Malachi Smith's List: PHENOM-MYSTERY

• Mystery vibrations have Green Bay couple spinning
• Ehrfurths at loss to explain home's annoying noises
• July 23, 2008
• Bob and Leona Ehrfurth are very sensitive to the possibility that people might think they're crazy.
• For the record, they're not — but they are being driven that way.
• For two years now, the Ehrfurths have been enduring an annoying, persistent noise in their home — a low, motor-like rumble accompanied by a vibration. They can't figure out what's causing it, and it's been a challenge getting others to believe them because the problem starts and stops.
• They've lived in the house at 2048 Mary Queen Road for 42 years, and it's only been the last two years that it's been a problem.
• "It's like there's a semi parked right outside with the engine running, but when you look out, there isn't one," said Leona Ehrfurth, 76.
• And it quits at the most inconvenient times. Like when they bring city officials, acoustic experts or news reporters into their house to experience the problem.

• City officials spent $1,000 to hire a company to do some testing this spring; the tester heard no noise, and his equipment failed to measure vibration of any significance.

  Nicholson hoped the equipment could be used inside one of the factories in the general neighborhood, but Municipal Judge Jerry Hanson wouldn't sign the inspection warrant that would allow that.
• "There has to be some reasonable suspicion of some type of violation you could point to," Hanson said. "Nobody's been able to come up with anything that would point to anything specific."
• "Now they KNOW we're crazy," Bob Ehrfurth, 75, grumbled after explaining how a technical expert installed vibration-monitoring equipment in their house and failed to measure anything of significance.
• "Imagine putting your pillow on the hood of a running car — you can't sleep through that," Leona Ehrfurth said. "You get this pressure in your ear. Sometimes I have to get out of the house, because I can't take it anymore."

• Bob Ehrfurth can sleep through it, but he doesn't like it.

  "It doesn't matter if the windows are open or closed — you still hear it," he said. "It's worse in the winter."
• Although the two aren't in the best of health, the problem is not with them because when they leave, they don't hear the noise, Bob Ehrfurth said.
• The Ehrfurths' immediate neighbors haven't complained about the noise, but the Ehrfurths have had a few people admit hearing the noise.
• An engineering teacher told the city's Protection & Welfare Committee he tried to help the Ehrfurths investigate the matter, and said he experienced a throbbing sensation in his ears while in the neighborhood and in their house. A resident from about a mile away made similar complaints.
• "Yeah, I've experienced it," said Alderman Andy Nicholson, who has been trying to help the Ehrfurths. "It's like an engine thing, a low-frequency vibration. I think it would be an annoyance."
• But the source remains a mystery.
• The Ehrfurths said they started hearing the noise shortly after St. Bernard's Parish, directly across the street from them, redid its roofing, chimney and ductwork on the wing of its school building.

• But parish staff members proved to the Ehrfurths that their building wasn't the source when they shut off all of their equipment and the noise continued.

  The frustration as well as the annoyance of the noise itself has driven Leona Ehrfurth to tears. She broke down at two public meetings as she tried to explain it.
• "He's 75 and I'm 76, and we're both failing fast," she said. "I can't take it. I try to stay in bed, but I get such a bad headache, I can't take it. I have to hang out in the basement or try sleeping in the sunroom (where the noise is less bothersome).
• "We could move, but why should we have to? We didn't cause it."

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• Berry-pickers report sasquatch sighting in northern Ontario
• Monday, July 28, 2008
• Two Ontario women say they saw what might have been the legendary sasquatch in northwestern Ontario last week.
• Helen Pahpasay and her mother were north of Grassy Narrows, Ont., about 230 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, to pick blueberries last Tuesday when they spotted a hulking figure from their truck at about 10 a.m. CT.
• "It was black, about eight feet long and all black, and the way it walked was upright, human-like, but more — I don't know how to describe it — more of a husky walk, I guess," she told CBC News.
• "It didn't look normal."
• The creature seemed to spot them, then ran off into the woods, Pahpasay said.
• She and her mother debated chasing the creature to try to get a closer glimpse, but were so shaken they decided to abandon their berry-picking excursion and return home.
• Others returned to the area later and found a large, six-toed footprint, Pahpasay said.
• "What do I think it was? Right now I'm not even sure what it was. But it really scared both of us," she said.
• "There's been talk of Bigfoot, sasquatch. And I'm still not sure what it was, but I've never seen anything like it."
• Pahpasay says she and her mother aren't the only people in the area with a sasquatch story. A couple of men from their community said they also saw the creature three years ago, she said, and a similar animal has been mentioned in old lore about the area.
• "I've never believed it before, no. I'm not even quite sure what it still is today, even after what I've seen," she said.
• Sasquatch, an aboriginal word meaning "hairy giant," refers to a large manlike creature some believe could be roaming woods from California up the West Coast and across Canada.
• In April 2005, a ferry operator in Norway house, Man., captured on videotape three minutes of footage of what he said was a sasquatch. However, the video, which was shown on an American television network, was indistinct at best, failing to live up to its billing as "footage of the century."
• In 2006, several people in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan reported seeing a sasquatch-like figure in the woods around Flin Flon, Man.
• Skeptics say it's preposterous that a large mammal could have evaded detection in North America throughout history. Despite numerous alleged sightings, no one has ever produced concrete evidence such as skulls or bones, they argue, while footprints, film or photos can be manufactured.

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• New Montauk Monster Pic and Cryptid Marketing
• 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.
• It is today’s #1 Yahoo search. It’s been on Cryptomundo, Boing Boing, and The Anomalist for days.
• The Montauk Monster has created an Internet sensation.
• It reminds me of the “Maine Mutant.”
• Sometimes these kinds of things have a life of their own, so to speak, especially if there is a compelling image.
• 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.
• 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.”

• 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.

• “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.”
• It was relatively small, roughly 21/2 to 3 feet long, he said.
• Brown notes that the rumor that the thing is in someone’s backyard is false, apparently, as it has been moved.
• Interestingly, Brown has collected some other interesting info from his readers:
• 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.”
• Another reader, Pat, e-mailed that the ladies in his office saw it on an East Quogue beach — back in April.
• 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.”
• Lavey Fater saw a surfer bring one to shore, near Ditch Plains.
• “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.”
• 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.
• 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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• "Monster" Washes Ashore in Montauk
• 2008 08 02
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   Ed Comment: Why is the “buzz” around the so called "Montauk Monster" interesting?
• Well, if you listen to our interview with Stewart Swerdlow as he explains the background story on the mind control projects that went on at Montauk and the experimentation with something called the "Montauk Chair" or the "Alien Chair", then this recent find or discovery becomes very interesting.
• The “monster” could be a genetic cross breed that escaped or it might be a fraud. We’ll see how the story develops; it’s interesting enough to keep an eye on.
• CNN: 'Montauk Monster' Creature Found!
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   Gawker posted the photo above earlier this week under the headline: "Dead Monster Washes Ashore in Montauk"
• The site doesn't mention where the photo came from, but does state "This is an actual monster, some sort of rodent-like creature with a dinosaur beak."
• Hamptons-based site Plum is reporting the photo as well. In a post they quote unnamed government biologists as concluding that "no such creature exists".
• And also quote a graphics specialist at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, who says that if it is fake, it's a "really good Photoshop job."
• More from Plum:
• The validity of the picture has been further established by the numerous eyewitnesses who saw the animal on the beach in front of Montauk's Surfside Inn.
• Theories abound as to what the animal is and where it came from.
• Marci Caplis of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service noted that rare and unknown sea animals did surface after the Asian tsunami, and although the recent East Coast storms are not of comparable magnitude, the animal did wash up on a particularly stormy day in the Hamptons.
• Others have speculated that the animal escaped from Plum Island Animal Disease Center.

  • Plum Island Animal Disease Center
• Plum also notes that they will have interviews with the photographer, Jenna Hewitt of Montauk, and two eyewitnesses on their show "The Juice" this Friday.
• Already, speculation is rampant.
• Guesses range from the "monster" being a known animal (a turtle without its shell? Or a dog, a thought introduced in a comment left by an alleged forensics expert) to an elaborate viral campaign.
• UPDATE (07/31, 1:30pm)
   
   So the Montauk Monster (or "Monty", or "eagle-dog") is taking over the internet.
• In other updates, Gawker has recapped the theories that are surrounding the creature.
• And NY Magazine gets deeper into the story here, including a quote from an eyewitness, 22-year old Michael Meehan:
   
   I saw the monster. I just came walking down the beach and everyone was looking at it. No one knew what it was. It kind of looked like a dog, but it had this crazy-looking beak. I mean, I would freak out if something like that popped up next to me in the water.
  
• They also have uncovered, what's apparently become of Monty: "An old guy came and carted it away. He said, 'I'm going to mount it on my wall.'"
• Meanwhile, Newsday petitioned William Wise, director of Stony Brook University's Living Marine Resources Institute, to take a look and comment on the photo. While he couldn't say what it is, he knows what it's not:
   
   A raccoon. ("The legs appear to be too long in proportion to the body.")
   A sea turtle. ("Sea turtles do not have teeth.")
   A rodent. ("Rodents have two huge, curved incisor teeth in front of their mouths.")
   He said the general body shape looks like a dog or other canine ("Coyote?"). But that the "prominent eye ridge and the feet" don't match.
   He said the feet and face look "somewhat ovine" - that would be like a sheep - but sheep don't have sharp teeth.
• Wise's best estimation: "A talented someone who got very creative with latex."

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• Ventura County hot spot puzzles experts
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  The hot spot in Los Padres National Forest is attended to by firefighters, who first responded the area a month and a half ago when observers noticed a haze of smoke, but no flames, rising from the parched scrub.
• A two-acre patch of land north of Fillmore has heated up to 800 degrees, and firefighters and geologists are unsure why.
• By Joanna Lin, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer 
  August 5, 2008
• A patch of land in Ventura County's section of Los Padres National Forest where the ground recently heated up to 812 degrees continues to puzzle firefighters and geologists after weeks of monitoring.
• "It's a thermal anomaly," said Ron Oatman, spokesman for the Ventura County Fire Department.
• Firefighters responded to reports of a blaze there a month and a half ago, when observers noticed smoke rising from the parched scrub. But when they arrived, they found no flames.
• Firefighters and geologists who have surveyed the area in the Sespe Oil Field are uncertain what's causing the heat, but they do have a theory.
• Allen King, a retired geologist with the U.S. Forest Service who went to the site Friday, said the smoking ground is "a normal occurrence" that does not appear to be the result of human activity.
• The hot spot is in an area considered to be an active landslide that has shifted for more than 60 years. Several hundred feet below its cracked surface lie pockets of gas, tar and oil.

  • Hmmm...mm...Geologists and archaeologists say the same thing about the Dead Sea area and the destroyed cities of Sodom and Gommahra.
• King said he suspects cracks along the landslide's slope allow oxygen to enter into the earth and hydrocarbon material to "seep out" of the fine-grain shale. The combination can create underground combustion, he said.
• King said the depth at which hydrocarbon material can be found "varies tremendously" and that he does not know at what depth the combustion in the oil field is occurring.
• The 812-degree temperature was measured Friday about a foot below the surface, he said. No other temperature checks have been made since, according to Oatman.
• During Friday's visit to the hot spot, smoke rose through five cracks in the ground.
• From a distance, it looked like "a small, smoldering camp fire," Oatman said. The smoke comes and goes, he said, and fire officials expect it will last until the next heavy rainfall, when water and mud plug the fissures.
• The steep, rugged terrain is owned by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and leased by Seneca Resources Corp. The area is gated off from public access and is free of equipment and buildings.
• The hot spot is not considered to be a threat to public safety, Oatman said, and the Fire Department is monitoring the area daily.
• The 3,000-acre Sespe Oil Field was discovered in 1887 and has since produced about 50 million barrels of oil, said David Christy, spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management.
• In January 2007, about 200 to 300 gallons of oil spilled into a nearby creek after a pipe containing a mixture of groundwater and oil burst.
• The field contains more than 300 oil wells, 210 of which are active.
• Jeff Kuyper, executive director of Los Padres ForestWatch, said he had not heard of hot spots in the oil field but was concerned about their potential effect on the nearby Sespe Condor Sanctuary and the forest's fire-prone nature.
   
   "It's just a disaster waiting to happen . . . regardless of what the cause is," he said.

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• Haunted High?  Some Say Camera Captured Ghost at Asheville High School
• By Connie LeGrand
    Anchor
      Published: August 7, 2008
• Is an area high school haunted?  Asheville is abuzz after video was captured by a motion-activated camera at Asheville High school at 2:51 a.m. Friday, August 1. 
• In the video, a dark image –some say looks like the silhouette of a child- appears by an elevator.  The image advances forward and is again captured in the hallway. 
• It’s something, so far, the Asheville School District says can’t be explained. 
• Charlie Glazener, Executive Director of Public Relations for the District says, “I’m a logical person, and I wanted to be able to explain to these folks, or anybody, this is what I think it is.
• It’s a bat flying around here, and it casts a shadow; but then why is the shadow down here from a different angle, and it’s not in the shape of a bat?”
• It’s that shadow cast on the floor that has even the skeptics perplexed.
• Sarah Harrison, of the Asheville Paranormal Society says, “Well, I have watched the video and I can’t debunk it.  The fact that it set off the motion detectors means something physical was there. 
• The shape morphed into something that was human shaped.
• I have seen many video surveillance footage of alleged ghosts and this is the only one that I can’t debunk.  Many video’s of “ghosts” are hoaxes, but I think this would be impossible to hoax.”
• Teacher Martha Geitner has her own theory!  “It’s a ghost.  Of course it’s a ghost.  It’s the ghost of some former student who is really angry with his teacher and has come back to get back with the teacher, and he’s just making himself known at this time.”
• A school custodian told New Channel 7’s Connie LeGrand it’s not the first time he’s seen an image like this; but he says that’s what you can expect from a building built in 1929.

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• Dozens of dead cows - no blood, no gunshots - mystify ranchers
• Thursday, August 21, 2008
• CHINO VALLEY -- Ranchers in Chino Valley dug trenches Wednesday afternoon to bury dozens of dead cows.
• "Whatever killed them killed them fairly quick," neighbor Tom Silva said.
• Silva lives in the area and traps small animals for a living. He wanted to see what all the commotion was about.
• "There's no struggle," Silva said. "When an animal dies, sometimes it struggles. Its legs move or whatever and it's dying. But these animals just look like they dropped over."
• No blood. No gunshots. No one knows exactly killed these beasts.
• "Has to be some kind of a poison," Silva said. " I mean, to kill this many and not have any signs of blood or much struggle, it must be a very toxic kind of poison."
• The Department of Agriculture was called to the scene to investigate.

• A vet from their Arizona Livestock Incident Response Team took samples from the animals.

  After some preliminary testing, they believe the animals died from plant toxicity.

• “I've lost animals to this particular poison, a plant that grows here," Silva said.

  Silva says a plant in the area is responsible for killing several animals. Not just cows.

• But he wants to know which one.

  "I've lost goats, I've lost turkeys, ducks, if the plant if they eat it, it kills them," Silva said.

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• Monday, 25 August 2008
• Cattle shown to align north-south
• By Elizabeth Mitchell
    Science reporter, BBC News
• Have you ever noticed that herds of grazing animals all face the same way?
• Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction.
• Wild deer also display this behaviour - a phenomenon that has apparently gone unnoticed by herdsmen and hunters for thousands of years.
• In the Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences, scientists say the Earth's magnetic fields may influence the behaviour of these animals.
• The Earth can be viewed as a huge magnet, with magnetic north and south situated close to the geographical poles.

• Many species - including birds and salmon - are known to use the Earth's magnetic fields in migration, rather like a natural GPS. 

   A few studies have shown that some mammals - including bats - also use a "magnetic compass" to help their sense of direction. 

• Dr Sabine Begall, from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, has mainly studied the magnetic sense of mole rats - African animals that live in underground tunnels. 

   "We were wondering if larger animals also have this magnetic sense," she told BBC News. 
• Dr Begall and colleagues first decided to study the natural behaviour of domestic cattle.

• The researchers surveyed Google Earth images of 8,510 grazing and resting cattle in 308 pasture plains across the globe. 

   "Sometimes it took hours and hours to find some pictures with good resolution," said Dr Begall. 

• The scientists were unable to distinguish between the head and rear of the cattle, but could tell that the animals tended to face either north or south. 

   Their study ruled out the possibility that the Sun position or wind direction were major influences on the orientation of the cattle. 
• Dr Begall said: "In Africa and South America, the cattle (were) shifted slightly to a more north-eastern-south-western direction.
• "But it is known that the Earth's magnetic field is much weaker there," she explained.

• The researchers also recorded the body positions of 2,974 wild deer in 277 locations across the Czech Republic. 

   Their fieldwork revealed that the majority of grazing and resting deer face northward. About one-third of the deer faced southward. 
• "That might be some kind of anti-predatory behaviour," speculated Dr Begall.
• Willy Miller - a Scottish cattle farmer - remarked: "I've never noticed that my cows all face the same way."
• Cows are social animals: "[They] all sit down before it rains [and] huddle together in a circle formation during blizzards. But from a cow's point of view, that's just sensible," he told BBC News.

• Professor John Phillips, a sensory biologist from Virginia Tech University, US, commented that this sixth magnetic sense might be "virtually ubiquitous in the animal kingdom". 

   He added: "We need to think about some really fundamental things that this sensory ability provides in animals." 
• The challenge remains for scientists to explain how the animals behave in this way - and if Scottish cattle are the exception to the rule!

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• ParaExplorers presents 'On the Road With...
• a series of in-depth interviews with some of the most fascinating authors, researchers and investigators working to solve the mysteries of the unknown.
• This month, we feature Nick Redfern, author, investigator and monster-hunter extraordinaire, talking about his new book, "There's Something In The Woods."

• Meet Nick Redfern...
  

   

  
• Nick Redfern works as a journalist and author. He has written many books on UFOs and Cryptozoology (the study of unknown animals), including "Memoirs of a Monster Hunter;" "The FBI Files;" "Cosmic Crashes;" "Strange Secrets;" "There's Something in the Woods;" "On the Trail of the Saucer Spies;" and "Three Men Seeking Monsters" (the movie-option-rights to which were bought by Universal Studios in 2007).
• He writes for "Fate;" "Fortean Times;" "UFO Magazine;" the British "Daily Express" newspaper; and many other publications. British by birth, he lives in Dallas, Texas.
• 1) OK, Nick, you’ve written several books now that cover your out-in-the field adventures, and you’ve chased down all sorts of wild and wooly beasts. What is it about the field of cryptozoology that holds such intense fascination for you?
• ANSWER: Definitely one of the things that attracts me to cryptozoology is the idea that in today’s very sterile world, where we think we know everything and where there are no more surprises to be found, there could actually be strange creatures lurking in the lakes, woods, forests and lochs of numerous countries, right under our noses, and that are still successfully hiding from us.
• That scenario appeals to me a great deal. Plus, I have quite a low boredom threshold; so, whereas sitting in the office for hours is inevitably a big part of being a full-time writer, I’m attracted to the fact that cryptozoology is one of those subjects that lends itself to on-site investigations.
• So, it’s the lure of adventure I like, such as trekking through Puerto Rico’s El Yunque rain-forest in search of the Chupacabras; investigating the woods of Washington State in pursuit of Bigfoot; or taking a trip to the lakes and lochs of the British Isles in search of lake-monsters.
• For me that fascination and the lure of adventure began when I was five and my mom and dad took me to Loch Ness and told me about the legends; and, thankfully, I still have that same enthusiasm as I’ve always had.
• In fact, to a degree, I think everyone is fascinated by the idea that monsters and strange beasts might really exist.
• 2) Of the many “creatures” that make up the field of cryptozoology, you seem to have a preference for black dogs and werewolves. Is there a reason for this, and why do these particular entities seem to be so prominently reported?
• ANSWER: That’s a very good question. I do indeed have a big interest in werewolves, perhaps even a bit of an obsession!
• I’m truthfully not sure why, but the idea that these creatures might actually exist, and might be more than just the stuff of Hollywood films, is one that I’m particularly intrigued by.
• I’ve investigated a lot of werewolf reports in the UK and in the United States; and I have to say that all of them have an atmosphere of the paranormal about them.

  • Of coarse they do...That's what they are.
• Other sightings and incidents are memorable and noteworthy because of where they occurred, such as near prehistoric burial grounds, stone circles etc.
• For example, several of the cases I’ve looked into have been tied in with ancient rites and rituals undertaken in the dead of night by occult-driven groups.
• Based on all my research into werewolves, and it could be argued that the ghostly black dogs are an aspect of werewolf lore too, I don’t believe these are flesh and blood creatures in the sense we understand the term.
• I think quantum physics may some day explain these things and where they come from.
• There’s evidence too, and I’ve tried this – although I don’t actually recommend it – that with a lot of practice, meditation and dedication, it’s possible to summon these things into our realm of existence.

  • Not a wise thing to do..
• I often have people roll their eyes when I tell them this, and you just know they think I’m a complete nut; but there’s no doubt in my mind that this works, and that werewolves – in some form, at least - do exist.
• I don’t believe they are, as the classic legend tells us, humans that can shape-shift into wolf-men. I believe they are something far stranger and quite hostile to us. There’s a lot of sinister, malevolent activity attached to werewolves.

  • SEE: Doctor Rebecca Brown's books, "He Came To Set The Captives Free" and "Prepare For War"
• 3) In past books, you’ve talked about the “tulpa” and how this relates to the possible nature of paranormal entities. Can you explain this for someone who has not read your books?
• ANSWER: Yes, tulpas, in my opinion at least, are an integral part of cryptozoology.
• Basically, it’s a scenario very prevalent in Tibetan and Buddhist teachings. The idea is that the human mind – whether consciously or perhaps more often unconsciously – has the ability to conjure up imagery that can be projected outwardly and given a semblance of physical reality and a quasi-form of existence.
• The tulpa is said to live on human emotion; kind of like an emotional vampire.
• And the more people that believe in it, and that it can feed upon, the stronger the so-called “mind-monster” gets.
• Generally, when they are created, tulpas are said to want to hang on to every moment of their “life” for as long as possible, and can turn quite malevolent when the creator tries to “un-think” them out of existence.
• This can result in a lot of psychic backlash as the tulpa tries to cling to its life.
• I would not be at all surprised to find that many of the creatures we are looking for might very well be created thought-forms that now roam the woods in a state of semi-physical existence, and perhaps not even being fully aware of what they actually are.
• And, of course, this might explain the fact that many reports of creatures like Bigfoot seem curiously substantial and insubstantial at the same time.
• By that, I mean we have reports of people finding Bigfoot tracks – which suggest a flesh-and-blood animal – but sometimes those tracks just end, as if the creature has vanished into oblivion.
• And maybe it has. Maybe, in reality, its life as a tulpa has come to an end.
• Of course, not everyone agrees with me on this theory, and some researchers are openly hostile to it. But I don’t care; and I think that says more about their pre-conceived mindsets about what might exist and what might not.
• I’m not dogmatic about my theories about tulpas, but I’m definitely not apologetic about them either. I just happen to think such theories deserve as much of a hearing as do the “flesh-and-blood” theories.
• 4) Is there a legend or creature you have yet to chase after that particularly intrigues you?
• ANSWER: I’d definitely like to do some in-depth research into the reports of pterodactyl-type creatures that have been seen in the US for a very long time.
• These fascinate me. Again, I’m not sure how we classify them: whether as a physical animal or a paranormal one; but I have to say that I lean towards the paranormal.
• I think the idea that in some of the more remote, or forested, parts of the US there could be pockets of surviving pterodactyls is a great one; I think it’s pretty far-out too, however.
• And, I’ve uncovered some reports where people have seen these things while they’re in altered states.

  • Supernatural/spiritual
• So, maybe, we’re looking at something not necessarily of our three-dimensional world.

  • Exactly
• I’d also like to dig deep into the legends of still-surviving mammoths. Until surprisingly recently, there were reports of people seeing creatures that sound suspiciously like mammoths, in some of more remote, frozen wastelands and forests.
• If money was unlimited, I’d love to do a kind of “In search of the last Mammoth”-type investigation. For me, that might be the ultimate trip, even though the odds are really stacked against finding something.
• 5) What is the role, if any, of local folklore and legend in dictating the types of entities you see associated with specific areas, regions, countries even?
• ANSWER: Well, I definitely think that folklore and legend have key parts to play in the way in which stories of strange creatures develop. However, for the most part, I don’t think it’s solely the legends of times-past that lead to a belief in these things today.
• I think it’s the opposite: namely, that the old legends of strange creatures have a basis in fact, and are based upon people seeing them, but not necessarily sure of what it is they were seeing.
• And so, particularly in past centuries, this leads to the creation of all sorts of legends and folk-tales as people try and grasp and grapple with what is they are seeing, and as they try and explain them. Then, of course, over time the legends get added to, distorted and mutated.
• But, in summary, I’d say – and based on my own studies – that many legends and tales have a basis in some sort of fact, whether it’s of lake-monsters, giant hairy men, or whatever.

  • As do I
• 6) How close might we be to some kind of government disclosure here in the States as to the existence of alien civilizations and technology, or do you suspect we are never going to get definitive proof from our leadership?
• ANSWER: Unfortunately, I don’t see any real scenario in which government disclosure will come, unless it benefits those in power to make the revelation.
• I think the idea that some UFO researchers have – namely that of loftily demanding that the government reveals all because the research community thinks the information should be revealed – is very naïve, pompously ego-driven, and not in-line with general government-thinking.
• If disclosure happens, I’d say the possible scenarios would be because (a) someone on the inside revealed something in error and it opened the floodgates; (b) an insider whistleblower deliberately revealed something that was undeniable; or (c) the government decides to use the “aliens are evil and here to destroy us” angle as an ingenious way to take away more of our rights and lead us further down the path to Orwell’s 1984.
• For me, that’s the most sinister possibility: that we might be placed into a scenario of a manufactured threat that actually isn’t really a threat, but one that is exploited for purposes of control of the masses.
• But revealing all just because some UFO researcher waves a banner outside of the White House or writes to his or her congressman? Not an absolute, single chance in hell.
• 7) We often hear so much about ghost hunters, but monster hunters face many different dangers and challenges. Have you ever truly felt as though your life were in danger out there in the field?
• ANSWER: I’ve never felt in any actual physical danger, as the history of research into things such as Bigfoot, lake-monsters and even werewolves never really suggests – aside from at anecdotal and rumor level – examples of severe physical harm.
• But I do believe it’s very necessary to tread carefully when dealing with the more paranormal side of cryptozoology.
• Psychic backlash, invasion of a person’s dream-state by hostile entities and much more are in my view very real hazards, and ones not to be taken lightly at all.
• This is more of a danger to a person’s psychological and mental state; and it requires a strong will when these darker aspects start circling around and trying to get their claws into you.
• It has happened to me a couple of times, and when it does happen, I do altered-state rituals with sage and other substances to create a better atmosphere and to banish the negativity.
• In fact, when I told someone about this the other day they called me an “anarchistic shaman for the 21st Century,” which I thought was pretty accurate! I’m happy with that description!
• 9) And finally, has your wife Dana recovered yet from this last episode of monster hunting and does she plan to go out in search of beasts with you next time around?
• ANSWER: Dana is not the biggest fan of cryptozoology or the Fortean world [laughs]. She does believe in the paranormal, but she’s more into life-after-death, alternative healing, spirits and things like that, and not really interested in Bigfoot and the Chupacabras at all! So, for the most part, when I’m on a crypto investigation it’s usually with some of my Fortean mates, and Dana is happy to stay at home with a dirty-vodka martini.
• Nick Redfern has a solid reputation as a leading researcher and author of all things paranormal, especially the field of cryptozoology.
• But there is one thing he does better than all the rest, and that is get out there in the field, get his hands dirty, and actually look for the very things he writes about.
• Not afraid to boldly go where no other researcher dares to, or even risk his neck, Redfern accumulates a book-full of new adventures (anyone who’s read his past books knows he doesn’t sit still for long) seeking monsters and things that go bump in the day and the night.
• This time, he focuses his transcontinental road trip on the United States and his home country, England, and trust me, there are more than enough creatures to chase to fill ten books.
• Redfern, who lives in Dallas, Texas, picks up where his gonzo thrill-ride “Three Men Seeking Monsters” left off and bounces back and forth between strange and creepy locales on both continents.
• We follow Nick into the woods of the deeply historical region of Staffordshire, England where his monster quest begins in the Cannock Chase, searching out the “Cannock Nessie,” a local legend of a beast, and ends up chasing werewolves, giant cats and Bigfoot-like man beasts, all while his poor wife looks on begging him to not mess with unseen forces he knows little about.
• Then it’s soon off to the States where we get a first-hand account of the hunt for oversized winged insects, giant black cats, ghost lights, creepy “dark men” and a plethora of other local and regional legends that few Americans may be aware exist right in their own backyard…ok, well, in the WOODS behind their own backyard.
• Much of Redfern’s research focuses on cryptozoology, with giant black dogs and werewolf-type entities taking front and center, and the author never fails to both entertain and educate as he presents his own hands-on views as well as some cutting edge theories behind these entities, including the possibility that we are dealing with inter-dimensional creatures and not just flesh-and-blood beasties.

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• Thursday, September 04, 2008

• Mutilation Report by Andrea Perez Simondini   

      

   

   

  
• Argentina: Sheep Mutilation
• Argentina: Sheep
• Source: VISION OVNI and Clarin.com
  Date: September 4, 2008
• A Sheep Mutilation Report from the City of Rosario, Santa Fe Province, Argentina, March 24, 2008
  By Andrea Perez Simondini and Elias Kolev
• The case occurred on the premises of a marine company that does barge construction and repair work, located near the old facilities of the Swiff packing plant.
• The premises border on the north with a unit of the Naval Subprefecture, on the south with the Saladillo Creek and on the east with the Parana River.
• The events took place on the evening of April 23, 2008 according to information furnished by Mr. Claudio Petri, watchman of the premises.
• Before leaving his shift at 20:00 hrs, he saw the sudden motion of what he defined as "a shadow" through his office window.

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• When he went out to investigate, he saw nothing unusual. When the shifts changed, he turned over his post to his relief and went away.
• Matters developed normally until 02:00 hrs., when then watchman saw a shadow through the window. Arming himself with a pistol for protection, he went out to investigate.
• He headed toward a light panel located between the vessels. At that location, he saw a shadow facing him, and according to the remark he later shared with his co-workers, he heard a voice that said: "Mátate" (kill yourself) over and over again, imperatively.

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• At that moment, his wife reached the site (she had been keeping him company during the late shift) and she managed to pull away the gun that the watchman was pointing at his head.
• At no time did the wife see or hear any of the things reported by the watchman.
• Returning to the office, the watchman headed for the restroom, babbling "kill yourself" over and over. When the officer-in-charge arrived, he asked the watchman to taka few days off, in view of the state he was in.

  • The entity has the power to control one's thoughts and actions..
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• Our witness, Mr. Petri, remarks that upon entering at 06:00 shift on 04/24/08, his co-workers apprised him of what had transpired the night before, adding that the sheep they kept at work had also died overnight.
• Upon seeing the animal, he became aware that it was a highly unusual event. The specimen was missing its upper lip and upper front teeth; its entire right eye was gone, along with the front right leg and muscle mass ner the upper joint nearest the body, forming a hole with a depth and diameter greater than 10 cm.
• Also gone were its right rear nipple and anus. There were signs of hair sheared off in the areas affected by the alleged mutilation, similar to the shaving done during animal sterilization surgeries,
• There was no tearing of the muscular mass, broken or splintered bones.
• Also noteworthy was the fact that there was no sign of a struggle or defense on the part of the animal.
• Despite the magnitude of the phenomenon, there was no blood spilled on the floor, or traces of blood on the animal itself, or any sign that it was dragged.
• Even more surprising were the prints found at the site, which were photographed by the witness along with the mutilated carcass. The prints were approximately 15 cm long and have a rear base of support (the point of support that sunk 2-3 cm into the sandy soil) with a front part consisting of three fingers ending in nails or claws.

  • The paw or claw print of the entity
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• The middle part of the print is not perceptible. The distance between one print and another is of approximately 50 cme.
• Following the corresponding analysis, it was determined that whatever left the prints walked erect and measured between 1.80 to 2 meters.

  • Two legged culprit
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• We consider this case to be very important by virtue of having occurred within the city limits, along with the chance to have found the "prints".
• (Translation (c) 2008, S. Corrales, IHU. Special thanks to Andrea Perez Simondini, Elias Kolev and Vision OVNI)

   

   

     

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• Bigfoot sighting on Cannock Chase
• Sep 2 2008
• AFTER recent events worldwide regarding Bigfoot, interest in Cannock's very own alleged sasquatch has heightened,
• www.sundaymercury.net was approached by a Cannock resident who claims to have had a very strange encounter over in the Staffordshire forest... we haven't published their name at their request.
• "Last year around June time, me and two other friends were supposed to go to a 24-hour basketball event for charity. Us being lads we decided to skive and go and sit down the lane in my car, and do what typical teenage lads do.
• "Anyway, so me and two others were parked up in a little pull-in, down a lane in Gentleshaw not too far from Burntwood, Cannock.
• We were parked in this pull-in facing the road, with trees either side of us, and a gated-field behind.
• It was around two o'clock in the morning and we had the interior light on in the car, when my friend in the front passenger seat said he could see something moving outside, on the right side of the car.
• "We turned off the interior light to get a better look and could definitely see something moving in the trees in the distance.
• Our first thoughts were a person or an animal, all we could see was something large moving around. This thing must have been about 10-15m away. (I didn't exactly have time to measure!)
• I turned the car headlights and hazard lights on, to see if I could see anymore. This thing was the shape of a human, but stood about 7-8ft, it was hard to tell with it being dark and such a distance away.
• "At first sight it was crouching, not completely to the floor, but approx half way and facing directly at the car.
• It was too dark to see whether it was staring at us, but im guessing it was!
• As soon as it realised we had seen it, it stood up straight, hesitated and ran towards us.
• Well as you can imagine I wasn't sticking around. This thing was definitely not human, it was huge! It wasn't just tall, but broad and stocky too.
• I haven't got a clue what its face was like, or its skin or fur, or whatever it had. It wasn't light enough.
• "My back passenger darted to the other side of the car, and nobody said a word. As it came towards us it was rustling big bushes, shaking pretty big trees, it was just like in a horror movie.
• I drove out of the pull-in and turned left down the lane, this thing was keeping up with the car, but in the trees.
• I was trying so hard not to look in my mirrors, but I could see it in the corner of my eyes, I don't know whether it was flying or jumping or what.
• "Its strength and quickness was unbelievable. Obviously I wasn't thinking that at the time, I just wanted to get the hell out of there!
• I drove to the bottom of the lane doing about 80mph, and it just vanished as soon as I came up to a pub at the bottom of the lane. I didn't stop until I entered a residential area.
• "The fear was unreal, I have never been so scared, and didn't think I would ever experience anything that would scare me so much.
• I felt physically sick, cold and shakey. I just didn't want to believe what I had seen. None of us discussed it, I think we were all in denial!
• I completely blanked it from my mind after that, and didn't discuss it again untill 3 days ago, when the front seat passenger brought it up in conversation, and now I can't forget about it.
• "I hate re-living it, but I thought I would let others know of my experience.
• I'm not asking you to believe me, because to everyone else it probably seems so far fetched, but I know what I saw and so do the other two lads.
• Im not at all saying I saw "bigfoot" but I know 100% this thing was not human.
• I know other stories say the thing they saw had red eyes, but I didn't see red eyes, I wasn't close enough to see. Glad I wasn't too.
• "What haunts me now, is... What would its face have looked like? Where is it? It must have been watching us, and what would it have done if we didnt get away?"

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• Wednesday, September 3, 2008
• A New British Bigfoot Report
• Once again, Britain's Cannock Chase woods are a veritable hotbed of weirdness.
  
  Yep, after a bit of a lull, here's a newly reported sighting (although the event is said to have occurred last year) of an alleged Bigfoot-like creature in the area.
  
• I've said it before and I will say it again: if these reports aren't hoaxes (and I'm convinced most of them aren't), then the Cannock Chase Bigfoot has to have paranormal origins.

  • Big Foot sightings have paranormal origins?
• Indeed, having grown up only a couple of miles from the woods, I know the exact area that the witness is talking about very well.
• And, there is no way that a 7-to-8-foot tall man-beast can exist on the Cannock Chase (yes, it's of an impressive size and very dense in places, but it's not that big and it's surrounded by towns and villages), avoid detection and also leave behind no evidence of its "den" (or wherever it lives) or its eating habits - which would have to be huge, given the sheer size of the creatures reportedly seen in the woods of the Chase.
• Literal ape-men? No. Some sort of phantom of the night? Yes.
• Posted by Nick Redfern   at 7:44 AM
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• Neil A said... 

   

   

  Interesting stuff Nick, there's certainly some kind of history to these reports and it was nice to actually get a feel for the sincerity of the witness. the guy could easily have gone on about the shaggy fur etc, but simply said it was just tall and muscular.
• I think someone needs to really keep things stirred up out there because the more people believe the more things start to occur as you know.
• The main problem is, if these UK man-beasts are spectral, which they must surely be, or at least of that ilk, then does it mean we should question the man-beast reports across the world ?
• Nick Redfern said... 

   

   

  Neil
  Although a lot of researchers avoid going dowm the paranormal path when it comes to Bigfoot, I think - given the very close similarities between UK reports and those from other countries - the possibility of a common link or origin (however controversial, like the paranormal angle, it may be) must be given serious thought

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• Spacecraft flies by remote asteroid, camera stops
• By KATRIN SCHIEFER and GEORGE FREY, Associated Press Writers   Sat Sep 6, 9:51 AM ET
• DARMSTADT, Germany - The European deep space probe Rosetta successfully completed a flyby of an asteroid millions of miles from earth, but its high resolution camera stopped shortly before the closest pass, space officials said Saturday.
• Rosetta caught up with the Steins asteroid, also known as Asteroid 2867, just after 8:45 p.m. (1845 GMT) Friday in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
• The probe came within 500 miles (805 kilometers) of the asteroid — which turned out to be slightly larger than scientists expected.
• Officials at the European Space Agency were not sure exactly what caused the camera to balk.
• "The software switched off automatically," Gerhard Schwehm, the ESA mission manager and head of solar systems science operations told The Associated Press.
• "The camera has some software limits and we'll analyze why this happened later."
• Another wide angle camera was able to take pictures and send them to the space center, Schwehm said.
• At a news conference, Uwe Keller, the principal camera investigator, said despite the camera turning off about nine minutes before its closest approach, it switched back on again later and was now working well. Keller said he did not expect the camera setback to affect the rest of the mission.
• Craters of different ages were found on the surface of the gray-colored asteroid, showing a "rich collisional history," Keller said.
• The probe recorded more than 23 craters over 200 meters wide, with the biggest being about 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) wide.
• According to measurements by the probe, the diamond-shaped asteroid turned out to be 3.1 miles (5 kilometers) in diameter, slightly larger than an earlier estimate of 3 miles (4.8 kilometers).
• The Rosetta craft was launched in March 2004 from French Guyana, and is now about 250 million miles (402 million kilometers) from Earth.
• Schwehm said the historic mission could give astronomers crucial clues to help them understand the creation of the solar system.
• Rita Schulz, a Rosetta project scientist, said data from asteroids and comets was particularly valuable because they are made of galactic matter that helped create the planets in our solar system.
• "Asteroids are a sort of memory, or the DNA, of the solar system," Schulz said.
• Up until now, astronomers analyzing asteroids have had to work with limited data from brief flybys, such as when ESA's Giotto probe swept by Halley's Comet in 1986, photographing long canyons, broad craters and 3,000-foot (1000-meter) hills.
• As planned, the Rosetta lost its signal to Earth for about an hour-and-a-half Friday night as engineers turned it away from the sun and the craft zoomed through space too fast for its antennae to transmit any signal.
• At 10:15 p.m (2015 GMT) Friday the craft resumed transmission, signaling that the exercise was largely successful — news cheered by ESA engineers and technicians.
• Yet there was another setback Friday night as data was sent to antenna stations far from Europe.

• A NASA laboratory in Goldstone, California was having problems cooling one of its antennas in the summer heat and had to switch the ESA project to another antenna, delaying the analysis of some data by several hours. 

   Rosetta data was also transmitted to an antenna in New Norcia, western Australia. 
• Data from its working camera was being processed Saturday at the Max Planck Institute in Lindau, southern Germany, while further infrared data collected by the probe was being analyzed at the Instituto Nacionale di Astrofisica in Rome.
• The Steins asteroid was Rosetta's first scientific target as it enters the asteroid belt en route to its destination, the comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta is scheduled to reach the comet in 2014.
• Between now and then it will perform some gravitational experiments before going into hibernation, Schwehm said
• The European Space Agency is supported by 17 countries including Germany, France, Ireland and the Netherlands.
• It cooperates with NASA, the European Union, European national space agencies and international partners. It's expected the ESA will become the European Union space agency in the near future.

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• More 9/11 Strangeness -
    Scorpions & Other Synchronicities
• By Michael Goodspeed 

  Thunderbolts.info
    9-9-8
• Author's note: This article has no copyright. It is intended  for duplication and re-distribution, so long as no alterations are made  to the contents herein, including the author's byline, all images, and  cited URLs.
• Less than 2 weeks ago, I posted a video on YouTube entitled,  "911 'Coincidences' or Synchronicities?" (Link at the bottom  of this piece).
• This presentation enumerated around a dozen prescient pop  culture connections to the tragic events of September 11, 2001.
• I don't  believe that any of these connections can reasonably be described as a  "stretch" or "wishful thinking" (although of course  not everyone will agree on their ultimate significance.)
• A brief overview  now might be helpful:
• In the 1999 film The Matrix, the expiration date of the  passport of Keanu Reeve's character Neo is September 11, 2001.
• In the 1998 film Enemy of the State, Jon Voight's character  -- a malicious NSA official intent on pushing legislation that will make  it easier to spy on Americans -- was born on September 11th.
• In the 2001 pilot of the TV program The Lone Gunmen,  the story centers on a Pentagon plot to fly a plane into the WTC for the  purpose of triggering a war.
• In the opening sequence of the 1998 film The Big Lebowski,  Jeff Bridges' character writes a check dated September 11. We then hear  George Bush Sr.'s voice discussing the ensuing (1991) invasion of Iraq,  and his famous line of "This aggression will not stand" -- a  recurring line in the film.
• In the opening scene of the 2000 film Traffic, a drug  truck is apprehended, and on close inspection we see that all of the drug  boxes are stamped with the number 911.
• Next to each number is the symbol  of a scorpion. This particular symbol has always struck me as curious,  and in a moment I shall try to explore its significance further.
• In 2001, the rap group The Coup created an album cover  featuring its members detonating the World Trade Center south towers. They  later released their album with a different cover.
• In the 1982 Richard Bachman (Stephen King) book The Running  Man, the story concluded with the protagonist hijacking a plane and flying  it into the tallest building in downtown NY.
• And beyond the popular culture, on the first anniversary  of September 11th, the winning numbers in the evening NY lotto were 911  (5,632 people chose the winning sequence, and each won a paltry $500).
• These are only a few of the more striking 9/11 pop culture  "coincidences" that predated September 11, 2001.
• I've not come  close to including all the instances that have been documented on countless  dozens of websites. These also include the 2000 film The Patriot -- Mel  Gibson's character weighs a chair he's constructed, and announces "Nine  pounds, eleven ounces. That's perfect." He then sits on the chair,  and it collapses under his weight.
• A Google search of the words - 9/11 coincidences in comics  (unquoted) - reveals over 76,000 hits.
• A video presentation on some of  these connections (link at bottom of paragraph) features some interesting  items, including an image from the Marvel Two in One #100 from June 1983.
• (Note: I have not seen this before, and do not personally own any comics,  so I cannot verify its authenticity. I'm presenting it here as an item  of potential interest).
• According to descriptions of this issue, the Thing  is captured by the Red Skull, who has set up headquarters in a bombed out  WTC. Notice the chilling images and captions below: 

    

  
• Video: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ASuwLWUzeR4&watch_response
• Let's look a bit closer now at the aforementioned "coincidences"  in the 2000 film "Traffic." What is the significance, if any,  of the scorpion image next to each 911 symbol?
• As I mentioned in my YouTube  video, in 2007, author David Hagberg published a novel entitled "Allah's  Scorpion" -- the code name of a massive terrorist plot by al-Quaida  in the book.
• I limited myself to this particular reference in part due  to time limitations, but also because I wanted to explore the scorpion  motif a bit more before presenting anything publicly.
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  Remember that this symbol was placed next to the numbers  911 a full year prior to September 11th, 2001.
• A Google search of the words  (unquoted) - scorpion taliban bin laden afghanistan - reveals over 400,000  hits. Indeed, the term scorpion seems to be used almost casually in reference  to both Bin Laden and Afghanistan
• (not terribly surprising since scorpions  are common to middle eastern regions).
• In addition to the Hagberg novel,  in 2007 the David Macdonald book was published entitled "Drugs in  Afghanistan: Opium, Outlaws and Scorpion Tales."
• More than one post-911 military operation has included  the term "Scorpion."
• The following excerpt comes from the website  of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe: 

    

  After more than eight months of training, 86 "Scorpion"  members of the 603rd Air Control Squadron deployed Jan. 9 to Kandahar Air  Base, Afghanistan.... 

    

  "For our deployment preparation, we had Scorpion  Strike in October, which was set up and tailored to look as close to a  real deployment as possible," said Lt. Col. Troy Jackson, 603rd ACS  commander. 

    
• In 2003, there was a major U.S. operation in Iraq called  "Operation Desert Scorpion." This was also the name of an unperformed  military operation in response to the UN/Iraq crisis of 1998.
• Operation Desert Scorpion is also the name of an online  gaming file in which players seek to capture Osama bin Laden.
• A fictional  briefing in the game reads: 

    

  General, 

    

  Intelligence reports believe we have cornered Osama Bin  Laden and his Generals (P3) in a remote region of southwestern Pakistan.  We have strict orders that Bin Laden and his Generals should be captured  alive, the rest of his forces should be eliminated with deadly force.
• A search of the <http://defenselink.mil>defenselink.mil  site for the term "scorpion" reveals 82 hits. The very first  is entitled "Afghan National Police Training..." It discusses  the training of Afghan police officers at "Forward Operating Base  Scorpion."
• These are just some cursory results I've stumbled across  after performing some rudimentary Google searches -- and I'm still interested  to know what a more in-depth search might discover.
• (Might scorpion have  been a codename for bin Laden or other al-Quaida officials within intelligence  circles prior to or after 9/11?)
• Perhaps one could argue that the scorpion  motif in "Traffic" is not terribly anomalous, since the scorpion  has long been a symbol of danger or evil. But the appearance of the symbol  directly alongside the 911 numbers becomes even more powerful when one  considers the striking PATTERN of pop culture "coincidences"  prior to September 11th.
• Since I personally have no conceptual reservations when  it comes to human precognition and other extrasensory abilities -- that  is to say, I don't dismiss evidence of these phenomena on an a priori basis  simply because institutional science has yet to recognize their reality  -- I want now to dig deeper and try to find the meaning in these "coincidences,"  if any exists.
• Some Internet authors speculate that the 9/11 perpetrators  may have "leaked" their plans to key media players -- hence all  the anomalous pop culture "coincidences" -- but I simply can't  agree with that assessment.
• Does anyone really believe that all of the  writers, musicians, artists, and Hollywood producers and directors cited  above somehow became privy to a forthcoming terrorist attack (including  the precise date on which it would occur), and rather than explicitly alerting  the public to the danger, chose instead to insert subtle or not so subtle  warnings of the attack into their art?
• It's startling to me that some purported  "alternative media" websites express contempt for so-called "paranormal"  investigations, while promoting the belief that conspiracy is the most  powerful, overarching force in the Universe.
• With that said, I think it's certainly worth noting that  a common thread seems to run through all of the movies, books, TV shows,  and pop music mentioned above, and it has nothing to do with terrorists  and Islamic Jihad.
• If one were to ask me which pre9/11 movies featured  the most dire warnings of impending Government intrusion in citizens' lives  (an obviously widespread concern in light of our Government's declared  "War on Terror"), I would not have hesitated to say, "The  Matrix" and "Enemy of the State."
• I suspect anyone who has  seen these movies would agree, and both of these films feature particularly  striking 9/11 "coincidences."
• Likewise, the Lone Gunmen episode  in which the Pentagon plans to fly an airplane into the WTC for the purpose  of triggering a war. If these "coincidences" were telling us  anything, it was, "Things are not what they appear. Don't believe  everything you're told."
• Here is a reasonable challenge for the skeptical-minded.  If you think that the types of "coincidences" cited above can  be randomly pulled from movies, books, or other mediums, try focusing a  search on a specific date and number sequence -- say (from the top of my  head)...October 6th (or 10/6, or 106). I wonder how many movies in the  coming years will feature explicit references to October 6, or 106, and  more importantly, how many will feature obvious connections to any historical  events that have happened or will happen on October 6?
• The odds of any  three digit number coming up 106 are 1 in 1000.
• The odds of a random date  for any particular year appearing as October 6th are 1 in 365. (Remember  also that The Matrix film featured a reference not only to September 11th,  but the precise year in which 9/11 happened -- 2001).
• It's not my position to assert what the ultimate meaning  is in all of this, except to warn of the inherent dangers in DENYING that  any meaning exists.
• I've no patience with cynical individuals who dismiss  evidence for psychic phenomena, for no clear reason other than they think  it's "silly."
• If real, a collective human consciousness is enormously  important to the future of our species. But for new clarity to be gained,  scientific researchers must not live in fear of ridicule and professional  ruination -- the pathetic outcome for many brave investigators into the  psychic frontier.
• Stephen King writes, "...stories are found things,  like fossils in the ground....Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered  preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools to get as much  of each one out of the ground intact as possible."
• Perhaps many of  our culture's best writers, artists, and filmmakers were doing their best,  at least unconsciously, to uncover a treasure of extraordinary significance.
• The most haunting aspect of the 9/11 "coincidences" is that the  collective human consciousness seemed to issue a frantic warning, like  a wailing siren or tolling bell. The question is, can we ever achieve the  psychic maturity to recognize such warnings in advance?
• This was the challenge  offered to the human race by one Colonel Dolan M. McKelvy, author of the  1988 USAF report, "Psychic Warfare: Exploring the Mind Frontier."
• McKelvy writes: 

    

  "Man's greatest potential remains a prisoner of  man. Vast untapped mental capabilities create an entirely new battlefield  dimension which, if ignored, pose a threat to self and country more serious  than nuclear weapons. This threat starts from within. Our fears and cynical  attitudes towards psychic capabilities make us our own worst enemies....Exploring  the mind frontier is essential and the key to successful exploration is  a greater psychic awareness. The mind is rich in unfathomed resources ripe  for exploration, a limitless source of treasures for advancing all mankind,  and a serious threat to those who ignore its potential. We must overcome  our psych inhibitions, stop denying the existence of paranormal events,  and start trying instead to understand the nature of these phenomena. We  must shed the super secret cloaks and educate our leaders at all levels  on the real psi military potentials and threats so we can adequately focus  and prioritize national resources."
• My 911 YouTube video may be viewed here:  

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• Bigfoot in the Sixties—the 1860s
• by W. Ritchie Benedict
    FATE :: September-October 2008
• It is a common fallacy to believe Bigfoot sightings had a beginning and an ending in some presumedly hoaxed footprints in California in 1958.
• The press had a field day a few years ago, when the man suspected of making the prints died.
• One would have thought that was all there was to it. Nothing could be further from the truth.
• In my home province of Alberta, for example, sightings go back to at least 1938 in modern times, and to 1811 when explorer David Thompson spotted some prints near present-day Jasper on the Athabaska River.
• One notable encounter involved a ten-year-old girl who was a member of the Stony tribe back in 1944.
• Together with her aunt, uncle, and various cousins, she was traveling west of Rocky Mountain House in a horse-drawn wagon on a dirt road, now the David Thompson Highway between Red Deer and the Columbia icefields.
• When the wagon came to an abrupt halt, all the children in the back stood up and observed a seven- or eight-foot-tall manlike creature covered with hair standing in the road about 100 yards in front of them.
• The girl’s aunt told the children to lie down in the back of the wagon while she threw a blanket over them, while her uncle exclaimed “Msnapeo!” and turned the wagon around for home.
• The United States had a wave of sightings of Bigfoot-like creatures in the late 1860s.
• There may have been some in Canada as well during this period, although the only direct reference I could uncover was somewhat ambiguous. It appeared in the Victoria, British Columbia, Daily Colonist on October 6, 1860.
• It is unclear whether the reference is to a forgotten race of hairy humans or to a Sasquatch gathering.
• The piece, titled “An Indian Tradition,” tells of the Sim-moqui.
• The creatures were described as having heavy black whiskers and matted hair, but without knee or elbow joints.
• It was said that they never traveled in the daytime, as the sunlight rendered them as blind as bats. They were said to have red eyes (this is a common Bigfoot feature when one is caught in car headlights).
• The legend says that a group of Sim-moqui seized some Indian women and were eventually hunted down by the Planimooches tribe.

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• Over a dozen were brought down by rifle fire, and the women were rescued.
• When asked, the narrator of the tale stated they continued to exist in the 1860s, saying that lots of them were still around: “They live by the side of a lake on a big mountain, and the shores of the lake are covered with gold.”
• Were the Sim-moqui merely members of a rival tribe, or something else? You be the judge.
• Meanwhile, far to the south and east, Bigfoot sightings in the U.S. were kicked off in 1855 by what may have been a baby specimen in Waldorboro, Maine.
• A man chopping wood encountered an object standing between two trees. He chased it and succeeded in capturing it. The creature was male, about 18 inches in height and readily consumed water and beechnuts.
• With the exception of his face, hands, and feet, he was covered with jet-black hair.
• The man chopping wood, J. W. McHenri, offered in his letter to the editor to show the creature to anyone who was interested.
• The Milwaukee Sentinel presented a story which was later picked up by the Halifax Morning Chronicle on September 9, 1867. Titled “A Milwaukee Mystery: A ‘What-Is-It,’” at first blush it seems to be yet another tale of a feral human being.
• Nevertheless, there are elements, such as a piercing shriek, that appear to place it squarely in the Bigfoot camp. ...read the rest of this article exclusively in the September-October 2008 issue of FATE.

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• Seneca Sasquatch
• Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 12th, 2008
• On 9/11/08, as I was waiting, and waiting on a delayed flight in Philadelphia, I had a long conversation about Bigfoot with an engineer who has worked for DuPont for 17 years.
• He told me that the hairy beast reports from Seneca, Illinois, are still quite active and all the people he has recently worked with there talk about them all the time.
• (My informant, Brad, is a consultant to clean up the groundwater in Seneca. The location use to be owned by DuPont but is now owned by an Australian company.)

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• The Seneca reports were in the news a great deal in 2005, and can be found in media articles such as this one here.
• As that article mentions, four accounts from Seneca, Illinois — two of which were from June 2005, while the others date to 1979 and 1983 — were deemed credible by the BFRO.
• In the 1960s-1970s, accounts from nearby Pekin, Illinois, were investigated by me and others, and included a Bigfoot seen swimming.
• But it is Seneca I wanted to note again today (and yes, I know that a certain Tom Biscardi piggybacked on the BFRO work by journeying their in the recent past),
• Longtime residents call the beast the “DuPont Monster” because it has been reported in the forest along DuPont Road for more than 40 years.

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• What I learned that I haven’t seen in the usual reviews of this is that the actual concentrated area of the sightings is a former TNT manufacturing area for DuPont, and now the Australian company.

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• The components of dynamite are created and stored there, for the construction of explosives used, mostly, reportedly, for mines.
• Now, as everyone knows, the reports of Mothman and Bigfoot, as well as other weird events, around Point Pleasant, West Virginia, were mostly in one specific spot - the TNT area, outside of town.

  • Point Pleasant, West Virigina, the Mothman and a TNT plant...The connection here with these beastly phenomena and explosives?
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• The first thing the “airport” gentlemen from Indiana whom I met, who is consulting in Seneca, asked me when I mentioned the WVA site was, “Was it a DuPont factory?”

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• The location was used to manufacture TNT during World War II.
• I didn’t know, although I don’t recall hearing DuPont associated with Mothman. But I now wonder what company (or spinoff or parent company) owned the TNT site near Point Pleasant.
• Something to think about and research later, when I return home unless a Cryptomundian finds the answer before then.
• The following drawing was shared by the BFRO on the site, as coming from one witness (”John”) encounter for June 10, 2005:
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• Anonymous responds:  September 12th, 2008 at 6:28 am  

  Here’s a quick look at Point Pleasant’s TNT site here.
• It seems it was a Gov’t thing.

  • Exactly..SEE: Tom Horn's "Ahriman Gate."
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• Loren Coleman responds:  September 12th, 2008 at 7:25 am  

  Yes, TNT/Point Pleasant is acknowledged as a government project. But which corporations were the Dept of Defense contract holders?

• Please note in the linked document in comment #1: “Although owned by DoD, WVOW was operated by a private company to produce TNT.”

   

  What private company?
• unknown-thing responds:  September 12th, 2008 at 9:07 am
• There does seem to be a Dupont Plant in the area. I don’t know how long its been there, or if Dupont worked with the TNT. The link is here.
• unknown-thing responds:  September 12th, 2008 at 4:22 pm  

  I dunno if this is useful, but: Pantasote Inc. “Located within the heavily polluted West Virginia Ordnance Works facility, this small manufacturer of resins had its own wealth of environmental problems” Seems this company would have been on some of the WVOW land after the war….including the era of the original MM sightings. Here’s the link.
• acrossthesea responds:  September 12th, 2008 at 7:50 pm  

  Is there a Dupont occult conspiracy or connection?

  • Tom Horn might think so...at least in theory.
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• Mystery Tunnels and Spook Lights
• by Philip J. Imbrogno
    FATE :: September-October 2008
• Since 1978, I have investigated countless reports of the paranormal in New York and New England.
• Underground tunnels feature prominently in some of this area’s greatest mysteries.
• In 1980 I came across a letter written to the editor of the New York Daily News from a resident of Brewster, New York, referring to underground passages and old mines in the area.
• The writer was sure that the government was using them for some covert operation.
• He claimed that he saw lights from some type of unknown aircraft settling down in the hills at night where the old entrances to closed mines are located. These lights moved like helicopters, but there was no sound.
• They were seen several times a week for almost 18 months.
• This letter intrigued me since I knew that area was a hotbed of UFO activity.
• I made an attempt to find the location of these mines, but to my dismay the people who ran the local historical societies had no idea about the locations of the entrances. However, they did have a great deal of information about the mining history of those towns.
• Since the late 19th century, ghosts, UFO-like phenomena, strange creatures, and occult activity, including magical ceremonies and Satanic worship, have been reported in the vicinity of these underground tunnels.

  • One friend, Beverly, who was bron and raised in New England, told me the denial of actual witchcraft among the 17th century Salem settlers is a pack of politically correct baloney; that and the modern attempt to make the Salem witches victims of religious intolerance. She grew up in that area and said it was all true and is still a fact of New England life.
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• Locals still pass along legends about them, and old-time residents warn people to stay clear of the mine and tunnel entrances.
• The entire town of Brewster is catacombed by miles of underground passages.
• Many of these tunnels have openings leading to the basements of some of the older homes in the downtown area. Over the years, many of these portals have been boarded up and sealed over with cement.
• As these homes have been sold to people from out of town, knowledge of the tunnels below them has become lost. How might these new residents react if they found out their basement hosts a doorway to an underground world?
• In 1995, I explored the mines with paranormal researcher Marianne Horrigan.
• Although we did not find aliens or other strange creatures, we discovered evidence that at least two of the mines were once used for Satanic worship, in the form of symbols and prayers written on the walls.

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• We also found new tunnels that were made by modern machinery. These recent tunnels lead to pits now flooded with water.
• Clearly, someone with modern technology made use of the mines long after they were shut down and sealed 100 years ago.

  • SEE: Ahriman Gate
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• The locations around the old mines show very strong magnetic anomalies.
• One would expect this, since magnetite, a very pure form of iron ore, was mined here.
• Many researchers have noted a connection between paranormal phenomena and magnetic anomalies.
• Many of the unexplained experiences over the years came from the town of Southeast (a part of Brewster), very close to the Croton-Magnetic mine. Iron ore was mined here until 1899.

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• In 1901, the Croton-Magnetic mine was used by a cult group called the “Fallen Ones,” which performed rituals to honor Satan and the fallen angels.

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• Although it was never proven, the cult was blamed for the disappearance of several children. The local sheriff ordered the mine sealed, and it remained that way until 1995.
• It is in this area on Reservoir and Upper and Lower Magnetic Mine Roads that many encounters with UFOs and strange hooded beings have taken place.
• Also at this location there are sightings of what seems to be a spook light, a globe of light that appears to be intelligent and which follows people and cars as if trying to communicate with them.
• According to local folklore, the light (and sometimes lights) are the ghosts of 13 men killed during a mine cave- in on November 29, 1895.
• According to local newspapers dated 1899, the phantom lights were not seen until after the cave-in of 1895.
• I have about 34 cases in my files of the “Spook Light” in the location of Reservoir and Upper Magnetic Mine Road in Brewster.
• It’s interesting to note that such sightings made before 1950 were dubbed ghost sightings, while reports from witnesses after 1960 refer to the phantom lights as UFOs.

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• The encounter below with the ghost of Reservoir Road took place in 1995. The witnesses identified as Jane and Carl are residents of a nearby town.
• On Halloween Eve, Jane and Carl decided to take a trip to the old mine for some spooky fun. As they drove down the dirt road around 11:00 p.m., everything was quiet until Carl reported that he heard a voice whispering in his left ear.
• The voice was very deep and sounded like a man trying to talk with a very sore throat.
• Carl had trouble understanding what the voice was saying, but each time he heard the voice it seemed to be clearer. He was sure that the voice told him to “back away and leave this place.”
• Startled, Carl told Jane, but she just laughed, thinking he was making it all up as a Halloween joke.
• Carl insisted that he heard a voice. He stopped the car and got out to see if anyone was on the road, but he heard and saw nothing.
• While he was walking down the road, Jane became concerned and a wave of fear rushed through her.
• Attributing this feeling to nerves, she heard a sound in the now-empty driver’s seat. A depression formed in the seat as if someone invisible had just sat down next to her....
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