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‘X’ CHRONICLES NEWSPAPER
Planet Earth’s ONLY Paranormal / Parapsychology Newspaper
Vol. 15, No 05 ISSN - 1499-8599 (E-dition) / ISSN - 1499-8602 (CD-ROM)
ANOTHER
DISASTER
FORTUNE
TELLERS
MISSED!
Another Disaster The
Fortune Tellers Missed
by Rob McConnell- Publisher
The catastrophe that is happening in the
Gulf of Mexico right this very minute thanks to
BP, where vast amounts of oil are escaping
uncontrolled, is a prime example of why I do
not give those who proclaim to have fortune
telling abilities or “the gift” any credibility
whatsoever.
Once again, they have missed another
world altering event. Not one of these so called
psychics and/or tarot card readers foretold of
this disaster - not one. If any of them now claim
THE
they had predicted this event - BULL!
If they are proclaiming their accuracy on
their internet websites and blogs - BULL! Hey
psychics... you claim to see the future not what
has happened in the past!
It is no secret that I have no use
whatsoever for psychics, tarot card readers,
mediums, channels, palmists and other people
who have weeded their way into the paranormal
community who claim that they can foretell the
future, and who are very successful in deceiving
members of society who are desperate for that
light at the end of the tunnel - or those long
words sought to be heard from those who have
died - all for a price.
In my opinion they are white collar
criminals who should be held responsible for
their actions. Let's face it - when someone robs
a bank, they are a criminal whether they are
arrested at the time they rob the bank or not.
Section 365 of the Canadian Criminal
reads as follows,
”Every one who fraudulently
(a) pretends to exercise or to use any kind of
witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration,
(b) undertakes, for a consideration, to tell
fortunes, or
(c) pretends from his skill in or knowledge of an
occult or crafty science to discover where or in
what manner anything that is supposed to have
MAY 2010 $4.95(US)
been stolen or lost may be found, is guilty of an
offence punishable on summary conviction.”
If fortune tellers are infact legitimate,
should they not have been able to predict and
prevent the Gulf od Mexico oil disaster?
Therefore, when they did not make this
prediction, they proved that they are not able to
tell the future as they claim, therefore making
their claims of forsigth fraudulent.
As far as I am concerned, all psychics
and tarot card readers and others who claim to
have the ability to tell th efuture or what they
call "the gift" are frauds and should be shut
down.
There is no place in today's society for a
this group of individuals who have sociological
problems (believing that they can tell the future)
fitting into main stream society, where they
prey on the unfortunate.
When was the last time that there was a
documented case where information from a
psychic or other fortune telling practitioner
actually was taken seriously and used to stop or
prevent a world altering event?
Did any one of the thousands of self
proclaimed fortune tellers that can be found
littered across the internet and on psychic
hotlines tell President Bush or any person in
authority who could have made a -
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2 Another Disaster Fortune Tellers Missed
In This Edition of
The ‘X’ Chronicles
Newspaper
(Print/Online/CD ROM/e-Book
Version)
MAY 2010 - 44 Pages
These are just SOME of the stories
and articles in this edition of
THE ‘X’ CHRONICLES
NEWSPAPER
01 - Another Disaster Fortune Tellers Missed
03 - Colorado Psychic Arrested
03 - PETA Wants To Rent Amityville Horror House
04 - Psychic - “I Didn’t See Scam”
04 - Leonard Nimoy Grateful for Opportunities
04 - Man Says Portland Psychic Duped Him
05 - Darren Brown Investigates
05 - Transsexual Says Gypsy Psychic Got Him
06 - Ghost Hunting Is Serious Business
07 - Electromagnetic Radiation
11 - Hotline Psychic Admits It’s A Scam
12 - Alien’s Hijack NASA Voyager
12 - Simple Explanation For UFO Sightings
14 - Newfoundland UFO Still A Mystery
14 - Politicians Report UFO Sightings
15 - UFO Inspires Inventor
16 - Mind Controlled Bionic Arm
16 - UFOs Go To School
17 - Top 10 Most Common UFO Explanations
19 - NY Prof Plans To Teach UFO Course
21 - Truth Behind NASA’s UFO Videos
24 - If Aliens Call, They Better Wear Armour
24 - Bizarre News
25 - Are Aliens & Angels The Same Thing?
26 - Crusade To Put Psychics Out Of Business
28 - The Skull of Doom
36 - Predicting the End of Time
40 - Nostradamus and 2012
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Another Disaster The
Fortune Tellers Missed
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difference that a group of terrorist were going to
strike a major blow to freedom and democracy
in terrorist attacks in New York and Washington
on September 11, 2001?
Did any one fortune teller contact BP,
the White House or the US Coast Guard and tell
them that there was going to be a catastrophe in
the Gulf of Mexico?
Here are some other major events that
psychics, tarot card readers, mediums, channels,
astrologers and other fortune telling
practitioners have missed so far this year:
- January 1 – A suicide bombing occurs
at a volleyball game in northwestern Pakistan,
killing at least 95, and injuring over 100.
- January 12 – A 7.0-magnitude
earthquake occurs in Haiti, devastating the
nation's capital, Port-au-Prince
- January 25 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight
409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly
after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri
International Airport, killing all 90 people on-
board.
- February 27 – An 8.8-magnitude
earthquake occurs in Chile, triggering a tsunami
over the Pacific and killing 497.
- April 10 – The President of Poland,
Lech Kaczyński, is among 96 killed when their
airplane crashes in western Russia
- April 13 – A 6.9-magnitude earthquake
occurs in Qinghai, China, killing at least 2,000
and injuring more than 10,000
- April 14 – Volcanic ash from one of
several eruptions beneath Eyjafjallajökull, a
glacier in Iceland, begins to disrupt air traffic
across northern and western Europe
- May 12 – Afriqiyah Airways Flight
771 crashes at runway at Tripoli International
Airport in Libya killing 103 on board leaving
only one survivor
If these psychics and the other members
of their fortune telling gangs, cannot accurately
predict major world events, some of which have
been mentioned above, how would they be able
to help members of society with their lives?
How would they be able to help them
with questions about their love, their money,
their jobs and their families?
What would cause a person who has
these types of problems to seek out the advice
from these unscrupulous members of society?
Psychologists state that what the people who go
to psychics are seeking is just simple,
reinforcement - a glimmer of hope - the light at
the end of the tunnel - the one thing that these
people do not want is reality.
They would rather pay a stranger to lie
to them then to have family and friends tell
them the truth for nothing.
The only future that psychic, tarot card
readers, mediums, channel, palmists, tea
readers, astrologers and their associates can see
is that there is a sucker born every minute and
there are enough people looking for a quick fix
(or a lie) for each and every one of them.
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From The ’X’ Zone Newsroom
Another Disaster The
Fortune Tellers Missed
Continue from Page 2
Here's are a few questions:
Do psychics, tarot card readers,
mediums, channels, tea readers,astrologers and
other people who claims to have the gift - and
now I must include those who do angel readings
declare their revenue to the IRS or Revenue
Canada?
Do they issue receipts?
Do they collect the appropriate taxes?
Question: Why is it when I call up a
psychic they say "Hello?" instead of answering,
"Hi Rob"
Answer: They only have the ability to
tell the future of those who are willing to listen
to what they are saying... those who are
desperate enough to be willing to allow the
fortune teller to manipulate their lives in one
way or another.
Psychic ability, channels, mediums, tea
readers, palmistry, communication with the
dead is nothing more than the desire of the
person who has sought out the connection with
the fortune teller and nothing more.
That is why I do not have fortune tellers
of any kind any longer on The 'X' Zone - I
cannot support, nor can I tolerate their less then
scrupulous and criminal so called "profession."
Send your comments to
feedback@xchronicles-newspaper.com []
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Read This Palm!
Colorado psychic arrested
for telling clients their
money was possessed by
evil spirits
Colorado - Nancy Marks, a psychic from
Lafayette, Colorado, was arrested for fraud
after telling clients their money was evil and
that she'd take their cursed cash so the money
would suffer instead.
Nancy Marks, a psychic from Lafayette,
Colorado, was arrested for fraud after telling
clients their "money [was] evil" and that she'd
take their cursed cash so "the money would
suffer" instead.
Marks made at least $290,000 using this
scam.
Marks - who runs a psychic reading
business creatively named Psychic Readings -
warned victims that malicious spirits were
haunting their bank accounts and that she would
take the evil assets off their hands.
Her scam would've continued had a
whistleblower named Linda not contacted
police.
According to Linda, Marks is charged
with two counts of Theft Over $20,000 and one
count of Criminal Impersonation. If Marks told
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you Vigo the Carpathian was exercising
demonic influence over your bank account, you
can contact detectives at (303)-665-5571.
Why Does PETA Want to
Rent the "Amityville
Horror" House?
Opinion by PETA
By Karin Bennett
Media outlets everywhere are reporting
that a home on New York's Long Island is for
sale. Why all the buzz? This house is well
known as the "Amityville Horror house," the
infamous site of alleged paranormal activity
brought on by gruesome murders at the home as
depicted in the horror classic The Amityville
Horror.
Whether or not you believe in ghosts,
there's no denying the horrors that countless
animals suffer in factory farms before they are
cruelly killed in slaughterhouses. So enter
PETA: We've written to the current owner to
propose that we be allowed to rent the residence
so that we can set up shop—er, haunted house.
PETA's "Amityville Slaughterhouse of Horrors"
would guarantee chills (and likely some
sleepless nights) for visitors who will
experience what life and death are like for
victims of factory farms and slaughterhouses.
Of course, it wouldn't be all gore and
horror: Our walk-through exhibit would also
include an on-site café where visitors can learn
about simple, tasty alternatives to butchered
animal bits.
Will we be bringing the haunting real-
life tales of tormented animals to Amityville?
We'll let you know—in the meantime, make
sure your own kitchen doesn't look like a
murder scene by going vegan. []
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4 From The ‘X’ Zone Newsroom
'Psychic healer' Grabovoi
to terminate public
activity - wife
Russian "psychic healer" Grigory
Grabovoi, released from jail on Friday midway
through an eight-year sentence on fraud
charges, will not get involved in public
activities again, his wife said Wednesday.
"He is going to get a legal education,
bring up his children, do family work and wait
for his grandchildren," Yelena Grabovoi told
journalists.
A statement on the website of
Grabovoi's "social and political" organization -
Drugg - said he would only issue statements
through his lawyers, following "slanderous"
media reports.
In 2005, Kazakh-born Grabovoi made
headlines all over the world when he promised
to resurrect the children killed as Russian forces
stormed a school that had been seized by
Chechen militants in the North Caucasus town
of Beslan. A total of 331 people, including 186
children, died in what has been referred to as
Russia's 9/11.
In May 2008 Grabovoi was arrested on
fraud charges after a sting operation by a
Moscow journalist. He was subsequently found
guilty of 11 counts of fraudulently obtaining
money "under the guise of resurrecting the
victims' dead relatives or curing them of serious
illnesses." He was sentenced to 11 years behind
bars, later cut to eight on appeal.
Grabovoi, who once declared his
intention to run for president ("my first act will
be to ban death") denied all the charges, saying
he had pursued political, public, religious and
scientific activities in order to "benefit people".
The day before his release, Grabovoi
offered his "services" in the search for miners
missing after a recent accident in a Siberian
coalmine. The mayor of the nearby town of
Mezhdurechensk responded by saying if
Grabovoi arrived "we will grab him by the
scruff of the neck and chuck him out of here."
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Psychic: I didn’t see scam
The Scottish Sun
A SHAKEN psychic told yesterday how
she was "terrorised" into carrying out a £16,000
bank scam after crooks threatened to kill her
children if she refused.
Mum-of-three Lynne MacNeill didn't
see the con coming as she held a clairvoyant
session for the gangsters' girlfriends - not
realising who their partners were.
When she told them she was in debt, the
men offered her £1,200 to walk into the bank
with fake ID and take out huge loans for them.
But the 41-year-old claimed when she
tried to back out of the con, the thugs threatened
to hurt her children.
She said: "I mentioned I was in debt and
they pounced on that. I did agree to it at first, but
when I tried to walk away they terrorised me."
At Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday
she wept as she was spared a jail sentence after
admitting the fraud. The court heard she had
managed to get £5,000 from the Natwest in
Edinburgh last June. But when she went back
later for £11,000, cops arrived and arrested
MacNeill.
Police took £850 from her Glasgow
home and yesterday she was ordered to pay the
bank £750 and got 180 hours' community
service. Sheriff Derrick McInytre told her: "You
should be careful of the company you keep."
Man says Portland
psychic duped him
by Katherine Cook
Drakar Druella went to see a psychic on
Hawthorne Boulevard to deal with childhood
abuse issues last fall.
He claims that psychic Cathy Stevens
took advantage of his emotional vulnerability
with gender identity issues from childhood, his
upbringing as Roman Catholic and personal
details of his life to sway him into providing
cash, Rolex watches, even a Hummer.
She said she needed a component within
the Rolex for her treatments and the Hummer to
conduct her work in remote areas.
Police arrested Stevens last January on
aggravated theft accusations, but dropped the
charges to look further into the case.
Stevens attorney said his client is only in
the business of helping people and suggested
that a police reference to gypsies in a prior
report hints of religious persecution.
Druella said the public can be unkind to
people who have gone through his experience.
"Don't be embarrassed," he suggests to
others who fell into his situation. "This is a
culture that I think quite frankly treat people
who go through these kinds of things kind of
like the way women used to be treated for being
raped. They get blamed. 'You were stupid. You
let this happen. You asked for this. That's what
you get for not using your noggin."
"But these people (like him) who walk
through doors like this," he said, "are in really
tough places in life."
Portland Police Bureau detectives
believe there are other victims, said
spokeswoman Detective Mary Wheat. They
should contact Detective Andrew Madden at
(503) 823-0450.
Leonard Nimoy grateful
for the opportunities his
60-year career has given
him
After 60 years, Leonard Nimoy will say
goodbye to film and television for good
Thursday night with a final guest-star
appearance on Fox’s science-fiction drama
"Fringe.”
No more Mr. Spock from the original
1960s "Star Trek” series, where Nimoy first
gave us the Vulcan phrase "Live long and
prosper.” No more from "Fringe’s” William
Bell, the morally ambiguous scientist Nimoy
portrays who can travel between alternate
universes.
And though he’s retired before and was
compelled to return to acting in the 2009 "Star
Trek” movie as the older Spock, he’s adamant
that his decision this time is final. He’s ready to
turn his most famous character over to Zachary
Quinto, who portrayed the younger Spock in the
latest film, and move onto other ventures.
"Sixty years, I think, is long enough,”
Nimoy said during a recent conference call with
reporters. "I decided some time ago that I didn’t
want to do this anymore.”
Nimoy, 79, isn’t slowing down. A
longtime photographer, he is making prints for
his first solo exhibition at a major museum, the
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
The exhibit, "Secret Selves,” will open July 31.
Nimoy said he acted in "Fringe” as a
favor to J.J. Abrams, who directed the latest
"Star Trek” movie and who is creator of the Fox
television show about paranormal phenomena,
now in its second season.
"He did a great job with the ‘Star Trek’
movie and treated me extremely well,” Nimoy
said. "The work on ‘Fringe’ has turned out to be
excited and interesting.”
He added, "I’m very grateful for all the
great opportunities I’ve had and the people I’ve
met and the people I’ve worked with. The ‘Star
Trek’ character has been a blessing to me
because I find it very dignified and a positive
character and a great role model for a lot of
people.” []
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From The ‘X’ Zone Newsroom
Derren Brown
Investigates: The Man
Who Contacts The Dead -
did he succeed in exposing
fraud?
Simon Cocks
Derren Brown’s latest television
appearance is an interesting (yet overlong) look
into psychics who profess to have the ability to
talk to the dead. The hour-long documentary
covered a lot of details I thought were a little
obvious; but it’s really not my place to tell you
what or what not to believe in. I’m a sceptic
though, and the events of Brown’s week spent
with self-employed psychic Joe Powers were
fairly unsurprising to me.
It’s good that Brown readily admits he
himself has no psychic powers. Anyone who’s
ever seen him on TV before will know of his
impressive abilities of persuasion and
showmanship. In fact, when given the
opportunity to pretend to do a psychic reading,
I thought he did a better job than the
“professional” Powers!
During the week that Brown spent with
the Liverpudlian “psychic”, Powers had a mix
of good and bad readings. In his worst, he
basically got no hits at all. And in his best, he
really seemed to have all the facts. It’s evident
though that all of what he was doing could be
explained by a little research and a look into
‘cold reading’.
If you’re a sceptic like me, you’ll
already know what cold reading is. The
technique of convincing someone you’ve just
met that you know them extremely well is
something Derren Brown is an expert at. And
when Powers’ techniques are put under even
just a little scrutiny, it’s clear that he could
easily be using cold reading to achieve his
results.
It was interesting to see a breakdown of
just how cold reading is done, but as I just said,
most sceptics will know this already. If you’re a
believer, it won’t matter to you; all the evidence
isn’t going to change your mind. This is shown
by the fact that Claire Cooper (from Hollyoaks
and Coronation Street - she sits for a pretend
reading from Brown) is convinced that Brown
has psychic abilities despite his own insistence
that he has NO clairvoyant abilities of any kind.
Anyway, it doesn’t matter that I think
people can’t talk to the dead. It’s never been my
agenda to change anybody’s views. But, even if
they could, do you really think they’d be
throwing out numbers and letters to psychics in
some sort of beyond-the-grave guessing game?
At the end of the day, this documentary
is full of obvious observations. And most of you
will have got the gist of things by the end of the
first part. I have to admit that I feel disappointed
by it because it will have provided a platform
for Powers’ awful business. This seedy man
relies on other people’s misery and grief for his
living - I wonder how he sleeps at night.
When Brown said that the whole thing
made him feel “sad and uncomfortable”, I
agreed. The main positive from the
documentary is that it neatly gives clear proof
that this particular psychic is a fraud. But my
overriding feeling is still of anger; I hate that
lying psychics are able to get away with
manipulating people in this way. Because, in my
opinion, it’s just plain wrong.
Transsexual Says Gypsy
Psychic Got Him to Spend
$150,000
ABC News
Man Says Psychic Preyed on Satanic Abuse
He Suffered as Child; She Says He Wanted
to Join Her Business
As a child, Drakar Druella was raised a
Catholic and also had been the victim of ritual
abuse, so when he turned to a Portland, Ore.,
psychic last October looking for spiritual
advice, he said, her strange requests made some
sense.
First, she wanted $22,000 to buy a
tabernacle from the Vatican that would rid the
42-year-old of "negative energy," he said. Then,
over the course of seven weeks, he said, she
asked him to buy a $46,000 Hummer and four
Rolex watches totaling $38,000 -- all to help
create a spiritual center.
But after his credit card debt soared to
$150,000 and he said he saw her try to use the
same religious ploy on two other women, he
went to police. Druella has since filed for
bankruptcy and said his credit has been ruined.
Now, police are investigating possible
fraud conspiracy charges against the psychic,
39-year-old Cathy Stevens, a Gypsy whose
lawyer says she is being persecuted for her
religion.
Stevens' lawyer said Druella is a person
with "mental health issues" who is trying to
"smear" her for things he did because he wanted
to go into business with her.
As the investigation continues, who is
the victim in this bizarre story: Druella, a
transsexual bookkeeper with a troubled past, or
Stevens, a fortune teller who believed her client
was a willing business partner?
In January, police raided both Stevens'
home and her psychic shop in the hip, southeast
section of Portland and charged her with
aggravated theft. After fingerprinting her and
holding her for a few hours, she was released
and charges were dropped pending further
investigation.
"We still have other victims to come
forward," said Portland Police Department Sgt.
Sue Kruger, who refused to reveal more. "We
want to look at the whole case together with all
the charges rather than add things down the
road."
The psychic has since closed her shop
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and, Kruger said, "As far as where Cathy
Stevens is, I couldn't tell you that."
Druella, a transsexual who was born a
woman, said he was only looking for "a few
tidbits to direct me and comfort me and give me
a sense of safety and security" when he went in
to the Hawthorne Psychic Shop for a palm-
reading last October.
"For lack of a better word, I had a
midlife crisis," Druella said. "As a result of
some soul-searching, I thought I would try to
live as woman again after 20 years living as a
man -- to go back. I was struggling at the time."
Druella said he had a "rough time"
stopping testosterone, which he compared to a
woman's hormonal response after a
hysterectomy, and "coming out" again as a
woman to his co-workers.
"I was looking for someone to give me a
little sign or something," said Druella, who had
previously seen other psychics and spiritual
teachers. "I went into a tailspin. I didn't sleep
well for eight months and I was fighting the flu.
"I had a desire for a loving figure and
spiritual person in my life and [Stevens] really
did play on that," Druella said. "I was really
vulnerable."
Stevens, whom he described as dressed
in a jean skirt and boots with her dark hair
pulled back in a pony tail, "seemed like an
average nice person."
"She didn't have any weird stuff, just
metaphysical books on her shelf and pretty
candles and incense, he said.
But in the course of their first
conversation, which cost $265, Druella said
Stevens "pressed upon a sensitive thread' -- his
Catholic upbringing.
"She said that I had some kind of bad
energy around me and was profoundly
concerned for my well-being," said Druella,
who told her about the "heinous abuse" he said
he had suffered as a child.
Druella said a relative had performed
satanic rituals on him before the age of 5.
Experts define ritual abuse as any
psychological, physical or sexual assault on an
unwilling victim committed by cultists or in the
name of religion.
"She hit the jackpot when she knew my
history," he said. "I just went for it lock, stock
and barrel."
Druella said Stevens told him that she
had "special connections" to the Vatican.
"She called it an exorcism and said she
needed a tabernacle," he said. "After she used it,
she would return it and I would be fully
refunded. She was lying and I believed it."
Druella, who has an associate's degree
from Portland Community College and has
worked for 10 years with the same company,
said he had always "lived simply" and had
"impeccable" credit.
But at her urging, he said, he bought an
H-3T Hummer for $45,940 so they could go to
a remote area and do spiritual work.
Druella said he also agreed to buy four
Rolex watches, totaling $37,840 so Stevens
could use the "special components" to save his
life.
He also handed over journals from his
previous advisor, giving the psychic even more
material to take advantage of his "belief
system," Druella said. (Contd on Page 6)
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6 From The ‘X’ Zone Newsroom
Transsexual Says Gypsy
Psychic Got Him to Spend
$150,000
Continued from Page 5
But Stevens, who could not be reached
by ABCNews.com, contends Druella was an
eager investor in her spiritual operation and
even brought in his own clients, according to
her lawyer.
After her arrest on Jan. 25, she hired
John W. Neidig, a lawyer who has defended
numerous cases of religious freedom to "defend
her against potential charges."
Just last year, Neidig defended Raylene
Worthington, the Oregon City mother who was
charged in the death of her 15-month-old
daughter Ava, who had a treatable medical
condition.
She and her husband Carl, who
belonged to the Followers of Christ Church,
which preaches that members should turn to
prayer, not doctors, in times of illness, were
acquitted of manslaughter in the case, though
Carl Worthington was convicted of
misdemeanor criminal mistreatment.
Stevens is a member of the Spiritual
Psychic Science Church of Truth , based in
Azuza, Calif., and moved to Portland one year
ago, Neidig said.
"This is an established church and
established religion and our Oregon constitution
is pretty darn clear and very protective of
people's right to worship according to their
dictates," he said.
Neidig said the tabernacle, like the rest
of the expensive purchases, was Druella's idea.
"He actually wanted to go into business
with my client," Neidig said. "He wanted it to
be a class act. He wanted all these video players
with flat screen TVs for counseling people at
their spiritual center. He was seeing his own
clients and doing fortune telling."
Neidig said Druella had frequent
emotional flare-ups when his female alter ego,
"Rachel," emerged.
"When he went off hormones and got
real wiggy, and Rachel would surface," he said.
Druella bought the Rolex watches for
his mother and sister and asked Stevens to keep
them safe at her shop, according to Neidig.
As for the Hummer, it was for Druella's
personal use, though Stevens had borrowed it
once, he said. "It's orange because it was
Rachel's favorite color," Neidig said.
The pair had plans to move in together at
Steven's large house, which she rented from
Portland's former police chief, Ron Sill, the
lawyer said. Druella bought bedroom furniture
and a washer and dryer, but soon, according to
Neidig, Stevens became uncomfortable with
their relationship and broke it off, returning the
appliances.
But Neidig said the most egregious
offense occurred when Druella filed charges
with police and they defamed Stevens in the
affidavit, calling the case: "Gypsies and Fortune
Telling Fraud."
"That was pretty doggone racist," he
said. "Gypsy is a pejorative term of slang that is
placed on these people. My client is pretty
offended by this."
Neidig said police characterized
Gypsies as "swindlers and fraudulent."
He also alleged that police raided
Stevens' house under false pretenses,
"concocting" a story with her landlord that the
insurance company needed to inspect the
property so that they could gain access.
With a search warrant, police later
confiscated all her financial records and
journals, he said. This week a Multnomah
County judge refused to return them to Stevens
for two months until the investigation is
complete.
"She needs to file her taxes," Neidig
said."She is very upset. This whole thing has
cost her a lot of money."
Stevens has not ruled out filing a lawsuit
against the police for violating landlord-tenant
laws, the lawyer said.
As for Druella, "He's obviously got
mental health issues and maybe poor
judgment," Neidig said. "Now he's trying to
smear Cathy Stevens for his own decisions."
But Druella contends he was an easy
target for Stevens.
"She was playing on my history," he
said. "She knew completely what to do. I was
scared for my life."
Druella said he came to his senses when
Stevens asked him to help persuade two other
clients "how wonderful she was" and "how they
needed her."
"The first woman had two children and
was gay and had been through a break-up," he
said. "[Stevens] asked this woman to get her a
tabernacle, and this woman was not ritually
abused and exposed to Satanism."
Stevens allegedly tried the same tack
with a second, professional woman. Druella
said he approached each of the women and told
them to "get the hell out of here."
"The business woman who dealt with
finance was utterly humiliated, too embarrassed
to report it to the police," he said. "The gay
woman was suicidal -- she had given her the last
$200 she had for her children's Christmas
presents."
Druella said he, too, was ashamed that
he fell for Stevens, but was comforted when a
sympathetic police detective told him: "This
isn't about intelligence. It's about being
vulnerable, so stop beating on yourself."
Druella said his life crisis is now
resolved, but no thanks to Stevens.
"I knew when I stepped forward it was
going to be ugly," he said. "I knew what people
would say about me. They can be very cruel.
But I had to say something. It's been profoundly
difficult, but it was my choice and the right
thing to do."
Druella said he won't ever seek psychic
advice again.
"One of the big lessons I learned is we
all carry our own wisdom inside ourselves," he
said. "You don't have to go outside to find it.
You just have got to figure things out for
yourself sometimes." []
The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show
with
Rob McConnell
www.xzoneradiotv.com
Ghost hunting is serious
business
Associated Press
LONDON - IN A pitch-dark cellar in
suburban London, a psychic mutters a Latin
incantation, goading a recalcitrant spirit to
make its presence known.
His companions, who have signed up
through the company Fright Nights to spend the
evening 'ghost hunting' in an eerie Victorian
mansion, cling to each other, rigid with fear. A
woman yelps in the darkness. Flashlights snap
on.
Ghostly folklore has always played a
role in British history. Buildings ranging from
Hampton Court - where the ghost of Catherine
Howard has allegedly been seen running from
room to room, pursued by guards, as she did
before her execution - to the Bank of England
are believed to be haunted.
But lately, ghost tours have turned into
serious enterprise, with a handful of companies
charging as much as 200 pounds (S$401) for
paranormal adventures. 'The British have
always loved a really good ghost story - look at
Dickens and M.R. James,' says Fright Night's
founder, Martin Jeffrey. 'This takes it one step
further. Some people have attended our events
60 or 70 times.'
It's not all freezing basements and
frenzied seances. Increasingly, companies like
Haunted Happenings arrange 'psychic suppers'
in spooky country inns where guests can
discuss the paranormal over dinner. One manor
house in Tetbury offers a gastronomic three-
course meal followed by seances and vigils in
the house's spooky 'hot spots.'
The 115-year-old National Trust has
commissioned the cultural historian Sian Evans
to investigate ghostly encounters in its 350
properties. Evans has traveled the country,
interviewing staff. 'Their encounters with
ghosts are fascinating,' she says. 'The National
Trust can't prove them all true, but they tend to
see these stories as part of the history of each
house.' []
www.paragators.org
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Electromagnetic Radiation 7
Electromagnetic Radiation
~ Dirty Electricity
By Dr Nance MacLeod PhD

Earliest forms of communication:

included drumbeat, fire smoke signals and
instruments such as ram's horn. During the
middle ages they used homing pigeons. Then in
1452 came the Printing Press, 1790-
Semaphore, 1837-Telegraph, 1876-Telephone,
1890-Radio, 1895-Film, 1940-Television, 1940-
Computers, and 1973-Internet
Then scientists discovered how to send
information through the air. Initially it was
sound, click-click-click, and then words and
then pictures and soon our planet became very
small indeed. Everyone and anyone could
communicate to each other no matter where
there were. Everyone on the planet was
connected all the time. Life was made easier,
and communication was made easier.
It is quite difficult to imagine a world
without mobile communications. Wireless
internet access is set to blanket the planet, just
like cell phone networks already do. There has
been an explosive development - practically all
during the last three decades - that brought
mobile to the farthest corners of the earth. But
the technology is not without danger. The
microwaves that carry bits and packets of data
also carry a germ of destruction. Some people -
as many as 2 million North Americans - are
actually unable to work as they suffer from the
incapacitating influence that this disharmony in
the atmosphere has on them.
If you or someone you know have these
symptoms (rapid or irregular heart beat, pain or within about four meters (13 feet) of her. Mrs. should be shut off and/or unplugged when not in
pressure in chest, high or low blood pressure), Brundtland is a medical doctor and former use. We have more then conclusive evidence
numbness in arms, legs fingers or shoulders, Prime Minister of Norway. She no longer works that this dirty electricity is the cause many
constant fatigue, weakness, depression, for WHO. health concerns like mentioned earlier in this
headaches, lack of focus, memory loss, blurred Many people just like Mrs. Brundtland article. Some people are much more sensitive
vision, insomnia, cancer, diabetes, and multiple have had problems like that, and it has been then others but that does not mean it is not
sclerosis just to name a few. These symptoms fluffed off as being very sensitive, or worst, told affecting all of us in negative ways.
could be caused from “Dirty Electricity” also that they were imagining their health problems. Be aware, if you have wireless in your
known as “Microwave sickness” or what I like We are told by the powers to be that this house or office shut down your wireless modem
to call “pre-mature aging syndrome.” technology is safe for humans and we want to when you are not using it, especially when you
The most basic fact about cell phones believe them. Who wants to give up the latest sleep. If you have DECT phones in your house
and cell towers is that they emit microwave technologies and all of the conveniences of unplug the base before bedtime. Keep your cell
radiation; so do Wi-Fi (wireless Internet) them? phone off as much as possible. These are just a
antennas, wireless computers, cordless Schools are now installing wireless few things you can do, however this dirty
(portable) phones and their base units, and all computer networks and children, of all ages, electricity is everywhere. If you are
other wireless devices. If it’s a communication have their own wireless cell phone and many hypersensitive and have any of the symptoms I
device and it’s not attached to the wall by a used them all the time. Homes have wireless have mentioned above, reduce your exposure,
wire, it’s emitting radiation. Most Wi-Fi computers and smart meters and DECK the less exposure the faster you will start seeing
systems and some cordless phones operate at cordless phones and wireless games and special a reduction in your symptoms. If you are not
the exact same frequency as a microwave oven, TVs and CFL light bulbs all that produce these sensitive I still recommend that you do you best
while other devices use a different frequency. poisonous invisible rays, Dirty Electricity. to keep the wireless off as much as possible,
Wi-Fi is always on and always radiating. The The media has reported stories, such as remove all unprotected CFL light bulbs from
base units of most cordless phones are always “. . . three children in one kindergarten die of your house and really start paying attention to
radiating, even when no one is using the phone. leukemia, many others sick, sharp increases in your surroundings. You may find that you will
A cell phone that is on but not in use is also diabetes, asthma, allergies, autism, attention sleep better and that you will have more energy
radiating. And, needless to say, cell towers are deficient disorder. . . authorities deny this is a and feel better. Try it out for yourself for a
always radiating. disease cluster related to Dirty Electricity”. couple of weeks.You might be surprised.
Wi-Fi areas are referred to as Hot Spots Parents, concerned about the health of their
rightfully so because when you are in a hot spot children and electromagnetic radiation, asked CONTACT INFORMATION:
it can be described as shoving your body into a schools to remove Wi-Fi antennas and not to Dr MacLeod is owner of Niagara-on-
micro-wave set on low. allow antennas on or near school property. But the-Lake Natural Health Clinic and Dean of
In 2002, Gro Harlem Brundtland, then they were laughed at and shunned as anti- Education for Ancient Journeys School of NEW
head of the World Health Organization, told a progressive technophobes who want to return to Medicine. You can email her at
Norwegian journalist that cell phones were the “dark” ages. drNanceMacleod@gmail.com Web sites are
banned from her office in Geneva because she Wireless modems, cell phones, www.thewellnessdiva.org or
personally becomes ill if a cell phone is brought blackberries, iphones, DECT cordless phones www.schoolofnewmedicine.com
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Hotline Psychic Admits It’s A Scam
Psychic Hot Line Secrets:
Clairvoyance or Hoax?
ABC NEWS
When the economy tanks, psychics say
their business soars.
The psychic industry is a $2 billion a
year business, with millions of people still
dialing "900" numbers, even after two decades
of lawsuits, bad press and bankruptcies. But
when someone calls a psychic hot line, does the
person on the other end have more insight than
anyone else?
Former psychic hot line worker and
author of "Psychic Blues," Mark Edward, says
he's blowing the whistle on his former industry.
"The psychic business is built on lies.
There is no supernatural power. You can't see
the future," Edward says. "We're in the golden
age of the con. There are people coming out of
the woodwork that would love to separate you
from your money. But people just want
someone to talk to. That's the bottom line."
Edward says he was taught techniques to
keep his conversations vague, flattering and
drawn out. The goal was to make the callers feel
good about themselves, and keep them talking.
Edward once gave a two-and-a-half-hour
reading. At $3.99 a minute, the caller paid more
than $600.
In a statement to ABC News, Edward's
former employer said: "All of our psychics are
independent contractors, and as such, they
worked for multiple psychic lines at the same
time. So either he is lying or confusing us with
a disreputable psychic line."
In a 2007 study, conducted by the
University of Auckland in New Zealand, Dr.
Robin-Marie Shepherd found most users called
for advice on "personal relationships." Nearly
all users describe their behavior as "addictive."
And, at an average of $100 per reading,
many went in to debt because of it.
ABC News had an extensive interview
with self-avowed non-psychic Mark Edward.
ABC News: Are psychics real?
Mark Edward: No, they're not real. It's
just a matter of intuition. If you're good with
people, you learn how to read people. Do you
want to be a real estate agent ... or clairvoyant?
... They're all a similar skill set. It's a skill you
can learn. It's real, but it's nothing supernatural.
ABC News: Are you against anyone
claiming to be a psychic?
Mark Edward: In general I'm against
it. I think people are better served by going to a
therapist.
ABC News: How did you begin your
career as a hotline psychic?
Mark Edward: I was working as a
mentalist full time. Doing séances. I wanted to
know how the hot line mediums did it. My
friends were making money sitting at their
homes. I wanted to sit at the top of the mountain
and see what it looks like. I learned the tricks of
the trade. Did it for nine years. I had a friend
who did it, and they gave me a number. I did a
few auditions. They liked me. ... There was no
test, you just needed the gift of gab.
ABC News: What did they encourage
you to do?
Mark Edward: You have to keep
people on as long as possible. Then you ask for
their birthday, name and address. Then they
start spamming people. They'd send callers
letters telling them they're in danger, and they
need to call your psychic friend immediately.
The average call is 15 to 20 minutes. But they
wanted one hour. The final straw was when I did
an infomercial for them. They handed me a pile
of info and told me who was asking the
questions. It was a total fake. Five to seven
psychics might be nice people, but everyone
else are crooks.
ABC News: How much did you get
paid?
Mark Edward: Not much. We got paid
a percentage of what they made depending on
what. But it's many people's primary source of
income. I'd do it for nine to 10 hours each day.
ABC News: What tricks of the trade
would you use?
Mark Edward: You have to gauge the
tone of a person's voice. If they are aggressive
or laid back, in a hurry or skeptical. The first
four or five words are important. Then I ask for
their name and birthday, and if they had a
specific question. At $3.99 a minute, they want
an answer quick. And then I answer as if I'm
answering the question about myself. All these
things about yourself are relatable. Nine out of
10 times you will hit a nerve with them. Then I'd
pause and let them jump in. People love talking
about themselves and here what you say about
them. They like to imagine I'm in some far off
convent but really I'm ironing at home. And I'd
try to be compassionate and sound as new age
as you can.
ABC News: Would you have pre-
planned things to say?
Mark Edward: Yes, I would have note
cards by my phone for specific answers. Pink
for love. Yellow for travel. Green for money.
Then I'd talk about a childhood memory of
mine. Less is more. Eventually you will find
something relatable. Just one or two firm
connections, and you'll run with the ball. Once
you make that hit, it pours out. And then you
mirror. Let the person talk and then you listen
and say, "I hear what you're saying is this," "I
feel what you're saying." I fed them hope.
ABC News: When and why did you
leave?
Mark Edward: I got sick of it and how
much they were making off of innocent people.
I left on my own though, they didn't kick me
out.
ABC News: Did you feel bad about
what you were doing?
Mark Edward: I never took any legal
or medical questions. ... I gave them 800
numbers instead. I helped a lot of people, but
there was nothing psychic about it. Common
sense is the same as intuition. In our society
we've lost touch with that. Also, I was a skeptic
the whole time, so I felt like I was doing a
[public] service by infiltrating [The Psychic
Network].
The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show
with
Rob McConnell
www.xzoneradiotv.com
11
Denver UFO mystery
solved
Fox 31 - KDVR.com
DENVER - All it took was a call to the
Astronomy department at the University of
Denver to solve the mystery of a strange light
seen in the sky over Colorado last weekend.
No, it was not a UFO. But it was
definitely out of this world.
"That's Venus," DU Physics and
Astronomy professor Jennifer Hoffman told us
after watching Jai Harris's video.
Harris captured home video of the bright
light in the northwest sky over Colorado on
May 8 from her home in Denver's Park Hill
neighborhood, and then uploaded the video to
YouTube.
"I quickly went to get my camera. I
opened the iris all the way and zoomed in all the
way," Harris said. "It was much brighter than
the stars and much, much lower."
"Right now Venus is visible in the early
evening. It is low in the sky and very bright,"
Hoffman told us Tuesday. "Venus will be
twinkling a lot and changing colors, but it won't
move. It will stay in the same place and by
midnight will set.
When Venus is this bright, the
astronomy department gets a lot of phone calls."
Venus is the second-closest planet to the
Sun and, after the Earth's moon, is the brightest
natural object in the sky. []
STRANGE WORLD RECORDS
- The world’s shortest escalator is at a
shopping mall in Japan. It rises 2 feet, 8
inches.
- Bertha Van de Merwe from South Africa
holds the record for staying awake: 282
hurs, 55 minutes.
- Record name: a Florida baby was named
Truewilllaughinglfebuckyboomermanifest-
destiny (Middle name: George).
- World’s tallest identical twins: Michael
and James Lanier - they’re both 7’4” tall.
- World’s shortest play: Samuel Beckett’s
Breath - 35 seconds of screams an dheavy
breathing.
- World’s record for the cat with the most
toes: Jake, who has 28 (seven on each
paw).
World’s longest national highway: the
Trans-Canada Highway, at 10,781
kilometers (6,699 miles).
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12 The 5 Most Fraudulent Psychics
guyism.com
Over the years, plenty of frauds have
sought to prey on those desperate to connect
with lost love ones. Regardless of your beliefs
on psychic abilities, the case against mysticism
is pretty easily made against these five famous
psychics and mediums.
JOHN EDWARD
John Edward rose to
prominence as a psychic in the
late 1990s. In 1999, he got his
own show – Crossing Over
with John Edward – in which
he claimed to talk with the
dead relatives of members in
the audience. However, James Randi and other
skeptics write Edward off as nothing more than
a cold reader. Cold reading is a psychic
technique used to gain knowledge about a
person based on age, clothing, body language
and other physical or verbal cues.
SYLVIA BROWNE
While Sylvia Browne hasn’t
been officially outed as a
fraud, the evidence is pretty
substantial to debunk her
“psychic powers.” According
to Robert S. Lancaster, creator
of the website
StopSylvia.com, her track record for correctly
predicting events is no better than could be
achieved through educated guesses.
Additionally, she vehemently declines the use
of scientific testing on her powers.
As an example of her fraudulence,
there’s the well-known case of Shawn
Hornbeck. This poor boy had been kidnapped in
2002. Searching for answers, his parents visited
the Montel Williams Show, where Sylvia told
them Shawn was dead and went into details
about where his body could be found. In 2007,
Shawn was found alive.
MISS CLEO
“Call me now for your free
reading.” In the 1990s, it
seemed you couldn’t turn on
the TV without seeing a
commercial for the Psychic
Readers Network. The
spokesperson for this Network
was a Jamaican “shaman” and “psychic” named
Miss Cleo. Following numerous lawsuits, the
FTC began investigating the PRN on charges of
deceptive advertising, billing and collection
practices. During these investigations, it was
revealed that Miss Cleo was actually a paid
actress who didn’t even have a real Jamaican
accent. Furthermore, the psychics hired to give
readings via phone were found to largely be
reading from a script.
Surprisingly (or perhaps not), Miss Cleo
is currently working as a spiritual advisor in Ft.
Lauderdale. Prices for a one-on-one tarot
reading purportedly start around $200.
MINA CRANDON
Decades before skeptic and
magician James Randi, there
was Harry Houdini. The most
famous magician of all time
was also one of the biggest
critics and activists against
psychics and mediums. After
his mother died, Houdini devoted considerable
efforts to expose frauds. He also set up a
committee that would award a cash prize to
anyone who could prove psychic abilities (no
one could). Thanks to his knowledge of stage
tricks, Houdini debunked numerous psychics
and mediums. The most famous was Mina
Crandon.
In the 1920s Mina Crandon rose to
prominence for her accurate predictions and
involved séances. She was so good, that she
received endorsements from such notable
people as Arthur Conan Doyle. However,
Houdini showed how many of her “séance”
tricks could be easily replicated. Scientific
investigations from other skeptics also severely
damage her credibility. Even so, Mina
continued to profit from her trickery all the way
up until her death in 1941.
URI GELLER
Uri Geller claims to have
psychic powers (which were
given to him by
extraterrestrials), specifically
psychokinesis and telepathy.
For decades, he’s used these
“abilities” to bend spoons and
speed up or slow down watches. If it sounds like
traditional magic tricks, that’s because it is.
Professional stage magician and skeptic James
Randi has shown how Geller’s feats can be
easily replicated through stage magic. Randi has
also shown that Geller’s predictions related to
sporting events are more often wrong than
correct
Aliens 'hijack' Nasa's
Voyager 2 spacecraft,
claims expert
telegraph.co.uk
Aliens have hijacked a Nasa spacecraft and
are using it to try to contact earth, a UFO
expert has claimed.
Hartwig Hausdorf, a German academic,
believes that the reason Voyager 2, an
unmanned probe that has been in space since
1977, is sending strange messages that are
confusing scientists, is because it has been taken
over by extraterrestrial life.
Since its launch, Voyager 2 has been
sending streams of data back to Earth for study
by scientists, but on April 22, 2010, that stream
of information suddenly changed.
Nasa claimed that a software problem
with the flight data system was the cause but Mr
Hausdorf believes it could be the work of aliens.
This is because all other parts of the
spacecraft appear to be functioning fine.
He told the German newspaper Bild: "It
seems almost as if someone has reprogrammed
or hijacked the probe – thus perhaps we do not
yet know the whole truth.”
Voyager 2 carries a disk with greetings
in 55 languages on it in case the craft encounters
other life forms.
Dr Edward Stone, a scientist on the
project, said the desk, called the Golden Record,
is "a kind of time capsule, intended to
communicate a story of our world to
extraterrestrials.
"The Voyager message is carried by a
phonograph record-a 12-inch gold-plated
copper disk containing sounds and images
selected to portray the diversity of life and
culture on Earth." []
Police flooded with UFO
sighting reports after
residents see large, tube-
like object over Somerset
County
SOMERVILLE -- Somerville police
were flooded with phone calls this morning
after residents reported seeing a large tube-like
object fluttering through the sky.
Police said they were swamped with
phone calls after a flurry of callers reported to
radio station NJ 101.5 that a UFO was flying
above the area. Residents then began calling the
Somerville Police Department to report the
object.
“I first noticed when all our mechanics
started looking up at the sky,” said Terry Weil, a
sales associate at Honda Autosport in
Bridgewater. “It looked like a big black strip
fluttering in the air. Maybe a cylinder.”
Somerville Police Lt. Donna Young said
authorities were not sure what the object was,
but said it caused no problems other than tying
up police phone lines shortly before noon.
“We have no idea what it was but it did
not cause any problems here in Somerville,” she
said. “We are under the impression that it might
be a weather balloon or something like that, but
regardless, it did not cause any problems
whatsoever.”
The Air Traffic Control Tower in
Morristown did not have any pilot reports of the
object, nor did officials at Solberg Airport in
Hunterdon, Somerset Airport in Bedminster and
Blairstown Airport in Warren County. []
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14 Newfoundland UFOs still a mystery
Newfoundland UFOs still
a mystery
CBC News
The unidentified flying objects spotted
in January off Newfoundland remain a mystery
to the government, despite extensive scrutiny,
according to Department of National Defence
(DND) documents obtained by CBC News.
The documents contain grainy images of
a rocket with a long, fiery tail soaring skyward.
The reports rule out missiles and model rockets,
but don't suggest what the images might show.
Military experts discredit the possibility
of ballistic and cruise missiles. DND's
Directorate of Scientific and Technical
Intelligence (DSTI) assessed the images and
reported: "The object is not a ballistic missile,
not a cruise missile in boost phase nor a cruise
missile in-flight phase. It is also not a licensed
model rocket launcher."
The Jan. 25 sighting happened on the
southern coast of Newfoundland near Harbour
Mille. Several residents reported seeing the
objects, including a woman who was able to
photograph one of them. She reported to the
RCMP that she had seen three missiles soaring
over the ocean and it looked as if they had come
up out of the water.
The DSTI says in the documents that the
only missiles that can be launched from a
submarine are ballistic or cruise missiles, but
the country's top arms experts say the object
photographed doesn't fit that profile.
"There are no distinguishing features on
the object to use for identification … the shape
of the flame is atypical of a missile launch," and
"the length of the flame is greater than that of
the rocket body. This eliminates the possibility
that it is a cruise missile jet engine exhaust,"
said DSTI.
Undetected by Norad
The documents also note that it is the
responsibility of the North American Aerospace
Defence Command (Norad) to "provide
aerospace warning and defence for North
America," and that neither that agency, nor
Canada Command, had any information on the
rockets.
"NORAD and [Canada Command] have
no evidence to support this sighting" reads the
report.
The RCMP conducted an investigation,
but according to the Jan. 28 report, the police
didn't have an answer either.
"The RCMP … is calling the event an
unexplained sighting."
The documents also say there were no
navy ships involved, and no Canadian Forces
missile exercises at the time.
The government has blocked nine pages
and a several paragraphs of the UFO documents
from public release.
One of the lines leading into a blocked-
out portion reads, "Media reporting has linked
the sightings to …"
At the time there was speculation the
rockets may have come from a French
submarine near St-Pierre-Miquelon, since a few
days later the French government announced
test-fires of its new M51 ballistic missiles were
successful.
In a phone call Friday, however, the
Directorate General of Armament for France
said that the ballistic test-fires took place on
Jan. 27, and not on Jan. 25, the day of the
sightings off Newfoundland.
It is not clear if new information was
uncovered about the UFO sighting since Feb. 1,
as that date marked the closing time frame for
the Access to Information request.
CBC News is awaiting the Department
of Public Safety's response to the question of
whether or not the UFO was eventually
identified. []
Weird News Central:
Politicians Report UFO
Sightings
NEW YORK (Wireless Flash - FlashNews) –
Tell people you’ve seen a UFO and they’ll think
you’re a nut. That, or you’ll be elected
president.
Last week, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov,
governor of Russia’s Buddhist republic,
Kalmykia, revealed that he was abducted in
1997 from his Moscow apartment by aliens in
yellow uniforms who took him into their
spaceship.
But he was hardly laughed out of office.
In fact, Russian officials called for his
interrogation, concerned that he may have
spilled official secrets to the E.T.s.
AOL Senior Correspondent Buck Wolf
says political leaders all over the world have
claimed they’ve seen UFOs.
Both Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter
allegedly spotted UFOs as governors, and they
both went on to the Oval Office. Carter even
promised to reveal all secret files on alien
encounters but never delivered.
More recently in 2009, Japan’s first lady
Miyuki Hatoyama confessed in her memoirs
that she’d been abducted by aliens 20 years ago
who whisked her off to Venus.
Balloon-boy parents get
balloon back
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — The runaway UFO-
like balloon that the world thought was carrying
a 6-year-old boy is back in the hands of the
parents who pleaded guilty to the hoax.
The Larimer County Sheriff's office says
Richard Heene asked to measure the balloon to
make sure it was the same one he launched into
infamy on Oct. 15.
Authorities say the Heenes staged the
hoax to try to get attention for a reality
television show.
Heene completed a 90-day jail sentence
for his plea of falsely influencing authorities.
His wife, Mayumi, was sentenced to 10
weekends working at nonprofits for filing a
false report.
The Heenes have agreed to pay $36,000
in restitution to agencies that responded to the
hoax.
Information from: KUSA-TV,
http://www.9news.com
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UFO Inspires Inventor
UFO Inspires Inventor to
Get Better Gas Mileage
By Grant Lawrence
A UFO and a Eureka Moment helped a
man figure out a way to get better gas mileage.
Cliff Baillargeon was stationed in
Morocco in the Navy. In 1959, he noticed a
UFO out there in the ocean and many years later
it dawned on him what this green saucer shaped
object, doing incredible turns and vanishing in
an instant, was doing.
According to Baillargeon, the saucer
was drinking its fuel. Just 5 grams of hydrogen
when burned with oxygen can power starships
so he figured he could do a pretty good job of
powering his Toyota using similar technology.
.…Baillargeon’s key to fuel economy is a black
box that he purchased for $800 from one of the
many websites selling “HHO generators.” The
box sits in an old milk create in the trunk of his
car among wires, tubes and a solar panel he
uses to charge his car battery in emergencies.
This box takes water and breaks it into
hydrogen and oxygen at a ratio two to one. The
process is called electrolysis and the gas it
produces is usually referred to as HHO,
oxyhydrogen or Brown’s
gas…..(source:fosters.com)
Skeptics that have tested the type of
system Baillargeon uses and say it has no
impact on fuel economy.
But Baillargeon disagrees.
“I don’t believe it. All I can say is I’m
getting the fuel mileage,” he says.
….According to the Environmental Protection
Agency, a 2003 five speed manual transmission
Celica like Baillargeon’s gets 27 miles per
gallon in the city and 33 on the highway.
Baillargeon hadn’t determined what his
homemade hybrid’s city gas mileage was.
However, with the help of an electronic mileage
gauge sitting on his dash, he placed his highway
mileage at 42 miles per gallon. That’s only nine
miles per gallon less than the Toyota Prius and
one less than the Honda Insight…..(source)
So the jury is still out on whether
Baillargeon’s electrolysis making box
producing what is called ‘brown gas’ is actually
really saving on gas.
But the idea seems sound. Or at least to
me.
The now retired Baillargeon, who has
built airplanes, gyrocopters, and even what he
claims is a perpetual motion machine, says it is
all about experimenting.
Evidently Baillargeon isn’t giving up the
future to big oil monopolies and oil disasters.
Instead he is using his UFO inspired
imagination to help power machines and point
to the future.[]
The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show
with
Rob McConnell
www.xzoneradiotv.com
Hawking Says Aliens
Likely, Media Scoffs ...
Again
technorati.com
British astrophysicist Stephen
Hawking’s recent statement that the outcome of
human contact with extraterrestrials “would be
much as when Christopher Columbus first
landed in America” has mainstream media
reporters clutching their pearls.
The Christian Science Monitor ran a
photo of the sitcom alien puppet Alf with its
coverage of Hawking’s comments, and NBC
Nightly News anchor Brian Williams wrapped
up his 30-second news brief with this: “Make a
note. He indicates we should stay away from
them at all costs.”
Yes, Brian, and if we happen to touch
one, we’ll be sure to wash our hands.
Why the reflexively dismissive
treatment of matters ufological? Why the
nervous chuckles and flip commentary,
regardless of the credibility or credentials of the
people involved?
In 2007, former two-term Republican
governor Fife Symington told CNN’s Gary
Tuchman that he’d been among the thousands
who, in 1997, witnessed what’s come to be
known as The Phoenix Lights. “In your gut, you
could just tell it was other-worldly,” Symington
said, “Unless the defense department proves
otherwise, it was probably some form of alien
spacecraft.”
In 2008, astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell
told Kerrang (U.K.) radio host Nick
Margerrison that “the UFO phenomenon is
real,” an assertion he said was backed by
Pentagon sources.
But Tuchman concluded his piece about
Symington with, “It’s as much a mystery today
as it was a decade ago” and let the matter go at
that. No further investigation. And when CNN
invited Mitchell to discuss his statements on
Larry King Live, it paired the sixth man to walk
on the moon with none other than children's
television personality Bill Nye the Science Guy.
No less curious than the Fourth Estate’s
lack of investigative moxy is Hawking’s failure
to call for the scientific equivalent of a full court
press. Here’s a man who’s spent most of his
professional life expanding our view of the
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universe now advising us to avert our eyes if the
view gets too interesting. WTF?
On Monday, May 10, Washington
lobbyist Stephen Bassett will hold a press
conference at the National Press Building. He’ll
use the conference to pressure the media to take
seriously what he calls “the alien presence” and
he’ll ask the current administration to release its
UFO files into the public domain.
It’s a drum he’s been banging for 13
years with only marginal success.
Stay tuned.
Space invaders: Teens say
car was `picked up' by
UFO in arcade parking lot
Two teens parked at the Funspot arcade
in Laconia, N.H. say their car was picked up by
an unidentified flying object, then dropped to
the pavement.
A 16-year-old, identified as ``D'' by the
U.S. National UFO Reporting Center
(NUFORC), says the Ford Focus he was driving
was lifted into the air by a brightly lit object ``as
big as 14 houses.''
D told investigators he and his girlfriend
``saw the parking lot park lines started getting
smaller'' and their ears began to pop before the
intergalactic tow truck dropped the car,
deploying the air bags.
In a report filed with the Laconia Police
Department, Officer Adam Batstone says
damage to the car's windshield was consistent
with an air bag deployment. D's girlfriend says
the car belonged to her mother.
``[The officer] didn't check underneath
the car,'' she told NUFORC investigators. ``But
we found out later that the underside was
totalled.''
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16 Mind Controlled Bionic Arm

Finally The Truth is Revealed Mind-controlled bionic arm in field test
BBC News
We Are Not Alone!

If you've watched The Men Who Stare at Goats, you'd know it's all about
covert efforts by the military to develop mind control. Well, good luck to
them. However, it may be a bit premature to write off mind control as so
much paranormal X-File-ish diddle dee doo, considering that Europe-
based Otto Bock Healthcare has just done the impossible with a mind-
controlled robotic arm.

The limb in question is attached to 21-year-old Christian Kandlbauer, who

lost both his arms four years ago after being electrocuted by a whopping
20,000 volts. The prosthetic, which took an equal number of years to
develop, works in tandem with transplanted nerves that prompt electrical
impulses from the brain to reach the muscles in the chest. This then gets
interpreted by a micro-computer into actual movement.
Things are not falling apart
The result is nothing short of amazing since this means prosthetic limbs in
They are falling together! future will be able to respond in real time to whatever you're thinking, just
like the real deal. As proof of its capabilities, Kandlbauer has been field-
Find Out How in Brainwashed Are You? testing this by driving around in a car with his mind-controlled left "arm"
(his right is fitted with a conventional prosthetic). The feat makes him
www.brainwashedareyou.com possibly the world's first person in such a unique situation. The good news
is, the technology is more than ready to leave the labs for commercial use.
But the bad news is, such a procedure will cost a pretty penny. Then again,
"READ THIS BOOK... IT'S SHOCKING" what price independence when it's your limb on the line?

UFOs go to school, ET's

character gets
assassinated
CTV News

Hostile aliens or legitimate subject of study?

That's one of the questions being raised about

all manner of unexplained space phenomena, as
debate about extraterrestrial life and UFOs has
been sighted in more mainstream venues over
the last few weeks.
On his new television series, renowned
British physicist Stephen Hawking said earlier
this week that if aliens were to visit Earth, it
could very well be for some kind of hostile
takeover.
"Such advanced aliens would perhaps
become nomads, looking to conquer and
colonize whatever planets they could reach,"
Hawking said on "Into the Universe with
Stephen Hawking." "If so, it makes sense for
them to exploit each new planet for material to
build more spaceships they could move on.
Who knows what the limits would be?"
To remind everyone what conquering
and colonizing looks like on this planet,
Hawking drew a parallel to a key moment in
North American history.
"If aliens ever visit us," he cautioned, "I
think the outcome would be much as when
Christopher Columbus first landed in America,
which didn't turn out very well for the native
Americans."
UFOs go to university?
Not everyone agrees that potential alien
life is a hostile animal best ignored.
Earlier this month, a New York state
professor told The Buffalo News newspaper
that "there's plenty of evidence" of UFOs, and
that the subject merits its own college credit
course.
"It's about time we looked into this as a
worthy area of study," Philip Haseley said. "It's
important that the whole subject be brought out
in the open and investigated."
Haseley is an anthropology professor at
the Niagara County Community College, a state
university near Niagara Falls.
As well as being a university professor,
Haseley is also the head of the Western New
York Mutual UFO Network.
Broadcasting across the galaxy
For scientists working on an advisory
panel for NASA's future missions, trying to
make contact with alien life is a good thing.
"The search for life is really central to
what we should be doing next in the exploration
of the solar system," Cornell University
planetary scientist Steve Squyres told The
Associated Press. Squyres is chairman of a
special National Academy of Sciences panel.
As to whether the space agency, or
anyone else, should be actively pursuing contact
with extraterrestrial life or willfully avoiding it,
a senior astrobiology scientist at NASA said
they're ready for anything.
"We're prepared to make discoveries of
any type of life, of any form," Mary Voytek said
during a NASA teleconference.
Although NASA broadcast the Beatles'
song "Across the Universe" into the galaxy two
years ago, most work on the search for
intelligent life in space is privately funded by
organizations such as the SETI Institute, Voytek
said.
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Top 10 most common explanations for UFOs
Top 10 most common
explanations for UFOs
sify.com
It is a fact that literally millions of
people around the world claim to have seen a
UFO at one time or another, and many
thousands of reports have been officially filed
going all the way back to World War II.
However, investigation into just what
these objects may have been have pretty
conclusively demonstrated the vast majority of
these reports have prosaic explanations such as
hoaxes, hysteria, or misidentified natural or
man-made objects, much to the chagrin of the
UFO community.
While many dismiss such explanations
as simplistic attempts to skirt the issue or,
worse, a carefully contrived and orchestrated
effort at debunking the entire phenomena, the
fact is that many, if not most, UFOs can usually
be explained away.
As such, it's important we examine each
of the many explanations offered, if only in an
effort to better appreciate the difficulties
investigators frequently face when looking at
the phenomena from a scientific perspective,
compelling me to create my list-in no particular
order-of the top ten alternative explanations
usually given to explain UFOs.
10. The planet Venus
It's no coincidence that UFO reports go
up sharply whenever Venus makes an especially
bright appearance in the night sky, so this
explanation is not as far-fetched as it seems.
Under the proper conditions, Venus can
be among the brightest objects in the sky-
particularly on a moonless night-and has even
been known to be visible in the daytime under
the proper conditions, making it a frequent
explanation for many a mysterious "bright light
in the sky."
For those already predisposed towards
accepting any unusual light in the sky as a
potential close encounter, Venus makes an
excellent candidate for being a UFO-especially
when it is seen low on the horizon from a
moving automobile (when it can appear to be
"chasing them"), or on a partly cloudy night
when it will seem to abruptly appear and
disappear as fast-moving clouds obscure it from
view.
Additionally, it can be extremely
difficult to convince people that the bright light
in the sky they saw was merely sunlight
reflecting off a nearby planet, largely because of
the natural human reluctance to admit error as
well as the trauma such an experience can
sometimes induce.
9. Meteors, comets, and fireballs
This is a less common explanation, since
most people are familiar with meteors (or
'shooting stars' as they are commonly called)
and so are unlikely to mistake one for a UFO.
Comets are even less likely to be
mistaken for a UFO, especially since they
remain fixed in the sky, can be seen for weeks at
a time, and are usually not particularly bright in
the first place.
A fireball, however-basically a large,
brightly lit meteor observed at close range-is a
better candidate, as they can be very bright, last
several seconds, appear to split into smaller
pieces, and even abruptly disappear from sight
as if 'zooming away at great speed' as many
UFO witnesses describe.
When seen head-on, a fireball can be
particularly impressive, as it would appear to be
an extremely bright and slow-moving object
that suddenly vanishes from view, much like a
UFO frequently does.
Such astronomical phenomena are not,
however, adequate explanations for an object
that makes abrupt course changes in mid-flight,
changes color (or shows multiple colors) or that
lasts more than a few seconds, and as such they
probably constitute only a very tiny fraction of
all UFO reports.
8. Lenticular clouds
Technically known as altocumulus
standing lenticularis, lenticular clouds are
stationary lens-shaped clouds that form at high
altitudes, normally where stable moist air flows
over a mountain or a range of mountains.
Normally these air currents form long
strings of clouds known as a wave cloud, but
sometimes, under the right conditions of wind
and thermal currents, they can take on a
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roundish or oval shape that can be
extraordinarily unnatural and even 'saucer-like'
in appearance, which in turn can be confused for
an extremely large disk by people unfamiliar
with such meteorological phenomenon.
Only those entirely unfamiliar with this
phenomenon are likely to be fooled by a
lenticular cloud, however, especially once they
observe one for a while and realize it is not
moving or that it doesn't appear to be
mechanical in nature.
Still, for the unaware, it can be a strange
sight and one that might be easily confused for
something otherworldly.
7. Ball lightning
Among the more unusual and lesser
understood electrical curiosities known to
science is something called 'ball lighting', a
phenomenon that has only been identified
within the last fifty years or so.
Basically, ball lightning is a sphere of
static electricity that has the ability to glow
intensely for several minutes at a time and,
when seen in broad daylight, can even take on a
fluid silvery-like sheen that can be easily
mistaken for metal, giving them a 'disk-like'
appearance.
Additionally, though usually seen to
move randomly, sometimes the discharge is
described as being attracted to a certain object-
normally an aircraft-giving these orbs the
appearance of 'following' a plane and even
matching it in terms of speed and maneuvers,
thereby giving it the impression of being under
intelligent control.
Commonly described as spherical,
ovoid, teardrop, or rod-like in shape, and with
colours that vary from red to yellow (though
other colors have been observed) it's not
difficult to see how they could easily be
mistaken for an unnatural object, especially
after it disperses, is absorbed into something,
or-though rarely-vanishes in an explosion.
As such, ball lightning appears to be a
perfectly adequate explanation for some of the
more erratic lights seen in the sky-particularly
those observed from aircraft.
6. Weather Balloons
Though frequently lampooned as the
most simplistic of explanations for UFOs, the
fact is that helium filled weather balloons make
excellent UFOs, especially when seen from
below when their spherical shape can appear
disk-like.
Further, these balloons can be quite
large, are often coated in a highly reflective
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material (giving them a polished or shiny
appearance), and can fly at altitudes as high as
120,000 feet where winds aloft can sometimes
push them along at hundreds of knots, giving
them the illusion of moving at high speeds.
Furthermore, when seen moving
through a partly cloudy sky when winds can
blow in different directions at different
altitudes, sometimes pushing clouds in one
direction and a balloon in the opposite, the
illusion of high speed is enhanced.
5. Satellites
As the demand for improved
communications, weather forecasting and aerial
surveillance grows, the orbital lanes around our
planet are growing increasingly cluttered with a
wide array of fast moving and highly reflective
satellites of all sizes and configurations.
To give you some idea of how cluttered
our skies are getting, the United States Space
Surveillance Network (SSN) currently tracks
more than 8,000 man-made objects orbiting the
planet, of which about seven percent
(approximately 560) are operational satellites.
Often trapped in their orbits for years at
a time, these silent sentinels of the skies can
usually be picked out by anyone with a pair of
binoculars and some patience, so they are not an
uncommon sight.
However, as they can often appear to
pulsate in intensity (a natural illusion created by
atmospheric inversion layers) and even 'wink
out' when their angle to the sun changes, they
doubtlessly account for at least some of the
many thousands of UFO sightings made over
the years.
4. Flares
Military aircraft often drop flares while
conducting night training operations (or, in
combat areas, as a means of diverting heat-
seeking anti-aircraft missiles).
These flares, unlike the tiny ones used to
mark highway obstacles or for emergency use,
are quite large and will burn brightly for up to a
half an hour at a time and, when suspended from
parachutes, can remain airborne for some time.
As such, if dropped in a cluster, they can
take on a beaded necklace effect that gives them
the impression of either aircraft hovering in
formation or, if close enough together, can even
appear to be a string of running lights or
'portholes'.
To a public generally unfamiliar with
such ordnance and its characteristics, the effect
can be spectacular and even frightening, making
flares an especially good candidate to be
mistaken for a UFO.
This, in fact, may be the explanation
behind the mysterious lights that were seen
hanging over Phoenix, Arizona in 1997 (which
does, in fact, lie near a military training ground
where evening bombing exercises are
frequently held.)
3. Birds, lens flare, reflections, and
other abnormalities
Few people can accept the possibility
that something as seemingly commonplace as a
bird could be mistaken for a UFO.
However, it must be realised that under
certain circumstances-for example, when flying
at very high altitudes (some birds have been
spotted flying as high as 40,000 feet or more)-
birds can be highly reflective and, when wet,
even appear to glisten like metal, giving them an
'artificial' or metallic appearance.
Additionally, bits of tin foil or panels of
corrugated metal driven skyward by high winds
and strong updrafts, falling chunks of ice
broken off from a high altitude airliner, and
other bits of aerial flotsam can also take on a
silvery sheen and appear quite luminescent,
making them occasional candidates for flying
disks.
Even cockpit lights reflecting off a
canopy have been misidentified as high-speed
UFOs (especially in the early years of UFO
pursuits).
2. Aircraft
While it is difficult to imagine that
anyone could mistake a modern airliner or
military jet for an extraterrestrial vehicle, there
are circumstances when an aircraft can appear
quite unusual, particularly to a highly excitable
observer.
For example, anyone who has ever seen
a jet's landing lights diffused by thick fog (or
suddenly turned off during a steep ascent,
making the aircraft appear to abruptly vanish)
could easily imagine they are witnessing
something otherworldly.
Additionally, an aircraft flying through
thick clouds on a dark and windy night (when
the sound of engines is often masked) could
easily appear as a mysterious, bright object
winking on and off and changing brightness as
it moves silently through the darkness.
It can be problematic to identify a
mysterious object in the sky as an aircraft
during the daytime as well. For example, the
brushed aluminum fuselage and wings of an
aircraft can give off an eerie sheen at high
altitudes on a bright and sunny day.
This characteristic, when combined with
the fact that most aircraft's navigation lights are
invisible in daytime and engine noise is often
indiscernible from that height, can make it
appear to be a mysterious, silvery object
moving swiftly across the sky.
Also, if seen straight on, an aircraft can
appear to be hanging motionless, at least until it
makes a sudden turn, thereby mimicking the
sudden stops and start movement often
associated with UFOs and further enhancing its
otherworldly effect.
While a fixed wing aircraft are less
likely to be misinterpreted as a UFO by a
growingly savvy flying public today, they were
undoubtedly the cause of many early UFO
reports when aircraft were less common and, as
such, more 'unusual'.
Blimps, helicopters, and VTOL aircraft
(fixed wing planes capable of hovering) are also
frequently mistaken as UFOs due to their
unconventional flight characteristics-in
particular their ability to hover and then
suddenly fly away.
Normally, one has only to watch these
vehicles for a few minutes to ascertain their true
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identity but the highly excitable witness may
never take those few minutes before deciding
they are seeing an alien spacecraft.
1. Experimental military aircraft
If regular aircraft can be a source for
confusion, it makes sense that unusual looking
experimental aircraft should be even more
prone to being misidentified as a UFO,
especially considering the vast array of often
unusual or, at very least, unconventional
designs being introduced.
In fact, this hypothesis was very popular
during the early years of ufology, when it was
widely assumed-even by our own government-
that the strange vehicles seen in the skies were
either test-flights of captured Nazi aircraft or
new and exotic Soviet vehicles capable of
penetrating our airspace with impunity.
In fact, the Air Force's first official
attempt to investigate UFOs-Project Sign-
worked from the premise that UFOs were such
weapons, thus necessitating both the urgency
and the secrecy under which Sign operated.
However, considering how rare such
craft are, the fact that they are usually flown
only over restricted areas well away from public
viewing, and that their flight characteristics are
not usually all that far removed from traditional
aircraft, it's difficult to see how these would
account for more than a tiny percentage of all
reports.
As such, it's a near certainty that the
unusual craft you see doing right angle turns,
darting at incredible speeds across the sky, and
changing color and intensity is not one of ours
(or anyone else's, for that matter).
Baffling UFO Sighting
Finally Explained
CLEVELAND -- In March, mysterious lights
were spotted in the sky over Northeast Ohio.
FOX 8 heard from hundreds of viewers after
one man claimed it was a UFO, but some
dispute that claim after an independent
investigation.
Eugene Erlikh first noticed the lights
near his Euclid apartment in March, but now
that it's May? "There have been more each day,"
said Erlikh. "They've been brighter, they've
been more colorful and more and more people
have been seeing them."
After first recording the lights on March
3, Eugene said he has heard from people around
the world, including Michael Lee Hill. He
happens to live near Eugene and claims to have
seen the same thing. "As I was down at the
beach, over my right-hand shoulder, I see this
really bright light and it's coming up really low,
right over treetop level," said Hill.
Hill also recorded his close encounter
near Lake Erie and described the object as a
triangle with lights on each corner. "This was
absolutely silent until it got right overtop my
head and then it kinda sounded like a vacuum
cleaner, that's the only sound, like this low, little
hum," said Hill.
Expert sees the light in
UFO pics
A NEW report has cast doubt on the so-far
inexplicable UFO sightings at Chipping Norton.
UFO researcher Bill Chalker recently
recreated conditions the night mother-of-two
Fiona Hartigan snapped a series of mysterious
photos.
Mr Chalker’s findings were published in
the magazine Ufologist last week.
He said possible explanations could be
found in a nearby street light and a reflection
from a car window. “There is enough in these
photos to argue that it’s a reflection either from
the window or the lens,” he told the Leader.
“The photo analysis and the location
analysis bring up all this uncertainty. It’s not
100 per cent.”
It all depends on whether Ms Hartigan
was inside the car when the photos were taken
or sitting on the bonnet as she originally
claimed, Mr Chalker said.
Ms Hartigan declined to comment on the
article, although she said she stood by her
claims.
The photos, taken on Governor
Macquarie Dr at sunset in March, show a
prominent orange light, two small objects and a
darker, round object.
Ms Hartigan believed at the time the
objects were life forms from another planet.
Sydney Observatory analysis confirmed
the orange light was a street light, but its online
report is inconclusive. Mr Chalker’s article said
the photos fell into the “probably explainable
category, but with some unresolved aspects”.
The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show
with
Rob McConnell
www.xzoneradiotv.com
19
New York prof plans to
teach UFO course
UFOs and other unexplained
phenomena in space should be studied in
university courses just like English and math.
That’s the position of an American
anthropology professor who is putting together
the curriculum for a credit course to cover the
subject.
“My interest in UFOs stems from . . . my
interest in anthropology and in different world
views and how they affect people’s perceptions
and behaviours,” said Prof. Philip Haseley of
the Niagara County College, a state university
in New York.
He argues that there is a large body of
evidence around UFO sightings and other space
news and that students and scientists should
have the opportunity to study it, research it and
document findings.
“There is an enormous amount of
evidence to investigate,” said Haseley, who is
also section director of the Western New York
Mutual UFO Network.
“It needs to have exposure to a
university setting to students and to faculty who
see it being taught as a legitimate subject.
“To me, it is something that is a no-
brainer. It ought to have been done a long time
ago and the fact that it hasn’t been done strikes
me as extraordinarily strange.”
There are classes at other universities in
the U.S. already.
“It is something I would like to see a lot
more of,” said Haseley.
University of B.C. astronomy and
astrophysics Prof. Douglas Scott said UFOs are
covered in lectures but the test for students is
that extraordinary claims require extraordinary
evidence.
“There are lots of things people see in
the sky, and people who study them in detail,”
said Scott, adding that his department regularly
gets calls from people reporting “weird things”
in the sky.
“There is no evidence that there are
aliens coming to visit us. But of course we
should study these things — a good scientist
should be open minded.
“Frankly, all astronomers would kill to
find out that there are really aliens coming to
Earth. It would be fantastic . . . There is no
evidence that we have been visited by aliens
even though most astronomers probably believe
they are out there.”
Chris Rutkowski, research co-ordinator
for Ufology Research based in Winnipeg,
supports the study of UFOs as a legitimate
university subject.
“I think what [Haseley] is saying is
sound in the sense that it should be discussed
more openly in an academic and scholarly
setting,” said Rutkowski, author of The
Canadian UFO Report: The Best Cases
Revealed.
“I think it is a matter of being brave
enough to think about UFOs rationally in an
academic setting.”
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20 GLOBE Earth’s Sister Planet

G L O B E
EARTH’S SISTER PLANET
No fancy stuff, no little gremlins running around to distract you.
Here are questions being asked, some answers and few facts
all covered in the book’s 73 eye-opening chapters about
intelligent extraterrestrial life in our galaxy.
* Who discovered Globe? * Was Globe a natural creation?
* Where is Globe? * Was Globe intelligent design?
* What is Globe’s Language? * How old is Globe?
* What will it take to see * Globe has a Court of Justice!
Globe? * Earth is being conditioned!
* How pollution is eliminated. * How long to condition?
* Restoring the ozone layer. * Roswell crash was real, but
* Globe is far more advanced not by Globe!
than Earth. * Globe’s population will never
* Globe’s nano technology cures exceed 6.227 billion!
cancer. * No IRS on Globe!
* Unemployment on Globe is * Taxes paid automatically every
1.5% mostly due to injuries. month.
* What did Barry Goldwater * What did Einstein do in 1943
know about UFOs? to make you believe in Globe?
* No Borders * What power sources used?
* No Passports
* No military!

Written in easy to follow dialogue, Globe presents the story of how one man’s quest to
discover intelligent extraterrestrial life in our galaxy was confirmed, why he was selected to direct
a twenty one member international group to condition Earthlings and how conditioning is being
conducted.

Conditioning is happening, it’s insidious, long term, has nothing to do with the Trilateral
Commission and will ultimately result in tempering all social, political, religious and other
disturbing present-day ideologies

If you remain skeptical about extraterrestrials after reading this book you are either
incredibly naive or living in your little world of denial.Go back and read the illuminating clues,
including the ham radio operator who made contact with Globe, then reconsider your denial.

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The Truth Behind NASA’s UFO Videos 21

Footage in the Sky: The
Truth Behind NASA's
UFO Videos
Fox News.com

A batch of raw footage from decades-old NASA

missions shows zipping lights and strange
objects in the sky.
Recently posted on YouTube, the clips
are renewing UFO conspiracy theories that the
government is hiding knowledge about its
interactions with intelligent life.
But two astronauts dispute that — and
talk about NASA's supposed cover-up and what
the clips really show.
The scenario goes like this: It's 1996;
you're an astronaut and you're looking at a UFO.
This is quite possibly the biggest, most game-
changing scientific discovery in the history of
mankind.
And here you are, gliding through space
in low Earth orbit, watching this alien craft
dance around your video camera's viewfinder.
You are not alone — there are other astronauts
onboard the space shuttle, and Mission Control
background are either isolated lights on the clips posted by Stubb and others, whether they
is watching the live feed from Houston.
ground or stars, I think likely the latter," Runco originate with NASA or a less credible source,
Yet not a single raised voice or mention
says. tend to be framed only by a short title, with little
of ETs or UFOs can be heard on the audio of
In another of Stubb's posted clips, a or no attempt at reporting.
this recording. Apparently, it's just another
view through the window of a space shuttle Runco notes that anyone could have
routine brush with extraterrestrial life, and
shows lights drifting along in space, then simply e-mailed or called him to ask for his side
another day in the life of a massive, decades-
reversing direction and darting away with a of the story, instead of simply posting a 13-year-
long, multi-agency cover-up.
flash. The title of that clip: "UFOs quickly take old video and jumping to extraterrestrial
This is the claim behind the recent
off on NASA video." conclusions.
posting of a batch of NASA-related clips on
Again, the reality is less dramatic. Specificity might be the currency of the
YouTube, presented as evidence that
Thomas Jones, a former shuttle mission conspiracy theory set, with seemingly random
extraterrestrials are among us.
specialist and payload commander and co- images or snippets of data woven into a matrix
The footage covers a number of
author of "Planetology: Unlocking the Secrets of sinister intent, but even a casual investigation
missions, and a range of mysterious objects —
of the Solar System," was on that mission — of each of those facts can punch holes in the
in a clip featured on the science fiction
STS-80, which also took place in 1996 — and larger plotline.
blog io9, a bizarre object rotates within the
provided this description of the footage. Bloggers continue to reference an
frame, seeming to morph from one shape to
"A few ice crystals or flakes of thruster interview with Buzz Aldrin in 2005 about
another as the cameraman casually tracks it.
residue in the near field are floating by, get hit seeing a UFO while on Apollo 11, while
If that weren't mysterious enough, at one
by a thruster exhaust plume and zip out of the brushing off his claims that television producers
point, a light drifts by. The post's headline poses
scene." blatantly quoted him out of context.
the question: "Will the US Government Finally
UFO proponents tend to dismiss official And although UFO proponents have
Admit There Are Aliens?"
responses from members of NASA, the welcomed recent public statements from former
Whether or not the government has
Pentagon or any other government agency, but astronaut Edgar Mitchell about his belief in an
anything to fess up about aliens, the astronaut
Runco says that even if there was an active extraterrestrial cover-up dating back to Roswell,
who shot that particular piece of footage has
cover-up, no amount of coercion could prevent Mitchell has never said he witnessed anything
nothing to hide.
an astronaut — himself included — from laying alien with his own eyes.
Mario Runco was a mission specialist on
claim to a confirmed sighting of an alien Lacking quality in their evidence, UFO
board STS-77, a space shuttle mission that
spaceship. believers are left with quantity, a rambling
launched in May of 1996. One of the crew's
"If I thought it was an intelligent craft, collection of indistinct imagery and allegations
objectives was to deploy an experimental
I'd be the first one to speak up," says Runco. "I'd that now includes a batch of space-shuttle
satellite, the Passive Aerodynamically
want the credit: 'Mario Runco was the first mission video clips that were never buried or
Stabilized Magnetically Damped Satellite Test
person in history to conclusively document the classified in the first place.
Unit (PAM-STU).
existence of an extraterrestrial civilization.' Runco points out that astronauts, in
The PAM-STU was roughly the size of a
Why would I ever want to keep it secret?" general, are excited by the notion of intelligent
trash can, and was designed to test a new
Neither Runco nor Jones have any species on other worlds.
approach to satellite maneuverability, using the
illusions about the likelihood of dispelling "Many of them use SETI@Home [a
planet's magnetic field to perform attitude
NASA-related UFO myths, particularly when distributed computing application that picks
adjustments (instead of firing thrusters).
Stubb and others are able to collect and through radio telescope data for incoming
The crew filmed the spinning satellite
repurpose an ever-growing catalog of footage. messages] as their screensavers, because they
for days, but in the clip posted on YouTube by
"There's no way to keep people from think it's a possibility," he says.
Martyn Stubb, the PAM-STU appears in grainy,
using public domain footage for silly purposes," But it's one thing to believe that alien
low-light-enhanced black and white.
Jones says. "If a shuttle beams back 10 hours of life is a statistical likelihood, and another to
Its two Stimsonite reflectors — the same
Earth views each day, there are bound to be interpret lights in the sky as intergalactic
materials used on road and bicycle reflectors —
images and scenes that are misunderstood or contact.
catch the ambient light, and at one point appear
taken out of context." "People see unexplained things," Jones
to merge into a single bright spot as the satellite
If anything, it's the lack of context that says. "I used to believe UFOs were spaceships
turns head-on.
many UFO theories and proponents rely on. The — when I was 14."
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24 If Aliens Call, They Better Wear Armour
If aliens call, they better
wear armour
Bryan Patterson From: Sunday Herald Sun
IN 1911, a chunk of rock reportedly fell from
the sky and killed a dog in the little town of
Nakhla in Egypt. This was the first known
fatality caused by a cosmic object.
Scientists later revealed the rock was not
a common meteorite, but a piece of Mars.
As British biologist J.B.S. Haldane said,
"the universe is not only queerer than we
suppose, but queerer than we can suppose".
Interestingly, the story of the unlucky
pooch was followed by a spate of UFO
sightings.
The number of claimed extraterrestrial
encounters and claims of alien abductions have
exploded since.
The best-educated generation in history
is fascinated by the subject.
The desire to have contact with
something from beyond seems to be part of our
psyche, even for those without religious faith.
World-renowned astrophysicist Stephen
Hawking said this week he believed aliens
existed but that it would be a fatal mistake to
contact them.
"I imagine they might exist in massive
ships, having used up all the resources from
their home planet," Hawking said.
"Such advanced aliens would perhaps
become nomads, looking to conquer and
colonise whatever planets they can reach.
"If aliens ever visit us, the outcome
could be much as when Christopher Columbus
first landed in America, which didn't turn out
very well for the native Americans."
About 20 per cent of people polled in a
recent global survey said they believed aliens
existed.
According to the survey, which included
23,000 adults from 22 countries across the
globe, more than 40 per cent of people from
India and China reckoned aliens walked among
us disguised as humans. About 23 per cent of
Australians agreed.
People from Belgium, Sweden and the
Netherlands were least likely to believe in this
theory, although many believed aliens exist
"somewhere out there".
Those in countries that are over-
populated were more likely to believe aliens
lived in disguise than those living in a sparsely
populated place.
The poll also revealed more men than
women believed in disguised aliens.
Cosmologist Carl Sagan once said of
UFO sightings: "The reliable cases are
uninteresting and the interesting cases are
unreliable."
But on April 1 this year, a newspaper in
Jordan sent residents streaming in to the streets
with a spoof story about the landing of 3m
aliens in flying saucers. The mayor of Jafr sent
police to search for the aliens and was preparing
to evacuate his town, about 290km from
Amman, the capital, until told it was all a prank.
Physicist and cosmologist Paul Davies,
in his new book, The Eerie Silence: Renewing
Our Search for Alien Intelligence, wondered
what effect large-scale contact with space aliens
would have. Would there be social unrest, even
panic? What would governments do? How
would the world's leaders react? Would the
news be regarded with fear or wonderment?
And, in the longer term, what would it mean for
our society, our sense of identity, our science,
technology and religions?
Davies said our first instinct could be
hostile. "Humans have fought each other for
millennia over tiny differences in race, religion
or culture," he wrote. "Imagine how most
people would react to beings that were truly
alien? My personal message to E.T. is to keep
well clear and defend yourself, before stepping
into the hornet's nest of our militaristic society."
The moral and religious status of aliens
is an old topic in science fiction and Hollywood
movies. If they exist, are they like us?
The Vatican's chief astronomer said that
there was no contradiction in believing in God
and the possibility of "terrestrial brothers".
The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit
director of the Vatican Observatory, said the
vastness of the universe meant it was possible
there could be other forms of life outside Earth,
even intelligent ones.
In an interview, Funes said that such a
notion "doesn't contradict our faith" because
aliens would still be God's creatures and
rejecting such a notion would be putting limits
on God's universality.
Most of us experience a sense of
mystical astonishment when we stare up at the
vast sky and stars on a clear night.
The believer sees the same heavens as
the atheist, but interprets them quite differently:
To a believer, if there is intelligent life
on other planets, God created it all. It is an
interesting possibility that God and E.T. exist.
Drama club claims
responsibility for UFO
sightings in Pottsville
BY STEPHEN J. PYTAK
The flying objects in the skies above
Pottsville on Tuesday night have been
identified.
Barbara Gough, Ashland, the club
adviser for the Theater Arts Group at Nativity
BVM High School in Pottsville, said they were
"Thai Wish" lanterns launched by the group.
"On Tuesday night, after the cast of 'The
Pajama Game' cleaned up the stage, we decided
to start a new tradition. We wanted to have a
really nice send-off for our senior drama
students. I had the underclassmen each choose a
senior. I told them to write a wish for that senior.
Once it got dark, we all went outside and each
pair of students got a Thai Wish lantern," Gough
said.
Tammy Yotsko, Pottsville, was there
with her daughter, Shelby, a sophomore.
Gough said she ordered the lanterns
online.
"Each underclassman told their wish to
the senior and then launched their lantern,"
Gough said.
She said the lanterns were made of paper
and that each was about 3 feet high.
"The paper is on a circular frame. In the
center of the frame is some kind of a fuel. You
just light it with a match. It catches on fire and
then the heat from the fire expands the lantern.
When it gets really full, you let it go and it floats
up into the air, and they're about 99 percent
biodegradable, too. It looked really beautiful,"
Gough said.
"It was a beautiful night. The wind was
just perfect to carry them over the top of the
hills," Gough said.
Meanwhile, the Schuylkill County
Communications Center received several calls
Tuesday about unidentified flying objects above
Pottsville, according to center director Scott
Krater.
The lanterns were launched about 8:15
p.m. By 8:45 p.m., the group of about 30 people
there were greeted by Pottsville police,
according to Yotsko.
"All of a sudden I saw cops coming and
wondered, 'Wow, what's going on?' " Yotsko
said.
Her daughter said, "It's probably
because of these things."
"They just looked around to make sure
everything was all right and then they left,"
Yotsko said.
BIZARRE NEWS
- The first McDonald's restaurant opened for
business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and
featured the McHaggis sandwich.
- The typewriter was invented by Hungarian
immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his
"signature" on the keyboard.
- The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia
tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains
enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of
a 4-lane concrete freeway.
- Because printed materials are being replaced
by CD-ROMs, microfiche and the Internet,
libraries that previously sank into their
foundations under the weight of their books are
now in danger of collapsing in extremely high
winds.
- In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his
imaginary box and consequently died of
starvation.
- Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute
particles of real camels.
- University of Virginia researchers released a
study promoting the practice of nose picking,
claiming that the health benefits of keeping
nasal passages free from infectious blockages
far outweigh the negative social connotations.
- If you put a bee in a film canister for two
hours, it will go blind and leave behind its
weight in honey. [Seems like somebody forgot
about the Conservation of Matter law.]
- Due to the angle at which the optic nerve
enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during
sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
- In WWII the US military planned to airdrop
over France propaganda in the form of Playboy
magazine, with coded messages hidden in the
models' turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was
scrapped because of a staple shortage due to
rationing of metal.
- Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by
rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch
Doritos.
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Are aliens and angels the same thing? 25

Are aliens and angels the
same thing?
By DAVID CHARBONNEAU

I believe Arthur I. Barrett of Kamloops

when he says he saw a flying saucer. I just don’t
know what it means.
In his letter to the Daily News, Mr.
Barrett describes seeing the space ship hovering
above his car as he returned from Ashcroft.
After trying to outrun it, the saucer “turned red
with sparks flying off its outer shell.” He
realizes how incredible his experience sounds
but he is willing to undergo tests to verify his
account.
Mr. Barrett is understandably reluctant
to share is astonishing experience but he was
encouraged to do so after the famous
astrophysicist Stephen Hawking warned against
contact with extraterrestrial life. Hawking said a
visit by extraterrestrials to Earth would be like
Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas,
“which didn’t turn out very well for the native
Americans.”
I have never seen spacecraft but I have
never been to the moon either. I can’t discount
someone else’s experiences just because they
are not my own. Too many reputable witnesses
such as professional observers, police officers,
airplane pilots, and ordinary honest people have
risked ridicule by sharing their experiences.
If these reputable observers are to be building site for any hidden people who might
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Not just a few observers but billions of limbs and wrecked equipment.
earthlings believe extraterrestrials are already Although fewer Americans and
living in their communities, disguised as Canadians believe in aliens walking the streets
humans, according to a survey. The percentage than Asians, a large number believe in
of believers is highest in India and China lowest extraterrestrial spiritual beings. A Gallup poll
in Europe with North America in the middle. revealed that 78 per cent of Americans believe
The results of the survey were met with in angels and 70 per cent in the devil.
the expected guffaws from skeptics. “Were the The survey didn’t reveal whether
respondents drunk?” said Susan Clancy, a respondents think angels and aliens are the
psychology professor at Harvard University and same. I suspect not. Belief in alien visitors is
the author of Abducted: How People Come to more aligned with a scientific view of
Believe They Were Kidnapped By Aliens. Her technology and space ships whereas angels and
explanation is that we are manipulated by religion seem to go together.
popular stories, what she calls “cultural scripts,” Extraterrestrials have been visiting the
in movies and TV. Indeed, the aliens-among-us earth for thousands of years and often they were
story in the popular TV series called “V” both spiritual and flesh and blood. The Bible
proposes that seemingly ordinary people are reports that Jacob wrestled with a being www.
actually lizard-like aliens in disguise. described as a man in one place (Genesis
I think it’s the other way around. 32:24), God in another (Genesis 32:28) and xzonestore.
Popular stories are influenced by culture rather
than gullible people being persuaded by stories.
angel in yet another place (Hosea 12:4). The
two wrestled all night but Jacob was not
com
Anand Mahadevan, a Toronto-based novelist overcome. It seems that aliens of Jacob’s day
who grew up in India, explains: “The notion did not possess superhuman strength.
that a being with the great powers of a godhead
HIGH: Confessions Of An
I wrestle with the meaning of alien
can move in the guise of humans or animals is encounters and the inexplicable supernatural International Drug Smuggler
already available in the mythology and religion world. Do we share our world with angels,
of the region.” He adds that there is nothing elves, aliens and demons? Is the curtain of
irrational about Indian physicists who compute everyday existence occasionally pulled aside so
lunar eclipses but pray that the demons Rahu that a chosen few catch a glimpse of other
and Ketu will stop swallowing the moon. beings who are all around us? I wish I knew.
The reason why few Europeans report
that aliens walk among us may be because they
believe in elves, gnomes, trolls, fairies, and
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26 Crusade to Put Psychics Out of Business

Hamilton Radio host
slams Psychic for missing
California Quake
by Martha Jette
Examiner.com

Rob McConnell, owner and host of The

X-Zone Radio Show in Hamilton, Ontairo has
slammed psychic Elizabeth Joyce for her failure
to predict Sunday’s 7.2-mag earthquake, which
shook California and parts of Mexico.

McConnell, who has become

increasingly jaded about not only psychics, but
also over claims of the paranormal, UFOs,
aliens and more, noted in an email: “I am sure
* Expect a Tsunami to hit in the exact the Defendant in her power to predict the future
there will be an explanation issued - I can
same place it did in 2004, at the tip of Southern would constitute a defence to the charge.
hardly wait to hear it - and to debunk it.”
India, possibly created from the aftershocks of Simplified, that means whether you are an
the quakes in the Middle East. The British- outright fraudster, a BTW initiate, an eclectic
However, on her web site, Joyce notes:
Indian Ocean islands could disappear B.I.O.T. is Wiccan, family tradition witch, aboriginal
“The California quake happened as predicted -
in both the eastern and southern hemispheres, Canadian, Santerian, Vodoun, Romani, etc., the
with more to come! An entire city had to close
just a few degrees south of the Equator. It's sincerity or insincerity of your belief does not
down.” She also issued a rebuttal, which
positioned in the Indian Ocean approximately constitute a defence should you be charged
McConnell discusses in a YouTube video
1,000 miles southwest of India.” under s.365.
posted April 5, 2010. You will find it below.
Joyce, who claims to be ‘gifted’ since It may also be worth noting in the above case
McConnell added that another psychic
birth, professional astrologer, spiritual that the amount charged by the Defendant for
has missed the mark with his predictions.
counselor and medium, has appeared on such the fortune telling was $15. There was no
television shows as Unsolved Mysteries, extortion or excessive bilking of money. To
“And in retro - the comet/meteorite that
Beyond Chance and Psychic Detectives. She is provide context, this was merely an amount of
Pastor Harry Walther predicted for impact in
also author of Psychic Attack – Are You A money that would pay for a decent dinner at a
Utah in March 2010 never happened either.
Victim released in October 2007 and is mid-to-low range restaurant.
Although Pastor Harry took his prediction from
currently working on a second book: Ascension
The Bible Code, it would seem that the Bible
- How To Access The Fifth Dimension, The A conviction under s.365 is punishable under
Code is as predictable as some psychics.”
Truth About 2012.[] s.787(1) of the Criminal Code of Canada:
As for Joyce, she issued her April 2010
predictions on April 4. Here they are: Rob McConnell Starts 787. (1) Unless otherwise provided by law,
everyone who is convicted of an offence
* There is danger around President
Crusade to put Psychics punishable on summary conviction is liable to a
fine of not more than five thousand dollars or to
Obama during the early part of 2010 - could be Out of Business a term of imprisonment not exceeding six
a helicopter accident. Obama winds up in the
hospital before April's end. by Rob McConnell months or to both.

R. v. Labrosse (1984), 17 C.C.C. (3d) 283 (Que. So here is my question: Why are there psychic
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C.A.), affirmed (1987), 33 C.C.C. (3d) 220 fairs taking place across Canada if when these
as she begins divorce proceedings against
(S.C.C.). In this case, although the Defendant people are breaking the law - or do they believe
George W.
did not explicitly say to her client that she had that their psychic powers put them above the
the power to predict the future, the Court found law? Could it be that our over worked criminal
* Lindsay Lohan will have a life-threat,
that the fraudulent element of the offence arose system cannot be bothered - and if this is the
which could lead to her passing away because
from the gestures, actions, and words of the case - well - it’s time that some one turns up the
of her drug problems.
Defendant in making the victim believe that the heat and that is exactly what I intend on doing.
* The coming food shortage begins in Defendant had the power to predict the future.
For those people that do tarot readings, tea leafs Stay tuned to The ’X’ Zone Radio & TV Show,
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The upsetting weather conditions continue. This
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the March upset did not occur, thank goodness
- but the energy returns in late May. Get your The Court further ruled that it was not necessary
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shocks.
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28 The Skull of Doom

The Skull of Doom
By Jane MacLaren Walsh

The Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull: Fact,

fiction, and the creation of myth

Crystal skulls have long had a fringe

following, and the most famous of them is one
named for the explorer-author Frederick A.
Mitchell-Hedges (see “Legend of the Crystal
Skulls”). Mitchell-Hedges claimed to have
found the skull somewhere in Central America
in the 1930s, but his adopted daughter Anna
later said she found it under a fallen altar or
inside a pyramid at the Maya site of Lubaantún
in British Honduras (now Belize) some time in
the 1920s. Neither of their contradictory
accounts is true. In fact, like all the other crystal
skulls thus far examined, it is a modern creation,
despite its nearly mythical place in the minds of
devotees.
have had two opportunities to examine
the Mitchell-Hedges skull closely and to take
silicone molds of carved and polished elements
of it, which I have analyzed under high-power
light and scanning-electron microscopes. I have
also evaluated the documentary evidence,
newspaper stories about Mitchell-Hedges, his
memoirs Land of Wonder and Fear (1931) and
Danger My Ally (1954), and a file of letters and
documents that Anna Mitchell-Hedges sent to
Frederick Dockstader, the director of the
Museum of the American Indian in New York
City, which I recently found.
The microscopic evidence presented
here indicates that the skull is not a Maya
artifact but was carved with high-speed, other measurements taken are equally close, but After my first encounter with the skull in 2007,
modern, diamond-coated lapidary tools. The as the article’s author, British Museum physical Homann returned with it to the museum in 2008
historical record shows it first appeared in anthropologist Geoffrey M. Morant, notes (pp. so it could be filmed for a Smithsonian
London in 1933 and was purchased a decade 105-106), “A more interesting comparison can Networks documentary, “Legend of the Crystal
later by Mitchell-Hedges, who claimed the be made by superposing the outlines,” which Skull.” Following up on my initial study, which
crystal skull was an authentic pre-Columbian clearly illustrates how nearly identical the skulls included examining the skull under a high-
artifact. The newly found archival evidence are in size and shape. powered light microscope, under ultraviolet
suggests Anna was later involved in the Adrian Digby, a young British Museum light, and computerized tomography (CT scan)
evolution of tall tales about the skull’s origins, archaeologist, commented on the measurements to determine what we could without harming
providing a fascinating look at the creation of a and observations made by Morant in a short the object in any way, I took two sets of silicone
popular mythology in service of a profitable article accompanying the latter’s comparative molds of surface tool marks for SEM analysis.
business venture. study. Digby (1936: p. 108) offered the If the skull were actually Maya from
possibility that the Lubaantun, which was abandoned around A.D.
Under the Microscope Museum skull was copied from an 800, the tools used to carve it would have been
November 2007, Bill Homann, Anna original skull, and that at a later date the Burney sharpened stone implements combined with
Mitchell-Hedges’s widower, brought the artifact skull was a sort of composite copy relying for abrasive sand. Pre-Columbian lapidary
to my office in the Smithsonian’s Museum of its proportions on the skull now in the Museum technology has been studied with considerable
Natural History for examination. Slightly and for its anatomical detail on some human detail for more than a century. Through my own
smaller than life size, it recalled a crystal skull skull in the possession of the carver. research, I have compiled a large bibliography
in the British Museum, and it seemed to me to He came to the conclusion that it would on stone carvings from controlled
be a close copy of that object, at least in size and be quite strange that anybody wishing to carve a archaeological excavations in Mexico and
shape. However, it differed from the British skull out of rock crystal, and taking a real skull Central America documenting the fact that pre-
Museum example in its more elaborate carving, as his model should modify its dimensions to fit contact artisans carved stone by abrading the
extremely high polish, and separate mandible. those of another crystal skull which he would surface with stone tools, as well as wood, and in
The similarity of the two skulls’ size and see was but a poor copy of nature. It shows a later pre-Columbian times, copper tools, in
shape can be verified using measurements and perverted ingenuity such as one would expect to combination with a variety of abrasive sands or
photographs taken at the British Museum in find in a forger, but Mr. Burney’s skull bears no pulverized stone. No historic or ethnographic
1936, when the museum’s skull was compared traces of recent (metal age) workmanship; so source of which I am aware indicates pre-
to the Mitchell-Hedges one, which was then this suggestion may almost certainly be Columbian lapidaries used hard metal, such as
called the Burney skull after its owner, London dismissed. iron or steel, as filing, drilling, or cutting tools,
art dealer Sydney Burney. According to an Digby’s analysis was perceptive. By or that they employed any type of wheeled or
article published in the journal Man, the British copying the British Museum skull, then thought rotary technology (Walsh 2008: pp. 18-19).
Museum (BM) skull is 17.7 cm front to back to be authentic, a forger would make his work Comparison of SEM (scanning electron
(glabellar-occipital length), and the Mitchell- look more legitimate. Unfortunately the science microscopy) images of ancient and modern
Hedges (MH) skull is 17.4; the BM skull is 13.5 of the day was limited. Without modern carvings shows the difference. A line incised
cm from side to side (maximum calvarial equipment Digby was unable to detect any with pre-Columbian tools appears as rough with
breadth) and the MH skull is 14. Many of the evidence of the skull’s recent manufacture. (Continued on Page 29)
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a slight twisting, indicating the movement of the
hand pushing a sharpened stone. Modern
diamond-coated, high-speed rotary cutting tools
show lines that are perfectly straight. Parallel
lines within the incisions are evidence of
permanently embedded abrasive. The sharpness
of the cut and the exactness of the abrasive lines
indicate the use of a hard metal tool with a very
hard abrasive, i.e. diamond.
Micrographs of silicone molds from the
Mitchell-Hedges skull reveal marks of high-
speed carving tools and deeply cut parallel
ridges left by permanently embedded diamond
abrasive throughout the skull’s carved
components. Some of the marks indicate the use
of cutting tools less than a millimeter thick,
which means they would have to be made of
iron or steel, and the impressions of wheeled
tools visible in the carved elements of one of the
teeth are less than a millimeter in diameter.
Under higher magnification, polished areas
show parallel lines with a skipping pattern,
indicating the use of a high-speed tool.
It seems reasonable to conclude from the
SEM images that the Mitchell-Hedges skull was
carved in modern times with high-speed,
diamond-coated rotary burring and cutting tools
of minute dimension. The teeth alone show the
use of a rotary cutting tool less than 2
millimeters in diameter. I believe that the
technology under discussion is decidedly 20th
century. Considering the skull’s initial
appearance in the 1930s, I believe it was created
at about that time. The British Museum skull,
from which I believe this is copied, was on
exhibit fairly continuously from 1898.
Acquisition History
The Mitchell-Hedges skull was first
publicly known in 1936, when it was published
in the journal Man after London art dealer
Sydney Burney brought it to the British
Museum for study. The Burney skull, as it was
then called, was photographed, measured, and
compared with the British Museum “Aztec”
crystal skull. The British Museum had
purchased their crystal skull in 1898 from
Tiffany & Co. in New York City. Tiffany’s had
purchased the skull more than a decade earlier
from the French antiquarian Eugène Boban,
who auctioned off his Mexican artifact
collection in October 1886. George Kunz, vice
president of Tiffany’s, acted as an intermediary
between Boban and George Sisson, who
apparently owned the skull for some period
between 1888 and 1898. In 1898, Mr. Kunz
once again acted as the middleman between
Sisson, Tiffany’s, and the British Museum
(Walsh 1997; Sax, Walsh, et al. 2008).
Burney obtained his crystal skull in
early 1933, as attested in a letter he wrote on
Burney Gallery stationary to the director of the
American Museum of Natural History in
February of that year (AMNH 2/17/1933):
I have just acquired a life-size rock
crystal skull with separate jaw, from Mexico,
and I shall be glad to know if it is of interest to
you or your museum.
It isn’t known from whom Burney
acquired the skull, but either the seller claimed
it was from Mexico, as the British Museum’s
skull was thought to be, or Burney himself
supposed it did, since his skull was so similar to
the museum’s.
Burney owned the skull from 1933 until
1943, all the while attempting to find a buyer.
His bringing it to the British Museum for study
was not, I would speculate, entirely an academic
exercise on his part. However, the museum did
not choose to acquire another crystal skull and it
was ultimately sold at Sotheby’s in London on
October 15, 1943, to Frederick A. Mitchell-
Hedges, Anna Mitchell-Hedges’s adoptive
father, for £400. (London was relatively quiet,
with most of the fighting then in North Africa
and on the eastern front.)
The 1943 Sotheby's catalogue gave this
description of the skull, a photograph of which
was used as the frontispiece: "A superb life-size
crystal Carving of a Human Skull, the lower jaw
separate, the details are correctly rendered and
the carver has given the orbits, zygomatic
arches and mastoid processes the similitude of
their natural forms."
Frederick Mitchell-Hedges announced
this purchase to his brother in a letter written in
December 1943, which includes perhaps the
first mention of a date for the skull’s
manufacture (the Mitchell-Hedges Official
Website, accessed 11/08):
The “Collection” grows and grows and
grows. You possibly saw in the papers that I
acquired that amazing Crystal Skull that was
formerly in the “Sydney Burney Collection.” It
is fashioned from a single block of transparent
rock crystal, exactly life size; scientists put the
date at pre-1800 B.C., and they estimate it took
five generations passing from Father to son, to
complete. It is anthropologically perfect in
every detail, a superb piece of craftsmanship.
There is only one other in the world known like
it, which is in the British Museum and it is
acknowledged to be not so fine as this.
The crystal skull remained with
Frederick Mitchell-Hedges until his death in
1959, and with his adopted daughter until her
death in April 2007.
Fictionalized History"The Skull of Doom"
Frederick Mitchell-Hedges’s letter to his
brother about his new acquisition indicates from
the outset that he was not above embellishing a
story, even an already good story. It is
impossible to know where Mitchell-Hedges got
the “pre-1800 B.C.” date, or his tale of five
generations of polishers, but six years later, he
was claiming to have discovered the crystal
skull himself, and not in a London salesroom.
On May 31, 1949, Echo, a local Bournemouth
paper, reported the existence of a “Skull with an
evil eye” in his collection:
The remarkable thing about the skull,
confided Mr. Mitchell-Hedges, is that scientists
are of the opinion that it dates back to 1600 BC
and it was made by at least five generations
working from father to son to shape it out of a
block of rock crystal by rubbing it down with
sand! Mr. Mitchell-Hedges found it when he led
a British expedition to uncover traces of the lost
Maya civilization in Central America in the
1930s. It had been taken by the High Priest into
the depths of the Temple where he concentrated
on it and willed Death.”
In spinning his yarn, Mitchell-Hedges
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may here be relying on some information he’s
gathered from The Crystal Skull, a popular
adventure story written by Jack McLaren in
1936. It features Lyndon Cromer, an ethnologist
who supports his research with thievery, and a
crystal skull that he steals. A local person in
New Guinea sees it and exclaims, “It is the skull
of air. The skull of air!” He then tells Cromer
that, “He who holds the skull of air so that it
looks at another man knows that other man’s
life. He knows all about that other man. That is
the power that the skull of air gives to him who
holds it.” On his part, Cromer envisions the
“tremendous interest that the arrival of this
crystal skull in London would cause—of the
excitement of the British Museum experts, of
the meticulous comparings between this newly-
found skull of crystal and the one already
there.”
Five years after making these amazing
claims, Mitchell-Hedges more or less repeated
them in his fanciful memoir, Danger My Ally,
although minus the part about his having found
it in Central America. He writes (1954: p. 240),
It is at least 3,600 years old and
according to legend was used by the High Priest
of the Maya when performing esoteric rights.
When the High Priest willed death, with the
help of the skull, death inevitably followed. It
has been described as the embodiment of evil. I
do not wish to try and explain this phenomenon.
Had he forgotten about Sotheby’s?
When Mitchell-Hedges died in 1959, the
crystal skull became the property of his adopted
daughter, Anna. This was despite the fact that he
may have had two sons, according to various
sources. One was named John (aka Bumble)
who is described in 1921 as a “crack shot” with
pistol and rifle at age six (Times & Directory,
April 23, 1921). The other was James, who was
living with Mitchell-Hedges in Cape Hatteras in
1936, according to a newspaper account that
described him as fighting off an attacking shark
at the age of 13 (New York Times, August
26,1936).
Anna Mitchell-Hedges, née Anne Marie
Le Guillon, claimed to have personally
discovered the crystal skull, while
accompanying her father on an expedition to
Lubaantun. But the story of when and how she
found the skull varies with the telling, and range
from discovering it beneath the stones of a
collapsed altar atop a pyramid to being lowered
down into a cave, beneath or inside a pyramid,
to retrieve it. These events are detailed in
various sources as having taken place in 1924,
1926, 1927, and 1928, in contrast to her father’s
version of discovering it somewhere in Central
America sometime in the 1930s.
I recently found a file of letters Anna
Mitchell-Hedges wrote to Frederick
Dockstader, then director of the Museum of the
American Indian in New York City, between
1964 and 1973. This correspondence is housed
in the Cultural Resource Center of the
Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of
the American Indian. Dockstader initially
contacted Anna on March 4, 1964, writing,
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I was delighted recently to have a visitor
who...had just come from a chat with you. This
was a welcome opportunity for me to learn that
a relative of Mr. Mitchell-Hedges was living. I
am taking the liberty of directing this note to
you in that regard.
Continuing, he wrote that he had
exhibited some of the artifacts donated by her
father, and that “it would be a distinct honor not
only to show you what we have done, but also
the degree to which we have made use of the
Mitchell-Hedges collection.” Dockstader may
have been courting Anna, whom he assumed to
be heir to Mitchell-Hedges’s estate, and as her
father had donated collections, perhaps he
thought the daughter might do the same.
Anna responded quickly on March 10,
1964, writing, “I am Sammy of the book, and I
together with Jane, father’s secretary, used to
accompany father when he came to the
museum. Were you there then and do you
remember us?” This first letter (OC 276, folder
#11) is mostly a four-page typed description of
a Russian icon called “The Black Virgin of
Kazan,” which was exhibited at the New York
World’s Fair. (According to Daniel Loxton,
editor of Junior Skeptic, it was a later copy of
the original icon.) Anna noted that her father
had begun negotiations with San Francisco art
dealer Frank Dorland to promote and sell the
icon, but “After father passed away Mr. Dorland
and I commenced negotiations again and I
eventually sent it to the States two years ago.”
In almost an afterthought, she adds:
When I come out [from England] it is so
that I take out the “Skull of Doom,” which was
the only thing my father ever kept from any of
the expeditions. It is made of pure rock crystal
and is over 3,600 years old. I am taking it out so
that research may be done on it, and I hope that
it too may one day find a home where it will be
revered by all who see it.
The correspondence includes various
typescripts of Anna’s contracts with Dorland,
the “Black Virgin of Kazan” promoter, who
wrote Anna in November 1963:
The Skull of Doom, or perhaps more
likely the Skull of Knowledge, as I have said
many times before, I would like to handle this
art treasure for you...we can launch a
programme about the Skull and get your price.
(OC 276, folder #11)
In July 1964, Anna Mitchell-Hedges
signed an agreement with Dorland to promote
the skull for its eventual sale with an asking
price of not less than $50,000.
Three months after the contract was
signed, Anna sent Dockstader a typed statement,
dated November 1, 1964, which was titled
“Mitchell-Hedges Godshead [sic] Skull-Mayan
Skull of Divine Mystery.” The written
description (OC 276, folder #11) avers that the
skull is “estimated by the British Museum to be
at least 3000 years old,” and that it “was found
by Anna Mitchell-Hedges in British Honduras
in 1928 in the ruins of an abandoned Mayan
complex.” The document also claims the skull
has special powers, including that it wards off
“the evil eye and carries protection from
heaven, being white crystal and highly polished,
it defeats all evils of witchcraft and is a
benevolent divine magic dealing with heaven
and angelic forces.” Apparently Dorland drew
up this document as part of his promotional
efforts. My research indicates that it is the first
time Anna claims to have found the skull
herself. The statement appears to have the
intention of establishing a provenience (history
and find spot) that could be verified solely by
Anna Mitchell-Hedges, since all of the people
involved in her adopted father’s expeditions to
Lubaantun were dead by then.
Dorland’s estimate of age comes
presumably from Frederick’s newspaper
descriptions, since no source indicates that the
British Museum ever estimated the age of the
skull. The British Museum’s own crystal skull
was previously thought to be Aztec, which if it
had been true, would date it to around A.D.
1500, so 500 years old not 3,000.
By 1970, Anna Mitchell-Hedges, then
63, and Frank Dorland had a falling out, partly
because of publications in which he clearly had
a hand that detailed a variety of progressively
outlandish claims for the skull and characterized
him as its owner and keeper. The exaggerations
and mythologies put out by Dorland and his
surrogates seem less bothersome to Anna than
the reports that the skull belonged to him, and
that he still had not found a buyer. At this point
Dorland proposed that he and Anna collaborate
on a book of their own, to be written by novelist
Richard Garvin:
I have convinced Dick Garvin (who does
sell) it is worth the percentage to you and me
and you to furnish the information. This makes
it a better book, makes more money all the way
around. The skull is not sold, it is put to use in
this manner and for public appearances to
boost sales and interest. (OC 276, folder #11 -
3/10/1970)
Garvin’s book, The Crystal Skull
(1973), reports that “The skull, it is claimed,
was discovered rather recently--in the
Lubaantun Tomb, part of the abandoned ruins of
an enormous Mayan citadel, in British
Honduras. The year was 1927” (p. 13). As
mentioned earlier, in correspondence and in
published sources, the array of years given for
the skull’s discovery includes 1924, 1926, 1927,
and 1928. “I am a little hazy about the exact
date,” Anna wrote in a note to Dockstader, “but
we started the expedition in 1926 and left before
the rainy season in 1927” (OC 276, folder #11 -
9.20.1970).
Frederick Mitchell-Hedges, in the
company of Lady Mable Richmond Brown,
spent two very brief stays in Lubaantún, the first
in 1924 and the second in 1925. They may
possibly have had a third visit in 1926, but it is
not entirely clear that they ever returned after
1925. In January 1927, Mitchell-Hedges was
supposedly attacked and robbed in
Bournemouth of a case with papers and five or
six shrunken heads. But the much publicized
assault was later proven to be a hoax. In 1928,
Mr. Mitchell-Hedges was involved in a libel
trial, the result of a suit he had brought against
the Daily Express, the newspaper that had
exposed the robbery hoax. He lost the suit. A
New York Times article (February 15, 1928)
noted that:
During the cross-examination of
Hedges, he was questioned about his
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exploration trips by Mr. Jowitt, Daily Express
counsel, who sought to throw doubt on some
Central American discoveries and adventures
related by Hedges and his companion, Lady
Richmond Brown. Lord Chief Justice Lore
Hewart, in summing up today said to the jury:
“You may not think that Mr. Jowitt put the case
too high when he said that Mr. Mitchell-Hedges
was an imposter.”
Frederick Mitchell-Hedges was not at
Lubaantun in 1928, nor was Anna. The British
Museum archaeologist J. Eric S. Thompson was
at the site in 1927 and 1928. Thompson wrote
about Mitchell-Hedges in Maya Archaeologist
(1963), and his characterization was not
flattering (p. 73):
He had penetrated the interior of British
Honduras to discover this immense mysterious
city, which in fact, had been known to
archaeologists and European residents since
the last century and had been described in print
many years before. Worst of all from an
archaeological point of view, he had workers
build a wall on one of the terraces to make a
more impressive photograph. Later he and his
collaborator [Lady Richmond Brown] wrote a
book, Land of Wonder and Fear; to me the
wonder was how he could write such nonsense
and fear of how much taller the next yarn would
be.
Anna eventually settled on the year 1924
for her great find, and specifically on January 1,
which was, coincidentally, her 17th birthday. It
seems odd that she would initially have such a
hazy memory of such a momentous birthday
discovery. Her father never mentioned that
Anna found the skull, and his 1954 book
Danger My Ally was the first account in which
he said she even accompanied Lady Richmond
Brown and him to British Honduras. According
to Mitchell-Hedges’s hometown newspaper, the
Daily Mail had received a cable toward the end
of March 1924 from the “explorer” to
announce, “that, with Dr. T.W.F. Gann, of
Liverpool University, the eminent archaeologist
and authority on Honduran antiquities, he
[Mitchell-Hedges] had discovered the ruins of a
vast Maya city in the heart of British Honduras”
(March 31, 1924). The paper quotes Mitchell-
Hedges’s cable describing the astounding find
of a “vast truncated pyramidal mound.... The
stone structure reared to a height of 300 feet
above the valley.” A January 24, 1931, letter to
the New York Times quotes Mitchell-Hedges as
having:
penetrated a hitherto unknown portion
of the hinterland of Panama, discovering a new
race of people [in 1922-1923]. In 1924 with Dr.
T.W.F. Gann, he discovered the ruins of the vast
Maya City of Lubaantún in the interior of
British Honduras. He returned there on another
expedition in 1925 and commenced the work of
clearing and excavating the Maya City.
According to the article, the British
Museum sent T.A. Joyce with the expedition in
1926 and then took over the work.
In response to questions posed by Frank
Dorland about the connection of Anna’s father
to the Museum of the American Indian,
Dockstader wrote:
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He and Lady Richmond-Brown explored
many Middle American areas, collectively and
in behalf of the Museum. Some of this was
financed by Lady Richmond Brown, some by Dr.
Heye, the founder of this museum. (OC 276,
folder #11 - 8/11/67)
By 1971, Dockstader was thinking about
exhibiting the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull at
the Museum of the American Indian, but he was
concerned about Phrenology (1970), a book
with ties to Dorland, written by Sybil Leek, a
British witch. Leek claimed that F.A. Mitchell-
Hedges had brought the skull from London to
Central America, and that it may originally have
belonged to the Knights Templar, whose main
temple was in central London. This upset
Dockstader, who wrote Anna asking about the
skull’s origins. I found no response from her.
In March 1972, Dockstader wrote to
Anna that the Crystal Skull would be the
centerpiece of an exhibition called “The Skull in
Indian Art,” but he still had questions:
I’ll not beat around the bush. Just
recently, J. Eric Thompson heard that the Skull
was here at the Museum, and wrote a friend
about it, apparently in answer to that friend’s
query. In turn, the friend sent Thompson’s
comment on to me. It was such a surprise, that I
am typing it here.... “The crystal skull was
acquired by Mitchell-Hedges in an antique shop
in London sometime around 1928 [sic]. The
London dealer who owned it was Sidney [sic]
Burney. J. J. Braunholz of the British Museum
told me he had seen the piece displayed in the
shop before Mitch bought it. There was no
provenience on the skull--it was generally
assumed at that time to have been North Italian.
Sometime later Mitchell Hedges published an
article about the Skull in a local newspaper in
Bournemouth where, I think, he was then living.
The story of the skull’s origin in that article was
different; I forget the details, but it had nothing
to do with Lubaantún.
Notes in British Museum files indicate
that archaeologists and curators there worried
about the director of the Museum of the
American Indian exhibiting the skull without
knowing its actual history. Although there was a
great deal of hesitancy, it would seem, about
calling into question the veracity of the
Mitchell-Hedges family, the BM’s Eric
Thompson apparently found a way to get this
information to Dockstader.
Anna responded with a “Statement of
Fact” on official-looking typed letterhead,
“Anna Mitchell-Hedges F.R.G.S., F.L.S.” It
reads:
The Rock Crystal Skull was discovered
by me upon one of my father’s expeditions to
Lubaantun during 1926/27. I found the skull
itself after we had cleared a very heavy wall,
which had fallen on the altar, which we also
moved. The rocks were so heavy we were only
able to move about 5 or 6 a day, not having the
equipment at hand today. It was therefore
another three months before I found the jaw,
which was about 25 yards away from the skull.
This was my father’s expedition therefore the
Rock Crystal Skull was his. With us on this
expedition was: Lady Richmond Brown
The Skull of Doom
(deceased); Jane Harvey Houlson (Father’s sec.
dec.), Capt. C.C. Joyce (Brit Museum dec); Dr.
Gann, Mr. Tuke (British Painter) and myself,
beside help. Also father’s brother-in-law Mr.
George Hudson who came along to take
photographs. (OC 276, folder #11)
According to Mitchell-Hedges himself,
writing in his 1931 book Land of Wonder and
Fear (p. 16), the party who “first discovered”
Lubaantun “consisted of Lady Richmond
Brown, the late Mr. H.S. Tuke, who came with
us in order to depict on canvas the true
atmosphere of the tropics, Dr. Thomas Gann,
and myself.”
Gann, who had actually published notes
about the ruins in 1903, presumably led
Mitchell-Hedges and his party there in 1924. In
his book Mystery Cities; Exploration and
Adventure in Lubaantun, published the
following year, Gann noted (pp. 128-129) that
Frederick Mitchell-Hedges and Lady Brown
had arrived a few days ahead of him, but:
not knowing either Spanish or Kekchi,
had been unable to hire any labour for cleaning
bush over the ruins, so had been marking time
till I turned up. Both were feeling rather gloomy,
as on the previous day Hedges had been obliged
to shoot Michael, a pet ape to which they were
both very much attached as he had eaten some
sort of poisonous irritant leaf in the bush, which
brought on diarrhea, vomiting, and intense
pain. His end was, however, painless, and he
was accorded the honor of burial beneath one of
the ancient Maya pyramids of Lubaantun.
One would suppose that if Gann saw fit
to mention Michael, the couple’s pet monkey,
that he would have noted the presence of
Mitchell-Hedges’s daughter, Anna, but neither
he, nor Mitchell-Hedges, nor Lady Richmond
Brown ever mention her in connection with this
visit. That is, until Frederick Mitchell-Hedges’
1954 book Danger My Ally in which he wrote
or, perhaps more accurately, rewrote the history
of his Lubaantun expeditions.
Altogether our excavations extended
over three years.... In 1925 Mabs’s [Lady
Richmond Brown] place was taken by Jane
Harvey Houlson and the following year Sammy,
after several years in London, New York and
France--where she lived with some of her
relatives and, incidentally, learned the art of
manicuring and hairdressing--joined us. This
was our last visit. As far as I know, no white
man has been there since.
The above statements are fabrications.
Numerous newspaper accounts describe Lady
Richmond Brown and Mitchell-Hedges on
expeditions from the early 1920s until the early
1930s. She bankrolled nearly all of their travels,
she purchased their yacht, Cara, and donated
their finds to the Heye Foundation’s Museum of
the American Indian. A June 11, 1930, New
York Times article noted that Lady Richmond
Brown was sued for divorce by her husband, Sir
Melville Richmond Brown, naming Mitchell-
Hedges as co-respondent. Despite her
companion’s marriage to Lillian Agnes (Dolly)
Clarke, Mitchell-Hedges and Lady Richmond-
Brown traveled together for at least a decade.
The final split with Midge, as she called him,
seems to have occurred when Mabs discovered
he’d bigamously married a dancer named
Dorothy Copp in New York in 1938. Ms. Copp
quickly “divorced” Midge in New Jersey in
April 1938, after a life-threatening jungle
honeymoon, luridly reported in the Hearst
newspapers in May, and written in the same
style as Land of Wonder and Fear and Danger
My Ally.
Within two months of the very public
“divorce,” Lady Richmond Brown wrote
George Heye, the founder of the Museum of the
American Indian, requesting the return of the
Cuna collections from Panama that she had
donated to his museum. Heye, on a trip to
Alaska, responded politely, saying
Your letter of June 28 has been
forwarded to me here. I must confess at some
surprise at its contents, for my impression was
that the Indian textiles were a gift to the
Museum, and our exhibit of the same has
always borne your name as the donor. (OC 138,
folder 32 – 7/12/1938)
In December of that year, Heye wrote to
Mitchell-Hedges,
I had a most surprising letter from Lady
Richmond Brown...she said she would like the
Chucunaque specimens that she lent to the
Museum returned,...I had understood that these
were a gift. (OC 138, folder 32 – 12/28/1938)
Midge responded in a January 16, 1939,
letter denouncing his former benefactor,
I should ignore the letter from Lady R.B.
definitely the entire Chucunaque specimens
were a gift from us to the museum. I had no
knowledge that Lady R.B. had personally lent,
given, or sent, any specimens to your museum.
In fact I cannot imagine where she could have
collected them. It’s just absurd.
This may be why Mitchell-Hedges
wrote Lady Richmond Brown out of his
recollections of their expeditions after 1925 in
Danger My Ally; but since Mabs died in 1946,
his version of events would not be contested.
Mitchell-Hedges not only recast Lady
Richmond Brown’s role in his memoir, but also
sought to create more mystery about his Skull of
Doom: “How it came into my possession, I have
reason for not revealing” (Danger My Ally, p.
243). Anna’s explanation of this statement to
Dockstader was that her father bought the skull
at Sotheby’s because,
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Father was wanting to return to
Lubaantun, but was short of money and Capt.
Joyce introduced him to Mr. Burney. Mr. Burney
loaned father money and father left the skull
with him as security until he could redeem it....
Then they heard that he had been claiming he
found the skull etc and that he had placed it into
the sale room...father was livid when he heard
this although it had been withdrawn. He repaid
Burney with interest and reclaimed the skull....
(OC 276, folder #11 - 9/20/1970)
If Joyce introduced Mitchell-Hedges to
Burney and if Midge had wanted to join Joyce’s
British Museum expedition to Lubaantun, then
this would have taken place around 1927. If
Burney had lent him the money, then why didn’t
Mitchell-Hedges return to Lubaantun? Perhaps
this was because of his unsuccessful liable suit?
But then, why would he leave the skull for years
before reclaiming it by purchasing it at the
auction house? Another inconsistency is Anna’s
statement that Joyce introduced her father to
Burney, since the Official Mitchell-Hedges
Website (accessed 11/08) quotes Anna as saying
that Mr. Burney was an old school chum of her
father’s. If the story about her father buying
back his very own (or Anna’s very own) artifact
were true, why wouldn’t he mention this fact in
the proud announcement to his own brother? He
reports on the collection that “grows and grows
and grows,” and tells his brother that the newest
acquisition is a crystal skull from the Sydney
Burney collection. He mentions the skull’s close
relative in the British Museum, but says nothing
about Lubaantun, nor that he thinks it is Maya.
Just the Facts
The Mitchell-Hedges (formerly Burney)
quartz skull is modern, like every rock crystal
skull that has been examined so far (Sax 2008,
2009; Walsh 1997, 2008). I believe this one can
rightly be called a fake, since it is almost surely
an improved version of the British Museum
skull, making it a copy of an invented artifact.
As such, it was intended to deceive.
Documentary evidence indicates that it first
appeared in London early in 1933. According to
its owner, Sydney Burney, it came from
Mexico, the same provenience as that supplied
for the British Museum one.
The British Museum crystal skull first
appeared in 1881 in Eugène Boban’s Paris shop
(Boban 1881; Walsh 1997). He later exhibited it
and attempted to sell it in Mexico City in 1885
as an Aztec skull. The skull was denounced by a
Mexican museum curator as a fake, which
caused Boban to move his business to New
York City, where he successfully sold it at
auction to Tiffany & Co. (Boban 1886; New
York Times, December 19, 1886; Walsh 1997).
The British Museum purchased it in 1898, and
exhibited it from that point on.
Judging from the date the Mitchell-
Hedges skull first appeared, along with the
evidence provided by the SEM study, it is
reasonable to suspect that it was carved in
Europe, copied from the British Museum skull
sometime between 1900 and the early 1930s,
with the most probable date being closer to the
latter. We do not know who created it or who
sold it to Burney. Boban had been dead for more
than two decades by 1933, so he cannot be
implicated with it. Sydney Burney finally sold
the skull at a Sotheby’s London auction to
Mitchell-Hedges on October 15, 1943.
Anna’s stories of finding the crystal
skull under an altar at Lubaantún, or inside a
deep hole or cave beneath or inside of the
pyramid, were her own inventions, starting in
1964, as part of a joint promotion of the skull in
which she engaged the assistance of Frank
Dorland. Her confusion of dates is not the
product of a faulty memory, but rather, I
believe, because Anna was never at Lubaantún
before she was taken there for a film in the
1990s. I believe Anna settled on the 1924 date
sometime in the 1980s, since in the 1970s she
was still claiming to have found it in 1926 or
1927, occasionally 1928. The earlier date would
have been a more likely one since her father
actually visited the site that year.
The mythology that has grown up
surrounding the Mitchell-Hedges Godshead
Skull, Skull of Doom, Skull of Knowledge, or
the Skull of Love (as it is now called on the
Official Mitchell-Hedges Website) is the
invention of three people--Frederick Mitchell-
Hedges, followed by Anna Mitchell-Hedges and
Frank Dorland. But the mythology now
includes many more promoters, all of whom
profit from the gullibility and enthusiasm of
crystal devotees and New Age practitioners.
Frederick A. Mitchell-Hedges spent a
good deal of his life as a deep-sea fisherman. He
wrote at least two books and numerous articles
about fishing. Stories about fish that got away
are legendary, but Mitchell-Hedges took even
fish stories to a new level. He usually referred to
this hobby as “deep sea research,” and
apparently supplemented his income by selling
tales of giant fish, sea monsters, and man-eating
sharks to the Hearst newspaper chain. He made
weekend trips to Carribean islands, where he
claimed to have found sunken continents and
lost tribes or explored territories unseen by
white men, while he battled with fish the size of
whales and experienced constant life-
threatening terrors. The dramatic stories of
danger and discovery are a regular feature of his
writings, and the same is true in the published
accounts by his companion, Lady Richmond-
Brown, and his secretary, Jane Harvey Houlson.
It is not surprising that his adopted
daughter would carry on this tradition. Now,
after Anna Mitchell-Hedges’s long life has
passed, her widower, Bill Homan, has taken it
upon himself to carry on the family business.
F.A. Mitchell-Hedges’s 1931 book,
Land of Wonder and Fear, was favorably
reviewed in the New York Times, which might
give us some idea about the state of
geographical and cultural knowledge of many
North Americans at the time. There were more
cosmopolitan readers, however, with one in
particular writing to protest the review. Henry
Wells Durham, a resident of Guatemala City
provided an informed and spirited description of
Mitchell-Hedges and the area he claimed no
white man had ever penetrated. I quote it here in
its entirety.
Now that exploring has become a
“racket” for the exploitation of complacent
founders of foundations, and the writing about
it a source of income for the facile scribbler in
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pseudo-science who supplies an alternative to
the readers gorged with best sellers, the
encountering of one more of the wonder tales
occasions no surprise; but it is a matter of
astonishment to find a publication of the
standing of the TIMES Book Review taken in by
the recent published book of F.A. Mitchell-
Hedges.
Of course, at present, the Maya field is being
worked industriously by every writer who takes
the tourist route through Central America. No
doubt Mitchell-Hedges and his traveling
companion visited some of the ruins, known to
Dr. Gann, but your reviewer’s extracts referring
to the vast unbroken jungle stretches through
the less known parts of Guatemala, San
Salvador (actually the capital city of the
republic of El Salvador), Spanish Honduras and
Nicaragua to Panama would give a moment’s
passing amusement to the coffee and sugar
planters, the cattle owners, the politicians,
soldiers and adventurers of all races, who, in
addition to the native Indian, have passed their
lives in this region since the time of the
Conquistadores, and particularly to the present
inhabitants who saw the [Mitchell-Hedges]
expedition traversing so much of the jungle by
motor, chair-car and steamship. If Quirigua and
Totonicapan are jungles, so is Bronx Park. The
former is passed by railroad from here to Puerto
Barrios, and the latter can be reached by motor
car in a few hours. Santiago Volcano is a small
crater near Managua, and the journey to the top
takes two or three hours by motor, followed by
an hour or two on horseback.
Finally, the Nicaragua revolution to
which reference is made, was viewed by the
Mitchell-Hedges party from a distance of
several hundred miles, in the capital city of
Managua, where they were lodged at the
principal hotel, and were entertained at a tea
dance by the President. The most revolutionary
activity they saw was the sewering and paving
of the city, then being initiated under the
writer’s direction.
Conclusion
Analysis of the Mitchell-Hedges crystal
skull using SEM leaves little doubt that this
object was carved and polished using modern,
high-speed, diamond-coated, rotary, cutting and
polishing tools of minute dimensions. This
technology is certainly not pre-Columbian. I
believe it is decidedly 20th century. The
similarities between the Mitchell-Hedges skull
and the British Museum skull suggest that the
former is an improved copy of the latter. The
recently published SEM study of the British
Museum skull additionally suggests it was
probably carved within a decade of the date it
was first offered for sale in 1881 (Sax, Walsh, et
al. 2008: p. 2759). It is not unreasonable to
conclude that the Mitchell-Hedges skull, which
first appeared in 1933, was also created within
short time of its debut. (Continued on Page 34)
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Frederick A. Mitchell-Hedges began an

association with a California art dealer named
Frank Dorland in the 1950s to promote and sell
an icon he called the Black Virgin of Kazan,
which later turned out to be a copy. Anna
Mitchell-Hedges continued this relationship
after her father died in 1959, ultimately
agreeing to Dorland’s proposal to “launch a
program about the [crystal] Skull and get your
price” (11/25/1963). A number of wildly
speculative publications resulted from this
promotion. One, Phrenology (1970), suggested
the skull had belonged to the Knights Templar
and was taken to British Honduras by Mitchell-
Hedges. Another, Ambrose Bierce, F.A.
Mitchell-Hedges and the Crystal Skull (1973),
claimed that Bierce, a journalist who
disappeared in Mexico in 1913, and Mitchell-
Hedges had stolen the skull when they were
both fighting alongside Pancho Villa. Later,
Dorland hired the novelist Richard Garvin to
write The Crystal Skull that had Anna Mitchell-
Hedges herself discovering the skull inside of a
Maya pyramid at Lubanntun. Eventually, I
believe that Anna attempted to legitimize this
object through its exhibition in a respected
museum—the Museum of the American Indian.
The correspondence between Frederick
Dockstader, director of the Museum of the
American Indian, and Anna Mitchell-Hedges
clearly demonstrates how the process of
legitimizing objects with potential mass appeal
but dubious authenticity and provenience
works. In their letters, each seemed to flatter the
other to achieve their own separate, though
similar, ends: to increase visitation to the
museum and to enhance the status of the crystal
skull.
Despite the Museum of the American
Indian director’s long-held suspicions about the
skull, not to mention the warnings from well-
meaning colleagues, the Mitchell-Hedges skull
was, in fact, exhibited in New York for an
extended run. That exhibition endowed the skull
with a legitimacy that it had not had previously.
Following the exhibition and the publication of
the Garvin book in 1973, the Skull of Doom’s
owner launched her long career as keeper of the
ever more mysterious object, whose
extraordinary powers, like her father’s claims
and collections, grew and grew and grew.
In Danger My Ally, Frederick Mitchell-
Hedges warned that the skull was “the
embodiment of all evil” and that “several people
who have cynically laughed at it have died,
others have been stricken and become seriously
ill” (1954: p. 240). Clearly, we should not
believe everything we read, and, ultimately, we
must be brave and tell the truth. The Mitchell-
Hedges crystal skull is not ancient; not even
very old. It was probably made in Europe in the
20th century, and was not polished for five
generations. It is not powerful, not scary and not
at all what it purports to be.
References"The Skull of Doom"
Books and journal articles
- Boban, E., Catalogue D'ouvrages
Scientifiques. 1881
- The Boban Collection; Antiquities, Curios and
Coins. 1886
- Digby, A., “Comments on the Morphological
Comparison of Two Crystal Skulls,” Man A
Monthly Record of Anthropological Science, 36
(1936), pp. 107-109
- Gann, T., Mystery Cities; Explorations and
Adventure in Lubaantun. 1927
- Maya Cities; A Record of Exploration and
Adventure in Middle America. 1928
- Garvin, R., The Crystal Skull. 1973
- K., H., “South Sea Mystery” (review of J.
McLaren, The Crystal Skull), Globe newspaper,
1936
- Houlson, J., Blue Blaze. 1934
- Leek, S., Phrenology. 1970
- McLaren, J., The Crystal Skull, pp. 278- 438
in Four Thrilling Adventure Novels. 1936
- Marsden, J., “Skullduggery 2: A Tale of Two
Fellows,” The Linnean 23:2 (2007), pp. 23-27
- Mitchell-Hedges, F., Danger My Ally. 1954
- Land of Wonder and Fear. 1931
- Morant, G., “A Morphological Comparison of
Two Crystal Skulls,” Man A Monthly Record of
Anthropological Science, 36 (1936), pp. 105-
107
- Richmond Brown, M., Unknown Tribes
Uncharted Seas. 1924
- Sax, M., J.M. Walsh, I.C. Freestone, A.
Rankin, and N.D. Meeks, “The origin of two
quartz crystal skulls and pre-Columbian
lapidary technology,” Journal of Archaeological
Science 35:10 (2008), pp. 2751-2760
- Thompson, J., Maya Archaeologist. 1963
- Walsh, J., “Crystal Skulls and Other
Problems,” pp. 116-139 in A. Henderson and A.
Kaeppler, eds, Exhibiting Dilemmas; Issues of
Representation at the Smithsonian, 1997
- “The Dumbarton Oaks Tlazolteotl; Looking
Beneath the Surface,” Journal de la Société des
Americanistes vol: number (2008), pp. XX-XX
Archival Records
- National Museum of the American Indian
(NMAI) Archives, Museum of the American
Indian (MAI) Records, Box 138, Folder #32 and
Box 276, folder 11
- Burney, S., Letter to the director of the
American Museum of Natural History
(AMNH), 2/17/1930
Newspaper accounts
- Art Newspaper, various editions, 2007
- Atlanta Constitution, “Dorothy Copp Mitchell-
Hedges…legal separation” (5/8/1938), “My
Mad Honeymoon in a Jungle Inferno”
(4/11/1938)
- Bournemouth Echo, “The Skull with an Evil
Eye” (3/31/1949)
- Bournemouth Times & Directory, “An
Explorer's Home” (4/23/1921)
- New York Times, letter to editor by H.W.
Durham (7/31/1932), “Boys battle sharks,
Capture 11-footer” (8/26/1936), “Lady
Richmond Brown, noted explorer, 63”
(10/5/1946)
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archaeological collections, she is seeking to
understand how museum collections are
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artifacts, can tell us about the evolution of our
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Entering the Age of Elegance

by Chloe Jon Paul

Thirty-eight million baby boomer women have already entered the Age of
Elegance, which is a new stage of life with a new identity. More will follow;
yet many of these 40+ women are making this journey without any real
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36 Predicting the End of Time
Special Report: Predicting
the End of Time
By Christian Jennings
ALBANY, GA (WALB) – Is it possible to
foretell the future and predict when the world as
we know it will come to an end? Some people
believe it is and that life's most sought out
answers are hidden deep within ancient Mayan
Ruins built thousands of years ago.
Others believe film makers and authors
are cashing-in on the hype with movies like the
latest blockbuster hit, '2012'.
It's one of life's greatest mysteries.
When will the world as we know it come to an
end? And when it's near, will there be
catastrophic signs?
"I think the end of time will be in my
lifetime," said Hurdie Peterkin.
According to some researchers, Peterkin
may be right. In fact, many believe the
apocalypse will happen soon; in the year 2012
in fact. Some theorists even pinpoint doomsday
to December 21st, 2012, when the earth and sun
align with the approximate center of the Milky
Way Galaxy.
"Some believe it's going to be an age of
new spirituality, others believe it will be the end
of the world," said Jack Clay of the Dougherty
County School System.
Believers in the 2012 apocalypse theory
point to the ancient Mayan culture. The
advanced civilization reached its height from
200 to 900 AD and is known for its intricate
architecture, astronomical expertise, and
sophisticated calendars. Their longest cyclical
calendar began approximately 5,125 years ago
and is set to end in 2012.
But is the end of their calendar, like the
end of ours, signifying simply the start of a new
one? Or does it hold a greater significance… is
it the end of humanity?
"There was a temple that is reported to
have specific details about what the Mayans feel
like the end of the world was going to be like.
But that temple was destroyed," Bryan Collier
of the Dougherty County School System.
"There are a lot of good researchers that
have done a lot of talking about this and even
then nobody can come up with a good
consensus as to what they truly believed," said
Collier.
Angie Kearbey is and always has been
apprehensive about December 21st, 2012. "I'll
be nervous, I'll be glad when the day is past."
She says anytime a prediction is made
about the end of the world, she gets a little antsy.
"When it was 1999 I was very nervous then
too."
She's referring to Y2K, when some
people feared the world would come to a halt
when the clock struck midnight in the year
2000. In 1988, when the book 88 Reasons Why
the Rapture is in 1988 hit the shelves, the nation
panicked, too. And the timeline of failed end of
world predictions could go on and on.
"Throughout the years I hear people talk
about this, that THIS could be the end," said
Leesburg First Methodist Pastor Mike Lyons.
Religious leaders like Lyons aren't
buying into what they call a "hype". Pastor
Lyons says authors and movie makers are
cashing in, and taking advantage of the public's
desire for answers to life's big questions.
"The truth is we want control, we want
to know. But no one knows the day or the hour,
not even the angels."
But did the Mayans know? Some still say the
answer is yes, and life-changing secrets are
hidden deep within their ruins. And of course
others find any and all apocalyptic
predictions…rubbish.
Either way, our fascination with
predicting the end of time remains. And if 2012
too proves to be a false prediction, there are sure
to be many more until the 'real end' arrives.
Solar flares, huge cracks in the Earth
large enough to swallow skyscrapers, and
massive tidal waves… it's all a part of the on-
screen global chaos seen in the movie '2012'.
The prophecy is based on one of the
Mayan calendars. It began more than 5,000
years ago, and is set to end in the year 2012.
"It's a concern of course. I want to live
out my life," said Angie Kearbey. "Anytime
there is some prediction I get nervous, that's
how I am."
But those who study the Mayan culture
like Dougherty county school teachers Bryan
Collier and Jack Clay aren't buying into what
they call a 'hype' based on very little facts.
"The Mayans today don't place much
emphases on this, or Westerners are coming in
saying 'this is what it means to us,'" said Clay.
"Really for the Mayans the end of the
long calendar was just the start of a new
calendar. We know they believed there was a
long count before, and that kind of implies there
would be time after that," said Collier.
Only it's hard to know for sure because
most of the Mayan temples were destroyed
when the Spanish conquered the ancient
civilization in the 1400s.
"Nobody can come up with a good
consensus as to what they truly believed," said
Collier.
But Methodist Pastor Mike Lyons
DOES know what he believes, and it has
nothing to do with the Mayans. "He'll come like
a thief in the night and there will be a sense of
shock and awe about his appearance."
Pastor Lyons tells his congregation to
live everyday like Jesus is coming tomorrow.
He says no one can predict the end of the world
as we know it, and he has scripture to back up
his beliefs.
"It talks about the return of Christ and it
says nobody will know the day or the hour."
Although most Christians don't try and
predict an exact day and year like December
21st, 2012, they do believe the final days are
among us.
"There are biblical passages that tell us how we
will know the end of times. There will be
earthquakes, wars, etc. So we are having some
of those things," said Horton.
She's referring to the many passages in
the Christian Bible that speak of earthquakes,
like Matthew 24:7 which reads, "Nation will
rise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom. And there will be famines and
earthquakes in various places."
"I think that has something to do with it,
now they're more prevalent than ever," said
Peterkin.
A graph which shows the number of
deadly and destructive Earthquakes with
Magnitudes 6 to 8 between 1900 and 2008. The
graph shows a drastic increase in earthquakes
since the year 2000, and that's not including the
most recent ones in China, Chile, and Haiti. And
scenes like this scare people.
"I think the end of time will be in my
lifetime," said Peterkin.
But many professors say there are
scientific explanations to explain the increase in
earthquake activity.
"Constant changes are guaranteed in
nature :14:28 The global warming seems to be
releasing pressure. So when you melt ice, the
pressure is released then we can be having
earthquakes." said Dr. Babatunde Abayomi,
ASU Professor.
Although reasons behind end of time
predictions vary, one thing is clear. People
everywhere are fascinated with the subject.
Widespread interest in the subject is
made clear by simply looking at a bookshelf At
Books A Million. Dozens of 2012 books are for
sale. There is even an Idiot's Guide for 2012.
When we did a search on google.com
for 2012 and the end of times, we got 44 million
hits. And on YouTube we found 46 thousand
clips warning viewers about their fate.
"People have sold their houses, their
cars, gotten rid of their material things and we're
still here. I've lived through decades of them,"
said Horton.
So is it really just a big 'hype' for
nothing, similar to Y2K.
Or is there truth behind the prophecies…
it may sound cliche , but only time will tell the
answers to one of life's greatest mysteries and
finally put an end to predicting the end of time.
Other apocalyptic predictions were
made in the year 2007, 2000, 1988, and many
other years where authors and movie makers
cashed in on their theories. We did a Google
search for 2012 and the end of the world and got
40 million hits.
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Mike M Joseph - www.mikemjoseph.com 37

SORRY...! THERE IS NO AFTERLIFE:
NONE GOES TO HEAVEN OR HELL
All religions believe in an afterlife existence – immediately after death. All believe in the immortality of
the soul. Some believe in reincarnation. Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe that good people will go to
Heaven, evil ones will go to Hell. Many devout Jews pray to their Saints in Heaven. Catholics pray to their
Saints, especially to Mary -- “The Queen of Heaven.” Protestants pray to their loved ones in Heaven. Devout
Muslims believe that their Prophet Muhammad ascended up to Heaven from Jerusalem. They regard this city as
the third holiest place to Islam. As a consequence, much of the Jew/Arab conflict centers over the holiness of the
City to both Jews and Muslims -- and the alleged “Temple Mount” true location. Fanatic Muslim terrorists
believe the road to Paradise as Shahids, immediately after death, must be paved over the body parts of their
indiscriminate victims.
According to Iran’s president, Ahmadinejad, the purpose of the revolution and nuclear Iran is to prepare
for the imminent return of the Mahdi, the twelfth Imam. Hence Israel must be destroyed, the West must be
subjugated, and the rest of the world must submit to the coming Mahdi’s “reign of peace on earth.”
If the belief in an afterlife -- immediately after death -- is true, then both the Bible and the Qur’an should
fully confirm it in plain words. But what if they, instead, contradict it? What if God, Jesus, and Muhammad are
not the source of this doctrine? What if the doctrine of an afterlife immediately after death is a hoax? What if
man has no immortal soul?
In the pages of this book, the unbiased reader will discover the real story about the afterlife, the true
destiny of humanity, the true location of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and its link to the afterlife.
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MIDDLE EAST:
Blueprint For the Final Solution
The Coming Fall and Rise of Western Democracy

The Middle East conflict originated, literally, in the womb of a beautiful woman –Rebekah, Isaac’s
wife. Her ‘struggling’ twins, from their mother’s womb, have often engaged in a love/hate embrace, scorching
their lands with periodic eruptions of bloody conflicts. Their descendants, though gradually lost their identity,
have spread their struggle for ‘the global inheritance’ into Europe, the Americas, and elsewhere.
The march of Islam, of Muhammad,“the man of the sword”; the present Jew/arab conflict; the Persian
Gulf menace; fanatic Islamic world terrorism and their main target – the West – are a direct result of the twins’
struggle, which begun while in their mother’s womb.
Human history and its future can’t be fully comprehended without correct understanding of the roots
and turbulent history of the struggling twins. You, the reader, are destined, regardless of your ethnic
background and religion, to soon experience the final consequences and glorious triumph of this age-long
bloody conflict.
Through the pages of this work the author takes you on a fascinating journey of the Biblical and
historic records, which faithfully traced the stormy blazing trails of ‘the struggling twins,’from the inception of
the conflict to its glorious ‘final solution.’

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Conspiracy
Against
Divine Sexuality
It All Started in Eden

by MORAN M JUDSON
Whether you believe in a Creator or not, human sexuality affects every layer of your spirit and life. You
are either ‘tickled’ to your heart’s delights by the streams of fiery passions of your sexuality, or are aimlessly
drifting through the doldrums of the monotonous waves of life -as a shipwreck.
In this graphic and honest discussion on the complexity and history of human sexuality and its purpose
and impact on us all, the author is boldly delving into this stormy topic with these aims in mind: How did it all
start and where to find the answers? Was there an original pure teaching of this dynamic human phenomenon?
Who was interested in ‘fouling the atmosphere’ of human sexuality? How and by whom was it perpetuated on
innocent lives throughout history? What were the results of this “conspiracy” on you personally? How to
reverse it? What is “The Song of Solomon” the master lover all about, and how to achieve the ideal spiritual
and sexual intercourse?
In this work, the Biblical and historic narratives concerning human sexuality will enlighten us, one step
at a time, until we reach the sparkling and inviting lights at the end of our sexual journey.

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38 When Technology Fails

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40
Nostradamus and 2012
The following is taken from The Essential
Nostradamus just published by Tarcher
If you were to take the years that have
been earmarked as the due date for the End
Times, you would find few over the last two
millennia that have avoided this peculiar honor.
The twelfth-century Italian prophet Joachim of
Fiore contended that the year 1280 would mark
the dawn of the Era of the Holy Spirit, the dawn
of spiritual freedom for all. William Miller, a
self-educated preacher in early nineteenth-
century New York state, predicted on the basis
of his intricate scrutiny of biblical texts that
Christ would return sometime between March
21, 1843, and March 21, 1844. Although his
followers were disappointed, they regrouped to
form the various Adventist denominations that
still survive today. In the late nineteenth
century, Charles Taze Russell, a Pittsburgh
haberdasher who delved into scriptural
mysteries, claimed that 1874 marked the 6000th
year of man's creation and would inaugurate the
Time of the End. Leaving a forty-year "harvest"
period brought the target date to 1914. The
events of that year seemed at first to prove
Russell right, but, at his death in 1916, the
Armageddon-like carnage of World War I was
still continuing without any providential rescue.
After the war had come and gone, Russell's
followers, known as Bible Students, decided
that 1914 was the beginning of the end. The
largest segment of these (renamed Jehovah's
Witnesses in 1931) later pointed toward a date
of 1975, which their revised calculations
indicated was the real 6000th year of man's
creation. But this year passed without any
serious damage to the heavens or the earth. At
the end of the twentieth century, Nostradamus's
date of 1999 was greeted with some
apprehension, but, it too, proved to be like any
other year.
New Age prophecy, which has retained
the habit of apocalyptic speculation while
detaching it from the Bible, is now looking to-
ward 2012. It's curiously appropriate that the
best article I have read about the 2012
phenomenon appears on a website called
Cracked.com. Written by Luis Prada, it is
entitled "The Six Best 2012 Apocalypse
Theories (and Why They Are All Bullshit)."
Prada writes, "You may have noticed a recent
trend of trying to fit every hackneyed doomsday
prophecy into the same red- letter year of 2012.
The theories are obtuse, their connections are
flimsy and the perceived consequences are
completely unsubstantiated. Unsurprisingly,
these prophecies are enormously popular."
Prada's number one theory is credited to
Nostradamus. But Nostradamus makes no
reference to the year 2012 in any of his
prophecies. Furthermore, when he does mention
dates in the future -- 1580, 1609, 1703, 1999 --
they are almost always years in which nothing
of any great moment occurred. Why, then, has
he been connected with 2012? There is, frankly,
no good reason. It is simply that Nostradamus
has become associated with apocalyptic
prophecies as a whole as Prada puts it, "No one
else in history has caused more people to
stockpile Spam in their bomb shelters" and so
has the year 2012, so it was inevitable that the
Nostradamus and 2012
two would be connected.
Then there is the History Channel.
Discovering that its most successful shows were
not the ones that delved into the saga of the
Kentucky rifle or the air tactics of the Third
Reich, the network began producing specials on
more exotic subjects such as Nostradamus and
2012. Here is the network's own write-up of its
show Doomsday 2012: The End of Days: "A
surprising number of prophets from ancient
oracles to contemporary Internet-crawling
software 'bots' point to December 21, 2012 as
the End of Days." And for "Nostradamus 2012,"
we are told, "December 21, 2012 is bearing
down on us with alarming speed. Whether or
not we are able to collectively heed the
warnings and affect a course to avert disaster
may be the defining moment of the modern
age." Presumably the "may" provides an out in
case we don't have to heed the warnings after
all.
These documentaries have, of course,
attracted critics. John Major Jenkins, author of
Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, described the 2006
History Channel program Decoding the Past:
Mayan Doomsday Prophecy (for which he was
interviewed) as "45 minutes of unabashed
doomsday hype and the worst kind of inane
sensationalism."
I doubt the History Channel will be
dismayed by such characterizations certainly
not as long as the ratings hold. I have appeared
on some of these shows myself, and I can testify
that the producers offscreen asking me the
questions sometimes have trouble keeping a
straight face.
All this said, these programs would not
get such high ratings unless they met a need in
the collective psyche. The thought of doomsday
generates a weird pleasure in those probably
including all of us who feel a deep ambivalence
about advanced civilization. We are the
creations of this civilization; we could scarcely
survive for a week outside the shade of its
umbrella; but it is so exacting and artificial that
we often find ourselves hating and resenting it.
Fantasizing about apocalypse offers a way, even
if it is an unsatisfying way, of reconciling these
contradictions in ourselves.
But why 2012? Popularizing this year as
a target date for apocalypse (or universal
spiritual renewal) was originally the work of
Valum Votan, or, as he is more commonly
known, José Argüelles, the alleged "closer of
the cycle and messenger of the new time."
Argüelles is best known as the prophet
of the Harmonic Convergence of August 16-17,
1987, which attracted tremendous attention
worldwide and is generally reckoned as the
point at which the New Age entered mass
culture an outcome that did not please
Argüelles. As he told me in a 1998 interview, "It
was the beginning of the New Age as
commercial marketing, which was anything but
our intention."
At any rate, from his interpretation of
the extraordinarily intricate Mayan calendar (or
calendars -- there are apparently seventeen
different ones), Argüelles contended that August
16, 1987, marked the end of a "hell cycle" for
this planet and that the next five years would be
a time of cleansing in preparation for the
dawning of a new era on December 21, 2012.
Argüelles explains:
"In 2012, the Earth will be in a condition
of rapid, unprecedented evolution and change
due to the enlightenment of the human species
for having returned to living according to the
natural 13:20 cycles of time . . . . The oneness of
humanity will be the result of the universal
telepathy reawakened by returning to the natural
cycles. Because of this fact, there will no longer
be any need of government, and humanity will
have abandoned industrial technology for the
development of spiritual, telepathic fourth-
dimensional technologies. Creature comfort
needs will be supplied by applications of solar
and telepathic crystal technologies. The human
race will be living and fulfilling UR, the
Universal Religion on Earth. The order of
reality will be known as the Dominion of Time.
Everyone will be getting ready for the great mo-
ment of galactic synchronization, July 26, 2013,
Yellow Galactic Seed, the completion of the
telepathic construction of Timeship Earth 2013
and the advent of the Planetary Manitou, the
galactic brain on Earth."
Arguelles urges the world to adopt the
Mayan calendar, which is based on a beneficent
"13:20" proportion -- the Mayan tzolkin cycle is
260 days or 20 times 13 instead of the
pernicious "Babylonian" calendar, based on a
"12:60" rhythm (with twelve months in a year),
which, he contends, has warped and damaged
human consciousness.
Argüelles's ideas do not necessarily
become clearer with further explanation. A
more lucid account is provided by John Major
Jenkins, who says that December 21, 2012, will
be the day on which the point of the sun's rising
at the winter solstice coincides with the "Dark
Rift" of the Milky Way, a gap in the galaxy as
seen from the earth. The Mayans were aware of
this "galactic alignment," as Jenkins calls it, and
believed that it portended a renewal and trans-
formation of the age."
Still another 2012 prophet is the late
Terence McKenna, who in the 1990s replaced
Timothy Leary as the pope of psychedelia.
Making his own hypercomplicated calculations
using the I Ching, he arrived at a date for the
dawning of a historic "singularity" in mid-
November, 2012, but changed it to the Mayan
date when he learned of that.
These speculations dovetail with a widespread
expectation that we are entering the age of
Aquarius, although the date of this occurrence is
far more tenuous. Again, it has to do with the
point of the sun's rising -- in this case at the
vernal equinox. Over the last 2,150 years (this
figure is vague, as is its starting point), the sun
has risen on March 21 with Pisces in the
background. At some point it will rise, or has
already started to rise, with Aquarius in the
background: that will mark the dawning of the
age of Aquarius. The dates for this event are
unclear because there is no clear line between
the zones of Pisces and Aquarius in the sky.
Dates I have seen range from a.d. 1600 to 2500;
C. G. Jung, in his work Aion, which deals in
depth with the symbolism of Pisces, suggested
that it might begin in 1997, for intricate
astronomical reasons.
Part II of
Nostradamus and 2012
will be in the June 2010 Edition of
The ’X’ Chronicles
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Damned & Natalie Locke 41

"Fascinating and simultaneously disturbing,"
Father Paul Keenan, author of Elisha's Jars

"If you're worried about the evil eye, think you have bad karma or that
someone has put the hoodoo on you... this book is worth more than a big
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"Damned" are down right disturbing yet eerily enlightening. After reading,
be prepared to spend a sleepless night with only your thoughts and
goosebumps to keep you company."
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Are You Blessed, Cursed or Just Lucky?

That’s the question Dr Kaehr asked her mailing list several years ago,
assuming they would all feel like she does – incredibly blessed.
Unbelievably, the answer she received turned out entirely different. 80%
of respondents said they were cursed beyond repair and the stories they
told were so fascinating, she included them in her latest book, Damned:
True Tales of the Cursed, Hexed and Bewitched.

She believes we get what we think about, so the book also discusses the
counseling work she did to assist these cursed souls in creating happier
lives. For more information and insight visit her website at....

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NATALIE LOCKE
& THE
SHAPESHIFTER
On her way to a weekend ski vacation, Natalie Locke is involved in
a head-on collision on a snowy highway and finds herself traveling through
the space between life and death, where she sees a Native American man
who visited her rock shop earlier that day.

Lone Eagle went to Locke’s Rocks in Albuquerque to find an

important tribal artifact and return it to his father, Chief Looking Elk.
Before the elderly chief passes away, he makes Lone Eagle promise one
thing – to teach Natalie the ways of their tribe.

There’s only one problem – Natalie suffered a coma from her

injuries. Now, Lone Eagle must use his medicine as a Native American
Shapeshifter to travel between worlds and help the girl get home. In the
process, he learns a dark secret, and the painful past he shares with the
Locke family threatens to destroy his tribal legacy.

Will Natalie wake up and return to the world of the living? And if
so, can she forgive Lone Eagle's father for the past they share, and
ultimately accept the gifts of healing and prophecy that await her?

For more information on Leah Leonard and her other books visit...

www.leahleonard.com
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42 Faces of the Universe --- Sacred Images

Faces of the Universe --- Sacred Images

What are the Clouds, Rocks and Sidewalks Images Telling Us?
Do you look at the clouds and see images of horses, dragons, angels, aliens, and even parents with their children? When
we open our eyes to see other dimensions, we may see faces in the clouds, creatures in sidewalks and rocks, and even
paranormal occurrences. Tom does, and he even has convincing photographs of such events. What are these messages
telling us? What is their purpose? Perhaps they are "proof" of angels who want us to recognize "unconditional love" for
everything in existence. Perhaps they are simple messages to remind us that we are not alone on this planet or in this
universe. Or that we should slow down and appreciate our planet more. Perhaps they are tools to sharpen our awareness
and guide us further in evolving our souls. Author, Tom Lumbrazo dares to share his truth of a world of many dimensions,
offering us proof of those dimensions in his beautiful photographs.

Tom Lumbrazo sees messages in the images and shapes he sees around him. He shares these messages through incredible
photographs of the sky in his new book, "Faces of the Universe---Sacred Images" and through his 2009 book, "Journey to
the Clouds". Tom, like most of us as children, used to gaze at the daytime clouds and wondered about the images he saw.
He could have never anticipated that as an adult he would write books about the clouds. From Tom, "People are missing
so much mostly due to their busy lives or because they forgot to slow down and look at the world around them. Many
people have written books and hope that they are recognized as experts. In my case, I have been quite blessed to have
photographic images that defy normal and logical explanations and guide us past our normal training and experiences.
Literally, in my case, a photograph is worth a thousand words".

Tom was like most of us. He was very busy with his profession for 40 years as a city planning director for the City of
Davis, and a successful businessman with his urban planning firm. But nine years ago, a terrible auto accident almost
claimed his life, but he was saved by a "voice" in his car just before the accident that guided him about what to do. Since
that time, he has been led to explore the meaning of his existence. With this constant exploration, he soon found that he
had skills he never knew he possessed. Among these, Tom has become a well-regarded artist as his works have appeared
in a number of shows across Northern California. He has also been featured in local television and radio shows about his
messages and paranormal type events. He has created a website dedicated to these "messages from the universe" and has
built a community of fans of his works.

For more information contact Tom Lumbrazo by phone at 916-768-9334 or

email at Tom@whenangelstouch.com
Available at Amazon, or ww.whenangelstouch.com

www.whenangelstouch.com
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Lauren E Miller 43

Two weeks prior to her divorce, Lauren Miller was diagnosed

with stage-three breast cancer: Invasive Ductal Carcinoma.
All at once, the mother of three children, second-degree black
belt, fitness trainer, motivational speaker, and teacher was
losing her marriage and possibly her life.In Hearing His
Whisper, Lauren records her personal conversations with
Jesus before, during, and after her divorce and cancer
experience. Hearing His Whisper is a portal into the un-
manifested spiritual dimension that ultimately leads one to
internal freedom, inner strength and self-love, and acceptance
through and with the source of love itself.

INSPIRATIONAL EXCERPTS

Don’t cry Mom, your soul still has hair..long beautiful hair,
“my ten year old son said as he ran his little hands over my
balding head.”

“Thank you God, for another day of life to learn how to love
better.”

“I forgot who I was, and therefore, I farmed out the power to

define me to the world around me.”

“Our beauty flows from a source that is the same yesterday,

today and tomorrow.”

PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS

“ Hearing His Whisper is a great read! A well-written, very

inspirational book…” Dr. Paul Seligman, Professor of
Medicine, University of Colorado

“Lauren pulls back the hospital room curtain and invites us

into her intimate conversations with God…” Jack Crabtree,
Executive Director, Long Island Youth for Christ
HEARING
HIS WHISPER 2009 Indie Book Award Finalist in three categories:
A Journey Through Cancer and Divorce
•Inspirational •Women’s Issues •Religious Non-Fiction
Available At:

* AMAZON.COM Lauren is an inspiring and effective Motivational Speaker. Far beyond a momentary
* BARNES& NOBLE.COM “uplift”, those who hear Lauren’s dynamic message experience lasting, positive change.
* BORDERS.COM The depth of knowledge and insight she’s gained from truly living “each day as if it’s the
* TATE PUBLISHING last” will leave an indelible imprint on your group or organization.

www.LaurenEMiller.com
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44 The Exodus Revelation

The Exodus Revelation

www.mysteriousworld/Journal/2008/Spring/Artifacts