Fremont - Sandusky County Administrator Warren Brown considers himself a skeptic.

Last year, the Sandusky County Convention and Visitors Bureau began hosting a series of monthly tours designed to take guests underground into a basement jail known as "the dungeon."

Visitors began to question whether the dungeon - which was constructed in 1840 - was haunted, and it was up to Brown to find out. So Brown and SCCVB Travel Event Specialist Katherine Rice asked two paranormal investigation groups to perform independent investigations of the dungeon, and the results, at least for Brown, were chilling.

A Dearham pub is vying for the title of the area's most haunted venue after paranormal investigators spent the night there.

Lakeland Paranormal Investigations spent five hours at the village's Old Mill on Saturday night.

Investigator Amanda Oakes said she had never been anywhere before where the psychic energy was so off the scale.

She said: "I believe I was contacted by a Presbyterian woman who told of a secret tunnel from the Old Mill, which was a mill, to the nearby church and how she used to lead people to safety from the marauding Scots.

"We also contacted a young boy who said his head had hurt and then he drowned."

Ms Oakes said she learned of a precious lost necklace and said the investigation team planned to return to the pub to see if its location would be revealed to them.

Landlord Tom Armstrong said he was used to peculiar light variations and temperature drops at the pub.

The trial of Urbain Grandier for witchcraft was either a witch hunt in truth, or in the sarcastic way that we use the term today. Either Grandier used black magic to infest the nuns of Loudun with a number of powerful demons, or he was a victim of religious persecution because his beliefs were a threat to the Catholic Church in 17^th-century France.

Aldous Huxley wrote a well-researched account of the incident to draw attention to McCarthyism in his era, positing that Grandier was in fact innocent - a victim of Catholic authoritarianism, of righteousness turned into bloodlust, bigotry, and greed.

Whether scapegoat or sorcerer, he paid the ultimate price for his entanglement with this historic case of mass possession. Since the account of the possessions is far more captivating than a hoax, we'll borrow from Des Niau's account The Devils of Loudun, written in 1634, as our primary text. All quotes henceforth, unless noted, come from his work. Huxley's conjectures will form a backdrop to Des Niau's retelling.

Now - ahem - on with the story!

Unidentified flying objects over South Whidbey last weekend have left a Bush Point couple baffled and scared.

A series of mysterious orange lights appeared in the sky over Dick and Carol Johnson's home Saturday evening. While they are used to seeing all kinds of marine and air traffic from their picture windows overlooking Admiralty Inlet, the couple admits this has left them scratching their heads.

"We've seen a lot of stuff, but this was the weirdest thing we've ever seen," said Dick Johnson, a retired civil engineer.

The Johnsons have lived in the community for 17 years and were watching television Saturday at about 8:30 p.m. when they noticed what appeared to be a steady, orange light hovering over Marrowstone Island.

The lone light was quickly joined by several more, which then began to make their way across Puget Sound. Dick Johnson walked out on his porch and, to his astonishment, saw more over Whidbey Island, somewhere between their home and Lagoon Point.

The incident ended when two of the strange lights flew over their neighborhood; one went right over the top of their house, Dick Johnson said. In all, they reported a total of seven objects.

"The first thing I thought was Area 51 moved to Whidbey Island," he said.

42 sheep were found dead from apparent animal bites on a farm in Honduras that was guarded by dogs and a few humans, too. What could be responsible for such weird carnage? Could it be . . . chupacabras?

According to Inexplicata:

Rumors about the Chupacabras have gained strength as a result of the death of a large number of sheep on a property belonging to a political representative of that province. Yesterday, at 5:00 a.m., when workers arrived at the property, they found dozens of dead sheep with injuries to their necks. Others had bled to death. Nearly 42 animals were lifeless and another 10 injured. The possibility that the death toll would increase over time was not dismissed.

Congressman Valentin Suárez, the owner of the farm, reported that the flock's size was 200. The premises where the sheep pens are located near the Palmerola Air Base. The congressman noted that while he has dogs and watchmen, there was no noise at night that alerted anyone to the presence of strange animals within the property.

"This is the first time such a situation has taken place in the area, and not finding a cause worries us, since there are no predators in Comayagua valley," said Suárez.

A new film by a Hollywood director has revived a mystery of how a group of Soviet hikers met their grisly deaths on a Russian mountainside in unexplained circumstances more than 50 years ago.

The film, The Dyatlov Pass Incident, loosely retells the true story from 1959 when nine students went on an expedition to a peak in the northern Urals known as the Mountain of the Dead - never to return.

Soviet investigators found the students' bodies scattered over a large area, while their tent had been cut open from the inside.

Florida residents reported UFOs buzzing above homes this morning. Several residents of the US state reported unidentified flying objects over their house. The US Navy and Air Force gave a response, and stated that there was no military exercises in the area at that time.

For the first time, a comprehensive database of all reported sightings of the Loch Ness monster is being complied.

The creators of the Nessie Files hope their work will shed light on the hundreds of strange sightings of the mythical creature.

Dr Charles Paxton, an ecologist and statistician at St Andrews University, who is carrying out the project, has so far uncovered around 853 reported encounters with Nessie over the past 80 years.

He will undertake a statistical analysis to see if there are any distinct clusters or patterns which could be explained by natural phenomena, such as a site where unusual waves are frequently formed.The project will be discussed at a conference taking place as part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival, which Paxton has organised to mark the 80th anniversary of the first "modern" sighting of the monster.

In April 1933, an article in the Inverness Courier described how locals Aldie and John Mackay were driving along the north-western shore of Loch Ness when they were confronted by an "enormous beast". It was the first recorded encounter with the creature since the sixth century - when, according to legend, St Columba drove it into the water - and soon sparked further sightings and huge interest globally.

Oregon is famous for few things - namely rain and being north of California. It hasn't really caught the eye of the world at large, perhaps because the things man builds here are no match for its natural beauty. There are no pyramids or skyscrapers that surpass the mountains and forests for their renown.

One wonder of the wild is Crater Lake, located in the Cascade Range of Southwest Oregon. It is a bright blue cistern of pure rainwater lying in the crater of a long-dormant volcano named Mount Mazama. After violent eruptions exhausted the mountain's central spine of magma, Mazama's peak collapsed in on itself, leaving a giant bowl of ash and stone - known in geology talk as a caldera - which now holds the majestic Crater Lake. In true Oregon fashion it's more or less a famous puddle, but it's a beautiful puddle, attracting half a million visitors each year who come to admire its twelve square miles of heavenly blue. At one time the lake was thought to be bottomless, but now it's measured at 1,943 feet, making it the deepest in the US.

More things than its depth have made Crater Lake a mystery, though. It's a hotbed for strange disappearances, ghostly encounters, and legendary beasts. Bigfoot himself is known to show up here from time to time. Rangers once reported following a large, dark, putrid-smelling creature through the woods until it started throwing pinecones at them. The area is also home to at least two claimed slayings of the Sasquatch. One was by car (the body was reportedly whisked away by the government), and one was by train. The train conductors didn't report slamming into something that looked like the legendary beast - for fear they'd be accused of drinking on the job.

Is this actual video footage of an ET intervention? Were ETs trying to remove nuclear weapon material? Or was it a truck full of arms? Or missiles? Or Hawaiian chocolate? (or maybe a new style of Nike shoes that are highly valued on Sirius B...). All I can say is, when I saw it, I felt a deep thrill. So no matter what, it's quite a video.


Source: One Vibration