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was looking at some of the technology pursuit of profit. Where is the much talked-
that was reputedly obtained from back- about ‘free energy’? Where are the huge leaps
engineered alien technology obtained in technology? Apparently the ET’s have
from crashed alien spacecraft, and also at free energy and they told us how to produce
what was said to have been offered to us in it, but this has been blocked repeatedly by
exchange for certain items the aliens wanted. the global interests of all the petrochemical at phenomenamagazine.co.uk
This included experiments on both animals giants.
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a real deal-with-the-devil. What I found was Even the ‘free energy’ would not really be free,
not exactly encouraging. Simply because the because it would still have to be produced
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CONTENTS THE PHYSICS OF THE

PARANORMAL......................................... 6
Magazine regular, Milton Grover, casts

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an eye on the apparently undeniable
connections between particle physics and
the paranormal.

DEAD END: THE TOP SIX

ROAD-RELATED GHOST
ENCOUNTERS........................................ 12
Six of the most chilling ghost encounters on
UK roads, hand-picked by Dr. Rob Gandy, an
expert in tales of the supernatural.

PAUL DALE ROBERTS.............16

The Haunted Diary

THE DOMINO EFFECT............18

New contributor Paul Sinclair shares a
few of the anomalies and strange events
associated with East Yorkshire, a piece of
the UK that seems to have more than its fair
share of them. Could this be a ‘window area’?

PORTALS THROUGH
TIME AND SPACE.............................. 22
Many people will have heard the term ‘portal’
used in reference to a ‘time slip’ and the
names of Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor

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Jourdain who apparently experienced one
in Versailles during the year 1901. Here
contributor Dick Schwartzberg shows other
examples of the curious phenomenon.

JOE STEWART’S LETTER

FROM AMERICA...............................26
The Dark Man of Ohio Prologue

THE OLMEC..............................................30
New contributor Marion Stirling asks
searching questions about one of the most
enigmatic races ever to walk this planet, the

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them?

ANCIENT ROCKS.............................34
Hugh Cochrane takes a look at the legends
concerning the ability of our ancestors to
move enormous rocks, both carved and
otherwise, and other remarkable properties
associated with them.

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The Physics of the
Paranormal
Magazine regular, Milton Grover, casts an eye on the apparently
undeniable connections between particle physics and the paranormal.
W
e should be very careful
about defining what is
and is not valid regarding
physics or technology as
it applies to the paranormal. The idea
of applying, or attempting to apply,
technology to anything paranormal is
not new and has emerged in various
forms and places. For example, in 1982
the concept emerged as ‘The Church
of Spiritual Technology’, although
in all fairness one could not define
their interpretation of technology as
anything remotely scientific. In this
instance it is one of several groups
closely tied to the cult of Scientology
and the stated aim of this particular
group is to act as a repository for the
thoughts and ideology of the late Ron
Hubbard, who invented the whole idea
of Scientology many years previously
in 1954. It is also enjoys the same tax
free status as Scientology.
However, the technologies they
espouse are methods of controlling
the mind, and extracting sums of
money for doing so, rather than
exploring the possibility of parallels
between our physics and technology
and what might be available in the
hidden realms that exist alongside
ours. It is a genuinely odd comparison,
trying to equate science and physics
with paranormal phenomena which,
by its very name, exists alongside and
should not be connected to anything
normal or mundane: it is in fact the
very antithesis of science. However,
there appears to be a connection with
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with the paranormal, including kinesis
or the movement of objects, and also
acoustic peculiarities that seem to
defy all logic.
For example, if an object spontaneously
moves, apparently of its own volition,
then it has obeyed physical laws of
cause and effect and performed an
action. In other words something
physical occurred irrespective of
the mechanism behind it, however,
although there had to be a cause we
do not know what brought it about,
why should this be? As we have
seen in another chapter, there is one
area where, much to the chagrin of
scientists, the two seem to coincide,
i.e. the normal and the paranormal,
and that is in the enigmatic twin (or
double) silt experiment, which is
currently inexplicable in rational terms.
Physicists know what happens, but
not why.
As we have seen, this can become
horrendously complicated and starts
to involve theoretical considerations
such as ‘probability waves’ and the
very nature of perception and realty.
This is an example of what is termed
‘The Observer Effect’ in action, where
the very act of observation collapses
a probability into another function.
It appears then that if this is correct,
at the quantum level the very act
of placing a device to observe an
experiment, whether it is switched
on or not, affects the outcome of the
experiment. The observer affect is
thought to influence the outcome
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of any experiment at the quantum

level, because the views of any one
of the team who are conducting the
experiments, irrespective of what
they involve, can have a measurable
influence the outcome.

MAGICK AND PLACEBO

Does this mean that the phenomenon
is internally generated and the photons
are ‘aware’ in any sense of the word and
if not, does it mean that the change is
created by externally influences, but
irrespective one must ask why, why do
they change state? Why should it matter
to particles if they are being watched?
The entire process is one of the most
fundamental and frustrating puzzles
of quantum physics and despite
the frustrated wails of physicists, it
shows no sign of being resolved any
time soon. It might not be too far off
the mark to think of what is occurring
here as a possible explanation of how
‘magic’ works, because based on that
paradigm it should be possible to
literally will something to happen.

In fact the notorious Victorian mage
Aleister Crowley put it like this: “Magick
is The Science and Art of causing
Change to occur in conformity with
Will”, he went on to elaborate: “It is
theoretically possible to cause in any
object any change of which that object
is capable by nature”. At the time he
said it this was of course dismissed
as sheer nonsense, and to a large
extent still is, but this was at the
manifestation of how the mind affects
the body. This normally occurs when a
person believes they have been given
something beneficial to them and
their body reacts accordingly when in
fact they have been given something
harmless, but medically useless. The
other odd effects associated with
placebo are that placebos produce the
same responses as those of legitimate
medicines. In the case of pain, if the
have to involve chemicals of any kind,
prayer is an example of where it also
appears to work. The prayer aspect
is interesting, because placebo is fine
when the person knows they are being
prayed for, but what if they improve
not knowing they were are prayers (or
pagan rituals and incantations, the
have the same effect) being said for
them?
This appears to involve something

Bizarre and unlikely effects

quite different and external, unless
of course it is an entirely unexpected
example of the observer effect causing

of the twin slit experiment and

a change to occur. This is of course
sheer speculation, but nonetheless it
can and does happen and there is no

their implications also appears ready explanation for it…other than it

must be a miracle. There is little doubt
that some alleged miracles attributed

to affect poltergeist phenomena. to the intercession of God, Jesus, the

very beginning of the series of earth-
shattering discoveries being made into
the nature of the particles that bind
reality together. Is it this elusive force
that causes the twin slit experiment
to operate and might this also be an
explanation for how the ‘placebo effect’
works as well?
Science knows that placebo,
which has been described as self-
fulfilling prophecy, is a reality, this is
indisputable and at its core placebo is a
pain being experienced is severe, than
the alleviation produced by the placebo
is likewise greater.
This also occurs in cases involving
placebo where people are not actually
sick: e.g. stimulants, tranquilisers
and even alcohol placebo produce
the desired effects in healthy people.
This is thought to occur because the
brain is tricked into produced specific
chemicals that produce the required
effects, and of course this does not
Virgin Mary or various saints, while
I suppose that divine intervention
cannot be ruled out, were more likely
to have occurred as a result of the
manipulation of reality by acts of will,
and presumably the more people
focusing their intent the better the
outcome.
The bizarre and unlikely effects of
the twin slit experiment and their
implications also appears to affect
poltergeist phenomena, because
when this occurs a whole range of
events take place, including sounds

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and the spontaneous movement of
objects. First let’s look at the moment
of objects: the objects either never (or
extremely rarely) move when they are
being observed; but only when no-one
is looking. They are either seen whilst in
motion or falling to rest, but not actually
leaving their point of origin. The other
fascinating aspect of this is when the
object is seen in flight it immediately
drops to the floor. It’s the same (or a
remarkably similar) phenomenon that
occurs in the twin slit experiment; the
question in both cases is why?
Another possible explanation for
this anomalous movement is the
application of yet another unknown
factor called ‘Chi’ energy. Also referred
to as ‘Odic Force’, ‘Prana’ and ‘Kundalini’,
there are other names as well, but they
all refer to the same thing which is a
fundamental form of universal energy
that, if the circumstances are suitable
either by accident or design, can be
The truth is that physicists
do not have a clue and prefer
to ignore any possible answers
outside their own discipline.
tapped into by various people and
used to manipulate what is around
them. Perhaps this is when something
occurs apparently as an ‘an act of will’.
However, the truth is that physicists
do not have a clue and prefer to ignore
any possible answers outside their
own rigid discipline, because to do so
they have to abandon the paradigm
of materialist reductionism that lies at
the core of their science.
If we can understand the one then the
other starts to make sense, and if the
same set of rules apply it makes our
place in the cosmos a little easier to
understand. What we currently regard
as ‘paranormal’ encompasses (along
with the attributes already mentioned)
such concepts as precognition,
telepathy, out-of-body experience and
its close cousin near-death experience
and mush else. Vitally, all of these
conditions are currently unexplainable
using current scientific methodology
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and unfortunately science continually
sneers at such ideas when there
is considerably more proof of their
validity than there is for some aspects
of particle physics.
As far as the examples of EVP
recorded by Don at various venues
are concerned, some samples were
given to Barry Fitzgerald, who is an
internationally known paranormal
researcher from Ireland, and his
response was almost one of disbelief
and he went as far as to ask where they
came from. He added that, although
he had obtained many examples of
EVP over the years, what was coming
from Don did not fit the characteristics
of anything he had heard before. He
evaluated and analysed the recordings
using specialised equipment and
concluded that the frequencies of the
voices were above 255Hz. In other
words, although they sounded like
human voice responses, they did not
behave like them once subjected to
analysis of the frequencies. This does
not of course explain what they are or
how they get there, but it is a start
Video clips of the movement of the
dowsing rods at Tutbury Castle (an
example of kinesis or movement)
were sent to Professor Victor Fefelov,
a psychologist and paranormal
researcher at the University of
Tomsk (Tomsk State University).
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The professor is one of Russia’s
leading researchers in this field and
in his opinion what was displayed
was a prime example of focussed
kinetic energy and as far as he could
ascertain, there was absolutely no
sign of cheating or manipulation of
any kind. It is unfortunate that all the
support for the aims of the Phenomena
Project appears to be coming from
outside the UK, because all of the
parapsychologists here appear to be in
denial and refuse to get involve despite
being asked to do so.
PARANORMAL ACOUSTICS
As we saw a little earlier, the acoustics
associated with a range of paranormal
phenomena do not seem to sit
comfortably with what one would
expect. For example, the spectrum
range of voices recorded using EVP,
although they sound normal to the ear,
when analysed are found to be above
the normal range of the spoken voice.
Another is the strange characteristics
of the knocking sounds that are
frequently heard. These do not follow
the usual short, sharp sound of a
knock; instead these have a distinctly
odd ‘hollow’ quality to them. The best
way to describe this is to listen to the
unique sound made by an MRI scanner
in operation, because this is very like
the kind of sound associated with
The spectrum range of
voices recorded using EVP are
found to be above the normal
range of the spoken voice.
poltergeist raps and bangs, although
considerably louder.
Another example of this was
experienced during the investigation
at a poltergeist case when those
present heard a loud thud overhead
and when they went investigate they
found that a picture had fallen off the
wall onto the floor. What made this so
peculiar was the volume of the sound
produced, which was measured on a
recording at 69db. When they tried to
reproduce this by deliberately allowing
the picture to fall to the floor, the sound
produced measured 37 db; there was
no obvious reason for the anomalous
difference in volume. It is almost as if
the phenomena was being produced or
manufactured ‘somewhere else’ then
transported here and manifested. This
may imply that whatever caused the
object to fall wanted it to be heard, so
it deliberately amplified the sound, or
that they actually created or duplicated
the sound of the fall as closely as they
could, but failed to adequately factor in
the physics of the fall and how much
noise it would produce in a normal
situation. While none of the can be
guaranteed, it would fit the parameters
that we have at present.
PARANORMAL KINETICS
Another real oddity associated with
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this investigation came when a video
camera spontaneously moved through
180 degrees in one of the bedrooms; it
was found pointing at a wall although
it had been originally positioned facing
into the room. There was so sign of
movement or blurring on the recorded
images, so this movement must have
occurred within 12 milliseconds, which
is the camera shutter response time.
This implies that either the movement
was literally instantaneous, and
occurred in the incredibly short space
of time that the shutter was closed,
or, the camera had been instantly
dismantled to every single component
then immediately reassembled facing
the other way. If that is the case, then
either way it clearly indicates levels
of technology to which we have no
access…yet. This is where, once
again, technology and magic seem to
interface, as the late Arthur C Clarke
once said: ‘Any sufficiently advanced
technology is indistinguishable from
magic’ and he was absolutely correct.
APPORTS
There is another, absolutely
fundamental aspect to the movement
phenomenon and it relates to what are
called ‘apports’, or small objects that
occasionally spontaneously appear in
séance rooms. These can be articles
known only to the sitters, or objects like
small pebbles etc, although flowers are
also reported to have manifested. The
one thing that is common to them all is
that when touched they feel warm; this
is not really surprising either, because
to arrive in the séance room they would
have to travel through walls and floors.
For this to happen they would first have
to be dismantled right down to the
most fundamental particles, moved
through other solid objects and then
reassembled. By our understanding
of physics this presumably would
produce friction and therefore heat,
hence the warmth felt which touching
these objects. There is also another
possibility here, in that the objects are
not actually moved from one place to
another while in our reality. According
to some physical mediums, objects
like these are somehow ‘seen’ then
‘carbon copied’ in the version of reality
inhabited by these entities, sorry, but
there is no other way to put this, then
moved into ours. This process may
also generate heat, but once again this
is not a given by any means, because
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dead end
the top six road-related
ghost encounters
Six of the most chilling ghost encounters on UK roads, hand-picked
by Dr. Rob Gandy, an expert in tales of the supernatural.
D
r Rob Gandy is a Visiting
Professor at the Liverpool
Business School at Liverpool
John Moores University,
as well as a former NHS manager.
But away from his university
commitments, Dr Gandy has spent
years documenting eye-witness
accounts of high strangeness on
Britain’s highways and byways.
Dr Gandy, a prolific writer for the
magazine Fortean Times, has decided
to team-up with Select Car Leasing**
- one of the UK’s largest independent
specialists for car and van leasing
– and reveal some of the most
compelling cases he’s ever come
across. From phantom hitchhikers
to the terrifying spectre of a 12ft-tall
monk, these road-dwelling entities are,
like potholes, arguably best avoided by
motorists.
Dr Gandy adds: “Whether you, or I,
personally believe in the existence of
ghosts is almost irrelevant with these
cases - what’s truly compelling is that
the eyewitnesses are adamant about
what they experienced. “What’s also
powerful is that many of the tales told
here involve multiple witnesses, which
adds more credence to the accounts.
“The following six encounters cover a
broad spectrum of spooky goings-on
from across England, all told in good
faith by startled witnesses.”
Dr. Gandy often collects his tales
after posting requests for accounts in
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local newspapers or on relevant news
media websites. He also gives talks on
tales of the supernatural across the
UK for charity.
You can hear him speak on the subject
of the supernatural at the Weird
Weekend North, an event described
as a ‘must for anyone interested
in Ghosts, Fortean, Fairies, UFO’s,
Folklore, Cryptozoology and other
fascinating stuff’. Weird Weekend
North is an annual event.
A recent survey found that many Brits
had endured their own road-based
hauntings - with roughly one-in-seven
respondents answering ‘Yes’ to the
question, ‘Do you believe you have
seen a ghost while driving?’ Graham
Conway, Managing Director at Select
Car Leasing, says: “Running out of
fuel, or having a dead battery in an
electric car, is scary enough, but these
accounts are sure to signpost the
route to a nightmare.”
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THE GIRL IN THE NIGHTDRESS
(LINCOLNSHIRE)
Spectral children are a staple of
Hollywood horror movies. And this
encounter from 2016 is every bit as
chilling as anything you might see on the
silver screen. As Dr Gandy puts it, ‘This
one goes all the way up to an eleven on
the spooky scale!’The shocking event
was seen by a family - dad ‘Martin’,
mum ‘Amy’ and 13-year-old daughter
‘Caroline’ - as they drove along the
A15 heading south from Lincoln one
bright, sunny Sunday morning. All of
a sudden, the eyewitnesses spotted
a young girl - between six and eight
years old - looking ‘thin’ and forlorn and
with nothing but a nightdress on at the
side of the road.
Dr Gandy describes what happened
next, saying: “What shocked all
three of them was that they could
clearly see through the little girl –
she was transparent! To add to their
astonishment, the girl then began to
The girl then began to float
along the pavement, staying in
front of the car and keeping
pace with it!
float along the pavement, staying in
front of the car and keeping pace with
it, even though they were travelling at
30 mph! What was really weird was
that her movement seemed to be a
series of short instantaneous ‘jumps’!
Martin, Amy and Caroline never took
their eyes off the girl for the whole
of the time, but she then suddenly
vanished into thin air.”
THE MAN WITH THE GLADSTONE
BAG (DEVON)
Some accidents are unavoidable
- particularly when you’re trying to
dodge a ghost that’s been ‘run over’
numerous times by startled motorists!
One night in 1989, two friends - ‘Tom’
and ‘Peter’ - were driving north across
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Woodbury Common in Devon on the
B3180 towards Ottery St Mary. As
they approached a pub on their left,
the Halfway Inn, they watched in
horror as a man stepped into the road,
right into the path of their car which
was travelling at around 25mph.
Dr Gandy told The Ghost Club’s
Journal: “He was clear in the
headlights and both Tom and Peter
could see that he was wearing a black
top hat and black frock coat, and he
was carrying a Gladstone bag. The
man turned his head to look straight
at them, although his normal-looking
face seemed blank and unaware
of the presence of the car. Tom
slammed on the brakes, but there
was too much momentum and
the car simply went through the
man! Both Tom and Peter were
convinced that they had killed
someone and got out of the car as
soon as it came to a halt. Tom burst
into tears; he was that shocked.
Tentatively they looked behind the
car, and then under the car, using
torches – but there was nothing to be
found. A week later Peter decided to
pay a visit to the Halfway Inn to talk
to the landlord about the episode;
his friend Tom point blank refused to
go with him! The landlord confirmed
that several other people had had
similar experiences over the years.
He believed that what had been seen
was the ghost of a doctor who had
attended a birth at the inn, and upon
leaving had stepped out into the road
only to be run over and killed by a
horse and carriage.”
THE TALKING PHANTOM
HITCHHIKER (MERSEYSIDE)
Dr Gandy has investigated countless
tales of so-called ‘phantom
hitchhikers’ - spooks seemingly hell-
bent on thumbing a ride. But less than
a handful involve talking phantom
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hitchhikers, and this is one of the most
frightening, ‘where the eyewitness
genuinely thought they were talking to
a real person’. The event took place in
1983 when a 27 year old - known as ‘Mr
M’ - was driving along the windswept
Coastal Road between Ainsdale and
Southport, Merseyside. Mr M spotted
a hitchhiker standing on the side of the
road, and offered to give the gentleman
a lift.
Dr Gandy explains: “The man was
wearing a parka-type coat and was
soaking wet, and wasn’t carrying any
bags. He had stubble on his face and
dark eyes, and Mr M guessed that
he was in his mid-30s. Although his
behaviour was normal and calm, he
had a troubled expression, which Mr M
put down to him being out in such bad
weather. He was quietly spoken, with a
local Southport accent, and asked if he
could bring his girlfriend with him into
the car, to which Mr M agreed.
Staying on the passenger side of the
car, the man then stepped to its rear
without making a sound, although the
heavy rain was making a lot of noise.
Mr M then realised that the man was
nowhere to be seen; he opened the
driver’s window and saw that there
was nobody there. He stepped out of
the car for a couple of seconds and still
could not see anybody. It took about
20 seconds for Mr M to realise that the
man had completely disappeared, and
that there was no sign of any girlfriend.
The road at that point was edged with
high sand hills and there was quite
simply nowhere the man could have
gone.”
THE PHANTOM CONCORDE ON
THE A442 (SHROPSHIRE)
Not all ghosts come in human form,
some take the shape of iconic feats
of engineering - in this case, the
supersonic plane Concorde, that flew
commercially between 1976 and
2003.In a case Dr Gandy says is both
The aircraft disappeared
from view behind hedges
and trees as the eyewitnesses
continued up the road.
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‘strange’ and ‘unsolved’, he describes
how a family of startled eyewitnesses
claim to have seen Concorde flying
alongside them, just 10-15ft off the
ground, and having seemingly taken-
off from a random farmer’s field!
The sighting came in late August
1975, while driving on the A442 near
Bridgnorth, Shropshire.
Dr Gandy says: “The aircraft
disappeared from view behind
hedges and trees as the eyewitnesses
continued up the road, and was then
nowhere to be seen.” There were no
nearby air shows, and no airstrips in
the vicinity capable of accommodating
Concorde.
Graham Conway ponders:” Perhaps it
was a bizarre early premonition of the
tragic Air France Flight 4590 Concorde
crash in Paris, July 2000, that killed
109 people on board and four on the
ground…?”
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20-year-old ‘Katie’ back in 1999 when in 1998 when the witness, Kevin Association receives £1 for every
she was living at home in Scunthorpe, Whelan, called-in to ITV’s This Morning ‘like’/pumpkin for everyone who
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ambling down nearby Scotter Road. Madeley that he has described it as the To ‘post your pumpkin’ click the
‘best ghost story of my entire career’. image below.
He says: “Together they watched what
looked like a monk coming from their As Kevin remembers it, he was driving
right. The hood was stood up to a on the A15 from Lincoln to Sleaford at
point, which was surprising given the around 60mph. As he approached the
heavy rain, but they couldn’t see his turn-off on his left for Ruskington, he
face because of the angle. However, spotted something ‘floating’ in front of
what really flummoxed Katie and him and assumed it was a large white
her mum was the fact that the monk bin-bag. But as Dr. Gandy reveals:
appeared to be 12 to 15 feet tall!” Katie“However, when he got to where it was,
tried to dismiss the encounter as an all of a sudden a face appeared around
‘idiot in a weird fancy dress’ but mum the car’s front pillar on the top-right of
Catherine watched in terror as the the windscreen, with the left hand up!
figure completely disappeared. It was Greek-looking, with dark hair
and an olivey-green skin. It had a pitted
Dr Gandy adds: “Neither Katie nor face and Kevin could see its teeth.”
Catherine have broadcast their
experience to others, but over the After around 40-50 seconds the
years they have overheard people ‘Horror’ eventually ‘faded into obscurity
with related stories. One involved a down the side of the car.’ Dr Gandy
worker driving on the same stretch adds: “His wife later confirmed that he
of road and seeing a monk in the was panicking and crying when he told
road. He slammed on his brakes and her about what had happened. She
thought that he had run over the figure. had never seen him so distraught.” n

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L
ori Gaines from Akron, Ohio
says that she went to an estate
sale in her neighborhood and
purchased this old diary that
was written by the woman of the
house who was now deceased. Lori
liked the way the diary looked. The
cover had flowers on it, it looked old
and the cursive writing was quite
unique. Lori bought it for $20.00, she
felt the diary sitting on her coffee
table would be a good conversation
piece. She read part of it and the daily
writings were definitely not a thriller.
There were diary entries that told of
when the owner was walking her dog,
or when she went to the grocery store
and what she purchased there, it was
all quite mundane. The diary was a
nice conversation piece, but not a sit-
down thriller. After she purchased it,
Lori started noticing a shadow moving
about her house. Kitchen cabinet
doors were being opened, footsteps
were heard in the hallway and knocks
were heard on the walls.
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FROM THE
SHADOWS
with Paul Dale Roberts
The Haunted Diary
On one occasion, the table on which
the diary had been placed started
shaking. Lori thought there was an
earthquake. She asked me if I thought
her home was haunted. My answer...
most definitely! Lori asked if being
in possession of the diary could be
the cause, and my answer was...
absolutely! What is happening is that
the deceased lady who wrote the diary
cherished it, because it reflected her
life and her claim to immortality was
through the diary. This spirit was not at
rest and was very concerned about the
welfare of her diary. She did not want
it destroyed or ruined and she would
continue to haunt the house her diary
was in, until it was in a safe place. The
spirit would not enter the light while
the diary sat on Lori’s coffee table.
I told Lori to immediately contact the
Ohio State Library and tell them that
you would send them the diary for
their safe keeping. Once the
diary was out of Lori’s hands
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and in a safe place, the haunting
would stop and the spirit of the lady
would go into the light. When people
write in a diary, they are sharing their
life story and it’s the essence of their
immortality. This is what the California
State Library - California Section says
on their website:
‘Are you looking for books on California
history? We can help! In addition to our
manuscripts, ephemera, periodicals,
photos and other resources, we have
over 80,000 California history-related
books, making our collection one of
the largest of its kind in the world. In
our stacks, we have early cookbooks,
diaries, county histories, and much
more. To fully explore our books,
please consult the library catalog or
contact us.’
What is interesting about this case is
that the story is similar to something
that happened in Nebraska.
During the 1980s, a woman
went into an antique store
and purchased a grandfather
clock. When she placed it in her
home things started happening,
doors slammed, something big
seemed to be walking across the
roof and when she went outside,
there was nothing to be seen.
Invisible physical assaults were
happening. When the woman
took the grandfather clock
back to the antique store, the
haunting stopped. I often hear
that inanimate objects may be
haunted and with the case of the
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grandfather clock, that seemed
to be the case. Lori is going to
donate the diary to the Ohio State
Library and she will be in touch
with me and let me know if the
haunting stops. I’ll keep you all
informed. n
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The
Domino
Effect
New contributor Paul Sinclair shares a few of
the anomalies and strange events associated with East
Yorkshire, a piece of the UK that seems to have more than
its fair share of them. Could this be a ‘window area’?

T
he East Yorkshire coast
line seems to have more
than its fair of unexplained
phenomena. Phenomena that
range from UFOs, Cryptids alien big
cats and people who vanish without
trace. My research has revealed that
in many instances one strange event
is usually followed by more in close
succession. And all of them within
a few miles of each other. At this
present time, we may understand the
true mechanics of what is happening,
but we do know that some locations
hold the keys to better understanding.
The account you are about to read is
just one of many that highlight the
domino effect.
Miss Nellie Vickers who also lived in
Speke.
They were staying at Thomas’s
cousin’s house on Victoria Road
Bridlington, Lieutenant commander
W.B. Clementson. Thomas had come
to say at his cousins to recover from
a bout of influenza; it is also important
to note that he was known to be
suffering from depression and rarely
went out unaccompanied. A point that
appears to have been missed by some
researchers who have spoken about
the case.
On the night of Sunday November 22nd
Thomas and Nellie decided to go for
an evening walk along the Bridlington
Promenade. “The Promenade is a
place I know very well; it is literally 200
yards from where I am sitting as I write
about this case.”
It was a very cold dark night with a little
low-lying fog and the taste of winter in
the air. However, Thomas was dressed
in suitable clothing for the occasion.
He wore a dark blue suit and a heavy
grey overcoat, a cloth cap and black
leather lace up shoes.

BRIDLINGTON 1925
1925 was a year that saw three
tragedy’s strike the small seaside town
of Bridlington on the East Yorkshire
coast and all of them within days of
each other. Freak weather, a vanishing
man, men lost at sea. And a man who
was lost in a snow storm. All plunged
the town into an atmosphere of
sadness and mystery. It began during
November of that year when a 40-year-
old man from the town of Speke in
Liverpool, a Mr. Thomas Henry Bennet
came to stay in Bridlington for two
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As they walked along the seafront
everything seemed normal, until Nellie
suggested that they should think about
making their way back to his cousin’s
house. At that point they had walked a
considerable distance. Her reasoning
was that she thought Thomas had
walked far enough in his current state
of health.
From the information I have gathered
in the Bridlington archive I believe they
had reached the end of the promenade
and were just about to walk onto the
footpath that runs along the clifftops
at Sewerby. It would make perfect
sense that Nellie decided to turn back
at that point as it marks the end of one
journey and the beginning of another.
“I tested the route that they had taken
from his cousin’s address, and it took
me thirty five minutes walking at a
steady pace to reach the corner of
Limekiln lane.”
However when they reached that point
and she suggested that they should
walk back Thomas refused and was
determined to continue. Then much
to Nellies surprise Thomas suddenly
pulled away from her and began
running. Her cries for him to stop fell on
deaf ears as she watched him run into
the night in the direction of Sewerby
Cliffs and the sea. This was totally
unexpected because he rarely went
anywhere alone, so what prompted
him to run?
After calling and searching the
surrounding area she raised the alarm
and soon after a small search party
headed by Superintendent Robinson
and a Sargent Hudson was assembled.
The search party combed the clifftops
between Limekiln Lane and Danes
Dyke but found no trace of Thomas. It
was almost high tide but the sea rarely
touched the foot of the cliffs between
Sewerby and Danes Dyke, so a
thorough search of the shore line was
also made. They were also hampered
by a heavy fog that had descended
making it difficult to see any distance
with their lamps.
After hours of searching, and no sign
of Thomas, the search was called
off. Early the next morning fishermen
from Bridlington set to sea in their
cobles [small fishing boats] to comb
Bridlington Bay but they found nothing.
However, his cousin, Lieutenant
Commander W.B. Clementson felt
sure that Thomas had become lost
and confused and would eventually be
found.
The authorities though were fairly
certain that Thomas had entered
the sea. This was because Nellies
calls for him to stop running had
caught the attention of Earnest Nixon
of Flamborough road. At the time
Earnest was on his allotment close to
the seafront on Limekiln Lane corner.
Upon hearing her distressed calls
Earnest ran to see what was wrong.
That was when he saw the dark outline
of a man go over the edge of the cliffs
in the direction of the sea.
The cliffs in that location are just
shallow Earth dunes that run down to
the beach on a gentle slope so there
is no danger of falling to your death.
Upon seeing the man go over the
clifftop Earnest followed and moments
The mystery is how Thomas
Bennet managed to vanish in
the time it took Earnest Nixon
to get onto the beach.
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later he was on the beach looking for
Thomas. After searching the shore
line for 200 yards in both directions
he found nothing, the only evidence he
found was a set of footprints leading
to the sea in a line from where Thomas
went over the clifftop.
The last person to see Thomas was
Earnest Nixon, Thomas was running
in the direction of the sea. For me the
mystery is how Thomas managed to
vanish in the time it took Earnest to
get onto the beach. Police and a small
group of locals searched between
Sewerby and Danes Dyke but no trace
was ever found of Thomas Bennet.
LESS THAN THREE DAYS LATER
Amazingly tragedy was to strike two
more times within a few miles of where
Thomas vanished. Because in the
early hours of November the 25th nine
more lives were lost in the same Bay
where Thomas was last seen running
towards the sea. The first of those was
the disappearances of a fishing boat
and its nine-man crew that sank when
a violent storm suddenly hit Bridlington
Bay. The boat was a steam-powered
drifter called the Research, and it was
just off Flamboroughs South Landing
when the freak storm hit. My research
reveals that freak weather and strange
events seem to go hand in hand, a
domino effect that appears to be more
than just a normal tragedy. However,
it is not until cross-referencing many
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seemingly unrelated events that a
pattern emerges.
South Landing can be easily seen
from the clifftop path at Sewerby from
where Thomas vanished. It was also
said to be the most violent storm to
hit the coast in over 20 years. I think
researchers can look at that from two
different angles. Does the freak storm
mark the emergence of unexplained
phenomena? Or was the freak storm
the reason why the boat was lost?
Tragic coincidence
I research unexplained phenomena
and know the true reality of what we are
dealing with. Perhaps it was a mixture
of natural and unnatural phenomena
merging to create these mysteries. It
seems certain that the Research hit
the bottom of “Smethwick Sands in
Bridlington Bay and was swamped by
the sea and sank with the loss of all
nine crew. Eight of the men were from
Filey, five belonging to one family.
Smithwick Sands is a large expanse of
shallow water just east of Bridlington
that it is well known for its dangerous
sailing conditions. Incredibly on the
same day that the Research was lost
a Bridlington fisherman called Tom
Knaggs vanished from a Cobble (small
fishing boat) called the Fidelity. The
four-man crew had also got caught up
in a second freak storm and by 10pm
they were in the eye of an angry North
Sea; with rain snow and ice turning the
sea into a raging fury.
They were though slowly making their
way towards the safety of dry land.
William Knaggs who was part of the
four-man crew said that conditions
suddenly changed when they were hit
by a violent snowstorm, adding that it
was impossible to see anything except
a thick wall of white. When the snow
finally eased there was no sign of Tom
Bennet. William said that they turned
the boat around and attempted to
search for their crew mate, but Tom
had vanished.
Does the freak storm mark
the emergence of unexplained
phenomena? Or was it the
reason why the boat was lost?
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I have similar reports of the domino
effect within the affected area, such as
four men totally unconnected to each
other vanishing without trace from the
clifftops over a period of thirty-eight
days. Another case involving a thirty-
five year old man out walking with his
mother and two friends, who suddenly
ran towards the fence at Bempton’s
300 ft cliffs in a state of terror. He
began to climb the fence but was
pulled back to safety and taken out
of the area. Speaking afterwards he
described hearing strange sounds and
voices, adding that all he wanted to do
was run. Exactly what this signifies is
unclear, but it just might be that this
area serves as an interface with ‘the
other side’ and those who are sensitive
enough can contact (or be contacted
by) whatever lies there. n
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Through Time
& Space

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Many people will have heard the term ‘portal’ used in reference to a
‘time slip’ and the names of Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain
who apparently experienced one in Versailles during the year 1901.
Here contributor Dick Schwartzberg shows other examples of
the curious phenomenon.

“
Now you see me, now you don’t!”
– said any good magician who
knows just how to make you
believe he’s disappeared. As scary
as it may seem, some disappearances
– voluntary and involuntary – aren’t
illusions. Many people, throughout
history, have spontaneously vanished
off the face of the Earth. This brings
us to a phenomenon that is constantly
challenging scientific scrutiny – time
portals. Psychic researchers, burrowing
headlong into the enigma, have come
up with what they now believe to be
solid evidence of twelve such natural
time tunnels, existing on the earth
‘s surface – in Norway, Panama, the
United States, Egypt, Spain, France,
North Africa, Italy, Russia, Ireland,
Israel, and the Hawaiian Islands. These
windows have manifested themselves
on rural country farms, on city streets,
and along country lanes. Many are
also located on the high seas.
In the summer of 1962, by the canals
of the Soviet Psychic Society, a
Moscow elementary schoolteacher –
Vladimir Ritzsik – glanced up at the
burning orb of mid-day sun and walked
to his camper, reaching for a pair of
dark sunglasses which he left on the
seat. It was then he noticed something
strange. On the ground, approximately
ten yards from where he stood, the
sun’s rays traced two faint vertical
lines, as though side by side, running
parallel and approximately twelve
feet apart at its base, the tops joined
together much like the top of a triangle.
Ritzsik would comment later that the
space between the lines, or pillars, at its
farthest-spaced base point, reflected a
weird, almost double image, as though
the ground, grass and shrubbery
beneath it blended together. But the
ground surrounding the reflection had
been quite normal. He said, “It seemed
as though the pillars being traced on
the ground resembled a doorway of
sorts, or a window through which a
man could easily fit’’. Fascinated by
the clever trick nature seemed to be
playing on his eyes, the school teacher
cautiously approached the design
etched on the ground in front of him.
The pulsating it gave off grew even
louder, and at that point, the closer he
came to the strangely-traced pattern,
the more he thought he heard the
sound of roaring crowds of people.
Ritzsik went on to explain, ‘’I moved
back, out of the triangle, and the noise
suddenly stopped. I looked around,
but all was quiet. Then I moved in
closer, and the sounds came again,
growing louder with each approaching
step I took.’’ At that point, Ritzsik
even thought he heard the staccato
of gunfire, automobile engines and
the whinnies of horses, their hooves
clomping against cobblestones – all
emanating from within that confined
space. Finally, curiosity getting the
better of him, so Ritzsik moved full
into the center of the strange triangle
being traced by the sun’s rays. It was
then, he reported to the Soviet Psychic
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the campground but instead, found

himself on a paved city street full of
people.

Ritzsik reported, ‘’I know it sounds

as if I had one vodka too many, but
the street where I was standing was
in Petrograd, my country’s capital,
renamed St. Petersburg in 1914. The
crowds that gathered were striking
workers and they were seizing the
capital in bloody street fighting, a coup,
unsuccessfully being put down by
police on horseback. People were going
crazy. Somehow, I was projected back
in time -it was 1917, and I was in fact,
caught up in the Russian Revolution.’’
Ritzsik described how Czarist Russia,
reeling under the blows of a terrible
worldwide war, near famine, popular
discontent, palace intrigue, and a
shattered economy, collapsed. He
said he witnessed food riots and mass
army desertions, stood toe to toe with
the crowds as they shouted outside
the palace grounds for the ousting of
Czar Nicholas and Czarina Alexandra.
He further said that a short, stocky,
bald man stood on a podium near the
Imperial Palace, preaching revolution
and the overthrow of the Czarist
government Ritzsik described the
speaker as having small oriental eyes,
a high forehead, and a red beard. The
man he saw was Nikolai Lenin, leader
of the Russian Revolution. He suddenly
began fearing for his own life – for the
mounted police began moving into
the throng using clubs and guns to
break up the melee. Suddenly finding
a hole in the crowd, he stepped back
several paces, and no sooner, found
himself back at his original campsite.
Approximately two hours had elapsed,
and the bizarre triangle was already
beginning to vanish as the late
afternoon sun rose higher in the sky.
Just about three years after Vladimir
Ritzsik’s strange encounter on the
Karelian Isthmus of Soviet Russia,
another weird happening of the same
nature was about to take place in
Wyoming in the Bighorn Mountains
and flows northward to enter into
Southern Montana.
It was approximately three minutes
before noon when the family decided
to explore the vast Bighorn Mountain
range. Breathing the clean and fresh
mountain air, the elder Miller and his
youngest son, Steve Jr., climbed a
small hill to explore even further the
vast horizon which had been – 103
years before – a bloody battlefield.
Mrs. Miller and their two other children
tagged along not far behind. Suddenly,
Steven Jr. bounded playfully from his
father’s side and ran ahead, shouting
that the ground was moving. Miller
noticed it too, and before he was able
to stop his son, the boy ran into the
centre of two sun-traced pillars on the
flat, grassy ground.
In less than five seconds, right before
the horrified eyes of Miller and his
family, the boy vanished – as though
physically disintegrating into the
environment, within the strange
tracing of sunlight on the ground. Mrs.
Miller’s frantic screams brought other
tourists running to the spot, as well
as uniformed mounted National Park
Police. But they arrived only moments
after Miller himself bounded after
his son, within the triangular shaped
pyramid, emitted by the sun’s rays. In
exactly 16 minutes, Miller and his son
re-emerged – expressions of terror
and shock evident on both their faces.
They were shaking. The story Miller told
defies the imagination and staggers
the senses. Both of Miller’s hands, as
well as his clothing, had been covered
with blood.
A frightened Miller told authorities later,
“The air was a dull gray, and smoke
color, probably due to the thousands
of shots that must have been fired”.
At first, I thought the whole thing was
very funny, feeling my son, and myself,
were seeing something on a giant
movie screen, coupled with a bit of
trick photography. We even started to
laugh; and then I looked behind me,
expecting to see my wife and the rest
of our family huddled together, taking
in the same spectacle…
“That’s when I suddenly became
frightened. Behind me was nothing
but wide open plain and clear sky for

Right before the horrified

Southern Montana at the site of the
General George Armstrong Custer
Monument. The area marks the

eyes of Miller and his family,

historically famous battle of the Little
Bighorn which was fought on June 25,
1876. On the afternoon of October 14,
1964, Steven R. Miller a biologist of
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, his wife Della,
and their three children, ages 14, 16,
the boy vanished - as though
and 18, had been visiting the 765-acre
Monument, which rises in Northern physcially disintegrating.
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as far as the eye could see. The area

my son and I found ourselves in was
nothing like the park we had been in
just moments before…“I called my
wife by name, and our children. We
both did, but there was no answer. No
sound at all in fact, only our echoes
piercing the mountains. The stench of
death and decay was everywhere. It
was real, believe me. It was so bad that
my son vomited on the ground. Those
dead bodies – all young men – on the
ground around us were no props. They
were very real.”

Miller told officials how he and his son

had fallen over the bodies trying to get
out of the area, and how after taking
a few steps backward, they had been
caught in a ·”whirlwind” and propelled
back into the park. Their clothing and
the blood stains on their hands were
sent to the Blood Analysis Division
of the FBI in Helena, Montana. Here
was the verdict – the blood was real.
Human blood, and not their own. The
experiences of both Vladimir Ritzsik
and the Miller family, as well as the
sworn testimony of police and civilian
witnesses – who had seen father and
son enter and exit from the strange
light on the ground – would lend a great
deal of credence to the assumption
that such time tunnels are not the
results of a fiction-writer’s overworked
imagination.
On the morning of May 14, 1969, John
Casper, a Wisconsin businessman,
walked out of his office for a coffee
break. He vanished as he stepped off
the curb, ‘’in a triangular pattern traced
by the sun ‘s rays on the sidewalk.’’ He
disappeared – as though off the face
of the earth – for a day-and-a-half. On
the night of May 15, he wandered into
his home in Peshtigo. His clothes were
charred, and he was suffering from 1st
and 2nd degree burns on his chest,
legs and upper portion of his left arm,
which later had to be amputated at the
elbow.
He told his wife, “I found myself in the
midst of a great file”. He described
the incidents in minute detail, telling
how he stepped off the curb and
suddenly roaring flames reached
out, destroying everything in its path.
He said it was on Sunday, October 8,
1871, that the fire ravaged through
the city. Research bore him out.
On that day, ashes fell from the
darkening sky, when from out of the
southwest, there came the dreadful
roar of a forest fire, along with intense
heat with gale force winds. When
it was over, three days later, 1,500
lives in Peshtigo and neighbouring
communities were lost, along with
four million acres of forest and prairie.
Peshtigo was completely destroyed.
But what is perhaps the most popular,
highly documented account of all
concerns is the adventures of Charlotte
Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain (above),
two principals of an Oxford college.
While vacationing in Versailles during
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ladies walked through a weird, sun-
drenched pattern in the gardens near
the Petit Trianon, where it was said
Marie Antoinette used to sit and paint
for hours on end.
On August 10, after walking through
such a pattern traced by the afternoon
sun, they found themselves at the end
of a lane surrounded by farm buildings.
They wrote later, “We asked directions
of two men in green livery wearing
three-cornered hats.”Since they had
seen a wheelbarrow and spades on the
grounds nearby, they took the men for
gardeners. The two women were told
to go straight ahead, and when they
did, they encountered a small wood,
where there was a circular kiosk. It
looked like a small bandstand.
The women crossed a rustic bridge
over a tiny ravine, with a thread-like
waterfall, and found their way into a
garden, overlooking a country house.
Suddenly, they discovered themselves
back in the twentieth century.
Subsequent visits to the area, where
their experience had begun, convinced
them that the Petit Trianon must be
haunted, for the buildings they had
seen – the bridge, the ravine, the wood,
and kiosk – did not exist. Where they
had seen a young woman sketching in
an area – framed by a small garden –
there was now a large bush and some
gravel.
Researching this experience, they
concluded that they had indeed visited
the past, and the young woman in the
garden was Marie Antoinette, who,
according to historic research, spent
much time painting in Versailles. The
two women were so overcome by their
experience that they published a book
detailing it. The title of the book was
‘An Adventure’.
It was almost forgotten, until 1928,
when two other Englishwomen – a
schoolmistress and her former pupil,
walked through the same garden
and told of witnessing the same
phenomena. Similar accounts were
revealed after a walk in the Trianon
gardens. From 1937, right through to
1955, reliable citizens spoke of walking
through the gardens, viewing people
in archaic dress, and seeing a figure
drawing in a sketchbook. A figure that
resembled Marie Antoinette.
Although no map exists, which shows
a kiosk in the Petit Trianon, a document
dated 1776 was unearthed, which
refers to a ‘circular pavilion’. According
to the document, the circular pavilion
was later demolished, exactly where
the ladies had reported seeing one.
What’s more, foundation of a cottage
has been found where Miss Jourdain
said she saw such a building.
Many who had walked through the
royal gardens mentioned two men,
who were gardeners. From the
description of their clothing – green
livery and three-cornered hats – they
have been identified as the royal
gardeners, Claude Richard, and his
son, Antoine They wore green livery
in the gardens, until 1774. Their
portraits were sketched by Marie
Antoinette, and their names – beneath
the paintings – depict them as royal
gardeners. Many psychic researchers
who are investigating this enigma,
are convinced that our planet holds
many secrets which are constantly
being probed. Indeed, these invisible
windows, through which individuals
have taken a journey to the past, is
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The Ohio
Dark Man Prologue
L
ast issue we heard about Joe
and Durinda’s encounter with
the Dark Man of Ohio, here we
discover the events that led up
to those events.
The icy grip of terror took hold of
Amy. Standing tall on the other side
of the room was a black shadow of a
man. It stood there with glaring, red,
glowing eyes and wearing a black
fedora hat. A chilly, phantom breeze
blew through the enclosed room and
moved the figure’s long dark coat,
adding to the already high level of
terror. Its evil wafted throughout the
room, leaving Amy with a sick feeling
in the pit of her stomach. She felt that
it wanted her soul. During our phone
interview and between her sobs, she
cried out that it was evil incarnate,
and it was not alone!
It began when Amy’s family home
burned to the ground. They moved
into a rental house in Athens,
Ohio, which later I found was full
of paranormal activity. There are
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five cemeteries outside the town of A priest attempts to bless the house
Athens. Connecting them by drawing but stops. He tells the family they need
a line to each cemetery formed a an exorcism. The priest then abandons
pentagram overlaying the city. Using a the family and does not answer their
map of Athens, I joined the cemeteries, phone calls for help. The Dark Man
and indeed they did form a pentagram. gains strength and manipulates
I found that I could also make other matter. The situation has become
non-pentagram forms by connecting considerably more dangerous for the
the cemeteries. According to Amy, the family.
town’s claim to fame was the sheer
number of hauntings. At night in their new surroundings, they
heard talking, but in an unrecognizable
Their first house rental lasted eight language. They also occasionally
months before they fled in terror. smelled the decaying odor of the
Amy’s family has their first encounter dead. Searching the house, they found
with the “Dark Man” and its minions nothing to account for the foul odor.
in that house. They left everything
behind in their urgent departure. The
family found another place to rent—it
followed them. Once more, they left
in haste to their third and final rental
house. Their funds were low, and this
time they had to stay; but like before - it
followed them.
Multiple ghost investigations end with
the swift departure of the invading
entity. It goes something like this:
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The Dark Man caused anger and
feelings of dread and doom. Three out
of five people in the household saw the
Dark Man with its glowing, red eyes
and black hat. Things went missing;
sometimes they would reappear in
the oddest places. Some objects were
removed from drawers and a locked
gun-safe. He created a lot of animosity
between Amy and her husband, Mike.
The Dark Man whispered in Mike’s ear
that his wife was cheating on him and
he needed to leave her. Then it would
tell him, ‘Why bother, kill yourself’.
One morning, Amy’s husband sat at
his desk when a handwritten note
appeared in midair. It floated to the
surface of the desk. It said to leave
his wife and it was in handwriting that
no one recognized. The demons were
isolating Mike from his family, which
is a standard demon tactic. Their
three dogs were in a constant state
of anxiety as these entities messed
around. The dogs were always staring
into space as if they were watching
something moving about the room.
Amy told me that her mother was living
with them. Among other medications,
her mother’s blood-thinner went
missing. She also had two sons in
their twenties living with her. Due to
his psychic abilities, one of the sons
became a target for the Dark Man.
Recently I was told that the Dark Man
had walked into their gun safe and
removed a pistol, passing it through a
Recently, I was told the Dark
Man had walked into their gun
safe, removed a pistol, passing it
through a solid steel door.
solid steel door. Amy was the only one
with the combination to the safe and
witnessed the Dark Man removing the
handgun. The safe is five feet in height.
When the entity entered the safe, he
could be seen from mid-chest up to
his fedora hat. The pistol was not in
the safe or anywhere else in the house.
It concerned me that if he could handle
a handgun, it inferred he could pull the
trigger, and they loaded their guns
before putting them in the safe.
The team consisted of Durinda and I,
plus our new demon-hunter apprentice,
Nick Maxwell. We arrived on Saturday
as the night enveloped the house.
The house projected an intimidating
presence, making us hesitant to cross
the threshold. The heavy atmosphere
was overwhelming and unforgiving.
My eye caught the gun-safe in a little
alcove. I saw what looked like two
red eyes floating in space - staring. I
brought Durinda’s attention to it, but it
was already gone.
We settled in the house’s living-room
doing a quick interview with our client,
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Amy. We found the missing gun
was mysteriously back in the safe.
We already knew the names and
number of the demons, until two
more names come to Durinda while
we checked into the hotel. I added
this information to my list of demons
for binding.
Amy’s bedroom has a lot of active
electronic equipment. From a
security system to a Ham radio; a
hobby of Mike. I usually get an EMF
reading of .2 - 1.0 milligauss (mG)
in an average home away from
appliances. This house displays
1.4 mG throughout. The strongest
sense of the demonic activity is in
Amy’s and Mike’s bedroom and the
adjacent living room area.
While I’m unpacking the GoPro
camera, I looked up to see Durinda
standing in front of the bedroom
door. She was focusing on her
dowsing rods that were spinning
wildly. She started to say something
when I saw her feet lift up off the
floor…
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OLMEC
New contributor Marion Stirling asks searching questions about
one of the most enigmatic races ever to walk this planet, the Olmec.
Who were they and what became of them? Find out here.
T
ime’s a funny thing. It seems
to have a sense of humour. It
has a habit of making ancient
civilizations completely vanish
without a trace. And makes society
question the existence and reality of
these civilizations. However, some of
them have recently been re-emerging.
Today, we are going to explore one of
these ancient societies – the Olmec –
and discover who they were. Marion
Stirling had heard of the Maya, the
Toltec, and the Aztecs. But never the
Olmec.
Since Marion and her husband started
working in Olmec sites, in eastern
Mexico in 1939, she had been asked
this question innumerable times.
When Marion answered that she
thought the Olmec is another culture
of Mesoamerica. Why? Because –
she argued – they had a calendar
and writing, military, political and
religious organization, and to have
achieved what they did, they must
have had accomplished artists,
engineers and scientists. She claimed
that their ‘empire’ spread to Guerrero
and the Pacific on the West, and
perhaps through to Costa Rica on the
southeast from where they influenced
later civilizations. Until recently, this
was an unpopular theory among
most archaeologists – especially
those working on the Maya. The
Maya – because of their spectacular
achievements – were long regarded
THE
as the source of Mesoamerican
civilization.
In Mexico, famous anthropologist
Alfonso Caso was the first to use the
term, “mother culture”. At the La Venta
Congress in 1942, another believer
in the antiquity of the Olmec was the
Mexican artist, Miguel Covarrubias
who based his conclusion largely on
detailed studies of art styles. Now,
thanks to an intensive excavation
by Robert Heizer and Philip Drucker,
all doubts as to the antiquity of the
Olmec have been removed. The Olmec
civilization developed in the tropical
jungles of the southern Gulf Coast
of Mexico and flourished from the
thirteenth to the last century B.C. The
estimated population was around
three hundred and fifty thousand in an
area of seven thousand square miles.
Did the civilization rise in response to
the challenge of the jungle?
Alfonso Caso gives many reasons for
believing that the Olmec had a true
empire. To most people, the Olmec are
best known for their remarkable stone
sculpture with the colossal stone
heads ranging in size from five feet to
ten feet. Some of the giant heads from
San Lorenzo have toured the United
States and visited such European
cities as Rome, Moscow, and Paris.
Pictures of them have appeared in
many magazines advertising travel to
Mexico.
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There are now twelve known
colossal heads. Of these, on National
Geographic Society Smithsonian
Institution expeditions, eight were
discovered in La Venta and San
Lorenzo. The heads, carved from
basalt, never had bodies. Marion
believed that they represent portraits
of leaders. Others suggest that they
represent gods or decapitated ball
game heroes, since they wear a sort of
helmet.
The art style is called “Baby Face “ and
is sometimes described as Negroid.
Another ethnic type is shown on the
stone monuments, pottery and jade
figurines. Other stone monuments,
many larger than the colossal heads,
were altars and stelae elaborately
carved and decorated. It’s not known
what the Olmec called themselves
or where they came from. The name
Olmec means “the rubber people” –
literally “people from the land where
rubber is produced”.
Scientific work has been carried on
at La Venta in Tabasco and at Tres
Zapotes San Lorenzo and Laguna
de Los Cerros in Veracruz [VERR-a-
cruise ceremonial centre, built on an
island away from where people lived.
The Olmec believed in doing things
the hard way. During an excavation,
three large, mosaic jaguar masks were
found, deeply buried under original
pavements. Almost immediately after
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installation, these pavements and
masks were intentionally covered with
a series of brilliantly coloured clays.
Tombs with rich offerings of jade were
constructed to contain the remains
of important individuals. The Olmec
seemed to make a point of having
no two tombs alike. Amongst them,
was a most unusual tomb with basalt
columns containing the bones of two
infants, and a treasure trove of jade
offerings buried in cinnabar.
A sandstone sarcophagus, in the form
of a stylised jaguar, also contained jade
offerings and was considered unique
in Mexico – until the sarcophagus in
the Palenque tomb was found. In a
slab-lined stone coffin, jade ornaments
were arranged as if placed on a burial.
Still another rich tomb was covered by
eleven basalt columns laid horizontally
above. Among the treasures deposited
in the tombs were objects of jade, quartz
crystal, amethyst, turquoise, obsidian,
ilmenite, magnetite, amber and pyrites.
Human figures represented on large
stone monuments are usually males,
wearing enormous headdresses, bead
necklaces and ornaments.
Tons of red, yellow, white and purple
clay were transported to La Venta for
the construction of the ceremonial
court, where caches of jade and
serpentine figurines and “celts” were
buried as offerings. There are no
volcanic rocks or clay on the sandy
island of La Venta. The vast quantity
of stone of which the structures and
monuments are made was probably
transported by means of rafts along
the navigable rivers – including five
thousand tons of green, serpentine –
from Niltepic, 350 miles away. And,
the nearest basalt from which the
huge stone monuments were carved
is fifty miles away. Transporting such
burdens was a formidable task.
Such a frenzy of work indicates a
highly developed social organization
– an elite who ordered, and a working
class who obeyed. Also, it implies
efficient agricultural practices,
supplying an abundance of food. The
diet was probably similar to that of the
region today – corn, beans and squash
raised with slash-and-burn technique,
supplemented by fish and wild game.
Rainfall was heavy and many rivers
cut through the land. There was
never a shortage of water. Caso aptly
calls the region, “the Mesopotamia
of Mesoamerica In addition to their
ability to carve gigantic monuments,
the Olmec were undoubtedly the
greatest craftsmen in the New World
when working with jade. They did not
have gold or other metals. Jade was
their most precious substance. Their
high esteem for jade persisted through
three thousand years.
The Spanish Conquistador, Hernan
Cortes – known as the Conqueror
of the Aztecs – was informed by
Montezuma the Aztec ruler, that one
jade bead was worth a load of gold.
Many of the Olmec jade carvings are
real masterpieces. One much-admired
piece is a seated figure from La Venta
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wearing a hematite mirror on the
breast. Also aesthetically striking are
the figurines carved of translucent
blue jade.
At La Venta, beads and ornaments
of transparent green jade were found
of Imperial quality, as beautiful as
emerald. Blue jade was used during
Olmec times but does not appear
during the later periods. Costa Rica is
the only other area in the New World
where blue jade is found in abundance
and some jade carvings found in Costa
Rica show Olmec traits. Since many
of the Costa Rican jades are made
from reworked “Celts”, it’s speculated
that the Olmec traded as far south as
Costa Rica for the raw material, made
“Celts”, and traded them back for more
raw material. Some of the group of
sixteen miniature human figures, from
La Venta, may have been heirloom
pieces when the offering was made.
Many of the figurines had old breaks
when deposited.
In the 782-piece jade cache at Cerro
de las Mesa there were several
heirloom pieces, some of which had
been reworked. Many had been traded
from distant places. One in blue jade
is definitely related to the art style
known as the “Beak Bird” in Costa
Rica. The Olmec must have been
indefatigable jade prospectors. The
wide range of jade objects indicates
that they came from many sources. In
view of this it is remarkable that today,
only one certain source is known in
Mesoamerica– that near Manzanales
Guatemala. Even more remarkable
than the carving of jade without metal
tools is the polishing of concave
magnifying mirrors from iron ores.
Both lapidarists and scientists marvel
at the perfection of the reflecting
surfaces of the magnetite and ilmenite
mirrors, which are ground as if to
optical specifications. Examination
by microscope shows no trace of
abrasives. Some stone figures show
them being worn as chest pendants.
We know the Olmec had knowledge
of astronomy, as their site of La
Venta is laid out in a north-south line.
More evidence of their knowledge of
astronomy, as well as writing to keep
records, was shown by the discovery
of Stela C in 1939, at Tres Zapotes A
“stela” is an erected stone or wooden
slab. Remarkably, an inscribed date
was noticed, partly buried, at the
bottom of the stela. Unfortunately,
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because it was slightly damaged,
researchers couldn’t decide whether it
said, 32 B.C. or 291 B.C. Radiocarbon
dating has not cleared this up. One
puzzle is that there’s a glyph with a bar
and dot reading “6”. It’s possible that
it may refer to Cycle 6 of the ancient
calendar – the sixth sun when UFOs
appeared in the skies over Mexico in
the 1990’s.
Olmec pottery in the key sites is not
of good quality and was infrequently
used in ceremonial offerings. The poor
quality of the pottery may be due to the
moist tropical soil, which also destroyed
skeletal material and wooden objects.
Highland sites, such as Tlatilco and
Las Bocas were important colonies
of the Olmec – and are noted for
exceptionally fine pottery. Fine paste
white, brown, red, and black vessels
are beautifully formed, polished,
and decorated. They made musical
instruments whistles, ocarinas, and
the like. Figurines realistically portray
animals and birds, jaguars, deer,
tapirs, monkeys, opossums, iguanas,
armadillos, and wild turkey.
The jaguar was their most important
deity. In fact, so important that features
of the jaguar are frequently super-
imposed on human representations.
Many times, a jaguar mouth is shown,
and the cleft head – an ornament
typical of Olmec sculpture – is
probably derived from the cleft in the
jaguar skull. In related cultures, the
jaguar, or were-jaguar [we’re-jaguar],
becomes the rain god. The theme of
a human head in an eagle or a jaguar
mouth was continued to Aztec times.
The Olmec did not build roads. They
followed rivers and trails along natural
routes and mountain passes. Sites
showing Olmec influences are found
in widely scattered localities, along
such routes.
The only known examples of Olmec
painting are found in the caves
of Juxtlahuaca and Oxtotitlan in
Guerrero– not far from a possible
trade route. Olmec civilization did not
blossom without stimulation from
other contemporaneous cultures,
such as those in the Valley of Oaxaca
Chiapas and the Pacific slopes of
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Guatemala. Proof that it was a basic
culture is the survival of many Olmec
traits and traditions among the many
cultures that succeeded them. At the
end of the Olmec era, near the First
Century B.C., the valley of Mexico was
marginal and backward.
300 years later, the great civilization
of Teotihuacan emerged, inheriting
many Olmec traits but creating
others based on a different ancient
landscaping techniques. In Guatemala
and Honduras, the Classic Maya
developed their impressive civilization
– improving on the writing, calendar
and mathematical systems of the
Olmec, and building enormous
ceremonial centres with pyramids
of stone and elaborate carvings. We
do know the Olmec had a bona fide
civilization. They had imagination and
energy and delighted in the unusual
and the difficult. The vitality and
ingenuity of their art style has never
been surpassed.
However, we don’t know what became
of them after 200 B.C. Further
archaeological work should eventually
give us the answers to these important
questions. It’s fair to say that the
Olmec civilization were artists and
craftsfolk, especially as they only used
natural minerals. But also, they were
great leaders in the way they formed
their empire. But what do you think:
who do you think the Olmec were? n
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ANCIENT
ROCKS
AND THE MIND POWER
TO MOVE MOUNTAINS
Hugh Cochrane takes a look at the legends concerning the ability
of our ancestors to move enormous rocks, both carved and otherwise,
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M
any centuries ago in
ancient Greece, rocks were
believed to be living things
possessed of sensibilities,
and the power to be moved by the
human mind! But how factual is this
claim? The book ‘Chaldean Magic’
states that the priests of Babylon
possessed the power to raise huge
stone blocks into the air and make
them float. These stone blocks were
so huge that not even an army of a
thousand men could move them. Yet
they moved when commanded by
priests! Arab writers tell us that the
ancient Egyptians possessed similar
powers, and these were used in the
construction of the Great Pyramid.
Priests of the temple struck each huge
block of stone with a strange rod which
gave off a ringing sound that caused
the block to rise into the air.

After moving a considerable distance,

the block settled to the ground where
it was struck by the rod again. By this
procedure huge blocks were moved to
the site and set into position until the
structure was completed. The feats
in these ancient writings must be
classified as strange. Nowhere in our
present laws of physics do we have
room for such events, and any scientist
attempting to suggest otherwise would
soon find their academic reputation
attacked. Even so, ancient writings
remain unchanged and the people
who wrote them were as intellectually
capable as our scientists are today.
The only thing changing is the
documented list of these astounding
feats performed by the ancients. That
list is longer than ever, and its length is
increasing rapidly.
New discoveries in cultures around
the world bring us lots of information.
Among this is the mention of strange
powers beyond the understanding of
our best scientists and academics.
Buddhist writings tell of magic gems
which when placed in the mouth can
cause a man to become weightless
and rise into the air. A Greek writer
around his neck. It was said that this
stone was capable of answering
questions in a high pitched, whistle
- like voice. Other Christians wrote
about these Speaking Stones, and
claimed that they answered questions
in a small, clear voice – whereas Viking
writings tell of a magic gem they called
a “Sunstone.” When held to the sky on
the cloudiest days the stone would
change color when it was pointed at
the sun.
Above all were the philosopher’s
stones. In ancient times they were
thought to be capable of bringing the
wearer good health and, so, became
the most prized of gems.
Finally, there was the vw, the gems
mentioned in the Bible. These two
stones, linked by a gold chain,
were hidden in a secret pocket of a
breastplate worn by the first high
priest of the Israelites, Aaron. These
gems gave the owner the power to
know the answers to all questions.
From the foregoing it would seem
that the ancients knew far more
about gems, minerals and rocks than
is known today. It would also seem
that they somehow established an
understanding of the powers inherent
in matter that has long since been lost.
Even with the few examples mentioned,
there is still no explanation of how
the ancient priests discovered this
strange power and put it to use. The
sole exception is the Viking ‘Sunstone’
which science had already disregarded
as “Folk science.” Proof that such a
stone did exist came to light when
a Danish schoolboy demonstrated
this sun-finding phenomenon for his
teacher.
The stone was water sapphire,
Cordierite and when held to the sky on
a cloudy day the stone is moved and

Writings state that ‘stones

described a trip he took to a Syrian
temple where he was shown a statue
with a shining jewel in its forehead. He

are living things possessed of

claimed that the jewel lit up the whole
temple during the night.

Sanskrit records tell of luminous

gems so bright that they were used to
illuminate vast underground palaces.
sensibilities…to be commanded
Eusebius an early Christian historian
carried a mysterious stone on a chain by sounds or the mind of man.
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tilted until its crystal axis is 90 degrees
to a line between the viewer. The sun
will change its color from light yellow
to light blue. The fact remains that
although much has been discovered
about the properties of matter, nothing
has been done to uncover the strange
powers put to use. Instead, we are left
to wonder whether the mysterious
force was in the gem or stone, or
whether it was a power possessed by
the user!
However, a clue pointing to a possible
solution lies in the ancient writings
themselves. The writings state that
“stones are living things possessed
of sensibilities and a power to be
commanded by sounds or the mind
of man.” Such power in stones,
minerals, or crystals should bear some
relationship to already known forces
such as gravity, electrical or magnetic
forces since it would seem that it is
these forces which were being altered
or triggered by the ancient use of
thought or sound.
For centuries psychics have claimed
that all matter possesses powers and
energies beyond the understanding of
man. These energies do not conform to
the physical forces defined by present
day science, nor do they seem to have
the drawbacks of known physical
forces. An example of this is gravity
which operates in only one direction.
Another would be magnetism, which
is fixed and seemingly unmoving
unless disturbed, while electrical
forces diminish with use and must be
constantly added to.
Many years ago, scientist Baron Karl
von Reichenbach (left) examined
numerous sensitives who could
see the human aura with its various
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colours. They determined the polarity
or magnets and crystals by observing
the movement of energy in and around
them or sense heat from opposing poles!
In 1910, Radiologist, James W.
Kilner, published the results of his
investigations into the ‘human aura’.
Kilner believed the ability to see auras
was due to an extended range of vision
– like clairaudience is an extension of
the hearing sense. Like others, Kilner
believed that the rods and cones
making up the retina of the human eye
were capable of a much wider range of
response. Normally these and cones
only accept, and process information
related to light and colour in the visible
portion of the frequency spectrum.
Their limits fall short of the infra-red
and the ultra-violet regions. For the
most part, low infra-red information is
monitored by the senses of touch and
smell. We are only visually aware of
events in this spectrum when the event
produces a secondary effect intruding
into the normal portion of the range.
This occurs when heat waves cause a
distortion in steady light rays to bring
about the appearance of mirages.
Kilner’s approach to making the
force field visible to non-psychically
gifted people followed an additional
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approach. He devised screens that
induced a secondary effect in the eyes
of the viewer and cause a temporary
extension of the visual range allowing
them to see the human aura. He these
screens acted to train the observer’s
eyes until they were able to visually
detect the aura without using screens.
Throughout experiments covering
many years, certain facts kept
repeating. Among them was that most
objects contained poles or a central
axis. If it was a north pole or north
axis, then its field had a bluish colour
that sensitives detected as being cool
with energy flowing outward. This was
seen emerging from the left palms of
humans while the South Pole or south
axis had a reddish field which was
detected as being warm with lines of
energy flowing inward.
This same reddish, warm field seems
to flow into the right change as energy
passed through the object, suggesting
an increase in the frequency of the
flowing energy. This would cause the
emerging lines of energy to dart out of
the object’s North Pole or axis, while
around the South Pole or axis, the
energy seemed to be moving more
slowly as it was drawn back in. Are
these the energy fields which ancient
Greeks learned to control, and which
present day psychics draw on to
perform astounding feats?
The answers to these questions are
not easy to come by. We need to know
more about how energy and matter
relate to each other. Most important is
the need for advanced instrumentation
to improve the measurement and
plotting of these fields and their
energies. The picture emerging from
all of this shows matter as something
entirely different. It indicates that the
earth and all things in it, as well as
the universe beyond, are composed of
energy fields which number in millions
if not billions. Each field contributes a
portion of its energy and its individual
Mind power is the ultimate
Pandora’s box. Once opened,
no power on earth will ever
close it again.
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rate of vibration. Thus, some of these
fields are responsible for the very core
of matter itself, while others are a
product of combined fields.
Each field generates and draws energy
in energy from some universal source.
It is a source so infinite that it can
cause an entire solar system to blast
its way into oblivion. It’s been known
for centuries that people could dowse
the earth for water and minerals. By
some unexplainable means they had
the ability to probe the untouched
surface of the earth and define the
location of water or bodies. In recent
years this has been used to locate
artifacts of ancient cultures, or the
location of murder victims.
Experiments carried out at the
Stanford Research Institute show
that individuals can mentally travel
to the most distant parts of the world
and bring back accurate information
about global events. These same
experiments show that people can
look into the future and accurately
predict later events – and that they
can do it with astounding ease!
We wonder what power the ancients
used to perform their astounding
feats, but it should be obvious that this
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same power can be used to do more
than build gigantic monuments of
stone, or to release illuminating energy
from gems. It is quite likely that this is
the same power healers use to bring
harmony and healing to the human
body, the same power which many
psychic surgeons trigger to cause
lance-like energies to be emitted from
their fingertips. Is there any danger to
this power? The real danger is misuse.
With this ability, it becomes simple to
douse the minds of humans to learn
their darkest secrets or to cause them
ill health. Mind power is the ultimate
Pandora’s box. Once opened, no power
on earth will ever close it again.
It seems that mind power is the final
destiny of the human race. It is the
goal we have unconsciously sought
since believing in conveying the idea of
god-like powers. As we plunge towards
our destiny at an accelerating pace,
we must accept that we have reached
our childhood’s end. There will be no
place left to hide - not even in death!
According to ancient teachings we
only have to hold a belief firmly and
to visualize it as if it were already an
accomplished fact.
It appears that it was this “as if” principle
which fixed the mental energies. Thus
fixed, the energy became a core bound
which material matter attracted and
caused to take shape, and what the
individual manifested became true.
Considering the powers that we are
dealing with, it would not be unusual
to expect the coming age to be the
‘great age’ spoken of by ancient
seers. Without doubt, all our futures
will depend on what we desire for
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Helpful Research Information: October Celestial Events (Info Courtesy of Sea Sky)
November 4, 5
Taurids Meteor Shower
The Taurids is a long-running minor
meteor shower producing only about 5-10
meteors per hour. It is unusual in that it
consists of two separate streams. The
first is produced by dust grains left behind
by Asteroid 2004 TG10. The second
stream is produced by debris left behind
by Comet 2P Encke. The shower runs
annually from September 7 to December
10. It peaks this year on the the night
of November 4. This year the nearly full
moon will block out all but the brightest
meteors. But if you are patient, you may
still be able to catch a few good ones. Best
viewing will be just after midnight from
a dark location far away from city lights.
Meteors will radiate from the constellation
Taurus, but can appear anywhere in the
sky.
November 8
Full Moon
The Moon will be located on the opposite
side of the Earth as the Sun and its face
will be will be fully illuminated. This phase
occurs at 11:03 UTC. This full moon was
known by early Native American tribes as
the Beaver Moon because this was the
time of year to set the beaver traps before
the swamps and rivers froze. It has also
been known as the Frosty Moon and the
Dark Moon.
November 8
Total Lunar Eclipse
A total lunar eclipse occurs when the
Moon passes completely through the
ZEN OF BEN
Earth›s dark shadow, or umbra. During this
type of eclipse, the Moon will gradually
get darker and then take on a rusty
or blood red color. The eclipse will be
visible throughout eastern Russia, Japan,
Australia, the Pacific Ocean, and parts of
western and central North America. (NASA
Map and Eclipse Information)
November 9
Uranus at Opposition
The blue-green planet will be at its closest
approach to Earth and its face will be fully
illuminated by the Sun. It will be brighter
than any other time of the year and will be
visible all night long. This is the best time
to view Uranus. Due to its distance, it will
only appear as a tiny blue-green dot in all
but the most powerful telescopes.
November 17, 18
Leonids Meteor Shower
The Leonids is an average shower,
producing an average of up to 15 meteors
per hour at its peak. This shower is unique
in that it has a cyclonic peak about every
33 years where hundreds of meteors
per hour can be seen. That last of these
occurred in 2001. The Leonids is produced
by dust grains left behind by comet
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Tempel-Tuttle, which was discovered in
1865. The shower runs annually from
November 6-30. It peaks this year on
the night of the 17th and morning of the
18th. The second quarter moon will block
many of the fainter meteors this year.
But the Leonids can be unpredictable so
there is still potential for a good show.
Best viewing will be from a dark location
after midnight. Meteors will radiate from
the constellation Leo, but can appear
anywhere in the sky.
November 23
New Moon
The Moon will located on the same side
of the Earth as the Sun and will not be
visible in the night sky. This phase occurs
at 22:58 UTC. This is
the best time of the
month to observe
faint objects
such as
galaxies and
star clusters
because
there is no
moonlight to interfere.
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FILM
REVIEWS
Magnum P.I.
(Season 1) (15)
FABULOUS FILMS
MAIN CAST: Jay Hernandez, Perdita
Weeks, Zachary Knighton, Stephen Hill,
Tim Kang
DIRECTOR:Various
AVAILABLE: £24.99 (DVD)
For all those who remember this show
in the 1980’s with Tom Selleck striding
around wearing aviator shades and
driving a fast car, this is an updated
version with a new cast. In this version
Jay Hernandez plays Thomas Magnum,
a decorated former US navy SEAL,
who returns from Afghanistan and
repurposes his skills to become a private
investigator. He lives in a luxury guest
cottage on a private estate where,
ostensibly, he provides the security to
make a living between his private-eye
jobs. Other than that, the show is an
action-packed series of adventures
featuring Magnum taking on assorted
baddies and rescuing pretty girls, and
that’s just about it. Yes it’s enjoyable
and Magnum plays the loveable and
charming rogue and the locations are
spectacular, but more importantly,
it’s guaranteed to please anyone who
watched and enjoyed the original show.
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Mr Bean’s
Holiday (15)
FABULOUS FILMS
MAIN CAST: Rowan Atkinson, Emma de
Caunes, Max Baldry, Willem Dafoe
DIRECTOR: Steve Bendelack
AVAILABLE: £14.99 (BluRay)
This 100% typical Mr. Bean (thankfully
it was the last of the Bean films) with
all the bumbling and mistakes and
everything that goes with it. The plot,
such as it is, mainly serves for Bean to
make an entire cock-up of everything
he touches. But basically Mr. Bean wins
a holiday trip to Cannes, plus a video
camera and €200 in a raffle. Upon
arriving there, he promptly causes chaos
when he is mistaken for a kidnapper and
then an award-winning film maker when
he happens to travel with a Russian
film maker and an aspiring actress.
As anyone familiar with the Mr. Bean
back-story will realise, the plot of just an
excuse for our eponymous hero to get
into trouble and cause havoc wherever
he goes. It you like Mr. Bean then this
is for you, but it should suit just about
anyone who does not expect too much
and likes a laugh.
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The Equalizer (15)
FABULOUS FILMS
MAIN CAST: Queen Latifa, Tory Kittles,
Adam Goldberg, Laya DeLeon, Liza
Lapira
DIRECTOR: Various
AVAILABLE: £29.99
 (DVD)
Anyone who remembers the original
‘Equalizer’ which ran in the late 1980’s
and starred Edward Woodward, will recall
that it was well-worth watching and ran
for four seasons. It was remade as two
stand-alone films in 2014 and 2018,
both starring Denzel Washington, and
again they were both well-worth a watch.
Basically this is yet another update of the
concept, which concerns an apparently
average individual who functions as
a female vigilante and just might be
ex-special forces (or something along
those lines), but whatever, the character
is more than capable of taking care of
themselves…and any bad guys who get
in the way. In this incarnation it is Queen
Latifa who plays the enigmatic character.
To all intents and purposes she appears
to be a normal single mother, but she
also evens the odds and brings justice
on behalf of those who can’t do it for
themselves…and she doesn’t mess
around either. This is edge-of-the-seat,
full-on action all the way, there is a
season two with seasons three and four
already commissioned.
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BOOK
REVIEWS
DYNAMIC INTERACTIVE ASTROLOGY:
LEVEL ONE
The author of Dynamic Interactive Astrology Level
One, The Planets in Signs and Houses, seems to take
the view that the buyer already knows a bit about
the subject, because it uses a comprehensive and
sophisticated set of keywords and subsequent key
phrases created by the user, that apparently provide
immediate access to the meanings in one’s birth chart
of the Planets, Signs, Houses and Aspects. These
are all at the very core of astrology, but the newbie
might find it hard to grasp, at least at first. Specific
questions are addressed to the key phrases that the
reader/seeker has created to initiate a process of
dynamic interaction and are based on the idea that
the reader/seeker already has the answers to these
questions inside them. This idea is akin to the basic
psychotherapeutic premise that the practitioner never
tells their client what they are like or what to do, but
asks questions that elicit the client’s innate self-
awareness. This is known as ‘clean’ psychology as it
avoids the practitioner’s own personal agenda getting
in the way. Having utilized these two methods, the
user can then apply them, hopefully safely, to other
individuals and their birth charts. The book is at least
well-written and informative and may even convince the
dubious that astrology is much more accurate than the
syndicated columns in newspapers.
Author: Lyn Birbeck
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing Price: £14.99 / $22.95
ISBN: 978-1-80341-016-6
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THE HEYDAY OF MENTAL MEDIUMSHIP
There can be little doubt that between the 1880’s
and the 1930’s, mediumship and other paranormal
topics really did take off, so-much-so that the subject
attracted the attention of various open-minded
scientists. This flew in the face of the skeptics and
debunkers who seemed to say that, ‘it cannot be true
therefore it is not true’, which is a paradigm that still
exists to this day…but even that is slowly changing. The
author, Alan Gauld, who has also co-authored a book on
poltergeists, is a British parapsychologist, psychologist
and writer best known for his research on the history
of hypnotism, all of which makes him well-qualified to
write on this subject and also express his opinions. As
well as discussing most of the famous mediums of the
era (and their frequently astonishing achievements),
he also demonstrates how mediumship served as a
focal point for many outstanding scientific minds in
Europe and the USA, who probed the phenomenon
of mental mediumship with a rigour and enthusiasm
not encountered on such a scale before or since. He
also offers important insights into aspects of the early
days of mediumship research that over the years have
largely vanished, but all show that there is a genuine,
undeniable phenomenon at work here. The book is
also easy and entertaining to read, which is important
in works like this which can rapidly become little more
that a collection of boring data and little more. This is a
welcome addition to the existing canon of work about
an endlessly fascinating subject, highly recommended.
Authors: Alan Gauld
Publisher: White Crow Publishing Price: £15.99
ISBN: 978-1-78677-185-8
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POISON PRECSCRIPTIONS
First of all, The Seed Sistas are Fiona Heckels and
Kazz Goodweather, both of whom are herbalists,
eco-activists and plant folklorists and what they have
done here is create a work that gives step-by-step
instructions on creating several potions that are both
psychoactive and also medicinal. The book, which
could also be described as a grimoire, contains many
warnings about taking care when gathering and
preparing the many herbs (Henbane, Belladonna and
Datura are but three of them), because they can be
toxic and an overdose could kill you. Helpfully, the
book also tells the reader the most likely locations
to find the plants, just be careful when you are doing
this. It also makes it clear that what they describe in
the book is not a substitute for conventional medical
treatment. There are three parts; the first is ‘The Path
of Poisons’, the second is, ‘Connecting to the Witching
Herbs’ and the third, and for obvious reasons perhaps
the most interesting, is, ‘The Flying Ointment’, how to
prepare it and how to use it. Some of the instructions
seem a bit odd, because it recommends that in order
to ‘potentiate’ the herbs, the user should pick them at
certain planetary and lunar phases and also sing and
chant spells to the herbs as they are being prepared.
In fact the book tends to spend a fair bit of time going
into the spiritual side of the process, which adds to the
complexity of it all. The book is a fascinating insight
into the various techniques used in folk medicine and
how a wide variety of plants and herbs are involved.
Author: The Seed Sistas
Publisher: Watkins Publishing Price: £18.99 / $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-78678-714-9
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UFO ENCOUNTERS: UP CLOSE & PERSONAL
Oh wow, is this ever one for the real fans of Ufology,
because the book is jam-packed with accounts straight
from the files of just about every Ufologist you can
think of. They are all here; Philip Mantle, Don Schmitt,
Paul Ascough, Robbie Graham, Phillip and Ronald
Kinsella, Tony Topping, Mark Olly, Brian Allan, Dr. Bruce
Macabee Malcolm Robinson, Mary Rodwell, Steve
Mera, Peter Robbins and on and on and on. There is
a brief ‘heads up’ about the contributor and this is
quickly followed by their favorite UFO encounter and
all of them have been personally investigated by the
writer. You will have already heard of a few, because
most of the favorites are here, but there are loads that
are brand new, well they were new to me and I thought
I had heard of most, if not all of them. The book has a
global reach, because many of the accounts come from
various countries, one is even from Japan. There is one
lengthy case entitled ‘Northern Close Encounters’ that
was of particular interest, as is Robbie Graham’s ‘The
UFO I Never Saw’. It’s really not fair to select just a few
of the cases, because they all have their attractions
and are equally enjoyable. Buy a copy, settle down and
enjoy. Highly recommended.
Author: Jason Gleaves
Publisher: Flying Disk Press Price: £15.00
ISBN: 979-8-40437-497-1
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PARANORMAL
NEWS
NASA SET TO BREAK SOUND BARRIER
FOR FIRST TIME WITHOUT LOUD SONIC
BOOM
N asa will attempt to break the sound
barrier for the first time without
making a loud sonic boom, the US
space agency has announced.
Seventy-five years after the first
ever supersonic flight, Nasa’s Quesst
mission aims to eliminate the thunder
crack sound made when passing the
speed of sound, with the hope that the
achievement will usher in “a new era” of
high-speed commercial air travel.
“That first supersonic flight was
such a tremendous achievement, and
now you look at ahow far we’ve come
since then,” said Catherine Bahm,
an aeronautical engineer at Nasa’s
Armstrong Flight Research Center in
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California. “What we’re doing now is the
culmination of so much of their work.”
The sonic boom has stifled the
development of supersonic travel, with
the US and other countries banning it over
land due to the disturbance the sound
made on the ground.
Central to Nasa’s plan to dampen the
sonic boom is the X-59 aircraft, which is
currently being developed by Lockheed
Martin as part of the Low Boom Flight
Demonstrator project. In order to lower the
intensity of the sonic boom, aeronautic
engineers have manipulated the shape of
the airplane to soften the noise.
The first flights of the craft are set
to take place in 2023, with flights over
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neighbourhoods aimed at surveying how
people react to the quieter sonic “thump”
that it produces.
The results will then be shared with
regulators, who Nasa hopes will consider
lifting the ban on supersonic flight
overland.
“We’ve kind of been stuck with our
airliners at about Mach 0.8 for the past
almost 50 years, so being able to get there
– wherever there is – much faster is still
kind of an unfulfilled dream,” said Peter
Coen, Nasa’s mission integration manager
for Quesst.
“With the X-59 flying on the Quesst
mission, I think we’re ready to break the
sound barrier once again.”
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SCIENTISTS DISCOVER UNEXPLAINED
STRUCTURES AT BOUNDARY TO
INTERSTELLAR SPACE
S cientists have discovered weird
ripples and unexplained structures
at the boundary between our solar
system and the vast expanse of
interstellar space beyond it, reports a
new study.
The results show that the border of
the heliosphere, a protective bubble
created by the Sun that envelops the
solar system, shifts in ways that “are
intriguing and potentially controversial,”
according to the study.
The heliosphere extends some 11
billion miles out into space, more
than twice as far as Pluto’s orbit, and
is sculpted by a stream of charged
particles emitted by the Sun, called the
solar wind. The edge of this structure
is marked by a region, called the
heliopause, where the solar wind gives
way to the forces of the interstellar
medium. NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2
probes, which were launched in 1977,
both crossed this boundary over the
past decade, making them the first
human-made objects to venture into
interstellar space.
The Voyagers continue to send
dispatches from beyond the
heliosphere, but they can only report on
the conditions at their specific locations.
Scientists have learned to map some of
the broader contours of the heliopause
by looking for emissions made by
energetic neutral atoms (ENAs), which
are created by the interactions between
the solar and the interstellar winds, but
much of this transitional domain is still
shrouded in mystery.
Now, scientists led by Eric Zirnstein,
a research scholar in space physics
at Princeton University, have identified
curious new details about this zone
that were illuminated by a months-
long spike in the dynamic pressure of
the solar wind that occurred in 2014.
A NASA satellite called the Interstellar
Boundary Explorer (IBEX) captured a
dramatic brightening of ENAs in the
aftermath of this pressure front, which
revealed the motions of the heliopause
and “significant asymmetries” in the
structure of the heliosphere that
conflict with models, according to a
study published on Monday in Nature
Astronomy, hence the potential for
controversy.
“In early 2017, we noticed a
brightening of energetic neutral atom
(ENA) emissions in IBEX data coming
from a small part of the sky, centered
about 20 degrees below the ’nose’ of the
heliosphere,” said Zirnstein in an email
“This brightening first showed up at the
highest ENA energies we could observe.”
“Then over time, the emission area
grew larger and larger across the sky,
and started to appear at lower ENA
energies,” he continued. “We knew this
had to be in response to a big change in
solar wind pressure, which is a key factor
in determining ENA emissions from the
edges of the heliosphere. The fact that
the initial spot of brightening was not
centered on the ’nose,’ and expanded
asymmetrically across the sky, motivated
studies of this behavior to learn why.”
As the researchers examined the
IBEX observations, they realized that the
surface of the heliosphere is distorted
by huge ripples that appear at an
unexpectedly oblique (or slanted) angle.
These spatial variations within these
structures can reach ten astronomical
units (AU), where one AU is the distance
between Earth and the Sun.
“We were quite surprised about how
oblique the surfaces are, where the closest
points are tilted ~30 degrees below the
nose, in contrast to most known models
of the heliosphere,” Zirnstein said. “The
ripple structures were surprising as well,
because after doing our best to account
for potential uncertainties in the analysis,
we found these ripples to be statistically
significant. But in hindsight, when we
consider how dynamic the solar wind
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actually is, this probably shouldn’t have
been too surprising—but it sure was
interesting to see it.”
According to Zirnstein, the mechanisms
that are producing some of these
intriguing observations are unknown.
“There seems to be a missing driving
force for this asymmetry that is connected
to the solar wind and its interaction with
the interstellar medium,” he noted. “Other
star systems with astrospheres may
be similar in their asymmetry, but it all
depends on the properties of the star itself
and the interstellar medium around it.”
In addition to spotting these distortions
at the gates to interstellar space, the team
was able to reconstruct the “substantial
differences in the heliosphere boundaries’’
in recent years, according to the study.
This particular finding sheds new light
on the journey of the Voyagers through
the heliospheric termination shock (HTS),
which is the point where the solar wind
begins to slow, and subsequently through
the heliopause..
“The Voyager spacecraft provide the
only direct, in situ measurement of the
locations of these boundaries. But only
at one point in space and time,” Zirnstein
said. “So comparing our results, which
were observed at a different time in
the solar cycle than when Voyager 1
or 2 crossed the boundaries, made it
complicated. The locations of the HTS
surface compared well with Voyager 1 and
2, but what was most surprising was the
[heliopause] surface.”
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SCIENTISTS SUGGEST OUR BRAINS WORK LIKE

QUANTUM COMPUTERS SOURCE: FUTURISM.COM

A s physicists endeavor to build bigger

and better quantum computers, a
powerful one may have already been
lurking inside our heads all along.
In a new study published this month in
the Journal of Physics Communications,
a team of scientists from Trinity College
Dublin suggest that our brains could
actually be using quantum computation.
If confirmed — something that will
require extensive investigation — the

finding could help explain why, in
certain respects, our brains still outdo
supercomputers.
Their conclusion relies on the idea of
quantum entanglement, a phenomenon
describing particles changing each other’s
quantum state, even when they are
separated by a large distance.
“We adapted an idea, developed for
experiments to prove the existence of
quantum gravity, whereby you take known
quantum systems, which interact with an
unknown system,” said Christian Kerskens,
study co-author and lead physicist at the
Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience,
in a statement.
“If the known systems entangle, then
the unknown must be a quantum system,
too,” he explained. “It circumvents the
difficulties to find measuring devices for
something we know nothing about.”
In the case of this experiment, the
proton spins of the water in our brains
served as the “known system.” Kerskens
and his team then used a special form of
MRI imaging to detect if any of the proton
spins were quantum entangled.
Curiously, the scientists ended up
detecting a specific kind of electrical
brain signal known as heartbeat evoked
potentials, which they say is normally not
detectable with MRIs.
What allowed them to detect those
potentials, the scientists suggest, is
quantum entanglement in proton spins in
the brain.
“If entanglement is the only possible
explanation here then that would mean
that brain processes must have interacted
with the nuclear spins, mediating the
entanglement between the nuclear spins,”
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Kerskens concluded. “As a result, we can
deduce that those brain functions must be
quantum.”
It’s an intriguing suggestion, but there’s
a lot more that needs to be proven. For
one, the study rides on relatively recent
proposals in the field of quantum gravity.
And, as the scientists in the study admit,
their efforts were largely undertaken
through the perspective of quantum
physics.
In short, to prove their theory, it’d require
a substantial multidisciplinary effort,
especially considering the complexity of
the human brain — but it’s a tantalizing
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER
ANOTHER BURIED SPHINX IN
EGYPT
E gyptian archaeologists working on
a groundwater reduction project
at the Kom Ombo Temple in Aswan
have discovered a sandstone sphinx,
according to the Egyptian Ministry of
Antiquities on Sunday.
The discovery comes as a surprise as
in the last few months, archaeologists
working in Egypt have uncovered the
remains of two Sphinx statues.
Earlier this year, Archaeology World
wrote about how construction workers
working near the Luxor Temple Complex
stumbled across the remains of a buried
Sphinx statue.
Initial reports by the Egyptian Ministry
of Antiquity suggested that the Sphinx
uncovered at Luxor is similar in design
to the Great Sphinx of Giza: It has the
body of a lion and the head of a human.
The most famous Sphinx in Egypt
is without a doubt the massive statue
located on the Giza plateau.
The Great Sphinx of Giza is
considered an ancient marvel not only
because of its size and confusing design
but because of the countless mysteries
that surround this ancient structure.
Together with the three pyramids,
the Great Sphinx found on the plateau
of Giza – about 500 km from the
place where the new statue was
found – is one of the most emblematic
monuments of Egypt.
SOURCE: ARCHAEOLOGY-WORLD.COM
Now, archaeologists near Aswan made
another stunning discovery by finding
another Sphinx statue.
Mostafa Waziri, general secretary of the
Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt,
explained that the piece probably dates
from the Ptolemaic dynasty, as the Sphinx
statue was found on the southeast side of
the temple, in the same place where two
sandstone reliefs of King Ptolemy V were
discovered two months ago.
The Ptolemaic Dynasty ruled over Egypt
for 275 years, from 305 to 30 BC, and they
were the last dynasty of ancient Egypt.
The Kom Ombo temple complex was
constructed during the Ptolemaic Dynasty.
Ptolemy V was the fifth ruler of the
Ptolemaic dynasty from 204 to 181 BC.
He inherited the throne at the age of five,
and under a series of regents, the kingdom
was paralyzed. It is noteworthy to mention
that the famous Rosetta Stone (see issue
160) was produced during his reign as an
adult.
The sculpture, discovered at the Kom
Ombo Temple in Aswan bears hieroglyphic
and demotic inscriptions and has already
been transported to the National Museum
of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat, where it
will be carefully studied and restored by
the archaeological mission to obtain more
information about its origin.
After restoration, the newly-found
Sphinx will be exhibited to the public.
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ACCORDING
TO A RUSSIAN
UFO EXPERT, HE
KNOWS HOW
ALIEN UFOS
TRAVEL ACROSS
SPACE.
SOURCE:THEANCIENTZEN.COM
T he human species’ inescapable
goal to spread over the cosmos is
to travel faster than the speed of light.
When compared to the vastness of
the universe, light moves incredibly
slowly: a ship moving at the speed of
light would take more than four years
to reach the nearest stars, and 25,000
years to reach the nearest galaxy, Canis
Major Dwarf.
Civilizations without the
technological capability to travel
through space by enclosing their ship
in electromagnetic fields are unable to
reach the solar system.
Valery Uvarov, Director of the
International Information Center for
Ufological Research, discussed this
with FAN in an interview.
Valery Uvarov highlighted how, in
his opinion, mental brothers traverse
through space faster than we do.
“Those civilizations who have
perfected flying on a certain form of
ship, which we see in the sky and have
named UFOs to this point,” he added,
“employ a massive electromagnetic
field to navigate in space.”
“With its help, a path is made across
gaps, and a’step’ is taken, yet they do
not even proceed.”
“In our solar system, civilizations that
lack such technology and travel linearly
from point A to point B cannot exist,”
the study concluded.
“No other propulsion technique
known to man has the ability to push a
starship farther and faster into space
than electromagnetic propulsion.”
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A MILLION-YEAR-OLD HUMAN SKULL HAS

PROMPTED SCIENTISTS TO RECONSIDER EARLY
HUMAN EVOLUTION SOURCE: MEDIAREPORT-24.COM

A whole skull of an old human

progenitor was discovered in 2005 at
the archaeological site of Dmanisi, a tiny
town in southern Georgia, Europe. The
skull belonged to a 1.85 million-year-old
extinct hominid!
The archaeological specimen, known
as Skull 5 or D4500, is completely whole
and has a long face, huge teeth, and a
small braincase. It was one of five ancient
hominin skulls discovered in Dmanisi,
forcing experts to reconsider the early
human evolution scenario.
“The result provides the first evidence
that early Homo consisted of adult people
with small brains but body mass, stature,
and limb proportions exceeding the lower
range limit of modern variation,” the
researchers write.
Dmanisi is a hamlet and archaeological
site in Georgia’s Kvemo Kartli region, about
93 kilometers southwest of the country’s
capital, Tbilisi, in the Mashavera river
valley. The 1.8 million-year-old hominid 0.8 million years ago), only migrating Though the majority of scientists believe
site was discovered. out during a phase known as Out of the Skull 5 is a regular form of Homo
Many unique species in the genus Africa I. As a result, Africa received a erectus, the human predecessors who
Homo were thought to be a single disproportionate amount of archaeological lived in Africa during the same period.
lineage when a succession of skulls with attention. Others claim it to be Australopithecus
diverse physical features were unearthed However, the Dmanisi archeological sediba, which lived 1.9 million years ago in
at Dmanisi in the early 2010s. Skull 5, site is the earliest hominin site outside of what is now South Africa and is thought to
also known as “D4500,” is the fifth skull Africa, and artifact research revealed that be the ancestor of the genus Homo, which
unearthed in Dmanisi. certain hominins, primarily Homo erectus includes contemporary humans.
Until the 1980s, scientists considered georgicus, departed Africa as early as 1.85 Many scientists have offered numerous
that hominins were confined to Africa for million years ago. The five skulls are all new possibilities, but we are still deprived
the entire Early Pleistocene (until around about the same age. of the genuine face of our history.

MAN WHO ‘HAD ALIEN ENCOUNTER AS A CHILD’ HAS

SPENT YEARS SEEKING ANSWERS SOURCE: DAILY MIRROR

A man who believes he came face-to-

face with an extraterrestrial being
as a child has spent years investigating
‘otherworldly’ phenomena.
Ben Walgate was just seven or eight
years old when he had the unusual
encounter in a woodland and it would
eventually lead him to set up YouTube
channel 401 Files.
The 35-year-old, from Malton, North
Yorkshire, now visits various hotspots for
alleged UFO and alien sightings across
the UK, and reports back to his more than
11.4k subscribers.
Such locations include the North York
Moors, Flamborough Head and Bempton
Cliffs in East Yorkshire, and Reminishin
Forest, in Surrey.
Ben had been on his way back from a
camping trip as a Cub Scout at Snowball
Plantation, near York, when the minibus
had stopped off to allow everyone to
stretch their legs.
It was broad daylight and very hot.
He ventured up a small embankment
which brought him into a wooded area and
saw a derelict outbuilding in a clearing.
But suddenly, around 25 metres to his
left, Ben said he saw a spindly “green
creature” with a tiny head, standing on
two feet and well over six feet tall with
oversized limbs.
He described it as walking with a “stoop”
as if struggling to stand or clumsily trying
to keep a low profile.
Ben told The Mirror: “The wooded area
wasn’t that dense so I got a good look at
this thing. It might have only been a few
seconds, but we made eye contact, it had
black eyes.
“This thing was out of the ordinary, it
looked at me I looked at this thing.
“ It was definitely not of this Earth.
It was such a weird vibe. Its head in
proportion to its body was tiny.
“It’s not like the stereotypical alien with
the grey skin and the big black eyes. This
thing was more lizard. I’m not saying it
had scales, it wasn’t snake-like.
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