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CONTENTS
#1. Expedition Seeks Paranormal Pit by: Farshore Paranews
http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/pit.htm
#2. An Abduction Syndrome In Haitian Folklore by: Peter Rogerson
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.magon
ia.demon.co.uk%2F
#3. The Crystal Skull Enigma by: N Charles C. Pelton
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atlan
tisrising.com%2F
#4. Premonitions of Disaster - Do Tagic Events Cast Shadows Before Them
by: Preston E Dennett
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atlan
tisrising.com%2F
#5. Alternative Solutions by: Matt DeBow
http://www.ufochronicles.com/Alternatives/energy.htm
Submitted By Mike Harman Mike_...@rocketmail.com
UFO-PI: http://www.homestead.com/ufopi2/index.html
#6. Bush Continues Area 51 Cover-Up by: John Greenewald, Jr.
jo...@greenewald.com http://www.bvalphaserver.com/article.php?sid=2006
#7. The Origin, and the Sickening, of Our Species by: Gunjan Sinha
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/article/0,12543,230233,00.html
#8. Leave Your Bones With Davy Jones by: Gunjan Sinha
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,230009,00.html
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#1. Expedition Seeks Paranormal Pit by: Farshore Paranews
http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/pit.htm
ELLENSBURG ‹ A topographic map spread on the hood of a car showed where the
search party would start. There is a hole out there, they believe, a hole
that not only appears to be bottomless but has, on at least one occasion,
brought an animal back to life.
The hole, the story goes, exists outside of town on land once owned by a man
who calls himself Mel Waters. For years, he said, it was used as the
neighborhood dump for trash, old appliances, dead cattle. When the hole never
filled up, Waters measured its depth by lowering weighted fishing line into
it. After 80,000 feet, he gave up. Amazed by this odd place (which dogs and
birds avoided), Waters called radio host Art Bell, whose late-night show on
conspiracies and the paranormal attracts a huge national audience.
The hole is now lost. Waters ‹ himself a mystery ‹ said he sold the
property
and won't say where it is. Few people know who he really is. So far, Waters
exists only on radio waves, with a story many think is bunk. But tales of a
deep hole in Ellensburg have circulated for years. Hoax or not, Waters'
appearances before Bell's 10 million listeners have elevated an old local
legend into a national paranormal mystery.
Ever since Waters first called Bell's show in 1997, listeners have followed
the story closely, posting each new clue on their chat page, melshole.com.
They believe the hole is about 10 miles west of town on a place called
Manastash Ridge.
Before the search party headed out the other day from its staging area at the
Copper Kettle on Eighth Street, member Brian Christ of Ellensburg, who would
wait at the base camp, warned the others they were in danger.
"People know you're out here, right?" he asked.
Christ was clearly nervous. He'd heard what Waters said happened after he
went public ‹ that soldiers in yellow gear cordoned off his property and
threatened to "find" a drug lab on it if he didn't cooperate. He also knew
other details Waters told Bell: how one neighbor claimed to have thrown a
dead dog in the hole, only to see it later frolicking in the woods; how
another saw a black beam emanating from the hole; how transistor radios
brought to the hole play programs from the past.
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#2. An Abduction Syndrome In Haitian Folklore by: Peter Rogerson
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.magon
Very little needs to be said about this article, a kind of missing link
between traditional beliefs and modern ufolore. Evidence perhaps that
traditional lore can modernise without a science fiction phase, in which the
traditional motifs are set in a modernist framework in a strictly fictional
context.
Peter Rogerson, 1999
I have earlier suggested that popular accounts of white slave traffic be
examined for similarities to modern UFO abduction stories. (1) As yet, no
research has been done on this topic. However, in anthropologist Alfred
Metraux's Voodoo in Haiti (2) Ihave uncovered some interesting information on
borderline abduction beliefs.
At an undisclosed period, probably in the 1940s, a panic gripped the Haitian
peasantry concerning a motor car which was said to abduct people. In the
capital Port-au-Prince the car was known as the auto-tigre (tiger-car); in
Marbial, where Metraux conducted his fieldwork, it was the motor-zobop, a
vehicle supposedly driven by the zobop, members of a secret society of
sorcerers having many of the characteristics of traditional witches. This car
had bluish beams for its headlights.
One person who experienced such an abduction was the herb doctor Divoine
Joseph. He went out on a Sunday night, despite such ill-omens as bad luck in
the day's cock-fight, and stubbing his left foot on a stone. As he approached
a patient's home he felt a sudden anxiety, but it was not until he was on his
way to a crossroads for part of the ceremony he was conducting when:
Not far from La Gosseline I was blinded by a white light. This time fear made
me lose consciousness. When I came to my senses I was in a car surrounded by
hideous masked people. In my horror I cried out... my captors offered me
money if I would keep my mouth shut and never tell what had happened to me.
The car stopped and I was made to get out. I woke up in my bed; I asked my
woman whether she had found any money on me. She said You behaved like a
raving lunatic, you threatened everyone with a banana-sucker, but you hadn't
a penny on you. In the evening I had terrible hallucinations and wandered in
my mind... I repeated ceaselessly they have got me. I was cured thanks to the
attention of a hangan [voodoo priest].
When Metraux spoke to Divoine the man still showed extreme agitation,
gesticulating and repeatedly beating his breast; laughing and frowning for no
reason, and pouring out his words. He believed that his escape was due to the
fact that being a voodoo himself indicated that he was under the special
protection of a loa, or voodoo spirit.
A voodoo priest himself was also captured by the motor-zobop, whose occupants
had already put him in a coffin before he became possessed by his guardian
loa, the god Brise, and thus had his release secured. (3)
The perceptive reader will have noticed the close parallels with modern UFO
stories: the light, the paralysis, the absurd behaviour of the abductors, the
setting down in a remote place, and the psychological after-effects. The
similarities to beliefs in fairy abductions are: the taboos, the ominous run
of bad luck, the dangerous nature of crossroads. The rumours of gangsters
driving around in fantastic motor cars would seem to connect with European
panics about the white slave traffic .
What we are witnessing here is a process of the secularisation of traditional
beliefs in a period of social change, in which the motor car had assumed many
of the attributes of the diabolic machine which would later be ascribed to
the UFO.
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#3. The Crystal Skull Enigma by: N Charles C. Pelton
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atlan
In the realm of ancient artifacts there are few antiquities that are as
thought provoking as the carved quartz crystal skulls. Very little is known
about these ancient wonders of the world, largely due to the fact that so few
of them exist which are accessible to the researcher. In the last few years,
interest has risen intensely in these works of antiquity. For many years,
when the subject of the crystal skulls was discussed, few people were aware
of the fact that the Mitchell- Hedges skull was not the only crystal skull
known to man. It may have been the most perfectly carved, even viewed by more
people throughout the world than any other skull, but, certainly not the only
skull. In fact, there are many skulls in various locations around the world
which range in size from a few pounds, or softball sized, to over forty
pounds.
Only a few crystal skulls have been expertly authenticated as ancient. Many
have been carved within the last five years. Presently, the accepted
authentication by which a carved skull can be termed ancient is through a
complicated process of casting a mold of the skull and placing it under an
electron microscope to examine the minute markings left by the carver. These
markings are the clues by which the age of the carving is determined. The
telltale pattern of the marking will verify what method was used to carve and
polish the skull; thereby, the antiquity expert is able to confirm the age
based on methods used on other known works which range from the ancient to
the very contemporary. By comparing these various methods with those of the
crystal skull, a time-line is developed which will place the skull along that
line.
The widely known Mitchell-Hedges skull, located in Canada, one of the most
beautiful skulls I have had the pleasure of seeing, is now shrouded in
controversy. It is presently suggested that the skull is not ancient, but a
work of more recent times, perhaps orchestrated by F.A. Mitchell-Hedges,
himself, to promote interest and financing for his adventures. Coined The
Skull of Doom', by some associates of the adventurer, actually a misnomer for
a term used in the 1930s, The Skull of Dunn. Dunn was an associate of F.A.,
on the expedition to Luubantun, in 1927, which is when young Anna
Mitchell-Hedges, then age 17, reports she found the skull in the ruins of a
temple.
The Museum of Man, in London, contains a crystal skull which is called the
Aztec Skull. It is no longer on display in that museum. Museum personnel as
well as visitors claim the skull moves on its own within the glass case in
which it is enclosed. It was acquired by the museum at the turn of the
century from an antiquity dealer in New York.
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#4. Premonitions of Disaster - Do Tagic Events Cast Shadows Before Them
by: Preston E Dennett
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atlan
Accidents and disasters are an unfortunate fact of life. Because
disasters affect so many people, they have been intensely studied. However,
very time a disaster occurs, the same questions are raised. How could this
ave happened? Could it have been prevented? Why do some people survive and
thers do not? Is there really such a thing as a random accident, or is here a
hidden meaning to each disaster?
Of course, disasters are thoroughly investigated. And often, an
in-depth investigation will reveal a hidden side to disasters. However,
there is one aspect of disasters that has been largely ignored. In virtually
very major disaster, there are accounts of strange premonitions that redict
the disaster.
If these premonitions are true, then some obvious questions are
raised. Are these premonitions accurate? Who is having them? What is their
urpose? Surely there must be a way we can harness the power of the human kind
to help deal with these disasters.
Probably the great majority of premonitions are prophetic dreams
predicting disaster. This is illustrated perfectly in the following case. In
1914, one hundred twenty Newfoundland sealers were abandoned on an ice-floe
in the north Atlantic ocean during winter. Due to the incompetence of the
ship's captain and others, the missing men were not noticed for two days and
two nights. By the time they were rescued more than half were dead. It was
the worst disaster to strike the Newfoundland sealing community in many
years.
However, the disaster did not come without warning. One of the 55
survivors later told of a dream he had two weeks before the disaster.
According to Cassie Brown's report on the disaster: "John Howlet had
suffered a chilling nightmare weeks before. In his dream he was on a
mountain of ice, lost and freezing. He was alone, terribly and frighteningly
alone, but everywhere he wandered there were vague, indefinable 'things' on
the ice around him-things with no particular shape that he could make out. He
found himself walking among those things, unable to find his way, wondering
what they were and dreading them. In his dream he was counting, counting,
counting...He was still counting the white mounds when he awoke, shivering
and terribly depressed."
Unfortunately, the dream was not enough for him to stop from joining
the crew of the ship, Newfoundland, most of whom would be dead in a matter of
days. And only afterwards was he to recognize the white mounds for what they
were - bodies covered with snow.
Ideally, a premonition of a disaster should be used to prevent the disaster.
The following case provides a good example of someone who was able to use
their premonition positively.
On May 7, 1915, the British luxury liner Lusitania was sunk by a
German torpedo, causing the death of nearly 1200 people. In many ways, the
disaster was foreseeable. Firstly, there was a state of war between Germany
and England. Secondly, several advertisements had been run in major US
newspapers from the German Embassy warning that travelers crossing the
Atlantic are doing so at their own risk.
Nevertheless, the over-riding public sentiment was that the Germans
would never attack a passenger ship. Unfortunately, they were wrong, and many
people suffered a watery death. Not surprisingly, there were some reported
premonitions. One passenger, upon seeing the ship for the first time, became
decidedly uneasy and concerned about her safety. Also, on the day before
launch, the ship's mascot, a small black cat, abandoned ship, causing several
crewman to remark it as a bad omen. However, the strongest premonition came
from successful shoe dealer Edward Bowen of Boston, Massachusetts. Bowen had
booked passage on the Lusitania, but on the day before sailing, became
unaccountably concerned. He canceled his passage. Later he told his friends,
"A feeling grew upon me that something was going to happen to the Lusitania.
I talked it over with Mrs. Bowen and we decided to cancel our passage -
although I had an important business engagement in London." (Hoehling, pp.
31-32.)
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#5. Alternative Solutions by: Matt DeBow
http://www.ufochronicles.com/Alternatives/energy.htm
Submitted By Mike Harman Mike_...@rocketmail.com
UFO-PI: http://www.homestead.com/ufopi2/index.html
The Earth is being consumed at a rapid rate. Animal species are becoming
extinct, forests are dying, waters are polluted and environmental illnesses
are running rampant. If this pattern does not change, life on our planet will
be wiped out. We must learn balanced consumption habits by seeking
alternative forms of energy and transportation.
People are becoming exhausted from too much exhaust. However electric cars,
which are ninety-eight percent cleaner than their gasoline counterparts, are
beginning to hit the streets. Major car manufacturers such as General Motors
are getting involved. One independent manufacturer has designed an electric
sports car, known as the ‘Zebra’. These efforts will help alleviate
pollution caused by fossil-fueled vehicles.
The Zebra has fewer parts than traditional cars, it has no fuel injectors,
pistons, catalytic converters, or exhaust pipes. It has no gears and
accelerates from 0 to 60 miles per hour in less than four seconds. And
maneuvering the Zebra is easy. With one press of a button, it moves forward
or backward.
The Zebra’s appeal goes beyond its sleek appearance. It is virtually
maintenance free. Only the brakes and the tires ever need to be replaced. An
internal computer automatically tells a mechanic where any problem lies.
Prototype Zebras are selling for less than $20,000.
The only drawback at this point is that the Zebra only runs for about 100
miles (depending on the weather) before it needs to be plugged in (where?)
for seven to eight hours to recharge the battery. However, for an extra
$10,000 the driver can buy a battery that provides enough energy for a 500
mile trip.
Recharge stations are currently being established in the Californian cities
of Sacramento and Los Angeles.
The electric car consortium, Calstart, based in Alameda, has also been
advancing this field by subsidizing small start-up companies and underwriting
people who are developing electric vehicles. Under the
Calstart umbrella, one company has produced 100 small electrically powered
cars for the Bay Area Rapid Transit System, BART. Each of these vehicles can
cover a distance of 100 miles and will soon be available to rent from BART
stations.
Another power-assisted vehicle is the ZAP, a motorized bicycle, similar to a
Moped, that can run for 20 miles with one charge up. The Zap electric motor
can be adapted to almost any bicycle and is expected to be particularly
popular in cities where air pollution and crowding is high.
While the use of electrically powered vehicles reduces harmful vehicle
emissions, how that electricity is generated also need to be considered.
According to Renewables Are Ready, written by members of the Union of
Concerned Scientists, only about eight per cent of North America’s energy
comes from renewable energy sources.
Joint studies by national energy and environmental organizations and the
Union of Concerned Scientists, show that renewable energy sources could
provide more than half the U.S. energy supply by the year 2030, saving
consumers $2.3 trillion and reduce oil consumption by one third. Renewable
energy technologies include hydrogen fuel cells, thermal and photovoltic
solar power, wind turbine, ocean tide, hydroelectric and others still in
prototype development.
Hydrogen fuel cells were invented in 1839 by English electrochemist Sir
William Grove. He found the reaction of hydrogen and oxygen produced
byelectrolysis could create both water and electricity.
The Canadian based company, Ballard Power Systems, Inc., has used this
knowledge to become a world leader in the development of hydrogen fuel
cells primarily for transit buses and automobiles. It is also marketing
stationary power production, and is currently developing the first ever
natural gas power plant. This company, along with other progressive utility
districts and wind/water-powered facilities are tackling the world’s major
problems of air pollution ozone depletion.
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#6. Bush Continues Area 51 Cover-Up by: John Greenewald, Jr.
jo...@greenewald.com http://www.bvalphaserver.com/article.php?sid=2006
NORTHRIDGE (BlackVault) - The subject of "Area 51" has been denied by the
United States Government for years. Though the conspiracy community was
rocked by an admittance of a classified area, and an exempt order by a
Presidential Determination signed by President Clinton in 1995. This
"determination" by the President, said that the area near Groom Lake, Nevada,
or known to most people as "Area 51", was exempt from all Federal, State,
Interstate, or Local Hazardous laws that might require the disclosure of
classified information.
Essentially, "Area 51" became a subject that was now not only classified, but
exempt from any laws it may come subject to. It appeared that 'anything goes'
at "Area 51".
However, there was some slim chance of hope, as near the bottom of the
Presidential Determination, dated September 29th of 1995, said the
"...exemption shall be effective for the full one-year statutory period."
After a year, it appeared the order had to be renewed, until it was no longer
needed or wanted.
In 1996, Presidential Determination #96-54 renewed the exempt status of "Area
51". In 1997, Presidential Determination #97-35 was the renewal. The
exemptions went all the way until the new millennium, where in 2000, Clinton
again signed Presidential Determination #2000-30, which made "Area 51" exempt
from all laws currently on the books.
Though in 2001, the United States acquired a new President into the White
House. Would this new leader still enact the 'determination' that this
classified research area outside of Groom Lake, Nevada would be classified?
With new national security advisors, new staff members and a different
political party, it was hopeful we could see a chance in policy.
All hope failed on January 31, 2001, when President George W. Bush signed a
letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of
the Senate. This was deemed Presidential Determination #2001-27. In it,
referencing Determination 2000-30, President Bush re-enacted the exempt
status on "Area 51" and decided it should remain highly classified and hidden
from any prying eyes.
Right into 2002, just 9 days ago, President Bush yet again signed a letter to
the same individuals, with almost exactly the same wording, keeping the same
exempt status on "Area 51". Not televised on the news, and being well
over-shadowed by the current conflict in Afghanistan, conspiracy theorists
worldwide would have to remain "exempt" from any information on the infamous b
ase called "Area 51"
Theories have made their way across the Internet, from message forums to
public petitions, asking for any information on such a controversial, highly
secretive, subject. Were we dealing with a cover-up of nuclear waste dumping,
or something more down the lines of a "alien stockpile". With the current
trend of Presidential Determinations, it appears that the curious minds out
there would never be satisfied.
To view this new Presidential Determination, visit:
<http://www.bvalphaserver.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=277>
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#7. The Origin, and the Sickening, of Our Species by: Gunjan Sinha
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/article/0,12543,230233,00.html
If one of your hominoid ancestors hadn't gotten a viral infection millions of
years ago, you might look really, really different today.
The Paper: Evidence for genomic rearrangements mediated by human endogenous
retroviruses during primate evolution. Published in Nature Genetics, December
2001
The Authors: Jennifer F. Hughes and John M. Coffin
The Gist: If one of your hominoid ancestors hadn't gotten a viral infection
millions of years ago, you might look really, really different today.
In the beginning, before the first landlubbers crawled out of the murky ocean
depths, viruses were everywhere. These parasites infected our earliest
ancestors, and today, many millions of years later, bits of their genes live
on in our genes.
For three decades, scientists have wondered whether the viral DNA within us
is more than merely a vestige of our lowly origins. Could these infectious
organisms have assisted in driving our evolution—by helping, say, to turn a
foraging ape into a more cerebral toolmaker?
"We probably have more viruses in our genes than we have genes in our genes,"
says John Coffin, a molecular biologist at Tufts University School of
Medicine. The latest analysis of the human gene sequence reveals somewhere
around 40,000 "provirus DNA sequences." Proviruses were once infectious and,
at some point between 10 and 50 million years ago, infected our hominoid
ancestors' egg or sperm cells, becoming a permanent part of their DNA. Those
sperm or eggs became people who went forth and were fruitful.
Coffin wanted to know if a virus could affect an animal's evolution through
genetic recombination—a process whereby chromosomes in sperm and egg cells
exchange genes. Genetic recombination is the reason why you look different
from your siblings (and, for that matter, from everyone else). Inside the
cells that make up sperm and eggs, chromosomes from each of your parents pair
up. While they are pressed together, the chromosomes often break, and each
chromosome swaps a portion of its genetic material with the other. Then the
chromosomes glue themselves back together and separate, as they go on to
become sperm and eggs. Since each has picked up new genetic material, the
constellation of physical characteristics they carry has been substantially
altered.
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#8. Leave Your Bones With Davy Jones by: Gunjan Sinha
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,230009,00.html
SLEEPING WITH THE FISHES
Now the dead can enjoy eternal rest in an artificial reef amidst colorful
aquatic neighbors.
Eternal Reefs will mix your ashes with concrete and turn you into an
artificial reef on the ocean floor.
Cremation is all the rage in the funerary world, accounting for one-fourth of
U.S. interments in the year 2000—a number expected to rise by another 15
percent in the next 10 years. Consequently, alternative cremation services
are popping up everywhere. Houston-based Celestis will rocket your remains
into space. Celebrate Life Inc. of San Diego will send you off in a lavish
fireworks display. And, for somewhere between $1,500 and $3,200, Eternal
Reefs, a Decatur, Georgia, company, will mix your ashes with concrete and
turn you into an artificial reef on the ocean floor.
Don Brawley, Eternal Reefs' founder, got the idea a few years ago when his
father-in-law said he'd rather "be buried around a lot of life than in a
field with a bunch of dead people."
Brawley was already making artificial reefs to help restore fish habitats by
providing a protected haven. The reef balls weigh between 400 and 4,000
pounds. A bronze plaque with the deceased's name is affixed to the balls, and
families get a certificate stating the reef's coordinates. "We're providing a
service that helps people give back something positive to the environment,"
says Brawley.
But some marine biologists are skeptical. John McManus, director of the
University of Miami's National Center for Caribbean Coral Reef Research,
says: "If you're trying to protect fish stocks, 70 percent of which are
already overfished, the worst thing you can do is make it easier to catch the
fish by plopping down an artificial reef."
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