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- Reader Mail: Kentucky Bigfoot / South African 'Angel'
| Posted: 05 Jan 2011 03:40 PM PST  When I was in the 5th grade I had a teacher named Mr. Z. He was a devout church goer and a strict disciplinarian who had a deep affection for American history. He was also a friend of my parents so I knew I was on a short leash. Honestly, I didn't particularly like Mr. Z. There was something about him that rubbed me the wrong way. I don't know if it was his attitude or the way he would look at you with his thick coke bottle glasses. Then again, my animosity towards him could have been the result of him smacking me on the back of my head in class one day because I was talking to another classmate. Regardless, I was always wary of him. There was one thing required of each of Mr. Z's students...the memorization and reciting of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. He was animate about it. As well, each of his classes took a field trip to the Gettysburg Battlefield near the end of the school year. A few weeks prior to the field trip, there would be intense study of the 3-day battle with all the particulars. This was fine with me because I knew much of the information already and Mr. Z was impressed with my prior knowledge...until the day before the field trip. On that day, the discussion centered around the high number of deaths during the battle and how the wounded and dead were dealt with. I will remember his question to me like it was asked yesterday, "Lon, what was the result of the carnage at Gettysburg?" Hoping that I would answer 'the development of the Sanitary Commission'...instead I answered 'ghosts'. I'll never forget the look he gave me. Needless to say, the answer got me a conference with Mr. Z after class. After everyone had left school Mr. Z instructed me to wait for him in the classroom. I had no idea what was in store for me. A few minutes later, Mr. Z and my mother walk into the classroom. Mr. Z explained to her what I had said and told her that he didn't appreciate 'my wise-ass remark'. I said nothing...other than to apologize and promise to never talk out of turn again. When I got home, my mother never said a thing about the incident...which was OK by me. I kind of think she had an idea of what I was going through, although we never discussed it until several years later. The next day my classmates and I hopped on the bus and proceeded towards Gettysburg. When we arrived, a National Park Service tour guide boarded the bus. Actually, the whole affair was old hat for me but I remained quiet and enjoyed the day out of the classroom. After an hour or so, we arrived at a very familiar and favorite location...what I called 'Death Valley'. This included the Wheatfield and the area leading up to Devil's Den. Soon after stopping at these locations and listening to the tour guide we made our way to the summit of Little Round Top. At this point, we were allowed to disembark and stretch our legs. We walked to the rocky summit of Little Round Top and looked out onto the vast battlefield. I had always loved this location and had felt many fallen spirits here over the years. We next walked down the road a bit until we reached the pathway to the 20th Maine monument. We trekked the short distance until we reached the short stone wall where these brave soldiers had essentially saved the Union on July 2nd, 1863. It is truly a sobering place. We stood and looked on for a few minutes when Mr. Z walked up to me and smirked 'where are those ghosts?" in front of my classmates. I was embarrassed by his comment as the other kids started to laugh and tease. Mr. Z just leisurely walked away with his hands in his pockets and a big smile on his face. He was standing by himself beside the 20th Maine monument when suddenly I heard him yell out. I turned and watched him tumble head first down the hillside. He rolled quite a distance, but eventually got back to his feet...struggling to climb back up to the pathway. The tour guide asked if he was all right. The first thing out of Mr. Z's mouth was "someone pushed me." I couldn't help myself...I tried to hide the smile on my face. He had torn the inseam of his slacks and received a nasty bump on his forehead. After making an attempt to straighten himself out he shot a quick pissed-off glance my way. I was still smiling. Mr. Z never said one word to me after that. In fact, I never saw him again after the last day of school. Anyway, Mr. Z was right about one thing....he was pushed but only I saw who did it. Lon  |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2011 09:21 AM PST  Hawass' Speculates Future Discoveries discovery - The tomb of King Tut's wife, a buried pyramid, the Great Pyramid's secret doors, and the final resting place of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony: these discoveries could await us in 2011, according to Dr. Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. Hawass, one of the world's leading Egyptologists, gave an exclusive interview to Discovery News at an exhibition of images from ancient Egypt taken by photographer Sandro Vannini. Hawass' many-years-long effort to solve the mystery behind the Great Pyramid's secret doors and Cleopatra's burial place is well known. Less publicized has been his search for a new tomb in the Valley of the Kings and a buried pyramid in the Dashur area. "We took satellite images over an area in Dashur and we could see that a pyramid is buried underneath the ground. Right now we are excavating this pyramid," Hawass told Discovery News. Located some 50 miles south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, Dashur is the site of several pyramids. The best known are the "Bent" pyramid, so named because of its sloping upper half, the "Red" pyramid, named after the reddish limestone from which it is built, and the "Black" pyramid of Amenemhat III. Hawass believes the buried pyramid might belong to a king of the 13th Dynasty (1782-1650 BC), a period marked by rivalry over the throne, with many kings reigning for a short time. "We do not know the name of the king yet. There are many missing kings in the 13th Dynasty," Hawass said. At the present time, Hawass seems to concentrate most of his efforts in the Valley of the Kings, where he hopes to uncover tomb KV64. Indeed, 63 tombs have been already discovered since the valley was first mapped in the 18th century, with 26 of them belonging to kings. Called KV64, as it will be the 64th tomb discovered, the tomb is likely to be a Queen's burial. "We found some indication that this tomb could be for Ankhesenamun, the Queen of Tutankhamun," Hawass said. Born as Ankhesenpaaten around 1348 BC, she was the third daughter of the Pharaoh Akhenaten and Nefertiti. She probably changed her name into Ankhesenamun when she became the Great Royal Wife of Tutankhamun, most likely her half brother, at the age of 13. Recent DNA tests have established that the two female fetuses buried in the tomb of Tutankhamun were most likely his offspring. The mother is not yet genetically identified, although the data obtained from KV21A, one of two late 18th dynasty queens buried in tomb KV 21, pointed to this mummy as the mother of the fetuses. Unfortunately, the researchers were not able to identify her as Ankhesenamun. If KV64 is indeed Ankhesenamun's tomb, new light might be shed on the family lineage of King Tut, especially if the Queen's mummy is found. "I hope this will be an intact tomb for Queen Ankhesenamun," Hawass said. NOTE: he's been predicting the discovery of the Great Pyramid's secret doors for 20 years now. I give him a lot of credit for keeping interest alive though he is a fervent self-promoter...Lon ********** Pa. Widow Builds Vault, Could Get Corpses Back aolnews - It looks like Jean Stevens will be reunited with the two people she loved so much that she wanted them to keep her company after they died. The 91-year-old widow who lived with the embalmed corpses of her husband and twin sister -- until authorities found out and took them away -- is hopeful they'll be returned soon. Workmen at Stevens' rural property outside the northern Pennsylvania town of Wyalusing have been busy the past few months, erecting a gabled building with gray siding and a white door. It resembles an oversized shed, or a smaller version of Stevens' detached garage. In reality, it's a mausoleum that Stevens intends as the final resting place of her husband of nearly 60 years, James Stevens, and her twin, June Stevens. And authorities have told her it's the only way she can get them back. She can't wait. "I think about them all the time," Stevens told The Associated Press a few days before Christmas, "and I always will." The coroner, she said, "has them up there in the cold box, which makes me shiver. He says, 'They're all right, Jean, you don't have to worry about them.'" Stevens had their bodies dug up shortly after they died -- James in 1999, June in 2009 -- because she couldn't bear not being able to see them again. She kept her husband on a couch in the garage, and her sister in a spare room off the bedroom, where "I could touch her and look at her and talk to her," Stevens told AP last summer. "Death is very hard for me to take," she added then. Stevens' tale touched a chord. She estimates she received about 70 letters from around the world, most of them expressing well-wishes and sympathy. She's written back to some. One of her new pen pals mailed a Christmas package with fruitcake, mints and a holiday tin stuffed with Chex mix. "Dearest Jean," wrote her correspondent, "you've sent us a Christmas treasure, your letter!" Stevens also knows that some people think she's strange. She laughs heartily as she leafs through a pair of supermarket tabloids that had blared her story. She says Jay Leno once cracked a joke about her. But it's Stevens who may get the last laugh. Bradford County authorities, who have been storing the bodies in the morgue since they took them away in June, have told Stevens she can have them back if she builds an aboveground vault. Coroner Tom Carman said he plans to release them once it's completed. "I want to get Jimmy and June back to her just as soon as I possibly can," he said. Carman has struck up an unusual friendship with Stevens. He's spent hours listening to her talk, mainly about the past. "She's a wonderful lady," he said. Stevens plans to place her husband and sister in body bags with clear panels, so she can see their faces. The mausoleum is large enough to hold as many as eight bodies. Stevens said she'd like to transfer the remains of several loved ones to the crypt, including those of her long-deceased mother and father. One of the spots will be reserved. "She means to be placed there, as well," Carman said. "She's made that very clear." ********** 10-Year-Old Discovers Supernova space - It may have only appeared as a tiny, glowing spot hovering over a distant galaxy, but the sight made a precocious 10-year-old amateur astronomer the youngest person ever to have detected a stellar explosion called a supernova. Kathryn Aurora Gray of Fredericton, New Brunswick in Canada discovered the supernova explosion in a galaxy, called UGC 3378, within the faint constellation of Camelopardalis. The galaxy is approximately 240 million light-years away. "I'm really excited. It feels really good," Gray told the Toronto Star. Gray made the discovery on Jan. 2 using images that were taken of galaxy UGC 3378 on New Year's Eve. The supernova was then verified by Illinois-based amateur astronomer Brian Tieman and Arizona-based amateur astronomer Jack Newton, who then reported it to the International Astronomical Union's Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams. Gray reported the stellar explosion under the supervision of her father, Paul Gray, who has made six prior supernova discoveries, and family friend David Lane, who has found three others himself. The photos of galaxy UGC 3378 were taken using a telescope belonging to Lane. Supernovas are powerful and violent explosions that signal the deaths of stars several times more massive than our sun. These cosmic blasts are interesting to astronomers because they manufacture most of the chemical elements that went into creating the Earth and other planets. Distant supernovas can also be used to estimate the size and age of our universe. The last supernova found in our galaxy occurred several hundred years ago, and they are considered relatively rare events. Astronomers can increase their odds of discovering a supernova by repeatedly checking and comparing many different galaxies. A new supernova reveals itself as a bright point of light that was not present in previous observations. And, since a supernova can outshine millions of ordinary stars, it is often easy to spot one with a modest telescope, even in distant galaxies like UGC 3378. Despite being the discoverer of this one, Gray didn't get to bestow a name on the object, which is known simply as Supernova 2010lt. ********** Alien Life, Paranormal Visitors Get Official Recognition yahoo - Extraterrestrial life and paranormal beings are moving slowly away from the fringes, as more international governments conduct official studies and even census counts of the mysterious beings. This week, the Argentine Air Force announced it is creating a commission to document and research all reports of unidentified flying objects in the country's air space, according to the AFP. Although not fully formed yet, the commission will bring together meteorologists, air traffic controllers and pilots in order to give a more comprehensive scope to UFO sightings and to more officially record and investigate the phenomena. Argentina is actually behind the times, as neighboring countries Brazil and Uruguay have already conducted similar measures to investigate sightings. European Union lawmaker Mario Borghezio took a similar approach to researching possible alien life in June, when he submitted an official request asking all EU member nations to release their documents on UFO sightings, according to AOL News. In June, the declaration had received 17 signatures. Colombian officials are looking to the spookier side of things this week, as its Medellin undertaker William Bentacur has decided to conduct a supernatural census of the city's eeriest residents, according to AFP. The count, which Bentacur conducted alongside four other funeral parlor workers, has already revealed at least 215 spirits living within the city limits; 23 of those reportedly showed their faces in photos and videos. The census is far from over, Bentacur told the AFP, as residents or tourists who spot spirits in Colombia's second-largest city may email him (censofantasmas@hotmal.com) or call the funeral home to report any supernatural sightings. He expects to take a year for the project, then write a book and try and snag a documentary deal. Ghost hunters revealed that they're a pretty dedicated bunch when in November, a group announced they will voyage across the North Atlantic in April to meet with the Titanic's spirited guests, AOL News tells us. Titanic expert William Brower, who will go on the trip, believes that the intense emotional trauma passengers endured during the shipwreck left supernatural imprints that still exist today, nearly 100 years after the gigantic cruiser hit an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the sea. Brower says the investigators will try to recreate the ship's last night afloat by playing the same music that the doomed passengers heard and eating the exact meal served when the Titanic hit the ice; such attention to detail, he hopes, will bring out any residual emotional impressions left at sea. **********  Trailer: 'The Rite' Click for video  |
| Reader Mail: Kentucky Bigfoot / South African 'Angel' Posted: 05 Jan 2011 08:03 AM PST    I received this image and information from a reader today (1/5/11): Lon, had these pics sent to me and was curious as to what you thought. This person wishes to remain annonymous but I will give you all the info I know. These pics were taken on a trail camera in western Kentucky. The pics are being shown on a tv, and you are looking at pics of the tv. In some pics there looks to be a house door/window in frame, this is actually a reflection in the tv. The land owner claims representatives from the University of Louisville have been contacted and have visited the property to investigate. They also apparently asked the land owner to not let anyone onto the property. I find these to be very perplexing. The pics in which you can see the entire figure look hoaxed to me from the shoulders down, but the face and eyes look somewhat real. The photo's of it bending over and eating the corn on the ground also look somewhat real. I truly don't know. What about you? NOTE: Your guess is as good as mine...though, I think the reader is sincere. If any further information comes forth on this sighting I will post an update...Lon **********   A reader from South Africa (Dina) forwarded the following information which, according to Dina, has caused quite a stir. Please excuse the translation from Afrikaan to English: beeld - An "angel" in a family photo after the death of a son (10) were taken, for his family closure and comfort "in this very difficult time" spent. Ruan van der Berg last Wednesday with an asthma attack and died three days later on the family farm Pharosfontein in Wepener district buried. His father, Peter, said the picture was even after Ruan's burial on the farm board. A Ligbeeld "an angel" is right above the picture to see. Rentia van der Berg, Ruan's mother, said before the funeral she was "hysterical". "I could not sleep, but after I saw the photograph, I like a sleeping baby. "It was my Ruantjie saying he was part of us." She said Ruan day of his death knew he was going to die. "Me and GJ, Ruan's older brother, went into the kitchen out. Ruan was in the lounge with the TV. I got out of the corner of my eye saw him disappear into his room with his inhaler. "When he was a while later in the kitchen, wash his eyes red cried. He told me, 'Mom, I'm going to die." Ruan has not breath as his first attack years ago - he suffered from asthma since he was a year old - but "when he turned to me saying he was going to die, I think he knew. Van der Berg said he was on the field on a tractor when his wife phoned him. He did not even heard his cell phone. "The tractor suddenly inexplicably started smoking. I got it off and then only hear my phone ringing. " The photo with the foreign media has the Van der Bergs's family and friends to talk. Many believed it was an angel. Peet Katzke, a friend of the family who saw the photograph, said he believes the image is "a reality". "Nobody can really explain this vision." Charl Devenish, chief photographer for Picture's sister newspaper Volksblad, said the image was created when the camera's flash to something like a moth bouncing it. ----- Dina also forwarded details of an incident in 1972: 1972: A STRANGE ENCOUNTER AT ROSMEAD SCHOOL Sunday evening, November 12, 1972, found Harold Truter, the principal of Rosmead Junior School, driving home after a weekend holiday. As he drove into Rosmead, a small town in South Africa located about 200 kilometers (120 miles) north of Port Elizabeth, he spotted an unusual light in the sky. Through the car's windscreen (windshield in the USA-- J.T.) Truter could see the school building up ahead, with its attached bungalow living quarters, and to the left a tennis court with a high chainlink fence and a grove of eight bluegum trees. A strange bright greenish-white flickering glow hovered above the tennis court. What the bloody hell--!> the principal thought. Turning off the highway, he drove down a short road and pulled into the driveway. As he emerged from the car, he espied "a strange light in the sky but considered it to be a natural but unusual phenomenon." The "distant light" was now a good 183 meters (600 feet) away, hovering over a peaked ridgeline that towered over a nearby construction site. Numerous dark silent trucks crouched at the foot of the hill. Truter frowned thoughtfully. Must be a helicopter... But there was no engine noise, just the whisper of wind through the leaves of the bluegum trees. Returning to the car, Truter unlocked the boot (trunk in the USA--J.T.) and began taking the luggage out. But as he carried two suitcases past the tennis court, the principal's nose detected the scent of burned oil. Peering through the chainlink fence, Truter "saw that the surface of the tennis court had been broken up and tar (asphalt) and coal ash had been lifted up and scattered." Truter tugged at the tennis court gate. It was locked. He then tried the door on the bungalow. That, too, was securely locked. He vividly remembered locking it himself late Friday afternoon. He glanced back at the tennis court. Asphalt chunks littered the surface. Gaping holes about five inches (12.5 centimeters) deep had been torn in a lateral direction parallel to the white lines. He saw a pool of molten tar glistening in the dim light. After unlocking the door, he went inside and rang the police. "Investigation of the tennis court indicated a symmetrical pattern of identical holes; some of the tar from the court had been strewn 183 meters (600 feet) away, on to a ridge nearby." "Bluegum trees alongside the tennis court had been badly burnt and they died about two months later," in January 1973. Interestingly, the Rosmead police told Truter "that there were many other UFO reports received from the same area at the same time, including reports of sightings by (South African) police officers." "Analysis of samples taken from the site indicated no obvious anomalies, though (they) indicated no solution, either." "Whether or not the tennis court was the landing site of a UFO remains speculated by some; but unproven." Send us an email   New Items - Strickler's Celebrity Autographs  ANOMALIST BOOKS 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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