Legal Update: The Stuart House Recordings

We have finalized litigation and have obtained the release of most of the footage taken last year.  We plan on releasing a feature length film entitled "The Stuart House Recordings" this fall of 2011.  The release will be managed via Iron Dragon Films who actually owns the recovered footage.

We continue to also follow up on leads concernng the owner of the house Dr. Jonathan Stuart and Miyuki isikawa.  Two primary names that have come up in the 2009 teams notes.
Two rather strange sites have since come to light:
Staurt House Journals
Black Lotus Guman Tong

The movie will document the Paranormal Searcher's 2009 investigation of Stuart House.  Since we haven't yet seen all the footage ourselves we are hoping to uncover what exactly happened there.

We have found a cross-site that the investigators had used in researching the house before the investigation: Kaplan Papers


-William Sloan
 Lead Editor Iron Dragon Films

The Path: A Creepy Computer Game Based on Little Red Riding Hood

The PATH ----- Launch Trailer from Tale of Tales on Vimeo.

Fairy tales are fascinating and creepy, and examining them closely makes you wonder why we tell them to little children. They're a rich source of material to build on and remake, and The Path takes on the tale of Little Red Riding Hood.
As you may recall, in the original tale the young girl, so named because she wore a red head scarf, has been sent to take food in a basket to her sick grandmother, who lives in the forest. On her way, she encounters the Big Bad Wolf, who, after learning where she is heading, beats her to it to eat her grandmother and lie in wait for the girl to eat her, too.
In The Path, there are six versions of Red and six different rules, with the remaking of the fairy tale classic focused on the theme of growing up. GameSpot chatted with cocreator Michael Samyn from Tale of Tales to find out a bit more about this spooky title, released on the PC.
For more information on the game, please read GameSpot's first impressions.

Dagon

Dagon - HP Lovecraft from Lainy Voom on Vimeo.

Ritual Sacrifice of Children on Rise in Uganda

(AP)  Caroline Aya was playing in front of her house in January when a neighbor put a cloth over her mouth and fled with her.

A couple of days later, the 8-year-old's body was found a short walk away - with her tongue cut out. Police believe she was offered up as a human sacrifice in a ritual killing, thought to bring wealth or health.

"If it is a sickness you try to treat it, and if they die that is one thing," said Caroline's father, Balluonzima Christ. "But when you slaughter a person like a goat, that is not easy."

The practice of human sacrifice is on the rise in Uganda, as measured by ritual killings where body parts, often facial features or genitals, are cut off for use in ceremonies. The number of people killed in ritual murders last year rose to a new high of at least 15 children and 14 adults, up from just three cases in 2007, according to police. The informal count is much higher - 154 suspects were arrested last year and 50 taken to court over ritual killings.

Children in particular are common victims, according to a U.S. State Department report released this month. The U.S. spent $500,000 to train 2,000 Ugandan police last year to investigate offenses related to human trafficking, including ritual killings.

Humans too stupid to stop climate change'

Prof Lovelock, the man behind the Gaia theory which says that the planet behaves like a single organism, claimed humans were “not clever enough” to handle the problems associated with global warming.

In an interview, the globally respected environmental thinker and independent scientist applauded “good” climate sceptics and gave warning that global warming would one day lead to severe conflict.

 

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"I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle as complex a situation as climate change," he said.

"The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.”

Prof Lovelock, 90, said he believed the best hope to combat climate change was to invest in adaptation measures, such as building defences around cities vulnerable to sea-level rises.

Only a catastrophic event would persuade humans that the threat of climate change was serious. He has previously warned that a rapid cutback in greenhouse gas emissions could speed up global warming.

He gave one example of how the collapse of a giant glacier in Antarctica, which would immediately push up sea levels, would wreck havoc across the world.

Without change, he said, climate change would likely one day lead to war.

“Even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being,” he said in his interview with The Guardian.

“I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.”

The controversial scientist is best known for his ideas that portray Earth as a living thing, a superorganism – named Gaia, after the ancient Earth goddess – in which creatures, rocks, air and water interact in subtle ways to ensure the environment remains stable.

Saudis May BEHEAD TV Psychic For Witchcraft

BEIRUT — The lawyer of a Lebanese TV psychic who was convicted in Saudi Arabia for witchcraft said Thursday her client could be beheaded this week and urged Lebanese and Saudi leaders to help spare his life.
Attorney May al-Khansa said she learned from a judicial source that Ali Sibat is to be beheaded on Friday. She added that she does not have any official confirmation of this. Saudi judicial officials could not be immediately reached for comment.
A Lebanese official said Beirut has received no word from its embassy in Riyadh about Sibat's possible execution. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
The Saudi justice system, which is based on Islamic law, does not clearly define the charge of witchcraft.
Sibat is one of scores of people reported arrested every year in the kingdom for practicing sorcery, witchcraft, black magic and fortunetelling. These practices are considered polytheism by the government in Saudi Arabia, a deeply religious Muslim country.
Later Thursday, a dozen people demonstrated near the Saudi embassy in Beirut's western neighborhood of Qureitim. Four of the men wore masks to look like executioners and carried a wooden gallows with a cloth bag hanging from it.