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Large Light Green Luminescent 'Birds' Observed Over Hayward, CA
Mason House Inn Provides Original Spirits From The Past
UFO Witnessed From Casino Cruise Ship - Stellwagen Bank Marine Sanctuary
Baby Elephant 'Back From The Dead'

Large Light Green Luminescent 'Birds' Observed Over Hayward, CA

Posted: 11 Mar 2010 12:48 PM PST

NOTE: I received the following inquiry from Elaine who hopes to find a explanation for a sighting she experienced:

"I believe it might have been a little more than a year and a half ago. I was outside in my backyard at night when I heard a weird squawking noise, almost like a seagull, but different. I look up at the sky and see a flock of birds flying.

Their wings were straight out, unmoving, and they were flying in a straight line. It was like they were gliding. I could see them well against the dark sky. They were what I can only describe as a light green luminescent color. There was a faint light coming from them, almost like they were glowing.

They continued to glide across and over my house, towards the front. I ran inside my house and towards the front door. I could still hear them, but I couldn't see them anymore.

My younger brother had also seen these birds, once alone and once with my mother. On both occasions, they had only seen one bird, but they were the same kind that I had seen and with that same squawk.

The thing is, as far as I know, birds rarely fly at night, let alone a flock of them. Do you have any idea what they could have been?"

Elaine from CA

I asked Elaine for further details...she forwarded the following:

"Thanks for replying!"

"There was probably around 5 to 7 of them. They were flying real close together.

As for the location, I live in Hayward, CA.

I'm sure it was after 8 or 9 p.m. being that it was fairly dark outside. It was around the end of summer or the beginning of fall, I'm not exactly sure.

The birds were flying not too high up, but not too low. I would say around 20 ft.

The birds looked like they were fairly large. I could see them well against the sky. When I think about it, they kinda of remind me of seagull, but they didn't sound like seagulls and had a different shape to them.

I actually told the rest of my family about this and my grandmother told me that they were probably witches. Where she grew up, there had been a old woman that was believed to be a witch and the woman had turned into a big, black bird. But then again, the birds I saw were a pale greenish color."

NOTE: The first thing I thought was a radio controlled device...but that is unlikely since these were multiple objects flying in a straight line and probably too large in size. The former native people of this area, the Costanoan and Ohlone, recognized several bird species in their beliefs, namely the hummingbird, eagle and a falcon. As well, there are the 'thunderbird' legends that seem to be part of most native cultures in some degree. The only natural species of bird that I can find that uses the bay area as part of a flyway and somewhat resembles the description would be Canadian Geese. Also, I am unaware of any military installations in the immediate area...though, I doubt this would be military related anyway. If anyone has information or thoughts on Elaine's sighting, please comment...Lon

Large Light Green Luminescent 'Birds' Observed Over Hayward, CA

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Mason House Inn Provides Original Spirits From The Past

Posted: 11 Mar 2010 10:31 AM PST

travelparanormal - by Joy Hanson - My husband and I own the Mason House Inn B&B in Bentonsport, Iowa. When we bought the place in 2001, we were told that one little old lady ghost inhabited one of the bedrooms on the third floor. And if we left her alone, she would leave us alone.

We thought, yeah sure, and bought the place anyway. Soon after that, we started noticing things like footsteps on the second floor when nobody was up there. Guests were telling us about their doorknobs rattling, or a knock on the bedroom door, in the middle of the night but nobody was there. Lights would go off and on in the guest rooms, showers would turn on and off, toilets would flush over and over, and they would hear footsteps in the room or voices talking but nobody was there. Sometimes there would be the sound of children running and giggling in the hallways and stairways, but no children were in the building.

We began to think there was more than just one little old lady ghost here.

Many ghost hunting groups have done investigations here and all but one have found evidence of spirits here. We have had fourteen full-body apparitions sighted in the eight years that we have owned the Inn. There is a Civil War soldier, several children, three previous owners, and a cat ghost.

EVPs have recorded such comments as "Good Evening", "Can they see us?", and "Of course they can't see us." Video recordings include orbs shooting around the rooms, human shaped distortions, and a child standing on the landing when there were no children here.

Personally, I and my husband and daughters have seen an old man with white hair and wearing a black suit, a middle aged man with a reddish beard and longish hair, a teen aged girl named Amanda, a boy with dark hair, the little old lady on the third floor, and the cat.

Guests have seen little girls with long blond hair and white nightgowns, the old man, four different women, and the cat.

The Mason House Inn is located in Van Buren County in the southeast corner of Iowa. The building, built in 1846 as a hotel, has been a hotel, a hospital three different time, a boarding house, and now a Bed and Breakfast. The three-story brick building stands on a limestone base with an indoor well and a major river right across the street. Most of the furniture is the original hotel furniture from the 1800s, which is probably why the previous owners are still here - it's their stuff.

"My husband played with the contrast a little to get rid of the glare and came up with the black & white one. It almost looks like a Civil War type flat hat.

"Unfortunately, there is a boy in front of the figure who is kind of bent over and his sweater hood is in the way of the face. The size seems to be smaller than the high school aged kids.

"The bed is only about 14 inches from the wall on that side and there is not room to sit. You can see where the window ledge is so he is not sitting on the window ledge. Maybe this is a child, or maybe their time and dimension makes him small in our dimension?"
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THE HISTORY OF THE MASON HOUSE

The Mason House Inn was built in 1846, originally called the Ashland House, and was owned by William Robinson. It was built as a hotel to serve the steamboat travelers going from St. Louis to Fort Des Moines and Fort Dodge on the Des Moines River. It was built by Mormon craftsmen from Nauvoo, Illinois, who stayed in Bentonsport for several years, working and gathering supplies before making their trek westward to Salt Lake City, Utah. (Several of the brick buildings still in use here in Bentonsport were built by these craftsmen.) In 1857, the Ashland House was purchased by Lewis Mason and his wife, Nancy. They changed the name to the Phoenix Hotel, but the townspeople called the place the "Mason House", and the name stayed. It was Nancy who started the tradition of "a cookie jar in every room".

Over the years, the Mason House has withstood 5 major floods: 1851, 1903, 1905, 1947 and, most recently, 1993 and 2008. Through it all, this magnificent building remains a stalwart landmark. During the Civil War, the Mason House was used as a "holding hospital" for the wounded soldiers who were waiting for the train or boats to take them to the hospital in Keokuk. It was also a station on the Underground Railroad.

The Mason House stayed in the Mason Family for 99 years, then was sold to Herbert and Burretta Redhead in 1956. The Redhead family ran the Inn as a Museum and Bed & Breakfast for 33 years. They bought the old Bonaparte train station and brought it over to the lot next to the Inn and ran it as a General Store. In 1989, Bill and Sheral McDermet bought the Inn and did extensive refurbishing. The following is a narrative by the current owner:

"We know a doctor died in Room 5 in 1940 of diphtheria. He was renting that room when it was a boarding house from 1920s to 1951.

When [the previous owners] were re-wallpapering in Room 5, they would find all the paper stripped off. They would put it back up, only to find it stripped again the next morning. On the third morning they found the wallpaper sample book on the floor and laying open to a certain page. They bought that wallpaper and put it up. The paper stayed in place and is still there.

"A guest in Room 5 said his pajama shirt sleeve was tugged on while he was sleeping. Thinking it was his wife wanting him to turn over, he tried to turn over and his sleeve did not come with him. He looked and he could see his sleeve being tugged over and over but did not see anyone there to tug on it, he remembered that his wife did not come with him on this trip. The sleeve continued to be tugged for several more seconds and then it quit. He hopped out of bed and would not lay down again. He was very shaken by the experience. He is a Minister and did not believe in ghosts. Now he does."

"We have a newspaper account of a murder that took place in the Inn. A Mr. Knapp was stabbed in the heart and died in [Room 7]. He was trying to get into a bed that was already occupied. (He had been visiting the tavern and was confused as to which room was his.) The man in the bed thought he was being robbed and took a saber out of his walking stick and stabbed Mr. Knapp in the heart.

"Several guests have told us that something violent happened in Room 7 and they get a bad feeling in that room. This room is directly above the kitchen and I often hear footsteps up there when no one else is in the house. I will go up to see if a visitor has come in off the street and is taking a "look around." There will be no one up there, but the bed looks like someone had been laying on it. It will be mussed up. I think Mr. Knapp is still trying to get into bed.

"My daughter was in that room making the bed one day and as she bent over to tuck in the sheet, she got patted on her fanny. Thinking it was me trying to play a joke on her, she turned around but no one was there. She left the room fast and would not go back up there with out me."

Sources:
hotels.about.com
www.masonhouseinn.com
www.travelparanormal.com
www.ghosthaunts.com
www.haunted-places-to-go.com

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UFO Witnessed From Casino Cruise Ship - Stellwagen Bank Marine Sanctuary

Posted: 11 Mar 2010 09:35 AM PST

MUFON witness report (unedited): On Friday July 18, 2008, at about 10:30 pm, a co-worker and I were taking a 15 minute break on the stern of the SS HORIZON'S EDGE BOSTON, a casino cruise ship and company I was employed for at the time out of Lynn, Ma. We were drifting on the outer edge of the Stellwagen Bank Marine Sanctuary during casino hours. As we started to make our way back inside the vessel to return to work, we heard a loud "whooshing" sound from about 10 to 15 degrees off the port-bow. This is not an uncommon occurrence as waves continually hit the bow; especially during inclement weather. But we knew right away the sound was a bit "off". We hurried to the port side of the stern and saw what seemed to be a spectral, greenish, faint-glowing, disc shaped object (at best estimate, about 50 to 100 feet in diameter and about 500 feet out) come clear out of the water and hover for what seemed to be 45 seconds or so. We both confirmed with each other, that we could "feel" or somewhat "sense" heat coming from the object...(and subsequently would both later suffer from unusual yet uneventful bouts of dehydration and cold-like symptoms regardless of how the amount of fluids we drank.) The object then rose sharply to about 1000 feet and shot away, aft and ascending, until we couldn't see it anymore... that particular movement of the object took less than 10 seconds... there was absolutely no sound of any kind and the erratic movements it made as it came out of the water, was as if someone were hoisting this thing up on the end of a chain and it swayed a bit back and forth. I have never seen anything like it before or since. Naturally, I have never mentioned this incident to anyone for fear of any social reprisal... and we have subsequently, stopped speaking to each other all together. I have only mentioned it here, and will probably never mention it again. I just had to tell someone.

NOTE: OK...this is weird. The above report was filed today...though, I talked to a man last night who mentioned a similar incident on the SAME ship a year before. I first thought that this was the same person filing a report using a pseudo self-description but after going back over the details from the telephone conversation I realized that it was a different sighting. As well, this witness originally contacted me in reference to a cryptid sighting and mentioned this only after I had asked if he had witnessed other paranormal experiences. Strange....Lon

UFO Witnessed From Casino Cruise Ship - Stellwagen Bank Marine Sanctuary

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Baby Elephant 'Back From The Dead'

Posted: 11 Mar 2010 09:01 AM PST

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dailytelegraph - When Pak Boon stopped gently nuzzling Porntip in the elephant barn at Taronga about 4am on Sunday, Thomas Hildebrandt feared the worst.

Porntip's 22-month pregnancy had moved into the first signs of labour early last week and each night the two "best mates" would stay side by side in the barn throughout the dark hours in which Asian elephants give birth.

"Up 'til then Pak Boon would constantly touch the tip of her trunk to Porntip," Dr Hildebrandt said yesterday.

"Then she just stopped early Sunday morning and we found Pak Boon had just gone to sleep.

"Elephants have an amazing ability to detect low frequency sound. They can probably hear the heartbeat and the movement of the baby."

Pak Boon's sudden disinterest meant Porntip's baby was almost certainly dead or dying.

Dr Hildebrandt, the world authority on captive elephant births, who had flown from the Berlin Institute of Zoo and Wildlife Health last Tuesday, said tests had confirmed the baby was definitely dead by the early hours of yesterday. It had died because it had twisted into a bizarre position which made passage through the birth canal impossible.

Taronga's chief vet Larry Vogelnest said ultrasounds of elephants could not show an entire foetus, and in Porntip's case, the fatal position. "But there had been signs something wasn't exactly right from early last week as Porntip was displaying unusual behaviour," he said.

He said the baby could not be manipulated by zoo staff into a better birthing position because elephants would instantly stop their labour if interfered with.

The zoo has been at pains to point out that only about 50 per cent of Asian elephant first time mothers have a successful birth.

With the arrival of Luk Chai at Taronga eight months ago and another baby at Melbourne Zoo in January, Porntip, even though, at 18, in prime breeding age, was battling statistically poor odds.

Yesterday Porntip, the matriarch of the herd, and the other elephants were showing no signs of distress as they took part in the Zoo's lunchtime elephant show, even though Porntip was still carrying the foetus in her uterus.

Taronga's director Cameron Kerr said exhausted staff - monitoring Porntip for 24 hours a day - had been reduced to tears by the failed birth.

Baby Elephant 'Back From The Dead'

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