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| Holiday Poltergeist Activity Alarms Reader Posted: 19 Dec 2010 07:33 PM PST  Mr. Strickler - I wanted to communicate with you a few strange incidents I experienced this past week. I am a collector of vintage Christmas ornaments and have done so for over 30 years. The day after Thanksgiving, I received a telephone call from a local auctioneer who had just received a consignment that included several rare handmade ornaments. The next week, I attended the auction and was delighted after obtaining several of these fine pieces at very reasonable prices. One ornament in particular stood out from the rest. It was a porcelain figure of a St.Bernard dog that was English and hand painted. Each Christmas, I select my favorite ornaments from my collection to display on my tree. I was very proud of the new St. Bernard dog ornament and wanted to show it off to my friends and family. One morning last week, I noticed that the ornament had fallen from the tree and was laying on the carpet. The string that attached it to the tree branch was not tore and felt fortunate that it had not broken. I just placed it back on the tree. That evening, I was sitting in the living room reading a magazine when I started to hear a 'ringing' sound coming from the tree. It was like a the sound of a porcelain bell. The sound lasted for a few seconds then suddenly stopped. About an hour later, the ringing sound started again but this time it was a bit louder and lasted for almost a minute. I looked at the tree but could not tell where the sound was coming from. I just assumed it was coming from outside the house. That night, I was laying in bed asleep (around 11:45 pm) when I thought I heard heavy footsteps coming down my upstairs hallways towards my bedroom. I got up, looked around the house and rechecked the intruder alarm. I was in the kitchen checking the outside door when I heard footsteps rapidly going up the stairs to the second floor. I live alone, so I was very concerned, so I called 911 just to be safe. The police looked around the property to make sure it was safe. I live in a small community where everyone knows everyone else's business, so anything out of the ordinary is common knowledge the next day. The police assured me that they would not make a report. They soon left and told me to call back if I noticed anything unusual. I thought that was an odd statement but I appreciated their concern. I walked up the stairs and turned towards my bedroom. As soon as I got to the bedroom door I noticed it. The St. Bernard ornament was setting on my nightstand. Now I was freaked out. I have never experienced any paranormal activity though I love to read about these things. Now it was happening to me. I picked up the ornament, walked downstairs and placed it back on the tree. I looked at it for a minute or two and then noticed that two other ornaments were missing. I looked on the carpet but nothing was there. After looking around for several minutes I decided to go back to bed and look again in the morning. The next morning, I woke and walked downstairs. I entered the living room and immediately noticed that the St. Bernard ornament was missing from the tree - but the two ornaments that were missing the night before were back on the tree. I looked all over the house, but the ornament was gone. It has been almost a week and the St. Bernard ornament is still missing, but there has been no further activity since it disappeared. I cannot explain any of this. Are you familiar with this type of activity? I hesitate to speculate what is going on and really don't what anybody coming into my house to investigate. If the ornament returns, I will notify you. Please feel free to publish my story if you like but I would appreciate anonymity. I have included a photo of a similar ornament I found in a dealer catalog. Thank you for your help. NOTE: I referred the writer to Spirit Rescue International if they need further help. I suggested that these incidents resemble poltergeist activity but there could be other explanations as well. Any thoughts from the readers? Lon       |
| Paranormal / Spiritual News: Family Endures Terror, Famous Poltergeist and Hollywood Haunts Posted: 19 Dec 2010 02:54 PM PST  Family endures series of terrifying events mcdowellnews - More than 30 years ago, a family in New England started to experience a series of terrifying events that would seek to drive them from their home. Most families who went through what they went through would flee their house. But this one did not. The series of weird events took place in the late 1970s through the early 1980s. Websites devoted to this legend don't seem to specify the location but simply state that this family lived in a New England town. Paranormal researchers have also not disclosed the actual name of this family in order to protect their privacy. Instead, investigators with the Psychical Research Foundation have given them the last name of Berini. Their first names have also been changed. It all started when the father, who is called Joe Berini, decided to move his family into his ancestral home in the unnamed New England town. Joe had grown up in this house and some of his family members had died there too. Joe moved in with his wife, who is called Rose, and her two children from a previous marriage, who are called John and Daisy. One night in May 1979, Rose reported hearing a strange disembodied voice in the house. It sounded like that of a little girl, she later reported. The first time she heard it, it said, "Mama, mama, this is Serena." None of the Berinis knew who Serena was or what this message might mean. But later, Joe learned that his father had a sister named Serena who died in the house at the age of 5 more than 50 years before. The very next day after Rose first heard Serena's voice, her daughter Daisy was taken for a scheduled appointment to have her tonsils taken out. Something went wrong during the surgery. Daisy's heart failed and she nearly died on the operating table, according to a website. The girl's voice was heard on several more occasions and it appeared to become an omen that something bad would soon happen. The family heard the voice the night before Joe's grandmother suffered a stroke, and again right before the grandmother passed away. On another occasion, Joe was awakened by Serena's voice to find his wife Rose choking in her sleep. When he awoke her, Rose said she had been having a nightmare about her ex-husband trying to strangle her. Then, the ghostly voice stopped. From late 1979 to March 1981, the family encountered nothing more out of the ordinary. But in that spring of 1981, a new series of weird phenomena would haunt the Berinis. One night, Rose was startled by seeing the ghost of a small boy, dressed completely in white, walking along the upstairs hallway. The boy's spirit appeared again a week and a half later. This time he spoke to Rose. "Where do all the lonely people go? Where do I belong?" the apparition asked her, according to a website. Joe would also see the mysterious boy in white. He went to the place where the ghost appeared and began to check it out. Curious, Joe pulled up the floorboards and found a medallion of the Virgin Mary underneath. He remembered that his father's younger brother called Giorgio had died in the house at the age of 8. The boy was buried in his all-white suit from his first Communion. The spirit of Giorgio began to appear frequently to Joe and Rose over the next few months. The ghost would respond to their questions and seemed distressed. It would mention family members that Joe had not thought of for a long time. As the ghost vanished for the last time, the telephone next to Joe and Rose's bed was thrown off the night table by an invisible force. This was the beginning of the weird poltergeist activity that would terrorize the Berinis in the weeks and months to come. ********** Do Hollywood ghosts still hang at their old haunt? 760kfmb - After months of secrecy; Del Mar Fairgrounds management is talking about several paranormal investigations held on site to try and find out what employees have known for years. Thanks in part to the South Coast Paranormal investigating team; the investigation reveals that doors have opened and closed, voices have been heard and shadows discovered. The paranormal activity is believed to be at the hand of past Hollywood legends who helped establish the track back in 1936. In the video report above two Del Mar track employees talk about their own personal experiences with what goes bump in the night as ghostly images are discovered in a track pub. ********** Poltergeist of Alex Higgins Haunts Belfast Apartment thesun - A mum who moved into the flat where Alex Higgins died says she is being HAUNTED by the snooker legend. Amanda Miller, 40, is terrified as the poltergeist of the potting ace nicknamed Hurricane breezes through every night. The apartment was cleared after cancer-stricken Higgins, 61, was found dead there in July. Amanda said: "Most of his stuff may be gone but his presence lives on." There are mysterious bangs - and a painting falls from the wall at precisely 6.30pm each day. One morning she even found the old fridge that Higgins left behind had been shifted and plugged in. Amanda, who moved into the small Belfast flat seven weeks ago, said: "I thought it was a great move because it is so handy for the shops. But since I moved in it hasn't felt right and all these unexplained things are getting to me. I sleep on the sofa in the living room because I can't bear to sleep in his bedroom." But she is staying put. Amanda plans to ditch the fridge and redecorate the flat in a bid to banish the spook. ********** RECENT PARANORMAL / SPIRITUAL NEWS Some say local graveyards are spooked, and full of paranormal experiences Reincarnation and memories from beyond Portsmouth's Wymering Manor fails to sell at auction TV 'psychic' to UK's most wanted Phantom car speeds up, then disappears Out of Our Brains On the hunt for ghosts at Warwick Castle CNY Spirits Return to Hannibal Quick Mart Paranormal investigators check out fairgrounds Is that you in there, Earl Chism, whistling in the dark? Ghostly experiences in Grafton A Ghost Video ********** This is an older video but still very interesting.... Click for video - GHOST OF LITTLE GIRL SEEN BY ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD     |
| Fortean / Oddball News: Liverpool Creature, Rendlesham Forest UFO and Aliens Hunt Aussies Posted: 19 Dec 2010 02:07 PM PST  Mysterious 'Creature' Spotted in UK Port ninemsn - A mysterious object has been spotted in waters near Liverpool in England's northwest, sparking speculation it could be a shark. The object, seen at the Albert dock in Merseyside, has raised questions about the effect England's freezing waters are having on marine biology. Some experts have said it could be a basking shark while others have said it could simply be a jetski. Marine biologist Tom Cornell said basking sharks were known to cruise around the coast and that they weren't a threat to humans. "Although it is unusual for tropical island sharks to be found in this area, it's not unheard of," Mr Cornell said. Radio DJ Simon Hoban spotted the creature while viewing an aerial shot of the maritime tourist spot on Google Earth. The image appears to show some sort of sea creature with a curved body, pointed snout and pectoral fins on either side of its body. The Daily Mail reported that the creature was larger than some of the boats which are lined up beside it. Mr Cornwell suggested the animal may be lost. "Perhaps it was an old shark which was looking for a place to die," he said. ********** Rendlesham Forest UFO Encounter Still Leaves Questions Thirty years after claims that UFOs had been spotted in Rendlesham Forest, experts and enthusiasts still can't agree on what happened. Mysterious craft and lights around the airbases of Woodbridge and Bentwaters in Suffolk were reported around Christmas 1980. BBC Suffolk's Mark Murphy presented a special 30th anniversary radio show from the forest in December 2010. Mr Murphy promoted his favourite theory, but questions remained. Theories Aliens from outer space, beings from another dimension, testing of secret military projects, a helicopter carrying something, light from Orford Ness lighthouse, pranks by airmen - just some of the theories of what happened when the bases were being used by the US Air Force during the Cold War. Nick Pope used to run the British government's UFO Project and he undertook a review of the incident in 1994. He said: "The military is an inherently secretive organisation and if anything happens such as these theories about secret classified aircraft or drones, there certainly would have been scope to cover something up and that would have been the default position." Continue reading at Rendlesham Forest UFO mystery still leaves questions ************ David Attenborough and the Mystery of the Elephant Bird As souvenirs go, the giant fossilised egg that Sir David Attenborough keeps wrapped up for safe-keeping in the cellar of his London home is not bad for someone with a 60 year career as Britain's foremost natural history documentary maker. Now in a bid to find out more about the foot long egg he collected on the island of Madagascar 50 years ago and the birds that laid them, Sir David has returned to the island off the east coast of Africa for a new BBC documentary on a quest to discover what happened to the largest birds to ever live on the planet. The egg was laid by an elephant bird, which were more than 10 feet tall and weighed around half a ton, but what caused the huge birds to die out has remained a mystery, with some claiming they were hunted to extinction by humans and others blaming climate change. But Sir David claims there is now compelling evidence that suggests the birds were gradually killed off by the early human inhabitants on the island stealing the giant eggs for food. He believes the birds themselves were revered by the indigenous populations, but the use of their eggs for food, combined with the destruction of the forests where the elephant birds lived, led to their eventual demise. Recent archaeological evidence has revealed the fragments of elephant bird egg shells among the remains of human fires, suggesting that the eggs, which are 180 times bigger than a chicken egg, regularly provided food for entire families. Continue reading at David Attenborough and the Mystery of the Elephant Bird ************ Shark Scientist Unravels Egypt's Red Sea 'Jaws' calgaryherald - As arguably the world's foremost chronicler of shark attacks, George Burgess knows better than anyone what the sea's most ferocious predator is capable of. His position as curator of the International Shark Attack File, a database started in the 1950s, has forced him to confront the results in mortuaries around the globe. It is always a harrowing experience, one that demonstrates the fragility of the human body when faced with some of the most powerful jaws in the animal kingdom. Take the case of Shirley Anne Durdin who was decapitated and torn in two after a white shark attacked her as she snorkelled off the South Australian coast in 1985. Then there was Theo Klein, killed by another white that tore flesh from his dead body in front of horrified onlookers in 1971 after he was caught in its jaws off Buffalo Bay, South Africa. Perhaps because the file, which contains more than 4,000 investigations of shark attacks dating back as far as the 16th century, is largely secret, Burgess is reluctant to discuss recent cases. But when it comes to the business of killing, it is clear that some sharks go about their task with all the finesse of a medieval executioner. "If something is big enough to get its mouth around your head, the neck is very easily severed," he said. "It can be done in several bites or maybe in just one. A large, fully grown white shark could cut a human in half." As a scientist, who was drawn into his profession by reading the books of oceanographer Jacques Cousteau as a child, Burgess has little appetite for the gore of shark attacks that exercises so morbid a fascination on the rest of us. Yet the conservationist admits the shark attacks that have taken place off the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in the past month are "right up there" with the most fascinating investigations he has ever mounted. Over the space of six days, sharks struck at swimmers in relatively shallow waters along a five-kilometre stretch of beach lined with some of the most exclusive hotels on the Red Sea Riviera. Four people were maimed and a fifth was killed. Called in to investigate by panicked authorities, Burgess was swiftly able to establish at least two of the attacks were carried out by the same oceanic whitetip shark, an astonishing revelation in an extraordinary case. In recent years, experts have largely debunked the notion that single rogue sharks, unlike the predator dreamed up by the author Peter Benchley in Jaws, ever strike more than one victim. Having discovered the taste of human flesh is not to their liking, the vast majority of sharks do not make the same mistake again. Yet photographic evidence clearly showed a whitetip with a distinctive notch in its tail-fin attacked a Russian man on Nov. 30, taking off part of his leg. Six days later, the same shark returned to a nearby stretch of water by the Hyatt Regency Hotel. As her partner Rudi looked on in horror, Renate Sieffert, a German tourist who had been coming to Sharm el-Sheikh for 10 years, was pulled under the water. Others swimmers described how she screamed as the churning waves around her turned red while the shark thrashed about. By the time she was pulled ashore, Sieffert was dead. The whitefin has been all but absolved of involvement in two of the attacks, thought to have been carried out by shortfin makos, but remains a possible suspect in the mauling of Olga Martsinko, a Russian-Ukrainian woman. Only once before has there been unimpeachable evidence of a shark striking more than one human victim. In 1916, a great white killed four people and injured a fifth off the New Jersey Coast. The attacks captured the public imagination and inspired the Jaws movie. Although Burgess has investigated that case exhaustively, he has never been able conclusively to prove why the shark behaved in the way it did. But the most convincing explanation, he says, is the great white was in some way injured or malformed, forcing it to attack humans because it was unable to hunt its normal prey. The same may be true of the serial attacker off Sharm el-Sheikh. "It is something we are looking at here," he said. "Was this just a shark that made a couple of errors of judgment or decided that humans were OK, or was it an act of desperation by a shark trying to make a living in order to survive?" Solving the mystery is a little like mounting a murder inquiry. In the days he has been in Egypt, Burgess has been questioning witnesses, studying photographs, forensic evidence and pathologist reports and scouring the waters near each of the incidents. The most pertinent questions revolve around what the sharks were doing so close to the shore in the first place. Both whitetips and makos are pelagic sharks whose natural habitat is far out to sea -- and it is here where they are most dangerous. Until last week's attacks, only two juvenile whitetips had been seen off the coast of Sharm el-Sheikh all year. Preliminary findings suggest that humans are at the very least accessories to the crime. Unusually warm water temperatures, perhaps the result of global warming, may have lured the sharks into the northern reaches of the Red Sea. A ship carrying sheep from Australia is also a prime suspect, after it tossed carcasses and waste into the sea. Burgess says sharks from 160 kilometres away could have been attracted by the ship. Sharks may inspire a visceral, even primal fear in humans, but in reality they pose us little danger. There are an average of five shark-related deaths a year. By contrast, human beings kill up to 75 million sharks annually, for their fins, their meat or simply as bycatch. With some species seeing their numbers fall by 99 per cent in 50 years, the king of the seas is facing a battle for survival. Which is why, Burgess says, it would be wrong to hunt and kill the sharks responsible for the Sharm el-Sheikh attacks. Doing so would not make the beaches safer anyway, something that would be better achieved by monitoring the seas so beaches can be closed when sharks are close to shore. ********** Be Warned: Aliens Hunt Aussie Territorians ntnews - A dozen Territorians have been abducted by extraterrestrial life - and they are "just the tip of the iceberg", an expert on paranormal activity says. Mary Rodwell, founder of the Australian Close Encounter Resource Network, said in her role as an hypnotherapist and counsellor for people with paranormal encounters she has come across "at least a dozen people from the Northern Territory", who had experienced encounters with "non-human beings". "I had people telling me they found strange little marks, bruises and scars on their bodies when they woke up in the morning. "Many of the marks and scars fluoresce in ultraviolet light. They have time missing in their memory. "People found themselves outside their house with all the doors locked from the inside, and they don't know how the hell they got there." Ms Rodwell said many people did not want to go public with their encounters, fearing they would be laughed at. "Or they just don't know what to make of it," she said. "But this is real, this is not a fantasy. I don't have any doubts this is reality, we are being visited. "There is a lot of evidence out there for it (abductions). "The people who contacted me are just the tip of the iceberg; I am sure there are plenty more." The British-born counsellor said that most of the abduction reports came from "around the vicinity of Darwin". "It doesn't have to happen in isolated places, it happens everywhere - to articulate, credible people, who are not crazy. "Some people have seen things up close, like a beam of light that came down from a craft, or crafts sucking up water from dams or lakes." Ms Rodwell said many of the Territorians who had turned to her for help had not believed in UFOs or aliens until they had seen things "with their own eyes". 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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