Mysterious Bright Spots Shine on Dwarf Planet Ceres

 

 

An image of Ceres taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows that the brightest spot on the dwarf planet has a dimmer companion.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA 

 

By Mike Wall | SPACE.com

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  SPACE.com/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA - Two photos of the dwarf planet Ceres taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Feb. 12, 2015, from a distance of about 52,000 miles (83,000 kilometers). 

NASA's Dawn spacecraft will have plenty of mysteries to investigate when it begins orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres next month, as the probe's latest photos attest.

Dawn's most recent images of Ceres, taken Feb. 12 at a distance of 52,000 miles (83,000 kilometers) away, show an abundance of craters on the dwarf planet, as well as numerous bright spots that have scientists baffled.

"As we slowly approach the stage, our eyes transfixed on Ceres and her planetary dance, we find she has beguiled us but left us none the wiser," Dawn principal investigator Chris Russell of UCLA said in a statement. "We expected to be surprised; we did not expect to be this puzzled."

The new photos, which have a resolution of 4.9 miles (7.8 km) per pixel, are the sharpest ever taken of Ceres, NASA officials said.

A large, flickering white spot was also visible in photos Dawn took of Ceres last month.

"We can confirm that it is something on Ceres that reflects more sunlight, but what that is remains a mystery," Dawn mission director and chief engineer Marc Rayman, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, told Space.com via email at the time

Dawn could clear up the mystery soon. The probe is scheduled to enter orbit around the 590-mile-wide (950 km) Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, on the night of March 5. Dawn will start studying Ceres in earnest six weeks after that; the probe is scheduled to work its way down to its first science orbit on April 23.

The $466 million Dawn mission launched in September 2007 to study the asteroid belt's two biggest denizens — the protoplanet Vesta, which is 330 miles (530 km) wide, and Ceres. Dawn orbited Vesta from July 2011 through September 2012, when it departed for Ceres.

Dawn's observations of these two planetary building blocks should help scientists better understand the solar system's early days, NASA officials said.

Dawn is scheduled to study Ceres from a variety of orbits through June 2016, when the probe's mission will come to an end.

 

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Things in space are certainly getting interesting and I wonder whether this is volcanic or possibly electromagnetically generated phenomena similar to Transient Lunar Phenomena?

And, Yes, Ghost Adventures DID Lie To Viewers

 
 "Three is a sign of the trinity" -it also denotes how many liars make up Ghost Adventures "A" crew


Watching the Return To Tombstone episode (Ghost Adventures Season 10 Episode 11 - Return to Tombstone) while working on something I was shocked to hear Zak Bagans say that, until he was JUST told by someone, he had no idea an incident had been film in the first visit.

WHAT?!!

"The incident was while our "B" crew were filming"....

Interview after interview (until we saw and heard there was film and crew support which we were led to believe was a new thing) I've seen Bagans as spokeman for the trio (before Groff left) state: "It's just us three guys with three cameras and three digital recorders" so no chance of noise contamination or hoaxing.  He was saying this even after the first Tombstone programme where we now know there was another crew and Bagans did not even hear or view the footage (?!) of the incident in question.

In the new episode one of the women being filmed has her hair "lifted straight up" which stuns the crew -the "A" crew.  Looking at it once, twice, three times and even a fourth time does not alter what I initially thought -which is why I was looking at the other woman and asking "What? Where?"  The woman in question moves her body and head and there is even a hint of arm shadow as she brushes back her hair.

That was either deliberately faked or done accidentally and.....well, you figure it out.

Most Haunted a proven beyond doubt faked/hoax programme.  Ghost Hunters -the same. Ghost Adventures I thought had credibility and I supported them.  Yes, it seems I was taken in.  Even their best footage is now, as far as I am concerned, VERY dubious.

At least that's one less programme to waste my time.

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

― Plato

Astronomers Find Giant Black Hole In Early Universe

I well remember a meeting of the Bristol Astronomical Society in the 1970s when Heather Couper stood in for Patrick Moore (his mother was taken ill).  When Couper mentioned astronomers believed there was a black hole at the centre of our galaxy I remember two journalists near me panicked.  Looking at me they asked: "How long have we got??"

I tried to explain how big our galaxy was and all the usual stuff but these were journalists: "Is that near Mars or--"  At which point I noted they had confused "galaxy" with "Solar system".

"What's the difference?

meh.

I only mention this as whoever wrote the headline...well, internet news writer.

VERY interesting news item though....

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A black hole 12 billion times as massive as the sun has been found in a glowing quasar that existed when the universe was just a fraction of its current age, scientists said.

The discovery challenges currently held theories that black holes and their host galaxies grew in relative lockstep over the eons.

Found within the distant celestial bodies called quasars, black holes are regions of space so dense with matter that not even light can travel fast enough to escape their gravitational pits. Black holes are detected by effects they have on nearby galaxies, stars and dust.

The newly found black hole contains the equivalent of about 12 billion suns, more than twice the mass of previously found black holes of similar age, said researcher Bram Venemans with the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany.

By comparison, the black hole lurking at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy has about 4 million to 5 million times the mass of the sun.

Scientists cannot explain how the newly found black hole grew so quickly. Theoretically, it could not have fed off surrounding gas as fast and as long as it would have needed to reach its massive size under currently understood laws of physics.

“Our discovery presents a serious challenge to theories about the black hole growth in the early universe," lead researcher Xue-Bing Wu with Peking University in Beijing, wrote in an email.

"It may require either very special ways to grow the black hole within a very short time or the existence of a huge seed black hole when the first generation stars and galaxies formed. Both are difficult to be explained by the current theories.”

Another option is that two massive black holes in the early universe collided, forming an even larger black hole, Venemans said.

Clues may come from the quasar itself, which is glowing brightly enough to illuminate interstellar matter between itself and telescopes on and orbiting Earth. Ancient quasars may provide information about how stars formed in the early universe.

The research is published in this week’s issue of the journal Nature.

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I much prefer the more understated Huff Post version....

Astronomers have discovered a truly colossal black hole. It's 12 billion times as massive as our sun and about 3,000 times the size of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. What's more, the distant hole appears to have ballooned to its supermassive size very early in the universe's history -- just 900 million years after the Big Bang -- and that's got astronomers baffled.

Black holes should take billions of years to get that big, according to current theories, and there are theoretical limits on how fast they can grow. So the existence of the newfound monster is raising serious questions about how black holes evolve.

"The discovery of this record-breaking monster black hole ... raises an embarrassing unanswered question: how did it form?" Dr. Max Tegmark, a MIT cosmologist who was not involved in the discovery, told The Huffington Post in an email. "If it started out as a collapsing star, then this black hole ate about a billion times its birth weight to get this heavy: how did it manage to eat so much in so little time?"



Artist's impression of a quasar with a supermassive black hole in the distant universe.


The black hole lies at the center of a bright cloud of material, a celestial object known as a quasar, called SDSS J0100+2802. This object is located 12.8 billion light-years from Earth and is 420 trillion times brighter than the sun.

The quasar was spotted by a team of researchers using the Lijiang Telescope in Yunnan, China -- and the mass and distance of the black hole were confirmed by observations made with telescopes in Arizona, Hawaii, and Chile. Though black holes can't be seen directly, astronomers can infer their existence and size based on observations of the matter falling into them.

The researchers hope that further observations of the quasar, using the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Telescope, will shed new light on the formation of black holes and galaxies in the early universe.

"This quasar is very unique," co-researcher Dr. Xue-Bing Wu, an astronomy professor at Peking University and the associate director of the Kavli Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, said in the statement. "Just like the brightest lighthouse in the distant universe, its glowing light will help us to probe more about the early universe."

The newly discovered quasar, SDSS J0100+2802, is the one with the most massive black hole and the highest luminosity among all known distant quasars. The background photo, provided by Yunnan Observatory, shows the dome of the 2.4-meter telescope and the sky above it.

The research was published online Feb. 25 in the journal Nature.

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The questions arising from this discovery are really HUGE and just go to prove that science never claims -as a "body"- that it knows all the answers.  It still makes discoveries that throw out the accepted text books in a major way.

A black hole 12 nillion times larger than our sun based on calculations and inference -no actual solid "we've seen it.  We've touched it. It's real!"

But good observers including naturalists observe an unknown sea creature swimming about and it's: "You inferred it was that size.  You inferred it was unknown -where is your proof?"

Science and it's hipocrisy can be as irritating as an infected hemorrhoid.

Siberian Black Holes Prompt Call for Urgent Investigation

Into the maw ... A researcher scales the side of one of the blow holes to examine the methane lake below. Source: Siberian Times

 

 

Months after they started investigating a huge black hole in Siberia, Russian researchers say they have spotted still more suspicious-looking craters and lakes — and are calling for an urgent investigation of the phenomenon. Satellite imagery shows that one of the recently discovered craters, known as B2, is surrounded by more than 20 water-filled "baby craters," one researcher told The Siberian Times. 

The Times quoted Vasily Bogyavlensky, deputy director of the Moscow-based Oil and Gas Research Institute, as saying that the craters are being mapped near Siberia's Bovanenkovo gas field. He linked their formation to gas emissions from beneath the surface, and possibly gas explosions. "Anyway, we must research this phenomenon urgently, to prevent possible disasters," he was quoted as saying.

Experts have said the craters could be associated with climate change. 

Last year, Russian researchers reported heightened methane emissions at the crater sites and suggested that a long-term thaw was liberating underground reservoirs of natural gas. NASA scientist Tom Wagner told NBC News in December that the phenomenon might be caused instead by the collapse of tunnels and caves in the permafrost. 

Wagner also predicted that more such craters would be found as researchers scanned through satellite imagery looking for fresh evidence. 

Dozen more mysterious GIANT craters in Russia spark fears of looming natural disaster

FOUR new mysterious "giant craters", and many smaller ones, have appeared in northern Russia - sparking fears over a looming natural disaster in the Arctic.

Published: 07:22, Tue, February 24, 2015

By Will Stewart

 

MARIA ZULINOVA

Scientists said the Siberian craters were likely caused by explosions from gas hydrates

Observation from space has revealed the dramatic mushrooming of the holes, believed to be caused by methane gas eruptions in melting permafrost due to climate change, scientists revealed today.

A leading Russian expert sounded an alert over safety because one new Siberian crater, surrounded by at least 20 "baby holes", is just six miles from a major gas production plant.

He predicts up to 30 more are waiting to be discovered.

Scientsts are still baffled by the exact processes causing the craters and respected Moscow expert Professor Vasily Bogoyavlensky today called for "urgent" investigation of the new phenomenon amid safety fears.

 

VASILY BOGOYVLENSKY

This picture shows a map of the four craters

 

Until now, the existence of only three Siberian craters had been established.

"We know now of seven craters in the Arctic area," he told The Siberian Times - referring to the larger holes.

"Five are directly on the Yamal peninsula, one in Yamal Autonomous district, and one is on the north of the Krasnoyarsk region, near the Taimyr peninsula.

"We have exact locations for only four of them.

"The other three were spotted by reindeer herders.

 

VASILY BOGOYAVLENSKY

Rising temperatures are believed to create ideal conditions for more craters

It is important not to scare people, but this is a very serious problem. We must research this phenomenon urgently to prevent possible disasters

Professor Bogoyavlensky

"But I am sure that there are more craters on Yamal, we just need to search for them.
"I would compare this with mushrooms.

"When you find one mushroom, be sure there are few more around. I suppose there could be 20 to 30 craters more."

Two of the newly-discovered large craters - also known as funnels to scientists - have turned into lakes, revealed Professor Bogoyavlensky, deputy director of the Moscow-based Oil and Gas Research Institute, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

"It is important not to scare people, but this is a very serious problem.

"We must research this phenomenon urgently to prevent possible disasters. We cannot rule out new gas emissions in the Arctic and in some cases they can ignite."

 

VASILY BOGOYAVLENSKY

Satellite images of the giant craters that have alerted scientists 

 

The first hole was spotted in 2013 by helicopter pilots 20 miles from a gas extraction plant at Bovanenkovo, on the Yamal Peninsula.

An examination of the area using satellite images, comparing landscapes in the past with the present day, has alerted Russian experts to the prospect that the phenomenon is more widespread than first thought.
Experts are particularly interested in a crater they name B2, which just six miles to the south of the gas field at Bovanenkovo.

Old satellite imagery shows no sign of craters at the site but there now exists a lake, 100 metres by 50 metres, surrounded by 20 smaller holes filled with water.

These mini-craters are just a metre or two in diameter.

And, following the discovery of a funnel at Antipayuta, on the Yamal Peninsula, nearby residents told scientists about seeing a flash of light, possibly as a result of gas exploding.

 

VASILY BOGOYAVLENSKY

Yamal lake showing signs of 'degassing'

 

Professor Bogoyavlensky said: "We need to answer now the basic questions: what areas, and under what conditions, are the most dangerous?

"These questions are important for the safe operation of the northern cities and infrastructure of oil and gas complexes."

There is already scientific concern that Lake Baikal, the largest and oldest freshwater lake in the world, but well outside the Arctic Circle, could be among the places sitting on a "time bomb" ready to explode.
Scientists have previously said there is growing evidence that rising temperatures is the main catalyst triggering the blasts. Any continued increase - as is predicted by meteorologists - could create the ideal conditions for more craters to be formed.

It is thought permafrost at the sites could have one million times more methane hydrates locked inside than ordinary gas. One expert estimated that the total explosive power of the craters has been the equivalent of about 11 tonnes of TNT.

 

VASILY BOGOYAVLENSKY

Satellite imagery shows signs of craters at a site that previously had none

 

There are also two tectonic fault lines across the Yamal Peninsula, with another possibility being that the blow-outs are caused by a deadly combination of heat leaving these rifts, a higher than normal air temperature, and the "fire ice" melting.

The professor revealed one picture of a Yamal lake showing signs of what he calls "degassing".
"This haze that you see on the surface shows gas seeps from the bottom of the lake to the surface," he said.

"We call this process 'degassing'."

He is not sure if this lake, too, was previously a crater "or if the lake formed from another process.
"More important is that the gases from within are actively seeping through this lake."

A New Film About....Rendlesham Forest. Why?

 

More and more seems to get added to the Rendlesham Forest event each year.  I was informed of the alleged sighting before any other UK investigator and I was driven down there and talked to USAF personnel.  We dismissed the case because of what we heard and saw.

About three years ago I was bored and watched an episode of UFO Hunters dealing with the case.  I got a phone call from the man who used to be my driver and he asked whether I had watched it?  I said I had.  He then said "You realise those mysterious men who interrogated the USAF personnel and were basically Men-In-Black types?  That was us!"

The penny dropped.  More fiction because the programme suggested we had some sort of carte blanche security clearance.  Like Roswell, Rendlesham was a non-event.

Did a UFO visit us in 1983? New film sheds light on 'British Area 51'

In 1983, U.S. Army personnel stationed near Rendlesham in Suffolk saw a strange, metallic triangle

A new film explores one of the weirdest episodes in British history - a UFO mystery which enthusiasts believe has been the subject of a cover-up for two decades.

In 1983, U.S. Army personnel stationed near Rendlesham in Suffolk saw a strange, metallic triangle which was ‘dripping molten metal’ - and witnessed a light like a ‘huge red eye’.

Unlike most UFO sightings, it was documented in voice recordings from senior American soldiers, who also drew disturbing pictures of the object they saw.

One witness claimed to have telepathically ‘received’ a binary code, which has never been deciphered.

The Ministry of Defence investigated, and concluded that a variety of natural phenomena were responsible.

But some of the soldiers involved - and UFO fans - have never bought this explanation.

Film director Daniel Simpson, who researched The Rendlesham UFO Incident, said he investigated evidence including audio recordings before directing his own fictional take on the incident.

He said, ‘It is my belief that the USAF did actually see something that is from another world or dimension.

‘Former witness Lt Col Charles Halt has gone on record to state this also.’

Simpson told Starburst Magazine, ‘It’s one of, if not the, biggest UFO incident ever recorded along with the Roswell case and it took place over 3 consecutive nights. I think that the fascination in the case is amplified as a result of the witnesses being multiple USAF personnel, with the addition that one of those people was a Lieutenant Colonel who made an audio recording on a dictaphone as the events unfolded.’

Reports by retired soldiers such as Colonel Charles Halt sound seriously spooky: ‘While in Rendlesham Forest, our security team observed a light that looked like a large eye, red in colour, moving through the trees.

‘After a few minutes this object began dripping something that looked like molten metal.’

Others reported losing time periods, mysterious light – and strange howling noises ‘like women screaming’.

 Sceptics claim that the marks of the UFO’s landing are, in fact, rabbit holes.

Multiple soldiers made drawings and descriptions of craft which resemble classic ‘flying saucers’.

Nigel Watson, author of the Haynes UFO Investigations Manual says, ‘The Rendlesham case is one of Britain’s most fascinating UFO incidents. The problem with the alleged crashes is that no one has ever provided unambiguous evidence to support them. It is always claimed that all the remains of crashed flying saucers and even their pilots are whisked off by Government retrieval teams.’

The Haunted Skies Project Books 1-11

http://www.hauntedskies.co.uk/books.html

All current volumes are available to purchase via the Amazon website.

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Good bye Todd Standing

I think this says it all.

Do Aliens Really Want To Hear From Us??

Hmm. Over twenty years ago I wrote an article title: "If You Invite People To The Party Don't Be Surprised If They Show Up!"   If they have not heard our broadcasts yet -or seen the TV signals- then maybe they are not interested.  We don't come across as very nice in broadcasts.

Anyway, enough of me...

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One way to convince advanced aliens that we are an intelligent species might be to teach them the rules of cricket, according to a scientist leading plans to seek out ET. 

Of course, if his critics are right, there is a chance that who or whatever picks up the signals will want to take us on - or even invade Lords.

Members of Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) are preparing for the next step in their attempts to make contact with aliens by actively calling out to the cosmos, instead of just listening.
Other experts, notably renowned British physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, have warned that such a move risks inviting disaster.

What is known as Active Seti will be under serious discussion this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Jose, California.

Seti spokesman Dr Seth Shostak outlined methods being explored of conducting Active Seti within the next two years, including the possibility of nurturing an alien interest in cricket and rock music.

The idea would be to flood the ETs with lively content from the internet, rather than bore them with mathematical concepts or chemical equations.

Dr Shostak, director of the Centre for Seti Research in Mountain View, California, said: "I think you'd want to send lots of information. I recommend that we send the entire internet, the Google servers.

"Send it all. If they look up cricket, there are descriptions, pictures, diagrams showing a pitch, footage.. They'll cross-correlate all this and put it together and if they are clever at all, they will figure out something about cricket.

"Honestly, what do they want to hear from us? Do they want to hear what the structure of the hydrogen atom is? No, they know that. They want to know about our rock 'n roll."

Seti dates back to 1960 when a young astronomer called Frank Drake conducted the first microwave radio search for intelligent signals from other solar systems.

Since then about 100 searches have been made for radio or laser-transmitted messages from the stars, none of which have confirmed the existence of an extraterrestrial civilisation.

A few isolated attempts have also been made to contact ETs directly by broadcasting signals. But now a number of scientists, including Dr Shostak, believe what is needed is a full scale co-ordinated Active Seti operation.

Active Seti would involve using a handful of powerful radio telescopes to beam repeated "hello" signals at nearby stars within a radius of about 20 light years.

Likely candidates include Kapteyn (13 light years), Kepler 298 (11.9 light years) and the "red dwarf" star Gliese 832 (16.1 light years), all of which are believed to have rocky Earth-like planets orbiting in the "habitable" zone where conditions may be suitable for life.

With signals travelling at the speed of light, a reply might not come for decades.

Prof Hawking has warned against inviting an unwelcome visit from aliens, pointing out: "The outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans."

A number of other experts agree, including scientist, author and futurist Dr David Brin, who is taking part in the AAAS symposium.

He said: "If you bring human history into the discussion, there is a cautionary tale. Name one example of a meeting between an advanced civilisation and a less technically advanced one that did not end in tears.
"Just because the probability of a negative outcome is very low that does not mean it is zero. The existence of low probability outcomes that might be devastatingly negative is worth pondering."

Dr Shostak's counter-argument is that any aliens capable of interstellar travel would be at least several centuries more advanced than us. They would almost certainly have already spotted the human race through leaking early TV transmissions and radar signals, so there is no point hiding the Earth from them now.

"We have already yelled 'yoo hoo'," said Dr Shostak. "What we want to do is follow up with something with a little more substance."

It may be that the ETs have been waiting for Earth to call them under the rules of contact between galactic civilisations, he added. If we avoid Active Seti, we could lose out.

"Maybe the galactic value system says it should be the civilisation that has the most to gain that should make contact," said Dr Shostak. "The biggest downside of not doing Active Seti is we may forego an opportunity for contact.

"We shouldn't hope for alien salvation, but we should hope for an expansion of our perspective. It's sometimes easier to imagine bad outcomes from actions than the possibility of bad outcomes from inaction.

"The broader long-term implication is that our decision about whether we want to transmit or not helps define who we are as a species. To date we have been a species that seeks to know, that dares to explore, and exploration involves risk.

"We could define ourselves as a species that does everything we can to protect ourselves and to isolate ourselves from the rest of the universe, but that's a very different idea of humankind than the one I'm familiar with."

Fellow Seti scientist Dr Douglas Vakoch said: "We've had certain assumptions about other civilisations being very long lived and technically advanced and sending us intentional signals for our benefit. I hope that's all true, but I don't think we should count on it.

"Active Seti looks at other scenarios. Maybe there are other civilisations out there that are at a comparable technological level to us, a twin Earth, with the dame degree of tech, and they are listening. They wouldn't know about us in the same way we wouldn't know about them."

 
The latest data collected by Nasa and other space agencies suggests there could be as many as 40 billion potentially habitable planets in our galaxy, the Milky Way.

Even though alien civilisations would be a lot rarer, experts have concluded there might be around 3,000.

But the chances of meeting any of them are thought to be extremely low given the distances involved.

Professor Michael Garrett, head of the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, has said galactic civilisations would on average be separated by at least 1,000 light years.

Everyone Needs To Read These Books. Step Into MY World For A Bit!

As a kind of "thank you" to someone in the United States I sent a copy of Some Things Strange & Sinister, Some MORE Things Strange & Sinister and Pursing The Strange & Weird -A Naturalist's Viewpoint.  

 

 

 

Now this particular person is not your average reader of this type of book.  And he's smart.  So I expected a few polite "Yeah. Very uh, 'good' "comments.  Instead I got this:

"The books arrived yesterday.  You have done a remarkable piece of work - such an enormous number of case-works.  The books are thick with strange stories.  These books should be on books shelves everywhere.  They are very elegant looking.  I started reading one last night and had t give it up because it was past my bedtime.  I will continue with that one tonight."

I blush.

 

So, those who have read these books love them.  high praise from Finland, United States and UK.  But who buys them?  

 Lots of comments about the catchy cover designs and asking who did the designing?  ME.  BTCG is a one man operation.

And no publisher or agent seems interested.   

Seems that if people see and read my books they really like them -prose or the comic albums. I just need buyers!

I've lost track where I was going with this!

 

 

Mystery Seal Deaths

Following on from the posting last year of mysterious Seal deaths reported by the Cornish Wildlife Trust, I have heard back from them and they say no solution can be found as yet.  I decided to contact the Irish Seal Sanctuary and they have furnished me with a report on seal deaths as well as photographs.

Can I please ask that any of you on the cast or estuaries who find dead seals PLEASE report them to the local authority as soon as possible.

I'll update as soon as I can.

Thank You

Hey, Zak Bagans Has A New Book Out -Wanna buy some snake-oil, too?

Interesting as I understand he also has a new brand of snake-oil due out. The ego has grown and I just wonder how long before "Zak Bagans Ghost Adventures" will appear?  

I used to really rate and credit GA but it seems to have become more a Bagans ego trip and snake-oil act.  A few lights flashing on and off (as proven with the Ghost Hunters TV show trick) is not "Proof of direct communication with the dead".  It is proof that you can keep boosting your viewing figures by acting like some TV evangelist.

Just watch repeats of GA series 1-8.   And wait til you can buy this book cheap somewhere.  I no longer trust a word the man says.  And I find that a shame.

This feature from Examiner.com. http://www.examiner.com/article/ghost-adventures-host-zak-bagans-new-book-is-available-february-10

'Ghost Adventures' host Zak Bagans' new book is available February 10

'Ghost Adventures' host Zak Bagans' new book is available February 10

Photo courtesy of Zak Bagans

"Ghost Adventures" host Zak Bagans recently announced the release of his new book "I Am Haunted" on his Twitter page yesterday. "I Am Haunted" is his second book which is due out next week.

"I Am Haunted" follows paranormal adventurer Zak Bagans as he travels the world investigating strange mysteries. Follow Bagans on his journey as he joins a vampire clan in Paris, goes on a quest to find the real Dracula in Romania, to buying a haunted house in Indiana occupied by hundreds of demons.

"Sometimes it's the encounters with people that affect me the most, from crackheads in Reno, to gangbangers in St. Louis, and crazed fans in West Virginia. During my travels I've learned more about this world and the one that awaits all of us far more than anyone should. I've been given a spiritual key that unlocks unknown doorways and what I experience when I open them seems to be letting me know that I shouldn't." Bagans revealed in his second book.

Bagans' first book "Dark World" was a New York Times Best Seller. Just a week after its release date, it reached #18 on the list. "I am Haunted" is scheduled to be released on Tuesday.

Back in November, Bagans stopped the production the documentary film that will feature his Indiana demon house. According to a post on his Twitter page, Bagans said the house became unsafe for his crew and he had to call a priest to come exorcise the house.

The small house on Carolina Street, in Gary, Indiana has over 800 pages of official police reports of odd occurrences that have been said to have happened there. A police captain with the Gary Police Department says he believes that the home is haunted. According to the police captain and various psychics, the house is infested with hundreds of ghosts and demons.

In a recent photo of the house, a strange figure can be seen peering out of one of the porch windows of the home. City officials claim that there were no inhabitants living in the home when the picture was taken.

One family that lived in the home fled due to the supernatural events. The Ammons, who lived in the home claimed to have experienced their children levitating, strange footsteps, odd behavior from animals and insects. A family case manager and a family nurse even witnessed one of the children walking backward up a wall.

"This may well be one of the most well-documented cases of demonic possession ever," Bagans said to Robin Leach in an interview about the house.

Psychics came and informed the Ammons that the house was infested with over 200 ghosts and demons. According to the seers, the demons were attempting to possess the family's children. The home has been labeled "a portal to Hell."

"If it's true that this home is a portal to Hell, then I want to go there and see what happens," Bagans said in an interview with TMZ.

Bagans convinced another family that lived in the house in the 80s to come back to the home to appear in his new documentary. As soon as filming commenced, demonic activity started to stir up within the house. The former home owner claimed that she was kicked and her daughter began speaking in tongues and threatened to attack the crew. Bagans took the possessed girl to a Catholic priest for an exorcism to rid the evil spirits.

Bagans purchased the house last January and paid only $35,000 for the home. He started production for "The Demon House" back in April but had to temporarily shut down production in the summer due to unsafe conditions. According to Bagans, production the documentary resumed in December. The film is scheduled to be released in the fall.

Bagans' second book "I Am Haunted" is currently available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble for pre-order. The book is due out Tuesday, February 10, 2015.

Someone In Italy.....

...has purchased a copy of Pursuing The Strange & Weird:A Naturalists Viewpoint.

THANK YOU!

Up-Date On The Lettuce Lake Skunk Ape Video

I hate to say "I was right" so I'll let the people over at the Bigfoot Evidence site explain it all.

http://bigfootevidence.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/heres-some-clarification-on-lettuce.html#moretop

Riddle House Paranormal Investigation with WIRK

I was sent this video link by someone -via You Tube which is odd since I have NOTHING on YT that is paranormal orientated at all.   I did watch the video -in the end three times and the sound up loud.  I cannot hear the EVPs (Electronic Voice Phenomena)  just static. 



I am also finding it hard to accept these stick figures representing the presence of a ghost.  I have seen it on Ghost Adventures -and the other gear- BUT until I have seen a recognised, qualified physicist or engineer unconnected with paranormal groups and who has tested the gear state that it is all legit and that the claimed results are true....no.  I will not accept them. 



Remember "Orbs" and "Rods" -all the result of digital cameras with which people were unfamiliar -I've got great shots of a room crowded with orbs!  This was hailed as "digital technology finally providing photographic proof of ghosts" 



No. It just showed how GOOD digital cameras were and just how much detail they picked up.  If we could get the equipment assessed THEN that might just say that these are tools worth having in investigations.



 The same applies to EVPs -some I have heard are VERY similar to investigators voices (I am NOT referring to this video).  Sounds and recordings can be easily analysed by experts these days -voice comparison recording of the investigator(s) -if they are honest then why refuse?- can be used to check for fakery.  It might even be possible to get data back that can be turned into something useful for future investigations by adjusting equipment.



Paranormal investigators claim they are looking for scientific and irrefutable evidence of whatever 'ghosts' might be -yet they are not forwarding the material the have for scientific study/analysis. 



Why not?  



All very interesting but just another ghost-hunter documentary.  But I will check in on future videoes. You never know!

Bigfoot vs Buffalo (ThinkerThunker)

Someone sent me this link and asked: "What do you think?"   So I watched without sound.  Saw the people in various jackets (grey and black) and watched the Bison.  Then came the object by the bison and I thought "That's faked!" So I turned on the sound. 



Just WHAT the hell is this person talking about??? 



Everything from the "non human length of the arms" (that are quite normal in length) to the massive "speeds" these, uh, 'bigfoot are walking, to the risk of  being charged by the bison....it is fantasy.  



Just LOOK at the people moving in the background -the first with the "bad leg" looks exactly like a man walking in slippery conditions. 



My theory is that these are pigmy bison which are only 3-3.5 feet tall.  So a normal man would look that big (especially if the image was as distorted as that) Believe that? Then you'll believe this is a group of Bigfoot!

The Lettuce Lake Skunk Ape - (with enhancements)

Hmm. Para Breakdown WON'T say it but I will.  For a huge hominid this has a great deal of difficulty moving in the water/swamp.  All reports usually say how easily these creatures move in this environment.  The head and body look far too human and the "swinging arms" are more wet, swinging tassles. 



A hoax or someone doing a spot of poaching in a gillie suit?  I can't see a rifle or hunting bow but maybe traps were being set? 



Whatever this is more "something" footage and WHY move the camera to the left when your focus should be in the object to the right? 



Hoax.

Loch Ness Creature Collided With Boat -So, It Takes Decades To Tell Us This??

Not really sure how seriously to take this...

Best Loch Ness Monster Evidence — Lost? Creature Left Flesh On Boat’s Propeller After Collision

image: http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Loch-Ness-Monster-Boats-Collide-665x385.jpg

 

 

What may have been the best evidence that the Loch Ness Monster is indeed real was inadvertently destroyed almost 40 years ago, after a rented pleasure boat suffered a violent collision with an unknown object in Scotland’s vast and mysterious lake widely believed to house the bizarre sea creature.

One of the passengers on the rented boat, an elderly man, was so frightened by the collision with an unseen object that he suffered a heart attack and died shortly thereafter — making the unfortunate boater perhaps the only human fatality claimed by an encounter with the Loch Ness Monster.

The reported collision in 1978 was not even the first reported on the mist-enshrouded lake in the Scottish Highlands between a boat and the strange occupant of the 22 square-mile lake, which reaches depths of up to 755 feet. In 1943 a Royal Navy boat ran directly into what the boat’s commander described as “a very large animal… a living creature.”

But the 1978 collision could have yielded incontrovertible evidence of that the Loch Ness Monster exists, because the collision is said to have wounded the creature — which left large shards of its flesh on the boat’s propeller shaft.

Stanley Roberts, now 85, who owned the rental boat back in 1978, described the remnants of the monster that were attached to the underside of his boat as “found flesh and black skin an inch thick along the propshaft.”

But before he knew what had happened, workers who were repairing the damaged boat simply tossed the flesh into the water.

“The workers chiseled the flesh away and threw it into the Caledonian Canal,” Roberts recalled, in an interview last week with the Scotland Now news site. “I said you stupid b*******s. It would have proved that Nessie was here.”

Had the organic material been preserved, given DNA-reading techniques available with today’s technology, scientists would likely have been able to determine exactly what hit the boat — and as a result, finally learned what the fabled Loch Ness Monster actually is.

There have been countless sightings of “Nessie” since the 1930s, when the “Monster” first became a worldwide sensation. In 2012, a Loch Ness Monster researcher, George Edwards, took what he believes is the clearest photograph yet of a large, living creature in the lake’s waters.

Then in 2013, another Nessie enthusiast scanned satellite images of Loch Ness using Google Earth, and discovered what appears to be a giant eel-like monster swimming just below the water’s surface.

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The photo of the Loch Ness Monster at the top of this page remains the most famous alleged photo of the creature ever taken. Snapped in 1934, in 1993 it was revealed to have been a hoax all along.

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1804894/best-loch-ness-monster-evidence/#25KOyhujvt0goyo3.99