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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Ghosthunting 101 with Kansas City's P.E.D.R.O.
- What equipment to use
- What equipment is optional
- What equipment NOT to use
- Interviewing witnesses
- Researching background and history of a location
- Preparing for the investigation
- Mental preparation
- What to do during an investigation
- What to do first
- "Rules of engagement"
- How to take ghost photos
- How to interview a ghost
- Leaving a site
- Reviewing evidence
- Debriefing and reporting
You can find more about P.E.D.R.O., tours they give in and around Kansas City and a few places they have investigated at:
http://www.PEDROparanormal.com
I hope to be working with them in the future, recording their great ghost work here in KC. Stay tuned!
-Kevin Bingham,
Kansas City Paranormal Searchers Team
Scotland’s biggest UFO incident to hit the big screen
STV.TV-- Scotland’s biggest UFO incident is being made into a film, depicting the story of two men who claim they were abducted from their car on the A70 road in West Lothian in 1992.
Scotland’s biggest UFO incident is being made into a film, depicting the story of two men who claim they were abducted from their car on the A70 road in West Lothian in 1992.
Scotland has always been a hotspot for UFO and alien-based activity and now London-based DRB Entertainment is hoping to re-tell the story of Garry Wood and Colin Wright, who claim they were abducted while driving to the village of Tarbrax. Their intended 30 minute journey took an unexpected turn when a disc shaped object hovered above the road in front of them as they drove along the quiet road at 8pm.
Scotland’s biggest UFO incident is being made into a film, depicting the story of two men who claim they were abducted from their car on the A70 road in West Lothian in 1992.
Scotland has always been a hotspot for UFO and alien-based activity and now London-based DRB Entertainment is hoping to re-tell the story of Garry Wood and Colin Wright, who claim they were abducted while driving to the village of Tarbrax. Their intended 30 minute journey took an unexpected turn when a disc shaped object hovered above the road in front of them as they drove along the quiet road at 8pm.
Blind 'batboy' boy uses his ears to 'see'
Telegraph.co.uk-- Lucas Murray from Poole in Dorset has learned to use echoes to picture the world around him - similar to sonar techniques used by bats and dolphins.
He clicks his tongue on the roof of his mouth and from the sound that returns he tries to work out the distance, shape, density and position of objects.
The echolocation technique has helped Lucas, who was born blind, play basketball and rock climb.
What are Shadow People?
"WHAT WAS THAT?" You were sitting comfortably on your sofareading the latest issue of FATE in the dim light when movement across the room caught your attention. It seemed dark and shadowy, but there was nothing there. You returned to your reading - and a moment later there it was again. You looked up quickly this time and saw the fleeting but distinctly human shape of the shadow pass quickly over the far wall... and disappear.
Jack the Ripper's identity finally uncovered?
Telegraph.co.uk-- Mei Trow used modern police forensic techniques, including psychological and geographical profiling, to identify Robert Mann, a morgue attendant, as the killer.
His theory, the result of two years intensive research, is explored in a Discovery Channel documentary, Jack the Ripper: Killer Revealed.
Trow's research is rooted in information from a 1988 FBI examination of the Ripper case, which had worked up a comprehensive criminal personality profile.
The portrait drawn up of Jack was as a white male from the lower social classes, most likely the product of a broken home.
Universe is messier than scientists had thought
ScienceNews.org-- For all its tumult — erupting stars, colliding galaxies, collapsing black holes — the cosmos is a surprisingly orderly place. Theoretical calculations have long shown that the entropy of the universe — a measure of its disorder — is but a tiny fraction of the maximum allowable amount.
A new calculation of entropy upholds that general result but suggests that the universe is messier than scientists had thought — and slightly further along on its gradual journey to death, two Australian cosmologists conclude.
An analysis by Chas Egan of the Australian National University in Canberra and Charles Lineweaver of the University of New South Wales in Sydney indicates that the collective entropy of all the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies is about 100 times higher than previously calculated. Because supermassive black holes are the largest contributor to cosmic entropy, the finding suggests that the entropy of the universe is also about 100 times larger than previous estimates, the researchers reported online September 23 at arXiv.org.
Saint Expedite
Expedite is typically depicted as a young Roman centurion holding aloft a cross marked HODIE ("today" in Latin) and squashing a crow beneath his right foot. Out of the dying crow's mouth issues a word-ribbon, CRAS ("tomorrow" in Latin). Thus Expedite destroys a vague tomorrow in favour of a definite today.
Classic case: Psychiatric treatment of ghost possession
Belief in possession is not uncommon in psychosis, the mental state that can sometimes accompany severe mental illness and typically involves delusions and hallucinations.
Psychiatry usually assumes all such experiences to be tricks of the mind, rather than the result of other-worldly powers.
World's Scariest Movie's Director To Make World's Scariest Alien Film
According to Variety Peli begins production on Area 51 next week. And yes it will continue to have that home made "found footage" look.
The movie will be about three teens whose enter Area 51 out of curiosity, and apparently bring a camera along...
Then they get lost because one of them jokingly threw the map in the river and then another one mysteriously disappears in the night and the girl of the group finds a piece of him tied to his old plaid shirt. Then they run and they scream and they run and they scream and stand in a corner... then screen-fuzz.
The second half of that is guesswork on our part, but the first half is true. The same producer who worked on PA will be working on Area 51. Hype or not, PA has great buzz for scaring some folks — so jokes aside, we're ready for scary aliens, because it's been a really long while since we've been scared by our manipulative space neighbors. Let's just hope that Milla Jovovich didn't beat them to the punch.
Michigan witness catches disc-shaped UFO on camera
A Michigan witness watched two unidentified objects in the night sky over Round Lake. The first was described as a bright, tall, box-shaped object. It moved across the sky with "three sets of multi color blinking lights," made a sharp right turn, and turned its lights off. The second object was described as "a bright white disc shaped object that had a round center." The witness was able to snap one photo with a cell phone of the second object and wants to know if anyone else saw the same thing.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
6 Signs That Your Neighbor May Be An Alien
Because aliens may look just like human beings or be disguised as humans, you can’t pinpoint them by appearance.
Instead, you must look for a combination of unusual behavior patterns and odd details about their homes, experts say.
They listed six signs to watch for – but pointed out that your neighbor would have to display most, if not all, of these traits before you can positively identify him as an alien.
1. Sleep or work patterns of abnormal length.
“An alien’s day on its native planet may be shorter or longer than ours,” noted Brad Steiger, a renowned UFO investigator and author.
For this reason, he said, an alien may sleep at odd times of the day or night.
SyFy's "Ghost Hunters" Stars to Make Appearance in Orlando
"Ghost Hunters" stars Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango will be making the special appearance at the country's "Best Halloween Event." The members of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) will be in Battery Park in the New York area of Universal Studios.
Fans can meet the spook specialists and get an autograph on Thursday, October 8 from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm and from 10:00 pm to 11:30 pm, while also getting a chance to explore the theme park.
Halloween Horror Nights was also named the No. 1 Theme Park Halloween Haunted Event by Hauntworld.com. Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights runs from October 2-4, 8-11, 15-18, 21-25 and 28-31. For more information, go to www.HalloweenHorrorNights.com.
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Oval UFO and small 'creature' reported by California man
Examiner.com-- A California man reports seeing an oval-shaped UFO and a one to two-foot-tall creature on his property September 30, 2009, according to witness testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.
The oval-shaped craft was seen about 3 p.m. after the man reported seeing a reflection of the object off of a camper shell window.
At 9:50 p.m., the man said he went outside to feed his cat and saw "something flashing colorful lights" just off his porch steps that was no bigger than a baseball.
The man took two steps toward the object and realized it was being held by "something" that stood no more than one or two feet tall.
Both the man and the "creature" were startled and moved away from each other.
The witness claims he heard the object hit the ground, but when he went back to the area to look for it, nothing was there.
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Have you had an encounter with a ghost?
A psychic and the author of "Phases of Life After Death," Slage is writing a book about encounters with those who have passed on.
"People who have passed away sometimes appear to us when there's an emotional reason for it," she said. "They feel the emotions of their loved ones and want to help."
In her first book, Slage, who lives in Livermore, captured the words of departed souls through a technique called automatic writing, where the deceased are allegedly able to write their thoughts through a receptive living person who holds a pen to paper.
Police respond to 'UFO' sighting in Greenwich
Greenwichtime.com-- It wasn't a bird, a plane or Superman, but residents of downtown Greenwich thought myriad lights in the sky just may have been an unidentified flying object passing overhead Saturday night.
The bright, moving lights in the sky caused several people to call police to report a possible UFO sighting. Some reports indicated there had been 30 to 40 individual lights glowing in the night sky.
The questions prompted police to send two marine officers to investigate the sighting.
However, it didn't take long for police to determine the possible extraterrestrial sighting was actually a bunch of "genuine oriental sky lanterns" being set off at a birthday party taking place on Steamboat Road.
The bright, moving lights in the sky caused several people to call police to report a possible UFO sighting. Some reports indicated there had been 30 to 40 individual lights glowing in the night sky.
The questions prompted police to send two marine officers to investigate the sighting.
However, it didn't take long for police to determine the possible extraterrestrial sighting was actually a bunch of "genuine oriental sky lanterns" being set off at a birthday party taking place on Steamboat Road.
The Ghost of Gooch’s Grill
Chances are that you have driven by, or maybe even stopped in to the place before; perhaps during one of the establishment’s past lives. Before it was Gooch’s Grill, it was called The Victory Bar. Before that, it was Belushe’s Bar and Grill. Many Tucsonans might still identify the location as The Rhino Pub. The only thing that has remained consistent about the location throughout the building’s existence, is the rumor that a resident ghost lurks inside.
At the risk of sounding cliché, spirits, in more than one sense of the word, are on tap at Gooch’s Grill.
Parnormal Activity Getting a Full Limited Release
From the Press Release:
Paramount Pictures' new thriller PARANORMAL ACTIVITY sold out all of its Thursday thru Saturday midnight screenings in 33 cities across the country this weekend, earning a per screen of $16,000 for a total estimated gross of $535,000.
Hundreds of thousands of fans from across the U.S. have overwhelmingly demanded PARANORMAL ACTIVITY in their area, prompting Paramount Pictures to expand the hit horror film to over 40 markets, and they will begin offering the movie at all hours, including the previous midnight only venues, starting next Friday, October 9th.
"The fans have spoken, and we are listening," said Paramount Pictures Vice Chairman Rob Moore
Word has it that if Paramount gets over a million DEMAND IT requests, it will finally give the film a proper wide release. So what are you waiting for? MAKE IT HAPPEN! Hit the below image and do your part!
Phil Imbrogno Interdimensional Universe
Dr. Bob Hieronimus interviews Phil Imbrogno about his book: Interdimensional Universe, The New Science of UFOs, Paranormal Phenomena and Other dimensional Beings.
http://www.21stcenturyradio.com/
Paranormal investigator reveals 25 years of mysteries
Lionel Fanthorpe has spent 25 years on his own X Files probe, dealing with hundreds of cases.
He revealed alien sightings were the most common and he has probed 109 separate reports.
A handful were from Scotland - including several sightings by police officers.
Two cops spotted a 100ft oval in the sky above Sidlaw Hills near Dundee in 1993.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Orang Pendek Update
The four-strong team and their Indonesian guide were tracking through dense jungle in Sumatra when two of them caught a glimpse of the famous Orang Pendek — or short man.
The group brought back a hair sample and a piece of chewed palm from the island's Kerinci National Park they hope will provide DNA evidence of the beast.
They also snapped a strange footprint thought to belong to the creature.
Sightings of the hairy human-like monster have been made in the area since colonial times — and it is alleged to be immensely powerful.
The Spell Is Cast: Indie Rock & Mysticism
We turned for interpretation to Joe Yull, a 23-year-old fantasy and role-playing expert at Outer Planes Comics and Games in Santa Rosa. I knew Yull was the right man for the job after he displayed knowledge of both the classics (Hawkwind's collaboration with fantasy writer Michael Moorcock) and the trivial (Weezer's shout-out to 12-sided die). On a recent Sunday evening, Yull and I hung out in Outer Planes at one of their Magic: The Gathering gaming tables, sat in front of YouTube and tried to make sense of it all. With experience and skill, Yull deftly separated the dungeon masters from the dolts, and summarily rated each band's role-playing strength on a scale of one to 10.
Muse, 'Knights of Cydonia' A tough-looking character with a mustache practices kung fu moves like "Two-Headed Snake" and "Circle of Death" while receiving occasional blessings from a raven and shooting lasers from his revolver. "He's got kung fu, lasers and he's a cowboy," Yull notes approvingly. This looks good so far.
Ewan McGregor tells of being attacked by a ghost
The Star Wars actor, whose upcoming army satire The Men Who Stare At Goats was adapted from a book by Welsh author and presenter Jon Ronson, has revealed he was the victim of ghostly happenings on his 20th birthday.
“I was wandering around in my dressing gown, running a bath when, suddenly, I felt this horrible pain in my back,” said the 38-year-old.
Haunted Leavenworth: Ghost Tours in Haunted Kansas
Ms. Ramirez and her sister, Beth Cooper, founded the tours five years ago as part of a building interest in haunted places. They now operate 11 tours in nine cities, including Atchison, Kansas City, Shawnee, Lawrence, Topeka, Holton and Manhattan.
Finding the haunted locations is as easy as going door to door, she says.
Japan's new First Lady Miyuki Hatoyama: 'I went to Venus in a UFO'
The distinctions of Miyuki Hatoyama, 66, do not end there. As well as being a musical actress, cookery writer, clothes maker and television personality, she also says that she knew the actor Tom Cruise in a past life when he was incarnated as a Japanese.
To his credit, Mr Hatoyama, who will formally become Prime Minister in a fortnight after a landslide election victory last Sunday, does not appear in the least embarrassed by his wife’s eccentricities, and nor do his fellow citizens. She falls into the category of public figure known as “tarento”, or “talent” — televisual artists or entertainers who are expected and encouraged to be more flamboyant and unpredictable than the rest of us.
Coast to Coast AM: Paola Harris & Zecharia Sitchin
Investigative journalist Paola Harris talked about UFO and ET phenomena and shared information from top researchers and whistleblowers. She also discussed Exopolitics- the study of extraterrestrial presence on Earth and its social and political implications for mankind.
Here are some of her observations:
- UFO/ET visitations are a planetary phenomenon, seen in many other countries besides the United States.
- The late John Mack came to believe that later-stage abductees were being directly downloaded with data rather than being taken aboard craft.
- Mary Rodwell (Australia) and Yvonne Smith, author of the new book Chosen are two people currently working in ufology whose work she was impressed with.
- Revelations from the Vatican about ET contact, such as by Monsignor Balducci, suggest to her that key institutions are positioning themselves for disclosure.
- The late Col. Philip Corso wrote in his notes of an encounter with an alien that came out of a cave when he was working at Red Canyon (White Sands, NM missile range) in 1957. It telepathically asked him to turn off military radar so their craft could take off.
- There are many types of aliens visiting our planet, sources say as many as 57 different species. Some of these ETs don't have bodies but appear as intelligent balls of light.
'Most haunted' castle turns back on paranormal
Marketing chiefs at the castle, which is the ancestral home of the Earls of Strathmore and the Queen Mother's childhood home, intend to rebrand the building as a family-friendly visitor attraction and promote its royal credentials instead of emphasising its spookiness.
The castle, near Forfar, Angus, is widely regarded among paranormal investigators as one of Britain's most haunted buildings. Spectres are said to include the Grey Lady, who prowls the chapel, a tongueless female phantom, and the ghost of Earl Beardie, condemned to play cards with the Devil until Doomsday for breaking the sanctity of the Sabbath.
The People With Holes In Their Heads
Amanda Feilding lives in a charming flat looking over London's river with her companion, Joey Mellen, and their infant son, Rock. She is a successful painter, and she and Joey have an art gallery in a fashionable street of the King's Road. Another of her talents is for politics. At the last two General Elections she stood for Parliament in Chelsea, more than doubling her vote on the second occasion from 49 to 139. It does not sound much, but the cause for which she stands is unfamiliar and lacks obvious appeal. Feilding and her voters demand that trepanning operations be made freely available on the National Health. Trepanation means cutting a hole in your skull.Unique Paranormal Organization That Specializes In Hostile Hauntings
All hauntings have the potential to become dangerous. When this does happen, who do people call? Too bad there isn’t a specialized paranormal intercession group out there, right? Well, there is. The Omega Paranormal Eliminations Team’s (OPET) objective is to help those with problem hauntings to understand the nature of their haunting and offer solutions or recommendations on how to deal with or resolve it. The staff of OPET includes shamans that perform the traditional rite of spirit removals (exorcisms), house clearings, and spirit transitions (assisting spirits to move on). They use traditional methods to help people in problem hauntings at no cost.
A traditionally-apprenticed shaman spends years in his apprenticeship to learn about spirits and their ways. This knowledge is beneficial when it comes to interacting with those energies that we investigate. A shaman not only has the gift to see spirit, but is also trained in how to identify many different spiritual attributes, such as what causes a spirit’s energy to be held to a place (for example, the spirit may actually be connected to an object, not necessarily the building it is in). A shaman can interact with entities through the manipulation of spiritual energies.
Spiritual energy has a way of attracting other spiritual energies, malevolent as well as benign. Haunting activity does not always reveal the intentions of an entity. There are different influences involved with spirits. Some may be good-natured, some may be malevolent, and some may disguise themselves to look like something they’re not by manipulating their energy as if they were wearing a mask.
Dreams are important in these cases as well. Through a person’s dreams is often the easiest means for spirit to communicate to the living, and reviewing dreams is a part of our interview process. OPET staff includes a shaman who specializes in dreamwork. The dreams of all persons sleeping at the location during the course of an overnight investigation should be documented, and cooperation in this area of the investigation is appreciated.
OPET was created to assist victims of hostile hauntings by eliminating these dangerous entities from their homes. They also work alongside paranomal investigation groups whose clients request such services.
OPET can be contacted via their website at www.sasws.net/pages/opet/opet_home.html or at www.myspace.com/sasws
A traditionally-apprenticed shaman spends years in his apprenticeship to learn about spirits and their ways. This knowledge is beneficial when it comes to interacting with those energies that we investigate. A shaman not only has the gift to see spirit, but is also trained in how to identify many different spiritual attributes, such as what causes a spirit’s energy to be held to a place (for example, the spirit may actually be connected to an object, not necessarily the building it is in). A shaman can interact with entities through the manipulation of spiritual energies.
Spiritual energy has a way of attracting other spiritual energies, malevolent as well as benign. Haunting activity does not always reveal the intentions of an entity. There are different influences involved with spirits. Some may be good-natured, some may be malevolent, and some may disguise themselves to look like something they’re not by manipulating their energy as if they were wearing a mask.
Dreams are important in these cases as well. Through a person’s dreams is often the easiest means for spirit to communicate to the living, and reviewing dreams is a part of our interview process. OPET staff includes a shaman who specializes in dreamwork. The dreams of all persons sleeping at the location during the course of an overnight investigation should be documented, and cooperation in this area of the investigation is appreciated.
OPET was created to assist victims of hostile hauntings by eliminating these dangerous entities from their homes. They also work alongside paranomal investigation groups whose clients request such services.
OPET can be contacted via their website at www.sasws.net/pages/opet/opet_home.html or at www.myspace.com/sasws
Farm animals mutilated and killed
WAVY.com (WAKEFIELD, Va.) -- Under baby blue skies and puffy white clouds, surrounded by tall emerald trees and lush green pastures... streaks of blood-red carnage.
The Murphy family awoke on their peaceful farm in Sussex County Friday morning to make a gruesome discovery. Eleven of their farm animals had been mutilated and killed in the middle of the night, and the Murphy's never heard a sound.
"It was devastating," said Edwin Murphy whose family established the farm on Rocky Hock Rd. in 1851. "This was gruesome, like a war zone."
Edwin was the first in the family to step out into the pasture and find that someone or something had torn all of their animals to shreds. Brutus the cow, two goats, three chickens and five ducks... all dead.
The Murphy family awoke on their peaceful farm in Sussex County Friday morning to make a gruesome discovery. Eleven of their farm animals had been mutilated and killed in the middle of the night, and the Murphy's never heard a sound.
"It was devastating," said Edwin Murphy whose family established the farm on Rocky Hock Rd. in 1851. "This was gruesome, like a war zone."
Edwin was the first in the family to step out into the pasture and find that someone or something had torn all of their animals to shreds. Brutus the cow, two goats, three chickens and five ducks... all dead.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
In search of the next Stephen Hawking
Hawking's successor as Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University will be decided by committee this month, but as he moves on, leading physicists warn that Britain risks losing the next generation of great minds.
Government pressure on universities is diverting researchers away from purely intellectual problems and on to sure-fire money-making projects, physicists say. The university's role of pulling in and nurturing deep thinkers will be sidelined in favour of people who can turn profits by making better widgets.
The shift from "blue skies research" to more practical problems will turn gifted students with the potential to be the next Hawking or Sir Isaac Newton off science for good, physicists claim.
The invisible world of government secrecy
Amidst the American hunger for instantaneous news and up-to-date "facts," this unflinching film uncovers the vast, invisible world of government secrecy
Ouija Board: Conduit of the Devil or Belief?
A common first line to many who take the adventure of playing with a Ouija board. First of all, Ouija is a registered trademark of Parker Brothers, a subsidiary of Hasbro, and it's a board game made of plastic and wood. So, what's the fuss?
Many people claim to have had strange and evil things happen while or after using a Ouija board, many groups and individuals (paranormal groups and ghost investigators alike) are against anyone using these devices (much to the dismay of Parker Brothers) since they are "dangerous" and "unpredictable" in how they operate.
Scientologists win rights case against Russia
The court said Russia cannot ban the Church of Scientology just because it has not been in the country for long and awarded each of the groups euro5,000 ($7,270) in damages. The groups together also received euro10,000 ($14,500) for costs, which they shared.
The case was brought to the Strasbourg-based court by two Russian Scientology branches that were refused listing as "religious organizations" because they have not existed for at least 15 years as required by Russia's Religions Act.
The Mystique Behind Black Cats
These superstitions are: the number 13 being unlucky, you don’t walk under an open ladder, and if a black cat crosses your path, it is considered bad luck. Interestingly enough, in most other cultures, the black cat is a prized possession. Owning one is considered to bring the owner good luck.
The origin of the black cat and good luck is believed to have begun in Ancient Egypt with the sacred black cat of Oagans- BAST. BAST, a goddess of Egypt reigned in the Twenty-Second Dynasty and was the official deity of Egypt. Many courted her favors, by procuring black cats into their households; believing that she would become part of that cat in spirit, and grace the home with riches and prosperity.
Rabid Cats on the Rise (Zombie Cats?)
“While dogs have historically been associated with rabies transmissions to humans, cats are the animal most likely to expose a human to rabies,” the CDC said in a feature on its website. “Cats are often in close contact with both humans and wild animals, including those that primarily transmit rabies. This creates a situation in which rabies may be more easily transmitted to humans from cats.”
In looking for a reason for the rise in cat rabies, the CDC noted that, “cat owners might not be as likely to visit a veterinarian’s office, where they can receive shots that can keep their cat safe from rabies.” The CDC cited data from the American Veterinary Medical Association that “indicates that more than 36 percent of U.S. cat-owning households did not visit a veterinarian in 2006.” That is more than double the percentage of dog-owning households that didn’t visit a vet.
The DNA Mystery: Scientists Stumped By "Telepathic" Abilities
Scientists are reporting evidence that contrary to our current beliefs about what is possible, intact double-stranded DNA has the “amazing” ability to recognize similarities in other DNA strands from a distance. Somehow they are able to identify one another, and the tiny bits of genetic material tend to congregate with similar DNA. The recognition of similar sequences in DNA’s chemical subunits, occurs in a way unrecognized by science. There is no known reason why the DNA is able to combine the way it does, and from a current theoretical standpoint this feat should be chemically impossible.
The Twilight Zone Turns 50!
The first episode, titled “Where Is Everybody?” and starring Earl Holliman, was written by Serling and very much set the tone for the series: Holliman plays a man, dressed in an Air Force jumpsuit, who wanders about a town that seems to have no other people in it, though has evidence of very recent habitation (food on the stove, burning cigarettes in ashtrays, etc.). It turns out (SPOILER ALERT) that he is imagining the whole thing, and that he’s actually been put in isolation to see if he can stay sane for a trip to the moon.
English archaeologists find new prehistoric site
Researchers have dubbed the site "Bluehenge," after the color of the 27 Welsh stones that were laid to make up a path. The stones have disappeared but the path of holes remains.
The new circle, unearthed over the summer by researchers from Sheffield University, represents an important find, researchers said Saturday. The site is about a mile (2 kilometers) away from Stonehenge.
Bluehenge, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) southwest of London, is believed to date back 5,000 years.
Mike Parker Pearson of Sheffield University said he believed the path and Stonehenge itself were linked to rituals of life and death.
Friday, October 2, 2009
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The Working Mage: Thieves Oil
Thieves oil is an oil used to ward off sickness and plague.
The ingredients are pretty much virucidal and antiseptic.
I don't know if it will ward off the flu or not but a lot of people swear they don't get colds and such by using it.
I made up a few batches. It is going for about 60.00 an ounce for uncut stuff in several places, so folks obviously that know about it are buying it.
Here's how you make it:
Use olive oil or a carrier oil (I use macadamia nut oil myself, as I have a good cheap source for it...almond, jojaba, any carrier oil should do)
Equal parts of lemon, euculyptus, cinnamon, clove, and rosemary essential oils.
There's a second recipe for it:
Clove Bud Oil 200 drops, Lemon Oil 175 drops, Cinnamon
Oil 100 drops, Eucalyptus Oil 75 drops, Rosemary 50 drops.
This last one smells STRONGLY of cloves. I use the first recipe but up my eucalyptus, because I KNOW it has been used to fend off viruses before, by putting some on bandanas that you breath though, like masks. Plus, it smells better.
You can buy lemon eucalyptus already mixed, as it is a commonly used combo formula, and that cuts down on the cost of making it.
GNC offers essential oils (NOW brand) about as cheap as you can get them, with free shipping.
The ingredients are pretty much virucidal and antiseptic.
I don't know if it will ward off the flu or not but a lot of people swear they don't get colds and such by using it.
I made up a few batches. It is going for about 60.00 an ounce for uncut stuff in several places, so folks obviously that know about it are buying it.
Here's how you make it:
Use olive oil or a carrier oil (I use macadamia nut oil myself, as I have a good cheap source for it...almond, jojaba, any carrier oil should do)
Equal parts of lemon, euculyptus, cinnamon, clove, and rosemary essential oils.
There's a second recipe for it:
Clove Bud Oil 200 drops, Lemon Oil 175 drops, Cinnamon
Oil 100 drops, Eucalyptus Oil 75 drops, Rosemary 50 drops.
This last one smells STRONGLY of cloves. I use the first recipe but up my eucalyptus, because I KNOW it has been used to fend off viruses before, by putting some on bandanas that you breath though, like masks. Plus, it smells better.
You can buy lemon eucalyptus already mixed, as it is a commonly used combo formula, and that cuts down on the cost of making it.
GNC offers essential oils (NOW brand) about as cheap as you can get them, with free shipping.
Group searches for paranormal activity in Old Ellicott City
As curator of the Howard County Historical Museum, in a former church dating back to the 1800s, she knows the sounds and sensations a building steeped in decades of history can make.
Creaking wooden floors.
Random knocks and pings.
Unexpected drafts blowing coolness past her.
There is some truth in ‘Paranormal Activity’
MSNBC.com-- “Paranormal Activity,” a horror film now in limited release across the country, tells the story of a young couple who move into a typical suburban house but are soon disturbed by a supernatural entity that delights in scaring them in the middle of the night. The pair (one a skeptic and one a believer, in true “X-Files” fashion) use a video camera aimed at their bed to document the strange forces that disturb them when they are trying to sleep.
The micro-budget 2007 movie features a small cast of unknown actors. Much like “The Blair Witch Project,” to which the film is being compared, “Paranormal Activity” trades on its cinéma vérité realism, the conceit that you are seeing real documentary footage of what happened– scary scenes and all.
“Real” ghosts aside, the film is realistic in some ways.
The micro-budget 2007 movie features a small cast of unknown actors. Much like “The Blair Witch Project,” to which the film is being compared, “Paranormal Activity” trades on its cinéma vérité realism, the conceit that you are seeing real documentary footage of what happened– scary scenes and all.
“Real” ghosts aside, the film is realistic in some ways.
University Flordia has Zombie Disaster Plan
UF has zombie plan for 'life impaired individuals'
Miami Herald (GAINESVILLE, Fla.) -- The University of Florida is prepared for all sorts of disasters. Even zombies.
A disaster recovery exercise that explains how the school could respond to an outbreak of the undead is posted on a UF e-Learning Support Services Web site. The site also contains other disaster response plans for events such as hurricanes or pandemics.
The exercise, an apparent joke, lays out the university's response to attacks by "flesh-eating, apparently life impaired individuals." It notes that a zombie outbreak might include "documentation of lots of strange moaning."
A University of Florida spokesman said the exercise was written by an employee at the school's academic technology office and was designed to "add a little bit of levity" to disaster preparation discussions
A disaster recovery exercise that explains how the school could respond to an outbreak of the undead is posted on a UF e-Learning Support Services Web site. The site also contains other disaster response plans for events such as hurricanes or pandemics.
The exercise, an apparent joke, lays out the university's response to attacks by "flesh-eating, apparently life impaired individuals." It notes that a zombie outbreak might include "documentation of lots of strange moaning."
A University of Florida spokesman said the exercise was written by an employee at the school's academic technology office and was designed to "add a little bit of levity" to disaster preparation discussions
Spontaneous Human Combustion
Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is the alleged burning of a person's body without a readily apparent, identifiable external source of ignition. The combustion may result in simple burns and blisters to the skin, smoking, or a complete incineration of the body. The latter is the form most often 'recognized' as SHC. There is much speculation and controversy over SHC. It is not a proven natural occurrence, but many theories have attempted to explain SHC's existence and how it may occur. The two most common explanations offered to account for apparent SHC are the non-spontaneous "wick effect" fire, and the rare discharge called static flash fires. Although mathematically it can be shown that the human body contains enough energy stored in the form of fat and other tissues to consume it completely, in normal circumstances bodies will not sustain a flame on their own.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Free Beer Ghost to be Exorcized from Pub
She said the poltergeist, nicknamed 'Reedy' after legendary actor and drinker Oliver Reed, has been haunting her pub, the Apsley House in Southsea, Hants, after she took over the lease a decade ago.
But since the start of the year, it appears the generous ghoul mysteriously been filling regulars' glasses.
So frustrated at the ghost's actions, she plans to purge the pub of the spirit by holding a séance.
Stop Alien Abductions: The Thought Screen Helmet
IF YOU ARE ABDUCTED BY ALIENS THE HELMET WILL WORK FOR YOU
How The Thought Screen Helmet Works
www.stopabductions.com-- The thought screen helmet scrambles telepathic communication between aliens and humans. Aliens cannot immobilize people wearing thought screens nor can they control their minds or communicate with them using their telepathy. When aliens can't communicate or control humans, they do not take them.
A Record of Success
The thought screen helmet has effectively stopped several types of aliens from abducting or controlling humans. Only four failures have been reported since 1998.
www.stopabductions.com-- The thought screen helmet scrambles telepathic communication between aliens and humans. Aliens cannot immobilize people wearing thought screens nor can they control their minds or communicate with them using their telepathy. When aliens can't communicate or control humans, they do not take them.
A Record of Success
The thought screen helmet has effectively stopped several types of aliens from abducting or controlling humans. Only four failures have been reported since 1998.
Belarus develops 'tin foil hat' school uniform
Now, despite all the supposed absurdity of this approach, I wouldn't necessarily bet on this being a failure. Chances are some bureaucrats will actually like the idea (the news was actually delivered by a Ministry of Trade official). It seems to me that this would work if every single schoolchild wears the same uniform. Otherwise, what's the point of having this magic pocket, if your deskmate stores his gadgets in his pants pockets, exposing you to radiation anyway?
Goverment Secrecy, a Vicious Circle
Released earlier this year, Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World, takes yet another look at how the United States nuked Section 1, Article 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution mandating the periodic publication of “a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money.” It’s a twisted bipartisan maze that ends with roughly $60 billion (the most recent estimate) earmarked for national security projects authorized outside congressional purview. Some 70 percent of the dough winds up in the hands of private contractors.
Inmate hacker locks down jail computers
Chaos reigns after cybercrook given programming project
The Register-- A UK prison computer system was left in lockdown after jail bosses gave a convicted cybercriminal the task of reprogramming it, the Sunday Mirror reports.
Douglas Havard, 27, an inmate at Ranby Prison, Nottinghamshire, was asked to take over a project to create an internal TV station using the jail's computer network. Havard is half-way through a six year term over his involvement in a £6.5m hacking and phishing scam (more details here), something the prison governors must have reckoned gave him the requisite computer programming skills.
Havard, originally from the US, was jailed in 2005 after he was convicted for running the UK end of an international phishing scam estimated to have netted up to £6.5m. The American and partner in crime Lee Elwood, 25, were jailed after pleading guilty to conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to launder money.
Douglas Havard, 27, an inmate at Ranby Prison, Nottinghamshire, was asked to take over a project to create an internal TV station using the jail's computer network. Havard is half-way through a six year term over his involvement in a £6.5m hacking and phishing scam (more details here), something the prison governors must have reckoned gave him the requisite computer programming skills.
Havard, originally from the US, was jailed in 2005 after he was convicted for running the UK end of an international phishing scam estimated to have netted up to £6.5m. The American and partner in crime Lee Elwood, 25, were jailed after pleading guilty to conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to launder money.
Learn the Art of Writing Horror
Coming up on October 17th, the Screenwriting Expo will host a seminar with Adam Green (Hatchet), Eduardo Sanchez (The Blair Witch Project, Ti West (Cabin Fever 2) and Ryan Schifrin (S.P.O.O.K.S).
The SCREENWRITING EXPO is the most thorough, in-depth, and intensive screenwriting education available in a brief immersion anywhere. Everything they teach in film school about the craft, and everything they didn't tell you, is taught here. Guests will have a chance to hear and speak to producers, agents, screenwriters with blockbuster hits and critically-acclaimed films, screenwriters who are also national best-seller-list novelists, and world-famous screenwriting teachers among the 100+ members of this year's faculty. If you are an aspiring filmmaker or screenwriter, you don't want to miss this.
Two Deadly Quakes: Is Earth Unusually Active?
But that's not the case: "This is not out of the ordinary as far as the year goes," said John Bellini, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey.
While it's not unusual to have several large quakes in any given year, these rumblings of the Earth can have different profiles, occurring on different types of faults and triggering varying series of events, including tsunamis possibly even other earthquakes.
Scientists said it's possible the two quakes this week are related, but they don't know yet. Meanwhile, researchers have some preliminary explanations as to why the Samoan temblor generated a deadly tsunami but the Indonesian quake did not.
A year in earthquakes
More than a million earthquakes are estimated to shake the Earth's surface every year, though most of these are minor tremors, barely perceptible to humans if at all.
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