A roundup of mysterious, paranormal and strange news stories from the past week.
One of the top mysteries of 2024 goes out with a bang as it was revealed that two more three-fingered ‘alien’ mummies have been discovered in the Nazca desert of Peru and these have traits not seen within the earlier discoveries; the mummies have been named Paloma and Antonio and had been analyzed by Dr. David Ruiz Vela, the previous president of Peru’s Medical Affiliation, who introduced that each are human-like organs with a mind construction, Antonio has a stab wound in his chest, and Paloma has hair, a primary for a Nazca three-fingered mummy; based on Dr. Vela, Antonio’s stabbing “broke his ribs on the left aspect of his chest, penetrating the chest, stomach, liver and utterly perforating him inside”; these mummies additionally had completely different facial options than earlier ones and had ear canals, however no seen ears; regardless of the revelations, skeptics nonetheless consider these mummies are elaborate hoaxes. Three fingers are nonetheless sufficient to provide a center one to the non-believers.
Simply in time for the Christmas season, psychic spoon-bender Uri Geller weighed in on the biblical Nativity story of a sphere of light – the Star of Bethlehem – hovering over the secure the place Jesus was born; Geller believes that vibrant gentle gave Jesus the flexibility to carry out miracles and he bases this perception on an analogous expertise of his personal when he was two and residing in Tel Aviv; a vibrant gentle appeared in entrance of him and shot a beam into his mind and from that day on he might bend spoons and confirmed indicators of psychic skills; he claims X-rays present in my frontal cortex an implant formed like a human embryo which he believes is the middle of his energy, and he’s satisfied Jesus additionally had one; whereas he doesn’t evaluate himself to Jesus, he says each of them obtain their powers from aliens. If it’s true, this adjustments the themes of numerous Christmas carols.
The Brazilian psychic who calls himself the Living Nostradamus, Athos Salomé, makes us lengthy for the actual Nostradamus together with his predictions for 2025 which embody “2025 would be the level of time when the authorities begin to formally declare the existence of ET, providing proofs of microbial life on Mars or different extra difficult civilizations”, occasions that can be met with “strategic Silence” by “some governments like that of US, Russia and China as they conceal data with a view of inflicting a worldwide upset”; nonetheless, there can be numerous noise from organized religions as “All religions, in addition to philosophical methods, will discover themselves in an unprecedented place to have to deal with this new situation”. He additionally sees extra human genetic experiments being revealed in Asia the place makes an attempt to create “perfected” folks keep away from rules; he additionally sees a worldwide disaster attributable to synthetic intelligence, a worldwide power disaster attributable to local weather change, and a worldwide safety disaster attributable to implantable chips. Numerous droning on and on about crises, however nothing on the precise drones?
Sure, the actual Nostradamus has some predictions for 2025 and they’re as dire as they at all times are, main off with “earth shaking”, “rivers overflowing” and “fires and droughts” which most Nostradamus consultants interpret to imply extra world local weather crises; he sees “lights within the sky” which might imply extra drones, UFOs and satellites, and predicts “new worlds found” which can imply excellent news for the James Webb telescope and NASA; “merciless wars” and “nice powers clashing” means unhealthy information for the remainder of us and a great motive to go for these new worlds; “fortunes misplaced in a single day” feels like a warning to get out of bitcoin quickly, particularly if his prediction of a “vital cyberattack on world infrastructure” comes true; one ray of excellent information may an interpretation of “by way of lengthy struggle all the military exhausted” to imply an finish to the Ukraine-Russia battle. If it’s any comfort, the Nos has been making these dire forecasts for hundreds of years and we’re nonetheless right here.
Point out six-foot-tall ape males operating round England and ideas instantly flip to the Piltdown Man announcement of 1912 which was deemed to be a hoax and never the invention of the ‘lacking hyperlink’ in 1953, however that is 2024 so multiple sightings of a human-sized apeman hybrid operating on all fours in Cambridge over the previous two months is being handled critically by the media though not one of the witnesses managed to seize the creature in images or movies; one outlet hyperlinks the sightings to a latest report that the College of Cambridge carried out the best variety of analysis procedures on animals of any identified establishment, together with experiments on 51 of the roughly 250 non-human primates saved there for analysis. Nobody suspected it was a pupil, though that is the season for vacation events and greater-than-usual partying.
Former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao, who flew on three House Shuttle missions and lived on the Worldwide House Station, revealed in a latest interview that it wasn’t till he was again on Earth as a personal citizen and pilot that he encountered not one however two UFOs earlier this yr in August; he stated, “I used to be flying again from Colorado and I simply refueled within the panhandle of Texas in my small airplane and I used to be flying again to Houston. Clear air and I used to be about 9,000 ft. And out of the blue, out of nowhere, these two big, metallic, spherical orbs, one on prime of the opposite about three ft in diameter every, went zipping by the left aspect of my airplane, proper beneath, about twenty ft away”; Chiao stated the orbs didn’t seem on his radar and he acquired no discover from air visitors management; he speculated that “it’s some type of army program, a drone of some form, however, it’s exhausting to say, proper?”. If it’s exhausting for an skilled former astronaut to establish these drones shut up, why ought to we consider the statements from officers that these and the drones in New Jersey and elsewhere are ‘nothing to fret about’?
The federal government of Malaysia introduced a resumption of the search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, along with Texas robotics firm Ocean Infinity on an 18-month “no discover, no charge” expedition utilizing Ocean Infinity’s underwater search tools which makes use of a low-powered Weak Sign Propagation Reporter (WSPR) utilized by ham radio operators; whereas they plan to comply with MH370’s deliberate flight path, the corporate has recognized a 5,800 square-mile search zone concerning the dimension of Connecticut to go looking as soon as the aircraft deviates from that path. If that is profitable, the Pacific Ocean will turn into the world’s largest misplaced and located.
They haven’t been de-extincted but however scientists engaged on bringing again the woolly mammoth have a whole frozen specimen to work with after the fully intact remains of a baby mammoth were found in the permafrost in the Batagaika crater in northeastern Russia the place it died and froze greater than 50,000 years in the past; researchers on the Lazarev Mammoth Museum Laboratory and North-Japanese Federal College say the animal weighed between 240 and 397 kilos and died at one yr of age; whereas that is the best-preserved mammoth carcass ever found, the scientists gave no speedy phrase on whether or not it would present DNA to speed up the de-extinction of the species. Paradoxically, the mammoth could come again simply in time to see the local weather change and ravenous people that killed it off the primary time.
In its inaugural Artwork and AI Report, the worldwide insurer Hiscox had 40 artists add images of their faces after which asked the AI to create its own ‘self-portrait’ utilizing the pictures; Hiscox stated the aim was to not see what AI ‘seems to be’ like however as an example the moral dilemma the picture would create when it requested the artists in the event that they needed to be compensated for using their pictures; on the whole, 77% of artwork collectors and 78% of artwork fanatics stated artists ought to be pretty compensated for his or her work being utilized by AI fashions. It will be extra attention-grabbing to let AI try to generate a pleasant self-image utilizing driver’s license images as an alternative {of professional} headshots.
In accordance with a brand new examine by researchers at College School London (UCL) and Aberystwyth College, the latest discovery that Stonehenge’s six-ton Altar Stone is from Scotland has led them to suggest that as a result of the gathering of stones used to construct it was introduced from distant areas, Stonehenge’s true goal could have been as an emblem of unity among the many numerous peoples residing in Britain 5,000 years in the past; “It’s not a temple — that has been a serious stumbling block for tons of of years. It’s not a calendar, and it’s not an observatory”, stated lead researcher Professor Mike Parker Pearson of UCL in a statement; “The monument might have been an try to claim unity, integrating traditions and making a shared id amongst Britain’s early communities”. Is it time to construct a world Stonehenge?
An executive order signed by then-President Invoice Clinton established a 25-year restrict on the ‘automated declassification’ of ‘authorities secrets and techniques’ about, amongst different issues, Space 51, at the least based on aviation journalist Jim Goodall who interviewed a ‘security specialist’ and US Air Power chief grasp sergeant from Space 51 who claimed the secrets and techniques included “issues on the market which might be actually out of this world… higher than Star Trek or something you possibly can see within the motion pictures”; in 2019, Goodall cast some doubt on whether the release would happen in 2025 as a result of “That veil is fairly thick as we speak. The safety round Space 51 is thicker than we have ever seen”; the choice now rests within the lap of the following administration and president-elect Trump, who has already stated he’ll open up information on the Kennedy assignation and UFO X-files. Even when you’ve by no means cared a lot about government orders earlier than, you might need to take note of this one.
It seems to be like 2024 will go down in historical past as the primary yr U.S. politicians talked about UFOs and Bigfoot in the same sentence because the mysterious drones seen over New Jersey and different states have compelled elected officers to weigh in with attainable causes and resolutions, forcing New Jersey state senator Jon Bramnick to difficulty an announcement saying, “Final evening I acquired a number of movies of huge drone sightings from residents. The White Home is saying ‘we’re not seeing what we’re seeing’. Let’s be clear, this isn’t much like ‘Massive Foot’ sightings, these are clear pictures”. Bigfoot doesn’t respect being dragged into this controversy simply because people can’t take clear footage with their cell telephones.
