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I Think, Therefore, I Am,
A GOD
by Rob McConnell
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Here we are in the year 2018, a time of
technological advances. Yet, there are still those
who believe the alleged sightings of so-called
UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) and their
Alien / Extraterrestrial occupants are the original
creators of all – watching over their
creations...including we humans.
If this is the case, our creators are not
doing a very good job, should be fired and
banned from this planet, if not our entire solar
system.
With all the wars, threat of nuclear war
with North Korea, political and sociological
unrest, global warming, world hunger,
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homelessness, and poverty, one wonders why unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and
“The Creator” or his / her designated replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have
representatives have not done anything about the dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
violence over the years. fowl of the air, and over every living thing that
Remember the historical plagues, moveth upon the earth.
Crusades, World War I, World War II, the Therefore, if I am truly created in
Korean War, Vietnam, Middle East Conflicts, the image of God, as stated in the Bible, “after
the attack on America on September 11, 2001, our likeness and in our image,” then it would
and the war on terrorism with ISIS? stand to reason, beyond a doubt, that I too am a
When believers of this planet’s religions, God.
“Holy Books and Scriptures” including the
Christian Holy Bible, are questioned as to why (Continued on Page 3)
an all loving deity would allow human atrocities
to happen, the answers are predictable. They
waive their “get out of jail free card,” blurting
out, “it’s because humans have free will,” or,
like Star Trek’s United Federation of Planets,
claim that God, angels, and / or aliens must
abide with the “non-interference” rule… they
cannot get involved.
As a young man questioning life and the
world around me, I thought that if, according to
Genesis 1:26-28, the King James Version:
26. And God said, Let us make man in
our image, after our likeness: and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all
the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth.
27. So God created man in his own
image, in the image of God created he him; male
and female created he them.
28. And God blessed them, and God said
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Page 01: I Think, Therefore, I Am, A GOD
Page 05: The Mysterious Howard Hughes
Page 08: Science Explains Claims Of Life After Death
Page 12: UFOs? Aliens? Area 51 Revealed
Page 13: Psychic Frauds In The News
Page 14: Are Psychic And Fortune Tellers Frauds?
Page 17: UFO Disclosure Deserves Skepticism
Page 18: The Man Who Created Bigfoot
Page 24: 10 Famous Paranormal Hoaxes
Page 31: How Lying Works
Page 33: Hypnosis: Fact or Fiction
Page 38: 6 Scientific Explanations For Ghosts
Page 39: Ghostbuster Priest Passes Away Aged 99
Page 40: Origin Of ‘Cigar-Shaped’ UFO Revealed
Page 41: New ‘Bermuda Triangle’ Off China
Page 42: Ghosts From A - Z
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Page 55: MH370 Logical And Crazy Theories
Page 57: Champ - The Lake Monster Of Lake Champlain
Page 58: 18 Lake Monsters of Canada and USA
Page 59: Reported Lakes Monsters From Around The World
Page 64: Large Hadron Collider Disproves Ghosts
Page 65: NASA Engineer Debunks On-line Ghosts
Page 66: Truth About Easter Island
Page 69: From The Pages Of The Fringe News
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I Think, Therefore, I Am,
A GOD
Continued from Page 1
After all, if a male and female dog have
puppies, their offspring are in their likeness and
their image, making their puppies dogs…not
cats, monkeys, turtles, frogs or any other animal
or creature...but dogs.
But wait a minute! In Genesis 1:26, it
says, “Let US make man in OUR image, after
OUR likeness.” Is God singular, a single deity,
a single creator, or is there more than one God?
I will always remember the Saturday morning I
went to Bible Class in the hall of St. Stephen’s
Church in Chambly, Quebec, where I was raised
as a youth, and questioned US, OUR – the
plurality of God, and other contradictions I
found within the Book of Genesis.
I also asked if God created Adam and
Eve, and they had two sons, Cain and Able, and
if my math is correct, does that mean there are
only 4 persons on the face of the earth having
been created by God?
Following me so far?
If this is true, and there is only one God,
then why in Genesis 4: 16-17:
16 And Cain went out from the presence
of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the
east of Eden.
17 And Cain knew his wife; and she
conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a
city, and called the name of the city, after the
name of his son, Enoch.
Um… who created Cain’s wife that
“Cain “knew his wife?”
Where did she come from?
Who were her parents?
Who created them?
At this time, I could not have been more
than a 14-year-old who might have had more
questions than others of the same age.
I was told by Reverend Randall, a mean
Pulpit Bible Thumper, to leave the class
immediately and not to return. The walk home
was just over an hour. Before I was able to get
home, my mother had received a call from Rev.
Randall, explaining what I had done –
challenged the words in the Bible – and that I
was not welcomed back to the church.
During the call there was also a
reference to me being the son of Satan.
As I continued my reading and re-
reading of the Bible, it became evident that God
(aka the creators?) was a very mean deity who
was extremely vengeful and broke his own rules
and commandments.
I wondered about the number of people
who must have died at his hands.
Among the many accounts I found of the death
of the children – the creations of God – except
for those he considered to be “chosen,”
including:
1. Every man, woman and child in the
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, who were
destroyed except for Lot and his family.
2. The men, women and children killed
during the many plagues God sent into Egypt
when the Pharaoh would not “let his children
go” as demanded by Moses. God even sent the
Angel of Death to kill all the first born of the
Egyptians!
3. The Egyptians who were chasing
Moses and the Israelites across the Red Sea that
had been opened. After the Israelites reached the
other side, God closed the opening of the Red
Sea, drowning the Egyptians.
4. The alleged global destruction of all
humans and other creatures created by God
when he flooded the entire world. He allowed
animals “two by two” and his chosen human
survivors, Noah and his family, to live and
hypothetically repopulate the planet. The re-
population math simply does not work – neither
do the genetics.
5. God allowed his own son, Jesus, to be
murdered by crucifixion on the cross.
So, let’s take a look at what is going on
here.
You have a creator, God, who kills his
own creations, from mass murder to the
genocide of all living creatures on the face of the
planet, except those allowed to live on the ark
during the great flood.
By the way, the math again does not
work when you take all the animal species,
birds, reptiles, and insects two by two and put
them into the ark, allegedly built by Noah. God
gave Noah the dimensions of the ark: 300 cubits
in length, 50 cubits in width and 30 cubits in
height (450 × 75 × 45 ft. or 137 × 22.9 × 13.7
m).
All creatures on the planet two by two?
Why the lies?
Why the deceit?
Why the misdirection?
God continuously breaks his own
commandment, number 6, “Thou shall not kill.”
In The Ten Commandments, why would God
include, “Thou shall have no other Gods before
me,” if, in fact, he is, according to the Bible, the
only God?
Biblical scholars tell us that God is
perfect in every way.
Are they reading a different Bible from a
different planet?
So why do people love a God – at least the God
of The Old Testament, who is mean, vengeful,
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throws temper tantrums, destroys his creations –
the very creations that he gave life to, and breaks
his own commandments?
In plain English, GOD HAS KILLED,
AND DOCUMENTED IN THE PAGES OF
THE HOLY BIBLE, KILLED HIS OWN
CHILDREN and yet, millions of people around
the world, continue to glorify him...love
him...pray to him.
Could this be the very first documented
case of “Stockholm Syndrome?”
Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological
response wherein a captive begins to identify
closely with his or her captors, as well as with
their agenda and demands.
Psychologists who have studied the
syndrome believe that the bond is initially
created when a captor threatens a captive’s life,
deliberates, and then chooses not to kill the
captive. The captive’s relief at the removal of the
death threat is transposed into feelings of
gratitude toward the captor for giving him or her
life. It takes only a few days for this bond to
cement, proving that, early on, the victim’s
desire to survive trumps the urge to hate the
person who created the situation.
Sound familiar?
Let’s face it. The Bible was written
several thousand years ago by individuals
lacking any grasp of the world we live in – the
sciences, geography, and physics. People who
needed fabricate some way to explain the
mysteries of the world, and hence – the birth of
religion.
I have often wondered what would
happen if the Bible were written today.
How different would the Bible be?
How would the great events written
about in the original Bible be described?
Would creation really take 6 days?
Would there be a God?
Would there be Angels?
Would there be a man named Moses
performing all those Biblical miracles and
would he be handed the Ten Commandments?
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New Age Gods
I Think, Therefore, I Am,
A GOD
Continued from Page 3
Would the Ten Commandments actually
be passed to Moses from a deity called God?
Would there be the story of a global
flood killing all except for Noah, his family and
the other occupants of the ark?
Would there be the birth of a man who
would be called the Son of God?
Would people glorify a deity that kills
and abused his own creations?
I doubt it.
If we all came from the same source, or
creator, would we not all look alike?
For all of you believers that God was an
extraterrestrial, would we not all look like the
aliens described and illustrated across the
Internet?
So, let me ask you this.
Has the human race, here on planet
Earth, come to a point in our sociological
evolution that the “sheep” no longer need a
“shepherd”...that the human race no longer
needs religion?
And then we have the religious wars.
If there were no religion, there wouldn’t
be religious wars.
Here's a list of religiously motivated
wars, genocides and their death tolls.
• The Crusades: 6,000,000
• Thirty Years War: 11,500,000
• French Wars of Religion: 4,000,000
• Lebanese Civil War: 250,000
• Muslim Conquests of India: 80,000,000
• Congolese Genocide (King Leopold II):
13,000,000
• Armenian Genocide: 1,500,000
• Rwandan Genocide: 800,000
• Eighty Years' War: 1,000,000
• Nigerian Civil War: 1,000,000
• Great Peasants' Revolt: 250,000
• First Sudanese Civil War: 1,000,000
• Jewish Diaspora (Not Including the
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• The Holocaust (Jewish and Homosexual
Deaths): 6,500,000
• Islamic Terrorism Since 2000: 150,000
• Iraq War: 500,000
• US Western Expansion (Justified by
"Manifest Destiny"): 20,000,000
• Atlantic Slave Trade (Justified by
Christianity): 14,000,000
• Aztec Human Sacrifice: 80,000
• AIDS deaths in Africa largely due to
opposition to condoms: 30,000,000
• Spanish Inquisition: 5,000
TOTAL: 195,035,000 deaths in the name of
religion.
The words from the song “One Tin Soldier” by
Coven says it all:
Go ahead and hate your neighbor
Go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of Heaven
You can justify it in the end
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgment day
If you would like to be a guest
On the bloody morning after who... on
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scenes in “Hell’s Angels,” an action-adventure the Spruce Goose (a moniker Hughes detested),
7 Things You May Not about World War I pilots, as realistic as possible, it had a wingspan of 320 feet and was the largest
Know About Howard Hughes amassed a huge fleet of vintage planes aircraft ever constructed. However, the war
and hired scores of pilots and mechanics. Three ended before the plane was completed, and in
Hughes pilots died during production, and Hughes 1947 Hughes was called to testify before a U.S.
himself crashed a plane. “Hell’s Angels” Senate committee investigating whether he’d
One of the world’s wealthiest men, Howard initially was shot as a silent film, but following misused millions of dollars in government funds
Robard Hughes Jr. was a Hollywood filmmaker, the fall 1927 release of “The Jazz Singer,” the on the project. At the hearings, Hughes said of
record-setting aviator and business mogul who first feature-length movie with synchronized the Spruce Goose: “I put the sweat of my life
once owned a big chunk of Las Vegas and dialogue, Hughes decided to reshoot with sound. into this thing. I have my reputation rolled up in
controlled a major U.S. airline (TWA), among He spent nearly $4 million to produce “Hell’s it and I have stated several times that if it’s a
other ventures. Later in life, however, he became Angels,” which debuted in 1930 and was one of failure I’ll probably leave this country and never
an eccentric recluse who feared germs and the most the most expensive films of its time. It come back. And I mean it.”
shunned personal hygiene. Find out more about also was a hit and put Hughes on the map in After testifying in Washington, Hughes
Hughes, from the source of his first fortune to Hollywood. He later produced additional films was determined to show his massive aircraft
the development of his massive Spruce Goose but his only other directorial effort was 1943’s could fly, and on November 2, 1947, he piloted
aircraft to his involvement in a top-secret CIA “The Outlaw,” a Western featuring Jane Russell. its first and only flight. The Spruce Goose (the
plot to recover a sunken Soviet submarine. nickname came from the fact it was constructed
3. Hughes set an around-the-world of wood due to wartime restrictions on steel and
1. Hughes was a millionaire at 18. flight record. aluminum; however, birch, not spruce, was the
The 1901 discovery of oil at Spindletop, near During the 1930s, Hughes began to seriously primary building material) traveled for a mile
Beaumont, Texas, marked the birth of the pursue his passion for flying, establishing about 70 feet above the water at Long Beach,
modern petroleum industry, and drew Hughes’ Hughes Aircraft Company in 1932 (it eventually California, before landing. Members of the
father, Howard Sr., a Harvard dropout, to East became a major aerospace and defense Senate committee later issued a report criticizing
Texas to try his luck as a wildcatter. After contractor) and setting a series of aviation Hughes’ handling of the Spruce Goose project
becoming frustrated by the difficulty of drilling records. In 1935, he broke the record for flying but the document proved inconsequential. After
into hard-rock formations with the “fishtail” a plane over land, traveling 352 miles per hour the aircraft’s lone flight, Hughes shelled out
drill bit that was standard at the time, he devised near Santa Ana, California. Two years later, he millions to keep it in a climate-controlled Long
a superior two-cone bit, which made drilling set a record for transcontinental U.S. speed, Beach hangar until his 1976 death. It’s now
easier and revolutionized the oil industry. journeying from Burbank, California, to housed at an aviation museum in Oregon.
Hughes patented the technology in 1909 and, Newark, New Jersey, in 7 hours, 28 minutes and
with partner Walter Sharp, formed the Houston- 25 seconds. On July 10, 1938, Hughes and a 5. Hughes was part of a CIA plot to
based Sharp-Hughes Tool Company to four-man crew took off from Brooklyn’s Floyd recover a sunken Soviet submarine.
manufacture the bit. After Sharp died in 1912, Bennett Field on an around-the-world flight. In March 1968, during the Cold War, a Soviet
Hughes bought his interest in the company. After dipping his Lockheed Super Electra’s submarine carrying nuclear-armed ballistic
When he in turn passed away in 1924, Howard wings over the Old Saybrook, Connecticut, missiles accidentally sank in the Pacific Ocean.
Jr., an only child whose mother had died two home of his girlfriend Katharine Hepburn, The Soviets embarked on a two-month search
years earlier, inherited the thriving company and Hughes made refueling stops in Paris, Moscow, for the sub but were unable to locate it; not long
became a millionaire. The 18-year-old Hughes Omsk and Yakutsk (both in Siberia), Fairbanks afterward, the U.S. found it some 1,500 miles
dropped out of Rice University, let others and Minneapolis before landing back in northwest of Hawaii, 16,500 feet below the
manage the oil-tool business and set out for Brooklyn. There, thousands of spectators water’s surface. Believing the 1,750-ton sub was
Hollywood in 1925. greeted Hughes, who had set a new record for a source of important intelligence information,
circumnavigating the globe, with a time of three the CIA launched a complex covert operation,
2. His directorial debut, “Hell’s days, 19 hours and 17 minutes. He was hailed as codenamed Project Azorian, to recover it. The
Angels,” was one of the most expensive a hero and honored with a ticker-tape parade in U.S. commissioned the construction of a ship
movies of its time. New York City and celebrations around the with the specialized capabilities needed to lift
Hughes started his movie career as a producer country. the sub from the ocean’s depths, and the CIA
on the 1926 film “Swell Hogan,” which turned devised a cover story that the vessel, named the
out to be so terrible it never made it into theaters. 4. His famous Spruce Goose aircraft Hughes Glomar Explorer, was being built for
However, he soon had a box-office success with was flown only once. Howard Hughes, who planned to use it for a new
1927’s “Two Arabian Knights,” which earned an In 1942, during World War II, Hughes commercial venture: mining minerals from the
Academy Award for best comedy direction. contracted with the U.S. government to design ocean floor.
Hughes went on to direct his first film, “Hell’s and build an aircraft capable of transporting 700
Angels,” when the initial two directors on the troops or a load of 60 tons across the Atlantic. (Continued on Page 6)
project quit after clashing with the young Texas Known by various names, including the H-4 “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re
millionaire. In his quest to make the aerial Hercules, the Flying Boat and most commonly, part of the problem.” - Rob McConnell
 6 The Mysterious Howard Hughes
7 Things You May Not
Know About Howard
Hughes
Continued from Page 5

The Glomar Explorer finally arrived at the

wreckage site in the summer of 1974 but was
unable to retrieve the whole sub because a
portion broke off as it was being raised. A
second recovery effort was planned; however,
in the meantime there was a burglary at the Los
Angeles headquarters of Hughes’ Summa
Corporation, and among the stolen items was
thought to be a secret document linking Howard
Hughes to the CIA and the Glomar Explorer.
The news media learned about the burglary and
the story of the Glomar Explorer’s real purpose
became public in 1975. As a result, the mission
to recover the rest of the sub was scrapped.
made up and he’d never met Irving. The press - Was a major stock holder in an airline that later
6. When a Vegas hotel tried to kick conference generated headlines across the became TWA
him out, he bought the place. country, and weeks later Irving, who’d received
Faced with a huge tax bill in California, he a $750,000 advance, admitted the manuscript - He once had an air purifier installed into a car
decided to move to Las Vegas in late 1966, was a fabrication. He served 17 months in with sealed windows. The purifier cost more
arriving by private train car and taking up prison for his elaborate scheme, which was the than the car, and took up most of the trunk.
residence on the top floor of the Desert Inn. basis for the 2006 movie “The Hoax,” starring
When the hotel’s owner tried to evict Hughes Richard Gere as Irving. [] - In his later years, he insisted that his personal
and his staff, who didn’t gamble, in order to free assistants be Mormons (members of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints).
up rooms for high-roller guests, Hughes decided DID YOU KNOW... Reportedly, this was because Hughes did not
to buy the place (technically, he purchased a
long-term lease), for $13 million. Afterward, he About Howard Hughes want any of his personal assistants drunk on the
went on a Vegas buying spree, snapping up job, and Mormons are forbidden to drink
other hotel-casinos, an airport and airline and - Ice Station Zebra (1968) is reported to have alcohol.
various tracts of undeveloped land. Also, been his favorite movie.
because Hughes, by then a recluse who never - Attended the prestigious Rice University in the
left his Desert Inn penthouse, wanted to watch - Before his death, he lived as a recluse, and 1920s, before dropping out and moving to
his favorite old movies on late-night TV—and Albert R. Broccoli (the producer of the James Hollywood.
the city had no all-night stations–he acquired a Bond franchise) used his reclusiveness from the
local TV station of his own. public as a model for the character Willard - In public he would often speak with his hand
After four years in Vegas, during which time he Whyte in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). covering his mouth, for fear of being lip-read.
became one of Nevada’s biggest employers and Hughes was a fan of the James Bond films, and
private landholders, he left abruptly in 1970. He he kept a 16mm print of the film as a part of his - After Hughes died, former starlet Terry Moore
spent the final six years of his life living in private collection. Broccoli also gave him claimed they had secretly married on a yacht in
hotels in the Bahamas, Nicaragua, Vancouver, 16mm print films of all the earlier Bond-films. international waters off Mexico in 1949 and
London and Acapulco. never divorced. In 1984, Hughes's estate paid
- The Las Vegas casinos he once owned were Moore an undisclosed settlement.
7. A planned Hughes autobiography Castaways, Desert Inn, Frontier, Landmark,
turned out to be a hoax. Sands and Silver Slipper. As of November 2001, - Authorized to be awarded a Congressional
all but the Frontier have been demolished. Gold Medal, 7 August 1939 (53 Stat. 1525).
In December 1971, McGraw-Hill, a New York
Award was "... in recognition of the
City publishing company, announced it would
- He bought Las Vegas television station KLAS achievements of Howard Hughes in advancing
publish Hughes’ autobiography, with excerpts
(Channel 8), so that he could watch movies into the science of aviation and thus bringing great
slated to appear in Life magazine. Shortly after
the night. If he fell asleep during a film, he credit to his country throughout the world(.)"
the announcement, officials at the Hughes Tool
Company denounced the planned book as a would call up the station and order that the
scene he missed be replayed. - He became obsessed with the "Communist
fake. However, McGraw-Hill and Life denied
threat" in the early 1950s, having written a series
this charge and expressed confidence in the
- While he was staying in Las Vegas' Desert Inn of paranoid articles on the subject that he sent
authenticity of the manuscript, which Hughes
Hotel-Casino resort, he bought the out to newspapers from seclusion.t.
supposedly collaborated on with Clifford
Irving, who’d previously published works of establishment in order to avoid being evicted.
- He had affairs with several of the most famous
fiction and non-fiction. McGraw-Hill had
- His father was the inventor of the "Hughes actresses in Hollywood, among them Jean
handwritten letters said to be from Hughes
Rock Eater," a self-sharpening drill bit used for Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Olivia
along with other project-related items with his
drilling oil wells that is still in use today. de Havilland, Ginger Rogers, and Ava Gardner.
signature; these were submitted to a respected
Hughes inherited several million dollars but As time went on, he went out of his way to
handwriting analysis firm, which determined
earned the vast majority of his wealth from his "discover" attractive young starlets (most of
they’d been written by Hughes. In January
own business ventures. Hughes Aircraft and whom never hit it big), just so he could sleep
1972, the reclusive mogul, then residing at a
Hughes Helicopters alone were worth $5.5 with them. He continued this until he stopped
hotel in the Bahamas, held a press conference
billion when they were finally sold in the early producing films in the late 1950s.
by phone with a group of journalists he’d once
known. Hughes, who hadn’t spoken with the 1980s.
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media in years, said the autobiography was
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 8 Science Explains Claims of Life After Death
Science Explains Claims
of Life After Death
by
J G Peterson

What happens to you after you die? That is one

of life’s biggest questions. For millennia,
humans have been trying to solve that problem
through a variety of different ways. From
philosophy to science, the question of life and
death has pervaded a significant amount of
important work either directly or indirectly.
Unfortunately, there are no answers to
the question of life after death. Even after all of
this time, scientists are only beginning to fully
understand the process of death itself. Old
tropes talk of the moment of death as though it
is a singular point in time or the period at the
end of the sentence of life. But, just as life is a
complicated series of processes and events,
death cannot be broken down to a split second
when life ends.
From studies surrounding consciousness
to tales of near death experiences, humans have
been exploring these concepts for centuries.
Recently, new breakthroughs in resuscitation
science have some information about what
happens to a person in the first few minutes
after they die. This research is of hallmark
importance; however, not all of it can be proven
to be objective fact.
Much of what life after death means
comes down to the kind of life you describe.
Life, as a biological process, will end. Cells die
and are immediately broken down. That much
about death is clear. But things like behaviors,
traits and likenesses live on through our
offspring. Whether it is by genes or by learned
behaviors, some part of many people lives on
through their children long after they die.
Science cannot explain the phenomenon
of life after death as it presently stands, but here
are ten ways that it can try:
10. Death Is Not an Event
The moment that your heart beats for the last
time or the moment you take your last breath is
not the moment of your death. Death continues
to be a mysterious process for those with a
career in science, and for those who ponder their
own mortality.
The fact that death is not a fleeting
moment is demonstrated by the rare confusion
that some people face regarding whether or not
a person is really dead. Most people have heard
the stories about someone who was declared
dead but seemed to magically wake up at their
funeral.
Despite so many medical advancements
and technologies, people still make mistakes
about who is dead and who is not. A 91 year old
Polish woman recently scared the life out of
some morticians after she woke up in a morgue
11 hours after being declared dead. The
mortician discovered that there was movement
in the body bag and when it was opened, the
poor woman was not only alive but quite
healthy.
A similar situation happened in Kenya in
2014. A young man was declared to be dead
after he ingested insecticide. Although the
doctors had tried to save him, they believed that
the cause was lost. But only 15 hours after being
sent to the morgue, he woke up and frightened
the technicians who were working near and
around him.
Of course, some of these mistakes are
the result of human error. After all, American
coroners are not required to have medical
degrees, and some conditions and medications
do mimic death in a convincing manner.
Mistaking the living for the dead is a
rare thing in modern society. It happens so
rarely that if a mistake is made, the news makes
headlines around the world.
Whether the mistake is made by an
elected official or a trained medical
professional, it opens up a necessary discussion
about how complicated the processes of death
and dying really are.
9. The Brain Cannot Function When
the Heart Stops Beating
Dying is not an instantaneous process. Although
it was thought to be a simple process in which a
person stops breathing oxygen and supporting
brain function, it is much more complex than
this. Dying does not just happen. It is something
that happens over an entire lifetime. The final
process itself is something that happens over
several hours and some doctors believe that it is
reversible.
Scientists know very little about what
happens when a person dies. This is partly
because it is such a complex question and partly
because few researchers actually participate in
discussions surrounding the subject. Many of
the hard sciences like chemistry have supported
the idea that there is only one objective in
reality and anything that is subjective is not
considered to be a fact. As a result, scientists
veer away from the subject of life after death,
despite its existential value.
What science does know is that the brain
needs oxygen to function; it relies on the heart
and the cardiovascular system to take in
oxygen, filter it and pass it to the brain. Once
the heart stops beating, the brain dies very
quickly. In fact, it takes only 20 to 30 seconds
for the brain to stop all function after the heart
has stops beating. It only begins function again
if the heart can be restarted.
8. Some People Have Awareness Even
After They Are Clinically Dead
A recent study in resuscitation medicine
surveyed 360 people who were able to be
revived after suffering from cardiac arrest.
These 360 people were found out of a group
2,000 patients from hospitals in America,
Britain and Austria.
Out of these 360 people, only around
100 were well enough to be interviewed.
Out of this group, around 40 percent
said that they had a kind of “awareness” even
though their heart had stopped beating and their
brains had stopped functioning. Of course, some
scientists chalk this up to post-traumatic stress
disorder or other psychiatric issues.
However, one case in particular stood
out among the crowd. One of these 360 people
could describe the exact events that followed his
death. He told the researchers that while he was
clinically dead, he kept hearing the beeping of a
machine. The beeps went every three minutes
and he heard two beeps from the machine. The
exact detail with which he could describe the
events that followed his death lead doctors to
believe that his brain did not fully shut down,
even though his heart stopped for several
minutes.
Dr. Sam Parnia of the State University
of New York at Stony Brook was the lead author
of the study that published this miraculous case.
Dr. Parnia suggested that man’s experience was
paradoxical, but that it opened up new
possibilities in medicine. He believes that it is
possible that more people continue to have
awareness after death. He believes that the
majority of patients lose memory of
consciousness as a result of the trauma or of the
sedatives involved in reviving them.
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7. People May Have Different Levels
of Consciousness After They Die
In the same study, Dr. Parnia noted that out of
the 360 patients in the study, many of these
patients recalled dramatically different
experiences of their time after death. Out of all
of the patients interviewed, 39 percent said that
they had distinct feelings of consciousness but
that they were unable to describe anything that
happened to them or around them during the
period when they were clinically dead.
About 46 percent of all of the patients
interviewed said that they had some recollection
of their near death experience; however, these
memories do not fit in with the general
knowledge about near-death experiences. Only
9 percent of the patients interviewed actually
experienced the bright lights that are most
commonly associated with a near death
experience.
Many of the people with memories
remembered feeling scared and persecuted
while they were dead.
But people’s experiences varied widely.
Some people felt joyful while others described
being enveloped a bright light. Some believed
they had encountered a kind of mystical or
mythical being. Only 13 percent of the people
with these recollections felt as though they had
been separated from their body.
The variety of experiences that patients
in this study reported suggests that if there is life
after death, or in this case, brain function after
death, then this experience is vastly different for
everyone.
There have been several reports in the
media over the years of people who have come
back from the edge at the last moment and
claimed to have their lives flash before them.
Some claim that they were taken in by a warm,
brilliant light. While many of these reports are
written off as hallucinations at best and outright
lies at the worst, this new study provides some
scientific merit to the experiences humans have
encountered for years.
6. Consciousness Cannot Be Proven by
Science
Unfortunately, even after at least 2,000 years of
trying to understand human consciousness, no
one seems to have any real answers. The topic
was first documented as being considered by the
Greeks and thinkers around the world have been
infatuated with the subject for years.
Consciousness cannot be proven. People
can’t even think about their own consciousness.
The main problem, so far, with the perception of
consciousness is that people cannot even think
of the questions to find the answers to.
Philosophers, psychoanalysts, doctors
and learned people from all walks of life have
made thousands of attempts to discover what it
means to be conscious and how a person is
conscious. Almost all people assume that we are
conscious, but no one can prove it.
As a result, proving or disproving the
reports given by the patients in Dr. Parnia’s
9
study is impossible. Are they making them up? color, height and weight are all things that are
Are they merely tricks the brain plays to cover established partly through the heredity of genes.
up the trauma? It remains impossible to tell.
As for the man who accurately described But it is not just physical features that live on
the scene after his death, that alone can finally through these genes. Some studies suggest that
justify further investigations into the problems the trauma you experience can be passed on
of life and death. through your genes as well. Recent studies have
suggested that Holocaust survivors’ genetics
5. If We Are Conscious after Death, It were affected by the indescribable trauma they
Is Not Clear How Long This suffered during the Second World War.
A new study was released by researchers
Consciousness Lasts
at Mount Sinai hospital in New York. The study
Assuming that the brain truly can live on after
looked at the genetics of 32 Jewish men and
the death of the body, the next question is, how
women who had either experienced torture at a
long can the brain function after death? The
concentration camp or who had to go into
answer to that question makes a huge difference
hiding during WWII.
in many areas that are currently considered to be
If it is true, the process of passing on
pseudo-science.
trauma through genes is called epigenetic
The belief in ghosts and spirits is one of
inheritance. This is the idea that your lifestyle
the most common paranormal beliefs. The
can go on to affect the genetic disposition of any
belief is spread around the world, regardless of
children you have. It can even potentially be
education or religion. People from all walks of
passed on to grandchildren.
life claim not only claim to have seen or feel the
Epigenetic inheritance is very
presence of someone who is known to be dead
controversial within science but it has been
but truly believe that this is the case.
studied in many areas. One study suggested that
Of course, the belief of ghosts and
Dutch women who gave birth to girls during the
spirits has been capitalized on by media and
famine that came at the end of WWII saw that
Hollywood. But, the legend of a dead person’s
spirit remaining among the living is an
these babies would grow up to have a higher
than average risk of schizophrenia.
incredibly old one. If it was possible that
Although the details have not yet been
consciousness, whatever it is, could continue
determined, the idea does not sound
even after the heart stops beating and the brain
preposterous. Accounts that deal with the
stops functioning, then the idea of ghosts is not
survivors of the Armenian death marches in
as far-fetched as it once was.
1915 would suggest that not only were the
traumas encountered suffered by those who
4. You Live On Through Your Genes lived through it, but subsequent generations of
Thinking about life after death is not limited
the survivors families would find that they
purely to consciousness. People’s traits and suffered some of the same fears as their parents
personalities can live on long after they die
and grandparents did while living through the
through their genes. Genetic science, one of the genocide during World War I.
harder sciences of the biological set and it is
somewhat easier to experiment with than
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3. The Debate Between Nature and
Nurture Has Not Yet Been Solved
The debate about the use of genetics in
determining patterns in human behaviors has
not been solved. Charles Darwin says that
human behavior is the result of evolutionary
processes that were created over time to help
humans survive and adapt to new conditions.
There is scientific evidence for his claims and
he is known as the father of the debate on
human nature.
Then, the glory years of psychiatry came
along. Sigmund Freud, a definitive thinker at
the time, said that human behavior is the
product of nurture. His famous argument
suggested that personalities, traits and behaviors
were created in spite of and because of the way
that children are treated by their parents, or their
absentee parents.
The debate has raged on over the years
and each side makes valid points, some of
which can be validated scientifically. The
importance of this debate does not necessarily
lie in who is right and who is wrong. Instead, it
is important that humans note that there are
patterns in behavior. Whether someone is
alcoholic because they were surrounded by
alcoholic parents or because there is a
predisposition in their genes, what scientists do
know is that behaviors have a way of living on
through children and grandchildren.
Whether a person has children of their
own or adopts non-biological children,
something of them will be passed on to their
children and live on long after they are dead.
If you think that you can drink because
you’re Irish or that you are loud because you are
Italian then you have bought into a cultural
norm that persists through either nature or
nurture or perhaps even a combination of the
two.
2. There Is No Proof That There Is Life
after Death
One of the biggest reasons that science has not
prepared itself to truly explore the phenomenon
of life after death is because there is no proof
that there is life after death. There is no proof
that the soul exists and there is no proof
regarding the parameters of consciousness.
Because there is no conclusive proof, many
people walk away from it scientifically because
they believe it to be fruitless.
1. There Is No Proof That There Is No
Life after Death
But at the end of the day, even though there is
no proof of life after death, there is no proof that
there is not life after death either. The entire
concept is a mysterious subject. So many
psychological signs point to the idea that there
may be life after we pass on but none of these
pass onto the physical.
The intense desire to find out what
happens to people after they die is one that has
gone for as long as the world has had written
sources. For thousands of years, people have
been asking the same questions about the
afterlife. Religion has created all kinds of
different possibilities. The monotheistic
Abrahamic religions have one idea while pagan
traditions have more than one. Regardless of the
belief system in place, one thing is clear: it is a
subject that everyone wants to be better
informed in.
If the conscious exists, the drive to
discover the keys to death and life are possibly
a reflection of the potential to live on after we
die. Some psychologists would say that this fear
is the fear of the unknown but this is a
superficial stance to take on the matter. It is
possible to assume that these driving forces
come from a knowledge somewhere within
consciousness that people do live on after they
die. Either way, if this is not true, no one can
prove it.
Conclusion
Life after death has fascinated people from all
corners of the globe for thousands of years. For
the last few hundred years, science has written
off the concept as a fantasy only for those who
need religion and the idea of an afterlife to find
meaning during their time on Earth.
But since the quantum revolution in
science, the way science works has changed.
Physics has taught scientists that not everything
is quantifiable. The understanding that some
scientists have that describable matter makes up
only a small portion of the universe while dark
matter makes up the rest has changed the way
everyone looks at the scientific process.
While there is no definitive study that
can tell anyone that there is life after death,
some breakthroughs have been leading in that
direction. Recent research in science has
demonstrated that it is possible that brain
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function can continue after a person is clinically
dead. Research in genetics has found that is
possible to pass on your experiences to your
children.
If you adjust your meaning of the words
death and life, it seems as though science could
provide an answer in the not so distant future.
Sometimes the only proof you need is to have no
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 12 UFOs? Aliens? Area 51 Revealed
UFOs? Aliens? Area 51
Revealed
by
Ki Mae Heussner

It's the centerpiece of virtually every modern

UFO theory and a symbol for everything the
government doesn't tell us.
About an hour's bus ride northwest of
Las Vegas, Area 51 is one of the most famous
military bases in the world, in part because the
government barely acknowledges its existence.
According to UFO lore, Area 51, near
Nevada State Route 375, otherwise known as
"Extraterrestrial Highway," is where the
Pentagon has, for decades, stored frozen
extraterrestrials and recovered alien spacecraft.
In the movie "Independence Day," it was where
the heroes led a final attack against alien
invaders.
But now that the CIA has started to
declassify top secret programs developed at
Area 51, former military officers and engineers
are beginning to shed some light on the
enigmatic airfield and give the UFOlogists some
new information to consider.
"No one really knew we existed," said
Thornton "T.D." Barnes, 72, a former special-
projects engineer at Area 51. "Even our wives
didn't know where we were going when we left
Monday morning and came back Friday
evening."
A specialist in advance radar and Soviet
MiG fighter aircraft, Barnes said he was tapped
by the CIA to join a "cadre" of experts that could
handle any kind of military project.
People Reported Seeing Flashes of
Light
As an electronics engineer for NASA, he
worked on the country's first rocket plane, the
X-15, the Apollo space capsule and lunar lander
research vehicles.
At Area 51, he helped develop the A-12
OXCART, a super-secret spy plane built by the
Lockheed Corporation. Barnes said his
colleagues conducted 2,850 test flights of the A-
12 out of Area 51.
Traveling 2,200 mph at 90,000 feet,
nothing could catch the planes. But, he said,
people would see flashes of light.
That, he thinks, is what started the
rumors of an extraterrestrial safe haven.
In some ways, Barnes said, the UFO
myths actually helped keep the site's true
activities under wraps.
"We considered it to be a bonus," he said. suggested.
"They made it easier to conceal what we were
doing."
Government Secrets
No ETs, No Alien Spacecraft, No
Underground Tunnels? Friedman said it's still conceivable that
If anything, he emphasized, "We were the
UFOs."
In reality, he said, compared to previous
positions with frequent missions, "Area 51 was
the most boring place I ever worked."
No aliens, no spacecraft from far-flung
planets, no underground passageways, he said.
The only underground area he recalled
was beneath a nuclear testing site at neighboring
Jackass Flats.
Now that the OXCART program has
been declassified, he and his colleagues are
working with universities and government
agencies to share their knowledge.
His program was one of the CIA's better
programs, he said, but as they declassified
information, they realized just how much they
didn't know and couldn't share with the
engineers working on similar projects today.
"They're finding that a lot that we did
under secrecy, they're making the same mistakes
again," Barnes said.
Maybe They Just Didn't Know
Harry A. Martin, 77, who supervised the fueling
of the spy planes for four years, said his time at
Area 51 was also one of the highlights of his
career.
"I was real proud of what we
accomplished," he said. "I'd never worked with
a group of people who were better than those."
As for the aliens and UFOs, "people
have an imagination," he said. "We laughed at
it."
But some UFO experts say the former
insiders' accounts don't necessarily eliminate the
possibility that Area 51 is indeed home to some
UFO-related activities.
"Those guys who came forward may
very well be telling the truth, with the caveat that
they wouldn't know if there was something
going on," said Stanton T. Friedman, a nuclear
physicist, lecturer and top UFO researcher.
Highly classified work is also highly
compartmentalized, he said. And the absence of
evidence on their part isn't the same thing as the
absence of evidence for such work, he
Americans Waking Up to the Reality of
wreckage from what some people believe was a
UFO crash in Roswell, N.M., could have been
transported to Area 51. And, he added, "of
course" the military has an underground base out
there.
But, regardless of whether or not Area 51
is indeed connected to UFO activities, Friedman
pointed out that the facility has captured the
imagination of Americans for another important
reason.
It has become a symbol of government
secrets and the universe of information too
sensitive for public consumption.
As a scientist for General Electric,
Westinghouse, McDonnell Douglas and other
high-tech companies, Friedman said he's worked
on a variety of classified projects that have
shown him government secrets are a fact of life.
Area 51 is just one example of that.
"National security has a real place in all
of this stuff. There is no way to tell your friends
without telling your enemies," he said. "A lot of
Americans woke up to the fact that there's a lot
going on that they don't get told about." []
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Thornton D. “TD” Barnes, author, and
entrepreneur, grew up on a ranch at Dalhart,
Texas. He graduated from Mountain View High
School in Oklahoma and embarked on a ten-year
military career. He served as an Army
intelligence specialist in Korea and then
continued his education while in the US Army,
attending two and a half years of missile and
radar electronics by day and college courses at
night. Barnes deployed with the first combat
Hawk missile battalion during the Soviet Iron
Curtain threat before attending the Artillery
Officer Candidate School, where an injury
ended his military career.
Barnes’s career includes serving as a
field engineer at the NASA High Range in
Nevada for the X-15, XB-70, lifting bodies and
lunar landing vehicles; working on the NERVA
project at Jackass Flats, Nevada; and serving in
Special Projects at Area 51. Barnes later formed
a family oil and gas exploration company,
drilling, and producing oil and gas and mining
uranium and gold.
Barnes currently serves as the CEO of
Startel, Inc., a landowner, and is actively mining
landscape rock and gold in Nevada. He serves as
the president of Roadrunners Internationale, an
association of Area 51 veterans, and is the
executive director of the Nevada Aerospace Hall
of Fame.
Barnes lives in Henderson, Nevada.
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It’s terrible to think that someone could be so
desperate, so underhanded, that she would prey
on one of the most vulnerable among our
society, taking advantage of a woman suffering
from the effects of Alzheimer’s disease.
But that’s precisely what happened in the
case of Sally Ann Johnson, the 41-year-old
Florida woman who was sentenced last week to
26 months in federal prison and ordered to repay
$3.5 million she stole from an elderly Chilmark
woman. She was also ordered to pay $725,912
to the Internal Revenue Service, taxes never paid
on the money she received for her “psychic”
services.
This case has grabbed a lot of headlines
because of just how sick and twisted it is.
Johnson, who went by the aliases of Angela
Johnson and Angelia Johnson, claimed to be a
psychic who could vanquish demons through
exorcisms. All the while, she was emptying the
Chilmark woman’s bank account.
We are always struck by the lengths
people will go in an attempt to con people out of
their money. Just this week, we had another
news brief on another scam being perpetrated.
The caller purports to be a representative of
Eversource, and threatens to shut off electricity
unless a bill is paid using prepaid credit cards. []
Self-proclaimed Psychic
Jailed for Avoiding Tax on
USD3.5 Million
NEW YORK, NNC – Psychic service have been
subject to income tax. Fortunately this is not in
Indonesia but happened in the US.
Sally Ann Johnson was sentenced by US
District Judge Denise Casper in Boston for
being avoided paying income taxes for her
exorcism services.
Johnson was sentenced to 26 months in
prison after admitting that she tried to avoid
paying taxes on over USD3.5 million (IDR46.6
billion) that she received from her client, an
elderly woman seeking to cleanse herself of
demons.
"There is a strong inference of fraud
here," Casper said as quoted by Business Insider
on Thursday (1/18/2018).
She ordered Johnson to repay the woman
nearly USD3.57 million she received from 2007
to 2014 and to pay USD725,912 in restitution to
the US government for the taxes she avoided
paying.
Johnson, who never passed the second
grade and calls herself a Romani "spiritual
consultant," pleaded guilty in October to trying
to impede the administration of tax laws.
Court papers refer to her victim only as
"V.P." and say she attended Radcliffe College
and Harvard University, was independently
wealthy and was more than 70 years old in 2007.
She is a resident of Martha's Vineyard, a favorite
vacation spot for the rich and famous.
Prosecutors said because of senile
suffered V.P, the woman is often felt disturbed
spirits at his residence. Therefore, V.P hopes
Sally can help solve the problem.
V.P. was already prone to believe in the
presence of evil spirits. As her dementia
advanced, the woman attributed her symptoms
to demonic possession, which she hoped
Johnson could alleviate, prosecutors said.
Johnson also accrued charges on a credit
card held in the elderly woman's name, spending
USD20,000 on entertainment and jewelry alone.
Alien breakthrough: Boost
in hunt for ETs as WATER
detected on Jupiter-like
exoplanet
WATER has been detected on a faraway
exoplanet in what could be a breakthrough for
finding alien life elsewhere in the universe.
Astronomers have discovered that there are
water molecules in the atmosphere of an
exoplanet known as 51 Pegasi b, or 51 Peb b for
short.
The planet is some 50 lightyears away
from Earth, putting it well out of reach of human
exploration.
51 Peb b has an orbit period of just 4.23
days and is just half the distance from its host
star as the Earth is to the Sun.
Astronomers also say that the exoplanet is very
similar to Jupiter – meaning that it is a gas giant,
making life on the surface of the planet very
unlikely.
However, famed US scientist Carl Sagan
theorised life on Jupiter would take the form of
enormous balloon-like lifeforms that float above
the hot gasses on Jupiter’s surface.
He said on his TV show, Cosmos: A Personal
Voyage, that “vast living balloons could stay
buoyant by pumping heavy gasses from their
interiors or by keeping their insides warm.”
This means that the possibility of life
should not be ruled on “hot jupiter” – nicknamed
due to what it is made up of and closeness to its
star – 51 Peb b.
The astronomers wrote in their paper
published in arXiv.org: "We have presented a …
detection of water molecules in the atmosphere
of the original hot Jupiter, 51 Peg b, providing
the first confirmation that the 51 Peg Ab system
is a double-lined spectroscopic binary.
"We detected no methane or carbon
dioxide at a significant level in our observations,
indicating a low abundance, or possibly
inaccuracies in the line lists we used to create
the model templates.”
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Aliens make 'CONTACT'
with EARTH as Russians
detect deep-space signal
A RUSSIAN telescope has picked up an
unknown signal from deep space, prompting
scientists to believe they may have discovered
ALIEN LIFE.
Signals came from near to a planet surrounding
a star 95 light-years from Earth.
The host star is known as HD164595
which is almost the same size as our sun.
The planet in question has been dubbed
HD164595b and is roughly the same size as
Neptune – a diameter of almost four times that
of Earth’s. It is warm and rocky, with a year that
lasts just 40 days.
The signal was detected by experts at
Russia’s RATAN-600 telescope who then passed
the information onto Paul Gilster, author of the
Centauri Dreams website, which examines peer-
reviewed research on the universe.
Mr Gilster said the strength of the signal
indicates that it came from a Kardashev Type II
civilisation.
The Kardashev scale is an indicator of
how advanced a civilisation is – Earth is a type I
that can harbour energy from our sun, whereas a
Type II would be much more advanced and
would be able to use all of the energy from the
host star– like a Dyson Sphere, for example.
Mr Gilster wrote on his website:
“Working out the strength of the signal, the
researchers say that if it came from an isotropic
beacon, it would be of a power possible only for
a Kardashev Type II civilisation.
“If it were a narrow beam signal focused
on our Solar System, it would be of a power
available to a Kardashev Type I civilisation.”
While Mr Gilster was not 100 per cent
confident that the signal came from aliens, he
remains optimistic.
He said: “The possibility of noise of one
form or another cannot be ruled out, and
researchers in Paris led by Jean Schneider are
considering the possible microlensing of a
background source by HD164595.
“But the signal is provocative enough
that the RATAN-600 researchers are calling for
permanent monitoring of this target.”
Astronomers at Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) were not so
excited by the news however.
Eric Korpela of the institute said: “I was
unimpressed.
“Because the receivers used were
making broad band measurements, there's really
nothing about this "signal" that would
distinguish it from a natural radio transient.[]
 14 Are Psychics And Fortune Tellers Frauds?
Are psychics and fortune
tellers frauds? Another
Law School for You
by Paul Samakow
Psychics, or fortune-tellers, predict information
about a person’s life. For most people, sitting in
front of a psychic is for fun. The laugh is worth
the five dollars. Unfortunately for some, the
weak or vulnerable, consulting a psychic is too
often a sure way to lose significant money and
to be emotionally thrown down the proverbial
rabbit’s hole.
Psychics in person, online, or on the
telephone, cheat people experiencing times of
trouble in the areas of romance, money, and
health. Those who are lonely, have undergone a
recent romantic breakup, who have suffered a
financial setback, who have been sued, are sick,
or have sick relatives sometimes turn to
psychics. They actually pay these frauds
significant sums of money so that they can hear
their future in the hope that their future will be
better.
P.T. Barnum, of Ringling Brothers
Barnum & Bailey Circus fame, is widely
credited for his understanding of this
phenomenon. He summed it up in one famous
statement: “There’s a sucker born every
minute.”
Millions consult psychics, mediums,
palmists, card readers and others who claim
supernatural abilities to predict the future every
year. In one 2009 study, the Pew Forum found
that in that year about 1 in 7 people reach out to
psychics or other types of fortune-tellers.
Regulation of psychics
While virtually every part of our lives is
regulated in some way, it is shockingly
surprising that these fraudulent psychics are not
as regulated as one might think. Laws
governing fraud exist in every state. But few
states actually have laws addressing the scams
perpetrated by psychics and their like.
Regulating an industry that calls itself
supernatural is challenging. Particularly one
that claims it is beyond the understanding of
modern science and one that has no educational
requirements. Yet these fortune tellers charge,
often heavily, for their services.
Some psychics claim their services are a
religious activity. They claim their earnings are
similar to donations made to other religious
organizations, i.e., not taxed. Others offer that
they are entertainers. They even post
disclaimers to shield themselves from any
losses or injuries suffered by their customers
who take their advice. Some rely on the First
Amendment’s right to free speech.
Scriptures prohibition toward divination
Interestingly, there is actually religious
opposition in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
based on scriptural prohibitions against
divination.
New York makes fortune telling a class
B misdemeanor:
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Continued from Page 14
How psychics work
Psychics take advantage of people. They are, in
many cases, highly skilled in terms of reading
people and picking up (when in person) on body
language. When on the telephone, psychics can
also hear subtle changes in breathing, tone, and
cadence of speech that equate to in-person
reactions.
Psychics all tend to begin their approach
to customers in about the same way. They start
by providing an inexpensive “cold reading”
where they deliver generalized statements with
solemn authority. The reading continues until
they hit upon something that triggers a reaction.
Psychics then feedback the information they
have picked up on, gradually convincing their
clients of their “powers.”
Astute people will roll their eyes and
terminate the session. Others will fall prey to
the psychic’s predictions and promises.
A better alternative to psychics
Recall the Magic 8-ball manufactured and sold
as a children’s toy by Mattel. It had 20
“answers” such as: It is Certain; Without a
Doubt; Signs point to yes: Yes, Definitely;
Better Not Tell You; My sources say no; Don’t
Count on it,” and so on.
The 8-ball sells for under $10.00 and is
available at Walmart.
Civil cases involving psychics
Civil lawsuits against psychics mostly fail.
There are primarily two reasons for this.
First, the psychics’ “entertainment only”
disclaimers are a strong defense.
Second, the victim’s irresponsibility
(stupidity) often motivates judges to hold that
despite the apparent ridiculous nature of the
soothsayer’s promises, the victim’s role is
equally the cause of the loss.
If a psychic said a spouse did not have
cancer, but if in fact he or she did, a lawsuit by
the aggrieved survivor must prove that the
psychic presented the information as a fact and
as an expert medical opinion. That the psychic’s
reading caused the survivor to reasonably rely
on that information. Note the keyword
“reasonably.”
A court would certainly ask why the
survivor consulted a psychic instead of a doctor.
Thus, a lawsuit against the psychic would fail.
In 2009, in South Dakota, a woman sued for the
return of $30,500 from a psychic who promised
to bring her husband back.
In 2010, in New Jersey, a woman’s
psychic told her that she was suffering from a
curse. The psychic promised to remove the
curse after the woman paid her over $160,000.
The woman recovered $19,000.
Courts rule on reason and evidence.
A prediction for you
Prediction: If you go to a psychic, you will lose
money and gain nothing valuable. Unless you
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want to be told how attractive you are. (Note: thought to have discovered it in Italy in 1917,
You are beautiful – no charge.) holds the secrets to eternal life.
Advice: Don’t let the psychic sell you a potion But others just reckon it’s an elaborate
to enhance that beauty. [] medieval joke. []
DID YOU KNOW.…
Mysterious book filled EVERYDAY INVENTIONS
with ‘UFO prophecy’ from
1400s is finally decoded by ...Hungarian Laszlo Biro, who patented the
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artificial intelligence
...Pizza was invented in 1889 by Raffaele
ARTIFICIAL intelligence has been used to Esposito in Naples, Italy.
decode the Voynich Manuscript, which was
found to be written in ancient Hebrew. ...The Countess du Barry, mistress of France’s
King Louis XV, invented the fishbowl.
IT’S a mystery as compelling as the Da Vinci
Code — a fabled manuscript nobody can read, ...Bette Nesmith Graham, mother of Monkee
in an “alien” language which doesn’t appear to Mike Nesmith invented Liquid Paper in the
exist. 1950s.
But now a computer scientist says the
mysterious document is actually written in ...Jack Johnson, the first African American and
ancient Hebrew and he knows how to decipher heavyweight boxing champion, invented the
the riddle, reports The Sun. common household wrench.
For years many thought the text
contained a prophecy or the key to eternal life or William Blackstone of Indiana invented the
that the language belonged to aliens. washing machine in 1874 as a birthday gift for
ut using artificial intelligence, Professor his wife.
Greg Kondrak from the University of Alberta
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out a little of what was being said. www.rel-mar.com/didyouknow
And according to his team’s research,
the first complete sentence reads: “She made
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The code involves shuffling the order of
letters in each word and dropping the vowels.
Yet despite the breakthrough, the book
remains untranslated, and a small band of
ancient Hebrew experts will have to help
translate the whole text before its true meaning
is unlocked.
The Voynich Manuscript is slightly
bigger than a paperback.
It has 240 pages and is written in brown
ink, punctuated by rich, wild illustrations.
Carbon dating has found it was created
between 1404 and 1438.
Some think the manuscript, named after
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16 You Can Beat Cancer

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 UFO Disclosure Deserves Skepticism
Why The NY Times
Pentagon UFO Disclosures
Deserve More Skepticism
By Andrew Whalen
On Saturday, The New York Times ran a
bedazzling exposé on a secret Defense
Department program that funneled money to a
hotel billionaire to research this century’s most
compelling UFO evidence. "Glowing Auras and
‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious
U.F.O. Program” is headed by a mind-melting
video of an unknown object tracked by a Navy
fighter pilot, just the first of several blockbuster
revelations, like a Las Vegas facility where
government contractors store “metal alloys and
other materials… recovered from unidentified
aerial phenomena.” But left unexplored are the
confounding motives for the secretive public-
private UFO program and background on
sources whose claims warrant a level of scrutiny
not evident in the reporting.
The New York Times reports that $22
million, masked as “black money” within the
Defense Department’s $600 billion budget,
went to a Pentagon program called the
Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification
Program, which investigated UFO
(Unidentified Flying Objects) reports. Evidence
claimed by former military intelligence official
Luis Elizondo, who ran the program, include
high velocity craft with “no visible signs of
propulsion,” anomalous materials and video
recordings, complete with chilling audio from
baffled pilots with movie-ready lines like
“There’s a whole fleet of them.”
The program, originally greenlit by
Nevada senator Harry Reid in 2007, either
ended in 2012 or is ongoing. Despite the
Pentagon-centered framing, the Times story
reveals most of the money went to Bigelow
Aerospace, which “hired subcontractors and
solicited research for the program.”
Bigelow Aerospace is owned by Robert
Bigelow, described as a “billionaire
entrepreneur and longtime friend of Mr.
Reid’s.” Bigelow has donated tens of thousands
to Reid and Searchlight Leadership Fund,
Reid’s Political Action Committee, and the
complete absence of their financial relationship
from the Times story neatly excises an alternate
interpretation of the Pentagon program as
essentially a pass-through for public money to
fund a billionaire donor’s pet project, making
the program’s secrecy as much about its
political unseemliness as its explosive evidence.
Even more damning than the
unmentioned possibility of corruption is one of
the story’s sources: Harold E. Puthoff.
Describing Puthoff as “an engineer who has
conducted research on extrasensory perception
for the C.I.A. and later worked as a contractor”
for Bigelow’s program doesn’t come close to
approaching the level of skepticism Puthoff’s
contribution to the story warrants. A former
Scientologist who used L. Ron Hubbard’s e-
meter to search chicken eggs for psychic
sensitivity, Puthoff conducted ludicrously
flawed, military-funded studies into “remote
viewing” (“seeing” distant targets with the mind
17
like, say, Soviet military installations), got our species.”
duped by psychic fraud Uri Geller and has since Now that it’s been revealed that
been a major proponent of pseudoscientific Bigelow’s secret-hoarding has the backing of
zero-point energy. If Puthoff is indicative of the powerful senators and government money, it’s
caliber of researchers brought aboard by more important than ever that UFO disclosure
Bigelow, then there’s likely to be far less step out from the cover of anonymous sources
substance to the program’s findings than its and incomplete information to become the
most sensational claims suggest. rightful knowledge of the democratic citizenry
Even the video, with its mysterious, bankrolling Bigelow’s investigation. []
barrel-rolling craft, might soon reveal some
obvious flaws. Reporter Leslie Kean (one of the
three sharing the NYT byline), author of UFOs:
Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go
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on the Record, has been instrumental in by
bringing similarly enigmatic military footage to
the public’s attention, including a video released Rob McConnell
by the Chilean government at the beginning of
2017. Kean’s reporting on that sighting
dismissed or downplayed convincing
explanations provided by independent
investigators, focusing as much on the
legitimacy of their venue as their conclusions. A
similar debunking of the Times' new footage is
complicated by the Defense Department's
refusal to share the date and location of the
sighting.
There is no smoking gun that disproves
the existence of scientist-stumping UFO
materials or provides a mundane explanation for
extraordinary UFO sighting footage, but there
are more than enough unspoken assumptions,
unannounced motives and dubious sources
present in the NYT’s report to justify far more
skepticism. And while it’s not ideal countering
big revelations with little more than insinuations
of untrustworthiness, it’s the only option made Thousands of
available by the outsized secrecy surrounding Facts and Trivia
the privatization of UFO research.
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appearance during which he said “There has
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presence” on or around Earth: Limited To The Media Is
“Bigelow should make a choice between
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burning sources or leaking classified To You!
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Earth the most important truth in the history of
 18 The Man Who Created Bigfoot
The Man Who Created
Bigfoot
Leah Sottile
Bob Gimlin was a small town cowboy when
his friend coaxed him into hunting the famous
mythical creature 50 years ago. Today, as the
legend of Bigfoot has grown, Gimlin is viewed
by the community of believers around the
country as something of a prophet.
For weeks in the fall of 1967 the cowboys rode
from sunrise to sunset in search of the creature
no one had ever captured on film. Two rodeo
men from Washington’s apple country, they’d
traveled to Northern California’s thick forest.
They’d read headlines of unidentifiable
footprints. The smaller cowboy was driven by a
long obsession with the mythic beast known as
Bigfoot; the other liked to see things for himself.
One late October afternoon near Bluff
Creek, the men trundled on horseback, half a
day’s ride from the nearest signs of civilization.
The sun shone bright, lighting the leaves all
around them in a grand finale of orange and red
and yellow. Roger Patterson rode in front,
pausing his quarter horse to point his lens
toward the leaves, the film chattering inside his
rented 16mm Cine Kodak camera. When he
finished, he tucked the camera into his
saddlebag, leaving the leather flap open.
Bob Gimlin brought up the rear. He rode
a quarter horse, leading a pony loaded with
supplies behind him.* Patterson navigated
around a bend where a large tree had fallen and
jammed up the nearby creek—its root system
upturned and exposed, like blind fingers
reaching for an anchor.
The horses saw it first. Patterson’s
reared, kicking and protesting, then Gimlin’s.
Less than 100 feet away, the men saw why: a
hulking gorilla-like figure covered in dark hair
hurried on two legs along the creekbed. Its
sloped head and torso were pushed forward, its
upper back hunched, thigh muscles rippling,
long arms swinging, breasts exposed.
Patterson scrambled off his spooked
animal, holding its reins just long enough to
reach inside his saddlebag for the camera.
Gimlin, a cowboy famous through the Yakima
Valley for taming wild colts and running in
breakneck “suicide races” (in which riders
careen down steep slopes), dropped the
packhorse’s rope and gripped the reins of his
frightened pony to steady it.
Patterson scrambled across the uneven
ground, waving the camera in one hand, the film
blurry as he ran. He stopped to crouch and
steady himself, then trained the lens on the
strange figure, the camera shaking from his
breathing. “Bob! Cover me!” he yelled over his
shoulder to Gimlin, who rode toward the creek,
dismounting his horse and drawing his rifle.
The picture steadied as the creature, mid-
stride, turned to look over its right shoulder—
just a glance—before it disappeared into the
forest. A skunky, rank odor hung heavy in the
air. The whole affair was over in less than a
minute.
The final 59.5-second film, which the
men would airmail back home to be developed,
would soon become the world-famous
Patterson-Gimlin film—arguably one of the
most scrutinized pieces of video footage ever
made. It is the cryptozoological equivalent to the
Kennedy assassination’s Zapruder film. The
film met immediate criticisms accusing
Patterson and Gimlin of being master pranksters
who simply filmed a man in an ape suit and laid
fake footprints in the mud.
The film tore Patterson’s and Gimlin’s
friendship apart. Patterson partnered with his
brother-in-law, Al DeAtley, to take the film on a
national tour as a way to raise funds for a full-
fledged expedition back at Bluff Creek. The
three took equal shares in the film, but soon
Gimlin felt edged out, and sold his share of the
rights for less than $10 to another Bigfoot
researcher.
After five years estranged, Patterson and
Gimlin made amends in 1972 as Patterson lay on
his deathbed, dying of cancer at age 38.
Patterson apologized for ousting Gimlin,
pleading with him that when he recovered that
they would go back to California and catch
Bigfoot. He died the next day.
More than 40 years later, the film has
never been conclusively debunked. It has
withstood scrutiny from scientists, forensic
analysts, Hollywood special effects experts, and
costume designers. No one can quite explain
it—except those who believe in folklore. In that
time, Bigfoot has evolved into a full-fledged
American myth, propagated by a national
congregation of believers who regard Gimlin as
a kind of prophet.
“Meeting Bob Gimlin, to a Bigfooter, is
like meeting the President of the United States to
an American,” says Cindy Rose Caddell, a
researcher and author. “Or what meeting the
Pope is to a Catholic.”
The 84-year-old cowboy wore a black
cattleman’s hat and sunglasses, an off-white coat
with “Bob” embroidered in blue thread at the
chest. His boots stated their intentions across the
tile entryway of a roadside diner in Union Gap,
in central Washington, pausing as he held the
door for an elderly woman in a pink jacket.
“Come on in, young lady,” he said, his
baritone voice all campfire smoke and truck
engines. Bob Gimlin wears big hats and big belt
buckles and drives a big pickup. He talks slow
with a heavy drawl and seems to find a way to
turn almost any conversation toward horses.
In a booth with vinyl seats, Gimlin
ordered coffee and dumped in two creams, and
told the waitress he wouldn’t be eating. For the
next six hours, he told his story: who he was
before he saw Bigfoot, who he became after, and
why he stayed quiet for four decades after the
film’s debut.
Before he had ever heard of Bigfoot,
Gimlin had led the life of a man who feared
nothing, who thrived on dares and several times
cheated death. The first time was at age seven
when his appendix burst. He missed a year of
school as he recovered in the Ozark mountains
cabin in Missouri where he was born.
In 1940, the promise of sprawling green
ranchlands and orchards set against the towering
Cascades pulled his farmer father and mother
westward.** In Washington, Gimlin roped wild
horses with native boys on the nearby Yakima
Reservation, crawling onto their backs and
hanging on for dear life. “I was ready to ride,”
he says. “Even at a very young age I wanted to
ride anything that bucked, jumped, moved, run,
or whatever.” He became a natural rodeo man:
quick to bounce back, never letting a cast or a
sling keep him from a horse. He raced caravans
and chariots through mountain passes, hurtled
down cliffsides. He gained a reputation as a
daredevil (though he declined Evel Knievel’s
offer to join him in for-profit “daredevilin’”).
At age 18, Gimlin joined the Army
reserves; later he enlisted in the Navy. After two
tours in the Korean War, he and three other
sailors were in a car accident that left one dead
when the driver smashed into a power pole. His
head slammed into the dash and the motor of the
car pinned his body in the vehicle. “I lost half
my face,” he says. Gimlin underwent several
plastic surgeries to repair his nose. He spent two
years recovering in a hospital in California.
Once he received his discharge papers, Gimlin
headed back home to Yakima.
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Life, for Gimlin, continued on a normal
course: he married, had children, divorced, then
married “the sassiest thing I’d ever met”—his
wife of 52 years, Judy. In 1967, Gimlin, then 35,
was scraping together a living driving trucks,
roofing, and riding and taming horses. There
was nothing significant about the day he pulled
into a Union Gap service station and ran into his
old rodeo pal, Roger Patterson.
Patterson was recovering from a bout
with cancer. As they spoke, Patterson told
Gimlin of his interest in supposed Bigfoot
sightings. “He said, ‘Let me show you
something,’” Gimlin recalls. “He went over to
the truck and brought out a plaster cast of a big
foot.” Patterson asked Gimlin if he would be
interested in searching Mount St. Helens on
horseback with him for evidence of a Bigfoot. “I
said, ‘Roger, I just don’t have time.’”
By the late 1960s, Bigfoot had been
tromping through Northwestern lore for
hundreds of years. Several Native American
tribes tell of looming, furry beasts reeking of
scorched hair who stole trout from fishermen. In
the early 20th century, newspaper articles
reporting sightings read like spooky stories to
tell around a campfire. In one such report, from
1924, a clan of rock-throwing ape-men
ambushed a group of miners on Mt. St. Helens.
The place is now called Ape Canyon. (Skeptics
said the beasts were just YMCA campers
playing a prank.) Ivan Sanderson’s 1961 book,
Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life,
read like the stuff of a B movie.
But there were few opportunities for
Patterson to commune with other believers. So
he talked to Gimlin: the men formed a bond,
riding horses through Washington’s
backcountry. Patterson continued to regale
Gimlin with Bigfoot lore, playing him recorded
testimonies of real-life encounters and lending
him books on the topic, despite Gimlin’s
insistence that he did not care. (Patterson self-
published a book in 1966, titled Do Abominable
Snowmen of America Really Exist?)
Then, in August 1967, Patterson told
Gimlin about a logging road construction crew
spotting tracks and having their equipment
inexplicably disassembled deep in the Six
Rivers National Forest. He begged Gimlin to
drive the two men and their horses to Northern
California to search. Gimlin was skeptical that
anything existed, but he was intrigued, and he
wasn’t the sort of man to turn away from a good
adventure. “I wanted to see these footprints that
these people talked about,” he says.
The film the men produced gave the
murky myth shape: suddenly, Bigfoot was
manifested in flesh and blood. It had a loping
gait and, with the twist of its torso, it looked
over its shoulder before disappearing again into
the wilderness. It even had a name: Patty.
Patty, arguably, created the Bigfoot
industry. Today, the apelike figure—frozen in its
signature turn—adorns car air fresheners and
infant onesies that read, “Believe.” It looks back
from coffee cups, Christmas ornaments, guitar
picks, and Band Aids. There’s a Patty-shaped
Chia Pet. Bigfoot even has a home on reality
TV: Animal Planet launched Finding Bigfoot in
2011, starring Washington’s Bigfoot Field
Researchers Organization (BFRO). BFRO
members lead guided backwoods expeditions—
with a price tag of up to $500—throughout the
U.S. where participants scour the forests for a
look at the fabled beast.
But looking back on the trip today,
Gimlin wishes he’d said no. That he’d turned
away from Patterson that day at the service
station and never looked back.
That trip to California changed him.
“It ruined me.”
By 1972, Patterson had died. Gimlin
alone faced the scourge of detractors that were
emerging around the country—some even
confronted he and his wife in their hometown.
Yakima was the place where Gimlin had
become known for his fearlessness and strength,
and suddenly he was a seen as crazy. His word,
his handshake—currency around this part of the
state—was in doubt.
“My wife was a teller at a savings and
loan institution. Of course, she was sitting right
there and the public would come in and make
smart remarks,” Gimlin says. “This went on and
on and on until she come home crying. She’d
say, ‘I’m not tough enough.’ A couple times we
were going to split up over this.”
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Some nights, cars would screech by the

Gimlins’ house. “They’d come driving in my
driveway all times of the night and go ‘Bob! We
want to go out Bigfoot hunting!’” he says.
They’d speed away before he could run outside.
The couple felt isolated, and Gimlin
found himself for the first time in the
predicament that came to define his life for
decades: if he acknowledged that he saw
Bigfoot, he was the town loon; if he stayed
quiet, people assumed he was lying.
“I can understand why they don’t believe
in it—because I didn’t believe it either,” Gimlin
recalls telling John Green, a prominent
Canadian Bigfoot researcher, on a phone call
during this period. “But I saw one. And I know
what I saw. And I know it wasn’t a man in a suit.
It couldn’t have been!”
In 1968, the year after Patterson and
Gimlin returned, the Gimlins swore to never
speak of Bigfoot again. But the video was out,
and Gimlin was—and remains—stuck to the
center of the debate, anchored like the sun in a
growing solar system with believers and
skeptics orbiting around him.
Reports of sightings filtered in from all
over the Northwest. Bigfoot was traipsing
through lush coastal woods and rocky
mountainsides in Oregon. Its glowing red eyes
peered from the understory in Olympic National
Forest in Washington. It stalked the Dark
Divide, the massive roadless area between
Mount St. Helens and Mount Adams. It ran
across a road near Vancouver. It left footprints in
the snow outside Walla Walla.
Believers cropped up in Texas and Ohio,
then as far afield as New York, Georgia, and
Florida. In the past 40 years, people have confess?” Long wrote. with kinfolk. Together they can be “out” about
produced supposed Bigfoot hairs, DNA tests, “I’m going to be blunt with you,” Long their beliefs.
footprints, and piles of scat—not to mention the said recently over the phone. “I consider Bob Gimlin first appeared at a convention in
countless photographs and video clips (most of Gimlin a liar. I think he’s a con artist.” California in 2003. Through his years of silence,
which have turned out to be hoaxes)—as But Long’s arguments seem just as Gimlin maintained contact with several
scientific evidence of the creature’s existence. flimsy as believers’ proof. His book is filled with prominent Bigfoot aficionados, including Swiss
To many, the notion of “belief” is irrelevant circumstantial evidence: a costume maker researcher Rene Dahinden and a Russian author
among the myriad stories, sightings, and named Philip Morris in the early 2000s said he named Dmitri Bayonov. After years of urging
artifacts. sold Patterson the suit but couldn’t provide any Gimlin to come to Russia to speak about the
“No, I don't believe in Bigfoot,” says Jeff evidence of the sale; a Yakima man named Bob film, Bayonov arranged to come to America.
Meldrum, an anthropology and anatomy Hieronimus said he was the one that wore it. With Green’s help, the pair convinced Gimlin to
professor at Idaho State University who is one of Neither claim is backed by concrete proof. attend the Willow Creek International Bigfoot
the foremost experts on foot morphology in the “‘They can’t exist, therefore they don’t Symposium: an event that promised to bring all
world. He was 11 years old in 1968 when he exist,’” is the message Meldrum has received the biggest scientific names into one room
watched Patterson-Gimlin’s Bigfoot walk across from skeptics, he says. “That was the actual (including Jane Goodall, a primatologist and
the screen at the Spokane Coliseum in Eastern retort hurled at me by an anthropology Bigfoot believer, who canceled her appearance
Washington. Today, he’s the keeper of the largest colleague.” last minute) in the very same area where
archive of Bigfoot footprint casts and author of With Bigfoot having grown into an Patterson and Gimlin made their film decades
the book Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science. industry, Long says there’s no reason to believe before.
“Belief usually connotes a position of faith, a anyone invested in the debate is telling the truth. To Gimlin, walking into the conference
conviction held in the absence of evidence,” “They need it to be real,” he says. The people was like entering a church. “It’s not a fairy tale
Meldrum says. “I, for one, am convinced by the who truly believe and search, he adds, “are to them. It’s serious business,” he says. “When I
evidence I have studied at length.” driven emotionally, I believe, to find Bigfoot.” met those people down there, they accepted me
Cynics, however, don’t just question the In the face of skepticism and mockery, a with what you call open arms.”
“evidence,” they question Patterson’s and large community of believers views Gimlin as There, Gimlin spoke of Bigfoot for the
Gimlin’s credibility. In 2004, Greg Long, author the original seer: the man who witnessed the first time in years. “There wasn’t a sound in the
of one of the most oft-cited pieces of skepticism unthinkable, who lived to tell the tale, and who room while I was talking,” he says. “I thought,
about the Patterson-Gimlin Film—a book called has been harassed for what he swore was real. ‘I can’t really believe this. This is almost like
The Making of Bigfoot—taunted Gimlin from These people congregate at Bigfoot conventions seeing Bigfoot.’ God, I felt like I was 10 feet
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The Man Who Created
Bigfoot
Continued from Page 21
When he finished, the room rose to its
feet.
“They just stood up and applauded and
applauded,” Gimlin says. “I thought, ‘Why have
I gone 35 years through a bunch of ridicule?’”
Gimlin appears at conventions across the
country. He signs shirts and plaster foot casts,
tells and retells the story of he and Patterson’s
encounter. He is no stranger to standing
ovations.
“They want to talk to me, they want to
tell me about their experience,” he says. “This
turned my whole life around.”
At home in Central Washington,
however, Gimlin is no celebrity. When I visited
him this past spring, we took a drive through
Wapato, just south of Yakima, to see the house
where he grew up, only to find a field of weeds
where it once stood. His high school is gone,
too. Panaderias and taquerias dot the streets he
once knew. As he idled on one street, people on
the sidewalk turned to look at the cowboy in his
truck, staring at him as if he’d just dropped in
from outer space.
Gimlin’s days are typical retired-rancher
stuff: he wakes at 5 a.m. every morning on his
modest 1,500-square-foot home that sits on two
acres in town. He leases land around the Yakima
area where he grazes his seven horses. He mows
his pastures on a riding mower and tends to his
garden of cucumbers and tomatoes. At night he
watches UFC fights. He’s a member of several
local equestrian clubs.
Three days a week, Gimlin drives his
black pickup—one with a Bigfoot sticker in a
tinted back window and Bigfoot air freshener
tucked into a cup holder—into town for physical
therapy. In the 1990s, Gimlin was bucked off a
horse and told by a doctor he’d never ride again.
“I proved I could do it,” he says. But then, in the
early 2000s, he went sailing off another horse.
He had his bicep removed from his left arm and
nearly lost all ability to use it. He lifts light
dumbbells now, an attempt to regain some
feeling.
Every couple of months, he travels to
address another congregation of the faithful.
People of every age and shape packed inside a
Portland beerhall on a Friday night this past
January to see Gimlin speak. He told the story
he’s told a hundred times before, from the
beginning: bumping into Patterson at the service
station; the bright fall leaves; the creature
glancing over its shoulder; the conversation at
Patterson’s bedside hours before he died.
Afterwards, Gimlin stuck around to take
pictures and sign autographs. A boy in a red
plaid shirt and a cowboy hat holding a 16mm
Cine Kodak camera—like the one used to shoot
the Patterson-Gimlin film—and a plaster
footprint cast approached him for a photo.
A few months later, while doing research
for this article, I absentmindedly search
“#pattersongimlin” on Instagram. A familiar
face pops up on my screen. It’s that boy in the
cowboy hat from January who got a photo with
his hero, Bob Gimlin.
The boy’s account is practically devoted
to Bigfoot. There are photos from the Portland
event, old pictures of Roger Patterson, shots of
book covers adorned with furry beasts and more
of giant foot casts on his bedroom carpet.
It’s just one small example of Gimlin’s
outsized impact on American lore. The Internet
has exposed people to the Patterson’s and
Gimlin’s journey in ways unimaginable to
Gimlin, and continues to enchant new
generations of believers. Whether or not any of
the stories are true, Bigfoot is alive and well. In
large part, that’s because Gimlin, the non-
believer, an unlikely champion of the myth,
helped catch a glimpse of it on film.
In one post, the boy splits the frame in
thirds, filling each with photos of Roger
Patterson’s gravestone. “We never forget he was
our Bigfoot hunter,” he writes. A portion of
another caption reads: “I met Bob Gimlin…it
was a best day ever #bobgimlin.” []
‘Paranormal’ investigator
Nickell to headline next
Science & Art Cabaret
www.buffalo.edu
Buffalo's Science & Art Cabaret will feature a
single speaker at its next event on Feb. 7:
paranormal investigator Joe Nickell, a senior
research fellow of the Amherst-based
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a former
stage magician and private detective.
Utilizing his eclectic background,
Nickell has become widely known as an
investigator of myths and mysteries, frauds,
forgeries and hoaxes.
At the cabaret, Nickell will give a talk
that provides a revealing and entertaining look at
such mysterious phenomena as the ghost at the
Mackenzie House in Toronto and cases of
alleged spontaneous human combustion from
the speaker’s own case files — all examined
from the scientific point of view.
The event, “Investigating ‘Paranormal’
Mysteries,” will begin at 7 p.m. at The 9th Ward
at Babeville, 341 Delaware Ave., Buffalo.
Admission is free and there will be a cash bar.
The Science & Art Cabaret is presented by
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, the
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Buffalo Museum of Science, the Technē
Institute for Arts and Emerging Technologies at
UB, and the UB College of Arts and Sciences.
The event series acts as an ongoing
conversation about endless topics across all
disciplines, typically bringing together artists
and scientists to discuss how their work
illuminates a common theme. The series’
underlying premise is that intellectual pursuits
that appear distinct actually cross paths far more
often than presumed and share spheres of
interest and meaning.
The cabaret was launched in October
2009 by Gary Nickard, UB clinical associate
professor of art; Will Kinney, UB physics
professor; and John Massier, visual arts curator
at Hallwalls, out of their collective interest in
art, science, critical thinking and creativity.
In true cabaret fashion, Nickell’s
presentation will highlight the art and craft of
critical thinking as applied to areas of
investigation and research that are both dramatic
and hyperbolic.
As Massier says, “Joe Nickell’s
investigative and research pedigree is broad and
gigantic, and his knowledge of the field
extremely deep. We know his presentation will
give great clarity to the tools of critical thinking
and skepticism as used in considering subjects
many often take at face value or believe in too
readily.
“Our cabaret has always had an ongoing
theme of the value of critical thinking, and we
know Joe’s experiences and insight will give
great texture to this theme,” he says. “It should
be a telling cue to our audience that Joe has
placed the word ‘paranormal’ within quotations
marks. True believers may have their belief
systems challenged.”
To date, the cabaret has presented dozens
of subjects and speakers across many fields,
with such themes as “The Man Machine,”
“Modularity,” “Nothing,” “Love Yer Brain,”
“Color” and “Are We Special?” A full listing of
past cabaret events can be found online.
The cabaret will return to its usual multi-
speaker format for its next planned event on
March 28, which is expected to tackle the theme
of “Death.” []
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10 Famous Paranormal
Hoaxes
by Dave Roos
In the immortal words of Homer Simpson,
"Marge, it takes two to lie; one to lie and one to
listen."
Some of the greatest hoaxes in the
history of the world started out as one small lie.
If no one had believed the lie, then it would
have fizzled out. But great hoaxes require great
numbers of gullible people willing to suspend
disbelief in the face of the inexplicable.
If the following 10 hoaxes prove
anything, it is to never underestimate a human
being's capacity for self-deception. Particularly
in times of great struggle and darkness, we
desperately want to believe in something
beyond the rational. There must be something
out there that can make sense of the randomness
of existence, be it witches, aliens, ghosts or
dinosaur holdouts living in the depths of a
Scottish lake.
Keep reading as we travel back through
the centuries to debunk some of the most
outrageous, contagious and enduring hoaxes
ever inflicted on our collective common sense.
10. The Fox Sisters
On the night of March 31, 1848 -- April Fool's
Eve -- 14-year-old Maggie Fox and her 11-year-
old sister Kate reported a recurring mysterious
phenomenon in their bedroom. Every night, as
the two went to sleep in their clapboard
farmhouse, they would hear a strange knocking
sound coming from the walls. Even stranger, the
knocking seemed to respond to their questions.
"If you are an injured spirit, manifest it
by three raps," inquired the girls' mother
[source: Abbott]. Knock, knock, knock. The veil
dividing the spirit world and the living had been
breached!
News of the Fox sisters' wall-rapping
spirit spread like wildfire through the spiritually
flammable counties of upstate New York, also
the birthplace of Mormonism and Millerism
(later Seventh Day Adventism) [source:
Abbott]. Spiritualism promised a new kind of
religious experience, in which believers could
receive specific guidance about their lives from
those with secret knowledge from the great
beyond.
Eventually, the Fox sisters brought their
hugely popular séances to New York City,
drawing huge crowds. Their routine evolved
from simple knocking and rapping to
conversations with deceased relatives and secret
messages magically appearing on blank cards.
Despite their fame -- or more likely
because of it -- the sisters suffered from troubled
relationships, psychological breakdowns and
alcoholism. In her 50s, Maggie delivered a
public confession of their long-drawn hoax,
which started as a harmless childhood prank. At
bedtime, they would tie an apple on a string and
move it up and down, causing the apple to bump
on the floor. The sisters later developed the
ability to manipulate their knuckles and toes to
produce a popping sound [source: Abbott].
9. The Amityville Horror
The truth of what really happened in the sleepy
village of Amityville, New York, in the fall of
1974 is far more disturbing than the paranormal
tall tales that made "The Amityville Horror" a
household name.
Twenty-three-year-old Ronald "Butch"
DeFeo calmly and methodically shot his two
parents and four younger siblings in their beds.
He quickly confessed under police
interrogation, claiming that "voices in the
house" told him to do it. He was sentenced to
six consecutive life terms after his insanity plea
was thrown out [source: Bovsun].
A year after the murders, the Lutz family
-- George, Kathy and their three young children
-- moved in to the infamous three-story Dutch
Colonial where "Butch" had butchered his loved
ones. As a precaution, they hired a priest to
perform an exorcism. The priest reported a
voice in the house growling "Get out!" and then
his hands started to bleed.
Undeterred, the Lutz family spent a
harrowing month in the Amityville house,
plagued by unexplained chills, gobs of slime on
the floor, and even Mrs. Lutz levitating over her
bed [source: ABC News].
The Lutz family fled the house,
eventually moving to California where the
parents collaborated with a writer on the best-
selling novel "The Amityville Horror," a
generously fictionalized account of the family's
28-day ordeal [source: Bovsun].
The book's wild popularity spawned
several Hollywood films and a dozen more
books.
DeFeo's own lawyer says he and the
Lutzes made up most of the story after
consuming several bottles of wine. Indeed, no
one who has lived in the house since then (it's
still privately owned in 2015) has reported any
paranormal activity [source: ABC News].
8. Alien Autopsy
In 1995, the Fox television network aired a
special called "Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?"
which became a surprise ratings bonanza and a
pop culture phenomenon, catapulting the topic
of UFOs back into the national conversation.
Capitalizing on the popularity of its cult
hit "The X-Files," Fox bought 17 minutes of
grainy footage from British TV producer Ray
Santilli claiming to record a secret U.S. military
autopsy of an alien life-form recovered from a
UFO crash site near Roswell, New Mexico.
The footage, reportedly bought from a
retired military cameraman, shows the bloodied
corpse of a hairless, large-headed alien with
reptilian eyes being roughly dissected by a team
of doctors in protective surgical gear. The shaky
camerawork and blurred close-ups lend a sense
of realism to the footage while making it
exceptionally difficult to get a good look at the
creature or its gooey innards.
Although most TV viewers immediately
dismissed the footage as fake -- the light,
rubbery "flesh" of the alien was hard to ignore -
- producer Santilli vouched for its authenticity.
At least until 2006, when Santilli began
promoting a second "Alien Autopsy" film, this
one a mockumentary about the filming of the
original.
In press interviews, Santilli confessed
the "truth," that the original footage was
irreparably damaged during transport from the
U.S. to England, and that he hired a team of
special effects artists and actors to "restore" the
lost footage for the special [source: Barton].
Good one, Ray.
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7. 'Surgeon's Photo' of the Loch Ness
Monster
The legend of the Loch Ness monster has
captivated northern Scotland for over 1,500
years. Carvings of a flippered beast with an
elongated head are etched into the ancient
standing stones near the massive lake south of
Inverness [source: Lyons].
However, the hunt for "Nessie" reached
a fever pitch in the 1930s, when a newspaper
report of an "an enormous animal rolling and
plunging on the surface" prompted thousands of
tourists to flood the area hoping to catch a
glimpse of the Jurassic beast.
The most famous photographic "proof"
of the Loch Ness monster is a blurry 1934
image known as the "surgeon's photo." The
iconic image, supposedly snapped by respected
doctor R. Kenneth Wilson, shows the shadowy
profile of a creature, its long neck outstretched
above the water. The powerful image served as
de facto proof of the mythical animal's existence
since its original publication in London's Daily
Mail.
Not until 1994 did a series of revelations
bring the real story behind the "surgeon's photo"
to light. The creature was in fact a model built
atop a toy submarine, part of an elaborate hoax
perpetrated by a big-game hunter named
Marmaduke Wetherell [source: Lyons].
Wetherell held a grudge against the Mail, which
had hired him in 1933 to track down the
Scottish monster. He was publically humiliated
when he mistook phony hippo tracks for
Nessie's footprints.
Wetherell's 93-year-old step-son
confessed to building the makeshift model for
his father, who was able to convince the
otherwise honorable Dr. Wilson to deliver the
photo to the newspaper [source: Lyons].
6. The Case of the Accidental Time
Traveler
One night in 1950, a strange figure appeared in
the middle of a traffic-clogged intersection in
New York City's famous Times Square. He
wore a high silk hat, a tight coat and vest, and
boasted an admirable set of thick mutton-chop
sideburns.
Witnesses said the man looked startled,
gawking at his surroundings as if he'd never
seen a car or traffic lights before. He bolted for
the curb, directly in the path of a yellow cab,
which killed him instantly.
When the police searched the mystery
man's pockets, they found 19th century
currency, a bill for the "feeding and stabling of
one horse," and a business card for Rudolph
Fentz on Fifth Ave. Tracking down the address,
they found an old woman, who confirmed that
Rudolph Fentz was in fact her father-in-law, a
man who had mysteriously disappeared in 1876
[source: Aubeck].
Such is the story of Rudolph Fentz, the
accidental time traveler. For decades,
paranormalists across Europe have pointed to
Fentz's miraculous appearance -- a 19th-century
man in 20th-century Times Square -- as proof of
the existence of time travel.
But the true origin of the Fentz legend
was a short story published in Collier's
magazine in 1951 by science-fiction writer Jack
Finney. The tale was republished in a
paranormal journal two years later without
attribution to Finney and presented as fact
[source: Aubeck]. From there, the case of the
accidental time traveler took on a life of its own.
5. British Crop Circles
In the 1980s, a series of increasingly intricate
patterns emerged in the barley and wheat fields
of surprised farmers in Wiltshire, England.
Dubbed "crop circles," the breathtaking,
unexplained formations drew crowds of
gawking tourists and intense speculation about
their origin.
Cerelologists -- as serious crop circle
junkies are known -- hypothesized that the
circles, which always appeared overnight, were
either landing pads for alien spacecraft, coded
messages from a higher intelligence or symbols
downloaded psychokinetically from the
collective subconscious [source: Jenkins]. It
helps that Wiltshire is also home to Stonehenge,
the original alien art project.
Only Doug Bower and Dave Chorley
knew the real story. The drinking buddies and
part-time watercolor artists had been making the
crop circles by hand -- or by foot, mostly --
since the late 1970s. Fueled by too many pints
and a conversation about UFOs, the duo snuck
into a farmer's field and stomped out a circular
pattern with iron rods, a flat wooden board and
some rope [source: Jenkins]. The rest is history.
It wasn't until 1991 that Bower and
Chorley confessed their role in the artistic hoax,
which by then had grown to include legions of
unaffiliated circlemakers across England and
around the world [source: Schmidt]. The
cerelology community took the news in stride,
admitting the possibility that many of the circles
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were man-made, but ardently defending the
most elaborate and beautiful circles as
indisputably otherworldly creations.
4. The Feejee Mermaid
P.T. Barnum may or may not have uttered the
infamous phrase, "There's a sucker born every
minute," but he certainly lived it. Barnum was
the perhaps the best-known Victorian-era
huckster to enthrall the public with outrageous
specimens of odder-than-life humans and
mythical creatures.
One of Barnum's earliest sensations was
the so-called "Feejee Mermaid," purported to be
the preserved remains of a real-life mermaid
captured in the Bay of Bengal. In 1842, Barnum
displayed the creature in his American Museum
on Broadway in New York City, where it drew
crowds of onlookers [source: Ringling Bros.].
The Peabody Museum of Archeology
and Ethnology at Harvard University got its
hands on a specimen called the Java Mermaid in
1897; it's thought to be the "Feejee Mermaid"
[source: Early].
The museum staff tracked down the true
origin of the shriveled, 16-inch (40-centimeter)
creature, which is not simply a monkey head
stitched to a fish body, as many had speculated.
It turned out to be a souvenir handicraft made
by Southeast Asian fishermen and sold to
tourists as a little mermaid. The body parts are a
mix of paper-mâché and fish bones and fins but
no monkey skulls [source: Early].
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3. The Salem Witches

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2. The Shroud of Turin
Many faithful believers exalt the Shroud of
Turin as the very same "clean linen cloth" in
which the crucified Jesus Christ was wrapped
before rising on the third day from his tomb.
The yellowed piece of cloth, roughly 14 feet by
4 feet, (4 by 1 meters) bears the faint, but
unmistakable imprint of a bearded man marked
with wounds consistent with that of crucifixion
[sources: Thurston, Squires].
The relic resides in the Cathedral of St.
John the Baptist in Turin, Italy. But centuries of
controversy have cast serious doubts on the
shroud's authenticity.
Catholic Church documents dating from
1389 show the presiding French bishop
petitioning the pope to put an end to the
"scandal" surrounding the shroud at Lirey,
France [source: Thurston]. The object was well-
known to be the work of a local artist, who
created it not as a hoax, but as part of an Easter
celebration. Once displayed, the adoring crowds
mistook it for the real thing, stained with the
very sweat and blood of the Savior. The relic
passed through several hands before arriving in
Turin in 1578 [source: Knapton].
Carbon dating has never successfully
linked the fibers of the cloth to the time of
Christ, although Italian scientists published a
new theory in 2014. Apparently, a powerful
earthquake in 33 C.E. could have released
enough radioactive emissions to not only
imprint the image of Christ on the cloth, but
alter the molecular structure of its fibers in such
a way as to produce incorrect carbon dating
results [source: Knapton].
Anything's possible.
1.The Cardiff Giant
Known as "America's Greatest Hoax," this 10-
foot (3-meter) tall stone statue of a "petrified"
ancient giant made its 19th-century creator,
George Hull, a very rich man.
Hull was a get-rich-quick schemer and a
proud atheist in a time of great religious fervor.
After an argument with a revivalist preacher
over the existence of giants as mentioned in the
book of Genesis, Hull conceived a devious plan
that would capitalize on the gullibility of the
public [source: Roadside America].
In 1868, Hull hired a Chicago
stonecutter to carve a massive hunk of gypsum
in Hull's own likeness [source: The Farmers'
Museum]. Hull then "aged" the stone with a
sulfuric acid and convinced a farmer in Cardiff,
New York, to secretly bury it in his backyard. A
year later, Hull had the farmer dig a well,
instructing the workmen to dig exactly where
the stone giant was buried.
The unearthing of the Cardiff Giant
caused a great sensation in upstate New York,
still a hotbed of spiritual excitement.
(Remember the Fox Sisters?) News of the
creature spread far and wide, inciting fierce
debate over the artifact's authenticity. Hull
fanned the fires of speculation, taking the giant
on tour and charging 50 cents for a peek. Rumor
has it he made $30,000, a fortune in the 1860s
[source: Roadside America].
You can still see the Cardiff Giant at The
Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown, New York.
Chicagoans and
University Psychologist
Speculate on 'Mothman'
by Tony Brooks
In 2017, 55 Chicago residents claimed to have
witnessed a humanoid creature flying over the
skyline of our city. It reportedly resembled a
“gothic gargoyle” and had glowing red eyes.
What they spotted, or think they spotted, is a
phenomenon of folklore 50 years in the making:
the Mothman.
The Mothman was first sighted in the
small West Virginia town of Point Pleasant in
1967, where dozens of residents claimed to
have seen the creature. The year-long mania
culminated in the collapse of the Silver Bridge,
a disaster which killed 46 people. In retrospect,
the Mothman was seen as a harbinger of the
collapse. Since then, the Mothman has been a
creature of interest to many, spawning a book,
movie, and numerous articles and
documentaries.
People are interested in the Mothman for
different reasons. David Gallo, a professor at
the University of Chicago, studies the
psychology behind these fantastic beliefs. He
has previously studied the cognitive function
and memories of people who claim to have had
contact with aliens.
“I’m not a paranormal researcher by any
stretch, and I’m not an expert in paranormal
phenomena,” he said. “It’s really more about
looking at the individual differences in
cognitive performances and how it might relate
to these beliefs.”
Gallo explained that once these
sightings begin, they often snowball as people
become more exposed to them.
“Now that there’s a lot of news being
released that’s capturing people’s attention, that
in itself is a cultural factor that might affect how
your mind interprets stimuli. You’re more likely
to see a Mothman now that you’ve thought
about one,” Gallo said.
Lon Strickler, a “Fortean researcher”
who has been tracking the Chicago sightings on
his blog, Phantoms and Monsters, has described
the Chicago Mothman as markedly different
from the one supposedly spotted in Point
Pleasant. “This group of sightings is historical
in cryptozoology terms,” Strickler said in an
interview with Vice. “For one, it’s happening in
an urban area for the most part and that there are
so many sightings in one period.”
The blog includes dozens, many
anonymous, firsthand accounts of the
Mothman. Some occurred on dark suburban
roads, while other reports have the creature
gliding above the Lincoln Park Zoo and the
Magnificent Mile in broad daylight.
“Upon closer look I was able to see the object
was dark grey in color and seemed to have a
large wing span,” one witness reported on the
website of the Singular Fortean Society. “It
started to drift up, but then dived down. It
ducked between buildings but then reappeared
on the other side. I was standing on Chicago
Ave. and Wabash Ave.”
In addition to the blog and the Fortean
Society’s website, there are several Facebook
groups dedicated to the creature, and multiple
articles have been written about the sightings.
Cultural factors are not the only thing at play,
though. The human mind might have evolved in
a way that makes us susceptible to fantastic
beliefs.
“The human mind is a pattern
completion device,” Gallo said. “Part of the
power of what the brain does is it makes its best
guess in terms of what you’re seeing, in terms of
what you’re predicting, in terms of what you
think you’re remembering. With those
predictive powers comes the opportunity for
error.”
“I’ll say this, I took my dog out for a
walk the other night, and I was a little creeped
thinking about all this Mothman stuff. It can’t
help but affect you, making you look twice in
dark corners and things once you’ve been
thinking about it.”
Some of Gallo’s research indicates that
those who believe in things like the Mothman
might process stimuli differently than those who
do not believe. Someone who is more intuitive
and less analytical might value different aspects
of experiences, making them more likely to
hold such beliefs. Gallo does not see this as a
problem.
“There’s a tendency for individuals who
are more scientifically minded to be very
skeptical, and to be perceived at least to be
disparaging towards people with these beliefs,
and I think that’s unfortunate,” Gallo said. “I
think we all hold fantastic beliefs of one kind or
another. I want to make sure we’re having a
respectful dialogue.” []
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 How Lying Works
How Lying Works
by Tom Scheve
When you're young, there's one lesson that gets
hammered into you more often than others: Tell
the truth. Tell the truth, you're told, and
everything will be OK. Then why does Mom
call her boss claiming to be sick when she's not,
and why does Dad say Mom's dress doesn't
make her look fat? The lesson didn't stick for
them when they were little, and it didn't stick
with you or me, either.
Lying isn't a sign of moral depravity
(except when it is). Lying is a sign of cognitive
advancement. It requires a fertile and high-
functioning brain to take something as simple as
the truth and twist it, palming off the deception
on someone else with the earnestness of a
choirboy.
The problem with the truth is that it
doesn't always serve our purposes, further our
careers or keep us out of trouble. When you can
take the route made of imagination, best-case
scenarios and wish fulfillment, you'd be nuts not
to take a deceitful stroll toward your goals,
right?
Younger children believe that they're
always being watched, and that Mom (or some
other authority figure) knows all. For this
reason, they're initially more inclined to tell the
truth. As they get a little older, they begin
experimenting with lies: The dog is blue, my
shirt is made of copper, the cookie told me so.
For the very young, lying is a series of cause-
and-effect experiments. When does a lie work?
What kind of lie? What is a believable lie? Is the
jig ever up, or should I keep lying until the truth
is just a vague memory for all parties?
Around age 2 or 3, children realize that
they're not under constant observation by an all-
knowing, all-seeing Eye of Truth. A typical 4-
year-old stretches the truth once every two
hours, while 6-year-olds will tell a whopper
every 90 minutes [source: Bronson]. They're
applying their earlier lie studies toward the
general goals of all truth-stretchers: gaining
advantage, staying out of trouble and "bigging"
themselves up in the eyes of others. As children
become older, they become more skilled at
deception. And they never really stop. Continue
reading to learn the truth, or something like it,
about lying.
The ability to lie is a cognitive
accomplishment. While we look down on the
practice from a moral and ethical point of view,
lying isn't normally done without a pretty good
motive. Lies are told for some of the following
reasons:
- To conceal misdeeds and stay out of
trouble. Wrongdoings often can't be undone,
and it's rare that owning up to a misdeed will
result in a positive outcome (at least in the short
term). These lies are told to avoid responsibility
and repercussions.
- To preserve reputation. A recovering
drug addict may lie about time spent in a
treatment facility, especially to a potential
employer or romantic prospect. A lie like this is
told to avoid shame or embarrassment.
- To avoid hurting someone's feelings.
Children learn early on to be polite, not to point
out physical flaws, and to say "thank you" even
after they receive something they don't like.
These "white lies" are distinguished from other
types because they carry no ill will or bad
intentions.
- To increase stature and reputation.
Some lies are told without any obvious external
stimulus, such as a demand for an answer to a
specific question. This type of lie is often
narcissistic in nature, told to make the liar seem
more accomplished, skilled or gifted as a means
of gaining favor in the eyes of others.
- To manipulate. These lies aren't
evasive or defensive, but rather aggressive and
malicious in nature. Such lies are told to gain
wealth, love, favor or other assets by damaging
another's reputation or spreading harmful
untruths.
- To control information. As opposed to
airing a falsehood, indirect lying is withholding
or concealing important facts. This is often seen
as a more acceptable form of lying, since a
person doesn't actively construct lies, but only
sits tightly on the truth. A missing piece of
information can completely alter the
understanding of an event, leading American
courts to demand not only the truth, but "the
whole truth."
Lies are told -- in some form or fashion
-- by just about everybody. Some personality
types, however, are more likely to lie than
others:
- pathological liars are generally
sociopathic, lack a clear sense of right and
wrong and show an absence of remorse when
harming others. Sociopaths tell some of the best
lies, since they don't feel bad about doing so and
don't show signs of guilt or worry. Sociopaths
lie for self-gain, and their lies veer heavily
toward manipulation.
- Compulsive liars lie as the first option,
even when there's no reason or advantage for
doing so. Childhood experiences, such as living
in an abusive environment where lying might be
necessary for survival or emotional well-being,
are often responsible for compulsive lying.
- Narcissists lie to gain undeserved glory
and esteem in the eyes of others.
- Borderline personalities experience
wild mood swings and out-of-control behaviors,
like drug abuse, gambling or promiscuous sex.
This type may tell lies in an effort to deal with
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the fallout from these behaviors.
- Histrionic personalities desperately
crave love and attention and will tell lies that,
though not accurate, may reflect the emotional
truth of the situation. "I'm so sick I could die,"
and "If you leave me, I'll kill myself," are two
examples of lies told by this type [source:
Goleman].
Next, we'll learn the signs of lying.
Signs of Deception
There is no single telltale sign of lying, but
rather a constellation of possible signs that may
"leak" from the liar during the act. We'll discuss
both verbal and nonverbal signs of lying in this
section.
First, we'll examine some nonverbal
signs of lying. One sign that escapes most
people is the flashing of a microexpression.
Microexpressions are superquick expressions
that cross over people's faces against their will
and without their awareness. These provide a
true look at their honest feelings about a matter.
While most people aren't looking for such clues,
a good many of us detect them without knowing
what just happened. The information we glean -
- detecting a millisecond-long look of anger in
the middle of a smile -- is often chalked up to
intuition or a "gut feeling." If your "gut" is
telling you something isn't quite right with a
person, you very well may have detected a
microexpression on that person's face that
doesn't mesh with what he or she is saying.
Another nonverbal sign of lying is a
forced smile, which generally involves only the
muscles of the mouth and not the rest of the
face. A sign of deception is a smile or other
gesture -- such as nodding "yes" during a denial
-- that contradicts what is being said. When we
normally interact, both speech and body
language happen naturally, without specific
thought. When we lie, however, not only must
we appraise the truth, construct a plausible lie
and then verbalize it, we must also decide which
body gestures best match the lie, or rather best
represent the telling of the truth. All of this
thought leads to mis-matching words and body
language.
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Someone who's lying may feel attacked
and get in a defensive position. He or she might
turn away from the questioner, cross his or her
arms or even move farther away. Liars may
noticeably fidget, especially during a pause in
the conversation.
There are other nonverbal cues that
many people think are surefire signs of lying but
aren't, such as increased blinking, scratching the
face or nose, or placing a hand over the mouth
while speaking. These signs are only good
indicators when they represent a change in the
person's normal behavior (that is, the behavior
immediately preceding the suspected lie).
Maybe the guy who's blinking a lot has
an eyelash in his eye, and the girl covering her
mouth is just self-conscious; however, if the
person doesn't blink often during the first three
statements and blinks like crazy and scratches
his or her neck while giving the fourth
statement, then that statement warrants closer
examination.
Someone telling a lie will also leak
verbal clues that point to dishonesty. Since he or
she has to invent an answer, a lie-teller will
often spend more time searching for the right
word in the course of telling a story. The person
might take too long to provide an answer or get
words mixed up. To get extra time to think, a
liar won't use contractions (opting for "cannot"
instead of "can't") and may also repeat questions
("Where was I last night?" or "You want to
know what I was doing yesterday?").
Since they have to create an alternate
reality apart from the truth, liars have difficulty
knowing how much of the new story to tell and
will often include unnecessary details.
Next, we'll learn what to do if the glove
fits.
How to Tell If Someone is Lying
If you were accused of murder, you'd be under
enormous pressure to lie if you were guilty. The
stakes are high, and that kind of pressure can
lead to physical cues that will give you away. A
person serving a life sentence for murder,
however, would feel virtually no pressure when
lying about the murder because he or she is
already in prison -- there won't be any further
consequences for lying. In this case, it's the
verbal details, and not body language, that will
likely be his or her undoing.
Here's how you separate the liars from
the truth-tellers:
- Establish the baseline. Liars may look
you directly in the eye, and truth-tellers may be
fidgety and seem evasive, so don't look for one
trait or the other. First, establish the person's
behaviors, mood and mannerisms for that
particular point in time, before the questioning
begins. Is the person relaxed or nervous?
Angry? Distracted? Notice how much eye
contact and blinking is going on. Does the
person touch his or her hands or face when
speaking?
- Look for deviations from the baseline.
The key to detecting lies is to look for
deviations from an established pattern of
How Lying Works
behavior. If a person normally makes no eye
contact and blinks like crazy but stares straight
through you when answering a particular
question, there's your red flag. Look for slight
pauses before answers -- this is the amount of
time it takes their brain to fabricate data. The
liar may act offended at being questioned at all
but suddenly quite affable when the lie is being
told, or vice versa.
- Listen. Sometimes, there will be no
body language or visual cues that accompany a
lie. You have to rely on the verbal information
you receive. Do the facts add up? Is the person
telling you lots of information that is unrelated
to the question? If someone provides lots of
details, ask more questions. These details might
be their undoing. After getting into the nitty-
gritty of the details, bounce the questioning
back to the overall time frame or arc of the
story. Now, refocus on a small detail. Does the
story still fit together? Is the person having to
create new details to explain why other details
aren't fitting well into the arc of the story?
- Pause. For most people, lying -- and the
circumstance that necessitates the telling of a lie
-- is stressful. If you're questioning somebody,
pause between one of his or her answers and
your next question. Pauses are slightly
uncomfortable for most people in a social
interaction, and much more so for a person who
is trying to pass off a lie. This pause may seem
like a torturous eternity to a liar. Look for
fidgeting, defensive posturing and
microexpressions.
- Change the subject. The best news a
liar can receive is that the lie is over. When the
person believes the topic of conversation has
changed, he or she may be visibly relieved. A
nervous person may loosen up; an agitated
person may smile. This tactic also allows you to
continue studying for deviations from the
baseline or to look for a return to the baseline.
In the next section, we'll take a look at
some famous lies.
History Lies
How long have humans been lying? (Don't ask
us, we'll probably lie.) There have been so many
massive lies throughout history that it's
impossible to keep up with them all. Here are a
few whoppers of notoriety:
Wartime propaganda. A common lie
weaved throughout history is the lie that
precedes an unprovoked act of aggression. The
Nazis made use of this tactic before the German
invasion of Poland. A series of mock attacks on
various German border stations set the stage for
a "defensive" swarming into Polish territory.
In August 1964, there were two reported
incidents of North Vietnamese naval attacks
against United States ships in the Gulf of
Tonkin, off the coast of Vietnam. The second
attack, which reportedly occurred two days after
the first attack, never happened. The initial
reports were the result of bad weather and faulty
sonar and radar readings. Even though there
were near-immediate doubts about the event,
the supposed attacks were used as justification
for the Lyndon B. Johnson administration to
initiate military strikes against North
Vietnamese forces.
Both the United States and the Soviet
Union disseminated propaganda during the
Cold War. A good deal of it was meant to
influence public perception about the strengths
and intentions of each country. Both nations
tried to convince the other's populace that they
were living in a corrupt society, while
simultaneously convincing its own citizens that
the other nation was on the verge of attack. Each
nation inflated the military might of the other in
order to keep their citizens preoccupied with
fear, and also to justify increased arms and
defense expenditures.
Sex scandals. Former U.S. President
John F. Kennedy covered up his extramarital
affairs, and plenty of other politicians have done
the same. U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, a devout
segregationist for much of his political career,
fathered a child when he was 22 with an
African-American woman who worked for his
family. In 1998, then-President Bill Clinton
announced to the world, "I did not have sexual
relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky,"
referring to White House intern Monica
Lewinsky, with whom he had sexual relations.
Lies in the media. Reporter Jayson
Blair's tenure at the New York Times goes down
in infamy. In 2003, the 27-year-old admitted he
fabricated dozens of stories, made up quotes and
filed reports from cities around the nation when
he was actually still in New York.
- Spies' lies. In 1986, CIA analyst
Aldrich Ames had just started betraying his
country by selling classified information to the
Soviets when he learned he was scheduled to
take a routine lie detector test. Nervous, Ames
contacted his Soviet handlers for advice,
figuring (rightly so) that if anyone knew how to
beat an American lie detector test, it would be
the Soviets. The answer the Soviets gave Ames
seemed alarmingly simple, but Ames knew his
value to the Soviets was so high that they
wouldn't give him a flippant response. []
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tooth marks.
- Roman did not eat sitting up - that was
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- In the 13th century, quality standards for
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- Romans flavored food with garum, a paste
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- Pepper was so valuable during Elizabethan
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 Hypnosis: Fact or Fiction
Hypnosis: Fact or Fiction
by Tom Harris
When you hear the word hypnosis, you
may picture the mysterious hypnotist figure
popularized in movies, comic books and
television. This ominous, goateed man waves a
pocket watch back and forth, guiding his subject
into a semi-sleep, zombie-like state. Once
hypnotized, the subject is compelled to obey, no
matter how strange or immoral the request.
Muttering "Yes, master," the subject does the
hypnotist's evil bidding.
This popular representation bears little
resemblance to actual hypnotism, of course. In
fact, modern understanding of hypnosis
contradicts this conception on several key
points. Subjects in a hypnotic trance are not
slaves to their "masters" -- they have absolute
free will. And they're not really in a semi-sleep
state -- they're actually hyperattentive.
Our understanding of hypnosis has
advanced a great deal in the past century, but the
phenomenon is still a mystery of sorts. In this
article, we'll look at some popular theories of
hypnosis and explore the various ways Early Hypnohistory
hypnotists put their art to work.
What is Hypnosis?
People have been pondering and arguing over
hypnosis for more than 200 years, but science
has yet to fully explain how it actually happens.
We see what a person does under hypnosis, but
it isn't clear why he or she does it. This puzzle is
really a small piece in a much bigger puzzle:
how the human mind works. It's unlikely that
scientists will arrive at a definitive explanation
of the mind in the foreseeable future, so it's a
good bet hypnosis will remain something of a
mystery as well.
But psychiatrists do understand the
general characteristics of hypnosis, and they
have some model of how it works. It is a trance
state characterized by extreme suggestibility,
relaxation and heightened imagination. It's not
really like sleep, because the subject is alert the
whole time. It is most often compared to
daydreaming, or the feeling of "losing yourself"
in a book or movie. You are fully conscious, but
you tune out most of the stimuli around you. You
focus intently on the subject at hand, to the near
exclusion of any other thought.
In the everyday trance of a daydream or
movie, an imaginary world seems somewhat
real to you, in the sense that it fully engages your
emotions. Imaginary events can cause real fear,
sadness or happiness, and you may even jolt in
your seat if you are surprised by something (a
monster leaping from the shadows, for
example). Some researchers categorize all such
trances as forms of self-hypnosis. Milton
Erickson, the premier hypnotism expert of the
20th century, contended that people hypnotize
themselves on a daily basis. But most
psychiatrists focus on the trance state brought on
by intentional relaxation and focusing exercises.
This deep hypnosis is often compared to the
relaxed mental state between wakefulness and
sleep.
“The difference between a dream and reality is just doing
it!” - Rob McConnell
People have been entering hypnotic-type trances
for thousands and thousands of years; various
forms of meditation play an important role in
many cultures' religions. But the scientific
conception of hypnotism wasn't born until the
late 1700s.
The father of modern hypnotism is Franz
Mesmer, an Austrian physician. Mesmer
believed hypnosis to be a mystical force flowing
from the hypnotist into the subject (he called it
"animal magnetism"). Although critics quickly
dismissed the magical element of his theory,
Mesmer's assumption, that the power behind
hypnosis came from the hypnotist and was in
some way inflicted upon the subject, took hold
for some time. Hypnosis was originally known
as mesmerism, after Mesmer, and we still use its
derivative, "mesmerize," today.
In conventional hypnosis, you approach
the suggestions of the hypnotist, or your own
ideas, as if they were reality. If the hypnotist
suggests that your tongue has swollen up to
twice its size, you'll feel a sensation in your
mouth and you may have trouble talking. If the
hypnotist suggests that you are drinking a
chocolate milkshake, you'll taste the milkshake
and feel it cooling your mouth and throat. If the
hypnotist suggests that you are afraid, you may
feel panicky or start to sweat. But the entire
time, you are aware that it's all imaginary.
Essentially, you're "playing pretend" on an
intense level, as kids do.
In this special mental state, people feel
uninhibited and relaxed. Presumably, this is
because they tune out the worries and doubts
that normally keep their actions in check. You
might experience the same feeling while
watching a movie: As you get engrossed in the
plot, worries about your job, family, etc. fade
away, until all you're thinking about is what's up
on the screen.
In this state, you are also highly
suggestible. That is, when the hypnotist tells you
do something, you'll probably embrace the idea
completely. This is what makes stage hypnotist
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shows so entertaining. Normally reserved,
sensible adults are suddenly walking around the
stage clucking like chickens or singing at the top
of their lungs. Fear of embarrassment seems to
fly out the window. The subject's sense of safety
and morality remain entrenched throughout the
experience, however. A hypnotist can't get you
to do anything you don't want to do.
But what is it that makes this happen? In
the next section, we'll look at the most widely
accepted theory of what's going on when you
become hypnotized.
What Lies Beneath
The predominant school of thought on hypnosis
is that it is a way to access a person's
subconscious mind directly. Normally, you are
only aware of the thought processes in your
conscious mind. You consciously think over the
problems that are right in front of you,
consciously choose words as you speak,
consciously try to remember where you left your
keys.
But in doing all these things, your
conscious mind is working hand-in-hand with
your subconscious mind, the unconscious part of
your mind that does your "behind the scenes"
thinking. Your subconscious mind accesses the
vast reservoir of information that lets you solve
problems, construct sentences or locate your
keys. It puts together plans and ideas and runs
them by your conscious mind. When a new idea
comes to you out of the blue, it's because you
already thought through the process
unconsciously.
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What's in a Name?

James Braid, a 19th-century Scottish surgeon,

originated the terms "hypnotism" and
"hypnosis" based on the word hypnos, which is
Greek for "to sleep." Braid and other scientists
of the era, such as Ambroise-Auguste Liebeault,
Hippolyte Bernheim and J.M. Charcot,
theorized that hypnosis is not a force inflicted
by the hypnotist, but a combination of
psychologically mediated responses to
suggestions.
In the proper nomenclature, hypnosis
refers to the trance state itself, and hypnotism
refers to the act of inducing this state and to the
study of this state. A hypnotist is someone who
induces the state of hypnosis, and a
hypnotherapist is a person who induces
feel much freer and may be more creative. Your
hypnosis to treat physical or mental illnesses.
conscious mind doesn't have to filter through
Your subconscious also takes care of all
everything.
the stuff you do automatically. You don't
Hypnotized people do such bizarre
actively work through the steps of breathing
things so willingly, this theory holds, because
minute to minute -- your subconscious mind
the conscious mind is not filtering and relaying
does that. You don't think through every little
the information they take in. It seems like the
thing you do while driving a car -- a lot of the
hypnotist's suggestions are coming directly
small stuff is thought out in your subconscious
from the subconscious, rather than from another
mind. Your subconscious also processes the
person. You react automatically to these
physical information your body receives.
impulses and suggestions, just as you would to
In short, your subconscious mind is the
your own thoughts. Of course, your PARANORMAL STAKEOUT
real brains behind the operation -- it does most
subconscious mind does have a conscience, a with
of your thinking, and it decides a lot of what you
survival instinct and its own ideas, so there are
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a lot of things it won't agree to.
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process. In this state, you're still aware of what's
storehouse for all your memories. While under
going on, but your conscious mind takes a
hypnosis, subjects may be able to access past
backseat to your subconscious mind.
events that they have completely forgotten.
Effectively, this allows you and the hypnotist to
Psychiatrists may use hypnotism to bring up
work directly with the subconscious. It's as if
these memories so that a related personal
the hypnotism process pops open a control
problem can finally be resolved. Since the
panel inside your brain.
subject's mind is in such a suggestible state, it is
also possible to create false memories. For this
reason, psychiatrists must be extremely careful
Suggestion Box when exploring a hypnotic subject's past.
This theory of hypnosis is based mostly
In the last section, we examined the idea that on logical reasoning, but there is some
hypnosis puts your conscious mind in the physiological evidence that supports it. In the
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Waves and Hemispheres

In numerous studies, researchers have compared

the physical "body signs" of hypnotic subjects
with those of unhypnotized people. In most of
these studies, the researchers found no
significant physical change associated with the
trance state of hypnosis. The subject's heart rate
and respiration may slow down, but this is due to
the relaxation involved in the hypnotism
process, not the hypnotic state itself.

Do it Yourself!

You don't necessarily need a highly-trained

hypnotist to induce hypnosis. With the proper
relaxation and focusing techniques, almost
everyone can enter a hypnotic state themselves
and make their own suggestions to the
unconscious mind (check out SelfHypnosis.com
to find out how).
Some hypnotism experts hold that all physiological phenomenon, millions of people Typically, self-hypnosis training, as well as
hypnosis is self-hypnosis. Whether a trance state do practice hypnotism regularly, and millions of relaxation and meditation audio tapes, use the
is brought on by a long, boring drive down the subjects report that it has worked on them. In the progressive relaxation method.
highway or by a skilled psychiatrist, the subject next section, we'll look at the most common - Loss of balance - This method creates
is always the one who initiates the trance. In this methods of inducing a hypnotic trance. a loss of equilibrium using slow, rhythmic
view, the hypnotist is only a guide who rocking. Parents have been putting babies to
facilitates the process. You're Getting Sleepy sleep with this method for thousands of years.
There does seem to be changed activity Before hypnotists bring a subject into a
in the brain, however. The most notable data
Hypnotists' methods vary, but they all depend on full trance, they generally test his or her
comes from electroencephalographs (EEGs),
a few basic prerequisites: willingness and capacity to be hypnotized. The
measurements of the electrical activity of the- The subject must want to be typical testing method is to make several simple
brain. Extensive EEG research has demonstrated
hypnotized. suggestions, such as "Relax your arms
that brains produce different brain waves, - The subject must believe he or she can completely," and work up to suggestions that ask
rhythms of electrical voltage, depending on their
be hypnotized. the subject to suspend disbelief or distort normal
mental state. Deep sleep has a different rhythm
- The subject must eventually feel thoughts, such as "Pretend you are weightless."
than dreaming, for example, and full alertness
comfortable and relaxed. Depending on the person's mental state
has a different rhythm than relaxation. If these criteria are met, the hypnotist and personality, the entire hypnotism process
In some studies, EEGs from subjects
can guide the subject into a hypnotic trance can take anywhere from a few minutes to more
under hypnosis showed a boost in the lower
using a variety of methods. The most common than a half hour. Hypnotists and hypnotism
frequency waves associated with dreaming and
hypnotic techniques are: proponents see the peculiar mental state as a
sleep, and a drop in the higher frequency waves
- Fixed-gaze induction or eye fixation - powerful tool with a wide range of applications.
associated with full wakefulness. Brain-wave
This is the method you often see in movies, In the next section, we'll look at some of the
information is not a definitive indicator of how
when the hypnotist waves a pocket watch in more common uses of hypnotism.
the mind is operating, but this pattern does fit the
front of the subject. The basic idea is to get the
hypothesis that the conscious mind backs off
subject to focus on an object so intently that he For Fun and Profit
during hypnosis and the subconscious mind
or she tunes out any other stimuli. As the subject
takes a more active role. focuses, the hypnotist talks to him or her in a In the hypnotism shows of Las Vegas, as well as
Researchers have also studied patterns in
low tone, lulling the subject into relaxation. This the traveling hypnotism demonstrations on the
the brain's cerebral cortex that occur during
method was very popular in the early days of college circuit, hypnotism is used primarily for
hypnosis. In these studies, hypnotic subjects
hypnotism, but it isn't used much today because entertainment purposes. It's an amazing
showed reduced activity in the left hemisphere
it doesn't work on a large proportion of the experience watching somebody turn ordinary
of the cerebral cortex, while activity in the right
population. people, perhaps your friends or family, into
hemisphere often increased. Neurologists - Rapid - The idea of this method is to outrageous performers. The power of suggestion
believe that the left hemisphere of the cortex is
overload the mind with sudden, firm commands. and imagination, and the lowering of inhibition,
the logical control center of the brain; it operates
If the commands are forceful, and the hypnotist does make for a fantastic show.
on deduction, reasoning and convention. The
is convincing enough, the subject will surrender
right hemisphere, in contrast, controls
his or her conscious control over the situation. (Continued on Page 37)
imagination and creativity. A decrease in left-
This method works well for a stage hypnotist
hemisphere activity fits with the hypothesis that
because the novel circumstance of being up in
hypnosis subdues the conscious mind's front of an audience puts subjects on edge,
inhibitory influence. Conversely, an increase in
making them more susceptible to the hypnotist's
right-brain activity supports the idea that the
commands.
creative, impulsive subconscious mind takes the
- Progressive relaxation and imagery -
reigns. This is by no means conclusive evidence,
This is the hypnosis method most commonly
but it does lend credence to the idea that
employed by psychiatrists. By speaking to the
hypnotism opens up the subconscious mind.
subject in a slow, soothing voice, the hypnotist
gradually brings on complete relaxation and
Whether or not hypnosis is actually a focus, easing the subject into full hypnosis.
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Certifiable
In ads for hypnotism weight-loss treatments,
you often see the words "Certified Hypnotist!"
in big, bold letters. What does this actually
mean?
As it turns out, there is no single, official
certification process and no regulating body for
hypnotists. If you take a two-day course on
hypnotism, that's enough to claim you are a
certified hypnotist. Some certification
programs, the one run by the National Guild of
Hypnotists for example, hold their students to
strict standards, but many do not.
Doctors and psychiatrists who are
members of professional organizations are well
regulated, however. The American Psychiatric
Association (APA) and the American Medical
Association (AMA) both have strict standards
for the professional practice of hypnotherapy.
But these demonstrations only scratch
the surface of what hypnotism can do -- all the
suggestions are intentionally frivolous, to
ensure that nobody gets hurt. The hypnotist uses
his or her access to the unconscious mind only
to play with the subject. More involved
hypnotism uses this access to affect long-term
changes in the subject.
The most widespread example of this
hypnotic behavioral modification is habit-
control hypnotic treatment. In this application, a
hypnotist focuses on one particular habit that is
embedded in your unconscious (smoking or
overeating, for example). With the "control
panel" to your mind open, the hypnotist may be
able to reprogram your subconscious to reverse
the behavior. Some hypnotists do this by
connecting a negative response with the bad
habit. For example, the hypnotist might suggest
to your subconscious that smoking will cause
nausea. If this association is programmed
effectively, you will feel sick every time you
think about smoking a cigarette. Alternatively,
the hypnotist may build up your willpower,
suggesting to your subconscious that you don't
need cigarettes, and you don't want them.
Habit-control hypnotism is commonly
practiced on a mass scale, in day-long seminars
held in hotel suites, or through audio tapes or
CDs. Since the treatment is not specifically
tailored to each subject, and the treatment is
rapid, these programs are often ineffective.
Even if the treatment does yield positive results
in the short term, there's a good chance that the
subject will relapse eventually.
Directed, one-on-one hypnotism
sessions tend to yield better results. In the next
section, we'll explore this therapeutic form of
hypnotism.
I'm Healed!
In the last section, we looked at hypnosis as a
means of reversing bad habits. A related
application of hypnotism is psychiatric
hypnotherapy. In a therapy session, a
psychiatrist may hypnotize his or her subject in
order to work with deep, entrenched personal
problems. The therapy may take the form of
breaking negative patterns of behavior, as with
mass habit-control programs. This can be
particularly effective in addressing phobias,
unreasonable fears of particular objects or
situations. Another form of psychiatric
hypnotherapy involves bringing underlying
psychiatric problems up to the conscious level.
Accessing fears, memories and repressed
emotions can help to clarify difficult issues and
bring resolution to persistent problems.
Hypnotists may also tap dormant
memories to aid in law enforcement. In this
practice, called forensic hypnotism,
investigators access a subject's deep, repressed
memories of a past crime to help identify a
suspect or fill in details of the case. Since
hypnotists may lead subjects to form false
memories, this technique is still very
controversial in the forensics world.
Another controversial form of
hypnotism is medical hypnotherapy. Doctors
and spiritual leaders all over the world claim
that hypnotic suggestion can ease pain and even
cure illness in some patients. The underlying
idea behind this is that the mind and body are
inextricably intertwined. When you suggest to
the subconscious that the body does not feel
pain, or that the body is free of disease, the
subconscious may actually bring about the
change.
There is a great deal of anecdotal
evidence to support this idea. Using only
hypnotic suggestion as an anesthetic, thousands
of women have made it through childbirth with
minimal pain and discomfort. Countless cancer
patients swear by hypnosis, claiming that it
helps to manage the pain of chemotherapy, and
some former patients credit their recovery to
hypnotherapy.
The success of hypnotherapy is
undeniable, but many doctors argue that the
hypnotic trance is not actually responsible for
the positive results. In the next section, we'll see
how many skeptics explain hypnotic
phenomena.
The Magic Feather
In the relatively short history of modern
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hypnotism, there have been dozens of hypnotic
techniques and a wide range of explanations of
the phenomenon. The only constant through all
of this has been the hypnotic subjects
themselves. No matter how you view the art of
the hypnotist, it is undeniable that people do
enter a special state in which they are
abnormally suggestible and uninhibited.
Modern skeptics have a sound and
convincing explanation of this unusual state.
Hypnotic subjects aren't actually in a trance
state, they argue, they only think they are.
Social pressure and the influence of the
hypnotist are often enough to convince people
that they should act a certain way. When they
find themselves heeding the suggestions, they
think they must be in a hypnotic trance.
Proponents of this theory contend that this
belief alone may be powerful enough to bring
about remarkable changes in a person. If you
think someone is compelling you to act a certain
way, you will act that way. If you think hypnotic
suggestion will ease your pain, your mind will
bring about this feeling.
In this view, an effective hypnotist isn't
one that can probe the hidden reaches of your
mind, but one with strong enough authority and
charisma to convince you to go along.
In the general sense, this phenomenon is
known as the placebo effect. In numerous
studies, people who were given ordinary sugar
pills behaved and felt differently only because
they thought they should. It's clear that the mind
can influence all aspects of the physical body, so
it makes sense that a firmly held belief can
reduce pain or even help treat a disease.
But in the end, this explanation of
hypnosis amounts to pretty much the same thing
as the trance theory. When you absolutely
convince somebody that you've brought about a
change in their subconscious, they register this
information as a fact. Like any fact, this
information will take root in the subconscious
mind. So, even if the hypnotic state is nothing
more than a figment of the subject's
imagination, hypnotic suggestions can still
reform their deeply held beliefs. The end result
is the same!
Is Hypnosis Fact or Fiction? You be the
judge. []
 38 6 Scientific Explanations For Ghosts
6 Scientific Explanations
for Ghosts
by Samuel Orez
A surprising number of people believe in
ghosts. A 2014 UK survey found that 52 percent
of participants believed in the supernatural. A
2015 survey by Chapman University found that
more than 40 percent of Americans believe
places can be haunted by spirits. However, there
may be a more scientific basis to things that go
bump in the night than a restless afterlife.
Here are six logical explanations for that
ghostly presence in your house:
1. ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
For decades, a Canadian neuroscientist
named Michael Persinger has been studying the
effects of electromagnetic fields on people’s
perceptions of ghosts, hypothesizing that pulsed
magnetic fields, imperceptible on a conscious
level, can make people feel as if there is a
“presence” in the room with them by causing
unusual activity patterns in the brain’s temporal
lobes. Persinger has studied people in his lab
wearing a so-called “God Helmet,” finding that
certain patterns of weak magnetic fields over
someone’s head for 15 to 30 minutes can create
the perception that there’s an invisible presence
in the room.
Some subsequent research has pushed
back on this theory, arguing that people were
responding to the suggestion that they would
feel a ghostly presence, rather than to the
electromagnetic field. However, Persinger
counters that this experiment followed very
different protocols than his own research. Other
scientists have also found that environments
that have a reputation for being haunted often
feature unusual magnetic fields.
2. INFRASOUND
Infrasound is sound at levels so low
humans can’t hear it (though other animals, like
elephants, can). Low frequency vibrations can
cause distinct physiological discomfort.
Scientists studying the effects of wind turbines
and traffic noise near residences have found that
low-frequency noise can cause disorientation,
feelings of panic, changes in heart rate and
blood pressure, and other effects that could
easily be associated with being visited by a
ghost]. For instance, in a 1998 paper on natural
causes of haunting, engineer Vic Tandy
describes working for a medical equipment
manufacturer, whose labs included a reportedly
haunted room.
Whenever Tandy worked in this
particular lab, he felt depressed and
uncomfortable, often hearing and seeing odd
things—including an apparition that definitely
looked like a ghost. Eventually, he discovered
that the room was home to an 19 Hz standing
wave coming from a fan, which was sending out
the inaudible vibrations that caused the
disorienting effects. Further studies also show
links between infrasound and bizarre sensations
like getting chills down the spine or feeling
uneasy.
3. MOLD
Shane Rogers, an engineering professor
at Clarkson University, has spent the past few
months touring reportedly haunted locations
looking for not-so-paranormal activity: mold
growth. Preliminary research indicates that
some molds can cause symptoms that sound
pretty ghostly—like irrational fear and
dementia. “I’ve watched a lot of ghost shows,”
he tells mental_floss, and began to wonder “if
there’s some kind of link there, where we might
be able to explain why people are having these
feelings.” So far in the data collection process,
“it’s hard to say whether that’s a contributing
factor or not, but anecdotally we are seeing
these [toxic molds] exist in places that are
haunted.”
4. CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING
In 1921, a doctor named W.H. Wilmer
published an odd story about a haunted house in
the medical journal the American Journal of
Ophthalmology. The family who lived in this
haunted residence, called the H family in the
medical literature, began experiencing weird
phenomena when they moved into an old
house—hearing furniture moving around and
strange voices in the night, feeling the presence
of invisible specters. They report being held
down in bed by ghosts, feeling weak, and more.
As it turned out, a faulty furnace was filling
their house with carbon monoxide, causing
aural and visual hallucinations. The furnace was
fixed, and the H family went back to their lives,
sans ghosts.
5. SOMEONE ELSE SAID IT WAS
REAL.
In a 2014 study, Goldsmiths, University
of London psychologists had participants watch
a video of a “psychic” supposedly bending a
metal key with his mind. In one condition, study
subjects watched the video with a “participant”
who was actually working with the researchers
and professed to see the key bending. Those
subjects were more likely to report that they saw
the key bend than subjects who were paired
with someone who asserted that the key didn’t
bend or said nothing. “One person’s account can
influence another person’s memory,” study co-
author Christopher French tells mental_floss. If
someone else confidently asserts that they saw
the ghost, it might influence a fellow eye-
witness to believe they saw it, too.
6. WE WANT TO BELIEVE.
“There is a motivational side to belief in
ghosts,” French explains. “We all want to
believe in life after death. The idea of our
mortality is one we are not generally
comfortable with.” Confirmation bias holds
powerful sway over our perceptions. “We find it
much easier to believe evidence for something
we want to believe anyway,” he says. []
17 Most Haunted Places in
Canada - Real Canadian
Ghosts!
17. St. Francis Xavier University,
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
16. Dunvegan Provincial Park, Fairview,
Alberta
15. Ottawa Bytown Museum, Ottawa,
Ontario
14. Government House, Regina,
Saskatchewan
13. Gibraltar Point Lighthouse, Toronto,
Ontario
12. Tranquille Sanatorium, Kamloops, BC
11. Fairmont Empress, Victoria,
Vancouver Island, BC
10. Seal Island, Yarmouth County, Nova
Scotia
9. Ottawa Jail Hostel, Ottawa, Ontario
8. Peggy's Cove, Halifax, Nova Scotia
7. West Point Lighthouse, O'Leary, Prince
Edward Island
6. Bastion Square, Victoria, BC
5. Plains of Abraham, Quebec City,
Quebec
4. Craigdarroch Castle, Victoria, BC
3. The Old Spaghetti Factory, Vancouver,
BC
2. Fairmont Chateau Laurier, Ottawa,
Ontario
1. Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta
 Ghostbuster Priest Passes Away Aged 99
Bangor’s Holy
Ghostbuster priest passes
away aged 99
North Wales Chronicles
ONE of Wales’s best-known priests – known as
the “holy ghostbuster” – has died aged 99.
The Rev Joe Aelwyn Roberts, former
Vicar of Llandegai and a Bangor Cathedral
minor canon, died at Ysbyty Gwynedd on
Thursday January 11 after a series of infections
became untreatable. Three of his daughters were
with him.
Mr Roberts, who was born in Blaenau
Ffestiniog and came to Llandegai in 1952, is
best known as the author of Holy Ghostbuster
and other books, revealing his decades as the
Church in Wales’s special responsibilities
minister dealing with paranormal issues.
He frequently featured on BBC TV and
S4C in programmes and documentaries and was
guest on one of Sir David Frost’s hour-long TV
shows investigating the paranormal.
Before the Samaritans were formed, in the late
1960s Mr Roberts created ‘The Listeners’ in
Bangor.
Long before the Government, he
established a drugs and alcohol counselling
service in North Wales to act with police,
probation and healthcare services. He was also
head of the church’s adoption agency and more
than 550 babies were placed to new parents.
Local authorities would assume
responsibility for adoption and fostering but not
before he had established an agency operating
throughout North and Mid Wales.
Before REMPLOY, an organisation
which helped disabled people with work, Mr
Roberts also created workshops and
employment chances for adults with learning
difficulties in the Ogwen area.
In the 1960s he fought local political
objections to create a travellers’ site in
Llandegai and persuaded the Penrhyn family to
donate the land.
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His son, Mark Roberts, recalled: “Dad
also used to represent the gypsy community
when they appeared at magistrates’ court.
“At one hearing, the prosecuting
solicitor surrendered his case against the
accused when the chairman of the bench warned
him ‘this man is being defended by the
Reverend Roberts. You had better be
prepared!’.”
For many years, he was a regular
newspaper columnist and was widely quoted for
his views by the national press but Other articles
were published worldwide but according to his SEEK REALITY
son, his greatest pride was in having a ‘learned with
paper’ approved by the editorial committee of ROBERTA GRIMES
the British Medical Journal – something unheard
of by a non-medical contributor. “They even ROBERTA GRIMES is a business attorney
paid me!” he boasted later. who had two extraordinary experiences of
His broadcasting and TV production light in childhood. She then spent decades
career was formidable. In the 1940s and ‘50s studying nearly 200 years of abundant and
while a minor canon at Bangor Cathedral, he consistent communications from the dead,
was one of the BBC Radio original actors in quantum mechanics, and the nature of
Will Cwac Cwac, a long-running popular series, consciousness and she shares what she has
and he moved on to script and produce learned about what actually is going on in an
thousands of radio children’s programme until enjoyable and easily understood trilogy. The
the 1960s when he switched to television. Fun of Dying – Find Out What Really
He had numerous TV series on ghosts, Happens Next details what we now know
Welsh heritage and traditions and four based on about the afterlife. The Fun of Staying in
his book Privies of Wales – a history of the Touch details some of the ways that the dead
outside loo. give us signs of their survival, and also many
In the late 1940s he rejected an offer to of the ways that we can communicate with
become BBC Wales head of children and them. The Fun of Growing Forever reveals
religious broadcast services in Cardiff, despite what must be the easiest and most powerful
its salary and perks. method for attaining rapid spiritual growth
His son said: “He did so on principle. and building your own best life, both while
The BBC had then overlooked another candidate you are on earth and forevermore.
who, being unmarried, had given birth to an Seek Reality explores the amazing
illegitimate child in an era when out of wedlock fact that neither mainstream science nor
was taboo.” mainstream Christianity is able to help us
His international fame after writing much as we try to understand our one reality.
ghost-busting books, was added to in 1998 when Together we use information from both
he was guest on the Christmas Day morning sources plus nearly 200 years of abundant
CNN American Morning show – rated among and consistent afterlife evidence to construct
the highest listener audience shows in the USA. a reasonable – and beautiful! – understanding
Mr Roberts declined five requests of former of what actually is going on. What will be
Bishops of Bangor to accept higher office, common knowledge in the second half of this
preferring to remain a humble parish priest century can be your glorious reality today. -
without constraint. He also declined a www.robertagrimes.com.
nomination for civil honours offered after his Some of Roberta’s past guests
retirement as Vicar of Llandegai and director of include: Lisa Smartt, Craig Hogan, David
social responsibility in the Bangor Diocese. Burfoot, Mark Anthony, Susanne Wilson,
He was honoured by Rotarians Andy Pavarini, Cyrus Kirkpatrick, Wendy
International and Probus for his untiring work Zammit, Debbie Malone, David Low,
for Christian communities in Africa. Virginia Hummel, and Roy Stemman.
His last pleas to family were that could To contact Roberta Grimes - Email -
he please return “home”to Blaenau Ffestiniog, robertagrimes@xzbn.net.
which he had always regarded as his birthplace.
His son said: “I think it is so beautiful in his
confused and ailing mind – and perhaps God
given – that shortly before his death he was
transferred from the hectic, noisy and traumatic
hospital emergency department to the peace and
tranquillity of the hospital’s Prysor ward where
he died.
“Prysor is that beautiful lake
overlooking Blaenau which he called home. He
got his wish.”
Mr Roberts was due to be cremated
today (January 17) in a private funeral. An open
thanksgiving service will be held at Llandegai
Church on Saturday, January 27 at 11am .
He leaves six children, 20 grandchildren
and 17 great-grandchildren. His wife, Margaret,
www.XZBN.net
died last year, aged 93. []aaaaaaaaaaaaa
 40 Origin of ‘cigar-shaped’ UFO Revealed
NASA breaks silence
about 'HAZARDOUS'
asteroid passing Earth
HOURS before
Super Bowl
NASA has released a statement about a
potentially “hazardous” asteroid expected to
hurtle past Earth just hours before the Super
Bowl this weekend.
Scientists from the US space agency have been
tracking the asteroid, dubbed 2002 AJ129, for
more than 14 years.
The asteroid is scheduled to make a
“close approach” to Earth at 4:30pm ET (8:30
GMT) on February 4 – just hours before the
“greatest show of Earth”.
NASA has classified 2002 AJ129 as a
"Potentially Hazardous Asteroid" (PHA) – a
label used for meteors that pass within 4.6
million miles of Earth.
NFL fans need not worry, however, as
the “Super Bowl asteroid” is expected to fly past
Earth at a safe distance of 2.6 million miles.
In a statement, Paul Chodas of NASA
sought to assuage fears about the threat the
asteroid poses to Earth.
The asteroid poses no danger to Earth for
at least another century, he said.
"We have been tracking this asteroid for
over 14 years and know its orbit very
accurately," he said.
“Our calculations indicate that asteroid
2002 AJ129 has no chance – zero – of colliding
with Earth on February 4 or any time over the
next 100 years.”
The asteroid spans an astonishing 1.1km,
according to NASA – making it the biggest PHA
asteroid of the year so far.
NFL fans will be glad to know the 52nd
Super Bowl between New England Patriots and
Philadelphia Patriots will not be interrupted by
the cosmic event.
At the time of its closest approach, the
asteroid will be no closer than 10 times the
distance between Earth and the Moon, according
to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PHAs regularly pass by Earth without posing
any threat.
In November, a colossal asteroid wider
than 45 football pitches brushed past Earth.
Measuring a staggering three miles (five
km) in diameter, the asteroid would have created
an extinction level event if it struck Earth. []
Origin of 'cigar-shaped
alien spaceship' that
baffled Stephen Hawking
is FINALLY revealed
THE origins of a strange cigar-shaped alien
asteroid that sent UFO enthusiasts into a frenzy
has been revealed.
The world was left stunned when the
mysterious object entered our solar system last
October.
Even scientists – including Stephen
Hawking – had been baffled as rumours of a
alien space ship visit grew stronger.
But the origin of the object, dubbed
Oumuamua, has finally been explained by
academic Fabo Feng at the University of
Hertfordshire.
The Breakthrough Listen project
announced in December it planned to conduct
more tests on the strangely shaped space object
after the initial investigation revealed no sign of
alien life.
But now Mr Feng thinks he may have
discovered the asteroid’s origins, reported
Express.co.uk.
Oumuamua, which is also described as
an interstellar, may have come a nearby group of
young stars, he said.
He added: “Reconstructing the object's
motion, my research suggests it probably came
from the nearby 'Pleiades moving group' of
young stars, also known as the 'Local
Association'.
“It was likely ejected from its home solar
system and sent out to travel interstellar space.”
The mysterious rock is the first foreign object in
the solar system to be spotted.
It’s still unknown how long it has been
traveling for.
It was spotted by the Pan-STARRS1
telescope in Hawaii on October 19 and
travelling at about 95,000 kilometres per hour.
Mr Feng added: “I simulated how it has
probably travelled through the galaxy and
compared this to the motions of nearby stars.
“I found the object passed 109 stars
within a distance of 16 light years.
“It went by five of these stars from in the
Local Association, a group of young stars likely
to have formed together, at a very slow speed
relative to their movement.”
Mr Feng went on to explain that the
interstellar has a particularly slow speed
compared with most objects in the galaxy.
He added that this suggested that it was
of a very young age and hadn’t travelled far, as
similar objects were likely to speed up with age.
Despite being the only interstellar spotted in the
solar system, Mr Feng believes it is possible
there were millions of similar objects that
haven’t been seen yet.
He said: “My research suggests there are
likely more than 46million similar interstellar
objects crossing the solar system every year.
“Most of them will be too far away for us
to see with our current telescopes.
“But new telescopes and surveys should
soon be able to find these interstellar
messengers, which may be sending us important
information about how stars and planets
formed.” []
Facts about Asteroids
Asteroids are clues to the formation of
the rocky planets of our solar system. The
objects we see today are leftover from a time
when the solar system formed 4.5 billion years
ago.
There are a LOT of these leftovers out
there. Let’s learn some cool facts about them.
- Asteroids aren’t the only things that hit Earth.
Each day, more than 100 tons of material from
asteroids and comets falls toward Earth. Most of
it is destroyed by friction as it passes through
our atmosphere. If something DOES hit the
ground, it is known as a meteorite.
- While asteroid impacts were more common in
the past, they aren’t as frequent today.
- An asteroid impact some 65 million years ago
contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs. (It
was one of several factors that affected all life on
Earth at that time.)
- Earth suffers an impact from an object the size
of a football field about once every 2,000 years.
- A car-sized meteoroid (a piece of asteroid) falls
into Earth’s atmosphere about once a year. The
result is a beautiful fireball, but the meteoroid
usually burns up before reaching the ground.
- Asteroids are rich in precious metals and other
metals, as well as water.
- Some asteroids are actually blown-out comets.
The ices are gone, and all that’s left is the rocky
material.
- Some asteroids have moons of their own!
- Most asteroids orbit the Sun in the Asteroid
Belt, which lies between Mars and Jupiter.
- Asteroids are also referred to as minor planets
or planetoids. []
 New ‘Bermuda Triangle’ Off China
Thirty-one missing, oil
tanker on fire after
collision off China in
world’s ‘new Bermuda
Triangle’
news.com.au
MYSTERY continues to surround exactly what
caused a ship to collide with a tanker carrying
one million barrels of oil in the East China Sea
in a region that has been described as The
Dragon’s Triangle.
The fate of 31 crew members is
unknown after a tanker carrying enormous
amounts of oil collided with a freight ship over
the weekend, sparking a huge fire which
engulfed the vessel and “spewed” cargo into the
ocean. It has been burning ever since.
Now, concern over the collision that took
place in an area also described as the “Pacific
Bermuda Triangle” is growing as rescue ships
attempt to reach the burning tanker but are
hampered by toxic clouds from burning oil.
The size of the oil spill off the coast of
Shanghai is unknown but worries of an
environmental disaster are growing with fears
the ship is in danger of exploding and would
likely sink, sending 136,000 tonnes of oil into
open water.
The location of the mysterious site,
sometimes considered a paranormal location, is
directly underneath an area of sub-sea
volcanoes. Some have called it a “vile vortex”;
an area where the “pull of the planet’s
electromagnetic waves is stronger than
anywhere else”.
The cause of the crash between Hong
Kong’s bulk freight ship the CF Crystal and The
Sanchi in the East China Sea is unknown.
US navy aircraft scanned 3600 nautical miles
surrounding the crash site, looking for the
missing mariners, but none were located.
The body of one missing crew member
from The Sanchi has been found but more than
30 others remain missing. The CF Crystal
suffered limited damage and its 21 crew
members were rescued.
The Sanchi was heading north, sailing
from Iran to a port in South Korea, while the CF
Crystal, carrying grain from the US, was
heading south. The collision occurred at about
8pm on January 6, 300km east of China’s coast,
off Shanghai.
A major rescue effort is under way but
thick clouds of smoke billowing out of
Panamanian ship The Sanchi and bad weather
including strong seas and winds are hampering
efforts to assess the damage and search for the
missing crew.
“In this day and age with anticollision
systems, radar, with ship identification systems,
two enormous ships like this should not collide,”
oceanography expert Dr Simon Boxall, of the
University of Southampton, told ABC Radio.
“Particularly seeing as they weren’t in a
narrow channel, there wasn’t restricted
navigation, there was no excuse for this accident
to occur.”
Research on the most dangerous seas in
the world carried out by German newspaper Die
41
Welt last year found the South and East China The search and rescue operations are under
Seas the worst, likening the area to the notorious way.”
Bermuda Triangle. At least 33 ships were lost in A big international rescue and recovery
2016 alone, the publication reported. mission is currently being conducted with four
The intense danger in the region spells Chinese rescue ships and three cleaning ships
trouble for ships that are growing in size without sent to the site to assess the damage, but the sea
any “salvage material worldwide that is suitable is so rough it could be days until the devastating
for such huge container ships”. fire is controlled.
“The main cause of accidents resulting in The operation has been helped by coast
ship losses were poor maintenance of the ships guard from South Korea sending a vessel and
or the overloading of, for example, passenger aircraft in the international operation. []
ferries. The increasing number of critical
weather conditions with strong storms also
played a role. Lack of security standards and the
enforcement of rules remained the biggest
problems, especially in Asia.”
The fate of the crew is unknown but
Chinese authorities say crew have been lost. It is
unclear how many, but all missing were from
The Sanchi tanker, which is still floating but has
potential to sink.
“Trying to find out whether they’re still
alive and rescuing them has to be first priority RANDOM THIRTEENS
above all else,” Dr Boxall said.
“After that, then we start looking at the impact
The number 13 is considered lucky in China
of what is potentially one of the top 10 spills
because its symbol resembles one that means
worldwide ever.”
“must be alive.”
The equivalent of one million barrels of
condensate, a type of ultralight oil, worth $60
In 1941, Joe DiMaggio struck out only 13
million, were aboard at the time of the accident.
times.
Authorities have confirmed there is an amount
of oil in the sea but it is unknown how much has
Napoleon Bonaparte, Herbert Hoover and
been contaminated. Thousands of tons are at risk
Franklin Delano Roosevelt all feared the
of pouring into the ocean.
number 13.
“A big concern is the blaze and the oil
aboard the ship,” Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride
Apollo 13 was launched at 13:13, military
said.
time. The astronauts aborted the mission and
“There have been reports of oil in the
turned back to Earth on Friday, April 13.
water. The East China Sea is shared by China,
South Korea and also some of the southern
Black Sabbath released its self-titled first
islands of Japan. There will be a lot of concern
album in February 1970...on Friday the 13th.
in all of those countries about any developing
slick and which direction it may be heading,” he
Cost to U.S. economy when superstitious
added.
people stay home on Friday the 13th: $800
A statement from Ministry of Transport
million.
of the People’s Republic of China said “the
accident caused the vessel Sanchi to (catch) fire
Although DVDs are the same size as CDs, a
on the whole vessel and the vessel was tilted to
DVD can store 13 times as much data.
the right and the crew was lost. The bulk carrier
CF Crystal was damaged without jeopardising
The majority of high-rise apartments and
the safety of the vessel, and 21 crew members
office building do not have a 13th floor.
were rescued safely.
“The Sanchi tanker is in a floating state
and is still burning with oil on the sea surface. www.rel-mar.com/didyouknow
 42 Ghosts From A - Z
Ghosts From A to Z
‘X’ Chronicles Staff

“Ali the Cairene and the Haunted House in

Baghdad”: One of several ghost stories told in
One Thousand and One Nights, Ali the trader
spends the night in a notorious haunted house…
where the jinn end up being pretty cool, actually.

Annie Sawyer (Being Human, BBC): On of

the three original protagonists on Being Human,
along with George (a werewolf) and Mitchell (a
vampire), Annie struggles to piece together the
events leading to her untimely death, and to deal
with her newfound ghostly status, with all its
new abilities and unfortunate shortcomings.

Banquo (Macbeth): Murdered on Macbeth’s

orders, noble Banquo’s ghost appears at a feast,
causing quite a scene. The historical Banquo
was thought to be an ancestor of James I, which
colored his depiction in Shakespeare’s play.

Bob, aka Hrothbert of Bainbridge (The

Dresden Files): In the Dresden novels, Bob is a
“spirit of intellect” who assists Harry Dresden
with magical tasks. On the television series, Bob up with Betelgeuse. Or the Candyman. Everybody knows these guys: the three spirits
is more of a presence (played rather sassily by The Candyman (Candyman): In life, the who take their respective turns with miserly
Terrence Mann) as Dresden’s close friend and Candyman was the son of a slave who became a Ebenezer Scrooge in order to show him the error
ghostly sidekick. well-known artist; when he fell in love with a of his ways. In Dickens’ original novella, The
white woman, an angry mob cut off his hand, Ghost of Christmas Past is an androgynous spirit
Betelgeuse (Beetlejuice): The Ghost with the replacing it with a hook, smeared him with who shows Scrooge his old boarding school
Most. honey, and watched as he was stung to death by days and his treatment of his former fiancée,
bees. According to the film’s urban legend, he Belle. The Ghost of Christmas Present is a
Boo Berry (General Mills Monster Cereal): can be summoned by saying his name five times festive party giant who takes Scrooge around the
Ghostly cereal-hawking mascot, often appearing in a mirror, but since we’re talking about Tony city, peeking in on the Cratchits and revealing
in conjunction with Count Chocula and Franken Todd with a hook-hand, it’s not recommended. the emaciated personifications of Ignorance and
Berry; former associate of Fruit Brute and Fruity Want. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is a
Yummy Mummy (both discontinued. RIP). The Canterville Ghost (“The Canterville fearsome, black-robed spirit who shows Scrooge
Powers include impersonating Peter Lorre as a Ghost”): Oscar Wilde’s first published short the aftermath of his own death, as well as Tiny
ghost, pretending that fake blueberry flavoring story tells the humorous tale of a modern Tim’s, finally pushing him to a moment of
isn’t gross. American family who move into an old English epiphany and transformation.
country house haunted by the titular character,
Mr. Boogedy (Mr. Boogedy): The star of a Sir Simon. Simon undertakes a dramatic Cihuateteo (Aztec mythology): The ancient
surprisingly unsettling late-80s Disney movie, haunting of The Otises, but unfortunately, the Aztecs regarded childbirth as a form of battle, so
Mr. Boogedy is the ghost of cranky pilgrim who family remains sunny, pragmatic, and women who died giving birth were honored as
sold his soul to Satan for a magic cloak, and unimpressed with his efforts at horrifying them. fallen warriors. In death, they became the
ends up haunting David Faustino and Kristy A wonderful story, which has inspired multiple fearsome Cihuateteo, known for haunting
Swanson, for some reason. movie versions (with another one slated for crossroads, causing sickness and madness, and
2014). stealing children. Do not get on their bad side.
Bogle / Boggle / Bogill (Scottish / English
folklore): Goblin-esque ghostly beings who Casper the Friendly Ghost (Cartoons / Dr. Malcolm Crowe (The Sixth Sense): Child
delight in messing with humans, usually to comics): Starting out in (some oddly dark) psychologist played by Bruce Willis, and…
annoy, perplex, or simply frighten (rather than animated cartoons in the mid-40s, Casper has what? You haven’t seen The Sixth Sense? But
inflicting serious harm). For example, “Tatty been through various incarnations in serial it’s been out for 13 years!!! Okay, okay: fine.
Bogle” would hide in potato fields and cause cartoons, comic books, and TV, with a live- SPOILERS. Just forget we said anything.
blight, when not attacking unsuspecting action film in 1995. Casper’s backstory has
humans. Hilarious! changed a bit over the years, but regardless of Clytemnestra (Greek myth/drama): One of
how he became a ghost, it seems clear that he the first ghosts to appear in a work of fiction,
Bhoot/Bhut (Indian folklore): The restless probably isn’t out to get us. Unless he’s just been Aeschylus’s Oresteia (458 BC) portrays her as a
ghost of a deceased person, usually appearing in lulling us all into a false sense of security for the scheming femme fatale who murders her
human form but with backward-facing feet. six decades. husband and is in turn killed by her son, Orestes.
Bhoots tend to appear in white, often floating Her vengeful spirit appears to spur The Furies to
above the ground or in trees, and cast no Chindi (Navajo folklore): The ghost that leaves action, urging them to torment and punish
shadow. the body with a person’s last breath, containing Orestes. Even in death, she’s not a woman to be
everything that was bad or unharmonious in trifled with…
Bloody Mary (American folklore): Other their spirit. After death, the dead person’s name
urban legends may come and go, but proud is never spoken and their remains and Elvira Condomine (Blithe Spirit): The
Mary keeps on burning. As long as there are possessions are avoided in order to avoid chindi- disruptive ghost who causes trouble for her
sleepover parties, there will be someone bold inflicted “ghost sickness.” former husband in Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit.
enough to say her name three times in front of a
mirror at midnight. We should totally hook her Christmas Ghosts (A Christmas Carol): (Continued on Page 43)
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Ghosts From A to Z
Continued from Page 42

The Crypt Keeper (Tales from the Crypt): In

the 50s, the Crypt Keeper started out as the
narrator of EC’s horror comic anthology series
Tales from the Crypt, until the Comics Code
quickly brought about its untimely death. In
1989, however, the character was revived as a
cackling animated corpse in order to host the
HBO series of the same name. With lines like,
“Hello, boils and ghouls!”, the Crypt Keeper’s
moldering puns were usually the most deadly
part of the show.

Edwina Cutwater (All of Me): Spoiled heiress

played by Lily Tomlin who dies and ends up
sharing a body with Steve Martin in 1984’s All
of Me.

Draugr (Norse mythology): Undead Vikings lamented Dead Like Me, George is killed by drowned, who attack the living and drag them
who possess superhuman strength, the ability to falling space debris in the first episode and under water, hoping to drown their victims and
swell and increase their size or shapeshift at will, begins work as a grim reaper with a penchant for take possession of their body. The spirits of the
and reek of decay. They delight in violently dead pan. dead are celebrated in Chinese culture are
slaughtering and sometimes consuming their celebrated in an annual ghost festival, when the
victims, usually people who have trespassed on Ghost Dad (Ghost Dad): A movie which haunts realms of the living and the realms of Heaven
the graves or burial mounds the draugr guards, us all. With badness. and Hell are open, allowing the dead to interact
although sometimes they roam and rampage, with the living, and particularly their family and
killing animals and humans alike. Ghost Rider (Comics/movie): A descendants.
personification of vengeance often embodied by
Dybbuk (Jewish Folklore): Malevolent spirit a fictional man named Johnny Blaze, or Danny Hamlet’s Father (Hamlet): Technically, King
believed to be the soul of a dead person, able to Ketch, or Nicolas Cage. Although the spirit that Hamlet, but referred to only as “Ghost” in the
possess the living. Contrast with Ibbur. grants its human host the powers of Ghost Rider stage directions, Hamlet Sr. was a mighty
is Hell-bound, it’s left up to the human as to how warrior, and his ghost demands that his son
Emeric Belasco (Hell House): Insane those powers are used, unless the story calls for avenge his death at the hands of Claudius.
millionaire whose legendary depravity and some serious drama, oh my god. Rumor has it that the role of The Ghost was first
sadism lies at the heart of Richard Matheson’s performed by Shakespeare himself, but it’s
haunted Hell House. And yes, we are cheating Gjenganger (Scandinavian folklore): The never been confirmed or denied.
by filing him under E; Emeric Belasco doesn’t ghost of a dead person (often murderers, murder
play by the rules. victims, or suicides) who, though undead, took Hogwarts Ghosts (Harry Potter): A few
on corporeal form and threatened the living with specific ghosts show up elsewhere on the list,
Faddeev-Popov ghosts (Physics): One for the violence or torment. They could also administer but since Hogwarts is home to more than twenty
physics fans; good ghosts, known for haunting the dødningeknip (or “dead man’s pinch), which ghosts (plus Peeves the Poltergeist). Each house
quantum field theories. We can only imagine the would cause disease and death to befall the is home to its own resident ghost: Nearly
kind of stories Richard Feynman used to tell victim. Headless Nick (Gryffindor), The Grey Lady
about these guys around a campfire, playing his (Ravenclaw), The Fat Friar (Hufflepuff), and
bongos and terrifying the other Nobel Gozer the Gozerian (Ghostbusters): Gozer the The Bloody Baron (Slytherin).
candidates. Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen
forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, The Headless Horseman (“The Legend of
Nathaniel Fisher, Sr. (Six Feet Under): Killed the traveler came as a large and moving Torg. Sleepy Hollow”): In Irving’s classic short story,
in a car accident (while sitting in a hearse) on Then, during the third reconciliation of the last the Horseman is the ghost of a Hessian soldier
Christmas Eve, Nathaniel Sr.’s death sets off the of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new decapitated by a cannonball during the
events of the HBO series, as the rest of Fisher form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs American Revolution. While it is suggested in
comes together in its wake (Not a pun. Sorry, and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the the story that the “spirit” who chases
Crypt Keeper!). Played by the great Richard depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you… schoolteacher Ichabod Crane might really be
Jenkins, Nathaniel remained a presence around Crane’s romantic rival impersonating the ghost
the family funeral home, conversing with living Captain Daniel Gregg (The Ghost and Mrs. to scare him off, the legend of the Headless
characters and occasionally dispensing advice to Muir): This roguish sea captain is the titular Horseman remains potent (and if you haven’t
Nate Jr. and his other children. ghost from The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (both film seen the Disney adaptation or Christopher
and TV versions), whose attempted haunting of Walken’s take on the character in Sleepy
Flying Dutchman (Marine folklore): a young widow quickly turns into a warm Hollow, then you are missing out).
Legendary ghost ship doomed to sail the seas friendship (with a hint of romance on the TV
forever, never making port. Sightings of the show, and definite romance in the film version, (Continued on Page 45)
Dutchman date back to the 18th century, and are starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison).
said to be a bad omen or portent of doom. The
legend has inspired paintings, an opera, films, Gu? (Chinese folklore): The general Chinese
and works by others from Edgar Allan Poe to term for ghosts, there are many different types
Brian Jacques. and categorizations of Gu?; Yu?n Gu?, for
example, is the term for a ghost who has died a
Georgia “George” Lass (Dead Like Me): The wrongful death, Wú Tóu Gu? is a wandering
sarcastic protagonist of Bryan Fuller’s late, headless specter, and Shu? Gu? are ghosts of the
44 House Number Twenty-Nine

House Number Twenty-Nine

by William S Peckham
House Number Twenty-nine is a
mystery with a touch of the
paranormal. The story follows Sean
Kennedy and his friend, best selling
author Stanley Renton, after the
restoration of 29 Livery Lane.
Together they write a book about
Sean’s experiences with apparitions
while restoring the century-old
house. They discover that three of
the former owners are still living,
so they invite them to the old house.
Stories are told and experiences are
shared… stories of a murder, an
attempted suicide, disbarment of a
lawyer, indiscretions of two
teenagers… even the fraud and
mishandling of corpses. The co-
authors move forward with
research on the history of House
Number Twenty-nine.

Sean finalizes plans for a family

holiday to Boston, Los Angeles and
Disneyland. Their flight from
Boston to Los Angeles is booked on
American Airline’s Flight 11,
September 11, 2001.

The Kennedy family survives the terrorist attack on New York City – a hit man bent upon
revenge – a fiery attack on their family home and an intense, threatening interrogation by
CCIS.

Sean and Stanley write the novel about 29 Livery Lane. It becomes a best seller and the
two friends continue to co-write until Stanley’s death.

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Ghosts From A to Z
Continued from Page 44

Hungry Ghosts (Buddhism/Chinese folklore):

The concept varies slightly in different traditions
(from Chinese folk religion to Chinese
Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, and Tibetan
Buddhism). In China, hungry ghosts are
understood largely in terms of ancestor
worship—food and drink is set out to satisfy
them during a yearly festival. In the other
Buddhist traditions, the ghosts have tiny mouths
and huge stomachs, and can never be satisfied
(providing a metaphor for illusory material
desires), or are the spirits of greedy or selfish
people, cursed in death with an insatiable desire
that can never be slaked.

Ibbur (Jewish Folklore): Unlike the dybbuk, a

positive form of possession in which a
benevolent soul temporarily inhabits a living
person in a beneficial and positive way.
for her children in vain, sometimes attempting to
Shoeless Joe Jackson (Field of Dreams): steal living children who wander or misbehave. Nearly Headless Nick (Harry Potter): Sir
Known for emerging from haunted cornfields, Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington is Gryffindor’s
throwing the World Series. If you build it, he Jacob Marley (A Christmas Carol): Ebenezer resident house ghost, wizard executed after a
will come. Scrooge’s former partner, Marley’s ghost magical mishap involving a lady of the court of
appears on Christmas Eve to warn Scrooge to Henry VII. Thanks to a dull axe, the execution
Jima (Amazonian folklore): Feared by the change his miserly ways before it’s too late. did not go smoothly, and his was never
Wari, an Amazonian rainforest tribe, Jima are Although Scrooge ignores his early appearances completely severed, leading to his eventual
terrifying specters known for grabbing their and tries to reason away the apparition, Marley’s nickname among the residents of Hogwarts.
living victims with their incredibly strong, cold, unearthly howls and chain-jangling eventually Affable and helpful, if a little longwinded, Sir
poisonous hands and attempting to tear the make an impression, and he tells Scrooge that Nicholas is portrayed by John Cleese in the
victim’s spirit away. his misdeeds in life have led to an eternity spent films.
wandering the earth in ”an incessant torture of
Jinn (Quran/Islamic mythology): Jinn (also remorse.“ The Overlook Hotel (The Shining): Isolated
known as djinn or genies), are described in the resort in the Colorado Rockies with a sordid
Quran as spirits made of smokeless, scorching The Mary Celeste: Real-life ghost ship history; the hotel has a habit of possessing its
fire, and can be evil, good, or neutral in their discovered in 1872, abandoned by her crew, who inhabitants and forcing them to commit
interactions with humans. were never heard from again. One of the most unspeakable acts. One former caretaker
famous maritime mysteries, the Mary Celeste murdered his family with an axe before hilling
Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm has inspired authors from Arthur Conan Doyle himself, and their ghosts remain at the hotel,
Street): Introduced as a child killer who escaped to Philip Jose Farmer to Terry Pratchett. tormenting young Danny Torrance while
justice on a technicality, Krueger was set on fire drawing his father, Jack, over to the dark side.
and burned to death by the parents of his Moaning Myrtle (Harry Potter): Muggle-born On the bright side, murderers drink free at the
victims. After his death, his spirit preys on the witch, killed by a Basilisk when she caught Tom creepy ghost bar!
minds of the neighborhood’s teenagers, entering Riddle opening the Chamber of Secrets. Her
their dreams and killing them in their sleep. ghost haunts the Hogwarts bathroom in which Pac-Man Ghosts (Video game): Pac-Man’s
Later in the series, it is revealed that he is ”the she died (occasionally branching out to other nemeses, each ghost has a nickname and is
son of a 100 maniacs.“ He is also overly fond of bathrooms in the castle). Myrtle sometimes associated with a particular character trait within
awful (usually morbid) puns. Freddy and the helps Harry, when she’s not crying or the game. “Blinky” (red) shadows Pac-Man,
Crypt Keeper should go bowling sometime. desperately flirting with him. chasing him; “Pinky” (pink) is speedy; “Inky”
(blue) is bashful, and “Clyde” (orange) is pokey,
Large Marge (Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure): A Nachzehrer (German folklore): Supernatural slower and more random in his movements. This
trucker who offers Pee-Wee a ride during his being similar to a vampire, often tied to suicide developed out of the original Japanese version,
epic search for his missing bike. She tells him a or accidental death. The nachzehrer awakes after Puck-Man, in which the ghosts’ personalities
story about the worst accident she’s ever seen death and often attempts to devour its living can be translated as Chaser, Ambusher, Fickle,
(”There was this sound, like a garbage truck family members, but sometimes consumes its and Stupid, respectively.
dropped off the Empire State Building…“). own flesh in the grave. Powers include causing
After Marge drops him off at a diner, Pee-Wee death by casting a shadow on the living, or by Pishacha (Hindu mythology): Demonic ghosts
finds out that she’d died ten years ago in the ringing church bells, killing everyone within that feed on flesh and human energies, capable
same accident, and that he’d been riding with a hearing. of possessing humans and altering their
ghost. Hands down, the scariest part of Pee- thoughts, sometimes leading to madness. Like
Wee’s Big Adventure. (Stubby is still bhuts, pishacha are often depicted as haunting
traumatized, to this day). cremation grounds.

La Llorona (Spanish/Mexican legend): The Phi Tai Hong (Thai folkore): The most feared
Weeping Woman, a spirit who drowned her type of ghost in all of Thai folklore, a restless
children in order to be with her lover, but was and angry spirit of a person who suffered a
rejected and committed suicide. Constantly violent death.
crying, La Llorona is doomed to eternally search (Continued on Page 48)
46 Jesus King of Edessa

J E S US
King of Edessa
by Ralph Ellis
The biblical Jesus - discovered in the historical record.
Contemporary coins and statue of Jesus discovered in Syria.
Why is Jesus missing from the historical record? Jesus was an influential king (the King
of the Jews) and probably the most famous monarch of the last two millennia, so why
cannot we find archaeological evidence for his life? The answer is that we have been
looking in the wrong location.

Following 25 years of research, Ralph Ellis has discovered that Jesus was a prince of
Edessa in northern Syria. The Edessan monarchs were Nazarene Jews who helped build
the Temple of Jerusalem and saved Judaea from starvation during a great famine. But, just
like Jesus, they were also religious and political revolutionaries who tried to take control
of Judaea, but were thwarted by the Roman Army. Thus there are many links and
similarities between the biblical accounts and the princes and kings of Edessa.

However, in addition to this, Ralph Ellis has discovered that one of the princes of Edessa
had the same names as Jesus. Jesus was called (King) Jesus Emmanuel, while one of the
Edessan monarchs was called King Izas Manu(el). Equally interesting, is the fact that all
of the Edessan monarchs wore a plaited Crown of Thorns. The biblical Jesus was crucified
wearing this same plaited Crown of Thorns because he was this very same prince and king
of Edessa.

Thus we now know who Jesus was, where he lived, and who his family were. Visit his city,
see the ruins of his citadel, gaze upon his statue, handle his coins. In reality, Jesus was a
son of King Abgarus au Kama of Edessa, a minor princeling with a small realm, a large
treasury, and even bigger ambitions. But the so-called Wise Prince of northern Syria came up against an intractable Rome, and his many plans
crumbled to dust. The historical records then indicate that this revolutionary prince of Edessa was crucified outside Jerusalem, along with two
other leaders of the revolt, but he was reprieved and taken down from the cross by a man called Joseph(us). And yes, this familiar-sounding
account is from the historical record, and not from the gospels.

Readers might imagine that the true history of this region might undermine much of the biblical story that the gospel authors have crafted. But
in reality the gospels always did say that Jesus was a Nazarene (Mat 2:23) and a king (Luk 23:38), and so this new analysis changes very little
in the gospel story. The only real difference is that the true history of the region indicates that the strategies and goals of King Izas (King Jesus)
were much more far-reaching than the gospel accounts like to admit. In reality, the goal of King Izas and the Edessan monarchy was to use
their newly united Kingdom of Judaeo-Syria as a springboard to take over the throne of Rome. Yes, King Izas (King Jesus) wanted to become
Emperor of Rome - which is why he was so closely linked to the Roman 'Star Prophesy' (the eastern star at his birth), and why he suffered a
Roman rather than a Jewish form of punishment.

This is a scholarly study of all the available historical evidence, including the Tanakh, Talmud, Josephus Flavius, the Roman historians, and
venerable Syriac historians like Moses of Chorene and Yohannes Drasxanakertci.

We suggest that readers start with 'Cleopatra to Christ' and then 'King Jesus'. The wait before arriving at the last episode in the trilogy will be
worthwhile, for if a book could be valued on its 'eureka moments' then this final book would be priceless. v3.5

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L I B E R AT I N G J E S U S
By
Roberta Grimes
Roberta Grimes spent
decades studying nearly
200 years of afterlife
evidence and forming a
detailed picture of what
happens at and after death.
She then discovered that
two thousand years ago
Jesus told us things about
God, reality, death, the
afterlife, human nature,
and the nature of reality
that perfectly match the
afterlife evidence in even
small details. She outlines
many of these
correspondences in
appendices to her books
The Fun of Dying (2010,
2014) and The Fun of Staying in Touch (2014). In Liberating Jesus
Roberta offers compelling evidence that the earliest Christians
misunderstood the meaning and the message of Jesus. She
demonstrates that all the correspondences between the Gospels and
the afterlife evidence amount to nothing less than a new revelation
from God. And she shows us that once we put aside the magic-
thinking notion that the whole Christian Bible must be the Inspired
Word of God just because the earliest Christians said it was, we at
last free Jesus to bring to humankind the messages directly from
God that long ago were His true life’s purpose. His promise remains
as fresh today as it was two thousand years ago, and now it is
confirmed by the afterlife evidence: if we will live according to the
teachings of Jesus, we can create the Kingdom of God on earth.

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 48 Ghosts From A - Z
Ghosts From A to Z an act of God. Vigo the Carpathian (Ghostbusters II): He is
Vigo! Originally Vigo Von Homburg
Slender Man (Internet myth): No one knows Deutschendorf, also known as Vigo the Cruel,
Continued from Page 45 what the Slender Man is; his defining Vigo the Torturer, Vigo the Despised, Vigo the
characteristic is mystery, with the ability to Unholy, and possibly Vigo the Butch. Powerful
inspire fear a close second. An urban legend for 16th century magician, tyrant, lunatic and
Poltergeist (Various folklores): While the the 21st century, the Slender Man stalks his genocidal maniac, he returns to life through his
common term for this comes from the German victims, sometimes over long periods of time, creepy self-portrait, looking to regain physical
words for “noisy ghost,” poltergeists feature in and may inspire amnesia, paranoia, and form and return to power. Thwarted by slime.
the folklore of many cultures. The term usually madness; he is allegedly responsible for various
denotes a disruptive entity that haunts a unexplained disappearances. All we really know Oliver Welles (Slings and Arrows):
particular person via strange noises and even is, the Slender Man is terrifying. Temperamental director Oliver Welles is run
petty physical attacks. Poltergeist activity is a over by a ham truck in the first episode of this
popular subject in TV in movies, featuring in Slimer (Ghostbusters): Made of pure darkly comedic Canadian series. When his
everything from Blithe Spirit to Harry Potter to ectoplasm, Slimer is classified as a focused, troubled protege steps into his role as artistic
the Poltergeist movies. non-terminal repeating phantasm, or a Class 5 director of the New Burbage Shakespearian
full roaming vapor (and a real nasty one, at that). Festival to stage a production of Hamlet,
Alice Pyncheon (The House of the Seven After the Ghostbusters stop him from haunting Oliver’s ghost refuses to move on, and meta-
Gables): The ghost of the beautiful Alice haunts the Sedgewick Hotel, he became kind of a pet hijinks and high drama ensue.
the House of the Seven Gables after dying from and a mascot, and became a more developed
shame in Hawthorne’s classic New England character in the Animated Series. Dan Ackroyd The Wild Hunt (Ancient European myth): A
gothic novel. has referred to Slimer as ”The Ghost of John spectral group of huntsmen, horses and hounds,
Belushi.” rampaging in violent pursuit across the sky, on
Queen Anne Boleyn (English history): The ill- the ground, or floating somewhere in between.
fated second wife of Henry VIII, she was found Space Ghost (Space Ghost and Dino Boy/Space Seeing the Wild Hunt is thought to be an omen
guilty of adultery, incest, and high treason after Ghost Coast to Coast): One of the greatest talk of death, war, plague, or other catastrophe, and
her relationship with the king had soured, and show hosts of all time, often accompanied by his has often been depicted in art, literature, and
was beheaded in 1536. Along with many other nemeses/sidekicks Zorak, Moltar and Brak. music. Occasionally the participants in the hunt
ghosts, Anne Boleyn is thought by some to Designed by the great Alex Toth, Space Ghost are thought to be faeries, gods, or ancient heroes,
haunt the Tower of London, where she died and started out as superhero who fought villains and but the tradition is strongly associated with the
is buried. faced off against The Council of Doom (in dead: lost souls, spirits, and ghosts.
space. Natch.), before signing on to host his own
RMS Queen Mary (Real life): A retired ocean show on the Cartoon Network. Wiedergänger (German folklore): Category of
liner that was active between 1936 and 1967, undead spirits who would trouble or torment the
now permanently moored in Long Beach, Strigoi (Romanian folklore): Troubled souls living in different ways; some types would jump
California. After the ship was docked, reports of risen from the grave, a tradition dating back on the backs of their victims and grow heavier
ghostly activity and hauntings began: splashing through Indo-European Dacian/Thracian and heavier until they broke down, exhausted or
noises in drained swimming pools, children mythology. Strigoi are often seen as being dead. Another variation is the headless rider,
crying in the abandoned nursery, and so on. One similar to vampires, immortal undead, but also which made its way from European ghost story
of the cabins is no longer rented out due to manifest as evil spirits who haunt the living, to American literature thanks to Washington
“extreme paranormal activity,” and the ship is often their living family members. Irving.
supposedly haunted by several ghosts of guests
who were murdered or died in violent accidents Patrick Swayze (Ghost): The sexiest ghost of Xunantunich (Real life / Archaeology): The
while the liner was still operational. all. Good with clay and Whoopi Goldberg. name of this ancient Mayan archaeological site
in Belize comes from Mayan words for “Stone
Revenant (European folklore): General term Tomás (El Orfanato / The Orphanage): The Woman,” after the ghostly figure who has been
for an undead corpse or visible ghost that returns protagonist of Spanish suspense/horror film The seen haunting the site since 1892. Dressed all in
from the grave, usually for malevolent purposes. Orphanage first encounters Tomás as the white with fiery, red glowing eyes, the woman
Stories involving revenants usually depict a imaginary friend of her adopted son, Simón— reportedly appears at the site, ascends the steps
specific undead person who returns with a but as events turn sinister, he becomes more of a of the ceremonial pyramid and disappears into a
purpose, such as revenge against a killer or those definite, if ghostly, presence. Depicted through stone wall.
responsible for their death, or to harass people most of the film as a small boy wearing a
who wronged them during life. disturbing mask stitched together out of Y?rei (Japanese folklore): Used as a general
sackcloth, Tomás is simultaneously horrifying term; there are also more specific types of
Ringwraiths (Lord of the Rings): Not and heartbreaking. ghosts, like the Onry? (vengeful spirits who
technically ghosts, perhaps, but certainly spooky return from purgatory), Gory? (aristocratic
enough to make the list, the Ringwraiths (also Urban legends (Various): Whether it’s Bloody ghosts, often vengeful martyrs), or Zashiki-
known as Nazgûl or Black Riders) began as nine Mary or the familiar story of a ghostly vanishing warashi (mischievous ghost children).
mortal men to whom Sauron gave Rings of hitchhiker, American folklore is steeped in tales
Power. The rings gave them power and extended of phantom vehicles, haunted highways and Zhong Kui (Chinese mythology): By some
their lives, but it also corrupted and destroyed roads, and malevolent spirits that haunt Lovers’ accounts, Zhong Kui is the ghost (Gu?) of a man
them, turning them into undead thralls even after Lanes. Take the legend of Skinned Tom, for who failed his civil service exams and
their corporeal form faded away. example: caught in the act by a jealous husband committed suicide, he is a vanquisher of ghosts
and skinned alive with a hunting knife, Tom’s and evil spirits: a ghost who hunts other ghosts.
Samuel’s Ghost (Biblical): According to the vengeful ghost supposedly attacks amorous
Old Testament, King Saul has the Witch of couples in their cars to this day! Because Zuul (Ghostbusters): The Gatekeeper of
Endor summon the spirit of the recently prophet sometimes heavy-handed morality tales need a Gozer; minion of The Destructor. Lovely
Samuel. Samuel’s ghost is not happy about little gore to really help drive the point home. singing voice, but with an unfortunate tendency
being summoned, and predicts Saul’s downfall to manifest as a Terror Dog and/or take over
in battle the next day. It comes to pass, and Saul Vetala (Hindu folklore): Spirits who tend to your fridge. []
commits suicide. The story has been interpreted haunt places of burial and charnel grounds;
in a number of ways, of course: some see trapped between life and the afterlife, they can The Very Best of
Samuel’s ghost as a demon masquerading as the take possession of corpses and cause all kinds of Paranormal / Parapsychology Radio Is
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 Evidence of Ghosts Has Not Materialized
Are Ghosts Real? —
Evidence Has Not
Materialized
livescience.com
If you believe in ghosts, you're not alone.
Cultures all around the world believe in spirits
that survive death to live in another realm. In
fact, ghosts are among the most widely believed
of paranormal phenomenon: Millions of people
are interested in ghosts, and a 2013 Harris Poll
found that 43 percent of Americans believe in
ghosts.
The idea that the dead remain with us in
spirit is an ancient one, appearing in countless
stories, from the Bible to "Macbeth." It even
spawned a folklore genre: ghost stories. Belief in
ghosts is part of a larger web of related
paranormal beliefs, including near-death
experience, life after death, and spirit
communication. The belief offers many people
comfort — who doesn't want to believe that our
beloved but deceased family members aren't
looking out for us, or with us in our times of
need?
People have tried to (or claimed to)
communicate with spirits for ages; in Victorian
England, for example, it was fashionable for
upper-crust ladies to hold séances in their
parlors after tea and crumpets with friends.
Ghost clubs dedicated to searching for ghostly
evidence formed at prestigious universities,
including Cambridge and Oxford, and in 1882
the most prominent organization, the Society for
Psychical Research, was established. A woman
named Eleanor Sidgwick was an investigator
(and later president) of that group, and could be
considered the original female ghostbuster. In
America during the late 1800s, many psychic
mediums claimed to speak to the dead — but
were later exposed as frauds by skeptical
investigators such as Harry Houdini.
It wasn't until recently that ghost hunting
became a widespread interest around the world.
Much of this is due to the hit Syfy cable TV
series "Ghost Hunters," now in its second
decade of not finding good evidence for ghosts.
The show spawned dozens of spinoffs and
imitators, and it's not hard to see why the show
is so popular: the premise is that anyone can
look for ghosts. The two original stars were
ordinary guys (plumbers, in fact) who decided to
look for evidence of spirits. Their message: You
don't need to be an egghead scientist, or even
have any training in science or investigation. All
you need is some free time, a dark place, and
maybe a few gadgets from an electronics store.
If you look long enough any unexplained light
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or noise might be evidence of ghosts. souls, why do they appear clothed and with
(presumably soulless) inanimate objects like
The science and logic of ghosts hats, canes, and dresses — not to mention the
many reports of ghost trains, cars and carriages?
One difficulty in scientifically evaluating ghosts If ghosts are the spirits of those whose
is that a surprisingly wide variety of phenomena deaths were unavenged, why are there unsolved
are attributed to ghosts, from a door closing on murders, since ghosts are said to communicate
its own, to missing keys, to a cold area in a with psychic mediums, and should be able to
hallway, to a vision of a dead relative. When identify their killers for the police. And so on —
sociologists Dennis and Michele Waskul just about any claim about ghosts raises logical
interviewed ghost experiencers for their 2016 reasons to doubt it.
book "Ghostly Encounters: The Hauntings of
Everyday Life" (Temple University Press) they (Continues on Page 61)
found that "many participants were not sure that
they had encountered a ghost and remained
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had experienced something uncanny —
something inexplicable, extraordinary,
mysterious, or eerie." Thus, many people who
go on record as claiming to have had a ghostly
experience didn't necessarily see anything that
most people would recognize as a classic
"ghost," and in fact they may have had
completely different experiences whose only
common factor is that it could not be readily
explained.
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claim that ghosts are instead telepathic entities
projected into the world from our minds.
Still others create their own special
categories for different types of ghosts, such as
poltergeists, residual hauntings, intelligent
spirits and shadow people. Of course, it's all
made up, like speculating on the different races
of fairies or dragons: there are as many types of
ghosts as you want there to be.
There are many contradictions inherent
in ideas about ghosts. For example, are ghosts
material or not? Either they can move through
solid objects without disturbing them, or they
can slam doors shut and throw objects across the
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 Bigfoot Hoaxes 51
Bigfoot Hoaxes
www.hoaxes.org

As early as the 1830s European settlers reported

seeing a large, hairy biped roaming the Pacific
northwest. Even before that Native-American
legends told of a "Sasquatch" (meaning a "hairy
giant") that lived in the region. However, no
concrete evidence exists to suggest such an
animal exists -- "concrete" here meaning
tangible physical proof such as a body, or body
part.
If a Bigfoot species did exist, it would
seem likely that at some point one of them
would die and leave a skeleton, or get run over
by a car. But that apparently has never
happened. What we have instead is a mountain
of anecdotal evidence: eyewitness accounts,
blurry photos, recordings of strange noises, and
footprints. The problem with this anecdotal
evidence is that much of it could have been
faked. Even the most ardent Bigfoot believers
admit that some of it was. Whatever wasn't the popular imagination as the name for North Bride of Bigfoot (1976)
deliberately faked might be chalked up to America's legendary ape-man. It was long Cherie Darvell was a member of a film crew
wishful thinking. suspected that Crew's prank-loving boss, Ray searching for Bigfoot in the woods outside
Wallace, had created the prints by strapping Eureka, California. Unfortunately for her, she
Hoaxes (and suspected hoaxes) carved wooden feet to his boots and stomping found Bigfoot and he abducted her. Or so she
around in the mud. This was confirmed when claimed. Humboldt County organized a search
associated with Bigfoot Wallace died in 2002 and his family came clean party to find her, but without success. (Total cost
with the whole story. (Bigfoot believers, for the search: $11,613. Humboldt County tried
The Battle of Ape Canyon (1924) however, continue to insist the prints were to sue Shasta County to make them pay a portion
A group of miners claimed that gorilla-like legitimate Sasquatch tracks.) of the cost, but a judge struck down their suit,
creatures (which they called "mountain devils") ruling that the search for Bigfoot had been an
attacked them in the woods near Mt. St. Helens. The Bluff Creek Bigfoot "exercise in futility.") A few days later, Darvell
The miners retreated into a log cabin, but their Shown above is frame 352 of the Patterson- walked into a nearby resort, looking none the
attackers threw rocks down onto them Gimlin film. It is the most famous frame of the worse for wear, despite her experience as a
throughout the night. The story was reported short film, appearing to show a clear view of a Bride of Bigfoot. When reporters tried to ask her
widely. However, a local game warden declared female bigfoot striding along a riverbank in questions about her ordeal, her only response
the story was "bunk." A search party found no northern California. was to scream. Her fellow filmmakers, Ed Bush
evidence of any gorillas or devils. The rocks Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin had and Terry Gaston, later released a movie
may have been the work of teenagers at a nearby set out on horseback into the Six Rivers National showing her being carried away by Bigfoot. It
YMCA summer camp who had a tradition of Forest, intending to make a documentary about crossed the minds of a few people that the
throwing stones down the hill. Decades later, Bigfoot. By a stroke of good fortune (or "abduction" had been simply an elaborate
one of the miners, Fred Beck, wrote an account orchestrated fortune) they encountered a publicity stunt.
of the incident titled I Fought the Apemen of Mt. creature at Bluff Creek
St. Helens. [wikipedia] The footage they took has been the focus Bigfoot Crosses Highway (1977)
of intense debate. Skeptics insist the creature is On the morning of May 15, 1977, a busload of
Abducted by Sasquatch (1957) simply a person in an ape suit. Supporters people watched a Bigfoot cross Highway 7 east
In 1957, with interest in Sasquatches growing on counter that special-effects techniques were not of Vancouver. But a few days later a trio of
account of the Yeti crazi, a former logger, Albert good enough in 1967 to have created such a young men confessed that the Bigfoot was their
Ostman, came forward with a strange story convincing costume. The quality of the footage work. It had taken them weeks to prepare, since
about how he had been abducted by a Sasquatch is too poor to allow a definitive decision to be they had fashioned resin-cast Sasquatch feet to
back in 1924. Ostman claimed that he had been reached based on the film itself, but given that make convincing footprints. They also planted a
on a prospecting holiday in Toba Inlet (British Bigfoot continues to elude detection, odds are phony witness on the bus to see the Bigfoot first
Columbia) when a Sasquatch carried him off that the skeptics are right. and get the other passengers excited. Strangely,
and forced him to live with its family. the people on the bus described seeing a 7-foot
Apparently the Sasquatch wanted to use Ostman The Minnesota Iceman (1968) Bigfoot with a strong smell. But 24-year-old
for breeding purposes. After six days Ostman Showman Frank Hansen claimed to have a Ken Ticehurst, who wore the gorilla suit, was
escaped. Ostman's story stretches credibility, bigfoot-like creature frozen in a block of ice and only 5-foot-11 and weighed 165 pounds.
and the fact that he supposedly waited 33 years was exhibiting it at carnivals throughout the
before telling it makes it even harder to believe. Midwest. In 1968 the creature came to the (Continued on Page 52)
Even some prominent Bigfoot adherents dismiss attention of the cryptozoologists Ivan Sanderson
his story as a tall tale. and Bernard Heuvelmans, who became
convinced the creature was real. Sanderson tried
The Birth of Bigfoot (1958)August 27, 1958: to get scientists interested in the "iceman," and
While working on a construction site in for a brief time the Smithsonian Institution
northwest California, a tractor operator named expressed interest in acquiring it. But as
Jerry Crew found a series of massive, 16-inch pressure mounted on Hansen to let scientists
footprints tracked through the mud. Due to the examine the creature, he claimed that the
size of the prints, the media began referring to original creature was gone and what was now in
the creature that created them as "Bigfoot." The the ice was just a replica. It has since become
name stuck, eventually replacing Sasquatch in clear the creature was a fake all along.
 52 Bigfoot Hoaxes
Bigfoot Hoaxes
Continued from Page 51

Bigfoot captured in Pennsylvania (1985)

Residents of Enola, Pa. reported seeing a "hairy
creature" in the woods of nearby East
Pennsboro Township. One man described the
creature as being hairy, 6 ½-feet tall and with
arms that extended below the knees. The report
created an air of panic in the town. Residents
locked their windows and many took up
weapons. But the panic settled after police
identified 24-year-old Craig A. Brashear as the
creature. He had bought an ape-suit and mask
with fangs then stood in an area where his furry
body would be illuminated by headlights. He
did so, the police chief said, in order to "stir up
more activity, to make it seem like there was a
creature out there."

Bigfoot in a Freezer (2008)

Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton claimed they
had stumbled upon the dead body of a Bigfoot
while hiking in the Georgia woods. The creature
was large, measuring 7 feet 7 inches tall and
weighing over 500 pounds. Nevertheless, they
managed to haul it out of the woods and store it
in a freezer. Their claim was met with
widespread skepticism, even from Bigfoot
believers, but during a press conference in Palo
Alto they indignantly stood by their story.
However, when the body in the freezer was
finally examined, it turned out to be a halloween
costume with roadkill remains dumped on top
of it. [Bigfoot Encounters]
Bigfoot Run Over (Aug 2012)
On the night of Sunday, August 26, 2012, 44-
year-old Randy Lee Tenley stepped out onto
U.S. Highway 93, just south of Kalispell,
Montana, wearing a "Ghillie" suit (the kind used
by snipers for camouflage). He was promptly
hit by a car in the southbound lane, and then was
hit again by a second car. Tenley died from his
injuries. His friends told the Highway Patrol
that he was wearing the suit in order to "incite a
sighting of Bigfoot, to make people think they
had seen a Sasquatch." It's not known if this was
Tenley's first attempt at a Bigfoot hoax.
However, dispatchers said they had received no
recent reports of Bigfoot sightings.
[nbcmontana.com]
Melba Ketchum’s Sasquatch DNA Project
(Nov 2012)
Melba Ketchum, owner of a Texas veterinary
laboratory, announced on Nov 24, 2012 that,
after a 5-year study of purported Sasquatch
tissue samples, she had determined that
Sasquatch was a human hybrid species that
arose approximately 15,000 years ago. But
when the article with her data appeared 3
months later, it was underwhelming. Her article
appeared in the Denovo Journal of Science
which, it turned out, was owned by Ketchum. In
fact, her article was the one and only paper ever
published by the journal. Skeptics noted that it
appeared Ketchum had simply analyzed
contaminated samples of human DNA.
[Skeptical Briefs]
Hank (2014)
Rick Dyer (the same Rick Dyer responsible for
the 2008 Bigfoot in a Freezer Hoax) announced
he had killed an 8-foot Bigfoot in Texas. He
called it Hank. After declaring that a university
had DNA-tested the creature and found it to be
an unknown species, Dyer took the body of the
creature on tour in early 2014, charging people
to see it. But after a few months his tour
encountered problems, and he posted a
rambling confession on Facebook, revealing
that Hank's body was a prop made of latex,
foam, and camel hair. []
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 The Power of Home Numbers 53

The Power of Home Numbers

By Jesse Kalsi
THE POWER OF HOUSE NUMBERS –

THE POWER OF HOME NUUMBERS - By Jesse Kalsi - The

information in this book is all true. It is based on Jesse Kalsi’s more
than twenty years experience in using numbers to help thousands
of people find happiness and success. Jesse says, “I have learned,
the hard way, that I benefit from working with my own personal
numbers and that I suffer when I ignore what the numbers tell me.”
The information contained in this book is all true. This is the story
of countless people with whom I’ve met over the past twenty
years. I read their energies based on their house numbers, name
numbers, dates of birth, telephone numbers, business numbers,
business addresses, bank account numbers, Social Security
numbers, and every other kind of number. I read their energies,
singly and in various combinations. Based on my intuition and
knowledge, and by the grace of God, I am thankful to have been
able to be of service to thousands of people.

ABOUT JESSE KALSI:

JESSE KALSI is a world-renowned numerologist. He specializes

in residential and business numerology and provides valuable
insight on the power of numbers and how they affect our lives. In
his book, The Power of Home Numbers, he combines his Eastern
upbringing with his Western experience to bring awareness and
understanding of this phenomenon.
Over the past 15 years, Jesse has consulted thousands of
people and affected their lives positively. His clients include
prominent business people and extremely successful
communication and entertainment companies. Jesse Kalsi has
appeared on many radio and television shows in the U.S., and his
unique perspective on Numerology has amazed his audience.
A successful real estate broker by trade, Jesse Kalsi is also
a Certified Federal Aviation Administration Flight Instructor and
holds a commercial pilot’s license. He received his Bachelor’s
Degree in India and holds an LLM in International Legal Studies
from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California.
Jesse Kalsi graduated from the National Defense Academy
of India and pursued advanced studies at the Indian Military
Academy. He served as a Captain in the 1st Battalion, 3rd Gurkha
Rifles, formerly called “The Queen’s Own.” Intending to devote
his life to military affairs, Jesse left the army when he was
informed of his true life purpose while posted at the Jammu-
Kashmir frontier. He originally came to the U.S. to learn to fly, but
eventually returned here to make his home in California.
Jesse lives in Northern California with his wife Karen,
daughter Amrita, and son Eshan.

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54 From Out of the Woodwork
From Out of the Woodwork
A Tal e of Ghost ly Proportions
by
William S Peckham
Some Of William’s Many Reviews:
From Out of the Woodwork begins with a bang. The first line
is an attention getter. The story is lively with action and
colourful characters. One of the most tragic events of the
1900s is linked with one from the 2000s. It's a good read,
with sprinkles of fun woven into some historic events that
were not so fun.
- Dorothy Brotherton, Journalist, Kelowna BC.
I enjoyed the original way the author wove history into the
story through the apparitions and his years in the home
improvement field lends an air of authenticity to the story. It's
for anyone who enjoyes a story with a touch of the
paranormal and a mystery.
- Lisa Brandt, Broadcaster and Author of Venus Rising.
www.WilliamSPeckham.com
29 Livery Lane, a century house, once a house of some
distinction and class now, fallen into disrepair, is purchased by
Sean Kennedy. Sean, a contractor in Toronto, buys old houses,
guts them and turns them into multi- family monstrosities...
slums waiting to happen. When he starts work on his latest
project, 29 Livery Lane, he encounters visions of former owners.
At first, he is stunned by these apparitions, but as time moves on
he welcomes them. Through these visions he learns about the
house and some of the nine former owners. As a result of what
he learns he decides to restore the old house not destroy it for
profit.
The apparitions come to him when he touches books,
reads letters, rummages through old boxes, finds a locket or
reads a manuscript of a murder mystery. Through his many
visions Sean gradually learns about the house, the way it looked
in grander days and the fate of nine former owners, who left their
indelible marks upon the house. The Phillips family, the original
owners, left a story of love, closeness of family and a sea
voyage, also the story of Stanley Renton, best-selling author,
arrested for a murder which took place in the old house.
The story of the Kennedys, the present owners, is also one
of love and family closeness and the deadly days of the terrorist's
attacks on the Trade Centre Towers in New York, September 11,
2001.
Sean, through his research, meets Stanley Renton the only
living, former owner. Sean and his family become very close
friends with Stanley, during the restoration period.
When an apparition of a young mother and her daughter
appears to Sean he figures that the daughter, Angelina Weston,
could still be living and she might be able to shed some light
upon the house and the way it looked. His meeting with Angelina
turns into a warm friendship with this woman, now in her late
eighties. The friendship blossoms and grows to include Stanley
Renton as well.
The tales of the former owners lead Sean down many
paths over a one-hundred-year period... from a trip on the St.
Lawrence River in a small boat in the early 1900s to the
recapture of a violent murderer in Niagara-on-the Lake, in 2001.
The closing chapter of the book connects the Kennedys,
the new owners, to the Phillips, the first owners. Stephen Phillips
sends his wife and two children to Ireland to visit her mother and
books their return on a cruise ship, April 10, 1912. Sean
Kennedy also books a holiday for his wife and two children to
visit her mother and father in England and then meet him in
Boston, on September 10, 2001. Where they plan to continue on
to Los Angeles and Disney Land the next day, September 11,
2001. Available on CreateSpace.com and Amazon.com.
 MH370 Logical and Crazy Theories
The Most Logical (And
Craziest) MH370
Conspiracy Theories
March 8, 2018 marks the four-year anniversary
of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight
370. No physical evidence of the Boeing 777
has been found, and other clues—logs of
automated satellite communications and from
military radar—have delivered more questions
than answers. The 239 passengers and crew on
board are presumed dead, and the official stance
on the fate of the plane is that it crashed—
somewhere—into the Indian Ocean, for
unknown reasons.
Flight 370 departed from Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia for Beijing, China early on March 8,
2014. It disappeared from air traffic control
radar a few hours later, before popping up on a
few military radar screens and finally
disappearing over the Andaman Sea. A
comprehensive search was undertaken across
tens of thousands of square miles of ocean in a
number of different regions, and the current
search efforts are focused on the bottom of the
Indian Ocean more than a thousand miles
southwest of Perth, Australia.
Unsurprisingly, the lack of evidence has
spawned a number of theories from all corners
of the Internet but, unlike theories surrounding
9/11 or the Kennedy assassination, few can be
categorically disproven—even the wackier
ones. Here are some of the most interesting, if
not the most logical, ideas people have come up
with.
The Cockpit Fire: One of our
favorite—and the most plausible—theories
comes from pilot Chris Goodfellow, who
suggests a fire in the cockpit led the captain to
turn to the west toward Palau Langkawi, a
nearby airstrip. The loss of communication with
the cockpit, Goodfellow says, jibes with an
electrical fire and the need for the crew to focus
on flying the plane rather than radioing in a
distress call. He thinks the pilots could have
passed out or succumbed to smoke inhalation,
with the plane flying for hours until it ran out of
fuel and crashed. It's a great theory, except for
the lack of any solid evidence to support it.
Russian Special Ops Took It: An article
in New York magazine hypothesizes that
nefarious actors could have broken into the
electronics-and-equipment bay on the 777,
accessed through the first-class cabin. A well-
trained hijacker could theoretically have started
pulling the plane's electronics apart and faked
some of the satellite data that researchers have
used to try to pinpoint the path of the flight.
Jeff Wise claims the plane must then
have gone north, into Asia, rather than south
over the Indian Ocean, and into Kazakhstan
where there are runways and buildings large
enough to hide a Boeing 777. It's a well-
researched piece that doesn't prove anything.
Faked Flight Plan: An email we
received suggests that someone on board
hijacked the plane, and kept its location
concealed by faking a flight plan from an
uncontrolled airport. Then, the pilots could
pretend to be a small business jet, and proceed to
some hidden airfield somewhere with no one the
wiser. Except for the fact that it's tricky to hide a
Boeing 777 and several hundred passengers and
crew.
US Military Shot It Down: The atoll of
Diego Garcia, complete with US military base,
is located in the middle of the Indian Ocean. One
theory suggests that the plane was headed there
on some sort of kamikaze mission and it was
secretly shot down by the US military before it
could reach its target. The Americans would
then have faked the satellite data and scooped up
every last bit of debris to keep the fate of the
plane and its passengers secret. This one is
particularly unlikely since the cleanup of the
airplane would have taken way too many people
to keep things quiet.
It's in Pakistan: Rupert Murdoch
hypothesized that the plane's disappearance was
part of a jihadist plot to "make trouble for
China" and that the fight could have landed in
northern Pakistan "like Bin Laden", whatever
55
that means. Others have said the plane could be
outfitted with explosives or even a nuclear
weapon for future delivery, as if a big, slow, less
than agile passenger jet is the best tool for that.
Supernatural Forces: Thanks to Reddit
for theories that the plane could have been
snatched out of the sky by aliens, or a wormhole
that sent it back in time like once occurred in an
episode of The Twilight Zone. Or perhaps a
black hole ate the plane, as suggested by CNN
anchor Don Lemon.
We're big fans of Occam's Razor, which
suggests that the theory with the fewest
assumptions is most likely to be correct. That
means the plane most likely crashed in the
gigantic Southern Indian Ocean, and no debris
was found because the search for the missing
aircraft started in the wrong place. But until—if
ever—we get more evidence, that reasonable
guess is no more sure than any of these.
Ries Vangalen of Simcoe, Ontario claims
that by using a method of dowsing using a
pendulum, and by putting a world map on the
floow, he has been able to pinpoint the final
resting location of Flight 370 is in the India
Ocean at 23.9 degrees latitude and 90 degrees
longitude, which is west of Australia.
Vangalen has sent letters to the members
of the media, Australian High Commission in
Ottawa, High Commission of Malaysia,
Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Ocean
Infinity and other sources, who have ignored his
mystical findings.
An inquiry made by ‘X’ Chronicles
Newspaper staff, authorities claim that after a
major incident involving the loss of life, they are
undated with crystal ball, tarot, psychic,
medium, dowsing, pendulum practitioners who
all claim to have received their information from
supernatural forces. These receive little or no
attention and focus on the scientific and physical
used by experts in the solving of their mysteries.
John Ventre with MUFON (Mutual UFO
Network) believes that Flight 370, passengers
and crew were abducted by a huge UFO in
Earth’s orbit.
Or maybe a meteor hit it? []
 56 Did You Know - About Howard Hughes
DID YOU KNOW...
About Howard Hughes
Continued from Page 6
- In the 1950s, Robert Mitchum was selected by
Hughes to appear in a series of films he was
producing. Hughes considered Mitchum a
"friend," but (as a paranoid recluse) hardly met
the actor. Mitchum was half-way put-off and
half-way amused by this "crazy, old man" and
clearly saw that he was a surrogate for Hughes
as the strapping actor "romanced" young starlets
on screen.
- It has variously been hypothesized that his
crazed behavior in his later, reclusive years was
caused by brain damage resulting from a series
of accidents, OCD, bipolar disorder, or even
paranoid-schizophrenia.
- When he produced films, he became obsessed
with busty actresses and famously invented a
prototype of the push-up bra to make Jane
Russell as busty as possible in The Outlaw
(1943). Most of the movies he produced are
typlified by beautiful, half-naked women and
nonsensical action sequences.
- The Aviator (2004), the movie based on his
life, was released on what would have been his
99th birthday.
- Houston, Texas, has two major commercial
airports: William P. Hobby Airport, and Houston
Intercontinental Airport. For a brief period,
Hobby Airport was renamed Howard Hughes
airport. Houstonians objected to it being named
after a living person, so this change was short
lived, and the name eventually reverted back to
being Hobby Airport. In 1997, Intercontinental
Airport was renamed Bush Intercontinental,
after the still-living President George Bush,
whose son was Governor of Texas at the time.
- Became obsessed with Communism during the
McCarthy "Red Scare" era. His film The Whip
Hand (1951) was originally about a group of
Nazi scientists who smuggled the body of Adolf
Hitler into the U.S. and worked to revive Hitler
in order to try to take over the world again. After
it was finished Hughes had it reshot, at great
expense, to change the villains into Nazi
scientists who are now working for the
Communists and have taken over a small
American town in order to test germ warfare
experiments on its citizens before they unleash
the deadly viruses in the U.S.
- On July 7, 1946, actress Rosemary DeCamp
and her husband were in their house in Beverly
Hills, California, when an aircraft piloted by
Hughes crashed into the roof of the house next
door, and its wing was torn off and sliced
through the roof of her house, landing in the
bedroom, where she and her husband were. The
plane, an experimental model Hughes had
developed called the XF-11, had experienced
propeller reversal on the right engine after
taking off from the airport at nearby Culver City.
It finally came to rest after crashing through the
wall of the house of another of DeCamp's
neighbors and exploding. Hughes was rescued returned to it.
from the cockpit by Marine Sergeant, William
Lloyd Durkin. Hughes was severely injured with - Nephew of actor/screenwriter Rupert Hughes.
a broken leg, multiple cracked ribs on his left
side, a dislodged heart, a fractured skull, burns Books About Howard Hughes:
and abrasions over 65% of his body. He was
given a 50-50 chance to survive. He paid for the • Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness by
damage to the houses in the neighborhood out of Donald L. Barlett
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weekly paycheck until the day he died. • Howard Hughes: The Untold Storyby Peter
Harry Brown
- Is portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in The
Aviator (2004), by Victor Holchak in Hughes • Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101
and Harlow: Angels in Hell (1978), by Tommy Remarkable Meetings
Lee Jones in The Amazing Howard Hughes
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Howard (1980), by Terry O'Quinn in The
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Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) Porter
- Is portrayed by David Neff in Bettie Page: • Howard Hughes: The Las Vegas Years the
Dark Angel (2004) and by Milton Buras in The Women, the Mormons, the Mafia by John
Hoax (2006) Harris Sheridan
- Leonardo DiCaprio and Jason Robards • Howard Hughes' Final Years: Based On An
received Oscar-nominations for portraying Examination Of The Hughes Papers by
Hughes in a movie. Elaine Davenport
- The hangar that used to house his famous • Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia and
airplane, the "Spruce Goose," has been used in Palace Intrigue by Geoff Schumacher
subsequent years as a filming studio.
• The Passions Of Howard Hughes by Terry
- He was a staunch supporter of the Republican Moore
Party
• The Mysterious Howard Hughes
- He was a staunch supporter of the Republican Revealedby Verl L. Frehner
Party and an active anti-communist.His reported
appearance when he was found dead was • Next to Hughes: Behind the Power and
extremely bizarre. He was covered in uncut, Tragic Downfall of Howard Hughes by His
matted hair, had extremely long toenails, and the Closest Advisor by Robert Maheu
once strapping, 6' 4" man weighed an incredibly
low 90 pounds. • The Asylum of Howard Hughes by Jack G.
Real
- Had a strong aversion to black people. For
many years, he had a private screening room at • Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos &
the Samuel Goldwyn Studios in Hollywood Letters by Richard Hack
where he would watch movies by himself at
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Porgy and Bess (1959), an all-black musical Higham
being made on the lot, was using the screening
room each afternoon to watch the footage that • Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and
had been shot the previous day. Horrified that the Madness of the Man portrayed in the
blacks used the same room he did, and that some Movie THE AVIATOR by Michael Drosnin
may even have sat in the same seat he did, he []
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 Enjoy A WESTGATE Vacation!
Champ - The Lake
Monster of Lake
Champlain
Champ, or Champie, or Big Rem, is the name
given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake
Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North
America, partially situated across the U.S.-
Canadian border in the Canadian province of
Quebec and partially situated across the
Vermont-New York border. While there is no
scientific evidence for the cryptid's existence,
there have been over 300 reported sightings. The
legend of the monster is considered a draw for
tourism in the Burlington, Vermont and
Plattsburg, New York areas.
Like the Loch Ness Monster, while most
regard Champ as legend, others have speculated
it is possible such a creature does live deep in
the lake, possibly a relative of the plesiosaur, an
extinct group of aquatic reptiles.
Two Native American tribes living in the
area near Lake Champlain, the Iroquois and the
Abenaki, had legends about such a creature. The
Abenaki called the creature "Tatoskok".
An account of a creature in Lake
Champlain was ostensibly given in 1609 by
French explorer Samuel de Champlain, the
founder of Québec and the lake's namesake, who
is supposed to have spotted the creature as he
was fighting the Iroquois on the bank of the lake.
However, in actuality no such sighting was
recorded, and it has since been traced back to a
1970 article.
A report in the Plattsburg Republican
dated July 24, 1819, titled "Cape Ann Serpent on
Lake Champlain", gives the account of a "Capt.
Crum" sighting an enormous serpentine
monster.
The first reported sighting actually came
in 1883 when Sheriff Nathan H. Mooney
claimed that he had seen a “…gigantic water
serpent about 50 yards away” from where he
was on the shore. He claimed that he was so
57
close that he could see “round white spots inside
its mouth” and that “the creature appeared to be
about 25 to 30 feet in length”. Mooney’s
sighting led to many eyewitnesses coming
forward with their own accounts of Champ
sightings. Mooney’s story predated the public
Loch Ness controversy by 50 years.
Champ became so popular that P.T.
Barnum, in the late 19th century, put a reward of
$50,000 up for a carcass of Champ. Barnum
wanted the carcass of Champ so that he could
include it in his epic World’s Fair Show (Krystek
3).
Some believe that Champ may be a
plesiosaur similar to “Nessie”, claiming the two
lakes have much in common. Like Loch Ness,
Lake Champlain is over 400 feet (120 m) deep,
and both lakes were formed from retreating
glaciers. Believers also claim both lakes support
fish populations large enough to feed a supposed
sea or lake monster. This legend would require
either a single animal, or a sizable breeding
population. []
 58 18 Lake Monsters of Canada & USA
18 Waters in the U.S. and
Canada that Have
Reported Mystery Lake
Monsters
At least 18 different bodies of water in the U.S.
and Canada have reported some kind of lake
monsters swimming in their waters and we’ve
got them all right here.
Since humans decided to paint on the walls of
caves, make totem poles, or simply write it all
down on paper they have found all kinds of
monsters to report.
Those natives of North America that
lived on or near the water found themselves
having a front row seat to some of the most
amazing sightings in history, and were bound to
record them.
Between stories passed down from
generation to generation and first-hand eye
witness accounts, these are some of the most
bizarre and astonishing things that people have
seen swimming our lakes.
Here are the stories behind some of the
most famous and bizarre things to appear out of
the water.
1. Cold Lake- Alberta
Word has it that this deep lake in
Alberta, that stays cold year-round, is home to a
mammoth fish called the Kinosoo.
The Cree tell a story about a young
warrior that set out to cross the lake to be with
his betrothed when he was attacked.
The entire canoe was broken in two and
pieces were found floating around the lake for
days. The warrior was never seen again.
McNeil Life Stories
2. Thetis Lake- British Columbia
The Thetis Lake monster, a.k.a. the
Canadian lizard man, was first reported on
Vancouver Island in 1972.
The creature was seen by two teenagers
who said they were chased by a five-foot
humanoid reptilian with a large head covered by
barbed spikes.
One of the boys suffered a gash on his
hand as a result of being attacked by the
monster.
3. Cameron Lake- British Columbia
“Cammie” has been sighted in this Canadian
lake since the 1980s and even researchers are
convinced that there’s something down there.
Locals in the Vancouver Island area
where it has been seen can’t decide whether it’s
a fish, eel, or something else altogether.
One thing that they all agree on is that
it’s big.
4. Cadboro Bay- British Columbia
The “left coast” of Canada seems to be
replete with unusual creatures, such as Caddy.
Some reports say that the monster of the bay
was first seen in the early 1900s.
Given the scientific name
Cadborosaurus willsi, it’s said to be a serpent-
like animal over 50 feet long with the head of a
horse and flippers.
In 1934, two duck hunters trying to
retrieve a downed bird watched in horror as the
beast rose to snatch it, snapped at some seagulls
and submerged.
5. Raystown Lake- Pennsylvania 10. Lake Erie - NY, PA, Ohio, MI,
Reports here are of a Nessie-type Ontario
creature in one the Quaker state’s manmade
reservoirs.
With sightings going back decades of a
large creature with a long neck and a small
head, there are plenty of reasons to believe one
lives in Raystown Lake.
6. Fulk Lake – Indiana
A snapping turtle reportedly weighing in
at a massive 500 pounds was discovered in 1898
and then seen again in 1948.
The second time around the gargantuan
‘cooter’ was seen by three people, including the
farmer that owned the land.
Dubbed the Beast of Busco it was never
found again despite numerous attempts to
photograph it, even draining the lake.
7. Lake Willoughby- Vermont
Ever since 1868, when a report of a
young boy killing a 23-foot-long water snake,
reports of giant snake-like creatures in the lake
have persisted.
Spotted by divers and people combing
the shoreline, Willy may be simply a large
species of eel or something else altogether.
8. Lake Simcoe - Ontario
The creature known as Igopogo is said
to have a short body with the head and face of a
dog.
Eye witnesses have stated that it likes to
use the shoreline and will even lie in the sun for
extended periods.
This slower-moving animal is
speculated to be kin to the Irish crocodile or
“Dobhar-chu.”
9. Lake Manitoba- Manitoba
Native peoples of the region have long
identified Manipogo as a 50-foot-long animal
with a sheep-like head and a mane of hair.
People on the lake often see multiple
humps undulating about in the water and have
reported a large fearsome head.
In August 1962, the only known photo
was taken from a boat by two veteran
fishermen.
Since the late 1700s, sightings of the
creature on the big lake known as Bessie have
been ongoing.
People, mainly shipboard sailors, have
reported seeing a huge snake-like animal with
brownish eyes and silver scales the size of half
dollars.
One report from a sailing vessel in 1892
described a huge sea serpent churning up a foam
in the water as if it was fighting something, only
to relax and show itself to be some 50-60 feet
long with flippers and huge eyes.
11. Lake Superior- MI, WI, MN,
Ontario
An unusual sighting in this lake, even on
a list of such unusual things, is the ugly
merman.
Since the 1700s, reports of a half-man
half-fish “merbeing” have been coming in from
around the largest of all the Great Lakes.
In 1782 a voyageur with an Ojibwe
guide watched a strange finned creature
swimming about 75 yards offshore that he
described as having the upper body of a human
being with a human face, brilliant eyes, and a
dark complexion.
12. Muskrat Lake- Ontario
Witnesses say that Mussie is a 25-foot-
long sea serpent living in the lake that has three
eyes and prefers to tower over its prey just
before going in for the kill.
More recent reports are of a large hump-
laden animal with powerful fins seen
throughout the 70s and 80s.
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18 Waters in the U.S. and
Canada that Have
Reported Mystery Lake
Monsters
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13. Lake Tahoe- Nevada, California

First reported by Native American tribes,
the large serpent-like creature in the lake is said
to be over 80 feet in length with multiple humps
emerging from the water.
In the last 50 years, boaters and
fishermen on the lake have seen and reported
Tahoe Tessie many times, including one
eyewitness report by police and divers in the
area.

14. Lake Memphremagog - Quebec &

Vermont
Over the last 150 years there have been
more than 200 sightings of the mysterious
Memphre in this lake.
The creature is purported to have an
elongated neck, small head, and a wide body
with flippers similar to that of Nessie in
Scotland. times over many years. C:Canada M:North America N:Ogopogo
Another of the Loch Ness Monster type
15. Wallowa Lake - Oregon of creatures, it is said to possibly be a leftover L:Seneca Lake A:New York C:USA M:North
This beast of the northwest is said to from the glacial age when Champlain was easily America N:The Serpent
have a long body and horns on its head. accessible from the Atlantic Ocean.
Native tribes were well aware of a Most witnesses recall seeing a wide- L:Cayuga Lake A:New York C:USA M:North
creature living in the waters of this lake for bodied animal with a long slender neck and a America N:Old Greeny
many years. head the size of a goat. It has flippers and moves
A prospector in the 1800s crossing the gracefully, albeit quickly. L:Lake Teedyuskung A:Pennsylvania C:USA
lake in a boat described it as 110 feet long, Champ has been ingrained into the local M:North America N:Teedy
having a large flat head, and bellowed like a cultures as a real and unique, if not proven,
cow. species and is actually protected under New L:Ballston Lake A:New York C:USA M:North
York and Vermont law. America N:Big Tim
16. Crescent Lake - Newfoundland
Referred to as “Woodum Haoot,” or Have ancient sea creatures survived and thrived L:Reindeer Lake A:Saskatchewan C:Country
pond devil by Native Canadians, Cressie has a in the lakes and waterways of North America? M:North America N:None Given
reputation for being a long eel-like animal that Could these things simply be credible
swims on the lake. animals such as sturgeons, seals, or even large L:Thetis Lake A:British Columbia C:Canada
Two men in the 1950s trying to retrieve eels? M:North America N:Thetis Lake Monster
an “overturned boat” watched as it spun around Perhaps these are some undiscovered
and dove under the water. species, shy and elusive but living right under L:Lake Manitoba A:Manitoba C:Canada
In the 1980s two divers attempting to our noses. M:North America N:Manipogo
recover the body of a downed pilot were Since humans have lived in what we now
attacked by a school of unusually large eels and call the United States and Canada they have L:Cold Lake A:Alberta C:Canada :North
were forced to retreat. been documenting stories about large creatures America N:Kinosoo
swimming in the water.
17. Okanagan Lake - British Columbia When you look at all the pictures and L:Lake Winnipegosis A:Manitoba C:Canada
The name Ogopogo is synonymous with video it’s hard to make a real call, isn’t it? [] M:North America N:Winnipogo
lake monsters in North America right next to
L:Crescent Lake A:Newfoundland and
Champ. Reported Lake Monster Labrador C:Canada M:North America
Described as a huge sea-snake over 50
feet in length and having a head like a horse, from Around The World: N:Cressie
Ogopogo has been seen by humans since the
19th century. Key for the following:l L:Lake Simcoe A:Ontario C:Canada M:North
In 1926, 30 cars full of people near L - Lake America N:Igopogo
Mission Beach all claimed to see the same large A - Area
creature swimming in the lake. C - Country L:Muskrat Lake A:Ontario C:Canada M:North
Several grainy videos and numerous M - Continent America N:Mussie
pictures have supported the sightings, but still N - Name
proven nothing. L:Lake Superior A:Ontario C:Canada M:North
L:Lake Mendota A:Wisconsin C:USA M:North America N:Mishipeshu
18. Lake Champlain - NY, VT, Quebec America N:Bozho
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One of the most famous of all lake
monsters, Champ has been reported hundreds of L:Okanagan Lake A:British Columbia
 60 Lake Monsters From Around The World
Reported Lake Monster
from Around The World:
Continued from Page 59
L:Lake Pepin A:Minnesota C:USA M:North
America N:Pepie
L:Lake Ontario A:Ontario C:Canada M:North
America N:Kingstie
L:Lake Ontario A:New York C:USA M:North
America N:Gaasyendietha
L:Lake Temiskaming A:Ontario C:Canada
M:North American N:Mugwump
L:Lake Memphrémagog A:Quebec C:Canada
M:North America N:Memphre
L:White River A:Arkansas C:USA M:North
America N:White River Monster, "Whitey"
L:Lake Tahoe A:California C: USA M:North
America N:Tahoe Tessie
L:Lake Tarpon A:Florida C:USA M:North
America N:Tarpie
L:Payette Lake A:Idaho C:USA M:North
America N:Sharlie, Slimy Slim
L:Fulks Lake A:Indiana C:USA M:North
America N:Beast of 'Busco, Oscar the Turtle
L:Flathead Lake A:Montana C:USA M:North
America N:Flathead Lake Monster
L:Lake Hopatcong A:New Jersey C:USA
M:North America N:"Lake Hopatcong
Monster"
L:Lake Champlain A:New York, Vermont,
Quebec C:USA and Canada M:North America
N:Champ
L:Lake Willoughby A:Vermont C:USA
M:North America N:Willy
L:Hudson River A:New York C:USA M:North
America N:Hudson River Monster, "Kipsy"
L:Lake Erie A:Ohio C:USA M:North America
N:Bessie, South Bay Bessie
L:Bear Lake A:Idaho, Utah C:USA M:North
America N:Bear Lake Monster, Isabella
L:Raystown Lake A:Pennsylvania C:USA
M:North America N:Raystown Ray
L:Great Salt Lake A:Utah C:USA M:North
America N:North Shore Monster
L:Arenal Lagoon A:Alajuela C:Costa Rica
M:Central America N:None Given
L:Lake Nahuel Huapi A:Rio Negro Province,
Neuquén Province C:Argentina M:South
America N:"Nahuelito"
L:Lago Dilolo C:Angola M:Africa N:Chipekwe
L:Mamfe Pool C:Cameroon M:Africa
N:Mokele-mbembe
L:Dilolo Swamps C:Democratic Republic of
the Congo M:Africa N:Chipekwe
L:Lake Edward C:Democratic Republic of the
Congo M:Africa N:Irizima
L:Maika marshes C:Democratic Republic of
the Congo M:Africa N:Mahamba
L:Lake Victoria C:Kenya M:Africa M:Lukwata
L:Lake Makele C:Republic of the Congo
M:Africa N:Mokele-mbembe
L:Lake Tanganyika C:Tanzania M:North
America N:Chipekwe, Pamba
L:Lake Bangweulu C:Zambia M:Africa
N:Chipekwe
L:Kafue Flats C:Zambia M:Africa N:Chipekwe
L:Lake Mweru C:Zambia M:Africa
N:Chipekwe
L:Lake Shiwa Ngandu C:Zambia M:Africa
N:Chipekwe
L:Bangweulu Swamp C:Zambia M:Africa
N:Nsanga
L:Lake Kariba C:Zimbabwe M:Africa
N:Nyaminyami
L:Bassenthwaite Lake A:England C:United
Kingdom M:Europe N:Eachy
L:Loch Ness A:Scotland C:United Kingdom
M:Europe N:Nessie
L:Loch Morar A:Scotland C:United Kingdom
M:Europe N:Morag
L:Loch Maree A:Scotland C:United Kingdom
M:Europe N:Muc-sheilch
L:Lagarfljót C:Iceland M:Europe N:Lagarfljót
Worm
L:Lakes of Killarney A:Munster C:Ireland
M:Europe N:Muckie
L:Lake Como C:Italy M:Europe N:Lariosauro
L:Seljordsvatnet A:Telemark C:Norway
M:Europe N:Seljordsormen
L:Storsjön C:Sweden M:Europe
N:Storsjöodjuret
L:Gryttjen C:Sweden M:Europe N:Gryttie
L:Brosno Lake A:Tver Oblast C:Russia
M:Europe N:Brosno Dragon
L:Labynkyr Lake A:Sakha Republic C:Russia
M:Asia N:The Devil
L:Lake Van C:Turkey M:Asia N:Lake Van
Monster
L:Lake Kanas C:China M:Asia N:Lake Kanas
Creatures
L:Tian Chi A:Lake Tianchi C:China M:Asia
N:Lake Tianchi Monster
L:Lake Ikeda A:Kagoshima C:Japan M:Asia
N:"Issie"
L:Lake Kussharo A:Hokkaidō C:Japan M:Asia
N:"Kusshii"
L:Traunsee Lake A:Austria C:Austria
M:Europe N:Lungy
L:Lake Pinatubo A:Zambales C:Philippines
M:Asia N:Pinatubo monster
L:Lake Modewarre A:Victoria C:Australia
M:Australia N:"Bunyip"
L:Lake Utopia A:New Brunswick C:Canada
M:North America N:”Old Ned”
L:Bueng Khong Long A:Bueng Kan :Thailand
M:Asia N:"Phaya Nak" []
 Evidence of Ghosts Has Not Materialized 61
Are Ghosts Real? —
Evidence Has Not
Materialized
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Ghost hunters use many creative (and

dubious) methods to detect the spirits'
presences, often including psychics. Virtually
all ghost hunters claim to be scientific, and most
give that appearance because they use high-tech
scientific equipment such as Geiger counters,
Electromagnetic Field (EMF) detectors, ion
detectors, infrared cameras and sensitive
microphones. Yet none of this equipment has
ever been shown to actually detect ghosts. For
centuries, people believed that flames turned
blue in the presence of ghosts. Today, few
people accept that bit of lore, but it's likely that
many of the signs taken as evidence by today's
ghost hunters will be seen as just as wrong and
antiquated centuries from now.
Other researchers claim that the reason
ghosts haven't been proven to exist is that we
simply don't have the right technology to find or
transferred into the animals that eat us (i.e., wild enjoyment of pretending they are searching the
detect the spirit world. But this, too, can't be
animals if we are left unburied, or worms and edge of the unknown. After all, everyone loves a
correct: Either ghosts exist and appear in our
bacteria if we are interred), and the plants that good ghost story. []
ordinary physical world (and can therefore be
absorb us. There is no bodily "energy" that
detected and recorded in photographs, film,
survives death to be detected with popular
video and audio recordings), or they don't. If
ghost-hunting devices.
The Scariest Ghost
ghosts exist and can be scientifically detected or
recorded, then we should find hard evidence of
While amateur ghost hunters like to Movies of All Time
imagine themselves on the cutting edge of ghost
that — yet we don't. If ghosts exist but cannot
research, they are really engaging in what
be scientifically detected or recorded, then all
folklorists call ostension or legend tripping. It's 15. The Haunting (1963)
the photos, videos, audio and other recordings
basically a form of playacting in which people
claimed to be evidence of ghosts cannot be
"act out" a legend, often involving ghosts or 14. The Baby’s Room (2006)
ghosts. With so many basic contradictory
supernatural elements. In his book "Aliens,
theories — and so little science brought to bear
Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live" 13. The Conjuring (2013)
on the topic — it's not surprising that despite the
(University Press of Mississippi, 2003)
efforts of thousands of ghost hunters on
folklorist Bill Ellis points out that ghost hunters 12. The Sixth Sense (1999)
television and elsewhere for decades, not a
themselves often take the search seriously and
single piece of hard evidence of ghosts has been
"venture out to challenge supernatural beings,
found.
confront them in consciously dramatized form, 11. Poltergeist (1982)
And, of course, with the recent
then return to safety. ... The stated purpose of
development of "ghost apps" for smartphones,
such activities is not entertainment but a sincere 10. Paranormal Activity (2009)
it's easier than ever to create seemingly spooky
effort to test and define boundaries of the 'real'
images and share them on social media, making
world." 09. The Innocents (1961)
separating fact from fiction even more difficult
If ghosts are real, and are some sort of
for ghost researchers.
as-yet-unknown energy or entity, then their 08. Insidious (2011)
Why many believe
existence will (like all other scientific
Most people who believe in ghosts do so
discoveries) be discovered and verified by
because of some personal experience; they grew
scientists through controlled experiments — not 07. The Changeling (1980)
up in a home where the existence of (friendly)
by weekend ghost hunters wandering around
spirits was taken for granted, for example, or
abandoned houses in the dark late at night with 06. The Amityville Horror (1979)
they had some unnerving experience on a ghost
cameras and flashlights.
tour or local haunt. However, many people
In the end (and despite mountains of 05. Lake Mungo (2010)
believe that support for the existence of ghosts
ambiguous photos, sounds, and videos) the
can be found in no less a hard science than
evidence for ghosts is no better today than it was 04. Session 9 (2001)
modern physics. It is widely claimed that Albert
a year ago, a decade ago, or a century ago. There
Einstein suggested a scientific basis for the
are two possible reasons for the failure of ghost
reality of ghosts, based on the First Law of
hunters to find good evidence. The first is that 03. The Ring (2002)
Thermodynamics: if energy cannot be created
ghosts don't exist, and that reports of ghosts can
or destroyed but only change form, what
be explained by psychology, misperceptions, 02. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
happens to our body's energy when we die?
mistakes and hoaxes. The second option is that
Could that somehow be manifested as a ghost?
ghosts do exist, but that ghost hunters are simply 01. The Shining (1980)
It seems like a reasonable assumption —
incompetent and need to bring more science to
unless you understand basic physics. The
the search. For the very best of radio programming
answer is very simple, and not at all mysterious.
Ultimately, ghost hunting is not about in the Paranormal and Parapsychology
After a person dies, the energy in his or her
the evidence (if it was, the search would have Join Rob McConnell On
body goes where all organisms' energy goes
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after death: into the environment. The energy is
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released in the form of heat, and the body is
62 The Sun Is Gone
THE SUN IS GONE
A Sister Lost in Secrets, Shame, and Addiction, and How I Broke Free
What they are saying about The Sun Is
Gone
“A deeply intimate and moving story of trauma, loss,
addiction, tragedy and the possibility of redemption.” –
Gabor Maté M.D., author of In the Realm of Hungry
Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction.
"Addiction is a family disease and it will take a change of a
whole family to turn it around. A poignant story of sibling
love, the ability to change and the impact family structure has
on recovery." - Dr. Frank Lawlis, Author Not My Child,
Chairman of the Dr. Phil Advisory Board and Co-founder
of the Lawlis Peavey PNP Center.
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help her brother and ultimately herself. The Sun is Gone
highlights the need to take personal responsibility for our
choices, mistakes, and the learning process that is inherent in
making real changes in your life." -- Carrie Wilkens Ph.D.,
Co-author Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness
Help People Change
www.JodeeProuse.com
How many times have you lost yourself in some chronic family crisis,
giving and giving until there is no more left to give—and yet you give
more. Out of love, out of duty, out of knowing that everyone looks to
you?
Whether that awful situation is a result of a horribly
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As women, we have often learned from childhood that we are
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Jodee Prouse knows this from experience. Her painfully honest
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 On Planet Earth All Lives Matter
THE SCIENCE OF MAGIC
with GWILDA WIYAKA
Gwilda Wiyaka author of So, We're Still Here. Now What? Spiritual
Evolution and Personal Empowerment in a New Era, is considered by
many to be today's foremost expert on the modern day application of
ancient shamanic principles. She is the founder and director of the
Path Home Shamanic Arts School, a Colorado state-certified
occupational school of the shamanic arts. Gwilda is also a preceptor
for the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where she
provides instruction to medical doctors on the modern interface
between shamanism and allopathic medicine for the University's
School of Medicine's Complementary and Alternative Medicine
course.Radio Talk Show Host, author, teacher, singer, musician,
visionary and much more. Email - gwildawiyaka@xzbn.net
www.XZBN.net
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CONNECTING WITH COINCIDENCE
with DR. BERNARD BEITMAN, MD
Dr. Bernie Beitman, MD, author Connecting with Coincidence: The
New Science for Using Synchronicity and Serendipity in Your Life, is
the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the
study of coincidences. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of
Virginia and former Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the
University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale and completed a
psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. B has received two national
awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally
known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and
panic disorder. In addition, he has edited two issues of Psychiatric
Annals that focus on coincidences. Dr. B is the founder of
Coincidence Studies. To contact Dr B - drberniemd@xzbn.net
www.XZBN.net
 64 Large Hadron Collider Disproves Ghosts
A Physicist Explained
Why The Large Hadron
Collider Disproves The
Existence of Ghosts
www.sciencealert.com
Recent polls have found that 42 percent of
Americans and 52 percent of people in the UK
believe in ghosts - a huge percentage when you
consider that no one has ever come up with
irrefutable proof that they even exist.
But we might have had proof that they
don't exist all along, because as British
theoretical physicist Brian Cox recently pointed
out, there's no room in the Standard Model of
Physics for a substance or medium that can carry
on our information after death, and yet go
undetected in the Large Hadron Collider.
"If we want some sort of pattern that
carries information about our living cells to
persist, then we must specify precisely what
medium carries that pattern, and how it interacts
with the matter particles out of which our bodies
are made," Cox, from the University of
Manchester, explained in an episode of BBC's
The Infinite Monkey Cage.
"We must, in other words, invent an
extension to the Standard Model of Particle
Physics that has escaped detection at the Large
Hadron Collider. That's almost inconceivable at
the energy scales typical of the particle
interactions in our bodies."
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson,
who was also on the show, replied, "If I
understand what you just declared, you just
asserted that CERN, the European Centre for
Nuclear Research, disproved the existence of
ghosts."
"Yes," said Cox.
It's become glaringly obvious that the
Standard Model of Physics is an incomplete
theory, with several gaping holes that physicists
have been trying to patch up for decades, but
Cox says the existence of ghosts doesn't fall
within the 'known unknowns' of the Standard
Model.
Instead, he says it directly contradicts
one of the most rigorously tested and
fundamental laws of the Universe we have - the
second law of thermodynamics.
The second law of thermodynamics
states that the total entropy of an isolated system
always increases over time.
Entropy is a measure of the randomness
or disorder within a closed or isolated system,
and the second law of thermodynamics states
that as usable energy is lost, chaos increases -
and without extra energy being put into a
system, that progression towards disorder can
never be reversed.
In other words, energy is always lost to
heat in any system - whether it's a washing
machine or the Universe - and you can never get
back all the energy you put in.
The principle can be used to explain why
the arrow of time only ever marches forwards;
why there's a past, future, and present; and why
you can't un-scramble an egg, because it would
lower the Universe's entropy.
So how does that apply to ghosts?
Because we can't touch and interact with
them, ghosts can't be made of matter, but instead
of energy.
And if energy is necessarily lost within
every system - particularly if they're doing
anything that requires using more of it, such as
moving, emitting light, or making spooky
sounds - it would be impossible for them to
maintain their existence for any significant
period of time.
The second nail in the coffin comes from
the Large Hadron Collider, because while there
are things about the Universe we still can't find
using this giant particle accelerator, what we can
see very well is the way energy drives our cells'
information.
If we assume that the energy that
sustains ghosts isn't an entirely new substance or
medium, but carries on from when we were
living, then this mysterious force controlling the
particles that make up our cells would have been
detected in the Large Hadron Collider by now.
"I would say if there's some kind of
substance that's driving our bodies, making my
arms move and legs move, then it must interact
with the particles out of which our bodies are
made," says Cox.
"And seeing as we've made high
precision measurements of the ways that
particles interact, then my assertion is that there
can be no such thing as an energy source that's
driving our bodies."
DeGrasse Tyson adds to this by saying
that while he, like many people, has experienced
"haunting experiences" in the past, he's yet to
really find a phenomenon that's defied his
complete knowledge of physics, maths, and
astrophysics.
But that doesn't mean he doesn't get the
very human urge to want to believe in the
lingering dead.
"In that moment, there's a mystery, and
it's kinda fun," he says.
"And that allows me to understand, and
even embrace, the urge that people have to want
there to be this deep mystery, such as ghosts of
ancestors. I have a soft spot for what that
psychological state is, because I've felt that
intermittently, except I kept exploring and
getting the answer."
You can download and listen to the whole
segment at the BBC's website. []
Barnum Effect
Barnum Effect : is a term that is used in
psychology. It is the tendency for people to
accept very general or vague characterizations
of themselves and take them to be accurate. A
good example of this can be seen when people
believe what is said about them in psychometric
tests, personality profiles, astrological
predictions, and so on. This phenomenon is
named after P. T. Barnum, who believed that a
good circus had "a little something for
everybody." Even though the descriptions or
descriptive terms used in the inventories,
typologies, and tests can apply equally well to
other people, some individuals are gullible
enough to believe they are unique to themselves.
Of course, this is exactly what happens with the
horoscope, palm reading, and crystal ball gazing
(Referring to the comments of P.T. Barnum,
1810-1891, American showman, about public
gullibility). []
“The difference between a dream
and reality is just doing it.”
- Rob McConnell
 NASA Engineer Debunks Online UFOs
This Former NASA
Engineer Has Debunked
Pretty Much Every Online
UFO Sighting
scienceaf.com
You've probably seen more than your fair share
of stories about UFO sightings. An astronaut on
the ISS just has to catch footage of a fireball
shooting across Earth's skies, and conspiracy
theorists have a field day. Whether it's clouds
that look like spaceships or rogue meteors, the
internet loves a good alien conspiracy.
But former NASA engineer James Oberg
has taken it upon himself to trawl through all the
sightings and stories out there and politely
debunk them, using science.
The conclusion? Most of your "insane
UFO sightings" are little more than 'space
dandruff', or your brain misunderstanding of
what space travel actually looks like, says
Oberg.
As Cara Giaimo from Atlas Obscura
reports, after working at NASA mission control
in the late '90s, Oberg went on to become a
space journalist and historian. It wasn't until a
few years ago that he started to take UFO
sightings seriously.
His goal isn't to simply crap all over true
believers - he calls that "stomping on dormice" -
instead he's interested in teasing out exactly
what's going on in these images and videos, and
trying to figure out why people are reacting so
strongly to them.
His hypothesis? Our human senses are so
used to focussing on relatively slow-moving
objects, as well as certain light and atmosphere
conditions, that when things change, our brains
get confused.
"Our sensory system is functioning
absolutely perfectly for Earth conditions,"
Oberg told Giaimo. "But we're still a local
civilisation. Moving beyond our neighbourhood
has been visually confusing."
Some of the most common sighting he
has to debunk are to do with NASA astronauts
reportedly seeing UFOS and being forced to
keep silent, which Oberg says is a result of us
watching too much sci-fi and not really
understanding what space really looks like.
"I've had enough experience with real
spaceflight to realise that what's being seen in
many videos is nothing beyond the 'norm' from
fully mundane phenomena occurring in
unearthly settings," Oberg writes over on his
site.
Here are some of the more common
reports you might have seen on the interwebs,
and Oberg's explanation of what's really going
on:
UFO sightings at the International
Space Station
The real story? Space dandruff, which are things
that have shed off space vehicles during flight,
like ice flakes, paint chips, or fragments of
insulation. They're different to space junk,
because they don't pose a real threat to
spacecraft, Oberg explains on his site.
These flecks of dandruff are pretty
common, but the reason they look so weird to us
is that we're not used to the way these objects
look when they fall while the space station is
travelling through space.
It's the same reason why people see so
many UFOs in the footage filmed by the
cameras attached to NASA's old space shuttle
missions.
In these videos, people usually freak out
because the spots seem to dance in and out of
view, or suddenly appear and disappear. Which
is pretty creepy if you're sitting at your computer
on Earth, but isn't that weird if you're on a space
shuttle travelling 28,000 km/h (17,500 mph) -
nothing's going to stay in your frame of vision
very long.
And if the spacecraft is in the right
position in relation to the Sun, it can also cast its
shadow onto these objects to make them
disappear and reappear, which is known as
'twilight shadowing'.
That weird Californian flare across the
night sky
At the end of 2015, people in southern
California freaked out when they saw a bright
white light shoot across the night sky.
But, as was cleared up pretty soon after
the incident, it was actually the result of a
planned, unarmed missile test by the US Navy.
That strange looking trail of light was the plume
of particles blasted out by the rocket thruster.
So why did it look so creepy to everyone
else? Because here on Earth, we're used to
seeing thin vapour trails left by planes, or
billowing smoke plumes. But most of us have
rarely (if ever) seen anything so big and sharp as
this.
"There were thousands of people who
were absolutely processing their visual stimuli
correctly if [the plume] was a mile away or 10
miles away [16 km]," Oberg told Atlas Obscura.
"But it was 300 miles [482 km] away, up in
space and sunlit, which never occurred to them,
because this is not something within the normal
range of human experience."
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All of this isn't to say we should give up
on sharing our UFO sightings, or assuming that
everything is 'normal'.
"It's good to keep scanning space video
for possible anomalies and reporting them
quickly," Oberg told The Huffington Post back
in 2013.
"The reason is, there is always a real
chance that it could be a genuine anomaly, either
a spacecraft malfunction or other threat,
expected or unexpected. In the past, missions
have failed because a clue that should have been
seen out the window was overlooked."
About James Oberg
JAMES OBERG spent 22 years as a space
engineer at the Johnson Space Center in
Houston, TX where he specialized in NASA
space shuttle operations for orbital rendezvous.
In honor of his pioneering work, on developing
and documenting these space shuttle rendezvous
techniques, he was named by the NASA-Area
"Association of Technical Societies" as their
1984 "Technical Person of the Year". In 1997 he
received the "Sustained Superior Performance"
award for designing the complex first Space
Station assembly mission.
In support of NASA's spaceflight
operations he has written books on Rendezvous
Flight Procedures, on Mission Control Center
console operations, and on the history of orbital
rendezvous. He provides expert assessment and
forecasts of Russian space industrial and
technological elements for corporate and
government clients. []
 66 The Truth About Easter Island
The truth about Easter
Island: a sustainable
society has been falsely
blamed for its own demise
theconversation.com
Few places on earth are as well known for their
so-called mysteries as Easter Island, also known
as Rapa Nui. For a tiny island of 64 square
miles, with its nearest neighbours some 1,300
miles away, it has seen more than its fair share
of controversy.
For a long while it wasn’t clear whether
the island’s native population originated in
Polynesia or South America. And how can we
explain its apparent paradox: the design,
construction and transport of giant “moai” stone
statues, a remarkable cultural achievement yet
one carried out on a virtually barren island,
which seemingly lacked both the resources and
people to carry out such a feat?
Anthropologists have long wondered
whether these seemingly simple inhabitants
really had the capacity for such cultural
complexity. Or was a more advanced
population, perhaps from the Americas, actually
responsible – one that subsequently wiped out
all the natural resources the island once had?
Recently, Rapa Nui has become the
ultimate parable for humankind’s selfishness; a
moral tale of the dangers of environmental
destruction. In the “ecocide” hypothesis
popularised by the geographer Jared Diamond,
Rapa Nui is used as a demonstration of how
society is doomed to collapse if we do not sit up
and take note. But more than 60 years of
archaeological research actually paints a very
different picture – and now new genetic data
sheds further light on the island’s fate. It is time
to demystify Rapa Nui.
The ‘ecocide’ narrative doesn’t stand
up More recently, a picture has emerged of a
The ecocide hypothesis centres on two major
claims. First, that the island’s population was
reduced from several tens of thousands in its
heyday, to a diminutive 1,500-3,000 when
Europeans first arrived in the early 18th century.
Second, that the palm trees that once
covered the island were callously cut down by
the Rapa Nui population to move statues. With
no trees to anchor the soil, fertile land eroded
away resulting in poor crop yields, while a lack
of wood meant islanders couldn’t build canoes
to access fish or move statues. This led to
internecine warfare and, ultimately,
cannibalism.
The question of population size is one
we still cannot convincingly answer. Most
archaeologists agree on estimates somewhere
between 4,000 and 9,000 people, although a
recent study looked at likely agricultural yields
and suggested the island could have supported
up to 15,000.
But there is no real evidence of a
population decline prior to the first European
contact in 1722. Ethnographic reports from the
early 20th century provide oral histories of
warfare between competing island groups. The
anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl – most famous
for crossing the Pacific in a traditional Inca boat
– took these reports as evidence for a huge civil
war that culminated in a battle of 1680, where
the majority of one of the island’s tribes was
killed. Obsidian flakes or “mata’a” littering the
island have been interpreted as weapon
fragments testifying to this violence.
However, recent research lead by Carl
Lipo has shown that these were more likely
domestic tools or implements used for ritual
tasks. Surprisingly few of the human remains
from the island show actual evidence of injury,
just 2.5%, and most of those showed evidence
of healing, meaning that attacks were not fatal.
Crucially, there is no evidence, beyond
historical word-of-mouth, of cannibalism. It’s
debatable whether 20th century tales can really
be considered reliable sources for 17th-century
conflicts.
What really happened to the trees
prehistoric population that was both successful
and lived sustainably on the island up until
European contact. It is generally agreed that
Rapa Nui, once covered in large palm trees, was
rapidly deforested soon after its initial
colonisation around 1200 AD. Although micro-
botanical evidence, such as pollen analysis,
suggests the palm forest disappeared quickly,
the human population may only have been
partially to blame.
The earliest Polynesian colonisers
brought with them another culprit, namely the
Polynesian rat. It seems likely that rats ate both
palm nuts and sapling trees, preventing the
forests from growing back. But despite this
deforestation, my own research on the diet of
the prehistoric Rapanui found they consumed
more seafood and were more sophisticated and
adaptable farmers than previously thought.
Blame slavers – not lumberjacks
So what – if anything – happened to the
native population for its numbers to dwindle
and for statue carving to end? And what caused
the reports of warfare and conflict in the early
20th century?
The real answer is more sinister.
Throughout the 19th century, South American
slave raids took away as much as half of the
native population. By 1877, the Rapanui
numbered just 111. Introduced disease,
destruction of property and enforced migration
by European traders further decimated the
natives and lead to increased conflict among
those remaining. Perhaps this, instead, was the
warfare the ethnohistorical accounts refer to and
what ultimately stopped the statue carving.
It had been thought that South
Americans made contact with Rapa Nui
centuries before the Europeans, as their DNA
can be detected in modern native inhabitants. I
have been involved in a new study, however, led
by paleogeneticist Lars Fehren-Schmitz, which
questions this timeline. We analysed Rapanui
human remains dating to before and after
European contact. Our work, published in the
journal Current Biology, found no significant
gene flow between South America and Easter
Island before 1722. Instead, the considerable
recent disruption to the island’s population may
have impacted on modern DNA.
Perhaps, then, the takeaway from Rapa
Nui should not be a story of ecocide and a
Malthusian population collapse. Instead, it
should be a lesson in how sparse evidence, a
fixation with “mysteries”, and a collective
amnesia for historic atrocities caused a
sustainable and surprisingly well-adapted
population to be falsely blamed for their own
demise.
And those statues? We know how they
moved them; the local population knew all
along. They walked – all we needed to do was
ask. []
www.rel-mar.com/didyouknow
 Ghosts Of Titanic’s Crew
Ghosts of Titanic’s crew
haunt Southampton 105
years on
newsinfo.inquirer.net
SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom —
Nowhere suffered as much from the sinking of
the Titanic as Southampton and a century after
the disaster the city wants to tell the forgotten
story of its 549 residents who died.
A job aboard the mighty liner was a
dream come true for the men of this port on
England’s south coast in 1912, offering three
square meals a day and lodgings for the night at
a time of severe hardship.
Three-quarters of Titanic’s crew came
from the city, many toiling as stokers in the
ship’s engine rooms or as stewards tending to
the needs of passengers.
When Titanic set off from Southampton
docks on her fateful maiden voyage to New
York on April 10, 1912, the people of the city
cheered it off full of pride.
The contrast could not have been greater
five days later when the liner hit an iceberg and
sank in the North Atlantic, plunging
Southampton into mourning and leaving many
of the victims’ families in poverty.
“Southampton’s Titanic story is very
special because most of the crew came from
Southampton and that story hasn’t really been
told anywhere else before,” said Maria
Newbery, curator of SeaCity, a new maritime
museum that focuses on the liner’s crew.
The first news of the sinking was posted
in the window of a local newspaper just hours
after the disaster, but no one believed it at first.
When the awful truth began to dawn, “a
great hush descended,” Charles Morgan, who
was nine at the time, recalls in the city’s
archives.
“I don’t think that there was hardly a
single street in Southampton that hadn’t lost
someone on that ship.”
Photographs at the time show anxious
relatives gathering around the names of the dead
posted outside the offices of the Titanic’s
owners, the White Star Line, where a small
black plaque on the now-shabby building marks
the spot.
Of 724 members of Titanic’s crew with
an address in Southampton, just 175 survived,
according to figures given by the museum.
One survivor was Alexander Littlejohn,
a first-class steward, who was ordered to row
one of the lifeboats which were mostly filled
with women and children.
His grandson Philip, who gives lectures
about the disaster, told Agence France-Presse:
“He was just 40 but the shock of it
turned his hair white within months.
“He never talked about the sinking,
which I find is absolutely typical of Titanic
survivors. He had mouths to feed so he went on
to work on 30 voyages on Titanic’s sister ship,
the Olympic.”
One of those less fortunate, Sidney
Sedunary, a steward, had been carrying a pocket
watch which stopped at 1:50 a.m. about half an
hour before the Titanic sank.
A few days later, his body was hauled
67
from the water by a rescue ship and the watch, made worldwide.
which now takes pride of place in the new
museum, was found in his pocket. 3. New research says an optical illusion
The extent of the disaster is poignantly prevented the ship from receiving help.
illustrated by a floor map in SeaCity, plastered
with red spots to indicate the houses where a 4. Researchers completed a map of the wreck
crew member was lost. The dots come thick and site in 2012, using over 100,000 photos taken by
fast in the working-class areas near the docks. underwater robots.
“Lots of people working as stokers and
in the boiler rooms were from Southampton and 5. $95,000: The expected auction price for the
in the days before social security, if you lost the Titanic's final lunch menu.
main breadwinner in the family, you were in
trouble,” curator Newbery explained. 6. $2 million: How much it will cost to preserve
The city pulled together to raise money the historic Belfast dock where the Titanic was
for the bereaved families and in the months after built.
the disaster, every concert and church fete was
turned into a Titanic fundraiser. 7. Even today, major ships still get "iced" by
As the centenary of the disaster ocean bergs.
approaches, Southampton is acting as a magnet
for the descendants of those who perished. 8. Titanic’s appeal keeps growing, even 105
Jane Goodwin, 38, had a special reason years after the tragedy. []
to visit the city – her grandmother Cecilia’s first
husband Frederick James Banfield sailed on
Titanic to join his brother in Michigan where
they were planning to work in mining.
“I have seen copies of the letters that he
sent her from the Titanic, which are so sad. He
was obviously very much in love with her,” the
shop worker from Salcombe in southwest
England told AFP.
“He was doing so well at such a young
age, only 28 years old, and he was going on this
magnificent ship for a new life abroad,” said
Jane’s husband Richard.
“He had been on the Olympic and in his
letter he was comparing the Titanic to these
other great ships and he was saying she would
have to be there to appreciate how big this ship
really was.”
13 Things You Didn’t
Know About the Titanic
1. A full moon may have caused the fatal iceberg
to cross paths with the ship.
2. Nearly five Titanics could be built with the
money James Cameron's Titanic movie has
 Q

68 Cahira O’Donnell
 From The Pages Of Fringe News
China to become world’s
first nation to land on
dark side of the Moon
www.express.co.uk
CHINA is to go where no man has gone before
as it gears up an ambitious project to send a
mission to the dark side of the Moon.
One side of the Moon is always facing
Earth thanks to the gravitational pull of tides on
Earth, a process known as “tidal locking”.
No organization has ever managed to
send a probe to the other side of the Moon due
to the communication difficulties it presents –
signals would struggle to reach it from Earth
meaning there would be a lack of
communication.
However, China is now trying to
overcome that feat and send a probe to the dark
side of the Moon.
The mission comprises of two parts
known collectively as Chang’e 4.
The first will see a relay satellite sent to
the dark side of the Moon to establish a suitable
communication link and will be launched in
June.
Once the link has been established,
China will then send a lander to the surface.
By achieving this, China will have
beaten the achievements of the US and Russia
and confirm Beijing as a major player in the
space exploration game.
Brian Harvey, space analyst and author
of China in Space: The Great Leap Forward,
said: “The Chinese are pushing back the frontier
with such a technically challenging mission.”
Zou Yongliao of the Chinese Academy
of Sciences' moon exploration department, has
previously said by landing a probe there will
“fill a void” in experts’ understanding of the
universe.
This is because the dark side of the
Moon has a "clean electromagnetic
environment, which provides an ideal field for
low frequency study. If we can place a frequency
spectrograph on the far side, we can fill a void”.
Essentially, if a telescope is planted on
the dark side of the Moon, it would block out
stray signal interference from Earth.
This would give scientists an
unprecedented view of outer space. []
Chance for humans to live
in underground city on
MOON after discovery of
lava tubes Revealed: Scientists to
SCIENTISTS have identified a series of tubes
send INFLATABLE home
on the moon which could home a future to orbit MOON
UNDERGROUND city.
With scientists desperate to set up camp
on the moon, they have identified a series of
tunnels to overcome obstacles faced.
The moon has no atmosphere, so it is
unable to protect potential inhabitants from the
likes of radiation and meteor impacts, which is
69
why no human has spent longer than three days inflatable habitat to orbit the moon.
there. And scientists say the plan puts humans
But by using the underground tubes as a a step closer to living on Mars.
base, the surface of the moon overhead would go The potential lunar satellite will
someway to protecting people. hopefully be launched in 2022 and could one
Lava tubes are channels carved out day serve as a moon depot.
naturally by flowing lava. Once the lava has Bigelow Aerospace is designing two
stopped, it can sometimes form a hollow tube B330 expandable modules while ULA is tasked
with hard crusts around the edges. with providing the Vulcan rockets which will get
In a location known as the Marius Hills the B330s into Earth’s orbit.
on the moon, there are a series of lava tubes Once the B330 is in Earth’s orbit, the
which stretch for kilometres. fitted cryogenic propellors will blast it towards
Junichi Haruyama, a senior researcher atthe moon.
JAXA, Japan's space agency, said: "It's Bigelow Aerospace president Robert
important to know where and how big lunar lava Bigelow said: "We are excited to work with
tubes are if we're ever going to construct a lunar
ULA on this lunar depot project.
base. "Our lunar depot plan is a strong
"But knowing these things is also complement to other plans intended to
important for basic science. We might get new eventually put people on Mars.
types of rock samples, heat flow data and lunar “It will provide Nasa and America with
quake observation data.” an exciting and financially practical success
Scientists believed lava tubes existed, opportunity that can be accomplished in the
but have not been confirmed until now. short term.
The experts at JAXA discovered them by “This lunar depot could be deployed
using radar data from the SELENE spacecraft – easily by 2022 to support the nation's re-
a Japanese lunar orbiter – and combined it with energised plans for returning to the Moon.”
information from GRAIL – A Nasa project to It comes after Nasa and Russian space
collect high quality information on the moon. agency Roscosmos's announcement last month
Jay Melosh, a GRAIL co-investigator confirming plans to team up to create a lunar
and distinguished professor of earth, space station that will act as a “gateway to deep
atmospheric and planetary sciences at Purdue space”.
University, said: "They knew about the skylight The Nasa-led program will see the two
in the Marius Hills, but they didn't have any idea
space agencies build a lunar satellite much like
how far that underground cavity might have the International Space Station (ISS) that can
gone. home astronauts and will orbit the moon.
"Our group at Purdue used the gravity Dubbed the Deep Space Gateway, the
data over that area to infer that the opening was
station will allow astronauts to study the moon
part of a larger system.
“By using this complimentary technique
in close detail and will also be used a pit-stop for
astronauts travelling farther out into the solar
of radar, they were able to figure out how deep system, particularly Mars.
and high the cavities are." [] Roscosmos said in a statement: “The
partners intend to develop international
technical standards which will be used later, in
particular to create a space station in lunar orbit.
“Roscosmos and Nasa have already
agreed on standards for a docking unit of the
future station.”
onstruction is set to begin on the project
A PRIVATE company has announced plans to in 2022, with the first modules of the Deep
send an inflatable habitat to orbit the moon in Space Gateway envisioned to be completed two
what is a major step towards housing humans years later.
on Mars.
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Oceans of WATER
discovered INSIDE the
Moon
INSIDE the Moon is a MASSIVE reservoir of
water which will make manned colonies a
reality, scientists said today.
The discovery of huge pockets of sub-surface
water - perhaps as much as on Earth - is a game
changer for humans living long-term, or even
permanently, on our nearest neighbour.
A new study revealed water levels in
analysed volcanic crystals were similar to those
on Earth.
The discovery was made when experts
from Brown University in the US tested crystals
from Earth’s natural satellite that were taken
during the Apollo 15 and 17 missions in the
1970s.
Writing in their paper published in
Nature Geoscience: "The nearly ubiquitous
presence of water in large and small lunar
pyroclastic deposits adds to the growing
evidence that the lunar mantle is an important
reservoir of water.”
The researchers behind the study state
this signifies large volumes of water beneath the
lunar surface – something that will help
massively with future moon missions.
Additionally, most scientists agree that where
there is water, it massively increases the chances
of finding life.
Lead author Dr. Shuai Li, formerly of
Brown University and now at the University of
Hawaii: “Other studies have suggested the
presence of water ice in shadowed regions at the
lunar poles, but the pyroclastic deposits are at
locations that may be easier to access.
“Anything that helps save future lunar
explorers from having to bring lots of water
from home is a big step forward, and our results
suggest a new alternative.”
It had originally been thought that water would
only exist on the north and south poles of the
moon, but the crystals taken from all over the
surface of the celestial body show that it could
exist everywhere.
Anthony Colaprete, a NASA scientist
who reviewed the paper, said: “The fact that
they see this feature associated with the glasses
tells us that there was indeed quite a bit of water
in the interior of the moon when these volcanic
eruptions were occurring.”
Director-general of the ESA Johann-
Dietrich Wörner says the moon village is
virtually guaranteed and there are a “a list of
worldwide entities” which want to get involved
in a lunar-base project.
Speaking at a conference in Paris, the
head of Europe’s space arm said: “For me, the
Moon village is already more or less a fact.
“Okay, there is nothing on the Moon
visible [yet], but there will be something visible
very soon, because several of these entities are
planning to go to the Moon rather soon.”
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Amazon founder Jeff
Bezos: ‘It’s time to go
back to the Moon, but this
time to STAY'
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“And that’s the kind of thing that could

also be done by advanced robotics with
machine-learning systems on board.”
In March, Blue Origin released a report
outlining its plan in helping NASA return to the
Moon.
The proposal looks to NASA for help in
sending a ‘Blue Moon’ spacecraft to the south
pole of the lunar satellite.
Mr Bezos told the Washington Post, expertise and experience with precision vertical All of the ingredients will be mixed on
which he also owns: “A permanently inhabited landing offer the fastest path to a lunar lander the ground with the yeast added once the craft
lunar settlement is a difficult and worthy mission.[] gets to the Moon. []
objective.” []

Out of this world delivery: Out of this world? These Talking Board Historical
Amazon boss to send people want to set up a Society
supplies to MOON to brewery on the MOON
www.tbhs.org
establish BASE by 2020 A TEAM of engineers are hoping to become
the first galactic brewery after establishing The Talking Board Historical Society began in
AMAZON has revealed plans to help “America plans to create beer-producing facilities on the 2008 as a loose affiliation of talking board
return to the moon” after its founder Moon. collectors and enthusiasts, brought together by
announced the firm would deliver supplies to talking board historian Robert Murch to bring
the lunar satellite in 2020. Engineers from the University of California, San recognition to the forgotten founders and history
Diego, (UC San Diego) hope to build a brewery of the enigmatic Ouija. In that year, the group
Jeff Bezos, co-founder of Amazon and owner of on the Moon as they look to combine their love assembled and raised funds to erect a talking
Blue Origin – a private space firm looking to of astronomy and alcohol. board-inspired headstone at the unmarked grave
rival SpaceX – is hoping to help humanity Team Original Gravity from UC San of Ouija patentee Elijah Bond in Baltimore’s
establish a colony on the moon by delivering Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering are historic Green Mount Cemetery, which has since
supplies there. designing their Moon brewery as they compete become the historic cemetery’s most-requested
The last time humans stepped foot on the for a place on India’s TeamIndus lunar craft gravesite.
astronomical body was 1972, but as natural which is set for launch at the end of this year. The following year, the TBHS worked to
resources begin to dwindle on Earth, scientists Neeki Ashari, the team's public relations bring recognition to William Fuld’s iconic
are looking at the possibility of establishing lead and head of operations, said: “When we Harford Avenue Ouija factory, built in 1919,
colonies on other planets to ensure humanity’s heard that there was an opportunity to design an which became the first public landmark in
continuity, with the moon seen as the perfect experiment that would go up on India’s Maryland acknowledging the city’s Ouija
stepping stone. moonlander, we thought we could combine our history. In 2012, the TBHS collaborated with the
An internal report from Blue Origin was hobby with the competition by focusing on the Baltimore Museum of Industry to host a first-
obtained by the Washington Post – which Mr viability of yeast in outer space.” ever of its kind exhibit displaying talking boards
Bezos also owns – and outlines the space travel Team Original Gravity is hoping to test and spirit device from the many eras of
firm’s plans for future missions. how beer brews on the Moon while also manufacturing history. These years also mark a
The proposal looks to NASA for help in studying how yeast acts differently in zero flood of discoveries by the TBHS’s historians
sending a ‘Blue Moon’ spacecraft to the south gravity. and researchers, including the discovery and
pole of the lunar satellite. While the beer is an interesting angle, documentation of the Chestertown, Maryland
Aboard the ship will be equipment to the project has bigger implications than just home where Charles Kennard claimed to invent
help humans establish a base on the moon. allowing astronauts to have a pint on the Moon. the Ouija, identifying Ouija’s 1886 Witch Board
The report reads: “Once on the surface, How yeast behaves in space is a hot topic precursor by W.S. Reed Toy Company, and
the lander’s useful payload can be used to as it is used for many foods and also certain uncovering the enduring legacies of Ouija’s
conduct science or deploy rovers. pharmaceuticals such as insulin. founders in the Igili, Nirvana, Volo, and Weird-
“A robotic arm attached to the lander With humans on the brink of establishing A talking boards, among many, many others.
will deploy to examine the lunar surface with an colonies on other worlds, scientists are keen to In 2014, the TBHS officially
array of instruments.” know the best ways to provide medicines and incorporated and became a registered non-profit
Mr Bezos told the Washington Post: “It foods in space. 501(c)(3), naming Robert Murch Chairman of
is time for America to return to the Moon — this While on Earth, density measurements the Board. The TBHS has since worked
time to stay. A permanently inhabited lunar are used to test fermentation and yeast viability, tirelessly to preserve the history of this unique
settlement is a difficult and worthy objective. on the moon the experts will use pressure pop culture phenomenon. Their next project is
“I sense a lot of people are excited about testing. the construction of a grave marker recognizing
this.” Siddhesh Naik, of TeamIndus and the medium Helen Peters for her role in giving
The report goes on to say that the first mentor to Original Gravity said: “The yeast the Ouija its unique name, and through this
missions could launch by July 2020, but that study is among the coolest experiments to be project and others, the talking Board Historical
allegedly depends on how heavily NASA is performed on the lunar surface, and I am sure Society hopes to bring greater and wider
involved. they are one of the top contenders to win the recognition to the nearly-forgotten stories and
He added: “Our liquid hydrogen Lab2Moon competition.” lives of this incredible institution. []
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The Apollo 1 Conspiracy;
Did NASA Cover Up Gus
Grissom’s Death?
Most people are familiar with the names of the
famous NASA astronauts who pioneered the
early space program that led to the first lunar
landing in 1969. Names like Buzz Aldrin, Neil
Armstrong, John Glenn and Alan Shepard are
familiar in the pantheon of space pioneers,
though there is one name that is less recognized,
but equally important; Gus Grissom. While he
played an integral role in getting the space
program on its feet, his legacy will be forever
marred by the Apollo 1 conspiracy as well as
other controversies in his career, but is any of it
true?
What Happened to Gus Grissom?
Virgil Ivan “Gus” Grissom was the second man
in U.S. history to fly in space, preceded only by
Alan Shepard and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. On
July 21st, 1961, Grissom reached a suborbital
altitude of about 118 miles above the Earth’s
surface in a 15 minute flight, before making his
descent in the Mercury capsule, which he
dubbed the Liberty Bell 7.
Thus, started the controversy in
Grissom’s career, as he narrowly escaped death
from what initially appeared to be a botched
landing from his failure to execute protocol, but
what actually turned out to be a faulty
mechanism in the capsule’s hatch release.
Grissom landed in the Atlantic in
choppy waters, whereupon his hatch door blew
open prematurely. Grissom immediately
jumped out without making the necessary
adjustments to prevent water from seeping into
his already 22 lb. spacesuit. Meanwhile, the
capsule itself, which was supposed to be
recovered, started taking on water, making it
way too heavy to be hoisted out of the ocean by
helicopter. Eventually the helicopter pilot gave
up, realizing he wouldn’t be able to tow the
capsule to shore, and noticing that Grissom was
minutes from drowning.
Though he was saved, Grissom came
under heavy criticism for not following
procedure, leading many to believe that he
panicked and released the hatch too soon.
Grissom denied these claims, stating that the
hatch released randomly and that he never
touched the activation plunger.
The capsule sunk to the bottom of the
ocean and wasn’t recovered for another 38
years. Grissom received a significant amount of
flak from the public and from the aerospace
community for losing the capsule. Though it
was later proven that the hatch released to no
fault of his own. In 1966, he and his family were
moved to a safe house and kept under watch by
the Secret Service.
The Apollo 1 Fire and Gus Grissom’s
Death
Grissom along with two other astronauts, Roger
Chafee and Edward White, were slated to
launch the inaugural mission of the Apollo
program in February of 1967. About a month
prior to the designated launch, the crew
gathered at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station for
a “plugs-out” test, which was essentially a mock
launch.
Within the first few hours, it became
clear that there were numerous issues with the
module. The crew reported a foul smell coming
from their breathing oxygen system as well as
issues with their communication system.
Grissom was notably aggravated with the
technical difficulties and was recorded as
saying, “How are we going to get to the moon if
we can’t talk between two or three buildings?”
and calling the module a “bucket full of screws.”
But Grissom had also shown frustrations
with the program leading up to that day, having
purportedly told his wife, Betty, that if there
were ever a serious accident in the space
program it would likely involve him. He was
also said to have grabbed a lemon from a tree on
his property before heading to base and tying it
to the hatch of the simulator. When he was asked
by the media what he thought the chances were
of the Apollo missions succeeding, he replied
that he thought they were slim.
Within a few hours of the simulation, a
spark from under Grissom’s seat ignited a fire
that quickly engulfed the entire capsule. The
pure oxygen and highly pressurized cabin
quickly fueled the fire and prevented the
astronauts from being able to open the hatch,
trapping them inside. They all perished before
NASA employees were able to open the hatch
and free them.
NASA claimed that the fire burned toxic
chemicals, causing the astronauts to die from
asphyxiation within a minute, though a claim
from someone within the private contractor
North American Aviation said that the crew
struggled to open the hatch for a full five
minutes. NAA had been the primary contractor
in building the module and was put under
intense scrutiny when a congressional
investigation exposed documented evidence of
failings and inadequacies in the company’s
development process.
The Apollo 1 Conspiracy
There was one safety inspector who brought to
light the technical issues surrounding the Apollo
1 mission, whose story is particularly
conspicuous in the possibility of a larger cover-
up. Thomas Ronald Baron was a quality control
and safety inspector for NAA who has been
highly critical of NASA and its protocol during
the Apollo project. Baron put out a 55-page
report detailing the shortcomings and disarray
that the program was in.
Baron’s report was brushed off as being
overly critical and blown out of proportion, with
few of his claims having any real credibility. At
one point, he testified before Congress claiming
that, under current circumstances at NASA, we
would never make it to the moon. Though,
many did not pay attention to Baron and
believed that he was potentially being used as a
pawn in Sen. Walter Mondale’s campaign to
expose and dismantle NASA for its wasteful
spending. Baron was fired by NAA for leaking
his report to the press, while his company
denied the majority of his criticisms. It later
came out that top-level officials verified the
credibility of at least half of his claims.
A few weeks later, the Apollo disaster
occurred and Baron began work on turning his
55-page report into a 500-page report
excoriating NASA and NAA for the failures that
led to the tragedy. Oddly enough, within a week
Baron and his family were killed when their car
was struck by a train. The cause of death was
ruled accidental and no autopsy was performed.
The official verdict was that Baron
likely tried to race a train to beat it before it
crossed the tracks with his wife and step-
daughter in the car. If this sounds absurd, that’s
because it is. A whistleblower who testified
before Congress against NASA and a large
private aerospace contractor just happened to
die because he didn’t have the patience to wait
for a train to cross? Unsurprisingly, the official
ruling said that he was mentally unstable and
that there was even the possibility that he was
attempting suicide; a common cover up tactic
and attempt to explain what would otherwise
look like a blatant murder. Baron’s 500-page
report was destroyed and never published.
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The Apollo 1 Conspiracy;
Did NASA Cover Up Gus
Grissom’s Death?
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The Grissom Family’s Outrage
In 1999 the charred remains of the test module
that trapped Grissom and his two colleagues
was opened up for his family to see. Scott
noticed a fabricated metal plate behind a switch
on one of the instrumentation panels. He
believed that the switch was used to deliberately
create a spark that would have ignited the cabin,
killing Grissom and the other astronauts.
This story was supposedly backed by an
aerospace contractor who worked for
McDonnell-Douglas, a company that later
merged with Boeing. Scott Grissom believed
that NASA didn’t want his father to be the first
man on the moon after his botched Liberty Bell
7 landing. He said he believed that NASA might
not have trusted him and was likely upset with
Grissom’s outspoken frustration with the
technical difficulties in the Apollo program.
But Scott Grissom said that he’s not
exactly sure why NASA or the government
would want to prevent his father from
continuing in the program, to the extent that
they would sabotage him, but he believes it was
intentional. And Gus Grissom’s wife, Betty, also
agrees with her son, saying that she too believes
her husband was murdered. In the end,
Grissom’s eerie, prophetic statement to his wife
was right, the first serious accident in the space
program did involve him.
Apollo 1: The Fatal Fire
Space.com
The Apollo program changed forever on Jan.
27, 1967, when a flash fire swept through the
Apollo 1 command module during a launch
rehearsal test. The three men inside perished
despite the best efforts of the ground crew. It
would take more than 18 months, and extensive
redesigns, before NASA sent more men into
space.
NASA had a lofty goal, set by President
John F. Kennedy in 1961, to land a man on the
moon and return him safely to Earth by the end
of the decade. Earlier Mercury and Gemini
flights had been the first steps toward that goal,
testing how humans behaved in space and how
to do technical spacecraft procedures such as
rendezvous. Now the Apollo missions would
take astronauts all the way to the moon for
orbital missions and landing missions. The first
manned mission — an Earth-orbiting mission
— was originally designated Apollo Saturn-
204, or AS-204, but was later renamed Apollo 1.
The Apollo 1 fire was a difficult time for
NASA and its astronauts, but the improvements
in astronaut safety allowed the agency to
complete the rest of the program with no further
fatalities. The agency also met Kennedy's goal
of landing a man on the moon in 1969, during
Apollo 11.
The astronauts
The Apollo 1 crew commander, Virgil "Gus"
Grissom, was an Air Force veteran of the
Korean War. He was chosen was among
NASA's first group of seven astronauts, the
Mercury Seven. Grissom was America's second
person in space in 1961. On that mission,
Mercury's Liberty Bell 7, the hatch door blew
for unknown reasons upon splashdown.
Grissom ended up in the water and was rescued
by a helicopter (which at first tried, in vain, to
pick up the spacecraft; the spacecraft was later
pulled from the ocean floor in 1999).
Some in the Astronaut Office were
skeptical that Grissom's reputation would
recover (many believed Grissom blew the
hatch; he swore he didn't). However, Grissom
successfully commanded the first Gemini flight,
Gemini 3, and was selected to do the same for
Apollo.
Fellow spaceflight veteran Ed White, an
Air Force lieutenant colonel, was the first
American to make a spacewalk, on Gemini 4 in
1965. The images of him soaring in space for 23
minutes are still frequently seen today; it is
considered one of history's most memorable
spacewalks.
Roger Chaffee was a seasoned Navy
lieutenant commander who joined the program
in 1963. Although a rookie in space, he had
spent years supporting the Gemini program,
most publicly as CapCom on Gemini 4. Now
getting a chance to fly after five years in the
program, he said, "I think it will be a lot of fun."
Gone in an instant
Every astronaut in the Apollo program had
flight experience, and many were test pilots.
They were used to seeing machines under
development and dealing with delays, and
assessing the airplanes' readiness for flight. In
the view of many of these astronauts, the Apollo
command module just wasn't ready yet.
Engineering changes were still in progress as
NASA prepared for the countdown test.
On his last visit home in Texas, Jan. 22,
1967, Grissom grabbed a lemon off a citrus tree
in the backyard. His wife, Betty, asked what he
was going to do with it. "I'm going to hang it on
that spacecraft," he answered as he kissed her
goodbye. He hung it on the flight simulator after
he arrived at the Cape.
The morning of the test, the crew suited
73
up and detected a foul odor in the breathing
oxygen, which took about an hour to fix. Then
the communications system acted up. Shouting
through the noise, Grissom vented: "How are we
going to get to the moon if we can't talk between
two or three buildings?"
With communications problems
dragging on, the practice countdown was held.
Then at 6:31 p.m. came a frightening word from
the spacecraft: "Fire."
Deke Slayton, who oversaw crew
selections at NASA and was present for the test,
could see white flames in a closed-circuit
television monitor pointing toward the
spacecraft. The crew struggled to get out.
Technicians raced to the scene, trying to fight
the fire with extinguishers amid faulty breathing
masks. At last, the door was open, but it was too
late.
The aftermath and changes
A NASA review board found a stray spark
(probably from damaged wires near Grissom's
couch) started the fire in the pure oxygen
environment. Fed by flammable features such as
nylon netting and foam pads, the blaze quickly
spread.
Further, the hatch door — intended to
keep the astronauts and the atmosphere securely
inside the spacecraft — turned out to be too
tough to open under the unfortunate
circumstances. The astronauts had struggled in
vain to open the door during the fire, but the
pressure inside the spacecraft sealed the door
and made it impossible to open.
The board listed a damning set of
circumstances, failures and recommendations
for future spacecraft designers to consider.
The U.S. Senate conducted its own
investigation and hearings and published
recommendations of its own, while saying
NASA's failure to report its problems with
Apollo "was an unquestionably serious
dereliction."
Decades later, NASA recalls the Apollo
1 incident every January in an annual Day of
Remembrance. It also honors the Challenger and
Columbia crews, who died in 1986 and 2003,
respectively. Further, an exhibit honoring the
Apollo 1 crew was opened at the Kennedy Space
Center in 2017, displaying the hatches that were
on the spacecraft. The exhibit was done in
consultation with the astronauts' families. []
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Earth has TWO MOONS:
Mind-blowing discovery
after scientist’s largest
computer simulation
THE Earth has more than one moon, a
computer simulation has revealed, dispelling
what scientists think they knew about the
planet’s natural satellites.

When we think of Earth’s moon, we imagine the

bright white ball that helps to illuminate the
night sky.
However, the definition of a moon is a
natural satellite that is captured by a planet’s
gravitational pull.
So when experts say the Earth has more
than one moon, they do not necessarily mean
that there are two or more of the giant white Astronomers from Columbia University
rocks in the sky. believe they have found the first evidence of a
What they actually mean is Earth has moon orbiting a huge planet outside of our solar
pulled in small asteroids that are now caught insystem which could have huge implications in
its orbit. the search for alien life.
A team of scientists used a Some scientists believe the origin of life
supercomputer to run simulations on the on Earth was aided by the fact our planet has a
movements of 10 million near-Earth asteroids large moon.
that pass our planet. It is theorized, but not proven, that the
They ran these simulations against the gravitational pull of a large moon on a planet can
trajectory of 18,000 space rocks that have been stabilize the planets axis rotation, leading to a
SPACE FACTS
pulled into Earth’s orbit. stronger ecosystem and a greater chance of life
Results showed at least one mini- beginning.
The suspected moon was brought to - In space, fish swim in loops, rather than
asteroid, usually measuring no more that three straight lines.
feet in diameter – virtually nothing compared toexperts’ attention by analyzing data from the
the 2,000 mile diameter moon – is circling our Hubble Space Telescope.
The researchers wrote in their paper - First Canadian in space: Marc Garneau
planet at any given time. (1984).
The asteroids are usually caught up in published in the online journal arXiv:
Earth’s orbit for about nine months before they “Exomoons represent an outstanding challenge
in modern astronomy, with the potential to - Animals that have flown in space: dogs,
continue their normal orbit around the sun, but chimps, mice, spiders, frogs, and jellyfish.
the team say they can get stuck there for provide rich insights into planet formation
decades. theory and habitability.”
The team believe the moon could be - The Apollo 11 lunar module had only 30
The mini-moons do not have a normal seconds of fuel left when it landed safely on
orbit though – the simulation also revealed theyabout the size of Neptune – almost four times as
big as Earth – and orbiting a Jupiter-like planet. the Moon.
twist and turn under the gravitational influence.
One day, the team hopes that they can The moon, known as Kepler-1625b, is
approximately 4,000 lightyears away – to put - According to NASA, the food astronauts
capture a mini-moon so they can see some of the miss the most are pizza, ice cream, and soda.
purest ingredients of the solar system to learn that into perspective, one lightyear is roughly
about how it was formed. 9.5 billion kilometres.
Alex Teachey, a National Science - Outer space officially begins at 62 miles up.
Co-author Robert Jedicke of the
University of Hawaii at Manoa said: "Mini- Foundation graduate research fellow at
Columbia University, told Fox News: “It would - Astronauts gave Walter Cronkite an
moons are scientifically extremely interesting. “honorary astronaut” title for his 24-hour
"A mini-moon could someday be be a pretty big deal if this exomoon candidate
turns out to be real, because it would be the first coverage of Apollo 11.
brought back to Earth, giving us a low-cost way
to examine a sample of material that has not of its kind, and moons stand to tell us quite a bit
about our solar system and other star systems. - Nineteen years elapsed between the first and
changed much since the beginning of our solar second woman in space. Both were Russians.
system over 4.6 billion years ago." “This could provide vital clues about
Another co-author, Jeremie Vaubaillon how star systems form and evolve.”
However, Mr Teachey says more - First African American woman in space:
of the Paris Observatory, said: "This was one of Mae Jemison on the space shuttle Endeavour.
the largest and longest computations I’ve ever research is needed to confirm that this is indeed
done. the first exomoon to be discovered.
He said: “Of course, its strangeness is - To date, only one man-made satellite has
"If you were to try to do this on your been destroyed by a meteor: The European
home computer, it would take about six years." reason enough to pause and say, ‘is this for
real?’ and believe me, we’ve asked ourselves Space Agency’s Olympus (1993).
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Twenty-one years later,
mystery of Phoenix Lights
still fascinates people
PHOENIX — March 13, 2018 marks the 21st
anniversary of one of the strangest things to ever
happen in Arizona, the Phoenix Lights
phenomenon.
Those who witnessed the bizarre lights
described them as “otherworldly” and the
phenomena is remembered fondly each year
since it — whatever it was — was spotted.
According to the Mutual UFO Network,
on March 13, 1997 between 7:30 and 10:30
p.m., thousands of people reported seeing
strange, bright lights flying over Nevada,
Arizona and part of Mexico.
“It wasn’t just one event, there were
many events across the state for more than 12
hours,” said Dr. Lynne Kitei with the Phoenix and two others about their experiences
Lights Network. investigating the lights. The found-footage style
The first event was described as a V- of film was first popularized by the cult hit
shaped object the size of a commercial plane “Blair Witch Project.”
soaring through the sky. UFO sightings are fairly common in the
One witness from Prescott who wishes to Phoenix area. At least once per year there are
be known only as J.R. said he watched a reports of strange lights in the desert sky.
boomerang-shaped object glide over Granite According to a 2014 Washington Post
Mountain, and it was at least a mile wide. He article, Arizona has the highest number of UFO
said there’s no way it was from this planet. sightings per capita in the country. []
“We don’t have anything that big,” he
said. “It was totally silent. I’ve never seen
anything even close to the colors from the
exhaust that propelled that thing. It was as big as
downtown Prescott and completely blocked out
the stars.”
The second event was reported by an
unidentified former Arizona police officer who
claimed he saw a series of stationary, orange and
red lights hanging over the Valley.
The Phoenix Lights were treated as a
joke at first by then-Gov. Fife Symington, who
had an aide dress as an alien for a press
conference about the phenomenon.
“This just goes to show that you guys are
entirely too serious,” Symington said then. TWO GOOD TO BE TRUE
However, Symington later did a with JUSTINA MARSH and PETER MARSH
complete 180 and not only said he saw the lights
himself, but believed them to be of otherworldly JUSTINA MARSH was born in Florida but moved to the Midwest at an early age. Justina knew from
origin. a young age that she had some special gifts that others did not but did not know exactly what these gifts
“I’m a pilot, and I know just about every were. Her parents told stories about ghosts Justina would talk to or how she would point out orbs floating
machine that flies,” Symington said. “It was around the room. Justina’s great grandmother practiced as a psychic many years ago and she is part of
bigger than anything that I’ve ever seen. It a family lineage of psychics. She decided to pursue an education and graduated with a bachelor’s degree
remains a great mystery. Other people saw it, in chemistry. Justina works as a chemist but also wants to do more. Justina was always interested in
responsible people. I don’t know why people learning all she could about the world. She realized that she could help share information using her
psychic abilities. She is very interested in the paranormal world and conspiracy theories. To Contact
would ridicule it.”
Justina Marsh - Email - justinamarsh@xzbn.net
The orange and red lights were later
explained away as flares dropped by military *** AND ***
aircraft during a training exercise at the Barry
Goldwater Range. However, the V-shaped PETE MARSH was born in Dorset, England. His family later moved inland to Wiltshire, England.
object remains unexplained. Growing up, his formative years were spent not far from Stonehenge or from the Avebury stone circles.
The Phoenix Lights have captured the He always had an interest in the unexplained in the world. Pete trained as an engineer with qualifications
imaginations of millions in the past 20 years, in materials science. After moving to Norway, he emigrated to the United States to further his career. In
including some people in Hollywood. The recent years, Pete has become increasingly interested in the history of the world, which has progressed
phenomenon will be the focus of a found- into studying spiritual beliefs. Pete continues to work as an engineer, and spends much of his spare time
footage horror film, “Phoenix Forgotten,” researching the true nature and purpose of mankind. Pete does not claim psychic abilities, but has
learned to trust his intuition. Pete’s mother and grandmother were both psychically gifted. To Contact
scheduled to be released next month.
Justina Marsh - Email - petemarsh@xzbn.net
The film tells the story of Sarah Bishop,
a documentary filmmaker who returns to
Phoenix 20 years after her brother disappeared
investigating the Phoenix Lights.
While the plot is murky, it seems Bishop
will come across a video recorded by her brother
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 78 Fake News and La Madera
Fake News and La
Madera
by Kevin Randle
www.kevinrandle.blogspot.ca
The UFO community has had to put up with
fake news for much more than a century. In 1897
there were a number of Great Airship stories that
were printed by newspapers. The reporters and
editors had to know that some of them were
fake, but the interest was there, the stories were
there and the bottom line is that newspapers
need to make money. Hype a story that doesn’t
deserve it, add details that the reporters invent
and a few quotes to make the story better or just
make it up completely.
I am convinced, by the evidence, or the
lack there of, that the Aurora UFO crash of
April, 1897, is a hoax begun by a newspaper
stringer who wanted to do something for his
town. Beyond the story printed in 1897, there
isn’t much evidence of the airship crash, until
UFO researchers became involved in the 1970s.
The point here, however, is that in today’s
world, this would be labeled as fake news.
To bring this closer to us, here in 2018,
and keeping with the theme of the last few posts,
I looked at the La Madera UFO landing. This
was a sighting that took place in the hours after
the Zamora sighting, and by hours, I mean
something like 30 hours after the landing in
Socorro. Orlando Gallegos said that just after
12:30 a.m. on April 26, 1964, he had gone
outside and about 200 yards away, saw
something he told Sheriff Martin Vigil, looked
to be as long as a telephone pole and as big a
round as a car. He said there was a bluish-white
flame all around it and as Gallegos watched, the
flames went out. I provided a long report on this
sighting in Encounter in the Desert, for those
who wish to learn more about the case.
The point here is not to talk about the
sighting, but about one of the newspaper reports
that appeared in the Santa Fe New Mexican on
December 28, 1969, some five years after the
sighting. At the end of the story written by Ron
Longto, Vigil is quoted as saying, “I’m not
going to speculate on just what was at La
Madera that night… but I hope it never comes
back.”
Dr. James McDonald had seen the story
and wanted to check on the veracity of it,
meaning the quotes attributed to Vigil, not to
mention some of the facts of the case. He
couldn’t get Gallegos on the telephone but he
could find Vigil. In a March 12, 1970, letter,
McDonald wrote:
Upon explaining the purpose of my call
and citing the press story, I got a laughing but
emphatic statement from Vigil, “They absolutely
misquoted me.” I presumed from that he was
about to disclaim everything in the story but that
was not the case at all. Instead, his strong initial
reaction was sensitivity to the closing sentence
of the story, in which the reporter took the
liberty of inventing the quote that Vigil “hopes
[sic] it never comes back.” The one other
disclaimer was to the effect that he had said
nothing to reporter Longo to suggest that “they
really put the heat on Gallegos to keep his mouth
shut about that sighting in La Madera.”
There is one other thing to say about all
this. I have been accused of misquoting people
on a number of occasions, but those allegations
were untrue. I had taped the interviews and the
transcripts reflected what I had said they said. J.
Bond Johnson, the man who took most of the
photographs in General Ramey’s office after the
Roswell story broke in 1947, said that I had
misquoted him on a number of points. When I
read the transcripts to him over the telephone, he
said that he hadn’t said those things because
they weren’t true. He was convinced that I had
misquoted him and he wanted to hear the tapes
so he could prove it.
I sent him an edited version so that he
wouldn’t have to sit through the whole four
hours of interviews, but that had the quotes on
them. His response was to say that I had
admitted to editing the tapes and he couldn’t
find all the quotes. So, I sent him all four hours,
plus the transcripts, twice, and the best he could
do was show that I had left an unimportant
conjunction out of the transcripts. That, of
course, didn’t satisfy him and even though he
had the tapes, he continued to say that I had
misquoted him. He had gone from telling the
truth in the interviews I conducted to an assault
on me, even when he knew he was wrong.
The point is that sometimes, when
people don’t like the direction of the quotes,
they claim to have been misquoted. Here, with
Vigil, I see no reason he would claim to have
been misquoted on something as innocuous as
the last line in the story unless that was
something that he hadn’t said. The quote is a
nice wrap up for the story, a good final line, and
the impression of the reporter might have been
that Vigil felt that way, but Vigil said he didn’t
say it. At least he said he hadn’t said it.
Is this overly important to the overall
story? Not really, other than give us a look at
something that in the world today would be
called fake news. Vigil didn’t seem overly upset
by the quote given his reaction to it. But it also
demonstrates that we, as investigators,
researchers, writers, and proponents of a point of
view must get this stuff right even when it is
something as inconsequential as that last line. E
must be careful or we can damage all the work
we have done.
And, besides all that, I thought it was
kind of an interesting anecdote…
About Kevin Randle:
Kevin Randle has, for more than forty-
five years, studied the UFO phenomena in all its
various incarnations. His training by the Army
and the Air Force provides Randle with a keen
insight into the operations and protocols of the
military, their investigations into UFOs, and into
a phenomenon that has puzzled people for more
than a century.
During his investigations, Randle has
traveled the United States to interview hundreds
of witnesses who were involved in everything
from the Roswell, New Mexico crash of 1947, to
the repeated radar sightings of UFOs over
Washington, D.C. in 1952, to the latest of the
abduction cases.
Listen to past episodes of “A Different
Perspective with Kevin Randle Radio Show” at
www.xzbn.net. Past guests include: Don
Schmitt, Ben Moss, Curt Collins, Carol Rainey,
Don Ecker, Keith Chester, Ray Stafford, Rob
Mercer, Mark O’Connell, John Greenewald,
Chris Rutkowski, Col. Charles Holt, Stan
Gordon, Nick Redfern, Don Ledger, Paul
Kimball, Barry Greenwood, David Halperin,
Larry Lawson, Lorna Hunter, Jan Harzan, Jot
Steele, Monte Shriver, Irena Scott, Peter
Robbins, Philip Mantle, Greg Bishop, David
Booher, Ben Moss, Tony Angiola, Derek
Bartholomaus, Adam Dew, Stephen Bassett,
Thomas Eddie Bullard and Michael Horn.
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 What Really Happened at Roswell
What Really Happened at
Roswell
by Kal K. Korff
Host of XZBNs
Kal’s Korner
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The Roswell UFO crash “mystery” has now
been solved. No extraterrestrial spacecraft was
involved. What did stimulate the original report
was, however, quite interesting, although
decidedly earthly.
According to much widely held public opinion,
the United States government successfully
recovered the remains of a crashed UFO along
with its extraterrestrial occupants near Roswell,
New Mexico, in July 1947. In what is now
known as the “the Roswell incident,” the U.S.
military is said to have quickly covered up the
affair and continues to shroud it in extreme
secrecy even today.
If these events surrounding Roswell in
the summer of 1947 actually took place, as have
been claimed in several books on the subject and
by numerous UFO researchers, it would
certainly constitute the story of the millennium
and be the greatest government-sponsored
coverup of all time. Indeed, should irrefutable
evidence ever surface that any government on
this earth possessed the physical remains of
either an extraterrestrial spacecraft or its
occupants, it is an understatement to say that
such a revelation would fundamentally
transform humanity as we know it.
What does one do with the numerous
claims about Roswell that have surfaced over
the years? How does one begin to determine the
truth about what really happened in 1947 and
sort the fact from the fiction?
The Roswell incident, and all that
surrounds it, is a complex web of events, not
easily understandable nor explainable until
examined fully and in painstaking detail. In my
new book, The Roswell UFO Crash: What They
Don't Want You to Know (Prometheus Books
1997), I undertake such a dissection. The book
presents the results of some sixteen years of
research and, for all practical purposes, leaves
no stone unturned. The Roswell “mystery” has
been solved, and there is no credible evidence
that the remains of an extraterrestrial spacecraft
was involved.
The Original Roswell Event
For non—UFO buffs, the Roswell incident
effectively began after the Fourth of July
79
holiday weekend in 1947 when a rancher named game as well.
William “Mac” Brazel reported to the local In the pro-UFO book The Truth About
sheriff, George Wilcox, that he might have the UFO Crash at Roswell, Kevin Randle and
recovered the remains of “one of them flying Donald Schmitt note the fact that Bill Moore,
saucers.” Wilcox, according to various accounts, coauthor of The Roswell Incident (1980),
then contacted military authorities at nearby interviewed “more then seventy witnesses who
Roswell Army Air Field, where Major Jesse had some knowledge of the [Roswell UFO
Marcel was assigned to investigate. crash] event.” Indeed, both Friedman and
Marcel and two Counter Intelligence Moore, around the time of the initial publication
Corps agents, Sheridan Cavitt and Lewis of The Roswell Incident, boasted that they had
Rickett, drove out to the ranch where Brazel interviewed more than “ninety witnesses.”
worked to examine and collect the wreckage. On While these double-digit figures are
July 8, 1947, the public information office at certainly accurate, the presentation of such a
Roswell AAF made the startling announcement seemingly impressive number of witnesses by
that they had recovered the remains of a “flying themselves, without qualification, is misleading.
disc.” The relevant issue is not how many witnesses
However, by the next day the excitement were interviewed, but rather what type of
was over. Brigadier General Roger Ramey, who witnesses (i.e., firsthand, secondhand), and how
had ordered the wreckage sent to him for truthful and accurate their statements were.
examination at Carswell Air Force Base (also Unfortunately, a careful reading of Bill
known as Fort Worth), held a press conference, Moore and Charles Berlitz’s Roswell Incident
with Major Marcel present, and announced that reveals that, despite the impressive claim of
all the hoopla had been over a mistaken weather having “interviewed more than seventy
balloon, and nothing more. witnesses,” the testimonies of just twenty-five
With Ramey’s deflating announcement, people are presented. Out of these twenty-five,
the Roswell “flying saucer” story was only seven of them are firsthand sources who
effectively dead and would remain so for claim to have seen the alleged saucer debris, and
decades. Then, in 1978, UFO researcher Stanton one of these accounts is suspect. Of these seven
Friedman happened to meet Marcel. Because people, however, only five claim to have
Marcel dredged up his recovered-saucer story, actually handled the material personally, and
and Friedman thought he had at last found a one of them is adamant that it was not from an
“star” witness who could blow open the U.S. extraterrestrial spacecraft.
government’s alleged cover-up of crashed The remainder of the professed
saucers and pickled aliens, the Roswell myth “witnesses” cited in The Roswell Incident are
began anew, with Friedman as its most vocal either secondhand sources (whose testimonies
(and visible) champion. constitute hearsay) or people who saw no
wreckage at all or were never present at the
“Hundreds of Witnesses” “debris field” during the critical time. In other
words, they are not actually witnesses in the true
In the pro-UFO community, much fanfare has sense of the word.
been made over the years about the “dozens” or
even “hundreds of eyewitnesses” to the alleged Father Time and Flawed Memories
UFO crash near Roswell.
If the near-holy reverence for the number While the pro-UFO community and the Roswell
of alleged witnesses surrounding the Roswell authors stress the number of witnesses, another
affair were limited to just the UFO buffs who factor in their firm belief that an extraterrestrial
have conducted no direct research of their own, spacecraft crashed at Roswell is the apparent
this situation might be understandable. consistency of the eyewitness testimonies.
However, this is not the case, for the authors of
numerous Roswell books play the numbers (Continued on Page 80)
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What Really Happened at
Roswell
Continued from Page 79
However, a careful reading of the
statements presented in The Roswell Incident
and elsewhere reveals that there are serious
discrepancies among the various accounts
which, when analyzed in detail and taken
collectively, severely weaken the case.
One undeniable truth that many UFO
advocates seem to easily forget is that when
Moore and Friedman first started interviewing
some of the original witnesses regarding
Roswell, the recollections of these people had
undoubtedly changed. If nothing else, their
memories reflected the passage of nearly thirty-
one years, if not more. Even the very first person
interviewed, Marcel, was not questioned by
Friedman until 1978, again almost thirty-one
years after the event.
It is an irrefutable fact that the passage of
time erodes the accuracy of one’s recollections
of an event. Despite this, the Roswell authors
continue to stress just how “clear and sharp”
their witnesses’ memories are, even though
nearly fifty years have now elapsed. Certainly
these memories could not have improved.
Perhaps the most absurd attempt to paint
the Roswell eyewitnesses and their testimonies
as beyond dispute can be found in Randle and
Schmitt’s The Truth about the UFO Crash at
Roswell, which was later adapted for television
by Showtime, under the name Roswell.
In drawing a parallel between the alleged
UFO events at Roswell and the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy, Randle and Schmitt
state, “The Roswell memories are vivid and
detailed, despite the passage of so many years”
and constitute a “snapshot memory.”
If this is the case, to use Randle and
Schmitt’s analogy, then these people forgot to
load film in their camera, for even the most
important “star” witness to Roswell, Major
Marcel, when first interviewed, could not even
remember the year of the alleged UFO crash, let
alone the month. Indeed, Marcel’s own answer
as to when this supposed “snapshot memory”
event took place was simply “in the late forties"!
In my book on Roswell, I examine
systematically the accounts of all major
“witnesses” presented in the Roswell Incident
and all others. For the first time, these
testimonies are exposed for what they are: a
mishmash of erroneous accounts,
embellishments and outright confabulations. In
fact, as I show, some of the people who have
been touted as witnesses by the pro-UFO
Roswell authors are not really witnesses at all.
Here are some examples:
Lydia Sleppy: Claims she was operating a
teletype machine announcing the recovery of the
flying disk when her teletype suddenly went
dead and broadcast an ominous message from
the FBI back to her ordering her to stop
broadcasting the story in the interests of national
security.
Truth: A check by this author with all
relevant FBI field offices and their headquarters
turned up no evidence that the FBI sent any such
message, nor did they have the monitoring
equipment in place to do so. Furthermore, the
type of teletype machine in use by Sleppy at the
time would have required her to throw a
“receiver” switch in order for her to receive an
incoming transmission. There was no way that
the FBI could have “interrupted” her as she
claims.
Loretta Proctor: Neighbor of Mac Brazel, the
rancher who originally discovered the “saucer”
debris. She claims she tried to bend, burn, and
break a piece of the material Brazel showed her
but was unable to. Proctor’s testimony is used by
crashed-saucer buffs to buttress the argument
that a spaceship made of unknown, exotic
material crashed near Roswell.
Truth: Loretta Proctor has changed her
story several times. She has transformed herself
from a “witness” who never saw any debris, to
one who now tried to bend, break, and burn the
“mysterious” material. She began changing her
account after her husband, Floyd, who made it
very clear in earlier interviews that they had
never seen any material, passed away.
Sergeant Melvin E. Brown: Brown is touted as
a “witness” who saw alien bodies by Roswell
authors Friedman, Randle and Schmitt, and
Michael Hesemann and Philip Mantle (Beyond
Roswell).
Truth: Melvin Brown cannot be
considered a witness since he died in 1986 and
was never interviewed by UFO researchers.
Indeed, the only “proof” one has that Brown was
a “witness” comes from his daughter, Beverly
Bean, who first made the claim years after his
death. No other member of Brown’s family
supports her claim. Furthermore, a check by this
author of Brown’s military file revealed that he
was a cook who held no security clearance and
never pulled guard duty. Also noted in the book
are the blatant contradictions and changes in
Beverly Bean’s various accounts.
Major Jesse Marcel: The Hidden Truth
In my book I publish for the first time excerpts
from the military file of Jesse Marcel, excerpts
which prove that although Marcel served his
country honorably, he was not a credible witness
and should not be considered as such. (Despite
this fact, Stanton Friedman and other pro-UFO
Roswell authors consider his every word to be
gospel truth.) The file is extremely
incriminating, for it it clearly demonstrates that
Marcel had a penchant for exaggerating things
while repeatedly trying to “write himself” into
the history books. Ironically, Marcel’s tendency
to exaggerate was specifically noted in his
military file by none other than the commander
of the base at Roswell at that time, in a review of
his performance that was signed just after the
incident occurred.
Marcel claimed that he personally flew
the UFO wreckage to Carswell AFB. He could
not have done so, for he was never a pilot.
Despite this, Marcel claimed in numerous
interviews with Friedman and former National
Enquirer reporter Bob Pratt that he was not only
a pilot but had managed to shoot down five
enemy aircraft! If so, this would have made
Marcel an “ace,” a distinction that certainly
would have been noted in his military file.
Instead, there’s no record of this or even
anything close, and in fact it was General Ramey
who specifically noted in Marcel’s file that
because he was not a pilot, he would be severely
limited in his career opportunities in the Air
Force. It’s no wonder, then, that Marcel would
later “blame” Ramey for the “UFO coverup” at
Roswell.
Marcel claimed he had a bachelor’s
degree in physics and even named the
universities he attended. However, when I
checked with those institutions, I discovered that
one of them he never attended, and he never
finished his education at the other. Curiously,
while Marcel blatantly lied to UFO researchers
such as Friedman about his mythical educational
background, he never dared make such false
claims to the military. Indeed, in signed
statements contained in Marcel’s military file,
he replies “none” when asked under oath if he
had a college degree.
Does this tell us that Marcel knew his
gullible UFO peers would never check on him
anyway? Or did he even care? We don't know.
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What Really Happened at
Roswell
Continued from Page 80
The book also notes that Friedman, even
as of this writing, has failed to refute these
devastating new revelations about his “star”
Roswell witness. Indeed, in what can only be
politely called lame rationalization, Friedman
counters that military records are notoriously
inaccurate. While this is sometimes true, the
comment is irrelevant, since throughout
Marcel’s file his signature repeatedly appears
indicating that he signed off on its contents,
certifying them to be true. Until Friedman and
other pro-UFO Roswell researchers bother
obtaining Marcel’s entire military file, they are
in no position to make comments on it, let alone
dismiss it.
In addition to disproving Marcel’s
testimony, I also systematically dismantle and
refute other Roswell “eyewitness” testimonies
such as those of British Major Hughie Green,
Roswell mortician Glen Dennis, Rueben Anaya,
Frankie Rowe, Frank Kaufmann, Jim Ragsdale,
and others. In short, no credible evidence from
any witness has turned out to present a
compelling case that the object was
extraterrestrial in origin.
Having discovered the sad truth behind
many of the testimonies concerning the recovery
of alleged “flying saucer” debris near Roswell,
where does this leave us? With no known
scientifically verifiable physical remnants to
study, is there any way that we can determine the
true nature and origin of the actual wreckage
that was collected? Fortunately, the answer is
yes, but we must first examine additional
evidence.
The Air Force Coverup Begins
The beginning of the Air Force coverup of the
true nature of the object recovered by Major
Marcel started with Marcel’s arrival at Carswell
AFB and General Ramey’s subsequent
announcement that the debris was simply a
misidentified weather balloon. As noted, Marcel
maintains that the Roswell debris was from a
flying saucer and that the weather balloon
“explanation” provided by Ramey was a
convenient cover story. Although Marcel’s
credibility as a truthful witness in the Roswell
saga has been impeached, there is no disputing
the fact that he accompanied the wreckage to
Carswell AFB and was present in Ramey’s
office with him when the weather balloon
explanation was given. But was there a coverup
as Marcel claims, and was the weather balloon
story part of that coverup?
According to Colonel Thomas J.
DuBose, who was General Ramey’s assistant,
the weather balloon story was indeed part of the
coverup, designed to get the press “taken off
[Ramey’s] back in a hurry.”
If the Roswell incident did not involve
the retrieval of wreckage from a genuine flying
saucer, then why was the weather balloon story
given as an “explanation,” and what was the
reason for the coverup? What was there to
possibly hide, since the debris Marcel himself
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had helped recover was on display in Ramey’s had collected.
office? DuBose not only greeted the incoming
plane, but hand carried the wreckage remnants
Flying Saucer or Weather Balloon? in a sealed canvas mail pouch, immediately
escorting it to Ramey’s office.
According to the pro-UFO Roswell authors, In a revealing interview, DuBose puts to
specifically Friedman, Randle, and Schmitt, the rest the “mystery” of the so-called substituted
debris photographed inside Ramey’s office is wreckage and exposes it for what it is — another
not the material Marcel and Sheridan Cavitt Major Marcel myth. DuBose’s comments have
recovered from the ranch. Instead, it is the never appeared before in any book on Roswell.
remnants of a weather balloon that were brought Q: There are two researchers (Schmitt
in as a cover story to hide the true nature of the and Randle) who are presently saying that the
Roswell incident. debris in General Ramey’s office had been
Unfortunately for the pro-UFO Roswell switched and that you men had a weather
advocates, the source of the claim that the balloon there in its place.
wreckage in Ramey’s office was replaced by A: Oh Bull! That material was never
that of a weather balloon is none other than, switched!
once again, Major Jesse Marcel. Q: So what you're saying is that the
The key to understanding (and material in General Ramey’s office was the
unraveling) the truth behind Marcel’s “bait and actual debris brought in from Roswell?
switch” claim is a clear understanding of the A: That’s absolutely right.
items shown in the photographs that were taken In a second and a third, final interview, DuBose
in General Ramey’s office by reporter J. Bond repeated his assertions that no wreckage
Johnson of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and substitution had taken place. More important, by
others. Either the photos show the real debris the time of the third interview, DuBose had
that Marcel collected and claims was part of a looked at the photos of the recovered debris
flying saucer, or they do not. And if the photos taken at that time by J. Bond Johnson. DuBose
do not show genuine flying saucer wreckage, recognized the material in the photos.
and General Ramey’s weather balloon story was Q: Did you get a chance to read the
true, then they depict a weather balloon. On the material and look at the pictures?
other hand, if the photos show neither item, then A: Yes, and I studied the pictures very
there was indeed a coverup and Ramey lied. carefully.
Clearly, both Marcel and Ramey cannot Q: Do you recognize that material?
be right, since the same material appears in all A: Oh yes. That’s the material that
the known photos taken in Ramey’s office that Marcel brought into Fort Worth from Roswell.
day. DuBose’s comments are significant,
In order to determine definitively the because they establish that there was no
truthfulness of Marcel’s substituted wreckage substituted wreckage and that the material
claim, I have analyzed in detail both the photos Marcel recovered near Roswell was later
and the testimonies of the only other people who photographed and put on display for public view
were in Ramey’s office when the debris was in Ramey’s office by Ramey himself.
photographed — Colonel DuBose and Irving I also present the testimonies of Irving
Newton. It appears that Marcel was once again Newton, who was also present that day in
confabulating. Ramey’s office, and Sheridan Cavitt, who
helped Marcel collect the wreckage from the
Testimony of Brigadier General Thomas J. ranch. After looking at the same debris photos,
DuBose they confirmed that they depict the material they
recalled seeing and that no UFO debris was ever
As mentioned earlier, Colonel Thomas J. there. In fact, both Newton and Cavitt make it
DuBose, who later retired as a brigadier general, very clear in their interviews that they have been
was present when the wreckage was brought misquoted by various UFO researchers, and they
into Ramey’s office. There’s no disputing this resent it.
fact, because DuBose met the B-29 personally
when it arrived at Carswell AFB (Fort Worth)
from Roswell carrying the debris that Marcel (Continued on Page 83)
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 What Really Happened at Roswell
What Really Happened at
Roswell
Continued from Page 81
Although DuBose’s testimony and all
available evidence easily refute Marcel’s
substituted wreckage claim, DuBose was
adamant that there was indeed a coverup. He
never knew what the Roswell object was, but he
did know that it was not an ordinary weather
balloon, contrary to what was claimed at that
time. The question now becomes, what was the
object?
Project Mogul: The Real Answer
Project Mogul was a super-secret operation in
1947 that involved the use of constant-level
balloon trains that were equipped with various
instruments for intelligence gathering purposes.
Constant level balloon trains are clusters of
balloons that are balanced so that they can float
at a fairly consistent altitude and not continually
rise up into the atmosphere. Project Mogul was
a classified operation begun by the U.S.
government after the end of World War II to spy
on the former Soviet Union in order to
determine the status of Russian attempts to build
nuclear weapons. Project Mogul was so secret
and sensitive that it had a national security rating
of “Top Secret A-1,” equal to that of the original
Manhattan Project (the effort to build the
world’s first atomic bomb).
While a Project Mogul balloon array has
been mentioned before as a candidate for the
Roswell object, unfortunately the case for it
remained unproven — until now. In my book, I
present previously unpublished, formerly
classified photos and drawings of various
components of Mogul that can be visually
compared by the reader to photos of the actual
wreckage that was recovered. From these photos
and drawings, it is clear that it is the same
material.
I also present statements from the
surviving members of the secret Project Mogul
team. In particular is an interview with Professor
Charles Moore, the main scientist behind
Mogul’s New York University balloon
experiments and the man who actually launched
the very balloon train that was recovered by
Marcel. In addition to discussing Project Mogul
and its history, Professor Moore also speaks for
the first time about specific pro-UFO Roswell
authors that have contacted him.
When I asked Professor Moore if UFO
researcher Stanton Friedman had ever contacted
or interviewed him about Roswell, he told me
that in the early 1990s Friedman had placed a
newspaper ad in the local paper soliciting
witnesses to Roswell, and that he wrote to
Friedman and later met him and his coauthor,
Don Berliner, at a hotel in Socorro.
When I inquired as to how their
discussion went, Professor Moore told me
bluntly that Friedman and Berliner did not want
to hear his side of the story and then accused
him and his group of being part of the coverup.
It is curious that nowhere in Friedman
and Berliner’s Crash at Corona is this meeting
ever mentioned, nor has Friedman ever noted it
in his published writings, nor has he ever refuted
the overwhelming and convincing evidence that
the whole Roswell UFO hysteria was caused by
people who didn't know the identity of the
recovered material, the discovery of which just
happened to take place during that unique period
of time in mid-1947 when the flying saucer
craze was first sweeping America.
Further Topics and Conclusion
The other parts of The Roswell UFO Crash:
What They Don't Want You to Know expose the
two cases where alleged physical metallic
fragments were recovered and scientifically
analyzed. In both instances, thorough analyses
revealed that none of the fragments were
extraterrestrial in origin.
I also address the issue of the Majestic-
12 (MJ-12) documents. For those not familiar
with the MJ-12 documents, these allegedly
authentic top-secret documents were brought to
the public’s attention in 1987 by Bill Moore,
Stanton Friedman, and another associate. They
refer to a top-secret “Operation Majestic-12,”
supposedly created by President Truman to
analyze the Roswell crashed saucer and aliens.
Skeptic Phil Klass and others have shown this to
be a hoax. I recount an interview with the widow
and daughter of the late UFO skeptic and
Harvard astronomer, Donald Menzel, an alleged
MJ-12 member. Supporters of the MJ-12 papers,
including Friedman, would have us believe that
Menzel was a secret government
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“disinformation” agent who knew all about
Roswell and the aliens recovered. Suffice it to
say, the Menzel family are not amused by these
ridiculous claims and were kind enough to share
their thoughts with me, as well as provide
additional evidence that their father could not
have been a secret member of the non-existent
MJ-12.
After maintaining my personal silence
on the subject for nearly fifteen years, I finally
come forth with some detailed insight into
Roswell UFO researcher Bill Moore’s claim that
he is a UFO disinformation expert for the U.S.
government. I was one of the first people Moore
told this to back in 1982, some seven years
before he announced it in July 1989. At the time,
Moore approached me and tried to recruit me on
his “mission.” Naturally, I declined, and began
to distance myself from him.
One of the last chapters in my book
examines the infamous alien autopsy film and
presents a myriad of reasons why it is a hoax.
Also described are some behind-the-scenes
details about the production and many of the
games that were played on Fox TV by the film’s
promoter, Ray Santilli.
The Roswell UFO Crash: What They
Don't Want You to Know is the first book to
thoroughly wade through the massive quagmire
of Roswell evidence and finally separate the fact
from the fiction. Paranoid UFO conspiracy buffs
and X-Files fans will find that the book confirms
their basic premise: Yes, Virginia, there was a
“coverup,” but it did not involve the remains of
an extraterrestrial flying saucer.
On the other hand, pro-UFO Roswell
aficionados will find the massive evidence
refuting the Roswell myth in my book
disturbing, and not just because their favorite
UFO case has now been explained. Indeed, the
message in the final chapter makes it very clear
that the UFO field has suffered in credibility
because of Roswell and especially because of
the unprofessional and shoddy “standards” of
evidence the Roswell authors have practiced.
Although I didn't relish wording the last
paragraph in my book the way I did, I had to call
things as I see them. This paragraph reads: “The
time has come for the UFO community to take
an honest look at itself in the mirror concerning
Roswell. If and when they ever decide to do this,
they will see for the first time that they have two
black eyes and a huge hole in their head. All of
which have been self-inflicted.”
84 Find Your Path Home
 The Roswell Incident and Project Mogul
The Roswell Incident and
Project Mogul
by Dave Thomas
As reported in the January-February 1995
Skeptical Inquirer, a September 1994 Air Force
report strongly supported the theory that the
“UFO” debris found by rancher Mac Brazel in
1947 northwest of Roswell, New Mexico, was in
fact a remnant of a balloon flight launched as
part of a top-secret program called Project
Mogul. The possible connection between the
Roswell Incident and Mogul was first realized
by researcher Robert G. Todd, and
independently by Karl T. Pflock.
Recently, Charles B. Moore, one of three
surviving Project Mogul scientists identified in
and interviewed for the Air Force report, spoke
to the New Mexicans for Science and Reason
(NMSR) in Albuquerque. He discussed the
background of the project, the New York
University (NYU) balloon flights, and the
Roswell connection. He provided new details
that would appear to virtually clinch the idea
that the debris Brazel found was indeed from
one of the Project Mogul flights that Moore
helped launch.
What follows is based on Moore’s
presentation, his answers to audience questions,
subsequent meetings and discussions with him,
documents he provided, and a monograph he is
preparing on these flights.
Moore, professor emeritus of physics at
New Mexico Institute of Mining and
Technology in Socorro, was a graduate student
working for NYU back in 1947. The Mogul
project was so classified and compartmentalized
that even Moore didn’t know the project’s name
until Robert Todd informed him of it a couple of
years ago. The unclassified purpose of the
project was to develop constant-level balloons
for meteorological purposes.
Its classified purpose was to try to
develop a way to monitor possible Soviet
nuclear detonations with the use of low-
frequency acoustic microphones placed at high
altitudes. No other means of monitoring the
nuclear activities of a closed country like the
USSR was yet available, and the project was
given a high priority. One of the NYU tasks was
the development of constant-level balloons for
placing the acoustic microphones aloft. After
some preliminary flights in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, in April 1947, which failed due to
high winds, the project moved to New Mexico.
In June and early July 1947, numerous
NYU balloon flights were launched from
Alamogordo Army Air Field in New Mexico.
Some of these flights consisted of very long
trains containing up to two dozen neoprene
sounding balloons, having a total length of more
than 600 feet.
Moore makes a strong case for the
hypothesis that NYU Flight #4, which he helped
launch on June 4, 1947, was the source of the
debris Brazel found on the Foster ranch, and
therefore the source of the “Roswell Incident”
itself. Many of the materials used in Flight 4
bear striking similarities to pieces of the Roswell
debris. A diagram of an earlier, similar flight,
Flight #2 (launched April 18, 1947, from
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) shows the balloon
train. No such diagram is available for Flight 4;
since no altitude data were obtained for it, it was
not included in formal NYU reports. However,
Moore says the configuration for Flight 4 was
quite similar to that shown. The large octahedral
objects at top left and bottom middle are radar
reflectors, which were used for tracking. Several
small aluminum rings for handling the lines are
indicated; the “payload” (a sonobuoy) was
supported by slightly larger rings. The cluster of
neoprene sounding balloons extended for
hundreds of feet in flight.
The debris Brazel picked up—and which
was later taken to Fort Worth, Texas, for
inspection by Brigadier General Roger Ramey,
the Air Force commander there—matches NYU
Flight 4 in several different ways. Some of the
debris consisted of patches of a smelly, smoky
gray, rubber-like material, which is consistent
with the neoprene balloons used in NYU Flight
4. Much of the Roswell debris—sticks, metallic
paper, and strangely marked tape—is similar to
material used for the radar reflectors. When
Warrant Officer Irving Newton saw the debris in
General Ramey’s office, he recognized it as
pieces of a radar target. Moore points out that
the Ramey photographs show parts of more than
one reflector; Flight 4 contained three Signal
Corps ML-307B RAWIN targets.
Many witnesses of the debris described
tape with flower designs or hieroglyphics on it.
Moore recalls that the reinforcing tape used on
NYU targets had curious markings. “There were
about four of us who were involved in this, and
all remember that our targets had sort of a
stylized, flowerlike design. I have prepared, in
my life, probably more than a hundred of these
targets for flight. And every time I have prepared
one of these targets, I have always wondered
what the purpose of that tape marking was. But
. . . a major named John Peterson, laughed . . .
and said ‘What do you expect when you get your
targets made by a toy factory?'”
The radar targets contained small
eyelets. Moore showed the NMSR audience a
similar target with the eyelets. In an article in the
Roswell Daily Record on July 9, 1947, rancher
Brazel described the debris as having no strings
or wire, but as having eyelets for some sort of
attachment.
While many UFO proponents claim the
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wreckage shown in General Ramey’s office was
just a weather balloon switched for the “real
debris,” Moore pointed out that the radar targets
used by NYU were unlike anything flown in
New Mexico before and that “they were not
available in Fort Worth to be substituted for the
debris in General Ramey’s office.” Warrant
Officer Newton was able to recognize the debris
in General Ramey’s office because he happened
to have used an early version of the same targets
while serving as a weatherman in Okinawa. The
earlier-model targets Newton used did not have
the reinforcing tape with the pinkish-purple
flower designs.
Brazel’s daughter, Bessie Brazel
Schreiber, in a 1979 interview conducted by
author William Moore (no relation to Charles B.
Moore), described some aluminum ring-shaped
objects in the debris that looked like pipe intake
collars or the necks of balloons. (The mention of
the rings appears in William Moore’s transcript
of the interview, but was not included in his
book The Roswell Incident.) She estimated that
they were about 4 inches around, and said she
could put her hand through them. Charles Moore
points out that Flight 4 carried several 3-inch-
diameter aluminum rings for assisting with the
launching of the balloon train, as well as larger
rings used to hold the sonobuoys. These were
cut from cylindrical tubing stock, and then
chamfered to prevent damage to the ropes.
Sheridan Cavitt, the CIC (Counter-
Intelligence Corps) officer who accompanied
Major Jesse Marcel to the debris field, described
a black box in the wreckage. Moore says the
NYU crew routinely packed batteries for the
acoustic equipment in black boxes. There has
been some speculation that the black box might
have been a radiosonde, but Moore pointed out
that radiosondes are usually white to prevent
absorption of heat.
(Continued on Page 86)
 86 The Roswell Incident and Project Mogul
The Roswell Incident and
Project Mogul
Continued from Page 85
On June 4, 1947, Flight 4 was launched, and
tracked as far as Arabela, New Mexico, only 17
miles from the location of the debris field on the
Foster ranch. Flight 4 was still aloft when the
batteries ran down, and contact was lost. Brazel
reported that he found the debris on the ranch on
June 14, 1947, although most UFO proponents
put the time of this discovery as a few weeks
later, in early July. Brazel didn’t take the debris
into Roswell until July 7, 1947, by his own
account; this date is disputed as well.
Recently, Charles Moore has developed
a brand-new line of evidence even further
supporting a link between the Roswell Incident
and Project Mogul. UFO researcher Kevin
Randle recently provided Moore with National
Weather Service wind data for early June 1947.
Moore, who has lived and breathed atmospheric
physics most of his adult life, analyzed this data
in detail. His analysis deals with three NYU
flights : Flight 4 (June 4, 1947), Flight 5 (June
5), and Flight 6 (June 7). The Weather Service
wind data are compatible with what is called a
baroclinic weather system moving through the
area. As this “trough aloft” slowly passes by, the
winds aloft will shift from blowing toward the
northeast, then toward the east, and then toward
the southeast. At very high altitudes, however,
this type of system produces high-level winds in
the upper troposphere at cross directions to those
at lower levels. Furthermore, the prevailing
winds in the stratosphere during the summer
months blow toward the west, while those in the
transition region just above the tropopause blew
toward the northwest during the early part of
June 1947. For example, Flight 5 proceeded
mainly east as it rose through the troposphere;
when it entered the stratosphere, however, it was
carried to the northwest. After some balloons
burst and Flight 5 descended, it again headed in
an easterly direction until it landed.
When Moore used the Weather Service
wind data and NYU altitude information to
simulate the probable paths of the flights with
recorded ground tracks (Flights 5 and 6), his
results agreed quite reasonably with the
measured balloon paths—Flight 5 drifted
mainly to the east, landing near Roswell, while
Flight 6 took a more southwesterly route. Moore
then extended his analysis to Flight 4, the
Roswell candidate. He used the wind data for
June 4, 1947, and assumed the flight reached
altitudes comparable to those of the subsequent
two flights (which were made with very similar
balloon trains).
Moore’s analysis indicates that after
Flight 4 lifted off from Alamogordo, it probably
ascended while traveling northeast (toward
Arabela), then turned toward the northwest
during its passage through the stratosphere, and
then descended back to earth in a generally
northeast direction. Moore’s calculated balloon
path is quite consistent with a landing at the
Foster ranch, approximately 85 miles northeast
of the Alamogordo launch site and 60 miles
northwest of Roswell. Furthermore, the debris
was strewn along the ground at a southwest-to-
northeast angle (as reported by Major Jesse night, and showed him the debris. Colonel Duffy
Marcel); this angle is entirely consistent with told the fellow, “It looks like some of the stuff
Moore’s analysis. you've been launching at Alamogordo.”
Charles B. Moore has been repeatedly What is the bottom line on the Roswell
criticized in the UFO literature for changing Incident, NYU, and Project Mogul? In Moore’s
some of his earlier statements. He was words, “When the wind information is coupled
interviewed for William Moore’s book on the with the similarities in the debris described by
Roswell Incident. After hearing Bill Moore’s the eyewitnesses—the balsa sticks, the ‘tinfoil,’
description of the wreckage (including details of the tape with pastel, pinkish-purple flowers, the
supposed 10-inch furrows running some 500 smoky gray balloon rubber with a burnt odor,
feet), Charlie Moore responded by saying: the eyelets, the tough paper, the four-inch-
“Based on the description you gave me, I think diameter aluminum pieces and the black box—
that could not have been our balloon.” Balloon to the materials used in our balloon flight trains,
trains like Flight 4 were far too light to make it appears to me that it would be difficult to
large furrows in the ground. The issue is not that exclude NYU Flight 4 as a likely source of the
Charles Moore said the wreckage couldn’t have debris that W. W. Brazel found on the Foster
been a balloon—it’s that he said his flights ranch in 1947.”
couldn’t have plowed the alleged “furrows.” On
another note, Moore and other Mogul Dave Thomas
participants originally thought the debris Brazel
found must have been from one of NYU’s Dave Thomas, a physicist and mathematician, is
polyethylene balloon flights from early July president of New Mexicans for Science and
1947. He held this opinion until just a couple of Reason and a fellow of the Committee for
years ago. These large, transparent polyethylene Skeptical Inquiry. He is currently a
balloons were used for the first time ever in the scientist/programmer at IRIS/PASSCAL in
summer of 1947 and would have looked strange Socorro, New Mexico, and also teaches classes
even to experienced balloon watchers. However, in physics, psychology, and critical thinking at
after seeing the reports and photographs from New Mexico Tech. []
1947 for the first time, Charles Moore realized
that Flight 4 was a much better candidate for the
Foster ranch debris than a polyethylene balloon. The Following Interviews From
So he has changed his opinions on the incident, THE ‘X’ ZONE RADIO SHOW
but only because better data became available. with Rob McConnell
Moore’s presentation included Are Available on iHeart Radio,
fascinating details on the background of Project
Spreaker, SoundCloud and XZBN.
Mogul. He noted that the discovery of the
acoustic “duct” between the troposphere and the
stratosphere came about as a result of a World Recent Interviews (Dec 17-Jan 18)
War II era analysis of globally propagated sound
waves produced by the volcanic explosion of - Seth Breedlove
Krakatoa in 1883. In one of their flights, he said - Lucinda Gabriel
the NYU crew attempted (without success) to - Robert Murch
detect explosions from the British destruction of - Tara Greene
German installations on the island of Helgoland - Dr. John Brandenburg
(off the north German coast) in April 1948. - William Lawrence
While UFO proponents allege a lack of - Dr. Robert Davis, PhD
contemporary references to “Project Mogul - Major Ed Dames
Balloon Flights,” Moore says the project was so - Thornton “TD” Barnes
compartmentalized that such references simply - Jennifer McCallum
may not exist. Any mention of these flights will - John Potash
instead be labeled as NYU constant-level - Nicki Scully
balloon research. - Richard Gordon
Several UFO authors claim that the - Jeffrey Daugherty
wreckage, and possibly alien bodies as well, - Dr. Michael Grosso
were secretly flown to Wright Field in Dayton, - Paul Jeffrey Davids
Ohio for analysis. By coincidence, Moore says - Dr. Doris E. Cohen
he and the rest of the NYU balloon crew stayed - Derek Gilbert
over at Wright Field the evening of July 8, 1947, - Michael J. Tamura
en route back to New Jersey, just as the Roswell - Ira Pastor
story was breaking. Moore says they first - Dr. Robert E. Bartholomew
learned of the incident while in Dayton, and - Howard Bloom
figured that it was probably caused by one of - John Prados
their recent polyethylene balloon flights. - Jonathan Gray
The September 1994 Air Force report - Lamar Waldon
indicates that the Brazel debris also made its - Dr. Kristen Willeumier, DDS
way to Wright Field. During an Air Force - Mark Shaw
interview of Mogul participant Colonel Albert - Ginny Nadler
C. Trakowski, he recalled a July 1947 telephone - Leland Judsyn
call from Colonel Marcellus Duffy, who was - Dr. Seth Shostak
stationed at Wright Field and was intimately - Mark Edward Pyle
knowledgeable about both Project Mogul and - Dr. Robin Buck
military weather equipment. Duffy told - Dr. David Gruder
Trakowski that a fellow from New Mexico came - Mesheril ManyFeathers
to Dayton, woke him up in the middle of the - And Many, Many Other!
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 Connecting with Coincidence
Connecting with Coincidence
The New Science for Using Synchronicity and Serendipity in Your Life
Bernard Beitman, MD is the
first psychiatrist since Carl
Jung to systematize the study
of coincidences. He
developed the first valid scale
to measure coincidence
sensitivity, and has written
several coincidence articles
for Psychiatric Annals. The
author or editor of 16
professional books, he is a
visiting professor at the University of Virginia,
attended Yale Medical School and completed a
psychiatric residency at Stanford. NOW you can
listen to Connecting with Coincidence Radio Show
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We've all experienced or heard of surprising events and
unexplainable coincidences—money that seems to come
from nowhere, a spontaneous idea that turns into a life-
changing solution, meeting our soulmate on a flight we
weren't supposed to take, or families being reunited by
"accident" after years of separation.
Often these coincidences are explained as being controlled
by a higher power or pure chance. But for the first time
since Carl Jung's work, comes bold new research that
explains scientifically how we can identify, understand,
and perhaps even control the frequency of coincidences in
our everyday lives.
Bernard Beitman, a leading expert on Coincidence
Studies, proposes a greater personal responsibility which
depends partly upon newly discovered "grid cells" located
in the brain, near the hippocampus. But neuroscience
cannot complete the entire puzzle, and in this fascinating
guide, Beitman provides the missing piece. From
analyzing true stories of synchronicity from around the
globe and throughout history, he shares key personality
characteristics and situational factors that contribute to the
occurrence of meaningful coincidences in our lives.
Where other books on coincidences tend to be theoretical,
inspirational, or story collections only, Beitman's book is
the first to provide a scientific understanding and practical
ways in which readers can use them in their own lives. He
reveals:
• How to activate your observing self so you don't miss
synchronistic moments
• How serendipity can offer insights into solving
problems or making difficult decisions
• Why stress activates meaningful coincidences
• Which states of mind impede our ability to experience
synchronicity
• How to interpret the meaning of a coincidence
• Why being attuned to coincidences is a learned
skill—and how to hone your sensitivity.
 90 Beware of the Integrative Pharmacy
Beware of the Integrative
Pharmacy - Part I
by Scott Gavura
Imagine a retail pharmacy where some of the
medicines on the shelves have been replaced
with similar-looking packages that contain no
active ingredients at all. There is no easy way to
distinguish between the real and the fake.
Another section of the store offers a
number of remedies with fantastic claims, such
as “boosting” the immune system, “detoxifying”
the body, or “cleansing” you of microscopic
Candida. They look sciencey, unless you realize
that they treat imaginary medical conditions.
A corner of the store offers unpurified
drugs supplied as tinctures and teas. The active
ingredients aren’t known, and the batch-to-batch
consistency of the product is unclear. The store
will suggest products for you based on your
symptoms.
Walk past the enormous wall of vitamins
and other supplements and you’ll find a
nutritionist who will tell you what products you
should be taking. You’ll also find a weight loss
section. From a science-based perspective, this
shouldn’t even exist, given no product has been
shown to offer any meaningful benefit. But there
are dozens of products for sale.
At the back of the store you’ll finally
find the pharmacist. A sign on the counter offers
blood- and saliva-based tests for food
“intolerance” and adrenal “fatigue”, claiming to
test for medical conditions that actually don’t
exist or lack an evidence base. The pharmacy
also offers a large compounding practice,
advertising what it calls “personalized”
approaches to hormone replacement with
“bioidentical” hormones.
Welcome to the “integrative” pharmacy.
You may not see all these features in your local
drug store, but they’re coming: claims of a new
“integrative” way to provide health care that is
changing the face of retail pharmacy.
Unfortunately, it’s harkening back to the era of
patent medicines and snake oil. It’s not good for
the pharmacists and the profession of pharmacy,
and it’s even worse for patients.
As the blog’s only pharmacist, I like to
think I bring a different but (cough)
complementary perspective to the contributions.
Naturally I like to write about drug-related
issues, and I’ll occasionally scrutinize the
profession itself. One trend in the profession
seems to be accelerating: It’s the increasing
volume of scientifically-questionable products
on pharmacy shelves. It hit home the other day
when I found yet another local pharmacy that
proudly advertises that it will sell you sugar pills
and call it medicine. A twitter discussion ensued,
with one pharmacist commenting that his own
retail pharmacy looks behind-the-times simply
because he puts patient care and ethics ahead of
revenue, and refuses to sell products like
homeopathy. Pharmacy is a health profession,
but retail pharmacy is also a for-profit business.
This is a continual conflict, and I fear the
professional side may be losing ground in the
drive to increase revenue.
While I don’t personally work regularly
in retail pharmacy, I think of myself as a strong
advocate for the community-based pharmacist’s
role – and for their potential to do much more.
Not only are pharmacists among the most
accessible health professionals, they can also
have close, supportive relationships with their
patients. And pharmacists are well-positioned to
do much more to enhance the safe and
appropriate use of drugs – from managing doses
and side effects, to simplifying regimens, and by
ensuring that prescribed medications are being
taken safely and appropriately. If you’re
generally healthy and don’t need medication,
you may not even know a pharmacist. But those
with high medication needs tend to know their
pharmacist well, and many rely on their
pharmacist as a key member of their health care
team. I know the impact a good pharmacist can
have on the health of a patient. But I’m
increasingly dismayed at retail pharmacy
practices that call the credibility and good
intentions of the pharmacist into question.
Old whine in a new bottle
Integrative medicine is ascendant. Terms like
“alternative” and “complementary” are falling
out of favor, in part because it’s increasingly
recognized that these terms carry a stigma – they
are not part of mainstream medicine. Integrative
medicine seeks to explicitly embed
complementary and alternative medical
practices into conventional, science-based
medical care. It purports to take a “best of both
worlds” approach, mixing science-based
treatments with a variety of unconventional
treatments. The fundamental challenge with
integrative medicine is that “integrative”
products and services don’t have scientific
evidence to support them: if they did, they’d
simply be called “medicine”. Instead of
evidence, promoters of integrative medicine rely
on other standards – many are grounded in belief
systems, such as the idea of “vitalism“. While
ideas like vitalism are long-discarded from
science-based medicine, they live on in the
philosophies of practices like homeopathy,
naturopathy, and chiropractic. And the retail part
of the pharmacy profession sees an opportunity,
like this advertisement seems to suggest.
Misleading patients and selling them
inert, ineffective products is unethical medical
practice. But under an “integrative” framework,
pharmacies are simply offering homeopathy –
after all, it’s trusted by millions. Basing your
medical advice on pre-scientific ideas is
incompetence from a conventional, science-
based perspective. But integrative medicine
seems to mean the freedom to simply make up
diseases, and then to sell treatments for them.
Scientific evidence is no longer the basis for
your practice – it’s become more holistic,
embracing “different ways of knowing.” I’ve Read Part II of “The Integrative Pharmacy” in
written before about the harms to hospitals and the February 2018 Edition of The ‘X’
academic settings from the embrace of Chronicles Newspaper.
“integrative medicine”. In short, there is no
medical standard with integrative medicine –
and that’s why “integration” is so problematic.
The bandwagon is growing, however. On
Monday, David Gorski noted that the National
Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine is jumping on board, with a proposal
to change its name to the National Center for
Research on Complementary and Integrative
Health (NCRCI). Change the standard of
practice, and what was ethically verboten is now
acceptable – and that’s what integrative
medicine proponents are explicitly trying to do
in health care.
The integrative pharmacy
If you integrate unproven remedies with
proven medicine in your pharmacy, it does not
improve pharmacy practice or patient care – it
makes that care worse.
A HuffPo column a few years back was
a call-to-action to pharmacies to embrace
integrative medicine – it was a depressing read
to anyone that advocates for science-based
principles. Entitled “Who Will Own the Brand
of Integrative Medicine? “, the column
described integrative medicine as a business
opportunity:
“There is a revolution happening in
North American medicine. If successful, it will
educate and empower consumers, introduce us
to a world of new cures, and leave most of us
wondering, ‘Why didn’t we do this 50 years
ago?’
It profiled the Pharmaca chain of
pharmacies in the US. The CEO of Pharmaca
was quoted:
The common US model is one
pharmacist, and a bunch of clerks stocking
shelves. In our case, we have the highly trained
pharmacist, but also highly skilled practitioners
with homeopathic or naturopathic backgrounds.
No one expert has the full answer. Instead, we
collaborate to offer our customers a more
holistic approach to managing their health.
Not surprisingly, Pharmaca advertises a
wide array of ineffective treatments, from
products that claim to offer adrenal “support” to
homeopathy, detox kits and a weight loss
selection that Dr. Oz would approve of. To their
credit, they also offer important pharmacy
services such as vaccines, including the
whooping cough vaccine. It’s a shame they’re
also actively promoting and profiting from
selling pseudoscience.
Another integrative pharmacy that was
profiled in the same column was Vancouver’s
Pure Integrative Pharmacy:
Up to now, there’s been a polarization
between advocates of traditional and
conventional pharmacy. We believe the way
forward lies in using treatments that are backed
by evidence, regardless of their origin.
and the CEO continued:
I want to get rid of the whole east meets
west stereotype. This isn’t about east meets west.
It’s about getting the best product, or
combination of products, for our customers. And
those products come with proof of efficacy.
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92 My Thomas by Roberta Grimes

M Y T H O M A S
by
Roberta Grimes
When Martha Skelton finds herself falling in love with a
shy young burgess named Thomas Jefferson, it feels like an
inconvenience. Widowed at twenty-two, Martha has no
desire to lose the independence she has gained in the wake
of her husband's death. But she cannot deny her feelings
indefinitely. Despite her intentions, her friendship with
Thomas develops into an intense and all-consuming love.

History casts a shadow on Martha's newfound joy. Through

her father's slave and mistress, Betty Hemings, she comes
to understand the true nature of slavery, an institution she
has always taken for granted. As Betty's revelations tear
down the walls of her ignorance, Martha begins to work
with her husband to end the despicable practice forever.

This story is essentially true. Thomas Jefferson was such an

obsessive record-keeper that we know what he was doing
nearly every day of his adult life, and all the public things
he is quoted as saying in My Thomas come from his
contemporary writings. Martha's marriage to Thomas
spanned the decade from 1772 to 1782, so it put her at the
center of the audacious grab at freedom that was the
American Revolution. Jefferson's writings suggest that if
he had not been widowed, he would have retired from
politics following the war and devoted himself to finding a
way to end slavery that could have truly and forever healed
the separations between the races. It is hard to read
Martha's story now and not think about what might have
been.
ROBERTA GRIMES is a business attorney who had two experiences of light in
childhood. She then spent decades studying nearly 200 years of abundant and
consistent communications from the dead, quantum mechanics, and the nature of
consciousness to learn in detail what happens at and after death. She shares her
discoveries in The Fun of Dying – Find Out What Really Happens Next (Greater
Reality, 2010, 2014). Her sequel, The Fun of Staying in Touch (Greater Reality, 2014),
details the many ways in which the dead give us signs of their survival and the exciting
new ways that we can contact them. Roberta has been a guest on more than 100 radio
programs during the past year, recently including The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show with Rob
McConnell. She delivers weekly podcasts on WebTalkRadio.net that feature
interviews with prominent experts. Her iTunes podcast archive has hundreds of
thousands of subscribers. Visit Robert Grimes Online at www.RobertaGrimes.com.
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