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corrupted, envelops us with its icy
embrace. Thoughts that once burned
fire-like in their complexities, now
smoulders in the stygian emptiness.
Invisible terrors, once consigned to the
back roads of consciousness,
now eagerly seek prey to feed an eternal
hunger. Horrors of the
night now reach out across the threshold
into the once safe light.
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- The
USSR’s ‘Psychotronic’ Arms Race with the U.S.
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- What Shape Was Noah's Ark? -
- Weirdness of the Mothman Kind -
AND: Santa Claus Sightings
- What Shape Was Noah's Ark? -
- Weirdness of the Mothman Kind -
AND: Santa Claus Sightings
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Timothy Green Beckley's Strange Saga: UPDATED EDITION
ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL AND CONTROVERSIAL FIGURES IN UFOLOGY AND THE PARANORMAL SPILLS HIS GUTS!
The CIA used water-boarding techniques on him yet he never broke his code of silence.
The MIB stalked him and yet he didn’t bat an eye (not any one of his three!)
The Dero set up an underground tunnel system in his basement and he uses it to go to work every day.
Tim Beckley - dubbed "Mr. UFO"
because only he knows the TRUTH -- has been saving
the world from aliens for fifty years. He is the
reason they haven't landed on the White House lawn
and why you remain safe in your homes.
At the age of ten, Beckley had his first of three UFO sightings. The event stunned him so much that he took out every book on the subject that he could find in the library. He wrote to the local media questioning the policy of silence he was convinced was taking place worldwide.
At fourteen, he was already appearing on national radio and TV, proclaiming the existence of the aliens (whom he now believes to be inter-dimensional to some extent and, as another likely possibility, the product of Nazi wartime technology.)
His bio is so extensive that he would have to run it in several parts.
Beckley started his writing/publishing career in his youth. At age 14, he purchased a mimeograph machine and started putting out “The Interplanetary News Service Report.” Over the years, he has written over 50 books on everything from rock music to the MJ-12 documents. He has been a stringer for the national tabloids, such as the Enquirer, the Star and the Globe, and the editor of over 30 different magazines (most of which never lasted more than a couple of issues). His longest running effort was the newsstand publication UFO UNIVERSE, which went for 11 years. Today he is the president of Inner Light/Global Communications and editor of “The Conspiracy Journal” and “Bizarre Bazaar.” He has been a regular contributor to “Fate Magazine” for over 40 years and more recently to “Open Minds Magazine.”
He is one of the few Americans ever to be invited to speak before closed-door meetings on UFOs presided over by the late Earl of Clancarty at the House of Lords in England. He visited Loch Ness in Scotland while in the UK and went home with the belief that Nessie was somehow connected with the dragons of mythology as well as strange discs engraved on cathedrals and ghostly phenomena. He is also a recognizable figure on the pop culture scene, having produced and starred in several movies under the moniker of Mr. Creepo. He has hung out with the counterculture’s greatest names and promoted rock shows and New Age festivals.
Though his time in the trenches is by no means over yet.
This book, for the most part, contains his early writings. Samples of his column On The Trail Of The Flying Saucers for Ray Palmer’s “Flying Saucers From Other Worlds Magazine” constitute a large part of this work, as well as his top ten articles from the very prestigious but long-defunct newsstand publication “UFO Report,” published up until the mid-1970s. There are also clippings galore about his career and other memorabilia that will have his fans as well as newcomers to his work scratching their heads in wonderment and perhaps letting out with a giggle or two.
One can only wonder how the next juncture of his life will pan out. . .
At the age of ten, Beckley had his first of three UFO sightings. The event stunned him so much that he took out every book on the subject that he could find in the library. He wrote to the local media questioning the policy of silence he was convinced was taking place worldwide.
At fourteen, he was already appearing on national radio and TV, proclaiming the existence of the aliens (whom he now believes to be inter-dimensional to some extent and, as another likely possibility, the product of Nazi wartime technology.)
His bio is so extensive that he would have to run it in several parts.
Beckley started his writing/publishing career in his youth. At age 14, he purchased a mimeograph machine and started putting out “The Interplanetary News Service Report.” Over the years, he has written over 50 books on everything from rock music to the MJ-12 documents. He has been a stringer for the national tabloids, such as the Enquirer, the Star and the Globe, and the editor of over 30 different magazines (most of which never lasted more than a couple of issues). His longest running effort was the newsstand publication UFO UNIVERSE, which went for 11 years. Today he is the president of Inner Light/Global Communications and editor of “The Conspiracy Journal” and “Bizarre Bazaar.” He has been a regular contributor to “Fate Magazine” for over 40 years and more recently to “Open Minds Magazine.”
He is one of the few Americans ever to be invited to speak before closed-door meetings on UFOs presided over by the late Earl of Clancarty at the House of Lords in England. He visited Loch Ness in Scotland while in the UK and went home with the belief that Nessie was somehow connected with the dragons of mythology as well as strange discs engraved on cathedrals and ghostly phenomena. He is also a recognizable figure on the pop culture scene, having produced and starred in several movies under the moniker of Mr. Creepo. He has hung out with the counterculture’s greatest names and promoted rock shows and New Age festivals.
Though his time in the trenches is by no means over yet.
This book, for the most part, contains his early writings. Samples of his column On The Trail Of The Flying Saucers for Ray Palmer’s “Flying Saucers From Other Worlds Magazine” constitute a large part of this work, as well as his top ten articles from the very prestigious but long-defunct newsstand publication “UFO Report,” published up until the mid-1970s. There are also clippings galore about his career and other memorabilia that will have his fans as well as newcomers to his work scratching their heads in wonderment and perhaps letting out with a giggle or two.
One can only wonder how the next juncture of his life will pan out. . .
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- WEAPONIZING THE
MIND DEPARTMENT -
The USSR’s ‘Psychotronic’ Arms Race with the U.S.
Most people would be familiar with the common depiction of Noah’s Ark – a traditional wooden ship floating on flood waters with animals peering out through the windows. But now new evidence has turned this depiction on its head and has revealed that the ship was in fact a circular disc shape.
For years, archaeologists have scoured the world for factual evidence for the Bible story of Noah's flood, but due to lack of scientific proof, many believe the story to be an Old Testament myth.
However, linguistic expert Dr Irving Finkel firmly believes that Noah’s Ark and the ‘flood myth’ describe real events that took place, and he bases this belief not on faith, but on archaeological evidence coming from a 3,700-year-old clay tablet. The tablet was found in the Middle East by Leonard Simmons, who served in the RAF during the 1940s. However, the ancient artefact wasn't subject to any research until Simmons's son Douglas took it to the British Museum in 2008.
As an expert in deciphering cuneiform script and assistant keeper of the ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures department at the British Museum, Finkel was able to translate the text on the clay tablet, leading to a new interpretation of the Noah’s Ark ‘myth’.
The tablet described a Mesopotamian story, which became the account in Genesis in the Old Testament, of Noah and the ark that saved every animal species from the flood waters. The text describes God speaking to Atram-Hasis, a Sumerian king who is the Noah figure in earlier versions of the ark story.
He says: 'Wall, wall! Reed wall, reed wall! Atram-Hasis, pay heed to my advice, that you may live forever! Destroy your house, build a boat; despise possessions and save life! Draw out the boat that you will build with a circular design; Let its length and breadth be the same.'
The ancient Babylonian text describes the ark as a round 65-metre diameter coracle with walls 6 metre high, spread over two levels. The craft was divided into sections to divide the various animals into their own sections. The 60 lines of text, which Dr Finkel describes as a “detailed construction manual for building an ark”, claims the craft was built using ropes and reeds before being smeared with bitumen to make it waterproof.
Experts have always assumed that the ark was an ocean-going boat with a pointed stem and stern for riding the waves, but according to Finkel, the ark didn’t have to go anywhere, it just had to float.
The story of Noah’s ark is described in dozens of ancient texts and is told in three major world religions: Christianity, Judaism and Islam. According to the story, God flooded the world as punishment for its corruption and told Noah to build an ark and fill it with a male and female of every breed of animal. Once the flood receded, the ark came to rest on a mountain. Many people believe that this mountain was Mount Ararat in Turkey, the region's highest point.
Source: Ancient Origins
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology-human-origins-religions/incredible-new-insights-noahs-ark-clay-tablet
- UFOS IN SCRIPTURE DEPARTMENT -
The New Testament, the Gnostic Scriptures
and the Second Coming: Are UFOs the Key?
By Sean Casteel
While
their presence may be more
subtle than in other
scriptures and religious
writings, flying saucers do
make numerous appearances in
the New Testament and are an
integral part of the story of
Jesus Christ.
In the recent
release from Global
Communications, “Flying
Saucers in the Holy Bible,”
the Reverend Virginia
Brasington addresses numerous
instances where the New
Testament makes overt
references to miracles and
signs that are consistent with
what we in the present
understand to be UFO-related
phenomena. Throughout her
section, which opens the book,
Brasington takes as a given
that flying saucers are “God’s
transportation,” and this
article will take that for
granted as well. Among the
many passages from the New
Testament she uses to make her
case is this one:
“When Jesus
ascended into heaven,”
Brasington writes, “the Bible
tells us in Acts 1:9 that ‘He
was taken up; and a cloud
received him out of their
sight.’ A cloud received Him.
It was there already. It could
have been a dull grey vehicle,
or it could have been a vapor
around the vehicle. At any
rate, the disciples that had
gathered, over 500 of them,
were told that he would come
back in exactly the same way
he left.”
Verses that speak
of him returning “exactly the
same way he left” are also
included.
Mark 14:62 says,
“And Jesus said, ‘I am; and ye
shall see the Son of Man
sitting on the right hand of
power, and coming in the
clouds of heaven.’” Luke
21:27, “And then shall they
see the Son of Man coming in a
cloud with power and great
glory.” Matthew 24:30, “And
they shall see the Son of Man
sitting on the right hand of
power, and coming in the
clouds of heaven.” Revelation
1:7, “Behold, he cometh with
clouds; and every eye shall
see him, and they also which
pierced him.”
Brasington intends
for us to read “clouds of
heaven” as “flying saucers,”
which reinforces the reality
of the Second Coming. If we
know flying saucers are real,
does it take any great leap of
faith to see the reality of
the Second Coming?
“The first letter
of Paul to the Thessalonians,”
Brasington continues, “in the
4th chapter, beginning with
the 13th verse, tells about
Jesus coming again for the
Church. It seems that when He
comes, He will be accompanied
by a great host from heaven.
Read the thrilling words,
beginning with verse 16: ‘For
the Lord himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel,
and trump of God; and the dead
in Christ shall rise first;
then we which are alive and
remain shall be caught up
together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in
the air; and so shall we ever
be with the Lord.”
This passage is
one of the very few in the New
Testament that speak of the
Rapture, the miraculous escape
of the righteous chosen ones
from the chains of an evil
Earth staggering under the
oppression of Satan. This has
in recent decades become a
very popular interpretation of
this particular scripture and
has generated a great deal of
speculation and anticipation,
as well as the bestselling
“Left Behind” series of books
that offered a fictional
account of the Earth in the
post-Rapture era. Belief in
the Rapture is a cornerstone
of some people’s faith, and
there have been many who have
tried to pinpoint
the exact time it
will come, in spite of
Christ’s warning that, “no man
knows the day or the hour, not
even the angels in heaven.”
But beyond the
more apocalyptic prophecies,
even the Christmas story has a
flying saucer element,
according to Brasington.
“In the story of
the wise men of the East,” she
writes, “visiting the Baby
Jesus and following the star
until it came and ‘stood over
the place where the young
child was,’ this ‘star’ has
been explained in many
different ways – and as far as
I am concerned each of them is
laughable. The favorite
explanation declares the star
was the conjunction of Jupiter
and Saturn that occurred in 6
B.C. If so, the explanation
certainly breaks down if one
reads Matthew 2:9, where it
says that the star came and
‘stood over the place where
the young child was.’ In the
first place, a conjunction of
planets couldn’t possibly have
done this. A conjunction
simply means that in their
orbiting, at certain times,
two or more planets are so
positioned that they are seen
as one, thus making a very
bright appearance.
“In the second
place, how could the wise men
possibly have followed a star
that was presumably in the
heavens with the Earth
orbiting and, of course,
changing the position of the
star in relationship to the
Earth? Anyway, it would have
been so far away it could not
have possibly led the wise men
even to a large city, much
less to the small town of
Bethlehem, and much, much less
the particular stable, or
cave, where Jesus was.
“No, not even the
wisest of the wise could have
followed such a guiding star.
It was bound to have been some
special craft or manifestation
of God that appeared to the
wise men and then guided them
to the very spot where Jesus
could be found. Evidently this
was the first time the ‘star’
had hovered over a particular
dwelling since the wise men
had been following it, because
we read in Matthew 2:9-11
that, ‘When they heard the
king (Herod), they
departed; and, lo, the star,
which they saw in the east,
went before them, till it came
and stood over where the young
child was. When they saw the
star, they rejoiced with
exceeding great joy. And when
they were come into the house,
they saw the young child with
Mary his mother, and fell
down, and worshipped him; and
when they had opened their
treasures, they presented him
with gifts: gold, frankincense
and myrrh.’
“Truly, this was
an ‘unidentified flying
object,’” the Reverend
Brasington concludes. “It has
never been identified unless
my ideas are correct! Why did
they call it a ‘star’? What
else would they have called a
bright, glowing object that
stayed above them in the
atmosphere?”
Brasington was
licensed as a minister in the
State of North Carolina by the
Church of the Nazarene. Her
book “Flying Saucers in the
Bible” was originally
published in the 1960s by Gray
Barker’s Saucerian Press, and
later reprinted by Timothy
Green Beckley’s Global
Communications, which is the
version portions of this
article are based on. One
would think it unlikely that a
North Carolina minister would
end up writing extensively on
UFOs in the Bible, but
Brasington’s back story was a
little different than most of
her peers in the clergy.
“About 1918, in
the late summer,” she
explains, “my whole family and
I were out in the yard after
an early supper. We were
spending the summer down in
the South Mountains, where my
father was born and where he
had lived as a boy. We did not
even have electric lights, and
it was necessary to finish our
evening chores early. So, we
were just sitting around
talking when out from behind
the mountain back of the house
flashed a huge, red,
fiery-appearing craft that
went across the sky and out of
sight behind the horizon. It
lighted up the atmosphere in a
beautiful pink glow, and was
silent as it sped
across the sky.
When it first appeared, my
mother speculated that it was
a meteor, but my father
thought not because, being so
low, had it been a meteor it
would have fallen within our
eyesight. But this sped
straight across the sky and
out of sight.
“I was eight or
nine years old at the time and
remember it vividly. At that
time, we didn’t know much
about airplanes, much less
circular, glowing vehicles.”
Brasington goes on
to recount other UFO sightings
she had had as an adult,
including one she shared with
another pastor that involved
two planes being unable to
approach two rainbow-colored,
rectangular ships. The local
media’s subsequent coverage of
the sighting could offer no
explanation. Her point, she
says, is that, as a
Bible-believing Christian, the
notion of space travel and
UFOs is nothing new to her.
Seeing them with her own eyes
has made her sufficiently
familiar with the phenomenon.
Writing many years
before stories of abduction by
aliens became commonplace,
Brasington quoted another apt
scripture.
“Paul says in
Second Corinthians 12:4 that
he ‘was caught up into
paradise, and heard
unspeakable words, which it is
not lawful or expedient for
man to utter.’ Whether it was
beyond our comprehension, or
whether he just didn’t have
words to describe it, or
whether God told him not to
tell us lest we become so
homesick for our heavenly home
we wouldn’t be any earthly
good, I don’t know. Anyway, he
didn’t tell what he saw and
heard, but he DID say he went
there.”
Many an abductee
has found himself at a loss
for words after returning from
the experience. Whether
because of alien-induced
forgetfulness or the traumatic
effects of shock and awe the
abductee is often left with,
translating into language what
has happened is often
impossible, and the accounts
given by abductees under
regressive
hypnosis are often
frustratingly incomplete, rife
with a groping for words and
gaps in the narrative that
leave many important questions
unanswered. As in the
experience of the normally
quite articulate Saint Paul,
expressing the inexpressible
just doesn’t come easy.
While the
canonical New Testament offers
a wealth of UFO references,
more than can be covered in
this article, attention should
also be paid to books written
around that same time that
never made the final cut, so
to speak. In a book of mine
called “The Excluded Books of
the Bible,” I quote from the
great scholar of myth, Joseph
Campbell.
In part three of
Campbell’s four-volume opus,
“The Masks of God,” entitled
“Occidental Mythology,”
Campbell relates a story of
Jesus from the Gnostic book
“The Acts of John.”
“The Messiah has
just come from his desert fast
of forty days,” Campbell
writes, setting the scene,
“and his victory there over
Satan. John and James are in
their boat, fishing. Christ
appears on the shore. And John
is supposed to be telling,
now, of the occasion.”
The scripture
commences.
“For when he had
chosen Peter and Andrew, who
were brothers, he came to me
and James my brother, saying,
‘I have need of you. Come unto
me.’ And my brother, hearing
that, said to me, ‘John, what
does that child want who is on
the shore there and called to
us?’ And I said, ‘What child?’
And he said again, ‘The one
beckoning to us.’ And I
answered, ‘Because of the long
watch we have kept at sea, you
are not seeing right, my
brother James. But do you not
see the man who is standing
there, comely, fair, and of
cheerful countenance?’ But he
answered, ‘Him, brother, I do
not see. But let us go and see
what he wants.’
“And so, when we
had brought our boat to land,
we saw him also, helping us to
settle it; and when we had
left, thinking to follow him,
he appeared to me to be rather
bald, but with a beard thick
and flowing, but to James he
seemed a youth whose beard had
newly come. We were therefore,
both of us, perplexed as to
what we had seen should mean.
And as we followed him,
continuing, we both were,
little by little, even more
perplexed as we considered the
matter. For in my case, there
appeared this still more
wonderful thing: I would try
to watch him secretly, and I
never at any time saw his eyes
blinking, but only open. And
often he would appear to me to
be a little man, uncomely, but
then again as one reaching up
to heaven.”
This may seem a
little like overreaching, even
blasphemy, but I interpret
parts of this physical
description of Christ as being
similar to a gray alien. For
example, James sees that a
“child” is beckoning to them
from the shore, which
correlates to the diminutive
height of the gray aliens,
while John sees a grown man
standing there. At one point,
John sees Christ as appearing
to be “bald,” another
characteristic of the grays.
He also says Christ looked
like a “little man, uncomely,”
another thing in common with
the grays. “Uncomely,” by the
way, means “unattractive” or
even “ugly.” John reports that
Christ never seems to blink
his eyes, which may be similar
to a screen memory of the
unblinking black eyes of a
gray alien.
But there is more
from the Acts of John.
“Another glory,
also, would I tell to you, my
brethren: namely, that
sometimes when I would take
hold of him, I would meet with
a material and solid body, but
again, at other times, when I
touched him, the substance was
immaterial and as if it
existed not at all.”
This comparison
should be a little more
obvious. The gray aliens also
seem to have the ability to be
either solid or immaterial, to
change from the physical to
the ethereal at will. When I
interviewed abductee and
bestselling author Whitley
Strieber in 1989, he told me
that the grays sometimes seem
so ephemeral that one can’t
even believe they are alive,
that something so delicate can
survive in our physical
dimension. Was the Apostle
John, the author of this
obscure Gnostic book, really
touching a gray alien that he
had come to know as Christ?
John tells us that
he writes of these mysteries
in order to strengthen our
belief in Christ.
“And these things
I tell you, my brethren, for
the encouragement of your
faith in him; for we must, at
present, keep silence
concerning his mighty and
wonderful works, in as much as
they are unspeakable, and, it
may be, cannot at all be
uttered or be heard.”
It is easy to
understand why this view of
Christ was considered too
bizarre to preach publicly.
According to Campbell, this
was an expression of the
ancient view that Christ’s
body was “a mere appearance,
the reality being celestial or
divine, and its appearance,
furthermore, a function of the
mentality of the seer, not of
the reality of the seen; a
mere mask that might change
but not be removed.”
For another book
of mine, “Signs and Symbols of
the Second Coming,” I
interviewed the Reverend Barry
Downing, whose 1968 book “The
Bible and Flying Saucers” is
considered a classic with
close to half a million copies
in print.
In our discussion
of what the Second Coming will
actually be like, Downing
said, “I think there pretty
much has to be two forms of
the Second Coming. One form
is, what happens when we die?
The body ends. What happens to
the person? I think that some
Near-Death-Experiences
give us a clue that there’s a
part of us, another spiritual
dimension to us that seems to
coexist with our body and is
not destroyed by death and
goes on to some other form of
life.
“One of the
possibilities,” he continued,
“is that one of the tasks of
UFOs, or the angels, is to
collect the souls of people
when they die and take them
off to another world where
they begin the next life that
they have. This is not the
Second Coming as we usually
think of it. But Jesus says in
John 14, ‘I go to prepare a
place for you. And if I go and
prepare a place, I will come
again and take you to be where
I am.’ For this to be true, I
think it has to be true when
someone dies. That’s probably
how it works.
“Likewise, Jesus
says to one of the thieves on
the cross, ‘Today you will be
with me in paradise.’ So I
assume there’s a kind of
‘coming for us,’ when we die,
and it’s kind of like a return
of Christ to take us, or at
least the return of the angels
to take us. But it’s not the
end of history. Obviously, my
death or your death is not the
end of history.”
Downing began to
describe the kind of Second
Coming that IS the end of
history.
“From my point of
view,” he explained, “God is
reluctant to bring down the
curtain of history, because
the scientific evidence
suggests that the universe is
about 15 billion years old.
Our sun is five billion years
old. It took millions of years
to get the Earth and human
civilization to the point it
is now. And life on Earth as
we see it now has been planned
by God, and therefore is
serving Gods’ purpose. To
bring it to an end, only to
have to start over again,
either on another planet or on
Earth, is just, to put it
bluntly, a big hassle. So if I
were God, having created Earth
as it now is, and the human
condition as it now is, I
wouldn’t be anxious to bring
it to an end.”
Downing also
explained why the reality of
UFOs strengthens his faith.
“I think one of
the roles of UFOs would be,”
he said, “to move us to the
point where the Biblical faith
is more scientifically
plausible. You’ve got a huge
split in American culture
right now between
fundamentalists who believe
the Bible just because God
inspired the Bible, and
therefore it must be true.
Then you have university types
who don’t see the Bible as
different from any other book
and pretty much don’t believe
that God is any part of the
universe. They believe the
universe was in some sense
‘self-created’ by ways we
don’t yet understand therefore
there’s no divine force behind
anything that we see.
“So the question
is,” Downing went on, “how do
you get faith back in play?
Not based on the Bible alone,
but based on modern evidence
that says, ‘Hey, the angels
may still be here.’ To me,
that’s where the UFOs come
into the scene. Fundamentalist
Christians, of course, tend to
see UFOs as demonic. The
assumption of fundamentalists
is that if UFOs were really
the angels of God, they’d show
themselves openly. Yet,
obviously, the angels of God
do not show themselves openly
to us. Otherwise, we’d all see
them. There’s some part of God
that holds God’s self back,
that doesn’t reveal God
directly to us.”
Downing believes
that God shows himself enough
that we see belief is
possible, but at the same time
hides enough so that belief is
not “required.”
“It’s a choice you
can make,” he said. “I think
that God is more likely to use
the UFO force to get faith
back in business in what you’d
call the intellectual side of
our culture now, which is very
atheistic. In any case, if it
should be true that UFOs carry
the angels of God as we
understand them Biblically,
then that would certainly seem
to be the way in which the
Second Coming would happen. If
Jesus was taken up into the
sky at his
Ascension in a
UFO, which is what seems to be
said in the Book of Acts,
Chapter One, then the other
thing that’s said in that same
chapter is this: ‘This Jesus,
who was taken up from you into
heaven, will come in the same
way as you saw him go into
heaven.’”
In other words, as
he departed in a UFO, so will
Jesus come back in a UFO. One
begins to see the pattern of
how UFOs make miracles
plausible, as Downing was
explaining earlier.
The books on which
this article was based,
“Flying Saucers in the Holy
Bible,” “The Excluded Books of
the Bible,” and “Signs and
Symbols of the Second Coming,”
all contain a great deal of
material not covered in this
article. More discussions from
learned UFO and religious
experts, more analysis of
scriptures in the light of the
flying saucer presence, and
more fascinating UFO and
Biblical history are included
in all three books. Although
the ultimate truth has not yet
been revealed, a little
exploration of the UFO/Bible
connection may be the
beginning of a new kind of
wisdom for believers of all
kinds.
[To read more by Sean Casteel, visit his website at www.seancasteel.com]
- VANISHED IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE
DEPARTMENT -
Teleportation: From Ancient Myth to Modern Science
By Martin J. Clemens
- THE MAGIC OF THE MOTH DEPARTMENT -
Weirdness of the Mothman Kind
By Nick Redfern
The USSR’s ‘Psychotronic’ Arms Race with the U.S.
During the Cold War, the US and
the Soviet Union battled on many fronts to
demonstrate their superior technical and
scientific achievements. Some of these battles are
well known and well documented, such as the race
to put a human in space and then on the Moon.
Others are much less well known. One of these battlefronts was in unconventional research—parapsychology (or psychotronics as the Soviets called it), mind control and remote influence and the such like. Some of the US work on these topics is now public and has famously become the basis for various books, TV documentaries and for the Hollywood film “The Men Who Stare at Goats”.
But much less is known about the Soviet equivalents. Today that changes thanks to the work of Serge Kernbach at the Research Center of Advanced Robotics and Environmental Science in Stuttgart, Germany. Kernbach provides an overview of Soviet efforts in unconventional research between 1917 and 2003 based on publications in Russian technical journals and recently declassified documents.
He shows how Soviet research evolved more or less independently of work in the western world but focused on many of the same unconventional themes as secret US programs. And he shows how the Soviets and the Americans used what little they knew of each other’s work to create a self-sustaining cycle of funding. This psychotronic arms race cost as much as $1 billion and only ended in the early 21st century when the funding bubble burst.
Kernbach begins by pointing out that research in the USSR could only be done with government support, unlike research in the west which could be privately funded. So the Soviets had a considerable bureaucracy to manage unconventional research and to fund it, albeit with a certain cyclical character as it fell in and out of favour.
Over the years, the Soviets focused on a number of areas, many of which mirrored US efforts. For example, the US Project MKULTRA, was a 20-year CIA program that studied ways of manipulating people’s minds and altering their brain function.
The Soviets had a similar program. This included experiments in parapsychology, which the Soviets called psychotronics. The work built on a long-standing idea in Soviet science that the human brain could receive and transmit a certain kind of high frequency electromagnetic radiation and that this could influence other objects too.
Various researchers reported that this “human energy” could change the magnetisation of hydrogen nuclei and stimulate the immune systems of wheat, vine and even humans. They even developed a device called a “cerpan” that could generate and store this energy.
Like MKULTRA, this program also included a study of the effects of electromagnetic waves on humans and led to the development psychotronic weapons, which were intended to alter people’s minds.
Kernbach also describes significant Soviet research on non-local signal transmission based on the Aharonov-Bohm effect. This occurs when a charged particle is influenced by an electromagnetic field, even when it is confined to a region where the field strength is zero.
Soviet scientists appear to have called this effect “spin-torsion” and built a number of devices to exploit it. But just how successful this was isn’t clear and this line of work appears to have been killed off in 2003.
One thing that Kernbach’s analysis lacks is any detailed discussion of the results of these programs. Consequently, it’s hard to escape the sense that this research is steeped in jargon and pseudoscience
All this research required substantial investment, says Kernbach. Numbers are difficult to come by but he concludes that Soviet spending on unconventional research must have reached the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars and may have hit $1 billion.
It certainly matched US spending and on projects such as MKULTRA this was in the hundreds of millions. “Soviet and US costs are comparable at least on a level of separate programs,” he says.
Although Kernbach says much of this research was discontinued in 2003, it is not clear whether Russia (or the US) has ongoing programs in these areas. However, Kernbach says there are as many as 500 researchers in Russia that are still active in the field of psychotronics (as measured by the numbers still attending conferences on this topic).
What’s also clear is that a significant amount unconventional research is still classified in Russia. “For instance, documents on experiments performed in OGPU and NKVD — even 80 years after — still remain classified,” says Kernbach (OGPU was the secret police force of the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1934. It evolved into the NKVD, which included the organisation that later became the KGB.)
Kernbach’s review merely scratches the surface of all this. There’s obviously significantly more to the Soviet work on unconventional research than he is able to reveal.
For the moment we’ll have to wait to find out whether that will ever be made public. And whether it was matched by similar programs in the West.
Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1312.1148: Unconventional Research In USSR And Russia: Short Overview
Source: Medium
https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/1b0b3d97df54
Others are much less well known. One of these battlefronts was in unconventional research—parapsychology (or psychotronics as the Soviets called it), mind control and remote influence and the such like. Some of the US work on these topics is now public and has famously become the basis for various books, TV documentaries and for the Hollywood film “The Men Who Stare at Goats”.
But much less is known about the Soviet equivalents. Today that changes thanks to the work of Serge Kernbach at the Research Center of Advanced Robotics and Environmental Science in Stuttgart, Germany. Kernbach provides an overview of Soviet efforts in unconventional research between 1917 and 2003 based on publications in Russian technical journals and recently declassified documents.
He shows how Soviet research evolved more or less independently of work in the western world but focused on many of the same unconventional themes as secret US programs. And he shows how the Soviets and the Americans used what little they knew of each other’s work to create a self-sustaining cycle of funding. This psychotronic arms race cost as much as $1 billion and only ended in the early 21st century when the funding bubble burst.
Kernbach begins by pointing out that research in the USSR could only be done with government support, unlike research in the west which could be privately funded. So the Soviets had a considerable bureaucracy to manage unconventional research and to fund it, albeit with a certain cyclical character as it fell in and out of favour.
Over the years, the Soviets focused on a number of areas, many of which mirrored US efforts. For example, the US Project MKULTRA, was a 20-year CIA program that studied ways of manipulating people’s minds and altering their brain function.
The Soviets had a similar program. This included experiments in parapsychology, which the Soviets called psychotronics. The work built on a long-standing idea in Soviet science that the human brain could receive and transmit a certain kind of high frequency electromagnetic radiation and that this could influence other objects too.
Various researchers reported that this “human energy” could change the magnetisation of hydrogen nuclei and stimulate the immune systems of wheat, vine and even humans. They even developed a device called a “cerpan” that could generate and store this energy.
Like MKULTRA, this program also included a study of the effects of electromagnetic waves on humans and led to the development psychotronic weapons, which were intended to alter people’s minds.
Kernbach also describes significant Soviet research on non-local signal transmission based on the Aharonov-Bohm effect. This occurs when a charged particle is influenced by an electromagnetic field, even when it is confined to a region where the field strength is zero.
Soviet scientists appear to have called this effect “spin-torsion” and built a number of devices to exploit it. But just how successful this was isn’t clear and this line of work appears to have been killed off in 2003.
One thing that Kernbach’s analysis lacks is any detailed discussion of the results of these programs. Consequently, it’s hard to escape the sense that this research is steeped in jargon and pseudoscience
All this research required substantial investment, says Kernbach. Numbers are difficult to come by but he concludes that Soviet spending on unconventional research must have reached the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars and may have hit $1 billion.
It certainly matched US spending and on projects such as MKULTRA this was in the hundreds of millions. “Soviet and US costs are comparable at least on a level of separate programs,” he says.
Although Kernbach says much of this research was discontinued in 2003, it is not clear whether Russia (or the US) has ongoing programs in these areas. However, Kernbach says there are as many as 500 researchers in Russia that are still active in the field of psychotronics (as measured by the numbers still attending conferences on this topic).
What’s also clear is that a significant amount unconventional research is still classified in Russia. “For instance, documents on experiments performed in OGPU and NKVD — even 80 years after — still remain classified,” says Kernbach (OGPU was the secret police force of the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1934. It evolved into the NKVD, which included the organisation that later became the KGB.)
Kernbach’s review merely scratches the surface of all this. There’s obviously significantly more to the Soviet work on unconventional research than he is able to reveal.
For the moment we’ll have to wait to find out whether that will ever be made public. And whether it was matched by similar programs in the West.
Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1312.1148: Unconventional Research In USSR And Russia: Short Overview
Source: Medium
https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/1b0b3d97df54
- GONNA CAUSE A
FLOODY, FLOODY, DEPARTMENT -
What Shape Was Noah's Ark?
By April Holloway
What Shape Was Noah's Ark?
By April Holloway
Most people would be familiar with the common depiction of Noah’s Ark – a traditional wooden ship floating on flood waters with animals peering out through the windows. But now new evidence has turned this depiction on its head and has revealed that the ship was in fact a circular disc shape.
For years, archaeologists have scoured the world for factual evidence for the Bible story of Noah's flood, but due to lack of scientific proof, many believe the story to be an Old Testament myth.
However, linguistic expert Dr Irving Finkel firmly believes that Noah’s Ark and the ‘flood myth’ describe real events that took place, and he bases this belief not on faith, but on archaeological evidence coming from a 3,700-year-old clay tablet. The tablet was found in the Middle East by Leonard Simmons, who served in the RAF during the 1940s. However, the ancient artefact wasn't subject to any research until Simmons's son Douglas took it to the British Museum in 2008.
As an expert in deciphering cuneiform script and assistant keeper of the ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures department at the British Museum, Finkel was able to translate the text on the clay tablet, leading to a new interpretation of the Noah’s Ark ‘myth’.
The tablet described a Mesopotamian story, which became the account in Genesis in the Old Testament, of Noah and the ark that saved every animal species from the flood waters. The text describes God speaking to Atram-Hasis, a Sumerian king who is the Noah figure in earlier versions of the ark story.
He says: 'Wall, wall! Reed wall, reed wall! Atram-Hasis, pay heed to my advice, that you may live forever! Destroy your house, build a boat; despise possessions and save life! Draw out the boat that you will build with a circular design; Let its length and breadth be the same.'
The ancient Babylonian text describes the ark as a round 65-metre diameter coracle with walls 6 metre high, spread over two levels. The craft was divided into sections to divide the various animals into their own sections. The 60 lines of text, which Dr Finkel describes as a “detailed construction manual for building an ark”, claims the craft was built using ropes and reeds before being smeared with bitumen to make it waterproof.
Experts have always assumed that the ark was an ocean-going boat with a pointed stem and stern for riding the waves, but according to Finkel, the ark didn’t have to go anywhere, it just had to float.
The story of Noah’s ark is described in dozens of ancient texts and is told in three major world religions: Christianity, Judaism and Islam. According to the story, God flooded the world as punishment for its corruption and told Noah to build an ark and fill it with a male and female of every breed of animal. Once the flood receded, the ark came to rest on a mountain. Many people believe that this mountain was Mount Ararat in Turkey, the region's highest point.
Source: Ancient Origins
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology-human-origins-religions/incredible-new-insights-noahs-ark-clay-tablet
The New Testament, the Gnostic Scriptures
and the Second Coming: Are UFOs the Key?
By Sean Casteel
[To read more by Sean Casteel, visit his website at www.seancasteel.com]
Teleportation: From Ancient Myth to Modern Science
By Martin J. Clemens
Being a die-hard
fan of Star Trek, I basically grew
up accepting the idea that people
could be beamed from one location to
the next. They made it look so
easy; you just stepped onto the
lighted pad while some guy in a red
(or yellow) shirt hit a few icons on
his control board and after a few
wibbly lines and sparkles, away you
went. They were never really
clear on exactly how it worked or
how far they could send you, but it
must have been anywhere from a few
hundred thousand miles to a
million. What a way to travel!
Of course, that’s a TV show. A particularly good TV show in my opinion, but a fictional construct nonetheless. Mr. Roddenberry was faced with a conundrum when he created a show based on interstellar travel, including visits to all manner of alien worlds. How do we get our characters from the ship to the surface without endless voyages in shuttlecraft or what have you? Easy, we invent a machine that magically transports them in an instant! But did Roddenberry really invent the idea?
Well, no, he didn’t.
The idea that a person or thing can be magically transported from one location to another is actually quite an old one. It has shamanistic origins, and there are accounts, arguably, in the Bible, but it likely predates the Biblical period. Those Biblical accounts, Ezekiel 11:1, and in the story of Daniel and the Lion’s Den from the Hebrew Bible, tell of the mystical phenomenon of bilocation, where a person is observed in two places at once, often impossibly far apart. This idea is also found in Vedic traditions, Buddhism and many other spiritual customs. The story from the Holy Quran, of the Prophet Muhammad’s Night Journey from Mecca to Jerusalem, is sometimes thought of as another example.
The idea has a few names too: bilocation (also given as bi-location), apportation (or to apport), teletransportation, or more commonly, teleportation. These terms all have slightly different meanings, but all refer to the same phenomenon. The term teleportation was first coined by the inimitable father of paranormal research, Mr. Charles Fort in 1931, in his second non-fiction book titled Lo!.[1] In it he described various events and happenings revolving around the idea and presented his thesis that, by way of a “cosmic joker”, certain objects and people could be transported over great distances by unknown means. Fort connected many disparate phenomenon with teleportation, from telekinetic apportation, which is associated with spiritualistic séances and mediums, to missing persons cases and even weird rain (strange items and/or animals falling like rain, often from clear skies).
“Mostly in this book I shall specialize upon indications that there exists a transportory force that I shall call Teleportation.”
But as mentioned, the idea long predates Fort and the spiritualism movement of the late 19th century. The problem, as with any Fortean subject, is that the older the account, the less credible the source. There are many stories from almost every culture that feature an event resembling Fort’s idea of teleportation, but it’s exceedingly difficult to pin down details, and thus we are forced to look at them as apocryphal myths. Of course, the more modern accounts don’t really offer that much reliable information either.
Apportation gets a bad rap, resulting from the questionable methods of mid to late 19th century and early 20th century mediums and spiritualists, who used sleight of hand and outright trickery to dupe sitters into believing objects, such as flowers, stones, perfumes, and small animals, were either spontaneously disappearing or appearing (or both) during a séance. Almost every account from this period has either been debunked or is considered to have been hoaxed, but there are a few worth mentioning.
The amazing story of the Pansini Brothers is one such account.
The Pansini Brothers, the sons of Signor Mauro Pansini, an Italian building contractor, were considered to be “mediumistic children”. Following what was said to have been poltergeist activity in the family’s older home in 1904 and ongoing accounts of the older son speaking in tongues, the boys, Alfredo (10) and Paulo (8), we mysteriously transported a distance of ten to fifteen miles from the home in mere minutes. Apparently there were multiple teleport events involving both boys, and on one occasion, in the presence of a bishop Bitonto, the boys vanished from the room as their mother and the bishop discussed means for ending this “obsession”.[2]
Despite fairly close scrutiny by Italian scientists at the time, no explanation was ever found for the events.
Another notable account of teleportation is that of Damodar Ketkar of Poona, India. Ketkar, described as a young child in the grips of a “poltergeist persecution”, suffered a teleportation event on April 23, 1928. According to a letter written by the boy’s British Governess, Miss H. Kohn, Damodar materialised in front of her and said to her “I have just come from Karjat!” (Which is approximately 63 miles from Poona)
Kohn noted, with some enthusiasm, that the boy’s posture upon materialising was “…of a person who has been gripped round the waist and carried, and therefore makes no effort but is gently dropped at his destination.”[3] He apparently suffered no ill effects from the experience.
This case is unique and particularly interesting, as it’s the only known case of a person’s teleportation arrival being witnessed independently. As with the others though, this tale stands, and will remain, uncorroborated.
Of course, anyone who stays abreast of modern technological advancements, is aware that scientists are working on making the Star Trek transporter a reality. This research is in the realm of quantum physics, and it involves what Einstein called “spooky action at a distance”, otherwise known as quantum entanglement. A certain level of success has been achieved in the field of quantum teleportation, but we’re still far from zipping through space, from planet to planet, for various complicated reasons.
It is reasonable to think, though, that in time our greatest scientific minds will master the science and bring us something like a sci-fi transporter, but as Eric W. Davis concluded in his 2004 special report to the US Air Force Research Laboratory on teleportation physics:
“At present, none of the theoretical concepts explored…have been brought to a level of technical maturity, where it becomes meaningful…”[4]
[1] Charles Fort. Lo!. Claud Kendall (Publisher) 1931 New York [Online annotated version]: http://www.resologist.net/loei.htm
[2] Lapponi, Joseph. Hypnotism and Spiritualism. New York: Long-Mans, Green and Co. 1907
[3] Price, Harry. An Indian Poltergeist with Miss H. Kohn. Psychic Research (New York) March 1930
[4] Davis, Eric. W. Teleportation Physics Report. Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command – August 2004 AFRL-PR-ED-TR-2003-0034 http://www.rense.com/1.imagesG/teleport.pdf
Source: Paranormal People
http://www.paranormalpeopleonline.com/teleportation-from-ancient-myth-to-modern-science/
Of course, that’s a TV show. A particularly good TV show in my opinion, but a fictional construct nonetheless. Mr. Roddenberry was faced with a conundrum when he created a show based on interstellar travel, including visits to all manner of alien worlds. How do we get our characters from the ship to the surface without endless voyages in shuttlecraft or what have you? Easy, we invent a machine that magically transports them in an instant! But did Roddenberry really invent the idea?
Well, no, he didn’t.
The idea that a person or thing can be magically transported from one location to another is actually quite an old one. It has shamanistic origins, and there are accounts, arguably, in the Bible, but it likely predates the Biblical period. Those Biblical accounts, Ezekiel 11:1, and in the story of Daniel and the Lion’s Den from the Hebrew Bible, tell of the mystical phenomenon of bilocation, where a person is observed in two places at once, often impossibly far apart. This idea is also found in Vedic traditions, Buddhism and many other spiritual customs. The story from the Holy Quran, of the Prophet Muhammad’s Night Journey from Mecca to Jerusalem, is sometimes thought of as another example.
The idea has a few names too: bilocation (also given as bi-location), apportation (or to apport), teletransportation, or more commonly, teleportation. These terms all have slightly different meanings, but all refer to the same phenomenon. The term teleportation was first coined by the inimitable father of paranormal research, Mr. Charles Fort in 1931, in his second non-fiction book titled Lo!.[1] In it he described various events and happenings revolving around the idea and presented his thesis that, by way of a “cosmic joker”, certain objects and people could be transported over great distances by unknown means. Fort connected many disparate phenomenon with teleportation, from telekinetic apportation, which is associated with spiritualistic séances and mediums, to missing persons cases and even weird rain (strange items and/or animals falling like rain, often from clear skies).
“Mostly in this book I shall specialize upon indications that there exists a transportory force that I shall call Teleportation.”
But as mentioned, the idea long predates Fort and the spiritualism movement of the late 19th century. The problem, as with any Fortean subject, is that the older the account, the less credible the source. There are many stories from almost every culture that feature an event resembling Fort’s idea of teleportation, but it’s exceedingly difficult to pin down details, and thus we are forced to look at them as apocryphal myths. Of course, the more modern accounts don’t really offer that much reliable information either.
Apportation gets a bad rap, resulting from the questionable methods of mid to late 19th century and early 20th century mediums and spiritualists, who used sleight of hand and outright trickery to dupe sitters into believing objects, such as flowers, stones, perfumes, and small animals, were either spontaneously disappearing or appearing (or both) during a séance. Almost every account from this period has either been debunked or is considered to have been hoaxed, but there are a few worth mentioning.
The amazing story of the Pansini Brothers is one such account.
The Pansini Brothers, the sons of Signor Mauro Pansini, an Italian building contractor, were considered to be “mediumistic children”. Following what was said to have been poltergeist activity in the family’s older home in 1904 and ongoing accounts of the older son speaking in tongues, the boys, Alfredo (10) and Paulo (8), we mysteriously transported a distance of ten to fifteen miles from the home in mere minutes. Apparently there were multiple teleport events involving both boys, and on one occasion, in the presence of a bishop Bitonto, the boys vanished from the room as their mother and the bishop discussed means for ending this “obsession”.[2]
Despite fairly close scrutiny by Italian scientists at the time, no explanation was ever found for the events.
Another notable account of teleportation is that of Damodar Ketkar of Poona, India. Ketkar, described as a young child in the grips of a “poltergeist persecution”, suffered a teleportation event on April 23, 1928. According to a letter written by the boy’s British Governess, Miss H. Kohn, Damodar materialised in front of her and said to her “I have just come from Karjat!” (Which is approximately 63 miles from Poona)
Kohn noted, with some enthusiasm, that the boy’s posture upon materialising was “…of a person who has been gripped round the waist and carried, and therefore makes no effort but is gently dropped at his destination.”[3] He apparently suffered no ill effects from the experience.
This case is unique and particularly interesting, as it’s the only known case of a person’s teleportation arrival being witnessed independently. As with the others though, this tale stands, and will remain, uncorroborated.
Of course, anyone who stays abreast of modern technological advancements, is aware that scientists are working on making the Star Trek transporter a reality. This research is in the realm of quantum physics, and it involves what Einstein called “spooky action at a distance”, otherwise known as quantum entanglement. A certain level of success has been achieved in the field of quantum teleportation, but we’re still far from zipping through space, from planet to planet, for various complicated reasons.
It is reasonable to think, though, that in time our greatest scientific minds will master the science and bring us something like a sci-fi transporter, but as Eric W. Davis concluded in his 2004 special report to the US Air Force Research Laboratory on teleportation physics:
“At present, none of the theoretical concepts explored…have been brought to a level of technical maturity, where it becomes meaningful…”[4]
[1] Charles Fort. Lo!. Claud Kendall (Publisher) 1931 New York [Online annotated version]: http://www.resologist.net/loei.htm
[2] Lapponi, Joseph. Hypnotism and Spiritualism. New York: Long-Mans, Green and Co. 1907
[3] Price, Harry. An Indian Poltergeist with Miss H. Kohn. Psychic Research (New York) March 1930
[4] Davis, Eric. W. Teleportation Physics Report. Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command – August 2004 AFRL-PR-ED-TR-2003-0034 http://www.rense.com/1.imagesG/teleport.pdf
Source: Paranormal People
http://www.paranormalpeopleonline.com/teleportation-from-ancient-myth-to-modern-science/
- THE MAGIC OF THE MOTH DEPARTMENT -
Weirdness of the Mothman Kind
By Nick Redfern
There can be very
few researchers of the world of the
unexplained who have not
experienced, now and again, a sense
that the phenomena they
investigate sometimes manipulates
them. For some people, it can be an
exciting and illuminating
experience. For others, it can be
downright terrifying, and something
which has led people to quit –
forever – the world of the
paranormal. I have experienced this
sense of manipulation more than a
few times, but last Saturday night
things became downright crazy.
Right now, I’m working on a new book that includes a small overview of the Mothman mystery, which dominated the town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia in the 1960s. So, over the course of the last week, and even though I’m very clued-in on the subject, I have been doing a bit of additional research into the winged beast made most famous in John Keel’s classic study of the case, The Mothman Prophecies.
Well, as coincidence (or synchronicity) would have it, on the very same day that I began my research last week, I received in the mail a package of new books from Andy Colvin, the author of no less than five books (so far!) on Point Pleasant’s most famous monster. They are: The Mothman’s Photographer, The Mothman’s Photographer II, The Mothman’s Photographer III, The Mothman Speaks and The Mothman Shrieks.
As well as writing books on Mothman, Andy has also moved into the world of publishing, which brings me back to the package of books that arrived last week. It was a parcel that contained the aforementioned The Mothman Shrieks, as well as three additional titles. One of them was Praise for the Hairy Man (a new Bigfoot-themed book Andy has written with researcher Jeffery Pritchett). The other two books were The Outer Limits of the Twilight Zone and Flying Saucer to the Center of Your Mind.
These two latter books are particularly recommended, as they are collections of the selected writing of John Keel – many of which would be very hard to find, were it not for the fact that Andy has now made them available. And, with that all said, now we come to the events of last Saturday. I should explain that I have spent the past week or so stuck at home with a chest infection. And so, bored utterly rigid on Saturday night, I decided I would watch again the 2002 movie version of The Mothman Prophecies, starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, and Alan Bates.
At one point in the movie, Gere’s character, John Klein – based, of course, on John Keel – is in a Point Pleasant hotel-room late at night when he speaks on the phone with one of the creepiest of all characters in the Mothman saga, Indrid Cold. When Cold reveals the location of Klein’s watch (under the bed, in his shoe) and states correctly that Klein is holding a tube of ChapStick in his hand, Klein realizes that Cold is reading his mind.
Klein tests Cold even further, by picking up a book and turning, at random, to page 51. He tells Cold to speak down the phone the third line of the page, which Cold does, accurately. Don’t ask me why, because I have no real answer, but at that point in the movie, I felt a sudden and very strange compulsion to check out page 51 (and the third line down) of Andy Colvin’s The Mothman Shrieks and his co-authored title, Praise for the Hairy Man.
Since the books had only been delivered a few days earlier, they were still in my living-room. So, I paused my DVD of The Mothman Prophecies, picked up the two books and scanned their pages. To my utter amazement, the third line down on page 51 of The Mothman Shrieks actually makes a reference to Indrid Cold himself. And, on top of that, the third line of page 51 of Praise for the Hairy Man focuses on the glowing eyes of Mothman.
That, as I said, I felt specifically compelled to check out the two books at the very time I was watching the Klein-Cold phone conversation unfold, only made matters even stranger. I have to confess that while I have experienced quite a few things like this over the course of my time spent digging into matters of a supernatural nature, this one really stood out big-time for me.
Admittedly, I don’t have a clue as to why things like this happen. All I know for sure is that they do happen – and they happen time and time again. Maybe there is some sort of lesson to be learned, but, if so, for me it’s a presently unfathomable one. Perhaps it’s all down to some strange, paranormal force screwing with our minds for its own warped reasons.
Will I, you, or indeed any of us, truly have the answers? Perhaps not. As Alan Bates’ character, author Alexander Leek (also based upon John Keel) tells John Klein in The Mothman Prophecies movie: “We’re not allowed to know.”
Source: Mysterious Universe
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/12/weirdness-of-the-mothman-kind/
Right now, I’m working on a new book that includes a small overview of the Mothman mystery, which dominated the town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia in the 1960s. So, over the course of the last week, and even though I’m very clued-in on the subject, I have been doing a bit of additional research into the winged beast made most famous in John Keel’s classic study of the case, The Mothman Prophecies.
Well, as coincidence (or synchronicity) would have it, on the very same day that I began my research last week, I received in the mail a package of new books from Andy Colvin, the author of no less than five books (so far!) on Point Pleasant’s most famous monster. They are: The Mothman’s Photographer, The Mothman’s Photographer II, The Mothman’s Photographer III, The Mothman Speaks and The Mothman Shrieks.
As well as writing books on Mothman, Andy has also moved into the world of publishing, which brings me back to the package of books that arrived last week. It was a parcel that contained the aforementioned The Mothman Shrieks, as well as three additional titles. One of them was Praise for the Hairy Man (a new Bigfoot-themed book Andy has written with researcher Jeffery Pritchett). The other two books were The Outer Limits of the Twilight Zone and Flying Saucer to the Center of Your Mind.
These two latter books are particularly recommended, as they are collections of the selected writing of John Keel – many of which would be very hard to find, were it not for the fact that Andy has now made them available. And, with that all said, now we come to the events of last Saturday. I should explain that I have spent the past week or so stuck at home with a chest infection. And so, bored utterly rigid on Saturday night, I decided I would watch again the 2002 movie version of The Mothman Prophecies, starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, and Alan Bates.
At one point in the movie, Gere’s character, John Klein – based, of course, on John Keel – is in a Point Pleasant hotel-room late at night when he speaks on the phone with one of the creepiest of all characters in the Mothman saga, Indrid Cold. When Cold reveals the location of Klein’s watch (under the bed, in his shoe) and states correctly that Klein is holding a tube of ChapStick in his hand, Klein realizes that Cold is reading his mind.
Klein tests Cold even further, by picking up a book and turning, at random, to page 51. He tells Cold to speak down the phone the third line of the page, which Cold does, accurately. Don’t ask me why, because I have no real answer, but at that point in the movie, I felt a sudden and very strange compulsion to check out page 51 (and the third line down) of Andy Colvin’s The Mothman Shrieks and his co-authored title, Praise for the Hairy Man.
Since the books had only been delivered a few days earlier, they were still in my living-room. So, I paused my DVD of The Mothman Prophecies, picked up the two books and scanned their pages. To my utter amazement, the third line down on page 51 of The Mothman Shrieks actually makes a reference to Indrid Cold himself. And, on top of that, the third line of page 51 of Praise for the Hairy Man focuses on the glowing eyes of Mothman.
That, as I said, I felt specifically compelled to check out the two books at the very time I was watching the Klein-Cold phone conversation unfold, only made matters even stranger. I have to confess that while I have experienced quite a few things like this over the course of my time spent digging into matters of a supernatural nature, this one really stood out big-time for me.
Admittedly, I don’t have a clue as to why things like this happen. All I know for sure is that they do happen – and they happen time and time again. Maybe there is some sort of lesson to be learned, but, if so, for me it’s a presently unfathomable one. Perhaps it’s all down to some strange, paranormal force screwing with our minds for its own warped reasons.
Will I, you, or indeed any of us, truly have the answers? Perhaps not. As Alan Bates’ character, author Alexander Leek (also based upon John Keel) tells John Klein in The Mothman Prophecies movie: “We’re not allowed to know.”
Source: Mysterious Universe
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/12/weirdness-of-the-mothman-kind/
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DO YOU BELIEVE IN SANTA
DEPARTMENT -
Santa Claus Sightings
By Stephen Wagner
Santa Claus Sightings
By Stephen Wagner
PERHAPS
THIS IS a ridiculous question,
but: Does Santa Claus really
exist? Some would say that the
question is silly because of
course Santa Claus is a myth.
Others would say the question
is ridiculous because of
course he is real! How can we
doubt it?
Over the years, many children and adults have reported sightings of the real Santa Claus - not department store Santas or bell-ringing Salvation Army charity collectors, but the real thing. They even claim seeing the sleigh and reindeer in some cases. Are these illusions seen through the eyes of Christmas excitement and expectation? Or are these cases of genuine Christmas magic?
BRISTOL, ENGLAND - 2000
I am 14 now, but this happened back in 2000 in my old house in Bristol, England. I was with my mum and dad and my sister. It was about midnight [on Christmas Eve] and I was the only one awake because I was really excited. I could hear these big footsteps in my living room. I was quite scared, and I could also hear bells tingling above me. So I wanted to see what was going on.
I walked down the stairs very slowly and I could see this big man putting presents around my living room. I wanted to say something, but I was too scared to do it because I thought he would be angry. I ran back upstairs and went back to sleep. I was so convinced I saw the real Santa and told everyone in the morning... but no one believed me. - Alex H.
NEW YORK CITY, NY - 2002, 2004 and 2007
It was Christmas Eve of 2002 in New York City. We invited some friends and relatives over for dinner, sort of like a Christmas Eve celebration. After that, I decided to go to my room to watch some television, but there was nothing good to watch. I then found myself pacing back and forth in the hallway. My house is big, so there was no one with me. Everyone was in the living room watching a movie I wasn't interested in.
About seven minutes into my pacing, I saw a tall, fat figure scurry away about 20 feet away from me. It was crouched down, too. It was even wearing some sort of Santa Claus suit. I didn't believe in Santa, but this just freaked me out. There was a strange man in my house!
I quickly ran to where my parents were and told them all about it. They grinned at me and said jokingly, "Maybe it was Santa Claus." I didn't believe that, so I just sat down in the living room with my family and everybody else.
Then it occurred again on Christmas Eve, 2004. I remember it more vividly than the last one. I was lying on the couch in the living room. My parents were in the kitchen having a conversation about a business blog or something. Suddenly, I saw a huge man, about seven or eight feet tall, crawl underneath the tree and just vanish. Before it disappeared, it looked at me and said, "Shh." Very strange, so I went into the kitchen and sat with my parents.
Smaller happenings occurred the following Christmases. I recall one in 2007, it was daylight this time and I just happened to see another tall figure with a Santa hat trudge by me for two seconds, then it was gone. This really happened. - Claxton Kalmbach
WHITE SANTA - 1969
I had an experience when I was three years old and still young enough to wear footed pajamas. The year was maybe 1969, Christmas Eve. I wanted to see what Santa had brought me, so I quietly walked down the hallway and looked around the corner to our living room. I saw my parents and someone I didn't know around our Christmas tree. The stranger was an old guy with a white beard and hair with a red suit. I quickly went back to my room as fast as I could with footed pajamas and slid into bed.
I told my mom what happened many years later and she insisted that I was dreaming or that it was my dad. That wasn't possible because my dad was sitting in a chair behind the stranger and my mom was standing right next to my dad! I'm African American, and during that time the tenants in our building were all African American, so Santa stood out! - Joanne
NEIGHBORHOOD - 1973
One Christmas Eve about 35 years ago, while I was in my teens, I was in a car with my parents, returning home very late at night. We were talking the whole way about Santa Claus and how great it would be if he really did exist. As we pulled in the driveway of our house - there he was, tiptoeing in the snow in-between two houses across the street! We all laughed when we saw this and remembered the incident for many Christmases thereafter. P.S.: No robberies were reported. - Del
BRIGHT LIGHT - 2003
I am 13, now but I saw something when I was seven. It was dark, night time around midnight [on Christmas Eve]. I was in bed, but I wasn't asleep (who could be?). All of a sudden, I saw a red light beaming down into my window. It was so bright, and somehow I knew it was him.
I looked up in the sky, but all I could see was the bright light coming from a small object. I didn't hear a helicopter or anything, but I did hear the unique sound of bells and, of course, the sound of hooves tapping on the roof. These sounds lasted for a few seconds after the light had disappeared, then they were gone. - Jade
SAN ANTONIO
I was about 7 and I was looking outside my second-story window, just waiting to see him. I saw something approaching in the distance: it was a huge sleigh and it was flying right over my house! I don't remember seeing any reindeer, but I did see a man dressed in red with a beard. I was so startled, but I kept looking, even sticking my head and half my body outside of the window!
I told my family, but I knew they really didn't believe me. I swear on my life to this day I saw something. I don't know if it was really Santa Claus, but I did see what I described! - Drew
SCOTLAND - 1978
An old friend came to see me a couple of weeks ago. We lost touch years ago, but he managed to trace me and he brought me a Christmas card. After a few minutes, I asked him if he remembered the Christmas Eve about 30 years ago when we were outside our houses. We grew up next to each other.
It must have been around 7.30 p.m., a clear night, when we suddenly heard a bell or bells in the distance getting closer real fast. As we both looked up, there was the reindeer, the sleigh and Santa flying very fast and low over my house. It was brief, but we both ran to tell our families. Of course, everyone laughed, but I tell you it was real!
So when my friend turned up I asked him if he remembered, and he said of course he did... but he didn't like telling people about it now. You can imagine why! - Jimmy
UP ON THE ROOF - 2006
Three Christmases ago, I was coming home from my aunt's, where we have a party. I was crying because one of my cousins told me that Santa wasn't real. Then we came around the corner of my street and there it was - a big red sleigh and reindeer sitting on my roof! And then Santa popped out of my chimney!
I told everyone the next morning to see if they could remember, but they couldn't. But a couple of days ago, my dad went up to the roof to fix the leak... and there were long, straight lines going across the roof. I took a picture and showed it to my baby cousins and told them always believe. - Anonymous
AIRPORT PARKING LOT
A few years ago I worked at the airport parking lot in a booth collecting parking fees. On Christmas Eve, a car pulled up to the window, the passenger was a very happy, chubby, white bearded guy wearing red pants with red suspenders and a white turtleneck covered in red and green Christmas characters. He sure looked like Santa to me. The rest of the evening I told all my customers that Santa had just flown in. - < i>SKIttySKat
AUSTRALIA
This happened long ago when I was about ten years old. Our house was in the suburbs. I swear that on one Christmas Eve, I was sleeping in my room when I heard my backyard door open, then close, and then a minute later it opened and closed again another three times each, about a minute apart. I thought it must have been my parents bringing in our presents from our garage, although, I don't recall seeing them go past my bedroom to their room. I was hiding under the covers at the time.
On another Christmas Eve, I tried to sneak down to the living room to try and catch Santa, but I chickened out and left. As I was walking back to my bedroom, I passed our front door and the light came on from outside, and I thought I could see the shadow of someone outside. Of course, now that I think about it, it could have just been a passerby or a cat or something. Or maybe - just maybe - it could have been Santa. - Nick
EERIE SANTA
I was five years old, and I was in my room when I heard shuffling in the living room. I got up and peered around the doorway, where I saw a man in a Santa suit standing in front of the Christmas tree. He must have felt my presence because he turned around and looked at me. He didn't look jolly or kind and happy like you would expect Santa Claus to look. He looked kind of eerie, like he was staring into my soul.
Automatically, I ran into my parents' room and hid under the covers. I don't know why I was so scared at the time, but I wrote it off as a dream for a while before I forgot about it completely.
Years later, I remembered it. I thought it could have been a burglar, but when I asked my parents, nothing was ever missing from that apartment. The only time we were ever robbed was when we moved later on. The only explanation I have now is that it was some kind of apparition. - Ana
MEMPHIS, TENN. - 1980s and 2009
I grew up in a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. In the 1980s, I was 8 or 9 years old. My parents and I were coming home from a Christmas party on Christmas Eve. When we pulled up in the driveway, we saw Santa Claus in a sleigh hovering above our house. All we could hear were sleigh bells. The sleigh was illuminated so that we could see Santa (in full outfit) in the sleigh. I remember seeing reindeer, but I don't know how many there were. Santa waved at us and flew off in the sleigh.
I'll never forget it, and I'll never forget my dad's face of total shock. He was an air traffic controller and when he went back to work after the holidays he asked about it and nothing came up.
In another bizarre twist, on Black Friday in 2009, I was waiting in line at a local Target store and broke out into conversation with another lady in line. We were talking about Christmas shopping, and all of a sudden out of nowhere she mentioned that her brother had seen Santa Claus in his sleigh two years before. I stood with my mouth wide open because I couldn't believe it. Every Christmas Eve I still think about him and look outside to try to get a glimpse. - Mrs. Wages
QUIET SANTA
I was probably around 8 years old when on Christmas Eve around 12 a.m., I had been lying awake in bed for about 30 minutes. I was extremely excited, thinking about the morning and opening presents. Anyway, I start to hear these very faint footsteps approaching. Slowly, a man in boots, carrying a sack looked into my room, my parents' room and then my brother's room. I'm absolutely 100% positive I was awake, too. I could see him fairly well because we had a nightlight on across the hall in our bathroom. I remember hiding my entire face under the covers with a small portion for my eyes to see. He then walked away quietly and he was gone.
Of course I told my parents and brother in the morning about my sighting and, of course, they thought I was crazy. To this day (I'm 28 now), I ask my parents if they had anything to do with this, and they still deny it and say I was dreaming. I strongly believe I saw a spirit or some kind of entity of Santa. - Richard
DEFINITELY NOT SANTA
I heard this story from my husband years ago. He was small, probably around six years old. His family was spending Christmas at the old family homestead. He was in bed when he heard a noise outside and ran to the window to see what it was. What should he see, but a fat, white-bearded man walking through the swirling snow toward the house. He crept downstairs to get a good look at Santa.
How disappointed he was when he discovered it was only his grandfather in his red "union suit" on his way back from the outhouse. - K. Stuart
Source: paranormal.about.com
http://paranormal.about.com/od/othermiracles/a/Santa-Claus-Sightings.htm
Over the years, many children and adults have reported sightings of the real Santa Claus - not department store Santas or bell-ringing Salvation Army charity collectors, but the real thing. They even claim seeing the sleigh and reindeer in some cases. Are these illusions seen through the eyes of Christmas excitement and expectation? Or are these cases of genuine Christmas magic?
BRISTOL, ENGLAND - 2000
I am 14 now, but this happened back in 2000 in my old house in Bristol, England. I was with my mum and dad and my sister. It was about midnight [on Christmas Eve] and I was the only one awake because I was really excited. I could hear these big footsteps in my living room. I was quite scared, and I could also hear bells tingling above me. So I wanted to see what was going on.
I walked down the stairs very slowly and I could see this big man putting presents around my living room. I wanted to say something, but I was too scared to do it because I thought he would be angry. I ran back upstairs and went back to sleep. I was so convinced I saw the real Santa and told everyone in the morning... but no one believed me. - Alex H.
NEW YORK CITY, NY - 2002, 2004 and 2007
It was Christmas Eve of 2002 in New York City. We invited some friends and relatives over for dinner, sort of like a Christmas Eve celebration. After that, I decided to go to my room to watch some television, but there was nothing good to watch. I then found myself pacing back and forth in the hallway. My house is big, so there was no one with me. Everyone was in the living room watching a movie I wasn't interested in.
About seven minutes into my pacing, I saw a tall, fat figure scurry away about 20 feet away from me. It was crouched down, too. It was even wearing some sort of Santa Claus suit. I didn't believe in Santa, but this just freaked me out. There was a strange man in my house!
I quickly ran to where my parents were and told them all about it. They grinned at me and said jokingly, "Maybe it was Santa Claus." I didn't believe that, so I just sat down in the living room with my family and everybody else.
Then it occurred again on Christmas Eve, 2004. I remember it more vividly than the last one. I was lying on the couch in the living room. My parents were in the kitchen having a conversation about a business blog or something. Suddenly, I saw a huge man, about seven or eight feet tall, crawl underneath the tree and just vanish. Before it disappeared, it looked at me and said, "Shh." Very strange, so I went into the kitchen and sat with my parents.
Smaller happenings occurred the following Christmases. I recall one in 2007, it was daylight this time and I just happened to see another tall figure with a Santa hat trudge by me for two seconds, then it was gone. This really happened. - Claxton Kalmbach
WHITE SANTA - 1969
I had an experience when I was three years old and still young enough to wear footed pajamas. The year was maybe 1969, Christmas Eve. I wanted to see what Santa had brought me, so I quietly walked down the hallway and looked around the corner to our living room. I saw my parents and someone I didn't know around our Christmas tree. The stranger was an old guy with a white beard and hair with a red suit. I quickly went back to my room as fast as I could with footed pajamas and slid into bed.
I told my mom what happened many years later and she insisted that I was dreaming or that it was my dad. That wasn't possible because my dad was sitting in a chair behind the stranger and my mom was standing right next to my dad! I'm African American, and during that time the tenants in our building were all African American, so Santa stood out! - Joanne
NEIGHBORHOOD - 1973
One Christmas Eve about 35 years ago, while I was in my teens, I was in a car with my parents, returning home very late at night. We were talking the whole way about Santa Claus and how great it would be if he really did exist. As we pulled in the driveway of our house - there he was, tiptoeing in the snow in-between two houses across the street! We all laughed when we saw this and remembered the incident for many Christmases thereafter. P.S.: No robberies were reported. - Del
BRIGHT LIGHT - 2003
I am 13, now but I saw something when I was seven. It was dark, night time around midnight [on Christmas Eve]. I was in bed, but I wasn't asleep (who could be?). All of a sudden, I saw a red light beaming down into my window. It was so bright, and somehow I knew it was him.
I looked up in the sky, but all I could see was the bright light coming from a small object. I didn't hear a helicopter or anything, but I did hear the unique sound of bells and, of course, the sound of hooves tapping on the roof. These sounds lasted for a few seconds after the light had disappeared, then they were gone. - Jade
SAN ANTONIO
I was about 7 and I was looking outside my second-story window, just waiting to see him. I saw something approaching in the distance: it was a huge sleigh and it was flying right over my house! I don't remember seeing any reindeer, but I did see a man dressed in red with a beard. I was so startled, but I kept looking, even sticking my head and half my body outside of the window!
I told my family, but I knew they really didn't believe me. I swear on my life to this day I saw something. I don't know if it was really Santa Claus, but I did see what I described! - Drew
SCOTLAND - 1978
An old friend came to see me a couple of weeks ago. We lost touch years ago, but he managed to trace me and he brought me a Christmas card. After a few minutes, I asked him if he remembered the Christmas Eve about 30 years ago when we were outside our houses. We grew up next to each other.
It must have been around 7.30 p.m., a clear night, when we suddenly heard a bell or bells in the distance getting closer real fast. As we both looked up, there was the reindeer, the sleigh and Santa flying very fast and low over my house. It was brief, but we both ran to tell our families. Of course, everyone laughed, but I tell you it was real!
So when my friend turned up I asked him if he remembered, and he said of course he did... but he didn't like telling people about it now. You can imagine why! - Jimmy
UP ON THE ROOF - 2006
Three Christmases ago, I was coming home from my aunt's, where we have a party. I was crying because one of my cousins told me that Santa wasn't real. Then we came around the corner of my street and there it was - a big red sleigh and reindeer sitting on my roof! And then Santa popped out of my chimney!
I told everyone the next morning to see if they could remember, but they couldn't. But a couple of days ago, my dad went up to the roof to fix the leak... and there were long, straight lines going across the roof. I took a picture and showed it to my baby cousins and told them always believe. - Anonymous
AIRPORT PARKING LOT
A few years ago I worked at the airport parking lot in a booth collecting parking fees. On Christmas Eve, a car pulled up to the window, the passenger was a very happy, chubby, white bearded guy wearing red pants with red suspenders and a white turtleneck covered in red and green Christmas characters. He sure looked like Santa to me. The rest of the evening I told all my customers that Santa had just flown in. - < i>SKIttySKat
AUSTRALIA
This happened long ago when I was about ten years old. Our house was in the suburbs. I swear that on one Christmas Eve, I was sleeping in my room when I heard my backyard door open, then close, and then a minute later it opened and closed again another three times each, about a minute apart. I thought it must have been my parents bringing in our presents from our garage, although, I don't recall seeing them go past my bedroom to their room. I was hiding under the covers at the time.
On another Christmas Eve, I tried to sneak down to the living room to try and catch Santa, but I chickened out and left. As I was walking back to my bedroom, I passed our front door and the light came on from outside, and I thought I could see the shadow of someone outside. Of course, now that I think about it, it could have just been a passerby or a cat or something. Or maybe - just maybe - it could have been Santa. - Nick
EERIE SANTA
I was five years old, and I was in my room when I heard shuffling in the living room. I got up and peered around the doorway, where I saw a man in a Santa suit standing in front of the Christmas tree. He must have felt my presence because he turned around and looked at me. He didn't look jolly or kind and happy like you would expect Santa Claus to look. He looked kind of eerie, like he was staring into my soul.
Automatically, I ran into my parents' room and hid under the covers. I don't know why I was so scared at the time, but I wrote it off as a dream for a while before I forgot about it completely.
Years later, I remembered it. I thought it could have been a burglar, but when I asked my parents, nothing was ever missing from that apartment. The only time we were ever robbed was when we moved later on. The only explanation I have now is that it was some kind of apparition. - Ana
MEMPHIS, TENN. - 1980s and 2009
I grew up in a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. In the 1980s, I was 8 or 9 years old. My parents and I were coming home from a Christmas party on Christmas Eve. When we pulled up in the driveway, we saw Santa Claus in a sleigh hovering above our house. All we could hear were sleigh bells. The sleigh was illuminated so that we could see Santa (in full outfit) in the sleigh. I remember seeing reindeer, but I don't know how many there were. Santa waved at us and flew off in the sleigh.
I'll never forget it, and I'll never forget my dad's face of total shock. He was an air traffic controller and when he went back to work after the holidays he asked about it and nothing came up.
In another bizarre twist, on Black Friday in 2009, I was waiting in line at a local Target store and broke out into conversation with another lady in line. We were talking about Christmas shopping, and all of a sudden out of nowhere she mentioned that her brother had seen Santa Claus in his sleigh two years before. I stood with my mouth wide open because I couldn't believe it. Every Christmas Eve I still think about him and look outside to try to get a glimpse. - Mrs. Wages
QUIET SANTA
I was probably around 8 years old when on Christmas Eve around 12 a.m., I had been lying awake in bed for about 30 minutes. I was extremely excited, thinking about the morning and opening presents. Anyway, I start to hear these very faint footsteps approaching. Slowly, a man in boots, carrying a sack looked into my room, my parents' room and then my brother's room. I'm absolutely 100% positive I was awake, too. I could see him fairly well because we had a nightlight on across the hall in our bathroom. I remember hiding my entire face under the covers with a small portion for my eyes to see. He then walked away quietly and he was gone.
Of course I told my parents and brother in the morning about my sighting and, of course, they thought I was crazy. To this day (I'm 28 now), I ask my parents if they had anything to do with this, and they still deny it and say I was dreaming. I strongly believe I saw a spirit or some kind of entity of Santa. - Richard
DEFINITELY NOT SANTA
I heard this story from my husband years ago. He was small, probably around six years old. His family was spending Christmas at the old family homestead. He was in bed when he heard a noise outside and ran to the window to see what it was. What should he see, but a fat, white-bearded man walking through the swirling snow toward the house. He crept downstairs to get a good look at Santa.
How disappointed he was when he discovered it was only his grandfather in his red "union suit" on his way back from the outhouse. - K. Stuart
Source: paranormal.about.com
http://paranormal.about.com/od/othermiracles/a/Santa-Claus-Sightings.htm
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