Monday, August 17, 2009
Paranormal Searchers: Dog Canyon Expedition UPDATE
We came back from Dog Canyon tired and weary. There were some strange events in the canyon. We are currently working on getting out video of the events, along with footage of strange things we saw out there..
Minister warned over 'UK Roswell'
A former head of the armed forces told the defence secretary a UFO claim known as Britain's Roswell could be a "banana skin", newly released files show.
In 1985 Lord Hill-Norton wrote to Michael Heseltine about the "Rendlesham incident" in 1980, when US airmen in Suffolk said they saw strange lights.
He said an unauthorised aircraft may have entered and left UK airspace.
In 2003, an ex-US security policeman said he and another airman had shone patrol car lights as a prank.
The case is among the latest MoD files on UFOs released by the National Archives.
'Puzzling and disquieting'
The "Rendlesham incident" involved American airmen from RAF Woodbridge who reported seeing mysterious lights.
Witnesses said a UFO was transmitting blue pulsating lights and sending nearby farm animals into a "frenzy".
Paranormal State's Katrina Weidman grew up in a haunted house
"I grew up in a haunted house."
Katrina Weidman makes the statement with matter-of-fact candor. Though she says she didn't have any encounters herself, she does have vivid memories from the house on Wood Street in Doylestown Borough, where she spent her first six years, before her family moved to Plumstead.
Electronic toys going off by themselves. The man her older sister would see walking into the bathroom at night. The little girl her sister saw one evening, mistaking her for Weidman until she found her younger sister sitting at the bottom of the stairs.
“All the houses on that street were built in the early 1900s. Ours was a twin house - looked completely normal on the outside, but we had a lot of strange experiences there,” says Weidman.
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Rhode Island Ghosthunters discover robbers
The teenagers said they went to the abandoned hospital building on the Ladd School grounds after seeing Internet postings that said the abandoned school is haunted, the state police said.
The Ladd School and its other-worldly occurrences — such as voices that whisper or scream, people being touched or hit when no one is there, or cameras that don’t work near the site — is a popular topic of Web sites and videos on YouTube. Wikipedia lists the Ladd School, founded in 1907 for people with mental disabilities, along with other places considered haunted in the United States.
The five men attacked a total of 12 young people over the past three months, according to Rhode Island State Police Capt. David Neill. The men were students at the Exeter Job Corps Academy located on the grounds of the Ladd School, Neill said. Three had associations with known gangs, he said. No one was hurt during the alleged robberies, he said. No one is permitted on the Ladd School property but ghost hunters still visit, Neill said.
Arraigned on three counts of first-degree robbery and three counts of conspiracy were: brothers Kou Xiong, 21, and Benjamin Xiong, 19, of Warwick; Sidney Chay, 19, of Providence, and Anthony Deloge, 18, of Warwick. Jonathan Wilson, 25, of Charlestown, was arraigned on two counts of first-degree robbery and two counts of conspiracy. They were all held without bail pending a court date of May 6.
Chand Baori: India's famous stepwell
Chand Baori is a famous stepwell situated in the village Abhaneri near Jaipur in Indian state of Rajasthan. This step well is located opposite Harshat Mata Temple and is one of the deepest and largest step wells in India. It was built in 9th century and has 3500 narrow steps and 13 stories and is 100 feet deep. It is a fine example of the architectural excellence prevalent in the past.
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Timeslips: Doorways to the Past or Future?
However, there are many reports on record of people who seem to have crossed the time-barrier entirely at random, and without the means of Sci-fi style technology.
One of the most famous examples of what some researchers think may have been a definitive Time Slip involved two British women: Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain, who firmly believed they had traveled through time while visiting the gardens of the Petit Trianon at Versailles, France.
It was August 10, 1901, when the pair paid a trip to the Palace of Versailles. While walking through the grounds, both Moberly and Jourdain were overcome by distinctly oppressive feelings of gloom and uneasiness. They would later claim to have met a wide variety of individuals, all garbed in 18th century clothing, and who they came to believe had been members of the court of none other than Marie Antoinette.
More controversially, the women said they saw a figure who may very well have been Marie Antoinette herself. Did Moberly and Jourdain really cross the time-barrier into centuries past? To this day, the story has as many believers as it does detractors. But there is one important factor of which to take careful note: their amazing story does not stand alone.
You can read the rest of this feature in Paranormal Magazine issue 38