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Nick Redfern's "There's Something in the Woods...": Cannock Chase is Spooky!
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
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Cannock Chase is Spooky!
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Yes, having investigated sightings of big-cats, werewolves, Bigfoot-type beasts, over-sized snakes, wallabies, wild boar, and much more in the woods of the area, I know that the Cannock Chase is spooky!
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But, this time, it's not me making the statement. Rather, the local press are highlighting the fact.
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Just a few days ago, I was contacted by Annette Belcher, one of the writers at the local Stafford Post newspaper, who asked for a comment-or-two from me about this latest development; and which, of course, I was pleased to provide.
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Here's an extract from Annette's article, so you'll have a full understanding of what this new story is all about:
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"It’s official - the Chase has been hailed one of the spookiest places in the country.
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The beauty spot, which stretches through Stafford, is renowned for its werewolf sightings, according to a latest paranormal study.
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It is all revealed in the work of paranormal researcher Lionel Fanthorpe, 74, from Cardiff. The study looks into paranormal events in the UK during the past 25 years. The study provides a breakdown of Britain’s spookiest places and focuses upon unexplained incidents reported to the police and leading paranormal organisations since the 1980s.
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There have been 21 reported cases of werewolf sightings, with the Cannock Chase werewolf being the most renowned."
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But, hang on, I haven't quite finished yet...!
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Over the last decade or so, intriguing reports have surfaced - from the many and varied little pools and ponds that can be found in, around, and on the outskirts of, the Cannock Chase - of sightings of exotic fish, crocodilians and much more of a distinctly out-of-place, aquatic nature.
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Without doubt, the most famous example of such activity occurred a number of years back at a small and semi-secluded body of water known as the Roman View Pond - that exists on the fringes of Cannock.
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It was from there, in the hot summer of 2003, that hysterical rumors wildly spread around the town of Cannock to the effect that a giant, marauding crocodile was on the loose.
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Local police, representatives of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), and the nation’s media all quickly descended upon the scene, as they valiantly and collectively sought to ascertain the truth about what, at a local level, fast (and inevitably!) became known to one and all as the "Cannock Nessie."
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Of course, the facts were somewhat more sober and down to earth.
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As my good friends Jonathan Downes and Richard Freeman of the Center for Fortean Zoology demonstrated to practically everyone’s satisfaction when they visited the area at the height of the sightings, the "beast" was likely nothing stranger than a three-foot-long Spectacled Caiman – a crocodilian reptile found throughout much of Central and South America.
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It was the conclusion of Jon and Richard that the unfortunate creature had probably been housed locally by an unknown exotic-pet-keeper – that is, until it grew to a point where it became completely unmanageable, and was then unceremoniously dumped in the pool late one night and under the protective cover and camouflage of overwhelming darkness.
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Almost certainly, Jon believed, the creature would not survive the harsh autumn and winter months that were destined to follow. And, sure enough, as the English weather changed for the worse, sightings of the mysterious beast came to an abrupt end.
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Nevertheless, whenever I am back in the area, I always stop off at the pool and cast a careful eye firmly in its dark direction – just in case something monstrous and unholy decides to once again surface from the depths and put in a brief appearance.
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So, why - you may well ask - am I bringing this up now?
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Simple: there has been a new development of a very similar nature at yet another body of water in the area: a small, 3-meter-deep pool that is hidden in a corner of the Brickworks Nature Reserve at Wimblebury - which is only a stone's throw from the heart of the Cannock Chase.
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As the Chase Post newspaper notes, up until recently "...the only things lurking in the murky waters were six bicycles, a shopping trolley and scaffolding poles."
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ut all that recently changed, as the Post also notes in a brand new story.
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Cannock Chase Council officials, concerned about vegetation dying, have made a startling discovery, says the Post.
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The Post explains that amongst the usual debris and rubbish, "...there were fish in the water, lots of fish - 20,000, to be precise. Even more baffling, there were not just native species: as well as roach and perch, ornamental varieties such as brown goldfish and koi carp were found."
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The Post expands further: "Ray Smythe, clerk at Heath Hayes and Wimblebury Parish Council, said: 'No one knows how on earth they got there. We can only think someone released them, but I’d be surprised if anyone knew the pool was there.'
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"Members of Stoke-on-Trent Angling Society have been drafted in to net the mystery fish - and move them to nearby Milking Brook.
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A spokesman for the club confirmed the operation had been a success. He said: 'We estimated that around 20,000 fish were transferred to Milking Brook. This needed three journeys, which, in each case, involved three tanks full of fish. I can confirm very few fatalities occurred during the operation.'"
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There's little doubt - as Jon and Richard's fine detective work demonstrated a few years ago - that someone was even then releasing exotic creatures into the pools of the Cannock Chase.
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Whether or not this latest development is directly linked to the earlier activity - or if it's an example of someone else adding to the ever-growing body of out-of-place animals that inhabit the Cannock Chase - is something that remains to be seen.
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But, this new story only reinforces what I said at the beginning of this blog-post: Cannock Chase is spooky! And long may it remain so!
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said...NIck, I've only ever been to Norfolk once - Norwich, to be specific, in '89, when I went there for an interview as a computer programmer writing RPG/400.
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I was astounded by how relatively isolated the area was from the rest of Britain
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it required me to make about 800 train connections over a period of about 8000 years - but many aeons later, when I finally arrived there, I was immediately struck by this incredible impression the whole place - the whole county - shouldn't be there, or really belonged somewhere else, maybe attached to the continent or something.
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This may've just been an early version of my later tendency to turn the corner and find myself on the wrong planet, but what makes me think otherwise is all these little snippets I've been picking up about the area in, for instance, Charles Fort's books, (which I've just started reading for the first time); plus everytime Chas started rabbiting on about his idea of mirror realms hanging in the sky, dropping things down on our world, the first thing that'd keep popping into my head was, "Bloody Norwich!"
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Add to which - ADD TO WHICH - my own notion about when Pope Thingy the Thingieth chunnered on about, "These kids ain't Angles - they're angels!" he didn't mean figuratively - he meant LITERALLY, i.e., these Angle kids're bit special compared to other kids, which of course they would be if they were 'descended' from Agni the Hindu god of Fire and ended up having not just East Anglia named after them but ENG-land, (Eng being a variant of Ing/Yng, the real but esoteric name of Heimdall, the guy who acts as the GATEKEEPER between WORLDS!).
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Streaking lights, explosions reported all along coast | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
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Streaking lights, explosions reported all along coast
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UFO seen by Siberian city
Residents of Chita in Russia witnessed a giant UFO cross their city before it disappeared over the horizon.
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FOXNews.com - Astronomers Baffled by Mysterious Light in Sky - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News
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Astronomers Baffled by Mysterious Light in Sky
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

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It's not a supernova. Nor is it a galaxy, or a black hole.
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In fact, astronomers have no idea what the mysterious object that in February 2006 suddenly flared up in an otherwise barren patch of sky might be, or even what it's made of.
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Researchers working on something called the Supernova Cosmology Project had pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a very distant star cluster, 8.2 billion light-years away or more than halfway across the universe.
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But they noticed something else — a point of light where there hadn't been one before.
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Over the next three months, the object got brighter and brighter until it was 120 times its initial luminosity.
Then it slowly got dimmer again, at about the same rate, until by the end of the year it was gone.
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Astronomers led by U.C. Berkeley astrophysics grad student Kyle Barbary put the light coming from it through a mass spectrometer to see what it was made of — but couldn't get signatures for any known elements.
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"Because we can't see anything we recognize in the spectrum, we can't tell if it's even in [our] galaxy or in another galaxy," Barbary told New Scientist magazine in an article posted Tuesday morning.
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It's not a supernova, which would have flared up much more quickly, then died out even more quickly.
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All the scientists know is that it's no closer to Earth than 130 light-years away — and no further than 11 billion light-years away.
As Sky and Telescope magazine noted last week, "that leaves a lot of leeway."
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"We are hoping someone else might have seen something similar," Barbary told New Scientist, "or might be able to shed some light on it."
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The Alien Seeker News - The Men in Black: The Early Days--Paranoia, the Paranormal, and Alien SS
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On Monday, September 1, my colleague Paul Dale Roberts sent me an email stating that he was going to interview an individual who claimed to have been a "Man in Black," one of the infamous MIB, tormenters of UFO witnesses and researchers.
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I told Paul that I couldn't wait to read it. A few hours later, I was reading his extraordinary interview with "Mr. Q," and today I was enormously pleased to see that the ever-alert Don Allis had run the piece in The Alien Seeker: Reporting Anomalous News.
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Paul's excellent interview--which I felt set just the proper tone for such an interview with an individual who may be lying and deliberately spreading disinformation or who may be telling the truth and providing us with another piece of the Great UFO Puzzle--got me to recalling some of the encounters with the MIB that my fellow researchers and I underwent back in the late '60s.
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In the period from 1966 to 1970, dozens of UFOlogists, contactees, and chance percipients of UFO's claimed to have been visited by ominous strangers--usually three, usually dressed in black--who made it painfully clear that they would violently enforce their orders to see to it that investigators discontinued flying saucer research and surrendered all photographs or artifacts.
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Often the threats were punctuated with the assertion that cooperation with the men in black was essential for the good of "your family, your country, and your world."
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Add Sticky NoteIn many ways, the MIB seemed as though the spirits of the Nazi SS had been resurrected as enforcers for Alien invaders.
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By June 24, 1967, a number of us UFOlogists gathered at the Commodore Hotel in New York to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the UFO sighting that brought the term "flying saucers" to our language (Kenneth Arnold spotted the saucer-shaped craft near Mount Rainier, Washington, on June 24, 1947),
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The final match to be thrown on the psychological tinder was the announcement of the death of Frank Edwards on that same special anniversary day.
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paranoia concerning the MIB was climbing toward an all-time high.
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Edwards was a radio personality who for many years had made a hobby of broadcasting stories on UFO's and psychic phenomena. At the time of his death Edwards was recognized as the King of Communicators in the field of UFOlogy.
Suddenly he was dead. What were the causes?
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Cerebral hemorrhage, agreed many UFOlogists in the crowded corridors of the Commodore Hotel, for that was the principal means of dealing death to UFO witness in the popular television series of the day, The Invaders, starring Roy Thinnes.
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He had had a highly successful radio program sponsored by the American Federation of Labor. Then, according to Edwards, the show had been dropped and he had been given his walking papers for devoting too many program minutes to discussions about flying saucers.
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Before his death, Frank Edwards had made several comments about attempts to silence him.
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It was his contention that his constant mentions of the UFO enigma had become irritating to the Defense Department--Edwards consistently maintained that the Air Force was guilty of a gigantic cover-up on the subject--and that they had brought pressure to bear on George Meany, President of the AFL.
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Add Sticky NoteHad the UFO silencers eliminated Frank Edwards? A lot of UFOlogists thought so, and that we were being infiltrated by some powerful agency from another world, and that the three men in black were representatives of this group's intelligence arm.
- "Sirius Cult" back then? - on 2008-09-05
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In an issue of Saucer Scoop, a UFO newsletter published by Joan Whritenour, John A. Keel stated in an "Open Letter to All UFO Researchers" that he considered the MIB professional terrorists who included among their duties, "the harassment of UFO researchers who become involved in cases which might reveal too much of the truth."
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Add Sticky NoteKeel commented that the victim of the MIB appeared to be subjected to "some sort of brainwashing technique that leaves him in a state of nausea, mental confusion, or even amnesia lasting for several days."
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Keel went on to declare:
"Contacts are being made ... then suppressed .. on a dizzying scale. Information is being gained... and lost... at an ever-increasing pace. One of the ironies of all this is that no policeman in his right mind associates black cars, kidnappers, amnesia victims, and black eyes with the UFO phenomena. Many of these cases never get beyond local police departments. Neither the FBI nor any other central government agency is engaged in collecting information on these aspects. Even local newspapers seldom take notice of these cases."
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"Because the official law-enforcement agencies are unwilling or unable, to cope with this growing situation, it becomes the responsibility of the private civilian investigator to collect and collate the full details on these incidents. The hazards of such investigations are obvious, but the job must be done .... We must switch our attention from the vehicles to the occupants.
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Add Sticky NoteThe menace is not in our skies. It is on the ground, and at this moment it is spreading like a disease across the country and the world."
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Most of the UFO percipients and investigators reported being threatened by (most often) shortish men with dark complexions, some-what Asian features, and heavy accents.
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A number claimed to have received later contact with "aliens" through their home television or radio sets.
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According to numerous accounts, the aliens' frequency interrupted normal programming.
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Robed figures instructed the saucer sighters to cooperate with them and to keep their information confidential. In ex-change for this silence and cooperation, the aliens promised that the UFO percipients would be permitted to work with them on certain mar-velous projects that would benefit humankind.
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Now I have no doubt that there was/is a physical aspect to the MIB phenomenon.
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I have no doubt that in many cases the mysterious interrogators may have been associated with the military, some black branch of the government--and in certain instances over-eager and possessive UFO researchers from civilian groups attempting to claim certain cases as their private property.
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Add Sticky NoteBut I am also convinced that this phenomenon--like so many associated with the UFO enigma--also has a paranormal aspect that may very often become extremely powerful, perhaps overwhelmingly so, to the investigator who has not prepared himself carefully for the remarkably complex interlocking realities of the UFO mystery.
- The supernatural involved....i.e. a spiritual component - on 2008-09-05
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In the spring of 1968, a magazine writer asked me to come along as an expert observer on an interview with a contactee who claimed a particularly vivid experience aboard a flying saucer.
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We left on a Friday, planning to spend the weekend in a motel, and since the contactee lived in a large city with numerous motels, we did not make any reservations.
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At the same time, since I had been hearing rather eerie reports about the harassment of UFO researchers, I had decided to pick a motel at random and not even tell our wives where we were staying. To check with our respective homes and be certain all was well, we agreed to call from pay telephones, rather than the telephone in the room.
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We met the contactee, recorded his most interesting (and greatly convincing) story, and returned to our homes three days later.
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Shortly after I had returned home (I had 200 miles farther to travel than the magazine writer), I received a telephone call from him. In very disturbed tones he told me he had received a call from a rather unctuous (if anonymous) individual who had detailed our every action of the past few days, including the name of the motel we had stayed in and the food we had ordered for our meals.
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The writer concluded that all the time that we thought we had been carefully covering our tracks, we had been under close surveillance.
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Add Sticky NoteA few days later, after midnight, the writer telephoned me again, obviously distraught. Books had been jumping off the shelves in his office, he told me. He was aware of mysterious presences.
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On two nights he had been awakened by a smallish man cloaked in shimmering light, who, like some intergalactic traveling evangelist, attempted to sell him on the idea of working with them in their cause.
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Add Sticky Note"Become one of our workers in the vineyard of Earth," my friend claimed to have been proselytized. "Join us. Work with us."
- Interesting choice of words by the 'Space midget." "Vineyard???" That is the same word/term used in the naming of an independent, non-denominational, Evangelical movement of supposed "Christians"; who call their movement, the "Vineyard Fellowship" and their meeting places or local communion, a "Vineyard Church." And if memory serves me correctly: I believe the Vineyard Fellowship is also a "Dominionist" group who advocates "perfecting" Earth by political and other means. Then and then only will Christ return to rule. - on 2008-09-05
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Add Sticky NoteIt was about that time that crucial data that fellow UFO researchers had sent to me in the mail either never arrived or came on the scene days later than the postmark would indicate that it should.
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All sorts of mail began to arrive taped shut with "Opened by Mistake" either stamped or written on the envelopes. On the other hand, some pieces arrived overnight from great distances--without a postmark.
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Once while speaking to a fellow researcher on the telephone, our conversation was interrupted by a metallic-sounding voice chanting: "Ho, ho, UFO!"
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Strangely enough, my friends seemed to endure the most peculiar telephone nonsense.
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An officer in the Navy Reserves, who had expressed an interest in the UFO enigma, finally asked me please not to discuss UFO's with him on the telephone ever again. Both at the office and at home, he found he was "sharing" his private line with some undetermined other parties.
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On two occasions when I had been speaking with him, a voice had broken in, mumbled a few words, then apologized for the intrusion.
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His wife absolutely refused to permit me to discuss the subject in her presence because of the bad dreams she had been suffering in connection with UFO's.
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In another city a businessman who had been doing a great deal of research on my behalf told of the time when he was anticipating a visit from me. He picked up the telephone to make a call on his private line, only to hear the following bit of conversation:
"Has he arrived in town yet?"
"Not yet."
"What motel will he be staying in'"
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At this point my friend broke in and asked who the hell was on his private line. There was a stunned silence, a click, then the steady buzzing that indicated a clear line.
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One may build a case, I suppose, that any or all of the above was simply a series of rather remarkable coincidences.
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The following incident is a bit more difficult to explain away, however.
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A friend of mine was traveling in England before continuing on to Vietnam to visit his son in the armed forces. He was walking near a railway station in London when he noticed three men dressed completely in black staring at him.
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When my friend returned their collective stare, they approached him and asked him which train they should take for such-and-such a city.
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My friend calmly pointed out that he was a tourist, and it made a good deal more sense for them to ask at the information booth just a few feet away.
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My friend turned on his heel and walked away from the odd trio, but a glance over his shoulder told him that they were still standing there staring at him, disregarding his advice to check with the information booth. Suddenly ill at ease, my friend hailed a taxi and went directly to his hotel.
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When he got to his room, an uncomfortable sensation prickled the back of his neck and he glanced out his window.
On the street corner, looking up at his room, were the three men. Baffled, he tried to push the incident from his mind.
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A day or so later, though, he was confronted by one of the men as he walked to his hotel who told him straight out:
"You are a friend of Brad Steiger. Tell him we shall visit him by Christmas."
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My friend had only a peripheral knowledge of the UFO can of worms, but he returned to his hotel room and wrote me a long letter with the above details. How could three odd little guys in London know that he was a friend of mine?
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Not long after I had received his letter, I visited an associate in another city and told him about the bizarre experience that my friend had encountered in London.
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"Humph!" Jim snorted over the lunch we were sharing. "If those monkeys come to see you this Christmas, send 'em down to talk to me. I'd love to get one of those characters in my hands. I would solve this man-in-black mystery you've been telling me about!"
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I warned him that he had better be careful or he might get his wish.
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Later, Jim told me that I had no sooner started my homeward journey than he was told that a gentleman wished to see him. A secretary ushered a man of average height into Jim's office--a man, my friend said, who was the thinnest human being he had ever seen.
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"He was cadaverous, Brad," Jim told me. "But he seemed alert enough, and so involved in his mission that he ignored my offered hand of greeting. In fact, I tried to push shaking his hand, but he refused to touch me.
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"'I hear you want to be the head of UFO's in Iowa,' he said quickly.
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"He took out a wallet, flipped it open, then shut, before I could see any identification. I can't really recall anything else he said, because it was all so damned nonsensical. Soon he was gone, and I was still sitting there dumbfounded.
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"I jumped to my feet, though, when I heard his car starting. I got a good look at his automobile, and I wrote down its license number. I can't tel1 you what make of car it was. It looked like a combination of three or four different makes and models, but it didn't real1y look like anything I had ever seen before.
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And the license number didn't check. The Highway Patrol said there was no such Iowa plate registered. A friend in another branch of state government, who owed me a favor, said the plate wasn't registered to any government agent, either."
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Steve, a UFO investigator, had an experience with unidentified and mysterious interrogators in September, 1966.
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He was working the night shift in a large pulp-and-paper plant in northern Michigan when he was paid an enigmatic visit by two dark-complexioned men dressed completely in black.
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Add Sticky Note"The first thing to come to my mind was the odd hour of the visit---three o'clock in the morning--and the rather puzzling appearance of the intruders," Steve told me.
- There have been many people, some firm and solid believers in Jesus Christ (Christians in other words) and some folks no where near religious in belief, who have reported "visitations" or other spiritual/supernatural encounters at the "3:00 AM" hour. - on 2008-09-05
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The two men asked him about the UFO case that he was investigating, but Steve played it cautiously and told them he had given up flying saucer research.
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"The two evidently seemed satisfied with my replies, for they suddenly turned and walked out of the room. By this time I had an inkling of who they were--or rather, who they were not. (My first impression was that they were from the government.)
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I jumped up from my chair and hurried out the door in pursuit--not more than twenty seconds behind them.
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"I moved forward slowly. About ten feet from the door I experi-enced an odd feeling--a sense of dissipated energy, or a residual electrical current, somewhat akin to the sensation one experiences when standing in a very powerful magnetic field. I rechecked the spot every few minutes, and noticed it ebb and fade) until it was completely un-noticeable in half an hour.
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"I talked with fellow workers in and around the building in which I was working, and they reported seeing no one. Checks with the plant guard substantiated my belief--no one had signed in at the industrial complex that night."
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Although I didn't become as deeply embroiled in MIB activities as certain of my fellow researchers, I did tread on the periphery of their vortex of swirling, nightmarish games. And from time to time I did slip into the court where the contest was being played.
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Add Sticky NoteI endured the "smell-ies"--vile, odorous attacks of some invisible entity not in the least concerned about personal hygiene. And closely associated with the dis-agreeable odors were regular poltergeistic plunderings of my office.
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But then I stumbled on a clue that may just solve the puzzle of who at least some of the MIB might really be.
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The revelation occurred one night as I sat in my office, desperately working over Lucretia, my faithful 1923 Underwood typewriter. I heard the heavy sound of footsteps at the top of the stairs. A quick glance told me that no one was there.
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A favorite painting of Edgar Allan Poe fell to the floor. I became irritated. I had to work to meet a deadline on a magazine article. I had no time to play.
Papers began to rustle off to my side. A single sheet became airborne.
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I had had enough. I looked up from my typewriter, rolled my eyes upward in disgust, and shouted: "Just cut it the hell out!"
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Everything stopped. There was literally the sound of silence.
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I experienced the same kind of sensation one has when he walks into a crowded, noisy room, and everyone suddenly stops talking. The very air seemed less crowded and oppressive. I went back to my writing without taking any further notice of anything other than the work at hand.
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Every kind of intelligence, regardless of how high or how low, wishes to be recognized. Nothing shuts up any thinking entity faster than to ignore it.
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But I hadn't ignored it. Rather, I had commanded this poltergeistlike force. I had refused to go along with its framework of reality, and my own change of attitude----from passive fear to rage----had apparently done the trick.
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In weeks to come I wondered about the other less fortunate victims of both poltergeists and the MIB. Had they had simply gone along with the "game," refusing to see themselves as the equals of their otherworldly adversaries? The cessation of odd activity in my office had been so abrupt that it was almost like some kind of lesson was terminated.
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Could it be that some intelligence was trying to teach me something all along--and satisfied that I had learned it, departed to seek out other pupils? If so, what was the lesson exactly? What had I done right?
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Not long after my "lesson," I sat one evening reminiscing with a farm family who had endured the entire gamut of the flying saucer mystery.
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The invisible telepathic being had begun communicating with the entire family because they had been "selected before they had been born" to assist him in doing "His" work and in protecting Earth from another group of intelligences who sought to enslave humankind.
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The communicating entity led the various members of the family circle on a number of "assignments" designed to save the Earth and to serve the benign entity and his kind.
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But always, the entity warned them, there was the enemy group with its men in black, seeking whom they might devour.
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The family, who became "flying saucer missionaries," saw mysterious fellow passengers board airplanes with them--then disappear somewhere in mid-flight. Automobiles appeared out of nowhere to follow and harass them.
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A man claiming to be from a state educational division arrived at the high school and talked for over an hour with one of the teenaged girl members of the family. The only questions he asked had to do with whether or not she would be able to recognize a spy.
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When suspicious adult members of the beleaguered family checked with school adminis-trators, they were informed that they had no knowledge of such a man nor of such a division within the state educational system.
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The girl who had been interrogated by the unidentified man also developed into a "channel" for the communicating entity, and soon several members of the family were practicing automatic writing.
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Their farm work was being ignored. Their lives had become a living nightmare in which every stranger was suspect, every sound in the night that of an invader, every strange coincidence imbued with desperate and weighty significance.
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At last the full realization that they had been deceived--that they had been led into a silly game--jolted them into determined action. They too said collectively, in essence: "Cut it the hell out!" And they resumed meaningful living.
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Add Sticky NoteI have advised many beginning "ghost hunters" or UFO researchers that when one feels himself set upon by marauding entities and begins to cross himself, recite prayers, sing hymns, or bellows out his favorite rock song, he "jams" the frequency in his brain on which the entities have been trying to establish contact and control.
- Calling on the name of Jesus, sincerely and in honesty; not as a ritual or joke, has always helped me. - on 2008-09-05
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It may well be that a determined demand to "Knock it off!" might have the same frequency-jamming effect and permit the percipient of the phenomenon to regain control of his own cerebral equipment.
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Whenever I review those days of UFO yesteryear when there seemed to be men in black lurking in every shadow, I am also led to think of the mythological figure common to all cultures and known generically to ethnologists as the Trickster.
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The Trickster plays pranks upon humankind, but often at the same time he is instructing them or transforming aspects of the world for the benefit of his human charges.
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Add Sticky NoteMost cultures view the Trickster as a primordial being who came into existence soon after the creation of the world.
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A number of Amerindian tribes referred to their Trickster figure as "Old Man," because they saw him as someone who was ageless, as old as time.
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Add Sticky NoteThe Trickster is usually viewed as a supernatural being with the ability to change his shape at will.
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Although basically wily, he may behave in a very stupid, childish manner at times, and may often end up as the one who is tricked.
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Add Sticky NoteThe Trickster lies, cheats, and steals without compunction. He seems often to be the very essence of amoral animalism.
- Anything with these traits cannot be holy nor righteous. - on 2008-09-05
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The Trickster figure is often credited with bringing death and pain into the world; yet, in some recitations, his own son was the first to die as a result.
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Because of his introduction of death to the world and because of his animalistic and amoral attributes, the Trickster is sometimes identified with the Devil as a personification of evil.
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Carl Jung saw the Trickster as a mythological shadow figure who provides the reverse image of the saint, the angel. The animalistic Trickster serves as the impish, dark opposite of the bright conscious mind and establishes a balance without which psychic wholeness may not be achieved.
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Sounds like the poltergeist or MIB, certainly. And yet, most cultures do not cast the Trickster in the role of the Evil One.
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He is often seen as a once high god cast down from the heights of pure divinity.
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In an article on the Trickster figure in Man, Myth and Magic, Douglas Hill writes that the many tales of the Trickster blend and fuse:
"Trickster is comic relief; he is psychic catharsis on a deep and vital level; he is a hero whose own evolution perhaps mirrors that of humankind toward a higher consciousness and social maturity. And, embodying all these essentials, he is deathless--no ethnological museum piece but just as alive and flourishing today as in the primeval past."
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Great article Brad. By the way that licence plate# wasn't 666 was it.
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Seen this big black car parked in a customs parking lot with the above plate number, (mid 80's) never thought much of it. Til a few years later I was told of someone seeing that same vehicle after him and his girl friend seen a weird ufo phenomina.
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It was near a military base area.
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Just seeing this vehicle and two MB freaked this guy out to this day. There are so many aspects to this subject and I could go on and on with info I've gathered and possibly related phenomina. As feed back on this subject is hard to come by. Good read.
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Changing weather | TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History
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Changing weather
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August 17th, 2008 by huujuu
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If the people of Poland are suspicious, being hit by a tornado the day after being threatened with nuclear attack, might seem suspicious.
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080816/tw...
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I'm sure there was a link on here to a story about China using weather altering technology.
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If it's possible to do then i'd be very surprised if it was'nt used to nudge economies ,,,,,,if some way.....hav'nt really thought that bit out......But i bet it'd be really useful!
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The weather in England (and the rest of the British Isles) has been rather strange lately, but that might just be global warming and i'm developing a weather conspiracy story about evil military bosses with power over the weather to explain the strangeness.
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Tornado kills three people in Poland - Yahoo! News UK
Some are reporting this strange weather pattern developed the day after Russia's warning threat to Poland not to cooperate with the U.S. for a missile shield...??? Is, indeed, someone controlling the weather as an arm of military weaponry?
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Tornado kills three people in Poland
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A tornado that struck southern Poland on Friday has killed at least three people and injured 34 more.
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Villages in southern Poland were devastated by the heavy storms, with roofs torn off homes, trees knocked down and vehicles overturned.
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The worst damage came in the southern province of Silesia, where two people were killed.
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One man near Czestochowa died after a tree crashed into his home, while a woman was crushed by the ceiling of her house in Rusinowice.
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In a separate incident one woman in the central city of Lodz was electrocuted by wires ripped off by heavy winds.
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Strong winds also swept through section of the A4 highway section near Opole, overturning cars and trucks, and blocking it for several hours.
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Dog Fight Over New Hampshire - Eyewitness Account
If this almost unbelievable account is accurate, it could have been just a training exercise; which U.S. military does at times with foreign/enemy aircraft.
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August 14, 2008
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I took a look at the PDF file on your website with the aircraft descriptions. I am definitely not an expert, but the aircraft I saw looks like, probably the skyhawk on page 12 , and the Mig 31 foxhound on page 114.
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My teenage daughter and I were watching closely, because the noise these planes make is very loud and hard to ignore. When we saw the shot fired, I yelled at my daughter to get into the house.
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At first we thought it must be some sort of training exercise, until the “skyhawk” fired upon the other aircraft.
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Prayers and protection to you and all your listeners,
Christine NH
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Strange Phenomenon: Sky Goes Black in the UK
frankwarren.blogspot.com/...enon-sky-goes-black-in-uk.html - Preview
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Strange Phenomenon: Sky Goes Black in the UK
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Im in u.k England in a place called Shinewater which is within Eastbourne..
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It is now about 9.20am and relativity bright, and the sky just went dark around this area, like night time dark, but no stars or clouds just pitch black..
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Quite a few people saw this so i'm not hallucinating...My neighbour believes it was a sudden eclipse but wouldn't that make everywhere else dark?
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I could clearly see the area known as "The Downs" which is a rough bunch of high hills and it was not dark over there from what i could see..
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it seemed like the light within about a .... a mile radius perhaps? just simply went dark, and I could very clearly see The Downs alight with natural light...the downs being quite a relativly high landmark you can see them from quite afar.
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This may sound mad but it was like, kinda like...The sky was cracked almost.
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Like what i was seeing wasn't our sky...it was odd and there was a really eerie feeling going on, but i guess that's just human nature when faced with something unknown.
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But honestly, it just felt looked like the sky had cracked, im sure someone would've picked this up on there mobile phone or something and cctv, that has to be an option.
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I'm gunna try my best to get this in some media format, i'll start with the local herald newspaper and see if i can get this higher because what i saw was not natural well, i for one believe it wasn't natural and i have a probable several 100 witnesses to this...
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Cryptomundo.com » New Montauk Monster Pic and Cryptid Marketing
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New Montauk Monster Pic and Cryptid Marketing
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 1st, 2008
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New photographs, above, have been published of the “Montauk Monster,” which allegedly washed up on a beach in Montauk. These photos are by Christina Pampalone.
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The Montauk Monster has created an Internet sensation.
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It is today’s #1 Yahoo search. It’s been on Cryptomundo, Boing Boing, and The Anomalist for days.
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It reminds me of the “Maine Mutant.”
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Sometimes these kinds of things have a life of their own, so to speak, especially if there is a compelling image.
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It is a cryptid, an unknown animal, until it is identified, of course, and that makes for a great story for the mainstream media, when they have a photo or even a few.
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Joye Brown of Newsday reports today that the story is indeed real.
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Brown tells of how the famed photo (seen directly above) has a known photographer: “Jenna Hewitt, of Montauk, and three friends crept up to examine one side. And Hewitt snapped the camera shot heard ’round the world.”
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Christina Pampalone, of East Northport, however, had actually taken the first photos (one is shown at the top of this posting).
“I was telling people, all day (Wednesday), that I had better photos,” Pampalone said.
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“Everybody I showed her pictures to said it looks like a dead dog,” her friend Ryan O’Shea, of Brooklyn, said.
“But looking at the claws, and at the teeth in the front, it looked like it could be something else, something vicious.”
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It was relatively small, roughly 21/2 to 3 feet long, he said.
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Brown notes that the rumor that the thing is in someone’s backyard is false, apparently, as it has been moved.
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Interestingly, Brown has collected some other interesting info from his readers:
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Joann Dileardo saw it at the end of Roe Avenue in Patchogue, a few weeks ago. “I didn’t know what that thing was,” she said. “It looked like a pig.”
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Another reader, Pat, e-mailed that the ladies in his office saw it on an East Quogue beach — back in April.
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Elizabeth Barbeiri said her family saw it about a mile east of Gurney’s Inn in Montauk, July 14. And Ryan Kelso, via iPhone, said he spotted it — alive! — in the Montauk dunes. “It looked about the size of an average fox, gray in color, eyes like a mole, hairless and was breathing quite heavily,” he wrote, “needless to say we were freaked out by this discovery and fled the area quickly.”
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Lavey Fater saw a surfer bring one to shore, near Ditch Plains.
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“It was hairless and gross,” Fater reported. “… The surfer said he had no idea what it was, but that he threw it in the dunes because he didn’t want to be surfing next to it.”
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Keith found something last week in Greenport; Chris found one a month ago at Jones Beach east of Field 6. (”The one I saw had a longer snout or beak or whatever you want to call it.”) Sean said he buried one, 3 feet deep, in South Jamesport.
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Of course, you notice Cryptomundo carried news of this as soon as we heard about it three days ago, and, no doubt, contributed to spreading the news. Then we became positively involved through commenting on the Venom search for the “monster.”
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