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| Video: Possible Hominid - McKenzie River, Central Oregon Posted: 01 Sep 2010 04:02 PM PDT         Click for video  According to the BFRO, a dark, long-armed figure stood up and walked away from the edge of the river as the two whitewater row boats passed by. The location of the incident, and the physical appearance of the figure, and the behavior of the figure are consistent with a sasquatch. Nothing about the figure, or the incident in general, points to a hoax or a case of mistaken identity.The Three Sisters region of Oregon has a long history of sightings and track finds. At first glance the figure appears to be a bit larger than the human in the rowboat, and the figure is certainly not closer to the camera than the rowboat. The behavior of the figure is consistent with a sasquatch. Sasquatches are often spotted near creeks and rivers. NOTE: I grabbed screen captures during a 4-5 second period of time (between 1:41 - 1:45) on the video. What are your thoughts? Lon   Video: Possible Hominid - McKenzie River, Central Oregon  |
| Fortean / Oddball News - 9/1/2010 Posted: 01 Sep 2010 10:43 AM PDT  Trolls In SwedenI noticed that Jon Downes of Cryptozoology Online received an interesting email: Dear Mr Downes, My name is Camden Xiang, and I've followed the work of CFZ from time to time. I thought I'd draw your attention to the appended document, which contains a transcription of posts on the Swedish Internet forum Flashback, concerning sightings of trolls. I've myself translated the posts from the Swedish, trying not to "improve" on the quality. I've added comments where necessary in brackets. Some people's stories are developed in several different posts, so I've pieced them together. I've italicised English phrases occurring in the Swedish original. Yours, Camden Spjuit: [Note: the author lives in Ångermanland, in Northern Sweden] I've said several times that I've seen a strange being running around in the woods. The first feeling I get when I see these is fear. You just want to run as fast as you can in the opposite direction. Explaining what they look like is very hard. So I've made a Godawful silhouette in Paint instead. I've never seen them in broad daylight so therefore the picture is black. I've sketched completely from memory as best I could. I see them in the winters after sunset. The last time I saw one was in the middle of November. Then the bus driver almost hit it. The first time I saw one was when I was very small. It was then lurking just by the edge of the forest at our farm one summer watching the pigs we had then. I'd forgotten about it but suddenly remembered it this winter. They're most often roughly 150 [cm] tall, but I've seen one the same size as a full-grown man. It looks like they haven't got a neck and are regarded as "knobby" by me. Also they run really fast even though they have legs that are half as long as ours. My best friend who used to be my neighbour saw them "first". In fact I was the one [who saw them] but I'd forgotten about it, so. I got frightened to say the least and she didn't dare to go out and bring in the horse on her own. The horse was staring in towards the forest and when she looked that way she saw 2 of these beings running back and forth on an old forest path. It was moonlight so she too also saw just black silhouettes. Me, I thought she was kidding me. Until she refused to go to the stables alone. You could tell a long way off that she was genuinely frightened. I've never seen these together with someone unless you count the bus driver who veered away from one. The bus driver didn't say anything. And there were only 2 of us on the bus. The other girl didn't notice anything even though he veered sharply. I asked her later. The bus driver I haven't even seen since so I've not been able to bring it up. It doesn't leave any footprints. I've written this before but one winter I met a big one on the road when I was going to see a friend. We walked on each side. At first I thought it was an old man but then I started to think and realised that no old person goes out late at night. Then I thought it was an illusion, nope, the snow creaked with each step it took. And then I thought that it had to be my friend who was kidding me and walked funnily to frighten me. So I called her name, then it went down into the ditch [by the side of the road] (and when I saw its profile I understood what it was) and laid down. It never went up again and the snow was like untouched. I don't know if it lied down or whether it dug itself under the snow. It probably became afraid when I started to shout and quite simply hid. Skellefteewa: [Note: The author lives in Skellefteå, in Västerbotten, which is also in northern Sweden] Kommer ihåg i min barndom då jag besökte en gammal man i ett hus långt inne i skogen. Han påstod att han sett troll på berget i skogen flera gånger. Han berättade att en del var rätt så små, men större än vättar och en del var riktigt stora. De var knotiga för att kunna gömma sig i skogen. Remember in my childhood when I visited an old man in a house deep into the forest. He claimed that he had seen trolls on the hillside in the forest several times. He told me that some of them were quite small, but larger than goblins [Sw. "vättar"] and some were really big. They were knobby in order to hide in the forest. Krafse: YES GODDAMMIT!! I've seen one! Or at least something similar. "Mine" had considerably longer legs though, I believe the legs were marginally longer than the "body ball" itself which looked very funny. This was a very long time ago, 2003 to 2004 I think, a summer night with a full moon so it was an exceptionally bright night. I remember that it looked like a ball with two legs. I don't remember if I saw arms, though, don't think so. Anyway, I was out driving my moped in the middle of the night. (No, I wasn't tired, I'd just turned my day around so I was full of energy!) and then it stood by the side of the road. I didn't understand what it was at first, thought it was an elk's ass or something, but the legs were too thick. It was really nothing that looked like an elk, but it was the only thing I could relate to that was not too "far fetched" so to say. Anyhow, it just kept standing there and I'd been waiting for maybe 10 sec for it to move, but it didn't seem to hear me at all, so I turned on the gas a bit and then it reacted. What I then got to see was very strange, it ran on TWO legs roughly like a human, straight into the woods. Imagine that you take an elk (Or some similar animal.) and cut off the entire back section and make it black and add more fluffy, long-haired fur, then you let this back section run around. That's sort of the way it looked like. I drove past and tried to see it again but it had either run too far into the woods or else it was hiding. I didn't have time to look and at the time I was so chocked that I didn't even understand how wierd it was. Was only a quarter of an hour later that you really started to think about it and realise what the hell you'd looked upon. I've never seen it again after that by the way.. Respons: Haha this is a bit fun actually. I just came home from a vacation trip in Västervik [in Småland, southeastern Sweden] and saw this topic. We were staying just next to the woods so me and my boyfriend decided at night to go up onto a hill just next to us and have a beer. After a while I saw something that looked just like what you describe between the trees. "It" seemed to run on two legs at an enormous speed and was grey/brownish. I was also able to distinguish a forward-leaning build possibly like a hump. Was shocked out of my mind, my boyfriend claimed it was a bear which is totally incomprehensible :S I'm still stunned since I can't think of any animal looking like this "being". I've never seen or heard about anything similar. I would rather say that it was a fat old man but the being ran much too fast for that. Eldaron: I've seen something similar too! When I was young I walked a lot in the hills in central Hälsingland [northern Sweden] with my grandmother, and when we were heading to a mountain whose name I can't remember, we went there in the evening to watch the sunset when I looked out into the woods as we were driving along the old gravel road when I saw something that fits your description precisely. perhaps 10 meters into the woods. I related what I saw to my grandmother who looked serious when I told her. Then she turned her car homewards and started to tell, that she lived here when she was a child and then she stopped and pointed into the forest where you could see an old almost collapsed house from the 19th century. There I lived she said and we moved because of the one you saw. And then she said that she had been playing with her sisters when she had seen it running quickly past her and then she started to scream. Then her dad had come and fetched her and he looked frightened. Later at night her grandfather sat down with her and said that she had seen the trolls. Since then grandmother has never talked about the place or anything, when I've asked about it she's just said "I don't dare, they mustn't come here". That frighetened you a bit, but now I'm sure I'll never get any more info about if, grandma died half a year ago and she was the last person alive in that family. Wonder what the heck those "trolls" really did to make them so afraid. Imbalidn: I've seen something similar. it was dark so I can't say I'm convinced that I saw what I saw. But.. Anyway. Last summer me and my girlfriend were out in the woods barbecuing some hot dogs and relaxing (Västergötland, btw) [Western Sweden]. I guess it must have been early September, so night fell a bit earlier. Around dusk the fire went out so we were going to leave. My girlfriend pointed towards some trees where she said she heard something. I looked towards it (she didn't see a lot since she didn't wear her glasses) and saw something looking like what everyone's been describing. A silhouette of a fuzzy ball with two legs, looked insanely weird. I kept looking for a few more seconds until the thing took a step forward. I panicked like hell, asked my girlfriend to run and took her by the hand and tried to lead her out. As I said, she didn't have any glasses so it was a bit of a panic there with the trees and the rocks. All the way out of the forest it sounded like fast, I mean FAST steps which like... Circulated around us. Having come out, it went quiet like hell. We went in and went to bed and didn't talk more about it. I don't really know if this might be it. I hope we were just being paranoid and seeing illusions. I've been in the woods a lot as a small child and certainly you've fantasised a lot there but large balls with legs (the best description I've got) I don't think I've ever seen as a child. Well well, that's that. Plaguetongue: I've actually seen something similar a couple of years ago, when I was out hunting. I live in northern Dalarna [west-central Sweden] it was a September morning just before sun rose in the morning when I saw a strange being walking across the road in front of my car. it wasn't quite as fat as on your picture, and didn't looke like having any fur at all I'm not sure since it was still dark outside, it might have been dark green to black in its colour. we were 3 of us in the car me, my dad and another one in the hunting party and all of us saw it. as a hunter I can say directly that it was not a wild boar elk or bear, it had a broad neck or no neck at all, like a "head-and-foot creature" with legs. I guess it was 1 meter-1.20 meters tall. no one could explain what it was. I've never seen anything like it before. if I see one again I'll shoot one I'll be damned let's see what it is. I saw it in the light from the car ca. 30-40 meters ahead of me. if you manage to get a picture of it send it and I can see what it looks like. I talked to the guy who is the "team elder", the oldest in the team, he told me about something similar he'd seen a long time ago when he walked the woods in the area as a forester. he told me a story about an experience from some time in the past, when he had been a forester. he had seen something that he didn't know what it was, was some time in late autumn an early morning as light started to dawn, which looked like a small human without a neck. he came out onto a mire and it stood on the other side looking at him for a few seconds before it disappeared out into the woods. I don't quite remember what he said then but I think he'd seen it more than once. I'll have to ask him when I see him the next time, should be at the hunt in September. Iregom: This is sick. I've also seen something like this like twice in my life. It was winter and dark, walking on a road with forest on both sides. See osmething black and around 50 cm tall running straight across the road at a hell of a speed and disappear. The other time I can't remember because I thought it was just an illusion but then it happened again so it's something funny moving out there! Fattygoblin: I had an acquaintance who saw something incomprehensible a winter night. Him and his friends had been out skiing slalom on a suspended slope [ie. a slope where skiing is not permitted] – in the middle of nowhere. After a run or two, when they were at the bottom of the slope, they glance up towards the top...then they see a colossally huge person walking right across the slope. Not a giant, like twenty meters tall. But according to him the figure was at least four meters. The proportions didn't quite agree with what looks human. It was a starry night outside, so he saw the silhouette clearly. His friends too. It bears mentioning that people in all times have said that the mountain where the slope was is haunted. And that that giant man has been seen. I think it's somewhere in Dalarna. Know that I questioned this a bit, but he was dead serious. And that was a guy who didn't believe in spirites and ghosts and stuff... WarPig: My mother recently told me that she'd seen what she thought was a running troll on the forests of Jämtland [northwestern Sweden], late at night outside her campervan window. She brought her camera outside and started to snap blindly in the dark. When she then comes home and puts the images on her computer she sees on one of the images (which was just black on the camera) a what she thinks is troll face of "smoke/mist" big all over the picture. Rodolfus: 'om jag inte missminner mig (det kan vara något annat landskap i närheten). I can tell you that I have at least two female relatives, one younger and one older, who've told me that they've experienced something similar to [Spjuit]'s story. The "thing" is said to have run in front of the car when the younger of them was out driving one night and is also said to have been observed sneaking around the house and the barn on the farm. The older one claims to have seen one of them peeking in through the window and to have seen the "thing" running on a meadow. It/they are said to have been seen both at night and day a number of times at least. This is said to have taken place at a farm in Dalarna if I'm not mistaken (it might be some other province nearby). **********  The Search For The Bonhomme Richardtheday - The Ocean Technology Foundation will launch its fifth expedition later this summer to search for the wreck of John Paul Jones' Revolutionary War ship the Bonhomme Richard in the North Sea. The two-week expedition may provide the best chance yet to find the famed ship off the northeast coast of England as the U.S. and French navies are providing state-of-the-art sonar systems, an oceanographic survey ship, a mine hunter, underwater vehicles and divers. "This is the latest and greatest equipment," Jack Ringelberg, president of the foundation, said Monday. Previous expeditions have eliminated a 400-square-mile area where the ship was thought to be while additional historic data and information about how it may have drifted before it sank have refined the search area. And unlike past expeditions, which either surveyed possible wreck sites or explored targets, this venture will have the capacity to do both. The exact dates of the trip were not released. Project Manager Melissa Ryan said Monday this is the best attempt to locate the wreck since 2008, when on its last voyage the Groton-based U.S. Navy nuclear research submarine NR-1 explored many of the wrecks that sonar had previously located. The NR-1 found that they were more modern vessels. This has led researchers to conclude that the wreck will likely not be in one piece but possibly spread across the ocean bottom - and maybe underneath it. Special sonar equipment on the upcoming expedition can penetrate the ocean bottom. "The Bonhomme Richard is like a proverbial needle in a haystack," Ryan said. "But the good news is that the haystack is considerably smaller than it was five years ago when our surveying began." Ringelberg said the ship was thought to be carrying a large load of iron ballast that could help in locating and identifying the wreck. The foundation also knows the foundry markings of the ship's cannons. Accompanying the searchers this time will be four midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy who took an online course Ryan taught about searching for historic shipwrecks using the Bonhomme Richard as an example. The four will now be able to work as part of the team looking for the ship of one of the country's greatest naval heroes, whose remains are contained in a sarcophagus in the Naval Academy chapel in Annapolis, Md. The Bonhomme Richard sank in September 1779 after a battle with the HMS Serapis. It was during the battle that Jones is said to have uttered one of the most famous lines in U.S. history: "I have not yet begun to fight!" he shouted to the captain of the British vessel. The crew of the Bonhomme Richard eventually captured the Serapis after a bloody, three-hour battle, but the Bonhomme Richard sank off Flamborough Head, where people on land witnessed the battle. The foundation has analyzed eyewitness accounts of the battle, ships' logs, information on tides, winds and weather, battle damage and computer models of how the ship would have drifted before it sank to locate possible sites of its final resting place, which is thought to be in 150 to 180 feet of water and within site of the coast. If the team finds evidence of the wreck, Ryan said, it will perform a detailed archaeological study. A decision about what artifacts to recover and preserve would be up to the U.S. Navy. Ringelberg said he would like to see a traveling exhibit of artifacts if the ship can be found. Of note is that the converted merchant ship was owned at the time by the French government, which was letting Jones use it. At first, Ryan said, failure to find the famed ship was frustrating. But she said she has learned the effort has a much broader scope in serving not only an educational purpose but in helping the foundation forge partnerships among groups that have never worked together. "Do I want to find it?" Ryan asked. "Of course I do. But if it was easy to find, someone would have already found it." Because no money, jewels or other treasure is thought to be aboard the Bonhomme Richard, Ringelberg said its primary value lies in its historic significance. "The value," Ryan said, "is recovering a piece of history and sharing it with the American people." ********** Terrible Dragon Dinosaur Once Roamed Romania guardian - There's no evidence of wings or fire-breathing capability. But the powerfully built, meat-eating predator that terrorised Romania some 80m years ago is close to the mythological dragon. Fossils found near the city of Sebes in central Romania have revealed a dinosaur with scythe-like claws for ripping apart prey which scientists have named balaur bondoc – "stocky dragon" in ancient Romanian. Related to the velociraptor, which was brought to terrifying life in the film Jurassic Park, the dinosaur roamed the area when it was an island during the late Cretaceous period. At just 2.1 metres (7ft) long, it might have made a disappointing opponent for St George but would have preyed on small animals. A partial skeleton of balaur bondoc, including leg, hip, vertebrae, arms, ribs and tail bones, has been unearthed from a former flood plain near Sebes. Balaur had a stockier build than the velociraptor, its short legs and powerful muscles suggesting it was built for strength rather than speed. Its most unusual feature was having two oversized toe claws to the velociraptor's one. "Balaur is a new breed of predatory dinosaur, very different from anything we have ever known," said Stephen Brusatte of Columbia University in New York, co-author of the research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Its anatomy shows it probably hunted in a different way than its less stocky relatives. Compared to the velociraptor, balaur was probably more of a kickboxer than a sprinter, and it might have been able to take down larger animals than itself, as many carnivores do today." Scientists believe the lower limbs were used to grasp and disembowel prey. Unlike the vampire, which entered the mythology of eastern Europe in the early 18th century, the dragon has been part of Romanian legend for many centuries. Its ubiquity in fairytales worldwide has been interpreted as evidence that it could have existed. Balaur the evil hydra, a popular creature in Romanian mythology, is similar to a dragon but differs from its newly discovered namesake in that it was large and had fins, feet and multiple serpent heads. The Romanian link with dragons was perpetuated in JK Rowling's Harry Potter series. The character Ron Weasley's brother Charlie worked at the world's largest dragon reservation in Romania. As to the comparatively modest balaur bondoc, Josh Chamot of the National Science Foundation in Virginia said: "It's as large as anything you'd expect to find on one of the larger continents. Animals which were isolated from others on these islands were usually a lot smaller than their continental counterparts. This dino's size advantage, combined with the two claws it had on each foot to slice prey with, would have made it a very successful hunter." Mark Norell, co-author of the study, called the discovery "thrilling". He said: "While we would expect that there were carnivorous animals in these faunas, finding one as unusual as balaur is thrilling and is testament to the unusual animals found on islands today and in the past. "The finding indicates that this area of the world, despite its archipelago geography, had at least intermittent connections with the mainland up to the end of the cretaceous." NOTE: See...I knew Rubeus Hagrid was correct when he said his older brother Charlie was in Romania working with dragons! Lon ********** British Man Nearly Killed By Mystery Spider camdennewjournal - While living in Australia he survived both the venomous bite of a redback spider and the deadly sting of a box jellyfish. But the last thing Don Forrester expected when he returned to England was to be left close to death by a poisonous spider in Kentish Town. After being bitten by a hungry, hairy-legged creature last week, the former Sunday Times journalist has warned residents to beware of a colony of tropical spiders that could be on the loose in Camden. Mr Forrester, of Grafton Road, was laying decking for a friend in Islip Street last Wednesday when he felt a sudden pain in his hand, which he put down to a wood splinter. Seconds later he saw two unusual-looking brown hairy spiders with yellow stripes on their backs scurrying across the garden. But it was only when his hand swelled to five times its normal size that he realised he had become the creatures' prey. Mr Forrester said: "Within an hour my hand went from what I thought was a little splinter to looking like a balloon. It continued to get bigger for three days and the pain got so intense I thought I'd better do something about this." Mr Forrester sought the advice of a chemist who told him he needed antibiotics, but before the 62-year-old could see a doctor he took a turn for the worse while having a drink with friends in the Sir Robert Peel pub in Malden Road. "I'd just got my pint when I just started to shake all over, my heart started to race and I started to come over all white," said Mr Forrester. "The boys took one look at me and said they were going to get an ambulance. Without them I'd probably be dead." He was rushed to the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead with dangerously low blood pressure and was later taken into theatre where doctors worked to remove the poison, which had already begun travelling up his arm. Mr Forrester's condition was so serious he was kept in overnight and given antibiotics intravenously. He is now taking a cocktail of 11 tablets a day and has been advised to have physiotherapy to restore the movement in his arm. But the ex-Fleet Street reporter is only too aware of how lucky he was to survive his ordeal. "I'm a fit man – that's the reason I was able to fight it off," he said. "But if it had been an elderly or sick person without that level of resistance they might not have made it." Mr Forrester now plans to research the spider's identity so he can warn other people what to look out for. Fortean / Oddball News - 9/1/2010  |
| Hit by Lightning Multiple Times or Was It Something Else? Posted: 01 Sep 2010 10:11 AM PDT  Chris Holly's Paranormal World - A friend of mine told me a story about her father. She told me that during his life he had been hit by lightning numerous times yet lived to not only tell about them but was never seriously hurt. He also had lost time experiences and a strange confrontation with a blue orb. He lived through all of these experiences yet refused to find anything odd about them living instead in a secure denial. My friend along with other family members knew something was very strange about the events that her father encountered . They tried over the years to get him to report or at least discuss them with those who may be able to explain what may be causing or going on concerning his encounters. My friends father was adamant about this subject and would not let anyone discuss his experiences outside of the family. The family knew he was having experiences other people were not having but simply could not get the man to accept his situation. He would go to great lengths to find reasons why the things happening to him were perfectly normal. The events in this man's life started when he was 15 years old. He was working on a construction barge located in the Atlantic Ocean during the 1930's. He was a water boy/laborer on a work crew that was working on a project off of Long Beach New York. The crew would be brought out by boat to a large floating barge where they would work until the end of the day when the boat would return to bring them back to the dock at Long Beach on the coast of Long Island. During one work day the boy was late finishing his routine and the boat that returned the men to shore left early. The man, then a boy, became stranded on the barge. He was alone , he was 15 years old and a bit nervous knowing they would not send another boat out to the barge until morning. He was able to take cover in a small cabin on the barge and knew he would have to make the best of the ordeal until the next day. He found a canvas and made a sleeping area inside the small cabin to stay until morning. That is all he remembers of his night alone on the barge. He recalls it was a clear night when he locked away in the small cabin but nothing more until he was being poked by the returning work crew early the next day. When the work crew returned they found the boy half naked wearing only his work pants. He was confused and looked rather dazed. His shirt and jacket were found on the barge with his shoes. The clothes were burned and torn. His chest was bright red and he his hair smelled really bad, like sulfur. The returning work crew questioned the boy to what had happened to him the night before. The only thing he could tell them was that he must have been hit by lightning . He thought he recalled a large bright light while laying in the cabin however he was not sure how he lost his clothes and shoes out on the barge while laying inside the cabin. The work crew looked around the barge for signs that he may have been hit by a lightning strike but found nothing usual besides the condition of the boy. He recalled seeing a huge white flash the night before while laying on his make shift bed in the little cabin . That was all he could remember until the next day when the men arrived to the barge and woke him up. His back and chest hurt like a slight sun burn where he seemed to have a light rash but that seemed to go away during the day. He remained dazed for the remainder of the day and complained of a headache. The men who worked on the barge found the entire scenario with the boy odd but blamed it on his behavior while alone on the barge and did not think much more about it. After all he was 15 years old. The man remembers feeling sick for about two weeks after the incident. His parents blamed it on catching cold while being on the barge at night. The boy was convinced he had been hit by lightning even if it had been a clear night without any sign of a storm that night. Without a reasonable explanation or any interest by the adults around him the boys strange night on the barge was forgotten. My friends father simply explains this strange night as the night he was first hit by lightning. Everyone who hears the story thinks it odd to be hit while under cover to the extent his clothes were knocked off . They also realize he may have removed them once hit and that he may have been in shock. The one fact everyone agrees on is that what happened on that barge to this man when he was 15 years old remains a mystery. My friends father continued to have odd events occur to him with a similar event happening when he was 21 years old in 1938. He was walking home alone late one night around midnight in Jamaica, Queens, New York along a quiet dark side street on a Saturday night in the summer. He recalls it was a clear lovely summers night. He had been out on a date and was on his way home from his girlfriends house when once again he saw a huge flash of pure light come at him. He recalls the light came from nowhere in a large arrow shaped ray. It hit him directly in his chest. He was lifted in to the air and then blacked out. When he woke up he found he was laying on the ground about a block away from where he had been when the flash of light hit him. His shirt and pants were ripped and burned to the point he was nearly naked. His shoes were nowhere to be found. He had a terrible headache and red rash circling his entire neck completely around his head. His pocket watch was missing and his hair on one side of his head around his ear looked as if it had been shaved or burned to the point of looking like a crew cut on that side of his head. He managed to find his way home barefoot and frightened. When he finally made it to his home he was stunned to find it was after 3 in the morning. He realized he must have been knocked out and laying on the ground for about three hours. The next day the man and his two brothers went back to see if there were signs of a lightning strike and to look for his watch and shoes. They found no signs of lightning striking the area or any of his possessions. The family was concerned as it had been a beautiful clear night that night making a lightning strike highly unlikely. The man was insistent that was what occurred and would not consider any other possibilities. He was not burned in any way. The only complaint he had was of a terrible headache that lasted about two weeks. His mother insisted that he see the family doctor. The doctor could not find any visible sign of being hit by lightning. The doctor also told the family that anything powerful enough to carry him a block away, destroy his clothes and knock him out for three hours would have left some type of marks or burns. The man insisted there was nothing funny going on and he has simply once again hit by stray lightning. My friends father continued his life having other odd experiences along the way. He married and had a family leading a normal life in most all ways. The man encountered other odd happenings along his life besides his experiences with the so called lightning events. He also had a few lost time events that he would explain away as falling asleep while driving. If he was sleep driving it was an incredible feat as he would drive a few hundred miles sound asleep to find himself waking up in his car hours and miles away from his original destination. The strangest event my friend told me about was her father's encounter with what he referred to as ball lightning. This event occurred in the 1970's. My friend did not remember the exact year but knows she was in her mid 20's when her father told her of this event. Her father and mother were sitting in their backyard eating lunch at the large family wooden picnic table that sat under one of the yards big shade trees. The couple sat talking while enjoying their lunch when a ball of blue light the size of large truck tire entered the yard. At first the ball of light hovered adjacent from the couple sitting at the picnic table on the opposite side of the yard. The couple sat in awe looking at this thing for a few seconds until it began to circle the yard. The large orb of light circled the yard much like a ball swirls around inside of a roulette wheel. As it continued to circle the couple snapped to their senses and became frightened. The man told his wife to get under the big wooden picnic table. He looked for something to defend them with and grabbed a yard shovel leaning against the tree. The man got a good grip on the shovel and steadied himself against the table ready to hack away at the light if it approached the table that now had his wife hiding underneath it. He watched in amazement as this ball of bright neon blue light continued to circle the yard. He tried to figure out what it could be and once again came to the conclusion it was some type of odd ball lightning. The sky was crystal clear, there was not one cloud in the blue summer sky however he could not think of what else this thing could be. The ball of light began to slow its pace which gave the man hope it would soon dissipate or lose its energy and disappear. Instead the ball slowed to a stop, hovered in the corner of the yard before changing direction to head straight at the man, his wife and that big old wooden picnic table. The man now knew something was really wrong as he never heard of lightning standing still or changing direction. He leveled his balance to ready for a fight and held his shovel like a bat getting ready to swing as this blue ball of light hurdled towards him. He watched in horror making ready to swing as this thing aimed straight at him. He bent at the waist knowing his first swing better be a good one. The ball of light came at him and just before impact the man threw his body into the swing and hit the orb of light just before it was able to impact him. My friend's mother still under the table was shaking and crying as she watched this thing coming towards her husband. She watched him make ready and take his swing at the thing as it rushed at them. She heard the shovel make contact with the orb and heard a explosion accompanied by a large flash of blinding white blue light. Her husband had smashed the orb of blue light as hard as he could hitting it dead center with the shovel. It exploded in a loud crack that hurt their ears. The thing broke apart into millions of blue sparks somewhat like a display of fireworks. The sparks flew all over the yard. The man pulled his wife from under the table to start a run towards the house. As they ran to the back door of their home they watched at the far end of their yard as this thing collected what looked like the tail of a comet . The pieces that were shattered all over the yard by the smack with the shovel were pulling together in what looked like a comet heading away from them and their yard. They watched as the thing took off in to the sky at an incredible speed until it was gone. My friend talked to her father after this event and tried to convince him that something strange had been following him during his entire life with odd events and strange encounters that simply could not have been constant lightning strikes. My friends father passed away about ten years ago. My friend was never able to get her father to talk about these events without becoming upset and annoyed. The family felt it best not to press him on something he found so upsetting. The family knew something very odd was going on with their father but to this day have no idea what it could have been. I talked about this man and his life experiences with a few people I thought may have some ideas what could have been causing his odd encounters. One idea was that this man may have some extraordinary connection with the electricity around him or even the plasma in our universe. He may attract energy like a lightning rod. I was also asked if he was located near any electric poles or large transformers or high tension wire centers during his events? Since he never seemed to suffer any obvious physical harm the idea any human could endure that many hits by lightning seemed somewhat impossible. I questioned my friend concerning the locations of her father's events. She told me that the first one was in out in the Ocean on a barge so no wires were involved there. The other encounters were not near any type of high tension wires that she knew of.. The orb incident happened in the back of her parents home that was about 1000 feet away from the street where the normal residential utility poles are located. I knew that this man had other encounters besides the ones I have written about and questioned my friend about those events as well. The other events with flashes of light occurred to her father while on vacation in Florida on the gulf coast as well as during a day spent on South Hampton Beach, New York. The last lightning strike type encounter happened to him on an island in the South Pacific during his military service. All the encounter were exactly the same with the man going about his day when without warning he was hit by a huge explosion of light. He was always found a distance away from the strike with his clothing missing. He was always disoriented with a horrible headache that lasted for days. The one encounter that was not like the others was with the blue orb he did battle with in his yard. The man refused to discuss this event as it was the one that upset the man the most. It was not like the others as it seemed to have intelligence as well as seemed to want to do harm to the couple. I have no idea what was happening to this man. I have no clue why he had these strange things happen to him during his life. His experiences could have been caused by some type of abnormal relationship with energy . It is possible he was a rod for energy and attracted lightning. I would feel more comfortable considering that possibility if the events occurred when there was some sort of storm going on at the time they occurred. In the case of this man each event happened on beautiful clear days or nights. I understand that strange lightning can develop at any time and that he may have had a relationship to it that the rest of us do not. I have to admit that it has crossed my mind that this man was a victim of abduction during his life. The fact that he was never harmed by any encounter in a way people usually are during lightning strikes is odd. So is the fact he had his clothing blown off of him in the intensity of the hit. Of course the lost time involved in the man's experiences rings a loud alarm bell in my mind. I also find his lack of memory a fact that leans me towards abduction possibilities. I know this man refused to believe any idea other than the one he came up with for his strange happenings. He really wanted to believe he was hit over and over during his life by lightning. Maybe he was. I have no idea what happened to him but do know you cannot fight lightning with a shovel or watch it hover and decide to change course to attack you! I have to wonder how many other people out there have had similar events happen to them or a family member and go along thinking it was just a normal day with a little lightning hit along the way? How many of us out there are encountering the unknown with strange events and never mentioning it? It is obvious that many things happen out there that never are reported by people all over the world. I want to remind all of my readers to be careful out there and always pay attention to your surroundings. If you think something is wrong follow your instincts and protect yourself. You never know when it will be your day to pick up a shovel, or find a way to face off with something you find completely unknown! Thanks to Chris Holly at Chris Holly's Paranormal World Copyright © 2008-2010 Chris Holly - All Rights Reserved chrishollyufo@yahoo.com NOTE: The views and opinions expressed by guest authors are not necessarily shared by me. Please direct inquiries to the specific writer...Lon  |
| Report: Thunderbird Encounter Near South Greensburg, PA Posted: 01 Sep 2010 12:59 PM PDT  Researcher Stan Gordon at Stan Gordon UFO Anomalies Zone has reported the following sighting:August 26, 2010 Was this Another Close Range Encounter with a Thunderbird Near South Greensburg, Pennsylvania? On the evening of August 26, 2010, about 8:10 pm, there was a sighting of a monstrous bird in South Greensburg, PA. Just as it was getting dark, four people were sitting around in the yard having a barbecue and enjoying the beautiful weather when suddenly, their attention was drawn skyward by a sound like a "swish" or a "swoosh" or as one witness stated, "like air coming straight down." Several of the observers at almost the same time yelled out some exclamations including one man who said, "What the hell is that?" They were all startled to see a tremendously large bird that was flying over a tree in the yard about 30-40 feet overhead. The man who was doing the cooking turned and looked up to see the creature fly above him at a distance of about 40 feet away. As the bird passed the tree, it veered slightly to the right and went straight down the road ahead, maintaining its low level path. When first observed, the massive wings of the creature were in an upward position and were beginning to drop slowly, almost as if they were rolling to the bottom. The swoosh sound could be heard when the wings were moving. The powerful bird had flown about 125 yards down the road, at which time the wings were coming back up. The creature was observed as it continued to move steadily down the road, passing just above the roof top of a house with its wings flapping slowly and steadily about 3-4 time until it reached a group of trees about ¼ mile away, where it was lost from sight. It took about 20 seconds to go the ¼ mile distance. I interviewed two of the witnesses at the scene and they were able to provide a detailed description of the giant flying creature. As it passed over, it appeared as though it was peering below, with its head and beak positioned downward. It was estimated that if the bird was on the ground it would stand between 4 ½ to 5 feet tall. The entire body was the same dark color, either darkish brown or black. The body width was about 25-30 inches wide. One witness said the body, "was very bulky and husky." The head was oval shaped, and the beak was short for the size of the animal, about 8-10 inches long. The tail was about 2 feet long and came out wide to a point. It was the size of the wingspan of the creature that impressed the witnesses, which they estimated at 10 feet or more in length. When asked why nobody thought to take a picture, they pointed out that while there were cell phones lying there with camera functions, all involved were mesmerized by the encounter. One fellow I talked with said that after the experience he felt as if he was "almost in shock." It was later learned that another witness who lived along the road where the big bird flew over also reportedly saw the creature. One witness has been a long time hunter and is very familiar with birds native to the state and is certain that he saw something quite unusual. The area where these observations have taken place, while surrounded with some wooded locations, is well populated, and nearby Route 119 is a highly traveled roadway. There has been a long history of sightings of giant birds with oversized wingspans in Pennsylvania as well as other sections of the United States and elsewhere. Many refer to these giant flying creatures as "Thunderbirds." It is interesting to note that over the years around the same general area as this sighting, other residents have reported a similar strange "swoosh" sound, as though a huge bird had passed overhead, but nothing was seen. Now years later, here is another detailed close range observation of a huge flying creature just a short distance away from the location where in 2001, a similar observation had taken place. It was on September 25, 2001, that a witness reported seeing a huge, dark colored bird flying about 50-60 feet above the traffic along Route 119 in South Greensburg. The observer was drawn to look upwards when he heard a sound, "like flags flapping in a thunderstorm." That witness was stunned by the wingspan of the flying creature which he estimated was between 10 and 15 feet. NOTE: there are too many of these sightings worldwide to just be ignored. As well, the witnesses have been, for the most part, very reliable...Lon Report: Thunderbird Encounter Near South Greensburg, PA Send us an email   New Items - Strickler's Celebrity Autographs Works on maverick science, unexplained mysteries, unorthodox theories, strange talents, and unexpected discoveries. 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