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Question

What caused this baffling epidemic of hallucinations?

Samantha Cole
Popular Science
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:23 UTC
Eye pupil
© Flickr user Nan Palmero
It's a local news story that Stephen King could take notes from: Five people fell ill and started hallucinating, one after another, following contact with one woman who started seeing things in the dead of night.

The caretaker of a 78-year-old woman called the police in North Bend, Oregon's pre-dawn hours to report people vandalizing her vehicle, KVAL news reports. The cops came and went, finding nothing, only to be called back at 5:30 a.m. for a similar complaint. The officers suspected she was hallucinating, and took her to the hospital, where she was given a clean bill of health and discharged.

But as the day wore on, everyone who'd come in contact with her started showing similar symptoms of mental distress: Both deputies, the 78-year-old woman, and a hospital employee all had to be hospitalized for similar symptoms.

That afternoon, a hazmat team descended on Oregon's Bay Area Hospital, and the home where it all started, decontaminating vehicles and clearing the emergency room. They turned up nothing. "No source of the contamination has been found," Sgt. Pat Downing told KVAL. "The vehicles, equipment and uniforms have been checked with no contaminates identified or located on or about them." Not a blip in the patients' blood samples, either.

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Cell Phone

Alien intelligence: Stranger than we can imagine? [video]

Greg
Daily Grail
Thu, 20 Oct 2016 10:20 UTC
radio telescope
© ESOFour antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)
"To search expectantly for a radio signal from an extraterrestrial source is probably as culture-bound a presumption as to search the galaxy for a good Italian restaurant." Ever since I first grokked this insight from Terence McKenna, I've made it a mission to try and think outside the anthropomorphic box when it comes to the question of what intelligent aliens might be like.

So I thought the Aeon video above was worth posting, along with the asking for your thoughts on what form ETI might take?


Comment: When it comes to the UFO phenomenon and the vast amount of 'High Strangeness' events recorded across millennia of human existence, outside the box thinking is a necessity. The works of John Keel are a vital primer to the understanding of such phenomena and his work makes a mockery of the 'Nuts and Bolts' explanation of alien interaction with the human race.

For an extensive overview of the subject, see also Laura Knight-Jadczyk's book, High Strangeness: Hyperdimensions and the Process of Alien Abduction.

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Top Secret

This is why Britain's "last" secret UFO-files are still held back

Andreas Muller
grenzwissenschaft-aktuell
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:02 UTC
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© grewi.deThe public release of 18 secret UFO-files from the British Ministry of Defence via the National Archives is still in progress
Recently, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD), in cooperation with The National Archives (TNA), explained that the release of 18 still closed UFO-files of the MoD will not happen before early 2017. Now, Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell (GreWi), the German news-blog on frontier science and the paranormal, has discovered why the release of these files needs more time. The reply gives an interesting insight into the release process, and at the same time, it allows new speculation about the reason why those files were, and are, still held back.

Background

Contrary to its claim in 2013 that all of its formerly classified UFO-files were released to the public via the National Archives, in 2014 the MoD had to admit that 18 UFO-files were held back. The release of these files was initially set for 2015, but the date was delayed to early 2016, then to the summer of 2016, and then delayed again to August. In August, it was said that the release was yet again rescheduled, and that the files would not be published before early 2017.

Comment: For more information on government involvement in covering up the UFO phenomenon, suppressing information and spreading disinformation, you can listen to our interview with Richard Dolan, Author of UFOs and the National Security State.

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Question

Could mysterious hexagonal clouds in Bermuda Triangle be behind centuries of bizarre disappearances?

Rachel Bishop
The Mirror
Fri, 21 Oct 2016 15:13 UTC
Hexagon clouds over the Bermuda Triangle
© Science ChannelHexagon clouds over the Bermuda Triangle that cause terrifying 170mph winds air bombs

It is believed these deadly blasts of air that can flip over ships and bring planes crashing into the ocean could be behind the vanishing of at least 75 planes and hundreds of ships.

After being blamed for claiming hundreds of lives the mystery behind the Bermuda Triangle may have finally been cracked.

The 500,000km square stretch in the North Atlantic Ocean has been blamed for the disappearance of at least 75 planes and hundreds of ships over the centuries.

But scientists claim the truth behind the deadly triangle is all down to hexagonal clouds that create terrifying 170mph winds air bombs.
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Experts believe mysterious aluminum object dating back 250,000 years 'could be ancient UFO technology'

Kara O'Neill
Mirror
Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:00 UTC
The aluminium piece looks as if it was a handmade object
© CENThe aluminium piece looks as if it was a handmade object .
A piece of aluminum that looks as if it was handmade is being hailed as 250,000-year-old proof that aliens once visited Earth.

Metallic aluminum was not really produced by mankind until around 200 years ago, so the discovery of the large chunk that could be up to 250,000 years old is being held as a sensational find.

The details of the discovery were never made public at the time because it was pulled out of the earth in communist Romania in 1973.

Builders working on the shores of the Mures River not far from the central Romanian town of Aiud found three objects 10 metres (33 feet) under the ground.
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Question

'Mysterious dragon' filmed flying through Chinese mountains


RT
Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:38 UTC
Flying dragon?
© ApexTV
A video showing a 'dragon' flying across a mountain range in China has left netizens bickering over whether the footage is real or fake.

Uploaded by YouTuber ApexTV, the five-minute clip has been viewed almost 200,000 times and apparently shows the mythical beast flying over an unnamed mountain range somewhere near the border between China and Laos.
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Light Saber

Why monsters sit on your chest and try to strangle you

Paul Seaburn
Mysterious Universe
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 10:04 UTC
sleep paralysis
© unknown
Brazilians speak in hushed tones about an ugly monster - sometimes a giant man, sometimes an old hag, sometimes a scary demon - that sneaks into bedrooms while they're sleeping, sits on their chests and presses down on their throats so that they wake up gasping for breath and unable to move. It turns out versions of the same tale are told in many countries by many cultures about many monsters. While science has not developed a get-this-monster-off-of-my-chest cure, it has come up with an explanation for them.

sleep paralysis
© unknownA depiction of a Pisadeira
In Brazil, the monster is called Pisadeira and is most often described as an old hag with long fingers who jumps down from roofs onto the chests of unsuspecting sleepers. In Portugal, Pisadeira is sometimes depicted as old man (sadly, a Friar) and occasionally sits on the full belly of children rather than on their chests. In Spain, it's a large black dog or cat. The indigenous people of Canada believe the creature is a shapeless demon created by an evil shaman. Nigerians describe it as a scary old woman while the Japanese say it's a male spirit trying to suffocate his enemies. In Cambodia, it's a "khmaoch sângkât" - "the ghost that pushes you down." Victims all say they can see the monster or spirit but can't move or breath until it finally goes away.

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UFO

Unseen foes: Hostile contact with non-human entities

Scott Corrales
Inexplicata
Sat, 15 Oct 2016 06:07 UTC
UFO over mountains
© unknown
To call them ufonauts would evoke unwanted associations with the long-haired, blonde entities of the Adamskian tradition or the Greys that peppered UFO research in the 1990s. In some cases there is no structured craft suggesting an interplanetary origin or even a actinic light that conjures up a paranormal provenance. "Things" appear to unchain a series of events in unsuspecting communities having absolutely no interest in matters involving ufology or even the human space age, now receding into the past as civilization chooses to journey inward.

Time and distance separate us from some of these events in such a way that it is quite understandable how contemporary researchers would feel more comfortable dismissing them as rumor, journalistic exaggeration or outright hoax. Publishing pictures of lights in the sky is far more satisfying, of course.

Nevertheless, I feel these cases deserve their day in court, despite the inability to put the events -- or their witnesses -- on the stand.

Comment: For more information on bizarre and unexplained phenomena, you can read popular UFO researcher Richard Dolan's review of Laura Knight-Jadczyk's book, The High Strangeness of Dimensions, Densities, and the Process of Alien Abduction. The book can be purchased on Amazon and through the publisher, Red Pill Press.

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UFO

Colorful orb-like UFO causes Delaware resident's video camera to malfunction

Kara O'Neill
The Mirror, UK
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:11 UTC
Colorful UFO orbs
© Via YouTube/Starlings of Light
The baffled woman claims her recording equipment became jammed after she tried to capture the strange 'humming' phenomenon on video

A UFO enthusiast claims a strange multi-coloured light 'broke' her video camera as she tried to record it hovering over her house.

The woman, who reveals on her YouTube channel that her name is Melody, describes multi-coloured ball of light, that appear to be chasing an orange 'orb'. At several points throughout the footage, the mysterious ball appears to change from red to blue to green, but that wasn't the strangest thing she noticed.

In the video, Melody says: "There is a humming noise coming from this craft. "We're not sure if it's a form of military helicopter that was investigating that orange glowing ball, or was it some, UFO, perhaps an alien spacecraft? "As I came out to film it, our camcorder began to malfunction."


Comment: About the Starlings of Light YouTube Channel:
This channel is dedicated to sharing important channeled messages. It is run by Dwayne & Melody, who for a while had been uploading the messages to their own accounts. We have been channeling groups such as those of the Galactic Federation Of Light for a long while. We dedicate our life to spiritual knowledge through growing and sharing that love and light. We also do psychic readings and sell metaphysical goods through our shop, Dark Secret Creations. This channel will be dedicated to sharing the messages from our Galactic Family of the Galactic Federation Of Light to aid in the global ascension.


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MIB

Possessed politicians? A brief historical look at exorcism and demonic possession

Sarah Bond
Forbes
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 19:02 UTC
Jesus
© WikimediaJesus exorcising a boy possessed by a demon. From Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 15th century
At a recent Hillary Clinton campaign rally on Tuesday, October 11, President Obama took the opportunity to address some grave accusations waged against both himself and Hillary Clinton as of late, namely that they are demons. In reaction to a comment by radio host Alex Jones, who said the president smelled of sulfur, Obama playfully took a sniff of his own shirt sleeve and declared that he did not, in fact, agree with that assertion.

The accusation of demon possession has a long history within early Christian literature and liturgy - even if demon possession seems only the stuff of horror movies today.

For hundreds of years, demons were seen by early Christians as one of the main causes of disease. Consequently, demon possession and one of its cures, exorcism, were accepted parts of healing in the later Roman empire into the middle ages. A number of early Christian authors point to demons as the spreaders of sickness. In the third century, the writer Tertullian's Apology (22) even notes that such demons inflict "sickness and other grievous calamities upon our bodies." He also alleged that demons specifically taught women to use magical herbs. As Nicole Kelley, a professor of Religion at Florida State University has argued, demons were one way for early Christians to explain epilepsy and other sicknesses. Demonic thoughts could also creep in and cause havoc. The monk Evagrius Ponticus (345-399 CE) proposed eight cardinal demonic thoughts: gluttony, lust, greed, anger, sadness, acedia (sloth), vainglory, and pride. These eight would later be reworked as the seven deadly sins, as further developed by thinkers such as a monk named John Cassian and then Pope Gregory the Great.

Comment: The author is correct; historical misogyny in the form of accusations of demonic possession/evil is nothing new. For an in-depth discussion of these types of accusations as they relate to several other important historical issues, read: Witches, Comets and Planetary Cataclysms. (you'll be happy you did!)

Sometimes, though, these types of accusations may have some validity!: Top Russian Exorcist: Hillary shows 'clear signs' of demonic possession

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