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Phantom Voices Remain at Civil War Landmark

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 05:28 PM PDT


c-ville - A few years ago, Mark Higgins says he experienced "a paranormal event" that he declines on multiple occasions to elaborate on. ("It was powerful," he writes in an e-mail, "and has had a lasting effect on me to this day.") He founded SSPI in 2006 to "help others better understand what may be happening to them."

Mark Higgins' Mystery Machine is a white Chevy Trailblazer with a "Ghost Hunter" license plate holder, but we're not blazing trails or hunting ghosts yet. Instead, we're stuck 10 miles from Pantops Mountain on Route 231, a two-lane road that leads to Gordonsville and to one of the most "active" sites Higgins has investigated: the Exchange Hotel, a former Civil War hospital.

The Exchange Hotel was built in 1860, and sits at the intersection of two railroad lines—the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) and the Orange and Alexandria (O&A). During the Civil War, the hotel became the Gordonsville Receiving Hospital, where doctors performed what Tim Burnett, president of Historic Gordonsville, Inc., calls "meatball surgery." Of the 70,000 soldiers, Union and Confederate, treated at the hospital, about 900 died there; of the dead, more than 700 were buried at the site, and later reinterred elsewhere.

Historic Gordonsville, Inc. acquired the property from C&O Railroad in 1971 and spent the better part of two decades renovating the structure—a three-level Georgian building with a central stairwell that functions as the hotel's spine. The Civil War Museum at the Exchange Hotel opened in 1989, and offers tours six days a week, from April through mid-November.

When we arrive, Higgins introduces Burnett, who greets us with a toothpick in his mouth and a cigar in his breast pocket. A tour of the 3,500-square-foot hotel typically takes 90 minutes, but Burnett promises to make short work of the first floors so we can spend time in some of the house's "active" spots.

As Burnett talks about the hotel's history, I hear a dog bark, but can't spot the animal. My mind briefly asks: Ghost dog? A moment later, a Burnett's collie, Princess Gracie, appears. She satisfies her curiosity by sniffing us, then leaves with Burnett's wife as we head towards the front door.

During his investigations, Higgins and his audio specialist, Chris, say they've recorded hundreds of what ghost hunters widely call Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP). A two-hour SSPI investigation at the Exchange might turn up more than 100 EVPs.

"The audio files, in my opinion, are the hardest to discount, the hardest for skeptics to say, 'O.K., I know what that is,'" says Higgins. I ask Higgins if EVPs can only be found inside a structure.

MARK: No, you can get them outside, you can get them anywhere.

ME: So, hypothetically, I could be getting something.

MARK: You could be getting something on that. It wouldn't surprise me.

Before we step into the hotel, I turn my tape recorder on and leave it running. Higgins tells me that he may act strange if he senses anything in the hotel, and I don't press him on what, exactly, he means.

Burnett leads us through what was once the hotel pub, tucked beneath the broad staircase that leads to the building's second-floor main entrance. He points out a wooden water pump once used by Stonewall Jackson. Suddenly, Higgins' eyes grow wide. His shoulders tense, and I wait for a sudden sound or motion from him. A second later, he removes his vibrating cell phone from his pocket. No ghost messages; just text messages.

We move on to the hotel's main level, and walk across 150-year-old heart pine floors through a parlor with a piano and brass candlesticks that chime with our motion. Burnett tells us he once felt "something cold" pass through him at a doorway. It was eight years ago, he remembers, "because I was still with my ex-wife." He shows us a room with the largest collection of Confederate uniforms from a single officer, and then a smaller space devoted to the Union. "No reason to spend a lot of time here," says Burnett, and so we don't.

After a stop in the "mourning room"—the funeral parlor, a space where the living once adjusted to the presence of the dead—we arrive at the staircase to the third and final floor.

Along with the kitchen building, the top floor of the Exchange Hotel is what Higgins calls the "most active" portion of the site. As we ascend the stairs, Higgins and Burnett share stories: Gordonsville police spotted a lantern one night through a window, and Burnett's son heard a door slam shut in an empty room. Prior to our tour, Higgins sent me photos of the staircase that depict what he calls a "green mist" in multiple shots.

"Of all the times I've been out here, for me personally, it's this upper area that starts to get interesting," says Higgins.

After we walk through a bedroom where Higgins says his digital camera once inexplicably failed to focus, we enter the surgery room. A glass display case along one wall features a blood transfusion kit that looks like a bicycle pump, and a drilling kit for relieving cranial pressure. I ask Burnett about a series of long, slender poles inside the case. Urethra expanders, he explains.

Before we leave, Higgins and Burnett show us the exchange depot and the kitchen building. The latter, says Higgins, is one of the site's most active spots for EVPs; during one investigation, Higgins and Chris counted 76 different phenomena in a room at the top of the kitchen.

Burnett bids us farewell and the photographer leads Higgins to the hotel to take a few photos. Meanwhile, I sit down on the front step of the kitchen, start my tape recorder, and try to talk to ghosts. "Normal or paranormal," I say to my tape recorder. "Ghost or otherwise." After three minutes, I turn my tape recorder off, climb into the Mystery Machine, and head back to Charlottesville. The drive is uneventful and, when we pass by the accident site, the wrecked car is gone.

A few weeks after Higgins and Burnett led me through the Exchange Hotel, I drive back to Gordonsville to visit Chris, the audio specialist. I bring my notebook and the three minutes of ghost interview I recorded on the front step of the Exchange's kitchen.

Chris lives a half-mile from the hotel, in a rented house built nine years before the Exchange opened its doors to guests. I'd visited Chris once before, so he could play me a selection of EVPs from previous Spirit Search investigations—audio files with names like "Freedman," "Get out" and "Hi—get over here." To identify EVPs, Chris uses audio software to amplify high frequencies and diminish low ones.

During the same visit, Chris explained that he works as a "troubleshooter" for the State Department: When a U.S. embassy experiences power failures, he travels to the embassy to track its power usage for 48 hours and diagnose the origin of the problem. Perhaps sensing my skepticism, he passed me a watermarked State Department I.D.

When I arrive, Chris brings me through his living room to the dark, wooden table that dominates his dining room. He asks me where I recorded my audio, how long the digital file is, whether I noticed anything odd when I listened to the recording, whether I accidentally tapped my microphone with a finger or ring, or picked up a nearby voice.

"The hardest thing," says Chris of reviewing hours of EVPs, "is remembering if someone was there, stomach growls or ambient noises present when recorded."

We spend more than a half-hour on my three minutes of tape. Frequencies over 800Hz are boosted, and those 200Hz and below are lowered. We listen, adjust the frequencies, try to ignore birds that I recorded weeks before but don't recall seeing. I listen to myself talking to myself and think, If nothing answers, this guy will think I'm nuts. If something does answer, I wonder if I'll think the same.

Occasionally, the audio file emits a few seconds of clicks and pops, or smacking and sucking sounds, like someone biting a plum. Seven minutes into our listening, I hear my recorded voice ask for some comment: "Normal or paranormal…ghost or otherwise."

Chris presses "PAUSE."

"Did you hear that?" And, when he replays it, I do. And more clearly the second time —a few syllables, three or four. He tells me he hears something, and asks if I do. I tell him yes, I think so, but want to avoid being led to a conclusion.

I tear a sheet of paper, hand half to Chris, and we write down what our minds made of a few syllables. I place my paper down: "I don't like you." He follows suit: "I'm pretty."

"Now, your mind is not creating this sound. Your mind is interpreting this sound," says Chris. "And I know you say, 'Well, that's the same thing.' Well, not necessarily."

To some degree, Chris is right. After we listen a few more times, I realize the sound is three syllables, not four; it sounds closer to "I'm pretty." So, while neither of us can explain the sound, our minds now wrestle with the same phrase—which neither of us can prove exists, anyways.

"I think it's psychological," says Chris. I ask him what he means.

"Were you that earnest? Were you open?" asks Chris. "Did you believe yourself, asking your questions in mid-air?" He adds that, if ghosts never talked to me before, why would they start now?

"I tell people it's like driving down the interstate," Chris continues. "You pull over to the side of the road and you're trying to get everybody's attention in busy rush hour. Unless there's some common denominator…they're not going to give you the time of day, they're not going speak to you."

When I leave Chris' home, I drive south through Downtown Gordonsville on Route 231. Ten miles down the road, I pass the spot where, weeks earlier, a crumpled tan car stopped traffic for nearly an hour. Other cars turned around before they saw the wreck, and I don't have a picture to prove it happened, but I'm telling you that it did. Still, do you believe everything you hear?

Link to investigation: www.valleyghosthunters.co

Phantom Voices Remain at Civil War Landmark

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Calamity in Moscow...Hundreds Dying Daily

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 11:54 AM PDT

kavkazcenter - 449 people died in Moscow over the last day, which is 4,5 times more than usual. 5,155 Muscovites died in July.

Heat and smog are literally killing Muscovites. City's morgues are packed with corpses, queues of Russians, burying their relatives, could be seen in cemeteries.

Statistics is appalling. 1,560 people died in Moscow in the period of 1 to 15 July. This is more than usual for a fortnight, but not much. However, in the second half of the hottest month for 140 years, the number of deaths increased more than twice - 3,595 Russians died.

An absolute record of mortality, 449 Russians, has been established in Moscow on August 8. If such death rate continues, more than 13 thousand Muscovites could die from heat and smog in one month.

We are shocked by such numbers, but they are true, told the head of one of the capital's ambulance stations. - These data was supposed to be kept secret. Heat and smog have killed 2,213 people in 8 days of August. People with chronic illnesses and the elderly are mostly at risk, but many people of middle age also died.

Tense situation is in the Moscow morgues. The situation worsened especially on Friday, when an air pollution record was beaten in Moscow. 5-6 times more corpses than usual were brought to some morgues.

The number of dead bodies delivered to us sharply increased due to an increase in mortality, said a worker in the morgue of Hospital # 57. - Usually 5-6 corpses are bought a day, and today we had 12 corpses in twelve hours.

We have simply a terrible situation here! Refrigerators are full, said a worker at Hospital # 59. - Yesterday, we had 17 corpses, a day before 17 corpses, although we usually have only 2 to 3 corpses a day. The corpses are lucky being in refrigerators, but we have no air-conditioner, even a crummy fan we don't have.

NOTE: It seems the Russian government censors the news now as well as they did during the Soviet / Cold War days. Another interesting article - Russian citizens complain to foreign correspondents about criminal incompetence of KGB regime. Don't be surprised if there is a marked increase of civil unrest in Moscow and other parts of Russia if things don't improve soon...Lon

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Radiation, Plague, and Fires: Foreign Embassies Urgently Evacuate Staff From Russia


kavkazcenter - A hasty evacuation of diplomatic staff from foreign embassies, like a stampede, began in Moscow. Many embassies are trying to hide the evacuation for political reasons. Mass evacuation of the embassies of Canada and Poland was officially reported at night on August 7.

Western media meanwhile reported that the Canadian embassy in Moscow was closed. Dutch embassy is urgently evacuating its diplomatic staff from Russia.

High level of air pollution, as one of the consequences of forest fires, has become an official ground for evacuating embassy staff and their family members.

Unofficially, they speak about plague in Russia, but first of all, about sharply elevated radioactive background in the city, caused by destruction of atomic bombs in fires at nuclear weapons arsenals outside Moscow. According to unofficial information, warehouses of chemical and bacteriological weapons were also burnt down.

The final decision on immediate evacuation of foreign diplomats from Russia was made after the ringleader of the Russian terrorist gang Disaster Ministry, Shoigu, said that "the level of radiation may increase in Bryansk region because of fires" (the soil there is still very strongly contaminated by Chernobyl).

Sophisticated diplomats immediately understood the diplomatic slang, familiar to them, and rushed to pack baggage, Russian media reported.

Early in the morning of 7 August, the escape of foreign diplomats from Russia took epidemic proportions. It is possible that the diplomats, through the intelligence services of their countries, know something that is not yet known to the general public.

Germany officially closed its embassy and evacuated the entire staff from the doomed Russian Empire, media outlets reported. Austria, along with Poland and Canada, is evacuating almost all its staff from Russia. Foreign embassies addressed to their citizens got stuck in the country to leave Russia as soon as possible.

A Hamburg newspaper, Die Welt, reported in a clear text format that the urgent flee of German diplomats from Russia was caused by radiation approaching Moscow.

The radiation, according to the newspaper, comes from facilities for the production of atomic bombs (400 km east of Moscow) burning in Sarov. Emission of radiation in the environment continues.

On the territory "of the atomic research center," as this plant is officially called, two fires are still raging, the newspaper writes. Russians cannot conceal facts, since fires are perfectly visible from satellites.

Naturally, the evacuation affected all, without exception, embassies in Moscow, but most of them reported nothing for political reasons. The case is very serious, and certainly it is not related to the smog and fumes.

Meanwhile, governments of civilized countries warned their citizens not to go in any case to Russia gripped by a full set of traditional natural and unnatural calamities.

The Austrian Embassy in Moscow appealed to all Austrian citizens in Russia to leave the country immediately. All Austrian diplomats are urgently leaving Russia. Only minor staff without diplomatic status will remain at the embassy. Naturally, there will be no one issuing visas to Russians.

The US State Department warned Americans that a trip and staying in Russia is a mortal threat to their life. The corresponding notification was circulated on Friday by the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the US State Department. The statement reads:

"The US State Department warns American citizens about the risks involved in traveling to Russia due to wildfires there and their impact on safety, air quality, and transportation".

The statement noted that fires and "high temperatures" in the central part of Russia produced "hazardous levels of air pollution and numerous flight delays and cancellations in Moscow".

Americans traveling to these areas of Russia are advised to cancel the trip. US citizens with heart or lung disease who are already inside the giant area of natural disasters, which now represents the whole Russia, are advised to avoid unnecessary outdoor staying and strenuous physical loads.

The current alert warning will remain in force until September 5, when the situation in Russia, as the US stipulates, relaxes as far as fires are concerned, because there'll be left nothing to burn. The situation would remain unpredictable regarding plague and radiation.

Foreign Ministries of Germany, Bulgaria: France, Italy and other countries also appealed to their citizens not to travel to Russia.

Calamity in Moscow...Hundreds Dying Daily

Fortean / Oddball News - 8/10/2010

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 11:05 AM PDT

Man Completes 4,000 Mile Trek of the Amazon River




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BBC - A Leicestershire man has completed a 4,000-mile (6,400 km) trek along the length of the Amazon.

Former soldier Ed Stafford dodged vipers, electric eels, and was wrongly accused of murder during his epic journey, which began in April 2008.

The 34-year-old, of Mowsley, walked from Peru to the coast of Brazil.

A spokeswoman for Mr Stafford said he had become the first person to have walked the entire length of the South American river.

He began his 859-day journey at the summit of Mount Mismi, and has since suffered hundreds of wasp stings and endured an estimated 50,000 mosquito bites, while raising money for charity and increasing awareness of the river.

He said: "The endurance, both mental and physical, has been the thing that's been the most wearing.

"I've been quite humbled by how much I've had to rely on other people and I've benefited greatly from the generosity of the people I've met along the way.

"The interest in the expedition has been mind blowing and all the messages of support have kept me going - that and the desire to bring life in the Amazon to the wider world."

"I started walking with Ed at first because I felt a responsibility to try and help this crazy man"

Five months into the trip Mr Stafford was joined by Peruvian forestry worker Gadiel "Cho" Sanchez Rivera who pledged to complete the expedition with him.

The ex-soldier wrote on Twitter: "Job done. 28 months and Cho and I have finished walking the Amazon. I always knew it was possible."

The pair have walked every day along the banks of the river living off piranha, rice and beans.

Mr Sanchez Rivera said: "I started walking with Ed at first because I felt a responsibility to try and help this crazy man through a very dangerous area with drugs traffickers and hostile tribes.

"But as the days went on I really enjoyed the simple life and Ed and I became good friends. It was not long before I knew that I wanted to complete the whole trip and walk with Ed right to the finish."

Mr Stafford said he was sometimes met with looks of "absolute terror" by locals who feared white people would harm them, and in one instance was detained by a village chief because he arrived shortly after a local man went missing.

The final leg of the trek proved one of the most challenging, with Mr Stafford collapsing at the side of the road a few hours before reaching the final destination.

British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has described both men's efforts as "truly extraordinary".

They reached the shores of the Maruda Beach in Belem at about 1300 BST.

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Book: 'Why Beliefs Matter'

newscientist - Albert Einstein once asked, does the moon exist when no one is looking at it? Such questions had been the preserve of philosophers, but with the discovery of quantum mechanics in the 1920s they became legitimate queries for physicists, too.

Niels Bohr, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, did not believe that science grants us access to an objective reality and insisted that the task of physics was not to find out "how nature is" but only "what we can say about nature". Einstein, on the other hand, maintained an unshakeable belief in a reality that exists out there. Otherwise, he said, "I simply cannot see what it is that physics is meant to describe".

Einstein based his view of quantum mechanics on his belief in an independent reality - the moon does exist when no one is looking at it. In contrast, Bohr used the theory to construct and underpin his belief that the atomic realm has no independent reality. The two agreed on the equations but disagreed on what they meant.

"Scientists, like everyone else, have beliefs," writes distinguished mathematician E. Brian Davies in Why Beliefs Matter. He is not only referring to religious beliefs but to philosophical ones, too. While religious beliefs can be easy to leave at the laboratory door, philosophical beliefs are much harder to sideline.

Some mathematicians, for instance, subscribe to a Platonic view in which theorems are true statements about timeless entities that exist independent of human minds. Others believe that mathematics is a human enterprise invented to describe the regularities seen in nature. The very idea that nature has such regularities which render it comprehensible is itself a belief, as is the idea that the world we perceive is not some sort of delusion or practical joke.

The title of Davies's book, significantly, is a statement, not a question. For him, beliefs do matter. Davies offers a series of snapshots of how various philosophical views inform science, rather than a systematic inquiry into the nature of belief. Along the way he discusses the scientific revolution, the mind-body problem, machine intelligence, string theory and the multiverse. The result is a wide-ranging, thought-provoking meditation rather than a populist read. Beliefs, it seems, are a serious business, and they come in all shapes and sizes.

"At the highest level, beliefs become world views, fundamental beliefs that we use to evaluate other beliefs about the world," says Davies. World views can be evaluated, compared and changed, but you cannot avoid having one. Davies is a self-proclaimed pluralist. That is, he believes that humans have a limited mental capacity and will always need a multiplicity of ways of looking at the world in order to understand it. There may be two or more equally valid and complementary descriptions of the same phenomenon, he says - not unlike the concept of wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics. That does not mean that all world views are equally good - some simply don't hold up under the scrutiny of experiment.

The scientific revolution that began in the 16th century was a triumph of rationality and experiment over the superstition and speculation of the Middle Ages. Even so, nearly 40 per cent of Americans believe that God created humans some time within the last 10,000 years.

World views are not founded on logic, so the most that one can demand is that they should be consistent with what science has discovered. Yet, as the writer C. S. Lewis noted, some arguments are impossible to refute. "A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved," he said, although it does "tell us a good deal about those who hold it".

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SETIcon Starts Friday, August 13th

sfgate - Frank Drake, the famed astronomer who started looking for signals of intelligent beings in distant space 50 years ago, has inspired generations of starstruck seekers to join the hunt, and many of them will gather in the Bay Area next week to let the public in on what they're up to.

Their venture is known as SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. If E.T. or any other aliens are really Out There, they may just be listening in to what promises to be a unique event with lectures, demonstrations and even a music performance.

Drake, now 80, will be among the prominent astronomers, astronauts and science fiction writers at the event - called SETIcon - to explain how the search for alien life is going and what it means.

The event is also scheduled to honor Drake formally as the inspiration for what is now a global search for alien life. The effort has expanded rapidly over the years, most recently as part of a project called seti@home, in which more than 5 million enthusiasts lend the processing power of their home computers to help catch signals from distant galaxies.

Drake began his imaginative quest as a young physicist running a radio telescope in Green Bank, W.Va. He searched for radio signals coming from the region near two sun-like stars and called the effort Project Ozma, after the princess in "The Wizard of Oz" books. That burgeoned into a full-scale, continuing search.

"Every time I go to an astrobiology meeting now, I sit there amazed at how far the search has come, how it's now a real scientific discipline and how it's become a cutting-edge part of NASA science," he said Friday.

Among the many scientists speaking at the event is UC Berkeley astrophysicist Alex Filippenko, who explores how exploding stars called supernovae reveal the nature of black holes and the dark matter of the universe. Debra Fischer, a Yale astronomer who used to teach at S.F. State, will discuss her hunt for Earth-like planets around distant stars.

There will even be an audiovisual concert led by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, previewing his composition called "Rhythms of the Universe" that he is developing with SETI astronomer Jill Tarter and with George Smoot, the UC Berkeley astrophysicist who won the 2006 Nobel Prize for confirming the "big bang" theory of the origin of the universe.
If you go

SETIcon is sponsored by the SETI Institute in Mountain View. It will start Friday at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Santa Clara and ends Aug. 15. For tickets or to learn more, go to www.seticon.com

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Woman Freaks Out When Told No Chicken McNuggets Available


A woman lost her cool after finding out she couldn't order chicken McNuggets at an Ohio McDonalds.

Twenty-five year-old Melodi Dushane flipped out at the drive up window when employees wouldn't serve her McNuggets.

She was told she couldn't get them because they were still serving breakfast.

Hungry and outraged, Dushane hit the employee in the face.

The manager rushed over, and Dushane threw a few more punches but the manager fought back and started pulling the angry customer's hair!

Eventually the window was closed and Dushane broke it with an object from her car.

Dushane was charged with vandalism.

NOTE: reminds me of a woman who wanted Fresca with her order in the Burger King I worked at when I was in high school in the early 70's. We didn't have it, so she went ape shit and decided to grab a shotgun and shoot out the lighted sign out front. True story...Lon

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I hope these two have a wonderful life together....


Fortean / Oddball News - 8/10/2010

Methane Hydrate Theory Plausible In Bermuda Triangle Mystery

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 05:27 PM PDT

A large gas hydrate spar occupies a fracture at the site of the Sea-Floor Observatory. This fracture is part of a system that was observed during a 2006 dive of the Johnson Sea Link in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo: NETL

salem-news - According to two research scientists the mystery of vanished ships and airplanes in the region dubbed "The Bermuda Triangle" has been solved.

Step aside outer space aliens, time anomalies, submerged giant Atlantean pyramids and bizarre meteorological phenomena ... the "Triangle" simply suffers from an acute case of gas.

Natural gas—the kind that heats ovens and boils water—specifically methane, is the culprit behind the mysterious disappearances and loss of water and air craft.

The evidence for this astounding new insight into a mystery that's bedeviled the world is laid out in a research paper published in the American Journal of Physics.

Professor Joseph Monaghan researched the hypothesis with honor student David May at the Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

The two hypothesized that large methane bubbles rising from the ocean floor might account for many, if not all, of the mysterious disappearances of ships and aircraft at specific locales around the world.

Researcher Ivan T. Sanderson identified these mystery areas during the 1960s. Sanderson described the actual shape of these regions as more like a lozenge rather than a triangle. Some of the more famous spots include an area in the Sea of Japan, the North Sea, and of course the infamous "Bermuda (or Devil's) Triangle."

Oceanographic surveyors of the sea floor in the area of the Bermuda Triangle and the North Sea region between continental Europe and Great Britain have discovered significant quantities of methane hydrates and older eruption sites.

Because of the correlations and existing data, the two envisioned what would happen when gigantic methane bubbles explode from natural fissures on the seafloor.

The methane—normally frozen at great pressure as gas hydrates embedded within subterranean rock—can become dislodged and transform into gaseous bubbles expanding geometrically as they explode upwards. When these bubbles reach the surface of the water they soar into the air, still expanding upwards and outwards.

Any ships caught within the methane mega-bubble immediately lose all buoyancy and sink to the bottom of the ocean. If the bubbles are big enough and possess a high enough density they can also knock aircraft out of the sky with little or no warning. Aircraft falling victim to these methane bubbles will lose their engines-perhaps igniting the methane surrounding them-and immediately lose their lift as well, ending their flights by diving into the ocean and swiftly plummeting.

NOTE: The methane hydrate theory is not a new one. Hopefully, there will be continued research into this phenomenon...it may explain many incidents worldwide. Lon

Methane Hydrate Theory Plausible In Bermuda Triangle Mystery



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