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Hannes Bok art for Imagination, Sept. 1951,
with bird-like space ships similar to Kareeta.
with bird-like space ships similar to Kareeta.
1947 has gone down in history for Kenneth Arnold's June sighting launching the modern UFO era, however, in 1946, seven months before, another report was making international news. And while Arnold's mysterious objects were merely unknown, the San Diego object was identified. It was a space ship from another planet.
Meade Layne of Round Robin and psychic Mark Probert.
Jenny Ashford is the co-author of several nonfiction titles dealing with poltergeists: The Mammoth Mountain Poltergeist, with Tom Ross; House of Fire and Whispers: Investigating the Seattle Demon House, with Steve Mera, about the Keith Linder story; and The Rochdale Poltergeist, also with Mera. Now she has expanded her range and compiled a 400-page survey of the poltergeist phenomenon in all its variety.
After a brief overview, the contents
are divided into categories denoting an escalating severity of events, though obviously there are often overlaps in particular instances: 'stone throwers', 'raps, taps, and bangs', 'flying objects & electric anomalies', 'water, oil, and blood', 'pyromaniac poltergeists', 'ghostly apparitions', 'violent poltergeists' and 'demonic possession'. The volume concludes with brief thoughts on theories which have been advanced to explain the poltergeist. Over a hundred cases are listed chronologically within the categories, dating from antiquity to recent times. Some are mentioned briefly where details are lacking, others are discussed in somewhat greater depth. The net has been cast fairly wide, though British and American cases predominate.
Ashford's view is that, leaving aside occasional non-paranormal explanations such as misperception and fraud, poltergeists are generally unconscious projections of psychokinetic energy by individuals as a manifestation of extreme emotional stress, though the mechanisms by which this occurs are as yet unknown. When fraud does occur, that does not necessarily mean that the entire business should be dismissed, as there may a mix of genuine poltergeist alongside deception.
After a brief overview, the contents
Ashford's view is that, leaving aside occasional non-paranormal explanations such as misperception and fraud, poltergeists are generally unconscious projections of psychokinetic energy by individuals as a manifestation of extreme emotional stress, though the mechanisms by which this occurs are as yet unknown. When fraud does occur, that does not necessarily mean that the entire business should be dismissed, as there may a mix of genuine poltergeist alongside deception.
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See Magazine 1952 interview with General John Samford on the existence of UFOs
Most people know the Air Force's Major General John A. Samford from his historic July 29, 1952 press conference given after the Washington, D.C. radar incidents, where he talked about the small but troubling percentage of UFO reports "from credible observers of relatively incredible things." Captain Edward Ruppelt in the notes made in preparation for his 1956 book, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, described Gen. Samford in his entries on the key figures involved in the Air Force's Project Blue Book:
In other words, a Bigfoot: The ape-like creature that cryptozoologists believe roams the nation's backwoods.
The sighting happened just before 11 p.m. Friday in a forested area. No one was injured, though the group reports something threw rocks at them as they left the area. McDowell County is about 100 miles northwest of Charlotte.
John Bruner of the Marion-based group Bigfoot 911 reported the event on the group's Facebook page Saturday. Bigfoot 911 is one of a handful of groups around the country that investigate reports of Bigfoot sightings, mostly in places average people don't go at night.
Bruner says a team of seven people were out at the time, scattering glow sticks in the woods. (Bigfoot 911 members believe glow sticks pique the curiosity of a Bigfoot.) It was the sight of one of those glow sticks moving through the woods that got Bruner's attention.
After reading about it a little bit, it makes sense scientifically in a separate way from spiritually. It's simple really: the scientific explanation is that cats and dogs can see UV light and a few other rays, which human retinas don't have the ability to see.
It was previously believed that all mammals had similar eyes to humans, incapable of seeing UV rays, but scientific evidence suggests many mammals can.
A study conducted a few years ago by biologists at City University London, UK provided evidence for this differential in sight between species.
Dr. Richard Gallagher
As the priests began to pray, the woman slipped into a trance -- and then snapped to life. She spoke in multiple voices: One was deep, guttural and masculine; another was high-pitched; a third spouted only Latin. When someone secretly sprinkled ordinary water on her, she didn't react. But when holy water was used, she screamed in pain.
"Leave her alone, you f***ing priests," the guttural voice shouted. "Stop, you whores. ... You'll be sorry.
"You've probably seen this before: a soul corrupted by Satan, a priest waving a crucifix at a snarling woman. Movies and books have mimicked exorcisms so often, they've become clichés.
The 1973 film "The Exorcist" shaped how many see demonic possession.But this was an actual exorcism -- and included a character not normally seen in the traditional drive-out-the-devil script.
© George Wingfield (1991), Francine Blake (1998), Lucy Pringle (1996)Some examples of crop circles in East Field near Alton Barnes, Wiltshire (UK): The famous "1991 Pictogram" (known to many from the legendary Led Zeppelin LP-Cover), the 7-fold "Snowflake" that covered more than 6.000 square meters of flattened crop in 1998 and the "DNA-Helix" discovered in 1996.
Having organised and curated the very first exhibition on crop circles and the research behind the phenomenon in a science museum in 2014, crop circle researchers Monique Klinkenbergh and Andreas Müller present the extended version of their exhibition this year at the newly renovated barn house of The Barge Inn, a local pub at Honeystreet (near Alton Barnes) in Wiltshire.
Parallel to the exhibition and information centre, the two researchers also ask their visitors - especially local farmers and residents to crop circle fields - to share their experience with the phenomenon and carry out field investigation and interviews with the eyewitness.
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While skeptics will surely opt to blame the international wave of brutalized bovines on natural disasters, sadistic pranks or similarly sick, wanton hijinks, proponents of conspiratorial and/or otherworldly explanations for the disturbing acts are quick to point out the attacks are often carried out with surgical precision.
Farmers worldwide, most notably and recurrently in US states such as South Dakota, Colorado, Kansas, and Nevada, have for decades had the unpleasant experience of discovering their treasured, lucrative beasts dead with various organs - including eyes, noses, tongues, hearts, livers, anuses, and genitalia - excised with lazer-like accuracy.
Moreover, the FBI documents make clear even the US' best investigative minds were seemingly stumped at the ultimate source of all the carnage.
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