tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735234147030350642023-06-15T02:20:50.374-07:00After MidnightScary True Stories and Paranormal EventsOctaviushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10848885538159173166noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873523414703035064.post-46577506613253739472010-02-08T17:50:00.000-08:002010-02-08T18:16:58.727-08:00The Devil's Footprints<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/S3DAYmE49MI/AAAAAAAAANw/uwUaILvEq-8/s1600-h/devil-footprints.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/S3DAYmE49MI/AAAAAAAAANw/uwUaILvEq-8/s320/devil-footprints.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436056279006639298" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >On the morning of February 9th, 1855, thousands of mysterious tracks were found in the new-fallen snow that had fallen upon the town of Devon, England. The tracks, which resembled those of shoed horses, covered over 100 miles and through five parishes. Rather than navigating a straight or even near-even course, the tracks were found to go up the sides of walls, into gardens, onto roofs, up and down the sides of fences, and other avenues which were impossible for any real creature to follow.<br /></span><span id="fullpost"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br />These footprints, measuring 1.5 to 2.5 inches wide and eight inches apart, continued throughout the countryside for a total of over 100 miles, and, although veering at various points, for the greater part of their course followed straight lines. Houses, rivers, haystacks and other obstacles were travelled straight over, and footprints appeared on the tops of snow-covered roofs and high walls which lay in the footprints' path, as well as leading up to and exiting various drain pipes of as small as a four inch diameter.<br /><br />The area in which the prints appeared extended from Exmouth, up to Topsham, and across the river Exe to Dawlish and Teignmouth. R.H. Busk, in an article published in Notes and Queries decades later, stated that footprints also appeared further afield, as far south as Totnes and Torquay, and that there were other reports of the prints further afield in Weymouth (Dorset) and even Lincolnshire. In each case, the prints would go on for miles and miles before abruptly stopping.<br /><br />There were also attendant rumours about sightings of a "devil-like figure" in the Devon area during the scare. Many townspeople armed themselves and attempted to track down the beast responsible, without success.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Similar incidents</span></span><br /><br />Recently, on the night of March 12, 2009, more strange marks, corresponding to those left in 1855, were found again in Devon. Comparative analysis shows similar markings. Reports of similar anomalous, obstacle-unheeded footprints exist from other parts of the world, although none is of such a scale as that of the case of the Devil's Footprints.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Among the high mountains of that elevated district where Glenorchy, Glenlyon and Glenochay are contiguous, there have been met with several times, during this and also the former winter, upon the snow, the tracks of an animal seemingly unknown at present in Scotland. The print, in every respect, is an exact resemblance to that of a foal of considerable size, with this small difference, perhaps, that the sole seems a little longer, or not so round; but as no one has had the good fortune as yet to have obtained a glimpse of this creature, nothing more can be said of its shape or dimensions; only it has been remarked, from the depth to which the feet sank in the snow, that it must be a beast of considerable size. It has been observed also that its walk is not like that of the generality of quadrupeds, but that it is more like the bounding or leaping of a horse when scared or pursued. It is not in one locality that its tracks have been met with, but through a range of at least twelve miles.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> —The Times, March 14, 1840</span><br /><br />In the Illustrated London News, March 17, 1855, a correspondent from Heidelberg wrote, "upon the authority of a Polish Doctor in Medicine," that on the Piaskowa-góra (Sand Hill) a small elevation on the border of Galicia, but in Congress Poland, such marks are to be seen in the snow every year, and sometimes in the sand of this hill, and "are attributed by the inhabitants to supernatural influences."<br /><br />There have been many incidents of strange footprints with cloven hoofs appearing without an obvious cause. Most occur during or after a fierce electrical storm. Some of these are linked to the legend of Kui found in the Shanhaijing, a mythical monster with one leg like a cloven hoof that looks similar to that of a cow, except with one foot. Fierce electrical storms heralded its presence.</span><br /></span>Octaviushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10848885538159173166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873523414703035064.post-8370956211277866042009-12-23T16:11:00.000-08:002009-12-23T16:21:49.585-08:00The Curse of Tutankhamun<span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SzKyWbnQuaI/AAAAAAAAANo/UljT5hbqXss/s1600-h/tutankhamunmask.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SzKyWbnQuaI/AAAAAAAAANo/UljT5hbqXss/s320/tutankhamunmask.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418589400119425442" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;" >The mist fails to lift on Pharaoh Tutankhamun, the boy king who ruled Egypt for a short nine years from 1336 - 1327 BC. Tutankhamun was all of 18 years old when he died mysteriously. Pharaoh Tutankhamun succeeded his heretic father Akhenaten to the throne. Akhenaten had attempted to create a new forced religion, with the surname Aten, whereas the usual surname is 'Amun'. His son Tutankhaten promptly changed his own surname to Tutankhamun, and his child-wife's name was changed to Ankhsunamun.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;" >No one knows how Pharaoh Tutankhamun died. It has been speculated for long that King Tutankhamun was assassinated and records of his existence wiped out. His early death and absence of records fuelled this school of thought.</span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" id="fullpost" ><br />One of the most important archeological finds of all time, King Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered in 1923 by Howard Carter, a British Egyptologist, who was convinced that King Tutankhamun's grave lay undiscovered somewhere in the Valley of Kings in Luxor, Egypt. He was financed in his expedition by Lord Carnarvon, himself and ailing gentleman keen on Egyptology. After five years of unsuccessful digging, Carnarvon almost gave up on his hopes, and returned to London. At the same time, Howard Carter's digging team stumbled on to a step cut into a rock beneath the debris of an ancient structure. On excavation, it was found that the states led down to the long-hidden tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The news was immediately communicated to Carnarvon, who quickly returned to Cairo.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">According to legend which has been strongly contested, the tomb raiders broke the long sleep of the Pharaoh, setting a deadly curse in motion. The day he hit upon the tomb, Howard carter returned home to fund that his canary was swallowed by a cobra. His servant wailed at the Pharaoh's Curse, since the canary was supposed to have led the explorer to the tomb, and a cobra and a vulture were supposed to be Tutankhamun's protectors. (Tutankhamun's headgear sports statuettes of both). The cobra was supposed to be the protector of the tomb.</span><br /><br />The tomb was intact and contained an amazing collection of treasures including a stone sarcophagus. The sarcophagus contained three gold coffins nested within each other. Inside the final one was the mummy of the boy-king, Pharaoh Tutankhamen.<br /><br />It was reported that Carter's native diggers saw hieroglyphics inside the tomb, above Tutankhaun's body, which warned of death to the intruders. Apparently, Howard Carter had a tough time keeping the scared grave diggers together. But these reports are believed to have been significantly embellished by the newspapers of the day who cooked up stories to sell the paper.<br /> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"> <img src="http://www.dancewithshadows.com/images/tutankhamun_chamber.jpg" border="0" /><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal">Be that as it may, the fact remains that Lord Carnarvon died soon thereafter. He died of an infected mosquito bite, which later became pneumonia and claimed his life. When he died, the lights went out in Cairo. This is agreed to even by hose who contest the Curse of Tutankhamun. At the moment of his death, his pet dog howled pitifully and turned over and died, in faraway London. This is also reported, but there is no actual confirmation or denial of this event.<br /></p><br />Death of Carnarvon was only the start. A string of deaths followed. Many of those associated with the grave-digging succumbed to unnatural causes, giving currency to the Curse Theory. The newspapers of the day speculated that such eerie events were caused by the curse, an evil which Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter had unleashed. Two days after Carnarvon's death, the mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun was examined and a blemish was found on his left cheek exactly in the position of the mosquito bite on Carnarvon's face.<span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"></span><br /><br />Soon after, archaeologist Arthur Mace who was part of the expedition, went into a coma and died soon afterwards, baffling everyone. The deaths continued. Carnarvon's friend, George Gould, trekked to Egypt when he learned of Carnarvon's fate. Before leaving, he looked in at the tomb. The next day, he collapsed with a high fever; twelve hours later he was dead. Radiologist Archibald Reid, a man who used X-ray techniques to determine the age and possible cause of death of Tutankhamun, was sent back to England after complaining of exhaustion. He died soon after landing.<br /><br />Carnarvon's secretary Richard Bethell died of heart failure four months after the tomb was opened. The chain of deaths continued. Joel Wool, a leading British industrialist visited the tomb and was dead a few months later from a fever which doctors could not comprehend.<br /><br /></span>Octaviushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10848885538159173166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873523414703035064.post-59254011897796434752009-12-11T18:41:00.000-08:002009-12-12T03:18:48.264-08:00Rasputin<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SyMDNy1BlqI/AAAAAAAAAM8/2MH_F5LOrzo/s1600-h/451px-%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%281914-1916%29b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 241px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SyMDNy1BlqI/AAAAAAAAAM8/2MH_F5LOrzo/s320/451px-%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%281914-1916%29b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414174712546825890" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Grigori Efimovich Rasputin has been called a Russian mystic among other things, he was also called a "Holy Devil" by Iliodor (Sergei Trufanov) the monk-priest of Tsarytsin. Much which is known about the early life of Rasptin may be more legend than fact, because to the Russian peasants he was a hero, their man. One thing is certain, though, he was a product of his Siberian culture.<br /><br />There are only indications of Rasputin's paranormal powers during childhood. One is that he loved animals, especially horses. He loved playing in his father's stable. He would climb upon the horses' backs, touch them with his hand and cheek. With an invented child's language he would talk to them. Of these incidences he eventually would tell the young Tsesarvich Alesha to comfort him.<br /></span><span id="fullpost"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br />Only one incidence, whether fact or legend, of Rasputin's exceptional powers seems to be recorded. As was the habit in Siberian villages like Pokrovskoe, Rasputin's home, most inhabitants would meet in homes in the evening. On this night the gathering was in the home of Rasputin's parents. The boy was sick but he heard the low conversation concerning the theft of a horse. Soon the boy got up in his nightshirt and pointed to one of the guests declaring him to be the thief. His parents were embarrassed, but after the gathering broke up some of the villagers who were curious at the boy's words went to the man's property to later see him with the stolen horse. The next morning many returned to the house of Rasputin's parents making the sign of the Cross and saying invocations to the Mother of God and Saint George as they marvelled over the boy's power.<br /><br />Rasputin's first recognized appearance among Orthodox Churchmen was at a Siberian Academy of Theology. He was in a discussion with a group of seminarians when their teacher and the academy's rector Father Feofan entered the room unnoticed. The seminarians had already recognized how easily Rasputin grasped the Holy Scriptures while they toiled over their books studying their meanings.<br /><br />Rasputin was wandering as a pilgrim in Siberia when he heard reports of Tsarevich Alexei's (the youngest child and the only son of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia ) illness. It was not publicly known in 1904 that Alexei had haemophilia, a disease that was widespread among European royalty descended from the British Queen Victoria, who was Alexei's great-grandmother. When doctors could not help Alexei, the Tsaritsa looked everywhere for help, ultimately turning to her best friend, Anna Vyrubova, to secure the help of the charismatic peasant healer Rasputin in 1905. He was said to possess the ability to heal through prayer and was indeed able to give the boy some relief, in spite of the doctors' prediction that he would die. Every time the boy had an injury which caused him internal or external bleeding, the Tsaritsa called on Rasputin, and the Tsarevich subsequently got better. This made it appear that Rasputin was effectively healing him. The Tsar referred to Rasputin as "our friend" and a "holy man", a sign of the trust that the family had placed in him.<br /><br />Rasputin soon became a controversial figure, becoming involved in a paradigm of sharp political struggle involving monarchist, anti-monarchist, revolutionary and other political forces and interests. He was accused by many eminent persons of various misdeeds, ranging from an unrestricted sexual life (including raping a nun) to undue political domination over the royal family.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Political figures of that time had documented that Rasputin had "satanic eyes" and possessed a powerful and hypnotic stare which he used to look in the eyes of any person with penetrating and intimidating pressure. Rasputin also often used verbal abuse and intimidation, including the most dirty profanities, in order to intimidate and manipulate people into submission.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">His Murder :</span><br /><br />On December 16, 1916, having decided that Rasputin's influence over the Tsaritsa had made him a far-too-dangerous threat to the empire, a group of nobles led by Prince Felix Yusupov and the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich and the right-wing politician Vladimir Purishkevich, apparently lured Rasputin to the Yusupovs' Moika Palace, by intimating that Felix's wife, Princess Irina would be present and receiving friends (In point of fact, she was away at the Crimea). The group led him down to the cellar, where they served him cakes and red wine laced with a massive amount of cyanide. Rasputin was unaffected, although Vasily Maklakov had supplied enough poison to kill five men.<br /><br />Determined to finish the job, Yusupov became anxious about the possibility that Rasputin might live until the morning, leaving the conspirators no time to conceal his body. Yusupov ran upstairs to consult the others and then came back down to shoot Rasputin through the back with a revolver. Rasputin fell, and the company left the palace for a while. Yusupov, who had left without a coat, decided to return to get one, and, while at the palace, he went to check up on the body. Suddenly, Rasputin opened his eyes and lunged at Prince Yusupov. When he grabbed Prince Yusupov he ominously whispered in Yusupov's ear "you bad boy" and attempted to strangle him. At that moment, however, the other conspirators arrived and fired at him. After being hit three times in the back, Rasputin fell once more. As they neared his body, the party found that, remarkably, he was still alive, struggling to get up. They clubbed him into submission and castrated him. After binding his body and wrapping him in a carpet, they threw him into the icy Neva River. He broke out of the his bonds and the carpet wrapping him, but drowned in the river.<br /><br />Three days later, the body of Rasputin, poisoned, shot four times, badly beaten, and drowned, was recovered from the Neva River. An autopsy established that THE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS DROWNING. His arms were found in an upright position, as if he had tried to claw his way out from under the ice. There is a report that after his body was recovered, water was found in the lungs, supporting the idea that he was still alive before submersion into the partially frozen river.</span><br /><br /></span>Octaviushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10848885538159173166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873523414703035064.post-80659690631130304412009-12-02T16:06:00.000-08:002009-12-02T16:20:55.770-08:00Bigfoot<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SxcBi0F8BkI/AAAAAAAAAM0/EKzCNPwM88c/s1600-h/Smalfut.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SxcBi0F8BkI/AAAAAAAAAM0/EKzCNPwM88c/s320/Smalfut.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410795174919669314" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >On October 20, 1967, near Bluff Creek, north of Eureka, California, Bigfoot hunters Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin managed to shoot several feet of movie film of what appears to be a female Bigfoot. With its glossy black hair shining in the bright sun, the Bigfoot walks away from the camera with a stride that is human. It looks back at the cameraman as it walks steadily toward a growth of trees. It does not appear to be frightened, but it is obvious that it wishes to avoid contact.<br /><br />Experts say that the creature in the filmstrip is over seven feet tall and estimate its weight at around 400 pounds. It left footprints 17 inches long, and it had a stride of 41 inches. Patterson and Gimlin felt that they had at last provided the scientific community and the world at large with proof of Bigfoot's existence.<br /><br /></span><span id="fullpost"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br />After his examination of the Patterson-Gimlin film, Dr. John R. Napier, director of the Primate Biology Program of the Smithsonian Institution, commented that while he saw nothing that pointed conclusively to a hoax, he did express some reservations about the exaggerated, fluid motion of the creature. He also said that he thought the Bigfoot was a male, in spite of the pendulous breasts, because of the crest on its head, a signature of male primates.<br /><br />Dr. Osman Hill, director of Yerkes Region Primate Research Center at Emory University, stated his opinion that the Bigfoot in the filmstrip was hominid (humanlike) rather than pongoid (apelike). If the being in the film was a hoax, Hill commented, it had been incredibly well done.<br /><br />Technicians at the Documentary Film Department at Universal Pictures, Hollywood, agreed with the scientists' assessment and said that it would take them a couple of million dollars to duplicate the monster on the filmstrip. First, they stated, they would have to create a set of artificial muscles, train an actor to walk like the thing on the film, then place him in a gorilla skin.<br /><br />Most scientists remained skeptical, and the controversy raged for 30 years. On October 19, 1997, just prior to a press release by the North American Science Institute that would announce their analyses that the creature depicted on the film was genuine.<br /><br />Chris Murphy, a Bigfoot researcher, told the Sunday Telegraph (October 19, 1997) that "very high computer enhancements of the film show conclusively that, whatever it was, it was not wearing a suit. The skin on the creature ripples as it walks."<br /><br />On September 22, 2000, a team of 14 researchers that had tracked the elusive Bigfoot for a week deep in the mountains of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington State found an extraordinary piece of evidence that may end all arguments about whether or not the creature exists. There, in a muddy wallow near Mt. Adams, was an imprint of Bigfoot's hair-covered lower body as it lay on its side, apparently reaching over to get some fruit. Thermal imaging equipment confirmed that the impression made by the massive body was only a few hours old.<br /><br />The team of Bigfoot hunters who discovered the imprint—Dr. LeRoy Fish, a retired wildlife ecologist with a doctorate in zoology; Derek Randles, a landscape architect; and Richard Noll, a tooling metrologist—next made a plaster cast of what appeared to be impressions of the creature's left forearm, hip, thigh, and heel. More than 200 pounds of plaster were needed to acquire a complete 3-1/2 x 5-foot cast of the imprint. Dr. Jeff Meldrum of Idaho State University stated that the imprint had definitely not been made by a human getting into the mud wallow.<br /><br />On October 23, Idaho State University issued a press release stating that a team of investigators, including Dr. Meldrum; Dr. Grover Krantz, retired physical anthropologist from Washington State University; Dr. John Bindernagel, Canadian wildlife biologist; John Green, retired Canadian author and longtime Bigfoot hunter; and Dr. Ron Brown, exotic animal handler and health care administrator, had examined the plaster cast obtained from the mud wallow and agreed that it could not be "attributed to any commonly known Northwest animal and may present an unknown primate."<br /><br />According to the university press release, after the cast had been cleaned, "extensive impressions of hair on the buttock and thigh surfaces and a fringe of longer hair along the forearm were evident." In addition, Meldrum, associate professor of anatomy and anthropology, identified what appeared to be "skin ridge patterns on the heel, comparable to fingerprints, that are characteristic of primates."<br /><br />While the cast may not prove without question the existence of a species of North American ape, Meldrum said that it "constitutes significant and compelling new evidence that will hopefully stimulate further serious research and investigation into the presence of these primates in the Northwest mountains and elsewhere."</span><br /><br /><span style="cursor: pointer; margin-right: 7px; text-decoration: none;" onclick="document.location.href='/watch?v=QrtdL6Jz13Q'" onmouseover="this.style.textDecoration='underline'" onmouseout="this.style.textDecoration='none'"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Roger Patterson's Movie</span><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QrtdL6Jz13Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QrtdL6Jz13Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-size:130%;" >Muscle movement on the creature's thigh</span><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/r5tvXoGQ4UI&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/r5tvXoGQ4UI&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Is Patterson's Film A Hoax?</span></span><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YktEWmLVTvM&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YktEWmLVTvM&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></span>Octaviushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10848885538159173166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873523414703035064.post-65980298917917893772009-11-22T11:48:00.000-08:002009-11-22T11:56:40.113-08:00The Aurora, Texas Crash of 1897<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SwmWRYcZ8tI/AAAAAAAAAMs/c68kbNgAqK0/s1600/auroracemetery.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SwmWRYcZ8tI/AAAAAAAAAMs/c68kbNgAqK0/s320/auroracemetery.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407018052998525650" border="0" /></a><br /><center style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;"><center><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size:130%;"> The state of Texas has always been called the "big state." This expression applies to many things, but is especially true regarding "tall tales." I have heard them all of my life, and sometimes it is difficult to separate truth from fiction. Such is the case with one story that comes from the small town of Aurora. </span></div><p> </p><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span></span></span><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>The town's history book labels the community as "the town that almost wasn't," and that expression is probably applicable to the legend of a spaceship crashing into a windmill, and the burial of a small alien creature found in the aftermath. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>This event has become the most important news story to ever come out of this Texas city. Aurora was designated a "historical site" by the State of Texas. </span></span></p></div> </center></center><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: times new roman;"> </p><div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;" align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"> The year was 1897, and this was the year of the "great airships" reports in the United States. As the story goes, it was on April 17, 1897, that a slow moving space ship crashed into a windmill, bursting into pieces. As the debris was searched through, supposedly the body of a small alien was discovered. </span><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Originally the alien pilot was dubbed the "Martian pilot." Some of the debris also revealed material sketched with a type of hieroglyphic. The town folk gave the poor little creature a proper burial in the local cemetery. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">This incident, whether true or not, has had just enough publicity to stay afloat for over 100 years. It was made into a movie, "The Aurora Encounter" in 1986, starring Jack Elam.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"> The news of the crash spread quickly, even for that time period. A newspaper article of the event still exists, written by S. E. Haydon, reporter for the Dallas Morning News. Below is the original article:</span></p><p> </p></div> <div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;" align="left"> <span style="font-size:130%;"> <i> About 6 o'clock this morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing around the country. It was traveling due north and much nearer the earth than before.</i></span><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><i> Evidently some of the machinery was out of order, for it was making a speed of only ten or twelve miles an hour, and gradually settling toward the earth. It sailed over the public square and when it reached the north part of town it collided with the tower of Judge Proctor's windmill and went into pieces with a terrific explosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground, wrecking the windmill and water tank and destroying the judge's flower garden. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><i>The pilot of the ship is supposed to have been the only one aboard and, while his remains were badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up to show that he was not an inhabitant of this world.</i> </span></p><p> </p></div> <center style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;"><center> <span style="font-size:130%;"><img src="http://www.ufocasebook.com/auroramap.jpg" alt="Aurora Map" /> </span></center></center> <p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: times new roman;"> </p><div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;" align="left"> <span style="font-size:130%;">The story never gained a lot of exposure at the time, but held on until it was commented on by UPI on May 24, 1973:</span><p> <span style="font-size:130%;"><i> "Aurora, Tex. -- (UPI) -- A grave in a small north Texas cemetery contains the body of an 1897 astronaut who was 'not an inhabitant of this world,' according to the International UFO Bureau. The group, which investigates unidentified flying objects, has already initiated legal proceedings to exhume the body and will go to court if necessary to open the grave, director Hayden Hewes said Wednesday."</i></span></p><p> <span style="font-size:130%;"><i> "After checking the grave with metal detectors and gathering facts for three months, we are certain as we can be at this point [that] he was the pilot of a UFO which reportedly exploded atop a well on Judge J.S. Proctor's place, April 19, 1897," Hewes said." "He was not an inhabitant of this world."</i> </span></p><p> <span style="font-size:130%;">The legend was back in the news! Only a couple of days later, UPI followed up the first report with another from Aurora. They had located a living witness to the event.</span></p><p> <span style="font-size:130%;">A ninety-one-year-old who had been a girl of fifteen in Aurora at the time of the reported incident was quoted. "I had all but forgotten the incident until it appeared in the newspapers recently." She said her parents had actually been to the crash sight, but had not allowed her to accompany them for fear of what might be in the debris.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;"> She recalled that the remains of the pilot, "a small man," had been buried in the Aurora cemetery, validating the other legends. </span></p><p> <span style="font-size:130%;">The Associated Press now joined the chase for the sensational story. From the city of Denton, Texas came this account: <i> "A North Texas State University professor had found some metal fragments near the Oates gas station (former Proctor farm). One fragment was said to be 'most intriguing' because it consisted primarily of iron which did not seem to exhibit magnetic properties."</i></span></p><p> <span style="font-size:130%;"><i> The professor also said he was puzzled because the fragment was "shiny and malleable instead of dull and brittle like iron."</i> </span></p><p> </p></div> <center style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;"><center> <span style="font-size:130%;"><img src="http://www.ufocasebook.com/auroramarker.jpg" alt="Aurora Marker" /> </span></center></center> <p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: times new roman;"> </p> <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >For reasons unknown, the Aurora Cemetery Association fought the attempts to exhume the alleged alien body. They were successful, and the dead alien's remains stayed a mystery. The town of Aurora still shows traces of Military intervention today, and the question must be asked, "Why would the U. S. Military be in the town of Aurora?" </span><p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Anyone familiar with the <a href="http://a-midnight.blogspot.com/2009/11/roswell-incident.html">Roswell crash of 1947</a> will remember that debris from Mac Brazel's field was flown to Ft. Worth, which is only a short hop's distance from Aurora. Is this why the Military was in Aurora? Could the Government have the alien body?</span></p><p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;"> <span style="font-size:130%;">Today Aurora, like other cities, is modernized, and yet a few hints of the past still remain. Although the headstone of the alien was stolen, there remain pictures of it today. A copy of this photo now adorns the grave site. </span></p><p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">There has been, at times, a lobby to exhume the remains of the little pilot and give it a proper burial, with a new headstone. So far, this has not happened. Should the little grave be dug up, or should we just leave it and the legend of the Aurora UFO alone? </span></p><br /><br /></span>Octaviushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10848885538159173166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873523414703035064.post-33829265785854548112009-11-17T04:52:00.000-08:002009-11-17T05:16:41.887-08:00Chillingham Castle Ghosts<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SwKetn0cGKI/AAAAAAAAAMk/-uA3qUb3N9Y/s1600/chillinghamcastle.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SwKetn0cGKI/AAAAAAAAAMk/-uA3qUb3N9Y/s320/chillinghamcastle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405057009418246306" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br />Castle History</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >At first a 12th century stronghold, Chillingham became a fully fortified Castle in 1344. The castle is steeped in local and national history, often besieged and always winning through. The family were made Dukes and Earls in their early warrior days. They achieve many mentions in Shakespeare’s History plays and in Royal archives. The many Grey commanding generals, eighteen Knights of the Garter and royal appointments were balanced by no less than eight Executions, invariably for high treason. So, family members did espouse a losing cause? But other family members chose different sides so the Chillingham estate survived.</span><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Chillingham occupied a strategic position during Northumberland's bloody border feuds, as often under attack as basking in the patronage of Royal visitors, a tradition that remains to this day. Sir Henry Wakefield was Treasurer of England to King Edward 1V and, in the last century, Sir Humphry’s father, Sir Edward Wakefield, was both Treasurer and Comptroller of the Queen’s Household. In 1245, King Henry111 came to Chillingham as did the Kings Edward 1 and James 1. Charles 1 stayed here for three frantic nights before he was imprisoned, Edward V111 came to hunt here, and members of today’s Royal family continue the tradition with private visits to the Castle this century.<br /><br />There have been very few architectural additions since those early days, apart from elaborate galleries added in Tudor days. These were in preparation for the visit of James V1, en route to his English coronation. The commanding Grey of that day was Queen Elizabeth’s godchild, and the trusted ‘go-between’ for the English/Scottish courts during those difficult times of the royal succession.<br /><br />The 18th century saw landscape refinements by Capability Brown and Robert Adam’s pupil Paterson in action on the East wing. In 1828 came the extravagant gardens and avenues laid out by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville, fresh from his triumphs at Windsor Castle.<br /><br />Throughout the centuries the architectural detail and massive walls have remained largely unchanged with its same underlying medieval strength and character.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Chillingham's ghosts</span><br /><br />Its current owners market the castle as being the most haunted castle in Britain. It has been investigated on television and radio (namely, Most Haunted, I'm Famous and Frightened!, Scariest Places On Earth, Holiday Showdown, Alan Robson's Nightowls) and now Ghost Hunters International.<br /><br />The most famous ghost of the castle is the "blue (or radiant) boy", who according to the owners used to haunt the Pink Room in the castle. Guests supposedly reported seeing blue flashes and a blue "halo" of light above their beds after a loud wail. It is claimed that the hauntings ceased after renovation work revealed the bodies of a man and a young boy bricked inside a 10-foot-thick wall. The owners also claim that the ghosts of John Sage, a former torturer, and of Lady Mary Berkeley haunt the castle. Guests have reported hearing screams for help and doors slamming mysteriously.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Most Haunted - Chillingham Castle Unseen</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Part 1</span><br /><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nqQ2bouPoaM&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nqQ2bouPoaM&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Part 2</span><br /><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZCS3iDnsY98&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZCS3iDnsY98&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Part 3</span><br /><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zPZp9GTlwAk&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zPZp9GTlwAk&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Part 4</span><br /><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sTT9X4dxR2s&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sTT9X4dxR2s&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Part 5</span><br /><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-WXKDDlgU8Y&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-WXKDDlgU8Y&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object><br /><br /></span>Octaviushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10848885538159173166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873523414703035064.post-87968345786486990872009-11-12T05:58:00.000-08:002009-11-12T06:08:58.299-08:00The Green Children of Woolpit<div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SvwVQYclArI/AAAAAAAAAMc/RAsVPDIm6Eo/s1600-h/wool01_mid.teach.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 258px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SvwVQYclArI/AAAAAAAAAMc/RAsVPDIm6Eo/s320/wool01_mid.teach.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403217024122159794" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family: times new roman;">At harvest time during the chaotic reign of king Stephen of England (1135-1154), there was a strange occurrence in the Suffolk village of Woolpit, near Bury St. Edmunds. While the reapers were working in the fields, two young children emerged from deep ditches excavated to trap wolves, known as wolf pits, hence the name of the village. The children, a boy and a girl, had skin tinged with a green hue, and wore clothes of a strange colour, made from unfamiliar materials. They wandered around bewildered for a few minutes, before being discovered by the reapers and taken to the village. Here the locals gathered round and questioned them, but no-one was able to understand the language the children spoke, so they were taken to the house of local landowner Sir Richard de Calne (or Colne), a few miles away at Wikes (or Wakes). </span><br /></span><span id="fullpost"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-size:130%;" ><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman;">Here they broke into tears and for some days refused to eat the bread and other food that was brought to them. But when newly-shelled beans with their stalks still attached were brought in the starving children immediately made signs that they were desperate to eat. However, when the children took the beans they opened the stalks rather than the pods, and finding nothing inside, began weeping again. After they had been shown how to obtain the beans, the children survived on this food for many months until they acquired a taste for bread.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman;">As time passed the boy, who appeared to be the younger of the two, became depressed, sickened and died, but the girl adjusted to her new life, and was baptized. Her skin gradually lost its original green colour and she became a healthy young woman. She learned the English language and afterwards married a man of the nearby town of Lavenham (or King's Lynn, in the neighboring county of Norfolk, accounts vary), apparently becoming 'rather loose and wanton in her conduct'. After a few years, she was left a widow. Some sources claim that she took the name 'Agnes Barre' and the man she married was a senior ambassador of Henry II. It is also said that the current Earl Ferrers is descended from her through intermarriage.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman;">When questioned about her past the girl was only able to relate vague details about where the children had come from and how they arrived at Woolpit. She stated that her and the boy were brother and sister, and had come from 'the land of Saint Martin' where it was perpetual twilight, and all the inhabitants were green in colour like they had been. She was not sure exactly where her homeland was located, but another 'luminous' land could be seen across a 'considerable river' separating it from theirs. She remembered that one day they were looking after their father's herds in the fields and had followed them into a cavern, where they heard the loud sound of bells. Entranced, they wandered through the darkness for a long time until they arrived at the mouth of the cave, where they were immediately blinded by the glaring sunlight. They lay down in a daze for a long time, before the noise of the reapers terrified them and they rose and tried to escape, but were unable to locate the entrance of the cavern before being caught.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman; color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">Village sign depicting the two green children (shown above)</span></span><br /></span></div>Octaviushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10848885538159173166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873523414703035064.post-71292438024468157752009-11-08T15:25:00.000-08:002009-11-08T15:51:49.068-08:00The Roswell Incident<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SvdUoCoXlxI/AAAAAAAAAMU/tZFGsyKGd98/s1600-h/RoswellDailyRecordJuly8,1947.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SvdUoCoXlxI/AAAAAAAAAMU/tZFGsyKGd98/s320/RoswellDailyRecordJuly8,1947.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401879324931888914" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Sixty-two years ago, an incident occurred in the southwestern desert of the United States that could have significant implications for all mankind. The incident was announced by the U.S. military, subsequently denied by the U.S. military, and has remained veiled in government secrecy ever since. Although it is in a category fraught with false claims and hoaxes, it is not a hoax or false claim, but rather a known event that is thoroughly documented.</span></span><br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-size:130%;" ><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" >On July 9, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) issued a press release stating that personnel from the field's 509th Bomb Group had recovered a crashed "flying disc" from a ranch near Roswell, sparking intense media interest. Later the same day, the Commanding General of the Eighth Air Force stated that, in fact, a weather balloon had been recovered by the RAAF personnel, rather than a "flying saucer." A subsequent press conference was called, featuring debris said to be from the crashed object that seemed to confirm the weather balloon description. The case was quickly forgotten and almost completely ignored, even by UFO researchers, for more than 30 years. Then, in 1978, ufologist Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Major Jesse Marcel who was involved with the original recovery of the debris in 1947. Marcel expressed his belief that the military had covered up the recovery of an alien spacecraft. His story spread through UFO circles, being featured in some UFO documentaries at the time. In February 1980, The National Enquirer ran its own interview with Marcel, garnering national and worldwide attention for the Roswell incident.<br /><br />Additional witnesses and reports emerged over the following years. They added significant new details, including claims of a huge military operation dedicated to recovering alien craft and aliens themselves, at as many as 11 crash sites, and alleged witness intimidation. In 1989, former mortician Glenn Dennis put forth a detailed personal account, wherein he claimed that alien autopsies were carried out at the Roswell base.</span><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">The Roswell Incident (Part1)</span></span><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VFHboyj4pA8&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VFHboyj4pA8&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">The Roswell Incident (Part2)</span></span><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vLkvr4rYwi0&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vLkvr4rYwi0&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></span>Octaviushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10848885538159173166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873523414703035064.post-43609006806770728012009-11-06T15:35:00.000-08:002009-11-08T15:44:46.856-08:00The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SvSxSuj04UI/AAAAAAAAAME/U9lEsw5MaBA/s1600-h/TR+Anneliese+Michel+2+080802.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SvSxSuj04UI/AAAAAAAAAME/U9lEsw5MaBA/s320/TR+Anneliese+Michel+2+080802.jpg" border="0" /></a>Anneliese Michel was born September 1952 in Klingenberg, Bavaria, Germany. Michel was raised in a strict Catholic family. A devout girl, she tried to make reparations for the sins of wayward priests and drug addicts by sleeping on a bare floor in the middle of winter.<br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">In 1968, when she was 17 and still in high school, Anneliese began to suffer from convulsions. Court findings have her experiencing her first epileptic attack in 1969. It was then that a neurologist at the Psychiatric Clinic Wurzburg diagnosed her with Grand Mal epilepsy. Soon, Anneliese started experiencing devilish hallucinations while praying. She also began to hear voices, which told her that she was damned. The court determined that by 1973 Anneliese was suffering from depression and considering suicide. In 1975, convinced that she was possessed, her parents gave up on the doctors from the psychiatric clinic. They chose to rely solely on the exorcisms for healing (washingtonpost.com). Anneliese's symptoms have since been compared with those of schizophrenia, and they may have responded to treatment (telegraph.co.uk).</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">The first unofficial diagnosis was made by an older woman who accompanied Anneliese on a pilgrimage. She noticed that Anneliese avoided walking past a particular image of Jesus, and that she refused to drink water from a holy spring. The woman also claimed that Anneliese smelled hellishly bad (washingtonpost.com). An exorcist from a nearby town examined Anneliese and concluded that she was demonically possessed. After two failed requests, the rite of exorcism was finally granted by the Bishop.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br />The movie was realesed Starring Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Jennifer Carpenter</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">based on the true story of Anneliese Michel</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Tom Wilkinson's character was more a combination of two real-life people, Father Arnold Renz and Pastor Ernst Alt (shown at Right).</span><br /></span><span class="lftdv" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><img alt="Pastor Ernst Alt and Father Arnold Renz" src="http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/emilyrose/renzalt.jpg" style="margin-bottom: 2px;" vspace="0" width="154" border="0" height="102" hspace="0" /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The movie's Father Moore</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">was based on Father Arnold</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Renz and Pastor Ernst Alt.</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> Both men were assigned by the Bishop of Wurzburg, Josef Stangl, to carry out "The Great Exorcism" on Anneliese Michel. The foundation for this ritual was the "Rituale Romanum", which at the time, was still a valid 17th century Cannon Law. Father Arnold Renz had been a former missionary in China, and Pastor Ernst Alt was a pastor in a nearby community. Together they carried out 67 rites of exorcism over a period of 10 months, with one or two exorcism sessions held each week. Some sessions lasted up to four hours.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Anneliese's mother did not support the making of The Exorcism of Emily Rose. "I don't want to see the film and I don't know anything about it," Mrs. Michel said, who was at the time in her eighties. Anneliese's father Josef died six years prior to the film's release.</span><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Anneliese was convinced that she had been possessed by several demons, including Lucifer, Judas</span></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">,</span></span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SvSyhMURh9I/AAAAAAAAAMM/aMbbQeAf1Dc/s1600-h/33.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SvSyhMURh9I/AAAAAAAAAMM/aMbbQeAf1Dc/s320/33.jpg" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-size:130%;" >Iscariot, Nero, Cain, Hitler, and Fleischmann, a disgraced Frankish Priest from the 16th century. She also mentioned a few other damned souls who had manifested themselves through her.</span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br />Anneliese carried out a number of highly disturbing actions. She licked her own urine off the floor.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">She ate flies, spiders, and coal. She bit off the head of a dead bird. In one instance, she crawled under a table and barked like a dog for two days. She could often be heard screaming through the walls for hours. Tearing off her clothes and urinating on the floor became a regular occurrence.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">In the 2005 film, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, only one of the characters, Father Richard Moore (Tom Wilkinson), was found guilty of negligent homicide surrounding the death of Emily Rose. In the real-life case of Anneliese Michel (pictured right), which took place in 1978, there were four defendants, not just one. They were Father Arnold Renz, Pastor Ernst Alt, and Anneliese Michel's parents, Josef and Anna. All four were found guilty of negligent homicide and sentenced to six months in prison, suspended with three years' probation.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">-washingtonpost.com</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Weak and on the verge of death, she spoke her last known words on the day before she died. She told her exorcists "Beg for Absolution". To her mother Anna, she said, "Mother, I'm afraid."</span><br /><br /></span><p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">audio samples of exorcism on Anneliese Michel</span></p><p style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: times new roman;"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PZfg57LZ34g" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></p><!-- google_ad_section_end -->Octaviushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10848885538159173166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873523414703035064.post-73792273177543361342009-11-04T09:01:00.000-08:002009-11-04T09:27:59.852-08:00UfO in Belgium chased by air force<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SvG5k1QCVkI/AAAAAAAAAKM/KuX8TJiVPIo/s1600-h/ufobelgium.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 246px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SvG5k1QCVkI/AAAAAAAAAKM/KuX8TJiVPIo/s320/ufobelgium.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400301470614705730" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;" >Among some of the better documented and investigatable cases that have occurred in the last decade is the rash of UFO sightings which took place over Belgium. Some very poignant factors make this case history extremely rare, with regards to how these cases usually run. Foremost of these determinants is the highly uncommon action of the Belgian government and Air Force, in being very open with their own verifications of the sightings with the public at large. This is the first time that such a sharing of apparently unfiltered military data has been, not only provided, but given over in an earnest attempt to invite public investigation. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" id="fullpost" ><br />Beginning in late 1989, a definite UFO "flap" converged on Belgium, with the majority of the sightings occurring in the vicinity of Wallonia. For some time from that point on, literally thousands of people reported seeing triangular aircraft in the Belgian skies, exhibiting flight characteristics which simply cannot be explained, with regard to mundane terrestrial aircraft. Unlike previous flaps, these accounts generated report after report of what, in essence, was exactly the same type of craft. The eyewitness descriptions have been surprisingly similar in the vast majority of these reports. A surprising number of these civilian sightings were confirmed by individuals in the Belgian Air Force, police officers, and air traffic controllers.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">The sightings</span><br /><br />At around 23:00 on 30 March the supervisor for the Control Reporting Center (CRC) at Glons received reports that three unusual lights were seen moving towards Thorembais-Gembloux which lies to the South-East of Brussels. The lights were reported to be brighter than stars, changing color between red, green and yellow, and appeared to be fixed at the vertices of an equilateral triangle. At this point Glons CRC requested the Wavre gendarmerie send a patrol to confirm the sighting.<br /><br />Approximately 10 minutes later a second set of lights was sighted moving towards the first triangle. By around 23:30 the Wavre gendarmerie had confirmed the initial sightings and Glons CRC had been able to observe the phenomenon on radar. During this time the second set of lights, after some erratic manoeuvres, had also formed themselves into a smaller triangle. After tracking the targets and after receiving a second radar confirmation from the Traffic Center Control at Semmerzake, Glons CRC gave the order to scramble two F-16 fighters from Beauvechain Air Base shortly before midnight. Throughout this time the phenomenon was still clearly visible from the ground, with witnesses describing the whole formation as maintaining their relative positions while moving slowly across the sky. Witnesses also reported two dimmer lights towards the municipality of Eghezee displaying similar erratic movements to the second set of lights.<br /><br />Over the next hour the two scrambled F-16s attempted nine separate interceptions of the targets. On three occasions they managed to obtain a radar lock for a few seconds but each time the targets changed position and speed so rapidly that the lock was broken. During the first radar lock, the target accelerated from 240 km/h to over 1,770 km/h while changing altitude from 2,700 m to 1,500 m, then up to 3,350 m before descending to almost ground level – the first descent of more than 900 m taking less than two seconds. Similar manoeuvres were observed during both subsequent radar locks. On no occasion were the F-16 pilots able to make visual contact with the targets and at no point, despite the speeds involved, was there any indication of a sonic boom.<br /><br />During this time, ground witnesses broadly corroborate the information obtained by radar. They described seeing the smaller triangle completely disappear from sight at one point, while the larger triangle moved upwards very rapidly as the F-16s flew past. After 00:30 radar contact became much more sporadic and the final confirmed lock took place at 00:40. This final lock was once again broken by an acceleration from around 160 km/h to 1,120 km/h after which the radar of the F-16s and those at Glons and Semmerzake all lost contact. Following several further unconfirmed contacts the F-16s eventually returned to base shortly after 01:00.<br /><br />The final details of the sighting were provided by the members of the Wavre gendarmerie who had been sent to confirm the original report. They describe four lights now being arranged in a square formation, all making short jerky movements, before gradually losing their luminosity and disappearing in four separate directions at around 01:30.<br /><br /><br /><p><object data="http://www.youtube.com/v/7-5-Qh7HFGg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7-5-Qh7HFGg&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></object></p> <div align="center"><br /></div><br /></span>Octaviushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10848885538159173166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873523414703035064.post-30557495766794348012009-11-03T21:52:00.000-08:002009-11-03T22:09:14.066-08:00The Loch Ness Monster "Nessie"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:Times,";"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SvCv2ivn3HI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/zGPY0O33RC4/s1600-h/Lochnessmonster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/SvCv2ivn3HI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/zGPY0O33RC4/s320/Lochnessmonster.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >The Loch Ness is a lake in Scotland that holds the largest volume of freshwater in the United Kingdom. But rather than being known for its size, it is famous for the mysterious legend of the Loch Ness monster. For hundreds of years, people have reported catching a glimpse of a huge creature in the lake while others have shared photos they claim to have taken of this sea creature. The legend is so great that even scientists have been intrigued and many have conducted experiments and come up with theories to try and explain what people could be witnessing.<br /><span id="fullpost"><br /><h2 style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:Times,";"><span id="History">History</span></h2><h3 style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:Times,";"><span id="Saint_Columba">Saint Columba</span></h3><h3 style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;font-family:Times,";"><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-size:85%;" >The earliest report of a monster associated with the vicinity of Loch Ness appears in the Life of St. Columba by Adomnán, written sometime during the 7th century. According to Adomnán, writing about a century after the events he described, the Irish monk Saint Columba was staying in the land of the Picts with his companions when he came across the locals burying a man by the River Ness. They explained that the man had been swimming the river when he was attacked by a "water beast" that had mauled him and dragged him under. They tried to rescue him in a boat, but were able only to drag up his corpse.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" ></span></h3><h3 style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:Times,";"><span id="Spicers_.281933.29">Spicers (1933)</span></h3><div face="Times,"" style="">Modern interest in the monster was sparked by the 22 July 1933 sighting, when George Spicer and his wife saw 'a most extraordinary form of animal' cross the road in front of their car. They described the creature as having a large body (about 4 feet (1 m) high and 25 feet (8 m) long), and long, narrow neck, slightly thicker than an elephant's trunk and as long as the ten- to twelve-feet (3.0–3.7 m) width of the road; the neck had a number of undulations in it. They saw no limbs, possibly because of a dip in the road obscuring the animal's lower portion. It lurched across the road towards the loch 20 yards (20 m) away, leaving only a trail of broken undergrowth in its wake.<br /></div><h3 style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:Times,";"><span id="C.B._Farrel_.281943.29">C.B. Farrel (1943)</span></h3><div face="Times,"" style="">In May 1943, C. B. Farrel of the Royal Observer Corps was supposedly distracted from his duties by a Nessie sighting. He claimed to have been about 250 yards (230 m) away from a large-eyed, 'finned' creature, which had a 20-to-30-foot (6 to 9 m) long body, and a neck that protruded about 4–5 feet (1.2–1.5 m) out of the water.<br /></div><h3 style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);font-family:Times,";"><span id="Sonar_contact_.281954.29">Sonar contact (1954)</span></h3><div face="Times,"" style="">In December 1954 a strange sonar contact was made by the fishing boat <i>Rival III</i>. The vessel's crew observed sonar readings of a large object keeping pace with the boat at a depth of 480 feet (146 m). It was detected travelling for half a mile (800 m) in this manner, before contact was lost, but then found again later.Many sonar attempts had been made previously, but most were either inconclusive or negative.<br /><br /></div><h1 style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:Times,";"><span style="font-size:78%;">Loch Ness monster on Google Earth</span></h1><div face="Times,"" style="">By Ben Leach<br />Published: 7:05AM BST 26 Aug 2009<br /></div><div class="gutterUnder" face="Times,"" style=""><div class="embedCode"><iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=57.214354,-4.571289&spn=0.000837,0.002468&z=18&output=embed" width="460" frameborder="0" height="288" scrolling="no"></iframe><br /></div></div><div face="Times,"" style="">The image, which can be seen on the satellite mapping program, depicts a large object resembling a sea creature clearly visible beneath the surface of the water.<br /></div>Jason Cooke told The Sun he spotted "Nessie" while browsing the website's satellite photos. Mr Cooke, 25, of Nottingham, said: "I couldn't believe it. It's just like the descriptions of Nessie."<br /><br /></span></span>Octaviushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10848885538159173166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873523414703035064.post-11578247333798650172009-11-02T17:28:00.000-08:002009-11-03T22:38:59.495-08:00The Headless Queen<div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:Times,";"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/Su-HopO4I6I/AAAAAAAAAIU/K7F-VHxSxAQ/s1600-h/boleynmainjpg.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399683610573284258" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/Su-HopO4I6I/AAAAAAAAAIU/K7F-VHxSxAQ/s400/boleynmainjpg.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 357px; width: 275px;" border="0" /></a><br />
</span></div><div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-family:Times,";"><span style="font-size:130%;">Anne Boleyn was the second wife of King Henry VIII. He was already married to Catherine of Aragon and could not get a divorce from the Roman Catholic Church. In order to get his divorce he created a reformed version of the Church, putting himself at the head - a direct challenge of authority to the Pope.<br />
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Having obtained his divorce and married Anne, the king's most driving need was a son. His former queen had only given him a female child (Princess Mary). On 7 September 1533 Anne Boleyn gave birth to a girl, Elizabeth (who was to become Queen Elizabeth I). The relationship between the king and Anne Boleyn deteriorated; he began to court Jane Seymour.<span id="fullpost"><br />
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However, Anne became pregnant again, and there was a reconciliation, but the child was born dead. Henry determined to get rid of Anne and trumped up a charge of treason, arresting and confining her to the Tower of London. Her execution had been scheduled for 18 May 1536 but in fact took place the following day as there had been a delay while a skilled executioner was brought in from Calais.<br />
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Anne Boleyn's ghost is a prolific one and there are many reports of her appearances. Undoubtedly many reports arise because ghosts seen will be attributable to the most 'famous' source when that may be inappropriate; however, some have the suggestion of a little more substance.<br />
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Among the more hysterical there are the stories of headless horses galloping to Blickling Hall in Norfolk, her family home, ridden by a headless horseman and of course the headless young woman herself. Traditionally the apparition appears on the anniversary of her death. Further elaborations of the tale include a severed head in her lap.<br />
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Anne's ghost has been seen by several people in the corridors of Blickling Hall although the present building dates from virtually one hundred years after her death. Nonetheless, it is on the same site as the original building and there are many accounts of ghosts which do seem attracted to particular locations.<br />
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The administrator of the building, Mr Steve Ingram, had an experience of a more specific nature in 1985. Mr Ingram and his wife share a flat in BlicklingHall. One night he was awakened at 1.30am by the sound of footsteps in the passageway outside the bedroom. The sound was of light female footsteps on rush matting, changing briefly to someone stepping on thinner material, then back onto the carpet. Mr Ingram worked out the path of the footsteps, down the rush matting in the corridor outside, across the thin mat by the doorway and across the carpet of the bedroom. Evidently the person causing footsteps was now standing at the foot of the bed and Mr Ingram merely assumed it was his wife returning from the bathroom.<br />
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When he switched on the bedroom light he discovered his wife asleep next to him and the bedroom door shut; noone else could be seen in the room. It was the following morning when someone pointed out that this incident had occured on the anniversary of Anne Boleyn's execution.<br />
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The National Trust took over Blickling Hall in 1946; one of it's administrators was Mr. Sidney Hancock. One one occasion Mr Hancock looked out of the kitchen window of thehall towards the lake and saw a woman walking down towards the lakeside. She was wearing a long grey gown with a white lace collar and a white cap. Hancock was concerned that she was either lost or trespassing and went out to ask if he could help or if she was looking for someone. The lady apparently replied "that for which I seek has long since gone". Hancock briefly turned away and on looking back discovered that there was no one there and nowhere she could have gone to. Although the description of the clothes worn by the figure did not match those whichAnne wore to her execution, they would well have been the clothes she might have been wearing in the days leading up to it.<br />
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Anne Boleyn is also reputed to haunt Hampton Court - along with most of Henry VIII's wives in fact- although there she apparently wears the blue dress in which she appears in a portrait in that building. Predictably, she is also said to haunt theTower of London where she was executed. She is traditionally seen, again, predictably as a headless female figure identified by her clothing.</span><br />
</span></div>Octaviushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10848885538159173166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-873523414703035064.post-8705811545172405212009-11-02T16:35:00.000-08:002009-11-03T23:22:35.691-08:00The Mothman<div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: times new roman;font-family:Times,";"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">November 15, 1966</b><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: times new roman;font-family:Times,";"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/Su98kFAdxZI/AAAAAAAAAIM/FYCzRRz3cjY/s1600/mothman_foto.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/Su98kFAdxZI/AAAAAAAAAIM/FYCzRRz3cjY/s320/mothman_foto.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></span></div><div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: times new roman;font-family:Times,";"><span style="font-size:130%;">On November 15, 1966, two young, married couples from Point Pleasant, David and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette, were traveling late at night in the Scarberrys' car. They were passing the West Virginia Ordnance Works, an abandoned World War II TNT factory, about seven miles north of Point Pleasant, in the 2,500 acre (10 km²) McClintic Wildlife Management Area, when they noticed two red lights in the shadows by an old generator plant near the factory gate. They stopped the car, and reportedly discovered that the lights were the glowing red eyes of a large animal, "shaped like a man, but bigger, maybe six and a half or seven feet tall, with big wings folded against its back"</span><span id="fullpost" style="font-size:130%;">, according to Roger Scarberry. Terrified, they drove toward Route 62, where the creature supposedly chased them at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour. However, as quoted in Keel's The Mothman Prophecies, the Scarberrys, despite driving more than 100 miles per hour, claimed to have noticed a dead dog on the side of the road, and in fact made such accurate note of its location that they claimed to have gone back the very next day and looked for it. Explanations for how they were able to make so accurate a mental note at a time of such great distress, or why they would go back to look for the dead dog, are not included in Keel's book.<br /><br /><b><span style="color:orange;">The plaque on the Mothman statue</span></b><br /><br />A plaque on the Mothman statue provides a version of the original legend: "On a chilly, fall night in November 1966, two young couples drove into the TNT area north of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, when they realized they were not alone." Driving down the exit road, they saw the supposed creature standing on a nearby ridge. It spread its wings and flew alongside the vehicle up to the city limits. They drove to the Mason County courthouse to alert Deputy Millard Halstead, who later said, "I've known these kids all their lives. They'd never been in any trouble and they were really scared that night. I took them seriously." He then followed Roger Scarberry's car back to the secret ex-U.S. Federal bomb and missile factory, but found no trace of the strange creature. According to the book Alien Animals, by Janet and Colin Bord, a poltergeist attack on the Scarberry home occurred later that night, during which the creature was seen several times.<br /><br /><b><span style="color:orange;">November 16, 1966</span></b><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: times new roman;font-family:Times,";"><span id="fullpost" style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/Su98cmi1bRI/AAAAAAAAAIE/ACZRLUO-kq0/s1600/mothman2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/Su98cmi1bRI/AAAAAAAAAIE/ACZRLUO-kq0/s320/mothman2.jpg" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: times new roman;font-family:Times,";"><span id="fullpost" style="font-size:130%;">The following night, on November 16, several armed townspeople combed the area around the TNT plant for signs of Mothman. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wamsley, and Mrs. Marcella Bennett, with her infant daughter Teena in tow, were in a car en-route to visit their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Thomas, who lived in a bungalow among the igloos (concrete dome-shaped dynamite storage structures erected during WW-II) near the TNT plant. The igloos were now empty, some owned by the county, others by companies intending to use them for storage. They were heading back to their car when a figure appeared behind their parked vehicle. Mrs. Bennett said that it seemed like it had been lying down, slowly rising up from the ground, large and gray, with glowing red eyes. While Wamsley phoned the police, the creature walked onto the porch and peered in at them through the window.<br /><b><br /><span style="color:orange;">November 24, 1966</span></b><br /><br />On November 24, four people allegedly saw the creature flying over the TNT area.<br /><br /><b><span style="color:orange;">November 25, 1966</span></b><br /><br />On the morning of November 25, Thomas Ury, who was driving along Route 62 just north of the TNT, claimed to have seen the creature standing in a field, and then it spread its wings and flew alongside his car as he sped toward the Point Pleasant sheriff's office.<br /><span style="color:orange;"> <b>November 26, 1966</b></span><br /><br />On November 26, Mrs. Ruth Foster of Charleston, West Virginia reportedly saw Mothman standing on her front lawn, but the creature was gone by the time her brother-in-law went out to investigate. Further, on the morning of November 27, the creature allegedly pursued a young woman near Mason, West Virginia, and was reported again in St. Albans the same night, by two children.<br /><br /><b><span style="color:orange;">1967</span></b><br /><br />A Mothman sighting was again reported on January 11, 1967, and several other times that same year. Fewer sightings of the Mothman were reported after the collapse of the Silver Bridge, when 46 people died. The Silver Bridge, so named for its aluminium paint, was an eyebar chain suspension bridge that connected the cities of Point Pleasant, West Virginia and Gallipolis, Ohio over the Ohio River. The bridge was built in 1928, and it collapsed on December 15, 1967. Investigation of the bridge wreckage pointed to the failure of a single eye-bar in a suspension chain due to a small manufacturing flaw. There are rumors that the Mothman appears before upcoming disasters, or that the Mothman causes disasters.<br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/Su-fPjO8gzI/AAAAAAAAAIc/sSbX4R0CjLk/s1600/Mothman_statue_2005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A_fFnWtgm8Y/Su-fPjO8gzI/AAAAAAAAAIc/sSbX4R0CjLk/s320/Mothman_statue_2005.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /> A 12-foot-tall, stainless-steel<br />sculpture of the Mothman<br />by artist Robert Roach,<br />located in Point Pleasant.<br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div>Octaviushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10848885538159173166noreply@blogger.com0