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WERE THE MOON
LANDINGS REAL OR
A GOVERNMENT
THE MOON
LANDING
CONSPIRACY
It is common knowledge that in the late
1960s and early 1970s NASA successfully landed 6
of 7 spacecraft on the surface of the moon and
returned them safely to the Earth. Over 600 million
people, nearly 1/5 of the world’s population,
witnessed the historic landing of Apollo 11 on the
moon’s surface live via satellite broadcast. These
missions occurred at a time in American history
when it was strategically imperative that we prove
ourselves as a technological force in the world. The
successful Apollo Moon missions helped to bring
down the burdensome Cold War we were entangled
in with Russia and pronounce America further as a
power in the world economy. The Space Program
proved to be a Multimedia explosion hitting
newspapers, television programs, and feature films
in the 1960’s and 70’s. The goals of the Government
in publicizing every detail of the Space Program
were aimed at the growth of nationalism,
technological faith and political strength. And as we
were slowly losing ground to the Soviets in the area
of Space Exploration and Technology, drastic
measures had to be taken. These measures included
the falsifying of scientific data and photographic
records to suit the need of America to reach the
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moon. The Government for the past 30 years has kept
the real truth from the public, that NASA has never
the chest section where they were operated by hand.
The cameras themselves were so unwieldy that the
been successful in landing a human being on the astronauts needed to turn their entire bodies in order
surface of the moon. The Government has to frame a shot and couldn’t bend their heads down
orchestrated a full scale cover-up of the truth that to look at a viewfinder or even see what focus or f-
human beings have never reached the surface of the
moon by doctoring photographs and releasing
stop they were shooting at. Despite this the only
pictures released to the public are each beautifully
suspect material to the press, and this subterfuge composed and framed. NASA refutes this claim by
constitutes a method of social control. stating that there were 16,000 pictures taken on the
Bill Kaysing worked as head of technical surface of the moon in all of the Apollo missions, but
publications for the Rocketdyne Research only a fraction of these images has made their way
Department (the engine contractor for Apollo) at into the public domain. Each camera was fixed with
their Southern California facility from 1956 to 1963. a Reseau plate, which was fitted to the camera body
In an interview published in Wired Magazine close to the film plane; each plate was engraved with
Kaysing says, "In the late '50s, when I was at a number of crosshairs that formed a grid. “The
Rocketdyne, they did a feasibility study on astronauts intersections were accurately calibrated to a
landing on the moon. They found that the chance of tolerance of 0.002 mm. The crosses are recorded on
success was something like .0017 percent. In other every exposed frame and provided a means of
words, it was hopeless" (Bakel 1994). NASA was determining angular distances between objects in the
making slow progress in the space race in the late field-of-view” (Parker 1969). If every photograph
1960’s. America lost to the Soviets most of the first that was taken on the moon had these crosshairs
achievements in space exploration including the first present in every frame of film then how is it possible
manmade satellite in orbit, the first man in space, that crosshairs pass behind objects within the field of
first man to orbit the earth, the first space walk, etc. view.
Kaysing continues, "It's also well documented that Continues on Page 3
NASA was often badly managed and had poor
quality control. But as of '69, we could suddenly
perform manned flight upon manned flight? With
complete success? It's just against all statistical odds"
(Bakel, 1994). After NASA’s failure upon failure of
attempting to lift a jet-propelled rocket off of the
ground, America was struggling for an
accomplishment that the whole world would see.
Of the methods employed by NASA in the
fooling of America was the doctoring of
photographic evidence. As a student filmmaker and
not a physicist, it is in my ability to prove the
anomalies present in the photographs and criticize
the video broadcasts that were supposedly taken on
the moon’s surface and not the ‘scientific’ evidence
that is suspect. Jan Lundberg Project Engineer-
Hasselblad designed the Hasselblad 500EL
especially for the purpose of photographing each of “The only difference
the Apollo missions. Each of these cameras was between a dream and reality
fitted with a Zeiss- Biogon f-5.6/60 mm lens and is doing it.”
each were mounted outside of the astronaut’s suits on - Rob McConnell
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FIGURE ONE - OFFICIAL NASA PHOTO AS16-107-17446
LUNAR LANDING
CONSPIRACY
Continues from Page 1
In Figure 1 downloaded directly from the
NASA website, the upper portion of the buggy
passes in front of the second to the left crosshair.
This phenomenon is impossible unless the crosshairs
themselves were added at a separate date. Within this
picture there is also another anomaly present, on the
lower rock in the left corner of the frame the letter
“C” is plainly seen etched into the surface of the
rock. Of the interesting theories that explain this
phenomenon is that the prop department
“accidentally” placed the prop upside down,
FIGURE 2 - OFFICIAL NASA PHOTO - AS16-100-75837
revealing its identification marker.
In Figure 2 an astronaut stands with the sun
behind him, his shadow is cast directly in front yet
his front is clearly visible when it should appear in
silhouette. On the moon there is only one single light
source available, the sun. Since the sun is in the shot
there is no question that the front of the astronaut’s
suit should be in shadow. Film stocks do not have the
latitude enough to show both direct sunlight and
shadow areas with that much detail. When this
picture was shown to Jan Lundberg, the designer of
the Hasselblad cameras the Apollo astronauts used on
the recent Fox Television special entitled Conspiracy
Theory: Did we Land on the Moon? Lundberg was
stunned and was quoted as saying “He seems like he
is standing in a spotlight, and I can’t explain that…
and th..that escapes me… why.” The answer to this
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question is simple- it’s called fill light. When
shooting outdoors and confronted with a situation
like this we set up reflector cards called bounce
boards that fill in some of the light on the subject,
especially in a case where the subject is being backlit.
The most logical explanation I have for this scenario
is that on camera left is either an object used to
bounce light or a small separate light source. This
phenomena is also seen in the Lunar Rover seen in
the far background. The ratio from light to dark seen
in this picture in a backlit exterior is impossible. In an
article published in Wired Magazine, NASA
Spokesperson James Hartsfield was asked about
these lighting anomalies and maintained that, "On
some pictures, astronauts are lit from more than one
side because the sunlight is reflected off the lunar
surface or off the landing vehicle" (Bakel 1994).
Through my experience I’ve never personally
witnessed an event where backlight has traveled
through a subject, struck their shadow, and reflected
back and filled in the light on the front of the subject.
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LUNARD LANDING
CONSPIRACY
Continues from Page 3

Of the inherent ‘flaws’ in the pictures

provided by NASA the most anomalous are the
examples of lighting. Since the sun is 90 million
miles away, on the surface of the Moon as well as on
the surface of Earth, the shadows cast form in
parallel lines. This fact is not always present in the
NASA photographs. Compare the earlier “C”
photograph, Figure 1, with this one where the
directions of the shadows have been drawn in Figure
3. In this photo there are four distinct light sources
seen, each coming from the right of the camera and
low to the ground. Obviously the Apollo astronauts
carried no additional lighting equipment with them
to the moon, and since these photos are not possible
on it’s surface, then logically the images weren’t
photographed there. Also if you look at the image
and look about 3 feet past the back right wheel of the
Lunar rover you will undoubtably see the division of
the foreground and the background. So terrible is this
job of splicing together that the background is
completely out of focus and blurred that it is easy to
trace the line of separation. In the photographic
medium objects in the foreground that are in focus
gradually will lose focus and become obscured as the
plane reaches further into the background. In this
photograph there is no gradual drop-off, no middle
ground, no rolling hill to help hide the shifting of
foreground to background, there is only a straight
line dividing the two. This division of the foreground
and the background easily explains the reason why
the covered crosshair could exist- the image of the
astronaut and the Lunar Rover were cut out and
placed on top of the background image. Another
example is illustrated in Figure 5, where the rocks in
the foreground and the probe in the background
show completely opposing directional shadows.
moon’s surface. From the first footage captured by black-and-white, slow-scan TV (SSTV) with a scan
The film stock used in the Apollo missions
Apollo 11 to the last recorded during Apollo 17. We rate of 10 frames-per-second at 320 lines-per-frame.
was a standard Kodak double perforated 70mm film;
witness the slow gliding as the astronauts run along It weighed 7.25 lbs and the camera body was 10.6 x
each roll was loaded into a magazine with an
the surface and jump into the air. On the surface of 6.5 x 3.4 inches in size. The camera utilized a
exposure count of 150 for color film and 200 for
the moon there is only 1/6 the gravity present here on bayonet lens mount that permitted the change
black and white film. Any photographic film is
Earth. On the surface of the moon the astronauts between a wide-angle lens and a longer focal length
highly sensitive to both heat and cold. The melting
weighed down by their protective suits weighed lens . The poor resolution of the video image left
rate of film is 150 degrees, but it is no surprise if you
roughly 60lbs where on Earth they would have ghost like traces whenever the astronauts passed in
were to leave a canister of film in your car for a few
weighed about 360lbs. When the astronauts front of or behind a brightly lit object and helped to
minutes in the summer that the film would become
attempted to jump they only made it about 3” off of dazzle the 600 million viewers that were watching
melted and useless. It is impossible for the film stock
the ground at a time, where they should have been the live broadcast. The images received by NASA
to have remained intact in the harsh conditions on the
able to jump 6 times as high as they could have here weren’t in fact actually live but were on a delay. They
moon's surface. On the moon’s surface the
on Earth. Secondly the dust kicked up by their boots were received by NASA from a satellite and were
temperature in the light can range up to 250 degrees
and the wheels of the Lunar Rover not only traveled converted from the 10 frame-per-second frame rate
and in the shade can drop to below 250 degrees.
an impossibly short distance and arced back down in to the American standard of 30fps (which consists of
Keeping film in a workable condition in this
an environment where there is supposedly 1/6 of the 60 alternating images). In an article entitled
environment would have been a trick indeed.
gravity of Earth and because of the lack of an Television from the Moon John Sarkissian explains
Besides the facts of extreme temperatures on the
atmosphere no air resistance. So how is this possible? the conversion process, “The pictures were displayed
moon’s surface there is also an incredible amount of
The answer is, Slow Motion. I could mimic the same on a 10 inch black-and-white monitor. A Vidicon
solar radiation, enough to kill a human being within
movements that were supposedly recorded on the camera was pointed at the screen and the pictures
minutes. Next time you go to the airport I advise you
surface of the moon, with very little effort. It only were scanned at the EIA (NTSC) standard… Each
to take a roll of exposed film with you and place it
takes running the camera at twice the normal speed frame was then replayed 5 times, before the next
into your luggage and have it run through a baggage
and playing it back normally to witness the same original frame was displayed, recorded and replayed.
X-ray machine. When you take this film to be
phenomena. In an article entitled MoonShadows: Did In this way, a 60 frames-per-second TV was
processed you will see what is called “fogging” of
We Really Go To The Moon In The Late 1960's and produced - with only one in six frames being live”
your images or depending on the intensity of the X-
Early 70's? James Beals says, “I have taken NASA (Sarkissian).
rays total destruction of the exposed images. Now I
video coverage of moon walking and the rover riding
ask you if a simple X-ray machine can destroy film
on the moon and speeded it up 1.8 to 2 times faster Continued on Page 5
on Earth what do you think would happen on the
then normal something very remarkable happens. All
surface of the moon? There is no possible way that
of a sudden everything looks 'normal'” (Beals 1997).
the shielding surrounding the 500EL camera’s could Make the world of tomorrow a better
It is evident in further Apollo missions that NASA
have stopped the extraordinary amount of radiation
had become aware of this anomaly and began place by making a difference today.
from entering the camera’s housing, especially from
attempting to correct the apparent movements of the
entering the glass 60mm Zeiss lens mounted on the
front of the camera. But the film stock seems to have
astronauts on the moon’s surface. The later Apollo Visit The People’s Advocate to
been unaffected by the intense peaks and powerful
missions showed astronauts running quickly on the make a difference
moon’s surface, apparently showing signs of the
cosmic radiation of the Moon, these conditions
should have made it useless.
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The technology used in the ‘live’ broadcast
Another example is the movements of the
of the Apollo 11 missions was a crude and grainy
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black-and-white image. The camera used was a
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LUNAR LANDING
CONSPIRACY
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Bart Sibrel, Investigative Journalist and
Filmmaker, was recently interviewed on the
Television special Conspiracy Theory: Did we Land
on the Moon? and is quoted as saying, “They had
one picture, which they completely controlled,
black-and-white, grainy, that convinced everyone
that we were on the moon. We had no reason to
doubt it. They had complete range over the pictures,
over the sounds, I mean that day it was easier than
people believe.” Was the poor image resolution an
example of 1960’s video technology? If so in the
next subsequent Apollo mission the image quality
had become drastically better. But why would the
Government choose an image that 1/5 of the world’s
population would witness to be purposefully grainy
and dark? The reason is that the first broadcast, was
witnessed by 600 million, would be open to the most
scrutiny. So Sibrel supposes that the Government
intentionally broadcasted a poor image so that
everyone seeing it would have to believe that it was
genuine. At the time there was no reason to doubt
what NASA showed us on that day wasn’t genuine.
The first landing was a pilot broadcast that
people were more inclined to accept. All subsequent
landings utilized more advanced broadcasting
technology. In The Wrong Stuff, an article written for
Wired Magazine, Rogier van Bakel wrote that, “The
advent of television, having reached worldwide
critical mass only years prior to the moon landing,
would prove instrumental to the fraud's success; in
this case, seeing really was believing. The magic of
satellites, with their ability to enable live global (and
interplanetary?) communication, fascinated and
awed millions of people” (Bakel 1994). The
Government from the landing of the Apollo missions
noticed an incredible boon to National Pride, but also
of faith in technology. Despite the flaws and
technological mistakes that were witnessed at the
time, America persevered and put a man on the
moon. Was it a coincidence that in the following
years after the last Apollo mission the corporate
computer industry would take off into previously
unconceivable technological areas? Or was this boon
to the economy all according to plan?
NASA utilized many methods of Social
Control specifically geared towards their television
campaign. One of these attributes is method of Status
Conferral. Status Conferral is explained as the
legitimizing of issues to the viewer because they
have been placed on television. The viewer assumes
since television production is a sophisticated
business and news reporting always focuses on the
truth that any issue given positive attention by the
media, is a positive issue. In Mass Communication,
Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action,
Lazarfeld and Merton explain that,
“The mass media bestow
prestige and enhance the authority of individuals and
groups by legitimizing their status.
Recognition by the press
or radio or magazines or newsreels testifies that one
has arrived, that one is important enough
to have been singled out
from the large anonymous masses, that one’s
behavior and opinions are significant enough to
require public notice”
(Lazarfeld; Merton: 561).
Since the Apollo moon landings acquired such
positive media coverage it is understandable why the
American Public wasn’t led to believe anything other
than the mass news feed. Everyone witnessed the
first steps on the Lunar surface, and no television
station covered anything but favorable press of the
incident. With no where else to turn the American
public sat and watched the moon landing and were
forced to believe. Today a visit to the NASA website
will flood you with thousands of images, documents,
video feeds, audio clips, but very little scientific data.
Of the experiments supposedly conducted on the
moon’s surface very little is available to the public.
Another function of the media as a mechanism
of Social Control is what is to referred to as the
Narcotizing Dysfunction. In a multimedia society
where we are constantly bombarded with information
at every turn we take on a passive role in politics.
This dysfunction separates us from the active and the
informed section of the populace. Lazarfeld and
Merton continue, “As an increasing meed of time is
devoted to reading and listening, a decreasing share
is available for organized action. The individual
reads accounts of issues and problems and may even
discuss alternative lines of action... he comes to
mistake knowing about problems of the day for doing
something about them” (Lazarfeld; Merton: 565-
566). This passive role we’ve taken comes from the
fact that we are hungry for information, and may
even argue points and hold long debates with friends.
In general we rarely become activists in any
particular movement. We prefer to be political
commentators in our own home and become
outraged ourselves when nothing is done to fix the
situation. It has been estimated that there could be as
many as 20% of the American population that do not
believe that we ever landed on the surface of the
moon. What is to account for the 30 years of relative
silence? Nothing, NASA still disputes much of the
evidence presented to them in the typical style of
politicians, by not addressing the question at all.
Brian Welch, NASA Spokesperson, was asked about
the mounds of photographic evidence that has piled
up against NASA’s claims in Conspiracy Theory: Did
we Land on the Moon?, and responded with this,
“There are a number of claims that the pictures taken
by Apollo astronauts were faked. There are so many
it would be an exercise in futility to go off and try to
answer all of those”. Instead of using his position in
a Scientific community to try and prove NASA’s
standpoint, he simply skirts the issue.
The Government and the media also used
Social Control in its methods of separating Social
Deviance from the Social Norms. The individuals
who did make the stand against NASA were branded
as “kooks” to the rest of society. The “kooks” were
guilty of violating the shared rule of conduct within
the established society, of not challenging the
authority of the Government. Why is it that some
people conform when others rebel? People conform
mainly due to the social pressures for acceptance and
make this compromise to live safely and peacefully
within the system. The Government appreciates this
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hive-mind mentality and seeks to enforce it. Others
can’t stand to remain passive when something is
obviously being to done to subvert them.
Why would the Government orchestrate a cover-
up to this magnitude? In 1961 JFK stunned the world
with his announcement that America would put a
man on the moon by the end of the decade. This
statement was taken as a relief of the pressures that
the successful Russian space program was causing in
America. It was greatly feared at the time that the
Russians may make it to the moon first and erect
nuclear silos to launch down on top of us. As we were
locked in a dead heat with the Russians during the
Cold War we were slowly slipping in the area Space
Exploration. They had already beaten us to the major
milestones accomplished in space and had logged
over 5 times the amount of manned hours in space
then we had. This was a War against Communism
and if the Russians appeared more powerful in the
area of technology than so did communism. We were
fighting for political dominance, and this wasn’t a
War we were prepared to lose. James Beals states, in
MoonShadows, “We couldn't just sit there and let
those communists in Russia make us look like second
rate runners up. We had to convince the world that we
were technologically more advanced... This was the
basis that prompted the US military and intelligence
to decide to also start faking some of our space
missions” (Beals 1997).
Was the study of Space and the subsequent
growth of military technology, and later corporate
satellite technology the only real boons in the
spending of research dollars? The US had 30 billion
dollars at stake in the Space Program. Admitting
failure could cause not only a civilian revolt but also
the view that the Russians had come out as the
winners of the Cold War. So the Government needed
to do something drastic to ensure our victory. They
figured that if it were technologically impossible at
the time for us to travel to the moon, then their best
course of action was to convince the rest of the world
and ourselves that we did. Our space program was
suffering utter defeats in even launching a rocket off
of the ground. Newsreel after newsreel showed
rockets firing into space and blowing up hardly after
lifting off from the launching pad. But we are
supposed to believe that NASA landed 6 successful
missions on the moon’s surface without incident. To
me this seems an awful leap of faith.
Why would the Government allow this topic to
invade the media recently? What has caused this
renewed interest in the hapless space program? I
have come to believe that my generation has become
the new target of the Government’s control. My
entire generation watched the Challenger Explosion
in school. We each witnessed and cried alongside our
teachers who had witnessed first hand the Apollo
moon landings and who were now shocked by the
tragedy. The years following showed a renewed
focus on Space exploration, it invade feature films,
television, and the new creation adopted by our
generation called MTV which symbol was an
astronaut on the moon’s surface holding a brightly
colored flag with the MTV logo on it. I’ve noticed an
interesting effect caused to my generation by the
Challenger tragedy- a renewed interest in the space
program as well as both a distrust of technology and
fascination with it. In the subsequent years we
experience firsthand the boom of computers in both
education and the business industry. We showed
signs of a new Narcotic Dysfunction- centered on the
Internet. We became vastly informed by the large
amounts of information available at our fingertips but
suprisingly inactive in any political movements. Few
of us follow a uniform religion, but almost every one
of us has a webpage.
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 6 Sky Toilet Myth
The Sky Toilet Myth - recognized one of the nine cadavers taken to her only satellites and global positioning technology can
class for dissection. It was her great aunt, who had achieve. And that level of precision, say state officials
True And Untrue Urban at one time discussed the merits of donating one's who have stamped the maps "confidential" and barred
body to medical science. their publication, is precisely the problem. Centuries of
Legends The Flying Lawn Chair - In 1982, Larry maritime history, they say, would be up for grabs by
Walters of Los Angeles soared thousands of feet in salvagers and collectors before the state -- which claims
By Buck Wolf the air on a lawn chair tethered to 45 weather ownership over everything on the river's bottom --
balloons. He got so high, he disrupted air traffic and could even know what was at risk.
was eventually fined $4,000 by the Federal Aviation "We don't want to ring the dinner bell for people
A woman on a flight from Scandinavia to
Administration. The 33-year-old Vietnam Veteran who have ulterior motives and don't behave
the United States had to be pried free by a rescue
purchased the chair from Sears, hoping to fly it 300 responsibly," said Mark Peckham, a historic
team after a high-pressure vacuum flush sealed her
miles from his home to the Mojave Desert. preservation coordinator at the New York State Office
to the toilet seat of a Boeing 767.
Pool Pervert - In 1994, a 33-year-old of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, which
At least that was the story in mid January,
Floridian man got his penis trapped in the suction led a team this month to begin assessing the first of the
when it was featured in dozens of newspapers, Web
hole of a public swimming pool while apparently sites. State officials allowed a reporter and photographer
sites, and TV reports. According to Reuters, the
seeking sexual pleasure. Paramedics shut off the to see the maps and accompany the research team on the
unnamed woman had filed a complaint with
pool's pump, but the man's penis had become condition that specific depths of the wrecks and other
Scandinavian Airlines System.
extremely swollen. They struggled for more than 40 clues about their locations not be published.
"She could not get up by herself and had to
minutes to pry him loose. After lubricating the "These are important resources for
sit on the toilet until the flight had landed so that
suction fitting, the man was taken to Lakeland understanding New York's history, and we really need to
ground technicians could help her get loose," an
Regional Medical Center. do the responsible thing," Peckham said.
airline spokeswoman said. "She was stuck there for
What a Dord! - For five years, Webster's Some of the images are definitely hull-shaped;
quite a long time."
New International Dictionary mistakenly included others are simply vague rectangular or oval lumps,
Only days later, the story turned out to be
an entry for "dord," a nonexistent word. In the mid entombed by decades or centuries of mud. Of the
untrue. The airline claimed it mixed up a fictional
1930s, Dord could be found on page 771, nestled handful that have been tested so far for metallic content
exercise from staff training with the real thing. No
between Dorcopsis (a type of small kangaroo) and using a towed magnetometer, some have indicated the
woman ever filed such a complaint.
dor (golden in color), It was defined as "density." likely presence of an engine; others -- perhaps the oldest
But the "Sky Toilet" story won't die that
Funhouse Funeral - A prop corpse hanging of the old -- show almost no metal.
easily. It's likely to live on as an urban legend that
in a Long Beach, Calif., funhouse turned out to be "This is like going into your grandmother's
will haunt gullible air travelers for years to come -
the real remains of an outlaw. In 1976, scenes for attic, which you thought was full of junk, and finding
just like the tale of the tourist who was drugged by
the hit TV show The Six Million Dollar Man were it's actually a museum," said Dr. Robin Bell, a senior
organ thieves and woke up with both kidneys
being shot at the Nu-Pike Amusement Park. When a research scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-
missing. Great story. Never happened.
production worker moved the fun house "hanging Doherty Earth Observatory who has led the mapping
But many urban legends are true - or at
man," the prop's arm came off. Inside was human team.
least "based on a true story," as they say in
bone - the remains of train robber Elmer McCurdy. Archaeologists say that while many of the
Hollywood. Here's a bone chilling story that's
Pure As Ivory - Early in her career, porn wrecks probably have little historic significance --
undeniably true: On the day that American Airlines
queen Marilyn Chambers appeared on Ivory Snow several overturned barges, for example, have already
Flight 587 crashed in New York, both of New
boxes, holding a baby. As her screen legend grew, been identified by their distinctive outline --the
Jersey's winning Pick 3 lottery combinations
Ivory sought out a cover girl that better reflected its likelihood is high that the river will yield at least a few
included the numbers 5, 8, and 7. The morning
image of 99 44/100% purity. long-held secrets.
drawing was 5-7-8. The later drawing was 5-8-7.
You might not believe everything on What appears to be a largely intact 19th century
"Urban legends are not the same thing as
Mikkelson's site. It's always best to get your sailing sloop -- something that historians and sailors
fictional tales," says Barbara Mikkelson of Agoura
information straight from the horse's mouth, unless, have hungered after for years and never found -- has
Hills, Calif., who runs www.snopes.com, one of the
of course, if that horse is the famous Mr. Ed. - who been located in Haverstraw Bay, about 35 miles north of
leading Web site that investigates urban legends.
has been rumored to be a zebra. [End] Manhattan, for instance, and the suspected remains of a
"A story becomes a legend when it is
half-dozen Revolutionary War vessels scuttled in 1777
circulated widely and regarded as the truth.
have been tentatively identified farther north. (Page10)
Whether they actually occurred or not is Sonar reveals centuries of
irrelevent."
Some classic legends are completely false shipwrecks But N.Y. keeping
(The brassiere was invented by Otto Titzlinger).
Others have a basis in fact (Coca-Cola once
maps secret LUNAR LANDING
contained cocaine). CONSPIRACY
And the stories change with the time. Kirk Johnson, New York Times Continues from Page 5
Snapple was once said to be owned by the KKK,
now it is rumored to be run by Osama bin Laden.
Nyack, N.Y. -- Scientists mapping the What we have been led to believe is untrue. The
"When you look into legends, you see that
bottom of the Hudson River with sonar say they Government has knowingly withheld the truth of the
they tell us a lot about our fears and obsessions"
have found nearly every single ship that ever Apollo space missions from us and has instead given us
said Mikkelson. "That's why they make for good
foundered in the river over the past 400 years or a network of still images and video footage that do not
storytelling."
more. Not just some of them, or most of them, but - depict the situations they were supposedly filmed under.
With the help of Snopes.com's terrific
- astonishingly -- all of them, except for a few that The reasons for such a cover-up are all conjecture; it is
database of some 1,500 urban legends, here are
may have been disturbed by dredging. nearly impossible to make a concrete statement either
some strange but true tales. You may have heard
The ghostly images provide a record of way in this situation. One thing is perfectly clear, that a
variations that have fictional embellishments. At
collisions and carelessness and storm-tossed fate -- doubt resides in the hearts of the American people. It
least this much is for real:
most of it previously unrecorded and utterly hasn’t been proven to us beyond a reasonable doubt that
unknown -- from the days of sail and steam through we’ve ever reached the surface of the moon. If this hoax
True Urban Legends the diesel tugs and tankers on the river today. was orchestrated in an attempt to put an end to the Cold
Altogether, more than 200 possible wrecks, spread War than it can be construed as a noble gesture. And the
The Leaping Lawyer - A lawyer out over 140 miles from the southern tip of words on the Apollo plaque, “We came in peace for all
demonstrating the safety of windows in a Toronto Manhattan to Troy, have been identified. mankind” could have contained another meaning
skyscraper deliberately crashed through a pane of But don't ask where the wrecks are. It's a altogether.
glass and plunged to his death. Garry Hoy, 38, fell state secret.
from the 24th floor of the Toronto Dominion Bank The sonar maps are the unexpected Regardless of the motives behind the action it is
Tower in 1993 as horrified witnesses watched. byproduct of a state-financed project to map the clear that the Government publicized every detail of the
The Accidental Video Porn Star - In 1986, river's bottom for habitat and pollution-abatement Space Program and aimed at the growth of nationalism,
the sheriff of Council Grove, Kansas, (population studies, and because of the thoroughness of the technological faith and political strength. In order to
2,300) accidentally returned an erotic video of him research mandate -- every square foot of river fulfill this goal NASA has falsified scientific data and
and his wife having sex to his local rental store. deeper than 6 feet was scanned -- scientists feel released doctored photos to the press. The Government
Soon, everyone in town seemed to have a copy. confident that they missed almost nothing. used the media to cover the Apollo missions as a
Cadaver Kin - In 1982, A student at the But the sonar maps do not just locate the method for Social Control, and have lied to us about it.
University of Alabama School of Medicine wrecks. They pinpoint them with the accuracy that [end]
 Awakening Your Intuition 7
Awakening Your Intuition via
the Internet
By Barbara Robins
I have been practicing Yuen Energetics
healing online for over a year so this was not my first
foray into internet communications. That story began
8 years ago. At that time I had no idea the internet
would be a training ground for my intuitive abilities.
In early 1994 my children and I got our first
computer. This was when the internet was in its
infancy and was experienced mainly through portals
like Compuserve or AOL. Even at this time, though,
people were using the internet to communicate in
real-time with others all over the world. So one
evening, while exploring all the facets of this new
toy, I decided to check out America Online and its
chat facilities. The chat area seemed to be set up like
a hotel. First you would go into the "Lobby" where
some people would hang out. From there you could
look at a list of rooms that were available to go to,
sort of like the list in a real hotel that tells you Josh
Cohen's Bar Mitzvah is in the Mediterranean room
or the Henderson-Clark wedding is in the Aster
Ballroom. I found a wonderful chat room where
people of my age group would rendezvous. This was
a great discovery for me because it was a way to
have a conversation with someone after I put the kids
to bed at the end of a long, difficult day.
In addition to the support I got from these
new friends, they were also a very entertaining
group. It was as if we enacted plays every night that
we were writing on the spot. What I remember most
were the hot tub parties. We'd be hanging around in
the room, talking and laughing and telling jokes
when someone would "go turn on the hot tub." We'd
all go "put on our bathing suits" and get in the hot
tub. Someone would bring out champagne and
chocolate covered strawberries or some other food,
which we would pretend to munch on as we relaxed
in the hot tub. "Hmmm, these strawberries are
particularly good tonight." Or, "Ah, cheese and
crackers! I haven't had dinner yet. This is great." You
could almost hear the sound of the water and the
noise of the conversations. Or picture everyone in
the hot tub splashing water on the deck that you
would have to be careful not to slip on when you got
out to go get a towel or the next round of drinks.
One evening I sat down, signed on to AOL,
and went into my favorite room only to be greeted
with total silence. Stunned, I checked to make sure
the sound was working on my computer. Yes,
everything was checking out. The speakers worked,
the volume was turned up, but still no sound. Then I
checked the America Online chat room preferences
to make sure the sound was on there too but there
was no sound control for AOL. It was then I realized
I wasn't hearing any sound from the people in the
chat room because there never was any sound from
these people. The noise of the conversation and the
splashing water was only in my head. It really
shocked me to realize I had gotten so involved in this
hot tub party event that I had actually heard sounds.
Fast forward six years to 2000. During this
period I had noticed on several occasions that I could
sense subtle, unspoken feelings in people while
reading their email or speaking with them in a chat
room. I had also noticed this occurred occasionally
when speaking with people in person, but had not
given it much thought. Then I received an email in
reply to some questions I had sent a company. When
I opened it I jerked back in surprise to see a fist
leaping out of the screen at me. Shaken up a bit I
decided to reply with an apology for having
unwittingly generated such negative feelings in this
woman. I received a quick reply from her saying that
there were no negative feelings and wondering
where I had gotten such an idea. I then wrote back,
explaining about the fist I had seen. The perplexed
reply was not long in coming, "I am having some
difficulties in my personal life. How could you have
picked up on that?" At that time I really couldn't
answer her since I didn't have any idea myself what
was going on. As a general rule, if I approached
someone with a concern which sprang from these
perceptions they would tell me I was wrong, that I Want to Reach Your
was reading into the situation something that wasn't
there. So I had always thought there was something Maximum Potential?
wrong with me.
In the fall of 2001 I took my first Yuen Discover how proven Qi Gong methods
Energetics workshop. What an enlightening combined with cutting edge knowledge
experience! I wasn't nuts after all! What I had been from biochemistry, physiology, quantum
sensing in people all along was right on the money. physics and kinesiology can promote
Who knew?! It seems the chat room interactions I
instant healing.
had been having had allowed a sensitivity to develop
in me similar to how a blind or deaf person develops
some other sense to compensate for the one that is
s Alleviate Pain Faster
.and More Permanently
missing. A chat room provides you neither the sound
nor the body language content that we enjoy in face- .than Any Other Method
to-face communication-all you have is the written
word. But chat seems completely different from
reading a letter since you are actively conversing
s Resolve Emotional Issues
rather than reading a one way conversation written s Enhance Relationships
days earlier. In a chat room it's important to quickly
decipher what someone's intent is in what they're s Achieve Your Goals
saying since you are responding to them in real-time.
Let's consider some of the concrete visual
clues and the subtle intuitive sensings you can get
from people when chatting with them on the internet.
There are some very obvious clues people
give about their nature. Over the internet all you have
is what is written so you do what you can with the
written word to convey something about yourself.
The first is your screenname. Someone who
calls themselves Harmony or CoolnGentleBreeze is "...Yuen Energetics is the most powerful
energy work I have seen to help heal
most likely a calmer, happier person than one who
and release things from the physical body.
calls themselves GetNRdy2Scream or
The results are immediate..."
DeathToHappyFace. By the way, those are actual
Bill, Denver CO
screennames.
Then there is the choice of font and font
color. Look at these two examples: "... I had been experiencing anxiety attacks
Hi. What is this room all about? for almost 6 years, was depressed, and in
Hi. What is this room all about? an extreme amount of pain from a surgery
What do you think the difference in that I had recently...I can honestly say that I
personalities is between someone using green script
have not had an anxiety attack since the
and someone else using bold red? Who would you
think has the stronger personality? session, my pain has been greatly reduced,
and my depression has lifted like blinders
Then there is the pacing used to talk/respond.
being removed from my eyes..."
Some people say something immediately upon
Michelle
entering a room and then continue to be talkative.
Others sit and watch the conversation for awhile
before even saying hello. Some don't say anything at
all. Each of those styles can mean different things.
So, someone who comes in the room and just
watches the chat could either just be curious about
what's going on or they could be depressed or maybe
just tired, etc. Being quiet is not enough to get an
accurate impression about someone. But if after
awhile the quiet one says something and they use the QuantumEmed
above green script or the above red bold that would
begin to give you a sense of their personality. Restoring the Balanced Flow of Energy
The way people phrase their sentences can In person • On phone • Via internet
be a give away as well. Look at these examples as a
For more information on Energy Healing
response to the question "How are you today?":
visit us on the Internet at
I'm great, How are you?
I'm ok.
Well, I'm still alive.
Each response reveals a very different
www.QuantumEmed.com
feeling each respondent has at that moment. As
healers we want to be aware of these differences. or Contact:
(Continued on Page 10)
Barbara Robins
847-566-6559
Discover your world of tomorrow - TODAY! QuantumEmed@aol.com
The Psychic Universe Shelley Radja
773-802-8167
www.thepsychicuniverse.com RadHealer@aol.com
 8 UFO Abduction Photos?

Photo 1

Rocks from an Alien

Abduction or Rocks that
“Fell from the Head”?
The photos were sent to THE ‘X’
CHRONICLES after they were circulated on a
number of websites apparently from Felipe Castelo
Branco, of which he claims to be proof of an alien
abduction approximately 1300 kilometers from Rio
de Janerio, Brazil. Why aliens would want to go to
Brazil is beyond me.
According to Branco, he was present at the
Photo 2
farm when the abduction took place along with 28
other people on the farm who allegedly also
witnessed this spectacular event.
According to Branco, a big “disc of light”,
which according to him was about 50 meters in
diameter, hovered silently above the farm house at an
estimated height of 100 meters. The disc suddenly
shot down a bluish beam of light on the house and
abducted an unidentified male occupant who was
lying on his bed. (see Photo 2)
According to Branco, when they broke into
the abductee’s bedroom, there was an intense odor of
“ozone” and all the witnesses were amazed and
stunned by the phenomena.
The abduction took place at 8 p.m.
The abductee returned 48 hours later and
allegedly had a lot to say about his abduction
experience, which, according to Branco, was his
third.
Branco claims that his Brazilian UFO Group
has been studying UFO activity and abductions in
this area of Brazil for the past six years.
However, there are those who do not share
Branco’s enthusiasm.
Derrell W. Sims, well known and respected Photo 3 - This photo is supposed to be of
member of the UFO / Alien Abduction community,
who, along with Dr. Roger Leir pioneered the Alien the ceiling area over the bed where the
Implant Field calls this so-called abduction “a unidentified abducted was taken.
crock.!”
Although there have been no forensic tests
Sims said, “I do not believe this story. What
a crock!. I have 2 or 3 of the so-called UFO rocks (in on the ceiling marks, Branco would like
my implants display box). What a crock.” everyone to believe that these were caused
Sims went on to say, “Those same, identical
rocks were given to me in Curitiba, Brazil, by a man by the bluish beam from the UFO during
and wife. It seems that if one investigator won’t bite, the transport of the abductee.
they look for another.”
There are several questions that still remain had been going to since this was is third abduction? where fraud and deceit are very common and the
unanswered in this case. It’s reassuring to see people like Derrell W ethics of those participating should be investigated,
Now, if this had happened in Canada or the Sims are still out there keeping the loonies in check and the charlatans exposed for the con-artists that
United States, we would have subjected the and reminding one and all that we must consider all they are.
witnesses to a polygraph and intense questioning, as sides of a matter, or as the phrase now goes, “look If you believe that you have been the victim
was the case with Travis Walton. from outside the box”, to keep a rational aspect to all of a hoax, fraud, rip-off artist or scam in the world of
Why has the abductee who was missing for the smoke and mirrors that some of the want to be the paranormal, please let us know and we will be
48 hours remained “unidentified?” UFO researchers and investigators use as ploys to get glad to investigate the matter.
What is his background? After all, wouldn’t the attention that they so desperately seek. Visit www.xzone-radio.com/ripoffs_scams or send us
investigators not only from Brazilian UFO groups Ufology is not unlike ghost hunting, and an e-mail to ripoffs@xzone-radio.com. It’s these people who
but the Brazilian authorities want to know where he other realms within the world of the paranormal sensationalize for self profit who are suppress the truth! [End]
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 10 The Church of Tom Jones
Pastor Jack,
Spirituality & The Tom
Jones Connection
Pastor Jack J. Stahl, D.D.
In 1969, when he was 6 years old, "This is
Tom Jones" first aired on television. Every week he
would sit in front of the TV hypnotized by what the
good Reverend calls, “this gyrating God.” he claims
that Jones' voice made him feel as if he was
surrounded by angels. It is a feeling that he still
experience stoday. Pastor Jack says, “it is a inner
peace not easy to describe. It is spiritual. Considering
Tom Jones was responsible for my spiritual
awakening as a child, it is only natural for me to
incorporate him into my ministry as an adult.”
Today, Pastor Jack, whose real name is Jack
J. Stahl, D.D. is the leader of the Progressive
Universal Life Church in Sacramento, CA.. While
doing his spiritual work, he always listens to “the
angelic voice” of singer Tom Jones. Pastpr Jack
performs sermons, marriages, baptisms, funerals &
exorcisms with the aid of Jones' music. Pastpor Jack
also dresses up & dances like Tom Jones during
church services. He travels around the country
leading prayer meetings & healing services with the
help of the Welsh superstar's “beautiful voice playing
softly in the background.”
Why? According to the good Pastor, “his
voice enables me to get in touch with the holy spirit.
I don't know exactlty how it works, I only know it
does. It has nothing to do with the lyrics of a
particular song...it has everything to do with the
voice. Tom Jones is the ‘God of Voice.’”
Pastor Jack has attended more than 150 Tom
Jones concerts, and for him, it is a very spiritual
experience.
Pastor Jack adds, “The stage is indeed Tom
Jones' ministry.”
The Progressive Universal Life Church
(www.pulc.com) is a worldwide healing organization
ministering peace, love & abundant life. We are an
inter-faith ministry allowing individuals to become
ordained ministers to share their faith, & offering
degree & diploma programs to help you in your
spiritual journey. The PULC has ordained more than
80,000 people from all religious faiths & all parts of
the world.
Pastor Jack can be contacted at
PASTORJACKradio@aol.com. [End]
Awakening Your Intuition via country, historians and maritime experts do not
expect any lost chests of doubloons. The ships of the
the Internet Hudson were the working stiffs of their day, and even
Continued from Page 7
after New York became the nation's busiest port in
the mid- 1800s, the river's cargo was predominantly
still the stuff of workaday capitalism: coal, furs,
wood and iron. Many of the boats that sank were
Many healers can sense the engery state of
never even recorded, except perhaps on some
their subject. They can determine whether or not the
merchant's ledger sheet. But some experts say that
person they are communicating with is an energy
that humble portrait of ordinary life is perhaps the
vampire, sucking everyone's energy into their own
real potential value of the data.
black hole or a giver of peace and love. This
People should not expect haunting
determination can be made whether you are talking
photographs, like the ones made famous at sites of
with them in person, on the phone or via the internet.
deep-ocean wrecks like the Titanic, because for much
People have reported that when they come into my
of the time, in much of the Hudson, the visibility is
chat room they instantly feel good. A good friend
only about 2 inches due to concentrations of marine
who frequents my chat room regularly can sense
life and mud. On an unusually pristine day, a diver
upon coming in if the room is having a good peaceful
might be able to see to the end of his or her arm --
day or if it is chaotic. She can feel the energy
never farther.
differences.
That is also, perhaps, why many of the
People ask me all the time "How can you
wrecks have not been found, even ones that sank in
heal over the internet?" I tell them it's no different
water only 30 to 40 feet deep. Fast currents and
than in person. Connecting with someone via the
heavy river traffic also make diving or salvage work
internet, on the phone, in person, or any other way is
at the sites treacherous -- another fact that worries
possible because we are energy beings and we are
state officials, who say that publishing the locations
connected to other energy beings out side of time and
could attract recreational divers who are not familiar
space. We resonate with others no matter where they
with the river and its dangers.
are. This is the quantum physics principle of Non-
Figuring out what is best for science is not so
Locality of Events, which means that the energetic
easy either. Bell of the mapping team said state
forces at work during a distance energy session can
officials first suggested she leave the spaces blank
create effects at a remote location simultaneously
where the wreck sites were found. But blank spots on
with the intention at the source point. Energy does
maps otherwise filled with numbers about depths and
not have to "travel" a specific distance away. It is
sediment would probably be seen as a signal that
capable of bringing about a resonant effect
something had turned up, she said. It was then
instantaneously at the point of reception.
suggested that numbers be made up to fill the blank
Chat room communicating is a good way to
spaces.
develop your intuitive sensing because most of the
"As a scientist, that really gave me the
clues you usually have about a person are gone so if
heebie-jeebies," she said. "You don't make up
you are going to have a sense of someone it most
numbers."
likely is going to come through your intuition. For
So for now, the publication of the maps is
the healer-in-training this is an outstanding way to
suspended, though state officials say that their goal is
hone your skills because in a very short time you
to open all the documents to the public eventually.
have the opportunity to meet numerous people with a
[End]
myriad of differences. I know that without the
internet I would not be as far along in my healing
abilities as I am now. Mystery Hole In Lake Ice
Mark Greenia. Living From the Heart:
Exploring Subtle Energy in the New Millennium, Baffling Folks North Of
2002 Unlimited Publishing, LLC Brainerd
©Barbara Robins 2002. All rights reserved.
Months after a Hollywood flick about those
Barbara can be reached at QuantumEMed@aol.com
controversial and mysterious crop circles earned a
or www.QuantumEMed.com
couple hundred million dollars in the United States, a
black hole in the ice of a lake near Brainerd has
Sonar reveals centuries of authorities scratching their heads.
The hole was first spotted last February on
shipwrecks But N.Y. keeping North Long Lake just north of the central Minnesota
resort city and immediately caught the imagination of
maps secret folks in the area, quickly becoming a source of
speculation, conversation and concern.
The Brainerd Dispatch wrote about the hole
Continued from Page 6 late last week, summing up the questions in the area:
"What caused the hole to appear? Distant
The surveys have also turned up more earthquakes? New thermal springs on the lake
mysterious structures, including A SERIES OF bottom? Sabotage by unknown enemies?"
SUBMERGED WALLS MORE THAN 900 FEET The area watershed district has since spent
LONG THAT SCIENTISTS SAY ARE CLEARLY $4,000 trying to figure out what's causing the hole,
OF HUMAN CONSTRUCTION. They say the walls but has yet to find an answer.
are probably AT LEAST 3,000 YEARS OLD, While the hole has caused tongue-in-cheek
because that was the last time the river's water levels talk similar to that of the crop circles, it also has
were low enough to have allowed construction on dry proven deadly.
land. The Dispatch reports that as many as a dozen
"I think there are going to be really riders of all-terrain vehicles and anowmobiles have
significant findings," said Warren Riess, a research gone into the water at the hole, and at least one of
associate professor of history and marine sciences at them has died.
the University of Maine who has been asked by the Signs warning of the hole have been erected
state to help assess the sites. "A lot will be around the lake and at public access points.
uninteresting too, but that's OK. That's science."
Because the Hudson was never much of a Continued on Page 12
pirates' nest or a conduit to gold and silver mining

Sure, there's an explanation
for everything, but don't tell
me
By Jeff Daniel
In college, one of my closest pals earned his
doctorate in philosophy while I somehow managed
to avoid taking a single course in that subject. An
amazing feat, especially when one considers that my
university stint had a longer run than the musical
"Cats."
But the slighting was no mere oversight. I
simply had no desire to engage in heady
rationalizations or investigations into the causes and
laws underlying reality. Do too much of that? You
risk sapping all the fun and sense of mystery from
life. Some things, I explained to myself, are best left
unexplained.
It's a philosophy I adhere to to this day.
Which might help to explain my sense of
sadness after the death of Ray Wallace late last
month. The retired construction worker succumbed
to heart failure outside Seattle. That in itself is reason
enough to be sad. But then there was the revelation
in early December from his family:
"Bigfoot," said son Michael Wallace, "just
died."
That's Bigfoot with a capital B. Bigfoot as in
Sasquatch, the woolly missing link that has long
captured the American imagination while avoiding
its own capture. According to the Wallace family, it
was Ray's 1958 prank - the creation of footprints
using man-made, 16-inch-long plywood cutouts -
that put the Bigfoot legend on the national radar.
In 1977, Wallace added to the myth by
donning a hairy suit (would that technically be a
hirsute?) and having a friend capture his loping gate
on grainy, 16 mm film.
The unexplained, in this case, had now been
explained.
But had it? True believers were quick to
point out that the Sasquatch legend has been part of
American Indian lore for centuries. Then there is the
Abominable Snowman, or Yeti, that has long been
viewed as a Bigfoot first cousin. And lest we forget
Momo, our own furry friend that created a stir in
Louisiana, Mo., back in the early '70s. Wallace may
have given Bigfoot a helping hand, but there's plenty
of other non-Wallacian moments that remain
unexplained.
And I, for one, hope they stay that way.
Not that such hope necessarily indicates a
certain sense of belief. Is Bigfoot really out there in
the darkness hunting and foraging? Maybe, maybe
not. Have aliens visited our planet and abducted
human beings as a part of their field research?
Possibly. Are crop circles created by a mysterious
entity that goes well beyond any sophisticated
pranksters? Could be.
There are those who would answer yes, yes
and yes to the above questions, and I have no
problem with them, just as I respect those who stomp
their foot - a small one, no doubt - with a resounding
"No!" to such conjecture. As for me, any absolute
answers would dilute that sense of fun and mystery
that I mentioned earlier. It's the sense of not
knowing, of being kept somewhat in the dark, that
keeps us fans of the unexplained coming back for
more. Sometimes, an answer is the last thing we
really want or need.
All our childhood, we are told to "know this"
and to "learn that." We are given puzzles to solve and
riddles to decipher and tests to sweat through. As we
struggle through adulthood, we become ever more
consumed with uncovering the purpose of our lives
and pondering the meaning of our very existence. In
light of all that, a fascination with the paranormal
and the bizarre - of things that defy proper
Bigfoot
explanation - seems not only natural, but necessary.
Ray Wallace and his Bigfoot may both be
dead now, but smart money says that the myth will
remain alive. That, I'd argue, is something to be
happy about, to celebrate. We should treat the
unexplained as a welcome gift rather than a nagging
problem.
Speaking of gifts, Santa will be arriving with
a sack full of them in just a few days. I once heard a
rumor that old St. Nick himself is an invention, a
piece of folklore along the lines of Ray Wallace's
Bigfoot. Just goes to show you:
There are real nut cases spouting off some
wacko philosophies out there. [End]
Creation of a state monster
By Jean Godden
Earlier this month, the family of the late Ray
L. Wallace revealed that Bigfoot ‹ the Northwest's
own abominable snowman, its native Sasquatch ‹
was a hoax. Michael Wallace said his dad, who died
Nov. 26 in Centralia, planted giant footprints,
supposed evidence of Bigfoot's existence.
At that time ‹ it was 1958 ‹ some experts
suspected the tracks were bogus. But the Wallace
family didn't admit the deed until a couple of weeks
ago. Mr. Wallace's nephew Dale Lee Wallace still has
the 16-inch, alder-wood feet Mr. Wallace used to
create the legend.
Ah, but there's more to the story. Seattle
resident Caroline Feiss recalls that, years later, in the
1970s, there were stories about people hunting for
Bigfoot. She says, "A group of us (state employees
working in Olympia) decided it was an excuse to get
together, drink some wine and concoct fun. We
created the Northwest League for the Protection of
Sasquatch.
"We decided Bigfoot needed legal
protection, first under the state and then under the
Endangered Species Act. The first was easy. Jim
Dolliver (future state Supreme Court justice) and
Ralph Munro (future secretary of state) helped create
a proclamation declaring the Sasquatch to be the
Washington state monster. The proclamation was
read on the Capitol steps with a band, crowds of
people and great speeches."
But when trying to have Bigfoot covered
under the Endangered Species Act, league members
hit a snag. The law required a skeleton. Says Feiss,
"That proved our undoing. The Northwest League
disbanded soon afterwards."
Nevertheless, Bigfoot still is the state
monster. And barring official action, in this state at
least, Ray Wallace's legacy lives. [End]
Bigfoot Isn't Dead -- Just
Living In Australia
CANBERRA, Australia (Wireless Flash) --
Although the recent death of alleged Bigfoot hoaxer
Ray Wallace has many Americans declaring the hairy
creature dead, some Australian buffs say he's alive
and kicking in Oz.
One researcher, who calls himself "Tim the
Yowie Man," says that "Yowies" -- which is what
they call Bigfoot down under -- have been common
for thousands of years, especially the last 20 years.
In fact, the Yowie Man insists that the best
film of Bigfoot that exists was taken in Australia two
years ago by businessman Steve Piper in the
Australian Snowy Mountains.
The film footage has been viewed in detail
by all sorts of experts since then, and the Yowie Man
says no one has been able to prove it's fake.
He figures further research of the footage
will debunk any "Bigfoot is dead" disbelievers and
add to the growing evidence that hundreds of hairy
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creatures are currently roaming throughout the
Australian outback. [End]
Mysterious webs drop from
the skies
By Michael A. Smith
The Daily News
Was it part of nature’s enigmatic web, or part
of a sinister web of conspiracy in the black-
helicopter, secret-mass-experiment vein?
Hard to say, but one thing seems clear: The
skies over Galveston County on Friday were literally
filled with floating, shimmering strands and fuzzy,
luminescent wads that looked a lot like spider webs.
Lorenzo DeLacerta saw them about noon
when he delivered building material to a site a mile
east of the San Louis Pass Bridge.
“It blew my mind,” DeLacerta said. “I have
never seen anything like it before.” Others on the site
saw them, too, he said, but their minds were not
blown. They were like ‘Yeah?’ They didn’t seem to
think much about it.”
Lorenzo called his sister, Gloria, who saw
the same thing in the sky over La Marque. She called
The Daily News where a half dozen skeptical news
people were forced to admit that there was, indeed,
under way a slow, steady parade of slender web-like
strands, some near the ground, some way up where
the airliners ply.
The webs were visible in the air for five
hours, and poles were left wrapped with the sticky
strands and fuzzy wads. So what were they? Official
sky-web sources seem scarce. A spokesman at the
National Weather Service Office in League City said
the service had received no reports of flying webs,
and that flying webs weren’t really their thing.
The phenomenon has occurred in at least two
other places. The Associated Press reported Oct. 8
that “long, floating spider webs” were “bobbing
through the skies of Santa Cruz, Calif., … confusing
some community members concerned about
biological weapons, UFOs and other phenomena.”
And the Wallowa Chieftain in Oregon
reported on Dec. 22, 2000, the sightings of “web-like
material … falling from the sky” that some locals
thought came “from three military jets that had been
flying back and forth in an east-west flight pattern at
high altitude.”
A University of Wyoming microbiology
professor quoted in the AP story attributed the Santa
Cruz webs to a seasonal migration of hatchling
spiders leaving their nests. The professor, who did
not return messages left at his home and office, said
it was not uncommon to see “dozens” of webs
floating across the plains of Wyoming.
But observers here were not reporting dozens
of webs, but hundreds of thousands. One
explanation, of sorts, can be found on the World
Wide Web, where scores of people are convinced that
the webs are man-made and may be part of a sinister
conspiracy. Like a lot of web-based topics, exactly
what is the man-made material and the conspiracy’s
goal is a little murky.
Some posts say the webs appear on days
when strange condensation trails, like those from jet
airplanes, also occur. Was Galveston County visited
by a mundane migration of arachnids or something
else?
Lorenzo DeLacerta, who spent Friday
contemplating the webs, does not know what they
were, but he says he’s sure of one thing. “I have never
seen anything like this before. I have seen spiders
floating on webs before, but I have never seen this.”
[End]
 12 A Legend Dies?
Bigfoot, We Hardly Knew Ye
A Legend Dies?
J. Scott Wilson , Staff Writer
Having recently finished "American Gods,"
Neil Gaiman's incredible tale of gods of the old
world meeting the gods of the new, my mind of late
has been turning around some of our own American
mythos and beliefs. Except for the tribal beliefs of
the American Indians, many of which go back
millennia, we're simply not "old" enough to have
much in the way of an entrenched pantheon.
Of course, there are regional legends -- the
h'aints of the Smoky Mountains, the tales told in the
Louisiana swamps and even the mythical reports of
Michael Jackson appearing as a normal human being
in California. But when it comes to a nationwide
mythos, we just don't have many components.
And then we go and kill off one of the few
we DO have.
The legend of Bigfoot has captured the
national imagination for decades. The furry fellow
has appeared in movies, and even in a memorable (to
those of us obsessed with late-night TV) two-part
episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man."
Recently, however, after the death of
Washington state resident Ray Wallace, the legend
has taken what just might be a fatal blow.
Wallace, you see, claimed to his family to
have invented the entire Bigfoot legend by having a
friend carve a pair of gigantic feet, then using them
to walk around and create huge tracks on the ground
at his California construction company back in 1958.
As proof, his family exhibited what they say
was the original set of "feet," and a smaller set used
to mimic a "Lady Bigfoot."
Cliff Lebrecque, however, is a Bigfoot true
believer, and he's not taking the Wallace family story
lying down. He claims to have seen, and even
filmed, the giant primate, and that it was not a man
in a monkey suit.
Lebrecque says he's got thousands of
Bigfoot artifacts, and he plans to put them on touring
display next year after he retires.
Even the realms of academe contain a few
true believers. Idaho State University professor Jeff
Meldrum said accounts of something like Bigfoot go
back to the 19th century.
Whether Wallace invented Bigfoot, or just
intensified a legend that already existed, what's the
harm in believing? What's more fun: a walk in the
woods, or a trek through what might be the territory
of a large, furry evolutionary castoff who might have
designs on your carefully packed granola snacks?
I say, go out to your local patch of woods
this week, between all your holiday shindigs, and
look for tufts of hair, disturbed leaves, or any sort of
evidence that a hairy critter with Shaq-size feet has
been padding around. Believe! [End]
Sagebrush Ape: Yes, Virginia,
there is a Bigfoot
By Heidi Walters
Oh, the arrogance--the report on National
Public Radio the other day, that is, that Bigfoot is
dead. The story said that because the man who
created some pretty elaborate hoaxes back in 1958,
Ray L. Wallace, had died, so too had Bigfoot
departed.
Silly NPR, don't they know the difference
between a hoax and a legend? Wallace may indeed
have strapped 16-inch "feet" on his shoes and hulked
around leaving tracks to baffle humans, but he didn't
create the creature. He was just another perpetuator
of the legend--a Sasquatch medium, so to speak.
So was my grandpa. He told Bigfoot stories.
He and my grandma lived on the California-Oregon
border, in the very thick of the woods where many
Bigfoot "sightings" had been reported. So it's
possible Grandpa was influenced by Wallace's wild
claims. But maybe he knew something more.
Besides, Grandpa's stories were irrefutable. Oh, there
were some we wondered about, like the "Your dad
and I painted Red Rock when he was just a boy"
story. But mostly his stories were so good I couldn't
help but believe them. And I got the impression he'd
had the Bigfoot stories cooking in his brain for a long
time.
I learned some key things from these stories.
For instance, snuff is the only thing that will keep
Bigfoot away. Maybe Grandpa had simply heard the
story about a man on Vancouver Island who claimed
to have been dragged away in his sleeping bag back
in 1924 and brought to a Bigfoot camp. The man
eventually escaped when papa Bigfoot ate too much
of his snuff and collapsed. At any rate, it was
comforting to know that Grandpa had plenty of snuff
at hand in case we needed it. Another thing I learned
was that Bigfoot always seemed to have dragged
some dozing kid off in her sleeping bag just days
before my sisters and I were flinging our bags out in
our grandparents' damp yard--which was next to
open woods above a big river, with nothing but
redwoods and poison oak and wild grassy hillsides
behind us and the river below and the ocean a short
float downstream and, down the looming dark
highway a mile or so, the ghost of intrepid explorer
Jedediah Smith lurking at the state park.
We never saw Bigfoot, up there in the
redwoods. But we knew he was there. And to this
day, I find it annoyingly difficult to say I don't
believe in him. Call it loyalty to Grandpa and his tall
tales. Call it loyalty to something that goes farther
back. And I've since heard adults tell Bigfoot stories
to other adults, without that grandpa twinkle in their
eye or the convincing can of snuff in their hand.
A friend of mine tells the story of how once,
when he was backpacking alone in the Trinity Alps,
he camped by a lake and that night saw a huge man-
like figure on the opposite shore. It stood up tall and
let out a long, inhuman scream, "Eeeeeeeehhhh!"
then bounded into the trees. And two springs ago, I
was up in central Nevada at a Western Shoshone
gathering in Crescent Valley. At the end of a long,
subdued day of serious talks about nuclear waste and
testing, pinyon clearing, repatriation, sovereignty and
the gold mining that's dewatering their streams and
springs and poisoning the air and water, I ended up
standing around a small fire with a few others. A
middle-aged Shoshone man and a young Paiute man,
both holding drums and tapping them occasionally
while waiting for the rest of the crowd to show up for
some dancing, began swapping songs and stories.
"Do you know any songs about the bear?"
asked the Paiute.
"Yeah, I know three songs about the bear,"
said the Shoshone.
"How about a song about the rabbit?"
"I only know one rabbit song."
"I know a bighorn song."
"Yeah, we have bighorn songs."
And then suddenly they were talking about
Bigfoot--and then about a being way scarier than
Bigfoot, a gigantic man-eating monster in Jarbidge
Canyon, in the wild and remote southern Idaho-
northeastern Nevada border region. The Shoshone
name of this monster, Tsaw-haw-bitts, was anglicized
into the name Jarbidge.
"They say the way to get away from him is to
run uphill," said the older man with a drum, about
Tsaw-haw-bitts, "because his eyes can only look
down. So if you run uphill ahead of him, he can't see
you."
"I've heard," added the young man with a drum, "that
once you get to the top of the hill, you have to
quickly turn to one side and run that way. He can't
see you do that."
That's oral history, old as the hills. As for
written accounts, the earliest one came from Leif
Erikson, who apparently in 986 A.D. saw a bigfoot-
like creature. And more sightings have been recorded
since.
So, Bigfoot stories--and ones about his evil
man-eating cousin in northeastern Nevada--go way
back. And the actual creature? Well, some
researchers say there's evidence aplenty of his kind's
existence. As some believer on NPR put it last week,
now they just "need to get lucky and have one get hit
by a car or get shot"--you know, for the real big, no-
denying evidence. The kind you can dissect and stuff
and put in a museum.
I don't know if that would be so lucky. If
Bigfoot exists, and is unfortunate enough to finally
wander into a bullet or a speeding car, that resultant
big dead being isn't really how I see the story ending.
It'd provoke a man--er, Bigfoot--hunt that'd harry the
poor creatures into true nonexistence. And it would
take away the mystery.
Oh, I know some people might say that's a
good thing--let's have it all out in the open, no more
tales, no more unidentified creatures hiding in the
dark forest. But they're just scared of the unknown.
Why, my grandpa himself, who first told me about
Bigfoot, was a mystery. He died last March at 92, and
though he was married 62 years to my grandma, he
never told her for certain where he came from. He
once told her he remembered speaking another
language, maybe German, before English. And he
looked like he might be Native American. But
Grandma never met his family, and she learned early
on to not need to pry. "He was a good man when I
met him, and that was the man I loved," she told me.
Like Grandma, I've decided it doesn't matter-
-the man we knew, mystery and all, was everything
we needed. And what's more, if he said there's a
Bigfoot, then there's a Bigfoot.[End]
Mystery Hole In Lake Ice
Baffling Folks North Of
Brainerd
(from Page 10)
Such holes aren't uncommon on lakes in the
state, but they are typically caused by hot thermal
springs being concentrated in one area, but the
sudden appearance of the hole last February has
many ruling out that possibility.
In addition, Al Cibuzar, head of A.W.
Research Laboratories in Brainerd, first viewed the
hole while flying over the lake last March. He flew
over it again last week and used an infrared, water-
penetrating camera and discovered the hole is slowly
getting larger.
A diver went through the hole last week and
reported "an ordinary lake bottom," the newspaper
said.
Researchers plan to continue monitoring the
lake bottom, water temperature and other variables
involved with the hole. Another odd wrinkle to the
mystery is that the ice thickness on the hole's
perimeter ranges from 4 to 10 inches.
 Psychic Fraud Prevention 13
How not to be scammed by a
"Psychic"
By:
Reverend Garth Farrington-House
The Psychic Universe
In this article I would like to attempt to
enlighten you in the way you should choose a
psychic. There are many individuals out there who
are nothing but unethical and vultures, They will go
to any lengths to gain your trust so that they can then
turn around and steal hundreds and in many cases
thousands of dollars from you.
Unfortunately this is becoming more
prevalent and our service gets calls constantly from
victims of these unethical and despicable
individuals. I have written a list of thing to be aware
of when seeking a psychic, this list can also be found
on our website www.thepsychicuniverse.com along
with some other interesting article and legal actions
being taken against psychics and companies.
True, ethical psychics have a very strict code
of ethics that they live by and will never attempt to
use trickery, fear or false promises to extract monies
from a client. To assist you in your search for a true
ethical and professional psychic here are the main
things that you need to take note of and follow these
guidelines before you decide to either call a psychic
or visit them. I do hope that these guidelines will
help avoid you from becoming another victim.
Twelve things to watch out for when
getting a psychic reading
Before journeying down that mystical
corridor to try to foreknow your future and your
future probabilities as they are laid out for you via
phone call or at a reading table and presented to you
by a practicing psychic that accesses or receives
information from the spiritual portal of life, be
careful. As your curiosity compels you to reach
outside yourself for others intuitive guidance for
your own life path, begin your journey into insight,
foreknowledge and intuition by first empowering
yourself with tip bits of knowledge in what to watch
out for in order to make informed decisions. This
article gives you a comprehensive, fair and practical
look at twelve scams and rip-offs to watch out for in
the ever-growing mystical community. Your savvy as
a consumer is just an article away. Listed below are
twelve scams and rip-offs to watch out for when
gaining access to others insight for your own life
path
Watch out! Try not to connect products with
readings or sessions when dealing with psychic
readings until after the session is over unless their
craft must absolutely use the product to conduct the
session. If you see a product the psychic community
member has available for you to purchase, go ahead
and buy it if it is for you. Everyone shops. And
whether it is for a necessary item or frivolous item, it
is a great buy if you want it. Most of our lives and
homes are full of everyday stuff that we use and the
not so ordinary stuff that we must collect for those
rather empty looking house nooks and crannies.
Whether you catch it on sale, or but it at full
price, be happy with your purchase. In contrast, try
your absolute best not to get pushed, intimidated, or
emotionally badgered into buying a product that you
do not want to buy from someone practicing in the
psychic community by way of them forcing that
product on you by saying statements to you such as
you have to have the item in order for your life or
love to be ok, or scaring you into buying it by saying
statements to you such as your life may depend on it,
or emotionally badgering you by telling you that
your lover is not going to come home unless you buy
that specific product that they conveniently have
right there for you, that you have to buy from them
only.
You have to often wonder why the candles
that some psychic readers claim to have to use cost
you upwards of $500.00 at one sitting, which sounds
suspiciously close in number to a lump sum rent or
mortgage payment, and just exactly why that
particular candle or candle set is the only one that
you absolutely have to buy for them to use in
reuniting your old, gone, lost love. It would be an
interesting predicament to be in to find out just what
would happen to your old, gone, lost love if that
candle set was never made, or if there was a cheaper
substitute candle set they could use while performing
their ritualistic ceremony waiting for you at the local
corner shop if the real set was not readily available.
There would be much less scandal
surrounding psychic products if the community
members that want to, and currently do charge
upwards of $500.00 for a candle, or candle set, would
be honest about it. There are many people that buy
products that are higher priced, because they do not
want lower priced merchandise. But even when you
buy a high priced item, you do not want to be duped
into buying it.
Many women and men get rooked into
paying top dollar for a top dollar scam. Pay for a
product based on what it can actually perform, and
how much you would normally pay for an item of
similar quality. If you are going to be told that the
item you are considering purchasing is going to have
special properties of any kind, ask what kind of
special properties it possesses in detail, what the
refund policy is, if any, and ask them to prove that is
has those properties before you begin to pay. Case
studies, proven properties over time, or former
clients that this method has been proven on are good
references.
1. You can love and value someone. You can
even expect special properties to appear from an
ordinary object, talisman or product if that is how
you choose to believe, and it may happen. Yet, as a
general rule, always try to remember that unless that
candle, special vase, potion, lotion, concoction,
crystal, rock, rune, card deck or object that you are
purchasing or receiving information from can move
on it's own supernaturally, or speak to you with it's
own mouth, you should not count on it even in the
context of a session as a guarantee to solve all of your
life's problems. Chances are very real that you are
going to have to decide to take the real route with
realistic steps and a little help from a psychic
community member in discovering how to get what
you want, and what you can reasonably expect to
attain based on your current circumstances in your
life path.
2. Watch out! Please try not to get scammed
into paying someone from the psychic community
while they write down your full name, your number,
and your own full address, complete with your zip or
postal code without knowing that you are being
charged for that information at the same price you are
being charged for the session or reading, up front.
That is not part of a session, and should not be
included in the session fee. That time adds up and
zaps your cash faster than a magician could, way
before the session begins. Usually no one writes as
fast as a person speaks. For example, if you are
paying $5.00 a minute for a session and you spend
five minutes on a phone line while the intuitive
community member personnel is taking your
information for themselves or their company, you
have already paid $25.00 just for giving out your own
information. Do the math. It just does not add up to
savings. Conversely, if you have to give this
information out before the session to verify your
method of payment, that should be alright because it
is a standard business practice. Think twice before
you shell out dollar signs to tell someone who you
are and what your own address is. That is being taken
advantage of, unless you know and agree up front.
3. Watch out for yourself and where you are
going to be at, physically. Use your own common
sense and at least a piece of practicality even when it
involves mystical encounters. Never go to an
intuitive establishment without first speaking with
the psychic person over the telephone, driving by the
establishment first or gaining a good referral from a
friend, unless you are familiar with the place. You
need to get a feel for the overall environment that you
are entering into and know what kinds of practices
that they are involved with, if any, before you go. You
should not just want to wing it and end up in the
midst of just anything.
4. Watch out for any psychic that is not
psychic. Nowadays, that is usually a regular, not rare
occurrence. Within the first five or ten minutes
depending on what gift or ability they have, even if
they are giving that insight or information using a
divination, the psychic should be at least able to tell
you something about your life or yourself that you
did not say or that they could not naturally know.
They should also be able to tell you if they did not see
anything for you, instead of making something up.
Honesty is the best policy on both sides of the
reading.
People may still pay for a non-psychic
confidant if they were not expecting a psychic and
getting a non-psychically gifted person instead. That
only provokes anger. It is better to let people make an
informed decision. No one can see all of anyone's
life, but psychic community members should be able
to help you see something about yourself during a
session, even if it is just getting you to view your
situation a different way. Hence, intuition can be
present in people in many differing ways from senses
to visions and anything extra sensory in between.
Although, when dealing with psychic businesses,
some do advertise on the internet for home makers,
not psychics. So before you pay money, make sure
you are getting a person with an ability or talent. Be
careful with concentrating too highly on psychic
credentials. Word of mouth, or simply talking with a
psychic first, would be your best bet in discovering
their abilities or capabilities. After all, psychics are
people that have natural yet extra sensory type
abilities. Their abilities are not usually book learned
course talents. Although, more often, classes to help
others discover their own intuitive abilities are being
given. The proof is in the session.
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 14
Cyber Planets: Building
Virtual Worlds to Explore
Signs of Real Life
By Robert Roy Britt
Somewhere between reality and the
unknown, science fiction has always flourished. The
best sci-fi authors rigidly adhere to one principle:
Make it as real as possible, given what's known.
Now, as if lifting a chapter from an Isaac Asimov
novel, NASA plans to create hundreds of "synthetic
planets" that might represent real worlds orbiting
faraway stars.
The cyber planets will be modeled on solid
science, but the results are likely to be decidedly
fantastic. No one knows what sort of worlds will be
generated, and that's the whole point.
The Virtual Planetary Laboratory (VPL)
began recently the five-year effort to build cyber
planets under the umbrella of NASA's Astrobiology
Institute. It is driven by a simple problem: Early in
the next decade, NASA plans to launch a spacecraft
called Terrestrial Planet Finder that would find
Earth-like planets around other stars and examine
them for signs of life. Howver, researchers have no
clue what to look for.
To be fair, the scientists do have a little to go
on, but if they launched the spacecraft tomorrow, it
could only be designed and programmed to look for
signs of life that are known on Earth. Biological
activity elsewhere could be markedly different,
producing unexpected atmospheric signals that
would be missed if a spacecraft weren't looking for
them.
"We will be able to model the composition
and appearance of planets very different to our own
Earth, with parent stars very different to our Sun,"
says Vikki Meadows, who oversees the VPL from
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Planets will be seeded with life forms,
heated and tweaked so environments develop in
myriad ways over eons.
One approach will start with a world that
resembles Earth billions of years ago, stock it with
known microorganisms that for whatever reason do
not dominate today's biosphere, and let the critters
run amok.
The virtual lab will generate a catalogue of
potential light signatures, called spectra, that various
combinations of biology (or lack thereof) would
generate in a planet's atmosphere. The results will be
compared with data collected on Earth and the other
planets (and even some moons) in our own solar
system, as a way to check the accuracy of the models
and to continue refining them.
One important premise for the work is the
simple fact that even around our own Sun, a basic set
of ingredients produced dramatically different
results. Earth and Venus, for example, are thought to
have been initially sprinkled with roughly the same
mix of water and organic material called volatiles.
Yet Earth became an "ocean-covered oasis"
and Venus a "desert hell," Meadows points out.
Other scientists have speculated that Venus,
nonetheless, might harbor microbes high in its
clouds. And Mars, Jupiter's moon Europa and
Saturn's moon Titan are all place that scientists are
eager to look for possible life. But positive
signatures of biological activity have so far eluded
scientists. All this knowledge . along with the lack of
it . will feed the VPL.
SPACE.com recently asked Meadows to
explain the project in detail:
SPACE.com: What sort of ingredients does
one use to create a planet that is
inherently unlike any we know of?
Vikki Meadows: When we create a planet,
we will be using ingredients that we already know
Cyber Planets
about, things like carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, silicon,
but we will be looking at variations in the relative
amounts of these ingredients, and how planetary
processes distribute those ingredients in its core,
surface and atmosphere.
Looking at our own solar system, you can
see that the four earth-sized planets, Mercury, Venus,
Earth and Mars (and Titan, as an honorary member of
this group) all have basically the same building
blocks, but apportioned in different ways, with
spectacularly different characteristics as a result. As
an even more specific example, Venus and Earth are
believed to have been endowed with the same
inventory of volatiles in the early history of the solar
system. However, Earth locked up most of its carbon
dioxide in sediments and in its crust, while Venus
ended up with huge amounts of this greenhouse gas
in its atmosphere.
Consequently one world is an ocean-covered
oasis for life, and the other is a desert hell with 730
degrees Kelvin [854 degrees Fahrenheit] surface
temperatures, and a poisonous, crushing atmosphere.
Same ingredients, very different planet.
With VPL, we want to expand our
understanding of the potential types of earth-sized
planets, especially those with atmospheres, beyond
the five examples we have in our own solar system.
This tool will also allow us to study the same planet
with and without an active biosphere, so that we can
gain insight into signatures of living processes that
might be detected with an astronomical observation.
SPACE.com: I know that the outcomes are
unpredictable and, in fact, are what you'll be
studying, but are there some important things you
expect to see?
VM: What we expect to be able to do is
identify what combinations of observable planetary
characteristics are likely to indicate a habitable
world. That is, if you know the planet's size, distance
from the star, orbital path, and something about its
atmospheric or surface composition, we want to be
able to provide a probability that that planet is
habitable, and ultimately, be able to tell whether a
planet is already inhabited.
A more specific thing that we are hoping to
see from this modeling effort is a better
understanding of what our own Earth looked like
during its history.
This modeling effort will also help us to
understand what the Earth might have looked like
early in its history, when its environment was truly
alien, but still supported abundant life. Today, the
Earth has an atmosphere dominated by nitrogen and
oxygen, but before 2.3 billion years ago, when the
Earth was about half its current age, there was very
little oxygen in the atmosphere. In spite of this, life
apparently originated and thrived in that
environment.
With the VPL, one of the first things we ill
tackle is modeling this "family of Earths", many of
which are habitable worlds, but unlike the modern
Earth. We will use information and constraints
available from geology, chemistry and biology to
create plausible early atmospheres for Earth, and
understand what these might have looked like from
space.
There may be extrasolar planets out there
that are "early-Earth-like," and we need to
understand how to recognize that.
SPACE.com: Could you give a bit of detail
of one type of planet you expect to create, one that's
much different from Earth but might support life?
VM: The first and best one we can think of
for this will be the early Earth as described above.
We'll need to gather information from many existing
fields of research on the geological, chemical and
biological processes working at that time, such as
tectonic and volcanic activity, likely life forms, and
any hints we have on surface temperature,
atmospheric composition. We can put these best
available constraints into the experiment design, and
create a suite of possible worlds that are consistent
with those constraints.
For the extrasolar planets, obviously we
don't have any extra information from the geological
record to help us constrain the atmosphere, so we will
create a broad range of planets, and determine which
ones could support liquid water on their surfaces, and
have atmospheres which might be hospitable to any
of the myriad of different life forms we already have
on our own Earth.
SPACE.com: Is the project designed to better
understand "life as we know it," or will you extend
the work to possible life that doesn't require water or
sunlight/starlight?
VM: We won't be attempting to model "life
as we don't know it." Because we want to understand
which planets could support liquid water on their
surfaces, we will model for life that requires both
water and sunlight (although not necessarily the light
from a G2 dwarf star like our Sun).
However, even with those constraints there's
still a lot of "weird life" we do know about. When we
populate one of our planets with "different" life, it
will be with life forms that we know about, but
perhaps in a different proportion to that which we
have on the present day Earth, depending on the
environment we are going to put it in.
An oxygen-dominated atmosphere supports
a different suite of life when compared to an
atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide or methane, for
example.
SPACE.com: How many planets do you
expect to create during the life of the project?
VM: The accurate answer is "as many as we
can!" The less accurate answer is "hundreds."
The planets we create will be specified by
running through a set of different planetary
characteristics, such as size, distance from the parent
star, orbital path around the star, what the planetary
atmosphere is made of, the presence or absence of
plate tectonics and other planetary processes, the
presence or absence of life, and the nature of that life.
SPACE.com: Will you generate many planet
types at once, or does each evolve from things you
learn with each creation?
VM: We will initially develop a "grid" of
model runs that samples a range of planetary
environments that we expect might be habitable. As
we run through these, I expect that we will learn a
great deal about which of the model planets are
habitable or not.
The next round of modeling will then
concentrate around the characteristics of the best
habitable candidates, and will work more on
variations on that theme, including the addition of
life. [End]
UFO TRIVIA
- Data from Paul Ferrughel of the National
Sighting Research Center indicates you are
most likely to see a UFO between 9 and 10 PM
during January
- The duration of the typical sighting was from 3
to 9 minutes. Sightings lasting from 10 to 27
minutes were next, and those from 1 to 2
minutes were next. Sightings of less than one
minute far exceeded sightings longer than 30
minutes.
- Disk/round UFOs and "other" shapes were
reported significantly more often. Deltoid
shapes were next most popular followed by
Ovals, Lights, Rectangular and Cylinders.
- 1988 and 1989 were peak years for reports,
followed by 1990. 1986 had the least number of
sightings during the five year period evaluated.
 Coca-Cola, the CIA, and the Courts
"COCA-COLA, the CIA, and
the COURTS"
by Sherman H. Skolnick
Early in the 20th Century, Coca-Cola
Company was prosecuted on issues relating to
cocaine. Many have forgotten about this. Recently
the very popular website, rense.com, posted a story
about a controversy involving Coca-Cola.
Authorities in Bolivia reportedly contend they are
aware of shipments of coca leaves, used in producing
cocaine, were ostensibly shipped for or to Coca-Cola
Company which denies the same.
Since 1971, I have been putting
commentaries of a controversial nature on a whole
series of phones, known now as (773) 731-1100. In
years past, I called it HOTLINE NEWS, with me as
the editor/commentator.
In 1977, on my phone message, I ran a taped
interview with a vice president of Stepan Chemical
Company,[(847)441-7822], Northfield, Illinois, a
suburb of Chicago. I ran the message numerous
times in the years thereafter. The top official
confirmed that they are the manufacturer of the base,
because it is proprietary,it is secret, of Coca-Cola,
the soft drink. He confirmed that they, at that time,
were among the largest importers of coca leaves for
producing Coca-Cola base and that in the process,
produced cocaine for the pharmaceutical industry.
In 1977, several alternative publications
raised the question of cocaine and Coca-Cola. Others
raised the issue that Coca-Cola has no actual
nutritional value. Despite that, in years past, their
advertisements showed robust and athletic types,
powering speedboats, and acting in a way to give the
subconscious impression, that Coca-Cola is a
supposed healthy nutrient, which it is not.
The Stepan Chemical Company executive
pointed out that because of the cocaine issue, he has
to be very careful in what he says. By what he said,
he plainly meant the law enforcement issues and
whether cocaine somehow enters "The Underground
Empire" (which some later called the dope trade,
such as John Mills, in his 1990 heavy opus).
Similar issues, now long forgotten, were in
the 1970s, raised by alternative publications, most of
which by now are presumably defunct. My interview
was a follow up on such issues. Of course, the
monopoly press, heavily dependent on Coca-Cola 's
monstrous advertising budget, would not dare raise
or comment on such matters. Further, as we have
pointed out in this website series, COCA-COLA
COMPANY appears to be, in part, an espionage
operation. And they seem to rely on federal judges
who are "for sale", as outlined earlier in this series.
[In rejecting and nullifying a contract and
copyright claim against Coca-Cola Company, the
softdrink firm benefitted from having their case in
Chicago's Federal Courts, which are considered by
knowledgeable observers, like those of our group, as
"The Cheapest Judicial Whores" in the nation. The
case was on the docket of Chicago U.S. District
Judge Blanche Manning. As we pointed out, in the
court record, by way of my court-filed Declaration,
her position in the courthouse was obtained by a
reputed gangster type, for upwards of one million
dollars. In the course of that case, mentioned earlier
in this series, she illegally sat as a "Judge in her own
case", the judge having been accused in six or more
court filings of having committed judicial frauds
upon her own court. We call that, judicial perjuries
also. I was a sworn witness to confront her in the
case. An appeal, to the federal appeals court in
Chicago, is a statutory right belonging to the one
who does not prevail in the U.S. District Court.
Despite that right, the U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th
Circuit, Chicago, sabotaged the right to appeal, by
rejecting two different lawyers of choice for the
15
appellant, Robert Kolody. The appeal was arbitrarily Area 51: Bush Exempts
rejected by Judge Richard Posner who has written
books and articles on HIS judicial philosophy. Judge Secret Base From
Posner contends it is against judicial efficiency to
allow an underdog to prevail against a large Environmental Laws
corporation. More about his criminal-style behavior By Leonard David
is in our website story, "Chief Crook Enters
Microsoft Case".]
A related item is that physicians reportedly
have treated stomach ailments using Coca-Cola base.
Revealing is the contention that physicians have
NOT used Pepsi-Cola base, or the base of Royal
Crown Cola, or other softdrinks like Coca-Cola, for
treating similar ailments.
More coming, as it develops....Stay tuned.
Publisher’s Note: Since 1958, Mr. Skolnick
has been a court-reformer, and since 1963,
Founder/Chairman, Citizen's Committee to Clean
Up the Courts. Since 1991, a regular panelist and
since 1995, Moderator/Producer of "Broadsides", a
one-hour weekly taped public access Cable TV
program, cablecast within the city limits of Chicago,
to upwards of 400,000 viewers, each Monday
evening, 9 p.m., Channel 21 Cable TV. Segments of
some of the programs can be seen ON-LINE,
worldwide, through videostreaming linked to our
website. http://www.skolnicksreport.com. E-MAIL:
skolnick@ameritech.net [End]
UFOs...Looking for little
green men in Shag Harbour
BECKY HARRIS That super-secret Air Force base near Groom
Lake, Nevada -- purported site of everything from
captured aliens to the highest of high-tech aircraft --
has been exempted by President Bush from
environmental laws that would disclose classified
information regarding base operations. President
Bush's decision about Groom Lake was made last
September and published December 24 in the Federal
Register.
Groom Lake has been the target of litigation
brought about by former workers at the base. That
Douglas Shand points to the grey sky above legal action focused on health effects resulting in the
the Irish Moss Plant in Shag Harbour, N.S. "That's handling and disposal of hazardous wastes at the
where they saw it," he says. For the small fishing secret locale.
community, located 250 km southwest of Halifax, the Area 51: For Your Eyes Only
only government-documented UFO sighting in the
Hackers Invade Website for Area 51
world is what put the town on the map. On the
evening of Oct. 4, 1967, claim some residents, a Images
bowl-shaped object, about 20 m long, fell from the Area 51 'Not Compromised' by Satellite,
sky. In the investigation reports, both the RCMP and Pentagon Says Area 51 Revealed, Judge
Royal Canadian Air Force call the dark object a for Yourself
"UFO". Bush judged that "it is in the paramount interest of
Years later, in spring 2001, the town's post the United States" to prevent disclosure of
office unveiled a unique postmark: a blue-ink image information about Groom Lake. The Presidential
of a UFO hovering over a lighthouse and a boat on decision exempts the Air Force activity at Groom
the water. Now, says Shand, a 43-year-old Lake, Nevada, "from any Federal, State, interstate or
automotive refinisher, people are making the trek local provision respecting control and abatement of
from as far away as Europe to hunt little green men. solid waste or hazardous waste disposal that would
Says Shand: "People plan their vacations around require the disclosure of classified information
coming here." Postmaster Cindy Nickerson flips concerning the operating location to any
through the hundreds of letters people from around unauthorized person."
the world have sent over the last year and a half. They The exemption shall be effective for a full
all want their letters, postcards, books and even in one-year statutory period.
some cases, teddy bears, stamped with the alien
marking. For some, however, even that's not enough.
"Every time we put up a road sign, it disappears," she
says. "We've lost five or six already."
"We've lost five or six already."
There hasn't been another sighting in Shag
Harbour. But one witness to the '67 event isn't
surprised. David Kendrick, 53, thinks the orange
lights he saw hovering in the sky have something to
do with the U.S. or Canadian air force. But tourists,
don't despair. "If they don't see some aliens," says
Kendrick, "they'll see some beautiful countryside."
 16 Excluded Biology
The Excluded Biology
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
Successive reports have confirmed that
electromagnetic fields too weak to cause burns and
heating are linked to cancers and other illnesses. But
these are still dismissed because of the presumed
absence of "possible biological mechanisms" that
could account for the effects. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
reveals a biology that can explain the effects, but has
been ignored and excluded from mainstream
discourse.
There has been very little funding on
research into the biological effects of weak
electromagnetic fields. Investigations that are carried
out encounter both methodological and conceptual
hurdles. The laboratory findings have been
conflicting. It is difficult to reproduce the same
conditions, as ambient fields can vary from place to
place and even in the same location at different
times. It is difficult to control for the physiological
conditions of the organisms, even if the same cell
lines, the same strain of mice are used. But above all,
the effects are difficult to explain in terms of known
biological mechanisms.
It is true that there is nothing in mainstream
mechanistic biology that would enable us to
understand how electromagnetic fields below the
"thermal threshold" could have any effects. That,
despite the fact that consistent changes in gene
expression and DNA breakages – considered to the
‘most solid’ evidence - have now been obtained.
The "thermal threshold" is usually taken to
mean the level at which burning or heating occurs.
But there is a more important meaning that comes
from classical thermodynamics, a subject area that
deals with energy transformation. Here, the "thermal
threshold" refers to the small fluctuation in energy
that occurs at random in a population of molecules at
thermodynamic equilibrium.
Some biological effects are indeed associated with
electromagnetic fields so weak that the energies in
those fields are below the energy of random thermal
fluctuations, and thus, according to classical physics,
cannot possibly have any effect.
The big fallacy is to assume that living
systems are at thermodynamic equilibrium, which
they are not. Systems at thermodynamic equilibrium
are devoid of organised activities or structures, such
as the mixture of gases in a closed airtight container
that one finds only in textbooks.
Organisms, in contrast, are open systems
maintained far away from thermodynamic
equilibrium by virtue of their ability to capture and
store energy.
Systems full of non-equilibrium energy are
excitable, ie, they need only the slightest provocation
to give, at times, disproportionately large effects.
Unlike typical mechanical processes where effects
are proportional to, and determined by the magnitude
of the force, living processes are highly non-linear
and unpredictable.
The weather is an example of non-
equilibrium, non-linear process. It is predictable
locally in the very short-term, but not in the medium
and long-term, as typical of systems exhibiting
deterministic chaos. Edward Lorenz of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology discovered
deterministic chaos in the 1960s while trying to write
down mathematical equations that could predict the
weather; only to discover that his equations said
predictions are impossible.
The weather is ‘deterministic’ because one
can write down equations that describe the process;
but the equations give unpredictable, chaotic
behaviour. The equations cannot be solved
mathematically, but they can be simulated on a
computer. Computer simulations clearly show that a
slight perturbation, or the tiniest difference in starting
conditions, and there is no telling where the system
will go. This is the ‘butterfly’ effect: a proverbial
butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon rainforest
could affect the weather in London.
Living processes are the same. The healthy heartbeat,
the electrical activities of the brain, the behaviour of
ant colonies, ecosystems, and a host of other living
functions, all exhibit chaotic dynamical behaviour.
They tend to be quasi (almost but not quite)-periodic,
the periodicities are a complex of many periods, and
they can swing between different quasi-periodic
states. But they are not at all random.
One can plot a ‘phase-space’ diagram of the
dynamical behaviour and get weird and wonderful
shapes called appropriately, ‘strange attractors’
which show there is method in the madness. The
Lorenz attractor is like a pair of goggles.
We already have examples of living
organisms being sensitive to very weak signals in the
environment. Pesticides and other industrial poisons
are associated with cancers at concentrations of parts
per billion.
The upshot is that many of the standard
statistical tools are inadequate to cope with biological
behaviour. And special statistical techniques have
already been borrowed from non-linear physics in
order to describe and analyse biological activities. An
emerging discipline of ‘dynamic diseases’ is based on
detecting deviations from the chaotic dynamics of
healthy biological rhythms. Heartbeat and other
biological rhythms can be read in rather the way that
traditional Chinese practitioners read an individual’s
status of health from the person’s pulse.
Andrew Marino, a pioneer investigator of the
non-thermal effects of electromagnetic fields (see
"Non-thermal effects of electromagnetic field", this
series), also initiated the use of statistical methods to
analyse his experiments on the basis that the
biological phenomena under investigation are non-
linear.
The reliability of the procedure was tested
using pairs of untreated controls, and by sampling a
known non-linear system, such as data obtained by
computer simulation of the Lorenz equations for a
weather system at two different temperatures.
Marino’s team found that the untreated pairs
of controls gave little or no statistical differences
when analysed according to either the linear or the
non-linear model. The data from the Lorenz
equations, on the other hand, gave no statistically
significant difference when analysed with
conventional linear statistics, but gave a highly
significant difference on the non-linear model.
In replicate experiments, male and female
mice were exposed continuously to very weak, 60 Hz
electromagnetic field for certain periods of time, and
the effect on 20 immune parameters measured. They
found that in all the experiment, exposure to the
electromagnetic field resulted in statistically
significant changes - in four to ten of the parameters
- when and only when the response of the animals to
the fields was analysed as if it were governed by non-
linear dynamics.
Non-linear chaotic dynamics is not the only
reason why weak electromagnetic fields should
affect living systems.
Robert Becker, Marino’s supervisor, had
done a series of experiments beginning in the 1950s
showing that the body of all organisms has a Direct
Current (DC) field, and that electric currents
produced all over the body are involved in
controlling growth and regeneration. By the 1960s,
Becker had already proposed that an electrical
communication system exists within all living things,
and demonstrated that externally applied fields could
influence the processes of growth and regeneration.
The fields and currents identified by Becker
were actually found much earlier by another US
biologist Harold Saxton Burr. He had proposed in the
1930s that all living things, from men to mice, from
trees to seeds, are moulded and controlled by electro-
dynamical fields, which he had measured and
mapped extensively.
These fields are in addition to the now well-
known and accepted electrical activities of the brain
that can be measured as electroencephalograms
(EEG) and in the pace-maker of the heart as
electrocardiograms (ECG).
Electrical activities and ionic currents have
also been measured in cultured cells and tissues. And
the weak magnetic fields generated by current flows
all over the body can now be measured non-
invasively with the extremely sensitive Super
Quantum Interference Device (SQUID)
magnetometer. The evidence is overwhelming that
electro-dynamical fields and currents are involved in
intercommunication within the body. These fields
and currents are connected to and correlated with the
EEG and ECG that are a routine part of conventional
biomedicine.
The body uses electromagnetic signals of
different frequencies and extents to
intercommunicate. Hence it would be surprising if
external electromagnetic fields did not have an effect.
As Gerard Hyland points out, electromagnetic
radiation from mobile phones and computers are well
known to interfere with electronic medical devices
such as pace-makers and telecommunication systems
of airplanes. To deny that these radiation could
influence the body’s own electro-dynamical
intercommunication system is irrational to say the
least. He is particularly worried about the similarity
of mobile phone frequencies to the major EEG
frequencies such as alpha and delta waves, and
frequencies that could trigger epileptic fits in people
suffering from epilepsy.
These experiments were significant for the
following reasons. First, they involved static
magnetic fields, so only moving charges or liquid
crystals in a high degree of dynamic order could have
been affected. Second, the energy in the fields were
well below the threshold of random thermal
fluctuations, and the only way they could have an
effect is if the embryos were in an excitable, non-
equilibrium state. Third, the global transformations
indicate that the embryos must be coherent to a high
degree. It means that all the molecules in the body of
the embryo must be moving together in a correlated
way, which incidentally also increased its sensitivity
to weak fields.
We have repeated and extended these
experiments, which suggested that the effects of
weak electromagnetic fields on body pattern
formation is non-classical. In other words, it
suggested that the embryo is quantum coherent.
We have since obtained further evidence of
the global coherence that exists in living organisms.
The molecules are moving together so perfectly that
the entire body appears liquid crystalline.
This new biology that I have sketched out,
that enables us to understand, not only the sensitivity
of organisms to weak electromagnetic fields, but also
the holistic health practices of many cultural
traditions, is being systematically ignored and
excluded from mainstream discourse, while we
continue to be poisoned with a range of
environmental pollutants and by the ‘side-effects’ of
drugs from conventional reductionist mechanistic
medicine.
Ten years ago in my laboratory, we found we
could dramatically transform the global body pattern
of the fruitfly larva simply by exposing the embryos
within the first three hours of development for 30
min to very weak static magnetic fields. The
transformation is unique and striking: the normal
segmental pattern became twisted towards a helical
pattern. In one instance, a completely helical larva
was obtained. [End]
 Mobile Phones and Cancer 17
Mobile Phones & Cancer
by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
A spate of reports during 2002 is confirming links
between electromagnetic radiation from mobile
phones and cancer. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho reports.
In October, 2002, cell biologist Fiorenzo
Marinelli and his team at the National Research
Council in Bologna, Italy, reported that radio waves
from mobile phones could promote the growth of
cancer cells.
The team exposed leukaemia cells to 900-
megahertz radio waves at a power density level of 1
milliwatt per squared centimetre (mW/cm2).
After 24 hours of continuous exposure to the
radio waves, the researchers found that certain
‘suicide genes’ were turned on in far more leukaemia
cells than in a control cell population that had not
been exposed, and 20 per cent more exposed cells
had died than in the controls.
But after 48 hours exposure to the radio
waves, the apparently lethal effect of the radiation
went into reverse. Instead of more cells dying, the
exposed cells were replicating furiously compared to
the controls. Three genes that trigger cells to
multiply were turned on in a high proportion of the
cells. The cancer, although briefly beaten back, had
become more aggressive.
Marinelli presented the results at the
International Workshop on Biological Effects of
Electromagnetic Fields on the Greek island of
Rhodes.
He suspects that the radiation may initially
damage DNA, and that this interferes with the
biochemical signals in a way that ultimately triggers
the cells to multiply more rapidly.
Meanwhile, a research team in the
University of Florence reported that normal human
skin fibroblasts, placed over an active cell phone for
1 h, also showed significant changes. The fibroblasts
shrivelled up, and several genes indicative of stress
response became expressed, that are involved in cell
proliferation, growth inhibition and cell death. There
was a significant increase in DNA synthesis and in
key molecules that signal cell division. These
findings are similar to those reported earlier from yet
another laboratory.
Dariusz Leszczynski at the Radiation and
Nuclear Safety Authority in Helsinki found that one-
hour exposure to mobile phone radiation caused
cultured human cells to shrink.
Leszczynski believes this happens when a
cell is damaged. In a person, such changes could
destroy the ‘blood-brain barrier’ that normally
prevents harmful substances in the bloodstream from
entering the brain and damaging it.
Radiation-induced changes in the cells could
also interfere with normal cell death when the cell is
damaged. If cells that are ‘marked’ to die do not,
tumours can form.
This research is particularly important,
Leszczynski said, because it demonstrates that
mobile phone radiation too weak to heat up the cells
can still affect them.
David de Pomerai, molecular toxicologist at
the University of Nottingham, provided the first
clear evidence on such non-thermal effects of mobile
phone radiation. He found that nematode worms
exposed to radio waves had an increase in fertility -
the opposite effect from what would be expected
from heating.
De Pomerai also insisted that a consensus is
emerging that electromagnetic waves such as those
used in mobile phones can indirectly damage DNA
by affecting its repair system without heating the
cell. "Cells with unrepaired DNA damage are likely
to be far more aggressively cancerous," he said.
Non-thermal effects due to weak
electromagnetic radiation are at the heart of the
debate on the health hazards of mobile phones and
other electrical installations in the environment.
These recent results should be seen in the
light of the report released in March 2002 by the
National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB),
which concluded that children exposed to high levels
of electromagnetic radiation in the home could be
doubling their risk of leukaemia (see
"Electromagnetic fields double leukaemia risk". This
series).
One doesn’t have to be a cell-phone user to
become exposed to the radiation. You could be living
near a base-station that’s beaming the radio waves at
you . Or you could be exposed as a passenger on a
crowded train full of mobile phone users.
Tsuyoshi Hondou, a physicist from Tohoku
University in Sendai, Japan, currently working at the
Curie Institute in Paris, calculated that in a typical
Japanese railway carriage with mobile phone users
surfing the net, the radio waves rebounding from the
metal wall of the carriage would give an
electromagnetic field that could exceed the
maximum exposure level recommended by the
International Committee for Non-Ionising Radiation
(ICNIRP), even when the train is not crowded.
Hondou’s calculations show that it is
possible to exceed ICNIRP exposure limit if 30
people, each with a mobile phone that emits radio
waves at a power of 0.4 watts, all use their phones at
the same time.
The ICNIRP limits have already been
severely criticised for being set far too high, and are
aimed at protecting people from acute heating effects
only, and take no account of non-thermal effects.
An inquiry in April 2000 by the British
government found no evidence of any health risks
from mobile phones. But the report nevertheless
recommended a precautionary approach until further
evidence emerged. In particular, it suggested children
should not use mobile phones excessively.
A review published in The Lancet the same
year by Gerard Hyland, physicist at Warwick
University, listed numerous studies over the past 30
years that showed microwaves do have a range of
non-thermal effects.
Some of the findings, such as increases in
chromosome aberrations, DNA single- and double-
strand breaks, promotion of cancer in cells, and in
transgenic mice, are all consistent with the recent
reports. Hyland is extremely critical of the current
exposure limits set by the ICNIRP.
Dr Zenon Sienkiewicz, a radiation biologist
at the National Radiological Protection Board
(NRPB), told BBC News Online that there was still
no hard evidence that showed mobile phones causing
harm in real humans, rather than human cells in a test
tube.
He said: "The bottom line is there are no
known mechanisms by which mobile phone radiation
can increase the risk of cancer."
Hyland disagrees. He points out that mobile
phone radiation has been found to affect a wide
variety of brain functions - such as electrical activity
(EEG) electrochemistry and the permeability of the
blood/brain barrier - and to undermine the immune
system.
Although the precise mechanisms are
unclear, Hyland pointed to an "undeniable
consistency between some of these non-thermal
influences and the nature of many of the health
problems reported", such as headache, sleep
disruption, impairment of short term memory,
increases in the frequency of seizures in some
epileptic children when exposed to Base-station
radiation, and of brain tumours amongst users of
mobile phones.
Thus, reports of headache are consistent with
the effect observed on the dopamine–opiate system
of the brain, and the increase in permeability of the
blood-brain barrier, both of which have been
medically connected with headache. The reports of
sleep disruption are consistent with the observed
effect of the radiation on rapid eye movement (REM)
sleep and on melatonin levels; whilst memory
impairment is consistent with the finding that
microwave radiation targets the hippocampus.
Epileptic seizures are known to be induced by visible
light flashing at a certain low frequency, and there is
no reason to suppose that microwave radiation,
which can access the brain directly through the skull,
flashing at a similar frequency, cannot cause the
effect. Indeed, exposure to such microwave radiation
is known to induce epileptic activity in certain
animals; and there have been reports of increased
seizures in some children suffering from epilepsy
that were exposed to base-station radiation.
Finally, mobile phone users show
statistically significant increase (by a factor of
between 2 and 3) in the incidence of a rather rare kind
of tumour (epithelial neuroma) on the side of the
brain nearest the mobile phone.
What then is the appropriate exposure limit?
Hyland points out that some experiments are
indicating non-thermal thresholds for biological
effects of the order of microwatt/cm2. Adverse
effects have been reported, however, at power
densities a few tenths of that value at distances of
150-200m from a typical 15m high Base-station mast
and within the range of the more localised side-lobes
in the immediate vicinity of a mast. Incorporating a
further safety factor of 10 to allow for the possibility
of long-term exposure, the power densities should
not exceed 10 nanoW (billionth of a Watt)/cm2.
For more information on “Mobile Phomes and
Cancer” please see the information on Page 18.
The Parapsychology of Ghosts
by nightufo@webtv.com
Ghosts appear in many forms. The most
common of these forms is what we refer to
Electromagnetic Luminaries or EML's. EML's, if
you were to break it down to a very basic level, are
balls of electrostatic energy with what seems to be a
conscience. They seem to be able to reason and have
some sort of intelligence. From EML's, a 'ghost' will
manifest into what is referred to as a free formed
vapor. This vapor appears like a mist. Most of the
time it will not have a definite shape. From this
vaporous mass, a 'ghost' will then manifest into a full
human form which is extremely rare to see and even
more rare to catch on film.
Many people who see a full form floating
pparition or 'ghost', notice that they seem to be
dressed in clothing from the period in which they
once existed. As we know, clothes do not have souls
nor do those leisure suits from the 70's have an
afterlife, however, there are a few reasons we have to
take into account why these 'ghosts' appear the way
they do. First, many of the 'ghosts' are not aware they
are no longer alive. Going by what we know, 'ghosts'
are nothing more than EML's that go through a
manifestation period of balls of energy to a vaporous
mist to full form. During the period of the vapor
manifestation is when the energy begins to take
shape. This shape, being whatever form it chooses to
take and not knowing that it is no longer alive,
usually takes the same shape it had in life. In life,
when we perceive ourselves, we see ourselves
clothed, as do these apparitions. This is the reason
they will form with clothing they are familiar in.
Children will often be seen with their toys
once they manifest to full form. Some spirits know
they are deceased due to a violent demise and choose
to stay behind in the world of the living. This is why
those who did indeed have a violent demise can be
seen with wounds that pertain to way they were
killed.
 18 Mobile Phones and Cancer
How do mobile phones work?
Mobile telephony is based on radio
communication between a portable handset and
the nearest base-station. Every base-station
serves a ‘cell’, varying in radius from hundreds
of metres in densely populated areas to
kilometres in rural areas, and is connected both
to the conventional landline telephone network,
and by tightly focused microwave links to
neighbouring stations. As the mobile-phone user
moves from cell to cell, the call is transferred
from one base-station to the next without
interruption.
The radio communication depends on
microwaves at 900 or 1800 megahertz (MHz) (a
million cycles per second) to carry voice
information via small modulations of the wave’s
frequency. A base-station antenna typically
radiates 60W and a handset between 1 and 2 W
(peak). The antenna of a handset radiates equally
in all directions, but a base-station produces a
beam that is much more directional. In addition,
the stations have subsidiary beams called side-
lobes, into which a small fraction of the emitted
power is channelled. Unlike the main beam, the
side-lobes are located in the immediate vicinity
of the mast, and, despite their low power, the
power density can be comparable with that of
the main beam much further away from the
mast. At 150 to 200m, the power density in the
main beam near the ground level is typically
tenths of microWatt/cm2.
A handset in operation also has a low-
frequency magnetic field associated, not with
the emitted microwaves, but with surges of
electric current from the battery that’s necessary
to implement ‘time division multiple access’,
the system used to increase the number of
people who can simultaneously communicate
with the base-station. Every communication
channel has 8 time slots (thus the average power
of a handset is 1/8 of the peak values, ie, beween
0.125 and 0.25W), which are transmitted as 576
microsecond bursts. Together, the 8 slots define
a frame, the repetition of which is 217 Hz. The
frames transmitted by both handsets and base-
stations are groups into ‘multi-frames’ of 25 by
the absence of every 26th frame. This results in
an additional low frequency pulsing of the signal
at 8.34Hz, which, unlike that at 217 Hz, is
unaffected by call density, and is thus a
permanent feature of the emission. With
handsets that have an energy-saving
discontinuous transmission mode (DTX), there
is an even lower frequency pulsing at 2 Hz,
which occurs when the user is listening but not
speaking.
Thus, the fields to which users are
exposed can be quite complex
In vitro nonthermal effects of
microwaves
* Elicits epileptic activity in rat brain
slices in conjunction with certain drugs.
* Affects cell division of yeast and on the
genome conformation of E. coli.
* Synchronises cell division in yeast, S.
carisbergenis.
* Switches on l-phage and colicin
synthesis in bacteria.
* Alters ornithine decarboxylase activity
in cultured cell line.
* Reduces T lymphocyte cytotoxicity.
* Increases permeability of red blood cell
membrane.
* Affects calcium efflux in brain cells.
* Increases chromosome aberrations and
micronuclei in human blood lymphocytes.
* Promotes cancer synergistically with
cancer-promoting drugs such as phorbol esters.
In vivo non-thermal effects of
microwaves
* Causes epileptic activity in rats, in
conjunction with certain drugs.
* Depresses chicken immune systems
(melatonin, corticosterone and IgG levels).
* Increases mortality of chick
embryos.
* Affects brain electrochemistry (dopamine,
opiates).
* Increases DNA single- and double-strand
breaks in rat brain.
* Promotes lymphomas in transgenic mice.
* Synergeistic effects with certain
psychoactive drugs.
* A delayed increase in spectral power
density (particularly in the alpha band) corroborated
in the awake EEG of adults exposed to mobile phone
radiation. Influences on the asleep EEG include a
shortening of rem sleep during which the power
density in the alpha band increases, and effects on
non-REM sleep.
* Exposure to mobile phone radiation also
decreases the preparatory slow potentials in certain
regions of the brain and affects memory tasks.
* Resting blood pressure was found to
increase during exposure to radiofrequencies.
Ghost Played Piano For
Patients Who Died
Two retired nurses yesterday told of their
terror at the hands of a ghost who haunted a former
hospital in Paisley.
The nurses described how the spirit of Lady
Glen-Coats would PLAY THE PIANO in the room
where dead patients were kept before the undertaker
arrived.
And how her ghost would appear bending
over patients' beds in the wards of the Coats Hospital,
in Ferguslie Park.
The nurses told their story after the Paisley
Daily Express earlier this week revealed students had
been haunted by ANOTHER ghost from the same
hospital.
Wilma McDowall and Agnes Finnie, who
worked together in the Coats Hospital say they were
often haunted by the ghost of Lady Glen-Coats. And
they say they were scared to go anywhere alone in the
historic building - which has now been demolished -
in case they bumped into the spooky spectre.
Wilma McDowall, 63, was an auxiliary at the
hospital nearly 30 years ago.
And she says she twice spotted the ghost of
Lady Glen-Coats while she was on duty.
Yesterday, she explained: "This kind of
smoky haze would sometimes appear in the ward,
and you could just make out the figure of a woman
bending over a hospital bed.
"She was always spotted at the bedside of a
patient who was very ill, and she always appeared
after midnight.
"All the staff talked about this ghost, and the
tales were really terrifying.
"But strangely enough, on the occasions
when I actually saw the spirit, I felt quite calm.
"Having said that, we often heard bumps and
bangs in the hospital late at night, but none of us was
brave enough to go and check them out on our own.
We always went in a group of three, because we were
scared of what we might find." Agnes Finnie, who
was a nurse at the old hospital more than 20 years
ago, was also haunted by supernatural goings-on.
She explained: "When somebody died, we
had to take the body up to the attic and leave it there.
"Afterwards, we often heard somebody
playing on the old piano which was in the same room
as the bodies.
"It wasn't really a particular tune - more like
the keys being tinkered with." She went on: "It was
really quite scary, and lots of the staff were
frightened to go up the stairs, especially as it was
very badly lit.
"After the body had been put in the attic,
none of us would venture near it again until the
undertaker arrived.
"Everybody said it was the ghost of Lady
Glen-Coats." Their fascinating tales came to light
after the Express revealed a group of students from
Reid Kerr College feared they were being haunted by
Paisley's notorious White Witch, from the old Coats
Hospital.
The students claim they've suffered a string
of strange mishaps since penning a macabre tale
based on the legend of the well-known ghost.
Witchcraft expert Dr Hugh McLachlan, of Glasgow
Caledonian University, said: "Maybe this old hospital
was haunted - who knows? "Sometimes, it is
tempting to say places are haunted if we can't find a
rational explanation for certain events.
"But I believe it is better to admit we don't
understand some of the things we see." [End]
SPACE TRIVIA
Q: Who was the first person in space?
A: Major Yuri Gagarin (Russian)
Q: Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
A: Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the
moon. This event occurred during the Apollo 11
mission on July 20, 1969
Q: Who spent the first day on the moon?
A: Charles Conrad and Alan Bean of Apollo 12
spent the first day on the moon.
Q: Who was the first American in Space?
A: The first American in space was Alan B. Shepard.
He made a 15 minute suborbital flight in the
Mercury capsule Freedom 7 on May 5, 1961.
Q: Who was the first American to orbit the Earth?
A: On February 20, 1962, John Glenn was the first
American in orbit. He flew in the Mercury
Friendship 7 and orbited the Earth 3 times.
Q: Who was the first American to ride inside a
Russian spacecraft?
A: Vance Brand was the first American to fly inside
a Russian spacecraft. He visited the Soyuz cabin
during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP).
Q: Who was the first U.S. civilian in space?
A: Neil Armstrong was the first civilian in space, as
well as the first man to walk on the moon (July 20,
1969).
Q: Who was the first fare paying passenger in
space?
A: The first fare-paying passenger in space was
Charlie Walker. McDonnell Douglas paid NASA
approximately $66,000 to fly him on STS-41D on
August 30, 1984.
 A Cure for Cancer ? 19
A Remarkable New popularity and be used to treat other mental truly cured of cancer, and to prevent its
conditions. Its first and only use for cancer treatment reoccurrence, the body must be detoxified, the
Therapy Uses Insulin- was by a single physician, Dr. Surgis Koroljow, for immune system rebuilt, nutritional deficiencies
a period of a few years in the late 1950s. He reported rectified, and all biological functions normalized as
Induced Hypoglycemia spectacular success, but was forced to stop his work much as possible.
To Create An Internal after the state of New Jersey threatened to revoke his To accomplish all this, BioPulse employs a
license. number of techniques. Not all methods are employed
Biological Environment Because its use as a treatment for cancer has for every patient, but combined as appropriate. For
been so limited, no one is sure of the exact almost everyone, vitamin and mineral IVs are given
In Which Cancer Simply mechanism whereby IHT destroys cancer cells. to strengthen the body, along with amino acid and
Can’t Survive! However, because of its wide use to treat mental enzyme therapies, and oral supplementation.
illnesses for over 20 years, the physiological effects Nutrition and nutrition education are fundamental.
that IHT has on the body are well known. Dr. Bernarda Lara, BioPulse's critical care M.D.,
We are sorry, but you probably have only
Oxygen and glucose are normally personally determines a custom menu of five
two more months left, at the outside," the doctors
metabolized together. When glucose levels are different breakfasts, lunches, and dinners for patients
told John Franzoni, as they've told millions of other
lowered by insulin, the body's metabolism slows, to use as guidelines when they return home.
people. "There's nothing more that we can do for
oxygen accumulates in the blood, and the production For detoxification BioPulse uses chelation,
you."
of carbon dioxide decreases. This, in turn, increases and a program of colonics and enemas. Patients are
The doctors had done plenty, including
the pH of the blood and tissues, so that they go from sent to biological dentists to remedy problems
traditional radiation treatment, in an attempt to
an acidic to an alkaline condition. Tumor cells have caused by toxic amalgam fillings and infections from
destroy the tumors on John's esophagus and in his
been described as "immature," and in some ways root canals. Other weapons in the clinic's medical
lungs. The radiation left him sick and debilitated, but
they are more vulnerable than normal cells, in the arsenal include Hyberbaric Oxygen, and energy
at the end of treatment the tumors were not only still
same way that healthy adults are better able to resist protocols such as Pulsed Magnetic Wave Therapy
there, they had doubled in mass. Because of this,
disease than sickly infants. Cancer cells cannot and Acoustic Light Wave Therapy.
chemotherapy was not considered an option.
survive in an oxygenated, alkaline environment. Case Histories The course of even
Four months later, however, John not only
Since hypoglycemic sleep is actually produced by successful therapy rarely runs smoothly. Take the
wasn't dead, he was feeling better than he had in
excess oxygen in the blood through the paralysis of case of 55-year-old John Franzoni, mentioned at the
years. The three tumors on his throat and tongue,
oxidation-reduction enzymes, it has been theorized beginning of this article. The friend who originally
which the doctors thought would quickly overwhelm
that the extreme pH of the blood inactivates enzymes referred John to BioPulse was the actress Sally
him, were completely gone. The cancer tumors in his
responsible for cancer cells' energy, and their ability Kirkland. She had learned about the clinic from
lungs had been reduced 25% so far. All signs have
to replicate. Repeated exposure to these conditions Alternative Medicine's Burton Goldberg, when she
him headed toward remission. The reason: he was
does not harm healthy cells, but it kills cancer cells. consulted him about getting detoxified after having
guided by a friend to a clinic in Mexico that had just
started using a therapy that conventional medicine Receiving IHT at Biopulse her silicone breast implants removed. When John
It takes five days of preparation once a arrived at BioPulse he had one large tumor on the
had first ignored and then successfully quashed
patient arrives at BioPulse before IHT is formally back of his tongue and two large tumors on the
over the past 38 years.
commenced. Initial small insulin injections are given inside of his throat that were so large he could hardly
The clinic was BioPulse, and the therapy
on a daily basis at first, with the patient's blood speak or eat. His conventional doctors thought that,
they employed has the formidable-sounding name of
glucose tested every quarter-hour for one hour, and if nothing else, these would cause John to starve to
Insulin-induced Hypoglycemic Therapy (IHT).
then every hour for four hours, to determine the death. He also had one large tumor in the occipital
And formidable it is, as a therapy that is
proper dosage for each individual. The blood is also area at the base of his skull that caused him
showing amazing results in reversing even end-
analyzed to detect any nutritional deficiencies or dizziness. Plus, a life-long smoker, his lungs were
stage cancer. BioPulse only began using IHT in June
abnormalities. Based on what the staff learns the first riddled with tumors.
1999. At the time this article is being written, they
week, they prepare an IV that is given an hour prior After a week of prep work, he began IHT.
have used this therapy on thirty-two patients, with
to the insulin. He emerged from his third session feeling especially
about thirty treatments each. Every patient treated
The IV contains vitamins and minerals good, until one-half hour later he began spitting up
has had their tumors substantially reduced or
tailored to the patient's needs, including high blood. He spat up blood for some hours, until at 8:00
completely eliminated. It is the same with their pain-
amounts of vitamin A and melatonin to protect brains PM he spat up three chunks of tissue. BioPulse
-diminished or gone altogether.
cells from a lack of glucose. analyzed them in their laboratory and determined
Patients report increased appetite, improved
Then the insulin itself is administered. A they were not coagulated blood but fibrous tissue.
mental outlook and sense of humor, and general
critical care physician and registered nurse are at Immediately afterwards, however, John began to
sense of well-being. There have been absolutely no
bedside, continually monitoring every moment, and speak clearly for the first time in three weeks. Dr.
adverse effects. While it is obviously too early to tell
modifying the IV to maintain the desired glucose Lara looked down his throat and saw that the three
if their cancer will never reoccur, there is no reason
level. The sessions last 1 1/2 hours, during which tumors were gone--either he had coughed them up or
to think it will. In conjunction with IHT, BioPulse
time glucose levels are lowered from the normal swallowed them. However, he now had three open
employs a comprehensive detoxification and
level of 100 to 150, mg/dL, down to 20 mg/dL or lesions and they were bleeding.
fortification program, along with nutrition and
below. Oxygen is also administered during the entire John was taken to a San Diego area hospital's
lifestyle education. This is an integrated systemic
session. Patients are brought out of their sleep with emergency room, but four hours later the hospital
approach. As long as patients adhere to healthy life
the injection of methylene blue and an IV of glucose. phoned BioPulse and said "This patient is going to be
habits, their bodies should prove inhospitable for
BioPulse has found that the regulation of glucose dead in nine hours. Where do you want us to ship the
cancer or any other degenerative disease.
return--not too fast and not too slow--is vital to the body?" So Loran Swensen, president of BioPulse,
The patients treated so far with IHT at
comfort of the patient. Therefore they emerge drove over and found John sitting up in bed.
BioPulse have had a variety of different cancers,
including cancer of the lung, colon, pancreas, liver, smoothly, without any side effects, with a feeling of
well-being. They are generally soaked with sweat, Continued on Page 20
breast, prostate, esophagus, bone and blood. Their
conditions range from early-stage to advanced. which is a positive therapeutic sign. They are also
Some went straight to BioPulse soon after they almost always hungry, which is extremely positive
were diagnosed; others didn't go until after they had for a cancer patient. WINTER WARMUP
undergone excruciating radiation, surgery, and Most positive of all is that 75% of the
chemotherapy that had left them severely debilitated, patients report a reduction in their pain from the very SPECIALS
but uncured and facing death. first session. Virtually all feel substantially better
How IHT Works after the third session, and some are completely pain-
free by then. The present course of treatment consists Furnace Clean & Check -
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hypoglycemic condition that changes the
to recovery, or even cancer-free.
environment in the body to one in which cancer cells
A Total Program Patients at BioPulse are
cannot survive. Valid in Haldiman & Hamilton, Ontario Only
never treated by IHT alone. This kills the cancer
Insulin Therapy was first employed in 1928
cells, but cancer is a systemic disease, and the entire
as an experimental treatment to cure morphine
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environment of the body must be changed. To be www.xzone-radio.com/mackie
 20 A Cure for Cancer ?
Continued from Page 19......
"How do you feel?" Loran asked. "I feel fine," John
replied, and, pointing to the ER physician,
continued, "but this ass-- here tells me I'm going to
die." "Well, he's bleeding internally," said the
doctor. "I don't think so," explained Loran, "I think
he's just bleeding where he had had three tumors.
They just came off." "That's impossible," said the
doctor. "Look," Loran went on, "he's got three open
lesions in his throat that just need cauterizing." The
doctor refused to admit John, insisting that the
procedure would be futile. John discharged himself,
and Loran took him to the University of California at
San Diego Medical Center, where he was
admitted. The lesions were cauterized and the
bleeding stopped immediately. John returned to the
clinic ten days later and is doing fantastic. After three
more weeks of IHT the remaining tumors in his
lungs have decreased by 25 percent. Experiences
like this prompted biopulse to open their own critical
care center on site in October, 1999.
Another amazing story is that of Talia
Yampel, a 13-year-old girl from Tel Aviv, Israel.
Talia had developed a tumor in her thigh. It grew to
the size of a walnut, and then rapidly spread like a
spider web throughout the entire thigh.
Her physician, Yacov Goshen, M.D., at the
Schneider Children's Medical Center in Israel, felt
that the only thing he could do was to remove all the
diseased tissue, which would have left her leg utterly
deformed and useless. Her family had read about
BioPulse in Alternative Medicine magazine,
however, and decided to fly her to the clinic. Talia
was given the full protocol of 35 IHT treatments.
And although she felt better, two MRI's given during
that time revealed that the tumor had not become
even one millimeter smaller. Her walking improved,
and her appetite; after the treatments, it didn't seem
like she was sick at all, except that the tumor
appeared to still be there, intact.
The staff at BioPulse didn't know what else
to do, and felt that perhaps they had encountered
their first failure with this new procedure. Talia
flew back to Israel, and went into the hospital to have
the tumor removed surgically. But when her surgeon
opened the leg, the tumor looked strange to him. He
didn't proceed with the mutilating operation and
instead took a biopsy. The results came back: the
tumor was no longer malignant, it was completely
benign. The treatments at BioPulse hadn't dissolved
it, but they had changed its character. "I don't know
how to explain this," her physician said, "I've never
seen anything like it. Consider it a miracle. But there
is no point in removing the tissue, because it is not a
threat to the body. Talia can keep her leg.
There are, as of now, thirty similar stories at
BioPulse, but Loran hastens to add, "The sooner
people come to us, the better. Don't wait until you've
exhausted your bone marrow and everything else
and expect us to send you home cured. At that point,
even if we are able to reverse the cancer, the body is
so weakened from radiation and chemotherapy that it
is vulnerable to infections and other problems that
survival is still problematic."
As the doctors and staff at BioPulse are the
first to state, thirty-odd cases treated over a four-
month period is not conclusive proof that IHT is
indeed a cancer cure for the millennium. But while
this may not be equivalent to a large-sample study
over an extended period of time, the absolutely
amazing "anecdotal" results are no less compelling-
especially for the three dozen patients who are the
living, breathing "anecdotes."
Contact: Besides treating patients, BioPulse
is developing a program to train physicians in IHT.
The BioPulse Rejuvenation Center is located in
Tijuana, Mexico. Tel: 888-552-2855 (from U.S.);
801-233-9094 (outside U.S.); international direct:
011-526-686-1880. Fax: 801-233-9089. [End]
Ghost hunters raise
ruckus in old Baltimore
By Todd Eastham
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Tales of ghosts and
spirits are all very well, I told my hosts, but a reporter
needs something objective and tangible upon which
to peg a story.
That's when the fork came flying out of
nowhere -- or rather over a low partition separating a
group of diners in a corner of a cozy dining room
with closed windows and no door.
"Did you see that?" I asked one of my table
mates, Towson State University student Michelle
Salapka. She nodded her head but couldn't bring the
words to her now gaping lips, her eyes wide as
saucers, staring at the fork on the table between us.
The dinner, hosted by the Maryland Ghost
and Spirit Association at the Baltimore seafood
restaurant Bertha's Mussels, was turning into a
rousing success. The 800-member group, whose Web
site is at http://www.marylandghosts.com, is
dedicated to investigating "ghostly paranormal
phenomenon" at Civil War and other old sites around
Maryland.
Beverly Litsinger, who founded the
organization a few years ago with her husband and
daughter, was nearby watching members
"photograph" spirits.
"She just caught two orbs!" shouted
Litsinger.
Images of weird glowing orbs, floating in the
air over the tables inexplicably, were showing up on
digital cameras. One photo showed an odd cartoonish
hazy gray figure with huge almond eyes standing in
the background.
Other participants were dashing up and down
the stairs and into back rooms of the restaurant,
taking readings with temperature guns -- looking for
hot and cold spots. And then there were the strange
electromagnetic readings showing up on the EMF
(electromagnetic field detectors) that some were
wielding.
"You can also get full bodies with digital,"
said Litsinger, who came equipped with two albums
full of pictures she and others claim were of ghosts
and spirits captured at some of the 200 or so
"haunted" sites around the state.
They showed more orbs, lots of orbs, in and
around graveyards and Civil War sites, old and
sometimes abandoned buildings, including schools
and hospitals. Some photos showed strange white
clouds of what could be smoke, swirling
provocatively.
"That's ectoplasm," said Litsinger. You can
sometimes catch the evolution from orbs to
ectoplasm to full-figured ghosts, she explained later
in an interview at her home in North Baltimore.
"Orbs are a mechanism they use to travel."
To catch the ghosts, she uses 800 ASA film,
used in low-light and fast shutter speed situations.
"They're traveling fast so you need a faster film," she
said.
'SHADOW PEOPLE' IN THE
CORNER OF HER EYE
Back in the restaurant, Michelle was shaken, He was attached to a 15 foot long tether for 12
a bit frightened. So why was she there?
"My boyfriend is convinced I see shadow
people," she said, adding she sometimes thinks she Q: When was the first group of scientist astronauts
sees people out of the corner of her eye, then turns to selected?
find no one there.
I'm still a little skeptical, concerned that this selected in June, 1965. They included Owen
article is going to read like something in the Garriott, Edward Gibson, Duane Graveline, Joseph
Halloween edition of a high school newspaper. After Kerwin, Curtis Michel and Harrison Schmitt.
all, maybe the fork was sitting on that partition all
along and somebody walking past had knocked it off
and rushed into the next room. Or something.
Litsinger thrust an EMF detector into my
hand and pushed me over to a stained glass window
behind a glass partition in a passage in the restaurant.
I read "Bertha E. Bartholomew," amid flowers and
angels and clouds. It was some sort of memorial.
The reading goes off the dial, at the edge of
the red. Must be a florescent light or something in
there, I said. Then the reading goes back into the
green near zero. The light didn't even flicker.
"She likes to come and go," said Litsinger,
calling the glass a "haunted object."
Laura Norris, owner of Bertha's Mussels
since 1972, said the window, once mounted in a
Lutheran church on Hanover Street in South
Baltimore, was purchased years ago at a junk yard.
"Bertha, can we take your picture?" said a
woman with a camera. "It's not going to hurt you."
Bertha, presumably, isn't familiar with digital
cameras.
Norris said she's never seen a ghost. "But I
feel them," she insisted. Them? "I think there's a man
and a woman. ... I always felt she was benevolent. I'd
feel really tingly."
But there's another angry presence.
"Sometimes the cats will come hissing down the hall
with their backs up," Norris said.
Norris said her son-in-law had glimpsed a
tall man with a full-length coat and big hat at the top
of a flight of stairs as he was coming down. "He felt
an angry presence and didn't want to turn around,"
she said.
Others have seen a woman in a bustle and
big hat in the dining room in the early morning hours.
"That could be Bertha," Norris said.
"Have you seen them?" I asked a waitress.
"No, but she has," she said, pointing to a young
woman carrying dishes.
"I'm kind of busy right now," said the second
waitress, who identified herself only as Delvina.
I pressed her for more.
"It was sort of cloudy, milky white," she said
finally. (Continued on Page 21)
MORE SPACE TRIVIA
Q: Who was the first man to fly in space
independent of of the spacecraft?
A: Bruce McCandless, who flew on STS 41B, was
the first man to fly in space independent of his
spacecraft by operating the Manned Maneuvering
Unit (MMU).
Q: Who was the first man to fly in space four times?
A: Jim Lovell was the first man in space four times.
He flew on Gemini 5, Gemini 7, Apollo 8 and
Apollo 13.
Q: Who was the first African-American in space?
A: Guion Bluford was the first African-American in
space. He flew on STS-8.
Q: Who was the first man to walk in space?
A: The first man to walk in space was the soviet pilot
of Voskhod 2, Alexei Leonov, on March 18, 1965.
minutes and 9 seconds.
A: The first group of scientist astronauts were
 Ghosts in Old Baltimore
Ghost hunters raise
ruckus in old Baltimore
Continued from Page 20
HOTBED OF HAUNTINGS
"Ectoplasm," I nodded sagely. Where was
my skeptical hat?
Maryland, it seems, is a hotbed of hauntings
thanks in part to the Civil War, in which large
numbers of people died violently before they were
ready to depart this Earth.
The hauntings are also thanks to some very
old neighborhoods and buildings in and around
Baltimore, Frederick and other cities -- like Fells
Point, site of the first settlements in Baltimore.
While the full story behind the Bertha's
Mussels hauntings is not known, the building was a
seamen's bar -- and we know what scary, violent
places they were.
The story surrounding another nearby
restaurant, the Zodiac, is better known. It seems the
owner of a speak-easy on the site, a surly, hard-
drinking man, hanged himself there after his wife ran
off with another man.
"I asked the spirit if it would move
something for me and there was a pole that just
started rotating," said Karen Corkran, a member of
the ghost association, of an outing there.
"I felt something extremely powerful up
there. I got real tight in my chest and I couldn't
breathe."
"Why ghosts?" I asked Litsinger at her
home.
"I've always been able to pick up and
communicate with them. My daughter inherited the
ability," she replied.
"But why do they stick around?" Why not go
on "into the light" or wherever it is we end up, I
inquired.
"God gives us freedom of choice on Earth, and if you
die he doesn't take it away," she explained.
"Some stay behind to watch over loved ones
or take care of things they needed to do," she said,
"and some people take time to realize they're dead."
She told the story of a young girl she called
Annie who was sent away to school a century ago at
the Patapsico Institute outside Baltimore. In letters
recovered after her death, Annie complained bitterly
to her parents about her mean teachers, the backward
townsfolk and the bitter cold.
So her parents agreed to come and bring her
home, but it was too late. It really was cold, and she
died of pneumonia as they were en route to the
school.
A pretty girl with long hair flowing down her
back, Annie "can be seen carrying a suitcase out the
front door" of the now shuttered school, said
Litsinger. "Annie's been waiting for over 100 years
for her parents to come and get her." [End]
Human teleportation: how
close to reality?
S.S. Verma
To travel faster has always fascinated human
beings and ever since the wheel was invented more
than 5,000 years ago, people have been developing
new ways to accomplish the same. Various modes of
transportation from chariot to rocket have all been
invented to decrease the amount of time being spent
in getting to the desired destinations.
But what if there were a way to go from
home to the supermarket, or from backyard to the
International Space Station without having to use any
type of vehicle? A method for such a travel by
combining properties of telecommunications and
transportation is called teleportation. Teleportation
involves dematerialising an object (converting mass
into energy) at one point, and sending the details of
that object's precise atomic configuration to another
location, where it will be reconstructed (conversion
of energy into mass) with same memories, emotions,
hopes and dreams. It means that time and space could
be eliminated from travel and we could be
transported to any location instantly, without actually
crossing a physical distance.
The concept of teleportation of microscopic
objects (or classical teleportation) is not all new to
viewers of TV serials based on Hindu mythology, or
like Star Trek, Shaktiman etc.. Our religious books
and stories also depict great men with such
supernatural powers of achieving teleportation of
themselves as well as helping others to achieve the
same. However, in 1993, the idea of teleportation
moved out of the realm of mythology and science
fiction into the world of theoretical possibility. It was
then that physicist Charles Bennett and a team of
researchers at IBM (USA) confirmed that quantum
(macroscopic objects) teleportation was possible.
There are scientists working right now on such
experiments that have actually achieved teleportation
with photons, and one day we might be able to use
teleportation to travel anywhere, at anytime.
Experiments
In 1998, physicists at the California Institute of
Technology (USA) along with two European groups
turned the IBM ideas into reality by successfully
teleporting a photon, a particle of energy that carries
light. The Caltech group was able to read the atomic
structure of a photon, send this information across
Imetre of coaxial cable and create a replica of the
photon. As predicted, the original photon no longer
existed once the replica was made. In performing the
experiment, the Caltech group was able to get around
the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, the main
barrier or teleportation of objects larger than a
photon.
This principle states that you cannot
simultaneously know the location and the speed of a
particle. But if you can't know the position of a
particle, then how can you teleport it? In order to
teleport a photon without violating the Heisenberg
Principle, the Caltech physicists used a phenomenon
known as entanglement. In entanglement, at lest
three photons are needed to achieve quantum
teleportation.
Photon A: The photon to be teleported
Photon B: The transporting photon
Photon C: The photon that is entangled with photon
B
If researchers tried to look too closely at
photon A without entanglement, they would bump it,
and thereby change it. By entangling photons B and
C, researchers can extract some information about
photon A and the remaining information would be
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passed on to B by way of entanglement, and then on
to photon C.When researchers apply the information
from photon A to photon C, they can create an exact
replica of photon A. However, photon A no longer
exists as it did before the information was sent to
photon C.A more recent teleportation success was
achieved at the Australian National University, when
researchers successfully teleported a laser beam.
Though quantum teleportation does hold
promise for quantum computing and these
experiments with photons are important in
developing networks that can distribute quantum
information at a faster rate but the idea of creating
replicas of objects and destroying the originals
doesn't sound too inviting for human teleportation.
Human Teleportation
For a person to be transported, a machine
would have to be built that can pinpoint and analyse
all of the 1028 atoms that make up the human body.
This machine would then have to send this
information to another location, where the person's
body would be reconstructed with exact precision.
Molecules couldn't be even a millimeter out of place,
lest the person arrived with some severe neurological
or physiological defect. In science fiction movies a
machine called a transporter performs teleportation.
The transporter is basically a platform that the
characters stood on, while switches are adjusted on
the control boards. The transporter machine then
locked onto each atom of each person on the
platform, and used a transporter carrier wave to
transmit those emolecules to wherever the object
wanted to go. Viewers see the body dissolving into a
shiny glitter (energy) before disappearing and then
rematerializing instantly on some distant place.
If such a machine were possible, it's unlikely
that the person being transported would actually be
"transported." It would work more like a fax machine
— a duplicate of the person would be made at the
receiving end, but with much greater precision than a
fax machine. But what would happen to the original?
One theory suggests that teleportation would
combine genetic cloning with digitisation. In this
biodigital cloning, tele-travellers would have to die,
in a sense. Their original mind and body would no
longer exist. Instead, their atomic structure would be
recreated in another location, and digitisation would
still exist, but they would do so in a new body of the
same atomic structure as the original body,
programmed with the same information.
Still, we are years away from the
development of a teleprotation machine like the
transporter room on Star Trek's enterprise spaceship.
The laws of physics may even make it impossible to
create a transporter that enables a person to be sent
instantaneously to another location, which would
require travel at the speed of light. But like at all
technologies, scientists are sure to continue to
improve upon the ideas of teleportation, to the point
that we may one day be able to avoid such difficult
methods of teleportation and the final teleportation
technology will be within reach of a common man.
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: The writer is from
the department of physics, S.L.I.E.T., Longowal.
 22 Predictions for 2003
36. Sandra Bullock is involved in a car accident. 38. There will be an attack on Microsoft.
The following are 37. Fire will destroy one of Cher’s houses. 39. Mustaches will be the men’s craze of 2003.
Psychic Predictions for 38. Sylvester Stallone’s mother, Jackie Stallone will
have health problems.
40. Large hats will make a return in 2003 for the
ladies.
2003. 39. Seigfreid and Roy have to be very careful of a 41. Swarms of bees will be coming to North
crazed tiger. America.
40. Christopher Plummer will have health problems. 42. There will be a fire at the White House.
The views, predictions, and possibility of events are
41. Michael Cane will have health problems. 43. Chemical Weapons will be used as an act of
not those, nor do they reflect those of The
42. David Blayne will do the Torture Chamber feat fighting war.
McConnell Publishing Group, the Publisher staff
like Houdini. 44. Urban warfare will be a reality.
nor The ‘X’ Chronicles Newspaper but have been
43. Susan Sarandon will run for politics. 45. Laura Bush will have health problems.
collected from Psychics, Clairvoyants, Readers and
44. Geena Davis will win an award for archery. 46. President Bush will have health problems and be
other members of the Paranormal Community who
45. A hail of bullets are seen around Puffy Daddy the target of an attempted assassination.
profess to have the ability to predict future events.
Sean Combs. 47. George and Barbara Bush (Senior) will have
46. There is danger seen around Rapper Eminem. health problems.
THE WORLD OF 47. There is danger around Bobby Brown. 48. There will be a devastating avalanche in
ENTERTAINMENT 48. Luciano Pavarotti will have health problems. Switzerland.
49. Debbie Reynolds will have health problems. 49. Natural Health Retreats and Nudist Colonies will
01. Pamela Anderson Lee will be in a fatal car 50. Bruce Springstein must be very careful of flourish in 2003.
accident. airplanes in 2003. 50. There will be a lot of doom and gloom in world
02. Split - Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas affairs.
03. Split - Faith Hill and Tim McGraw WORLD EVENTS 51. There will be an explosion at a nuclear facility.
04. There are movie careers for both Shania Twain 52. America and it’s allies will be victorious.
and Faith Hill 01. The cloning of human beings will be done on a 53. There will be a lot of prosperity in 2004 - 2005.
05. There is a kidnapping around Madonna’s large scale.
children 02. Stem Cell replication will become a fact. THE WORLD OF SPORTS
06. More lawsuits are seen for Michael Jackson as 03. Christopher Reeves will walk again.
well as danger from a crazed fan. 04. There will be missile attacks on commercial 01. Paul Tracey and Dario Franchetti
07. There is extreme negativity around the Rolling airliners. 02. Jason Priestly will race again.
Stones as they are travelling this year and Mick 05. President Bush will bomb Iraq. 03. Mohammed Ali will win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jagger must be very careful of dangerous situations. 06. The United States will enter a conflict with North 04. Tiger Woods has to be care of airplanes.
08. Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz will be getting Korea.
married. 07. The United States will look to their Canadian TRENDS FOR 2003
09. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck will be getting neighbors for homeland security as they fight the Iraq
married - however, there is a pregnancy around and North Korean conflicts.
01. James Bond clothing for men and women will be
Jennifer. 08. There will be a large terrorist attack in Los a smash hit!
10. Oprah Winfrey will be marrying Stedman Angeles and in Beverly Hills.
02. Oversized hats for women will be the craze!
Graham. 09. There will be a terrorist attack on the New York 03. The mini Skirt will make a triumphant return!
11. Arnold Schwarzenegger will run for politics. Subway System. 04. Flowers in the lapels of men are back in style.
12. Sylvester Stallone will play Broadway. 10. A fire at a Ringling Brothers Circus will bring 05. Cigar smoking back in vogue and pipes.
13. Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson will be in a catastrophe.
06. Smaler cans.
movie together. 11. The Stock Market will crash. 07. The pets of choice in 2003 will be parrots.
14. Katie Couric will be getting married. 12. There will be breakthroughs in Alzheimer's,
15. John Travolta will be opening up a flying school, Diabetes, Cancer and Multiple Sclerosis research.
but must take care around airplanes. WEATHER PATTERNS
13. Fidel Castro will suffer health problems.
16. Halle Berry will be the next Julia Roberts. 14. There will be more sniper attacks.
17. Halle Berry will be splitting from her husband, 15. Saddam Hussein will have severe health 01. Very cold in late August and September.
Eric Benet. 02. There will be terrible winter storms.
problems.
18. Gwenyth Paltrow will be getting married. 03. Many more hurricanes with more going north to
16. Vice President Cheney must take care of his
19. James Earl Jones will have health problems. the US and Canada.
health.
20. Clint Eastwood will have health problems. 04. A scorching summer for the uS and Canada.
17. A discovery related to the seahorse will prevent
21. Joan Collins will be splitting from her husband. cancer.
22. Robert Blake will organize a new legal team and 18. There will be a space tragedy around the And there you have the collective psychic
will be released from prison temporarily. He must American space missions. predicitions for 2003.
pay attention to his health. 19. There will be more forest fires on the US west
23. Salma Hayek will receive an Oscar Nomination. coast in he summer of 2003.
24.Nicole Kidman will receive an Oscar 20. A devastating earthquake will rip through
Nomination. California and Japan.
25. Athena Onasis will be kidnapped. 21. A quasy missile will hit North America.
MORE SPACE TRIVIA
26. Hollywood will remake “The Hindenberg” with 22. There will be a terrorist attack in Manilla and
new visual/computerized special effects. Honolulu, Hawaii. Q: Who was the first man in space six times?
27. There will be a drowning of a major motion 23. An asteroid will hit a remote area of the world. A: John Young flew on Gemini 3, Gemini 10,
picture star. 24. There will be a terrorist attack in Canada. Apollo 10, Apollo 16, Columbia STS-1, Columbia
28. Wynona Ryder will receive an Oscar Nomination 25. There will be a terrorist attack in Morrocco. STS-9
within 24 to 36 months. 26. There will be a terrorist attack in Las Vegas.
29. Julia Robert’s brother Eric will finally be 27. There will be an attack at Niagara Falls. Q: Who was the first person to break the sound
nominated for an award within 24 months, however, 28. There will be an attack in Sydney, Australia. barrier?
there will be a scandal around him. 29. There will be a terrorist attack in London, A: Chuck Yeagar broke the sound barrier for the first
30. Jack Nicholson will receive an Oscar nomination England. time on October 14, 1947.
but will be plagued with health problems. 30. There will be a terrorist attack in Paris, France.
31. A come back for Kevin Costner is seen with a 31. There will be a terrorist attack in Israel. Q: Who was the first senator to fly in space?
war film and a space picture. 32. Disneyland will be attacked. A: At 51, Jake Garn was the first senator to fly in
32. Mohammed Ali will receive the Nobel Peace 33. There will be a terrorist attack in Istanbul, space.
Prize. Turkey.
33. Trouble is predicted for Liza Minelli and her 34. There will be a terrorist attack in Prague in the Q: Who was the first woman in space?
husband. Czech Republic. A: Sally Ride was the first American woman in
34. Anna Nicole Smith will start a downward trend 35. There will be a terrorist attack in St. Louis, space. She flew on STS-7, which launched on June
in her career and addiction and health problems are Missouri. 18, 1983.
foreseen. 36. A major hamburger chain will go bankrupt.
35. Michell Phiffer must pay attention when around 37. A major US bridge will be blown up.
water.
 The Myrtles Plantation
THE MYRTLES
PLANTATION
From a mirror that is said to hold the spirit of
a ghost to phantom children who play on the
verandah, the Myrtles Plantation may have more
ghosts than any other place in America!
Since it was built in 1794, no less than ten
murders have been committed here and there are so
many bizarre occurrences that have been
documented at Myrtles that it has become a favorite
spot for ghost hunters and curiosity-seekers alike!
The Myrtles was built in 1794 by General
David Bradford. The residents and the owners of the
house, who have changed several times over the
years, recall the many ghostly tales and stories that
have been passed on from generation to generation.
In a book that was published about the Myrtles in
1900, the author claimed that if every light in the
house was darkened, the Myrtles would receive a
visitation by one of its spirits.
It has been said that the lights have never
been all turned off since....
The troubles that led to the haunting began
when Sara Matilda, the daughter of David Bradford,
married Judge Clark Woodruffe and they moved into
the Myrtles. Sara Matilda had given birth to two
daughters and was carrying a third child, when an
event took place that still haunts the Myrtles today.
Woodruffe, had a reputation in the region for
integrity with men and with the law, but was also
known for being promiscuous. While his wife was
pregnant with their third child, he started an intimate
relationship with one of his slaves. This particular
girl, whose name was Chloe, was a household
servant who, while she hated being forced to give in
to Woodruffe's sexual demands, realized that if she
didn't, she could be sent to work in the fields, which
was the most brutal of the slave's work.
Eventually, Woodruffe tired of Chloe and
chose another girl with whom to carry on. Chloe
feared the worst, sure that she was going to be sent
to the fields, she began eavesdropping on the
Woodruffe family's private conversations, dreading
the mention of her name.
One day, the Judge caught her at this and
ordered that one of her ears be cut off to teach her a
lesson and to put her in her place. After that time, she
always wore a green turban around her head.
What happened next is still unclear... For
whatever reason, Chloe put a small amount of poison
into a birthday cake that was made in honor of the
Judge's oldest daughter. The two children, and Sara
Matilda, each had slices of the poisoned cake. Before
the end of the day, all of them were very sick.
The other slaves, afraid that the Judge would
punish them also, dragged Chloe from her room and
hanged her from a nearby tree. The Judge closed off
the children's dining room, where the party was held,
and never allowed it to be used again as long as he
lived, which wasn't long, for he too was slain by a
murderer a few years later. To this day, the room has
never again been used for dining. It is called the
game room today.
Since that day, the ghost of Chloe has been
reported at the Myrtles and has even been
accidentally photographed by the current owner. A
photo that she took of the house showed a shadowy
figure in a turban standing near the building. Her
spirit has also been seen in the house, perhaps
seeking the ghost of the Judge who escaped her
revenge.
But Chloe is not the only ghost who haunts
this house.... the place seems to be infested with
spirits from many different parts of the history of the
place.
Two of the most tragic ghosts are those of
the Woodruffe children who died from the poisoned
cake. These small spirits have been seen playing on
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the verandah of the house, in the hallways, in the
children's dining room and strangely, have been CYBER - CHECK
reported on a hanging chandelier.
One spirit is that of a French woman who
wanders from room to room and searches for
someone she never seems to find. Another ghost only
appears when a thunderstorm approaches. A young
girl, with long curly hair and wearing an ankle-length
dress, has been seen floating outside the window of
the game room, cupping her hands and trying to peer
inside through the glass. The grand piano on the first
floor also plays by itself, usually repeating the same
chord over and over again. Sometimes it continues on
through the night. When someone comes into the In the high speed world that we live in, time is a
room to check on the sound, the music stops and will very precious commodity and many people are
only start again when they leave. In the French
turning to the Internet as a source of meeting
bedroom, a woman has been reported in a black skirt
who dances to music that only she can hear. This
new people for dating and relationships.
ghost appears to be floating about a foot off of the
floor. However, it is becoming more and more obvious
The employees at the house often get the that the shield of invisibility that that Internet is
worst of the events which happen here. The Myrtles providing people has given birth to a new
has been open for some time as a bed and breakfast, species of lower life form called “the cyber
renting rooms in the house and in cottages on the tease.”
grounds.
One day, a maid was mopping the hallway on This new species of low life preys on men and
the first floor when she came to a strange spot near women alike, playing with their emotions, their
the front door. She found that no matter how hard she
needs and in many cases, their loneliness.
pushed the mop, it would not enter an area on the
floor.... it was roughly the size of a human body.
There was nothing there and no reason for it... other CYBER-CHECK will do a basic background
than that it was the same place where a man had been check of people you have met on the Internet for
shot and died right after the Civil War. The strange $24.95. Are they married or single? Are they
phenomenon lasted for a month. giving you their real names? Do they really live
Past owners also claim to have seen a where they claim to?
woman's ghost carrying a candle walking up the
stairs. One night, a previous owner was talking with For more information and to place your analysis
some guests on the front porch when they heard a check, visit the CYBER-CHECK website at :
sound that appeared to be a door slamming in the
house. They looked and saw a candle, with no one
holding it, slowly floating up the stairs as if it were
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being carried. They walked in to follow it and found
the room to be icy cold. or e-mail
The same thing had been reported by the five
previous owners and some believe that it may be the
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The Myrtles continues to be one of
Americaís Most Haunted spots and new tales
continue to be told there every year. For those who
believe that ghost stories are a thing of the past, I
CREEPY
invite them to travel down to Louisiana and
experience for themselves what strange things can
happen to those who allow themselves to experience
the unknown. [End]
HAPPY NEW YEAR
EVERYONE! CANADA
is coming to
IN 2003!!!!!!
If you’re interested in the world of the paranormal
and the science of parapsychology, then make a
point of watching CREEPY CANADA!
From Nov Scotia to British Columbia and all point
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to be seen to believed!
 24 Atlantic Canada UFO’s
Airborne adventures
among notable oddities of
2002 in Atlantic Canada
MICHAEL TUTTON
Canadian Press
HALIFAX (CP) - From Londoners who mistook
Cape Breton for Australia, to a sleepy Nova Scotia
woman who was accidentally flown to England, to
an odd rumbling sound bouncing off clouds over
New Brunswick, it seemed to be a year of strange
moments in the skies over Atlantic Canada.
The trip that captured the most public
attention began in London, England.
Sweethearts Raoul Sebastian and Emma
Nunn had thought they were heading to romantic
strolls over the harbour span in Sydney, Australia,
until they walked off the tarmac to realize they'd
landed in Sydney, N.S. But the 19-year-olds made
the best of it, declaring their August drive around
northern Cape Breton's oceanside Cabot Trail to be
"brilliant." Their attitude fostered a mutual love
affair with island residents, and the local tourism
association feted them and helped arrange for them
to receive the key to the city.
Australians were puzzled.
"You're joking? British tourists? I can
imagine Americans, but British? I though the British
would know their Commonwealth a little better than
that," Tony Thirlwell, who promotes Sydney,
Australia, said at the time. Back in London, Emma
and Sebastian have only fond memories of Nova
Scotia.
"We kept in touch with quite a few people. It
was quite pleasant and we intend to go back next
summer," said Sebastian.
Five months after the British couple arrived
in the Maritimes, a woman accidentally landed in
London, England, after departing Halifax and
sleeping through the aircraft's stopover in St. John's,
Nfld.
An embarrassed Air Canada offered
Catherine Coyle 15,000 air miles for her troubles.
Letters to the editors of Halifax newspapers
offered the 39-year-old mixed support.
"The poor flight attendants these days.
Lately they have had to keep a sharp eye out for
terrorists. Now they will be called upon to keep their
passengers alert so they don't miss their stops," one
woman wrote.
The year also had a reported paranormal
event in the skies, when a huge, black object glided
over the small Nova Scotia community of Cow Bay,
temporarily blocking out the stars and bringing with
it an eerie silence.
A woman, who didn't want to be identified,
told local UFO researchers she had spotted a
triangular object 600 metres in the air.
Don Ledger, a UFO researcher in Bedford,
N.S., said it might have been a military aircraft, but
he wondered why there was no noise. "If you've ever
seen one you know they're not silent," he said.
In Nackawic, N.B., there were many who
wished deeply for silence from the skies.
At first, residents wondered if the rumbling,
booming noises were the result of an earthquake.
Seismic trembling is not unheard of in central New
Brunswick.
But eventually the thunderous volumes
were identified as sound waves from highway
blasting that had ricocheted off the clouds.
Weather forecasters also had explanations
for crop circles in Prince Edward Island.
In July, after fierce thunderstorms swept
through the Maritimes, the Summerside Journal-
Pioneer reported that swirling vortices of air had
created the circles.
"What we believe is a lot of air had rushed
out of the thunderstorm and when it hit the ground it
swirled around," said Mike Campbell, a
forecaster with Environment Canada.
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A lobster hauled in by a Newfoundland
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kilograms of her, not counting the enormous claws.
The sea creature was caught by fisherman
Richard Nash of Branch, Nfld. - a fishing village of
roughly 200 people - before being forwarded to a
research tank in St. John's.
No amount of seafood would have placated
Cocoa Puff, the crazed Siamese cat.
The feline lost its cool in May and attacked
its Dartmouth, N.S., family, driving them from the
house.
Rabies was ruled out.
"The cat just snapped," said owner Robert
Mancini. Before being euthanized, Cocoa Puff won a
brief moment of immortality with a mention on the
David Letterman talk show.
At roughly the same time, wily foxes were
driving golfers wild. The foxes were darting from the
woods around Maplewood golf course near
Moncton, N.B., and snapping up balls.
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 Deadly Quiet
Deadly Quiet
By Brian Johnston
WorldNetDaily.com
The first of this month, April 1, 2002,
marked the official legalization of euthanasia in the
Netherlands. With the enactment of the Euthanasia
and Assisted Suicide Control Act, doctors who
terminate their patients may do so according to
statute. But it is widely known that for the last 20
years, Dutch physicians have been routinely
dispatching their patients with impunity.
Therein lay both a lesson and a warning for
us.
We are well aware that the euthanasia
movement seeks to change the laws that currently
protect the medically and emotionally vulnerable,
but often their methods are to first skirt and violate
those laws long before they change them. And that is
exactly what is happening in the United States today.
Throughout the United States, physicians
who support euthanasia are routinely utilizing a
special form of "terminal sedation," not as a means
of pain control, but with the explicit intention of
intentionally causing death. This is routinely being
used on patients who are not in immediate danger of
dying, but are in other ways considered "incurable"
or "hopeless."
Essential to this approach is the mandatory
withdrawal of hydration. It is a form of euthanasia
that is particularly difficult to monitor. As David
Orentlicher, a pro-euthanasia physician, points out in
the New England Journal of Medicine, "Terminal
sedation seems consistent with accepted practices …
however terminal sedation is tantamount to
euthanasia, or a kind of slow euthanasia" (Vol. 337,
No. 17:1237).
Orentlicher, also an advocate and "ethicist,"
has made a point of traveling the nation instructing
sympathetic physicians not to bother with the law or
attempts to change it. Euthanasia can safely be
practiced under the guise of terminal sedation.
"Just do it," he told the California
Conference on Physician Assisted Suicide.
Similarly, Robert Brody, the chair of the
Ethics Department at UCSF Medical Center and a
board member of the pro-euthanasia group
Compassion in Dying, instructs his student
physicians that "terminal sedation" is an acceptable
and appropriate form of "near euthanasia." He
encourages its practice as part of the "logical
continuum" that will lead to the necessary
legalization of assisted suicide.
But Dr. Rex Greene, a California oncologist
and advocate for the medically vulnerable, is
alarmed at the highjacking of aggressive sedation.
"The insistence that hydration be removed is
not valid," says Greene. "It is very rare that its
provision is burdensome. In fact, I have routinely
found that adequate hydration is necessary to
alleviate terminal delirium. Insisting that hydration
be withdrawn as a form of treatment belies their real
intention, which is to kill."
The significance of this ongoing practice
should not be lost on those who seek to maintain
legal protection for the vulnerable. This gradual
acceptance of intentional killing was the cornerstone
of the Dutch program, and is an essential tool of
euthanasia advocates.
Meanwhile, in the Western states,
Compassion in Dying is in the midst of a public
relations campaign to "expand choice at the end of
life." It is targeting churches, community groups,
media outlets and the elderly community.
In California, the Hewlett Foundation has
funded a think tank that seeks to blend the concept of
physician-assisted suicide with end-of-life care.
Other states are also seeing clever, indirect appeals
for "compassion" using the emotions and good
25
intentions of uninformed citizens. Pro-life citizens
should be aware of, and monitoring these projects. ASK ROB McCONNELL
In Oregon, while Attorney General Ashcroft
has sought to prevent the use of federally controlled
substances to kill, the "safeguards" in the law itself Question
are routinely being ignored. Reports abound of It has been suggested that intercontinental ballistic
"suicide" killings of the non-terminally disabled and missiles with nuclear warheads could be used to
"doctor shopping" when an attending physician destroy or deflect comets or asteroids on a collision
refuses to agree that killing is warranted. . course with Earth. For a comet with velocity and size
In Hawaii, Gov. Cayetano has personally of Hale-Bopp, how much energy would it take (in
proposed legalization of physician-assisted suicide, kilotonnes) and how far from Earth would the
and the bill quickly raced through the lower house. missile have to intercept the intruder in order to
Action awaits in the state senate. respectively destroy or deflect it? And our missiles
Last election cycle, the citizens of Maine fast and manoeuvrable enough?
turned back a ballot proposal on physician-assisted Stein Jarving , Norway
suicide. But we need to bear in mind that the margin
(barely more than 1 percent) was extremely close. Answer
Our work is cut out for us. It would be unwise to use nuclear missiles to
We need to remember "changing of the law" destroy an asteroid, as it would only slightly reduce
is only the end game for euthanasia advocates. As in the problem. This is because instead of one big lump
the Netherlands, we must recognize that they are on a collision course with Earth, we would have
quietly moving ahead with their agenda. millions of tonnes of radioactive dust and rubble,
Shrouded in subtlety, the euthanasia which on reaching the atmosphere would produce a
movement is continuing in advancing its agenda. "nuclear winter" by blocking out sunlight.
Talk about it now. Alert others. Remember, the goal As to how much energy is needed to deflect
of the euthanasia movement is to make changing the the asteroid, a simple answer is that you would need
law a mere formality. [End] less energy the farther away the asteroid was.
Gravitational systems are prone to an effect from
chaos theory whereby small changes in starting
conditions greatly effect eventual outcomes (the
infamous butterfly effect), so a small deflection of
the rock's course at a great distance will produce a
huge change by the time it would otherwise have hit
us, and it would sail by.
Current estimates say we could easily
deflect an asteroid if we spotted its collision course
10 years in advance. Sadly, our current detection
systems wouldn't spot it until it was about a year
away, so it would need a larger blast to deflect it.
Question
Why does our Moon not have a name? Can we call
it Eeyore?
Andrew Dymock (aged 3 1/2) , Bath, Somerset The
Moon has got away with being called "the Moon" for
The Ghost of the Well a very long time. But perhaps someone could let us
by The Sisters and Beebo know the correct procedure for registering the names
of astronomical objects and whether there is any
I have a ghost story to tell. It is actually my chance of renaming it Eeyore--Ed
mother's story as she told it to me. When she was a
little girl, she had a girl friend who told her that a Answers
ghost was in her house. My mother asked her parents Moons around other planets in our Solar
if she could spend the night with her little friend and System are named by the International Astronomical
they allowed her to do so. At midnight the two girls Union. A working group on planetary nomenclature
watched as a lady appeared at the foot of the girl's decides on the names, which the IAU's General
bed. She appeared to be rocking a cradle. After a few Assembly must verify. The next time this body meets
minutes, the lady moved toward the bedroom door will be in Sydney in 2003.
and out into the hall. My mother and her friend Themes have been established for naming
followed the ghost into the kitchen and out the back celestial bodies and features on them. For example,
door. They watched her until she disappeared at the new moons of Uranus are named after characters in
well. Shakespeare's plays, notably The Tempest. Caliban
When she got home the next day, my mother and Sycorax are among the latest characters
told her father the story of what she had seen. At first honoured. Craters on the asteroid Eros are given
he didn't believe her, but she kept on until he told her suitably erotic names, such as Lolita. But there have
that he would do something about it. My granddad been no plans to rename our moon, the Moon.
was a well cleaner back then, so he went to the sheriff A different IAU body would be responsible
and asked his permission to clean that particular well. for naming the planets that have been discovered
The sheriff was hesitant, but finally agreed. My orbiting stars outside our Solar System.
granddad found the woman and her infant's bones at
the bottom of that well. The man who had once lived To have your question answered by Rob McConnell,
in that house had been married and had a baby. He e-mail it The ‘X’ Chronicles Newspaper at
had told everyone that his wife had left him and taken xchronicles@xzone-radio.com and in the subject
the baby with her. He was still living in the town heading, put “Question for Rob.”
when this was found out. He had since remarried and
had several other children. The authorities went to
“Ask Rob McConnell” is a new feature in
him and arrested him for the murder of his first wife.
Afterward, my mother's little friend told my mother
The ‘X’ Chronicles Newspaper, and
that the lady ghost was gone from her house. I think questions will be answered on a first-come
they sometimes come back until the truth is known. basis.
[End]
 26 The Great Cholesterol Scam
The Great Cholesterol Scam
The official position of the American
medical profession is that elevated cholesterol is
harmful to one's health. This position has been held,
and challenged, for more than 40 years. It is not the
position of all the European medical community, and
many studies in the U.S. have identified that low
cholesterol levels are a risk factor for early death, as
well as sterility and dementia.
Perhaps the most interesting thing to notice
is that coronary artery disease and high cholesterol is
not contagious, not infectious. And noticing this is
sufficient to raise the question; what causes the
problem to begin with?
It is true that people with coronary artery
disease and heart attack patients have excessive
cholesterol deposits in the main arteries. These
clogged arteries do lead to early death. But there is
a question begging to be asked. Why does
cholesterol deposit there?
There are no news stories about people
having an arm amputated because the arteries in the
arm became clogged with cholesterol and became
gangrenous. There are no claims that hair falls out
from cholesterol deposits in the scalp. In fact,
nobody thinks cholesterol clogs the capillaries,
which are only large enough for one blood cell at a
time to pass through. Why does the cholesterol
deposit mainly in the coronary arteries?
As most people know, heart bypass surgery
is a standard treatment for advanced coronary artery
disease. In this procedure, arteries are taken from the
patient's legs and grafted onto the heart, bypassing
the clogged arteries. The surgeon will usually tell
the patient that he can expect the new arteries to clog
in from two to five years' time, (although in some
cases it may be only six months) and that another
surgery will be required then. After the two to five
years, the patient has another bypass surgery, and
will be told that these arteries will likely clog in from
two to five years. At that time a third bypass can be
done. But at the end of that one, the surgeon will tell
the patient that when these arteries clog, it will be the
end of the line, because there are no more suitable
arteries to take from the legs to sew onto the heart.
And here is that question again, if
cholesterol is such a villain; why were unclogged
arteries available from the legs to be used on the
heart after repeated "cloggings" of those arteries?
Stents are the newest way to open clogged
arteries, and they have the same limited time of
successful function. In some cases, the stent itself
becomes clogged, in others, the clogging occurs at
one end of the stent.
The medical profession does not claim to be
able to cure heart disease they way they do strep
throat or pneumonia. They only say that they can
treat the symptoms. If a person stops the treatments,
death will be the result.
While there is a good deal of talk about
managing diet to control cholesterol intake, the
medical profession does not contend that controlling
intake alone will be sufficient to ward off problems
for most people. The reason is that the liver
manufactures cholesterol, and in some people, it
makes too much. So here is a second question just
begging to be asked: Why is the liver trying to kill
some people?
It was a good liver when the person was one
year old; two years old; ten years old. For most
people it was good to them when they were twenty
and when they were thirty. Why does it turn on them
as they get older?
Maybe it doesn't. Maybe there is a reason
for the liver to increase the output of cholesterol.
Maybe the increased output is "covering up" some
problem. Maybe the way it covers up is by covering
up a leaky spot in a blood vessel. Maybe cholesterol
is "radiator stop leak" for blood vessels.
This idea is not new; an answer was
proposed in 1968 by Linus Pauling. He suggested
that the arteries were breaking down faster than the
body could repair them, and that cholesterol was a
temporary expedient to protect us from leaky, about
to rupture, arteries. And what's the most common
cause of death among those with low cholesterol
levels? Hemorrhagic stroke, or ruptured blood
vessels.
A significant difference between most
arteries and the coronary arteries is that the heart
beats twenty-four hours a day, and those arteries on
or near the heart are flexed with each beat. This
amounts to around 100,000 beats per day. The
arteries in the arms and legs are only flexed when the
muscles are in use. Of course, all arteries move with
the pulse, but that is not the same as being flexed.
So what was Pauling's suggestion for those
with high cholesterol levels? Higher doses of
vitamin C. He came to this conclusion because most
animals manufacture vitamin C in their livers or
kidneys, and do not have coronary artery disease.
Since the time of his writing, other vitamins and
minerals (vitamin E, selenium, and Co-Q10) have
been shown to be effective in improving heart health,
and when these vitamins are present in ample
quantities, coronary artery disease disappears, and
cholesterol returns to lower levels on its own. So
there is a treatment regimen that works.
Two Canadian doctors, the Shute brothers,
started publishing in 1945 their successful treatment
of heart disease with doses of vitamin E ranging from
400 IU to 2000 IU per day. They report complete
cures, with no side effects and no need for further
medical intervention.
But what about the first question: Why do
some people have the problem and others don't?
There may be two answers. One is that heart
disease is a deficiency disease, just as beriberi
(thiamin deficiency), pellagra (niacin deficiency),
and senile dementia (B-12 deficiency) are. For those,
there is no successful treatment except the
replacement of the missing vitamin. Dr. Wilfrid
Shute in Vitamin E for Ailing and Healthy Hearts
(1969) makes a case for vitamin E being that vitamin,
just as Linus Pauling makes the case for vitamin C.
If you are not deficient, you don't get the disease.
The cardiac surgeons who wrote the book
Type A Behavior and Your Heart had the other
answer to that question in 1974. They said that heart
disease is a consequence of stress, and how the
person interprets their situation. There have been
some quibbles about the specific behavioral traits and
what they mean, but the fundamental truth of the
basic message stands. The neuropeptides that the
body produces in response to stress have the ability
to distort the body's balance in favor of action over
repair. If this condition persists, damage
accumulates.
So it looks like there are two ways to be
healthy: lessen the damage, or increase the rate of
repair. Maybe the best is to do both. But what can
one do about stress in our current circumstances?
The kind of stress that is harmful is that
which occurs not because of the circumstances, but
from our reaction to the circumstances. That reaction
will be characteristic for each person. Some people
respond directly, then forget about it. Others fret
about it, or carry the stress and anger, indefinitely.
These are the ones that stress the repair capability of
the body.
The habitual or characteristic ways that
people have of dealing with life were almost always
developed when they were young. The first time a
new situation presented itself, the child made a
response. The next time a similar situation
presented, the prior response was replayed. From
then on, it was a habit, and not really available for
conscious choice.
If an adult were presented with that first
situation now, with all of the experience, maturity,
and wisdom they have accumulated over their lives,
a very different response might be made, one that did
not have stress accumulate. Time Line Therapy® and
NLP techniques are excellent choices for shifting the
habitual response.
Usually, one must see a practitioner of those
disciplines to get the benefits. On one's own, one can
learn how to generate the relaxation response. The
relaxation response is the complementary response to
the stress response and can be invoked intentionally.
It can be done through meditation, yoga, self-
hypnosis, etc. Invocation of the relaxation response
is the intention of all of the mind/body therapies.
The relaxation response activates the
parasympathetic system, that part of the mind and
body that heals, rejuvenates, and mends the damage
that occurs as a result just going about our daily lives.
With damage being minimized, and with ample
nutrients, the body repairs itself at 50 the way it did
when it was only ten. After all, a cut or blister still
heals. Why shouldn't all parts of the body?
The pharmaceutical industry would have you
spend big bucks on prescription medications known
to have detrimental side effects, and with no promise
of healing, just stop-gap measures of countering the
buildup of cholesterol. It is a case of masking the
symptom of the disease, while ignoring the cause.
"If you take the heart cases out of doctors'
offices (and the taking of vitamin E poses a threat of
it) more than half the income of the medical
profession will vanish. A heart disease case is an
annuity for the doctors, and people will continue to
die because they are caught in the toils of economics
- mink coats for doctors' wives, Cadillacs, and stock
and bond investments. This state of affairs will
continue as long as the medical profession is
permitted to police itself." J.I. Rodale, Prevention
Magazine, March, 1963
It's your life, and your choice. [End]
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 Medicine Hammers Chemo 27
New England Journal of
Medicine Hammers Chemo,
Applauds Alternative
Cancer Therapy
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
Times are a-changin' in the US Health
community. Who would have believed that the
prestigious New England Journal of Medicine would
APPLAUD an Alternative Cancer Therapy, and in
the same article, BLAST chemotherapy, as
worthless.
Well, it happened... in the December 12th,
2002 issue, in a review by James Spencer Malpas,
M.D., D.Phil. St. Bartholomew's Hospital London
EC1A 7BE, United Kingdom You can find the article
in the Journal at
http://content.NEJM.org/cgi/content/full/347/24/198
6, if you're willing to fork over the ten bucks.
For those of you that don't want to spend the
ten, here are the quotes...
Quote #1 - "He found the evidence in favor
of conventional treatment unconvincing and opted
for such alternative therapies as Gerson therapy with
its strict diet, vitamins, and enemas. High-dose
vitamin C and high-dose vitamin D, both
contraindicated in the orthodox treatment of multiple
myeloma, were later added to the regimen. What is
evident is that this was the right therapy for him."
Quote #2 - "The irony of the whole situation
is that a recent randomized trial of treatment for
stage 1 multiple myeloma by Riccardi and
colleagues (British Journal of Cancer 2000;82:1254-
60) showed no advantage of conventional
chemotherapy over no treatment."
Well, well... That ought to escalate the
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How To Recognize Signs
From Spirit
By Joseph Eliezer
If you have been trying to make your life a
little easier and more fulfilling lately, chances are
that you have been introduced to many concepts
which declare that the way to do this is through
Spiritual enlightenment.
From bettering your health to increasing
your finances or obtaining peace of mind, most of
the books that have dominated the bestseller list, and
in the media, over the past decade, all agree that the
key to living a more rewarding life is to live it with a
greater emphasis on Spirit. That being the case, the
question that comes up is "how is that done"? "How
can you make your life better all the way around by
living it according to Spirit"? The answer to that is
by learning to interpret the guidance that is given to
you and developing the courage to act on it.
It is important to know that being
communicated to from Spirit is not something only
Continued on Col. 3 of this Page
GIANT ELEPHANT
FOSSILS FOUND IN
CENTRAL ITALY
Duluth, Minn. News-Tribune
What is now the city of Rome was once the
"Elephant's Graveyard" over a quarter-million years
ago, according to an Italian woman archaeologist.
"Some 300,000 years ago, ancient elephants
trudged into a shallow river to drink but found their
legs stuck in the mud. Eventually, they fell and died
there, attracting scavenger animals and pre-humans,
who fed off the meat and made tools from the bones."
"After 17 years of excavation," the site at
Castel di Guido in Italy, located 25 kilometers (15
miles) from Rome, "packed with thousands of animal
bones and tusks the length of station wagons, opens
to the public for the first time this month."
"Fossilized bones from ancient forms of
deer, oxen, horses, rhinoceroses, mice, birds, small
reptiles and fish all lie in the hardened earth of the
prehistoric swamp. No pre-human skeletons have
been found, although excavators discovered 500
primitive instruments made of flint and bone."
"The archaeologist heading the project, Anna
Paola Anzidei, says the site was particularly
important for fossils of the species Elephas antiquus,
an ancestor of the modern elephant."
"Though there are several other similar sites
in Italy, La Polledrara di Cecanibbio holds the oldest,
most plentiful and best preserved bones due to the
abundance of the gas flourite in the region, scientists
say."
“‘The site preserves the best samples from
anywhere in the world of Pleistocene elephants
(Palaeoloxodon-- J.T.) from that period of time
(300,000 B.C.),' says professor of paleobiology
Adrian Lister at University College, London, who
visited the site in October 2001. 'The study of skulls,
for example, will help us better understand the
relation of the population to other fossil elephants.
That work has not been done yet.'"
"Geology professor Larry Agenbroad at
Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff highly
praised the Italian location, which he viewed in
October 2001."
Dr. Agenbroad oversees the Mammoth Site
in Hot Springs, South Dakota (population 4,129),
which is "famed as the best for its museum that
contains the remains of 49 Colombian mammoths."
"'The size of the elephants I saw at the Italian
site was mindboggling,' he says, 'It would be
particularly interesting for people who study
paleontology and archaeology, as well. I expect the
public would be very impressed with it.'"
Gigliola Possenti, an archaeologist working
at Castel di Guido, said the researchers at the site are
"studying the climate and environment of the region
during the (Pleistocene) period and the ways in
which pre-humans in the area began interacting with
big game." [End]
Continued from Col. 1 of this page
for the elite. Many of the modern beliefs point to the
coincidences that occur in your life as being
messages from or communication with a higher deity.
Translation: if you are experiencing a coincidence,
then you are being communicated to. After all, it is
literally impossible to plan such occurrences and
always, the coincidence has to do with moving your
life or helping to move somebody else's life forward.
To this rule there are no exceptions.
I remember one such instance a few years
ago. I was walking through a shopping mall and saw
an old friend sitting on one of the benches there. He
looked depressed and sort of troubled. I walked up to
him and greeted him with a big warm smile. "Hey
Lorne," I said, "How are you doing?" He answered
that he was not doing very well. Lorne had just
recently got married. His beautiful wife and he were
expecting a baby a few months down the road, and
he had recently lost his job.
The day before that, I was talking to another
old friend of mine who told methat he was looking
for a sales rep for his company. So the next day, while
I was talking to Lorne, I asked him if he had ever
thought about working in sales. He said that he loved
being in sales and would jump at the chance to sell
again if the product was right. I then told him about
the conversation I had with my other friend the day
before and suddenly Lorne's eyes perked up. I gave
him my other friend's phone number and within a
week, Lorne was on the road earning more money
than he ever had in the past. I got a thank you card
from both of them not three weeks after my chance
meeting with Lorne in the mall. It made my day.
Signs from Spirit come in all shapes, forms
and sizes. It is impossible to make a human inventory
about the many ways in which Spirit can come into
your life, because Spirit is not human.
Another rule of thumb that is held by devout
Spiritualists is that absolutely everything that
happens to you in your life happens for a reason, no
matter how big or small the event is.
Just as there was a reason for me to have a
conversation with my friend who owned a business
that day, so too was there a reason for me to bump
into Lorne the next day. The conversation with the
friend happened for a reason; my coincidental
meeting with Lorne did too. I interpreted the two
occurrences and through action, played the part of the
messenger by connecting them together doing them
both a favor, which in turn made me feel most
spiritual.
The best thing that you can do in learning to
become more spiritual is to learn to be more open to
the experiences that occur in your life and by not
judging them as good or bad. There is a reason why
things happen to you and as you start to open
yourself to the unlimited possibilities to the ways that
Spirit communicates through the events in your life,
you begin to live the teaching that says, "The Lord
works in mysterious ways".
Your job in making the Spiritual world more
physical is not to force these ways to make sense
according to how you want your life to be, but to be
open to them, thus giving the events that occur in
your life more room to flow. This will allow events to
unfold naturally in your life, which will bring you the
health, joy and prosperity that you are wanting. It
cannot be otherwise. [End]
IN THE FEBRUARY ISSUE OF
THE ‘X’ CHRONICLES NEWSPAPER
THE RAELIANS: An Indepth
Look Into One of the Fastest
Growing Cults
 28 King Bird Fifty
The Strange Case Of
King Bird Fifty
By James L. Choron
kommissar@mtu-net.ru
WinterSteel.com
Due to the sensitive nature of this story and
It's recent occurrence, all names have been deleted
from the text in order to protect the sources of this
material.
On the night (Thule time) of December 23rd,
2001, the Air Traffic Control at Thule AFB began
receiving calls from an unidentified aircraft. The
weather was horrible... as is usual for Thule... -52
Celcius, with snow and sleet driven by a twenty mile
per hour wind, with gusts to thirty five miles per
hour... The call letters of the aircraft were badly
garbled, as was the voice transmission, which was
coming in on an unused (obsolete) harmonic of the
standard frequency. The only thing that they could
make out clearly was the aircraft's designation...
"King Bird Five Zero". This is not a call, or an
official designation of any sort, it is the designation
of a particular type of aircraft.
Typical mid-run B-50 Heavy Bomber
The aircraft showed on radar as an
intermittent blip of considerable size, although not as
large as modern heavy aircraft. Radar also indicated
three other things... First, the incoming aircraft was
extremely slow- moving, by accepted standards, and
secondly, it was extremely low. Any experienced
pilot would, if able, get above the current storm
front, and remain there until the last possible minute.
The front was a big one... extending to an altitude of
some 42,000 feet, but this altitude was well inside
the maximum ceiling of any known aircraft in
service the size of the incoming "visitir". Unless...
the "visitor" had sustained damage, such as loss of
cabin pressure, and could not rise to this altitude.
Finally, there was one other consideration... no
military aircraft was scheduled to be incoming at the
time, and there were no scheduled civilian flights
known to be in the area.
Force Base, which was earlier referred to as "Blue approximately two hours, they reported back to
West One" but always called Thule by pilots and Thule AFB, by radio, informing the Search and
groud personnel on site.) Rescue Headquarters that they had found the
"wreckage" of a U.S. Air Force Boeing B-50D
Superfortress bomber... which had belly landed on
the glacier, in approximately four approximately
sixteen feet of snow, twelve nautical miles out, in a
direct line with Thule AFB's main runway. The crew
was in place... dead.
There was no significant damage to the
aircraft other than being completely out of fuel. The
amount of snow on the surface of the glacier
apparently cushioned the impact of the bomber. The
crew, according to the logbook, knowing that they
were reasonably close to Thule AFB, chose to remain
onboard rather than risk the weather... thinking that a
search would be imminent.
The aircraft's logbook showed to be up to
Air Traffic Control at Thule Air Force Base first date until approximately the time of the last
started making intermittent contact with the aircraft transmission received by Thule Air Force Base Air
when it was approximately 100 nautical miles out of Traffic Control... But... it also showed that the flight
Thule, over the Atlantic. Somehow, it had simply, had originated at McGuire AFB, New Jersey, on
very suddenly, "appeared" as a faint "blip"on Radar, December 22nd, 1948 and that the elapsed time of
fading in and out as it progressed slowly Eastward, the flight the number of hours actually recorded by
right in the midst of the storm. Radio contact had the crew was consistent with a flight from McGuire
begun at approximately the same time. Messages to Thule, at the maximum operational speed of this
incoming were regular, but garbled by interfereence type aircraft, given the weather conditions prevelent
from the foul weather, coming in on a harmonic (side the current time. They were, in fact, only two hours
band) of a long unused military frequency. The behind schedule, due to the fierce headwind that they
transmissions were voice only, but the voice appeared to have been fighting. This headwind also
appeared to be steady, firm and unconcerned by the accounts for the aircraft's forcedlanding on the
horrendous flying conditions prevelent at the glacier, as the power requirements placed on the
aircraft's cruising altitde 30,000 feet. The timing engines under such adverse conditions, more than
indicated a set pattern of transmission, such as the doubled normal consumption. The logbook, which is
kind of routine positioning reports used in the days allegedly up to date until shortly after the time of the
before Radar was either common, or dependable. plane's crash landing, also indicates that the crew was
There was no transponder signal, and no radar signal aware of their near proximity to Thule AFB, and
imcoming from the aircraft. Thule tower remained in expected immediate, or near immediate rescue. They
regular contact with the incoming aircraft for slightly therefore elected to stay with the craft, rather than
over one hour. venture off toward the Air Base. The condition and
The last message came at 01:07 GMT, at composition of the crew's uniforms indicate that their
which time the aircraft was a solid radar image, and chances of survival in the prevalent surface
approximately 10 nautical miles from Thule AFB's conditions would have been slim to none. Since the
main runway, over the lip of the glacier. The B-50D was developed long before the advent of
message, in clear transmission, stated... "We show to pressure suits, or extreme high altitude flying were
be ten knots out, and should be able to see you... but more than record-setting novelties... the crew was
we can't see you... light up the night..." equipped only with "normal" winter-issue uniforms
of the day, augmented by heavy "B-2" coats. While
heavier clothing was available at the time of the
flight's supposed origin, none was found onboard.
While this seemed strange to the would-be rescuers,
research later discovered that the winter of 1948/49
had been considered a "mild" one by Greenland
standards, and the issue would have been quite
Aerial photo of sufficient for that time.
Thule Air Force
Base taken in the
summer when it is
completely free of
ice.

Thule AFB is accustomed to having

unscheduled visitors many of whom are in distress.
They are capable of and quite willing to "light up the
night". In fact, with all of the emergency lighting in
use, the main runway at Thule is clearly visible, a (Electromagnet Anomalies near Thules, AFB)
good deal more than ten miles out in the worst
possible weather. They can also set off a radar Continues on Page 29
beacon, which is capable of literally making the hull
vibrate on incoming aircraft. None of f ths, however,
proved to be of any value. Immediately afterwards, IN THE FEBRUARY ISSUE OF
the in-bound craft vanished from Thule's radar THE ‘X’ CHRONICLES NEWSPAPER
screens, and there were no further radio
transmissions.
Owing to the conditions... darkness and THE RAELIANS: An Indepth
storm... it was several hours before a search could be
mounted for what was assumed to be an aircraft
Look Into One of the Fastest
down on the Greenland Glacier. At first light, a Growing Cults
search party was dispatched to the last known
(Map of Greenland showing the location of Thule Air location of the incoming contact. After a search of
 King Bird Fifty
The Strange Case Of
King Bird Fifty
Continues from Page 28
All this aside, the crew seems to have done
the logical thing by remaining in the aircraft, where
there was some protection from inclimate weather.
As it was, they seem to have survived for several
hours after their landing Examination on site, and a
later Coroner's report allegedly indicates that the
crew died from shock and exposure. While the
bodies were partially frozen, there was no "frost
burn" or other associated damage from prolonged
freezing. Time of death was fixed at ten hours, plus
or minus two, before discovery, wihch is consistent
with the time of the last radio/radar contact with
"incoming" unidentified aircraft by Thule Air Traffic
Control.
"Unofficially" the crew and aircraft have
been identified as one which went "missing, and was
presumed lost"... presumed to have crashed into the
Atlantic, due to "unknown circumstances"... on a
routine patrol drployment, "some years ago". Since
downed aircraft are common on Thule, and the
nature of the far northern location often means that
such aircraft are soon covered over with literally
dozens of feet of snow, this "explanation" is
plausible.
The aircraft, a type that went completely out
of service with the Air Force in the late fifties, was
the last propeller driven bomber in the U.S. Air Force
invenory. The serial number and log book
designation of the recovered aircraft, match the
fragmentary transmissions received by Thule AFB
Air Traffic Control and match the "lost" flight of
1948.
The Heavy long range B-50 Superfortress
was developed from the earlier, Second World War
era B-29 Superfortress, the same type of aircraft
which delivered the first Atomic Bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.The primary difference was
a slightly larger rudder assembly, and more
powerful, turbo-prop engines. It was an impressive
aircraft, for it's time and the last propeller driven
bomber ever accepted for service in the U.S. Air
Force.
General characteristics
- Primary function - Long range heavy bomber
- Power plant Four turboshaft Pratt & Whitney R
4360-35 engines
- Length 99 ft 30,2 m
- Wingspan 141.2 ft 43 m
- Wingarea 1,720 sq. ft 159.8 sq. m
- Weight empty 84,714 lb 38,426 kg max. takeoff
173,000 lb 78,472 kg
- Combat ceiling 35,650 ft 10,900 m
- Speed cruising 244 mph 393 km/h max. 395 mph
635 km/h
- Rate of climb sea level 620 ft/min 189 m/min
combat (max. power) 2,200 ft/min 671 m/min
- Combat radius 2,396 miles 3,856 km
- Total mission time 20 hours
- Maximum load (bombs) 28,000 lb 12,700 kg
- Crew Eight (pilot, co-pilot, engineer, radio-
electronic countermeasures operator, left-side
gunner, right-side gunner, top gunner, tail gunner)
- Armament 13x .50-caliber machine guns Date
deployed 1945 Number built 370
While impressive for it's time, beyond any
doubt the most sophisticated aircraft of it's type then
in service, a quick look at the statistics will show that
it was ill equipped to handle a major Arctic Storm
being too slow and inefficient in it's fuel
consumption to "fight it's way through", and lacking
Early run B-50 heavy bomber, most likely to be
identical in appearance to King Bird Five Zero
the altitude maximums needed to "get above" such a
storm. The aircraft also did not have a pressurized
cabin. Like all aircraft of this era, the crew depended
only on breathing masks, and heavy clothing for
comfort, coupled with a cabin heater that operated
only when the engines were in use.
According to reports, the aircraft has, since
it's recovery, been transported to a maintaince hanger
at Thule Air Force Base. It is not badly damaged. The
plane landed in heavy snow, and aside from some
relatively minor "scarring" and a four slightly bent
propeller blades, there is no real damage. It is
estimated that the old plane could be flown out of
Thule in less than three days... depending on weather
conditions... and... if someone could be located who
knows how, and has the proper certifications, to fly
this type of aircraft. According to rumor, a search for
such a person is currently underway. Maintaince
reports also allegedly confirm that the cause of the
crash was very simple... out of fuel, and a large
aircraft, of this type, can only glide so far... especially
into a twenty to thirty-five mile per hour plus
headwind.
The Air Force has supposedly contacted
existing next of kin. The statement says that they
have found the remains and that they are from a crash
that happened "some years ago". The bodies are
being "prepared" for return to the U.S. An "official"
statements to the press... not as yet released... but
allegedly scheduled to be released within a few
days... will state that in-tact wreckage has been
found, but will give only the date of departure of the
flight and "official" time of loss... 22 December,
1948... and no further details.
What is the true story behind King Bird
Fifty? The oddesy of the venerable old Cold Warrior
poses more questions than answers...
It would appear that "something" swallowed
this plane and it's crew in 1948, and spit it in 2001.
There is no evidence that the aircrew was aware of
the passage of time, other than normal flight time
from McGuire to Thule, plus the two hours or so that
they were put behind by the storm. Nor, had the crew,
according to reports, aged any. Their apparent ages
match the age recorded for them at the time of their
departure, over half a century ago.. Is there some
kind of natural "vortex" a "portal" that randomly
opens in the fabric of space and time? Are there
places in the world in which one can be "swallowed
up", only to be returned at the same place, in a future
or past time If this is so, then all we know of Physics
and the so-called "laws" of nature, are only the
beginnings of a dream.
What would have been the case if the crew of
King Bird Fifty had survived? What if they had been
"rescued"? What would have been their fate? Would
it have been the imprisonment of "government
secrecy"? Would it have been madness? Both?
Is there some short of "paradox shield" in
effect which prevented the crew from surviving the
crash? Were they, in effect, already dead when the
29
aircraft landed? Had they been "dead" ever since the
aircraft disappeared some fifty-three years ago?
Is the flight of King Bird Fifty some sort of
naturally occurring, airborne, "Philadelphia
Experiment"?
Is this incident indicatie of some sort of
"Bermuda Triangle" type anamoly?
Has this kind of thing happened before?
Does someone, in fact, know exactly what
happened to King Bird Fifty and her crew? Is it being
covered up, like so many other "unexplained" and
"unsubstantiated" paranormal occurences... for
reasons of "national security" or for fear of causing a
"panic"... or is King Bird Fifty the subject (some
might say "victim") of some darker, and more well-
thought-out scenario... part of some "experiment"
that people are "better off" not knowing about... some
hidden aspect of the "Cold War" from which the
general public is being "protected"?
Did the incident happen at all, or is it yet
another "mystery" and growing legend of the far
north? Is it yet another "tale of the unexplained"... the
kind that seems to simply grow around aviation, as
they once flourished around the ships which plied the
oceans?
There are always "rumors" like the "rumors"
which surround the Roswell Disc and the Bermuda
Triangle... like the "rumor" about King Bird Fifty.
"Rumors" that might never come to light or maybe
some day, they will. Who knows? Almost certainly,
someone does. [End]
Reckless driver blames
Martians
MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) -- A
Frenchman who raced through a motorway road
block, triggering a high-speed police car chase
that ended in a minor crash, has blamed aliens
from Mars for his reckless driving.
Under police custody in a hospital in the
Mediterranean city of Marseille, the 42-year-old
told police he was being "chased by Martians"
when he charged through a road block on the
A55 motorway on Monday evening, police
sources said.
A breathalyzer test for alcohol proved
negative, but police are still awaiting the results
of drugs tests and a psychiatric examination.
France, which has one of the worst accident
rates in Europe with more
than 8,000 road deaths each year, is in the
process of stiffening its speeding and drink-
driving laws to try and reduce the carnage on its
roads.
 30 Cloning Major Announcement
Cloning group to make
'major announcement'
HOLLYWOOD, Florida (CNN) -- A controversial
group that has claimed to be able and willing to clone
a human has scheduled a news conference for Friday
to make a "major announcement," according to the
group's spokesperson.
Brigitte Boisselier, the scientific director of
Clonaid, is scheduled to make the announcement
Friday at 9 a.m. Last week, Boisselier told some
news organizations that the birth of a cloned baby
girl is imminent.
Many animal cloners -- including Ian
Wilmut, the Scottish researcher who successfully
cloned the first animal, Dolly the sheep, in 1997 --
disapprove of human cloning. Wilmut has said it took
276 failed attempts before Dolly was successfully
cloned.
"It is not responsible at this stage to even
consider the cloning of humans, " said Rudolf
Jaenisch, a biologist at MIT's Whitehead Institute for
Biological Research, which clones mice.
Janeisch said that even if a human clone
appears healthy, it may not be once it gets older.
Cloning a human at this point, he said, without
knowing more about why things go wrong, is
"essentially using humans as guinea pigs, and one
shouldn't do this."
According to Dr. Jon Hill, a veterinarian who
successfully cloned cows at Texas A&M University,
even clones who appear normal at birth often develop
problems afterward.
"Their livers, their lungs, their heart, their
blood vessels are often abnormal after birth," Hill
said.
SOME NEVER TO DO
THINGS WHEN
GHOSTHUNTING
NEVER Trespass: Watch out for any posted warning
signs. Always ask for permission before going onto
someone else's property. Avoid all areas where access
is prohibited. Trespassing will only get you thrown in
jail or worse. Be careful.
NEVER Litter: Leave the area exactly as you found
it. Pick up any trash, containers, and scraps of paper
and tape. Wipe off any chalk marks unless the site is
a secluded area and you plan on returning.
NEVER Go alone: Have at least one partner on ghost
hunts. Even if the person doesn't know anything
about ghost hunting. This provides a little more
safety and also a witness to any strange events that
might occur. If you're alone and there's an unforeseen
accident or emergency, who will help?

Boisselier has told CNN in the past that she
will not make an announcement until a healthy baby
is born. She told a congressional committee last year
that she believed she had the knowledge to produce
a human clone in the near future.
Clonaid, which calls itself the "first human
cloning company," was founded by a religious group
called the Raelians in 1997. Boisselier is a bishop in
the Raelian movement, which professes that life on
Earth was created through genetic engineering by
extraterrestrials.
The Raelians believe their spiritual leader
Rael is a direct descendant of these aliens. Rael told
CNN in July 2001 that the long-term goal for human
cloning is to live forever. Rael says cloning a baby is
only the first step: Eventually the group wants to
learn how to clone an adult, then "transfer the brain
to the clone."
Boisselier says the immediate purpose for
cloning is to help infertile couples. Last November,
she told CNN she was "indeed doing human cloned
embryos and we have many cell divisions," but she
wouldn't confirm any pregnancies.
Group has not released any data on research
To make a clone, scientists first take an egg
and remove all of its genetic material. Then the
nucleus of a cell -- any cell in the body -- is taken
from the individual to be cloned and inserted into the
hollowed-out egg.
The cell is then given a jolt of electricity or
put in a chemical bath to activate cell division --
essentially tricking the cell into doing what a
fertilized egg would normally do. Then the embryo
is implanted into a woman's uterus to be carried to
term.
It is unknown which exact procedure
Clonaid is using, because it has not published or
released any data about its research.
Boisselier has not revealed the location of
her current lab, only to say it is no longer in the
United States. She used to have a lab in West
Virginia, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
visited the lab and shut it down.
Scientists so far have successfully cloned
sheep, cows, goats, mice, pigs and a rare wild ox.
But human cloning is controversial, because the
experience with animal cloning has shown a lot of
potential for things to go wrong.
'One shouldn't do this,' biologist says of
human cloning
Few legal prohibitions on human cloning NEVER Forget to Carry ID: If the police ever
question you about being in a private area, you will
The Raelians are not the only group claiming need some form of picture identification. Preferably
to actively try to clone a human. a divers license. They do have the right to ask any
Italian doctor Severino Antinori made citizen for an ID and if you don't have one they also
several announcements in recent months, claiming have the right to detain you for questioning.
that a woman was carrying a human clone that would
be born in January 2003. And former University of NEVER Forget to tell people where you are: Tell
Kentucky professor Panos Zavos has also announced someone where you'll be at and how long you plan on
plans to clone a human, but he told CNN earlier this being gone. If you run late in the ghost hunt, call and
year he had not successfully created an embryo yet. explain the situation. Never leave friends or loved
Scientists and bioethicists have questioned ones wondering where you are.
whether any of these groups have the ability to clone
a human. Art Caplan, director of the Center for NEVER Record false equipment readings: Test all of
Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, has said your equipment several times before leaving on an
in the past that "we don't know how" to accomplish investigation. Replace batteries as needed. Learn to
human cloning. correctly use all of the equipment before even
Legally, there's very little to stop scientists thinking about trying to use them in the field.
from cloning. In January, the National Academy of Remember to take background readings at the site.
Sciences recommended a ban on human cloning, but
only four states -- California, Michigan, Louisiana NEVER Go directly to a site at night: Thoroughly
and Rhode Island -- ban any type of cloning research. check over the site in the daylight for any dangerous
The FDA claims it has jurisdiction over obstacles that may be invisible in the darkness.
human cloning based on the Public Health Service
and Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. It says it would NEVER Smoke, drink alcohol or use drugs: Don't do
regulate the cloning process like a drug. [End] anything that will impair your judgment or infect the
site's environment. Use common sense.
Peruvian Woman Dies NEVER Wear colognes, after shave, or perfumes:
Never wear anything that creates a noticeable odor.
from Rust The smells may infect other ghost hunter's
judgments. The air needs to be clear to detect any
LIMA, PERU--A 22-year-old Peruvian abnormal odors. Some outside ghost hunts may
woman died of an infection caused by a rusty require misquote repellents. Use odor free bug
padlock on the chastity belt that her jealous husband sprays. Log their use.
forced her to wear while he was away on business
trips, police said yesterday. NEVER Forget to carry a notebook: Everything
Police said that Rosa Esquen Vela died three needs to be recorded and logged. No detail is too
days ago from septicemic poisoning after the rusty small. Keep lists of events, actions, and times.
lock on the tight leather chastity belt dug into her Record with audio and video if possible.
fiesh and caused a fatal infection.
A government prosecutor said that her NEVER Forget to wear a watch: This goes along
husband, Dionicio Vela, would spend at least five with the Logbook. You can't record times if you don't
years in jail in the death and for reviving the know what time it is.
medieval practice of ensuring his wife's sexual
fidelity by keeping her under lock and key. He did NEVER Whisper: Always speak clearly, especially if
not say exactly what charges Vela would face. you're recording the ghost hunt. You don't want to
Police said Vela had made the chastity belt later confuse your whispering as something
himself out of thick, coarse rawhide and always supernatural. If there are ghosts around your voice is
locked the padlock and took the key when business not going to scare them off.
trips took him away from his village in Peru's rugged
jungle. NEVER Forget to do research and profiles: To many
They said the toxic infection set in when Vela ghost hunters don't do the proper research before
was delayed on his most recent trip and failed to going out into the field. What they are failing to
return before his wife died. [End] understand is that good research will only help them
with the possibilities of seeing a ghost.
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 Detect Psychic Frauds
How not to be scammed by a
"Psychic"
By:
Reverend Garth Farrington-House
The Psychic Universe
Continued from Page 13
5. Watch out for psychics that try to tell you
using coercion that before you begin the first session
you absolutely must come back to clear up mist, fog,
negativity, black clouds hanging around you,
demons, or any other spiritual things that are alleged
elements hampering or going to hamper your life
path without your consent, or without you feeling
that what they are saying is true information.
If this happens, stop the current session and
ask them to clarify what they mean, in detail, until
you are sure or clear on what they are trying to say.
If it is not just an intimidating sales pitch, they
should give you some verifiable detail to chew on,
metaphorically speaking. If it was a pressure tactic,
they may be stammering and stumbling throughout
the explanation. In that case, sit back and watch
before leaving.
Along with that, watch out for an intuitive
community member that has to have more money to
see "better" or "more clearly" for you than for the
agreed upon amount. Start laughing, because that is
what they will probably be doing at you, if you are
gullible enough to fork over that cash for that reason.
Hence, be wary of psychics that tell you in
order something good in your life to happen such as
a raise, a loved one returning, success, instant wealth
or currently unattainable power, you need to fork
over massive amounts of undisguised or undisclosed
money for them to make this happen to you or for
you in your life. They may be in agreement with your
for wealth or other things, and you may both be
blessed with creating positive energy into your life
because of the reading that brings about change, but
not at a 100% rate of accuracy, and certainly not for
undisguised or undisclosed amounts of cash.
6. Watch out for any psychics that have you
running around in circles of pandemonium in search
of any range of superstitious goods from rabbits feet,
candles, claws of any kind, hair, or any other object
not directly related to the problem or issue at hand to
make a love return, or reunite you, unless you are
choosing to. Also, if they do have or request
something of you or from you other than to be a
participant in your own session, ask them what the
point and purpose is and how that action will be of
assistance to you. Then, either go ahead with the
session, or back out. You should always have a
choice.
7. Watch out for 100% guarantees. Run like
the wind if a psychic gives you a 100% guarantee on
getting a person back into your life or doing anything
for you 100% session wise. In romance, unless they
guarantee to go get your wanted loved one from their
home, and physically drag them over to your door
kicking and screaming which is quite illegal, do not
fall victim to a 100% guarantee. There is nothing
more gross than forcing someone to love you, and
getting someone to try to help you achieve that goal.
Go to counseling if you need this to happen in your
life. Forcing is violence, and violence is against the
law.
8. Watch out for psychics that nastily
belittle you, start verbally abusing you, or make you
feel queasy or uncomfortable for a reason other than
your perception of the session or them. If this starts
to happen, hang up or leave. If you do not want to be
shocked, tell the psychic. You should be allowed to
ask what you want to know and only get those
answers. In contrast, make sure that you do not
confuse that statement with giving yourself
permission not to pay when you did not get to hear
what you wanted during your session time. In dealing
with Karma, what energy you put out there usually
comes back to you. So be careful.
9. Watch out for stated prices from signs or
specials that lure you in to the psychic reading, only
to change as soon as you walk in the door. They can
be as dangerous as falling rocks. If the sign out front
says $10.00 a session tell the psychic upon entering
that you would like the $10.00 reading.
If the psychic tries to change the price, or
tells you that the advertised price you saw, wanted,
and are agreeing to is different, not for you or that
particular session would not benefit you or your
situation, after you have already gone inside without
giving you the option to decline upgrading or decline
altering your wanted advertised session, walk out.
That is called a bait and switch technique. They bait
you with a posted offer on a sign with an advertised
sale price, and then they switch the deal on you when
they have you in the door. Conversely, any business
can alter a sale without notification if the sign is not
visible to the public especially if stated in sale flyer
fine print, or the stated sign time limit is up, or if they
offer you another special that cancels out the one on
the sign. If they notify you verbally of any special
rate changing even if the rate is posted, consider
yourself notified.
10. Watch out for psychics that attack your
own belief system during a reading. A good psychic
will tell you how they believe their information come
to them for you. However, they should not attack
your religion or your God if it differs. If you do not
find that they serve the same God you do or the same
way that you do, you always should have the option
to either choose to go ahead with the session, or to
walk away, or hang up. Don't dabble in something
that makes you uncomfortable, yet feel free to try
new things that make you feel ok.
11. Watch out for the ultimate psychic scam
that takes advantage of eager people wanting to know
more of their fate through the psychic community.
The new scam is mostly done by overseas lines
placing people paying by the minute on hold or in a
chat room until their reading, at the reading rate
prices without the person knowing or realizing that
they are even being charged for that waiting time at a
psychic session rate. There are ads out there by
companies that will place and ad stating that they
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have an overseas line without any further psychic
charges. Be careful, and check your per minute
phone rates to their location to see exactly how much
that free service is really costing you by the minute.
Along with that, please make sure that you are not
paying a psychic to meditate, talk on the other line to
their friends or family on your dollar, or hang up.
12. Please watch out for psychics that
solicit money from you above and beyond your paid
reading.
While there are many scams and rip-offs out
there in the psychic community, not all psychics are
out to scam people. Psychics get their feelings hurt
just like everyone else, so be careful not to cause hard
feelings that are not necessary. If the practicing
psychic tells you how much the services cost or are
going to cost you up front, pay them. If you can not
afford to call at the listed price, do not call.
Emotional manipulation works both ways. Nothing
in life is free. Don't lump the whole community
together as a group. There are many diverse people
and differing talents. If you do not like a particular
session with one psychic, try a different reader or
another session that may be for you. Watch out for
scamming psychics. Appreciate the psychics that
take their time to make your session both enjoyable
and comfortable for you. Some psychics work well
with others in their field as both healthy wealth
wheeling merchants and savvy advisors. Some do
not. Remember that the word psychic usually refers
to a real and ordinary person with a usually exciting,
vital and marketable ability or talent. If you don't like
how they practice, stay out of their shop. Psychics are
people too. The suit of judgment does not look good
on anyone
Twelve things to watch out for when getting
a psychic reading
Twelve things to watch out for when getting
a psychic reading is a practical yet comprehensive
look at scams and rip-offs to watch out for in detail
when getting a psychic reading. The Psychic
Universe has worked to eliminate the chances of
being ripped off in any way by adopting a very strict
demanding protocol when recruiting psychics to
work with our service. Unlike any other service we
require that every applicant be subject to our one of a
kind selection procedure, this includes that the
applicant be thoroughly tested and must have a
minimum of a 75% accuracy rate, we also require a
minimum of 4 professional references (that we do
check on) these references must be able to verify that
the applicant has been doing readings for a period of
over 4 years and that the readings were accurate.
It is only then that we will consider the applicant
for our service. Unlike the 900 phone psychic
companies that have no testing guidelines and only
require the applicant to sign a so called affidavit
stating that they possess metaphysical abilities, we
consider this as totally inadequate as many of these
people have no regard for honesty let alone the law
governing the signing of such a document. After all
as was pointed out to us when one of the psychics
who were working on one of those 900 lines pointed
out, who is going to check on the person or persons
who sign this. Also signing this sort of affidavit is a
joke, because we all know that everyone does have
some degree of psychic power. But it does not mean
that they are a truly gifted psychic with the ability to
use this gift in the delivery of a true and accurate
reading. It is just a blanket that companies use to
avoid legal problems and to cover themselves.
Reverend Garth Farrington-house
Founder of the psychic universe
http://www.thepsychicuniverse.com
 32 The Human Brain
The human brain, even at its ancient,
primitive core, is less an organ of impulse
than a machine of reason. We are built to
make sense of things. Our brains
restlessly scan the world for patterns in
chaos and causes in coincidence.
BY AMY ELLIS NUTT
Newhouse News Service
We crave explanation and, when faced with
the ineffable, sometimes
we create the answer.
For many people, the answer to the most
ineffable question of all -- "Why do we exist?" -- is
God.
Neuroscientist Rhawn Joseph has spent
years studying history, myth and biology in his quest
to understand the universality of spiritual experience
and its evolutionary function.
In his studies of the brains of Tibetan monks
and Franciscan nuns, radiologist Andrew Newberg
seeks out the relationship between neural activity
and mystical experience.
Both men believe that the connection
between the brain and spirituality suggests that there
is a physiological basis for religion -- that human
beings, in essence, are hard-wired for God.
******
Rhawn Joseph, of Santa Clara, Calif.,
believes there is a neurological, even genetic,
explanation for religious belief and spiritual
experience.
Homo sapiens, he theorizes, have evolved
the capacity to experience God primarily through the
amygdala, a small, almond-shaped structure buried
deep in the brain. The amygdala, along with the
hippocampus and hypothalamus, make up the limbic
system, the first-formed and most primitive part of
the brain, where emotions, sexual pleasure and
deeply felt memories arise.
Says Joseph: "These tissues, which become
highly activated when we dream, when we pray or
when we take drugs such as LSD, enable us to
experience those realms of reality normally filtered
from consciousness, including the reality of God, the
spirit, the soul, and life after death."
Joseph, who has a doctorate in
neuropsychology and is the author of a
comprehensive textbook called "Neuropsychiatry,
Neuropsychology and Clinical Neuroscience," cites
his own clinical and historical research, as well as
studies of epileptic patients who have experienced
religious hallucinations, as evidence that "spiritual
experience is not based on superstition but is instead
real, biological and part of our primitive biological
drives."
The short, solidly built scientist, 51, is the
founder of an independent publishing company in
Santa Cruz called University Press. Some of the
company's nonfiction books concern astrobiology,
the science of consciousness and, in a recent
collection of essays, neurotheology -- the study of
the relationship between brain function and spiritual
experience.
There is a maverick, even provocative bent
to much of Joseph's writing. He has published a half-
dozen books of his own at University Press,
including "The Transmitter to God: The Limbic
System, the Soul and Spirituality," and he continues
to research a number of subjects, many of them in
evolutionary biology.
For the past 20 years, Joseph has been
mining neuroscience, astronomy, history, religion,
archaeology and anthropology for clues about the
meaning of intense religious ecstasy during which a
person may see an image of God or hear the voice of
an angel. Joseph believes those experiences are the
result of hyperstimulation of the amygdala, which
releases large quantities of natural opiates. The same
opiates are released in response to pain, terror and
trauma, as well as social isolation and sensory
deprivation.
"Hyperactivation of the amygdala,
hippocampus and overlying temporal lobe gives a
person the sense that they're floating or flying above
their surroundings," says Joseph. "It can trigger
memories and hallucinations, create brilliant lights,
and at the same time secrete neurotransmitters that
induce feelings of euphoria, peace and harmony."
Many religious people might view the cause
and effect in reverse -- it is the divine inspiration that
activates those areas of the brain, instead of the other
way around -- but to Joseph, the order is irrelevant.
For him, the more important question is, "Why?"
"There are creatures living in caves who
don't have eyes," he says, "because there's nothing
for them to see. But we have a visual cortex and an
auditory cortex, because there are things we were
made to see and hear. You don't develop a brain
structure to help you experience something that
doesn't exist." We are hard-wired for God, in other
words, because there is a real God to experience.
Matthew Alper, author of "The `God' Part of
the Brain," believes this assumption is flawed. "We're
capable of repression, of phantom limb pain -- our
capacity to believe what isn't there is also sometimes
helpful."
Joseph acknowledges this but argues there is
an equally possible alternative explanation for
spiritual experience: evolution.
"Maybe the ability to experience God and the
spiritually sublime is an inherited limbic trait. Maybe
we evolved these neurons to better cope with the
unknown, to perceive and respond to spiritual
messages because they would increase the likelihood
of our survival."
We became genetically predisposed to
spirituality, says Joseph, because belief in a divine
being makes us stronger.
It also makes us less anxious, says Alper, and
that is critical for a self-conscious species like our
own.
"Consciousness creates so much anxiety that
our species had to come up with a cognitive
adaptation to deal with the pain of our intelligence --
being able to think about our own mortality, for
instance," he says. "So it came up with a brain
modification that allows us to believe in an
alternative reality, that when we die there is a
spiritual part of us that will live forever."
Proving the evolution argument, says
Massimo Pigliucci, an associate professor of ecology
and evolutionary biology at the University of
Tennessee-Knoxville, is an entirely different matter.
"It is possible that if there is an advantage --
that believing in an afterworld or God reduces
anxiety or allows you to better navigate the world --
that nature selected for that belief. But there's no
evidence for that, and not only do we not have any
evidence, there is no way to gather the evidence. It is
inconceivable that you could do an experiment on
survival of people who believe in an afterlife,
because human beings in the past evolved in a totally
different environment than any of us live in today."
The lack of opportunity for empirical studies
does not deter Joseph. He sees similarities across
cultures in near-death experiences; beliefs in ghosts,
spirits and demons; symbols such as crosses,
triangles and circles, as further evidence of the neuro-
anatomical basis of spirituality.
"If you're a scientist and you find people
having the same experience, colored by their own
cultural differences, all over the world 4,000 years
ago and among both children and adults, you have to
say, well, there's something there that's worthy of
scientific explanation."
Joseph's heritage is Jewish and Catholic.
Sometimes on the weekend, he will travel around
Santa Cruz and stop in at a religious service. One day
it's a gathering of Jehovah's Witnesses, another time
it's a synagogue. Or the Church of Christian Science.
"Am I religious? No. Am I spiritual? Yes. I
certainly don't believe in an anthropomorphic God. I
would say the kingdom of God is inside us all. The
brain is the chamber of God. It allows us to realize
God and contemplate God, whatever God is."
Continued on Page 33
 The Human Brain
The Human Brain
Continued from page 32
Huddled inside a shoe box of an office
buried deep inside the Hospital of the University of
Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Andrew Newberg is
also looking for God. Though he believes the limbic
system is important in explaining religious
phenomena, he does not think it is solely responsible.
The complexity and diversity of those experiences,
he says, must involve other higher brain structures,
specifically the autonomic system.
Newberg's day job is radiology. Three days a
week, he takes pictures of kidneys, lungs and hearts,
looking for signs of disease. Two days a week, when
he has willing subjects, he takes pictures of the
brains of deeply religious people, looking for signs
of God.
Newberg, 36, is conducting brain-imaging
experiments trying to identify those areas where
neural activity is linked to religious experience. In so
doing, Newberg is taking Joseph's theories about the
relationship between the limbic system and
spirituality one step further.
A dozen times over five years, Newberg has
brought in men and women, Tibetan Buddhists and
Franciscan nuns, to peer into their brains as they
meditate and pray.
In the first experiment, involving a Tibetan
monk, Newberg attached an intravenous line to the
subject's arm and had him meditate inside a small,
darkened laboratory on the third floor of the hospital.
When the monk was deep into meditation, Newberg
injected a chemical tracer into the IV line.
A minute later, the monk was placed on an
inclined table, his head directly beneath three
rotating lenses of a massive, high-imaging machine
known as a single photon emission computed
tomography camera.
The images from the SPECT scans were
filled with pools of neon green and red. The patterns
represented increased and decreased blood flows to
various parts of the brain, especially the lobes.
Newberg found areas of increased blood flow in the
frontal lobes, where higher thinking takes place, and
decreased blood flow in the back or parietal lobes,
where spatial orientation takes place.
Newberg said the frontal lobe activity might
be an indication of heightened activity in the
amygdala, as Joseph theorizes, although better
imaging techniques would be needed to prove it.
"We believe that we were seeing colorful
evidence on the SPECT's computer screen of the
brain's capacity to make spiritual experience real. We
saw evidence of a neurological process that has
evolved to allow us humans to transcend material
existence and acknowledge and connect with a
deeper, more spiritual part of ourselves perceived of
as an absolute, universal reality that connects us to
all that is," Newberg says in "Why God Won't Go
Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief," one
of the two books he wrote with the late psychiatrist
Eugene d'Aquili.
The son of Reform Jewish parents, Newberg
practices Judaism but has an affinity for Eastern
religions as well.
In medical school, Newberg realized a lot of
his interests kept leading him back to the brain.
Radiology -- taking pictures of the inside of a
person's body and especially the brain -- seemed a
good fit. Research in dementia and Alzheimer's led
Newberg to reading psychiatry bulletins, which in
turn led the young doctor to d'Aquili, then an
associate professor of psychiatry at Penn's medical
school and a pioneer in the neurological research of
religion.
By the time he finished medical school in
1993, Newberg had teamed with d'Aquili.
"We came up with a very detailed model
about what we thought was going on in the brain"
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during intense spiritual experiences, Newberg said. Never Never’s of
"So we started working toward testing those
hypotheses by doing imaging studies." Ghosthunting
The imaging studies revealed that two
specific areas of the brain, the posterior superior
parietal lobe and the prefrontal cortex, play a critical Continued from Page 30
role in intense spiritual experiences. In their books,
Newberg and d'Aquili refer to these two brain NEVER Use a car's headlights as a main source of
structures as the areas of orientation and attention, light: Sometimes a car's headlights come in handy for
respectively. setting up campsites or equipment, but don't use them
The "orientation association area" is as a long-term light source. You could drain the
responsible for creating the mental experience of battery enough that the car will not start.
personal physical boundaries and for providing a
kind of spatial, three-dimensional matrix in which NEVER Try to bring everything: Don't try to carry
the body locates and orients itself. along every piece of equipment. Just bring the basics
The "attention association area" is critical in and the equipment that you absolutely need. Getting
organizing all goal-directed behavior and actions. bogged down will only take your attention away
The SPECT scans of Newberg's subjects from the ghost hunt.
during deep meditation revealed two things: that
there was increased activity in the attention NEVER Forget to bring flashlights: Always have
association area, and decreased activity in the plenty of working flashlights. Everyone should have
orientation association area. two flashlights on hand.
"We believe part of the reason the attention
association area is activated during spiritual practices NEVER Forget extra batteries: Know what kind of
such as meditation is because it is heavily involved in batteries each piece of equipment takes and how to
emotional responses -- and religious experiences are change them. Always carry extra sets of batteries.
usually highly emotional," write Newberg and
d'Aquili in "Why God Won't Go Away." NEVER Forget to take lots of pictures: Take as many
Newberg asked himself: What if the photographs as you can. That goes the same for
orientation area was working as hard as ever but the video. You can't have enough of either. Just keep an
incoming flow of sensory information had somehow eye on your film supplies. Don't run out before the
been blocked? With no information flowing in from ghost hunt is over. Always have emergency rolls of
the senses, the orientation association area wouldn't film.
be able to find any boundaries. What would the brain
make of that? NEVER Forget to bring food and drinks: It may
Using the evidence of his meditating monks sound trivial, but you would be surprised how many
and praying nuns, Newberg says he now believes the ghost-hunts have been ruined or have been cut short
brain has no choice but "to perceive that the self is because of the lack of snacks.
endless and intimately interwoven with everyone and
everything the mind senses," and that this perception, NEVER Go into any physically dangerous location:
to those in the midst of an intense spiritual It may be temping to conduct ghost hunts in old
experience, feels "utterly and unquestionably real." condemned buildings or on the edge of a spooky cliff
The University of Tennessee's Pigliucci side, but don't do it. The risk is simply not worth it.
believes Newberg's experiments are "well-done and Also, never go to any place when the weather
interesting," but he takes exception to Newberg's conditions are bad. Ghost hunts are meant to be fun
interpretation of the results: and it won't be fun if someone gets hurt, has to go to
"Suppose we wanted to investigate some the hospital, or worse. [End]
paranormal phenomenon, such as telepathy, and you
claim that your brain behaves in a particular way
when you do telepathy. So we do a brain scan, and we
see that the pattern of neural activity will change THE PSYCHIC
because you are trying to concentrate on doing
telepathy.
"The scan will obviously be different from
UNIVERSE
your brain at rest, but does it show that telepathy is
going on? No. The brain is always working. ... You
go to the movies, you eat a piece of chocolate, you
dream -- your brain patterns will change."
Newberg acknowledges that at some
fundamental level, the question of the existence of
God will forever remain unanswered. "You can't
throw open that veil of the brain and get outside of
your own brain and see what's going on in the
objective external world."
Even if science can't pry open that door,
Newberg remains sanguine.
"Regardless of the perspective you take, the
idea of God doesn't go away. I don't think we would
ever say we could prove or disprove God just on the
basis of our imaging studies. ...
"What we're really talking about is that,
regardless of whether God truly exists or not, in some
sense it's not even a relevant issue. Human beings are
always going to have this sense of connection to God,
defining God broadly, whether we create it ourselves
or whether there really is a God." [End]
THE ‘X’ ZONE RADIO / TV SHOW
thepsychicuniverse.com
www.xzone-radio.com
 34 The Prophets Paradox
The Prophets Paradox

Andrew McGowan

On December 25, Christians around the

world will gather to celebrate Jesus' birth.
Joyful carols, special liturgies, brightly
wrapped gifts, festive foods—these all
characterize the feast today, at least in the
northern hemisphere. But just how did the
Christmas festival originate? How did
December 25 come to be associated with
Jesus' birthday?

The Bible offers few clues: Celebrations of

Jesus' Nativity are not mentioned in the Gospels or
Acts; the date is not given, not even the time of year.
The biblical reference to shepherds tending their
flocks at night when they hear the news of Jesus'
birth (Luke 2:8) might suggest the spring lambing
season; in the cold month of December, on the other
hand, sheep might well have been corralled. Yet most
scholars would urge caution about extracting such a
precise but incidental detail from a narrative whose
focus is theological rather than calendrical.
The extrabiblical evidence from the first and
second century is equally spare: There is no mention
teacher in Egypt makes reference to the date Jesus observing his birth in midwinter. But how had they
of birth celebrations in the writings of early Christian
was born. According to Clement of Alexandria, settled on the dates December 25 and January 6?
writers such as Irenaeus (c. 130-200) or Tertullian (c.
several different days had been proposed by various There are two theories today: one extremely
160-225). Origen of Alexandria (c. 165-264) goes so
Christian groups. Surprising as it may seem, Clement popular, the other less often heard outside scholarly
far as to mock Roman celebrations of birth
doesn't mention December 25 at all. Clement writes: circles (though far more ancient).
anniversaries, dismissing them as "pagan"
"There are those who have determined not only the The most loudly touted theory about the
practices—a strong indication that Jesus' birth was
year of our Lord's birth, but also the day; and they say origins of the Christmas date (s) is that it was
not marked with similar festivities at that place and
that it took place in the 28th year of Augustus, and in borrowed from pagan celebrations. The Romans had
time. As far as we can tell, Christmas was not
the 25th day of [the Egyptian month] Pachon [May their mid-winter Saturnalia festival in late December;
celebrated at all at this point.
20 in our calendar] ... And treating of His Passion, barbarian peoples of northern and western Europe
This stands in sharp contrast to the very
with very great accuracy, some say that it took place kept holidays at similar times. To top it off, in 274
early traditions surrounding Jesus' last days. Each of
in the 16th year of Tiberius, on the 25th of C.E., the Roman emperor Aurelian established a feast
the Four Gospels provides detailed information
Phamenoth [March 21]; and others on the 25th of of the birth of Sol Invictus (the Unconquered Sun),
about the time of Jesus' death. According to John,
Pharmuthi [April 21] and others say that on the 19th on December 25. Christmas, the argument goes, is
Jesus is crucified just as the Passover lambs are
of Pharmuthi [April 15] the Savior suffered. Further, really a spin-off from these pagan solar festivals.
being sacrificed. This would have occurred on the
others say that He was born on the 24th or 25th of According to this theory, early Christians
14th of the Hebrew month of Nisan, just before the
Pharmuthi [April 20 or 21]." deliberately chose these dates to encourage the
Jewish holiday began at sundown (considered the
Clearly there was great uncertainty, but also spread of Christmas and Christianity throughout the
beginning of the 15th day because in the Hebrew
a considerable amount of interest, in dating Jesus' Roman world: If Christmas looked like a pagan
calendar, days begin at sundown). In Matthew, Mark
birth in the late second century. By the fourth century, holiday, more pagans would be open to both the
and Luke, however, the Last Supper is held after
however, we find references to two dates that were holiday and the God whose birth it celebrated.
sundown, on the beginning of the 15th. Jesus is
widely recognized—and now also celebrated—as Despite its popularity today, this theory of
crucified the next morning—still, the 15th.*
Jesus'birthday: December 25 in the western Roman Christmas's origins has its problems. It is not found
Easter, a much earlier development than
Empire and January 6 in the East (especially in Egypt in any ancient Christian writings, for one thing.
Christmas, was simply the gradual Christian
and Asia Minor). The modern Armenian church Christian authors of the time do note a connection
reinterpretation of Passover in terms of Jesus'
continues to celebrate Christmas on January 6; for between the solstice and Jesus' birth: The church
Passion. Its observance could even be implied in the
most Christians, however, December 25 would father Ambrose (c. 339-397), for example, described
New Testament (1 Corinthians 5:7-8: "Our paschal
prevail, while January 6 eventually came to be Christ as the true sun, who outshone the fallen gods
lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us
known as the Feast of the Epiphany, commemorating of the old order. But early Christian writers never
celebrate the festival ..."); it was certainly a
the arrival of the magi in Bethlehem. The period hint at any recent calendrical engineering; they
distinctively Christian feast by the mid-second
between became the holiday season later known as clearly don't think the date was chosen by the church.
century C.E., when the apocryphal text known as the
the 12 days of Christmas. Rather they see the coincidence as a providential
Epistle to the Apostles has Jesus instruct his disciples
The earliest mention of December 25 as sign, as natural proof that God had selected Jesus
to "make commemoration of [his] death, that is, the
Jesus' birthday comes from a mid-fourth-century over the false pagan gods. [End]
Passover."
Roman almanac that lists the death dates of various
Jesus' ministry, miracles, Passion and
Christian bishops and martyrs. The first date listed,
Resurrection were often of most interest to first- and IN THE FEBRUARY ISSUE OF
December 25, is marked: natus Christus in Betleem
early-second-century C.E. Christian writers. But
Judeae: "Christ was born in Bethlehem of Judea." In THE ‘X’ CHRONICLES NEWSPAPER
over time, Jesus' origins would become of increasing
about 400 C.E., Augustine of Hippo mentions a local
concern. We can begin to see this shift already in the
dissident Christian group, the Donatists, who
New Testament. The earliest writings—Paul and
apparently kept Christmas festivals on December 25, Their leader claims that all mankind
Mark—make no mention of Jesus' birth. The on Earth was created by aliens...
but refused to celebrate the Epiphany on January 6,
Gospels of Matthew and Luke provide well-known
but quite different accounts of the event—although
regarding it as an innovation. Since the Donatist making God an alien. He also claims
group only emerged during the persecution under
neither specifies a date. In the second century C.E.,
Diocletian in 312 C.E. and then remained stubbornly
that he is the brother of Jesus Christ!
further details of Jesus' birth and childhood are
attached to the practices of that moment in time, they
related in apocryphal writings such as the Infancy
seem to represent an older North African Christian
Gospel of Thomas and the Proto-Gospel of James.**
tradition.
THE RAELIANS: An Indepth
These texts provide everything from the names of Look Into One of the Fastest
In the East, January 6 was at first not
Jesus' grandparents to the details of his education—
associated with the magi alone, but with the Growing Cults
but not the date of his birth.
Christmas story as a whole. So, almost 300 years
Finally, in about 200 C.E., a Christian
after Jesus was born, we finally find people
 Fear of Vampires
A Fear of Vampires Can
Mask a Fear of
Something Much Worse
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
Vampires are us, as vampire experts say. And
that may explain why Malawi is now in the grip of a
vampire panic.
Rumors that the government of that
landlocked southern African country was colluding
with vampires to collect human blood in exchange
for food sent terrified villagers fleeing, wire services
reported last week. A suspected vampire helper was
stoned or beaten to death; three priests were
attacked; and a foreign aid encampment identified as
vampire headquarters was destroyed.
It didn't happen in a vacuum. Malawi faces
widespread starvation and a severe AIDS epidemic,
as well as an uproar over efforts by the country's first
and only democratically elected president, Bakili
Muluzi, to override a two-term limit and remain in
office after 2004.
"Vampires say a lot about our fears and
hopes," said Nina Auerbach, an English professor at
the University of Pennsylvania and author of "Our
Vampires, Ourselves."
For millennia, the storied undead that
emerge from the grave to suck the lifeblood of the
living have embodied power "and our fears of
power," Ms. Auerbach said. "They can be whatever
you want." They are immortal. And unlike ghosts,
they are robustly corporeal.
Another scholar, David J. Skal, author of
"The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror,"
has said that a fixation on demons often accompanies
periods of national stress. "In times of social
upheaval, the vampire asserts itself," he said.
President Muluzi, in debunking the vampire
rumors, may have inadvertently encouraged them
when he said, "No government can go about sucking
the blood of its own people."
The denial rang false, Ms. Auerbach said,
because, "Governments have always sucked the
blood of their people."
It was for good reason, she said, that the
vampire legend became deeply rooted in Eastern
Europe, where the peasantry was cruelly persecuted
for centuries.
In the United States, perhaps by the same
reasoning, vampires come in friendlier form. There
is Count Chocula cereal; Sesame Street's helpful
arithmetic tutor, the Count; Anne Rice's novelistic
dynasty of masterful and sexy vampires —
"practically spa people," Ms. Auerbach calls them;
the empowered and liberated black lesbian vampires
of Jewelle Gomez's "Gilda Stories;" and the
wholesome cheeriness of "Buffy the Vampire
Slayer."
The origins of the vampire legend lie buried
in antiquity, dating to Greece and perhaps Egypt,
scholars say, at some point taking credence from the
bats that suck the blood of horses and livestock.
Drawing on ancestor worship, cannibalism,
human sacrifice and the Christian doctrine of
transubstantiation, and real fears of violence, tales of
ghouls nourished on human blood surfaced in widely
separated cultures, including China, India, the
Middle East, Africa and Europe, wrote the British
author Anthony Masters in his book, "The Natural
History of the Vampire."
The medieval plagues that spread unseen
contagion also fed the vampire legend, as did
commonplace grotesqueries like live burials (by
mistake and on purpose), body-snatching and grave-
robbing, along with the capture of some all-too-real
fiends like Gilles de Rais of France who fought along
with Joan of Arc in the 1400's before becoming an
orgiastic child-slaughterer, and Countess Elizabeth of
Bathory in Hungary 200 years later who bathed in the
blood of murdered virgins.
Austrian forces returning from conquests in
the Ottoman east in the early 1700's brought back
vampire stories, which circulated throughout Europe,
later inspiring Byron, Keats and Coleridge. It was
left, however, to Bram Stoker, stage manager for the
revered Shakespearean actor Henry Irving in the
1870's, to turn the fragments into terrifying form in
his 1897 "Dracula."
But it was not until the vogue of vampire
plays and films in the 1920's that the popular Dracula
cult took hold, at a time when it was still believed
that evil always wore an evil face, or at least a
wicked-looking widow's peak.
Soon vampirism became as rule-bound as
any orthodoxy. So today one can read, on the Web
and in a slew of popular books, that an animal or a
nun passing over an unburied body turns into a
vampire. So will a child in the womb whose mother
was looked at by a vampire (particularly after her
sixth month), a seventh son and a dead wizard.
Of course, today, at least in much of the
West, this is merely the stuff of high camp. But the
fear stalking Malawi these days is a reminder that,
among desperate people, who with reason feel their
life's blood, or that of their children, is being sucked
away, the vampire myth still resonates uncannily
with human experience. [End]
Lightning: Myths, Beliefs And
Truths
The Times of Zambia
Already lightning has struck and killed at
least three people since the onset of the rains. Its
victims include two people in Kitwe and one in
Lusaka.
Whenever and wherever it strikes, lightning
brings many tales, some of which border on myths,
beliefs and the truths about this highly-dreaded
People from different fields and various
schools of thought always come up with diverse
interpretations and explanations about lightning.
phenomenon.
Scientists, traditionalists and Christians or
35
religious people in general have different perceptions
about it, and can only all agree on its existence.
Out of the three categories the most popular
and most disseminated fairy tale is that of the
traditionalists.
They believe that lightning is caused by
some supernatural power created by superstitious
people who are able to think beyond the natural
human scope - witches/wizards and witch-doctors.
As one Kitwe-based traditionalist Finwell
Chibonsa says, 'traditionally, it is believed that
lightning is used to punish wrong doers like thieves
and wizards in society.'
This, Mr Chibonsa says, is especially so in
the villages where an aggrieved person would seek
the 'expertise' of the 'wisemen' or medicinemen
whenever they want to avenge against someone.
The 69-year-old retired council worker says
the medicinemen are able to create lightning even in
the dry season provided there is cause to punish
another person.
'Lightning is sent directly to the culprit
regardless of how many people are around him.
Others will go unhurt and usually it just leaves them
suffocated by smoke.
'It just strikes those who are directly
involved. If they are two or three, it will sort them out
leaving others who are not part of the vengeful
action,' says the sexagenarian.
Mr Chibonsa is also in agreement with
unproved traditional beliefs that people wearing red
attire during thunderstorm are likely to attract
lightning.
He adds that it is advisable for people not to
lie with their face up when it is raining, for the same
reason. He can, however, not elaborate as he insists
that:
'The problem with you young men is that you
always like asking why! You are like that man in the
Bible (Thomas) who did not want to believe that
Jesus had risen until he saw Him,' he says.
Mr Chibonsa, who claims to be a staunch
Christian in the Catholic Church, says a lot of things
have changed now because during his childhood a
mere mention of the word lightning was taboo.
This was because lightning was used as a
form of taking oaths and mere mention of it sent cold
shivers and apprehension among those listening.
'Ukulumbula ati akalumba maka maka abaice takwali
(It was a taboo for people especially children to
mention the word lightning),' he says. When Mr
Chibonsa's story was subjected to science, a lot of
aspects were dispelled, save for the fact that lightning
is real and lethal. After delving into scientific field it
was learnt that basically and, most importantly, for
lightning to occur there must be a thunder-cloud or
clouds.
Allert Kabemba, a veteran educationist and
long-time Physics teacher says the medicinemen can
only come up with lightening if they can manage to
create thunder-clouds.
Mr Kabemba, who is the head of science
department at Kitwe's Mpelembe secondary school
and has been in the teaching service for over 20
years, says lightning is caused by the difference in
charges between the thunder-cloud and the ground or
other structures.
Mr Kabemba has a Masters of Science (Msc)
degree in Physics which he obtained from Reading
University in the United Kingdom after getting his
first degree in the same field from the University of
Zambia. He explains that thunder-clouds are
negatively charged on undersides and positively
charged on their tops.
'When a negatively charged cloud gathers
over a building (or any structure) positive charges are
induced on the roof (or atop the structure),' writes
another leading physicist, John Wilkinson, in his
book Essentials of Physics.
Continued on Page 38
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In 1949, the biggest black hole in the
universe wasn't in space, but across the Bering Strait.
Stretching across 12 time zones, the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics was, as Winston Churchill would
so memorably describe it, "a riddle wrapped in a
mystery inside an enigma." The few things that most
people knew about life behind the Iron Curtain
seemed to be pieces of an incomprehensible puzzle.
For the handful of intelligence experts who saw how
the pieces fit, the "workers' paradise" presented a
clear and present danger to the American way of life.
What the intelligence community knew, and most
people did not, was that in the final frantic hours of
World War II, the Soviet army had hastily raided
Germany's most advanced weapons research
laboratories. And, on Aug. 29, 1949, only four years
after Hiroshima, the technological booty from those
raids turned a country whose farmers still used
horse-drawn plows into a nuclear superpower.
The fireball of the communist atomic bomb
cast a sinister new light on an event that previously
seemed quite inconsequential. In the summer of
1945, an unusual rumor had begun to circulate
within the intelligence division of the European
Command. During interrogations, captured German
aircraft engineers referred to an extraordinarily fast
rocket plane under development at a secret base in
Bavaria. Unlike theMesserschmitt Me 163 rocket
planes that had begun to attack Allied bombers in the
last months of the war, this aircraft had an odd-
looking curved wing that blended into its fuselage.
The aerodynamic advantage of this configuration
had been known to American designers for more
than a decade. It created more lift than a standard
wing, especially at low speeds, and provided more
internal capacity for carrying bombs. In the early
days of the war, the U.S. Navy had briefly
experimented with circular wing design for those
very reasons.
Anticipating that the first generation of
communist atomic bombs would be as heavy as
those America had dropped on Japan, it seemed
reasonable to U.S. defense planners that the Soviet
air force, which then lacked a nuclear bomber, would
try to adapt German disc technology. The United
States was, after all, doing exactly the same thing
with the V-2s and Nazi rocket scientists it had
spirited away in Operation Paper Clip.
In our July 1997 cover story, "Roswell Plus
50," POPULAR MECHANICS detailed how Air
Force interestin duplicating Nazi technology led to
two American flying disc projects. Project Silver
Bug sought to build a vertical takeoff and landing
aircraft. Project Pye Wacket was to create small discs
for use as air-to-air missiles. Documents declassified
since then point to a third secret project, a 40-ft.
"flying saucer" designed to rain nuclear destruction
on the Soviet Union from 300 miles in space.
The official designation for America's
nuclear flying saucer was the Lenticular Reentry
Vehicle (LRV). It was designed by engineers at the
Los Angeles Division of North American Aviation,
under a contract with the U.S. Air Force. The project
was managed out of Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base, in Dayton, Ohio, where German engineers
who had worked on rocket plane and flying disc
technology had been resettled
The LRV escaped public scrutiny because it
was hidden away as one of the Pentagon's so-called
"black budget" items—that is, a secret project that is
incorporated into some piece of nonclassified work.
On Dec. 12, 1962, security officers at Wright-
Patterson classified the LRV as secret because: "It
describes an offensive weapon system." The project
remained classified until May 1999, when a
congressionally mandated review of old documents
changed the project's status as a government secret,
downgrading it to public information. The
Department of Defense did, however, successfully
seek to have the document's distribution restricted to
defense contractors. PM obtained its copy as the
USA’s U.F.O.
From 300 miles in space the LRV would be able to rain nuclear destruction on the Soviet Union,
Red China and North Korea
result of a Freedom of Information Act request.
Inside the LRV
"The operational mission design is six
weeks' duration at a nominal orbital altitude of 300
nautical miles, with a crew of four men," according
to the report. The weapons bay would hold "four
winged weapons" that could be either launched or
detached and parked on orbit. There are repeated
references to the LRV launching weapons-carrying
clusters.
A considerable part of the design study
focuses on the details of building a 40-ft.-dia.
airframe and strengthening it against the acceleration
of 8 g's and wind shear it would experience during
launch. However, no mention is made of the type of
booster the disc would ride into space.
Most likely, the LRV would have flown atop
a multistage rocket, like the Saturn booster used in
the Apollo moon program. The engineering study,
however, suggests a more intriguing possibility. At
some point, the LRV could have been powered by
one of the nuclear rockets then under development by
the Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission.
Several of these rockets were in fact built and
successfully tested in Nevada. Although the
government claims all of its nuclear rocket program
records have been declassified, a search of the
Department of Energy (DOE) human radiation
experiment database indicates otherwise. PM has
learned that 40 cu. ft. of records related to the human
health effects of the nuclear rocket program,
compiled between 1956 and 1975, are stored in a
secured location—Building 1001—at the Los
Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. A
DOE spokesman told PM that the only reason these
records would have remained classified was if they
dealt with an operational military system.
The four-man crew would ride a wedge-
shaped capsule built inside the LRV. The capsule
would divide the front portion of the disc into
separate work and off-duty areas. The nuclear-tipped
rockets would be stored in the rear segments.
Although these rockets were not called
multiple independent reentry vehicles (MIRVs), they
match the description of these multiple-warhead-
delivery devices, which were later banned by
disarmament treaties. An MIRV-equipped LRV
would have been able to eliminate the war-making
capabilities of the Soviet Union, China and North
Korea at the push of a button.
In normal operations, the capsule would
function as the LRV's flight control center. In an
emergency, the crew could fire the capsule’s
independent 50,000-pound-thrust solid-fuel rocket
motor and return to Earth. The capsule’s final descent
would be slowed by a parachute, much like the X-38
"lifeboat" planned for the international space station
now under construction.
A textbook mission would conclude with the
entire LRV returning to Earth. It would fire its
nuclear or liquid-fueled main rocket to brake, then
travel edge-first into the atmosphere. Its disc form
would dissipate the heat of re-entry, then act as a
wing. Its flattened tail structure would provide
directional stability and control. A minute or so
before landing, skids would extend and the LRV
would settle onto a stretch of dry lakebed.
The engineering study does not describe how
the LRV, which would weigh just over 17,000 pounds
without its crew, weapons, fuel and stores, would
then have been returned to the launch pad. One
possibility, suggested by the inclusion of a high-
pressure helium storage tank, is that it would have
been ferried by a heavy-lift balloon, as shown in the
drawing on the opposite page. While the LRV would
not have had sufficient helium to inflate a balloon,
the tank would have had sufficient capacity for
replenishing the lift-bag to permit trips of several
thousands of miles.
In 1997, as part of its effort to debunk the
Roswell alien landing myth, the Air Force revealed
details of several heavy-lift balloon research projects.
Among those were experiments in which 15,000-
pound payloads were lifted to 170,000 ft. While not
specifically acknowledging the LRV by name, an Air
Force spokesman conceded that during the Cold War
it routinely used high-altitude balloons to lift unusual
airframes for aerodynamic tests. Airframe tests of
secret planes were most likely the cause of still-
unexplained UFO sightings. And a balloon-lifted
LRV test flight would certainly match the classic
UFO reports of a silvery disc hovering motionless in
the sky, then silently shooting upward.
Crash Debris
The engineering study obtained by POPULAR
MECHANICS contains language that describes a
re-entry heating test that, at the time, could have
been accomplished by only a high-altitude drop of a
flying prototype. A further indication that the LRV
flew comes from a retired Air Force contractor. He
tells PM he personally saw a craft fitting the
description of the LRV at a Florida base that he had
been visiting on unrelated business in the late
1960s. However, what is by far the most compelling
evidence that the LRV, or a flying prototype, was
actually built comes from Australia.
Continued on Page 37
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 USA’s U.F.O.
America’s Nuclear Flying
Saucer
Continues from Page 36
In 1975, Jean Fraser found an odd bit of
honeycomb-like debris on her family’s ranch south
of Brisbane. The area is in the vicinity of what was
then a secret Australian testing range where the
British and Americans conducted some of their most
secret atomic experiments. Since the LRV was to
carry a small nuclear reactor to provide electricity for
flight systems, it is conceivable that tests would have
been conducted at this isolated location.
Local legends claim the honeycomb was
debris from a flying saucer that exploded over the
test range in 1966. The remaining pieces were
supposedly collected by the military and returned to
the United States aboard a U.S. Air Force plane.
Interested in learning if the debris was
extraterrestrial, Dick Smith, a Sydney businessman,
arranged for the University of New South Wales to
perform a chemical analysis.
The debris contained minerals commonly
found in aircraft-grade fiberglass panels. Based on
the university's report, the Mufon UFO Journal, the
monthly magazine of the Mutual UFO Network
(www.mufon.com), debunked rumors of the debris
having any alien origin.
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In Germany, landing Me 163s were plagued
by on-board fires, caused by the sloshing of a type
of hypergolic fuel in mostly empty fuel tanks.
According to the design study, the tanks aboard the
LRV could never be completely emptied either,
making accidents like those aboard Me 163s all but
inevitable. LRV project managers would have been
well aware of this unique danger, as one of the
members of the Wright-Patterson aeronautical
research team was Rudi Opitz, one of Germany's
first Me 163 test pilots.
LRV documents released thus far tell only
part of the story. But in time, the secrecy on progress
reports, construction drawings and perhaps even
operational records will expire and we will be able
to tell the rest of the story. Perhaps they will reveal
that the LRV remained a general's pipe dream, a
multimillion-dollar paper plane that never took
MULTISTAGE CONTROLLABLE CHUTE: In
flight. Or they may tell the story of the most normal operation, the LRV would use its saucer
astounding adventure in the history of flight. [End]
shape to dissipate re-entry heat and then provide
lift for atmospheric flight.

LRV Specifications
Crew 4
Weapons 4 nuclear missiles
Mission Length 6 weeks
Dimensions
Diameter 40 ft.
Center 90 in.
Edges 6 in.
Wing 1548 sq. ft.
Weights
Launch 45,000 lb.
Landing 33,395 lb. HOW IT WORKS: Helium balloon carries
Empty 17,042 lb. vehicle back to the launch site.
Engines
Booster Chemical/Nuclear
Main Hypergolic/Nuclear
Capsule Solid fuel
Electric Power 7 kw (thermal nuclear)
Designer North American Aviation

Unexplained Residue

PM became interested in revisiting the

Australian debris analysis when we noticed a “On the bright side, they do provide a real
similarity between a photograph of the mystery
Escape capsule deployment. alternative to the two major parties!”
honeycomb and a cross-section diagram in the LRV
engineering study.
We've put the two images next to each other
(right). Let us know what you think.
We were also curious about two points that
were raised in the university's chemical analysis, but
not pursued once it was determined that the debris
originated on Earth. The first has to do with the
presence of small amounts of titanium. Titanium is a
strong, lightweight metal used extensively in
spacecraft. While some fiberglass products also
contain titanium, it is not in the chemical form found
in the debris.
The second curiosity has to do with chemical
residues. Those found on the honeycomb were
similar to those typically found in the vicinity of
high-temperature chemical explosions. A possible
explanation for such an explosion can be found in
LRV engineering drawings. Like the German Me
163 rocket plane, the main engine of the LRV was
designed to burn hypergolic fuel, highly reactive
fluids that can explode on contact, releasing
tremendous amounts of energy. Plans show that the
LRV would have carried 9375 pounds of nitrogen
tetroxide and hydrazine.
 38 Lightning: Myths and More
Lightning: Myths, Beliefs
And Truths
Continued from Page 35
The difference in charges creates a force of
attraction between the clouds and the roof-top or top
of any other structure with induced charges.
Wilkinson states that the force of attraction
becomes so intense that electrons (negative charge)
suddenly jump from the cloud to the roof or top of
other structures (with positive charges) producing a
flash of lightning.
Further research by the Times shows that a
single flash of lightning discharges electricity of
about 100 million volts which is over 400,000 times
more than the domestic power.
The air around the lightning scene is heated
to temperatures of as high as 30,000 degrees Celsius
which is 300 times more than the boiling point of
water.
This explains the havoc it wreaks wherever
and whenever it strikes as it tears apart and chars
anything in its path.
'Lightning that strikes the earth consists of
one or more discharges called strokes. The bright
light we see in a lightning is the return stroke (and
appears when the damage has already been done).
'The heat of the return stroke causes the air
to expand so quickly that a bang called thunder is
head,' writes Wilkinson.
It is, therefore, a fact that once one hears the
thunder, no matter how loud, one should consider
oneself as having survived the lightning. Victims of
lightning do not even hear its sound because, as a
basic scientific truth, sound travels slower than light
or heat. By the time the sound or the thunder is
heard, the victim would be laying dead. That being
the case, is it then possible for the wisemen to create
lightning?
Mr Kabemba says as an African he cannot
completely dispute that, but says the main question
lies in whether man is able to create thunder-clouds.
That is the bottom line.
He says if a person is able to do that then it
would be easy to cause lightning.
Mr Kabemba is, however, categorical on
other beliefs such as that a person in red attire is
more susceptible than one in other colours, saying
only the type of material could make a difference.
On why some people in a crowd have been
struck while others left unhurt, Mr Kabemba says:
'Most of the people who are struck happen to
be in the lightning's way or they happen to be
standing on a metal of some sort underneath.' He
says lightning is also associated with the presence of
minerals. If this is true mineral-endowed areas can
be said to be more prone to lightning.
But what do religious people particularly
Christians say about this mind-boggling conundrum?
Pentecostal Assemblies of God Copperbelt
Bishop Sky Banda simply defines lightning as an act
of God.
Bishop Banda says the starting point is that
God is the author (creator) and finisher of everything
and that whatever God created was good and for a
purpose.
This is not to say that it is God's wish to
strike dead his own people. As usual the devil and his
agents are copycats, they will always use God's
creation to execute their evil deeds, he says.
He says for this reason, one cannot rule out
the possibility of the lightning being used by witches
and other superstitious people for their selfish
motives.
In addition, Bishop Banda, who is senior
pastor for Maranatha Church in Kitwe, says even
Christians can pray that God strikes with lightning a
person who they think is a menace to the body of
Christ.
But that is an extreme case. Mysterious webs drop from
The Bishop assures that lightning sent by
witches, like a curse, can only affect non-believers the skies
and those who believe in witchcraft. By Michael A. Smith
'While we, as believers, believe and know
that witchcraft is real, we know we can not be
Was it part of nature’s enigmatic web, or part
harmed by it because we are protected by the blood
of a sinister web of conspiracy in the black-
of Jesus.
helicopter, secret-mass-experiment vein?
'It can only work on those who are not
Hard to say, but one thing seems clear: The
covered under the blood. In fact more often than not
skies over Galveston County on Friday were literally
if a believer is targeted it would go back to the sender
filled with floating, shimmering strands and fuzzy,
and destroy him/her,' Bishop Banda says.
luminescent wads that looked a lot like spider webs.
But to those who are not covered Mr
Lorenzo DeLacerta saw them about noon
Kabemba and Wilkinson have a few tips for them.
when he delivered building material to a site a mile
During thunderstorm:
east of the San Louis Pass Bridge.
*do not use telephones
“It blew my mind,” DeLacerta said. “I have
*do not wade through or touch water
never seen anything like it before.” Others on the site
*do not hide under isolated trees
saw them, too, he said, but their minds were not
*avoid umbrellas with uninsulated metal
blown. They were like ‘Yeah?’ They didn’t seem to
handles
think much about it.”
*take shelter in closed buildings
Lorenzo called his sister, Gloria, who saw
*it is also advisable to lie down flat on the
the same thing in the sky over La Marque. She called
ground to avoid being struck.
The Daily News where a half dozen skeptical news
These, among many others, will lower the
people were forced to admit that there was, indeed,
potential and reduce the risk of being injured. [End]
under way a slow, steady parade of slender web-like
strands, some near the ground, some way up where
The big, black cattle killer the airliners ply.
By DANNY BUTTLER The webs were visible in the air for five
hours, and poles were left wrapped with the sticky
strands and fuzzy wads. So what were they? Official
WHAT is black, furry, can jump about 6m in
sky-web sources seem scarce. A spokesman at the
a single bound and mutilates cattle? It could be the
National Weather Service Office in League City said
world's largest feral cat, a wild dog with a taste for
the service had received no reports of flying webs,
fresh meat.
and that flying webs weren’t really their thing.
Or even a yowie.
The phenomenon has occurred in at least two
But ask farmer Ron Jones and he will tell
other places. The Associated Press reported Oct. 8
you it is most likely a panther -- the legendary big cat
that “long, floating spider webs” were “bobbing
that has eluded hunters and photographers for more
through the skies of Santa Cruz, Calif., … confusing
than half a century.
some community members concerned about
Mr Jones said the evidence of the panther's
biological weapons, UFOs and other phenomena.”
existence is lying dead in a paddock on his South
And the Wallowa Chieftain in Oregon
Gippsland farm.
reported on Dec. 22, 2000, the sightings of “web-like
In the latest attack, a heifer was killed and
material … falling from the sky” that some locals
partly eaten "like it had been cut with a carving
thought came “from three military jets that had been
knife".
flying back and forth in an east-west flight pattern at
It is not the first time the dairy farmer from
high altitude.”
Binginwarri, near Foster, has caught sight of a
A University of Wyoming microbiology
creature he says is definitely not a dog and is too big
professor quoted in the AP story attributed the Santa
to be a feral cat.
Cruz webs to a seasonal migration of hatchling
"I've seen about a dozen of them now . . .
spiders leaving their nests. The professor, who did
when they're sitting on their backsides they're about
not return messages left at his home and office, said
three foot six from the ground to the top of the head,"
it was not uncommon to see “dozens” of webs
he told ABC radio.
floating across the plains of Wyoming.
"When they take off they sort of go in big
But observers here were not reporting dozens
loping bounds. They cover about 20 feet every bound
of webs, but hundreds of thousands. One
-- they're about eight feet, roughly, from the tip of
explanation, of sorts, can be found on the World
their nose to the end of their tail."
Wide Web, where scores of people are convinced that
Having shot at the mystery beast several
the webs are man-made and may be part of a sinister
times, Mr Jones said it was unmistakably feline.
conspiracy. Like a lot of web-based topics, exactly
"It's definitely a cat the way it moves," he
what is the man-made material and the conspiracy’s
said.
goal is a little murky.
"Where a dog stands and tears at it and
Some posts say the webs appear on days
leaves a jagged wound, these wounds are just as
when strange condensation trails, like those from jet
though you'd cut the meat out with a carving knife."
airplanes, also occur. Was Galveston County visited
Persistent panther sightings have fuelled the
by a mundane migration of arachnids or something
imagination of Victorians for more than half a
else?
century.
Lorenzo DeLacerta, who spent Friday
Despite proving harder to photograph than
contemplating the webs, does not know what they
Howard Hughes, the existence of the big cats has
were, but he says he’s sure of one thing. “I have never
never been disproven by authorities.
seen anything like this before. I have seen spiders
The wild cat legend started on the other side
floating on webs before, but I have never seen this.”
of Victoria after US servicemen stationed in the
[End]
Grampians during World War II were rumoured to
have released a female black panther and several
cubs into the bush. Dare to believe..... Dare to be
heard
Other stories include big cats that have
escaped from circuses or zoos. A Department of
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SUMMERWIND -
Wisconsin’s most Haunted
House
by Stacy McArdle & Troy Taylor
If a person was forced to choose what the
greatest ghost story in Wisconsin might be, it would
almost undoubtedly be the legend of Summerwind.
This haunted mansion has spawned more strange
tales and stories that any other location in the state.
What dark secrets remain hidden in the ruins of this
once grand estate? Were the stories of ghostly
encounters and messages from beyond really true ...
or were they part of an elaborate publicity hoax?
Located on the shores of West Bay Lake, in
the far northeast regions of Wisconsin, are the ruins
of a once grand mansion that was called
Summerwind. The house is long gone now, but the
memories remain ... as do the stories and legends of
the inexplicable events that once took place there.
Summerwind is perhaps Wisconsin’s most haunted
house, or at least it was, before fire and the elements
of nature destroyed her. Regardless, even the ravages
of time cannot destroy the haunted history of the
house.
The mansion was built in 1916 by Robert P.
Lamont as a summer home for he and his family.
Nestled on the shores of the lake, the house caught
the cool breezes of northern Wisconsin and provided
a comfortable place for Lamont to escape the
pressures of everyday life in Washington D.C., as he
would later go on to serve as the Secretary of
Commerce under President Herbert Hoover.
But life was not always sublime at
Summerwind during the years of the Lamont family.
For those who claim that the ghost stories of the
house were "created" in later years, they forget the
original tale of Robert Lamont’s encounter with a
spirit. Legends of the house say that Lamont actually
fired a pistol at a ghost that he believed was an
intruder. The bullet holes in the basement door from
the kitchen remained for many years.
Upon the death of Robert Lamont, the house
was sold ... and sold again. It seemed that nothing out
of the ordinary really happened there, save for
Lamont’s encounter with the phantom intruder, until
the early 1970's. It was in this period that the family
living in the house was nearly destroyed ...
supposedly by ghosts.
Arnold Hinshaw, his wife Ginger, and their
six children, moved into Summerwind in the early
part of the 1970's. They would only reside in the
house for six months, but it would be an eventful
period of time.
From the day that they moved in, they knew
strange things were going on in the house. It had
been vacant for some time ... but it had apparently
been occupied by otherworldly visitors. The
Hinshaws, and their children, immediately started to
report vague shapes and shadows flickering down the
hallways. They also claimed to hear mumbled voices
in darkened, empty rooms. When they would walk
inside, the sounds would quickly stop. Most alarming
was the ghost of the woman who was often seen
floating back and forth just past some French doors
that led off from the dining room.
The family wondered if they were simply
imagining things but continued events convinced
them otherwise. Appliances, a hot water heater and a
water pump would mysteriously break down and
then repair themselves before a serviceman could be
called.
Windows and doors that were closed would
reopen on their own. One particular window, which
proved especially stubborn, would raise and lower
itself at all hours. Out of desperation, Arnold drove a
heavy nail through the window casing and it finally
stayed closed.
On one occasion, Arnold walked out to his
car to go to work and the vehicle suddenly burst into
flames. No one was near it and it is unknown whether
the source of the fire was supernatural in origin or
not, but regardless, no cause was ever found for it.
Despite the strange activity, the Hinshaws
wanted to make the best of the historic house so they
decided to hire some men to make a few renovations.
It was most common for the workers to not show up
for work, usually claiming illness, although a few of
them simply told her that they refused to work on
Summerwind ... which was reputed to be haunted.
That was when the Hinshaws gave up and decided to
try and do all of the work themselves.
One day they began painting a closet in one
of the bedrooms. A large shoe drawer was installed in
the closet’s back wall and Arnold pulled it out so that
he could paint around the edges of the frame. When
he did, he noticed that there seemed to be a large,
dark space behind the drawer.
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Ginger brought him a flashlight and he
wedged himself into the narrow opening as far as his
shoulders. He looked around with the flashlight and
then suddenly jumped back, scrambling away from
the opening. He was both frightened and disgusted ...
there was some sort of corpse jammed into the secret
compartment!
Believing that an animal had crawled in
there and died many years ago, Arnold tried to
squeeze back in for a closer look. He couldn’t make
out much of anything, so when the children came
home from school, he recruited his daughter Mary to
get a better look. Mary took the flashlight and
crawled inside. Moments later, she let out a scream
... it was a human corpse! She uncovered a skull, still
bearing dirty black hair, a brown arm and a portion
of a leg.
Why the Hinshaws never contacted the
authorities about this body is unknown. Was the
story concocted later to fit into the tales of "haunted"
Summerwind? Or was their reasoning the truth ...
that the body had been the result of a crime that took
place many years ago, far too long for the police to
do anything about it now.
Had they been thinking things through, they
might have realized that this body might have been
the cause of much of the supernatural activity in the
house ... removing it might have laid the ghost to
rest, so to speak.
Regardless, they left the corpse where they
found it ... but it will figure into our story once again.
Shortly after the discovery of the body in the
hidden compartment, things started to take a turn for
the worse at Summerwind.
Arnold began staying up very late at night
and playing a Hammond organ that the couple had
purchased before moving into the house. He had
always enjoyed playing the organ, using it as a form
of relaxation, but his playing now was different. His
playing became a frenzied mixture of melodies that
seemed to make no sense, and grew louder as the
night wore on. Ginger pleaded with him to stop but
Arnold claimed the demons in his head demanded
that he play. He often crashed the keys on the organ
until dawn, frightening his wife and children so
badly that they often huddled together in one
bedroom, crying and cowering in fear.
Arnold had a complete mental breakdown
and at the same time, Ginger attempted suicide.
Were the stories of strange events at
Summerwind merely the result of two disturbed
minds? It might seem so ... but what about the
children? They also reported the ghostly encounters.
Were they simply influenced by their parents
questionable sanity ... or were the stories real?
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Wisconsin’s most Haunted
House
Continued from Page 39
The family’s connection with the house
would continue for years to come.
While Arnold was sent away for treatment,
Ginger and the children moved to Granton,
Wisconsin to live with Ginger’s parents. Ginger and
Arnold would eventually be divorced when it looked
as though Arnold’s hopes for recovery were failing.
Ginger later recovered her health, away from
Summerwind at last, and she married a man named
George Olsen.
Things seemed to be going quite well for her
in her new peaceful life, until a few years later, when
her father announced that he was going to buy
Summerwind.
Raymond Bober was a popcorn vendor and
businessman who with his wife Marie, planned to
turn the old mansion into a restaurant and an inn. He
believed that the house would attract many guests to
the scenic location on the lake.
They had no idea what had happened to their
daughter in the house.
Ginger was horrified at her parent’s
decision. She had never given them all of the details
about what had happened during the six months that
she had lived in the house and she refused to do so
now. What she did do was to beg them not to buy
Summerwind.
Bober’s mind was made up however. He
announced that he realized the house was haunted,
but this would not deter him. He claimed that he had
spent time at the house and knew the identity of the
ghost that was haunting the place.
According to Bober, the ghost was a man
named Jonathan Carver, an eighteenth century
British explorer who was haunting the house and
searching for an old deed that had been given to him
by the Sioux Indians. In the document, he
supposedly had the rights to the northern third of
Wisconsin. The deed had supposedly been placed in
a box and sealed into the foundation of
Summerwind. Bober claimed that Carver had asked
his help in finding it.
Bober wrote a book about his experiences at
Summerwind and his communications with Carver
through dreams, trances and a Ouija board. The book
was published in 1979 under the name of Wolffgang
von Bober and was called THE CARVER EFFECT.
It is currently out-of-print and very hard to find.
Shortly after Bober bought the house, he, his
son Karl, Ginger and her new husband, George,
spent a day exploring and looking over the house.
The group had wandered through the place and as
they were leaving the second floor, George spotted
the closet where the secret compartment was hidden.
He began pulling out the drawers and looking behind
them, although Ginger begged for him to stop.
George was confused. He had simply been
curious as to what might be in the drawers. Up until
then, Ginger had never told anyone about finding the
body behind the closet. Sitting in the kitchen later,
she would tell them everything.
After hearing the story, the men rushed back
upstairs and returned to the closet. Ginger’s brother,
Karl, climbed into the space with a light and looked
around. In a few moments, he climbed back out ... it
was empty!
Bober and George also inspected the small
space and found nothing. Where had the corpse
gone? Had it been removed, either by natural or
supernatural forces?
Or, most importantly, had it ever really been
there at all?
Toward the end of that Summer, Karl
traveled alone to the old house. He had gone to get a
Summerwind
repair estimate on some work to be done on the
house and to check with someone about getting rid of
the bats which were inhabiting the place. He also
planned to do some yard work and to get the place
cleaned up a little.
It started to rain the first day that he was
there and he began closing some of the windows. He
was upstairs, in the dark hallway, and heard a voice
call his name. He looked around but there was no one
there. Karl closed the window and went downstairs.
He walked into the front room and heard what
sounded like two pistol shots! He ran into the kitchen
and found the room filled with smoke and the acrid
smell of gunpowder ... apparently someone had fired
a gun inside of the house!
Karl searched the place, finding the doors
locked and undisturbed. There appeared to be no one
inside and he returned to the kitchen. He began
looking around the room and discovered two bullet
holes in the door leading down to the basement. He
examined them closely and realized that they were
not new holes at all ... but old bullet holes that had
worn smooth around the edges.
They were apparently holes left behind from
Robert Lamont’s encounter with a ghost in the
kitchen. Perhaps events from the past were replaying
themselves at Summerwind!
No matter what the explanation, it was
enough for Karl and he left the house that afternoon.
The plans to turn the house into a restaurant
did not go smoothly. Workmen refused to stay on the
job, complaining of tools disappearing and feelings
as if they were being watched. Marie Bober agreed
with their complaints. She was always uneasy in the
house and frequently told people that she felt as if
she was followed from place to place whenever she
was inside.
Most disturbing to Bober however was the
apparent shrinkage and expansion of the house.
Bober would measure rooms one day and then find
that they were a different size the next day. Usually,
his measurements were larger than those given in the
blueprints of the house ... sometime greatly larger. At
one point, Bober estimated that he could seat 150
people in his restaurant but after laying out his plans
on the blueprints of Summerwind, he realized that
the place could seat half that many.
Photographs that were taken of the house,
using the same camera and taken only seconds apart,
also displayed the variations of space. The living
room was said to show the greatest enlargement.
Bober compared his photos of the living
room with those that Ginger had taken when she and
Arnold moved in. Ginger’s photos showed curtains
on the windows that she took with her when she
moved out. The curtains were physically absent in
the room that Bober photographed ... but somehow
they appeared in his photos!
Like the incident involving Karl and the
pistol shots, could Summerwind be a place where
time inexplicably repeats itself? Perhaps the place
wasn’t haunted at all, but instead, was a mysterious
site where time was distorted in ways that we cannot
understand. Perhaps the shadows and figures that
were seen could have been people or images from the
past (or the future) and perhaps the sound of
someone calling Karl’s name would happen in reality
... several months later.
We will never know for sure now, but the
idea is something worth considering.
Eventually, the project was abandoned and
Bober would never see the dream of his restaurant
and inn. Strangely though, despite his claims that he
was an earthly companion of the ghostly Jonathan
Carver, the Bobers never spent the night inside of the
house. They chose instead to sleep in an RV that they
parked on the grounds. Also strange was the fact that
Carver (if the ghost existed) chose to manifest
himself in such malevolent ways ... especially if he
was looking for help in finding his deed.
Bober’s explanation for this was that Carver
resented anyone living in the house or trying to
renovate the place, at least until the deed was found.
Bober spent many days searching the basement for
where the deed might be hidden, chipping the
foundation and peering into dark holes and crevices.
To this day, the mysterious deed has never
been found.
In the years that followed Bober’s
abandonment of Summerwind, a number of skeptics
came forward to poke holes in some of Bober’s
claims. Many of their counter-claims, however, have
been nearly as easy to discredit as some of Bober’s
original ones.
Obviously, we are never going to know for
sure if Summerwind was really haunted. The house is
gone now and we are left with only the claims,
reports and witness accounts of Bober and his family.
We can examine the claims of the family, and the
skeptics, and try to make sense of it all.
In 1983, a freelance writer named Will
Pooley set out to gather the facts behind the story and
discredit it. His research claimed that even if Bober
had found Carver’s deed, it would have been
worthless. He based these findings on the fact that
the British government ruled against an individual’s
purchase of Indian land and also that the Sioux had
never claimed land west of the Mississippi River.
First of all, the land was not sold to Carver,
it was given to him in return for assistance that he
had given to the Indians, so British law would not
have ruled against this. On the other subject, the
Sioux Indians were not a single tribe, they were an
entire nation, made up of many different tribes. It is
possible, and very likely, that one tribe that belonged
to the Sioux nation could have lived in Wisconsin.
The white settlers pushed the Indians further and
further west and as this particular tribe abandoned
their lands, they could have deeded them to Carver.
Pooley also argued that the deed to the
property had been located in the old land office in
Wausau, Wisconsin in the 1930's and that it is
unlikely that Carver even journeyed as far north as
West Bay Lake.
But would he have had to have traveled to
northern Wisconsin to hold a deed to the land? And
why would there not have been another deed filed for
that piece of land? Someone could have claimed it
many years later, not even realizing that Carver
already held the title to it.
He also argued that the deed could have
never been placed in the foundation of the house
anyway ... Summerwind had been built more than
130 years after Carver died. To this, it can only be
argued that many events of the supernatural world go
unexplained.
One man that Pooley did talk to however,
was Herb Dickman of Land 'O Lakes, Wisconsin. He
had helped pour the foundation for the house in 1916
and recalled that nothing had been placed in the
foundation ... a box containing a deed or anything
else. So, who really knows?
Apparently, Bober was not always the most
credible person either. Residents who lived close to
Summerwind said that Bober spent less than two
summers at the estate. After abandoning plans for the
restaurant, he tried to get a permit to operate a
concession stand near the house but local ordinances
prohibited this. Perhaps he was planning the idea of
tours of the "haunted" house ... and idea that would
come along a little later.
There was even some uncertainty as to whether or
not Bober even owned Summerwind. One area
resident told Pooley that Bober had tried to buy the
house on a contract-for-deed but the deal had fallen
through. The house had been abandoned and no one
laid claim to it, save for the bank, and they never
realized what Bober was up to out there. This story
has never been verified however and it cannot be
proven that Bober did not own the place.
haunted restaurant?
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to undermine Protestant morals. At around the same
Conspiracy theories : time, Samuel Morse, better known as the inventor of
SUMMERWIND -
That's what they want Morse Code, exposed an Austrian plan to install a Wisconsin’s most Haunted
Hapsburg prince as emperor of the United States. In
you to believe the 20th century, Americans feared reds more than House
royals; hence Joe McCarthy's witch-hunts, and the Continued from Page 39
popularity of Father Charles Coughlin, who told
Why are conspiracy theories so popular?
radio audiences that Masons and Marxists rule the
Who crashed those planes into the World
world.
Trade Centre? Israel, obviously. Mossad must have
In Under Western Eyes, Joseph Conrad
known that their country would profit from a surge
wrote that to us Europeans of the West, all ideas of
in American hostility towards the Arabs, who were
political plots and conspiracies seem childish, crude
set up to take the rap. Shortly after September 11th
inventions for the theatre or a novel.
2001, the consensus on the Arab street was that only
Some modern scholars go further, arguing
the Israeli secret service could have managed such
that the conspiracist habit is a sort of disease or
deadly precision. Corroboration was quickly found
syndrome. The paranoid thinker, instructs material
in a report that 4,000 Jews who worked in the twin
from a course at the University of Rhode Island, is
towers had been secretly warned to stay away that
rigid, victimlike, cowardly. This contrasts with the
day.*
traits of the rational thinker, who is open, flexible,
This was not the only interesting theory
empowered, strong.
bandied around the souks. The doyen of Egyptian
Daniel Pipes, the author of two books about
pundits, Hassanein Heikal, blamed the Serbs, noting
conspiracy theorising, describes the classic grand
that they were mad about losing Kosovo. Others
theories such as those about Masonic or Zionist or
fingered home-grown, Oklahoma-style extremists,
Papist plots for world domination as: So how much of the story that Bober wrote
or a plot by America's military-industrial complex,
a quite literal form of pornography (though about in his book is true? Was the house really
ever hungry for new enemies to boost defence
political rather than sexual). The two genres became haunted, or was the story of the haunting merely a
budgets.
popular about the same time, in the 1740s. Both are part of a scheme by Raymond Bober to draw crowds
One fellow in a Cairo café told The
backstairs literatures that often have to be semi- to a haunted restaurant?
Economist that the culprit was clearly not al-Qaeda,
clandestinely distributed, then read with the shades Those who live near the house claim that the
but rather something called al-Gur. Was this,
drawn. Elders seek to protect youth from their idea that it is haunted has all come from the fact that
perhaps, a terror network still more murderous than
depredations. Scholars studying them try to discuss the mansion was abandoned and from Bober’s wild
the Bin Laden gang? No. On closer listening, it
them without propagating their contents: [with] claims. But what else would they say?
transpired that the evil al-Gur was bent on avenging
asterisks and dashes in the first case and short These neighbors have often made it very
not some wicked Yankee geo-blunder, but the theft
extracts in the second. Recreational conspiracism clear that they resent the strangers who have come to
of the 2000 American presidential election. It's
titillates sophisticates much as does recreational sex. the property, tramping over their lawns and knocking
obvious, declared the café sage. Who else could
Mr Pipes does good work in skewering anti- on their doors. They say that the chartered buses that
have wanted to hurt George Bush more than his
Jewish conspiracy theorists, but his recent founding once came and dumped would-be ghost hunters onto
rival, the former Vice-President al-Gur?
of Campus Watch, a website devoted to outing pro- the grounds of Summerwind were also unwelcome.
The citizens of Cairo may be skilled at
Arab academics, emits a whiff of burning books. These are the last people to ask for an objective
concocting diabolical scenarios, but they are not the
Belief in conspiracies is not necessarily opinion on whether this house is actually haunted.
only ones. Plenty of Africans from further south
foolish. Some are real. The Holocaust, for example, So there remains the mystery ... was
pooh-pooh the conventional view that the virus that
actually happened, though few believed it before the Summerwind really haunted? No one knows and if
causes AIDS originated with monkeys. It was
camps were liberated. Consider also the Bolshevik they do, they aren’t saying.
cooked up in an American lab, of course, to kill
revolution of 1917: a small group of violent fanatics
black people.
seized control of a large empire, as millions of their
Many Asians, including the prime minister
victims could testify, were they still alive.
of Malaysia, blame a clutch of Jewish financiers for
Businessfolk conspire, too. Adam Smith, a man to
causing their economies to crash in 1997. Some
whom The Economist accords considerable respect,
Jews, meanwhile, equate Amnesty International,
once wrote that: People of thesame trade seldom
which often criticises Israel, with the Nazi party.
meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but
Credulous Indians see the hand of Pakistani
the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the
intelligence behind everything from train crashes to
public.
cricket match fixing, and many Pakistanis return the
That some conspiracies are real, however,
compliment. Slobodan Milosevic, smug in court at
does not mean that they all are. As a tool for
The Hague, has testified that the 1995 massacre of
explaining how the world works, conspiracism has
7,000 unarmed Muslims at Srebrenica was carried
certain drawbacks. It inhibits trust: if everyone else is
out not by Serb militiamen, but by French
out to get you, better have nothing to do with them.
intelligence. Less whimsically, China's government
It dampens optimism: if they are sure to frustrate
launched its vicious campaign to crush Falun Gong
your plans, why bother doing anything? And, of
in the belief that the movement, whose stated aims
course, it leads to harmful errors, such as the belief,
are to improve its devotees' spiritual and bodily
once popular among Africans, that condoms were yet The house was completely abandoned in the
health, is a dangerous cult bent on subverting the
another ploy to reduce their population. early 1980's and fell deeper and deeper into ruin.
state.
Americans like a good plot too. The Bats had already taken up residence years before and
Continued on Page 42 the house became a virtual shell, resting there in a
assassination of John F. Kennedy still generates a
thriving industry, complete with a thicket of grove of pines. The windows were shattered and the
suggestive websites, books, college courses, one doors hung open, inviting nature’s destructive force
big-budget movie and a whole vocabulary of arcana.
From the Staff and inside.
In 1986, the house was purchased by three
(If you don't know what is pictured in frames 112 Management of investors who apparently thought that they could
and 113 of the Zapruder film, or wonder what the
Grassy Knoll is, better stay quiet on the subject.) A make a go of the place again. But it was not to be ...
1991 poll showed that, three decades after the forces greater than man had other ideas.
president's murder, 73% of Americans still think he
THE McCONNELL MEDIA Summerwind was struck by lightning during a
terrible storm in June of 1988 and burned to the
was a victim of conspiracy. GROUP ground.
Such fables are nothing new. American
pamphleteers in the 1790s warned of a plot by Today, only the foundations, the stone
atheist, libertine Illuminati and Freemasons to chimneys and perhaps the ghosts remain ... [End]
concoct an abortion-inducing tea and a method for
filling a bedchamber with pestilential vapours. The
HAPPY NEW Dare to Believe... dare to be heard!
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Conspiracy theories :
That's what they want you
to believe
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The evolution of theories
So what is the attraction of conspiracism?
For starters, as grand unifying theories of geopolitics
go, it is simple to grasp. In ill-educated societies, that
makes it appealing. It is also impossible to disprove,
because any fact that does not fit the theory can be
dismissed as a trick by the conspirators to throw
ordinary folk off the scent.
In countries with opaque and authoritarian
political systems, rumour is often the only
alternative to official news sources. If the people in
such countries remember falling victim to real
conspiracies, they may be inclined to attribute fresh
misfortunes to a similar cause.
Take more or less anywhere in the Middle
East. The very borders of countries such as Jordan,
Syria and Lebanon are a product of the 1916 Sykes-
Picot accord, a secret agreement between Britain and
France to divvy up the region between themselves,
despite earlier British pledges of statehood to Arabs.
In 1917, war-pressed Britain sought to curry favour
with the growing Zionist movement by promising a
Jewish national home in Palestine. The Palestinians,
nine-tenths of the territory's population at the time,
were not consulted. Thirty years later, when the UN
voted to give Jews 53% of the land, the 13 Eastern
countries that objected were overruled by 33
Western countries, which between them ruled over
some 120 future members that surely would have
voted otherwise had they been able to. Small wonder
Palestinians see the world through a lens of
victimhood.
In the West, conspiracies have, for some
reason, tended to fail, and so fade from the popular
imagination. Who now frets about the Gunpowder
Plot of 1605, when a gang of Catholics failed to
blow up Britain's Parliament? Or the doomed Carlist
uprisings in 19th-century Spain? Or the European
anarchists who assassinated seven heads of state in
the 1890s, to no avail? Or the Watergate scandal?
In Iran, by contrast, people still seethe over
the CIA-backed coup of 1953 that toppled
Muhammad Mossadegh, a man much loved for
having dared to nationalise British oil interests.
Syria and Iraq have suffered a dizzy sequence of
successful plots and counter-conspiracies, ending
with the pair of Baathist coups in the late 1960s that
installed their current ruling cliques.
Half the governments of the Middle East
trace their origins to coups. In a sense, conspiracy is
the region's only real form of politics, which can
make it hard for Middle Easterners to understand the
dynamics of open, democratic societies. Hence, for
example, the Arab tendency, as the French say, to
occult? America's generous backing for Israel.
Aiding the Jewish state infuriates hundreds of
millions of oil-supplying, American-product-
consuming Arabs and Muslims. So why does
America do it? It must be a conspiracy by the Zionist
lobby, or perhaps a plot to divide and rule Arabs to
control their oil, or part of a Christian crusade
against Islam.
Blaming others for one's troubles may be
emotionally satisfying, but it is a counsel of despair.
Stella Orakwue, a journalist, writes in the New
African that: Today, [Africa] has to remain in deficit
so Europe and America can maintain their obscene
wealth. Given that Africa accounts for less than 2%
of global trade, this is hardly an adequate
explanation of why the West is rich and Africa is
poor. And without understanding why their continent
is poor, Africans will find it harder to grow rich. In
extreme cases, conspiracy theories can cost lives.
Osama bin Laden genuinely seems to think he is
fighting a Zionist-Christian-materialist assault on
Islam. Adolf Hitler sincerely believed he was ridding
the world of a Jewish menace. Many Serbs were
convinced that the Muslims of ex-Yugoslavia were
out to annihilate them. And many Rwandan Hutus,
informed by their leaders that the Tutsis were
planning to kill them, were happy to follow orders to
pre-empt this threat.
*For the record, around 300 Jews and 100
Muslims were among the 3,000 victims. The origin
of the rumour was probably a report in the Jerusalem
Post of September 12th, which mistakenly said that
4,000 Jews had disappeared in the disaster. [End]
Strange Animal Remains
Found In Puerto Rico
Dr. Virgilio Sanchez-Ocejo
JAYUYA -- The discovery of a strange
looking skeleton has caused stir in the small Puerto
Rican town of Jayuya. The bizarre skeletal remains
were found last Tuesday, December 24 at
approximately 1:30 in the afternoon. The remains
were found at a construction site in a barrio near the
area of Utado by two boys: Angel Edgardo Oquendo,
a six-year-old, and his older brother Sixto, a ten-year-
old.
According to Adelaida Quiles, the boys,
mother, the bizarre discovery took place during their
Christmas Eve cookout. "He called me saying,
'Mommy, I found a dead mouse,, and I sort of
dismissed his claim thinking he was playing around,
but then he kept on trying to get my attention, so I
went and told my husband and asked him to take care
of things while I would go and take a look at what my
son was talking about", she said.
Shortly after she arrived at the site, she
immediately saw the remains hidden between the
support columns of the newly built home. She went
back and called her husband, Cesar Oquendo, to see
if he could identify what kind of animal those
remains could have belonged to. Then he slipped a
piece of cardboard under the remains in order to take
it outside so they could get a better look with the
sunlight. "We wanted to see if this was indeed a
chupacabras or something like that", Quiles said.
After a brief observation, they noticed that
the dead animal did not have feathers, hair, nor wool.
They later realized that the animal did not have upper
extremities, nor wings; it only appeared to have
lower legs.
Seemingly, the creature would appear to
measure approximately two feet in height. Judging
its strange physical appearance, the creature would
seem to have had used its legs to stand up and walk,
like an ordinary biped animal. However, its legs
appeared to be supported by THREE long bones, and
it had visible claws on its feet. The bone structure of
the legs clearly shows that the creature was able to
jump considerably high.
Its wide head was not fully decomposed; it
still had its eyes and a full set of teeth. It had long
fangs in the upper jaw and two smaller ones in the
lower jaw. The mouth, the teeth, but particularly the
jaw width and thickness clearly showed that the
animal was a carnivore, unlike the rodents of the
local area, to which their jaws are much thinner and
have wider front teeth.
The animal had flat palm-shaped ears that
measured about an inch in length. Its backbone
appeared to be curved and leaning forward. Also, it
had a tail about a foot and half long, similar in form
to that of a reptile, which seemed to have helped the
animal to balance itself when moving.
The surprise among the neighbors was even
more remarkable during the arrival of a forensic
science investigator at the scene. The forensic expert
observed the strange remains.
Surprisingly, in the same area where the
dead creature was found, several hens had died two
months earlier. The property where the remains were
found belong to Adelaida's father's, Victor Quiles,
where eight hens and a rooster were found dead
outside of their cages.
In a same way and around the same date,
José Carlos Rivera, a resident of the same area also
suffered the loss of five hens. He also mentioned that
his uncle lost 23 chickens, and his sister lost two
more. Rivera, a small food stand owner also
mentioned that after those incidents, their animals
did not suffer any more attacks. [End]
Norwood Terrace winds briefly by the
bank of the Passaic River, a quiet, U-
shaped street off Riverview Drive. Along
the road are about 20 homes, many of
which are small, and exasperated
residents.
By ROMY VARGHESE
Legends of a female ghost haunting the area,
near Laurel Grove Cemetery, and of little people
inhabiting their street do not scare the residents but
infuriate them with the thrill-seekers they draw.
While residents say the volume of carousing youths
has decreased over recent years, the degree of trouble
has increased, with people trying to peer into homes
and cars.
"Not only is it annoying, it's getting a little
dangerous," said Jill Blair, a neighborhood resident
for 52 years.
She and several of her neighbors asked the
Borough Council to put speed bumps at the
beginning and end of the street, which has a 15-mph
speed limit. Mayor John Coiro said the state
Department of Transportation was contacted
Wednesday for permission.
Blair said speed bumps would slow down
cars, allowing residents to note license plate numbers
of vehicles filled with troublemakers and file police
complaints.
Residents say they have been annoyed for
years, even decades, by people fascinated with tales
of Annie's Ghost and "Midgetville," as the
neighborhood has come to be known because of its
many small homes. Annie was a beautiful young
woman who was tragically murdered in typical
fashion - depending on the version related - and
some claim that her ghost and a spot of blood appear
on Riverview Drive, also known locally as Annie's
Road.
The road supposedly goes to "Midgetville," or
Norwood Terrace. Many of the homes were built as
summer bungalows, and their small size may
encourage people eager to believe that the homes
house little people.
"Our shortest (resident) is our 94-year-old;
she's 5 feet tall," said Blair, who was egged by
youths last Halloween.
Residents said publication of the folklore in
Weird NJ, a magazine and a Web site dedicated to
state legends, worsened their quality of life. They
said that they suffer vandalism and sleepless nights,
thanks to youths and out-of-towners driving along
the street honking horns with their car lights off
("Better to see the ghosts, dear.")
Several accidents have been pinned to the
tales. In 1998, a Wood-Ridge teenager struck a
Norwood Terrace resident with her car. The year
before, two Paterson teens were killed when their car
rammed into a pole on Riverview Drive.
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