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CONTENTS
#1. Precursor To Anthrax Hysteria: The Mad Gasser of Roanoke by: Matt Chittum
http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/midatlantic/bal-ca.gasser00apr21.story
#2. South African Ghosthunter Has 'Cleansed' 6,000 Homes
http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/pghost49.htm
#3. Village That Never Sleeps
http://ufos.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.mysticalunive
rse.com/
#4. TV Psychic 'chats' With Blake's Dead Wife on ABC by: Sarah Tippit
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.bayarea.c
om/mld/bayarea/entertainment/3117785.htm
#5. New Book Release - Spiral To The Sun-Messages From The Divine Mother by:
Elizabeth Huffer
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/1892264064/revi
ews/104-1011350-3292723#18922640643000 http://www.timelessvoyager.com/stts.htm
#6. A UFO Landmark, Texas 1897 by: B.J. Booth Bidd...@aol.com
http://www.ufocasebook.com
#7. What The "HecK" Is Going On - A Letter From A Friend On Unexplained
Happenings....by: Ray RayS...@aol.com
#8. Roswell UFO Bombshell by: Jim Keith
Feature Story FATE Magazine 2000-01-01
http://www.fatemag.com/article.phtml?id=69
#9. The Voices In Your Head May Be Real by: John Gartner Wired.com
http://www.rense.com/general20/voicesAL.htm
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#1. Precursor To Anthrax Hysteria: The Mad Gasser of Roanoke by: Matt Chittum
http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/midatlantic/bal-ca.gasser00apr21.story
In early '30s, public's imagination ran wild in Virginia
FINCASTLE, Va. - Men sat awake with shotguns across their laps. Women stuffed
rags into keyholes and the cracks around windows. Police chased shadows. The
press ratcheted up the hysteria with dozens of news stories.
Local politicians offered a reward.
When and where would the fiend strike next?
There was a mad gasser on the loose in Botetourt County 70 years ago, or so
people believed for a while.
The sinister sneak somehow pumped noxious gas into the homes of the
unsuspecting, driving them to dizziness and vomiting.
Hysteria stops
After two months, the hysteria stopped without an arrest. But it went on long
enough to be classified by one sociologist as a classic case of mass delusion
on a par with the 1938 "War of the Worlds" Martian radio scare and, much more
recently, anthrax.
"If you want to know what it was like to live in Roanoke and Botetourt back
then, it was just like after Sept. 11," said Robert Bartholomew, who included a
chapter on "The Mad Gasser of Virginia" in his book, Little Green Men, Meowing
Nuns and Head-Hunting Panics, published late last year.
The chapter was written mostly by Bob Willis of Fincastle, a former Roanoke
Times editorial writer. He wrote a series on the gasser four years ago for the
Fincastle Herald, based mostly on more than 30 old articles in the
Times.
"I think there probably was something of substance to it to start with, and
then people's imaginations ran with it," Willis said. "People are very
suggestible, you know."
Willis picked up the story from his now-deceased friend, Lomax Breckinridge,
whose father, Dr. W.N. Breckinridge, was a medical examiner in the 1930s and
helped with the investigation.
"I guess I began researching with a certain amount of incredulity, which
dissipated rapidly as I went on," Willis said.
The first "attacks" happened three days before Christmas 1933 at the home of
Cal Huffman in rural Haymakertown in western Botetourt.
About 10 p.m., Huffman's wife detected a foul odor and became nauseated. The
smell returned a half-hour later.
It returned again at 1 a.m., this time causing the Huffmans' daughter, Alice,
20, to become so ill that a doctor had to resuscitate her.
A neighbor reported seeing a shadowy figure running away from the house.
Breckinridge offered the theory that the odor was "chicken gas," which chicken
thieves used to knock out birds so they could carry them off without a squawk.
The next reported gassing happened in Cloverdale at the residence of Clarence
Hall, who returned home with his family to discover sickening fumes in their
house. Hall went in to investigate, and when he didn't immediately return, his
wife went in and "pushed him out," the Halls' daughter, Catherine, told Willis.
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#2. South African Ghosthunter Has 'Cleansed' 6,000 Homes
http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/pghost49.htm
When things go bump in the night, she'll be glad to lend a hand.
When grandma pops in for a visit - but she's been dead for five years - who do
you call?
Sandra Labuschagne, Joburg's most popular exorcist, that's who!
Labuschagne, 59, claims to have "cleansed" more than 6 000 homes around South
Africa and overseas in the past 30 years.
"Thirty years ago, I started seeing ghosts standing at the edge of my bed,"
said Labuschagne this week. She kept these spooks a secret from her family
until she battled to sleep at night.
Eventually Labuschagne told her husband Fred, a devoted Dutch Reformed Church
member, who promptly hauled her off to a psychiatrist and had her locked away.
"I thought she had gone mad," he said. Labuschagne was discharged after three
weeks with a clean bill of mental health - but the spooks returned.
After a while her husband accepted her "special gift". But many Joburg
residents thought she was just plain evil and started making death threats.
Others, however, needed her help. Many others, as it turned out. Nowadays
Labuschagne visits 10 homes a week.
One of her clients is Germiston resident Konstantine Laric. His home in Webber
Street had been plagued by five ghosts and a "poltergeist" (a malicious
spirit).
"He [Laric] found a toddler's footprints in wet cement and when he went into
his house a boiling kettle had been moved from one room to another. And
furniture in his lounge had been turned upside down," Labuschagne recalled
this week.
Visiting Laric's house she said she immediately sensed the presence of "lost
souls who had not found their way into the light". The poltergeist had
apparently been angered by a remark made by one of Laric's friends.
This week Laric confirmed his supernatural experience.
"It was first the footprint, and then the kettle disappeared from the kitchen
and re-appeared on a table in the lounge. Earlier there had been other strange
incidents ," he said.
"Yet nothing has happened since she [Labuschagne] cleansed my house."
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#3. Village That Never Sleeps
http://ufos.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.mysticalunive
rse.com/
If you were to visit Upstate New York, not far from Niagara Falls, you may
'bump' into a tiny village that never sleeps.
To protect those who inhabit this village, the name will not be revealed.
However, please believe that what you are about to read is actual, totally true
and from a very reliable source.
This village was established in 1843. Two hundred acres of land was purchased,
cabins were constructed and 500 immigrants settled in. They were not really
aware of the harshness of New York winters. The death rate was extremely high.
I have been in touch with someone who currently lives in this village. Her
residence is on a large piece of land adjacent to the old cemetery and in fact,
part of her land contains a portion of the old cemetery property. She has even
found 2 headstones on her property.
What you are about to read are various quotes from the residents. Judge for
yourself:
"It's a very small village. We have a couple of ghosts. They are heard, felt
and most importantly SEEN at times. TRUE! Apparently a lot of the village has
Ghosts of it's own. The village is so small and quaint, that the 'museum' is
directly across the street. It is the original building, fencing, etc., dating
back to the 1800s."
"There was quite a mystery here too, concerning a murder. The event took place
in the 1860s. It seems that a man and woman were obtaining a divorce, which at
that time was VERY rare. The man had a housekeeper and the housekeeper had a
daughter. The man was found murdered on the street, OUR Street. The housekeeper
and her daughter were found murdered as well. All three were killed with an ax
and their bodies dismembered. Perhaps the souls of these three still walk the
streets."
NOTE: This is the only recorded murder here, since the village was founded.
"When we first moved here, the only thing that occurred (every night) was that
I was awakened by a 'poke' on my leg or shoulder. Thought for a month or two
that I was dreaming. It was definitely not a 'twitch' like everyone has
sometimes felt in their sleep." "One night, I was 'poked' again and SAW a young
girl at the foot of my bed. Very sweet looking, long auburn hair, wearing a
nightshirt. She was smiling and sort of giggling. She said to me,"Sorry, I'll
let you go back to sleep, if I can meet your husband." "I was NOT DREAMING! By
the time I woke my husband, she was gone. I must tell you, that at no time did
I feel any fear at all. A nice feeling came over me when I saw her. I cannot
explain that. I will tell you that I visited that tiny museum. It contains
relics from the original settlers. When I saw, in person, that same nightshirt,
displayed in a case in the museum, I almost fainted!"
"One night, my husband and I were watching TV, in our room, we were both
wide-awake. Out of nowhere, a light (like a flashlight) went directly in front
of us, held still for a second, then went out to the balcony."
"Once, when my husband was napping, I was downstairs. I heard a crash. I went
upstairs to find my husband had thrown a book to get my attention. He could not
speak and was 'frozen' cold, to the point he could not move. This was not in
winter. I threw blankets on top of him and covered him with my body for extra
heat. He felt like ICE! I then yelledŠ'leave him alone!' and it stopped
immediately. This was the first time my husband actually realized that these
things had been happening in this house and to me."
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#4. TV Psychic 'chats' With Blake's Dead Wife on ABC by: Sarah Tippit
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.bayarea.c
om/mld/bayarea/entertainment/3117785.htm
LOS ANGELES - (Reuters) - On the day that prosecutors charged actor Robert
Blake with the murder of his wife, a television special was set to air an
"interview" with the "spirit" of the late Bonny Lee Bakley as channeled through
a psychic medium.
"She does admit she contributes to ending her life but she doesn't want to say
she committed suicide and it's very important you understand that," was the
message Blake's late wife Bakley allegedly gave to family members
through medium George Anderson.
His "interview" with the late wife of former "Baretta" star Blake was to air
Monday on ABC at 10 p.m. EDT on the special "Contact: Talking to the Dead."
A spokesman for ABC said the program would air as scheduled and added, "We
looked at it after what happened with Mr. Blake and we did not see anything
wrong with it."
Bakley, whom Anderson described as being accompanied by St. Joseph as she
spoke, said her death was "terrifying at first and then ... a very strong calm
came over her." She was "not surprised" at her fate, he added.
Anderson said Bakley refused to give a clue as to who had killed her. Nor did
she have anything to say about Blake, who pleaded not guilty to murder and
conspiracy charges on Monday in the shooting death of his 44-year-old wife last
year.
The interview was conducted well before Blake's arrest, a program spokeswoman
said. Amazed at the many private things Bakley allegedly revealed through
Anderson, her sister, Margerry Bakley said: "It's Bonny, out and out, word for
word."
An advanced tape of the show was provided to Reuters and in it, Anderson --
billed as one of the world's leading mediums -- scribbled furiously on a pad as
he spoke to Bakley's sister, Margerry, and mother, Marjorie Carlyon.
The scribbling, he said, was intended to distract him, enabling him to become a
clearer channel through which spirits of dead people could communicate with
loved ones.
BOSOM BUDDIES
Investigators believe Blake shot Bakley to death himself after two hit men
turned down the job, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office said.
The 68-year-old actor, who starred in the 1970s TV cop drama "Baretta," and was
a child star on the "Our Gang" comedy series, was charged with one count of
murder with the special circumstance of lying in wait, meaning
prosecutors can seek the death penalty.
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#5. New Book Release - Spiral To The Sun-Messages From The Divine Mother by:
Elizabeth Huffer
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/1892264064/revi
ews/104-1011350-3292723#18922640643000
http://www.timelessvoyager.com/stts.htm
"Spiral To The Sun" is a most inspirational book with messages from the Divine
Mother and other Spirit Guides...the formatting and the text are the most
relaxing in reading and understanding of any of these types of books that I
have read. To understand the messengers and the messages that are sent for all
to read on this cosmic plain and sentimental journey.
This Book "Spiral To The Sun" can be purchased through Timeless Voyager Press
http://www.timelessvoyager.com or through WOTS at their Amazon.com
Book Description
Over 200 channeled messages from the Divine Mother are captured in this, easy
to read book authored by Dr. Elizabeth Huffer. The book is divided into four
seasons, Autumn, Spring, Winter, and Summer which helps the reader find
messages that are relevant. Bruce Stephen Holms, editor, has formatted the
pages so that the reading of the text is effortless. There are helpful printed
tabs on the edge of the book that make the seasonal sections easy to see. The
information contained in Spiral To The Sun from Mother Mary and other ascended
masters is absolutely important to everyone.
About the Author
Dr. Elizabeth Huffer is a Voice Channel for the Archangels and the Ascended
Masters. During the course of her work she also became an Ordained Christian
Minister, A Spiritual Counselor, an Astrologer, and received her Doctorate of
Divinity. She has taught thousands of seekers her color vibration transmutation
exercises which enliven the chakras helping to successfully handle the earth
energies. She is presently living in Sedona, AZ where she continues to lecture
and receive messages from Mother Mary.
Full Article
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#6. A UFO Landmark, Texas 1897 by: B.J. Booth Bidd...@aol.com
http://www.ufocasebook.com
The state of Texas has always been called the "big state." This expression
applies to many things, but is especially true regarding "tall tales." I have
heard them all of my life, and sometimes it is difficult to separate truth from
fiction. Such is the case with one story that comes from the small town of
Aurora. The town's history book labels the community as "the town that almost
wasn't," and that expression is probably applicable to the legend of a
spaceship crashing into a windmill, and the burial of a small alien creature
found in the aftermath. This event has become the most important news story to
ever come out of this Texas city. Aurora was designated a "historical site" by
the State of Texas because of the spaceship legend.
The year was 1897, and this was the year of the "great airships" reports in the
United States. As the story goes, it was on April 19, 1897, that a slow moving
space ship crashed into a windmill, bursting into pieces. As the debris was
searched through, supposedly the body of a small alien was discovered.
Originally the alien pilot was dubbed the "Martian pilot." Some of the debris
also revealed material sketched with a type of hieroglyphic. The town folk gave
the poor little creature a proper burial in the local cemetery. This incident,
whether true or not, has had just enough publicity to stay afloat for over 100
years. It was made into a movie, "The Aurora Encounter" in 1986, starring Jack
Elam. The news of the crash spread quickly, even for that time period. A
newspaper article of the event still exists, written by E. E. Haydon, reporter
for the Dallas Morning News. Below is the original article:
About 6 o'clock this morning the early risers of Aurora were astonished at the
sudden appearance of the airship which has been sailing around the country. It
was traveling due north and much nearer the earth than before. Evidently some
of the machinery was out of order, for it was making a speed of only ten or
twelve miles an hour, and gradually settling toward the earth. It sailed over
the public square and when it reached the north part of town, it collided with
the tower of Judge Proctor's windmill and went into pieces with a terrific
explosion, scattering debris over several acres of ground, wrecking the
windmill and water tank and destroying the judge's flower garden. The pilot of
the ship is supposed to have been the only one aboard and, while his remains
were badly disfigured, enough of the original has been picked up to show that
he was not an inhabitant of this world.
The story never gained a lot of exposure at the time, but held on until it was
commented on by UPI on May 24, 1973:
"Aurora, Tex. -- (UPI) -- A grave in a small north Texas cemetery contains the
body of an 1897 astronaut who was 'not an inhabitant of this world,' according
to the International UFO Bureau. The group, which investigates unidentified
flying objects, has already initiated legal proceedings to exhume the body and
will go to court if necessary to open the grave, director Hayden Hewes said
Wednesday."
"After checking the grave with metal detectors and gathering facts for three
months, we are certain as we can be at this point [that] he was the pilot of a
UFO which reportedly exploded atop a well on Judge J.S. Proctor's place, April
19, 1897," Hewes said. "He was not an inhabitant of this world."
The legend was back in the news! Only a couple of days later, UPI followed up
the first report with another from Aurora. They had located a living witness to
the event. A ninety-one-year-old who had been a girl of fifteen in Aurora at
the time of the reported incident was quoted. "I had all but forgotten the
incident until it appeared in the newspapers recently." She said her parents
had actually been to the crash sight, but had not allowed her to accompany them
for fear of what might be in the debris. She recalled that the remains of the
pilot, "a small man," had been buried in the Aurora cemetery, validating the
other legends.
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#7. What The "HecK" Is Going On - A Letter From A Friend On Unexplained
Happenings....by: Ray RayS...@aol.com
Below is a letter I have recieved from a friend that has had these kind of
paranormal happenings going on for awhile now, and only seems to be second
nature to him...if anyone would like to talk to Ray he would be delighted...
Hi Louise,
Sorry I didn't reply sooner but with all the things that have happened it is
hard to share a certain story. Nothing real interesting for a ghost story, just
small bits of (many) weird experiences. One thing that does bug me is the fact
this ghost/paranormal started after almost stopping my car under the triangular
craft, and the paranormal seems to go with the weird dreams of abductions. I
guess one part of the paranormal on my mind is the footprint I took a picture
of and the orb that came out in the pic. This photo I took during two straight
days of the paranormal.
It started one morning. My alarm clock went off and I was laying in bed trying
to wake up for another work day. As I laid there a flashlight on the book case
came on. Then I heard a noise in the kitchen. Being use to these things I just
ignored it and got up, took a shower, and got ready for work. At one time I
heard keys rattling in the kitchen. Well, when I went out to my car and tried
to start it the key wouldn't go into the ignition because it was bent. A 45
degree bend in the middle of the key so I had to come back inside, find a pair
of pliers, bend the key back out straight so I could start my car and go to
work. That day at work I remember cold spells. The ice cold breeze coming in
around me and a couple times the shop light over where I was standing went out.
It was an interesting day but when I got home I saw several prints all over my
bed. Some just like the print on my hometown page and others with just three
toes wide at the base coming to almost a point on the end. I never thought
about taking a picture but was mad because the clean sheets were messed up so I
ripped them off the bed and went to the laundry mat. Well, the next morning, I
shut off my alarm and again, the flashlight came on. I said out loud "Don't
even Start" then got ready and went to work. Not much happened at work except a
six inch steel scale I had in my pocket got bent somehow. It was in the middle
and a 45 degree angle. This scale is strong and I would have a hard time
bending it myself. It bent while in my shirt pocket and I never felt it. When I
got home from work that second day, again I found a print on my bed. This time
I found my camera and took a couple pictures of it. The last one came out with
an orb in it. Also, the sheets seemed to be glowing in the pic. Just something
about the sighting, dreams of abduction, and paranormal seems to me (IMO)
somehow to be connected. Just like the weekend trip to the Smokeys. Street
lights going out among other things, and orbs outside as well as inside the
cottage. That pic with the swirl was taken on the way there. We just stopped to
stretch and take a few pics. I don't think it can be seen on the computer but
that swirl has a real human looking face, all white, in the top/right corner of
the swirl area just in front of my hand. Also, i've never seen so many orbs
from one roll of film. Look at negatives, everything is transparent, just like
an x-ray. But the orbs are a solid object. Everybody had a clear picture taken
at that Tennessee/North Carolina state sign except me and mine came out with
the swirl, face, and orbs, also my pic was darker than the others like it was
late evening.
I don't have a clue to what's going on but live with the paranormal daily. If
there's a message in it I haven't figured it out yet.
Sorry to keep babbling my friend. I just went to the kitchen to shut off the
stove (making tea) and heard something hit the table in here around my
computer. But as always, nothing is out of place.
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#8. Roswell UFO Bombshell by: Jim Keith
Feature Story FATE Magazine 2000-01-01
http://www.fatemag.com/article.phtml?id=69
(Editor's Notation: This article was done and submitted by the late Jim Keith
just before his freak accident at the Burning Man Festival.)
My source on the following story has asked me to be very vague in my
description of him. He describes himself as “a longtime researcher/instructor
of engineering at a school in New Mexico.” I know specific details of his
professional work, as well as the names of his own sources for the following
information, but he has asked me not to mention them because of potential
problems involving security clearances. Speaking with me recently, he told me
about his knowledge of what actually took place in Roswell, New Mexico, in July
1947-an event which has been alleged by many researchers to have been the crash
of an alien spacecraft. His information is gleaned from conversations with
others in the engineering field and in the military who were living in or near
Roswell at the time. I realize that without identifying my source, the
following information is rendered suspect; with that in mind it may still open
up new areas of research that will crack the Roswell case. Here is the gist of
what he told me:
World War II was over, and America had a secret to conceal. Although the
government said there were 500 atomic bombs in the military’s arsenal, that
was a lie. There were none that were considered reliable. Due to a number of
factors-corrosion of parts kept in storage, batteries that didn’t work,
faulty initiators, and other reasons-there were no usable nuclear bombs in
American military stockpiles. After the end of the war, the operational team in
charge of the nuclear arsenal had also been dispersed, many of them going to
other jobs, and some leaving the military altogether. In short, there was no
real nuclear deterrent against the Soviet threat, and members of the American
government and military who realized this were terrified that the Soviets would
find out.
The American brass sought to remedy the situation. As part of this fix, testing
of nuclear delivery systems was moved during 1945 and 1946 from Wendover, Utah,
to the 509th U.S. Army Air Force Bomb Group unit in Roswell, New Mexico. At the
time, Roswell was the center of much secret testing, including the top secret
balloon program Project Mogul, and “non-critical” testing at the Trinity
blast site. One job that was given to the 509th was the operational testing of
nuclear bombs, including fine-tuning the ability to hit targets accurately.
Another secret: According to my source, military bombers were notoriously
unreliable in hitting targets, sometimes missing their mark by as much as half
a mile. It was given to the 509th to improve that record, and to make it
possible to deliver bombs, particularly nuclear bombs, with greater accuracy.
“Live” as well as “dummy” bombs were flown in from Sandia to Roswell,
where they were tested and used in target drops.
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#9. The Voices In Your Head May Be Real by: John Gartner Wired.com
http://www.rense.com/general20/voicesAL.htm
Researchers have developed technology that can project a beam of sound so
narrow that only one person can hear it. "Directed" audio sounds like it's
coming from right in front of you even when transmitted from a few hundred
meters away.
Inventors of the new "ventriloquist" technology say it could provide an added
dimension to entertainment. The military, however, is investigating using it to
confuse opponents or even inflict pain.
The Audio Spotlight is one of two competing audio transmission systems that
emit a one-foot square column of sound that can only be heard by people in its
direct path. Joseph Pompei, a PhD student at the MIT Media Lab, decided to
develop it while working at audio company Bose, which he joined at 16 as its
youngest-ever engineer.
Pompei, who used to play jazz trumpet in nightclubs in Chicago, became
interested in how sound systems reproduce and distribute music. He thought it
would be cool to "choreograph sound just like you would dancers on stage."
Pompei imagined that instead of loudspeakers blaring the same cacophony of
instruments to all parts of the room, it would be more interesting to
selectively spotlight the soloist to the left side of the audience, while
featuring the percussion up front, and then switching them around.
"Sound in real life is occurring a