Sunday, February 21, 2010

Video: UFOs near Sun

I found out this video analyzing some pictures of the sun, there was already speculation for some years that there is a giant spaceship near it (on the SOHO pictures) that NASA dismissed as compression artifacts. This video analyzes recent pictures and finds out two spaceships, some of the pictures seem to be only just compression artifacts, but when all of them are analyzed, they are just too identical, so if it is not really spaceships, then it is all a big and very rare coincidence.

Just check out the video (be sure to watch it in HD as high as you can):



If you want to make your own analyzes, here are some photos from today:
http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2010/02/21/behind/euvi/195/2048/20100221_005530_n7euB_195.jpg
http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2010/02/21/behind/euvi/195/2048/20100221_011530_n7euB_195.jpg
http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2010/02/20/ahead/euvi/195/2048/20100220_154530_n7euA_195.jpg
http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2010/02/20/behind/euvi/195/2048/20100220_040530_n7euB_195.jpg
http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2010/02/20/behind/euvi/195/2048/20100220_060530_n7euB_195.jpg
http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2010/02/20/behind/euvi/195/2048/20100220_065530_n7euB_195.jpg
http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2010/02/20/behind/euvi/195/2048/20100220_200530_n7euB_195.jpg
http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2010/02/20/behind/euvi/195/2048/20100220_203530_n7euB_195.jpg
http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2010/02/21/behind/euvi/195/2048/20100221_043530_n7euB_195.jpg
http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2010/02/21/behind/euvi/195/2048/20100221_045530_n7euB_195.jpg

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Gwrych Castle to become psychic school (Viral Marketing?)

Gwrych Castle has been in the news quite a lot recently, now Kevin Horkin is seeking to buy it and turn it in to a psychic school.



Only a few days ago Gwrych Castle was in the news when a visitor took a photograph of a ghostly figure in one its windows, now the owner of psychic management company Parallel is placing a bid of £850,000 to buy the derelict castle and turn it in to a retreat for psychics.
A RIBBLE Valley businessman is bidding to buy a huge castle to open Britain’s first ‘psychic school of excellence’.

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.

Sources: Unexplained Mysteries, Lancashire Telegraph

Tell everyone what you think about it by posting a comment.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

The Dyatlov Pass incident

This is one of the most (if not the most) weird and mysterious incident in modern history, It happened on the east shoulder of the mountain Kholat Syakhl (a Mansi name, meaning Mountain of the Dead) on February 2, 1959 and resulted in the deaths of nine ski hikers.


The lack of eyewitnesses and subsequent investigations into the hikers deaths have inspired much speculation. Investigators at the time determined that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot in heavy snow. Though the corpses showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue. According to sources four of the victims' clothing contained high-levels of radiation. There is no mention of this in contemporary documentation-it only appears in later documents. Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths. Access to the area was barred for three years after the incident. The chronology of the incident remains unclear due to the lack of survivors.

A group was formed for a ski trek across the northern Urals in Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg. The group, led by Igor Dyatlov, consisted of eight men and two women. Most were students or graduates of Ural Polytechnical Institute, now Ural State Technical University.


Igor Dyatlov, the group's leader
Zinaida Kolmogorova
Lyudmila Dubinina
Alexander Kolevatov
Rustem Slobodin
Yuri Krivonischenko
Yuri Doroshenko
Nicolai Thibeaux-Brignolle
Alexander Zolotarev
Yuri Yudin



The goal of the expedition was to reach Otorten, a mountain 10 kilometers north of the site of the incident. This route, at that season, was estimated as "Category III", the most difficult. All members were experienced in long ski tours and mountain expeditions.

The group arrived by train at Ivdel, a city at the center of the northern province of Sverdlovsk Oblast on January 25. They then took a truck to Vizhai - the last inhabited settlement so far north. They started their march towards Otorten from Vizhai on January 27. The next day, one of the members (Yuri Yudin) was forced to go back because of health problems. The group now consisted of nine people.

Diaries and cameras found around their last camp made it possible to track the group's route up to the day preceding the incident. On January 31, the group arrived at the edge of a highland area and began to prepare for climbing. In a woody valley they built a storage for surplus food and equipment which would be used for the trip back. The following day (February 1), the hikers started to move through the pass. It seems they planned to get over the pass and make camp for the next night on the opposite side, but because of worsening weather conditions, snowstorms and decreasing visibility, they lost their direction and deviated west, upward towards the top of Kholat Syakhl. When they realized their mistake, the group decided to stop and set up camp there on the slope of the mountain.

It had been agreed beforehand that Dyatlov would send a telegraph to their sports club as soon as the group returned to Vizhai. It was expected that this would happen no later than February 12, but when this date had passed and no messages had been received, there was no reaction—delays of a few days were common in such expeditions. Only after the relatives of the travelers demanded a rescue operation did the head of the institute send the first rescue groups, consisting of volunteer students and teachers, on February 20. Later, the army and police forces became involved, with planes and helicopters being ordered to join the rescue operation.

On February 26, the searchers found the abandoned camp on Kholat Syakhl. The tent was badly damaged. A chain of footprints could be followed, leading down towards the edge of nearby woods (on the opposite side of the pass, 1.5km north-east), but after 500 meters they were covered with snow. At the forest edge, under a large old pine, the searchers found the remains of a fire, along with the first two dead bodies, those of Krivonischenko and Doroshenko, shoeless and dressed only in their underwear. Between the pine and the camp the searchers found three more corpses—Dyatlov, Kolmogorova and Slobodin—who seemed to have died in poses suggesting that they were attempting to return to the camp. They were found separately at distances of 300, 480 and 630 meters from the pine tree.

Searching for the remaining four travelers took more than two months. They were finally found on May 4, under four meters of snow, in a ravine in a stream valley further into the wood from the pine tree.

A legal inquest had been started immediately after finding the first five bodies. A medical examination found no injuries which might have led to their deaths, and it was concluded that they had all died of hypothermia. One person had a small crack in his skull, but it was not thought to be a fatal wound.

An examination of the four bodies which were found in May changed the picture. Three of them had fatal injuries: the body of Thibeaux-Brignolle had major skull damage, and both Dubunina and Zolotarev had major chest fractures. The force required to cause such damage would have been extremely high, with one expert comparing it to the force of a car crash. Notably, the bodies had no external wounds, as if they were crippled by a high level of pressure. One woman was found to be missing her tongue. There had initially been some speculation that the indigenous Mansi people might have attacked and murdered the group for encroaching upon their lands, but investigation indicated that the nature of their deaths did not support this thesis; the hikers' footprints alone were visible, and they showed no sign of hand-to-hand struggle.

There was evidence that the team was forced to leave the camp during the night, as they were sleeping. Though the temperature was very low (around -25° to -30°C) with a storm blowing, the dead were dressed only partially, and certainly inadequately for the conditions. Some of them had only one shoe, while others had no shoes or wore only socks. Some were found wrapped in snips of ripped clothes which seemed to be cut from those who were already dead.

Journalists reporting on the available parts of the inquest files claim that it states:
  • Six of the group members died of hypothermia and three of fatal injuries.
  • There were no indications of other people nearby apart from the nine travelers on Kholat Syakhl, nor anyone in the surrounding areas.
  • The tent had been ripped open from within.
  • The victims had died 6 to 8 hours after their last meal.
  • Traces from the camp showed that all group members (including those who were found injured) left the camp of their own accord, on foot.
  • To dispel the theory of an attack by the indigenous Mansi people, one doctor indicated that the fatal injuries of the three bodies could not have been caused by another human being, "because the force of the blows had been too strong and no soft tissue had been damaged".
  • Forensic radiation tests had shown high doses of radioactive contamination on the clothes of a few victims.
The final verdict was that the group members all died because of an "unknown compelling force". The inquest ceased officially in May 1959 due to the "absence of a guilty party". The files were sent to a secret archive, and the photocopies of the case became available only in the 1990s, with some parts missing.

Some researchers point out the following facts which were missed, perhaps ignored, by officials:
  • After the funerals, relatives of the deceased claimed that the skin of the victims had a strange orange tan.
  • A former investigating officer said, in a private interview, that his dosimeter had shown a high radiation level on Kholat Syakhl, and that this was the reason for the radiation found on the bodies. However, the source of the contamination was not found.
  • Another group of hikers (about 50 kilometers south of the incident) reported that they saw strange orange spheres in the night sky to the north (likely in the direction of Kholat Syakhl) on the night of the incident. Similar "spheres" were observed in Ivdel and adjacent areas continually during the period of February to March 1959, by various independent witnesses (including the meteorology service and the military).
  • Some reports suggested that much scrap metal was located in the area, leading to speculation that the military had utilized the area secretly and might be engaged in a cover-up.
What really happened on that tragic day, it is still unknown.

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Cattle mutilation / The FBI Files

Cattle mutilation (also known as bovine excision) is the apparent killing and then mutilation of cattle under unusual or anomalous circumstances. Sheep and horses have allegedly been mutilated under similar circumstances.


A hallmark of these incidents is the surgical nature of the mutilation, and unexplained phenomena such as the complete draining of the animal's blood, loss of internal organs with no obvious point of entry, and surgically precise removal of the reproductive organs and anal coring. Another reported event is that the animal is found 'dumped' in an area where there are no marks or tracks leading to or from the carcass, even when it is found in soft ground or mud. The surgical-type wounds tend to be cauterized by an intense heat and made by very sharp/precise instruments, with no bleeding evident. Often flesh will be removed to the bone in an exact manner, consistent across cases, such as removal of flesh from around the jaw exposing the mandible.

Since the time that reports of purported animal mutilations began, the causes have been attributed variously to natural decomposition, normal predators, cryptid predators (like the Chupacabra), extraterrestrials, secretive governmental or military agencies, and cults. "Mutilations" have been the subject of two independent federal investigations in the United States

Charles Fort collected many accounts of cattle mutilations that occurred in England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries but the first allegedly strange death of livestock comes from near Alamosa, Colorado, in 1967.

Although the exact nature of mutilations varies from case to case, a typical mutilation might involve any or all of the following:
  • The removal of eyes, udders and sexual organs very cleanly with surgical precision.
  • The removal of the anus to a depth of around 12 inches similar in appearance to surgical coring.
  • The removal of the lips and/or tongue deeply cut out from the throat.
  • The removal of one ear.
  • The removal of major organs (such as heart or liver) with no obvious entry/excision marks. Often, if the heart is missing, apart from no excision wound, the Pericardium will still be present and intact, with the heart missing.
  • The stripping of hide and flesh from the jaw and the area directly beneath the ear to the bone.
  • The removal of soft organs from the lower body.
  • The presence of incisions and cuts across the body that appear to have been made by a surgical instrument.
  • Unexplained damage to remaining organs, but no sign of damage to the surrounding area.
  • A lack of predation signs (including teethmarks, tearing of the skin or flesh, or animal footprints) on or around the carcass.
  • Lack of obvious scavenging.
  • In many cases, a draining of the majority of blood from the animal. What blood is left exhibits color anomalies and may not coagulate for days.
  • The animal will appear 'dumped' or dropped in a secluded area, with no animal, human or vehicle track(s) leading to or from the site. Some have been found draped over fences or in treetops.
  • The ground under the animal appears depressed, as if the animal was dropped on the site from a height leaving an impact crater.
  • The animal's bones found to be fractured with injuries consistent with being dropped.
  • Strange marks/holes in the ground around the carcass.
  • Other cattle avoid the carcass and the area where it's found.
  • Eyewitness reports of aerial objects in the vicinity of cattle at the time of an animal going missing.
After coming under increasing public pressure, Federal authorities launched a comprehensive investigation of the mutilation phenomena. In May 1979, the case was passed on to the FBI, which granted jurisdiction under Title 18 (codes 1152 and 1153). The investigation was dubbed "Operation Animal Mutilation."

"The material concerning the Animal Mutilation Project contains accounts of animal mutilations which were reported during the late 1970's. The FBI became involved when fifteen mutilations occurred in New Mexico. Various theories concerning the origins of the mutilations were explored by the FBI, including satanic cults, UFOs, pranksters, and natural predators. The investigation failed to identify any individuals responsible for the mutilations."

Now the details of the investigation are now available under the Freedom of Information Act, and can be downloaded here:

http://foia.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=/cattle/cattle1.pdf
http://foia.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=/cattle/cattle2.pdf
http://foia.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=/cattle/cattle3.pdf
http://foia.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=/cattle/cattle4.pdf
http://foia.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=/cattle/cattle5.pdf



UFO Files Released / The MoD Files

The National Archive (UK) released this month a series of files related to UFOs. The files contain a wide range of UFO-related documents covering the years 1994-2000. Find out more about close encounters, strange illnesses, flying ‘Toblerones’ and unidentified objects tracked on radar.

Here are the links to the files released this month:
DEFE 24/1966/1 (PDF, 49.0 Mb)
DEFE 24/1967/1 (PDF, 39.8 Mb)
DEFE 24/1968/1 (PDF, 28.4 Mb)
DEFE 24/1969/1 (PDF, 48.1 Mb)
DEFE 24/1971/1 (PDF, 3.8 Mb)
DEFE 24/1977/1 (PDF, 36.6 Mb)
DEFE 24/1979/1 (PDF, 194.7 Mb)
DEFE 24/1980/1 (PDF, 41.2 Mb)
DEFE 24/1981/1 (PDF, 48.5 Mb)
DEFE 24/1988/1 (PDF, 39.4 Mb)
DEFE 24/1989/1 (PDF, 39.2 Mb)
DEFE 24/1990/1 (PDF, 27.3 Mb)
DEFE 24/1994/1 (PDF, 36.1 Mb)
DEFE 24/2000/1 (PDF, 7.7 Mb)
DEFE 24/2002/1 (PDF, 1.7 Mb)
DEFE 24/2003/1 (PDF, 2.5 Mb)
DEFE 24/2007/1 (PDF, 30.6 Mb)
DEFE 24/2008/1 (PDF, 36.2 Mb)
DEFE 24/2009/1 (PDF, 40.7 Mb)
DEFE 24/2010/1 (PDF, 31.9 Mb)
DEFE 24/2011/1 (PDF, 58.7 Mb)
DEFE 24/2016/1 (PDF, 35.2 Mb)
DEFE 24/2017/1 (PDF, 2.0 Mb)
DEFE 24/2029/1 (PDF, 14.0 Mb)

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

2012 Doomsday

The much talked 2012 Doomsday, each time we get closer to that date, more people get scared and search for this, and with the recent Hollywood movies, even more people are fearing the worst.
Here I'll post some of the predictions, some of them were already proven to be wrong, but I post them anyway with why they are wrong so everyone gets more informed.



The end of the Maya Calendar


Some claim that The Solstice on December 21, 2012 marks the end of the Maya Calendar, but in fact, in only marks the completion of the 5,125 year Great Cycle of the Ancient Maya Long Count Calendar (precisely at 11:11 AM Universal Time).

Rather than being a linear end-point, this cycle that is closing is naturally followed by the start of a new cycle. What this new cycle has in store for humanity is a mystery that has yet to unfold.



New Age beliefs


Many New Age thinkers believe that the ending of this cycle will correspond to a global "consciousness shift". Established themes found in 2012 literature include "suspicion towards mainstream Western culture", the idea of spiritual evolution, and the possibility of leading the world into the New Age, by individual example or by a group's joined consciousness. The general intent of this literature is not to warn of impending doom but "to foster counter-cultural sympathies and eventually socio-political and 'spiritual' activism".



Galactic alignment



In the mid-1990s, John Major Jenkins asserted that the ancient Maya intended to tie the end of their calendar to the winter solstice in 2012, which falls on December 21. This date was in line with an idea he terms the galactic alignment.

In the Solar System, the planets and the Sun share roughly the same plane of orbit, known as the plane of the ecliptic. From our perspective on Earth, the ecliptic is the path taken by the Sun across the sky over the course of the year. The 12 constellations which line the ecliptic are known as the zodiac and, through the year, the Sun passes through each constellation in turn. Additionally, over time, the Sun's annual passage appears to recede counterclockwise by one degree every 72 years. This movement is attributed to a slight wobble in the Earth's axis as it spins. As a result, approximately every 2160 years, the constellation visible on the early morning of the spring equinox changes. In Western astrological traditions, this signals the end of one astrological age (currently the Age of Pisces) and the beginning of another (Age of Aquarius). Over the course of 26,000 years, the precession of the equinoxes makes one full circuit around the ecliptic.



Timewave zero and the I Ching



"Timewave zero" is a numerological formula that purports to calculate the ebb and flow of "novelty", defined as increase in the universe's interconnectedness, or organised complexity, over time. According to Terence McKenna, who conceived the idea over several years in the early-mid 1970s while using psilocybin mushrooms and DMT, the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases interconnectedness, eventually reaching a singularity of infinite complexity in 2012, at which point anything and everything imaginable will occur instantaneously.

McKenna expressed "novelty" in a computer program, which purportedly produces a waveform known as timewave zero or the timewave. Based on McKenna's interpretation of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching, the graph appears to show great periods of novelty corresponding with major shifts in humanity's biological and cultural evolution. He believed the events of any given time are recursively related to the events of other times, and chose the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as the basis for calculating his end date in November 2012. When he later discovered this date's proximity to the end of the 13th b'ak'tun on the Maya calendar, he revised his hypothesis so that the two dates matched.



Geomagnetic reversal


A geomagnetic reversal (often incorrectly referred to as a polar shift by proponents of this hypothesis) could be triggered by a massive solar flare, one with energy equal to 100 billion atomic bombs. This belief is supposedly supported by observations that the Earth's magnetic field is weakening, which indicates an impending reversal of the north and south magnetic poles. Scientists believe the Earth is overdue for a geomagnetic reversal, and has been for a long time, even since the time of the Mayans, because the last reversal was 780,000 years ago. Critics, however, claim geomagnetic reversals take up to 5,000 years to complete, and do not start on any particular date. Also, NOAA now predicts that the solar maximum will peak in 2013, not 2012, and that it will be fairly weak, with a below-average number of sunspots. In any case, there is no scientific evidence linking a solar maximum to a geomagnetic reversal. A solar maximum would be mostly notable for its effects on satellite and cellular phone communications.



Planet Nibiru



Proponents of a Nibiru collision claim that a planet, called Nibiru or Planet X, will collide with or pass by Earth in that year. This idea, which has been circulating since 1995 in New Age circles and initially slated the event for 2003, is based on claims of channeling from alien beings and has been widely ridiculed. Astronomers calculate that such an object so close to Earth would be visible to anyone looking up at the night sky.



Black hole alignment


An apocalyptic reading of Jenkins's hypothesis has that, when the galactic alignment occurs, it will somehow create a combined gravitational effect between the Sun and the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy (known as Sagittarius A*), creating havoc on Earth. Apart from the fact noted above that the "galactic alignment" predicted by Jenkins already happened in 1998, the Sun's apparent path through the zodiac as seen from Earth does not take it near the true galactic center, but rather several degrees above it. Even if this were not the case, Sgr A* is 30,000 light years from Earth, and would have to be more than 6 million times closer to cause any gravitational disruption to Earth's Solar System.

Some versions of this idea associate the theory of a 2012 "galactic alignment" with that of a very different "galactic alignment" proposed by some scientists to explain a supposed periodicity in mass extinctions in the fossil record. The hypothesis supposes that vertical oscillations made by the Sun as it orbits the galactic center cause it to regularly pass through the galactic plane. When the Sun's orbit takes it outside the galactic disc, the influence of the galactic tide is weaker; as it re-enters the galactic disc, as it does every 20–25 million years, it comes under the influence of the far stronger "disc tides", which, according to mathematical models, increase the flux of Oort cloud comets into the Solar System by a factor of 4, leading to a massive increase in the likelihood of a devastating comet impact. However, this "alignment" takes place over tens of millions of years, and could never be timed to an exact date. Evidence shows that the Sun passed through the galactic disc only three million years ago, and is now moving farther above it.



Web Bot project


The Web Bot project is a series of automated bots that search the internet for specific keywords, looking for patterns. Its co-creator, George Ure, states that its study of "web chatter" predicted the September 11 attacks in New York, though he also suggests that the project can predict natural disasters, such as earthquakes. He now asserts that the project has predicted that the world will end on December 21, 2012. Critics of these proposals argue that while the collective knowledge of humanity could possibly predict terrorist attacks, stock market crashes or other human-caused events, there is no way it could predict something like an earthquake or the end of the world.

Long time

It passed a long time since my last post here (and it was about a game), I have been busy lately, but know I decided to talk about some more paranormal stuff of interest then only ghosts as I have been posting here.

The next posts that I'll make here can include (not limited to) the following:
- Paranormal creatures
- Animal mutilation
- Aliens and UFOs
- Religion and witchcraft
- Ancient mysteries
- Doomsday
- Mysticism
- Etc

Hope you enjoy!