Tuesday 26 December 2023
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Friday 22 December 2023
Wednesday 20 December 2023
Tuesday 19 December 2023
Saturday 9 December 2023
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Tuesday 28 November 2023
Monday 27 November 2023
Sunday 26 November 2023
Friday 24 November 2023
1816 and 1828...a couple of accounts
Thursday 23 November 2023
Wednesday 22 November 2023
Am I Joining The Debunkers? What??
I was asked why I do not join the current crop of "debunkers" on You Tube and online?
No. In any serious area of investigation and research the term "debunker" is a dirty word and debunkers are people who will try to explain every and anything away even if it means twisting facts and outright lyi8ng and faking 'evidence' to prove their point.
I am a skeptic. Totally different and after decades of dealing with debunkers I will never join anything where people call themselves a "debunking community".
Monday 20 November 2023
Friday 17 November 2023
'Alien' spherules dredged from the Pacific are probably just industrial pollution, new studies suggest
Microscopic metallic spheres recovered from the Pacific Ocean are likely the result of manmade industrial pollution — rather than pieces of an interstellar meteor — according to
several new studies.
Last summer, Harvard astrophysicist and extraterrestrial hunter Avi Loeb declared that several tiny, metallic balls dredged up from the bottom of the ocean were likely remnants from an interstellar meteorite, and could even contain signatures of alien technology. Now, independent analysis suggests the spheres have a much less distant origin: They are more likely a by-product from burning coal on Earth.
Loeb and his colleagues found the micrometer-sized spherules during an expedition off the coast of Papua New Guinea in search of fragments of a meteor that streaked through the atmosphere in 2014.
Based on the meteor's recorded speed, Loeb and his team said that it was likely interstellar in origin — and that it must have left debris in its wake. The dredged-up spheres, they suggested, are that debris, as their composition is different to that of most meteorites.
In several blog posts and a non-peer-reviewed paper posted to the preprint database arXiv, Loeb described the various "anomalous" properties of the metallic pellets. He zeroed in on five spherules in particular that contained a high percentage of beryllium, lanthanum and uranium. Loeb dubbed these five "BeLaU spherules". He and others have since speculated that the weird spheres might be evidence of alien technology.
But many scientists unrelated to the research took issue with these claims at the time — and now, several newly-published studies poke additional holes in the supposed extraterrestrial origins of the spherules.
Interstellar rock, or manmade pollution?
First, there is some debate as to whether or not the meteor in question was actually interstellar. It was only recorded by U.S. military equipment, and some researchers say that it's possible the sensors made a mistake when recording its speed, according to a new non-peer-reviewed paper posted to arXiv on Nov. 13. However, even if the meteor's speed was correctly recorded, odds are low that any significant pieces of it would survive the fall through the atmosphere.
"If interstellar, practically none of the 2014-01-08 bolide would have survived entry," the authors of the new study — professors Steven Desch of Arizona State University and Alan Jackson of Towson University — wrote. "If it were traveling at the speeds that were reported (and necessary to be interstellar), then at least 99.8%, and probably > 99.9999% of it would have vaporized in the atmosphere, leaving insignificant quantities to be deposited on the seafloor."
Then, there's the issue of proving the spheres came from that particular meteor. Scientists don't know where or even whether the 2014 meteor landed; it would be extremely difficult to find tiny pieces of that exact specimen by searching the ocean within a 30-mile (48 kilometers) radius nearly 10 years after it appeared. On the other hand, little metal balls are ubiquitous on the seafloor. Some are micrometeorites shed by passing space rocks, but others are spewed out by volcanoes or produced by industrial activity. These naturally collect at the bottom of the ocean over time.
Finally, there is the question of the spheres' makeup. If you start from the assumption that these particular pellets originated in space, then their composition does indeed seem unusual. However, as a recent paper published Oct. 23 in the journal Research Notes of the AAS points out, they match the profile of coal ash contaminants. Study author Patricio Gallardo, an astronomer at the University of Chicago, wrote that, because of this, "the meteoritic origin is disfavored."
Is it still possible that the spherules came from somewhere outside our solar system? Yes. But, based on the available evidence, it appears far more likely that they originated much closer to home, the new papers suggest. As NASA astrobiologist Caleb Scharf wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, "Well, they did indeed discover evidence of a technological civilization…right here on Earth."
Loeb refutes critics
Loeb responded to these criticisms in a Nov. 15 blog post on Medium, arguing that the new papers cannot adequately assess the composition of the spherules without studying them directly.
He went on to quote team member Jim Lem of the Papua New Guinea University of Technology, writing: "The region where the expedition was carried, should have no coal mineralization. In addition, coal is non-magnetic and cannot be picked up by the magnetic sled that was used."
Loeb added that 93% of the collected samples have yet to be analyzed, cautioning critics not to jump to conclusions about their origins until all the data is in. To make definitive claims about the spherules' nature before they are properly analyzed in a peer-reviewed study would be "unprofessional," Loeb said.
Thursday 16 November 2023
Friday 10 November 2023
Wednesday 1 November 2023
WARNING: Lady Gets POSSESSED At The INCUBUS DEMON HOUSE?
Tuesday 31 October 2023
Saturday 28 October 2023
Friday 27 October 2023
Wednesday 25 October 2023
Sunday 22 October 2023
Saturday 21 October 2023
Monday 16 October 2023
The Wild Woman of Changy, France
If anyone has read my book Some More Things Strange & Sinister they will be aware that a bulk of it deals with mystery hominids, wild men and women and gorillas before #discovery' etc. I am always trawling the newspaper archives and once in a while a new wild person report crops up.
This is from the Newcastle Courant - Saturday 20 November 1731
A4
322 pages
B&W
Illustrated throughout
Paperback:
£20.00
Thursday 12 October 2023
Monday 9 October 2023
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Saturday 7 October 2023
Friday 6 October 2023
Wednesday 4 October 2023
The Ancient Ram Inn and Dybbuk Boxes
If you see one of the 'paranormal' shows on TV or You Tube who show a Dybbuk Box and make claims about them here are things to remember:
When asked about these boxes several Rabbi stated they had never heard of them and they were not an established "Hebrew paranormal phenomenon"
Read this from Wikipedia:
"The Dybbuk box, or Dibbuk box (Hebrew: Ś§ŚŚ€ŚĄŚȘ ŚŚŚŚŚ§, romanized: Kufsat Dibbuk), is a paranormal hoax consisting of an antique wine-cabinet claimed to be haunted by a dybbuk, a concept from Judaism. The box gained notoriety when it was auctioned off on eBay by owner Kevin Mannis, who created a story featuring Jewish Holocaust survivors and paranormal claims as part of his eBay item description. Mannis' story was the inspiration for the 2012 horror film The Possession.
"In 2021, Mannis told Input magazine that the Dybbuk Box story was entirely fictional."
I mention this as these fake boxes are still being sold as 'genuine' on places like Ebay.
If you ever go on a ghost hunt to the Ram Inn (or "The Ancient Ram Inn" ) remember that 99% of what is claimed about the location is false. Go to You Tube and watch some of the old interviews with the late owner, John Humphries. Ghost Adventures, Most Haunted etc all got the same stories with "added" bits for the people he was speaking to. Also I know one investigator who slept in a car just along the road when he got a migraine so never went into the Inn with his mates. He watched two young men (the then owners relatives) climbing around the outside and the "Bumps", "Knocks" were explained to his mates later. There are plenty of true investigation reports as well as reveals of hoaxing online that you can check. Remember that You Tube paranormal shows are there to make money so they always sensationalise things.
Do actual research on places you are going to and DO NOT rely on the people who own or run the 'attractions' because most go by the lies perpetuated by owners and 'ghost hunters' who are invested in perpetuating a myth.
You can spend decades investigating alleged haunted sites and see and hear nothing. Everything that I experienced was away from haunted locations and spontaneous. Ghost hunting is 99% boring
There is also all this "Satan", "fallen angel" and "Hell" and "demon" junk not to mention "666". Andy Hamilton looked into all of this in Andy Hamilton Searching For Satan and you can find the documentary on Daily Motion. Once you watch it you will realise why the "demonic possessions"/"demons" etc on You Tube paranormal shows makes me laugh.
Tuesday 3 October 2023
Monday 2 October 2023
Sunday 1 October 2023
Friday 29 September 2023
Thursday 28 September 2023
Sunday 24 September 2023
On the Trail of Bigfoot: The Search - Full Movie (Sasquatch Evidence and...
Friday 22 September 2023
UFOs and UAP
Monday 18 September 2023
Sunday 17 September 2023
Saturday 16 September 2023
Friday 15 September 2023
Thursday 14 September 2023
‘Alien corpses’ shown to Congress as UFO expert forced to testify under oath
Here we go with more fake headlines. WHO was "forced to testify under oath"? Maussan? Good lords he has never managed to not blurt out streams of nonsense in his journalistic and hoaxing/grifter life. This is a man who has become wealthy based on calling hot air balloons and other clearly seen mundane objects "alien".
Even as this story was reported on people noted the previous Maussan fakery. Even this article tells readers about it. As for the 'scientific facts' stated.... if you have no idea it may sound great but I am sure Maussan's accountant is rubbing his hands together in glee.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/alien-corpses-shown-congress-ufo-092014784.html
Alleged “non-human” alien corpses have been displayed to Mexican politicians at the country’s Congress.
The two small alleged alien corpses, retrieved from Cusco, Peru, were presented in windowed boxes in Mexico City on Wednesday, stirring excitement within the UFO conspiracy theorist community.
The event was spearheaded by journalist and ufologist Jaime Maussan, who testified under oath that the mummified specimens are not part of “our terrestrial evolution”, with almost a third of their DNA remaining “unknown”, reported Mexican media.
The claims by the self-claimed ‘ufologist’ have not been proven and Mr Maussan has previously been associated with claims of discoveries that have later been debunked.
At the public hearing, Mr Maussan showed US officials and members of the Mexican government several videos of “UFOs and unidentified anomalous phenomena” before unveiling the alleged alien corpses.
He said: “These specimen are not part of our terrestrial evolution... These aren’t beings that were found after a UFO wreckage. They were found in diatom (algae) mines, and were later fossilized.”
Mr Maussan told attendees the specimens had been studied by scientists at the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM) who were able to draw DNA evidence using radiocarbon dating. After comparisons were made to other DNA samples, it was found that over 30% of the specimens’ DNA was “unknown”, he said.
X-rays of the specimens were also shown during the hearing, with experts testifying under oath that one of the bodies is seen to have “eggs” inside, while both were said to have implants made of very rare metals, such as Osmium.
Ryan Graves, Americans for Safe Aerospace Executive Director and former US Navy pilot, was in attendance, having earlier this year told US Congress of the threat that unidentified aerial phenomena posed to US national security.
Mr Maussan has previously been associated with claims of “alien” discoveries that have later been debunked, including five mummies found in Peru in 2017 that were later shown to be human children.
Wednesday 13 September 2023
Tuesday 12 September 2023
In Pursuit: Things Known and UNKNOWN
62pp
A4
B&W
£7.00
Fact NOT fiction journal looking at trange creatures and stories from around the world
Contents:-
A "Cold Case" Too Old? The Beast Of Faudiere –Mystery Killer
The Strange Creature in Repton Woods
Cry Werewolf ! and The Curious And Frightening Case Of The Hull Werewolf
On The Scientific 'Need' To Kill A Sasquatch
The Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy group has blood on their hands?.
On Gathering Hard Evidence
The Strange Case Of The Gotherington Gargoyle
Photographic Evidence That Dinosaurs Exist
The Monster of the Forest of Mouliere
Why Don't I Turn My Work Into A TV Show?
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Sunday 10 September 2023
Saturday 9 September 2023
Friday 8 September 2023
Thursday 7 September 2023
Scientists baffled by golden ‘egg’ found in deep sea dive (it isn't made of gold really)
The Telegraph https://uk.yahoo.com/news/scientists-baffled-golden-egg-found-161621770.html
A strange golden object found on the seafloor off the coast of Alaska is puzzling marine scientists who suspect it may be the egg of an unknown species.
The shiny object, which appears to have a hole in one side where a creature may have hatched, was discovered by a team of deep sea explorers from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) last week.
“Something tried to get in... or to get out,” one researcher was heard to say during the live feed of the remotely operated dive, which took place two miles beneath the surface at the site of an extinct volcano.
“I just hope when we poke it, something doesn’t decide to come out,” a second marine scientist said. “It’s like the beginning of a horror movie. When our collective knowledge can’t identify it, it’s something weird. What kind of an animal would make an egg casing like that?”
‘The’ team deployed a robotic arm to jiggle the “egg” free from its rock before sucking it up so it could be examined at the surface.
Although experts were expecting its texture to be gelatinous – like a shark egg – it was similar to skin tissue or silk, and DNA tests are now being carried out to find its identity.
NOAA said that an egg casing was the most likely explanation.
Several deep sea fish, such as sharks and rays are known to deposit egg cases in similar habitats but experts are stumped about its origin. Other suggestions have included a new type of coral, a Pacific barnacle or a sponge.
The mystery object was found on day eight of NOAA’s Seascape Alaska 5 expedition, which has been running since August 23, exploring the seabed around 250 miles south of the Alaskan coast.
Around one third of life in the ocean is thought to be undiscovered and the team has been taking samples of creatures living in deep-sea coral, sponge habitats, and mud volcanoes.
Kerry Howell, a professor of deep-sea ecology at the University of Plymouth, told the Mail Online that the object is “weird”.
“In my 20 years exploring the deep sea I have not seen anything like that,” she said. “It’s always exciting to see new things and I will wait eagerly for the analysis on the sample to understand what it actually is.
“There are many many undiscovered species in the deep sea so this could be related to a new species quite easily.”
Wednesday 6 September 2023
Tuesday 5 September 2023
HIGH STRANGENESS
Details
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- 9780244421793
- Category
- Science & Medicine
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- Contributors
- By (author): Terry Hooper~Scharf
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- 530
- Binding
- Paperback
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- Black & White
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- Crown Quarto (7.44 x 9.68 in / 189 x 246 mm)
Strange & Mysterious Beasts
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- By (author): Terry Hooper-Scharf
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- Binding
- Paperback
- Interior Color
- Black & White
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- Crown Quarto (7.44 x 9.68 in / 189 x 246 mm)
Sunday 3 September 2023
Creature photographed in Loch Ness 'is not monster'
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/creature-photographed-loch-ness-may-160621788.html
It was the “most exciting” potential sighting of the Loch Ness monster captured on camera for decades.
But now, a paranormal investigator has dampened Nessie hunters’ hopes by saying the strange object photographed “spinning and rolling” in the water is “most likely” a sturgeon.
Translator Chie Kelly revealed the pictures last week after seeing the “creature” moving at a steady speed while she was having lunch at a pub on the banks of Loch News in Scotland on Aug 13 2018.
Ms Kelly kept quiet about the pictures for fear of ridicule, but went public after hundreds of volunteers descended on Loch Ness last week for a two-day monster hunt – the biggest attempt to get to the bottom of the myth in decades.
Although the image has been hailed as the “most exciting” picture taken of Nessie in decades, Hayley Stevens, a paranormal researcher and regular contributor to the BBC Radio 4 podcast Uncanny, said: “I personally think it is most likely that they saw a large sturgeon in the Loch.”
Writing on the award-winning science blog, Hayley is a Ghost, she said: “The photos were taken in August 2018 and sturgeon migrate into fresh water in late summer and early autumn to mate, before heading back out to coastal waters.
“Sturgeon can grow very large – the Atlantic and European sturgeon, which are native to the UK, can grow up to five metres in length.
“Most importantly though, we have to acknowledge the fact that we’ll probably not know for sure what the photo shows but something being currently unexplained does not mean it is unexplainable.”
Thousands of people have taken to message boards to discuss what the image might be, with ideas ranging from two otters playing, to bin bags and even a deflated dinghy.
Many claim to have seen the face of the monster zooming in on the images, but Ms Stevens warned zooming distorts the picture further and can trigger the “pareidolia effect” – in which the brain interprets random images, or patterns of light and shadow, as faces.
Scientists believe that the “pareidolia effect” evolved to help pick out hidden predators, but it can lead to people seeing faces where they are not there, such as picking out Jesus, the Virgin Mary, or Elvis in objects such as toasts, shrouds, and clouds.
Ms Stevens added: “The photos are a part of the mystery as they do not clearly show what’s in the water.
“This does not stop people from zooming in on the photo – to the point that the photo quality is distorted, in the hope that they’ll find a pixel that tells them the answer.
“In reality, any further detail that emerges from zooming in on a photo to the point that it is pixelated is likely to come from the pareidolia effect.”
A second photograph showing a strange creature in Loch Ness, emerged over the weekend, taken by 12-year-old Charlotte Robinson, on Aug 17 2018.
Charlotte, from Leeds in Yorkshire, said that it had “a neck and head in the shape of a hook” and had disappeared, before reemerging elsewhere for about a minute.
The shape in the picture is similar to the most famous image of “Nessie” taken by Robert Kenneth Wilson, a gynaecologist, in 1930, which also showed a creature with a long neck and small head moving through the water.
The image – which became widely known as “the surgeon’s photograph” – later turned out to be a hoax, created by a disgruntled ex-Mail employee who was angry that his father-in-law had been ridiculed by the newspaper for claiming he had found Nessie footprints.
Nevertheless, both Charlotte and Ms Kelly’s sightings have been accepted by the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register.
Gary Campbell, the keeper of the register, said the two new images were “the best of Nessie ever taken and are totally baffling”.
Members of the Loch Ness Exploration group who took to the loch last week said their microphones had picked up “strange sounds” but said they had forgotten to turn on their recording equipment, so their claims cannot be verified.
Some Nessie hunters believe the creature could be a plesiosaur that survived extinction.
The theory was boosted last year when the University of Bath found fossils of small plesiosaurs in a 100-million-year-old river system that is now in Morocco’s Sahara Desert, suggesting some did live in freshwater.