Phenomena Magazine - June 2014 - Issue 62

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Hello and welcome to our June issue. I have been busy constructing a news Special Report called‐ Deception: A Review and Critical Analysis of the book: Encounters in Rendlesham Forest.

The Special Report has been written by Peter Robbins and includes photographs, newsclippings, official letters and much more. There is also an epilogue provided by Colin Andrews. Together we have constructed a huge document, well in excess of 300 pages. All this as well as the critical review will soon be available to download from the Phenomena Magazine website as several PDF Files. Watch out for details of its release on our Facebook pages. I’ve also been busy with several lectures. For those interested, I will be lecturing for the UFO Truth Magazine Conference in August. Details of the event along with many others such as the Scottish Paranormal Festival and Anthony Becketts Exopolitics UK Conferences can be found on our events page.

In this issue you will find varied subjects. Some interesting UFO articles and Paranormal ones, as well as a touch of Crop Circles, conspiracy theories, the supernatural and much more. Even our good friend Dr. Peter McCue has provided an excellent book review. Finally, for those interested… the TV series Most Haunted is to once again hit our screens, kicking off into a new season. Lets hope it’s going to be less questionable and more professional… But! I wouldn’t hold your breath.

Page 2: Castaneda’s Witches.

Taisha Abelar along with Carol Tiggs and Florinda Donner‐Grau were three women known collectively as ‘the witches’. They formed part of the inner circle surrounding the controversial anthropologist and author Carlos Castaneda. Nothing surrounding the origins and per‐ sonal history of Carlos Castaneda is straight forward. However…

Martin White reveals some of the truths.

Page 7: The Last in Line: UFOs in San Diego.

EDITORIAL Convinced that the objects were not birds or planes I decided to re‐

turn to Inaja Memorial park two weeks later where at scenic spot Hello All, As Steve mentioned a couple of issues ago we both spoke at the recent and uniformly excellent Probe International conference that took place at Lytham St Annes in March: (nice job number seven I was able to photograph birds, planes and helicopters Sam and all those who made it possible). The gathering of like‐minded people was remarkably to my satisfaction. As I turned to leave the site I saw something that well attended and the choice of subject matter was both eclectic and fascinating. However one of the speakers, who was unscheduled, really stretched the limits of credulity. This was Mr stopped me in my tracks. Michael James Orrell reveals his interesting David Boyle, who announced to the somewhat bewildered and bemused audience that he knew exactly what had become of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, its passengers and UFO photograph. crew. While Mr Boyle no doubt meant well, what he actually said was incredibly irresponsible.

It was only a matter of time before the conspiracy mill got into gear and started churning out a

range of theories concerning this aircraft and this was typical of what happens.

Page 11: The Faces of Belmez.

This can be seen in the item from the Huffington Post that appears elsewhere in this edition. According to Mr Boyle We’re all haunted by faces from the past in one way or another’ (whose messages are exclusively channelled from the no doubt altruistic ‘Ashtar Command’), the aircraft allegedly had many ‘light workers’ (I am unsure precisely what they are) on board and they are all willing hostages being held claimed Maria Gomez towards the end of her life in 2004. in a secure location to be used as bargaining chips to force world governments to give up weapons of mass destruc‐ tion and make the world a safe and secure place; indeed a laudable if unlikely objective. Specifically, all passengers Faces from the past can return to haunt both individuals and even and crew are safe, well and happy in the Hollow Earth, which they entered through the ‘hole at the South Pole’. They had all been beamed off the aircraft (thankfully along with the luggage) and safely deposited in the Hollow Earth, the countries. Sometimes they are real phantoms; sometimes memories aircraft was then allowed to crash. Truly mind‐numbing and completely unprovable stuff and in the circumstances possibly unforgivable that he should make unverifiable assertions (which is 100% what they are) about the lives of hidden deeply in the sub or collective conscience. Mado Martinez hundreds of innocent people who are almost certainly dead and currently lying somewhere at the bottom of the sea. looks into the mystery surrounding the Faces of Belmez.

Ufology and all that goes with it already struggles for credibility without statements like these being made.

Managing Editor Contact: Steve Mera ‐ Page 17: Balaam The Demon. s_mera@yahoo.com Friday, November 22nd 2013: Arrived: 9.00pm – Follow‐up investiga‐

tion of a 2 story house. One person died in this house. First investiga‐ UK Editor Contact: Brian Allan ‐ Paratec7@aol.com tion revealed possible demonic activity. After I blessed the house and

baptized the owner, the entity attacked Erica’s fiancée – he was Spanish Editor Contact: Dario Fernandez‐ scratched in two areas of his body – 3 long scratches – indicating info@e‐nigmas.com.ar disrespect for the trinity. Paul Dale Roberts goes to battle with a Demon.

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17, Redburn Road, Baguley, Page 21: Køge Huskors: An Elaborate Danish Poltergeist Case - 17th Century.

Wythenshawe, Manchester, M23 1AH, Køge is a modest‐sized town south of Copenhagen which in the town United Kingdom. Tel: 07866 685835 WWW.PHENOMENAMAGAZINE.CO.UK centre, a local merchants house once stood. This house was home to WWW.PHENOMENAMAGAZINE.ES a number of very intense poltergeist and “high strangeness” inci‐

dents, running from the year 1608 to 1615. Today there is even an The PM Team: Sotiris at STRANGE‐ FILES.ME, Danial Verdon at UREI, Randy official plaque commemorating the phenomenon that came to be at UFOSTORE.COM, Dario Fernandez at e popularly known as “Køge Huskors”. Thomas Brisson Jørgensen explains... ‐nigmas / portal de lo paranormal. Tim

at UFOTV, Main Distribution Steve Mera & Brian Allan, Reporter Jackie Heighway Page 27: Crop Circles Mysteries. & Reporter / Photographer Rodney On the evening of June 12‐13 Robbert and Roy visited the June 4th Howarth. formation at Standdaarbuiten around 11pm. After staying in the

field at Staanddaarbuiten for a while Robbert felt very strongly that THIS MONTHS CONTRIBUTORS something or someone was trying to make contact with him. He was Steve Mera, Brian Allan, Nancy Talbot, Paul Dale Roberts, Dr. Peter McCue, experiencing the same “uneasy” feeling he always gets when a new Martin Wight, Michael James Orrell, circle is coming. Nancy Talbot reveals some more fascinating formations.

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Thomas Brisson Jørgensen, PHENOMENA Taylor Auerbach, Richard Spillett, Page 31: UFOs Over Anglesey.

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Castaneda’s Witches

By Martin White

If you went to the Amazon website ten years ago and looked up a book called ‘The Sorcerer’s Cross‐ ing’ by Taisha Abelar there was a message saying that the sequel would be coming out soon. Today, if you do a search on her name there is a book referenced ‘Untitled sequel’ to “The Sorcerer’s Crossing” by Taisha Abelar dated 28 Feb 2012.

Unfortunately, it is ‘currently unavailable’. Let me tell you why that is likely to be the case for some time to come. Taisha Abelar along with Carol Tiggs and Florinda Donner‐Grau were three women known collectively as ‘the witches’. They formed part of the inner circle surrounding the controversial anthropologist and author Carlos Castaneda.

Nothing surrounding the origins and personal history of Carlos Castaneda is straight forward. All sorts of myths and stories abound – many fos‐ tered and encouraged by the man himself. Casta‐ neda called this process ‘losing personal history’ by which he meant, not being defined by your previous actions and experiences. One part of the process of losing personal history was known as ‘becoming inaccessible’, not letting people pin you down with your past. Effectively this involved creating a variety of fictitious pasts (and names) and living as if each of them was true. Obviously, this makes researching Castaneda’s past tricky, but several authors have managed to uncover much of the actual truth.

Carlos Castaneda was born in 1925, at a place called Cajamarca in Peru. He moved to the U.S.A. in 1951, where he embarked on furthering his education. By 1962 he received a B.A. in Anthro‐ pology, but it is the book that resulted from his dissertation ‘The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui way of Knowledge’ published in 1968 by the Uni‐ versity of California Press, that brought him to notoriety. On the face of it, a stunning piece of work, hailed as a major advance in the field of anthropology. Never before had a Western aca‐ demic gleaned such detailed information on the shamanic practises of indigenous Mexican Indi‐ ans. It seemed almost too good to be true – it was. Many authors since have bought into ques‐ tion, the authenticity of his work, to the point that it is now considered mostly fiction. Much ink has been spilled both attacking and defending Casta‐ neda, but this article is about the women he sur‐ rounded himself with, about whom, much less has been written.

In the same year as ‘Teachings’ was published, Castaneda, met a woman called Kathleen Pohlman, better known (due to the processes described earlier) as Carol Tiggs, and later as Muni Alexander. Pohlman was born in 1947 at Pasa‐ dena, California. She had studied Art in Mexico,

which it is said, is where she met Castaneda. It is unclear why, but Pohlman left Castaneda in 1973, only to reappear, twelve years later. This absence and reappearance was explained by Castaneda later, by saying she had travelled into another dimension during dreaming, only to return after a period of twelve years. She was known then as ‘the Nagual (pronounced Nah‐‘whal) Woman’.

Taisha Abelar met Castaneda at UCLA, where she was also an Anthropology student. Originally named Anne‐Marie Carter, then Maryann Simko, tall and soft spoken, Abelar also had a keen inter‐ est in karate

Castaneda some years earlier. In 1973, Castaneda purchased a compound in Westwood, LA. Shortly afterwards, the ‘witches’ moved in. It is interest‐ ing to note that this period coincides with Pohlman leaving the group, but it would be pure speculation to attempt to link the two events. The witches, along with a few others – Mary Joan Baker, Beverly Evans, Kylie Lundahl, Talia Bey and Patricia Partin became Castaneda’s inner circle.

Castaneda’s writings mirrored this accumulation of personnel, in that the idea of a ‘warrior’s party’ started to appear. To understand why this is im‐ portant in terms of the events as they were about

In 1970 Regine Margarita Thal came to UCLA, again, to study anthropology, where she was in‐ troduced to Castaneda by Taisha Abelar. Thal, born in Venezuela to German immigrants, took the name Florinda Donner‐Grau, and later short‐ ened it to Florinda Donner. She was also nick‐ named ‘the hummingbird’ due to her short stat‐ ure and ceaseless energy. Thal too, became inter‐ ested in karate (as did Castaneda himself), this interest becoming important to the group in the1990s, when they jointly started to teach classes in a system they called ‘tensegrity’, billed as an ancient Mexican magical martial art. Both Abelar and Thal gained an M.A. in Anthropology at UCLA, Abelar going on to secure her PhD, while Thal, became embroiled in a similar controversy over her published work ‘Shabono’, to that of

to unfold, it is necessary to explain what this term means and what such a party consists of.

A warrior’s party is a group of people that form a single energetic unit and whose main aim is to attain personal freedom through adherence to the Toltec teachings and eventually reach a state where they could leave their physical bodies behind and travel between alternative realities at will; this contrasts starkly with the lot of an ‘average man’ i.e. those people not following Toltec teaching, which was effectively to have their consciousness crushed out of existence by something known metaphorically as the’ eagle’.

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Castaneda’s Witches

By Martin White

epitome of impeccability, strength, harmony, peace and sobriety. Naturally, Castaneda saw himself as filling this role (in his writing, he was actually chosen by his teacher, the Yaqui sorcerer Don Juan Matus for this responsibility). Then there should be a female counterpart, known as the nagual woman; as we have seen this role was assigned to Carol Tiggs. Then there should be eight additional women, split into two groups known as ‘stalkers’ and ‘dreamers’ respectively.

Stalkers, which now has an unfortunate connota‐ tion, not in common use at the time the term was coined, are generally well grounded people that are comfortable in the everyday world – the art of stalking is referring to stalking the self in an at‐ tempt to eradicate such things as old habits and beliefs that do not serve us. Taisha Abelar was such a person.

Dreamers are people who can change their state of consciousness easily and effectively, thus imag‐ ining and inhabiting other realities. Florinda Don‐ ner filled this role. The art of dreaming, changing consciousness, sometimes using plant based sub‐ stances, and Castaneda’s relationship to this in his teachings is a topic worthy of an article in its own right, but beyond the scope of this piece. The party should also contain three more men and an unspecified number of extra personnel known as ‘witnesses’, which could be of either sex. Later in his writings, Castaneda intimated that a party may not always be fully populated before it ‘leaves the world’. It could be argued that this reflected the state of affairs in his real world; perhaps he could‐ n’t find the right people, who were willing to do what it took in order to fulfil the role. And it took a great deal.

Castaneda’s close followers were encouraged to break all ties to their families (although Florinda Donner never did). Castaneda’s control and rule was absolute, dictating what people could eat, who they could sleep with (if anyone, often male followers were encouraged to be celibate). He controlled what topics his followers could and could not discuss. In addition to this they were set a demanding routine of spiritual development.

Failure to live up to his ideal could and often did, lead to being completely ostracized from the group, often for no discernible reason; explana‐ tions were never given. The nagual apparently was a fickle man. This made for a tense atmos‐ phere, with its members in a state of high anxiety regarding their own safety within the group.

Eventually, the women came to wear the same short, severe, dyed blonde haircuts and identical perfume – all as directed by Castaneda himself.

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behaviours exhibited by other cults such as Heaven’s Gate founded by Marshall Applewhite or the People’s Temple run by Jim Jones it is easy to see why. A strong personality, surrounding themselves with emotionally vulnerable people, setting for them rigid boundaries and codes of behaviour; encourages them to see themselves as special and chosen ones.

I don’t think in Castaneda’s case though, it is quite that simple. It would be a mistake to think of the witches as passive victims. Rather, as we have seen, they were intelligent, creative people in their own right; Florinda Donner with three pub‐ lished works to her name and Taisha Abelar with another, beautifully written piece, and other for‐ mer ‘cult’ members have published works to their name; they were not archetypical cult fodder.

Perhaps Castaneda really was trying to ‘toughen up’ his disciples, turning them into the uncompro‐ mising spiritual warriors his writings were depict‐ ing. Perhaps the excesses of his behaviour in later years can be explained by his illness as some have suggested. We can only speculate.

According to his death certificate, Carlos Casta‐ neda died on April 27, 1998, from metabolic en‐ cephalopathy due to liver failure which was pre‐ ceded by ten months of hepatocellular cancer‐ this was not the way that the nagual was sup‐ posed to leave the world.

According to his own writings, the nagual was supposed to lead his chosen party into another dimension by ‘burning with the fire from within’.

This particular exercise was the pinnacle of Toltec sorcery, a leap into infinity, literally if we believe Castaneda’s own words, leaping from a cliff face, never to hit the bottom. He maintained that the nagual woman Carol Tiggs had already performed this miracle and returned to tell the tale. Effec‐ tively, the warrior’s party were supposed to sim‐ ply disappear from this reality.

This was how things were supposed to end, in a quiet glory. But the nagual had not lived up to his end of the bargain.

According to contemporary sources such as Amy Wallace, who was always on the fringes of the inner circle, Castaneda’s illness and eventual death from cancer caused a great deal of confu‐ sion and turmoil for those close to him. Castaneda had ruled his group in a very autocratic manner; his demise was leaving a power vacuum, which simply could not be filled. Amazingly, Castaneda’s death was not picked up on or reported in the press until June 19th. In her book ‘Filming Casta‐ neda’ Gaby Geuter states that when the reporter contacted Margaret Runyon and C.J.Castaneda – his former wife and adopted son, they were both surprised by the news. On contacting Cleargreen, an organization set up by Castaneda to dissemi‐ nate his teachings, they reluctantly confirmed that Castaneda was gone.

By the time Cleargreen ran a workshop in Santa Monica on May 2nd, Taisha Abelar, Florinda Don‐ ner, Talia Bey and Kylie Lundahl had disappeared, their telephones all disconnected – they were never seen again. Sometime later, another one of Castaneda’s group, Patricia Partin also disap‐ peared. In Patricia’s case however a skeleton was recovered in February 2006 at Death Valley, Cali‐ fornia and subsequent DNA testing confirmed it was her.

Prior to their disappearance, it has been reported by those close to the group that there had been some talk of suicide, but no bodies have ever been found. The one remaining witch, Kathleen Pohlman aka Carol Tiggs has never been consis‐ tent with her account of what happened to them either and she dropped from public view not long after the others had gone. There have been no sightings, and to my knowledge, no financial trail either, so group suicide does appear to be the most likely event. What is clear, is that they man‐ aged their disappearance in such a way as to sug‐ gest that they did indeed burn with the fire from within, leaving this reality forever – but until any bodies are discovered we will never know for sure. So, was it suicide or a sorceric manoeuvre?

We may never find out, but personally, I don’t think the sequel to the Sorcerer’s Crossing will be in print any time soon; which is a shame, as I found this book to be the equal of anything that Carlos Castaneda wrote himself.

Martin White is a published author (Spellcaster, seven ways to effective magic) and has a masters degree in Social Anthropology. His main interests are altered states of consciousness, magick and shamanism. He is currently working on a novel; check out his progress at:

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The Last in Line: UFOs in San Diego

By Michael James Orrell

Long before I accidentally photographed ten daylight UFOs hovering over the San Diego River valley, I had studied the phenomenon as a teenager shortly after my cop Father died in 1971. Not satisfied with my religions nonsensical explanation for the dying experience, I sought to find some real answers to where my Dad went and what purpose our Creator had in mind for our exis‐ tence. As fate would have it my Fathers best friend and our next door neighbour, Dennis, who was a Korean war veteran like my dad, was studying metaphysics which is defined as "the part of philosophy that is concerned with the basic causes and nature of things".

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The Last in Line: UFOs in San Diego

By Michael James Orrell

So at the age of sixteen I was accepted by Dennis as his apprentice and was instructed to read the writings of the top three authors in the field, T.Lobsang Rampa, Carlos Castaneda and Jane Roberts. To my utter amazement these writers wrote about the same things which had never crossed the lips of any of my friends, parents or teachers. Even to this day I would be hard pressed to find someone who has heard of the Nazca Lines in Peru or the Akashic records. Meta‐ physics revealed that aliens and UFOs are "emissaries" from God who have "seeded" our planet and have nurtured mankind since the beginning. Many of them come from different dimensions based on different molecular struc‐ tures so when they come from a silicon universe they must wear the carbon "camouflage" of our environment. These countless dimensions oc‐ cupy the same space that we do but they are focused on a different channel much like a televi‐ sion set. It cannot be overstated how pivotal these writings were in developing my foundation of reality so that when that fateful day arrived on July 1 1990, I was ready.

I had my first emotional experience concerning aliens and UFOs as a 10 yr old youngster when, after viewing artistic drawings of scary looking aliens in a UFO book at my buddy Jeff's house, I was later riding my bicycle home at night and when I reached the intersection at the top of the hill where my house was on the left and a spooky dirt road was on the right, my imagination took control and suddenly those scary aliens were waiting for me in the darkness down that dirt road. I raced to my front yard, flew off the bike and rushed in the house only to be greeted by bewildering looks from my parents who wanted to know what had me so upset. I was too embar‐ rassed to reveal the source of my anxiety and vowed to never again let fear get the better of me. A valuable lesson I practice to this day.

Decades later I'm on a photographic mission to the San Diego backwoods with my new Canon 35mm EOS 650 camera. I've grabbed my then girlfriend Ronnie and my buddy Bob and, after buying my favourite fruit bars at Dudley's Bakery in Santa Ysabel just east of Ramona, began our trip to Julian. Just a couple miles up the road from Dudley's however, I spotted a sign on the right that said "Inaja Memorial Park" and swung the car in and pulled into the parking lot. As a native San Diegan I was surprised to discover that I've never heard of this park and was even more astounded to learn from Bob that a memo‐ rial marker at the entrance of the loop trail de‐ tailed the purpose for the parks creation.

On November 25 1956, eleven fire‐fighters died fighting a fire there that had raced up a hill and killed these brave men. it was the date that still gives me goose bumps, I was born one day later and as a believer in reincarnation it was a remote possibility that I was the reincarnated soul of one of those dead heroes.

With this mysterious omen in mind we started our trek on this beautiful loop trail and I was clicking away capturing some great compositions.

About a half hour in we reached scenic spot number 7 and I knew I was looking at the best photo opp of the day. Eighteen miles of the San Diego River valley stretched majestically before us slowly winding its way towards the ocean as the setting sun created an unearthly blue haze that hovered over the scenic valley below. It was approximately 4:30 pm and the day was rapidly winding down so I made haste to set my camera up on this man‐made rock wall that held a peri‐ scope device that allowed the viewer to site in a distant mountain. A indicator attached to the bottom of the periscope informed the traveller what mountain they were looking at. I set my zoom lens on maximum, slowed my breathing down and in‐between breathes I slowed squeezed the shutter.

Without bothering to take a second photo (dumb ‐ass) I gathered my party and sped along the path as darkness was rapidly closing in. Having no idea how long the trail was to get back to the parking lot, I was concerned for the safety of my companions because of mountain lions in the area. On the long drive home from the park I could not get that scenic spot 7 area out of my mind. It just seemed so magically beautiful with the blue atmosphere hanging over the valley and the receding hillsides bathed in different shades of purple, we were awestruck by its magnifi‐ cence . In my wildest dreams I could not have imagined what was hovering over those distant hillsides.

When I finally got the film back from Thrifty's, (a photo processing company) I was enjoying my scenic compositions when suddenly the scenic spot 7 photo appeared and instantly I saw the formation of dots in the upper left hand corner of the 4 x 6 photograph.

At first I thought it was some sort of negative glitch but when I checked the other photos I couldn't find the same pattern. Maybe they were birds or airplanes but when I looked at the objects through my magnifying loop I could‐ n't see any wings. Then I noticed that three of the objects on the extreme left had formed a triangular formation that was pointed west and that the entire formation seemed to be stretch‐ ing towards the west so I took my loop over to the right side of the photo and low and behold there was a single object of the same size and density as the other objects and it was hovering over a distant hillside as well. That’s when I decided to throw the negative in my Omega C760 enlarger in the darkroom I had built in our bedroom and enlarged the objects as much as I could then developed the print in my drum processor. I was astonished to see the results and shared them with a friend who was also a photographer who declared the wingless ob‐ jects to be "flying ducks". When I asked him to show me the wings or ailerons he ignored my request and implied that if I thought they were UFOs that I had some mental issues and needed medical attention.

Convinced that the objects were not birds or planes I decided to return to Inaja Memorial park two weeks later where at scenic spot num‐ ber seven I was able to photograph birds, planes and helicopters to my satisfaction. As I turned to leave the site I saw something that stopped me in my tracks, 15 feet behind the lookout platform was a boulder shaped exactly like an aliens head. It was an outcropping of rock sitting directly on the path that was recog‐ nizable from either direction as a head but looking at it from the platform the boulder clearly had a pointed ear like Spock from Star Trek. This was the third rock face I had discov‐ ered, the other two were also found by acci‐ dent while hiking.

Close up of the objects.

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The Last in Line: UFOs in San Diego

By Michael James Orrell

One was in La Jolla Cove and the other on El Cajon Mountain. The one on El Cajon Mountain, also know as El Capitan, is a huge mile diameter natural rock face surrounded by a perfect circle.

All three faces would eventually win numerous press accounts. By coincidence if you were to put the periscope device, at scenic spot 7,on the indicator for El Cajon mountain and looked through it, it aligns perfectly with the position of the single UFO I captured in the photo on the west side of the valley.

After getting my film back of the birds and planes and then comparing them to the objects in my UFO photo I realized that their was no compari‐ son and that the probability was high that I had taken a one in a billion photo of 10 airborne vehi‐ cles that were not from this world. I decided to call the San Diego UFO Society with my story and was informed that the objects needed to be enlarged to grain which I could not do with my enlarger. So I went to Giant photo downtown and they enlarged the negative, took a photo of it, and enlarged it again and the results were beyond my wildest dreams. I spent an entire week just gazing at the 8 x 10 of the nine objects in formation. Reflecting on my metaphysical readings I was convinced that these objects were the "emissaries" that my writers had spoke of and was humbled before this convincing evi‐ dence that not only were we "not alone" but that God exists. At some point I began to think that the photo was not an accident but that "they" knew I would be there at that specific time and day and "posed" for my camera knowing that with my belief system, gained at the cost of my fathers life, I would not discard these objects as merely "ducks" like almost everyone else would have.

Eventually I forced myself to examine closely the enlargement of the single craft on the right side of the valley which at first glance was an unin‐ spiring blob of pixels with no clear form or out‐ line. Then I saw it. The left side of the blob was in fact a very clear and detailed image of what looked like an upside down acorn. The right side of the object had three duplicate images of itself which clearly indicated to me that this craft was indeed moving right to left or West to East to join the formation on the opposite side of the valley and that the click of my cameras shutter ac‐ counted for the three trailing images of itself and was the reason the left contour was so clear as it had not run over itself. The most interesting ob‐ servation though was the discovery of a clear spike‐like projection two thirds up the left side of the craft. I remember sitting upright in my chair and thinking how glad I was that I had used all my know‐how in taking a clear in‐focus picture of this detailed object which must have been 3 to 5 miles away. My breathing technique had paid off in a large way, then I remembered something.

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UFOs and there was a lot of material on this rap‐ idly growing phenomenon hitting the airwaves.

One of them was an Unsolved Mysteries episode about a crashed UFO in a Pennsylvania forest in a town called Kecksberg. I found the tape, played it back and was shocked by the similarity between the programs acorn shaped craft, which was modelled after eyewitness accounts by the civil‐ ians who saw it, and my single crafts left contour.

Now recently there was some speculation that what crashed in Kecksberg was a Soviet satellite, the Cosmos 96 space probe that never attained orbit but, "in a 2003 interview Chief Scientist for Orbital Debris at the NASA Johnson Space Centre Nicholas L. Johnson stated: I can tell you cate‐ gorically, that there is no way that any debris from Cosmos 96 could have landed in Pennsyl‐ vania anywhere around 4:45 p.m.[...] That’s an absolute. Orbital mechanics are very strict.

So I had become convinced that I had identified these unidentifiable objects as the same type of craft that crashed in Kecksberg that magical night of December 9 1965, and speculate that the Kecksberg crash was no crash at all but a purposefully designed event by extraterrestrials who planned the exact location of the landing knowing that civilian eyewitnesses would be the first to see the object before the military carted the craft away claiming it was just a meteorite then changing their cover‐up to claim instead it was the Cosmos 96 which scien‐ tists have proved it was not. My father who was a Staff Sergeant in the 40th Bomber Wing in Korea had a box full of black rubber airplanes that he said were used to identify and recog‐ nize different types of aircraft, "recognition planes" he called them, which unfortunately melted to nothing during the tragic Aerospace Museum fire years ago in San Diego. So too was the purpose of the "Kecksberg" acorn shaped craft, its mission to serve as an example of what to look for twenty five years later. I also found another TV program called "Secrets and Mys‐ teries" that gave me the final piece of evidence that confirmed for me that I had indeed acci‐ dentally photographed 10 daylight craft from another world.

On this show, hosted by the older gentleman who played the Ghost in the TV show "The Ghost and Mrs Muir" they aired the UFO filmed

by Astronaut James McDivitt during the Gemini flight over Hawaii. McDivitt described that the "beer can shaped object had a pencil point projection sticking out of it" which is exactly the image the program aired and it matched my single UFOs projection perfectly. I later discov‐ ered that NASA had "lost" McDivitt’s UFO photo. Now the search was on and sure enough I found other UFO photos who also had the same spike‐like projection. Then I hit the book stores and found a gold mine of countless an‐ cient artefacts from various ancient civilizations that all had the same projecting acorn or trian‐ gular shapes which proved what metaphysics had been saying all along; that aliens have been on mankind's team since the beginning and are set to return to once again save us from what maybe the most devastating natural disaster we have ever faced, a crustal displacement of earths magnetic poles.

Volcanic core samples prove that the earth is over 230,000 years overdue for its next mag‐ netic reversal. Why hasn't the world flipped already? Could it be that aliens were responsi‐ ble? Did they help build the Giza pyramids and Stonehenge using sound like metaphysics claims so that the earths processional wobble would be stabilized long enough for us to make wilful contact with extraterrestrials as they have been waiting for?. Did the mysterious nuclear blast over Tunguska, Siberia in 1908, which affected earth’s magnetic field, also de‐ lay the shift?

The Last in Line: UFOs in San Diego

By Michael James Orrell

Videos of UFOs flying into the sun as well as vol‐ canoes have recently surfaced and they have been spotted near major earthquakes. Is it really possible that aliens are struggling to save man‐ kind by using all their resources to delay the in‐ evitable shift? Is that why the Mayans predicted the end of the 4th world and the beginning of the 5th on 12/21/2012 which was the end of the earth’s 26,000 yr processional wobble? Did the alien’s efforts circumvent a real doomsday for mankind? I believe the answer is yes. Even the Bible predicts the exact result of what would happen if the earth suddenly rolled over produc‐ ing 500 mph winds as Edgar Cayce has foreseen.

Rev.6; 12‐16 "Islands will disappear and every mountain moved from its place. An Earthquake like none before"

Numerous locations throughout San Diego have unusual rock formations and ancient carvings have also been found. Could such things be somehow the reminisce of contact between such UFOs and our ancients.

that historic day of contact, (they may come as thieves in the night) and what now serves as the military forces of the nations of our planet will be re‐trained as ‘away teams’ to set up trading posts on other inhabited worlds just as we need to invite the aliens representatives to homestead on our beloved planet, which they seeded and if not for us then for our children and their chil‐ dren.

We must gladly suffer the shock and fear that this endeavour will produce so that unborn fu‐ ture generations will be able to live without dis‐ ease, starvation and homelessness. That those who have given the ultimate sacrifice over the years so that we might have the freedom to choose this most wonderful future will be re‐ born into it. One day many generations from now they will look back and say: "How did we ever survive our isolation from the rest of the uni‐ verse?", and we will answer, "Because we will‐ ingly chose another path and we did it for you”

Russian test pilot Marina Popovich was the first to hold the Inaja UFO Photo on Television after we exchanged photos during a 2nd presenta‐ tion I gave her delegation where I successfully linked both our photos to the Nazca Lines. In 2006 CBS affiliate KFMB Channel 8 made his‐ tory by showing the sacred pattern. On Jan.1 2008 those same UFOs may have returned.

Mike Orrell, with an enlargement of his UFO picture taken in 1990. "I've been given a great gift that I have been trying to share," he said. — Nelvin C. Cepeda / U‐T.

Check out Mike Orrell’s non‐profit research website. It explores the true story of what hap‐ pened after he accidentally captured ten UFOs hovering over a distant hillside in one scenic daylight photograph taken July 1st 1990. After examining enlargements of the objects, he could clearly see that one of them resembled the famous "Kecksberg UFO". It also contained a spike‐like projection he later found on numer‐ ous other UFO photos as well as ancient arti‐ facts, crop circles and the Nazca Lines in Peru.

The evidence to support these bold claims are contained on his website: ie, dozens of links.

The San Diego Edition of the Los Angeles Times broke the story and numerous front page fea‐ tures, radio interviews and TV spots followed.

This story is linked as well to other related metaphysical discoveries and prophecies in‐ volving end time scenarios. Check all this out at:

A rock formation I discovered that looks like a face Fear not I say, evidence abounds that our space brothers have no intention of letting us perish in this cataclysmic natural disaster. Of course the polar shift has happened one hundred and sev‐ enty one times in the past according to the core samples and our beloved planet desperately needs to roll over once again to "reboot" itself.

Why do you think the wholly mammoths were found in glaciers with their stomachs full of daisy's? It was America's greatest UFO abductee Betty Hill who had the courage and audacity to question the aliens during her abduction. When they responded to her question about where they came from they showed her a map and pointed out that the dotted lines to other planets like our own are expeditionary routes, but that the solid lines to other stars were "trading routes". Planet Earth is destined to be a shining star of interplanetary commerce and trade after Page 10 Phenomena Magazine: June 2014 - Issue 62: www.phenomenamagazine.co.uk

The Faces of Belmez

By Mado Martinez

We’re all haunted by faces from the past in one way or another’ claimed Maria

Gomez towards the end of her life in 2004.

Faces from the past can return to haunt both individuals and even countries.

Sometimes they are real phantoms; sometimes memories hidden deeply in the sub or collective conscience. But what of the faces that began to literally to appear Maria Gomez’s kitchen floor? Were these faces projected from her sub conscious or did they originate in Spain’s dark and troubled past? According to one parapsychologist, the Faces of Bélmez were the most important paranormal phenomenon of the twentieth century.

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The Faces of Belmez

By Mado Martinez

Faces suddenly and mysteriously appearing on the kitchen floor of a house in the small Andalu‐ sian town of Bélmez in 1971 have continued to divide public opinion over their origin until the present day. Labelled by a handful as some of most intriguing and convincing of all paranormal phenomenon ever to be recorded, but dismissed as a hoax by government scientists and the Catholic Church, the faces remain an enigma.

The Faces of Bélmez, as they have become known, have been written about extensively. As with the majority of paranormal events, most of the published writings have been critical. At best, the faces were the sub‐conscious projections of Maria Gomez, the central character in the story though some writers and researchers went even further and called the whole thing a cruel hoax perpetrated by both Maria and her family for financial gain. Government scientists called in to examine the kitchen found samples of vinegar and soot on the floor and concluded that these must have been the main ingredients in the paint used to produce the faces. But was this just a convenient ploy to discredit the occupants of the house and divert intense media scrutiny away from the village which, at one point, was being likened to Fatima and even Lourdes itself?

It is now over 40 years since the appearance of the faces made headline news in Spain. They have continued to divide both public and expert opinion in the way anomalous phenomenon invariably does. The events surrounding the mys‐ terious faces were left for readers to decide for themselves whether or not they were paranor‐ mal in origin or had a more logical explanation.

At lease this was case until recently.

According to a recent article in the Spanish press, the faces have suddenly returned even though Maria Gomez died over seven years ago. If, as the Spanish press claim, the faces have made a re ‐appearance then this would be an appropriate time to go back to the summer of 1971 and re‐ examine the events and central personalities surrounding the enigma that was to become the Faces of Bélmez.

Bélmez is a sleepy town of whitewashed houses basking under the baking Spanish sun. It is sur‐ rounded by some of the largest olive groves in Andalusia. By 1971 General Franco was slowly losing his grip on controlling Spain and the Span‐ ish imagination, and tourists were starting to pour into the Costa del Sol opening up centuries of isolation to levels of scrutiny not witnessed since the International Brigade headed there to fight fascism in the 1930’s. These new tourists had no socialist ideals; they flocked to Spain for sun and cheap alcohol. They brought back som‐ breros and bullfighting posters but any other close examination of Spanish culture and tradi‐ tions was left to middle class intellectuals and writers re‐emerging from the schism Nazi fascism sunk Western Europe into during World War II.

Helped by books like Orwell’s Homage to Catalo‐ nia, the spotlight gradually turned to Spain’s dark and troubled past, particularly the civil war, and it was within this cultural backdrop that other types of faces from Spain’s past began to appear on Maria Gomez’s kitchen floor. . .

Street Real 5 was the address of the house occu‐ pied by Maria Gomez Camara and her husband Juan Pereira when the faces first appeared on 23rd August. They were ordinary people who lacked any formal education. Many of the locals in Belmez believed Maria was psychic, but other than that nothing set the family apart from other typical Andalusian folk.

At first they naturally confused and frightened Maria and her family. One can only speculate on the unrest they brought to the family. She ex‐ plained how her husband had broken up and re‐ laid the floor but the faces re‐appeared on the fresh concrete. By Easter of the following year the house had become a place of pilgrimage with hundreds of tourists flocking to Bélmez to wit‐ ness Spain’s miraculous happenings. Many peo‐ ple living in Andalusia were devoted Catholics who descended from Romany traditions with strong associations with the Virgin Mary.

They needed little persuading that the faces originated in another dimension and believed Belmez was their Lourdes. The intense media attention together with the large volumes of visitors flocking to the town worried local politi‐ cians. In the same way local politicians in Lourdes in the mid‐19th century sought to discredit the claims that the Virgin Mary had appeared to a peasant girl called Bernadette in the town’s rub‐ bish dump, local government officers in Belmez were equally keen to discredit and demean the faces appearing on Maria’s kitchen floor.

In a bid to solve the mystery once and for all, the floor was dug up completely and what sci‐ entists found shocked them. Several skeletons – mostly female – were found. Estimates of their age varied but scientists generally agreed they were approximately several hundred years or so with the earliest of the skeletons dated from around the thirteenth century. It emerged that the house had been built in 1870 over what had been a cemetery. It was further dis‐ covered that before this, the whole area had been a burial site for both Roman and Muslin invaders.

According to Jose Martinez‐Romero in his book Las Caras de Bélmez, new faces were appearing all the time. At first it had been one haunting face which appeared. According to Maria, the expression of the face changed daily. After a while, more faces appeared and since the phe‐ nomenon began, thousands of people have flocked to the house to see them, photograph them, study them and even pray to them. Many have been photographed by newspapers and are all available for scrutiny on the internet.

While the faces cannot be described as realistic they have a very haunting and surreal appear‐ ance. It is worth searching for images of the faces on the internet. In particular, one web site sets the faces to some very unnerving ca‐ cophonous, discordant music.

Spanish media and local politicians were keen to debunk the whole phenomenon claiming the faces were a fake. Maria’s son, Diego Pereira, was singled out for being the culprit perpetrat‐ ing the scam. When sections of the floor were taken away for detailed analysis, traces of soot and vinegar were found. According to expert opinion they were thought to be the main in‐ gredients of the paint used to produce the Page 12 Phenomena Magazine: June 2014 - Issue 62: www.phenomenamagazine.co.uk

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faces. The evidence submitted by the scientists to discredit the faces was considered by many to be weak and typical of the type of evidence used to explain away anomalous phenomenon. Soot and vinegar of course would be found in the majority of kitchens. Looking at the faces in de‐ tail, it is extremely hard to believe that they were forged by anyone, let alone a young boy.

Ramos Perera, president of the Spanish Society of Parapsychology, said that by testing the first face with infrared in La Pava, he was left in doubt that it had been painted. What the actual tests were and how Perera came to this conclusion is unknown. Psychologists however who inter‐ viewed Maria, were convinced that she was not the perpetrator of a cruel hoax.

Hans Bender, a German paranormal investigator who had access to the house and interviewed Maria extensively also did not subscribe to the fraud hypothesis. However, he believed the faces had another equally challenging explanation. He believed that the faces were appearing paranor‐ mally by a process called ‘thoughtography’. Es‐ sentially Bender believed Maria’s unconscious thoughts were responsible for the faces appear‐ ing. He claimed that this was a form of telekinetic effect though he had no idea as to how it actually happened in reality. However, he still went on record to say that the faces were one of the most important paranormal events of the twentieth century and refused to accept that fraudulent activity was responsible for their appearance.

Another psychologist and paranormal investiga‐ tor, German de Argumosa, interviewed Maria extensively and was also convinced that the faces were not fraudulent. Argumosa was one of the early pioneers of Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP). He set up delicate sound recording equip‐ ment in the locked up kitchen overnight and obtained recorded sounds of whispering and sighing. Careful analysis of the tapes identified distinct voices saying things such as ‘I continue buried’, Maria, I want to go out’ and ‘Look be‐ low’. It would be interesting to know if the tapes were still available for further research as sound technology has improved exponentially since the early 1970’s.

José Martinez Romero published a book also endorsing the paranormal hypothesis: He argued that teleplasty was the energy behind the crea‐ tion of the faces. Teleplasty is a term used to describe how a medium uses ectoplasm to re‐ create a spiritual form. In this case, the energy of Maria was being used to create the faces on the floor. This suggests that if we are to accept the paranormal explanation, then we have to ac‐ knowledge the role Maria played as a knowing or unknowing medium by providing the psychic energy for the faces to manifest themselves. In England, Andrew MacKenzie, a writer of the paranormal, devoted the first chapter of ‘The seen and the unseen’ to the Faces Bélmez.

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heavily on an amateur translator during his stay.

His readable account of the faces also supported the paranormal explanation though cannot be classed as a critical investigation into the phe‐ nomenon.

Much later on in the early 1990’s, a catholic priest Father JM Pilon managed to recover two of the slabs first taken by Government scientists to

the Institute of Ceramics and Glass for further analysis. Granulometric, mineralogical and chemical tests were carried out on them and no traces of paint were found. Of course by then, as far as the government and church officials were concerned, the case was a closed one: there were no more questions to answer. Sci‐ ence had stepped in to declare the faces fraudulent. However, to many people there are

The Faces of Belmez

By Mado Martinez

still too many unanswered questions for a line to be drawn under what Hans Bender considered to be one of the most important paranormal events of the twentieth century.

In all of this little has been said of Maria.

Throughout the intense media attention, Maria constantly refuted the claims that the faces were in any way fake. She died in February 2004 at the age of 85 years and is therefore no longer able to give her own version of events. However, if we are to look at the way Maria dealt with the faces throughout the remainder of her life; how she came to accept and learn to both live with, and

even love the faces, there is a great deal we can learn about the nature of paranormal phenome‐ non and how it can touch humanity in very spe‐ cial ways. Regardless of whether the faces were

genuine or not, they certainly touched and af‐ fected Maria.

Maria went on record to say that the faces com‐ forted her in her later years. When many things in society were changing, the faces remained a constant in her life. Though she had feared the faces when they first appeared, she believed this was simply because she failed to understand

them. In later years, Maria grew to cherish them. They gave her the reassurance she sought about the nature of life and death and she said she hoped the faces would accompany

her to the afterlife. The faces disappeared as quickly and as suddenly as they appeared back in August 1971 when Maria died. This un‐ equivocally links Maria with the faces though whether they were paranormal in origin or an example of ‘thoughtography’ or ‘teleplasty’ as Hans Bender and José Martinez Romero respec‐ tively claim remains to be answered. Though fraud can never be completely ruled out, gen‐ eral consensus points out to this being very unlikely. Paint was a very convenient explana‐ tion used by desperate and probably frightened politicians to supress popular and heightened sensationalism. In this short article I have tried to give a balance account of everything that was reported to have happened back in 1971.

The problem we have in seeking to verify writ‐ ten accounts, especially those originating in another language is huge. Whilst counter advo‐ cates of the psi hypothesis have an easier job than paranormal investigators, many non‐ sceptics make their life much easier by buying the psychic explanation up front. We need to continue to provide balanced accounts and this case above all others, stresses the need for careful and accurate documentation from day one. The unknown is often met with fear and perhaps Maria’s response to the faces is a les‐ son for us all? Perhaps The Faces of Bélmez themselves should have the last word here.

According to eye witness accounts in 1984, the year Maria died, they were responsible for providing the most intriguing of all conclusions to any story. Upon Maria’s death, the faces suddenly appeared in a house further up in the same street. To most of the inhabitants of Bélmez, this was not at all surprising: it was the house in which Maria had been born. http://adhitsbgja.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the‐ faces‐from‐belmez.html Page 14 Phenomena Magazine: June 2014 - Issue 62: www.phenomenamagazine.co.uk

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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES ‘The Marked Ones’ is the latest in the very successful Paranormal Activity franchise. It also suc‐ ceeds in tying in the very first film in the series in a very inventive manner, but you’ll have to watch to finds out how. This time the plot concerns Jesse, a recent high school graduate who buys a second hand video camera and starts filming everything around him., this includes the apartment next door that used to belong to a old woman, Anna, who was thought to be a witch and sure enough there they find signs of sinister occult rituals.

From there things start to go badly wrong for Jesse when he finds he has apparent supernatural powers that prevent him from coming to harm of any kind, almost as if he is being protected. He also finds a strange bite mark on his arm, this is ‘the mark of the demon’ There is a really nifty scene where one of Jesse’s friends, Hector, is attacked by muggers, but abruptly an invisible force hurls the muggers violently and bodily through the air.

Gradually Jesse becomes increasingly aggressive and homicidal as his powers increase corre‐ spondingly and he becomes the focus of a coven of witches who seem to have groomed him for Title: Paranormal Activity: The their own purposes. The film ends with a really fine portrayal of a kind of ‘vortex’ that sucks Jesse Marked Ones in then spits him back out again and as one would expect it all ends unpleasantly for all those Director: Christopher B. Landon concerned .

Main Cast: Andrew Jacob Jorge Diaz Gabrielle Walsh The film is a really effective and atmospheric shocker and is well worth seeking out: a fitting part Format: DVD and Blue Ray of Paranormal Activity jigsaw.

Extras: Found footage Distributor: Paramount Pictures

June 7 - Conjunction of the Moon and Mars. The Moon will pass within two degrees of the the planet Mars in the evening sky. The gibbous moon will be at magnitude -12.2 and Mars will be at magnitude 0.8. Look for both objects in the western sky just after sunset. The pair will be visible in the evening sky for about 6 hours after sunset.

June 13 - 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 04:11 UTC. This full moon was known by early Native American tribes as the Full Strawberry Moon because it signalled the time of year to gather ripening fruit. It also coincides with the peak of the strawberry harvesting season. This moon has also been known as the Full Rose Moon and the Full Honey Moon.

June 21 - June Solstice. The June solstice occurs at 10:51 UTC. The North Pole of the earth will be tilted toward the Sun, which will have reached its northernmost position in the sky and will be directly over the Tropic of Cancer at 23.44 degrees north latitude. This is the first day of summer (summer solstice) in the Northern Hemisphere and the first day of winter (winter solstice) in the Southern Hemisphere.

June 27 - New Moon. The Moon will be directly between the Earth and the Sun and will not be visible from Earth. This phase occurs at 08:08 UTC. This is the best time of the month to observe faint objects such as galaxies and star clusters because there is no moonlight to interfere.

Balaam The Demon

By Paul Dale Roberts

Friday, November 22nd 2013: Time to be there: 9.00pm – Follow‐up investigation – 2 story house. One person died in this house. First investigation – possible demonic activity. Follow‐up to see if anything is there and a stop by at the haunted Banta Inn, which is 5 miles from the home. Address to be at: Tracy, CA / Contact person: Erica / After I blessed the house and baptized Erica, the entity attacked Erica’s fiancée – he was scratched in two areas of his body – 3 long scratches – indicating disrespect for the trinity. I saw the pictures, he was scratched in areas that he cannot reach with his hand. Everyone that is a cleanser be prepared to help this family out. The entity does not attack Erica, because she has been baptized, but is now attacking her fiancée, a way to attack Erica is through her fiancée...

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Balaam The Demon

By Paul Dale Roberts

ROLL CALL: Paranormal Intelligence Operatives (Roll Call): Paul Dale Roberts – HPI Owner/Leader; Larry Baty – Technician; Amy Kneppel – Spanish Inter‐ preter – Metaphysical Cleanser; Brent George – Technician; Shari Aresta – General Manager; Jon Koyasako – Security / Lead Investigator; Wendy Maxam – Videographer – Technician – Researcher; Lizzy Silva – Psychic Inves‐ tigator – Spanish Interpreter; Randi Villanueva‐Zalas; Becky Cardenas – Span‐ ish Interpreter and Lead Investigator; Jordan Briones – Friend to Occupant; Erica Ransom – Occupant; Laurie Campbell – Friend to Occupant; Frank Salto – Friend to Occupant; Mayra Salto‐LaDany – Psychic – Friend to Occupant; Blake – fiancée to Occupant.

HOW WE GOT HERE: Larry drove Shari. Brent drove Jon K and Becky. I picked up Randi in Greenhaven, then snatched up Amy & Wendy from my house, made a pitstop in Stockton to pick up Lizzy. Finally we are on our way to Tracy.

AREAS TO COVER: We have two areas to cover, the second floor and bed‐ rooms and the other area is the two living rooms, kitchen and backyard. We have two teams. Brent George has Team Apollo with team members Amy, Lizzy, Laurie, Jordan and Erica. Becky Cardenas has Team Prometheus with team members Randi, Jon K, Mayra, Frank. Floaters are Larry Baty ma man‐ ning monitors; Shari Aresta and Wendy. Lizzy may break away from her team, if she is feeling something.

AN ODDITY OCCURS: During the initial briefing, Mayra (Erica’s psychic friend) starts channeling. There is verbal mayhem as an Indian spirit possesses the body of Mayra and starts speaking through her. Mayra starts speaking the Maidu Indian language. Mayra tells us that Native American Indians are up‐ set that these new homes are built on sacred Indian burial grounds. Special Note: We are not able to determine if Mayra was actually possessed. Mayra tells us that she feels to properly clear the spirits from this property, tobacco ties must be used for cleansing. SPECIAL NOTE: While Mayra explains that the Indians are upset, later we are told by Mayra that the Indian spirits are guardians of this family and home that the Indian spirits are here to protect the family from Balaam.

FIRST INVESTIGATIVE EVIDENCE BRIEFING: Randi captures a blue light streak in the backyard. Brent said that the air changed, it got extremely cold. Lizzy felt a male presence at some point of time. In the father’s bedroom, they captured a lot of orb activity. Larry Baty, who is monitoring the bedrooms, considers the orb activity as dust. There were a few unusual designer orbs in some of the bedrooms, but we were unable to detect intelligent movement.

Lizzy Silva detected 2 entities at some point of time in the bedroom and when she detected the 2 entities, Brent snapped a photo and captured two orbs side‐by‐side, it coincided with what Lizzy said. Jon K was getting K2 hits on the side of the house. Becky detected on her recorder a high pitch squeal, it was later debunked as a top window closing. Amy Kneppel with Becky Cardenas and Lizzy Silva’s assistance will conduct a metaphysical cleansing of the home tonight, if the entities are Native Americans they will have more respect for the cleansing if it came from Amy, Becky and Lizzy, whose heri‐ tage comes from Mexican Indian and all three are full‐blooded. Since my Catholic house blessing was unsuccessful, there is no point of me conducting another Catholic house blessing.

ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE: Mayra is possessed again. You must watch the videos. Disclaimer: The video footage is horrific imagery; the graphic scene may be disturbing to some viewers. Thoughtful discretion is advised. Wendy Maxam and Shari Aresta capture everything via video footage. Mayra is re‐ strained by her husband. I loan the holy water and wooden cross to Mayra’s friend and she places holy water all over her face. She also places the cross on her head and asks for the demon to be repelled from her body. During the possession, there is kicking, there is fighting, she attacks Erica. Mayra when she comes out of the possession says that when Erica was playing with the Ouija Board, someone dealt with human blood, a blood ritual. Mayra identi‐ fies the demon in the house as being Balaam.

Balaam tells Mayra he is not leaving the house and again tells Erica that she was involved with a blood ritual, which in turn brought him to this home.

Erica was reluctant to talk about it, but admits that she did play with a Ouija Board, wrote the words ‘F all of this’, pricked her finger, bled on the paper and then burned the paper. Mayra, a Santeria High Priestess, was possessed twice during this investigation. The possession was quite intense and her husband and friend had to restrain her, she at one point of time, attacked Erica and the intensity of the battle got so powerful, the investigators had to move away from Mayra for their own safety. Mayra’s friend received 3 huge scratches on her chest. This dramatic scene is horrifying to watch, you actu‐ ally felt like you walked into a horror movie. When you watch the videos, be prepared to be shocked, not for the weak hearted. You have been warned.

WHO IS BALAAM? According to demonology, Balaam (also Balan) is a great and powerful king (to some authors a duke or a prince) of Hell who com‐ mands over forty legions of demons. He gives perfect answers on things past, present, and to come, and can also make men invisible and witty. Balaam is depicted as being three‐headed. One head is the head of a bull, the second of a man, and the third of a ram. He has flaming eyes and the tail of a ser‐ pent. He carries a hawk on his fist and rides a strong bear. At other times he is represented as a naked man riding a bear. His name seems to have been taken from Balaam, the Biblical magician.

CONCLUSION: Erica validates what Mayra says is true. All I can do is present the video footage, tell you the story via this article and let you the audience decide what actually happened. Special Note: Brent George captured an odd mist on the side of the house, during the time Mayra was possessed the 2nd time around. I conducted a hedge‐of‐protection prayer afterwards for all those who were present during this investigation. Due to the screams, yell‐ ing, profanity that occurred during the 2nd possession, no EVP’s were cap‐ tured. Some HPI investigators were pushed and hit during the filming of this possession. Mayra’s strength seemed to increase ten‐fold.

THE OPTION: If my Catholic house blessing did not work. If my full submer‐ sion baptism did not work on Erica, then I gave her this option. Erica needs to consult a Baptist Church and talk to the pastor about what occurred at her home. The Baptist Church is known to bring their whole congregation into the haunted home and sing gospel songs and recite prayers. The congrega‐ tion will bring so much positive energy into the home, that it will instantly dispel any negative forces in the home. It’s like a rap artist going to a Heavy Metal concert. The music is so alien to the rapper, he has to leave. Same scenario (almost). There is so much positive energy that will resonate through the home, which the negative forces will have to leave...

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HAUNTED HOSTELRIES OF SHROPSHIRE

Title: Haunted Hostelries of Shropshire Author: Andrew Homer Publisher: Amberley Publishing ISBN: 978‐1‐4456‐0201‐1

Another selection of haunted pubs and associated drinking houses, this time in Shropshire, and why not? Andrew Homer, a member of ASSAP, (Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena), gives the reader an unflinching account of spooky tales of polter‐ geists, highwaymen, serving wenches and other types of ghosts whose presence is still felt in the various premises they frequented in life.

The book is well presented and generously illustrated with photographs of the buildings and in some cases with artists’ renderings of the spirits said to haunt them. The contents are laid out alphabetically starting with the strangely named ‘The Horns of Bonningal’e in Albrighton, to ‘The Wheel Inn’ in Worfield, with a fair scattering of Kings Heads, White Lions, White Horses, White Harts and Bulls Inns etc in the towns in between.

Each of the pubs and hotels mentioned has its own distinctive ghostly tale to tell, some more effectively than others, although the author does seem to have made an effort to check the veracity of each tale and even recommends which room to stay in should the reader wish to sample some of the ghostly encounters on offer.

It would be unfair to select one particular pub or hotel over another, because each has its own particular charm and of course ghost. So, if you plan on visiting Shropshire then you could do a lot worse that having a look at this book before setting out, who knows, it could even help you find that ever elusive ghostly encounter.

NO MORE SECRETS NO MORE LIES This is the third and last of a trilogy of books channelled by Patricia Cori in her role as scribe to the ‘Speakers of the Sirian High Council’ and once again purports to be a work of great import to the human race and the planet we live on. Since the book contains information channelled directly to the author from the Sirian High Council (who live in the sixth dimension), we have to take it on trust that it is a factual work and not a work of fiction.

The information is a heady (if worrying) conspiracy theory based mix of dark forces concealed in a notional hidden government, designed to suppress the potential of the human race and leavened with a generous dash of New Age spirituality and in addition like the two preceding books it contains much common sense and pragmatism to commend it.

Since this book is the culmination of what has been discussed in the previous offerings of the trilogy, the author has been further assisted by beings called ‘The Overlighted Ones’ originating in the realms of the eighth dimension. However, on a more accessible level is the role played by the ‘third eye’ of the pineal gland and the vast amount of dormant DNA contained in the human body is also mentioned, plus how to activate them to achieve your full potential and bring about a much needed sea‐change in the human condition

It is not for this reviewer to decide on the authenticity or otherwise of what the book contains, that is for the reader, but much of the book must of necessity be taken at face value because other than where it mentions specific functions of human physiology, none of it is either checkable or verifiable. Overall, as with the previous two works, the book is well written and entertaining, but has to be approached with a very open mind.

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Title: No More Secrets, No More Lies: A Handbook to Starseed Awakening Author: Patricia Cori Publisher: North Atlantic Books ISBN: 978‐1‐55643‐738‐0 Price: $16.95

BOOK REVIEWS Phenomena Magazine regularly receive books from publishers and authors, and provide a review of the material, promote and advertise them within the magazine, Facebook pages and of course on our websites. If you would like to have your book reviewed and advertised, simply contact Phenomena Magazine via our website or send your book direct to Phenomena Magazine Head Office.

LOST SECRETS OF THE GODS Are there 10,000‐year‐old secret societies that still exist today? Was there a race of giants that once inhabited the Americas? Did ancient Egypt and ancient China have heretofore undiscov‐ ered ties?

Lost Secrets of the Gods delves into these ancient mysteries and many more in articles by some of the world's most intrepid and knowledgeable researchers. The old paradigms of his‐ tory are being radically transformed as we discover more evidence of little‐known cultures and what they achieved.

Many ancient cultures spoke and wrote of visitors that gave them knowledge and helped shape their societies. Who were they, and where did they come from?

We now know that many ancient cultures had advanced knowledge of science, agriculture, and astronomy, only some of which has been rediscovered in the last 100 years.

Were The Iliad and The Odyssey really about an epic struggle in pre‐Celtic Europe? What hap‐ pened to the Persian army that completely disappeared from Egypt 2,500 years ago? Did the ancients know how to create psychic guard dogs to protect sacred sites?

There is much more to history than what has officially been recorded.

Lost Secrets of the Gods reveals startling truths and asks fascinating questions traditional his‐ torians have long ignored.

Title: Lost Secrets of the Gods Authors: Michael Pye & Kirsten Dalley Publisher: New Page Books ISBN: 13: 978‐1601633248 Price: $11.79

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FATAL KIND Everyone has heard of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But what about close encounters of the fatal kind? The field of UFOs is rife with unsettling examples of suspicious deaths. Accounts of accidents that might not have been accidents after all,abound. Researchers and witnesses have vanished, never to be seen again. Conveniently timed heart attacks are reported. Out‐of‐ the‐blue suicides that, upon investigation, bear the distinct hallmarks of murder, are all too common. And grisly deaths at the hands of both extraterrestrials and government agents have occurred. Highlights of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FATAL KIND include: *The strange saga of the incredible melting man. *The UFO‐related death of the first U.S. Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal. *The mysterious disappearances of military pilots and their connection to UFOs. *The connections between national security and the sudden deaths of UFO investigators.

Title: Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind Author: Nick Redfern Publisher: New Page Books ISBN‐13: 978‐1‐60163‐311‐8 Price: $15.99

Getting too close to the cosmic truth about alien abductions, Roswell and what the govern‐ ment really knows about UFOs can clearly be a deadly business. The government's latest ad‐ mission of the existence of Area 51 is barely the tip of a very big iceberg.

First things first… This 223 page book is packed with fatal pilot encounters with UFOs. I have often wondered how long it would be until someone puts all these incidents together in one great book, and its finally here. An excellent well written book of many such accounts. A great research archive in one place. Definitely well worth added to your collection. Nick has written yet another fascinating book. I simply could not put it down.

(Steve Mera: PM Managing Editor).

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Køge Huskors: An Elaborate Danish Poltergeist Case from the 17th Century

By Thomas Brisson Jørgensen

Køge is a modest-sized town south of Copenhagen which no longer plays any significant role in Danish national culture or politics. In the town centre, however, a local merchants house once stood. This house was home to a number of very intense poltergeist and “high strangeness” incidents, running from the year 1608 to 1615. Today there is even an official plaque commemorating the phenomenon that came to be popularly known as “Køge Huskors”.

Huskors is a convoluted term in this context. It translates directly to “house cross”, but was a word often used at the time to describe a plague or test (from God). In this case moreover, it is also refers specifically to the entity that was believed to be the source of all the mischief (basically The Devil). To confuse matters even more, the Wikipedia entry and a few other sources state that Køge Huskors was ALSO the name of the witch-trials that followed in the wake of it all. There seems to be no real consensus on the correct use of Køge Huskors then, but in this article I will focus almost explicitly on the Poltergeist-type manifestations that occurred during the period. Therefore, I use the term “Huskors” loosely to refer to the source of these (whatever “It” actually was).

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Køge Huskors: An Elaborate Danish Poltergeist Case from the 17th Century

By Thomas Brisson Jørgensen

The story of Køge Huskors was written down years after the disturbances at the house had stopped, and later these writings found their way to one Johan Brunsmand, who was a rector at a boarding school. He then published them as a book under the title “Et forfærdeligt Huus‐kaars” (forfærdeligt meaning “terrible”) which became so popular for the next couple of centuries that it went through several reprints – the latest in 1870, published by none other than Denmark’s all‐time most famous socialist leader, Louis Pio. It is also in‐ teresting to note that even The Vatican created a report about Køge Huskors, which supposedly still exists somewhere in their archives. Very little about the case appears to have made it into English though (at least not onto the Inter‐ net), which is why I have chosen to make an attempt of it here. The article is inspired largely by Chr. Jacobsens article “Køge Huskors” which appeared in the Danish magazine Det Ukendte, issue 3 (1981), but other sources – includ‐ ing Johan Brunsmands original book – have been used as well.

followed (on foot) by the rest of the family. Here he was found dangling 1 meter above the ground, feet down and arms stretched upwards and his chin moving up and down, as if he was about to lose it. Everybody tried their hard‐ est to get him down, but nothing worked. Finally they resorted to prayer, which turned out to have an effect as the boy eventually fell to the ground again. Following this was a loud rumble which sounded like a deep voice, although no one could make sense of what was said. At the same time came a glowing fire that shot from one end of the courtyard to the other.

A shapeshifting spirit?

Most of these events point to “typical” poltergeist stuff, but just as often the Huskors was able to take on a number of different shapes. It seemed to have had a particular fondness for animal forms, and indeed appeared as one the first time it was seen: one night, not long after the initial incident with the bed ‐clucking, Anne Pedersdatter went out into the courtyard where she saw a horrible‐looking toad with long, narrow legs, almost like a hen's, walking to‐ wards her through the gates. On later occasions the Huskors appeared as a goose, a raven, a dog, a rat, a pig and even a monkey. One night there was a loud scream from the attic, which made everyone gather around to see what had happened. Anne and Hans' youngest daughter came crying down the stairs, relaying that a terrible creature had grabbed her shirt and told her it was going to take her. She described it as a man‐like figure with eyes like dishes and feet and claws like those of a hen.

In the above case, the Huskors showed itself with humanoid traits. But there were other times where it appeared to be fully human. It would even go as far as to imitate existing persons. One night, after arriving home from a choir session, Anne found the house full of people.

Above: Plaque commemorating the events where the house once stood: “Here once roamed the Huskors of Køge”

Polter(or poultry?)geist activity.

The primary targets of the Køge Huskors were merchant Hans Bartskjær, his wife Anne Pedersdatter (the one who eventually wrote down the experi‐ ences) and their children. But also other family members residing in the house, as well as servants and maids, friends, casual visitors and even animals fell victim in one way or the other over the years. It all appears to have started with a particular incident, one night Anne Pedersdatter and Hans Bartskjær were lying in bed. All of a sudden they heard from underneath their pillow, a sound like the clucking of a hen. A frantic search through the bed‐ ding sheets, and eventually the bed itself, produced no such animal ‐ or in‐ deed anything else they could attribute the sound to. After this very modest introduction, the Huskors quickly stepped up its activities.

By looking at the Køge Huskors as a whole it becomes clear that ,depending on the situation, “It” was sometimes visible and other times invisible. At times when the Huskors remained invisible during its deeds, it would move people and animals around, without anyone being able to anticipate or determine where It came from. Often items would also go missing and later reappear elsewhere in the house. Once, the family’s small dog was grabbed and thrown up into the ceiling and pulled down again. When it tried to hide, it was pulled out again by the head and abused once more. The next day the dog was com‐ pletely out of control, biting out at everyone who came near it. It was put down shortly thereafter.

Sometimes people would get the same treatment as the animals. Once when Anne Pedersdatter was tending to her oldest son who had fallen ill, his bed was lifted 1 meter into the air, dropped again and continued to bounce up and down. Anne went to get her husband, but when they came back to their sons room they discovered that he had been taken out of bed and was stand‐ ing on his head with his arms stretched out. Only after an intense struggle did they manage to get him back into bed. Their 12 year old foster son Jacob, experienced something similar one day while the family was eating. Suddenly he was pulled away from the table and out into the courtyard, quickly

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Køge Huskors: An Elaborate Danish Poltergeist Case from the 17th Century

By Thomas Brisson Jørgensen

They were gathered there because something terrible had happened to her mother while she was away. One side of her mouth had frozen in a frighten‐ ing distortion and her legs had started to bounce up and down so violently, that no one were able to keep her on the ground. The mother then accused Anne of having given her a beating earlier that day. Apparently, in her ab‐ sence, the Huskors had taken the form of Anne and attacked the mother.

The Huskors was clearly not bound to the physical space of the house either.

One time, Anne Pedersdatter had to leave town to pursue an errand, and on the way back the horse wagon became so heavy, for no apparent reason, that she didn’t reach in town until long after midnight ‐ unreasonably late for what was normally a routine trip. As soon as she arrived at the house, the clock struck 1. The trees in the garden then started to creak and some huge object, like a tower, started to rise into the air. From it came a terrible voice, but its words were undecipherable. Terrified and exhausted, Anne managed to fi‐ nally get inside and climb into bed.

Various strange ailments.

Hans, Anne and many of the other residents all experienced various physical complications following their encounters with the Huskors ‐ often strange, unknown diseases and symptoms. One of the servants was bedridden for ½ year and the oldest daughter had one experience which left her so sick that she couldn’t hold any food down for three days. The Huskors seemed to have it in particularly bad for the foster son Jacob. Sometimes he was found lying as if he was crucified, with his eyes whited out. At one time he didn’t sleep for a whole month, because he was so constantly haunted and attacked. This of course took very hard on him and drained him of all his energy. Then one day he stood up and everything was fine. He was never personally troubled by the Huskors after that. The same could not be said for Hans Bartskjær. Shortly after Jacob had become well again, Bartskjær started to act strange around the rest of the family. When it had gone on for some weeks, he finally told them that every day, for several hours, something invisible hung onto him heavily, like a sack of corn. Sometimes it felt like a hard egg jabbing into one side of his body, and often he fainted due to the pain.

But one day also he was well again, and never experienced any troubles after‐ wards. But as soon as this was over, the oldest son started to complain about severe stomach pains. Sometimes a sound like a pig chewing came out of him.

He too was locked into several distorted positions which no one, no matter how many assisted in it, could wrestle him out of. Sometimes he was clenched together so tightly that you could place him up against the wall like a piece of furniture, He also bled from the mouth while making several other animal sounds. After a while, also he became well, and it seemed as if the tests of the Køge Huskors were now over. But 2 years before it all ended, Hans Bartskjær had died, although this wasn’t attributed to anything super‐ natural. Therefore, eventually, the only life that the Huskors was credited with taking, was the dogs'.

Investigation, confirmation and blame.

When Johan Brunsmand, who published the story many years later based on Anne Pedersdatters notes, first got interested in the case, he started search‐ ing for independent confirmation of the fantastic stories. This was in 1674, 60 years after the Huskors' reign ended. Brunsmand contacted the city mayor and council of Køge, who maintained that, even though they could not say what had caused it, the stories were in their opinions true and had been passed down to them from their predecessors as facts. Brunsmand was not quite satisfied with that answer, so he looked into all the sources available to him that could unequivocally confirm the events. He managed to do this through the city hall’s land registers from the period. These records proved that something out of the ordinary had indeed happened at the merchants house. As such, the case of Køge Huskors is not easily dismissed as a concoc‐ tion. But the source of it all has been discussed by professionals on several later occasions. Anne Pedersdatter herself had no doubts: She thought it was the devil himself, something she felt was proven to her on many occasions.

Once, a priest was even called to exorcise the Huskors, but it ended in a battle of words which the priest eventually lost.

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How the Huskors had gotten into the house was discussed vehemently. For a while the foster son Jacob was accused, but this was dropped again. Once the Huskors indicated to Hans Bartskjær that some woman in town had sent the devil after them on purpose, and that only when the culprit was found and put to justice would things go back to normal again. In the end it was not too hard to place the blame back then, since it was widely believed that there were witches around Køge. So naturally the culprit or culprits had to be found amongst these. By the end of 1615, at least 10 women had been burnt at the stake for involvement in the huskors affair.

The location is no stranger to the paranormal. Witchcraft and Devil worship was dealt with by burning, depicted in this magazine feature above.

Comments.

If this whole story brings thoughts into the readers heads of a certain movie from 1973, that included a backwards walking little girl who said some very nasty things about her mother, well, you aren't the only one. In that sense, Køge Huskors seems to be not only a classic poltergeist case, but also one of (apparent) demonic possession. Movies like The Exorcist were of course built directly on real life accounts of such incidents, and in many of these there have appeared a whole series of “outlier” effects that aren't easily cassifiable.

A notable example in the case of Køge Huskors is the weird animal angle, which on the one hand makes it all seem somewhat silly and childish. On the other hand it is consistent with other, similar cases from the period (not just from Denmark). At the same time there is also an obvious connection to the idea of witches' familiars, that were said to exist in all sorts of animal forms.

This no doubt helped to further weigh the evidence towards the involvement of witchcraft in the case of Køge Huskors.

Sources:

Brunsmand, Johan: “Et forfærdeligt Huus‐kaars”, 19? Edition Jacobsen, Chr. “Køge Huskors” in “Det Ukendte” issue no. 3, 1981 (attached).

Jensen, Jørgen Steen: “Det Berygtede Hus” in Skalk issue no. 5 (1979).

Thomas, Lars: Det Mystiske Danmark.

Wittendorf, Bo‐Bomuld: Guide til det okkulte Danmark ‐ København, Sjælland, Lolland‐Falster, Møn og Bornholm (2006).

Missing! Malaysia Flight 370 News Items

The Huffington Post UK: May 7th 2014.

MH370: Nearly One in Ten Americans Believe Aliens Involved In Malaysian Airlines Flight Disappearance.

Nearly one in 10 Americans believes that aliens were involved in the disap‐ pearance of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 two months ago, according to a new poll. The plane vanished with 239 people aboard, prompting a variety of outlandish theories about what could have happened to it. Now, a poll has shown 9% of Americans think that aliens or "beings from another dimension" are behind the missing airliner, CNN has reported. On a saner note, the poll also shows 42% of Americans believe the plane could have been hijacked and 69% believe the search should continue. The plane vanished on March 8 and has been subject to an intense, multinational search by air and sea. More than half ‐ 51% ‐ of Americans told pollsters they believed the plane had gone down in the Indian Ocean, where the search has focused. But 46% believe it is some‐ where else, while 79% believe no one on the plane has survived. If the plane did go down in the ocean, its wreckage could be at a depth of nearly three miles below the surface. Last week, Malaysian Airlines announced it would close the centres it was running to house relatives of those who disappeared and provide them with daily updates on the search's progress. The airline said the search was entered "a new phase" and it was best for relatives to be at home to receive updates.

The Mail Online: June 14th 2014 'MH370 was no accident': Shocking new claim from commercial pilot who spent months investigating doomed flight for new book.

The disappearance of MH370 has been described as ‘deliberate’ and ‘calculated’ in the latest book to be published on the tragedy. New Zealand authors Ewan Wilson, a commercial pilot and Hamilton City Councillor, and Waikato Times journalist Geoff Taylor, said they used a process of elimination to lead readers to the revelation that the tragedy was no accident. Wilson told stuff.co.nz that the conclusion of Good Night Malaysian 370: The truth behind the loss of Flight 370 will shock the travelling public. ‘For the first time we present a detailed analysis of the flight, the incredible route it took, and who we believe was in charge of the aircraft as it plunged into the Indian Ocean,’ Wilson said. The book begins at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on March 8 and weaves in the lives of the 239 passengers and crew on board what was meant to be a short flight to Beijing. Wilson, a former CEO of two airlines and with qualifications in transport safety investigations, said the men investigated each piece of evidence and eliminated all the possible scenarios until the reader is left with 'one shocking and unbelievable conclusion'. ‘The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 captured the world's attention and shocked everyone ‐ [the out‐ come] is gut‐wrenching,’ he said. The authors travelled to Malaysia to interview authorities and family members of MH370's pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah. Taylor said authorities were not willing to admit the truth. ‘For the sake of the relatives of those on the flight the truth needs to be out there,’ he said. ‘We visited the departure lounge where families sat full of excitement and anticipation waiting for their boarding call. Surely they deserve better than a cover up? ' During a late night visit to the departure lounge Taylor recalled the moment his conclusion swept over him. ‘What happened to MH370 was no accident,’ he said. ‘It was deliberate and it was calculated and it should never have been allowed to happen.’ Wilson said the March 8 mystery could determine which air‐ lines passengers choose in the future. The authors also recommend immediate changes to the management of flight crews and the introduction of tamper‐ proof technical systems to ensure the aircraft can be tracked at all times. Meanwhile, Australia has chosen a state‐of‐the‐art Dutch vessel to help map the Indian Ocean floor as the search for missing flight MH370 heads deeper under water. Netherlands‐based Fugro Survey will assist a Chinese military vessel in surveying the ocean bed as part of the next stage of the quest for the Malaysia Airlines plane which vanished three months ago. The MV Fugro Equator, which is equipped with a deep water multi‐beam echo sounder system, will work with Chinese PLA‐Navy ship Zhu Kezhen to complete the mapping ahead of the underwater search by an as‐yet undetermined contractor. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is now planning to comb a 60,000 square‐kilometre (24,000 square‐mile) search zone based on the plane's last satellite communication. The Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) stated that the survey would provide crucial information to help plan the deep water search for MH370 which is scheduled to begin in August. ‘The bathymetric (ocean floor) survey will provide a map of the underwater search zone, charting the contours, depths and composition of the seafloor in water depths up to 6,000 metres,’ the JACC said. Fugro said in a statement that it expected its vessel to start mapping in mid‐June which was expected to take about three months. The Malaysian government has revealed it has spent just a fraction of what Australia has paid in the search for missing flight MH370, as officials from both countries prepare to meet to dis‐ cuss the next phase of the mission. But Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey said Australia will pay its fair share in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.

'It is understood that the plane went down in waters that are our responsibility, and there is a cost to having responsibility and we don't shirk that,' he told reporters on Tuesday morning. 'We accept responsibility and will pay for it. We're not a country that begs others for money to do our job.' The Australian gov‐ ernment has set aside almost $90 million for the search ‐ expected to be the most expensive in aviation history ‐ but it's possible that figure could increase.

More than three months have passed since the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard ‐ including six Australians. The Boeing 777 is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, but an extensive search has turned up no sign of wreckage.

The Australia Transport Safety Board last week issued a tender to continue the deep‐water search for the ill‐fated flight.

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Hunters claim to have captured Bigfoot's Are aliens invading Solihull? Mother films Australian cousin Downunder

By Taylor Auerbach

floating red orbs in the sky for 40 minutes – although she admits 'I thought I'd had too many rum and cokes'

By Richard Spillett.

A mother has told of her shock after she spotted mysterious lights in the sky above her home. Market trader Michele Bardsley, 35, filmed strange red and white orbs floating over her street in Solihull, West Midlands. The video she made shows a formation of three or four lights, rising and falling together in the night sky.

Two friends who claim to have captured vision of an Australian Bigfoot say they 'convinced' the elusive creature to appear on film by offering him a feast of apples. The grainy early‐morning video, shot in South Queensland on March 29, has sent an online com‐ munity of Bigfoot hunters into a spin after the friends who filmed it claimed the clip is evidence of the mysterious Yowie ‐ a mythical creature rumoured to roam the Aussie bush. Jason Heal and Jason Dunn, self‐described 'Yowie searchers', posted the vision to their YouTube account on April 5 and dubbed the strange creature with glowing eyes 'The Morning Visitor'.

The mother‐of‐three says she filmed the phenomenon for at least 40 minutes ‐ only breaking off for to put on her slippers when her feet got cold. She said: 'I was painting upstairs then went to the back door for a cig. I looked up and there were these shapes, like red orbs, in the sky. 'They didn't look like stars or planes or helicopters, they were just hanging there. I thought I'd had a few too many rum and cokes.

'I got my phone and zoomed in on them. I was there for about 20 minutes, my feet were freezing but I couldn't come away.

'Eventually I had to come back inside for my slippers and fags, then I went back out and filmed another 20 minutes.

'We'd been throwing him a few extra apples since he was willing to appear on camera,' Jason Heal told MailOnline. 'I'm somebody who believes in appreciation in life and if he's showing himself, we appreciate the fact. 'We even left a few apples without the cam‐ era and said "you can have the apples but we don't get the prize."'

He said the Yowie first appeared the Thursday afternoon before their early morning video by waving its 'black hairy arm' in front of the lens 'to see if it's going to set the camera off or not'. Mr. Heal said he and his partner have spent thousands of dollars hunting Yowies in the Australian bush and described the furry humanoids as 'very intelligent creatures'. Their video has so far been watched more than 9,000 times. It is just the latest in a string of clips that have garnered the pair more than 1 million views on YouTube and inspired an article on the Cryptozoology News website. 'Even though the creature on the video certainly resembles a sloth, these animals are not native to any region of Australia and they are illegal to have as pets,' the article reads. 'The possibility of the video showing a big unidentified ape remains open.' But readers are not so sure with many voicing their skepticism over the infra‐ red vision, filmed at 3:27am. 'That’s a really neat‐o mask that guy is wearing!' said Ira Shlamazel.

'Maybe if you moved the camera a little further away it wouldn’t be so obvious.' User The Flinx joked: '1990 called, they want their hoax back'. Michael Bachman, editor of Cryptozoology News, told MailOnline: 'At this point we have no idea whether the video is real or a hoax, but it has certainly captivated some viewers.' The mixed opinion has angered the two Jason’s who said they have invested time and money in their hunt for evidence of Australia's answer to the Sasquatch. 'Everyone's going crazy, saying it's a hoax, like we're putting lamps on our head,' said Mr. Heal. 'You give them something real and they all turn around and say it's fake...we know they exist, we've done enough research.' The duo do have a number of fans online. Paul Davies wrote: 'Excellent capture you guys fair play, all that time out in the bush has cer‐ tainly paid off.' Yowies have long been part of Australian folklore, with rumoured sightings dating back to the 18th century. Internet sleuths often swap tales of encounters with the strange ape‐like creatures who are said to stroll around the outback.

'I must have looked mad out there for so long just filming the sky but it was so strange I did not want to go inside.' After spending nearly an hour in the garden she finally ended her video and went back inside to her family. She added: 'I want people to see it because I want to know what it was. We put it on the big TV screen and you can see all kinds of things happening, lights shooting off, appearing and disappearing.

'People must think I'm mad but I know what I saw. I am not saying it is aliens, but they are definitely UFOs and I don't know what they were.' Ms Bardsley's sighting earlier this year is just the latest in a series of apparent close encounters in the area. In 2012 an unnamed police officer claimed he witnessed a UFO speeding across the sky near Birmingham airport while off‐duty. And in 2010, two fighter jets were filmed whizzing over the M5 in the West Midlands, apparently in pursuit of a UFO.

NASA: Understanding alien messages may be just like solving the Rosetta Stone A new e‐book from NASA discusses whether it might be simpler than expected to communicate with aliens, should they ever make contact. According to Douglas Vakoch, director of interstellar message composition at the SETI insti‐ tute and editor of a book called Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communications compared the struggle to communicate to the breakthroughs in understanding ancient languages. 'For a couple thousand years, we had no idea what the hieroglyphs said. We had this idea of them as this abstract, exotic language, this super language that had some higher meaning, 'Ultimately, that's not what they are,' he said. 'They are like other languages, and we just had to free ourselves of an assumption that held everyone captive. We had to see them in a new light and assume they were just like every language.'

Assuming aliens attempt to communicate via radio signal or some kind of electronic pulse, that means they would have a similar understanding of math and science. That would provide a common ground to crack their code. However, unlike the Rosetta Stone, Vakoch agreed that 'we aren't going to get some‐ thing that is written in English and Klingo' to make the translation easier, there are other avenues we can use. 'We can think, do we have an analog to the Rosetta Stone?' he asked. 'You can look at things like math and science. If you can build a radio telescope, then you must know some basic math, and you can look at those as potential Rosetta stones.' Unlike most of the astrophysicists contributing to NASA's book.

Vakoch is a social scientist. 'Even my background is in psychology, where we're attuned to understanding Check the video out at: people who think like us,' he said. 'Well, anthropologists and archaeologists are used to making contact http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article‐2599430/Two‐ and connections with completely foreign things. They have this mindset of encountering the 'radically Australian‐mates‐claim‐capture‐Yowie‐video‐luring‐fruit.html other,' so most of them [were] very receptive to contributing to this book.'

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He also conceded that the wait for such contact 'requires tremendous patience.'

The ghost of Alcatraz: Tourists spooked by photograph of young woman Is this Bigfoot? Watch hiker's footage of a 'Sasquatch' climbing up a sheer slope in the waiting in the notorious prison’s visitation block Canadian mountains

By Corey Charlton

By James Gordon

A photograph of a ghost‐like figure appearing at the window of an Alcatraz prison block has baffled the couple who took it. The spooky picture was taken by Sheila Sillery‐Walsh at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, off the coast of San Francisco, California. The former prison site, long considered to be one of the most haunted places in the US, was once home to hundreds of notorious murderers, bank robbers, and gang‐ sters such as Al Capone. In the spooky image, the shadowy girl can be seen staring directly through the window at the camera from inside the inmates' visitation waiting room.

Teaching assistant Sheila Sillery‐Walsh from Birming‐ ham took the photo on her iPhone 5c when she visited the former prison in April while on holiday in San Fran‐ cisco with her partner, Paul Rice. The 48‐year‐old said: 'Alcatraz Penitentiary is a must‐see for any tourist. How‐ ever as soon as we entered the prison, everything felt very eerie. I didn't feel comfortable there. 'Whilst doing an audio‐tour of the place, I casually stopped to take a snap of the empty visitation block window on my iPhone. 'When I glanced at the photo on my mobile, I saw this dark female figure in the picture. I looked at the window again and there was no‐one in the room.

A Canadian hiker has released a video of what he thinks could be Sasquatch in the mountains near Squamish, British Columbia. The video was shot by Myles Lamont two years ago while he was hiking in the Tantalus Range, north of Vancouver. Now that it has been posted on YouTube, more than 260,000 people have viewed the footage. Mr Lamont claims he only uploaded the video for the benefit of a couple of friends. 'We had no intention for it to gather the interest it has. We are not claiming this to be anything other than a strange encounter.' The video shows a small black dot of a figure reportedly moving up a mountain.

'I knew straight away that the woman in the photo was a ghost and showed the snap to Paul. 'From that point onwards, I wasn't interested in the Alcatraz tour anymore. I just kept looking at the picture over and over again!' Mr Rice has never believed in ghosts but admits that the strange snapshot has shaken his confi‐ dence. The 50‐year‐old explained: 'When I first saw the photo, I tried to rationalize the female figure away by saying it was just Sheila's reflection. 'But with closer inspection, it's obvious that this is not the case at all.

The woman's hair and clothing is from a different era ‐ it looks like she's from the 1930s or 40s. 'I have no logical explanation for the girl in the picture ‐ I'm baffled by her! It's funny because she's staring right at the camera, with a knowing look. 'I was really skeptical about ghosts before but I'm a bit more of a believer now. I do think that the woman in the photo is a ghost.' The couple have tried to find out the identity of the ghostly woman in the photo by contacting staff at the Alcatraz site, but none of the old‐timers could recognize the woman in the picture. 'I am so curious to know who she could be though ‐ perhaps she was a female visi‐ tor of a prisoner who kept returning back.

'Pretty sure this is Sasquatch down there,' said Mr Lamont on the video recording. 'I can't see it very well. It's this little black dot walking in the middle of the snow in the middle of nowhere.' Mr. Lamont says he was able to view the subject far better than what the video portrays as it was just a simple point and shoot camera.

'The contrast was excellent due to the snow behind the subject,' he says. The video is intriguing because the shape does appear to be rapidly moving up the mountain. 'If that's human why would you walk up that ridge or that snow line?' Mr. Lamont asks. 'Why would he not just go straight down?'

'Good thing we brought beers,' he jokes. 'Maybe we can lure him over here. I don't know how high we are, but we're probably close to 7,000 feet and this guy's just scampering up snow lines like it's no big deal.' He states in his posting that 'the subject was clearly bipedal and was without snowshoes or a backpack and wearing all one colored clothing'. 'Movement over this kind of terrain in soft snow without snowshoes would have been very difficult and the distance travelled over the given time period would have been very fast for a human without proper snow travel gear.'

Some other interesting factors are noticed about the unusual recording. 'There was a very steep drop off below where the video was shot, easily a 300m sheer face. We were not equipped with climbing gear and a descent around would have been impos‐ sible before nightfall,' Mr. Lamont says.

He does not believe that the footage is that of a bear or any other wild animal. 'Perhaps the most reasonable explanation for this video is a very ill prepared hiker, hiking up a difficult section of snowline as opposed to a much easier route, one who is very physically fit and able to cover ground in unusually quick fashion and must have had very large feet as we were breaking through snow crust in just our boots.' Although some may question the authenticity of Mr. Lamonts' video, over the past five years, the Sasquatch Genome Project has spent $500,000 on collecting data and evidence and describe it as a 'serious study.' The group says they'll continue to collect evidence and video, which will be used in a documentary at a later date.

I would love to know why she's shown herself in my photo. 'Weirdly when we were near that cell, a woman came on the audio tour who used to visit a prisoner. It makes you wonder.' Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was a maximum high‐security federal prison, which operated from 1934 to 1963. Although officials for Alcatraz publicly dismiss reports of ghosts at the site, several former guards and park rangers have re‐ vealed their paranormal experiences at the prison.

Check out the video at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article‐2620822/Is‐Sasquatch ‐caught‐camera‐Canadian‐mountains.html

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Crop Circles Mysteries

By Nancy Talbot

Nancy Talbot delves into further Crop Circle formations. The 9th Crop Circle of 2014.

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Crop Circles Mysteries

By Nancy Talbot

Date: June 13 (just after midnight June 12‐13) Location: Oud‐Gastel, Holland Crop: Wheat Found By: Robbert v/d Broeke ( http://www.robbertvandenbroeke.nl/home) Diagram: Roy Boschman, Nancy Talbott Photos: Roy Boschman Report By: Nancy Talbott, BLT Research (http://www.bltresearch.com)

Walking farther into the field they also found the large circle and noticed right away that the lay in its outer edge ran counter‐clockwise, while the inner part was flattened clockwise (the same way the April 4th grass circle near Hoeven had been). The large circle in this formation measured 13.2 meters in diame‐ ter. Robbert reports a “very soft, peaceful” feeling in this formation and, while there, Roy (who had his camera with him this night) took pictures im‐ mediately with the nearly‐full moon… FURTHER IMAGES ON THE NEXT PAGE.

On the evening of June12‐13 Robbert and Roy visited the June 4th formation at Standdaarbuiten around 11pm. It was a lovely quiet night with no wind and a nearly‐full moon. After staying in the field at Staanddaarbuiten for a while Robbert felt very strongly that something or someone was trying to make contact with him‐‐he was experiencing the same “uneasy” feeling he always gets when a new circle is coming. After concentrating and trying to “make contact” he got the name of the village of Oud‐Gastel and then the street name “Laangedruf” (Long Drive)—a place where there has never been (to Robbert’s knowledge) a circle before.

As the men drove to the area Robbert said the new formation would probably consist of a big circle with some small “satellites” not far away…and he saw in his “mind’s eye” a cluster of light‐balls swirling very fast around each other‐‐ directly over the place in the field where he knew the new circle would be. Although this was a new location for a circle in Robbert’s area, they found the field quickly since Robbert was guided, as usual, by his “intuitions” and there was also a nearly full moon which gave enough light so that the forma‐ tion was clearly visible from the road when they got to the right place.

As the men walked into the field through the tram‐lines they first saw the three small satellites (ranging in size from 2 ‐ 2.6m in diameter), just as Rob‐ bert had said.

Please note that it is not yet known if the farmer will allow access—check Robbert’s web‐site for more photos & info: ( http://www.robbertvandenbroeke.nl/graancirkelarchief).

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For many in‐depth reports about other crop circles and a wide range of highly anomalous events which have been occurring around Robbert for the last 20 years see his page on the BLT website:

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UFOs over Anglesey

By Thomas Brisson Jørgensen

Back in the summer of 2006, my childhood interest in UFO's became almost instantly revived, due to a personal experience I had on the Welsh island of Anglesey. That year I visited the island for the first time, together with a friend from Liverpool who regularly goes there for off‐time with his family. Both he and his at one time staunchly sceptical dad (who worked for the RAF), had been telling me stories about strange lights they had observed in the sky while out camping, along with a lot of general lore about Anglesey and its mysterious past. This of course intrigued me to no end, so we planned a trip to the island to see if we might experience something out of the ordinary together. The following is thus an account of the events that took place while we were there, and is closely connected with some video evidence that my friend took a few weeks later at the same location. But before laying out the details, there are a few things I should make clear.

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UFOs over Anglesey

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First of all, since I wrote very little down after that night, most of this account comes solely from my memory ‐ and memory is of course known to be falli‐ ble in a number of ways. Secondly, I have become much more sceptical in the following years, not just of our "encounter", but also of UFO's in general (at least concerning what “they” are). Nevertheless, I don't discount that true UFO experiences take place, and I still think that at least some of what I ex‐ perienced that summer on Anglesey, was anomalous in nature ‐ and in any case, an interesting story for others to read. For the same reason, I have tried to reserve most of my critical comments until the end of this article.

Finally, as a supplement, I encourage everyone to check out my blog post at http://vomanomalous.blogspot.dk/2012/12/ufos‐over‐anglesey‐wales‐ 2006.html, where I have linked to the video footage my friend took some weeks later. In that post I also describe the general area where the experi‐ ence took place in more detail, as well as give some short analysis of each video clip. I think readers will find it interesting and helpful to refer to.

The experience itself

Since my friend and his family had had their sightings while vacationing at the Nant Bychan Caravan/Campsite near the town of Moelfre on the north‐ ern coast of the island, this is where we decided to stay as well. On the pic‐ ture below you can see the Campsite as it appears on google maps, with the green marker showing almost exactly where our tent was, from where we were looking towards the coast. It has the GPS coordinates 53.346243,‐ 4.233843, if anyone wants to check the area out further.

During this time, the loud squawking from Puffin Island also stopped.

Whether this was due to the surrounding activities or just because it was past bedtime, i honestly do not know, but we certainly thought it was strange at the time. Around midnight, or maybe a bit earlier, we both started experiencing headaches and nausea, that seemed to originate somewhere around the gut and stomach area. It was a strange feeling of numbness. Also even more lights of different colours had now started to appear along the horizon, and at some point ‐ in a mix of anxiety and nausea ‐ my friend de‐ cided to retreat to the tent for the night. I was determined to stay around though, and continue observing the lights out over sea.

About 3 hours into the ordeal, there were as many as five lights on the hori‐ zon. Even if it is impossible to measure the exact distance from where we were standing, its safe to say that they must have been at least a few kilome‐ ters from land. Some were static, while others were moving to the left and back again. Some shone with incredible brightness. I remember that one or two of the lights changed colours regularly, almost like a piece of “ground spinner” fireworks. Another light was similar to a welders flame and very difficult to look at directly, for more than a few moments at a time. Then, suddenly, I started taking notice of a kind of bright, pulsating light – almost like a camera flash – moving further down the coast, close to the town of Moelfre. At first i took it for a small boat, but something about the way the light behaved and changed places just didn't seem right. After maybe half an hour i decided to take a flashlight and go down to the water and shine it in the direction of the light. There was no real message behind it (I don't know morse code), I just tried to get the attention of who or whatever was the

Shortly after we had set up camp the first night, things started to happen.

Until this point, my friend had mostly seen things appearing high up in the sky ‐ lights splitting and joining, zig‐zagging and quickly disappearing out of sight. This night though, the sky were remarkably quiet. But at around 10 o'clock, when it was beginning to get dark, we saw a light out at sea, close to the bird sanctuary known as Puffin Island. Then afterwards more lights started appearing, dotted along the horizon at different altitudes. I remem‐ ber, at first, we were thinking: this could be either planes or boats, or both (we knew there was an oil rig off the coast, but this was clearly visible at all times and therefore not easily confused with anything else), but still there was something about that explanation that wasn't satisfactory.

At some point, an orange‐reddish ball of light started to form around over the horizon, and appeared as if it was spinning around frantically in the air.

source behind it. I think I might have tried for a few minutes, then made my way back to the tent. As I walked back I specifically remember the light still being around the area where it first appeared, which was perhaps 1 ½ to 2 kilometers away.

Arriving at our tent took me less than two minutes, and when got there I looked towards Moelfre again to try and spot the pulsating light. To my as‐ tonishment, it suddenly appeared just slightly to the left of me, very close to the beach and almost in front of the campsite, and then blinked away again.

There is no way it could have been a motordriven boat (which i figure it had to be to cover that distance in such short time), since there was no noise at all. Even if it could have been a boat of really skilled rowers, I figure they would have been smashed against the reef, since the waves were going somewhat high at the time. But what happened next removed all those Page 32 Phenomena Magazine: June 2014 - Issue 62: www.phenomenamagazine.co.uk

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thoughts from my head, because suddenly the light appeared half way across the campsite straight in front of me. It flashed in one pulsating moment, maybe one meter above the ground or so, and then disappeared again.

There was no source behind the light that I could see. It looked almost as I would imagine ball lightning to be like. I remember it shocked me and I yelled out to my friend about it, making him even more anxious inside the tent. I was also a bit disturbed at this point, but the light never did appear again.

by John Milor (note: I dont agree with Milor's conclusions about UFO's), where to my surprise there is an almost exact description of what I experi‐ enced. In the introduction to the book, Milor relates an incident that hap‐ pened while he was in the army. Out on an exercise one night, while he was on guard duty, he suddenly saw a bright, flashing light in the distance: The autokinetic effect (also referred to as autokinesis) is a phenomenon of visual perception in which a stationary, small point of light in an otherwise dark or featureless environment appears to move. It was first recorded by a Russian officer keeping watch who observed illusory movement of a star near the horizon. It presumably occurs because motion perception was always relative to some reference point. In darkness or in a featureless environment there is no reference point, so the movement of the single point is undefined. The direction of the movements does not appear to be correlated with the involuntary eye movements, but may be determined by errors between eye position and that specified by efference copy of the movement signals sent to the extraocular muscles.

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The amplitude of the movements is also undefined. Individual observers set their own frames of reference to judge amplitude (and possibly direction).

Because the phenomenon is labile, it has been used to show the effects of 2 social influence or suggestion on judgements. For example, if an observer who would otherwise say the light is moving one foot overhears another observer say the light is moving one yard then the first observer will report View from our tent at the Nant Bychan campsite in daylight. that the light moved one yard. Discovery of the influence of suggestion on 1 marks where I first saw the pulsating light, and 2 where it appeared the autokinetic effect is often attributed to Sherif (1935), but it was re‐ over the site. corded by Adams (1912), if not others...

As daylight started to break, the lights over the horizon faded too. The last to disappear was the very sharp welders flame‐like light, which had been in more or less the same place for hours, shining with more or less the same intensity. I finally went to bed and when i woke up i tried to make sense of it all with my friend, we decided to stay for another night and see if we could get closer to the mystery. Unfortunately, a storm arrived around nighttime and not only threatened to carry us away, tent and all, but also ruined all visibility of sea and sky. The day after, the damages forced us to leave, much to my disappointment. We also regretted not having had proper equipment with us to film what we had seen. A few weeks after, my friend bought a camera and went back to Anglesey alone. Here he managed to film a series of objects/lights similar to those we saw together. The results can be seen, as mentioned earlier, on my blog. As for myself, I came back to Anglesey again several times after, but never saw anything anomalous there again.

Conclusions (in retrospect)

Looking back at that night in 2006, together with knowledge gained from later visits to Anglesey, it seems that there were 2 groups of lights appearing on the horizon. Some could very well have belonged fishing trawlers or other boats out on business, in fact they probably did. But other lights, like the orange‐red one, and that which I have referred to as the “welders flame” light, were completely different. It is quite possible that viewing both kinds of lights, made the collective experience seem a lot more strange than it actu‐ ally was. On the other hand, if some of these lights really were what we could call UFO's, this means that whoever were out on the boats that must have observed the other lights along with us, and at even closer range. An‐ other option I have thought of, has been helicopters. I started considering this possibility especially after seeing the objects on my friend's video foot‐ age. I since found out that Anglesey is home to quite a lot of helicopters, and maybe they could have been out on a drill that night. Also there is a consider‐ able army presence on the island, which could account for about the same thing. But I dont think any one these solutions – or even all of them together ‐ can account for the total experience.

The most difficult aspect to explain, of course, is the pulsating, flash‐like light that suddenly appeared in front of me over the campsite. Autokinesis paired with lights of various human origin can account for much, but this indicated to me that something out of the ordinary really is going on in the area, and that I caught a glimpse of it at very close hand. Interestingly enough, just prior to finishing this article I was reading through a book, Aliens In The Bible Page 33 Phenomena Magazine: June 2014 - Issue 62: www.phenomenamagazine.co.uk

Wikipedia

“I stood up, waiting for another flash. Another one came, brighter, and closer....Two things came to my mind to explain the phenomenon: swamp gas, and ball lightning....Finally ,I saw what was producing the flashing. It was a ball of light as bright as a camera flash, and about the size of a soccer ball. The ball was about twenty feet up in the air, would flash for about a half second, then disappear . While invisible, it would move about twenty to thirty feet closer to my position, then flash again....I stepped out onto the side of the dirt road and began to talk to this ominous orb as it approached us.

“Who are you? What are you? Reveal yourself to me…”I questioned it. By this time, it was flashing about ten feet in front of me, still close to twenty feet above the ground”

As you can see, he had the same reaction as I did, trying to make some sort of communication with the light, which then appeared almost like it did in front of me. This makes me seriously consider that he experienced the same phenomenon, whatever it was.

As to what really happened that night, I really do not have a fixed opinion.

But whatever it was, I have “It” to thank, for getting me seriously into the study of UFO's, which although frustrating at times, is still one of the most interesting areas of research there is. I do also hope to experience another close encounter some day, although, knowing what I know today about the subject, I hope it won't be TOO close.

Blog and online archive covering various subjects of interest to me (and hopefully you too). Topics include ‐ but are not limited to ‐ UFO's, cryptozoology, weird fact‐fiction connec‐ tions and miscellaneous Forteana. The postings are based on my own research and will often deal specifically with Danish cases. http://vomanomalous.blogspot.dk/2012/12/ufos‐over‐ anglesey‐wales‐2006.html

Skinwalker Ranch: Book Review

By Dr. Peter McCue

Special Book Review by - Dr. Peter McCue. provided by a man known as Junior Hicks) that the ranch has been declared off‐limits to members of the Ute tribe, because it supposedly lies in the path of the Skinwalker – hence the figurative use of 'Skinwalker' in the title of Kelleher and Knapp's book, and the colloquial name given to the ranch.

However, in the 2010 edition of his book, Frank Salisbury notes (p. 225) that the Native American stories that Hicks heard don’t apply to much of the ranch, although Hicks reported that the ridge forming its northern boundary is of special signifi‐ cance to Native Americans and they refuse to go there.

Funded by the US billionaire Robert Bigelow, an organization called the National Institute for Dis‐ covery Science (NIDS) was established to study anomalous phenomena. In 1996, Colm Kelleher went to work for it. In August of that year, NIDS Title: Skinwalker Ranch: Path of the Skinwalker bought the Skinwalker Ranch from its then own‐ Author: Ryan Skinner ers, Terry and Gwen Sherman (referred to, pseu‐ Publisher: Lulu donymously, as Tom and Ellen Gorman in Kelleher ISBN: 978‐1‐304‐69541‐3 Price: $11.57 on Amazon or $16.43 on Barnes and and Knapp's book). The couple and their two chil‐ dren had been there for about two years, and had Noble reportedly witnessed a succession of bizarre and Reviewer: Dr. Peter McCue harrowing events. Following the change in owner‐

ship of the ranch, NIDS personnel also experienced

Ryan Skinner's book describes some strange ex‐ strange phenomena there. periences that he and three associates have alleg‐ edly had on, or in the vicinity of, a 480‐acre ranch According to Hunt for the Skinwalker (p. 193), Kel‐ in the Uinta (or Uintah) Basin in north‐east Utah. leher left NIDS in 2004. By then, nothing of note For ease of expression, I've outlined the stories had apparently happened for quite a while. Frank without using distancing terminology ('alleges', Salisbury informed me that he had been hoping to 'claims', 'purports', etc.). Unfortunately, Skinner make a visit to the ranch in September 2009. He doesn't give much historical information about the contacted the caretakers, who explained that they ranch, so I'll start by providing some, drawing on would have to check with Mr Bigelow. About two Chapter 16 of my 2012 book Zones of Strangeness: hours later, Salisbury received a call from Colm An Examination of Paranormal and UFO Hot Spots. Kelleher, who wouldn't permit the visit. Evidently, then, Kelleher was still associated with Bigelow,

and was still involved in some way with the ranch.

BACKGROUND The Uinta Basin has reportedly been the setting for UFO activity over many years. It's discussed in an Kelleher and Knapp's book makes the following – interesting book by Dr Frank Salisbury, entitled The apparently inaccurate – assertions about the prop‐ Utah UFO Display. It first appeared in 1974. An erty and the people who owned it before the Sher‐ updated version was published in 2010, and in‐ mans: (1) The previous owners bought the ranch in cludes an informative section on the aforemen‐ the 1950s. (2) It had been unoccupied for almost tioned ranch. e ranch is located about two‐and‐a‐ seven years when the Shermans arrived, although half miles south‐west of Fort Duchesne and is sur‐ the owners would visit it a couple of times a year rounded by the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reserva‐ to check that the fence lines were intact. (3) The tion. Known colloquially as the 'Skinwalker Ranch', previous owners put some very strange clauses in it has attracted much attention over recent years, the property sale contract, stipulating that there because of claims that it's been the setting for UFO was to be no digging on the land without their sightings, cattle mutilations, poltergeist‐type ef‐ receiving prior warning. (4) The Shermans found fects, and other anomalies. The first book to focus that every door in the ranch house had several on the phenomena at the ranch was Hunt for the heavy‐duty dead bolts on both the inside and out‐ Skinwalker, by Dr Colm Kelleher and George side; all the windows were bolted; and there were Knapp. It was published in 2005. Although very indications that the previous owners had chained readable, it appears to contain some serious errors large guard dogs to both ends of the building.

In the religion and lore of the Native American These claims are challenged by testimony cited in tribes of the south‐west USA, a Skinwalker is an the 2010 edition of Frank Salisbury's book. It ap‐ evil, shape‐shifting witch. Kelleher and Knapp (p. pears that the previous occupants, Kenneth and Edith Myers, had bought the property around 44) state (apparently on the basis of information

1933, starting with about 160 acres and then in‐ creasing their holding by buying further parcels of land. Dr Garth Myers, a former paediatric neurolo‐ gist (now deceased), told Salisbury that his brother Kenneth had died in 1987, after which his (Kenneth's) widow continued living at the ranch until about 1992. She died in 1994, whereupon Garth Myers and his sisters inherited the property, which they sold to the Shermans. Regarding the matter of digging on the ranch, Garth said that the only stipulation in the real estate contract was one retaining oil rights for the sellers. He denied that there was a profusion of locks at the property, although he explained that there were small slid‐ ing locks on cupboards inside; and he denied that his late brother had ever used large guard dogs.

Hunt for the Skinwalker (p. 16) states that the greatest concentration of high strangeness in the Uinta Basin has always been at the Skinwalker Ranch. But Garth Myers told Salisbury that he'd been close to his brother and sister‐in‐law, and that "[t]here was nothing, unequivocally, abso‐ lutely nothing, that went on while [they] lived there" (quoted by Salisbury, 2010, p. 219). As a teenager, Garth had worked on the ranch for three summers, without apparently seeing UFOs. In an e‐ mail to me in November 2010, Frank Salisbury explained that a couple of weeks previously, he'd visited the Uinta Basin with Jacques Vallee (a well‐ known writer on the UFO subject), and they'd interviewed a number of people, including the son of John Garcia, whose ranch adjoins the Skinwalker Ranch on the east. (Garcia is referred to, pseudo‐ nymously, as 'Mr Gonsalez' in Hunt for the Skin‐ walker.) Garcia's son explained that when he was a teenager, he'd worked for Kenneth Myers and had got to know him quite well, but Myers had never said anything to him about UFOs or other strange things on his ranch.

Salisbury considers the possibility that Kenneth and Edith Myers refrained from telling Garth about UFO sightings because he was sceptical about such matters. But Salisbury indicates that there's only tenuous evidence for that proposition: Hicks seemed to recall an assistant at a drugstore telling him that Edith Myers had UFO stories to tell. Terry Sherman was a key witness regarding many of the events mentioned in Hunt for the Skinwalker. Salis‐ bury (2010, Chapter 8) refers to lengthy telephone conversations he'd had with him, and Sherman's contending that many of the things in Kelleher and Knapp's book only resembled a true account of his experiences. Salisbury states that Sherman basi‐ cally supported Garth Myers' version of the history of the ranch.

In talking to Salisbury, Sherman was somewhat guarded about what had occurred at the ranch.

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By Dr. Peter McCue

of the details in Hunt for the Skinwalker appear to be wrong.

SKINNER'S STORIES In the early hours of what appears to have been 1st January 2008 – Skinner’s book is slightly con‐ fusing about the precise date – he and his wife‐to‐ be, Iryna, were driving on the Interstate‐70 road in Utah when they became aware that a ruby‐red, aerial light was following them. They pulled over and stopped. Shortly after, they saw three entities heading towards them. They couple sped away, with the ball of light still in pursuit. They pulled into a rest area. Thinking that truck drivers would be asleep in their vehicles, Skinner tried to attract their attention, by repeatedly sounding his horn.

But that was to no avail. As he looked about, he noticed a number of seemingly abandoned cars, with their doors hanging open. The light that had been following them went away and suddenly vanished over a ridgeline. Looking into one of the cars, which had three of its four doors open, Skin‐ ner noticed items inside, including a mobile phone and a purse.

After resuming their journey, the couple had fur‐ ther UFO and alien entity sightings. They managed to capture some of the light phenomena with a video camera. They pulled off the road at one point, and Skinner states (p. 41) that several hours passed before they continued their drive. It's not clear whether he's suggesting that they were am‐ nesic for some of that period (i.e. whether they'd experienced 'missing time'). Skinner discovered that the strange events of that night had occurred close to the Skinwalker Ranch, and he became obsessed with the paranormal. This led to the break‐up of his marriage with Iryna.

Although he's apparently made numerous investi‐ gative trips to the Uinta Basin, Skinner's 169‐page book goes into detail about only two of them.

During the first one, he met up with a man called Ian Borden (for all I know, that could be a pseudo‐ nym), who had moved from Salt Lake City to Fort Duchesne. They drove out at night to a fairly re‐ mote spot, within hiking distance of the Skinwalker Ranch, and, among other things, heard a strange, mechanical voice and then saw flashing red, white and blue lights. Skinner thought they'd been de‐ tected by the local native police. But then the lights shut off and the voice ceased. Unaccompa‐ nied by Borden, who was concerned about tres‐ passing, Skinner ventured on to the territory of the Skinwalker Ranch. He saw a ball of light coming towards him, tried to video‐record it, and then made a fearful retreat.

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his doorbell ringing. Eventually, he decided not to respond to it. But he was awoken later – during the first night when he adopted this new tactic, I presume – by the sound of footsteps lumbering towards his bedroom door; then it sounded as if the intruder were shifting weight from one foot to the other outside the door. But a calm feeling had come over Skinner, associated with the idea that by turning his attention away from them, he would be depriving the phenomena of their strength.

Over time, the manifestations became less fre‐ quent, and then they ceased.

On the second visit to the Uinta Basin detailed in his book, Skinner was accompanied by his brother Tyson. They set up camp in the area that Skinner had been to with Ian Borden, and Skinner again made a nocturnal entry into the territory of the ranch. Feeling unwell, his brother didn't accom‐ pany him. But both of them had anomalous experi‐ ences. For example, Skinner describes a face to face encounter with what he calls the "Skinwalker", in the form of a wolf‐like creature.

Over a walkie‐talkie he was carrying, he learned that Tyson was in considerable distress – Tyson claimed that “something” was with him. Skinner hurried back to him over the rough terrain.

He states that he threw back the flaps of their tent and came face to face with his brother. At this point, the main text abruptly ends! It's followed with "TO BE CONTINUED..." and then a page of information about the author.

PROBLEMS People who've paid for this book might feel cheated by its abrupt and unsatisfactory ending, and also, perhaps, by its rather limited content. If Skinner has made numerous other trips to the Uinta Basin, couldn't he have at least included a summary of the relevant findings or experiences?

He's signally failed to explain what the “something” was that upset his brother while he (Skinner) was some distance away, on the Skin‐ walker Ranch. Of course, that may be deliberate, a way of whetting his readers' appetites, so that they'll promptly buy the next volume!

Skinner's website: (http://www.Skinwalkerranch.com) includes the 1974 edition of Frank Salisbury's book in its list of "Recommended Skinwalker Books". But it's the 2010 version of Salisbury's book that's more rele‐ vant, since it discusses the ranch and seriously challenges the accuracy of some of Kelleher and

Skinwalker Ranch: Book Review

By Dr. Peter McCue

Knapp's assertions. Skinner's descriptive style is long‐winded and unnecessarily convoluted. As do Kelleher and Knapp in their book, Skinner reports snatches of conversation in the form of direct quo‐ tations. Assuming they're not entirely fabricated, I suspect that, in the main, they're reconstructions from memory. But that's a dubious ploy in a sup‐ posedly factual book, since it introduces an ele‐ ment of fictionalization.

The book contains black‐and‐white photographs, but the captions are hard to read, because the font is too small and is relatively indistinct. There's a drawing on p. 134 with some associated text, but the latter is hard to read, even with a magnifying glass! Unfortunately, the book has no index and no bibliography. It’s sprinkled with typos, grammatical errors and other mistakes. For example, ‘Santa Claus’ is rendered as “Santa Clause” (p. 32), and the word ‘for’ in ‘National Institute for Discovery Science’ (NIDS) is replaced with “of” (p. 114).

Skinner also manages to get the acronym wrong, rendering it as “NIDs” (on p. 114, for example) or “NID” (p. 129). In connection with his visit to the Uinta Basin with his brother, Skinner states that he needed to head north to get to the Skinwalker Ranch, which implies, of course, that they were south of it. However, from other details he gives, I get the impression that he actually approached it from the north during both of the visits described in the book.

LACK OF CORROBORATION As noted above, some of the incidents that Skinner describes involved companions. Given that his marriage with Iryna broke down, it might not have been feasible for him to obtain a publishable state‐ ment from her. But it would have been helpful if the book had contained accounts, in their own words, from his brother and from Ian Borden.

The Reviewer: Peter worked for many years as a clinical psychologist. He lives in Scotland. His qualifications include a Ph.D., from the University of Glasgow, awarded for a thesis on hypnosis.

Peter’s interest in psychical research and UFOs goes back decades. He’s the author of numerous articles on these subjects and a recently published book, titled Zones of Strangeness: An Examina‐ tion of Paranormal and UFO Hot Spots…

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