Occult Glossary

Audio Recorded Anomalies
To hear some EVP and sound anomalies, click here

EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) - Probably one of the most compelling of paranormal phenomenon. When you record audio, and at playback you discover voices that could not be heard at the time of recording, and that have no explainable source. Some investigators ask questions to see if they can get responses, and others just prefer to record constantly, and see what they came up with later. The cause of this phenomena is unknown at this time, which makes it very interesting and intriguing to most people.

Sound Anomaly - Sounds that have no apparent explainable source.

Adventures Ghost Hunting - McPike Mansion 1/4

Scientific Expedition To Explore Siberian Underground UFO Base

The massive Yakutia territory in Siberia, Russia covers an area of 3,000,000 km² and has a population of only around 1 million people making it one of the most sparsely settled areas on the planet. It should come as no surprise that it holds many secrets and is a paradise for those researching anomalous phenomena. Both Ufologists and Cryptozoologists are attracted to its vast tundras and seemingly endless wilderness.

Numerous sightings of the Yeti have occurred in this area and some even believe a few live dwarf mammoths still hide here. UFO sightings are commonplace. We reported on one such UFO event just last week.

Recently a series of domed underground bases have been discovered on the banks of the Vilyuy River. These are believed by researchers to be UFO bases used by visiting extraterrestrials. There are said to be vast structures and many rooms beneath these domes. The domes are believed to have been used by UFO travellers for thousands of years. Underwater crop circles are said to act as markers helping aliens locate the bases

Now an expedition of 15 researchers and scientists is going to enter one of these domes to finally uncover its secrets.
The leader of this scientific expedition will be Nikolai Subbotin of Perm City, a UFO researcher. He noted that 'Ancient Tibetan scrolls, says that once these domes were part of a defence system for an ancient ET colony. Sounds like complete fantasy and most unbelievable however, that is what is written in these old Tibetan scrolls'.

Were these domes created by ETs or were they built by an extinct ancient advanced civilization?

[All News Web via UFO Digest]

Plague researcher dies of infection

A University of Chicago researcher studying the genetics of the plague bacteria died last week from an infection he may have gotten in the laboratory, officials said Saturday.

The researcher, 60-year-old molecular genetics Professor Malcolm J. Casadaban, died Sept. 13 at the University of Chicago Medical Center's Bernard Mitchell Hospital.

An initial autopsy showed that Casadaban "showed no obvious cause of death" except for the presence of the weakened strain of the plague bacteria Yersinia pestis in his blood, the U. of C. Medical Center said in a statement.

It is not known to cause illness and has been used in some countries as a vaccine to protect against the plague. It has been approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for lab studies.

University officials said there does not appear to be a public health threat related to Casadaban's death. There have been no illnesses reported by those who came into contact with him.

As a precaution, U. of C. notified Casadaban's close contacts once the bacteria had been identified in his blood. The medical center's infection control team is also working with the city and state health departments and the CDC to investigate the death.

Casadaban held degrees from Harvard, Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was also listed as a member of U. of C.'s Institutional Biosafety Committee, which reviews and approves research protocols involving the use of biohazardous materials.

He had been studying the genetics of harmful bacteria, including a strain of Yersinia pestis that lacked most of the bacteria's harmful components, the university said.

[Read More at Chicago-Sun Times]

The White Supremacist Plot To Bring Down The NFL

The KKK is getting more sophisticated. They've got public relations people, political candidates, and now...computer geeks planning to disrupt NFL games by jamming quarterbacks' helmet radios.

American History X wrongly taught us that skinheads are obsessed with basketball. It's football (the "Negro Felon League," as they put it) that one group has declared war on for having an annual Hispanic Heritage Month.

A helpful reader, who I should probably alert the FBI about, sent in a link to one hate group's web page. I'm not going to link it here, due to some very graphic photos and overall moral repugnance. But they've done their homework.

They list the technical specs behind quarterbacks' helmet radio transmitters, which they use to relay signals from the bench. They print the default passwords and user code keys for the voice encryption modules. And most helpfully, they list the frequencies used by 26 of the teams.

Notice to all those wily hackers out there. Be sure to jam the repeater's output frequency (helmet receive)! You'll also want to wait until a pivotal point in the game to start jamming the frequency. Wait until the fourth quarter or so. You don't want to tip anyone off!

It's anyone's guess as to how useful these instructions are. But if Lovie Smith is looking for a convenient excuse for that fake punt call on Sunday...

[DeadSpin.com via Phantoms & Monsters]

Dan Brown Interview Sept 17 2009 Lost Symbol

Books- Dan Brown's Lost Symbol breaks selling records in UK

The Lost Symbol Dan Brown's follow-up to the Da Vinci Code has sold more copies in its first 36 hours of UK release than any other adult hardback novel, say Transworld publishers

The Lost Symbol, which went on sale on Tuesday, has sold more than 300,000 copies in the UK, the previous best-selling adult hardback, Thomas Harris' Hannibal, had sold 298,000 copies since it was published in 1999.

Like The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol features Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, and had a UK first print run of a million.

Brown's Da Vinci Code has sold 81 million copies around the world and is the UK's biggest-selling paperback of all time.

Transworld though has warned it was on the lookout for websites offering pirated copies of the new novel, after reports that two sites had already posted material from the book.

A spokeswoman said: "We have a very vigilant team who are constantly scanning the web to investigate potential piracy issues.

"If and when they do find any rogue material out there we will issue 'take down' notices."

Six years in the writing, The Lost Symbol is Dan Brown's extraordinary sequel to his internationally bestselling Robert Langdon thrillers, Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code.

[Source]

‘Early man used crude version of sat-nav system’

LONDON: In a new research, a scientist has found that prehistoric man navigated his way across England using a crude version of a satellite navigation system, which was based on stone circle markers.

According to a report in the Telegraph, the research, by historian and writer Tom Brooks, shows that Britain’s Stone Age ancestors were “sophisticated engineers” and far from a barbaric race. Brooks studied all known prehistoric sites as part of his research.

He found that the prehistoric man was able to travel between settlements in England with pinpoint accuracy, thanks to a complex network of hilltop monuments.

These covered much of southern England and Wales and included now famous landmarks such as Stonehenge and The Mount. New research suggests that they were built on a connecting grid of isosceles triangles that “point” to the next site. Many are 100 miles or more away, but GPS co-ordinates show all are accurate to within 100 metres.

This provided a simple way for ancient Britons to navigate successfully from point A to B without the need for maps. “To create these triangles with such accuracy would have required a complex understanding of geometry,” said Brooks.

Brooks analyzed 1,500 sites stretching from Norfolk to north Wales. These included standing stones, hilltop forts, stone circles and hill camps.

Brooks found that they all lie on a vast geometric grid made up of isosceles triangles. Each triangle has two sides of the same length and point to the next settlement. Thus, anyone standing on the site of Stonehenge in Wiltshire could have navigated their way to Lanyon Quoit in Cornwall without a map.

[The Times of India]

Explore The Bermuda Triangle

Bermuda Triangle plane mystery 'solved'?

Two of the so-called Bermuda Triangle's most mysterious disappearances in the late 1940s may have been solved.

Scores of ships and planes are said to have vanished without trace over the decades in a vast triangular area of ocean with imaginary points in Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico.

But journalist Tom Mangold's new examination for the BBC provides plausible explanations for the disappearance of two British commercial planes in the area, with the loss of 51 passengers and crew.

One plane probably suffered from catastrophic technical failure as a result of poor design, while the other is likely to have run out of fuel.

Sixty years ago, commercial flights from London to Bermuda were new and perilous. It would require a refuelling stop on the Azores before the 2,000-mile flight to Bermuda, which at that time was the longest non-stop commercial overseas flight in the world.

The planes would have been operating at the limit of their range. Today planes arriving at the tiny Atlantic island have sufficient reserve fuel to divert to the US East Coast 700 miles away, in case of emergency.

And the planes of the post-war era were far less reliable than today's airliners.

British South American Airways (BSAA), which operated the route, had a grim safety record. In three years it had had 11 serious accidents and lost five planes with 73 passengers and 22 crew members killed.

[Read More at BBC News]

Derren Brown's mind trick leaves audience stuck to their seats

TV illusionist Derren Brown's audience were more than just rooted to their seats last night - they were completely stuck.

Brown's latest stunt saw him persuading viewers of his Channel 4 show they were temporarily immobile.

And it seemed to work - a Channel 4 spokeswoman revealed that more than 50,000 people rang the channel within three minutes of the screening to say they were stuck to their chairs.

Of the 4.1million viewers who watched the show, one in four is estimated to have been affected by the stunt.

Brown - who last week claimed to have picked the winning National Lottery numbers - claimed the stunt would work if people were open to it, and said it was due to the power of 'suggestion'.

Viewers were shown a short film and told to sit back in their chair with their feet flat on the floor and their hands on their legs. Brown, who assured viewers the trick had no side effects, then played a 'clearing tone' that he said would 'free' those left stricken.

Several audience members, who watched the film on a giant screen, claimed they could not stand up.

And a series of callers told of their 'bizarre' feelings of being 'stuck'. One said: 'It's just very bizarre. I'm trying hard to get up but I can't.'

But not everyone was convinced - with the show stirring up fierce debate on the MailOnline website.

Betty from Wombwell in Barnsley wrote: 'The people in the audience who 'couldn't get up' were pathetic.

'That was the point of the 'trick': To show how easily some people can be controlled by suggestion, not by subliminal images.'

Another wrote: 'Between the four of us in our house and all our friends on Facebook and Twitter, not one of them 'got stuck'.

'Nor did they know anybody who had. That is probably close to 1000 people.'

But some claimed they had been stuck.

[Read more]

Visible & Photographic Anomalies

Orb - These will show up in photos as a ball of light, varying in size. Orbs of all kinds have been disproved to be dust directly in front of the camera lens - read more about dust orbs here.

Plasmoid - Plasmoids, also known as "Orbs in Motion", show up as a short streak of light, or as an orb with a tail, suggesting motion. Fast moving particles (such as rain drops, snow, blowing dust) directly in front of the camera lens are typically the cause of "plasmoids".

"Ectoplasm" & Misting - Usually shows up looking like smoke or fog in photos. These are caused many times by condensation, fog, and breath in cold air that gets caught in the camera flash, giving the appearance of a large mist.

Vortex - Long streaks across photos - commonly caused by hair strands, string, fiber, etc., in front of the camera lens.

Spook Lights - Spook lights tend to show up in the same place frequently as balls of light, float around for a few minutes before fading, and sometimes even explode into a mist of light before disappearing. This phenomena is scientifically referred to as "ball lightning".

---

Mabon: Preparing the Celebration

Here in the mountains the mists of these first early autumn mornings seep through the hollows and seem to send out chilly fingers which reach to drag summer away. The sun grows lazy and makes its appearance over the hilltops a little later each morning, slipping out of sight more quickly as evening comes. Being my favorite time of year, autumn always seems all too brief – all the more reason to begin planning now so that we can enjoy and experience it in all its glory!

September's sabbat, Mabon, has its roots in the old Anglo-Celtic festival of Harvest Home when the bringing in of crops was much cause for celebration. It was actually the Norse invaders who placed this as the “second harvest” between Lughnassadh and Samhain – the time at the autumnal equinox when all things are equal for one brief moment.

Today we still mark the occasion with many of the same activities as our ancient ancestors – the time of year when grain is threshed, fruits and berries are turned into cider and wine, we harvest late summer crops and adorn our homes with the bounty of nature.

Mabon is a time for joy, but also one in which to pause and give reverence to that which is passing – to give thanks for abundance, but also for the experiences of the year and lessons learned from them. As the wheel turns, endings are always new beginnings!

As days begin to cool down, the much anticipated and appreciated relief from the scorching days of summer begins to turn our thoughts more inward. Suddenly, the idea of turning on the stove and pulling out the old familiar recipes for slow simmering soups and stews, root vegetables and squashes roasting in the oven, and golden loaves of bread baking, seems much more appealing! The Earth whispers to us in the voices of the autumn winds – words unheard by human ears, but which our Spirit remembers well – ones which call us ever closer to home and hearth.

[Read more]

Pagan/Wiccan fashion: Should we all wear black ?

By Wendy Allen

Why do Witches dress so differently from other people and do they always wear black?

Witches, like all humans, wear the colors that appeal to the individual's personal preference. What this means is that Witches who wear black, wear black because they enjoy doing so. Do all Witches wear black? No. In fact, most do not have any black in their wardrobe at all. In my experience, the colors that Witches wear most often are the colors found in nature: browns, greens, deep golds, and the colors of sunsets and flower petals. Witches are very spiritual people who are often in touch with nature and the world around them, and their clothing colors usually reflect that.

What I see more often is not that Witches dress in black, but that Witches dress in a fashion style that is very different from that of the average person. Witches are driven by natural instinct to live freely, flowing through life unencumbered and in harmony with nature's energy flow. Their clothing reflects this freedom. Witches wear simple clothes that do not way themselves down; cloths that slip on and off without a fuss; cloths often without buttons, zippers, or snaps.

Their clothing instantly identifies most Witches. Witches are not ashamed of who and what they are and dress exactly as they have for centuries. Men and women alike, wear long flowing gowns, loose full chemises, light weight caftans, shawls, veils, plaid runas, velvet robes, hooded burnooses, and capes. Their clothing is simple, inexpensive, loose, unhampered, unencumbered, non-restricting, breathable, and only very rarely store bought. Most, not all, but most Witches make their own clothes. It is a rare thing for a Witch that buys clothing from a store. Witches do not care what other people may think of their "odd" clothes anymore than they care about people complaining about their "odd" ways of living. The opinions of others are not important to them, because they are not trying to impress anyone. They are Witches because that is their spiritual calling.

A Witch's clothing must flow freely about their body so that all of nature's sacred energy can enter into their personal auras, while still providing protection from the weather: snow, wind, rain, hurricane, and the summer sun. Keep in mind, that Witches spend a large majority of their time outside in nature. Tight clothing, especially tight pants hinders one's receptiveness to the magnetic energies of life.

[More]