Ainsley Broussard's List: THE INEXPLICABLE

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    Mined out   kimberlite pipe, Kimberley Big Hole, Kimberley,   South Africa.
    Note the crater wall which is natural and formed   by a “vortex” mechanism of unknown origin.
• The Electrical Origin of   Kimberlite Pipes
• Jan 25, 2010
• One of the more perplexing   mysteries in geology is the   mechanism behind kimberlite eruption   at the Earth’s surface, because   these eruptions have never been   witnessed.
• Historically, kimberlite eruptions   tend to occur on the tectonically   stable parts of the Earth’s   landmasses, well away from the   tectonically active zones where many   active volcanoes are found,
• and from   the stability of diamond-graphite   pair we know they erupt   catastrophically over a very short   time, taking a matter of half a day   from the initial melting in the   mantle to eruption and   solidification at the surface.
• Another peculiarity these ancient   volcanoes have lies in the close   chronological association with   global mass extinction events, where   the globally largest eruptions of   these rocks occurred at the   Cretaceous extinction event.
• The actual process which formed the   kimberlite crater or diatreme   remains unknown, because there is   clear evidence that these diatremes   were machined downwards from the   surface by a magmatic vortex effect.
• The final puzzle lies in the origin   of these rather unique rocks—some   220 kilometers under the surface,   well away from active tectonic   zones.
• What could have affected the upper   mantle at those depths to allow   partial melting and the rapid ascent   of the, occasionally diamond   bearing, kimberlite magma to the   earth’s surface?
• The New Concepts in Global Tectonics   Newsletter issue No 43 of June 2007,   published an important paper by the   Russian scientist Konstantin K.   Khazanovitch-Wulf who proposed that   kimberlites and related rocks are   linked to disruptions in the Earth’s   electric field caused by the   electromagnetic effect of a passing   cosmic body or meteorite.
• Earlier   research by Russian scientists also   point to earthquakes being caused by   subterranean electric discharges,   and which could also trigger   kimberlite eruptions.
• In his model   it is the actual physical disruption   of the earth’s electrical field by   the electrically active interloper   that initiated the kimberlite   eruptions, and presumably also the   associated mass species extinctions.
• This strongly suggests kimberlite   eruptions are essentially electrical   discharge sites of short duration   between the Earth and another cosmic   body, where electrical charge   differences between the Earth and   the interloper caused electrical   short circuits between them.
• The   rotary or tunneling mechanism   recognized from the shape and   structure of the kimberlite   diatremes can then be explained as   the result of powerful Birkeland   currents corkscrewing into the   Earth’s surface forming the smooth   and steep sides of the kimberlite   diatreme.
• Geological mysteries disappear when   the Plasma Model is used to explain   observed facts.

• Contributed by Louis Hissink
   
    Louis Hissink, M.Sc., is a   consulting geologist in Perth,   Western Australia. He is a Member of   the Australian Institute of   Geoscientists and editor of the   A.I.G. News.

   

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• Written by Chris Holly     
• The Spirits of 911
• Tuesday, 11 May 2010 23:22
• I rarely discuss 911. I have never written about it before in any fashion. I am a New Yorker and my feelings are very strong and very personal on this subject. I lived in New York City as did my family during the 911 attack on this country and my view is not a long distance viewpoint mine is from the horror of watching it happen to my people in my town.
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• I do not respond to the theories that float about freely on this subject. It sickens and hurts my heart like no other to listen to those who were nowhere near this horrible act of hate give long winded opinions of who and what happened that morning on September 11 2001.
• I do know what it was to watch two planes fly in to a no fly zone; I do know what it is like to watch those planes fly in to two buildings big enough to fill the space of an average town in America. I do know what happens when towers as big as towns fall down upon the surrounding area hitting and destroying everything in the way on the way down.

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  I know what 911 smelled like and what people in terror look like covered in the gray ash of the combined fallen towers and the dead. I also learned how brave, strong and kind my fellow New Yorkers proved to be.
• It was a time when things became surreal while things unimaginable were happening all round us and a average morning caught New Yorkers dealing without warning in to a total survival mode.
• Your senses become acute and you become very clear about what is going on.
• That is all I have to say on that area of this subject.
• What I want to share is an event that happened at dusk on the day the Towers fell.
• About 8 miles outside the city on the south shore coast of Long Island looking at the city my cousin ,her husband and her friends and family were gathered at a dock where they kept a large boat on the Atlantic Ocean side of New York.
• They heard from other people who had boats docked that you could watch what was left of the towers burn and also see the spirits rise if you went out in the water and anchored adjacent to the city skyline.
• My cousin and her family and friends decided to take the boat out to see if they could have one last look at what was left of the towers which were a landmark on the skyline of New York City along the coast. .
• My cousin told me it was a silent ride out with heavy broken hearts for those lost and the realization terror was now a word that would stay with us forever. They made their way to the group of other boats anchored in the area that proved to be the best last look at the mighty World Trade Center Complex.
• She told me the boats all floated silently in the water as they watched the smoldering building pieces that remained and broken buildings in the area smoke in a slow sad last gasp of what they once had been.
• She said the fires were out but a glow surrounded the ground zero site in a strange eerie fashion.

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  My cousin told me they sat there for a very long time without talking and openly wept at the horror before their eyes.
• Most people knew people who worked in or near the towers. No one was sure who was alive or who was dead. It was a day like no other for New York City and its adjoining communities.
• As they sat on the boat watching they all started to notice at once something very odd going on at the ground zero site.
• Over the buildings , above the city they realized they were seeing flashes of what looked like light rising from the top of what was left of the tower complex rising up into the darkening sky.
• The group of people sitting on the boats watched in silence as this strange activity increased until they witnessed hundreds of ghost like white wisps rise from the ground and lift into the night sky.
• The people watching started to cry as they all were sure at what they were watching.
• My cousin talked to me a few days later and told me that she knew people would think she was crazy but she was sure of what she had seen.
• She told me it was not smoke, it was not spot lights it was hundreds and hundreds of individual souls rising above the site until you could no longer see them. Straight up until they were simply gone.
• She told me they looked like a white glowing shape about body size and that the entire thing lasted for only a hour or so and then it slowed and stopped. She told me she knew it was the confusion of the day that kept the souls earthbound until they realized it was over and that they needed to move on.
• I cannot prove or disprove what the people saw on those boats. I do know it was profound and stayed with them all .
• This event has forever changed her life.
• My cousin was a serious skeptic and extremely set in her beliefs until this event occurred. She returned from this event a very different person. The entire group who were on that boat that day have been changed and insist they were witness to the spirits of those who were taken that day rise and leave ground zero.
• I do know firsthand that for days following the World Trade Towers Attack New Yorkers for miles around the city spent days washing the gray thick dust that hovered drop from the sky covering cars, patio furniture and flower pots. Our decks and windows all were covered.
• I did not see this take place and can only report what I was told.
• I recall the odd still feel of the days after and the attack as well as the strange cry of the wind that would arrive and hum in a sad sorrowful way as we hosed off our vehicles , houses and belongings from the gray coat of dust covering everything.

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  I clearly recall hearing my neighbors and family members praying aloud as we hosed off our world knowing we were not only washing away the remains of the towers but those who perished in them.
• I recall the taste of the ash and forever will remember the smell. The smell of disaster and death that covered the area for miles and miles .
• It was a time like no other in modern American history and one that must never be forgotten.
• Looking at their faces as they tell you what they saw leaves no question in my mind that they did watch the spirits of 911 rise to a better place.
• I believe my cousin , her family and friends.
• That is all I have to say about 911 and the souls of those lost that terrible day.

• Copyright © 2008- 2010 Chris Holly all Rights Reserved
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• Schoolgirl comes face to face with 'black panther' in the Forest of Dean
• Kim Howells says she was chased by a big cat on her 15th birthday.
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• SCHOOLGIRL Kim Howells had a 15th birthday to remember after coming face to face with a big cat.
• The Heywood pupil fled in terror after being pursued by the panther in woods near Ruspidge.
• Kim was walking with her cousin Sophie Gwynne, eight, at around 8.30pm on Monday when they came across the beast lying beneath a tree.
• She said: "I saw something out of the corner of my eye and at first I thought it was a log or something. We carried on walking but then I looked back and it was sitting up looking at me."
• Kim said the cat was about the size of a Great Dane, black all over with big eyes and paws and a long tail. She said it was about 15metres away from them and there was no mistaking what it was.
• She said: "It was definitely a big cat. I've seen boar in the Forest before and it definitely wasn't one of them. What makes me sure is that it was still light so I could see it really clearly."
• As the girls walked away the creature started following them along the path.
• Kim said: "Sophie was asking what it was and then we looked behind us and it was about five metres away, following us.

• "I didn't know what to do so we cut through the brambles and just started running."

   

  The girls ran all the way back to Kim's home in Ruspidge.
• Kim's mum Cathy said: "They were in a real state, their feet were all cut and Sophie was in tears.
• "Kim is a very sensible girl and if that's what she says she saw, that's what it is."
• Cathy later showed Kim a picture of a panther on the internet and she confirmed that was what she saw.
• Cathy says she has now has second thoughts about letting her daughter and niece play in the woods.
• She said: "I used to think that they were much better off there than a public park or somewhere but now I'm not sure, it is a real worry."

• It is not the first time a big cat sighting has been reported near Ruspidge.

   

  In June 2007, milkman Robert Brinton got an early morning wake-up call when he encountered a big cat in Railway Road.
• Earlier the same year, firefighter Peter Bishop reported a black cat sighting in Cinderford and a lorry driver from Lydney saw one on Valley Road.

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• Saturday, June 19, 2010

    

     

   

    

   More Footprints
• One of my friends just recently found some interesting footprints while hiking near a creek.
• Not only were these large and canine, but they were in the same odd, bipedal pattern of the footprints that Matt and I had found earlier this year.
• She sent the picture to me (after clearing it up with photobucket) after which I took the liberty of tracing the print.
• omething else to take into account is that she lives in a different state, further reinforcing the idea that these creatures inhabit all parts of the country (if not the world).
   

  
• (picture taken by Elizabeth Huff)

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• Strange & Unexplained - Werewolves

   
   

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  [- Man-Wolf Shapeshifting Beings -]
• In the early spring of 1971, residents of a Mobile, Alabama, neighborhood claimed to have had nocturnal encounters with an extraordinary creature. "The top half was a woman," one witness said, "and the bottom was a wolf." The witness added, unnecessarily, "It didn't seem natural."
• Such reports, which the Mobile police investigated with inconclusive results, are modern echoes of ancient beliefs
• The first half of the name comes from the Teutonic wer, meaning "man"; thus a werewolf is a man-wolf.
  
• Though known to most of us simply as a scary monster in horror movies and novels, the werewolf once was feared as a real-life menace.
• The first known use of the word in print goes back to the eleventh century, but a werewolf story survives from the first-century Satyricon.
• Beyond that, lycanthropy figures in Greek mythology, where Zeus, furious when he learns that Lykaon has served him and other gods human flesh, turns Lykaon into a wolf.
• Inspired by this myth, a cult took root in Arcadia. An initiate committed human sacrifice, an act that made him a "wolf" for nine years. Other scattered references in ancient writings testify to early fascination with man-wolves.

• Origins

    Historians, folklorists, and psychiatrists have offered various theories about the origin of the nearly universal belief in lycanthropy, the human-animal transformation that includes not only wolves but bears, big cats, hyenas, and other fierce creatures.
• Of all of these the werewolf is best known, at least in the West, no doubt because the wolf was the predator most feared by Europeans.
• folklorists W.M.S. Russell and Claire Russell argue that "it is difficult to believe that all the past accounts, often highly circumstantial, are legendary."
• The relationship between werewolf lore and rapacious wolves is made explicit in fifteenth- to eighteenth-century books on hunting; here a wolf that has developed a taste for human flesh is called a werewolf or (in French) loup-garou.
• In northern Europe, wolfmen or berserkers -warriors clad in suits made of wolf skin-were notoriously murderous and deeply feared.
• At the same time, however, in Germany it was believed that after death, honored ancestors became wolves. Their descendants were sometimes given names such as Wolfhard, Wolfbrand, and Wolfgang on the theory that thereby wolf spirits would enter them and afford them strength and courage.
• In the Baltic and Slavic regions of Europe, people worshipped a wolf deity of uncertain temperament; it could protect, but it could also turn on the faithful without warning. As Christianity rose to power, the priesthood condemned such pagan beliefs as Satanic.
• As a consequence werewolves came to be seen as the devil's agents. Theological writers debated whether humans literally turned into wolves or simply were perceived as wolves by those whom Satan had deluded.
• Consensus held forth for the latter, on the grounds that only God, whose powers are greater than the devil's, could effect a physical change of species.
• In the words of St. Augustine:
   
   It is very generally believed that by certain witches' spells and the power of the Devil men may be changed into wolves . . . but they do not lose their human reason and understanding, nor are their minds made the intelligence of a mere beast.
• Now this must be understood in this way: namely, that the Devil creates no new nature, but that he is able to make something appear to be which in reality is not.
• For by no spell nor evil power can the mind, nay, not even the body corporeally, be changed into the material limbs and features of any animal . . . but a man is fantastically and by illusion metamorphosed into an animal, albeit he to himself seems to be a quadruped.
• Persons who believed themselves to be werewolves testified, both under torture and otherwise, that they rubbed themselves with a salve before undergoing the transformation. The salve contained hallucination-inducing plants such as henbane and deadly nightshade.
• An interesting though in some ways unbelievable mid-eighteenth-century French account tells of a woman on trial as a suspected werewolf. Promised leniency if she would reveal her secrets, she had a pot of salve delivered from her house. After rubbing the substance on her head, neck, and shoulders, she lapsed into a three-hour coma. When she revived, she said she had turned into a wolf and in that condition killed a cow and a sheep. Investigators dispatched to the site found the animals' remains in the designated place.
• The salve here is the "witches' salve," which they used to cover themselves before flying off to Sabbats. During the witch trials of the Renaissance period many writers, noting the salve's hallucinogenic effects, concluded that both Sabbats and human-wolf transformations occurred only in druginflamed imaginations.
• Others noted the role of mental illness ("melancholy"), sometimes aided and abetted by the devil's ability to confuse perception, in causing deluded individuals to believe they could turn into wolves or to think they had seen others doing so.
• Werewolfery also was associated with persons we today would deem murderously mentally ill.
• Modern psychiatric literature documents the survival of lycanthropy as a serious mental disorder.
• At least one case (described in the November 1975 issue of the Canadian Psyciiiatric Association journal) had its origins in an LSD trip which an American soldier took in a European forest-a psychic and geographic echo of hallucinogens and werewolves past.
• Generally, according to psychiatrists Frida G. Surawicz and Richard Banta, lycanthropy is a "severe type of depersonalization" which may be triggered by drug abuse, paranoid schizophrenia, brain damage, or other causes.
• Psychoanalyst Nandor Fodor wrote that the "origin of 'Iycanthropy' cannot be traced to a point in historic time or to particular civilizations. It is in the human psyche, in human experience, that the 'Iycanthropic' fantasy is born....

• Sightings

    Werewolves are found not only in mythology, folklore, and popular culture but in sighting reports as well. There are, however, relatively few of these.
• On the other hand, most of what we know about the werewolf tradition is filtered through the writings of anthropologists and folklorists; they, being sensible people, ignored sighting reports from native informants or perhaps never thought to ask about them, on the assumption that since werewolves do not exist, no one could have seen one.
• In short, we ought not to be too surprised at sighting reports, which are real enough even if werewolves are not. Yet most of the sightings are poorly documented, and those that come from apparently credible witnesses may be subject to other interpretations, albeit perhaps not in every instance one that will please those determined to link each oddity of human testimony to a comfortingly conventional stimulus.
• In any case, if the stories that follow do not amount to a case for real-life man-wolves, they are nonetheless worth noting, and they are undeniably interesting.
• In a 1960 issue of Fate, Mrs. Delburt Gregg of Greggton, Texas, told of an encounter with a shapeshifting creature.
• Such reports are exceedingly rare in modern times. The other sightings surveyed below are simply of creatures that looked like manwolves; nobody claims to have seen one becoming another.
• Mrs. Gregg does not make such a claim either, but she comes closer than anyone else in a tale that sounds more like an early chapter from a werewolf novel than a real-life experience.
• As her story goes, one night in July 1958 while her husband was away on business, Mrs. Gregg moved her bed close to a screened window hoping to catch the cool breeze from a thunderstorm brewing on the southwestern horizon.
• She had dozed off only a short time before she heard a scratching sound on the screen.
• In a flash of lightning she saw a "huge, shaggy, wolflike creature ... clawing at the screen and glaring at me with baleful, glowing, slitted eyes. I could see its bared white fangs."
• She leaped from bed and grabbed a flashlight as the creature fled through the yard and into a clump of bushes. "I watched for the animal to come out of the bushes," she wrote, "but, after a short time, instead of a great shaggy wolf running out, the figure of an extremely tall man suddenly parted the thick foliage and walked hurriedly down the road, disappearing into the darkness."
• More characteristic of modern American werewolf stories are those told between July and October 1972 by a number of residents of Ohio.
• They reported seeing a six- to eight-foot-tall creature which one witness described as "human, with an oversized, wolflike head, and an elongated nose."
• Another said it "had huge, hairy feet, fangs, and it ran from side to side, like a caveman in the movies."
• It also had glowing red eyes.
• During the early morning hours it allegedly sneaked up behind a trainman working along the tracks in downtown Defiance and whacked him with a two-by-four. Presumably we have here a prankster or a madman dressed to care.
• Four Gallup, New Mexico, youths allegedly encountered what they called a "werewolf" along the side of a road near Whitewater one day in January 1970.
• It managed to pace with their car, which was traveling at 45 miles per hour. One witness reported, "It was about five feet seven, and I was surprised it could go so fast.
• We rolled up the windows real fast and locked the doors of the car. I started driving faster, about 60, but it was hard because that highway has a lot of sharp turns. Someone finally got a gun out and shot it. I know it got hit and it fell down, but there was no blood. I know it couldn't be a person because people cannot move that fast."
• This sounds like a "skin-walker," the name the Navahos of the Southwest give to the werewolf.
• In 1936, in Yale Publications in Anthropology, anthropologist William Morgan recounted an interview with a Navaho identified only as Hahago. Hahago said of skin-walkers, "They go very fast.... They can go to Albuquerque in an hour and a half--a four-hour trip by automobile, according to Morgan.
• In the fall of 1973 western Pennsylvania played host to dozens of reports of strange apelike creatures, sometimes seen in association with UFOs, said to have (in one witness's words) "fire red eyes that glowed in total darkness," to be seven to eight feet tall, and to give off a strong, unpleasant odor. "
• Another type of creature," investigator Stan Gordon noted, "was said to be between five and six feet tall. It was described as looking just like an extremely muscular man with a covering of thick dark hair. Again in these reports, the arms were very long and hung down past the knees. This creature appeared to have superior agility exceeding that of a deer.
• From footprints discovered, the stride of the creatures varies between 52 and 57 inches. In these reports there was no indication of odors."
• Two sketches published in Flying Saucer Review (July 1974, page 5) show these creatures to bear a striking resemblance to the traditional werewolf, though neither witnesses nor investigators remarked on the fact.
• If these stories are not outright hoaxes, they clearly indicate the presence of extraordinary, otherworldly creatures which challenge consensus views of reality.
• On the other hand, in some cases it is possible both to believe the witnesses and to keep one's ties to reality intact. In the Delphos, Kansas, area during July 1974, for example, several persons encountered what a newspaper described as a "young child about 10 or 12 years old, with blood, matted hair, dressed in tattered clothing, running through vines and brush in a wooded area in the northwest edge of Delphos."
• She was dubbed the "wolf girl." Though local authorities never found her, she may well have existed, probably as a mentally retarded runaway or abandoned child.
  

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