Phenomena Magazine - January 2014 - Issue 57

MANAGING EDITORIAL Hello and welcome to the start of another year with Phenomena Magazine.

2014 is set to be a busy one with several lectures already booked across the UK. Starting with New Horizons on January 27th in St. Annes, Truth Juice Liverpool on February 17th, The Probe International Conference in March, New Horizons lecture in Preston and numerous others. Details of all events are listed on our Facebook pages for those who wish to obtain more details, book tickets etc. A few new ideas have been rattling around my head in regards magazine layout and next month will be the start of such changes. We are hoping to completely redesign our advertisement page and introduce a few other new sections to the magazine. I’ve also been toying with the idea of Phenomena Magazine having their own conference… Watch this space!

A special thank you to our contributors this month and I’d like to continue to encourage readers to give some feedback and writers to continue to send their articles in to us for inclusion in the magazine. So… I hope you enjoy our January 2014 issue which has some varied articles in it and a… Happy New Year to all...

EDITORIAL Hello All, Possibly one of the more bizarre aspects of an already bizarre subject, i.e. the paranormal, are reports that some hauntings seem to gradually dissipate over time and what was once a full blown apparition complete with noises etc slowly fades away until only the occasional anomalous sound is heard, or a brief glimpse of a figure is seen, one has to ask why? This unusual aspect of hauntings may tell us something about the nature of the phenomenon itself, or at least some aspects of it. Bear in mind that there is absolutely no consensus about why hauntings in the form of people, places, objects or events like murders & battles occur in the first place, so anything we consider is of necessity a mixture of conjecture, hypotheses & assertion and little more.

To be sure these opinions have a good deal of thought behind them and are very plausible, but nevertheless that is what they are: opinions! Why should an apparition, irrespective of what it is, fade with time? Might it be due to the fact that the known universe and all it contains is ultimately entropic in nature and if left to its own devices will eventually run down and dissipate in much the same manner as a battery? If this is true of the universe, which is of course formed entirely of various energies in various states, then it must also be so of what we currently define as ‘paranormal’, because that too must be created from energy in one form or another, although perhaps we do not yet see it that way. So, since all energy sources will run down if not constantly re-supplied, then it is reasonable to conjecture that apparitions might also slowly fade away for the same reason…unless of course you know different.

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CONTENTS Page 2: The Hell Hound of Bungay and other Black Dogs.

The intrepid Fanthorpe’s investigate the background to the tales of ferocious and ghostly black dogs and Hell Hounds that proliferate in folklore and legends worldwide. The story of the Hell Hound of Bun‐ gay is not unique. There are similar reports of a spectral black dog in the Cathedral of St Peter in Trier in the Rhineland in Germany during the ninth century. In fact, there are such stories world wide...

Page 9: Mud: The Eternal Darkness.

Long time paranormal investigator Archie Lawrie makes his first ap‐ pearance in Phenomena Magazine and reveals the totally unexpected events that occurred when he was asked to evaluate an apparent case of haunting in a new bungalow. The owners reported seeing a mysterious shadow that was being regularly witnessed moving from the front of the property to the rear. Archie Lawrie investigates...

Page 17: Supernatural Adventure in Guatemala, Belize, Honduras & El Salvador.

Paul Dale Roberts makes a welcome return and presents his account of a journey he took in South America and tells of some of the stories, myths and legends he encountered. June 10, 2013, 12:30am, Gina de la Rosa and her two daughters took me to the Sacramento Interna‐ tional Airport for my long journey to Guatemala. A location that has experienced many deaths. A location that could be very haunted…

Page 23: The Oregon Vortex: Where the Unusual is Normal.

On a steep hillside covered with typical Pacific Northwest Douglas Firs, Maples, Alders, and Pacific Madronas, several miles from the small Oregon town of Gold Hill, lies a 165 feet wide, ¾ acre circle of mystery that has yet to be explained or proven to exacting scientific standards. The Oregon Vortex and location of The House of Mystery has amused, amazed, baffled, and perplexed visitors. Roy Stevenson explains...

Page 31: Don’t Panic!

What would happen if alien spacecraft unambiguously landed on our planet, and we all were able to meet their alien occupants? What would happen if we got a signal from an intelligent alien civilisation?

Or, what would happen if one of our space probes discovered signs of even the smallest scrap of evidence that microscopic alien life has or does exist elsewhere in our Solar System? Nigel Watson explains...

Also Featured: Latest paranormal news from around the World... Book and dvd reviews.

Many Events and Conferences that are to be held throughout the un during 2014.

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The Hell Hound of Bungay & other Black Dogs

By Lionel & Patricia Fanthorpe

According to the pamphlet ‘A Strange and Terrible Wonder’, which was written only a month after the event, an enormous hell‐ hound killed members of the congregation in St Mary’s Church in Bungay on August 4th, 1577. A violent thunderstorm ‐‐ of almost unparalleled ferocity ‐‐ damaged not only St Mary’s in Bungay, but the neighbouring church of Holy Trinity in Blythburgh some

ten miles away. Official documents, includ‐ ing the Parish Burial Register and the 1579 Church Wardens’ Accounts, provide sup‐

porting evidence about the deaths and the cost of repairs to the churches after the storm.

The Bungay story was not unique. There were similar reports of a spectral black dog in the Cathedral of St Peter in Trier in the Rhineland in Germany during the ninth cen‐ tury.

His account of the Black Dog of Bungay, therefore, deserves some serious attention: its author was an able man, a Priest with considerable academic ability – and pre‐ sumably honest in what he wrote.

The records relating to that strange event suggest that while Bishop Teotogaundus was conducting a service there, a black dog ap‐ peared during a storm of similar ferocity to the one in Bungay and Blythburgh in 1577.

Abraham Fleming, author of the 1577 pam‐ phlet about the Black Hell Hound, was born in 1548 and died in 1607 at the age of sixty four. He graduated from Cambridge in 1582 and was an outstanding Latin scholar and translator. Fleming served as Chaplain to Charles Howard, the Lord High Admiral, and went on to become the Rector of St Pancras in Soper Lane in London.

So what really happened at St Mary’s and Holy Trinity on August 4th, 1577? Clearly, there was major damage to both churches because of the unprecedented storm – but what of the reported appearance of the sinister, unearthly and lethal black dog?

Black dogs – demonic or otherwise – have had prominent roles in mythology, folklore and religious legends for millennia. For the fearless Norsemen, Garmr (also known as Garm) is a guardian of Hell, similar in some ways to Cerberus. In Greek and Roman mythology, Cerberus is a three‐headed hound that guards the gates of the

Hell Hounds A hellhound is a supernatural dog, found in folklore. A wide variety of ominous or hellish supernatural dogs occur in mytholo‐ gies around the world, similar to the oft‐seen dragon. Features that have been attributed to hellhounds include black fur, glowing red, or, some‐ times, yellow eyes, super strength or speed, ghostly or phantom charac‐ teristics, foul odor, and sometimes even the ability to talk.

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The Hell Hound of Bungay & other Black Dogs

By Lionel & Patricia Fanthorpe

Hell Hounds

Certain European legends state that if someone stares into a hellhound's eyes three times or more, that person will surely die. In cultures that associate the afterlife with fire, hellhounds may have fire‐based abilities and appearance. They are often assigned to guard the entrances to the world of the dead, such as grave‐ yards and burial grounds, or under‐ take other duties related to the afterlife or the supernatural, such as hunting lost souls or guarding a supernatural treasure. In Euro‐ pean legends, seeing a hellhound or hearing it howl may be an omen or even a cause of death. Some supernatural dogs, such as the Welsh Cŵn Annwn, were actually believed to be benign.

However, encoun‐ tering them was still considered to be a sign of immi‐ nent death.

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underworld to prevent the dead from escap‐ ing. Cerberus is his Latinised name from the Greek form Kerberos, probably derived from the much older Sanskrit name Sarvara, one of the dogs of Yama, the God of Death in Hinduism, and in certain areas of Chinese and Japanese mythology. Mythology pro‐ vides the formidable hell hound with an even more formidable collection of brothers and sisters including: the Sphinx, the Hydra, the Nemean Lion and the Chimera! Their parents were even more formidable!

Echidna, his mother, was a hybrid woman‐ serpent and his father, Typhon, was a giant with incendiary breath who was feared even by the gods on Olympus.

The jackal – similar in many ways to a dog in appearance – was the form assumed by Anubis, the god of the dead in Ancient Egypt.

This association may have come about be‐ cause scavenging jackals were to be found exploring ancient Egyptian cemeteries in the

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hope of finding corpses to eat. Anubis be‐ came the god of mummification and the guardian of the dead as they took their jour‐ ney into the next world. Pictures usually show him performing, or supervising, the mummification process, or sitting on top of a tomb to protect it. Once again, the black dog, or black jackal, is associated with death.

It seems to have been part of global belief systems for a very long time.

Wales has its share of black dog mythology in the form of Cwm Annwn which translates as “the hounds of Annwn.” Annwn is the Welsh land of the dead. Once early Celtic Christianity had made its way into Wales,

however, Annwn became the equivalent of Hell, and the dogs became Satan’s dogs or hell hounds. This is a long way from the original thoughts about Annwn, which was paradise in the old Welsh myths. The legen‐ dary ruler of Annwn was Arawn, and there are scholars who believe that his name was derived from the biblical name Aaron, the brother of Moses. Arawn was a good and wise ruler over a land of eternal youth, end‐ less delight and freedom from sadness, dis‐ ease and pain. The name Arawn meant “the exalted one” – and despite the attempts of the early Christian missionaries to make them into hell hounds – any dogs belonging to Arawn would have been guardians and protectors. The ubiquitous black dogs of mythology were certainly well known in Wales.

Very different from Arawn’s friendly and protective dogs was the loathsome Gwyllgi, the Welsh Dog of Darkness, who is reported to favour lonely roads late at night and in the early hours of the morning. He has a long, shaggy coat, and his eyes glow red like the eyes of the Hell Hound from Bungay.

There is a lane called Lon Bwbach Ddu, meaning the lane of the black phantom, in Marchweil near Wrexham in north east

Wales, which is associated with sightings of this evil black hound. Other Welsh sightings refer to sinister encounters with a spectral black dog at Cynwyd near Corwen.

The Yorkshire and northern English versions of the black dog mythology refer to the creature as a barghest, a monstrous hound with vicious teeth and claws. Troller’s Gill, a bleak and lonely gorge, has numerous tales of encounters with the barghest, and other reports of it come from Darlington and Whitby. It has even been reported inside the city of York itself.

The East Anglian Black Shuck has two very different legends attached to it. One Shuck is often reported from the road along the North Norfolk coast between Sheringham and Overstrand, an area well‐known to co‐ author Lionel, who worked there as a jour‐ nalist in Cromer in the 1950s. The so‐called friendly Shuck is said to be the ghost of a lovable pet dog that belonged to two fisher‐ men, who were drowned in a storm that sank their boat. Their bodies were washed up at two different coastal villages and buried there. The faithful Shuck ran from one grave to the other night after night, and behaved in a friendly way to anyone who saw him. The black dog of Somerset is another amiable and protective spirit.

Known as the Gurt Dog, he is a legendary protector of children in the Quantock hills, and a guide of lost travellers. The other Norfolk Shuck was a dangerous and terrify‐ ing beast – like the Black Dog of Bungay ‐‐ and brought terror to all who saw him.

The Peddars Way in Norfolk is an ancient footpath – almost fifty miles long. It seems to have been adapted by the Romans, rather than being an original Roman road.

It runs from Holme‐next‐the Sea all the way to Knettishall Heath not far from Thetford.

Whether or not the Peddars Way is Roman – or a much more ancient trackway – it appears to be a favourite site for the myste‐ rious black dog. Many witnesses tramping along Peddars Way have reported seeing the strange beast there.

The Hell Hound of Bungay & other Black Dogs

By Lionel & Patricia Fanthorpe

Another Norfolk black dog story comes from Blickling Hall – also famous for sightings of the ghost of Queen Anne Boleyn, who lived there as a child. There are various accounts of the black dog of Blickling, one of which tells how it sprang from the mouth of enor‐ mous fish taken from the lake. A wizard from London was called in to help get rid of it. He eventually trapped it, but when a wall was taken down centuries later the dog again began to roam around the hall.

Some legendary black dogs appear at certain times and seasons. The hound of West Ken‐ net burial mound in Wiltshire is typical of this type. It allegedly appears in the burial mound at sunrise on midsummer’s day. In some versions of this legend it is accompa‐ nied by a ghostly white human figure.

Dartmoor’s infamous Squire Cabell allegedly sold his soul to the devil, and when he died in 1677, legend tells of black hell hounds that came to drag his tormented soul down to the nether regions. Another much more recent black dog report dates from 1972 and relates to an isolated Dartmoor farmhouse, where the mysterious black hound with glowing red eyes had actually entered the house. When the farmer and his wife exam‐ ined things, there was considerable damage to their home and its outbuildings, and the electricity had failed. Once again there’s a strange connection between the black dog phenomena and a possible electrical storm.

The full account appears in Volume 8, Issue 86 of The Unexplained.

Where the old gibbet once stood in Tring, in Hertfordshire, a traditionally fierce black dog with glowing red eyes appears from time to time. It is said to be the shape‐shifting spirit of an innocent chimney sweep who was wrongly executed for a murder he had not committed.

The Black Dog of Newgate began its sup‐ posed reign of terror back in the sixteenth century, when a newly imprisoned convict was killed and eaten by the starving in‐ mates! A great black dog appeared shortly

after this cannibalism and terrified the des‐ perate convicts to such an extent that they killed their guards and escaped. The hound, however, continued to pursue them, one by one, wherever they had taken refuge.

The Oak Island Money Pit mystery in Ma‐ hone Bay off the coast of Nova Scotia, which we have researched on site several times, also features an unworldly black dog. A number of witnesses over the years have reported seeing the weird beast, which sim‐ ply faded from sight when they approached it. It has been argued that these reported black dog sightings on Oak Island suggest that the European legends of black dogs may have crossed the Atlantic. This would support the theory that the Templar fleet reached Oak Island some time after 1307, carrying priceless Templar treasure as far as possible from the avaricious and unscrupu‐ lous King Philip IV of France. If it was the escaping Templars from La Rochelle who built the Money Pit, they might well have carried some European black dog legends with them.

Other strange black dog mythology is found in Latin America. There is the Nahual, or Nagual, in Mexico, a shape‐shifting magician who has the power to transform into a jag‐ uar, a puma, a donkey or a huge and power‐ ful black dog.

The Nahual is not invariably evil: its behav‐ iour depends upon the character of the hu‐ man being from whom it has transformed into its animal form. The concept of the Nahual goes all the way back to the Olmecs and there is an element of shamanism in the Nahual myths and legends.

Do paranormal black dogs exist? Did a par‐ ticularly vicious specimen attack Bungay in 1577? We live in an incredibly mysterious universe where nothing is beyond the bounds of possibility – however remote that

possibility is. The most probable explana‐ tion, of course, is that the legends and myths of black dogs were responsible for the Bungay story, and that the deaths and damage to the churches were the result of the savage electrical storm – rather than to a hell hound. Some neurologists and psy‐ chologists have suggested that the human brain with its electro‐chemical synapses might produce hallucinations featuring a gigantic black dog when abnormal electrical phenomena were present – as in the fierce electrical storms that raged in Trier in the 9th century and in Bungay and Blythburgh on August 4th, 1577. A recent article in Science News describes the possibility that lightning may induce hallucinations. Alex‐ ander Kendl works as a plasma physicist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, and has put forward the very interesting idea that so‐called ball lightning may be an hallu‐ cination caused by electricity in a storm. My co‐author Lionel was riding his motorbike through a forest road in Breckland in East Anglia during a violent electrical storm half a century ago when what looked like ball‐ lightning seemed to roll along the handle‐ bars. He felt no electric shock and suffered no ill‐effects. In Kendl’s theory there could be a similar behaviour from TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) which is used medically to help some patients and exposure to lightning in certain situations…

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Hell Hounds

The most famous hellhound is proba‐ bly Cerberus from Greek mythology.

Hellhounds are also famous for appear‐ ing in Northern European mythol‐ ogy and folklore as a part of the Wild Hunt. These hounds are given several different names in local folklore, but they display typical hellhound charac‐ teristics. The myth is common across Great Britain, and many names are given to the appari‐ tions: Moddey Dhoo of the Isle of Man, Gwyllgi of Wales, and so on.

The earliest men‐ tion of these myths are in both Walter Map's De Nugis Curianium (1190) and the Welsh myth cycle of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi (tenth to thirteenth century).

In southern Mexi‐ can and Central American folklore, the Cadejo is a big black dog that haunts travellers who walk late at night on rural roads. The term is also common in American blues music, such as in Robert Johnson's "Hellhound on my Trail" In Greek mythology the hellhound belonged to Hades, the Greek god of death and the underworld, its name in Greek mythology is Cer‐ berus, it has three heads but is still black with razor sharp teeth and super strength, it is used to guard the gates of hell.

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Mud and the Eternal Darkness

By Archie Lawrie

Unlike the poor men who fought in the trenches of the First World War, I’d never really thought very much about mud.

That all changed somewhat suddenly, when a friend asked me in late summer 2009 to assist him and his family to unravel the mystery of a shadow that regularly flitted diagonally across the lounge in their lovely modern bungalow. It even cast some sort of ‘reflection’ in a mirror at one end of that main room, close to the point where this mystery shadow seemed to exit the building through a wall.

Having been the first owners of this new house, which was built on a green-field site, the family had lived with this peculiarity for some years. Now it was very obvious that, whatever this thing was, it appeared to be moving diagonally from point ‘a’ the land surface at the front the property, towards point ‘b’ somewhere to the rear of it. This fine home had been built across its path and everyone in the house felt its presence at various times.

Archie Lawrie Investigates...

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Mud and the Eternal Darkness

By Archie Lawrie

friend’s property is situated at the northern end of the town of Glenrothes in Scotland, and while the family as a whole had no idea as to what entity was sharing their space with them, they were all agreed that it was fe‐ male. I’ve been in this psychical research busi‐ ness long enough to gather useful statistics, and one set of statistics tells me quite clearly that while people who encounter the supernatural have no idea at all as to what is with them in their homes, they almost always correctly detect that a presence is with them. Similarly they are usually correct as to the gender of their ‘visitor’.

This case eventually bore out and strengthened those statistics.

Francesca, the psychic medium with whom I work, and I arrived about lunchtime and while we would have preferred to talk with two (or more) people about the strange incidents and sightings, we found that my friend’s wife was away visiting a relative in Aberdeen that day. We did, however, get a very clear description from Douglas Harrison as to what often took place within the family home, and we walked over the thick carpets along the very path that the entity seemed to follow through the rooms. We were also told that there was a definite feeling of sad‐ ness when one of those events took place.

After about twenty minutes or so of discussion, during which Douglas told us as much as he could remember, Francesca sat down in a chair oppo‐ site and prepared herself to go down into a mi‐ nor trance state. I must now explain to you something that Francesca had no knowledge of at all, namely that in the 1970s a Late Bronze Age (2000BC) circle of standing stones was investi‐ gated by Historic Scotland and was only several hundred metres from where we sat. Amazingly too, the remains of an elevated timber platform was unearthed during road‐making at that point, and archaeologists tell us it was used as a prehis‐ toric method of disposing of the dead. This was done simply by laying the bodies upon the upper level of the structure so that eagles could devour the remains...a method still used in parts of India to this day.

point I am making is that while I knew that there had been ancient human activity in the area, Fran‐ cesca did not. For the above reasons, and through what I myself was presently feeling, I suggested to our psychic medium that (if it was convenient with her and pertinent to our investi‐ gation) she should start by moving her mind considerably further back in time than she had done the previous month when we were working on an outdoor archaeological site about a mile to the east of this house.

On that recent occasion we had been dealing with a probable Pictish settlement from around 500AD.

[This is not me ‘manipulating’ the medium in any way: it is merely a way of saving us all some time and it prevents the medium from becoming need‐ lessly tired and mentally exhausted.]

Francesca’s head tilted downwards and we heard her breathing deepen and after quite a time she spoke softly. “I’m very, very far back in time now and seeing the most basic of dwellings where that bungalow across the street now stands. Oh how terribly basic they are! I can’t even bring myself to call them houses or even huts: they’re just small circular shelters that would hardly keep out moderately heavy rain. They’ve been made simply by tying together, at the top, a ring of flexible upright branches.”

then Francesca explained further what she was seeing psychically, “I’m feeling that the occupants have been on the move through the forests of Fife for ages…going constantly from here to there. I feel moving, moving, moving, ever moving. Now, for the first time in many months, they have only recently decided to settle at this spot but have not yet got themselves organised.” My curiosity was getting the better of me so I spoke to the lady who was going into and out of trance.

“Francesca, why did they choose to ‘set down their roots’ here?” I must admit that I did not expect the reply that I got. I didn’t understand it then and only because of recent research carried out during the writing of this manuscript do I now believe that I am nearer to the truth. The good thing was (and is) that Francesca never makes anything up! If she does not get a psychic answer to a question she says so without delay

she said. [Present tense, you’ll notice!] The chil‐ dren were covered from head to foot in it and looked more like dark‐skinned natives from Af‐ rica or India. “Of all the places to settle,” I thought to myself, “Why on earth did they choose to live in the midst of such unpleasant stuff?”

this substance seemed to have considerable importance for those people I decided to ask Francesca more about it.

I first asked about the colour of the mud and was told, without any hesitation at all, that it was a “dark browny‐grey”. That made no sense to me at all then…and until that point I had begun to wonder if she was seeing yellow‐ochre mud that I knew was being found further south in Fife and used right up until the late Middle Ages. Initially it was used for painting the bodies of those primitive groups of wandering ‘clans’ or ‘tribes’, and then finally by 1400 it was being used for decorating the outsides of buildings in Central Scotland.

Another possibility, of course, was that the group had only very recently arrived at the site and were proposing to use the mud to construct ‘wattle‐and‐daub’ dwellings for themselves.

However, while I have no real archaeological expertise, I cannot remember any wattle‐and‐ daub dwellings ever having been found on a Scottish prehistoric site. Perhaps such dwellings decomposed too quickly to be found?

The smell of the mud was so overpowering that Francesca began to cough gently and to clear her throat. She was probably smelling hydrogen sul‐ phide, sometimes called ‘marsh gas’ and caused

and without prevarication. “It’s the mud! They’ve settled here because of the mud.” The lady then told of the whole area being knee‐deep in mud.

“It seems to cover everything and everybody,”

by decomposition of vegetable matter in marsh‐ land. “Oh, goodness!” she exclaimed, “What an appalling stench! How can anyone live amongst that!”

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Mud and the Eternal Darkness

By Archie Lawrie

[Author’s Note:‐ For those of you new to psychic abilities, I must tell you that when a medium moves back in time she encounters not only the sights but also any smells and emotions belong‐ ing to a site.]

that point in the proceedings, I realised that while we had gained considerable knowledge of the area in primitive times, we were no further forward in our under‐ standing of who was walking through Douglas’s house…or why.

“Can we move mentally towards the point of our being here, Francesca?” I asked, and our medium immediately responded positively.

“I’ve got a lady here with us. She’s showing her‐ self smothered in mud and she’s squelching back and forth very close to us.” I noticed immediately that Francesca had folded her arms across her chest and seemed to be carrying something in‐ visible and close to her body. I whispered to Douglas, who was seated next to me, that as I worked with this lady on a regular basis, I knew that the folded arms were something caused by the psychic link that she was experiencing at that moment. This action was just NOT something that the here‐and‐now Francesca ever did.

“I think that you are carrying something in your arms, Francesca,” I said quietly. “It’s a baby!” came a soft and instant reply. I could see that our medium was obviously becoming very agitated at that point and I wondered if the baby had just died and if the spirit lady had been overwhelmed with grief…but I was to find out soon that events were much more nasty than that.

“Why is the lady so disturbed, Francesca?” “She’s been told that she must drown the baby,” came the shocking news. “Who gave her such a dread‐ ful order?” I asked. “Was it her local chief…or the others in her ‘clan’?”

“All of them!” came the ghastly reply. “They all want the baby killed. It’s a girl baby.”

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“What was the final outcome of the situation?” I asked. “Was the baby drowned in the finality of things?” “Yes,” came the dreaded reply and I could clearly see the tears in Francesca’s eyes.

I remember saying “Phew!” out loud and shaking my head in horror, before turning to Douglas again,

“Am I right in thinking there might be a little stream running quite close to the back of your bungalow?” asked Francesca. “There is! And it’s literally just a few yards away,” our host re‐ sponded amazingly. Apparently, by the time of our visit in 2009, it was completely invisible in the immediate area as it had been re‐routed into an underground culvert when the houses were built. This made road‐building easier as well as keeping local children safer.

should know that there was no way that Francesca could have seen that stream as we drove towards Mr Harrison’s house!

“Would you confirm with me, Francesca, that the spirit woman is walking through this house to drown her baby in the nearest stream?” I then had to ask. “Yes!” came the dreadful, but ex‐ pected, reply. “She is doing it over and over and over again as a spirit memory.”

What a mood of doom and gloom filled that room! It was almost as if all three of us were being overwhelmed by the feelings generated by that dreadful event of thousands of years earlier.

It made me wonder what ‘time’ really was, that such an emotional state could linger at that spot for perhaps 4,000 years.

But we had to move back to the reality of the present! Now came the thorny problem. “Do you and your family want rid of this spirit memory?” I asked the householder and the reply came as a distinct negative. “No!” said Mr Harrison, “While I’ve only just heard the true story, we talked theo‐ retically as a family and decided some time ago that we would have no objection to any female ghost being here with us…provided she is not hurting us or scaring us in any way.”

Readers might like to know that 60% of my cli‐ ents do NOT wish their entities removed once they know what is in their house with them.] My worry at that point was now not for Mr Harrison, but for the spirit‐being who had been so dread‐ fully traumatised in her own lifetime. I discussed this openly with our medium and together we thought it best if Francesca could mentally ex‐ plain the current situation to the poor demented spirit‐woman. This was, that as her trauma had taken place so, so long ago in the past, she and her baby would both be together now in the afterlife…even although she didn’t realise it.

medium would then explain by means of psychic telepathy that if the woman really thought hard about her baby and looked around herself then she’d see her child once more. Strange though it might seem to many readers, that is probably the best way of resolving the situation that we found. Spirit be‐ ings really can lose each other and then find each other with a bit of guidance and help and com‐ passion. As a psychical researcher I have encoun‐ tered such situations many times.

On the above understanding, I then asked Fran‐ cesca to rationalise the situation with the woman if she could, and by so doing remove some of the traumatic sadness that lingered in that place.

Only time will tell if this unhappy spirit being stops walking through that house to drown her child.

I feel intuitively (psychically?) that there is still such a lot that we do not know about this inci‐ dent. I must tell you that if this spirit woman had walked forward in a straight line after she drowned her baby at the point where her path and the stream met, then she would have arrived at the previously‐mentioned prehistoric disposal point for dead bodies.

I have no idea whether that strange structure existed at the time when that wandering group chose to settle in the area but if it did, then would that distraught woman have taken her poor dead daughter there after she had been forced to drown her? And what was the reason for this dreadful infanticide? Was the ‘clan’ so impoverished and starving that they had decided that there were to be no more mouths to feed?

Or was this some sort of ‘village‐organised’ sacri‐ fice in order to appease whatever gods those unfortunate people had?

We’ll never really know what caused the memory of that sad, sad walk to be re‐enacted so often through my friend’s lovely and comfortable home…and we’re not currently in a position in 2009 to fully understand either how something from, perhaps, 2,000BC can impinge upon the life of we people who live four thousand years later.

It does show, however, that memories, once created, can never be lost! Readers should know that that is the basis of the psychic world. Extract from The Psychic Investigators Casebook, Vol. 4.

Mud and the Eternal Darkness

By Archie Lawrie

(1) Recognising Gender Statistically, about 93% of my clients know intui‐ tively and correctly whether an invisible entity they have encountered is male or female.

This tells me that there is some detection mecha‐ nism within us humans that is inbuilt and which can identify gender by a means other than by sight.

(2) Speech in the Bronze Age During this case, Francesca came across some‐ thing that I find quite amazing…namely that she detected virtually no spoken language being use by those ‘mud people’ (of 2000BC?).

If this had been the first time that I’d come across such a thing, then I might have thought that our medium had been mistaken in some way or was just ‘not present’ when speech was being used.

I must tell you, however, that in the phenomenal Borders Poltergeist Case, 2006 to 2010 (currently written up as a 650 page manuscript), Francesca and I accidentally stumbled across another small group of even more primitive prehistoric spirit‐ people who had lived by a river at the head of a little wide, flat glen. Strangely enough, they were drawn to our attention not by a human being at all but by a spirit man who had known the area, a ‘Mr. Albert Jackson’!

Believe it or not, Mr. Jackson said that he and his spirit friends stayed well clear of those primitives who ‘lived’ at the other end of the glen because “most of them wear no clothes and speak no language…they just grunt and make strange noises”.

Might this not indicate that the gift of language may be something that came to the inhabitants of the U.K. more recently than is supposed?

(3) Mud and Clay Deposits in the Area About a fortnight after Mr. Harrison’s case was dealt with, I was researching another case, dealt with a month or so before but in the same gen‐ eral area, and which had concerned a probable Pictish settlement and judicial centre.

To that end I was in the Archives Department of Fife Council and looking through a catalogue of old maps of the area that were held in Edinburgh under the care of the National Library of Scot‐ land.

Catalogued under reference RHP 23,686 etc., was a map of mineral deposits. It had been created by the local landowner (Mr. Balfour of Balbirnie Estate) around 1850 and had been necessitated by a large find of usable mud and clay deposits on that estate. You will no doubt be interested to learn that the find was made within 400 yards of where Mr. Harrison’s home now is.

That find, of course, must surely bolster Fran‐ cesca’s statement that those poor prehistoric people had chosen to stay in the area because they too had stumbled across mud deposits of a useful kind.

(4) Clothing in the Bronze Age As soon as the sad woman in this case had made herself known to our medium, I asked Francesca to tell me what she (and others on the site) ap‐ peared to be wearing. I asked if they were clad in skins or were woven textiles apparent. I was told unequivocally that our medium saw “no textiles at all” and that some people appeared to be “wearing animal skins.”]

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January 5 - Jupiter at Opposition. The giant planet will be at its closest approach to Earth and its face will be fully illuminated by the Sun. This is the best time to view and photograph Jupiter and its moons. A mediumsized telescope should be able to show you some of the details in Jupiter's cloud bands. A good pair of binoculars should allow you to see Jupiter's four largest moons, appearing as bright dots on either side of the planet.

January 16 - Full Moon. The Moon will be directly opposite the Earth from the Sun and will be fully illuminated as seen from Earth. This phase occurs at 04:52 UTC. This full moon was known by early Native American tribes as the Full Wolf Moon because this was the time of year when hungry wolf packs howled outside their camps. This moon has also been know as the Old Moon and the Moon After Yule.

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Supernatural Adventure in Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador

By Paul Dale Roberts

Before we get into this article, you probably wander what makes Guatemala so haunted. The Mayans of Tikal were known for their sacrifices. At one time former Guatemalan Dictator Efrain Rios Montt committed the atrocity of genocide on his people, killing 1,700 people. There are gangs and cartels that commit murder, there are police that take justice to the streets. With all of these deaths, I would think Guatemala would be very haunted...

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Supernatural Adventure in Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador

By Paul Dale Roberts

June 10, 2013, 12:30am, Gina de la Rosa and her two daughters took me to the Sacramento International Airport for my long journey to Guatemala. Gina gets to keep my car for a week and in return she will walk my dogs Hi‐Pee my Corky and Princess Hannah, my black Pekinese, twice that week. When I get to the airport, I run into Atish Ram, cousin of Rukesh Kumar, my former neighbor. Atish works in the airport and we rehash a few things about his family. I have layovers in Houston, Texas, Panama City, Panama (I get to see the Panama Canal from up in the air, what a sight to see!), San Jose, Costa Rica and going back, the plane stopped briefly in Honduras ‐ we had to stay inside the plane during this stop. It seemed like it will take me forever to get to my final destination. (Below—Photo of the Panama Canal).

GHOST OF FOREVER MORE When I am in Panama City, I meet a lovely Latina girl named Liliana Garcia (Pino la Vega). Liliana tells me about the ‘Ghost of Forever More’. In Panama City there is a ghost called the Ghost of Forever More. When this ghost was a living man, he was caught with his best friend's wife. When the husband found out about it he gathered two of his friends and they took the adulterer to a hillside and threw the man off t his death. (Below—Photo of Liluana).

After the death of this man, he is seen haunting the hillsides and is known to follow any woman that looks like his best friend's wife. This woman would keep her hair down half‐way across her face, so any woman with this type of hairdo will be followed by the Ghost of Forever More. Another person I ran into is Scott Speroni.

Scott lives in Antioch and is headed for Peru to see his girlfriend who lives there, she is a psychic and Scott wants to join HPI on their investigations.

While at the Panama City International Airport, there were two men in the bathroom waiting for a stall. Both men started fighting over it and both were squeezed inside this small stall arguing on who was first. That truly was a sight to see. I stayed at the very haunted Howard Johnson hotel in Guate‐ mala City. This place is very gothic and seems ancient, but is only 20 years old, I am told! Wagner Rocha, the hotel manager, says that the clothing ma‐ chines go on by themselves and at three am the sound of dishes being moved around is heard in the kitchen. Several of the rooms may be haunted.

Remember the hotel may be fairly new, but the land is very old. Guatemala City is very haunted, over 2000 people were killed by its prior president plus we also have the spirits of Tikal.

I gave the shuttle driver a $5.00 tip to get to the hotel. Taxi drivers are known to rip you off, so it was nice to have a shuttle driver for this vacation, I can't

tell you how many times I have been ripped off by those notorious taxi driv‐ ers! I noticed that in Guatemala there are many soldiers, many police and many armed guards with shotguns and even machine guns. I learn from other Guatemalans that they consider their country to be a 'police state'. To see these many guards, soldiers and police, it's somewhat intimidating. At my hotel, I have two armed guards with powerful shotguns patrolling the outdoor premises. I stayed in Room 208 which is supposed to be haunted and around four am, I did hear footsteps around my bed.

June 11, 2013, Tuesday, I had breakfast; two sunny side up eggs covered in salsa over a tortilla, fried bananas, coffee, orange juice, mango and chips in dark bean dip. This place is amazing, when city buses go by there are riders who hang outside of the bus. The traffic is extremely heavy. The armed guards write down every license plate of every car that parks at the hotel parking lot Regina de Paz, who works at the Geneva Coffee house tells me that I should visit Quiche, a place with many ghost stories.

Today my friend Oscar Ovidio Barrientos, who is a great source of informa‐ tion and speaks good English, once lived in the States for twenty years and was a Placer County Reserve Sheriff. Oscar took me to the border of Belize and the border of El Salvador on this long day. While riding with Oscar he tells me four ghost stories and here they are...

LA SIGUANAVA: La Siguanava: When a man is alone and is thinking of a woman, La Siguanava will come in your sleep and take you away. One man that she took away was found in a cave along a hillside, he didn't know how he got there. He was gone for a week. He was placed under regressive hypnosis, he saw that La Siguanava swept him away and placed him in the cave.

EL DUENDE: El Duende: This is some kind of elf, a very little person on a big horse. El Du‐ ende is attracted to cows and will take care of the baby calves when they are born. El Duende does not hurt anyone, but has this strange fondness of new‐ born calves.

ESTANCIA DE LA VIRGEN MARIA: Estancia de la Virgen Maria: People have claimed that this statue along the hillside will actually move.

MARIA THE ZOMBIE WOMAN OF GUATEMALA: Zombie Woman of Guatemala named Maria: The story is that she died and location, farther from the volcano, not long before the Dutch colonists set‐ came back to life. Many people witnessed this and there is no explanation for tled in that part of central Flores in the mid 19th century. It is evident that the story. they haven't seen the Ebu Gogo anymore because THEY moved away, not

because the Ebu Gogo disappeared! Homo floresiensis has the greatest simi‐ June 12, 2013: Another story that Oscar told me which was not paranormal is larity with the Homo habilis which lived from approximately 2.33 to 1.4 mil‐ that Guatemala does not play with criminals and criminals don't play with lion years ago and Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy) that lived between 3.9 cops. A gang member will easily walk up to a cop and kill him. When a crime and 2.9 million years ago. That means that Homo floresiensis is not our like that is committed there is no arrest and trial, the cops will seek out the predecessor but are survivors of some of the original inhabitants of Earth gang member and kill him instantly. One of the most dangerous gangs is the from before we came here 300,000 years ago with the Moon and they must machete wielding MS 13. Oscar says: "Guatemala don't play, it's not like the have survived extinctions then and very some more in is their states."

There six are also many since armed robberies in likely Guatemala, which why very ancient history but that is another story. I believe that what I saw in there are so many armed guards.

1991 in Mumbay were some of the last Ebu Gogo who survived under the

care of humans. In India cripples and freaks are commonly used by their TIKAL: MAYAN SPIRITS! owners to make money with, either as beggars or as show pieces and to own On June 12, 2013, I visited the an Ebu Gogo is certainly something very special. ancient Mayan city of Tikal. Tikal is known to be very haunted. I can sit here and try to explain the I am speculating that a family clan in India was or is still breeding Ebu Gogos history of Tikal to you, but why as show pieces and I would also speculate that by now some agency has got‐ should I do that away when we that now ten hold of these kryptid primates and has taken them from have Wikipedia. Read about the woman and that you won't find the Ebu Gogo displayed publicly anymore … history of Tikal here: but who knows ‐ it is a fact that today many anomalous artifacts are seized Tikal Information; http:// and hidden from us and I am sure that a living Homo floresiensis can not en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikal remain unnoticed forever…

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Supernatural Adventure in Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador

By Paul Dale Roberts

EXORCISM IN GUATEMALA. If you would like to see a real exorcism that happened in Guatemala, check this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F73YTqurKc8

EMERALD ALIEN OF TIKAL June 12, 2013 is a good day for ghost hunting! While in Tikal I talked with Luis Chavez, Rodrigo Guiterrez and Manuel Luis. They tell me back in Febru‐ ary 2013, while camping near Tikal, they observed three orange globes, UFOs that were hovering over Tikal. Then, from one of the globes, an emerald col‐ ored man emerged and levitated down. The emerald colored man flew over to their campsite and hit them with what they felt was a scanning ray. The three men felt paralyzed and feel they lost four hours of time. When the men recovered their fire was out and daylight was breaking. While in Tikal I cap‐ tured an EVP that says in Mayan: "il muul teelo", which means see pyramid over there. If you would like to se and hear this EVP have a look at this link ' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciHBYWgRD88&feature=youtube

Before I get into the really paranormal stuff, I learned why the men who hang out from the red public buses do what they do. They actually get paid to do this to look out for cars that may hit it. I am again told that there are many armed guards in this city, but only to make sure it is safe. I also learned there are camcorders on many of the main streets and people can turn on their TVs 24/7 and watch the traffic on any given street in Guatemala City.

(Below—Antigua Guatemala from Cerro de la Cruz (Hill of the Cross).

I also observed that certain men will urinate in public; they will find a tree and just start peeing, which is kind of an odd behavior. I didn't mention this before, but when I flew into Panama City in Panama I saw the gorgeous Pa‐ nama Canal from the air. I flew right over it. The weather has been in the 70’s every day that I have been here. Another observation I made is that Guate‐ malans are small in stature, while I tower over them like a giant. My guess is that they all have Mayan blood in them and in turn they are a small, because Mayans were also known to be small people. I want to also thank Cesar Ro‐ das for being a source of good information about Guatemala.

EL CADEJO OF GUATEMALA Here are some other local ghost stories and legends known throughout Gua‐ temala.

THE GNOMES OF GUATEMALA: About 30 years ago, Guatemala City was mostly fields. A family that lived in a small house, who were indigenous to the area, would use their fireplace for light instead of electricity. They were known to take late night walks in the woods and fields. They made many claims of seeing gnomes in the woods and fields.

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were unable to undo his handiwork so they would have to cut off the tail braiding and all. When farmers saw the braided horse tails they knew Som‐ breron was nearby and that they were in danger because he might take their daughters away. He was known to steal little girls. Note: This sounds like a variant on 'grey abduction', but told in a different light.

LA RECOLECCION CHURCH: When going to this church, Guatemala citizens make claim that they can hear people moaning and walking around in chains. You can hear these sounds at 2am or 3am on any given night.

SANTA CATALINA CHURCH: A man testifies that he would see an old woman go into this church to pray and one day he followed her and sat behind her, she was on her knees pray‐ ing. He noticed that she dropped her handkerchief and when he sought her out inside the church she vanished. He went to the church several times looking for her, but she was never seen again. He later determined that he had seen a ghost.

CATHOLIC HOLY WEEK PHANTOM MARCHERS: If you go to the location where they celebrate Catholic Holy Week, in which citizens march bearing the cross of Jesus, you will hear music, you will hear people talking and you will at times see a succession of people marching bearing crosses. Except that the people you are seeing are the residual en‐ ergy of people who were there once before on Good Friday. This is a case of living ghosts, residual energy that replays over and over again in the atmos‐ phere.

June 13, 2013. I gave the hotel shuttle driver another $5.00 for driving me to the airport. I stayed at the airport from 10:30pm to 5:18am (the time my plane was leaving ‐ check in time was at 3am). Noyda Rushford kept me com‐ pany at the airport and told me of other wonderful sites to see in Guatemala.

On the airplane going back home I met a girl named Alexandra Montoya from Peru who now lives in Houston, Texas where she is a college student learning media arts. Alexandra gave me another two ghost stories.

1) In Akeqnipa ‐ Yanahuara, Peru, on December 2009, she was staying at her aunt's house. At 2am or 3am she heard someone walking up the steps and then everything turned silent. Then all of sudden something grabbed Alexan‐ dra's ankle, which really freaked her out.

2) At her parent's house in Eastern Texas 2004 a humongous light came into location, farther from the volcano, not long before the Dutch colonists set‐ the house. The family had no source for this light, but the light that beamed tled in that part of central Flores in the mid 19th century. It is evident that in brightened up the whole house. Now that they look back on it and wonder they haven't seen the Ebu Gogo anymore because THEY moved away, not if it was a UFO. because the Ebu Gogo disappeared! Homo floresiensis has the greatest simi‐

larity with the Homo habilis which lived from approximately 2.33 to 1.4 mil‐ Arriving home, it was nice to see Gina de la Rosa and her daughter who came lion years ago and Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy) that lived between 3.9 to pick me up at the airport. Guatemala and Tikal is an experience I will never and 2.9 million years ago. That means that Homo floresiensis is not our forget. predecessor but are survivors of some of the original inhabitants of Earth

from before we came here 300,000 years ago with the Moon and they must CONCLUSION: have survived six extinctions since then and the very likely some more in their the With EVP I captured at Tikal, very ancient history but that is another story. I I believe what I saw in footsteps heard that in my room, I also 1991 in Mumbay were some of the last Ebu Gogo who survived the experienced feeling I was under trapped in care of humans. In India cripples and my freaks are commonly by their bed.

Maybe I was used just very tired owners to make money with, either as beggars or as show pieces and to own or could I have actually been held an Ebu Gogo is certainly something very special. down in my bed by supernatural forces? With all of the deaths that occurred in Guatemala, it would only I am speculating that a family clan in India was or is still breeding Ebu Gogos be natural that this country is as show pieces and I would also speculate that by now some agency has got‐ haunted, very haunted... ten hold of these kryptid primates and has taken them away from that

woman and that you won't find the Ebu Gogo displayed publicly anymore …

(Above—Paul Dale Roberts). but who knows ‐ it is a fact that today many anomalous artifacts are seized Hegelianism Paranormal Intelligence (International) Paranormal Hotline: and hidden from us and I am sure that a living Homo floresiensis can not (916) 203‐7503. www.hpiparanormal.com remain unnoticed forever…

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Title: Ghosts of Edinburgh Author: Rob Kirkup Publisher: Amberley Publishing ISBN: 978‐1‐84868‐267‐2 Price: £12.99

This new Amberley Publication from experienced author and researcher Rob Kirkup, is written with typical passion, flair and an eye for detail. The book has a forward by Jan‐Andrew Henderson who runs City of the Dead Tours and actively promotes one of the locations i.e. the Covenanters Prison, so the reader should beware of vested interests. The supernatural locations of Scot‐ land’s capital city covered include the aforementioned and very atmospheric Covenanters Prison, Mary Kings Close, the dank South Bridge Vaults, The Edinburgh Dungeon and the Bedlam Theatre etc.

The only real issue I have with the book is the assertion that the so‐called Mackenzie Poltergeist only appeared after a vagrant broke into the Mackenzie tomb and fell into what is assumed to be a plague pit. As well as having twice investigated the claims at the Covenanters Prison, I have been on this tour and also the one at the South Bridge Vaults and the guides hype it up for all they are worth to induce a highly charged atmosphere of arousal and anticipation almost guaranteed to produce a result.

Anyway these are only personal niggles, because the book, which is well illustrated with appropriate images, covers various phe‐ nomena experienced in the locations visited by the four investigators. It is also worth mentioning that the author intends to give any royalties earned to charity, so anyone visiting Edinburgh and looking for some chills and thrills could do worse than consult this book.

Title: Haunted Enfield Author: Jason Hollis Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 978‐0‐7524‐9312‐1 Price: £9.99

Jason Hollis, who is member of North London Paranormal Investigations (NLPI), presents the reader with a highly entertaining account of the ghosts and ghouls that inhabit the London Borough of Enfield. This area has played host to a surprising number of unearthly manifestations, including haunted mansions, stately homes, roads, hospitals, industrial premises and the perennial favourite, pubs. The book would not have been complete, however, without at least a mention of the notorious and iconic Enfield Poltergeist case.

To his credit the author has done this and successfully encapsulated this complex, lengthy and utterly fascinating case in only a few pages. Fortunately, some of the other cases he describes have equal gravitas otherwise this incident might have eclipsed them. His atmospheric description of what happened at The King and Tinker pub is a good example of this.

While he includes several historic hauntings, the book really comes into its own when he describes some of the cases untaken by the NLPI, this reviewer would have liked to have seen more of that. There is one picture showing the NLPI in action and from the way they are dressed they look remarkably like a police SWAT squad. Anyway that aside, the book, which is abundantly illus‐ trated, will serve as an excellent guide to what to look out for on ghost hunting expeditions through this London borough.

Title: Poltergeist over Scotland Author: Geoff Holder Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 978‐0‐7524‐8283‐5 Price: £9.99

The poltergeist phenomenon is perhaps one of the most fascinating yet troubling of all supernatural manifestations. The very thought that your surroundings are under the direct influence and control of something which is not of this earth and seemingly possesses a mind of its own is deeply unsettling. The book, which is laid out in chronological order, looks at the long and varied history and variety of poltergeist infestations that have occurred in Scotland from the 1600’s until the present. I have to declare an interest here because I have been involved in two of the cases mentioned in the book, which are unrelated, but both occurred in same street in the village of Sauchie in central Scotland

The author, who has consulted several leading lights in Scottish paranormal research, wisely refrains from drawing conclusions regarding what causes these frequently terrifying phenomena to occur but, instead, presents a range of ideas that have been proffered by way of explanation. These include everything from the exteriorised raging hormones of pubescent children, demonic possession and angry ghosts, to the random actions of electromagnetic fields, ley lines and earth tremors etc.

The only part of the puzzle that is missing is the mechanism itself: how is the energy, whatever it is and what ever uses it, actually channelled and focussed until it becomes a tool that can interact with the physical world? However, perhaps this is because the author does not make choices and leaves the reader to pick from the smorgasbord of options put forward from other quarters.

This work is a brave and well written attempt at covering a greatly feared and misunderstood subject, it is both entertaining and informative and a valuable resource for anyone researching this subject.

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Title: Viral Mythology Authors: Marie D. Jones & Larry Flaxman Publisher: New Page Books ISBN: 13:978‐1‐60163‐295‐1 Price: £21.61 @ Amazon.co.uk

Behind every myth, fairy tale and legend hidden within the art, song and structures of ancient times is an encoded layer of wis‐ dom, science and truth passed down throughout history. This book will examine how information went viral long before the Inter‐ net and served as the foundation for mythology, sacred architecture and symbolic imagery throughout the ancient world. Viral Mythology reveals: How primitive and ancient cultures conveyed cutting‐edge scientific knowledge in their origin stories and myths. Why esoteric knowledge was hidden in symbols, art and architecture during times of religious oppression and persecution.

How stories, songs and art served to describe actual historical events. Why diverse civilisations told the same stories and created the same art with common themes and symbols, despite no apparent communication. From the great myths of the Greek, Roman and Norse to the texts of the world's major religions, from folklore and fairy tales of old to sacred edifices and monuments, from cave paintings to the mysterious symbology of the Tarot, VIRAL MYTHOLOGY uncovers the information highway of the past and explores how it affects the more modern methods of communication today. It all began once upon a time....

So what can I say about this book… apart from stating that I simply couldn’t but the book down. The subject material is fascinating and very thought provoking as to what ancient civilizations really knew and often left messages and codings behind, carved into rock. Messages that would last the ages, clues to secret information. I loved this book, excellently written by the authors with a huge amount of research that had to have been carried out. Well worth grabbing this one and possibly reading it twice… PM.

Title: When the Flamingos Return: The UFO Bible?

Author: Benedicto Cerda Publisher: Vanity Price: Varied Order at: benedictocerda@gmail.com

A very peculiar society, "Phoenix Two", integrated exclusively by Ufology lovers, seeks to uncover the enigma of the UFO's. Month by month, their members secretly meet to look into all those incidents, they assume, can contribute a ray of light to this mystery which disputes the origin of man. Through the story you will be able to learn the various thinking currents of this exceptional brotherhood: the hyperrationalistic, the hyperspaceout and the hypersatyr. The narrative will be attractive not only to the uncon‐ ditionals of the UFO subject, but also, for all those who are willing to get into this matter, always present and always pending, in terms of the uncountable queries still to decipher.

Incidents widely spread by the media link with the unlimited fiction in the voice of the characters, like: Karen Thomas, the angeli‐ cal referring of the group, or, Steven Baker, a gorgeous worldly satyr. A hypnotic story, an apocalyptic ending, never figured out.

The Bible of the UFO's? Perhaps…

Now and again you come across a book that’s rather mesmerizing… though currently not in English print ‘Yet’, it’s a fascinating book you won’t want to put down. A great book well worth having on your bookshelf. For further information in regards a possible UK release or to order the book, contact Charlie at: benedictocerda@gmail.com

Title: Alien Paranormal: Bigfoot, UFOs and the Men In Black Format: Colour, DVD‐Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, PAL Language: English Region: Region 2 Price: £8.56 @ Amazon.co.uk

I sneaked‐peeked about half of this documentary for free at another forum. It seems pretty interesting. But no, the flesh‐and‐ blood school of cryptozoology won't like it! "Alien Paranormal" features Stan Gordon, author of "Silent Invasion", a book about a UFO flap in Pennsylvania which prominently featured Bigfoot‐like hairy humanoids. Something tells me Matt, Cliff and even Bobo would have stayed away from *that* one, LOL. On a less entertaining note, the documentary features the alien‐human clash at Sutton's farm in Hopkinsville, a case I've read about already as a kid. A third item featured is the supposedly "Celtic" or "Druid" stone chambers in New England, where people have experienced hauntings by robed figures carrying balls of light...

Unfortunately, the channel I've watched this on had cut the documentary midway, in favour of a slightly awkward show on black helicopters with a guy looking like Wayne from "Wayne's World" (pretty paranormal in itself!), so I don't know how it ends. Buy it from our favourite vendor and find out for yourself!

A DVD well worth watching. Some new information that I had not seen before and well put together. Good strong stories and ex‐ cellent production. Very enjoyable (Steve Mera PM).

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The Oregon Vortex: Where The Unusual is Normal

By Roy Stevenson

On a steep hillside covered with typical Pacific Northwest Douglas Firs, Maples, Alders, and Pacific Madronas, several miles from the small Oregon town of Gold Hill, lies a 165 feet wide, ¾ acre circle of mystery that has yet to be explained or proven to exacting scientific standards...

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The Oregon Vortex: Where The Unusual is Normal

By Roy Stevenson

For decades since 1930 The Oregon Vortex and location of The House of Mystery has amused, amazed, baffled, and perplexed visitors. Conventional laws of physics, per‐ spective, and perception are defied. Peo‐ ple’s heights and mass appear to change in just a few meters. They stand at a backward angle that appears to defy gravity, always inclining a few degrees towards magnetic North. Compasses spin towards the South. A broom stands up by itself, at an awkward angle. Golf balls roll uphill. Ghost hunters have said that the area is incredibly active.

Many photographs of the area show light anomalies. It’s like a day in class at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry, buts it’s more likely attributable to natural phenome‐ non, rather than the arcane arts.

Welcome to the Oregon Vortex, a major tourist attraction in Jackson County, Oregon.

The “House of Mystery” has attracted hun‐ dreds of thousands of bewildered and skep‐ tical visitors, including many scientists who have never conclusively proved their theo‐ ries for or against these phenomena. It’s provoked all sorts of emotions in curious visitors—some abjectly refuse to believe the height changes in people right in front of their eyes, dismissing it as a parlor trick, while others have been outraged, and many an engineer has raced back to his truck for measuring equipment.

Assistance animals behave weirdly when approaching the Vortex. Birds have been observed flying in to the circle, landing, then hopping up the hill instead of flying out. The Vortex was a “no‐fly” zone because pilots have noted that their instruments are af‐ fected when they fly over it.

In 1864, a surveyor named William McCul‐ lough noted a “feeling that something was wrong” when passing along a trail through the area. In 1904, the Gray Hill Mining Com‐ pany built a wooden shack on the hillside for assaying gold that was found in nearby streams. Not such a good move, as it turned out—miners who came in to have their gold weighed were baffled when the scales read‐ ings were highly inaccurate. One can only imagine the accusations of the hard working miners when their gold came in under‐ weight! As a side note, nearly $30 million in gold was taken from nearby Sardine Creek.

Today, the shack is an oddity, having slid down the hill, now lying at an incredible angle.

I’m not normally a “psychic” type of person.

I don’t see ghosts or auras, and have never seen a UFO. I tend to rationalise everything in terms of what can be proven and re‐ searched. But the feeling that descended upon me when entering the Vortex circle was one of slight disorientation and dizzi‐

This anomalous mountainside “hot spot” has always been a source of unease. Native Indi‐ ans stayed away from here, calling it “Forbidden Ground” because their horses shied away when approaching the spot.

Miners, hauling freight to the mines, noticed that horses and burrows appeared to lean sideways when passing through the area.

Animals still stay away.

ness. Things just didn’t feel or look quite right. Apparently some people complain of nausea, nervous strain, or muscular strain.

Our guide Elena, the assistant manager for the Vortex, starts our tour by telling us about the Vortex’s parameters. The strange occurrences take place within a circle meas‐ uring 165.375 feet in diameter, with a

surrounding corona 27.5625 feet wide. The Vortex is a spherical field of force, half above the ground and half below, hence the circular nature of the measurable force field.

Well, what sorts of strange things happen in this much vaunted Vortex? When standing still and relaxed, you’ll find yourself inclin‐ ing at a slight angle (up to 7.5 degrees) towards magnetic north, when a plumb line is suspended next to you. The interesting thing is that you don’t even feel the incline.

The moment you stand outside the circle, you stand perfectly vertically straight again.

Even the trees in the Vortex lean towards magnetic north.

But this pales in comparison with the mys‐ terious “height change” effect in the circle.

When someone standing in front of you, facing south, walks slowly away, they ap‐ pear to be taller! This is contrary to the laws of perspective—the person should be getting smaller. And, the converse also happens. When someone facing you, a few paces away, walks north towards you, they appear to get shorter. And in case you’re wondering, all of the people in the group observed this phenomenon, not just one or two.

Well, this could all still be trickery. Perhaps there’s a downhill slope from south to north. To address this, the Vortex team has set up two seven feet tall, 4 inch square, wooden posts, seven feet nine inches apart, at either end of a dead‐level board. The posts are aligned on a north – south axis.

Our guide places two people standing fac‐ ing each other with their backs to the posts, so they are about seven feet apart. As they pace towards each other, then pass each other, their height visibly changes: shorten‐ ing as they head north, and gaining height as they head south—right before our disbe‐ lieving eyes and our cameras. My wife, a whopping 5 feet tall, proudly gains a few inches on her southbound walk! Elena tells me that she has seen height changes of 4 inches, although 2 inches is more the norm.

What is doubly confusing about this appar‐ ent change in height is that the person’s height measures the same at the opposite post, even though they appear taller or shorter.

In 2002, the House of Mystery manage‐ ment—in an attempt to counteract any perceived chicanery—contracted with a surveying company to measure the length and relative height of the two measuring poles. The surveying company’s conclu‐ sions: “We found the elevation of the tops of the 4 x 4 posts (7 feet 9 inches apart) to be the same elevation”. They also meas‐ ured the board inset into the ground and

The Oregon Vortex The height change that we have seen is because one of the upright posts is north on the platform, while the other post is to the south.

Thus, both posts appear to be different heights.

The taller post is to the south, and the shorter post is to the north with one of the magnetic lines running between them. The effect of these changes in exposure to the Vortex may be due to the chang‐ ing refraction of light as one goes from inside the Vortex to outside, somewhat akin to the effect of a curved camera lens. Light is bending inside the circle.

Elena tells me that she has seen the posts reverse their sizes during a “wave effect”, when the fields are changing.

Whether you enjoy seeing unnatural phe‐ nomenon or not, this area of Oregon is beauti‐ ful and well worth a visit, and the Vortex is a must‐see.

Wikipedia

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The Oregon Vortex: Where The Unusual is Normal

By Roy Stevenson

The Oregon Vortex

Those that visit this location believe the effect happens due to a distorted back‐ ground which results in a forced perspective, as with an Ames room.[2] It also shares similar properties with the mystery spot located outside St.Ignace in the upper peninsula of Michigan. The effects are inter‐ estingly similar.

For more informa‐ tion on the Ore‐ gon Vortex visit:

http:// www.oregonvorte x.com/

Wikipedia

found it to be dead level. The letter certify‐ ing their findings is enclosed in a glass‐ covered frame next to the posts. Elena also places the spirit level on the ground board before each experiment, so we can see that the level of the posts have not been tam‐ pered with since the survey.

We’re told to stand facing the opposite post and set our eyes on a height marker on it at eye level. Then we walk slowly towards the other post keeping our eyes on the marker on the other pole. When walking north, our head and eyes were inverted downward an inch or two, and when walking south, our head and eyes were raised up an inch or two. Somehow we’ve grown a couple of inches over the 7 feet and 9 inches between the posts.

By now we’re all ‘weirded out’, and so we move on to the House of Mystery for more shenanigans. The House of Mystery is an old stained wooden assaying shack, leaning at a severe angle downhill. As we enter, we stumble a bit as our eyes and sense of bal‐ ance try to deal with the heavily sloping floor. Once we’re all inside, Elena shows us a couple of tricks that demonstrate the effects of the area. She rolls a golf ball out a win‐ dow, seemingly downwards along a wide wooden plank, and it slows to a halt and reverses its course back to us. Although the wooden plank looks like it is sloping down‐ wards because of its position relative to the sloping shack, it’s really on an upward slope.

Elena places a kitchen broom on its brush end to show us true vertical, telling us that anyone can do this in their own home. I tried this a month or so later in a hardware shop and had remarkably little success, as the broom kept falling over. My experiment came to an end when the shop sales guy started looking at me strangely.

We emerge out the other side of the assay‐ ing shack to some level ground, the shack listing seriously to starboard behind us. We do some more height changes here, with several of us lining up in order of height, then reversing our line up order, to find that the tallest people were now somewhat shrunk, and the shortest people were now taller. Honey, I shrunk the tourists!

Elena adds a new twist to the height‐ changing by having two gentlemen stand at either end of the post set up, and placing a long board from one head to the other.

Then they change places and we see that the tallest guy has suddenly become much taller, and the angle of the long board is now more extreme.

Elena tells us that the changes are fully pro‐ portional, meaning that as you get shorter, you also get thicker (but hopefully not in

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intelligence!). This is perceptible to the eye, and also evident in our before‐and‐after photographs. She adds that people seem to experience greater height changes during the full moon, and they even fluctuate dur‐ ing the course of the day. I ask if there are other places like this, and she tells me that she knows of several including the summit of the Siskiyou Mountains in Oregon, 44 miles south, at a place called Confusion Hill.

Other Vortices have been noted in Santa Cruz California, in the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid at Giza, and, naturally, at Stonehenge.

Another anomalous mystery spot within the Oregon Vortex is located just inside the grounds along a small gravel pathway. If you stand relaxed on the circular markers, set into the ground, you find yourself swaying with a rotary movement. I stood on the spot, and lo and behold, found myself sway‐ ing slightly. Either I’m easily suggestive, or something weird was really going on. A sign indicates that, “The circular markers embed‐ ded in the ground indicate where a North‐ South Terraline (oscillating East & West) crosses an East‐West Terraline (oscillating North‐South). This swaying movement is caused by the alternating movement of the North‐South and East‐West lines”.

What then, are some of the theories behind these anomalous events? Between 1930 and 1946, John Litster started studying the phe‐ nomena and analyzing them. His explana‐ tions are beyond my ken, however they go something like this (bear with me because I am not a physicist). The Vortex is a whirlpool of some type of electro‐magnetic force, creating an aberration in the surrounding Light Field and other Fields.

Apparently some lines, called Terralines, run transversely due East and West across the Vortex, while others run North and South.

These Terralines are 57 inches wide, and have a tendency to move or oscillate within the Vortex area, every 22.32 sec‐ onds. A total of eleven Terralines pene‐ trate the Vortex, all oscillating, expanding and contracting, somehow causing peri‐ odic changes in the interior magnetic field of the Vortex. Additionally, the magnetic fields doubles in size in the morning, col‐ lapses back to normal size in the after‐ noon, then gets larger again in the eve‐ ning.

The height change that we have seen is because one of the upright posts is north on the platform, while the other post is to the south. Thus, both posts appear to be different heights. The taller post is to the south, and the shorter post is to the north with one of the magnetic lines running between them. The effect of these changes in exposure to the Vortex may be due to the changing refraction of light as one goes from inside the Vortex to outside, some‐ what akin to the effect of a curved camera lens. Light is bending inside the circle.

Elena tells me that she has seen the posts reverse their sizes during a “wave effect”, when the fields are changing. Whether you enjoy seeing unnatural phenomenon or not, this area of Oregon is beautiful and well worth a visit, and the Vortex is a must‐ see.

Roy Stevenson is a freelance travel writer and photographer based in Seattle, Wash‐ ington. He’s had more than 600 articles published in 160 regional national, and international magazines, newspapers, in‐ flights and online travel magazines in the U.S.A., Canada, England, Scotland, Ire‐ land, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. To view more of Roy Stevenson’s travel articles go to:

www.Roy‐Stevenson.com

Aliens already walk among us and are refusing Physicists Say Universe Might Be About To Collapse to share their technology until we change our warring and polluting ways, claims former Canadian defense minister.

By David McCormack: Former Canadian defense minister Paul Hellyer, 90, declared on Russian TV on Saturday that there are 80 different species of aliens. He said aliens have 'been visiting our planet for thousands of years' and are rather unimpressed with how we live. Hellyer described several types of aliens including 'Tall Whites' who are working with the U.S. air force in Nevada. He claims that 'a couple of their ladies dressed as nuns go into Las Vegas to shop and they weren’t detected'.

Huffington Post UK | Posted: 13/12/2013 10:02 GMT | Updated: 13/12/2013 10:06 GMT The universe might be about to collapse, scientists have an‐ nounced. It has long been predicted that the universe, which has been expanding since the event known as the Big Bang, might one day reach a point where the process would reverse. In that sce‐ nario ‐ which could have several causes ‐ the universe would begin to contract and eventually compact into a small hard ball ‐ a similar state to the pre‐Big Bang. But one of the many unanswered questions that surround that theory is exactly when this might occur. Now physicists say they might have evidence it could be sooner rather than later. A team at the University of Southern Denmark say that according to their calculations, it is possible that a process called a universal "phase transition" could begin at virtually any time in which every particle in existence becomes extremely heavy.

The idea is that a "bubble" in the universe could form where the Higgs Field ‐ associated with the Higgs Boson, or the particle which gives matter mass ‐ could shift into a different value. If that value is lower than before, and the bubble is large, it would expand at the speed of light and all elementary particles inside it would become extremely heavy ‐ kicking off a chain reaction that would pull apart the seams of existence. The new calculations show that a phase transition will occur ‐ and that it's more likely than we thought. "Many theories and calculations predict such a phase transition– but there have been some uncertainties in the previ‐ ous calculations. Now we have performed more precise calcula‐ tions, and we see two things: Yes, the universe will probably collapse, and: A collapse is even more likely than the old calcula‐ tions predicted", said Jens Frederik Colding Krog, PhD student at the Centre for Cosmology and Particle Physics Phenomenology at University of Southern Denmark.

Worse still, it may have already happened: "The phase transition will start somewhere in the universe and spread from there.

Maybe the collapse has already started somewhere in the uni‐ verse and right now it is eating its way into the rest of the uni‐ verse. Maybe a collapse is starting right now right here. Or maybe it will start far away from here in a billion years." Luckily, the new calculations do allow for the possibility that a phase transition in the Higgs field will not occur, or that the universe could contain undiscovered particles which would mean throwing out the whole idea ‐ in which case "the collapse will be cancelled" said Krog.

All very odd, but strangely enough this idea has been around for millennia, some schools of Buddhism call it ‘God breathing’ and it has occurred on a regular basis for all time and will continue to do so, again for all time. (Brian Allan, Ed)

A heavenly high‐ five: Colorful 'Hand of God' is spotted in Space by X‐ray telescope hunting for black holes.

By Ashley Collman. An X‐ ray telescope has cap‐ tured the 'Hand of God' in space.

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuStar, cap‐ tured the new image of a dead star nicknamed the 'Hand of God' since it looks like an open hand. NuStar has been circling earth since June 2012, on a mission to gather more information about black holes in our universe...

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Hellyer first went public with his belief in aliens on earth in 2005 and he is the first high ranking politician to publicly state that aliens are real. Yes! the former Canadian defense minister declared on Russian TV that not only do aliens already walk amongst us but they are refusing to share their advanced technolo‐ gies until we change our warring and polluting ways. According to Paul Hellyer, who was a Liberal defense minister from 1963 to 1967 under prime minister Lester B. Pearson, there are 80 different species of extra ‐terrestrials. Some of whom ‘look just like us and they could walk down the street and you wouldn’t know if you walked past one,' he told Russia Today’s program SophieCo on Saturday.

In a bizarre interview, Hellyer made a series of pronouncements about aliens which grew increasingly outlandish and sounded closer to the plot of Star Trek than what is officially known about ETs. ‘We have a long history of UFOs and of course there has been a lot more activity in the last few decades since we invented the atomic bomb,’ he said. ‘They are very concerned about that and that we might use it again, because the whole cosmos as a unity, and it affects not just us but other people in the cosmos, they are very much afraid that we might be stupid enough to start using atomic weapons again.’

However Hellyer told SophieCo that most of the aliens want to help rather than destroy us. ‘I would say that nearly all are be‐ nign and benevolent and they do want to help us, there may be one or two species which do not,’ he said. Hellyer, 90, first went public with his belief in aliens on earth in 2005 and he is the first high rank‐ ing politician to publicly state that aliens are real.

He adds that the aliens have 'been visiting our planet for thousands of years' and are rather unimpressed with how we live. ‘We spend too much time fighting each other, we spend too much money on military expenditures and not enough on feeding the poor and looking after the homeless and sick,’ he said. ‘They would like to work with us and teach us better ways but only, I think, with our consent. They don’t think we are good stewards of our planet.

'We are clear‐cutting forests and polluting our rivers and our lakes. We are dumping sewage in the oceans. We are doing all sorts of things which are not what good stewards should be doing and they don’t like that.’ At times Hellyer's pronouncements got a little too close to Star Trek as he talked about a 'federation' of aliens that has a rule not to interfere in our affairs ‐ much in the same way as Star Fleet follows a very similar 'prime directive.'

'Our future as a species, and here I mean all of the species in the world, is potentially at risk if we don’t figure what’s going on and work together to try and make life more amenable for all of us, and to work with our neighbors from other planets as well.' Aliens are also responsible for some of our modern tech‐ nology including the microchip, LED light and Kevlar vest, he said.

While Hellyer said he has never met an alien, but has seen a UFO near his cabin on Ontario’s Lake Muskoka. Hellyer described several types of aliens including 'Tall Whites' who are working with the U.S. air force in Nevada. ‘They’re able to get away with that; they had a couple of their ladies dressed as nuns go into Las Vegas to shop and they weren’t detected,’ he claimed.

Another group of aliens are called ‘Short Greys’ who have very slim arms and legs and are about three feet high with large heads.

A third group are called 'Nordic Blondes' and Hellyer said that if you meet one you’d probably say, 'I wonder if she’s from Den‐ mark or somewhere.'

Has Hellyer lost the plot or is there some truth to what he’s saying…? (Steve Mera PM)

Buyer beware! Family home haunted by the ghost of 14‐year‐old 'Scary Mary' listed for sale at $1.59 million.

It's a sprawling Victorian‐style family home that remains one of the most distinguished properties in Flor‐ ida. But, like the original gingerbread finish that has lined the porch since its construction in 1893, some aspects of this Punta Gorda house will never change ‐ such as the previous inhabitants who refuse to leave.

According to documents filed by former owners over time, the history associated of this home is very much alive. However, forgetting the ghost who supposedly stalks the hallways is nicknamed 'Scary Mary', the current tenants are an all‐American family with seven children, so it can't be too petrifying. In fact, with this poltergeist said to be the spirit of a 14‐year‐old girl, mother Natalie Wynn says she treats her with the same approach she does her own brood.

'She's a kid,' Wynn said of the ghost to The Herald Tribune. 'I have yelled at her like I would any other kid in the house.' 'Scary Mary' was the daughter of James Sandlin, one of Punta Gorda's most successful early businessmen who built the house. However Sandlin's family was beset by tragedy. An infant died three days after birth. Their son, Felix, 11, died in 1902. Sandlin himself died — possibly of tuberculosis — in 1903, leaving behind a 34‐year‐old widow and three children. But perhaps the most notable calamity oc‐ curred in 1909, when Sandlin's 14‐year‐old daughter, Mary Leah, was ironing on the porch with a gasoline‐ heated flat iron — a common appliance until World War I. Somehow, the gasoline spilled and Mary's clothes ignited. Screaming, she ran ablaze down the street, with neighbors trying to put out the flames. She died not long after from her injuries.

And today, some 105 years after the accident, the presence of 'Scary Mary' continues to be felt.

'Mostly what we have heard are footsteps up and down the stairs and across the hallway upstairs where her bedroom was,' said father Vandy Wynn, an anesthesiologist at the local hospital. 'A closet door, we went to push the door shut and the door came back open.

'Did you see that?' Heathrow jet pilot saw high‐ speed 'UFO' that 'passed within feet of his plane.'

By Sam Webb: A pilot has reported a mysterious flying object passed within feet of his cockpit in the skies around London's Heathrow Airport. The captain of the A320, flying to the west of the airport, was looking out the a cockpit window and saw a cigar‐ shaped metallic object flying at a similar altitude, seemingly directly at his plane.

A report on the apparent near‐miss, which took place in July, has just been released by the UK Airprox Board, part of the Civil Aviation Authority. It said: 'Having very little time to focus, he was under the apprehension that they were on a collision course with no time to react. 'His immediate reaction was to duck to the right and reach over the alert the FO (first officer); there was no time to talk to alert him. 'His first words to the FO were, "did you see that?", who replied "see what?"

They pushed against it and it was kind of a tug and war with the door to the closet which normally doesn't do that.' With no way of escaping or avoiding the spookiness associated with their home (it's featured on the cover of a book called FloridaLand Ghost) the Wynn's are trading on it as they attempt to sell up and move. The house and all of it's mysteries has been listed for sale for $1.59 million. Extensively renovated but with original features still intact, the home did not originally have an indoor bathroom or even kitchen.

Now it has five bathrooms and an expansive kitchen with granite finishes. 'Some pieces are original, some were added later and some are new,' Mrs Wynn said. 'The outside of the old house is all original.'

TV psychic Derek Acorah denies driving offences 'when he was involved in a car crash and refused to be breathalysed'.

By Wills Robinson. Television psychic Derek Acorah pleaded not guilty today when he appeared in court charged with driving offences. The star, who shot to fame as the host of ghost‐hunting TV show Most Haunted, appeared before magistrates in Sefton, Liverpool, facing accusations relating to a car crash in December. The 63‐year‐old, who was charged under his real name Derek Johnson, pleaded not guilty to refusing to supply a breath sample for analysis and denied driving without due care and attention.

Police were called to a road in Southport, Merseyside, following a collision between Acorah's red Nissan GT sports car and a Ford Ka. He was not hurt in the crash.

A trial date was fixed for June 4 or 5 later this year at Sefton Magistrates Court. He was given un‐ conditional bail and de‐ clined to comment after the hearing. Acorah's tele‐ vision career commenced in 1997 where he was the main contributor on pro‐ grammes including Psychic Livetime, Psychic Zone which aired on channel Breeze. In July 2001, he was asked to feature in a new British television programme called Haunt‐ ing Truths, which was subsequently sold to Liv‐ ing and renamed Most Haunted...

The captain perceived an object pass within a few feet of the aircraft. It could best be described as cigar/rugby ball‐like in shape, bright silver and metallic‐like in construction.' The pilot asked air traffic control if any other aircraft were in the vicinity, but was told that there none close by, although there were other airliners to the west. Investigators ruled out the possibility that it was a meteorological balloon or a helium balloon.

The report added: 'Nevertheless, the A320 pilot was subject to a powerful impression of immediate danger, caused by his percep‐ tion of an object closing rapidly on his aircraft. 'Although only supposition, members opined that this may have been due to a combination of a possible reflection of the low sun off one of the aircraft to the west, and of the pilot's head movement as he looked forward.

'It was decided that, although the reflection theory had some merit, the overall dearth of information relating to the event rendered and meaningful finding impossible.'

Similar to the Manchester near air miss reported in January 1995 after first officer Mark Stewart and the Captain both claimed to have seen a wedge shaped object quickly fly past them. The object, described as being lit up like a Christmas tree caused the flight crew to duck as it closely shot by the plane.

Mysteriously neither of the flight crew reported experiencing a wake as the object sped by. Just like boats in the ocean, wakes are felt as objects pass each other…

After a years investigation by the Civil Aviation Authority, they could not identify the mysterious object and concluded: Un‐ known...

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Don’t Panic!

By Nigel Watson

What would happen if alien spacecraft unambiguously landed on our planet, and we all were able to meet their alien occupants? What would happen if we got a signal from an intelligent alien civilisation? Or, what would happen if one of our space probes discovered signs of even the smallest scrap of evidence that microscopic alien life has or does exist elsewhere in our Solar System?

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Don’t Panic!

By Nigel Watson

One quick response to these questions is that any of these events would have earth shattering consequences for our perception of our place in this vast Universe. We would no longer be alone, but is this a good or bad thing?

Being alone we can believe in our own unique superiority. Finding other life forms, especially if they are vastly more evolved and advanced than us would certainly rattle our confidence and belittle our puny achievements.

One view is that this news would be so profound and life changing that we would all run around like headless chickens. There would be mass sui‐ cides, rioting and the general collapse of law and order, governments and everything else that keeps us civilised.

The worst case scenario was played out in the War of the Worlds radio broadcast, masterminded by Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre of the Air .

The programme mixed fiction with alleged on‐the‐spot factual reports of an alien invasion. The accepted view is that it caused a mass panic when it was broadcast on Halloween’s Eve, 30 Oc‐ tober 1938. More sober analysis indi‐ cates that it mainly caused its 1.2 mil‐ lion listeners mild fear and/or excite‐ ment. Nonetheless the overall reaction to the broadcast was a media sensa‐ tion that led the shocked and surprised Orson Welles to apologise before news reel cameras the following day. Since then other broadcasters have pro‐ duced shows that have also mingled (or mangled) fact and fiction to either deliberately or inadvertently cause panic to its listeners or viewers.

Such ‘panics’ indicate that any alien contact should be kept secret for fear of its consequences to our institutions and social structures. It certainly bol‐ sters the viewpoint of exopolitical sup‐ porters, who firmly believe that the US and other governments, are keeping secret the truth that they have liaised with aliens since at least 1947.

For those of us involved in the subject of ufology we often meet people who claim to have seen UFO craft and

encountered their occupants. These witnesses are suddenly overwhelmed by the belief that we are not alone in the universe and have to come to terms with these facts. After contact or abduction experiences people often go through several behavioural changes, that can be either good or bad for them. On the plus side they might be‐ come more spiritual and relaxed about their existence on Earth knowing they are protected by alien forces. They might support charitable causes, exer‐ cise more or become vegetarian. On the minus side, if they encounter evil aliens they can become fearful, para‐ noid and withdrawn. In either case, the changes can be profound for them as individuals even if their encounter or encounters are not supported by any tangible scientific evidence.

These ideas struck me after getting around to reading The Uninvited by Clive Harold (A Star Book, 1979). Yes, I admit it, it has taken me more than 30 years to get round to reading it! In this the Coombs family, living at Ripper‐ stone farm, Pembrokeshire, saw a variety of UFOs and aliens from Janu‐ ary to December 1977.

The mother of the family, Pauline, was at the centre of this activity, as she was the first one to spot a bright, fiery light, swinging like a pendulum over St Bride’s Bay. To her it seemed like it was watching her before it disappeared out of view below the cliff edge. It im‐ pressed her so much that she sent her husband out to look for any signs of it the next morning, and she could not ‘rid herself of the memory of it’. To most of us this doesn’t sound very impressive. Yet, in the following months the whole family saw alien entities, UFOs and even had their herd of cattle apparently ‘teleported’ out of

a locked paddock on more than one occasion, and on top of that they had a Men in Black visitation. The whole series of events seemed to come to a neat conclusion after Pauline had an abduction‐like dream. What impresses me is that these events struck the fam‐ ily with fear. When Pauline was driving her parents to the farm they suddenly spotted a huge silver domed disc in the sky, that was easily visible because it reflected the bright sunlight of that day in November. This struck great fear into all of them, and her parents were so traumatised that they begged their daughter to leave the farm before anything ‘worst happens’.

As these events occurred during a wave of sightings in south Wales, it was easy for the family to think some‐ thing profound was about to happen.

They speculated that these events might be warning them of some dread‐ ful disaster or something equally life changing. Yet, in the end the UFOs and aliens just went away. Had this all been a combination of media hype, hoaxers, secret government experiments or alien activity? Whatever the cause, the incidents had a profound effect on one family. Perhaps it was the ambiguity and strangeness of these events that really spooked them. If they and the rest of us knew for certain that we are not alone, perhaps we could more easily come to terms with this knowl‐ edge and deal with it. As it is we are still in the dark. Is life out there out there? Is it watching us? Is it visiting and probing us? No one has the an‐ swer, but at least at the moment we shouldn’t panic!

UFOs have been a global phenomenon from the late 19th century to the present day, and this Haynes manual will examine many UFO investi‐ gations worldwide by looking at the government reports ‐ both official and secret ‐ that have attempted to explain the 'otherworldly'. This manual will also explain how you can identify a UFO yourself and how to classify an alien en‐ counter ‐ was it of the first, second, third, fourth or fifth kind? The findings of scientific research will also be explored, as will the human attempts at alien communication, and, finally, alternative explana‐ tions of uncanny happenings.

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