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Ex-Royal Navy Officer Claims Holy Grail Located At Lincoln Cathedral
Fortean / Oddball News - 6/23/2010
'Sabre-Toothed Duck-Billed' Creature Probably Hoax
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Ex-Royal Navy Officer Claims Holy Grail Located At Lincoln Cathedral

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 11:06 AM PDT

24masti - A retired Royal Navy officer who has spent years studying ancient texts, believes he has at last solved the mystery of the disappearance of the Holy Grail.

For millions of believers, the Holy Grail is the most precious object on earth.

The chalice, which Christ drank from at the Last Supper and was later used to collect some of his blood at the Crucifixion, is a priceless Christian relic.

Faithful have searched in vain to find it. Finally it has been discovered, overlooked and unrecognized, in the corner of a cathedral in the heart of England.

"I never intended to start out on a search to find the Holy Grail. I was interested initially in researching the links between the Crusaders, England and the medieval saints," the Sunday Express quotes E.C. Coleman, as saying. Coleman believes that the artifact is the Holy Grail

"However the more I read the more I was led along a trail that explained the extraordinary journey this lost relic has taken.

Historians and academics will be astonished by the revelation that Christendom's most prized historical object has been under their noses for decades.

In 1889 Lincoln Cathedral was undergoing repair. A group of workmen lifted a large Portland marble slab and revealed the tomb of Bishop Oliver Sutton, who died in 1299.

Inside the grave, archaeologists found a chalice next to the skeleton; it was still standing where it had been placed almost 600 years earlier. It was made of silver, four-and-half inches high and completely without decoration.

"This was the Holy Grail but no one acknowledged it. Subsequently it went on show on a shelf in the Cathedral's treasury where you can see it today but there is nothing there to say what it really is," says Coleman, who has just published The Grail Chronicles describing his quest.

"Finding such artifacts in the tomb of a bishop was not at all unusual and putting them there may well have been normal practice in the Middle Ages but this chalice was different," says Coleman.

Coleman further says: "Previously discovered examples were richly engraved but this one had a simple elegance rendered slightly homely by the use of plainly visible rivets to join the different parts of the stem. I have never touched it but it has been very nice just to be near it. In my own mind and in all good faith I am confident that the chalice recovered from Bishop Sutton's tomb is the Holy Grail."

NOTE: According to Christian mythology, the Holy Grail was the dish, plate, or cup used by Jesus of Nazareth at the Last Supper and said to possess miraculous powers. In truth we do not know what the Holy Grail is, or if it even exists at all.

The legend of the Grail is believed to be a mixture of Christian lore and Celtic myth, perhaps originating around the 12th and 13th centuries. Several churches claim to have the grail, but this has not deterred people's interest and the search continues. That interest was recently encouraged by Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code which asserted that Jesus may have wed Mary Magdalene and fathered children whose Merovingian lineage continues today and that the Holy Grail was merely a reference to Mary Magdalene as the receptacle of Jesus' bloodline.

Though I am not religious, I have always been fascinated with religious history, mythology and lore...Lon

Ex-Royal Navy Officer Claims Holy Grail Located At Lincoln Cathedral

Fortean / Oddball News - 6/23/2010

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 09:35 AM PDT

Did Bigfoot Crush Roof of Town Manager's Car?

starexponent - In an unconfirmed report, Bigfoot visited the town of Culpeper last week, leaving a massive dent on the top of the town manager's work car.

On a more serious note, someone — or something — flattened the top of the 2000 Ford Contour as it sat parked in the lot at town hall.

Culpeper Town Manager Jeff Muzzy, contacted Monday, was at a loss as to what happened.

"It looks like something fell or jumped up and down on it for several minutes," he said. "I do not think this is personal. In fact, I had not even thought of that as a possibility."

Though the older model car is assigned to him for work use, Muzzy said he rarely drives it. Instead, the car is more often used by other town hall staff members, he said.

The car is parked farthest out from town hall and closest to Main Street — within a stone's throw from 7-Eleven. It sits not far from the back entrance to the law offices of Monica Chernin as well.

The car is not identifiable as the town manager's work car and is parked in a spot reserved, more generally, for town staff.

Muzzy said the town filed an insurance claim for the damage, but he doubted it would result in much money due to the vehicle's age. The Contour, is still drivable, he said, and was away from its parking spot and in use Monday morning.

"To me, someone just wandered over there and said, 'Boy, wouldn't it be fun to jump on that car?' I hate to even give them credit for it," Muzzy said.

He acknowledged town staffers are still talking about the strange incident. Many theories — including the Bigfoot one — have been tossed around.

Or maybe it was a bear, some have jokingly speculated.

The damage was reported to police, and the incident is being investigated as vandalism.

NOTE: I blame Billy Willard for this...LOL Virginia Man Says He's on Verge of Bigfoot Discovery...Bigfoot Is Alive and Well, Says Bigfoot Expert Billy Willard...Lon

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Extinct Huia Bird Feather Fetches £4,000 at Auction

telegraph - A single plume from the extinct huia bird has sold for a record sum at auction in New Zealand making it the most expensive feather ever. The brown and white feather fetched NZ$8,000 (£3,800), far exceeding the NZ$500 that it had been estimated to reach. The feathers were traditionally used to adorn Maori chiefs.

The huia bird is thought to be extinct and has not been seen since 1907. The feather went under the hammer at Webb's Auction House in Auckland. Neil Campbell, the managing director of Webb's, said that the auction room had been "spellbound" as the bidding mounted.

"Starting in $100 increments, that quickly leapt into the thousands and came to rest at a world record price (for a single feather) of $8400 ($6,787)". The huia feather was bought by a family from the city of Wellington who declined to be identified. A spokesman from Webb's said that the family own a large collection of Maori artefacts. It was sold by an unidentified vendor who had had the feather in his family for generations.

The feather that sold in Auckland had been verified as authentic by experts from New Zealand's national museum, Te Papa. The previous record price for a single feather was reached when one from a bald eagle sold at a US auction for $US2,800 (£1,900). Numbers of huia birds declined rapidly after predatory mammals were introduced into New Zealand in the 1890s. Populations also suffered from hunting and deforestation.

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Bigamist's Wives Battle Over Corpse

foxnews - A Bangladeshi court summoned friends of a dead man in an effort to end a six-month wrangle over his corpse by his two wives - one of whom is Hindu, the other Muslim, police said on Monday. When Chandan Kumar Chakrabarty, alias Sazzad Hossain, 42, a vice-principal at a Dhaka college, was stabbed to death by muggers last December his secret double life was exposed and his two wives have since fought over his body.

"His friends will testify about whether he converted to Islam as his second wife claims," policeman Delwar Hossain said, adding that the friends would appear in court on June 29. His Muslim wife, who said she married him a year ago, wants Chakrabarty to be buried in line with traditional Muslim rites.

His Hindu wife, who was married to him for 15 years, said the body must be cremated, and accuses the second wife of being a "fake." "If we still can't decide, the court will then see if we need to re-examine the body and see if he had been circumcised," Hossain said.

Circumcision is mandatory for Muslim men but Hindu men are not required by their religion to undergo the operation. Bangladesh is a Muslim-majority country but has a secular criminal system inherited from the British, who formerly ruled the Indian sub-continent.

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Dumb and Dumbass: Aussie Men Shoot Each Other in the Ass to Find Out if it Hurts

smh - Police are investigating two men who allegedly shot each other with air rifles while intoxicated to experience the sensation.

It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. But for two mates, it led only to trouble with the law - and a massive pain in the butt.

On Sunday evening, the 34-year-old men were sharing a few beers when they thought it would be interesting to shoot each other with an air rifle to see if it would hurt, or if the slugs would penetrate their skin.

Sergeant Brendan Khan from Horsham Police said the the two men took it in turns to shoot one another in the buttocks and leg.

Other than experiencing a bit of pain, the two men, who live at the base of the Grampians, thought they were fine.

Two days later, it was a different story, with both men admitted to hospital for surgery to remove slug pellets from their buttocks and legs.

''Basically it was two mates in a shed having a drink,'' Sergeant Khan said.

''They have admitted that it was just stupidity and they wanted to see if it was painful or not.''

And now it appears they will be permanently stuck with a memento of the night, with surgeons opting to leave the slug pellets embedded in the men's skin.

''They're not going to remove the slugs, they're going to leave them in there,'' Sergeant Khan said, after speaking to one of the men this morning.

''Apparently the surgeon said they'd make more of a mess by trying to get them out, because they're so deep. They believe that by putting them on courses of antibiotics something will hopefully form around them and they'll be all right to stay in there.''

Both men will be interviewed by police at a later date due to their medical condition and Horsham police will continue to investigate.

Sergeant Khan said both men could be facing firearms charges. One of the men will have his firearms licence withdrawn and his firearms confiscated.

Both men have been released from hospital and are returning to work today.

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DENVER...REMINDER TO SEPARATE YOUR RECYCLES

NOTE: no disrespect intended...just a very odd and disturbing image...Lon

Fortean / Oddball News - 6/23/2010

'Sabre-Toothed Duck-Billed' Creature Probably Hoax

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 08:57 AM PDT

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Witness Donald Gialanella's statement: I came across this sabre-toothed Duck-billed creature while hiking in the remote high desert in Northern New Mexico. It was about 4 ft. in length and had strange bumps protruding from it's back as well as a very long snout and one large canine tooth. It was dry as a bone and stiff as a board.

Fernand0 on unexplained-mysteries.com forum notes "I looked at the negative, a JPG image has a smooth texture to it normally, the only area where there is obvious cubic blurring from resizing is the tooth. I also noticed some cubic blurring along the back spine, possibly a result of Photoshop's Liquify tool." - Images below

'Sabre-Toothed Duck-Billed' Creature Probably Hoax

Chemtrails and Naked Cousin Harry....A Comparison

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 08:34 AM PDT

Chris Holly's Paranormal World - Imagine a family holiday. The house is filled with family and friends. The rooms are filled with the smells of Turkey cooking and apple pies cooling. A fire cracks in the fireplace as everyone gets ready to sit down at a beautiful table set for this wonderful occasion. As the family finds their way around the large table all seems right with the world- until cousin Harry walks in. Harry a rather overweight hairy man well past his prime plows through the room and plops down completely naked in full view of one and all -young and old.

The group of family and friends now have a decision to make that will not only control all future family holidays but all future days in general. If they ignore the fact old Harry is sitting there in all his hairy naked glory chances are he will attend every holiday or family get together in the same way. If they ignore his large nude presence Harry may continue this practice over to shopping, working, and picking the kids up from school, completely naked.

The family has a choice. They can demand an explanation for his behavior and insist he stop at once and find his knickers and sweater or slink away , look away and let Harry destroy the family holidays and perhaps life as they know it.

After all who wants to deal with life with a large daily dose of a hairy naked cousin Harry replacing what should be lovely family memories and moments?

The future of them all depends on how they handle Harry and his naked actions.

This is what is happening to our extended family, our society. Instead of the our ignoring a naked cousin Harry destroying our traditions we are ignoring what is going on over our heads that could possibly destroy our world as we know it.

We all sit as family around our home, this planet , while strange and unexplained spraying of our skies takes place each and every day and no one is saying a thing.

I think the lack of concern to this phenomenon is indifference to that which we do not recognize as a problem that could concern us directly. I think most of your reaction is due to lives filled with stress that simply cannot find time to worry about what is going on over our heads. I think it is easier for most to ignore the sky with so many other things taking our time. I also think we are under the assumption that someone will stop it if it is really bad.

Unfortunately all of that thinking is why we were so shocked when 911 occurred. Sadly that was our thinking when Hurricane Katrina destroyed so much of the gulf coast region. And now we face the fact that this exact lack of care or thinking seems to be the route of the catastrophic oil leak in the gulf that will remain a crisis for a very long time.

It seems to me we all have decided to let cousin Harry walk around naked without control or care until we have a world full of perverted hairy nude dudes running a muck.

People please take a moment and listen to those trying to bring your attention to what is taking place over our heads.

Our skies are filled with aircraft dumping huge amounts of something all over the world. Do not waste your time trying to get out of dealing with this by waving it away with the idiotic idea it is normal exhaust from normal air traffic . What is going on IS NOT con-trails. What is happening is a massive worldwide spraying of some type of substance that lasts for hours and turns a perfectly normal sky into a huge odd covered sky of long lingering cloud like mountains of whatever it is they are soaking our sky with.

There are many people trying to find answers to this ongoing event. The major problem however is the fact the public seems to not care at all. This lack of interest by the masses is why those trying to find answers are met with deaf ears and mute responses from those who should be responsible for our air space. We are simply allowing something awful to happen to us without so much as a question or even a bit of normal curiosity.

I have been trying to get people to pay attention to the sky and what is happening above them for years. I have had little to no luck at all finding people to show concern to what I consider a huge world event. I have come to the conclusion that part of what they are spraying has to be a form of dummy juice that keeps the public numb dumb and indifferent to the world around them.

I am really confused about what is taking place around us and to us. I think at this point I am even more concerned that none of you seem to care.

I recently read about how the seed companies that supply our farmers the seeds they use to grow the food we eat are being engineered to grow with a tolerance to a list of chemicals used in the fertilizers and pesticides needed for strong crops. I do not know if I am comfortable with eating engineered food. I am not sure what that will do or mean to us in our future.

Shortly after reading that article I read about a group of people who have been collecting what is being sprayed from the chem-trail jets to have it analyzed . To my shock I found that the list of chemicals found in the spraying of the jets was similar to the same list that the seed is being engineered to tolerate. I find this coincidence a bit frightening.

I do not know what is going on in our air space. I do not know why we are tampering with our world with all the added chemical mixtures we are being exposed to via our food supply and sky. I have no answers only questions.

My main question however has to be - Why don't you care?

I do not want to live in a world of naked hairy cousin Harry type men sitting at my dinner table . I know I would throw a robe over Harry and try to make sure it did not happen again.

I am sure most of you would do the same. I doubt many of you with family would allow that kind of behavior to take place during your next large family holiday event.

I am just really confused why you would allow something as odd as your sky being taken over and your world to be sprayed without even a look or reaction. As I said the reaction or non reaction of all of you is the most astonishing part of the chem- trail issue.

I will continue to throw blankets over any Harry I come across and question what is being done to our world. I just wish I did not feel so lonely doing it.

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

Chemtrails and Naked Cousin Harry....A Comparison

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