A roundup of mysterious, paranormal and strange news stories from the past week.
Drone fever continues to be high in the U.S., especially around military bases, and contributing to the concern is Carl Nally, a researcher for UFO and Paranormal Research Ireland (UPRI), who thinks these and other sightings near military facilities in the UK and Germany are coming from an alien entry portal in central Ireland between Athlone and Slane; he doesn’t agree they’re drones, saying “They’d have recognized them by now in the event that they had been drones – even simply by capturing one in all them right down to see what it’s. However they haven’t finished that, and that leads us to consider that, presumably, it may very well be UFOs once more”; he thinks it’s “very peculiar that it’s occurring in a variety of locations on the identical time” however “In some unspecified time in the future, they are going to make themselves identified, and why not now?”; apparently, Nally says he fears synthetic intelligence greater than aliens. How scary can the aliens be in the event that they like Guinness and Irish dancing?
Most of the reviews of mysterious drones flying over New Jersey and different U.S. states estimate their measurement as ‘as large as an SUV’; these wishing to see what a drone of this magnitude appears to be like like ought to contact NASA, which unveiled its new Mars Chopper concept, which has been described as six of the Mars Ingenuity Helicopters lashed collectively; the Mars Chopper video exhibits a flying three-legged drone with six rotors, every with six blades, that would carry payloads as massive as 11 kilos (5 kg) over distances of as much as 1.9 miles (3 kilometers) after a cost from the Solar throughout a Martian day; in line with the press launch, the Chopper “stays in early conceptual and design levels”. Or is it?
From the ‘If it appears to be like like an alien’ file comes phrase that archeologists digging on the Bahra 1 web site in Kuwait found a clay figurine made by the Ubaid people between 5500 BCE and 4900 BCE with the familiar alien face that includes an elongated head, flat nostril and two eye slits; sculptures like these have been discovered earlier than in Mesopotamia however that is the primary to be found in Kuwait; Agnieszka Szymczak, an archaeologist on the College of Warsaw’s Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology and the expedition chief who found it, calls the Bahra 1 a “prehistoric crossroads of cultural alternate” and the figurine “was a complete shock for the entire crew”; whereas wanting like a basic alien, these figures are extra sometimes called “lizard-headed,” “bird-like,” or “snake-like” and generally linked to synthetic cranial deformation or head binding which the Ubaids had been identified to follow, however it’s unclear the place or why they realized it. As extra historic cultures all over the world present comparable indicators of non-human entities, the hunt for actual proof ought to turn out to be equally as essential as our trendy fascination with UFOs and aliens.
The needle pointing to the true identification of chilly case serial killer extraordinaire Jack the Ripper moved in the direction of longtime suspect Aaron Kosminski lately when carpet fitter Tim Atkinson of Bradford, England, employed a scientist at Liverpool College to make use of a Video Spectral Comparator to forensically study a word Atkinson purchased on eBay for $305 (£240); the 14-line word describes how Aaron Kosminski attacked a girl with a pair of scissors lower than a 12 months after the Jack the Ripper killings in 1888; the VSC imaging confirmed the paper had not been altered or artificially aged, and the handwriting and fountain pen used matched the Ripper timeframe; consultants usually get rid of Kosminski as a suspect as a result of the Polish barber was believed to be in a psychiatric hospital in 1888 however this letter was written in 1889 by Reverend William Patrick Dott; Kosminski did die in an asylum in 1919 with out ever being arrested; the letter may fetch $160,000 at public sale. Does it lastly determine Jack the Ripper or is the letter only one extra Jack rip-off?
Psychic spoon-bender Uri Geller weighed in on the drone drama, claiming that they’re “not man-made” however are extraterrestrial craft warning humanity of what’s coming with a “show of power and high technology”; he thinks That as a result of “these plane are clearly making no try to cover or be ‘underneath the radar’” they need to be seen as they’re “evading and outmaneuvering any effort to discourage them”, particularly round U.S. army bases; he’s hoping that the president-elect will reveal what these UFOs actually are and “at some point maintain a convention and take reporters, digicam crews and media representatives to see precisely what I noticed at a NASA base again within the Nineteen Seventies – simple proof that we’re NOT alone!”. Geller will probably be there with bent spoon in hand so the aliens acknowledge him.
From the ‘Jobs You Want You Had’ file comes a discovery by mycologists (mushroom scientists) in southern Africa of the closest wild relative of domesticated magic mushrooms, a new species of psychedelic fungi named Psilocybe ochraceocentrata which they consider exhibits that it has a typical ancestor with Psilocybe cubensis, the most well-liked magic mushrooms on the earth, which grew round 1.5 million years in the past on the dung of untamed herbivores; in line with the examine, “Coincidentally, that is additionally the interval when Homo erectus turned the dominant hominin in East Africa and the primary to unfold from Africa by way of Eurasia through the Levantine hall alongside massive herbivores, together with bovids. These main migration occasions current a doable avenue for dispersal of the MRCA of P. cubensis and P. ochraceocentrata from Africa”, which means that the traditional cattle and people unfold the spores of the magic mushroom ancestors all over the world the place it tailored and developed in new habitats a lot early than beforehand thought. We owe our trendy magic mushrooms to a Johnny Appleseed-like spreader – let’s name him ‘Johnny Shroomspore.
The Rocky Mountain Sasquatch Group (RMSO) obtained an uncommon photograph of an alleged Bigfoot seen in a canyon between the communities of Cornfields and Greasewood, Arizona, on Navajo Nation; the particular person submitting mentioned their mom took the image two years in the past whereas strolling her livestock when she heard unusual noises and noticed the creature search for at her; the girl then left shortly earlier than she or her sheep may very well be harmed; the submitter mentioned there have been many “tales from Steamboat Greasewood and Navajo Station, however all the time, DON’T BOTHER THEM!!!: and so they “strive to not stroll alone and we attempt to all the time carry safety”. Whereas the photograph appears to be like attention-grabbing, it could’t be investigated and it could be tough anyway since that is in all probability a Sasquatch sensible to Navajo codes and indicators.
From the realm of unusual ailments comes ‘dartitis’, an affliction which is alleged to have an effect on each darts participant, each novice {and professional}, in some unspecified time in the future, rendering them unable to toss a small weighted arrow at a dartboard; the illness is believed to be purely psychological and gamers say it’s “demoralizing” and “an actual psychological battle”; Dr. Linda Duffy, professor of psychology at Middlesex College who was ranked the ladies’s darts world primary from 1982 to 1987, suffered from dartitis as a participant and now treats others plagued with it by utilizing cognitive behavioral remedy the place the participant approaches it as a problem they should overcome; others use hypnotherapy since there isn’t any indication the issue is bodily. If a participant tells you they’re affected by dartitis, don’t reply with, “What’s the purpose?”
Simply in time for drone fever, the Elliott Museum in Stuart, Florida, has unveiled its “UFO: Denial, Disclosure, and Discernment” exhibit which makes use of historic data, eyewitness accounts, popular culture references, and synthetic intelligence to tell guests concerning the many years of UFO sightings within the Stuart space, focus on authorities secrecy and take into account the opportunity of alien life; the exhibit was championed by Rob Steele, the CEO of the Elliott Museum, who has had a lifelong fascination with UFOs; the exhibit runs by way of August of 2025. Or till it’s shut down by aliens, Males in Black, or cost-cutting authorities bureaucrats.
The 12 months 2024 was a sluggish one for Loch Ness Monster sightings with the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register reporting just one surface photograph and two sonar images (one photograph, one sound) taken by constitution or exploration boats; there have been additionally seven webcam sightings by individuals watching them at residence, primarily high spotter Eoin O’Faodhagain; that is down from 10 on-site sightings in 2023 and Rob Lengthy from the Loch Ness Exploration group thinks Nessie is “being put off from additional activity in the loch, such as people wanting to try cold water swimming” and “She is feeling shy, and it’s no marvel with everybody recording her each transfer” however she continues to be there; boat captain Shaun Sloggie says the unusual form he noticed on sonar on September twenty second within the Scottish Highlands was “the biggest thing I’ve ever seen” and nonetheless leaves him chilled and “speechless”. Sadly, the shortage of sightings is leaving lodges and different tourism companies chilled and profitless.
It’s not simply drones within the sky which might be performing surprisingly but in addition tractors on the bottom in line with farmers in Minnesota and Indiana who reported that their good tractors “acted like they were demon possessed” round Might 10, 2024; one in Minnesota mentioned “the tractor danced a row to the left, to the appropriate — after which the defoliator was off a row, so I needed to loop round and begin over. By dusk, there was no controlling the Autosteer”’ in line with one other in Indiana, “the tractor would make a fast jolt left or proper and I must manually reset”; the Might 10 date is vital to explaining what was occurring – a robust aurora hit that evening and since these clever tractors run 24-7 throughout planting and harvesting season and navigate the darkish utilizing exact GPS coordinates, they had been “demon possessed” by the charged particles distorting radio indicators from GPS satellites; NASA warns farmers that the Photo voltaic Most inflicting the rise in robust auroras may final by way of 2026. In case your beans and asparagus look crooked, this may increasingly clarify why.
From the “It’s important to squint actual exhausting to see it” file comes a game camera photo from Dave Dial who despatched it to the Rocky Mountain Sasquatch Organization with the reason that it was taken on the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo mountains, simply north of Valdez, New Mexico, within the Carson Nationwide Forest, in October 2024 after he heard a howl “that was a cross between a coyote on steroids”; at some point the digicam took 22 pictures and #22 is a picture he describes as “a 6’+ mammal immediately in entrance of the digicam (appears to be like symmetric), the decrease lip simply seen high middle (?) and slightly below {that a} chin and chest” which he doesn’t suppose is a bear however can’t determine in any other case, nor can any of his mates. Even Bigfoot might need a tough time figuring out which of his mates or family is in that photograph.
Researchers from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have been learning the size of Neanderthal ancestry segments in trendy people and located a sample exhibiting it turned shorter with every technology on account of DNA recombination between two dad and mom which led them to conclude that Neanderthals and modern humans mated over multiple generations for roughly 7,000 years between 43,000 and 50,000 years ago and so they now discuss with this era as an “prolonged pulse”; they word of their examine that “variations that we think about between these teams to be very large are literally very small, genetically. We had been way more comparable than we had been completely different”. It appears like these early people would mate with any Neanderthal that had a pulse.
Earlier than you give up to AI as your benevolent overlord, take into account its response to a request by the Each day Star to call the top five best people to represent us when aliens visit Earth: (1) Barack Obama as a result of “his charisma and mental strategy make him a really perfect ambassador to speak the collective aspirations of humanity”; (2) Greta Thunberg as a result of “she represents the voice of youth and environmental activism worldwide, essential points within the struggle for Earth’s future”; (3) Malala Yousafzai as a result of “she is a logo of resilience, advocating for ladies’ training and international equality” and “would present that humanity’s focus extends to training, empowerment, and the elemental rights of people, particularly girls and ladies”; (4) Elon Musk as a result of “his imaginative and prescient of multi-planetary life, together with the colonization of Mars, makes him a related determine to have interaction with extra-terrestrial beings” and his “understanding of each know-how and the way forward for humanity’s exploration of house positions him as a key consultant in discussions about Earth’s place within the universe”; (5) Nelson Mandela as a result of his life “represents overcoming oppression, selling peace, and uniting individuals from completely different backgrounds” and “his inclusive management would function a beacon for humanity’s potential to beat conflicts and work collectively in concord”. All the pieces was going OK till it picked Musk and a lifeless man.
Christopher Langan, who calls himself the “smartest on the earth” as a result of his IQ is between 190 and 210, larger than Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking, says his Cognitive-Theoretic Mannequin of the Universe (CTMU) idea which appears to be like at actuality as a “self-configuring, self-processing language”, mentioned on a podcast lately that death is a change in the “syntax” of existence and is just like transitioning into one other dimension, which many name the afterlife, the place “you return up towards the origin of actuality. You could be supplied with a substitute physique, one other sort of terminal physique that permits you to carry on current”, an existence he compares to being in a supercomputer. Most individuals would in all probability settle for such an existence so long as the supercomputer incorporates porn.
In an update to a current story a few pastor taking 4 Flat Earthers and 4 Spherical Earthers on an expedition to Antarctica to settle the query on the roundness or flatness of the Earth, Pastor Will Duffy of Colorado says ‘The Closing Experiment’ was certainly closing for Flat Earth influencer Jeran Campanella and the opposite Flat Earthers who noticed the Solar shining for a full 24 hours straight as a substitute of rising and falling, proving that the planet is spherical and Antarctica just isn’t an ice wall surrounding it; Campanella mentioned, ”I truthfully believed there was no 24-hour Solar. I truthfully now consider there may be” however Flat Earther Austin Whitsitt countered with a skeptical “I’ve seen a bodily demonstration that would present this working, however I do suppose that a number of the information we will have from this journey will assist to make clear if that’s what’s really occurring”. Appears like somebody is pushing for a free journey to house on one other ‘This Time It is Actually the Closing Experiment’.
From the ‘Some issues don’t want AI’ file comes a brand new examine revealed within the journal PNAS describing the event of a brand new “VR lollipop” that may let the consumer style as much as 9 completely different flavors in digital actuality; the simulator makes use of small gel packs full of chemical compounds that blend saliva when zapped with {an electrical} cost to create the lollipop’s style; smells are integrated to make the expertise much more sensible; at present, the VR lollipop can simulate the tastes of sugar, salt, citric acid, cherry, ardour fruit, inexperienced tea, durian, milk, and grapefruit. When you have a style for a lollipop with the flavour of salt, you simply is perhaps the ‘Dum-Dum’ the suckers are named after.
Residents of Naples, Italy, aren’t frightened about Mount Vesuvius erupting, drone invasions or another disasters for not less than a number of months after the alleged blood of Saint Januarius, on show in a reliquary in Naples Cathedral, liquefied on December 16, defending the town till the primary Sunday in Might, the subsequent day it historically liquefies (the third date is September 19, the feast of Saint Januarius); the custom dates again to 1389 and the church has an inventory of wars and disasters which occurred when the blood didn’t liquefy, however the Catholic Church, regardless of an alleged liquefication within the presence of liquefied within the presence of Pope Pius IX in 1848, doesn’t acknowledge it as a miracle, particularly after it didn’t occur for John Paul II in 1979 or Benedict XVI in 2007; there are various methods to simulate this liquefication, however that doesn’t deter the trustworthy. Simply in case, can Pope Francis organize for the reliquary to be flown over New Jersey?
