Issue 055 - November 2013

CHIEF EDITORIAL CONTENTS
Well… With another Christmas quickly approaches and another Halloween

gladly behind me, I’ve been focusing on some new changes to Phenomena
Magazine for the New Year. One of which will be a small section dedicated to Page 2: Not your Grandmother’s Humanoids.
carefully selected fictional books. Brian and I have noticed a number of books
on the market that are certainly worth a read. Also, our Spanish friends may In my years of researching, categorising and looking for bizarre entity
experience a few delays regarding our Spanish issue as our editor Dario Fer-
nandez sorts out some computer issues. Things will be back on track in no and humanoid reports worldwide I have run into quite a few outland‐
time. Some varied topics in this months issue I’m sure you’ll enjoy. Also, watch
out for ‘The Zone Unknown’ radio show. Tune in every Sunday. My good friend
ish descriptions of bizarre entities encountered by different people
and excellent investigative researcher Dave Sadler will be featured on the from different parts of the world. Such reports are uncommon, but
show. More details can be found within this issue.
very very weird. Albert Rosales takes us on a fascinating journey into
EDITORIAL the world of alien encounters of the strange looking kind.

Hello All, As with Steve I sometimes get asked to give presentations on a
range of subjects, it used to be just to promote my books, but then I started Page 11: The Psychology of Spiritualism: Science & Seances.
being asked to speak on a range of related subjects. Recently I spoke at the
Arthur Conan Doyle centre in Edinburgh, (a genuinely lovely building). It was The idea of summoning the spirits took thrilling hold of the Victorian
an open day and I thought it was simply a one off; however, right out of the
blue I got a call from the SSPR (Scottish Society of Psychical Research) to imagination – and has its adherents now. But the psychology behind
speak at their annual conference and also at one of their regular society
meetings early next year. I’m also speaking at the Probe International Confer-
spiritualism is more intriguing. What is the truth? Can spiritual com‐
ence next March at Lytham St Anne’s (so is Steve) and then I was invited to
speak to the Birmingham UFO group, and the subject? Well, it’s entitled ’Truth,
munication really take place? Reporter David Derbyshire delves into
Lies & Ufology’. the world of psychics and spiritualists and reveals some interesting
It has to be said that if ever a subject had a lot of one and not much of the other it’s Ufology, so, research in this Guardian news item.
just in case, I’ll have a fast car with the engine running waiting outside the venue to beat a
hasty retreat. It always strikes me as really incredible that some people in the UFO community
are so heavily polarised (like the members of a cult), that they flatly refuse to hear anything
other then their own viewpoint. It’s why they tend to gravitate into tight-knit groups who hold
Page 19: Ebu Gogo: Alive in 1991.
the same or similar views and it’s doubly strange because, since the paranormal and Ufology Mumbay, India, March 1991. I got to a beach and proceeded heading
make unavoidable bedfellows, we are all in this together and should keep open minds especially
in relation to Ufology, but sadly this is not always the case. Oh and just one more thing, PLEASE North along the promenade of the Mahim Bay. It was a Sunday and
let us have feedback, because we really do need your input to help keep the magazine doing
what you want it to do and we ALWAYS listen to what you say. Yes, this means YOU! probably an Indian holiday because many people were strolling
Chief Editorial Contact: Steve Mera - s_mera@yahoo.com around enjoying themselves. Eventually I got to a playground next to
Editorial Contact: Brian Allan - Paratec7@aol.com an amusement park and there on the boardwalk I saw something I
Spanish Editor Contact: Dario Fernandez - info@e-nigmas.com.ar will never forget. Hannes Erler describes his sighting of Ebu Gogo.
Columnist: Richard Holland - editor@uncannyuk.com
Page 23: Audinghen Bunkers: A Paranormal Investigation.
As they say anything is possible, Paranormal Knights Scotland organi‐
sation, based in the UK with the help from other teams across the
Channel such as Aschwin Elout's from Ghost Hunting Netherlands
and Ghost Hunting BV accompanied by Daniel Blom representing
Ghost Hunters Overschie had met for the first time ever after a long
online organised paranormal event like no other. Andrew Park explains.
Page 26: Poltergeists and things that go Bump in the night.
Poltergeists are rare, but they do exist. For those that aren't in the
loop, a poltergeist is a spirit that moves through inanimate objects like
cups, TVs, furniture, and windows. Noises ‐ like bumps, thuds, ker‐
plunks ‐ yes kerplunks is a dictionary word, knocks, scratching at the
window, and banging at the door are all examples of poltergeist activ‐
WWW.PHENOMENAMAGAZINE.CO.UK ity. David Slone explains.
Page 31: The UFO, Bigfoot & Paranormal Overlap: Part 2.
THIS MONTHS CONTRIBUTORS When I wrote the first part of this article, which appeared in the Sep‐
Steve Mera, Brian Allan, Gary Heseltine, Philip Mantle, Danial Verdon, Richard Holland,
Dario Fanandez, Albert S. Rosales, Dr. Peter McCue, David Derbyshire, Andrew Park,
tember 2013 issue of the magazine, I hadn’t planned a second part.
Hannes Shunyananda Erler, David Slone, Greg Newkirk, Laura Burnip, Chris Richards, Chris Parr, But I’d like to cite some additional cases. They tie in with the themes
Ellie Zolfagharifard, UFOTV & UFOStore.com.
discussed previously, and seem to support the view that many para‐
PHENOMENA The PM Team: Sotiris at STRANGEFILES.ME, Danial
normal events may be the theatrical orchestrations of a higher intelli‐
MAGAZINE Verdon at UREI, Randy at UFOSTORE.COM, Dario Fernan- gence. Peter McCue reveals some more fascinating cases.
SPANISH EDITION dez at e-nigmas / portal de lo paranormal. Tim at
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Phenomena Magazine: November 2013 - Issue 55: www.phenomenamagazine.co.uk
Not your Grandmothers Humanoids
By Albert S. Rosales
NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHERS

HUMANOIDS
In my years of researching, categorising and
looking for bizarre entity and humanoid
reported that he saw a man dressed in silver
clothing. He described the skin of the hu‐
Ireland” there are a number of bizarre en‐
counters recounted, the following one I
reports worldwide I have run into quite a manoid as “gleaming” and that the entity found most interesting:
few outlandish descriptions of bizarre enti‐ had only one eye. But it does not end here, a
ties encountered by different people from month after, around September in the same
different parts of the world. Forget the tall city or town of Meklong again in Thailand.
blond, the popular “Grays”, even the Reptili‐ One night a local Siamese woman was
ans, there are apparently ‘others’ out there awoken by an unknown force and was sur‐ These Nordic alien
that have left the witness or witnesses wish‐ prised to ‘hear’ that the surrounding area giants are said to
ing for an encounter with a much more was devoid of the usual animal noises. Look‐ be 6‐8 feet tall,
‘normal’ Zeti Reticulian “Gray”. I will at‐ ing out the window, the woman beheld a and are often the
overseers of alien
tempt to summarize a few of the strangest strange humanoid in her backyard. She abductions by the
humanoid cases in my files, but be aware claimed that the humanoid had only one eye greys. They aren’t
that ANY encounter with an anomalous en‐ and was dressed in a suit, which seemed to as malevolent as
some of the other
tity of any kind is strange and one should be made out of metal.
alien species listed
use caution and not blindly approach it here, but why do
unless the witness is approached by the they oversee these
entity or entities. One group that have been abductions, what
is their real
seen a lot lately are the ones who have been agenda? Are they
labeled “BEKS” or the ‘Black eyed Kids’ I urge part of a council
caution in dealing with these entities and do that allows this
type of behaviour
not acquiesce to any of their requests, for
and they over see
example ‘ask to be let in to use the phone’. the process be‐
cause they want
It occurred near Woodseaves, Shropshire, to make sure they
don’t harm us
England on January 21 1879 at around anymore than is
22:00 when a man was driving his horse needed? This is all
cart across a bridge when a horrible black very strange. Are
these the super‐
humanoid with huge shining eyes jumped
men that the Nazis
out of the trees and landed on the horse’s believed once
back. The man tried to push the creature were in the an‐
off but it would not budge and the whip cient Tibet, and
thats what Himler
seemed to go through it. The horse pan‐ (Hitler’s right hand
icked and went into a gallop with the crea‐ man for the Third
ture clinging to it. The creature eventually Reich) himself
The episode ended with the woman claiming disappeared and the man arrived at his went looking for
to have been abducted into a “palace of on expeditions to
home in a state of shock. What do we have find the Aryan
lights.” An early abduction report? I suspect here? A sort of spectral Interdimensional giant super race?
we will never know. wayfarer? They are almost
Swedish looking,
and they always
The following report comes from Greek re‐
From the venerable Finnish Researcher I are white, and
searcher Thanassis Vembos who has gra‐ have blond hair.
received the following account:
ciously shared many of the humanoid re‐ Their are both

ports he has investigated in Greece with me. males and fe‐
Circa 1885 one afternoon in the small vil‐ males, each
It comes from near the area of the famous lage of Brante, Kemio region Finland a equally as big.
young woman, mother of three, was picking There are a lot of
ancient Kingdom of Sparta in Greece, year contactees that
1875. It briefly states that two men hunting berries in the forest when she saw some‐ speak of these
Bizarre winged humanoid 1979. in an isolated area heard a sound like “a thing resembling a “kettle cock” on a small nordic giants, but
hill. Besides the “kettle” stood an elf‐like their choices of
baby screaming”. Then they saw a dwarf‐like
One of the earliest reports of a Cyclopean people that they
creature, about 2 feet tall with long hair and creature carrying something resembling an
indeed make
type entity, a not so‐common humanoid sharp teeth, regretfully there is no addi‐ axe on his shoulder. Terrified, the young contact with is
type even though it has been reported in tional information. He found the report in a woman returned to her village. very strange.
modern times, originated from outside the book of Greek Folklore by Nikolaos Politis
town of Meklong, Thailand around August After a couple of hours she returned to the
called “Traditions”. Interesting indeed, a
1810. The time is not provided but the re‐ location with other villagers, but the “kettle
survivor of some sort of iron‐age or stone‐
port from well‐known Malaysian entity re‐ cock” and the elf were gone. Perhaps a
age tribe? We can only conjecture.
searcher Ahmad Jamaluddin states that on “typical” CE3 report, the small humanoid or

a road outside the city a Dr. Jacob Hazlitt, a elf was possibly carrying some type of appa‐ http://
In the excellent book by Graham J. McEwan alienpic‐
missionary (does not state the nationality) ratus which was misinterpreted as an axe.
titled “Mystery Animals of Britain and tures.wordpress.com/
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loss.” This case comes from researchers Signora Faralli was indoors watching televi‐

Brian Musson and Bruce Harding from a sion and she heard the noise, and was
HUMCAT listing. aware of the dazzling light outside. Indeed
the electric light, she said, was extinguished
We go forward 10 years and during the un‐ suddenly, but then came back on. Soon
precedented humanoid/encounters wave in after that Rivo, a barber by profession, ar‐
France from the fall of 1954. According to rived at the house where he stayed for
Martin Kottmeyer writing in the Anomalist # about half an hour. Then, at about 2100 he
The chupacabra
has been often
10 (and other sources) on October 13 1954 left, got into the car, a Fiat 127 started up
seen in Mexico, around 20:00 near the small locality of Mon‐ and moved off. He had only gone a few
and a lot of South timont near Vrignes‐aux‐Bois, Ardennes, meters when it stalled and stopped, the
America like
France, Mr. Sadi Levy a local merchant was electrical system having ceased to operate.
Brazil. They also
perform many returning from Vrignes‐aux‐Bois when near While he was still puzzled, a strange bright
cattle mutilations a brickyard in Montimont his vehicle sud‐ object, preceded by a beam of red light,
in a very gruesome denly stopped. Horrified, Mr. Levy saw two
manner. Not like landed on the road in front of him. The
the greys that use
terrifying forms in his headlights, he de‐ lower part of the object was discoidal in
lasers to perform Typical Little Green Man. scribed them as two small beings of a phos‐ shape while the upper part was hemispheri‐
their surgeries phorescent green color with large eyes and a cal and orange in color like the color of a
extracting some‐ Who says that there are no such things as
tail. Then the extraordinary vision disap‐ priest’s hat. It was so bright that it illumi‐
thing that I could ‘little green men’? If the following cases are
not tell you. The peared and the car re‐started. A tail? Maybe nated the area around it, and it appeared to
true then make room ‘little grays’.
stories are often the humanoids were wearing some kind of be standing on the road on three iridescent
covered up by the
suit with hose‐like protrusions, who knows? beams of light varying from yellow, to
government. Their This first incident is from researcher Keith
name in Spanish Roberts from the veteran Tasmanian UFO green, to red, to sky blue. The object had a
means goat suck‐ diameter of three meters and it covered all
ers, because they
research group ‘TUFOIC’. It supposedly took
prefer goats as place around midnight one February 1948 in of the carriageway, at the same time touch‐
their primary food the small town of Berridale, Tasmania, Aus‐ ing a dry stone wall with one edge. It hung
source. These guys
tralia. in the air at about the height of the Fiat
may not even be 127’s bonnet.
aliens, they could
be a genetic Two witnesses standing on their back gar‐
experiment, a den sighted a bright round object hovering Suddenly, on this object‐‐‐presumably a
result of toxic UFO a “port” opened in the fashion of a
chemicals or
low above them. Sitting on the edge of the
radiation, or just object were several small green colored double door, one part to the left, the other
an unknown humanoids that appeared to be making a to the right. Two beings emerged and pro‐
predator that yet
weird ‘singing sound’ the object eventually ceeded down from the object. They were
to be discovered. about 1.00m to 1.10m in height and they
They are said to drifted out of sight. Some other sources
have glowing red have indicated that the tune of the weird descended in a fluctuating motion until
eyes like the ‘singing sound’ was that of the children’s they were about 10 cm from the ground. In
reptilians, and that position their heads were level with
they can run very
medley “Three blind mice” (!).
fast. If you see one Rivo Faralli’s face as he sat in his car, and it
your best bet is Four years before the above incident in late was this that enabled him to estimate the
not to run like hell,
August 1944 in the locality of Christchurch entities height. Rivo saw that they had
because they will green coveralls and big helmets, and that
only chase you, New Zealand while walking among low hills,
and suck you like a Mrs. E. M. Church encountered an part of these helmets was transparent. The
goat. These guys “upturned saucer” sitting on a gentle slope creature’ skin seemed also to be green, and
are scary looking,
Image of humanoids encountered.
hidden from the road. She walked up to it & while their faces were to a degree human‐
and their are
many more pic‐ stared for 8‐10 minutes. Small (not over 4 The last green humanoid report I include is like they were flat and lean with bony,
tures floating feet) occupants were seen inside transpar‐ from the Italian humanoid/encounter wave arched cheeks, regular noses, and thin lip‐
around the Inter‐
ent cases. The one (of 3) outside “was just a of 1978 following is a summary of the case: less mouths. The witness couldn’t see their
net if you want to eyes and ears as they were hidden in a
check it out. green‐colored entity in a transparent box
like casing…just standing there.” (Neither Location. Torrita Di Sienna Italy shaded zone. The fronts of the helmets had
head, arms, nor legs were discerned; the Date: September 17 1978 what appeared to be two slender cylindrical
sketch provided from the witness shows Time: 2100 protuberances like springs, or similar helical

merely an irregular column). A cloud came structures. The overall garments seemed to
down and enveloped them; she walked Signora Ultimina Boscagli and her son Ric‐ be of one piece and they were neither close

closer, to within 20 ft. When the one outside cardo (12) heard an intense noise. It was like ‐fitting nor large; indeed, the shapes of
noticed her, “his helmet flipped over auto‐ a round of artillery fire and from where they their limbs were visible and their propor‐
matically, and he drifted into the vehicle,” were standing in the street in front of their tions appeared normal as they walked to‐

and the door was closed. The object itself, house (on the Via Pie agli Orti) they looked wards the car. Their gait seemed to have
18‐20 feet across and 9 feet high, seemed to up to see a fireball with yellow‐orange con‐ more interest in the car than in its owner,

be covered with vertically laid tiles resem‐ tours and a reddish trail. Suddenly, in a and when they were behind him he could
bling wood veneer, and with a central circle blinding dazzle, the object vanished. The still see them by way of the driving mirror.
of aluminum‐like metal. From the center lower part of the round shaped object had In fact Rivo noticed that their awkwardness

rose something like “a piece of 4 inch pipe been seen to be reddish in color and very seemed more marked. After completing the
as long as your arm,” capped with alumi‐ bright white in the upper part. Signora Bos‐ round trip they headed back for the UFO to
num; midway on this mast was a blue light. cagli and her son were so frightened that which they ascended with the same fluctu‐

A whirring noise commenced, and the object they retreated quickly into their house. ating motion as they had displayed when
http:// slowly rose vertically into the clouds. Ac‐ Other witnesses of the phenomenon were descending. Once aboard, the first of them
alienpic‐
tures.wordpress.com/ cording to the witness “I felt a deep sense of Signora Santina Faralli and her son Rivo (25). settled in the bright dome ‐ the
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hemispherical section. The witness couldn’t creatures seen in different parts of the A much recent case describing a similar
say whether the entity was sitting or stand‐ world, I let you decide as to the plausibility humanoid comes from the following excel‐
ing, for he could see only its helmeted head, of such creature existing among us ‘modern lent website which chronicles (or attempts
and part of its back. Before entering the humans’. to) all Spanish UFO events and encounters:
object the second entity turned back and http://www.looculto.260mb.com/
looked at the witness as though he wanted ovnisenespana/desde1981.htm
to say something, then checked, turned
away, entered the strange craft and took Location. Near Antequera, Malaga, Spain.
position beside his companion. The port Date: August 2011. These insectoids
shut and form the lower part of the “body” Time: night. wear some type of
mechanical suit,
came two very intense beams whereupon that gives them
the craft rose vertically for about 10 meters, A night‐watchman guarding a ‘restricted’ somewhat of a
then shot away in level flight leaving a bright area near Antequera was making his rounds human like hand,
horizontal trail. As the UFO disappeared the when he was suddenly confronted by a and also allows
them to walk with
headlights of the Fiat came back, automati‐ bizarre humanoid figure that appeared to better posture,
cally, and since the gears were still engaged have ‘goat feet’ and was moving over the perhaps for com‐
the car started to move forward without any ground as if “on a conveyor belt”. The hu‐ bat. It is said to be
only a type of bio‐
action by Rivo Faralli. Signor Faralli had not manoid was coming from an inaccessible mechanical armor
touched the controls when the craft first area which dead‐ended on a precipice, as though, and when
appeared as he was at first stupefied and the humanoid floated by he looked at the they aren’t wear‐
bewildered, and then almost paralyzed with witness “with great intensity” and then ing their armor,
they look much
terror. For three days after the incident Rivo disappeared into a nearby wooded area. like a giant pray‐
experienced “burning” eyes. The stunned guard called a co‐worker to ing mantis. They
keep him company after he told him what don’t seem to
It was reported that in the next street, at he had seen. (Translation by Albert S. communicate with
each other as
about 2130 on the evening several television Rosales). some of the other
receivers went off for about a minute, and aliens do with
then returned to normal operation. At the Next I will present several high‐strangeness projecting
scene of the landing in the middle of the thoughts, they
humanoid encounters which will make you make more of a
carriageway there was a black circle 50cm in Image of the pagan God Pan. realize that the so‐called “Grays” are the clicking type
diameter which appeared to have been least of our worries! sound, and their
caused by considerable heat. The first case is detailed in B. M.’s book “The movement also
resembles that of
Inhumanoids, real encounters with beings Spanish researcher extraordinaire Iker an insect. They are
that can’t exist” p. 311. The location was Jimenez presented the following case in his very tall 7 – 11
Source: Richard Hall, Mufon Journal # 153 & feet, and have
Somerset, England (no additional specifics) manuscript “Ovnis en Andalusia”
Roberto Pinotti FSR Vol. 25 # 4 long necks, that
when a man named Cyril Barry was outside On February 12 1980 one late night at the they sometimes

one evening smoking a cigarette when he locality of Los Barrios, Cadiz, Spain, a night have to bend or
noticed light coming from the window of the watchman at a local car junkyard was sleep‐ crouch down to
The following eerie encounter I like to call it
walk through
“The giant shrimp from Bremerton” is from adjacent house. He casually strode over and ing in one of the junked cars because of the entry ways. They
the Strange Magazine website, http:// looked inside the room‐‐‐and got the shock cold temperatures when he was suddenly have no emotion
www.strangemag.com/firstperson.html, of his life. There, sitting at a large table was awakened by someone tapping on the pas‐ in any of their
a white, humanoid figure with a bearded senger door of the car, looking out he was facial features
and it concerns one, Virginia Staples who again much like an
one afternoon in 1948 was at her home in goat’s head complete with ten‐inch long stunned to see the figure of a woman with insect, the face
Bremerton Washington hanging laundry in horns. Instantly regretting his indiscretion, large slanted eyes, and greenish tinted skin they do have, is
Mr. Barry hurriedly left the area. (green again!) standing outside the passen‐ just damn creepy
the huge basement of her apartment com‐
looking. These
plex. The basement was covered with huge ger door. Terrified the guard grabs a club, guys do many
holes in the walls and it was rumored that Shaken by what he had seen and unable to which he usually carried with him and experiments on
there was a passage to the water. As she resolve it, he reportedly returned to the jumps out of the car in order to confront humans, and the
house the following day and once again, the strange visitor. Once outside the car reason for these
was hanging her clothing she got the feeling experiments,
that someone was staring at her. She finally peered into the same window. He was sur‐ and ready to strike at the stranger the much like the
turned around and looked towards the back prised to see that the room was now empty, stunned watchman sees a 2nd identical hu‐ greys, is unknown.
dusty and in disarray as if it hadn’t been manoid standing next to the original one, People most of the
of the basement and froze in horror, in one
time do walk away
of the huge holes stood a horrific looking occupied for years. suddenly both figures dematerialize in front after having an
entity. It was a creature described as about of him. He reportedly quit his job that same encounter or
5 feet tall, bright orange in color, with little In Vicente Ballester Olmos’s Catalogue of morning. I know of one other case from abduction, but
200 type I UFO events in Spain & Portugal Texas in 1964 which a witness describes a what they are
spidery thin legs and antennae on its head really doing eludes
that kept moving back and in and out. The we find the following bizarre narrative: female humanoid with green tinted skin. most people.
strange creature began moving towards her. During a powerful storm the owner of a
Terrified she backed out of the basement flock of sheep was staying in his cabin when
and ran up to her apartment, she moved out he heard voices outside. Upon opening the

the same day. In this so‐called modern age door he saw a short man that he invited
most of the earth’s vast oceans, especially inside. Without speaking the man entered
the depths, are still largely unexplored, who the cabin. Later the witness noticed that the
knows what kind of creatures lurk beneath short being had feet like a goat or hoofs. The
the waters? frightened witness screamed causing the
being to flee outside. The witness then ran

The following two cases are also from the outside and was able to see a fireball‐like http://
object shoot up into the sky at high speed. Iconic image of a Werewolf. alienpic‐
year 1948 and describe two very similar tures.wordpress.com/
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Of all the assorted humanoids and entities This is another category of “Not your grand‐ however on this same night he was awak‐
encountered worldwide the so‐called mother’s humanoid” type of entity, the ened by the appearance of two short gray‐
mythological or folkloric werewolf has to be ‘Robot’ of Sci‐Fi fame. But if we are to be‐ luminous figures in his bedroom. He was
the most frightening in appearance. Most of lieve many witnesses reports, these human‐ briefly paralyzed but was again able to
us who follow this subject be it, UFOs, Hu‐ oids are not exactly stuff of science fiction. move. The beings ran out of the room as
manoids, Cryptozoology, etc. are familiar The following report is of very little known soon as he was able to move but suddenly a
with the very well‐known encounters in the report (outside of Spain) which appears to section of the ceiling became luminous and
Bray Road area of Wisconsin. There is also describe some type of mechanical or robot a type of move screen became visible. Two
Shown above is a the creatures encountered in places such as type entity. figures now appeared on the screen; one of
book that has Argentina and Brazil which are called by the the figures was tall and was wearing a uni‐
been written
about this ancient
locals ‘Lobisomen” or Werewolf. The follow‐ Again the source is the website “Lo Oculto, form, a metallic helmet, and what appeared
race of giants, ing summary if from a case I received di‐ Ovnis en España”: to be epaulets on his shoulders. He was
that broke off rectly from one of the witnesses who re‐ gray‐colored with large black slanted eyes.
from society, and quested anonymity: It was in the spring of 1968 (Spain was going Behind this figure stood a huge wide‐
still live in the
ocean and other through a phenomenal UFO wave at the shaped entity resembling a metallic robot
unexplored areas Location. Southeastern Poland. time) one morning around 11:30 a.m. near with an almost square head on top of mas‐
of Earth. They are Date: summer 2012. the small locale of VIllar de Humo, Cuenca, sive shoulders. The tall figure communi‐
referred to in
ancient Hebrew
Time: 08:00 am. Spain a 14‐year old witness was working on cated by using telepathy explaining to the
tradition. They are his father’s land located in a wooded area witness that they only wanted to examine
said to be from 9 – Somewhere in southeastern Poland, around when he suddenly saw emerging out of a him and his paralysis was totally accidental.
11 feet tall. Are eight in the morning in summer of 2002 I line of trees located next to the Vencherque After a few moments’ the screen became
they a result of a
rare genetic trait? and my cousins were sitting on a bus headed River at about 200 meters away two shiny smaller and disappeared.
Or could they be out to a stay away camp where we would be metallic ‘objects’ or figures resembling
aliens from an‐ for the next two weeks. On a remote road to “metal robots”, silvery in color and about Perhaps some type of holographic image
other planet,
our destination we had exited a forested 2.5 meters in height, that were walking to‐ projected by the original humanoids seen.
trying to find their
area and came up on a wide field. Sitting in wards the witness with their arms straight What was the purpose of the massive robot
way home. They
could be the the back left side of the bus I looked out the down at their sides and without moving like creature? Was he some type of guard‐
Nephilim, the right window at a small elevated area their legs. Both entities seemed to move in ian or security?
fallen angels the
bible speaks about stretching from the road. Atop the small hill, unison and had square heads and thorax
as well. I saw a large silvery figure standing upright and on each of their hands they were carry‐ Next case is from Maurizio Verga’s excellent
and looking off to its side with its profile ing some sort of metallic “briefcase”. When entity catalog “ITACAT” It supposedly took
These guys are facing me. It had a long snout like a wolf and they were about 60 meters from the witness place one evening in the spring of 1980 in
even said to have Aviano Italy. The UFO connection is very
interstellar travel it was much taller than any man. Then from he ran home and notified his parents of
capabilities of its upright position it leapt to the bottom of what he had seen. Immediately the adults tentative but most of the encounters here
some kind, the small hill several times on all fours. Once searched the area but failed to find any‐ are. A farmer was riding his motorcycle into
whether it be
at the bottom it stood upright again and it thing. We got ask ourselves if the report is town when he observed what he termed as
travelling the a “monster‐like” entity enclosed in what
astral plane, or looked towards me. Needless to say, due to accurate what were these apparent robotic
advanced technol‐ the bus driving onward, a thicket of vegeta‐ beings doing in the middle of nowhere in appeared to be a glass cage, sitting in the
ogy of some sort. tion that was at the bottom of the hill even‐ Cuenca Province Spain in the spring of 1968. center of the town square. The humanoid
tually obscured the view of this being, at Some questions are best remained unan‐ was seated, very tall, and very erect with

which point I began to yell incoherently on swered, I think. his hands on his knees. His entire body was

the bus in broken Polish about how I'd seen engulfed in long green filaments. He had
a werewolf at which point everyone as‐ very long hair and it was standing on end.

sumed I must be crazy. Also, in the middle of As the witness approached he was over‐

the trip at the camp, some girl stated that come by a powerful odor that made him
she'd seen a wolf looking at her directly in disoriented. He walked back to his motorcy‐
front of a window on the second story of the cle and then heard a sound similar to glass

cabin she was staying in, which was also my breaking, as he looked back he saw two
cabin. I do not know whether I believe her or blond girls screaming. He apparently left
if she just wanted the attention, but cer‐ the area in a hurry. I don’t know, maybe we

tainly no one else believed her, while I tried are dealing with other dimensions along‐
desperately to state my case. It does resem‐ side ours?
ble the entity seen in the Bray Road area, I

know of numerous encounters with were‐
wolf type creatures in Europe, especially Witness' sketch of the robotic entities.
England, this case is the first one I know of

from Poland. Next I will like to summarize a case of an
apparent bedroom visitation which involved
several entities including a massive robot!

The case was investigated by Puerto Rican
UFO researcher Jorge Martin and published
in his magazine “Evidencia Ovni # 3” which I

summarized and translated. The incident
took place late night of early September of
1994, it occurred at the village of Villa

Palmeras in Santurce, Puerto Rico. The wit‐
http:// ness had apparently been involved in a pre‐
alienpic‐
vious bedroom visitation a week before This is a fairly common group here, notice
tures.wordpress.com/
Robot type humanoid.
the absence of 'Grays'.
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Next case is a very curious event received brief sample, its source is Russell Kellet from

from Ukrainian researcher Dr. Anton Anfalov FSR (Flying Saucer Review). The date give
he quoted the original source, Anatoliy was one night in 1978 in Utley, Yorkshire,
Tavricheskiy writing in Crimean Riviera England. A lady name Rita was walking her
Magazine June 2006 # 22. dog, in an area near a local beauty spot she
had used for many years. As she walked past
One evening in July of the year 2000 in the a very large lorry (truck) fully loaded with
The Pleiadians are
Batiliman area, near Cape Aya, Crimea, logs her dog began to act out of character; it an advanced alien
Ukraine a Russian family from Moscow was began to bark fiercely and then snarl and race that comes
staying at this picturesque resort on the jump up and down. Then it went quite mo‐ from Pleiades.
They are the most
shores of the Black Sea. The father was en‐ tionless and just stared looking towards the human looking
joying a view of the sea using a pair of bin‐ vehicle, that’s when Rita noticed some aliens of the whole
oculars, when he suddenly spotted a huge movement behind the rear of the vehicle. bunch, and they
humanoid entity swimming in the waters. Suddenly, a giant figure in a frogman’s suit may even be
friendly. They
The figure was definitely not human or a looked over the top of the vehicle at her. supposedly have
common diver, the height (or length) of the Terrified, Rita pulled her dog away and ran helped the human
figure was estimated to have been 3 meters, for home. She did not dare look to see race on a number
of occasions even
and was dressed in what appeared to be a where the figure had gone or if it was still on the brink of
tight‐fitting shiny metallic suit. This very tall there. The vehicle or truck was large and invasions from
“man” was apparently ‘frolicking’ or playing fully loaded with logs, so the size of the frog‐ other species that
with a huge snake‐like creature, light brown man looking head and shoulders over the we are not even
aware of. They
in color, resembling a real “sea dragon” vehicle must have been gigantic. The area is The Centaur. seem to keep the
which swam nearby. The tall humanoid and moorland that runs all the way to Ilkley and whole galaxy in
the sea dragon were swimming very close to is famous for the mythical giant that roamed In the spring of 1966 one night near the check, and only
intervene when
each other. Other witnesses gathered and there named “Rombald” the giant. Perhaps small town of Drogheda, County Louth, they must. I hope
watched the amazing sight for about 15 he still around. Ireland, John Farrell and Margaret Johnson these guys are still
more minutes. Soon the strange sea snake were driving along a remote country road watching what’s
departed to the open sea and the giant hu‐ Another giant report comes from the land of passing a local estate when suddenly a huge happening on our
the mythical Olympian giants, Greece. Greek planet, so that
manoid began to swim quickly along the figure appeared on the road ahead. They they may inter‐
rocky shore towards Cape Aya. The wit‐ researcher Thanassis Vembos writing in stopped the car and one of the witnesses vene and save us,
nesses watched the giant for about 10 min‐ Strange Magazine # 4 mentions an incident looked out and saw a creature resembling a even if its from our
utes until it vanished behind some coastal said to had taken place on June 29 1989 huge horse with a man’s face with large selves. Their our
crooked people in
shrubbery. According to Anfalov, Cape Aya around 1430 in the afternoon in the town of bulging eyes. Both witnesses were para‐ our government,
in the Crimea has underground and under‐ Chrysopetra, Macedonia, Greece. Several lyzed with fear and could not move. The but their are good
water subsurface ‘portals’ that connect into villagers had previously seen strange flashes being had a huge hairy man‐like face and people out there.
of light in the sky. Later on an elderly We need to stand
a system of alien bases and tunnels that was standing across the road completely together for the
stretch for several kilometers under the woman was doing some household chores blocking the car’s path. Thankfully, the good fight!
shore, also inter‐dimensional portals that when she heard a loud bang from outside. creature only stood there for a few mo‐
connect into other dimensions used by the She ran out and found her granddaughter in ments and then left.
aliens. Also there are numerous reports of a state of shock. The girl told her that she
had seen a large white cloud form in the
“sea dragon” type creatures on the Crimean An even more recent example can be found
southern coast, which apparently live in garden then the figure of a giant, almost 8 in “Unknowncreaturespot” a blog dealing
deep underwater caves near the coast or meters tall appeared. He seemed to be to‐ with encounters with anomalous creatures.
arrive here from other dimensions. Makes tally encased in mist and was slightly The incident is titled “2006 Michigan Cen‐
sense to me. ‘deformed’. He suddenly disappeared in taur sighting.”
plain sight emitting a loud banging sound.

In Gil Bar’s UFOs in Israel Timeline I found Large footprints were found at the site of One night either in January or February of
this next curious case said to have occurred the encounter. Indeed an Olympian God/ 2006 a woman driving alone between the
on the night of July 15 1996 in Kibbutz Giant in our midst! towns of Battle Creek and Bellevue had to
Ma’anit, Israel. According to the brief sum‐ slow down for a stop sign. Suddenly a crea‐
What do we really know about the nature of
mary two six‐year old children watched a ture of very large size jumped up over a
disc‐shaped ‘spaceship’ land nearby and our existence? Are there multi‐universes snow bank and ran “10 yards a second.” It
watched stunned as six small humanoids and parallel planes surrounding us? Could was coming towards the car. She further
with large slit‐like eyes emerged from the denizens from such parallel realities come to described the creature as “enormous and
object and stared intently at the witnesses, visit us at times? I believe the answer is yes. its body as white as the snow around it.” It
The humanoids were accompanied by a had tiny little legs, like animal goat legs but
strange ‘animal’ resembling a large dog with One of the strangest humanoid creature said very small. She had the impression that
glowing red eyes. After sometime the hu‐ to have been encountered from time to time parts of it were like a man and other parts
manoids and their ‘pet’ re‐entered the craft in different locations around the world is the of it were an animal. According to her it
and left. Unfortunately there is no additional mythological Centaur, apparently not so either grabbed, or reached for the door
information but this is not the first (and I mythological after all, (if we are to believe handle but the car was locked. She said its
suspect not the last) report of humanoids such reported sightings). fingers were incredibly long, “long, long
being accompanied by a dog‐like animal or fingers and nails.” It was so incredibly fast
Encounters with such creatures date back to
‘pet’. that she did not see a face or anything else.
the ancient Greeks maybe even before the
She mentioned that another carload of
following is a fairly modern day example
The Bible states that “There were giants in people had also seen it; they stopped and
taken from Graham J. MacEwan’s work
those days” but apparently they are still looked at it at one point before driving http://
“Mystery animals of Britain and Ireland”.
among us today, the following report is a away. alienpic‐
tures.wordpress.com/
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Conclusion. Strange encounters with unknown beings According to the main witness the being had The witness was sleeping alone in her
UFO’s and were‐ are still being reported (very frequently) the a large head and the skin on its face seemed room, however there were other family
wolves in the following are some of the more recent re‐ stretched tight. All it does is, stare at the members in the house at the time, when
same area? ports: young girls. One night while watching a suddenly she had the urge to get up but as
Strangeness
surrounds us we
movie she sensed that someone was watch‐ she attempted to, she realized that she was
just have to know A person who requested full anonymity ing and when she looked at the doorway of unable to move. She then saw a human‐
where to look. I recently reported the following incident to the room the tall thin creature was standing shape figure of average height (1.65m) in
have one piece of
me: One evening on February of 2009 in there. She provided additional details of the her room which suddenly approached her
advice if you are
one day con‐ Ocala, Florida (close to the Ocala National intruder, indicating that it was very skinny, and touched her head. When the strange
fronted by some‐ Forest) two men were parked in their drive‐ with ribs showing, with bluish skin and she figure touched her head she felt an intense
thing or some way talking when they heard something very could see what appeared to be some sort of ‘electrical discharge’ go through her body.
unknown human‐
oid, use caution,
large hovering above but when they looked veins. The eyes were more like humans’ but She was able to describe the intruder as
and remember at the sky they saw absolutely nothing. Then black in color. It did not wear any clothing man‐like with ‘steely gray eyes’ and wear‐
“Only fools rush they heard something in the woods behind and she could not see any genitalia either ing some sort of hooded outfit. She also
in”.
them and saw several figures with large but somehow “knew” it was a male. Accord‐ heard what appeared to be ‘others’ walking

Please feel free to black eyes looking at them from the woods. ing to the witness there has been no at‐ around in the house. In the spot around her
contact the author When they attempted to approach the fig‐ tempt of communication in the part of the neck where the entity had touched there
Albert S. Rosales ures the hovering noise ceased and the entity. (Encounters might still be taking remained a ‘sticky spot’ and according to
at garu‐
da79@att.net
shadowy figures vanished. place). As of 2103 I received further informa‐ the witness the hand of the intruder felt
with any informa‐ tion from the witnesses detailing additional ‘soft or gelatinous’. Soon the intruder and
tion or questions. The following report was also received di‐ experiences. According to the ‘Belarusian the others left and after five minutes the
rectly from the witness requesting anonym‐ UFO‐Committee, UFO‐com.net’ at dawn on witness was able to move again. She imme‐
ity: July 28 2011 in the village of Borovka, Bela‐ diately washed the spot where she had
rus, two soldiers patrolling a restricted mili‐ been touched by the stranger. I will like to
March 2010 around 00:30 a.m. in the city of tary zone (in a forest) saw a silhouette of a conclude this short article with a final case
Barking, Essex, England, the witness, M. R. man in a ‘puffy’ pink outfit maneuvering taken directly from the excellent Blog
had just gone to bed while his wife was visit‐ between the trees, apparently flying without “Phantoms and Monsters” run by paranor‐
ing her friend with their daughter. He had a any means of propulsion. According to their mal researcher Lon Stickler:
small dimly lit lamp next to his bed as for report, suddenly the flying man took a sharp
some reason he was feeling a bit apprehen‐ turn and accelerated at about 70 meters Location. Near Grass Lake, Shawano
sive on this night. As he was laying on the away from the patrol. The being was about 2 County, Wisconsin.
bed facing the window he suddenly felt meters in height and human‐shaped. Have Date: January 9 2013.
someone sit on the edge of the bed. He sat we here secret military technology being Time: 14:00.
straight up to see a humanoid‐looking fe‐ tested?
male sitting on the edge of the bed. As he Greg Posada and Eugene Pointer called the
looked at her he felt she somehow ‘knew’ he The following report was summarized and paranormal hotline with their report of two
was afraid. She used a hand motion appar‐ translated (by yours truly) from the very werewolves seen near Grass Lake. They
ently ‘telling’ the witness to calm down. She informative Spanish website “Lo Oculto, claim that these two creatures that ap‐
wore a tight‐fitting gray suit with a black belt Ovnis en España”: peared to be werewolves were definitely bi‐
around her waist. She had black eyes and pedal. One of the creatures had grayish
blond hair and was staring at the witness. As One night in December of 2011 between hair, while the other had brownish hair.
he stared back she suddenly vanished in Jerez de la Frontera and Sanlucar de Bar‐ Both creatures had snouts. When the crea‐
plain sight. The witness feels that if he rameda, Cadiz, Spain, two employees at the tures were observed, they both seemed to
wouldn’t have shown fear the contact would local Alijar ecological park had gone to check be bent down drinking water from the lake.
have lasted longer. on some of the wind turbines that appeared Eugene and Greg both claim that the crea‐
to be malfunctioning, some were producing tures sniffed the air and then turned and
The following summary was also received more power than normal while others not looked at them. They let off a howl that
privately from a family who has “suffered” enough. One night while inspecting the top sounded like a regular wolf and ran off into
several encounters with a strange entity in of one of the turbines about 20 meters in the nearby thickets. The encounter oc‐
their home. For obvious reasons they also height the men began hearing what curred around 1400 hours and Eugene and
requested complete anonymity. sounded like small pebbles or rocks bounc‐ Greg were both shaken from this encoun‐
ing of the structure. Both men climbed down ter. Greg says that the brown coated crea‐
Location. Bullsbrook, Perth, Australia. to investigate and were confronted by two ture was at least 7 feet tall, while the gray
Date: April 2010. Time: Various. strange humanoids about 3 meters in coated creature was perhaps 6 feet tall.
height, very thin, and lead‐gray in color that Eugene says that this is not the end of the
Usually in the early morning hours a young emitted a sound similar to that of “cackling story. After their encounter with the
teenage girl and her equally young female swans.” The two humanoids suddenly ran ‘werewolves’ it was no more than 10 min‐
friend have reported seeing a strange towards the brush at very high speed seem‐ utes later, they spied a silver disc in the
crouching figure appear in the bedroom. ingly floating just above the ground and surrounding forest. The silver disc was hov‐
One of the girls reported seeing the strange disappeared from sight. ering, tilted and then shot up into the sky.
being crouching above her headboard star‐ The sighting of the disc lasted only about 3
ing down at her whilst she slept. Other times The following somewhat unorthodox bed‐ minutes, but during the time of the sighting
they have seen the strange being at the room visitation type incident was communi‐ everything felt surreal. Everything moved in
bedroom doorway standing really tall filling cated to me directly by the witness: slow motion. Eugene and Greg felt relaxed
out the door frame in height. It is really thin and at ease while they watched the disc in
and not human at all. The being has even Location. Los Angeles, California the sky. Eugene does not understand how
appeared to her at her aunt’s house located Date: December 18 2012 they could have two paranormal encoun‐
several kilometers from her home. Time: 04:50 am. ters in one day...
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The Psychology of Spiritualism: Science and Seances
By David Derbyshire: Guardian News Item.
The idea of summoning the spirits took thrilling hold of the

Victorian imagination – and has its adherents now. But the
psychology behind spiritualism is more intriguing...
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As the evenings get darker and the first by people such as James Randi, Derren we are all extremely susceptible to the Spiritualism.

hint of winter hangs in the air, the Brown and Jon Dennis, creator of the power of suggestion. With colleague
Spiritualism is a religion postu‐
western world enters the season of the Bad Pyschics website… Andy Nyman, co‐creator of Derren lating the belief that spirits of
dead. It begins with Halloween, contin‐ http://badpsychics.blogspot.co.uk/ Brown's television illusions, Wiseman the dead residing in the spirit
ues with All Saints' and All Souls' days, used contemporary descriptions of world have both the ability and
Victorian seances to recreate an en‐ the inclination to communicate
runs through Bonfire Night – the eve‐
with the living. Spiritism, a
ning where the English burn effigies of counter with spirits in a disused prison. branch of Spiritualism devel‐
historical terrorists – and ends with oped by Allan Kardec and
Remembrance Day. And through it all, Over eight seances involving 152 peo‐ today found mostly in conti‐
nental Europe and Latin Amer‐
Britain's mediums enjoy one of their ple, volunteers sat around a table in ica, especially Brazil, has em‐
busiest times of the year. the dark holding hands while luminous phasised reincarnation.
painted bells, balls and maracas moved
People who claim to contact the spirit Last week I spent 40 minutes with a before their eyes. Surveyed after‐ Spiritualism developed and
reached its peak growth in
world provoke extreme reactions. For telephone spiritualist who passed on wards, a fifth of the volunteers be‐ membership from the 1840s to
some, mediums offer comfort and messages from four dead people. Like lieved they had witnessed the paranor‐ the 1920s, especially in English
mystery in a dull world. For others they all mediums, she was skilled at cold mal. ‐speaking countries. By 1897, it
are fraudsters or unwitting fakes, ex‐ reading – the use of probable guesses was said to have more than
eight million followers in the
ploiting the vulnerable and bereaved. and picking up of cues to steer her in "These things are often very simple," United States and Europe,[3]
But to a small group of psychologists, the right direction. If she hit a dud – says Wiseman, author of Paranormal‐ mostly drawn from the middle
the rituals of the seance and the me‐ the suggestion that she was in the ity. "We had a man creeping around and upper classes.

dium are opening up insights into the presence of a 40‐year‐old uncle of with a stick. We thought when we read The religion flourished for a
mind, shedding light on the power of mine – she quickly widened it out. The the original accounts of how seances half century without canonical
suggestion and even questioning the 40‐year‐old became an older person were carried out that they wouldn't texts or formal organisation,
nature of free will. who felt young at heart. And then fool anyone. We were wrong. A lot this attaining cohesion through
periodicals, tours by trance
someone who was more of an uncle is do with framing. Once you think you lecturers, camp meetings, and
Humanity has been attempting to com‐ figure. She was also skilled at the Bar‐ have an explanation for an event you the missionary activities of
mune with the dead since ancient num effect – the use of statements don't have any other ones. Once you accomplished mediums. Many
times. As far back as Leviticus, the Old prominent Spiritualists were
that tend to be true for everyone. think it's a spirit you don't look for an‐ women, and like most Spiritu‐
Testament God actively forbade people other explanation." alists, supported causes such
to seek out mediums. Interest peaked Among dozens of guesses and misses, as the abolition of slavery and
in the 19th century, a time when relig‐ there was just one hit – the correct During the seance, Nyman, taking the women's suffrage. By the late
1880s the credibility of the
ion and rationality were clashing like name of a dead relative. Their relation role of the medium, announced that informal movement had weak‐
never before. In an era of unprece‐ to me was utterly wrong, as were de‐ the spirit would raise the table. Soon ened due to accusations of
dented scientific discovery, some tails of their health. But the name was afterwards he encouraged the spirit by fraud being perpetrated by
churchgoers began to seek evidence mediums, and formal Spiritual‐
right and, even though it was a com‐ saying "lift the table higher" and "the ist organizations began to
for their beliefs. mon name among that person's gen‐ table is moving now". Two weeks later appear. Spiritualism is cur‐
eration, it was a briefly chilling mo‐ a third of the participants recalled rently practiced primarily
Salvation came from two American ment. Professor Richard Wiseman, a wrongly that the table had moved. through various denomina‐
sisters, 11‐year‐old Kate and 14‐year‐ tional Spiritualist churches in
psychologist and magician, says my the United States, Canada and
old Margaret Fox. On 31 March 1848, response to this lucky guess is typical. "Suggestion builds over time. If you ask United Kingdom.
the girls announced they were going to People tend to remember the correct people immediately after the event it is
contact the spirit world. To the aston‐ details in a seance but overlook state‐ not so effective. You don't want to

ishment of their parents they got a ments or events that provide no evi‐ solidify the memory immediately after
reply. That night, the Fox sisters chat‐ dence of paranormal powers. the event," says Wiseman.

ted to a ghost haunting their New York
State home, using a code of one tap for
yes, two gaps for no. Word spread and

soon the girls were demonstrating
their skills to 400 locals in the town
hall.

Within months a new religion had

emerged – spiritualism – a mixture of

liberal, nonconformist values and fire‐
side chats with dead people. Spiritual‐
ism attracted some of the great think‐

ers of the day – including biologist
Alfred Russel Wallace and Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, who spent his latter

years promoting spiritualism in be‐
tween knocking out Sherlock Holmes
stories. Even the admission of the Fox

sisters in 1888 that they had faked it all (Above Photo) A Seance scene in the The trappings of the seance increase its
failed to crush the movement. Today classic German silent film Dr Mabuse success. Holding hands prevents par‐

spiritualism thrives in more than 350 (1922), directed by Fritz Lang. Photo‐ ticipants from disrupting the trickery.
churches in Britain. graphed by: Bettmann/Corbis. Darkness increases sensitivity to sound

and movement and makes people
The tricks and techniques used by me‐ Wiseman's work has also shown that more scared – which may, Wiseman Wikipedia.
diums have been exposed many times says, increase susceptibility.
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Spiritualism independent of deliberate thought. Tell someone not to think about white

The seance can be explained by stage
This also explains table tipping's so‐ bears and they immediately think
Spiritualists believe in commu‐
magic and human frailty. But what
nicating with the spirits of about phenomena such as table tip‐ phisticated big brother, the Ouija about white bears. The more we try to
discarnate humans. They ping and Ouija boards? board. actively suppress a thought, the less
believe that spirit mediums are likely we are to succeed. But he also
humans gifted to do this, often
through seances. Anyone may
Table tipping, or turning, has gone out In a Ouija seance participants place investigated automatic writing, where
become a medium through of fashion but is easy to replicate with fingers on a glass on a table sur‐ people claim to write without being
study and practice. They be‐ four or more people, a small table, dim rounded by letters and watch as it aware what they are doing.
lieve that spirits are capable of lights and a relaxed atmosphere. The eerily moves – and occasionally spells
growth and perfection, pro‐
gressing through higher group place hands on the table and out words. Psychologist Susan Black‐ The most famous automatic writer was
spheres or planes. The afterlife wait. After 40 minutes or so the table more is best known as the proponent Pearl Curran, an American who
is not a static place, but one in should start to move. It soon appears of memes, but early in her career she knocked out more than 5,000 poems,
which spirits evolve. The two
beliefs—that contact with
to have a mind of its own, sliding, was a parapsychologist. At Oxford she novels and plays while claiming to be
spirits is possible, and that swaying and even pinning people to ran the student Psychical Research channelling the spirit of Patience
spirits may lie on a higher the walls. Society, carrying out experiments using Worth, a 17th‐century Englishwoman.
plane—lead to a third belief,
Ouija boards. Time and again the glass
that spirits can provide knowl‐
edge about moral and ethical
The reason why household furniture spelled words and sentences. Her con‐ Automatic writing has traditionally
issues, as well as about God can appear to be possessed was ex‐ fidence began to be shaken when she been explained as the action of the
and the afterlife. Thus many posed more than 160 years ago by modified the board. subconscious mind. But Wegner ar‐
members speak of spirit
Michael Faraday, the discoverer of the gued that the reason lay in the illusion
guides—specific spirits, often
contacted, relied upon for link between magnetism and electric‐ "We turned the letters upside down of free will. Most people have a sense
worldly and spiritual guidance. ity. In 1852 Faraday was fascinated by because surely spirits should see the of their inner you – the conscious self
the new craze of table tipping – and letters underneath," says Blackmore, that makes decisions about day‐to‐day
Anyone may receive spirit whether people or spirits were respon‐
messages, but formal commu‐
now a sceptic. "And of course it spelt life. According to Wegner this sense is
nication sessions (séances) are sible. So he took bundles of cardboard out rubbish. It cannot work unless all an illusion. There's evidence to back up
held by "mediums," who can roughly the size of a table top and the people can see what is going on." this seemingly unlikely idea.
then provide information glued them weakly together. Each
about the afterlife.

sheet got progressively smaller from The ideomotor effect is also at play In the 1960s, neurophysiologist William
top to bottom, allowing Faraday to with the glass. "With a Oujia board, Grey Walter got volunteers to operate

mark their original positions on the your arm is getting tired and your abil‐ a slide projector while their brain was

card above with a pencil. He then ity to judge the location of your finger monitored with electrodes. The partici‐

placed the cards on a table and asked is compromised," says Blackmore. pants were told to press a button to

volunteers to put their hands on the "When the glass moves you naturally change slides. But the button was a
cards and let the spirits move the table adjust your movements and go along fake – the projector was controlled by

to the left. with the glass. To start with it moves electrical activity in the brain. The star‐

hesitantly, but after a while as soon as tled volunteers found that the slide

it starts moving everyone's hand fol‐ machine was predicting their decisions.

lows.' A fraction of a second before they de‐

cided to press the button, the part of
But what about the glass's ability to the brain responsible for hand move‐

spell? That was investigated by the ment burst into activity and – through

American psychologist Joseph Jastrow the electrodes – moved the slide on.

in the 1890s. He used a device called

the automatograph made of two glass
plates separated by brass balls. Any

involuntary movement of hands placed

on the top plate causes it to move. The

movement is recorded by a pencil at‐

tached to the device.

When Jastrow asked volunteers to

imagine looking at an object in the

room the automatograph revealed that

their hands involuntarily moved in that
(Above Photo): Ouija boards were de‐ direction. Just visualising the door was

bunked by psychologist Joseph Jastrow enough for the hands to drift towards

in the 1890s. Photograph: Corbis. it. And that's what's happening with a

Ouija board. If the participants look at
This experiment allowed Faraday to a particular letter – because they ex‐

see what was moving the table. If it pect it to follow next – they unwittingly

was spirits, the table top would slide nudge the glass towards it.
out the cards from the bottom up. But (Above Photo): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,

if the participants were doing it, the If the Ouija board has shed light on who spent his latter years promoting

top cards would be the first to move. unwitting movement, then another spiritualism. Photograph: Getty Im‐

By examining the position of the pencil technique, channelling of spirits, has ages/BBC.

marks Faraday showed that people, questioned free will. Harvard psycholo‐
not spirits, moved the table. He had gist Dan Wegner, who died this year, is Grey Walter showed that there was a

demonstrated the ideomotor re‐ best known for his work on the re‐ fraction of a second delay between the

Wikipedia sponse, the movement of muscles bound effect. brain making a decision and someone
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being aware that they were making a Instead, the brain does two things Wegner suggests that it's not just the Spiritualism.

decision. when it makes a decision to raise an distinction between mind and body
Spiritualism first appeared in
arm. First it passes a message to the that is false, but the whole concept of the 1840s in the "Burned‐over
In the 1980s, Benjamin Libert of the part in charge of creating the conscious the "conscious" decision‐making mind District" of upstate New York,
University of California , San Francisco, inner you. Second, it delays the signal is just another piece of trickery played where earlier religious move‐
ments such as Millerism, and
made a similar discovery after attach‐ going to the arm by a fraction of a sec‐ by the brain; And meanwhile, 150 Mormonism had emerged
ing volunteers to electrical monitors ond. This delay generates the illusion years after Faraday showed that table during the Second Great Awak‐
and sitting them in front of a screen that the conscious mind has made a tipping was hokum, we continue to ening.
displaying a dot in a circle. The partici‐ decision. frighten one another in the dark.
This region of New York State
pants were told to flex their wrists
was an environment in which
whenever they liked, and report the Wegner argued that automatic writing 'What is remarkable is that the stuff many thought direct communi‐
position of the dots at the moment occurs when something goes wrong written in books 100 years ago still cation with God or angels was
they made the decision to flex. Again, with this process. The brain sends the works,' says Richard Wiseman. 'If you possible, and that God would
not behave harshly—for exam‐
there was a surge in brain activity a signal to the arm to write – but fails to think of all the technology and science ple, that God would not con‐
fraction of a second before the volun‐ alert the inner you. and education and yet a group of peo‐ demn unbaptised infants to an
teers were aware they were making a ple sitting in the dark can scare the eternity in Hell.
decision. There's something a little ironic about living daylights out of themselves.'
his conclusion. The early spiritualists
Wegner's solution was that our delib‐ believed they were shedding light on
erate, thinking brain – the inner me the transition of the human spirit from (Article featured in the Guardian news‐ Wikipedia.

that makes decisions – is an illusion. the physical body to the afterlife. paper ‐ October 2013).
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November 3 - New Moon. The Moon will be directly between the Earth and the Sun and will not be visible from Earth. This phase occurs at 12:50
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.
November 3 - Hybrid Solar Eclipse. A hybrid solar eclipse occurs when the Moon is almost too close to the Earth to completely block the Sun. This
type of eclipse will appear as a total eclipse to some parts of the world and will appear annular to others. The eclipse path will begin in the Atlantic
Ocean off the eastern coast of the United States and move east across the Atlantic and across central Africa.
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 un-
usual in that it consists of two separate streams. The first is produced by dust grains from 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 is an excellent year because there will be no moonlight to spoil the show. 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 17 - Full Moon. The Moon will be directly opposite the Earth from the Sun and will be fully illuminated as seen from Earth. This phase
occurs at 15:16 UTC. This full moon was known by early Native American tribes as the Full 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 Hunter's Moon.
November 16, 17 - 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 Tempel-Tuttle, which was discovered in 1865. The shower runs annually from
November 6-30. It peaks this year on the night of the 16th and morning of the 17th. Unfortunately the glare from the full moon will block many of the
meteors this year, but if you are patient you should still be able to catch quite a few good ones. Best viewing will be from a dark location after mid-
night. Meteors will radiate from the constellation Leo, but can appear anywhere in the sky.
November 28 - Comet ISON Closest Approach to the Sun. Newly discovered comet ISON will make its closest approach to the Sun on November 28.
If the comet survives its encounter with the Sun, it could be one of the brightest comets in recent memory. Some astronomers estimate that it could
even be bright enough to be seen during daylight hours. In August and September, the comet will begin to be visible in the morning sky in dark
locations with telescopes. In October it will start to be visible to the naked eye and will continue to get brighter until November 28. If the comet sur-
vives, it will be visible in the early morning and early evening sky and could be nearly as bright as the full Moon. Some astronomers are already
calling it the comet of the century.
I have seen the ‘extinct’ Ebu Gogo alive in 1991
By Hannes Shunyananda Erler
It was in Mumbay, India, March 1991. I had to stay overnight to get my flight
back to Europe the next day. The cheap hotel was not a place to hang out so
I decided to go for a walk. I got to a beach and proceeded heading north along the
promenade of the Mahim Bay. It was a Sunday and probably an Indian holiday
because many people were strolling around and were enjoying themselves.
Eventually I got to a playground next to an amusement park and there on the
boardwalk I saw something I will never forget.
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I have seen the ‘extinct’ Ebu Gogo alive in 1991
By Hannes Shunyananda Erler
Since this is 22 years ago and I had not taken any pictures, I can't recall too Indonesian archipelago was inhabited by Homo erectus, popularly known as
many details but what suddenly struck my eye back then almost shocked me ‐ the "Java Man", between 1.5 million years ago and as recently as 35,000 years
like a sudden encounter with extraterrestrials might have. There was a middle ago. Homo sapiens reached the region by around 45,000 years ago. According
aged woman who had three beings with her that I could not make any sense to the anthropologists, Homo floresiensis, whose remains were discovered
of. She had put up a board there with Sanskrit writing and she also had writ‐ 2003 on the island of Flores, lived as recently as 13,000 years ago but that is
ten quite a bit on the pavement with crayon which of course I could not read. only a conclusion because they have not found any newer evidence (yet).
I think the writing explained what these beings were and where they came According to the local population Ebu Gogo was seen last about a hundred
from. She also talked to the bystanders when she interacted with these be‐ and seventy years ago. After the discovery of the remains of Homo floresien‐
ings, three small and very dark skinned beings. Sometimes she would hold sis, the anthropologists listened to the accounts of the villagers of Flores who
one in her arms, talk to them or feed fruits to them. said that the last living Ebu Gogo was seen just before the villages moved
I could not determine if these were humans or apes but I have never seen any location, farther from the volcano, not long before the Dutch colonists set‐
apes like these! They wore little vests each with a different color and some tled in that part of central Flores in the mid 19th century. It is evident that
golden embroidery and some shorts so you could see that they were very they haven't seen the Ebu Gogo anymore because THEY moved away, not
hairy, rather short hair and short also on the head. They may have been a bit because the Ebu Gogo disappeared! Homo floresiensis has the greatest simi‐
larger than one meter and had roundish heads with more human looking larity with the Homo habilis which lived from approximately 2.33 to 1.4 mil‐
facial features than apes. They had no facial hair and they had no negroid lion years ago and Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy) that lived between 3.9
features, their skin was just very dark which is also common in India for the and 2.9 million years ago. That means that Homo floresiensis is not our
people living closer to the equator. I remember their ears were roundish too. I predecessor but are survivors of some of the original inhabitants of Earth
don't remember what their feet looked like because that would have been a from before we came here 300,000 years ago with the Moon and they must
very distinguishing feature but they were certainly not like feet of apes be‐ have survived six extinctions since then and very likely some more in their
cause that would have solved the mystery for me already then. very ancient history but that is another story. I believe that what I saw in
1991 in Mumbay were some of the last Ebu Gogo who survived under the
Their arms and legs just did not look really ape‐like and I could not see a tail. I care of humans. In India cripples and freaks are commonly used by their
don't remember if they uttered any sounds but they made no loud noises at owners to make money with, either as beggars or as show pieces and to own
all, they were friendly with the woman who took care of them. They must an Ebu Gogo is certainly something very special.
have been males since I don't remember seeing breasts. Today I am con‐
vinced that I saw living specimen of kryptid primates, the Homo floresiensis, I am speculating that a family clan in India was or is still breeding Ebu Gogos
called 'Hobbit' by us and Ebu Gogo by the locals of Flores. Another possibility as show pieces and I would also speculate that by now some agency has got‐
is that I might have seen the Orang Pendek from the neighboring Sumatra ten hold of these kryptid primates and has taken them away from that
island which is an island in the western Indonesia. But Orang Pendek's hair woman and that you won't find the Ebu Gogo displayed publicly anymore …
color is described as more reddish but both are in the class of kryptid pri‐ but who knows ‐ it is a fact that today many anomalous artifacts are seized
mates and seem to be related. Flores is an island extending east from the Java and hidden from us and I am sure that a living Homo floresiensis can not
island of Indonesia. Fossils and the remains of tools show that the Indonesian remain unnoticed forever…
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Title: Middle‐Earth Envisioned
Author: Paul Simpson & Brian J. Robb
Publisher: Race Point Publishing
ISNB: 9781937994273
Price: £25 UK, $40 US

This is an absolutely sumptuous and stunning homage to the Tolkein/Hobbit/ Lord of The Rings universe, and what a real treat it
is. The book, which contains the work of world renowned artists and illustrators, is hard cover, large format, lavishly illustrated on
good quality semi‐glossy paper and with graphics (including the ‘lost’ artwork of Mary Fairburn), portraying just about every as‐
pect of the world of the Rings.

Every aspect of the Rings phenomenon is here, starting with the appearance of the original books in 1954, right through to the
Peter Jackson directed Lord of the Rings Trilogy cinematic masterpieces, culminating in Part 1 of The Hobbit cycle. The authors
explain how the magical and wonderfully evocative tale that Tolkein created manifested into an astonishing sub‐culture, which
has developed musically, dramatically, artistically and in fashions: even fan produced films have appeared.

Many people (including the Beatles with Paul McCartney cast as Frodo) have attempted to recreate Tolkein’s vision, the first be‐
ing a 1960’s radio adaptation in Russia, but there have been several efforts since then including the 1978 Ralph Bakshi directed
‘Lord of The Rings’ full length animation, it used a technique called ‘rotoscoping’ to achieve the (for the time) remarkable level of
animation. Your reviewer actually saw that film and was left eager for more, which, sadly, did not materialise until the Jackson
masterworks. This book is not cheap, but the level of information and sheer beauty of the artwork it contains make it eminently
worthy of a place on the shelves of anyone with even a peripheral interest in the Rings saga. Christmas is coming, so get it on your wish list!

Title: UFO’s: Wicked This way Comes, The Dark Side of The Ultra‐Terrestrials
Author: Timothy Green Beckley
Publisher: Global Communications
ISBN: 9781606111581
Price: None Stated

This is a remarkably courageous book that tells the truth about Ufology and reveals its links with paranormal phenomena. The
author, Tim Green Beckley, has promoted Ufology for many years and in this book presents a distillation of views and opinions
from a host of contributors such as Sean Casteel, Tim R Schwartz, Brad Steiger and Scott Corrales, whose combined knowledge
and insight into this complex and often frustrating topic is encyclopaedic.

The book covers several gritty and unpleasant aspects of the subject often shied away from by the more fastidious observers of
the phenomenon. The contributors get down and dirty and examine the imprisonment, intimidation, torture, fear and yes, the
screaming terror often experienced by those who have encountered these non‐human entities that have more in common with
demons and devils than anything remotely angelic. Beckley has (very wisely) chosen to make no judgements or assumptions and
presents the evidence at face value, letting the reader make their own decisions regarding whether it is true or not.. It is difficult
to pick out one chapter as better than another, but the contributions from Brad Steiger and Peter Robbins give considerable food
for thought as does what Scott Corrales and Karla Turner both have to say. This book will not solve the mystery and in many ways
serves to fuel it, but what it does do is expose genuinely alarming aspects of the phenomenon that are all too often lost behind a
smokescreen of benevolent ‘space brothers’, whose only concern is supposedly for our well‐being. What is presented here is
almost certainly much closer to the unvarnished and unpleasant truth and the really worrying thing is that these entities have
always been with us in one form or another.

Title: Haunted Wiltshire
Author: Sonia Smith
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
ISBN: 978‐1‐84868‐402‐7
Price: £12.99

This, the second book from Sonia Smith, is a bit of a strange beast. She states in the introduction that the noted writer of super‐
natural tales, Algernon Blackwood, based his terrifying stories on real events and this helps set the scene for the contents of this
book. Each tale of hauntings and other paranormal happenings is self‐contained and written like the sort of stories that often
appear in compendiums of supernatural fiction.

While this is not necessarily a bad thing, it would have helped immensely to have the source material referenced separately, be‐
cause many of the chapters make fascinating reading and it would have been interesting to see what they are based on. I say this
because it is impossible to say where the fact stops and (or if) the fiction begins; it is probably fair to say that the chapters in the
book are ‘dramatised documentaries’.

The abundantly illustrated book (all images of Wiltshire locations) consists of fifteen chapters covering a range of supernatural
subjects including everything from possible vampires and voodoo to nightmares and evil spirits. For this reviewer the chapters
that worked best were ‘A Vampire on Salisbury Plain’, ‘The Voodoo Mask’, ‘The Magicians House’, ‘The Witch Girl’, the especially
evocative and poignant ‘The Call Girl’ and the chilling ‘Evil Spirits’.

Sonia Smith clearly has an inherent talent for writing and if you enjoy short stories of terror then this is a cracking ‘keep the lights on’ read and is highly recom‐
mended.
Title: Zombies from History
Author: Geoff Holder
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 978‐0‐7524‐9964‐2
Price: £9.99

Since zombies are pretty much de‐rigueur nowadays, Geoff Holder takes a wonderfully whimsical and often laugh‐out‐loud funny
trawl through the archives of Britain’s great, good and infamous, and offers his opinion on what they might be like if encountered
in zombie form. Fortuitously, the author leaves nothing to chance and offers sage advice on the best types of weapons to use and
even where to obtain them. The use of guns is par for the course in the cinema and TV, but the author indicates, rightly, that the
majority of the public neither has access to nor knows how to use them. On the other hand do‐it‐yourself stores like B&Q and
Focus are an excellent source of hand‐axe’s and the like and a chapter is devoted to keeping oneself safe in practical terms. Evi‐
dently weapons such as halberds are bit unwieldy and bows and arrows rather slow to use in the event of a mass attack by the
undead, so the weapons of choice seem to be a Samurai sword, a hand axe and stout, bite resistant motorcycle clothing (plus suit‐
able helmet). The choice of the (un)dead one might encounter (which includes their special skills, weaknesses, zombie quotes and
a multi‐scull difficulty rating) is best described as eclectic and includes characters such as The Duke of Wellington, Horatio Nelson,
Burke (of Burke and Hare fame), Rob Roy, Doctor Johnston, Mary Shelley, Florence Nightingale and WG Grace. The book, as befits
its irreverent tone, also includes a splendid selection of suitably decomposed and ghoulish images of some of the featured histori‐
cal icons.

This book is a genuine treasure‐trove of historical trivia and ghoulish humour and welcome advice for anyone who fears a zombie
attack in the near future.

Title: Remnants of the Gods
Author: Erich von Daniken
Publisher: New Page Books
ISBN: 13‐978‐1‐60163‐283‐8
Price: $19.99

A Visual Tour of Alien Influence in Egypt, Spain, France, Turkey, and Italy. With Controversial New Evidence that E.T.’s Directed
Prehistoric Construction. The author of books that have sold more than 63 million copies, Erich von Däniken now reveals startling
new evidence that extraterrestrials with superior technology directed the design and construction of building complexes long be‐
fore the pyramids of Egypt and Mayaland, the temples of Delphi and thousands of years before the ancient civilizations with which
contemporary archeologists are familiar. The third in a series of five titles about previously unknown facts of prehistory, Remnants
of the Gods: A Visual Tour of Alien Influence in Egypt, Spain, France, Turkey, and Italy lays out compelling proof of how whole con‐
tinents were surveyed thousands of years ago and hundreds of Stone Age holy places were located at equal distances from one
another, forming giant squares and triangles. Where did the master builders of the massive 1,200 BC Phoenician cities learn com‐
plex architectural techniques? Von Däniken finds examples across the entire Mediterranean region and Europe of precisely chis‐
eled and erected megalithic temples, pyramids, obelisks, cities and a vast network of grid lines connecting them, that the people
of those times could not have possibly have known how to build. Within this book, the author answers the question: From whom
did primitive Stone Age builders receive this sophisticated architectural and structural engineering knowledge?
If you’re like me and grew up reading Erich von Daniken books, then you’re in for a real treat. An amazing book with new mate‐
rial and some totally amazing colour glossy photographs. A real pleasure to read. I couldn’t put it down. Like a blast from the
past, Erich once again captured my imagination. I was once again… Putty in his hands. Well worth grabbing a copy as soon as
possible. A Must Have! (Steve Mera: PM Chief Editor).
Title: For Nobody’s Eyes Only
Author: Nick Redfern
Publisher: New Page Books
ISBN: 13: 978‐1‐60163‐288‐3
Price: $15.99

Nick does it again. His latest effort, For Nobody’s Eyes Only, confirms that Mr. Redfern is a researcher/writer who digs deep into
the nether world of UFOs, the paranormal, and governments and comes up with material and information that no one else has
been able to gather or when they do, misread that material and information. Mr. Redfern finds the goods yet again, discovering
not only files (missing and otherwise) about UFOs, military operations, and even celebrities are tortuously sought and found or, at
least remnants of them, but clues to their existence as well. The book’s 217 pages are packed with unknown or little known
“facts” which anyone who likes to know what the hell is going on will find, not only interesting but maddening too. The UFO por‐
tion(s) of Nick’s book will be fodder for most of you who visit here, but the other materials will lend support for whatever conspir‐
acy theory about Roswell and flying saucers you’ve heard and maybe laughed off. I found the notes on Australia’s lost UFO files
[Page 62 ff.] to be particularly interesting as the files pertained to the Woomera rocket facility in Australia, which factor into, as I
see it, the (in) famous Solway Firth “spaceman” photo from 1964, taken by Jim Templeton and covered here, at this blog, rather
extensively. The book is so replete with details and stories that readers may have never seen before. I suggest grabbing the book
for their “reference shelf.” The Bibliography is extensive, and the Index (usually a rarity in such books) is vastly helpful. And there
are photographs (of documents and people), also a rarity in other books dealing with similar topics. Add it to your Redfern collec‐
tion; he’s become the most prolific and sensible of today’s crop of writers about things on the fringe of reality.
Another great book by Nick Redfern. Nick Opens the book with a précis on Top Secret designations and The Freedom of Informa‐
tion Act in regards UFOs, Alien, and Cosmic Conspiracies, he takes the reader back to Roswell (yes), and other UFO mysteries. He also covers Files on Famous
Faces, Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana, Watergate and Aleister Crowley. He draws you in to secret government projects, containing information about “A Se‐
cret Space Program” and the dastardly government experiments on humans, plus the controversial mind‐games the CIA was (and is?) engaged in. He reveals
information on Presidents, Politicians, and Powerful People, gets into the JFK assassination and J. Edgar Hoover’s secret files, on everyone. A fantastic book well
worth having. (PM Editor).
Audinghen Bunkers: A Paranormal Investigation
By Andrew Park
As they say anything is possible, Paranormal Knights Scotland organisation, based in the UK with
the help from other teams across the Channel such as Aschwin Elout's from Ghost Hunting
Netherlands and Ghost Hunting BV accompanied by Daniel Blom representing Ghost Hunters
Overschie had met for the first time ever after a long online organised paranormal event like no
other. We were frustrated at being told by other teams that an event with multiple teams can
'never' work, people will never work alongside each other on any event, so we sought out to prove
this long debated theory wrong and that we did (with amazing and intriguing results...)
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By Andrew Park
PKS founders Andrew and David Park were joined out the obvious questions... 'is anyone there'?

by their own investigators Mrs. Jean McIntyre, 'nothing' then I asked, 'do you know the war is
Mrs. Kirstie Porteous and Mr. David Park Jr. They over'?... Playing back the recording I was sur‐
had all left Glasgow for a long coach trip to Aud‐ prised to hear a sharp breath which was followed
inghen, France around 14 hours changing coaches by the distinct word ''nicht'' which on first listen‐
at London Victoria bus station. We then switched ing , sounded like nine till I a was told by Aschwin
to The Channel Tunnel bus and headed for the and Daniel that it could be German for the word
euro‐train, which was a very quick journey in‐ ''No''. Now... Any other time I would have proba‐
deed, I was expecting it to have been longer. We bly over ruled and said it was the number nine,
made our way through Calais on foot to get the however, on the other hand, thinking of the
bus to Audinghen which we finally found a couple question I had asked 'Do you know the war is
of hours later thanks to David Park Jr. over'? . 'Nicht' (if my spelling is correct ) is a very
strong and significant answer to the question.
On arriving to our campsite late in the evening we
were met by and introduced to the rest of the As we walked further through the woodland we After the whisper we had absolutely no activity. It
crew Aschwin Elout , Daniel Bloom and Darcy‐ approached another bunker where Archwin and would seem that everything suddenly went flat so
jamie Tebbenhoff and others. Unfortunately we Daniel began there own role play as German we decided to moved on to one of the bunkers
had just missed Pieter‐Jan Aarssen and a few troops coming back from lookout and banging that had taken a direct hit on the roof, we could
other members who had to leave the day we got the metal door of the bunker and yelling in Ger‐ clearly see the crater left behind, but the walls
there. man 'let us in' what happened next we were not and even the roof were so thick that the impact
prepared for, we began to have things thrown at had only cracked it. We could see through the
us from every direction. We could hear things crack into what looked like a small underground
thudding to the ground and on occasion roll up chamber. I estimated the roof to be least 1 meter
to our feet, we could even hear some projectiles thick ... It had been a fascinating eventful evening.
dangerously whizzing by, but before i could alert We decided to call it a night as it was getting late
everyone to be careful I was struck on the hand and my self and David had been awake for over
with such a great force that it knocked the torch 29.00 hours at this point ...
from me. It was such an impact the torch flew
through the air never to be found again... (so if Night 1 investigation had come to a close, some
anyone has plans to visit Audighen soon and interesting results captured on our devices re‐
finds it please do mail it to me). corded by all and personal experiences that were
enough to stop even the toughest avid ghost
I looked down and noticed I had been cut on my hunter in their tracks ... What would night 2 have
hand where the projectile had struck me. The in store for us?
After introductions were over, we pitched our activity began to escalate, we could make out in
tents and set up camp before heading off to the front of us, shadows crossing over the path, liter‐ Day 2: As we prepared to get ready for night 2
restaurant for some much needed nutrition, ('you ally metres in front of us. David saw the upper investigation we were asked by some Dutch
don't even want to know how much we ate that torso of what looked like a man dressed in mus‐ teachers who had a school class on a field trip to
night'.) tard coloured clothing dart back behind a tree the bunkers to give a short talk on the paranor‐
accompanied by the sound of movement, how‐ mal, the kids were thrilled about our stories of the
Myself and my father David Park Sr. (Co.Founder) ever on investigation no one was there. It was at forest and knowledge of the bunkers, a talk which
got set up with Aschwin Elout and Daniel Blom this point Daniel decided to use the 'Ghost Box', was originally suppose to last for half an hour had
around 10.00pm, amazing guys and friends for what we obtained chilled me to the bone, we become an hour and a half long. Daniel and Asch‐
life. Some of our group were exhausted so they could here words coming through the Ghost Box win took over the class as they were also from
went to bed which was understandable as we had but we couldn't piece them together due to in‐ Holland. They explained about the use of equip‐
just completed a 23.00 hour journey. So... we set terference, then Daniel asked in a strong de‐ ment on investigations. The class where so in‐
off... into the woods behind our campsite, (we manding voice... 'is anyone there, talk into the volved they started asking questions and got into
didn't have to go far to start our investigation). It machine, what is your name'?, at that point the whole paranormal studies idea (possibly some
wasn't long before we heard something... we had clearly someone whispered right beside me a budding future ghost hunter in the making).
lots of movement around us and we could hear name which I first interpreted as Thomas Elek.
footsteps on occasion right beside us, there was This whisper was also caught on our audible re‐ After the talk the kids were so thrilled they
movement from all directions. The forest was so corder and seemed to be a bit clearer. The sound wanted to come along, all 40 of them, unfortu‐
dense and dark that even our flash lights could of a man saying 'Thomas O'Neil' and then some‐ nately due to insurance purposes the teachers
not penetrate its darkness. On one occasion we thing else which was hard to make out as the would not allow it... ( personally I think the teach‐
heard someone or something run right up to us words faded. ers were to scared to come along), so... the kids
and suddenly stop. We could even hear breathing couldn't take part in a small on location paranor‐
in our ears before the sound of running away. mal lesson unfortunately.
Audible recordings of this event was successfully
obtained. Daniel Blom also recorded what sounds We said our goodbyes and set up for the night
like a fire fight in the woods... very intriguing, you time event in the forest and bunkers again, this
can hear the heavy caliber machine guns and time everyone was refreshed and rested. We
even hear the distinct click of metal as the reload‐ decided to start our investigation where it all
ing took place whilst visiting bunker No.2. began the night before... the woodlands. After
some time we made our way to what I thought
These bunkers a well known for their use during was just a duck pond but we were informed by
the second World War. On entering bunker No.2, Aschwin that it was actually a creator caused by
I turned on my digital recorder and began to call allied air forces during the bombing campaign,
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By Andrew Park
and that the location we were in was actually either myself or someone else in the group. We
occupied by the German forces and used to sup‐ moved up onto a small room above the Bunker
ply the soldiers during the D‐Day campaign. The where we had a lot of activity, from bangs to
crater shows how close the allied forces came to what sounded like growling. We were only up
destroying the supplies depot. there a while when we had to take one of our
team members, Kirstie down as she had an over‐
We moved on to bunker 2 again. At this point the whelming feeling of emotion and lightheaded‐
sun had began to set and the whole forest be‐ ness. At this point we finished up and moved our
came completely dark. We started calling out gear back into the forest towards bunker No.2.
again, asking if there was anyone there. It wasn't
long before we started to hear unusual noises We had spent a lot of time investigating inside
again. We could hear light raps and strange the bunkers and there were lots of unusual
groans and on occasion could hear talking as if sounds inside and around these structures. Un‐ said. We moved from the main area of bunker 4
coming from inside the bunker, the most signifi‐ fortunately there is no way to fully investigate to the small room on top again, (possible used as
cant was the noise of someone walking around the inside as it is closed to the public, so we sleeping quarters), its not really big enough for
the inside of the bunker, after which it went quiet called it a night and headed off to the camp site anything else. Carrying out a small seance there,
for a while. We decided to move on and made our where we settled down and got some sleep. Daniel and Aschwin began calling for answers at
way through the forest passed the places we pre‐ which point the EMF meter began to go off liter‐
viously investigated the night before, to make our Night 3: ‐ Bunker 4 and alleged haunted woods ally on command but then suddenly stopped
way to the main goal why the event was set up in with candle light vigil was on the menu. We be‐ abruptly. Once again, the activity had ceased.
the first place, (BUNKER 4). We had been told gan the nights events early just before sun set as
before we went to it that the activity was so high we had wanted to do our candle light vigil as We headed outside and round to the front of
that no one dares enter the bunker not just at planned so to respect the soldiers who fought bunker 4, unfortunately at this point it was far too
night but even during the day. and died there. We headed straight for Bunker 4 windy for our candle light vigil so we made best of
where some of our team reported feeling uneasy the situation, shun out torches in the air and
and apprehensive. For me... I to was apprehen‐ David began to reside a poem he had put to‐
sive... about re‐entering this location. Bunker 4 gether to mark respect to everyone fallen during
looked eerie, just as much in the daylight hours. the war in France. It read…
We got straight into the investigation as we did
the night before. We headed inside with appre‐ We stand here tonight amongst brave men on
hension. We were just about to start our investi‐ this shore. When they landed in 1944. They were
gation when we were interrupted by heavy men of 18 or a little more, who's life's were
booted step's walking around the inside of the taken that sad day on this far distant shore. We
entire bunker. Once again we called out ques‐ stand here and wonder why? (Then we here you
tions but nothing much was picked up on our say). We gave our life's so that your children's
equipment. children can be free. We also gave our life's for
glory so the whole world can be free. I close this
During our trek to bunker 4 we passed a large An hour or so later as darkness fell on the bunker speech with a gift of thanks to all the soldier that
open plot of land with an information board we began conducting a small Seance. As we sat are still here and also to the ones at peace from
showing us an old picture of what the land looked there quietly we could here lots of movement all here tonight we thank you all…
like before the German Army came. According to coming from what sounded like the other end of
the information board it was a bustling medieval the bunker, there was also more whispering like God Bless you!
town which had been completely flattened to conversation taking place, so we all decided it
make way for the German bunkers, then as we would be a good chance to capture EVPs on my
walk round the corner, Bunker 4 came into sight... digital recorders. I grabbed mine and switched it
As we approached we could hear people walking on... it began to flash... I looked at the battery
and running around, not only beside us but above meter and it was reading very low, then all of a
us, in fact the noises were coming from all direc‐ sudden, it switched off, odd, the battery had
tions, so much so that we could not pin point flattened so quickly. I pulled my laptop from its
where the noises were exactly coming from it was case and turned it on. I was to play a CD with
like we were being surrounded. At that point I Winston Churchill speeches on it. I was going to
picked up the night vision handy cam and started attempt what most investigators are familiar
filming. I caught on camera what appears to be a with 'The Singapore Theory', but... just as I had
mist come into the shot then just as quickly as it loaded the disc the laptop battery went flat and
arrived it left again. I've never seen smoke or fog turned off. Strange, the laptop battery had been This marked the end of our Aniversary D‐ Day
move like this before very unusual. The strange full only moments ago. After numerous attempts ghost hunt in Audingen, France , UNTIL NEXT
noises eventually passed giving us the opportunity to turn it on, I gave up. YEAR...through conducting this event we have
to have a good scout around. It was an amazing proven to every paranormal team in the world
location. We headed to the upstairs of the com‐ Eventually we moved on, so to investigate other that organisations can work together as a unit and
plex when we stopped... We could hear what parts of the bunker. I did manage to record some accomplish the same results.
sounded like shuffling in the doorway we were EVP's with a different device, as my battery was
heading towards, at that exact point a large rock totally flat, but batteries were going flat in this (All teams) since, have been awarded with the
the size of a football came through the doorway recorder also. I was informed that the batteries I.P.A.A. Awards for best organisational partner‐
and missed my head by inches, everyone at the were just replaced with new ones whilst outside ship and investigation.
event was accounted for as they were behind me. the bunker before we entered. The EVP's re‐
If it had been at least a couple of inches to the left corded were distorted and unfortunately we
it would certainly have caused serious damage to could not determine what they were or what was
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Poltergeists and things that go Bump in the Night
By David Slone
Poltergeists are rare, but they do exist. For those
that aren't in the loop, a poltergeist is a spirit that
moves through inanimate objects like cups, TVs,
furniture, and windows.

Noises ‐ like bumps, thuds, kerplunks ‐ yes ker‐
plunks is a dictionary word, knocks, scratching at
the window, and banging at the door are all ex‐
amples of poltergeist activity. Of course, these are
natural phenomena when a human or natural
cause is to blame. However, the wind, a person,
the rain, or a cat or dog aren't the cause in these
occurrences. A poltergeist could be at fault.

In Ancient Egypt, bed‐shaking and the raining
down of stones were reported. However, a skep‐
tic could conclude that mud slides or earthquakes
were to blame. It's no wonder that all cultures
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Parapsychologists have put forth one explanation Evil spirits are reported by practitioners of astral inconsistencies, but some do not. Here they go, in
that suggests that poltergeists originate in a per‐ projection, an are associated with out‐of‐body the order of their appearance.
son, and the lingo for that person is an agent or experiences. Some, a minority, occasionally use
focus. They suggest that the psycho‐kinetic effects hallucinogens, which may account for the effects. In 858, an evil spirit chucked heavy stones at a
originate in the individual, and manifest as the farmhouse, and it shook the walls with power.
result of psychological trauma in that person. Since there is scant pictorial, video, and audio The Demon Drummer of Tedworth in 1661, the
evidence of poltergeist phenomena, it's a good Wizard named Livingston in 1797, the Haunting of
Other researchers have proposed several unre‐ idea to opt for the famous movie, Poltergeist. the Fox Sisters in 1848, the Borley Rectory inci‐
lated and interesting hypotheses. Ball lightning, Much of the phenomena reported by parapsy‐ dent of 1929, and the Enfield, Mackenzie, Entity,
static electricity, electromagnetic fields, ionized chologists is depicted well in the movie. A TV and other cases in the latter part of the 20th cen‐
air, people propelling objects as hoaxes, un‐ show with some parallel popularity can be pur‐ tury, e.g., 1977, 1984, 2000s.
friendly spirits, and "recordings" of negative emo‐ chased from Amazon.
tional energy that don't abate ever after death. Some quick searches will turn up dozens of field
The emotion can keep re‐playing itself in the Over the years, there have been countless re‐ stories related to the inexplicable phenomena
natural world even after the person is dead. Of ports of haunted houses, abodes, and buildings. that happened during these times. In many in‐
course, this is all speculation. Most of these go unreported in the mainstream stances, police, parapsychologists, physicists, and
media, and it takes quite a bit of digging in ob‐ laymen have been unable to find a causal link
Evil spirits are reported by practitioners of astral scure anthologies of poltergeist accounts to find between the inanimate movements, noises, and
projection, an are associated with out‐of‐body them out. However, a few of the more important motions through the natural chain of reasoning,
experiences. Some, a minority, occasionally use ones are as follows. The reader should be ad‐ observation, and scientific prodding. The subject
hallucinogens, which may account for the effects. vised that many of these stories have of the paranormal continues to baffle science...
POLTERGEIST EXCLUSIVE!
Sometimes the opportunity arises for Phenomena Magazine to feature absolutely unique material and this is such
a case. You have heard of the Enfield Poltergeist and the bizarre events in the village of Sauchie…well forget them.
We has been given access to one of the most important and best documented poltergeist cases ever to feature in
modern paranormal history and the readers of this magazine get the opportunity to see it first.

We intend to serialise the case in the magazine over 12 parts The case is taken from a new book by Archie Lawrie, a
long time paranormal researcher and former vice‐president of the Scottish Society for Psychical Research, who
spent six years meticulously documenting these truly breathtaking events. The identity of the entity (a young girl
called Maria who was killed in a car crash) has been fully establish and verified as have the list of phenomena she
produced. These include everything from verbal communication both through the air and via telephones and com‐
puters to the spontaneous appearance of objects (in one case a shower of sweets that was two inches deep) and
the spontaneous movement of objects.

You have never read anything quite like this before and it will appear here exclusively in Phenomena Magazine… WATCH THIS SPACE!...
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'Sprinkler' Asteroid Has Six Comet‐Like Tails. Moronic Ghost Hunters Burn Historic Louisi‐
ana Plantation to the Ground.
By Greg Newkirk.
As if paranormal investigators didn't have a hard enough time
already, what with never being able to prove the existence of
ghosts on any of their TV shows, now a group of them have
destroyed a rich piece of Louisiana history by setting fire to a
160 year old plantation. The suspects told authorities that they
snuck into the Lebeau Plantation in order to investigate claims
that the building was haunted.
Unfortunately for everyone, many
Astronomers staring deep into space through the giant Hubble
Space Telescope have found that a new asteroid has six comet‐like
news outlets reported that these
tails. The faint streaks, which radiate from the asteroid like spokes ghost hunters had more in common
on a wheel, are generated as the rock speeds through the solar with Shaggy and Scooby than with
system, shedding dust as it goes. Unusually, the object, known as Fred and Velma, because instead of
P/2013 P5 and likened to a "rotating lawn sprinkler" by experts at
NASA, regularly changes its appearance. actually solving any mysteries they
just got wrecked on cheap weed
In two pictures taken a fortnight apart, it appears to have spun and cheaper beer. Then they acci‐
around, with the dust tails trailing the asteroid at an entirely dentally set fire to the building. By
different angle. David Jewitt, an astronomer at the University of
California in Los Angeles, said the discovery left his team the time police showed up to the
"dumbfounded". "We were completely knocked out," he said. "It's plantation at around 2am, the build‐
hard to believe we're looking at an asteroid." ing was fully engulfed in flames.
The asteroid was originally found by scientists using the Pan‐
STARSS telescope in Hawaii, who were studying the area between
All 7 men were arrested and
the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It has been ejecting dust for at least charged with arson, burglary and
five months and is now thought to be spinning so fast that its criminal damage over $50,000. "This
surface has started to disintegrate. Up to 1,000 tonnes of dust has is a devastating loss to the commu‐
been lost so far, but this is a tiny fraction of the overall mass of the
1,400ft‐wide object. nity," Fire Chief Thomas Stone said.
"It's a fire chief's worst nightmare."
Mr. Jewitt said the asteroid, which is believed to be a fragment of Fortunately, there were no casual‐
a larger object that broke apart about 200 million years ago, could ties in the blaze, aside from the
be the first of many. "In astronomy, where you find one, you
eventually find a whole bunch more," he said. "This is just an enjoyment of a historical location by
amazing object to us, and almost certainly the first of many more future generations. Built in the
to come." 1850's, the Lebeau Plantation was
once the largest plantation south of
Fiery 230ft crater nicknamed the 'Door to Hell' New Orleans.
baffles scientists after burning endlessly for 40
Years. Throughout the years, the property had previously served as a casino, a hotel, and more recently as local
Sugar Festival grounds. Thanks a lot, jerks… (Special thanks to Chris Parr for bringing this to our attention).
UFO spotted over Devon sky could be monitoring military activity at air bases,
watcher claims.
Experts are unsure whether this suspected UFO is a bird, a plane or perhaps a spy drone hovering over
the North Devon landscape. The fascinating image was captured by photographer Rob Tibbles in a series
of pictures taken on Saturday at Fullabrook wind farm. But it was only when the camera man returned
Originally a level surface, the site was identified by Soviet scien‐ home and downloaded his work that he spotted the strange object gliding high above one of the turbines.
tists in 1971 as an area that was believed to house a substantial oil
field. With fiery embers glowing deep underground, it looks like a And even after zooming in on the object to have a closer look, it was still unclear what exactly it was.
scene from an apocalyptic sci‐fi blockbuster. But this huge crater is
amazingly a real‐life phenomenon which has been flaming away The airbase at RMB Chivenor, near
for more than four decades. The 230ft‐wide crater, known by
Barnstaple, which houses search and
locals in Turkmenistan as the 'Door to Hell', has baffled scientists
since it first appeared more than 40 years ago. Originally a level rescue helicopters, said they had not
surface, the site was identified by Soviet scientists in 1971 as an had any reported UFO sightings in the
area that was believed to house a substantial oil field. However, area, however a training exercise was
the ground beneath the drilling rig soon collapsed, creating a wide
crater that was believed to be releasing large quantities of meth‐
conducted that day. Dave Gillham,
ane gas, a potential danger to the nearby villages in Derweze, founder of the Cornwall UFO Research
Turkmenistan. Group (CUFORG), based in Truro, said
it was not unusual for unusual craft to
be spotted near military installations.
“They seem to be around when the
military are up to something – to put it
bluntly these objects appear to be
watching them,” he added.
Scientists decided that the most efficient way to solve the prob‐
lem would be to burn off the poisonous gases ‐‐ by doing so, it was “It has got a good shape to it – the last couple of pictures I have seen looked good in the distance but
expected that all of the gas in the crater would be burnt off within when they blew up they looked like herring gulls. “This looks a little bit unusual with spikes sticking out
days. More than four decades later, though, the crater is still and what look like two windows or eyes at the front.” Over the past 18 years, the CUFORG has recorded a
ablaze with endless flames and boiling mud ‐ and hundreds of
tourists flock to visit it every year. The Karakum Desert, where number of unexplained sightings. The group held its 17th annual conference this year, attracting more
Derweze is located, has one of the largest gas reserves in the than 100 fans from around the world. In January, two witnesses in Par, near St Austell claimed to have
world. Turkmenistan hopes to up its exportation rate around 75 seen an unidentified object from their kitchen. A man and his wife also reported seeing a red light above
million cubic meters of gas in the next 20 years.
Padstow last year. Mr. Gillham, a retired merchandiser, said his close encounter came in 1995.
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Phenomena Magazine: November 2013 - Issue 55: www.phenomenamagazine.co.uk “I have never fathomed out what they are but UFOs don’t necessarily contain little green men,” he added.
UFO hacker wins battle against US Government. UFO spotted in sky over Ware.
On Tuesday November 16, British hacker Gary
McKinnon finally won his decade long battle to avoid
extradition to the US to face charges of hacking into
the computer systems of NASA, the Pentagon and
other government agencies.
McKinnon claimed to have found photographs, film,
and other evidence of alien spacecraft secretly held by
various U.S. government agencies. In deciding to block
the US extradition efforts, British Home Secretary
Theresa May said she decided in favor of McKinnon
“after medical experts concluded he was seriously ill
and likely to attempt to take his own life." By Laura Burnip
While McKinnon still risks prosecution by British authorities, it's unlikely that further legal action will be An unusual object has been spotted in the sky near Ware. Ann
taken against him. Will McKinnon reveal more about what the US government knows about UFOs and ex‐ Yates, who lives in Ware, said she had spotted the fluorescent
traterrestrial life now that he now longer faces extradition? McKinnon first hacked into NASA's Johnson oval‐shaped object on Thursday while stargazing. Mrs. Yates said
the object had been to the south of the town at around 5.30pm
Space Center and said: he found a high definition picture of a large cigar shaped object over the northern
to 6pm. She said: "I was stargazing and taking photos of the moon
hemisphere. He said that he was so shocked by the picture that he didn’t think to immediately save it. He
and to the south of Ware there was an object in the sky and it
also said that the file size was so large that is was difficult to view it on his computer. Eventually his con‐ was there for some time."
nection was lost, and so was the picture. When McKinnon later hacked into classified files of U.S. Space
Command (incorporated into Strategic Command on October 1, 2002 soon after McKinnon was caught), he The sighting is not the first of its kind in the county. Last month,
discovered a number of naval terms such as "fleet‐to‐fleet transfers" concerning non‐terrestrial officers. the Mercury revealed Herts police has logged 27 phone calls and
He said: I found a list of officers' names … under the heading 'Non‐Terrestrial Officers’. It doesn't mean front desk inquiries describing supposed UFO activity since 2009.
little green men. What I think it means is not Earth‐based. I found a list of 'fleet‐to‐fleet transfers', and a And in 2011, Cottered got caught up in a UFO debate after a disc‐
list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren't US Navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have shaped object was spotted by BBC sports reporter Mike Sewell.
some kind of spaceship, off‐planet." McKinnon’s startling discovery cast light on what had been earlier
Mr. Sewell had described seeing the strange sighting as he drove
revealed by no less than a former President of the United States: Ronald Reagan. In President Reagan's through the village on the A507 at around 4.50am as he made his
Diary, the entry for Tuesday, June 11, 1985 (page 334) reads: Lunch with 5 top space scientist. It was fasci‐ way to Stansted Airport to cover a football game in Sweden.
nating. Space truly is the last frontier and some of the developments there in astronomy etc. are like sci‐

ence fiction, except they are real. I learned that our shuttle capacity is such that we could orbit 300 people.
Reagan’s comment was revealing since the recently retired Space Shuttle held a maximum of eight people Spontaneous human combustion: Man's body
and only five were built for space flight. Even if all five took off fully loaded it would be impossible to place burst into flames on the sofa ‐ but he lived to tell
and maintain 300 astronauts in orbit. Was Reagan revealing the existence of a highly classified space pro‐ the tale.
gram that could accommodate hundreds of astronauts in orbit? Apparently so, according to dozens of mili‐
tary and corporate whistleblowers. Hidden within one of the nine unified combatant commands of the U.S.
military, as McKinnon later discovered, appeared to be a highly classified fleet of aircraft carrier sized ships
that operate in outer space. Now that McKinnon no longer faces the threat of extradition and is unlikely to
be prosecuted by British authorities, he may be able to reveal more about what he learned from sensitive
U.S. military and government computer files about UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
Flying saucer or military drone? Massive rise in UFO sightings is directly linked
to emergence of unmanned aircraft.
By Ellie Zolfagharifard
UFO sightings increased by 42 per cent be‐
tween 2011 and 2012. Could be because
many drones are designed to look like flying By Chris Richards.
saucers. Last year hundreds of people in
Washington mistook a drone for a UFO. A War veteran Frank Baker recalls the moment he caught on fire
separate incident in September saw a 'flying just as he was about to go fishing. A war veteran has recalled the
horrifying moment his body suddenly burst into flames while he
saucer' drone deliberately fool spectators at was sitting on the sofa. Frank Baker, who served in the US Army in
a baseball game. Vietnam, is the only known survivor of the unexplained phenome‐
non known as spontaneous human combustion. The highly‐
decorated former soldier had been preparing to go on a fishing
How many UFO sightings are actually drones? According to paranormal expert Lee Speigel, far more than
trip with his friend Pete Willey when fire suddenly engulfed his
you might think. The National UFO Reporting Center has reported that UFO sightings jumped by 42 per body.
cent between 2011 and 2012. Writing in HuffPost Live, Mr. Speigel claims that the increased use of un‐
manned drones by government and private groups is responsible for this figure. ‘The thing about drones The pair recalled the terrifying incident, which took place in June
is…that you can make them look like UFOs,’ Mr. Speigel said. ‘You can go to the local hardware store, and 1985, in a new episode of the Science Channel's Unexplained
Files. "I had no idea what was taking place on my body — none,"
for not a lot of money, you can pick up the materials you need…to make people go crazy.’ Mr. Baker said. "We were getting ready for fishing and sitting on
the couch. "Everything was great. "Pete was sitting next to me —
In September, for instance, spectators at the Nat Bailey Stadium in Vancouver, Canada, were stunned to we were having a helluva time." The pair leapt to their feet and
were able to put out the flames.
spot what appeared to be a UFO in the sky. The blue object, adorned with the requisite flashing lights,
appeared during the first game of the best‐of‐three North Division final between the Vancouver Canadians There have been around 200 reported cases of spontaneous
and Everett AquaSox. The UFO was in fact a drone flown by the Canadian planetarium to deliberately fool human combustion. Boffins who studied the phenomenon in
spectators. Another incident last year saw hundreds of people in Washington D.C. get the shock of their 1984 concluded most victims had been near fire sources when
lives when they saw a UFO being transported across a local highway. Many people Tweeted pictures of the they burst into flames — and continued to burn because of flam‐
mable clothing and excess body fat. However, Mr. Baker, who
mysterious object alongside exclamations of concern and astonishment. ‘A UFO In Maryland! Where’s Men lives in Vermont, US, does not believe this was the case for him.
In Black When You Need Them!’ @AyeeKeithyKeith said of the saucer‐shaped vehicle. The ‘alien space‐ "The doctor called (me), and said, 'Frank, this burned from the
craft’ was in fact an experimental X‐47B being driven along the Capitol Beltway as it was moved from West inside out,'" he said.
Virginia to Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Southern Maryland. The problem, noted Mr Spiegel, is that
many drones are deliberately designed to look like flying saucers. Or, as many UFO enthusiasts might be‐
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lieve, that's what they want you to think.... Phenomena Magazine: November 2013 - Issue 55: www.phenomenamagazine.co.uk
The UFO, Bigfoot & Paranormal Overlap: What It Tells Us - Part 2.
By Peter A. McCue
When I wrote the first part of this article, which appeared in
the September 2013 issue of the magazine, I hadn’t planned a
second part. But I’d like to cite some additional cases. They tie
in with the themes discussed previously, and seem to support
the view that many paranormal events may be the theatrical
orchestrations of a higher intelligence.

The first part of this article followed the convention of using a
capital ‘B’ for ‘Bigfoot’. However, in an interesting book, Thom
Powell (2003) contends that the word doesn’t merit an upper
case ‘B’, because it’s used as a common noun. That makes
sense to me. So, in what follows, I’ll render ‘bigfoot’ with a
lower case ‘b’. Again, in line with Powell, I’ll use a lower case
‘s’ for ‘sasquatch’, which is an alternative name for bigfoot in
North America. Powell uses ‘Bigfoots’ as the plural of
‘Bigfoot’. I’ll do the same...
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By Peter A. McCue
BIGFOOT‐RELATED DNA RESEARCH In the episode focusing on North Amer‐ It had black hair, a somewhat dome‐

ica, Evans stated, with a degree of shaped head, and black eyes, but with
An anonymous article in the December rhetorical exaggeration: “There are no white evident. It exuded a strong,
2013 issue of the magazine Fortean almost as many theories surrounding musky smell.
Times (issue 308, pp. 8‐9) asks: “Is the the sasquatch as there are sightings of
hirsute mystery a human hybrid, an it.” But after Sykes’s findings about the After looking at the witnesses for
ancient polar bear hybrid or even an North American samples were an‐ about a minute, the entity turned
angel?” It refers to a group called the nounced, Evans alighted on the view round and started walking towards the
Sasquatch Genome Project, led by Dr that if bigfoot doesn’t exist as a biologi‐ other side of the clear‐cut. As Sum‐
Melba T. Ketchum, a former veterinar‐ cal entity, the witnesses must have mers and his cousin looked on, the
ian from Texas. After conducting tests been deluding themselves, as a result creature shimmered, became almost
on purported sasquatch material (hair, of a “will to believe”. transparent, and then disappeared Author information
blood, etc.), Ketchum’s study appar‐ before them. It reportedly left tracks in
ently concluded that sasquatch exists Of course, this wasn’t very flattering to the soft earth, which ended at the spot Peter McCue worked for many
in North America and is a human rela‐ them; and it suggests that Evans hasn’t where it had vanished! years as a clinical psychologist.
tive that arose some 15,000 years ago. considered the possibility that some He lives in Scotland. His qualifi‐
But this claim has attracted criticism. bigfoot manifestations are craftily con‐ Case 2: A size‐changing and shape‐ cations include a Ph.D., from
For example, the Fortean Times article cocted paranormal displays. But to be shifting UFO. the University of Glasgow,
fair, he may have been simply the front Richard Dolan (2009, pp. 121‐4) de‐ awarded for a thesis on hypno‐
states that the study hasn’t been peer‐
sis. He believes that paranor‐
reviewed, and that Ketchum has re‐ man, uttering words scripted for him! scribes a dramatic UFO sighting that
mal events occur, and that
fused to release her data, explain her At any rate, interesting as it was, I reportedly occurred in the Canary Is‐
many UFO experiences are
methodology, or say where she got the don’t think the programmes did the lands on the night of 22nd June 1976. genuinely anomalous. He
DNA samples. bigfoot phenomenon justice. Dr Francisco Julio Padron and his contends that if we want to
driver, Francisco Estevez, were heading obtain a comprehensive under‐
to Galdar, on the north‐west coast of standing of ourselves and the
Grand Canary Island, when they saw a nature of reality, these enig‐
large spherical object hovering just matic phenomena can’t be
above the ground, some 60 yards off ignored.
the road. Estevez brought the car to a

sharp halt. According to Padron, the
object was perfectly round and was
about the size of a three‐storey build‐
ing. It was transparent enough for stars
to be seen through it, and it contained
two human‐like figures, which were
reportedly well over six feet tall, and
were wearing bright red garments and
cloth‐like helmets or turbans of some
sort. They appeared to be studying a
control panel, and their heads seemed
to glow. Estevez reported that they
The Fortean Times article also men‐ FURTHER CASE EXAMPLES had very bright, large eyes.
tions the work of Professor Bryan
Sykes, a geneticist at the University of Case 1: A vanishing bigfoot. The car’s radio went dead, and the
Oxford, whose research was featured In the earlier part of this article, I men‐ men experienced a feeling of intense
in a recently‐screened three‐part tele‐ tioned a case from Pennsylvania, in cold. The object began to rise, and
vision series (Bigfoot Files) on Channel 1973, reported by Stan Gordon (2010, expanded to an incredible size, compa‐
4 in the UK. The presenter was a vet, pp. 227‐45), involving a shape‐shifting rable to that of a 20‐storey building. It
called Mark Evans. UFO and bigfoot’s. Thom Powell also then assumed the shape of a spindle,
mentions cases suggesting a possible surrounded by a halo, and shot off at
paranormal aspect to the bigfoot phe‐ an amazing speed.
nomenon. Take, for example, the fol‐
lowing incident, Involving Alex Sum‐ Padron and Estevez called at a nearby
mers, a former US Navy SEAL and Gulf farmhouse, discovering that at least
War veteran (Powell, 2003, pp. 162‐ one of the residents had seen the ob‐
164). ject. He described it as a bright, bluish
sphere containing two red things,
The alleged incident occurred in Octo‐ which looked like human forms. The
ber 2000. Summers and his cousin man’s television had apparently cut
were on the second day of a hunting out just before Padron and Estevez
trip in Oregon’s Coast Range moun‐ arrived.
tains. Around 3 p.m., they came upon a
Sykes received numerous samples of large clear‐cut in a forest. They saw Other witnesses had apparently seen
material (mainly hair) that were as‐ what Summers described as “a possible the UFO as well, including the crew of
sumed to have come from bigfoot’s or Neanderthal”. It stopped and turned a Spanish naval ship, some miles off‐
their Asian counterparts. But where round, some 20 feet from them. About shore. According to the captain, they
testable DNA was present, it turned eight feet tall, it was stockier than ei‐ observed “an intense yellowish‐bluish
out to be from prosaic sources, such as ther Summers or his cousin, both of light” moving from the shore towards
black bears. whom were well over six feet tall. their position.
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By Peter A. McCue
Russian Evidence? Initially, they took it to be an ordinary dogs” in the TV programme) had been Shelley and Eric apparently believed
aircraft, but then it stopped, turned off acting in a particularly nervous manner that the creatures would have been
The Russian newspaper its light, and emitted a rotating light that evening. able to break into the house if they’d
"Komsomolskaya Pravda"
published an interview with the beam for two minutes. Then, it again
Russian scientist Igor Burtsev, displayed an intense halo of yellowish
Ph.D., director of the Interna‐ and bluish light, remaining where it
tional Center of hominology,
Russia, who said, that he had
was for 40 minutes. The light then
sensational results of DNA seemed to split in half, with the upper
analysis of Bigfoot (Yeti), who part making a rapid, spiralling climb
argue, that Bigfoot originated before vanishing. Dolan notes that the
in by crossing the modern
human beings and unknown glow from the halo (the section that
being, possibly alien, so un‐ didn’t spiral upwards, presumably)
usual was the DNA of Bigfoot continued to illuminate parts of the
(Yeti). According to Igor Burt‐
sev, DNA analyses of Bigfoot
land and the ocean, although the ship’s
(Yeti) were conducted in the radar never detected the object.
laboratories of the U.S. under
the direction of Dr. Melba These, and other sightings in the Ca‐
Ketchum, which is the head of
the laboratory of molecular nary Islands, have been attributed to
diagnosis of Texas (Dr. Melba the launching of US submarine‐based
Ketchum the head of DNA Poseidon missiles (see: http://
Diagnostics, Nacogdoches, TX,
USA).
w w w . i k a r o s .o r g . e s / c a n e n . h t m).
Clearly, though, if the witness testi‐
Over the last five years, scien‐ mony cited regarding the events of
tists have studied the DNA of 22nd June 1976 is accurate, it’s hard to
109 biological samples of
square it with that interpretation.
Bigfoot (Yeti), which were
found in the U.S., Canada, and
Russia (in the Kemerovo region Case 3: Strange creatures, strange
in 2012), of the samples were lights, and a haunting apparition.
found traces of Bigfoot (Yeti)
blood, the prints of their fin‐
In her book Real Wolfmen, Linda God‐
gers, feet, and hair. Based on frey (2012, pp. 126‐34) describes some
DNA analysis of Bigfoot (Yeti) strange experiences that befell a family
found, that the obtained DNA called Martin a few years ago at their
samples do not belong to the
known science beings. then home in Palmyra, Maine, in the
north‐east of the USA. However, the
Therefore, is the recent TV family were apparently living in a rural Instead of going back into the house, really wanted to. Although Eric had
Show ‘Finding Bigfoot’ really setting, so I presume that their home Shelley “trained [a] floodlight into the some guns, they were locked in the
revealing all. A number of
questions have been asked. was on the fringe of the town, or a few blur of fog”. This revealed three large, garage (or in a barn, according to the
However, there are those who miles outside it. furry creatures whose eyes reflected a TV programme). The couple retired to
believe evidence for Bigfoot is bright yellow‐green colour. They rose bed around 1.00 a.m., but had great
either non‐existent or so rare
In the UK, at the end of October 2013, and ran on their hind legs. They difficulty in sleeping. By morning, the
to find, its almost impossible to
obtain. The debate continues… the case was featured in an episode of seemed to be at least seven feet tall, mysterious creatures were gone. Shel‐
the television series Paranormal Wit‐ and had short tails and pointed ears. ley found what she described as “over‐
ness (broadcast on the Freeview chan‐ It’s not clear from Godfrey’s account large dog prints with a ‘hook’ on the
nel Really). Actors recreated the re‐ how long it was before they ran out of end”.

ported events, with interspersed com‐ sight, but when they did so, Shelley
mentary from the principal witnesses. shone her light back on the front yard, Godfrey explains that weeks before the
However, there were some differences seeing two more, which were only 20 creatures were sighted, the Martins
between this version and Linda God‐ feet away, and moving towards her “began to see unidentified lights float‐
frey’s portrayal, although they were and Eric on all fours. The creatures ing near [a] swamp area”. (This word‐

generally minor. The following outline rose on their hind legs and ran round ing could be taken to mean that the

is based on Godfrey’s version. But In the house to join the others. The bed‐ anomalous lights were seen more than
places, I’ve noted, within brackets, room window of the couple’s daughter once, but the TV programme men‐
points where the TV version differed was on that side of the house, so Shel‐ tioned only one occasion. It indicated
from it, although I haven’t sought to ley and Eric rushed indoors and went that they were seen from the porch of
comment on all the differences. the house. Shelley stated that the
upstairs to her room. When they shone

the light down to a side yard, the five lights were pulsating in some trees.
About 10.30, one evening in the late creatures were seen to be calmly However, when Eric and his son, Sean,
summer of 2007, Shelley Martin, then standing on their back legs, staring went into the woods, to investigate,
45, and her husband Eric, then 48, back at them. The daughter woke up the lights were no longer visible, and
were sitting on their front porch, drink‐ and saw their eyes. But being sleepy, nothing was seen to account for them.)
ing coffee, when Eric had a “bad feel‐ she went back to bed. Godfrey refers to two other witnesses,

ing”. He told his wife that she should not members of the Martin family,
immediately go back into the house. The Martins rang the emergency num‐ who also saw the lights. (But they
(But according to the TV programme, ber 911. They were told to call a game weren’t mentioned in the TV pro‐
the year was 2006, and the incident warden, who said they should remain gramme.)
occurred during the “Memorial Holiday in the house and lock the doors. (But

weekend”, which would have been in according to the TV programme, Shel‐ Some time prior to the appearance of
http://hainanwel.com/en/unusual‐ late May.) The couple’s two standard ley spoke to someone from the police, the creatures, Eric started seeing an
world/2343‐bigfoot‐hybrid.html
poodles (referred to as “hunting and then the call was disconnected.) apparition of a little girl in the house.
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By Peter A. McCue
(Interestingly, there was no mention of their property. Fifteen to 20 minutes somehow this energy/force/entity is Authors References.
this in the TV programme.) It seems later, they heard it again, and it manipulating coincidence and manu‐
that on at least one occasion, the sight‐ sounded as if it were hovering nearby. facturing synchronicity” (p. 73). Dolan, R. M. (2009). UFOs &
the National Security State:
ing was preceded by his hearing foot‐ They went out to look, and saw it rising The Cover‐Up Exposed, 1973‐
steps. The haunting apparently contin‐ from the pasture where the dead bull DISCUSSION 1991. Rochester, New York:
ued after the Martins moved out – would be found the next morning. The Keyhole.
they learned that an eight‐year‐old helicopter was mustard‐yellow in col‐
Assuming that Alex Summers’ story Godfrey, L. S. (2012). Real
boy, the son of the next tenants, had our, looked old‐fashioned, and didn’t (Case 1) isn’t a hoax tale, it’s possible Wolfmen: True Encounters in
refused to sleep in his room, because seem to have any markings. It flew that the bigfoot‐type creature was Modern America. New York:
of the “mean little girl”. back to the north, over their house. physical, but came from, and then Tarcher/Penguin.

disappeared back into, some sort of Gordon, S. (2010). Silent Inva‐
At one point in 2010, Eric happened to parallel reality or ‘other dimension’. sion: The Pennsylvania UFO‐
be driving past the property when he Another possibility is that the entity Bigfoot Casebook (edited by R.
realised that he’d forgotten his wallet, Marsh). Privately published.
was a theatrical creation of the mo‐
so he pulled into the driveway, in order ment by a higher intelligence, which O’Brien, C. (2009). Stalking the
to turn round. Although his vehicle had also generated the footprints, to en‐ Tricksters: Shapeshifters,
been running well up to then, a ball hance the dramatic effect. Skinwalkers, Dark Adepts and
joint snapped in half and a shaft ripped 2012. Kempton, Illinois: Adven‐
tures Unlimited Press.
apart. However, it’s conceivable that Similarly, the events in Cases 2‐4 could Powell, T. (2003). The Locals: A
this breakdown was purely coinciden‐ also be seen as dramatic, orchestrated Contemporary Investigation of
tal. (There was no mention of it in the The day after his visit to the Suther‐ the Bigfoot/Sasquatch Phe‐
performances. Certainly, it’s hard to nomenon. Surrey, British
TV programme.) lands (i.e. some 13 years after their imagine that the UFO described by Columbia: Hancock House.
experience with the strange helicop‐ Francisco Julio Padron and his driver (in
Case 4: Synchronicity. ter), O’Brien was in his dining room, Case 2) was an extraterrestrial space‐ Acknowledgement.
The San Luis Valley (SLV) in the USA, I’m grateful to David T. Muir
reviewing his interview notes, when he ship. If it was, it’s surprising that the for help with proofreading.
which runs from south central Colo‐ heard, and then saw, a helicopter. It occupants seemed to be human‐like.
rado into northern New Mexico, has a matched what the Sutherlands had
reputation for strange events, such as seen in 1980! His then girlfriend, the I think Christopher O’Brien (see Case 4)
cattle mutilations and UFO sightings. A latter’s daughter, and some neighbours is probably right in suggesting that the
writer and researcher called Christo‐ also apparently saw it. O’Brien made intelligence behind these phenomena
pher O’Brien lived in the SLV for a extensive enquiries, but no one has a tricksterish disposition. If so, it
while and investigated anomalous seemed to know where it had come may deliberately generate manifesta‐
phenomena there. In one of his books, from. Furthermore, he was told that tions that strain the credulity of non‐
he cites an experience that he had in such a helicopter would have only a 90 witnesses…
1993, after he’d spoken to members of ‐mile range, would be extremely rare,
a family called Sutherland, about a bull and would be astronomically expensive Peter McCure’s book:
of theirs that had been found dead and to fly and maintain. O’Brien notes that Zones of Strangeness is
mutilated in June 1980 (O’Brien, 2009, ever since that experience, he’s been available at Amazon to
pp. 69‐73). The evening before the absolutely convinced that there’s “a purchase for just £14.43 Over the centuries, there've
carcass was found, they’d heard a heli‐ trickster energy, or program, that is been many reports, worldwide,
copter flying slowly southwards over paranormal in nature and [that] of unexplained phenomena.
An amazing read… (PM) Certain areas seem to play
host to a disproportionate
number of them, either tempo‐
rarily or on a long‐term basis.
Some places acquire a reputa‐
tion for just one type of mani‐
festation, such as UFO activity.
Others seem to be the setting
for a variety of them ‐ for
example, cattle mutilations,
sightings of strange animals,
and UFO phenomena. Can the
reports be believed? Are the
phenomena genuinely para‐
normal? Do certain areas really
see an unusually high number
of anomalous events? What's
behind the manifestations? Do
they involve extraterrestrials,
creatures from 'other dimen‐
sions', time travellers, the
workings of the human mind,
or some sort of higher intelli‐
gence? These are just some of
the questions that the author
addresses in this wide‐ranging,
well‐researched and well‐
referenced study of the con‐
nection, real or supposed,
between anomalous phenom‐
ena and certain geographical
areas. The book cites a mass of
case material from the UK, the
USA and elsewhere, and also
includes useful foundation
chapters.
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‘Another traditional British UFO book that was
a pleasure to read. Fascinating documented
incidents and some great images just kept my
attention from front to back cover. This is the
second book I have read of Margaret Fry’s and I
thoroughly enjoyed both. Excellently wrote and
informative. Definitely one to add to your col‐
lection.’ (Steve Mera: PM Chief Editor).
To obtain your 154 page semi‐softback edition
of Who Are They?: Simply send a total of
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Title: American Horror Story: Asylum
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This is an absolutely splendid slice of well detailed, well acted, high fear factor sheer terror. There are
(appropriately enough) 13 episodes and as the title suggests the bulk of the action is set in an asylum for the
criminally insane called ‘Briarcliff’. The asylum is populated by a motley collection of serial killers, mutants,
alien abductees, and psychopaths who are watched over by a number of nuns and doctors. It goes without
saying that the nuns and doctors who make up the staff have plenty of problems of their own, which contrib‐
utes admirably to the taught feel of the individual stories.

Some of the action is cleverly inter‐cut between the 1960’s and the present day, where a young couple ex‐
ploring the now derelict building and encounter an incarnation of one of the former inmates, a notorious
masked serial killer called ‘Bloodyface’. Two of the staff, Dr. Arden and Dr. Thredson have a sinister agenda,
especially Dr Arden who is a former Nazi and conducts horrific experiment on some of the patents changing
them into mutated ‘Raspers’, who prowl the woods surrounding the institution.

Any issues with it, well yes, it does try much too hard to shock with the inclusion of unnecessary sex scenes
that only detract from the overall effect, but overall the series is splendidly gritty, gory and atmospheric and
the choice of location contributes in no small amount to the overall creepy feel. It’s difficult to single out any
episode as better then the rest, but episode 3, ‘Nor’easter’, episode 7, ‘Dark Cousin’ and episode 12,
‘Continuum’, were particularly effective. This anthology, although now in its second incarnation, stands up
Moon Could Be 100 Million Years Younger Than Previously Thought Suggests New Evidence .
Huffington Post UK Posted: 24/09/2013 11:04 BST Updated: 24/09/2013 11:04 BST
The very origins of the moon are up for debate as new evidence suggests it could be 100 million
years younger than previously thought. The current working theory is our lunar companion
formed when an unknown planet smashed into Earth 4.56 billion years ago around the time of
the birth of the solar system. Debris from this collision then combined to form the moon. But
new technology has allowed for much more precise analysis of lunar rocks which has found they
are between 4.4 billion and 4.45 billion years old. Richard Carlson of the Carnegie Institution of
Washington, told the LA Times: "Back in the 1970s, you couldn't distinguish between 4.45 and
4.55 billion years. "Today, we can, and everything we are seeing suggests the 4.4 billion number.
We know the age of the solar system very well ‐ 4.568 billion years, so the Earth may have had
two phases of its life ‐ one before the giant impact, and another one greatly modified by the
impact." Carlson theorises that the Earth could have had a "primordial atmosphere" in this ear‐
lier stage that could have been blasted off by the impact. Further evidence of the revised date
comes from a number of signs found on Earth of a "major melting event" around 4.45 billion
years ago. The new information has prompted scientists to try to agree once again on a consen‐
sus of how it was formed. A meeting at the Royal Society in London on Monday saw Carlson
present his findings. Page 36

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