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While it is certainly true that undertaking research into the collective world of the unknown can be illuminating, stimulating and exciting, it can also be downright hazardous. Sometimes, when a person becomes immersed in an investigation to a very deep and significant degree, the phenomenon under the microscope appears to realize that it is being watched and responds in violent, and sometimes even deadly, fashion. Welcome (if that’s the right word to use) to the world of what is known as psychic backlash.

A classic example comes from a good friend of mine, Jon Downes, the director of the UK-based Center for Fortean Zoology. For years, Jon deeply investigated the mystery of the Owlman of Cornwall, England – surely the closest thing the nation has to the infamous Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, USA. But there was something deeply sinister about the winged, glowing-eyed Owlman. Every time Jon dug deep into the heart of the enigma, things would go wrong – as in big time.

And here’s Jon to explain more. On the subject of psychic backlash, he says: “This is a series of inexplicable and horrific outbreaks of bad luck that can overtake the hapless seeker after monstrous truth on his way to his goal.”

Jon adds, on the matter of his book, The Owlman and Others: “I never believed in it until, during the months that I was working on this book, two of my pet cats died suddenly, two computers blew up, as did two cars, and my wife left me. I also encountered psychic backlash while investigating the links between crop circles and animal mutilations.”

Notably, when Jon walked away from the Owlman mystery, the backlash vanished. Unfortunately, Jon didn’t stay away from the Owlman puzzle. And when he once again immersed himself in the mystery, guess what came back…?

Jon explains further: “I for one should have known better. The psychic backlash that I had managed to dispel a year before returned several-fold and things at the CFZ were getting particularly bizarre. We had outbreaks of poltergeist activity as well as a horrible run of bad luck and I determined that not only was I going to have to do something to end it all, but that this time I would have no further involvement with the Owlman or any of his kin.”

Indeed, having written and (in 2006) updated his The Owlman and Others book, Jon finally walked away from the world of the mysterious monster – for good. It was a lesson learned, but in a most traumatic fashion.
Albert K Bender

Then there is psychic backlash of the Men in Black variety. There’s absolutely no doubt that there would be no MIB phenomenon without Albert Bender of Bridgeport, Connecticut. In the early 1950s, Bender established a UFO research group called the International Flying Saucer Bureau. All went well for several months and the IFSB’s in-house journal went from strength to strength. Until, that is, Bender was hit by a backlash.

When his research was at its height, Bender had a series of chilling encounters with three, semi-spectral, shining-eyed MIB characters that literally materialized before him. When Bender failed (initially, at least) to heed their warnings to walk away from the UFO subject, his life began to suffer – as did his health. Bender was hit by pummeling, disabling migraines. He felt sick and physically weak. Paranoia set in. He developed a sudden, out of the blue, and inexplicable fear of developing cancer.

For Bender, it wasn’t long before enough was well and truly enough. He quit his UFO studies, closed down the IFSB, and got married. As for the MIB, it was at that point they departed. When Bender left the UFOs alone, so the phenomenon left him alone.

Moving on to the 1990s, there is the very unsettling saga of Ray Boeche, an Anglican priest and a former state-director for MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network. In 1991, Boeche met (at Lincoln, Nebraska) with two US Department of Defense physicists working on a project to try and contact what were termed “Non-Human Entities,” or NHEs. While the initial assumption on the part of the DoD team-members was that the NHEs were extraterrestrial, that view soon changed. And radically so, too.

Eventually, the project personnel concluded that far from being the aliens they purported to be, the NHEs were demonic – as in literally demonic. In other words, the DoD team concluded that the UFO phenomenon itself was born out of satanic deception, rather than alien visitation. It’s a story that I tell at length in my book Final Events. But there is something else, too.

When the DoD scientists immersed themselves in the world of the NHEs, bad things began to occur. As Boeche told me, regardless of how benevolent or beneficial any of the contact they had with these entities seemed to be, it always ended up being tainted, for lack of a better term, with something that ultimately turned out to be bad. There was ultimately nothing positive from the interaction with the NHEs. Indeed, certain experimentation reportedly ended in death for some of those involved in the program.

When I interviewed Boeche a few years ago, he told me: “I have always thought that one of the most important things that John Keel ever said was that if you have kids or teenagers, this is not something to encourage them to get involved with. Keel was a pretty died-in-the-wool atheist. But he understood that, at some level, there’s something, in some sense transcendent over us, that can, if nothing else, ‘mess’ with us. And it can cause a lot of damage.”

You have been warned. In the world of the paranormal, it’s wise to tread very, very carefully…

Source: Mysterious Universe
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/12/the-hazards-of-psychic-backlash/

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Thousands of stories. Thousands of supposed sightings. Do big cats, specifically panthers, stalk the forests of Mississippi?

State officials say there is not enough evidence to support whatever that whatever-they-are actually exist.

Some people have seen tracks in the mud. Others swear their animals have been spooked.

But most common encounter are with the calls.

"It sounds like a woman screaming," Dan Wilkes said on a rainy day in Rosewood.

Wilkes says he's a believer. He says he saw a panther with brown coloring in Warren County about 15 years ago.

He estimates it's body was five feet long with a tail adding another four feet to its length.

"Big cat. At first I thought it was a deer. And Then I got a better look at it as it was running down the treeline," Wilkes said.

"I was sitting in a combine and had a good vantage point and this big cat, probably 50 yards from us, took off and ran to our left. It stretched out," Wilkes said.

Ricky Hall, who lives right outside of Vicksburg, has a photo of an animal that was captured on his trail cam. It shows a large cat in broad daylight walking around a mudding hole.

"We got a farmer across the street there. He's got cows out there. And the way the picture's showing from where it's set up it's like it's coming from that way," Wilkes said

"It's pretty good size. It's bigger than a dog. It's got some big feet, little short pointed ears. And it looks like its tail's got a few stripes on it," Wilkes said.

"But it's dark," Wilkes said.

But the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) has a different view.

A statement from Jim Walker, an agency spokesperson, says "...most physical evidence sent to the MDWFP is later identified as remains of large feral cats or other animals. Our biologists have not confirmed any panthers or cougars are in Mississippi"."

Despite the state's stance, Brown says the picture still has him nervous.

"They said they'll attack so I wouldn't let my kids go back down there," Brown said

Wilkes also disagrees. Although his sighting was 15 years ago he says he will never forget what was before his eyes.

"At first I'm like 'Wow, this is what I'm seeing'. You know, it's not a deer. It's not a bobcat. You go through the list mentally and within the first half-second. And you know without a doubt it's a large cat," Wilkes said.

"Everybody accepts it. Everybody knows it. Especially in the Northeastern part of Warren County. Deeper in the woods, so to speak," Wilkes said.

Source: WHLT-22
http://www.whlt.com/story/24117838/mystery-monday-panther-sightings-cross-mississippi

Einstein said, "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

People who've experienced paranormal activity of any type are most likely to agree with Einstein's observations. One the most common is the phenomena of dimes that seem to appear out of thin air.

Stories about dimes appearing mysteriously are common around the world, even in places where dimes are not used as money.

Scientists dismiss these stories because personal experiences are often contaminated with something called "cognitive bias." An example is to unknowingly drop a dime on the floor and later conclude it appeared there magically.

The need for scientific proof of this phenomena diminishes with the frequency of occurrences, and especially if it happens in your home. If you see it happen, doubt gets replaced with wonderment. To make any sense of this, we must turn away from the logical and toward the metaphysical.

The dimes pictured below have miraculously appeared to us over the past ten years. The outer heart shaped group of dimes were discovered by my wife or me and the those inside were discovered by our younger daughter.

These dimes started appearing shortly after the untimely death of my father-in-law. "Dee" was a successful businessman and 32nd Degree Mason who enjoyed some interesting hobbies such as the study of Astral Flight, past life regression hypnosis and reincarnation.

Shortly before his death, my wife began to fear that her dad would not be with us much longer and one day she tearfully admonished him saying, "Dee, don't you dare die but if you do, give me a sign that you are with me, but please don't scare me.

Since his passing, dimes have mysteriously appeared in our home, not just once or twice, but literally dozens of times.

Either the Lundgren family is selectively negligent with the way we handle dimes, or dimes are appearing from thin air. We are convinced of the latter.

In some cases, we discover dimes in unusual places which could certainly be explained, except their appearance always foretells an event that has a significant monetary or life changing component.

These appearances have accompanied everything from radio station ad sales to insurance settlements and even loan closings. Basically dimes start appearing when something positive occurs about money and wealth. At some point, it ceased to be a coincidence.

On the first of these occasions in 2004, my wife was carrying groceries into the kitchen and noticed a dime on floor. She stepped over it and began storing the perishables. A few moments later, a second dime literally fell out of nowhere, only inches from the first dime. These dimes were far away from appliances, tables, chairs and light fixtures. When my wife turned at the sound of the second dime falling, she noticed Swede E. Bear, our female toy poodle frozen in place, staring at the coins, as if she could see something invisible to our human eyes.

We also have reason to believe these "dimes from somewhere" can signify positive changes in relationships.

Recently, our daughter began questioning her decision to begin dating again after terminating a long term relationship. She accepted the new gentleman's invitation and decided to meet him for dinner at a restaurant. She stopped on the way to fill her car with gas and when she opened the gas cap cover, a dime flew out.

She interpreted the phenomena as her grandfather's way of saying "I approve."

It's also important to note that other strange things happen around our house which preceded the death of my father-in-law.

Shortly after moving to our home in 1997, we realized we were not alone. Almost every night we heard the heavy footsteps of someone walking back and forth in the second floor hallway.

One night, our younger daughter saw the ghostly apparition from the waist down, dressed in what appeared to be a Civil War uniform. The encounter lasted only two seconds and no one has seen him since, but we long ago surrendered to his nightly vigilance. Now, when we hear the footsteps, we say, "It's probably just the ghost."

Our invisible tenant also likes to have fun at our expense by hiding objects and making us look for them, and later we find them back in the exact spot where they were last seen. This is particularly frustrating to my wife who has a phobia about losing items, which evidently makes the game more fun for "Casper."

Do these experiences prove or disprove anything? I dare not say, but they are only the tip of the iceberg. There is so much more I want to share, from my experience with life saving precognition, to seeing evidence of time line shifting (alternate universe concept) to changing reality by the power of intent.

For the moment, I will avoid delving into those subjects in order to save any modicum of credibility I have remaining.

I'm certain the skeptics will spare no time or ink in their rush to debunk our experiences so, with that bit of prophesy in tow, I will close by associating myself with the words of British author and biologist John Haldane who, in 1927 wrote:

"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

Source: Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fred-lundgren/the-mysterious-appearance_b_4369047.html

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