Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
11-06-2014
Multiple orange UFO lights recorded over Belgrade, Serbia on 6th June 2014
Multiple orange UFO lights recorded over Belgrade, Serbia on 6th June 2014
New video footage of multiple UFO lights recorded in the night sky above Belgrade, Serbia on 6th June 2014.
I normally don’t post unattributed and/or anonymous quotes about anything but the following was sent to me by Ken Smith, a friend of the person who requested that his name and company not be published. Ken and I have been in communication since September of last year and he gave me permission to use his name. I independently verified the identity of the person quoted below and the company he now works for:
“Before I became a Rehired Annuitant agent, I was contacted by a (now former) friend of mine who became a regional director for MUFON. He and I had worked together on a project related to Area 51 and he was always asking leading questions about 51’s activities. When I retired from Federal service and before I came to (company redacted), my friend and I had lunch and he wanted to recruit me. The offer was enticing until he related that most of MUFON’s public information was intentionally bogus or redacted to the point that the common person would be interested in their reports and not challenge it. I plainly told him that I report what I see and hear and that I have never manufactured information for the sake of notoriety. He fired back that MUFON is a respected organization, which has conducted valid investigations, but the completed investigations have never been released as the U.S. State Dept. and the CIA basically control this activity. Financial connection? – You bet.”
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Is it Natural? Is it HAARP? Or is it something more Sinister???
Eerie howling continues to reverberate from the upper atmosphere. Most people who hear the haunting noises feel a sense of dread. It isn’t like anything they’ve ever experienced. Some people believe that the sounds are the result of HAARP technology being shot into the ionosphere by the government.
A New York witness at North Creek reported watching and photographing three bright spheres slowly moving at the tree level, according to June 10, 2014, testimony in Case 56984 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness noticed lights in the sky at 2:02 a.m. on June 4, 2014, and stepped outside for a better look.
“I saw movement,” the witness stated, “three bright lights in the distance coming across the mountain from the southeast.”
The witness quickly stepped inside to retrieve a cell phone, set it to record video (seen above), and moved back outside.
“The objects were now the size of basketballs and kept getting larger. I aimed the camera at the first object, could not capture all three at the same time, and was able to get five seconds, and then the recorder stopped.”
The witness stepped back inside, reset the phone to capture still images, and then stepped back outside again and was able to capture the other two objects.
Witness photo of two orbs that appeared to be the size of basketballs. (Credit: MUFON)
“I sat unbelieving and mesmerized for about 10 minutes. Then the first orb began to move closer and downward. I was convinced it was headed at me. Suddenly another dimmer, comet-like (had a tail) object streaked in near the orb towards the Earth. Both passed out of view around the edge of the house.”
The witness then began to focus on the other two orb-like objects.
“They were slowly moving down across the mountain, through the trees about 50-100 yards away. The one on the left sunk below my vision. The one on the right passed through the trees while descending. This caused it to appear to be blinking. I finally lost sight of it.”
The witness went back inside and a few minutes later sent a Facebook message to his daughters. The timestamp on that message is 2:21 a.m.
Main Street in North Creek. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
North Creek is a hamlet in the Adirondack Park, in the town of Johnsburg, in Warren County, NY. Johnsburg has a population of 2,450. New York MUFON is investigating. New York has a current UFO Alert Rating of 3 with a high number of recent reports nationally. New York had 31 UFO reports in May 2014 – the 3rd highest reporting state – while California had 102 reports as the highest reporting state. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
The objects came from the nearby mountain area and appeared to move in a controlled manner. (Credit: Google)
The UFO Alert Rating System is based on five levels – 1 through 5 – where states with 150 or more reports for the month are rated an Alert 1; states with 100 or more reports are rated an Alert 2; 25 reports or more for the month are rated an Alert 3; 13 or more reports are rated an Alert 4; and those states with less than 13 reports for the month are an Alert 5.
Lake Chelan is 55 miles long and said to be 1,486 feet deep. It’s located in Chelan County, northern Washington. There have been many claims over the years of underwater caverns in the lake, that the lake is connected to other area lakes and some even think there is an underwater connection to the Pacific.
A lake of this size has an abundant fish population that could easily sustain such a large animal.
The Lake Chelan Dragon is thought to be related to the Loch Ness Monster who is believed to be a female. The dragon is believed to be the male, as it has the ability to fly. Local natives to the area have a long running history with encounters with the Lake Chelan Dragon. According to one legend, Native Americans discovered a devil living in its depths and tried to kill the beast by damming the lake. But, it survived.
The creature resurfaced in 1892. According to a local newspaper, an unidentified young man was bathing in the lake when some very sharp jaws locked onto his legs. The man screamed for help, and two of his friends tried to pull him out. But the hungry monster had other plans. After a life-and-death game of tug-of-war, the men dragged their friend onto the beach—with the creature still clamped onto his legs. The thing had the legs and body of an alligator, the head and eyes of a snake, a scaly tail, and bat wings. And though its skin was “soft as velvet,” the beast was impossible to kill. The men attacked the monster with knives, rocks, and sticks to no avail. The creature wasn’t letting go. Eventually, they built a fire and dragged the dragon over the flames. That got a reaction—a bad one. The dragon flapped its wings and soared into the air, with the man still in its mouth. Suddenly, it dived into the lake, disappearing along with its victim.
It had legs and body like an alligator and the head and eyes of a serpent. Between its fore and hind legs were large ribbed wings.
Many prominent locals have made claims to having seen the Lake Chelan Dragon throughout the lake recently.
The Pirate Legend
Two hundred years ago, a Scotsmen, born in Fort Augustus took a treasure chest from the Fort where his Father was a soldier, and it was assumed that the chest was filled with gold and other riches, and set out to sea on a long journey. However its true contents were discovered by the Captain and crew during a mysterious and violent storm off the coast of Washington in 1812.
Somehow the ship was transported to what is now known as Lake Chelan. The ship under great stress was tossed violently in the storm, and the chest and its contents were washed overboard into the water below. The Captain not willing to loose his mysterious prize dove into the water after it. He held on to the treasure chest and it took him quickly down to the crushing depths of the nearly 1,500 foot deep lake.
Unbeknownst to the crew, two female stowaways were on board who kept watchful eyes on the chest. Stewards to its precious contents. They too, jumped in after the chest and as they hit the water the crew watched with disbelief as it appeared that their feet transformed into fish-like fins as they breached, then dove into the angry water. Mermaids! One went after the chest the other after the Captain. The Captain was taken to the shore and the chest was taken deep, deep down into a under water cavern. Where its contents, an egg, cracked open and a hatchling emerged.
Inside the international scientific community, cryptozoology – the study of animals whose existence has not been recognized yet by zoologists – is seen as a futile hobby for naive and romantic people.
However, the simple consideration that just about 250 years ago the classified animal species amounted approximately to one thousand, should lead to a more conservative and less dogmatic approach, not forgetting that still nowadays new species are being discovered every year.
The purpose of this article is to analyze evidence and testimony concerning some peculiar animals and then, in the second part, examine reports about the alleged presence of strange beings that do not seem to be mere animals.
The Loch Ness Monster
Loch Ness and Urquhart Castle. (Credit: Asbestos/Wikimedia Commons)
The most anomalous and, at the same time, talked about animal is undoubtedly Nessie, the creature that allegedly lives in the cold waters of Loch Ness, the largest freshwater lake in Scotland, between Inverness and Fort Augustus.
Some researchers, without analyzing the vast amount of evidence, state that the whole phenomenon is nothing but a modern gimmick to boost tourism in the area. On the contrary,an examination of past works and medieval chronicles shows a totally different story. Legends abounded in the Middle Ages and one of these concerned the water horse or kelpie that would have lived in many Scottish lochs.
The first known record of a “monster” in the loch dates back to 565 a.d. St. Columba, the man who brought Christian religion to Scotland, was on his way to visit Brude, King of the Northern Picts in Inverness. His biographer, Adamnan, wrote in his Life of Saint Columba, of the “driving away of a certain water monster by the virtue of the prayer of the holy man“. Columba arrived on the banks of Loch Ness at a place where there was a ferry coble. There he found some Picts burying a man who had been bitten to death by a water monster while he was swimming. Columba ordered one of his men to swim across the water and return with the coble moored on the far side. However, the monster, saw the surface of the water disturbed by the swimmer, and suddenly came up and moved towards the man. At that point, St. Columba saw the creature coming, formed the sign of the Cross in the air and commanded the ferocious monster saying “Thou shalt go no further nor touch the man: go back with all speed“. Hearing the voice of the saint, the monster was terrified and fled quickly.
Scottish newspaper article from April 1934.
St. Columba is also credited with another brush with the animal. According to this legend, the beast towed the saint’s boat across the loch and was granted perpetual freedom of the loch as a reward.
Of course the story itself proves nothing, but it is a remarkable coincidence that, of all Scottish lochs, Adamnan should record that St. Columba encountered a water monster in Loch Ness.
Other reports concerning encounters with animals described as “leviathans”, “monsters” and “serpents” come from sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Richard Franck, a literary trooper in Cromwell’s army who had lived for some years in a garrison of English soldiers stationed in Inverness, wrote about a “floating island” that would have been allegedly present on the loch’s surface. Also the famous writer Sir Walter Scott in 1827 mentioned a “water monster” in one of his diaries. As you can see, the belief in the existence of unknown animals in Loch Ness is very old and, starting from sixth century, it accompanied the local inhabitants throughout the centuries.
It is, however, in 1933, that the monster made its newspaper headline debut. Mr. and Mrs. Mckay were driving along the northern shore of Loch Ness where the new road had been recently completed, near the town of Abriachan, when they saw, in the center of the loch, a surging mass of water out of which came an enormous animal which rolled and plunged before disappearing with a great upsurge of water.
After this report, several thousand people believed they have seen an unknown animal in Loch Ness, all coherent in describing an animal from about 5 to 8 meters long, with a dark grey elongated neck.
Time after time, the interest in Nessie grew exponentially, culminating in two underwater scans performed by using sonars (in 1972 and 1987) onboard vessels that travelled across the surface of Loch Ness. The results were extremely interesting. Something solid and quite big (10 meters) was detected deep in the lake, but it was not possible to determine with certainty whether it was actually a single animal or a group of fishes or of some trees.
This 1975 Loch Ness photograph by Charles W. Wyckoff was enhanced by computer at the Jet Propulsion Lab to better define object outlines. (Credit: JPL-enhanced photo courtesy of Robert Rines)
Several assumptions have been made as regards the possible nature of Nessie. Many pictures show a remarkable resemblance to the plesiosaur, a prehistoric animal. The presence of huge fins (photographed in 1972 with an underwater camera) and the long neck are elements that do strongly support such hypothesis. Other scholars, especially Bernard Heuvelmans, claimed that Nessie would be a still unknown animal which they renamed Megalotaria longicollis. In any case, two crucial problems arise: in order to make the existence of such a carnivorous animal possible, a huge quantity of fish should be available in the loch, a quantity that is not present there; moreover, in order to ensure the reproduction of the species, we should postulate the existence of a lot of animals of this kind.
So, what hides in the deep waters of Loch Ness? The evidence supporting the possible existence of an unknown animal in the loch are numerous, but, from the late Nineties, the testimony has significantly decreased year after year (nowadays sightings seem to have ceased), leading to one possible conclusion: the mysterious creatures that have been sighted for centuries have become extinct, in which case, the phenomenon was not a mere hoax invented for touristic reasons.
Loch Ness is not the only lake where you can find ancient traditions, modern photographic evidence and testimony regarding the presence of animals similar to plesiosaurs. There is the animal that allegedly lives in Lake Champlain in Upper New York State, the so-called Ogopogo in Lake Okanagan (Canada), the beast of Lough Earne (Ireland) and similar traditions in Argentina and Norway as well.
Yeti, Sasquatch, Bigfoot
Still image from the Patterson-Gimlin footage of 1967.
The first reference to the so-called yeti dates back to 1899 and can be found in the travel book Among the Himalayas by L.A. Waddell, who claimed of having met, during an expedition in Sikkim in 1887, many creatures of humanoid appearance, very tall, covered with thick fur. He made some casts of their giant footprints.
Three years earlier, according to the Daily British Colonist of July 3, 1884, a group of workers who were digging a tunnel near Yale (British Columbia), encountered a being that they described as “half man and half beast” and managed to capture it alive. They reported that this being was about 140 cm tall and resembled a man in its overall features, except that it had a layer of bright fur of about 3 cm which covered the whole body. What happened to the creature is not reported in the newspapers of the time.
The name can change (Yeti in the Himalayas, Sasquatch in Canada, Bigfoot in the United States), but the evidence (including the testimony given by the famous Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner), photographs, videos (the well-known Patterson-Gimlin footage of 1967), footprints tell the same story: the presence, in the thick North American undergrowth and in the Himalayan peaks, of massive furry creatures, from 120 to 300 cm tall, bipedal, not apes nor humans, but constituting some sort of tertium genus.
A lot of hypotheses have been postulated. Some scholars have suggested that these animals could be nothing more than unknown apes, while other researchers believe they might belong to the family of the Gigantopitecus.
However, the most fascinating hypothesis has been advanced by the American researcher John A.Keel. On the basis of some Native American traditions according to which the Sasquatch would be a figure belonging, at the same time, to our reality as well as to the spirits’ realm, he stated that the phenomenon is undoubtedly real, but it is the phenomenon itself – elusive by nature and whose purposes seems very obscure – to decide whether to become visible or not, at will.The key point in Keel’s hypothesis is that, if such animals really existed, then their corpses would have been found already. The fact that dead yetis and sasquatches have never been retrieved, as well as the consideration that a lot of footprints ended abruptly as if the mysterious animals had dematerialized, made Keel suggest a paraphysical interpretation to the whole phenomenon, that is to say that these creatures can move from our dimension to another one and vice versa.
In regards Yeti, Bigfoot and Sasquatch, Keel’s theory does not seem fully convincing, because there are too many photographs, pictures and footprints which seem to indicate an actual and concrete physical nature of such animals.
However, there is a huge amount of sightings of beings which seem to have little in common with other animals, thus making the assumptions put forward by Keel particularly credible and grounded. Let’s examine some of them.
The New Jersey Devil
New Jersey Devil drawing.
The accounts relating to the so-called New Jersey Devil date back to the early nineteenth century, when Commodore Stephen Decatur, who was testing cannon balls on the firing range, saw a strange creature flying across the sky near his ship. Intrigued by this strange animal, the Commodore ordered his men to fire at it and the creature was hit, but it kept on flying without showing any problem and disappeared.
Joseph Bonaparte, former king of Spain and brother of Napoleon, said he had come across a mysterious animal near Bordertown (New Jersey) many times between 1816 and 1839 while he was hunting. Similar reports continued throughout the nineteenth century, as well as unexplainable cases of cattle mutilations made by an unidentified creature which emitted piercing screams and left strange tracks (showing amazing similarities with the modern reports of the chupacabras).
In 1903, Charles Skinner, author of American Myths and Legends, stated that the legend of the New Jersey devil had run its course and that in the new century, nobody would sight such a beast.
In 1909, however, especially in January, a real flap of sightings took place, with hundreds of reports of a flying figure with glowing eyes. The most accurate description was one made by Mr. and Mrs. Evans of Gloucester (New Jersey), who, on January 19, 1909, awakened by a strange noise at 2:30 a.m. They were able to watch the devil from the window of their house for about 10 minutes. As Mr. Evans reported, it was about three feet and a half high, with a head like a collie dog and a face like a horse. It had a long neck, wings about two feet long, its back legs were like those of a crane, and it had horse’s hooves. It walked on its back legs and held up two short front legs with paws on them. As soon as they opened the window, the mysterious animal flew away.
Identical descriptions were made the next day by a police officer and by Reverend Pemberton who saw the strange being near Burlington. A lot of tracks were found, and they all ended abruptly. In Collingwood (New Jersey), a posse tried to catch the beast, but it took off into the air.
Sightings continued throughout 1909. A lot of highly reliable people and men of good repute saw something unusual in the sky that year, a year that has become history for the airship waves over New England, Great Britain and New Zealand as well.
The descriptions of the creature, in particular its luminescent eyes, the ability to fly, the chilling cries heard so many times, strongly resembled those of the strange being that terrorized West Virginia between 1966 and 1967: the Mothman. Could these be mere animals? I don’t think so, their elusiveness seems to point to a different explanation.
Moreover, the testimonies relating to winged creatures are too many to be dismissed as odd fancies. The New York Times of September 12, 1880 reported the sighting, made by several people in different areas of New York City, of a humanoid being with bat-like wings and froggish legs which flew in a western direction over Coney Island at about 350 meters moving amid the air as if it were a frog.We also cannot forget the so-called Spring Heeled Jack, the tall humanoid creature with glowing eyes, hooked nose, pointed ears which terrorized the London area in the Victorian Age, capable of making giant leaps impossible for any acrobat and, according to some witnesses, even capable of flying.
The explanations ventured for these types of cases (from the New Jersey Devil to the Mothman and the winged flying weirdos) are many. Some suggest they are misidentifications of common owls and other nocturnal birds, others believe that maybe pterodactyls or unknown animal of that sort do still exist.
Conclusions
In my opinion, the vast category of “mysterious animals” can be divided into two groups. The first one includes animals that science has not classified yet (the Loch Ness monster, sea serpents, Big Foot, Yeti, Sasquatch), all creatures whose behavior towards man is more or less neutral just like other common animals.
On the contrary, there is a massive amount of testimony about creatures that seem to have a different origin, beings that are certainly more sinister and often hostile, whose behavior is very different and abnormal in comparison with other known species. For the second group, which includes the New Jersey Devil, Mothman, and Spring Heeled Jack, Keel’s theory becomes more plausible. In Keel’s opinion, these weird creatures come from a parallel reality, a dimension that only in certain special circumstances is tangential to ours: creatures whose nature is not properly physical, but paraphysical. These beings appear to us according to the frame of reference that would suit best the expectations of the observer. They have different looks according to our personal beliefs and cultural views. Fairies, goblins, aliens from outer space, Mothman, according to Keel these are all manifestations of something obscure that hides behind a wall of illusion like a Trojan horse.
As Keel said, “The most frightening monsters dwell in the dark depths of our mind, waiting to take shape through our fears and personal beliefs.”
My son and I were walking Stella, our dog by the River Yare, and having sat down on the seat overlooking the river situated south of Bland Road, Norwich, Norfolk, UK, we were commenting on the fighter jets roaring above our heads at great height. They looked very small when out of the white clouds. I said they were not playing war games, but chasing a UFO radar contact for I knew from previous experiences how to tell the difference. We watched a fighter plane go into a great pulled about fluffy white cloud that was unlike the other clouds and I said to my son to watch for a UFO to come out of the other end of it. There was a short gap between that cloud and the next and as we watched it a craft of huge size materialized within the gap. It was not moving but just hovering. It was in a shape hard to describe as it seemed that the outer edge was not so visible, but it was long like a cigar and light metallic green in colour with two bars or rails running along ether side underneath that shone a brighter metallic green. After around ten seconds or so it dematerialized and a jet fighter came out of the cloud, which was tiny like a fly in comparison to the UFO. We could hear the jets after burners and see them at times going extremely fast, then slow right down and turn as if trying to find it once again. I got the impression that the UFO was kind of playing games with them. The time of the sighting was 14:20 and the craft was almost overhead and slightly to the east. I have watched something like this now three times from or near my home, and over the twenty years I have lived here I have seen a few good sightings. Once one has seen them, it becomes a habit to keep an eye on the sky and to learn how to look. I am sure the RAF would just say what they always say, that they were just playing war games or practicing. However, all three times I have seen these happenings it was over built up areas and the flying was frantic. I’m afraid that I did not have the time or togetherness to get my phone out and take a video or photo, for if I had tried to do that I would have missed the sighing. Next time perhaps!
Dr. Alexander Imich passed away at the age of 111 on Sunday, June 8. The chemist and zoologist was considered the world’s oldest man at the time of his death. Polish-born Imich was a Holocaust survivor. He was also a UFO believer and a paranormal enthusiast.
Dr. Alexander Imich. (Credit: Guinness World Records)
Imich was born in 1903 in Częstochowa, Poland. The Jewish Daily Forward describes that “Imich was fascinated by the supernatural by age thirteen, investigating table turning and Ouija boards as means of communicating with spirits.” He earned a Ph.D in zoology, but he was unable to find work in that field, so he shifted his focus to chemistry. He also did some parapsychology research because of his interest in the paranormal. During World War II, Imich and his wife were sent to a labor camp. They were eventually freed, but after discovering that most of their relatives had died in the war, the couple emigrated to the United States.
Imich resumed his work as a chemist, but his wife’s work as a psychologist fueled his interest in parapsychology. He focused more on this field after his wife’s passing in 1986. And he began researching the paranormal full-time after he retired. He reportedly founded the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center in New York, and he served as the organization’s president. Joseph McMoneagle, who is best known for the investigation of Remote Viewing and the use of paranormal abilities for military intelligence gathering, served on the Board of Advisors for the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center.
Imich was fascinated by illusionist Uri Geller, he had close relationships with alleged mediums, and he edited the 1995 book Incredible Tales of the Paranormal: Documented Accounts of Poltergeist, Levitations, Phantoms, and Other Phenomena.
Incredible Tales of the Paranormal, edited by Imich. (Credit: Bramble Co)
Although they were not the primary focus of his work, Imich believed that extraterrestrial UFOs are visiting Earth. According to the Wall Street Journal, he kept a photograph on his desk of friends he claimed were abducted by aliens. It is unclear if he had any UFO experiences of his own. But Dr. Alexander Imich reportedly devoted more than seventy years to researching and writing about the paranormal.
This is my first time posting here, so I kinda have a bunch to catch up on. I’m not really sure why I’m posting. I’m just intrigued by the paranormal and want to share my story with some likeminded people.
In 2010, we moved into a new house. It’s a fairly large, extremely decorative Victorian or Queen Anne style house in a large city in the American midwest that was built by a prominent banker sometime in the 1880s or 1890s. The house itself is nice enough, and it’s been remodeled a few times, but there’s still some weird things about it. For one, most of the woodwork, windows, flooring, et cetera is still original, which means that it’s super old and creaky. For two, despite being over a hundred years old, it’s actually one of the newest houses on my block.
During the move-in process that summer, things always seemed to be going missing, only to turn up a few days later. I’m sure that this is just because of the general messiness of unpacking boxes, but my brothers and I started joking around, attributing the disappearances to an unnamed spirit which we soon started referring to as “the Butler”. Soon enough, every time anything remotely weird happened, The Butler received the blame. This varied from light fixtures cutting out (most of the wiring in our house dates back to World War II) to doors randomly slamming shut (cross-breezes for the most part).
That fall, I started going to school. Being the awkward new kid at the school with a September birthday, I invited a couple of people who were potential friends over to celebrate my fifteenth birthday. During our “party”, two of my friends managed to break the light fixture in my room, so it was fairly dark for the next couple of months. During this entire time, my room (which used to be the banker’s office) always felt occupied, like somebody was in there and didn’t want to be disturbed.
One night, sometime in the late fall or early winter of 2010, my entire family was out except for me because I was feeling under the weather. I was sitting downstairs in the parlour of the house, and I thought that I heard a man coughing in the basement beneath me. The room beneath where I was is filled with sawdust, and we think it was the original owner’s workshop (the original owner’s first name was Edward, so I will refer to him as such from now on). About a month later, I was sitting in the same spot in the parlour, and I thought that I saw a fairly small man with a balding head cross the corner of my field of vision and head out the door. I googled Edward’s name, and found a picture dating back to 1912 of him in a school board group. He was a kind-looking man of fairly small stature that balded fairly early in life.
Sometime in the spring of 2011, I was in the attic on my dad’s computer skyping my friend, who said that he thought he saw somebody walk behind me. Nothing more came of that, but I think it could be related.
At one point, one of my neighbors who had lived in the neighborhood since the 1950s told me that a man killed his wife on the basement steps in the early ’60s. I never found any news reports or anything to confirm this. The same neighbor told me that growing up he had a friend that lived in this house that held seances in the basement. I never confirmed this, either. They’re just interesting tidbits.
In the spring of 2013, my great-grandmother lost her home due to a problem with the mortgage, and had my mom bring much of her 80-100 year old furniture to our house so it wouldn’t rot in storage. Amongst the furniture is a large painting of a bible school in France that my grandfather painted. This now hangs in the parlour. If you nudge the painting crooked and leave it alone for a few minutes it often slowly reverts back to its upright position.
More recently, I have heard footsteps through the front vestibule, entryway, and hallway to the kitchen while home alone, constantly have the feeling that there is somebody else in the room in Edward’s old office, which is now my parents’ bedroom, and have often felt like I’m being watched.
Now here’s why I’m posting. Three nights ago, I was laying down in the basement on the couch, since that is currently serving as my bedroom. All the lights were off except a strand of Christmas lights over my head, and I was trying to get to sleep, but in the darkened old workshop I kept on hearing shuffling sounds and the sound of a man breathing hard and grunting as if with effort. I cleared my throat and the sounds stopped, but for the next half hour I felt as if somebody were glaring at me from the darkness. It got to the point where I got up and went upstairs and slept on the couch.
If my house is still occupied by the spirit of Edward, who passed away in 1945 or so, do you think he’s trying to tell us something? This coming sunday we will have lived in the house for four years, and I feel like he’s just been making himself more and more apparent to us. My mom has also felt his presence, and my youngest sister, then four years old, said that she heard a voice singing along to a Beatles song on her iPod in her room. She said that she paused the song and the voice continued for a moment before addressing her by name. Is there really something going on in this house, and if so, is there anything I need to do?
Once again, I am intrigued by the paranormal, but at a point, if Edward is still in the house, we need to either figure out how to coexist, or one of us needs to leave. – Reddit.com
A fictional horror creature popularized by Internet memes is now linked to three violent crimes.
A week after two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls allegedly stabbed their friend 19 times to honor Slender Man, more real-life connections to the spooky character are emerging.
A man accused of killing two cops and a civilian before committing suicide with his wife in Las Vegas on Sunday often dressed up in costume as Slender Man, a neighbor told KTNV.
And a Cincinnati mom told WLWT she thinks her daughter may have been inspired by Slender Man when she attacked her with a knife in their kitchen, wearing a hood and white mask.
A key to Slender Man’s appeal may be that he is faceless and Andrew Peck, a University of Wisconsin lecturer who studies Slender Man and other folklore, likened the amorphous Slender Man to the villain of so many campfire horror stories – a man with a hook hand.
“It can really be what you want it to be,” said Peck. “You can personalize the character and make it your own. He can be a lot of things, that’s what I think makes it so successful. That he’s mysterious and unknowable.” Read more at ABCNews
Occurred : 6/6/2014 01:18 (Entered as : 06/06/14 1:18) Reported: 6/6/2014 2:17:42 AM 02:17 Posted: 6/6/2014 Location: Salem, OR Shape: Triangle Duration:15 minutes
True story of alien army seen!!!!!
The first one we saw was glowing bluish green and it started moving straight and wobbling in an “S” pattern.
Shortly after I went to the store me and my boyfriend were joking about seeing something.
As we got home he started running inside and so did I joking around and as he looked back he said baby look what’s that?! And that’s when we both turned and saw three glowing orange craft objects. That’s when we actually flew inside, falling over each other trying to get into the door. My boyfriend I were beyond frantic and we had to get my mom to see what was outside….
As we went outside we noticed there was nothing in the sky anymore. Within a few minutes, from the horizon came one of the orange crafts this was one of eight.
The first four went into what looked like a spade formation then while In this formation one craft was glowing brighter than the rest and slowly dimmed in place and disappeared very quickly then from there more crafts appeared from the horizon then disappeared even quicker.
Occurred : 6/4/2014 18:30 (Entered as : 06/14/2014 18:30) Reported: 6/4/2014 7:40:31 PM 19:40 Posted: 6/6/2014 Location: Lindenhurst, NY Shape: Unknown Duration:30 minutes Floating man over south shore Suffolk county
I was sitting at Well Wood docks in Lindenhurst, NY. I was just chilling by the water waiting to pick up someone I saw a few planes fly by, until I saw a large black thing coming close to where u was. It got closer then it was in view I couldn’t exactly see what it was but not plane or helicopter and def was not balloon
it looked like a shape of man and device over him, or man on cross yes I know it sounds crazy but 4 other people saw it and was shocked it was floating till it stopped mid air rotate came back towards us then stopped floated the turn direction moved north
I followed looking to see what it was but it was at least 100′ feet up i followed about mile then it changed direction headed west where 2 other people said what is that we watched it hover and head west over Montauk hwy till it was gone I took pictures I even got in touch with local news who said send pictures other people had call it in pictures aren’t great since took it with my iPhone
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SanFrancisco,CA–– Michael Pye and Kirsten Dalley have gathered together the world’s most adventurous and knowledgeable researchers and bestselling authors to expound on subjects relating to the ancient world. For their new anthology, LostSecretsoftheGods:TheLatestEvidenceandRevelationsonAncientAstronauts,PrecursorCultures,andSecretSocieties, original essays––revealing “white paper” treatises––were contributed by such luminaries as:
Jim Marrs, Robert M. Schoch Nick Redfern, Steven Sora
Thomas G. Brophy, Micah Hanks
Laird Scranton, Frank Joseph, Scott Alan Roberts John Richard Ward, Theo Paijmans
Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, Paul Von Ward and others
Devoted fans of the authors and history and archaeology lovers are delving into this treasure chest of spine‐tingling revelations of new evidence that ancient cultures had advanced knowledge of science, agriculture, and astronomy. Until now, we knew little about peoples of centuries past who spoke and wrote of mysterious visitors who imparted wisdom and information that radically transformed their societies, ultimately transforming our beliefs about traditional paradigms of history.
As a long‐time acquisitions editor for New Page Books, MichaelPye has developed a deep knowledge of and healthy appetite for ancient history and unsolved mysteries. Be‐ fore earning a BA in English from Southern Connecticut State University, he watched far too many episodes of Leonard Nimoy’s “In Search Of”, which turned him into an aficionado of books on the strange and unexplained.
KirstenDalley graduated with honors from Columbia University in 1999 with a BA in comparative literature. Coauthor of TheNightmareEncyclopedia, she has been an editor with Career Press and New Page Books since 2004.
PyeandDalleycollaborated on the editing of the anthology series Exposed,Uncovered,andDeclassified, which includes separate volumes covering UFOs, ghosts, and lost civilizations.
Star gazers who are trying to gain a better grasp of the universe came out to hear an American UFO researcher speak at the Mind Vault in Thunder Bay on Sunday.
One of the 50 people in attendance was Thunder Bay Observatory operator Randy McAllister, who said his belief in UFOs and extraterrestrials evolved from his interest in astronomy.
"Our reasoning tells us that there's more going on up there than meets the eye and science is just finally catching up,” he said.
“And I could give you lots of examples, like the Kepler space telescope the last couple of years, [and] how many planets it's found. Science is starting to catch up to our understanding of the universe."
The man McAllister came to see — Richard Dolan — has been researching UFOs for 20 years.
Thunder Bay resident Randy McAllister says science is just finally catching up with what's going on in the universe. (Nicole Ireland/CBC)
INITIAL REPORT: June 7, 2014, Saturday // UFO Investigation. Time to be there: 2200 Hours // Location: Colfax, CA Activity: The UFO appears on a nightly basis. The occupant feels we will not have any problem seeing this UFO. Case Manager is Lori Schulz of The Dirt.
20:30 Hours – Emilliano Mooey Debudey and Mark Bales show up at my door. We loaded up the Rusty Anomaly (My Kia Forte) with telescope, night vision goggles, video cameras, digital cameras, glow sticks, flashlights, binoculars. Piling in the car are Deanna Jaxine Stinson, Mooey and Mark. We are headed up to Colfax to a private residence, where the occupant sees UFOs on a nightly basis. Point of rendezvous is the Red Frog, an establishment in Colfax. Colfax reminds me of one thing. In 1977, I was a firefighter stationed in Colfax with the California Division of Forestry, which is now called CAL-FIRE. In the wooded areas of Colfax, you get reports of UFOs, Bigfoot and other creepy creatures of the night. Maryfrances Smith – the occupant tells me how she once saw a terrified coyote run through her yard, being chased by something unknown.
Maryfrances Smith Story: The UFOs seem to appear frequently in the night skies above her home. On one particular night, she saw a disc shaped UFO and it shown a bright light into her home. During this evening at 8:08 pm, she feels she lost 45 minutes of time. Maryfrances says she has psychic abilities and at a young age she would have severe headaches and nosebleeds. Headaches and nosebleeds are at times an indication of abductions. Also, many abductees feel at a later time that they have psychic abilities. Maryfrances was so frightened by her experience, that she contacted MUFON and talked with Mary Barr. On other nights she saw figures and outlines of creatures that resembled Grays. On another night, she saw 4 alien women on her balcony with long dark hair. One of the alien women cavorted up a tree. She tells us that a chunk of flesh was taken from her buttocks, she has seen faces in the windows and her bed once shook violently.
UFO HUNTER ROLL CALL:
Paul Dale Roberts – Team Leader – HPI Co-Owner; Deanna Jaxine Stinson – Co-Owner; Mark Bales, Lori Schulz; Josie Schulz; Carlee Bennett; Emilliano Mooey Debudey; Alaceo 'Big Al' Rosatano – Lead Investigator – Videographer. Maryfrances Smith – Occupant. Initial Meeting Spot: Red Frog in Colfax. See Red Frog here:https://plus.google.com/115828429513630813669/about?gl=us&hl=en
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With Tim R. Swartz and Timothy Green Beckley
QUESTION: What background can you give us on Lobsang Rampa and his life?
SWARTZ: In 1956, British publisher Secker & Warburgan released a book called “The Third Eye,” an alleged autobiography about the life of a Tibetan Lama and the secrets of Eastern spiritual knowledge. At that time, little was known about the Tibetan way of Lamasery life, and the subsequent Chinese invasion of Tibet effectively shut off what little information had been available up until that time.
The Third Eye quickly became a best-seller, though nothing was known about the actual identity of the author. In 1958, a private investigator discovered T. Lobsang Rampa was a man from Plympton in Devon named Cyril Henry Hoskin. Hoskin told the press that he was the author and the Third Eye was true and not a hoax. In 1960, Hoskin revealed in his book “The Rampa Story” that the spirit of Rampa took over the body of Hoskin after he had fallen from an apple tree in 1948.
Despite the controversy, the public could not get enough of T. Lobsang Rampa, and in total he published 20 books before his death in 1981.
BECKLEY: To a large degree, Rampa is responsible for starting an entirely new trend in the UFO field, mainly among the contactee element of flying saucerology. He is generally acknowledged as being the first Walk-In a term that relates to those Ultra-Terrestrials and supposed Extraterrestrials who have actually gained control or taken possession of an ordinary human body and soul. Usually, this is done with the permission of the natural owner of the body, generally so that a spiritual message can be spread throughout the land by a spirit or entity from another dimension, planet or realm. In other words, the aliens or masters, or spirits don’t have to arrive in silvery space ships. Instead, they can just jump into or walk into a human being and go about their mission. Other Walk-ins that have gotten some degree of notoriety over the years have been ViVenus and Omnec Onec both of whom claim they are evolved spirit beings originating from the planet Venus. . . on a different vibrational plane of course, since life as we know it seems to be impossible there. This phenomenon was first popularized by the Washington D.C. gossip columnist Ruth Montgomery who wrote a now out of print best seller titled Strangers Among Us.
QUESTION: What made him become a hermit exactly?
SWARTZ: Rampa was not a hermit, this comes from his 1971 book “The Hermit.” In this book, Rampa meets a blind hermit who teaches him about the ancient space travelers who first colonized planet Earth.
BECKLEY: In a sense I do think this book sort of brings out his inner feelings that he is a loner. Some of the dialogue takes place in a vast cavern world. Rampa wrote about the inner earth quite a bit. He helped popularized the subject. He thought UFOs had bases there. Although outwardly he gave the impression that his background was of a healer and psychic adapt living in the higher regions of Tibet, in reality he wrote about what people were most interested in. Indeed, he did bring out the inner secrets when people started searching for the truth about these vastly unknown subjects. He did spend a lot of time in seclusion so I think the title “The Hermit” did represent what he was personally going through.
QUESTION: What do we know of his actual alien contactee experiences?
SWARTZ; In several of his books, Rampa refers to “The Gardeners of the Earth,” an advanced race from another galaxy, who colonized Earth billions of years ago. In “The Hermit,” Rampa wrote that the Gardeners “…travel in universes putting people and animals on many different worlds. Earthlings have legends about about the Gardeners, referring to them as ‘gods of the sky.’”
BECKLEY: I don’t believe most people realize this today because so many years have passed, but Rampa’s first article was printed in the very prestigious Flying Saucer Review when Brinsley Le Poer Trench – later to become the 7th Earl of Clancarty — was the editor. It was an article, a very fanciful one in which he told about meeting the Space Brothers. And he made no bones about it. To his way of thinking these were the Masters who were coming down from other planets to deliver a message of peace and love.
SWARTZ: Yes, Tim is right! In his controversial book, “My Visit to Venus,” Rampa writes of his experience meeting Venusians and being taken aboard a flying saucer and flown to the planet Venus. Rampa is told that many planets in our solar system are inhabited, some live in the hollow interior of a planet, others live in a different dimensional realm.
QUESTION: What were his thoughts on his alien experiences did it lean more towards a positive divine experience or negative?
SWARTZ: For Rampa, his alien experiences were neither positive or negative, such terms are meaningless in Buddhism, they just are. However, in “The Hermit,” Rampa writes that the Gardeners felt that “Earth people had become a very evil race who threatened to destroy not only themselves but other intelligent life on nearby worlds.” However, the Gardeners had not given up on Earth, they said that there was still hope for the inhabitants of Earth, but they had to give up their warlike ways and embrace love and forgiveness.
BECKLEY: I might differ with my associate Tim Swartz on this aspect of Rampa’s writings. A lot of his books were about healing, about cosmic consciousness. About the soul. About our journey from this life to the next. He was said to have incredible powers to read minds and to see the human aura. He even penned a manuscript called “Living With The Lama,” which was sort of written in partnership with his favorite cat via telepathy. It’s one of his most far fetched works – am I really saying that? – but cat lovers just adore it. But likewise, as Swartz reasons Rampa didn’t leave out the darkside altogether. A lot of his thinking about the inner earth and its inhabitants ran parallel to the thoughts of Richard S. Shaver in that he believed in the existence of the Dero, a race of mentally deranged creatures who abduct and torture humans after bringing them down to the bowels of the earth. The Dero may be, both Shaver and Rampa claimed, abducting more humans that the Ultra-Terrestrials. You can read about Rampa’s sentiments on the inner earth in “Journey to Agharta..” Agharta being the capitol of the inner earth., a place like Shangri La that is part of the Buddhist faith. It is ruled Rampa and other say by the King of the World.
QUESTION: Though Beckley touches on the subject previously, can you expand on the Walk-In phenomenon and why Rampa is generally is considered to be the first acknowledged Walk In?
SWARTZ: A walk-in refers to the idea that a spirit can temporarily, or permanently, takes control of a human body, and replace the original soul. This is also known as “transmigration.” For example, a spirit medium uses their paranormal ability to allow discarnate spirits to temporarily take over their body to pass messages along to the living.
In “The Rampa Story,” Rampa writes that he had been a long time in preparing to bring some of the wisdom, known by the few initiated in Tibet, to the Western world. It had been arranged by the high Lamas that a man in England, who wanted to get out of a difficult life, would allow his spirit to enter the Astral world, and make possible the spirit of Rampa to take over his body.
More-than-likely, Rampa was not the first person to claim to be a walk-in. However, due to the popularity of his books, his story may have been the first to capture the public’s attention concerning the reality of transmigration.
BECKLEY: In actually that is correct. I have traveled to Greece and written on how the Gods – perhaps ancient Ultra-Terrestrials from other realms and planets — communicated with the Oracle of Delphi who many rulers and conquers came to for advice. She was actually sit upon a stool and these other intelligence would take command and deliver utterance to those high up in command. In our time I think of the book a “Dweller on Two Planets” that drew actress Shirley McLain into the metaphysical realms. This book came through a young boy of 18 or 19 who while out riding would be taken over by an entity calling himself Phylos from the “lost” continent of Atlantis. Though a bit stilted language wise for today’s readers, it is an occult classic and is yet another case of a Walk-In having a message to relay through an earthbound soul.
QUESTION: What were the embodiment of his spiritual teachings if they could be summed up?
SWARTZ: Since the original release of Rampa’s first book, “The Third Eye,” he has been attacked by skeptics who say that Rampa’s Buddhist teachings are nothing like true Tibetan Buddhism. Yet, a large number of readers felt Rampa’s books contained important spiritual teachings and started them on a path to learn more about Buddhism. In fact, the late Gray Barker once received a letter from a man who once wrote a review of the “Third Eye” for the North Indian Buddhist Quarterly. After the review was published, the reviewer received a number of letters from Tibetan phoongi who complained that Rampa had “…divulged secret knowledge, which was the property of the arcane schools of their country, and which a closed brother, in physical form, or etheric, did poorly to publish in the far lands to the West, where it lay open to the gaze of the Uninitiate.”
It is difficult, however, to summarize Rampa’s spiritual teachings as is reflected in his 20 books. One thing that Rampa wanted people to know is that our bodies, our physical reality, is an illusion. We have become so wrapped up in the material world that we have forgotten our true selves, our true, spiritual, reality. “We are creatures of the Spirit,” he said, “we are like electric charges endowed with intelligence. This world, this life, is Hell, it is the testing place wherein our Spirit is purified by the suffering of learning to control our gross flesh body.”
Rampa also desired to teach people how to see the human aura. He wrote that he had a special task because during his life in Tibet he had been to the Chang Tang Highlands where he had seen a device which enables people to see the human aura. “I am aware that if doctors and surgeons could see the human aura then they could determine the illness afflicting a human body before it was at all serious. The aura is merely a corona discharge of the body, of the life force which can be seen by almost anyone under the right conditions. If money would be spent on research, medical science would have one of the most potent tools for the cure of disease.”
QUESTION: Could you share with us some more information that you find interesting about Rampa?
SWARTZ: What I find interesting about Rampa is the fact that even though he was a man from the UK who apparently had never traveled to Tibet, his knowledge of the inner workings of Tibet and the Lamasery life before the Chinese invasion was uncanny. His detractors said that his knowledge of Buddhism was obviously gleaned from library books and incorrect in many places. Yet, time and again it was shown that the skeptics were wrong and Rampa was right when it came to secret esoteric knowledge only known to a select few. Another interesting thing is that Rampa was ahead of the game when it came to things such as UFOs, ancient astronauts, and the inner Earth. Referring to ancient knowledge, Rampa often wrote about these things long before they became known in popular culture.
BECKLEY: I remember reading an article — The Mystery Of The Three Eyed Lama — in the late 90s in the official Buddhist journal Tricycle. The author, a university professor, was naturally skeptical about Rampa’s background and pointed out the inconsistencies in his tales, but on the other hand had to admit that T. Lobsang probably attracted hundreds of thousand of individuals around the world to am adoration of the Buddha and to the plight of the Monks living a meditative life in Tibet under the yoke of the Chinese communist occupation. They pointed out that some of the matters Rampa took it upon himself to reveal were not culturally true.
Such as how as a youth he had a hole drilled in the middle of his forehead which enabled him to open his third eye and to perceive things clairvoyantly for the first time as well as to read the aura of an individual and determine their health flaws. The profession who authored the Tricycle article said that such claims were outlandish and were not rooted in the folk culture of Tibetan life.
QUESTION: What obstacles or persecutions did Rampa go through during his life?
SWARTZ: Right from the very beginning with the release of “The Third Eye,” Rampa was targeted by skeptics who sought to discredit him. “The Third Eye” was very successful, and more-than-likely there were people who were jealous of its success. One man, Heinrich Harrer, who was supposedly an expert on Tibet, hired a private detective to find out who Rampa really was. The detectives findings were eventually published in The Daily Mail. From that point on, Rampa was continuously under attack from the British press, despite of, or maybe because of, his books growing popularity. One critic, Agehananda Bharati, writing for the Tibet Society Bulletin, Vol. 7, 1974, called Rampa’s books, “cretinistic confabulations.” It got so bad that Rampa and his wife eventually moved from the UK to Canada and became Canadian citizens in 1973.
According to Karen Mutton in her article, “T. Lobsang Rampa, New Age Trailblazer,” Rampa over the years managed to “…antagonize feminists, teenagers, Catholics, Western doctors, communists and the Tibetan government in exile. However, his greatest venom was reserved for journalists and literary critics, whom he despised.”
BECKLEY: Of course we know this sort of persecution happens throughout the UFO field and into the paranormal. There is always some agnostic, or skeptic or die hard disbeliever lurking around the bend to put a monkey wrench into the proceedings. Not that skeptics don’t have a right to point out the flaws, but basically here we have an author who is trying to tell his life story in a series of books and it looks like everyone is trying to clamp down on what he has to say. The books speak for themselves. Rampa was a damn good writer. He still has thousands of fans around the world today. He must have had something important to say or this wouldn’t be the case. Even people who don’t necessarily believe in all of his background find his work most enlightening and easy to comprehend.
QUESTION: Is Rampa still alive and if not how did he die? And how else has his legacy inspired others?
SWARTZ: T. Lobsang Rampa, at least in this incarnation, died on January 25th 1981. For many, their first exposure to Eastern religion and philosophy came at a young age from reading Rampa’s books. Donald S. Lopez, author of the 1998 book “Prisoners of Shangri-La – Tibetan Buddhism and the West,” said that when discussing Rampa with other tibetologists and buddhologists in Europe, he found that The Third Eye was the first book many of them had read about Tibet; “For some it was a fascination with the world Rampa described that had led them to become professional scholars of Tibet.” (Wikipedia entry).
I think Rampa sums it up best when he refers to how influential his books have been, despite the ardent attacks from his critics…”In any battle between will power and imagination, imagination always wins.”
QUESTION: What are some of the books that you have available from Rampa from Conspiracy Journal?
BECKLEY: My favorites that we have published under the Inner Light/Global Communications imprint include The Hermit, Tibetan Sage, and Cave Of The Ancients. Other books that we have released in the series include Candlelight, Beyond The Tenth, Chapters of Life, Saffron Robe, My Visit To Venus, Journey To Agharta, Doctor From Lhasa, The Rampa Story. . .and of course the book that start it all – The Third Eye. Our books are printed in large format editions. The type is big and clear not like the dusty paperbacks only published in the UK and faded with age. We have given them all nice new, colorful, covers. The Rampa sage, we hope, will continue to live on!
SWARTZ:Hey, in closing, don’t forget the book Living With The Lama his blind cat supposedly wrote, “speaking” the text telepathically to Rampa. And than there is the book Pussywillow written by Rampa’s wife, again about their beloved pet. Animal lovers eat them up.
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1. What drove and inspired you to write your book Shadows on the Sea The Maritime Mysteries of Britain?
1) Previously to SHADOWS ON THE SEA…I’d written a book called SHADOWS IN THE SKY: THE HAUNTED AIRWAYS OF BRITAIN, which covered all manner of flying monsters, pilot encounters with UFOs, haunted airfields, etc, and so a book regarding Britain’s coastal areas seemed ideal as a follow up. However, the reason I like to write books is because too many authors, especially within the paranormal realm, seem to regurgitate a lot of material, so I tried to aim for a mix of new and old, with shedding new light on older cases.
2. Would you share a story with us regarding Phantom Ships?
2) There are so many peculiar stories of phantom ships, some are considered British classics such as the case of the Lady Lovibund, said to appear off the Kent coast every fifty or so years. Sadly, it seems as if the ship – which became wrecked on treacherous sands – was never in existence but it makes for a great anniversary ghost tale, but one of my favourite set of maritime tales concerns phantom ships said to take to the air! One such encounter was said to have taken place in 1734 in Wales and was witnessed by a farmer who saw a ship emerge from the sky. There is also a sinister tale from Dorset concerning spectral ship being steered by the Devil himself! The ship was said to have exploded into a ball of fire.
3. Could you share a tale with us from your chapter called Ghosts Ahoy! Some Haunted Boats?
3) It was no surprise to uncover many stories pertaining to haunted boats, and vessels that had to be exorcised in order to rid them of their reputed ghosts. One of my favourites concerns a HMS Asp said to have been haunted by a ghostly woman in white who was often seen aboard pointing skyward. Rumours suggested that the lady had been murdered on board and eventually when the ship docked at Pembroke, the spectre drifted to land and halted over a gravestone and then vanished. I don’t personally buy the story as it sounds all too similar to so many phantom hitchhiker yarns, but it’s still a good story. Mind you, not all of these encounters can be blamed on ghouls – there is one specific tale concerning an unnamed vessel that was aid to be haunted by an unknown and unseen presence, but those on deck believed that the spectre left an unholy stench – but this was eventually explained when the captain found a dead rat on board!
4. What is the definition of USOs and would you please share an encounter with us?
4) USOs are said to be Unidentified Submarine/Submerged Objects – peculiar lights and shapes that are seen underwater, often by ships crews. Whether such forms are in facts UFOs we’ll never know but there appear to be some instances where such lights have zipped from the sky and into the sky, whilst on other occasions strange aerial lights have been seen to descend into the black waters of locations such as the North Sea. Some of these lights have altered direction so we can rule out meteorites in some cases.
5. What is a fascinating story from Ghosts on the Coast and Other Mysteries you would like to share with us?
5) Ever since I was a child I’ve been fascinated by fictional stories of ghosts on beaches and cliff-tops – probably due to the windswept and remote nature of the locations. I was also a huge fan of the M.R. James ghost stories, particularly ‘Whistle & I’ll Come To You,’ and ‘A Warning to the Curious’ which involve coastal locations. The chapter ‘Ghosts on the coast…’ covers all manner of maritime mysteries ranging from phantom fishermen, ghosts on cliffs, phantom fishermen – which reminds me of the classic horror movie THE FOG. There are also tales of spectral smugglers, who I believe, in some cases, were responsible for making up certain ghost stories to ward people away from areas where their contraband was stashed. So many of the stories in this chapter are creepy, including the atmospheric-looking Reculver Towers on the Kent coast where the remains of babies were found during an archaeological dig – people still claim to hear the screams of the infants wafting on the sea breeze. There are also ominous tales of hellhounds (phantom black dogs) said to roam the Norfolk/Suffolk coast, although one particular fiendish canid – known as the Roy Dog – of Dorset folklore, was once said to have a lair at Portland, overlooking the sea, and the beast would feast on locals! Another story that has been with me since childhood concerns Beachy Head, at Eastbourne, an atmospheric area known for its high suicide rate (lovers are known to jump from the cliff edge) and the numerous ghosts said to lure you to your death.
6. What sort of beasties are entertained in your chapter Denizens of the Deep?
6) ‘Denizens of the Deep’ was written to explore numerous coastal tales of sea serpents, mermaids, giant fish etc alleged to have been spotted around the British coast-line. The most famous of these is probably Morgawr, the Cornish sea-giant, but I’ve also looked at tales of lesser known alleged serpents from Wales, Ireland and Kent, as well as possible finds of sea serpent carcasses. The mermaid ‘sightings’ seem far less plausible, but like dragons such manifestations have embedded themselves into local folklore for centuries.
7. Could you share with us what drove you to get into paranormal topics when it comes to writing?
7) I’ve written about and investigated the paranormal since the age of about eight. This was due to my father and grandfather telling me numerous ghost stories as a child. I would often read classic paranormal books back in the early 1980s but found that too many authors repeated themselves or didn’t actually do any field research, so I wanted to look at older stories and shed new light on them or in some cases try to find out why there would be a ghost haunting a particular sight – maybe there had been a murder etc. Too many people are able to get books published nowadays but a lot of people merely sit in an armchair and take other information assuming it to be true. Everyone loves a good ghost story whether we believe in them or not, and as a child I so desperately wanted their to be sea monsters etc, I’m not really a big believer in any of these things, but more interested in how the mind works, and why we possibly see things which aren’t actually there.
8. When it comes to your next book is there any info you would like to share and what about past books you have written? Also if you have a link you would like to share please do. Thank you.
8) So far I’ve written about 17 books on the paranormal, cryptozoological-related subjects – my first book MONSTER! THE A-Z OF ZOOFORM PHENOMENA is the one I’m most proud of, it’s a huge 400 page encyclopaedia of monsters that many would never had heard of, they are ‘zooforms,’ seemingly supernatural, demonic, ghostly creatures reported throughout the world, in different types of culture. I’ve also written two huge books regarding unusual and out of place animals in the UK, being MYSTERY ANIMALS OF THE BRITISH ISLES: LONDON and MYSTERY ANIMALS OF THE BRITISH ISLES: KENT, covering stories of out of place big cats, escaped animals etc, and I’ve written more than ten local ghost books too. Again, these were written to find and accumulate a wealth of ghost stories that no-one else had previously read about. I’m currently writing a book called SHAOWS ON THE HORIZON concerning haunted marshes, fields and woods, and have recently had published KENT URBAN LEGENDS which should appeal to people worldwide as it covers legends and stories passed round as fact, and yet which are often completely untrue yet creepy all the same.
Authors claim that there is a connection between long delayed echos and reports that Nikola Tesla picked up a repeating radio signal in 1899 which he believed was coming from space. The satellite explanation originated in 1954 when newspapers including the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the San Francisco Examiner ran stories attributed to UFO researcher Donald Keyhoe saying that the US Air Force had reported that two satellites orbiting the Earth had been detected. At this time no man-made satellites had been launched.
In February 1960 there was a further report that the US Navy had detected a dark, tumbling object in an orbit inclined at 79° from the equator with an orbital period of 104.5 minutes. Its orbit was also highly eccentric with an apogee of 1,728 km (1,074 mi) and a perigee of only 216 km (134 mi) At the time the Navy was tracking a fragment of casing from the Discoverer VIII satellite launch which had a very similar orbit.
In 1973 the Scottish writer Duncan Lunan analyzed the data from the Norwegian radio researchers, coming to the conclusion that they produced a star chart pointing the way to Epsilon Boötis, a double star in the constellation of Boötes. Lunan’s hypothesis was that these signals were being transmitted from a 12,600 year old object located at one of Earth’s Lagrangian points.
An object photographed in 1998 during the STS-88 mission has been widely claimed to be this “alien artefact”.
People analyzing these pictures have claimed that it could be the Pakal Spacecraft, a supposed Mayan spacecraft written about by Erich von Daniken
Black Knight also known as the Black Knight satellite is an alleged object orbiting Earth in near-polar orbit that ufologists and fringe authors believe is approximately 13,000 years old and of extraterrestrial origin. Authors claim that there is a connection between long delayed echos and reports that Nikola Tesla picked up a repeating radio signal in 1899 which he believed was coming from space. The satellite explanation originated in 1954 when newspapers including the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the San Francisco Examiner ran stories attributed to UFO researcher Donald Keyhoe saying that the US Air Force had reported that two satellites orbiting the Earth had been detected. At this time no man-made satellites had been launched.
In February 1960 there was a further report that the US Navy had detected a dark, tumbling object in an orbit inclined at 79° from the equator with an orbital period of 104.5 minutes. Its orbit was also highly eccentric with an apogee of 1,728 km (1,074 mi) and a perigee of only 216 km (134 mi) At the time the Navy was tracking a fragment of casing from the Discoverer VIII satellite launch which had a very similar orbit.
In 1973 the Scottish writer Duncan Lunan analyzed the data from the Norwegian radio researchers, coming to the conclusion that they produced a star chart pointing the way to Epsilon Boötis, a double star in the constellation of Boötes. Lunan’s hypothesis was that these signals were being transmitted from a 12,600 year old object located at one of Earth’s Lagrangian points.
An object photographed in 1998 during the STS-88 mission has been widely claimed to be this “alien artefact”.
People analyzing these pictures have claimed that it could be the Pakal Spacecraft, a supposed Mayan spacecraft written about by Erich von Daniken
De X-Files van Australië: UFO tilt auto op en verbijsterende graancirkels
De X-Files van Australië: UFO tilt auto op en verbijsterende graancirkels
Het gezin Knowles was van plan te verhuizen van Perth naar Melbourne in de hoop daar werk te vinden. Na een bizarre UFO-waarneming maakte het gezin rechtsomkeert. Dat meldt de Australische krant The Advertiser.
De lichtgevende UFO, die eruitzag als een ei in een eierdop, volgde de auto van het gezin en tilde het voertuig op een gegeven moment van de grond. In de lucht werden de stemmen van de gezinsleden vervormd en leek het alsof alles zich in slow motion afspeelde. Ze zeiden 200 kilometer per uur te rijden terwijl de auto werd gevuld met een zwarte as. Toen de UFO de auto ‘losliet’ kwam het voertuig zo hard neer dat één van de banden ontplofte.
Het incident, dat zich afspeelde op 20 januari 1988, haalde het wereldnieuws. Er werd in eerste instantie zo sceptisch op gereageerd dat het gezin besloot zich terug te trekken. Wetenschappers stelden twee mogelijke theorieën voor: de UFO was in feite een meteoriet of het licht van een koplamp werd afgebogen door warmere lucht die zich boven de koudere lucht bevond.
De as die in de auto was gevonden bleek afkomstig te zijn van de verbrande remvoering. Zoon Sean zei dat hij 200 kilometer per uur reed om te ontsnappen aan de UFO. Volgens de fabrikant kon de Ford Telstar op de weg nooit een dergelijke snelheid hebben bereikt.
In het boek ‘The UFO Report’ van Timothy Good staat echter dat het ‘stof’ in juli 1988 ook door dr. Richard Haines is geanalyseerd in het Philips Laboratory. Hij concludeerde dat stof op de bekleding van de auto verschilde van stofmonsters die aan de buitenkant van de auto waren genomen. Hij concludeerde ook dat stof uit de auto niet afkomstig was van het remsysteem. Het materiaal bevatte zout en astatium, dat van nature nauwelijks op aarde voorkomt.
Graancirkel
In december 1994 is Northfield in Zuid-Australië mogelijk bezocht door buitenaardsen. Op 9 december dat jaar zag Alison Light een graancirkel toen ze naar Adelaide vloog. Het stuk land waarin de formatie lag was eigendom van het Australische ministerie van Landbouw. De cirkel had een doorsnee van 15,3 meter en de halmen waren gebogen in plaats van geknakt.
Iedereen stond voor een raadsel. Er waren geen sporen te vinden van mensen die van en naar de cirkel waren gelopen. Het radiostation SAFM liet weten verantwoordelijk te zijn voor de formatie, maar toen de politie de daders wilde vervolgen zei een woordvoerder dat het station een grap had gemaakt.
Graancirkels worden al sinds de zeventiende eeuw gemeld. Ze lijken vooral te verschijnen in ontwikkelde westerse landen. Enkele dagen na de melding in Northfield werd de akker door het ministerie gemaaid zodat er van de graancirkel niets meer over was.
In 1961 waren drie mensen op zoek naar geodes voor hun cadeauwinkel in Olancha in de Amerikaanse staat Californië. Eén van hen trof een geode aan die er vreemd uitzag. Tijdens een aflevering van het tv-programma ‘In Search of…’ werd aandacht besteed aan het mysterieuze voorwerp, dat ook wel het Coso-artefact wordt genoemd.
Mike Mikesell, één van de drie individuen, zaagde de knol die aan de binnenkant begroeid is met kristallen met een diamantzaag doormidden. Hij deed een schokkende ontdekking. In de geode zag hij iets wat leek op een moderne bougie.
De geode kan tot wel 500.000 jaar oud zijn, honderdduizenden jaren voordat hoogontwikkelde beschavingen op aarde ten tonele zouden verschijnen. Virginia Maxey, één van de ontdekkers, zei dat een geoloog de fossielen rond het voorwerp had gedateerd op 500.000 jaar oud.
Pierre Stromberg en Paul V. Heinrich hebben geprobeerd te bewijzen dat de bougie in de jaren twintig is gemaakt en in een soort snelbeton is ingekapseld. De enige mensen die het voorwerp met eigen ogen hebben gezien zijn de drie ontdekkers en Ron Calais, die meent dat de geschiedenis van de wereld onjuist is.
Het artefact werd jarenlang bewaard in de woning van Wallace Lane, de derde ontdekker, maar volgens Stromberg en Heinrich liet hij anderen er niet bij in de buurt komen. Het is niet bekend waar het voorwerp nu ligt.
De naam van de geoloog die het object heeft gedateerd is nooit genoemd, waardoor sommigen vraagtekens zetten bij de betrouwbaarheid van de studie. Heinrich en Stromberg voegen echter toe dat ‘er weinig hard bewijs is dat de oorspronkelijke ontdekkers de intentie hadden om mensen te misleiden’.
De twee onderzoekers gingen met röntgenfoto’s die door Calais zijn gemaakt en tekeningen naar Chad Windham, voorzitter van de Spark Plug Collectors of America (SPCA). Volgens Windham gaat het om een Champion-bougie uit de jaren twintig. Toch zijn er de nodige verschillen tussen de Champion-bougie en het voorwerp in de geode.
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
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