Ghost-ghost roam: September 2011

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Phantoms and Monsters

Just the Facts? Huge Silver Haul Found, Indiana UFO Landing and Piranhas Attack Beachgoers

Posted: 27 Sep 2011 09:58 AM PDT

Huge Silver Haul Found On WWII Shipwreck

The SS Gairsoppa was carrying seven million ounces of silver when it was sunk during World War II. The 412-foot steel-hulled ship was torpedoed while in the service of the Military of War Transport.

On Monday, Odyssey Marine Exploration of Tampa, FL, announced it had confirmed the identity and location of the shipwreck site in the North Atlantic, about 300 miles off the coast of Ireland in international waters. It is the largest shipwreck ever found with precious metals on board.

In 2010, the UK Department for Transport awarded Odyssey Marine the exclusive salvage for the cargo of the ship through a competitive tender process.

Odyssey has begun the process of bringing up the find. Under the salvage agreement, Odyssey Marine will retain 80 percent of the net value of the silver bullion recovered.

On Tuesday, the price of silver was trading at $31.75 an ounce. - allheadlinesnews

Oceans Odyssey: Deep-Sea Shipwrecks in the English Channel, the Straits of Gibralter and the Atlantic Ocean (Odyssey Marine Exploration Reports)

Oceans Odyssey 2: Underwater Heritage Management and Deep-Sea Shipwrecks in the English Channel and Atlantic Ocean (Odyssey Marine Exploration Reports)

Three Miles Down: A Firsthand Account of Deep Sea Exploration and A Hunt for Sunken World War II Treasure

Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. - Company Capsule

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Indiana UFO landing...looked like campfire

(Unedited) - I drove a Ford cargo van for an overnite delivery company in Indianapolis in 2006. My route had 50 stops and I drove the same route each night travelling about 400 miles each evening. As I was heading west from US 31 to the town of Culver on a two lane country road around 1:00 am when I came over the top of a hill and down the hill I witnessed something out of the ordinary. What was normally a farm field pasture littered with some implements and a few head of cattle, now appeared to have the orange glow of a campfire. I thought to myself, that is kind of unusual because it was quite some distance from any residence. As I approached the area, I rolled down the window of the van and stopped to see if this was a campfire or perhaps an accidental fire. My eye level was about the top of the wire fence and the weeds that had grown up along the fencerow. What I witnessed about twenty feet away gave me chills and caused me a great deal of anxiety. What I saw was a highly reflective dome just over the top of the weeds about 20'-35'in diameter reflecting the color of the night sky with just the faintest sliver of an outline that defined its shape. But the weirdest thing about it was, it was mimicking a fire, soft orange and reddish undulations were reflecting off its surface but even stranger were the spark embers that normally float off a fire, they were recreated in a pixel type format, very quick dashes of light that floated in a zigzag geometric pattern making sharp right angles in a multi-sized square track across the surface of the dome. The light even dimmed as to copy an ember burning out. It was semi-convincing in reproducing a campfire but it was not natural. When I saw that it scared me and I immediately drove off. I was so close to it that I thought if lingered there any longer who knows what might happen. - MUFON CMS

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Piranhas attack around 100 beachgoers in Brazil

Authorities in a state in Brazil's northeast are scrambling to take the fright and the bite off the beach after piranhas sunk their teeth into about 100 beachgoers, UOL Noticias reported.

The problem -- rather fearsome given piranhas' horror-movie teeth and ability to sink them into human flesh -- has been the biggest at the main beach area in Piaui state; authorities said they need to act fast to reduce a piranha overpopulation situation.

Last weekend, at least 100 bathers were treated at the hospital in Jose de Freitas not far from Terezina, Piaui's capital, after being bitten on the heels or toes at the local beach.

"Since they have no predators, piranhas have started attacking people on the beach," said Romildo Mafra, a local environment official.

Environmental officials so far have added tilapia to the piranhas' local food chain hoping to quell some of the predators' hunger. - AFP

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Glowing orbs over F.E. Warren AFB

Cheyenne, WY - 8/5/11: I observed five round brightly colored objects moving SW to me quietly at great speed. On August 5, 2011, at about 18:10 to 18:15 MDT, I was facing east (nearly 90 degrees true). I just happened to be looking for the Moon which I observed south (nearly 180 true), when I observed two objects approximately 3 degrees east of the Moon and the same south.They were moving at about a course of (nearly 15 true). The first seemed to be moving ahead a little faster and opening the distance between them that I adjudged to be several degrees at first. They appeared to have some color in the setting sun. I watched them as they continued to separate a little and then slowly veer to the east to a heading between 15 true and maybe 45 true. As they now moved away from me they appeared closer together, that is less separation.Shortly another object appeared from the same location, so I went to get binoculars. With the binoculars I could not resolve anything but a ball-like object. That is no wings. The third object had bright red markings and some black. The fourth object appeared out of the same location and followed the same path except these seemed not to veer off to the east as much. The forth object was a brilliant green, and could only be resolved to be round. The fifth object seemed to be as the first three; bright red with some markings. Since I had only a 45 degree field of view, blocked by a tree, my estimates of speed and altitudes are just that, estimates. Speed I adjudge to be greater that Mach 1. I first thought greater than 500 nm. Altitude I adjudge to have been greater than 50,000 ft. There was no sonic boom. There was no sound of propulsion system. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. KEN'S NOTE: F.E Warren Air Force Base is part of the Space Command. There have been many UFO sightings and strange occurrences in this area. The Air Force Security Forces guard a three state area because of the missile silos located in this large area. - UFO Casebook and UFOSNW - Ken Pfeifer - World UFO Photos

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Phantoms and Monsters

New Hampshire Wood Devils
Just the Facts? Deadly Meteorite, Opus Dei Sued For Slavery and Russia's Mafia State
Planet-X, Comet Elenin, Nibiru...or What?

New Hampshire Wood Devils

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 02:47 PM PDT

I received the following anecdote from Will, a longtime resident of northern New Hampshire:

Hello - I enjoy reading your daily newsletter. I thought I'd write to you about an experience I had back in 1991. I enjoy photographing the outdoors and try to get out at least once during each season. It was the Fall of the year and I had seen several moose along the Pontook Reservoir and the Androscoggin River, so I decided to try and get a few photographs.

I parked off of Berlin Rd and walked into the woods east of the dam. I walked about 1000 feet or so. It was very dense and the light was low so I decided to get closer to the lake where I could pick up some better light. As I turned north I heard a cracking sound behind me. I turned to see what it was but saw nothing so I started to walk toward the area where the sound came from. I hadn't walked far when I saw something tall and thin dart from behind a sugar maple tree and quickly disappear. I stood for a minute and again this thing came from behind a large maple tree and then vanished again. I tried to get a photograph but the darn thing was fast and nothing every showed up on the shot. It didn't show itself anymore that day.

I went back to the location a couple more times but never witnessed this thing again. There are a lot of legends my father would tell us as kids but I really never gave it much thought. Some of the people around here used to talk about wood devils in the White Mountains but I've never heard about anybody seeing one or anything similar to what I saw.

The thing was about 7 foot tall, dark thick fur or hair and thin. Much thinner than a normal man at that height. Like I said it was very fast and nimble. I never heard a sound other than the footsteps it made when moving.

That's really all I have to say on this. I've seen many unusual things in my 76 years but this thing was the strangest. What do you think I saw? Will W.

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This is what I found on 'wood devils':

This was posted on the USENET several years ago and posted on a forum: Many years ago I lived up in Coos County in New Hampshire. Some of the old men would talk about things called "wood devils" that live in the woods. There apparently were a lot more of these creatures back in the 1930's than there are now.

These Wood Devils were tall and very skinny. They are gray colored and very hairy. I guess that people saw them mostly when they didn't expect to. They stay in the deep woods. They can move very fast. When a person walked through the woods he would nearly walk into one before he spotted it. They hide by standing upright and still against a tree. As a person approaches it, the creature will stand against the opposite side of the tree. As the person passes it will move so that the tree is always between the person and the tree. If it cannot hide it will still stay perfectly still until it knows the person sees it. They make awful screams. They have a semi human shape, but their faces don't look at all human. I have never seen one, but the people who said they did were regular churchgoers and would strap their kids for lying. I don't think they would carry on discussions of things they made up.

This was posted at burlingtonnews.net:

Wood devils (Eastern United States NA): A major part of Appalacian folklore, wood devils are tall, skinny humanoids with an almost "stick-man" appearence, due to their gracile build. Are considered hostile by the locals, and are much feared. Possibly a modern descendant of the gracile Au stralopithecines, or perhaps a race of the other eastern hominid.

Karl Shuker explained: According to the settlers inhabiting Coos County in New Hampshire, the deep woodlands of this New England state harboured elusive, fleet-footed beings known as wood devils. Although superficially humanoid in appearance, they were very tall, hairy, and thin, with grey skin. They were able to emit piercing screams, and their faces were not those of humans at all. Occasionally, a human would unexpectedly encounter one of these mysterious man-beasts, but if a wood devil became aware of a human's approach, it would conceal itself by standing upright and perfectly still against a tree, moving slightly to one side if necessary in order to keep the tree's trunk between itself and the oncoming person. All of these details are consistent with modern-day reports of the bigfoot.

The following is posted on the BFRO website:

YEAR: 1930's

SEASON: Unknown

STATE: New Hampshire

COUNTY: Coos County

OBSERVED:
Many years ago I lived up in Coos county in New Hampshire. Some of the old men would talk about things called "wood devils" that live in the woods. There apparently were a lot more of these creatures back in the 1930's than there are now.

These Wood Devils were tall and very skinny. They are grey colored and very hairy. I guess that people saw them mostly when they didn't expect to. They stay in the deep woods.

They can run very fast. When a person walked through the woods he would nearly walk into one before he spotted it. They hide by standing upright and still against a tree. As a person approaches it it will stand against the opposite side of the tree. As the person passes it will move so that the tree is always between the person and the tree. If it cannot hide it will still stay perfectly still until it knows the person sees it. They make awful screams. They have a semi human shape, but their faces don't look at all human. I have never seen one, but the people who said they did were regular church goers and would strap their kids for lying. I don't think they would carry on discussions of things they made up.

NOTE: so...what is this 'thing'? Is is a Bigfoot? Here is a link to a video of a similar sighting - Click for video - Wood Devil...Lon

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Just the Facts? Deadly Meteorite, Opus Dei Sued For Slavery and Russia's Mafia State

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 11:37 AM PDT

Deaths, Injuries After Alleged Meteor Strike in Argentina

From Scott Corrales - Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology

Source: INFOBAE, ELANTRO.CL and Grupo GABIE
Date: 09-26-11

Argentina: Possible Meteor Strike Kills One; Destroys Homes

One woman died and six other people were injured as a result of the event. A local resident told Radio 10 that the explosion was caused by a flaming object that fell from the sky and completely destroyed a house and several cars. "It was a veritable earthquake," she said.

The event took place a few minutes before 2 a.m. in a property located at the intersection Luis Vernet and Los Andes streets in Monte Grande, municipality of Esteban Echeverria.

The causes of the explosion remain unknown, but local residents claim "a fireball fell from the sky."

There was an overpowering smell like gunpowder," recalled one of the people living in the area, in statements made to C5N. "There is no explanation for what took place," added Cayetano, another resident, to Radio 10. He then added: "A neighbor woman came out running because she could see a blue fireball falling from above."

Guillermo Perez, commander of the local fire brigade, remarked that the causes of the incident remain unknown, while acknowledging that the first story points to "an object that fell from the sky."

"I heard that version, but can't confirm it at first instance. It is necessary to go by an expert investigation to see what really happened," he told Radio 10. Perez confirmed that two houses and a business were "completely destroyed."

As a result of the event, an elderly woman trapped under the debris perished while another six were rescued. Firefighters told C5N that these were subsequently taken to a local hospital.

The fatality is among the victims living in the house where the explosion took place. Three of the injured are members of the household and the other three are from the adjacent house, affected by the explosion. The injured parties are out of danger, C5N explained.

According to neighbors, the explosion was even heard in such neighboring communities as Ezeiza and Temperley, to the south of Greater Buenos Aires.

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UPDATE:

Information continues to come in on the possible meteor impact in Argentina. The following is from www.perfil.com:

[...] The Monte Grande explosion, which caused dozens of families in this Buenos Aires community to wake up, and caused a woman's death, was not caused by a gas cylinder explosion, as confirmed by initial investigations performed by the fire department.

"It was shown that there was no explosion resulting from a gas cylinder," stated Guillermo Pérez, the head of the fire department.

Only minutes before the explosion, a local resident took a photo of a burning object that fell from the night sky. The image shows a spherical object with a tail similar to that of a comet. Testimony by local residents suggests that this could be the "fireball" that they saw falling on the destroyed homes.

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Meteor or something else?

I was driving home on highway 90 west from Lafayette La, to New Iberia, returning from my daughters baseball practice and like any 12 yr old, she was mad at me for no reason other than I'm her dad. All of a sudden she says "dad I just saw something very strange," and I could tell something had really startled her. I tried to act calm so she would tell me the details. She knows how I'm into anything going on in the sky, and she is a bit spooked by it. She told me she saw a yellow streak of light coming down like a meteor of sorts. When it came close to the ground it sort of disintegrated. For her to say this, it must have been really amazing.

I tried to get more out of her but I could tell she was alarmed and scared,and she is really embarrassed by my interest in this stuff.

I then stopped at the nearest gas station, got down and was looking for something to drink as I was approached by a man with a cane in his 60's who was sober as a Judge. He said, "did you see that thing in the sky,"?

He then explained what he saw which was similar to my daughters. I could tell he was amazed by it and wanted more of an explanation. He also thought it was more of a blueish color if I remember right. I was so shocked that he had witnessed it too. I think he sensed that I was sort of a UFO BUFF. It's almost like he knew I was. He said it looked like he saw 2 orbs when it disintegrated, which I then asked if he saw 3. He replied no.

I then brought him outside to talk with my daughter. I asked him if it was sort of like a fireball, and he said he didn't think so. But while my daughter downplayed it, I know she was alarmed and saw something very peculiar. The man validated it too. We were near an airport but, by their reaction, it was either a meteor, or a UFO. It did break up or as I said disintegrated and they were both very amazed and I could tell it was a once in a lifetime sight for the both of them. There is no doubt that something is going on in our sky's and I don't think it will be long before we REALLY find out.

A year or 2 ago, a good friend of mine saw something similar to this in the same area, and one of the local TV channels reported a meteor sighting at the beginning of the month.

In closing, something very strange happened and I don't think it was a meteor. - MUFON CMS

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800-year-old remains of witch discovered in Italian graveyard… with seven nails driven through her jaw

These are the 800 year old remains of what archaeologists believe was a witch from the Middle Ages after seven nails were found driven through her jaw bone.

The grim discovery was made during a dig on what is thought to be a 'witches graveyard' after another woman's skeleton was found surrounded by 17 dice - a game which women were forbidden from playing 800 years ago.

Experts say they believe the women are aged around 25 - 30 years old and were found buried in a simple shallow grave in the ground with no coffin or shroud.

The macabre remains were found during a dig close to the sea at Piombino near Lucca in Italy's Tuscany region and the woman had seven nails through her jaw as well as another 13 nails surrounding her skeleton.

Archaeologist Alfonso Forgione, from L'Aquila University, who is leading the dig, is convinced that the women were suspected witches because of the circumstances in which they were buried.

He said: 'It's a very unusual discovery and at the same time fascinating. I have never seen anything like this before. I'm convinced because of the nails found in the jaw and around the skeleton the woman was a witch.

'She was buried in bare earth, not in a coffin and she had no shroud around her either, intriguingly other nails were hammered around her to pin down her clothes.

'This indicates to me that it was an attempt to make sure the woman even though she was dead did not rise from the dead and unnerve the locals who were no doubt convinced she was a witch with evil powers.

'The second skeleton we have found was buried in a similar fashion but this time we found 17 dice around her - 17 is an unlucky number in Italy and also dice was a game that women were forbidden to play.

'The way the bodies were buried would seem to indicate some form of exorcist ritual and the remains will be examined to see if we can establish a cause of death for them.'

One puzzle that the archaeologists have been unable to explain is why the women if they were evil witches were buried in consecrated ground as the area is the site of an 800 year old church.

He said: 'The only possible explanation is that perhaps both women came from influential families and were not peasant class and so because of their class and connections were able to secure burial in consecrated Christian ground.'

The team is trying to find the burial place of the St Cerbonius, a bishop who died more than 1,500 years ago and who is the local patron saint of the area.

Pictures traditionally show him having his feet licked by a bear after legend has it the animal refused to eat him after he was condemned to death for sheltering Roman soldiers by the Barbarians who had invaded Tuscany.

Two years ago a Medieval woman's skull was found near Venice with a stone driven through its mouth - which experts said was the traditional way of dealing with vampires and preventing them from rising from the dead. - dailymail

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French woman suing Opus Dei for years of alleged enslavement

A French woman is suing two followers of Opus Dei for enslavement , saying she was trapped for a decade working without pay at a school with ties to the powerful conservative Roman Catholic group.

Catherine Tissier said that, from the age of 14 until 27, she was forced to clean, wash and serve from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., including weekends, with no holidays or proper pay in establishments run by Opus Dei. She said she was forced to take vows of obedience, poverty and chastity and was cut off from the outside world. Now 40, she began a court action on Thursday on charges of "concealed work" and "payment contrary to dignity."

Defence lawyers insisted that the trial, believed to be the first of its kind in Europe, was a simple labour dispute, but lawyers for Tissier alleged that the enigmatic group's practices were physically and psychologically damaging to their client. Opus Dei looms large in the Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown's bestseller, where the group is depicted as a ruthless, even murderous sect bent on global power. It is a portrayal that the group, which in Latin means "Work of God," rejects.

In 1985, Tissier joined the Dosnon hotel school in eastern France and the adjoining Couvrelles château international meeting centre.

Officially, the school and centre are run by Acut, the University and Technical Culture Association. Tissier alleges that she discovered their link to Opus Dei only at the end of her first year.

One of the accused, Francis Baer, Acut's treasurer, acknowledged on Thursday that there was a link between his association and Opus Dei, but said it was limited to pastoral activities. Tissier alleged that its influence went far deeper. Chaperoned by what she calls a "spiritual director," she said she became a "numeracy assistant" for the group.

"I wasn't allowed to tell my parents I was in Opus Dei," she said.

"They had become the devil. When they tried to contact me, they were told, 'Your daughter is ours, she doesn't belong to you anymore, you can see her once a year.' "

She said she was sent to see a doctor, whom she said was an Opus Dei follower and who told her she was depressed and put her on heavy medication. At age 29, she weighed little more than 38 kilograms.

She alleged she was given high doses of an antipsychotic drug.

She said her parents rescued her from the organization in January 2001 and claimed that it took her two and half years to recover.

During her time at the institution, she said she received monthly wages, but was asked to sign blank cheques by her employers, who took the money back.

"At the end of 15 years, I had 10 euros in my account," she said, standing frail and stooped in a grey cardigan.

Agnes Duhail, the secretary of the château and the other accused, said Tissier "always did what she wanted. If she wanted to sign a blank cheque, she did it."

Tissier's claims were supported by four witnesses. "I feel guilty for having been exploited for several years," said one woman who claimed to have been forced to wash floors every day for no pay.

"The aim of Opus Dei was to be sanctified through work. We were pawns. We never had time for ourselves."

Baer said the meetings centre had passed a number of inspections.

Tissier first filed a lawsuit in 2001, accusing Opus Dei of "mental manipulation." The charges were later dismissed.

The trial continues. - edmontonjournal

The Power and the Glory: Inside the Dark Heart of Pope John Paul II's Vatican

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The Reporter the Russians Hated

Mafia State

There could be no doubt: someone had broken into my flat. Three months after arriving in Russia as the Guardian's new Moscow bureau chief, I returned home late from a dinner party. Everything appeared normal. Children's clothes lying in the corridor, books piled horizontally in the living room, the comforting debris of family life. And then I saw it. The window of my son's bedroom was wide open...
It wasn't open when I left five hours earlier, taking my children, Ruskin, six, and Tilly, nine, with me. We lived on the 10th floor of one of Moscow's post-communist-era apartment blocks, an ugly, orange-brick tower in the Moscow suburb of Voikovskaya. We kept our windows shut. The danger of a child falling out was too obvious.

To open the window, you had to twist the white plastic handle downwards 90 degrees. This was possible only from the inside; it couldn't have blown open. But the window was open, almost provocatively, defiantly so.

"Has there been a burglar?" my son asked, peering down at the frozen courtyard below. "I don't know. Perhaps someone managed to climb up the outside. Maybe it was Spiderman," I said weakly.

In the spare room I discovered a tape hissing in a music player. I hadn't put it on and my wife Phoebe had spent the night away with friends. Several hours later, while trying to suppress a feeling of horror, alarm, incredulity, bafflement and a kind of cold rational rage, I woke up. An unknown alarm clock had gone off somewhere in the flat. I went into the living room and turned on the lights. A clock was beeping loudly. I hadn't set it. But someone else had – to go off at 4.10am. I looked at the date; it was Sunday 29 April 2007.

It was clear that this was no orthodox burglary. They had apparently entered through the front door – the locks didn't seem to have troubled them. Nothing had been stolen; nothing damaged. The intruders' apparent aim had been merely to demonstrate that they had been there, and presumably to show that they could come back. The dark symbolism of the open window in the children's bedroom was not hard to decipher: take care, or your kids might just fall out. The men – I assume it was men – had vanished like ghosts. Continue reading at Enemy of the State

Planet-X, Comet Elenin, Nibiru...or What?

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 12:33 PM PDT

Click for video - Antarctic Station Mawson

There's been 'a buzz' the past week over a video from the Mawson Australian Antarctic Station. I'm not going to guess as to the identity of the anomaly seen in the video...but there are many claiming that this is proof of the Planet-X or a doomsday comet. The claims, to this point, are that Comet Elenin is everything from an elaborate hoax, to a piloted alien spacecraft, to a stray neutron star, to Planet-X itself, and on and on. The speculation began when Laura Knight-Jadczyk posted Comet Elenin is Coming!. She discussed the theories of J.M. McCanney - Planet-X, Comets and Earth Changes - and his predictions of Earth changes due to alignments between the Earth, Comet Elenin and the Sun. At the same time there was increased speculation about an impending 'pole shift' and the consequences because of it.

I don't know what your thoughts are on this subject but I'm not buying into it just yet. NASA is saying 'nothing to see here, folks!' Not that I believe everything the space agency comments on...but in this instance, I think there needs to be time for a sanity check. Lon