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- The Summer of the 'Fishy-Goat Man'
- Just the Facts? - 1st US Vampire Bat Victim, CIA Collects UFO-ET Data and Holy Water Miracle
- Katherine, NT UFO Investigation Gaining Momentum
| The Summer of the 'Fishy-Goat Man' Posted: 12 Aug 2011 11:18 AM PDT   That was the headline in The Fort Worth Star Telegram. In Fort Worth, Texas the summer of 1969 will long be remembered as the summer of the Lake Worth Monster. Robert Hornsby was a 9-year-old boy at the time when he remembered reading a newspaper article about a monster seen on Greer Island. Hornsby said the story recounted the tale of about six people who told police they had been attacked by a half-man, half-goat covered with fur and scales on the Island. Jim Marrs was one of the reporters on the scene investigating the so-called monster. He interviewed the witnesses at the police station. Marrs said the six were quite shaken up. "I talked to them and it was obvious that something had just scared the devil out of them," he said. Hornsby recalled that each day more stories came out about the monster.  The monster hunt got out of hand with carloads of people coming in to try and kill it. Sallie Ann Clarke was one of the people who claimed to have seen the monster. She described it as 7 feet tall, with a flat-looking hairy face. Clarke, who claimed to have seen the animal four times in three years, wrote a book and sold thousands of copies on the so-called Lake Worth Monster. Was it all an urban legend? Years after the first sighting, Marrs said police sources told him that some children from Brewer High School confessed and admitted they had paraded around in a gorilla costume and mask. - myfoxfw -----    During 1969, there was a creature spotted by many people near the area of Lake Worth in Texas. The creature was described by many as a monster, "half goat half man". Some believe it was nothing more than a prankster, while others believe it was a real living being. The story starts on July 10, when a man named John Reichart, his wife and two other couples went to a police station in Fort Worth. The police officers there noticed the people were so shaken up that they decided to investigate their story. The witnesses told the police while they were near the lake, a big creature jumped out at them and got on top of their car. They described the being as having scales and white hair, looking like a "half man, half goat" creature. When the police went to the scene of this incident, there was nothing found. However, there was an eighteen inch scratch on the side of the car that the alleged monster jumped onto. The couples said the scratch was not on the car, before the incident happened. About 24 hours later there was another sighting of the lake worth monster. About twenty four hours after the first sighting, a man named Jack Harris was driving near the Lake Worth Nature Center and said a creature walked right in his path. He said the creature was going up and down a hill. A crowd of forty people came and watched the mysterious beast. On this same day, the front page of the newspaper said "Fishy Man Goat Terrifies Couples Parked at Lake Worth".  During the months after this, people went looking for the lake worth monster with guns in hand. During one incident, it was claimed that the beast was shot, and a trail of blood was followed to the edge of the lake water. Another group of people looking for the creature claimed to have seen dead sheep with broken necks in the area. They say the sheep must have been killed by the beast. It was later theorized after these events, that the lake worth monster was a bobcat. It was also thought that police might have caught pranksters with a costume, although this was never confirmed. If it was a prankster, he must have been very brave with all those people walking around with guns looking for the monster. The sightings died out in 1970, and no one has come forward to claim that they hoaxed the sightings. - Jerome Clark, "Unexplained!" 1993    |
| Just the Facts? - 1st US Vampire Bat Victim, CIA Collects UFO-ET Data and Holy Water Miracle Posted: 12 Aug 2011 10:12 AM PDT   US reports first death from vampire bat A 19-year-old migrant farm worker from Mexico became the first person in the United States to ever die from a vampire bat bite, according to U.S. health authorities. The man, who was not identified by name, was bitten July 15 while sleeping in his family's home in Michoacán, Mexico. He did not seek out medical treatment for the bat bite and instead crossed the border into the United States en route to work in a sugarcane plantation in Louisiana. But after working one day in the fields, he developed pain in his shoulder, as well as numbness in his left hand and a drooping left eye accompanied by a high fever. He died on Aug. 21. According to a weekly health status report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this case marks the the first reported death from a vampire bat rabies virus variant in the United States. Health officials pointed out that the man's roughly two-week incubation period was far shorter than the median of 85 days reported in other human rabies bite cases in the United States. Another oddity: Vampire bats have traditionally only been found in Latin America. The CDC suggested that the bats might now be moving north because of changes in the climate. "Expansion of vampire bats into the United States likely would lead to increased bat exposures to both humans and animals (including domestic livestock and wildlife species) and substantially alter rabies virus dynamics and ecology in the southern United States," it reported. - cbsnews ********** Blow the Whistle on the CIA's Collection of UFO-E.T. Data (from Larry Bryant of UFOview) - After decades of protesting that it has no formal investigatory role vis-a-vis UFO-E.T. reality, is the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency still collecting evidence of UFO encounters reported in foreign press accounts? Count on it! You see, the agency's Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) continues to cull from various news media abroad any number of cases (particularly military-connected ones) for . . . what - covert analysis and clandestine response? Historically, the agency grudgingly has granted freedom-of-information access to some of those cases. But - get this - the agency has yet to routinely publish them on its public web site; wouldn't this be a simple, pro-active task to undertake inasmuch as the high popularity of UFO-related web sites remains undisputed? What will it take for this paradigm shift to occur in our lifetime - an act of Congress? (Stay tuned.) Meantime, I'm FOIA-requesting that the agency send me a photocopy of all its FBIS-collected UFO-encounter reports during the UFOhot period of May 1, 2011, through August 12, 2011. - classifiedads FOIA Request to CIA re FBIS-collected UFO-encounter Reports **********  Foot Hooked by Boy Fishing in Lake Turns Out to Be Prop Crews searched a north suburban lake after a boy fishing hooked what he thought was a human foot, but after several hours, a search determined that the foot came from a Halloween prop. Divers and sonar teams spent nearly nine hours searching Lake Marie, near Antioch, a release from the Lake County Sheriff's Office said. Authorities said the boy hooked the foot and reeled it to within three feet of his boat before it fell back into the murky lake water. Gurnee Fire Department Battalion Chief John Skillman said the search was launched because the boy was considered a reliable source. The fake foot was found Wednesday evening with the use of sonar. "Needless to say everyone involved is relieved that the foot turned out to be a fake one," Lake County Sheriff's Lieutenant Christopher Thompson said in the release. - foxphilly ********** Holy water miracle? Lucy Hussey-Bergonzi was expected to die after she collapsed from a brain haemorrhage. Her parents called in a Catholic priest to baptise her as they prayed and prepared to say their goodbyes. But as the water touched Lucy's skin, her arm shot up in air, the family said. Within a day, she was off life-support machines and showing signs of recovery, leaving experts baffled. 'Doctors were saying it was a miracle – people who have brain haemorrhages usually don't survive them,' said Lucy. 'I think it was a miracle. I can't think of another explanation.' Mother Denise, 41, added: 'It could be she was recovering anyway but the way it happened, even the nurses said it was a miracle.' Child actor Lucy, of Hackney in east London, was admitted to Great Ormond Street Hospital when she collapsed days after filming a small scene for Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince. She was on life-support for five days before her parents were told she would not make it. Despite her comeback from death's door in 2009, Lucy still had to learn how to talk, walk and even eat again. Today, aged 16, she is rebuilding her life, despite suffering severe headaches and numbness down her right side. - metro **********   This Week on 'Beyond the Edge' Radio - Paranormal Investigator/Entertainer Jason Gowin Jason Gowin was one of the stars of the hit TV series on A&E and Biography Channels "Extreme Paranormal" and Sci Fi Channels "The Paranormals". Jason has over thirteen years in the field of paranormal investigation after being mentored by George Lutz, the man whose family was the basis for the Amityville Horror book and movies. A lifetime fan of all things supernatural and ghostly, Jason Gowin started his interest in the paranormal as a mere child watching Scooby-Doo and Ghostbusters. The seeds these shows planted would later sprout him going to the local library as a kid and picking up every book he could on ghosts, demons and strange occurrences. But it wasn't until meeting his former teammates from Ghost Hunters, Incorporated that he began to look for the spooks that spooked in the night.Jason Gowin began his actual trek into the unknown back in the fall of 1998 with the infamous paranormal investigation group Ghost Hunters, Incorporated, where he spent the better part of 10 years causing chaos wherever and whenever they could. Upon meeting George Lutz, the man who was the basis for the Amityville Horror book and movies, and being shown a new path; changed his mind about certain things in the paranormal and sought out a new way in which to search for it that suited the not quite so blood thirsty (not literary) methods that he had become famous along with his GHI buddies for dishing out. While his convictions about the state of the paranormal remain the same, He's taken along with former GHI Alum and friends Bill Angove and Matt Ulkins, along with new comer to the paranormal Kyle Haggerty to continue bringing you an alternate source of paranormal information with the same brand of humor he's always been known for...he just can't be jumping into dumpsters and riding shopping carts into curbs anymore...his body says no more or it will no longer allow him to get out of bed in the morning, it made this very clear. Although he left the group in 2007, GHI will always have a fond place in his heart and since that time he has been searching out proof of the afterlife and finding it in haunted houses, storied battlefields and long forgotten graveyards. Jason has appeared numerous times on Ghostly Talk Paranormal Radio and the Ghostman and Demon Hunter show. His investigations have been published in the Encyclopedia of Haunted Places by Jeff Belanger. He has also been the basis for several widely released documentaries including New Gil Pictures "The Graveyard Shift" and Fight or Flight Films award winning "GHI vs BIGFOOT" amongst other videos about paranormal phenomenon. In 2008, Jason was asked by longtime friend and mentor in the paranormal Tim Yancey to become a co-host of the Encounters Paranormal Radio Program. Jason is currently working on several projects which we will be discussing on the show.  Join Eric Altman and Lon Strickler each Sunday at 10 PM ET as we go Beyond the Edge!  |
| Katherine, NT UFO Investigation Gaining Momentum Posted: 12 Aug 2011 09:17 AM PDT    Australia's most famous UFOlogist is coming to Katherine next week to investigate a recent UFO sighting. Alan Ferguson, who has been a UFO spotter for years, said he would be visiting Katherine on Wednesday for a night of UFO spotting in the hope to see "the guys from upstairs" with his own eyes. "It seems the action is happening in Katherine and there's no reason why I shouldn't be there to find out what's going on," the UFOlogist said. Mr Ferguson said he was going to catch up with David Schuman, who took photos of an unidentified object in the night sky above Katherine. Last week Mr Schuman was having dinner near Katherine's Strongbala Men's Healing Centre when he saw what he described as "very large brightly lit object" hovering in the sky. He said photographs he took of the UFO showed "a fuzzy triangular shape enclosing the object within, which seemed to be cloaking it's outer edge". "One area at the end of the craft (had) what I perceive to be two hot spots, are a fuzzy silvery grey. The other end of the craft on the other hand appears in colour to be of a fuzzy dullish orange." Ufologist Alan Ferguson said he was "intrigued" by the sighting, which came only a day after a sighting 200km north of Katherine. "I hope we get to see something while I am there and maybe we can take some more photos," Mr Ferguson said. "I'll certainly keep those eyes on the sky and camera and video ready as you never know what you may capture. - katherinetimes ----- from Aug. 5th, 2011 UFO images captured over Australia's Northern Territory Only a day after the last reported UFO sighting in the Northern Territory a Katherine man has not only seen a mysterious object in the sky - he also took photos of it. David Schuman was having dinner with his boss Phil Richardson near Katherine's Strongbala Men's Healing Centre last Tuesday when an "unusual large star" caught their eyes. "We were both seated around the dinner table, discussing various subject matters and running through the day's events when all of a sudden the boss changed the subject and said in a slightly raised tone 'Hey, that's an unusually large star - I have never seen one as big as that before and in fact that's too big for a star, what is that?," Mr Schuman said. "Through the open window we saw a very large brightly lit object and it just stood there, hovering there for 20 minutes or more, and motionless above the tree line." Mr Schuman said he walked outside for a closer look, before grabbing his camera. "I usually carry my camera with me where ever I go - even in the shower, because you never know," he said. "There was a real glowing about the object and it was very bright and every picture that I took was done with a degree of urgency about it when it started to move." Mr Schuman said in a later "examination" of his photos he came across what seemed "to display two aura rings within the brightly lit up orb". The UFO spotter said he also saw what looked like "a fuzzy triangular shape enclosing the object within, which seemed to be cloaking it's outer edge". "One area at the end of the craft (had) what I perceive to be two hot spots are a fuzzy silvery grey. "The other end of the craft on the other hand appears in colour to be of a fuzzy dullish orange," Mr Schuman said. "Is this the real deal or is this something that the military have conjured up to put the wind up people," he said. "But my boss thinks not - that it wasn't anything to do with the military as it was nothing he had ever seen before in his life." Mr Schuman said the object suddenly started moving towards him while he was trying to take photos. "Suddenly the bugger started to change shape then it swung out wide to my far right ducking in beyond the trees and at a height 30 metres at a rough guess and in an easterly direction. "Then it began changing colour appearing to separate prior to it disappearing as it quietly moved away. "We heard an almost silent woosh until it finally faded out of view. "Who knows - maybe we are not quite so unique as we first thought after all. "We are not alone I think." Only a day earlier Katherine man Brian and UFOlogist Alan Ferguson had spotted "bizarre" things in the Northern Territory sky. - katherinetimes ----- Northern Territory UFO Gallery UFO images from Australia's Northern Territory:        Spirit Rescue International™ Providing no-cost professional spiritual help, personal support and guidance Take the first step towards genuine peace of mind  The Spirit Rescue International™ Haunted Help Forum *Join Our Group On Facebook* Join Eric Altman and Lon Strickler each Sunday at 10 PM ET as we go Beyond the Edge!  ANOMALIST BOOKS Works on maverick science, unexplained mysteries, unorthodox theories, strange talents, and unexpected discoveries. Please check out their excellent and diverse catalog   "The latest news from beyond the mainstream" Join Ben & Aaron for their weekly podcasts! Check out Mysterious Universe Plus+ all access format!  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