Did Canadian researcher snap Sasquatch?
Friday, March 5th, 2010
A Canadian researcher managed to take a picture of the face of the legendary hairy giant – the mascot of the Winter Olympic Games 2010.
Randy Brisson, a well-known Canadian cryptozoologist, shared hot information with his Russian colleagues. The researcher sent a photograph of the North American Bigfoot to Igor Burtsev and Dmitry Bayanov, the directors of the International Center for Hominology. The Canadian took the picture of the creature in Vancouver, the capital of Winter Games 2010.
The Canadian cryptozoologist said that he had seen a Sasquatch peeking out from behind a huge stub in the woods near Pitt Lake. The spot, where the creature was supposedly photographed, is quite far from sports objects.
Randy and his son Ray found big tracks on the snow along a hauling road. The footprints were quite big – it was obvious that they had been left by an adult creature. There were smaller footprints found nearby too.
The toes on the feet of both the adult and the youngster were pathologically angled to one side. The researcher claimed that the creatures were breeding since he had found the footprints of both a parent and a baby.
Mr. Brisson also said in his message to the Russian researchers that he and his son decided not to trace the couple because the creatures, when trying to escape, were throwing rocks at them.
The story may sound very strange, but Burtsev and Bayanov said that they had never exposed the Canadian of any falsifications in their studies of the unknown.
Ghost boy photo debunked
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Last week we brought you a report of the Ghost Boy photo from a Daily Mail report, and now thanks to the Ghost Theory website it has been officially labeled as a hoax.
It has been revealed that the hoax is thanks to an iTunes application that allows you to create your own paranormal pictures called “Ghost Capture”.
According to the iTunes description of the app:
Create realistic paranormal photo manipulations right on your iPhone and iPod Touch**!
With Ghost Capture, you can manipulate any photo from your iPhone photo album. After choosing an image, (or taking a new photo directly through Ghost Capture) select a ghost to superimpose onto the photo. Choose from creepy Victorian children, faceless torsos, Civil War soldiers, ghostly orbs, and more. After placing the ghost, slip the horizontal, adjust the size, rotation, and transparency to achieve the optimum effect. Don’t like the way your ghost is turning out? Hit the reset button to put it back in the center of the screen for you to start over or even select a different ghost! Save and email your creation to your friends, and let them judge for themselves!
You can also submit them to us for the gallery!
Check out what other people are doing with the app. From jokes to flat out creepy. At times pictures are done so well it’s almost a ‘Where’s Waldo’ game when trying to locate the ghost.
The source of the hoax was John Fores, who “took” the photo outside the building site and was very willing to speak to the Daily Mail, ironically about how this photographic revelation had swayed him towards believing in ghosts.
Perhaps in future though, Journalists should check on their iPhones for verification before printing obviously questionable photographs.
For the original story CLICK HERE.
MoD ‘blanked out’ insults about reports
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Defence officials’ insulting remarks about the public had to be blanked out of government UFO files before they were made public, a memo has revealed.
The Ministry of Defence had agreed to publish its full archive of reported sightings in response to a deluge of Freedom of Information Act requests.
But the once-secret memo, published on its website, reveals “uncomplimentary comments” were edited out.
Comments on international relations and defence technology were also deleted.
Thousands of pages from the department’s UFO files have been released through the National Archives since 2008, revealing details of reported flying objects and encounters with aliens.
The newly released memo to ministers and defence chiefs, dated September 2007, discusses how to make the largely “low security classification” information public.
It notes they “include references to air defence matters, defence technology, relations with foreign powers and occasional uncomplimentary comments by staff or police officers about members of the public, which will need to be withheld in accordance with FoI principles.”
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) recorded UFO sightings from the end of the Second World War until it shut its special investigation unit on 1 December last year.
Officials feared publishing only part of the information would “fuel accusations of a ‘cover-up’,” the document reveals.
“Contrary to what many members of the public may believe, MoD has no interest in the subject of extraterrestrial life forms visiting the UK, only in ensuring the integrity and security of UK airspace,” it says.
“The MoD is aware of no clear evidence to prove or disprove the existence of aliens, and consequently the files are considerably less exciting than the ‘industry’ surrounding the UFO phenomena would like to believe.”
The fifth instalment of MoD UFO files was released last week, revealing reports of a large triangular UFO hovering in the skies above former home secretary Michael Howard’s home near Folkestone, Kent, in March 1997.
The phantom breadmaker strikes again
Friday, February 19th, 2010
Residents of a Cornish seaside town have been left mystified by personal gifts of bread left on their doorsteps.
The self-named “Phantom Breadmaker” has been making repeat visits to some homes in Fowey.
When the local town crier first opened his door to the little loaves he was surprised by the personally-addressed parcel.
Having jokingly asked for a special order, he was stunned when on Thursday, it arrived.
Town crier Michael Penprase said: “It was beautiful-looking bread. My wife put a notice in the window asking for a sliced loaf.
“Sure enough, this morning in a bag on the door handle were three sliced loaves of bread.”
People across the town have been sampling the gifts, left with a note from The Phantom Bread Maker of Old Fowey Town pictured as a cloaked figure.
Some have their own theories about who the Phantom is, but no-one is letting on.
Boutique owner Belinda Weatherall said: “It could only happen in a place like Fowey.
“I think it’s a lovely idea and I hope he never gets discovered.”
Police in the town warned people not to eat the bread in case it was contaminated.
Businessman reveals psychic school plans
Friday, February 19th, 2010
A RIBBLE Valley businessman is bidding to buy a huge castle to open Britain’s first ‘psychic school of excellence’.
Kevin Horkin
Clitheroe-based Kevin Horkin has put in an offer of £850,000 to buy the derelict Grade I-listed Gwrych Castle in Abergele, North Wales.
Mr Horkin, who owns psychic management company Parallel, wants to spend ’several millions’ renovating the 19th century castle, installing a hotel and facilities for psychics to connect with the spiritual world.
He said: “It has always been one of my ambitions to open a psychic retreat somewhere and this would work on several fronts.
“It will be somewhere where psychics can go to meet like-minded people, to further their interests and develop their psychic senses.
“There will be some psychic workshops because I think there is a desire and a need for that.
“That’s why we have gone for North Wales. It is a fantastic place and this is a dream of mine.”
During an 18-month search for a base of psychic school of excellence, Mr Horkin and his staff at Parallel, based in Waddington Road, Clitheroe, visited around 20 houses and castles before deciding on Gwrych.
It even included an ultimately fruitless search for a suitable location in Lancashire.
However, he believes the psychic retreat in North Wales, which would include a tie-up with a hotel operator, will appeal to ‘ordinary’ people.
Mr Horkin added: “It is something different. There’s a risk with opening it but I just feel strongly about it.
“I love the place and I feel that people will love it too. There’s just something about it.”
Earlier this week, Mr Horkin revealed how a ghostly image had shown up on mobile phone photographs he took at Gwrych Castle.
If all goes to plan, he hopes to open his psychic school of excellence in late 2012.
[via: lancashiretelegraph.co.uk by Chris Hopper]
UFO spotted above Michael Howard’s home
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
A large triangular UFO was seen hovering in the skies above former home secretary Michael Howard’s home, according to Ministry of Defence files.
Government correspondence, local newspaper reports and details of an RAF investigation into the sighting near the MP’s home near Folkestone, Kent, all feature in UFO files released by the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
Eyewitnesses in Burmarsh and New Romney saw the ”humming” object, the size of two passenger planes, near Mr Howard’s home on March 8 1997, when he was serving as home secretary for the Conservative government.
Sophie Wadleigh, 25, from Hythe, reported the sighting to the Folkestone Herald.
She told the newspaper: ”It was so peculiar, it all felt really odd and I heard this humming noise.
”As I looked across the field I saw a large triangular shaped flying craft hovering about 300 metres off the ground.”
Ji Lane, 23 and Christopher Lee, 27, also witnessed the incident.
Mr Lane said: ”It was crazy – I was getting a drink in the kitchen when I saw these strange lights in the sky just over the field across the road from our house.”
Mr Lee added: ”It was a lot longer than a plane and moved incredibly quickly – I have no idea what it was and we were both left speechless.”
Further newspaper cuttings reveal Chris Rolfe, co-ordinator of group UFO Monitoring East Kent (UFOMEK), warned at the time the UFO could have been looking for Mr Howard.
Mr Rolfe said: ”It would seem the UFO was disinterested in Sophie, the girl who reported it and watched it for quite a long time.
”This certainly makes it seem like it had a purpose and has left me wondering if its purpose had something to do with Mr Howard.”
UFOMEK compiled its own report on the sighting and sent it to the Prime Minister, Home Office and Ministry of Defence.
An eyewitness account in the UFOMEK report said: ”It was just a huge triangle thing, which was a lot bigger than an aeroplane or anything like that.
”It had lights all around the outside, and this disc attached to the back, and a big light on the front. I pulled up to a stop and as I did it shot off.”
It went on: ”I was really frightened by it and I’m not stupid. I don’t believe in anything like that (UFOs). This is not something I’ve ever seen before or like something we would have built.”
An RAF investigation into the sighting was undertaken, but the findings found nothing unusual The Air Defence inquiry said there was ”no such security incident” involving Mr Howard or and ”no such military activity reported anywhere, and, specifically, in the Kent/Folkestone area”.
The report added: ”Additional inquiries have confirmed that no unusual or unauthorised air activity, civil or military, was reported or observed in that area on that date.”
MoD responses to queries related to the alleged sighting said there was ”no evidence” to suggest a security breach.
One letter addressed to an un-named individual said: ”Your letters mention a UFO sighting over the home of the former home secretary Michael Howard, near Folkestone.
”Although the MoD has received reports of an alleged ‘UFO’ sighting near Michael Howard’s home on March 8 1997, MoD Air Defence staff have confirmed that there is no evidence to suggest any unauthorised incursion of the UK Air Defence Region on that date.”
5th set of MoD UFO files released
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
With the release of the fifth set of secret Ministry of Defense files now released to the public, we found Nick Pope’s (former MoD employee, now Guardian columnist) comment piece about the release very interesting.
Providing a unique insight into the UFO debate, we would like to share his article with you, in case you missed it. You can view the article at – UFOs: The (Boring) Truth is out There on guardian.co.uk.
Atlantis burried in Spain?
Monday, February 15th, 2010
Archaeologists have begun the search for an ancient civilization in southern Spain that some believe could help pinpoint the legendary lost city of Atlantis.
A team of researchers from Spain’s Higher Council for Scientific Study (CSIC) are examining a marshy area of Andalusian parkland to find evidence of a 3,000-year-old settlement.
They believe that Tartessos, a wealthy civilization in southern Iberia that predates the Phoenicians, may have had its capital in the heart of what is now the Donana national park.
Until now historians had dismissed the region as a possible site believing that it had been submerged since the ice age. But it is claimed new evidence suggests the waters may have receded in time for the Tartessians to build an urban centre, which was later destroyed in a tsunami.
The Hinojos marshes, an area close to the mouth of the Guadalquiver river where it meets the Atlantic, have now been pinpointed as the site most likely to provide evidence of a lost city.
Archaeological findings have already proved the existence of Tartessian culture at sites on the opposite bank of the river.
“If they existed on the other side, they must also have been here (in Donana),” Sebastian Celestino, the archaeologist leading the project told the newspaper El Pais.
“There were earthquakes and one of them caused a tsunami that razed everything and which coincided with the era in which Tartessian power was at its height.”
Aerial photos show the existence of large circular and rectangular forms that could not have been produced by nature.
The images, together with literary accounts by ancient Greek geographers have given weight to the theory that a great Tartessian city once existed within the park.
The Tartessian civilization, which developed in southern Spain between the 11th and 7th centuries BC and became rich trading gold and silver from local mines, has long been linked by mythologists to the Atlantis legend.
While the Spanish researchers refuse to speculate on whether they are on the brink of discovering Atlantis others believe their research could be a breakthrough in a centuries old quest.
“Evidence is mounting that suggests the story of Atlantis was not mere fiction, fable or myth, but a true story as Plato always maintained,” said Georgeos Diaz-Montexano, a Cuban archeologist who has spent the last 15 years searching for the submerged city.
“Atlantis is not exactly where the CSIC is looking, but it is close,” he claimed.
The theory is just the latest in a long list of suggested locations for Atlantis, including various Mediterranean islands, the Azores, the Sahara desert, Central America and Antarctica.
[via: questfornews.blogspot.com]
Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ causes Karaoke killings
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Frank Sinatra’s classic “My Way” has been blamed on a series of karaoke bar murders in the Philippines.
It may be a karaoke classic all over the world, but the song has been linked to a string of violence and even killings due to poor renditions in bars in South-East Asia.
At least half a dozen murders in the last decade have now been linked to the Sinatra favourite according to reports in the New York Times.
Many bars have since had the song removed from play lists as a preventative measure to what have been labeled the “My Way Killings”.
Amateur singer Rodolfo Gregorio said: ‘The trouble with My Way is that everyone knows it and everyone has an opinion. I used to like My Way, but after all the trouble I stopped singing it. You can get killed.’
Pentagon to breed immortal organisms
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
The Pentagon’s mad science arm may have come up with its most radical project yet. Darpa is looking to re-write the laws of evolution to the military’s advantage, creating “synthetic organisms” that can live forever — or can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch.
As part of its budget for the next year, Darpa is investing $6 million into a project called BioDesign, with the goal of eliminating “the randomness of natural evolutionary advancement.” The plan would assemble the latest bio-tech knowledge to come up with living, breathing creatures that are genetically engineered to “produce the intended biological effect.” Darpa wants the organisms to be fortified with molecules that bolster cell resistance to death, so that the lab-monsters can “ultimately be programmed to live indefinitely.”
Of course, Darpa’s got to prevent the super-species from being swayed to do enemy work — so they’ll encode loyalty right into DNA, by developing genetically programmed locks to create “tamper proof” cells. Plus, the synthetic organism will be traceable, using some kind of DNA manipulation, “similar to a serial number on a handgun.” And if that doesn’t work, don’t worry. In case Darpa’s plan somehow goes horribly awry, they’re also tossing in a last-resort, genetically-coded kill switch:
“Develop strategies to create a synthetic organism “self-destruct” option to be implemented upon nefarious removal of organism.”
The project comes as Darpa also plans to throw $20 million into a new synthetic biology program, and $7.5 million into “increasing by several decades the speed with which we sequence, analyze and functionally edit cellular genomes.”Of course, Darpa’s up against some vexing, fundamental laws of nature — not to mention bioethics — as they embark on the lab beast program. First, they might want to rethink the idea of evolution as a random series of events, says NYU biology professor David Fitch. “Evolution by selection is nota random process at all, and is actually a hugely efficient design algorithm used extensively in computation and engineering,” he e-mails Danger Room.
Even if Darpa manages to overcome the inherent intelligence of evolutionary processes, overcoming inevitable death can be tricky. Just ask all the other research teams who’ve made stabs at it, trying everything from cell starvation to hormone treatments. Gene therapy, where artificial genes are inserted into an organism to boost cell life, are the latest and greatest in life-extension science, but they’ve only been proven to extend lifespan by 20 percent in rats.
But suppose gene therapy makes major strides, and Darpa does manage to get the evolutionary science right. They’ll also have a major ethical hurdle to jump. Synthetic biology researchers are already facing the same questions, as a 2009 summary from the Synthetic Biology Project reports:
“The concern that humans might be overreaching when we create organisms that never before existed can be a safety concern, but it also returns us to disagreements about what is our proper role in the natural world (a debate largely about non-physical harms or harms to well-being).”
Even expert molecular geneticists don’t know what to make of the project. Either that, or they’re scared Darpa might sic a bio-bot on them. “I would love to comment, but unfortunately Darpa has installed a kill switch in me,” one unnamed expert tells Danger Room.
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