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- Nick Redfern: 'Final Events'
- A Challenge To You: The 'Jesus Theory'
- Fortean / Oddball News - 9/17/2010
- Pursuit to Preserve South Jersey Haunted House Underway
| Posted: 17 Sep 2010 08:02 PM PDT  I'm really looking forward to reading Nick Redfern's latest book titled "Final Events and the Secret Government Group on Demonic UFOs and the Afterlife". The publisher Anomalist Books writes the following: For decades, stories of alien abductions, UFO encounters, flying saucer sightings, and Area 51 have led millions of people to believe that extraterrestrials are secretly among us. But what if those millions of people are all wrong? What if the UFO phenomenon has much darker and far more ominous origins? For four years, UFO authority Nick Redfern has been investigating the strange and terrifying world of a secret group within the U.S. Government known as the Collins Elite. The group believes that our purported alien visitors are, in reality, deceptive demons and fallen angels. They are the minions of Satan, who are reaping and enslaving our very souls, and paving the way for Armageddon and Judgment Day. In FINAL EVENTS you'll learn about the secret government files on occultists Aleister Crowley and Jack Parsons, and their connections to the UFO mystery; revelations of the demonic link to the famous "UFO crash" at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947; the disclosure of government investigations into life-after-death and out-of-body experiences; and an examination of the satanic agenda behind alien abductions. FINAL EVENTS reveals the stark and horrific truths about UFOs that some in the government would rather keep secret. You can read more at UFO Mystic and please check out Nick Redfern's website. Nick Redfern: 'Final Events'  |
| A Challenge To You: The 'Jesus Theory' Posted: 17 Sep 2010 11:43 AM PDT  Recently, I have received several emails in reference to my views on religion / faith and that I 'should stick to the paranormal.' Well, I beg to differ...theology is the basis for the supernatural. The study of a God and the study of religious faith, practice and spirituality are components for the modern examination of the paranormal though, one does not need to believe in God in order to believe in spiritual beings and cryptid entities.The challenge to my readers...what was Jesus of Nazareth - human or otherwise? This question will ruffle some feathers and irritate beliefs but theories, no matter how burdensome, should be debated and discussed. If you want to make the same argument for other religious prophets, feel free to do so. Can you make a reasonable contention as to Jesus' existence, DNA and abilities? I would like to read your opinion on this topic. Please forward your response to Send us an email. I would appreciate well written detail of your theory so it can be published on 'Phantoms and Monsters'. I plan to periodically ask some of the more intriguing alternative questions to my readers so they can respond, share and learn with others. Thanks...Lon A Challenge To You: The 'Jesus Theory'  |
| Fortean / Oddball News - 9/17/2010 Posted: 17 Sep 2010 10:37 AM PDT  Gigantic 25m Wide Spider Web Found In Madagascar BBC - A newly discovered species of spider living in Madagascar makes the world's longest known web, spanning 25m. The spider also makes the largest orb web yet found for any spider, and constructs it out of the most tough biomaterial yet known, say scientists. Darwin's bark spider, a species new to science, weaves its huge web over flowing rivers, stretching from bank to bank. It is so big that it can catch 30 or more prey insects at any one time. Darwin's bark spider weaves what experts call an orb web, the most familiar spider web design. But this web is unusual as it is the largest orb web yet known to be made by any living spider, with the largest web measuring 2.8m². The previous largest webs are spun by orb spiders belonging to the genus Nephila. Last year a new species of giant orb weaving spider (Nephila komaci) was discovered in Africa and Madagascar that can spin webs up to 1m across. But even that web is dwarfed by those spun by Darwin's bark spider. "They build their web with the orb suspended directly above a river or the water body of a lake, a habitat that no other spider can use," says Professor Ingi Agnarsson, the director of the Museum of Zoology at the University of Puerto Rico, in San Juan who made the discovery with colleagues. That allows the spiders to catch insects flying over water, and explains why the web is so long. To reach from one bank to the other, the spider must weave anchoring lines of up to 25m. It also helps explain why the spider must weave it from such tough material, as the huge web must support its own weight and that of any prey it captures. Prof Agnarsson and colleague Matjaz Kuntner, who also both work at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, US, discovered the new spider species, which has the scientific name of Caerostris darwini, around the Namorona river in the Ranomafana NP and Fianarantsoa Province in eastern Madagascar. Details of the spider and its behaviour are published in the Journal of Arachnology. As in other related species, females dwarf the males. The researchers found many webs spun by the spider, with most hanging vertically above the river, with some at an angles of up to 50ยบ. Last year, the world's oldest spider's web was found encased in amber "Some of the webs qualify, to the best of our knowledge, as the largest spider webs ever documented," say the researchers in the journal. Up to 32 unwrapped prey items, mainly mayflies, were found in a single web. How the spiders spin such a huge web above water, and how they anchor their drag lines on either side of a river, is currently being researched. Many of the webs showed obvious signs of damage and repair, while others had large open holes, suggesting that the spider maintains each web for several days. Most orb weaving spiders take down and reconstruct their webs each day. The spiders are able to weave such large webs, held up by such long drag lines, by using the toughest, most energy-absorbing silk ever discovered, tougher than any other known biological, and most man-made, materials. Spider silks combine high strength with elasticity and are therefore already exceptionally tough, being able to absorb three times more energy before breaking than Kevlar, a material often used in bulletproof vests, say the researchers. However, Darwin's bark spider weaves silk that is about 100% tougher than any other known silk, making it the toughest biological material known, say the researchers. The have published details of the web's toughness in another scientific journal PLoS One. Other spiders are capable of weaving giant webs. For example, one huge web complex was found in 2007 in Texas. But this web complex was not the work of one large spider. Rather, millions of small ones weaved a series of interlaced webs that ended up covering an area twice the size of a football field. ********** Idiot! metro - Fifty-nine-year-old Mark Smith allegedly told bank workers in Watsonville, California, that he had a bomb in his backpack and that he would detonate it inside the building unless he was given $2,000. Smith was instead convinced by the bank manager to take a loan from the branch to solve his cash flow problems. While Smith waited patiently for the her to retrieve loan paperwork, the manager simply called emergency services. 'Quick-thinking staff kept the man calm and distracted him with some paperwork until we arrived' Ly. Darren Thompson told the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Police arrested Smith on suspicion of attempted robbery, as well as charges of making a false bomb report. Smith was not carrying weapons of any kind, Thompson added. ********** Real Estate Agent Showed Buyers House While Owner Lay Dead On Sofa telegraph - Samuel Allfort said he assumed the 55-year-old woman was sleeping when he carried out the viewing at her home in Notting Hill, west London. The estate-agent showed the would-be buyers round every room in the house but left the living room until last in the hope that Katherine Frame would wake up. After waving goodbye to the visitors, the Marsh and Parsons employee went back into the living room because he suspected that "something wasn't right", Westminster Coroners' Court heard. He found the homeowner totally motionless on the sofa and saw that she had turned a "yellow-ish" colour, the court heard. In a statement read to the court, Mr Allfort said: "Marsh and Parsons were instructed by Katherine Frame to sell her property for her. "I had an appointment to view the property at 4pm on Tuesday June 29, and I did the viewing as scheduled. "Whilst doing the viewing I decided the leave the living room until last as it looked like someone was asleep on the sofa. "After finishing the viewing I went outside with the applicants to say goodbye. I then went back into the property because something didn't seem right. "Upon seeing this person again they seemed absolutely motionless and were a yellow-ish colour. "I called an ambulance which arrived almost instantly, and the ambulance man soon told me that she had passed away." Miss Frame was born in New Orleans in America, and had lived alone since divorcing her husband, the court heard. She had decided to sell her Kensington house because of financial difficulties and was planning on returning to the USA. Coroner's officer Komi Omadoye said: "Katherine Frame was a divorced single lady who had been receiving treatment and support for chronic depression for the past 23 years. "For the past two years Miss Frame, who had been living alone since her divorce, had been unemployed following redundancy. "Due to financial difficulties she was preparing to sell her property with a view to relocating back to the US." Although Miss Frame had struggled for years with alcohol trouble a post-mortem revealed that there was no drink in her system when she died. However, the examination revealed her liver was severely damaged, and pathologist Dr Peter Wilkins provided evidence to the court claiming this was the "most significant" pathological factor he found. Recording his verdict, Assistant Deputy Coroner Dr Andrew Barton said: 'On Tuesday June 29, 2010 she was found to be lying dead at her home on the sofa in Treadgold Street in Kensington. "I conclude that this was natural causes exacerbated by chronic excessive alcohol ingestion." NOTE: I wonder if she comes with the house now? ********** St.Paul, MN Man Arrested For Flying 'UFO' Kite twincities - The man whose LED-lighted kite made some people think there was a UFO over St. Paul was back to his old hobby this week and ran into trouble. St. Paul police received reports this summer about unidentified lights in the sky. They found the source on Aug. 20. Ernest Sawka Jr., 34, was flying a kite with small lights attached to a long string. On that night, officers saw a warrant had been issued for Sawka's arrest, unrelated to the kite flying. He had pleaded guilty to gross misdemeanor theft and was supposed to turn himself in to serve time at the Ramsey County workhouse but hadn't. Sawka served his time and got out of the workhouse Sunday, he said. About 11 p.m. Monday, two people waved down officers, saying they "saw an unidentified object in the air" in the area of Minnehaha Avenue and Etna Street, said St. Paul police spokesman Andy Skoogman. "Our officers knew right away it was a kite with lights on it" because they were aware of the previous case. Officers checked the area and found Sawka near Etna Street and Reaney Avenue, Skoogman said. He was flying a kite with blue lights on it, on a string that "was hundreds of feet long," he said. "Our officers asked him if he was trying to get a rise out of the public by flying his kite at night and he nodded yes," Skoogman said. "He may think it's funny, but we think it's a waste of our resources." Police cited Sawka for disorderly conduct, public nuisance and being in a playground after hours. Wednesday, Sawka denied telling officers he was trying to get a rise out of the public. "I was doing it because I enjoy doing it, I think it's cool. I don't care what the public thinks," he said. Sawka said he had asked the officers who stopped him in August whether his kite flying was illegal. "They said, 'No, we think it's pretty cool,' " Sawka said. On Monday, when officers approached him, Sawka said he "was nothing but polite" and told them, "If this is illegal, just let me know," but he said they gave him a hard time and confiscated the kite. One officer told Sawka, "If I catch you doing this again, I'll come and find you and put you in jail," the man said. Sawka said he'd like to fight the citation. "Hopefully, the judge will say, 'You're here for flying a kite?' and drop the case," he said. Sawka said in August that he'd been sending lighted kites into the sky around St. Paul for about two years. He would put a "kite up a couple hundred feet and then start tying lights to the string," he said. They're "little LED bullet lights," Sawka said. The St. Paul man said he didn't set out to make people believe a UFO was above their heads. ********** Candidate Once Stated Scientists Have Created Mice With Human Brains! TPM - Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell has previously sounded the alarm against cloning and stem-cell research -- and what she's described as the current terror of human-mouse hybrids. We previously noted that O'Donnell had attacked her primary opponent, Congressman Mike Castle, based on his support for stem-cell research. But it turns out that her interest in the subject goes back much further. O'Donnell appeared in 2007 on The O'Reilly Factor, to speak out against such research in response to the cloning of some monkeys. Then came her warning on human-mouse hybrids. "They are -- they are doing that here in the United States. American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. So they're already into this experiment." It's possible that O'Donnell was misremembering this 2005 report on scientists who successfully grew human brain cells within mice -- which is not the same as an actual functioning human brain, but a demonstration that human brain cells can be made from stem cells. Fortean / Oddball News - 9/17/2010  |
| Pursuit to Preserve South Jersey Haunted House Underway Posted: 17 Sep 2010 09:39 AM PDT  southjerseylocalnews - Council members and the public were treated to some very convincing evidence that there is a lot of paranormal activity afoot at the Collins Lane house. Eric Pensyl Jr. and Edward Vargas, lead investigators from Dusk-Till-Dawn Paranormal Investigators, made their presentation at last week's council meeting. The Maple Shade nonprofit organization staked out the house and nearby silo twice in recent months after being solicited by the Maple Shade Historical Society. What they produced at the meeting were images of orbs floating in rooms and sounds of someone — or something — whispering. "We caught a lot of stuff that blew our minds," Pensyl said. "This is definitely an intelligent haunt." Admittedly creeped out but not afraid, Pensyl and his team also discovered a pentagram in the silo they believe was used, and still may be used, to summon demons, not ghosts. His group does not charge for their services because he thinks that is unethical. "Dusk-Till-Dawn was set up to help people whose houses are haunted," Pensyl said, noting the cost of all the equipment used comes out of his and Vargas' pockets. The group was formed last November. While he has been investigating the paranormal since 1990, Pensyl's day job is as a caterer at Maple Shade Smokers BBQ Catering. He first became intrigued with the possibility of other spirits roaming the world when he was 8 years old and his family moved into a haunted house. "I wanted to know why they were there and where they came from," Pensyl said. When he was 16, he would try to capture ghosts on film in abandoned houses and cemeteries. "The Collins Lane house is very active," Pensyl said. "It's right up there with Eastern State Penitentiary." The old Philadelphia jail is believed to be rife with spirits and hosts visitors this time of year for haunted tours. "I've been all over the United States doing this and this is one of the most active locations we have ever been to," he said. Pensyl said he believes the Collins Lane house, which was built in 1772, should be left as is. Vargas said he became intrigued with the paranormal about two years ago when a speaker bolted in a bracket crashed to the floor moments before he got a call that his friend had been killed. "There's no way on this earth that that could have fallen," Vargas said. "I believe it was his way of telling me he was there and was OK." Vargas has created Encuentros con Fantasmas (Ghost Encounters) and is shooting a pilot documentary for the first paranormal investigation show in Spanish. "You have tons in English but none in Spanish," he said of reality ghost shows. "Everyone who's Latin has a ghost story." Vargas said Maple Shade is a very haunted area because there are a lot of old homes. "My belief is that there are entities out there that either don't know that they've passed on, are too afraid to move on or they're just comfortable being there," he said. "If you really love your home why would you want to go anywhere?" Mayor Anthony Saporito was impressed with the demonstration. "I was always a little curious about it but to actually hear and see the evidence that was presented was fascinating and believable," he said. Saporito said plans to preserve the house are in place. "The original plans still remain to preserve the house to be a cornerstone of our open space project," he said. Maple Shade Historical Society President Betty Procopio said she found the presentation interesting and informative. "I probably experienced ghosts but didn't realize it," she said, noting that she does believe in ghosts but was surprised by what they found. In keeping with the haunted theme, historian Richard Tune will come to speak at a society meeting on Oct. 17 in the upstairs function room of the municipal building to talk about graveyards in New Jersey. Click for video - this is the first of five videos dedicated to the history of the Collins Lane house. As far as paranormal history, there is little available other than the recent investigation. Here is a link to a website that details the history of the house - The Collins Lane House...Lon Pursuit to Preserve South Jersey Haunted House Underway Send us an email   New Items - Strickler's Celebrity Autographs Works on maverick science, unexplained mysteries, unorthodox theories, strange talents, and unexpected discoveries. Please check out their excellent and diverse catalog  The 'C' Influence Actualizing Esoteric Discussion   "The latest news from beyond the mainstream" Join Ben & Aaron for their weekly podcast! Check out Mysterious Universe Plus+ all access format!  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