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CONTENTS
#1. Small Town Seer Believes He's A Prophet
http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/prophet9.htm
#2. The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts
http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa011402a.htm
#3. The Dowsing Detective
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.f
orteantimes.com%2Farticles%2F133_dowsingdetective.shtml
#4. Einstein + FBI = Equation of suspicion - J. Edgar Hoover hounded Einstein
by: Dennis Overbye (The New York Times)
http://ufos.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.surfingtheapo
calypse.com/
#5. The Soviet UFO Files-Paranormal Encounters Behind the Iron Curtain
by: Paul Stonehill - Director of the Russian Ufology Center
http://ufos.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.surfingtheapo
calypse.com/
#6. Where Are the Aliens? by: Patrick Redding Gatewoo...@aol.com
http://hometown.aol.com/gatewoodjournal/
#7. Spirit of Admiral Grog Returns To Pub
http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/content/news/NewsStory.asp?Brand=ESTOnline&Ca
tegory=News&ItemId=IPED08+May+2002+12%3A54%3A03%3A523
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#1. Small Town Seer Believes He's A Prophet
http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/prophet9.htm
WOODBURY [AP] -- Beyond the beer cans that litter the lawn, beside stale stacks
of empty juice cartons, beneath spray-painted pocketbooks strung from a rotten
ceiling, sits an old man who believes he is a prophet. In the musty wood-frame
house where he was born 65 years ago, Jessie Marshall takes telephone calls
from people who want winning lottery numbers, their cancer cured or simple
direction in a wayward life. Gray-bearded and frail, Marshall claims he has
talked to God for years, mostly on behalf of people who have heard his legend
and sought his help. ''I been hooked up since I was a kid,'' he said, rambling
but clear. ''He told me everything about everything. My eyes is like a camera.
It's like making a movie. I see everything. I see it all.'' And people in this
tiny town -- the ones who aren't afraid of him, at least -- believe it.
Prayer man
Every morning, Marshall emerges from his ramshackle home and walks. The west
Georgia town of Woodbury, population 1,148, knows him for that -- ambling
around, talking to anyone who will listen. He walks to the post office, where
he purchases exactly one first-class stamp, although the clerk does not know
why, nor care to talk about it. And he walks to the little bank, sometimes
taking out money, sometimes depositing a check or two. And then he walks home
to Rose Avenue, to the unmistakable house he calls the Palatial Palace of
Prayer. In the front yard, there are old boxes of frozen dinners, children's
toys, upended flower pots. Out back, there are tomato stakes with shopworn
shoes hung top to bottom, a rusty bike, a waffle iron, a conch shell. It is a
monument to what some people in the South call folk art and what most everyone
else calls junk. To Marshall, it is treasure, arranged just so, and he would
not dream of cleaning it up. ''All my life, I've seen things,'' he said.
''Here, I've put it all together. I don't like to throw nothing away. It's like
death. I don't like death.''
It is inside this house, boxed in by walls entirely obscured by old newspapers
that he has saved and nailed up, that Marshall takes calls from people who want
his help. The phone rings constantly.
''Most people ain't gonna pray for themselves, so I pray for them,'' he said.
''They want their lives straightened out. That's what most of them need. They
need balance. You need balance in your life.''
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#2. The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts
http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa011402a.htm
Over the last few hundred years, many perplexing artifacts have been unearthed
that do not fit the currently excepted theories of geology and the history of
man.
The Bible tells us that God created Adam and Eve just a few thousand years ago,
by some fundamentalist interpretations. Science informs us that this is mere
fiction and that man is a few million years old, and that civilization just
tens of thousands of years old. Could it be, however, that conventional science
is just as mistaken as the Bible stories? There is a great deal of
archeological evidence that the history of life on earth might be far different
than what current geological and anthropological texts tell us. Consider these
astonishing finds:
The Grooved Spheres
Over the last few decades, miners in South Africa have been digging up
mysterious metal spheres. Origin unknown, these spheres measure approximately
an inch or so in diameter, and some are etched with three parallel grooves
running around the equator. Two types of spheres have been found: one is
composed of a solid bluish metal with flecks of white; the other is hollowed
out and filled with a spongy white substance. The kicker is that the rock in
which they where found is Precambrian - and dated to 2.8 billion years old! Who
made them and for what purpose is unknown.
The Dropa Stones
In 1938, an archeological expedition led by Dr. Chi Pu Tei into the
Baian-Kara-Ula mountains of China made an astonishing discovery in some caves
that had apparently been occupied by some ancient culture. Buried in the dust
of ages on the cave floor were hundreds of stone disks. Measuring about nine
inches in diameter, each had a circle cut into the center and was etched with a
spiral groove, making it look for all the world like some ancient phonograph
record some 10,000 to 12,000 years old. The spiral groove, it turns out, is
actually composed of tiny hieroglyphics that tell the incredible story of
spaceships from some distant world that crash-landed in the mountains. The
ships were piloted by people who called themselves the Dropa, and the remains
of whose descendents, possibly, were found in the cave.
The Ica Stones
Beginning in the 1930s, the father of Dr. Javier Cabrera, Cultural
Anthropologist for Ica, Peru, discovered many hundreds of ceremonial burial
stones in the tombs of the ancient Incas. Dr. Cabrera, carrying on his father's
work, has collected more than 1,100 of these andesite stones, which are
estimated to be between 500 and 1,500 years old and have become known
collectively as the Ica Stones. The stones bear etchings, many of which are
sexually graphic (which was common to the culture), some picture idols and
others depict such practices as open-heart surgery and brain transplants. The
most astonishing etchings, however, clearly represent dinosaurs - brontosaurs,
triceratops (see photo), stegosaurus and pterosaurs. While skeptics consider
the Ica Stones a hoax, their authenticity has neither been proved or disproved.
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#3. The Dowsing Detective
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.f
orteantimes.com%2Farticles%2F133_dowsingdetective.shtml
Psychic detectives are not a modern phenomenon writes GEOFFREY ELGAR. Just over
300 years ago a French dowser tracked criminals for hundreds of miles.
Towards the end of the 17th century, a young stonemason from Saint Marcellin in
the French province of Dauphine caused great controversy. Jacques Aymar Vernay
(right) is believed to be the first person to have tracked down criminals by
use of the dowsing rod. Dowsing or divining – the art of locating water,
minerals or other hidden objects hidden in the ground – was already
well-established. The practice was known to the ancient Greeks and other early
peoples, yet was not seriously developed until the 16th century when it became
widespread in France in spite of opposition from Catholic Church authorities
who believed it had associations with witchcraft. Martin Luther included the
use of the rod in his list of acts which broke the First Commandment. In the
French vernacular, the word for ‘dowser’ is ‘sourcier’ (ie the finder
of sources of streams) and by eliminating the ‘u’, the word becomes
‘sorcier,’ meaning sorcerer or witch.
On 25 July 1692, a brutal murder took place in Lyon; a wine-merchant and his
wife were slain with a serpe (a billhook or scythe) in their cellar at
Place-Neuve-Saint-Jean. A rifled strongbox was found at the couple’s
apartment; écus, gold louis and a silver belt were missing. The murderers had
panicked and fled.
Local people were shocked and remembered talk of Aymar (as he was generally
known). At this time he was aged 30 and, over a period of 20 years, had gained
a reputation for being able to find anything – people as well as water and
minerals. At the age of 18, he located the body of a woman who had been killed
and hidden in a wine barrel for four months. His dowsing rod had twitched when
pointed at her husband and he promptly confessed to the crime.
In 1692, the King’s Procurator brought Vernay to Lyon, to the scene of the
crime. According to contemporary accounts, Aymar walked around the cellar and
quickly located where several items, including the murder weapon, were buried.
Onlookers gasped as his stick twisted violently in his hands when passed over
the spot where the two bodies had lain. Vernay himself was said to have nearly
fainted.
He then made his way through the streets, carrying some of the murdered
couple’s clothes and followed by a curious and excited crowd. They came to a
city gate leading to a bridge over the river Rhône, but it was locked for the
night. The following day, Aymar crossed the river with three officers and,
guided by the rod, made their way downstream.
The group were turned back from an army camp for lack of papers of authority
and they eventually came to a gardener’s house. Inside, the rod twisted over
an empty wine bottle, some chairs and a table. Aymar declared that they were
looking for three fugitives; they had broken into the house and consumed a
litre (2 pints) of wine. This was confirmed by the gardener’s children.
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#4. Einstein + FBI = Equation of suspicion - J. Edgar Hoover hounded Einstein
by: Dennis Overbye (The New York Times)
http://ufos.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.surfingtheapo
calypse.com/
He was the Elvis of science.
Women pursued him; celebrities sought him out; politicians courted him and
journalists followed him through the streets.
But, as Einstein was well aware, there was a darker posse on his trail. For
almost 20 years, the FBI and other agencies spied on him, acting on
suspicions as disturbing as a tip that he had been a Russian spy in Berlin; as
vague as an unease with his support of civil rights and pacifist and socialist
causes; and as goofy as claims that he was working on a death ray or that he
was heading a communist conspiracy to take over Hollywood.
The broad outlines of this history have been known since 1983, when Dr. Richard
Alan Schwartz, a professor of English at Florida International University in
Miami, obtained a censored version of Einstein's 1,427-page FBI file and wrote
about it in The Nation magazine.
But now new details are emerging in "The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's
Secret War Against the World's Most Famous Scientist," by Fred Jerome, who sued
the government with the help of the Public Citizen Litigation Group to obtain a
less-censored version of the file. His book will be published this month.
The new material spells out how the bureau spied on Einstein and his associates
and identifies some of the informants who said he was a spy. The agents went
through trash and monitored mail and telephone calls.
The investigation turned up nothing. Nevertheless, the agency dogged Einstein
until his death in 1955, even cooperating with an investigation by the
Immigration and Naturalization Service to see whether he should be deported.
Jerome founded the Media Resource Center, which puts journalists in touch with
scientists. He contends that contrary to his image as a woolly headed idealist,
Einstein was a savvy and politically astute champion of the underdog who made
hard-headed choices about what organizations he would support.
Einstein's political problems began as a youth in Germany, which he left in
1894 at 15, partly because of a visceral dislike of German militarization. He
had just moved back to the country, to a post in Berlin, in 1914 when World War
I broke out, and he made no secret of his distaste for the war.
Einstein became an international celebrity in 1919, when observations of light
bending during a solar eclipse validated his general theory of relativity,
rewriting the laws of physics.
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#5. The Soviet UFO Files-Paranormal Encounters Behind the Iron Curtain
by: Paul Stonehill - Director of the Russian Ufology Center
http://ufos.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.surfingtheapo
calypse.com/
Unidentified Flying Objects UFOs - have been sighted over the territory we know
today as Russia since the days of antiquity. For centuries people have seen
objects in the sky that they could not identify, and many of them have recorded
sightings, which could not be explained away as meteors, planets, stars, or
weather balloons.
Some of the most interesting information concerning UFO sightings is still
locked away in the secret archives of the state. Occasionally, the guarded
vaults do open up, either by the passing of history or chance, and information
leaks out. Recently declassified documents of the Russian Ministry of the
Interior, dating back to the beginning of the 19th century, reveal some
interesting UFO sightings from the Russian Empire.
Among them is a very unusual report to the Tsar from his Third Department of
the Chancellery (the former title of the secret police). The report describes
certain extraordinary light effects observed in the sky by the inhabitants of
the city of Orenburg, and corroborated by the police and military, during the
night of December 26,1830. Other reports mention the appearance of UFOs over
Ustyug on January 30, 1844, as well as sightings from 1846 and 1847.
Secret files aside, the Russian history of UFO sightings dates back thousands
of years. In the Russian north, near the Arctic Circle, there are ancient stone
monuments that were reputedly built at the same time as Stonehenge and the
Egyptian pyramids.
Smaller in size, the spiral "labyrinths" of the White Sea are no less
enigmatic. They can be found on the Solovetski Islands, and throughout the area
known as the Tersk Shores in the southern portion of the Kola Peninsula. One of
the labyrinths lies near the ancient Umba, near the Lesnoi settlement. UFOs
have frequently been sighted over the area by the Saami hunters
(reindeer-breeders and descendants of ancient nomadic tribes). Similar
double-spiral labyrinths have been found throughout the ancient world, in
Egypt, China, and Scandinavia; even more amazing is the fact that the same
labyrinths were depicted on ancient Minoan coins! As we shall see, Russia is
very similar to that labyrinth: full of secrets, enigmas, and mysteries.
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#6. Where Are the Aliens? by: Patrick Redding Gatewoo...@aol.com
http://hometown.aol.com/gatewoodjournal/
There is a longstanding controversy among the new era of scientists: if there
is other intelligent life in the universe, where is it? If there are aliens,
why have we not seen them? Does the lack of evidence prove that we are alone in
the universe? I would like to address some of the assumptions - and what I
believe to be misconceptions - regarding these questions. Hopefully this will
shed light on some aspects of the search.
First of all, I would like to point out that, as researcher Clifford Stone has
stated, “The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” Just because
we have not found it does not mean it is not there. Believing that something
does not exist simply because you have not found evidence (based on your own
particular definition of what constitutes evidence) is like refusing to believe
that bears exist based solely on the fact that you have never seen a bear in
your backyard. You’ve never even seen bear tracks; therefore, your neighbors
must be making up those stories they tell about bears in the woods, and those
blurry photos they showed you are obviously doctored pictures of some other
animal - perhaps they’re images of a house cat which have been altered on
someone’s computer. And the growling sounds on that home video sound kind of
like a garbage disposal with a fork stuck in it. The mystery is solved. Bears
are clearly a hoax drummed up by nervous neighbors who have been duped by a
computer-savvy photographer.
Ludicrous as this scenario may sound, it is exactly this sort of of thinking
that many people bring to the question of whether there is other intelligent
life in the universe. It is, in fact, reasoning such as this which sometimes
causes me to wonder whether there is intelligent life on earth. Not being
Vulcan, I cannot simply note that it is illogical and move on to the next
thing. It annoys me. But the lack of real logic doesn’t stop there.
As I’ve said before, I don’t firmly believe or disbelieve that there is
other life “out there.” I have no personal proof either way. But I do find
it ridiculous to discount even the possibility based on such faulty reasoning
and uncreative thinking. I also find it equally silly to believe wholeheartedly
in little green men - or gray ones - based on questionable evidence, but
that’s another story. At the moment I’m more concerned with those whose
minds seem a trifle too tightly closed than those who surely must feel a draft
between their ears when the wind is right.
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#7. Spirit of Admiral Grog Returns To Pub
http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/content/news/NewsStory.asp?Brand=ESTOnline&Ca
tegory=News&ItemId=IPED08+May+2002+12%3A54%3A03%3A523
A portrait of Admiral Vernon, picture courtesy of Ipswich Museums Service
SPIRITS of a rather different kind have descended on an Ipswich pub - led by a
18th century admiral nicknamed 'Grog'.
The ghost of Admiral Edward Vernon, who died in 1757, is reckoned to have
surfaced at the town's Woolpack pub at the head of a 'bevvie' of ghouls,
including a persecuted monk, a drowned seaman and a long-dead publican called
George.
These are the revelations of Suffolk clairvoyant Sue Knock as she declared the
Tuddenham Road inn "the most haunted" pub in the county.
Despite her years of experience, Ms Knock has been bowled over by her latest
discoveries, which she has backed up with hours of research at the county
public records office.
Live-in chef Justin Hurn, 20, was left terrified when an apparition scamper
through his bedroom at the pub, which has parts dating back to the 16th
century.
Scared out of his wits, he contacted medium Mrs Knock who unearthed more
spooks than she bargained for!
Without telling renowned Mrs Knock a thing of his own experience, she saw
exactly the same ghost when she stepped into his room.
"As I entered the bedroom immediately in front of me, I noticed an ash grey
figure scuttle across the wall where it then disappeared. I had to grab the
bedpost in desperation. It ran in a crouch just like a spider," she said.
The bedroom is right next to an ancient priesthole in which Roman Catholics
used to hide their priests during times of persecution in the late 16th
century.
Mrs Knock said that it was a member of the order of Greyfriars who had died as
he tried to escape from the authorities by suffocating in a barrel.
"They used to hide Catholics in wooden barrels in a bid to let them escape to
the docks," she said. "This one didn't get that far. That's why I felt I
couldn't breathe as soon as I stepped inside. He's trapped in time."
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