the witnesses. Both seemed like honest people to me, and are not looking for either fame or fortune, merely a chance to share their experience. Daniel Sanchez Rosales,36, is a graduate of the UNAM School of Law.

Research

After reviewing the video with filters, my conclusion is that it is authentic, but it is still necessary to determine the nature of what was recorded.

Objectively, we are aware that this could have an explanation: perhaps a balloon, but there are three aspects that draw our attention:

1. The recording has a 12-minute duation, and if we add to this the observation time through binoculars, the sighting was around 15 minutes, an uncommon period of time when we deal with balloons, as these are carried away by the wind, and it is hard to see them for an extended period of time.

2. At a given point in the video, the object or alleged humanoid makes descending movements, then remains static for a while and subsequently rises again. This ascending and descending isn't quite so common with balloon.

3. At two moments during the recording, the dogs' reaction can be heard. The appear to be keening or expressing fear. This does not occur when balloons are involved, unless it is a huge coincidence (the witness has 2 Labrador Retrievers).

The object remains close to an air corridor. The background information here is that researcher Alfonso Salazar had reported the presence of UFOs near MCIA.

More photographs located HERE

1/14/09


*The Williams X-Jet, created by Williams International, was a small, light-weight Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) system powered by a modified Williams F107 turbofan aircraft engine. This vehicle was nicknamed "The Flying Pulpit". It was designed to be operated by and carry one person and controlled by leaning in the direction of desired travel and adjusting the power. It could move in any direction, accelerate rapidly, hover, and rotate on its axis, staying aloft for up to 45 minutes and traveling at speeds up to 60 miles per hour (100 km/h). It was evaluated by the U.S. Army in the 1980s, and was deemed inferior to the capabilities of helicopters and small unmanned aircraft.

Other VTOL systems developed by Williams International included a jet-powered flying belt developed in 1969, which was powered by a Williams WR19 turbofan, and the WASP (Williams Aerial Systems Platform) developed in the 1970s, which was powered by the more powerful WR19-9.

*Williams X-Jet - WASP




A witness to one of these anomalies stated: "It looked like a human-shaped body, 'standing' vertical and just floating over the roof. I was shocked. The figure was not facing me...I was looking straight at its right side. It was tall. No sound was heard and we both stood still, watching, while I continued recording."

On 7/4/07, testimony from dozens of persons and police officers depict seeing what appear to be witches flying through the skies of remote Mexican towns. Several people videotaped the strange phenomenon. The creatures appear to infest the skies over an old cemetery.

It may be plausible that some sort of 'device' is being used or tested by the Mexican military. Since the initial sightings, there have been no statements or disclosures made by the Mexican or local governments.

Ogopogo Spotted on Google Earth? - Another Perspective

(Copyright - BunkieLA/P&MWiki)
Enhanced satellite photo of Ogopogo from Google. Flipper comparisons from pictures from Wikipedia, plesiosaurs and Loch Ness monster

From BunkieLA on Phantoms and Monsters Wiki - Ogopogo

"Who would-a thunk it" that the quest for Lake Monsters would be given a significant boost by Google! This morning, Lon's postings including a marvelous satellite photo of what could be Ogopogo! It is difficult to determine a complete outline for the animal in the enlarged picture because of glare from the water.

To clarify the picture for my own satisfaction, I brought the color image into Photoshop, cropped down to the main shape, and turned the picture to grayscale. Then I hit the image with adjustments for contrast and brightness.

The animal, and indeed it is an animal because it exhibits bilateral symmetry, is viewed with its port side towards the land.

What shows up very clear is a pair of crescent-shaped flippers "astern" and close to the surface. There is a suggestion that there is another pair of flippers further forward where there is the suggestion of a shoulder "hump" just under the water. Forward of this possible second pair of flippers is a lengthy grey area that could be a long neck and head, pointing straight ahead.

About flippers: Flippers will appear to change shape as an animal in the water moves them to propel itself. Also, some whales have distinctive, crescent-shaped flippers, although those are of different proportions to the whole animal as compared to the flippers of the animal in the Google satellite photo.

Could it be a giant seal? The flippers to the "aft" just don't match up with what we have all be seeing in the zoos, circuses, and on PBS TV of the "steering ends" of seals and even walruses.

Could it be a whale? There are two sets of flippers, not one big pair. The back end of the animal is obscured, so it cannot be seen if there is a tail with flukes. That obscuring of the end of the tail is another point to consider.

It appears that the water deepens rather quickly off shore under this animal. If the animal we see is of basic plesiosaur configuration (see Wikipedia for variations, also the copious number of photos from Loch Ness, Lake Champlain, and others) assuming that the four paddle-like appendages are visible -- what is that huge dark shape coming up behind it, obscuring the tail? What is that blobby dark shape coming up from the "starboard" side of the head?

I don't want to read too much into the image, but my conclusion is this: The animal has the "classic" Nessie shape of the compact body and moderately long neck, with logically proportionate and well-placed flippers. Compared to the size of the fishing piers, it's a "whopper"! Is it Ogopogo? It is a living animal with bilateral symmetry. And it is in a place where the Ogopogo is known to appear. I'll leave it at that.

Plesiosaur morphology: As I read in various books on dinosaurs, the plesiosaur body with the small head and large neck way out in front of a very powerful body is ideal for catching fish. The fish are only "vaguely" aware of the smallish head in murky waters. Then "chomp", the neck shoots forward and the fish is "gone".
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Original post - Has Ogopogo Been Spotted on Google Earth?




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NOTE: I received the following email tonight:

Let me start by saying that I really enjoy your blog, as for the subject of the image attached; I was going through your July 09 archive and one of the posts was about the Okanagan Lake monster, and since I had some free time on my hands, I decided to use Google earth to try and scan the lake from above, and to my surprise, I stumbled upon this monster/snake/big fishing net thing that is about 280 meters long and could well be the thing they saw on that day (due to it's proximity to the boat dock).

Thank you and keep up the good work.

Abdulaziz, Kuwait

Well, I looked at the image (from 2004) and the anomaly that Abdulaziz mentioned...but, then I noticed a shadow in the water about, my estimate, 150 feet offshore. I screen captured the shadow and attempted to enhance it a bit. The shape is similar to a plesiosaur or a serpentine creature, but with 1 pair of flippers (possibly, another pair hidden). I realize it's just a shadow or silhouette but the shape is intriguing. Could this be Ogopogo?..Lon

Are These Craft From Holloman AFB or Somewhere Else?

Note: the following was posted at New Mexico L.O.W.F.I.:

I live in New Mexico under an Air Force flightpath. Stealth fighters are not at all unusual in the skies over my house. Occasionally, I see aircraft that I can not identify, and have gotten in the habit of keeping a camera handy when I am going to be outside for a while. One afternoon, I caught sight of something out of the corner of my eye. The oddest thing about these craft is that they made no noise at all that I could hear.

I snapped off 5 pictures that afternoon of these craft, but this is the only one with two flying close to each other. I don’t believe in flying saucers from other planets at all. These are obviously secret craft being flown out of White Sands, or some other airbase. My contacts in the community have all told me of “Alien craft” being in the skies, and I never believed them. This gives substance to their stories, but doesn’t convince me of an “alien presence”

–Michael

NOTE: I'm sure if these were non-domestic craft flying over New Mexico during daylight that a few fighter jets would have been scrambled and seen. But, who knows...Lon

Texas Pub Still Has Regular Patrons, Alive or Otherwise

scntx.com - McKinney pub offering more than food and drink downtown

Drinks from the bar aren’t the only spirits lingering around Churchill’s pub in downtown McKinney. The restaurant, formerly called The Londoner, recently changed names but new owners Marie Briton and Erin Elwood assure they’ve still got the same regulars, alive and otherwise.

“We have ghosts in the building,” Elwood said. The location is on the map for the Legends of McKinney Ghost Walk.

Briton said the Texas Paranormal Advanced Research Team recently conducted observations on site in May, 2009, and produced a report stating the voice of a man was heard saying, “Ya’ll must be crazy.”

The majority of the paranormal activity is all upstairs and mainly around the ladies restrooms, Briton said. Before becoming owner, Briton worked as the general manager of the restaurant and said she’s heard the voice of the spirit herself.

“I just shout at it and say ‘Enough is enough,’” Briton said. “I don’t think it’s a bad energy. I think it’s cantankerous but I don’t think it’s bad.”

Elwood said as the new owners they plan to do research to figure out exactly what the history of the 100-year-old building is.

“There have been a lot of alleged histories so we want to sort through them,” Elwood said. “It’s such a neat old building with so much history. We hope to get old photos up on the wall.”

The English pub changed owners in early June and Elwood said as part of the deal they agreed to change the name. After a few weeks of taking suggestions, surveying customers, and tossing around several different ideas, they landed on Churchill’s, inspired by Winston Churchill.

“Most of our regulars still fondly call it ‘the pub,’” Briton said.

I Always Thought the Blue M&M's Tasted Better....

www.telegraph.co.uk - The compound Brilliant Blue G blocks a chemical that kills healthy spinal cord cells around the damaged area - an event that often causes more irreversible damage than the original injury.

BBG not only reduced the size of the lesion but also improved the recovery of motor skills, the rodent tests showed.

Those treated with BBG were later able to walk, although with a limp. Rats that did not receive the BBG solution never regained the ability to walk.

On the downside, the treatment causes the skin to temporarily turn bright blue and BBG needs to be injected soon after the trauma. The test injections were given within 15 minutes.

The new findings by researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Centre in New York build on work reported five years ago by the same team.

They discovered that adenosine triphosphate (ATP) - a chemical that keeps our cells alive - quickly pours into the area surrounding a spinal cord injury.

But they found it overstimulated otherwise healthy neurons and caused them to die from metabolic stress, creating a secondary injury.

Injecting oxidised ATP into the site of the injury helped stop this, they found.

But neurosurgeon Prof Maiken Nedergaard, who led the research, said: "No one wants to put a needle into a spinal cord that has just been severely injured so we knew we needed another way."

The new approach of using BBG has answered this problem because it can be administered intravenously.

More tests will be needed to prove the safety of BBG before human clinical trials can begin.

But researchers are optimistic new treatments for acute spinal cord injuries could emerge in the next few years.

Video: Several Sightings of UFO - Deqing, Guangdong Province, China

AllNewsWeb.com - The UFO that was seen by 22 students in the city of Deqing in China during a rooftop observation of the solar eclipse has been hailed by that nations massive UFO community as the UFO event of the year. Yet it is being ignored by the west.

It has now been confirmed that no less than 9 students separately filmed and photographed the UFO as seen in the film and still photographs. Now the students have handed over the footage to government authorities for examination. The story is also being aired on television news broadcasts.

Evidence is now filtering through that other footage might exist too.

'We believe this might be the smoking gun UFO sighting and UFO researchers will definitely be looking to interview all of the children' noted one UFO researcher on one Chinese language UFO forum.

NOTE: this is a follow up on a large scale sighting in and around Deqing city in the Guangdong Province, China a few days ago during a solar eclipse. I don't know if more news is going to come from this. Actually, the footage is interesting and probably deserves a closer look...Lon

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Has Ogopogo Been Spotted on Google Earth?

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NOTE: I received the following email tonight:

Let me start by saying that I really enjoy your blog, as for the subject of the image attached; I was going through your July 09 archive and one of the posts was about the Okanagan Lake monster, and since I had some free time on my hands, I decided to use Google earth to try and scan the lake from above, and to my surprise, I stumbled upon this monster/snake/big fishing net thing that is about 280 meters long and could well be the thing they saw on that day (due to it's proximity to the boat dock).

Thank you and keep up the good work.

Abdulaziz, Kuwait

Well, I looked at the image (from 2004) and the anomaly that Abdulaziz mentioned...but, then I noticed a shadow in the water about, my estimate, 150 feet offshore. I screen captured the shadow and attempted to enhance it a bit. The shape is similar to a plesiosaur or a serpentine creature, but with 1 pair of flippers (possibly, another pair hidden). I realize it's just a shadow or silhouette but the shape is intriguing. Could this be Ogopogo?..Lon

'Big Cat' Video Taken By Policeman in Argyll, Scotland

From Mark Fraser at BigCatsInBritain.com

http://www.youtube.com/BCIBrg

http://bcib.wordpress.com/

This footage has been in the possession of Big Cats in Britain for a couple of weeks now, and has only just been released to the media.

Shaun Stevens has been working with MOD dog handler who took it, near Helensburgh in Scotland.

What do you think?

The witness reports: "I was visiting a friend on the 30th of June 2009, Helensburgh. The house overlooks the West Highland railway line, and I was in the back garden putting some plants into the greenhouse, when I happened to look up and spotted what appeared to be a black Labrador dog on the railway tracks. I then did a double take as I realised that the animals' tail was twice the length it should be. I shouted to a pal who was also in the garden, helping out and we both came to the same conclusion that it was a large cat. My pal had his mobile phone on him so he took a couple of photo's. He used a Nokia N96. I then ran to my car and grabbed my mobile phone, a Nokia N82, legged it down the drive and up some steps onto Winston Road and stood on the railway bridge. Low and behold along came our feline on the tracks. The first shot I took was a still, before switching to video. The video lasts just over a minute, and shows the cat leaving the tracks, going in to the vegetation, spraying/marking its territory ? and then returning to the tracks where it mounts the rail and walks along it. As a police dog handler, I would love to be able to train my dog to walk along a rail 3" wide, but it is impossible . At a point 16 - 18 seconds into the video, the cat appears huge, the rails are 4' 8" wide, and the cat looks to be about 3' 6" in overall length but later on and also in the stills it appears to be smaller. I cannot explain this. Can you?
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news.bbc.co.uk - An off-duty Ministry of Defence police dog handler has taken a video of what he claims is a panther-sized big cat.

Pc Chris Swallow was helping a friend with their garden in Helensburgh, Argyll, when he spotted the black creature on a nearby railway line.

The officer, who is stationed at the Faslane naval base on the Clyde, said the cat was as big as a Labrador dog.

Big cats have been reported in the area in the past, with several sightings of the so-called Coulport Cougar.

Pc Swallow said he saw the animal on 30 June while working in the garden at Kildonan Drive, Helensburgh. He could tell it was not a Labrador, as he first thought, because of the way it was walking, and because its tail was about twice the length that a dog's would have been.

He said: "My friend's house is next to the West Highland Line and at one point I looked down and saw what I first thought was a black Labrador on the tracks.

"There were trains coming and going throughout the day and I was a bit concerned, but when I looked again I saw that the animal wasn't moving the way I expected a dog to.

"It was then I realised that what I was seeing was a big cat and I shouted on my friend to come and have a look. We were stunned."

After running to his car to grab his camera phone, Pc Swallow stood on the rail bridge at Winston Road and got a still photo and a couple of minutes of footage of the animal moving up the railway line.

He added: "It was remarkable. I've heard stories about creatures like this moving about the countryside, but never really believed them before. Looking back at the video I don't think there's any doubt that it's a big cat."

The Coulport Cougar was first reported in June 2004. The creature was described as being tan and prowling the woods and hills around Loch Long, Portincaple, Whistlefield and next to the Coulport access road.

However, another creature, described as being black in colour, was also spotted at the nearby Garelochhead Training Camp, leading some people to believe that there may also have been a panther in the area.

John Belshaw, pest control officer at the Faslane naval base, said he had spoken to people in the past who had been "quite shaken" by seeing a big cat cross the road in front of them during the night.

Mr Belshaw said: "I have had a look at Chris's footage and have to say that I do not believe it is a domestic cat or a dog.

"At one point in the video it seems to walk on the railway line and a dog simply wouldn't have had the balance to do this.

"Also, you can tell from the size of the track that it is much larger than a house cat."

There have been regular reports of big cat sightings across the UK, leading to speculation that they may have escaped from a private zoo or collection.

'Very exciting'

Shaun Stevens, a researcher with the Big Cats in Britain group, said: "We have regular sightings reported every year of large black cats in the Helensburgh area and it appears to be a favourite haunt of these animals.

"In Argyll, I probably get to hear of maybe 20 or 30 sightings in a year. In the UK we get a sighting practically every day."

Mr Stevens said he believed the cats could be a hybrid species, or possible an entirely new species.

"I myself have photographed a black hybrid cat of over 3.5ft in length," he said.

"Knowing the width of the rail tracks in Chris's video is 4ft 8.5in, the animal photographed by him is clearly in excess of 4ft and as such is certainly not a domestic cat.

"Initial first impressions are very exciting, as I think this could be one of the best pieces of footage of a big cat in the UK ever."

Mailbag: Strange Activity in North Carolina House

Hi,

The Perth Orbs are interesting.

I zoomed in on the face orb 7/27/09 article and on closer observation you can see another face on the NECK of the face. There you can clearly see the face of a man. The hair, eyes, ears, nose and mouth of a man. COOL!!

I have some similar photos that I took at my aunts house in Silverstone, NC in January 09. The face orbs in my photos show some pretty amazing detail. Her house is known to be haunted and always very active. I had set up a camera in the hallway on this night and captured the face of a man and using my digital had taken a few pics in the den which show the face of a little girl with blonde hair which appeared after uploading.

On this same night my boyfriend had taken some pictures of the upstairs. He and I were the only ones on the upper level of the house at the time. One of the photos was captured as we were walking toward the hallway. He was taking a pic of the back of me with him walking behind me and when it was uploaded it clearly shows two hands holding my shoulders. It is a rather creepy photo as well as the little girl that appeared.

My aunt married my uncle in the early 70s and they built the house on family property. After digging and dozing there were allot of Indian artifacts found. A few days later the family dog had dug up a mysterious plastic bag and was carrying the bag in its mouth to show to my aunt. The dog dropped the bag at her feet then lay down to be petted. When she picked the bag up and opened it she was shocked to find that it contained two pair of HUMAN HANDS. One was a woman and the other a child's. There was no deteriorating of these hands as far as I know and the flesh still intact. She placed the bag of hands in her car and drove over to my grandmothers house to show to her. My grandmother was shocked by what she had displayed and told her that she should immediately call the local police and report the finding. She was afraid to report it because of fearing that whoever had committed a murder on her new property might find out that she had discovered the hands and would possibly come after her and her family and kill them too. She told my grandmother to just throw the bag of hands in the trash and keep quiet about it to protect the family from any harm that might come from reporting a probable crime. My grandmother had promised to throw them in the trash but 2 years later during the holidays my mother, aunt and grandmother were talking after dinner when the hands subject came up. My grandmother told them that she had decided to NOT throw the hands in the trash that day and had KEPT them hidden in the attic of her home for the past 2 years as she was afraid that if she threw the hands of these dead souls away that their spirits might come back and haunt her and the family. She had felt very uneasy having the hands in her house and wished that the discovery of the mysterious human hands had never happened. My aunt and mother told her that they couldn't believe that she had been brave enough to hide and keep those hands and so she told them that they weren't the ones who had to live with them. She hid them away in hopes that everyone would be safe.

I found out about the mysterious hands through family conversation in the mid 1980s and from then on has been the topic since. I remember as a child visiting my aunt and spending the night there. I slept in the bedroom that was occupied by my cousin. It was a very unpleasant experience. The house was indeed haunted. Whatever spirit or spirits remained there were very angry ones. The bed I slept on would shake and my cousin and I could hear whispering voices coming from outside the room in the hallway. We just lay there staring at each other and afraid to move all night.

My younger brother was telling me some years back that he had spent the night there only once and that he awoke that night because he had heard whispering voices. He said that following these voices he rolled over in bed onto his back and when he looked up he could see my aunt floating over the top of him and looking down at him laughing with this evil laughter in her voice. He said the thing that creeped him out the most about his experience was the glow of red in her eyes. He said that he got up and ran down the hallway into her room and there she was unmoved..sleeping. Whatever the spirit was had taken the FORM of my aunt. This has happened many times to quite a few people on her property. My older sister had her experience there as well. She, my aunt and I were talking one day about her house being haunted when my sister nervously asked my aunt why she didn't remember floating over my sister one night laughing this evil laughter with that red glow in her eyes. She had asked my aunt following her eerie experience in the house as well as time and time again why she didn't remember doing this and my aunt would deny it ever happening. Then finally one day explained to my sister that stuff occurred all the time in her house and that she didn't want to discuss it because it was so frightening.

My uncle, while almost arriving home from work one day, was rounding the steep drive to the house when he saw my aunt walking towards the house. He stopped to ask her if she wanted a lift but said that she kept walking and never responded as if she didn't hear him. He went ahead and drove all the way up and parked. He got out of his car and walked inside the house to find that my aunt was there with their daughter preparing dinner and had never even left the house. This has happened several times to several people on that property as well.

The faces in these orbs are very REAL. The mysterious hauntings that visibly prepare these faces are very REAL.

Thanks for sharing and let's FACE it..We are NOT alone.

Bet D.
Sugar Grove, NC

Jennifer Aniston Claims Psychic Ability

Jennifer Aniston thinks she is psychic according to one associate.

'She always felt she had some sort of psychic powers and used to think she would get premonitions' the associate told us. 'She then got hooked onto a book called 'The Secret' and really started to believe she was a psychic'

The secret basically tells people that positive thoughts can be projected onto reality. Jennifer Aniston is not the only celebrity to get hooked on the book. It is believed Demi Moore also got heavily into it.

'She now carries around tarot cards everywhere she goes and is always doing readings for her friends and film crew members. Its kind of cute. She is now telling everyone she knows that the stars are aligned for her and it should not be long before she finds new love' concluded the associate.

NOTE: obviously, she needs to practice more...her last few film roles were less than stellar...Lon

Kiwi Expedition to Search For the Mongolian Death Worm

3news.co.nz - Two New Zealanders will leave for Mongolia's Gobi Desert next week on an ambitious expedition to find the fabled acid-spitting and lightning-throwing Mongolian death worm.

The worm has never been documented but some Mongolians are convinced it exists. They call it Allghoi Khorkhoi, or "intestine worm" because it resembles a cow's intestine and is about 1.5m long.

They say it jumps out of the sand and kills people by spitting concentrated acid or shooting lightning from its rectum over long distances.

Auckland-based journalist David Farrier, who is organising the expedition, and Motueka-based cameraman Christie Douglas, leave on Tuesday to spend two weeks in the Gobi, trying to verify the worm's existence and making a documentary about it.

They will hire local Mongolians to help them; a guide, translator and cook.

Farrier, who works for TV3, told NZPA he had always been fascinated by cryptozoology, or the search for hidden creatures.

The expedition and documentary, which would cost him between $15,000 and $20,000, would take a serious look at the worm and what it was, Farrier said.

He said he was interested in the death worm because it was one of the most outrageous creatures that were rumoured to exist.

However, it was also one of the mythical creatures that had a better chance of being real.

Rumours could inflate the reputation of things such as the Loch Ness monster and Bigfoot, but sparsely populated Mongolia was not a place where rumours were going to propagate, Farrier said.

"If a Mongolian says they have seen a big worm-like creature out in the desert they haven't really got any reason to lie."

A number of experts have dismissed the worm's existence, putting it down as a rumour, but Farrier was not put off.

"I think it won't be a worm, obviously a worm can't survive in a desert. I'd say it would be some sort of snake that's not meant to be there. It's very out of place and a bit new."

Farrier said there been up to four unsuccessful expeditions searching for the death worm in the last 100 years, the last two in 2003 and 2005, which had used night vision goggles to look for the worm.

However, the New Zealand team planned to bring the worm to the surface with explosives, as it is said to be attracted to tremors.

Farrier put his chances of finding the worm at between 5 and 15 percent.

"They are high for a ridiculous creature like the death worm but the area I am going to is a very specific place in the southern Gobi where all the sightings have been."

He only plans to capture the worm on film.

"I have no intention of grabbing it, capturing it, stuffing it, or anything like that. I just want to prove its existence and if I can get it on film, that's all I need to do."

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Malaysian Security Guard Claims Attack by Ghosts

A report has surfaced of a security guard who was said to have been slapped by ghosts in Port Dickson.

It said S. Albert 32, was making his rounds of bungalow houses in Taman Indah Mas at about 5.30am on Friday when he heard noises coming from a vacant unit.

He shone his torchlight through the window and was shocked to see mysterious white figure with red eyes and long hair.

Albert ran to the guards control room and inform his colleague who told him that his face had scratch marks and was bleeding.

Residents who got wind of the incident gathered with batons and sticks to check the empty bungalow but found nothing suspicious.

Policemen later broke the locks to enter the bungalow and found nothing unusual. The crowd were left stunned when the scratch marks on Albert's face disappeared the moment he washed it with water.

THE FEAR- The Truth About Alien Abduction

By Chris Holly - Chris Holly’s Paranormal World

I write and investigate to the best of my ability about encounters of the unknown. Over the years I have talked to many who have had abductions or lost time events involving beings that were not human- taking humans.

Many of the experiences of abduction or lost time I have written about. Other events I have listened to, but did not feel inspired to write about. I do believe most people I talk to yet also feel many are not as truthful as I had hoped they would be.

It is a difficult position to be in when dealing with paranormal subjects. I try to write about events that seem to be truthful and that did actually happen. I rely on logic and years of experience interviewing people as well as my own personal knowledge of some of the subjects I write about. I try hard to avoid attention seekers and agenda folks to the best of my ability.

Like any job skill, you learn with practice how to do it well as you tackle and work your way along all the unknown paths. In time you develop a second sense about the people you talk to and let that guide your judgment. I feel after years of doing this that I have developed a second sense of things and know rather quickly who is telling me an experience that they truly encountered and who is making it up as they go.

I am sure there are many reasons why people do the things they do. My interest however is to bring real experiences of real people to the public in hope paths already walked may one day help those who may have similar roads of lost time or abduction ahead of them. It is far better to have knowledge of things unknown rather then walking blindly into them. Reading what others have experienced may one day help someone survive their own encounter with the unknown.

I know for a fact that the ordeals of others that I have written about have prevented people from making errors that could have had life or death consequences if they had not been prepared by something they had read that lingered in the back of their minds.

Recently I had a young man tell me that while on a hiking trip, he and his friends noticed a strange object hovering over the lake where they were walking.

His friends wanted to try to find a way to get closer to the craft so they could try to call out to it. He was able to talk his friends into returning to a nearby cabin with lights and other people nearby. He told me that he read one of my articles and knew they would be far better off finding other people and shelter, and understood that calling out and offering themselves to the unknown was not a good idea at all.

I think this man's use of the knowledge he had tucked in the back of his mind may have saved him and his friends from a possible abduction experience.

I cringe each time I read or hear about people who go out to deserted areas in order to try to draw unknown craft and beings to their location. I can only shake my head as I listen to ideas of using laser lights, radio signals, and even camp fires and smoke signals to try to draw the creatures of the unknown to their location. I can only wonder what these people are thinking?

I am curious how they know they will catch the attention of kind, benevolent beings? I am far more curious why they think they would be chosen to be contacted, when it is obvious our visitors take extreme caution and care in whom sees them and whom they take?

I also wonder how they would feel if emotionless beings who care little about the human race arrived, took them and what they wanted from their bodies and discarded them once done like worms or rats?

I wonder why they do not think out these things? Do they really think that this type of careless action could not bring them harm?

Are these people living under some ridiculous notion that nothing bad will ever happen to them? Theses reckless dangerous behaviors have always been a mystery to me.

My reasoning for feeling as I do about this comes from my understanding of ‘The Fear’. The fear is the key that makes me pay close attention to those I talk to who claim they have had a close encounter with other beings. When I see or hear this fear that I have come to know so well, I usually believe who I am talking to.

There is fear that is so horrid you feel you will not be able to survive it. This fear is a heart stopping, paralyzing sense so strong you are certain it will kill you. It is of absolute horror - a feel of fright that is like no other. It is a fear that life has stopped as you have known it, and something else deadly and sick now replaces it.

This devastating fear is what a human being feels when face to face with a situation they do not think they will live through. It is a feeling that locks your senses and over takes your body with such power you do not think you will live another second.

This overpowering, gut retching fear is what is felt when your are alone looking into the non-human face of a creature you have never seen before. This is what is felt when you have lost control of your surroundings and find yourself being completely controlled by others.

This fear is what you feel when your destiny is in the hands of a being that is alien and cold and you find you are powerless and without choice to do anything about it.

This fear is what those who are taken against their will feel when abducted by beings that are not human, and are not asking but taking you without your consent. This fear is why I find those who go looking for aliens with flashlights and cameras extremely foolish and child-like in their thinking.

I have been told by a few that they have had wonderful adventures and loved their abduction of being taken by aliens. I find it hard to believe anyone would love to be taken against his or her will under any circumstance. I have never heard of anyone being asked if they wish to be taken, examined or questioned.

I have only been told of those who have been taken- against their will. That one fact seems to be the main truth of the alien abduction agenda - they take us without permission.

Be it a child, teen, adult, or senior citizen, if they want you they simply take you. I do not find that friendly or fun.

It would be far too harsh for me to say I do not believe the claims of those who talk about being taken by lovely beings who fly them about the universe in scenic flights while sharing a lovely chat about the meaning of life. I will say I personally do not find any interest in this type of report. I am far more involved and drawn to the less fabulous but far more realistic reports that have common threads that run from report to report.

The common threads I do find in those I feel have had alien abductions include:

1. Being taken against their will

2. Not recalling much or any of the events, however do suffer from hellish flash backs of things they do not understand

3. Suffer the incredible fear when encountering a partial memory or flash back.

4. Are fearful this will happen to them again

5. Many felt ill after the event and report having rashes, sick to their stomachs, or have strange bruises or body changes that can last for years, if not a life time.

There are exceptions with alien contact that takes place when humans encounter the human like aliens that also visit this planet. I understand people who have had face-to-face encounters with beings that fit in with our concept of humanoid looking creatures have a far less traumatic close encounter.

When confronted with a being that looks similar to a human and who is able to communicate with humans in familiar ways, the initial overwhelming fear is far easier to handle. I have spoken with those who have had dealings with this human type of being. They told me they were of course cautious knowing they were in contact with a creature that was not human, but did not have that deadly fear of those who encounter the other forms of aliens.

As comfortable as they may be with this type of visitor, it is always clear they are having an encounter with a non-human being and caution remains paramount in their dealings.

It is clear that those chosen to have contact with the human type of alien also have returned with nearly the same exact message from our visitors to mankind... These people do not know each other and come from many different walks of life, yet they all have been told to try to get our fellow earthlings to listen to reason and to start being better beings. Our ongoing obsession with war, hate, and genocide are something aliens find primitive and barbaric.

It seems the aliens that are human in appearance are those who truly want to warn us about becoming a less violent hate filled society, and do want to see us evolve into beings worthy of joining the other universal societies.

I am aware that other visitors to our planet really have no interest one way or the other about our evolution and simply take us to observe earthlings as they do other less evolved life forms they come across in this vast universe.

They do not interfere with our growth as beings nor do they care about how fast we advance of even if we survive. Those choices and challenges of growth are being left to us as the evolving creatures of earth. They do not care or have interest in our development.

Visitors to our planet do seem to acknowledge in their own way that we are viewed as violent, self-destroying animals that have only recently started to advance into the area of technology. I am sure it would be like our visiting a planet where they just discovered the wheel and the use of fire.

If that seems too harsh a comparison, think of finding a planet where the world is still without electric and dependent on horses and elephants for travel. I think that a fair comparison to the differences between mankind on earth and our visiting alien neighbors.

The fact of the matter is that being taken by those who view us with curiosity is for me a terrifying idea. Being viewed with the same attitude we view monkeys or lab rats is an extremely frightening event to endure.

The reason I understand this is because I have known this fear, and I have shared this feeling with others like me. It is a mortifying experience to be on the wrong end of the microscope.

It is something that changes your life and cannot be placed aside or forgotten. It also is a hard world to be in when those who have no idea about these things mock and ridicule you for talking about your encounters, making them even crueler and harder to endure.

Every time I write about my own experiences I receive two types of emails. One is from those who have been enduring the same things and have lived through an abduction.

The other emails are from cruel, nasty humans attacking me for writing the truth about these things. I am called names, insulted and laughed at. Each and every time I write about my experience with creatures we know as aliens

I am sent hate filled emails by people I have never met. I imagine I make those who wish to live in fantasy angry and frighten those who do not want any of this to be true. It is sad, but that this is the nature of humans. They quickly become unkind and vicious to those who do not tell them what they want to hear, and filled with anger at those who talk of things they do not want to be real.

I will continue to write what I have seen and encountered. If I can go through that heart-stopping fear and live to talk about it, the least I can do is be a voice for all others like me. I know how difficult it is enduring an abduction and also what it is like to go through a second abuse by way of the reactions of your own kind.

I think it is best said that until you experience ‘THE FEAR ‘ that goes hand and hand with those who have had a close encounter with a being of unknown origin, you cannot understand the emotional life long horror that follows abductees through each and every day. That fear is why I write and why I will stand up for those who live daily and have encountered the road of being taken.

Be careful out there and always be fully aware of what you wish for. Some dreams do come true and those nightmares can last a lifetime.

I dedicate this article to Edward, Millie, Jo, and Patrick, all fellow abductees whom I respect, and thank for their honest reports of experiences they have endured with beings that are not of this world. To all of you I say thank you.

Thanks to Chris Holly at Chris Holly’s Paranormal World

Blob of Green Glass to be Analyzed

John Hubert, a member of the board of directors of the High Plains Historical Society, inspects a glob of green glass that fellow board member and McCook historian Walt Sehnert believes could have been created during a "UFO landing" northwest of Benkelman in 1884. Sehnert said descriptions of the glass glob include "lime jello with cottage cheese." Others describe it as "end-of-the-day" glass in the manufacture of Coca-Cola 7-Up bottles. A summer visitor to the museum, Robert Golka of Massachusetts, is requesting that the museum and the DAR (which owns the piece of glass on display at the museum) be analyzed by the Corning Glass Institute.

NOTE: slow news day in Nebraska?..Lon

'The Shining' Star Shelley Duvall Has Alien Issues

A disheveled and confused-looking Shelley Duvall - star of the classic horror movie The Shining - is trapped in her own living nightmare, and concerned neighbors in her tiny Texas town think she "desperately needs help."

The once reed-thin actress has packed on about 75 pounds since her Hollywood glory days and lives the life of a near-recluse in a ramshackle home off a dirt road outside Blanco, Texas.

The ENQUIRER visited the town of 1,500, where residents tell a sad story about the former Hollywood star. Friends and neighbors say Shelley is an odd woman who often appears out of touch with reality. She flashes her car lights at night to communicate with space aliens, believes a hole in her backyard is a portal to another dimension and lives in fear of aliens who are out to get her.

At age 60, Shelley still clings to her dream of returning to acting, though her last movie role was in 2002.

"Shelley wanders around town by herself, looking disheveled, strange and, to be honest, totally crazy. She mutters to herself and talks about aliens living in her body," a Blanco resident told THE ENQUIRER.

Despite being able to carry on a completely lucid in-person interview Duvall, recalls fondly her Hollywood days and still aspires to what most actors want - their next part.

"I would love to go back to acting if it was the right role," Shelley said.

After a killer earthquake struck Los Angeles in 1994, Duvall fled Hollywood back home to Texas.

Yet the one time Stanley Kubrick star who won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 1977 for Three Women is now someone local Dairy Queen employees shy away from.

A hardware store source told The ENQUIRER once Shelley asked for dirt and boards to board up a hole in her backyard.

"She said, 'That's a portal into another dimension. That's where the aliens are coming in,' " the source recalled.

"Shelley is…tragic. A virtual recluse, wandering about Blanco in a fog," another source said.

"She desperately needs help."

NOTE: granted, this is from the Enquirer and Ms. Duvall has exhibited strange behavior in the past (the Olive Oyl character was more truth than fiction, IMO)...but, it's an interesting scenario nonetheless. BTW, I'm not making any comparisons with the Perth orbs situation. Don't even go there! ...Lon

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The Perth Orbs: A History and Theory

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An artist's rendering of 'The Face in the Orb' as a biological entity.
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Six weeks ago, I received an email from Paul Cochrane of Perth, Western Australia in reference to persistent paranormal activity in his home. The content of the letter exhibited frustration and a plea to help find an individual or group in his general area to investigate. He explained that the entities have been present for 14 years and have followed him to each new home, a total of three different locations. Paul had started to document the events on videotape then placing these on YouTube.

At the time, I was involved in a few other projects so I didn’t initially get started until a few days had passed. To be honest, I receive a multitude of emails daily from my readers and Paul’s email was in the queue. Eventually, I went to his YouTube channel and started to watch the clips. Well, I shot off an email to Paul within a few minutes and offered my help.

Immediately, I posted a notice on the Phantoms and Monsters wiki and the IPAA site asking for assistance. I knew that this would require the effort of several people who had experience in different facets of the paranormal. The response was slow at first, but as time went on and Paul started to post more videos of the activity, my friends and associates came to the call.

For approximately three weeks, there was a steady discussion on our wiki threads. It seemed that each day, Paul would post a more compelling video and state that the entities had faces and animate shapes, as well as making a rudimentary effort to communicate with him. To bolster his claim, his young son also acknowledged the activity. Each new video displayed orbs of various shapes and sizes. Occasionally, hundreds of these orbs would move in and out of walls and furniture in all directions and speeds within minutes. I and others tried to enhance screen captures on a daily basis hoping something tangible would appear. Then it happened.

I received a hurried email from Paul titled ‘got a face’. I had just awakened and hadn’t had a chance to start the coffee maker, so I was still a bit groggy. I went over to his YouTube channel and looked at one of the two new videos. Early on in the first video I brought up (#70 at 0.11 as a matter of fact) was an orb traveling across the screen that had visible structure to it. Paul had inscribed on the screen ‘this is the face orb now she’s posing 4 me’. I took a screen capture, enlarged the image and enhanced the contrast. My God! It’s a face! Right away, I uploaded the image to the wiki and directly to several associates as well as posting it on Phantoms and Monsters.

Later that day, a graphic artist volunteered to further enlarge and enhance the image without retouching any of the pixels. The result was ‘The Face in the Orb’. Now the big question…what is it?

There still has not been a physical investigation on the premises and it's imperative that this be done in order to further explain the phenomena. In the meantime, there will be efforts to capture sound and/or EVP from these entities. There has been a lot of speculation on the internet this weekend and the range of theories is quite broad as expected. But, this is not going to hinder me from giving my thoughts as to what this is.

As you can imagine, I have conversed with many people in the paranormal field since the beginning of my involvement in this sojourn. Let me state that my theory does not directly reflect the opinion of anybody connected to this incident. This includes Paul, my associates and others who have helped in this matter. I make these statements solely as my personal assessment.

OK…here we go. I believe this entity, in particular 'The Face in the Orb', to be a spirit of a young female hybrid being. As to other entities, apparitions, etc. that are present at this location…I cannot state or determine what these are until further study is done. When I refer to 'hybrid', I mean a mixing of DNA of an alien or non-human species and humans. As to where this hybrid came from, I have no solid evidence. The reference ‘spirit’ simply means that this being died at some point and released some type of life force or energy that presents itself on our plane of existence. The fact that the orbs in the videos seem to effortlessly move in and out of sight tends to reinforce a theory that these spirits can crossover to other dimensions. I am convinced that these entities are attracted to Paul for a specific reason, if only to collect energy, and have no intention of moving on...at least for the time being.

In the meantime, we will continue to study the phenomena and are committed to lending assistance when needed…Lon

Special thanks to graphic artist S. Williams!

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Pennsylvania Hotel Has a Long History of Spirit Activity

AltoonaMirror.com - The U.S. Hotel Restaurant and Tavern in Hollidaysburg not only has a rich and storied past as a central Pennsylvania landmark, it's also a mecca for ghost sightings and other paranormal phenomena - not the least of which is an ax-wielding apparition thought to inhabit one of the hotel's upstairs bedrooms.

"We have had ghostbusters from the Allegheny Mountains come in here on a regular basis, and they say there's definitely a poltergeist up there with an ax," said owner Karen Yoder. "I mean, of course you can believe what you want, but there are definitely ghosts out here."

And that bodes well for area ghost aficionados, because the U.S. Hotel will play host to a paranormal event from 5 p.m. Aug. 1 to 2 a.m. Aug. 2. that includes a buffet dinner, lectures by nationally renowned paranormal investigators Kristyn Gartland and Brian Stephenson, both members of The Atlantic Para-normal Society; demonologists John Zaffis and Adam Blai; psychic Chip Coffey, who stars on the TV shows "Paranormal State" and "Psychic Kids"; and a meet-and-greet session with the investigators.

Stephenson, 36, of Ridgefield, Mass., grew up in Lilly and graduated from Penn Cambria High School.

"Kristyn and I felt it would be a good opportunity not only to investigate the building, but to bring in some of the best investigators in the world to investigate the place," he said. "It just seemed like the perfect fit for us."

He said he's been fascinated by the hotel since he was a kid. Yoder, too, is anticipating the investigation.

"I'm really excited about it," Yoder said. "The five people coming all have incredible paranormal experience - they all have a great reputation. I think it's a great thing for the public and for us."

Yoder said she's seen her share of ghostly activity through her 16 years of owning the hotel.

"One time, I was showing the dining room to a customer who wanted to have a party there," she said. "As we were speaking, a fork flew off the table for no reason at all."

She also recalled seeing chandeliers swaying in the dining room, adding she could then "feel a cold breeze go by ... the hair on my arms stood up."

Manager Kim Clark-Yoder, 37, of Hollidaysburg also believes the hotel is haunted.

"There are things that happen here that are unexplainable," she said. "I've heard knocking sounds from inside the building when no one else was here, and I've seen things like glasses falling off shelves and the TV coming on for no reason. ... We've also had customers who've seen apparitions."

Zaffis, 52, from Stratford, Conn., conducted a paranormal investigation at the hotel years ago - and never forgot it.

"There was definitely a lot of spirit activity there," he said. "I have no doubt whatsoever that the place is haunted."

The investigation also serves as a promotional kickoff for Stephenson and Gartland's new Massachusetts-based company, Anomalie, which specializes in backpacks for paranormal investigation equipment.

"We started it back in September in 2008 because there was nothing at the time designed to carry this kind of equipment (things such as electromagnetic field cameras, infrared illuminators and thermal imaging cameras)," Stephenson said. "To my knowledge, this is the first company of this nature ever designed."

The hotel is not currently a functioning hotel, he said, adding the upper floors have been dormant for many years and the rooms have not been changed or renovated in any way - including beds and dressers.

"The entire hotel is very active, but the upper floors are said to be the most active areas of the building." he said.

Gartland, also from Massachusetts, said she was instantly taken by the hotel when she and Stephenson recently took a guided tour of the place, adding the building "has a huge potential to be haunted."

"It seems like there were a lot of murder-suicides in this place - a lot of tragedy," she said. "It's got a lot of history, and I'm just excited to go back."

But is that excitement tempered by fear?

"No trepidation," she said. "We wanna scare 'em back. We want to get this stuff documented - we want them to come out."

And all the investigators want the people in Blair County to come, too.

"I can't wait - it's gonna be a real high point for us," Stephenson said. "I know people are gonna be blown away not only by the presentations, but by the investigation itself."
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HISTORY OF THE U.S. HOTEL


After surviving Indian attacks and the upheaval of the American Revolution, the pioneer Adam Holliday built his homestead on the banks of the Juniata River. By 1796 Holliday had become prosperous enough to begin laying out a townsite on a gently sloping hill in this scenic river valley. There were still only a few houses and farms existing on the location when Adam's son, John, opened a "rude" tavern in 1814. The completion of the Huntingdon, Cambria and Indiana Turnpike in 1818 made Hollidaysburg a popular stopping place for travelers. Still, the town remained small; an 1830 census listed only 70 inhabitants.

The Pennsylvania Canal's completion in 1832 changed all that. Hollidaysburg was now open to trade with Philadelphia and the East, and two years later the Allegheny Portage Railroad connected the canal and Hollidaysburg with the Great American West. Hollidaysburg, as the western end of the canal system, was a vital link in the development of such important industrial cities as Johnstown and Pittsburgh.

At this point in history, 1835, the U.S. Hotel was conceived. John Dougherty built the Hotel to accommodate westward travelers with convenient food, lodging, spirits and as gaudily painted signs of the era denoted; entertainment for man and beast.

The U.S. Hotel and the town of Hollidaysburg were now in their heyday with the economic boom that directly related to the town being chosen as the terminal for transfer from the canal to the railroad that carried passengers and freight, via Foot-of-Ten, over the Allegheny Mountain summit. The iron industry boomed and cheap canal transportation kept business flowing with the waters.

In 1837, Hollidaysburg had 14 daily canal boat lines, and the Juniata Street basin was the center of warehouses for shippers and traders. This activity kept the tavern trade bustling and the hotel rooms full.

Hollidaysburg status as a national transportation center lasted only 20 years. With the completion of the Pennsylvania Railroad mainline in 1854, Altoona became the new hub of transportation. The original U.S. Hotel survived the "Canal Era" and remained intact, servicing the new railroad industry until the building was destroyed by fire on November 29, 1871.

In 1886, German immigrant Engelbert Gromiller, rebuilt the U.S. Hotel. A brewmaster by trade in his Bavarian homeland, Engelbert established a brewery in the building next door where the mules were previously housed. The Hotel was noted in a newspaper account of the day as having the best $1.50 a day house in the borough.

In 1905 the cut block barroom was added to the brick structure. This section is still the barroom today and boasts such original relics as a hand-carved mahogany back bar, beveled silvered mirrors, hand leaded stain glass windows and a brass foot rail, under which flows a still active water trough spittoon. This barroom operated continuously until prohibition.

During World War II, the Navy set up a radio school on the site, billeted men in the Hotel and used the tiled bar area as a shower room. When the Gromiller family sold the business in 1945, the bar was reassembled.

The Hotel changed hands several times in the next half century and began falling into disrepair. The deteriorating brewery had to be destroyed.

Since 1987 the Hotel has gone through some monumental changes and its original grandeur is being restored for your entertainment. This landmark's history is being recognized and appreciated by not only Hollidaysburg's people but once again by the hungry gourmet willing to travel to experience the "best fine dining in the borough"!

Source: www.theushotel.com/history.html

Haunting Legend Explored at University of Kansas Frat House

www2.ljworld.com - Starting Saturday night at a Kansas University fraternity house, Bill Joeckel will attempt to solve a mystery that has haunted his curiosity for five years.

The Osawatomie man knows the legend behind Virginia — a ghost rumored to haunt the Sigma Nu house — has been the focus of speculation and chilling accounts from fraternity brothers for decades.

Joeckel and a team of paranormal investigators will work throughout the night searching for clues in the house at 1501 Sigma Nu Place, which is northwest of the KU campus.

“We try to figure out: How can we explain it on a scientific basis?” said the information technology recruiter, who searches for ghosts and paranormal activity as a hobby.

According to a legend that has never been documented, the house has long been rumored to be home to Virginia, the mistress and a servant of Gov. Walter Stubbs, who lived in the house. Stubbs was governor from 1909 to 1913.

According to the story, when Mrs. Stubbs found out about the affair, she became jealous, and the mistress hanged herself at the house in 1911. Virginia is rumored to haunt the fraternity.

International ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated the Sigma Nu house in 1999, and Lorraine Warren had said “there’s a good chance” the building was haunted.

Fraternity brothers have passed down stories throughout the years, and chapter members invited Joeckel’s group — which includes members of Kansas City Paranormal Studies and Elite Paranormal of Kansas City — in to investigate.

“I’m just more curious than anything. I’d like to see if there is anything actually going on,” said Piper sophomore James Asherman, the Sigma Nu chapter’s historian.

The investigators have searched various buildings in the Kansas City and northeast Kansas area. Joeckel said the team includes a psychic and a quantum physicist.

They use scientific equipment to take measurements and readings in the house. Team members will take physiological readings of the psychic as she moves through the house to see if her heart rate jumps, for instance, when she claims to be interacting with something spiritual or supernatural.

In about 90 percent of the cases, the team is able to find a logical explanation on why someone was spooked. Air leaking through a vent, for example, could cause a creepy noise in a house, Joeckel said. But a few times, he said, they picked up stuff they couldn’t explain.

So that keeps them going — even though people might refer to them as “whack jobs,” he said.

“That’s why we don’t do stuff the way people used to do it,” and try to gather as much scientific data as possible, Joeckel said.

The group also includes people of different religious backgrounds, he said, who will meet for several days after their investigation, examine the data and try to reach a conclusion.

“If we can expose or bring the truth to life after death,” Joeckel said, “it might make people who are dying not as scared if they know there’s something on the other side for sure.”

Photo: Strange 'Beings' - Ongamira Valley, Argentina

Ongamira is a valley located 25 kilometers distant from Capilla del Monte, Argentina. It is renowned for its caves and abundant vegetation.

It is also a place of interest to scholars of the paranormal, who claim that "dimensional doorways" exist in the area and that UFOs and luminous beings have been seen there on repeated occasions. And it was precisely here in Ongamira that this photo was taken, sent to me by Pablo Dessy, who says it was given to him by a friend who lives in the region.

In fact, we know very little about this photo. We do not know the date on which it was taken, or the name of the photographer who -- supposedly -- pointed his camera toward the cave and was not aware of the phenomenon at the time.

According to Pablo, a male and female entity are visible.

Technical data: According to the EXIF file, the photo was modified on 23 August 2008 with Photoshop. We do not know if this modification is a sign of digital trickery or if the software in question was employed for other purposes (clipping, enlarging, enhancing, etc.)

For this reason, the question remains open: are there beings of light in Ongamira?

NOTE: very questionable photo but, for argument's sake, I posted anyway. Many of the recent 'discoveries' coming from Mexico and Argentina have been examined more closely. I'm not jumping to conclusions...just commenting on what I've noticed...Lon
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HOAX - The Beings of Light at Ongamira

We received word today from Argentinean UFO researcher Daniel Valverdi of CODIGO OVNI providing a backstory to the INEXPLICATA posting "Argentina: Beings of Light in Ongamira?"

Mr. Valverdi reports that Pablo Dessy sent him the JPG file in September 2008, stating that he was at that location - but not in the photo - and that they had actually seen that manifestation. The photo file was manipulated "in order to remove someone who did not want to be in it."

The image was submitted to Salvatore Carta for analysis. The result? The photo shows nothing aside from two people lit by the sun, overexposing them as they enter the cave. The same condition can be seen on the surface upon which the "beings" are standing.

INEXPLICATA thanks Messrs. Valverdi and Carta for their efforts at setting the record straight.

NOTE: yeah...this one had that certain smell to it...Lon

Expedition Team Dives at Shag Harbour UFO Crash Site

NovaNewsNow.com - Research work is underway on another project exploring the Shag Harbour UFO incident of Oct. 4 1967, with a dive on the crash site on July 20 by retired IT professional David Cvet.

Two years in the works but delayed for weather related reasons numerous times, Cvet, who lives in Toronto and summers in the Digby area, said the purpose of the dive was two-fold and was successful on both counts.

First, Cvet wanted to gather intelligence on the water, the seabed and diving conditions in the waters known as the Shag Harbour Rip. He also wanted to try and locate the anomalous sonar readings obtained by the BIO research ship Navicula during a bottom survey of the area in 1988.

The expedition team, comprised of Cvet, diver and underwater photographer Lauren McGowan, local diver Freeland Reynolds and videographer Rick Davis were taken to the dive site aboard the fishing boat, The Receiver General, captained by Vincent Goreham.

With Reynolds and Davis remaining on board, Cvet and McGowan dove on the site on the low tide for minimal tidal movement, and to reduce the depth of the dive thereby maximizing the time spent exploring the bottom.

Cvet likened the water conditions to “pea soup,” with visibility limited to about two meters. During the 25 minutes spent exploring the bottom Cvet located two slight depressions on the ocean floor that were “inconsistent with the surrounding seabed.

“The lack of flora on the depression bottom was observed and thought unusual given the surrounding area was populated with flora and fauna,” writes Cvet in his notes chronicling the expedition.

“The dive was considered a success, as much data was garnered during the dive in terms of water, bottom and dive conditions, useful for planning future dive expeditions,” says Cvet.

“The discovery of the depressions, which may or may not play the part of the original sonar anomalies was a bonus, but, given only two were observed, the outcome remains inconclusive.”

Cvet hopes to do a second dive with additional equipment and instrumentation, sometime within the next year. Eventually Cvet is hoping his research will turn into a documentary.

“I think the Shag Harbour incident is one of those rare instances where it has not been commercialized,” said Cvet, adding himself as well as other researchers and writers on the subject have been trying to “do everything in a very creditable way. I think it’s good for the people of Shag Harbour that it’s being done very carefully with conservative methodology. Then the yahoos can’t say it’s all fake.”

Cvet, who teaches martial arts when he’s not exploring in the paranormal, will be one of the presenters at the 2009 UFO Festival and Symposium on Aug. 14 and 15.

Hosted by the Shag Harbour UFO Incident Society activities for the two day event will be held at the UFO Centre in Shag Harbour and the Barrington Area Lions Club.

Mysterious Predators Devour Goat Herds in Namibia

Unknown creatures that reportedly devour and suck blood from livestock are haunting villagers at Onheleiwa, Oidiva and Oikango of Ongwediva constituency.

Over 20 goats have been killed at Onheleiwa and Oidiva villages and an unknown number at Oikango, where the situation is said to be worse.

Villagers are convinced that the creatures have something to do with witchcraft. They are now accusing an elderly man who has a house at Onheleiwa village and his sister who has a house at Oikango village of being the owners of these strange, blood-sucking beasts.

Oshana Police spokesperson, Christina Fonsech, said the police were called at Onheleiwa last week where they followed the creatures’ footprints.

According to her, the creatures’ footprints are bigger than a dog’s footprints, and police could not identify the creatures.

“We followed them but they walked until a spot where they just vanished. It’s difficult to explain what happened to those footprints because they looked as if they climbed onto something but it was in an open space, so we don’t know what happened,” she said.

Olivia Shikongo had her whole kraal wiped out by the creatures, leaving her with only two kid goats.

According to Shikongo, on July 3 five of her goats were eaten up. All that was left were traces of hooves and heads of some of the goats, while other goats had their stomachs cut open and had no intestines or liver.

“Last Wednesday they came to the kraal again. When I heard the goats making noise, I started to scream. It seems that they could no longer kill the goat that they had bitten so they left. When we went to the kraal in the morning, there were only three goats. One goat, which is the bigger one, was fighting for its life. There was no trace of five other goats that were also at the kraal the previous night,” she explain.

According to her, when she and other villagers looked around all they could find were the footprints of the unknown creatures while her five goats seemed to have disappeared into thin air.

Shikongo lost a total of 11 goats in two nights.

“I’m only left with two small goats that we now lock up inside a room in the house,” she said.

Another villager who also lost a goat said he saw the creatures when he ran to the kraal after he heard his animals making noise.

According to him, he found four animals at the kraal but when they saw him, they ran away.

The villagers that claim to have seen the unknown creatures, said they look like tigers. Although the community members are also scared for their lives, they said they understand that the animals do not attack human beings.

“If you find them at night, they just sit still on the side of the path and wait for you to pass by,” said another villager.

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The Face in the Orb - Enhanced / Unretouched

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I saw your article on Paul in Perth's video. The 'face' still intrigued me.

I am an artist with a trained eye for details and have been a canvas artist for over 50 years, a graphics artist for the last 15 years. I decided to see exactly what was "behind the mask", as it were, so I have enlarged and enhanced the 'face', bringing out the features that were already there. It is truly startling!

If this is the 'real deal' and has not been faked in any way, I feel this is either a trans-dimensional being, or a spirit. If you look closely, you can almost make out a pupil in the eye. The light from the camera is even reflected in both eyes.

I have included the enhanced picture in this email.

Thanks to S. Williams for the enhancement!

Psychics Coax Out Spirits in Central Pennsylvania Museum

DailyItem.com - A series of strange events left Packwood House Museum Executive Director Dr. Richard A. Sauers scratching his head. Turns out a specter may have found its way into the museum.

“We’ve been told for years that the place is probably haunted,” Sauers said. “We’ve had psychics identify themselves after tours and tell us they notice things here and there.”

With years of rumors and psychics reporting findings in the museum, Sauers decided to take action. Who did he call? The Central Pennsylvania Paranormal Research Association.

“Every once in a great while I’ll feel something brush me, just to let me know they are there,” Sauers said. “I decided to find out for myself and called the Central Pennsylvania Paranormal Research Association.”

Maria the barmaid

The Packwood Museum originated as a log cabin in 1799. Throughout the 19th century, the cabin continued to grow as owners John and Edith Fetherston continued to add editions.

The continued growth transformed the once-small cabin into a tavern and hotel that acted as a resting place for people traveling and transporting goods along the Susquehanna River.

Upon entering the tavern portion of the museum during a visit, psychics immediately felt someone in the room. Dr. Sauers said one of the psychics, who has the ability to determine the layout of old rooms, identified the presence as an old barmaid who identified herself as Maria. Maria was described as just giving a casual greeting before leaving.

Mirrors aid the spirits

In two separate visits in the spring, the CPPRA stayed from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. and found a number of specters throughout the museum.

“Mirrors, according to what the psychics told me, tend to attract psychic energy,” Dr. Sauers said of the investigation. “Especially if the mirrors are facing one another. The psychics said it acts as a conduit to bring in spirits. There are a couple rooms with a lot of concentrated psychic energy. There are over 90 mirrors on display in the building.”

Sauers said Edith Fetherston was an avid mirror collector. He said John Fetherston showed himself during the first visit of the CPPRA, with the aid of mirrors.

Sauers and a researcher were standing in the room where John’s portait hangs, he said. Mirrors on either side of the room face each other and were reflecting the image of Sauers and the researcher.

Sauers said his reflection disappeared, and the spirit of John Fetherston appeared standing next to them.

Along with the healthy supply of mirrors, there are many instances of mirrors reflecting off of one another. The CPPRA informed Dr. Sauers this is an especially tempting for the spirits because it acts as a gateway for them to enter our world.

“We have one room where there are three sets of opposing mirrors,” Dr. Sauers said. “They found stuff up there and in a storage room where there are two opposing mirrors.”

For anyone worried about a possible encounter, the psychics have reassured Dr. Sauers that the spirits are friendly.

“According to the psychics they are all friendly ghosts,” Dr. Sauers said. “I’ve worked in haunted places before.”

Dr. Sauers experience with the paranormal happened when he worked in Wisconsin at another historical site.

“I’ve literally walked into a ghost one day in a hallway basement in Wisconsin,” Dr. Sauers said. “I was going down to check on some supplies we had stored. I walked into an ice-cold pocket of air that was probably five to six inches thick.”

Along with being startled and having the hair on his neck stand up, Dr. Sauers spoke out to the spirit and said, “ ‘The next time you see me coming, could you stay out of the way?’ When I came back five minutes later, it was gone.”

THE GRID - Alien Control

I was looking at birthday cards in a party store today when I came upon a young woman maybe 20 who was standing in the middle of the aisle blocking the way with her cell phone stuck to her ear.

She was frozen staring straight ahead as if in a trance. This young woman was completely unaware of the world around her. I asked her twice to let me pass. When I got no response I gently nudged her out of the way. She was not aware of my presence at all.

I see it all the time with cell phones -people driving, walking, shopping lost to real time while engaged in a second reality in cell phone land. People are becoming completely removed from the reality in front of them be it the road while driving or the children who sit ignored while with them, basically to all that is happening around them becomes second to the device stuck to their face. I have to wonder if that is normal behavior or something that we have been trained to do?

I watch as people are walking together with one or both on cell phones talking to other people while ignoring the person they are walking with. It is as if we are losing our ability to have one on one contact while becoming controlled by our technology.

I thought about how big screen TVs and computers have become the way of life across the world for many people. We do not sit as a family that often any more. We seem to section away from each other starring at TV screens or sit in front of computers instead of getting together in real time with real people for real interaction We are becoming lost to new realities all which remove us from each other by placing gadgets between us.

I have not been able to stop thinking about this since I wrote my article on the UFO seen by the group of hunters over the field where high tension wires, cell phone towers and a radio transmitter tower are all located in one large field.

In that article I talk about the group of men who late one night walked into this field and found a huge UFO hovering over this entire field with a laser type ray connected into the wires and towers. The men first thought that the craft was fueling or feeding. After talking to people I know who work in science about this incident it was suggested that it was far more likely that the craft was downloading data into the wires as well as collecting data out of them. The idea that something alien was feeding us data by downloading into our systems really frightened me.

Realizing that every home, business, school, every building is in one way or another hooked into our grid made me cringe at the idea of aliens also hooked into our lives by way of infrastructure. It made me realize how easily it would be to download control over our thinking once they had access to us by way of our technology. Not only could we have data placed into our ears, eyes and minds they also could collect what we watch, listen to, talk about or do on our computers. The idea gave me a shiver down my back that I still am not able to shake off

Watching the young woman in the store today made me wonder how much of our behavior may be controlled or modified by whatever and who ever was interfering with that field of wires and towers that night the hunters spotted that huge UFO craft?

If they are downloading data into our communication systems our homes -you have to wonder why and what they are trying to do? The idea of how serious this could be hit me while watching this young woman lost from reality while standing in a crowded store with her cell phone held to her head. She was in another reality of ‘cell phone land’ completely unaware of the real time people living another reality all around her. We see this happening every day yet we all seem to not notice what is going on at the same time. What is going on with all of us and this era of technology? Are we losing our way or worse giving our will over to something or someone else without any realization of it?

I thought about it all that day and started to really look at the people around me, I watched as people walked right out from stores or sidewalks into the street - like robots all with cell phones held to their heads. I paid attention to the routines of those I know and love and realized that the TV or computer was always on in every home. I realized how many of us watch TV while eating our meals instead of talking to one another. I watched as young people went from cell phone to computer to TV never off the grid for more then a few hours each day.

I thought about this and clearly saw how each and everyone of us have become part of this huge communication system I will call THE GRID and truly do give our selves over to whatever is coming to us by way of the wire and wireless communication systems we have become both addicted and trained to use.

I think about how many hours we spend each day watching TV, talking on our phones either land line or cell, surfing the net or chatting on line. Think about your day and how many hours you spend hooked to THE GRID. Be honest about the amount of time you have allowed yourself to be connected to that grid and how easily you may have been programmed or influenced by what ever that huge craft was and what it downloaded into our systems.

I thought about that article and the emails I received from the power company employees and a electrical engineer who told me they also had experiences with strange situations where odd things were seen, blackouts took place yet they were never able to explain what happened.

I thought about how many times over the years I read about UFO sightings and blackouts happening at the same time. I thought about how the hunters who saw that huge craft that night connected to the wires told me that the ship was dark, there were not lights on it, and unless you were close or under it you may not notice it at all against the night sky. I wondered how many ships in wooded areas are connecting to our infrastructure while downloading or collecting data all right under our noses?

It seems we are becoming robot like cold people who are losing the ability to communicate one to one without a device that is hooked into the grid. We are becoming divided by the modern day conveniences we purchase to make our lives easier and to entertain us. Instead we may be bringing into our homes cars and lives the very devices used to control us.

Knowledge is key in life. The more you know the more you can succeed in life be it in your career or with your family and friends. The more you understand in life the better you will be able to defend against things that may harm you. I think we need to look at this situation with a great deal more thought and care then we have so far. I fear we may be walking our selves off a cliff with our own gadgets and devices.

I now know that unknown crafts have been seen hooked into our infrastructure grids. I have had the most intelligent people I could find explain it was most likely to download into while collecting our information from that gird. I know we all sit in front of the devices that could carry what is being downloaded into our grids for hours each day. I believe we need to heed this knowledge and be aware of our actions and turn off our cell phones, limit our TV viewing and not sit in front of our computers for hours each and every day.

I wonder if we did change our behaviors if we would also start to change our view of things going on around us? I think we may begin to re unite with those around us. I think we are allowing things to happen to us that are dangerous yet easily fixed

I have turned off my cell phone and only use it for quick calls. I now visit those I want to talk to in real time. I only watch TV for a set time each day and I limit my computer use to work and research then I turn it off. I read constantly and have started to print out what I wish to read on the internet rather then sit in front of the active screen hooked into the system. I try hard to remove myself from the grid. I realize I must do this in order to keep my mind clear and my spirit actively connected in real time to those around me.

I think the worse thing we can do knowing this to be a possible dangerous habit is to turn on our computers while watching TV with our cell phones turned on and our minds turned off. What a perfect opportunity to brainwash, program and gather us in group into non thinking numb beings easily controlled and lacking in the art of exchange on a human to human one on one basis. As it now stands it will not be long before we are unable to communicate without something non-human hooked to us or between us.

Think about who you may really be dealing with, listening to , attaching to your brain and body -as well as bringing into your home the next time you turn on all your gadgets and entertainment devices and sit mindlessly in front of them. Do you really want to offer your body and soul up for the taking so easily? I say turn off from THE GRID and become completely human again.

We are new to all this modern technology, Mankind seems to be racing forward with this new world of communication and tech machinery however I do not think we as a species are really ready or evolving as fast as our machines are being produced in this new tech world.

I certainly do not think we are safe guarded against who else or what else can be locking into our new abilities. We are not sure who also is hooked into our technology or for what purposes. I think we need to stand back and take a second look at where we are going and how we are doing it.

It is never wise to jump off a cliff into dark water. Until we better understand what we are doing and who and what is hooking into our grids we need to handle it all with a bit more caution and care.

For now I limit my use of all of these things and have started to talk to those around me making eye contact and listening to what they are saying to me.

What a wonderful world it would be if we all turned off our devices and got back to the practice of humans living and thinking on our own together without a machine between us. Especially when we have unwanted visitors listening in!

Thanks to Chris Holly for providing this post

Axthadan Alien Probe? Footage From Planet Axthada?

NOTE: Michael Cohen has again surfaced with an unbelievable theory...this time, it's Paul's video in his cross hairs...Lon

This seemingly incredible video has recently surfaced on the Internet. It shows a group of what appear to be Axthadan aliens testing or observing one of the small UFO probes they send to monitor distant planets. I have no idea where this UFO video comes from or whether it is genuine however many things about the film are remarkable:

* The aliens seen in the background look almost identical to the Axthadan aliens who originate from the Andromeda Galaxy. These Axthadans were also seen in the now famous Kumburgaz series of UFO videos that many believe to be genuine images of aliens awaiting clearance to travel home through a UFO vortex exit that is located off the Turkish coast.
* The entire scene fits in with what is known by governments around the world: That Axthadans are sending small probes to earth to monitor our civilization. It is now understood that Earth itself is located in Axthada's sphere of influence and territory. It seems that these beings have been subtly directing our development for millennia and might even have outright created us, somewhat in their (humanoid) image.
* Also interesting is the fact that the actual probe seen in the video looks almost identical to confirmed UFO probes from Axthada that have been studied by top secret Government departments.
* More astoundingly, the video quality and type is similar to earlier image transmissions sent by these probes and might actually be a video message designed to explain to Earthlings the origin and purpose of these probes.

Of course the video might be of nothing of any real interest and the similarities just a coincidence. Until more is established about who leaked this video and where it comes from little conclusive can be said about it. In the meantime enjoy the footage and keep in mind that there is a chance that this might be actual footage from the distant planet of Axthada.

NOTE: it's too bad I had to break the news to Cohen that this video was not from planet Axthada, but from Paul's flat in Perth, Australia...Lon

Residents, Officials Work on Plan to Capture 'Palisades Panther'

Proof has been elusive, but that hasn't stopped some distressed people from pooling their money in an effort to capture what they say are large, roving felines in Rockland County.

Concerned residents, joined by Orangetown police and Supervisor Thom Kleiner, packed Palisades Presbyterian Church last night to hatch a plan for catching the animals, often described as panthers or mountain lions. At least eight sightings of the creatures were reported in the past five months.

What they came up with was a preliminary budget of $6,000 to buy eight cameras and two traps and hire a professional tracker.

"A lot of people have questions, but what we really need now is some action," said Milbry Polk, a Palisades resident who helped organize the meeting.

The carcasses of two slaughtered deer that turned up in the hamlet in the past few weeks renewed concerns that predatory felines could be prowling the region.

Four to six sightings around Palisades and Tallman State Park were reported in March and April. Additional sightings in Pearl River and at a golf course in Rockland Lake State Park trickled in afterward.

So far, no photographic evidence has been submitted to police.

"We don't have any sightings that are 100 percent provable right now," Orangetown Sgt. James Sullivan said.

The Department of Environmental Conservation has not intervened because it needs more to go on than just eyewitness accounts, said Ed McGowan, a science director for the Palisades Interstate Park Commission.

At this point, he said, no one can tell whether the animals are as large as leopards or as small as fishers.

"If we're keeping an open mind that there could be panthers, we should keep an open mind that it could be something else," he said yesterday.

Shane Hobel, a tracker with New Jersey-based Tracker SFI, said at least one large cat is present and "feeding well."

PREVIOUS POSTS ON THE 'PALISADES PANTHER'

Big Cat Sightings Investigated In Palisades, New York
'Large Black Cat' Reports Continue in New York
Big Cat Sightings Spread Throughout Rockland County, NY
Suburban Legends: The Palisades Panthers

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AMAZING Photo / Video - Face Shaped Orb - Perth, Australia - UPDATED! Enhanced

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Paul shot this video on July 24th. In slow motion there is a depiction of a face shaped orb. Paul has maintained this apparition occurs....this is the first time he was able to capture it on video



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This is an enhancement of an 'entity' from video #69 titled 'Reptilian'. The first screen cap is the entity coming towards the camera and Paul (just materializing). The second and third screen caps depict the entity at the nearest point to the camera and Paul before it disappears...Paul states within a few seconds.... 'what was that'?

A discussion thread and page on this phenomena is located here Discussion: Ghost Orbs or Alien Visitations and here Ghost Orbs or Alien Visitations. Feel free to go and read the discussion and background of this case.

NOTE: we are still attempting to get a paranormal group in Western Australia...so far,all we have received is lip service. This phenomena needs to be investigated professionally...Lon
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AMAZING Videos: Massive 'Orb' Activity

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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This video is from July 9, 2009. At the .17 mark, an 'orb' appears then fades away. I took 3 closeup and enhanced screen caps of this 'orb'...the last image is just before it disappears.



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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/user/stanley03061973 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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Declassified Russian Navy UFO Files Describe Underwater Encounters

The Russian navy has declassified its records of encounters with unidentified objects technologically surpassing anything humanity ever built, reports Svobodnaya Pressa news website.

The records dating back to soviet times were compiled by a special navy group collecting reports of unexplained incidents delivered by submarines and military ships. The group was headed by deputy Navy commander Admiral Nikolay Smirnov, and the documents reveal numerous cases of possible UFO encounters, the website says.

Vladimir Azhazha, former navy officer and a famous Russian UFO researcher, says the materials are of great value.

“Fifty percent of UFO encounters are connected with oceans. Fifteen more – with lakes. So UFOs tend to stick to the water,” he said.

On one occasion a nuclear submarine, which was on a combat mission in the Pacific Ocean, detected six unknown objects. After the crew failed to leave behind their pursuers by maneuvering, the captain ordered to surface. The objects followed suit, took to the air, and flew away.

Many mysterious events happened in the region of Bermuda Triangle, recalls retired submarine commander Rear Admiral Yury Beketov. Instruments malfunctioned with no apparent reason or detected strong interference. The former navy officer says this could be deliberate disruption by UFOs.

“On several occasions the instruments gave reading of material objects moving at incredible speed. Calculations showed speeds of about 230 knots, of 400 kph. Speeding so fast is a challenge even on the surface. But water resistance is much higher. It was like the objects defied the laws of physics. There’s only one explanation: the creatures who built them far surpass us in development,” Beketov said.

Navy intelligence veteran, Captain 1st rank Igor Barklay comments:

“Ocean UFOs often show up wherever our or NATO’s fleets concentrate. Near Bahamas, Bermudas, Puerto Rico. They are most often seen in the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, in the southern part of the Bermuda Triangle, and also in the Caribbean Sea.”

Another place where people often report UFO encounters is Russia’s Lake Baikal, the deepest fresh water body in the world. Fishermen tell of powerful lights coming from the deep and objects flying up from the water.

In one case in 1982 a group of military divers training at Baikal spotted a group of humanoid creatures dressed in silvery suits. The encounter happened at a depth of 50 meters, and the divers tried to catch the strangers. Three of the seven men died, while four others were severely injured.

“I think about underwater bases and say: why not? Nothing should be discarded,” says Vladimir Azhazha. “Skepticism is the easiest way: believe nothing, do nothing. People rarely visit great depths. So it’s very important to analyze what they encounter there.”
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UFO Phenomenon Was Taboo Subject in USSR

The world celebrates the International UFO Day on July 2. Oleg Stolyarov became the first person in Russia who chose the UFO subject for his doctoral dissertation.

The world’s first-ever scientific work dedicated to strange objects in the sky was penned by Carl Yung, a renowned Swiss psychologist. He equated the phenomenon of the UFO with Maya myths and the symbols of unconscious collective. He returned to the subject in 50 years in his article “UFOs as Rumors.”

US professor Joseph Allen Hynek founded the Center for UFO Studies in 1974. Several other scientists dedicated their works to the mysterious phenomenon afterwards, but no one dared to do it in the Soviet Union.

“That was a tabooed subject in the USSR. Any piece of information about the flying saucers was treasured. Any public jokes about the UFO were strictly forbidden,” Mr. Stolyarov said.

The situation changed drastically in the beginning of the 1980s. Everyone in the country started speaking about the phenomenon. Newspaper articles, TV and radio programs about the UFO became plentiful. Many respectable scientists even lost their interest in the mystery because of the national boom.

The UFO Day is celebrated on July 2 in honor of the so-called Roswell incident. An unidentified aircraft, which many consider to be of extraterrestrial origin, crashed on the outskirts of Roswell on July 2, 1947.

On July 8, 1947, many US newspapers wrote that the US Air Force found the debris of the unknown aircraft on the crash site in Roswell. General Roger Ramey rejected the information several hours later. The official explained that it was not an alien spacecraft, but a top secret space probe that crashed near the town. The probe, Ramey said, was launched within the scope of the program to observe the nuclear tests of the USSR.

Major Jesse Marcel, a former intelligence officer, said in 1947 that the story with the probe was not true. The major said that the debris found on the crash site was of extraterrestrial origin indeed.

There is no evidence to prove the fact that it was a UFO that crashed in Roswell. However, over 200,000 people visit the town every year in the beginning of July to take part in seminars, lectures and the alien parade.

The UFO industry brings $5.2 million of profit to the town every year.

'Windermere Monster' Wake Pummels Swimmer

A bizarre swimming incident on Windermere coincided with the announcement that a team of paranormal investigators will plumb the lake’s depths in search of a giant creature.

Thomas Noblett, 46, was swimming the lake this week when he was suddenly swamped by a three-foot wave of unknown origin.

A spate of eyewitness sightings reported by The Gazette during 2006-2007 described a 50-foot long serpent-like animal surfacing on Windermere.

Psychic Dean ‘Midas’ Maynard, who came to prominence by accurately predicting sports score lines and X factor winners, will join The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ), in the hunt for the beast in September.

Mr Noblett trains on the lake for four hours every day in preparation for a channel swim.

Never having had to deal with anything more than the odd passing trout, the 46-year-old said he had since reconsidered the legend of the Windemere monster.

“I didn’t entertain it before. Now when I’m in the lake it has my full attention,” he said.

Mr Noblett, managing director of The Langdale Chase Hotel, was swimming close to Wray Castle at 7am on Wednesday morning when the 3ft swell hit.

He and swimming trainer Andrew Tighe – paddling in a boat beside him – were the only people on the lake.

“We had gotten up early and Windermere was crystal clear. The lake was totally empty apart from us and all I could hear was the slapping of my arm against the water,” explained Mr Noblett.

“All of a sudden this wave just hit us. Andrew said ‘where the hell did that come from?’ and it made the boat rock from side to side,” he continued.

Treading water, alone, in the centre of the lake, Mr Noblett watched as two large waves sped towards either shore.

“It was like a big bow wave; a three-foot swell at least. There was two, as if a speed boat had sped past, but there were no boats on the lake,” he said.

Previously an escape from the jellyfish he dodges while training at sea, Mr Noblett said the lake’s depths were not so inviting anymore.

“I always look forward to swimming in Windermere, now I’m starting to get the fear. Twice I have looked down and seen fish, but only small trout. The reeds sometimes scare you, because they suddenly appear like triffids.”

Devon-based CFZ are the world’s only full time cryptozoology organisation for the study of unknown animals.

Dean ‘Midas’ Maynard will join CFZ in September to search the lake for the monster.

Mr Maynard, with a background in ghost hunting, is currently searching for a sonar-equipped boat to use in the search.

“It’s a fascinating subject. I’m not saying there is or isn’t something down there. Most eyewitness accounts describe some sore of eel, which if living in open water can grow very big,” said Mr Maynard.

Mr Noblett is swimming across the English Channel in mid October. He hopes to raise £10,000 for Richard Rose Central Academy in Carlisle and the Cyctic Fibrosis Trust.

Witness Describes Little Switzerland, NC Bigfoot Encounter

For a long time, this column has featured some weird stories about Bigfoot sightings in the western North Carolina mountains. It seems that folks in Burke, Buncombe, Caldwell, Rutherford, Ashe and Macon counties have some strange tales to tell about a mysterious monster in their mountains.

Many of these tales can be found on the Web site for the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO). The BFRO's Web site is a place where folks can post their sightings anonymously and be taken seriously by qualified investigators. The good people with the BFRO will look into the matter and follow up on your sighting, no matter how unusual it may be. The Web site now lists 50 reports from North Carolina.

Recently, someone submitted a report about a possible Bigfoot in McDowell County. Apparently, the weird incident happened in Little Switzerland near the Blue Ridge Parkway during the fall of last year.

The man who submitted the report states he has a keen interest in the subject and has read hundreds of reports on the BFRO Web site. He is a member of another Bigfoot research group and has investigated an alleged sighting in another state.

Last fall, he was invited to visit an elderly friend who lives in Little Switzerland. "I arrived after dark on a Tuesday and discovered that my friend's summer home is located at the top of a mountain," he writes on the BRFO site. "Her 'development' consists of about 60 homes tucked away in the woods on steep slopes accessed via a series of narrow gravel and macadam roads."

His first thought was that this development was built in a likely Sasquatch habitat. "Indeed, as we sat watching TV after dinner, I began to have the creepy sensation of being watched, although my friend told me that neither of her neighbors was in residence that night," the man wrote. "After the news, about 11:30, I told my friend I was stepping outside from some night air, when in fact my intention was to have a look around and listen to the woods."

The man wasn't outside for more than five minutes before he was startled by what sounded like wood knocks coming from the woods. He reportedly heard a single thump that came from the woods, followed by another "answering" thump five to 10 seconds later, coming from a different direction. The sounds were repeated every couple of minutes for perhaps 15 minutes and it sounded as if the second knock changed positions slightly. He estimated that they were a couple of hundred yards away from where he stood.

The man noticed a nearby woodpile. He picked up a log and added a third knock to the mix by hitting a nearby tree. The first knock was heard again quickly, almost as an answer to the man's knocking against the tree. After few more times, the knocks stopped and the man went inside for the night.

The next day, the man went out running for some exercise. As he ran through an undeveloped area, he again had the feeling of being watched. While he was out, he found two, human-like footprints in the soft dirt of a nearby hillside. The next night, he again heard the knocking sounds coming from the same general direction. But this time, he also heard "a plaintive, eerie howling" coming from behind the house.

"It sounded every 30 seconds of so for perhaps 20 minutes, he wrote in his report. "I told myself it could be a dog tied outdoors. I decided not to interact that night. I just had a feeling that it was not the thing to do."

That night, the man was awakened from his sleep by the sound of a heavy thumping on the roof. As he sat up in bed, he heard another couple of thumps that sounded as if they came from the area over the closet.

"Soon I was fast asleep again, only to be scared awake by what was clearly pounding on the walls of my room that was so loud, my first thought was, 'Someone is breaking into my room!,'" he wrote in his report.

He sat up in bed and turned on the overhead light in his room. He felt like this sound had to be caused by a Bigfoot because of the loudness and the height of the outside walls. The sounds soon died down and the man had the feeling that the creature was leaving for the night. He heard nothing more.

"Next morning over breakfast, my hostess asked me if I had been awakened by that that 'awful pounding' on the roof," reads his report on the BFRO site. "We traded our stories. My friend told me that nothing of the sort had happened before in the 25 years she and her husband had lived in the house."

The elderly woman was concerned about the noise and asked what it could have been. The man said he didn't quite know but would confer with some neighbors.

"Before leaving my friend to continue on my trip towards eastern NC, I inspected the area around her house for footprints," reads his report. "I found none, but I discovered that a tall tree grew up through the back deck through a hole that had been cut for it. The tree would provide easy access to the deck and roof, while the low roof in front would make the roof accessible from that position."

Mike Conley at McDowellNews.com

Group Seeks Residual Activity Among Dillinger Artifacts

With the sound off in the John Dillinger Museum (Hammond, Indiana), the buzzing of fluorescent lights above was the only thing audible until Danielle Garrison began to speak into the recorder she was holding.

"What year is it?" she asked the air. The other four people around her also threw out questions.

"Is there anybody here with us?"

"John, are you or your gang here?"

"What did you really think about (FBI) Agent Melvin Purvis?"

Garrison and the other visitors are members of Crossroads Paranormal, an Indiana paranormal investigation group that is hoping today's 75th anniversary of the death of infamous bank robber John Dillinger will spark some otherworldly activity in the Hammond museum. After all, it's home to his casket, original tombstone, a death mask used to make a posthumous cast of his face and the pants he was wearing in 1934 when federal agents shot him dead outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago.

Garrison and the other investigators said they are looking for residual activity -- an imprint on the artifacts that may play back like a recording.

"We might expect to hear a gunshot," she said. "We're not expecting John Dillinger to walk up and say, 'Hi.'"

After getting a walk-through of the museum Tuesday evening by Erika Scheeringa, director of public and community relations for the South Shore Convention & Visitors Authority, the group began its recording exercise, which intended to capture electronic voice phenomena -- possible evidence of paranormal activity.

The tour and recording session were part of a preliminary test. The group will be back today with the hope that the museum's first public display of the wooden gun Dillinger used to break out of the old Lake County Jail in 1934 and the energy of the crowd viewing the artifact -- along with the gun itself -- will trigger something special.

Investigators will play back the recording made Tuesday night in the hope of hearing from Dillinger or others in the pauses between questions.

"Nine out of 10 times, you won't get anything," Garrison said. "But it's that one time that's exciting."

Rare White Turtle Discovered in Henan Province, China

It may look more like your Christmas turkey just before it goes into the oven, but this milky white creature is actually a rare white turtle.

The creature, whose creamy color is offset by a few hints of pink, was discovered by the bank of the Yellow River in Henan province, China.

White turtles have a special place in Chinese culture, as the classic novel Journey from the West features an entity from Heaven who is turned into one of the animals after performing ill deeds.

However, unlike the character in the tale, this white turtle won't be ferrying any people across rivers: it is just 40cm long and weighs only 6.5kg.

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The 'Stick Breakers'

In the spring of 2003 I was visiting my sister who lives in Hampstead, New Hampshire. She lives in a somewhat wooded subdivision. It was early spring in New England and the weather had been a fairly rainy. I would frequently go outside by myself to smoke cigarettes late at night, on the porch after midnight. While I was outside I would hear larger sticks crack and break on the forest floor near where I was sitting but no leaves rustling. At first I didn't think much of it. I am a seasoned camper and just didn't think it was a big deal, I figured it was just an animal of some kind. This happened night after night. Then I noticed the sounds of something dropping out of the trees and an animal or being of some kind scraping on the bark a bit as it descended. I tried looking for movement but saw nothing, like an animal or anything. The flood lights were on every time I was out there and were brightly shining, there was a street light at the end of the long paved driveway off in the distance. On subsequent nights to took a flashlight and tried to shine whatever animal it might be with a but that was to no avail. Even though everything was brightly lit I saw nothing at all.

I tried this night after night. The sounds were there every single evening without fail. I could hear them moving closer and closer to me the longer I was out there. During the day I looked for tracks and marks on trees or other evidence but didn't turn up a thing. I picked up sticks and broke a few to see what size stick I was hearing. I ascertained that the stick diameter was about an inch. I had my 11 yr old nephew go out in the woods to jump on sticks and see if he could break some of them, so I could check the way it sounds from where I was sitting. Trying to judge the distance. He jumped on some but because they were kind of moist he could only break the smaller ones. He weighed only about 75 to 80 pounds. This told me that whatever it is, weighs more than that. I could break the bigger ones by jumping on them, but I weigh 150 pounds. There are no animals in that area that are really large and could break that size stick based on the tests I did. Whatever it was would move in close to me, so I used the nephew to run around and make similar noises to gauge the distance in the daylight when they were at their closest. They were about 20-30 feet from me at best. I know there was more than one of them because I could hear one back beside the house and another one was in the front at the end of the driveway. They moved in very close to where I was and I could hear them coming from two different directions. They were not visible with the naked eye at all. I tried to take some digital photos but saw nothing discernible in the pictures.

Another thing that happened, my sister didn't have any window coverings downstairs, she loved the view of the trees, and I would sit at night on her computer surfing the web and chatting online near those windows. I frequently would get the feeling that someone was watching me. I wrote it off as just my imagination. Then there was the issue of the dogs barking and howling every night real late like they were hearing something. They were kept in crates in the basement at night. They would start their howling and wouldn't stop unless someone would go down there and make them stop. They also would look out the windows late in the evening and start barking out behind the house as tough something was there. We all thought it was just another animal or whatever, and wrote it off. My brother in law decided to keep the dogs upstairs with him at night to keep them quiet.

I was outside one night very late after midnight alone. I was up on her porch near the door. I heard them coming again. The flood lights were on and I could see well into the trees because there weren't too many smaller bushes in the way. I saw nothing but still heard them. No rustling only sticks breaking. My sis had a few planters with flowers in them on a lower landing from where I was standing. It was in the really bright light from the flood lights and was only about 8 to 10 feet from me. Some of the flowers in the planter draped over the side and hung out away from the planters. As I stood there I watched the plants move to one side and then flop back as though something had brushed past them, only nothing was there that I could see at all. There were no other sounds, like footsteps or grinding pebbles or grit. No wind at all. When the flowers swung, and they moved a lot not just a little. Whatever it was had to come up the stairs to get to me. I stood there shocked, sort of and running over what I had just seen in my mind briefly, and got freaked out completely, went inside quickly and locked the door. Everyone else was asleep in the house. I looked out the side window and saw nothing.

Another late evening I was on the computer and I got that feeling of being watched again I looked into the living room from where I was sitting and I thought I saw shadows on the ceiling as though someone had walked past the lamps in there. I thought I must be just really tired and told myself it was my imagination. I decided to take a hot shower to relax before bed. The bathroom door is right across from the basement door. The basement door was closed when I went in to shower and everyone was in bed asleep upstairs with the lights off. When I came out of the shower the basement door was open and I just closed it thinking it was a bit strange but no big deal. Then I went to go upstairs and I saw my 11 year old nephew's bedroom light was on and I got scared. I went up the stairs and he was in bed dead asleep but the light was on real bright. I became afraid for the kids and went and woke my brother-in-law up. He blew me off and went back to sleep. Just then my niece woke up to let her dog out to potty so I asked her to sit up with me for a while. Thank God she was there to sit and keep me company for a little while.

What I am saying here is I believe these things were coming in the house somehow and that's why the dogs barked and howled like they did. I am not sure how they got in, maybe through the walls, maybe the basement outside door, I don't know, but I feel they were coming in. What are these things? Aliens? Dimentional entities? Were they just watching us? Were they abducting? Testing? Or even hunting? I have no idea and it's frightening! If you think about it you realize that on the grass there are no sticks to break, so they are quiet or silent, and there they were right up next to the house! How many other houses did they go into too?!

Then the story goes a bit further.....my sister later divorced and started dating again. Her new boyfriend and I were talking on the phone one evening recently, and the subject turned to the paranormal. I knew he is an avid New Hampshire hunter. So, I asked him if he had ever heard of anything like this. He said yes!!! He said that once, in November of 2003, he and five of his friends were out hunting on White Mountain one year and all of them were of course armed. They had set up camp for the night and made a fire. As they all were sitting around (after midnight) getting settled for the evening they started hearing "the stick breakers", breaking sticks all around them but not rustling leaves at all. The didn't see anything at all, and couldn't figure out what it was. They did try to shine their flashlights and see what it was but they couldn't see anything at all. All five got spooked and decided to turn in for the night and when morning came they decided to move their camp farther up the mountain closer to where they knew a larger group was set up. They all decided to not talk about the event after that day and they decided to never go back again either!!! I was so glad to hear that someone else had experienced the "stick breakers"! Now at least I know I am not nuts. I know there are others out there who have had similar experiences, so, please step up and let's hear your story!

I feel that this needs to be brought to the public's attention and put on record.

I will be trying to establish whether these things are still out there or not. In case that they are, I would like someone to go there and use thermal photography, or IR to see if these things can be seen somehow, filmed or photographed or recorded. I have no funds to buy the equipment necessary to do it myself, though I'd love to! I need to find some one who might be willing to go there and shoot some film in that area. Bring their equipment and check it out. If you have any input please feel free to contact me.

Thanks,
Sue O'Day

NOTE: interesting anecdote...what do you think? Hopefully, a discussion will start on the wiki Phantoms and Monsters wiki so we can help Sue get some answers. Has anyone else ever experienced this phenomena?...Lon

Former Inmates Still Serving Time in Hunt County, TX Courthouse

It has been several years since the top floors of the Hunt County Courthouse were used to house prisoners.

But a group of local paranormal investigators believe they may have discovered that at least some of the former inmates may never have left the old county jail.

Members of the Paranormal Research and Investigations of Northeast Texas (P.R.I.N.T.) team spent Saturday night inside the courthouse, alongside a documentary film director, for an eight-hour study, according to P.R.I.N.T. co-founder Chad Miller.

Miller e-mailed the Herald-Banner to give a preliminary assessment of what the organization uncovered. Miller said the first four floors of the courthouse were a disappointment.

“It was a dark, quiet courthouse that didn't so much make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up once,” Miller said. “Nothing out of the ordinary whatsoever.”

But things began to get interesting when the group checked out the former jail on the fifth and sixth floors of the courthouse.

“After numerous EVP (electronic voice phenomena) session reviews, we have several that would be considered 'jail house conversations',” Miller said. “They are all either negative, aggressive, or racial in nature. It's exactly what you would expect from an old jail. These files have not been ran through spectrum analyzation yet, to see if they register above or below the human voice, so we're not yet categorizing them as electronic voice phenomenon yet, but we're working on them. On numerous occasions, activity in the old cells, such as knocking and disembodied voices, would reply to our questions and actions. Kenny, our most seasoned and skeptic member heard his first disembodied voice in seven years of investigating! Upon review from his video equipment, he caught it there also. He was so excited that he began break dancing at one point.”

Miller said he also he attempted to make contact with ... whatever it was ... by calling out the name of an inmate who had committed suicide in the old jail.

“Things actually began to intensify,” Miller said, adding the group is going over the results of the weekend lock-in before making any calls as to exactly what it found. “Is the Hunt County Courthouse haunted? I can't say. It would probably take a few more investigations there to make that determination. Is there activity there? Yes, definitely.”

Miller said P.R.I.N.T. is already making plans to do more investigations in the coming months.

“We're attempting to negotiate with Six Flags over Texas again to try and do a repeat of last year's Halloween investigation and we're in talks with the Cotton Museum to possibly investigate the Ende-Gaillard House,” Miller said.

Mysterious Buzzard Attacks Reported in Great Britain

It is like a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, with unsuspecting victims swooped on by avian attackers.

Stuart Urquhart, a solicitor from Bristol, was on holiday with his wife and two children in Helford, Cornwall, when he suffered three six-inch cuts to his head in a buzzard attack.

Mr Urquhart, 36, was jogging on a quiet lane near a river at around 9am, when he felt a searing pain in the back of his head before turning around to see a buzzard flying away.

He said: "I thought somebody had thrown some heavy sacking or carpet at me but I couldn't see anyone. I carried on a few paces and then saw blood running down me and noticed a buzzard flying off into the trees.

"I have brown hair and I wasn't sure if the buzzard had mistaken me for a big, slow rabbit, so I decided not to take any chances, and invested in a hat."

Mr Urquhart, who was given a tetanus injection after the attack earlier this month, spotted the buzzard two days later on a telegraph pole. It swooped down with its talons out but Mr Urquhart managed to dive out of the way.

Last week, Paul Powell, a plasterer from Shurdington, Glos, was also attacked by a buzzard while out jogging.

Mr Powell, 38, suffered four puncture wounds to his scalp after a bird sunk its talons into his head.

He said: "I felt an almighty thud at the back of my head. At first I thought someone had hit me... and then I saw this big bird flying just above me. Then I felt a burning sensation and noticed there was blood dripping on to the ground."

Mr Powell ran for cover, but the buzzard attacked him a second time. He was taken to hospital and given a tetanus injection.

Ciaran Nelson of the RSPB said that it was very rare to see a spate of buzzard attacks.

"These are the only incidents of buzzards attacking humans we have heard of in the last year, so to have two in such a short period is exceptionally unusual," he said.

"It is most likely that the birds are feeling territorial and are being extra defensive, as July and August is the period when their young will be starting to leave the nests.

"The buzzards won't have seen the joggers as a meal, but they will have been trying to defend their territory and dissuade anyone from coming into contact with their young.

"We would advise anyone who has seen buzzards in one particular area to avoid it as much as possible for the next couple of months until the young have left the nests."

Buzzards have a wing span of more than a yard and can weigh more than 2.2 pounds (1kg). They eat worms and grubs but also prey on rabbits and voles, and pick carrion.

There are between 30,000 and 40,000 pairs of buzzards in the UK. They became a protected species 50 years ago and have recovered from near extinction after being regularly shot for killing game birds.

Forward by Mark Fraser at BigCatsInBritain.org

New Enhanced / Stabilized 'Gable Film' Dogman Attack

NOTE: the following is an enhanced and stabilized video of the Michigan Dogman in the 'Gable Film'. What is it?...Lon

Big Cat Attack in Scottish Park Raises Alarm

Parents have been warned to be on their guard after police revealed a dangerous big cat is on the loose near a Scottish caravan park.

Officers issued an extraordinary alert after a horse was the victim of a savage attack in the middle of the night.

The terrified animal suffered deep slash marks to its hind quarters, which experts later concluded had been caused by a big cat - possibly even a 6ft long puma spotted in the area two months ago.

Worryingly, the animal attacked next to a caravan holiday park full of families enjoying the summer break.

Last night a spokesman for Strathclyde Police said mothers and fathers with young children should take "particular care" in case they stumbled across the beast.

The horse was attacked near Sundrum Holiday Park, Coylton, Ayrshire, sometime last Friday.

Strathclyde Police said the unnamed owner saw to his horses that morning and noticed one had been badly injured.

A spokesman for the force said: 'He contacted a local vet who carried out an examination and concluded the injuries appeared to have been inflicted by a wild animal rather than by a human.

'Police were contacted and officers have sought the expertise of several specialists who have analysed the pictures of the injuries in an effort to determine the cause.

'Those spoken to are of the opinion the injuries caused to the horse have most probably been made by a big cat, possibly a puma.'

Although its injuries were severe, the animal was treated and is making a good recovery.

Last night Superintendent John Hazlett, of Ayr police office, warned people to be on the look-out and appealed for any sightings to be reported to help them track the beast.

He added: 'At this time after consultation with experts the evidence points to a big cat possibly a puma having caused the injuries to the horse.

'There was a possible sighting of a large cat in the grounds of Sundrum Castle back in May, when a member of staff at the castle reported seeing a very large cat prowling the grounds around 9am one morning.

'Described as sandy coloured, approximately 4ft tall and 6ft long, experts believe that this may have been a puma sighting although this has never been confirmed and as far as we are aware, there haven't been any sightings since.

'From what we have been told by experts, it is unlikely that a puma would approach and present any danger to humans and would make every attempt to avoid them, however the obvious advice to members of the public is not to approach this animal but report any sightings to the police.

'I would urge anyone who sees a large cat in the area to contact us as a matter of urgency, and I would also ask local farmers to take extra caution with their animals and to contact police if any of them are injured.'

Last night the owners of stables in the area were in the dark about the attack.

Both the Drumcoyle Livery Yard and the Lionsgate Riding Centre had heard nothing about the big cat. Local vets were also unaware of the attack.

Meanwhile, Mark Fraser, of research group Scottish Big Cats, said there had been several big cat sightings in Ayrshire over the years, but they had mainy involved black animals.

He said if a member of the public came across one it would probably flee, but added that it could attack if cornered.

'It would probably run away and most probably be away before you saw it.

'If you do come face to face with a cat the advice is to stand still, raise your arms to make yourself look bigger and make a lot of noise, while backing away slowly.'

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Mysterious 'Circles' Discovered in Hayfield - Near Angel Fire, New Mexico

Witness statement: Local ranchers called me in November 2008, a couple of months after mowing down their hayfield. The rancher found some odd circles on which no hay had grown (or had grown and was ruined somehow, leaving the circles). I shot the first four photos in early November 2009 (the ground was wet and had been trampled by cattle). In late May 2009 I shot more photos of the same circles. They are even more pronounced now.

This land has been owned and hay grown/mown for 99+ years by the same folks. The rancher swears these circles appeared sometime last year. They worried him for two months after he noticed them before he finally told his wife, and she finally called me. The ranchers are currently requesting anonymity, but are willing to show them to a MUFON investigator.

I don't know if snow "stuck" to them since I was unable to get to them during the winter months.

Nothing is growing inside the rings, and the outside edges of the rings actually look a little wider now than they did last fall.

The circles are in a straight line. The west circle appears smaller than the other two (about 8 feet in diameter). The center and east circles are 10'-12' in diameter. They are approximately 60' and 66' apart.

A fourth circle (the small one in the foreground of the landscape shot) is 5'-6' in diameter.

If a line was drawn connecting the circles, the resulting shape would be triangular.

A mutilated animal was found at the top of the low hill sloping up to the south from where the circles are located about 75 yards away from the circles. Nobody reported any missing horses or cattle in 2008, so the ranchers are guessing the dead animal was an elk. Best guess from the ranchers is that it had been dead for three or four months. (Remember, the circles were about three or four months old when I first photographed them.)

The area DOES have people in it, but (as you can see in the panorama photo) is pretty isolated nevertheless.

Florida Crackdown on Wild Python Snake Population

The death of a Florida toddler in the coils of an 8ft (2.5 metre) Burmese python has sparked an official crackdown to eradicate a menacing population of slithering predators in the sun-drenched holiday state.

A small band of newly licensed trappers hit the trail this week of pythons living in the swampy wetlands of southern Florida. Experts believe that as many as 100,000 of the reptiles are loose in the region, in an unfortunate outcome of a fad for keeping exotic pets.

Earlier this month, a two-year-old girl, Shaiunna Hare, was strangled to death in her bedroom near Orlando by a python belonging to her mother's boyfriend. The snake had escaped its glass cage during the night and wrapped itself around the child's crib.

The tragedy galvanised Florida's politicians into action over mounting alarm about the danger posed by pythons, which grow as long as 8 metres, weigh up to 89kg (14 stone) and can eat animals as big as deer.

"It's just a matter of time before one of these snakes gets to a visitor in the Florida Everglades," said Bill Nelson, a Democratic senator from the state.

Native to Africa and south-east Asia, pythons are interlopers to Florida and face no predator to keep them in check. Florida locals blame a booming wild population on irresponsible pet owners who release pythons into the wild when they become unmanageably large.

Others trace the problem back to hurricane Andrew which destroyed pet shops, hatcheries and zoos as it swept across the Floridian peninsula in 1992. Wildlife experts fear that if left unchecked, the snakes will decimate the population of smaller mammals, birds and reptiles.

Florida's governor, Charlie Crist, last week licensed an initial group of fewer than 10 python hunters to begin trapping the snakes. Pursued by a pack of photographers, the hunters snared a 3-metre long python during their first foray on Friday.

"[Pythons] don't make a lot of noise, when they're agitated, they may hiss," said Shawn Heflick, a licensed hunter. "They can hold on pretty tight but they're well camouflaged and when they sit in vegetation, they're pretty hard to see."

Accustomed to alligators, Florida locals are not easily fazed by wildlife. The subtropical state numbers black widow spiders and fire ants among its more exotic residents. But pythons are proving particularly chilling. The snakes reproduce rapidly, laying as many as 100 eggs at a time.

"We do have a serious python problem, and this programme is a good first step in helping to stop the spread of this exotic species," said Rodney Barreto, the chair of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission.

Curbs have been imposed on keeping pythons as pets – including a compulsory annual $100 (£61) permit and embedded microchips to track escaped pets. But animal rights groups have called for more radical steps.

The Humane Society of the United States said a ban on the trade in pythons would be more effective than any hunt for wild snakes.

"We should not pursue wasteful and futile strategies like bounty programs and public hunts," said Wayne Pacelle, the society's chief executive. "They won't work, and could do more harm than good."

The Floridian authorities are encouraging anyone who spots a python to call a telephone hotline. In an increasingly elaborate operation, researchers at the University of Florida are even working on miniature drones which can detect the heat given off by pythons from the air.

If the initial hunt proves promising, many more trapping licences could be issued. The hunters are ready for the kill.

"They've got beautiful colouration and they're sleek and powerful," said Heflick. "They're actually magnificent animals. They just don't belong here."

New 'Water Monster' Sighting at Kanas Lake, China

Ten tourists from Guangdong and Hubei provinces were the latest to report a "water monster" sighting in Kanas Lake, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. They told local media that they saw a giant black creature on July 5 that stirred waves over 1 meter high and left a wake over 10 meters long for 20 seconds about 100 meters away from their boat.

Kanas Lake, which means "beautiful, mysterious lake" in Mongolian, is China's deepest freshwater lake with a maximum depth of 188.5 meters, and 24 kilometers long from north to south. It's located in the Kanas Nature Reserve in the Aletai mountain area of northern Xinjiang and has been the source of numerous monster sightings, similar to Scotland's Loch Ness (or "Nessie") monster for decades – particularly since the 1980s when more visitors and settlers came to the area. Scientists have carried out investigations, though no conclusive evidence has been found of the creature.

Some scientists believe, however, that the monsters may be taimen trout, one of the world's largest and most ferocious freshwater fish which can grow as long as 10 meters.
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Legendary Chinese Lake 'Monster' is Captured on Camera
July 24, 2007


China’s Loch Ness monster has been sighted. Or so Chinese state-run television says. Not just one, but more than a dozen huge creatures can be seen churning across Lake Kanas in remote western China, leaving a foamy wake more like an enormous motorboat than a big fish.

A rare video filmed by a tourist at the lake in the Heavenly Mountains of the wild Xinjiang region, has reignited debate over the existence of an underwater creature that can compete with the Loch Ness monster in both mass and mystery.

The grainy film shows about 15 objects moving at high speed just beneath the surface of the lake and whipping the smooth blue water into a bubbling white frenzy. Chinese Central Television broadcast the video on its news channel, describing the footage shot by a passing tourist on July 5 as the clearest ever seen of a legendary beast that has been rumoured for centuries to live in the depths of Lake Kanas.

Local myth among the Chinese Mongolians living in the scenic mountains near the Russian and Mongolian borders has it that the animals have been known to drag sheep, cows and even horses from the shore and into the deep to devour them.



Yuan Guoying, of the Xinjiang Institute of Environmental Protection, told The Times that the video provided important proof in his more than two decades of research at the lake. “Only fish could make waves in this formation. I think the video is real.”

The television commentator described the sighting as the first since June 7, 2005 when two black creatures measuring more than 10 metres in length appeared on the surface swimming at speed from the shore to the centre of the lake. The newsreader described the latest appearance: “They sometimes gathered in a flock, sometimes spread about or moved shoulder to shoulder. The scene is grand and they looked like a fleet.”

State television made no attempt to identify the animals, saying only: ‘This time a large number of unidentified creatures emerged, bringing more mystery to Lake Kanas.”

Professor Yuan has been on their trail since 1980 and has been gripped by the mystery since his first sighting in 1985 when he says he saw as many as 50 of what he called fish. “They looked like reddish-brown tadpoles because I could only see their heads on the surface. They opened their mouths to breathe and their length was about 10 to 15 metres.”

He spotted the animals again on May 28, 2004 when he was standing looking down at the lake from a nearby hill. “I thought there was a huge piece of black plastic in the lake and that someone had been polluting it. But then I released that it must be the back of a giant fish. I was shocked because they were just too big. Looking at them was like looking at submarines.”

When Mr Yuan got back to his office he tried to calculate the size of the animals by setting their proportions against those of the surrounding landmarks such as trees or the shape of the shoreline. “I didn’t dare say they were bigger than 20 metres because no one would believe me.”


Chinese researchers in the 1980s said the ‘monster’ was likely to be a huge member of the salmon family – one of eight species of fish living in the lake. Mr Yuan gave their name as Hucho Taimen, a freshwater salmon tht thrives in deep frigid waters. He says the biggest Hucho Taimen salmon ever captured was 2.1 metres long and was found in Russia.

The animals that roam Lake Kanas live in an area about 24 kilometres by two kilometers and with an average depth of 122 metres and as deep as 188 metres at one point.

Mr Yuan believes that a lot more research is needed although China lacks the scientific equipment to make further studies. And it would be impossible to catch a fish of this size. “This fish will have tremendous strength.”

Other Chinese scientists have cast doubt on his findings, but Mr Yuan is adamant. “People will just say ‘You’ve got to be kidding’. But I saw them with my own eyes. I am a scientist. I have no choice but to believe what I saw.”

Report: Motorist Has Near Collision With Bigfoot In Pennsylvania

NOTE: Stan Gordon at ParanormalNews.com is reporting a new bigfoot sighting in Fayette County, Pennsylvania near Uniontown...Lon

Motorist Has Near Collision With Bigfoot In Pennsylvania
July 20, 2009

A report of a possible Bigfoot encounter in Pennsylvania was received by the Sasquatch Watch of Virginia and was then referred to Eric Altman, the Director of the (PBS) Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society to investigate. The incident occurred on July 10, 2009, outside of Uniontown, in Fayette County.

On July 15, 2009, a team from the PBS traveled to the location where the reported Bigfoot encounter occurred to interview the witness and to look over the area for any possible physical evidence. The team was comprised of Eric Altman and PBS members Dave Dragosin and his wife Cindy. Eric also invited me to go along to participate in the investigation. Continued at ParanormalNews.com

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Lithuania's New Paranormal Ban Law

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Starting March 2010, if you live in Lithuania and have a paranormal problem...you're screwed. 'Nyet!' to paranormal investigations.

Lithuanian lawmakers have passed an updated version to the 'Law on the Protection of Minors Against Detrimental Effect of Public Information'..basically, the law bans making 'unsavory' information available to children, including public discussions, school programs and the media. The information ban includes gay and lesbian information, bisexuality, polygamy, and images of heterosexual intercourse. Also among the taboo topics are death and severe injury, foul language, gambling, making of explosives, bad eating habits, and, of course, the paranormal.

All paranormal subjects are a taboo topic in Lithuania, no better than pornography and gambling. No hypnosis, no psychics, no ghosts, UFO’s, or horror movies...period. Did I miss a Communist take over of Lithuania?

Groups such as Amnesty International and gay & lesbian rights groups are fighting this legislation. Critics claim the bill violates the freedom of speech and international standards of human rights...let alone, it'll be nearly impossible to enforce.

I'd like to see what penalties they are recommending. Stay tuned....Lon

Amazing 'Weave' Crop Circle - East Field Near Alton Barnes, Wiltshire

NOTE: This amazing formation is a 170 foot diameter woven structure in wheat, with bundles of wheat gently laid aside and woven under other bundles, so that the effect is that of a woven rug or piece of cloth. It is located in the famous East Field near Alton Barnes, Wiltshire.

It would be impossible to create this in hours or even days, and there is some doubt among experts that it could be done at all. Compared to the hoax circle commissioned by the National Geographic channel for an upcoming documentary, it is a masterpiece.

Why are we still in denial? ...Lon

New Gable Film Surfaces - 'Michigan Dogman' Victim's Remains? (Warning - Graphic)

gable film high quality with slow motion

Gable film...high quality with slow motion
NOTE: The video you are about to see is very graphic. It depicts the upper torso of a victim after an attack. The video has some very interesting similarities to the Gable film as well.


Commentary with video: I was at my little brother's house Friday June 10th and my sister-in-law was watching Fox News. A short segment came on about "the Beast of Bray Road". Hannity then played a clip from a film named..."The Gable Film".

Sirens went off in my head.

Our only uncle was a film nut in college, back in the seventies. He was always making home movies and beer commercials. He was even hired, (not for pay), to help the Michigan Department of Natural Resources investigate and document a bear attack, just north of Bellaire. (Our Grandmother worked in the Antrim County Courthouse,.... she had a hand in getting him the gig). The victim's name was Aaron GABLE.

.....GABLE!!!

My mother tells us that after filming the attack scene, our Uncle John was so distraught that he packed up his stuff and moved to Florida, two weeks later!. Mom says his behavior was becoming very psychotic, he couldn't sleep at night and he kept going on about how "bears have FIVE toes,..... dogs have four"!. Just a week after he left, a DNR officer hand-delivered the film that Uncle John made to my Mother's house. It's been in a box in the basement ever since.

Now, I seem to recall that these films usually lasted about five minutes or so, but the film we have is only about a minute long... and the end of it was obviously torn off, not cut clean. I wonder just how much is missing? We almost threw this film away just a couple of years ago, but I wound up buying a vintage projector on eBay, just to see what was on this film. (Boy, was I surprised). NOW,..... I find that there's this "Gable" film out there?

I wonder if these two films are related. I'll see if I can get it in better resolution, other than with Wifey's camera-phone. (It might be expensive,..... but I'm sure it'll be worth it).

One thing's for certain, whatever it was on that clip that they played on Fox News,..... it sure didn't look like a bear.

Now...here's the original 'Gable Film':

NOTE: if you compare the original film with the new film, there are some very interesting similarities, namely the 1968 Ford truck in both films and the female (similar body shape and hair). I was tipped off about this new video Sunday night...but I had service problems and couldn't get it posted for Monday's email. The combination of new evidence and the reports I have received and posted here, there's a very good possibility, IMO, that an unknown cryptid (or more) is roaming the wilds of Michigan...Lon

Ogopogo? Large Snake-Like Creature Spotted in Okanagan Lake

Wendy Sanderson, 41, who has lived in Kelowna since she was four, and Krug, an Edmonton welding teacher, were both at the Okanagan Centre boat dock at 10:30 a.m. Thursday because family members were taking a scuba diving course.

“There wasn‘t a single boat on the lake. It was completely calm, absolutely perfect, just the most pristine conditions for this viewing we had,” said Sanderson.

“I‘m not saying I saw Ogopogo. I‘m saying that I saw a big-ass snake-like creature in the lake. It scared the bejeezus out of me. It is creeping me out.”

Now, she‘s concerned about allowing her 13-year-old son, Kurtis, to scuba dive as deep as 30 metres near the Bennett Bridge in a couple of weeks.

“It was so huge; I would have said over 30 feet. I‘m thinking, a good three feet out of the water. It formed two to three humps at the same time as it was swimming or slithering from the east to the west across the middle of the lake. For three minutes, we watched it and then it was gone. It was the most amazing thing we ever saw.”

A 22-year-old man fishing off the dock was so surprised he dropped his fishing rod.

“The welding teacher was pacing up and down the dock, screaming at everybody that would listen. He wanted everybody to experience it. I just watched. I had my cell phone on the beach, but I didn‘t even run for it to take a picture. I just wanted to watch,” said Sanderson.

The creature she saw was too large for any snake ever documented by scientists, she said.

“A lot of people are saying: ’Wendy, what if that was a group of sturgeons?‘ There‘s no way they could have been that synchronized while swimming. I‘ve been looking up sturgeon and those are fish. They can‘t form perfect humps out of the water to be able to pull off what we saw. There‘s no way.”

“Our giant sturgeon?” responded Krug with a laugh when asked about the sighting.

“About a mile out from us was distinctively what you would say Ogopogo is. There‘s three humps, right? The more we watched it and watched it and watched it, you could see how mistakes have been made over hundreds of years,” Krug said.

“It appeared to be a giant sturgeon. As it went in and out of the water, there were three humps. I‘m convinced it was a sturgeon,” he said, despite the lack of any evidence of sturgeon in Okanagan Lake.

“What else could it be? Whatever it was, it was definitely there. There was something in the water that was definitely cool, really neat. Because of the way it was coming out of the water, it appeared to have three humps. It was massive, I‘d say 30 feet long,” he said.

“It was absolutely dead calm.

“We were a mile back and you could clearly see the way water was moving around it. You could see it moving in the water and the way the water was affected by it.”
Ogopogo?

“I don‘t want to be called a freak in public,” Krug said with another laugh.
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NOTE: Sanderson forwarded the following letter to another British Colombia newspaper:

To the editor:

I feel compelled to let you know this exciting news story that should be documented for historical purposes.

I know that this is interesting timing considering the recent findings concerning Ogopogo, but here is my true story.

I am 41 years old and have lived in Kelowna since I was age four.

Recently, I actually witnessed the most incredible sight in Okanagan Lake.

From a distance, I saw a large snake-like creature at the surface of the lake for about three minutes.

It was probably 30 feet long and as it slithered across the lake, it made humps at the surface.

I believe that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity that I shared with two other witnesses that I met on the dock at the Okanagan Centre boat launch.

We stood there together for that moment in absolute amazement. We do not have proof of this sighting, but we know what we saw and we shared it together.

Wendy Sanderson,

Kelowna

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Video: Unknown Light Anomaly - Marshall County, Kentucky

A Marshall County, Kentucky man says he shot the video from his front yard over the weekend. "They are unidentified flying objects," he said.

He says he realizes any claims of UFOs will be met with skepticism. That's why he asked us to mask his identity. "Because of my job and neighbors, friends, I don't want to be made a spectacle of."

Nonetheless, he has his own suspicions. "It's just something that appears to be, what do you call it, extra-terrestrial," he said, "that's what it appears to be to me."

"There's something in the videotape that I do not understand," the Marshall County man said. "I don't know what it is, but to just let it not be told would be a waste, to me. Maybe somebody can look at it and say, this is this, or this is that, and then I'll be satisfied, you know,accomplish my goal... is to find out what it is."

NOTE: some of the tape looks natural and some looks, well, unnatural. I've seen electrical lines 'light up' during a thunderstorm when lightening was striking nearby, but this is somewhat different. Some may say that this is a corona discharge (St.Elmo's Fire). There's a very good chance, IMO, that this is a rare or unknown anomaly...Lon

Students Attacked By High School Spectre

Brian Senior High School is located in Bellevue, Maine. There was once a fight that broke out between two kids, and when one of them went to land a punch, that kid fell and broke his neck. Since that day, hauntings have been reported from the school.

Students at the school have reported being pushed by an unseen force. This is often accompanied by cold spots, even if it is very hot out, a telltale sign of a spiritual presence. Some of the students at Brian Senior High School even claim to have seen the ghostly apparition of the boy who broke his neck.

The boy is believed to appear as a dark figure who is vague and little can be identified. Is this an urban legend invented by some high school students for a scare, or is the spirit of a young boy haunting Brian Senior High School?

The Great Alaskan Blob Identified

From Time.com

A group of hunters aboard a small boat out of the tiny Alaska village of Wainwright were the first to spot what would eventually be called "the blob." It was a dark, floating mass stretching for miles through the Chukchi Sea, a frigid and relatively shallow expanse of Arctic Ocean water between Alaska's northwest coast and the Russian Far East. The goo was fibrous, hairy. When it touched floating ice, it looked almost black.

But what was it? An oil slick? Some sort of immense, amorphous organism adrift in some of the planet's most remote waters? Maybe a worrisome sign of global climate change? Or, as folks wondered who followed from faraway via the internet, was it something insidious and, perhaps, even carnivorous like the man-eating jello from the old Steve McQueen movie that inspired the Alaska phenomenon's nickname?

The hunters got word to the U.S. Coast Guard, which immediately sent two spill response experts to fly over the mass, which looked sort of rusty from the air. They also approached it by boat. The North Slope Borough, the local government for the vast and sparsely populated cap of Alaska, sent its own people out the main village of Barrow to have a look. They scooped up jars of the stuff for analysis in a state lab in Anchorage.

"We responded as if it were an oil product," says Coast Guard Petty Officer Terry Hasenauer. "It was described to us as an oil-like substance, thick and lingering below the surface of the water. Those characteristics can indicate heavy, degraded oil, maybe crude oil, or possibly an intermediate fuel oil." Meanwhile, the story spread over the internet like an oil-spill, giving lots of people a queasy feeling.

Test results released Thursday showed the blob wasn't oil, but a plant — a massive bloom of algae. While that may seem less dangerous, a lot of people are still uneasy. It's something the mostly Inupiat Eskimo residents along Alaska's northern coast say they could never remember seeing before.

Algal blooms are a common and often menacing event along many U.S. coastlines. Some strains are toxic and can close beaches and poison seafood, posing a hazard to consumers. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration maintains a forecasting system for the Gulf of Mexico to warn of harmful Florida blooms. On Thursday, on the other side of the continent, U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican, urged NOAA to direct at least $500,000 to assess a disastrous red tide — a form of algal bloom. "The state of Maine is currently besieged by the most virulent red tide event ever recorded in the region," Snowe wrote. "As a result of this outbreak, virtually the entire coast of our state has been closed to the harvest of clams, mussels, ocean quahogs, and other shellfish."

While Alaskans may find the algal blob unusual if not frightening, scientists say that algal blooms are nothing new in Arctic Ocean waters, though the blob itself might be a little weird. Brenda Konar, a marine biology professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said algal outbreaks can and do occur even in icy Arctic waters. It just takes the right combination of nutrients, light and water temperature, she said. "Algae blooms," she says. "It's sort of like a swimming pool that hasn't been cleaned in a while." The blob, Konar said, is a microalgae made up of "billions and billions of individuals." "We've observed large blooms in the past off Barrow although none of them at all like this," Barry Sherr, an Oregon State University professor of oceanography, said in an e-mail. "The fact that the locals say they've never seen anything like it suggests that it might represent some exotic species which has drifted into the region, perhaps as a result of global change. For the moment that's just a guess."

So far in Alaska, nothing suggests the Chukchi Sea blob is toxic, although the Coast Guard's Hasenauer said toxicity tests were planned. In any case, virtually no commercial seafood production comes from the waters along Alaska's northern coast, but residents do fish, hunt whales and harvest other animals as part of a traditional subsistence lifestyle. In the meantime, the blob for the most part is staying away from the shoreline and slowly drifting farther and farther away.

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Video: Images of Alien Hybrid Surfaces

Note: these images surfaced this weekend and, supposedly, were smuggled out of the UFO Congress in Nevada in February 2009. I was not there or privy to any of this information, so I'm going on what little information I have found or heard today.

This creature was found in an undisclosed location in Mexico and the people who found it tried to keep it captive. They stated it chewed one it's hands off to get free was also screaming loudly. Out of panic, they tried to drown it. After 30 mins. they took it out of the water and it was still alive, became very violent and louder then ever. They again put it back in a bucket of water to kill it for fear of it getting away. After 45 mins. they again took it out and it was angrier then ever. They did manage to kill the creature after securing it in the bucket of water overnight.

The feet are identical to human feet, it has the same amount of teeth and vertebrae as a human and the skull appears to be similar to the 'Star Child'. This is believed to be a hybrid but created by humans in research and escaped. Reports of similar beings, about 2 feet tall and seen in the same area, are trying to avoid human contact as much as possible.

Footnote: I realize that this presentation was made by Jaime Maussan and that many ufologists and critics, especially here in the US, have branded him as unreliable because of some questionable sightings in Mexico City. But overall, I consider Maussan to be a very serious researcher despite the dubious actions of others...Lon