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Sherpa Team To Clear Corpses / Garbage From Mt. Everest
IHU: Dominican Republic UFO Sightings / Encounters
Odd Sounds and Spectres Continue at Connecticut Library
What If It Is All About The Soul?

Sherpa Team To Clear Corpses / Garbage From Mt. Everest

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 10:53 AM PDT

TGM - A team of 20 Sherpa mountaineers plans to remove bodies of climbers who died in Mount Everest's "death zone," a treacherous stretch that has claimed some 300 lives since 1953.

The team also aims to remove tons of garbage left behind on the slopes under a Nepalese government program to clean up the popular tourist destination.

The 20 Sherpas plan to begin the expedition May 1 and set up camp at the South Col, 8,000 meters above sea level, team leader Namgyal said. Just above the South Col is the "death zone" area known as the toughest stretch for climbers because of low oxygen levels and rough terrain.

The team said it plans to remove at least five bodies from a narrow trail between South Col and the summit, but has not identified them. In the past bodies have generally been removed only from lower elevations, because dangerous conditions have made removing bodies from the "death zone" nearly impossible.

The team also plans to remove some 3,000 kilograms of garbage from the zone.

"We will carry empty sacks and fill them with empty oxygen bottles, food wrappings, old tents and ropes from the area," Namgyal said.

Garbage discarded on the mountain was a major environmental problem until the Nepalese government imposed strict rules about 15 years ago requiring visitors to return all of their gear and rubbish or risk losing a deposit.

It is unclear how much trash is left on the mountain, but several clean-up expeditions have brought down tons of garbage.

Namgyal, who like most Sherpa uses only one name, has climbed the 8,850-meter peak — the world's highest — seven times. One of the expedition's members, Long Dorje, has made the trip 14 times. All of the team members have visited the summit at least once.

Sherpas were mostly yak herders and traders living in the Himalayas until Nepal opened its borders to tourists in 1950. Their stamina and knowledge of the mountains makes them expert guides and porters.

NOTE: Here's a wikipedia link that describes the Mt. Everest 'death zone'. Imagine a paranormal investigation there - wow!...Lon

Sherpa Team To Clear Corpses / Garbage From Mt. Everest

IHU: Dominican Republic UFO Sightings / Encounters

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 09:54 AM PDT

NOTE: Scott Corrales from The Institute of Hispanic Ufology (IHU) details a few UFO sightings and encounters with non-human creatures in the Dominican Republic, particularly in the light of the recent and spectacular sighting of an unidentified triangular craft...Lon

inexplicata - On August 29, 2005, Carlos Peña, an engineer from the Dominican Republic, witnessed an object he described as a "black UFO" flying at an estimated altitude of a thousand to three thousand meters (calculated by the object's flight between two different cloud strata). "The object was traveling from West to East and its shape was hard to describe," said the engineer in his report. "I was unable to define its shape, but I believe it was something [...] like the alleged "flying humanoids" seen in Mexico over recent months. I cannot relate it to any other object, such as balloons, birds, airplanes, etc. on account to its very strange shape."

The sighting lasted only forty seconds, but it is possibly the only sighting of a UFO in the Dominican Republic in recent years. Just as it is true that some countries or parts of our planet appear to be "UFO prone", there are others that remain ufologically quiet for decades after having had significant case histories involving UFO sightings and encounters and brushes with the paranormal. One of these countries is the Dominican Republic, which experienced a series of "flaps" in the 1970s that attracted international attention, as we shall see from the cases below.

Lost in Antiquity

UFO activity in the Dominican Republic may go as far back as the caves: The island's early inhabitants have left us a legacy of petroglyphs to be found in the province of Sanamá, depicting unknown artifacts project rays of light and others with clearly detailed ladders coming out their hulls (anthropologists describe these depictions as ceremonial masks and representations of the "cemí" deities of the ancient Tainos, however). These images are hardly unique: Aimé Michel, one of France's foremost UFO researchers, was prompted to believe that many of the petroglyphs found in French and Spanish caves actually depicted unknown flying objects and not "hunting traps, nets or fences", as anthropologists would have it.

The island has also enjoyed the distinction of being at the center of a controversy which has raged since the 16th century: whether it was discovered by Columbus during his second voyage to the "New World", or if it was indeed discovered in 1480 by Alfonso Sánchez, master of the hapless caravel Atlante, who left detailed records of his exploration of the island along with a map, which may have come into the Genoese mariner's possession. But not even this controversy has come close to the contemporary furor over the strange objects reported in the skies, seas and land of the Dominican Republic.

A Decade of Intense Activity

November 1972 marked the high point of UFO and paranormal activity over the Dominican Republic. One of the most memorable cases involved the remarkable healing of a woman afflicted with cancer of the stomach following the sudden apparition of an unidentified flying object. On November 6 that year, a prayer service was held at the home Mrs. Ramona de Baez, 45, in the town of Paya on the southern coast of Hispaniola. Some ten people stood in a circle around Mrs. Baez, who lay in bed. Suddenly, one of the guests – a woman named Julia Elvira – reportedly saw a light "like a large star" through the window, approaching the house from a considerable distance until it finally came to rest upon the house, flooding it with light. This event caused a panic among those within, except for Marino Baez, who was leading the prayers. Mr. Baez reportedly "saw an angel" taking him by the hand to lead him back to the ailing Ramona's bed. There, the luminous entity allegedly placed its hands over the patient's abdomen, causing her to fall asleep. Five minutes later, Ramona leaped out of bed saying that she no longer felt ill. At no point did the patient ever see the entity – only Mr. Baez's hands on her stomach and "a cold sensation in her back". The case became widely known throughout the region, prompting researchers to contact Ramona Baez's oncologist, Dr. Oscar Espaillat, who confirmed her condition and status, adding that the woman had never returned for further treatment.

Earlier that same year, the Dominican press had published reports on the remarkable healings carried out by Luciana Pelàez of the town of Barahona. Ms. Peláez was a fervent Catholic whose healings attracted national attention, even that of President Joaquin Balaguer, who said that Ms. Peláez was "deserving of respect and high esteem". It is not known if the chief executive ever resorted to the healer's cures, as has occurred with healers and other Latin American officials (Mexico's Plutarco Elías Calles with "Niño Fidencio" and Brazil's Jacinto Kubitschek with the world famous "Zé Arigo"). On March 29th, Ms. Pelaez held an open mass outside the city of Santo Domingo, asking those in attendance to offer prayers for the sick and cautioning that "something" might take place later that evening that should be perceived only as a "manifestation of God."

At six thirty, the healer fell into a trance and the crowd began to weep and shout, prompting the priest celebrating the mass to interrupt the service and look to the sky: right beside the moon, there was a second "moon" rising and sinking among the clouds, emitting a yellowish glow that increased brightly before dimming once more. The religious service was only able to continue after the crowd's level of excitement over this strange phenomenon had subsided.

Surprising encounters with humanoids were soon to follow: In September 1972, a driver near the town of Palenque in the Dominican Republic was flagged down by a trio of aliens in gray, form-fitting uniforms and with lemon-hued skins. An egg-shaped UFO was in the background, and the driver became understandably concerned for his safety. One of the aliens approached him and engaged him in perfect Spanish, telling him that he had once been as human as he was, having been rescued by the aliens from nearly drowning in the high seas ten years previously. His human name had been Freddy Miller, and he had successfully adapted to living on the aliens' home world.

The inability to get a good night's sleep on a hot spring night managed to land Mario Garcia, a private pilot, in the pages of UFO history. At 2 o'clock in the morning on May 24, 1976, he got out of bed to breathe some fresh air on his apartment's balcony. The presence of some strange flashes of light to the south prompted him to go back inside for his telescope, and looking through the eyepiece he was able to see an oval object with a small row of windows along its midsection. Its surface was so highly polished, García would later tell researchers, that the slightest reflected light could blind any onlooker. Setting his aviation knowledge to the matter, García said that the unidentified object was rising between fifty to one hundred feet a minute, "as though carrying a very heavy cargo" until it reached an 3000-foot altitude. At that point, it retracted its prominent landing gear and its antenna circled a number of times "as if trying to lock on to a signal or tracking device." The unusual and science-fictionish craft vanished toward the west "at a speed incomprehensible to the human mind."

The Robot Man

An afternoon playing with cousins and the family dog developed into a full-blown encounter with the unknown for a ten year-old boy from the village of El Fundo. He had been playing outdoors around five o'clock on the family property when the dog – a Collie – began barking frantically at one of the sheds located on the premises. From behind the wood and zinc structure emerged "a man like a robot" who ignored the canine vocalizations and began walking in a straight line, seemingly oblivious to the frightened children, who ran away and hit in the shrubbery. It was then that the ten year-old heard an unusual sound which he described as "a cavalry charge". Turning to see what the source of the noise was, he was startled to see an orb measuring approximately three feet in diameter, painted black and surmounted by an unidentified structure, rolling along the ground. The sphere rolled away and vanished into the woods. The "robot man" meanwhile continued his slow, inexorable forward motion away from the scene, harried by the barking dog.

According to researcher Manuel Fiallo, who interviewed the protagonists, the strange entity was wearing a form-fitting outfit of black slacks and a short-sleeved red pullover that revealed "scaly lemon-green arms". Its face appeared to lack eyes and nose, although the mouth was described as "normal-looking."

Aliens in the Cane Fields

In March 1977, Dominican GOFOS group (Grupo Observador de Fenómenos y Objetos Siderales) researched a case which had taken place in San Francisco Macorís, a farming community in the southern part of the country. In one particular instance, a couple was awakened at 3:30 a.m. by their baby's crying. When the mother went to check on her, she noticed that the entire house was bathed in a hot, greenish-blue light. The mother described it as "a buzzing lightning bolt that won't go away."

The woman's husband went outside to see the source of the mysterious light, perhaps fearing an electrical fire of some sort. He was stunned by what he saw: hovering above the palm trees at a height of some fifty feet was a disk with a large number of "grates" which emitted an array of colors, mainly red, white, blue and green. He ran back into his house as the buzzing sound increased. The heat became
unbearable as the vehicle zoomed out of sight, and the couple was left with irritated eyes and a dryness of the throat that persisted for a week. Not much was known about UFOs in the Dominican Republic at the time, and certainly not in the agricultural region of San Francisco Macorís. But that was about to change.

On the night of June 24, 1977 an anonymous witness reported seeing an enigmatic light descending slowly from the night sky to remain motionless over the sea. A tube like structure emerged from the vehicle's "hull" and absorbed seawater for a protracted period of time. The unidentified object then rose again to hover above the witness, who noticed two beings staring at him through a porthole. According to the witness, a larger vehicle absorbed this smaller craft and became lost among the stars.

The stage for the sightings moved from the Dominican Republic's eastern tip to its western border with Haiti, near the sugar-producing region on the Bay of Ocoa, in late 1977 and early 1978, with events taking a grislier turn: mutilations, accompanied by strange lights and bizarre creatures, tormented the cane-cutters of the town of Barahona, who reported that a "gigantic dog" was slaying and eating domestic animals in the dead of the night. This monstrous canine possessed above average intelligence, as it was able to open pens and cages, extracting the last drop of blood from its hapless victims, which consisted largely of cats, hens and rabbits. Local authorities dismissed any supernatural suggestions, stating that it was merely "a joke in the poorest of taste" executed by the inhabitants of this agricultural area. The fact that the locals could ill afford sacrificing their animals for the sake of a prank was deemed irrelevant.

The mutilations were closely followed by a number of "occupant" sightings as the flap reached its peak: Cone-shaped beings were seen in November 1978 by five women in Santo Domingo. Three creatures, twice the height of the tallest human, carrying lanterns on their abdomens, descended a steep hillside to surround an automobile that braked to a screeching halt. The automobile's headlights died as the witnesses heard sounds which they assumed were blows being inflicted upon the vehicle by the conical trio. Their terrified screams attracted the attention of neighbors, who came to their aid. No traces were found of the beings or of the car which they had surrounded.

In the 80's and early 90's, the Dominican Republic's UFO activity became closely linked with the incidents being reported by commercial and recreational mariners along the Mona Passage, the turbulent channel separating Hispaniola from Puerto Rico. Many illegal immigrants, braving the Passage's fierce seas in order to land on Puerto Rico's western shore, have reported seeing bizarre lights performing spectacular aerial maneuvers before plunging noiselessly into the black waters. An anonymous ship captain in the illegal immigrant trade claimed that his fishing boat, along with its human cargo, was almost capsized by the sudden emergence of a glowing craft from beneath the waves.

IHU: Dominican Republic UFO Sightings / Encounters

Odd Sounds and Spectres Continue at Connecticut Library

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 09:26 AM PDT

courant - Odd things are happening at the Deep River Public Library.

Staff member Pam Ziobron was working by herself late one Saturday. She had shut off all the lights except for the one at the circulation desk, where she was standing, when she had a strong sense that she wasn't alone.

"It was just a feeling. ... It was just so light and airy, like a female coming down the stairs. It was very, very real," Ziobron said.

Since 2004, ghost hunters and mediums have spent time in the Main Street library to investigate these strange occurrences in what was the home of a prominent Deep River man 100 years ago. Another paranormal investigation agency will try to capture what library employees have been feeling and hearing for years. Full Spectrum Ghost Hunters of Plainville plans to conduct a paranormal investigation May 8.

Of the previous mediums and ghost hunters, some have concurred that they've also felt the presence of ghosts. Others have been able to capture more information.

Ghost hunter John Zaffis, nephew of famed paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, approached the Main Street library in 2004 about conducting an investigation. He felt the presence of two females, one in her teens and one in her 50s, in the library reference area that used to be the residence's kitchen. The original wood-burning stove that was manufactured in 1877 by Fuller, Warren & Co., in Troy, N.Y., is still there. According to the Valley Courier newspaper, Connecticut Paranormal Research & Investigators of East Haven captured a spirit in photos two years ago.

Susan Oehl, the library's assistant director, was eating her lunch and was the only person on the upper level when she heard a sound in the next room.

"I heard distinctly a woman clearing her throat," Oehl recently recalled. When she went to check, no one was there.

The possibility of ghosts has contributed to the lure of the library and of Deep River's quaint Main Street, said Ann Paietta, the library's director. The house was built in 1881 by Richard Pratt Spencer, who owned a manufacturing company that dealt with the ivory trade, served as treasurer and president of the Deep River National Bank and was a state senator.

He lived in the house, until his death in 1910, with his second wife and their three children. The house was built with the Deep River in its backyard and now faces the many shops, banks and restaurants that line the main road.

The library association bought the house in 1930 and, although a few additions have been made, the building is mainly an original, including the damp basement's exposed brick and fieldstone, stained-glass windows and wood moldings.

The ghosts have appeared only in the old parts of the building, Paietta said.

"This is the area where people love," she said, standing in the attic. "They feel, sense things."

Michael Dionne, founder of Full Spectrum Ghost Hunters, said that about 1 percent of the cases he investigates are paranormal. One way to detect ghosts is by gauging the electromagnetic fields in the room, but everyday items, such as electronic gadgets and rainstorms, can create electromagnetic fields, he said.

"If you're sensitive to the electromagnetic fields, you can get anything from skin irritations, nausea, paranoia, hallucinations," Dionne said.

He and his group of paranormal investigators will set up electromagnetic-field detectors throughout the library and — accounting for electrical boxes on the property, the weather and other factors — will read the detectors to determine if there are electromagnetic fields in the building.

"If I'm in the middle of a hallway and there's [a zero reading] on my walk through and later in the night it's at a 40 or 50 [reading] and there's nothing on, that basically tells you there's something that's just unexplainable," Dionne said.

After the walk-through, the group will listen to recordings and see if any inexplicable sounds were picked up.

Paietta said the library has more going for it than the rumors of a ghost, but, she added, "It's fun. It enhances the library."
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CPRS 2008 INVESTIGATION

Connecticut Paranormal Research Society - If you have been quietly reading at the Deep River Public Library and thought you heard noises in the attic or saw something move in the corner of your eye, you are not alone.

Library Director Ann Paietta said that patrons and her colleagues claim they heard noises from the upper levels and saw something whisk by them.

Paietta confirmed that the historic building has an attic and second level, both of which are closed to the public since they do not meet ADA accessibility requirements.

Some have attributed these noises to spirits who live in the library.

Paietta invited the Connecticut Paranormal Research Society, CPRS, and its sister group, the Connecticut Ghost Hunters of Shoreline Towns, CGHOST, to give a presentation at the library back in December.

Over sixty residents from surrounding towns attended the event.

Even before hearing from Paietta, Pamela Ryder, paracounselor and public relations spokesperson for CPRS, sensed spirits when she was in the building.

Paietta gave Ryder permission to come back to do an investigation to uncover the truth behind the mysterious noises and sights.

On March 8, Paietta said representatives from CPRS took particular interest to possible activities on the building's second floor and attic.

While Paietta wanted to invite the public, CPRS representatives requested the event be conducted behind closed doors to eliminate potential interference.

Eight investigators used a variety of equipment, including video cameras, an Electronic Voice Phenomena recorder, infrared red cameras, and digital cameras, to measure conditions during the four hours they were in the building.

"Activity peaked when we first started our investigation as if it was attracted to what we were doing but after one to two hours, it moved away," Ryder said.

Investigators heard the sound of someone walking upstairs even though everyone was quiet during the investigation.

"The psychic had sensed there was a gentleman in the attic," Ryder said, adding that she is unsure whether the gentleman is the spirit of one of the Spencers or of the XYZ robber.

Richard Spencer constructed the building at the corner of Main and Village Streets in 1881 and his family was particularly attached to the elegant home until it was converted into a library in 1933.

The XYZ robber was killed on Dec. 13, 1899 when he attempted to rob the Deep River Savings Bank, at 141 Main Street.

Bank officials were tipped off on the robbery and hired Captain Harry Tyler who shot XYZ with a Winchester rifle as he tried to break one of the bank's windows.

Tyler received an anonymous letter requesting that the man be buried under a headstone marked XYZ in an attempt to preserve his anonymity and to continue the tradition of marking headstones with three initials.

Tyler was buried at the Fountain Hill Cemetery and his identity is still unknown to this day.

News articles and the rifle are on display in the bank, now known as Citizen's Bank.

Ryder said there have been no documented deaths in the building and while spirits may reside there, she emphasized that they are not evil and do not pose a threat.

Ryder hopes to have final conclusions of the investigation by the end of March.

She plans to give Paietta a complete analysis on disk and plans to give a seminar in May, which will be open to the public, to present findings.

Odd Sounds and Spectres Continue at Connecticut Library

What If It Is All About The Soul?

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 08:11 AM PDT

Chris Holly's Paranormal World - I was talking to a group of friends about the mystery of life. We were sitting on the beach looking at the Atlantic Ocean on Easter Sunday. The sky was beautiful. It was blue – bright brilliant blue, not one cloud to be found as far as the eye could see. Of course the jets arrived just before dust and rapidly started to lay down heavy chem-trails that expanded into mountains of clouds, but that is another story.

Let's get back to our conversation about life, death and what goes on in-between. Two of my friends were discussing the idea of reincarnation, or a continued journey of the soul. I told them I heard someone talk about our true identity being a bag of thinking learning energy that is a piece of the overall universe. Humans think of it as our soul. I told my friends this theory explains we are all individual yet a part of the great universe of life. We separate away from the mother ship of overall universal life energy in to individual souls to live different existences. The theory is we venture into vessels like the human body to live out many different life experiences before moving on to our ultimate purpose where our piece of energy joins with the great over all universe energy and a higher level.

In this thinking our soul or life energy encounters many forms of life all throughout the universe until it has experienced all things possible in the universe. This journey's purpose is a great mystery as the ultimate goal or end is hard to imagine. If this is possible and this is what our soul or life energy does – does it repeat constantly or does it hit a level when all lessons and adventures have been experienced and a higher level of the soul or life energy is achieved?

Could the entire purpose of this universe be a travel adventure for pure energy forms that use our life forms to experience material biological life events? Could we be in the kindergarten, or High School of life energy when living our human life forms? I know it is not the University of Life, all the violence of this planet surely rules that out!

The possibilities of what could be and why is beyond our limited imaginations. I do believe however with all of me as well as those sitting on that beach with me Easter that all of life and all the universe and all the energy and biology and matter in it are not a random act of mindless accident without meaning or reason. The degree of chance needed for that to be possible is I believe impossible. We are here not only on purpose but for reason. Of this I am sure.

For those of you who demand I prove that statement I say to you I will as soon as you prove I am wrong. Until that day my thinking is as probable as your thinking it is not!

For now I will continue to use whatever brain cells I can to try to understand why I am living this life on this planet in the form of a human being. I also wonder how many other life forms I have been and how many other life experiences I have lived?

While discussing these issues on that beach on Easter Sunday with my friends we stumbled on the subject of species we know once existed and strangely disappeared from this planet in the past. We wondered if the nature of the universe was more at blame for the removal of species like the Hobbits and Neanderthals as well as others we have yet to discover or understand.

Could the experiences of those who lived as Neanderthals have lost its need to be experienced by the energies (souls) of the universe? Could the extinction of the Neanderthals been caused by the fact that the life experience of being a Neanderthal was simply no longer needed by the souls or energy that roams our Universe?

Did the controlling wisdom of all life in the Universe decide that the experience of the Neanderthal life or Hobbits simply no longer be needed and remove them as a option from the menu of offered life forms?

Can that be why we are now being told that blue eyed- in fact all light skinned humans are now in full decline with a zero population rate and will soon be the world's minority on its way to being extinct? Can the life events of those born in to that life experience be running its needed course in the universal life chain of creatures to experience by the energy forms that make up our universe?

I often wonder if all life is simply a suit to wear, a vessel to travel in during our tour of duty in what we need to experience. Are we mere balloons that contain our energy, our life force, our souls? It would explain why the miracle of life needs that electric charge to begin our journey to develop into a life form from nothing more than a bit of non living material. The spark of life is in my eyes the biggest mystery of all. Could we move our spark from creature to creature from human to a being on a distant planet as an alien and back again in order to live and experience all that this universe has to offer?

I have to admit I always thought the truth of this universe was far bigger than anything we could ever imagine. I know that we are not alone. I know this universe is teaming with life in many forms, colors and flavors. We are only one small part of something that is enormous maybe never ending.

The monster of all questions concerning life, and our universe has to be that which asks what is past our universe? If it is other universes what is past that? What is the end – or the beginning of everything? This is the question of life- the question of why we all exist. Are we a one shot accident of little meaning or are we a wandering energy , a soul and part of something much greater?

Knowing these things are far beyond my ability to answer and my questions limited due to my limits as a human. I can only hope somehow some day we all understand why we live, why we exist, why we sit on beautiful beaches on the middle of chaotic planet wondering the why of it all?

I will try my best to live as well as I can and do the best I can in this vessel of human flesh I fall asleep in and wake up inside of each day of my human life. I think riding through this life being a kind and good person a safe road to a better experience if by chance any of these theories are true or possible. I plan to stay on the high road . I would hate to find my next road living as a giant alien dung eating monster on a faraway planet filled with other dung eating monsters . I would imagine that could very well be the fate for those who are the unkind hate filled humans on this planet. You may want to consider that idea next time you interact with your fellow humans this trip around!

For now, keep thinking and always pay attention to your surroundings and the reasons you may be living in your human form on this planet on this very day!

Thanks to Chris Holly at Chris Holly's Paranormal World
Copyright © 2008-2010 Chris Holly all Rights Reserved
chrishollyufo@yahoo.com

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