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| Paranormal Evidence Gathered at Historic Ontario Farm Posted: 03 Aug 2010 10:52 AM PDT   thestar - Steve Genier sat in a wooden chair at the parlour tea table, steps away from where nearly 80 years ago Henry Breckon's body lay prepped for burial.The air was still and hot. The house was silent, the room dark. Genier waited, alone, for something to happen. Then he felt it. A tug — an unmistakable playful pull — on his left shoulder. He jumped out of his chair and looked around. The room was empty. His mind calculated. "Was it the wind? Maybe I moved slightly," he thought. "But none of it made sense," he says. "Because I was just sitting there, not moving at all." No one knows who or what haunts Spruce Lane Farmhouse, a sprawling Victorian home nestled in a thick of century-old maple trees in Oakville's Bronte Provincial Park. But that's where Genier comes in. He's investigating the house's haunted status with his team at the Southern Ontario Paranormal Society. Genier is one of a slew of investigators the park has brought in over the past year to collect evidence of paranormal activity for their summer ghost tour. The television show Ghost Trackers even recorded an episode at the farm. Built in 1899, the Spruce Lane Farmhouse was home to the Breckon family — Henry, his wife Margaret, and their children Christine, Alice and Gordon — until the 1950s. Some think the haunting presence is Henry, who died in 1931. Nothing is known about his death except that his body was laid out in the front parlour for a days-long wake. But those who know the house best believe it's haunted by a friendly presence; perhaps, Andrew Cirtwill suggests, the energy left behind by guests who lived at the farmhouse or visited when it was rented throughout the 50s and 60s. "I feel safer here than most places," says Cirtwill, who is costumed in a fake mustache and full Victorian suit he made himself. Cirtwill is the park's natural heritage education leader and summer ghost-tour guide. As he leads Star reporters through the house, he points out rooms and items of ghostly interest. There's the smoking room door people say opens and closes on its own. Some visitors, on separate occasions, have felt like a servant was following them around. Whispered words, footsteps and children's laughter has been heard in various parts of the house. Many people say they've felt an energy or presence they just can't explain. Cirtwill, 28, remembers experiencing an overwhelming sense of guilt when he returned to the house one day after having taken apart the dining room table to prepare for a special event. "It was like someone or something was really mad," he says. "Once the table was back together and looking like before, it was almost like it was appreciated." Since then, Cirtwill says he talks to the house. He says hello when he enters and quietly lets the house know if he's doing anything unusual. "I came in today and said 'look pretty, because we're going to have some pictures taken,'" Cirtwill says, laughing. His fellow tour guides — Victoria Cirtwill, his wife, and Cathy Entwistle —grin and nod in agreement. They speak to the house, too. Non-believers might scowl at such behaviour. And many would claim Genier's shoulder-tug story is the result of an overactive imagination. But Genier prides himself on being a skeptic because he says it's a job requirement in the ghost-hunting business. "I think it's healthy to be skeptical because if you're not you'll think everything is a ghost," he says. "Ninety per cent of claims that people have are easily explainable," he says. Genier, 41, works for an independent film company when he's not tracking ghosts. When he's called to investigate a house he learns everything he can about the stories attached to it and then visits the house to conduct an investigation. His team observes, records video and tries to collect Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) — recordings of voices and sounds that can't usually be heard by the human hear. Believers say EVP is how spirits try to communicate with us. Non-believers say it's just a trick of the mind or electronic interference. At the Spruce Lane farm, Genier's team collected EVPs of what they say sounds like children laughing and people murmuring and speaking — those recordings will be played throughout the park's summer ghost tours. Genier says Spruce Lane was a landmark in his ghost career. He had never been physically touched during an investigation before. Genier isn't saying there is no explanation for it — he's just saying he doesn't have one. "You sit there and you go to yourself what could that be?" he says. "It just makes you think: Is there something going on? "And that's what I want to know." Click for video Paranormal Evidence Gathered at Historic Ontario Farm  |
| NASA: 'Solar Tsunami' Heading For Earth Posted: 03 Aug 2010 09:33 AM PDT  telegraph - The solar fireworks at the weekend were recorded by several satellites, including Nasa's new Solar Dynamics Observatory which watched its shock wave rippling outwards.Astronomers from all over the world witnessed the huge flare above a giant sunspot the size of the Earth, which they linked to an even larger eruption across the surface of Sun. The explosion, called a coronal mass ejection, was aimed directly towards Earth, which then sent a "solar tsunami" racing 93 million miles across space. Images from the SDO hint at a shock wave travelling from the flare into space, the New Scientist reported. Experts said the wave of supercharged gas will likely reach the Earth on Tuesday, when it will buffet the natural magnetic shield protecting Earth. It is likely to spark spectacular displays of the aurora or northern and southern lights. "This eruption is directed right at us," said Leon Golub, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). "It's the first major Earth-directed eruption in quite some time." Scientists have warned that a really big solar eruption could destroy satellites and wreck power and communications grids around the globe if it happened today. Nasa recently warned that Britain could face widespread power blackouts and be left without critical communication signals for long periods of time, after the earth is hit by a once-in-a-generation "space storm". The Daily Telegraph disclosed in June that senior space agency scientists believed the Earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of magnetic energy from solar flares after the Sun wakes "from a deep slumber" sometime around 2013. It remains unclear, however, how much damage this latest eruption will cause the world's communication tools. Dr Lucie Green, of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Surrey, followed the flare-ups using Japan's orbiting Hinode telescope. "What wonderful fireworks the Sun has been producing," the UK solar expert said. "This was a very rare event – not one, but two almost simultaneous eruptions from different locations on the sun were launched toward the Earth. "These eruptions occur when immense magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere lose their stability and can no longer be held down by the Sun's huge gravitational pull. Just like a coiled spring suddenly being released, they erupt into space." She added: "It looks like the first eruption was so large that it changed the magnetic fields throughout half the Sun's visible atmosphere and provided the right conditions for the second eruption. "Both eruptions could be Earth-directed but may be travelling at different speeds. "This means we have a very good chance of seeing major and prolonged effects, such as the northern lights at low latitudes." A Nasa spokesman was unavailable for comment. NASA: 'Solar Tsunami' Heading For Earth  |
| Fortean / Oddball News - 8/3/2010 Posted: 03 Aug 2010 09:20 AM PDT 'She is using my son as a zombie...'  iol - A grieving mom got a creepy visit from her dead son when his body mysteriously arrived on a local orphanage's stoep. Little Simamkele Maphini's decomposing body was found in the tiny white coffin he was buried in nearly three months ago after he died of meningitis. Now the orphanage owner has been taken in for questioning after Simamkele's mother and the community accused her of turning the boy into a zombie. The Du Noon house in Benelle Street was a hive of activity early Monday morning when a neighbour saw the coffin and went to alert orphanage owner Tozi Gonya. Tozi is a well-known face in the area because she looks after abandoned and abused kids. When the boy's mom Fundiswa Maphini arrived at the scene, she confirmed that the tiny corpse was her dead four-year-old son and told the Daily Voice she knows Tozi well. Fundiswa said Tozi had approached her a day before her son died in April, offering to look after the cute little boy. "I refused her offer and a day later my boy wouldn't wake up," she said. "His body felt numb and he died later that day." Fundiswa said her suspicions that Tozi was practising witchcraft were confirmed when the orphans told her the 54-year-old woman was keeping Simamkele in a cupboard. "The kids came to tell me they saw my child crying in the house," she said. "They told me she was feeding him (sugar water) because she couldn't afford the Coke he used to drink with me." Out of desperation, Fundiswa consulted a sangoma who told her Simamkele would be returning home on August 2. "That is not my real son I buried but a second body. She is using my son as a zombie," she claimed. On Monday, even cops were too scared to open the dirty white coffin and forensic officials had the grim task of lifting the lid and peering inside. A terrified Tozi tells the Daily Voice Fundiswa is nothing but a grieving mother desperate to blame her. "She believes that I killed her baby. All I know is her baby died of meningitis," she said. "She accused me of witchcraft and of keeping her baby as my zombie. "She must have hired people to dig the coffin and dump it in my yard." Milnerton police spokeswoman Daphne Dell said the boy's coffin and body were dug up from Maitland Cemetery. ********** Accused Witch Pleads Guilty to Fraud, Leaves Lawyer in Ruins A Toronto lawyer caught out by a fraudster originally accused of practicing witchcraft used his victim impact statement to rail against what he sees as the lax approach to white-collar crime in Canada. Vishwantee Persaud pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud last week, but the Crown withdrew a rarely laid witchcraft charge. Noel Daley, an experienced criminal lawyer originally from Newfoundland, was in court last week to see Vishwantee Persaud plead guilty to four counts of fraud. Persaud fooled Daley into believing she was a law student, defrauding him in the process of at least $27,000, although he claims the real figure is much higher. The Crown withdrew a rarely laid witchcraft charge against Persaud as part of a plea deal. In the meantime, Daley says her crimes have left him shunned by the legal profession and his career in ruins. Continue reading at Accused Witch Pleads Guilty to Fraud, Leaves Lawyer in Ruins *********** Game Reserve Owner Plans To Inject Rhino Horns With Poison swns - The owner of a South African game reserve intends to inject his rhino's horns with poison to deter poachers. Ed Hern, owner of the Rhino and Lion Reserve near Johannesburg, hopes this extreme measure will dissuade poachers who have slaughtered more than 150 rhinos this year. He believes the only way to stop the thriving black market trade would be to make the horns deadly to humans. "The aim would be to kill, or make seriously ill anyone who consumes the horn," Hern said. "If someone in China eats it and gets violently sick, they're not going to buy it again." In China, powdered rhino horn is believed to be an aphrodisiac and recent demand has led to a dramatic new wave of rhino poaching across South African game parks. The animals, including the critically endangered black rhino, are being massacred at the rate of two or three a week with horns fetching up to £45,000 on the black market. Poachers use helicopters and night vision equipment to track down and target their prey, with more than 150 killed this year. Hern's idea to poison the horns of his herd of white rhino has provoked uproar among conservationists although he claims the animals will not be harmed. "We are experimenting by injecting a little of the substance every day into one of the rhino, and monitoring him carefully for any effects," Hern said. He admitted while his plan might seem barbaric, he stressed "what's really outrageous is the sight of a dead rhino with its horn sawn off". Research has proved the keratin inside rhino horns has no medicinal value yet myth surrounding its properties continues to drive illegal trade. ********** Florida Man Kills and Skins Pet Dog...Thinks It's Satan pnj - A Gulf Breeze man is charged with killing and skinning the family dog on Sunday because he believed it was possessed by the devil. Matthew O. Foote, 25, is being held without bond on a third-degree felony of cruelty to animals. He is expected to make his first appearance in court this afternoon. Foote told investigators he believed the 7-year-old dachshund Chihuahua mix, named Sasha, was possessed by Satan, according to a Santa Rosa Sheriff's Office report. He vividly described slitting the dog's throat and chest with a knife several times, then when she did not die, holding the dog's mouth shut to suffocate her, the report says. He then took the dog into the back yard and skinned her body. He dug a shallow grave, doused the body with gasoline and lit it on fire. A bag with the dog's skin and entrails was found in a nearby wooded area. In her report, Deputy Virginia Rush described Foote as "very matter-of-fact," calm, cooperative and showing no emotion as he discussed the dog's death. He said his parents were at Mass when he killed the dog. "He told me he did not really know why he killed his dog except that he thought the dog was Jesus," Rush wrote. "He then corrected himself and said Satan." Foote also said he spent the preceding weekend in Louisiana where he met a lot of "evil people." He told the investigator that he also punched a girl on a bus and believed that "something was put in the water," the arrest report says. Sheriff's deputies learned of the death after Foote's father, Gerald Foote, called 911 from their Reservation Road home. The elder Foote told the dispatcher that his son had killed the dog. ********** The Next Governor of Tennessee is.... Click for video Basil Marceaux's Official YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Marceaux2010 Fortean / Oddball News - 8/3/2010  |
| Survey: 41% Believe Bermuda Triangle is Dangerous Posted: 03 Aug 2010 08:11 AM PDT  bernews - 41% of people believe that the Bermuda Triangle is a danger, according to tests done on Queendom.com. The company says the results come from collecting data from "over 20,000 people from all walks of life." The Bermuda Triangle seems to be intricately linked with Bermuda for many people. Countless Bermudians when traveling abroad have said they are from Bermuda and faced the "Oh…the Bermuda triangle" response. Popular culture has attributed disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle to the paranormal, however documented evidence indicates that some incidents were inaccurately reported or embellished by later authors, and official agencies have stated that the disappearances in the region is similar to that in any other area of ocean. Queendom.com say their data also revealed interesting differences among ethnic groups. Native Americans, who have a rich history and a deep respect for spiritual matters, were the group that believed the most strongly in the paranormal. Those from the Middle East scored highest in religious belief and belief in witchcraft, while Native Americans outscored the rest of the ethnic groups in belief in the afterlife (average score of 71), folklore/myths/legends (54), fate (66), psychics (68), and telekinesis (56). Latinos believed the most strongly in Aliens and UFOs, while the concept of karma was more widely accepted by the African American/African/Caribbean group. Finally, although the average score for superstitious beliefs was actually quite low (23), it was the Jewish group that took the top score, with 30. NOTE: I really don't know what to make of the incidents that supposedly occur in this area but it's in the back of my mind when I travel through it. I lean towards a more natural explanation as opposed to paranormal activity but some of the evidence is intriguing. Honestly, the survey results are higher than I would expect though, the hype definitely had an influence on the final results...Lon Survey: 41% Believe Bermuda Triangle is Dangerous Send us an email    'Twilight Saga - New Moon - Eclipse' authentic signed photos available  "The latest news from beyond the mainstream" Join Ben & Aaron for their weekly podcast! Check out Mysterious Universe Plus+ all access format!  Spirit Rescue International Providing professional spiritual help, support and guidance worldwide Phantoms & Monsters Wiki A network for paranormal investigators, enthusiasts and those seeking the truth   |
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