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The strange booms that rattled residents of New Jersey up to Long Island, New York, this past week may have been the result of fighter jet flight tests at the Naval Air Station in Patuxent River, Maryland.

At 1:24 p.m. EST (18:24:05 UTC) about 2 miles (3 kilometers) north-northeast of Hammonton, New Jersey, and 37 miles (60 km) south of Trenton, New Jersey, a sonic boom was detected at nearby seismometers in the ground. At least nine others were picked up in the following hour and a half along the Eastern Seaboard up to Long Island, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

The speed of the seismic waves and other factors identified the events as sonic booms and not earthquakes, according to John Bellini, a geophysicist with the USGS National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado.

When an object such as an aircraft (or an explosion) travels faster than the speed of sound (761.2 mph, or 1,225 km/h, at sea-level), the result is a shockwave that also travels faster than sound, Bellini told Live Science. [Photos: See Aircraft Breaking the Sound Barrier]

Potential culprits were ruled out soon after the booms were recorded, with officials at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island in Virginia confirming there weren't any rocket launches or jet flights at the center that could have caused the sonic booms. The Federal Aviation Administration and the North American Aerospace Defense Command both also confirmed no nearby planes operating that may have caused the sonic booms, as reported by ABC News yesterday.

A nearby naval base was also cleared: "We have reports of ground shaking in S. Jersey-- currently our training ranges are clear and no MDL aircraft are capable of sonic booms," officials at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst wrote on Twitter. "We're working with local authorities to determine the cause and will have an update ASAP."

But late in the afternoon, the U.S. Navy released a statement about flight testing in the area.

"Aircraft from Naval Test Wing Atlantic were conducting routine flight testing in the Atlantic Test Ranges this afternoon that included activities which may have resulted in sonic booms,” the Navy said in a statement, as reported by the Washington Post. "The test wing is critical to the safe test and evaluation of all types of Navy and Marine Corps aircraft in service and in development and is primarily based out of Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. Other military aircraft, including both Navy and Air Force, also frequently use the ranges for testing and training."

The sonic-boom culprits were likely the F-18 and the F-35C, which were the craft involved in the flight testing, according to the Washington Post. The F-18, also called the F/A-18 Hornet, is a strike fighter used as both an attack aircraft and a fighter that has a max speed of Mach 1.8, or 1.8 times the speed of sound in air. The F-35C, a Joint Strike Fighter warplane designed to operate from the flight decks of aircraft carriers, can reach speeds of Mach 1.6, according to Lockheed Martin, the defense contractor that is developing the fighter jet.

"Thursday's sonic booms could well have been the result of a face-off between the F-35 and the older F-18 Hornet, a supersonic jet that the Navy has used since the mid 1980s," reported the Post.

Source: LiveScience
http://www.livescience.com/53524-mysterious-sonic-boom-over-new-jersey.html

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TOKYO: Taxi drivers working in towns in north-east Japan that were devastated in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami are reporting picking up "ghost passengers".

At least seven drivers in the coastal town of Ishinomaki, where nearly 6,000 people died after it was battered by tsunami more than 30 feet high, claimed to have encountered phantom fares.

The men were among more than 100 drivers interviewed by Yuka Kudo, a student of sociology at Tohoku Gakuin University, as part of her graduation thesis, the Asahi newspaper reported.

One of the men told Ms Kudo that a woman climbed into his taxi near Ishinomaki Station just a few months after the disaster. She asked him to go to the Minamihama district, to which the driver said there was nothing left standing there.

The driver recounted that the woman asked, "Have I died?" and, when he turned to look, his taxi was empty.

Another driver, directed to a different part of the city by a man who appeared to be in his 20s, similarly found himself alone in his vehicle when he arrived.

Ms Kudo's research indicates that the men were convinced they were picking up a genuine fare as they started their meters in each case. Some of the drivers noted their experiences in their log books and all remarked that the ghosts appeared to be young.

"Young people feel strong chagrin [at their deaths] when they cannot meet the people they love," Ms Kudo said. "As they want to convey their bitterness, they may have chosen taxis ... as a medium to do so".

None of the drivers experienced fear of their ghost passengers, but instead regarded their encounters as events to be cherished.

Official records show that 15,893 people died as a result of the magnitude-9 earthquake, which lasted for 6 minutes and triggered tsunami that in places reached 133 feet high and travelled 6 miles inland. A further 2,572 people are still listed as missing.

Taxi drivers are not the only ones to report seeing ghosts in the rubble of Tohoku's coastal communities. Locals report sightings of ghostly figures lined up for supermarkets in areas where now there is only rubble.

Shinichi Yamada was lucky to escape the waves. But when Yamada brought home two Buddhist statues salvaged from the tsunami debris in the weeks following the disaster, he said his luck took a turn for the worse.

His two young children fell suddenly ill and an eerie chill began to follow his family around the house. Shinichi Yamada, the construction worker, said, "A couple of times when I was lying on my back in bed, I felt something walking across me, stepping across my chest."

Yamada’s solution was to call in Kansho Aizawa -- the local exorcist.

In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, Aizawa said she was called on to commune with the dead every day, as families struggled to track down the bodies of missing loved ones.

Aizawa said that she has helped people who claim to be seeing headless ghosts, bodies missing arms or legs and others who believe they have assumed the spirits of some of the dead.

Kansho Aizawa, the exorcist, said, "There’s been a gradual change over the years. At first people came here wanting to find the body of a missing loved one. Then they wanted to find out exactly how that person died and if their spirit was at peace. Recently they’ve now started wanting to transmit their own messages to the dead."

Exorcists have reported helping people who claim to be seeing headless ghosts, bodies missing arms or legs and others who believe they have assumed the spirits of some of the dead.

Ten kilometres away in Ishinomaki, psychiatrist Keizo Hara is not convinced that people are seeing ghosts. Keizo Hara, a psychiatrist of Disaster Mental Healthcare Network, said, "The places where people say they see ghosts are largely those areas completely swept away by the tsunami, with nothing now left at all. So we think that phenomena like ghost sightings are perhaps a mental projection of the terror and worries associated with those places".

But for Shinichi Yamada, life is looking up. After he and Aizawa deposited the haunted statues in a nearby shrine, the spooky experiences have stopped. He still believes the statues are haunted, but after a session with an exorcist, he says their spirits have now found peace.

Taxi drivers picking up possibly spectral passengers is not a recent occurance. A few years ago the newspaper Solomon Times probed in a random interview with cab drivers who claimed to have picked up 'ghost passengers'.

The norm is for passengers in need of cab service to call and your ride gets at your doorstep in no time.

Cab drivers however often get the spooks when night falls as many claim to "come face-to-face" with ghosts.

"Street talks allege that these cab drivers believe they have been seeing ghosts and worse scenerios are of some claiming to having ghost passengers," Melinda Manu told Solomon Times.

A cab driver approached revealed that he had an eerie experience of picking up a passenger at Panatina field "who just disappeared in the vehicle".

"I later realised that this guy, who died early this year used to drive a taxi," the cab driver said.

Solomon Times received similar stories from fellow cab drivers of having a fair share of ghost experience when night falls.

It was revealed that following an encounter with a ghost, "the person will feel sick every evening and the only cure is to visit the church brothers".

Solomon Times was informed that another eerie incident would be receiving missed calls from none other than themselves.

"We will be sitting in a group, waiting for calls and next we know, we are getting missed calls from each other and neither is making any calls," another cab driver revealed.

They described the fear as "one straight out from movies like Missed Call".

Most state that such incidents has made most reluctant to work late into the nights.

Source: The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/12111749/Taxi-drivers-
in-tsunami-disaster-zone-report-ghost-passengers.html

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"You're traveling through another dimension..." began Rod Serling's introduction to The Twilight Zone television series. And the experience Chloe relates below could serve as the basis for one of the show's scripts. Upon returning to her home one night after work, something was wrong... out of kilter... didn't make sense... and ultimately is unexplained. This is Chloe's story....

Recently, something has been disturbingly wrong.

I live in East Tennessee with my mother, father, older brother, and a friend who is temporarily staying with me. On the Saturday after Valentine's Day of 2012, my father, Richard, took my mother, Vicki, to the Martha Washington Hotel in North Carolina. My mother just adores its history. It is known to be haunted. My dad says that when he walks into that eerie place, the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. I find it humorous that he is scared and she isn't.

Anyway, upon their returning, things went missing and later showed up in random places throughout the house. My father always keeps his keys and wallet on the nightstand, but every morning they are on the floor in the center of the bedroom.

 But things have gotten worse. Even crazy.

SOMETHING STRANGE

On February 23, 2012, my friend Savanna and I (the friend who lives with me) got off work and rode home together. We arrived there at 10:29 p.m. While pulling into the driveway, I noticed that every light in the house was off, which is extremely strange. My parents always sit on the couch in the living room with at least the lamp on.

Before we entered the house, I tried calling the house phone, but there was no answer.

I called my father's cell phone; no answer. Lastly, when I attempted to reach my mother through her cell phone, she indeed answered the phone, but didn't respond to anything I said. She did this twice.

On the phone with my brother, he advised us to go inside because my parents are known for the occasional practical joke. We entered through the garage and tried to get my dog to come with us. She stayed outside the door instead, which again seemed odd.

I turned on the hall light and proceeded to walk to my parents' room and noticed that their bed sheets were hanging on the door. I walked in to see their mattress pulled off to the side of the bed.

At this point I was a little on edge, so I jogged to the living room, calling out to them. But there was no response. Had they been there, they would've heard me. I still do not doubt that.

We left the house and got into my car to call my brother. He instructed us to meet him so he could come back with us and check it out. At this point my voice was shaking as bad as my hands had been.

This is where things get unusually scary.

BACK TO "NORMAL"

Not two minutes down the road, I received a text from my mother that read, "Are you two running late?" I called her and she was upset that we weren't home. She sounded concerned and was about to send my dad out to look for us because we had not returned home.

I sped home in attempt to catch them in the prank. When I pulled into the driveway, things appeared normal. Upon entering the house, we noticed that their bed was neatly made and they were sitting on the couch watching The Housewives of Orange County. As always.

When we told them what had happened they looked baffled. "We have been sitting on this couch since seven, Chloe. Where have you been?" After explaining in more detail, they began to worry. My dad retreated to his room and my mother almost cried. They swore that they had been there for hours, but just minutes earlier Savanna and I had been in the same empty, dark room.

When I think back to last night, I notice now that when entering the house the first time something felt wrong. Almost as if we were not in a worldly dimension. It has bothered me ever since.

Where were we?

Source: Paranormal.about.com
http://paranormal.about.com/od/timeanddimensiontravel/a/Home-In-
Another-Dimension.htm

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In the last few years, the frightening phenomenon of the Black -Eyed Children visitations has swept the internet. Whether or not the the stories of midnight encounters with with the mysterious Black-Eyed Kids have any truth to them has been a hotly-debated topic, but that hasn’t stopped tales of the BEKs from popping up on message boards, in chatrooms, and on paranormal podcasts.  Who are they? Where do they come from? What do they want? We aren’t sure.

No matter who tells it, the encounters always occur the same way: someone home alone in the middle of the night hears a knock on the door. When they peek through the window, children, normally in a pair, are seen standing in the cold. As the resident cautiously cracks open the door to see what might be wrong, a familiar feeling of dread washes over them. The strange children beg to be let inside, but something isn’t right.. there’s something “off” about these kids. As the lonely resident looks closer, they see that these children’s eyes are black as an oil slick, an unnerving detail that causes them to slam the door and deny their pleas for entrance. Some of them call the police, others clutch a weapon, but never, ever, do they let the Black Eyed Children inside.

Until now.

The following chilling eyewitness account comes from a woman who emailed us to say that she made the mistake of letting the Black-Eyed Kids inside her home, and now, she claims, is paying the ultimate price. Her story comes as warning to those willing to open their door more than a crack. I’ve edited the letter for grammar, redacted the identifying information, and slightly altered the introduction, but beyond that, the report is submitted exactly as it arrived.

Honestly, it’s the scariest BEK account I’ve ever read.


Let me start by saying that I know how hard this all will be to believe, but now that things have taken a turn for the worse I started looking for stories similar to mine and found Week in Weird. I feel like I should share this story with someone and your website seems like the right place.  I made the mistake of letting the Black Eyed Kids inside and now I’m worried that I might die because of it. I hope this will be a warning to everyone who is ever in the position to make the same mistake that I did.

I live just outside of [a rural town in] Vermont. It’s a tight knit community where everyone knows one another and people don’t lock their doors at night. There has never been any need to.

A little over a year ago I woke up because I heard a loud banging on my front door. At the time my husband I lived in a small home on a dirt road just off the rural route into town. It was the middle of a snowstorm and the nearby hills get very slippery in the snow so I thought that someone might have been in an accident and broken down. It’s happened before.

When I looked out the window I could see that out motion spotlight was on. I could see that there were footprints in the snow that had come from our road and into our driveway but there was no car anywhere. The snow was still covering the road and no one had driven on it for at least a couple hours. Our front door was obscured from the window but I could see that someone was standing there. I wasn’t sure what to think so I woke my husband up just to feel safer. While I was telling him what was going on the banging on the door started again and my husband went to answer it while I stood in the hallway.

When he opened the door there were two children standing in the snow looking toward the ground. They were a boy and a girl and could not have been more than 8 years old. They were dressed strangely and had odd haircuts. The girl’s hair was very long and straight and the boy had a dated haircut that looked almost like a bowl cut. They weren’t dressed for winter and my first thought was that they must have been Mennonite children but as far as I know there was never a large community of Mennonites near us.

Thinking back on it I know that my normal reaction to seeing children in a snowstorm would have been to rush them inside and bundle them up with some blankets and hot cocoa, but that’s not how this felt. The children were very unnerving. They would not make eye contact and when my husband asked them if everything was ok they asked if they could come in. My husband looked at me like “what do I do?” and I asked the kids where their parents were.

“They’ll be here soon,” is all they said.

It was around 2 o’clock in the morning at this point so the only reasonable thought in my head was that there must have been an accident or these kids got lost. As much as my instincts told me not to bring them inside I did it anyway.

I went into the kitchen to make them some hot cocoa while my husband took them into the living room. While I was fixing the kettle I could hear my husband talking to the kids. He was asking them if they were ok, where the came from, how far they walked, if their parents’ car was broken down, things like that. But they always answered “our parents will be here soon”. They spoke in a sing-songy voice. They weren’t afraid to be in a stranger’s home at all.

I started to notice that our cats (we had four) were all hiding except Pigeon who was in the kitchen with me. Normally our cats are very curious and friendly and we have to be careful that they don’t run out the door when we leave. This time none of them even tried to see who was here which I thought was very strange. All of the hair on Pigeon’s neck was standing up and his tail was puffed up while he looked in the living room. When I bent down to pet him and see what was wrong he hissed and started growling and backed up until he had hid himself under the kitchen island. I have never seen him do that before.

When I walked back into the living room the kids were sitting on the couch as still as can be but my husband was holding his head in his hands. I asked him what wrong and he just said that he felt very dizzy all of a sudden but that he was fine. I turned back to the children to give them their cocoa, but when they looked at me I gasped. It took everything inside of me not to drop the mugs and run away. When they looked at me their eyes were completely black. They had no whites just giant black pupils.

When they saw that I was scared they stood up and asked if they could use the bathroom. I tried to be as composed as I could be and showed them down the hall. They went into the bathroom together and I hurried back to my husband to ask him if he had seen their eyes. He had seen them too and said that it looked like his brothers badly bruised eyes after a car accident. We were in the middle of talking about whose children they could be when my husbands nose started to bleed. He’d never had nosebleeds as long as I had known him. I just knew inside myself that this had something to do with the kids in the bathroom and I started crying while I ran to get [my husband] some tissues.

That’s when the power went out. I heard my husband yell my name from the living room and as I started to walk back through the hallway I stopped dead in my tracks. The two children were standing at the end of the hallway. They weren’t moving and I have never been so scared in my whole life. They just stood there in the dark.

After what felt like forever the boy said “our parents are here” and they walked to the door, opened it, and walked out leaving it wide open. My husband jumped up to go close it and almost fell over. We looked out the window and saw two men standing by a black car idling at the end of our driveway. The men looked like they were wearing black colored suits and were very tall, at least 6 feet. When my husband waved at them they just stared at us, got into the car, and drove off.

Our power came on about a half an hour later but nothing was the same after that.

Over the next few months three of our cats went missing. We can only assume that they ran away somewhere and never came back but the worst thing was coming home to find Pigeon in a puddle of blood on the living room floor. He looked like he had been vomiting blood. The vet told us that he had some kind of hemorrhage.

After my husband’s nosebleeds became a regular occurrence we went to see the doctor. He didn’t know what to make of it other than “dry nasal passages” but my husband was diagnosed with an aggressive skin cancer. When the doctor asked us if he used tanning beds we both thought he was joking, but apparently this kind of melanoma is linked to over-use of  indoor tanning. The doctors think he will recover but don’t understand how it got so bad so quickly. My husband has never worked an outdoor job and spends relatively little time in the sun.

Since we let the Black Eyed Kids inside our home I’ve also suffered from regular dizzy spells and nosebleeds on a regular basis. I’ve had other issues which I won’t mention here but trust me when I say that I am suddenly in the worst condition of my life and no one can do anything about it. I know that all of this is because I let the Black Eyed Children into my home. We’ve told everyone we could about the strange kids that showed up that night but no one else saw them and some laugh at how scared we were of the “Mennonite kids” but we know what we saw. I wish my husband had never opened the door.

Feel free to publish this as a warning to others about the Black Eyed Kids. My advice would be to lock your doors, call the police, and wait for morning. Don’t make the same mistake that I did.

As I said, it’s the most frightening report of the Black Eyed Kids I’ve personally read, and the first one I’m aware of that covers what happens to those unfortunate souls who let them in. Still, the story leaves us with more questions than answers. Who where the tall men that came to pick them up? Why were the cats so afraid of these children? Were they truly to blame for nosebleeds and cancer?

Two interesting things that stand out immediately are the obvious resemblance of the tall men in dark suits to the notorious Men In Black encounters. Second, the skin cancer diagnosis seems reminiscent of the radiation burns, or “Moonburn Syndrome”, commonly suffered by UFO witnesses. Could the Black Eyed Children be part of an emerging trend in extraterrestrial contactee cases?

Whatever the case, the warning remains the same: don’t let the BEKs inside.

Source: Ghost Theory
http://weekinweird.com/2016/01/28/witness-report-i-let-the-black-eyed-children-
into-my-home-and-now-im-slowly-dying/